Mar 16, 2021 Board of Education

APPROVAL OF THE AGENDA, THE AGENDA FOR 16 SECOND.

WE'LL CORRECT.

THAT NINE YESES, UH, AND TWO OBSESSIONS.

SO THE TWO ABSTENTIONS ARE DARK.

SO THE MOTION CARRIES.

WE NOW NEED A MOTION FOR

[Approval of Agenda]

FOR THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE.

MR. ROBOT, ANY DISCUSSION? YES.

HOW DO YOU WANT IT? YES.

THE MOTION IS APPROVED UNANIMOUSLY.

WE WILL ASK HIM

[Pledge of Allegiance, Moment of Silence, Statement of Media Notification]

YOU CAN BE VISIBLE.

PLEASE REMAIN STANDING FOR A MOMENT OF SILENCE FOR DIWAN FIELDS JR.

A BLOCKED IN HIGH SCHOOL, SENIOR AND SHIRLEY PERRY, A BATTERY CREEK HIGH SCHOOL TEACHER, BOTH OF WHOM PASSED AWAY THIS MONTH.

A STUDENT PERFORMANCE, HER HIGH SCHOOL CLASS PERFORMING A NUMBER FROM THEIR SPRING MUSICAL IN THE WOODS.

THE MEDIA HAS BEEN PROPERLY NOTIFIED.

WE NOW HAVE

[Student Performance]

SPEED.

JUST THE CAST FROM, INTO THE WOODS FROM MAY RIVER HIGH SCHOOL.

TODAY, WE ARE GOING TO SHOW YOU A SELECTION FROM ACT TWO.

AND HOW SAD IT IS THAT MY WILL NEVER KNOW HER.

MAYBE IT JUST WASN'T

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WE HAVE THE MAYOR OF HER HIGH SCHOOL ON THIS, UH, MEETING WITH US.

AND THAT WAS WINTER.

JASON SPIDER.

WOULD YOU LIKE TO TELL US MORE ABOUT PERFORMANCE? YES.

OUR CHARACTER ED PROGRAM TODAY.

GOOD EVENING, EVERYONE.

YOU JUST SAW A SHORT CLIP FROM ACT TWO OF INTO THE WOODS.

THESE STUDENTS HAVE BEEN WORKING ON THIS PRODUCTION SINCE NOVEMBER AT SOCIALLY DISTANCE REHEARSALS THAT FOLLOWED SAFETY PROTOCOLS.

I JUST WANTED TO TAKE A SECOND TO THINK DISTRICT STAFF, OUR BUILDING, STAFF AND FACULTY, UH, SPECIFICALLY OUR PRINCIPAL TODD BORN SHOWER AND THE ADMINISTRATOR OF OUR ARTS DEPARTMENT, KATIE ROSSINI FOR SUPPORTING US AND HELPING US KEEP OUR STUDENTS SAFE DURING A YEAR.

THAT HAS BEEN INCREDIBLY DIFFICULT FOR ARTS PROGRAMS. UM, ALTHOUGH YOU WON'T SEE THEM IN COSTUME AND ONSTAGE IN THE PERFORMANCE TODAY, UH, OUR PRODUCTION IS SCHEDULED FOR APRIL 22ND THROUGH THE 25TH AT LIMITED CAPACITY AT MAY RIVER, UH, IN OUR AUDITORIUM.

SO THANK YOU FOR HAVING US THIS EVENING.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

WE ARE NOW DOWN TO POINTS

[February Students of the Month]

OF CELEBRATION, DR.

BRADLEY, THE FEBRUARY STUDENTS OF THE MONTH, THINKING THAT I'M CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD STANDING IN FOR DR.

RODRIGUEZ DOES EVENING, UH, FOR POINTS OF CELEBRATION THIS EVENING, I'D LIKE TO SPOTLIGHT

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WE'RE CELEBRATING CHARACTER ED STUDENTS OF THE MONTH, UH, FOR THE LOVE OF FEBRUARY, FEBRUARY, HIS CHARACTER TRAITS WHERE HONESTY AND INTEGRITY HONESTY IS DEFINED AS TELLING THE TRUTH, BEING TRUSTWORTHY AND ACTING WITH INTEGRITY.

INTEGRITY IS DEFINED AS A FIRM ADHERENCE TO A CODE OF ESPECIALLY OVERALL OR ARTISTIC VALUES, UH, OR BEING HONEST, TRUSTWORTHY AND INCORRUPTIBLE FEBRUARY STUDENT OF THE MONTH, FOUR NORTH OF ABROAD IS ISAAC SMALL'S SEVENTH GRADE STUDENT AT LADY'S ISLAND.

MIDDLE SCHOOL ISAAC'S TEACHER NOMINATED HIM AS A STUDENT OF THE MONTH BECAUSE HE WAS RECENTLY IN A POSITION WHERE HE STEPPED UP AND TOLD THE TRUTH IN A STRENUOUS SITUATION.

THIS TEACHERS SHARE THAT QUOTE.

WE LIVE IN A TOWN WHERE MANY PEOPLE BELIEVE THAT TELLING ON OTHERS IS SIMPLY NOT COOL DESPITE HIS NERVOUSNESS AND WHATEVER ELSE HE MAY HAVE FELT AS IT SHARED THAT THE TRUTH OF WHAT HAPPENED IN A DIFFICULT SITUATION.

WE'RE VERY HAPPY THAT HE CHOSE TO BE HONEST.

HE ALSO SHOWS INTEGRITY, CONGRATULATIONS TO EYES.

WE'RE ALSO JOINED BY REPRESENTATIVES FROM THE FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE, A LOCAL NONPROFIT THAT RAISES FUNDS TO SUPPORT THE MISSION AND GOALS OF BEAVER COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT BY FURTHERING STUDENT INSTRUCTIONAL ACTIVITIES AND PROJECTS THROUGH INNOVATIVE TEACHER GRANTS AND INNOVATIVE SCHOOL RESOURCE GRANTS HERE WITH US TONIGHT IS THE FOUNDATIONS CHAIR.

I'M ABROAD GENUINE.

FIRST WEEKEND OF THE MONTH IS BRIANA SANTIAGO, A SEVENTH GRADER AT HILTON HEAD ISLAND, MIDDLE SCHOOL RHIANNA'S FEATURE SHARE, SHARE OF THE FOLLOWING IN HER NOMINATION FORM.

BRIANA IS A STAR STUDENT.

SHE'S THE KIND OF STUDENT EVERYONE WANTS IN THEIR CLASSROOM.

FOR MANY REASONS, EVERY TEACHER WHO HAS EVER HAD HER IN THEIR CLASSROOM FEELS LOVELY.

LUCKY TO BE AROUND SUCH A KINDHEARTED AND CARING INDIVIDUAL.

SHE DEMONSTRATES EMPATHY, UNDERSTANDING, PATIENCE, AND CARING FOR OTHER STUDENTS THAT IS SOMETHING RARELY SEEING IN STUDENTS, HER AGE.

SHE'S ALWAYS WILLING TO LEND A HAND IN ANY WAY THAT THEY NEED NOT JUDGING ONE FOR THEM TO LIMITATIONS, BUT ENCOURAGING AND PRAISING THEIR ACCOMPLISHMENTS.

TWO MORE REASONS.

SHE IS A STELLAR STEAM, RIGHT? IS HER HONESTY AND INTEGRITY.

AND SIXTH AND SEVENTH GRADE.

I'VE BEEN ABLE TO COUNT ON HER FOR HER HONESTY.

BRIANNA WILL TELL THE TRUTH REGARDING ANY SITUATION.

THIS JUST HELPED MAKE ME MAKE, HELP ME MAKE BETTER DECISIONS.

WHEN TEACHING AND WORKING WITH OTHER STUDENTS, SHE KNOWS WHAT IS RIGHT AND MAKES THE RIGHT CHOICES ALL ON HER OWN RIHANNA, ENCOURAGES OTHERS TO DO THE SEVEN SHE WANTS TO DO WELL IN SCHOOL AND ANYONE WHO KNOWS HER CAN SEE THAT THROUGH HER HARD WORK AND DETERMINATION.

SHE ASKS QUESTIONS AND TAKES PRIDE IN HER WORK.

RIATA DEMONSTRATES HONESTY AND INTEGRITY DAILY RIHANNA.

IT'S MORE THAN JUST AN AMAZING STUDENT.

SHE IS A, SHE'S AN AMAZING PERSON.

WE ARE LUCKY TO HAVE HER AT HILTON HEAD ISLAND, MIDDLE SCHOOL, CONGRATULATIONS, BRIANA.

AND AGAIN TO ISAAC.

UH, TONIGHT

[Foundation for Educational Excellence Peggy May Inspiration Award]

MS. LISA CAROL IS CAROL GOOD EVENING MEMBERS OF THE BOARD AND DR.

BRADLEY, THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY WE HAVE.

UH, WE WANT TO SHARE A BIG ANNOUNCEMENT.

WHAT ALL WITH ALL OF YOU, WE ARE EXCITED TO BE HERE TONIGHT AND WE ARE ALL WEARING SOME JEWELS AND SPARKLES TO CONNECT YOU TO OUR BIG AWARD ANNOUNCEMENT.

JOINING ME TONIGHT ARE TWO FOUNDATION BOARD MEMBERS.

PLEASE MEET LEE JOHNSON.

THIS YEAR'S PEGGY MAY INSPIRATION AWARD COMMITTEE, CHAIR LEE, GIVE THEM A BIG WAVE.

WELL, AND ALSO JOINING ME IS SOMEONE.

MOST OF YOU ALREADY KNOW.

SHE MAKES A DIFFERENCE IN OUR COMMUNITY AND FOR EDUCATION, JACKIE ROSS WORM SHARE A QUICK WAVE.

THANK YOU, JACKIE MEMBERS OF THE BOARD EVERY YEAR, WE HAVE A LARGE EVENT IN EARLY MARCH AND IT'S CALLED JULES AND GENES.

MANY OF YOU HAVE ATTENDED THAT EVENT.

IT IS OUR LARGEST FUNDRAISER TO HELP FUND INNOVATIVE AND SCHOOL RESOURCE GRANTS FOR ALL OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS THROUGHOUT BUFORD COUNTY.

AND AT THAT EVENT, WE ALWAYS RECOGNIZE AN INDIVIDUAL, SOMETIMES A GROUP THAT IS MAKING A SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE IN THE COMMUNITY AND FOR EDUCATION.

THEY ARE GIVEN THE PEGGY MAY INSPIRATION AWARD TO TELL YOU MORE ABOUT THIS AWARD.

I'VE ASKED JACKIE TO SAY A FEW WORDS, JACKIE, THANK YOU.

AND THANK YOU, BOARD MEMBERS AND DR.

BRADLEY FOR ALLOWING US TO SHARE THIS INFORMATION WITH YOU THIS EVENING.

LET ME READ TO YOU ABOUT THE INSPIRATION AWARD.

IT IS GIVEN TO AN INDIVIDUAL WHO IS, OR HAS BEEN SUPPORTIVE OF, OR A TENTATIVE BUFORD COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND WHOSE

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ACCOMPLISHMENTS HAVE DISTINGUISHED HIM OR HER IN THEIR CHOSEN PROFESSION.

THE PASSION SKILLS AND SUCCESS OF THIS INDIVIDUAL WILL POSITIVELY INFLUENCE AND INSPIRE OTHERS, INCLUDING BUFORD COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT STUDENTS, TO RECOGNIZE POTENTIAL OPPORTUNITIES AND ENCOURAGE STUDENTS TO INVENT THEIR OWN FUTURES.

THIS AWARD HAS BEEN GIVEN SINCE 2010 WHEN THE FOUNDATION WAS FIRST ESTABLISHED.

OUR FIRST RECIPIENT WAS JONATHAN GREEN, A NATIONALLY KNOWN ARTIST WHO IS ALSO IN 1973 BUFORD HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATE.

DR.

RANE CARABINER, A FORMER BUFORD COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION MEMBER WAS GIVEN THE AWARD IN 2013 BECAUSE OF HIS SUPPORT OF THE FOUNDATION.

HE LITERALLY GAVE HIS BUFORD COUNTY BOARD STIPEND TO THE FOUNDATION ANNUALLY, WHICH REALLY HELPED THE ORGANIZATION TO GET ITS FEET OFF THE GROUND.

IN 2015, PEGGY MAY WHO HAD BEEN A BOARD MEMBER AND THE CHAIR OF THE BOARD RECEIVED THE AWARD AS WELL.

AND AT THAT TIME, BECAUSE OF THE TIRELESS WORK THAT SHE DID, THE INSPIRATION AWARD WAS CHANGED TO THE PEGGY MAY INSPIRATION AWARD.

LAST YEAR, KATHY CRAMER A FORMER SCHOOL DISTRICT EMPLOYEE AS SPECIAL ED TEACHER RECEIVED THE AWARD.

AND I THINK THAT MAYBE IN SPITE OF THE FACT THAT WE DON'T HAVE JUUL AS IN JAMES, THAT LISA MAY HAVE AN ANNOUNCEMENT TO MAKE ABOUT THIS YEAR'S WINNER.

THANK YOU, JACKIE.

SO THIS YEAR DUE TO THE PANDEMIC, WE COULDN'T HAVE JOES AND JANES.

INSTEAD TONIGHT, WE WOULD LIKE TO SHARE WITH ALL OF YOU WHO THE WINNER IS.

IT IS MY HONOR ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD MEMBERS FOR THE FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE TO ANNOUNCE THAT THE 2021 PEGGY MAY INSPIRATION AWARD GOES TO NOT ONE PERSON, BUT ALL THE EMPLOYEES AND THE BUFORD COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT, EVERYONE FROM BUS DRIVERS, TEACHERS, CUSTODIANS ADMINISTRATION, CAFETERIA WORKERS, EVERYONE WHO HAS GONE ABOVE AND BEYOND TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE DURING THIS PANDEMIC, YOU ARE ALL UNSPOKEN HEROES TO ALL OF US.

AND WE THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE, YOUR SACRIFICES AND YOUR INSPIRATION AS PART OF THE AWARD, EVERY SCHOOL AND THE DISTRICT OFFICE WILL BE RECEIVING A PLAQUE AND SIGNAGE FOR YOUR FRONT ENTRANCES.

AND THERE WILL BE A FULL CELEBRATION BREAKFAST BUFFET ON FRIDAY, MARCH 26TH AT EVERY SCHOOL AND THE DISTRICT OFFICE, CONGRATULATIONS TO EVERYONE.

AND AT THIS TIME I WILL ADD MY PART WITH A VIDEO SHARING A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT THIS NEWS.

THANK YOU FOR THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS FOR THE FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE.

IT IS MY HONOR AND PRIVILEGE TO PRESENT THE PEGGY MAY, 2021 INSPIRATION AWARD.

THIS YEAR, THE FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE WANTED TO HONOR ALL OF THE SCHOOLS AND ALL OF THE PEOPLE WITHIN THAT ARE MAKING A DIFFERENCE.

DURING THIS STRANGE YEAR, WE WANTED TO SHINE A LIGHT AND SHARE THIS AWARD WITH EVERYONE.

WE DECIDED THAT WE SHOULD HONOR THE ENTIRE VIEW FOR COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT.

AND OUR THOUGHT WAS NOT JUST THE TEACHERS WHO ARE DOING A TREMENDOUS JOB AND ADMINISTRATION, BUT WE KNOW BEHIND THE SCENES, THERE MUST BE ENORMOUS NEEDS AND ACTIONS GOING ON WITH BUS DRIVERS, CUSTODIANS, CAFETERIA WORKERS, PEOPLE WE DON'T EVEN KNOW THAT ARE HELPING OUT RIGHT NOW.

IT'S QUITE AN HONOR REALLY TO HAVE THIS RECOGNITION AND SO GRATEFUL FOR THEM BECAUSE WHAT THEY DID.

AND THIS HAS REALLY CAPTURED THE WORK OF ALL OF OUR EMPLOYEES IN THE SCHOOL DISTRICT AND REALLY CAPTURE THEIR CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SUCCESS OF OUR STUDENTS AND OUR OPERATIONS AND ABILITY TO OPERATE AS A SYSTEM.

SO, SO APPRECIATIVE THAT THEY HAD THE FORESIGHT TO REALLY ACKNOWLEDGE THAT IT'S MORE THAN JUST EITHER ONE INDIVIDUAL PERSON, BUT THAT THEY COULD CAPTURE THE ENTIRE SCHOOL SYSTEM WITH AN AWARD.

LIKE THIS IS REALLY AWESOME.

ON BEHALF OF THE KUBRICK COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION.

WE THANK THE FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE FOR RECOGNIZING ALL THE DISTRICT EMPLOYEES FOR ALL THE HARD WORK THEY HAVE DONE THIS PAST YEAR.

AND AS WE ALL KNOW, THEY ALL HAD TO GO THROUGH UNUSUAL CIRCUMSTANCES AND THEY'VE ALL DONE A REALLY GOOD JOB.

WE GIVE THIS 2021 PEGGY MAY INSPIRATION AWARD WITH A HEARTFELT THANK YOU TO ALL OF THE SCHOOLS AND ALL OF THE PEOPLE WORKING BEHIND THE SCENES TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE THIS YEAR.

WE RECEIVED TWO OF THESE MANY THANKS TO THE FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE.

HE SHOWED THE BEAUTIFUL PLAQUE THAT WE RECEIVED.

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YOU ARE WELFARE.

WE ARE NOW DOWN TO FIRST PUBLIC COMMENTS THERE BEING NONE.

WE'LL GO

[Quarterly CLOC Update]

ON TO THE QUARTERLY CITIZENS LED OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE FOR THE REFERENDUM AND CHAIRED KEN BARNER.

WELL, GOOD EVENING, EVERYONE MOLLY'S COME ONTO THE PRESENTATION.

UH, WE APPROACH THE BOARD, UM, TO MRS. MIDDLETON, MISS BOATWRIGHT, AND WELCOME.

THIS IS YOUR FIRST UPDATE AS NEW BOARD MEMBERS.

UM, SO LET'S, UH, START WITH WHERE WE ARE ON CONSTRUCTION UPDATES.

LET'S LOOK AT MAYBE AT A HIGH SCHOOL, MAYBE RIVER HIGH SCHOOL, THE, THERE IS PROVIDED AND ITS OWN SCHEDULE.

UH, YOU CAN SEE WHERE WE ARE AND MANY OF YOU ON THE BOARD ATTENDED THE RIBBON CUTTING IT MAY RIVER.

UH, IT WAS A VERY SUCCESSFUL PROJECT WITH ACTUALLY TURNING PART OF THE CONTINGENCY FUNDS THAT WERE PART OF THE PROJECT BACK TO THE ACTUAL REFERENDUM.

SO IT WAS A VERY SUCCESSFUL PROJECT.

SO A GOOD JOB, EVERYONE WHO WORKED ON THAT ON THE NEXT LINE, WE'LL TALK ABOUT BUFORD ALLEN, WHERE WERE WE ALL? WOULD THAT BE FOR ALEX UNDER BUDGET AND ON SCHEDULE AS WELL? UM, I DID HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO VISIT THAT SITE TWO WEEKS AGO.

UH, IT'S A VERY TIGHT SITE, LOTS OF WORK GOING ON, BUT AN EXCELLENT JOB.

AND THAT REMAINS ON SCHEDULE BUDGET, UM, GREAT PLACE, GREAT SCHOOL, AND, UH, THANKS TO ALL THE STUDENTS AND THE STAFF AND DEALING WITH THE CONSTRUCTION.

UH, AS WE MOVE FORWARD, WE ASKED THEM PROJECTS ARE ALL ON SCHEDULE.

WE'D LOVE TO NAIL ON THE PRAC AND THEY'LL GET HIGH.

THESE ARE ALL ON BUDGET AND ON SCHEDULE.

THERE'S SOME ADDITIONAL INFORMATION IN THE BULLET POINTS ON THE RIGHT AND WHAT HAS BEEN COMPLETED AND WHERE WE'RE STANDING, BUT THOSE ARE MOVING ALONG VERY WELL.

UH, AT THIS POINT IN TIME ALSO, UH, WELL OUR BRANCH AND WELL WE'LL BRANCH L AND MIDDLE SCHOOL ARE GOING VERY WELL.

THEY'RE BOTH ON BUDGET AND SCHEDULE.

UH, WE, THERE WERE SOME REQUIRED USES OF CONTINGENCY FUNDS, UH, BASED UPON, UH, SOME OF THE FINDINGS, BUT THAT IS SEEN AS NECESSARY BASED UPON WHAT IS OCCURRING AT THOSE TWO SCHOOLS.

UM, YOU CAN SEE ON THE LIST AT THE RIGHT ON, UH, ON YOUR RIGHT, WHAT THE, UH, ITEMS ARE WITH EACH ONE OF THOSE SCHOOLS AND WHAT IS UNDERWAY.

SO LET'S MOVE ON AND TALK ABOUT DESIGNER DATES.

WE HAVE A LOT OF PROJECTS AROUND THE DESIGN STATE.

UM, MOVING FORWARD IS, YOU KNOW, HER A LITTLE OVER A YEAR AND A FEW MONTHS INTO THE REFERENDUM RIGHT NOW WE HAVE ABOUT 23 SCHOOLS OR FACILITIES THAT ARE IN SOME TYPE X, SOME TYPE OF PROJECTS ARE IN THE DESIGN PHASE.

THERE'S A TOTAL OF ABOUT 60 PROJECTS IN TOTAL, 32 OF THOSE GENERAL PROJECTS IN THE DESIGN PHASE, WE'RE DOING WELL, WE'VE GOT ABOUT 28 OF THOSE MAINLY IN THE TECHNOLOGY INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS THAT WE'RE USING THE YELLOW LIGHT TONIGHT TO SAY THAT WE'VE GOT SOME VIABILITY, HE CAN CONTINUALLY IMPROVE THOSE.

WE NEED THE WORK ON THE TECHNOLOGY AND INFRASTRUCTURE.

THAT SCOPE CONTINUES TO CHANGE A LITTLE BIT BASED UPON THE PAST YEAR.

SO WE'RE WORKING WITH THE ENGINEERING FIRMS TO WORK ON VALUE ENGINEERING, TO REDUCE THE TECHNOLOGY COSTS.

NOW IT WAS PROPOSED FROM THE OPERATIONS GROUP, UH, TO THE BOARD.

THAT BASED UPON WHERE WE ARE WITH TECHNOLOGY LG AND THE POST CODE CHANGES THAT 9.59 MILLION, UH, CONTINUED TO BE USED DEVELOPING THE TECHNOLOGY CAPITAL STRUCTURE AS WELL AS ONE PROJECT.

THEY'D BE FOR THE HOSPITAL AROUND THE EPILEPTICS COATS, THE CLOCK OR BREEZE WITH THE USE OF THAT CONTINGENCY BASED UPON WHERE WE ARE TODAY.

UH, AND WE FEEL THAT IT'S PROVEN AT THIS TIME, HOWEVER, WE NEED TO CONTINUALLY LOOK AT OUR SCOPE AND POSSIBLY MAYBE REDUCE COVERAGE.

WE GET OUT OF GEARS THREE AND FOUR AS IT WORK ON THESE DESIGN PROJECTS.

SO IT'S VERY IMPORTANT THAT WE, AND THAT, AND CONTROL OUR COSTS MOVING FORWARD.

LET'S TALK ABOUT WHERE WE ARE WITH CONTINGENCY, JUST ENOUGH UPDATE TO THE BOARD ORIGINALLY FROM THE, UH, REC RANDOM, UM, THE OPERATION DEPARTMENT BUDGETED $17.7 MILLION IN CONTINGENCY FOR THEM TO HOLD FOR COST OVERRUNS OR DESIGN CHANGES AND ET CETERA, THROUGH TWO 28, 2.7 MILLION WAS USED.

SO THERE WAS 15 MILLION AT THE END OF FEBRUARY WITH THE 9.59 MILLION PROPOSED USAGE ON MARCH 21ST THAT REDUCED OUR CONTINGENCY, UH, SIGNIFICANTLY.

HOWEVER, WE WERE ABLE TO RETURN 5.8 MILLION FROM THE OTHER PROJECTS THAT WERE IN THE PROJECT CONTINUOUSLY BECAUSE THOSE CAME IN UNDER BUDGET.

SO NOW

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OUR NEW OPERATIONAL CONTINGENCY, WHERE THE ADD BACK FROM THOSE TWO MAIN PROJECTS AT MAY RIVER RIVER RIDGE, WHERE IT WAS 11.29 MILLION.

SO WE HAVE ABOUT 63% IN TOTAL REMAIN FOR THE OVERALL OPERATIONS CONTINUANCY.

SO ALL INDIVIDUAL PROJECTS, AS I SAID, CONTAINED CONTINGENCY, AND THAT'S USED ON EACH INDIVIDUAL PROJECT.

AND WHEN IT'S NOT USED ITS RETURN, THE TOTAL REFERENCE OF THE CONTINGENCY IS MANAGING THAT DEPARTMENT AS A WHOLE THING, JUST GOING FORWARD.

SO ALL IN ALL, WE'RE DOING VERY WELL, BUT WE DO NEED TO MANAGE IT MOVING FORWARD.

LET'S TALK ABOUT FINANCIAL UPDATES, WHERE THERE ARE OVERALL, UH, RIGHT NOW ALL BUDGET, THE DOLLAR FOR THE PROJECTS EQUAL WHAT WAS APPROVED AS OF 1130, 20, THE APPROPRIATION MOUNTVILLE PROJECT DID NOT CHANGE WHERE WE ARE VERSUS THE BUDGETS AT TWO 28 20, UH, ANY INDIVIDUAL BUDGET THAT WASN'T JUST, IT WAS SUPPORTED BY REFERENCING REFERENDUM CONTINGENCY AND WAS, UM, NOTED IN THE CONTINGENCY LAW.

THE DOLLAR SPENT THE DAY AND ENCUMBERED DO NOT EXCEED THE BUDGET IN TOTAL PROJECT.

THE PROJECT TOTALS AND THE DOLLAR SPENT PER PROJECT DO NOT EXCEED THE ESTIMATED PROJECT PERCENT COMPLETE.

SO WE WOULD GET THE FINANCIAL UPDATE THIS POINT IN TIME, A GREEN LIGHT ALL IS GOING VERY WELL.

SO ONE OTHER ITEM WE'D LIKE TO TALK ABOUT FOR THE CLOCK, THE SEASONINGS, OUR COMMUNICATIONS ON THE NEXT PAGE, YOU'LL SEE THAT WE ARE GOING TO BE ISSUING OUR PERF PAIN REPORT FROM 2020, OUR COMMUNICATIONS TEAM WORK ON THIS ONE PAGE OF COMMUNICATION WITH THAT WE WILL, UH, MAKE AVAILABLE ON THE WEBSITE UNDER THE CLOCK AREA OF THE DISTRICT'S WEBSITE, AS WELL AS IT WILL BE WORKING WITH CANDACE ON COMMUNICATING THESE, THIS ANNUAL REPORT TO THE COMMUNITY, BASICALLY VERSUS THROUGH THE MEDIA, UH, SOURCES THAT SHE HAS AS WELL AS PUBLISHING NEEDS, IF PEOPLE WISH TO HAVE A COPY OF THOSE, BUT ALL IN ALL 2020 WAS A GOOD YEAR.

THE CLOCK ITSELF SPENT OVER 600 PERSONAL HOURS BE IN PROJECTS, AND YOU COULD READ THE REST OF THAT 1240 WITH THE DETAILS.

SO THAT'S WHERE WE ARE RIGHT IN THE HOUSE.

UH, AS OF THE FIRST QUARTER OF 2021, EVERYTHING'S DOING WELL, BUT WE HAVE TO LOOK FORWARD AND MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE MANAGING THINGS GOING FORWARD WITH ABOUT TWO MORE YEARS TO GO.

WE NEED THAT.

WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE WATCH EVERYTHING VERY CLOSELY, BUT ALL WE'RE DOING WELL.

AND WITH THAT, I'LL TAKE ANY QUESTIONS FROM THE BOARD IF THEY HAVE QUESTIONS AT THIS TIME.

MS. CATHY, THANK YOU, MR. BRIBERY.

UM, FIRST I'D LIKE TO THANK ALL THE MEMBERS OF THE CLASS FOR THE TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF WORK AND DEDICATION THAT YOU'VE SHOWN WITH THIS PROJECT.

I JUST HAVE ONE QUESTION THAT IT'S ABOUT THE CONTINGENCY FUNDING.

UM, SO I UNDERSTAND THAT WE WERE ABLE TO PUT MONEY BACK INTO THE CONTINGENCY PLAN, UM, BUT I'M A LITTLE CONCERNED GOING FORWARD.

HAD WE NOT BEEN ABLE TO DO THAT? WE WOULD HAVE SPENT 53% OF OUR CONTINGENCY FUNDING, ALWAYS A LITTLE BIT LESS THAN HALFWAY THROUGH ALL THE PROJECTS.

UM, I, I HEARD YOU SAY THAT YOU, THAT THE CLOCK SUPPORT STACK, AND YOU'RE VERY AWARE OF THAT.

AND SO I JUST BRING THAT WORK FORWARD BECAUSE I DO THINK IT'S IMPORTANT AS THINGS COME UP TOWARDS THE END.

UM, WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE, WE HAVE MONEY, UM, APPROPRIATE MONEY FOR CONTINGENCIES THAT ARE ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY AND NOT THAT ODDS.

UM, SO THAT'S JUST MY CONTRIBUTION.

OR ADDITIONS, BRAND NEW CONSTRUCTION.

AND THAT'S A VERY GOOD COMMENT.

THEY, UH, THE CLOCK APPROVING PROVING THE USE OF THE MAP 0.5 MILLION WOULD HAVE NOT HAPPENED IF THE PROJECT SAVINGS NOT BEEN RETURNED AT THE FAC ON 8 MILLION, WE WOULD NOT HAVE FELT COMFORTABLE AT THAT TIME MAKING THAT DECISION.

THAT'S WHY MY COMMENT IS SAYING THAT WE NEED TO CONTINUALLY MANAGE THE PROJECTS THAT ARE IN THE DESIGN PHASE.

NOW, ONE OF THOSE, FOR EXAMPLE, THAT WE NEED TO WATCH CLOSELY IS THE ROBERTS FALLS REPLACEMENT SCHOOL.

UH, THE BUDGET ON THAT SCHOOL IS VERY TIGHT BASED UPON THE DESIGN THAT WE HAVE.

SO WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO MANAGE THAT AS WELL, BUT ALL IN ALL, I THINK WE, WE AGREE WITH THIS BASED UPON THE FACT THAT WE'VE BEEN, THAT WE'RE READY TO RETURN THAT 5.8.

SO THAT'S THE REASON WE SUPPORTED THAT DECISION.

ANOTHER, THANK YOU, MAN.

I'M SURE.

TWO COMMENTS.

ONE ON THE CONTINUANCY, UH, MOST OF THE CONTINGENCY HAS COME FROM REMODELING.

DO YOU WATCH, UH, OLDMAN GARDEN TV? YOU'LL SEE IN RENOVATIONS, YOU'VE ALWAYS FIND THINGS.

THE ADDITIONS TO MAY RIVER AND RIVER RIDGE

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AND THAT'S, THAT'S ONE OF THE REASONS WHY WE CAME UNDER BUDGET BECAUSE WE DIDN'T FIND ANYTHING WE DIDN'T KNOW WAS THERE.

SECOND POINT IS THE COMMUNICATION IS REALLY CRITICAL THAT THE PUBLIC GETS THE COPY OR SEES THAT ONE PAGE AND MODIFICATIONS OF WHAT THE CLOCK HAS DONE.

AND, UH, MR. BROODER, ARE WE GOING TO BE ABLE TO GET THAT IN THE NEWSPAPER? IF WE HAVE TO PAY FOR AN AD IN THE PAPER, THEY PUT THAT IN THERE.

IT IS SO IMPORTANT FOR OUR CREDIBILITY, THAT THE PUBLIC SEES WHAT THE CLOCK IS SAYING THAT WE'RE DOING.

REMEMBER THIS ISN'T THE LAST REFERENDUM THAT WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO DO.

WE'VE GOT ANOTHER ONE BECAUSE AS YOU WILL RECALL, WE FOUND OVER $600 MILLION WORTH OF PROJECTS THAT NEEDED TO BE DONE.

AND WE'RE ONLY FUNDING 344.

SO WE NEED TO CONSTANTLY MAKE SURE THAT THE PUBLIC KNOWS HOW WE'RE DOING.

AND THE BEST WAY TO DO THAT IS TO SHOW WHAT THE CLOCK SAYS, BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT BASKETBALL THE PUBLIC IS REALLY GOING TO GRAB ONTO.

THINK YOU, UH, MR. GAR, LET ME ADD A POINT BACK CLARIFICATION, UH, FOR THOSE ON THE CALL THIS EVENING, UH, FROM A PROJECT MANAGEMENT PERSPECTIVE OF, UM, LET ME GIVE YOU MY PHILOSOPHY WHEN IT COMES TO CONTENTING SAKE, MOST PROJECT MANAGERS WILL TELL YOU THIS, YOU HAVE CONTINGENCY.

AND AS YOU, AS THE OVERSEERS OF THE REFERENDUM AS BOARD MEMBERS, I WILL TELL YOU THAT AS A PROJECT MANAGER, WE WILL SPEND ALL OF THE CONTINUANCE.

THAT IS THE PHILOSOPHY YOU SHOULD HAVE IN ANY PROJECT BECAUSE THINGS HAPPEN AND THAT'S WHY YOU HAVE IT.

SO YOU SHOULD EXPECT FOR IT TO BE SPENT.

WE FEEL RIGHT NOW THAT WE'RE IN A GOOD POSITION WHERE WE ARE, MOST OF OUR BIG PROJECTS ARE NOT EXCEPT FOR ROBERT SMALL.

SO I THINK WE'RE DOING WELL.

AND I KNOW THAT THE OPERATIONS TEAM, ALONG WITH THE CONSULTANTS AT ERIE ARE DOING A GOOD JOB OF LOOKING AT SCOPE AND THEY HAVE DONE MANY CHANGES TO THE TECHNOLOGY REQUESTS AND ARE MANAGING THAT VERY CLOSELY.

SO AT THIS POINT, WE, WE FEEL VERY CONFIDENT.

UH, IF THERE'S ANY, ANYTHING THAT COMES UP YELLOW, WHEN IT TERTIARY RATE, BELIEVE ME, WE WILL LET THE BOARD KNOW BECAUSE THAT IS OUR RESPONSIBILITY.

SO MR. BARBER, UM, THANK YOU FOR YOUR QUARTERLY AND ANNUAL CLOCK REPORT.

AND I WOULD LIKE TO REITERATE WITH SOME OF MY FELLOW BOARD MEMBERS HAVE ALREADY SAID, WE THANK THE CLOCK COMMITTEE COMMITTEE.

YOU'VE OBVIOUSLY 600 HOURS OF REVIEWING PROJECTS IS A LOT OF WORK AND EVERY COMMITTEE MEMBER NEEDS TO BE THANKED, UM, ALONG WITH YOU.

AND, UH, IT'S, IT'S WONDERFUL FOR THEM COMMUNITY TO HAVE, HAVE YOU LOOKING OUT FOR ALL THE REFERENDUM PROJECTS? THANK YOU.

UH, THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIRMAN, AND IT'S A PLEASURE TO SERVE.

UM, WE'RE NOW DOWN TO THE CHAIRMAN'S REPORT AND SINCE WE HAVE A LENGTHY AGENDA, I DID NOT HAVE ANYTHING SPECIFIC UNDER THAT TONIGHT.

WE'LL MOVE ON TO THE COMMITTEE REPORTS, UM, BEFORE START THESE, SINCE WE NO LONGER HAVE P E SINCE WE APPROVED OUR GOVERNANCE POLICY MANUAL RECENTLY, PERHAPS WHEN WE GET TO THESE MOTIONS THAT CURRENTLY ON THE AGENDA HAVE THE WORD PE WE HAVE ONE UNDER FINANCE AND ONE UNDER OPERATIONS.

SO LET'S JUST SAY IT MIGHT BE BEST JUST TO SAY, TO LEAVE OUT THE PE 4.5, BECAUSE THAT WAS KIND OF CONFUSING SINCE WE DON'T HAVE IT NOW.

AND JUST SAY, FOR EXAMPLE, THE MINORITY BUSINESS ENTERPRISE REPORT AND THE CLEANING AND MAINTENANCE REPORT.

NOW

[Ad Hoc Results Committee]

WE WILL HAVE A CHAIR KATHY ROBOT AND GIVE REPORT FOR AD HOC RESULTS COMMITTEE.

UM, I REALLY DON'T.

OTHER THAN WHEN WE HAD OUR FIRST MEETING, WE CAN'T HEAR YOU, SORRY, I REALLY DON'T HAVE THE REPORT OTHER THAN WE'VE HAD OUR FIRST MEETING.

AND, UM, LOOKING AT THE METRICS THAT WE ARE, THAT WE LANDED THEM, UM, THAT STILL HAVE YET TO BE USED BECAUSE OF THE LACK OF TESTING LAST YEAR AND THE, UM, UM, HANDS DOWN EXCEL.

WE ARE, UM, YOU KNOW, WE'RE WORKING, I THINK THAT AT SOME POINT WE PROBABLY NEED TO HAVE A FULL BOARD DISCUSSION.

UM, PERHAPS THE APRIL WORK SESSION WOULD BE SOMETHING LIKE THAT.

SO THIS IS BIGGER THAN A COMMUNITY, I THINK, TO TALK ABOUT THESE TYPES OF ISSUES.

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DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS FOR MS. REBECCA OR THERE BEING THAT WE'LL MOVE ON TO

[Finance Committee]

THE FINANCE COMMITTEE CHAIRED BY DICK GUYER, BUT IF YOU'RE MADAM CHAIR, UH, THIS EVENING, WE HAVE, UH, THREE MOTIONS TO PRESENT TO THE BOARD, UH, AND ALSO A CARES THAT PRESENTATION.

I'M GOING TO START BY READING THE MOTION OR EACH, UH, OF OUR RECOMMENDATIONS.

AND AFTER A SECOND, AND MS. CROSBY, IF YOU COULD GIVE A PRESENTATION AT THE END, I'LL ASK YOU THE QUESTIONS OR THE QUESTIONS ARE FINISH AT A CHAIR.

IF YOU CALL THE QUESTION, THANK YOU.

THE FIRST MOTION I MOVE THE BOARD AUTHORIZE THE FILING OF YOU RANKED YOUR 2021 APPLICATIONS OR ELIGIBLE YOU RAID CATEGORY TWO SERVICES AND FURTHER ACKNOWLEDGED THAT THE BOARD LOW BUDGET OR SUFFICIENT FUNDS TO PAY FOR THE DISTRICT SHARE OF SERVICE PROVIDER INVOICES FOR THESE SERVICES.

SECOND SECOND.

AND I WILL TURN THE MICROPHONE OVER TO OUR CFO, FANNY, CROSBY 18, JUST WANTING TO GIVE YOU A BRIEF UPDATE ON WHAT THIS REQUEST ENTAILS.

UH, BASICALLY, UH, THE PURPOSE OF THIS REQUEST IS TO AUTHORIZE, SEE ADMINISTRATION TO APPLY FOR REIMBURSEMENT OR TECHNOLOGY UPGRADES THROUGH THE FEDERAL E-BRAKE PROGRAM.

AND AGAIN, THIS IS THE UNIVERSAL SERVICE ADMINISTRATION FEE THAT IS COLLECTED THROUGH EACH OF OUR TELEPHONE BILLS AND EVENTUALLY MAKES THEIR WAY TO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.

AND IT'S REDISTRIBUTED TO SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES FOR TECHNOLOGY COMMUNICATIONS.

SO THE PURPOSE IS TYPICALLY FOR TECHNOLOGY.

I CAME UP WITH FOR YOU, UH, EARLIER IN THE YEAR, TOO, FOR REIMBURSEMENT FOR CATEGORY ONE SERVICES, WHICH ARE OUR TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND THROUGH OUR GENERAL FUND DOLLARS, UH, THESE ARE FROM CATEGORY TWO SERVICES.

WE'RE ACTUALLY, UH, MORE INFRASTRUCTURE.

SO THERE'S SERVERS, UM, OUR DATA CLOSETS, THE EQUIPMENT THAT'S IN OUR SCHOOL AND DISTRICT OFFICE DATA CLOSETS TO SUPPORT THE NETWORK AND THE TRAFFIC OF DATA INTERNALLY AND EXTERNALLY IN A SCHOOL DISTRICT.

SO, UM, THESE UPGRADES OCCUR EVERY FIVE YEARS.

SO, UM, I LOOKED BACK IN OUR, UH, 8% PROJECT LISTINGS AND ABOUT THREE, UM, IN 2016, IT WAS APPROVAL FOR ABOUT $3.4 MILLION NETWORK, UH, ELECTRONIC UPGRADES.

AND SO AT THAT TIME, UH, THOSE, UH, WERE UP, WE ARE LOOKING AT FIVE YEARS LATER AND THEY'RE DUE FOR ANOTHER UPGRADE.

SO WITH ALL TECHNOLOGY THAT WE HAVE THESE DAYS, YOU KNOW, THAT YOUR COMPUTER, YOUR LAPTOP, YOUR IPAD, ABOUT EVERY FIVE YEARS, YOU'RE GOING TO NEED TO BE LOOKING FOR A NEW ONE.

SO THEY, THESE ARE THE INFRASTRUCTURE THERE TO SUPPORT THOSE SERVICES, ARE THOSE PRODUCTS AND, AND VICES THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE SCHOOL DISTRICT.

SO THEY'RE VERY IMPORTANT TO THE, UM, THE COMMUNICATION THAT WE HAVE, UH, DIGITALLY AND ELECTRONICALLY THROUGHOUT THE DISTRICT.

UM, SO I'M NOT ASKING YOU TO APPROVE THE PROJECTS THEMSELVES.

THOSE WILL ACTUALLY COME IN THE 8% PROJECT LIST THAT WILL BE COMING IN THE UPCOMING MONTHS FIRST TO THE OPERATIONS COMMITTEE AND THEN TO THE FULL BOARD.

AND SO IT WAS DRY AND WE'LL HAVE THOSE, UM, ON THE 8% LISTING THEY'RE CALLED TECHNOLOGY NETWORK UPGRADE OR NETWORK ELECTRONICS, UPGRADES, OR REFRESH, I BELIEVE.

AND SO YOU'RE GOING TO SEE THEM IN THE APPROXIMATE AMOUNT OF $5 MILLION IN TOTAL.

AND SO THAT IS A REFRESH.

WE HAVE A CONTRACTOR THAT COMES IN AND, UH, WE'LL PROVIDE THE EQUIPMENT AND INSTALL THAT THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE SCHOOL DISTRICT.

THIS APPROVAL IS TO AUTHORIZE US, TO APPLY FOR REIMBURSEMENT.

ONCE THOSE PROJECTS ARE COMPLETE OR THROUGHOUT THE PROCESS AND ACCORDINGLY.

SO, UM, THERE IS ACTUALLY A FILING WINDOW, UM, THAT IT WILL EXPIRES MARCH 25TH.

UH, AND SO IN JUST WITHIN A WEEK OR SO, UH, 10 LESS THAN 10 DAYS FROM NOW, THE, THAT APPLICATION WINDOW ACTUALLY EXPIRES FOR US TO BE ELIGIBLE, TO APPLY FOR THOSE POTENTIAL PURCHASES THAT YOU MAY APPROVE.

UH, IF WE MISS THAT WINDOW AND YOU APPROVE THE 8% PROJECTS, UM, TO INCLUDE THE NETWORK ELECTRONICS REFRESH, THE DISTRICT WILL LOSE THE OPPORTUNITY TO RECEIVE ABOUT $2.8 MILLION.

SO THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT.

UH, WE HAVE, UH, PARTICIPATED IN THIS PROGRAM FOR MANY YEARS AND IT'S BEEN VERY BENEFICIAL TO THE DISTRICT.

UM, THOSE FUNDS, UH, COME BACK TO THE DISTRICT, THEY ARE UNRESTRICTED.

UH, AND SO THE BOARD AT THE OPPORTUNITY THEN

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TO USE THOSE FUNDS TO OFFSET FUTURE PURCHASES, UH, TECHNOLOGY, UH, DEVICES, SUCH AS STUDENT LAPTOPS, TEACHER LAPTOPS, AND SO ON, SO ON WOULD BE A GOOD, UH, IT WOULD BE AN APPROPRIATE USE OF THOSE FUNDS, BUT IT IS UP TO THE BOARD'S PURVIEW.

SO THAT WOULD BE A FUNDING SOURCE THAT WOULD BE ELIGIBLE FOR THE BOARD TO POTENTIALLY OFFSET FUTURE COSTS OF PRODUCTS, UM, OR EQUIPMENT.

SO, UM, IF YOU AUTHORIZE THIS APPLICATION AND THE BOARD CHOOSES NOT TO DO THOSE, UH, NETWORK ELECTRONIC UPGRADES, WE SIMPLY DO NOT FILE THE APPLICATION.

SO WE DON'T LOSE ANYTHING, BUT IF YOU CHOOSE TO DO THOSE UPGRADES, WHICH WE HAVE CUSTOMARILY DONE EVERY FIVE YEARS, THEN WE WOULD BE ELIGIBLE TO APPLY FOR REIMBURSEMENT FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.

SO WITH THAT, UM, JUST WANT TO, I DO HIGHLY RECOMMEND, UM, THAT WE, UH, DISAPPROVAL, UH, THE MAID AND THAT WE HAVE THE ABILITY TO PROVIDE THAT FEDERAL REIMBURSEMENT IF THE BOARD MOVES FORWARD WITH THOSE, UM, FEDERAL LIKE THE NETWORK ELECTRONICS.

SO THAT'S ALL I HAD BE HAPPY TO TAKE ANY QUESTIONS ON THAT.

ANY QUESTIONS OR FURTHER DISCUSSION MR. MR. BELL CAMPBELL, TO WHAT EXTENT ARE WE MAXIMIZING THAT POTENTIAL? WE ARE ELIGIBLE FOR 8% OF THE, UM, $4.8 MILLION THAT'S AVAILABLE TO, UH, THE PROJECT THAT'S BEEN IDENTIFIED AS, AS NEEDING TO UPGRADE.

AND SO WE ARE ELIGIBLE FOR 80% OF THE REIMBURSEMENT.

AND SO WE ARE CAPPED OUT AT OUR REIMBURSEMENT OF $2.8 MILLION.

SO, UM, THAT WE HAVE, UM, THAT IS OUR MAXIMUM AMOUNT THAT WE CAN BE REIMBURSED.

AND SO, UM, THAT IS OUR MAXIMUM POTENTIAL AT THIS TIME.

SO WE WILL ASK FOR EVERY DIME THAT IS PURCHASED AND INSTALLED AND THE EQUIPMENT THAT'S PUT INTO OUR BUILDINGS.

I UNDERSTAND THAT ALL WE DO AS MUCH AS HE CAN AND BETTER, YOU KNOW, THE CAT WON'T BE, YES, SIR.

THOSE ARE THE NEEDS THAT WERE, I'M SORRY, I DIDN'T MEAN TO INTERRUPT YOU.

UM, THOSE ARE THE NEEDS THAT WERE IDENTIFIED BY OUR TECHNOLOGY NETWORK OPERATING CENTER.

UM, MINISTERS THEY'VE IDENTIFIED THE NEED, AND THAT WAS, THEY WENT OUT TO RECEIVE QUOTES FROM OUR CONSULTANTS AND VENDORS TO SEE WHAT GOES PRICING THAT PRICING WOULD BE TO UPGRADE.

AND THAT WAS THE 4.8 MILLION WAS THE QUOTE THAT WE RECEIVED.

MR. WILLIAMS. MY QUESTION IS, HOW WILL WE KNOW IF WE GET THE MONEY WHEN WE GET IT, THERE IS AN APPLICATION PROCESS.

WE HAVE, UH, AN E RATE MANAGER IN OUR DEPARTMENT, UH, AND HE APPLIES FOR THOSE, UM, WHEN THE APPLICATION PERIOD OPENS.

AND SO, UM, HE BASICALLY, WELL, WE APPLY NOW, BUT THEN HE CLAIMS THE EXPENDITURES AS THEY OCCUR.

SO AS WE, WE HAVE TO SPEND IN ADVANCE AND THEN WHEN WE RECEIVE REIMBURSEMENT, UH, TYPICALLY ON A QUARTERLY BASIS.

SO ONCE THOSE EXPENDITURES CONTRACTS HAVE BEEN SIGNED, IT TENDS TO AWARD HAVE BEEN GIVEN VENDORS BEGIN TO DO THE WORK.

THEN APPROXIMATELY EVERY THREE MONTHS WE CAN CLAIM THE FUNDS AND RECEIVE REIMBURSEMENT.

BUT I DO UNDERSTAND THAT, BUT MY QUESTION IS HOW WILL THE BOARD KNOW WHAT THE REIMBURSEMENTS ARE AND WHEN WE'RE GETTING THEM? YEAH.

UM, THEY'RE ACTUALLY IN OUR FINANCIAL STATEMENTS.

SO THEY'RE IN THE, THOSE THAT GO INTO THE GENERAL FUND THAT THE BOARD HAS ALREADY APPROVED THE CATEGORY, ONE SERVICES, OUR TELECOMMUNICATIONS, THOSE ARE SHOWN IN THE GENERAL FUND.

AND THEN THE CAPITAL PROJECTS FUND, THERE IS A SEPARATE LINE ITEM FOR FEDERAL REVENUES.

AND THAT IS THE RIGHT REVENUES THAT GO INTO THESE PROJECTS THAT WILL BE APPROVED WITH 8% MONTHS.

SO I CAN, I CAN CERTAINLY POINT THOSE OUT WHEN WE GO THROUGH OUR QUARTERLY FINANCIAL REPORTS AND MAKE SURE THE BOARD IS UPDATED ON THE AMOUNT OF REVENUES WE'RE RECEIVING.

THANKS VERY MUCH, MRS. CROSBY.

SURE.

THERE BEING NO FURTHER, HE ENDS UP, WE'LL CALL THE QUESTION.

MOTION CARRIES UNANIMOUSLY.

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I'D LIKE TO MOVE TO THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF YOU PER COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT AUTHORIZES THE SUPERINTENDENT OR THE ABSENCE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OR DESIGNEE AND OR THE CHIEF INSTRUCTIONAL OFFICER CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER TO APPLY FOR SIGN, SUBMIT AND ADMINISTER FEDERAL STATE, LOCAL AND FOUNDATION GRANT APPLICATIONS AND COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS FOR THE 2122 SCHOOL YEAR.

I GAVE MR. EARL CAMPBELL.

SECOND, THE MOTION.

YES, CROSBY, GO AHEAD.

THIS IS A STANDARD, UH, REQUEST.

UH, IT IS REQUIRED WITH OUR STATE AND FEDERAL GRANTS TO PROVIDE A RESOLUTION ANNUALLY, TO AUTHORIZE A SUPERINTENDENT TO A FIVE FOR SIGN ADMINISTER GRANTS.

WE OFTEN HAVE GRANT OPPORTUNITIES EITHER DR.

STRATOSE OR MYSELF WILL SIGN INITIAL, UH, ANY GRANT GUY, GRANT INFORMATION, GRANT AWARDS, OR GRANT APPLICATIONS, AND FORWARD TO DR.

RODRIGUEZ FOR SIGNATURE AS WELL.

SO THIS IS JUST A FORMALITY THAT, UH, WE WILL NEED IS IN PLACE AND DOCUMENTATION OF ANNUALLY.

ANY QUESTIONS FROM THE BOARD MEMBERS THEY'RE BEING NON-LOCAL THE QUESTION.

YEAH, MADAM CHAIR.

OUR NEXT REPORT IS THE CARES ACT PRESENTATION FINISHED.

UM, IT'S MOST RECENTLY THE, UH, LAPTOPS AND IPADS FOR OUR CAKE UNIVERSE THROUGH SECOND GRADERS.

UM, I DID A SERIES OF LEGISLATIVE ACTIONS THAT HAVE OCCURRED AT THE FEDERAL LEVEL AND THEN, UM, BLOATED THROUGH THE STATE, UH, ARE WHAT WE COMMONLY REFER TO AS THE CARES ACT GUNS.

TECHNICALLY THERE ARE A COUPLE OF ACTS, UM, THAT ARE INVOLVED IN THE FEDERAL LEGISLATION MAY HAVE MULTIPLE ACRONYMS, BUT I'M KEEPING IT SIMPLE, THE SAVING TO CALL IT CARES, ACT IN AND ENCOMPASSING ALL OF THEIR OWN FUNDING UNDER THAT, UM, TERMINOLOGY.

UM, THERE ARE SOME OTHERS WITH C R R S A FUNDING ACT.

UM, AND SO IT'S JUST CON GETS CONFUSING.

SO WE'RE GOING TO STICK THE CARES ACT.

UM, SO THERE ARE THREE MAIN CATEGORIES THAT WE'VE RECEIVED SO FAR AND EARLY ON.

UM, YOU'LL SEE THE SMALLER 0.8 MILLION, UH, WITH, UH, CORONAVIRUS RELIEF FUNDS.

THEN LATER, A LARGER SOURCE ABOUT 5 MILLION WITH ESTHER WON'T WE CALL IT ESTHER ONE, THE ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOL EMERGENCY RELIEF FUND.

AND THEN MOST RECENTLY AN ALLOCATION, UH, IDENTIFIED FOR BEAVER COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT FOR $22.7 MILLION.

SO THE NEXT SIDE, UH, IT IDENTIFIES ACTUAL DOLLAR AMOUNTS.

UH, IT'S BREADS OUT THE RELIEF FUNDS INTO THREE APPLICATIONS.

THE LEEK FUNDS, THE HOTSPOTS AND THE MAY ALLOCATION ALONG WITH THE AND ALL OF THE EXPIRATION DATES.

AND THEN I MAY SPAN OF TIME OF ABOUT THREE YEARS.

SOME OF, UM, SOME OF WHICH HAVE ALREADY AT TWO OF WHICH HAVE ALREADY EXPIRED.

SO, AND THEN WE HAVE, UH, SPENT SO ON THE NEXT SLIDE IS THE CRF, UH, LEAP FUNDS.

THESE WERE FOUR, THE LEARN, EVALUATE, ASSESS PREPARE PROGRAM, WHICH WAS RIGHT BEFORE THE IMMEDIATELY PROCEEDING THE FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL.

AND SO THIS WAS A WEEK LONG, UM, EVENT FOR STUDENTS, UH, IN PERSON AND, UH, WAS REQUIRED TO BE IN PERSON ACTUALLY.

AND, UH, WE HAD, UH, FUNDS RECEIVED FUNDS WILL RECEIVE AN ACCOUNT, HAS BEEN CLOSED.

UM, WE, THERE IS ADVANCED SPENDING ON THESE, UM, ON THIS GRANT AND THERE WAS A ONE-TIME PAYMENT AND REIMBURSEMENT OF $1.2 MILLION.

UH, SO THAT WAS THE MANDATORY ONE WEEK INSTRUCTION FOR OUR, OUR, UM, YOUNGEST LEARNERS.

THE CRF, UH, MAIN ALLOCATION WAS ACTUALLY, UM, $2.3 MILLION AND HAS A WIDER VARIETY OF CATEGORIES THAT ARE ELIGIBLE FOR SPENDING.

IT WAS FOR PRIMARILY PPE, PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT, TUTORING, ADDITIONAL NURSING SUPPORT AND LEARNING DEVICES OR TECHNOLOGY.

AND WE'VE TAKE ADVANTAGE TAKING ADVANTAGE OF SOMETHING IN EVERY ONE OF THOSE CATEGORIES.

AND SO,

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AND SO THOSE FUNDS DO EXPIRE IN SEPTEMBER OF THIS YEAR.

AND SO THOSE, UH, LAST ALLOCATIONS AND SOME ADDITIONAL NURSING SERVICES WILL WRAP UP THE SPENDING FOR THAT, THOSE, UM, THE MAIN ALLOCATION OF, OF CRF.

AND THEN FINALLY WITH CRF B HOTSPOTS, UM, THAT WE RECEIVED FROM THE STATE.

THIS ONE WAS A LITTLE BIT OF AN UNUSUAL ALLOCATION AS THAT WE RECEIVED, UH, FUNDS IN ADVANCE.

AND THEN WE HAD TO PAY STATE DEPARTMENT BACK A CHECK IN THE AMOUNT OF $176,000 IN THE STATE DEPARTMENT ACTUALLY PURCHASED THE HOTSPOTS AND PROVIDED INTERNET SERVICES.

SO DEFINITELY WAS QUITE DIFFERENT.

AND, UH, AS I'M SURE IT'S SOME RED TAPE OR BUREAUCRACY OF THE STATE LEVEL THAT WAS REQUIRED OF THAT, BUT UNFORTUNATELY WE WERE ABLE TO BENEFIT FROM IT AND MANY OF OUR FAMILIES WITH THOSE PROGRAMS AND THOSE EXPIRE ON JANUARY 15TH.

SO WE HAD A NUMBER, A NUMBER OF FUNDING SPECIFICALLY REALLY, EXCUSE ME, SPECIFICALLY FOR THE HOTSPOTS.

SO, UH, THE CARES ACT FUNDING, THE SR ONE FUNDS, THE ORIGINAL ALLOCATION WE RECEIVED WITH 4.9 MILLION.

UM, THOSE ARE DUE AND THEY EXPIRE ON SEPTEMBER OF 2022.

THEY, UH, THESE FOLLOW A FEDERAL FUNDING PROGRAM YEAR.

SO AS OPPOSED TO OUR DISTRICT, HAVING A JUNE 30 YEAR IN FEDERAL HAS A SEPTEMBER 30, UM, UH, THE ALLOCATION ALSO WE HAVE TO ADVANCE PAY.

SO, UH, WE HAVE TO HAVE FUNDS IS AVAILABLE, UH, IN OUR CASH ACCOUNTS TO BE ABLE TO, UM, SPAN OF TIME OF AT LEAST THREE MONTHS, TO BE ABLE TO THEN RECEIVE REIMBURSEMENT.

AFTER A CLAIM IS PERFORMED.

THERE ARE 12 CATEGORIES, UH, ELIGIBLE SPENDING MAY INCLUDE ELECTRONIC LEARNING DEVICES, INSTRUCTIONAL SOFTWARE, TUTORING, HOTSPOTS, PPE, INFECTION, CONTROL, EQUIPMENT, CAMERAS, SIGNAGE, SOCIAL, EMOTIONAL LEARNING, PRIVATE SCHOOLS, AND OTHER COVID RELATED EXPENSES.

AND SO THE NEXT SLIDE SHOWS A FULL SET OF ALLOWABLE ACTIVITIES THAT WERE TAKEN DIRECTLY FROM A STATE DEPARTMENT COMMUNICATION, WHICH COVERS ALL OF THOSE CATEGORIES.

I JUST MENTIONED.

UM, I, WE, I WOULD SAY WE'D PROBABLY, I BELIEVE THAT WE HAVE SOMETHING IN EVERY ONE OF THESE CATEGORIES AND HAVE ADDRESSED, UM, MANY, A WIDE ARRAY OF SUPPLIES AND SERVICE NEEDS, UH, OVER THE COURSE OF THE LAST, LAST, UH, SEVERAL MONTHS.

SO SPECIFICALLY EXACTLY.

I WANT TO TOUCH BACK ON PRIVATE SCHOOL FOR JUSTIFICATION S OR ONE FUNDS WERE ELIGIBLE FOR PRIVATE SCHOOLS THROUGH THE SCHOOL DISTRICT.

SO OUR PRIVATE PAROCHIAL PARTNERS, EDUCATIONAL SCHOOL PARTNERS, UM, FIT 18 OF THEM IN THE COUNTY WERE CONTACTED AND EIGHT SCHOOLS ACTUALLY PARTICIPATED, UH, SO THAT ALLOCATION AND THAT THE DISTRICT HAD TO MAKE EVERY PURCHASE, RECEIVE THE YEAH.

UH, RECEIVED THE ITEMS AND THEN CONTACT THE SCHOOL TO COME RECEIVE THEM, OR HAVE THEM PICKED UP IN SOME WAY.

SO, AND THEN, UH, WE HAD TO PROVIDE INFORMATION ON HOW TO INVENTORY THE ITEMS OR OVER A HUNDRED DOLLARS PER AND NON-CONSUMABLE ITEM.

SO, UM, THERE WAS SOME ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS, YOU KNOW, EFFORTS ON OUR PART TO MAKE SURE THAT ARE HEARD.

AND WE HAVE ONE DESIGNATED STAFF WHO WAS WORKING CLOSELY WITH PRIVATE SCHOOLS OF SCHOOLS ARE NOT ELIGIBLE FOR ESTHER TO FUNDS THROUGH PRIVATE SCHOOL DISTRICT.

THEY ARE ELIGIBLE TO CONTACT THE STATE DIRECTLY AND RECEIVE FUNDING FROM STATE LEVEL.

UM, BUT WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ADMINISTRATION BEYOND A CERTAIN ONE.

I DON'T.

SO THAT, THAT'S SOMETHING THAT'S A LITTLE DIFFERENT BETWEEN THE TWO CATEGORIES.

SO, AND THEN, UH, THE S ARE TWO FUNDS, UH, 22.7 MILLION.

THEY EXPIRE ONE YEAR BEYOND THE .

SO WE DO HAVE AN ADDITIONAL YEARS.

SO WE HAVE A COUPLE OF YEARS OF, UM, FUNDING THAT WE CAN PROVIDE INSTRUCTIONAL SERVICE, MULTI YEARS, MULTIPLE SUMMERS, AND SO ON.

AGAIN, THIS ONE'S ADVANCED PAYMENTS, SO WE DO HAVE TO HAVE A SUFFICIENT CASH ON HAND TO BE ABLE TO, UM, TO BE ABLE TO PAY FOR THE ITEMS THAT WE'RE PURCHASING WITH THESE FUNDS AND THEN RECEIVE A QUARTERLY REIMBURSEMENT.

AND THAT'S WHY I KEEP REFERRING TO THAT.

THAT'S SOMETHING, UM, IT'S VERY IMPORTANT TO JULIE WHEN WE TALK ABOUT CASH FLOWS AND WE'RE PROJECTING WHAT CANNES ARE GOING TO NEED AND THAT SO ON.

SO THE TAX ANTICIPATION NOTE THAT WE IN THE FALL WILL, I WILL NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT OUR SPECIAL REVENUE EXPENDITURES ARE PROJECTED ACCURATELY ALONG WITH OUR GENERAL FUND, TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE CAPTURING WHAT WE'RE SPENDING HERE AND HAVE EFFICIENT JUST ON HAND PAID MORE THAN ADVANCE.

SO THAT'S SOMETHING THAT I THINK IS, YOU KNOW,

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IMPORTANT TO THE CONVERSATION, UM, AND SPECIAL REVENUE FUNDS, BY THE WAY, YOU DO NOT HAVE A FUND BALANCE.

THEY DO NOT CARRY A BALANCE FROM YEAR TO YEAR.

SO ALL OF THAT FUND BALANCE IN THE GENERAL FUND OR A BORROWING THROUGH SHORT-TERM BORROWINGS, HE'D HAVE TO BE SUFFICIENT TO COVER, YOU KNOW, ANY OF THIS SPENDING.

UM, AND FINALLY ON THIS CATEGORY, UH, THE SAME ELIGIBLE SPENDING, SAME ELIGIBLE CATEGORIES, UM, ARE ALLOWABLE IN S OR TWO AS S FOR ONE ACCEPT.

WE ARE ADDING THREE ADDITIONAL CATEGORIES THAT ARE ADDED, UH, LEARNING LOSS, WHICH IS SIMILAR TO SOME OF THE INSTRUCTIONAL, UH, ITEMS AND IT'S FACILITIES AND INDOOR AIR QUALITY.

SO THERE ARE SOME OPPORTUNITIES FOR US TO, UH, DO SOME ROOF REPAIRS OR, UM, UH, OTHER THINGS TESTING AND MAKING SURE, UH, AIR QUALITY IS EFFICIENT.

UM, THESE ARE ELIGIBLE CATEGORIES, THESE FUNDS, UM, AND AS I MENTIONED EARLIER, THERE WAS SOME, UH, INVENTORY, THERE IS SPECIFIC DOCUMENTATION, UH, VERY, UH, STRICT DOCUMENTATION AS REQUIRED.

UH, MANY OF THESE FUNDS, MOST OF WHICH WE DO ON A DAILY BASIS.

UM, BUT PAYROLL RECORDS, IF WE'RE PAYING ANYONE THROUGH THE EXTRA FUNDS, EITHER ON A TIME SHEET OR, UM, YOU KNOW, FOR TUTORING OR AFTER CARE OR SO ON.

SO SPECIFIC DOCUMENTATION THAT WE HAVE TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE KEEPING UP WITH TO MAKE, UM, SHOW THAT WE ARE ACCURATELY APPROPRIATELY SPENDING THE FUNDS AS LONG WITH, UM, WITH STUDENTS IS DIRECTLY AFFECTED BECAUSE STUDENTS, WE HAVE TO HAVE ATTENDANCE RECORDS AND RECORDS OF INSTRUCTIONAL ROUNDS PROGRESS AS WELL.

SO, UM, THE NEXT SLIDE IS OUR FINANCIAL INFORMATION.

UM, YOU SEE THAT, UH, TWO OF THE THREE, TWO OF THE FIVE ITEMS HAVE BEEN FULLY SPENT, UH, THE CORONAVIRUS RELIEF FUNDS THEN MAY ALLOCATION HAS STILL REMAINING ABOUT $273,000, BUT IT HAS BEEN COMMITTED FOR ADDITIONAL NURSING SERVICES.

AND, UH, THE FUNDS ARE WRAPPING UP WITH OUR PPE REPLENISHMENT AND OUR PRIVATE SCHOOLS, WHAT THEY HAVE COMMITTED TO SPEND IN THERE OUT OF PATIENTS.

AND THEN, UH, WE'RE JUST BEGINNING TO, UH, RE ARE NOW BUILDING OUR PLAN FOR THE ESTHER TWO FUNDS AND TO ADDRESS THE LONG-TERM, UM, LEARNING LOSS NEEDS.

UM, AND MANY OTHER CATEGORIES OF SPENDING THAT WE WILL BE MEETING OVER THE COURSE OF THE NEXT FEW YEARS.

UM, SO WE ARE IN THE EARLY STAGES OF THAT STILL, UH, SENIOR STAFF, THE LAW SUBMITTED DOCUMENTS STATING WHAT THEY BELIEVED OUR NEEDS WILL BE INSTRUCTIONALLY AND OPERATIONALLY.

UH, AND SO WE ARE IN A POINT WHERE WE'RE COM WE'RE AT THE POINT WHERE WE WILL COME BACK TOGETHER AND HAVE TO PRIORITIZE THOSE, TO MEET THE, UM, DOLLAR AMOUNT AND, UM, THEN SUBMIT THE APPLICATION.

SO, UM, THE NEXT SLIDE SHOWS SOME OF THE ITEMS THAT WE HAVE SENT SO FAR.

UM, AND I TRY TO EMPHASIZE THOSE.

IT PROBABLY HAD MORE OF THEM, UH, MORE ITEMS PURCHASED OR MORE DOLLARS SPENT, UH, TUTORING IS CERTAINLY IN THE CASE.

UM, THERE HAS BEEN CHILDCARE, PLENTY OF PPE, UH, IN ADDITION TO THE STATE ALLOCATED PPE THAT WE RECEIVED FOR FREE.

UM, AND, UH, BUT A NUMBER OF, YOU KNOW, OF THESE, ALL OF THESE ITEMS, WE'VE SPENDING IT ALL, EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THESE ITEMS IN THESE CATEGORIES.

AND SO LASTLY, UM, THE ADDITIONAL FUNDING WE HAVE, UM, RECEIVE INFORMATION THAT THERE IS ANOTHER ROUND OF FUNDING COMING TO SCHOOL DISTRICTS, AND THAT IS THROUGH THE AMERICAN RED WHEAT PLAN ACT OF 2021.

UM, THE EDUCATION FUNDING, UH, IS $130 BILLION NATIONWIDE FOR PATRIOT'S USEFULS TO SAFELY REOPENED.

UM, AND IT IS USED FOR MANY OF THE SAME CATEGORIES THAT WE HAVE SEEN SO FAR IMPROVING VENTILATION AND BUILDINGS, REDUCING CLASS SIZE, MAKING SOCIAL DISTANCING, POSSIBLE PPE, AND HIRING ADDITIONAL SUPPORT STAFF.

AND SO 20% OF THE MONEY MUST BE FOR SCHOOLS MUST BE DIRECTED TO PROGRAMS TO HELP COUNTERACT LEARNING LOSS FROM STUDENTS WHO NEST DURING SCHOOL DURING THE PANDEMIC.

BUT THERE ARE NO INDICATIONS OF THE AMOUNT THAT WE WERE RECEIVING AT THIS TIME.

AND SO MORE INFORMATION WILL BE TO COME.

UH, AND, UH, I WENT TO A MEETING LAST WEEK AND IF THEY IDENTIFIED OR MENTIONED THAT APRIL OR MAY, WE SHOULD HEAR SOMETHING, UH, AROUND THE LINES OF THE DOLLAR AMOUNTS THAT WERE COMING OUT, UM, IN THOSE CATEGORIES.

SO WITH THAT, I CONCLUDE

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THAT PRESENTATION.

I'D BE HAPPY TO TAKE ANY QUESTIONS, MR. OWEN, THANK YOU, MS. THAT'S THE, JUST LIKE TO MAKE A COMMENT, I WOULD BE HOPEFUL THAT THAT $22 MILLION, IF YOU COULD FOCUS ON HIS FOODS, UM, YOU KNOW, I KNOW IT, IT FACILITIES IS IN THERE AIR QUALITIES IN THERE, BUT MY GOODNESS, I WOULD LIKE THE MAJORITY OF IT SPENT ON STUDENTS IT'S ALLOWED, IT SAYS ACTIVITIES TO ADDRESS A UNIQUE NEEDS OF LOW INCOME STUDENTS, CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES, EITHER RACIAL AND ETHNIC MINORITIES, STUDENTS EXPERIENCE SEEING HOMELESSNESS.

UM, THAT'S JUST, I REALLY THINK THAT'S WHERE OUR FOCUS SHOULD BE WITH THAT MONEY.

UM, COMING UP LATER IN OUR PRESENTATION AND HE HAD FIVE OR SIX TSI SCHOOLS WHO HAVE BEEN DESIGNATED AS SUCH BECAUSE OF THEIR COHORT GROUPS OF STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES, LET'S PUT OUR MONEY WHERE I CAN DO THE MOST GOOD.

AND, UM, LET'S FIND A WAY TO WORK WITH THE STUDENTS.

UM, I WAS JUST GONNA ASK, I KNOW THAT THE AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN ACT THAT HAS SOME LIKE PREVENTION, UH, A THIRD FIELD, IS THAT CORRECT? YES.

AND THE DEADLINE TO SPEND IS ALSO THE SAME AS SOTL OR AS I BELIEVE THAT IS THE CASE.

THAT'S NUMBER 2023.

SO WHATEVER THE ALLOCATION WE GET FOR THIS NEXT ROUND WILL BE IN LINE WITH THAT PLAN.

UM, MR. SMITH, WELL, FIRST I WOULD JUST LIKE TO SAY, I'M MRS. ROBOT.

I'M RIGHT THERE WITH YOU.

I AGREE WITH EVERYTHING THAT YOU SAID, UH, DITTO, SOME OF IT, UH, I WAS GONNA, YOU HIT THAT COUPLE OF THINGS THAT I WAS GOING TO SAY AS WELL.

UM, BUT, UH, ONE THING THAT I DO WANT TO PARTICULAR I ASKED TOO, IS, UH, HAVE WE MET WITH THE, THE, THE, THE FINANCIAL STAFF AND THE SUPERINTENDENT MET, MET WITH THE DIRECTOR OF SPED TO SEE WHAT CAN WE DO, BECAUSE I'M SURE WE HAVE A LOT OF ONE-ON-ONE, UH, TUTORING PROGRAMS, UH, THROUGH THE SUMMER TO HELP SOME OF THESE SPED STUDENTS, UM, TO GET ON TRACK.

AND I KNOW, UM, THAT CAN BE, THAT CAN BE COSTLY.

UM, HA HAVE WE HAVE, WE'D GOTTEN SPED TO SEE WHAT PROGRAMS THEY MAY HAVE IN HOW, HOW THEY MAY WANT TO INTERACT WITH SPENDING SOME OF THIS MONEY TO HELP GETTING OUR SCHOOLS BACK ON TRACK WHEN IT COMES TO THE EDUCATIONAL PROCESS.

UM, DR.

STRATUS, UH, ENCOMPASSED EVERY, EVERY DEPARTMENT WITHIN HER DIVISION AND WE MET WITH HER DIVISION, HER DEPARTMENT LEADERS, AND HAS SPECIFICALLY MET WITH, UH, DR.

WHITE TO ADDRESS ANY, UH, LEARNING LOSS, UH, AND ITEMS SPECIFIC INSTRUCTIONAL MEASURES OR INITIATIVES CHOOSE MEET NEEDS OF STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES.

SOMEONE'S CAR PRESCRIBED ME? NO, I WAS GOING TO GO ON TO MR. BELVIN CAMPBELL.

BECAUSE AS I'M AWARE, LIKE I SAID, I KNOW THAT THERE'S A LOT OF PROGRAMS OUT THERE THAT, THAT, THAT WE, UM, HOPEFULLY THAT, THAT, THAT, THAT WE HAVE IN, OR STUDENTS PARTAKING OF SOME OF SUMMER TUTORING AND DIFFERENT, DIFFERENT THINGS OF THAT NATURE AND THAT WE ARE MAKING, UH, SOME OF THIS MONEY AVAILABLE.

UH, HOW, HOW ARE WE GETTING RETIREES INVOLVED AND, AND, AND HELPING OUT, UH, AS WELL WITH, WITHIN THIS, UH, SISTER SYSTEM, BECAUSE I KNOW WE HAD A, A WHILE BACK, UH, WE HAD A LOT OF RE WE LOST A LOT OF RETIREES DUE TO DUE TO FUNDING IN DIFFERENT, DIFFERENT, UH, MEASURES OR WEEDING RETIREES INVOLVED.

UH, I DON'T RECALL, I DON'T HAVE THE SPECIFIC INFORMATION ABOUT THE CATEGORIES OF EMPLOYEES, WHETHER THEY'RE ACTIVE OR, OR, UM, RETIRED THAT ARE WORKING, BUT THERE ARE OPPORTUNITIES AND TUTORING AND AFTERSCHOOL PROGRAMS. SO THERE WERE MULTIPLE OPPORTUNITIES FOR PART-TIME WORK IN SCHOOL DISTRICT.

UM, SO I I'M YIELD TO MS. WALTON, JUST SEE IF SHE HAS ANY INFORMATION READILY, UM, HAND ON SPECIFICALLY FOR RETIREES AND MR. SMITH RETIREES, THAT THE RETIREES THAT WE LOST, WE DID NOT LOSE BECAUSE OF FUNDING AND A RETIREE HAS THE OPPORTUNITY TO COME BACK TO WORK.

THEY CAN WORK AS TUTORS.

SO THEY'RE STILL VERY ACTIVE IN THE SYSTEM.

IF, UM, PRINCIPALS ADVERTISE FOR TUTORS AND RETIREES WANT TO DO THAT, THEY ARE WELCOME TO DO THAT.

ONE OF THE THINGS THAT THIS DISTRICT HAS ALWAYS DONE IS WE, IF WE BRING RETIREES BACK IN AS A FULL-TIME TEACHER OR ADMINISTRATOR, WE DO NOT REDUCE THEIR SALARY.

WE PAY THEM WHAT THEY WOULD EARN IF THEY WERE NOT RETIREES.

SO THE DOORS OPEN FOR ANY RETIREE THAT WANTS TO APPLY FOR ANY POSITION THAT'S OPEN WAS WALTON.

YOU SAY,

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SO IF YOU'VE HAD THOMAS CRAWFORD WAS SENT UP, LIKE YOU STARTED TO SAY SOMETHING, WHO'S JUST MEN.

THANK YOU, MS. WALTON FOR THAT.

UM, I, BUT WHEN I WAS REFERRING TO TWO RETIREES BEFORE WE ENTERED THE PANDEMIC, OUR, OUR, I REMEMBER WHEN, WHEN, WHEN THERE WAS A SITUATION WITH THE RETIREES AND RETIREMENT AND SOME OTHER STUFF, I KNOW THAT WE DID LOSE SOME RETIREES DUE TO FUNDING IN SOME DIFFERENT THINGS.

AND I'M JUST FIGURING, THIS IS A WAY NOW TO BRING SOME OF THEM BACK AND TO BRING THEM IN AT A PART-TIME, UH, AT A PART-TIME LEVEL TO HAVE THEM, UH, TUTOR SOME OF THE KIDS, BECAUSE THE KNOWLEDGE AND THE KNOWLEDGE AND THE INFORMATION THAT THEY HAVE IS JUST IS, IS EVERLASTING HABIT.

AND IT'S ALWAYS WORTH HAVING, SO THAT'S WHAT I'M REFERRING TO, BUT THEN KEEPING A GOOD MANAGER, MELANIE CAMPBELL, OR RATHER THE TRUE BUDGET ON THE SPOT AS A BOLD OR MANDY TO TAKE IT OR PAUSE LIKE AS HER TRUTH VERSUS GOING ALONE, OR DO YOU KNOW, ARE WE GOING TO GET A PLAN TO BE, YOU KNOW, AND GONE WITHOUT US HAVING ANY SAY, SO, MR. CAMPBELL'S GREAT QUESTION.

SO WE ARE IN THE PROCESS OF DEVELOPING OUR PLAN.

WE DO HAVE KIND OF A PLAN IN PLACE RIGHT NOW THAT WILL EXTEND TO THE END OF THIS SCHOOL YEAR.

WE'RE GOING TO ALSO CHUCK IT OUT FOR WHAT ARE THE, THE USE OF THESE FUNDS WILL LOOK LIKE FOR THE SUMMER.

AND THEN WE WILL, AT THE SAME TIME, BE DEVELOPING A MORE LONGITUDINAL PLAN THAT WILL EXTEND TO, UH, THE LENGTH OF TIME THAT WE HAVE TO ACTUALLY SPEND THESE SCARS OUT TO 2023.

SO IT IS KIND OF A THREE-PART PLAN THAT WE WILL BE PUTTING IN PLACE.

AND I FULLY EXPECT THAT WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO PUT SOMETHING IN FRONT OF THE BOARD FAIRLY SOON, HOPEFULLY BY THE NEXT BOARD MEETING, AT LEAST FOR WHAT WE CALL, WHAT WE PLAN TO DO FOR THE YEAR, NOT GOING TO EXPECT THAT, ASK THEM FOR THIS, BUT HOPEFULLY THE PLAN WILL INCLUDE NOT JUST OUT, YOU KNOW, IT'S TO ON THE END, BUT OH, PLAN B.

LET'S SEE WHAT THE BULLETS ARE A DISTRICT PLAN.

SO THAT'D BE GOOD.

BIG PLANS.

WELL, WE'LL HAVE FUNDING FROM , BUT WE HAVE THE, YOU KNOW, I'M LOOKING AT AN EXTENSIVE PLAN.

THAT'S GOING TO COVER THE NEEDS, THOSE LOSSES OVER EXTENDED TIME.

THAT'S, YOU KNOW, AND YOU SAID, SEE SOMETHING THEN.

SO, SO I'LL BE PRESENTING TONIGHT, UH, IN DETAIL ABOUT WHAT WE'RE DOING FOR THE NEXT 10 WEEKS.

THAT WILL TAKE US TO THE END OF THE SCHOOL YEAR, MY HOPE AND EXPECTATION.

I HOPE THAT I'M NOT SPEAKING OUT OF TURN, THAT WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO PRESENT SOMETHING TO THE BOARD BY NEXT BOARD MEETING WITH REGARD TO WHAT WE PLAN TO DO FOR THE SUMMER.

AND THEN SOMETIME AFTER THAT, A MORE LONGITUDINAL PLAN THAT WILL EXPAND INTO NEXT SCHOOL YEAR.

THEN THE MONEY STARTED UP THAT YOU GOT TO USE THESE THINGS TO RULE OUT WHAT YOU'RE GONNA NEED.

EFFORT OR LEGISLATIVE EFFORT, CAUSE I DO HAVE SOME CONCERNS HAVING WATCHED THE NEWS PERIPHERALLY OUT OF THE CORNER OF MY EYE, BUT YOU KNOW HOW THIS MONEY MIGHT GET ALLOCATED BY THE STATE.

I THINK ONE OF THE THINGS MS. CROSBY HAS REALLY DONE A GOOD JOB OF IS REMINDING US THAT FOR EVERY PLAN THAT WE TRY TO PUT TOGETHER, THAT WE WERE BEATING HER MS. BOATWRIGHT, THANK YOU.

MADAM CHAIRMAN, I HAVE TWO COMMENTS AND A QUESTION.

MY FIRST COMMENT IS THE TIP IS CROSBY.

THIS IS EXCELLENT BECAUSE IT REALLY HELPS ME UNDERSTAND THERE'S SO MANY BUCKETS OF FUNDING AND THIS IS LAID OUT REALLY WELL.

UM, MY SECOND COMMENT IS AS FAR AS STUDENT TAKING CARE OF STUDENTS, I THINK WE'RE JUST STARTING TO SEE THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG FOR ALL OUR STUDENTS ON THE MENTAL HEALTH IMPACT OF THIS PANDEMIC.

AND SO I HOPE THAT WE ALLOCATE NOT ONLY TO TUTORING AND LEARNING LAWS, BUT HELPING AND NOT JUST HELPING THESE KIDS TO DEAL WITH FOR YEARS, THE IMPACT OF THIS PANDEMIC.

AND THEN MY QUESTION IS THE ANSWER TO, AND THE REALLY FUN THAT JUST GOT PASSED, THAT MONEY DOESN'T COME DIRECTLY TO THE SCHOOLS THAT GOES TO THE STATES FOR ALLOCATION TO THE SCHOOLS.

IS THAT CORRECT? YES.

WE HAVE A LOBBYING

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AND I DON'T KNOW IF THERE'S SOME EFFORT WE CAN MAKE ON OUR OWN.

THE SRQ FUNDS WERE ACTUALLY ALLOCATED BY ACTUALLY, I THINK THAT'S SORT OF ONE AS WELL ABOUT A TITLE ONE FORMULA.

SO FOR PEOPLE THAT'S A GOOD THING AS OPPOSED TO TWO ON ASSESSED VALUES OR, YOU KNOW, PROPERTY VALUES, THAT SORT OF THING, BECAUSE WE DO HAVE RELATIVELY HIGH POPPY FREE REDUCED LUNCH POPULATION.

UM, AND SO THAT IS I, I HAVE A COLLEAGUE IN A NEIGHBORING COUNTY WITH ABOUT A THOUSAND STUDENTS MORE THAN US, AND WE RECEIVED FOUR TO $5,005 MILLION MORE THAN ME BECAUSE OF OUR POVERTY LEVELS.

SO, UM, IT IS IMPORTANT THAT, UH, IT CONTINUE.

I HOPE THAT IT CONTINUES WITH THAT TITLE ONE ALLOCATION, BUT I HAVE NOT, UM, LOOKED INTO THE LEGISLATIVE, THE ACT ITSELF TO SEE IF THAT'S HOW WE ALLOCATED.

WOULD ANYBODY ELSE LIKE TO SPEAK THAT IS AN OUTSPOKEN, I BELIEVE.

UM, JUST TO GO OFF OF SOME OF WHAT MRS. BOATWRIGHT WAS JUST STATING OUT ALSO, UM, IS BUSINESS STRADDLES ON THE LINE TODAY, HE'S HEARING THE, UM, MEDIUM SET WITH US.

UM, I JUST GOT A BIT OF A BRAIN FREEZE A LITTLE BIT.

UM, MR. , WHAT DO YOU CALL THE DEPARTMENTS LIKE YOUR, UH, DRAMA DEPARTMENTS, YOUR BAND? WHAT DO YOU, WHAT DO YOU CALL THOSE EVENING? MR. SMITH, DENNIS WILL BE APPLYING IT TO PERFORMING ARTS.

WITH THE SOCIAL EMOTIONAL PART, AS WELL AS THE, UH, SAY IT AGAIN, BUYING ANIMALS FOR ME OR RIGHT.

I WAS, I WAS WONDERING, HAVE WE ALSO THOUGHT ABOUT ANY FUNDING FOR THE FINE AND PERFORMING ARTS, UM, UM, DEPARTMENTS, BECAUSE I'M SURE I KNOW SOME TIME TO TIME.

I KNOW LIKE THE ONE THAT BOOTH B FOR IN BLUFFTON, THEN FROM TIME TO TIME, THEY HAVE PLAYS AND THEY HAVE DIFFERENT WAYS OF RAISING MONEY AND ALSO TO GET THE KIDS INVOLVED, YOU KNOW? UM, AND, AND, AND I HAVEN'T HEARD MUCH ABOUT THEM.

I WAS GRATEFUL TO SEE THE PERFORMANCE OR MAYBE OF A HIGH SCHOOL TONIGHT'S FROM ONE OF THEIR PERFORMING ARTS, UH, UM, PROGRAMS. BUT HAVE WE THOUGHT ABOUT ALSO HOW WE CAN GET THEM INVOLVED AND, UH, AND GIVE THEM BECAUSE BELIEVE IT OR NOT, WE DO HAVE STUDENTS WHO GO TO COLLEGE OF PERFORMING ARTS SCHOLARSHIPS AS A LITTLE AS WELL, AND WHO ARE HELPED AS WELL FROM THE PERFORMING ARTS DEPARTMENT.

AND WE HAVE NOT TALKED MUCH ABOUT THEM THROUGH THIS COVID-19 EXPERIENCE.

SO HOW HAVE WE HAD WE INVOLVED THEM AS WELL? MR. SMITH DID SHOW ANY ANSWER IS ABSOLUTELY THE SECOND PART TO THAT WOULD BE THAT I DON'T EVEN MISS AND IN MY PROFESSION, AND AS A PERSON WHO VERY MUCH SUPPORTS THE ARTS, NOT THE HAND, THEY KNOW MY PLAN OF ACTION AS GOING FORWARD, SAY I'M 100%.

GREAT, GREAT.

AND NOT, NOT TO DISCOUNT YOU, BUT, UM, I I'VE BEEN, I'VE BEEN GUILTY OF NOT MAKES MISSION IN THAT BECAUSE I WOULD DEFINITELY LIKE TO, TO, UH, HAVE A, UM, MISSION PRIOR TO TODAY ABOUT THE PERFORMING ARTS, BECAUSE YOU KNOW, A LOT OF PEOPLE FORGET ABOUT THE ARTS AT, AT, AT TIMES WHEN WE, WE, UH, WE FOCUSED ON SPORTS AND DIFFERENT THINGS THAT AT THIS TIME UNDER THE COVID PANDEMIC, UM, THAT WE'RE GOING THROUGH, BUT, UH, THE ARTS ARE VERY, VERY IMPORTANT AS WELL AS A PART OF THE ACADEMIC PIECES.

THANK YOU, MS. ROBOT.

NO.

THERE BEING NO FURTHER QUESTIONS.

I'LL UP.

THAT IS A DOCUMENT.

A MATTER.

I FILED A MOTION DENIED.

I MOVE THAT THE BOARD APPROVED THE MINORITY SLASH WOMAN OWNED BUSINESS ENTERPRISE REPORT, ACCORDING TO THE SCHEDULE SHIFT BY THE BUBER COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION.

YOU HAVE A SECOND.

THAT WAS EARL CAMPBELL.

SECOND.

TIME PERIOD, JULY ONE, DECEMBER 31ST, 20.

I'D LIKE TO HAVE WE ADD FOR THE

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YEAH, THAT SEEMS JULY, 2022 TO DECEMBER 31ST, 2020.

THANK YOU, SIR.

I'M PLEASED TO PRESENT THE MINORITY WOMEN BUSINESS ENTERPRISE, THE ANNUAL PROGRESS REPORT AS REQUIRED OF THE, UH, SCHOOL DISTRICTS PROCUREMENT CODE.

IT HAS TO BE RECORDED SEMI-ANNUALLY AND I AM PLEASED TO PRESENT THAT WE HAVE MADE SIGNIFICANT PROGRESS THIS A SIX MONTH PERIOD AND HAVE HAD, UH, OUR GOAL IS 20% TO US.

THE GOAL THAT WAS ESTABLISHED, UM, IN WBE UTILIZATION WAS 20% OF THE CONTROL BUDGET OF CONTRACTS AND SERVICES EXPENDITURES.

UH, $13 MILLION IS THE AMOUNT OF MONEY THAT WE WOULD NEED TO SEND THROUGH CERTIFIED MY REAGAN BUSINESSES.

UM, TO ME THAT BOTH, UM, THE DISTRICT DOES NOT HAVE MANY, UH, THE AREA DOES NOT HAVE ANY CERTIFIED VENDORS.

HOWEVER, WE DO CAPTURE BOTH CERTIFIED AND NON-STOP CERTIFIED MINORITY AND WOMEN BUSINESS ENTERPRISES.

AND I'M HAPPY TO ANNOUNCE THAT WE SPENT 12,341,000, UH, APPROXIMATELY IN, UH, 18.3, 6% OF THE CONTROLLABLE BUDGETS.

SO WE DID MAKE SIGNIFICANT PROGRESS IN THIS TIME PERIOD, UM, CONSTRUCTION AND TECHNOLOGY PURCHASES, UH, HAVE PRIMARILY TAKEN US TO THAT MORE.

AND THAT IS HISTORICALLY THE PATTERN THAT WE HAVE SEEN WHEN THERE IS HEAVY CONSTRUCTION OR A LOT OF TECHNOLOGY UPGRADES THAT WE HAVE THE ABILITY TO BETTER, UM, ACHIEVE OR WORK TOWARD ACHIEVING THAT GOAL.

SO, UM, IT IS, UH, VERY, UH, I HOPE THAT THE NEXT QUARTER WILL BE EVEN BETTER.

AND SO, UM, BUT WE DID HAVE MADE SOME EFFORTS FOR THAT THIS, UM, THIS SIX MONTHS PERIOD AND, AND FOLLOWING IN THE SPRING, UH, EACH SPRING, WE HAD A MINORITY VENDOR VENDOR FAIR WITH CONTRACTORS THAT WE HIRED HER SUMMER WORK, OUR, UH, PRIMARY CONTRACTORS COME IN AND THEY MEET WITH, UM, INDIVIDUALS WHO, UH, LEARN OF THE FAIR AND ARE ABLE TO MAKE THOSE CONNECTIONS AND ULTIMATELY GET HIRED FOR THE JOBS.

UNFORTUNATELY, COVID-19 HAS, UH, DAMPEN THAT A BIT AND MADE IT A LITTLE MORE DIFFICULT.

UM, IT WAS NOT TREMENDOUS, UH, JUST PATIENTS LAST, UM, THIS LAST FAIR THAT WE HELD, UM, BUT WE'RE, WE'RE ABLE TO CONNECT EACH OF THE ATTENDEES WITH A JOB, UH, IN A CONTRACT.

SO, UH, WE WILL CONTINUE THAT OUTREACH.

WE DID REACH OUT TO, UM, SOME LOCAL RADIO STATIONS AND DO ADVERTISING LIKE LOCAL CHURCHES TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE HAVING THAT OUTREACH AND REALLY MAKING THAT EFFORT.

AND WE'LL CONTINUE TO EXPAND THAT AS WE MOVE FORWARD AND HOPEFULLY AS WE TRANSITION OUT OF COVID AND AT SOME TIME THAT WE WILL BE ABLE TO INCREASE THAT PARTICIPATION IN THOSE EFFORTS.

SO WITHOUT THESE HAPPY TO TAKE ANY QUESTIONS, MR. MEL CAMPBELL COMMENT OR QUESTION, THANKS FOR THE OUTREACH.

AND, UH, YOU KNOW, I TRY TO BE ON DIVINE, BUT THAT DOES NOT, WE HAVE TO LAND VIGILANT AND TRY TO GET THOSE NERDY CONTRACTORS INVOLVED.

AND THEN I WILL TELL YOU, UH, OTHER ELEMENTS OF FUND I, AS WE MOVE FORWARD AND I, YOU KNOW, THE PANDEMIC, WE DID AN EXCELLENT JOB.

WE WILL FALL ASLEEP DAILY, CONTINUE TO HAVE THE JOB FAIRS AND INVITING THE VENDORS THAT I DID.

AND WE DIDN'T GO ON TO BE ABLE TO BE GOOD STUDENTS.

I WENT INTENTIONS AND I HADN'T, I THOUGHT AROUND, I DIDN'T KNOW THIS FROM MAKING THE EFFORT, WE'LL KNOW THAT WE DOING, I WALK.

I JUST WANTED TO TAKE A LOOK AT PAGE TWO.

I SEE THERE WERE, UM, WOMEN HERE.

THERE WERE NO WOMEN, AND I KNOW I'M IN CHARLESTON, THIS ADMINISTRATIVE SUSPENSION IS POINTING AND HAS PROVIDED FUNDING FOR WOMEN'S BUSINESS.

SO WE REACH OUT STATEWIDE AND WE PASSED OUR NECK ABOUT THE STATE TO GET MINORITY WOMEN AND MINORITY BUSINESSES TO GET

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OUT TO THAT WOMEN'S BUSINESS CENTER.

IS THAT, UM, WE CAN CERTAINLY, SO IT'S, SO IT'S IN THE PROCESS OF BEING ESTABLISHED.

WE CAN CERTAINLY DO THAT.

I HAVEN'T HEARD OF THAT, BUT I CAN DEFINITELY LOOK INTO IT.

AND, UM, I KNOW MY COLLEAGUES TYPICALLY WATCH THIS MEETING AND PROBABLY ARE ALREADY GOOGLING IT ONLINE.

UM, ADMINISTRATION JUST RECENTLY LADDERS FUNDING FOR THAT PARTICULAR ESTABLISHMENT IN CHARLESTON.

AND THEY HAD A RIBBON CUTTING, I THINK MAYBE TWO OR THREE WEEKS AGO.

SO THEY HAVE, THEY HAVE A BRAND NEW BUILDING.

THEY'LL BE IN A BUILDING.

I THINK I'LL WRITE OFF A RIVER'S OUT AND I'M FROM TORONTO.

SO YES, IT WOULD BE NICE TO HAVE TO TALK TO THEM AND MAKE THAT CONNECTION.

SO THOSE THAT ARE GOING TO BE A PART OF THAT ORGANIZATION CAN PARTICIPANT.

WE'LL CERTAINLY DO THAT.

THANK YOU, MR. SMITH.

I WAS JUST GONNA SAY, I AGREE WITH WHAT MR. CAMPBELL SAY.

UM, WE DEFINITELY APPRECIATE THAT, THAT WE, THAT WE STAY ACTIVE.

AND I DO WANT TO MAKE MENTION THAT WE DID HAVE ONE, UH, BEFORE THAT THEY DID HAVE ONE BEFORE THIS AND THAT ONE WAS PRETTY SUCCESSFUL AT THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.

AND I WAS WHAT I WAS GOING TO SAY IS THAT, UM, I THINK WHATEVER WE DID TO GET THE PEOPLE OUT FOR THAT ONE WE'LL WE'LL WE'LL POP.

SO POSSIBLY BE VITAL TO GET THE PEOPLE BACK OUT FOR, FOR THE DELAYED IS, UH, THE, THE NEXT MEETING THAT WE HAVE.

UM, I THINK THE MORE THAT WE HAVE, UM, UH, THE, THE BETTER, THE BETTER, THE BETTER OF A TURNOUT WE WILL GET.

AND THE MORE WE WILL BE ABLE TO CONNECT WITH THE COMMUNITY AND THE PEOPLE, UM, WHO ARE INTERESTED IN THESE, IN THESE CONTRACTS.

SO, UM, I JUST WANT TO SAY, KEEP WORKING IN AND CONTINUE TO, UH, KEEP, KEEP WORKING WITH THE PEOPLE WHO, WHO ARE BRINGING THE PEOPLE INTO THE FOLD, WHO ARE INTERESTED IN CONTRACTS AND WHATEVER WE DID NOT FOR THE PAST WEEK BEFORE THE MEETING, BEFORE THAT, WHERE, WHERE THE ROOM WAS CROWDED AND NO STANDING ROOM ONLY, I THINK THAT THAT'S THE ROUTE WE POSSIBLY NEED TO TAKE AGAIN TO, UH, GET THE MINORITY CARD CONTRACTORS BACK OUT, BECAUSE I HAD SOME COUPLE OF CONTRACTORS THAT TOLD ME THAT THEY DID NOT KNOW ABOUT IT WHEN I CONTACTED THEM AFTER THE MEETING AND ASKED HIM WHAT WAS GOING ON.

AND THEY ALLOWED THEM TO TOLD ME THAT THEY, THEY DID NOT, THEY DIDN'T, UNFORTUNATELY NOBODY, BUT SOMETIMES THINGS HAPPEN.

THE MOTION CARRIES UNANIMOUSLY FOR APPROVAL, THE FINANCE COMMITTEE REPORT.

WE'LL NOW MOVE ON TO OPERATIONS

[Operations Committee]

COMMITTEE CHAIR, TRICIA.

THIS EVENING, YOU'RE GOING TO HEAR THE OPERATIONS COMMITTEE REPORT FROM THE NEW OPERATIONS VICE CHAIR, MR. WILLIAMS. THANK YOU, MATT.

I'D LIKE TO START OUT BY SAYING, UM, I WOULD DEFINITELY LIKE TO, UH, THANK, THANKS.

THANKS.

THANK, UM, MY COLLEAGUES FOR GIVING ME THE OPPORTUNITY TO SERVE ON THIS COMMITTEE AS VICE CHAIR.

THAT WAS BASICALLY, THAT WAS ONE OF THE FIRST, UM, THAT WAS ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS THAT WE DID AT THAT MEETING WAS WE, UH, ELECTED A VICE CHAIR.

UM, AND SECOND, WE HAD A CONSTRUCTION UPDATE.

UH, WE HAD A CONSTRUCTION UPDATE, UH, UH, WITHIN OH EIGHT, NINE.

I NOTICED THAT MISS, UH, MRS. CHRISTIAN RAY, YOU PUT THE DOMAIN AS I CAN DO THE MAINTENANCE FIRST.

THAT'S NO PROBLEM.

I'LL LEAVE THAT UP THERE.

UH, FIRST WE CAN GO WITH THE CLEANING AND REPORT OR MR. ALI.

TO IS THAT YOU'LL NOTICE THAT THE MOST RECENT WORK ORDER IS AT THE TOP.

THANK YOU, SIR.

UM, IT'S OKAY.

I'M GOING TO GIVE KIND OF A ABBREVIATED VERSION OF WHAT WE GAVE THE, UH, OPERATIONS COMMITTEE.

UM, DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING I'M MISSING OVER, PLEASE STOP ME.

AND I'LL BE GLAD THAT YOU ACT, UM, THAT DOESN'T DISMISS THE FACT THAT THIS IS ACTUALLY A GOOD WORD IN BOTH OCCASIONS.

UM, MAINTENANCE IS CURRENTLY COMPLETED BY OUR CONTRACTOR ABM, AND THIS WAS OUR FIRST TIME WITH OUR HISTORY CONTRACTOR ATS, BOTH IT PERFORMED VERY WELL ON THEIR SURVEYS.

SO I'LL BEGIN WITH MAINTENANCE AND ROBERT, IF YOU WOULD GO TO THE WORK ORDER, SUMMARY ARE NICE PICTURES DEMONSTRATING SOME OF THE WORK THAT MAINTENANCE HAS DONE.

SO FEEL FREE TO GO BACK AND THROUGH THAT, THE NOTICE OF THE WORK ORDER SUMMARY, THE THING THAT I'D LIKE YOU TO PAY ATTENTION

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THE SUMMARY IS AT THE TOP AND HE GOES DOWN, UH, WITH HISTORICAL IS THROUGH HISTORY AND BACK TO THE BOTTOM, WHICH YOU SEE AS FEBRUARY, 2018, YOU'LL NOTICE THE WORK ORDER AT THE, AT THE TOP.

ACTUALLY IT'S SHOWING A DECLINE.

THIS, WE FEEL IT'S DUE TO THE COVID SLIDE.

WE ACTUALLY HAVE HAD REDUCTION IN THE NUMBER OF WORK ORDERS.

THAT'S JUST BECAUSE WE HAVEN'T HAD A TEAM.

WE DIDN'T HAVE TEACHERS IN OUR BUILDING.

AND SO WE DIDN'T HAVE AS MANY EYES ON ITEMS. AND, UM, BECAUSE OF THAT, WE FEEL WORK ORDERS ACTUALLY WENT DOWN THAT SAME TIME.

UH, THE MAINTENANCE CONTRACTOR HAD A WHOLE NEW ROLE OF RESPONSIBILITIES, WHICH WAS THE DISTRIBUTION OF PPE, UM, BUILDING THE BARRIERS.

UH, WE ALSO HAVE THEM NOW REFILLING A LOT OF THE PPE AND WE'VE TURNED OUR WAREHOUSE OVER HERE INTO A DISTRIBUTION CENTER, WHICH WE DIDN'T HAVE TO DO.

SO THAT WAS A WHOLE NEW REALM OF SERVICES THAT WE TOOK ON UNDER COVID.

AND I DO HAVE TO COMMEND OUR MAINTENANCE MEN FOR THE GREAT JOB THAT THEY'VE DONE IN THAT AREA.

UM, SO THANK YOU FOR THAT.

YOU WILL NOTICE SOME OTHER THINGS THERE, THE ABM INITIATED.

SO THOSE ARE THE SELF-INITIATED WORK ORDER AT 19%, I WOULD LIKE TO SEE THOSE LITTLE HIGHER, UM, ABOUT 20% OR HIGHER THEIR COMPLETED PERCENTAGE AT THE END OF THE YEAR IS NOT BAD.

SO THAT'S LOOKING GOOD.

GO ON TO THE WORK ORDER STATS FROM THE NEXT PAGE, WHICH IS THE TOTAL WORK ORDER FOR A YEAR.

YOU'LL SEE THAT DECLINE THAT I TALKED ABOUT IN OUR MOST RECENT CALL IN THE CODE IT'S SLIDE, WHICH ALSO ON THE NEXT ONE WORK ORDERS PER WORKER PER YEAR, THAT'S DECREASING AS WELL ON THE NEXT SLIDE.

YOU HAVE THE SQUARE FOOTAGE PER YEAR, UH, THE TOTAL SQUARE FOOTAGE, AND YOU SEE THAT INCREASING THAT'S DUE TO THE SPUR FOOTAGE WE'VE BEEN HAVING, BUT THIS DOES NOT INCLUDE THE MOST RECENT SQUARE FOOTAGE AT MAY RIVER AND URBAN, FOR EXAMPLE, SHOW UP IN THE NEXT YEARS.

AND OF COURSE ON THE NEXT ONE, OUR SQUARE FOOTAGE PER WORKER PER YEAR HAVE BEEN DECLINING BECAUSE WE'VE ADDED SOME, UH, WORKERS AND WORKERS IN THE MAINTENANCE DEPARTMENT, AND IT WILL INCREASE AS THE SQUARE FOOTAGE INCREASES.

BUT I BELIEVE WE'RE AT A GOOD NUMBER BECAUSE WE GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE AS FAR AS OUR TOTAL NUMBER OF WORKERS, BECAUSE THE SURVEYS ARE COMING IN REAL, REALLY, REALLY GOOD.

WE'RE VERY PLEASED WITH, UM, THESE RESPONSES ON THE MAINTENANCE SURVEY.

WE HAD 25 RESPONSES OUT OF 36 LOCATIONS.

THESE ARE SENT OUT TO THE PRINCIPALS, THE PRINCIPAL IS GETTING THE RESPOND OR ASSIGNED SOMEONE WITHIN THEIR STAFF TO RESPOND TO THESE SURVEYS.

YOU'LL NOTICE THAT WE'RE GETTING A REALLY GOOD, CONSISTENT, UM, RESPONSE ON MAINTENANCE SURVEYS IN THE 3.5 RANGE AND HIGHER.

YOU'LL SEE THAT THIS FIRST SLIDE SHOWS CUSTOMER SERVICE AND RESPONSIVENESS RATHER STAYING EVEN WITH WHERE WE'VE BEEN IN THE PAST, OR IN SOME INSTANCES THERE'S A SLIGHT IMPROVEMENT ON THE NEXT SLIDE AND THE QUALITY OF SERVICE.

YOU'RE ACTUALLY SEEING AN INCREASE IN MOST ALL CATEGORIES COMPARED TO MOST RECENT SURVEYS.

AND WHEN YOU COMPARE YOUR YEAR ON THE TIME OF THE YEAR, YOU'RE ALSO GETTING AN INCREASE.

SO AS FAR AS THE MAINTENANCE SURVEYS GO, THIS IS A, A VERY GOOD RESPONSE.

AND LIKE I SAID BEFORE, WE'RE VERY PROUD OF HOW RAIN HIS TEAM HAS DONE UNDER THE COVID IN THE DISTRIBUTION OF PPE AND ALL THE ADDITIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES THEY'VE TAKEN ON.

AND I THINK THAT SHOWS IN THE SURVEY RESPONSE.

SO NEXT WE'LL MOVE ON TO CUSTODIAL.

UH, CUSTODIAL IS A NEW CONTRACTOR ATS.

I'LL JUST START BY SAYING THAT I WAS VERY CONCERNED ABOUT CHANGING CONTRACTORS IN THE MIDDLE OF COVID.

UM, THAT WAS A MAJOR UNDERTAKING AND I, AND I CAN'T STRESS THAT ANYTHING I CAN'T STRESS THAT ENOUGH.

WE RUN OUR MICROSOFT SCOPE AS FAR AS HOW CLEANING WAS GOING, AND WE TRANSITIONED CONTRACTORS DURING THAT TIME.

AND I HAVE COMMITTED AN ATS AND THEY'VE DONE AN EXCELLENT JOB.

AND I'D JUST LIKE TO SAY THAT, UH, FOR INTERESTED WITH ANY QUESTIONS, I KNOW OUR MANAGER FOR ATS, UH, IS IN THE AUDIENCE WITH US TONIGHT, MR. BUTLER.

SO IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, I'M SURE HE'D BE GLAD TO ANSWER THEM FOR YOU.

UM, BUT WHAT I WOULD SAY, IF YOU GO ONTO THE CUSTODIAL SURVEYS, ATS PERFORMED HIGHER IN EVERY, COMPARED TO OUR LAST FIVE YEARS

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OF SURVEY RESULTS.

SO I CAN SAY THAT AGAIN, ADS PERFORMED BETTER IN EVERY SECRET CATEGORY THAN ANY OTHER SURVEY IN THE LAST FIVE YEARS.

UM, YOU'LL NOTICE THAT THE LAST SURVEY IS, UM, AN ADDITIONAL QUESTION, WHICH WE HAVEN'T ADDED IN THE PAST.

AND THAT'S A COVID QUESTION.

YOU'LL NOTICE THE GRAY IS THE LAST PERFORMANCE FROM THE PREVIOUS CONTRACT, OR THE BLUE IS THE MOST RECENT PERFORMANCE WITH AGS.

AND AS YOU JUST GO THROUGH EACH OF THE SURVEY CATEGORIES, ROBIN, IF YOU KIND OF JUST SCROLL THROUGH THOSE, YOU'LL NOTICE THAT THEIR PERFORMANCE IS, UM, SIGNIFICANTLY HIGHER THAN WE HAD ON OUR PAST SURVEYS.

AND SO THAT JUST SHOWS THAT, UM, THE PRINCIPALS ARE VERY PLEASED WITH, UM, THE RESPONSES WE'VE BEEN GETTING.

UM, I'M NOT GOING TO GO THROUGH THOSE IN DETAIL, BUT I'LL BE GLAD TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS ON THAT.

BUT AGAIN, I'D JUST LIKE TO SAY THAT TRANSITION.

I'M VERY PLEASED THAT IT'S GONE.

UM, THEY HAVE A GOOD MANAGEMENT STAFF IN PLACE, AND I'M REALLY PLEASED ON OUR DIFFERENT, WE JUST NEED TO CONTINUE THAT AND YOU HAVE TO IMPROVE GOING FORWARD.

SO THAT'S ALL I'LL SAY ANY QUESTIONS.

SO MR. SMITH REJECT TO MAKE THE MOTION AND THEN WE'LL HAVE A DISCUSSION.

UH, ACTUALLY I DON'T HA I DON'T HAVE, I DON'T HAVE A MOTION, UM, TO MAKE THE MOTION.

WHAT, I'LL JUST READ IT OUT.

THE SCREENSHOT I MOVE THE OPERATIONS COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS TO THE FULL BOARD, THE ACCEPTANCE OF THE CLEANING AND MAINTENANCE REPORT.

LAST SECOND.

SO NOW WE'LL GO TO DISCUSSION MS. MIDDLETON.

OH, OKAY.

OKAY, MR. , WHAT IS THE LEVEL OF ? THE QUESTION WAS THE CAMPBELL, BECAUSE WE CAN HEAR YOU, WHAT KIND OF RETENTION RATE I'M GOING TO KEEP ON THE DOWNLOAD FOR THEIR POSITIONS.

AND I'M GOING TO GO TO 70, 75, 8%, UH, THE PREVIOUS BUSINESS, THE PERSONNEL, VERY BROAD INTEGRATIONAL 200%, BUT A LOT OF WHAT WE FOUND THAT, UH, IN OUR, IN THAT TRANSITION PERIOD WAS THAT THE SUPPORT THAT THE BOYS WERE GETTING, THE SUPPORT THAT THE MANAGEMENT TEAM WAS GETTING WAS NOT THERE.

AND, AND YOU'RE NOT THAT THAT'S BEEN A MAJOR DIFFERENCE IN US.

WHAT WE SEE NOW IS THAT BECAUSE OF THE US COMING INTO AN ENVIRONMENT OF VISUAL SUPPORT AND, UH, AND SETTINGS OUT WITH EMPLOYEES AND STRESSING ME THE FACT THAT WE ARE ALL A TEAM WORKING TOGETHER JUST TO VIBE ENTERTAIN.

SO, UM, SO I PACKED ALL OF THAT HAS PAID DIVIDENDS AS FAR AS, UH, UH, WHAT DO YOU HAVE RESULTS THAT PRESENTER MUST READ THE SAME STAFFING, BASICALLY THE SAME STAFF STAY ON THEIR STAFF, ALL BEING DONE.

SO, YEAH, ON A LEADERSHIP BACKGROUND, I APPRECIATE THAT.

I AM, THAT'S WHY I WANT TO KNOW I'M A LITTLE, THE QUESTIONS OF, UH, WHO DID THE SURVEYS, MR. ADI, AS I SAID, THESE WERE SENT OUT TO THE PRINCIPALS AND EITHER THE PRINCIPALS WOULD DO IT THEMSELVES OR ASSIGN SOMEONE IN THEIR STAFF.

AND A LOT OF THE BUILDINGS LIKE HIGH SCHOOL BUILDINGS, I KNOW ASSISTANT PRINCIPALS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR FACILITIES.

SO, UM, IT WAS UP TO THE PRINCIPAL TO DO IT THEMSELVES OR ASSIGN IT TO, AND THE LAST MEETING, HOW MANY SERVERS, HOW MANY SURVEYS DID YOU TELL US THAT, THAT, THAT WERE COMPLETED FOR MAINTENANCE OR 25 FOR CUSTODIAL? THERE WERE 24.

AND HOW MUCH SERVICE WE'RE SENDING OUT ALL TOGETHER? A 36, 33RD, 36 SURVEYS, WHERE SOME WERE SENT OUT GREAT

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AND ALL.

AND ALSO, UM, UM, MY, MY QUESTION IS, IS ALSO AS, UM, SCHOOL PRINCIPAL, UH, IS, IS WHO PRINCIPALS BASICALLY HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO DO SURVEYS, BUT NOT TEACHERS.

CORRECT.

WELL, THE PRINCIPAL ASSIGNED IT TO A TEACHER.

THEY COULD HAVE DONE IT, BUT YES, WE SENT THESE TO THE PRINCIPALS NOT TO.

SO BASICALLY, I'M, I JUST WANT TO MAKE IT POINT OUT THAT THE SERVICE ARE SENT TO THE ADMINISTRATION, BUT NOT THE TEACHERS, CORRECT? UH THAT'S RIGHT.

THE ADMINISTRATION COULD ASK FOR THE INPUT OF A TEACHER, BUT WE DID NOT SEND THAT TO THEM DIRECTLY.

MA'AM I'M JUST GOING TO ASK THAT WE ADD THE DATE MARCH 10TH, 2021.

IT SEEMS. YES.

SINCE WE'RE NOT HAVING THEM PE WHEN I'M TRYING TO MAKE FRIENDS CLEAR PREGNANT, AND JUST ONE OTHER THING I'D LIKE TO ADD PREGNANT AND I'M WRONG, BUT TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION, MR. CAMPBELL, THEY DID OFFER POSITIONS TO ALL STAFF.

ALL STAFF ARE GIVEN THE OPPORTUNITY BACK TO THE PREVIOUS STAFF OR POSITIONS.

ABSOLUTELY.

I THINK I'D LIKE TO AMEND THE MOTION.

COULD YOU PUT THE MOTION BACK UP? I'M NOT SURE THAT'S THE EXACT MOTION WE WANT OR THE CAR WOULD I MOVE THAT WE STRIKE MOTION THAT THE OPERATIONS COMMITTEE RECOMMEND TO THE FULL BOARD AND REPLACE WITH THE BOARD? THE BOARD ACCEPTS THE CLEANING AND MAINTENANCE REPORT.

OH, MARCH 10, 2021.

WE HAVE A SECOND FOR THE, AGAIN, MR. LINEAGE SECOND.

UH, AND THEN, SO STRIKE THAT BOTH.

GO AHEAD, DAVID.

THAT'S THAT'S ALL I, IT'S NOT ABOUT THE OPERATIONS COMMITTEE.

IT'S ABOUT FOUR BOARDS, SO YEAH, SO WE'LL JUST REPEAT IT.

SO FOR ROBIN, OH, I'M SORRY.

STRIKE MOTION THAT THE OPERATIONS COMMITTEE RECOMMEND TO THE FULL BOARD, THE ACCEPTANCE AND REPLACE IT WITH THE BOARD, ACCEPTS THE CLEANING AND MAINTENANCE REPORT MARCH 10, 2021, MS. BELL.

AND KEEP THAT MAKES SENSE.

UM, I HAVE A QUICK QUESTION FOR MR. BUTLER.

UM, THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE AND AN EXCELLENT REPORT.

UM, AS I'VE TOURED SCHOOLS, SOME SCHOOLS HAVE NOTICES ON THE OUTSIDE OF THE DOOR, IT SAYS, HAS BEEN CLEANED OR SANITIZED OR NEEDS TO BE CLEANED OR SANITIZED, BUT NOT ALL THE SCHOOLS.

IS THAT A SCHOOL-BY-SCHOOL DECISION? IS THAT SOMETHING THAT YOU GUYS HAVE DIFFERENT TEAMS? HOW DOES THAT WORK? BASICALLY, A SCHOOL BUS SO GETS TO MAKE THAT DECISION.

MOST OF THE PRINCIPAL IS, AND ALSO, UH, MISTY, MR. , UH, REPORT.

HOW, HOW DO WE TELL WHAT'S GOOD AND WHAT'S NOT BY MISERABLES.

UH, I KNOW THAT WAS SOMETHING YOU WANT TO SEE ON THE NEXT REPORT AND THE ZERO WOULD REPRESENT THE LOWEST SCORE OR WOULD REPRESENT THE HIGHEST.

AND SO I'D SAY HISTORICALLY MAINTENANCE IS SCORING IN ABOVE A THREE, USUALLY CLOSE TO A 3.5, WHERE CUSTODIAL, IF WE'RE GETTING ABOVE A THREE, THAT'S HISTORICALLY A VERY, A GOOD SCHOOL.

SO THE ADVANTAGE MOTION, THE BOARD ACCEPTS THE CLEANING AND MAINTENANCE MAINTENANCE REPORT AT THE MARCH 10, 2021 PASSES UNANIMOUSLY.

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SO THE ORIGINAL MOTION, UM, IT FALLS AWAY MR. .

FORWARD THAT WE WILL INVOLVE THE FINE ARTS DEPARTMENT.

ALRIGHT, MR. SMITH, DOES HE HAVE ANY FURTHER RECORDING? UH, YES.

MA'AM WE DO.

UH, WE ALSO HAVE A CONSTRUCTION UPDATE, MR. MR. .

GOOD EVENING.

THIS WAS ROB CORVIN AND BOND REFERENDUM PROGRAM MANAGER WITH CVRE HARRY.

UM, I GUESS SINCE IN THE INTEREST OF THE OVERALL SCHEDULE TONIGHT, AND THE FACT THAT YOU HEARD EARLIER FROM THE CLOCK CHAIR, TED BARBER, UH, IF YOU'D LIKE ME TO GIVE THE FULL REPORT, I'LL BE GLAD TO DO SO, BUT IF YOU'D LIKE ME TO SORT OF APPROACH US LIKE WE'VE DONE, UH, ON OTHER OCCASIONS WHERE I SORT OF DO A LIGHTNING ROUND AND JUST TOUCH ON THE HIGH POINTS, I'LL BE GLAD TO DO THAT IS, UH, LET ME KNOW WHAT THE PREFERENCE IS.

WELL, I THINK YOUR MOM WOULD BE FINE TO BE FRIENDS.

WE DON'T HAVE IT ON THE AGENDA, SO YEAH, IT'S NOT ON THE AGENDA.

AND WE HAD HAD THE DISCUSSION ALREADY WITH BOB.

WELL, WELL, YOU DO HAVE THE, UH, MATERIAL PULLED UP ROBINSON THAT IT IS AVAILABLE, BUT, YOU KNOW, FROM A REAL HIGH PERSPECTIVE, YOU HEARD, UH, MR. BARBER TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE TIGHT BUDGETS THAT ARE CURRENTLY PRESENT AT BATTERY CREEK HIGH SCHOOL, THE SAME AS OCCURRING FOR ROBERT SMALLS.

INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY, BOTH ARE CURRENTLY BEING REPORTED AS GREEN UNDER THE BUDGETS, BUT WE ARE CLOSELY MONITORING THOSE TO BETTER CONTROL THE COST OF THAT.

THOSE TWO PROJECTS.

UH, AS YOU SCROLL THROUGH THIS MATERIAL, YOU WILL SEE A NUMEROUS YELLOW LIGHTS THAT ARE PRIMARILY ASSOCIATED WITH, UH, AMENDMENTS THAT ARE COMING TO THE BOARD THIS EVENING, UH, WITH THE APPROVAL OF TONIGHT'S AMENDMENTS, ESPECIALLY FOR THE TECHNOLOGY INFRASTRUCTURE AND THE USE OF THE CONTINGENCY THAT THE BOARD APPROVED AT THE LAST MEETING, UH, WE'LL BE ABLE TO RETURN THOSE YELLOW LIGHTS BACK TO GREEN, AND WE WILL CONTINUE TO CLOSELY MONITOR ADDITIONAL, UH, TECHNOLOGY, INFRASTRUCTURE SCOPES GOING FORWARD.

UH, I WANT TO MAKE POINT THAT, UH, AT THE LAST, UH, OPERATION COMMITTEE, WE DID BEGIN DISCUSSIONS ASSOCIATED WITH OUR FYI 2023 CAPITAL PROJECTS.

UH, WE'RE PREPARING A, UH, A DETAILED SCHEDULE TO BE ABLE TO, UH, FINALIZE THAT MATERIAL AND RETURN A RECOMMENDATION AND PRESENTATION TO THE FULL BOARD COMING UP IN THE MONTHS AHEAD.

UM, AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST, I WOULD LIKE TO JUST TOUCH ON, UH, THE MWB E OUTRAGE.

UH, WE HEARD A LITTLE BIT EARLIER, UH, UH, REGARDING THE, UH, MWB E QUARTERLY REPORT.

UH, WE HAVE HELD, UH, TWO, UH, OUTREACH EVENTS LAST YEAR, AND WE'VE ALREADY HELD ONE THIS YEAR.

THE EVENT THIS YEAR WAS A VERY LOW TURNOUT, UH, THAT COULD BE BECAUSE, UH, UH, MANY OF THESE LOCAL MWB EAS HAD ATTENDED THE PREVIOUS TWO EVENTS, BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY, WHAT I WANT TO DO IS TAKE JUST A MINUTE TO HIGHLIGHT THE FACT THAT WE ARE STRONGLY ENCOURAGING ALL OF OUR, UH, CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT FIRMS THAT ARE, UH, DOING SERVICES WITH THE DISTRICT TO, UH, PERFORM OUTREACH AS WELL.

THEY FULLY UNDERSTAND THE 20% GOAL THAT THE BOARD HAS ESTABLISHED FOR THE MWB PARTICIPATION.

AND ON MARCH 2ND, JE DUNN HELD AN OUTREACH EVENT.

UH, IT WAS WELL ATTENDED WITH 36 ATTENDEES.

UM, ALL ATTENDEES GOT, UH, PACKAGES THAT INCLUDED A BUSINESS PARTNER REGISTRATION FORM, A REGISTRATION FORM TO BE INCLUDED IN, UH, UH, JE DUNN'S DATABASE GOING FORWARD, UH, WHICH WILL, UH, OPEN UP ADDITIONAL OPPORTUNITIES, NOT JUST FOR THE LOCAL ONES HERE WITH THIS DISTRICT.

UH, THEY ALSO RECEIVED A BID INVITATION REGISTRATION FORM FOR THE UPCOMING ROBERT SMALLS INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY.

THAT'S THE HIGH LEVEL RECAP, AND I'LL BE GLAD TO DOCK, UH, ANY ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS THAT MAY SURFACE, UH, SO I'LL PAUSE RIGHT THERE AND SEE WHAT QUESTIONS, ALL RIGHT, MR. SMITH, I WAS GOING TO ADD, I'M JUST GOING TO ADD ALSO THAT WE ALSO, UM, SAID THAT AND MOVING

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SO WHEN WE ARE UPGRADING, UH, THE FACILITIES, LIKE AS IN THE PACK AND BUFORD HIGH SCHOOL TO, UH, SO THAT WE CAN UNDERSTAND EXACTLY WHAT WE ARE INSTALLING IN THE DIFFERENT, DIFFERENT BUILDINGS, BECAUSE THEY ARE MORE ON THE GROUND AND THEN, UH, THE ACTUAL PR PERSONABLE OR, OR THE BOARD MEMBERS ARE SO THEY KNOW EXACTLY WHAT'S BEING CHANGED AND, UM, AND, AND AS, AND SO FORTH.

THAT'S CORRECT.

I JUST WANT TO ADD THAT IN THE REPORT AS WELL, SO, UH, YEAH.

THANK YOU, MR. SMITH.

WE'RE NOW ONTO THE POLICY COMMITTEE REPORT.

I'M DR.

CHAIR.

AND ALSO, I WOULD JUST LIKE TO FINISH UP MY REPORT BY SAYING, I THINK MR. UH, MR. ROB, AS, AS WEST, WHAT MR. OUTING FOR, FOR, FOR HAVING A GREAT MEETING AND BRING US THAT INFORMATION, BECAUSE WE ALSO HAD A DISCUSSION ON THE 8% PROJECT, AND WE ALL LIKE TO THANK THEM BOTH FOR BREAKING THAT DOWN AND, AND, AND THEY GAVE US A TUTORIAL HOUR.

THANK YOU ALL FOR TAKING THE TIME OUT THAT NIGHT AND IN DOING THAT BECAUSE I'M SURE ME AND MRS. ENGLISH AND EVERYONE ELSE WAS ON WHO'S ON THE CALL.

UH, DID DEFINITELY APPRECIATE INFORMATION THAT'S AT THE SHORT GAME WAS DEFINITELY APPRECIATE Y'ALL.

AND THAT'S IT.

NOW THAT, THAT IS THROUGH MY REPORT.

[Policy Committee]

MA'AM I'M HERE.

THE AG THE POLICY COMMITTEE MET REGULARLY ON MARCH 9TH IN REGARDS WITH THE HANDHELD AND ORPHAN, UH, THE POLICY MANUAL.

UM, THE PURPOSE OF THE MEETING WAS TO, UM, IDENTIFY ADDITIONAL DOCUMENTS THAT WERE LISTED AT THE END OF THE HANDBOOK, UM, AND HOW THOSE WOULD BE, UH, TAKEN CARE OF FOR LACK OF A WORD I'M NOT SURE.

AND THAT THOSE UPDATES HAVE, UH, QUITE YET CAN'T GET IN PLACE.

AND IF IT'S BEEN PLACED ON THE WEBSITE THAT, UH, LINKS ARE GOING TO BE PROVIDED FOR THOSE INITIAL DOCUMENTS, UM, AND THAT THING CLEANED UP, I WANT TO THANK THE COMMITTEE MEMBERS AND OUR, UH, COMMITTEE LIAISON, UH, CARTILAGE FOR THEIR ASSISTANCE IN BRINGING UP THAT AREA AND KIND OF FINALIZING AND PUTTING A BELL ON EVERYTHING THAT WE PUT IN THEIR REPORT.

GO TO THE SUPERINTENDENTS REPORT IS GIVEN BY THE DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT, DR.

ANY QUESTIONS FOR POLICY? ALL RIGHT THERE BEING DONE, WE WILL NOW

[Superintendent’s Report]

DUKE BRADLEY CHAIR, UNDER THIS EVENING'S SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT.

WE'LL BEGIN BY UPDATING YOU ON THE PROGRESS OF TSI SCHOOLS.

DR.

STRADDLES WILL TAKE CUSTODY OF THIS REPORT.

SECONDLY, UNDER FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY, THIS IS CROSBY.

WE'LL PROVIDE THE LOVELY TRANSPARENCY REPORT, THAT LOFT LINK 100,000 K REPORT AND MORE ABOUT THE BUDGET.

AND THEN FINALLY, UNDER OTHER MATTERS, I WILL PROVIDE A COVID-19 UPDATE, A BRIEF UPDATE ON THE EQUITY AND INCLUSION ADVISORY COMMITTEE WORK, AND A SUMMARY OF OUR INITIAL EFFORTS OCCURRED LEARNING LOSS STRESS.

BRADLEY.

GOOD EVENING.

MATHEMATICA CHAIR AND SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS TONIGHT, MR. DAN BALLON AND MYSELF.

WE'LL CONTINUE A PRIOR PRESENTATION THAT WE SHARED WITH YOU ON MARCH 2ND, 2021 IN YOUR POLL THAT YOU HAVE SUPPORT DOCUMENTATION, AS WELL AS TONIGHT'S PRESENTATION WITH THIS, I WOULD LIKE TO START EVENING SHARING OF INFORMATION FOUND ON SLIDE THREE.

MEMBERS TO REALLY UNDERSTAND WHAT THE RISK SCORE IS BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT WE'RE GOING TO FOCUS AROUND THIS EVENING IS THE SCORE WE GET FROM THE MATH ASSESSMENT.

PLEASE NOTE THE PRIOR SLIDE AS WE GO TO SLIDE THREE IS ALSO A HANDOUT AND FINDS THE CRITERIA DEFINED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION.

AS THERE'S DESIGNATION OF SCHOOLS HAVE IMPROVED APPROVED.

IF YOU REFER TO THIS DURING OUR PRESENTATION, IT MAY ANSWER A FEW QUESTIONS, AS WELL AS MRS. WORLDWIDE GROWTH, BOTH IN THE CLASSIFICATION OF OUR SUB ROUTES AS TO WHY WE HAVE SIX SCHOOLS IDENTIFIED AS ATSI.

SO THANK YOU FOR THAT REMINDER, MRS. ROBOT IN THE CLOSEST COLUMN TO THE RIGHT ARE THE SCHOOLS THAT WE ARE HIGHLIGHTING TONIGHT.

THOSE ARE ATSI.

YOU'LL SEE.

THE TOP OF THAT COLUMN ALSO SAYS TSI, THE STATE FLUCTUATES BACK AND FORTH.

EKA STANDS FOR ADDITIONAL TARGETED SUPPORT SCHOOLS TO LET THE DATA SHARE TONIGHT IS A REFLECTION OF DATA OBTAINED FROM THE MEASURE OF ACADEMIC PROGRESS KNOWN AS THE MAP ASSESSMENT.

THIS DIAGNOSTIC IS ADMINISTERED THREE TIMES A YEAR.

AS FOR STATE LEGISLATION.

IT PROVIDES TEACHERS AND FAMILIES WHAT INFORMATION THEY NEED TO IMPROVE TEACHING AND LEARNING WITH THIS.

I WANT TO INTRODUCE THIS TO DANIEL.

BALLEN OUR DIRECTOR OF DATA SERVICES, MR. VALLEY PLACE.

GOOD EVENING.

SO I WANT TO QUICKLY GO THROUGH THE POWERPOINT OF THE GOAL OF THE DATA AND EXPLAIN THAT AS NOT JUST AS A QUICK RECAP AND TRAIN NEW BOARD

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SO IT'S, IT'S MATHEMATICALLY TALK TO FROM THE PROXY UNITS, UH, AND EASIEST WAY TO THINK OF THAT.

YOU KNOW, YOU CAN MOVE DEFINITION.

THERE IS TO THINK OF THAT AS ECOLOGICAL SCALE, A SIMILAR FOOD ACCOUNT AND YARD.

SO WE CAN MEASURE INCREMENTALLY OVER TIME GROWTH LESSONS, MATH ASSESSMENTS, SO WE CAN MEASURE GROWTH OVER TIME FOR STUDENTS.

AND WE WOULD, A GROWTH IS ASSIGNED GUIDE WOULD BE 74 INCHES OR A HUNDRED SCORE OF 74.

UM, AT MY AGE I PROBABLY HAVE A VERY LOW, UH, IT'S GOOD TO DO GROWING.

UH, BUT THE STUDENT IS SEVENTH GRADE, EIGHTH GRADE.

THAT IS THE SAME 74.

IT'S JUST REALLY THE SAME SITE, BUT THAT STUDENT WOULD HAVE A LITTLE BIT MORE THAN ANTICIPATED.

THEY'RE STILL IN NEW GROWTH, SO THEY WOULD HAVE A HIGHER GROWTH, BUT IT NORMALIZES, UM, INFORMATION, THE ACADEMICS.

UM, SO JUST TO QUICKLY EXPLAIN WHAT THE RASHI IS LIKE IN WHAT WE'RE ABOUT TO HAVE FUN.

SO ROBIN, YOU GO AHEAD.

SO WE'RE GOING TO LOOK AT TWO TYPES OF SOME FIRST, BOTH DERIVED FROM THE RISK SCORES AND THAT ASSESSMENT DATA OUT OF THE FIRST SYSTEM MEANS SCORE A LEAD SCORE, AROMATIC AVERAGE ON GROUPS OF SCORES.

SO WE'RE GOING TO GET GRADE LEVELS AND THEN WE GET SCHOOLS.

SO WE'RE JUST LOOKING AT THE, WITH THE MATHEMATICAL AVERAGE OF THE DATA.

THE OTHER IS WITH PROJECTED PROFICIENCY.

THIS IS WHERE NWA DOES THEIR ALIGNMENT STUDY ON STUDYING FOR STATE ASSESSMENT IN ELA AND MATHEMATICS.

AND THEY ACTUALLY GIVE THE LEVEL OF CERTAINTY THAT A STUDENT WILL SCORE FOR EFFICIENT UPCOMING STATE ASSESSMENTS IN STORY.

SO THERE'S THANKS FOR JOINING.

SO IN THIS PRESENTATION, NOW WE'RE GOING TO LOOK AT, UH, STATUS NORMS, UM, AND THEY ARE NOT THE SAME AS PROJECTED PERMISSIONS.

UH, TWO REPORTS, THE CLASS BREAKDOWN BY PROTECTIVE PROFICIENCY IS AVAILABLE TO OUR, OUR TEACHERS.

UH, THEY CAN LOG INTO THE NBA, UH, THAT AFTERNOON, UM, AND ACTUALLY SEE HOW THEIR CLASS IS BROKEN DOWN BY THE PROJECTED PROFICIENCY THAT THEY ALSO HAVE A PROJECTED PROFICIENCY SUMMARY REPORT THAT SHOWS STUDENT BY STUDENT WHAT THEIR ANTICIPATED SCHOOLS WILL BE IN SPRING INTO THE ASSESSMENT.

AND THEN THE PARTICULAR PROFICIENCY COMES FROM A SEPARATE INTEGRATED STUDY TIMES THEY'RE AVAILABLE DETECT, UM, THE LINKS THERE, BUT IT'S AN ALIGNMENT STUDY.

IT'S NOT IN ONE DOCUMENT.

IT'S DONE STATE BY STATE AND IT'S READING WARMS WITH JASON .

SO NOW YOU SHOULD ALSO HAVE A HAND OUT IN YOUR PACKET ON 2020 IN THE WORMS, I'M GOING TO USE THESE DATA THAT SAYS A LITTLE LESSON.

SO IF WE LOOK IN THE ADDRESS OF THE RED AND PINK BOX, NOW THOSE ARE ELA SCORES OR READING SCORES, AND WE LOOK AT FOURTH GRADE.

SO IN THE FIRST COLUMN, WE LOOK AT THE NUMBER FOUR, HOW WE COME ACROSS OR IN THE WINTER NOW.

SO A FOURTH GRADER IN THE WINTER THE MEAN SCORE ENDED UP GETTING KNOWN AS THE AVERAGE FOURTH GRADER RATINGS IN THE UNITED STATES.

SO MATHEMATICALLY, IF WE LOOK AT MAIN STORES AND WE HAVE A LARGE SAMPLE SIZE, WE KNOW FROM GROUND TO BEING A COMEDIAN.

SO IF YOU SAY TWO OR THREE, IT WOULD BE ROUGHLY THE 50TH PERCENTILE.

SO 50 PERCENTILE OR AVERAGE PEER MATHEMATICAL AVERAGE ON THAT ASSESSMENT.

WE HAD TO GO THREE BROAD TO GO THROUGH TO THE NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE.

WE'RE NOW GOING TO TAKE THAT TO SCORE OR ACROSS WALK OVER TO THE POINT CONCERN.

SO THE ONLY WAY YOU CAN SAY IS WHAT TELLS US PROJECTING PROFICIENCY ON THE STATE ASSESSMENT, THIS CASE IT'S SC READY IN THIS CASE, IT WOULD BE THE READING ASSESSMENT GROUP.

SO THE TOP PART DID I SEE GRADING READING OUT OF THE BOTTOM HALF IS MATHEMATICS.

UM, WE LOOK ACROSS MAP GROWTH.

IT'S CALLED WINTER FRUIT.

WE SEE TWO THROUGH EIGHT ACROSS THE TOP, AND W HAS THE ABILITY TO TRAVELING MATH SCORES BACK IN THE SECOND GRADE, OR SO IF WE CAN START PROJECTING PROFICIENCY IN THIS BUSINESS, IT'S A YEAR AND A HALF BEFORE THEY ACTUALLY TAKE A LOOK AT COLUMN A POSSIBLE ROBBINS ARROWS RIGHT THERE ON THE LINE THERE, YOU SEE TWO TIP FOR A STUDENT TO BE ROUGHLY AT A POINT, A 50% CHANCE OF SCORING MEETS OR EXCEEDS AND THE STATE ITSELF AND FOURTH GRADE IN WINTER IN READING, IF THEY HAVE TO SCORE TO TWO.

SO WHAT DOES THAT TELL US IF WE'RE LOOKING AT JUST MEAN SCORES, WE CAN MEASURE INCREMENTAL THROWS OVERTIME.

WE DON'T THEN HAVE TO ALSO LOOK, ESPECIALLY WE'RE TALKING ABOUT ACSI SCHOOLS.

WE HAVE TO LOOK AT WHAT GAP IN THERE IN THE FIRST PLACE, WHICH IS PERFORMANCE ON THE STATE OF CS.

SO WE HAVE TO LOOK AT PROJECTED CONDITIONS AND WE HAVE TO BE ABLE TO DO A CROSSWALK.

WE HAVE JEFF TO SEE, ESPECIALLY SHE HAD 11 BOARD MEMBERS WHAT'S HAPPENING.

WHAT DO YOU EXPECT? SO WE'RE NOT HERE IN THE FALL TELLING YOU THE PRIZE.

WASN'T WHAT WE THOUGHT, BUT THEY WERE GROWN.

WE WANT TO BE OPEN AND TO BE TRANSPARENT AND GIVE YOU ALL THE INFORMATION.

SO AT 203 OR TWO 10,

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SEVEN BRICK POINT DIFFERENCE.

SO EVEN IF A SCHOOL HAS AN AVERAGE OF THE TWO OH THREE AND FOURTH GRADE READING, UM, THEY'RE, THEY'RE FALLING SHORT, STATE EXPECTATION WOULD BE CONSTITUENCY ASSESSMENT.

SO THAT'S WHY I WANT TO SHOW YOU BOTH, UM, BE OPEN, BE TRANSPARENT FOR THE DATA.

UM, BUT ALSO GIVE YOU THAT FOR THE KNOWLEDGE AND IN THAT ASSESSMENT.

SO I'M GOING TO WALK THROUGH ONE EXAMPLE OF BULLYING.

I KNOW, I DO KNOW, I'VE HEARD A FEW TIMES IS TIGHT.

SO I DO WANT TO WALK THROUGH ONE SO VERONICA CAN GET ADVANCED TO THE NEXT SLIDE.

WE WILL LOOK AT FUTURE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS.

SO RIGHT NOW WE'RE LOOKING AT THE SCHOOL.

THIS IS THE AVERAGE.

SO IT'S A CARIBBEAN OR ARITHMETIC AVERAGE OF THE STUDENTS THAT TOOK THE ASSESSMENT.

AND, UH, IF THERE'S ANY INTO THIS AND THEIR COHORT MODEL.

SO YOU'LL SEE CURRENT K CURRENT TO CURRENT BORE.

THOSE ARE STUDENTS THAT ARE CURRENTLY SITTING IN THOSE GRADE LEVELS, AND WE'RE LOOKING AT A WHOLE CALENDAR YEAR.

SO LET'S USE FOURTH GRADE AS AN EXAMPLE AGAIN, UM, HAVE THE FIRST PART OF THE CHARTS, MATHEMATICS PART IS GRADING.

SO IF WE LOOK AT THAT DATA, THE CURRENT FOURTH GRADERS, WHEN THEY WERE IN THIRD GRADE AT ONE 88, FIVE FALL AND WHATEVER READING, UH, AGAIN, THIS IS PRE COVID, UH, ONE 94 COMING.

SOON, WE CAME BACK IN FALL OF 2020, OR THAT SAME GROUP NOW IN FOURTH GRADERS, UH, ONE 93.5.

AND THEN IT'S THE ONE OR TWO TO SHARE THE ONE 98.7.

THOSE STUDENTS ARE GROWN.

WE CAN EASILY SAY IT GOES THROUGH INTERPRETER.

I'LL PICK ABOUT THE WINTER AND OTHER NORM GROUP AVERAGE, THINK ABOUT WHAT THIS IS.

AND TWO, 2.5, THE STUDENTS ARE GROWN, BUT WE CAN ALSO SAY THAT THERE HAS BEEN AN IMPACT EDUCATION.

SO THAT'S WHAT INFORMATION SELLING.

YES, THEY ARE GROWING, YES, THINGS ARE HAPPENING IN THE SCHOOL AGAINST MS. EVERYTHING'S GOING IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION, BUT THERE'S ALSO BEEN SEAR AND EDUCATIONAL IMPACT OF GROWTH.

THEY'RE NOT WHERE THEY NEED TO BE, TO BE IN THE SAME SENSE.

SO WE'RE GONNA UNDERSTAND THAT FROM THE DATA, ONE REASON WE SHOWED IN THE FALL, JUST THE MAIN DATA, UM, ONCE IT, BECAUSE WE DIDN'T HAVE A FULL CONTROL OF THE TEST ENVIRONMENT, WE STARTED THE SCHOOL YEAR 20, 20 SCHOOL YEAR, FULLY VIRTUAL.

WE DIDN'T OFFER STUDENTS TO COME IN TO TAKE THE MATH ASSESSMENT, THE FIRST THREE WEEKS OF SCHOOL.

UM, MOST ALL FAMILIES OPTED TO TAKE THAT HOME.

SO WHILE WE DO PROCTOR AND PROCTOR VIRTUALLY WITH A MAP ASSESSMENT, UH, WE CAN DO A VERY GOOD JOB OF THAT.

THERE'S STILL A LACK OF CONTROL.

UM, DOING YOUR MEAN SELF HELPS US NORMALIZE THAT SOMEWHAT AND THEN TAKE OUT THE HOUR EXTREMES.

AND SO WE HAVE A CENTRAL TENDENCY, THE DATA, IF WE WERE TO DO A PERCENTAGE, WHICH WE'LL SEE ON THE SLIDE, IT LOOKS TOTALLY DIFFERENT BECAUSE WE'RE NOW LOOKING AT A INTEGRATOR DENOMINATOR.

AND IF WE HAVE ANY SMALL CHANGES AT ALL, BECAUSE WHEN THE DEGREE OF THE DENOMINATOR, IT CAN BE A TRAFFIC TO CHANGE A SESSION, START LOOKING AT SMALL GROUPS, UM, OR SOME OF THE SUBGROUPS.

SO NOW WE'RE LOOKING AT ROBIN AS ADVANCED, AS LIES TO PROTECT YOUR PROFICIENCY.

AGAIN, YOU HAVE CALL READING, YOU HAVE WINTER READING, FALLING AROUND INTO YOUR MATH.

AND AS I MENTIONED EARLIER, THESE ARE SCHOOLS ARE ACSI ALL OF OUR SCHOOLS, ALL OF THE SIX SCHOOLS ARE HSI OR STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES.

SO JUST A QUICK LEARNING ON THE CSI THAT THOSE SCHOOLS ARE COMPARED TO ANY TOP PERFORMING CSI SCHOOL AND HAVE YOUR HANDOUT.

IT'S A COMPREHENSIVE SUPPORT IT'S IN THE BOTTOM 10% OF.

SO ALL OF THESE SUBGROUPS WERE COMPARED TO THAT ONE SCHOOL.

IF THE SUFFRAGE SCORE IS LOWER THAN THE TOP PERFORMING CS HIGH SCHOOL, THE ENTIRE SCHOOL COMES TO THE MTSS FOR ANOTHER CONVERSATION WITH STEVE REALLY OVERSEEING.

NOW, WHEN WE LOOK AT THE ELEMENTARY WE SEE IN PARENTHESES THERE BY ALL STUDENTS WITH 185 STUDENTS.

SO IN GRADES THREE THROUGH FIVE AND , AND THE FALL REACHING 31% OF THOSE DAYS WERE PROJECTED TO BE MAJOR SEATS ON THE SAME ASSESSMENT.

THIS COMING SPRING, WINTER IS 30% MATHEMATICS WAS 34 AND FOUR.

BUT IF WE GO BACK TO, IF YOU'RE REFERRING TO, I THINK IT WAS JANUARY OF, IN THE PRESENTATION WHERE WE PRESENTED, UH, PICKED UP THE GRAVITY OF THE WHOLE PRESENTATION ON THE EDUCATION OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE FINDINGS ON STUDENT LEARNING LOSS IN SOUTH CAROLINA AND SOUTH AND VISITORS, THEY HAD BEEN RESEARCHED AND THREE OUT OF 10 OF OUR STUDENTS ALONE, EFFICIENT STATE ASSESSMENTS.

SO, SO THIS, THIS MATCHES VERY CLOSELY.

IT WASN'T WHAT WE DISCOVERED CODING.

WE ALSO TAKE ACTUAL DEMOGRAPHICS BECAUSE AGAIN, THAT'S HOW THESE STUDENTS ARE COMING TO YOU.

SO WE'RE LOOKING AT AFRICAN-AMERICAN WHO SPAN CAUCASIAN STUDENTS, ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS.

SO WE WANT TO LOOK AT THAT AS WELL AND SEE WHAT'S HAPPENING.

SO IN THIS CASE, YOU LOOK ACROSS AND OF GIVES AWAY

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A 14% PROJECTED PROFICIENCY INVOLVED IN GREEK.

AND THAT WAS 84.

IT WAS ACTUALLY 16% AND THAT 40% IN, UM, WINTER, UH, WE DID SEE AS PART OF THAT STUDY AS WELL, THAT MATHEMATICS.

SO AGAIN, SOMEBODY TO TURN THAT MEANS WE'RE NOT HAPPY WITH SOMEWHAT EXPECTED.

SO FOR THE REST OF THE PRESENTATION TO CUT BACK ON THE SIX SCHOOLS, I WILL JUST BE DOING THE NUMBER OF SLIDES OR YOUR PROJECTED PROFICIENCY.

UM, SO BECAUSE OF THE SCORES WILL SAY IT'S PRETTY MUCH THE SAME, NOT VERY SIMILAR INFORMATION.

SO ROBERT, YOU GO TO BROAD RIVER UNDER PROTECTED CONDITIONS, SETTING FATHER, BROTHER.

SO AGAIN, BROAD RIVER, UM, ALL STUDENTS ARE 187.

STUDENTS ARE TESTED THAT DATA FOR BOTH TESTAMENTS OF PAUL READING, A 24%, UH, ONCE YOU'RE 21%, A 30% FOR MATHEMATICS DOWN TO 26%.

AND, UM, THE OFFICER YOU'LL GET THE MIDDLE WHILE NOT OCCASIONALLY AS HIGH SCHOOL, AS A PRIMARY SCHOOL PRINCIPAL, AFRAID OF PRESENTING THE LAST MEETING.

UM, WE SEE HER NUMBERS, UM, VERY STRONG, UH, VERY ACROSS THE STATE.

SO, UM, WORKING, JUMPING IN AND HELP.

CAN I ASK A QUICK QUESTION, UM, IS AS YOU GO THROUGH THE DATA FOR EACH SCHOOL, IS THERE A COMMON PERFORMANCE TRAIN THAT YOU SEE THAT IT'S CONSISTENT ACROSS ALL SCHOOLS ACROSS ALL SCHOOLS? YES, WE SEE, UM, IT'S, IT'S, WE'RE FLOATING KIND OF A FLAT LINE BETWEEN THE FALL AND WINTER.

UM, LIKE I SAID, WITH THE MAIN STORES, I CAN'T, I CAN'T SAY FALL WITH A HUNDRED PERCENT CERTAINTY THAT ALL THOSE TESTS EVENTS ARE VALID AND RELIABLE.

UM, SO, UH, THE FALL DATA SOMEWHAT POSSIBLY ELEVATED SOME AS YOU'RE DOING THE TESTING ENVIRONMENTS, UM, AS SOMEWHAT OF A CONCERN.

BUT IF I SEE THE WINTER HOLDING STEADY WITH THAT, I WOULD SAY THAT THERE'S GROWTH HAPPENING, EVEN THOUGH IT LOOKS LIKE IT'S STAGNANT.

SO, UH, IT'S PRETTY FLAT LINE, WHICH IS KIND OF WHAT WE WOULD EXPECT THEM TO ACTUALLY BE A POSITIVE THAT CAN DEFINITELY, I WAS GOING TO ASK, IS THERE ANYTHING SPECIFIC TO MATH AND ELA THAT YOU WOULD EXTRACT? YES, SIR.

THE MAP IS ACTUALLY IS ALIGNED WITH THE MEDIATING DECLINE AND, UM, THAT WAS DISCUSSED AS WELL AS ONE PART.

GROUPS OF STUDENTS TO DIFFERENTIATE INSTRUCTION BASED ON GRIT SCORES.

REAL QUICK.

UM, SO IN OREGON TEAM, UM, PERFORMING VARIOUS HOME VERY WELL.

UM, I FOCUSED ON THE PATIENT'S HIGH SCHOOL.

UM, WE SEE IMPROVEMENTS EVEN IN, UM, THE STUDENTS THAT WAS DISABILITIES IS THERE'S JUST ONE SCHOOL, SO WE CAN IMPROVE IT THERE AS WELL.

NEXT WE'LL PUT YOUR NOTE A VERY SIMILAR STORY THERE, ORANGE MILL, UH, AGAIN, NOT ON THE LIST FOR ANY SUBGROUP OF THE PRIORITY SCHOOL.

UM, THERE'S ALWAYS A MATH, UH, DECLINE, AND THEN FINALLY WALMART'S ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, UM, AND DECLINING AND READING.

UM, AND IT'S LIKE A DECLINE IN MATHEMATICS.

UM, BUT WE DO SEE AN INCREASE IN, UH, READING, UH, FURTHER WITH DISABILITY.

WHY OUR TEACHERS USE RISK SCORES.

I KNOW THERE WERE THREE ROBIN I WAS GOING TO, SO, UM, WE ACTUALLY HAVE, THERE'S A, WE HAVE A SMALL, UH, A LICENSE OR A WAY OF THE PROGRAM INSIDE OF THE MAP IS CALLED MAP SKILLS.

IT ACTUALLY GETS DOWN TO IT'S A SMALL ASSESSMENTS AND INFUSION AREN'T MONITORING EQUALS STUDENTS THAT NEED IT MOST THAT ALLOWS OUR TEACHERS TO REALLY ZOOM IN ON THE BARRIER IN MY NEW SKILLS NEEDED, UM, TO HELP THOSE STUDENTS.

SO IT'S MATH SKILLS IS THE TOTAL.

THE SECOND YEARS, YOU CAN ALSO ADD DIRECTLY CONNECT TO THEIR INSTRUCTION ON RESOURCES WHERE AT SCORE THERE'S A CONTINUUM OF LEARNING USED TO BE THE CARD USED TO ONLY BE SKILL-BASED.

IF YOU HAVE A STUDENT WITH A GRIT SCORE BETWEEN 20, AS THESE INDEPENDENT SCALES, WHICH WE'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO TELL SALES AND INSTALLATION ACCELERATION ON AVERAGE, AND THE STANDARD LEVEL GOES THROUGH THE SO TEACHERS CAN GO INTO TO STUDENTS WITH THEIR TEACHING AND SEE THE CONCEPT WHERE STUDENTS AREN'T ALLOWED.

EVEN IN OUR OFFICE, WE TRACK STUDENT GROWTH OVER TIME.

WE CAN SEE A STUDENT ALL THE WAY BACK TO 2004.

IF THEY'RE A CURRENT NEW SYSTEM, YOU CAN STILL SEE

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THOSE ARE REPORTS AVAILABLE TO THE TEACHERS IN CLASS ON GRID.

AND WE ALSO INFORM LESSON PLANNING BASED ON THE INSTRUCTION.

AGAIN, WE'RE TYING BACK TO THE STANDARDS.

AND SO NOW ON WHAT'S ON YOUR STRATUS, UM, YOUR CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT SO SHE MARRIED ME BECAUSE SPED UP TO THE PRIOR SLIDE BEFORE, BE IT OUT.

SO JUST TO SHARE RATHER QUICKLY, BOARD MEMBERS THAT CIM OR CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT, PROVEN MODEL IS UTILIZED IN PROFESSIONAL LEARNING COMMUNITIES.

THE DATA THAT IS KIND OF FLOWING THROUGH DIAGNOSTIC TESTING IS INSTRUMENTAL AT PRACTICE.

IF YOU LOOK TO THE RIGHT SIDE, IT ALSO PROVIDES, AND THESE WERE HYPERLINKS THAT TEACHERS UTILIZE AS WELL, BUT THEY'RE ALL RESOURCES PROVIDED VENDOR WBA AND THROUGH CONVERSATIONS WITH OUR PRINCIPALS WHO ARE IDENTIFIED AS APSI.

AND I COULD SHARE FROM A COMPARISON FROM LAST YEAR TO THIS YEAR, THERE WAS A SIGNIFICANT CHANGE IN PERFORMANCE AND PRACTICE OF PROFESSIONAL LEARNING COLLABORATION WITH REGARD TO PLANNING AND THE INCREASED USE OF THE RESOURCES THAT ARE BEING PROVIDED.

SO I CAN SHARE THAT BECAUSE I'VE HAD THAT OPPORTUNITY OF SPEAKING WITH PRINCIPALS OVER A YEAR, TIME AND SPENDING TIME WITH THEM ATLANTA, WHAT ARE YOU DOING DIFFERENTLY, MRS. KOSHI BARRY, YOU CAN GO FORWARD.

ADDITIONALLY INCREASED HANDS-ON READING MATERIALS.

I'M GOING TO ASK YOU TO PAUSE HERE FOR A MINUTE AND I WILL GO QUICKLY BECAUSE MANY UNITS THERE ARE GOING TO BE THEMES THAT RESONATE WITH WITHIN THESE SLIDES OF WHAT IS BEING UTILIZED WITHIN LEARNING LOSS AND EQUITY FOR OUR STUDENTS.

SO I WANT TO GIVE YOU A SUMMARY.

ONE OF THE THINGS WE'RE FINDING SIGNIFICANTLY, OUR SCHOOLS ARE UTILIZED AS SYNCHRONOUS, SYNCHRONOUS LEARNING, AND ASYNCHRONOUS LEARNING VIRTUAL FACE-TO-FACE, BUT WE'RE PROVIDING OUR STUDENTS THE OPPORTUNITIES TO ACCESS LESSONS THAT THE TEACHERS THAT DIDN'T HAVE, THESE SCHOOLS ARE ABLE TO PUT THEIR LESSONS IN A REPOSITORY AND THE PARENTS WOULD CALL THEM UP LATER ON EITHER THROUGH SEESAW OR GOOGLE CLASSROOM, STETSON INCLUSION MODEL IS BEING USED AND PREDOMINANTLY THREE OF THE SIX ATSI SCHOOLS HIRING A BUNCH OF THAT INTERVENTIONIST STAFF IN THE YEARS OF MATH AND READING AND THEIR INTERVENTIONS ARE GOING TO BE PREDOMINANTLY EMBEDDED WITHIN THE CLASSROOM VERSUS A PULL-OUT MODEL.

IT WAS SCHOOL-WIDE MY READY BEING UTILIZED.

AND WE WERE STARTING TO MONITOR THE UTILIZATION OF FIDELITY OF THE TEACHER RESOURCE KIT, NOT ONLY FOR READING, BUT ALSO FOR THAT, WE HAVE INTEGRATED USE OF LESSON PLANS PROVIDED BY PAT PANORAMA, YOU SOFTWARE AND YOUR RESOURCES.

THAT IS A SOCIAL EMOTIONAL SOFTWARE THAT WE STARTED IMPLEMENTING THIS YEAR.

THE EXTENSIVE USE OF INSTRUCTION TO POINT OUT AND NOT THE GRAND BRADLEY HAS SPEARHEADED FOR OUR SCHOOL DISTRICT.

IT IS BEING PRODUCED FACE TO FACE AND VIRTUALLY FOR OUR STUDENTS AND BEING EXTENDED INTO SATURDAYS.

WE HAVE AN INCREASE ACCESS OF INTERNET PURCHASE AND STATE SUPPLYING HOTSPOTS FOR OUR STUDENTS.

SO WE'RE NOT JUST PUSHING FORWARD SOFTWARE.

THERE HAS BEEN A HIGH AMOUNT OF SUPPLIES AND MATERIALS THAT ARE BEING PUSHED OUT TO OUR STUDENTS.

SO THEY COULD HAVE BOOKS AT HOME AND LESSONS ARE BEING IMPLEMENTED, REFERENCING THAT.

AND WE HAD A VERY LARGE READING INITIATIVE THAT WENT THROUGH LAST WEEK WHERE ADMINISTRATORS AND DISTRICT PERSONNEL WERE ACTUALLY READING TO US STUDENTS AT SCHOOLS.

THE LAST MOST COMMON ITEM IS THE IMPORTANT IN THAT OUR SCHOOLS ARE INTO INTEGRATED AND INCREASE USE OF A PROFESSIONAL LEARNING COMMUNITIES.

I HAVE TO SHARE THAT IT WAS LIKE, IT WAS A GREAT PRIDE AS I SAT WITH ACTUALLY TWO OF OUR PRINCIPALS JUST THIS WEEK ATLANTA AND HOW THEY SHARE IT AND GAVE EVIDENCE OF PRACTICES AT THEIR SCHOOLS.

SO YES, WE'RE IN COVID, BUT I'M GOING TO SAY WITHOUT THAT TYPE OF PRACTICE, I DON'T THINK HE WOULD SEE SOME OF THE RESULTS THAT WE HAVE SEEN IN OUR SCHOOLS.

UM, IF YOU'D LIKE, I CAN CONTINUE THROUGH THESE SLIDES.

I'LL HAVE YOU SLIDE THROUGH IT QUICKLY.

THIS IS CUSHING BARRY, BECAUSE I KNOW YOU'VE HAD ACCESS TO THIS FOR A PERIOD OF TIME.

I WANTED TO GIVE YOU A SUMMARY OF THE COMMONALITIES.

AND AT THIS TIME WHEN I WOULD BE OPEN CREDIT QUESTIONS, MR. EARL CAMPBELL, UH, YES.

UM, THE SCHOOLS THAT THEY'RE ALL PROOFING, SO THEY MUST BE DOING SOMETHING WRONG.

SO I WOULD SUGGEST THAT THE SCHOOL IS NOT INAPPROPRIATE, THAT WE NEED TO TALK TO THOSE SCHOOLS.

UM, BECAUSE I TALKED TO HER PRINCIPAL THIS PAST WEEK AND THEY GIVE OUT BOOKS, READING

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STUDENTS READ, AND I WAS TOLD THAT THE PARENTS SAID, WELL, I CAN'T MAKE HER DO THIS.

YOU KNOW, WE HAVE TO DO SOMETHING BETTER THAN THIS BECAUSE IF WE DON'T, THOSE STUDENTS THAT ARE FALLING BEHIND AND FOR THE MIDDLE KITCHEN AND HE WILL NEVER ACHIEVE AGAIN.

UM, AND I'D SAY, WE NEED TO LOOK AT CALL THE PROGRAMS AT OTHER DISTRICTS IN THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA.

WITH CHARTER SCHOOLS.

ONE THING I DO KNOW, CAUSE WE HAVEN'T TALKED ABOUT THIS FOR YEARS NOW AND IT'S NOT SO I, WHAT I ASKED DO WE HAVE IN THE DISTRICT HAD THE BRIGADE OFFICERS BACK IN THE SCHOOL, NEW SCHOOL YEAR YES.

GO AHEAD.

SO MR. CAMPBELL, I'M WITH YOU 100%.

THAT IS, IT'S BEEN IN CONVERSATION WITH OUR SCHOOLS THAT HAVE BELONGED PERCENTAGE OF REPRESENTATION.

WE NEED OUR STUDENTS IN SCHOOL.

WE NEED TEACHING AND LEARNING TO HAPPEN.

AND THE BEST PLACE FOR THAT TO HAPPEN IS IN OUR CLASSROOMS. THAT IS A STRONG CONVERSATION WE'VE HAD I HAD WITH PRINCIPALS.

AND I KNOW THAT BRAD, AS WELL AS DR.

GREGORY, THIS WEEK, THAT'S GOING TO BE SOMEBODY WHO WILL EXPAND UPON.

SIR.

I WILL ALSO SHARE THAT A CONVERSATION IS NOT ONLY NICE, BUT IT'S MY DIVISION.

BUT WITH ARLENE SCHOOL LEADERSHIP, THE SIGNIFICANCE OF HOW IT WAS STUDENTS HAVE NOT BEEN FACE TO FACE IN SOME SITUATIONS, I'M AN I OUTSIDE OF HAVING TO TALK OUTSIDE OF, YOU'VE PROBABLY BEEN US FOR A YEAR.

WE NEED OUR CHILDREN IN SCHOOL.

AND WHEN WE RECOGNIZE THAT THEIR CHILD TODAY, HE WAS PRE-K WHO MISS PRE-K IS GOING TO BE THAT CHILD IN YOUR CLASSROOM BECAUSE IT SHOULD'VE BEEN A KINDERGARTEN AND THIS YEAR.

SO TECHNICALLY THERE'S A FIRST GRADE NEXT YEAR, THERE'S ALREADY A SIGNIFICANT SLIDE.

I SHARED WITH YOU SOME STRATEGIES THAT WE'RE PUTTING INTO PLACE.

WHEN I PRESENTED PRIOR IN CONVERSATION WITH A PRIORITY, WE ARE GOING FORWARD AND LOOKING AT TRUNCATING AND WRITING THEM INSTRUCTION, UM, CURRICULUM THAT IS TRUNCATING THIS YEAR WITH NEXT YEAR, WE'RE PUTTING TOGETHER CURRICULUM TEAMS. IT IS CRITICAL THAT WE RECOGNIZE, BUT I HAVE TO HEAR WHAT ALSO IT'S A COLLECTIVE IMPACT MODEL THAT IT IS NOT JUST A RESPONSIBILITY OF THE SCHOOLS.

IT IS EVERYBODY'S RESPONSIBILITY IN OUR COMMUNITY.

YOU HAVE TO BE IN IT TO WIN.

AND I MEAN THAT FROM INSIGHT AND RESONATE, WE NEED OUR CHILDREN IN SCHOOLS.

WE NEED OUR TEACHERS TO DO THE MAGIC THAT THEY DO ON A DAILY BASIS.

I HAVE TO SHARE THAT AND I APOLOGIZE A BIT WENT ON MR. DYER.

UH, DANIEL, PERHAPS YOU COULD ANSWER THIS.

UM, HOW DO YOU FACTOR IN STUDENTS TO ABILITY INTO YOUR DATA? I HAVE SCHOOLS IN MY DISTRICT IN DISTRICT FIVE WITH A LARGE NUMBER OF JUNIOR AND RESISTED MILITARY PARENTS.

HE DOESN'T MOVE AROUND A LOT AND THEY MOVE AROUND AT DIFFERENT TIMES.

SO YOU'VE GOT KIDS COMING IN AND YOU'VE GOT KIDS GOING.

SO WHEN YOU SHOW ME, YOU HAVE 187 STUDENTS, HOW MANY OF THOSE ARE THE SAME STUDENTS THAT TOOK IT, ALL THE, HER AND IN THE COHORTS AS YOU, HOW DO YOU FACTOR THAT THOSE COHORTS THAT I'VE PRESENTED THIS EVENING ARE MASTRO THEY HAVE ALL THE FESTIVALS AND THEN AT THE SAME PEOPLE, 180 IT HAS A MESS.

BUT HOW ABOUT IN THE MACRO SENSE? IN THE MACRO SENSE? I HAVE TO LOOK AT THE SYSTEM.

YEAH, THE SYSTEM.

AND EVEN OVER THE, YOU KNOW, 2004, HE EVER HEARD ABOUT ASSESSMENT.

OUR NUMBERS ARE, ARE STABLE.

THEY HANDLE THE, YES.

THEY HANDLE THE MOBILITY.

NOW I THINK THERE'S POSSIBLY A PRESENTATION TO THE BOARD WORK SESSION THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT IS WORKING ON NEW THIS , THERE'S SOME NEW SOFTWARE THAT WE HAVE ONGOING EARLY MORNING.

AND RIGHT NOW MOBILITY, TWO TO THREE SCHOOLS, BOTH ARE, AND THIS IS MARIE.

SO I CAN TELL YOU TODAY, JESSE, THAT THERE ARE FOUR STUDENTS IN OUR SCHOOL SYSTEM, BUT JUST IN THE 20, 21 SCHOOL YEAR AROUND THIRD OR FOURTH.

MR. ALAN CAMPBELL.

HER FOCUSED ON, ON YES.

SIX.

YOU STATED THAT, UM, THAT THEY'RE ALL DESIGNATED TSI BECAUSE OF THEIR DISABILITY, AS SOON AS THE LEARNING DISABILITIES, RIGHT? RIGHT.

ALL STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES.

THEY UP IN TERMS OF THE NUMBERS AND THE OTHER THREE OR FOUR SCHOOLS, I GUESS WE'RE ALL FUELED OUT PRACTICAL BREAKFAST, BUT HOW DO WE EXPLAIN THAT? HOW DO WE ADDRESS THAT SENSE? THAT IS THE PRIMARY GOAL TO GET THOSE SCHOOLS OUT OF THAT CATEGORY.

NO, I LOOK AT THE NUMBERS THERE FROM THE STATE SCHOOLS, COUPLE OF SCHOOLS, WERE

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HE IS CATEGORY OF ALL THE OTHERS OF HIS RACE, BUT WHAT'S THE FOCUS THAT THOSE TWO SCHOOLS HAVE, THAT'S CREATING THE NUMBERS BECAUSE OBVIOUSLY THEY DIDN'T HAVE IT OR THEY WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN PSI FIRST.

SO WHAT I CAN SHARE WITH THAT, MR. KAM WAS THAT OVER THE YEARS, SOME OF OUR PROGRAMS, OUR PROGRAMMATIC MODELS AT SOME OF OUR SCHOOLS HAVE SHIFTED RESOLVING WITH MAYBE SOME OF OUR SCHOOLS NOT HAVING AS MANY LOW IMPACT PROGRAMS AS THEY HAD HAD IN THE PAST.

SO THAT'S ONE ITEM WE HAVE TO KICK INTO CONSIDERATION.

WHEN WE LOOK AT STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES, IT IS, UM, I'M LISTING AS LARGE AS ONE-TO-ONE HUNDRED.

OH, WE RECOGNIZE THAT SOME SCHOOLS THAT HAVE MOVED SIGNIFICANTLY MAY NOT HAVE SOME OF THE SAME PROGRAMS. SO PRO WAS HAVING SHIFTED DUE TO SPACE THAT WAS NECESSARY, SHIFTED SOMETHING THAT WAS RESOLVED.

SO MAYBE TO ONE SCHOOL'S ADVANTAGE OVER ANOTHER.

BUT I HAVE TO HEAR THAT OUR SCHOOLS ARE ADMINISTRATING THE MAT TO ALL THE STUDENTS, WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THOSE WHO DON'T SIT FOR AN ALTERNATE TO CERTIFICATE OR AN ALTERNATE ASSESSMENT TESTS, ALL WE FOCUSED ON THOSE THINGS, BEING GRANTED ON THOSE PARTICULAR FOODS WITH THOSE NUMBERS.

I SAY, THIS, MAY I BE HOMELESS IN TERMS OF THE SITUATION? YEAH, WE'RE NOT.

SO IF WE CAN USE IT FOR AN EXAMPLE, LET'S USE CRICKET REAL, FOR EXAMPLE, ONE AT A TIME IT'S THAT THE PRINCIPAL AT THAT SCHOOL HAS BEEN HERE FOR A PERIOD OF YEARS.

SHE'S BUILT A CULTURE AND A CLIMATE THAT THIS IS HOW WE DO WHAT I PREACH IT TO THEM.

PLCS IS A STANDARD PRACTICE FOR ME TO HAVE ASSESSMENTS THAT ARE MADE ON AN APPOINTMENT IS ASSESSMENTS QUITE STANDARD PRACTICE.

THE EXPECTATION OF STANDARD BASED INSTRUCTION.

IF YOU SPEAK WITH BRENDA LOOP, THESE ARE STANDARD PRACTICES IS A CLIMATE, HOW YOU DO IT THERE.

SO IT WAS, I PREDICATED MY CONVERSATION TO SAY THAT I HAVE SEEN A GROWTH WHERE PRINCIPALS, THAT I'VE BEEN ABLE TO HAVE CONVERSATIONS WITH OVER THE PAST HERE, THAT SHIFT IS HAPPENING WITH OUR SCHOOLS, NOT ALL OF THEM, BUT I AM SEEING THAT GROWTH IN PRACTICE AND LEADERSHIP TRANSCENDING THAT RICHARD, BUT ALSO TO OTHER SCHOOLS WITHIN OUR DISTRICT.

I MEAN THAT COHORT OF STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES, THEY WERE DOWN THE OVER TSI AS MOVES, BUT THERE I WAS STANDING NOW AND YOU'RE SUGGESTING THAT THE CULTURE PRINCIPAL AS A SCHOOL IS A REASON FOR THIS.

I WOULD SAY BEST PRACTICES OF INSTRUCTION.

I THINK WHAT YOU'RE GETTING AT IS THAT NOT WITHSTANDING THE PERFORMANCE OF THIS PARTICULAR SUBGROUPS AT CERTAIN SCHOOLS, THOSE SCHOOLS ARE OTHERWISE HIGH-PERFORMING, BUT THERE ARE OTHER SCHOOLS THAT EVEN IF YOU WERE TO BACK OUT LOW-PERFORMING SUBGROUPS, AS A GENERAL MATTER STUDENT PERFORMANCE IS SUFFERING.

I THINK TIME SO DRAMATICALLY.

HOW DID SHE DO IT SO DRAMATICALLY AND HOW NONE OF THE OTHER THAT'S THEIR FAULT? YOU KNOW, I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE THRESHOLD IS BUT YOU KNOW, I SAID, YES, SIR.

I MEAN, I THINK THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROAD SPECIFIC TO OF OUR HISTORICALLY LOWEST PERFORMING SCHOOLS IS POVERTY.

I THINK IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT TO HAVE A CONVERSATION ABOUT POVERTY AND HOW POVERTY UNTO ITSELF AFFECTS STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT.

SCHOOL, THEIR PROBLEMS ARE OF THEY'RE ALL DESIGNED.

I THINK THAT THERE ARE CERTAIN ASPECTS OF SOME OF THE SCHOOLS THAT ARE STRUGGLING AND CONTINUE TO STRUGGLE RELATED TO THINGS LIKE AS WAS MENTIONED A LITTLE BIT EARLIER, TRANSPARENCY, ACCESS TO QUALITY, EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION, UM, YOU KNOW, UH, LANGUAGE ACQUISITION.

UH, I THINK IF YOU LOOK AT A CLUSTER OF SCHOOLS, SOMETIMES SAY, FOR EXAMPLE, IF YOU HAVE A LOW PERFORMING MIDDLE

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SOMETIMES THAT IS RELATED SPECIFICALLY TO WHERE STUDENTS ARE WHEN THEY GET THEM.

AND SO I DO THINK THAT THERE REALLY NEEDS TO BE A SYSTEMATIC APPROACH.

MAYBE IT'S VERY, WELL-SETTLED AT RESEARCH THAT WHAT YOU HAVE TO DO TO IMPROVE HISTORICALLY LOW-PERFORMING SCHOOLS OR IMPLEMENT PRACTICES THAT ARE DIFFERENT THAN WHAT OTHER SCHOOLS ARE ACTUALLY.

AND SO IF THE INPUTS ARE THE SAME, THE OUTPUTS ARE GOING TO COME HERE.

I WANT YOU TO TELL ME THAT THE LEARNING DISABILITIES LEARNING DISABILITIES THAT ARE GOOD TO GO AND THE OTHER SCHOOL AND THAT WE HAVEN'T HAD THE RESOURCE TO ADDRESS THIS PARTICULAR TYPE OF LEARNING RESOURCE.

I'VE HAD A LEARNING DISABILITY, EACH THERAPIST, OR WHATEVER MIGHT BE DISABILITY.

AND THIS PARTICULAR SESSION THAT I NEED TO HAVE THAT, THAT VIEW THAT THAT'S HOW WE ARE ADDRESSING ZERO IS UNACCEPTABLE.

ARE THEY GETTING 50, 60 IMPROVEMENT? SOMETHING THAT COULD BE, YOU KNOW, GLARING THAT WE CAN CREATE A CHANGE? I DON'T KNOW WHAT IT IS.

I JUST KNOW THAT SOMETHING IS, YOU KNOW, IT'S, YOU KNOW, WE TALK, WE SIT HERE AS I THAT'S THE MAIN FOCUS OF THIS WE WILL, THAT WE CAN ADDRESS ALL THE OTHER THINGS THAT THE MATH SCORE IS THE FIRST BUSINESS THAT'S GETTING OUT OF THAT.

SO BY A BETTER MEDICARE, SO IT'S NOT ONLY PRIMARY I HAVE TO SHARE.

IT'S ALSO ENGAGEMENT AND ENGAGEMENT IS A CRITICAL POINT.

PARENTAL ENGAGEMENT, COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT.

IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT MY BANK ACCOUNT HAS.

IF I'M ENGAGING AND HELPING MY CHILD LEARN, I HAVE TO SHARE THAT.

UM, MAYBE BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT I CAME FROM AND MY FAMILY.

SO IT'S A PERSONAL POINT, SIR.

AND I, I HAVE TO SHARE THAT AS WELL.

UM, IT'S ENGAGING TO HAVE SOMEONE WHO'S GOING TO HELP ME LEARN, NOT ONLY IN THE CLASSROOM WHEN I GET HOME, INSTEAD, IT GOES BACK TO SPEAK TO WHAT I BROUGHT TO MR. CAMPBELL.

IT'S A COLLECTIVE IMPACT.

WE HAVE TO USE SOMETHING COLLECTED ANNUALLY.

WELL THEN BUFORD ENGAGES OUR COMMUNITY AND OUR CAREGIVERS TO BE AN EXTENSION WILL HELP US BUILD OUR CAREGIVERS TO GET THE SKILLSET.

SO I HEAR WHAT YOU'RE SAYING AS THE CANDLE.

AND I WANT TO BUILD ON THAT DATE.

YES, WE CAME TO SETS AND MODEL HAS DEMONSTRATED ADDITIONAL IMPROVEMENT AT THE SCHOOLS.

AND THAT IS AN INCLUSION MODEL WHERE WE ARE GOING IN VERSUS WHERE SCHOOLS IN THE PAST WOULD BE LIKE, PULL OUT.

SO BIG CHANGE.

YOU KNOW, THAT'S ANOTHER SHIFT I KNEW YOU WERE IN THE CLASSROOM.

WE ARE, SIR.

SO THAT'S ANOTHER SHIFT WITHIN THAT CLASSROOM THAT THE KIDS REMAIN AND YOU AND I COACH TOGETHER AS WELL.

I'M BEHIND YOU.

IF YOU WANT TO GO AHEAD, I'LL GO AFTER YOU TRICIA, BEFORE WE GO AROUND TOO.

BUT THANK YOU.

UM, THIS INFORMATION IS A LITTLE OVERWHELMING AS A NEW BOARD MEMBER AND I HAVE ABOUT 4,000 QUESTIONS.

UM, BUT I DON'T THINK THAT'S WHAT THIS IS FOR.

RIGHT? CAUSE WHAT I'M TAKING AWAY FROM THIS IS THAT IN THE TIME OF COVID METRICS ARE VERY DIFFICULT TO COME BY AND YOU'VE GOT THE BEST.

YOU KIND OF COBBLED TOGETHER THE BEST VIEW TO SHOW THE BOARD AS FAR AS WHAT THESE SCHOOLS ARE DOING, BUT IN A TIME OF COVID, I MEAN, THIS IS PROBABLY NOT INFORMATION.

AND IT SOUNDS LIKE YOU MIGHT HAVE NOT IDENTIFIED ANY BIG RED FLAGS, ANY EMERGENCIES.

IT SOUNDS LIKE MOST OF THE SCHOOLS ARE HANGING IN THERE AND THEY'RE WITHIN TREND OF, OF THE STATE.

IS THAT CORRECT? YES MA'AM.

THAT'S HAVING DIFFERENT ISSUES.

AND THE OTHER THING IS I AGREE WITH YOU A HUNDRED PERCENT ON THE ENGAGEMENT AND TO RESPOND TO MR. CAMPBELL'S COMMENT ABOUT RIVERVIEW CHARTER SCHOOL, THEY'RE DOING AMAZING THINGS AND THERE'S THINGS WE CAN COPY.

SHE GOT, REMEMBER THAT EVERY KID IN THAT SCHOOL THERE, SOMEONE TOOK THAT KID AND SAID, I WANT THIS KID IN THIS LEARNING ENVIRONMENT, IT'S A PROCESS YOU HAVE TO APPLY.

YOU HAVE TO BE IN A LOTTERY.

I THINK YOU HAVE TO DRIVE THEIR KIDS.

THAT LEVEL OF ENGAGEMENT, RIGHT? THERE IS A HUGE HEADSTART FOR THE RIVERVIEW CHARTER KIDS, IN MY OPINION.

AND I THINK IT'S SOMETHING THAT YOU HAVE TO THINK ABOUT AS PEOPLE LOOK AT THE CHARTER SCHOOLS AND SEE, OH, I GOT TO TOUR.

THOSE ARE BASIE.

LET'S DO WHAT THEY'RE DOING AND TRY TO APPLY IT TO A PUBLIC SCHOOL.

UM, AND THEN THE THIRD THING IS, AS IT IS A COMMENT, WHEN I WAS LISTENING TODAY, THE PENN WHARTON BUDGET WELL LOOKED AT SCHOOLS AND IT'S AN ECONOMIC MODEL.

IT DOESN'T HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH EDUCATION, BUT THEY RAN THROUGH AND THEY CAME

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TO THE SAME CONCLUSION THAT IT'S MATH, WHERE KIDS ARE REALLY FALLING BEHIND.

AND THEY SAID IT FOR EVERY MONTH.

THIS IS FROM THE PENN WHARTON BUDGET MODEL EVERY MONTH THAT A CHILD IS NOT IN FULL FACE TO FACE, THEY'RE ANTICIPATING 12 TO $15,000 OF INCOME LOSS OVER THEIR LIFETIME PER MONTH.

SO I THINK THAT THAT'S AN IMPORTANT THING TO KEEP IN MIND.

THAT IS A HUGE IMPACT WHEN YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT POVERTY AND ENGAGEMENT.

THAT'S ALL I GOT.

THANK YOU, MR. DANDRIDGE, YOU TALKED ABOUT, UM, YOU KNOW, TO, TO CARRY ON WITH MR. MEL CAMPBELL'S CONVERSATION.

SO ON AND TO ADDRESS SOME OF THE CONS.

THE SENSE OF MODEL INCLUSION THAT IS NOT NEW THIS DISTRICT.

IT GOES BACK ALSO DR.

BRADLEY, I THINK TO TEACH RETENTION.

YOU GOT EXPERIENCED TEACHERS THAT, YOU KNOW, THEY WERE STAYING IN THE SAME CLASSROOM, STAYING AT THE SAME SCHOOL.

YOU DON'T HAVE THIS BIG TURNOVER.

THAT IS HUGE, RIGHT? NUMBER OF TEACHERS, SPECIAL EDUCATION TEACHERS AND HAVING CASELOAD APPROPRIATE, NOT JUST IN NUMBERS OF STUDENTS, BUT IT'S THE REQUIRED SERVICES.

AND UNTIL START COUNTING REQUIRED SERVICES, OUR TEACHERS ARE GOING TO CONTINUE TO NOT BE ABLE TO PROVIDE WHAT A LOT OF OUR STUDENTS WITH SPECIAL NEEDS NEED.

WE HAVE IN A FEW OF OUR SCHOOLS, A NEW PROGRAM, , YOU'RE NOT A NEW PROGRAM, NEW TO OUR SCHOOLS.

I'D BE VERY INTERESTED TO SEE, BECAUSE I CAN'T RECALL EXACTLY WHERE THEY ARE.

IF SOME OF THE READING ADVANCEMENTS AT OPEN T I BILLY, OR THINK GILLINGHAM WILSON ARE NOT NEW YOUNG, NEW THIS DISTRICT, I THINK THEY SHOULD BE AVAILABLE.

AND TO EVERY SINGLE SPECIAL ED TEACHER, WE'VE GOT TO MAKE THAT HAPPEN.

WE'VE GOT TO HAVE THE RIGHT NUMBER OF SPECIAL ED TEACHERS SO THAT INCLUSION COULD HAVE HAPPENED PROPERLY.

WHEN YOU CAN'T PLAN WITH YOUR GENERAL ED TEACHER, YOU CAN'T PROVIDE APPROPRIATE INCLUSION.

SO MY QUESTION THAT IS IN THESE TSI SCHOOLS, WHAT WAS PRESENTED TO US TONIGHT ARE MYRIAD INTERVENTIONS.

THIS SCHOOL MIGHT HAVE THIS BEFORE SCHOOL, AFTER SCHOOL PUSHA PULLED OUT, WHATEVER IT MIGHT BE, BUT THERE'S REALLY A WIDE RANGE THERE.

I BELIEVE I RAN HERE IS A SCHOOL THAT'S NOT OFFERING ANY AFTER SCHOOL OR ANY BEFORE SCHOOL.

WHEN'S THE CONSISTENCY OR WHERE IS THE, AND YOU KNOW, I READ THIS THIS WEEKEND, SO I DON'T REMEMBER EXACTLY WHERE, BUT YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING, THIS SCHOOL MIGHT OFFER ACCURACY AND THE SCHOOL IS OFFERING A THROUGH B SO THAT I CAN SHARE THE, I WILL RETURN TO AS WILSON MEETING, MRS. FREDRICK B HERE IS A NEW TOOL.

IT WAS INTRODUCED.

THE TWO SCHOOLS THAT ARE BEING SUCCESSFUL WITH THEM WILL BE UTILIZING FOR MORE THAN TWO YEARS, AIM CHICKEN INDEPENDENT.

IT IS NOW A PROGRAM THAT'S ALSO BEING SUPPORTED BY NOT DELIGHT AS WELL AS THE SPECIMEN SETS A MODEL FOR INCLUSION.

SHE HAS SEEN THE RESULTS AS WELL.

I'M A STRONG, SUPPORTIVE VILLAGE.

WHEN I ARRIVED HERE, I SHARED THAT WITH HER BECAUSE I'VE SEEN THE SUCCESS.

THE MODEL DOES CALL FOR SIGNIFICANT SMALL TEACHER TO STUDENT RATIO IN LAWYER BECAUSE HE TAKES LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT, LANGUAGE ACQUISITION TO FALL NEMIC SOUND DEVELOPMENT, TAPPING US.

SO IT WAS A VERY INTENSE LANGUAGE, AS WELL AS INTENSE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT.

IT MUST BE RIGHT TEACHER WHO WANTS TO GO THROUGH THIS? IT'S IT'S MAGICAL WHEN DONE.

AND IT DOES BRIDGE ON THE SHOULDERS OF TEACHER RETENTION THAT I RETAIN YOU ONCE I'VE DONE THIS SO THAT WE CAN HAVE THAT MAGIC HAPPEN IN THE CLASSROOM.

WE'VE GOT TO HAVE THE TRAINING OR THAT HAD A COMMITMENT TO HELPING OUR KIDS LEARN TO READ SAYS, THANK YOU.

SO THE READING PROGRAMS ARE BEING EXTENDED UNIFICATION ON UTILIZING IREADY.

THERE'S A STANDARD AND I ALREADY WAS A PREDOMINANT INTERVENTION READING TOOL FOR STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES.

THOSE SCHOOLS HAD ADDED ON THE WILSON ON THEIR OWN ARE THE SPECIAL EDUCATION DEPARTMENT HAS ASSISTED FUNDING TO EXTEND THAT AT THOSE SCHOOLS WERE OPEN TO OTHER SCHOOLS WHEN I WOULD PICK THAT UP.

BUT AGAIN, IT IS A CONSTANT THING SHE LOVES.

IT REALLY IS TO GET THAT ACQUISITION BY HAVING YOU DO AN IREADY NEXT YEAR, HE STARTED OUT WITH THE MAJOR YOU HAVE TO REPEATS.

HE TAKES TIME TO GET TO THE NEXT LEVEL.

TWO OF THOSE SCHOOLS HAVING UTILIZING VANTAGE FOR A GREATER PERIOD OF TIME.

SO THAT THE STRATUS, I KNOW HER WERE DEVELOPING THIS PLAN FOR THE NEW, SO THE YES OR MONEY AND THE USE OF THE EDUCATION RELATED TO FUNDING.

I WOULD STRONGLY ADVOCATE ADVOCATE FOR THESE PROVEN PROGRAMS FOR OUR STUDENTS, WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES AS FAR AS WELL AS OTHER DISABILITIES, WE KNOW THEY WORK, BUT WE'VE GOT TO HAVE THE PERSONNEL,

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SO I HAVE A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS AND I JUST WANT TO BE SURE I'M UNDERSTANDING THIS CORRECTLY.

SO IF WE JUST, UM, WE'LL GO TO THE ELEMENTARY OCA, TLO, ANDREI, UM, WHERE YOU HAVE, UM, THE PROJECTED PROVISIONS.

SO ALL THESE TSI SCHOOLS ARE BASED ON, UH, THEY, THEY WERE CATEGORIZED AS THAT DUE TO THE PERFORMANCE OF STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES.

SO THAT'S REALLY THE GOV THE, UM, BLIND ITEM WE SHOULD BE LOOKING AT, BUT MALE AND FEMALE.

SO IT ALSO VERY MUCH WOULD PROBABLY DEPEND ON, YOU KNOW, HOW MANY STUDENTS ARE IN EACH OF THOSE.

AND YOU PROBABLY DON'T PUT THAT DOWN BECAUSE I'M PROBABLY THEN GETS INTO, OH, I CAN IDENTIFY SOMEBODY.

IDENTIFY THEIR SCORES.

I JUST WANT TO BE SURE.

I UNDERSTOOD THAT CORRECTLY.

UM, YOU PLAYING A MATH GAME AS WELL.

UM, SO I MEAN, IT'S ALREADY, I MEAN, I AGREE WITH MANY OF THE COMMENTS ALREADY SAID, MR. EARL CAMPBELL, OUR STUDENTS HAVE TO BE IN SCHOOL PERIOD.

THERE'S, YOU KNOW, NO MORE VIRTUAL LEARNING.

IT'S CLEARLY NOT AS GOOD AS BEING IN PERSON IN THE SCHOOL.

AND ENGAGEMENT HAS BEEN BROUGHT UP MULTIPLE TIMES TONIGHT, INCLUDING BY YOU DR.

STRATUS, AND EXACTLY AS, AS, UH, MS. POINTED OUT, I MEAN, THE CHARTER SCHOOLS YOU'VE ALREADY PUT PEOPLE OR PUT STUDENTS IN THOSE SCHOOLS WHO HAVE THE ENGAGEMENT FROM THEIR FAMILIES.

SO YOU'RE, YOU'RE LOOKING AT A DIFFERENT, WHOLE DIFFERENT, UM, UH, STUDENT BODY.

WHEN YOU GO, WHEN YOU LOOK AT THOSE SCHOOLS.

UM, THE OTHER THING I THINK THE PUBLIC SHOULD KNOW IS A SCHOOL IS AUTOMATICALLY IN THE TSI, I BELIEVE FOR A MINIMUM OF THREE YEARS.

IS THAT CORRECT? HAD YES.

HAD WE NOT HAD MAGNET? TWO OF THE SCHOOLS WOULD HAVE BEEN NICE TO KNOW THAT TOO.

SO COVID IMPACT MAKERS MOVE TO HER SCHOOLS THREE AND THEN FROZEN THIS YEAR AS WELL, POTENTIALLY.

THAT'S WHAT SEEMS TO BE THE TREND OF SCHOOLS THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN LAST YEAR, WHICH IS OVER THE TA PRE-CHAT BILL MAY ALSO BE MADE AS A RESULT OF THIS YEAR.

UM, THIS IS BALANCE TO SPEAK TO THAT AND LOOKING AT RAISING THE STATUS, THE MAIL HAS COME FROM, ALL RIGHT, LET'S SEE, WHO HAS NOT SPOKEN MR. SMITH? MY QUESTION IS HOW DO WE MEASURE ENGAGEMENT? I ACTUALLY DID.

THERE ARE A FEW WAYS WE TRIED THE ONE SURVEYS THAT'S NUMBER ONE, UM, KANYA, WHICH IS THE MEDITATION, UM, COMPANY THAT WE USE FOR ACCREDITATION.

THEY HAVE A PARENT ENGAGEMENT SURVEY.

A THIRD MODEL IS ACTUALLY HE PANORAMA ITSELF.

THAT'S ANOTHER ATTORNEY THAT HAS, WAS UTILIZED.

SO SHE OR SCHOOLS ARE LOOKING AT THAT DATA.

AND IT IS ACTUALLY BEING UTILIZED ON A CITY WITH PRINCIPLES AND OBSERVATIONS WITH A POINT OF DISCUSSION.

AND THAT'S DONE IN ALL SCHOOLS.

YOU FINISHED ASIAN SERVING IS UTILIZED AT ALL.

SCHOOLS, PANORAMA WAS ADMINISTERED AT ALL SCHOOLS.

THE TIME ONE PARENT ENGAGEMENT.

IT IS SPECIFICALLY JUST THE TITLE ONE SCHOOLS, SIR.

BRADLEY'S COMMENTS ABOUT EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION.

I'LL TRY AND KEEP MY THOUGHTS FREE.

UM, JUST THAT LAST PART THAT YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT, DR.

STRATA, THE E-SCHOOL THERE, PHIL.

UM, CAN I PLAY ON WITH LESS THAN THEY WOULD HAVE BEEN COMING UP? UM, I THINK THERE'S MAYBE SOME, UM, SOME HIDDEN MIGHT TO, THAT ARE GOING TO LIKE THAT AND THAT THEY FELT TO BE RECEIVING THE SUPPORT, UH, FUNDING FOR THE SCHOOLS.

UM, SO THEY CAN CONTINUE ON THEIR GREAT WORK THEN, UM, HOPEFULLY EVEN BETTER.

SO, UM, THAT'S, I LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL IN REGARD TO THAT, UM, THE ONE COMMENT THAT I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE IS JUST IN REGARD TO LONG-TERM AND I KNOW THAT THERE BEEN DISCUSSIONS AT THE STATE LEVEL OF, UH, EXPANDING PK AND THINGS LIKE THAT.

UM, BUT I'D LIKE TO SEE KIND OF TO GO TO, UM, DR.

I THINK THAT WE NEED TO LOOK AT THAT, UM, EXTENSIVELY AND HOW WE COULD EXPAND THAT IN THE DISTRICT.

UM, BECAUSE THESE ARE ALL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS THAT WE HAVE THAT ARE AFFECTED AND ON THE TSI LENS.

AND SO THERE'S SOMETHING TO BE SAID THERE, AND THAT PERHAPS IF WE BROUGHT IDENTIFYING AND WE HAD BETTER ECC, UM, SUPPORT DISTRICT WIDE, BECAUSE RIGHT NOW WE'RE SOMEWHAT LIMITED AND HOW

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MANY STUDENTS WE CAN SERVE.

UM, SO I THINK THAT THAT'S ANOTHER DISCUSSION.

I THINK WE HAVE AN EXPANDED VCC PROGRAM AND INGRAINING THAT, UM, EARLIER, DO WE HAVE, I'M NOT SURE IF THE ATM'S ARE JUST STAYED UP OR WE HEARD OVER AND OVER POCKETS OF COMPENSATION.

AND WHAT I HAVE TO SAY ABOUT THIS IS THAT IT LOOKS THE SAME TREND THAT'S BEEN GOING ON FOR THE LAST 50 YEARS, YOU KNOW, AND NO PRESIDENT PEOPLE ARE INVOLVED, BUT IT'S THE SAME POOL OF CHILDREN.

THAT'S BEEN SOMEHOW NOT ENGAGING PARENTS.

AND MY CONCERN IS WHAT ARE WE DOING, PROGRAMMATICALLY OR ADDRESS GIRLS.

AND DON'T GIVE ME THE SAME KIND OF APPROACH, THE SAME NAME THAT HASN'T BEEN WORKING, THAT I LOOK AT THOSE HEROES.

THAT'S WHAT I SEE.

AND THAT'S WHAT I WANT TO SEE, CHANGED, WHATEVER WE HAVE TO DO TO CREATE ENGAGEMENT.

THAT'S NOT STANDARDIZED, WHICH HASN'T BEEN STANDARDIZED AND GATES IS NOT WORKING.

THE PARENTS ARE NOT ABLE TO HELP THEIR CHILD.

SO HOW DO YOU GET THAT CHILD OUT OF THE CATEGORY? THAT THEY'RE REALLY, THAT'S WHAT I'M CONCERNED ABOUT MR. EARL CAMPBELL.

UM, YOU KNOW, WE CAN TURN THESE SCHOOLS ON IN TWO YEARS, IT HAS BEEN DONE IN THIS DISTRICT.

WE GOT A BRANCH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AND TURN IT AROUND IN TWO YEARS, YOU KNOW, SO IT CAN BE DONE AS FAR AS TOPICAL.

UM, I KNOW AS PART WHERE IT'S, BECAUSE IF YOU LOOK AT CHILDREN IN MEXICO, THAT'S A COUNTRY, THOSE PEOPLE ALL HOME WITH EDUCATION AND THEY SHOWED AND ASKED TO HAVE THEM HERE.

SO WE HAVE TO GET TO THESE PARENTS AND GET THESE CHILDREN BACK INTO SCHOOL.

AND ONCE YOU GET THEM BACK IN SCHOOL, THEN WE CAN MAKE SURE, UM, FIRST I WOULD LIKE TO GO BACK TO, UH, TO ASK, UM, HOW, HOW DO THE SURVEYS WORK? UH, UM, I HEARD HER SAY THAT I HEARD THAT DESCRIBED THAT THEY DO A SERVICE, BUT HOW DID THE SURVEYS WORK? YEAH.

DIFFERENT WAYS OF ADMINISTERING THE SURVEY.

IT COULD BE PAPER AND PENCIL, LOT ELECTRONICALLY.

THEY CAN GO HOME WITH THE STUDENT, IT'D BE MAILED DOWN OR THEY'D BE TIED TO A HYPERLINK IF A PARENT HAS ACCESS TO CENTER AND, AND, AND, AND, AND, AND THE EFFORT AND THE DATA AND INFORMATION THAT WE'RE GETTING, HOW ARE WE MAKING UTILIZATION OF IT? SO WHAT I CAN SHARE WITH YOU WITH THE PANORAMIC APP DATA THAT WAS DISCUSSION TODAY WITH THE PRINCIPAL.

SO REFLECTING ON THAT AND HOW THEY CAN GET INCREASED ENGAGEMENT.

I CAN'T SPEAK TO YOU JUST APPLIED AT THIS TIME, SIR.

WHEN WE SAY THE POOR AREA, BECAUSE YOU HAVE KIDS IN YOUR KITCHEN, IN CHICAGO AREA, AND YOU HAVE KIDS IN DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE WORLD WHO ARE POOR AND WHO ARE IN PROVITY, BUT THOSE KIDS ARE STILL DOING EXPEDITIOUSLY WELL.

UM, ALSO, JUST TO, I MUST SAY THAT OUR HEARD BOTH CAMPBELL'S AND I, TO A STRONGLY AGREE.

I DO AGREE WITH THEM BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, UH, YOU CAN'T TELL ME THAT THE KIDS IN CHICAGO WHO ARE HUNGRY AND, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, IT CONCERNS ME

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SO THAT TELLS ME EITHER TWO THINGS, EITHER ONE, THEY'RE DOING SOMETHING DIFFERENT THAN WHAT WE'RE, THAN WHAT WE'RE DOING, OR TWO, WE NEED TO GO THERE AND FIGURE OUT WHAT THEY'RE DOING THAT WE AREN'T DOING.

AND IT'S NOT TO BE IN A NEGATIVE CONNOTATION TO ANYONE OR TO YOUR DOUGH TO, TO, TO, TO, TO BE, UM, SPEAKING NEGATIVE.

IT'S JUST THAT I BELIEVE WHAT EVERYONE IS SAYING IS THAT THE ACHIEVEMENT GAP IN DIFFERENT THINGS THAT HAVE BEEN HERE FOR AWHILE, WE, WE ARE, WE ARE, WE ARE VERY INTERESTED IN FINDING OUT HOW WE CAN CUT THE GAP OFF AND START WORKING TOWARDS CLOSING IT.

AND REAL ACTUALLY PUT, NOT JUST PUTTING MONEY OUT, BUT PUTTING OUT MONEY AND OUR ACTIONS TO SHOW POSITIVE RESULTS.

I THINK THAT'S WHERE WE'RE AT.

THAT THAT'S WHERE EVERYONE IS WANTING TO GOING.

AND THAT MAY COME SEEM LIKE IT'S COMING ACROSS IN A NEGATIVE, IN A NEGATIVE WAY.

BUT ME PERSONALLY, FROM COMING OUT OF POVERTY AND BEING IN POVERTY AND REALLY ANY HOUSE AND HAVING A HOLE IN THE ROOF, DIDN'T CHANGE WHO I AM.

SO I'M SPEAKING TO IT FROM EXPERIENCE, I'M SPEAKING TO IT FROM LIVING IT.

SO THAT'S CONCERNS ME WHEN WE SAY, BECAUSE YOU LIVE IN A PROPERTY THAT, THAT AFFECTS HOW YOU LIVE.

A SHAME THAT WE HAVE THIS GAP AND I HAVE BEEN LOOKING AROUND FOR SOME TIME AND TALKING TO PEOPLE, JUST FIND OUT WHY ALONG.

I DID HEAR THE PART WHERE MRS. BOATWRIGHT SAID THAT PARENTS WHO ARE PUTTING THEIR KIDS IN THE, UH, NOT BRING THAT BREAD OUT RIVERVIEW, CHARTER SCHOOL, THEY WANT THEIR KIDS TO HAVE IT.

THAT'S CORRECT.

BUT THEN WE ALSO HAVE TO ASK OURSELVES AS A DISTRICT WITH HAVING CHOICE HAVE RECREATED DIFFERENT THINGS IN HIS DISTRICT THAT ALSO THAT DRIVES DIFFERENT FORCES TO MAKE FOR KIDS IN CERTAIN AREAS BE MORE SUCCESSFUL THAN OTHERS THAN OTHERS.

SO THERE'S A LOT OF QUESTIONS THAT IS GOING TO TAKE A LITTLE MORE THAN TONIGHT, TODAY, DIGEST AND THESE IN DISSECT.

SO I THINK THAT THIS CONVERSATION IS DEFINITELY A CONVERSATION THAT WE WOULD WORK AT A WORK SESSION.

AND JUST, JUST KIND OF, I WAS BORN WAS FREAKING OUT HOW WE CAN KIND OF GET OUR POINTS, OF COURSE, BECAUSE I'M SURE NONE OF US ARE TRYING TO OFTEN, UH, TEACHERS OR ADMINISTRATORS, SUPERINTENDENTS, WE'RE NOT, BUT WHAT, WHAT OUR CONSTITUENTS AND WHAT WE DO KNOW.

AND SO SOME OF US RAN ON INCLUDING MYSELF AS CLOSING THE ACHIEVEMENT GAP.

AND THIS IS A BIG PART OF THE KEY TO DOING THAT.

AND SO, AS I SAID TONIGHT, THERE'S A LOT OF, THERE'S A LOT OF COMPONENTS HERE THAT MUST BE BOUGHT OUT AND CALLED OUT BESIDES JUST PROPERTY PROPERTIES.

THERE'S THE UNDERLYING EXCUSE THAT PEOPLE HAVE BEEN USING FOR YEARS.

WE'VE GOT TO GO BEYOND THAT.

WE HAVE THIS DEEPLY THAN PROPERTY.

THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR WITH, UH, UH, REALLY ALL OF THE COMMENTS THAT WERE MADE THIS EVENING ABOUT THIS PARTICULAR ISSUE.

CERTAINLY THERE'S A LOT OF PASSION AROUND THIS PARTICULAR TOPIC.

I DO WANT TO SAY JUST FOR CLARITY FOR THE BOARD AND FOR ALL OF OUR PARENTS AND FAMILIES, WE'RE OBSERVING THIS EVENING.

AND STAN, WHEN WE TALK ABOUT ADDRESSING THE CHALLENGES OF POVERTY WITHIN OUR SCHOOLS, WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT IS THAT THERE ARE WELL ESTABLISHED PRACTICES AND RESEARCH THAT CAN BE APPLIED TO ADDRESS SCHOOLS THAT HAVE DISPROPORTIONATE RATES OF POVERTY.

I'M NOT SAYING THAT POVERTY IS AN EXCUSE OR FOR SOME REASON, POVERTY IS AN EXPLANATION FOR WHY STUDENTS DON'T LEARN.

WHAT I'M SAYING IS THAT FOR A HIGH POVERTY SCHOOLS, THERE ARE WELL ESTABLISHED PRACTICES THAT CAN BE IMPLEMENTED THAT HAVE BEEN PROVEN TO PRODUCE RESULTS WITHIN SCHOOLS.

I THINK THAT IS A BEGINNING POINT FOR US TO BEGIN TO INTERVENE.

IT'S SO FAR, HISTORICALLY LOW-PERFORMING SCHOOLS.

I PUT A LINK IN THE CHAT AROUND 1990 TO 90 SCHOOL RESEARCH.

UH, AND IT'S, UH, IT'S A LAW KNOCKING IT, BUT EVEN IF YOU SCROLL THROUGH, YOU'LL SEE THAT IT HIGHLIGHTS VERY CLEARLY.

SOME OF THE THINGS THAT CAN BE DEPLOYED TO PRODUCE RESULTS IN SCHOOLS.

AND SO AS A SCHOOL, AS A, AS A PRINCIPAL, IT WAS ALL THE FORMER PRINCIPAL AND SOLELY WORKED IN TITLE ONE SCHOOLS AND TURNED EVERY ONE AROUND.

NO, THIS WORKED VERY WELL.

MR. THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

THIS IS AN EMOTIONAL THING FOR ME.

I AM DISCUSSION.

I AIN'T GOING, I'M

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IT'S BEEN THIS WAY AND I INVARIABLY GET IT.

WELL, THAT'S THE WAY IT'S ALWAYS BEEN.

AND THAT IS ACCEPTABLE.

AND PART OF IT IS I BELIEVE IS THAT WE AS A SCHOOL BOARD AT NOT COME CLEAN AND TELL THE PUBLIC, IF WE HAVE A SERIOUS PROBLEM, AND WE NEED A STRATEGY THAT IS CLEAR AND HAS MEASURABLE POINTS, AND WE HOLD PEOPLE ACCOUNTABLE.

NOW, 60 YEARS AGO, TODAY, OR NEXT MONTH, JOHN F. KENNEDY AT A SPEECH SAID, WE'RE GOING TO THE MOON AND BRING PEOPLE BACK AT THE END OF THIS DECADE.

THAT WAS IN 1961.

WE HADN'T EVEN PUT A MAN IN OREGON YEARS AHEAD OF NASA SAID, YOU'RE KIDDING ME.

AND KENNEDY SAID TO THE HEAD OF NASA, OKAY, YOU'RE RESPONSIBLE LIKE A SUPERINTENDENT, AND I'M GIVING YOU THIS DATE.

AND THEN YOU HAVE TO COME BACK TO ME AND TELL ME WHAT IT'S GOING TO COST AND WHAT OTHER STEPS TO GET THERE.

AND, AND THIS GOAL IS ON ALL OVER NASA.

WE'RE GOING TO THE MOON AND IT'S NOT GOING TO GO AWAY.

WHEN KEN KENNEDY KNEW HE WASN'T GOING TO BE IN OFFICE AT THE END OF THE SIXTIES, BUT THAT'S WHEN HE SAID, AND WE NEED TO, AS A BOARD, SAY THAT BY SUCH AND SUCH A DATE, BECAUSE THIS GAP DIDN'T COME ABOUT OVER OVERNIGHT AND IT'S NOT GOING TO BE SOLVED OVERNIGHT.

WHEN I TALKED TO OLD BOARD MEMBERS, THEY SAID, WE'VE ALWAYS BEEN WANTING TO REDUCE THE ACHIEVEMENT GAP.

WE KNOW WE GOT TO SAY, WE'RE GOING TO END THIS THING.

THIS IS THE THING.

AND IT'S NOT GOING TO BE THINGS.

PLAN IS GOING TO COME FROM JUST THE SCHOOL DISTRICT.

WE'VE GOT TO GET THE COMMUNITY INVOLVED.

WE GOT TO GET THE CHURCHES INVOLVED.

WE'VE GOT TO GET THE POLITICIANS INVOLVED AND IT'S GOT TO BE A COMPREHENSIVE, MEASURABLE PLAN.

NOW THAT DOESN'T MEAN TO SAY BROKE DOWN.

BUT IF WE SAID THAT EVERY CHILD WHO STARTS KINDERGARTEN NEXT FALL, BY THE TIME THEY GRADUATE FROM HIGH SCHOOL, WE GOT THAT'S 13 YEARS.

I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S THE RIGHT NUMBER.

IT MAY BE 15 YEARS, BUT SOMETHING WE PUT UP ON THE MAP THAT SAYS, THIS IS WHAT WE'RE GOING TO DO.

AND OH, BY THE WAY, THAT DOESN'T MEAN, BUT YOU DON'T ABANDON ALL THE KIDS THAT ARE IN THERE.

NOW WE TRY TO BRING EVERYBODY UP.

YOU DIDN'T, YOU DIDN'T TELL, UH, NASA TO BUILD A CENTER BY ROCKET.

THE NEXT DAY, THEY HAD TO GO THROUGH A STEP-BY-STEP BASIS AND THEY HAD TO GET THE MONEY AND WE NEED THE MONEY.

AND WE NEED THIS TEACHERS, BUT LET'S, LET'S PUT A MARK ON THE WALL AND SAY, THAT'S IT MR. SUPERINTENDENT, DAN FOLLOWING SUPERINTENDENT.

THAT'S WHEN IT IS.

AND THAT'S WHAT WE EXPECT.

AND SO AFTER THE PUBLIC AND ADMIT WHERE WE'RE AT MS. MIDDLETON, THIS HAS BEEN A GREAT CONVERSATION TONIGHT.

FIRST OF ALL, I REMEMBER MENTIONING, AND I WAS QUOTED ABOUT THE ACHIEVEMENT GAP ME IN THE GRAND CANYON.

AND WE'VE TALKED ABOUT THIS AND THANK YOU, COLONEL DYER FOR SAYING THAT WE STOPPED TALKING ABOUT IT.

START BEING ABOUT THE BUSINESS OF CLOSING THIS LAND CANYON.

I WROTE DOWN HERE ON MY NOTEBOOK.

I THINK IT'S VERY IMPORTANT THAT WE EXPLAIN TO THE COMMUNITY AT ALL LEVELS WHAT THE ACHIEVEMENT GAP IS, WHAT IT MEANS TODAY.

WHAT IT'S GOING TO MEAN 10 YEARS FROM NOW, BUT IT'S GOING TO BE IN 20 YEARS FROM NOW.

I WAS READING AN ARTICLE ABOUT THE PORT JASPER COUNTY WAS THE ARTICLE.

I CAN GIVE EVERYBODY READ IT.

DON'T BE TAKING OVER THE PORT REALLY SOON.

IT'LL BE THEIR PROPERTY.

ARE WE GOING TO HAVE CHILDREN EDUCATED ENOUGH TO GET 20 CARTS TO WORK ON THIS PORT? AND SOME OF YOU ALL KNOW WHAT A TWIT CARD IS.

ARE THEY GOING TO BE ABLE TO TEST? THEY HAVE THE SKILLS TO WORK ON THIS PORT, OH, WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN.

IF WE DON'T HAVE THESE CHILDREN READY AND THEY DON'T HAVE THE READING SKILLS AND THE MATHEMATICS SKILLS, THEY'RE GOING

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TO BE CHILDREN AROUND THE WORLD COMING TO TAKE A JOB, RIGHT.

EITHER.

AND WE'LL STILL BE STUCK IN POVERTY WILL STILL BE STUCK.

SO WE HAVE TO DO, WE HAVE TO SET THE GOAL AND WE'RE GOING TO CLOSE THIS CANYON.

JUST LIKE YOU SAY, KIND OF GUY, PUT IT ON THE WALL.

WE'RE GOING TO CLOSE THIS BY THIS TIME.

AND I HAVE FULL CONFIDENCE IN DR.

BRADLEY AND DR.

STRANG SENIOR TEAM THAT YOU WALK IN, GET US THERE, BUT YOU CAN MAKE A PLAN THAT WE CAN HAVE A DATE THAT WE CAN EXPLAIN TO THE COMMUNITY WHAT THIS MEANS, BECAUSE IT HAS TO BE BROKEN DOWN IN LAYMAN'S TERMS. WE'RE GOING TO BE IN BIG TROUBLE, 20 YEARS FROM NOW.

AND WE DON'T GET OUR CHILDREN BACK IN SCHOOL.

FACE-TO-FACE AND THAT'S SCARY TO ME.

AND WE'RE IN A SMALL TOWN, BUT WE'RE IN A SMALL TOWN.

IT'S ABOUT TO HAVE A BIG PORT AND BIG BUSINESS, SOMETHING WE'VE BEEN WAITING FOR FOR A LONG TIME.

THAT'S GOING TO BRING MORE INDUSTRY.

SO WE HAVE TO PREPARE OUR CHILDREN TO TAKE ON THOSE JOBS.

SOMETIMES I DON'T WANT TO WORK UNTIL I'M A HUNDRED AND THAT'S WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN.

IF WE WANT TO KEEP OUR ECONOMY GOING, A LOT OF US ARE GOING TO BE WORKING.

WE'RE GOING TO BE SITTING AT DESKS, YOU KNOW, 101, AND IS GOING TO DROP, BUT WE NEED THE, WE NEED THE YOUNGER ONES TO COME UP.

WE NEED TO GIVE THEM THE SKILLS AND THE SUPPORT THAT THEY NEED SO THEY CAN TAKE ON THESE JOBS AND SUPPORT US.

THIS IS AN EMOTIONAL ISSUE.

WE TALK ABOUT IT EVERY YEAR.

ONE OF THE REASONS WE WENT TO COHERENT GOVERNANCE AND IN ITS FULL IMPLEMENTATION WAS BECAUSE WE WANT TO FOCUS ON RESULTS.

AND I BELIEVE THAT'S WHERE COLONEL GEIER WANTS US TO GO.

I THINK THAT'S THE VEHICLE WE NEED TO USE.

WE NEED TO PUT THOSE RESULTS IN WRITING.

UNFORTUNATELY, COVID HAS KNOCKED US OUT THESE PAST TWO YEARS, BUT WE'VE GOT THE VEHICLE.

SO THAT THAT'S WHERE WE NEED TO FOCUS WHERE WE DON'T NEED TO KEEP BEATING THIS AROUND.

WE JUST NEED FOCUS ON RESULTS, PUT IT DOWN ON PAPER.

UM, WE, WE, YOU KNOW, WE KNOW THAT THAT'S, THAT'S THE WAY WE DO IT.

UM, SO I WOULD SUGGEST THAT, UH, THAT WE FOCUS ON THAT THE RESULTS COMMITTEE WILL TELL US, UH, HOW THEY'RE GOING TO ALTER THE RESULTS TO ACHIEVE WHAT WE ALL WANT TO ACHIEVE.

UM, WELL, THIS BEING SUCH A, A STRONG TOPIC AS MR. SCRIPTURE, I JUST OUTLINED AS WAS A CALM GUY AND EVERYONE TONIGHT.

UM, I AM FEELING THE NEED TO POSSIBLY WELL TO MAKE, TO MAKE IT, UH, TO MAKE THE MOTION THAT WE, THAT WE MAKE THIS A PART OF THE UPCOMING WORK SESSION, BECAUSE TH TH TH TH BECAUSE REGARDLESS TO WHETHER A PANDEMIC IS HAPPENING OR NOT, WE STILL, WHEN, WHEN, WHEN, WHEN, WHEN, WHEN THE SMOKE CLEARS, WE STILL HAVE TO HAVE A, A, UM, A PLAN OF ACTION THAT CAN, THAT CAN TAKE PLACE IMMEDIATELY.

SO, YOU KNOW, UM, I THINK THAT IT MUST START IT.

THIS IS, THIS IS, UH, FROM LISTENING TO EVERYONE EVERY ONCE THAT I HAS COMMITTED THAT THIS IS VERY, THIS IS A VERY IMPORTANT IDEA OUT TOPIC, AND THIS IS SOMETHING THAT NEEDS IMMEDIATE ATTENTION.

AND SO I'M INCLINED TO MAKE, TO MAKE THE MOTION THAT WE MAKE THIS A POINT THAT I'M TRYING TO MAKE THIS, THAT WE MAKE A MOTION TO PUT THIS ON THE AGENDA AT THE NEXT WORKS AT WORK, A WORK SESSION.

I CAN HAVE A SECOND OH SEVEN.

SO MR. SMITH BENT THE MOTION, MR. EARL CAMPBELL.

AND I GUESS I CAN, SO NOW LET ME JUST CLARIFY TO THE BOARD AND THE PUBLIC, THE NEXT WORK SECTION IS, IS, UH, THURSDAY, EXCUSE ME, FRIDAY AND SATURDAY OF THIS WEEK.

AND WE'VE GOT A LOT OF AGENDA ITEMS STILL TONIGHT THAT WE HAVEN'T COVERED YET EITHER WE COULDN'T COVER IT TONIGHT OR TOMORROW NIGHT.

AND I THINK IT WOULD BE VERY HARD, UH, FOR THE STAFF, ESPECIALLY IF WE'RE GOING TO BE THERE TWO NIGHTS TO BE AT DOCUMENTS READY FOR US FOR THURSDAY OR FRIDAY FOR THIS WORK SESSION.

SO THAT'S, I SEE THAT JUST AS A KIND OF A PROCESS ISSUE.

UM, BUT I'M SURE OTHER PEOPLE HAVE COMMENTS, MR. .

WE HAVE A BUDGET DISCUSSION, UM, APRIL 23RD, I BELIEVE.

AND THEN I THINK THAT'S, AND THEN I THINK IT WOULDN'T BE AN AUGUST.

UM,

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SO HE COULD, DID YOU HEAR THAT CONDITION? YES, I WAS ACTUALLY, I WAS GOING TO AMEND MY MOTION AND HOW MUCH TO HAVE A SPECIAL CALL WORK SESSION OR A SPECIAL CALL MEETING TO FOCUS ON THE ACHIEVEMENT GAP AND HOW WE CAN MOVE FORWARD WITH THAT.

SO I DON'T SEE ANYTHING WRONG WITH ASSEMBLING A SPECIAL SINCE, SINCE DID THIS SATURDAY AND THURSDAY, WE ALREADY HAVE A LONG WEEK AHEAD OF US THIS WEEK THAT I DON'T THINK THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH JUST HAVING A SPECIAL CALL WORK SESSION ON A SATURDAY OR A SPECIAL CALL MEETING TO, TO DEAL WITH THIS.

SO DO WE HAVE SECOND FOR HIS AMENDMENT OFFERED? OKAY.

SO MR. MR. BENSON.

SO I HAVE A QUESTION FOR DR.

STEVENSON, DR.

BRADLEY, HOW MUCH TIME, BUT IT WAS ACHY BECAUSE THIS IS BASED ON THE RESEARCH.

SO IF YOU WANT ANY, IT, I NEED THE PLANS WHERE THIS, AGAIN, ON THIS TIME, DO YOU THINK I COULD SHARE, I BELIEVE THERE WAS A MOTION MADE BY MRS. REDRIDGE MAYBE TWO MEETINGS PRIOR, OR PLAN FOR THE SUPERINTENDENT TO BRING POET AND ACTION.

AND WE CAN ADD THAT TO THE PLAN.

I BELIEVE IT WAS, THAT WAS IN JUNE.

THAT'S EXACTLY RIGHT.

IF WE COULD BUILD THAT ONTO THE JUNE, I THINK IT WAS NINE PRECIPITATION TIME.

THIS IS, SHOULD BE, YES.

I BELIEVE THIS IS THE CORE OF THE WORK THAT WE WERE GOING FORWARD WITH.

SO IN THE BUILD UPON IT, AND WHERE DOES YOUR READY STARTED TO BE VERY DIRECT WITH THEM? AS WE TALKED ABOUT THE 90, 90 MODELING UNIVERSITY ROUNDS WERE IN NO JAMES CULVER'S WAR WORTH ANY CHICAGO ACTUALLY, WHICH IS SIGNIFICANT, THAT IS QUITE A LOT WORK WITH JULIAN.

SO HE COULD BUILD ON A MOTION.

I GOT SENT TO THE BOY.

DO YOU READ OFF THE RABBIT? YEAH.

UM, BUT I ALSO THINK THAT IT'S LIKE, WE WOULD PROBABLY NEED TO GET CLARITY ON WHAT SPECIFICALLY THE BOARD WOULD WANT FOR US TO PRESENT, AND THEN WE CAN, WE CAN WORK ON THAT.

AND I WANTED TO ALSO JUST MENTION THAT IN ADDITION TO THAT, WE WOULD ALSO BE BUILDING OUR LEARNING LOSS PLANS TO GO ALONG WITH THAT.

SO MAYBE THAT WORK NEEDS TO BE DONE IN CONJUNCTION WHEN I RESPOND A CERTAIN WAY.

I WOULD THINK PERSONALLY THAT THAT WOULD BE SUFFICIENT TO GIVE US A STAR BECAUSE THAT WOULD, YOU KNOW, YOU, YOU'RE ALREADY PUTTING A PLAN IN PLACE.

AND THAT, THAT IS A RIGHT WAY TO GO TO START CLOSING THIS.

SO I DON'T KNOW HOW EVERYBODY ELSE BANKS, BUT I AGREE WITH MOVING UNTIL JUNE AND THE MONEY.

SO WE, SO JUST SO YOU COULD MAKE ANOTHER AMENDMENT, UM, MS. MIDDLETON TO THE CURRENT, UM, WE CAN MAKE THE SECOND EVENT OF THE SECOND AMENDMENT.

UM, SO YOU COULD SAY, UH, JUST TO ADD ON THERE, UM, UH, UH, JUST PUT, I BELIEVE IT WAS JUNE THAT THEY, YOU HAD, I BELIEVE IT WAS JUNE 1ST.

AND THE MOTION WAS TO FRAME, BRING FOUR, A PROCESS FOR ADDRESSING THE A HUNDRED CAPACITY.

SO IF YOU KNOW, I JUST DON'T KNOW.

I WAS THINKING MORE ALONG THE LINES AND THAT WOULD BE A SEPARATE TOPIC, BUT, BUT WHEN YOU BRING FORWARD THE PLAN OR THE, UM, LEARNING LOSS, THAT'S NOT, THAT WAS NOT PART OF MY EMOTIONAL LESSON, UNLESS ACTUALLY IT IS.

SO THAT'S, I MEAN, IT WASN'T QUITE THE EMOTION, BUT THAT MRS. FRENCH, WHICH I APOLOGIZE IF I PIGGY BACK ON HIM, BUT OPERATIONALLY AND ALERT THE WORLD AFTER THE GAP AGAIN, THE SCHOOL YEAR, WE WOULD HAVE THAT READINESS GOING FORWARD SO HE COULD WORK AT LEAST A FRAMEWORK OF PRACTICE.

SO WE COULD HAVE THAT WORK ROLLING INTO THE ACADEMIC SCHOOL YEAR.

WE HAD THIS CONVERSATION IN AUGUST, IT'D BE BEHIND THE HAT WORK, GOING IN THE ACADEMIC SCHOOL YEAR AS WELL.

SO THAT'S WHY, WHATEVER POSSIBILITY WE CAN HAVE A FRAMEWORK.

AND I COULD IMAGINE THAT NIGHT WHEN SHE SAID MRS. MIDDLETON A FRAMEWORK UP.

STARTING AN ACADEMIC SCHOOL YEAR.

AND SO YOU JUST, I JUST WANT TO BE SURE I UNDERSTOOD YOU.

SO IT'S BEST FOR THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE DISTRICT THAT WE WOULD DO THAT IN JUNE, THAT WOULD BE A RECOMMENDATION TO COME FALL.

AND SO, AS WE'VE GONE FORWARD IN DOING IMPLEMENTATION, AND WHEN I WAS CLIENT PUT PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND ACQUISITION AT ANY VENDORS IN PROGRAMS, CERTAINLY

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AND THAT WORK FOR ME, I'M CLAIMING IT WAS ALREADY STARTED.

I DO HAVE TO SHARE THAT IT'S JUST NOT, I WAS NOT PREPARED FOR A PRESENTATION.

I THINK WE'RE, WE'RE, WE'RE, WE'RE PULLING TWO THINGS TOGETHER.

I THINK WE'RE TALKING ABOUT TWO DIFFERENT THINGS.

THAT'S HERE AND THEN HAVE ANOTHER MOTION IF IT DOESN'T REPRESENT THAT OR THAT MS. MIDDLETON PROPOSES SUBSTITUTE MOTION, RATHER THAN TRYING TO ATTACK ON ALL THESE AGENDAS AND GETTING LOST.

MRS. MIDDLETON, DO YOU WANT TO ADD AN AMENDMENT TO THIS? YOU COULD PUT IN JUNE, IF YOU COULD JUST ADD ON 2020, WHAT DID HE SAY? I THINK THAT W WE'RE WE'RE WE'RE PUTTING THE TWO DIFFERENT THINGS.

I'M TALKING ABOUT A S A I'M TALKING ABOUT THE ACTUAL BOARD, NOT THE ADMINISTRATION, THE BOARD TO COME UP WITH A STARTUP COMPREHENSIVE PLAN OR HOW WE, HOW WE SEE FIT FOR THE SUPERINTENDENT AND HIS STAFF TO START CARRYING OUT THE, THE IMPLICATIONS OF HOW THEY WILL COME FORTH AND START ATTACKING THE ACHIEVEMENT GAP, THE TUBING GAP, NOT LISTENING TO WHAT THEY HAVE, BECAUSE AS A BOARD, WE WAS, WE HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT THIS, OR THE BOARD HAS BEEN TALKING ABOUT THIS SINCE DR.

HERBERG WAS HERE TWO YEARS AGO.

SO I'M SAYING THAT IT'S TIME FOR US TO TAKE AN IMMEDIATE EMERGENCY IMMEDIATE EMERGENCY ACTION AS A, AS THE TOP, AS THE TOP OF THIS EDUCATIONAL CHART, AS THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES, FOR US TO, AS A BOARD TO START IRONING OUT AND START PUTTING TOGETHER A COMPREHENSIVE PLAN TO WHAT WE EXPECT TO SEE DONE FROM THE SUPERINTENDENT AND HIS STAFF AND NASCAR TO TAKE A SPECIAL CALL MEETING OR A SPECIAL CALL EXECUTIVE SESSION.

I MEAN, THIS CUTE ISAAC SAYS A SPECIAL CALL I'LL WORK SESSION.

SO I THINK THAT'S, THAT'S SOMETHING DIFFERENT FROM GETTING STAFF TOTALLY INVOLVED.

YES, STAFF CAN BE THERE AND STAFF CAN GIVE US INFORMATION, BUT I'M TALKING ABOUT THE HEAD OF THIS ORGANIZATION, GETTING TOGETHER AND PUTTING THEIR HEADS TOGETHER AND IRONING OUT A COMPREHENSIVE PLAN ON WHAT WE EXPECT AND HOW WE EXPECT THE ACHIEVEMENT GAP TO BE ATTACKED.

THAT IS WHAT I'M, THAT, THAT IS WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT.

SO HONESTLY, I WILL SHARE WITH YOU WHAT YOU'RE SAYING ABOUT JAY, ABOUT JAY, ABOUT JUNE AND GIVING THE STAFF.

I THINK THAT'S SOMETHING TOTALLY DIFFERENT.

WE CAN HAVE THAT MEAL TO IN JUNE, THE STAFF CAN BRING US INFORMATION AND WE CAN HAVE A COMPREHENSIVE CONVERSATION AT THAT POINT IN TIME.

THAT CAN BE WHAT THE SUPERINTENDENT AND HIS STAFF ARE TENDING TO DO TO, TO ATTACK THE ACHIEVEMENT GAP.

BUT THE BOARD IS SOMETHING DIFFERENT AND SEPARATE, HOWEVER, IT'S THE SMITH.

UM, UH, I DISAGREE BECAUSE I THINK WE NEED SOME OF THEM.

WE NEED THE INFORMATION FROM THE STAFF.

IF I'M A SUPERINTENDENT OF WHAT THEY ARE CURRENTLY DOING, BECAUSE WE MAKE A PLAN AND THEY HAVEN'T PLANNED IT.

I MEAN, IT, THEY ARE THE EXPERTS.

SO THEY, I WOULD LOVE TO HEAR WHAT THEY HAVE TO SAY.

SO WE CAN GO AHEAD AND START PLANNING AS A GOAL OR WHAT WE NEED TO DO.

SO I WOULD LIKE TO HEAR WHAT THEY HAVE TO SAY FIRST, BEFORE WE EVEN MEET ANYTHING AS A BOARD.

I HEAR, I HEAR WHAT YOU'RE SAYING, BUT TO ME, I THINK WHATEVER THEY MAY BRING IS DIFFERENT FROM US SAYING, LISTEN, WE HAVE THIS AMOUNT OF MONEY GOING OUT FOR THIS.

THIS MIGHT HAVE GOING ON FOR THAT LESSON.

WE WANT NEXT YEAR WE MEETING AS A BOARD SAYING, THIS IS NEXT YEAR, OR THIS YEAR COMING UP, OR FROM HERE ON OUT, WE WANT, WE BUY A LOT OF TECHNOLOGY.

WE WANT 40% OF OUR FUNDING THAT IS GOING OUT OF THE DISTRICT OFFICE, GOING TOWARDS THE ACHIEVEMENT GAP.

WE WANTED TO GO TOWARDS AFTERSCHOOL.

THAT'S DIFFERENT THAN SETTING GOALS AND TAKING AND DIGESTING THE INFORMATION.

IT'S ABOUT A STARTING ACTUALLY STARTING THE PROCESS, BECAUSE WHAT I'M AFRAID OF IS THAT WE STARTED, WE TAKE INFORMATION IN THE NEXT, WE'LL BE ASKING THEM TO GIVE US DIRECTION.

AND IF WE'RE ASKING THEM TO GIVE US DIRECTION, THEN , I WOULD JUST RUBBER STAMPING IT.

OR ARE WE REALLY TAKING A SERIOUS, A BEGINNING TO START? THIS IS THE START OF CLOSING THE GAP.

LIKE WE SAID, WE WOULD BE, THEN THAT'S THE DIFFERENCE VERSUS THEM GIVING US A TELLING US HOW THEY WANT TO DO IT OVER VERSUS A STARLET, STARTING THE PROCESS.

AND WE'RE GOING TO GO RUN AND LET SOME OTHER PEOPLE SPEAK.

AND I WANT TO SAY THAT WE DO NOT HAVE ANY SECOND PUBLIC COMMENTS CAUSE THEY WOULD HAVE BEEN COMING NOW.

SO THAT ACTUALLY WAS MISSPELLED, RIGHT? SORRY.

I WAS, I WAS GOING TO DO SOMETHING VERY MUNDANE BECAUSE I'M LOST AS TO WHAT THE MOTION IS AND WHAT IT SAYS NOW.

AND WE'VE HAD TWO AMENDMENTS, WHICH TECHNICALLY WE DIDN'T HAVE THE SECOND AMENDMENT.

IT'S TALK IT'S WHAT'S ON THE SCREEN.

AND THEN HE'S TALKING TO SAYING THAT THAT'S NOT REPRESENTING.

SO MY THOUGHT WAS EITHER WE NEED TO VOTE ON THE MOTION

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CAUSE I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE I KNOW WHEN I VOTE ON THIS, WHAT EXACTLY I'M VOTING ON.

SO I WAS GOING TO SUGGEST INITIALLY SUGGESTED SUBSTITUTE MOTION.

UM, BUT IT MAY BE THAT MR. SMITH WOULD CAUSE THAT WILL DISPOSE OF THE ORIGINAL MOTION.

UM, OR WE COULD TAKE A VOTE ON MR. SMITH'S AMENDMENT, AS HE'S STATING IT WITH THE AMENDMENT THAT HE'S TALKING ABOUT AND THEN HAVE ANOTHER MOTION, BUT I WOULD KIND OF, BUT THAT'S JUST SO IT WAS SO RATHER THAN TRYING TO KEEP GROWING THE ORIGINAL MOTION, MAYBE MS. MIDDLETON COULD MAKE A SUBSTITUTE MOTION AND IS ANYBODY WANT US TO SPEAK TO THEM OVER TO WHAT WE HAVE ON THE FLOOR? MR. MCGIBBON HERE.

I'D LIKE TO AMEND THIS, GOING BACK TO MY POINT ABOUT THE RESULTS TO SAY I MOVED AT THE TOPIC OF THE ACHIEVEMENT GAP RESULTS BE PLACED ON A SPECIAL CALLED WORK SESSION IN JUNE.

UM, BECAUSE WE DON'T DEVELOP PLANS.

WE, WE, WE ESTABLISHED THE RESULTS AND WE SEEM TO GET WE'RE WE'RE WE SEEM TO BE DRIFTING OFF TO WHERE WE'RE GOING TO DEVELOP PLANS.

THE WARREN'S NOT GOING TO DEVELOP THE PLANS.

THE BOARD DOES THE RESULTS THAT WE WANT.

SO THAT'S THE TOPIC WE NEED TO FOCUS ON.

SO DID YOU, ROBIN, DID YOU GET THAT, BUT WE NEED A SECOND.

SOMEBODY RAISED THE SECOND.

IS THERE ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION ABOUT, WELL, I GUESS ROBIN, YOU HAVE TO HAVE IT OUT THERE SO WE CAN SEE IT.

SO IF I MOVED AT THE TOPIC OF ACHIEVEMENT GAP RESULTS, WE PLACED ON HIS MEDICAL WORK SESSION IN JUNE AND THAT'S IN 2021.

SO CAN EVERYONE PUT THEIR HANDS DOWN UNLESS YOU'RE GOING TO SPECIFICALLY TALK ABOUT THIS AMENDED MOTION, MS. ROLA WITH THAT AMENDMENT IS I CAN SUPPORT THIS BECAUSE WE ARE NOT THE EXPERTS SITTING HERE.

WE CAN ASK ABOUT THE PLAN.

WE NEED TO SAY, YOU KNOW, THINGS THAT WE NEED TO DESIGNATE THE RESULTS THAT WE WANT AND LET THE EXPERTS MAKE THEM.

SO I CONCUR WITH THAT THINKING COMPLETELY RIGHT MR. SMITH.

UH, I ALSO SUPPORT SOME EMOTIONS LIKE MRS. UH, ROBOT JUST SAID, YES, WE, AT SOME POINT IN TIME IN LIFE, THERE IN LIFE, THERE IS SOMETHING CALLED DATES.

YOU MAY HAVE, YOU MAY HAVE THE DATE THAT YOU'RE BORN OR YOU CALL.

YOU COULD HAVE THE DATE THAT YOU DIE.

AT SOME POINT IN TIME, WE HAVE TO, AS A BOARD, WE HAVE TO ESTABLISH BOWL GOALS AND DATES AND THINGS THAT WE WANT TO SEE IN ORDER FOR THEM TO HAPPEN.

AND THAT THOSE ARE A LOT ALONG THE LINES OF, OF, UH, EXCUSE ME, ALONG THE LINES OF WHAT I WAS SAYING, THAT I, THAT I WAS EXPECTING THE BOARD TO DO, BECAUSE AT SOME POINT IN TIME, THIS BOYS HAD THIS BOARD HAVE TO GET A BOX.

WE HAVE TO SCRAP ABOUT BOOT SPRINGS, SCRABBLE BALL BOOTS, AND START IT STARTED START PUTTING THINGS THAT WE EXPECT TO HAPPEN AND TO START HAVING TO STARTING A PROCESS, TO SEE THOSE THINGS DO.

SO I WILL SAY, I WILL SUPPORT THIS MOTION, BUT THAT'S WHY I'M NOT, I'M NOT EXPECTING US TO TELL PEOPLE THE JOB OR US BEING THE EXPERT, BUT I AM EXPECTING, THEY'RE SAYING THAT LOOK HERE AND THERE THEY'RE THERE THE RESULTS AND THEY'RE GOING TO BE, THEY'RE GOING TO BE ISSUES.

THAT'S WHERE I DO SPRINKLERS TO DO OUR JOB.

YOU REPEAT IT? I'M OLD THAT THIS TOPIC BE PLACED ON A SPECIAL CALL AND WORK SESSION.

WE'LL CALL A QUESTION.

THERE'S NOT A LOT OF DOUBT.

SO YES.

AND THEN THAT MOTION CARRIES UNANIMOUSLY.

SO I BELIEVE THE OTHER MOTIONS, UM, NO LONGER APPLY, BUT YOU GOT TO PUT THEM UP THERE THIS FIRST AMENDMENT SO WE CAN GIVE IT THAT SAID THAT WAS MR. SMITH.

THIS IS WHEN I LOOKED AT THE TOP OF THE BIG PLACE.

I HAD A SPECIAL CLUB WORK SESSION.

CAN

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WE'VE COVERED IT MORE SPECIFICALLY IN THIS MOTION AND WHAT WAS THE VERY ORIGINAL ONE? THAT WAS THE VERY ORIGINAL ONE AMENDMENT TO THAT WAS THE TOPIC OF THE ACHIEVEMENT GABBY PLACED ON A SPECIAL CALL WORK SESSION.

AND THIS IS MORE SPECIFIC.

SO I THINK THIS IS IT.

THIS IS UNANIMOUS.

SO WE'RE ABOUT FOUR MINUTES FOR NINE 15.

SO WE EITHER NEED A MOTION TO CONTINUE ON OR A MOTION TO ADJOURN.

I MAKE A MOTION.

WHERE DOES THAT MR. SMITH? THE MOTION TO ADJOURN, MR. JERMAINE.

ALL RIGHT, MR. MAKE A MOTION TO MAKE THE MOTION AND MR. SMITH, EXCUSE ME, MR. STRIPPING GERM WAS THE SECOND.

SO WE'RE VOTING IS OPEN.

MOTION CARRIES EIGHT.

RODRIGUEZ FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY.

AND THREE NOS.

UH, THE NO'S ARE REAL LINES.

SHE HAD DRUDGE AND BOAT RIDE.

SO WE ARE IN GERMAN GOODNIGHT.

AND THANK YOU AND SEE YOU TOMORROW.

THE COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION BUSINESS MEETING THE MEETING IS BEING IN DARKENED BY A HYBRID VIDEO CONFERENCING, AND IT'S ALSO BEING LIVE STREAM BY THE COUNTY CHANNEL.

SO WE'RE GOING TO PICK UP WHERE WE LEFT OFF ON THE AGENDA AND WE WERE UNDER THE SUPERINTENDENTS REPORT UNDER GOAL NUMBER THREE, FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY.

SO I'LL TURN IT OVER TO YOU.

DR.

THIS EVENING, WE'LL BEGIN WITH THE TRANSPARENCY REPORT ON CARE REPORT AND THE BOARD WANTS TO BE BUDGET.

MS. CROSBY.

I'LL TRY ONE MORE TIME.

SO THIS EVENING, UM, THREE REPORTS, UH, ONE IN PARTICULAR, I'M BRINGING TWO VERSIONS OF THE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLAR REPORT.

UH, BROUGHT A CONSOLIDATED REPORT AS WELL, SHOWING THE SAME INFORMATION, JUST CONDENSED TO A ONE PAGE DOCUMENT.

UM, UH, AS, UH, WE PREPARED THIS REPORT, UH, WE COMPARED IT TO THE PRIOR THE SAME MONTH OF THE PRIOR YEAR.

SO JANUARY OF 2020 IS OUR COMPARATIVE YEAR AND PROVIDED SOME RATIONALE FOR ANY MAJOR VARIANCES THAT HAVE OCCURRED.

AND SO THIS IS THAT REPORT THIS EVENING, AND PRIMARILY THE MAJOR CHANGES ARE THE INCREASE IN CONSTRUCTION IN THE CURRENT YEAR AND THE INCREASE IN PURCHASE OF PPE AND OTHER COVID RELATED EXPENSES.

SO THAT'S THE, THE PRIMARY DIFFERENCES WE SEE ON THIS, BUT THERE'S A WIDE ARRAY OF, OF DIFFERENT, UM, VARIANCES THERE THAT WE'VE PROVIDED EXPLANATIONS FOR.

SO WITH THAT, I'LL TAKE ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS YOU MAY HAVE ON ANY OF THESE REPORTS.

SO YOU MAY GO UP TO THE NEXT ONE.

UM, UH, ANY QUESTIONS ON THE TRANSPARENCY OR THE BOARD MONTHLY BUDGET REPORT? ALRIGHT, WE'LL GO ON TO OTHER MATTERS.

SENT COMMUNICATION OUT TO FAMILIES THAT GIVEN THE IMPLEMENT WEATHER AND SEVERE WEATHER THAT IS EXPECTED TOMORROW, UM, THAT WE WILL HAVE A HALF DAY TOMORROW, UH, AND ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS WILL RELEASE ON 1145, 10 AND GO TO SCHOOLS IN HIGH SCHOOLS RELEASE AT 1245.

BOX.

UH, WE BEGAN OTHER MATTERS.

JUST WANT TO TAKE THE OPPORTUNITY RIGHT NOW TO JUST ANNOUNCE, UH, TO THE BOARD.

AND YOU

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UH, AND, AND THAT SHOULD BE, UH, ENOUGH TIME WITH THE PROJECTED INCLEMENT WEATHER FOR OUR STUDENTS TO WE'VE TURNED HOME.

WE'RE GONNA CLOSE OUR BUILDINGS AT ONE 30.

SO AS WE BEGIN TONIGHT AND OTHER MATTERS, UH, WE'LL TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT COVID-19, UH, AS WE, AS WE TYPICALLY BEGIN.

AND THEN, UM, WE'LL TALK ABOUT, UH, SOME MORE ACADEMIC, UH, PROGRAMS THAT WE HAVE, UH, AT 2.0, UH, AFTER SCHOOL.

AND THEN WE'LL TALK ABOUT THE EQUITY AND INCLUSION, UH, UPDATES, UH, AT THIS JUNCTURE.

AND SO BEGIN BY MENTIONING THAT LAST WEEK WORKED CLOSELY WITH RUSSELL BAXLEY FROM BUFORD MEMORIAL HOSPITAL TO ARRANGE MASS VACCINE EVENT CALLED THE VETERAN CREEK HIGH SCHOOL FOR DISTRICT EMPLOYEES OVER 400 VACCINES WERE ADMINISTERED AT THAT SITE.

AND MANY OF OUR EMPLOYEES COMMENTED ON HOW EFFICIENT AND EFFECTIVE THE EVENT WAS.

UH, I WANT TO THANK OUR PARTNERS WHO HAVE BEEN FROM MEMORIAL HOSPITAL, UH, MAY OPERATE IN THOSE MASS VACCINE EVENTS THERE WELL OILED MACHINE, AND THEY'RE VERY, VERY EFFICIENT.

UH, I ORGANIZED, UH, THE EVENT MAKE SURE THAT SELECT TIMES WERE ARRANGED FOR TRANSPORTATION OR CUSTODIANS FOR SCHOOL, FOOD SHORTAGES, FOR MAINTENANCE STAFF AND TEACHERS AROUND K THE TIME SLOTS BETWEEN FOUR AND 7:00 PM.

ADDITIONALLY, I WORKED WITH JEREMY CLARK AT HILTON HEAD HOSPITAL, WHERE THEY HAD ADMINISTERED OVER 200 VACCINES ON THAT SAME DAY TO SCHOOL DISTRICT EMPLOYEES.

FINALLY, THIS WEEK TOMORROW WHO WE'RE HAVING ANOTHER GAS VACCINE EVENT WOULD BE HELD AT A BLOCKED IN EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER, BUT DUE TO THE INCLEMENT WEATHER, WE'RE POSTPONING THAT EVENT UNTIL NEXT WEEK.

WELL, WE'LL RESCHEDULE THAT THOSE THAT WERE SIGNED UP SO THAT THEY, UH, THEY KNOW THAT THAT EVENT WILL BE POSTPONED AND MOVED, MOVED ON THE NEXT WEEK, CURRENTLY A TWO WEEK ACTIVE WINDOW FOR COVID NUMBERS.

THERE ARE SIX FATHER CASES, UM, UH, EMPLOYEES, AND THERE ARE 33 PILOT CASES AMONG STUDENTS.

SO YOU SEE THOSE NUMBERS CONTINUE TO BE SMALL.

SO, UH, WHICH IS A GOOD SIGN AT THIS JUNCTURE, DR.

BRADLEY, UH, HE WOULD LIKE TO SHARE A LITTLE BIT ABOUT OUR AFTERSCHOOL PROGRAMS DO GOING OFF.

SURE.

RODRIGUEZ, MADAM CHAIRMAN MEMBERS OF THE BOARD, WE RECOGNIZE THAT OFFSETTING THE LEARNING LOSS THAT OUR STUDENTS HAVE EXPERIENCED DUE TO COVID-19 WILL TAKE SOME TIME, HOWEVER, OUR INITIAL EFFORTS TO DO SO HAD ALREADY BEGUN.

AS I SHARED BRIEFLY, THE LAST TIME WE MET EACH OF OUR ELEMENTARY, MIDDLE, AND K EIGHT SCHOOLS ARE CURRENTLY RUNNING AFTERSCHOOL PROGRAMS, SEPARATE AND DISTINCT FROM AFTERSCHOOL CARE.

NATIONALLY RESEARCHERS HAVE SIGNALED THAT THE MOST EFFECTIVE WAY TO OFFSET LEARNING LOSS IS TO ONE PROVIDE RIGOROUS GRADE LEVEL INSTRUCTION AND TWO TO INCREASE INSTRUCTIONAL TITLE ON TASKS, ESPECIALLY ON THE CORE CONTENT AREAS OF MATH AND READING.

ALTHOUGH WE CANNOT SIMPLY EXTEND OUR SCHOOL DAY, WE HAVE DECIDED TO CREATE WHAT AMOUNTS TO AN EXTENDED THEY EXPERIENCED BY RE-IMAGINING, HOW WE WORK WITH CHILDREN DURING AFTERSCHOOL HOURS UNDER THIS PLAN, WHICH WE CALL 2.0, EACH SCHOOL HAS IDENTIFIED STUDENTS WHO WOULD MOST BENEFIT FROM ADDITIONAL LEARNING TIME.

THEY ASSIGNED AN INSTRUCTIONAL METHODOLOGY THAT THEY BELIEVE WOULD BE MOST EFFECTIVE WHEN THEIR STUDENTS, PRINCIPALS SPECIFICALLY RECRUITED TEACHERS WITH PROVEN TRACK RECORDS OF PERFORMANCE TO TEACH IN THE PROGRAM.

AND AS A DISTRICT, WE PROVIDED A VARIETY OF PROGRESS MONITORING OPTIONS.

SO STUDENT PERFORMANCE CAN BE MONITORED AND ASSESSED AND EVALUATED AT THE END OF THE 10 WEEK PROGRAM.

AT LAST CHECK, WE HAVE OVER 1500 STUDENTS DISTRICT WIDE PARTICIPATING IN THE PROGRAM, AND MOST SCHOOLS ARE IN THEIR SECOND WEEK OF PROGRAMMING.

SO IF YOU ARE VISITING SCHOOLS OR INTERACTING WITH PRINCIPALS OR TEACHERS, PLEASE ASK THEM HOW SOME POINT I WAS GOING.

WE'RE EXCITED THAT THIS WORK HAS ALREADY BEGUN.

OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF WEEKS, WE HAVE BEEN MEETING WITH STUDENTS ACROSS CAR DISTRICTS ON THIS VERY TOPIC.

BRADLEY, UM, UH, EQUITY AND INCLUSION UPDATE.

YOU WANT TO SHARE WITH THE BOARD THAT WE HAVE SPENT THE LAST MONTH AND A HALF HAVING INTERNAL DIALOGUE ABOUT THIS WORK AND OUR APPROACH TO IT.

I HAVE ESTABLISHED A STANDING WEEKLY MEETING WITH THOSE THAT ARE PRIMARILY DRIVING THE WORK TO STAY ENGAGED AND UP TO DATE ON THIS

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I FELT STRONGLY THAT WE SHOULD BEGIN THIS WORK WITH OUR STUDENTS AND LISTENING TO OUR STUDENTS FIRST AND LISTENING TO THE EXPERIENCES OF OUR STUDENTS WERE CONTINUING IT'S VERY IMPORTANT WORK WITHIN THE BCSP AND HAVE ADDITIONALLY IDENTIFIED AN INITIAL TRAINING THAT HAS BEEN SENT TO SENIOR STAFF THROUGH OUR SAFE SCHOOLS PORTAL.

THIS TRAINING WILL BE SENT TO ALL OF OUR EMPLOYEES AS WELL.

THE FOCUS IS ON DEVELOPING A COMMON LANGUAGE WITH BCSD EQUITY AND INCLUSION.

WE'LL ALSO BUILD AN ADVISORY GROUP THAT WOULD BE MADE UP OF EMPLOYEES AND SOME COMMUNITY MEMBERS TO ENGAGE WITH AS WE MOVE FORWARD ALONG THIS WORK BOARDS AND BOARD.

THAT CONCLUDES, DO YOU HAVE ANY, ANY QUESTIONS TED BRADLEY? THE 2.0, I ASSUME THAT IT'S TRANSPORTATION.

YES, IT DOES.

FROM THAT, UH, WE WILL HAVE, UH, EMPLOYEES AND SOME, AND SOME COMMUNITY MEMBERS THAT WILL SERVE ON THAT ADVISORY COMMITTEE THAT WILL SERVE AS AN ADVISORY COMMITTEE TO THE SUPERINTENDENT, OR I CAN COME TO THEM AND SAY, HERE'S WHAT WE HAVE DONE.

THANK YOU, MR. .

CAN YOU TALK INTO THE MICROPHONE? THANK YOU.

UM, WE CAN HAVE EVERY TEACHER AND EVERY STAFF MEMBER WAS SHOT.

THANK YOU, MR. CAMPBELL, BECAUSE I THINK YOU BRING UP A REALLY IMPORTANT POINT.

ONE OF THE THINGS IS CERTAINLY THAT WHEN WE LAUNCHED THE INITIATIVE LAST WEEK, WE HAD, UM, 600 THAT WERE VACCINATED LAST WEEK, IF YOU RECALL, AND WE HAVE OVER 3000 EMPLOYEES, EITHER CONTRACT OR A SCHOOL DISTRICT EMPLOYEES, AND WE PUSHED OUT THE SURVEY, WE HEARD BACK FROM ABOUT 1200 OF THEM, WHICH 70% OF THOSE 1200 SAID THEY WANTED VACCINES, WHICH COMES OUT TO ABOUT 900, RIGHT? SO OUT OF THAT 900, OUR VACCINE EFFORT LAST WEEK BETWEEN WHAT WE DID AT BATTERY CREEK WITH 400, WHAT WE DID AT COLTON HEAD WITH 200, AND THAT WAS 600 RIGHT THERE.

UH, IN ADDITION TO THAT, WE HAVE, UH, THE SCHEDULED VACCINE WHERE TOMORROW, UH, WE HAD ABOUT A HUNDRED THAT SIGNED UP.

UH, SO, SO, SO THAT WOULD BRING OUR NUMBERS CLOSER TO ABOUT 700 AND DURING THE WEEK, AND I DON'T HAVE THE NUMBERS OF THAT, BUT THIS WEEK STARTING ON ONE DAY BETWEEN FOUR AND 6:00 PM, UH, WE HAD, UH, AT THE PORT ROYAL PAVILION, BEAUTIFUL MEMORIAL WAS DEDICATING THAT SLOT, THAT WINDOW TO SCHOOL DISTRICT EMPLOYEES.

AND, UH, IT'S MY UNDERSTANDING THAT THAT HAS HAD A RELATIVELY LOW TURNOUT, UH, THAT'D BE A FORGOTTEN WAR ON HOSPITAL.

SO JUDGING BY THE INITIAL SIGNUP THAT HAD 400, UH, AND THEN, AND THEN 200 AT HILTON HAD 600.

WHAT WE WERE EXPECTING SIMILAR NUMBERS THIS WEEK, UH, TOMORROW WE ONLY HAD A HUNDRED THAT SIGNED UP.

IT SEEMS TO ME THAT THOSE THAT WANTED THE VACCINE, UM, HAVE, HAVE EITHER GOTTEN IT THROUGH, UH, OTHER PROVIDERS LIKE A CVS OR WALGREENS OR OTHER MEANS.

UH, AND THEN, AND WE WILL, LIKE I SAID, WE WILL, UH, WE WILL HAVE THE POSTPONED EVENT COME TOMORROW.

WE WILL HAVE IT NEXT WEEK.

HOWEVER, UM, WE DIDN'T HAVE A LOT OF PEOPLE SIGNING UP FOR IT, UH, FOR THIS ONE.

SO, SO WE WILL SURVEY, UH, STAFF AGAIN AFTER THIS NEXT, UH, ROUND TO SEE, TO SEE IF THERE'S STILL AN INTEREST OUT THERE FROM ANYONE WHO HASN'T GOTTEN THE VACCINATED.

BUT I WOULDN'T SAY THAT BETWEEN THE EFFORTS WE PUT FORTH IN ORGANIZING THESE MASKS, I'VE SEEN THAT THE WINDOW THAT BUFORD MEMORIAL HOSPITAL HAS PROVIDED DEDICATED TO SCHOOL DISTRICT EMPLOYEES, UH, AND CONTRACTED EMPLOYEES, ANYBODY WHO HAS NOT GOTTEN THE VACCINE BY IT'S BY NEXT WEEK WHEN WE HAVE THAT MASS VACCINE, IT'S EITHER BECAUSE THEY DON'T TEND TO ON A PERSONAL LEVEL, UH, LOOK OVER, YOU'RE STARTING TO, WE'VE BEEN PROVIDING THE, THE, THE RUNWAY FOR THEM TO DO THAT.

UM, DR.

RODRIGUEZ, CAN YOU TELL US A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT THE, UM, THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE? YES, SIR.

I'LL BE PUTTING TOGETHER AN ADVISORY COMMITTEE ONCE I'VE COMPLETED MY ENGAGEMENT WITH STUDENTS, MY INITIAL ENGAGEMENT WITH STUDENTS.

UM, I BEGAN THERE WITH STUDENTS BECAUSE OFTENTIMES WE START INITIATIVES, UH, TO SUPPORT SCHOOLS AND SUPPORT STUDENTS IN PARTICULAR.

UH, PROBABLY NEVER.

AND I ASKED THEM WHAT THEIR THOUGHTS ARE, WHAT THEIR EXPERIENCES ARE TO ME, IT WAS IMPORTANT TO BEGIN THERE.

SO ONCE I HAVE GATHERED DATA AND INFORMATION

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HERE'S WHAT WE ARE DOING.

HERE'S WHAT WE ARE FINDING.

HERE'S WHERE WE ARE EXPECTING TO DO WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS? AND WE CAN ENGAGE THEM WITH FEEDBACK AROUND THAT.

SO BASICALLY, SO THIS IS ADVISORY COMMITTEE WILL BE BASICALLY, THERE WILL BE, UH, THE COMMITTEE THAT, THAT THAT'S APPOINTED TO YOU.

EXACTLY.

IT WILL BE EXACTLY WHAT IT IS.

AND THEY'LL, THEY'LL, THEY'LL PROVIDE ME WITH FEEDBACK AROUND THIS WORK, UH, AS WELL, ALONG THE WAY.

AND ALSO, UM, TO MR. BROWN, UH, TO MR. BRADLEY, UH, WHY BEFORE, UH, CAN YOU, UH, HELP ME UNDERSTAND WHAT WILL BE THE DRIVING FORCE IN THE AFTERSCHOOL TUTORING PROGRAMS? GO AHEAD.

I THINK I UNDERSTAND YOUR QUESTION THAT THE DRIVING FORCE IS TO, TO REALLY BE, UM, TO, FOR THIS, TO BE OUR FIRST EFFORT TOWARD ADDRESSING, UH, LEARNING LOSS.

YOU KNOW, WE HAVE A LOT OF DATA THAT SUGGESTS THAT OUR STUDENTS ARE NOT AS A GENERAL MATTER OF WANTING TO BE A GRADE LEVEL, PROFICIENT PARTICULAR IN THE AREAS OF MATH AND ELA.

BY THE END OF THE YEAR, IT WAS REALLY IMPORTANT FOR US AS SENIOR STAFF AND, UH, THROUGHOUT THE INSTRUCTIONAL SERVICES DIVISION TO MAKE SURE THAT WE WENT OUT AND WAITING, UH, TO IMPLEMENT, UH, SOME PLANS.

AND SO, BECAUSE OF THE INFUSION OF SR TWO FUNDS, WE AT LEAST HAD MONIES THAT WOULD ALLOW US TO BEGIN TO IMPLEMENT A PROCESS.

UH, SO THAT, THAT WOULD CARRY US THROUGH THE END OF THE YEAR.

SO THAT WAS REALLY THE IMPETUS FOR THIS EFFORT.

AND ALSO, UH, HOW DO WE GO ABOUT LETTING THE COMMUNITY MEMBERS KNOW AND PARENTS KNOW THAT WE'RE ACTUALLY OFFERING AFTERSCHOOL FREE TUTOR, FREE TUTORING AND RIDES? YES.

FOR SOMEBODY ELSE TO ASK QUESTIONS MEAN YOU'VE ALREADY ASKED THE RAIN NIGHT.

NO, THAT'S, THAT'S THAT'S, THAT WOULD BE MY THIRD ONE.

I'M REALLY GLAD TOO, THAT CAMPBELL OUR EASTER ASKING THE QUESTION ABOUT THEM CHAIR, ARE YOU SERIOUS? LIKE, THIS IS MY SECOND, MY THIRD QUESTION THAT I'M ASKING RIGHT NOW, THE FIRST ONE WAS TO DR.

RODRIGUEZ AND THE SECOND ONE'S TO DR.

BRADLEY.

AND THIS IS, AND THIS WILL BE A THIRD ONE ON THE SAME TOPIC, LIMITED TO TWO QUESTIONS THERE.

AND I THINK DEFINITELY THINNER THAN THE OTHER BOARD MEMBERS THAT HAVEN'T SPOKEN.

AND WHERE WE ENDED UP? UM, SO, SO I THINK YOU'RE, YOU'RE, YOU'RE GETTING AT, WHERE DO WE WANT TO ULTIMATE RESULTS? WE ULTIMATELY WANT TO COME OUT, UM, EQUITY AND INCLUSION TASKFORCE.

WHAT WOULD BE NICE IF YOU WERE SAYING THAT YOU WOULD SAY, WHEN YOU CALL ON ME FILMING AND IT'S ASKING QUESTIONS THAT WE'LL MOVE ON WITH THE PROCESSES, MR. , BUT EVALUATE VALUE, BUT AFTER SO SAME SOCIALS WOULD DO THAT.

AND SO SCHOOLS WILL DO 10.

SO GREAT QUESTION.

AND THE REASON THAT WE, UH, UH, WE DECIDED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE HAD A PROGRESS MONITORING TOOL IS MOSTLY BECAUSE WE WERE USING FEDERAL DOLLARS, RIGHT? SO WE DIDN'T WANT TO SPEND FEDERAL DOLLARS AND LIVING IN A PROGRAM AND NOT BE ABLE TO SAY, THIS IS WHAT THE RESULT OF THE PROGRAM WAS.

AND SO WHAT WE'VE DONE IS WE'VE WORKED WITH THE INSTRUCTIONAL SERVICES DIVISION AND ALSO OUR PRINCIPALS TO GET A SENSE OF WHAT ARE SOME OF THE INTERVENTIONS THAT THEY WANT TO BE.

SO WE'LL BE USING PAT SOMEONE WE'LL BE USING A VARIETY OF OTHER INTERVENTIONS SPECIFIC TO MATH AND ELA.

THOSE ARE SEOUL SPECIFIC, BUT WE GAVE THEM A FRAMEWORK THAT THEY COULD ACTUALLY SELECT A AND B.

AND WHAT WE'RE GOING TO BE DOING IS HOLDING THEM ACCOUNTABLE FOR REACHING WHATEVER DESIGNATED TARGETS THAT THEY IDENTIFY.

SO WHAT WE DO KNOW IS THAT WE KNOW EVERY SINGLE STUDENT THAT'S PARTICIPATING, WE KNOW WHY THEY ARE PARTICIPATING.

WE KNOW WHAT DATA SOURCES THAT WE UTILIZE TO DETERMINE WHY IT WAS IMPORTANT FOR THEM TO BE THERE.

AND THEN WE'RE GOING TO BE USING THE SCHOOLS HAVE, HAVE IDENTIFIED OF THE RESOURCE THAT THEY FEEL, IT FEELS MOST APPROPRIATE TO BE ABLE TO DETERMINE HOW STUDENTS HAVE DONE.

SO WE'LL HAVE THAT DATA AT OUR DISPOSAL BY THE END OF THE NINE OR 10 WEEK PERIOD, UH, UM, UH, INCLUSION, EQUITY AND INCLUSION.

UH, DR.

RODRIGUEZ SAID, YOU TRIED TO DEVELOP A COMMON LANGUAGE.

MY QUESTION IS, IS THERE A DESTINATION THAT YOU HAVE IN MIND OR IS IT THEY'RE SELF-DIRECTING IN TERMS OF THIS MEETING

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WAS THAT, THAT'S THE QUESTION? YEAH.

SO, SO, SO YES, UH, MR. CAMPBELL, AND, AND SOME OF THAT INVOLVES MAKING SURE WE HAVE A COMMON LANGUAGE TO HAVE, UH, THE SAME DISCUSSION.

SO WHEN WE SAY EQUITY, AND WHEN WE SAY INCLUSION, WE ARE ALL MEANING THE SAME THING AROUND EQUITY AND INCLUSION.

ADDITIONALLY, WHAT ARE THE TYPES OF THINGS THAT SHOULD COME AS A RESULT OF THIS? RIGHT.

WE SHOULD SEE AN INCREASE IN, UH, FOR EXAMPLE, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDENTS, HISPANIC STUDENTS HAVING OPPORTUNITY AND ACCESS AT HIGHER LEVEL COURSEWORK ALONG THE WAY WE SHOULD SEE, UH, UH, MAKING SURE THAT PART OF OUR INDIVIDUAL TRAINING AROUND EQUITY AND INCLUSION, AS WELL AS THINGS LIKE, UH, WHEN WE SAY THAT, FOR EXAMPLE, IMPLICIT BIAS THAT WE ALL UNDERSTAND AND KNOW WHAT WE MEAN BY IMPLICIT BIAS.

SO, SO KIND OF LANGUAGE, I THINK IS IMPORTANT AS WE BEGIN THIS WORK, BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE WE'LL, WE'LL APPROACH IT FROM DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES, FROM DIFFERENT EXPERIENCES.

AND SO I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO SET THAT, UH, AS WE MOVE ALONG, I'M LISTENING THAT, DRIVING TO THAT BAGGAGE, CAUSE YOU KNOW, LOTS OF FOOLS TO FUSE EQUITY WITH, BUT FAIRNESS YEAH.

EQUAL ACCESS THAT'S RIGHT.

OFTENTIMES I'VE NOTICED IN OUR LANGUAGE, WE'VE USED THE WORD OPPORTUNITY, OPPORTUNITY.

THAT IS NOT TRUE THROUGH WHO EQUITY.

THAT'S TRUE.

AND I THINK WE'LL GET TO BASE CONFUSED THE OFFER THEM.

I'D LIKE TO MAKE SURE THAT I WILL HAVE LANGUAGE COMES OUT OF THIS BECAUSE IT DOES HAVE AN IMPACT ON WHERE YOU CAN GO TO FACILITATE WHAT IS EQUITY.

AND YEAH, I AGREE WITH YOU.

AND THAT'S WHY WE'RE WHERE WE WERE BEGINNING WITH THE PROCESS OF SETTING A COMMON LANGUAGE IN TERMS OF THE TRAINING COMPONENT.

THAT'S FINE.

I'LL MAKE SURE THE FOLKS WHO ARE ON THE COMMITTEE, THEY'RE NOT AS IN TUNE AS EDUCATORS THREADS WHERE WE'RE GOING, BUT WHEN WE GO ON THE BOAT.

TO THE CALL AND IT BODES WELL FOR US.

AND WHEN WE BUILD THAT COMMITTEE, I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT THAT, THAT WE HAVE THAT TRAINING THERE TOO.

SO WE'RE ALL LOOKING AT IT WITH WHAT THEY'RE SAYING INGRID THOUGH, RIGHT? I THINK YOU, UM, I'M SORRY, ZOOM'S A LITTLE BIT OF AN ADAPTATION FOR ME.

SO I'M, YOU, MIGHT'VE ALREADY SAID THIS THE 1500 STUDENTS, DOES THAT INCLUDE VIRTUAL AND FACE-TO-FACE OR IS THAT JUST FACE-TO-FACE THAT'S JUST FACE TO FACE, WHICH LEADS ME TO MY NEXT QUESTION.

ARE THERE ANY OPPORTUNITIES FOR THOSE WHO ARE IN VIRTUAL WHO MAY ACTUALLY NEED IT THE MOST? WELL, THE SCHOOLS CAN CERTAINLY STEAL, PROVIDE VIRTUAL, UM, TUTORING FOR OUR STUDENTS, BUT THE PURPOSE OF THE SR TWO THIGHS ARE TO GET STUDENTS BACK IN THE BUILDING.

SO IN THEORY, WE WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO APPLY THE FUNDING THAT WE'RE USING TO, UM, TO SUPPORT THIS PROGRAM FOR VIRTUAL STUDENTS.

SO THE EXPECTATION IS THAT, SO THE EXPECTATION IS THAT STUDENTS WHO WILL BE RECEIVING THE BENEFIT OF THE SCHOOL 2.0, AND THAT THEY COULD GET COMING INTO THE BUILDING AND PARTICIPATING FACE-TO-FACE.

I JUST WONDER, YOU KNOW, WITH SOME PEOPLE THAT HAVE A LOT OF HESITANT AND SEE IF THAT MIGHT NOT BE A GOOD WAY TO INTRODUCE THEM BACK INTO THE SCHOOL ENVIRONMENT, BUT IF THEY'RE VIRTUAL, THEY CAN STILL COME IN AFTER SCHOOL WHERE IT'S SMALL OR PERHAPS MORE SOCIALLY, YOU KNOW, A SMALLER GROUP.

UM, IF THAT MIGHT NOT BE A WAY WE COULD STILL OFFER IN THE BUILDING EXPERIENCES TO THOSE WHO ARE NOT YET COMFORTABLE, UH, BEING BACK FULLY FACE-TO-FACE.

AND DEFINITELY THOSE ARE THE STUDENTS WHO I THINK NEED THE MOST HELP.

WELL, THERE'LL BE WE'RE PLANNING.

AND WE MOST CERTAINLY THOUGHT THAT THAT WOULD BE AN ANCILLARY BENEFIT.

UM, SO WE'RE HOPING OBVIOUSLY THAT THAT WILL BRING MORE PARENTS AND FAMILIES INTO THE, INTO THE QUESTION A LITTLE BIT EARLIER ABOUT TRANSPORTATION THAT HAS BEEN A VITAL PART, ROBERT ODDING AND HIS TEAM HAVE DONE A TREMENDOUS JOB IN BEING RESPONSIVE TO WHAT PRINCIPALS SAID, WHERE IT WAS BE NECESSARY FOR THIS TO ACTUALLY WORK.

THEY SAID THAT IF WE DON'T PROVIDE TRANSPORTATION, THE LIKELIHOOD THAT THEY WILL HAVE A SUBSTANTIAL NUMBER OF STUDENTS TO PARTICIPATE, UH, WOULD BE MINIMAL.

AND SO WE HAD A CONVERSATION WITH TRANSPORTATION.

HE HAS BEEN TAXING LOAD THEM, BUT SO FAR THEY HAVE RESPONDED

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AND SO 1500 IS WHERE WE ARE AFTER WEEK ONE.

WE EXPECT THAT NUMBER TO INCREASE OVER THE NEXT FEW WEEKS OR SO THEN MS. ONE OF THE QUESTIONS THAT YOU AND I TALKED AND TALKED ABOUT, OR ONE OF THE THINGS WE TALK ABOUT IS, IS CROSS-FUNCTIONAL TEAM AND CROSS FUNCTIONAL TEAMWORK AND, AND PUTTING THIS TOGETHER.

THIS IS AN EXAMPLE OF WHERE A CROSS-FUNCTIONAL TEAM WAS REALLY ESSENTIAL BECAUSE, UH, MR. AWNING'S TEAM, AS WELL AS MS CROSBY'S TEAM AND FINANCE DEPARTMENT COULD MAKE SURE THAT WE HAD WHAT WE NEEDED, UH, TO MAKE IT WORK WE'RE AT THE TABLE.

AND IT'S AN EXCELLENT EXAMPLE OF HOW THAT WORKS AND WE'LL PUT THE GOOD SOLUTION, WE TO BUY THEM TO SPEAK THAT IT'S NOT SPOKEN.

ALL RIGHT, MR. SMITH, UH, AS I WAS SAYING, UM, HOW, HOW DO WE LET THE COMMUNITY KNOW ABOUT THE AFTERSCHOOL TUTORING PROGRAMS? SO GO AHEAD.

SO WE ASK PRINCIPALS TO MAKE SURE THAT FROM THE SCHOOLS THAT THEY WERE COMMUNICATING TO THEIR PARENTS AND FAMILIES, THAT THIS WAS SOMETHING THAT WOULD BE OFFERED.

SO IT HAS THAT COME FROM THE DISTRICT OFFICE, IT HAS STOPPED DIRECTLY FROM SCHOOL.

AND THE REASON WHY I'M ASKING IS BECAUSE I I'VE, I'VE BEEN TELLING PEOPLE ABOUT IT BECAUSE I'VE GOTTEN EXCITED ABOUT IT.

AND, UM, A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE NOT, ARE NOT FAMILIAR.

AND THEN THEY, SOME PEOPLE SAID THAT THEY DON'T KNOW ABOUT IT.

SO THAT'S WHY I'M, I'M WONDERING, UM, I WOULD, DO WE HAVE SOME TYPE OF YEAR OF UNIFORM? UM, LIKE HOW HOW'D THAT RIVER? YOU GUYS JUST SEND OUT THE, UH, THE MESSAGE ABOUT A SCHOOL, A SCHOOL ENDING TOMORROW.

I WAS WONDERING, COULD WE POSSIBLY DO THE SAME THING ABOUT IT AND PEOPLE IN THE DESERT THAT THERE'S AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAMS AVAILABLE TO STUDENTS THAT THE SAME WAY WE HAVE THE, UH, THE, THE, THE PHONE CALLS TO THE PARENTS, WE CAN, WE CAN CERTAINLY DO THAT.

UH, AND, AND I CAN DO, UH, UH, ROLL CALL, UH, COMMUNICATION THAT ASKED THEM TO TOUCH BASE WITH THEIR SCHOOL AND THEIR SCHOOL SITE IN ORDER TO, TO ARRANGE THAT.

UM, THAT, THANK YOU.

AND ALSO, UM, ARE WE OPENING ARE OPENING THIS UP TO AS WELL TO RETIREES AND TEACHER ASSISTANTS, AS WELL AS OTHER OCCUPATIONS TO DO THE AFTERSCHOOL PROGRAM AS WELL? WELL, RIGHT NOW WE HAVE ENOUGH CERTIFIED AND CLASSIFIED STAFF TO ACTUALLY FULFILL THE INSTRUCTIONAL EXPECTATIONS OF THE PROGRAM.

AND IN FACT, WE HAVE, WE HAVE MORE THAN WE ACTUALLY NEED.

UH, AND SO RIGHT NOW, AS A GENERAL MATTER, WE, WE, WE HAVE GIVEN DIRECTION TO PRINCIPALS TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY ARE IDENTIFIED TEACHERS WITH PROVEN RESULTS WHO ARE, UH, DOING THE WORK IN THEIR BUILDINGS CURRENTLY, BUT WE DON'T HAVE ANY VACANCIES AT ANY SCHOOL RIGHT NOW TO, TO, TO, UM, TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS PROGRAM.

SO I KNOW THAT THERE, THERE, THERE IS AN IMMEDIATE NEED TO DO SOMETHING.

KIDS WERE AND TO IDENTIFY THOSE KIDS WHO NEEDED TO BE, WHO ABSOLUTELY NEEDED TO BE.

UH, ALSO I HAVE ANOTHER QUESTION.

I'M NOT SURE HOW YOU HAVE YOU OUT.

WOULD YOU LIKE FOR ME TO PROCEED? WOULD ANYBODY ELSE LIKE TO ASK ANY QUESTIONS BEFORE WE PROCEED? I MADE MR. MALKIN, I WENT TO ROOF POINT, OUR WHOLE LIVING THE GNOME IN TERMS OF THAT AFTERSCHOOL PROGRAM AND COMMUNICATION, JUST AS A SAM BACKDROP, I SEE A COUPLE OF THINGS YOU COULD THEN BRING IN, UH, AS THE OUTING AND THE SCRUB BEING ACTIVELY INVOLVED IN THAT ENGAGEMENT, BUT IN GETTING NONE OF THE STUDENTS MIGHT REQUIRE A LITTLE BIT MORE OUT OF A BOX.

AND WHEN YOU LOOK AT THOSE NUMBERS, YOU'RE GOING TO FIND THE STAFF ENGAGE WITH AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAMS. AND THESE ARE MOST LIKELY SET ALREADY FOR HOW, HOW DO YOU GET THEM ENGAGED AT ANYTIME IS THROUGH COMMUNITY OF FOLKS, WHICH IS NOT, UH, A WRONG STATEMENT THAT WE HAVE IN AN AVERAGE SCHOOL PROGRAM.

MAYBE THE, THE MINISTERS OR COMMUNITY LEADERS EXTENDING IT.

AND EVEN SOME OF THEM ASSISTING AT THE AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAM THAT KIND OF, YOU KNOW, CONNECTIVITY WOULD ENGAGE MORE OF THOSE CHILDREN THAT YOU LEAVE AFTER PROGRAMS. YEAH, I AGREE.

ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE WE DIDN'T DO IS WE DIDN'T HELP PRINCIPALS AND JUST TAKE A NET, DROP IT IN THE WATER AND SEE WHAT COMES UP.

WELL, WE REALLY ASKED THEM TO DO, WAS TAKE DATA FROM MULTIPLE SOURCES TO SEE WHERE

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AND, AND THE GOOD THING IS THAT WHAT WE'VE SEEN IS THAT AS A RESULT, WE'VE SEEN MORE KIDS RETURN FROM VIRTUAL TO FACE TO FACE, PARTICULARLY, AND WE'LL BRANCH MIDDLE AND REAL BRANCH SCALE.

AND WE THINK THAT, THAT THE, THE MOTIVATION FOR THAT HAS BEEN ACCESSED TO THE AFTERSCHOOL PROGRAM.

SO WE'VE IDENTIFIED SPECIFIC KIDS.

I STILL WANTED THAT.

I ASKED YOU THE PRINCIPALS TO DO IT IS WHAT WE'VE BEEN ASKING THE PRINCIPALS TO DO FOR THE LAST 50 YEARS.

AND GENERALLY THEY'RE GOING TO DO IT THE SAME WAY WE DO IT AT THE DISTRICT.

I'LL SET UP THAT ROLE, WE'LL CALL AND MAKE SURE EVERYBODY GOT A NOTICE AND GIVE THE KIDS A SHEET OF PAPER TO TAKE HOME AND STUFFING IT IN THEIR BAG WHEN THE TRASH CAN GET THERE.

THAT'S THE REALITY NOTICE THAT JEWISH GUYS, THE SAM CHILDREN THAT YOU NEED THAT.

SO, I MEAN, WE HAVE NO MANDATE WAS CHANGING THE WAY WE DO BASED ON THAT.

AND THAT MAN, RIGHT.

I WOULD IMAGINE A PROGRAM LIKE THIS, WHERE YOU'VE GOT TARGETED STUDENTS.

THERE SHOULD HAVE BEEN PERSONAL CONTACTS MADE WITH ALL OF THOSE PARENTS THAT KNOW THOSE PARENTS, THE BEST THE TEACHER.

SOMETIMES YOU CALL HIM THE PRINCIPAL.

WE NEED THAT REAL PUSH THAT I WOULD GUESS I WOULD HOPE THAT THOSE INVITATIONS WERE MADE PERSONALLY TO ENSURE THAT THOSE STUDENTS WERE THERE.

IT'S INTERESTING THAT YOU SAY THAT BECAUSE THAT'S ACTUALLY THE GUIDANCE THAT WE GAVE TO OUR SCHOOL LEADERS, UH, TO DO RIGHT.

THAT, THAT PERSONAL TEST, BECAUSE WE, WHAT WE DID NOT WANT A SIGNAL WAS THAT THIS WAS TUTORING AS USUAL, RIGHT? BECAUSE IT WOULD NOT HAVE THE KIND OF URGENCY.

HE DIDN'T THINK THAT IT WOULD HAVE THE KIND OF RESPONSE WE FELT LIKE.

IN FACT, AS I'M, AS I'M HAVING THIS CONVERSATION WITH YOU, IT REMINDS ME OF DR.

CHAVONNE BROWN AT LADIES OUT OF THE MIDDLE, WHO PERSONALLY MADE EVERY PHONE CALL TO THE STUDENTS PARTICIPATING IN OUR PROGRAM.

AND SO MY SENSE IS THAT THAT HAS BEEN FAIRLY CONSISTENT PRACTICE ACROSS ALL SCHOOLS.

I CAN'T SAY UNEQUIVOCALLY THAT EVERY SCHOOL DID THAT, BUT THAT CERTAINLY THE GUIDANCE THAT WAS GETTING THERE.

MR. SMITH, UM, YOU KNOW, LISTENING TO THE QUESTION THAT MR. OBINA, I MEAN, MR. ROBOT AND JUST ASKED, UH, AND, UH, AND, AND FROM LISTENING TO DR.

BRADLEY, YOU KNOW, IT MAKES ME QUESTION WHEN WE SAID THAT THIS IS A FREE AFTERSCHOOL TUTORING PROGRAM, BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, FOR INSTANCE, MY CHILD, I MAY SEE A WITNESS OR MY CHILD HOME, AND WE'RE WORKING AND HELPING MY CHILD THROUGH THEIR WORK.

BUT THE TEST SCORES MAY NOT REFLECT THAT.

AND I MAY KNOW MY CHILD NEEDS, NEEDS TUTORING, UH, OR NEEDS EXTRA HELP.

SO AT, AT WHAT, AT WHAT POINT DO I HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO SEND MY CHILD TO, UH, TO, TO THIS, TO THIS FREE TUTORING PROGRAM, THE ONLY THING THAT THEY NEED TO DO IS CONTACT THEIR SCHOOL, UH, LET THEM KNOW THAT THAT'S SOMETHING THAT THEY'RE IN, UH, AND BE WILLING TO, UH, UH, PARTICIPATE.

SO IT'S NOT EXCLUSIVE BY ANY MEANS.

RIGHT, RIGHT, RIGHT.

BUT DO YOU SEE WHAT I'M DOING WHEN I'M GOING OUT WITH THAT? UM, DR.

BRADLEY, BECAUSE I UNDERSTAND.

AND ACTUALLY, I, I DID, I DIDN'T HAVE A PARENT WHO DID TELL ME THAT DR.

BROWN WAS FROM ALEMANY SCHOOL, THE PRINCIPAL THAT SHE DID CALL, CALL HER, HOWEVER, TO GET HER CHILD BACK INTO THAT PROGRAM.

AND SHE DID IT, SHE DID SAY SHE DEFINITELY APPRECIATED DR.

BROWN GIVING HER A CALL BECAUSE SHE HADN'T HAD, SO SHE, SHE FELT THAT SHE HADN'T HAD THAT LEVEL OF PARTICIPATION FROM THE PRINCIPAL OF THAT SCHOOL IN, IN A WHILE.

SO I MUST, AT THE SAME TIME GIVE HER HER KUDOS BECAUSE THE PRE-OP, I DIDN'T HAVE A PARENT WHO DID TELL ME THAT, BUT, BUT, BUT YOU SEE IN THE QUESTIONING AND THE TALKING ON MY LOGIC IS WHAT I'M SAYING.

IS THAT THE WAY HOW MS. , THEY'RE JUST CALLING CERTAIN PARENTS AND CERTAINLY TO GET CERTAIN KIDS IN THE PROGRAM, THEY MAY STILL BE A NEED.

AND I DON'T WANT US TO SEND A MIXED SIGNAL THAT WE'RE TAKING STUDENTS IN PROGRAMS, IF WE'RE NOT.

SO THAT, THAT, THAT'S WHY, THAT'S WHY I SAID IT WAS ROBOTS.

IT WAS, SHE WON.

I WANT TO GIVE A MORE CLEAR UNDERSTANDING.

THEIR PARENTS STILL COULD HAVE THE RIGHT TO SEND THEIR KIDS TO GET FREE TUTORING.

SO THAT'S WHY I ASKED YOU THAT QUESTION TO GET, TO GIVE MORE, MORE, MORE CLARIFICATION IN CASE SOME PARENTS ARE LISTENING.

AND THEN THIS IS SOMETHING THAT THEY WANT FOR THEIR KIDS.

FAIR ENOUGH TO DR.

RODRIGUEZ SPOILER, BUT WE'LL DO AS WELL, UH, WORK WITH OUR PRINCIPALS TO GIVE THEM SOME MORE GUIDANCE, TO MAKE SURE THAT WE CAST

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A WIDE NET.

SO ULTIMATELY WE CAN SERVE MORE CHILDREN.

THE APPROVAL OF THE, UM, FEVERED HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC FACE TO REFERENDUM, MS. DANDRIDGE? UH, THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

THAT'S IT FOR MY QUESTIONS AND DR.

RODRIGUEZ .

SO WE'RE NOW DOWN TO THE BOARD BUSINESS ACTION AND, UH, I KNOW, UH, MR. ROTTING SENT OUT PROPOSED, UH, MOTIONS AHEAD OF TIME.

SO DO WE HAVE A MOTION FOR

[Approval BHS Athletic Phase 2 Referendum]

I KNOW THAT THE BOARD OF EDUCATION FILE PROVIDES A SUPERINTENDENT AND ENTER INTO AMENDMENT NUMBER 11 WITH THOMPSON CHARTER CONSTRUCTION, AND THE AMOUNT THAT I'M $727,588 FOR AFTER YOU'VE HEARD HIGH SCHOOL.

MR. MR. GOODRICH BAND, THE MOTION MR. GUYER, SECOND, THE MOTION.

UM, MR. , UM, I THOUGHT I WAS GOING TO GIVE KIND OF A BRIEF HISTORY OF HOW WE GOT HERE, BUT IF THEY'RE A QUICK REMINDER THAT, UM, ALL OF THESE MOTIONS THAT ARE AMENDMENTS THAT ARE COMING TONIGHT ARE MADE ARE BASED ON, UH, THE CONVERSATION WE HAD AT THE LAST BOARD MEETING MAY 2ND, WHERE THE BOARD APPROVED THE USE OF THE REFERENDUM CONTINGENCY FUNDS.

THIS IS ALSO THE SAME THING THAT MR. BARBER SPOKE ABOUT LAST NIGHT, UH, IN REFERENCE TO THE CLOCK BEING SUPPORTIVE OF THAT.

SO ALL THE AMENDMENTS THAT YOU'RE GOING TO RECEIVE TONIGHT, WE'RE ALL AS PART OF THAT PACKAGE AND THAT ALL THE AMENDMENTS THAT YOU'VE SEEN TONIGHT ACTUALLY ARE UNDER THE BUDGET OR UNDER THE AMOUNT THAT WE SHOWED IN THAT PACKAGE.

THAT TIME BUFORD HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETICS IS THE ONE WHERE THIS IS A PORTION OF THIS PROJECT.

IT DOES NOT INCLUDE THE WEIGHT ROOM AND WRESTLING ROOM THAT WILL COME LATER.

UM, WE ARE STILL WORKING ON, UM, SOME ISSUES THERE WITH THE SIZE IS ACTUALLY GOING TO REQUEST TO ENLARGE THAT, UM, FROM BUFORD HIGH AND OTHER HIGH SCHOOLS.

SO WE'RE WORKING TO ACCOMMODATE THAT.

AND WE DO BELIEVE WE'RE GOING TO BE ABLE TO BRING THAT IN AT THE SAME COST.

BUT AS OF RIGHT NOW, WE'RE NOT READY TO BRING THAT TO YOU YET, BUT WE DO WANT TO GO AHEAD WITH THE BLEACHERS AND THE RESTROOM IS DOWN AT THE PRACTICE FIELD.

AS THOSE PROJECTS CAN GET UNDERWAY, WE CAN GET THE BLEACHERS ORDERED FOR THE SUMMER.

SO THAT'S, WHAT'S INVOLVED IN THE BEAVER HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETICS, THE 727,588 ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS WE HAVE AND WHERE ARE THESE BLEACHERS? AND THE RESTROOMS ARE WHERE THEY'RE GOING AT WELL.

SO THE BLEACHERS OR REPLACEMENT BLEACHERS IN THE GYM AND THE RESTROOM IS DOWN AT THE FIELD HOUSE.

I MEAN, I'M SORRY.

MY, THE RESTROOMS ARE DOWN AT THE PRACTICE FIELD.

THEY'RE IN THAT LOWER FIELD, EVEN HIDING BEHIND THE BUILDING.

AND THE, THE, THE, UH, THE, THE BREACHES ARE GOING INSIDE THE GYMNASIUM.

THAT IS CORRECT.

I'M GOING TO MR. CORBYN, ARE YOU ON THE LINE? ARE YOU, IF YOU HAVE ANY INFORMATION SPECIFICALLY ABOUT THE BLEACHERS I AM ON THE LINE, UH, GOOD EVENING, UH, ROB CORBYN AND, UH, BOND REFERENDUM PROGRAM MANAGER WITH CVRE HEARING, UH, THE, THE INFORMATION THAT ROBERT JUST PROVIDED YOU IS ACCURATE, AND IT IS ASSOCIATED WITH THE BLEACHER REPLACEMENTS IN THE MAIN GYM.

UH, I DON'T KNOW WHAT OTHER SPECIFIC QUESTIONS YOU MAY HAVE MR. SMITH, BUT I'LL DO MY BEST TO ANSWER THEM.

WELL, BASICALLY MY QUESTION IS I'LL REPLACE THESE BLEACHERS SO I CAN ANSWER THAT.

UM, WE TYPICALLY, IN OUR 80%, UM, TRACKING AS A RECURRING COSTS ARE REPLACE BLEACHERS EVERY 25 YEARS.

SO JUST SAY THE FIRST TIME THAT WE REPLACED THEM IN THE HIGH SCHOOL, UH, BLUE SHOES.

WE'RE ACTUALLY AT ABOUT 30 YEARS, RIGHT AROUND 30 YEARS OF USING HIGH RATING.

THE BATHROOM WOULD BE 300 FEET FROM THE PRACTICE FIELD, CORRECT? UM, NO, SIR.

AND, AND, OH, AND ALSO, UH, WHEN I ASKED YOU ABOUT THE, YOU SAID THAT

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I DIDN'T GIVE IT DISTANCE.

IT'LL BE LOCATED DOWN IN THE PRACTICE FIELD.

IT WILL BE WELL WITHIN 300 FEET FROM THE FIELD.

THAT'S ACTUALLY NO SF REQUIREMENT THAT ANY FIELDS THAT ARE USED FOR SPORTS HAVE TO HAVE A RESTROOM WITHIN 300 FEET WALKING.

UM, OKAY.

NOW WE TALKED ABOUT THE FIRST TIME, RIGHT? THE FIRST TIME I THINK I, AND I THINK I MADE MENTION THAT I THOUGHT THAT THEY WERE, THEY WERE, THERE WAS A POD THAT WAS NOT, THAT WAS POSSIBLY 300 FEET FROM BUFORD HIGH SCHOOL PRACTICE FIELD, BUT MAYBE NOT.

THAT'S ALL THE QUESTIONS I HAVE.

THANK YOU, MR. .

TO ADDRESS MR. SMITH.

YOU'RE RIGHT.

WE CAN'T TALK ABOUT THAT EXACT THING IN THE OPERATIONS COMMITTEE.

AND WE CAME TO THE CONCLUSION THAT HAVING CHILDREN GO INTO THE SCHOOL BUILDING FROM THE PRACTICE FIELD OUT OF LINE OF SIGHT AND TEACHERS NOT KNOWING, NOT BEING ABLE TO FOLLOW THEM WAS PROBABLY NOT A GOOD IDEA.

SO, UM, THAT WAS A CONVERSATION WE HAD ROBIN, I HAVE A QUESTION THAT, CAUSE THAT'S INTERESTING THAT MR. SMITH ASKED US A QUESTION YOU'VE HEARD HIGH SCHOOL OPENED UP IN 2000, RIGHT? SO THESE ARE ALL TOGETHER, BETTER THAN ME.

UM, SO, SO IT'S A LITTLE EARLY FOR THE MAJOR REPLACEMENT.

IS THERE A SAFETY ISSUE IS IN A, YOU KNOW, THE NEW BLEACHERS NOW FULL DIFFERENT LAYER, GIVE MORE ROOM.

IT WAS JUST PART OF THE ASSESSMENT THAT WAS COMPLETED BY THE CONSULTANT THAT DID THE ATHLETIC PACKAGE.

IT WAS AS SMITH THAT DID THE ASSESSMENT OF ALL THE ATHLETICS FACILITIES.

AND THAT WAS JUST ONE OF THE ITEMS THAT THEY LISTED AS A RECOMMENDATION TO BE REPLACED IF YOU WERE, I MEAN, I IMAGINE 25 YEARS, I HAD 90 IN MY MIND AND YOU'RE RIGHT.

IT'S 2000.

IT'S JUST MAD.

AND I'M GLAD YOU SAID IT WAS FRINGE BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT I WAS THINKING BEFORE, HOW I WAS.

I REMEMBER BECAUSE MY BROTHER WAS THE FIRST WAS IN THE FIRST GRADUATING CLASS AT HIGH SCHOOL AND I WAS THE ACTUAL LAST CLASS TO ATTEND THE OLD FOR HIGH SCHOOL.

SO I SAID, SO THAT MIND, THAT QUESTION WAS POKING OUT AT ME.

UM, BUT ALSO I WAS WONDERING, COULD WE NOT GET OUT? WOULD IT NOT BE CHEAPER TO GET A COUPLE OF, UM, UH, OUR HOUSES, UH, RESTROOMS OUT THERE? IT NOT BE CHEAPER THAN ACTUALLY BUILDING BATHROOM FACILITIES.

PORTA-POTTIES IF WE DID PLAY SPORT BIKES OUT THERE, THAT WOULD BE CHEAP.

THEY DID.

WE, DID WE THINK ABOUT THAT? UH, NO, SIR.

IS VENICE NOT A PERMANENT STRUCTURE.

SO WE DO PUT, USE THOSE IN LOCATIONS WHERE WE DO NOT HAVE PLANS FOR A PERMANENT BUILDING, BUT HERE WHERE WE HAD THE FUNDS, IS THIS, THIS PART OF THE REFERENDUM PRODUCT FOR THE SCHOOL? YES.

SO AS PART OF, AS PART OF THE REFERENDUM, WHAT WAS THAT TO YOUR POINT, MR. SMITH AND OPERATIONS COMMITTEE? I THINK WE ALSO TALKED ABOUT, UM, THE EQUITY AMONGST THE DISTRICT, AND I'VE NEVER ASKED THE MR. HOUGHTON, OTHER PRACTICE FIELDS AT OTHER HIGH SCHOOLS HAVE RESTAURANTS.

AND AS I RECALL, YOUR ANSWER WAS YES.

AND ACTUALLY THE ONLY ONES THAT DON'T NO HIGH SCHOOL DOESN'T, THERE ARE SOME MIDDLE SCHOOLS, UH, RIVER RIDGE AND MINE, AND WE'RE WORKING TO GET RESTROOMS IN THOSE LOCATIONS AS WELL.

WELL, THANKS.

NO FURTHER QUESTIONS BUDDY IS OPEN.

IP AMENDMENTS REFERENDUM.

THE MOTION CARRIES 10 ZERO ONE DOCTOR WAS PASSED CAPE STAIN.

SO NOW WE'RE DOWN TO THE

[IT Amendments Referendum]

SO DO YOU WANT TO SPEAK THEM? YES, MA'AM.

THAT'S WHAT I WAS GOING TO SUGGEST.

AND WE DID BREAK THESE DOWN INTO SEPARATE AMENDMENTS, JUST MOTIONS JUST TO SIMPLIFY IT BECAUSE IT SEEMED TO BE TOO MUCH IN ONE FOR RECOGNIZE THESE ARE ALL FOR THE SAME THING.

THESE ARE ALL FOR IT.

INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS.

UM, AS WE'VE TALKED LAST TIME AND WE TALKED ABOUT, UM, APPROVING THE REFERENCE, MAYBE CONTINGENCY, UM,

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THESE WERE ALL, UH, BUDGETS THAT WERE ALLOWANCES EARLY IN THE PROJECT IF THE PROJECT MOVING.

SO AT THAT TIME THEY HAD NOT BEEN DESIGNED AND THEY WERE NOT.

OUR BID AND NUMBER WAS SUPPLIED TO THEM, UH, THREE UP THROUGH THE DISTRICT.

AND, UM, WHEN THE ACTUAL DESIGNS WERE COMPLETED AND THE PROJECTS WERE BID, THEY CAME IN AT A HIGHER AMOUNT.

AND SO THAT'S WHAT THESE AMENDMENTS FOR, FOR, OR FOR THE COMPLETION OF ALL THE IT NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURE.

SO I'LL ASK ANSWER ANY SPECIFIC QUESTIONS YOU MAY HAVE.

THERE BEING NONE.

I WOULD USE EMOTIONS HERE, MR. JUDGE.

PODS.

UM, I MADE THAT THE BOARD OF EDUCATION AUTHORIZED THE SUPERINTENDENT TO ENTER INTO AMENDMENT NUMBER EIGHT, CONTRACT CONSTRUCTION IN THE AMOUNT OF 1 MILLION, $100,000 FOR TECHNOLOGY INFRASTRUCTURE WORK AT WHALE BRANCH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AS SECOND.

MR. MIDDLETON MADE THE SECOND, ANY FURTHER, FURTHER QUESTIONS THERE BEING NONE.

BUT THE QUESTION IS CALLED MR. .

THE MOTION CARRIES 10 ZERO ONE DOCTOR WAS NAVIGATED STAYING AS FITBIT.

I MOVED THAT THE BOARD OF EDUCATION AUTHORIZED THE SUPERINTENDENT TO ENTER INTO AMENDMENT NUMBER NINE WITH CONTRACT CONSTRUCTION, TO THE AMOUNT OF $1 MILLION FOR TECHNOLOGY INFRASTRUCTURE WORK AT WHALE BRANCH MIDDLE SCHOOL.

SECOND.

THANK YOU, MR. MIDDLETON, ANY, ANY QUESTIONS THAT I HAVE IN FRONT OF ME, AMENDMENT NUMBER NINE SAYS IT'S 25,000 CHOICES.

ONE IS WITH CONTRACT CONSTRUCTION.

THE OTHER ONE WAS TURNER THOMPSON.

I ASKED THAT SAME QUESTION TO MR. RON AGAIN.

AND HE SAID THAT EVEN THOUGH THEY'RE THE SAME NUMBERS, DIFFERENT CONSTRUCTION.

SO THIS IS A MORMON CONTRACT CONSTRUCTION.

THE QUESTION IS CALLED.

I HAVE A QUESTION.

THE QUESTION HAS BEEN CALLED HER AND YOU DID NOT PUT YOUR HAND OUT.

I KEPT SAYING WE COULD EVEN UNDERSTAND WHAT SHE WAS SAYING.

I WAS ASKING WHAT, WHAT WAS HER QUESTION? UM, MS. RABBI'S QUESTION WAS THAT THERE ACTUALLY ARE TWO AMENDMENT NUMBER NINES.

ONE IS FOR CONTRACT CONSTRUCTION AND HAVEN'T HEARD THE SCORE THOMPSON TURNER CONSTRUCTION.

SO MS. ROMAN, I WAS JUST CLARIFYING WHICH ONE? YES.

THE MOTION CARRIES FIVE ZERO TWO.

A THIRD WAS ASKING YOU IF MR. SMITH ABSTAINED MS. VINEYARD.

I KNEW THAT THAT THE BOARD OF EDUCATION AUTHORIZED THE SUPERINTENDENT TO ENTER INTO AMENDMENT NUMBER 13 WITH MV CON AND THE AMOUNT OF 2,000,400, $3,172 FOR TECHNOLOGY INFRASTRUCTURE WORK AT LOCKTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, AGE AND MCCRACKEN, MIDDLE SCHOOL, HILTON, HEAD ISLAND, ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AND HILTON HEAD SCHOOL FOR THE CREATIVE ARTS.

THE MOTION CARRIES NINE ZERO TWO TWO ABSTENTIONS.

MR. GUYER HIT THE SECOND.

ANY QUESTIONS?

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DOCTOR'S ASKING MR. SMITH.

I MOVE THAT THE BOARD OF EDUCATION AUTHORIZED THE SUPERINTENDENT TO ENTER INTO THEM IN THE RING NINE WITH THOMPSON, TURNING IT UNDER CONSTRUCTION AND THE AMOUNT OF $125,532 FOR TECHNOLOGY INFRASTRUCTURE WORK AT RIGHT CHOICES GAVE MR. MEL CAMPBELL.

SECOND, MR. SMITH, WHAT DOES THE $1 MILLION TECHNOLOGY REPLACEMENT? UH, WHAT DOES THAT ENTAIL EMOTIONALLY? WE JUST RAN IT 125,000.

IS IT, IS IT, IS IT, IS IT NEW OR IS IT A REPLACEMENT? HOW OFTEN DOES THIS, DOES THIS HAPPEN? I MAY CALL HIM MR. CHLORINE.

FIRST ANSWER QUESTION.

UM, UH, AS FAR AS MANY OF THESE SCHOOLS, UH, YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT THE WELL BRANCHES, UH, TECHNOLOGY, THE INFRASTRUCTURES, YOU'RE TALKING FIBER, UH, THINGS OF THAT NATURE HAVEN'T BEEN REPLACED IN 10 PLUS YEARS.

A LOT OF THIS HAS TO DO WITH, WE ARE BUILDING MORE TECHNOLOGY ROOMS. UM, SO WE'RE GIVING MORE CAPACITY TO BUILDING, UH, AS YOU KNOW, AS TECHNOLOGY GROWS, THE NEED GROWS AND EVERY BUILDING.

UM, SO THEY'RE MORE SERVERS OR MORE SWITCHES, WHICH CAUSES MORE HEAT, WHICH MEANS MORE AIR CONDITIONING, WHICH MEANS WHEN YOU NEED MORE POWER, WHICH MEANS MORE AS TIED TO EMERGENCY SYSTEMS. SO ALL OF THAT IS PART OF THE TECHNOLOGY INFRASTRUCTURE AND ROBERT, IF YOU'D LIKE, I'LL GO AHEAD AND ADD JUST A LITTLE BIT MORE DETAIL FOR, UH, MR. SMITH'S, UH, INFORMATION AND THE OTHER BOARD MEMBERS AS WELL, UH, INSIDE OF THIS, UH, AMENDMENT FOUR, RIGHT CHOICES.

IT WOULD INCLUDE, UH, ITEMS THAT FALL UNDER TECHNOLOGY PACKAGE T1.

THAT'S THE LOW VOLTAGE CABLING.

WE HAVE A TECHNOLOGY PACKAGES, T3 AND T4, WHICH ARE ASSOCIATED WITH AUDIO ENHANCEMENT FEATURES, UH, T FIVE AND T SIX, WHICH ARE SECURITY RELATED FEATURES.

AND THEN TO PERFORM THAT WORK, YOU NEED TO HAVE THE MANAGEMENT AND OVERSIGHT THAT FALLS IN PLACE FROM GENERAL CONDITIONS.

UM, A LOT OF THIS WORK WILL HAVE SOME CEILING REPAIRS AND ALSO SUPPORTED BY ELECTRICAL SCOPE TO PERFORM, UH, UH, THESE, UH, TECHNOLOGY IMPROVEMENTS.

THOSE ARE THE HIGH POINTS FROM THE AMENDMENT.

I THINK, JUST LIKE TO CLARIFY WHAT MR. CORBIN JUST DESCRIBED, WHO RIGHT CHOICES, THAT'S THE ONE WE'RE VOTING ON NOW THAT'S $125,000.

THAT'S NOT A BILLION DOLLARS.

THAT IS CORRECT.

THE ONE THAT WE ARE CURRENTLY DISCUSSING, UH, THE AMENDMENT NUMBER NINE WITH THOMPSON TURNER IS FOR THE AMOUNT OF $125,532.

AND AS WE HAVE BRIEFED ON THE OTHER AMENDMENTS THIS EVENING, THAT FIGURE, UH, IS, UH, THE, UH, FIGURE THAT IS BELOW THE, UH, FIGURES THAT WE HAD SHARED WHEN WE HAD BROUGHT TO THE BOARD AT THE LAST MEETING AND RECEIVED APPROVAL FOR THE, NOT TO EXCEED BOTTOM LINE TOTAL OF $9,590,000.

SO THESE ITEMS ARE WITHIN THOSE, UH, BOARD-APPROVED ADDITIONAL FUNDS TO BE USED FROM CONTINGENCY.

BECAUSE THEY ARE GREATER THAN A, UM, GUARANTEED MAXIMUM PRICE THAT WE INITIALLY WERE PRESENTED.

DOES THAT CLARIFIED FOR YOU, MR. SMITH? UH, IT DOES CLARIFY, CLARIFY IT A LITTLE BIT WITH MY CHAIR.

I WAS JUST WONDERING WHY YOU, WHY WE WERE MOVING THESE MOTIONS SO, SO QUICKLY.

UM, SO, SO QUICKLY TO GET THEM PAST, I MEAN, I MEAN, THAT'S, THAT'S, TO ME, THAT'S, I THAT'S, THAT'S VALUABLE INFORMATION AND TO UNDERSTAND EXACTLY WHAT, WHAT, WHAT WE'RE VOTING ON.

I MEAN, THEY'RE AVAILABLE IN BORN DOCS AND, UM, THIS IS ALL PART OF THAT CONVERSATION.

WE HAD OPERATIONS COMMITTEE.

UM, THESE ARE ALL THE, AND I THINK IT'S A GOOD QUESTION THAT YOU BRING THIS UP BECAUSE I HAD TO ASK MR. AWNING SOMEWHERE ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS ABOUT THIS, AND THESE ARE JUST AMENDMENTS THAT IS REQUIRED BY THE BOARD TO AUTHORIZE

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SO THIS IS NO, THIS IS STILL UNDER THE UMBRELLA OF THE 9 MILLION CONTINGENCY FUND THAT WE APPROVED LAST WEEK.

AND WE HAVE ALL THE BRIEFING FOR, UM, IT'S JUST THAT NOW THIS IS KIND OF A PAPERWORK THAT HAS TO GO ALONG WITH IT BECAUSE THE GUARANTEED MAXIMUM PRICE IS BEING INCREASED.

MR. , THAT'D BE CLEAR THAT ALL OF THIS IS A PART OF WHATEVER, RANDOM, RANDOM BRO TECHNOLOGY.

YOU'RE TRYING TO MAKE IT CALL COMMONALITY AMONGST ALL OF THOSE THAT THEY DIDN'T CARE THE CAPACITY .

SO, YOU KNOW, THERE'S NOTHING NEW THAT'S HAPPENING THAT WE CAN, NOT EVERY EXECUTIVE IN THE REFERENDUM WAS THAT RIGHT.

BUT HOWEVER, YOU KNOW, I DID HEAR WHAT MRS. FRIGERATOR SAID, BUT, YOU KNOW, THE PUBLIC WAS NOT AN OPERATIONS COMMITTEE NOR WERE THE FULL BOARD.

SO I THINK THAT, YOU KNOW, IN MAKING THESE VOTES ARE STILL NEED, AND I THINK WE SHOULD STILL HAVE A CLEAR UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT WE'RE VOTING ON AT THIS TIME, AT THIS TIME WITH REGARDS TO RIVER I STILL NEEDED CLARIFICATION TO UNDERSTAND WHAT I'M VOTING ON.

THE QUESTION IS CALLED.

MOTION CARRIES 10 ZERO ONE.

DOCTOR WAS NEXT ABSTAIN.

AND LASTLY, I MOVED AT THE BOARD OF EDUCATION, AUTHORIZE THE SUPERINTENDENT TO ENTER INTO AMENDMENT NUMBER 10, THE THOMPSON TURNER CONSTRUCTION IN THE AMOUNT OF $1,974,733 FOR TECHNOLOGY INFRASTRUCTURE WORK AS YOU'VE HEARD HIGH SCHOOL.

I'M SORRY.

THANK YOU, MR. EARL CAMPBELL, MAY.

THE SECOND QUESTION IS APPROVED STAIN.

I BELIEVE THAT, UM, CONCLUDES THE EVENTS.

BOARD BUSINESS ACTION ITEM IS GRADUATION CEREMONY INITIALS THE REQUEST BY MR. WILLIAM SMITH.

OUR NEXT

[Graduation Ceremony]

GOOD AFTERNOON COLLEAGUES, ALL THE REASON WHY I'M BRINGING THIS, UH, THE GRADUATION CEREMONY UP, BECAUSE WHY SHOULDN'T ALL OF OUR HIGH SCHOOLS FOLLOW THE SAME GRADUATION.

CEREMONIES ARE PORTER TOOLS SUCH AS STUDENTS, DRESS CODE DECORATING CAPS, C UH, SITTING ARRANGEMENTS FOR OUR STUDENTS, ROSA FACULTY, ROSA SECURITY PERSONNEL, NUMBER OF GUESTS, UH, FLOWERS, NOISE, YOU KNOW, UM, I, I WONDER, UH, OR I ASKED, I ASKED THE QUESTION, SHOULD ALL GRADUATION PROGRAMS REFLECT THE SAME, THE SAME SCHOOL COMMUNITY VALUES OF, OF, OF THE OCCASION.

UM, YOU KNOW, UH, SOME BOARD MEMBERS MAY, MAY VARY, MAY, MAY, MAY, MAY, MAY, MAY SAY, WELL, THAT, THAT THAT'S, UH, YOU KNOW, THAT'S NOT SOMETHING THAT THEY HAVE LOOKED INTO, BUT, YOU KNOW, UM, IN MY FIRST YEAR I HAD A NUMBER OF PARENTS WHO CONTACTED ME AND SAY, HEY, LOOK, MR. SMITH.

UH, WE WERE TOLD

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THAT OUR KIDS COULDN'T DO CERTAIN THINGS.

AND WE WERE THINKING THAT THERE WAS JUST, THIS WAS A DISTRICT POLICY, NOT AN ACTUAL SCHOOL POLICY, YOU KNOW, AND I HAVE A KID IN TWO AND TWO WITH, AFTER GRADUATING FROM TWO DIFFERENT HIGH SCHOOLS THAT BOTH ARE SENIORS IN THE ONE HOUSEHOLD.

ONE CAN DO THINGS THAT ONE, ANOTHER KID CAN'T DO.

SO, YOU KNOW, UM, YOU KNOW, SO THE DISTRICT DID NOT HAVE ANY DISTRICT, ANY DISTRICT POLICIES ON THIS OR, OR ARE Y'ALL, Y'ALL JUST ALLOW EVERY SCHOOL TO DO WHAT THEY, WHAT THEY, WHAT THEY INTENDED TO DO ALL ON THEIR OWN.

SO, YOU KNOW THAT FOR ME AS A BOARD MEMBER, I, I, I DID NOT KNOW WHAT I WAS TRYING TO FIGURE OUT AND UNDER UNDERSTAND.

AND, UM, I, I DO, YOU KNOW, EXPRESS IT.

AND LIKE ONE PARENT SAID, YOU KNOW, WE'RE PAYING THESE PAYING $400, HOW MUCH EVER MONEY FOR THESE CAPS AND GALS ARE KIDS OWN THEM.

AND WE OWN THEM, AND THEY'RE NOT THE DISTRICTS WE'RE NOT RENTING THEM.

THEN WE SHOULD PRETTY MUCH KIND OF BE ABLE TO DO BECAUSE THE KIDS WANT TO, YOU KNOW, SO, SO THAT'S WHY I WANTED TO BRING IT TO THE BOARD TO HEAR OTHER BOARD MEMBERS OPINIONS AND SEE, YOU KNOW, MAYBE, YOU KNOW, BASICALLY ONE IS THE CLIMATE, THE CLIMATE, THE CLIMATE, AND THE GRADUATION GRADUATION CEREMONIES ARE SOMETHING THAT WE NEED TO, I FIGURE THAT WE NEED TO POSSIBLY MAYBE EVEN MAKE BOARD POLICIES ON TOO, SO THAT WE CAN BE MORE UNIFORMED OR THAT, OH, THAT'S THIS DISCUSSION NEEDS TO TAKE PLACE.

UM, I'M OPENING AND WAITING HERE.

I HEAR FEEDBACK FROM OTHER MEMBERS.

UM, MR. EARL CAMPBELL.

UM, YES, I, I CREDIT HER.

SHE LIVED UP TO THE PRINCIPAL TO MAKE THOSE DECISIONS.

THAT'S WHAT THEY'RE HERE FOR.

YOU CAN REMEMBER SOME YEARS AGO, UH, HE HAD A POLICY THAT EVERYBODY WOULD PASS STUDENTS, UM, YOU KNOW, QUARTER GRADUATION THROUGH YEARS, YOU WOULD SEE SOME STUFF THAT DON'T EVEN MAKE SENSE, YOU KNOW, THE WAY YOUR STUDENTS ACT.

AND THAT IS, THAT IS NOT RIGHT.

UM, I FIGURED IT SHOULD BE UNDER THE PRINCIPAL THAT I DON'T LET THE BULLETS FALL IN THERE.

THAT'S NOT HOW I WAS OUT.

SUPER NANDO'S.

THANK YOU, MS. KATHY.

I AGREE.

I THINK IT'S IN THE BOARD, ALL OF OUR HIGH SCHOOLS, THEY ALL HAVE THEIR OWN TRADITIONS, AND I THINK THAT, UM, IT'S NOT OUR PURVIEW TO DICTATE THOSE TRADITIONS.

UM, AND I WOULD SUGGEST, YOU KNOW, I KNOW THAT THE PRINCIPALS THAT I'VE SPOKEN TO TODAY WITH STUDENTS THAT HELPED PLAN THE GRADUATION CEREMONIES.

SO THAT'S WHERE I WOULD DIRECT THAT WORK COULD BE DONE.

UM, WE'RE COLLABORATING THE LAB SPECIFICALLY WITH THE, WITH THE PRINCIPAL.

I, I FEEL IT'S AN OVERREACH.

IT'S NOT A BOARD DECISION.

MS. FIDRYCH.

GLASS, MR. SMITH.

I REMEMBER, UH, TWO YEARS BACK OR WHATEVER IT WAS.

UM, IF THIS DID RAISE A LOT OF CONCERNS.

SO, SO I, I THINK IT'S GREAT THAT YOU'RE, YOU KNOW, BRINGING IT UP, ADVOCATING FOR YOUR, UM, CONSTITUENTS, UM, MIGHT BE FOLLOW ALONG THE SAME LINES OF, UH, WHAT HAS ALREADY BEEN STATED.

BUT I THINK WE'RE REALLY LUCKY BECAUSE WE DO HAVE TWO HIGH SCHOOL PRINCIPALS WITH US HERE, UH, DR.

RODRIGUEZ AND DR.

BRADLEY.

SO I REALLY LIKE TO HEAR FROM YOU BOTH AS TO WHAT YOUR THOUGHTS GO AND DR.

STRATOS WAS A HIGH SCHOOL PRINCIPAL, LOOK THIS, SO I'D BE VERY INTERESTED TO SEE WHAT THE HIGH SCHOOL OR HIGH SCHOOL PRINCIPALS WOULD SAY THAT GOOD OF A THING.

UH, FROM WHAT I'M HEARING A COMMENT TO THE BOARD, I WOULD SAY IT'S REALLY SPOT ON THAT, THOSE TRADITIONS AND THOSE THINGS THAT ARE, THAT HAPPEN WITHIN SCHOOLS, THE VOICE OF THE STUDENTS WITH THEIR PRINCIPAL AND THEIR COMMITTEE, UH, AND, AND THEY WORKED THROUGH THAT AND SOME ARE, UM, YOU KNOW, SOME HAVE, UH, A MORE TRADITIONAL APPROACH THAN OTHERS AND THAT'S OKAY.

CEREMONIES FOR OVER EIGHT YEARS AND COMMENCEMENT CEREMONY IN ITSELF AS WELL.

AND SO I THINK, YOU KNOW, THAT'S REALLY WHERE, WHERE, UM, UH, YOU KNOW, WHAT I THINK WE SHOULD BE BACK STRATEGY.

IT'S LIKE, YOU'D BE IN AGREEMENT WITH DR.

RODRIGUEZ, MR. SNOW, BUT I COULD SHARE, I CONDUCTED

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HE CELEBRATED, I WAS RATHER, UM, TRADITIONAL IN THE SENSE WHEN WE WOULD HAVE CROWDS OF OVER 4,000 PARTICIPANTS AND NEURAL TRUTH, OUR GRADUATIONS WERE RESOLVED A COMMITTEE OF INDIVIDUALS WHO WE COULD HAVE BOTHERED WITH THE STUDENTS, SELECTING THE MUSIC WOULD WORK IN TANDEM WITH OUR SENIOR CLASS.

I DON'T WANT TO SHARE THAT WE PUT IN PLACE THAT WE CELEBRATED COMMENCEMENT IN SELF AND RECOGNIZE AND CELEBRATING ALL OF THE CULTURES WITHIN OUR SCHOOL.

I WOULD SHARE.

AND I MAY HAVE BEEN ADDED A BOX A FEW TIMES, MAYBE MORE THAN ONCE, BUT IN THE LAWS AND RECOGNITION, UM, THE CELEBRATORY OF OUR STUDENTS CROSSING THE STAGE.

AND I WOULD ASK WITH DIGNITY, WE SPENT, AND EVERY PARENT THAT HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO HEAR THAT CHILD'S NAME, IF MY GREATEST RESPECT TO MY BOARD, IF IT WAS DESIGNATED FOR ME DIFFERENTLY FROM MY BOARD MEMBERS, I MAY HAVE BEEN A PUSHBACK FROM A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF PARENTS AS WELL, BECAUSE IT WAS A COMMENCEMENT IS A COLLECTIVE PRACTICE.

IF I MAY SHARE WITHOUT THE GRAVEL POLICE GRABBED THE MICROPHONE, JUST SAY, UH, DR.

STRAUSS WAS RIGHT.

WE HAD OVER 4,000 PEOPLE THAT WOULD ATTEND.

WE HAD TO RENT OUT THE SOUTH FLORIDA FAIRGROUNDS DOWN THERE TO DO THAT.

SO I'LL BE BRIEF.

I AGREE, A HUNDRED PERCENT WITH A NOVEL SHADOWS.

SO DR.

RODRIGUEZ, THE ONLY THING THAT I'D ADD IS THAT IT'S NOT JUST THAT EVERY SCHOOL IS DIFFERENT.

EVERY CLASS IS DIFFERENT.

I THINK THE EXPERIENCES THAT EVERY CLASS HAS HAD, UH, SHOULD BE HONORED OR RECOGNIZED DIFFERENTLY.

SO EVERY SCHOOL YEAR, YOU MIGHT HAVE A DIFFERENT WRINKLE TO LOOK CONVINCED EXPERIENCE BECAUSE WHAT THAT PARTICULAR CLASS AND DO WORK MIGHT REQUIRE, OR MIGHT, UH, UM, UH, JUSTIFY A DIFFERENT KIND OF A CELEBRATION IF YOU WILL.

AND SO I THINK THE EXTENT TO WHICH SCHOOLS ARE, UH, LEVERAGING THE VOICE AND PERSPECTIVE AND THE INSIGHT OF THEIR STUDENTS TO HELP PLAN THE CEREMONIES, IT'S THE RIGHT THING TO DO.

AND SO THAT KIND OF SCHOOL-BASED FLEXIBILITY, I THINK IS REALLY MR. NO DOUBT.

I AGREE WITH PROBLEM.

THIS SITUATION THAT I WAS RATIOS BLACK IS WE STILL HAVE OPEN SONG ALL THE TIME CLIMATE THAT HAS CULMINATED THE TODAY, GRADUATING CLASSES, SEVERAL ONES.

AND IF IT'S BAD, IF THERE IS WHICH BACK IN WHEN THE PRINCIPAL IS ALLOWING WAS DECIDED, THEN WE NEEDED TO KEEP A FOCUS ON THAT.

AND NOT AS A ANNUAL OR ANNUAL THING, BUT AS A LONG-TERM THING THERE, I AGREE WITH CULTURES IS WHAT WERE THEY DID AT GRADUATION? WHAT WE HAVE, WHAT WE'VE DONE TOGETHER FOR FOUR YEARS.

AND THE HIGHEST TOOL IS IMPORTANT THAT WILL DISPLAY THAT.

AND A PRINCIPAL WILL OFTEN BE A ONE-PAGE WITH THAT.

AND, AND COSTS ARE, WOULD GO 200 TO 300 MEMBERS OF THE SENIOR CLASS ON THEIR PARENTS.

AND, UH, BOTH THE FACULTY HAVE DEVELOPED AT THAT TIME, SOMETHING THAT DOES NOT COME TO THE BOARD AS A PUSHBACK, AND IF THAT'S NOT HAPPENING, THEN WE OUGHT TO BE CONCERNED ABOUT IT.

THAT'S THE ONLY, YOU KNOW, THING.

AND, AND, AND, AND, AND, AND THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT I WAS GOING TO SAY.

AND, YOU KNOW, UM, UH, YOU KNOW, EVEN TO GO BACK TO WHAT THE OTHER CAMPBELL SAID, YOU KNOW, ONE OF MY QUESTIONS ARE TOO, UH, IF WE MAKE POLICIES ON STUDENT CODE OF CONDUCT, UH, SUCH AS DISCIPLINE, THEN HOW WILL THIS NOT BE WITHIN OUR, WITHIN OUR PURVIEW, IF WE MAKE THE, UH, IF WE MAKE THE POLICY ON THE STUDENT STUDENT ON THE, ON THE, UH, STU STUDENT, A STUDENT OF COLOR, AND THE STUDENT, STUDENT, STUDENT, STUDENT CODE OF CONDUCT, UH, SHOULD WE, SHOULD WE NOT ALLOW DRESS CODES, STUDENTS DISCIPLINE, UH, TRANSPORTATION, PORTER TOOLS AND DRESS CODES? ARE WE NOT, ARE WE NOT BEING HYPOTHETICAL HYPOTHETIC HERE? I MEAN, ARE WE NOT REALLY MY QUESTION IS, ARE WE NOT REALLY LOOKING AT THIS

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WITH AN OPEN VISION? SO, YEAH.

W UH, YES, THE SUPERINTENDENT AND YES, THE, YES, THEY GIVE, UH, EVERY PRINCIPAL A LENS, BUT TO SOME DEGREE, WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO HAVE A UNIFIED DISTRICT POLICY ACROSS, ACROSS THE, ACROSS THE BROAD, BECAUSE I REMEMBER SOME WERE SAYING WHEN WE WAS HAVING THIS CONVERSATION AMONG BOARD MEMBERS, WHEN THEY, WHEN THIS, THIS, WHEN THAT SITUATION TOOK PLACE A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO THAT, WELL, YOU KNOW, WHEN SOME OF US WENT TO GRADUATION AND WE SAW SOME KIDS THAT WAS RIDING ON THEIR CAMPS AND HAD CAPITAL, AND WE HAD NICE NICETIES OF THE CAB VERSUS OTHER THAN WE SAID, WELL, MAYBE EVEN EVERYONE SHOULD BE ABLE TO DO IT, OR NO ONE SHOULD NOT BE ABLE TO DO IT TO BE MORE AND MORE UNIFORM.

AND LIKE, UH, AND I DO AGREE WITH MR. UH, I AGREE WITH DR.

DUKE WHEN HE SAID, ASHLEY, EVERY CLIENT WE WANT TO GET TECHNICAL.

EVERY CLASS DOES EVERY, EVERY, EVERY CLASS IS DIFFERENT.

NOT JUST EVERY, EVERY SCHOOL, EVERY CLASS GRADUATING CLASS IS DIFFERENT, BUT IF WE BEEN HYPOTHETICALLY, IF WE DO STUDENT CODE OF CONDUCT, ALL OF THIS FALL UNDER STUDENT CODE OF CONDUCT, AND WE SET THE POLICIES, SO ARE WE REALLY LOOKING INTO THIS? ARE WE JUST PUSHING, PUSHING THE BUCK UP THE ROAD? I'M MORE CONCERNED HERE, YOU KNOW, I MEAN, I'M NOT, I'M NOT, I'M NOT A CONVERSATION THAT I'M NOT REALLY, YOU KNOW, I THINK MS. FRIDGES FOR ASKING, YOU KNOW, UM, WHAT THE FORMAL PRINCIPLES THINKING, BUT AS THE HEAD OF, AS THE HEAD WHO SET THE CODE OF CONDUCT, THEN I, THEN I, I MEAN, I, I, WE DOING, WHEN I, YOU KNOW, AS MY MAMA SAID, IT WAS GOOD FOR THE GOOSE IS GOOD FOR THE GANDER.

ARE WE PICKING AND CHOOSING THEM? WE THOUGHT WE'D BE MAKING DECISIONS WHEN IT'S CONVENIENT, AS MUCH AS MY CONCERN HERE AND THIS, AND THIS IS ON THE BOARD, THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE SUPERINTENDENT AND HIS STAFF OR PRINCIPALS.

THIS HERE HAS TO DO WITH BOARD POLICIES AND BASICALLY THIS DRESS CODE, THE DRESS CODE AND THE CODE OF CONDUCT.

WOULD YOU LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION? UH, UH, SURE.

UM, SURE.

UH, YEAH, I COULD MAKE A MOTION.

I WOULD, IF I MADE A MOTION, IT WOULD, IT WOULD BE TO MAYBE HAVE AN AD HOC COMMITTEE TO, TO LOOK INTO THESE, THESE POLICIES, OUR GRADUATION CEREMONIES.

SO THAT WAS, UH, UM, UNCLEAR.

SO ARE YOU, DO YOU WANT US, DO YOU WANT TO MAKE A MOTION? YOU SAID IF I MAKE A MOTION, SO DOES THAT, WOULD YOU LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION? ARE YOU GOING TO MAKE THAT MOTION, UH, AS, AS, AS, AS IT, AS A CHAIR? UM, W W WHAT SHOULD YOU, WHAT ARE YOU SURE? WHAT ARE YOU SUGGESTING? WELL, YOU SEEM TO, YOU, I'VE HEARD, UM, A NUMBER OF OUR, UM, CALLING SPEAK AND NUMBER OF BOARD MEMBERS.

AND IT SEEMS MY ASSESSMENT IS THAT YOU SEEM TO HAVE A DIFFERENT INTERPRETATION OR A DIFFERENT OPINION ABOUT THIS MATTER THAN THE OTHER PEOPLE THAT ARE SPOKEN, INCLUDING THE THREE MEMBERS OF ADMINISTRATION WHO SPOKE.

SO IF YOU WANT TO SEE SOMETHING CHANGE, OR YOU WANT TO SEE SOMETHING, UH, REGARDING WHAT YOU THINK THAT I THINK YOU NEED WOULD NEED TO MAKE A MOTION AND THAT, UM, AND THE BOARD CAN VOTE IT UP OR DOWN.

WHY IS HE MR. MR. , MR. DAVIS .

I'M MAKING IT, BECAUSE I WAS NOT PREPARED TO MAKE A MOTION TODAY.

MADAM CHAIR, I MOVE ON TO THE NEXT TOPIC.

I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION THAT WE SEND THIS TO THE POLICIES, THE POLICIES COMMITTEE TO REVIEW THE GRADUATION CEREMONIES, UH, THE GRADUATION, THE GRADUATION CEREMONIES, DUE TO THE CODE STUDENT CODE OF CONDUCT AND POLICIES TO REVIEW MS. CHRISTIAN BACK QUARTERBACK.

AND SO YOU CAN KIND OF TELL ME WHAT YOU HAVE, AND I'M THINKING AS, AS I'M MAKING THAT AS I'M, AS

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THERE BEING NO SECOND THAT HAS GOT ENTERTAIN.

TO HAVE THIS, UM, ON THE, UH, TONIGHT'S AGENDA, BECAUSE WHEN I ATTENDED THE SOUTH CAROLINA SCHOOL BOARDS ASSOCIATION, THE ANNUAL CONFERENCE THIS YEAR, THAT WAS HELD ON HILTON HEAD, BUT IN FEBRUARY AND SEVERAL OF THE BOARD MEMBERS ATTENDED THIS, I WAS IN A LECTURE THAT WAS BY TIFFANY RICHARDSON, WHO WAS THE ONE OF THE ATTORNEYS FOR THE SOUTH CAROLINA SCHOOL BOARD ASSOCIATION.

THAT FINISHES OUR DISCUSSION, OUR GRADUATION CEREMONY.

WE'RE NOW DOWN TO YES, SIR.

THERE WAS NO SECOND, RIGHT? WELL, I JUST WANT TO SAY TO MY COLLEAGUES THAT I HOPE THAT IN THE FUTURE, WHEN WE TALK ABOUT STUDENT CODE OF CONDUCT AND OTHER OTHER VENTURES THAT HAS TO ADDRESS CODES, THAT WE TAKE THIS SAME, THIS SAME ENERGY, AND WE PUT TOWARDS OTHER, OTHER THINGS WHEN THEY COME FOR, BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, I, I, I'M, I'M VERY DISAPPOINTED THAT WE'VE DONE ENOUGH OF OUR CONSTITUENTS, OUR CONSTITUENTS, UH, TO EVEN ENTERTAIN HAVING THOSE THINGS GO, GO, UH, GO TO DOWNTOWN, HAVING THOSE THINGS LOOKED OVER.

AND I UNDERSTAND THAT SOME OF THE COLLEAGUES ARE SAYING THAT, YOU KNOW, THEY RESPECT THE SUPERINTENDENT, BUT AT THE SAME TIME AS BOARD MEMBERS, WE DO HAVE A JOB HERE TO DO, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE WE ALL HIRED, WE ALL HIRE BAUCUS BY CONSTITUENTS.

YOU PUT THE TOPIC OF THE GRADUATING CEREMONY.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR OPINION.

WE'RE NOW MOVING ON TO THE NEXT ONE.

YOU'RE WELCOME.

CAN YOU STOP CUTTING ME OFF? I ASKED

[Board Members and Electronic Communications]

AND THEY HAVE MODEL POLICIES THAT A LOT OF THE SCHOOL BOARDS IN OUR STATE ACTUALLY USE.

AND ONE OF THE MODEL POLICIES THAT WAS DISCUSSED WAS THIS BOARD MEMBERS AND ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS.

AND I REALLY FELT THAT THE LAST PARAGRAPH OF THIS WAS VERY IMPORTANT, AND I'M GOING TO READ IT PUBLICLY.

SO, SO THE PUBLIC CAN HEAR THIS BOARD MEMBERS RECEIVING ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS FROM THE PUBLIC DURING THE MEETING, PRESENT SPECIAL CONCERNS, SUCH COMMUNICATIONS PROMOTE THE APPEARANCE OF PARTIALITY.

THERE IS AN ESTABLISHED OPPORTUNITY FOR PELLA PARTICIPATION.

SO ALLOWING THE PUBLIC TO COMMENT DURING THE MEETING, OUTSIDE OF THAT DESIGNATED PUBLIC COMMON TIME, EXCLUDES OTHER MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC FROM THE DISCUSSION, THEREFORE BOARD MEMBERS WERE REFRAMED FOR READING AND RESPONDING TO ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS DURING BOARD MEETINGS.

AND I KNOW WE HAVE RECEIVED EMAILS ABOUT THIS FROM THE PUBLIC THAT THEY ARE CONCERNED THAT IT GIVES THE APPEARANCE OF NOT BEING IMPARTIAL TO THE PUBLIC AS A WHOLE.

SO, UM, I WAS HOPING PERHAPS SOMEBODY WOULD MAKE A MOTION TO, UH, HAVE POLICY CON OUR POLICY COMMITTEE CONSIDER THIS BECAUSE WE DO NOT HAVE A POLICY LIKE THAT CURRENTLY.

MS. BELL, RIGHT.

I DO DO A LITTLE RESEARCH ON THIS ISSUE AFTER YOU, UH, PUT IT ON THE AGENDA.

AND THERE ARE A LOT OF ISSUES WITH CELL PHONES RIGHT NOW ON SCHOOL BOARDS, UH, INCLUDING, UH, VIOLATIONS OF FOYA, UH, COLLUSION, ET CETERA.

SO I THINK THIS IS REALLY IMPORTANT AND TIMELY THAT THE BOARD TAKE THIS UP.

SO I'M HAPPY TO TAKE A STAB AT EMOTION, AND THEN WE CAN HAVE A DISCUSSION ABOUT IT.

SO, UH, LET'S SEE.

I MOVE THAT THE BOARD REFER TO THE POLICY COMMITTEE, UH, THE TOPIC OF, UM, BOARD MEMBERS AND ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS, UH, FOR CONSIDERATION FOR POLICY DEVELOPMENT.

MS. RODIN, SECOND, WOULD YOU LIKE TO, UH, SINCE YOU MADE THE MOTION SPELL SPELLED, RIGHT, WOULD YOU LIKE TO, I'M GONNA SAY IF YOU STAYED ANYTHING ELSE.

IF WE ASKED ABOUT IT, UH, AND SHE HAD TO LIE ABOUT IT, SHE WOULD JUST LIE ABOUT IT.

I JUST THINK THAT, UM, WHAT I SAID EARLIER, BUT IN ADDITION TO WHAT YOU POINT OUT WITH IN TERMS OF, UH, PUBLIC ASSETS, THERE, THERE ARE A LOT OF ONGOING COURT ISSUES THAT THE BOARD SHOULD LOOK AT IN TERMS OF VIOLATION OF FOYA IN TERMS OF, UH, UH, BREACH OF A EXECUTIVE SESSION, ET CETERA.

SO I THINK THIS IS AN ISSUE THAT IS GOING TO BECOME A MUCH BIGGER DEAL, ESPECIALLY NOW THAT ALL THESE BOARD MEETINGS, INCLUDING OURS ARE BEING HELD VIRTUALLY, UM, OVER ZOOM.

SO I'LL BET THAT I WILL LET THE REST OF THE BOARD DISCUSS, THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

I THINK WHEN WE DISCUSSED THIS PREVIOUSLY, WE CAME TO THE CONCLUSION THAT IT WAS UNENFORCEABLE.

UM, AND SO THAT'S WHY WE DIDN'T PURSUE IT.

I'M STILL, I'M STILL OF THE OPINION THAT IT'S UNENFORCEABLE, BECAUSE WE DON'T KNOW WHETHER BOARD MEMBERS ARE READING THINGS OFF THEIR CELL PHONES OR, OR NOT, NOT.

I REMEMBER A PREVIOUS BOARD MEMBER SAYING THAT, UM,

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THERE'S NO WAY WE WOULD KNOW.

UM, SO ALTHOUGH I THINK IT'S, LOT OF ALL, I AGREE WITH THE SENTIMENT.

I JUST DON'T KNOW HOW IT'S ENFORCEABLE ONES.

IF IT'S NOT ENFORCEABLE, THERE'S NO SENSE ACTUALLY SPENDING ANY TIME ON IT.

I MEAN, THE FOIL PART IS ENFORCEABLE THROUGH FOYA, BUT I'M NOT SURE WHAT THE BOARD COULD DO IF IT'S SUSPECT SOME MEMBERS READING, UM, TEXT MESSAGES FROM, YOU KNOW, SELECTED MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC.

SO I'M NOT SURE WHERE WE'RE GOING TO GO WITH THAT.

MR. SMITH.

WELL, FIRST AND FOREMOST, MOUNTAIN, SHALL I JUST SAY THAT FROM HEARING IT TO ME, IT BRINGS THE, OR OF THAT IT'S, IT'S, ONE'S PERSONAL OPINION, UH, IS, IS, IS, IS MINE, IS MINE IS MY FIRST, UM, ISSUE WITH IT.

UH, AND THEN SECONDLY, AS MR. SCRIVENER JUST SAID, HOW WOULD WE, HOW WOULD WE ENFORCE IT? AND I DON'T SEE HOW WE CAN LOGICALLY AND ENFORCE THAT.

AND ALSO, YOU KNOW, IT WOULD ALSO, COULD WE HAVE THE QUESTION COULD COME UP ALSO, I'LL BE INFRINGING ON PEOPLE'S RIGHTS AS WELL ARE THEIR PERSONAL RIGHTS AS WELL.

AND THEN THE NEXT THING, UH, WHEN I HEAR YOU SAID THAT YOU GOT THIS FROM THE SCHOOL BOARD ASSOCIATION, I WAS THINKING, I HOPE THAT WE WASN'T GOING DOWN THIS ROAD AGAIN, BECAUSE THE LAST TIME WE BOUGHT SOMETHING FROM THE SCHOOL BOARD ASSOCIATION, UH, BEFORE THE BOARD, IT WAS THE, THE, THE PIECE ABOUT THE BOARD MEMBERS GIVING THEIR, UM, THEIR, THEIR RIGHTS UP TO THE CHAIR THAT SHARON, THE SUPERINTENDENT, IF SOMETHING HAPPENED, IF SOMETHING HAPPENED, UH, THAT WAS CATASTROPHIC AND THAT DIDN'T GO TOO WELL.

SO, YOU KNOW, FOR US TO BE BRINGING SOMETHING FROM THEM AGAIN, UH, THAT, THAT, THAT, THAT COULD BE, THAT COULD BE AS CONTROVERSY AS THAT WAS THERE WITH THIS RIGHT HERE.

I REALLY HAVE SOME REAL CONCERNS ABOUT MOVING SOMETHING THAT REALLY REALISTICALLY WE CAN'T ENFORCE.

AND YOU HAVE TO, MR. SCRIBBLE JUST SAID, SOMEONE MADE A COMMENT LAST TIME THAT THEY WOULD JUST LIE.

I MEAN, I JUST DON'T, I, I, MY QUESTION WOULD BE TO YOU, MADAM CHAIR, UH, HOW DO YOU SEE US ENFORCING THIS? MOVING FORWARD? WE HAVE A POLICY IN OUR NEW GOVERNANCE POLICY MANUAL THAT SAYS HOW POLICIES ARE ENFORCED.

AND I KNEW MR. DISTRIBUTOR WOULD RAISE THAT CONCERN BECAUSE HE RAISED THAT PREVIOUSLY, BUT WE HAVE A WAY TO HANDLE, UM, UH, YOU KNOW, UH, CONDUCT BY BOARD MEMBERS.

AND WE HAVE POLICY ABOUT THAT.

AND, AND, AND SO I DON'T, I DON'T THINK, I MEAN, I DO THINK WE HAVE A, I HAVE A WAY THAT I SEE IT AS PROBLEMATIC.

I SEE.

WE'RE NOT BEING IMPARTIAL AND FAIR.

SO THE KEY TO THE PUBLIC, WE HAVE, THE WAY THE PUBLIC CAN COMMUNICATE THEIR COMMENTS TO US.

I E DURING THE MEETING, THAT'S THE PUBLIC COMMENTS.

AND WHEN WE'RE NOT ADHERING TO THAT FOR, FOR CERTAIN MEMBERS, I JUST DON'T THINK THAT'S FAIR.

AND WE'VE GOTTEN COMPLAINTS ABOUT THAT.

AND YOUR COMMENT THAT THE SCHOOL BOARDS ASSOCIATION, OH, I'M SURE HE GOT, THAT WAS NERVE AND IN PAIN.

I WAS ASKING THE QUESTION THAT I'M ASKING NOW, SIR, YOU ASKED ME TO ANSWER AND I'M GOING TO FINISH.

I HAVE THE FLOOR BECAUSE YOU NATIONALLY, YOU'VE GIVING ME YOUR OPINION.

THE QUESTION IS HOW TO DO, KEEP TALKING, BECAUSE YOU ASKED ME THE QUESTION, I'M GOING TO ANSWER IT.

YOU HAVEN'T LET ME FULLY ANSWER IT.

YOU ALSO MADE THE STATEMENT YOU GAVE OUT THE MISINFORMATION ABOUT HAVING THE SCHOOL BOARDS ASSOCIATION, GIVE US ADVICE PREVIOUSLY THAT QUOTE DIDN'T GO TOO WELL.

I'M QUOTE THAT, THAT CAME UNSOLICITED FROM KATHY MAHONEY, WHO HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE SOUTH CAROLINA SCHOOL BOARD ASSOCIATION.

SO I'LL, I WOULD LIKE TO CORRECT THAT TO THE BOARD WHO BROUGHT THAT TO THE BOARD WHO BROUGHT THAT TO THE BOARD AGENDA TONIGHT? NO COMMENTS.

SO EVEN IF IT DIDN'T GO TO POLICY COMMITTEE, UM, MY PERSONAL RECOMMENDATION WOULD BE TO GET AN AGS OPINION ON, UM, THE STATEMENTS THAT ARE MADE IN HERE.

UM, I'M AN ELECTED OFFICIAL, AND I CERTAINLY, UM, WASN'T ELECTED TO POLICE OTHER PEOPLE'S CELL PHONE ACTIVITY, UH, DURING BOARD MEETINGS.

UM, I DO UNDERSTAND THAT IT CAN BE PROBLEMATIC, HOWEVER, UM, IT'S, IT'S NOT WITHIN, I DON'T THINK OUR AUTHORITY TO BE POLICING OTHER PEOPLE'S CELL PHONE USE OR ELECTRONIC USE THAT'S.

UM, THERE ARE OTHER MECHANISMS FOR THAT.

AND ADDITIONALLY, I WOULD LIKE TO SEE AN AGSM OPINION ON THIS MODEL POLICY, UM, PRIOR TO US ADOPTING IT IN THE FIRST PLACE.

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UM, BECAUSE I CERTAINLY DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S ACCURATE INTERPRETATION OF FOYA AND WHAT CONSTITUTES A VIOLATION OR NOT.

SO, UM, I'M NO EXPERT, I WOULD LIKE TO CONSULT AN EXPERT IN REGARD TO, TO THAT.

UM, SO THOSE ARE JUST MY SENTIMENTS.

I THINK IT'S A SLIPPERY SLOPE.

I KNOW THAT WE DO HAVE MECHANISMS BY WHICH TO, UM, AND NOT NECESSARILY PENALIZED BOARD MEMBERS, BUT IT, THAT WOULD REQUIRE US TO POLICE THEM.

AND I DON'T THINK THAT'S WITHIN OUR AUTHORITY OR OUR PURVIEW.

UM, A COUPLE OF POINTS, ONE WE'RE NOT, THE MOTION IS NOT ACTUALLY ASKING US TO TAKE ACTION.

THE MOTION IS ASKING THE POLICY COMMITTEE TO LOOK AT THE FEASIBILITY OF IT.

AND I DO THINK IT'S IMPORTANT, UM, BECAUSE THERE ARE SEVERAL ONGOING LAWSUITS.

UH, MOST RECENTLY THE SCHOOL DISTRICT OF CLEVELAND, YOU CAN ENFORCE IT BECAUSE YOUR CELL PHONE, IF YOU USE YOUR CELL PHONE DURING A MEETING THAT YOUR CELL PHONE IS FOIBLE.

AND, UM, I, I DON'T KNOW HOW IT GOES AS FAR AS PUBLIC RECORDS, BECAUSE I KNOW IF YOU HAVE A PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD, WE HAVE A RECORD OF THE PUBLIC COMMENT.

SO I DON'T KNOW IF THERE'S SOME SORT OF VIOLATION IN THAT REGARD.

SO I DON'T KNOW ABOUT ENFORCEMENT WITH THAT, BUT IT IS ENFORCEABLE BY THE PUBLIC WHERE IF THEY FEEL THAT WE ARE INAPPROPRIATELY USING OUR CELL PHONES, USING FOYA, THEY CAN ACTUALLY SUE US FOR VIOLATION OF OPEN MEETINGS.

SO I THINK IT'S WORTH EXPLORING IN THE POLICY COMMITTEE TO SEE ABOUT THE FEASIBILITY.

I DON'T KNOW ABOUT THE HISTORY OF THESE OTHER, THAT THIS HAS COME BEFORE, BUT SINCE NOW IN THE TIME OF COVID, WE ARE DOING SO MUCH VIRTUALLY.

UM, I THINK IT'S AN IMPORTANT THING TO LOOK AT BECAUSE IT IS A PROBLEM THAT A LOT OF OTHER DISTRICTS, WHEN I LOOKED INTO IT BRIEFLY OVER THE WEEKEND, A LOT OF STUFF WILL POP RIGHT UP, BUT OTHER SCHOOL DISTRICTS ARE DEALING WITH RIGHT NOW WITH THIS.

SO THIS IS NOT EMOTION TO ACTUALLY TAKE ACTION.

IT'S EMOTION TO SEND IT TO THE COMMITTEE, TO DO SOME MORE WORK ON IT.

MR. EARL CAMPBELL, FIVE YEARS, I'M GOING TO SAY, THIS IS SOME OF OUR FOCUS ON THE MATERIAL.

GUYS, GIVE THEM TO ME.

I DON'T WANT ANYBODY TO SAY ANYTHING ON MY CELL PHONE, CAUSE I DON'T DO IT SINCE I'VE BEEN ON THIS BOARD DURING A COUPLE OF YEARS.

NO.

SO YOU COVERED THE BOARD MEETINGS ARE FOCUSED ON WHAT YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO DO, REMEMBER.

ALL RIGHT, THE MR. GUY, YOU PUT YOUR HAND DOWN.

A MEETING LOCATIONS AND PARTICIPATION.

BUT THE, SOME THEY WERE BEING KNOWN FOR THEIR HANDS OFF.

THE QUESTION IS CALLED, UM, MOTION CARRIES EIGHT, THREE, THE YESES ARE EARL CAMPBELL.

RACHEL WAS NAVIGATING ANGELA MIDDLETON AND INGRID DON'T READ WE'RE NOW DOWN TO

[Meeting Locations and Participation]

THIS WAS ALSO MY REQUEST TO HAVE THIS ON TONIGHT'S AGENDA.

IT HAS BEEN IN PRACTICE IN THE PAST FOR THE BOARD, UH, PRIETO TO HAVE, UH, ALTERNATING, UH, BUSINESS MEETINGS NORTH OF THE BRIDE AND SOUTH WINDS ABROAD.

NORMALLY THE, OUR BUSINESS MEETINGS ARE ON THE FIRST AND THIRD, TUESDAY OF EACH MONTH.

THE FIRST, UH, TUESDAY WOULD TYPICALLY BE NORTH OF ABROAD, USUALLY AT THE COUNTY COUNCIL CHAMBERS.

AND THEN THE THIRD TUESDAY WOULD BE NORTH SOUTH OF THE GARAGE AND WE VARIED LOCATION.

SO NOW SINCE WE'VE HAD THE COVID PANDEMIC, UH, WE, UH, CEASED HAVING, UH, IN-PERSON MEETINGS AS KNOW FOR AWHILE, BEGINNING OF LAST MARCH ABOUT A YEAR AGO.

AND THEN SINCE WE'VE RESUMED HAVING IN-PERSON MEETINGS, THEY HAVE ALL BEEN, UM, HERE, UH, AT THE, UH, DISTRICT

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OFFICE NORTH OF THE BROAD, I FEEL THIS IS GIVING A DISADVANTAGE, UH, TO, UH, SOUTH OF THE BROAD, UH, REPRESENTATIVES AND ALSO TO PARENTS SOUTH OF THE ROD.

I KNOW RIGHT NOW WE DON'T HAVE, UH, VERY MANY, IF ANY PEOPLE COMING IN PERSON FOR PUBLIC COMMENTS, BUT I THINK THAT'S GOING TO CHANGE, UM, AS, AS OUR COMMUNITY GETS VACCINATED AND, AND, UH, AS A, UM, YOU KNOW, LESS CASES OF, OF, UH COVID-19.

SO, UM, WE, WE HAVEN'T THE, TO CONTINUE WITH, UM, IF WE'RE GOING TO CONTINUE WITH ZOOM MEETINGS, UH, ROBIN HAS INVESTIGATED A LITTLE BIT OF WHERE COULD WE HAVE THEM ON SOUTH OF THE BROAD? SO WE WOULD STILL ALLOW, ALLOW PUBLIC COMMENTS FOR EXAMPLE, BY ZOOM, OR IF WE'RE NUMBERS NEEDED TO PARTICIPATE, UH, BY ZOOM.

AND SO RIGHT NOW, IT CAN'T BE THE BLUFFTON LIBRARY BECAUSE THAT'S UNDER RENOVATION AND HILTON HEAD LIBRARY ALSO CANNOT ACCOMMODATE THAT.

AND THE ACOUSTICS WERE FOR YOUR, THE NEWER BOARD MEMBERS SAID POOHSTICKS, WE'RE NOT VERY GOOD AT REALLY EITHER OF THOSE LIBRARIES.

SO ANOTHER POSSIBILITY IS THE BLUFFTON TOWN, UH, HALL.

THEY CURRENTLY ARE NOT HAVING THEIR MEETINGS IN PERSON YET, BUT ARE, ARE, UM, PLANNING ON RESUMING THEM IN PERSON VERY SOON, PROBABLY IN THE NEXT FEW WEEKS.

SO THAT'S ONE OPTION.

UM, ALSO, UH, THEY'RE NOT, I THINK MS. BOAT RANK SAID, UM, ON HILTON HEAD, THERE ARE A COUPLE OPTIONS TOO, SO I'LL, LET ME, UM, HAVE YOU EXPLAINED THOSE OPTIONS? UH, INGRID, CAN YOU GUYS HEAR ME? YES.

OKAY, EXCELLENT.

UM, YEAH, THERE MIGHT BE SOME, THERE, THERE ARE DEFINITELY, UH, THE, THE TOWN HALL AND HILTON HEAD, POSSIBLY COUNCIL, UH, CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, POSSIBLY THE SCHOOLS, MAYBE EVEN BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB.

I HAVEN'T CHECKED IN ANY OF THESE OPTIONS, BUT THERE ARE DEFINITELY SPACES ON HILTON HEAD AND EVEN SOME OF THE HOTELS MIGHT BE WILLING TO DO.

UM, I'VE, I'VE GONE TO MEETINGS, UH, OFFICIAL MEETINGS WITHIN LIKE BORE, UH, BALLROOMS AT THE HOTEL.

SO IF WE WANT TO HAVE MEETINGS ON HILTON HEAD, I'M SURE WE CAN FIND SOMETHING.

MR. GUY, THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

ONE OF THE PROBLEMS IS CHANNEL ACCESS AND NOT ALL PLACES HAVE THE ABILITY TO BROADCAST IT ON COUNTY CHANNEL.

I FULLY SUPPORT HAVING A MEETING NORTH AND SOUTH ABROAD.

I THINK THIS IS MUCH BETTER THAN THE COUNTY COUNCIL CHAMBERS.

FRANKLY, WE HAVE MORE ROOM.

WE CAN BRING IN MORE PEOPLE AND IT'S BETTER FOR THE DISTRICT COME IN TO GIVE THEIR PERFORMANCES HERE THEN THAN THERE.

AND I SEE NO REAL ADVANTAGE OF BEING IN THE COUNTY COUNCIL CHAMBERS AT ALL.

AND PLUS IT'S MORE WORK OR ROBIN AND MOLLY THAT SET US UP AND TEAR IT DOWN.

SO NOW, AS FAR AS SOUTH ABROAD, UM, BOTH THE LIBRARIES WERE AWFUL AND JUST THE ABILITY TO HANDLE THE PEOPLE THAT WANT TO COME IN.

AND, UH, PRETTY ACOUSTICS IS AS YOU MENTIONED THAT HEAVY, BUT WE NEED TO FIND SOMEPLACE OF SOUTH OF THE PROVIDE BECAUSE IT'S REALLY NOT FAIR THAT AFTER THE COUNCIL MEMBERS THAT HAVE TO DRIVE ALL THE WAY UP HERE, UH, AND IT'S ALSO NOT FAIR TO THE PARENTS AND CONSTITUENTS.

SO, UM, PERHAPS WE CAN ASK, UH, ROBIN OR MOLLY OR PRODUCTION TO DESIGNATE SOMEONE MADAM CHAIR TO GO OUT AND FIND US, UH, SOUTH OF THE BROAD VENUE IN EAST COUNTY CHANNEL REQUIREMENTS AND THE SPACE AND POOHSTICKS REQUIREMENTS TO BE ABLE TO CONDUCT AN EFFECTIVE NEEDS.

MR. WOULD YOU LIKE MOTION? I THINK I CAN MOVE THAT.

THE BOARD ZOOM IT'S PRACTICE OF HOLDING MEETINGS, ULTIMATELY BETWEEN NORTH OF THE BROAD AND SOUTH ABROAD.

MR. NELL CAMPBELL MADE IT SECOND.

SO MR. O'BANNON TO ECHO MR. BYERS, I'M CONCERNED ABOUT THE, UM, COUNCIL CHAMBERS.

I MUCH PREFER THIS, UH, AS, UH, AS OUR NORTH GROUP ABROAD VENUE.

UM, IT HAS MORE ROOM WHERE I HAVE CHILDREN OR STUDENTS WHEN THEY COME TO DO, UM, I JUST FEEL IT'S MORE COMFORTABLE HERE THAN BEING ON THE GUY COUNCIL CHAMBER.

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ANY OTHER FURTHER QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS? ALL RIGHT.

THE QUESTION IS CALLED.

I VOTE.

YES, YES, YES.

SO THE MOTION CARRIES UNANIMOUSLY.

SO MR. GUYER SUGGESTED, DO WE, WOULD WE, DO YOU WANT ME TO APPOINT SOMEBODY? THE BOY NEEDS TO TELL ME WHAT THEY'D LIKE, WE WANT, I'D RATHER THEM ALL HAD TO WORK ON IT.

UM, LOOK AT THE WORD LIFE, KATHY.

I THINK, UM, THEY KNOW WHAT CRITERIA WE NEED TO BROADCAST, YOU KNOW, THEY, THEY KNOW WHAT COUNTY CHANNEL NEEDS AND THAT TYPE OF THING.

SO THAT THEY'RE THE, YOU KNOW, THE SAME WAY BETWEEN THE CHANNELS.

I THINK IT MAKES MOST SENSE FOR THEM TO DO IT.

SO, UM, ROBIN, I'LL ASK YOU A QUESTION.

UM, DO YOU THINK, UH, YOU WOULD HAVE ENOUGH, UH, UH, LEAD TIME TO COME BACK TO US WITH AN UPDATE AT THE NEXT, UH, BUSINESS MEETING, WHICH WOULD BE IN EARLY APRIL.

SO WE'LL EXPECT TO HAVE THAT MORE INFORMATION ABOUT A VENUE, THE BROAD THAT'S REALLY WHAT WE NEED TO LOCATE.

UM, CABBY, I HAVE ANOTHER QUESTION REGARDING THIS.

UM, IS THERE GOING TO BE A POINT WHERE WE, UM, HAVE THE SAME WHEN WE ELIMINATE THE VIRTUAL PARTICIPATION OF OUR MEMBERS AND HAVE EVERYONE COME FACE TO FACE? I MEAN, IS THAT SOMETHING THAT'S EVER GOING TO COME BACK? ARE WE ALWAYS GOING TO STAY LIKE THIS? UM, WE'LL REMEMBER OUR MOTION I'LL PREVIOUSLY WAS, UH, THAT WE WOULD DO.

UM, WE WOULD MEET HER, I BELIEVE THIS IS THE WORDING, WHAT THE SCHOOL DISTRICT, HOW THE STUDENTS AND HOW THIS SCHOOL DISTRICT WAS CONDUCTING SCHOOL.

SO CURRENTLY WE HAVE, YOU KNOW, IN FIRST IN SCHOOL AS ONE OPTION AND WE HAVE VIRTUAL IS THE OTHER OPTION.

NOW THAT MAY GO AWAY, UM, COME NEXT YEAR, IN WHICH CASE, IF LET'S SAY VIRTUAL LEARNING GOES AWAY, THEN WE WOULDN'T HAVE THAT OPTION THE WAY THE CURRENT, UM, NOTION STANDS.

WE COULD, WE CERTAINLY TIME HAS PASSED AND CORONAVIRUS IS, HAS KIND OF, UH, SORT OF EASE A LITTLE BIT.

SO WE CERTAINLY COULD ALSO RESCIND THE NOTION IF, IF YOU WANT TO MAKE A MOTION AT THIS POINT, UM, TO OVERTURN THAT SINCE, YOU KNOW, IT'S A DIFFERENT, DIFFERENT CIRCUMSTANCES AS DEPUTY RODRIGUEZ.

NO, I WAS JUST GOING TO SAY, UM, NO, AS WE, AS WE CONTINUE RIGHT.

EXPLORING, UH, NEXT YEAR'S OPTION AROUND WHETHER WE OFFER A VIRTUAL COMPONENT OR NOT THE BOARD, UM, YOU KNOW, MAY NOT WANT TO BUY ITS ITSELF TO THAT DECISION MOVING FORWARD, BECAUSE, BECAUSE ONE OF THE THINGS WE'VE LEARNED THROUGH THIS IS THAT ALTHOUGH VIRTUAL, UH, DOESN'T SEEM TO WORK WELL FOR, FOR MOST STUDENTS, UH, IN ITS FORMAT, THERE ARE SOME STUDENTS THAT ARE DOING WELL WITH, WITH IT, RIGHT? AND SO, UH, THERE ARE OTHER POTENTIAL OPPORTUNITIES TO EXPAND OUR REACH TO OTHER STUDENTS THAT MAY NOT CURRENTLY BE WITH US, BUT MAY HAVE AN INTEREST IN, IN, IN ALL THE GREAT THINGS THAT THE BEAVER COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT DOES OFFER.

THE CONSENT AGENDA THAT WE APPROVE THE CONSENT AGENDA ITEMS. MR. EARL CAMPBELL.

AND THEY CAN STILL TAP INTO THAT THROUGH A VIRTUAL EXPERIENCE.

SO I WOULDN'T SAY THAT OBVIOUSLY IT'S YOUR DECISION, BUT, BUT THAT, THAT WOULD BE SOMETHING FOR YOU ALL TO CONSIDER TO NOT NECESSARILY TIE YOURSELF TO THE WAY THE SCHOOL DISTRICT MOVES ON, ON THIS MATTER.

MS. BELVIQ HEY.

YEAH, I WAS GOING TO SAY, I, WHEN YOU SAY THAT WE'VE TIED IT TO THE STUDENTS, YOUR TA AND THEY HAD, THERE'S A VIRTUAL AND A FULL FACE-TO-FACE.

I ACTUALLY THINK WE SHOULD TIE IT TO THE TEACHERS WHO ARE, AS WE HAVE MENTIONED MANY TIMES, UH, ARE EXPECTED TO BE FACE TO FACE UNLESS THEY HAVE AN ACCOMMODATION.

AND I COULD SEE ACCOMMODATIONS BEING FOR LIKE ME RIGHT NOW, BECAUSE I'M OUT OF TOWN, BUT I CAN STILL PARTICIPATE.

UM, BUT THERE'S STILL IS SORT OF AN IMPETUS THAT WE SHOULD BE BACK FACE TO FACE JUST LIKE OUR TEACHERS,

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MS. JAMIE BROWN CHAIR.

I'M NOT SURE WHY WE WOULD PUT ANY EFFORT INTO CUTTING OFF WORK.

THAT'S PROVEN TO BE AN OUTCOME OR USEFUL CHANNEL FOR COMMUNICATIONS SUPPOSED TO MAKE SENSE TO ME.

UH, I AGREE WITH WHAT MR. SCRIMMAGES SAID, BUT ALSO, UH, TO ALSO, UH, JUST TO REMIND BOARD MEMBERS THAT ALSO, UH, BOARD MEMBERS HAVE THE RIGHT TO CALL IN AT ANY POINT IN TIME TO, UH, AND THAT'S NO DIFFERENT FROM BEING VIRTUAL ACCEPTING FOR THAT.

YOU CAN ACTUALLY SEE THE MEETING AND YOU ACTUALLY SEE THE PEOPLE IN THE MEETING AND SEE WHAT IS TAKING PLACE VERSUS BEING ON THE PHONE.

BECAUSE AS A BOARD MEMBER, YOU CAN BE IN ALASKA, YOU CAN BE IN WHEREVER AND YOU CAN STILL CALL INTO THE BOARD MEETINGS IF YOU WANT TO.

SO I DON'T SEE WHAT THE, UH, WHAT, WHAT A DIFFERENT, WHAT THE DIFFERENCE IS.

AND I'LL JUST SAY, I DON'T SEE WHAT THE RUSH FOR THE INCONVENIENCES AS WELL.

THAT'S JUST SOMETHING I WOULD PUT, I WOULD PUT OUT THERE.

THANK YOU, MR. NEIL CAMPBELL, MR. SMITH, AND, UH, YOU KNOW, UTILIZE ALL BASICALLY CATS AND GETTING PEOPLE ACTIVE IN THE MEETINGS.

THAT'S LIKE THE SCHOOLS THAT I ANTICIPATE THAT THIS WAS GOING TO HAVE A LOT MORE OPTIONS OUT.

IT'D BE EDUCATED WITH THE WILLIAM LEARNING BEND DOWN, MAKE THAT DAY.

YOU KNOW, IT'S A TIME TO REALLY LEARNING A LOT MORE ABOUT HOW WE CAN OPERATE, NOT ONLY AS PUBLIC OFFICIALS, BUT ALSO AS STUDENTS, AS EDUCATORS, ET CETERA, THESE THINGS ARE THERE.

THE CHILD HAD BEEN AN OPPORTUNE TIME, AS WELL AS A TIME, AN EXPERIENCE OF THE TRAINING EXPERIENCE FOR US.

SO PUBLIC MEETINGS AND, YOU KNOW, JUST A LOT OF MEETINGS, BUT I THINK A LOT OF THEM WERE A LOT MORE EASY BECAUSE I CAN ASSUME IT ERA GOING TO ANOTHER ONE, EXCEPT THE, AND IT GIVES US A LITTLE BIT MORE TIME TO PARTICIPATE AS PEOPLE WHO ARE JUST GOING TO .

SO I WOULD NOT, YOU KNOW, BE COMFORTABLE AND DEMANDING THAT ALL PUBLIC OFFICIALS ARE, ALL PEOPLE, ALL MEETINGS FACE-TO-FACE ALTHOUGH WE KNOW THE ADVANTAGES OF FACE-TO-FACE, WE ALSO NO DISADVANTAGE.

SO I THINK THE OTHER STATEMENT WITH THIS, AS LONG AS WE CAN OPERATE THIS WAY, WE OPERATE THAT WAY, YOU KNOW, AND SOME FOLKS UP ILL, THEY CAN STILL PARTICIPATE, YOU KNOW, OPTION TAKEN AWAY FROM THEM.

ALL RIGHT THERE BEING NO FURTHER HANDS UP WE'RE DOWN, DOWN TO

[Consent Agenda]

SECOND QUESTION IS CALLED MOTION CARRIES GENZER ONE, DR.

DAVID STRIVEN, YOU'RE SAYING NEXT

[Future Agenda Topics]

ON THE AGENDA IS FUTURE AGENDA TOPICS.

SO IF YOU'D LIKE TO, UM, SUGGEST TOPICS, PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND.

IT SEEMS LIKE IT'S BEEN A WHILE SINCE WE'VE HEARD FROM OUR, UM, TEACHER.

UM, I KNOW IT'S NOT CALLED THAT ANYMORE.

WELL, THE TEACHER FORUM, IT WAS ALSO COMBINED WITH THE REVENUE SIDE.

IT WAS FROM LIKE A CEA RUBBER, ALL THE PACK.

SO I THINK THAT IT WOULD BE GREAT TO HEAR FROM THEM.

UM, MR. SMITH UPDATE ON THE, ON THE, UM,

[05:00:03]

MRS. UH, DR.

I ASKED YOU ABOUT THIS LAST NIGHT, THE AUXILIARY, WHAT'S THE WORD THAT DESCRIBES, DO YOU REMEMBER THE QUARTERS IN THE PERFORMING ARTS? CAN WE HAVE A GOOGLE, COULD WE HAVE AN UPDATE ON OUR PERFORMER GUARDS THROUGHOUT THE DISTRICT? BECAUSE THEY ARE VERY RELEVANT.

THEY'RE VERY IMPORTANT.

AND I'VE HAD, I DON'T REMEMBER RECALL HAVING MUCH CONVERSATION ABOUT THEM, DO THIS DUE TO THIS PANDEMIC.

UM, THIS MAY NOT BE SOMETHING FOR THE NEAR FUTURE, UM, AND I'M SURE DR.

RODRIGUEZ IS ALREADY WORKING ON THIS, BUT, UM, I HAVE STARTED TO RECEIVE QUESTIONS FROM PARENTS, BRING WHAT THE COVID PROTOCOLS ARE GONNA LOOK LIKE FOR NEXT SCHOOL YEAR.

AND I KNOW YOU'RE, YOU CAN'T, YOU DON'T HAVE A CRYSTAL BALL.

YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT THE FUTURE IS GONNA LOOK LIKE, BUT, UM, I'D LIKE TO SEE THAT ON A FUTURE AGENDA.

ALL RIGHT, THERE BEING NO FURTHER, HE ENDS UP, WE'LL GO ONTO

[Announcements]

ANNOUNCEMENTS.

OUR NEXT UP BUSINESS MEETING IS THE WORK SESSION, WHICH WILL OCCUR HERE IN THE MEDIA CENTER ON THIS FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, THAT'S MARCH 19 AND 20, AND BOTH DAYS START AT 9:00 AM.

AND BOTH DAYS AT THE BEGINNING OF EACH DAY STARTS WITH PUBLIC COMMENT.

SO IF THE CALLER WOULD LIKE TO PARTICIPATE, THEY CAN DO SO WHEN YOU COULD DO IT REMOTELY VIA ZOOM, AND THAT'S A WELL DESCRIBED ACTUALLY ON THE AGENDA.

IF YOU GO TO THE DISTRICT WEBSITE AND LOOK AT THE AGENDA, DR.

RODRIGUEZ, THANK YOU.

JUST WANT TO REMIND, UH, ANYBODY WHO MAYBE LISTENING TONIGHT, PARENTS OR, UM, OR EMPLOYEES THAT TOMORROW DUE TO THE INCLEMENT WEATHER, WE ARE GOING TO HAVE A HALF DAY, AND THEN THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS WILL BE DISMISSING AT 1145 AND, UH, MIDDLE SCHOOLS IN HIGH SCHOOL AND WILL BE DISMISSING AT 1245.

AND THAT FALL CAMPUSES AND DISTRICT BUILDINGS GO CLOSE AT ONE 30.