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WE SAW A PUBLIC SESSIONS
YOU WILL RECEIVE A CALL AT ALL DURING THE PUBLIC COMMENT WHERE YOU'LL BE ABLE TO SPEAK AND ADDRESS THE BOARD FOR THREE MINUTES ON ISSUES WITHIN THE BOARD'S DOMAIN, THE BOARD WILL BE LIMITED TO 30 MINUTES.
THE PERSON
COUPLE OF COMMENTS WILL BE ACCEPTED BETWEEN SEVEN AND SEVEN 30 TONIGHT IN THE SAME BREATH IS THAT HIS PUBLIC COMMENT WILL TAKE PLACE PRIOR TO THE GERMAN NO LATER THAN 9:00 PM.
ZACHARY AND FORUM WILL BE LIMITED TO 15 MINUTES IN THE EVENT, THE BOARD IS NOT FINISHED.
ADDRESSING DRESSING ALL LISTED ON THE APRIL, 2020 21 AGENDA.
THE BOARD WILL RECONVENE TOMORROW AT 6:00 PM ON APRIL 21, 2021.
THE FINISH DATE, AGENDA ITEMS,
[Approval of Agenda]
MOTION TO APPROVE THE AGENDA ROLL CAMERA.AND TUCKER WAS NASTY AND HE JUST GOT YOU PAUL NELSON.
UM, I'M TRYING TO GET IT WAS BY EARL CAMPBELL.
WELDING IS NOW MS. KATHY WROTE VINE.
THE MOTION CARRIES NINE ZEROS ZERO.
UM, MS. THE MOTION CARRIES SEVEN ZERO ZERO
[Pledge of Allegiance, Moment of Silence, Statement of Media Notification]
ALL RIGHT.[Student Performance]
BEEN PROPERLY.YOUR DAD WAS WITH THE STUDENT PERFORMANCE OUT OF HIGH SCHOOL CAST OF MATILDA.
THE MUSICAL WILL BE PERFORMING BRIDGE AND HERE TO TELL US ABOUT THE PERFORMANCES.
UM, IT REALLY WENT IN JOHN THOUGH.
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THANK YOU VERY MUCH,[Points of Celebration]
DR.THANK YOU, DOCTOR WAS THAT, DID THEY BEGIN WITH POINTS OF CELEBRATION IS THE MARCH STUDENT OF THE MONTH? UM, OUR CHARACTER EDUCATION PROGRAM WAS FORMED TO SUPPORT PARENTS EFFORTS TO DEVELOP GOOD CHARACTER AND THEIR CHILDREN'S TONIGHT.
WE'RE CELEBRATING THE CHARACTERIZED STUDENTS FOR THE MARCH MARCH.
HIS CHARACTER TRAIT WAS SELF-CONTROL SELF-CONTROL IS DEFINED AS THE ABILITY TO HAVE CONTROL OVER OUR FEET OVER YOUR FEELINGS OR ACTIONS, ONESELF IN PARTICULAR ONE'S EMOTIONS AND DESIRES ARE THE EXPRESSION OF THEM AND ONE'S BEHAVIOR, ESPECIALLY IN THE DIFFICULT SITUATIONS.
MARCH STUDENT OF THE MONTH FOR NORTH OF THE ABROAD IS CHRISTOPHER FOR FOURTH GRADE STUDENT AT MOSSY OAK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
CHRISTOPHER WAS NOMINATED BECAUSE HE IS MODEL EXCEPTIONAL SELF CONTROL DURING A TIME OF CONSTANT CHANGE.
CHRISTOPHER ARRIVED AT MOSSY OAKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LAST YEAR AS A THIRD GRADE STUDENT IN THE ELEMENTARY SPECIAL EDUCATION CLASSROOMS, MRS. CHRISTOPHER'S CLASSROOM TEACHER SHARED THAT CHRISTOPHER HAS MADE SUCH GREAT STRIDES SINCE HE STARTED WITH US LAST YEAR, HE'S BEEN ABLE TO CONTROL HIMSELF EVEN UNDER THE MARK, MAYBE TOO HARD FOR HIM IN THIS TIME OF COVID WHEN THINGS ARE CONSTANTLY CHANGING, BRUCE IS TAKING IT ALL IN STRIDE.
HE DISPLAYS SELF CONTROL AND HANDLING EVERYTHING AS NEW AND FUN.
ALSO HELPING OTHERS, BOTH IN FEELING WELCOME TO MOSSY OAKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AND BEING AN EXAMPLE OF HOW THE RULES AND ESSENTIAL 12 ARE DONE AT OUR SCHOOL.
THIS LETS US KNOW HOW MUCH CHRIS HAS MATURED IN SUCH A SHORT TIME SPAN.
I'M SO VERY PROUD OF HIS CONSTANT ABILITY TO BE IN CONTROL AND IT'S STAYING FOCUSED AND STAYING ON TASK WITH EVERYTHING HE'S ASKED TO STOP ABROAD.
THE MARCH STUDENT OF THE MONTH IS LU LOWERY, A FIRST GRADER AT PRITCHARD HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TEACHER, MRS. ROBINS SHARED THAT SHE HAS OBSERVED TREMENDOUS GROWTH IN THE LOOP, ESPECIALLY IN THE AREA OF CONTROL, LIKE MANY STUDENTS, LUKE STRUGGLED WITH VIRTUAL FORMAT OF LEARNING.
HOWEVER, SINCE RETURNING TO SCHOOL, SHE WITNESSED HOW HARD JUST FIRST GRADER HAS WORKED TO CATCH UP ON COMPLETING ASSIGNMENT AND TO REMAIN FOCUSED THROUGHOUT THE DAY.
MRS. ROBBINS IS MOST PROUD OF HOW HIS FOCUS AND COMMITMENT TO LEARNING HAVE MANIFESTED IN HIS CURRENT READING LEVELS.
IN ADDITION TO HIS ACADEMIC PROGRESS, HE WORKS TO MAINTAIN A POSITIVE ATTITUDE.
EVERY DAY IS A LEADER WHO STEPS FORWARD TO HELP IN OUR CLASSROOM SETTING EVERY DAY.
HE PRACTICES PATIENCE AND HAS WORKED HARD TO MOVE FROM INTERRUPTING WHEN HE HAS SOMETHING TO SHARE TO INSTEAD WAITING PATIENTLY RAISING HIS HAND.
WHEN HE'S, WHEN HE'S ASKED MS. ROBBINS SHARED THAT SHE COULDN'T BE PROUDER OF THE YOUNG PERSON HE IS BECOMING WHEN HE'S UPSET OR FEELING EMOTIONAL AND HE WILL SELF-ADVOCATE EXPRESS HIS EMOTIONS AND WORK ON A SOLUTION.
SHE WAS SO PROUD OF HIS GROWTH THIS YEAR AND EXCITED TO CELEBRATE HIS ACHIEVEMENT.
CONGRATULATIONS, CHRISTOPHER AND LOOP.
THE NEXT ON THE CELEBRATION IS BOATS IN HEAD HIGH SCHOOL, PALMETTO DRAMATIC ASSOCIATION AND CUSTODY INTERNATIONAL THESPIAN SOCIETY, 2021 MARCH EARLIER THIS SPRING, THE SEAHAWKS STAGE COMPANY COMPETED IN THE STATEWIDE, UH, METAL DRAMA ASSOCIATION WINE AND THE SOUTH SOUTH CAROLINA INTERNATIONAL SPN SOCIETY, SB COMPETITION.
WE HAVE A SHORT VIDEO ABOUT HOW THE STUDENTS COMPETED IN THE VIRTUAL COMPETITION.
AND I BELIEVE HERE TO TELL US ABOUT THE SEAHAWKS STAGE COMPANY AWARDS IS HILTON HEAD HIGH SCHOOL DRAMA TEACHER, KIMBERLY, WHEN, IF SHE'S ONLINE AT THIS TIME.
SO SHE'S, SHE'S SHINING BRIGHTLY IN THE SPOTLIGHT THAT SEAHAWK STAGE COMPANY RECENTLY WON SEVERAL AWARDS IN A STATEWIDE COMPETITION FOR THEIR PERFORMANCE OF THE 39 STEPS, A LIVE RADIO PLAY DUE TO THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC.
THE STUDENTS HAD TO GET CREATIVE ON STAGE WHEN THEY RECORDED THEIR PERFORMANCE.
ONE OF THE CHALLENGES OF COURSE, WAS GETTING USED TO BEING, YOU KNOW, SIX FEET AWAY FROM OTHER PEOPLE AND ACTING WHILE YOU'RE LIKE SORT OF STUCK IN THIS LITTLE AREA BY YOURSELF.
AND IT WAS HARD TO TAKE A TASTE OF ALL OF THAT.
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TO FEED OFF OF.WE WERE JUST FEEDING OFF OF EACH OTHER.
SO IT DEFINITELY HELPED STRENGTHEN US AS AN ENSEMBLE AND SEAHAWKS STAGE COMPANY.
IT REALLY DEFINITELY TESTED OUR WEAKNESSES AND STRENGTHS, BUT WE DEFINITELY GOT BETTER.
OVERALL, THE STUDENTS WON SIX AWARDS AND THE PALMETTO DRAMATIC ASSOCIATION IN SC INTERNATIONAL FEZ BEAN SOCIETY COMPETITION FOR THEIR PERFORMANCE OF A MYSTERY PLAY.
THE AWARDS WERE IN SEVERAL DIFFERENT CATEGORIES, SUCH AS SET DESIGN, COSTUMING ENSEMBLE, AND EVEN FULLY WORK FOR CREATING THEIR OWN SOUND EFFECTS.
I LIKED THE CREATIVITY BEHIND IT BECAUSE THERE'S SO MANY DIFFERENT THINGS YOU CAN USE FOR DIFFERENT SITUATIONS.
WE USED A PILLOW ON TOP OF A SUITCASE, WHICH IS WEIRD WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT IT, BUT IT ACTUALLY REALLY WORKED AND IT WAS REALLY FUN TO DO.
THE STUDENTS WERE ALSO EXCITED TO FIND OUT THEIR PERFORMANCE RECEIVED AN EXCELLENT RATING.
I THINK IT STOOD OUT BECAUSE IT'S A VERY UNTRADITIONAL PLAY.
WE WERE SITTING THE WHOLE TIME.
AND SO I DEFINITELY THINK THAT OUR ACTING AND OUR MOVEMENT AS CHARACTERS IN A VERY LIKE STATIC POSITION, DEFINITELY GOT ACROSS TO THE JUDGES.
THEY SAW THAT WE HAD THE ABILITY TO ACT WITHOUT MOVING.
WE DIDN'T NECESSARILY NEED OUR BODIES.
WE HAD OUR FACES, WE HAD OUR VOICES AND THAT'S VERY IMPRESSIVE.
ONE STUDENT EVEN WON AN INDIVIDUAL AWARD FOR HER MUSICAL SUBMISSION.
I SAW SOMEWHERE THAT SCREEN FROM THE LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS AND I SUBMITTED THAT FOR THE SOLO PART OF THE COMPETITION.
AND I THINK THE JUDGES REALLY, REALLY LIKED THE WHOLE SETUP.
I USED THE CHAIRS, MY PROP, AND I REALLY PRETENDED I WAS THE CHARACTER AND THEY REALLY LIKED THE VOLUME.
AND LIKE WHAT I DID TO DO THAT SCENE ABOUT 20 SCHOOLS IN SOUTH CAROLINA, COMPETED IN THE COMPETITION AT HILTON HEAD ISLAND, HIGH SCHOOL, BEAVER COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT.
I'M VERY PROUD OF OUR STUDENTS AND THEIR SUCCESS.
AND I THINK IT'S A TESTAMENT TO THEIR TEACHER AND TO THE WORK THAT THEY DO REGULARLY.
WHEN YOU, WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT HOW THEY OVERCAME CHALLENGES AND SAW, UH, THE STRENGTHS OF WHAT CAME OUT OF DEALING WITH THE PANDEMIC AND TRYING TO GET UPSIDE DOWN INTO A POSITIVE EXPERIENCE FOR THEMSELVES.
SO WE'RE REALLY PROUD OF THEM.
THE NEXT PIECE, THE NEXT PIECE IS RED CEDAR GUINNESS WORLD RECORD.
WE TALKED ABOUT IT AT THE LAST MEETING.
AND SO EARLIER THIS MONTH, BUT CEDAR ELEMENTARY SUCCESSFULLY SET A GUINNESS WORLD RECORD FOR CONSECUTIVE CEREAL BOXES KNOCKED OVER DONALD STYLE KNOCKING OVER 3,737 OF BOXES IN THE SCHOOL GYMNASIUM BREAKING THE PREVIOUS WORLD RECORD OF 3,416, THAT WAS SET IN 2017.
HERE'S A QUICK VIDEO TO SHARE THE EXPERIENCE.
WHEN WE GO WORLD RECORD RED, CEDAR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL HAS SET THE GUINNESS WORLD RECORD FOR MOST CEREAL BOXES, TOPPLED IN A DOMINANT FASHION.
THE PREVIOUS WORLD RECORD WAS 3000 HUNDRED AND 16 BOXES THAT CEDAR SET UP MORE THAN 6,000 BOXES.
AND EVEN THOUGH THEY DIDN'T ALL TALK HER DOWN THE SCHOOL STILL BEAT THE OLD RECORD BY MORE THAN 200 BOXES.
I WISH THE REST OF THEM WOULD HAVE GONE DOWN, BUT IT'S ASKING AN AWFUL LOT TO MAKE EVERY ONE OF THOSE TURNS, MAKE EVERYTHING JUST BE PERFECT.
THAT'S REALLY TOUGH, BUT THIS WAS FANTASTIC.
WE'RE AS HAPPY AS WE COULD GET STUDENTS WERE ABLE TO WATCH THE EVENT FROM A LIVE STREAM IN THEIR CLASSROOMS. AND WE'RE EXCITED TO FIND OUT WHAT THEY SET THE RECORD KNOCKING DOWN 3,730 BOXES.
HONESTLY, OUR CLASS IS LIKE SO ELATED.
I MEAN, LIKE WE PROBABLY COULD HAVE SHOOK THE WHOLE BUILDING DOWN BECAUSE YOU'RE JUST SO EXCITED.
OH GOSH, MY HEART DROPPED WHEN IT KEPT ON GOING AROUND HER EVERY SINGLE ONE, IT WAS JUST LIKE, THERE REALLY AREN'T MANY WORDS TO DESCRIBE HOW HAPPY I FELT ONCE WE BROKE THE WORLD RECORD, ESPECIALLY BECAUSE ALL THE CLASSES ELATED, IT WAS VERY, VERY EXCITED.
STUDENTS DONATED THE BOXES OF CEREAL TO USE IN SOME CLASSES EVEN REACHED OUT TO LOCAL BUSINESSES FOR MORE BOXES.
SOME KINDERGARTNERS WROTE PERSUASIVE ESSAYS TO PUBLICS AND TO WALMART TO GET THEM TO DONATE CEREAL.
AND THEY DID, BUT BOXES OF CEREAL WILL NOW BE DONATED TO BLUFFTON SELF-HELP AND A SHORT STORE.
YOUR HANDWRITTEN NOTE BY A STUDENT WON'T BE ATTACHED TO EVERY CEREAL BOX.
WE ASKED FOR IT AS ABOUT 32 TO 40,000 MEALS RIGHT HERE THAT THESE KIDS ARE PROVIDING BACK TO OUR COMMUNITY.
IT'S REALLY INCREDIBLE, VERY MEANINGFUL AND JUST SPECTACULAR TO BE A PART OF THIS WHOLE PROCESS.
MY STORY WAS ABOUT A CEREAL BOX.
WENT THROUGH, COMING UP, CAME THROUGH, DONATING TO THIS SCHOOL, TO BEING SET UP AND TOPPLING DOWN.
UM, I LIKE DOING THIS KIND OF THING WHERE IT'S LIKE, UH, IN THE POINT OF VIEW OF AN OBJECT, TWO INDEPENDENT WITNESSES FROM THE COMMUNITY WERE ON HAND TO VERIFY THE RECORD.
THEY COUNTED ALL THE BOXES AND WATCHED AS THEY WERE BEING SET UP IN TOPPLING DOWN AT RED CEDAR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BROWN LOPES.
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BEING THERE AT THAT MOMENT WAS QUITE FUNNY TO WATCH EVERYBODY'S REACTION IN THE ROOM AS THE BOXES WOULD BROACH AND ALTERNATE, AND THEN YOU'RE GOING TO JUST FOLLOW THEIR BREATH, MADE THE PRIORITY.SO IT WAS PLAYING SOME FUN AND YOU CAN SEE NEVER MISS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR AN EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCE, RIGHT? AND SO THEY TURNED THAT INTO A WRITING SIGNAGE FOR KIDS.
BUT IN ADDITION, AT THE END OF THE DAY, MORE THAN 6,000 BOXES OF CHERYL WENT TO BLOAT AND SAW THEM TO GET BACK TO COMMUNITY.
SO WONDERFUL EXPERIENCE THAT CONCLUDES OUR CANCER CELEBRATION TODAY.
WE'VE NOT HAVE ANY SUBMISSIONS FOR THE FIRST PUBLIC
[Chairman’s Report]
COMMENTS.SO WE ARE NOW DOWN TO THE CHAIRMAN'S REPORT ON THE AGENDA, AND I WILL BE GIVING AN UPDATE ON A DOCUMENT THAT I AM DR.
RODRIGUEZ RECEIVED JUST ON THE SOUTH CAROLINA SCHOOL BOARD ASSOCIATION BACK IN MARCH, WHICH I FORWARD THE DAWN.
CAUSE FOR EXAMPLE, AT THAT TIME, AND THEN I ALSO AFFORDED THE GYMS FOR MEMBERS LAST WEEK WHEN I REACHED OUT TO LYNN AND STUFF.
THIS DOCUMENT IN SCOTT, UH, IS THREEFOLD AND IT REQUESTS OFFICER BOARD NOMINATIONS WHEN HE 2122 PROPOSED LEGISLATIVE RESOLUTIONS AND ANY PROPOSED SOUTH CAROLINA SCHOOL BOARD ASSOCIATION, PROSECUTION CHANGES.
I'M PRETTY BEAT ABOUT TONIGHT BECAUSE LAST YEAR WE HAD THE ASSISTANCE OF LYNN STOKES, MARIE, UH, FOR, UH, HELPING US, UM, WITH THE WORDING FOR NEW PROPOSALS, FOR THE LEGISLATIVE RESOLUTIONS FOR THIS LEGISLATIVE SESSION.
AND WE WERE THE ONLY BOARD IN THE STATE OF THE 80 SCHOOL DISTRICTS TO SUBMIT ANY NEW LEGISLATIVE PROPOSALS, WHICH I THINK IS A VERY FINE REFLECTION ON THIS.
OR SO I'M REQUESTING AGAIN WITH THE HELP OF, I WAS A LOBBYIST THAT WE TAKE A LOOK AT IT, AT LEAST AT THE CURRENT, UM, LEGISLATIVE RESOLUTIONS AND THE, AND THE LINK TO THOSE IS IT WAS GIVEN ON THIS DOCUMENT, WHAT YOU HAVE IN THE BOARD DOCS TONIGHT.
AND LOUIS STOKES MARINA WILL BE COMING TO OUR NEXT BOARD MEETING ON MAY 4TH.
AND SHE SAID SHE WAS VERY WILLING TO HELP US.
IT'S IMPORTANT TO KNOW THAT, UM, IF WE WOULD LIKE TO AMEND OR OFFER A NEW RESOLUTION, WE NEED TO DISCUSS THEM AS A BOARD AND ALSO VOTE ON THEM AS A BOARD.
AND THAT'S WHY I'M ASKING YOU IN ADVANCE TONIGHT, PAINT, LOOK AT THIS SO WE CAN BE PREPARED.
AND SHE COMES TO OUR NEXT MEETING.
[Committee Reports]
CONCLUDES MY REPORT.NEXT WE'RE ONTO THE COMMITTEE REPORTS AND THE FIRST YES, HE CAME ON THE COURSE.
AND THE DIRECTIONS ARE IN HERE AS TO HOW YOU DO IT.
UM, SO IF ANYBODY IS INTERESTED IN THAT, UM, IT, IT SPECIFICALLY SAYS ON HIS DOCUMENT, LIKE YOU HAVE TO GIVE THEM NOMINEE'S QUALIFICATIONS, UM, SERVICE ON THE LOCAL BOARD INVOLVEMENT, KAYDEN DEVOTEES PARTICIPATION IN THE DR.
LAD SCHOOLS WERE ACTIVITIES TOO.
AND WE, ONCE AGAIN, AS A BOARD, UH, WE HAVE TO, UH, GIVE AN OFFICIAL, UM, THAT WE ARE, THAT THIS PERSON WE'D LIKE TO PUT FORTH THIS PERSON.
UM, SO YES, AND WE CAN ADD THAT TO, UH, WITHOUT COMING AGENDA.
ONCE AGAIN, IT HAS TO JUST BE DONE BY KIM OR KEITH GETTING SUBMITTED BY THEM.
UM, AND THE PERSON THAT'S NOMINATED HAS TO ASSIGN A LETTER OF COMMITMENT.
AND THE OTHER THING TO SAY TOO, IS THAT IF ANYBODY LOOKS AT THE, UH, HOW CAN I STILL WORK ASSOCIATION DEPOSITED AS ANY AMENDMENTS? THAT'S ALSO SOMETHING TO BE DISCUSSING.
ANY OTHER QUESTIONS REGARDING THAT? ALL RIGHT.
WE'LL GO ON TO BE, UM, COMMITTEE REPORTS AND BE HAVING, UH, THE AD HOC SELF-VALUE VALUATION COMMITTEE WITH CASS, MEL CAMPBELL REPORTING FIRST.
AND AS WE DISCUSSED THE LAST MEETING, THERE WAS GOING TO BE A SURVEY INSTRUMENT
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TO TENURE TO EVALUATE AS WE GO ALONG.ARE YOU READY TO HEAR FROM, FROM THE INFORMATION THAT WE GATHERED DURING THE LAST, UH, DIVIDED YELLOW BADDELEY EVALUATION? UH, WE HAVE CREATED, WE HAVE CREATED, UH, A MONKEY SURVEY AND WE'D LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION ABOUT THAT.
THAT'D BE STATUS, WHETHER IT IS A MOTION, WHICH IS WRITTEN ON THE AGENDA, UH, MAKING A MOTION TO RECOMMEND TO THE BOARD THAT THE BOARD AGREED TO COMPLETE THE SELF EVALUATION FORM.
IT SAID THAT MOTION IS ACTUALLY AND COHERENCE THE, UH, POLICY THREE SIX, WHICH ALLOWS US TO DO A SELF EVALUATION AND DO TO ATTEND YOUR EVALUATION AS A YEAR, BUT LONG.
SO WHAT WE ARE HERE ASKING A BOARD TO DO IS PARTICIPATE.
AND THIS CONTINUATION AS A YEAR AGO, OUR GOAL IS CREATE SOME BAY SHEREE TOOL OF HOW WE WERE IMPROVING.
AS PEOPLE ON THE SURVEY QUESTIONS HAVE GATHERED FROM THE INFORMATION THAT WE SEE ON THE VALUATION OF BELMONT, THAT INFORMATION POINTED OUT SOME NEEDS.
AND SO IT'S PROVEN, AND THAT'S WHERE OUR FOCUS HAS BEEN.
UM, I DON'T HAVE THOSE QUESTIONS RIGHT OFF HAND, BUT MANY OF THE QUESTIONS ARE HIGHLIGHTED IN THE FIVE QUESTION SURVEY.
UM, I'M GOING TO GET YOU THOSE FIVE QUESTIONS THOUGH.
I CAN SEE THE FIVE QUESTIONS ON SELF EVALUATION FORM WOULD BE ONE.
THE BOARD FOCUSED ON STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT TO THE BOARD MEETINGS WERE RUN EFFICIENTLY, THREE.
THE BOARD HANDLED ALL CONFLICT INTERNALLY, EXTERNALLY, OPENLY CONSTRUCTIVELY, AND THE TRANSPARENCY OR FORD MEMBERS MODEL, COMMONLY ACCEPTED MODEL BEHAVIOR.
UM, WE ACCEPTED FOR ELECTED OFFICIALS AND FIVE, THE BOARD AGENDA FOCUSED PRIMARILY ON THE RESULTS AND OPERATIONAL EXPECTATIONS.
AND THE RATING SYSTEM FOR EACH QUESTION IS ONE THROUGH FIVE, ONE RARELY OR NEVER TO ONCE IN A WHILE, THREE HALF THE TIME, FOUR, MOST OF THE TIME, FIVE OR SIX.
THOSE QUESTIONS GOT RENTED FROM SELF EVALUATION.
SORRY, THAT QUESTION IS FIVE QUESTIONS.
THERE WERE A SCALE WAS FROM ONE OF THE FIVE OF THESE NUMBERS, EACH QUESTIONS NUMBER ANYWHERE FROM PROBABLY LESS THAN THREE DOWN TO A 1.8, I THINK.
UM, BUT WE GATHERED THOSE QUESTIONS AND KINDA LOOKED DOWN TO DIRECT THE FIVE QUESTIONS THAT WE COULD WORK ON AS WE GO FORWARD.
AND I SAID, IT SHOULD HAVE A SURVEY AT THE END OF THE BOARD MEETINGS, BUT BY A MOM.
WHAT I MEAN BY CONTINUATION IS AS YOU ANSWER THE QUESTIONS QUESTION, YOU SHOULD BE REFLECTING ON WHAT YOUR ANSWER WAS LAST TIME AND WHETHER OR NOT YOUR ANSWER IS CHANGING OR IMPROVING ANY AT HOME.
PERFECT EXAMPLE, NUMBER ONE, UM, OR FOCUS ON STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT.
WELL, IF YOU ANSWERED THIS QUESTION TO THE NIGHT THAT I SHOULD ASK HER, YOU ASK HER TO ESPECIALLY TONIGHT AS TO, BECAUSE YOU FELT THEY WOULD'VE BEEN FOCUSING ON THE ACHIEVEMENT OF THE STUDENTS.
AND NEXT TIME WE MEET NEXT MONTH, SEAN, SOME TO EVENT OVERALL.
AND THAT INCLUDES ALL OF THEM, THE RECORDS THAT THE BOARD HAS ISSUED AND ALL THE EXPECTATIONS THAT HAVE GONE THROUGH THE BOOKLET
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AND YOUR ANSWER NOW IS THREE.YOU'VE DONE A LOT MORE THAN YOU ASKED FOR THREE.
AND WHAT WE DO IS WE COMPILE THESE QUARTERLY BASIS AND LOOK AT, SEE HOW THAT PARTICULAR THING IS CHANGING, OR IF IT'S NOT CHANGING.
AND THE GOAL IS TO COME UP WITH FIVE MORE QUESTIONS, YOU KNOW, AROUND THE KID, THE EFFICIENCIES THERE THAT'S, THAT'S, THAT'S IN BOTH, UM,
I DO UNDERSTAND WE HAVE OUR BUSINESS MEETINGS TWICE MONTHLY.
WE'RE JUST FOCUSED ON BUSINESS MEETINGS VERSUS ARE WE TAKING NOTICE? I DON'T KNOW CHINA, BUT I ACTUALLY NOTICED THESE QUESTIONS ARE NOT ALL RELATIVE TO THE BOARD MEETINGS, BOARD ACTION ACTIVITIES, DISTRICT WIDE ACTIVITIES DURING THE MONTH AS CARETAKERS.
SO ALL OF THESE ACTIVITIES TO REFLECT ON WHAT'S HAPPENING AND YEAH, IT GOES BACK TO WHEN YOU LAST ANSWER THE QUESTION, WHAT IS YOUR ANSWER TODAY? YEAH, IT'S A CONTINUATION OF ANSWERS.
MY QUESTION WAS SIMILAR TO DR.
SO LIKE THE FIRST ONE SAYS THE BOARD FOCUSED ON STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT, SO THAT, I GUESS I'M STILL UNCLEAR.
SO IS THAT FOR THE TWO MEETINGS PER MONTH, I GET THE EPIC CONCLUSION OF THE SECOND MEETING.
WE'RE GOING TO ANSWER THAT JUST TO REFLECT ON THOSE TWO MEETINGS.
WELL, KEVIN, WE'RE NOT JUST TALKING ABOUT READINGS.
WELL, WHEN DID YOU ANSWER THAT QUESTION? YOU SHOULD REFLECT ON WHAT HAPPENED OVER THE LAST MONTH.
UH, FOR THE LAST TIME YOU ANSWERED THE QUESTION, I SAID, YOU ANSWERED THE QUESTION TONIGHT, WHATEVER OCCURRED AND YOU KNOW, GRADUATION PREPARATION, UH, INCIDENTS AT THE STOOLS, UH, ELEVATE, JUST DO THEM TO ACHIEVEMENT.
BUT YOUR ANSWER IS NOT ABOUT ME.
IT'S ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED IN TERMS OF THE BULLETS CARE TAKING ROLE.
FROM THE LAST TIME YOU ANSWERED THE QUESTION STILL TODAY.
I MEAN, IF YOU'RE NEVER FOCUSED ON STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT, THEN ANSWER IS ONE PARTICULARLY.
AND I'M NOT SAYING FROM THE MEETINGS THAT THE ONE FROM THE DISTRICT STANDPOINT, FROM ALL OF THE THINGS WE DO, WE'RE NOT FOCUSING ON STUDENT AGENDA.
I MEAN, ANSWERING ONE, BUT IF IT WAS FROM THE OVERVIEW, YOU UNDERSTAND THAT WE ALL FOCUSING ON STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT AND PRIORITY IS STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT.
THEN YOUR ANSWERS SHOULD, SHOULD BE PRETTY HIGH OR HIGHER THAN LONG.
AND IT IMPROVES BECAUSE WE HAVE BEEN GUILTY IN SOME PEOPLE'S MIND, OBVIOUSLY WOULDN'T COME UP OR NOT TIDY FOCUSING ON STUDENTS FROM JAYDEN.
A LOT OF OTHER THINGS YOU'RE FOCUSED ON, WHICH MIGHT DIRECTLY IMPACT STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT AND MANY PEOPLE FINE, BUT IN SOME PEOPLE'S MIND, IT'S NOT CHEAP.
WE FOCUSED ON, SO THAT'S, THAT'S, THAT'S, THAT'S THE BEST ANSWER I COULD GIVE.
CAN I FOLLOW UP WITH A CLARIFYING QUESTION? OKAY.
I GUESS WHAT'S THROWING ME OFF IS IT SAYS THE BOARD AND AS ACTING AS INDIVIDUALS, WE'RE NOT THE BOARD.
SO THE ONLY THING THAT I THINK THAT I CAN MEASURE IS THINGS THAT WE'VE AGREED ON AS A GROUP, UH, ON THIS, THIS FORM.
SO I'M A LITTLE, UM, I GUESS, CAUSE WE COULD HAVE ALL KINDS OF DIFFERENT INTERPRETATIONS ABOUT WHAT'S GOING ON, WHAT THE DISTRICT IS DOING.
UM, IN TERMS OF STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT, BASED ON, YOU KNOW, UM, PRESENTATIONS WE'VE HAD FROM THE STAFF.
YOU COULDN'T BE MORE PERFECT THAN WHAT YOU'RE SAYING.
WE DON'T WANT YOU TO ANSWER WHAT YOU DOING
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OR WHAT THE BOARD OVERSIGHT IS.THE DISTRICT IS DOING FROM YOUR VIEWPOINTS.
ARE WE ALL GOING TO HAVE A FEW POINT AND IT MAY NOT BE TO SAM, BUT THAT'S WHAT WE, THAT'S WHY I BE DOING.
OUR INTENT IS THAT YOU ANSWER THE QUESTION, YOU'RE LOOKING AT, WHAT ARE WE DOING WITH THAT AS A PERSON? WHAT ARE WE DOING AS A POOL? EVERY QUESTION.
IT'S JUST LIKE THE, THE 92 QUESTIONS YOU ASKED THAT YOU DIDN'T ANSWER WHAT YOU DID.
YOU ANSWERED WHAT YOU THOUGHT THE BOARD DID.
THAT'S THE SAME THING, HAM THAT APPARENTLY HAVE NO, WE HAVE A, WELL, I, YOU KNOW, I, I UNDERSTAND THAT, I GUESS IN A WAY, BUT, UM, I, I HAVE TO THINK ABOUT IT BECAUSE TO ME IT STILL SEEMS LIKE BEFORE EVALUATING OURSELVES AS A BOARD, THE ONLY TIME THAT WE REALLY ACT AS A BOARD IS WHEN WE'RE ALL TOGETHER AT A BOARD MEETING, OTHERWISE WE ARE INDIVIDUALS AND WE ARE NOT ACTING AS A BOARD.
THAT'S NOT THE PICTURE YOU WOULD EDIT WHEN WE SAID OUR BOARD IN THIS CASE, WE'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT, UH, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT ALL THE THINGS THAT THE BOARD IS RESPONSIBLE BY HAVING DONE.
WHAT WE AS A BOARD, ARE WE, ARE WE, UH, STEWARDSHIP, UH, UH, BEING GOOD STEWARDS OF THE PEOPLE'S, UH, RESOURCES? AND YOUR QUESTION IS YES.
I THINK WE ALL KNOW WHAT THEY'VE BEEN KNOCKED OUT ON THIS MATTER.
ALL WE CONFIDENTLY ON STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT AS A BOARD.
AND YOU'LL ANSWER THAT QUESTION IS, DO YOU THINK THEY'RE DOING IT OR YOU'RE NOT DOING ANYTHING ON UP RATHER THAN CONCENTRATING ON ACHIEVEMENT, WHATNOT.
EVERYBODY SHOULD HAVE AN OPINION ON THAT BECAUSE THAT'S JUST THE, HOW WELL I'VE GOT PRIORITY STUDENT JUNE.
SO WE FOCUSED ON IT ENOUGH, NOT ENOUGH.
OH, WHAT? AND NOT FROM A MEETING STANDPOINT OR FROM WHAT WE HAVE DIRECTED DR.
RODRIGUEZ TO DO WHAT THE DISTRICT IS DOING, BUT THE SCHOOLS ARE DOING, WE'RE STILL, YOU KNOW YEAH.
THE OVERVIEW OF ALL THAT, THAT'S ALL PROVIEW I DON'T, I DON'T, UH, I I'M OUT OF WITNESSES DRIVES OR TRYING TO VERIFY IT ANYMORE.
SOMEBODY WITH A LOT MORE SKILLS DIDN'T HELP ME OUT.
UM, YOU KNOW, I HAD THE SAME FARTS KATHY HERE.
THE BOARD ONLY ACTS ACTUALLY IMMEDIATELY, BUT WE'RE ALSO ASSESSING AGENDAS.
THE BOARD ASSIGNED STATES, YOU KNOW, THE COMMITTEES, UM, SORT OF TRYING TO INCORPORATE ALL THAT AND MISSING HERE, WHICH IS WHAT'S GOING TO COME IN A QUARTERLY REVIEWS IS THIS IS AN EXTENSION OF THAT SURVEY.
WE TOOK, THESE ARE THE QUESTIONS.
SO IF WE DON'T IMPROVE, THEN WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO FIGURE OUT WHAT WE NEED TO DO.
AND I THINK THEN THAT'S WHEN IT GETS DOWN TO, I THINK, WHERE YOUR FOCUS IS, WHAT CAN THE BOARD DO DIFFERENTLY, UH, IN ORDER TO RAISE THE SCORE, IF YOU'VE RATED IT A ONE, WELL, WHAT IS IT WE SHOULD DO? WHAT, WHAT, WHAT SHOULD WE DO DIFFERENTLY AS A BOARD? UM, AND THEN I THINK YOUR FOCUS WILL RE RE UH, SURFACE THEN NO, NOT WHAT WE, WHAT THE DISTRICT DOES, BUT WHAT CAN THE BOARD DO TO RAISE ITS SCORE? UM, AND SO I THINK THAT THAT'S WHEN THAT'S KIND OF, I RESPOND TO THAT.
THEY WANT TO MAKE UNDERSTANDING, LET'S SAY NEXT MONTH, NEXT MONTH GRADUATION, ALL RIGHT.
LET'S SAY WHETHER WE GO ON TO GRADUATE THE DATES TIMES, ET CETERA, ET CETERA.
AND THEN THERE'S A BIG PAUSE, STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT, NUMBER 10, ANY OF THESE STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT IN ANY OF THESE GRADUATIONS, THAT'S REFLECTIVE ONE RATHER THAN HOW WE FOCUS ON STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT.
AND THAT'S SOMETHING THAT YOU CAN
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GRADE THAT DOES NOT HAVE ANYTHING AT ALL TO DO WITH STUFF, BUT THE MEETING OR PASSING POLICY OR NOT PASSING.THAT'S AN EXAMPLE OF HOW I WOULD REFLECT ON THIS QUESTION.
WHAT DID WE DO IF WE SHOW UP TO A PLAY OR VISIT THE SCHOOL, ALL THE OTHER THINGS THAT ENCOMPASSES STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT, OTHER THAN PASSING A POLICY STRESS MEETING IS NOT, I DON'T THINK GRAND TIRE FOCUS THAT KNOW REFLECTIVE OF THE PHONES OR GO, IT IS A DIRECTIVES.
THE OTHER THINGS BOARD THE BOARD HAVE BEEN SURE THAT'S GOING ON OTHER THAN WHAT WE DID THIS MEETING.
THAT'S, THAT'S MY TAKE ON THAT SNAPS ME.
UM, UM, YES, MA'AM I'LL FIRST.
I WOULD LIKE TO SAY, I UNDERSTAND IS ACCURATE.
MR. CAMPBELL WAS COMING FROM, UH, WHEN, WHEN IT COMES TO THIS, I HAVE A CLEAR VIEW AND WE, I GUESS ALSO WE TALKED ABOUT THIS, THAT, THAT, THAT COMMITTEE, UH, THE LEVEL LEVEL COMMITTEE MEETING, BUT ALSO HOW WE'LL START OFF WITH, OUT OF SIGHT OUT OF MIND.
AND WHEN I LOOK AT THIS QUESTION AND THEN WE'LL, AND, UH, NUMBER ONE THAT SAYS THE BOARD FOCUSED ON STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT, THEN BASICALLY WE'RE SAYING THAT THE DISTRICT IS DRIVEN BY DATA AND BY NUMBERS AND BY RESULTS, THEN WE WILL ASK OURSELVES, AND THAT WILL KEEP US SELF CONSCIENTIOUS TO CONTINUE TO QUESTION OURSELVES IS WHAT WE'RE DOING.
IS IT, IS IT TOWARD, IS IT TOWARDS THE BOTTOM DOLLAR EFFORT OR IS IT TOWARDS THE, THE EFFORT OF STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT? SO I, WHEN I, WHEN I SEE THAT QUESTION, THAT, THAT, THAT QUESTION STICKS OUT TO ME AS IN, AS A BOY, AS A WHOLE, ARE WE FOCUSING ON STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT, REVERENCE REVERENCE HAD A MEETING WHERE WE'RE, IT'S, UH, OUT AND ABOUT AND SOMETHING THAT WE'RE, THAT WE'RE AT IS AT THE END OF THE DAY, ALL REFOCUS ON THE BOTTOM LINE, THE BOTTOM LINE IS STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT.
WE SAY IT, BUT THEN SOMETIMES WE FORGET ABOUT IT.
AND I NOTICED THAT THERE THERE'VE BEEN TIMES WHEN I DID IN THE PAST WHERE I'VE BROUGHT IT UP, I AM PACIFIC SPECIFICALLY.
AND, YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES PEOPLE SAY, WELL, YEAH, WE ARE FOCUSED ON CERTAIN THINGS, BUT, UH, STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT IS ONE OF THEM.
SO I THINK THAT THIS HERE JUST, IT JUST IS, I GUESS, THE OUTSIDE, OUT OF, OUT OF SIGHT, OUT OF MIND, THIS IS KEEPING IT FRESH.
AND REMINDING US THAT STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT IS ONE THING THAT WE'RE FOCUSED ON.
AND THE QUESTION IS, AS A BOARD, ARE WE FOCUSED ON IT? DO WE SEE GROWTH IN IT? AND OUR DAY TO DAY SCRIBE AS A DISTRICT, THAT'S HOW I PLAN.
AND THAT'S HOW THIS QUESTION STICKS OUT TO ME IN GENERAL, NOT AS IN ONE PERSON WHO HAS THE BOARD, I'LL REMOVING THE, ARE WE MOVING THE BOTTOM LINE OR ARE WE NOT THAT THAT'S JUST, THAT'S ALL I GOT FOR YOU.
UM, YEAH, MY COMMENTS ARE KIND OF ALONG THE SAME LINES AS, UM, MR. SMITH.
UM, I UNDERSTAND THAT THESE MONTHLY, UM, QUESTIONNAIRES ARE IN FURTHER INS AND KEEPING THESE AREAS IN WHICH WE WERE LOWLY RANKED LOWER RANKED, UM, AT THE FOREFRONT FOR US TO BE COGNIZANT OF THAT.
UM, I CERTAINLY THINK THERE'S ACTION THAT CAN BE TAKEN BETWEEN NOW.
AND WHEN WE LOOK BACK, YOU KNOW, THE FIRST QUARTER GROUPING OF THESE, UM, AND I DON'T THINK IT'S NECESSARILY ROCKET SCIENCE, IT JUST REQUIRES US TO USE A LENS, UM, OF BEING FOCUSED ON STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT.
WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT ITEMS AS FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY AND, YOU KNOW, OF COURSE THE DATA THAT'S REFLECTED BY THE TEST SCORES.
I DON'T HAVE ANY ISSUE WITH THE OTHER, UH, QUESTIONS THAT ARE ON HERE.
CERTAINLY THERE ARE GOING TO BE FOR LOW THAT I THINK THAT FIRST ONE IS KIND OF WHAT IS A LITTLE BIT DIFFICULT BECAUSE IT'S TALKING ABOUT THE BOARD FOCUSED ON STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT.
SO I THINK IF WE ALL KEEP THAT LENS AND ALSO WE MAKE SURE THAT THERE ARE AGENDA ITEMS THAT ALLOW US TO FOCUS IN ON THAT AREA.
UM, THEN IT'LL ALWAYS BE SOMETHING THAT MAINTAINS A PRIORITY AND HOPEFULLY ARE NOT AS IMPORTANT, BUT THAT'S MY COMMENT, INGRID, THANK YOU.
UM, SELF EVALUATIONS ARE ALWAYS BLANK INSTRUMENT, RIGHT? UM, I THINK WHAT WE'RE LOOKING TALKING ABOUT IS JUST TAKING OUR PULSE ONCE A MONTH AND WHERE WE'RE AT AND WORKING FOR A FRIEND OR GET BETTER.
UM, AND BECAUSE WE WANT TO FOCUS ON STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT BECAUSE THIS CONVERSATION IS NOT FOCUSING ON STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT.
I THINK WE CAN DO ONE OF TWO THINGS.
WE CAN MAKE A MOTION TO DO MORE WORK.
AND IN MY OPINION, I ACTUALLY SAT IN ON THIS COMMITTEE.
I THOUGHT THEY DID EXCELLENT WORK.
SO I KIND OF I'M PREPARED TO MAKE A MOTION THAT WOULD BE USEFUL
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SCREENING THE ONE.SO I MOVED THAT IF FOR COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION AGREED TO COMPLETE THE SELF EVALUATION FORM AND AS PRESENTED ONCE A MONTH.
MR. SMITH WAS THERE MR. SMITH AND MR. BELL, RIGHT.
YOU BROUGHT YOUR HANDS AND THEN HE PUT IT BACK UP AND YOU'D LIKE TO HAVE ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION MR. SMITH.
THE MOTION CARRIES UNANIMOUSLY.
YOU HAVE ANY FURTHER REPORTING OR ACTION.
UM, MR.
UM, I REALLY DON'T HAVE MUCH TO REPORT.
UM, THE COMMITTEE IS WORKING, UH, MR. FALLON AND DR.
RODRIQUEZ ARE TO WORK TOGETHER, TO COME UP WITH, UM, A PROPOSAL OF SOME, UH, ACHIEVEMENT DATA OR SOME MEASURE THAT WE MAY USE IN PLACE OF THE, THE CURRENT, UH, DATA THAT'S EXPECTED IN OUR, IN OUR PLAN DUE TO THE FACT THAT, UM, THERE'S A LOT OF UNCERTAINTIES ABOUT THE STATE TESTING.
SO, UM, OUR NEXT MEETING IS MAY 5TH AND I REALLY, UNTIL WE HAVE SOMETHING DEFINITIVE TO PRESENT TO THE BOARD, UM, CONCLUDES MY REPORT.
WE'LL MOVE ON TO THE 3.85 CHAIR.
WE WERE ASKED TO TAKE A LOOK AT FISCAL AUTONOMY, FISCAL AUTHORITY RIGHT NOW, UH, IN YOUR BOARD DOCS, THERE ARE TWO DOCUMENTS.
ONE IS A LIST OF ALL THE SCHOOLS AND SCHOOL DISTRICTS IN THE STATE AND WHO HAS FISCAL AUTHORITY AND WHO DOES NOT, UH, THE UNDERGRADUATE MEMBERS OF THEIR BOARD.
I'VE SEEN THIS BEFORE THE NEW MEMBERS.
YOU PROBABLY HAVE NOT SEEN THIS YET.
UH, THAT'S SOMETHING OF INTEREST.
I THINK THE MOST IMPORTANT TO ME, WE'VE ASKED MRS. CARTILAGE AT, TO PICK OR LOOK AT THE BACKGROUND OF THE BUFORD COUNTY COUNCIL'S AUTHORITY TO APPROVE OUR BUDGET.
AND WHEN THAT WAS ENACTED AND WHAT ACTIONS WE SHOULD DO TO ATTAIN A LEVEL OF FISCAL AUTHORITY TO APPROVE OUR OWN BUDGET.
SO I UNDERSTAND MR. BIG COLLAGEN IS THAT THIS TONIGHT IS THAT RIGHT? UH, SO I'D LIKE TO START OUT WITH A MOTION BECAUSE THIS IS THE REASON WE HAVE THAT IS DUE TO ANY COUNTY ORDINANCE.
AND IT WAS PASSED IN 1968 AND REVISED IN 1969.
AND THAT IS WHY WE ARE IN THE FISCAL SITUATION WE ARE IN.
AND SO I MOVE THAT THE BOARD DIRECTOR, THE SUPERINTENDENT WHO WORKED WITH LEGAL COUNSEL TO DRAFT A PROPOSED BUFORD COUNTY ORDINANCE REGARDING FISCAL AUTONOMY, BUT I COULD, I MEAN, OKAY.
SO I'D LIKE TO THEN TURN IT OVER TO MR. HALLIGAN TO GIVE US A BRIEFING ABOUT THE WONDERFUL STUDY THAT HE SUBMITTED ALONG WITH MS. CARTILAGE ABOUT THAT HISTORY AND HOW WE GOT TO WHERE WE ARE, AND
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WHAT'S THE BEST WAY TO ACHIEVE FISCAL AUTONOMY.MR. ELLIGAN, UH, THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
UM, AT THE COMMITTEE MEETING, I WENT THROUGH AT SOME LENGTH, THE, SOME OF THE HISTORY OF THE LEGISLATION DEALING WITH THE BUFORD, UH, SCHOOL DISTRICT, THE BOARD AND THE COUNTY COUNCIL, UH, AND I WILL SHORTEN IT A GREAT DEAL RIGHT NOW.
UM, UNTIL 1970 BUFORD COUNTY HAD WELL IN THE LATE 1960S, BUFORD COUNTY STILL HAD TWO SCHOOL DISTRICTS.
IT WAS NOT CONSOLIDATED UNTIL 1970.
HOWEVER, THE COUNTY COUNCIL HAD BEEN CREATED BY STATUTE EARLIER IN THE 1960S.
AND, UH, THE LAW PROVIDED A LOCAL LAW APPLYING ONLY TO, UH, BUFORD COUNTY AND THE BUFORD SCHOOL DISTRICTS AT THAT TIME SAID THAT THE, UH, COUNTY BOARD WOULD GATHER UP THE TWO SCHOOL DISTRICT BUDGETS, PUT THEM TOGETHER, CERTIFY THEM TO THE COUNTY COUNCIL.
THE COUNTY COUNCIL WOULD PUT THAT WITH ITS OWN BUDGETS AND SUBMIT THOSE TO THE DELEGATION AND THE DELEGATION HAD TO APPROVE ANY TAX INCREASE.
SO THE COUNCIL, THE COUNTY COUNCIL WAS NOT REALLY IN THE POSITION OF APPROVING YOUR BUDGET.
NOW IT'S A LONG STORY GOING BACK, BUT THEN IT SEVENTIES, EXCUSE ME, AM I BREAKING UP DURING THE 1970S? UH, THERE WERE THREE VERY IMPORTANT, UM, CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS.
UH, THE, UH, THE MOST IMPORTANT IS THE HOME RULE FOR COUNTIES AND CITIES.
THE OTHER WAS THE FINANCE SECTION, ARTICLE 10 OF THE CONSTITUTION.
AND ARTICLE 11, DEALING WITH THE PUBLIC EDUCATION SYSTEM WAS ALSO AMENDED THE, UM, ANY FACT, THE COUNTY COUNCIL, UH, THE, THE AUTHORITY OF THE STATE TO PASS A LAW FOR ANY ONE COUNTY WAS, UH, TAKEN AWAY.
AND, UM, SO AFTER THAT, THERE WAS A LAW THAT SAID THAT THE SCHOOL BOARD HAD TO PRESENT CERTAIN THINGS TO COUNTY COUNCIL THAT WAS REPEALED IN 1984.
AND Y'ALL HAVE OPERATED WITH THE COUNTY COUNCIL, VERY CONTENTIOUSLY, UH, EVER SINCE.
UM, AND YOU'VE SUBMITTED YOUR, UH, SOMETIMES YOU'VE CERTIFIED YOUR BUDGET.
SOMETIMES YOU'VE JUST SUBMITTED THEM, BUT THE COUNTY HAS OPERATED ON THE ASSUMPTION THAT THE COUNTY COUNCIL APPROVED YOUR TAX RATE.
NOW THERE HAVE BEEN SO MANY LAW CHANGES SINCE THEN FOR SCHOOL FINANCES, THE EFA IN 1977 EIA IN 1984, YOU HAVE THE EDUCATION ACCOUNTABILITY ACT.
YOU HAVE THE VERY RECENT ACT THAT DEALS WITH YOUR OWN FISCAL, UM, UH, MANAGEMENT AND ALLOWS THE STATE TO INTERVENE IN YOUR DISTRICT.
IF YOU DON'T MEET CERTAIN STANDARDS, UM, THE CA YOUR, YOUR ACCOUNTING IS DICTATED BY THE, THE, UH, THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION BY RULE JUST GOES ON AND ON.
AND, UM, WHEN YOU READ CAREFULLY THESE LAWS IN MY VIEW AND HAS BEEN OUR OPINION, AND I'VE BEEN ACTIVE THERE SINCE THE EARLY TWO THOUSANDS.
AND THE MEMO THAT YOU SEE, I THINK IS THE ONE PAGE ONE, UH, WE'VE RE WE'VE BEEN WRITING LETTERS FOR YEARS.
I KNOW MR. EARL CAMPBELL REMEMBERS QUITE A FEW OF THEM.
UM, SO IN, IN REVIEWING THIS WITH THE COMMITTEE, WE DECIDED THE BEST PLACE TO START WAS TO DRAFT AN ORDINANCE THAT IS EXPLICITLY AUTHORIZED BY STATE LAW THAT ALLOWS THE COUNTY COUNCIL TO, UM, UH, PROVIDE BY ORDINANCE THE METHOD BY WHICH THE SCHOOL BOARDS, UH, AUTHORITY WILL BE EXERCISED.
NOW, THAT'S A STRANGE STATUTE.
IT'S PART OF A HOME RULE FOR COUNTIES, UH, BUT THAT'S REALLY WHERE WE'RE GOING WITH THIS AT THE BEGINNING IS TO HAVE A, A, AN ORDINANCE AND THIS MOTION REQUESTS THAT I
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WORK WITH THE SUPERINTENDENT TO DEVELOP IT, AND THEN PROPOSE IT TO THE COUNTY COUNCIL THAT WILL, UM, ESSENTIALLY PROVIDE THAT WHEN YOU CERTIFY THE BUDGETS THAT IS ESTABLISHING YOUR BUDGET AND THE MILLAGE RATE THAT, UH, GENERATES THE LOCAL PROPERTY TAX REVENUE THAT'S NEEDED FOR THE BUDGET.NOW, THEY, UM, IT WILL BEGIN WITH A LONG RECITAL, LEGISLATIVE HISTORY OF THE CHANGES THAT HAVE OCCURRED.
EXCUSE ME, WE CAN HEAR YOU FINE.
SO I HAVE A QUESTION THEN THE SECOND, OKAY.
TH TH THE SECOND PART OF IT, WE'LL, WE'LL PROVIDE FOR THE TERMS, YOU KNOW, THE COUNTY COUNCILS, WHAT THEY'RE APPROVING OR ENROLLEE.
THEY HAVE A MINISTERIAL ROLE, NOT A SUBSTANTIVE ROLE, UH, AND WHICH WILL PROVIDE FOR THE BOARD TO CONTROL ITS BUDGET AND THE TIMING OF ITS BUDGET.
UM, AND THE, UH, THIS WILL, UM, I THINK THE SOUND ORDINANCE LEGALLY PROPER, UH, I'M SURE WILL NOT, UH, BE, YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU SUBMIT IT, IT'LL TAKE A LOT OF WORK AND DISCUSSION TO GET IT PASSED, BUT, UM, THE, THE LEGAL SIDE OF IT WILL BE SOUND.
AND, UM, I THINK THE MOTION FROM THE COMMITTEE IS TO THE FULL BOARD, TO AUTHORIZE THE SUPERINTENDENT, TO PREPARE THE ORDINANCE, UM, AND WHICH WE'LL BE WORKING ON ANY QUIET.
UM, ANYTIME ANY ONE HAS A QUESTION, I'D BE GLAD TO RESPOND.
UM, FIRST OF ALL, BEING BASED IN CHARGE OF THIS VENTURE, UH, UH, ALMOST STRATEGY, I MEAN, IT'S,
AND THAT'S, THAT'S WHY YOU SAY IT THAT WAY SO THAT HE CAN DIRECT, UM, MR.
WE DON'T HAVE A LEGAL COUNSEL IN RESPONSE TO THE BOARD AND THE STREET LAUNCH IT, GO OUT AND HIRE ONE SHEPHERD, BUT THAT'S WHY I'M EMOTIONAL STATE AT THAT WAY.
WE WILL APPROVE IT BEFORE IT GOES TO COUNTY COUNCIL.
DOES THIS, HOW DOES THIS AFFECT THE DISCUSSION? I'M NOT SURE THAT I KNOW I COULD NOT UNDERSTAND AT ALL.
I MEAN, I UNDERSTOOD PART OF IT.
IF APPROVED, IF APPROVED, HE GOT, WHAT WERE YOU LOOKING FOR? HOW WOULD THIS AFFECT THE AUDIO VISUAL? TH TH THIS IS SAY PROPOSAL FROM THE DISTRICT, THE SUPERINTENDENT TO THE BOARD, AND THEN THE BOARD ON TO COUNTY COUNCIL TO ADOPT THIS ORDINANCE THAT WILL STRUCTURE THE WAY YOU, UM, PRESENT YOUR BUDGET TO THEM AND THEIR AUTHORITY.
AND IT WILL REFLECT WHAT I THINK IS THEIR AUTHORITY UNDER THE LAW, WHICH IS ALMOST NONE.
SO IT IS TO REINFORCE YOUR BUDGET CONTROL AND YOUR CONTROL OF THE TAX RATE, THE SAME LIMIT, THE STATE LIMIT.
THERE'S A STATE STATUTE THAT ESTABLISHES A LIMIT FOR YOUR PROPERTY TAX RATES THAT APPLIES TO YOU AND TO THE SCHOOL, TO THE COUNTY.
SO THAT'S NOT GOING TO BE ANY DIFFERENT, UM, BUT IT, IT PROVIDES AN OPPORTUNITY TO, TO MAKE IT HAPPEN SMOOTHLY.
AND YOU TRYING TO WORK WITH THE COUNTY COUNCIL TO, UM, ESTABLISH YOUR AUTHORITY OVER YOUR BUDGET,
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UH, NEXT BUSINESS VILLAGE.MY QUESTION WAS ALONG THE SAME LINES AS, AS MR. CAMPBELL'S, BUT, UM, YOU EXPLAINED A BIT ABOUT THE PROCESS.
SO, SO DOES THIS HAVE TO ACTUALLY GO TO THE VOTERS AT ALL MR. HALLIGAN OR WHAT HAPPENS ONCE COUNTY COUNCIL SEES THAT? RIGHT? CAN YOU JUST EXPLAIN A BIT MORE ABOUT THAT PROCESS? WELL, THERE'S NO PROVISION TO GO TO THE VOTERS.
I MEAN, THEY ELECT YOU INDIVIDUALLY AS MEMBERS OF YOUR, OF THE COUNTY COUNCIL, THE SCHOOL BOARD, BUT THERE IS NO VOTE ON WHETHER OR NOT YOU HAVE AUTONOMY.
NOW IN SOUTH CAROLINA, UH, THE LOCAL DELEGATIONS HAVE CONTROLLED FISCAL AUTHORITY AND, UH, EVERY SCHOOL DISTRICT HAS SOME TYPE OF STATUTE THAT GOVERNS HOW IT IS, UH, WHO HAS AUTHORITY AND HOW MUCH AUTHORITY.
AND SO ON THE CHART THAT THE SCHOOL BOARD ASSOCIATION DOES IS A VERY SUMMARY CHART.
THAT THERE'S A LOT, THERE ARE MANY, MANY DIFFERENT WAYS THIS HAPPENS, THESE STATUTES THEY'RE PROBABLY 40 OR 50 OF THEM, 40 OF THEM, AT LEAST THAT ARE ALL SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT FROM EACH OTHER.
UM, THE, UM, AN ORDINANCE BY COUNTY COUNCIL THAT RECOGNIZES ITS AUTHORITY, I THINK IS THE FIRST PLACE YOU START WORK THIS OUT COOPERATIVELY.
UH, THE DELEGATION COULD ALSO BE IN, DEFINITELY HAS A ROLE, UM, WHICH, YOU KNOW, COULD BE, UH, THEY COULD EXERT THEMSELVES, OR, UM, FINALLY, I MEAN, THE LAST RESORT, AND WE DID TALK ABOUT THIS IN THE COMMITTEE IS SOME SORT OF LAWSUIT, BUT THAT'S A VERY DIFFICULT WAY TO GO.
AND, UM, AND MY RECOMMENDATION HAS ALWAYS BEEN TO TRY TO WORK THIS THROUGH AS WELL AS THE COMMITTEE IS SUGGESTING, UM, WITH THIS MOTION.
THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR, EXCUSE ME.
UM, AS YOU KNOW, WE HAVE A WHOLE ISSUE WITH AUDITOR THIS YEAR, WILL THIS, UM, GET US AROUND THAT PROBLEM WHERE THE COUNTY AUDITOR CAN, UM, SET A MILITARY THAT THEY FEEL IS APPROPRIATE, AS OPPOSED TO THE MILITARY, WE FEEL IT'S APPROPRIATE.
DOES THIS, DOES THIS GET US AROUND THAT OBSTACLE? THIS IS THE DRESSING, YOUR OPERATING MILLAGE, RIGHT? THE, UM, AND THE OPERATING MILLAGE RATE IS, IS WHAT WE'RE, UM, THAT IS WHAT THIS ORDINANCE IS ADDRESSING.
IT WILL ALSO ADDRESS THE ROLES OF THE TREASURER, THE COUNTY TREASURER, AND THE COUNTY AUDITOR.
NOW, UM, THEY, I HAVE TALKED TO MS. CROSBY ABOUT THE PROBLEMS WITH THE AUDITOR AND MS. CARTLIDGE, AND WE'RE GOING TO TRY TO ADDRESS THAT AS BEST WE CAN IN THIS ORDINANCE BACK HERE.
MY QUESTION KIND OF GOES INTO WHAT MR. CAMPBELL WAS TALKING ABOUT TOO.
SO I'VE FROM WHAT I'M NEW ON BOARD.
UM, AND WHAT I UNDERSTAND IS THAT WE HAVE TRIED TO DO THIS BEFORE.
UM, I S I SAW SOMEWHERE THAT YOU SAID YOU'VE WRITTEN MANY, MANY LETTERS LIKE THIS, IN ADDITION TO WHICH I DON'T FULLY UNDERSTAND, BUT I KNOW THAT WE HAD A HUGE ISSUE WITH THE COUNTY AUDITOR ATTORNEY DOWN IN THE COUNTY COUNCIL.
I'M NOT SURE HOW HE PLAYS INTO ALL THIS.
UM, AND THEN IN ADDITION, WHAT'S GOING ON RIGHT NOW IN COLUMBIA IS, YOU KNOW, LESS CONTROL, RIGHT? IF YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT LEGISLATURE TO SCHOOL BOARDS, RIGHT? THERE'S A LOT OF SUPPORT FOR THIS VERY CONTROVERSIAL BILL ABOUT COMING IN AND TAKING OVER SCHOOL BOARDS.
SO IT DOESN'T, I'M JUST WONDERING, ARE THE CONDITIONS GOOD RIGHT NOW TO TRY TO DO THIS NUMBER ONE, AND NUMBER TWO, ARE WE GOING TO WIN? ARE WE GOING TO WIN THIS, THIS, THIS TIME TO MAKE ALL THIS EFFORT WORTHWHILE? THEY, OUR STATE SYSTEM IS SET UP FOR, UH, THE STATE LEGISLATURE, YOU KNOW, ACTING BY LAW, WHICH MEANS THE GOVERNOR GOVERNOR'S SIGNATURE AND SO ON.
BUT THE STATE LEGISLATURE, UH, IS IN CONTROL OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM.
I MEAN, THAT'S, THAT'S WHAT ARTICLE 11 OF THE CONSTITUTION SAYS.
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AND TO EXERCISE THAT AUTHORITY, THE STATE LEGISLATURE DIRECTLY HAS CREATED SCHOOL DISTRICTS, COUNTIES HAVE NO FUNCTION IN THE CONSTITUTIONAL STRUCTURE OF SCHOOLS.PUBLIC IS NOT A PURPOSE OF COUNTIES OR OF COUNTY GOVERNMENT.
AND THAT'S MY FUNDAMENTAL REASON TO SAY THAT THE COUNTY COUNCIL HAS NO ROLE IN ESTABLISHING YOUR BUDGET AND APPROVING OR BUDGET ANY PART OF IT, WHETHER IT'S LOCAL REVENUES, STATE, REVENUE, FEDERAL REVENUE, YOU, EVERY DIME YOU GET FOR THE MOST PART, UH, HA COMES WITH A SET OF RULES ABOUT HOW YOU SPEND IT, AND THE COUNTY CASTLE CANNOT AFFECT THOSE.
UM, AND SO COUNTY COUNCIL APPROVAL OF YOUR BUDGET IS JUST, UM, IT'S WE HAVE THOUGHT FOR A LONG TIME, OR WE'VE EXPRESSED IT IN THE LETTERS THAT IT, EXCUSE ME.
SO IT, IT, IT EXCEEDS THEIR AUTHORITY.
AND SO THIS ORDINANCE WILL RECOGNIZE THAT NOW HOW OFTEN, HOW FOREIGN, SO IT IS ACTUALLY VERY CONSISTENT WITH THE LEGISLATURE, YOU KNOW, THE, THE STRUCTURE OF SCHOOLS AS, AS A STATE FUNCTION, DELEGATED TO SCHOOL DISTRICTS CONTROLLED BY STATE STATUTE.
UM, SO THE ISSUE OF, YOU KNOW, THE POWER OF THE STATE LEGISLATURE TO SAY, HOW MUCH AUTHORITY A LOCAL, YOU KNOW, OVER AN ELECTED BODY AND ALL THAT SORT OF STUFF.
THAT'S A DIFFERENT QUESTION, BUT IT'S, UH, IT'S THE STATE LEGISLATURE HAS THAT CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY TO, TO STRUCT, TO, UH, CREATE AND GIVE POWERS TO SCHOOL DISTRICTS.
THEY DO NOT HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO DELEGATE THAT TO COUNTIES.
AND THAT'S REALLY THE BASIS OF OUR WHOLE POSITION HERE, MR. WILLIAMS, THAT I ASKED HER THE QUESTION.
LIKE A LAWYER, I THINK YOU KIND OF CREATE ARGUMENT.
AND I THINK IT'S A GOOD THING TO DO.
I SEEN A LOT OF REALLY GOOD ARGUMENTS THOUGH, NOT BE SUCCESSFUL.
AND SO WHAT I'M JUST WONDERING IS LIKE, WHAT THE COUNTY AUDITOR, LET'S SAY, WE'D GET THIS ORDINANCE PASSED AND IT WORKS OUT AND WE GET EVERYTHING WE WANT, AND WE'RE STILL FIGHTING THE COUNTY AUDITOR OVER THE SAME ISSUES.
OR, UM, AND I JUST WONDERING WHY THE CONDITIONS SEEM BETTER NOW, IS THIS A NEW STREP, BUT THAT'S TOO MANY QUESTIONS, BUT THEN YOU DIDN'T ANSWER MY QUESTION, BUT I STILL DON'T HAVE A SENSE OF IF THIS IS THE RIGHT TIME TO DO IT, IF, AND IF WILL PREVAIL, BECAUSE IT SEEMS LIKE MR. RYAN SAID, UH, I DO AGREE WITH WHAT MS. BOATWRIGHT JUST SAID WHEN SHE JUST STATED, I DON'T KNOW IF THIS IS THE TIME, BUT I'VE HEARD THIS QUESTION ASKED SEVERAL TIMES, UH, FIRST OFF, LET ME, LET ME START BY SAYING HOW MANY OTHER SCHOOL BOARDS IN THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA VOTE, UH, VOTE THEIR OWN.
UH, DO, DO THEY DO THEIR OWN BUDGET? THE FREE BOARD DOES ITS OWN BUDGET.
NOW I'LL PUT THAT CHART, THE SCHOOL BOARD ASSOCIATION PRESENTED TO YOU.
LET ME GIVE YOU A LITTLE MORE FOR WHAT WE ASK YOU FOR TONIGHT TO HAVE FULL AUTONOMY OVER THE BUDGET.
HOW MANY OTHER DISTRICTS IN SOUTH CAROLINA DO THAT, HAVE THAT AUTONOMY? YOU KNOW, WELL, LET ME BE CLEAR.
THE BUDGET IS ALL OF YOUR REVENUE AND ALL OF YOUR EXPENSES.
SO EVERY BOARD HAS AUTHORITY OVER THAT FULL SCOPE, SOME COUNTIES, UH, THE LOCAL LEGISLATION GOING WAY BACK SAYS THAT THE COUNTY COUNCIL SHALL DETERMINE THE TAX RATE OR THE COUNTY CASTLES SHALL DETERMINE THE LOCAL FUNDING, THE PROPERTY TAX REVENUE THAT FUNDS THE BUDGET.
AND SO, YOU KNOW, I, THAT CHART IS A PRETTY GOOD.
UM, SO YOU GOT YOUR FIRST ONE IS THE LIMITED AUTHORITY.
WELL, THAT'S SORT OF A BASE, YOU CAN GO UP, BUT YOU HAVE A MILLAGE LIMIT.
WELL, THE PROBLEM WITH THAT ONE IS, IS YOU, YOU HAVE A STATE, SO THAT'S NOT, THAT SAYS SUBJECT TO THE CAP UNDER ACTOR ADA.
AND SEE, THERE'S A REAL QUESTION ABOUT WHETHER THESE STATUTORY MILLAGE SERVICE, EXCUSE ME, AUDREY.
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REALLY ANSWERING THE 27 DISTRICTS.THOSE ALL, NONE OF THEM GO TO A COUNTY COUNCIL.
UM, MY NEXT QUESTION IS HOW DO THIS AFFECTS DEALING WITH THE AUDITOR? BECAUSE WE'LL, WE'LL GO MOBILE WHERE YOU'RE WELL, YEAH, YEAH.
HOW, HOW DOES THIS AFFECT US DEALING WITH THE AUDITOR? WELL, THE AUDITOR HAS CERTAIN AUTHORITY UNDER, BY STATUTE DEALING RIGHT WITH YOUR DEBT SERVICE.
HE D THE AUDITOR HAS NO AUTHORITY OVER YOUR WELL, NO AUTHORITY OVER YOUR OPERATING MILLAGE FOR YOUR BUDGET, FOR YOUR OPERATING OP BUDGET FOR OPERATIONS.
AND ASK TO SAY THAT, BUT UNDER THE OLD EIA LOCAL EFFORT PROVISION, THE AUDITOR USED TO HAVE AUTHORITY TO SET THE RIGHT FOR OPERATIONS AT A CERTAIN LEVEL, BUT THE STATE LEGISLATURE HAS BEEN SUSPENDING THAT FOR ABOUT 10 YEARS, IT'S STILL THE LAW, BUT THEY SUSPENDED EVERY YEAR IN OUR PROVISOR.
SO, UH, REALLY THE AUDITOR HAS TO LEVY A RATE AND APPLY IT TO EACH INDIVIDUAL, YOU KNOW, TAX BILL, UH, THAT A ELECTED BODY ESTABLISHES SUCH AS YOU OR A COUNTY COUNCIL.
THE STATE LEGISLATURE CAN ALSO SPECIFY A SPECIFIC MILITARY BAN.
BUT I HEARD WHAT YOU SAID, BUT TO SAY ABOUT TO SOME DEGREE, THE AUDITORS STILL HAS THE AUTONOMY TO SET THE MISERY WHEN IT COMES TO CERTAIN THINGS.
THE AUDITOR HAS CERTAIN RESPONSIBILITIES DEALING WITH HER DEBT AND THAT'S IT NOT OPERATION.
SO, SO, BUT, SO, SO THEREFORE WE S WHAT, WHAT, WHAT, WHAT ARE YOU EVEN SAYING THAT WE STILL CAN, OR CAN OCCUR THE SAME SITUATION? THAT, THAT IS WHAT SOME PEOPLE ARE ACCUSING ME OF DOING RIGHT NOW.
IF IT'S, IF IT'S EVEN HIS FAULT, WE STILL CAN, WE, THESE THINGS STILL CAN, UH, CAN OCCUR.
IS THAT IS, THEY'RE NOT CORRECT THEN, REGARDLESS OF WHETHER WE HAVE THE, YOU CAN STILL GET THE AUDITOR, YOU CAN STILL ADD DISPUTES WITH THE AUDIT.
AND ALSO, I HEARD SOMEONE ASK YOU, UM, WHY DO THE SUPERINTENDENT STAFF? AND THEY SAID, BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE AN ATTORNEY, UM, NOT NORMALLY, WELL, WELL FIRST LET ME CORRECT THAT.
I BELIEVE THAT THE DISTRICT DOES HAVE THE, THE BOARD DOES HAVE ATTORNEYS THAT THEY USE FOR CERTAIN THINGS.
AND I WOULD THINK THAT THIS WOULD BE A TIME THAT WHERE THE BOARD WOULD NEED TO SEEK LEGAL, LEGAL, LEGAL COUNSEL.
ARE YOU, ARE YOU GOING ATTORNEY? YEAH.
I'VE REPRESENTED SNOWBOARDS FOR 30 YEARS.
SO, SO, SO, SO ARE YOU, ARE YOU REPRESENTING THE DISTRICT TODAY, SIR? ARE YOU
I REPRESENT, I WORK WITH MS. CARTLIDGE.
I'VE BEEN WORKING WITH HER ON THIS, UH, ORDINANCE SINCE THE COMMUNITY MEETING.
SO, UM, AND WHAT I THINK I DO IS, IS IN THE BEST INTEREST OF THE BOARD NOW, I'M NOT SURE I KNOW THAT OUR FIRM HAS BEEN RETAINED, AND I THINK Y'ALL HAVE THIS DISTINCTION BETWEEN REPRESENTING THE DISTRICT AND REPRESENTING THE BOARD.
AND I THINK Y'ALL ARE UNIQUE AND DOING THAT.
BUT, UM, SO I THINK I'M, I THINK I'M REPRESENTING THE DISTRICT.
THIS CARLA WAS, YOU MIGHT HAVE TO STRIKE THAT OUT.
UM, DO YOU WANT TO ASK A SECOND? I'M JUST GOING TO SAY INTO THE MICROPHONE, PLEASE.
I JUST, I JUST WANT TO SAY THAT THE DISTRICT
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WORKED TOGETHER AND WE ACTIVATED PROBLEMS I HAD NEXT IS EARL CAMPBELL.I DON'T THINK THIS IS A BAD TIME BECAUSE IT'S THE RIGHT TIME.
UM, UM, THIS DISTRICT IS VERY ENTITY, FRANKLY, RIGHT NOW BEING TAKEN OVER.
WE'VE GOT A COUPLE OF SCHOOLS, BUT WE ARE AT THE COURT IN PORTAL.
SO I THINK THIS WAS A ONE TIME, UM, SINCE I HAVEN'T SPOKEN, I'D ALSO LIKE TO, UM, MAKE SOME COMMENTS.
FIRST OF ALL, I WANT TO THANK, UH, THE COUNTY GIVEN AND WENDY PARTNERS FOR WORKING ON THIS.
NO, I DON'T THINK THE BOARD NEEDS SEPARATE REPRESENTATION BECAUSE OUR INTERESTS ARE EXACTLY THE SAME AS THE DISTRICT.
OTHER RARE CIRCUMSTANCES WHERE WE'D BE AT ODDS WITH EACH OTHER.
AND THIS IS CERTAINLY NOT ONE OF THOSE INSTANCES.
I AGREE COMPLETELY WITH MR. CAMPBELL.
I THINK THERE'S IS THE RIGHT TIME.
IT'S NOT GOING TO OCCUR WITHOUT OUR EFFORTS.
IT TAKES EFFORT TO DO THIS, AND IT'S NOT GOING TO JUST MAN IN OUR LAP WHEN YOU HAVE TO DO SOMETHING LIKE THIS.
AND I THINK THIS, UM, MEMORANDUM THEN THAT WAS PREPARED.
AND I GUESS A SECTION OF IT IS, IS FROM YEARS PAST, BUT IT'S GOT A GREAT HISTORY.
AND I THINK, UM, MR. HALLIGAN OUTLINE THAT HISTORY IS REALLY MISSING IN A DANCE.
IT SEEMS LIKE THIS IS OUR AUTHORITY AND IT'S, IT'S KIND OF BEEN MODELED IN THIS, IN THIS COUNTY WHERE LIVE SORT OF, I SHOULD SAY, ADVOCATED OUR, OUR AUTHORITY IN AWAY FROM COUNTY COUNCIL.
AND I ASSUME THAT THIS WOULD ALSO, UH, CORRECT, UH, COUNTY COUNCIL FROM, UH, CHANGING WHAT THE, UM, MILITARY IS THAT WE'RE REQUESTING FOR OUR OPERATING BUDGET AND JUSTICE.
MS. CARPET SAID, I MEAN, OUR GOAL IS WANTING TO PROVIDE THE BEST PUBLIC EDUCATION TO OUR STUDENTS.
AND OBVIOUSLY THE BUDGET IS KEY IN THAT.
I THINK THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO DO IT.
I THINK, UH, FOR A NUMBER OF REASONS, ONE IS CERTAINLY THE AUDITOR AT, UH, IS, UH, PUT HIMSELF IN A DIFFICULT SPOT BY A NUMBER OF THINGS HE'S DONE.
AND THAT'S BEEN REPORTED A COUPLE OF LATE.
UM, WE, ALL OF US ON THIS BOARD ARE ELECTED BY THE SAME CONSTITUENCY THAT THE COUNTY COUNCIL MEMBERS ARE ELECTED.
WE ARE APPOINTED IF HE WANTS TO, IF WE WERE AN UNCONSCIOUS BOY AND THEY WERE AN ELECTED DOOR THAT MAYBE THIS WOULDN'T BE APPROPRIATE ALSO, WE'VE HAD THIS, UH, IN THE RECENT PAST, WE HAD THE, UH, FORENSIC AUDIT WITH NO SIGNIFICANT FINDINGS.
WE'VE HAD YEAR AFTER YEAR AFTER YEAR, OUR ANNUAL AUDIT THAT ALWAYS COMES OUT.
I MEAN, WE KNOW THAT WE KNOW THE BUDGET, THE SCHOOL DISTRICT DOESN'T KNOW, AND THE BOARD MEMBERS BETTER THAN ANYBODY ELSE, CERTAINLY BETTER THAN THE COUNTY COUNCIL, BETTER THAN HELL AFTER THAT.
UM, THEN THEY, UH, YOU KNOW, ASSESSOR OR A TRAILER.
SO I, I DEFINITELY, UM, THINK THIS IS, UH, NEEDED AT THIS TIME.
AND I THINK IT'S A GREAT TIME TO DO IT.
THE TALK ABOUT THE TIME VERSUS A COUPLE OF TIMES, YOU NEED TO THINK ABOUT THAT.
WHEN WAS THIS PASSED? THIS ORDINANCE IS IN EFFECT 1968.
WHAT WAS GOING ON IN 1968 BUFORD COUNTY? IT WAS GRACIOUS.
THIS IS, THIS IS A LEGACY OF THAT TIME.
THIS WILL NEVER PASS A COURT OF LAW, AND IT WOULD BE A PUBLIC RELATIONS NIGHTMARE, OR A COUNCIL THAT TRIED TO FIGHT THIS.
AND ALSO ABOUT THE RIGHT TIME, WE HAVE AN ACHIEVEMENT GAP.
WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT AN ACHIEVED AGAIN, WE'RE GIVEN THE SUPERINTENDENT THE RESPONSIBILITY TO OVERCOME THAT ACHIEVEMENT.
AGAIN, HE'S GOING TO COME TO US AND HE'S GOING TO ASK FOR RESOURCES.
WE HAVE TO GIVE HIM THE RESOURCES, NOT THE COUNTY COUNCIL.
WE ARE THE ONES RESPONSIBLE FOR PROVIDING FOR OUR CHILDREN.
THIS IS THE TIME NOW WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A, WE'RE GOING TO HAVE SOME MONEY FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT FOR KETCHUP, AND THAT'S GOING TO HELP US CATCH UP, BUT IT'S NOT A ONE TIME
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SHOT THAT IS NOT GOING TO SOLVE OUR ACHIEVEMENT AGENDA.SO THIS IS THE TIME TO GET THIS STRAIGHT BECAUSE WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO COME BACK IN PROBABLY TWO YEARS.
AND THE SUPERINTENDENT'S GOING TO SAY, THIS IS WHAT I NEED, AND THIS IS WHAT WE'VE GOT TO GET IN AND NOT BE SECOND GUESSED BY COUNTY COUNCIL, WHO HAS NO CLUE ABOUT ACHIEVEMENT GAP ABOUT WHAT'S INVOLVED.
WE ALSO HAVE REASSESSMENT COMING UP AGAIN AND I'LL REMIND YOU THE LAST TIME WE HAD REASSESSMENT, WE GOT SHORT AT $9 MILLION.
SO THIS IS THE TIME TO FOUR YEARS.
WE'LL BE BACK AT THE REASSESSMENT TIME.
I WAS GOING TO BUILD OFF OF SOME OF WHAT YOU HAD SAID, MADAM CHAIR AND DESK.
UM, THREE MAIN THINGS WITH REGARD TO THE TIMING.
NUMBER ONE, THIS IS A PRACTICALLY A BRAND NEW BOARD.
AND BACK WHEN THIS WAS ALL THIS THE BEST PRIOR THE, UM, CLIMATE, IF YOU WILL, WAS MUCH DIFFERENT, THERE WAS ANY EXTREME LACK OF DISTRESSED BETWEEN THE SCHOOL BOARD AND THE COUNTY COUNCIL.
I WOULD LIKE TO THINK THAT THAT IS MENDING.
UM, WE ALSO HAVE PASSED A REFERENDUM FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 11 YEARS, AND THAT SPEAKS TREMENDOUSLY TO THE PUBLIC CONFIDENCE IN THIS BOARD AND IN THIS DISTRICT, WHICH HAS CHANGED, I THINK TREMENDOUSLY IN THE LAST FEW YEARS.
AND WE ALSO HAVE A BRAND NEW SET OF BOARD POLICIES THAT HAVE A LOT MORE FOCUS ON FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY.
SO I THINK WITH THAT COUPLED AND ALONG WITH EVERYTHING THAT EVERYONE ELSE HAS THAT I THINK THIS TIME IS RIGHT.
AND I THINK THAT, UM, POINTING THOSE THINGS OUT TO COUNTY COUNCIL AS WELL, UM, AND MAKING THE PUBLIC AWARE OF THOSE THINGS IS IMPORTANT TO GET SOME SUPPORT BEHIND US IN MAKING THIS MODEL, BECAUSE IT'S DEFINITELY NOT BLACK WITH ANY ON TENSIONS, AS MS. CARLA SAID, IT'S ABOUT THE CHILDREN AND EDUCATING THEM AND PROVIDING THEM WITH THE BEST OPPORTUNITIES THAT WE CAN.
UM, SO I CERTAINLY THINK IT'S THE RIGHT TIME THAT I SUPPORT THIS.
ALL RIGHT THERE BEING NO FURTHER HANDS-OFF, UH, I PUT MY HAND UP, I BELIEVE I ALREADY CALLED FOR THE QUESTION MR. SMITH.
THE ONE KNOWS HIS DAUGHTER'S NAME.
AND THANK YOU, MS. CARTILAGE AND MR. GUYER, UH, DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING FURTHER FROM YOUR COMMITTEE REPORT? NO.
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ALL RIGHT.I'LL WEAR IT OUT ON THE AGENDA OF THE SUPERINTENDENT REPORTS.
UH, TODAY WE HAVE A FEW SHORT ITEMS ON THE SUPERINTENDENT REPORT, FISCAL FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY, UM, AND MS. CROSBY WILL WALK US THROUGH THE TRANSPORTATION REPORT, A HUNDRED CARE REPORT AND BOARD MONTHLY BUDGET.
UM, AND I WILL SORT OF BUNDLE AS I USUALLY DO THESE AREAS TOGETHER.
UM, THEY SOMETIMES THE QUESTIONS, UM, AND AGAIN, THE VARIOUS REPORTS, ONE THING I DO WANT TO POINT OUT AND WE WERE BRINGING FORWARD FOR THE SECOND TIME, UM, $200,000 REPORTS TO 100,000.
NOW, OF COURSE, THE BOARD HAS ASKED FOR A, UM, A CONSOLIDATED VERSION
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AND WE ARE CONTINUING TO BRING THAT DETAILED VERSION.SO I WOULD LIKE SOME DIRECTION TODAY.
IF POSSIBLE, YOU DECIDE WHETHER TO CONTINUE BRINGING THOSE TWO, OR IF WE MAY BE ABLE TO CONSOLIDATE DOWN TO THE ONE PAGE VERSION, BUT I SAID, BOARDS WILL, WE'LL BE HAPPY TO HONOR WHICHEVER, UM, CHOICE YOU DESIRE, AND WE'LL BRING THAT FORWARD FOR FUTURE, FOR MEETING.
SO WITH THAT, I'LL BE HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS.
WELL, NO ONE ELSE HAS THEIR HAND UP.
SO, UM, I WANT TO SAY, I REALLY LIKED THIS, THE CONSOLIDATED REPORT.
I BELIEVE THOUGH, IT'S, UH, IT'S BY BOARD POLICY OR VOTE AND PROBABLY MR.
I DON'T KNOW EXACT WORDING OF THE POLICY, YOU KNOW, WHICH ONE IT IS.
UM, WE CAN CERTAINLY LOOK UP THE OES, MS. CARTILAGE, IF YOU WOULDN'T MIND, UH, PULL UP THE OES AND SEE IF WE CAN FIND THAT MONTHLY BUDGET REPORT AT LEAST FIVE, SIX OR SEVEN IS ONE OF THEM.
UM, HOWEVER IT DOES STATE, WE WILL BRING FORWARD OR HORROR SITING THE, ANY PURCHASES AND OR CONTRACTS OVER A HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS OR MORE, A HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS MORE.
IT DOESN'T SAY THAT YOU NEED THE INDIVIDUAL LINE ITEM INVOICE.
UM, SO IT DOESN'T SPECIFY TO THAT LEVEL OF DETAIL FIVE.
UM, THE INTENT OF THE MOTION WHEN IT WAS MADE WAS IN FACT TO HAVE THIS DETAIL AVAILABLE, UM, WE'RE BOARD MEMBERS THAT WANTED THE DETAIL.
UM, SO I WOULD SUGGEST THAT WE CONTINUE TO GET BOTH REPORTS.
UM, THE SUMMARY REPORT IS PROBABLY WHEN I'M GOING TO LOOK AT, AND I, I WON'T GO TO THE DETAIL UNLESS I SEE SOMETHING IN THE SUMMARY, BUT THE ORIGINAL WAS MOTION WAS MADE SO THAT THIS LEVEL OF DETAIL WOULD BE AVAILABLE, UM, TO BOARD MEMBERS, WITHOUT THEM HAVING TO MAKE A SPECIAL REQUEST FOR IT.
SO, UM, IF IT'S NOT BURDENSOME, I, I, I, I WOULD SUGGEST WE CONTINUE TO DO BOTH.
UM, JUST ONE ADDITIONAL COMMENT, THIS, UH, THE DETAIL IN THIS REPORT, UM, THE DETAIL VERSION IS ALSO AVAILABLE IN THE TRANSPARENCY REPORT.
AND THAT REPORT IS ON ALPHABETICAL ORDER AND ACTUALLY PROVIDES A LITTLE MORE DETAIL WITH FUNDING SOURCES IN A LONGER DESCRIPTION.
SO, UM, YOU KNOW, WE CAN CONTINUE TO BRING THEM ALL, UM, BUT IT IS, UH, WE DO HAVE THE SAME INFORMATION IN MULTIPLE PLACES THERE, SO RIGHT.
CHRISSY, UM, THE, UH, SO THIS IS THE A HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS REPORT YEARS, THE TRANSPARENCY REPORT AND THE BOARD MONTHLY BUDGET REPORT.
UM, SO EITHER ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS IN THAT AREA? UM, YEAH, I HAVE A QUESTION ABOUT THE PURCHASE OF INTERACTIVE WHITEBOARDS FOR MULTIPLE SCHOOLS.
I THOUGHT WE HAD COMPLETED THAT INSTALLATION, UM, BEFORE.
AND SO CAN YOU UPDATE ME ON WHY WE ARE PURCHASING MORE, MR. SHAWN, WOULD YOU LIKE TO ANSWER THAT FOR ME? YES.
THIS WAS TO COMPLETE THIS STEP VITAL OF THE THIRD STAGE OF THE BOX LIGHT, UH, INSTALLATION, UH, THESE SCHOOLS WHERE THE LAST, UM, THAT WERE INSTALLED WITH OUR, UM, PREVIOUS INTERACTIVE WHITEBOARD FROM PROMETHIAN.
UM, WE HAD TO LET THOSE PRODUCTS RUN THE COURSE OF THEIR LIFESPAN, WHICH WAS FIVE YEARS.
THAT'S WHY WE HAD RESERVED THE MONEY TO COMPLETE THIS PROJECT AND THE 8% FUND.
AND WE COMPLETED IT, UH, AS OF THE TIMELINE AND LIFE CYCLE OF THE EQUIPMENT REFRESH THIS ALSO INCLUDE EQUIPMENT, UH, FOR ADDITIONS.
UM, TANYA, IT HAS, THERE IS AN ITEM LISTED, UH, FOR AN ADDITIONAL SRO
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ADDED AT RPE.WHEN YOU SPEAK BACK LATER, UM, THERE WAS ADDITIONAL STATE FUNDING THIS PAST YEAR OR TWO ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS, UH, WHEN WE, UH, PLACED ONE NORTH OF BROAD, ONE SOUTH OF BROAD AND THAT'S LOCATION, UH, DO GEOGRAPHICS, UH, MULTIPLE REASONINGS FOR PLACEMENT THERE AS THERE WASN'T ONE ON THE CAMPUS, UH, AS THERE IS AN SAY, BLUFFTON MIDDLE AND TILT OR ABOVE AN L WITH THE HIGH SCHOOL AND MIDDLE SCHOOL BEING PLUS MAX.
SO THAT WAS PLACEMENT IN, IT WAS OFFERED AT STATE FUNDING.
UM, THIS PAST YEAR, I, I HAVE A QUESTION ABOUT THE BOARD MONTHLY BUDGET.
UM, SO I NOTICED LIKE THE, UM, BOARD MEETINGS, STIPENDS, YOU KNOW, UH, WE WERE ALL, UM, BUDGETED THE SAME AMOUNT, AND THEN OBVIOUSLY WE USE DIFFERENT AMOUNTS.
AND SO IF THERE'S ANY JEWS OFF ON PRETTY MUCH EVERYONE IS CLOSED IS ABOUT 70%, BUT THE AMOUNTS ARE ALL DIFFERENT.
SO THAT, THAT PERCENTAGE IS BASED ON THE REVISED BUDGET.
I'D HAVE TO CALCULATE THAT REALLY QUICKLY TO SEE IF IT'S BASED ON THE ORIGINAL OR THE REVISED.
UM, WHAT WE HAVE DONE THIS PAST MONTH IS TO DO A BUDGET TRANSFER THE BOARDS, STIPENDS WORRY, UH, NEARING TO BE A, UH, APPROACH YOU TO BE A SEEDING THE BUDGET.
AND SO WE IDENTIFIED OTHER AREAS OF SAVINGS WITHIN THE BUDGET, FOR EXAMPLE, TRAVEL, UH, AND LEGAL SERVICES AND SOME TECHNOLOGY SOFTWARE OR HARDWARE THAT WAS HAD NOT, AND, UM, PURCHASED.
SO WE HAD A BUDGET TRANSFER TO MOVE MONEY INTO THOSE FUNDS.
UM, WE DO EXPECT, SO THE BUDGET IN THE FORD MEETING, STIPENDS AREAS 5,000 AND AS OF TODAY'S DATE, WE'VE SPENT 51,900.
SO WE, THERE WAS A NEED, I EXPECT AN ADDITIONAL APPROXIMATELY $20,000, UM, REMAINING TO BE SPENT AT THE PACE THAT, UM, BASED ON HISTORICAL MONTHLY STANDINGS, IT WOULD BE ABOUT ANOTHER $5,700 A MONTH OR MORE.
SO THAT EQUATES FOR SIX OR FOUR MORE MONTHS, WE GOT $20,000 OVER BUDGET.
SO WE HAVE TRANSFERRED FUNDS IN FROM SAVINGS AND TRAVEL TO COVER THAT EXPENSE.
UM, IT, SO THE NEXT YEAR'S BUDGET HAS BEEN HELD AT THE SAME AMOUNT.
SO THEY HAD A SIMILAR ISSUE GOING FORWARD AS WELL, THEN JUST DID ONE, ONE OF THEM CALCULATORS.
IT DID COME OUT TO BE IT'S BASED ON THE REVISED BUDGET.
SO CAN YOU, UH, JUST TO GO BACK TO, UH, WHAT DESKY THIS DISGUSTED? SO BASICALLY WE'VE HIRED TWO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SRO IS, IS, WAS WHAT'S YOU'RE SAYING TWO SRAS WERE, ARE IN THE, UH, EXTENDED CONTRACTS OF THE, ONE OF THE TOWN BLUFFTON.
AND, UM, I DON'T RECALL, I BELIEVE THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE.
UH, SO, UM, THOSE ARE EXTENDED CONTRACTS AND THEY HAVE THE PLACES, THEIR SCHOOLS.
MR. SMITH, UH, FOR CLARIFICATION, THIS WAS, UH, DURING THE PRIOR SCHOOL YEAR AND BRUCE CAME BEFORE THE BOARD AT THAT TIME WE SPOKE ABOUT IT.
AND AT THAT TIME, DO WE DECIDE WHICH SCHOOLS THEY'RE THE SRO IS, WILL BE GOING TO AT THAT TIME AS WELL? I BELIEVE, UM, I CAN'T RECALL, BUT I BELIEVE THAT, UM, I CAN'T RECALL, BUT I THINK THAT WE, THAT I DID MENTION OF THE SPECIFIC SCHOOLS THAT, THAT THEY WERE GOING TO, SO THIS MONEY, THIS MONEY WAS ALREADY BUDGETED CORRECT FOR, FOR THESE TWO POSITIONS.
W W WHAT IS, IS WHAT WE'RE SAYING? UM, I BELIEVE THAT AS THE CASE, I'D HAVE TO LOOK INTO THIS A LITTLE FURTHER TO UNDERSTAND THE BUDGET AND THE SCHOOLS THAT THE PLACEMENT WAS HELD AT, OR THE, THAT THEY'RE PLACED AT.
SO I'VE BEEN HAVING TO GET MORE INFORMATION TO GET ANY FURTHER DETAIL WITH THAT DISCUSSION TODAY.
THOSE SRLS ARE CURRENTLY AT THOSE SCHOOLS SERVING THERE.
I HAVE THIS TIME FOR, AT THIS PRESENT TIME.
THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR, JUST QUICKLY.
UM, WHEN WE WERE TALKING ABOUT THE BOARD
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BUDGET AND HOW YOU FOUND MONEY AND OTHER, UM, OTHER COST CENTERS TO MOVE IN TO THE BOARD MEETING BUDGET, THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT I WOULD LIKE US TO STOP DOING.UH, I WOULD LIKE TO BE ABLE TO LOOK AT THIS REPORT AND SAY, HOLY COW, UM, NO, WE'RE 40% OVER BUDGET ON, ON THE BOARD MEETING.
AND, YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU MOVE BUNNY, IT MASKS THAT.
SO, UM, I'M NOT GOING TO MAKE A BIG DEAL ABOUT IT BECAUSE YOU'VE HEARD ME TALK ABOUT THIS ENOUGH, BUT THIS IS A CLASSIC EXAMPLE WHERE I THINK WE SHOULD NOT DO NO FURTHER HANDS ARE RAISED.
SO I WAS GONNA ACTUALLY ONE IN MR. SCRIMMAGE.
I WANT TO MAKE A MOTION SO THAT MINDLESS LEFTOVER WOULD HAVE TO BE REPORTED TO THE BOARD OR THE MONEY THAT A US, UH, SUBSEQUENTLY FINE.
WOULD THAT BE HAPPY TO THE BOARD? I MEAN, I, BECAUSE I AM AWARE OF THAT AND I WAS WONDERING IF YOU WOULD WANT TO MAKE A MOTION TO THAT, THAT IT WOULDN'T HAVE TO LET US KNOW.
WELL, CAN I RESPOND TO THAT? UH, I BELIEVE THE DESCRIPTOR WAS ABOUT TO RESPOND.
I MEAN, I WOULD KIND OF LIKE TO HEAR WHAT HE SAID FIRST, AND THEN YOU WOULD, THAT WOULD BE OKAY IF YOU'RE GONNA HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THAT.
I'M NOT INTERESTED IN MAKING EMOTIONAL RIGHT TONIGHT.
WE ARE JUST POINTING OUT OR SAID THIS OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER.
UM, AND I DON'T LIKE TO SEE THIS.
AND PERHAPS WHEN WE GET TO THE BUDGET, I COULD MAKE A MOTION, BUT I'M RUNNING OUT OF, BUT, WELL, I GET, AND THAT'S WHAT THAT GUY, THAT'S THIS, THE REASON WHY I WAS ASKING, UH, WHY DID YOU WANT TO MAKE A MOTION? BECAUSE I'M AWARE, AND I'VE HEARD THAT YOU'VE STATED THIS SEVERAL TIMES.
AND I WOULD JUST LIKE TO POINT OUT THAT, UM, YOU KNOW, THE BOARD'S BUDGET, THE GRAND TOTAL HERE WAS ALMOST $500,000, AND THAT'S FAR HERE TODAY, WE'VE USED ABOUT 240,000.
SO YEAH, IF THERE'S A WAY TO BETTER ALLOCATE IT.
I KNOW WE TRY TO DO THAT EVERY YEAR.
OBVIOUSLY WE DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT THE PANDEMIC IN ADVANCE OF ALLOCATING FOR FALL THIS YEAR.
AND SO THAT IS OBVIOUSLY HAD A BIG INFLUENCE BECAUSE MANY OF US HAVE NOT USED OUR TRAVEL BUDGET.
AND WE'VE BEEN, SINCE WE'VE BEEN ZOOMING MEETINGS, OBVIOUSLY THE STIPENDS FOR THE MEETINGS HAS INCREASED.
SO THAT'S, I MEAN, IT'S IN A WAY IT'S A CIRCUMSTANCE BEYOND OUR CONTROL.
I CERTAINLY UNDERSTAND MR.
UM, YOU KNOW, UH, AND I GUESS YOU NOT, I'M NOT AN ACCOUNTANT, UH, A CFO, BUT, UM, IT'S, YOU KNOW, IT'S, IT'S ONE, UH, YOU DIDN'T SAY POT OF MONEY FOR THE BOARD IS A WHOLE, IT'S NOT LIKE WE'RE TAKING IT FROM A JAR TO PAY FOR OUR MEETINGS OR WHEREAS, YOU KNOW, I MEAN, SO I GUESS, YOU KNOW, I UNDERSTAND EXACTLY WHERE MR. SHERMAN DREW'S GOING, BUT AT THE SAME TIME TOO, IT'S, IT'S AN ESTIMATE.
AND I KNOW THIS IS CHRISSY BARRY'S TOLD ME IN THE PAST TOO.
AND MS. CROSBY, I DON'T WANT TO MISSPEAK, BUT YOU CAN'T HAVE MINUS BALANCES.
THAT'S NOT, NOT, UH, ALLOWED OR THAT'S NOT THE USUAL PRACTICE.
AND LIKE I JUST SAID, THESE MEETINGS STIPENDS, THERE WAS NO WAY TO KNOW ABOUT THAT IN ADVANCE.
DO YOU, WOULD YOU LIKE TO RESPOND? UM, WE HAVE, UM, THE TRANSITION WITH SOME STAFF IN OUR DEPARTMENT AND REALLY WITH A FOCUS, UH, INSTITUTED A FOCUS ON BUDGETING AND, UM, MONITORING THE BUDGET MORE FREQUENTLY, MORE, YOU KNOW, IN MANY WAYS AND, AND DOWN TO THE GRANULAR LEVEL.
UM, ONE OF THE IMPORTANT THINGS THAT WE'VE PUT INTO PLACE IN PARTICULAR LATELY IS TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE A BUDGET BEFORE WE SPEND IN AN AREA BEFORE WE SPEND IN THAT AREA.
AND SO WE ALWAYS TRY AND MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE, HAVE THOSE FUNDS AVAILABLE BEFORE WE SPEND, IF WE'RE EXCEEDING MONEY AND BUDGET OF OTHER CERTAIN DEPARTMENT, I WANT TO CUT BACK SPENDING IN OTHER AREAS OF, UM, SO THAT I CAN SAVE AN OFFSET.
ANY, ANYTHING THAT MAY BE EXCEEDING IT, I MAY, MAY HAVE SPENT TOO MUCH ILLEGAL THIS MONTH, SO I NEED TO SAVE IN SUPPLIES.
AND SO WE DO BUDGET TRANSFERS AND
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EFFORT TO MOVE MONEY AWAY FROM AREAS THAT WE MAY NOT BE SPENDING OR WE'RE SAVING.AND WE'RE GOING TO COVER A FUTURE.
IDEALLY IS FUTURE COSTS, NOT COSTS ALREADY INCURRED SUCH AS THESE.
UM, SO WE, IT IS A CONCERTED EFFORT THAT WE ARE MAKING REGULAR WEATHER TRANSFERS TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE NOT OVERSPENDING THE ENTIRE FINANCE DEPARTMENT BUDGET OF THE ENTIRE HUMAN RESOURCES BUDGET.
SO WE DO HAVE RESOURCES WITH THE END TO COVER THOSE.
SO IT IS AN EFFORT THAT WE ARE INTENTIONALLY MAKING.
UM, WE CAN CERTAINLY NOT DO THAT IN THE BOARD'S BUDGET, BUT WE HAVE TO CAUTION TO MAKE SURE THAT, YOU KNOW, WE, WE DON'T OVERSPEND IN CERTAIN NON-SALARY OR OTHER AREAS IN ORDER TO OFFSET WHAT WE KNOW IS GOING TO BE A NEGATIVE IN THIS PARTICULAR AREA.
SO, UM, INSTEAD OF JUST A DIFFERENT PHILOSOPHY, IT'S NOT, THERE'S NO ACCOUNTING RULE OR GOVERNMENT, WELL, ACCOUNTING STANDARD THAT SAYS WE CAN'T DO IT THE WAY YOU'VE DONE OR THE WAY WE'VE DONE IN THE PAST THAT WE COULD ALLOW OVERSPENDING, UH, IN ONE AREA JUST TO SEE WHAT KIND OF, UH, NEGATIVE, UM, STATUS WE'RE IN.
BUT, UM, WE CAN CERTAINLY, UM, REVERT BACK AND HAVE NO BUDGET TRANSFERS THROUGHOUT THE YEAR, OF COURSE, BUDGET AND ALLOW YOU TO SEE IT JUST BROADLY DATA AS IT IS WITH NODE, BUT TO TRANSFER.
SO WE CAN, I CERTAINLY DO THAT.
I THINK YOU'VE SPOKEN TO YOUR DOCTOR ABOUT, UM, MS. CROSBY.
UM, I HAVE SPOKEN ABOUT THIS AS MR.
I'M NOT CONCERNED ABOUT THE TRANSFER OF BUDGET TO ENSURE THAT THERE IS MONEY THERE WHEN, WHEN NEEDED.
BUT I REMEMBER THAT WE HAD THE CONVERSATION AND I THOUGHT YOU WERE REPORTING IT OUT, THAT THEY SAID YOU USED BASED ON THE ORIGINAL ALLOCATION SO THAT WE COULD SEE WHERE IT WAS OVER A HUNDRED PERCENT.
AND THEN THAT WOULD INFORM THE DECISIONS FOR NEXT YEAR'S BUDGET VACANT.
SO I DON'T KNOW PROBLEM WITH THE TRANSFERENCE OF LEGIS, IT'S THE REPORTING OUT OF IT, SO THAT WE'RE NEVER IMPORTANT WHAT THE ACTORS IS.
AM I RECALL THAT, UM, AND I I'D HAVE TO LOOK BACK, UM, THIS MONTH I RAN THIS REPORT AND SO, AND ROBIN, UM, REQUESTED DUE TO SOME TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES FOR ME TO RUN.
I MAY HAVE RUN INTO THIS A LITTLE DIFFERENTLY THAN HER.
I'M NOT SURE, BUT, UM, THERE IS USUALLY AN OPTION FOR COMPARING TO THE ORIGINAL OR REVISED BUDGETS.
AND IF THERE ISN'T, WE CAN EASILY EXPORT IT TO AN EXCEL SPREADSHEET AND PUT IN BOTH OF THOSE COLUMNS OF INFORMATION.
AND, UH, I JUST RECALL THAT YOU, I BELIEVE YOU WERE GETTING A REPORT FOR A COUPLE OF MONTHS WHERE IT SHOWED IT AGAINST THE ORIGINAL.
SO IF YOU COULD LOOK INTO IT, I THINK THAT WOULD FOR, UM, THE BUDGET PROCESS FOR NEXT YEAR.
THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR, UM, AND DISCUSSING THE TOPIC OF TRANSFERS OF MONEY.
UM, I WAS JUST GOING TO POINT TO OUR NEW PLAN.
OH, HE CAN NUMBER THREE, WHICH DOES SPEAK TO THE TRANSFER OF MONEY.
UM, BUT IT DOES HAVE A GRAPPLE THAT THAT'D BE THOUSANDS OF THAT WOULDN'T NECESSARILY APPLY IN THIS CASE.
AND IT ALSO SPEAKS ABOUT TRANSFERS OF MONEY.
I KNOW WE DON'T NECESSARILY HAVE TO BE IN YOUR PATIENT IN A WAY, UM, OUR SUPERINTENDENT.
THAT MEANS SO, UM, ANTHONY THINK ABOUT THAT.
AND, UM, I LIKE HIS POINT, UM, ALL THE BOARD MEMBERS
I JUST WANTED TO POINT OUT THAT, UH, IF YOU LOOK AT THE PRINTING AND I DON'T KNOW, PRINTING AND BINDING, UM, NO MONEY WAS TRANSFERRED INTO THAT ACCOUNT AND WE EXPANDED $323 MORE THAN WAS IN THAT ACCOUNT.
SO THEREFORE THE AVAILABLE BUDGET IS REFLECTED AS NEGATIVE AND THE PERCENT USED IS OVER A HUNDRED PERCENT.
SO IT SEEMS TO ME WHAT MR.
WE DID IN THAT ONE COLUMN, BUT NOT IN THE OTHER CURB.
WHAT TRISHA SAID TOO IS I JUST THINK IT WOULD BE BETTER IF WE, I THINK IT WOULD JUST MAKE IT SO MUCH EASIER TO ESTIMATE WHAT'S NEEDED FOR NEXT YEAR ORIGINAL BUDGET.
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MUCH ON THE SUPERINTENDENTS REPORT IS A SHORT COVID UPDATE TONIGHT.UM, AND THE CURRENT TWO WEEK WINDOW POSITIVE CASES FOR STUDENTS FOR 15 ONE STAFF MEMBER, UH, QUIET DURING THE TWO WEEK WINDOW OR, UH, 200 STUDENTS AND 13 STAFF MEMBERS UPDATE, UH, ON PERFORMING MARKS, UH, DR.
STRAUSS, WOULD YOU COME UP PLEASE? GOOD EVENING BOARD MEMBERS, THANK YOU FOR THIS OPPORTUNITY TO HIGHLIGHT SOME OF THE GREAT WORK THAT HAS BEEN HAPPENING HERE IN OUR SCHOOLS, IN OUR SCHOOL DISTRICT AND THROUGH OUR TEACHERS SINCE MAY 7TH HOLIDAYS, SINCE MARCH 16, 2019, AND THE SUBJECT OF COVID-19, OUR FINAL PERFORMING ARTS TEACHERS HAVE PROVIDED YOUR VIRTUAL AND IN-PERSON INSTRUCTION.
TEACHERS AND SCHOOL LEADERS HAVE BEEN CREATED, AND INSURANCE STUDENTS CONTINUE TO RECEIVE INSTRUCTION IN THEIR RESPECTIVE ARTS AREAS, BUT INSTRUCTION THAT IS ALIGNED TO OUR STATE STANDARDS UNDER YOUR WORK OF MRS. CARMEN DEALER, HER GUIDANCE AND SUPPORT, AS WELL AS PROVISION OF MATERIALS IN COLLABORATION WITH OUR TEACHERS, WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO START A REPOSITORY OF GOOGLE DOCUMENTS FOR LESSON PLANS THAT ARE BEING ABLE TO BE SHARED THROUGHOUT THE DISTRICT, DURING THE PANDEMIC YOU PER, THESE TEACHERS HAVE BEEN AHEAD OF MANY SCHOOL DISTRICTS WITHIN THE STATE AND NATIONALLY, AND THEIR PROVISION OF LEARNING EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCES, WHERE THEIR STUDENTS IN NOVEMBER OF 2020, THE PERSON TO HEALTH AND WELFARE PROTOCOLS ARE ESTABLISHED SINCE, SINCE THEN INSTRUCTIONAL SERVICES PERSONNEL WORK WITH DISTRICT AND SCHOOL AND WITHOUT THE GRAVITY TO PUT IN PLACE HEALTH AND WELFARE PROTOCOLS IN ORDER TO HAVE OUR STUDENTS HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO PERFORM.
AS YOU WITNESSED THIS EVENING, A SUMMARY OF CRITERIA IS AS FOLLOWS, ENSURING THAT THE PERFORMANCE VENUES HAS BEEN THOROUGHLY CLEANED AND SANITIZED PRIOR TO THE EVENT WHEN POSSIBLE CONDUCT PRACTICES, PERFORMANCES, OR PRESENTATIONS OUTSIDE SUCH AS A STADIUM, OUTDOOR THEATER SPORTS FIELD, OR OPEN AREA, WHENEVER POSSIBLE SCHOOLS ARE TO USE PRERECORDED VIDEO OR SEND SIMULATIONS LIVE STREAMING RATHER THAN IN-PERSON PERFORMANCES, INDOOR AND OUTDOOR PERFORMANCES.
SCHOOLS HAVE ESTABLISHED SOCIAL DISTANCING EXPECTATIONS THAT IT PERMITS STUDENTS AND AUDIENCES TO MAINTAIN AS CLOSE AS POSSIBLE.
THE ARTISTIC EXPERIENCE TO THAT END TEMPERATURE CHECKS OF ALL STUDENTS INVOLVED IN THE PERFORMANCES ARE CONDUCTED AND PRECAUTIONARY PRACTICES HAVE BEEN PUT IN PLACE TO ASSIST WITH DETERMINING FALSE NEGATIVE TEMPERATURE READINGS TO ADD RHINO PERFORMANCES, A LARGE SPACE SUCH AS AN AUDITORIUM MULTIPURPOSE REWORK OR CAFETERIA IS A COMFORT AREA POINTS.
AND THE FOLLOWING PRACTICES HAVE BEEN PUT INTO PLACE AS WELL.
ENTRANCE DOORS ARE PROPPED OPEN TO THE VET, TOUCHING HER DOOR, HANDLES SIGNAGE DISPLAYS RECORDING REGARDING WEARING A MASK AND SOCIAL DISTANCE REQUIREMENTS ARE REQUIRED TO BE A PARENT AND PERFORMANCE AREAS.
AND IN HALLWAYS, MAXIMUM CAPACITY OF 67% OR LESS ADDITIONAL CUSTODIAN SERVICES ARE RECOMMENDED, RECOMMENDED TO BE PROVIDED IN THE AREA OF WIPING OF CERTAIN SURFACE AREAS AND CLEANING A BATHROOM FACILITIES HAD IN PLACE MULTIPLE SANITATION STATIONS, ESPECIALLY FOR PERSONS ENTERING OR EXITING SPACE.
MATHS ARE REQUIRED FOR GUESTS UPON ENTRANCE AND TO HAVE THE PROGRAM WHENEVER POSSIBLE INCLUDE AN ANNOUNCEMENT PRIOR TO THE PERFORMANCE AND AT THE END OF THE END OF THE PERFORMANCE, AS WELL AS AN INTIMATIONS OF APPLICABLE REMINDING THOSE OF PARTICIPATING THAT THEY ARE IN A BUFORD COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT FACILITIES, MASS ARE REQUIRED WHEN NOT FORMING STUDENTS ARE REQUIRED TO APPROPRIATELY WEAR A MASK AND MAINTAIN APPROPRIATE SOCIAL DISTANCING, DISTANCING, INCLUDING BACKSTAGE BEFORE OR AT THE EVENTS STUDENTS IT'S PLAYING A WIND INSTRUMENT THAT REQUIRES CLEANING HAVE ACCUMULATED SALIVA HAVE ACCESS TO AN INDIVIDUAL DISPOSABLE RETAINER.
THERE IS NO SHARING OF ANY ITEMS. FREQUENTLY TOUCH OBJECTS AND EQUIPMENT ARE CLEAN AND DISINFECTED.
GIVEN THE CHALLENGES FACED IN THE HEART OF THE PANDEMIC, STUDENTS ARE STILL ABLE TO PARTICIPATE IN PERFORMANCES AND PRODUCE ARTISTIC PRODUCTS.
I WOULD LIKE TO TAKE A FEW MOMENTS TO HIGHLIGHT
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SOME OF THE THINGS NOVEMBER, 2020 AND THEN HIGH SCHOOL NATIONAL HONOR SOCIETY.ONE OF THE ENDED UP THESE YOUNG LADY ACTUALLY CREATED A BOOK THAT WAS HIGHLIGHTED THAT EVENING, NOT TO OVERLOOK TONIGHT'S PERFORMANCE BY HILTON HEAD ISLAND, HIGH SCHOOL AND THEIR PERFORMANCE AND RECOGNITION BY THE BEST IN SOCIETY, DECEMBER 20 LOVED IN HIGH SCHOOL.
AND THIS ONE IS REAL, IS A LITTLE OUT OF THE BOX.
I WANT TO MAKE NO HOLIDAY DANCE, DANCE SKIN.
TWO SHORT DANCE PERFORMANCES WERE HELD IN THE SCHOOL PARKING LOT.
EVERY BANK IN THEIR CARS FOR THE DURATION OF THE PERFORMANCE CARS WERE PARKED ACCORDING TO THE DIRECTIONS BY A PARKING ATTENDANT, THE NUMBER OF AUDIENCE MEMBERS WAS LIMITED TO REMAIN SAFE, TO REMAIN WITHIN SAFETY PROTOCOL DANCERS ALSO WORE MASKS AND WERE SPACED APPROPRIATELY APART.
OUR RIVER OF WORDS, INITIAL PICKLE.
UM, VIRTUAL PD WORKSHOP WITH TEACHERS WAS CONDUCTED IN DECEMBER, 2020 AT THIS TRAINING VIRTUAL AND PRERECORDED CONTENT LESSONS FOR TEACHERS TO USE DURING STRUCTURE WAS PROVIDED.
WE HAVE PARTNERS IN THIS INITIATIVE WITH THE ART CENTER, THE COASTAL CAROLINA AND OR ROYAL SOUND FOUNDATION SU THEY PARTICIPATE BECAUSE THEY, THE DEVELOPING LESSONS AS WELL AS THE PER PD OR A TEACHERS, FEBRUARY, 2021 ALL DAY TEACHER WORK DAY, TWO SESSIONS WE'RE CONDUCTING, BUT ARTISTS AND RESIDENTS THROUGH THE KENNEDY CENTER OF THE ARTS, THE HIGHLIGHTED ARTIST WAS BABA BONAMI WHO CONDUCTED TRAINING AND USING ARTS AND FUSION TO TEACH THE WRITING PROCESS THROUGH QUARTER BUYER, BIO GRAPHICAL RHYMES AND HIP HOPS TEACHERS WILL PROVIDE THE OPPORTUNITY TO ENGAGE AT LEARNING THE BAR'S WRITING PROCESS, WHICH CONSISTS OF PRE-WRITING DRAFTING, REVISING, EDITING PUBLISHING WHILE MOST WAS PRODUCED A VIDEO THAT IS ALSO AVAILABLE ON OUR DISTRICT CHANNEL.
COOS ELEMENTARY CONDUCTED A WINTER BURKA PERFORMANCE AND MARCH WAS MUSIC IN OUR SCHOOLS MONTH BUFORD MIDDLE SCHOOL HOSTED OUR FIRST AND PROGRAM PERSON CONCERT SINCE LAST MARCH OF 2019 AND PROVIDED CONCERT PROGRAMS AND ZOOM LINKS FOR OUT OF TOWN GUESTS TO PARTAKE IN THE CONCERT.
AND MOST RECENTLY, 2021, WHERE THE CLUB, THE CLOSE OF THE RIVER WARDS PROJECT, WHERE APPROXIMATELY 500 POETRY AND VISUALLY VISUAL ARTS POSITIONS CREATED BY OUR COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT STUDENTS FOR THE UPCOMING 2021 PUBLICATION WHERE WE REVIEW AND JUDGE THIS ISN'T, THIS IS THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE PUBLICATION AND THE POPE RELEASE IS SCHEDULED THE MAY 20 MAY OF THIS YEAR.
AGAIN, THE
JULIET WHITE AND ALMA ADAMS. VIRTUAL PROGRAMS WERE DEVELOPED USING A COMBINATION OF LIVE ZOOM AND PRE RECORDED LESSONS.
ALMOST ALL MATERIALS ARE PROVIDED AND SUPPLY KITS WERE DROPPED OFF AT EACH SCHOOL SITE FOR THE STUDENTS TO BE ABLE TO ENGAGE.
FINALLY, VIRTUAL FIELD TRIPS FOR SCHOOLS WERE OFFERING THAT HIGHLIGHTED KEVIN MOM, NATIVE AMERICAN, WHO HAVE LIFE PETE, THE CAT CENTER FOR PUPPETRY ARTS, AMERICAN HIP HEROES, SUCH AS TUFTING AND DOUGLAS THERE.
THURMAN IS MODERN BALLET THEATER AND THE ATLANTA DANCE.
I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR EACH OF YOU FOR AS I DIDN'T HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO SHARE THE WORK OF OUR PERFORMING ARTS AND FINE ARTS TEACHERS THEY HAVE, AND CONTINUE TO BE AT THE CORE OF THE CREATIVITY OF OUR STUDENTS.
ADDITIONALLY, I WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE KARMIC DEALER FOR HER WORK THIS YEAR.
WHAT AREN'T TEACHERS AND YARDS, THIS MAY, SHE'S RETIRING, RETIRING, AND I WANT TO SHARE MY APPRECIATION OF HER WORK AND DEDICATION TO OUR SCHOOLS AND OUR STUDENTS.
I'M NOT SURE IF YOU COVERED IT OR NOT, CAUSE YOU RAN THROUGH AND LITANY OF, OF,
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UH, PERFORMING ARTS COMPONENTS, BUT I BELIEVE MAY RIVER HAS, UH, A PERFORMANCE COMING UP SOON INTO THE WOODS.UH, THAT'S ALSO, UH, OF WANTING TO TAKE PLACE.
AND SO, UH, THE NEXT ITEM ON THE SUPER YES, WE HAVE AGGRESSION RESEARCH.
STRIVERS, THANK YOU FOR THAT REPORT.
AND OUR TEACHERS AND STAFF HAVE WORKED VERY, VERY HARD TO KEEP PERFORMING ARTS, UH, BIBLE IN DURING THIS PANDEMIC.
MY QUESTION ACTUALLY GOES TO DR.
THIS IS FOR THE FIRST PART, BECAUSE WE WOULD HAVE DONE BETTER PUT LIKE, UM, COVID-19 UPGRADE.
RODRIGUEZ, CAN YOU JUST TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT WHERE WE STAND WITH MASKS? WELL, I'M NOT SURE WHAT CDC IS DOING RIGHT NOW WITH SUPERINTENDENT.
SO COULD YOU JUST TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THAT? I SURE CAN.
AND BY THE WAY, I APPRECIATE YOUR QUESTION BECAUSE I ANTICIPATE THAT AS THE KIND OF QUESTION WE'RE GOING TO BE GETTING, UH, QUITE FREQUENTLY FROM PARENTS AND IN THE WEEKS TO COME, UH, GIVEN THAT THE COUNTY COUNCIL DID NOT EXTEND THE MASS MANDATE, THE TOWN WALKED INTO THAT EXTENDED MASS MANDATE AND THAT, UH, IT, IT LOOKS LIKE, UH, THE CITY OF BUFORD AND PORT ROYAL WILL BE PICKING IT UP AGAIN ON APRIL 30TH, UH, COMING UP.
UH, AND I'M NOT QUITE SURE WHAT THE COUNCIL IS DOING AT THE MOMENT, BUT, UH, THERE IS A STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION POLICY, A STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION POLICY THAT, UH, ADDRESSES REQUIREMENT OF MASKS IN SCHOOL BUILDINGS.
AND SO, UM, AT THE MOMENT WE'RE STILL GOVERNED BY THAT.
UM, ALSO, UH, AS WELL AS IT IS THE RECOMMENDATION FROM, FROM THE NAPKIN CDC.
UH, AND SO, SO TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION, WE STILL HAVE MASSED REQUIREMENTS IN OUR BUILDINGS.
UM, AND WE ARE GOVERNED BY A STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION, UH, A STATE BOARD OF ED POLICY, UH, THAT WAS RECOMMENDED TO THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION.
AND SO, UM, THAT I BELIEVE, UH, IS CERTAINLY IN EFFECT THROUGH THE SCHOOL YEAR, ON THE LAST DAY, CHANGE IT IN, IN, UH, THE WEEKS AHEAD.
UH, BUT FOR THE MOMENT IT'S INTERESTING MR. SMITH, I WAS GOING TO SAY, THANKS FOR THE UPDATES AND THE REFERENCE TO THE ARTS, BECAUSE OURS ARE VERY IMPORTANT.
AND I LIKE TO, UH, AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, THANK, UH, THE DOC.
I'D LIKE TO THINK THAT OUR READERS AND HIS STAFF FOR ALL THAT THEY'VE BEEN DOING, BECAUSE I KNOW IT'S BEEN A HARD, IT HAS BEEN A VERY HARD TIME TO MAKE OURS POSSIBLE.
AND I KNOW I DO HAVE A COUSIN WHO JUST GRADUATED FROM COLLEGE OUT FROM, FROM OURS, WHO GRADUATED ON AN ART SCHOLARSHIP.
AND BECAUSE OF OURS NOW YOU WILL BE DOING ARTS PROFESSIONAL, AND HE'S ALSO A BEAVER COUNTY SHOULD BE FOR CONNIE, OUR STUDENT BORN AND RAISED RIGHT HERE IN BEAVER COUNTY BECAUSE OF THE RSC WILL BE, HE WILL BE ABLE TO, UH, MOVE ON TO ANOTHER VENTURE AND IT'S LIFE BECAUSE OF THE ARTS, AS WELL AS, UH, THE, THE, THE, THE ONE AND ONLY, UH, CANDICE GLOVER, UH, WHO WAS PUTTING ME FROM BEAVER COUNTY, UH, ON THE MAP AS WELL WHEN IT COMES TO THE ARTS AS A, UH, WHAT'S WHAT'S WITH HER SINGING GIFTS.
SO I WOULD JUST LIKE TO THANK YOU FOR THAT REPORT, BECAUSE THE, YOU ALSO ARE VERY IMPORTANT.
AND I KNOW THAT, UH, THERE, FROM TIME TO TIME, I DID USED TO GO TO SOME OF THESE SHOWS THAT WERE, THAT, THAT HAS BEEN, UH, EXEMPLIFY TODAY.
SO I CAN KUDOS TO THE ARTS, THE ARTS DEPARTMENTS AND KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK.
YOU, THAT REPORT, UH, AS YOU KNOW, WAS BASED ON YOUR REQUEST FOR THAT INFORMATION.
UM, BUT IN ADDITION, I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR, FOR, UH, UM, THE ADENOIDS ABOUT IT, BUT, UH, TO BE HONEST WITH YOU, UH, LIKE YOU, I, I ERECT THOSE ACCOLADES TO OUR TEACHERS AND, AND TO OUR STAFF HERE IN THE DISTRICT, UH, AND, AND JUST THE WORK THAT THEY'VE DONE TO SUPPORT TRYING TO MAINTAIN SOMEWHAT OF A PERFORMING ARTS FOR, FOR OUR STUDENTS.
UH, BUT IT GOES BACK TO THE TEACHER IN THE CLASSROOMS AND THE WORK THEY DO WITH THE KIDS AND HOW THEY ULTIMATELY PULL IT OFF, UH, UH, AND MAKE IT SUCCESSFUL.
SO THE KIDS ARE DOING A FANTASTIC JOB.
YOU, YOU COULD SEE, I WAS EXCITED TO SEE THAT VIDEO TODAY AND WATCH THE WAY THAT KIDS WERE TALKING ABOUT, UH, THEIR EXPERIENCE, MR. MALCOLM BALL.
IS THERE A PLAN TO THIS IS BACK LIVE AND SOME OF THESE PERFORMANCES THERE IS, UH, IN, IN THE, UH, UH, PLAN, A PROVISION THAT SCHOOLS ARE PROVIDED, UH, THEY, THEY DO HAVE THAT OTHER LIMITED CAPACITY LIMITED
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BE DEALT WITH, I THINK, TO THE SCHOOLS, WHEN I, DR.BRADLEY ACTUALLY ABOUT THREE, THREE WEEKS AGO, KEEP A PERIOD.
IT HAS BEEN, I'VE HAD A 67% CAPACITY, SIR.
SO I JUST WANTED TO ADD VERY QUICKLY THAT, ALTHOUGH THIS IS A CONVERSATION ABOUT THE ARTS, UM, I THINK, UH, HE SHOULDN'T BE LOST ON US, UH, OUR ATHLETIC DIRECTORS AND OUR DISTRICT ATHLETIC DIRECTOR, PARTICULARLY MR. CARLOS CAVE HAS DONE A TREMENDOUS JOB AND, UH, POSITIONING OUR YOUNG PEOPLE TO BE COMPETITIVE IN ATHLETICS AS WELL.
OUR ATHLETIC TEAMS DISTRICT-WIDE HAVE DONE INCREDIBLY WELL.
WE'VE HAD STUDENTS TO EARN SCHOLARSHIPS ON THE STRENGTH OF THEIR PERFORMANCES THIS YEAR.
AND IF YOU THINK BACK TO JUST EIGHT, NINE MONTHS AGO, WE HAD NO IDEA THAT WE'D BE ABLE TO ACTUALLY, UM, UH, PARTICIPATE IN ATHLETICS THAT SHE, SO I JUST WANTED TO TAKE HER MOMENT TO PUBLICLY ACKNOWLEDGE THE WORK THAT OUR ATHLETIC DIRECTORS HAVE BEEN DOING TO MAKE SURE THAT OUR STUDENTS ARE SAFE AND TO ALSO STILL POSITIONED THEM TO BE, UH, ACTIVE PARTICIPANTS IN AN ARRAY OF, UH, UH, SCHOOL ACTIVITIES IN ALL DUE RESPECT.
BRADLEY, THAT'S NOT ON THE AGENDA FOR THAT.
WELL, YOU'VE GOT MORE DISCUSSION TONIGHT.
IT'S AN EXCELLENT POINT THOUGH, BECAUSE I DO, I WANT TO THANK DR.
WE TALKED ABOUT, UM, WORRYING, MASTERING VOCAL PERFORMANCES, UM, AND THAT THEY COME TO THE CONCLUSION THAT THE ACTORS CAN SING MASCULINE, WHICH IS HUGE.
THEY WILL WEAR AN OFFSTAGE BACKSTAGE, ET CETERA, BUT WHEN THEY'RE ON STAGE, THEY'RE SOCIALLY DISTANT AND THEY'RE IN AN OPEN ENOUGH SPACE.
THERE'LL BE ALLOWED TO SAY BECAUSE IT'S VERY DIFFICULT TO SAY WITH A MASK.
AND I THINK THAT SPEAKS TO THE FACT THAT THE DISTRICT IS PLANTING A FLAG AND SAYING THAT ATHLETICS AND THE ARTS ARE EQUALLY IMPORTANT, WHICH I THINK IS NOT ALWAYS THE CASE.
AND I WOULD LIKE TO INVITE MR. NEIL CAMPBELL TO ACCOMPANY ME TO HILTON HEAD HIGHS PERFORMANCE ON MATILDA THIS WEEKEND.
THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR, THANK YOU FOR THAT PRESENTATION.
AND I AM JERRY LACKING SOME OF THE VIDEOS THAT I MIGHT FIND OUT FROM THE DISTRICTS, AND I REALLY APPRECIATE THE VIDEO IS SHOWING THE POTLUCK, HOW WE'RE STAYING ENGAGED AND PERFORMING ARTS THROUGHOUT THE PANDEMIC.
UM, I AM GOING TO TAKE IT BACK TO THE KOMEN, UM, TOPIC, IF I MAY, CAN YOU PROVIDE US WITH A COPY OF THE DIRECTIVE FROM THE SOUTH CAROLINA BOARD OF EDUCATION OR WHATEVER IT IS? I HAVE IT RIGHT HERE.
WHAT I WANT TO DO IS EMAIL IT TO YOU.
UH, THE COPY THAT, WELL, THE COPY, IT'S A LINK, SO YOU'LL CLICK ON THE LINK.
UH, AND YOU CAN GET IT THAT WAY, OR I CAN HAVE MOLLY COPY IT FOR ALL OF YOU, WHATEVER YOU WISH.
I JUST, I HADN'T RECALLED THAT THERE WAS A SPECIFIC STATEWIDE THROUGHOUT THE DISTRICT, SO I WANT TO MAKE SURE I
SO NO OTHER QUESTIONS ON, UH, UH, MR.
THIS HAS TO DO WITH THE COVID REPORT.
I'M GETTING AN AWFUL LOT OF QUESTIONS FROM CONSTITUENTS ABOUT GRADUATION AND, UH, THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE THAT EACH GRADUATE WILL BE ABLE TO INVITE TO THE CEREMONY THAT I'M GETTING.
SO WE HAVE, UH, PROVIDED GUIDANCE TO OUR SCHOOLS AND OUR SCHOOLS, UH, BY NOW I BELIEVE HAVE COMMUNICATED THAT INFORMATION OUT, BUT TO MAKE IT VERY CLEAR TO ANYBODY WHO MIGHT BE LISTENING TODAY, UH, THE GUIDANCE WE GAVE OUR SCHOOLS WAS EACH GRADUATE WOULD HAVE SIX TICKETS, BY THE WAY.
UH, WHEN YOU LOOK AT WHAT MANY OTHER SCHOOL DISTRICTS ARE DOING, THEY'RE DOING FOUR OR LESS.
SO WE'LL GO, WE BELIEVE WE CAN, WE CAN DO SIX.
AND, UH, I BELIEVE THAT OUR SCHOOLS AND DOCTORS RILEY WILL FOLLOW UP WITH OUR HIGH SCHOOLS TOMORROW MORNING TO MAKE SURE THAT THAT EFFECT HAS BEEN COMMUNITY.
UH, I BELIEVE MR. MEL PAVEL REQUESTED AN UPDATE ON THE RANK RIDER, UH, AT THE AGENDA SETTING MEETING OR, OR SOMEONE DID.
I'M SORRY IF IT WAS, BUT I WAS PREPARED TO PROVIDE YOU WITH AN UPDATE TODAY, WHICH WAS JUST LIMITED INFORMATION THAT WE HAVE WHAT WE HAD DONE.
BUT IN FACT, I HAVE SOME AMAZING NEWS TO SHARE WITH YOU, AND I'M GOING TO LET DR.
STRADDLES CARRY YOU THROUGH THIS BECAUSE SHE AND HER TEAM WORKED EXTREMELY
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HARD ON THIS.AND I THINK THAT WE RECEIVED TODAY, UH, SO VERY WONDERFUL NEWS, AND I WANT HER TO SHARE IT.
RODRIGUEZ, ONCE AGAIN, BOARD MEMBERS AND I'LL SLOW.
MY PACE DOWN LIGHT ENERGY REALLY WAS ABOUT THE SECOND SEGMENT, NOT DISRESPECT TO THE ARTS, BECAUSE I AM VERY MUCH A SUPPORTIVE IN ARTS, BUT LET ME TURN THE PAGE OVER TO THE GRANT WRITING AND GRANTS THAT ARE ASSOCIATED WITH US FRANK OUT HERE AND BE PER COUNTY.
DURING WINTER 2019 BUFORD COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT HAD ADOPTED A REQUEST FOR GRANT WRITERS.
THE FIRM RESEARCH ASSOCIATES WAS SELECTED.
THEY ARE A NATIONAL PREMIER GRANTS DEVELOPMENT FIRM WITH OVER 36 YEARS OF PROVEN EXPERIENCE AND AN 80% SUCCESS RATE RESEARCH ASSOCIATES HAS ASSISTED NONPROFITS, SCHOOL DISTRICTS, FOUNDATIONS, AGENCIES, AND UNIVERSITIES TO CURE AND IMPLEMENT OVER $650 MILLION IN GRANT FUNDING TO SUPPORT OVER 280 LARGE PROJECTS DO THE WORK OF RESEARCH RESEARCH ASSOCIATES IN SPRING OF 2020, YOU'VE HAD COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICTS HAVE IT, A MAGNET SCHOOLS ASSISTANCE PROGRAMMING QUES BOTH FUNDING FOR THE US DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION.
WE WERE A FINALIST FOR CONSIDERATION, AND THIS GRANT TARGETS TO DEVELOP ENOUGH TECHNOLOGY, TECHNOLOGY AND MEDICAL PROGRAMS. HOWEVER, AS OF THIS LATE AFTERNOON, TWO 49 TO BE EXACT FOR COUNTY IS NOW A GRANT RECIPIENT FOR A TOTAL OF $2.8 MILLION TO SCHOOL THEATER PROGRAMS. AND WHAT THAT WAR WILL BE IMPACTED.
WE'D HAVE THE VIEWPOINT CLUSTER MOSSY OAKS ELEMENTARY, LADIES ISLAND, MIDDLE BEAUTIFUL MIDDLE.
WE AS WELL HAVE THE WHALE BRANCH CLUSTER OF WHALE, GRANDCHILD ELEMENTARY WHERE WELL GRANTED MIDDLE AND WELL GRANT, YOU'RE GOING COME COLLEGE.
THE VIEW FOR COUNTY MAGNET SCHOOLS ASSISTANCE PROGRAM IS NAMED MEG TECH SEVEN, AS IT IS AN EVIDENCE-BASED WHOLE SCHOOLS, THEME ARTS INTEGRATED MAGNET PROGRAM GRANT PROPOSAL, PRIMARY GOALS ARE TO IN RECRUITMENT AND SELECTION METHODS THAT STIMULATE SOCIOECONOMIC INTEGRATION AND REDUCE MINORITY GROUP ISOLATION, INCREASED ACADEMIC SUCCESS TO AN EDUCATIONAL, CHALLENGING, AND DIVERSE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT THAT INSPIRES ALL STUDENTS TO ACHIEVE THEIR POTENTIAL.
THEIR GOAL IS TO PROVIDE HIGH QUALITY PROFESSIONAL LEARNING THAT EMPOWERS EDUCATORS TO EXCEL IN PRACTICE AND INNOVATIVE INTEGRATION OF MAGNET BEANS.
I HAVE TO SHARE THAT OUR GRANT WAS WRITTEN.
I HAVE TO PUT THE KUDOS OUT ON PAPER TO THIS RATHER IMPRESSIVE.
I WANT TO SHARE THEN YOUR APPLIED GOALS THAT TIE INTO ALL OF THIS NUMBER ONE, I SHARED THE PDM, THE EMPLOYMENT AND RECRUITMENT AND SELECTION METHODS.
NUMBER TWO, ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT.
OUR GOAL IS TO PUSH STEAM ON THE INTEGRATION OF FROM K THROUGH 12 FOR OUR STUDENTS IN THE COMPANY'S THEATER PROGRAMS. THE MEDICAL MAGNET THING IS IMPLEMENTED EVIDENCE-BASED WHOLE SCHOOL, STEAM ARTS INTEGRATED PROGRAM, AND SPECIALIZED ACADEMICS ARE PRE-MED AND BIO MEDICAL SCIENCE.
BUT IF YOU HAVE A K-12 CLUSTER, THE TECHNOLOGY MAGNET THEME OLYMPIA, AN EVIDENCE-BASED WHOLE-SCHOOL STEAM ARTS INTEGRATED PROGRAM, BUT SPECIALIZED ACADEMICS IN CYBERSECURITY, COMPUTER SCIENCE AND NETWORKING WITH A WHALE BRANCH K-12 CLUSTER PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT IS OFF BIG ROAD TARGETED AREA.
AND THEN IT'S FOR LIKE HIGH QUALITY PROFESSIONAL LEARNING.
THEN KIND OF AS EDUCATORS TO EXCEL IN PRACTICE AND INNOVATIVE INTEGRATION OF MAGNATE THEMES.
I HAVE TO SHARE A COMMONALITY IN BOTH THE CLUSTERS IZZY INCREASED OF ARTS.
AND THEN WE SAID, ONE, ONE SIDE TO THE SCIENCES OR TECHNOLOGY ONE INTO THE MEDICAL WORLD.
RESEARCH ASSOCIATES PROVIDES TURN KEY GRANT DEVELOPMENT SERVICES, INCLUDING DEVELOPING THE GRANT NARRATIVE NARRATIVE AND WORKING WITH THE LEADERSHIP TEAMS TO DEVELOP A PROGRAM DRIVEN BUDGET AND APPLICATION WITH TAX REFORMS. THE SAME PROCESS WAS UTILIZED WITH THE, WITH OUR MAGNET SCHOOLS ASSISTANCE PROGRAM GRANT, WHERE WHAT RESEARCH ASSOCIATES IS BASED ON A FEE BASED MODEL AND NOT ORDER GRANTS MIDDLES THROUGH THEM ALLOWS FOR A SECOND SUBMITTAL.
SHOULD THERE BE FUNDING ALLOCATED, BUT GRANT WRITING HAS NOT ONLY BEEN DEPENDENT UPON OUTSOURCING MEMBERSHIP.
I NEED YOU TO THE, THAT WITHIN INSTRUCTIONAL SERVICES, INDIVIDUALS, AS KAREN GILBERT HAS WORKED
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WITH SOME OF OUR PARTNERS THAT WE HAVE ACTUALLY PUT FORWARD A GRANT FOR THEIR APARTMENT OF EVENTS, EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITY, DOV EA, THAT GRANT TARGET'S ACTUALLY CYBERSECURITY.BUT THE BASE OF THAT GRANT IS THE INCREASED CONTENT KNOWLEDGE OF OUR TEACHERS IN SCIENCE AND MATH OR OUR STUDENTS WHO ATTEND SCHOOLS, WHAT AT LEAST A 10% OF STUDENTS WHOSE FAMILIES ARE TOUCHED BY THE MILITARY.
SO I'D LIKE TO SHARE WITH THOSE SCHOOLS, WELL, WE'RE HOLDING SEPTEMBER, SEPTEMBER, 2021 IS A RELEASE OF THAT BUDDING HAS BEEN ALLOCATED.
AND THE TARGETED SCHOOLS THERE ARE, YOU PUT ELEMENTARY, IF YOU PREGNANT BROAD RIVER ELEMENTARY KUSA ELEMENTARY LADIES ISLAND HILL ELEMENTARY LADIES OUT OF MIDDLE PORT ROYAL ELEMENTARY CAN PRITCHETT BILL.
ADDITIONALLY ISC PERSONNEL HAVE WRITTEN GRANTS IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE CITADEL TO ASSIST AT BUILDING TEACHERS INSTRUCTIONAL MODELS THAT MEET THE NEEDS OF MULTILINGUAL STUDENTS, AS WELL AS WITH THE DEVELOPMENT OF A MASTER'S IN LITERACY.
I'D LIKE TO POINT OUT TWO ADDITIONAL ITEMS. ONE IS GRANT AND MELISSA MARIA HAVE A RECORD OF KETO LITERACY WROTE, OR A SUMMER READING CAMP PARTNERSHIP WITH WHERE WE, WE HAVE RECEIVED $48,000 FOR BOOKS FROM THE COMMUNITY BOOK DROP EXTREME, EXTREMELY EXTRAVAGANZA.
WE PARTNERED WITH THE BUFORD COUNTY LIBRARY AND UNITED WAY OF THE LOW COUNTRY.
OH, DID I MESS UP ON A NUMBER OF THINGS A YEAR, BUT I'M GOING TO SAY OVER A FIVE-YEAR PERIOD.
AT 1.8 TO 2 MILLION PER YEAR, IF I CALL IT.
SO I WENT TO ALSO, SHE HAD AN ATHLETE THAT CAN SIT ON YOUR RECORD, EARLY CHILDHOOD RECEIVE FUNDING, AND I HAVE TO PUT VOTING.
THIS IS EXTRA KUDOS FUNDING FROM THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE LOW COUNTRY FOR SUPPLYING OUR YOUNGEST STUDENTS DURING THE PANDEMIC IPADS, AS WELL AS FUNDING FROM THE COASTAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION.
BUT I WOULD BE REMORSE IF I DIDN'T HAVE A PHONE WITH THE HARD WORK THAT WE OVERLOAD AND SUPPORT THAT WE HAVE RECEIVED FROM JACKIE ROZ WORM AND MEMBERSHIP OF THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE LOW COUNTRY AND THEIR PARTNERSHIPS WITH DIRECT GRANTS TO OUR SCHOOLS LEFT IN HIGH SCHOOL, HELPED HIM HEAD HIGH SCHOOL, JOSEPH SHANKLIN, ROBIN SMALLS, INTERNATIONAL CANADA, JUST TO NAME A FEW.
THESE SCHOOLS HAVE RECEIVED FUNDING FOR TUTORING CLASSROOM NEXT MINUTE, MANIPULATIVES ALL IN AN EFFORT TO ADDRESS CHANGES TO LEARNING THROUGH THE COVID-19.
THE NOW THE WORK BEGINS WITHOUT ANY QUESTIONS BECAUSE IT'S THE MIDDLE.
AND THIS IS HOW WE CLOSE G WE'RE WORKING AT MA'AM.
I'VE DONE A PHENOMENAL JOB AND I KNOW EVERY APPRECIATE IT.
UM, I ALSO LIKE THING YOU AND YOUR FAST PREGNANT, I'M NOT GOING TO ACT FOR THEM.
I JUST WANT TO SAY, I KNOW THAT THIS WAS SOMETHING THAT WAS ONLY MAYBE A YEAR AGO, UM, WHEN YOU STARTED WITH THE GRANT WRITER AND TO HAVE SUCH AN AMAZING OUTCOME THAT IS GOING TO BRING SUCH OFTEN OPPORTUNITIES TO THESE STUDENTS.
UM, AND THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR HOUR.
UM, OUR QUESTION IS KIND OF SIMILAR ON WHAT WE EXPEND A CERTAIN, AND I ASSUME THAT WE HAVE, UM, RECEIVED MORE THAN WE HAVE SPENT.
SO FROM, UM, FROM A FINANCIAL POINT OF VIEW, THIS WAS A WISE INVESTMENT.
IS THAT THE BOTTOM LINE ON THIS SARAH IN THE FINALE OF MY ANCESTORS IS WHAT WE WOULD CALL IT THAT EQUAL.
AND THEN I CAN EXPLAIN TO YOU THIS, WHEN YOU PLAY DOMINOES AND YOU BLOCK ANY CORNER AND YOU CAN'T MAKE A MOVE, THIS WAS A VERY GOOD INVESTMENT.
IT'S JUST TELLS US WHAT WHAT'S POSSIBLE.
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AND WHAT'S OUT THERE THAT WE HAVE REACH OUT AND SPEND THIS SHOULD'VE STARTED, BUT WE COULDN'T GO TO THE FUNDS TO SUPPORT OUR BASE PROGRAM.THIS IS FOUR OR FIVE YEARS THEN MR. CAMPBELL WAS LIKE TO JUST SAY, I AGREE WITH SENTIMENTS THAT ALL THE BOARD MEMBERS HAVE HAVE MADE TONIGHT, UH, 10 IN ADDITION, RIGHT? SOME OF THESE PROGRAMS THAT WE'RE GOING TO BE PUTTING IN PLACE, UM, GONNA REQUIRE PARTNERSHIPS WITHIN OUR COMMUNITY.
AND I'VE ALREADY HAD EXTENDED CONVERSATIONS REGARDING MEDICAL PROGRAMMING AND REGARDING, UM, UH, CYBER SECURITY COMPONENT, UH, WITHIN OUR COMMUNITY.
UH, HERE ARE SO, SO ANTICIPATING, HOPING, WANTING TO BE READY.
AND SO I THINK THERE'S A LOT OF GOOD THINGS THAT CAN COME OVER THIS.
AND THERE'S A LOT OF MONEY OUT THERE THAT WE NEED TO GO FIND AS YOUR POINT.
SO KIND OF COMMON, I THINK TO BE CELTA, THIS HAS ADDED THE VETTING OF OUR FINANCE DEPARTMENT, PATCHY WORKING FOR RESEARCH SEARCH ASSOCIATES.
THEY WILL PUT, THEY SELECT IT AR HIGHLY QUALIFIED GROUP OF FINANCE DEPARTMENT DID A VERY GOOD JOB OF VETTING THIS CRITICAL.
I WAS GOING TO SAY A GOOD JOB AS WELL AS, UM, ONE OF MY, ONE OF MY QUESTIONS WILL BE TO ASK.
UM, SO, SO WE HAVE ALREADY DETERMINED WHERE ALL THIS MONEY IS GOING ON ALREADY THAT WE'RE GETTING YES, SIR.
THAT WAS PART OF THE GRANT PROPOSAL TO BE DEFINITIVE AND OUR ALLOCATION ON THE BUDGET AS WELL AS THE TARGET SCHOOLS.
WELL, I WAS JUST NOT, AND I WAS JUST WONDERING, RUNNING WHETHER IT WAS RATHER THOSE PROPOSALS WERE FINAL, AH, OR NOT.
SO I GUESS YOU ANSWERED MY QUESTION WITH, SO, BECAUSE I KNOW THE GRANT, THE MONEY HAS TO GO EXACTLY WHERE IT'S ALLOCATED FOR, CORRECT? YEAH, THAT'D BE YES, SIR.
I BROUGHT THE GRANDFATHERED ON MAY 19TH AND 2022.
THE ANSWER IS MOST DEFINITELY.
AND IF YOU COULD, COULD YOU REPEAT THOSE SCHOOLS THAT, THAT MONEY IS GOING TOWARDS AGAIN, PLEASE FOR ME? YES, SIR.
SO OUR BUFORD HIGH CLUSTER WILL CONSIST OF THE SCHOOL STUFF.
QUIT HIGH SCHOOL, IT'LL BE LADY'S ISLAND, MIDDLE BUFORD, MIDDLE MOSSY OAKS, AND
AND THOSE ARE THE THREE SCHOOLS THAT ARE TIED TO THE WELL BRANCH CLUSTER FROM WHERE OIL BRANCH L WILL BRANCH MIDDLE AND WELL RANCH EARLY COLLEGE.
I TOOK TIME THIS AFTERNOON TO GET AS MANY OF THOSE PRINCIPLES OF PERSONAL TOUCH AND REACHED OUT TO THEM WHAT WE NEEDED ON THE AFTERNOON OF THE 28TH.
WHEN YOU SAY BEAUTIFUL HIGH CLUSTER, WELL, THESE WILL BE THE SCHOOLS THAT WILL FEED IT TO BE FOR HIGH SCHOOL BECAUSE ST.
HELEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, AS WELL AS LAYS OUT ELEM ELEMENTARY AND ELEMENTARY, THOSE SCHOOLS FEEDING TWO HIGH SCHOOL CLASSES AS WELL.
I RECOGNIZE THAT WE TIED INTO THE PARTS.
INTEGRATIONS WOULD BE A GOOD MIDDLE OF ACROSS THE STREET AS MARCIO.
AND WE WERE TARGETING OTHER SCHOOLS ON LADY'S ISLAND AS LADY'S ISLAND, AS WELL AS ST.
WELL, FOUR 80 GRADES, SAME ST.
A GRANT THAT WE'RE LOOKING INTO, COLD GEAR PUMP, LADIES ISLAND, MIDDLEMAN, LADIES ISLAND L IS BEING TARGETED FOR THE GRANT WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE EDUCATION ACTIVITY GROUPS THERE.
YEAH, I'D LOVE TO ALSO THANK YOU ON BEHALF OF THE MEDICAL COMMUNITY, BECAUSE THE JOB SHORTAGE IN THIS AREA IS GOING TO BE ACUTE.
SO I'M VERY EXCITED ABOUT IT ON ALL LEVELS.
UM, IF IT'S A SUCCESSFUL PROGRAM, WHICH I SPENT A BOGEY, UM, ARE GOING TO BE ABLE TO REPLICATE ITSELF IN THE BRONX, IN THE BRONX.
SO THAT IS ONE OF THE ITEMS WITHIN A REQUIREMENT FOR MSA MAGNET SCHOOLS, ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS IS THE SUSTAINABILITY AND THE REPLICATION MODEL THAT WAS WRITTEN INTO THE GRANT.
SO CREATION OF THE CURRICULUM THAT WILL BE UTILIZED THAT CAN BE SHARED TO MORE SCHOOLS AS THE GRANT GOES, ENCLOSURE, THE ISSUE WOULD BE THEN THE OTHER FUNDING, IT WOULD HAVE TO HAPPEN.
THAT MEANS WE HAVE TO LOOK AT OTHER SOURCES.
WE HAVE TO CONTINUE OUR GROWTH LOVING THROUGH OTHER FUNDING.
UH, WELL, WHAT WOULD BE THE TIMELINE?
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BECAUSE I CAN IMAGINE THAT SOME OF MY PARENTS, IF THEY HEAR, OH, WE'VE GOT THIS GRADE PRETTY, BUT IT WAS LIKE, HEY, WHERE ARE WE GOING TO GET IT IN OUR AREAS? LIKE, ARE WE TALKING YEARS DOWN THE ROAD FOR APPLICATION? OR IS IT SOMETHING WE COULD GET BROUGHT AWAY? THE REPLICATION PROCESS ISN'T EVEN, THAT'D BE IT.WE FIRST GO THROUGH A LAYER LIKE PLANNING FOR THIS GRANT THAT HAS HAD THE GRANT IS WRITTEN.
OUR GOAL IS TO HAVE IMPLEMENTATION SEPTEMBER OF 20, 22.
AND THEN WE GO THROUGH THE PROCESS OF IMPLEMENTING.
IT WOULD BE HARD BECAUSE THE TYPE OF STAFF THAT WE HAD TO IMPLEMENT AND CREATE SIMULTANEOUSLY, BUT IT IS AN END RESULT OF THIS GRANT IS A REQUIREMENT THAT WE HAVE TO LOOK INTO APPLICATION.
AND I SUPPOSE WORST CASE SCENARIO DO FOR HIGH IS AVAILABLE FOR CHOICE, RIGHT? AS PEOPLE WERE MOTIVATED FOR PRE-MEDICAL LIKE AT THE HIGH SCHOOL LEVEL, THAT WOULD BE ONE OF THE GOALS, AS WELL AS IN DOING A PARTNERSHIP WITH USC, THEY WANTED A PART OF YOURSELF THAT NSAP GRANT, THE ANSWER TO THAT IS YES.
THAT CONCLUDES THE SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT.
SO THIS PROPERTY IS COMING FORWARD THROUGH, GIVE US A BACKGROUND
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ON THE, UM, THE BOARD BUSINESS ACTION ITEMS OR THELEAVING ONCE AGAIN, UH, I WOULD LIKE TO START THIS DISCUSSION WITH A TOPIC AND WITH AN UPDATE ON OUR TAX REVENUE.
UM, SO THAT WAS ONE OF THE FOUR MAIN COMPONENTS OF REALLY DELAYING THIS CONVERSATION WAS TO ENSURE THAT WE HAD THE PROPER AMOUNT OF TAX REVENUE TO SUPPORT THE CURRENT YEAR'S OPERATIONS.
SO, UM, WE HAVE RECEIVED A MARCH REPORT FROM THE TREASURER'S OFFICE AND IT SHOWS A VERY POSITIVE OUTLOOK.
WE RECEIVED ACTUALLY $53 MILLION IN MARCH ALONE FOR THE CURRENT FISCAL YEAR, AND WHICH BRINGS US TO A PERCENTAGE OF COLLECTIONS OR A PERCENTAGE OF REVENUES VERSUS OUR BUDGET OF 95%, WHICH IS VERY MAD AT THIS POINT IN THE YEAR.
SO, UM, I AM WE, ALTHOUGH WE ARE APPROXIMATELY $7 MILLION LEFT, HAVE ABOUT $7 MILLION LEFT TO RECEDE.
WE TYPICALLY OVER THE LAST SEVERAL YEARS HAVE RECEIVED ANYWHERE FROM FIVE TO 7 MILLION DURING THIS PORTION OF THE SCHOOL YEAR.
SO, UM, FOR THERE IS AN ACCOUNTING ROLE INVOLVED IN THIS TRANSACTION.
UM, WE ACTUALLY, UM, COLLECT THROUGH THE END OF AUGUST.
UM, THERE'S A GOVERNMENTAL ACCOUNTING STANDARD THAT SAYS THAT EAT MUST COVER, UM, A CREW BACK, ANY DELINQUENT TAXES THAT ARE COLLECTED IN JULY AND AUGUST BACK TO THE PRIOR FISCAL YEAR FOR THE 60 DAY PERIOD.
SO 60 DAYS BEYOND THE END OF THE FISCAL YEAR.
SO WE WILL BE COLLECTING IN APRIL, MAY, JUNE, JULY, AND AUGUST FOUR.
AND I BELIEVE BASED ON WHAT I'VE SEEN SO FAR, THAT WE WILL COLLECT IF NOT ALL MAJORITY OF THOSE FUNDS.
SO I'M VERY FAVORABLE AS I LOOK IN COMPARISON TO PRIOR YEARS, IT DOES APPEAR THAT WE'RE ON TRACK TO MEET, TO MEET THE 140, UM, $149 MILLION BUDGET OR FOR PROPERTY TAX REVENUES.
WE WON'T HAVE THE FINAL NUMBERS ON THAT UNTIL LATE SEPTEMBER.
UH, SO IT IS SOMETIME SIGNIFICANTLY ACCURATE FISCAL YEAR END AND ALL THE RECONCILIATIONS FOR THE FINAL FINANCIAL STATEMENTS ARE DONE, BUT THAT IS GREAT NEWS.
UM, AND, UH, THE DEBT SERVICE SIDE IS LOOKING FAVORABLE AS WELL.
AND I'LL BE TALKING ABOUT THE DEBT BUDGETS IN THE UPCOMING WEEKS OR UPCOMING WARDEN MEETINGS.
AND SO I'LL BE REFERRING TO THOSE TAX REVENUES AS WELL, THAT THEY'RE COMING ON AS, AS EXPECTED.
AND, UH, WE BELIEVE THAT WE'LL COLLECT ALCOHOL A HUNDRED PERCENT OF THE REVENUES.
SO IN ADDITION TO REVENUES, WE HAVE OTHER GOOD NEWS THIS YEAR.
AND, AND THIS WAS REPORTED OUT IN THE FINANCE COMMITTEE THIS PAST, UM, MONTH EARLIER IN THE MONTH THAT WE DO EXPECT SOME PRE UH, SOME SAVINGS IN OUR EXPENDITURES.
UM, AND SO THEY ARE SAVINGS IN SALARIES AND BENEFITS, SUBSTITUTES, TRAVEL AND ENERGY TO BE EXACT, AND WE BELIEVE IT COULD BE, UH, APPROXIMATELY SIX AND A HALF MILLION DOLLARS OF SAVINGS IN THE EXPENDITURES.
SO THE SAVINGS CONVERSATION IS ABOUT TWO, TWO DIFFERENT, UM, UH, COMPENSATION, UM, TWO TYPES OF COMPENSATION TOTALS EQUATE TO OF THE TWO, IF I TOOK ABOUT $5.8 MILLION.
SO WITH SIX AND A HALF MILLION OF PROJECTED SAVINGS, WE WILL STILL HAVE REMAINING ABOUT 700,000.
BASED ON THESE ESTIMATES NOW ESTIMATES CHANGE ON, YOU KNOW, BY OFTEN, BUT WE ARE SEEING WHERE OUR BEING VERY CONSERVATIVE ON THESE ESTIMATES AS WELL, SO WE COULD SEE MORE.
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UM, SO IT APPEARS THAT, UM, THINGS ARE GOING AS PLANNED.UH, AND IT ALLOWS YOU NOW THE FREEDOM TO MAKE SOME DECISIONS ABOUT, UH, SOME OF THE THINGS THAT YOU'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT, BOY'S BEEN TALKING ABOUT IN REGARD TO THE EMPLOYEE BONUSES AND STUFF.
SO, UM, JUST TO HIT A FEW HIGHLIGHTS ON THE EMPLOYEE BONUS, UH, YOU'VE SEEN THIS DOCUMENT BEFORE, UM, THE FIRST DOCUMENT AND IT IS, DOES DISPLAY.
UM, THE MOTION WAS ACTUALLY MADE TO PROVIDE A $1,000 BONUS TO ALL TWO FULL-TIME TEACHERS AND STAFF.
SO, UM, THAT WOULD INCLUDE BUS DRIVERS AND DISTRICT OFFICE STAFF AND, AND SCHOOL STAFF ALL ACROSS THE BOARD.
UM, AND, AND IN MANY GROUPS OF EMPLOYEES.
UM, SO I BROUGHT BACK AT THAT TIME, UH, OF OUR LAST DISCUSSION ON THIS TOPIC, AN IDEA OF, OF HEART TIME, UM, CONCEPT AS WELL WITH A GRADUATED RATE BASED ON INFORMATION THAT I RECEIVED FROM JASPER COUNTY.
UM, AND SO, UH, I HAVE PROVIDED SOME INFORMATION AND A PROJECTED SCENARIO TO INCLUDE SOME PART TIME STAFF AS WELL.
AND THE NUMBERS OF EMPLOYEES THAT WOULD BE AFFECTED.
SO OVERALL, UH, OF THE, UM, POTENTIAL AFFECTED EMPLOYEES WOULD BE 2,920 EMPLOYEES FOR A COST OF 3.1 MILLION.
THESE BONUSES ARE SUBJECT TO SOCIAL SECURITY, MEDICARE TAX, AND FEDERAL AND STATE WITHHOLDINGS.
THEY ARE NOT SUBJECT TO SOUTH CAROLINA RETIREMENT WITHHOLDINGS, OR THE MATCH ON THE BUDGET SIDE FOR THE DISTRICT.
SO, YOU KNOW, THE EMPLOYEE OR THE WAIVER WOULD HAVE THAT RETIREMENT PIECE.
UM, BUT IT IS, IS SUBJECT TO ALL OTHER TAXES.
UM, UH, SO WE, ALTHOUGH WE CARRY ZACK FUNDS OR ESTHER, OR ARFA ALL THOSE, ALL THOSE FEDERAL FUNDS ARE NOT ELIGIBLE FOR ONE TIME ACROSS THE BOARD BONUSES AND EVEN AMOUNT, THEY MUST BE PAID.
IF YOU WERE PAYING ADDITIONAL COMPENSATION TO EMPLOYEES, THEY MUST BE MESSED UP UNTIL THE TIME DATE AND ALL THE SPECIFICS THAT EXACTLY AND HEY, EXACTLY WHAT WAS WORKED OVER ABOVE AND BEYOND.
SO IT'S NOT ELIGIBLE TO BE FUNDED THROUGH THAT, THROUGH THOSE FUNDING SOURCES.
UM, AND SO WE WOULD NEED TO, ALTHOUGH THEY'RE WORKING WITHIN THE BUDGET, WE WILL NEED TO DO SOME BUDGET TRANSFERS.
YOU MENTIONED EARLIER THAT THERE IS A BOARD POLICY.
IF WE MAKE UP A TRANSFER OF $50,000 OR MORE BETWEEN FUNCTIONS, THIS WILL BE BETWEEN, UH, JUST ABOUT EVERY FUNCTION WE HAVE, UM, KNOW PUTTING THOSE, UM, BUDGETS INTO EVERY INSTRUCTIONAL ION, EVERY SUPPORT LINE ITEM AND REMOVING IT FROM STAFF, THE PLACES THAT I MENTIONED EARLIER.
SO WE'VE INCORPORATED LANGUAGE IN THE MOTION TOO, THAT COVERS THAT, UM, THAT WE WOULD BE THE BOARD APPROVES BUDGET TRANSFERS THAT WOULD BE NECESSARY TO REALLOCATE THOSE RESOURCES WITHIN OUR CURRENT BUDGET.
SO, UM, THERE IS LANGUAGE AT THE BOTTOM OF THE, UH, THE MOTION.
SO, UM, THE BONUSES ARE, WE HAVE A VERY TIGHT PAYROLL SCHEDULE AS WE GO FORWARD AND I INCLUDED A SCHEDULE FOR YOUR BENEFIT.
UM, AND I, SO I WANTED TO MAKE SURE I DIDN'T OVER TAX.
THE, UM, EVERY TAX IS PROBABLY NOT OVERBURDEN, UH, LEAN PAYROLL STAFF.
WE HAVE ONE MORE PAYDAY THIS FRIDAY IN THE MONTH OF APRIL, AND THEN THERE ARE SOME, UH, OTHER, UH, THERE ARE REGULAR PAYROLLS AND SOME SUPPLEMENTAL PAYROLLS GOING ON IN THAT PERIOD OF TIME.
SO WHAT WE DID WAS, UM, CRAFT A SCHEDULE THAT WAS FIT NICELY AND ALLOW A CONSISTENT, UM, YOU WOULDN'T HAVE EVERYTHING ON ONE PAYDAY.
AND SO THERE WOULD BE SOME, UH, DIFFERENT, THERE ARE DIFFERENT CALCULATIONS FOR THE RETROACTIVE STEP INCREASE AND FOR THE BONUS AND FOR OTHER ACADEMIC STIPENDS AND LOCALITIES THAT WILL BE PROVIDED DURING THIS TIMEFRAME.
SO THIS SCHEDULE MEETS, UM, THE BEST INTERESTS OF, OF THE STAFF THAT WILL BE TAK UH, RESPONSIBLE FOR CALCULATING AND KEY OR IMPORTING THAT INFORMATION INTO THE FINANCIAL AND PAYROLL SOFTWARE.
SO THOSE ARE THE, SO THE BONUS IS PROPOSED TO BE PAID ON MAY 14TH.
UM, ONE LAST THING ON THIS ON EMPLOYEE BONUS AREA.
UM, ONE OF, UH, A TOPIC WAS BROUGHT UP IN THE PREVIOUS MEETING ABOUT THE NUMBERS OF DAYS PER WEEK AND THE RATES PER DAY.
SO I, AS AN ALTERNATIVE MOTION, I PROVIDED A SECOND ONE ON THE SECOND PAGE ON THE ACTUALLY PAGE THREE OF THIS DOCUMENT, UM, THAT FOR ANOTHER GRADUATED RATE OF, UM, PART-TIME WORK SO SMALLER STIPEND
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FOR, UH, AN AMOUNT FOR ONE DAY AND ANOTHER AMOUNT FOR TWO AND SO ON AS YOU GET UP TO THE FIVE DAYS PER WEEK AS AN ALTERNATIVE.UM, SO THIS ONE DOES HAVE A COST OF APPROXIMATELY, UM, $6,000 MORE, UM, AND, UH, EXCUSE ME, $4,000 MORE THAN THE ORIGINAL PROPOSAL.
SO THOSE I'VE PROVIDED EMOTIONS FOR BOTH OF THOSE OPTIONS FOR YOU TO SEE HERE.
UM, SO I'LL PAUSE THERE IN CASE I HAVEN'T, UM, I'LL HOLD OFF ON GOING, MOVING ON TO THE STEP INCREASE, READY TIME FOR QUESTIONS.
UM, MY QUESTION IS HOW COMPETENT ARE WE IN THE, THE PROJECTED EXPENDITURE DOLLAR AMOUNT OF HERE? UM, ONLY BECAUSE TYPICALLY WHEN WE'VE DONE ADDITIONAL, UM, OR MOTIONS FOR ADDITIONAL EXPENDITURES, WE ADDED A NOT TO EXCEED AMOUNT INSIDE AND SEE HOW COMFORTABLE YOU ARE WITH THESE FIGURES, WITH THE FIGURES OF THE EXACT DOLLAR AMOUNT.
SO I DON'T ACTUALLY THE DOLLAR AMOUNT, THE TOTAL DOLLAR NOW IN THE MOTION.
SO THIS IS A EVER CHANGING, UM, COST BECAUSE OF EMPLOYEES LEAVING AND COMING IN.
SO THERE MAY WE CAPTURE THE INFORMATION AT THE TIME OF A PARTICULAR BOARD MEETING.
SO THERE MAY NEED TO BE SOME WIGGLE ROOM TO BE ABLE TO, TO MANAGE THE, THE FULL COST.
UM, SO I DON'T EXPECT IT TO BE, UH, I WOULD SAY ROUNDING TO THE NEAREST A HUNDRED THOUSAND WOULD PROBABLY BE SATISFACTORY TO MANAGE THAT.
AND HE DOES THAT I'VE COMMENT IN THAT REGARD AND THAT THE SAME GAIN.
UM, YOU MENTIONED THAT AS A REBATE AND THEN ALSO THOSE THAT ARE COMING IN, I KNOW THAT THIS WAS ORIGINALLY INTENDED, UM, KIND OF THAT THEY, UH, GOODWILL AMBASSADOR, IF YOU WILL, TO THE STAFF AND TEACHERS THAT ARE WORKING SO HARD THROUGHOUT THE PANDEMIC.
SO, UM, THE, THE NEW ONES THAT ARE COMING IN, IF IT'S SYSTEM, I THINK THAT THERE, THAT MAY CREATE SOME ANIMOSITY.
I DON'T, I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S ACCURATE OR NOT, BUT, UM, I DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT REALLY NUMBER LOOKS LIKE OF HOW MANY PEOPLE THEY WOULD HAVE, BUT IT'S NOT COULD MAKE THAT COMMENT THAT YOU JUST ADD TO THE NEAREST HUNDRED THOUSAND, BUT MS. CROSBY TONIGHT IS FULL OF LOTS OF GOOD NEWS.
AND I CERTAINLY ENJOY HER, UM, UH, PROVIDING OUR HARDWORKING TEACHERS AND STAFF EMPLOYEES A BONUS ON IT.
I MOVE THAT THE BEAVER COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION AUTHORIZED THE SUPERINTENDENT APPENDING A ONE TIME BONUS TO ACTIVE EMPLOYEES FROM THE GENERAL FUND OPERATING BUDGET AND THE FOLLOWING GRADES, FULL-TIME TEACHERS AND OTHER STAFF, $1,000 PART-TIME EMPLOYEES WORKING AN AVERAGE OF FIVE DAYS PER WEEK, PER WEEK, $1,000, FOUR DAYS PER WEEK, $800, THREE DAYS PER WEEK, $600, TWO DAYS PER WEEK, $400 IN ONE DAY PER WEEK, $200.
AVERAGE DAYS PER WEEK WILL BE CALCULATED FROM THE TIME FROM FEBRUARY 20, 20, 21 TO APRIL 16TH, 2021, THE BOARD OF EDUCATION APPROVES THE BUDGET TRANSFERS NECESSARY TO FUND PAYMENT OF BONUSES.
AND THE TOTAL AMOUNT WILL BE, WILL NOT EXCEED 3 MILLION, $200,000 FOR THE MOTION WAS MADE BY TRICIA FENDER AND THE SECOND FIGHT HANDLE THE MIDDLE OF THEM.
DO YOU WANT TO SPEAK ANY FURTHER? UM, I JUST THINK OF THE TWO CHOICES THAT THIS ONE, UM, ALLAH FAKES, THEY, UM, THE BONUS IN A WAY THAT MIGHT REFLECT, UM, THE WORK THAT PEOPLE PUT IN A LITTLE BIT BETTER.
SO I, I THANK YOU FOR OFFERING THE TWO OPTIONS AND, UH, I SUPPORT THAT ONE.
ALL RIGHT, MR. DISTRIBUTOR, THANK YOU.
MADAM CHAIR, UH, TONYA, UH, THE CALCULATION OF AVERAGE DAYS PER WEEK, UM, IS BASED ON FEBRUARY 20 THROUGH APRIL 16TH.
SO THAT ELIMINATES NEW HIRES FROM GETTING THESE BONUSES, RIGHT? YES, SIR.
UM, SO THE MOTION IS, UH, DISCUSS ACTIVE EMPLOYEES
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AND WHAT THAT WOULD BE, UM, THAT WOULD BE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE LAST TWO MONTHS OF SOMEONE'S AVERAGE.IT WOULD HAVE TO HAVE AN AVERAGE DAILY OR AN AVERAGE WEEKLY, UM, WORK PERIOD, UH, HAD TO WORK.
I'M SORRY, LOST MY TRAIN OF THOUGHT IN THERE.
WE DO IT ON A CALCULATION BASED ON THE NUMBER OF HOURS WORK PER WEEK AND, AND DAYS WORKED PER WEEK.
AND THIS WOULD BE VERY SPECIFIC CALCULATION THAT WOULD ALLOW US TO CAPTURE DATA OUT OF OUR SYSTEM AND HAVE NO ROOM FOR ERROR OR OTHER DISCRETIONARY DECISIONS IS STRAIGHT CALCULATION OF DATA DURING A SEPARATE TIME SPECIFIC TIMEFRAME.
SO A NEW HIRE SAID, ELLIE LEFT, EMPLOYEES ARE NOT GOING TO GET THIS BONUS.
IS THAT TRUE? IT'S A NEW HIRES AND ELLIE'S LEFT EMPLOYEES, UM, ARE NOT GOING TO BE RECEIVING THIS BONUS.
SO IF YOU'RE NOT, YOU'RE NOT CURRENTLY EMPLOYED BY THE DISTRICT.
YOU'RE NOT GOING TO GET THIS THAT'S CORRECT.
THANK YOU FOR THE CLARIFICATION MS. CROSBY WAS LOOKING FOR WAS, UH, EMPLOYEES WHO LEFT THE SYSTEM, UH, WOULD NOT BE A PART OF THIS.
I THINK THAT'S YOUR QUESTION, RIGHT? YEAH.
THAT'S THAT'S ONE, HALF THE OTHER WAS THE NEW HIRES.
EITHER ONE OF THOSE GROUPS, UM, WILL BE GETTING THIS BONUS.
SO THERE'LL BE PEOPLE THAT STUCK IT OUT.
I ASKED YOU A QUESTION, DID YOU HAVE TO BE DONE WITH THAT SAME VEIN? AND THAT WAS WHAT I WAS THINKING ALSO THAT THIS WAS THE WAY YOU ELIMINATED NEW HIRES FROM GETTING IT, THAT WEREN'T HERE FOR THE FULL YEAR.
THE WHOLE IDEA IS THAT IT'S DUE TO THE EXTRA WORK THAT HAS TO BE OR BURDEN ON EMPLOYEES BASED ON THE VIRUS PAYING BACK.
AND SO I ALSO THINK IT'S VERY GOOD THAT YOU HAVE A SET TIMEFRAME THAT'S ALREADY, THAT'S IMPORTANT.
AND I SEE THAT IT'S EIGHT WEEKS.
UM, AND SO, UH, IT'S ONLY, IT'S KIND OF LIKE A LOCALITY SUPPLEMENT THAT YOU DIVIDE UP.
YOU HAVE TO STILL BE WORKING FOR THE DISTRICT TO RECEIVE THAT YOU CAN RECEIVE IT AFTER YOU'VE LEFT THE DISTRICT, CORRECT? YEAH.
YEAH, THAT PRETTY MUCH IS MY QUESTION AS WELL.
I GUESS WHAT I'M WORRIED ABOUT IS THERE'S BEEN SO MUCH CONFUSION BECAUSE WE WANTED TO OFFER THESE BONUSES IN JANUARY, AND THEN WE GOT STRUNG OUT BECAUSE OF ALL THE FOOLISHNESS.
AND NOW WE'RE IN APRIL, AND I'M JUST TRYING TO PERCEIVE HOW WE DEFINE ACTIVE EMPLOYEES AND MAKING SURE THAT THERE'S, NO, I CAN'T THINK OF ANY SCENARIOS, BUT MAKING SURE THAT OUR PLAYERS OF PEOPLE FEEL LIKE THEY WERE CHEATED OUT OF A BONUS OR THEY SHOULDN'T HAVE, YOU KNOW, I MEAN, NO, ONE'S GOING TO COMPLAIN ABOUT GETTING A BONUS.
ARE THERE ANY SCENARIOS THAT WE'RE OVERLOOKING IN TERMS OF HOW WE DEFINE ACTIVE EMPLOYEES RIGHT NOW? UM, WELL IN MY SCENARIO WOULD BE THAT IF THE TIME WE WERE RUNNING THE PAYROLL, UH, IS WHEN THEIR EMPLOYEES HAVE A CODE THAT IS INDICATED OR STATUS CODE IS ACTIVE OR ACTIVE.
AND SO THE POINT THAT WE'RE RUNNING THE PAYROLL, IF THEY ARE ACTIVE, THEY WILL RECEIVE IT.
IF THERE HAVE BEEN INACTIVATED FOR WHATEVER REASON, THEY WILL NOT.
SO IT'S A SIMPLE CODE INSIDE OF OUR PAYROLL SOFTWARE THAT WOULD DETERMINE.
SO IT'S, IT'S, IT'S LIKE IT'S BINARY, YOU'RE EITHER ACTIVATING.
WHAT ABOUT, FOR EXAMPLE, JUST, I'M JUST TRYING TO THINK THINGS THROUGH, IF WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A PROBLEM, SOMEONE WHO HAD THE FEED FOR MEDICAL REASONS WHO WAS WORKING IN JANUARY, FEBRUARY NOW, ARE THEY GOING TO SHOW UP AS ACTIVE OR INACTIVE IF THEY ARE STILL ON SOME SORT OF FAMILY MEDICAL LEAVE OR COVID LEAVE OR WHATEVER NEED IS IN PLACE THAT THEY'RE NOT THERE WOULD STILL BE CONSIDERED AN ACTIVE EMPLOYEE SO WE CAN FOLLOW UP AND MAKE SURE HAVING A DISCUSSION IN OUR FINANCE DEPARTMENT, WHAT TYPES OF SCENARIOS MIGHT FOLKS FALL OUT OF THAT AND WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT IF THEY ARE ON PAID LEAVE OR, OR PROTECTED LEAVE BY SOME FEDERAL ACT OR EMPLOYMENT LAW ACT, THEN WE WANT TO BE SURE THAT THEY ARE ELIGIBLE FOR THAT AS WELL.
I JUST DON'T WANT TO PAY VERY FORWARD OF DISTRICT EMPLOYEES WHO FEEL THAT THEY DIDN'T GET WHAT THEY WERE, IF I'M THERE WERE FOLLOWING MR. SMITH, UM, YOU KNOW, THIS IS A GOOD THING FOR THE PEOPLE WHO ARE GETTING IT.
BUT I REMEMBER WHEN WE FIRST TOOK THIS PHOTO, HOW WE WERE GOING ABOUT THE METHOD OF PAYING FOR IT.
I REMEMBER HOW I DIDN'T SUPPORT THAT BECAUSE MY MOM, ONCE AGAIN TOLD ME WHAT'S GOOD FOR THE GOOSE IS GOOD FOR THE GANDER WE HAD ABOUT MAYBE 35 EMPLOYEES OR A COUPLE EMPLOYEES THAT WE LEFT OUT DUE, DUE TO CERTAIN DIFF DUE TO CERTAIN DIFFICULTIES OR TECHNICAL DIFFERENCES.
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YOU KNOW, AND WHICH WAS WHEN I WAS ADDED, KIND OF ENDED UP THAT NIGHT WHEN I, I WAS, I WAS, IT BOTHERED ME SO MUCH.IT WAS MAYBE, MAYBE ABOUT $50,000, SOMETHING THAT ARE PROBABLY THE LESS THAN THAT, THAT WE WERE NOT GIVING OUT.
AND YOU KNOW, THAT, UH, WOULD THAT BE A SAID, EVEN THOUGH, EVEN FOR THE ONE DAY 200, I'M STILL BATTLING WITH THAT.
AND AT THIS TIME, I MEAN, YOU KNOW, ARE WE GOING TO GET, WE'RE GOING TO GIVE THEM EVERY WEEK.
WE REALLY JUST GIVING THEM A THOUSAND STIPEND OR NOT GIVING IT TO THEM, YOU KNOW? SO, YOU KNOW, I JUST CAN'T SUPPORT IT, KNOWING THAT WE'RE LEAVING PEOPLE OUT BY MOVING FORWARD AND CONTINUOUSLY TO SAY THAT WE'RE GOING TO GIVE, GIVE OUT THIS MONEY IN THE, IN THE, IN THE WAY WE'VE MARKED IT TO, TO GIVE IT OUT.
IF WE CAN, WE SHOULD GIVE IT TO ONE.
IT ALSO SHOULD GIVE EVERYONE A THOUSAND DOLLARS.
I THAT'S, THAT'S MY PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE.
SO, UM, I I'M BALANCED TO SUPPORT THIS MOTION AND I DIDN'T SUPPORT IT OR SUPPORT THE LAST ONE.
SO I ONLY GOT TO BE SUPPORTING THIS ONE IS WE SHOULD DO.
I MEAN, I MEAN, TO ME, IT'S, IT'S, IT'S, IT'S KINDA PUTTING A BITTER TASTE IN SOME, MY EMPLOYEE'S MOUTH.
AND I'VE HEARD FROM SOME OF MY CONSTITUENTS ABOUT THAT.
I'D SEE A CORRECTION, I THINK TO THE, UH, YOUR MOTION.
I BELIEVE THE LAST NUMBER SHOULD BE, UH, 3.2 MILLION.
IT SHOULDN'T HAVE THOSE OTHER DIGITS THERE.
RIGHT? THAT WHAT YOU SAID? YEAH.
SO I JUST WANTED TO CLARIFY, AND I WAS GOING TO ASK FOR THE MOTION TO BE REPEATED, AND NOW I SEE IT ON THE SCREEN.
SO THESE, UH, THESE PEOPLE HAVE ALL THESE, SEE, PEOPLE HAVE WORKED FROM FEBRUARY 20TH OF 2020, NOT 2021.
UM, IS IT, THAT'S HOW YOU'RE GOING TO CALCULATE THE, THEIR TIME.
DURING THAT TIME AND AVERAGE IT OVER THE EIGHT WEEK PERIOD.
AND IF WE COME IN WITH ONE DAY, A WEEK, TWO DAYS A WEEK, THREE, THEY WILL FALL IN THE VARIOUS CATEGORIES.
SO, UM, AND JUST TO CLARIFY AGAIN, SO ANYBODY WHO, AGAIN, MY, MY BELIEF ABOUT THIS IS THIS IS A REWARD FOR THE PEOPLE THAT HAD TO GO THE EXTRA MILE AND DO THE EXTRA WORK DURING COVID.
SO ANYBODY WHO STARTS TOMORROW, YOU KNOW, THEY, THEY WEREN'T HERE FOR THE DURATION AND IT DOESN'T SEEM TO ME THAT IT'D BE QUITE FAIR FOR THEM TO GET THE SAME THEM TO GET THIS REWARD BECAUSE THEY HAVEN'T PUT BEN THROUGH THE ENDURANCE TEST.
SO THIS IS FOR THE PEOPLE THAT ARE EMPLOYED AS OF TODAY, CORRECT? PASSIVE THE DATE OF THE PAYROLL MAY 14TH, WE WILL RUN THE PAYROLL AND THERE'LL BE AN INACTIVE STATUS AT THAT TIME.
SO ANYBODY GOT HIRED TODAY, WHICH IS MAY, UH, APRIL 30TH.
JUST THAT SHORT AMOUNT OF TIME WOULD STILL GET THE BONUS THAT IS ACCURATE.
IF THEY'RE ACTIVE AT THE TIME OF THE PAYMENT, THEN THEY WOULD RECEIVE IT.
WE, THEY WANT TO SAY SOMETHING MORE CRAPPY.
WELL, TO ME, THEY JUST DOESN'T SEEM QUITE RIGHT.
THAT'S ALL, YOU KNOW, I, I DON'T KNOW IF WE'D WANT TO SPECIFY THAT THEY'RE EMPLOYED AS OF THIS MOMENT.
I DON'T KNOW HOW THE OTHER BOARD MEMBERS FEEL, BUT TO ME IT JUST DOESN'T SEEM QUITE RIGHT.
ALL RIGHT, MR. DISTRIBUTOR, THANK YOU FOR THAT.
CAUSE I, I, I THOUGHT WE HAD SAID THAT WE WERE WITH THIS CALCULATION, WE WERE ELIMINATING NEW HIRES, BUT THE ANSWER TO KATHY'S QUESTION, UM, IT MAKES ME THINK THAT'S, THAT'S NOT TRUE NOW.
UM, SO I'D LIKE CLARIFICATION ON THAT.
THE OTHER THING IS KIND OF A SIMPLE QUESTION.
IF WE HAVE PART-TIME EMPLOYEES WHO WORK AN AVERAGE OF FIVE DAYS A WEEK, HOW ARE THEY NOT FULL-TIME? UM, THERE ARE, UH, I CAN ONLY THINK OF ONE
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EXAMPLE.AND, UM, AND I DO NOT KNOW THE, UH, PERSONNEL REASONING FOR THE STATUS OF ACTIVE VERSUS PART-TIME VERSUS FULL-TIME.
SO I WOULD HAVE TO RESEARCH PARTICULARLY EMPLOYERS EASE TO DETERMINE WHETHER THEY ARE WIDER IN THAT STATUS.
NO, NO, YOU DON'T NEED TO SPEND A LOT OF TIME ON IT.
IT WAS JUST A MATHEMATICAL QUESTION THAT JUMPED OUT AT ME.
UM, BUT I RE WE REALLY NEED TO CLARIFY THAT NEW HIRES ARE NOT GOING TO BE SUBJECT TO THIS.
THIS IS ONLY FOR PEOPLE THAT STUCK IT OUT AND WENT THE EXTRA MILE.
THAT SEEMS TO BE THE CONFUSION AMONG THE BOARD MEMBERS.
RODRIGUEZ THOUGHT IT WOULDN'T WORK.
IF THE BOARD TIMELINE FROM THIS DATE TO THIS DAY, UH, VOUCHER WOULD QUALIFY OR, UM, UH, DOES THAT COMPLICATE MATTERS OR, OR WHAT, BECAUSE THEY'LL THINK WHAT THE BOARD IS LOOKING FOR IS THEY WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE THOSE THAT HAVE BEEN HERE THE ENTIRE TIME, UH, OR, OR, OR MOST OF THAT TIME, UH, AND, AND NOT NECESSARILY PROVIDED TO, UH, SOMEBODY WHO'S BEEN HERE A MONTH WITHIN THAT WINDOW.
SO I THINK THAT'S ONE OF THE STICKING POINTS THEY HAVE.
AND I THINK THE OTHER ONE, UH, YOU KNOW, THEY, THEY JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THEY'RE TAKING CARE OF THOSE.
SO I DON'T, I'M NOT SURE IF IT WOULD HELP YOU, IF THE BOARD GAVE YOU THE DATES RATHER THAN THE WAY THEY SET IT UP.
WELL, UM, I BELIEVE THAT THE STEP INCREASE IS OFFERED AND HAS LANGUAGE THAT INCLUDES ANY EMPLOYEES EMPLOYED, UM, AT LEAST BY MARCH 1ST OF THE SCHOOL YEAR.
SO THEN ANY, OR, OR NO LATER THAN MARCH.
SO ANYONE LEAVING AFTER MARCH 1ST WOULD NOT RECEIVE A STEP INCREASE, I BELIEVE.
UM, SO PERHAPS THERE COULD BE LANGUAGE THAT THEY WOULD BE EMPLOYED AS OF A CERTAIN DATE.
IF WE SELECT THE BEGINNING DATE, THEN THAT, AND PUT A TIMEFRAME THEY MAY HAVE, WE MAY BE PAYING RETROACTIVE PAYMENTS TO FOLKS THAT HAVE LEFT, UH, OR MUCH EARLIER IN THE YEAR AND ARE NO LONGER ACTIVE IN OUR SYSTEMS. SO, UM, IT SOUNDS A BIT COMPLICATED, BUT I BELIEVE THAT WE CAN, UM, WORK WITH, IF WE HAVE A EMPLOYEE AS OF MARCH 1ST OR SOME DATE THAT RESPECT THAT THAT WOULD ELIMINATE, UM, THOSE THAT, UM, STARTED AFTER THAT DAY AND CAME DOWN THE END OF THIS SCHOOL YEAR.
PARDON ME, ACTIVE AND PULLEYS AND AVERAGE DAYS PER WEEK WILL BE BASED ON THE TIMEFRAME FROM, AND THE SAME DATE, WHAT SOLVENT THE HILL, BECAUSE THEN IT'S GOING TO BE ON PULLEYS.
YOU'RE PULLING THE TIMEFRAME FOR THE PART-TIME EMPLOYEES, AS WELL AS THE ACT OF DEFINING AN ACTIVE EMPLOYEES.
AND THAT'S NOT NECESSARILY A DEFINED IN HERE, IT'S THE BINDING INTO A TIMEFRAME AND ALSO A RECENT TIMEFRAME AS WELL.
CAN YOU REPEAT WHAT YOU SAID?
THE SECOND CLASS THAT YOU WOULD JUST ADD ACTIVE EMPLOYEES AND AVERAGE DAYS PER WEEK WILL BE BASED ON THE TIMEFRAME FROM, AND IT GIVES THAT POCKET FOR THAT ONE THOUGH.
IF WE CAN KEEP IT THE SAME TIMEFRAME, THAT SAME TIMEFRAME.
SO AVERAGE DAYS PER WEEK, ACTIVE, ACTIVE EMPLOYEES AND AVERAGE DAYS PER WEEK WILL BE BASED ON THE TIMEFRAME.
IT'S DEFINITIVE, IN MY OPINION, THE PROBLEM, ONCE ONES DO THAT, UM, IS THAT, SO THIS IS AN EIGHT WEEK WINDOW, AND THIS IS, UH, YOU KNOW, THAT'S LIKE ONE QUARTER, I THINK IT SHOULD BE GOOD.
YOU KNOW, WE'LL GET INTO THE NITTY GRITTY HERE, BUT IT JUST SEEMS LIKE IT REALLY SHOULD BE BASED ON AT LEAST, YOU KNOW, THE MAJORITY OF THE SCHOOL YEAR.
UM, I KNOW THERE ARE, I DEFINITELY UNDERSTAND THAT I WAS JUST, I HADN'T HUNG, HE WAS TALKING ABOUT ACTIVE VERSUS INACTIVE IN
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THE SYSTEM.AND THAT'S WHAT CAPTURED THOSE THAT ARE CURRENTLY ACTIVE AND THAT MAKE AN ASSUMPTION THAT THEY HAVE BEEN WITH US THROUGHOUT 2020.
UM, BUT I THINK THAT IT KIND OF FROM A PROCEDURAL AND OPERATIONAL STANDPOINT MIGHT HAVE THE PROBLEM.
SO THAT'S WHY I'VE HEARD YOU, UM, THERE'S A LOT OF TUTORING IN THE SPRING SESSION.
SO, UM, THAT THIS, THESE TIMEFRAMES WOULD CAPTURE THAT IF WE SPREAD IT OVER THE REST OF THE SCHOOL YEAR, WE'RE GOING TO HAVE MUCH FEWER PEOPLE WHO FALL BY THAT STIPEND BECAUSE THEY WERE SPORADIC AND THEY COME IN SPORADICALLY AT CERTAIN TIMES OF THE YEAR, RIGHT BEFORE TESTING OR IN A YEAR, THAT SORT OF THING.
UM, SO CAN I ELIMINATE IT ACTUALLY, SOME, SOME FOLKS THAT AND GONNA MAKE A SUGGESTION.
THAT'S DEFINITELY TO GO AHEAD.
I THINK ONE THING THAT I WOULD LIKE TO SEE IS A MINIMUM, LIKE A HIT HAVE BEEN ACTIVE FOR 90 DAYS OR A PERIOD OF TIME SO THAT, YOU KNOW, CAPTURES PEOPLE THAT ARE SPREAD BECAUSE I'M ASSUMING IF YOU'RE IN AND OUT TUTORING, BUT WOULD YOU DON'T GO BACK TO INACTIVE ACTIVE ENOUGH TO SAY, CAN WE SAY THAT HAVE BEEN ACTIVE FOR A MINIMUM OF 90 DAYS OR SIX MONTHS OR HOWEVER LONG THE BOARD WANTS TO LOOK AT IT SO THAT YOU'RE NOT GETTING PEOPLE THAT HAVE ONLY BEEN IN THE DISTRICT SURE.
PERIOD OF TIME, AS OPPOSED TO DATES.
AND I DON'T THINK YOU'D MAKE THE WHOLE YEAR, MAYBE SIX MONTHS MR.
UM, SO CAN WE JUST DEFINE ONE OF THEM FIRST ARE FULL-TIME EMPLOYEES CALL ACTIVE, WE CALL ELIGIBLE FOR, FOR, YOU KNOW, A $1,000 AND THAT ADDRESSED THE PART-TIME LAWYERS BECAUSE YOU BROUGHT UP ANOTHER POINT THERE AT THE TIME THAT, OR SOME ODD TIME, IT WAS EARLY DURING THE YEAR AND VARIOUS WERE ADDED AND THERE WOULDN'T QUALIFY BECAUSE OF HIM NUMBER OF HOURS, WHAT IT IS.
BUT SOME OF THOSE PART TIME, IT WAS NOT ENOUGH HOURS AVERAGE A DAY FOR A WEEK.
IF YOU GO BACK, YOU GO ON THAT TIME.
AND ALSO THEY WERE PROBABLY AS ESSENTIAL DURING THE TIME OF BAND EVERY WEEK SINCE THE LAST THAT'S ANOTHER ISSUE.
SO THAT'S WHY I'M SAYING BRASS.
WE NEED TO LOOK A LOT MORE SPECIFIC.
WHO'S GOING TO GET THIS WHO WAS STOPPED.
UM, MS. CROSBY, UM, QUESTION, UM, ONE OF THE, ONE OF THE, WHEN DID WE, WHEN DID YOU GET THE TOTAL NUMBER OF WHAT WAS THAT TOTAL NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES CAPTURED FROM WHAT DATE, TO WHAT DATE? THE MEETING, THE SOLE NUMBER.
HE WAS ACTIVE EMPLOYEES AS A CERTAIN DATE.
WHEN I, I DON'T KNOW THE EXACT DATE THAT I PULLED THE DATA.
UM, IT WAS PRIOR TO OUR FIRST DISCUSSION, UM, WHICH WAS A COUPLE OF MONTHS AGO.
SO I THINK THE BIGGEST CONFUSION, I THINK THE BIGGEST PROBLEM IS NOT IF YOU HAVE NEW EMPLOYEES THAT ARE WON'T EVEN 30 DAYS.
I MEAN, I'M SORRY, WHEN YOU DEFINITELY WANT TO INCLUDE THOSE THAT HAVE BEEN RAISED.
SO WE HAVE TO JUST COME UP WITH THAT TIME.
YOU KNOW, I'M GOING TO LOOK AT BACK IN A PLACE WITH TWO 20 TO 40 16, BECAUSE WE'RE ALREADY MAKING THAT CALCULATION TO CALCULATION CALCULATING HOW MANY DAYS PER WEEK BEEN WORKING.
SO WE DIDN'T LOSE THAT TIME FRAME TO DETERMINE WHO GOING TO GET THE BALL, THIS STATUS.
SO, UM, SO TWO SEPARATE THINGS TO FULL-TIME STAFF.
UM, IF YOU, IF WE DON'T, IF WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE COVERING THOSE FOLKS, WHO'VE BEEN EMPLOYED AS OF A CERTAIN DATE.
UM, AND WE'RE HERE BEFORE A CERTAIN DATE, THEN I WOULD RECOMMEND HAVING LANGUAGE TO THE EFFECT OF, AND WERE EMPLOYED AS OF X DATE, MARCH 1ST, MARCH, APRIL 1ST, WHATEVER THAT DATE MAY BE.
SO WE WENT AND PUT A BEGINNING EIGHT ON IT, BUT IT WAS, WE PUT IT IN END DATE, UM, UH, THAT THEY HAD TO BE EMPLOYED BY.
THEY STARTED BEFORE THE STATE, AS FAR AS THE PART-TIME EMPLOYEES GO.
I WAS TRYING TO ATTEMPTING TO CAPTURE THE MOST RECENT, UH, ACTIVITY
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THAT WAS BEING PRODUCED IN A BUYER PART-TIME WORKERS.AND SO THAT PROVIDES THE BEST AMOUNT OF INFORMATION THAT I HAD TO PULL CURRENT PEOPLE WHO ARE ACTIVELY WORKING.
AND SO A BRIEF TIMEFRAME, YOU KNOW, RESULTED IN 47 EMPLOYEES WHO WERE, WERE ACTIVELY WORKING DURING THAT PERIOD.
SO, UM, MY SUGGESTION WAS TO PUT US, AND IT HAS A DATE ON IT A MONTH AFTER FULL-TIME EMPLOYEES.
SORRY, CAN I ASK ONE MORE QUESTION? SO WE TEASE THE MARCH 1ST CUT OFF DATE.
WE'LL LET ME ALIGN WITH THE STEP.
I HAVE, UM, INQUIRED, I DON'T KNOW, UM, THIS CARTLIDGE OR OTHERS MIGHT BE ABLE TO HELP THE STAFF INCREASED AND THEN LANGUAGE WITH THAT.
I HAD, UM, UH, TEXTED A FINANCE STAFF UP HERE TRYING TO CAPTURE THAT INFORMATION THAT, UH, I DON'T, I WOULD LIKE TO ALIGN IT WITH LIKE LOWE'S.
UM, SO I CAN CERTAINLY TRY TO GET THAT HAVE A GOOD IDEA, OR MAYBE A GOOD IDEA.
WE WANT TO PUSH CALMNESS AND MAKE A VOTE ON IT AT OUR WORK SESSION, WHICH IS INGESTED.
UM, UH, IT IS ABOUT THREE DAYS.
IT JUST SEEMS LIKE WE WERE ON THE SAME PAGE ABOUT WHAT WE WANT TO DO, BUT THE WORDING IS PROBLEMATIC AND I THINK MAYBE POSTPONING YET, UH, TO THAT SPECIFIC TIME, MAYBE THE THING TO DO POSTPONE THE MOTION SO WE CAN HAVE THE WORDING ALIGN WITH WHAT OUR INTENT IS AND SAME THING MAYBE FOR THE SECOND GRADE.
IT WAS ACTUALLY, UH, WHEN YOU, YOU KNOW, BUT IT GOES TO THE BOARD AS WELL.
I DON'T WANT TO MAKE THE MOTION.
SO CAN SOMEBODY MAKE THAT MOTION? I MOVE THAT WE POSTPONE THIS VOTE AND TELL OUR WORK SESSION ON FRIDAY, UH, APRIL 23RD.
SO KATHY, UH, THEY, THE MOTION TO POSTPONE OR POSTPONE OUR DECISION ON THIS REGARDING EMPLOYEE BONUSES, UH, FOR THREE DAYS AND DAVID THEY'RE IN YOUR SECOND DAY.
SO, UM, IS THERE ANY FURTHER, AND I'VE WORKED WITH THEIR HANDS DOWN BECAUSE IT'S VERY HARD TO FILL WHERE WE ARE.
MY HANDS UP AND MINE WAS MINE WAS UP.
SO IF YOU WANT TO NOW SPEAK ABOUT THE POSTPONEMENT MOTION, WE'LL JUST GO IN ORDER THIS BOAT, RIGHT.
I ACTUALLY, I IGNORE ONLY VERY MUCH IN FAVOR OF POSTPONING A TABLE AND GETTING IT ALL TOGETHER, BUT I KNOW THAT PEOPLE HAVE THIS DATE CIRCLED ON THE CALENDAR FOR AWHILE OF APRIL 16.
AND I FEEL LIKE I DON'T, I THINK WE CAN MAKE THIS TONIGHT.
THAT'S JUST MY PERSONAL, I THINK WE CAN COME UP WITH A REASONABLE APPROXIMATION AND GIVE THE TEACHERS WHO ARE WAITING TO HEAR THIS ON APRIL 16TH.
CAUSE WE KIND OF DRAGGED IT OUT, NOT HER FAULT.
UM, SO I WOULDN'T SUPPORT POSTPONING IT TO FRIDAY.
UM, MR. EARL CAMPBELL, WHAT WERE YOU TALKING ABOUT EMPLOYEES THAT WAS EMPLOYED IN MARCH LAST YEAR? I THINK SO MY UNDERSTANDING IS MARK'S LAB THIS YEAR FROM WHAT MS. CROSBY SAID, UM, HE'S COMING.
TANYA'S GOING TO HAVE TO TELL ME IF I'M OFF.
IF WARREN CAN DETERMINE WHAT'S A SET NUMBER OF WORK DAYS FOR ACTIVE EMPLOYEES THAT YOU WOULD LIKE INCLUDED IN THIS, BUT THEN IT'S A TWO-STEP PROCESS.
SO THE FIRST THING IS WHAT'S THE SET NUMBER OF DAYS, THE BOARD IS INTERESTED IN THE MAKE SURE THAT SOMEBODY WOULD WORK TO RECEIVE THE BONUS.
THE SECOND PART OF THE EQUATION IS THAT TONYA WOULD USE THAT TWO WEEK WINDOW TO CALCULATE THE AVERAGES.
DOES THAT MAKE SENSE? NO, I PARKED, YOU KNOW, WHAT, WHAT DO YOU MEAN THAT YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT I'M SAYING? YES, SIR.
I, UM, EVEN EMPLOYEE IN ORDER TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR THE STEP INCREASE, THE EMPLOYEE HAS TO WORK 120 DAYS AND HE HAD HIS FEAR IN THE PRIOR FISCAL
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YEAR.SO I THINK WE, WE NEED TO VOTE ON THE MOTION ON BOTH POST.
UM, IT WAS TRICIA'S MOTION ABOUT THE EMPLOYEE BONUSES, THE APRIL 23RD OR NOT.
SO IS THERE ANY, SO PLEASE, IF ANYBODY WOULD WANT TO SAY ANYTHING MORE ABOUT POSTPONING THIS DANDRIDGE? I THINK WE CAN FIGURE THIS OUT TONIGHT.
I AM TOTALLY NOT IN LINE WITH THAT.
UM, MS. BELL, RIGHT THERE ARE TEACHERS WAITING TO HEAR THIS AND I'VE ACTUALLY TOLD PEOPLE, LISTEN TO US TONIGHT.
YOU KNOW, APRIL 20TH, WE ARE GOING TO MAKE A DECISION.
UH, LET'S SEE THIS BOAT RIGHT HERE, MS. BACKUP, SIR.
UM, I THINK WE ABSOLUTELY CAN, BUT ALSO, UM, I JUST WANT CLARIFY, SO WE'RE GOING TO VOTE ON THIS THEN.
WE'RE GOING TO IF FIRST, AND THEN IF WE DO COME WITH A HUNDRED, WE'LL NEED AN AMENDMENT TO THE OTHER MOTION AND THEN VOTE ON THAT MOTION.
SO MAKE SURE EVERYONE'S AWARE OF THE PROCESS.
THIS WOULD HAVE TO BE, THIS WOULD HAVE TO SAY THAT WE NEED A MAJORITY FOR THE POSTPONEMENT TO PASS.
DEFINITELY TEACHERS THAT HAD SPRING BREAK.
SO I THINK THAT WE CAN MAKE THIS WORK TONIGHT.
WHAT'S THE PROBLEM? FIVE DAYS A WEEK FOR BASICALLY THREE DAYS A WEEK, TWO DAYS A WEEK.
WHY CAN'T WE GET TO WORK FIVE DAYS A WEEK? YOU GET PAID FOR THE WHOLE WEEK, RIGHT? MOTION ON THE FLOOR.
CAN I DISPOSE OF IT? SO WE'LL TALK ABOUT POSTPONE OR THAT'S ABOUT RIGHT NOW AND THEN WE CAN GO TO YOURS.
SO WE'LL CALL THE QUESTION, MR. MILLER.
THE ONE, EXCUSE ME, IN THE BUSH.
SO THE, SO THE NOTION, UM, BALES ONE 10, UM, MR.
I'M LIKE MR. EARL CAMPBELL JUST SAID HIS KIND OF QUESTION AND THE QUESTION ABOUT THOSE TO THE ORIGINAL MOTION.
SO SEEMS TO ME, ARE ALL OUR DISCUSSION THAT THE WHOLE, THE WHOLE QUESTION OR THE WHOLE ISSUE IS WE WANT EMPLOYEES WHO HAVE WORKED A CERTAIN NUMBER OF DAYS, THIS SCHOOL YEAR, I MEAN, 20, 20, 20, 21 TO BE THE ONES THAT RECEIVED THE BONUSES.
AND I THINK THAT'S WHAT HAS TO BE DECIDED IS AS A FULL-TIME EMPLOYEE, HALF OF WORKED 120 DAYS, THAT WILL BE WHAT, UM, FOR LUNCH, UH, OR I GUESS WAS ACTUALLY BE MORE THAN THAT BECAUSE YOU WANT 180, 190 DAYS.
SO ONE 20, ONE 90, WHAT'S A TWOFER.
AND THEN I GUESS YOUR PART-TIME EMPLOYEES WOULD BE A PERCENTAGE OF THAT.
RIGHT? SO FOUR DAYS WOULD BE
YEAH, BUT THEY WOULD BE PARKED IN A PLACE WHERE IT STOPPED.
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I'M STUCK ON THIS ACTIVE, INACTIVE, ALL PART-TIME EMPLOYEES ARE ACTIVE.THAT'S WHAT I'M TRYING TO FIND.
SO IF YOU WOULDN'T MIND CHECK AND I MAKE AN AMENDMENT THAT I THINK WILL CLARIFY, I THINK ALL WE HAVE TO DO HERE IS DEFINE ACTIVE EMPLOYEES.
THAT'S WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO.
SO IF WE HAVE AN AMENDMENT, DO YOU MIND IF I DO THAT? NO, GO AHEAD.
SO, UM, I THINK THAT WE CAN AMEND THE MOTION, UM, AND I WOULD PUT IT PROBABLY AFTER, UM, AUTHORIZED THE SUPERINTENDENT TO PAY A ONE TIME BONUS TO ACTIVE EMPLOYEES.
THE OTHER THING I'D LIKE TO, I THINK WE SHOULD ADD IS EMPLOYING AS WE'RE EMPLOYED, DETERMINED, ACTIVE ON JANUARY 4TH, BECAUSE THAT'S WHEN WE KIND OF MADE THIS MOTION AND BROUGHT THEM BACK AND WORKED.
SO TWO CRITERIA, BUT YOU WERE EMPLOYED ON JANUARY 4TH.
I DON'T KNOW HOW THE BOARD FEELS ABOUT THAT AND ACTIVE FOR 120 DAYS OF THE SCHOOL YEAR, OR DO YOU WANT TO DROP THE JANUARY 24TH? OKAY.
SO WHAT WE'LL DO THEN IS WE'LL JUST SAY, UM, ACTIVE EMPLOYEES WHO HAVE BEEN DETERMINED TO BE ACTIVE 120 DAYS OF THE 20, 20, 20, 21 SCHOOL YEAR.
RIGHT? AND THEN THE REST STAYS THE SAME FROM THE GENERAL FUND, BLAH, BLAH, BLAH.
SO ACTIVE EMPLOYEES, CALM, DEFINED AS ANY EMPLOYEE WHO HAS BEEN ACTIVE, ACTIVELY EMPLOYED FOR 120 DAYS DURING THE 20, 20, 20, 21 SCHOOL YEAR IS I GET IT.
MR. EARL CAMPBELL, SECOND TOMMY'S TOMMY IS NOT SECOND FOR PLENTY OF THE RESERVATIONS TO TURN WHEN THAT A HUNDRED AND 20TH DAY, IF THEY STARTED IN THE SCHOOL YEAR, WHEN WOULD THEY HISTORIC? AND IT WILL BE PRETTY EARLY IN THE SCHOOL YEAR.
SO YOU MAY NOT CAPTURE SOMEONE WHO LET'S SAY HALFWAY THROUGH THE SCHOOL YEAR.
THEY STARTED BACK IN JUNE AND JANUARY BEFORE WE CAN DRAW THE GENDER AND FORCE IS DROPPED IN HER FOR EVEN SO 120 DAYS IS MORE THAN HALF OF THE SCHOOL YEAR HAD STARTED EARLIER, EARLY IN THE YEAR.
AND IT WOULD NOT BE ELIGIBLE IN THAT SCENARIO.
I MEAN, SORRY TO BE RECOGNIZED, WE'RE ALL TRYING TO JUMP AFTER HER.
SO I WAS JUST GOING TO SAY, I MEAN, YOU'RE IN THAT MODE GOING, GOT TO GET SOMEONE IN HERE WHO SAYS 119 DAYS.
SO WOULD IT BE BETTER TO SAY, TO TURN IT, TURN IT UPSIDE DOWN RIGHT.
AND SAY, UM, PLAY THE REVERSE, RIGHT.
THAT, UH, WOULD'VE BEEN EMPLOYED, UM, WONDER IF WE WITHIN, RIGHT.
SO, SO YOU'RE NOT LOOKING TO APPLY THIS TO SOMEBODY WHO'S BEEN HERE 30 DAYS, RIGHT? YOU'RE NOT LOOKING TO APPLY THIS TO SOMEBODY WHO'S BEEN HERE 60 DAYS.
RIGHT? WHAT IS, WHAT IS, WHAT CAN THE OPPOSITE WHEN I HAVE A PROPOSAL? WHAT IF WE SAY STICK WITH 120 AND THEN HAVE A SEPARATE MOTION WHERE WE DETERMINED THAT THERE WILL BE AN ARBITRATION PROCESS FOR PEOPLE THAT FEEL THAT THEY DO QUALIFY SO THAT THEY CAN BRING THEIR, YOU KNOW, WHATEVER TO THIS DIFFERENT, LIKE PROVIDE SOME LEVEL OF DISCRETION? NO, NO, NO, NO, NO.
UM,
OUR INTENT WAS TO REWARD THE PEOPLE THAT HAVE BEEN WITH US THIS WHOLE TIME.
AND WHEN WE FIRST TALKED ABOUT THAT, THAT WAS ON JANUARY 4TH.
SO MAYBE ALL THE EMPLOYEES THAT WERE WITH US AND ARE CURRENTLY ACTIVE THAT WERE WITH US ON JANUARY 4TH AND ARE CURRENTLY ACTIVE.
MAYBE THAT WOULDN'T ENCAPSULATE EVERYONE, BUT THAT WAS OUR INTENT.
OUR INTENT WAS TO, YOU KNOW, GIVE KUDOS AND SOME FINANCIAL BONUS TO THE PEOPLE THAT REALLY HAD TO CHANGE WHAT THEY WERE DOING AND WORK HARDER.
UM, AND WE MADE, YOU KNOW, WE FIRST STARTED TALKING ABOUT THIS ON JANUARY 4TH, SO THAT WOULD BE MY SUGGESTION.
UM, I WANT TO MAKE SURE THEY'RE STILL CURRENTLY ACTIVE ALSO.
I THINK WE HAVE AMENDMENTS ONE TIME BONUS TO CRI ACTIVE EMPLOYEES WHO HAVE BEEN DETERMINED TO BE ACTIVE FOR 120 DAYS.
SO THEY HAVE TO CURRENT, THEY HAVE TO BE ACTIVE DOWN ALSO.
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AND THAT ELIMINATES THE FOLKS THAT DID 120 AND THEN LEFT.UM, BECAUSE THAT WASN'T THERE, THAT WASN'T THE ORIGINAL INTENT.
THE INTENT WAS TO REWARD THOSE FOLKS THAT STUCK IT OUT.
UM, I MEAN THAT, THAT'S WHY I MADE THE ORIGINAL MOTION.
SO, OH, UPS WHERE YOU NEED SOMEBODY TO SECOND, YOU ARE STATING IF YOU AMENDED THE EVENT, THEN I DIDN'T HEAR YOU, MR. CHAIR.
I WOULD ADD ONE TIME BONUS TO CURRENTLY ACTIVE EMPLOYEES, BLAH, BLAH, BLAH, BLAH.
JUST ADD CURRENTLY ACTIVE IN FRONT OF EMPLOYEES.
THAT'LL TAKE CARE OF MY CONCERN.
I THOUGHT MS. CROSBY SAID CURRENTLY ACTIVE WOULD APPLY ON THE DATE OF THE PAYCHECK.
I E HE'S NOT TAKING ON 20 HOURS A DAY WITH PAID FIVE FOR 14.
I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE WE DON'T GO BACKWARDS.
DAVID, I THOUGHT YOU SAID CURRENTLY ACTIVE AND DETERMINED TO HAVE WORKED 120 DAYS, RIGHT? THAT'S PART OF THE
ALL RIGHT, MR. SMITH, UH, I'M STILL CONCERNED, EVEN THOUGH I WE'VE CHANGED THEM, THE MOTION THAT, UH, YOU KNOW, WE'RE TELLING PEOPLE THAT THIS IS HOW WE ARE.
WE APPRECIATE THEM BY GIVING THEM THIS, UH, THIS HAS A BONUS PAY.
HOW HAVE WE, WE KNEW WE WANT TO CALL IT.
THEN, YOU KNOW, IT CONCERNS ME THAT WE'RE GIVING SOMEBODY WITH $200 VERSUS $300 FOR AN HOUR PER DAY.
IF YOU WORKED IT WHEREVER YOU ARE, VIEW BREATHED IN ANYTHING YOU PUT YOUR, YOU AND YOUR FAMILY HAD AT RISK REVERENDS ONE DAY OR TWO DAY OR FOUR DAYS OR FIVE DAYS, YOU'VE ACTUALLY TOOK THE INITIAL STEP.
IT'S ACTUALLY STEP PUTTING A NOTE OR TO DO SOMETHING TO SAY THAT YOU, YOU PUT ME IN THE GAME COACH, I WANT TO SUPPORT THE SUPPORT THAT THE SCHOOL DISTRICT.
SO IT CAN KIND IT'S ONCE AGAIN, STILL TEARING AT ME THAT WE'RE STILL TALKING ABOUT THE TWO AND 300, FOUR HOURS VERSUS GIVING THEM ONE OF THE, I GIVE HIM A THOUSAND DOLLARS.
I MEAN, YOU KNOW, THAT, THAT'S WHAT, THAT'S WHAT WE WERE.
THAT'S WHAT I, THAT'S HOW WE WAS SHOWING OUR APPRECIATION OF THE BONUS.
WE'RE TALKING SPECIFICALLY ABOUT BEING MAD MEN.
AND I BELIEVE THE SECOND AMENDMENT THAT WAS SORT OF COMBINED WITH THE FIRST AMENDMENT IS CURRENTLY ACTIVE EMPLOYEES WHO HAVE BEEN DETERMINED TO BE ACTIVE FOR 120 DAYS DURING THE 2021 MR. SMITH.
SO, BUT ONCE WE VOTE ON THIS, THIS IS ONCE WE VOTE ON THAT, THAT'S THAT SELLS EVERYTHING CORRECT.
SO I'M TELLING PEOPLE, YEAH, IT'S NOT ON THE SCREEN THE WAY IT SHOULD BE.
WE'VE GOT TO BE A TODDLER THING, SORT OF FELT, YOU KNOW, WASN'T TOGETHER.
AND I KNOW PART OF THAT, IT SEEMS LIKE IS MAYBE THE BOARD DOCS, UM, SOFTWARE.
COULD WE PLEASE HAVE THE AMENDED, THE AMENDED AMENDMENT? SO RIGHT NOW WE'RE VOTING ON THE AMENDED AMENDMENT AMENDMENT AND THAT'S IT.
SO DO YOU WANT ME TO TAKE EVERYTHING OUT AFTER 120 DAYS DURING 2021 SCHOOL YEAR? OKAY.
YOUR EMOTION WISE AGAIN, HE ADDED CURRENTLY ACTIVE EMPLOYEES.
SO WHY DON'T WE JUST VOTE ON THE AMENDMENT? THE SECOND AMENDMENT WAS CURRENTLY ACTIVE EMPLOYEES PROBABLY DON'T.
SO FOR CLARIFICATION, THIS VOTE IS JUST TO VOTE ON THE AMENDMENT, NOT THE ACTUAL MOTION IT'S TO VOTE ON THE SECOND AMENDMENT.
AND DAVID, IS THAT CORRECT? THE WAY ROBIN HAS IT? THIS WHITE? YES.
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BUILDING IS OPEN.HOW ARE YOU VOTING? THANK YOU, KATHY.
YEAH, WASN'T IT 120, 120 DAYS.
THAT'S THE NEXT, THAT'S THE FIRST AMENDMENT THAT'S COMING NEXT.
WE'RE BUILDING ON THE WORD CURRENTLY.
SO THIS PASSES UNANIMOUSLY THAT WE'RE GOING INTO THE SECOND AMENDMENT.
I'M EXCUSE ME, THE FIRST AMENDMENT.
NO, ROBIN, CAN YOU PLEASE GO BACK TO YOUR VARIETY OF EMOTION ONE MINUTE? SO I NEED TO ADD CURRENTLY TO THIS ONE NOW, SINCE THIS PAST, CORRECT? CORRECT.
CURRENTLY ACTIVE EMPLOYEES AND THEN GET OUT OF THE REST ABOUT 120 DAYS, I THINK FOR THE 21 SCHOOL FOUNDER, JUST PUT THAT PART.
YOU DON'T HAVE TO PUT IN THE, THE, UM, CURRENTLY, SO IT WOULD BE CURRENTLY ACTIVE EMPLOYEES.
SO I THINK YOU WANT TO END IT WHERE IT SAYS THE 20, 21 SCHOOL YEAR FOR RIGHT NOW.
SO ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION ABOUT THIS AMENDMENT? IT'S JUST ME.
UH, SO ONCE AGAIN, THIS IS JUST ANOTHER PART OF THE AMENDMENT AMENDMENT TO THE, TO, TO THE FEDERAL MOTION, CORRECT.
AND IT WAS NASTY HAS FOR CLARIFICATION, THE 1,120 DAYS IT'S APPLIED FOR THOSE FULL TIME TEACHERS AND OTHER STAFF, BUT NOT NECESSARILY FOR THE DEPARTMENT PLACE.
IS THIS READY FOR A BULLY? OKAY.
SO NOW HOWARD LIVES JUST NOT INCLUDING THE PART-TIME PEOPLE, PART-TIME EMPLOYEES WOULD NOT WORK 120 DAYS DURING THE SQUARE, AND THEY'RE JUST, THEY'RE SPORADIC.
THERE MAY BE ONE OR TWO THAT ARE, UM, WORKING THAT IN ROAD DAYS, BUT IT'S TIM IT'S LACE TUTORING AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAMS. THAT SORT OF THING, HARD EMPLOYEES ARE GOING TO BE BASED ON THAT EIGHT WEEK PERIODS THAT YOU ALREADY HAD THIS THOUGHT.
MR. SMITH IS THE ONE METAL RIGHT NOW.
WE NEED THE, NOW WE NEED THE WHOLE THING UP THERE.
CAN I ASK A QUESTION CLARIFICATION THEN GO AHEAD.
I THOUGHT THAT WE WERE DOING PART TIME ON 120 DAYS BECAUSE THEY'RE ACTIVE.
WHETHER OR NOT THEY WORK 120 DAYS, THEY'RE IN THE SYSTEM IS ACTIVE FOR 120 DAYS AND NOT USING A SEPARATE CALCULATION IN MY OPINION, THAN USING A SEPARATE CALCULATION MIGHT
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PROVE PROBLEMATIC MINUS UNDERSTANDING.I DON'T KNOW HOW PAYROLL WORKS.
I NEEDED, AS FAR AS THE SYSTEM, IF A TUTOR WAS HIRED SAYING IN FEBRUARY AND WAS WORKING IN FEBRUARY, MARCH, APRIL, THEY'RE NOT GOING TO HAVE WORKED ON YOUR ACTIVITY DAYS DURING SCHOOL YEAR.
SO THIS PROVIDES AN AVERAGE IF THEY'RE RECENTLY ACTIVELY WORKING AS A DISTRICT, NOT SOMEONE WHO LEFT, YOU KNOW, IN A YEAR OR SOMETHING, BUT THE QUESTION I HAVE, SO IF THEY'RE HIRED, LET'S SAY A TEACHERS HIRED IN FEBRUARY AND THEY'RE FULL TIME, BUT THEY WILL NOT HAVE WORKED 120 DAYS.
BUT WHAT YOU'RE TELLING ME IS THAT A TUTOR WHO WAS PART-TIME THAT WAS HIRED IN FEBRUARY WOULD GET A BONUS.
AND I THINK THAT'S POTENTIALLY PROBLEM.
I MEAN, AGAIN, I THINK WE'RE TALKING ABOUT VERY SMALL NUMBER OF CASES, SO I'M NOT GOING TO MAKE A BIG STICK, BUT I THINK WE SHOULD STICK WITH 120 DAYS ACTIVE EMPLOYEE.
IF YOU WERE IN THE SYSTEM FOR 120 DAYS, I DON'T THINK WE SHOULD HAVE A SPECIAL CATEGORY FOR PART-TIME.
THAT WAS MY UNDERSTANDING WAS THAT IT WAS SORT OF, WE'RE JUST, WE WANT PEOPLE THAT HAVE BEEN HERE THROUGH THE PANDEMIC, AS OPPOSED TO A RECENTLY HIRED, UM, CONCERNED ABOUT, ARE YOU GOING TO HAVE IT ONE DAY FROM SEPTEMBER TO NOW A PERSON WHO REGISTERED FIVE DAYS, SYLVIA OVERALL, WHAT I'M SUGGESTING THAT IF YOU LOOK AT CODE OR HEY OF THE POD TIME, OR FIGURING OUT SOME WAY TO DO JUSTICE TO SOME OF THEM VOLUNTARY, YOU KNOW, FOR THAT PERIOD OF TIME, THEY HAVE OTHER ROLE THAT'S.
AS I SAID, THEY HAVE PUT IN HOURS, YOU KNOW, OVER TIME WOULD BE REGISTERED.
NOW ALSO, UH, BLOCK TIME, FIVE TIMES SAID PART TIME, FULL TIME, MR.
THIS COULD DRIVE HER PAYROLL CRAZY BECAUSE SHE'D HAVE TO LOOK AT EVERY SINGLE PART-TIME EMPLOYEE TO FIGURE OUT HOW MANY DAYS WE'VE GOT TO SIMPLIFY AND REMOVE SOME VARIABLES.
OTHERWISE YOU'RE GOING TO DRIVE PAYROLL INTO THE DIRT.
SO LET'S JUST FIGURE OUT IN WAY, GIVE A TIMEFRAME.
YOU SAY SAN DIEGO, 8,720 DAYS.
AND IN 120 DAYS, IF YOU WORK, IF YOU WORK FOR FOUR DAYS WITHIN THAT 120 DAY PERIOD, BUT THAT YOU SEE WHAT I'M SAYING, THE NUMBER OF VARIABLES IS, IS INFINITE.
AND, UH, WE'VE GOT TO FIGURE OUT SOMETHING SIMPLER.
UM, I MIGHT SUGGEST TO SEPARATE EMOTIONS OF FULL-TIME EMPLOYEES VERSUS PART-TIME AND WE'D COME BACK WITH A PROPOSAL AND AN ALTERNATIVE PROPOSAL FOR WHERE THE PART-TIME, UM, THAT WAY WE COULD GET THE BULK OF THE FULL-TIME EMPLOYEES PAID.
AND THAT'S WHAT THE WORK IS MUCH SMALLER SUBSET OF PEOPLE.
AND WE CAN BRING BACK AN ALTERNATIVE PROPOSAL, TAKE SOME SUGGESTIONS FROM ANY BOARD MEMBERS, MAYBE THINK ON I LIVE IN, UM, BACK FRIDAY WITH A PROPOSAL FOR JUSTICE PART TIME, GROUP MAPS.
IF YOU'RE SAYING IT'S ONLY 47 EMPLOYEES, THE VAST MAJORITY, I HAVE SOME CONCERNS ABOUT DELAYING THE CONVERSATION FURTHER TO BE ABLE TO MEET MAY 14TH PAYROLL AND ALL THE WORK THAT LEADS UP TO THAT.
SO, UM, FROM THE CALL OF THE EMPLOYEE, SO WE CAN MOVE FORWARD WITH THAT ONE.
PERHAPS WE CAN DELAY THE OTHERS ARE A SMALLER SUBSET, RIGHT? OKAY.
SO ANY SORT OF ASSISTANCE HERE? UM, IT SEEMS AS THOUGH WE WOULD HAVE TO VOTE THIS NOTION TWICE AND THAT'S THE LINENS FOR ROBERT'S RULES, ROBERT'S RULES.
AND THEN WE WOULD HAVE TO HAVE THE NEW WITH OPT-IN UNTIL DISCOVERING THE FULL-TIME EMPLOYEES.
THEN YOU'D GO BACK TO THE DRAWING TABLE.
UM, IS THAT THE CONSENSUS? THAT'S MY INTERPRETATION OF HOW ROBERT'S RULES WOULD WORK.
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WELL, ALSO I THINK YOU CAN'T HAVE MORE THAN TWO AMENDMENTS PAN OUT ON THE FLOOR, BUT I THINK NOW THAT WE'VE DISPOSED OF THOSE TWO AMENDMENTS, WE CAN HAVE ANOTHER AMENDMENT.WE JUST CAN'T HAVE AN AMENDMENT ON THE AMENDMENT.
YOU CAN ONLY GO UP TO WHAT WE'RE STILL WORKING ON THE SAME, BUT WE JUST DISPOSE IT.
SO WE SORT OF, IT'S LIKE, YOU HAVE AN AMENDMENT AND THEN I AM IN GERMAN AND THEN SOMEONE ELSE WANTS TO COME IN AND AMEND BY AMENDMENT TO YOUR AMENDMENT.
THAT'S NOT LOUD, BUT I THINK YOU CAN HAVE MORE THAN TWO AMENDMENTS TO A MOTION FOR SURE.
I MEAN, I HAVEN'T DONE CHECKS, YOU KNOW, THIS IS CONFUSING CHAIRMAN.
I JUST WANT TO DRAW EMOTION AND THEN SOMEBODY MAKES A NEW MOTION.
WE HAVE TO HAVE A MAJORITY VOTE, BE DRAWN.
THIS PROBABLY WOULD BE SIMPLE.
MR. GUYER, IF THE, WITH YOUR MOUTH, WHAT WE HAVE HERE NOW, MR.
MR. GUYER SECOND WITHDRAWING THE MOTION.
I DIDN'T TYPE IT ALL TO PUT IN THERE.
IS IT A YES FOR IT'S OPEN SO EVERYONE CAN, AFTER WE SEE THE OUTCOME, THIS, WHERE ARE YOU AT YOUR MOTION TO GET ANOTHER MOTION ABOUT EXTENDING OR RETURNING? OKAY.
SO THE, THE LOTION IS WITHDRAWN, UH, BY MAJORITY GO TEN ONE.
AFTER WE TURNED AWAY, WHETHER WE'RE GOING TO CONTINUE TONIGHT OR JOHN, UM, WHAT'S THAT? SORRY.
I BUILT THE, TO EXTENT PRESSURE, BUT TO EXTEND TO ME ON THAT, I, IT DOESN'T HAVE TO HAVE A CLASS.
AS LONG AS IT TAKES TO SEE YOUR HAND UP.
YOU DON'T THINK YOU PUT YOUR HAND UP? NO, YOU DID NOT OPEN THE VOTE AND YOU JUST WENT.
I MEAN, YOU JUST WENT AHEAD AND SAID THAT WE'RE GOING TO GO IN AND VOTE.
YOU DIDN'T, YOU DIDN'T ASK IF ANYBODY HAD ANY QUESTIONS, YOU JUST MADE AN ASSUMPTION.
AND I THAT'S WHY I WAS ASKING AT THE TIME.
AND SO THAT, SO THEREFORE THAT'S WHAT I WOULD NEED TO TELL THEM TO AMEND THE VOTE.
I'M GOING TO, I'M GOING TO AMEND THE MOTION.
YOU DIDN'T CALL FOR THE QUESTION UPON YOU, A PLOW UPON YOUR APPOINTED, BEING CONVENIENT FOR YOU.
YOU JUST WENT AHEAD AND SAID, ARE YOU CALLING FOR THE VOTE? I MEAN, CAN WE GET, CAN WE GET SOME CONSISTENCY HERE? CAUSE IT'S, THERE ARE TIMES WHEN YOU SAY, OKAY, THERE'S NO QUESTIONS THAT YOU MOVE ON TO THIS HOUR WHERE YOU SAID, OKAY, VOTE.
I'M JUST TRYING TO GET SOME, I'M TRYING TO BE CONSISTENT ACROSS THE BOARD.
THAT'S WHY I ASKED THE QUESTION.
SO THIS BOAT DOES NOT HAVE A TIME IF WE BOTH IS UP OR DOWN AND YOU WANT TO MAKE THAT WE DON'T END IT AT 10:00 PM.
YOU CAN MAKE THAT MOTION AFTER THIS.
I DON'T SEE WHAT THE ISSUE IS.
THE ISSUE IS THAT I LIKE TO AMEND THE MOTION BEFORE I EVEN TAKE IT BEFORE HE EVEN GETS OFF THE GROUND.
THAT'S THE ISSUE? THAT'S THE ISSUE? WELL, WHAT WOULD THE BOARD LIKE TO DO? WOULD YOU LIKE TO ACCEPT THIS AMENDMENT AFTER THE FACT OR NO VOTE? YOU HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO LET'S VOTE HERE AND THEN YOU HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE A MOTION.
IF YOU WANT A CERTAIN TIME OR AMEND THE MOTION,
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EVERYONE IS VOTED, BUT MR. SMITH, HOW ARE YOU VOTING? I HAVE THE WORD EXTENDED, THE MEETING MAJORITY 10 ZERO ONE.WOULD YOU LIKE TO MAKE ANOTHER MOTION MR. SMITH, ABOUT, ABOUT THIS MEETING? YES, I WOULD.
I LIKE TO, I LIKE TO MAKE, TO MAKE AN AMENDMENT.
I MEAN, I LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION THAT DOESN'T MEANING TO GO BEYOND 10 30.
YOU HAVE A SECOND DOCTOR WAS NASTY ZACK IN YOUR NOTION, ALL THE HANDS ARE OPEN.
I'M NOT SURE IF THEY'RE RELATED TO THIS OR NOT.
I WAS JUST GOING TO END THE MEETING AT 10 30, WHICH IS ONE HOUR FROM NOW.
ANY DISCUSSION ABOUT THAT? ALL RIGHT.
THE BUILDING'S OPEN MR. EARL CAMPBELL, THE MOTION FAILS FIVE, FIVE, ONE.
UM, THE ONE WITH THE EXTENSION IS CONSIDERED A, NOT, NOT A BILL.
AND THAT WAS FROM MR. GODRICK MS. MIDDLETON.
I APOLOGIZE, MS. NOBODY ESSENTIALLY WAS ANGELA MIDDLE.
SO THE FIRST, THE PRIOR MOTION IS WHAT WE'RE USING IN EFFECT.
IN OTHER WORDS, WE'RE HAVING THE MEETING, UNLESS SOMEBODY DECIDES AT SOME POINT THAT THEY WANT TO ADJOURN.
I'LL MAKE A MOTION TO ADJOURN, MISERABLE LIFE IN THE MATERIAL PRESENTED TO US BY MS. CROSBY.
THERE'S A NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES IN EACH OF THE GROUPS.
THERE ARE 47 PART-TIME EMPLOYEES IDENTIFIED IN THIS MATERIAL.
CAN'T WE JUST SAY THOSE 47 PEOPLE, BECAUSE THEY WERE OBVIOUSLY WITH US WHEN WE STARTED TALKING ABOUT THIS AND THEY WOULD MEET OUR CRITERIA, I WOULD THINK OF BEING THE PEOPLE THAT WE INTEND TO, UM, REWARD FOR WORKING WITH US.
I HAVE CAPTURED, I HAVE A FILE CAPTURED WITH THAT DATA, THOSE EMPLOYEE NAME, ID NUMBER.
SO IT'S POSSIBLE FOR ME TO, TO DO WHAT MS.
CLARIFY IN ORDER TO CAPTURE THE COSTS OF WHAT I BELIEVE WOULD BE ATTRIBUTED TO, UM, THE PART-TIME PAY FOR THAT IS, UH, PART-TIME BONUSES FOR THE EMPLOYEES.
UM, I CAPTURED A FILE TO GET AN ESTIMATE OF COST AND NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES THAT WOULD BE AFFECTED, WHICH EMPLOYEES WOULD BE AFFECTED.
AND I HAVE A LISTING OF EMPLOYEES THAT WOULD BE AFFECTED BASED ON THAT SCENARIO.
NOW THAT IS NOT FOR FEBRUARY 20TH THROUGH, UM, OR 16, BECAUSE THAT CAME A LATER DATE, BUT IT WAS, IT WAS ACTUALLY SINCE JANUARY 1ST, UM, UP UNTIL THE DATE THAT I RAN THE INFORMATION, UM, WHICH WAS IN MARCH.
SO THEN IT SOUNDS LIKE WE CAN GO BACK TO THE MOTION THAT WE JUST WENT THROUGH AND THAT MEETS THE INTENT OF THE BOARD.
HAVEN'T CAPTURED SINCE EMPLOYMENT ACT OR AN AVERAGE OF THESE DAYS PER WEEK SINCE JANUARY 1ST.
YEAH, I THINK WE HAVE THE LOT.
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MOTION THIS, UM, UM, THAT'S I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE ADDITIONS ARE.I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE ADDITIONAL LANGUAGES ARE SUGGESTING.
UM, SO INSTEAD OF, UM, THE TIME FRAME TOO, UM, WE WOULD SAY FROM JANUARY 1ST, 2021 THROUGH FOUR 16, ONLY FOR THE BAR, THAT'S THE ONLY TREND MS.
MAYBE THIS ISN'T A LONGER TIMEFRAME THAN I ORIGINALLY CALCULATED BECAUSE IT GOES THROUGH THE 16TH OF APRIL.
UM, AND I ORIGINALLY CALCULATED, SO IT WON'T BE 47.
IT MAY BE SLIGHTLY, THEY MAY CAPTURE THE WEEKS SINCE, UM, AFTER THE DISCUSSION.
THAT'S MY UNDERSTANDING FROM MS.
YOU KNOW, THAT, THAT WAS MY UNDERSTANDING.
WE COULD HAVE MADE THIS DECISION IN JANUARY.
WE WOULD HAVE DONE IT RIGHT THEN THAT NIGHT.
WE JUST COULDN'T BECAUSE WE DIDN'T KNOW WHAT OUR REVENUE GOING TO BE BECAUSE OF THE BALDOR ALL THE SCHOOL OR NOT WENT ON.
SO I DON'T KNOW THAT THIS CAPTURES WHAT MS. ROBOT IS SAYING THE CHANGE, BUT AN EXTENSION OF THE DATA ALL THE WAY TO APRIL, I THOUGHT IT WAS ASKED OF KATHY.
W WHAT I'M SAYING IS THAT JUST LIKE MS. FREDERICK SAID, IF WE COULD HAVE, IF WE KNEW WE HAD THE MONEY, WE WOULD'VE VOTED ON IT, RIGHT.
THEN THAT'S WHAT PREVENTED US FROM DOING IT.
AND AT THAT TIME, THE EMPLOYEE GROUPS, THE NUMBER OF PART-TIME EMPLOYEES WAS 47.
AND AGAIN, I GO BACK TO THE INTENT, THE INTENT WAS TO REWARD THE PEOPLE IS TO REWARD THE PEOPLE THAT STUCK WITH US THAT HAVE BEEN WITH US THIS WHOLE TIME, NOT TO REWARD THE PEOPLE THAT ARE GOING TO JUMP ON TO DO SOME TUTORING IN THE NEXT COUPLE MONTHS.
I, YOU KNOW, I THINK THE INTENT WAS TO SAY, THANK YOU, THANK YOU TO THE PEOPLE THAT HAVE BEEN WITH US.
SO THAT'S WHY IT SEEMS WE HAVE A DEFINITIVE NUMBER OF YEAR.
AND IF WE DON'T HAVE THESE NUMBERS, AREN'T THAT DEFINITIVE.
THEN OUR MATH IN THE AMOUNT THAT WE JUST, YOU KNOW, ARE, UH, GOING TO APPROVE, WON'T BE ACCURATE EITHER.
SO I'M JUST TRYING TO SIMPLIFY THINGS, BUT I DON'T THINK THAT'S HAPPENING.
IT SEEMS LIKE WE'VE MADE THIS WINNING.
I, YEAH, I WOULD LOVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO GO BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD WITH MY TEAM.
WHAT IS DOABLE? WHAT MAKES SENSE AND TAKE YOUR COMMENTS TO THEM? LOOK AT, I DO HAVE STATE GUIDANCE ON THE STEP INCREASE.
UM, BUT THAT IT DOESN'T APPLY TO PART-TIME EMPLOYEES.
SO IT REALLY ISN'T APPLICABLE TO THIS CONVERSATION.
BUT IF I COULD BRING SOMETHING BACK ON FRIDAY AT THE WORK SESSION ON A PART-TIME STAFF, UM, THEN WE CAN MOVE FORWARD.
THERE'S FULL TIME
I CAN'T SEE THE SCREEN, SO I, I'M NOT SURE.
I THINK WE APPROVED THE TWO AMENDMENTS AND THEN I MOVED THROUGH THAT, CORRECT? YES.
AND WE'LL WORRY ABOUT PART-TIME ON FRIDAY, BUT THEN ISN'T IT ALSO, ISN'T THE AMOUNT, MAYBE IT'S GOING TO BE DIFFERENT TOO, CAUSE WE'VE NOW CHANGED THE, THE WINDOW FOR FULL-TIME.
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UM, YES, I HAVE TO BE BACK TO FOR 120 DAYS.THEN HE PASSED TO GO IN THERE.
WE CAN USE 3.1 OR 3.2 MILLION BECAUSE THAT'S THE AMOUNT OF THE FULL TIME COST AND THEN ADD AN ADDITIONAL AMOUNT PART-TIME AT A SEPARATE DATE.
I KNOW THAT THE BEAVER COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION AUTHORIZED A SUPERINTENDENT WHO PAY LUNCHTIME VOLUNTEERS TO CURRENT ACTIVE EMPLOYEES, DETERMINED TO HAVE WORKED A MINIMUM OF 120 DAYS OF SCHOOL AT YEAR 2021 FROM THE GENERAL FUND OPERATING BUDGET AT THE RATE OF FULL TIME TEACHERS AND OTHER STAFF, $11,000, NOT TO EXI $3.2 MILLION.
AS YOU GUYS ALL SAID IT AT THE SAME
SO IS THERE ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION? WELL, WE NEED, YES.
I'M OLD AT THE BEAVER COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION.
I'LL JUST PUT IT UP THERE CAUSE I GET FEEDBACK.
SO EVERYTHING AFTER THE THOUSAND DOLLARS COMES OUT, EXCEPT FOR, UM, TOTAL AMOUNT, NOT TO EXCEED THE THREE POINT KID, KEEP THE TIMEFRAME.
SO AVERAGE DAYS PER WEEK, ALL THAT COMES OUT AS WELL.
THAT'S THE JUGS BACK ONE SENTENCE.
MS. CROSBY, ARE YOU SATISFIED? YOU'VE ASKED.
ANY EARLIER DISCUSSION ABOUT THE MOTION THAT WE HAVE ON THE TAPE? YES.
SO THERE'S THIS MOTION RIGHT HERE IS TO, IS TO BASICALLY TRANSFER THE FUNDS OVER FOR THE FULL-TIME FULL-TIME EMPLOYEES.
CORRECT? YOU ARE CORRECT OR NOT.
SO, SO, SO WE'RE JUST TRANSFERRING, WE'RE JUST TRANSFERRING, TRANSFERRING THE MONEY FOR THE FULL-TIME EMPLOYEES, NOT THE PART-TIME EMPLOYEES, NO 60TH.
I MADE THE MOTION, UM, WITH THE TOTAL AMOUNT THAT WE HAD USED IN THE PRIOR MOTION, KNOWING THAT IT WON'T USE UP THIS FULL AMOUNT.
AND THEN ON FRIDAY WHEN WE DO THE PART-TIME EMPLOYEES WILL KNOW THAT THE MONEY IS STILL THERE.
CAUSE THIS IS, THIS WAS NOT TO EXCEED 3.2 MILLION WHEN IT HAD THE PART-TIME EMPLOYEES IN IT.
SO NOW BY JUST SAYING IT THIS WAY, WE KNOW IT WON'T GO OVER, BUT WE ALSO KNOW THAT THERE'S ENOUGH IN THERE.
SO WE'LL PARSE IT OUT ON FRIDAY.
I CALL THE QUESTION, RIGHT? THERE'S IF YOU'VE CALLED THEM QUITE OFTEN, WE HAVE TO HAVE AN ADD ON TWO THIRDS, MAJORITY VOTE.
SO I'LL CALL THIS QUESTION AND WHERE I THINK THAT NOBODY'S GOING TO WANT TO GO TO THE QUESTION AFTER.
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UM, THE, UM, MOTION IS APPROVED, HAS WON.SO IS THERE ANY OBJECTION TO WHAT MS. CROSBY SUGGESTED? AND IF THERE'S OBJECTION, WE'LL GO OF, HE IS GOING TO BRING FORWARD TO THE BOARD ON OUR APRIL 23RD WORK SESSION.
WHAT SHE FEELS IS APPROPRIATE, UH, OR THE RECOMMENDATION FOR A MOTION FOR THE PART-TIME EMPLOYEES WITH THE, SHE'S HEARD OUR DISCUSSION THAT WE'RE TRYING TO COMPENSATE THOSE THAT HAVE BEEN WITH US DURING THIS, THIS TIME.
NOT PEOPLE THAT HAVE HAD A GOOD WITH US AS WELL, CLIMB OR POST TO THE STYLE, WHATEVER WE WANT TO SAY.
SO IS THERE ANY OBJECTION TO THAT MR. SMITH? YES, I DO HAVE OBJECTION TO EITHER EVERY, UH, WHEREVER YOU PART-TIME OR FULL-TIME.
IF HE WAS WITH THIS, EVERYONE SHOULD GET PAID A THOUSAND HOURS AND EVEN THE POISON IN THE EMPLOYEES THAT WE LEFT OUT, UH, THEY, THEY SHOULD BE ADDED TO ADD IT TO THIS.
SO LOT OF WORK AROUND CHAIR, HE DOESN'T HAVE AN OBJECTION TO THE MOTION, BUT HE WILL HAVE AN OBJECTION TO WHAT IS BROUGHT FORWARD ON FRIDAY.
BUT I DON'T THINK HE'S OBJECTING TO WHAT YOU'RE SAYING.
THAT'S WHAT I ACTUALLY, THE CURRICULUM IS WHAT I DO BECAUSE SHE'S WORKING IT OUT AND BRINGING IT BACK TO US.
SO I WOULD LIKE FOR HER TO WORK IT OUT, TO GIVE EVERYONE A THOUSAND MILES AND BRING THAT BACK TO US.
SO YOU HAVE OBJECTION, MR. SMITH.
SO MAKE YOUR, SO MAKE YOUR MOTION.
I'LL MAKE A MOTION THAT MS. MEAN I'M EXCUSE ME.
I MAKE A MOTION THAT YOU FINANCE THE FINANCE, THE CHAIR OF THE FINANCE COMMITTEE BRINGS IT THAT MRS. CROSBY BRING A, A, A DOCUMENTATION OF WHAT IT WOULD COST TO GIVE EVERYONE A THOUSAND LOANS FLAT OUT PART-TIME OR FULL-TIME THERE BEING NO SECOND.
THAT'S NOT ENTERTAINED BY THE BOARD.
SO THE LAST ONE IS COST GOING TO COME BACK ON FRIDAY WITH HER RECOMMENDATION FOR THE PART-TIME EMPLOYEES.
ARE YOU READY TO MOVE ON TO THE SECOND MATTER, IS THE EMPLOYEE STEP INCREASE? UM, SO THE STATE, UH, LAST MONTH, THE GOVERNOR APPROVED HOUSE RESOLUTION 3,609, WHICH RESTORED RESTORES THE SALARY STEP INCREASES THAT WERE FOR OTHERS IN THE STATE BUDGET BECAUSE OF REDUCTIONS IN STATE REVENUES THAT WE WERE EXPERIENCING AS A RESULT OF THE PANDEMIC, UH, FOR THE RESOLUTION STATES THAT FOR EACH PERSON THAT IS ELIGIBLE FOR THE STAFF INCREASE FOR THE 20, 20, 20, 21 SCHOOL YEAR, EACH DISTRICT SHALL PROVIDE A ONE TIME LUMP SUM.
TINA INDIANS OF THE ENTIRE STEP INCREASED DUE TO THE EMPLOYEE, INCLUDING ANY AMOUNT OF ARREARS.
AND IT MUST BE PAID BY JUNE 15TH OR THE DISTRICT MAY UTILIZE ITS SYSTEMS AND PAY THE INCREASE.
AS LONG AS THE FIRST PAYMENT RETROACTIVELY INCLUDES ALL PREVIOUS PAYMENTS THAT THEY WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN ELIGIBLE FOR.
SO A LOT OF LANGUAGE THERE, UM, THE RESOLUTION IDENTIFIED SPECIFIC POSITIONS THAT ARE ELIGIBLE AND, AND MANDATED FOR THIS STEP IN GREECE.
AND THEY ARE IN THE CERTIFIED AND PROFESSIONAL CATEGORIES THAT ARE LISTED ON YOUR PROFESSIONAL CATEGORY IS A NEW CATEGORY OF OVERLAP ONE OR TWO YEARS.
AND IT INCLUDES NURSES, OCCUPATIONAL THERAPISTS, PHYSICAL THERAPISTS, UH, AND A FEW OTHER GROUPS OF EMPLOYEES.
UM, AND, BUT THAT ARE MANDATED.
SHE RECEIVED THIS RETROACTIVE STEP INCREASE, UH, THIS EVENING.
UH, UM, I AM, UH, WE ARE THE RECOMMENDED, THE MOTION IS THAT WE EXTEND THAT STEP INCREASE TO ALL EMPLOYEES, INCLUDING CLASSIFIED AND ADMINISTRATORS.
AND SO THE COSTS OF THAT TOTAL, THE TOTAL, APPROXIMATELY $2.7 MILLION, UM, AND THAT ALL ELIGIBLE EMPLOYEES, MEANING THOSE UP TO THE 24TH STEP WOULD BE ELIGIBLE.
UM, SO UP TO 23RD STEP, WHO WOULD BE ELIGIBLE FOR AN INCREASE IN THIS MODEL AGAIN, UM, THIS IS NOT A CARES ACT ELIGIBLE TYPE, UH, EXPENSE, UH, AND IT IS RECURRING EXPENSE.
UH, SO WE WOULDN'T WANT TO PAY OUR RECURRING EXPENSES WITH NON-RECURRING DOLLARS, SUCH AS, UM, UH, CARES OR OUR ARBA OR S OR ALL THOSE.
UM, BUT IT IS, IS NOT ELIGIBLE BEING A PORTION.
NOW IT BECOMES A BASE PART OF THEIR BASE SALARY.
UM, WE WILL RECEIVE SOME, UH, FUNDING IN THE GENERAL PLAN TO
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HELP SUPPORT SOME OF THESE THINGS.AND, UM, THAT YOU'RE GOING TO SEE THAT ON FRIDAY, UM, THAT WE ARE ALLOCATING RESOURCES FROM THESE FEDERAL FUNDS THROUGH A TRANSFER TO THE GENERAL FUND TO HELP SUPPORT THE ADMINISTRATION OF THESE GRANTS SO THAT THOSE FUNDS WILL HELP US OVER A PERIOD OF TIME.
UM, AND WE EXPECT IN THE CURRENT YEAR TO BE ABOUT $270,000 EXTRA REVENUE TO HELP SUPPORT THAT'S A SMALL AMOUNT COMPARED TO THE TOTAL COSTS THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT TONIGHT, BUT EVERY LITTLE BIT HELPS.
AGAIN, WE HAVE SAVINGS THAT WE'RE GOING TO EXPERIENCE THROUGH THIS YEAR, AND BOTH THE SAVINGS SHOULD COVER BOTH THE STEP AND THE RETROACTIVE STAFF CAN DECREASE AND, AND THE, UM, BONUS PROGRAM THAT WE'VE JUST DISCUSSED.
AND ALSO, AGAIN, WE WOULD NEED TO HAVE PERMISSION TO DO BUDGET TRANSFERS, TO REALLOCATE THE SAVINGS TO THE AREAS THAT STEP INCREASE WILL BE SPENT IN THIS PROPOSAL IS, UH, WILL COME AS A JUNE AND WILL BE PAID ON, IS PROPOSED TO BE PAID ON JUNE 4TH OF 2021.
SO WE HAVE, AGAIN, WE HAVE A SPECIFIC PAYROLL CALENDAR WITH BUSY TIMES DURING THE NEXT FEW MONTHS.
AND SO WE, UH, SPECIFICALLY WE PLACED IT IN AN AREA WHERE WE FELT LIKE THE WORKLOAD WOULD ALLOW US TO, UM, DO THE, PERFORM THESE CALCULATIONS AND INPUT THE DATA INTO OUR PAYROLL SYSTEM IN TIME FOR JUNE 4TH MEETING.
UM, SO AT THIS TIME I'M, UM, MY RECOMMENDATION AS THAT, UM, TO PAY THE LUMP SUM SET INCREASED TO ALL ELIGIBLE EMPLOYEES FROM THE GENERAL OPERATING FUND AND ALLOW US TO, UM, BUDGET THE NECESSARY RESOURCES IN THE PROPER AREAS OF THE GENERAL FUND BUDGET TO COVER THE EXPENSE FOR QUESTIONS.
UM, MRS. CROSBY, MY, MY QUESTION IS, UM, W W WHAT WOULD WE BE ABLE TO USE ANY OF THE COVERT MONEY THAT WE WOULD, THAT THE DISTRICT HAS GOTTEN TO PUT TOWARDS A STEP IN GREECE? NO, SIR.
OTHER THAN THE, THERE IS A SMALL PORTION IT'S $270,000.
IT IS AN INDIRECT, IT IS A TRANSFER THAT WE CAN MAKE TO THE GENERAL FUNDS, SO WE CAN SUPPORT IT BY ABOUT APPROXIMATELY $270,000.
OTHER THAN THAT, WE CANNOT SPEND DIRECTLY FROM THE CARES ACT OR COVID RELATED FUNDS.
AT THIS TIME, MADAM CHAIR, I MOVE THAT THE BUFORD COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION AUTHORIZES THE SUPERINTENDENT TO PAY A LUMP SUM STEP INCREASE TO ALL ELIGIBLE EMPLOYEES FROM THE GENERAL FUND OPERATING BUDGET, THE BOARD OF EDUCATION APPROVES, THE BUDGET TRANSFER NECESSARY TO THE FUND PAYMENTS OF THE STEP INCREASE.
DO WE HAVE A SECOND, LIKE SECOND, RIGHT? WE'LL GIVE IT TO YOU.
UM, MR. SMITH, BUT THAT WAS THAT'S ME MAKING MY OWN CARE.
UM, I THINK I JUST HAVE A COUPLE QUESTIONS.
ONE IS, UM, IT'S MY UNDERSTANDING THAT THIS RECOMMENDATION IS GOING TO TAKE IT A STEP FURTHER FROM HIS EIGHT MANDATE THAT ACCURATE INCLUDING CLASS LIKE ADMINISTERED STAFF, UM, OR AN ADDITIONAL 700 OR SO.
WHAT WAS THE LAST TIME THAT CLASSIFIED THEM AND THREATENED STAFF RECEIVED? DOES THAT INCREASE? IS THAT TYPICALLY ALL DONE AT THE SAME TIME? UM, ALL EMPLOYEES, YES.
IT WOULD HAVE BEEN JULY ONE, 2019 BECAUSE WE DIDN'T DO IT IN JULY ONE OF 20, OR, UH, IT WAS, UH, EFFECTIVE, UM, JULY ONE OF 2019 WAS THE LAST TIME WE ROLLED THE STEP AND THEN THAT NEW YEAR THEY WERE ELIGIBLE AND THEY RECEIVED THE HIGHER RATE AND I TEACH 20 SCHOOL YEAR.
SO THIS IS BRINGING CERTIFIED PROFESSIONAL CLASSIFIED AND ADMINISTRATIVE.
UM, DID THE MOST RECENT STAFF INCREASE? THEY WAS, YES.
IT WILL REINSTATE THE MISSTEP THAT WAS WAVE OR STOPPED BY THE GOVERNOR'S AT, UH, IN MARCH OF LAST YEAR.
UM, THEN I THINK THAT'S ALL I HAD.
THAT'S MY, TO MAKE SURE THAT, YOU KNOW, I WAS CLARIFIED THAT THIS IS TAKING IT EVEN FURTHER.
UM, AND MR. BELL CAMPBELL
HE DOES NOT INCLUDE THE COST OF LIVING IN GREECE.
SO THE ACTUAL SALARY SCHEDULE THAT IS CURRENTLY EXISTS WILL NOT CHANGE THE EMPLOYEES WHO
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ARE ELIGIBLE WILL MOVE UP A STEP.SO IF I HAVE SEVEN YEARS OF EXPERIENCE THIS YEAR, I WILL, I WILL BE MOVED TO THE EIGHTH STEP.
UM, OR IF I'M ON THE SECOND STEP, I WOULD MOVED TO THE EIGHT STEP.
AND THEN, UM, AS WE MOVE TO THE NEW SCHOOL YEAR AND THE NEW BUDGET, THEN WE MAY HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO PROVIDE ANOTHER STEP IN THE NEW IN JULY TIMEFRAME.
SO YOU JUST CORRECTED YOURSELF OF THAT.
UM, BECAUSE I DIDN'T THINK THE STEPS CORRELATED WITH YEARS OF SERVICE, CORRECT? THAT'S CORRECT.
IN A, IN MANY CASES, THE TEACHER IS MORE CONNECTED TO THE STATE PERMANENT CERTIFICATION.
AND HOW LONG, HOW MANY DAYS OF EMPLOYMENT AND WORK IN THAT FIELD? UM, THAT THE, CERTAINLY IT DOES NOT ALWAYS IDENTIFY WITH CORRELATE DIRECTLY TO THE YEARS OF EXPERIENCE.
AND WE ARE, I CORRECTED MYSELF AS WELL BECAUSE WE ARE ONE STEP BEHIND ON TEACHERS.
UM, SO THERE WAS NOT A STEP INCREASE SEVERAL YEARS BACK.
AND SO, UM, WE ARE STILL BEHIND STAFF, EVEN WITH THE ADDITION OF THIS IS FROM MS. ALICE WALTON.
SHE TOLD ME IT WAS 2011, I BELIEVE, 10 YEARS AGO.
SO, AND MY SECOND QUESTION IS, SO THE, THE EMPLOYEES THAT ARE ELIGIBLE FOR THE STEP INCREASE, ARE THEY ALL FULL-TIME EMPLOYEES? YES.
THERE MAY BE BECAUSE I WAS TALKING ABOUT LIKE A SPEECH THERAPIST OR OCCUPATIONAL THERAPIST OR PHYSICAL THERAPIST, OR THEY ARE SO THEY'RE, UM, STABLE TIMES.
THEY HAVE TO BE FULL-TIME, IT'S NOT REALLY A CONTRACTED, YOU KNOW, ONE DAY A WEEK, OR I GUESS THERE ARE OF SMALL NUMBER OF HARSHEL.
WE CALL IT PARTIAL FTES, NATE.
THEY MIGHT BE A HALF FTE AS A TEACHER.
UM, SO THEY WOULD BE ELIGIBLE FOR A PORTION OF THAT STEP, NOT THE FULL AMOUNT, BECAUSE THEY DON'T HAVE FULL THEY'RE ONLY A PARTIAL FTE OR FULL-TIME EQUIVALENT.
SO I WON'T SAY THERE ARE NONE, UM, BUT IT IS NOT, UH, NOT PREVALENT.
SO THAT WAS MY QUESTION OR QUESTIONS THAT YOU, MR. SMITH.
SO BASICALLY THE BUS DRIVERS WHO THEN GIVE ME A STEP INCREASE LAST YEAR, WILL NOW GIVE THEIR SCRIPT, THEIR STEP INCREASE THIS YEAR OR LAST YEAR, IS THAT MY UNDERSTANDING FOR THE CURRENT SCHOOL YEAR, THOUGH, THE STEP THAT WAS NOT PROVIDED IN THE THEN IN JULY, JULY ONE OF 2020 WILL BE NOW RESTORED AND THEY WILL RECEIVE IT RETROACTIVELY BACK TO JULY ONE, ALL CLASSIFIED, INCLUDING THE STRIVERS.
AND THAT'S WHAT I WANT TO KNOW ABOUT BASICALLY FOR THE CLASSIFIED STAFF AS WELL.
UM, ALSO I NOTICED TODAY, I BELIEVE THAT TODAY, I BELIEVE THAT I SAW THAT ALL OF YOU SAW YET THAT THEY WERE GIVING, UH, THEN THEY WERE PUTTING IN A THOUSAND DOLLARS BACK.
I WAS OFF SUDDENLY THEY WERE PUTTING IN A THOUSAND DOLLARS BACK INTO THE, UH, BUDGET THAT THAT'S SOME GOOD NEWS FOR TEACHERS AS WELL.
BUT, UM, THAT'S, THAT'S ALL I HAVE, BUT BASICALLY MS. VINEYARD, THANK YOU.
UM, TANYA, CAN YOU HELP ME REMEMBER? SO OUR FIRST YEAR TEACHERS OR SECOND YEAR TEACHERS, THERE'S NOT A STEP THERE IS THERE, THERE IS NOT ZERO TO THE FIRST STEP.
THERE IS NOT, THERE WOULD BE NO INCREASE VERSUS IN SECOND.
SO IF WE HAVE A FIRST-YEAR TEACHER THIS YEAR, THAT COMPLETES THE YEAR, THEY, UM, NOT BE ELIGIBLE FOR STEP IN THE CURRENT YEAR.
ANYWAY, IF THEIR FIRST YEAR THEY WILL, FIRST YEAR, IF THEY'RE SECOND YEAR TEACHERS, THEY WOULD NOT GET, UM, THEY WOULD, THEY WOULD STILL BE LISTED AT THE ZERO STAGE.
THEY WOULD NOT GET A STEP THAT COULD BE EIGHT.
WE GIVE ONE IN JULY, ONE FOR NEXT YEAR, THEY WOULD BE ELIGIBLE.
SO I KNOW THIS IS NOT GERMANE TO THIS CONVERSATION, BUT I REALLY THINK THAT'S SOMETHING WE NEED TO MAKE IT.
I JUST PUT MY HAND DOWN MY REFRIGERATOR.
VOTING QUESTION IS PAUL A MOTION
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CARRIES UNANIMOUSLY.WE'LL HEAR FROM YOU ON FRIDAY.
AND OBVIOUSLY ROBIN, THAT MEANS PUSHING VERY, THAT NEEDS TO BE ADDED TO THE AGENDA.
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MA'AM.UM, NEXT IS, UH, WE NEED A MOTION TO APPROVE THE CONSENT AGENDA THAT WE APPROVE.
UH, NO NOS AND ONE UNDERSTAND, WHICH WAS MR.
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STRINGER.ANY FUTURE AGENDA TOPICS, PLEASE PUT YOUR HAND UP ON THE ELECTRONIC SCREEN.
I'D LIKE TO HAVE A DISCUSSION.
I KNOW YOU GUYS ADOPT, THIS IS ADOPTED, UH, THE NINE, 15 RULE ON AUGUST 15TH, BUT I WOULD LIKE TO REVISIT THE GOVERNING CULTURE D 17 A GERMAN AND HOW WE HANDLE THAT.
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PANS UP TO THE ANNOUNCEMENT IS THE JOINT BOARD MEETING IS APRIL 29, 2021.THAT'S NEXT THURSDAY AT 6:00 PM.
AND IT'S GOING TO BE A VIA A VIDEO CONFERENCE.
I SHOULD'VE MENTIONED AN HOUR AGO.
THERE WERE NO SECOND PUBLIC COMMENTS SO THAT WE DIDN'T STOP FOR THAT.
UM, THERE'S NO, UH, NO OBJECTIONS.