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CLOSED CAPTIONING PROVIDED BY BEAVER COUNTY.
SO SINCE WE WILL, UH, WE'LL START OVER, BUT I'M JUST GOING TO SUMMARIZE IN THE INTEREST OF TIME SINCE EVERYBODY'S GOT IT HERE.
SO WE DON'T HAVE ANY MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC HERE IN THE MEDIA CENTER.
SO IF YOU WOULD, THIS IS THE BEAVER COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION BUSINESS MEDIA, AUGUST 3RD, 2021.
AND IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO PARTICIPATE IN PUBLIC COMMENTS REMOTELY, YOU CAN SEND THEM AN EMAIL WITH YOUR NAME, PHONE NUMBER AND TOPIC BETWEEN FIVE AND FIVE 30 TYPE TO ROBIN DOC CUSHINGBARRY@BUFORDDOTK12.SC.US.
AND THEN YOU'LL RECEIVE A PHONE CALL DURING PUBLIC COMMENTS WHERE YOU'LL BE ABLE TO SPEAK AND ADDRESS THE BOARD FOR A MAXIMUM OF THREE MINUTES ON ISSUES WITHIN THE MORE KNOW MAY SPORTS DOMAIN.
AND THE FORUM WILL BE LIMITED TO 30 MINUTES.
THERE'S A SECOND PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD WHERE THE, UM, REQUEST FOR PARTICIPATION IS ACCEPTED TONIGHT BETWEEN SEVEN AND SEVEN 30 AND THE SECOND PUBLIC COMMENTS WILL TAKE PLACE PRIOR TO A GERMAN NO LATER THAN NINE.
AND THE SECOND FORM IS LIMITED TO 15 MINUTES.
IF WE DON'T FINISH OUR AGENDA FOR TONIGHT, WE'LL RESUME AGAIN, RECONVENE TOMORROW AT 6:00 PM TO FINISH THE, UH, UH, THE BUSINESS THAT'S LEFT ON THE AGENDA.
[1. 4:00pm Executive Session]
UM, MADE THE MOTION TO GO INTO EXECUTIVE SESSION AND CAVEAT GROW-BY, UH, SACKING THE MOTION AND I'LL JUST LET DR WISNIEWSKI ONCE AGAIN, JUST READ THE REASONS WE'RE GOING INTO EXECUTIVE SESSION, PLEASE.THE ITEMS FOR EXECUTIVE SESSION, OUR EMPLOYMENT MATTER PERSONNEL RATIFICATION REPORT AND EMPLOYMENT APPOINTMENT, PROMOTION AND COMPENSATION.
CERTAIN SOUTHBOUND COATS, 30 DASH FOUR DASH SEVEN EIGHT.
ONE IS SPECIAL ED NEGOTIATIONS INCIDENT TO PROPOSE ROBERT SMALLS INTERNATIONAL ACADEMIES FOR EARLY SEAL PACKAGE OR TO SOUTH CAROLINA CODE SECTION 30 DASH FOUR DASH 78, 2 RECEIPT OF LEGAL ADVICE REGARDING IMPACT FEES COVERED BY THE ATTORNEY CLIENT PRIVILEGE PRESENTED SOUTH CAROLINA CODE 30 DASH FOUR DASH 78.
RECEIPT OF LEGAL ADVICE REGARDING EMPLOYEE GRIEVANCE FILE AGAINST TRUSTEE PURSUANT TO POLICY EGC 12 AND PROCEEDED LEGAL ADVICE REGARDING PENDING THAT ARE COVERED BY THE ATTORNEY CLIENT PRIVILEGE PRESENT SOUTH CAROLINA, 30 DASH FOUR DASH 78.
DO WE HAVE ANY DISCUSSION OF THE, THE MOTION MR. SMITH, MADAM CHAIR, PLEASE CLARIFY WHO WILL BE ADVISING THE BOARD ON ANY, ANY DISCUSSION DURING THE EXECUTIVE SESSIONS WHO WOULD BE ADVISING THE BOARD ON THE EMPLOYMENT MATTERS AND WHO WILL BE ADVISED THE BOARD TO SELL ANY CLAIMS OR PENDING LITIGATION? WELL, I'LL LET DR. RODRIGUEZ ANSWER BECAUSE THEY, UH, FOR THE EMPLOYMENT MATTERS CITY STAFF REGARDING EMPLOYMENT MATTERS.
UM, WHAT ELSE DID YOU ASK HIM ON THE LEGAL WORLD? LEGAL ADVICE, LEGAL ADVICE, UM, THE IMPACT FEES, UM, MS. CARTILAGE, UM, THE LEGAL ADVICE REGARDING A PENDING MATTER, UH, COVERED BY ATTORNEY CLIENT PRIVILEGE IS, UH, THAT'S THE LAST ONE.
THAT'S G NEPHEWS LONG BEFORE THAT IS, UH, ANDREW.
WHAT? SO YOU SAID THE LAST ONE WAS GENE MATTHEWS AND THEN THE OTHER ONE IS THE OTHER LEGAL, UH, REGARDING THE, DURING THE GRIEVANCE IS, UH, ANDREW WHITE, CORRECT, SIR.
YES, YES, YES, YES, YES, YES, YES.
THE MOTION TO GO INTO EXECUTIVE SESSION CARRIES UNANIMOUSLY.
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MOST SNAKES THAT WE ENCOUNTER ARE JUST LIKE THIS EASTERN KING SNAKE, BEAUTIFUL AND COMPLETELY HARMLESS.IN FACT, MOST SNAKES ARE BENEFICIAL AND THEY'RE GOOD INDICATORS OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH.
ALL ANIMALS NEED GOOD QUALITY HABITAT LIKE THIS GORGEOUS FOREST.
JOIN US FOR COASTAL KINGDOM, A FIELD TRIP THROUGH THE LOW COUNTRY AND A CHANCE TO MEET SOME OF THE ANIMALS THAT LIVE HERE.
THEY SMASHED THE RIGHT FIELD, THAT PAUL WAY BACK GOOD EVENING
[2. 6:00 pm Public Session]
AND WELCOME TO THE BEAVER COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION BUSINESS MEETING OF AUGUST 3RD, 2021.THE BOARD HAS JUST COME OUT OF EXECUTIVE SESSION AND WE ARE NOW BACK IN PUBLIC SESSION.
AND DO WE HAVE ANY ACTIONISTS NECESSARY OR APPROPRIATE REGARDING MATTERS DISCUSSED IN EXECUTIVE SESSION? YES.
MADAM CHAIR, WE HAVE SIX ITEMS OF EXECUTIVE SESSION, THE FIRST PURSUANT TO BOARD POLICY GOVERNANCE, POLICY, POLICY PROGRESS.
YOU ALL SEE, I GOT INTERRUPTED THERE BY A ROBO VOICE, UM, PURSUANT TO BOARD GOVERNANCE, POLICY, GC 12.
I MOVED THAT THE BOARD RETAINED ATTORNEY ANDREA WHITE TO INVESTIGATE A GRIEVANCE FILED BY A DISTRICT EMPLOYEE AGAINST A TRUSTEE.
ANY DISCUSSION, CAN YOU, UM, DISPLAY IT VOTING IS OPEN.
THE ONE NOTE IS MR. WILLIAMS SMITH.
WE APPROVE THE SUPERINTENDENTS RECOMMENDATIONS FOR EMPLOYMENT LISTED JULY 1ST TO JULY 31ST, 2021 PERSONNEL RATIFICATION REPORT.
SECOND BY MS. GOODRICH, ANY DISCUSSION MR. SMITH? YES, MA'AM CHAIR.
I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW, UM, ON THIS REPORT, UM, OWNER'S REPORT.
HOW, HOW, HOW MANY PEOPLE, HOW MANY TEACHERS THEY, WE, THEY, UH, DO, DO WE NOT HAVE A BIT? WELL, WE HAVE VACANCIES FOR AT THIS TIME AND I HAD ALL GRADE LEVELS.
WELL, MR. SMITH, WE DON'T HAVE THE EXECUTIVE SESSION DOCUMENTS IN FRONT OF US.
RODRIGUEZ AND SAID, UH, THEY'VE BEEN TRYING TO CLASSROOM TEACHERS.
I BELIEVE SHE SAID IT WAS LIKE 25 CLASSROOM TEACHERS OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
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AND I, AND I ALSO ASKED FOR THE LOCATION OF THE BUILDINGS.WELL, I CAN SAY I DON'T HAVE A PACKET IN FRONT OF ME.
THERE WERE SIX ELEMENTARY, SEVEN MIDDLE SCHOOL INTO HIGH SCHOOL.
BUT MY, MY QUESTION WAS WHICH SCHOOLS WERE SCHOOLS RATHER THAN THE ONES, WHICH I WASN'T, WHAT LOCATIONS ARE THEY AT? WE'LL BE HAPPY TO GET THAT TO YOU.
ALSO, UM, ARE THERE ANY, ARE THERE ANY PERSONABLES ON OUR PRINCIPALS, OUR VACANCIES AT THIS TIME? UH, YES, SIR.
THERE IS ONE PRINCIPLE THAT YOU CAN SEE AT THIS TIME AT WHAT LOCATIONS, AND THAT IS AT A WILL BRANCH EARLY COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL VOTING IS OPEN.
MR. SMITH CAUGHT THE LOWER YOUR HANDS.
I MOVE, WE ACCEPT THE SUPERINTENDENT'S RECOMMENDATION TO EMPLOY DR.
TOMMY RIDDICK AS DIRECTOR OF ALTERNATIVE EDUCATION.
I KNOW ABOUT BEING ABLE TO SUPPORT THIS RECOMMENDATION TONIGHT.
FIVE QUESTION ON THE EXPERIENCE OF THIS GENTLEMAN, ALTERNATIVE EDUCATION PIECE AS WELL.
MOTION CARRIES EIGHT TO ONE, TWO NOS, NORMAN CAMPBELL, WILLIAM SMITH, AND THE EXTENSION SECRETARY.
THE BOARD OF EDUCATION APPROVE AMENDMENT.
NUMBER ONE WITH JV DONE CONSTRUCTION FOR AN EARLY STEEL PACKAGE AT ROBERT SMALLS INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY IN THE AMOUNT OF 5 MILLION, $816,881.
AND NO SENSE ANY DISCUSSION? YES.
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THE MOTION IS APPROVED 9 1 1.NO IS MR. SMITH AND MR. HERE, THE NEXT TWO ARE PRETTY LONG MOTIONS BECAUSE THEY HAVE A LOT OF LEGALEES IN.
UM, SO BEAR WITH ME ON YOUR BOARD BUSINESS ACTION, I BELIEVE.
IF NECESSARY, APPROPRIATE OUT OF EXECUTIVE SESSION NEXT, UH, UH, WE NEED A MOTION TO APPROVE THE AGENDA THAT WE APPROVE THE AGENDA.
AND SO THE MOTION WAS MADE BY MS. BOATRIGHT.
THE QUESTION IS CALLED MY HAND.
MY HAND IS UP YOUR HAND WENT UP AFTER THE QUESTION WAS CALLED, SIR.
AND I DO HAVE SOME VERY IMPORTANT WHEN IT COMES TO THE AGENDA, I WOULD LIKE TO AMEND THE MOTION.
I WOULD LIKE TO AMEND THE MOTION 10 0 1.
I'M IN THIS EMOTION AND MY HAND ON MY SIDE, IT WAS UP.
SO I'M NOT SURE WHY YOU DIDN'T SEE IT ON YOUR SIDE AND I'M COMING.
I'M ASKING YOU AND TELLING YOU THAT I, THAT I PUT MY HAND UP.
SO AS I SAID, I SEE NOTHING WRONG WITH ME TELLING YOU THAT I DIDN'T WAIT UNTIL WE WERE WILLING TO PUT INTO IT OR AFTER THE VOTE TO TELL YOU, I TOLD YOU, AFTER YOU SAID IT WAS UP, YOU MAY MAKE A MOTION TO APPEAL MY DECISION TO APPEAL YOUR DECISION.
SO CAN YOU DISPLAY THE MOTION MR. SMITH IN MOTION TO APPEAL BY DECISION THAT VOTING WAS CLOSED? BUT THE QUESTION WAS CALLED ALSO TO FILL THE DECISION OF THE CHAIR THAT THE VOLUME WAS CLOSED.
IS THERE GONNA BE DISCUSSION VERY WELL? I'M LOOKING, UM, IT SAYS IT'S VARIABLE AS TO WHETHER IT'S DEBATABLE.
UM, AND IT'S SORT OF MAJORITY OF THOSE, BUT YOU CAN'T AMEND THIS, THIS, THIS APPEAL.
IF I MAY, AS MIKE EXPLAINED ME OBSESSION.
I DID NOT SEE THE B THE SCREEN.
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I ONLY HEARD THE, YOU CALLING OUT THE, I GUESS, WHERE WE WERE ON THE PROCESS, EVEN LEAVE THE BELTS.SO THE, WE WILL, SO THE MOTION TO APPEAL MY DECISION FAIL 3, 6, 2, UH, THE PREVAILING SIDE IS THE NOSE SQUADS ROLL LINE, GUYER MIDDLETON AND ROLL CAMPBELL.
SO NOW WE'RE READY TO GO ONTO THE ALLEGIANCE.
THE MEDIA HAS BEEN PROPERLY NOTIFIED.
[3. Public Comments]
TO THE FIRST PUBLIC COMMENTS AND WE HAVE SOMEBODY WHO'S GOING TO VOMIT FIRST REMOTELY.SO ROBIN, I'LL LET YOU GO AHEAD.
I'M CALLING YOU FOR PUBLIC COMMENTS BECAUSE OF THE JOHN SPEAKER.
YOU'LL HAVE THREE MINUTES TO STATE YOUR FIRST NAME, LAST NAME, YOUR TOPIC.
I LEFT A MESSAGE FOR NEARLY TWO WEEKS AGO.
I'M TRYING TO CALL OR EMAIL TO YOU.
I DO NOT BELIEVE YOU TAKE ART.
THEY'VE MADE IT CLEAR THAT IT'S NOT SAFE, BUT OUR CHILDREN WHO CAME TO THE BACK TEAM AND ENCLOSED CLASSROOM, IN FACT, AN ENTIRE CLASS, THE VIRAL LOAD IS A THOUSAND TIMES GREATER IN THE ORIGINAL VIRUS INFECTIONS.
MORE AND MORE FOR THEATER FOR OUR CHILDREN, TAUGHT MATH AND NOT PROTECTED.
CHILDREN CHOOSE TO WEAR THEM FROM BELONGING.
CHILDREN HAVE DIED FROM THAT, AND THEY'RE SUFFERING.
IF YOU DO NOT IMPLEMENT A MATH MANDATE, YOU WILL KNOW HIM AND PUT OUR CHILDREN INTO UNSAFE WITHOUT ADEQUATE PROTECTION.
THESE ARE CHILDREN TO FIGHT OFF THE VIOLET FIRE IN THE VIRUS SPREADING LIKE WILDFIRE THROUGHOUT THE STATES WITH LOW VACCINATION, ONLY 40% OF THOSE ELIGIBLE IN SOUTH CAROLINA THAT I SEE IN TWO-THIRDS OF OUR TOTAL POPULATION IS NOT VACCINATED.
IF YOU TAKE OUR CHILDREN INTO ACCOUNT, THE WORST PART ABOUT PROVIDING A VIRTUAL OPTION AGAINST PARENTS ABILITY TO PROTECT THEIR CHILDREN IN A SAFE ENVIRONMENT,
ONE AT THE VERY NEAT OPTION TO KILL VACCINE BECOMES AVAILABLE TO THEM, LISTEN TO THE MEDICAL COMMUNITY INSTEAD OF THE NUMBER AND UP AGAIN, TELL THEM THAT FORCING OUR CHILDREN INTO AN UNSAFE ENVIRONMENT AND STRIPPING THEM OF THE MOST EFFECTIVE FORM OF PROTECTION WOULD BE FUND MITIGATION DISASTER.
BY ESSENTIALLY HOLDING OUR CHILDREN HOSTAGE, IT WILL BE MUCH EASIER TO APOLOGIZE, BEGIN TO LOSE THE CHILD.
WE'LL BE MANAGING CHILDREN WITH LONG-TERM COMPLICATIONS AND WHO WILL BE PAYING
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MASSIVE MEDICAL BILLS WHEN IT COULD HAVE BEEN PRESENTED WHILE YOU'RE AT AN APOLOGIZED FOR CHILDREN FOR KNOWINGLY PUTTING THEM IN JEOPARDY, YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO FOR THE LOVE OF OUR CHILDREN, DO IT IMPLEMENT UNIVERSAL MASKING.AND LIKE, I THINK TRISHA BRIDGE REACHED OUT TO BRADLEY THE SHELF FOR RETURNING MY CALL.
TWO PEOPLE PRESENT, UH, WHO WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK IN A, FILLED OUT A PUBLIC COMMENT CARD COMPLETING THE CARD INDICATES THAT YOU WILL ABIDE BY THE PROCEDURE FOR SPEAKING PUBLICLY HERE, YOU'LL CONFINE YOUR COMMENTS TO ISSUES WITHIN THE DOMAIN OF THE BOARD TO REFRAINING FROM RACIAL COMMENTS, OBSCENITIES, VULGARITIES, AND REFERENCES TO SPECIFIC INDIVIDUALS BY SAVING AND NOR COMMIT OTHER BREACHES OF RESPECT, NOT EXCEED THREE MINUTES.
AND THERE'LL BE A VISIBLE TIMING DEVICE.
YOU MAY NOT YIELD YOUR TIME TO ONE ANOTHER PRIMARILY.
SO THE FIRST PUBLIC SPEAKER HERE IS MARY BOYD.
THAT WAS NOT WHAT WAS READ TO ME THAT I WAS HERE THE FIRST TIME.
UM, 18TH OF JULY, I THINK WAS LAST MEETING.
I BET WAS THAT WHAT? THE WAY IT WAS READ WHAT WAS READ? AND THE WAY IT WAS MADE WAS VERY OFFENSIVE TO ME.
I DID NOT ATTEND ANY OF THESE MEETINGS FOR WELL YEARS BECAUSE LIFE WAS HAPPENING TO ME.
BUT NOW THAT I'M HERE AND I FELT WHEN I HEARD THAT, IF THERE WAS SOMETHING THAT I AGREED WITH, IT WAS YOU BETTER.
I PERCEIVED IT THAT IF THERE'S SOMETHING RED, IF I CAME UP HERE AND I GOT EXCITED IN MY READING, YOU'RE TELLING ME I KNOW HOW TO CONDUCT MYSELF.
AND I WANT TO KNOW, IS THAT READ AT EVERY MEETING THAT YOU ALL HAVE HAD? AND IF YOU DID HAVE THAT, WHEN DID YOU START READING THAT? BECAUSE THAT'S NOT WHAT IT WAS RE, WHAT, WHAT, WHAT WAS READ TODAY WAS NOT WHAT WAS READ THE LAST TIME.
AND I WROTE THIS DAY, MY OPINION MATTERS HERE.
LIKE EVERYONE ELSE, AND MY VOICE WILL BE HEARD.
AND IF THERE'S ANYONE HERE THAT FEELS THREATENED BY MY PRESENCE OR ANYTHING THAT I HAVE A SAY, THEN BEING HERE IS WHERE I NEED TO BE.
THAT STATEMENT NEEDS TO BE CONCISE PROFESSIONALLY WRITTEN AND NOT BE SO HOSTILE AND THREATENING IT'S SITUATIONS LIKE THIS.
THEN LAW ENFORCEMENT IS MISAPPROPRIATED AND GET HALF-ASSED JUSTIFY FOR BEING HERE.
WE DON'T NEED LAW ENFORCEMENT HERE.
AND I WANT TO KNOW HOW LONG THAT HAS BEEN READ AND IS LEFT.
IS THAT RIGHT AT EVERY BOARD MEETING? AND IF YOU WANT TO READ THAT IT NEEDS TO BE, IT NEEDS TO BE PROFESSIONAL WRITTEN.
ANOTHER THING ON THE 27TH OF JULY, HOW WAS THAT? THE QUANTUM SALES PLANT? WELL, THE SEATTLE PARKWAY, I SAW SEVERAL BEAUTIFUL COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT, CARBO CROPS TRAVELING SOUTH ON HIGHWAY 21 TO SEATTLE AND PARKWAY.
I DECIDED TO FOLLOW THEM THE VENDORS IN CAMPBELL, THE SU I PROMPT THEM FROM SCHOOL AND I MET WITH THE SCHOOL REP AND HE WAS STANDING OUTSIDE AND I TOLD HER WHO I WAS, AND I WANTED TO KNOW WHAT THEY WERE DOING.
AND THE GENTLEMAN I WALK UP TO THE GENTLEMEN, THEY SAID THEY WERE DELIVERING FURNITURE FROM BUFORD ELEMENTARY, JUST TO TELL THAT ELEVATORS SCHOOL.
AND THAT REALLY TOUCHED ME BECAUSE IN 1970, WHEN I WAS AT LACE ISLAND, MILLIE LADIES ISLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, THERE WAS SOME BOOKS THAT CAME FROM BUFORD NOW, AND IT JUST OPENED UP A WHOLE ANOTHER WOMB BECAUSE BUPA L PUT, IT KEPT THE FRIENDSHIP BECAUSE IT WASN'T BAD FURNITURE.
HELL IT SHOULD HAVE GOTTEN THE NEW FURNITURE.
IF WE GOING TO DO THINGS RIGHT BEFORE COUNTY BEING GOING TO DO IT THE RIGHT WAY IN MY KIDS CAN SIT AND I USE DESK, THEY CAN SIT IN A NEW ONE TOO.
SO WE MIGHT HAVE TO DO THINGS A LITTLE BIT BETTER THAN THAT.
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MOLLY FIELDS, AND I'M HERE TO DISCUSS THE SIDE.THAT'S STILL LOCATED ON LADY'S ISLAND AND DISTINCT TO, BUT STILL IN THE COMMUNITY THAT I LIVED IN.
I THOUGHT, JUST TO YOUR ATTENTION BACK IN JULY 13TH, I JUST NEED TO KNOW HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE, WHAT IS DESIGN COULD BE MOOD.
I LIKE TO KNOW WHO PUT IT THERE.
WHY WAS DIFFERENT COUNTY SCHOOLS NAIL WAS TO LISTEN TO THE BOTTOM OF THEM.
AND AT THAT STATE THAT SOMEONE ELSE DOES CREEK.
AND I'M PRETTY SURE WE ALL KNOW WHO'S.
THIS NEEDS TO BE FOLLOWED UP ON AND NECESSARY.
I'VE TAKEN THREE PICTURES OF THAT SIDE, PLEASE, IN THE NAME OF JESUS, STILL GOING TO BE COME BACK.
THAT BRIDGE MARY IS THAT CONCLUDES THE FIRST PUBLIC COMMENT.
I KNOW I DIDN'T WRITE MY NAME DOWN, BUT I JUST FACTOR.
AND I'D LIKE TO ADDRESS THE BOARD POSSIBLE.
YOU WOULD NEED TO FILL OUT A CARD FIRST.
I KNOW I JUST GOT HERE FROM OPEN HOUSE, SO I RACED ACROSS TOWN AND I STILL GOT TO GO BACK TO HELP CLEAN UP.
CAN I GIVE THIS TO HER AFTER I SPEAK? WHEN I NEED TO INTRODUCE YOU SO I CAN FILL IT OUT SINCE THAT'S OUR POLICY AND WE'VE ASKED THE OTHER PEOPLE TO FILL OUT.
UM, ANYTHING, UM, SORRY FOR THE INTERRUPTION.
WHEREAS LIKE I SAID, I WAS INTERVIEWED FOR TIME OPEN HOUSE AND TRYING TO GET ACROSS TOWN AND TRYING TO EVADE THE SPEED GAUZE.
I'M HERE TO ASK A QUESTION OF THE BOARD TO GIVE ME, I'VE GOT TO DO THIS DOWN.
I'M HERE TO ASK THE QUESTION OF THE BOARD.
SO MY DAUGHTER IS A SENIOR AT BUFORD HIGH.
I HAVE FOUR CHILDREN STILL IN THE DISTRICT AND I'M A MOM OF SIX.
I'VE HAD TO GRADUATE FROM BUFORD HIGH, 2014 OR 2015.
ACCORDING TO OUR SCHEDULE THIS YEAR, BUFORD HIGH IS SCHEDULED TO GRADUATE ON THE VERY LAST DAY OF SCHOOL, WHICH IS A HALF DAY.
I SEE THE LOOKS ON EVERYBODY'S FACES.
THEY ARE SCHEDULED TO GRADUATE AT 10:00 AM IN THE MORNING, AND MAYBE RIVER'S SCHEDULED TO GRADUATE AT 6:00 PM THAT EVENING.
SO I'D LIKE AN EXPLANATION ON HOW I'M SUPPOSED TO ATTEND MY DAUGHTER'S GRADUATION AND PICK UP MY OTHER THREE SONS, TWO THAT ARE IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
AND ONE THAT IS IN THE MIDDLE SCHOOL WHEN I'M SUPPOSED TO BE DOWN ON THE FIELD WITH MY CHILD AND THE REST OF MY STUDENTS THAT I COACH AND MENTOR.
SO IF YOU LOOK AT YOUR SCHEDULE, WE ARE SCHEDULED TO GRADUATE.
I MEAN, WE ARE SCHEDULED TO GRADUATE ON MAY 27TH AT 10:00 AM.
THAT IS THE LAST OFFICIAL DAY OF THE BUFORD HIGH, UH, BUFORD COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT CALENDAR.
SO IF YOU EXPECT ALL OF THE ADMINISTRATORS, ALL OF THE TEACHERS AND STAFF AT BUFORD HIGH SCHOOL, PLUS THE BAND, WHICH MY DAUGHTER IS THE COLOR GUARD CAPTAIN FOR THE THIRD YEAR IN A ROW.
I'M GOING TO PUT THAT OUT THERE BECAUSE I'M PROUD OF HER.
PLUS SHE'S IN JR ROTC, WHICH WILL BE PRESENTED THE COLORS, WHICH I AM A COACH OF THEIR DRILL TEAM.
YOU KNOW, PLUS THE, UM, CHOIR WHO IS GOING TO BE SINGING PLUS ALL YOU LOVELY FOLKS ARE SUPPOSED TO BE THERE AT MY DAUGHTER'S GRADUATION.
YOU TELL ME HOW THAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN WHEN IT'S THE LAST DAY AND IT'S A HALF DAY AND THEY GRADUATED AT 10:00 PM.
I GOT TO GO BACK TO HAVE A GOOD EVENING.
WE ARE NOW DOWN TO THE CHAIRMAN'S REPORT.
[4. Chairman's Report]
SO THE WORK SESSION HAS BEEN, UH, THE AGENDA HAS BEEN DEVELOPED AND SET BY THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.THE OFFICERS AND THEIR WORK SESSION IS A FULL
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SCHEDULE ON FRIDAY, AUGUST 27TH, 2021.THAT IS FRIDAY ON SATURDAY AND SUNDAY.
A NUMBER OF THE BOARD MEMBERS ARE ATTENDING THE SOUTH CAROLINA SCHOOL BOARDS ASSOCIATION LAW CONFERENCE.
OUR NEXT BOARD BUSINESS MEETING IS TWO WEEKS FROM TONIGHT AND WE WILL HOLD THAT.
NOW, SOUTH OF THE BROAD, AT THE HILTON HEAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FOR THE CREATIVE ARTS, THE PUBLIC SESSION WILL BEGIN AT SIX AND, UM, THE EXECUTIVE SESSION WILL BE ANNOUNCED AT LEAST 24 HOURS PRIOR.
AND WE CAN TYPICALLY BETWEEN FOUR AND 5:00 PM.
WELL, LAST TOPIC THIS EVENING IS A COVID-19 VACCINATION.
WE ALL HAVE READ IN THE, IN THE MEDIA ABOUT THE VARIANCE OF THE NEW VARIANT OF THE VIRUS AND OUR BEST DEFENSE AGAINST THE VIRUS IS THE COVID-19 VACCINE.
SO I JUST WANT TO ENCOURAGE ALL THOSE THAT ARE ELIGIBLE TO TAKE THE VACCINE.
AND THIS WOULD HAVE TO BE PEOPLE THAT WERE 12 AND OLDER TO PLEASE GET THE VACCINE AND VACCINATION.
THIS IS GOING TO HELP YOURSELF, YOUR FAMILY AND OUR COMMUNITY.
WE WANT OUR CHILDREN IN THE SCHOOLS.
WE WANT THEM IN PERSON FOR THEIR LEARNING AND ALSO FOR THEIR MENTAL HEALTH.
AND IF MORE OF THE COMMUNITY IS VACCINATED, THERE'LL BE LESS TRANSMISSION OF INFECTION.
AND I'M JUST ENCOURAGING THAT, UH, AS, AS, UH, A MEMBER OF THE BOARD AND AS A PHYSICIAN AND AS A DOES THE BOARD CHAIR, WE'RE NOW DOWN TO THE, UH, COMMITTEE REPORTS.
[5. Committee Reports (A vote may take place on any potential recommendations)]
FIRST WE HAVE ACADEMICS AND YES, UM, AT OUR LAST ACADEMICS COMMITTEE MEETING DR.MARY STRATOS PRESENTED, UM, THE PRESENTATION THAT YOU WILL BE GIVING, UH, UNDER STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT DIVING INTO 2021.
IT'S AN EXPLANATION OF, UM, COMPONENTS THAT ARE IN THE PLANS, UH, THAT ARE USING THE SFN BEAN AND THE OTHER FEDERAL FUNDING.
SO IT'S A VERY COMPREHENSIVE PLAN.
I HOPE YOU HAD, UM, THE OPPORTUNITY TO LOOK AT IT IN BOARD DOCS.
DOES THAT CONCLUDE YOUR REPORT? IT DOES.
UM, SO SS THREE, CAN WE TAKE IT OFF? GIVE ME ON THAT.
IT'S NOT ON THIS ONE, RIGHT? SHE JUST DIDN'T TAKE IT OUT OF, RIGHT.
SHE JUST DIDN'T TAKE IT OUT OF BOARD THAT, SO IT WAS NOT ON THE PUBLISHED.
NEXT WE HAVE THE AD HOC BLUFFTON YEAH, LOT THEN COMMITTEE MET ON JULY 22ND.
UM, THE MAIN HIGHLIGHTS, PROBABLY THE COMMITTEE, UH, WHERE THAT THE BEAVER COUNTY TREASURER PRESENT.
AND SHE DID A PRESENTATION TO US.
UM, IF YOU GO TO THAT MEETING THOSE FEES THAT VERY LONG UNTIL I SHOW PRESENTATION THAT SHE DID, UH, MOST OF THE TAKEAWAYS ARE THAT, UH, REAL PART OF ACCOUNTS IN THE BLOTS IN THE AREA HAVE HAD A SHARP, UPWARD CLIMB.
I DON'T THINK THAT'S A SURPRISE TO ANYBODY FROM 2015 TO 2020.
NEW CONSTRUCTION OBVIOUSLY IS UP AND REAL PROPERTY TRANSFERS VERSUS OF EXISTING COLUMNS ALSO UP AS WELL AS IN BLUFFTON AND HILTON HEAD.
SO THE TRAJECTORY ON ALL OF THOSE IS A STEADY, STEEP CLIMB UP VEHICLES, ALSO REGISTER VEHICLES AND COUNTY WENT UP SHY OVER 50,000.
UH, AND HALF OF THAT IS ATTRIBUTABLE TO FLOOD.
UM, THE MOST INTERESTING DATA POINTS THAT LIKE THAT I FOUND I'M SURE WHO HAS HIS OWN WAS THE, UM, THE DATA IN REGARD TO LEGAL RESIDENTS.
AND NON-RESIDENTS IN 2011, IT WAS A 60 40 SPLIT BETWEEN LEGAL RESIDENTS AND NON-RESIDENTS IN 2020 THAT SHIFTED TO 55 45.
AND THE TAXABLE VALUES, UM, HAVE BASICALLY FLIPPED IN WALTHAM AND APPROXIMATELY 2017 IS WHEN THE SHIFT OCCURRED.
SO YOU'VE GOT, UM, COMPARABLE TO THE REST OF
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THE COUNTY.IT'S DISPROPORTIONATE AT BEST WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE TRAJECTORY.
UM, AND THERE'S OBVIOUSLY CONCERN WITH REGARD TO THE MANAGEMENT OF THE GROWTH AND HAVING THAT OCCUR IN 2017.
UM, WE WILL HAVE MORE INFO WITHIN 45 DAY NUMBERS COME IN FROM OUR ENROLLMENT, AS WELL AS THE CREDITOR IS GOING TO PROVIDE US AN UPDATE AS SHE RECEIVED OR UPDATED INFORMATION.
UM, AND THE COMMITTEE WILL BRING ANY RECOMMENDATIONS COMING OUT OF, UM, COMMITTEE AFTER WE SEE THOSE NUMBERS.
AND THE THIRD PICTURE, I DON'T KNOW, COLONEL BYRON WANTED TO ADD ANYTHING, BUT THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
AND THERE WAS ONE OTHER INTERESTING FACTOID THAT CAME OUT FROM THAT BRIEFING MICHELLE, BY THE WAY, WAS EXTREMELY WELL DONE.
UM, THE NUMBER OF CARS REGISTERED ON HILTON HEAD ISLAND HAS GONE UP SIGNIFICANTLY AND PEOPLE THAT HAVE SECOND HOMES DON'T REGISTER THEIR CARS IN HANDMADE IN SOUTH CAROLINA NORMALLY.
SO THAT TELLS ME THAT HERE'S A LOT MORE FOLKS THAT ARE SHIFTING FROM 6% TO 4%.
NOW THERE'S A LAG BETWEEN THE TIME THEY REGISTERED THE CAR AND WHEN THEY APPLY FOR RESIDENT STATUS.
BUT THE TREND TELLS ME THAT THE 60 40 SPLIT THAT WE'LL BE GOING OTHER WAY.
UH, AND THAT HAS AN IMPACT ON OUR OPERATIONS FUNDS BECAUSE THAT COMES FROM THE 6% TAXPAYERS.
THIS IS VERY, VERY CONCERNING.
I MEAN ALSO ASKED MS. WALLS TO PROVIDE US WITH THE TAX ROLLS FOR COMMERCIAL PROPERTY, BECAUSE WE KNOW THAT PRIVATE PROPERTY, RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY IS REALLY BOOMING, BUT IS COMMERCIAL PROPERTY BOOMING THE SAME IN THAT KIND OF DON'T BELIEVE IT IS AS MUCH BECAUSE OF ALL THE VACANCIES VACANT COMMERCIAL PROPERTY THAT YOU SEE IN THE COUNTY AS YOU DRIVE AROUND, THAT ALSO HAS AN IMPACT ON THE 6% TAXPAYERS WHO PAY OUR OPERATION BUDGET, UM, AT THE, AT THE WORK SESSION IN OCTOBER, I BELIEVE, I THINK I WOULD RECOMMEND THAT WE ASK, UH, MS. MOLL THOSE WALLS TO COME AND GIVE US A UPDATE TO LET US KNOW THAT WILL GIVE US A LITTLE MORE IDEA OF WHAT WE NEED TO DO FOR FUTURE PLANNING.
THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE COULD LOOK AT WOULD BE STARTING YOUR PLANNING OCTOBER WORK SESSION.
I JUST WANT TO, AGAIN, ENCOURAGE OTHER BOARD MEMBERS TO TAKE A LOOK AT THAT DATA THAT WAS PRESENTED OBVIOUSLY TOO MUCH TO GO OVER RIGHT NOW, BUT, UM, IT WAS VERY EYE-OPENING AND, UM, GIVES US SOME INFORMATION TO GO WITH.
UM, I KNOW WE DON'T HAVE A CRYSTAL BALL, BUT IT ALL, IT ALL HAS TO FIND THE FEATURES I WANTED TO THANK THE TREASURER AS WELL FOR HER TIME.
NEXT UNDER COMMITTEE REPORTS, WE HAVE THE RESULTS.
UM, I'M HAPPY TO FINALLY PRESENT THE AD HOC RESULTS RECOMMENDATION TO THE FULL BOARD WHERE THE SUPERINTENDENTS EVALUATION.
UM, WE CAME TO THE CONCLUSIONS THAT I'M GOING TO PRESENT TONIGHT, AND THAT YOU HAVE HOPEFULLY HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO REACH IN MORE DOTS.
UM, WE CAME TO THE CONCLUSIONS AFTER MANY DISCUSSIONS.
UM, THESE ARE SOME ASPECTS OF US ARRIVING AT THE CONCLUSION AT THE DECISION THAT WE DID, AS WE ALL KNOW, THE 2021 SCHOOL YEAR PRESENTED UNIQUE CHALLENGES.
YOU'RE WEARING VERY UNIQUE CHALLENGES.
WE FELT IT WOULD BE VERY UNREASONABLE TO HOLD THE SUPERINTENDENT ACCOUNTABLE FOR METRICS THAT WERE SIGNIFICANTLY IMPACTED BY THE PANDEMIC, SPECIFICALLY AFRICA PERFORMANCE, TEACHER, RETENTION, ACTRESS, AND FINANCIAL OLDER SEC.
ALL OF THESE METRICS ARE THINGS THAT THE SUPERINTENDENT REALLY HAD NO CONTROL, AND WE DON'T HAVE ANY DATA, ANY ACADEMIC DATA, ANY ACADEMIC METRICS TO MAKE ANY KIND OF, UH, I COME TO BELIEVE ON THE METRICS, COMPOSE A SIGNIFICANT PERCENTAGE OF THE CURRENT TOOL FOR EVALUATING THE SUPERINTENDENT.
SO WE ALSO FELT THAT THERE NEEDS TO BE
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A WAY TO CAPTURE THE STOOP, THE SUPERINTENDENTS RESPONSE TO THE PANDEMIC WITHIN THAT.THIS IS THE EVALUATION FOR THE PANDEMIC REQUIRED NUMEROUS ADJUSTMENTS ON THE SUPERINTENDENTS PART, NUMEROUS BALLS IN THE AIR THAT HE HAD TO KEEP, KEEP US GOING.
SO OUR RECOMMENDATION IS THAT WE MAKE THE ADJUSTMENTS TO THAT, UM, TOOL BY ADDING IN EACH OF THE FIVE CATEGORIES, UM, A PANDEMIC RELATED ITEM, AND THAT PANDEMIC RELATED ITEM IS LISTED IN THE METRICS.
SO IT WOULD BE SCORED UNDER GOVERNANCE AND BOARD RELATIONS, UM, C UNDER, SORRY, CAN YOU ONLY BE RELATIONS, STAFF RELATIONS, BUSINESS AND FINANCE AND INSTRUCTIONAL LEADERSHIP.
SO IN EACH ONE OF THOSE CATEGORIES, WE'VE ADDED AN, A FINAL, INCLUDING A METRIC, UM, THAT IS TO BE, THAT'S BEEN ADDED TO THE MATRIX AND YOU WILL SEE THAT THERE'S AN INEFFECTIVE, MINIMALLY EFFECTIVE, EFFECTIVE, EFFECTIVE STATEMENTS.
SO THAT IS OUR RECOMMENDATION.
THANK YOU, MS. ROBIN, FOR YOUR WORK ON, UM, GETTING THIS COMPLETED AND BROUGHT FORWARD FOR THE WHOLE BOARD.
UM, MY MAIN QUESTION, JUSTICE SURROUNDING, UM, THE RATIONALE FOR WHY FINANCIAL OVERSIGHT AS A METRIC.
I UNDERSTAND TEACHER RECRUITMENT AND RETENTION STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT SPECIFICALLY BECAUSE WE DIDN'T HAVE A LOT OF VIABLE NUMBERS FOR THAT, BUT FINANCIAL OVERSIGHT.
I THINK THE ANSWER TO THAT WAS, UM, WE ORIGINALLY WERE GOING TO KEEP IT IN THERE.
AND THEN WE HAD SOME QUESTIONS ABOUT MY HEALTH, YOU KNOW, AND HEARING TO THE BUDGET, UM, WITH THE SUPERINTENDENT HE GETTING CREDIT FOR BEING UNDER BUDGET BECAUSE WE'VE GOT ADDITIONAL MONEY.
WOULD HE BE GETTING CREDIT FOR THINGS THAT REALLY WERE AFFECTED BY THE PANDEMIC? SO, UH, YOU KNOW, OUR INITIAL MIKE, OUR INITIAL IDEA WAS, YEAH, WE'LL KEEP IT IN THERE.
BUT THEN AFTER SOME DISCUSSION, WE THOUGHT TO ERR, ON THE SIDE OF TAKING IT OUT, BECAUSE THERE WERE SOME ADVANTAGES FOR HOUSE TO THE SUPERINTENDENT AND THE PANDEMIC.
THAT WAS, THAT WAS OUR THOUGHTS MAY HAVE FALLEN.
UM, AND I CERTAINLY UNDERSTAND THAT.
I THINK THAT, UM, THAT'S ONE AREA THAT'S SUBJECTIVE TO EACH BOARD MEMBER AND I THINK IT SHOULD BE INCLUDED PERSONALLY, UM, JUST BECAUSE HAVING A PANDEMIC RESPONSE AND THE BUSINESS AND FINANCE AREA ALLOWS US TO LOOK AT VARIOUS DIFFERENT SUBCATEGORIES OF THAT AND REALLY WEIGH WHETHER OR NOT THOSE AREAS WHERE, YOU KNOW, THERE WAS A GOOD RESPONSE TO THE PANDEMIC OR A POOR RESPONSE.
UM, SO I UNDERSTAND THAT ARGUMENT FOR CHECKING IT OUT, BUT I JUST WOULD PREFER TO SEE IT LEFT IN.
AND THEN WE TALKED ABOUT, WE FELT THAT WE CAPTURED IT WITH THE FINANCE.
YOU DON'T HAVE THE SUBJECTIVE ASPECT, THE OTHER PROBLEM WITH LEAVING IT IN AND TAKING THE OTHER TWO OUT IS THAT IT BASICALLY HAS TWO QUESTIONS AND THE FINANCIAL OVERSIGHT METRICS, WHICH WAS, DID YOU HEAR A BUDGET AND THE BOND RATING, AND THAT GAVE BASICALLY MAINTAIN THE BOND RATING AND IT HEARING THE BUDGET A REALLY HEAVYWEIGHT IN THE OVERALL SCHEME, BECAUSE WE TOOK OUT THE OTHER FACTORS THAT IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE PART OF.
SO WE DECIDED, BECAUSE WE THOUGHT IT WAS DIFFICULT FOR A METRIC TO SAY, HERE TO BUDGET BECAUSE THE BUDGET'S BEEN CUT ALL OVER THE PLACE AND WE'VE GOTTEN SO MANY EXTRA FUNDS AND WHATNOT.
AND THEN YOU'VE GOT MAINTAINED BOND RATE, WHICH, YOU KNOW, THAT IS SOMETHING THAT THEN WOULD BECOME A HUGE COMPONENT OF HIS EVALUATION.
SO INSTEAD WE ADDED A SUBJECTIVE ASSESSMENT OF HIS FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE UNDERNEATH FINANCE.
RODRIGUEZ, I HAVE A QUESTION FOR YOU, UM, SINCE YOU HAVE TO BE AMENABLE TO THIS RUBRIC, UH, DO YOU HAVE ANY COMMENTS OR NO.
I MEAN, THERE'S A LOT OF WORK ON THIS BLOG.
YOU HAVE ANY BOMBINGS DISCUSSION, ANY COMMENTS, IF IT WAS IN THERE, I COULD SUPPORT IT.
THAT'S THAT'S IN THAT SENSE, I THINK IT'S UP TO YOU.
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SO SKIP ANY QUESTIONS IF YOU WANT FORWARD, THOUGH, IS WHEN WE GET RESULTS, ACADEMIC RESULTS, THEY WILL HAVE SOME KIND OF RELATIONSHIP TO THE OTHER DISTRICTS, SEVEN NATIONAL RESULTS.WELL, WHAT WOULD WE DO WITH THOSE TWO TO DO WHERE WE STAND AS A DISTRICT? WELL, PERFORMANCE, HOW WE ACT THROUGH THE PANDEMIC.
I JUST, MS. ROBIN, I THINK MR. CAMPBELL, THAT'S A QUESTION THAT THE, THE, UH, NEXT AD HOC RESULTS COMMITTEE WILL HAVE TO DO IDEA WITH AND INTERVENE IN DETERMINING HOW WE ARE GOING TO USE METRICS, UM, FOR THE NEXT YEAR'S EVALUATION.
IT MAY BE, YOU KNOW, THAT THE METRICS ARE, UH, SOME TYPE OF METRICS ARE USED TO COMPARE US TO THE NATIONAL OR HOWEVER PEOPLE DID GENDER PAY TO DAMMIT PAN DOWN.
BUT I THINK THAT'S FOR THE FUTURE, UM, EVALUATION NUMBER, THIS EVALUATION, THIS EVALUATION IS CONDUCTED IN OCTOBER OF THIS YEAR.
JUST, I'M JUST SAYING THAT'S POSITIVE.
YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT, LET'S SAY WE DIDN'T DO AS FULLY AS THE NATIONAL LEVEL, WE STOPPED THAT AS THE BASELINE WITH SOME TYPE OF RESPONSIBILITY TO, TO ADJUST OUR VIEWPOINT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT'S JOB OR NOT.
WE JUST TAKE IT AS BASELINE WHOOP.
WELL, I THINK THAT'S THE DISCUSSION THAT THE NEXT COMMITTEE HAS TO START WITH AND, YOU KNOW, ONCE YOU GET THE DATA, I THINK THAT'S SOMETHING CERTAINLY TO BE DISCUSSED, BUT THAT WASN'T IN THE PURVIEW OF OUR COMMITTEE HERE, MR. SMITH.
OH, MY QUESTION IS WHAT METRICS ARE TEACHERS BEING MEASURED BY? UM, THAT REALLY HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS.
THIS IS, UH, REGARDING THE, UM, SUPERINTENDENCY EVALUATION.
IT DOES BECAUSE THIS IS IN THE FORM OF, THIS IS A PERFORMANCE EVALUATION.
SO I'M, I'M, I'M ASKING THAT TO UNDERSTAND THE SUPERINTENDENTS EVALUATION.
SO MY QUESTION IS, AGAIN, IS IF YOU, IF YOU KNOW, IT DIDN'T ANSWER WHAT METRICS ARE STUDENTS BEING EVALUATED ON AND TEACHERS THAT STUDENTS ARE EVALUATED BASED ON THEIR STANDARDS THAT TEACHERS ARE TEACHING THEM.
AND THERE ARE MANY, UH, EVALUATION FORMS, AND OF COURSE GRADES THOSE, THOSE ARE THINGS THAT ARE SET BY THE STATE, UM, STUDENT TEACHERS, AND EVALUATED BY THE STATE AND QUITE AN DEPTH PROGRAM.
UM, BUT MAYBE DEFINITELY IT HAS SOMETHING ELSE TO ADD.
I, THAT WASN'T WHAT I WAS INVOLVED IN THIS COMMITTEE IS DEALING WITH THE SUPERINTENDENT'S EVALUATION.
UM, I THINK, UH, AND MS. WALTON, I BELIEVE YOU'RE ON, BUT I BELIEVE THAT TEACHERS AND ADMINISTRATORS ARE EVALUATED BY THE STATE EVALUATION SYSTEM FOR THEIR RESPECTIVE, UH, UH, FUNCTION.
AND, UH, BY THE WAY, THAT DOES NOT INCLUDE STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT.
IT DOES NOT INCLUDE STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT.
SO THEN MY QUESTION WOULD BE, ARE THOSE METRICS BEING ALTERED DUE TO COVERT AS WELL? WHAT KIND OF OFF TOPIC HERE? NO, MA'AM, WE'RE NOT ON TOP OF IT BECAUSE THE SAY, BECAUSE BY THOSE SAME METRICS IS THE METRICS.
IS THAT HOW WE ALIGNED TO EVALUATE OUR SUPERINTENDENT? I CAN, AND I'VE SAID IT BEFORE.
I CAN NOT MOVE PUSH FORWARD WITH US EVALUATING TEACHERS ON A DIFFERENT MESSAGE ON A STRONGER, ON A STRONG METRIC THAN WHAT WE EVALUATE OUR SUPERINTENDENT.
SO I'M JUST TRYING TO BE A SUPERINTENDENT ON.
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UNDERSTAND ON BASED ON WHAT METRICS ARE WE GOING OFF OF, BECAUSE WE HAVE TO HAVE SOME TYPE OF DATA.THAT DECISION NEEDS TO BE DATA DRIVEN.
UM, SUPERINTENDENT, YOU DRIVE IT AWAY FROM HIM.
HE DOESN'T HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH HOW TO STATE YOUR TISSUES.
SO GUESS WHAT REASONS WHY SHERIFF HAS RESOLVED SUCH, UM, THIS, THIS WILL BE A DEALER WITH NOW
MADAM CHAIR, RESPOND TO MR. CAMPBELL'S QUESTION, GOING TO BE VERY, VERY DIFFICULT TO COMPARE OUR PERFORMANCE AND THIS LAST, UH, TEACHING HERE COMPARED TO OTHER SCHOOLS, BECAUSE THE AMOUNT OF TIME YOU SPEND IN VIRTUAL VERSUS IN CLASS ARE GOING TO BE DIFFERENT THROUGHOUT.
AND, YOU KNOW, SO THAT'S GOING TO BE VERY, VERY DIFFICULT TO GET A, ANYTHING MORE THAN A, YOU'LL GET SOME RAW NUMBERS, BUT TO TRY TO COMPARE IT TO THE LIKE COMPARING APPLES TO ORANGES, BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, THERE ARE SOME SCHOOL DISTRICTS IN THIS NATION THAT WE'RE VIRTUAL ALL YEAR.
SO THAT'S GONNA A, AND I ASSUME WHAT I'VE BEEN TOLD SO FAR AS THE MORE VIRTUAL STUDENTS, YOU HAVE THE LEAST AMOUNT OF PERFORMANCE YOU CAN.
SO THAT'S, THAT'S WHAT WOULD BE MY CONCERN WITH TRYING TO MAKE THAT COMPARISON.
NOW ONCE THE YEAR IS OVER AND HOPEFULLY WE HAVE A NORMAL YEAR, THIS COMING YEAR, WE'LL ESTABLISH A BASELINE, AND THEN, THEN WE CAN DO A COMPARISON AS BETTER CHANCE OF ACCURACY AND LOOKING INTO COMPARISON WHEN WE SPOKE IN THE STATE AND THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED.
I'M SORRY, I COULDN'T RAISE MY ELECTRONIC HAND.
I JUST LIKE TO CLOSE WITH THIS.
UM, REMEMBER WHEN WE INITIALLY WROTE THIS EVALUATION SYSTEM, IT WAS HEAVILY WEIGHTED WITH METRICS WITH STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT METRICS WITH TEACHER RETENTION METRICS.
WOULD'VE BEEN NATURAL METRICS, BUT THE PANDEMIC HIT US AND THE PLAYING FIELD CHANGED.
WE DON'T THE METRICS THAT WE SAID WE'RE GOING TO USE, WEREN'T EVEN AVAILABLE.
SO THAT'S WHY WE'VE HAD TO MAKE THIS CHANGE.
I'M GOING TO CHARGE COMMISSION.
UM, I WOULD LIKE, I WOULD LIKE TO MOVE THAT THE BOARD APPROVED THE REVISED SUPERINTENDENT EVALUATION TOOL FOR THE 20 20, 20, 4100.
LIKE THE AMENDED MOTION TO ADD THE FINANCIAL OVERSIGHT WILL BE ADDED BACK IN.
DO YOU HAVE A SECOND, MR. SMITH? HE'S YOUR GUY.
SO WE'RE GOING TO FIRST GO ON THE AMENDMENT AND YOU DISCUSSION ON THAT.
UM, AND THIS AMENDMENT, SO ADD THE FINANCIAL PART BACK IN AS YOU WERE IN, NO OTHER CHANGES TO THAT FINANCIAL SECTION OR JUST AS, OKAY.
JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE MR. MR. STRIVEN HERE.
ONE OF MY TRY UNDERSTAND THE AMENDMENT IS TO ADD THE FINANCIAL METRICS BACK INTO THIS VALUATION.
THERE'S THE FINANCIAL SECTION UP IN THE PARK THAT WAS KEPT.
AND THEN THERE'S A THERE'S FINANCIAL METRICS DOWN IN THE SECOND PART OF THE EVALUATION.
I WANT TO MAKE SURE I KNOW WHAT THIS IS AIMED AT, RIGHT.
AND IT'S MY UNDERSTANDING THAT THE FINANCIAL OVERSIGHT AREA THAT'S WEIGHTED AT 15% AND HAS SOME HEARING THROUGH THE BUDGET.
I MEAN THE BOND RATING IS THAT INCORRECT? NO, THAT'S OKAY.
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I JUST CAN'T SEE HOW YOU CAN DO THAT BECAUSE THERE REALLY ARE NO METRICS.UM, I, I AGREE WITH THE LOGIC THAT, UM, ADHERING TO BUDGET WAS IMPOSSIBLE BECAUSE YOU HAD, AND I THINK IT'S ALL COVERED UP IN THAT FIRST SECTION.
UM, SO I THINK THIS IS A REAL MISUSE METRICS.
I DO THINK THERE SHOULD BE IN THE NEXT EVALUATION, BUT I JUST CAN'T SEE HOW YOU CAN PUT ANY VALUE AT ALL IN ADHERING TO BUDGET OR NOT.
IF YOU'RE IN THE BUDGET BECAUSE THAT BUDGET DID NOT ANTICIPATE, UM, ALL THE THINGS THAT HAPPENED BECAUSE OF THE PLANE.
SO I'M GOING TO HAVE TO VOTE AGAINST THIS.
THE QUESTION IS CALLED, SO WE'RE VOTING JUST ON THE AMENDMENT.
SO THE AMENDMENT FAILS VA KNOWS WHERE EARL CAMPBELL, CHRISTINA WATCHED, DAVID'S DRIVEN DEAR KATHY WROTE BY MELVIN CAMPBELL, TRICIA GOODRIDGE, ANGELA MILTON ANGERED TO GO BACK.
SO NOW WE'RE GOING TO GO BACK TO THE ORIGINAL MOTION.
SEND ME THIS DISCUSSION ON THE ORIGINAL MOTION.
DAVID, I DON'T THINK YOU LOWERED YOUR HAND MR. SMITH.
SO, UM, I HAVE A QUESTION WITH, WITH, WITH THE, WITH THE, UH, WITH BASICALLY WHAT, WITH WHAT MR. SCRIMMAGE IS, IS, UH, THE STATED, SO THERE, THERE IS, UH, UM, BASICALLY WHAT YOU JUST SAID WAS THAT THERE'S NO WAY THAT WE CAN MEASURE ANYTHING REGARDING THE FINANCE TO THE SUPERINTENDENT.
IS THAT, IS THAT WHAT YOU'RE STATING? I'M TRYING TO CLEARLY UNDERSTAND THAT I UNDERSTAND THIS NORMALLY TO RESPOND MANAGER, IT'S TOTALLY UP TO YOU.
I SAID FOR LAST YEAR, THERE WERE SO MANY UNFORESEEABLE EVENTS, BUT YOU CAN'T HAVE A FINANCIAL METRIC.
YOU COULDN'T POSSIBLY HAVE BUDGETED FOR THE THINGS THAT HAPPENED LAST YEAR.
SO IN ADHERING TO THE BUDGET WAS AWESOME AND POSSIBLE.
SO THE SUPERINTENDENT, THERE'S NO WAY THE SUPERINTENDENT COULD, UM, INFLUENCE FURTHER REHAB DEFICIT OR A SURPLUS COMPARED TO THE BUDGET, BECAUSE BASICALLY IT WAS OUT OF HIS HANDS NEXT YEAR.
THERE ARE LEGITIMATE FINANCIAL METRICS WE CAN USE, BUT NOT FOR LAST YEAR.
THANK YOU, MR. SMITH, COULD YOU LOWER YOUR HAND ELECTRONIC CAMP? THANK YOU.
NEXT TO HER ON TO, UM, THE OPERATIONS COMMITTEE IS FIDRYCH.
AND AS SEEMS TO BE OUR PRACTICE, WE HAVE SEVERAL THINGS RIGHT FORWARD TO THE BOARD THIS EVENING.
I'M WONDERING TO LET, TO KNOW THAT WE DID HAVE TWO MEETINGS THIS MONTH.
SO WHAT WE RECEIVED TONIGHT IS ONLY A PORTION OF THAT, WHICH WE DISCUSSED IN OUR TWO MEETINGS.
SO STAYING TUNED FOR OUR NEXT, UM, HERE'S WHAT I SHARE WITH THE BOARD THAT, UH, YOU KNOW, WE, WE
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VETTED EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THESE THINGS ARE BEING BROUGHT FORWARD TO YOU TONIGHT.UM, AGAIN, SOMETHINGS WHEN YOU GET ASKED NOT TO BRING PEOPLE OVER TONIGHT BECAUSE THEY NEEDED SOME FURTHER DEVELOPMENT.
UM, SO THIS EVENING WE'RE GOING TO START OUT WITH OUR CONSTRUCTION UPDATE, WHICH WE KNOW WE DO EVERY MONTH, BUT IT'S IMPORTANT.
IT'S IN OUR POLICIES, WE HAVE A $344 MILLION BOND REFERENDUM THAT IS IN ITS FULL FLURRY.
SO IT'S VERY IMPORTANT THAT WE DO THIS.
UM, SO MR. AWNING, MR. CORBYN IS WITH US ON ZOOM.
AND THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO PROVIDE THE JUNE, 2020 CONSTRUCTION UPDATE.
THIS IS THE JUNE UPDATE AND IT'S TAKING PLACE TONIGHT BECAUSE OF SUMMER SCHEDULES.
I WILL BE RETURNING IN TWO WEEKS TO PROVIDE THE JULY UPDATE, BUT SIMILAR TO THE UPDATE THAT I PRESENTED AT THE JULY 14TH OPERATION COMMITTEE, I'LL FOLLOW THAT SAME TYPE OF FORMAT WHERE I'LL GO OVER HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE PRESENTATION MATERIALS.
I, IF WE COULD GO FORWARD TWO SLIDES, THREE AND FOUR, WHICH ARE FOR BUFORD ELEMENTARY, UM, THE, UH, SLIDE THERE SHOWS SOME PROGRESS PICTURES FROM JUNE AND THE FINANCIAL RECAP THAT, UM, PE ON SLIDE FOUR, IF WE COULD ADVANCE TO IT, UH, IT SHOWS SOME OF THE WORK THAT HAS BEEN, UH, COMPLETED AS WELL AS SOME OF THE TARGET DATES.
BEFORE WE MOVE ON, I DO WANT TO PAUSE HERE AND SHARE SOME ADDITIONAL DETAILS WITH THE BOARD AND CITIZENS THAT ARE TUNING IN THIS EVENING.
UH, THE MONTH OF JULY BROUGHT SOME CHALLENGES TO THIS PROJECT AND FOR THE JULY UPDATE, WE WILL BE REPORTING YELLOW TRAFFIC LIGHTS ASSOCIATED WITH THE SCHEDULE.
THE YELLOW TRAFFIC LIGHTS ARE ASSOCIATED WITH THE, UH, UH, WORK, NOT GOING TO BE READY FOR TEACHERS WHEN THEY RETURN ON AUGUST 9TH.
WHAT OCCURRED WAS THE ELECTRICAL WORK FELL BEHIND SCHEDULE IN JULY AND HG RENTALS, UH, UH, ACTED QUICKLY AND BROUGHT IN A SIGNIFICANT NUMBER OF ADDITIONAL ELECTRICIANS TO SUPPLEMENT THE WORKFORCE.
AND THE OSF INSPECTIONS THAT YOU SEE THERE ON THAT SLIDE AT THE BOTTOM, THE ORIGINAL OVERHEAD INSPECTION SCHEDULED FOR JULY 23RD WAS RESCHEDULED FOR TODAY.
THAT INSPECTION TOOK PLACE THIS MORNING, AND I'M PLEASED TO REPORT THAT WE PASSED THE INSPECTION.
THERE ARE SOME PUNCH LIST ITEMS THAT NEED TO BE CORRECTED AND CLEARED IN.
THAT'S ALREADY BEEN RESCHEDULED TO BE REINSPECTED FOR THIS THURSDAY AT 4:00 PM.
THE OSF FINAL INSPECTION, UH, LIKEWISE WAS RESCHEDULED FOR AUGUST 3RD TO AUGUST 11TH.
AND THE PLANS FOR TEACHERS NEXT WEEK WILL RE WILL BE TO REPORT TO BUFORD MIDDLE SCHOOL ON MONDAY AND TUESDAY, AND THEN THEY WILL WORK REMOTE ON WEDNESDAY.
IF WE COULD MOVE ALONG TO SLIDE FIVE, WHICH IS FOR ROBERT SMALLS INTERNATIONAL, YOU'LL SEE A YELLOW TRAFFIC LIGHTS FOR BUDGET AND SCHEDULE.
WE BRIEFED THE BOARD AND EXECUTIVE SESSION THIS AFTERNOON ASSOCIATED WITH BOTH BUDGET AND SCHEDULE CONCERNS.
IF WE GO TO SLIDE SIX, I'LL SPEND A LITTLE TIME SHARON, SOME OF THE DETAILS WITH THE BOARD AND CITIZENS, UH, THE GMP PROPOSAL WAS RECEIVED IN JUNE.
WE'VE HELD MULTIPLE COST REDUCTION MEETINGS WITH THE, UH, DESIGNER LS THREE P AS WELL AS THE CONSTRUCTION MANAGER, J E DUNN.
UH, WE'VE ALSO HAD, UH, BRIEFINGS WITH THE CLOCK ON JULY 7TH, AS WELL AS THE OPERATION COMMITTEE ON JULY 14TH WITH A LOT OF DETAILED INFORMATION RELATED TO THE PROJECT BACKGROUND HISTORY, BUT OUR MAJOR DISCUSSIONS FOR ROBERT SMALLS REALLY, UH, REVOLVED AROUND THE CHANGING MARKET CONDITIONS AND RECENT MATERIAL AND LABOR PRICE INCREASES EXAMPLES.
UH, WE'VE SEEN JUST OVER THE PAST FEW MONTHS, UH, STEEL PRICES JUST GOING UP VERY RAPIDLY, UH, EXAMPLES, UH, STRUCTURAL STEEL, JOYCE, UH, PRICING INCREASE OF OVER A HUNDRED PERCENT ROOF DECKING IS UP OVER 300%.
UM, THE TABLE THAT YOU SEE INSERTED THERE ALSO PROVIDES SOME NORMAL, UM, MATERIAL LEAD TIMES, AS WELL AS CURRENT LEAD TIMES.
AND THE EXAMPLE THERE IS ON STRUCTURAL JOYCE.
NORMALLY TIME IS EIGHT TO 10 WEEKS.
WHAT IS OCCURRING RIGHT NOW AS SUCH THE DEMAND FOR STRUCTURAL STEEL ACROSS THE UNITED STATES? THAT THAT
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LEAD TIME NOW IS 10 TO 11 MONTHS.SO WE'RE NO LONGER TALKING WEEKS WE'RE TALKING MONTHS.
UM, WE HAVE EXPLORED OPTIONS THAT HAD BEEN DISCUSSED WITH THE CLOCK TO GO, UH, OUT OF THE UNITED STATES UP INTO CANADA.
SEE IF, UH, UH, STILL, UH, AVAILABILITY AND OR PRICING WAS ANY BETTER THERE, AND IT'S NOT.
UH, BUT WHAT WE'VE DONE IS WE'VE IDENTIFIED OVER 200 POTENTIAL COST REDUCTION ITEMS. AND WHAT OUR GOAL IS WITH THAT IS TO, YOU KNOW, FIND OUT WHERE WE CAN MAKE CHANGES, BUT NOT MAKE CHANGES THAT WOULD, UH, UM, INCLUDE EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM CHANGES OR MAJOR PLAN REVISION CHANGES.
UH, CURRENT PLAN MOVING FORWARD INCLUDED THE ACTION THAT THE BOARD TOOK EARLIER THIS EVENING, WHICH WAS THE APPROVAL OF THE EARLY STILL PACKAGE THAT APPROVAL ALLOWED US TO NOT ONLY LOCK IN THE PRICE FOR THE STEEL TONNAGE GOING FORWARD, BUT IT PUTS US IN LINE FOR THE PRODUCTION SO THAT, UH, WE CAN, UH, RECEIVE THE STEEL JUST AS SOON AS, UH, LAST THING THAT I WANT TO MENTION, UH, IS THAT WITH THIS, UH, INFORMATION I JUST SHARED, THE SCHEDULE IS BEING IMPACTED.
THE SCHEDULE HAD ORIGINALLY SHOWED THE PROJECT STARTING IN JULY.
UH, BUT WHEN WE RETURN IN TWO WEEKS WITH OUR GOAL OR BRINGING TO THE BOARD OF THE FULL GMP PACKAGE FOR, UH, ROBERT SMALLS INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY, WE'LL ALSO BE BRINGING THE SCHEDULE, UH, UPDATE AND WE'LL BE SHARING THAT INFORMATION AS WELL.
IF WE GO ON TO SLIDE SEVEN REAL QUICK, THAT PROJECT IS OFF TO AN EXCELLENT START.
UH, ALL GREEN LIGHTS, THERE'S, UH, THREE RENDERINGS THAT HAVE, UH, BEEN PROVIDED THERE AT THE BOTTOM THAT, UH, THE ARCHITECT HAS FURNISHED TO HELP, UH, DEMONSTRATE, UH, SOME OF THE NEW APPEARANCE THAT, THAT, UH, CAMPUS WILL HAVE UPON COMPLETION OF THIS SCOPE OF WORK, UH, SLIDES NINE, 10, AND 13, JUST, UH, ONCE AGAIN ARE FOR HILTON HEAD ISLAND, SCHOOL OF CREATIVE ARTS, BLUFFTON ELEMENTARY AND AGING MCCRACKEN.
THEY DO HAVE YELLOW TRAFFIC LIGHTS.
THEY'VE BEEN PREVIOUSLY REPORTED.
THIS IS ASSOCIATED WITH THE PORTIONS OF THE TECHNOLOGY AND INFRASTRUCTURE THAT'S BEING RESCHEDULED TO OCCUR AFTER THE SUMMER.
MOVING ALONG TO SLIDE 14, TALK BRIEFLY ABOUT HILTON HEAD ISLAND, HIGH SCHOOL, UH, ADDRESSING SPECIFICALLY THE YELLOW, UH, TRAFFIC LIGHT SCHEDULE THAT YOU SEE THERE THAT TRAFFIC LIGHT SCHEDULE WAS ASSOCIATED WITH THE PERMITTING FOR THE TURF FIELD.
UH, THE, THE PERMIT, UH, HAS BEEN, UH, REVIEWED AND OBTAINED.
SO, UH, FOR THE JULY UPDATE, YOU'LL SEE THAT THIS YELLOW TRAFFIC LIGHT HAS BEEN RETURNED TO A GREEN STATUS SITE.
ACTIVITIES FOR THE TURF FIELD BEGAN THIS WEEK WITH THE DELIVERY OF TWO CONEX BOXES.
WE'RE WORKING WITH HG RENTALS RIGHT NOW TO ACCELERATE ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES PRIOR TO WHAT THEIR SCHEDULE CURRENTLY REFLECTS, WHICH IS A MORE ROBUST ACTIVITIES COMMENCING AUGUST 16TH.
THE REASON WHY WE'RE WORKING WITH THEM, THE FIRST HOME FOOTBALL GAME AT HILTON HEAD ISLAND HIGH SCHOOL IS SCHEDULED NOW FOR OCTOBER EIGHT.
UH, FOLLOWING THE SCHEDULE A, THE SCHEDULE SHOWS COMPLETION OF THE TURF FIELD OCCURRING ON OCTOBER 2ND, JUST BECAUSE THAT'S SO CLOSE, WE'RE GOING TO TRY EVERYTHING WITHIN EVERYONE'S POWER TO IMPROVE ON THAT COMPLETION DATE SO THAT WE HAVE A SOFT LANDING AND, UM, STILL HOSTS THAT GAME ON OCTOBER 8TH, THE TRACK RESURFACING PORTION OF THAT ATHLETIC WORK, UH, IT IS INCLUDED IN THE EXECUTED AMENDMENT, BUT THAT WORK'S GOING TO TAKE PLACE AFTER THE TURF FIELD HAS BEEN COMPLETED.
THERE DON'T DO ANY DAMAGE TO THAT NEW TRACK SURFACE, AND WE WILL BE COORDINATING AND VERY CLOSELY WITH THE SCHOOL AND THE ATHLETIC DIRECTOR TO MAKE SURE THAT WE AVOID ANY CONFLICTS WITH THE HOME FOOTBALL GAMES, MOVING FORWARD, SLIDE 15 FOR BLUFFTON HIGH SCHOOL, VERY SIMILAR UPDATE ASSOCIATED WITH THEIR NEW TRACK, OR, I MEAN, WITH THEIR NEW TUBER FIELD.
UH, WE DO HAVE THE PERMIT IN HAND, UH, BUT, UH, THE JULY REPORT WILL STILL SHOW A YELLOW TRAFFIC LIGHT AS WE STILL CONTINUE TO WORK THROUGH THE SCHEDULE ON THAT PROJECT.
UH, EARLIER THIS YEAR BEFORE, UH, WE HAD THE, UH, ISSUE WITH THE PERMIT ARISE.
WE HAD, UH, SUBCONTRACTORS ALIGNED COMMANDS THAT WORK, BUT BECAUSE OF THE PERMITTING NEEDED, UH, WE HIT THOSE SUBS WERE RELEASED AND
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WE'VE NOW GOT SUBS ALIGNED BACK TO DO THE WORK, BUT FOR BLUFFED AND HIGH SCHOOL, THE, AS SOON AS THE SUB THAT WE'VE IDENTIFIED SO FAR CAN START THE WORK IS THE END OF AUGUST.WE'RE STILL LOOKING TO SEE IF THERE'S SOMEBODY ELSE OUT THERE THAT COULD COMMENCE SOONER.
UH, THE, THE, THE CONCERN THERE IS, IS THAT THE TURF FIELD WILL TAKE ROUGHLY ABOUT EIGHT WEEKS TO COMPLETE.
AND IF WE START AT THE END OF AUGUST, SAY AUGUST 30TH, THAT MEANS THAT WE'VE GOT A TARGET COMPLETION DATE OF ROUGHLY OCTOBER 22ND.
UH, THE FIRST HOME FOOTBALL GAME IS SCHEDULED FOR SEPTEMBER 10TH.
SO WE'VE GOT A LOT OF SCHEDULING DETAILS STILL TO WORK OUT FOR THAT PROJECT.
AND IN TWO WEEKS, I HOPE TO BE ABLE TO SHARE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION WITH THE BOARD.
UM, MOVING ALONG TO SLIDE 20 AT BUFORD HIGH SCHOOL, WE ARE MAKING A GOOD PROGRESS FOR THE WORK ON THAT CAMPUS.
THE PHOTO THERE SHOWS THE NEW ADDITION FOR THE WRESTLING AND WEIGHT ROOM THAT'S GOING ON MOVING ALONG TO SLIDE 22 3 FOR ST.
WE HAD, UH, A LOT OF DISCUSSIONS WITH THE OPERATION COMMITTEE MEETING COMPETING COMMITTEE ON THE JULY 14TH MEETING.
UH, THIS IS BEING REPORTED WITH YELLOW TRAFFIC LIGHTS FOR BUDGET AND SCHEDULE.
UM, THE DISCUSSIONS WENT INTO GREAT DETAIL ON THE DESIGN HISTORY, AS WELL AS SCHEDULING COSTS AND WHAT WE'RE LOOKING TO DO SO THAT WE, WE MAY RETURN TO THE BOARD ON AUGUST 17TH WITH A RECOMMENDATION TO AWARD THE GYM RENOVATION PROJECT, UH, TO HG REYNOLDS.
IF WE MOVE ALONG TO SLIDE 35, THAT WILL BE OUR PROJECT CLOSE OUT SLIDE.
UH, PROGRESS CONTINUES TO TAKE PLACE ON THE PROJECT CLOSE OUTS.
HOWEVER, CONTRACTOR FOCUS OVER THE SUMMER HAS BEEN ON COMPLETING THE SUMMER.
UH, THE JULY CONSTRUCTION UPDATE WILL SHOW THAT THE MAY RIVER HIGH SCHOOL EDITION HAS BEEN CLOSED DOWN.
THE UPDATE THAT YOU SEE HERE, UH, TONIGHT SHOWS THAT THE FINAL CHANGE ORDER HAS BEEN EXECUTED FOR THAT PROJECT.
AND THE SAVINGS REALIZED THROUGH THAT DEDUCTIVE CHANGE ORDER, UM, WAS $606,477.
SO THAT'S GREAT NEWS TO RETURN THOSE FUNDS TO THE DISTRICT.
UM, THE OTHER ITEMS I WANT TO COVER SLIDE 36 AT THE OPERATION COMMITTEE MEETING IN MAY, IT WAS REQUESTED THAT WE INCLUDE THE, UH, REFERENDUM, UH, FINANCIAL SUMMARY REPORT THAT HAS BEEN FURNISHED AS AN ATTACHMENT TO S TO TONIGHT'S MATERIALS AND SLIDE 37.
THAT'S THE, UH, INFORMATION ASSOCIATED WITH OUR PROJECT CONTINGENCY LOG.
THAT'S ALSO BEEN FURNISHED AS AN ATTACHMENT AND NO USE OF THE PROGRAM LEVEL PROJECT CONTINGENCY HAS TAKEN PLACE SINCE APRIL, UH, SLIDE 39 IS OUR CASH FLOW PROJECTIONS VERSUS ACTUAL EXPENDITURES.
AND FOR THE MONTH OF JUNE, THE FORECAST FIGURE WAS 5.2, 5 MILLION OF EXPENDITURES.
AND OUR ACTUAL JUNE EXPENDITURES WERE, UH, 2.65 MILLION.
OUR CUMULATIVE TOTAL THAT'S LISTED THERE AT THE BOTTOM.
THE FORECAST THROUGH JUNE OF 2021 WAS TO HAVE EXPENDITURES TOTALING 68.8 MILLION ARE ACTUALLY, UH, THROUGH THAT SAME PERIOD.
SO WE'VE BEEN TRACKING FAIRLY CLOSE TO THE FORECAST FIGURE, UH, COMMUNITY OUTREACH ON SLIDE 40, UH, OVER AT ROBERT SMALLS INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY, WE WILL BE, UH, COORDINATING, UH, UH, COMMUNITY OUTREACH MEETING, BUT WE WANT TO DO THAT FOLLOWING THE RESOLUTION OF OUR BUDGET AND SCHEDULE CONCERNS, WHICH WE'LL BRIEF THE BOARD ON FIRST AND RECEIVE A DIRECTION ON HOW TO PROCEED.
AND ONCE WE HAVE APPROVAL, THEN WE'LL COORDINATE THAT MEETING SO THAT THE COMMUNITY CAN BE FULLY BREATHED ON THE, UH, UH, CHANGES THAT MAY HAVE OCCURRED THROUGH THE COST REDUCTION EXERCISE, AS WELL AS SCHEDULE, UH, UPDATE INFORMATION.
THE, UM, UM, NEXT SLIDE, ROBIN WILL ALSO SHOW THAT, UH, BATTERY CREEK HIGH SCHOOL, WE HAD GROUNDBREAKING, UH, THAT TOOK PLACE ON JUNE 25TH TO KICKSTART THE BATTERY CREEK HIGH SCHOOL PROJECT.
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I GUESS TO WRAP UP OUR CONVERSATION REGARDING THE CONSTRUCTION AID, UH, UPDATES, I'D LIKE TO SHARE THAT I HAD THE JULY SEVEN O'CLOCK MEETING, AS WELL AS THE JULY 14TH OPERATION COMMITTEE MEETING.WE SHARED THAT CVRE HEARING WILL BE PERFORMING A MID REFERENDUM PROGRAM, REDS RESET RIGHT NOW, IF YOU LOOK AT WHERE WE ARE OVERALL WITH THE REFERENDUM, WE ARE VERY, VERY CLOSE TO, UH, THE 50% MARK, UH, IN THE OVERALL PROGRAM.
UH, AND WITH THE, UH, SIGNIFICANT CHANGES TO THE MARKET CONDITIONS, WE'LL BE LOOKING AT PERFORMING, UH, UNDER THIS RESET, UH, EXAMINATIONS OF BUDGETS AND SCHEDULES FOR THE REMAINING REFERENDUM PROJECTS ARE SCHEDULED FOR THAT RESET IS THAT WE'RE GOING TO PRESENT THE NEEDS AND THE GOALS FOR THE RESET TO THE CLOCK AT TOMORROW NIGHT'S MEETING, UH, WE'LL THEN SHARE THAT SAME INFORMATION WITH THE OPERATION COMMITTEE AT THE AUGUST 11TH MEETING, AND THEN PART OF OUR UPDATE TO THE BOARD ON AUGUST 17TH, WE'LL INCLUDE THAT INFORMATION AS WELL.
UH, IN THIS MONTH OF AUGUST, UH, OUR STAFF WILL BE WORKING VERY HARD IN DEVELOPING THIS RESET PROGRAM.
WE DON'T BELIEVE WE'LL HAVE THAT INFORMATION COMPLETED BY THE TIME WE MEET WITH THE CLOCK AGAIN ON SEPTEMBER 1ST.
UH, SO WE'LL BE PRESENTING A PRELIMINARY RESET PROGRAM TO THE CLOCK AT THEIR SEPTEMBER 1ST MEETING.
AND THEN WE WILL BE BRINGING THE FINAL RESET PROGRAM EVALUATION TO THE OPERATION COMMITTEE SEPTEMBER 8TH, AND THEN TO THE BOARD ON SEPTEMBER 21ST IS OUR SCHEDULE.
AND I'LL BE GLAD TO ENTERTAIN ANY QUESTIONS THAT THERE MAY BE.
WE HAVE A NUMBER OF HANDS UP, MR. THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR, EXCELLENT REPORT AS ALWAYS WATER INFORMATION CRAMMED IN THERE.
I JUST HAVE A TECHNICAL QUESTION.
WHEN YOU SAY, UH, WE ARE A YELLOW LIGHT ON A SCHEDULE AND WE HOPE TO BE BACK GREEN, UH, AT THE NEXT REPORT.
DOES THAT GREEN MEAN THERE WE ARE BACK ON THE ORIGINAL SCHEDULE OR WE'RE ON A REVISED SCHEDULE.
WE WOULD BE ON OR A REVISED SCHEDULE THAT HAS BEEN VETTED AND BOUGHT INTO BY THE, UH, STAKEHOLDERS.
UH, NOW THERE'S, THERE'S NO WAY TO GET BACK ONTO THE FULL SCHEDULE, BUT BECAUSE OF BEING ABLE TO VET OUT WITH THE STAKEHOLDERS, THE GAME PLAN AND GETTING THEIR CONCURRENCE WITH THAT PLAN MOVING FORWARD, THAT BECOMES OUR PLAN AT THAT POINT.
AND THAT WOULD BE WHY WE PUT IT BACK TO GREEN.
UM, SO I AM A REAL BURR AND Y'ALL'S SIDE BECAUSE I HAVE KIDS IN SCHOOL STILL.
SO, UH, AND I'M ON THE COMMITTEE.
AND SO I HEAR THE REPORTS FREQUENTLY, AND THEN I'M BASICALLY MAKING TWICE DAILY SITE VISITS, RIGHT, BECAUSE I'M DROPPING MY KID OFF AND I'M PICKING THEM UP AT THE HIGH SCHOOL.
SO I'M GOING TO USE HILTON HEAD HIGH AS AN EXAMPLE, BECAUSE I'M VERY FAMILIAR WITH IT, BUT IT'S, I'M NOT ASKING ABOUT HILTON HEAD HIGH.
UM, WHAT, I HAVE TWO QUESTIONS, ONE SIMILAR TO, UH, MR. JURORS.
I HAVE SOME CONCERNS BECAUSE WE TALK ABOUT SCHEDULE AND WE'RE ON SCHEDULE OFF SCHEDULE, AND THERE'S A LOT OF GREEN LIGHTS.
WHAT I'M FINDING ON THE GROUND IS NOT NECESSARILY THE PEOPLE AT THE SCHOOL AREN'T NECESSARILY THINKING WE'RE ON SCHEDULE.
AND I KNOW FROM HAVING OPERATIONS COMMITTEE MEETING THAT YOU GUYS HAVE, LIKE THERE'S AN ENVELOPE OF TIME, RIGHT.
THAT YOU CAN KIND OF WORK WITH.
SO I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE CRITERIA IS WHEN WE KIND OF NOTIFY THE BOARD WHERE THE CLOCK THAT WE ARE BEHIND SCHEDULE.
AND THE EXAMPLE I'LL GIVE IS SAFETY AND SECURITY.
I MEAN, WE KNOW THE HELL AND I ASKED HER FIELD COST SCHEDULE, BUT THERE WAS, AND I KNOW WHY THE SAFETY AND SECURITY HAD SOME SUPPLY CHAIN ISSUES, BUT IT'S STILL SHOWING A GREEN LIGHT FOR ON SCHEDULE.
AND IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE DONE STARTING Q 2020, THE END OF THE SECOND QUARTER OF 2021 IS LIKE JUNE TIMEFRAME AND NOTHING'S BEEN DONE.
SO TO ME THAT SHOULD BE A YELLOW LIGHT.
SO I GUESS I'D LIKE TO HAVE A LITTLE BIT OF DISCUSSION ON WHEN YOU MAKE THE DECISION TO NOTIFY THE BOARD AND THE CLOCK THAT SOMETHING IS OFF SCHEDULE.
SO I'D BE QUESTION NUMBER ONE.
AND THE OTHER QUESTION IS DO THE, DOES THE CLOCK COMMITTEE STILL MAKE SITE VISITS AND WITH WHAT KIND OF FREQUENCY? YEAH, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THE QUESTIONS MS. POPE, RIGHT.
AND AS WE DISCUSSED AT THE LAST, UH, OPERATION COMMITTEE MEETING, I THINK THE GOAL WOULD BE TO TRY TO BRING FORWARD ANY YELLOW LIGHT CONDITIONS SOONER.
UM, AND WE WOULD, UH, SUPPORT THAT, UH, FULLY THAT THE, THE, I THINK THE QUESTION, YOU KNOW, MORAL IS, UH, RELATED TO THE TIMING OF THE PREPARATION OF THE REPORTS, AS WELL AS
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THE EBB AND FLOW OF INFORMATION.AND YOU ARE CORRECT THAT WE HAVE HAD SOME, UH, CHALLENGES WITH COVID WITH THE MATERIALS, SUPPLY CHAIN AND AVAILABILITY OF RESOURCES.
NOW, OUR GOAL HAS ALWAYS BEEN THAT WE, WE ARE MANAGING BASED ON THE SCHEDULE THAT WE HAVE, AND IF WE FORESEE A CONCERN WITH, WITH, UH, UH, MAINTAINING THAT SCHEDULE, THAT'S WHEN WE WANT TO, UH, BRING FORWARD A YELLOW LIGHT CONCERNS SO THAT A, EVERYONE KNOWS THAT IT'S, UH, OCCURRING.
AND THEN WE CAN SPEAK SPECIFICALLY TO THE STEPS THAT WE'RE TAKING TO CORRECT THAT SITUATION.
SO, UH, I APPRECIATE YOUR, UH, POINTS THAT YOU'RE MAKING.
UH, I, I GUESS THE ONLY OTHER THING THAT I WOULD SHARE IS IS THAT, YOU KNOW, WE DO A TASK, OUR PROJECT MANAGERS TO WORK VERY CLOSELY WITH THE STAKEHOLDERS AND THE PRINCIPALS AT EACH AND EVERY ONE OF THEIR PROJECTS.
AND I BELIEVE THEY DO THE BEST JOB POSSIBLE IN PROVIDING UPDATED INFORMATION.
AND WHEN SOMETHING DOES CHANGE, UH, WE DISCUSS IT IN OUR OFFICE.
AND THEN, UH, WE, WE ASK THEM TO GO OUT AND SIT DOWN WITH THE PRINCIPALS AND MAKE SURE THAT, UH, THE, THE INFORMATION IS UNDERSTOOD, ADDRESS ANY QUESTIONS.
AND SOMETIMES THEY CAN BRING BACK SOME ALTERNATIVES THAT MAY ALLOW US TO IMPROVE UPON SCHEDULES BY, YOU KNOW, MOVING SOME OF THE PROGRAM FUNCTIONS SO THAT WORK CAN CONTINUE WHERE IT MAY HAVE ORIGINALLY PLANNED TO, UH, BEEN EXECUTED IN A DIFFERENT WAY.
I HOPE THAT ANSWERS YOUR QUESTION, THAT THERE WAS A SECOND PART TO YOUR QUESTION TOO, REGARDING CLOCK SITE VISITS, THOSE ARE STILL OCCURRING.
UM, I DO NOT HAVE A SCHEDULE IN FRONT OF ME.
I DO KNOW THAT AT THE CLOCK MEETING IN JULY, UH, ONE OF THE COMMITTEE REPORTS SPECIFICALLY SPOKE TO THE FACT THAT THERE WAS MULTIPLE CLOCK MEMBERS THAT WERE INTERESTED IN MAKING, UH, SITE VISITS.
UH, I HOPED TO LEARN, UH, TOMORROW NIGHT AT THE CLOCK MEETING, UH, WHICH SITES, UH, MAY HAVE BEEN VISITED OR WHICH SITES WILL BE ON, UH, THE VISITATION LISTS GOING FORWARD.
SIMILAR KIND OF SPELLED, RIGHT.
I THINK THE QUESTION REGARDING THE GREEN LIGHTS ON YOUR SCHEDULE, WHEN THERE'S A GREEN LIGHT THERE, DO WE HAVE A SCHEDULE SCHEDULE KEPT, HAVE WE AS WORD MEMBERS, FORGIVE ME IF I, NOT, IF I SHOULD HAVE SEEN THIS AND SHOULD KNOW THIS, BUT I DON'T KNOW.
SO WHEN WE SAY THE SAFETY AND SECURITY ECHO, WE HAVE HIGH SCHOOL ARE ON SCHEDULE.
WELL, WHAT IS THAT SCHEDULE? WAS IT SUPPOSED TO BE DONE? IS IT SUPPOSED TO BE DONE IN DECEMBER OF 21? IS IT, IS THERE A SCHEDULE? I THINK THAT MIGHT BE PART OF MY CONFUSION IS WHEN IT SAYS IT'S ON SCHEDULE.
WHAT EXACTLY DOES THAT MEAN? WHEN IS IT SUPPOSED TO BE DONE? ROBERT, COULD YOU HELP ME WITH THIS QUESTION PLEASE? I, I, I THINK THAT SOME OF THAT SCHEDULE INFORMATION MAY HAVE BEEN, UH, MADE AVAILABLE PRIOR TO MY ARRIVAL ON, I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ANSWER THE QUESTION CORRECTLY.
SO, UM, I THINK THE EASIEST WAY TO TALK ABOUT SCHEDULE IS THIS, THE STATE THAT EACH AMENDMENT THAT WE RESCHEDULED AT, AND ONE OF THE THINGS WE'VE BEEN WORKING ON IS TABULATION.
THE SPREADSHEET NEVER MISSPOKE, RIGHT? KNOWS ABOUT THIS REQUEST.
IS THIS WHAT WE'RE GOING TO GIVE ALL, TRY TO GIVE AS MUCH INFORMATION FOR EACH AMENDMENT.
AND, UM, ONE OF THE THINGS WE CAN ADD THERE IS THE SCHEDULED DATE TO THAT.
SO THAT YOU CAN SEE WITH EACH, YOU MAY HAVE MULTIPLE AMENDMENTS AT ONE SITE, SO DOES GET SOME, UM, IT DOES GET CONFUSING.
SO HOPEFULLY WE PUT THAT SHEET TOGETHER TO PROVIDE SOME CLARITY.
MY APOLOGIES, IF I'M NOT INTERPRETING THINGS RIGHT.
BUT MY QUESTION STEMS FROM, UM, SLIDE 39 IS THAT CASH FLOW PROJECTION VERSUS ACTUAL EXPENDITURES.
AND I'M LOOKING AT PRETTY MUCH THE LAST FOUR LINES WHERE WE HAVE SUBTOTAL, THERE'S A BLANK AND DESCRIPTOR THERE, AND THEN THERE'S, THERE IS SOME NUMBERS OF
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THROUGHOUT.SO I WANTED TO FIRST ASK WHAT THAT REPRESENTS, LIKE THE 12.75 THAT'S UNDER MARCH METABOLIC.
SO THIS HAS ALREADY BEEN ANSWERED BEFORE.
I MAY NEED TO TURN THIS OVER TO ROBERT BECAUSE ROBERT CAN MAYBE SPEAK TO THE OPERA SECTION A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT HOW THE TOOL WAS ORIGINALLY DEVELOPED, BUT WHAT, WHAT THE TOOL DOES IS UP TOP.
THIS TIES BACK TO SOME OF THE PRELIMINARY, UH, OVERALL TOTAL BUDGET FIGURES THAT TIED TO THE REFERENDUM VOTING AND, UH, THOSE DOLLAR AMOUNTS THAT ARE LISTED THERE, YOU ARE, ARE NOT ALIGNING WITH THE PROJECT LEVEL, UH, FIVE 19, UH, FUNDING THAT HAS BEEN, UH, SHARED, UH, GOING FORWARD.
BASICALLY WHAT'S OCCURRED WITH LIKE THE 70 MILLION FOR ROBERT SMALLS, INTERNATIONAL THERE'S BUCKETS, UH, INSIDE OF THE REFERENDUM THAT ARE ASSOCIATED WITH, UM, ARCHITECT, DESIGN FEES, UH, PROGRAM MANAGEMENT FEES, UM, BROADER ITEMS SUCH AS THAT, THAT, UH, DOLLARS HAVE, UH, BEEN USED TO POPULATE THE, THE BROADER CATEGORIES WITH, UH, WHAT WE DO WHEN WE UPDATE THE CASH FLOW IS WE, WE TRY NOT TO MASS WITH THE MODELING THAT HAS BEEN SHOWN UP TOP, BUT WHAT WE DO IS WE, WE GO DOWN TO THE BOTTOM SECTION, SO THAT YOU'LL SEE UNDER JUNE THAT THE CUMULATIVE TOTAL WAS FORECAST AT 68.82 MILLION.
AND THE ACTUAL SPENT WAS 62.9, THE FIVE 19 REPORT THAT YOU HEARD ME MENTIONED EARLIER THAT WAS REQUESTED, UM, BY THE OPERATION COMMITTEE THAT, THAT, THAT IS BEEN INCLUDED.
SO YEAH, IF YOU WANT TO SEE PROJECT LEVEL EXPENDITURES, IT PROVIDES THE, UH, AMOUNTS PAID TO DATE, AS WELL AS THE AMOUNTS ENCUMBERED TO DATE, WHICH IS A LITTLE MORE INFORMATION THAN WHAT YOU CAN GLEAN FROM THIS CASHFLOW.
SO HOPEFULLY BETWEEN THOSE SOURCE DOCUMENTS THAT YOU, YOU HAVE THE, UH, INFORMATION.
UM, THE OTHER THING THAT I W IF I COULD JUST BACK UP FOR A SECOND TO, UH, GO BACK TO YOUR FIRST QUESTION ABOUT SCHEDULE, UH, I WILL REMIND THE BOARD, AND I JUST DOUBLE-CHECK, WHILE THIS CONVERSATION WAS GOING ON, EACH ONE OF OUR PROJECTS HAVE A MONTHLY REFERENDUM PROJECT REPORT.
AND IN THAT REPORT, YOU CAN PULL UP A, ANY OF OUR PROJECTS AND IT WILL SHOW, YOU KNOW, TARGET DATES FOR THE SCHEDULE THAT HAS BEEN VETTED WHERE, UM, THE, UH, WORK AT BUFORD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
AND I'M LOOKING AT THE REPORT AS OF, UH, JUNE 30TH.
UH, THE, THE REPORTS FOR THE END OF JULY ARE, UH, IN THE PROCESS OF BEING LOADED.
UH, BUT YOU'LL SEE THERE THAT THE ORIGINAL CONSTRUCTION SCHEDULE FOR, UH, BUFORD ELEMENTARY SHOWED THE, UH, CONSTRUCTION ENDING IN THE FOURTH QUARTER OF THIS YEAR.
UM, WE HAD ALWAYS ANTICIPATED THAT WE WOULD BE READY FOR THE RETURN OF STAFF AND STUDENTS IN AUGUST, BUT WE WOULD HAVE ONGOING WORK THAT WOULD TAKE US INTO THE THIRD QUARTER AND POSSIBLY THE FIRST PART OF THE FOURTH QUARTER.
SO THERE IS SOME INFORMATION THAT'S THERE, BUT I WILL WORK WITH ROBERT TO FIGURE OUT WHAT ADDITIONAL INFORMATION THAT CAN BE PROVIDED TO THE BOARD AS IT RELATES TO THE SCHEDULE.
UM, AND THEN MY OTHER QUESTION HAS TO DO WITH AT THE BOTTOM WHERE IT HAS
UM, I'M JUST NOT CLEAR ON HOW THINGS ARE FLOWING THEN ALSO ACROSS THE, YOU HAVE 2% OF PROJECTED BUDGET, UM, IN SUBTOTAL LINE, BUT I THINK IT WOULD BE BENEFICIAL FOR US TO SEE THE ACTUAL, AND I JUST, I'M NOT CLEAR ON IF THE, FOR EXAMPLE, ACTUAL SPENT IN APRIL, AND THEN YOU ADD IN THE SUBTOTAL OF FOUR IN MAY, THAT WOULD BE THE CUMULATIVE TOTAL, BUT THAT DOESN'T LOOK TO BE THE CASE.
SO FOR ME, SO I DON'T KNOW IF SOMEBODY CAN CLARIFY THAT OR MAYBE TELL ME HOW THAT FORMULA WORKS, OR ROBERT, WOULD YOU LIKE TO TRY TO SEE IF YOU COULD DO BETTER JUSTICE TO THAT TOP SECTION, A COUPLE ITEMS THERE? SO, UM,
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TH THE TOP AREA, OF COURSE, THOSE ARE OUR PLANNED BUDGETS.SO THOSE ARE WHAT WE PLANNED OUT SOMETIME AGO, AS FAR AS EXPENDITURE PLANS ON A MONTHLY BASIS, UM, YOUR CUMULATIVE TOTAL WOULD HAVE ADDED UP, UM, ALL THE EXPENDITURES IN THE BUDGET FOR UP TO THAT MONTH.
SO, UM, AND I NEED TO GO BACK AND LOOK AT SOME OF THOSE OTHERS THAT CAUSE.
SO AN EXAMPLE, IF YOU LOOK AT APRIL, THE CUMULATIVE TOTAL WAS 59.57.
YOU'RE SEEING THE SUBTOTAL FOR THE MONTH OF MAY, WAS FOUR.
SO THE EXPENDITURE FOR THE MONTH OF MAY 59.57 PLUS 4 63 0.50 CENTS.
SO THAT'S KIND OF HOW THAT TRACKS, UM, THAT PERCENT, UH, PROJECT BUDGET IS OF COURSE, JUST WHERE WE ARE IN TIME WITH WHAT'S BEEN SPENT ON THOSE, THE FIVE 19 REPORTS, OF COURSE, THAT'S WAY MORE DETAILED ON A MONTHLY.
THIS IS JUST A SNAPSHOT, TRYING TO CAPTURE A LOT OF INFORMATION AND THEN A SMALL, UH, UH, SPREADSHEET.
BUT, UM, SO THAT ANSWERED THE QUESTION.
AND THEN OF COURSE THE ACTUAL SPEND IS A CUMULATIVE ACTUAL SPEND UP TO THAT.
AND THAT'S KIND OF WHAT WE'RE TRACKING THAT CUMIN CUMULATIVE TOTAL, WHICH IS THE BUDGETARY TOTAL CUMULATIVE TO THE ACTUAL SPEND WAS THE CUMULATIVE ACTUAL SPENT TODAY.
AND I WILL ADD THAT THAT FIVE 19 REPORT THAT HAS BEEN REQUESTED AND HAS BEEN FURNISHED, UH, THAT REPORT, IF YOU HAVE TIME TO REVIEW IT, LOOK TO THE FAR, RIGHT, THERE'S SOME COLUMNS OVER THERE ON THE RIGHT, THAT WILL INDICATE A PERCENTAGE OF THE AMOUNT OF FUNDS THAT HAVE BEEN PAID TODAY TO THE VARIOUS, YOU KNOW, DESIGNERS AND CONTRACTORS, BUT IT ALSO WILL GIVE A PERCENTAGE OF THE ACTUAL WORK THAT'S BEING COMPLETED TO DATE AS WELL.
SO THAT I THINK WILL BE SOME ADDITIONAL, UH, UH, DATA POINTS THAT WOULD PERHAPS AID YOU IN DETERMINING NOW HOW MUCH OF A PROJECT'S FUNDS HAVE BEEN PAID TODAY.
HOW MUCH HAS BEEN ENCUMBERED TODAY AND HOW MUCH OF THE WORK HAS BEEN PUT IN PLACE TO DATE? SO, UM, LIKE I SAID, I'D BE GLAD TO WORK WITH ROBERT TO REFINE ANY MATERIAL THAT NEEDS TO BE TWEAKED SO THAT, UH, WE CAN BETTER ALIGN WITH THE BOARD AND OPERATION COMMITTEES.
THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR, UH, IN TERMS OF THE ST.
HELENA, UH, WHEN DID THE SAY HELLO TO JIM AND WANT TO SEE HOW THE GYM PROJECT, UH, B GET SO LATE? WELL, IF WE GO BACK AND GO INTO THE DETAILS THAT WE SHARED AT THE OPERATION COMMITTEE, WE, WE TALKED ABOUT THE DESIGN HISTORY AND MACMILLAN PASS AND SMITH BEGAN THE DESIGN IN DECEMBER OF 2020.
UH, WE HAD COMMUNITY OUTREACH MEETINGS TO REVIEW THE PLANS IN JANUARY THE MAY CD ESTIMATE THAT WE RECEIVED FROM THE CONSTRUCTION, UH, MANAGER OR GENERAL CONTRACTOR, IF YOU WILL, UH, INDICATED THAT WE HAD A MAJOR BUZZ AS FAR AS THE BUDGET.
SO WE WORKED WITH THE DESIGNER, WORKED WITH THE CONTRACTOR AND CAME UP WITH, UH, ACCEPTABLE REVISIONS THAT WOULD ALLOW US TO CAPITALIZE ON COST REDUCTIONS, UH, EXAMPLES WHERE THAT, YEAH, W W W WE, WE, WE WERE SEEING SOME CLEAR STORY WINDOWS THAT WERE BEING ADDED TO THE EXISTING FACADE.
UH, WOULD IT HAVE BEEN NICE TO PUT THOSE IN THERE? SURE.
IT WOULD, IT WOULD CHANGE AND UPDATE THE APPEARANCE OF THE EDGE TERRIER, BUT IN REALITY, THAT WAS NEVER A PORTION OF SCOPE THAT WAS REQUIRED.
AND BECAUSE OF THE BUDGET CONCERNS, IT WAS AN ITEM THAT WE REMOVED BY THE MIDDLE OF JUNE, A REVISED SET OF CDS WERE PROVIDED.
UH, BUT WHEN OUR STAFF REVIEWED THOSE CDS, THOSE ARE THE CONSTRUCTION DOCUMENTS WE REALIZED THAT MCMILLAN PASSED AND SMITH HAD NOT CAPTURED ALL OF THE COST REDUCTION ITEMS THAT WE HAD DISCUSSED.
SO THEY NEEDED A LITTLE MORE TIME, UH, TO REVISE THE DRAWINGS TO CAPTURE THOSE.
AND JUNE 28TH IS WHEN THE FINAL JIM BID DOCUMENTS WERE DISTRIBUTED FOR PRICING.
SO THAT'S SORT OF THE HISTORY THAT LED US TO THE POINT WHERE
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WE, UH, ARE TODAY, WHERE, LIKE I SAID EARLIER, OUR GOAL WE'RE VERY, VERY CLOSE.UH, WE'VE GOT THE NEW PROPOSAL AND MY PROJECT MANAGER IS REVIEWING IT.
HE MET BRIEFLY WITH ME TODAY TO GO OVER THAT.
UH, HE'S GOT SOME FOLLOW-UP TO STILL PERFORM WITH THE CO WITH THE CONTRACTOR, BUT I THINK WE'RE IN GOOD SHAPE TO BE ABLE TO BRING A RECOMMENDATION TO THE BOARD AND IN TWO WEEKS FROM TONIGHT, SO THAT, UH, UH, THE, THE AMENDMENT MAY BE REVIEWED AND APPROVED.
AND THEN WE CAN GO AHEAD AND GET THAT WORK, UH, COMMENCED.
UH, WHEN WAS THE BOARD, WHEN, WHEN DID THE, WHEN DID THE BOARD APPROVE THE, UH, THE CHANGE WAS, IT WAS THE CHAMPION.
WHEN WAS THE BOARD WHEN THE BOARD APPROVED THE CHANGE? DO YOU KNOW THE, THE CHANGE WAS NOT BROUGHT TO THE BOARD BECAUSE THE, UH, UH, ESTIMATE HEADING INDICATED SUCH A BUDGET BUST AND THAT, UH, OPERATION STAFF, UH, TOOK THE CHARGE OVER IT AND DETERMINED WHAT MODIFICATIONS WE WANTED TO HAVE MADE.
AND BY LOOKING AT THE MAGNITUDE OF THOSE CHANGES, UH, IT, IT, IT HELPED TO REDUCE THE COSTS, UH, CONSIDERABLY, BUT IT DID NOT COME TO THE BOARD.
CAN YOU TELL ME WHY, UH, WITH A, WITH A FIVE MONTH DELAY, WHY IT DID NOT COME TO THE BOARD? I'M NOT SURE IF I FOLLOW YOUR QUESTION, YOU HAVE THE, THE, THE, THE PROJECT UPDATES, MONTHLY UPDATES HAVE BEEN COMING TO THE BOARD ON A REGULAR ONE.
NOT THAT WHEN W WHEN THE CHANGE WAS MADE, WHY DIDN'T THAT? WHY WOULDN'T THAT BOUGHT TO THE BOARD? BECAUSE IT WAS NOT, IT WAS NOT APPROVED WITH THE FIVE MONTHS, WITH THE FIVE MONTHS TIME IN THAT FIVE MONTHS, UH,
SO MR. SMITH, UM, THE, UH, PROPOSAL AND NOT MET THE, HAD NOT BEEN ACCEPTABLE TO STAFF TO BRING TO THE BOARD AT THE NEXT BOARD MEETING, WE ANTICIPATE TO HAVE A PROPOSAL THAT WE FEEL IS READY AND AVAILABLE FOR THE BOARD TO REVIEW.
BUT MY POINT IS, IS THAT THE BOARD HAS ALREADY HAD THE BOARD PRIOR TO THAT HAD ALREADY APPROVE THE PLAN.
THE PLAN HAD TO BE PUT IN MOTION IS MY UNDERSTANDING.
THERE, THERE HAS NOT BEEN A PLAN APPROVED BY THE BOARD AS A STATE WHEN WE BRING IT TO THE NEXT BOARD MEETING, THAT WILL BE THE FIRST OPPORTUNITY FOR THE BOARD TO APPROVE A PROPOSAL ON THE PLAN.
WHEN, WHEN, WHEN, WHEN, WHEN THIS FIRST CAME, WHEN THIS FIRST MADE IT ONTO THE 8% PROJECTS, WASN'T THE, WASN'T THERE A CERTAIN, IT WASN'T A PLAN THAT THE BLACK CAME BEFORE THE BOARD DURING THAT TIME AND WAS APPROVED BY THE BOARD.
AND THEN FROM ACCORDING TO YOU, UH, THE OPERATIONS MEETING THAT, THAT THE STAFF WENT BACK TO THE SCHOOL, TO THE, TO THE, TO THE STAKEHOLDERS AND THE COMMUNITY AND THE PRINCIPAL.
AND FROM THERE, IT WAS THOUGHT ABOUT, UH, SOME, UH, THE, THE, THE, THE, THE, THE WHOLE THING CHANGED.
AND, AND THAT'S WHERE THE FIVE MONTH GAP IS INCORRECT.
IS THAT WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT? THE OPERATIONS COMMITTEE? UM, I, THE BOARD APPROVED THE BUDGET ORIGINALLY.
I DON'T KNOW THE DATE THAT, THAT THE BOARD APPROVED THE BUDGET THAT WAS ON A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF RENOVATION OF THE BUILDING.
UM, WE HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO GET A PROJECT ACCEPTABLE, ACCEPTABLE CONDITION TO BRING BACK TO THE BOARD.
THAT'S CLOSE ENOUGH TO THAT BUDGET, AND WE WILL DO THAT AT THE NEXT BOARD MEETING.
UH, BUT, BUT, BUT WHAT IN THE, HAVE THE, AT THE MEETING, UH, I BELIEVE SOMEONE STATED, AND MAYBE MY COLLEAGUES CAN HELP ME REFRESH MY MEMORY.
I JUST WANT TO SAY THAT MAYBE I THOUGHT THAT, THAT THEY, THAT, THAT, THAT THE MEETING WAS, IT WAS, THEY TOOK IT AS THE MEETING TOOK PLACE IN THAT THE PROPOSAL PLANS CHANGE AND THE ORIGINAL OUTCOME OF THIS PROPOSED AS MS. ROBIN WAS SAYING AS WHEN THE PROJECT, WHEN THE PROJECT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE DONE WAS THE ORIGINAL TIME WAS I BELIEVE, OCTOBER.
AND THEN IT CHANGED TO THE, UH, TO, UH, JANUARY.
AND I'M TRYING TO, I WAS SHORT, WHAT I WAS TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WAS WHO HAD THE AUTHORITY TO CHANGE THE, DONE THE PROJECT, AND WHY WASN'T THE BOARD NOT, UH, NOT, NOT, NOT A PIECE OF INFORMATION THAT THE PROJECT HAD BEEN CHANGED ALL TOGETHER,
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AS WELL AS WHAT I'M TRYING TO UNDERSTAND, MAYBE THAT OUR READERS CAN ASSIST US WITH THAT.WELL, I JUST SAY THAT THE FIRST TIME WE WILL BRING THIS TO THE BOARD WILL BE AT THE NEXT BOARD MEETING.
UM, WE HAVE HAD MEETINGS TO DEVELOP, UM, WHAT WAS WITH, UM, THE DESIRE OF THE COMMUNITY IN THE SCHOOL, UH, GROUP.
AND THAT HELPS US GENERATE, UH, WHAT WE DEVELOPED.
BUT WE EVEN WITH THAT INPUT, WE HAVE NOT HAD A PROPOSAL THAT HAS BEEN CLOSE ENOUGH TO THE BUDGET THAT WE FELT WAS ACCEPTABLE TO BRING TO THE BOARD THAT HAS NOT BEEN BROUGHT TO THE BOARD.
AND UNTIL THE NEXT BOARD MEETING, THE BOARD IS NOT PARTICIPATING IN THAT PROCESS.
THANK YOU, MR. CORBIN, VERY MUCH.
AND, UH, JUST TO, UH, SUPPORT WHAT YOU SAID ABOUT THE TIMELINE WHERE WE CAN GO TO THAT, IS THAT ON THE DISTRICT WEBSITE, UM, YOU CAN FIND UNDERNEATH THE OPERATIONS AND FACILITIES, PLANNING, CONSTRUCTION, SOME GREAT INFORMATION ABOUT THE EXPECTED TIMELINES OF EACH PROJECT DELINEATED BY ELEMENTARY, MIDDLE OR HIGH SCHOOL.
SO IT'S A GREAT RESOURCE THERE.
SO MR. FOREMAN, THANK YOU VERY MUCH, JERRY.
I BELIEVE WE HAVE ONE MORE QUESTION, UH, FROM CONSTRUCTION UPDATE.
UM, I WAS LOOKING AT THE FIVE 19 AND I WAS TRYING TO FIND THE, I SEE UNDER MAY RIVER HIGH SCHOOL THAT HE EXPANSION ALLEGATIONS.
AND I BELIEVE THERE WAS ONE ALSO BECAUSE THE FF AND E P EXPANSION, I JUST, I DIDN'T SEE IT UNDER BATTERY CREEK HIGH SCHOOL.
SO I WAS TRYING TO FIND THAT PETE UNDER MAIN RIVER HIGH SCHOOL, THERE'S THE KATE EXPANSION FOR BATTERY CREEK.
SO I WAS TRYING TO DETERMINE WHAT THAT IS, THE FF AND E.
SO, UM, THE CASE EXPANSION MAY RIVER IS A STANDALONE PROJECT.
THAT'S AN ADDITION ON TO THE EXISTING CATE BUILDING.
THE KT EXPANSION AT BATTERY CREEK WAS PART OF THE OVERALL RENOVATION OF THAT ENTIRE PROJECT.
SO ANYTHING INVOLVED IN THAT CASE EXPANSION IS IN THAT RENOVATION BUDGET.
THE NEXT ITEM ON OUR AGENDA IS ACTUALLY, UM, AN EASTMAN REQUEST.
UM, THERE IS CONSTRUCTION THAT HAS TO GET DONE, UH, AT BURGERFI HIGH SCHOOL.
AND THIS EASEMENT REQUEST IS SO THAT, UH, YOU'VE HEARD WATER JASPER OR SEWER AUTHORITY CAN GO IN AND HELP TAKE CARE OF, OF WATER AND SEWER.
UM, CONCERN STAFF HAVE TO BE DONE FOR THE CONSTRUCTION.
SO THE, UM, CONSTRUCTION, I'M SORRY, THE OPERATIONS COMMITTEE, UH, UNANIMOUSLY AGREED THAT THERE SHOULD BE SOMETHING THAT WE WOULD SUPPORT AND TRY TO GET YOU THE FULL BOARD.
ANY OTHER SPECIFIC QUESTIONS MR. BONNIE WANT TO SAY ABOUT IT? DO WE NEED, WE NEED A MOTION.
I WILL MAKE A MOTION UNLESS MR. UNLESS THERE ARE ANY QUESTIONS.
SO I KNEW THAT THEY, UM, HAVE A SCHOOL DISTRICT BOARD OF EDUCATION APPROVED THE BLANKET EASEMENT BETWEEN BEAVER COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT AND BEAVER JASPER WATER.
DOES IT NEED MORE INFORMATION THAN THAT? THANK YOU.
I KNOW THAT THE BEAVER COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD OF EDUCATION APPROVED THE BLANKET EAST MYTH BETWEEN BEAVER COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT AND B FOR JASPER WARD WATER AUTHORITY AT BETTER CREEK HIGH SCHOOL.
YEAH, WE CAN HEAR YOU MR. SMITH.
I WAS JUST ONE OF THOSE BECAUSE I MEANT THAT WAS THE ONE OF THE SECOND MOTION.
BUT THAT ONE I GOT LIKE QUESTION IS
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THE MOTION CARRIES UNANIMOUSLY.WELL, I WANT TO DRAW EVERYONE'S ATTENTION TO THE CONSENT AGENDA, WHERE YOU SEE
SECOND QUARTER REPORT, LIL LIL.
WE MOVED ON TWO TO ONE VOTE TO ACCEPT AND MOVE INTO TO CONSENT AGENDA.
SO THEN THE NEXT THING THAT THE OPERATIONS COMMITTEE WORKED WITH WAS, UM, S S 19 STUDENT CONDUCT ON BUSES.
THIS WAS A UNANIMOUS VOTE FROM THE OPERATIONS COMMITTEE TO BRING IT FORWARD TO THE FULL BOARD REVIEW.
WHEN THE PARKING LOTS, ARE YOU GOING TO REVIEW THAT WITH US? UH, YES.
IT'S NICE TO BE WITH YOU THIS EVENING, ALTHOUGH VIA ZOOM AND MR. ELDRIDGE BLACK, WHO IS OUR TRANSPORTATION DIRECTOR IS ALSO GOING TO BE JOINING US ON ZOOM.
AND THE REASON FOR THE REVISIONS HERE FOR THIS ADMIN REGULATIONS, STUDENT CONDUCT AND BUSES IS BECAUSE MR. ELDRIDGE BLACK AND HIS TEAM HAVE BEEN MAKING A NUMBER OF IMPROVEMENTS TO IMPROVE SAFETY ON OUR BUSES.
AND AS YOU'LL SEE, AS WE'RE PROVIDING TO YOU FOR INFORMATION TONIGHT, UM, MR. BLACK HAS IMPLEMENTED A ROSTER REQUIREMENTS.
STUDENTS ARE REQUIRED FOR SITTING IN THEIR ASSIGNED SEATS ON THE BUS AND THE BUS DRIVER, UM, WILL PROMPTLY REPORT ANY MISCONDUCT ON THE BUSES THAT IS IN VIOLATION OF THE BUS DRIVERS INSTRUCTIONS.
AND MR. BLACK HAS IMPLEMENTED A GOOGLE DOC, AS WELL AS IF A GOOGLE DOC IS NOT AVAILABLE ON A PARTICULAR BUS.
THERE IS A BUS CONDUCT REPORT FORM THAT MUST BE COMPLETED AT THE COMPLETION OF THE BUS ROUTE AND SHALL IMMEDIATELY, UM, BE NOTIFIED TO THE PRINCIPAL OR ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL.
AND THE BUS DRIVER WILL COMMUNICATE WITH DISPATCH AND THE BUS DRIVER SUPERVISOR.
IT'S VERY IMPORTANT THAT THAT INFORMATION IS COMMUNICATED RIGHT AWAY.
AND STUDENTS WHO, UH, PERSIST IN VIOLATING, UM, VIOLATING STUDENT CONDUCT REQUIREMENTS.
UM, THEY CAN, UH, FACE DISCIPLINARY ACTION PURSUANT TO THE STUDENT CODE OF CONDUCT, UM, ON STUDENT CONDUCT ON BUSES.
I'M GOING TO HAVE MR. BLACK, UM, GIVE YOU SOME MORE INFORMATION, BUT THERE'S BEHAVIOR THAT IS EXPECTED ON THE BUSES AND THE ITEMS THAT ARE INCLUDED HERE ARE TO ENSURE SAFETY AND TO PREVENT ACCIDENTS ON OUR, BECAUSE MOST IMPORTANT THING FOR US IS THAT OUR CHILDREN ARE SAFELY TRANSPORTED TO AND FROM SCHOOL EVERY DAY.
SO WE'VE GOT SOME SPECIFIC REQUIREMENTS NOW THAT OUR STUDENTS MUST ADHERE TO.
AND MR. BLACK, WOULD YOU LIKE TO TELL THE BOARD SOME OF YOUR CONCERNS AND THESE ADDITIONS THAT YOU MADE HERE? UM, OVERALL, I THINK THE BIGGEST THING THAT WE, ONE OF THE THINGS WE LOOKED AT IS, UH, ONE OF THE PHRASES IN THERE TALKED ABOUT WHY THE BUS WAS AT A STANDSTILL AND WE THOUGHT SAFETY EXTENDED AT ANY TIME THAT THE BUS WAS IN MOVEMENT OR AT A STANDSTILL, UM, AT THE COMMITTEE WE DISCUSSED LIKE CHILDREN OR STUDENTS HAVING THEIR LIMBS OUT OF THE BUS.
UM, YOU KNOW, WE THOUGHT THAT WAS JUST AN UNSAFE SITUATION ALL THE WAY AROUND.
UM, THE OTHER THING THAT WE DID WAS THE TIMELINESS OF REPORTING, UM, UM, INCIDENTS WITH BEHAVIOR ON THE BUSES, WENDY HAD MENTIONED, UH, GOOGLE DOCS.
SO WE HAVE THAT, UH, NOW WE HAVE TO UPDATE THE, UH, EMAILS FOR ALL THE PRINCIPALS AT EACH SCHOOL.
SO IN MY FIRST YEAR HERE, OR SECOND, WE STARTED TRAINING OUR STAFF TO USE THE EMAIL SYSTEM.
AND WE STILL HAVE A FEW PEOPLE THAT ARE JUST, YOU KNOW, UM, THE COMPUTER IS JUST SOMETHING THAT, UH, TIMID DATES THEM.
SO, UM, WE ARE GETTING TO THAT POINT.
SO THAT'S WHY WE DID PUT THAT PHRASE IN THERE, UH, SO THAT THEY CAN REPORT IT.
AND WE JUST FOUND THAT JUST HAVING TIMELY, UH, RESPONSE TIME, ESPECIALLY LIKE IN BETWEEN ROUTES, WHEN A DRIVER CAN PULL OVER AND USE THEIR, UM, IPHONE, THE, WE, WE FOUND THAT WE COULD GET BETTER SUPPORT, UH, OR, YOU KNOW, FASTER RESPONSE FROM THE ADMIN AT THE SCHOOL.
UM, WENDY, I'M TRYING TO SEE WHAT ELSE DID WE CHANGE IN HERE AS WELL, IF WE CAN, IF, IF MOLLY OR ROBIN COULD ON THE STUDENT CONDUCT AND BUSES, IF YOU COULD GO TO THE NEXT PAGE, BECAUSE THERE ARE LOTTERY REQUIREMENTS NOW ABOUT, YOU KNOW, SOME THINGS ARE THERE.
IF YOU COULD JUST LET THE BOARD KNOW ABOUT THE HIGHLIGHTS ABOUT YOUR CONCERN, ABOUT PROTECTING THE HEALTH AND SAFETY OF THE KIDS ON THE BUS.
JUST, WE DON'T HAVE TO COVER EVERY SINGLE
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THING IT'S FOR THEIR INFORMATION, BUT I WANT THEM TO KNOW THE HIGHLIGHT THE MOST, WHAT YOU THINK ARE MOST IMPORTANT.UM, I JUST THOUGHT THE AREA, THE SAFETY ZONE AROUND THE BUS WAS PROBABLY REALLY IMPORTANT.
WE DON'T, WE, WE DON'T WANT TO HAVE ANY MAJOR INJURIES OF STUDENTS IN THE HORSE PLAN ON THE BUS.
UM, THAT FOR ME, THAT WAS THE HIGHLIGHT OF, I MEAN, LIKE YOU SAID, A LOT OF THIS IS STRAIGHT FORWARD.
UM, WHEN YOU LOOK AT IT, UM, THERE'S NOTHING REALLY THAT, I MEAN, UNLESS THE BOARD MEMBERS HAVE A QUESTION ABOUT ANYTHING I CAN TOUCH BASE ON IT.
AND CAN YOU JUST, UH, SHARE WITH THE BOARD THAT YOU PLAN TO SHARE THIS DOCUMENT WITH THE BUS DRIVERS ADDED IN SERVICE, CORRECT? YES.
WE HAVE AN IN SERVICE TOMORROW.
MATTER OF FACT, AND WE'RE GOING TO GO OVER THAT.
UM, AS FAR AS THE EIGHT, THIS AR REGUS, UM, UM, YOU KNOW, WE'LL GO OVER EVERYTHING AND WE'RE REALLY PUSHING THE GOOGLE DOCS REALLY HARD.
AND ONE OF THE OTHER THINGS, AND IT JUST COME TO MIND AS VERY IMPORTANT TOO.
WE WANTED OUR BUSES TO BE AN EXTENSION OF THE CLASSROOM.
UM, SO THE CONDUCT WOULD JUST CARRY OVER ONTO THE BUS.
UH, SO THAT WAS REALLY IMPORTANT AS PART OF THE, UM, WHEN WE MADE THIS DOCUMENT UP.
SO JUST BEING AN EXTENSION OF THE CLASSROOM.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH, JEREMY, ANY QUESTIONS? YES.
MR.
CAUSE, UH, WE'VE HAD A SITUATION HERE THERE THAT, YOU KNOW, THE MISUSE OF CELL PHONES AND THEY WOULD, UM, SEND THINGS TO THEIR PARENTS HAVE A FIGHT THAT GOES ON ON THE BUS, UM, OR CALLING THEIR PARENT WHEN THEY'RE GETTING DISCIPLINED, UM, AND THEN RECORD AND THOSE TYPES OF THINGS.
UM, I THINK THAT FEEL BETTER IF WE HAD SOME EXAMPLES THERE BECAUSE THAT'S KIND OF BIG, OKAY.
CARS GETTING DISCIPLINED, I CALL MY PARENTS.
I'M NOT SURE THAT WOULD BE MISUSED, BUT YEAH, IF WE COULD, EVEN SOMEWHERE ELSE, WE'D PROBABLY HAVE THIS DEFINED IN A CLASSROOM.
WE CAN ADD SOME EXAMPLES THERE, ELDRIDGE.
AND THAT'S WHAT WE MEAN BY THE BUS BEING AN EXTENSION OF THE CLASSROOM RIGHT THERE.
SO TO YOUR POINT, UM, YOU KNOW, WE CAN DEFINE MORE DETAILED USES OF THE CELL PHONE FOR THAT ARM.
UM, I WAS JUST GONNA ASK, HOW IS THE STUDENT CODE OF CONDUCT INFORMATION AND CHANGES GOING TO BE PRESENTED TO PARENTS AND STUDENTS? IS THAT GOING TO BE INCORPORATED SOMEWHERE ELSE BESIDES JUST HERE? WELL, WE, UM, THE STUDENT CODE OF CONDUCT IS, IS ON THE WEBSITE AND IT'S BEING UPDATED.
SHERIFFS MAY CLARIFY BETTER THAN ME, BUT I THINK THAT EVERY YEAR THAT INFORMATION IS PROVIDED TO EVERYBODY.
AND ALSO WE WANT TO, UM, ON BRIGHT ARROW, LET, UM, THE PARENTS KNOW AS WELL ABOUT HOW WE EXPECT STUDENT CONDUCT ON BUSES SO THAT ALL THE INFORMATION NEEDS TO BE COMMUNITY COMMUNICATED ON A YEARLY BASIS TO ALL STUDENTS AND STAFF AND PARENTS.
BUT OUR STUDENT CODE OF CONDUCT IS CURRENTLY IT'S ON OUR WEBSITE FOR EVERYBODY.
AND I BELIEVE THAT WHEN YOU, UM, EACH YEAR YOU HAVE TO SIGN OFF ON THAT WHEN YOU ENROLL YOUR CHILD IN SCHOOL.
I THINK THAT IS THE RULE, THE POLICY THAT WAS THE UPON THE APPROVAL OF THE BOARD ON THE ADMINISTRATIVE REGULATION.
I IMMIGRATED TO SHARE THEM WITH THE PRINCIPALS THAT ARE COMING.
PRINCIPAL MEETING STARTED TOMORROW.
A HARD COPY WOULD GO OUT TO THE PRINCIPALS ON THURSDAY, ACTUALLY TODAY THEY WOULD HAVE THEN PUSH OUT THE ELECTRONICS TODAY TO UPDATE AS WELL, BUT THE BOARD DOESN'T NEED TO IMPROVE THE AI, BUT WE JUST GIVE OUR INPUT TO YOUR VISITORS AND STAFF ARE GONNA HAVE TO ARTISTS TO MODIFIER OR WHEREVER YOU WANT TO DO.
WHAT MR. CAMPBELL, WHAT ABOUT MASK MASKS WEARING ASK? SO THIS IS THE, UH, CAN YOU HEAR
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ME? YES.SO IN, UH, THE REGULATIONS FROM THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION THERE, THIS IS INTERESTING TO ME BECAUSE THIS IS, YOU KNOW, YOU HAVE STATE BUSES AND YOU HAVE DISTRICT BUSES, RIGHT? SO, UM, UH, DISTRICT BUSES, RIGHT? UH, YOU WOULD BE ABLE TO REQUIRE IT, BUT ON FAKE BUSES YOU CAN NOT REQUIRE.
SO THE MAJORITY OF OUR BUSES ARE STATE BUSES, BUSES ARE STATES, WELL, I'M ACTUALLY FEDERAL LAWS.
NOT THAT YOU'RE ABLE TO, YOU ARE REQUIRED.
WHAT YOU JUST SAID, THAT THE STATE, THE FEDERAL LAW SAYS THAT CORNERED WORKS.
IT'S NOT THAT YOU CAN IT THE WAY YOU JUST CONFUSE ME.
SO THERE'S A FEDERAL LAW THAT WOULD, THAT, THAT CAN REQUIRE A MASS ON BUSES.
BUT THERE IS A STATE PROVIDED THOUGH THAT, UH, THAT DOESN'T ALLOW YOU TO REQUIRE MASKS ON BUSES.
SO THIS IS ONE OF THOSE ISSUES.
LIKE YOU'RE MR. KEN, THAT'S ONE OF THOSE ISSUES WHERE, YOU KNOW, WE'RE CAUGHT IN THAT SPOT.
SO WE'RE TRYING WORK WITH THE STATE DEPARTMENT ON THAT PIECE, UH, TO SEE, UH, AND I BELIEVE, UH, YOU KNOW, HOPEFULLY WE'LL GET CLARIFICATION, BUT HOW ARE YOU CONCERNED WITH WHAT WE, WHAT WE'RE GOING TO SEND TO THE STUDENTS? SO THEY'RE GOING TO HAVE COMING IN TO BE BUILT TO THERE.
SO THAT'S MY GO TO SCHOOL WITH THEIR PARENTS AND THEN GO BACK ON THE BUS OUTLOOK WHERE IT'S GOING FAST CLASSROOM, BUT THE CLASSROOM IS
SO, SO IN THE CLASSROOMS, RIGHT.
UM, I WAS LISTENING TO THE CALLER EARLIER, RIGHT.
IS THAT JUST AN EXECUTIVE ORDER? NOW, IF THERE'S A PROVIDER HILL, I THINK IT'S 1.108, THAT DOESN'T ALLOW YOU ME TO REQUIRE MASKS OF STUDENTS OR SET YOUR BUILDINGS FOR SCHOOL.
SO, UM, YOU KNOW, BUT THERE'S OPTIONAL AND WE CAN HIGHLY ENCOURAGE.
SO I THINK WITH THE BUS, UM, CLARIFICATION PART PRIMARY ON THE, ON THE PRIVATE, ON THE, ON THE ONES THAT WOULD FALL UNDER FEDERAL.
BUT THE REALITY IS THAT, UM, YOU KNOW, WE CAN STILL HIGHLY ENCOURAGE.
AND ALMOST LASTLY, I THINK WE NEED TO BE CLEAR ON WHAT WE'RE GOING TO DO.
SO WE HAVE, UH, UM, UH, SCHOOL OPENING CONVERSATION, WHICH IS ALL ABOUT THAT, UH, IN A LITTLE WHILE.
UH, BUT MR. CANNON, WILL YOU SEE THAT? I ALSO HAVE, UM, A BOARD POLICY THAT SAYS THE SUPERINTENDENT WILL BUY BY LAW.
UM, DA SAYS WE SHOULD DO IN MAX AND THIS THING I'VE GOTTEN POLITICAL, UM, THE GOVERNMENT AND EVENTUALLY UP IN COLUMBIA, IN WASHINGTON, DC DOES NOT, THEY ARE NOT SCIENTISTS.
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VIRUS COMING OUT, NOW THAT IT'S OUT NOW, YOU'RE SAYING IT'S MORE DANGEROUS.SO, YOU KNOW, I, I WAS A PARENT.
I'M BANKS, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE YOU DON'T KNOW WHO'S WHO HAVE TAKEN THE SHOPS, YOU GOT A DOSE, YOU KNOW, AND YOU'RE NOT WORKING THE SHOP.
SO, YOU KNOW, IF THEY'RE NOT GOING TO TAKE THE SHOT, THEY NEED TO STAY AWAY FROM OTHER FOLKS BECAUSE FOLKS IN YOUR HOMES.
AND SO THERE IS ONE RULE, AS I SAY, AS A SUSTAINED BUS PARENT, I HAVE A MERITS DISTRICT MOST YOU CAN ADD, RIGHT? YES, SIR.
AND THEN I WOULD ASK ANY OF YOU TO DIRECT ME ON WHICH KIDS TO PUT ON STATE BUSES, IN WHICH KIDS CAN PUT ON BUSES.
AND JUST BE ONE MORE NOTE, THE HRS 51 PREGNANCY AND LACTATION ADMINISTRATIVE I CAN LIKE SHIFT THIS ALSO WAS A UNANIMOUS VOTE FROM THE OPERATIONS COMMITTEE TO BRING FORWARD THIS CARTILAGE.
UM, BOARD MEMBERS, OUR RISK MANAGER ON THE STATE AND ASKED ME TO, UH, INCLUDE THE PREGNANCY ACCOMMODATION ACT ALONG WITH THE LACTATION SUPPORT AND THE, UM, LACTATION SUPPORT WE DID LAST YEAR.
AND WHAT WE'VE ADDED HERE IS THAT, THAT OUR DISTRICT IS GOING TO PROVIDE ACCOMMODATIONS TO OUR EMPLOYEES WHO HAVE NOT ONLY LACTATION NEEDS, BUT ALSO FROM PREGNANCY CHILDBIRTH OR RELATED MEDICAL CONDITIONS, UM, THAT ARE ASSOCIATED WITH PREGNANCY.
SO WE HAVE ADDED THE SOUTH CAROLINA PREGNANCY ACCOMMODATIONS ACT LANGUAGE IN HERE.
AND, UM, THIS IS JUST VERY WONDERFUL AND IMPORTANT, UM, THING THAT THE DISTRICT DOES THAT WE SUPPORT OUR PREGNANT EMPLOYEES, AS WELL AS OUR MOTHERS WHO HAVE THE NEED FOR LACTATION.
AND WE'VE PUT IN SOME, IF YOU GO DOWN A LITTLE FARTHER, MOLLY, THE DEFINITIONS ARE IN THERE AND WE'VE STATED OUR PURPOSE THAT WE WANT TO PROVIDE THOSE ACCOMMODATIONS.
SO IN ADDITION TO HAVING OUR NURSING MOTHERS LOUNGE OR LACTATION ROOM, NOW WE WILL BE HELPING OUR PREGNANT WITH EMPLOYEES, WHATEVER WE RECEIVED NOTIFICATION FROM THEIR PHYSICIAN, IF THEY HAVE A PARTICULAR MEDICAL NEED AND WE WILL, UM, PROVIDE REASONABLE ACCOMMODATIONS TO THEM.
IF YOU JUST GO TO THE NEXT PAGE, PLEASE, MOLLY OR ROBIN, I WANTED THE BOARD TO SEE, WE HAVE SOME REFERENCE MATERIALS IN THERE THAT WE THINK WILL BE, UM, HELPFUL, UH, FOR EVERYBODY THE SOUTH CAROLINA PREGNANCY LACTATION ACT AND THEN SOME OTHER RULES.
SO WE'RE REALLY HAPPY ABOUT THIS ADMINISTRATIVE REGULATION TO SUPPORT OUR EMPLOYEES.
I DON'T BELIEVE THERE ARE ANY QUESTIONS
UM, I THINK IT SAYS A LOT ABOUT HOW WE TREAT OUR EMPLOYEES TOO.
UM, MAYBE GOING THROUGH SOMETHING DIFFICULT WITH THEIR PREGNANCY, THEY MIGHT HAVE A COMPLICATION.
I THINK IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT THAT WE SUPPORT THEM, UM, AND RETAIN THEM.
I JUST HAVE ONE COMMENT WHEN I WAS READING THIS, I THOUGHT BACK WITH WHEN I WAS NURSING, MY KIDS AND THAT'S WELL OVER 20 YEARS AGO AND I WERE BIDDING AT TOYS R US AND SAVANNAH.
IT WAS OBVIOUSLY, WHICH IS A STORE FOR YOUNG FAMILIES AND CHILDREN AND WHATNOT.
THERE WAS ABSOLUTELY NO PLACE TO NURSE A BABY.
THERE WAS NOT EVEN A CHAIR IN THE WOMAN'S BATHROOM.
I LITERALLY SAT ON THE TOILET AND BREASTFED ONE OF MY KIDS, I MEAN, FIVE YEARS AGO.
SO ON THAT NOTE, THAT CONCLUDES THE OPERATIONS COMMITTEE REPORT.
UM, JUST REMINDER BY CLOCK MEETING TOMORROW NIGHT, SIX O'CLOCK.
I'LL JUST ASK, UM, THE TWO CAMPBELL'S TO PUT THEIR HANDS BACK DOWN, PLEASE.
NEXT WE'RE GOING TO GO ON TO POLICY.
SO I WILL TRY TO BE VERY BRIEF.
UM, THE POLICY COMMITTEE, UM, REVIEWED, OH, E AT SIX POINT 16, UM, THERE WAS NO ACTION NECESSARY.
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WE DISCUSSED THE POLICIES, ORIGINAL INTENT HAD BEEN CLARIFIED.UM, BUT THE INTENT WAS TO ROLL DOLLARS FORWARD TO THE CURRENT CYCLES, UM, THAT WAS INTENDED AS A FINANCIAL DISCIPLINE.
UM, AND, BUT THERE WAS DISCUSSIONS THAT, UH, PERHAPS IT IS NECESSARY TO INCREASE THE 20 MILLION, ANOTHER 8% ROI.
UM, I, BECAUSE I ALSO SERVED ON THE FINANCE COMMITTEE, I MADE THE RECOMMENDATION THAT I JUST SHOOT AN EMAIL OVER TO A COLONEL AND LET HIM KNOW THAT WE WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK WITH A FINANCIAL ADVISOR.
AND I'VE, IT'S BEEN CONFIRMED THAT OUR FINANCIAL ADVISOR WILL BE AT THE AUGUST 12TH FINANCE COMMITTEE MEETING, UM, TO HAVE THAT DISCUSSION.
UM, ADDITIONALLY THERE WAS ONE RECOMMENDATION COMING OUT OF COMMITTEE.
DO YOU HAVE IT? UM, IT WAS IN REGARD TO HOW WE PROCESS A WEEK AFTER, OR THE INTERPRETATION OF ALL THESE OLD ONE MOMENT.
IT WAS, UH, I WRITE THE POLICY COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS TO THE FULL BOARD.
THAT'D BE ONE INTERPRETATION INTERPRETATIONS, GO ON CONSENT AGENDA AFTER COMING OUT OF THE COMMITTEE.
SO, UM, WE'VE ACTUALLY MADE THE MOTION, I BELIEVE IT WAS ON HIS ROBOT.
I DON'T HAVE THE MOTION, THE MOTION.
THE POLICY COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS TO THE FULL BOARD THAT THE OT INTERPRETATIONS SHOULD GO ON CONSENT AGENDA.
AFTER COMING OUT OF COMMITTEE A LITTLE BIT OF BACKGROUND ON THAT, IT WAS OUR UNDERSTANDING THAT THE SUPERINTENDENT IS GOING TO BE ROUTING HIS OWN INTERPRETATIONS TO THE APPROPRIATE COMMITTEE COMMITTEE WILL THEN BRING THEM OUT FOR A MONTH AND SET AGENDA.
YES, IT'S WAITING FOR ME TO OPEN IT.
MR. SMITH, ARE YOU VOTING THE MOTION CARRIES UNANIMOUSLY, UH, 10 ZERO, MR. SMITH, ABSENT.
WE'RE GOING TO GO ONTO TECHNOLOGY, MR. DAVID HERE.
I'M SURE THIS WILL BE RATHER BRIEF.
UH, WE HAD OUR INITIAL MEETING, UM, TO PUT A FENCE AROUND OUR SCOPE, UM, AND WE DIDN'T COME TO ANY FIRM CONCLUSION AND WE DON'T HAVE ANYTHING TO PRESENT TO THE BOARD, BUT BY THE NEXT BOARD MEETING, WE WILL HAVE A POLISHED SCOPE WITH THE THINGS THAT WE DECIDED ON.
I BELIEVE WHERE WE WERE GOING TO ANCHOR AN O 17, WHICH IS ADMINISTRATIVE TECHNOLOGY.
AND WE'RE USING THAT AS A BASE.
WE WENT THROUGH AND REVIEWED ALL THE ASPECTS OF THAT.
AND THERE MIGHT BE SOME OTHER THINGS THAT WE WANT TO ADD ON TO THAT.
UH, WE MAY, WE MAY WANT TO HAVE, UH, AN OVERALL EVALUATION DONE OF WHERE WE ARE AND WHERE EACH WOULD BE IN THE NEXT FEW YEARS.
UH, BUT WE HAVEN'T, WE HAVEN'T, UM, SOLIDIFIED ANY OF THAT YET.
UM, MR. UM, OR MISSPOKE, RIGHT? OR COLONEL GEIER EITHER ONE OF YOU CAN CERTAINLY FILL IN
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THE BIG BLANK SILENCE THERE.I THINK THAT'S A BIG BLANK STARE ON PURPOSE FOR MEETING AGAIN PRETTY SOON.
YEAH, THEY WERE LEFT ON PURPOSE FOR REFLECTION.
THANK YOU, MR. DISTRIBUTOR AND YOUR COMMITTEE, RIGHT NEXT STATE.
YOUR PROBLEM ON THE PROFITABLE ON THAT, ON THAT LAST ONE.
THAT LAST VOTE, ACTUALLY, I DID VOTE AND, AND I, AND I, AND I VOTED NO BECAUSE TAMMY AND THESE THREE PEOPLE CAN OVERTURN THE WHOLE BOARD.
AND IN REFERENCING TO WHEREVER, BASICALLY THREE PEOPLE SAID THAT THEY DON'T WANT THE REST OF THE BOARD TO HEAR IT THEN TO DISCUSS IT, THEN YOU, IT WON'T BE DISCUSSING.
I'M NOT SURE WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT.
THE LAST VOTE THAT WE TOOK, I VOTED, NO, I WASN'T ABSENT, SIR.
I DO NOT GET THE VOTES INDIVIDUALLY.
SO MS. CUSHY AND BARRY, COULD YOU PLEASE, CORRECT MR. SMITH'S VOTE THE MAKER OF THE MOTION.
IT CAN BE BROUGHT OFF OF CONSECUTIVE AGENDA, UH, WHEN THE AGENDA IS APPROVED.
ALL RIGHT, NEXT WE ARE, UM, ONTO THE SUPERINTENDENTS
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REPORT.UH, WAS, UH, THIS EVENING UNDER STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT AND THE SUPERINTENDENT REPORTS, UH, DR.
GOOD EVENING BOARD MEMBERS IN THAT CHAIR DOES EVENING.
I HAVE TWO GREAT PRESENTATIONS TO SHARE WITH YOU.
THE FIRST FOCUS IS ON THE THREE TO FIVE YEAR APPROACH TO A VARIETY OF INSTRUCTIONAL THEMES OR SCHOOLS AND WORK.
THE SECOND DOCUMENT PROVIDE YOU BACKGROUND INFORMATION FOR OUR PRIOR BOARD PRESENTATION REGARDING INSTRUCTIONAL SERVICES, INITIATIVES SUPPORT THE COMING SCHOOL YEAR AND RESEARCH, BUT IT HAS, OR THREE REQUESTS FROM THE INSTRUCTIONAL SERVICES DIVISION.
WHAT IS COMMON IN BOTH THESE, BOTH OF THESE PRESENTATIONS? IS IT AN ALIGNMENT? WOULD RESEARCH WORK THAT YOU MAY BE FAMILIAR WITH OF HIGH RELIABLE SCHOOLS? THIS MODEL BUILDS ON FIVE STEPS, SAFE, SUPPORTIVE, AND COLLABORATIVE CULTURES, EFFECTIVE TEACHING IN EVERY CLASSROOM, GUARANTEED VIABLE CURRICULUM STANDARDS, REFERENCE REPORTING COMPETENCY BASED EDUCATION.
AND THEY ARE SURROUNDED IN THE PRACTICES OF RIGOR, HIGH QUALITY INSTRUCTION, GRADE LEVEL, APPROPRIATE ASSIGNMENTS, HIGH EXPECTATIONS, DEEP ENGAGEMENT.
AND AT TIMES EVERY PARTY DECIDED JUST AS A QUICK NOTE TO OUR PRINCIPALS AND EDUCATORS AS TO THREE TEAS, TEXT TALK, AND TASK HAVING TO BE ALIGNED.
SO AT THIS TIME, THIS IS CRUCIAL, BARRY, MAY WE PROCEED WITH, WITH THE PRESENTATION AND THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO SHARE THE WORK OF OUR INSTRUCTIONAL SERVICES DIVISION, THE SLIDE THAT YOU HAVE IN FRONT OF YOU, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, YOU MAY BE FAMILIAR WITH, FROM OUR PRIOR PRESENTATION FROM ASHLEY HUTCHINSON, OUR DIRECTOR OF EARLY CHILDHOOD.
I WANTED TO BUILD ON THIS GOING FORWARD FROM K THROUGH 12.
SO WE COULD SEE THE FAMILIAR AT OUR PRIORITY AT OUR PRACTICE, BUT ALSO IN OUR PHILOSOPHY AND BEING WITHIN OUR DIVISION.
SO THIS IS JUST A QUICK REMINDER FOR YOU.
THE NEXT SLIDE TALKS ABOUT THE BEANS.
SO WHAT WE HAVE WITHIN THE SECTOR, I'VE IDENTIFIED AS THE LEARNER.
THE WORD IS NOT ONLY THE CHILD THEY LEARNED IS THE ADULT.
WE HAVE TO RECOGNIZE THAT AS A SCHOOL ORGANIZATION, A LEARNING ORGANIZATION, WE TEACH NOT ONLY CHILDREN, BUT ADULTS.
AND WE LOOK AT THE 12 O'CLOCK POINT.
THEME IS FINE AND PERFORMING ARTS, THE NARRATIVE.
NEXT, IT IS JUST A BRIEF DESCRIPTION.
YOU LOOK AT THE THREE O'CLOCK, IT IS LITERACY, MATH, SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY.
THE GOAL IS A GOAL IS TO BUILD UPON NOT ON OUR MAGNET NSAP OR MAGNET SCHOOLS ASSISTANCE PROGRAM GRANT WITHIN ARTS TECH, SEVEN SCHOOLS, BUT THEY HAVE THAT REPLICATION.
THAT WAS ACTUALLY WHAT BEAU HAD WHEN BOARD MEMBERS.
AND WE'VE ALREADY STARTED THAT INITIATIVE.
YOU'LL HEAR A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT THAT LATER ON WITH SOME OF OUR CONTENT OR TRAINING OR ACTUALLY CONTENT DISCIPLINE, GRADUATE COURSES THAT SOME OF OUR TEACHERS WILL START THIS COMING SEMESTER.
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IF YOU LOOK AT SIX O'CLOCK, IT POINTS TO A ONE SOCIETY.HAVING OUR STUDENTS UNDERSTAND, AND ACTUALLY OUR EDUCATORS WHERE WE ARE WITHIN THE WORLD, WHAT WE HAVE WITHIN OUR WORLD, BUT ALSO IN OUR IMPACT AROUND US.
I KNOW IT'S KIND OF LIKE BE ISH IN LANGUAGE, BUT IT ACTUALLY IS A VERY GOOD UNDERSTANDING FOR US TO KNOW WHERE WE ARE AND THE IMPACT, BUT ALSO THE IMPACT OF OTHERS UPON US AS WE LEARN.
AND AT NINE O'CLOCK IS MIND AND BODY, AS WE'RE EDUCATING OUR CHILDREN, ARE WE NOT ONLY FILLING THEM ACADEMICALLY, BUT WE'VE TAKEN THE OPPORTUNITY OF PROVIDING OPPORTUNITY TO OPPORTUNITIES FOR KIDS AFTER SCHOOL, OR ARE WE LOOKING AT HAVING MAYBE A SPORTS MEDICINE MODEL HAVING IT SUMMARIZED NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE.
THE SLIDE IS ACTUALLY A REFLECTION AGAIN.
NUMBER ONE, THE KEATS HAD THE SAME PATTERN AS ASHLEY HUTCHINSON HAS SHARED WITH YOU.
I'M GOING TO START AT THE FAMILY PARTNERSHIP TECH, BASICALLY 11 O'CLOCK THERE.
WE'RE LOOKING AT EXTENDING OUR PARTNERSHIPS WITH PARENTS.
WELL, YOU'RE NOT THE ONLY EDUCATOR, OUR PROS EDUCATED.
WE RECOGNIZE IT IS ACTUALLY OUR PARENTS, BUT ACTUALLY WE CAN'T DO THIS ALONE.
AND I'VE SAID STOOD IN FRONT OF YOU BEFORE TO SHARE THAT WITH YOU.
AND AS YOU GO THROUGH THIS SLIDE, YOU'LL SEE AN ALIGNMENT ON EACH NARRATIVE TO OUR DISTRICT STRATEGIC PLAN.
SO I WANT YOU TO RECOGNIZE THAT THESE ITEMS ARE NOT IN ISOLATION.
THE PROCESS RELATES BACK TO OUR DISTRICT STRATEGIC PLAN, AS WELL AS WE GOT QUOTED THIS DOCUMENT, OR IN A LATER DOCUMENT THAT YOU'LL HAVE THIS, YOU HAVE TO SEE THING ON THE STATE ACADEMIC PLAN AS RELATION TO REOPENING OUR SCHOOLS.
IF WE LOOK AT DIFFERENTIATING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT, THEN AGAIN, BUILDING COMPANY ASSAY OF THE LEARNERS TODAY, FOR EXAMPLE, I'D LIKE TO SHARE WITH YOU.
WE HAD OVER 55 AND CLASSIFIED PERSONNEL BEING TRAINED IN THE KINDERGARTEN READINESS ASSESSMENT, TRYING TO BUILD A CAPACITY, NOT ONLY OF OUR CERTIFIED BUILDING, THE CAPACITY OF OUR CLASSIFIED PERSONNEL.
AND AS I SPOKE WITH THEM EARLIER TODAY, THEY ARE THE FOUNDATION.
THEY'RE ALSO OUR NUMBER ONE CUSTOMER SERVICE.
I WILL SHARE WITH YOU 100% PASS THE EXAM.
SO CONGRATULATIONS SAYS CLASSIFIED PERSONNEL.
I'M GETTING GOOSEBUMPS SAYING IT AND CONGRATULATIONS TO THE EDUCATORS COME, COULD IT BE SENT? AND IT WAS A VERY IN-DEPTH TRAINING.
HE GOES, I CAME IN AND SAID, IF YOU'RE BROKE EVEN ACTUALLY THREE TIMES, JUST LISTEN TO THE QUALITY OF WHAT WAS BEING PRESENTED.
NO, I'M JUST TRYING TO HIGHLIGHT, UH, THE DIFFERENTIATION OF PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT.
WELL, THE DAY HAS LOCKED IN HIGH SCHOOL.
CAN WE HAVE A TRAINING GOING ON OR OUR BEHAVIOR SPECIALIST? AND, UM, WE STILL KIND OF SOCIAL WORKERS AS PART OF THAT TEAM TO DO THE TRAINING.
AND, UH, THEY RECEIVED IN FACT MORE AND MORE ONE THAT I WOULD HAVE SPENT 10 THAT, UH, TODAY AND, UH, RECEIVED IN, UH, THEY RECEIVED AN OUTSTANDING TRAINING TODAY.
UM, AND I THINK THAT IT HAS VALUE, UH, TO OUR UNDERSTANDING THAT, UH, WHEN YOU DID DIFFERENTIATE OUR OWN PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SO THAT WE CAN DIFFERENTIATE THE SUPPORTS FOR KIDS, NO GREGORY, BECAUSE YOU'RE 100% ON POINT.
I DID HAVE A DEBRIEF WITH YOU BRIEFLY WITH DR.
AT THE END OF THE DAY, IT WAS RATHER POSITIVELY TAKEN AND I WANT TO BUILD IT.
AND OUR GOAL IS EDUCATE ALL OF OUR EMPLOYEES WITHIN OUR DISTRICT AND THEN HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO ACTUALLY SOME OF THE BOARD MEMBERS WASN'T REPLICATION FORWARD, THAT ONCE WE WORK, TAKE CARE OF HER AND BPS, YOU KNOW, CTE, OUR FAMILY BUILD THE CAPACITY.
LET'S CAST IT AS A LITTLE LARDER TO OUR COMMUNITY PARTNERS.
SO ON THE SAME PAGE, UM, AND THAT PULLS RIGHT INTO STRONG COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP.
THERE WAS STRONG RECOMMENDATION FROM ACADEMIC COMMITTEE DURING THIS PRESENTATION, WHAT ARE WE DOING BEYOND? AND IT WAS TAKEN VERY STRONGLY ON SOME INITIATIVES WE'VE ACTUALLY ALREADY HAD IN PLACE IN THIS TINY CROSSES.
SPEAK A LITTLE BIT MORE TO THAT PASTOR AGAIN AND GET TO KNOW YOU WITH REMAINING ON THIS.
YOU KNOW, STANDARD-BASED CURRICULUM THAT EVERY PRACTICE THAT IF YOU'RE HAVING PRACTICES WITH PERFORMANCE MATTERS, DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION, AND I WANT TO BUILD ON THAT TO SAY DIFFERENTIATION FOR ALL.
AND WE DIFFERENTIATE, OR THE LIBERTY OF INSTRUCTION WILL MEET THE NEEDS OF OUR LEARNERS.
AGAIN, PD AS WELL AS OUR STUDENT LEARNERS.
AND THEN AS I STARTED THE FAMILY PARTNERSHIPS, UM, MRS. KOSHI BARRON, YOU CAN GO ONTO THE NEXT PRESENTATION.
I DO WANT TO SHARE IT'S MRS. KOSHER, BARRY'S CROSSING OVER.
THIS IS A RATHER LARGE DOCUMENT.
IT IS A DRAFT DOCUMENT THAT WAS UTILIZED FOR RESEARCH AND BUILDING INFORMATION TOGETHER AS A RESULT OF MEETINGS FROM OUR PRINCIPLES AS A FALSE, AS WE WERE HEARING PARALLEL OF FUNDING COMING FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AND GRANTED AFTER YOU SUBMIT A PROFESSOR.
SO YOU SEE THE COVER PAGE SAYS, YOU KNOW, AS YOUR PROPOSAL, I WANT YOU TO RECOGNIZE THAT IF YOU SHOULD TEACH, YOU ARE ACTUALLY ARE ACTUALLY A RESULT
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OF WORK AND COLLABORATION AND RESEARCH FACE.IF WE CAN GO TO PAGE ONE, PLEASE, I WON'T GO INTO THE DETAILS OF READING ALL THE NARRATIVES, BUT I WILL SHARE FIRST SIDE IS ASSISTANCE CHANGE LOOKING AT EXTENDING OUR, AN IDEA OF EXTENDING OUR LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES FOR OUR SCHOOLS THAT I WITH YOU IN THE FAIRS WERE PARTNERING SCHOOLS THAT WERE MEETING TO HAVE ACADEMICS.
YES, I DIDN'T HAVE IT TO THE NEED FOR ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTIONAL COACHES.
UM, AS A PRIOR HIGH SCHOOL PRINCIPAL, I'M VERY DIRECTED BY, I DON'T THINK I WOULD HAVE HAD ACADEMIC SUCCESS FOR MY STUDENTS AND BUILDING CAPACITY, WHATEVER HAPPENS, INSTRUCTIONAL COACHES AS WELL AT THE HIGH SCHOOL.
SO THAT WAS ONE OF MY REQUEST TO, UM, TANYA, AS WELL AS TERRY BEN WILL SPEAK LOCALLY TO THE NEXT PAGE.
HE JUST GIVES A QUICK BRIEFING.
AND DURING THE UPCOMING WEEKS, YOU'LL HEAR A LITTLE MORE REGARDING THE COACHES MODEL.
WE'RE JUST COMPLETING DAILY COACHES MANUAL THAT ARE GIVING SOME GUIDELINES AS WELL AS EXPECTATIONS FOR OUR COACHES, AS WELL AS OUR SCHOOL LEADERS.
IF I'M A COACH, I'M BUILDING CAPACITY AND WE WANT TO BE ABLE TO HAVE OUR INSTRUCTIONAL COACHES HAVE THE SAME AMOUNT OF TIME MAKING CONTACT WITH OTHER EDUCATORS, BUT ALSO AT THE SAME AMOUNT OF TIME THAT MAYBE THAT MATH TEACHER MAY HAVE DUTY.
WE RECOGNIZE IT SHOULD BE THE SAME AMOUNT.
I SHOULDN'T HAVE MAYBE A LITTLE MORE BECAUSE I DON'T HAVE, UM, A CLASS OR I'M NOT A TEACHER OF RECORD.
TECHNICALLY I AM A TEACHER RECORDS AND INSTRUCTIONAL COACH BECAUSE I'M TEACHING THE TEACHERS.
SO HERE IT STARTS WITH JUST QUICKLY, THE COACHES MODEL, THE ROLE WE FOCUS APPROPRIATE USE OF APPROPRIATELY, UH, PERCEPTION OF THE COACH.
HE GOES ONTO THE FOLLOWING PAGE AND THEN REALLY DEFINING THAT ROLE AND RELATIONSHIP.
DID YOU SEE ON THIS NEXT PAGE IS ACTUALLY DATA THAT HAS BEEN SHARED WITH YOU.
IT IS A READING AND WRITING FORECAST.
YOU HEARD US IN JANUARY HERE WITH YOU THAT SEVEN OUT OF 10, UM, OR ANTICIPATED STUDENTS NOT TO BE PROFICIENCY.
WE RECOGNIZE ALSO THAT AS A NATIONAL TREND, IF YOU GO ONTO PAGE FOUR.
SO PAGE FOUR IS A LITTLE MORE INFORMATION LOOKING AT ITEM THREE IN DISCUSSION OF LOOKING AT PRE-K.
FOR ALL CONVERSATION I SHARED AT ACADEMIC COMMITTEE IS ACCURATE.
THIS IS AN IDEA OF WORKING COLLECTIVE IMPACT THAT NOT ONLY THE SCHOOL DISTRICT, BUT ACTUALLY WORKING WITH NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS, BRINGING OUT THE SIGNIFICANCE AND IMPORTANCE OF ADDRESSING EDUCATION FOR OUR YOUNGEST LEARNERS.
WE RECOGNIZE THAT THAT BY THE TIME A CHILD IS FIVE YEARS OLD AND HOW MANY THOUSANDS OF WORDS SHOULD THEY HAVE 15 BEING IN A RICH ENVIRONMENT.
AND IT IS A CLIENT COLLECTIVE IMPACT MODEL OF COMMUNITY, NOT ONLY US AS THE EDUCATORS, BUT BRINGING IN NONPROFITS TO WORK WITH, THEY ACTUALLY GET THAT MESSAGE OUT AND ALSO HELP OUR PARENTS AT THE CENTER AND GIVING THEM THE TOOLS AND THE RESOURCES.
IF YOU CAN GO QUICK ACTION AT THE BOTTOM, LOOKING AT CURRICULAR INSTRUCTIONAL MODELS, I'VE SPOKEN TO THIS TO YOU IN THE PAST.
IT ACTUALLY IS REDUNDANT IN THE SENSE OF SHARING LATINO, PROFESSIONAL LEARNING COMMUNITIES.
AND IT WAS COMMENTARY SHARED WITH ME NOW, HOW DO WE KNOW THAT PLCS OR COACHES ARE ACTUALLY EFFECTIVE? SO WHAT ARE THE ITEMS WE ARE UTILIZING IS A RICHARD TO FOURS WERE WORK OR PROGRESSION OF PROFESSIONAL LEARNING COMMUNITY SURVEY.
THAT FIRST SURVEY WILL GO OUT THIS THURSDAY AT THE END OF THE DAY TOWARDS PRINCIPALS.
AND THEN THAT SURVEY SURVEY WILL ALSO BE SHARED WITH OUR INSTRUCTIONAL COACHES AND THEN OUR TEACHERS.
WE WANT TO GET YOUR PERCEPTION.
NOW, GO THROUGH A YEAR OF INCREASING CAPACITY, OUR INSTRUCTIONAL COACHES, AND THEN RE REVISIT THAT SURVEY AT THE END OF THE YEAR, WHEREVER WE CAN VALUE WHAT A PRE-IMPOSED SMALL.
IF WE LOOK AT PAGE FIVE WITH REGARDING, YOU KNOW, REALIGNING MATH STANDARDS TO BRING IN, UH, OUTER GRAY THINKING EARLIER IN THE EARLY GRADES, BUT I WASN'T ABLE TO GET THAT COMPLETED DISHONORED, BUT WHAT I WAS ABLE TO COMPLETE THE SUMMERS HAD A PARTNERSHIP WITH S CB WITH ALGEBRAIC SKILLS AND AVID ALGEBRAIC APPLICATION PD COURSES THAT HAVE BEEN MADE AVAILABLE FOR OUR TEACHERS.
USC HAS GIVEN US A VERY EFFECTIVE COURSE PRICE OF $4,000, 20 TO 23 STUDENTS AND EDUCATORS OF CALLING THEM.
STUDENTS COME DOWN TO ABOUT $246 A TEACHER TO TAKE A GRADUATE LEVEL COURSE.
UH, WE ARE OFFERING 10 FOR OUR FIRST PILOT.
WE WILL CYCLE THAT OPPORTUNITY AGAIN SECOND SEMESTER, AND WE'RE ADDRESSING THE SCHOOLS NORTH AND SOUTH ABROAD.
BROOKLYN WRITING PLANS IS A RECOMMENDATION.
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WE WILL BE ASKING FOR WRITING FAN TO BE DEVELOPED, ESPECIALLY IN OUR PARTNER SCHOOLS.AFTER WE DO A FIRST NARRATIVE WRITING THIS PAGE GOES ON TO SHARE AGAIN, NEW FORMATIVE ASSESSMENTS LOOKING AT BEING, AND WE LOOK AT ITEM BY, YES, OUR NWA PARTNERSHIP, JUST A LITTLE MORE TO BUILDING A LITTLE MORE CAPACITY FOR PARENTS TO KNOW HOW TO USE THE TOOLS, AND THEN MAYBE NUMBER ONE STEP FOR CHILDREN.
AND ACTUALLY EDUCATORS IS THAT RELATIONSHIP IS BUILDING ON SOCIAL, EMOTIONAL NEEDS IN OUR SCHOOLS, MAYBE GO ON TO PAGE SIX.
I SHARED WITH ACADEMIC COMMITTEE OF A FEW IN THE PAST GIFTED AND TALENTED.
AND THAT IS AN INITIATIVE THAT HAS TAKEN OFF IN A FEW OF OUR SCHOOLS, LOOKING AT ACCELERATED MODEL, IDENTIFYING OUR CHILDREN YOUNGER SO THAT WE COULD MEET THE STATEMENTS BY MID THIRD GRADE, WE HAVE TWO SCHOOLS WHO ARE PILOTING AN ACCELERATED MODEL.
WE'RE LOOKING TO BRING IN TWO MORE, GOING TO ZAP GIVING SCHOOL YEAR.
AND YOU CONTINUES ON THIS PAGE WITH REGARD TO STANDARD LITERACY RESOURCES.
WE'VE DONE A LOT OF THAT CONVERSATION HERE, AS WELL AS SOME OF THE SOFTWARE.
THERE'LL BE A PROVIDER, THIS ACADEMIC SCHOOL YEAR FROM IREADY GREEDY READING PLUS, OR TWO OF THE PROGRAMS THAT WE BROUGHT IN THIS YEAR.
AND AGAIN, I HAVE TO THANK YOU, BUT IT WAS APPROVALS SUMMER SCHOOL PROGRAMS. WE HAD CONVERSATION WITH THAT.
SO I'M IN SCHOOL RIGHT NOW, SINCE THE CAMP DIDN'T RUN FOR TWO WEEKS, MY GOAL IS OUR SEA ISLANDS CAMP.
WE'LL RUN ACTUALLY LONGER THIS COMING ACADEMIC SCHOOL YEAR AND GIVE OUR KIDS MORE, NOT JUST ONE WEEK, BUT ACTUALLY TWO OR THREE WEEKS HAVE OPPORTUNITY TO EXPLORE OR WHAT WE WAS CALLING THIS YEAR, DIVING INTO LEARNING ON, UM, DIVING INTO FUN.
SO IF YOU SEE ON PAGE 70 IS A LITTLE BACKGROUND.
ONE OF THE THINGS I DO WANT TO HIGHLIGHT THAT THIS WAS OUR FIRST SUMMER OF DUAL ENROLLMENT.
WE HAD 85 STUDENTS PARTICIPATE.
THERE WAS ANOTHER INITIATIVE ISSUE THAT WE WERE ABLE TO TAKE OFF.
AND THE LAST SIDE OF HERE ON PAGE SEVEN IS REGARD TO VIRTUAL SCHOOL, AND THERE HAS BEEN DISCUSSION WITH REGARD TO OPTIONS.
WE LANDED ON 100 STUDENTS, GRADES SIX THROUGH EIGHT.
WE HAVE PARTNERED WITH THE LOW COUNTRY VIRTUAL TARA CONSORTIUM.
NOW I ACTUALLY HAVE SEVEN DISTRICTS SCHOOL DISTRICTS HERE IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
WE DID RECEIVE OUR WAIVER FOR THAT PARTNERSHIP AS WELL FROM THE STATE.
AND AT THIS POINT WE HAVE A POSSIBLY 84 SEATS TAKEN AT THE MIDDLE GRADES.
SO I WANTED TO BE ABLE TO GET THEIR REPORTS AS WELL.
THAT'S A QUICK SUMMARY OF THE BACKGROUND.
IF YOU HAVE ANY OPPORTUNITY, HAVE YOU GET THE OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE THIS DOCUMENT IN ANOTHER CONTEXT WHILE THE HYPERLINKS WILL SUPPORT THE RESEARCH THAT WAS UTILIZED AT DEVELOPING IT, IF YOU GO TO PAGE 12, DO YOU WANT AHEAD? YEAH, I'LL CATCH UP TO YOU MRS. CUSHY BEAR STAY RIGHT THERE.
THIS RIGHT HERE IS A PRIORITY LIST OF OUR SRO REQUESTS FROM THE INSTRUCTIONAL DIVISION.
SO YOU COULD SEE IF I MIGHT HAVE ONE TO THE END.
AND IT GOES FROM THE SMALL SCOPE OF LOSS OF LEARNING, SOCIAL, EMOTIONAL, AND THERE WERE SOME IDEAS WITH REGARD TO OUR FACILITIES EXTENDING OUT FROM EASE IN OUR BUILDING AND ACTUALLY IN OUR SCHOOLS.
AS YOU GO TO PAGE, I'M A LITTLE AHEAD OF YOU AS ROBIN.
THIS WAS JESS AGAIN, IT'S JUST A TALKING POINT FROM THE PRIOR PRESENTATION ON THE BEANS, REALLY THAT THEY INTERCONNECTED WITH ONE ANOTHER.
AND AS WE TURNED TO PAGE OVER TO PAGE 15, THAT'S WHAT IT IS FOR YOURSELVES AND THE PUBLIC, THE STATE APPROVED ACADEMIC PLAN.
WE HAD SOME GUIDELINES, GUIDELINES THAT WE HAD TO REMAIN WITHIN THESE TO, TO READ RESOURCES THAT GIVE A SUSPICION VERY IT'S.
ACTUALLY, IT'S A COMPOSITE OF INPUT FROM ALL OUR PRINCIPALS FROM TWO LEADERSHIP MEETINGS, AND THEN WE HAD GUIDELINES FOR THE STATE OF WHICH DATA WE COULD USE.
THE STATE PROVIDED US A FILE THAT THEY REFER TO
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AS RALLY DATA.AND THAT IS ACTUALLY A, A BIT A BAY, A BED OF BETA FILE THAT THEY'RE DEVELOPING AT THEIR LEVEL.
WE HAD TO USE THAT AS A GUIDELINE AND AS WE HAD TO USE THAT FILE, AS WELL AS OUR STRATEGIC PLAN AND WRITING THESE GOALS.
SO IF THERE'S QUESTION OF WHERE WE CAME UP WITH THE METRICS, THOSE ACTUALLY WERE THE TWO FILES THAT WE UTILIZED TO IDENTIFY THE GOALS.
THE PRINCIPALS WORK WITH US ON THIS.
AS YOU SEE WITHIN THE DOCUMENT, IT IS SUPPORTIVE OF THAT WITH RESEARCH AS WELL.
AND THAT IS HOW I DID SUBMIT IT TO THE STATE.
WE HAD AN IMMEDIATE RETURN FROM THE STATE OF ACCEPTANCE OF OUR PLAN.
AND I HAVE TO SAY THAT I THINK IT WAS A RESULT OF THE WORK OF THE PRINCIPALS WHO WERE BEING RATHER STRATEGIC.
ONE WAS UNIQUELY ENOUGH LOOKING AT HIGH SCHOOL THAT A GOAL IS TO HAVE STUDENTS GRADE APPROPRIATE AT EACH AT THE END OF EACH YEAR.
IN OTHER WORDS, WE WANT YOU TO COMPLETE HIGH SCHOOL IN FOUR YEARS.
SO WHAT STRATEGIES ARE YOU GOING TO USE? ONE GOAL THAT I WOULD LIKE TO BRING TO YOUR ATTENTION IS TO LAST FALL WOULD BE GOAL 10.
IT IS LENGTHY MRS. KOSHA, VERY AND DO APOLOGIZE.
BOLD 10 IS ON PAGE 28 AND READ THIS GOAL AND ACTUALLY FOCUSED ON MAYBE AREAS THAT SOMETIMES WE DON'T LAND ON.
IT FOCUSES OFF EFFICIENCY IN SOUND MOVEMENT.
VISUAL INTERPRETATIONS MAY TAKE IT INTO ANOTHER CONTEXT.
IT FOCUSES ON DEFINING AND PERFORMING ARTS.
I DEVELOPED THIS WOULD WORK AND WOULD APPEAL THE ART TEACHERS WAS IN THE COUNTY, UM, MUSICAL ART TEACHERS, PERFORMING ART, AGAIN, FINE ARTS.
UM, I HAD TO SHARE, IT TOOK A WHILE TO LAND ONTO THE LANGUAGE.
IT WAS A LITTLE DIFFICULT, BUT I WANT US TO RECOGNIZE THAT OUR FINE AND PERFORMING ARTS ARE ALSO A CONTENT AREA AND THIS WAS SUBMITTED TO THE STATE.
SO IT WAS A LITTLE OUT OF THE BOX FOR THEM, BUT THEY ACCEPTED IT.
SO I DON'T WANT TO KEEP, WE'LL HAVE TO READ A DOCUMENT IN GREAT DETAIL, BUT I DO WANT TO GIVE YOU A SUMMARY ON THE TWO MORE ITEMS THAT ARE, ARE IN FRONT OF YOU.
IF YOU HAVE PAGE 30 IS JUST A QUICK DATA REFERENCE.
SO THE DIAGNOSTIC DATA TOOLS, THIS WAS SOME OF THE DATA WE DID LOOK AT.
WE WERE GIVING IT, GIVEN THE OPPORTUNITY TO USE OUR CURRENT DIAGNOSTIC BECAUSE IT IS UPLOADED INTO THE STATE RALLY SYSTEM.
AND THE LAST SLIDE IN MY PAGE, 31 IS A QUICK CODE.
THAT'S BEING USED WITH OUR INSTRUCTIONAL COACHES.
SO OF WHAT TOOLS ARE AVAILABLE, SOME OF THEM ARE NEW.
I WILL SHARE WITH YOU AS WELL THAT WE HAVE JUST FINALIZE IT.
IT'S NOT THE FULL DOCUMENT, BUT WE JUST FINALIZE OUR INSTRUCTIONAL SOFTWARE TOOL AS WELL AS WE'LL BE GOING PUBLIC TO OUR PRINCIPALS, SCHOOL LEADERS AND INSTRUCTIONAL COACHES ON THURSDAY AS WELL.
THIS DOCUMENT ACTUALLY GETS A TIMELINE RECOMMENDATION FOR USAGE OF SOFTWARE.
SO NOT ONLY DOES IT TELL YOU WHAT THE SOFTWARE IS, TEACHER BACKGROUND, DESCRIPTION AND PURPOSE, BUT THE USAGE SO THAT WE'RE NOT OVER USING SOFTWARE INSTEAD OF HAVING TO DIRECT OF THE QUALITY AND STROKE IN FRONT OF CHILDREN.
SO THIS POINT, THIS CONCLUDES THE INFORMATION TO SHARE WITH YOU.
IT WAS SHARED IN ACADEMIC COMMITTEE COMMITTEE AS WELL, AND, UM, SOME INPUT ON QUESTIONS AT THIS TIME.
UM, JUST THAT COUPLE OF COMMENTS AND THEN QUESTIONS.
UM, I WAS REALLY HAPPY AND PLEASED TO SEE THAT THROUGHOUT THIS THERE'S BEEN EXTENSIVE WORK DONE ON EXPANDING PARTNERSHIPS WITHIN OUR COMMUNITY AND BRINGING IN ADDITIONAL SUPPORTS AND STAKEHOLDERS TO BE INVOLVED IN PRE-K ALL THE WAY THROUGH HIGH SCHOOL AND PAID STAFF.
UM, ALSO I HAD A COMMENT ABOUT YOU, YOU MENTIONED PARENT EDUCATION AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
UM, I'VE RECENTLY LEARNED OF SOME OTHER SCHOOL DISTRICTS WHO WERE DOING A PILOT PROJECTS, WHERE THEY WERE BRINGING IN PARENTS WHERE THE PARENTS WERE.
UM, SO THE PARENTS COULD HELP STUDENTS BASICALLY HELPING THE PARENT TO BE A TUTOR TO THEIR STUDENT AT HOME AND IT'S KIND OF DERIVED AND CAN GO AHEAD.
I THINK, BECAUSE OF ALL OF THE, UM, AT HOME LEARNING THAT WAS GOING ON DURING THE PANDEMIC.
SO, UM, I DON'T KNOW IF WE'RE DOING ANYTHING LIKE THAT, BUT I JUST WANTED TO PUT THE BUG IN YOUR EAR ABOUT IT AND I CAN GIVE YOU MORE INFO ON THAT LATER.
UM, SO I READ THROUGH ALL OF THIS, UM, PRETTY CLEARLY, AND I DID HAVE ONE QUESTION THAT POPPED UP THROUGH THE, THE DOCUMENT.
AND IT WAS BASICALLY, THERE IS A PORTION IN THERE UNDER THE ANTI-BULLYING, WHICH I'M SURE ALL OF US KNOW WHAT THAT IS, UM, CURRICULUM, BUT IN THERE'S ALSO SOMETHING
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IN THERE THAT SAYS INFUSED ANTI-RACISM LESSONS IN GRADES K THROUGH SIX.AND I WANTED TO ASK WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE, BECAUSE I HAVEN'T REALLY LOOKED AT ANTI-BULLYING CURRICULUM.
I WAS LIKE, BUT I'M NOT WITH PARIS.
SO ONE OF THE THINGS I DO WANT TO BRING FORWARD, AND THIS IS A DRAFT DOCUMENT.
SO WE HAVE HAD INPUT FROM OUR TEAM, FROM OUR STUDENT SERVICES TEAM, MYSELF AND DR.
CAMPBELL, MRS. SWINDON, LOOKING AT ME AND BEING ABLE TO DEVELOP AND LOOKING AT SOME PAST INCIDENTS THAT WE'VE HAD IN OUR DISTRICT TO BE VERY DIRECT.
REALLY WASN'T A PASSAGE TO SAY, HEY, UM, I, THE LAST TIME I, YOU KNOW, UH, POLITICAL ED THAT WE ALL PUT OUR PANTS ON ONE LEG AT A TIME.
SO HOW DO WE CREATE AN ENVIRONMENT AND A CLIENT? AND IN ORDER TO THAT, SO THAT IS WHERE THIS, THESE LESSONS THAT IDEAS WERE COMING AND RISING FROM, AND THEN BEING ABLE TO LOOK TO TAKE THEM TO THE OTHER GRADES.
WE RECOGNIZE THAT CHILDREN ARE A LITTLE MORE CLAY OPEN WITH THE KILLER DISPLAY PERFORMING AT THE YOUNGER YEARS.
IS THAT A PLACE THAT WE COULD DEVELOP A GREATER UNDERSTANDING OF ONE ANOTHER? AND I DON'T WANT TO SAY THE ISSUE OF ACCEPTANCE.
IT'S MORE AN ISSUE OF US TOGETHER.
WE HAVEN'T GONE BEYOND THAT AND BREAK UP.
THEN WHAT I HAVE DRAFTED HERE RIGHT NOW, WE HAVE LANDED ON UTILIZING PANORAMA BECAUSE THAT IS A TOOL THAT WE HAD ALREADY IN PLACE AND COMPENSATION.
SINCE THIS WRITING HAS GONE TO UTILIZING PANORAMA, BUILDING THAT CAPACITY TO GREATER USE WHERE A YEAR WE'LL BE STARTING YEAR TWO WITH THAT.
I THINK THAT THE CONVERSATION SHOULD NOT ONLY JUST BE, UM, FOCUSED ON THE STUDENTS, BUT ALSO ON THE ADULTS.
AND SO I THINK THAT THAT'S A CONVERSATION THAT SHOULD BE HAD AND SOMETHING THAT THE BOARD SHOULD BE AWARE OF, OF HOW THAT LOOKS, WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE IN OUR CLASSROOMS. AND THEN ALSO, YOU KNOW, AS, AS WE ARE THE ADULTS THAT ARE LEADING THE CHILDREN, WE ALSO NEED TO BE HAVING THOSE, THOSE CONVERSATIONS.
SO, UM, I JUST WANTED TO SEE IF MAYBE AS YOU GUYS THAT YOU DEVELOP THAT YOU BRING THAT FORWARD TO US SO THAT WE CAN HAVE THOSE CONVERSATIONS OPENLY.
UM, WHEN EVERYONE ADAM'S HERE, MAY I RESPOND? YES, WE HAVE TAKEN THIS PAST YEAR BUILDING CAPACITY, AS WELL AS OUR SCHOOL LEADERS IN THIS AREA AS WELL.
THAT HAS BEEN ONE OF OUR LARGER INITIATIVES.
UM, THE CLIMATE THAT YOU CREATE A SURVEY, AS WELL AS PUT OUT THROUGH EVEN RESOURCES ON THE COMPANY'S CALLED LB.
SO THAT INFORMATION TO BE ABLE TO SEE THE ACCEPTANCE AND THAT STUDENTS ARE PART OF THAT SURVEY SORT OF GOAL, IS TO BUILD THAT CAPACITY FROM HERE AND HERE AT THE SAME TIME, WE'RE JUST TOUCHING PART OF IT GUESSING.
AND I DUG INTO SOME OF THOSE RESOURCES AND THERE THERE'S NOT A LOT THERE FOR YOU TO GO ON.
SO THAT'S ANOTHER REASON I THINK THAT WE NEED TO HAVE THAT CONVERSATION DIFFER OUT OF THERE, BUT I RECOGNIZE THAT MS. BOATWRIGHT, THANK YOU, DR.
I JUST MORE HAD COMMENTS RATHER THAN QUESTIONS.
LIKE I CAN SIT DOWN WITH THIS DOCUMENT AND TALK ABOUT IT FOR LIKE FOUR HOURS.
UM, MY UNDERSTANDING IS THIS IS SORT OF A SKETCH OF THIS HUGE PROJECT THAT WE'RE TAKING ON AND WE'RE NOT HERE TO LIKE WORK IT OUT.
AND THE ONLY THING, I JUST WANT TO SAY THAT, UM, I'M VERY EXCITED ABOUT THE FINE ARTS ASPECT THAT'S COMING UP.
I THINK THERE'S TREMENDOUS GROWTH IN THIS DISTRICT.
I THINK THERE'S A LOT OF TALENT.
THAT'S NOT BEING TAPPED IN A LOT OF MODES OF EXPRESSION THAT WE'RE NOT OFFERING.
SO I'M SUPER EXCITED ABOUT THAT.
UM, THE ONLY THING I WOULD HAVE HIS INPUT IS ON JUST READING ABOUT THE MARSHALL PLAN FOR TUTORING.
I, WHEN WE LOOKED AT OUR STUDENT ASSESSMENTS OR WHAT WOULD THE STUDENT ADVISORY, WE WENT AROUND TO THE, I WENT TO A MONTH, WHATEVER BRANCH IN THE RIVER, THEY ALSO HAVE TUTORING.
I JUST THINK THAT THAT'S HUGELY IMPACTFUL.
WE HAVE, IT'S ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY FOR COMMUNITY OUTREACH.
UM, AND I KNOW IT'S IN HERE, SO I DON'T WANT TO GO INTO A LOT OF DETAIL, BUT, UM, SOMETHING I'D LIKE TO SEE A LOT MORE ABOUT, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR ALL THIS YESTERDAY.
MR. MOM, CAMPBELL, YOU MENTIONED SOMETHING ABOUT AUDIT VIEWS, JENNA, THE GUY THAT HAS GUIDELINE IT'S ACCOMMODATED BY KIM.
CAN YOU PULL MY TOWARDS YOU? YOU HAVE IT NOW.
YOU MENTIONED ABOUT AUDIT, FUSION, MY QUESTION, OR MAYBE NOT TO YOU, BUT THROUGH DOCTOR ALWAYS HIRING SLASH DIRECTOR AND THIS DISTRICT EVER.
AND MR. CAMPBELL, THE POSITION HAS BEEN ADVERTISED.
WE ACTUALLY HAVE TWO, ONE IS TIED TO THE MAGNET SCHOOLS ASSISTANCE PROGRAM GRANT.
THE SECOND ONE IS TIED DIRECTLY TO A FINAL PERFORMING
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ARTS COORDINATOR.SO PLEASE, IF YOU KNOW SOMEONE WHO WOULD LIKE TO PLEASE, I HAVE TWO, ACTUALLY I HAVE ONE IS TIED TO THE GRANT AND THE OTHER ONE IS IT'S COMING OUT OF GENERAL FUNDS.
UM, IT'S TAKING TIME MR. CAMPBELL, WITH YOU IN A GOOD ATTEMPT TO SEND IT.
I DON'T SEE HOW WITH FIDELITY, UH, YOU KNOW, SUPPORT BITS AND PIECES OF THE ARTS AND FUSION.
WE DON'T SOMEONE THAT TOP MANAGING ALL THAT, ASKING YOURSELF FOR FAILURE.
IF YOU ARE GOING TO MANAGE ALL THIS ALONG WITH NO OTHERS, WE NEED THAT POSITION, EVERY DISTRICT POSITION.
BUT I HAVE A COMMENT THAT I'LL PASS.
MY OTHER COMMENT IS ABOUT INCLUSION AND, UH, LET'S, WHAT'S BEING PUSHED OUT IN TERMS OF AFTER THE PANDEMIC, A LOT MORE, UH, INCLUSIVE SUPPORTIVE, PASCHAL'S ADDRESSING A LOSS.
I'M CONCERNED THAT WE MAY HAVE A STANDARDIZED APPROACH.
WE DON'T LOSE THE OPPORTUNITY TO REALLY ENGAGE THOSE STUDENTS, UH, ENGAGEMENT ALSO THAN ANYTHING ELSE.
I ACTUALLY BROUGHT THAT VOTE IN ACADEMIC COMMITTEE AS WELL.
MR. CAMPBELL, ON HOW WE'RE BEING CREATIVE IN ORDER TO ENGAGE WITH STUDENTS DIFFERENTLY.
RECOMMENDATION CAME FROM COMMITTEE LOOKING AT MORE PROBLEM-BASED LEARNING.
WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A LARGER AMOUNT OF THE BOOK BOOKER INSTITUTE, CONDUCTING TRAINING THAT WE'LL BE ABLE TO FIND THAT DOOR NSAP GRANT AT TRAINING WILL BE AVAILABLE.
WE'LL PUMP IT UP BEYOND OUR SEVEN SCHOOLS SO THAT WE COULD EXTEND WARNING OPPORTUNITIES, NOT ONLY WITHIN THE SEVEN, BUT IT'S OTHER AREAS OF OTHER SCHOOLS AS WELL.
WE WANT TO BE ABLE TO RECOGNIZE THAT WE HAVE TO ADDRESS THE PRIORITY STANDARDS.
WE KNOW THAT PRIORITY STANDARDS ARE ALIGNED WITH THE STATE ACCOUNTABILITY SYSTEM, BUT THE ENGAGEMENT HAS TO COME FROM CREATIVITY FROM OUR EDUCATORS.
AND WE HAVE TO GIVE THAT STRUCTURE LATITUDE FOR EDUCATORS TO BE CREATIVE IN THE CLASSROOM.
IT'S THE MAGIC EDUCATORS HAVE THAT BAG OF TRICKS.
WE HAVE TO BE GRADE LEVEL APPROPRIATE ALIGNED WITH OUR STANDARDS OF BE CREATIVE AT THE LIBRARY.
SO WE'RE TEACHING THE CLASSIC TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD.
WHY AREN'T WE DOING A SKETCH OF OURSELVES AND OF CHARACTERIZATION? SO THE CREATIVITY CAN BE THERE.
KENNEDY'S ALSO HAVING A TEAM BEING HIRED.
AS YOU POINTED OUT TO HELP OUR TEACHERS TO HAVE A POINT OF CONTACT.
WE'RE GETTING OUR TEAM BEING DEVELOPED.
WE JUST ADDED IT ON ANOTHER DIRECTOR AND TEACHING AND LEARNING.
HIS SPECIALTY IS FROM ELEMENTARY UP THROUGH THE MAYBE OF COME MIDDLE SCHOOL.
AND THEN RANDY HARD, BECAUSE TODAY HE TOOK TRAINING ON THE TRAIN.
THE TRAINER PERFORMANCE MATTERS.
BEING ABLE TO HAVE THOSE QUALITY PEOPLES ARE TEACHERS ABLE TO REACH TO AND HAVING THOSE LEARNING TEAM OPPORTUNITIES.
WELL, I CAN COLLABORATE WITH YOU AS YOU DO WITH ME HAD COMMITTEE MEETINGS, KIKI, YOU BOARD MEMBERS, SAME THING HAPPENS WHEN WE HAVE THAT STRUCTURE OF THE MEETING AS WELL FOR EDUCATORS.
I'M WONDERING TO PIGGY BACK ALL WHAT DR.
SPASSKY SAID ABOUT COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS THAT ALSO WILL GENERATE MORE ENGAGEMENT AS MOM IS ENGAGED AND STILL ALIVE.
AND THAT, AND I THINK WE REALLY NEED TO ENCOURAGE A LOT MORE PARTNERSHIPS WITH ALL DIFFERENT SPECTRUMS. I KNOW WE MENTIONED A, I DON'T HEAR IT, BUT
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THAT'S, BUT I'D LIKE YOU TO THINK ABOUTAND SOME OF OUR TEACHERS DO WORK FOR, UH, THESE DIFFERENT, UH, ORGANIZATIONS.
ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE DO WANT TO BE ABLE TO DO IS ALSO PROVIDE SOME TRAINING ON SOME OF THE, UH, FOR EXAMPLE, YOU KNOW, PROGRAMS AND THINGS THAT WE HAVE THAT THEY CAN PROBABLY TAKE ADVANTAGE OF WHEN THE KIDS WERE WITH THEM.
AND, AND ULTIMATELY THE KIDS TAKE ADVANTAGE.
BUT IN ADDITION, BECAUSE WHEN WE SAY COMMUNITY PARTNERS, IT'S NOT JUST THOSE ORGANIZATIONS THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT, BUT IT'S ALSO PARENTS, RIGHT.
HANDS AS PARENT ENGAGEMENT AND WITHIN OUR COMMUNITY.
AND SO WE, WE ARE LAUNCHING, UH, WHAT WE'RE CALLING PARENT CONNECTION.
AND THESE ARE GOING TO BE SESSIONS AT DIFFERENT CLUSTER SITES, BUT WE'RE GOING TO WORK WITH OUR PARENTS AT THEIR POSTER SITES THAT, UH, THAT, UH, UH, CAN PROVIDE THEM ALSO WITH SOME OF THE TOOLS, UH, TO HELP THEIR CHILDREN WHILE THEIR CHILDREN ARE WILLING.
THIS AN EXAMPLE, UH, UH, I'LL SAY THIS AND I'LL STOP IT THERE.
THERE'S, UH, UH, BY POWERSCHOOL, FOR INSTANCE, RIGHT.
THAT'S A VALUABLE TOOL IN THE HANDS OF THE PARENTS.
UH, JUST FOR MONITORING SAKE, RIGHT.
UH, BUT SOMETIMES A LOT OF TIMES THEY DON'T KNOW HOW TO UTILIZE THE TOOL OR SO WE WANT TO BE ABLE TO, TO PROVIDE THAT TRAINING, THOSE PARENT CONNECTION SITES, UH, PARENT CONNECTION SESSIONS FOR THEM TO SEE, WE WANT TO HAVE A MENU OF DIFFERENT THINGS THAT THEY CAN TAKE FROM THAT, THAT, THAT WILL BE HELPFUL TO THEM AS FAR AS ENGAGEMENT WITHIN THEIR CHILD'S EDUCATION AS WELL.
SO THAT'S, UH, ANOTHER COMMUNITY, UH, FOOTBALL.
IN ADDITION, THERE ARE OPPORTUNITIES THAT I KNOW, UH, I DON'T WANT TO SPRAY THIS STUFF.
I JUST WANT THE GENERAL CONCEPT EXAMPLE POLICY.
WE MAY NOT GET ENOUGH PARENTS TO THOSE SESSIONS TO REALLY SKIM THOUGH.
BUT IF YOU'VE GOT THAT INFORMATION TO FOLLOW, THE CHURCH IS ONE EXAMPLE OF HOW IT'S DONE AND THOSE CHURCHES PASS IT TO THOSE PARENTS.
THEN YOU'VE GOT SOMETHING GOING ON.
THAT'S, THAT'S WHAT WE CAN DO THAT.
AND THAT, THAT MODEL BEING PARENT CONNECTION IS VERY FLEXIBLE.
THAT SETBACK WILL BLEND RIGHT INTO THAT.
I JUST WANTED TO, UM, SAY I WAS SO EXCITED WHEN I READ THE ARTICLE IN THE PAPER ABOUT OUR SUMMER SCHOOL AT THE ELEMENTARY LEVEL, AND THAT IT WAS NOT A SKILL AND DRILL TRADITIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL AND THE LEVEL OF ENGAGEMENT WAS HIGH.
AND I THINK THAT THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE STRIVING FOR.
THAT'S WHAT I READ IN HERE THAT YOU'RE LOOKING AT CHANGING THAT PARADIGM SO THAT WHEN THE KIDS ARE IN SCHOOL, IT'S ALL ABOUT THAT EXCITEMENT AND ENGAGEMENT AND YOU WERE SUCCESSFUL WITH IT DURING SUMMER SCHOOL.
SO YOU'VE GOT A GREAT SPRING WORK.
AND THANK ACTUALLY TO THE COMMUNITY PARTNERS IS GOING IN BECAUSE WE DID PROVIDE HER, WHAT ABOUT SEVEN GROUPS TO MAKE THAT HAPPEN THIS SUMMER? THANK YOU.
UM, I DEFINITELY AGREE WITH MR. CAMPBELL.
I THINK THAT, UH, SOME MORE OUTREACH, UH, WITHIN THE, WITHIN THE, UH, CULTURAL APPROACH AS WELL IS SOMETHING THAT, UM, WE MAY NEED TO LOOK INTO, UH, WITHIN, WITHIN DIFFERENT COMMUNITIES, UH, AS, AS WELL AS NOT JUST THE CHURCHES, BECAUSE YOU ALSO HAVE DIFFERENT ORGANIZATION THAT YOU HAVE IN DIFFERENT, IN DIFFERENT, IN DIFFERENT, UH, PARTS OF BUFORD.
YOU HAVE DIFFERENT ORGANIZATIONS THAT DEAL WITH THAT INTERACT WITH STUDENTS AND PARENTS WHO COULD PARSE PA UH, POSSIBLY PARTNERSHIP, GET OUR PARTNERSHIP WITH THE DISTRICT TO BRING, UH, SOME OF THIS INFORMATION IN SOME OF THIS UNDERSTANDING TO PARENTS, UH, ALONG WITH, UH, PAT UNIVERSITY, BECAUSE I, I DO, I WAS TALKING TO A GENTLEMAN PROBABLY ABOUT A MONTH AGO, WHO HAD A OUTSIDE ORGANIZATION WHO WAS, UH, IN CONTACT WITH TRYING TO BRING PET UNIVERSITY INTO THEIR PROGRAM TO, UH, TO BASICALLY ENGAGE IN, TO TEACH THEIR PARENTS SOME, SOME DIFFERENT THINGS OF, OF, UH, DIFFERENT KIND, DIFFERENT CONCEPTS.
SIMPLE, SIMPLE TO WHAT I BELIEVE THAT DR.
ONESKI WILL, I WAS ALLUDED TO A FEW MINUTES AGO AND, YOU KNOW, ALSO,
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YOU KNOW, I, I THINK IT'S VERY IMPORTANT AS WELL IS THAT WE USE BOARD MEMBERS WHO HAVE INVOLVEMENT IN THEIR COMMUNITIES TO ALSO GET SOME, WHEN YOU, WHEN YOU, WHEN WE COME UP WITH SOME OF THESE, UH, PROGRAMS FOR PARENTS TO COME OUT, I THINK IT'S, I THINK IT'S VERY VITAL AND IMPORTANT THAT WE GET BOARD MEMBERS ENGAGED, BECAUSE THAT IS WHAT WE ARE HERE FOR AS WELL, TO PROMPT OUR PARENTS INTO GETTING INFORMATION OUT IN OUR COMMUNITY OF SOME OF THESE DIFFERENT PROGRAMS THAT WE'RE HAVING IN, YOU KNOW, UH, ONE, ONE THING I WILL JUST SAY IS THAT ONE OF THE MOST THINGS THAT I THINK IS IMPORTANT IS ALSO THAT WE PUT THE CULTURAL PIECE IN THERE AS WELL.AND THEN DO WE DO HAVE SOMEBODY WHO WANTS TO DO A PUBLIC COMMENT AT NINE
ARE WE READY FOR PUBLIC COMMENTS?
YOU CAN GO AHEAD AND START NO RECOMMENDATIONS, GUIDELINES, UPDATE GUIDELINES FOR THE 20 21 22 SCHOOL YEAR RECOMMENDED FACILITATING IN-PERSON LEARNING BY ADJUSTING SCHOOL POLICIES TO ALIGN THE NEW INFORMATION ABOUT THE PANDA RECOMMENDATIONS INCLUDED VACCINATIONS FOR ALL WHO ARE ELIGIBLE FOR THAT DONATION.
ALSO, STUDENTS ARE NOT ONLY ATTRACTED ACADEMICALLY BY THE PANDEMIC WITH ALL THEM SCHOOLS, BUT THEIR EMOTIONAL AND PHYSICAL HEALTH IS NOT SOMETHING TO OVERLOOK.
I SPENT TIME WITH A SEVEN YEAR OLD.
WHENEVER COBRA WAS MENTIONED, HE WAS NOT ABLE TO TELL ME ANYTHING.
BESIDES HE HATES THIS, HIS DEMEANOR AND TONE CHANGE.
IT WAS SENDING TO SEE A CHILD MUCH CLOSE TO MY HEART IN SUCH A NEGATIVE STATEMENT IS THE CENTRAL HUB TO DO ALL HE CAN TO STAY SAFE AND KEEP SCHOOLS OPEN.
AND IT'S WELL DOCUMENTED THAT
MINER AP ALSO STATED THAT OPENING SCHOOLS GENERALLY DOES NOT SEEM TO INCREASE COMMUNITY TRANSMISSIONS WITH MATCHING AND OTHER
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MEASURES IN PLACE RECENTLY COVID-19 BARRIER.HAVE YOU MERGED? THAT MEANS THE RISK OF TRANSMISSION AND RESULT IN WORSENING ILLNESS.
EVEN THE EXECUTIVES HAVE SAFETY PRECAUTIONS WHEN YOU CONSISTENTLY SHOW THAT ARE AT HIGH RISK OF SUFFERING MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES AND DEVELOPMENTAL LEARNING
UNIVERSAL MASKING IS A PROVEN WAY TO PROTECT PEOPLE FROM PENDING RESPIRATORY DISEASE.
WE PUT THAT TO NATION MASKING AND CLEAN HAND HYGIENE WILL MAKE THEM POSSIBLE FOR EVERYONE.
WE ARE TEACHING THE EPIDEMIOLOGISTS.
LET'S DO ALL THAT WE CAN TO KEEP SCHOOLS OPEN IN 20 21, 20 22 SCHOOL YEAR.
HER AGENDA IS, UH, THE OTHER MATTERS.
UM, WELL, BEFORE THAT, I THINK WE HAVE THE FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY.
I'M GOING TO BE INTRODUCING THE TOPIC OF SAP APPLICATIONS EVENING, ALSO KNOWN AS ART WITH FUNDS.
I HAVE JUST A FEW BRIEF COMMENTS AND THEN I'LL GO TO THE BOARD FOR DISCUSSION AND ANY QUESTIONS YOU MAY HAVE.
UM, THERE'S THREE MAIN POINTS TO MY DISCUSSION AND IT IS FEEDBACK LEARNING LOSS FLEXIBILITY.
SO ON APRIL 30TH, UM, THE SR THREE ALLEGATION WAS PROVIDED TO THE DISTRICT STAFF.
UM, SO THAT WAS JUST A FEW SHORT MONTHS AGO.
UM, THERE WAS A SIGNIFICANT PUBLIC INPUT THAT WAS REQUIRED.
UH, ONE OF THE ITEMS, UH, WAS WHAT ARE THE ITEMS THAT YOU WISH TO SEE IN THE PLAN? AND THAT WAS A SURVEY THAT WAS PUT OUT, UH, TO STAKEHOLDERS AND OTHER, THAT WAS A PUBLIC INPUT ON THE DISTRICTS REOPENING BRAND.
THE COMBINATION OF THOSE TWO, MY AUNTS, WHICH I DESCRIBED IN QUITE A BIT OF DETAIL ON OUR LAST PRESENTATION, BUT JUST UNDER 5,000 RESPONSES WERE RECEIVED.
UM, SO ALONG WITH THOSE SURVEYS, UH, WE HAD DIFFERENT STAFF MEETINGS.
STRATIS MENTIONED, SHE HAD PRINCIPAL MEETINGS DISCUSSING ACADEMIC RECOVERY PLANS.
AND AS WELL AS HAVING BRAINSTORMING SESSIONS HERE AT THE DISTRICT OFFICE WITH SOME KEY STAKEHOLDERS, UM, TO IDENTIFY CERTAIN ACADEMIC AND OTHER INITIATIVES THAT, UH, THEY WOULD LIKE TO SEE IN THE PLAN.
UH, SO THE, THIS WORK IS THE COMPILATION OF ALL THOSE EFFORTS.
UM, JUNE 24, THE DATE WAS THE DAY THE REOPENING PLAN WAS SENT TO THE STATE, UM, BY ITS, OR, OR PRIOR TO THAT, I BELIEVE WE DID.
WE MET THAT DEADLINE, UH, AND, UM, THE SUBMISSIONS WERE IN THE PLAN WERE COMPILED AND REVIEWED BY STAFF DR.
AND, UM, THEY WERE SUBMITTED TO YOU OR BY JULY 29TH LAST WEEK, UM, PREPARATION FOR THE COMMUNITY.
THERE'S TWO DOCUMENTS THAT YOU SEE AS BEFORE YOU RECEIVING THE ACT PARKA AS SERVICE PLAN, WHICH IS MORE OF A NARRATIVE DOCUMENT.
AND YOU HAVE AN S OR SPENDING PLAN, WHICH IS A SIMILAR NARRATIVE THAT HAS A GRID OF SPENDING CATEGORIES.
SO THAT'S WHERE WE LIVE IN THE FINANCIAL WORLD IS THE FINANCIAL GRID OF SALARIES AND BENEFITS AND INSTRUCTION AND SUPPORT, AND THOSE SORTS OF THINGS.
THAT'S HOW WE LOAD OUR BUDGETS.
THAT'S HOW THE STATE LOVES THE BUDGETS.
AND SO THOSE TWO PLANS HAVE VERY SIMILAR NARRATIVES AND NARRATIVES YOU SEE IN THOSE PLANS WILL LOOK VERY SIMILAR TO A DR.
STRATEGY PROVIDED TO YOU EARLY TO SEE ME WITH AS MUCH OF WHAT SHE HAS REQUESTED ALMOST ALL, IF NOT ALL OF WHAT SHE'S REQUESTED HAS BEEN LIFTED AND PLACED INTO THE ESSER, UM, THE S3, UH, BUDGET REQUESTS, UM, JUST KEEP IN MIND THESE, UH, THIS ONE'S NOT AS ELOQUENTLY WRITTEN AS HER PLAN.
IT IS, UH, IT HAS FIELDS OF INFORMATION THAT ARE LIMITED BY CHARACTERS FACING.
SO THEY'RE MORE OF A LISTING OF INITIATIVES AND THEN A DESCRIPTION OF EACH OF THE PROGRAMS THAT IS HER PLAN PROVIDED.
UM, SO AGAIN, OURS IS NOT MEANT TO BE A FULL ACADEMIC PLAN.
STRATA STARTING PROVIDED THAT SAME TOPIC IS LEARNING LOSS.
UH, 20% OF THIS ALLOCATION MUST BE DEDICATED TO LEARNING LOSS, WHICH IS $10.2 MILLION.
THE FULL 50.9 THEY'RE IN LIKE YOU WERE KIND OF SCHOOL DISTRICT HAS ALLOCATED, UM, MORE THAN THE 20%, IT'S ACTUALLY 46.5% OR $23.7 MILLION OF THESE FUNDS THAT ARE DEDICATED DIRECTLY TO LEARNING LOSS.
IN FACT, IN THE NARRATIVES, WE MAY ADDRESS
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ACADEMIC INITIATIVES FOR A PARTICULAR YEAR, SUCH AS AFTER-SCHOOL PROGRAMS INBUT THIS IS BECAUSE THE COST FOR AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAMS WERE ACTUALLY BEGUN.
AND, UM, FOR FYI 21 AND 22 NUMBER COVERED IN SR ONE AND TWO PLANS.
SO THAT'S WHY YOU SEE GARRETT AND SCORE SPECIFIC.
THE SCHOOL YEAR OFFERS WE'VE ALREADY COVERED THEM.
SO WE HAVE A CROSS-SECTION OF BUDGETS OVER THREE DIFFERENT PLANS THAT WILL COVER THE NEXT THREE YEARS FOR US.
UM, AND THOSE WILL COVER, UH, AND HAVE THOSE INITIATIVES WHERE OUR BEEF WILL BE PUT INTO PLACE.
AND WE'LL CONTINUE THROUGH ITS EXPIRATION IN SEPTEMBER OF 2024.
AND FINALLY FLEXIBILITY AS OUR FUNDS HAVE A LOT OF FLEXIBILITY.
UM, MOST FEDERAL FUNDS DO, UH, AS NEEDS DURING THE PANDEMIC SHIFT.
WE ALL KNOW THAT THINGS HAVE CHANGED VERY MUCH DURING THIS RETIREMENT AND WILL CONTINUE TO CHANGE.
SO NOT ONLY HAVE WE MADE SHIFTS ACADEMICALLY, BUT THE SPENDING CATEGORIES AND SPENDING NEEDS HAVE CHANGED AS WELL.
UM, SO AS WE MONITOR THE SPENDING, WE CAN PROJECT LEVELS AND UTILIZE THE AMENDMENT PROCESS THAT'S ALLOCATED BY THE STATE OR ALLOWED BY THE STATE.
UM, IN ORDER TO FUND THESE THAT ARISE, WHY WILL BE, WE MAY HAVE SAVINGS IN OTHER CATEGORIES SO WE CAN MAKE THOSE SHIFTS.
WE DO APPLY ON A QUARTERLY BASIS OF CLAIMS AND WE CAN MAKE THOSE COMMITMENTS.
AT THAT TIME, WE DECISION WILL BE, UH, PROCESSED AND APPROVED BY THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION.
AND WE GENERALLY GET A FAVORABLE APPROVAL ON JUST ABOUT ANYTHING WE APPLY FOR, BECAUSE WE KNOW WHAT THEY'RE ASKING FOR.
NO, IT HAS TO BE RELATED TO COVID AND THAT JUSTIFICATION HAS TO BE PROVIDED.
SO AGAIN, UM, FEEDBACK LEARNING LOSS AND FLEXIBILITY ARE THE THREE MAIN THINGS.
SO THINGS COME UP THAT AREN'T LISTED IN THE PLAN.
THEY MAY BE ABLE TO SHIFT GEARS AND PIVOT AND MAKE SURE THAT THINGS ARE COVERED, THAT WE HADN'T THOUGHT OF, YOU KNOW, AT THIS TIME WHEN WE'RE TWO YEARS DOWN THE ROAD.
SO, UM, THE NEXT STEPS INCLUDE THAT, UH, SUBMISSION OF THE PLAN IT'S ACTUALLY DUE AUGUST 24TH, BUT WE'D LIKE TO BE VERY CONSERVATIVE ON OUR SUBMISSION.
SO WE PLAN TO, UM, SUBMIT IN TWO WEEKS FROM TODAY ON ALL THE 17TH IN ORDER TO MEET THAT DEADLINE PLENTY OF TIME.
AND, UM, MY FEDERAL PROGRAMS TEAM IS HERE AT THE SEASONING.
AND SO I WANT TO THANK THEM FOR BEING PATIENT SEASONING AND FOR ALL THE WORK, UH, TERRY BENNETT AND DENISE MATTSON AND THE GRANTS OFFICE.
AND WE'D HAVE A COUPLE OTHER LADIES IN THE GRANTS OFFICE THAT AREN'T WITH US THIS EVENING THAT HAVE BEEN ASSISTING WITH THIS, AS WELL AS THE OTHER GRANT PROGRAMS WE HAVE.
SO WITH THAT, I WOULD LOVE TO OPEN IT UP BEFORE WE JUMP INTO QUESTIONS.
I JUST WANT TO MAKE A COMMENT AND CONGRATULATE YOU AND YOUR TEAM OR YOUR AWARD RECOGNITION.
I HAD, UM, A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS.
I KNOW THIS WAS KIND OF PROMPTED FROM ME ASKING YOU THIS, SO PROBABLY MAKES SENSE.
UM, ONE WAS WHEN I LOOKED AT THE AREA FOR FACILITIES, UH, THERE'S 3.5 MILLION FOR A LOT OF HVAC, AND THAT WAS AWKWARD TO SEE US.
SO I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE WE GOT A VOTE ON THAT, OR WHERE ARE WE DERIVED TO THE 3.5 FROM 3.5 ACTUALLY INCLUDES A BOTTLE OF COLOR STATIONS AS WELL.
FOR 300, $300 COOLER STATIONS MIGHT BE REPLACING WATER FOUNTAINS AS WELL.
SO THERE ARE SPECIFIC LINE ITEMS AND SPECIFIC SCHOOLS THAT WILL BE BUDGETED.
AND I'M GOING TO TURN THAT ONE OVER TO MR. AUDITING, UM, TO ADDRESS THE, HOW THE NUMBERS WERE DERIVED FOR THE HVAC SYSTEMS, THAT THOSE PARTICULAR.
SO, UM, IN ORDER TO COME UP WITH THOSE NUMBERS, WE ACTUALLY DID AN ASSESSMENT OF KIND OF, UH, A PRIORITY LIST, ONE THROUGH THREE PRIORITY OF ALL THE HBA, A SYSTEMS IN THE DISTRICT.
WE GOT, UH, WE PUT OUR LIST TOGETHER OF ALL THE UNITS, ALONG WITH THEIR SIZES, ALL THAT INFORMATION.
THEN WE SENT THAT TO HEARING WHO USE THEIR COST SYSTEM TO COME BACK.
SO WE DO NOT HAVE AN OFFICIAL QUOTE.
WE WON'T DO THAT TILL WE'RE READY TO DO THE WORK, BUT WE DID GO OUT TO HEAR IS COST ESTIMATE IS TO PUT THE CALL ASSESSMENTS.
UM, AND THEN MY OTHER QUESTION HAS TO DO WITH BASICALLY JUST THE, THE MAKEUP OF THINGS.
CAUSE I ACTUALLY HAD TO PUNCH THINGS OUT AND PUT IT INTO MY OWN LITTLE, UH, WORD DOCUMENT.
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UM, SO TELL ME IF I'M WRONG ON MY NUMBERS, BUT IT LOOKS LIKE THERE WAS APPROXIMATELY 14 MILLION IN NEW SALARY AND BENEFITS COMING OUT OF THIS PACKAGE.UM, I HAVEN'T ADDED THE SPECIFIC SALARY MINUTES AND AMOUNTS.
UM, I GOT LIKE 8.5 FROM HER TO BE APPROXIMATELY 10 TO 12 YEARS.
THERE WERE THESE CLASS SIZES FOR HIGH SCHOOL INSTRUCTIONAL COACHES.
THERE'S, THERE'S, THERE'S, UH, MORE OR LESS 25 OR SO AGAIN, POSITIONS, THAT'S WHAT I WAS LOOKING LIKE.
AND I'M JUST TRYING TO GET A GRASP OF, WE'VE BEEN TOLD CONSISTENTLY THESE ARE NON-RECURRING FUNDS, AND I ASSUME THESE ARE NOT NON-RECURRING POSITIONS.
SO I WANT TO KNOW WHAT THAT'S GOING TO LOOK LIKE AND HOW THAT'S GOING TO AFFECT US WHEN THESE FUNDS DO EXPIRE.
AND THAT'S OBVIOUSLY A BIG, UM, HUMAN CAPITAL INVESTMENT.
SO FIRST OF ALL, UM, SOME OF THE SALARIES AND BENEFITS YOU SEE IN HERE TODAY INCLUDE TUTORING AND ACTUAL PROGRAMS. SO THOSE ARE TIMES SHE PAID PEOPLE, UM, EXISTING STAFF MEMBERS WHO HAVE FULL-TIME JOBS AND SOME RETIREES OR OTHER COMMUNITY MEMBERS WHO ARE COMING IN AND WORKING ON PART-TIME BASIS, UM, BASICALLY BY THE HOUR.
SO THAT'S A LOT OF THE SALARIES AND BENEFITS THAT YOU'LL SEE BEFORE YOU, UM, THERE ARE A NUMBER OF NEW POSITIONS, UH, FOR EXAMPLE, BEFORE HIGH SCHOOL COACHES, UM, THAT WILL BE, UH, TWO OF OUR HIGH SCHOOLS ALREADY HAVE ACADEMIC INSTRUCTIONAL COACHES.
SO THAT WOULD BE INCLUDING THE REMAINING FOUR.
YOU HAVE AN EDUCATION TECHNOLOGY COACH, UM, APPARENTLY LIAISON SOCIAL WORKERS, UM, UH, UM, A DIRECTOR OF AFTERSCHOOL AND COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT TO FACILITATE PARTNERSHIPS WITH THE COMMUNITY.
UM, SO THERE ARE A NUMBER OF POSITIONS, LEAD MENTORS, UH, NURSES, AND, UM, THE, THE IDEA, YES, THEY ARE RECURRING FUNDS AND THE, UH, IS VERY, BEEN MADE VERY CLEAR, UH, THROUGH, UH, UH, DOCUMENTATION PROCESS THAT WE ANY, UH, EMPLOYEES WHO ARE HARD WITH DESTRA FUNDS THAT THE FUNDING WILL EXPIRE IN SEPTEMBER OF 2024.
SO THAT'S ONE THING AND OUR DESIRE AND, AND, AND INTENT IS TO RE ABLE TO BRING, CONTINUE THESE POSITIONS, YOU KNOW, THROUGH, UM, THEIR EXISTING OTHER RESOURCES OR THROUGH CHRISTIAN AND, AND TEACHING POSITIONS AND OTHER POSITIONS THROUGHOUT THE DISTRICT.
I JUST WANTED TO ADVENTURE THAT THAT WAS SOMETHING THAT WAS CLEAR TO EVERYBODY.
I KNOW, LIKE I'M TO YOU, AND I'M DEFINITELY NOT DISPUTING THE NEED FOR THESE POSITIONS, BECAUSE I KNOW THAT SOME OF THAT MORE HONOR WISHLISTS BACK CYCLE.
UM, BUT THE ONES THAT, YOU KNOW, AS THEIR GRANTS, ACCOUNTANTS, SR COORDINATOR, UM, THOSE TYPES, OBVIOUSLY THAT'S A SPECIFIC JOB TITLE.
AND I WOULD WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THE PEOPLE KNEW IN ADVANCE THAT IS MADE VERY CLEAR THAT THIS, THESE FUNDS WILL EXPIRE IN 2024.
AND THAT WE HAD A PLAN FOR ALL THE OTHERS, ALL THE OTHERS.
UM, WE WILL DEVELOP THAT PLAN AS, AS THE TIME GOES ON AS YOU'RE HIRED.
AND THEN WE'LL, UM, YOU KNOW, THERE COULD BE EXTENSIONS OF THESE FUNDS AT SOME POINT AS WELL.
SO THERE'S ALWAYS THAT POSSIBILITY.
UM, BUT WE DO HAVE, UH, ALTERNATIVE SPECIAL REVENUE FUNDING.
SO WE HAVE OTHER RESOURCES AVAILABLE TO US AND WE'LL EXHAUST EVERY POSSIBLE, UM, AVENUE TO KEEP ON THE TALENT THAT GOING TO DO.
WE HAVE GRANT WRITERS AND WHERE WE, WHERE WE SEE A REALLY GREAT RETURN ON INVESTMENT, WE MAY TRAVEL, ALIGN WITH POSSIBLE GRANTS THAT ARE OUT THERE TO CONTINUE THAT WORK.
I DON'T WANT US TO END UP IN A STICKY SITUATION LIKE EMPTYING SOME OTHERS.
SO WE NEED A MOTION TO EITHER ADJOURN OR CONTINUE OR WHATEVER THE BOARDS WILL IS TO MAKE A MOTION TO EXTEND I SEPARATELY.
SO COULD EVERYONE PUT THEIR HANDS DOWN SO WE CAN OUT OF DISCRETION.
IF ANYBODY WANTS TO HAVE A MOTION ON THE FLOOR, UH, MOUNTED CHAIR, I HAD MY HAND UP, I THOUGHT THAT THAT'S HOW YOU WANT US TO MAKE THE MOTION, MAKE THAT MOTION EMOTION'S ALREADY BEEN MADE.
BUT NORMALLY YOU WOULD SAY THAT YOU WOULD WANT SOMEONE TO HANDS UP AND YOU WOULD GO TO THEM BY THE NEXT PERSON THAT'S CALLED TO MAKE THE MOTION.
AND THAT'S WHY I PUT MY HAND UP SO THAT I COULD MAKE A MOTION.
I WAS JUST OBEYING WHAT YOU SAID, BEING RESPECTFULLY, TRYING TO, UH, BE BEING, UH, BE
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A GOOD BOARD MEMBER.OH, WELL, WHEN YOU SERVE, UM, SO MS. GUILT, RIGHT? YOU DON'T HAVE TO WITHDRAW MY MOTION AND THAT'S, YOU CAN MAKE AS MUCH, I DON'T HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THAT.
SO BASICALLY, I'M SORRY, MR. SMITH, WHEN SHE CALLED OUT, CAUSE YOU I'M SITTING IN THE ROOM, I JUST LEAVE RANKED, YOU KNOW, A LOT OF TIMES IN A BOARD MEETING SAY SO MOVED, I JUST REPLAYED OVER AND, UM, I GUESS GOT IN AHEAD OF YOU, BUT THE MOTION IS ON THE TABLE.
SO IT NEEDS TO BE DISPOSED OF BEFORE ANOTHER MOTION CAN COME FOURTH FLOOR.
SO DO YOU HAVE A COMMENT MR. SMITH? YOUR HAND IS STILL, YEAH.
SO MY QUESTION WOULD BE, WELL, HOW LONG OF AN EXTENSION UNTIL THE COMPLETION OF THE AGENDA? KATHY, SECOND QUESTION IS CALLED.
MOTION IS APPROVED EVERYONE IN FAVOR OF MR. SANCHEZ NOW.
ALL RIGHT, CONTINUE ON MY COMMENTS.
THE BOARD MEMBERS HAVE QUESTIONS REGARDING HER COMMENTS, SO YOU CAN PUT YOUR HANDS BACK UP AND I CALL THEM.
THANK YOU, MS. CROSBY, AND THANK YOU TO YOUR TEAM.
UH, APPRECIATE ALL OF YOUR HARD WORK.
AND THE NEXT ITEM IS, UH, THE SHIPPER JEN'S REPORT IS OTHER MATTERS AND IT'S A SCHOOL OPENINGS.
AND SO BEFORE I TURN A SCHOOL NAMES OVER TO, UH, THE DR.
BRADLEY, I JUST WANT TO, UH, MAKE THE FOLLOWING FOLLOWING STATEMENT AS WE MOVED THROUGH.
UM, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT OBVIOUSLY SALES I ALREADY HIGHLIGHTED FOR YOU IS AN ISSUE THAT WE DEAL WITH, UH, AS WE, AS WE HAVE TO ABIDE BY STATE LAW, BY MY RULES AND REGULATIONS, RIGHT? SO TODAY WE'RE GOING TO BE SHARING INFORMATION REGARDING THE OPENING OF SCHOOLS FOR THE 2021 AND 2022 SCHOOL YEAR.
AS WE BEGIN THE CONVERSATION, UH, I WANT TO SHARE THAT MASKS WITHIN OUR BUILDINGS AND NOT BE REQUIRED THERE'S SHOULD PROVIDES THEM, PROVIDES ZONE 1.108.
I BELIEVE IT IS THAT SPECIFICALLY DOES NOT ALLOW THE REQUIREMENT OF MASKS IN BUILDINGS FOR STUDENTS AND FOR STAFF.
AND, UM, SO WE HAVE TO ABIDE BY THAT.
YOU CAN RECALL LAST YEAR, IT WAS ONE OF THE MITIGATING STRATEGIES THAT WE USE.
WE TAKE OUR, OUR, OUR, OUR PLAN AND INITIATIVE WORKED WELL, UH, LAST YEAR, BUT IT IS NOT SOMETHING WE CAN DO THIS YEAR.
AND SO, UH, I BEGIN WITH THAT, WITH THAT STATEMENT TO SAY, THAT'S MANAGED WITHIN OUR BUILDINGS ARE OPTIONAL AS REQUIRED BY THE STATE PROVIDES.
HOWEVER, WE WILL ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO WEAR MASKS, UH, FOR SURE, RIGHT? IF THEY WANT TO, THEY CAN WEAR IT'S OPTIONAL, BUT WE STRONGLY ENCOURAGE THAT COULD BE THE CASE.
SO WITH THAT IN MIND, I'M GOING TO HAVE DR.
BRADLEY'S BEGIN, TAKE US THROUGH, WELL, THANK YOU, DR.
RODRIGUEZ, MADAM CHAIR, MEMBERS OF THE BOARD.
UH, SO WE ARE JUST UNDER TWO WEEKS AWAY FROM THE START OF THE 2122 SCHOOL YEAR.
UH, AND THIS START WILL BE BOTH SIMILAR AND DIFFERENT FROM LAST YEAR.
IT WILL BE SIMILAR BECAUSE MOST OF THE SAFETY PROTOCOLS AND SANITATION PRACTICES THAT WERE IMPLEMENTED LAST YEAR, AND THAT MOST OF US ARE FAMILIAR WITH WILL REMAIN IN PLACE.
WE WILL CONTINUE WITH STANDARD PROCEDURES LIKE THE USE OF SANITATION STATIONS AND ENHANCED CLEANING ROUTINES.
EACH SCHOOL RECEIVED A STARTER SET OF PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT AND OTHER SUPPLIES IF YOU'VE STOCKPILED AND THOSE TOOLS WILL BE ABLE TO SUPPLEMENT THOSE SUPPLIES BASED ON THEIR INDIVIDUAL NEEDS.
OUR SCHOOL-BASED PERSONNEL WILL ALSO ENSURE THAT RESPIRATORY AND CLEANLINESS ETIQUETTE WILL BE COMMON PRACTICE IN OUR BUILDINGS LIKE CLEANING HANDS AND WHACKING DOWN, COMMONLY USED SPACES AND MATERIALS, ET CETERA.
WE WILL ALSO BE ADHERING TO THE PRACTICE OF SOCIAL DISTANCING
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AT THREE FEET, OR TO THE EXTENT POSSIBLY AND PLASTIC OR PLEXIGLASS BARRIERS WILL BE AVAILABLE.BUSES WILL RUN AND SEATING CHARTS WILL BE UTILIZED TO MARK STUDENT PLACEMENTS.
ADDITIONALLY, OUR CAFETERIA IS ONCE AGAIN, BE OPERATIONAL AND AVAILABLE FOR FULL USE.
MUCH OF WHAT I'M REFERRING TO THIS EVENING WAS INCLUDED IN OUR DISTRICT SCHOOL REOPENING PLAN, WHICH WAS SENT TO THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION SEVERAL WEEKS AGO, THE SAFE ABOUT IT, A TEMPLATE WITH A NUMBER OF REOPENING CATEGORIES THAT ALL DISTRICTS STATEWIDE WERE EXPECTED TO ADDRESS THE SPIRIT OF THE PLAN IS TO MAKE EVERY EFFORT TO FULLY REOPEN AND RETURN TO NORMAL OPERATIONS.
FORTUNATELY, WE'VE BEEN OPERATING IN THAT MODE SINCE JANUARY OF LAST YEAR.
OUR PLAN WAS AUTHORED WITH FEEDBACK AND INPUT FROM EVERY MAJOR DISTRICT DIVISION, INCLUDING FINANCE, OPERATIONS, TRANSPORTATION COMMUNICATIONS, AND INSTRUCTIONAL SERVICES.
SO ITS DEVELOPMENT WAS THE RESULT OF A FULLY COOPERATIVE AND COLLABORATIVE EFFORT.
THE DISTRICTS TEACHER FORM AND SELECT PRINCIPALS ALSO PROVIDED INPUT AND WHICH WAS INCLUDED IN OUR PLAN.
IT'S ALSO WORTH NOTING THAT PARENT FEEDBACK WAS SOLICITED THROUGH THE DISTRICT'S WEBSITE.
IT'S IMPORTANT TO KNOW THAT OUR PLAN IS NOT STATIC.
THE STATE HAS REQUIRED THAT WE ENGAGE IN A PROCESS OF PERIODIC REVIEW EVERY SIX MONTHS UNTIL THE SPRING OF 2023.
SO EVERY MARCH AND EVERY SEPTEMBER, WE WILL ASSEMBLE OUR TEAM TO REVIEW OUR PRACTICES AND DETERMINE WHETHER MATERIAL CHANGES ARE NECESSARY.
OTHERWISE WE BELIEVE TO BE IN GOOD SHAPE HEADING INTO THE FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL ON MONDAY.
UM, SO I'VE ALREADY BEEN TALKING ABOUT THIS A LITTLE BIT, BUT WE'RE SEEING WHAT'S GOING ON IN GEORGIA, WHICH IS AT SCHOOLS ARE OPENING.
THERE'S A FEW POSITIVITY CASES AND IT'S SHUTTING DOWN.
AND PART OF THAT'S BECAUSE, UM, SOME SCHOOLS ARE STILL REQUIRING CLOSE CONTACT QUARANTINES.
WHAT I KNOW FROM THIS VIRUS, I'M NOT A DOCTOR.
AND MOSTLY IF IT'S MATH, IT'S TREMENDOUSLY CONTAGIOUS.
AND THERE IS EVIDENCE COMING OUT OF MEDICAL LITERATURE THAT VACCINATED PEOPLE ARE EVERY BIT AS INFECTIOUS AS NON-VACCINATED.
SO WE'RE GOING TO SEE POSITIVES MORE SO THAN WE SAW IN THE PREVIOUS YEAR.
ARE WE STILL GOING TO DO CLOSE CONTACT ORIENTATING? ARE WE GOING TO DO CONTACT TRACY WORK? YOU SIT NEXT TO SOMEBODY WHO'S POSITIVE.
YOU HAVE TO GET TESTED AND YOU HAVE TO STAY ON FOR 10 DAYS.
UH, MS. STAYTON, ARE YOU ON THE LINE? YES.
UM, THEY HAVE REDUCED, UM, WHO IS A CLOSE CONTACT FOR STUDENTS DOWN TO THREE FEET.
UM, BUT THAT HE HAD GUIDELINES AS BECAUSE CONTACT PRICING, WE WILL WORK WITH THEM, BUT, UM, THOSE GUIDELINES ARE PROVIDED BY D HECK ON WHO HAS TO QUARANTINE.
SO ANYONE WITHIN THREE FEET OF A POSITIVE PERSON WILL HAVE TO QUARANTINE WHETHER THEY'RE POSITIVE OR NOT, OR VACCINATED OR NOT.
WELL, IF THEY'RE VACCINATED, THEN THEY DON'T HAVE TO QUARANTINE WITHIN 90 DAYS OF THE VACCINATION ONCE THEY'RE FULLY VACCINATED.
AND CAN YOU CLARIFY, UH, MISSTATING WHAT THE, UH, IF YOU ARE, IF YOU WERE PREVIOUSLY POSITIVE, RIGHT? UH HOW'S THAT THAT'S ALSO 90 DAYS.
SO IF YOU'VE HAD COVID, UM, THEN YOU ALSO DON'T HAVE TO QUARANTINE FOR 90 DAYS AND BE CHANGED AS THERAPISTS CONSTANTLY.
THEY JUST PUT OUT NEW GUIDANCE ON FRIDAY.
SO WE'RE ALWAYS KIND OF CHANGING HOW WE'RE DOING.
WE HAVE SHORTENED THE QUARANTINE THIS YEAR, UM, WHO WAS A CLOSE CONTACT, SUCH AS GOTTEN SMALLER.
SO, YOU KNOW, IT IS LESS STRINGENT THAN IT WAS LAST YEAR, BUT YOUR POINT AS WELL, AND THIS IS GOING TO BE, THIS IS, UM, A PRETTY CONTAGIOUS VARIANT.
I JUST DIDN'T UNDERSTAND THAT.
DID SHE SAY THAT, UH, YOU HAVE TO HAVE THE VACCINE, SO IF YOU'VE HAD THE VACCINE IN MAY, YOU WOULD HAVE TO QUARANTINE, BUT IF YOU GOT IN THE VACCINE IN AUGUST, YOU DON'T HAVE TO QUARANTINE.
THAT IS THE GUIDANCE FROM THE CDC AND B HEC.
I'M NOT GONNA ARGUE WITH YOU BECAUSE YOU UNDERSTAND THAT THAT'S JUST GOING TO CAUSE CHAOS, CONFUSION AND VIRTUAL SCHOOL.
I MEAN THAT, WHY WOULD YOU, OKAY.
WHY IS THAT? BUT IT IS ONE OF THOSE, UH, AGAIN, AS I MENTIONED EARLIER, SEEKING CLARIFICATION FROM THE STATE DEPARTMENT, BECAUSE THIS JUST CAME OUT.
AND SO THIS IS SOMETHING WE'RE WRESTLING WITH, ALONG WITH ALL THE OTHER SCHOOL DISTRICTS.
CAN I FOLLOW UP ONE OTHER QUESTION? OKAY.
SO THE THING THAT I, YOU KNOW, WHAT WE'RE NOTICING, WHAT WE'RE SEEING IN GEORGIA IS IF WE DO THIS CONTACT, TRACY SCHOOLS ARE PRETTY MUCH GOING VIRTUALS WITHIN TWO OR THREE DAYS.
AND I USE DREW TURNER SCHOOL AS AN EXAMPLE.
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THEY, THEY, THEY TESTED 1900 STUDENTS THE WEEK BEFORE THEY HAD TWO STUDENTS GO POSITIVE.WITHIN THREE DAYS, THEY HAD A HUNDRED STUDENTS IN QUARANTINE AND THEY ALSO HAVE A MASS MASS MANDATE AND 60 WITH SOCIAL DISTANCING.
SO MY QUESTION IS, IF THAT IS INDEED DX RECOMMENDATION, AND WE ARE GOING TO DO OUR UTMOST TO FOLLOW IT BLINDLY INTO THIS CRAZY MAZE THEY'RE CREATING FOR SCHOOLS.
UM, DO WE HAVE A PLAN TO BASICALLY SHIFT ENTIRE SCHOOLS VIRTUAL, BUT THEN A WEEK OR TWO OF OPENING? WELL, WE, WE SHIFTED, UH, TO, TO VIRTUAL ON A DIME IN 2019, OR IT WASN'T, IT WASN'T THE GREATEST, UH, IN THE SENSE THAT IT HAS ITS LIMITATIONS AND WE'RE SEEING THE IMPACT, UH, ON STUDENTS, UM, EMPLOYERS.
RIGHT? SO, SO, UH, WE LITERALLY SHIFTED OVERNIGHT.
UM, AND SO, SO WHAT I WOULD SAY IS AT THIS JUNCTURE, UM, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE MORE EXPERIENCE, OUR TEACHERS HAVE MORE EXPERIENCE IN, IN THE VIRTUAL CAPACITY, BUT HAVING SAID THAT, WE KNOW THAT ACADEMICALLY, OUR KIDS AT SCHOOL IN FRONT OF US IS WHAT'S BEST.
AND WE'VE, WE'VE BEEN SAYING THAT, YOU KNOW, UM, AND, BUT, YOU KNOW, I THINK THE QUARANTINE PIECE IS, UH, IS, UH, IS, IS THAT STATE STATUTE TO, UM, MS. UH, SPAIN? YEAH.
DO HECK WE HAVE TO FOLLOW THE MANDATORY EXCLUSIONS FROM BEEHAG AND THEY REQUIRE THAT WE DO THE QUARANTINING AND D HECK USUALLY TELLS US THE QUARANTINING.
WE DON'T ANTICIPATE HAVING TO MAKE THAT SHIFT AND LEGAL DREAD IF WE EVER IN THAT POSITION.
BUT I THINK THE GOOD NEWS IS THAT WE HAVE A MINIMUM, THE INFRASTRUCTURE TO DO SO WE HAVE THE DEVICES, WE HAVE THE EXPERIENCE THAT OUR TEACHERS AND DO IT ALL FROM LAST YEAR WHERE WE WENT TO HYBRID, WE STARTED IN FULL VIRTUAL, BUT THAT'S SOMETHING, OBVIOUSLY WE JUST HOPE NOT TO HAVE TO EXPERIENCE.
RODRIGUEZ'S POINT, UM, WE'LL BE PREPARED.
I'LL SAY WE'RE BETTER POSITIONED THAN WE WERE IN, UH, MOST OF 20, 19, 20, 20, MARCH, 20, 20, 20 10, MARCH, 2020.
UM, I FEEL LIKE, YOU KNOW, THE DISTRICT IS VERY PREPARED.
I JUST THINK THE RULES ARE CHANGING AND THE PROBLEM, I'M SORRY, THIS IS GOING TO BE CONVERSATIONAL.
I THINK, I FEEL A, FEEL LIKE MY, UH, GOT A SUPERINTENDENCY OF COVID, RIGHT.
I MEAN, SINCE I'VE BEEN HERE JUST ABOUT THIS, THIS WOULD HAVE BEEN GRAPPLING, YOU KNOW, BUT, BUT, UM, SO I THINK WE'RE, WE'RE IN A BETTER PLACE THAN WE WEREN'T BACK THEN WE HAVE MORE DEVICES FOR CONNECTIVITY TO SUPPORT STUDENT.
I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT LAPTOP PHONE.
I'M TALKING ABOUT CUTTING ACTIVITIES FOR STUDENTS WHO ARE IN AREAS WHERE BROADBAND STILL ISN'T AND INCREASED SCALE AND EFFICACY OF OUR TEACHERS TO BE ABLE TO DELIVER VIRTUAL INSTRUCTION.
I'M NOT, THIS IS NOT YOUR FIGHT.
UM, FIRST FOR THE PUBLIC, CAN WE IDENTIFY WHO MRS. JEAN IS? AND WHAT'S HER, WHAT'S HER POSITION SO THAT THE PEOPLE WHO ARE LISTENING, UH, THEY WILL KNOW EXACTLY WHO WE'RE HEARING FROM.
OH, UH, ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT MISTAKEN GENERAL? YES, SIR.
HE'S OUR RISK MANAGEMENT, UH, UH, DIRECTOR OF RISK.
AND SEE THE RESTAURANT AS DIRECTOR OF RISK MANAGEMENT.
UH, I WAS WONDERING, UH, WHO, WHO SHE WAS ON MYSELF AND THAT KIND OF FIGURED OUT, BUT I KNOW THE GENERAL PUBLIC MAY NOT KNOW IF PEOPLE WHO, WHO ARE TUNED IN.
UM, UH, ONE OF MY QUESTIONS IS AS WELL AS DO THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL RIGHT NOW, HOW THEY, BECAUSE I HAVE SEPARATE PARENTS THAT ASKED ME, DO THEY HAVE THE RIGHT TO VIRTUAL SCHOOL RIGHT NOW? PERSONAL SCHOOL RIGHT NOW IS NOT AN OPTION FOR OUR ELEMENTARY STUDENTS.
WE HAVE LIMITED OUR VIRTUAL PLAN JUST FOR SELECT MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS ON RECOMMENDATION, OR QUITE FRANKLY, A VARIETY OF FACTORS THAT WOULD COME, UH, APPARENTLY FROM OUR PRINCIPALS REVIEW OF, UH, STUDENT PERFORMANCE, HOW THEY ACTUALLY PERFORM DURING VIRTUAL INSTRUCTION LAST YEAR.
BUT AGAIN, I THINK THE IMPETUS FOR OUR REOPENING PLAN, WHICH HAS COME FROM THE DIRECTION OF WHICH HAS COME FROM THE STATE, WHICH IS TO REALLY FULLY RETURN TO NORMAL OPERATIONS.
SO WE'RE NOT REALLY ENCOURAGING A, A Y COMPREHENSIVE VIRTUAL PROGRAM, BUT JUST FOR A SELECT NUMBER OF STUDENTS IN A SMALL RACE SPAN, WHICH IS OUR INFORMED MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS.
AND WHAT GRADE LEVELS ARE THOSE, UH, SIXTH, SEVENTH, AND EIGHTH.
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IN ALL HA ALL HIGH SCHOOL KIDS CAN GO VIRTUAL HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS CAME, CAN TAKE, UH, SOME CLASSES THROUGH S THE VIRTUAL, BUT IT'S COURSES.IT'S NOT NECESSARILY A SCHOOL EXPERIENCE, RIGHT? WELL, YOU KNOW, WELL, I'VE HAD SEVERAL PARENTS WHO HAVE REACHED OUT AND HAVE ASKED ME THAT WITH DEEP CONCERNS OF THEIR KIDS GOING TO SCHOOL WITH THEM AND THAT THEM AND THAT THEY HAVE PARENTS HAVE, HAVE UNDERLYING CONDITION, AS WELL AS THE KIDS HAVE UNDERLYING CONDITIONS.
SO I'M SURE THAT, UM, THIS WOULD BE SOMETHING I THINK THE DISTRICT WILL, UM, I'LL BE LOOKING FORWARD TO A PLAN THAT WHICH WILL HELP, WHICH WAS, WHICH WILL CATER TO THOSE PEOPLE WHO HAVE UNDERLYING ISSUES.
DO WE HAVE A BACKUP PLAN FOR TEACHERS AND STUDENTS WHO HAVE DOCTOR'S NOTE? THEY SAY THAT THEY CANNOT GO IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AS WELL.
MS. WALTON, ARE YOU ON, CAN YOU ADDRESS WHAT, UH, THE FEDERAL AND STATE SITUATION IS WITH RESPECT TO, UM, UM, ACCOMMODATIONS, THE ACCOMMODATIONS IN PLACE THAT ALWAYS WILL BE IN PLACE IS THE EMPLOYEE'S RIGHT TO APPLY FOR FMLA WITH MEDICAL PROVIDERS.
EXCUSE, I THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH MS. WALTON, BUT DR.
RODRIGUEZ, MY QUESTION IS, DO THE DISTRICT HAVE A PLAN IN PLACE FOR STUDENTS IN THE ELEMENTARY, AS WELL AS TEACHERS WHO MAY NOT BE, WHO MAY HAVE A DOCTOR'S EXCUSE THAT SAID THAT, THAT THEY HAVE ON THE UNDERLINE THAT I'M LYING, THE UNDERLYING, THE UNDERLYING ISSUES DO DO MY QUESTION IS SIMPLY DO THE DISTRICT HAVE A PLAN IN PLACE FOR THAT THIS MS. WALTON RESPONDED TO YOUR QUESTION ABOUT EMPLOYEES, BUT WITH RESPECT TO STUDENTS, UH, WE HAVE MEDICAL HALL DOWN, UH, THAT IS A POSSIBILITY FOR STUDENTS.
SO BASICALLY EVER, IF, IF A STUDENT HABIT, WE WOULD JUST USE LIKE A MEDICAL HOME BILE, THEY HAVE TO, UH, HAVE A DOCTOR'S NOTE, I BELIEVE, AND THEN IT WOULD BE APPROVED FOR MEDICAL HOME NOW.
AND THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR, DO WE HAVE ANY KIND OF FEELING OF THE STATUS OF IMMUNIZATIONS, OUR TEACHERS AND OUR STAFF? DO WE KNOW WHO IS IN THE NAME AND WHO IS NOT? SO WE CAN DEAL WITH THAT.
WE DON'T HAVE A SPECIFIC LIST OF IMMUNIZED AND NON-UNIONIZED EMPLOYEES.
UH, WHAT I CAME TO YOU IS THAT IN THE FALL, I'M SORRY.
IN THE SPRING OF LAST YEAR, WHEN WE HAD A BAGS VACCINE CLINIC, WE HAD, UM, UH, UH, I BELIEVE IT WAS CLOSE TO 800 EMPLOYEES THAT, UH, THAT GOT BACK TO ME.
THOSE WERE THE ONES THAT GOT VACCINATED AT OUR, UH, AT OUR VACCINE CLINICS, RIGHT.
UH, MANY OTHERS, YOU KNOW, HAD GONE IN AND WE GOT EXITED ON THE WRONG, RIGHT.
DIDN'T HAVE TO DO IT THROUGH US.
UH, AND, AND, BUT A SPECIFIC NUMBER AS TO WHO IS, AND WHO IS IT? I DO NOT HAVE THAT.
WE DO NOT HAVE THAT INFORMATION.
UH, WE DIDN'T COLLECT THAT INFORMATION FROM EMPLOYEES.
UM, UM, WE HAVE ENCOURAGED, UH, EMPLOYEES, ALL, UH, UM, AND ANY STUDENT THAT'S STRONG ENOUGH TO, UM, CAN GET VACCINATED IF THEY'RE ELIGIBLE.
UM, WHEN WE ENCOURAGE THAT, UH, I HAVE SPOKEN WITH, UH, BUFORD MEMORIAL HOSPITAL, UH, JUST ON FRIDAY, LAST WEEK.
AND, UH, MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT THEY'RE CURRENTLY SEEING AN UPTICK IN VACCINATIONS THAT, THAT FOR A WHILE THERE, IT HAD JUST PLATEAUED, BUT THEY ARE SEEING IN THE COMMUNITY AND INCREASING VACCINATION.
AND WE ARE LOOKING AT, UH, TRYING TO HOST ANOTHER VACCINE CLINIC FOR 12 AND UP, UH, FOR, FOR, UH, YOU KNOW, PARENTS, THEY WANT PACK THEIR STUDENTS VACCINATED.
UH, AND OF COURSE, YOU KNOW, A FULLBACK FULLY VACCINATED IS AN EXTENDED PERIOD OF TIME, BUT FIX, FIX TWO VACCINES.
AND TWO WEEKS AFTER THE SECOND, UH, FOLLOW-UP, UH, I HOPE THAT OUR FOOTBALL TEAMS AND OTHER ATHLETIC TEAMS ARE STRONGLY ENCOURAGING THE VACCINATION SO THAT THEY CAN SLAY THERE'S PORCH.
MAYBE THAT SHOULD BE A GREAT INCENTIVE TO GET VACCINATED, BECAUSE ONE OF THE MEMBERS OF THE GENES COME DOWN THAT ARE YOU GOING TO BE ON THAT ON THE FIELD? ON SATURDAY,
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I HAD THE GOOD FORTUNE OF SPEAKING AT THE COACHES ON VACATION LAST WEEK.AND THERE WAS REALLY GOOD ENERGY AROUND THAT AND NOT WITHSTANDING THE SUCCESS OF THE LOCAL VIDEO BY ATHLETIC TEAMS LAST YEAR.
I THINK THE, THE, THE, THE, UH, WHAT COACHES ARE COMMUNICATING TO THEIR TEAMS IS THAT IF THEY WANT TO CONTINUE TO BE ABLE TO COMPETE AND HAVE UNINTERRUPTED SEASONS AND TO COMPETE FOR SCHOLARSHIPS AND REPRESENT THE DISTRICT, THEN VACCINATIONS ON IT OBVIOUSLY ARE SOMETHING THAT THEY ARE OBVIOUSLY ENCOURAGING.
AND, UM, AND SO WE'RE HOPEFUL.
UM, THIS QUESTION IS FOR MS. STATE WHEN WE COULD JUST ASK YOU TO REPEAT THAT ONE MORE TIME, WHAT YOU SAID ABOUT THE 90 DAYS.
SO AM I UNDERSTANDING CORRECTLY THAT THEY STUDENT WAS VACCINATED OVER 90 DAYS AGO? AND IT IS, HAS BEEN TOLD THAT THEY ARE COMING CLOSE CONTACT WITH SOMEONE WITH COVID AND THEY HAVE TO POUR INTO IT.
IF A STUDENT HAS NOT BEEN VACCINATED, BUT CAN PROVE AN ANTIBODY TEST DOES THE SAME THING HOLD TRUE FOR THAT STUDENT, THAT IF IT WAS WITH THAT 90 DAYS, THEN THEY WOULD NOT HAVE TO WARRANTY IF THEY'VE PROVED THAT THEY HAD COVID CORRECT.
I DIDN'T MEAN TO GO OVER, BUT I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE I JUST DO IT CORRECTLY.
I HAVE THE SAME QUESTION AS YOU AND I DON'T, I CAN'T FIND MISTAKEN.
WHERE, WHERE ARE YOU GETTING THAT INFORMATION? I CANNOT FIND THAT BECAUSE THE CDC, FOR THOSE PEOPLE THAT ARE VACCINATED, IF THEY'RE EXPOSED, THEY DON'T HAVE TO QUARANTINE.
THAT'S WHAT I SEE AS OF YESTERDAY.
I CAN'T FIND ANYTHING THAT SAYS THAT CHANGED TODAY.
THAT MAKES NO SENSE THOUGH, BECAUSE THEY'RE SAYING THAT THE, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE SPECIFICALLY SAYING AFTER YOU DON'T HAVE TO GET A BOOSTER VACCINE NOW.
SO IF THAT IMPLIES WHAT YOU'VE JUST SAID, THAT THE, THE, UH, UH, IMMUNITY FROM THE VACCINE IS THREE MONTHS OR LESS, AND THAT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE.
IT SAYS IF YOU HAVE HAD THE, UH, COVID INFECTION THAT YOUR IMMUNITY, THEY'RE NOT CERTAIN HOW LONG IT LASTS, SO THEY ARE MAKING THE 90 DAY DEATH.
BUT, YOU KNOW, UH, WHEN, UH, THAT IF YOU HAVE TO HAVE HAD IT WITHIN THE LAST 90 DAYS TO BE CONSIDERED A MEETING, BUT I, I'M JUST THINKING WE'RE SENDING SORT OF A CONFUSED MESSAGE HERE.
IT'S, IT'S COMPLICATED, BUT WE'LL MAKE SURE THAT WE GET IT CLEANED UP AND COMMUNICATED EFFECTIVELY TO PARENTS AND FAMILIES, AS WE PREPARE TO START THE SCHOOL YEAR, BECAUSE I THINK THAT, UH, SOME OF THE GUIDANCE AND SOME OF THE CHANGING DYNAMICS OF, OF, OF, OF, UH, OF THE DELTA VARIANT ARE REQUIRING THAT WE HAVE SPLIT SOMETHING IN WRITING AND THEN GET IT OUT.
SO COULD YOU SEND ME THE LINKS TONIGHT? MISTAKEN? BECAUSE I JUST, I CAN'T FIND THEM.
I'LL SEND IT TO YOU RIGHT NOW.
SO THIS DINNER TO FINISH THAT, I SAID SOMETHING.
MS. BELGRADE, WHEN YOU'RE ASKED THAT, THE OTHER THING MS. STATE IS IT'S 90 DAYS FROM THE FIRST DOSE OR THE SECOND DOSE, SINCE ALL OF OUR STUDENTS WILL HAVE PFIZER, IT WOULD BE THE SECOND DOSE ONCE THEY'RE FULLY VACCINATED.
SO, UH, 2, 3, 4, 5 ON PAGE FIVE IN THAT DOCUMENT, UH, YOU SEE THE FIRST BULLET POINT ON THERE, DARK, DARK, DARK BULLETED POINT.
COVID-19 INTERIM GUIDANCE FOR K-12 SCHOOL OPERATIONS, RIGHT? CORRECT.
SO WHEN I READ THAT BULLET POINT, THAT BULLET POINT SAYS FULLY VACCINATED PEOPLE AND PEOPLE VERIFY POSITIVE PCR, ANTIGEN TEST, WHO HAVE BEEN INFECTED WITH COVID-19 IN THE PREVIOUS 90 DAYS, WHO WERE IN CLOSE CONTACT WITH SOMEONE WHO HAS COVID-19, BUT DOES NOT HAVE COVID-19 SYMPTOMS SAYS, DO NOT NEED TO QUARANTINE.
THAT SAYS, WHEN I READ THAT, THAT MEANS FULLY VACCINATED.
NOW LET'S TALK ABOUT, UH, THOSE THAT HAVE BEEN INFECTED WITHIN 90 DAYS.
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IF YOU GO WITH THIS WITH, IF YOU'RE BEYOND 90 DAYS, THOSE, UH, INDIVIDUALS THEN WOULD HAVE TO BE QUARANTINED.WHEN I READ THAT, THAT'S WHAT THAT SAYS TO ME.
SO, UM, WHAT WE'LL DO IS WE WILL WORK WITH DNA AS INVOLVED.
WE'VE DONE, WE'LL CLARIFY THOSE PLANS.
WE WILL HAVE COMMUNICATION OUT TO OUR PARENTS ABOUT ALL THIS AND EVERYTHING ELSE.
I JUST, I THINK TOO, A LOT OF EATING.
CAN YOU LET ME GO AHEAD, MR. CAMPO? UM, I I'M CONCERNED WITH THE GENERAL TREND OF, OF THE KNOWLEDGE.
WELL, WHEN WE GOING TO REACT, UH, AND HE SAID, AS A PLAN I NEED IN PLACE.
I MEAN, WHEN WE STARTED, I GUESS, A COMMON PLAN, I'M ASSUMING IS THAT A PLAN TO LEAVE MONTHS AGO OF OPENING A SCHOOL YEAR, THAT THIS WOULD BE THIS BARRIER TO BE CIVIL EXTENSIVELY, BUT NOW IT'S CLEAR THE SOFT NUMBERS HAVE SHIFTED DRAMATICALLY WHEN WE WERE PAID TO REACT TO THAT.
ALL WE PAID TO JUST GO INTO WIC, STEPPED DOWN, HOPE THAT THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE SAYING.
IF WE HAD TO, IF WE HAD TO ADJUST INTO, INTO A VIRTUAL, UH, FORMAT, THEN, THEN WE WOULD SHIFT OVER.
YEAH, MY QUESTION IS, IS THERE AN INCREMENTAL ADJUSTMENTS, ZAPPER YOU'VE SELECTED PASSCODE TEACHERS, OR YOU'VE GOT TO GO FULL SLATE VIRTUAL EVERY MONTH TO BANK ADVERSARIES.
I THINK WHAT I WOULD, WHAT I WOULD JUST SAY IS YOU, YOU, YOU HAVE, YOU KNOW, SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE YOU'VE BEEN IN HIGH SCHOOL AND IN SCHOOL SETTING AND STUDENTS HAVE SCHEDULES WITH MULTIPLE CLASSES, RIGHT? UH, WHEN, WHEN WE SHIFTED TO FIND WOMEN MODE, RIGHT, THAT WAS MASTER SCHEDULE OVERHAUL.
WHEN WE SHIFTED TO, UH, UH, UH, FULL, UH, FACE-TO-FACE OPTION.
RIGHT? I MEAN, THOSE THINGS DON'T HAPPEN LIKE THIS, THOSE TAKE THOSE TAKE A FEW WEEKS, UH, THE LAYOUT SO THAT YOU CAN TRANSITION INTO THAT IF YOU'D LIKE, UH, WELL, I UNDERSTAND YOUR QUESTION, BUT DO YOU HAVE, UH, CAN YOU PROVIDE ME WITH A THOUGHT OR A SOLUTION? YEAH.
BEN WAS, WHAT DOES NUMBERS NEED TO BE BEFORE YOU SAY SOMETHING LIKE, MAKE IT OPTIONAL, WALK BACK PEOPLE TO GO VIRTUAL? I THINK WHAT WE WOULD HAVE TO DO IS, AGAIN, THAT'S, THAT'S NOT, THAT'S NOT JUST, UH, YOU KNOW, UM, NO, THERE'S NO CLEAR CUT NUMBER FOR WHAT I'M LISTENING TO RIGHT NOW.
IT'S NOT IT'S, WE WE'VE WE'VE WEIGHED, UH, YOU KNOW, DO WE, DO WE DO, WE DO VIRTUAL INSTRUCTOR.
I SIT HERE, UH, EVERY MONTH AND I HEAR FROM ALL OF YOU EVERY MONTH ABOUT AN IMPROVING ACHIEVEMENT AND IMPROVING ACHIEVEMENT, IMPROVING ACHIEVEMENT, WE SHOW THAT IMPROVING ACHIEVEMENT WITH JUST VIRTUAL PROGRAMMING DOESN'T HAPPEN EITHER.
RIGHT? AND SO WE TRIED TO DEVISE A PLAN THAT WOULD WORK WITH GETTING OUR STUDENTS BACK IN SCHOOL, GIVEN THE SHIFT AND THE CHANGE THAT WE'RE SEEING.
I THINK THE CHALLENGE THAT, THAT LIES THERE IS YOU CAN SHIFT TO AN ALL VIRTUAL MODE, RIGHT? OR IF YOU'RE GOING TO SHIFT TO A, TO A HYBRID MODE, THAT'S GOING TO TAKE YOU TWO WEEKS TO SHIFT INTO A HYBRID MODE, MAYBE LONGER BECAUSE GUIDANCE COUNSELORS HAVE TO FIX SCHEDULES.
YOU HAVE TO IDENTIFY WHICH KIDS WHICH KIDS CAN, UH, WANT TO GO VIRTUAL.
THEN YOU HAVE TO DETERMINE WHETHER YOU HAVE CLASSES, THEN DO THOSE CLASSES MATCH THE CURRENT CLASSES THAT THEY HAVE.
AND IS IT POSSIBLE TO CONTINUE ON THAT PATH WITH THAT'S GOOD? I MEAN, THAT'S, OH, THAT'S LIKE, UH, UH, I'M CONCERNED WITH US BEING FLAT-FOOTED AND WE HAVE TO MAKE AN EMERGENCY CHANGE, AND THAT'S GONNA LOOK
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A LOT MORE, YOU KNOW, UNPAID THAT IF WE WERE PREPARING FOR SOME CHANGE AND WE DON'T HAVE TO USE, I MEAN, I UNDERSTAND A LITTLE ABILITY OF TRYING TO KEEP THEM FACE TO FACE AND KEEP EVERYBODY ON THE SCHOOL'S.LIKE, I, I LOVE THAT, BUT AT THE SAME TIME, THESE NUMBERS ARE NO JOKE.
I DO WANT US TO BE IN TERMS OF WHAT WE'RE, WHAT WE'RE DOING AND SENDING THE MESSAGE TO THE, TO THE, TO THE PARENTS THAT WE ARE PREPARED.
AND WE ALL CONCERN, WE'RE NOT LOCKED DOWN TO SITUATION AS THEY'RE NOT BEING MADE HAPPEN.
SOME PEOPLE ANTICIPATE THAT WE ALL WANT TO GET THIS VIRUS AT THE PEACE IS GONE.
NOW, ARE WE GOING TO BE ABLE TO MAKE THE ADJUSTMENTS AS WE SEE THAT HAPPENING IN THE SOUP? SO WE GONE BE ABLE TO NEED TO DO SOME THINGS LIKE YOUR THOUGHTS, YOUR HYDRANT, AND WHAT PERCENTAGE OF CAN WE MAKE THAT PREPARATION WITH, YOU KNOW,
AND WOULD TAKE SOME DOING, BUT YOU CAN DO THAT QUICKER THAN YOU CAN IN A MIDDLE SCHOOL OR HIGH SCHOOL WITH SUBJECT SELECTION.
I WOULDN'T WANT TO HAVE TO DO THAT, BUT I'M JUST LOOKING AT IT FROM A REAL SENSE.
PROBABLY FOR ME, THESE NUMBERS ARE GOING THAT WAY, GOING FROM 2% TO 17%.
THAT'S NOT A, THAT'S A COMBO 70%.
REMEMBER WHAT WE SAID, OH, WE DID NOT WANT HIM TO GO BACK AND PRESENT WHAT HE DIDN'T SPEND AND IT'S GOING THAT WAY.
AND I DON'T KNOW IF THIS NEW SURGE OF FASCINATIONS BY CHANGE THAT.
WILL WE GET THOSE SAM TIME?
NOT JUST LIKE RIGHT NOW, WE, THERE IS NO OBJECTIVE CRITERIA THAT WE HAVE JUST HAD THAT WE'LL SET THAT TRIGGERS FOR US WHO WANT TO TRANSITION TO A DIFFERENT MOMENT.
I DO THINK THAT THE BRIEFINGS THAT DR.
RODRIGUEZ GETS FROM THE STATE DEPARTMENT, THE CORRESPONDENCE THAT WE HAVE WITH THE PARTNERSHIP THAT WE HAVE WITH THE DISTRICTS CAN HELP TO INFORM WHEN WE, IF WE EVER REACHED THAT POINT.
BUT I ALSO THINK THAT THE CHARGE FOR US IS TO YOUR POINT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE A CONTINGENCY PLAN THAT ALLOWS US TO SWITCH ON A DIME.
CAN WE PLEASE, UH, TO BE HONEST, WE, IT WOULD PROBABLY HAVE TO BE A SWITCH TO A VIRTUAL COMPONENT.
UH, THERE, THERE WOULDN'T BE A MIDDLE GROUND OF A HYBRID FOR A FEW WEEKS, RIGHT.
SO IT WOULD BE TO A VIRTUAL COMPONENT, UH, FOR A SCHOOL, THEN THAT TO BE A DISTRICT WIDE THING, IT DEPENDS ON HOW IT'S HAPPENING WITH NEW SCHOOL.
IT WOULD HAVE TO BE TO A FULL VIRTUAL COMPONENT.
AND THEN, AND THEN IF WE WERE GOING TO GO BACK TO HYBRID AS A STEP BACK IN, WE WOULDN'T HAVE TO THEN, UH, UH, UH, YOU KNOW, IT WOULD TAKE A FEW WEEKS FOR PEOPLE TO CHANGE SCHEDULES AND ALL THAT SORT OF THING TO MAKE THAT WORK.
YOU CAN'T HAVE A TEMPORARY, I'M JUST SAYING AS A PRINCIPAL, I WOULD WANT TO KNOW WHAT KIND OF PREPARATION WOULD BE IN PLACE.
AND I'M SURE YOU'D WANT TO KNOW WHAT PRINCIPALS, SO PLACE, THE EASIER IT IS TO MAKE THAT IMMEDIATE TRANSITION.
AND, AND IN THE NEXT TWO DAYS, WE'RE, WE'RE WITH OUR PRINCIPALS AND THAT'S, THAT'S HOW THOSE MEETINGS ARE SCHEDULED.
SO THAT IS OUR TIME TO EFFECTIVELY COMMUNICATE ANY OF THOSE POTENTIAL TRANSITION PIECES.
BUT IT, IT WOULDN'T BE, AS WE'RE TRYING TO MOVE INTO THIS WITH, WITH, UH, FACE-TO-FACE FIVE DAYS A WEEK PIECE
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TO MEET THAT, THAT BANG 10, AND THESE ARE AT THE SAME TIME, IF WE SWITCHED, WE WOULD SWITCH THE VIRTUAL BECAUSE THERE WAS, THERE IS, THERE IS NO WAY TO DO A MIDDLE GROUND FOR US TO KNOW THAT TOO, THAT IF YOU SWITCH, YOU'RE GOING TO BE VIRTUAL AND THEN ALL OF IT, TECHNOLOGICALLY TEACHER PREPARATION WOULD BE ON THAT.IF YOU HAVE IT ALSO MANAGING THE NUMBERS AND LOOKING AT THE NUMBERS AND GIVING THE THOUGHT THAT, HEY, YOU KNOW, WE MIGHT BE SWITCHING TO PAY IT.
AND LESSON WISE DISREGARDED TOLD US THAT IT WAS NOT GOING TO GET THERE.
AND ONE OF THE CHALLENGES WITH THE VIRTUAL COMPONENT IS THERE IS A PROVISO OUT THERE TOO, THAT LIMITS, UH, UH, VIRTUAL INSTRUCTION TO 5% OF THE STUDENTS AT THIS MOMENT IN TIME.
BUT, BUT IF, BUT IF, BUT IF WE HIT THAT STATE AND THAT FOR MINE, SO STILL A PLACE.
THAT'S SOMETHING
WE'VE GOT ALL OF THESE THINGS MOVING AROUND.
THAT'S OUR, THAT WOULD BE OUR SUPPORT PLAN.
IS THAT SHIFT THE TIME, PLEASE? UM, I CAN TELL MR. SMITH, UM, UM, I'M, UH, DEFINITELY RIGHT IN LINE WITH MR. CAMP BECAUSE I'VE DEFINITELY HAVE A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT ASKED ME THOSE QUESTIONS.
UM, AND I JUST WANT TO PIGGYBACK AT WHAT POINT, IF WE WOULD GO TO A VIRTUAL, WHAT, WHAT WOULD BE, WHAT WOULD BE THE TURNING POINT OR WHAT WOULD BE THE FACTOR INTO TO MAKE THAT DECISION? YEAH, I'LL GO BACK TO HOW WE DISCUSSED THIS LAST YEAR.
I'M NOT GOING TO GET INTO THIS AND OUR TEAM COULD GET TO THAT AS, AS, AS WE SEE THOSE THINGS HAPPEN, RIGHT.
UH, WE WORKED WITH CONSTANTLY LAST YEAR TO MAKE THE DECISIONS THAT WE HAD TO MAKE, YOU KNOW, ALL THE WAY.
UH, SO IT'S, IT'S NOT, UH, IT'S NOT, HERE'S A SPOT, HERE'S THE NUMBER, RIGHT? I MEAN IT EMBARRASSED.
SO, SO WHAT, WHAT'S YOUR, WHAT'S YOUR SAYING IS THAT YOU WILL LET D HAT GUIDE YOU ON WHEN THE SHUTDOWN, IS THAT WHAT YOU'RE SAYING? WHAT I'M SAYING IS WE WILL WORK WITH, THANK YOU ALSO, UM, JUST, JUST TO MOVE ON TO THE GUESTS AS HEATED, UH, WHAT, UH, WHAT IS THE, WHAT IS THE CRITERIA FOR MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS TO GO VIRTUAL MR. SMITH? OKAY.
YES, MA'AM IT IS A GPA OF 2.75 THAT IS BEING CALCULATED AT THE DISTRICT LEVEL, THAT ATTENDANCE GOOD GRADES IN PRIVATE VIRTUAL EXPERIENCES, RECOMMENDATION FROM YOUR PRINCIPAL, AS WELL AS YOUR SCHOOL COUNSELOR.
UH, ALSO, SO THE BUS WILL BE ABOUT BEHAVIOR, UH, WILL NOT BE ONE OF, ONE OF THE REASONS THOUGH, SEVERE BEHAVIOR IN THE SENSE OF STUFF, A STUDENT HEADING EXCESSIVE DISCIPLINARY ACTION.
IT IS NEGATIVE ON THE INTERNET THAT OUR STUDENT NOT BEING ABLE TO BE COOPERATIVE IN A VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT.
SO BEHAVIOR IS A QUALIFIER, BUT WE'RE SPEAKING HIGH LEVEL BEHAVIOR, NOT THE BASIC CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT.
AND THAT'S A RUN UP, HAPPENS IN MANY CLASSROOMS. I FORGOT AT THE BACK THERE.
AND ALSO THAT DESCRIBES HOW HAS THAT BEHAVIOR MEASURED RIGHT OUT OF THE DISCIPLINARY REFERRALS THAT WE RECEIVE AND REVIEW, SIR, AND THEN LOOKING AT ATTENDANCE AND AS WELL AS THE SUSPENSION RATE OF STUDENTS LOOK RUNNING DISCIPLINARY REPORTS TO THOSE WHO HAD ALREADY BEEN IN VIRTUAL PROGRAMS. SO WE ACTUALLY DO
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HAVE THAT DATA IS STILL BEING COLLECTED.I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE I UNDERSTOOD THIS RIGHT BACK.
RODRIGUEZ, THAT DECISIONS TO SHUT DOWN COULD BE, UM, BE BY BUILDING LEVEL, BY NOT, DOESN'T HAVE TO BE DISTRICT.
THIS COULD BE MADE BY A CLASSROOM.
DECISIONS COULD BE MADE BY THE WING OF THE SCHOOL.
THE DECISION COULD BE MADE BY THE BUILDING.
IT JUST DEPENDED ON, ON, ON, ON THE IMPACT AND WE WORK CLOSELY WITH YOU.
AND I THINK WE'RE READY THEN WE'RE LAWN PERSON AT SCHOOL ON THE 16TH MONDAY, WE'LL BE READY, WHAT'S WRONG, BUT THEY DON'T EDUCATIONAL LAND CONSOLE.
UH, SO YES, IT WAS, UH, REQUESTED THAT WE GIVE AN UPDATE ON THE LANE CONSULTANT.
UM, MS. UM, CRUTCHFIELD MIGHT HAVE MET WITH TWO POSSIBLE CANDIDATES, UM, COMING WITH TWO DIFFERENT BACKGROUNDS.
UH, WE'VE TALKED TO THEM AND LOOKED AT SOME OF THE BACKGROUND INFORMATION.
WE ARE WANTING TO PRESENT THEM AND HAVE A FURTHER FROM THE SENIOR STAFF AS FAR AS IN SENIOR LEADERSHIP.
UM, AS FAR AS PARTICIPATING IN THAT SELECTION AND FOLLOWING THAT WE WILL BE BRINGING THEM RECOMMENDATIONS.
ANY QUESTIONS? SO TIMELINE, WHEN DO YOU ANTICIPATE THAT MIGHT HAPPEN? I WILL, AS FAR AS, UM, BUT BY THE NEXT FOUR WEEKS, I WOULD SAY THAT THAT'S MY EXPECTATION.
ALRIGHT, WE'RE READY FOR BOARD
[7. Board Business Action]
BUSINESS ACTION.WE, ONCE AGAIN, I JUST WANTED TO PLEASE INTRODUCE BRIAN ERICA COMPASS, NEW SCHOOL ADVISORS.
WE HAVE SOME GREAT FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES.
AND HE'LL TALK ABOUT THOSE TO WHAT DO YOU MEAN EVERYONE OF DR.
RODRIGUEZ? UH, MY NAME IS BRIAN ERG.
UM, WELL, I'D BE HERE TONIGHT.
UM, SPIRITED, UH, UH, VERY INTERESTING, INTERESTING DISCUSSION.
I'VE GOT TWO CHILDREN, UH, IN HIGH SCHOOL.
IT'S INTERESTING TO LISTEN TO FROM A PARENTAL PERSPECTIVE, A TOUGH ABOUT THE ONLY GOOD THING FROM COVID THAT I'VE BEEN ABLE TO COME UP WITH IS THAT INTEREST RATES ARE VERY LOW.
AND, UH, SO, UM, JULY 6TH, UH, I WROTE A MEMO TO THE FINANCE COMMITTEE, WHICH WAS THEN SHARED AT THE FOLLOWING BOARD MEETING ABOUT TWO FOR FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES THAT I HAD IDENTIFIED THAT IS SUCCESSFUL WOULD PROVIDE AN INTEREST COST SAVINGS TO THE SCHOOL DISTRICTS.
THE, UM, THE FIRST BOND IDENTIFIED THAT I'LL, I'LL WALK THROUGH VERY QUICKLY AS TO THE 2014 V BONDS.
SO THOSE BONDS, I HAVE AN INTEREST RATE OF 4% COUPON RATE OR 4%, AND THEY'RE ARE PREPAYABLE MARCH 1ST, 2024.
SO IN THIS TYPE OF A STRUCTURE, WE CALL IT A TAXABLE ADVANCE FOR FUNDING.
ODDLY ENOUGH, TAXABLE RATES ARE VERY, VERY LOW, UM, LIKE CLOSE TO TAX EXEMPT RATE RIGHT NOW.
AND WE CAN ISSUE NEW BONDS AT A LOWER INTEREST RATE PLACE, THE FUNDS IN AN ESCROW.
AND WHEN WE REACHED 2024, THOSE BONDS THEN PHYSICALLY GET PAID OFF.
IT IS CALLED AN ADVANCED REFUNDING.
EVERY BOND ISSUE YOU DO HAS THIS DEFEASANCE LANGUAGE.
AND IT IS PART OF THE MUNICIPAL BOND WORLD THAT WE LIVE IN.
WHEN WE, WHEN I RAN THIS, UM, I USED AN INTEREST RATE OF 1.9, SEVEN, 5% FOR A 13 YEAR TERM.
AND THAT PRODUCED A SAVINGS OVER THE LIFE OF THE BONDS OF ROUGHLY JUST OVER A MINUTE, HOW WOULD ANTICIPATE AS OF TODAY, THE INTEREST RATE WE WOULD RECEIVE WOULD BE LOWER THAN 1.9, SEVEN FIVE.
UM, BUT I'M NOT A GUARANTOR, RIGHT? SO I DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY WILL BE AT A TIME.
THE ACCEPTANCE, IF YOU APPROVE THE RESOLUTION, UM, THAT HAS BEEN PREPARED BY YOUR BOND COUNSEL, UH, FOR ANY ADVISOR TONIGHT, WE WILL PUT THIS OUT TO BID ON THURSDAY.
WE WOULD GIVE THE BANKS THREE WEEKS FOR CREDIT REVIEW AND APPROVAL.
AND THEN WE WOULD ACCEPT IS IN THE RESOLUTION.
UM, I ASKED THAT LANGUAGE TO BE ADDED, WHICH SAID THAT WE COULD NOT AWARD THE BOND UNLESS WE ACHIEVED THE MILLION DOLLARS OF SAVINGS.
SO IF WE GO TO BID, WE RECEIVE BIDS FOR WHATEVER REASON,
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WE'RE UNABLE TO HIT THE MILLION DOLLAR MARK.WE WOULD JUST SIT AND WAIT AND GO BACK TO MARKET.
UM, AND IT'S CLEAR, DOES IT COST THE SCHOOL DISTRICT? ANYTHING YOU GO THROUGH THIS PROCESS? SO IT REALLY IS A WIN-WIN, UH, VERY HELPFUL THAT, UM, AND WE'LL BE ABLE TO, UH, ACHIEVE MORE THAN A MILLION, BUT A MILLION DOLLARS IS SORT OF THE THRESHOLD THAT WE FELT WOULD BE APPROPRIATE FOR THIS KIND OF STRUCTURE.
THE SECOND BOND THAT WE IDENTIFIED TO REFUND IS THE SERIES 2012, AND THERE'S ONLY TWO YEARS LEFT IN THAT BOND.
THE MAJORITY OF IT WAS ALREADY REFUNDED PREVIOUSLY.
THESE WERE, UM, BONDS THAT DIDN'T MAKE ECONOMIC SENSE AT THE TIME THAT THE OTHER PORTION OF THE BOND WAS REFUNDED.
SO IT'S NOT A MILLION DOLLARS, BUT, UM, THE CALL DATE IS MARCH 1ST, 2022.
AND WHEN YOU ISSUE A REFINANCING BOND AND YOU PAY OFF THE OLD BOND OR THE HIGHER INTEREST RATE BOND WITHIN A 90 DAY PERIOD, THE NEW BOND CAN BE TAXIS AT.
SO, BECAUSE WE'RE SO CLOSE TO THIS MARCH 22 DAYS, AS OPPOSED TO MARCH OF 20, 24 ARE DEFINITELY TIMELINE.
WE WOULD WAIT UNTIL JANUARY, ROUGHLY JANUARY TO SELL THIS FALL.
AND THEN WE WOULD HAVE IT BE DELIVERED RIGHT AROUND THAT MARCH 1ST DAY.
UM, WE USED AN INTEREST RATE OF 1% TAX EXEMPT, WHICH GENERATED JUST OVER A HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS OF SAVINGS.
UM, ALL OF THAT IS, IS NET OF ALL EXPENSES, UM, TO GO THROUGH THE PROCESS.
AND IF WE ACHIEVE THE NUMBERS, WE ACHIEVE THE NUMBERS, THE SECOND RESOLUTION FOR THE 2012, YVONNE'S ALSO HAS THAT VILLAGE.
UM, AND IT SPECIFIES THAT NET.
WE HAVE TO SAY AT LEAST A HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS OVER THE TWO YEAR PERIOD.
I'M HOPEFUL THAT SHORT-TERM INTEREST RATES, UM, ARE BELOW 1% STILL.
IF WE GET TO THE JANUARY AREA, WE WERE SALTED TODAY, WE WOULD BE BELOW 1%.
UM, BUT I GAVE SORT OF THE MAXIMUM, UM, INTEREST RATES THAT DATE THAT WOULD BE APPROPRIATE FOR THE DISTRICT TO ACCEPT, BUT THE COMPETITIVE PROCESS WILL GENERATE THE LOWEST COST TO FUND.
SO TONIGHT WE'RE ASKING FOR, UM, APPROVAL OF THE TWO RESOLUTIONS.
UM, I'VE GIVEN YOU THE TIMELINES, WHICH WE INTEND TO MOVE FORWARD WITH AUTHORIZATION, AND I'VE GIVEN YOU THE, UM, THE SAVINGS THRESHOLD THAT WE HAVE TO ACHIEVE IN ORDER TO, UM, MOVE FORWARD WITH EACH OF THEM INDEPENDENT.
SO IF THERE'S ANY QUESTIONS ON THESE REFINANCINGS, I WOULD BE HAPPY TO ANSWER THOSE AT THIS TIME.
UM, JUST, AND ERICA, I DON'T HAVE A QUESTION.
I JUST HAVE A COMMENT, UM, AND IT IS LATE, UH, APPRECIATE YOU WAITING AS LONG AS YOU HAVE, BUT JUST WANTED TO SAY THANK YOU, HOW REFRESHING TO, TO HAVE YOU COME FORWARD WITH THIS AND BE PROACTIVE AND SAY HERE'S AN OPPORTUNITY FOR THE SCHOOL DISTRICT, TAXPAYERS, EVERYBODY TO SAVE SOMEBODY.
SO, UM, IS YOUR, THE MOTION FOR THE BOARD? CAUSE I THINK WE WERE HAVING A PROPOSED MOTION, BUT IT DOES NOT HAVE THAT.
THE, UM, YOU HAVE NOW THAT HAS TO BE, UH, IN SAVING.
SO IS THAT, CAN SOMEBODY PLEASE, UH, BOND RESOLUTIONS, UH, SECTION VERY LONG LANGUAGE.
IT WOULD HAVE THE, THE, THE FACT THAT LIKE WE HAVE TO SAVE A MILLION OR WE HAVE TO SAY
WE AUTHORIZE THE ISSUANCE INTO SALE OF NOT EXCEEDING 17 MILLION, $245,000 IN TAXABLE GENERAL OBLIGATION, ADVANCED REFUNDING BONDS SERIES 2021, OR SUCH OTHER APPROPRIATE SERIES DISSERTATION OF THE SCHOOL DISTRICT OF BUFORD COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA, FIXING THE FORM AND DETAILS OF THE BONDS AUTHORIZING THE SUPERINTENDENT SHOULD BE DETERMINED, CERTAIN MATTERS RELATING TO THE BONDS, PROVIDING FOR THE PAYMENT OF THE BONDS AND THE DISPOSITION OF THE PROCEEDS THEREOF.
AND OTHERS MATTERED OTHER MATTERS RELATING THERE TOO.
THAT KIND OF GUIDANCE I HAVE BY MS. BOAT.
AND, UM, MR.
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US ANY, UH, DISCUSSION.IT SEEMS LIKE I CAN'T, I'VE BEEN KICKED OUT OF BOARD DOCS AND CAN'T GET BACK IN, YOU KNOW, HE LEFT, HE TOLD ME, YEAH, MOTION CARRIES UNANIMOUSLY.
I MOVE FOR THE AUTHORIZATION, AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE AND SALE OF NOT EXCEEDING 3 MILLION, $600,000, GENERAL OBLIGATION REFUNDING BONDS SERIES 2022, OR SUCH OTHER APPROPRIATE SERIES DESIGNATIONS OF THE SCHOOL DISTRICT, UH, BUFORD COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA, FIXING THE FORM AND DETAILS OF THE BONDS, AUTHORIZING THE SUPERINTENDENT TO DETERMINE CERTAIN MATTERS RELATING TO THE BONDS, PROVIDING FOR THE PAYMENT OF THE BONDS AND THE DISPOSITION OF THE PROCEEDS THERE OF, AND OTHER MATTERS RELATING THERE TOO.
ANY DISCUSSION VOTING IS OPEN.
THE MOTION CARRIES UNANIMOUSLY.
[8. Consent Agenda]
WE APPROVE THE CONSENT AGENDA.SECOND BECAUSE UM, MR. PERICARDIA ASKED ME, HE SAID HE WANTED TO MAKE SOME THOUGHTS.
IT, I JUST WANTED TO MAKE A COUPLE OF A COUPLE OF COMMENTS.
UM, SO I MADE MYSELF AVAILABLE YESTERDAY AND I MET WITH, UM, FOUR MEMBERS OF THE BOARD AND WENT OVER THE DOCUMENT THAT I'LL BE PRESENTING ON AUGUST 27TH, UM, ON AUGUST 26TH.
SO IF ANYONE WOULD LIKE TO HAVE, UH, SOME TIME AND MEET, I'M HAPPY TO DO THAT ALSO AVAILABLE DURING ZOOM RETIREMENT.
SO, UM, ANYONE THAT'S INTERESTED IN, IN DISCUSSING THIS IN A LITTLE BIT MORE DETAIL AS WE PREPARE FOR THAT.
SO NORMALLY AT AUGUST 27TH AT THE MEETING WOULD TAKE ME ABOUT AN HOUR OF HIGH-LEVEL FINANCE COUNTED.
SO HEARING IT A COUPLE OF TIMES IS ALWAYS A LITTLE, IT KIND OF GETS US FASTER TO THE PROCESS OF ITERATIONS TO GET YOU TO THE, THE MAGICAL PLAN, THE 8% PROGRAM AND THE REFERENCE PROGRAM.
I LOOK FORWARD TO THOSE SESSIONS.
UM, I ALSO, UH, WILL BE, UM, AVAILABLE, UM, AT FINANCE COMMITTEE MEETING, UM, ON THE 17TH, EMILY, UM, TO TALK ABOUT DESOLATE AND, UM, TALK ABOUT, UH, UM, DEBT SERVICE BUDGET.
SO, UM, I'VE BEEN TALKING TO TANYA A LOT AND I TOLD HER THAT THIS WAS THE MONTH OF SHIRT FOR ME.
SO I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO STARTING THE MONTH HERE WITH THE REFUNDING AND ENDING THE MONTH WITH A REALLY LARGER CAPITAL PLAN.
SO IF ANYONE WOULD LIKE TO SPEND A LITTLE TIME GOING OVER THE MATERIALS, PLEASE JUST REACH OUT TO ROBIN AND GET IN TOUCH WITH ME AT ALL.
I'M SURE SHE'LL BE BRINGING AT THE FINANCE COMMITTEE DISCUSS AND MAKE A RECOMMENDATION FOR A REVISED BUDGET MEANS ON THE CLOCK.
UM, MS. UH, UM, THE DOCTOR WAS GONNA ASK YOU BEFORE YOU MAKE YOUR MOTION.
I WAS GOING TO ASK, UH, IF THE BOARD WOULD, UH, POSTPONE THE CONSENT AGENDA ITEMS TO OUR NEXT BOARD BUSINESS MEETING, WE DID NOT RECEIVE
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THE MINUTES UNTIL LAST NIGHT.AND, AND OUR POLICY REALLY REQUIRES THAT THEY HAVE ARRIVED DAYS AHEAD OF THAT.
AND SOMEONE LIKE MYSELF WHO WE'VE USED DOCUMENTS OVER THE WEEKEND WAS UNABLE TO REVIEW THOSE MINUTES.
AND THERE'S A LOT OF STUFF IN THERE AND I WOULD LIKE TO REVIEW THEM.
SO I HOPE THAT'S THE BOARDS WILL, IT'S NOT, THAT'S FINE.
AND I'M GOING TO POST ON THE CONSENT AGENDA ITEMS TWO HOURS NEXT BOARD, WHICH WOULD BE THE AUGUST 17TH.
CAN WE HAVE A SECOND FOR THAT? OKAY.
MS. ROLAND SECOND, ANY DISCUSSION? YES.
I JUST TELL EVERYONE, SO THE, UM, MOTION IS APPROVED UNANIMOUSLY.
[9. Future Agenda Topics]
THE FUTURE AGENDA TOPICS.NOW I ALREADY RECEIVED, UH, EARLIER THAT EVENING, OBVIOUSLY FROM MR.
UH, THIS YEAR WE HAD EARLIER THIS YEAR, WE HAD THE HIGHEST TOOL FOR THAT WEEKS AND CAMERA'S ARE CREATED THOUGH ADDRESS THE PROBLEM BY THE RECIPE SORT OF
ANYBODY ELSE? UH,
[10. Announcements]
R DO YOU HAVE ANY ANNOUNCEMENTS? OKAY.AND WE'VE ALREADY TAKEN CARE OF SECOND PUBLIC COMMENTS WITH THE NAMES, CONSENT COLOR JARON
THE COUNTY CHANNEL IS ALSO AVAILABLE ON VIDEO, ON DEMAND, GO TO BUFORD COUNTY, SC.GOV, SCROLL DOWN TO PUBLIC MEETINGS, CLICK WATCH NOW, AND THEN CLICK THE VIDEO ON DEMAND BUTTON AND SELECT YOUR PROGRAM FROM BLISS CALL TO ORDER IF YOU'D LIKE A DVD OF THIS PROGRAM, CLICK ON THE LINK ON THE RIGHT AND FILL OUT THE ORDER FORM.
AND THANK YOU FOR WATCHING THE COUNTY CHANNEL.
THIS IS THE BUFORD COUNTY MOMENT.
THE SUBJECT OF THIS MOMENT IS THE PHOSPHATE INDUSTRY LOST TO FOLKS TODAY, BUT THE ARTIFACTS, THE PHOSPHATE INDUSTRY ARE AROUND US.
IF WE LOOK FOR THEM, PHOSPHATES WERE KNOWN IN SOUTH CAROLINA BEFORE THE CIVIL WAR.
THEY WERE FIRST DISCOVERED UP AROUND SOMERVILLE AND NORTH OF CHARLESTON.
IT'S KNOWN AS MURRELL AND BENEATH THE MORROW WAS THE PHOSPHATE ROCK GEOLOGISTS AND SCIENTISTS KNEW ABOUT IT.
PHOSPHATE WAS VERY IMPORTANT TO THE AGRICULTURAL OF THE SOUTH BECAUSE IT IS THE BASIS OF MOST FERTILIZER AND MANY OF THE COTTON LANDS OF THE OLD SOUTH, WHERE MUCH EXHAUSTED BY THE COTTON INDUSTRY BEFORE THE WAR.
SO AFTER THE CIVIL WAR, THE PHOSPHATE INDUSTRY WAS INTRODUCED FIRST IN CHARLESTON IN 1867, AND THEN LOOKING FOR BEDS OF HIGH
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CONTENT PHOSPHATE ROCK.THESE PHOSPHATE EXPLORES AND ENTREPRENEURS DISCOVERED BUFORD COUNTY.
THE NEXT 30 YEARS, BUFORD COUNTY BECAME THE PRIMARY SOURCE OF PHOSPHATE IN THE UNITED STATES.
AND ONE OF THE RICHEST SOURCES OF PHOSPHATES KNOWN IN THE WORLD BETWEEN 1870 AND 1900.
THIS BECAME THE CENTER OF THE MINING.
PART OF THE PHOSPHATE INDUSTRY.
MANY OF THE FERTILIZER FACTORIES WERE IN CHARLESTON, BUT THE MINING AND THE PHOSPHATE WORKS AS THEY CALL THEM WHERE THEY BROKE THE ROCK DOWN INTO POWDER AND THE PURE PHOSPHATE AND SHIPPED IT OUT.
THOSE INDUSTRIAL CENTERS WERE MOSTLY IN BUFORD COUNTY AT THE HEIGHT OF THIS INDUSTRY IN THE 1880S, 3000 BUFORD TONES WERE EMPLOYED IN THE PHOSPHATE BUSINESS.
IN MANY CASES WAS A RULE OF THUMB WHEN THE PHOSPHATE BUSINESS BEGAN IN THE 1870S, THAT THE RICHEST VEINS OF PHOSPHATE WERE UNDERWATER UNDER THE COOSAW RIVER, UNDER THE BUFORD RIVER, UNDER BATTERY CREEK.
SO INITIALLY LOCAL SEA ISLANDERS WOULD DIVE DOWN FOR THE ROCK AND FILL UP BASKETS AND THEN GET PULLED UP IN A ROPE, NOT ONLY LIMITING THE DEPTH TO WHICH THEY COULD MINE AT, BUT LIMITING THEIR HEALTH AS WELL, GOING UP AND DOWN, BUT VERY QUICKLY IN THE 1870S ENGINEERS DISCOVERED THAT THEY COULD BUILD VERY LARGE UNDERWATER STEAM POWERED DREDGES ON FLOATING BARGES.
AND SO THEY BEGAN TO MECHANIZE THE INDUSTRY AND RATHER THAN EMPLOYING FEWER PEOPLE THAT ACTUALLY EMPLOYED MORE, MORE THAN HALF OF THE PHOSPHATE PRODUCED IN THE UNITED STATES AND 80% OF THE PHOSPHATE PRODUCED IN SOUTH CAROLINA CAME FROM BUFORD COUNTY.
THE PHOSPHATE INDUSTRY BETWEEN 1870 AND 1900 WAS THE LARGEST INDUSTRY IN THE HISTORY OF BUFORD COUNTY AND THE LARGEST MINING INDUSTRY IN THE HISTORY OF THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA.
AND PEOPLE HAVE PRETTY MUCH FORGOTTEN ABOUT IT, BUT IT WAS THE SOURCE OF GREAT PROSPERITY IN BUFORD COUNTY, BETWEEN 1870 AND 1890.
THE POPULATION OF BUFORD COUNTY GREW BAY STREET BECAME A FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL CENTER.
PHOSPHATE WORKS IN OTHER WORDS, FACTORIES WHERE THEY BURN THE PHOSPHATE ROCK AND BROKE IT DOWN INTO POWDER.
WE'RE LOCATED ON SPANISH POINT.
WE'RE LOCATED ON LUCY CREEK AND THE LARGEST WAS LOCATED FIRST ON COOSAW PLANTATION.
AND THEN OUT AT THE END OF CHISHOLM HIGHLAND ON SUMMERHOUSE POINT ON THE NORTH SIDE OF THE COOSAW RIVER, SMALLER PHOSPHATE COMPANIES AND PHOSPHATE RIDGES, AND THE TUG BOATS, AND THE SUPPORT SYSTEMS THAT HAD TO SUPPORT THIS INDUSTRY FOR 30 YEARS WERE AN ENORMOUS BOOM TO BUFORD COUNTY.
EVENTUALLY THE SMALLER PHOSPHATE COMPANIES WERE CONSOLIDATED INTO ONE VERY LARGE COMPANY CALLED THE COOSAW MINING COMPANY.
THE COOSAW MINING COMPANY BY 1892 WAS THE LARGEST PHOSPHATE MINING COMPANY IN THE UNITED STATES.
BUT IN THOSE SAME YEARS IN 1888, RICHARD VEINS AND PHOSPHATE WERE DISCOVERED DEAR TAMPA, FLORIDA.
AND DURING THE 1890S, THE PERCENTAGE OF PHOSPHATE EXTRACTED FROM BUFORD COUNTY DECLINED, AND THE PERCENTAGE OF PHOSPHATE DISCOVERED AND EXTRACTED FROM FLORIDA AND OTHER PLACES LIKE NEAR NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE WAS RICHER PHOSPHATE.
AND EVENTUALLY IT PUT THESE PHOSPHATE MINES OUT OF BUSINESS PHOSPHATE AND BUFORD COUNTY.
THE RIVER ROCK AS IT WAS CALLED IN THOSE DAYS WAS 60% PURE PHOSPHATE, WHICH IN 1870 WAS THE BEST IN THE COUNTRY.
BY 1888, THE FLORIDA ROCK WAS 80% PURE PHOSPHATE.
AND THE ECONOMICS OF THAT SIMPLY PUT THE RIVER COUNTY PHOSPHATE BUSINESS OUT OF BUSINESS.
COOSAW MINING COMPANY STOPPED MINING IN 1905.
THE VIRGINIA CAROLINA COMPANY TRIED TO CONSOLIDATE SOME OF THE OLD WORKS AND FINALLY WENT BANKRUPT IN 1914.
AND THAT WAS THE BITTER END OF THE PHOSPHATE BUSINESS CONSEQUENCE OF THE END OF THE PHOSPHATE BUSINESS WAS THE BEGINNING OF THE GREAT EXODUS OF THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN POPULATION OF THE SEA ISLANDS WITHOUT GOOD WAGE JOBS BEGAN TO MOVE NORTH AND DEPOPULATED MUCH IN BUFORD COUNTY.
BUT THE OTHER EVENT WHICH HASTENED THE DEMISE OF THE PHOSPHATE INDUSTRY IN BEAVER COUNTY WAS OF COURSE, THE GREAT HURRICANE OF 1893, WHICH WAS ONE OF THE 10 LARGEST HURRICANES AND MOST DESTRUCTIVE HURRICANES EVER TO HIT THE UNITED STATES KILLED AS MANY AS 2000 PEOPLE ON THE SEA ISLANDS AND WRECKED THE PHOSPHATE FLEET.
SO THE INVESTORS IN PHOSPHATE FLEET MOVED THEIR CAPITAL TO FLORIDA, AND THE PHOSPHATE BUSINESS DECLINED B FOR COUNTY.
THIS HAS BEEN A BUFORD COUNTY MOMENT TO SEE MORE BEAVER COUNTY MOMENTS GO TO THE BUFORD COUNTY LIBRARY HOMEPAGE AND CLICK ON THE LOCAL HISTORY TAB.
HERE'S WHAT'S HAPPENING IN BUFORD COUNTY.
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SO BASICALLY THIS IS A CHANCE FOR THE CITIZENS OF BUFORD, UM, PEOPLE THAT LIVE IN BUFORD AND PEOPLE THAT WORK AND PLAY IN BUFORD TO COME AND MEET ALL OF THE ENTITIES THAT WILL BE, UM, PROVIDING SERVICES FOR THEM IN THE EVENT OF ANOTHER STORM.SO YOU HAVE EVERY AGENCY OUT HERE THAT WOULD, WOULD BE INVOLVED IN SUCH AN EVENT, AND PEOPLE CAN ACTUALLY ASK THEM QUESTIONS DIRECTLY, FACE TO FACE AND GET THE, GET THE GOOD INFORMATION FROM THE HORSE'S MOUTH.
THE EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT IS A PARTNERSHIP IT'S EVERY AGENCY AT EVERY LEVEL.
SO YOU HAVE STATE AGENCIES, YOU HAVE LOCAL AGENCIES FOR THE CITY OF BUFORD.
YOU HAVE THE COUNTY, UH, WE ALL PLUG INTO ONE ARCHITECTURE AND WE ALL WORK TOGETHER.
UM, AND THAT'S REALLY THE ONLY WAY YOU CAN EFFECTIVELY WORK IN EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT IS TO DO A TEAM EFFORT.
SO EVERYBODY IN THE TEAM IS HERE AND WE'RE ALL ON THE SAME PAGE.
WE ARE HERE PROMOTING ANIMAL SAFETY, UM, PREPAREDNESS FOR HURRICANE DISASTER SITUATIONS.
WE HAD A LOT OF GREAT INFORMATION, UM, THAT PEOPLE SHOULD OBTAIN JUST TO KNOW WHERE TO GO IN CASE OF HURRICANE.
AND A LOT OF PEOPLE TEND TO LEAVE THEIR ANIMALS BEHIND.
UM, WE HAD TO DO A LOT OF RESCUE.
SO KNOWING AND BEING PREPARED AS TO WHERE TO GO AND WHAT HOTELS ACCEPT ANIMALS, WHAT GROUNDS EXCEPT THE ANIMALS IS HUGE IN EVACUATION AND TRYING TO HAVE EVERYTHING SET UP SO THAT YOU KNOW, WHERE YOU'RE GOING TO BE HEADING IN CASE OF A HURRICANE YOU'RE OUT HERE TO WORK TOO WITH THE OTHER AGENCIES FROM BEAVER COUNTY TO INFORM THE PUBLIC OF HURRICANE PREPAREDNESS BY THAT.
WE MEAN WHAT TO LOOK FOR, HOW TO PREPARE FOR EVACUATION, UH, TO ADVISE THEM TO EVACUATE AND EVACUATE EARLY, AND TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY HAVE THEIR MEDICINES, THEY TAKE THEIR ANIMALS WITH THEM.
THEY TAKE, YOU KNOW, ANYBODY ELSE WITH THEM THAT THEY ARE ABLE TO TAKE WITH THEM JUST TO HELP THEIR NEIGHBOR, YOU KNOW, GET OUT OF BUFORD COUNTY BECAUSE ONCE THE EVACUATION STARTS, IT IT'S A SLOW PROCESS AND PEOPLE DON'T REALIZE HOW LONG IT CAN TAKE TO EVACUATE THE COUNTY.
SO GETTING OUT EARLY IS WHAT WE'RE REALLY OUT HERE TRYING TO INFORM THE PUBLIC ABOUT WE'RE PROVIDING A QUICK CHECKLIST, UH, THAT WE CREATED THE OTHER DAY.
AND THAT CHECKLIST INVOLVES TAKING ITEMS AND THINGS OF IMPORTANCE TO YOUR MEDICINES, YOUR FOOD, UH, MONEY, YOUR ANIMALS, THAT SORT OF THING.
AND JUST, IT'S A REMINDER LIST FOR INDIVIDUALS THAT WHEN WITH MATTHEW AND IRMA, WE HAD A LOT OF INDIVIDUALS WHEN THEY WERE COMING BACK TO YOU FOR COUNTING TO GET BACK IN THEIR HOMES, THEY REALIZED THEY DIDN'T HAVE MEDICINES FILLED.
THEY DIDN'T KNOW THAT THE HOSPITALS SHUT DOWN ONCE THERE'S A MANDATORY EVACUATION IN BUFORD COUNTY.
SO WE'RE JUST LETTING THEM KNOW ABOUT THAT.
AND ALSO ABOUT THE SMART ONE, ONE PRO 9 1, 1 PROGRAM THAT'S GOING ON THAT SMART 9 1, 1 PROGRAM, AS FAR AS REGISTERING YOUR INFORMATION AND LINKING IT TO LIKE YOUR CELL PHONE NUMBERS.
SO THAT IF THERE IS AN EMERGENCY YOUR MEDICAL HISTORY POINTS OF CONTACT, YOU KNOW, THAT SORT OF THING IS AVAILABLE FOR FIRST RESPONDERS.
BECAUSE THEY NEED TO START THINKING NOW BEFORE THE STORM IS COMING CLOSE, WHAT THEY'RE GOING TO DO.
SO YOU NEED THAT LEAD TIME TO PREPARE.
AND AGAIN, YOU CAN FIND OUT INFORMATION FOR ANY QUESTIONS THEY MAY HAVE ABOUT WHAT THEY SHOULD DO.
UM, IF THEY HAVE PETS, THEY HAVE, YOU KNOW, THEY HAVE ANIMAL CONTROLLERS HERE TODAY.
THEY CAN TELL THEM WHERE SOME SHELTERS ARE PLACES THEY CAN GO.
YOU KNOW, IF THERE'S A LOVED ONE, A FAMILY MEMBER THAT HAS MEDICAL ISSUES, THEY CAN ASK EMS QUESTIONS ABOUT HOW DID THINGS GO DURING THE LAST STORM? WHAT SHOULD WE EXPECT DURING THE NEXT STORM? UM, SO IT'S A REALLY A CHANCE FOR THEM TO GET THEIR QUESTIONS ANSWERED, TO MEET THE PEOPLE THAT ARE GOING TO BE TRYING TO TAKE CARE OF THEM AND TAKE CARE OF THE CITY AND THE COUNTY AND WHEREVER THEY LIVE HERE IN ORDER BE FOR COUNTY DURING THE STORM AND SAW THEM BE FOR COUNTY.
UM, THERE'S A CHANCE FOR THEM TO GET, TO MEET THOSE PEOPLE AND PICK THEIR BRAINS AND FIND OUT, YOU KNOW, WHAT SHOULD I BE DOING? AND WHAT WILL YOU BE DOING FOR US? HORSES IS BIG COWS, A HUGE, UM, GOATS, ANY ANIMAL.
WE HAVE ALL THAT INFORMATION AND A NICE LITTLE PAMPHLET THAT WE HAVE PROVIDED FOR PEOPLE.
SO IF THEY'RE ABLE TO GET DOWN HERE, IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT FOR THEM TO GET THIS INFORMATION, TO KNOW WHERE TO TAKE, UM, YOU KNOW, ANY FARM ANIMALS.
WE'RE LUCKY ENOUGH THIS PAST WEEK TO RECEIVE A DONATION OF PET MASK FOR OXYGEN MASKS TO HELP RESUSCITATE YOUR ANIMALS.
IF THERE HAPPENS TO BE A STRUCTURE FIRE AT YOUR RESIDENCE AND YOUR
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ANIMAL, YOUR CAT, YOUR DOG, YOUR LIZARD BECOMES A VICTIM OF SMOKE INHALATION.SO WE HAVE THREE DIFFERENT SIZES THAT WE'LL BE CARRYING ON OUR AMBULANCES AND THEY CAN BE HOOKED UP TO OXYGEN TANKS.
THEY CAN ALSO BE HOOKED UP TO WHAT WE CALL BAG VALVE MASK, WHICH WILL ALLOW US TO ASSIST WITH THE BREATHING AND FOR THE ANIMALS IN CASE THERE'S AN ISSUE.
AND ALL THE PERSONNEL WITH THESE PET MASKS THAT WERE DONATED TO OUR ORGANIZATION, ALL PERSONNEL ARE GOING TO BE, IF THEY HAVEN'T ALREADY WILL BE KNOWLEDGEABLE ON HOW TO OPERATE THOSE PET MASKS SO THAT ANYONE WHO RESPONDS TO A STRUCTURE FIRE CAN PROVIDE MEDICAL ASSISTANCE TO YOUR ANIMAL.
SOME PEOPLE THINK THAT JUST HAVING A CALA WITH THE PET'S NAME AND PHONE NUMBER IS ENOUGH.
UM, WE ARE SAYING NO, THAT IT'S NOT, THEY NEED TO, UM, DO MICROCHIP.
AND WHICH IS WHY WE'RE OFFERING FREE MICROCHIPPING TODAY WITH THAT, ONCE AN ANIMAL GETS LOST, UM, AND ANIMAL CONTROL IS ABLE TO GET A HOLD OF THEM, WE'D BE ABLE TO SCAN THEM AND ALL THAT INFORMATION, YOUR PETS NAME, THE OWNER, THE PHONE NUMBER, THEIR ADDRESS COMES WITH THAT.
NOT ONLY TO HAVE THE LIKE HAS SHOWED THAT HELPS, BUT HAVING A MICROCHIP IS VERY IMPORTANT FOR THAT.
AND ALSO, PLEASE MAKE SURE THAT YOUR MICROCHIP IS UP TO DATE WITH ALL THE ANIMALS INFORMATION.
YOUR PHONE NUMBER IS UP TO DATE.
YOUR ADDRESS IS UP TO DATE, HONESTLY, JUST KNOWING WHERE YOU'RE GOING TO GO, WHAT YOUR PLAN IS, MAKING SURE YOU HAVE YOUR BAGS PACK, MAKING SURE YOU HAVE ALL THE RECORDS, THE VACCINATIONS, ANYTHING THAT YOU NEED FOR THE ANIMAL TO BE TRAVELING WITH YOU.
I WOULD ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO GO TO GO ON THE SOCIAL MEDIA AND TO, TO PLUG INTO ALL OF THESE ENTITIES THAT ARE OUT HERE IS THE BEAUTIFUL POLICE DEPARTMENT, OUR FACEBOOK PAGE.
WE HAVE A NIXLE PRESENCE WE'RE ON NEXT DOOR.
UM, THE SHERIFF'S OFFICES AS WELL.
SO, UH, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT COMES UP DURING STORMS AND ANY KIND OF EMERGENCY IS THERE'S A LOT OF RUMORS THAT GO AROUND.
SO WE LIKE TO CUT THROUGH THE CLUTTER AND TO SAY, HEY, COME GET THE INFORMATION DIRECTLY FROM THE SOURCE, BECAUSE WE'RE GOING TO BE PASSING THAT THROUGH THOSE CHANNELS.
AND THAT'S BECAUSE THAT'S WHERE PEOPLE ARE ON FACEBOOK, UM, VIVA COUNTY ANIMAL SERVICES.
AND WE UPDATE THAT WEBSITE EVERY HOUR ON THE HOUR.
SO YOU CAN GET ANY INFORMATION THAT YOU'RE LOOKING FOR THERE.
THEY CAN STAY IN TOUCH WITH US THROUGH OUR FACEBOOK PAGE, WHICH IS BE FOR COUNTY EMS. WE ALSO HAVE A TWITTER AND AN INSTAGRAM ACCOUNT AS WELL.
IF YOU, FOR COUNTY