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CLOSE CAPTIONING PROVIDED BY BEAUFORD COUNTY.
[Call to Order]
GOOD EVENING.I'D LIKE TO CALL THIS MEETING OF THE BEAUFORD COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION TO ORDER.
UM, THIS MEETING IS BEING LIVE STREAMED BY THE COUNTY CHANNEL.
REQUEST FOR PUBLIC COMMENTS WILL BE ACCEPTED BETWEEN FIVE AND FIVE 30 BY SENDING AN EMAIL WITH YOUR NAME, PHONE NUMBER, AND TOPIC TO ROBIN KUCHEN AT BUFORD K12.
DO US YOU WILL RECEIVE A PHONE CALL DURING PUBLIC COMMENTS WHERE YOU WILL BE ABLE TO SPEAK AND ADDRESS THE BOARD FOR A MAXIMUM OF THREE MINUTES.
ON ISSUES WITHIN THE BOARD'S DOMAIN, THE FORUM WILL BE LI LIMITED TO 30 MINUTES.
IF YOU ARE IN PERSON, YOU MAY ADDRESS THE BOARD FOR A MAXIMUM OF THREE MINUTES ON ISSUES WITH ANY BOARD'S DOMAIN.
EACH SPEAKER MUST FILL OUT A PUBLIC COMMENT CARD.
PLEASE SEE THE BOARD CLERK FOR A PART REQUEST FOR THE SECOND PUBLIC COMMENTS WILL BE ACCEPTED BETWEEN SEVEN AND 7:30 PM IN THE SAME MANNER.
THE SECOND PUBLIC COMMENTS WILL TAKE PLACE PRIOR TO ADJOURNMENT NO LATER THAN 9:00 PM THE SECOND FORUM WILL BE LIMITED TO 15 MINUTES.
IN THE EVENT THE BOARD HAS NOT FINISHED ADDRESSING ALL ITEMS ON TONIGHT'S AGENDA, THE BOARD WILL RECONVENE AT 6:00 PM ON OCTOBER 19TH.
THE NEXT BUSINESS JOURNEY TO FINISH THE AGENDA ITEMS UNLESS A MOTION IS MADE TO EXTEND THE MEETING.
[Executive Session]
ORDER OF BUSINESS, I NEED A MOTION TO GO INTO EXECUTIVE SESSION.I MOVE THAT THE BOARD OF EDUCATION GO INTO EXECUTIVE SESSION FOR THE FOLLOWING REASONS.
DISCUSSION OF NEGOTIATIONS INCIDENT TO DISTRICT-WIDE BOTTLE FILLER PROJECTS GUARANTEED MAXIMUM PRICE.
AMENDMENT NUMBER FOUR TO CHARLES PERRY PARTNERS INCORPORATED PURSUANT TO SOUTH CAROLINA CODE ANNALS SECTION 34 78.
DISCUSSION OF NEGOTIATIONS INCIDENT TO DISTRICT BIPOLAR IONIZATION PROJECTS GUARANTEED MAXIMUM PRICE.
AMENDMENT NUMBER FIVE TO CHARLES PERRY PARTNERS INCORPORATED PURSUANT TO SOUTH CAROLINA CODE ANNAL SECTION 34 70 A TWO.
DISCUSSION OF NEGOTIATIONS INCIDENT TO MASIE OAKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SAFETY, SECURITY, AND TECHNOLOGY INFRASTRUCTURE GUARANTEED MAXIMUM PRICE.
AMENDMENT NUMBER 28 TO THOMPSON TURNER CONSTRUCTION PURSUANT TO SOUTH CAROLINA CODE ANNAL SECTION 34 78.
DISCUSSION OF NEGOTIATIONS INCIDENT TO BLUFFTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SUMMER 2023.
HVAC SCOPE GUARANTEED MAXIMUM PRICE.
AMENDMENT NUMBER 24 TO MB CON PURSUANT SOUTH CAROLINA CODE A**L SECTION 34 78.
AN UPDATE ON SAFETY SECURITY PLANS PURSUANT TO SOUTH CAROLINA CODE A**L SECTION 34 20 C I A SECOND.
ANGELA SEPARATES ANY DISCUSSION MR. SMITH? MR. SMITH? SURE.
ANY OTHER DISCUSSIONS AT THIS TIME? ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF, UH, GOING INTO EXECUTIVE SESSION PLEASE SIGNIFY BY SAYING AYE.
MR. MEL CAMPBELL IS NOT HERE FOR THE VOTE.
WE WILL GO INTO A EXECUTIVE SESSION.
[Action as Necessary or Appropriate Regarding Matters Discussed in Executive Session]
IT IS SIX O'CLOCK AND I'D LIKE TO CALL THIS, UH, MEETING OF THE BUFORD COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD BACK TO PUBLIC SESSION.ARE THERE ANY ACTIONS NECESSARY OR APPROPRIATE COMING OUT OF THE DETECTIVE SESSION? YES.
MADAM VICE CHAIR, WE HAVE, UM, A FEW MOTIONS
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HERE.THE FIRST MOTION IS I MOVE THAT THE BOARD OF EDUCATION APPROVE AMENDMENT NUMBER FOUR WITH CHARLES PERRY PARTNERS INC.
FOR THE DISTRICT-WIDE BOTTLE FILLER PROJECTS BASED ON THE GUARANTEED MAXIMUM PRICE GMP OF $799,312.
IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION REGARDING THIS MOTION? SEEING NONE, YOU CAN'T SEE DR.
SHE'S PARTICIPATING BY, I'M HERE.
ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF THE MOTION.
CAN YOU SING BY SAYING I THAT'S UNANIMOUS.
10 ZERO MADAM MADAME CHAIR, I ABSTAINED.
SO I'M GONNA ON THAT IF WE CAN HEAR YOU ABS AND I'M GONNA EXTEND THAT AS WELL.
OKAY, CONTINUE THE NEXT MOTION.
I MOVE THAT THE BOARD OF EDUCATION APPROVE AMENDMENT NUMBER FIVE WITH CHARLES PERRY PARTNERS INC.
FOR THE DISTRICT WIDE BIPOLAR IONIZATION PROJECTS BASED ON THE GUARANTEED MAXIMUM PRICE GMP OF $707,874.
SECOND MS. VOTE RIGHT SECONDS.
ANY DISCUSSION ON THIS MOTION? OKAY.
ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF THIS MOTION PLEASE.
ANY NAYS? ANY ABSTENTIONS? WHISKY ABSTAIN.
9 0 1 WITH, UH, RACHEL
I MOVED THAT THE BOARD OF EDUCATION APPROVE AMENDMENT NUMBER 28 WITH THOMPSON TURNER CONSTRUCTION FOR THE REMAINING SAFETY, SECURITY AND TECHNOLOGY INFRASTRUCTURE AT MOSSI OAKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BASED ON THE GAR TE MAXIMUM PRICE GMP OF 2,000,720 2030 $722,039.
ANY DISCUSSION REGARDING THIS MOTION? OKAY, SCENE NONE.
THOSE IN FAVOR OF THIS MOTION SIGNIFY BY SAYING AYE.
ANY OPPOSED? ANY ABSTENTIONS? MS. NEVSKY ABSTAINS 9 0 1.
IN OUR LAST MOTION, MADAM VICE CHAIR, I MOVE THAT THE BOARD OF EDUCATION APPROVE AMENDMENT NUMBER 24 WITH MB CON CONSTRUCTION COMPANY, INC.
FOR THE BLUFFTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SUMMER 2023 HVAC SCOPE BASED ON THE GUARANTEED MAXIMUM GMP OF $658,754.
IS THERE A SECOND? I'LL SECOND IT AFTER.
THOSE IN FAVOR OF THIS MOTION SIGNIFY BY SAYING AYE.
AND YOU OPPOSED? ANY ABSTENTIONS? YES.
THAT CONCLUDES ALL OF OUR MOTIONS COMING OUT OF EXECUTIVE SESSION.
[Approval of Agenda]
MOTION FOR APPROVAL OF THE AGENDA.I MOVE THAT WE APPROVE TONIGHT'S AGENDA.
ANY DISCUSSION REGARDING TONIGHT'S AGENDA? OKAY.
THOSE OF YOU IN FAVOR OF APPROVING THE AGENDA, PLEASE SIGNIFY BY SAYING AYE.
ANY OPPOSED? ANY ABSTENTIONS? 10 ZERO.
AT THIS TIME, I INVITE YOU TO PLEASE
[Pledge of Allegiance, Moment of Silence, Statement of Media Notification]
STAND FOR THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGION, MY PLEDGE, PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE AND FOR STANDS GOD JUSTICE.PLEASE, UH, BE SEATED AND WE WILL RECOGNIZE A MOMENT OF SILENCE.
TONIGHT WE ARE, UM, RECOGNIZING MOMENTS OF SILENCE FOR THE FOLLOWING PEOPLE.
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CLOSE YOUR MOUTH, CYNTHIA.UM, SHE WAS A BOARD MEMBER FROM 1988 TO 1990.
SHE PASSED AWAY OCTOBER 2ND, 2022.
ALICE BLAZE WRIGHT WAS EMPLOYED WITH B BEAUFORT COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT FROM 1969 TO 1999.
SHE WAS EMPLOYED AS A SECRETARY, TEACHER, AND ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL AND PERSONNEL DIRECTOR.
SHE PASSED AWAY OCTOBER 17TH, 2022.
AND FINALLY, THE CHAIR TO THE RIGHT OF ME IS EMPTY, EMPTY OF BODY, BUT FULL OF SPIRIT.
OUR CHAIR, DAVID STRENGER, PASSED AWAY ON SUNDAY.
DAVID JOINED THE BUFORD COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION IN 2016.
PRIOR TO BEING SELECTED AS CHAIR IN JANUARY 22, MR. STRIPER CHAIRED MANY COMMITTEES, OPERATIONS, TECHNOLOGY, AD HOC RESULTS, AD HAC COHERENT GOVERNANCE.
AS A BOARD MEMBER, DAVID WAS FOCUSED ON RESULTS SETTING SMART GOALS, SPECIFIC, MEASURABLE, ACHIEVABLE, REASONABLE, AND TIMEBOUND.
SIMPLY PUT, DAVID WAS AN AMAZING BOARD MEMBER.
I KNOW THAT DAVID IS LOOKING DOWN ON US TONIGHT, ENCOURAGING US TO MOVE FORWARD.
PLEASE JOIN US FOR MOMENTS OF SILENCE.
THE MEDIA HAS BEEN PROPERLY NOTIFIED.
[Student Performance – Bluffton Middle School Orchestra students performing “Fantasy on a Japanese Fold Song” by Brian Balmages and “Dragonhunter” by Richard Meyer, under the direction of Chorus and Orchestra Director Adam McCormick.]
ON OUR AGENDA IS THE STUDENT PERFORMANCE.I'M THE CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA TEACHER OF BLUFFTON MIDDLE SCHOOL.
LOOK WITH ME RIGHT NOW AS A DETACHMENT OF SEVENTH AND EIGHTH GRADE ORCHESTRA STUDENTS FROM BLUFFTON.
WE'RE PERFORMING TWO PIECES FOR YOU.
OUR FIRST PIECE TONIGHT IS FANTASY ON JAPANESE SONG.
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WE HAVE ONE MORE PIECE FOR YOU.THIS IS DRAGON HUNTER BY RICHARD KNIGHT.
[Points of Celebration]
AGENDA.RODRIGUEZ POINTS OF CELEBRATION.
AND THANK YOU VERY MUCH TO OUR STUDENTS.
UH, ONCE AGAIN FOR THE BEAUTIFUL PERFORMANCE THIS EVENING.
UH, UNDER POINTS OF CELEBRATION.
THE NEXT, UH, COMPONENT IS A CHARACTER EDUCATION FOR SEPTEMBER, UH, FOR STUDENTS IN SOUTHERN BEAUFORD COUNTY.
OUR CHARACTER EDUCATION PROGRAM WAS FORMED TO SUPPORT PARENTS EFFORTS TO DEVELOP GOOD CHARACTER IN THEIR CHILDREN.
AND TONIGHT WE'RE CELEBRATING THE CHARACTER ED STUDENT OF THE MONTH EXHIBITING THE CHARACTER TRAIT OF ACCEPTANCE.
ACCEPTANCE IS DEFINED AS THE ACTION OR PROCESS OF BEING RECEIVED AS ADEQUATE OR SUITABLE, TYPICALLY TO BE ADMITTED INTO A GROUP OR
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RECEIVED BY OTHERS.WE'RE HAPPY TO ANNOUNCE THAT OUR CHARACTER EDUCATION STUDENT OF THE MONTH IN SOUTHERN BEAUFORT COUNTY FOR SEPTEMBER IS SAW KIKA VIA MIZA.
SAUL SAUL IS A STUDENT AT HILTON HEAD ISLAND HIGH SCHOOL.
AND HERE TO TELL US MORE ABOUT SAUL IS MULTILINGUAL TEACHER PAIGE.
CAN YOU STEP UP I THOUGHT'S ABOUT YOU? OH, OH,
SHOULD I HAVE DONE A LITTLE BIT? IS IT ON? YEAH.
MY NAME IS PAIGE COLLIER AND I AM SAUL'S ENGLISH TEACHER.
UM, WHEN SAUL CAME IN THIS YEAR, UM, BOY IS HE A BIG, BRIGHT BALL OF ENERGY
SO SEOUL LOVES PEOPLE WITH HIS WHOLE HEART, AND EVEN THOUGH HE'S STILL AN ENGLISH LEARNER, YOU'D NEVER BE ABLE TO TELL BY HOW CONFIDENT HE IS WHEN HE SPEAKS IN ENGLISH.
UM, SEOUL IS, GOES OUT OF HIS WAY TO COMMUNICATE WITH PEOPLE BEYOND HIS OWN LANGUAGE.
WE HAVE A STUDENT THAT SPEAKS RUSSIAN.
WE HAVE A STUDENT THAT SPEAKS BULGARIAN, AND TOGETHER THEY'RE ABLE TO LEARN ENGLISH TOGETHER AND IT'S REALLY SWEET TO NOTICE THEM INTERACT WITHIN THE CLASSROOM.
UM, SAUL DOES EXCELLENT WITH ALL OF HIS, UH, STUDIES, AND I'M INCREDIBLY SORRY.
I'M INCREDIBLY, INCREDIBLY PROUD OF SAUL AND ALL THAT HE'S ACCOMPLISHED, SO CONGRATULATIONS, SAUL.
I CAN'T THINK OF ANYONE MORE DESERVING FOR THIS MONTH.
NO, NO, IT'S, NO, YOU'RE EXCELLENT.
YOU, YOU FOR HAVING
THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE, AND CONGRATULATIONS ONCE AGAIN.
NEXT ON POINTS OF CELEBRATION IS DISTRICT TEACHER OF THE YEAR.
EACH YEAR, A SELECTION COMMITTEE OF DISTRICT, STAFF, AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS HAS THE ARDUOUS TASK OF SELECTING THE DISTRICT TEACHER OF THE YEAR.
THE DISTRICT TEACHER OF THE YEAR REPRESENTS THE TALENTED HIGHLY QUALIFIED TEACHERS IN OUR SCHOOL DISTRICT.
BECOMING DISTRICT TEACHER OF THE YEAR IS A THREE STEP PROCESS THAT BEGINS WHEN SCHOOL LEVEL TEACHERS OF THE YEAR ARE SELECTED IN APRIL.
THOSE WISHING TO COMPETE FOR DISTRICT TEACHER OF THE YEAR SUBMIT DETAILED APPLICATIONS BY THE END OF JULY.
AFTER THAT, A SELECTION COMMITTEE CONSISTING OF PARENTS, FORMER EDUCATORS, AND COMMUNITY LEADERS FROM ACROSS BUFORD COUNTY REVIEWS THE APPLICATIONS AND RATES THEM USING A NUMERICAL SCORING SYSTEM.
THE FIVE HIGHEST SCORING APPLICANTS ARE NAMED AS FINALISTS IN THE LAST STEP OF THE DISTRICT.
AT THE DISTRICT LEVEL, THE FINALISTS ARE INTERVIEWED BY A SEPARATE REVIEW COMMITTEE, AGAIN, COMPOSED OF JUDGES FROM ACROSS THE COUNTY.
THE JUDGES SCORE CANDIDATES BASED ON HOW WELL THEY RESPOND TO QUESTIONS ABOUT THEIR TEACHING METHODS AND CURRENT EDUCATION ISSUES.
AFTER THOSE INTERVIEWS, THE PANEL SELECTS THE DISTRICT TEACHER OF THE YEAR, AND THAT PERSON REPRESENTS BEAUFORD COUNTY IN THE SOUTH CAROLINA STATE TEACHER OF THE YEAR PROGRAM.
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT, WE HAVE THE SURPRISE ANNOUNCEMENT VIDEO FOR YOU TO VIEW TONIGHT.
A STORE LOUDLY CHEERING FOR THIS YEAR'S BUICK COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT'S TEACHER OF THE YEAR, HILTON HEAD, ISLAND MIDDLE SCHOOL ENGLISH TEACHER, DR.
LAVERNE STEWART, WAS ANNOUNCED AS A 20 22, 20 23 DISTRICT TEACHER OF THE YEAR DURING THE CEREMONY ON HILTON HEAD ISLAND.
I JUST WISH MY MOM WAS HERE TO BE A
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PART OF IT.SHE WAS ALSO A TEACHER YEAR IN BEAVER COUNTY.
I WAS, I'M COMPLETELY OVERWHELMED.
I ALWAYS HAVE NO WORDS FOR IT.
I DO THANK THE SELECTION STAFF AND ESPECIALLY THE TEACHERS THAT I WORK WITH AT HILTON HEAD ISLAND MIDDLE SCHOOL, THAT THEY THOUGHT THAT I WAS WORTHY TO REPRESENT OUR SCHOOL.
AND NOW THAT THE TEACHERS AND THE SELECTION COMMITTEE BELIEVES THAT I'M WORTHY TO REPRESENT BEAVER COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT, A DISTRICT THAT I GRADUATED FROM, AND I'M NOW A SECOND YEAR TEACHER.
AND I JUST LOVE THE FACT THAT I'M ABLE TO HAVE THIS HONOR.
I AM JUST A HUMBLED AND BLESSED.
STEWART'S MOTHER INSPIRED HER TO BECOME A TEACHER.
SHE ALSO TAUGHT ENGLISH IN THE DISTRICT, AND DR.
SHE FOLLOWED IN HER FOOTSTEPS AND IS CARRYING ON HER LEGACY.
MY LOVE OF READING AND WRITING CAME FROM HER.
EVERYTHING THAT I DO IS I, I'M DOING MY BEST TO HONOR HER MEMORY, WHO SHE WAS AS AN EDUCATOR IN BEAUFORD COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT, AND JUST WHAT SHE HAS INSTILLED IN ME AND PUT INTO ME.
I WANT TO PUT THAT INTO MY STUDENTS TO PASS THAT LEGACY ON OF LOVE FOR READING AND LEARNING AND JUST LIFE IN GENERAL.
STEWART HAS BEEN TEACHING FOR 22 YEARS.
I ENJOY GOING TO WORK AND I LOVE MAKING A DIFFERENCE, NOT JUST FOR THE YEARS THAT THEY'RE IN MY CLASS, BUT ALSO BEYOND.
AND SEEING MY STUDENTS BECOME GREAT MEMBERS OF OUR COMMUNITY AND OUR SOCIETY.
STEWART'S PRINCIPAL WASN'T SURPRISED.
SHE WAS NAMED TEACHER OF THE YEAR.
SHE ALWAYS GOES ABOVE AND BEYOND HELPING STUDENTS AND TEACHERS.
SHE WORKS SO WELL, NOT ONLY WITH THE STUDENTS AND THE FAMILIES, BUT ALSO WITH THE OTHER TEACHERS IN THE BUILDING.
AND, UH, SHE'S GOT A VERY COLLABORATIVE APPROACH.
SHE WORKS HARD TO REPRESENT NOT ONLY THE STUDENTS, BUT THE TEACHERS IN OUR BUILDING.
AND, UH, SHE WORKS TIRELESSLY AND SHE GETS HERSELF INTO EVERYTHING SHE CAN TO MAKE SURE THAT SHE'S PROVIDING THE BEST OUTCOMES FOR OUR STUDENTS.
EVERY SCHOOL'S 20 22, 20 23 TEACHER OF THE YEAR WAS RECOGNIZED ON HILTON HEAD ISLAND.
RON LOES YOU FOR COME SCHOOL DISTRICT.
IT IS MY PLEASURE TO INTRODUCE TO YOU TONIGHT OUR 2223 DISTRICT TEACHER OF THE YEAR.
LAVERNE STEWART FROM HILTON HEAD ISLAND MIDDLE SCHOOL, DR.
STEWART IS A SECOND GENERATION ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS EDUCATOR.
VERNELL SPEAKS STEWART WAS ALSO A SEVENTH GRADE ELA EDUCATOR IN BEAUFORT COUNTY.
STEWART HOLDS A DOCTORATE DEGREE IN CHRISTIAN EDUCATION FROM CATHEDRAL BIBLE COLLEGE, A MASTERS OF EDUCATION IN GIFTED AND TALENTED EDUCATION FROM CONVERSE COLLEGE AND A MASTERS OF SCIENCE DEGREE FROM WHEELOCK COLLEGE.
SHE HAS ALSO EARNED AN EDUCATIONAL SPECIALIST IN EDUCATION ADMINISTRATION DEGREE FROM SOUTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY.
I THANK YOU FOR THIS HONOR AND I WILL DO MY VERY BEST TO MAKE BEAVER COUNTY PROUD AS I GO THROUGH THE YEAR REPRESENTING OUR SCHOOL DISTRICT AND HILTON ISLAND MIDDLE SCHOOL.
THAT CONCLUDES OUR POINTS OF CELEBRATION.
[First Public Comments]
YOU.NEXT ON OUR AGENDA ARE PUBLIC COMMENTS.
I WANNA TAKE A MOMENT TO REVIEW THE RULES FOR SPEAKING.
UM, SPEAKERS ADDRESS, SEEING THE BOARD MUST CONFINE THEIR COMMENTS TO ISSUES WITHIN THE DOMAIN OF THE BOARD.
REFRAIN FROM RACIAL COMMENTS, OBSCENITIES, VULGARITIES, AND REFERENCES TO SPECIFIC INDIVIDUALS BY NAME, UM, AND NOT COMMIT OTHER BREACHES OF RESPECT, NOT EXCEED THREE MINUTES VISIBLE AUDIO TIMING DEVICE WILL BE USED.
UM, PLEASE BE RESPECTFUL OF THE THREE MINUTE RULE.
COMPLETE THIS CARD, WHICH YOU'VE ALREADY DONE, AND, UH, INCLUDING PROVIDING ONE OR MORE SPECIFIC TOPICS.
THE FIRST SPEAKER TONIGHT WILL BE SKIP HOLAND, AND HE IS SPEAKING REGARDING SCHOOL FUNDS.
I'M HERE TONIGHT BECAUSE THE SCHOOL BOARD AND THE SCHOOL LEADERSHIP SEEMS TO HAVE SOME MANY PROBLEMS. I ONCE AGAIN REMIND YOU OF A STUDY TO EDUCATE YOU BY DR.
FUSCO, THE YANKEE INSTITUTE ON HOW TO STOP, CATCH, AND PREVENT CORRUPTION AND WASTE IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
I WILL NOT GO INTO ALL DETAILS ON PAST PROBLEMS WITH DREW DAVIS, JEFF MOSS, EMAIL, SERVERS, ET CETERA.
MY FOCUS IS THIS BOARD AND ITS, AND ITS ACTING CHAIRMAN MADE OF A PART-TIME PUBLIC SERVANTS WHO HAVE SIMPLY LOST CONTROL TO THE EMPLOYEES AND LOST THE TRUST OF THOSE WHO ELECTED THEM.
GOOGLE SEARCH REVEALS YOU ARE NOT ALONE, AND SCHOOL WASTE AND CORRUPTION IS NATIONWIDE.
IN FACT, NOT ONE TIME IN THE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES HAS A FORENSIC AUDIT BEEN PERFORMED IN A SCHOOL DISTRICT, A TOWN GOVERNMENT, OR A NON-PROFIT TAX FUNDED CHAMBER WHERE WRONGDOING AND WAS NOT DISCOVERED.
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UNFORTUNATELY, PRISON THE RESULT MOST OF THE TIME.RECENTLY IN ELIZABETH, NEW JERSEY, IT WAS DISCOVERED THE LAWYERS OVERBUILD THE SCHOOL BOARD $1 MILLION.
RECENTLY IN BERKELEY COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA SCHOOL DISTRICT CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER, WHO OVERSAW 260 MILLION GENERAL FUND PLEADED GUILTY TO STEALING 1.3 MILLION.
AND I HELPED TO FACILITATE THAT ARREST.
FORMER WAYNE COUNTY SCHOOL SYSTEM EMPLOYEE CHARGED WITH FRAUD, EMBEZZLEMENT, AND THEFT.
WAKE COUNTY SCHOOL SYSTEM, 3.8 MILLION IN PHONY INVOICES, FRAUD, THEFT, AND KICKBACKS.
SO TONIGHT I WANT TO ASK NICELY THAT YOU ALL AGREE TO VOTE FOR FORENSIC AUDIT OF OUR 296 MILLION SCHOOL BUDGET AT A SMALL COST OF TWICE THE COST OF WHATEVER YOU'RE PAYING FOR REGULAR AUDIT, LET'S SAY A HUNDRED THOUSAND BE AND BEFORE YOU ARE FORCED BY AUTHORITIES.
AT SOME POINT, YOU'LL HAVE TO DO THIS.
AND YOU DON'T WANT A LEGACY TO, TO BE UNWILLING TO LIVE BY YOUR CAMPAIGN PROMISES TO SERVE OUR CHILDREN IN OUR COMMUNITY WITH TRANSPARENCY, ACCOUNTABILITY, PROVEN PERFORMANCE METRICS TO MAKE SURE OUR TAX FUNDS ARE BEING SPENT PROPERLY.
WHAT YOU DON'T WANT ALSO IS TO BE PUBLICLY EMBARRASSED IN THE COMMUNITY TO YOUR FRIENDS, NEIGHBORS, AND FAMILIES OF BEING UNWILLING OR, OR, AND ACCOMPLISHED CO CO-CONSPIRATOR OR, OR, OR JUST INCOMPETENT BY ALLOWING THIS TOTAL NON-TRANSPARENCY TO CONTINUE.
THERE'S NO LOGICAL ANSWER WHY ANYONE WOULD OPPOSE A FORENSIC AUDIT.
I STAKE MY 50 YEAR BUSINESS CAREER IN THE FACT THAT ONCE AN AUDIT IS COMPLETED, WASTE WRONGDOING AND CONVICTIONS ARE, COULD, COULD RESULT.
HOW CAN WE LEAD AN IN EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM WITH THOSE WHO REFUSE TO BE EDUCATED AND HONEST WITH THEMSELVES THAT SOME FORM OF CORRUPTION IS MORE THAN LIKELY TO EXIST.
FURTHER, YOU ARE HIRED TO APPROVE, PROTECT, AND SPEND MONEY LIKE IT'S YOUR OWN MONEY, NOT PLAY MON LIKE PLAY MONEY LIKE THE GAME OF MONOPOLY.
IMAGINE 200 6290 6 MILLION WAS YOURS AND YOU WERE GONNA INVEST THIS MONEY WITH ME.
CAN ANY OF YOU WITH A STRAIGHT FACE SAY YOU WOULD ALLOW 260 MILLION, 2 96? THAT'S ACTUALLY A BIG NUMBER.
REQUIRE A FORENSIC AUDIT, ESPECIALLY WHEN, UH, JEFF MOS WAS RUNNING THIS MONEY.
YOU MAY CONTINUE IN THE SECOND.
I'M GOTTA LEARN HOW TO SAY YOUR NAME.
I, I I WILL PRACTICE LIKE IT'S SPELLED OKAY.
HE'S GONNA SPEAK ON, UH, SCHOOL BOOK.
SO, UH, FIRST THING I WANT TO DO IS IF WE HAVE ANY MINORS IN HERE, I I WOULD ASK HIM TO, TO LEAVE THE ROOM.
UH, THERE'S GONNA BE SOME WORDS THAT ARE IN MY PRESENTATION THAT I DON'T THINK ARE APPROPRIATE FOR, FOR, FOR CHILDREN.
SO ARE, ARE WE GOOD? UM, OKAY.
SO, UM, I'M GONNA FIRST START OFF, START OFF BY, UH, UH, BY SAYING THAT, UM, WHAT I'M, WHAT I'M GONNA READ TO YOU GUYS IS AN EXCERPT FROM A BOOK THAT'S IN MULTIPLE SCHOOLS IN THIS COUNTY.
AND IT WAS VERY DISTURBING TO ME.
UH, I'M GONNA EXPECT THAT MY FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS WILL NOT BE VIOLATED DURING WHAT I READ.
SO I'M GONNA READ A COUPLE EXCERPTS.
HIS ARMS WRAP AROUND ME AND HIS ROUGH HANDS GO STRAIGHT TO MY BOOBS.
I TRY TO KNOCK THEM AWAY, BUT I AM NO MATCH FOR HIS STRENGTH.
YOU LIKE IT ROUGH CUZ I'M JUST THE GUY GIVE IT TO YOU THAT WAY.
NO CHARGE YANKING ON MY HAIR, PUSHING ME TO MY KNEES.
YOU'RE EVEN PRETTIER FROM BEHIND.
YOU KNOW THAT I HEAR HIS ZIPPER LOWER.
HE YANKS DOWN MY SHORTS IN A SINGLE SWIFT MOTION.
HE'S HUMILIATING ME IN, IN EVERY POSSIBLE WAY, RIGHT ON MY KITCHEN FLOOR AS PROMISED, HE'S ROUGH, BITING, POUNDING, SHREDDING, RIPPING, PLEASE.
THE WORD BOUNCES OFF HIM LIKE PING PONGS WEEKLY IN MY EARS.
TRYING TO FIGHT HIM OFF ONLY FUELS HIM.
YOU EVER SEEN A RAM ROD LIKE DAN'S? I SHAKE MY HEAD AS I ROLL THE CONDOM DOWN OVER IT.
I CLOSE MY EYES, FIGHT NOT TO GAG AT THE TASTE OF THE LUBE, TRYING NOT TO CHOKE ON HIS THRUSTS AGAINST MY THROAT.
THESE ARE SOME OF THE LINES THAT ARE IN A BOOK IN OUR SCHOOLS, IN MIDDLE SCHOOLS AND IN HIGH SCHOOLS.
OKAY? THERE ARE 13 PAGES OF THAT CONTENT JUST FROM THIS BOOK ALONE.
THAT WAS ONE BOOK I JUST WANT YOU GUYS TO KNOW.
THESE ARE MINORS THAT ARE IN OUR SCHOOLS.
KIDS THAT HAVE ACCESS TO THIS BOOK ARE AS YOUNG AS 11 YEARS OLD.
I HOPE THAT NONE OF YOU UP HERE THINK THAT THIS IS APPROPRIATE FOR 11 YEAR OLD KIDS IN OUR SCHOOLS.
THE SCHOOL DISTRICT, THE ADMINISTRATION AND
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THE LIBRARIANS NEED TO BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR THESE BOOKS IN OUR SCHOOLS.THEY NEED TO BE HELD TO THE SAME LAWS AS ANYONE ELSE WOULD BE.
BECAUSE IF I GAVE A BOOK LIKE THIS, OR A BOOKSTORE GAVE A BOOK LIKE THIS TO A MINOR, THAT PERSON WILL PROBABLY BE SHUT DOWN OR ARRESTED.
I'M LETTING YOU GUYS KNOW THAT THIS WEEK I'M GONNA GO AND FILE A CRIMINAL COMPLAINT TO BEAUFORD COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE FOR FOUR SOUTH CAROLINA VOTE CODES THAT ARE BEING VIOLATED BECAUSE OF THESE BOOKS IN OUR SCHOOLS.
WE'VE GIVEN THE DISTRICT ENOUGH WARNING TO GET THIS STUFF OUT OF THE SCHOOLS.
OUR NEXT, UM, PUBLIC SPEAKER IS STEPHANIE HARRIS AND SHE WILL BE SPEAKING ABOUT, UM, SCHOOL SAFETY IN THE REUNIFICATION PROCESS.
I AM A PARENT OF TWO BEAUFORD HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS.
SO SORRY IF I GET A LITTLE EMOTIONAL, BUT I WENT THROUGH THE ACTIVE SHOOTER THING TWO WEEKS AGO.
UM, STOOD OUTSIDE WAITING FOR OUR CHILDREN TO BE RELEASED.
THANK GOODNESS IT WAS, IT WAS LIVE TO US.
THERE WAS NO ACTIVE SHOOTER, THANK GOODNESS.
BUT I DO WANNA BRING TO THE ATTENTION THE REUNIFICATION PROCESS.
THE REUNIFICATION PROCESS WAS, UM, DON'T GET ME WRONG, BEAUFORT HIGH.
UM, LAW ENFORCEMENT, FIRST RESPONDERS, EVERYBODY DID WONDERFUL.
BUT I THINK THAT REUNIFICATION PROCESS NEEDS TO BE READDRESSED.
I THINK HAVING A TWO STAGE PROCESS WHERE THEY'RE CHECKING IDS AT THE FIRST STAGE AND THEN CHECKING IDS AGAIN AT THE SECOND STAGE NEEDS TO BE READDRESSED.
IT WAS TAKING FOREVER TO GET OUR STUDENTS.
UM, ONE COMPUTER WOULD SAY THAT, YES, YOU ARE AN EMERGENCY CONTRACT CONTACT, AND THEN ANOTHER COMPUTER WOULD SAY, NO, I'M SORRY YOU'RE NOT.
SO AFTER WAITING FOR THREE HOURS FOR OUR KIDS TO BE PICKED UP AND FOR US TO TAKE EMERGENCY KIDS WITH US, UM, WHEN WE KNOW WE'RE ON THE LIST, WE WEREN'T ABLE TO BECAUSE THE DIS ACCORDING TO, UM, THE ADMIN THERE, THEY WERE USING DIFFERENT COMPUTERS.
SO I JUST THINK THAT IT, IT SLOWED EVERYTHING DOWN.
WE'VE BEEN THERE FOR FIVE HOURS.
WE'VE SHOWN OUR IDS AT THE BEGINNING.
WE WANT, WE GET THOSE BACK WITH OUR KIDS.
HAVING TO GO THROUGH THAT A SECOND TIME IS SENSELESS.
UM, WITH THAT SAID, UM, ONE OTHER THING THAT WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT AT OUR SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT COUNCIL MEETINGS IS HALL MONITORS AT BEAUFORT HIGH SCHOOL.
ONE OF THEM'S A TYPE ONE DIABETIC.
SHE NEEDS TO HAVE ACCESS TO A RESTROOM WHEN SHE NEEDS TO.
SHE HAS, UM, SHE GOES TO THE NURSE TO TAKE HER INSULIN, BUT SHE'S SUPPOSED TO BE DRINKING WATER ALL DAY.
UM, THEY CAN'T GO TO THE BATHROOMS WITHOUT, UM, SPECIAL DURING, EXCEPT DURING SPECIAL TIMES.
UM, AND A LOT OF THIS IS BECAUSE OF THE THINGS THAT ARE HAPPENING IN THE RESTROOMS AT THE SCHOOL.
AND I'M NOT SAYING THIS, TY'S THE ONLY ONE THAT HAS THIS GOING ON.
UM, THERE ARE DRUG ISSUES IN THE BATHROOMS. THERE IS MARIJUANA BEING SMOKED.
UM, SO WHEN THE KIDS GO INTO THE RESTROOMS, THERE ARE KIDS IN THERE DOING THESE THINGS AND THEY CAN'T GET INTO THE ACTUAL FACILITIES TO USE THEM.
UM, WITH THAT SAID, THERE'S ALSO FIGHTS THAT ARE HAPPENING IN THE RESTROOMS AS WELL.
I JUST SAW A VIDEO OF ONE LAST WEEK.
UM, SADLY MY DAUGHTER WAS A VICTIM OF ONE AT LADIES ISLAND MIDDLE SCHOOL LAST YEAR WHERE SHE WAS JUMPED IN THE BATHROOM AND BEAT UP.
I THINK THE SCHOOL NEEDS HALL MONITORS AGAIN.
WHEN I WAS THERE CLASS OF 1994, WE HAD TWO HALL MONITORS.
WE DIDN'T HAVE SROS AT THE TIME, AND I KNOW THEY'RE TRYING TO GET AN ADDITIONAL SRO IN THERE, UM, WHICH WE APPRECIATE.
BUT I THINK HALL MONITORS WOULD HELP.
I THINK THOSE HALL MONITORS WOULD HELP BECAUSE THOSE SROS CAN'T BE EVERYWHERE AT ALL THE TI ALL THE TIME.
SO THOSE HALL MONITORS WOULD HELP MONITOR STUDENT PARKING LOTS, MON MONITOR THE HALLWAYS TO MAKE SURE THAT KIDS CAN GET IN AND OUT OF THOSE RESTROOMS WITHOUT OTHER PEOPLE BEING IN THERE DOING WHATEVER IT IS THAT THEY DO OR FIGHTING, ET CETERA.
SO PLEASE BRING HALL MONITORS BACK INTO THE SCHOOLS.
THEY ARE NECESSARY AND I THINK THE BUDGET WOULD ALLOW IT.
OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS, UM, JULIA OR JULIE MATTHEWS, AND SHE'S ALSO SPEAKING ON SCHOOL SAFETY.
AND THANK YOU ONCE AGAIN FOR ALLOWING ME TO ADDRESS YOU WITH SOME VERY IMPORTANT ISSUES.
I'M A MOTHER, A GRANDMOTHER, A BUSINESS OWNER, A BEAUFORT COUNTY CITIZEN, AND A VOTER.
TWO WEEKS AGO ON OCTOBER 4TH, I ADDRESSED THE BOARD REGARDING SOME DISGUSTING AND INAPPROPRIATE BOOKS, IF YOU WANNA CALL THEM BOOKS.
UH, I'D LIKE TO KNOW THE COUNTY'S PROCEDURES
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IN SELECTING THE BOOKS, HOW THEY'RE APPROVED FOR THESE LIBRARIES, BEAUFORD COUNTY SCHOOL LIBRARIES.ARE THESE BOOKS VETTED BY A TEAM WHO HA, WHO HAVE READ AND REVIEWED THESE BOOKS? IF NOT, WHY NOT? AND IF SO, WERE THOSE INDIVIDUALS VETTED? BECAUSE THESE, THERE ARE SEVERAL THAT ARE BEYOND POISONOUS TO YOUNG, IMPRESSIONABLE MINDS.
MY NEXT TOPIC ON THE ONE I'M MOST PASSIONATE ABOUT, WHICH I ALSO DISCUSSED ON OCTOBER 4TH, IS SCHOOL SAFETY.
IN REGARDS TO SCHOOL SHOOTINGS, QUITE IRONICALLY, THE VERY NEXT DAY THERE WERE LIVE ACTIVE SHOOTER HOAXES AT MULTIPLE SCHOOLS.
STATEWIDE, THOUGH THIS WAS AN EXTREMELY EXPENSIVE HOAX PAID FOR BY THE TAX DOLLARS AND FIRST RESPONDERS DID AN EXEMPLARY JOB, WE SHOULD ALL THANK GOD THAT THEY WERE NOT ACTUAL SHOOTERS.
AS YOU KNOW, BEAUFORT COUNTY IS A SECOND FASTEST GROWING COUNTY IN SOUTH CAROLINA AND APPROXIMATELY 22,000 STUDENTS.
THAT'S 22,000 IMPRESSIONABLE AND VULNERABLE SOULS.
NOT TO MENTION THE COUNTLESS TEACHERS, ADMINISTRATORS, EMPLOYEES THAT ARE ALL EQUALLY VULNERABLE TO A HORRIFIC VIOLENT ACT IF ONE WERE TO OCCUR.
I'M AWARE THE SCHOOL BOARD HAS BEEN PROVIDED WITH INFORMATION AND SUGGESTIONS REGARDING PROTECTING AND SECURING SCHOOLS FROM GUN VIOLENCE.
I'M NOT HERE WITH ANY POLITICAL MOTIVE REGARDING GUNS OR THE SECOND AMENDMENT.
I'M HERE TO IMPLORE EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU, UM, TO RESEARCH AND DISCUSS THE MANY OPTIONS SO WE CAN MAKE OUR SCHOOLS SAFE SCHOOLS.
I SPEAK FOR ALL PARENTS, GRANDPARENTS, AND ANYONE THAT HAS A LOVED ONE AT ANY ONE OF THE SCHOOLS IN ADMINISTRATIVE BUILDINGS.
AND WHAT HAPPENED ON OCTOBER 5TH SHOULD CERTAINLY HAVE OPENED EVERYONE'S EYES.
I ENCOURAGE ONE OF YOU TO REACH OUT TO ME TO ADDRESS THIS ISSUE.
I'M QUITE SURE THAT SECURING AND PROTECTING OUR SCHOOLS IS OF THE UTMOST IMPORTANCE TO ALL.
PLEASE FEEL FREE TO REACH OUT TO ME IF THERE'S ANYTHING I CAN DO MOVING FORWARD ON THIS.
LET'S NOT PONDER AND WAIT FOR A HORRIFIC EVENT, A REAL EVENT TO OCCUR.
UM, I'D JUST LIKE TO STATE THAT, UH, TO RESTATE OUR POLICY THAT, UM, WE DO NOT RESPOND TO PUBLIC COMMENTS, BUT WE LISTEN TO THEM.
I'M SORRY, I THOUGHT WE WERE DONE.
I WOULD LIKE TO TOGETHER BRING UP THE STANDARDIZED TESTING OPTOUT CLAUSE IN THE ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION ACT THAT LEAVES LAW SQUARELY IN THE DISTRICT'S COURT TO MAKE A WRITTEN POLICY REGARDING PARENTS RIGHTS TO REFUSE STANDARDIZED TESTS FOR THEIR CHILDREN.
AS PER THE FEDERAL E S E A, I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO ONCE AGAIN BRING UP THE FACT THAT WE CAN NEVER HAVE AN ACTUAL CONVERSATION WITH BOARD MEMBERS DURING THESE MEETINGS.
IT'S A VERY EASY WAY FOR YOU TO DISMISS WHAT WE SAY, AND THERE HAS TO BE A SOLUTION.
I AM ASKING YOU REVISIT THE ONLINE REGISTRATION PROCESS TO REMOVE THE MANDATORY ACCEPTANCE OF THE SEL IN THE CODE OF CONDUCT PAGE AS A MEDICAL INFORMATION AS WELL.
LASTLY, I WOULD LIKE TO REMIND YOU THAT X-RATED AND INAPPROPRIATE BOOKS ARE STILL AVAILABLE FOR CHECKOUT IN OUR SCHOOL LIBRARIES.
IF CHILDREN COULD NOT ATTEND R-RATED MOVIES, THEY SHOULDN'T BE ABLE TO CHECK OUT X-RATED BOOKS.
THERE SHOULDN'T BE A FORM TO HAVE THESE BOOKS REVIEWED.
THEY SHOULD SIMPLY BE REMOVED AS IT IS CRIMINAL TO HAVE AVAILABLE TO MINERS.
THIS TIME NEXT WEEK, I EXPECT THESE BOOKS TO BE REMOVED FROM THE LIBRARIES AND CLASSROOMS IN OUR DISTRICT.
IF THEY'RE NOT, I WILL ALSO BE FILING CRIMINAL COMPLAINTS.
UM, I ALSO, FUNNILY ENOUGH, HAVE A FEW EXCERPTS FROM A BOOK BOOK THAT IS AVAILABLE IN TWO HIGH SCHOOLS AND A MIDDLE SCHOOL IN OUR DISTRICT.
IF THERE ARE ANY MINORS LISTENING ON YOUTUBE OR IF THERE ARE ANY CHILDREN IN THE ROOM, UM, YOU MAY WANNA HAVE THEM STEP OUT.
I'M NAUSEOUS IN MY STOMACH, BUT HOT TIGHT IN MY T W A T AND I THINK I WANT IT BACK.
HE, HE SLAPS ME AND MY EARS SING SEPARATE SONGS FROM EACH OTHER AS HE PUMPS MY P U S S Y.
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AND OUT.HE HUMS, HE SLAMS HIS HIPS INTO ME HARD.
I SCREAM PAIN, AND HE COMES, HE SLAPS MY THIGHS LIKE COWBOYS DO HORSES ON TV.
HIS BODY'S SHAKING, CALLING ME FAT MAMA, BIG HOLE.
THEN HE SAYS, YOU, YOU'RE P***Y.
OR EXCUSE ME, P U S S Y IS POPPING LIKE GREASE IN A FRYING PAN.
THIS IS AVAILABLE TO CHILDREN AS YOUNG AS 11.
THAT IS THE PART THAT'S NOT SO BAD.
SO IF WE'RE ALLOWING CHILDREN, CHILDREN TO READ THIS IN OUR SCHOOLS, WHERE DOES IT END? THIS IS SICK.
AND I, FOR ONE, DON'T WANT MY CHILDREN READING IT.
I'M NOT NAIVE TO THE FACT THAT ALL OF THIS IS OUT THERE IN THIS WORLD, BUT I DO NOT EXPECT OUR SCHOOL DISTRICT TO BE OFFERING IT TO CHILDREN TO JUST COME AND TAKE OUT AND CHECK OUT AS THEY PLEASE.
SO, I, I WILL BE CHECKING THAT THIS TIME NEXT WEEK.
THESE BOOKS ARE OUT OF THE DISTRICT OR I WILL BE FILING CRIMINAL COMPLAINTS.
SO THIS IS, I CAN, CAN, NOW I'M GONNA PUT YOU ON SPEAKER FOR, YOU'LL HAVE THREE MINUTES.
IF YOU COULD STATE YOUR FIRST AND YOUR LAST NAME, PLEASE.
THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK TO YOU TONIGHT, EARLIER TODAY, BUT WANTED MY CONCERNS TO BE HEARD ON PUBLIC RECORD AS WELL.
FIRST, I WANT TO APPOL OFFER MY CONDOLENCES FOR THE PASSING OF OUR CHAIR.
SECOND, I THINK EACH OF YOU WERE PROBABLY EQUALLY HORRIFIED.
THE WEEK BEFORE LAST WOULDN'T BE FOR HIGH SCHOOL, WAS IT WAS OAK.
THE TERROR WAS STILL THE SAME.
I HOPE THAT THE AGENDA WOULD INCLUDE A DISCUSSION OF SAFETY IN OUR SCHOOLS LAST WEEK WITH SOME SUGGESTIONS FROM THAT COULD HELP INCREASE SAFETY.
I HOPE YOU HAD A CHANCE TO REVIEW THAT EMAIL AND VISIT THE WEBSITES THAT PROVIDED MORE INFORMATION.
I KNOW IN THE PAST, THE BOARD HAS DIRECTED THE SUPERINTENDENT TO INVESTIGATE THE COST OF ITEMS THE BOARD WAS INTERESTED IN IMPLEMENTING.
AFTER HEARING BACK FROM ONE BOARD MEMBER, I GUESS YOU CAN ASK FOR SPECIFIC BRAND NAME ITEMS. I HOPE THAT YOU WILL CONSIDER ASKING FOR THESE ITEMS TO BE PRICED, BUT USING GENERIC DESCRIPTORS FOR THE ITEMS THAT I SENT YOU.
I HOPE THAT YOU'LL CONSIDER DOING THIS FOR THE FUTURE SAFETY OF STUDENTS, TEACHERS, ADMINISTRATION, AND STAFF.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION AND CONTINUING SERVICE TO OUR THANK YOU.
[CLOC Update]
NEXT ON OUR AGENDA IS THE CLOCK UPDATE.GOOD TO SEE ALL OF YOU BOARD MEMBERS AND THANKS FOR THOSE YOU WHO HAVE ATTENDED OUR MEETINGS.
WOULDN'T YOU HAVE THE PRESENTATION UP, PLEASE? THIS IS OUR THIRD QUARTER UPDATE OF 2022.
LAST MONTH, THE CLOCK CONDUCTED ITS 34TH MEETING SINCE THE BEGINNING OF THE REFERENDUM PROJECT.
UM, A POINT OF CELEBRATION, THE CITIZEN LED OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE WAS RECOGNIZED BY THE SOUTH CAROLINA SCHOOL BOARD ASSOCIATION AS CHAMPIONS FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION.
ON OCTOBER THE FOURTH BOARD MEETING, THE OUR COMMITTEE WAS RECOGNIZED BY THAT BOARD AS THE CHAMPIONS FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION.
THIS AWARD IS PRESENTED TO COMMUNITY RESIDENTS, ORGANIZATIONS, OR BUSINESS OR INDUSTRIES WHO SIGNIFICANTLY CONTRIBUTE TO THE BENEFIT OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
WE WERE NOMINATED FOR THAT AWARD BY BEAUFORD COUNTY AND BY BY THE BOARD AND OF 73 COUNTIES, BEAUFORD COUNTY WAS RECOGNIZING THE CLOCK WAS RECOGNIZED AS FOR THEIR CONTRIBUTION.
WE WANT TO THANK THE BOARD FOR DOING THAT.
UM, AND THIS EVENING WE WANT TO DEDICATE THIS WARD TO CHAIRMAN STRIPER.
RODRIGUEZ, PLEASE MAKE SURE THAT IT IS DISPLAYED IN THE PUBLIC OFFICE WITH THAT PROCLAMATION.
NOW LET'S MOVE TO OUR PROJECTS AND LET'S TALK ABOUT OUR LARGE SCOPE PROJECTS.
LET'S TALK ABOUT BEAUFORT ELEMENTARY.
THAT PROJECT IS AT, IS AT THE CLOSEOUT PHASE.
UH, THE TOTAL AMOUNT FROM THE REFERENDUM
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WAS $20,831,873 ENCUMBERED AND PAID.THE DATE IS 20 MILLION 7 82, 6 33.
AND SO WE ARE PRO PROGRESSING TO, UH, CLOSE THAT PROJECT OUT.
SO BEAUFORT ELEMENTARY IS IN GOOD STANDING.
UH, IT CONTAINS MAINLY SAFETY, SECURITY, RENOVATIONS, AND TECHNOLOGY UPGRADES.
WE STILL HAVE A COUPLE, COUPLE OF PUNCH LIST ITEMS TO DO, UH, FROM, FROM A FINAL CHANGE ORDER, BUT THAT WILL BE CLOSED OUT SHORTLY.
LET'S TALK ABOUT BATTERY CREEK HIGH SCHOOL.
THIS IS A REPLACEMENT SCHOOL FOR BATTER FOR, I MEAN, IT'S AN UP, UH, UPGRADE FOR BATTERY CREEK HIGH SCHOOL.
A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF FUNDS WERE BEING SPENT ON BATTERY CREEK 56 MILLION PAID TO DATE.
WE HAVE PAID 35,335,000 4 0 1.
UH, THIS IS BEING DONE BY MP MB CON CONSTRUCTION.
YOU CAN SEE SOME OF THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE RENOVATION OF BATTERY CREEK HIGH SCHOOL.
NOW, SOME OF THE AREAS, UH, THE BUILDING A, UH, IS SCHEDULED TO BE COMPLETED, UH, IN THIS MONTH.
BUILDING B, THE FRONT OFFICE AND GUIDANCE, THEY'RE DOING PUNCH LIST ITEMS. BUILDING C, WHICH IS THE MEDIA CENTER SUPPORT, SUPPORT SPACES.
UH, DEMOLITION UNDERGROUND WORK IS PROCEEDING BUILDING B2 AND C2.
THAT'S THE GENERAL CLASSROOMS AND THE STAFF OFFICE DEMOLITION IS 95% COMPLETE.
THE ONGOING AROUND BUILDING G THERE'S SEVERAL ITEMS INCLUDING THE LOCKER ROOMS, WEIGHT ROOM, ALSO IN BUILDING F, WHICH IS THE ART BAND ROOM.
THERE'S DEMOLITION PROCEEDING IN SITE ATHLETICS.
THERE'S A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF WORK THERE WITH TICKET BOOTHS, CONCESSION AND NEW FIELD HOUSE UTILITIES, STORAGE AREAS, AND ALSO ADDITIONAL FIELD UPGRADES.
SO THAT'S BATTERY CREEK HIGH SCHOOL.
UH, LET'S TALK NOW ABOUT ROBERT SMALLS.
ROBERT SMALLS, AS WE KNOW, IS A NEW SCHOOL REPLACING THE CURRENT ROBERT SMALLS.
UH, THE FUNDING FOR ROBERT SPAS IS, IS 68,000 9 0 3 2 83.
PAID TO DATE IS 26 MILLION 1 49 0 78.
WE ARE HAVING SOME SCHEDULING ISSUES, UH, WITH ROBERT SMALLS.
THE SCHEDULE A AREA A, THE GYM IS GOING WELL, AREA B, THE SMALL CLASSROOM IS GOING WELL.
BUT OUR HOLD UP RIGHT NOW, ROBERT SMALLS IS WHAT WE LIKE TO CALL THE HEART OF ANY CONSTRUCTION PROJECT.
IT'S THE MAIN SWITCH GEAR THAT SUPPLIES ALL OF THE POWER FOR THE SCHOOL, UH, THAT IS SUPPOSED TO BE DELIVERED NEXT APRIL, WHICH IS, WE ARE HOPING WE'LL BE ON TIME, BUT THAT IS A BIG ISSUE THAT WE'RE DEALING WITH RIGHT NOW, AND WE KNOW THAT THE PROJECT MANAGERS ARE ON TOP OF THAT SWITCH GEAR, HOPEFULLY IN DELIVERY IN APRIL.
ALL RIGHT, LET'S MOVE ON TO THE NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE.
JUST TO UPDATE EVERYBODY ON THAT PROJECT IS CLOSED OUT AND EVERYTHING IS COMPLETED ON BEAUFORD HIGH SCHOOL.
SO THERE WHERE WE ARE WITH THAT.
LET'S TALK ABOUT THE REST OF OUR MEDIUM SMALL PROJECTS.
THESE ARE PROJECTS THAT TYPICALLY INCLUDE SAFETY, SECURITY, TECHNOLOGY, INFRASTRUCTURE, PLAYGROUNDS, OR ATHLETIC SCOPES.
THERE ARE 33 MEDIUM AND SMALL PROJECTS UNDERWAY USING 84 INDIVIDUAL PROJECT SCOPE PACKAGES.
THERE ARE TWO OF THOSE IN THE PLANNING PHASE 13.
IN DESIGN PHASE, THERE ARE ONE IN THE BID, PHASE 29 UNDER CONSTRUCTION, 24 ARE IN CLOSEOUT, AND 15 ARE COMPLETED FOR A TOTAL OF 84.
WE GIVE THAT OUR GREEN LIGHT STATUS TONIGHT.
WE STILL ARE DEALING WITH SUPPLY ISSUES.
THE PRESENT MANAGERS ARE MANAGED THESE ISSUES VERY CLOSELY TO KEEP THESE PROJECTS ON SCHEDULE.
SO THOSE ARE THE REMAINING PROJECTS ACROSS THE DISTRICT.
LET'S TALK ABOUT OUR PROJECT CLOSEOUTS.
AS WE, EVERY MONTH AT THE CLOCK MEETINGS, WE REVIEW THIS FORM, WHICH SHOWS THE STATUS OF CLOSEOUT OF ALL OF THE PROJECTS.
UH, MOST OF THOSE PROJECTS LISTED IN YELLOW CAUTION LIGHTS OR ONES THAT WE'RE RIGHT ON WAITING ON CLOSEOUT DOCUMENTS.
SO THE PROJECT MANAGERS ARE TRYING TO CLOSE THESE OUT WITH THE, UH, CONTRACTORS WITH THE FINAL DOCUMENTATION.
ONCE THEY HAVE THAT, THEN THE PROJECT WILL BE CLOSED OUT.
THE NEXT PAGE SHOWS THE REMAINDER OF THOSE.
THOSE ARE THE ONES THAT HAVE BEEN CLOSED SINCE THE BEGINNING, UM, OF THE REFERENDUM.
NOW, LET'S GIVE A FINANCIAL UPDATE.
AS ALL OF YOU'RE AWARE, WE DO HAVE A FINANCIAL SUBCOMMITTEE LED BY OUR CPA WHO'S IN THE ROOM WITH US THIS EVENING.
RAY, THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE.
UH, CURRENT STATUS, ALL BUDGETED DOLLARS FOR THE PROJECTS EQUAL THE DOLLARS APPROVED BY THE REFERENDUM.
THE 8 31 22 APPROPRIATION AMOUNTS PER PROJECT DID NOT CHANGE OF THE INITIAL BUDGET THAT WAS ISSUED IN 6 30 20.
INDIVIDUAL BUDGETS HAVE BEEN ADJUSTED AND SUPPORTED BY THE REFEREND OF CONTINGENCY AND THE BOND PREMIUMS, AND I'LL TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THAT IN JUST A MOMENT.
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IN ENCUMBERED DID NOT EXCEED THE BUDGETED PROJECT TOTAL.THE DOLLAR SPENT PER PROJECT DID NOT EXCEED THE ESTIMATED PROJECT PERCENT.
COMPLETE MATERIAL AND CONSTRUCTION COSTS CONTINUE TO CHALLENGE THE COST, CONTROL AND SCHEDULE, BUT FINANCIALLY WE'RE DOING VERY WELL AS THEY'RE TRYING TO CONTROL THE COST.
NOW, LET'S LOOK AT THE REFEREND SPEND TO DATE.
THE ORIGINAL BOND REFERENDUM WAS 3 44 6 10, AND SELLING THE BONDS IN THIS MARKET, THE BONDS RECEIVED A BOND PREMIUM AMOUNT OF $31 MILLION.
SO WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? IT MEANS BASICALLY THOSE WHO PURCHASED THE BONDS PAID ADDITION ADDITIONAL FUNDS TO PURCHASE THOSE BONDS, WHICH YIELDED 31,100,000.
SO THE NEW BUDGET IS 3 75 7 10, PAID THE DATE THROUGH 8 31 IS 313,000,994 $208.
TOTAL REMAINING IS 61 MILLION 7 1 5 7 9 2 CONTINGENCY USED IN AUGUST WAS 22 MILLION 2 8 7 1 7 2.
REMAINING CONTINGENCY IS 14 MILLION 3 88 9 88, WHICH WE CONSIDER THAT GREEN.
UH, LAST QUARTER UPDATE, WE WERE AT 32 6 2 9 9 8 CONTINGENCIES.
SO AS YOU CAN SEE, THE BOND REFERENDUM, UH, PREMIUMS DEFINITELY HELPED US.
SO IT WILL HELP US COMPLETE THE ORIGINAL REFERENDUM SCOPE, BUT MATERIAL COST INCREASES CONTINUE TO BE AN ISSUE OVER THE TERM AND THE PROJECT MANAGERS WILL NEED TO MONITOR THAT, MONITOR THAT VERY CAREFULLY.
SO THAT'S OUR FINANCIAL SUMMARY.
NOW, A COUPLE OF RECOMMENDATIONS, UH, TO THE BOARD THIS EVENING FROM THE CITIZEN LED OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE.
THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF CONVERSATION RECENTLY IN BOARD MEETINGS ABOUT SAFETY AND SECURITY.
THE BOND REFERENDUM CONTAINS $32 MILLION.
THAT IS FU THAT HAS BEEN FUNDED AND ALLOCATED TO SECURITY UPGRADES ACROSS THE DISTRICT.
THIS DOES NOT INCLUDE ANY BUILDING ADDITIONS TAKING PLACE IN THE BUILDING, IMPROVEMENTS SUCH AS SECURE VESTIBULE.
UH, THE BOARD NEEDS TO DETERMINE HOW TO COMMUNICATE THIS, HOW THIS 32 MILLION IS BEING SPENT, AND HIGHLIGHT THOSE IMPROVEMENTS TO OUR SAFETY AND SECURITY ACROSS THE DISTRICT.
ONE OTHER POINT THAT I'D LIKE TO BRING TO THE CLOCK TO SEE ME IS THE BOARD POLICY NOT TO RESPOND TO PUBLIC COMMENTS.
WE MAY, WE SUGGEST THAT YOU AMEND THAT BOARD POLICY TO RESPOND TO COMMENTS IF THE INFORMATION IS KNOWN.
FOR EXAMPLE, CONCERN OVER SAFETY AT SCHOOLS BOARD RESPONSE 32 MILLION HAS BEEN ALLOCATED AND IT IS BEING SPENT AND, AND IS IN THE IMPLEMENTATION PHASE FOR THE BOND REFERENDUM FOR SAFETY AND SECURITY.
THAT IS, UH, STATEMENT THIS EVENING.
SO THAT'S WHERE WE ARE, UH, THAT WE APPRECIATE THE SUPPORT FROM ALL THE BOARD MEMBERS WHO ATTEND OUR CLOCK MEETINGS.
AND WITH THAT, I WILL TAKE ANY QUESTIONS.
UM, I DON'T HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, MR. CAMPBELL, BUT I AGREE WITH YOU.
I THINK THE BOARD NEED TO AMEND THAT POLICY BECAUSE THE GENTLEMAN SAID TONIGHT THAT FOR FORENSIC AUDIT WE ALREADY HAD ON A FORENSIC AUDIT AND THEY DIDN'T FIND ANYTHING WRONG.
YOU KNOW, SO WE SHOULD LET THE PUBLIC KNOW THAT.
ANY FOLLOW UP QUESTIONS? ANYONE DOWN THERE ON THERE? MS. SPRICK? NO, I JUST, OKAY.
MR. THANK YOU, UM, AS ALWAYS, FOR EVERYTHING THAT YOU AND THE CLOCK DO, AND I GREATLY APPRECIATE, UM, YOUR EXPERTISE IN MANY AREAS, MR. WACO'S EXPERTISE IN HIS AREA.
BUT I GREATLY APPRECIATE YOU NOW BEING AS O AS CONCERNED ABOUT HOW THE WARD IS GETTING OUT TO THE COMMUNITY.
THAT IS CRUCIAL BECAUSE WE, FOR FOUR YEARS, YOU ALL HAVE BEEN MEETING AND GOING OVER THE FINANCIALS, GOING OVER THE BUILDING PROCESS, EVERYTHING TO DETERMINE THAT EVERYTHING'S ON THE WAY IT SHOULD BE.
AND, UM, WE, WE NEED TO BE ABLE TO LET THE COMMUNITY KNOW THAT WE HAVE INVESTED A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF MONEY TO SAFETY AND SECURITY, A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF MONEY FOR UPGRADES.
AND, UM, SO YOUR COMMENTS ABOUT THAT ARE GREATLY APPRECIATED.
ANY FOLLOW UP QUESTIONS? THANK YOU.
AND MR. SMITH? OH, SORRY, MR. SMITH.
I JUST WANT TO THANK YOU TWO AS WELL.
UH, I'VE BEEN IN SOME OF YOUR MEETINGS.
UM, AND, AND TO JUST FOLLOW UP WITH WHAT MR. UH, FRIS WANNA SAY, I JUST WANTED TO TAKE UPON THE SECOND TO SEE AND SAY THANK YOU FOR UPDATING THE PUBLIC AND ALLOWING, AND ALLOWING YOUR VOICE TO BE KNOWN THAT, BUT WE DO, YOU KNOW, WE ALL HAVE TO BE MINDFUL THAT THEY ARE POLICIES AND PROCEDURES AROUND, UH, SAFETY AND SECURITY MM-HMM.
SO THEREFORE, WE HAVE TO BE VERY INTENTIONAL OR VERY, UH, CALCULATED ON HOW WE MAKE STATEMENTS ABOUT THAT.
BUT WE THANK YOU FOR UPDATING THE COMMUNITY AND KEEPING THEM ACTIVELY ENGAGED IN KNOWING HOW WE'RE SPENDING THE FUNDS IN TURN OF SAFETY AND SECURITY.
THANK YOU FOR ATTENDING OUR MEETINGS.
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WE REALLY APPRECIATE IT.WHEN BOARD MEMBERS ATTEND OUR MONTHLY MEETINGS, IT SHOWS YOUR SUPPORT AND WE, WE APPRECIATE THAT IMMENSELY.
ANY MORE QUESTIONS? THANK YOU.
AND WE'LL SEE YOU FOR THE NEXT QUARTERLY UPDATE.
THE CLOCK, UH, GROUP IS, UH, A TREMENDOUS ASSET TO OUR BOARD.
[Chairman’s Report]
THE NEXT ITEM ON THE AGENDA IS THE CHAIRMAN'S REPORT.AND TONIGHT, UM, THE IN FRONT OF YOU AT YOUR SEATS WAS A MANILA ENVELOPE, WHICH CONTAINS THE SUPERINTENDENT'S EVALUATION FORM.
UM, THE FORM IS BEING GIVEN OUT TONIGHT.
WISNESKI WILL MAKE SURE YOU GET YOURS.
UM, THE SUPPORTING, UH, INFORMATION BOOKLET THAT DR.
RODRIGUEZ, UM, PREPARES TO, TO, UH, SHARE WITH THE BOARD WILL BE FORTHCOMING.
BUT, UM, THE, UH, EVALUATION FORM YOU SHOULD HAVE TONIGHT, THE TIME.
WE HAVE A VERY STRICT TIMELINE WITH THIS ON MONDAY.
ALL EVALUATION FORMS AND THE SUPPORTING DOCUMENT, THE SUPPORTING BOOK THAT YOU WILL RECEIVE, UM, SHORTLY, UM, NEED TO BE RETURNED TO THE DISTRICT OFFICE BY 5:00 PM 5:00 PM MONDAY THE 24TH.
THEN ON TUESDAY, THE, THE, UH, THE 25TH, THE, UM, EVALUATION FORMS WILL BE COLLATED.
UH, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE NUMERICAL.
SO IT'S A, A NUMERICAL COALITION OF, OF THE, THE REPORTS AND A DRAFT, UM, FORM WILL BE DEVELOPED OR A DRAFT.
AND THEN WE WILL HAVE A SPECIAL CALLED BOARD MEETING ON WEDNESDAY, UM, THE 26TH, WHERE WE WILL MEET AS A BOARD TO REVIEW WHAT THE FINAL OUTCOME WAS AND TO PRESENT OUR FINDINGS WITH DR.
THAT MEETING WILL BE AT FIVE O'CLOCK.
I WILL PUT ALL OF THIS IN A, UM, EMAIL TO EVERYONE TOMORROW, TOMORROW, SO THAT YOU HAVE THE INFORMATION AND YOU CAN REFER TO IT.
UM, AS YOU KNOW, WE ARE CONTRACTUALLY REQUIRED TO COMPLETE DR.
RODRIGUEZ'S EVALUATION DURING THE MONTH OF OCTOBER.
SO THAT, UM, IS WHAT BRINGS US TO NEXT WEDNESDAY TO DO THE EVALUATION BASED ON HIS AVAILABILITY.
UM, AND AS A RESULT OF THAT, THE ACADEMIC COMMITTEE MEETING, WHICH WAS SCHEDULED FOR FIVE O'CLOCK ON THE 26TH, IS BEING POSTPONED, UM, TILL A LATER DATE.
AND I WILL GET THAT INFORMATION OUT AS WELL.
SO THAT'S ALL I HAVE TO REPORT.
[Committee Reports]
MOVE ON TO COMMITTEE REPORTS.UH, FIRST COMMITTEE REPORT FINANCE, COLONEL GEIER.
THE FINANCE COMMITTEE MET ON OCTOBER 13TH, UH, IN A HYBRID MEETING.
AND WE HAD A NUMBER OF TOPICS AND, AND TOPICS.
FIRST ITEM THAT WE LOOKED AT IS THE MONTHLY $100,000 REPORT, WHERE WE SEE EVERY, EVERY ITEM OVER $1,000, UH, THAT IS, UH, EXPENDED DURING THAT REPORTED PERIOD.
THAT'S FOR THE MONTH OF AUGUST.
GRAS MADE A MOTION TO ACCEPT THE CONSOLIDATED REPORT AND PLACE IT ON OCTOBER 18TH, CONSENT AGENDA, WHICH IS TODAY, AND IT IS ON THE CONSENT AGENDA.
THE MOTION WAS SECONDED BY MR. CAMPBELL AND THE MOTION PASSED, UH, UNANIMOUSLY.
SECONDLY, MS. TONYA CROSBY PRESENTED THE MONTHLY TRANSPARENCY REPORT.
THAT'S EVERY DIME THAT'S SPENT IN THE MONTH OF AUGUST 84 PAGES.
WE FOUND ONE ITEM THAT WE JUST WANTED SOME MORE INFORMATION ON, AND MS. CROSBY GAVE IT, UH, TO US, AND, UH, IT WAS SUFFICIENT.
NEXT ITEM IS THE BOARD'S MONTHLY BUDGET REPORT FOR OCTOBER.
GRAS MADE THE MOTION THAT, UH, THE FINANCE COMMITTEE RECOMMEND APPROVAL OF THE BOARD MONTHLY BUDGET REPORT AND PLACED IT ON THE CONSENT AGENDA.
THAT MOTION PASSED UNANIMOUSLY FOUR OH.
NEXT ITEM WAS THE SER UPDATE, AND THAT IS THE FEDERAL COVID RELIEF FUNDS.
MS. CROSBY AND MS. DENISE MATSON PRESENTED TWO VERSIONS OF THE SER UPDATE, UH, THE OLD VERSION AND THE NEW VERSION.
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ABSOLUTELY SUPERB, AND I'M GOING TO ASK, UH, MS. CROSBY AND MS. MATTSON TO COME UP AND TELL US ABOUT IT.UM, THANK YOU EVERYONE FOR THE, THE OPPORTUNITY.
UH, AFTER SOME CONVERSATION, WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT THE ESSER REPORT FOR, OR THIS IS THE ELEMENTARY SECONDARY SCHOOLS EMERGENCY RELIEF FUNDS.
UH, WE BEGAN GETTING THE, UH, MAJORITY OF THEM PRIMARILY 18 MONTHS AGO.
AND SO THE MA THE SPENDING THAT YOU'LL SEE THIS EVENING REPRESENT THAT 18 MONTH PERIOD OF TIME.
AND, AND SO AS, AS, UH, TO JUMP A LITTLE AHEAD OF, OF WHAT OTHERS IN OUR COMMUNITY, OUR SCHOOL COMMUNITIES WERE DOING, WE FELT IT WAS NECESSARY TO BRING FORWARD A, A MONTHLY UPDATE TO THE BOARD IN THE COMMUNITY OF WHAT THE SPENDING IS, HOW OUR PROGRESS IS GOING, AND WHAT CATEGORIES OF SPENDING WE ARE, UM, FOCUSING OUR DOLLARS ON.
AND SO, UM, THE LAST FEW MEETINGS, THERE HAVE BEEN SOME CONCERNS ABOUT THE, THE PROJECTIONS AND HOW, HOW WILL WE SPEND IT, ALL THAT SORT OF THING, UM, TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE NOT LEAVING ANY ON THE TABLE WHEN THOSE, UH, EXPIRATION DATES COME IN THE NEXT COUPLE OF YEARS.
SO THE FINAL EXPIRATION WILL BE SEPTEMBER OF 2024.
SO, UM, MISS MATTSON AND I HERE, THE DIRECTOR OF SPECIAL REVENUE, UH, CAME UP WITH THE IDEA OF THE DASHBOARD THAT KIND OF DEPICTS, UH, IN VISUALLY WHAT THE PROGRESS IS AND HOPEFULLY WILL HELP TO MAKE SOME SENSE OF ALL THE NUMBERS AND ALL THE REPORTS AND MULTIPLE PAGES OF INFORMATION THAT WE'VE BEEN GIVING YOU.
SO IT WAS VERY WELL RECEIVED BY THE COMMITTEE, AND I JUST WANTED TO TOUCH A BRIEF, A FEW ON A FEW HIGHLIGHTS OF THAT REPORT THIS EVENING.
SO, AGAIN, UH, KIND OF THREE MAIN IDEAS OR GOALS OF THIS PROJECTION OR THIS DASHBOARD IS TO PROVIDE A VISUAL DEPICTION.
SO IT'S A, A VERY, UH, QUICK SNAPSHOT OF WHAT THINGS LOOK LIKE.
UH, TWO, IT COMBINES ALL OF THE ACTIVITIES INTO GROUPS.
UM, AND SO THEY'RE EASY TO, UH, UNDERSTAND.
THEY DON'T HAVE LONG DESCRIPTIONS OR LOTS OF NUMBERS.
AND ALSO IT A DEMONSTRATION OF HOW WE ARE TRACKING THE FUNDS AND THAT WHAT, UH, PROGRESS WE'RE MAKING TO EXPENDING THOSE BY THE SEPTEMBER OF 2024 DEADLINE.
SO THE TOP LEFT HAND CORNER IS, UH, A CHART THAT SHOWS 46%.
THIS REPRESENTS 36 MILLION OF THE $80 MILLION THAT OF SPENDING OF THE ALLOCATIONS TO BEAUFORT COUNTY SCHOOLS.
UH, THESE, THESE, THIS 46% OR 36 MILLION IS ESSENTIALLY SPENT IN THE LAST 18 MONTHS.
UH, AND AS WE BREAK DOWN THREE OF THE MAJOR CATEGORIES, SER ONE, TWO, AND THREE, YOU'LL SEE IN RED IN THE BAR CHART GOING, UH, HORIZONTALLY.
THE TOP ONE IS SER ONE, AND WE'VE SPENT A HUNDRED PERCENT OF THOSE FUNDS.
THOSE WERE DUE TO EXPIRE THIS, UH, UH, IN ON SEPTEMBER 30TH, JUST A FEW WEEKS AGO.
UH, SER TWO IS AROUND 21 MILLION.
UH, WE HAVE SPENT 50%, THOSE WERE ALLOCATED ALMOST EXACTLY 12 MONTHS AGO.
AND WE'RE 50% THROUGH THIS, UH, THAT GRANT.
UH, AFTER DECEMBER, UH, OF THIS YEAR, WE WILL HAVE SPENT 76% OF IT WHEN WE PAY OUT THE $2,000 RECRUITING AND RETENTION BONUS, UH, FOR ALL FULL-TIME EMPLOYEES.
UH, THAT WAS, UH, UH, UNANIMOUSLY VOTED ON BY THE BOARD.
AND FINALLY, THE ESSER THREE FUNDS, WHICH WERE AROUND 51 MILLION, WE ARE AT 38% OF THE SPENDING, AND WE'RE ONE THIRD OR 33% THROUGH THE TYPE, UH, THE PERIOD OF GRANT.
UM, SO WE ARE MAKING PROGRESS AND WE DO EXPECT TO BE ON, UH, ON, WE ARE ON TRACK OF WHAT OUR PROJECTIONS SHOW.
BOTTOM LEFT QUAR QUADRANT JUST GIVES, UH, UH, THE BLUE LINE IS OUR PROJECTED SPENDING, AND IT RATE GOES UP WHEN WE HAVE LARGE EXPENDITURES, SUCH AS THE RETENTION BONUS OR MAJOR CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS IN THE SUMMER.
UM, AND THEN THE GREEN LINE PROJECTS, UH, THE REMAINING BALANCE OF THE CASH FLOW AND THE BUDGET AS WE NEAR THE END OF THE GRANT ON THE FAR RIGHT HAND SIDE IN 2024.
SO WE DO HAVE A PLAN FOR THOSE, FOR THOSE DOLLARS, THE COMMITMENTS IN DIFFERENT CATEGORIES.
AND THOSE CATEGORIES ARE REPRESENTATIVE ON THE FAR BOTTOM RIGHT SIDE WITH REMAINING PLANNED EXPENDITURES THERE.
SO WE DO, UM, MS. MATTSON, UH, MEETS REGULARLY, UH, QUARTERLY WITH THE CONTACT PEOPLE THAT, UH, FOR EVERY OF ONE OF THE 200 ACTIVITIES THAT ARE WITHIN THIS GRANT, UH, TO MAKE SURE THAT THE, UM, THE SUPPLY CHAIN DELAYS AREN'T, AREN'T, UH, AFFECTING THEM SO DRASTICALLY THAT THEY WON'T BE ABLE TO SPEND THE DOLLARS.
THEY'RE MAKING SURE THAT THOSE ARE
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PUSHED ALONG.UM, AND THAT, UM, WE ARE MONITORING AND TRACKING THE PROGRESS OF EVERY EXPENDITURE IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE ACTIVITIES THAT WERE APPROVED IN THE GRANT BY THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF ED.
SO WITH THAT, UM, THAT'S, THAT CONCLUDES MY UPDATE ON THAT INFORMATION.
ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS? BOARD MEMBER? NO.
MEL CAMPBELL QUESTION, COMMENT.
I WAS ONE OF THE ONES WHO ASKED ABOUT THE PROJECTION OF THE SPENDING, OF COURSE.
I'VE BEEN JUST SHOWING ME THAT YOU'RE GONNA SPEND THE MONEY IS ONE THING, BUT I'M CONCERNED WITH THE INTENT OF THE, OF THE FUNDING AND THE ADDRESSING OF WHAT THAT INTENT WAS.
UH, PARTICULARLY DURING THE PANDEMIC, THESE FUNDS WERE ISSUED BY FED FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO ADDRESS WHAT OBVIOUSLY WAS GONNA BE POTENTIALLY LEARNING LOSS, WHICH MEANT, YOU KNOW, AND I, I, I'VE LOOKED AT YOUR BREAKDOWN AND I'VE LOOKED AT THE EXPENDITURES, AND SOME OF THEM, YOU KNOW, DOES ADDRESS LEARNING LOSS, BUT THERE I SAW A LOT OF DUPLICATION IN THE WAY THE MONEY'S SPENT WHEN THAT'S A LEARNING LOSS.
I MEAN, THINGS ADDRESSING THE ACADEMICS, PARTICULARLY, THERE'S ABOUT $13 MILLION, I THINK YOU ADDRESSING THAT.
I DON'T KNOW WHERE THE LINES ARE NOW.
I'M LOOKING NOW, AND IT'S HARD TO FIND THE LINES, BUT I KNOW ONE, ONE, UH, CATEGORY $5 MILLION FOR AFTER SCHOOL LEARNING PROGRAM.
AND THEN, UH, THE SAME KIND OF TOPIC AGAIN LATER ON.
I DON'T KNOW IF THAT WAS DONE OR NOT DONE.
I DON'T RECALL US, YOU KNOW, ADDRESSING THAT, WHETHER THOSE 10 TEACHERS WERE HIRED AND WHETHER THEY DID CUT THE CLASS SIZE.
I KNOW I, I ADDRESSED CLASS SIZES LAST TIME IN TERMS OF THE CATEGORIES.
SO I AM CONCERNED WITH, YOU KNOW, WHETHER YOU'RE GONNA SPEND THE MONEY TOWARDS THE PURPOSE OR WHETHER YOU'RE GONNA SPEND THE MONEY.
I KNOW WE CAN SPEND THE MONEY, I CAN SPEND THAT MONEY AND YOU KNOW, MYSELF, BUT HOW WE SPENDING IT AND WHAT WE SPENDING IT ON, I, I, I LIKE TO SEE A BREAKDOWN, FOR EXAMPLE, OF SOME OF THESE THINGS, PARTICULARLY THE AFTER SCHOOL SUMMER PROGRAM, ADDRESSING THE PARTICULARS OF LEARNING LOSS.
UH, IF I MAY RE RESPOND, UH, WE, IN THE, IN THE DASHBOARD, WE DO PROVIDE, UH, SOME MAJOR CATEGORIES.
AND ONE OF THEM IS LEARNING LOSS.
UH, BUDGET IS 26.9 MILLION IN THAT ONE PARTICULAR CATEGORY.
BUT IF, IF I'M LOOKING AT ALL OF THE CATEGORIES, ALL OF THEM ARE FOR THE BENEFIT OF STUDENTS, FOR SURE.
UM, LEARNING LOSS IS PARTICULARLY AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAMS, TUTORING AND OTHER, UH, SUPPORTS IN THE CLASSROOM.
UM, BUT THE DETAILS IN THE, THE MORE DETAILED REPORT THAT YOU'VE BEEN SEEING EACH MONTH DO PROVIDE THE ACTIVITIES BY SPECIFIC CATEGORY.
AND WE CAN CERTAINLY, UM, HAVE OTHER MORE CONVERSATIONS ABOUT THOSE PARTICULAR CATEGORIES AND, UH, WE'LL BE HAPPY TO SHARE THOSE DETAILS.
UM, I, I'D LIKE TO MAKE A COMMENT TOO.
UH, LAST WEEK I ATTENDED TWO OF THE AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAMS, ONE AT MOUNT CARMEL BAPTIST CHURCH, THE OTHER ONE AT ST.
PAUL'S BAPTIST CHURCH, WHERE THEY HAD PROPER TEACHERS, THEY HAD PROPER ACCOUNTABILITY TEACHING PROPER SUBJECTS, AND IT WAS REALLY WELL DONE.
NOW, THAT'S JUST A SMALL PORTION.
THERE'S OTHER AFTER SCHOOL PROJECTS THROUGHOUT THE DISTRICT.
UM, AND I'M SURE THAT, UM, DR.
STRATIS AND THE, AND THE SUPERINTENDENT CAN GIVE US MORE SPECIFICS ON THE REST OF THE PROGRAMS. PROGRAMS AND EXPENDED AS WHAT I BE INTERESTED IN.
UM, I, I DO, UH, ECHO AND DO UNDERSTAND WHAT MR. CAMPBELL IS SAYING, AND IN, IN TERMS OF THAT, UH, THAT BREAKDOWN AND AS WELL AS, AND ALSO, UH, THERE WAS ALSO SOME, UH, SOME, SOME CONVERSATION OF IN, IN TERM OF WHERE THE KIDS WOULD GO AND ALSO, UH, EXPOSURE AND SOME OTHER THINGS THAT, YOU KNOW, THAT WE'RE JUST TRYING TO GET A CLEAR UNDERSTANDING OF, YOU KNOW, SEEING
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THAT THOSE THINGS ARE, ARE DONE.BECAUSE WHEN, WHEN THE PROJECT WAS BOUGHT AND WE BOUGHT INTO IT, THERE WAS A, THERE WAS A CERTAIN, UM, THERE WAS A, THERE WAS, THERE WAS A, THERE WAS A CERTAIN BLUEPRINT THAT WAS WHAT, WHAT, WHAT WAS, WHAT WAS TOLD TO US.
AND, AND THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH JUST MAKING SURE AND WATCHING THAT AND BEING ABLE TO BE TRANSPARENT WITH THE PUBLIC AND SAYING THAT THE BLUEPRINT THAT WAS PROPOSED TO US WHEN IT WAS PROPOSED IS EXACTLY WHAT IS GOING ON.
AND THERE, THERE'S, THERE'S NO QUESTIONS OR THERE'S, THERE'S NOTHING THAT YOU KNOW, THAT, THAT IS QUESTIONABLE ABOUT IT BECAUSE IT'S GOING ON.
AND, AND THEN WE CAN SEE THE ACTUAL, WE CAN ACTUALLY SEE THE GROWTH AND, YOU KNOW, UM,
AND TODAY WITH THE, UH, STATE REPORT CARD COMING OUT, YOU KNOW, IT'S GOOD WHEN WE CAN SHOW THAT MONEY THAT HAS BEEN ALLOCATED, THAT HOW IT IS, IT IS BEING UTILIZED, BUT ALSO WHEN WE CAN SHOW THE, THE FRUITS OF OUR LABOR IN THE, IN, IN THESE PROGRAM, THAT SPEAKS VOLUME.
NOT JUST TALKING ABOUT LEARNING LAWS, BUT ALSO SHOWING IT AND BEING ABLE TO, UH, UNDERSTAND AND DIGESTING, DIGESTING THAT WHAT WE ARE, WHAT WE ARE DOING IS, IS IT, IS, IT IS WORKING IN, YOU KNOW, IN, IN, IN TERMS OF, OF, UH, OF SPENDING THE, UH, FINANCES.
BECAUSE THERE'S A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO WERE TALKING ABOUT THE FINANCES, BUT THEY, THEY, THEY WANNA KNOW WHAT IS EXACTLY GOING ON WITH THE FINANCES AND HOW WE'RE SPENDING THEM AND IAND THAT YOU'RE GIVING 'EM.
BUT LEARNING LOSS CAN BE A BROAD, THAT CAN BE A BROAD, A BROAD TITLE.
SO DEEPING INTO IT IS, IS SOMETHING THAT PEOPLE ARE ASKING AND I THINK THAT WE HAVE NO PROBLEM SHOWING 'EM CUZ WE ARE DOING IT.
SO IF THAT'S WHAT WE'RE DOING, THEN IT'S NO PROBLEM.
SO I JUST WANT TO PUT THAT OUT THERE AS WELL.
MAD AND VICE CHAIR, I'D LIKE TO CONTINUE WITH MY REPORT.
DID MR. CAMPBELL, DID YOU HAVE SOMETHING ELSE? WELL, I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT YOU UNDERSTAND.
I, I THINK, UH, MR. SMITH DID POINT OUT DAN GOAL OF WHAT I'M THINKING.
I'M THINKING AFTER THE ASSET FUNDS HAVE DRIED UP, CAN WE ASSESS PROPERLY FUTURE NEEDS AND THE BUDGETARY CONCERNS, THEN, YOU KNOW, WILL IT HAVE EFFECTIVELY ADDRESSED THE SITUATION OR NOT? AND HOW MUCH MORE MONEY WOULD WE NEED TO PUT IN FROM OUR GENERAL FUNDS EXACTLY.
AND, YOU KNOW, THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THAT HAVE TO BE, YOU KNOW, CALCULABLE.
AND THAT'S, THAT'S, THAT'S WHAT I'M, THANK YOU.
AND, AND THAT WAS A TOPIC THAT WE DISCUSSED ABOUT MEASURES MEASURABLE OUTCOMES.
AND, AND WE'RE GONNA WORK THAT I'M SURE THE NEXT, UH, ITEM WE TALKED ABOUT WAS, UH, ESSER BUDGET TRANSFERS.
UH, YOU KNOW, WE TRANSFER FEDERAL FUNDS INTO OUR LOCAL AND BACK AND FORTH, AND WE HAVE TO MAKE SURE THAT WE KEEP VERY STRICT CONTROL OF THAT.
AND SO WE WERE BRIEFED ON THAT IN THAT PROGRAM.
NEXT ITEM WAS, WE GOT A SUMMARY OF EMPLOYEE BENEFITS COMPENSATION INCREASES, UH, THAT HAPPENED IN THE 20 20 20 23 BUDGET YEAR.
AND I'D LIKE MS. CROSBY TO, UH, BRIEF THAT TO THE FULL BOARD.
UM, SO WE PROVIDED A FOUR YEAR SUMMARY AT, UM, IN RESPONSE TO QUESTIONS REGARDING SALARY INCREASES, UH, AND BENEFIT INCREASES FOR STAFF IN THE SCHOOL DISTRICT.
UM, SO WE WENT BACK FOUR YEARS BECAUSE WE REALLY, THERE WERE SOME SIGNIFICANT, UM, CHANGES MADE IN THE 2020 SCHOOL YEAR OR 20 19, 20 20 SCHOOL YEAR.
UM, WE HAD, UM, IN ADDITION TO THE ANNUAL STEP INCREASES, AND THERE WAS A 4% COST OF LIVING INCREASE FOR CERTIFIED STAFF.
UH, THAT YEAR THERE WAS A 10% SALARY AND CHRISTOPHER BUS DRIVERS.
UH, AND THAT YEAR WE HAD, UH, THERE WAS AN INITIATIVE PUT IN PLACE BY THE INTERIM SUPERINTENDENT AT THE TIME, DR.
BERG, UH, TO MAKE INCREASES IN, UH, ATHLETIC STIPENDS.
WE WERE WOEFULLY LOW IN THE TERMS AND COMPARISON TO OTHER DISTRICTS THAT WERE THROUGHOUT THE STATE IN A PAYMENT FOR COACHES.
AND SO THERE WAS A, AN INITIATIVE THAT WAS STARTED AS A PHASED AND PHASED IN BEGINNING IN 2020, UH, FOR RAISING, UH, ATHLETIC STIPENDS.
SO THERE WAS A CONTINUING RESOLUTION.
SO THE BUDGET DID NOT CHANGE FROM THE PRIOR YEAR, SO THERE WAS NO ACTIVITY.
BUT THE NEXT YEAR IN 21, 22 SCHOOL YEAR, THERE WERE, WERE SOME SIGNIFICANT INCREASES, UM, FOR THE BENEFIT OF, OF ALL EMPLOYEES.
FOR ONE, WE, UH, WENT BACK AND PROVIDED THE STEP INCREASE AND, UH, RETROACTIVE 3% COST OF LIVING INCREASES FOR ALL EMPLOYEES.
UH, ALSO THERE WAS THE, THE REGULAR STEPS.
SO THERE WERE TWO STEPS GIVEN THAT YEAR FOR CERTIFIED EMPLOYEES, UH, IN ADDITION TO A THOUSAND DOLLARS TO THE BASE TEACHER SALARY.
UM, IT WAS STEP IN TWO STEP INCREASES
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FOR BOTH CLASSIFIED ADMINISTRATIVE AND PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYEES AS WELL.UH, AND, AND THEN THE NORMAL, A 2% COST OF LIVING INCREASE, UH, THAT YEAR.
WE ALSO PROVIDED, UH, A THOUSAND DOLLARS PANDEMIC, UM, BONUS FOR ALL EMPLOYEES.
FREE MENTAL HEALTH SUPPORTS WITH ESTHER FUNDS AND CHILDCARE, AND THEN A DUAL MODALITY BONUS FOR TEACHERS THAT WERE TEACHING BOTH VIRTUALLY AND IN PERSON, UM, THAT YEAR AS WELL AS, AND WE INITIATE, UH, IMPLEMENTED PHASE TWO AND PART OF PHASE THREE OF THE ATHLETIC STIPEND, UH, INITIATIVE AS WELL.
AND THEN FINALLY, IN 2023, THIS YEAR WAS A REALLY HISTORICAL YEAR IN TERMS OF TEACHER PAY INCREASES.
THE, UM, IN THE 21 YEARS I'VE BEEN IN THE SCHOOL DISTRICT, I'VE NEVER SEEN INCREASES OF THIS MAGNITUDE.
THE STANDARD WAS SET BY THE GOVERNOR WHO BEGAN, TALKS ABOUT $4,000 INCREASES FOR TEACHER SALARIES.
AND THEN THE BOARD, UH, REALLY SUPPORTED THE, THAT LARGER INCREASE AS OPPOSED TO THE STATE GOING WITH A $2,000 INCREASE.
UH, WE STAYED AT 4,000 AND THEN ADDED IN $2,500 OF THE LOCALITIES SUPPLEMENT INTO THE BASE, WHICH THEN BROUGHT THE TEACHERS SALARIES, UM, TO THE STARTING TEACHERS SALARIES FROM BEAUFORT TO THE FIRST RANKED, THE HIGHEST RANKED, UH, PAY IN TERMS OF STARTING TEACHERS SALARY IN THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOR PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICTS.
SO THAT WAS A REALLY AMAZING, UM, BUDGET YEAR, AND WE WERE FORTUNATE TO HAVE THE FUNDING TO BE ABLE TO MANAGE THAT.
TANYA, WHERE WERE WE PRIOR TO THAT? WE WERE AT 52ND BEFORE WE STARTED THIS INITIATIVE.
AND JUST, UH, LESS THAN A YEAR AGO, UH, WE DID MOVE TO, IN THE 40TH PERCENTILE, UM, 40TH, UH, IT RANKED BY GIVING THE 3% COST TO LIVING RETROACTIVE TO EMPLOYEES LAST YEAR.
UH, BUT WITH THIS BUDGET, WE WERE ABLE TO BE NUMBER ONE.
SO, AND FINALLY, UM, THEN RECENTLY THE ESSER, UH, $2,000 RECRUITING AND RETENTION BONUSES THAT WE PROVIDED, THOSE WILL BE DELIVERED AND PROVIDED IN DECEMBER OF THIS YEAR FOR ALL FULL-TIME EMPLOYEES EMPLOYED AS OF NOVEMBER.
UM, AND WE'RE DOING A CLA COMPENSATION STUDY FOR CLASSIFIED ADMINISTRATIVE AND PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYEES THAT WILL BE PHASED IN IN JANUARY.
UH, IN ADDITION TO THAT, THERE WERE ALSO, WE CONTINUED MENTAL HEALTH AND CHILDCARE SUPPORTS IN ADDITION TO EXPANDING OUR SICK LEAVE PAYOUTS AND PAYMENT OF LAPSE SICK DAYS FOR, FOR ALL DISTRICT STAFF WHO ARE ELIGIBLE FOR THOSE, UH, PAYOUTS THROUGH RETIREMENT OR OTHER MEANS.
SO ALL IN ALL, UM, THE TOTALS THAT WE PROVIDED, UM, SOME OF THESE ARE STATE MANDATED FULLY, FULLY OR PARTIALLY, BUT, UM, WE GENERALLY HAVE DONE MORE, WAY MORE THAN THE STATE IN TERMS OF COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS.
AND THE TOTAL OF THESE THAT WE CAME UP WITH WERE $62 MILLION.
ANY QUESTIONS FROM THE COMMENTS FROM THE BOARD? DON'T SEE ANY.
I'LL JUST SAY, UM, I KNOW THE COMMITTEE THOUGHT THIS AND I'M ONE OF THE COMMITTEE MEMBERS, BUT THIS IS AWESOME BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, AS A BOARD WE'VE DONE THESE STEPS AND SEEN THESE STEPS HAPPEN, BUT TO SEE IT COMPREHENSIVE LIKE THIS IN ONE SHEET IS GREAT.
UH, FOR THE GENERAL PUBLIC, WE ARE IN A COMPETITIVE MARKET FOR TEACHERS.
YEAH,
THIS IS NOT JUST A ONE TIME SHOT, UM, BECAUSE WE NEED THE BEST AND BRIGHTEST TEACHERS FOR OUR CHILDREN.
UM, I'M DEFINITELY IN SUPPORT OF THE CONTINUING OF IT, BUT, YOU KNOW, UM, AS AS I'M OUT IN THE COMMUNITY, YOU KNOW, UH, I JUST WANTED TO, AS I'M GETTING THE F FYI REMINDER, I JUST WANNA GIVE THE FYI, I, I WANNA PASS THE WORD ALONG, YOU KNOW, AND GIVING OUT THESE AND BECOMING THE NUMBER ONE IN THE STATE.
WE ALSO MAY HAVE TO MAKE SURE THAT OUR NUMBERS AND OUR, OUR SCHOOLS AND REPORT CARDS ARE GONNA REFLECT THAT AS WELL.
BUT THAT, THAT WE ARE, UH, PUSHING, UH, OUR, OUR BEST AND BRIGHTEST TEACHERS OUT THERE TO SCHOOLS IN DIFFERENT AREAS THAT ARE NEED 'EM.
AND SO THAT WE ARE MAKING SURE THAT WE ARE MAKING THE NECESSARY IMPROVEMENTS AND ADJUSTMENT ALONG THE WAY SO THAT WE NOT ONLY HAVE WE HAVE PUT, HAVE WE JUST CHANGED OUR NUMBER, BUT WE'VE ACTUALLY NOT ONLY HAVE WE JUST PUT OUR MONEY, OUR MOUTHS, BUT WE'VE PUT AN ACTION BEHIND, BEHIND A PLAN AND, AND, AND IT IS TO BE SUCCESSFUL.
SO THEREFORE, WHEN WE GO BACK AND WE GIVE YOU MORE MONEY THAN THE TAXPAYERS AREN'T, THEY HAD THEIR HAPPINESS SAYING, LOOK, IF THIS IS GONNA HELP OUR ECONOMY AND OUR COMMUNITY BY DOING THAT, THEN CONTINUE TO GIVE 'EM MORE BECAUSE THAT'S GONNA MAKE OUR COMMUNITY SAFER.
IT'S GONNA MAKE OUR COMMUNITY SMARTER, AND
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WE'RE GONNA CONTINUE TO GROW IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION.SO ALL, ALL THIS PAYS A BIG PART.
JUST JUST BE BEYOND WHAT WE CAN SEE AND JUST GETTING, GIVING OUT MONEY.
IT'S ABOUT THE CHANGE OF, OF WHERE WE'RE GOING AT AS AS A COUNTY.
WE HAVE ONE, UH, MORE REPORT AND THAT'S THE FU FUTURE TOPICS.
AT OUR NEXT, UH, FINANCE COMMITTEE MEETING, WE'LL LOOK AT THE SEPTEMBER, 1000 DOLLARS, SEPTEMBER TRANSPARENCY REPORT, MONTHLY BUDGET REPORT.
AS ALWAYS, WE WILL RECEIVE ANOTHER UPDATE OF THE DASHBOARD FOR THE ESSER FUNDING.
WE WILL HAVE AN OE 18 MONITORING REPORT ON THIS SCHOOL, FOOD AND NUTRITION SERVICES.
WE HAVE A NEW CONTRACTOR AND WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT THE CONTRACT IS BEING EXECUTED PROPERLY AND THE FINANCES ARE, UH, APPROPRIATE.
WE ALSO ASK, UH, FOR A REPORT OF TOTAL TEACHER SALARIES BY SCHOOL.
AND WE'VE GOTTEN THE CLASS SIZES, AND I SAID WHEN WE GOT THE CLASS SIZES AT OUR LAST MEETING, THAT THAT JUST STARTS THE ANALYSIS OF HOW WE'RE USING OUR FUNDS AND OUR SCHOOLS.
AND SO NEXT MONTH AT THE FINANCE COMMITTEE, WE WILL HAVE THAT REPORT AND WE WILL BE FORWARDING IT TO THE BOARD AT THE FOLLOWING OF FULL BOARD MEETING.
WE ALSO ASKED FOR AN ORGANIZATION CHART OF THE FINANCE DEPARTMENT.
UH, WE'VE HAD AN ORGANIZATION CHART FROM I S D, AND NOW WE WANT THIS, HAVE THE SAME, UH, FROM THE FINANCE DEPARTMENT SO WE CAN UNDERSTAND THE PERSONNEL FUNCTIONS AND POSITIONS, UH, IN THE FINANCE DEPARTMENT.
MADAME CHAIR, THAT CONCLUDES THE FINANCE REPORT.
UH, ANY COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS AT THIS TIME? OKAY, THEN WE WILL MOVE ON TO, UH, MS. BOATRIGHT AND THE OPERATIONS COMMITTEE REPORT.
THANK YOU, MADAME CHAIR, VICE CHAIRMAN.
UM, YEAH, SO WE HAD A OPERATIONS COMMITTEE MEETING LAST WEEK.
UM, AND I THINK, ROBIN, IS IT POSSIBLE TO GET THE MAINTENANCE? IT'S NOT IN BOARD DOCS.
UM, IT IS IN THE OPERATIONS COMMITTEE, BOARD DOCS.
UH, SO WE HAD TWO, UH, BIG AGENDA ITEMS. ONE IS OUR MONTHLY CONSTRUCTION UPDATE WITH, UH, ROB CORBIN AND ROBERT OTTING.
AND IF IT'S OKAY WITH THE BOARD, I THINK, UH, TED BARBER COVERED THE KEY POINTS.
THE ONLY THING I WANTED TO ADD, PERSONALLY WAS THAT SOMETIME IN NOVEMBER WE ARE HOPEFULLY GONNA HAVE SOME SORT OF A TOPPING OUT CEREMONY FOR ROBERT SMALLS.
I THINK WE'RE ALL EXCITED ABOUT THAT.
UM, AND I THINK THAT IF THE BOARD HAS ANY QUESTIONS IN PARTICULAR, BOTH ROB CORBIN AND ROBERT OTTING ARE HERE TO ANSWER THEM.
UM, THE OTHER THING THAT WE REALLY SPEND A LOT OF TIME ON IS THE, UH, BIANNUAL MAINTENANCE AND, UH, CUSTODIAL REPORTS.
AND FOR THE BOARD, THE PUBLIC'S EDUCATION TWICE A YEAR, THE BOARD REVIEWS SURVEYS THAT ARE SUBMITTED BY, UH, SCHOOL PRINCIPALS IN TERMS THAT ASSESSES SORT OF THE QUALITY CLEANLINESS, RESPONSIVENESS, COURTESY OF, UM, THE TWO CONTRACTED GROUPS THAT WE HAVE.
WE HAVE ABM FOR MAINTENANCE AND HES FOR CUSTODIAL.
THEY ARE NOT BEAUFORT COUNTY EMPLOYEES, OUR BEAUFORT COUNTY SCHOOL EMPLOYEES.
SO WHAT I WILL SAY, UH, THE TONE OF THE CONVERSATION WAS, IS THAT THERE ARE CONCERNS.
UM, THE CUSTODIAL HAD BEEN HAVING SOME CONCERNS COMING OUT OF THE SUMMER, LARGELY ATTRIBUTABLE TO STAFFING SHORTAGES, WHICH, YOU KNOW, I THINK WE COULD PROBABLY JUST HANG A SIGN OUT HERE, UM, BECAUSE THAT IS JUST PLAGUING, UH, THE DISTRICT THROUGHOUT.
THEY ARE, THEY HAVE MANAGED TO HIRE, I THINK THEY SAID THEY WERE AT 95% NOW, UH, FULLY STAFFED.
IT'S A HIGH TURNOVER BUSINESS.
UH, BUT THEY'RE MAKING A LOT OF EFFORTS IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION.
UH, MAINTENANCE, UH, HAS HAD SOME SLIPPAGE IN THE, UH, SATISFACTION SURVEY, BUT WE HAD A LOT.
WE, WE'VE GOT NEW MANAGEMENT THERE.
UH, THEY HAD SOME REALLY GREAT IDEAS.
THEY PRESENTED SOME REALLY IN DEPTH, UH, DATA.
UM, SO YOU CAN SEE THERE, THE, THE BLUE LINE ON THE FAR SIDE OF EACH CATEGORY IS, UH, SORT OF WHERE THERE ARE NOW.
AND, AND THEY ANSWERED, IN MY OPINION, THE BOARD'S QUESTIONS, UH, THOROUGHLY AND ACKNOWLEDGED THAT IT IS A WORK IN PROGRESS.
I THINK ONE THING THAT IS REALLY IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND IS THAT, AGAIN, IT'S A STAFFING SHORTAGE.
THEY ARE ON A CONTRACT WITH US.
WE GAVE THEM SOME MONEY FROM OUR, UH, COVID FUNDS TO HIRE TWO ADDITIONAL MAINTENANCE FOR, UH, SOME OF THE TASKS THAT WERE ASKED OF MAINTENANCE DURING, UH, C WITH PPE AND WHATNOT.
AND THEY WEREN'T ABLE TO FILL THEM.
SO THAT MONEY HAS NOT BEEN SPENT, IT HAS NOT BEEN, UM, TAKEN, IT'S, IT'S IN HOLDING.
UH, BUT I THINK THAT BOTH THESE GROUPS ARE TAKING THE OPPORTUNITY TO LOOK AT WHAT STAFFING THEY HAVE, THINGS THEY CAN DO, UM, WAYS THEY CAN CONTINUE TO PROVIDE SERVICES TO THE SCHOOL.
SO I THINK WHAT WE LEFT, UM, AND
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I WOULD BE HAPPY TO HEAR FROM THE COMMITTEE MEMBERS, MY TAKEAWAY WAS THAT WHILE WE DO HAVE CONCERNS, I FELT THAT THEY WERE ADDRESSING THE CONCERNS, UH, IF TO THE BEST OF THEIR ABILITY.I THINK THAT IT'LL BE INTERESTING TO SEE IN SIX MONTHS WHERE WE'RE AT.
AND THAT'S KIND OF THE NEXT TIME WE'LL HAVE A CHANCE, TAKE A LOOK AT THAT.
SO THAT WAS SORT OF THE TENOR OF THE MAINTENANCE AND CUSTODIAL REPORT AT THIS POINT.
IF THE, UH, BOARD HAS ANY QUESTIONS, QUESTIONS, MR. SMITH? UH, YES, I DO.
UM, I DO HAVE SOME, UH, JUST TO ADD TO YOUR REPORT AS WELL, IN, IN TERMS OF THE, UH, THERE WERE SOME OTHER, COUPLE OTHER THINGS THAT WERE BROUGHT OUT AS WELL THAT I, I, I TOLD HER, I TOLD, I STATED THAT IT WAS A CONCERN IN TERMS OF THE CUSTODIALS, THE CUSTODIAL STAFF DOING SOME OF THE CONSTRUCTION WORK IN TERMS OF FUNDING, WHERE WE'RE PULLING FUNDING FROM AND HOW WE, HOW WE ARE UTILIZING, UH, A REACTION, UH, DIFFERENT GROUPS OF PEOPLE TO UTILIZE, UH, DIFFERENT PEOPLE IN TERMS OF WHETHER WHETHER THE FUNDING WAS COME FROM.
THAT WAS A GREAT CONCERN OF MINE SAYS BECAUSE IF THE, IF, IF WE ARE HAVING CERTAIN PEOPLE DO CERT DO, UH, THINGS OUT, OUT, OUT OF BOND REFERENDUM MONEY, THEN THAT, THEN, THEN THOSE PEOPLE NEED TO BE OPERATING WITHIN THAT RIM.
AND PEOPLE WHO ARE DOING STUFF TOWARDS, UH, SALARY STAFF OR, OR YEAR OR WITHIN ABM, THEN THEY SHOULD BE DOING STUFF TOWARDS THE BUILDING BECAUSE THEY WERE BEING PULLED AWAY, UH, FROM THE, FROM, FROM THE, FROM THE BUILDING WORK, UH, TO CLEAN UP SOME OF THE CONTRACTS, CONTRACT STUFF.
AND TO ME, THAT WAS DEFINITELY A, UH, ISSUE THAT, THAT, UM, I, I THINK THAT IT'S STILL A CONCERN OF MINES AND I DO, UM, THAT DOES NOT SIT WELL WITH ME.
AND AT SOME POINT IN TIME WE DO HAVE, WE DO, WE DO HAVE TO, UH, ADDRESS, ADDRESS THAT.
AND UH, AS WELL AS, AS, AS THE WORK BEING UNSATISFACTORY.
I THINK SIX MONTHS IS A LITTLE TOO FAR OFF BECAUSE YOU COULD HAVE A LOT OF STUFF HAPPENING WITHIN THAT SIX MONTHS AND, AND A LARGE TURNOVER HAS A LOT OF DIFFERENT THINGS.
SO I THINK THAT WE SHOULD, WE SHOULD BE MEETING WITHIN, UH, SIX MONTHS NOW.
I THINK SIX MONTHS IS A LITTLE BIT MUCH.
SO I PICKED UP ON THREE THINGS THERE, MR. SMITH, AND I'LL ADDRESS A LITTLE BIT OF THAT AND THEN TURN IT OVER TO MR. OTING WHO'S ALREADY COME UP, UH, TO THE PODIUM.
UH, I DO THINK, AND I DON'T KNOW ROBIN, IF YOU CAN PULL UP THAT PDF THAT HES PROVIDED, UM, THEY DID DO A SURVEY FOR THEIR EMPLOYEES, UM, WITH AN 83% RESPONSE RATE.
AND GENERALLY SPEAKING, THEY GOT HIGH MARKS FOR, UM, I DON'T HAVE IT RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME, IS IT, DO YOU HAVE IT, ROBIN? I DON'T THINK YOU HAD THAT DIGITAL.
I SHOULD HAVE CAUGHT THAT IT WAS NOT IN THE BOARD DOCS, BUT AS YOU UNDERSTAND, IT'S BEEN KIND OF A DIFFERENT, THERE WE GO.
UM, OVERALL THAT THEY FELT THAT THEY WERE, UH, COMFORTABLE GOING TO THE SUPERVISOR WITH PROB PROBLEMS COMFORTABLE WITH THE O FELT LIKE PART OF THE OVERALL SCHOOL FAMILY, UH, THAT THEY DID NOT NEED ADDITIONAL TRAINING TO DO THE JOB EFFECTIVELY.
SO THOSE I THINK ALL GO TO THE ISSUES YOU'RE RAISING OVER TURNOVER.
UM, THE TWO AREAS THAT WERE A LITTLE BIT LOWER, UH, TOOLS AND SUPPLIES AND COMPENSATION I THINK GOES TO FINANCE AND THE CONTRACT CONSTRAINTS.
ADDITIONALLY, IF YOU LOOK DOWN, UM, SCROLL DOWN A LITTLE BIT, ROBIN.
UH, THE AVERAGE EMPLOYEE TURNOVER RATE 75% AND 375% IN MAINTENANCE.
AND THE AVERAGE, UM, I THOUGHT THIS WAS GREAT THAT THEY PROVIDE THIS INFORMATION, UH, CLEANING INDUSTRY ABOUT 200%.
OUR TURNOVER RATE IS BELOW THAT.
AND THEY SAID BASICALLY WE'RE COMPETING WITH PRIVATE INDUSTRY AND THEY CAN MAKE A LOT MORE MONEY, UH, DOING THE SAME KIND OF WORK IN PRIVATE INDUSTRY.
A LOT OF THESE CUSTODIAL WORKERS DO IT FOR LOVE OF THE JOB AND LOVE OF THE KIDS AND, AND DESIRE TO DO IT.
SO THAT'S ONE THING I WANNA TALK ABOUT WITH TURNOVER.
UM, AND THEN I THINK MR. OTING IS GOING TO ADDRESS THE, UH, QUESTIONS YOU HAD REGARDING THE ABM STAFF AND CONSTRUCTION.
I, I WOULD JUST LIKE TO SAY THAT WAS, THAT WAS A VERY GOOD POINT THAT WE TOOK TO HEART.
UM, WE'RE MAKING SURE OUR PROJECT MANAGERS, UH, REVIEW THE PROJECTS AND HAVE CONVERSATIONS WITH, AND THAT ALSO OUR CUSTODIAL MANAGERS AND MAINTENANCE MANAGERS KNOW THAT IF ANY OF THOSE SITUATIONS DO ARISE, THEY NEED TO ALERT OUR PROJECT MANAGERS.
SO WE'RE GONNA MAKE SURE THAT THOSE CONVERSATIONS OCCUR, UH, SO THAT THAT DOESN'T HAPPEN.
UM, SO THAT, UH, CONSTRUCTION PAYS FOR ANY CONSTRUCTION WORK THEY HAVE AND WE AREN'T PULLING IN, UH, AND TAKING AWAY FROM MAINTENANCE OR CUSTODIAL.
SO, UH, I'D SAY THANK YOU FOR BRINGING THAT TO OUR ATTENTION AND WE'RE GOING TO ADDRESS THAT.
AND JUST TO, UH, PIGGYBACK AND TO ADDRESS SOME OF THE THINGS THAT YOU SAID.
UM, YOU KNOW, UH, IN, IN TERMS OF TURN, IN TERMS OF TURNOVER, TURNOVER, YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU COOK, YOU TURN OVER EGGS, YOU TURN OVER DIFFERENT THINGS, BUT AS YOU TURN IT OVER, YOU ASSESS WHAT'S
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GOING ON.SO AT THE END OF THE DAY, IF WE ARE COMPETING AND WE JUST STOOD UP HERE AND SAID THAT WE COMPETING TO UP THE PAY, THEN YOU, THAT'S ANOTHER REASON WHY I'VE ADVOCATED SO MUCH TO BRING CUSTODIANS BACK IN HOUSE BECAUSE A LOT, I MEAN A LOT, WHAT THAT SURVEY DOESN'T TELL YOU IS THAT DURING THE WHOLE TIME WHEN WE HAD THE WHOLE COVERT SITUATION, THAT WHEN I, WHEN WE GAVE OUT BONUSES TO OUR EMPLOYEES THAT NONE OF THOSE, BECAUSE THEY, THEY WERE CONTRACT WORKERS, NONE OF THOSE, UH, EMPLOYEES GOT BONUSES.
THAT SURVEY DIDN'T TELL YOU THAT A LOT, A LOT OF THOSE, A LOT OF THOSE, UH, CUZ A LOT OF THOSE CUSTODIANS ARE MY CONSTITUENTS.
THEY'VE SEEN ME AND THEY'RE TELL ME THAT THAT SURVEY DOESN'T TELL THAT.
AND THEY ALL DUE RESPECT, YOU KNOW, WE ARE NOT SURE WHO DONE THAT SURVEY.
YOU KNOW, A SURVEY GIVES YOU A HOST OF INFORMATION, YOU CAN LINE A SURVEY UP AND ALL DUE RESPECT TO TELL YOU WHAT YOU WANNA KNOW SPECIFICALLY.
SO THAT SURVEY, I, I RESPECT THE SURVEY AND I'M, I'M THANKFUL FOR THE SURVEY, BUT WHEN I HAVE PEOPLE COMING TO ME AND TELLING ME DIFFERENT THINGS, THEN IN THE, IN THE SURVEY BACKS IT UP.
WHEN, WHEN, WHEN THEY COME UP AND THEY SAY THAT THEY WERE DOWN AND THEY WERE LOSING PEOPLE, THEN WHAT THIS, THAT MEAN THAT THE SURVEY THAT THE COMMUNITY AND THE PULSE IS GIVING ME, IT'S PRETTY ACCURATE.
SO IT'S, IT'S TWO TYPES OF SURVEYS.
SO THAT'S ONE SURVEY THAT WE'RE THANKFUL FOR, BUT I'M ALSO THANKFUL FOR THAT, THAT MY CONSTITUENTS TRUST ME ENOUGH OR THEY THINK OF ME ENOUGH TO COME AND TELL ME HOW THEY REALLY FEEL AND WHAT THEIR CONCERNS ARE.
SO, I MEAN, YEAH, THAT PAPER SURVEY TELLS ONE THING, BUT THAT'S NOT SUM OF THE SURVEY THAT I'M GETTING WHEN I'M SEEING MY CONSTITUENTS IN THE COMMUNITY.
AND THAT'S SOMETHING THAT ISN'T MY JOB TO BRING FORTH AND I INTEND TO DO THAT.
SO, YOU KNOW, UH, I THANK YOU FOR YOUR INPUT IN TERMS OF THAT SURVEY AND I'M THANKFUL.
BUT THAT'S JUST ANOTHER, THOSE ARE SOME MORE INFORMATION THAT I WANT TO GIVE OUT THAT STANDS OUT TO ME.
AND WHEN I LOOK AT THE SURVEY AND, AND, AND THAT'S ONE THING ON THE SURVEY THAT TELLS ME THAT THE PULSE OF THE COMMUNITY IS ACCURATE.
SO JUST WANNA BE, YOU KNOW, COGNIZANT OF THAT AS WELL.
SO THE OTHER THING IS WE DO HAVE A MOTION COMING OUT OF COMMITTEE, UM, THAT WAS MADE BY MS. FRIT, SECOND BY MR. CAMPBELL.
AND I WOULD LIKE TO AMEND IT CAUSE I JUST WANNA DO THAT RIGHT OFF BAT.
THE, DO YOU HAVE THE MOTION READY TO GO, ROBIN? THE MOVE WAS BASICALLY THE MOTION WAS BASICALLY THAT WE WANTED TO HAVE THE OPTIONS FOR, UH, C A FOR KATE, UH, PROGRAMMING PRESENTED.
UM, WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO AMEND IT TO IS HAVE IT PRESENTED, BECAUSE IT'S REALLY NOT IN A BOARD BUSINESS ACTION STAGE AT THIS POINT.
IT IS IN A DISCUSSION AND A BATTING ABOUT AND A LISTING OF, UM, WHAT PEOPLE ARE THINKING ABOUT IN TERMS OF FINISHING THE CURRENT REFERENDUM AND PLANNING FOR THE NEXT ONE, UH, FOR KATE PROGRAMS. SO I WOULD LIKE TO AMEND OUR MOTION TO JUST ADD ONTO THE END OF THAT.
UM, DO YOU SEE IT, ROBIN? SORRY, SENTENCE TO BRING KATE OPTIONS TO THE OPERATIONS COMMITTEE FOR REVIEW.
AND I WOULD LIKE TO ASK THE BOARD, UH, TO MAKE THAT MOTION SO THAT WE CAN BEGIN THAT WORK.
DO WE SEE THE AMENDMENT PLEASE? UM, TO GO GET IT
I HAVE TO TRANSFER AROUND OUT HERE.
AND I GUESS WHILE WE'RE WAITING, I WILL SAY THAT THAT WOULD INCLUDE, WE HAVE ANOTHER MEETING COMING UP, OUR USUAL MEETING.
WE TRY TO MEET BEFORE THE CLOCK COMMITTEE TO HEAR OUR, UM, CONSTRUCTION UPDATE.
WE ALSO HAVE A MEETING, UH, TENTATIVELY SCHEDULED FOR NOVEMBER 9TH TO HEAR THE HR ANNUAL REPORT THAT THEN WILL BE BROUGHT TO THE FULL BOARD.
SO WE SHOULD HAVE TWO NOVEMBER MEETINGS, WHICH IS RIGHT ABOUT OUR AVERAGE.
CAN YOU JUST MAKE THE MOTION AND I'LL TYPE IT FROM UH, YEAH.
UH, I MOVE THAT THE, UH, BOARD OF EDUCATION DIRECT THE SUPERINTENDENT TO PRESENT IDEAS FOR KATE, UH, PROGRAMS TO THE OPERATIONS COMMITTEE.
I KNOW THAT THE BOARD OF EDUCATION DIRECT THE SUPERINTENDENT TO PRESENT KATE OPTIONS TO THE OPERATIONS COMMITTEE.
UM, ANY DISCUSSION? OH, UM, I ALSO JUST FOR THE PUBLIC'S EDUCATION, KATE IS CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION.
SO THAT'S, UM, PROGRAMS LIKE WE HAVE AT ACE, WE HAVE COSMETOLOGY, WE HAVE AUTO SHOP.
THERE'S A LOT OF OPTIONS AND THERE'S SOME NEW STUFF ON THE HORIZON.
SO THAT'S WHY WE WANNA KIND OF HEAR ABOUT IT.
UM, I HAVE A, A QUESTION IN TERMS OF THIS MOTION.
ARE WE, IS THERE A TIME FRAME THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT LIKE, UH, CAPE PROGRAMS IN THE NEXT FIVE
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YEARS? THE NEXT, UH, I THINK IN AS IT RELATES TO REFERENDUM PLANNING, PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE.WE'RE DOING SOME DESIGN WORK NOW FOR MAY RIVER AND THERE'S SOME OTHER PROJECTS ON THE HORIZON AND HOW THEY ALL FIT TOGETHER WAS KIND OF WHAT WE WANTED TO START HEARING ABOUT.
I DON'T THINK IT'S GONNA BE A ONE AND DONE CONVERSATION.
I JUST THINK IT'S AN IMPORTANT ONE.
WE NEED TO START HAVING ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? YEAH, I'LL COMMENT THAT.
OUR CONCERN WAS THE MAYOR RIVER INITIATIVE WITH KATE AND WHERE WE STAND WITH IT AND WHY WE NEED TO GO IN ANY DIRECTION WITH THE, UH, BUDGETING, UH, BUDGETING, UH, POPUL SCHOOL ENROLLMENT POPULATION.
AND WITH TECHNOLOGY GONNA BE A, A BIG DISCUSSION IN THE NEXT REFERENDUM.
WHY DO WE NEED TO DUPLICATE OR, OR START SOMETHING AT MAYOR RIVER THAT WILL BE NEEDED TO BE DUPLICATED OR CHANGED LATER ON.
SO, AND IT APPEARS THAT THE MAYOR RIVER SITUATION IS NOT RESOLVED IN TERMS OF WHAT WE ARE GOING TO BE DOING THERE RIGHT NOW.
SO OUR CONCERNED WITH, DO WE DO ANYTHING THERE OR DO WE CONTINUE ON THE COAST THAT WAS PRESCRIBED, OR DO WE CHANGE THE PRESCRIPTION? THAT WAS, THAT'S OUR CONCERN.
AND IT, IT PROBABLY WILL INCLUDE OTHER DISCUSSIONS, BUT WE GOT A BUNCH OF OTHER STUFF IN PLACE.
BUT THE QUESTION IS TO MAY THE MAY RIVER END PEACE NOW, DO WE CONTINUE ON THAT ON WITH WHAT'S NOT REALLY PLANNED? BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE ANYTHING DEFINITIVE THAT'S GONNA HAPPEN THERE AT MAY RIVER.
ANY OTHER COMMENTS, QUESTIONS? OKAY, CALL FOR THE QUESTION.
THE MOTION ON THE FLOOR IS I MOVE THAT THE BOARD OF EDUCATION DIRECT THE SUPERINTENDENT TO PRESENT KATE OPTIONS TO THE OPERATIONS COMMITTEE.
ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SIGNIFY BY SAYING I I I WAS NEXT THE I OKAY.
SO DON'T CHANGE THE CHANNEL CUZ I'M JUST GONNA GO RIGHT INTO TECHNOLOGY.
SO WE HAD A TECHNOLOGY COMMITTEE MEETING YESTERDAY WHERE WE FINALLY GOT THE RESULTS OF THE TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT.
UM, WE SPENT A FAIR AMOUNT OF TIME HEARING FROM PLANT MORAN, THE COMPANY THAT'S DONE AN EXTENSIVE EVALUATION OF OUR FACILITIES AND OUR STAKEHOLDERS AND OUR STAFF.
UH, THEY HAD GIVEN US OVERALL A VERY GOOD REPORT CARD AND SAID POINT BLANK THAT THEY DO THIS WITH A LOT OF DISTRICTS THROUGHOUT THE STATE AND THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY.
AND THAT WE WERE AHEAD OF OTHER DISTRICTS.
UM, I THINK SOME OF THE MONEY THAT WE DID SPEND IN THE CURRENT REFERENDUM FUNDED TOWARDS TECHNOLOGY IS SHOWING UP IN, IN THIS ASSESSMENT, THEY DID IDENTIFY SOME, UM, ISSUES THAT WE CAN WORK ON.
AND SO WHAT I SUGGESTED TO THE COMMITTEE WAS THAT WE TAKE THESE AS FUTURE TOPICS.
UM, SO SOME OF THE SUGGESTIONS, AND SO I'M NOT GOING TO MAKE A REPORT ON THE FULL TECHNOLOGY BECAUSE PLANT MORAN WAS UNAVAILABLE, BUT WE ARE GOING TO BRING THAT TO YOU GUYS IN THE NEXT MEETING OR TWO.
UH, WE'LL BRING THE FULL, UH, PRESENTATION FROM PLANT MORAN.
SOME OF THE THINGS THAT CAME OUT OF IT IS, UH, SHOULD TECHNOLOGY BE ITS OWN DEPARTMENT, WHICH IS ALREADY BROUGHT UP IN THE EFFICIENCY STUDY.
UM, HOW DO WE STAFF IT? HOW ARE WE FUNDING IT? UM, THERE WERE A LOT OF BIG BITES COMING OUT OF THAT.
SO THE TECHNOLOGY COMMITTEE IS GOING TO BE LOOKING AT THAT ON A MONTH BY MONTH.
SOMEONE USED THE TERM EAT THE ELEPHANT ONE BITE AT A TIME APPROACH TO THIS TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT.
AND WE WILL BRING THE FULL, UH, ASSESSMENT PRESENTATION TO THE BOARD WHEN PLANT MORANS AVAILABLE.
DOES THAT CONCLUDE YOUR PRESENTATION? UH, YEAH.
WE ALSO JUST AS HAD HEARD ABOUT CYBERSECURITY AND, UH, MR. SHOHAN PRESENTED, UH, SOME OF THE OPTIONS FOR CYBERSECURITY AT OTHER SCHOOLS.
AND IT'S SOMETHING THAT IS DEFINITELY AN EMPHASIS OF THE TECHNOLOGY COMMITTEE.
SO WITH THAT, OUR NEXT MEETING, WE HAVEN'T SCHEDULED YET.
UM, WHEN WE GET A DATE TOGETHER, WE'LL POST THAT PUBLICLY.
UM, CONTINUING ON OUR AGENDA, THE SUPERINTENDENT'S
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REPORT.UM, FIRST ITEM ON THE SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT THIS EVENING IS ON THE EXTER EXTENDED LEARNING SITES, DR.
GOOD EVENING MAN, VICE CHAIR, MRS. REINE.
TONIGHT'S PRESENTATION IS AN UPDATE OF BEAUFORT COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT'S EXTENDED LEARNING PROGRAMS BY OUR DIRECTOR OF COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAMS. GANELL DANSLER AND DR.
NAIA CAMPBELL IS ALSO ONLINE, OUR INSTRUCTIONAL SERVICE OFFICER.
I'D LIKE TO BUILD ON A COMMENTARY ALREADY DISCUSSED THIS EVENING REGARDING OUR EXTENDED LEARNING PROGRAMS AND PAINT THE PICTURE FOR US TO RECOGNIZE THAT OUR PROGRAM STARTED IN JANUARY 23RD OF THIS PAST YEAR.
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WERE, WE'RE DISCUSSING THE PROGRAMS OPERATING WITH OUR PARTNERSHIP WITH COMMUNITIES.MRS. DAN IS GONNA GO INTO GREATER DETAIL FOR THE NUMBER OF PROGRAMS AS WELL AS THE NUMBER OF STUDENTS BEING SERVICED AT THIS TIME.
OUR AFTERSCHOOL PROGRAMS ARE SERVICING FOUR DAYS A WEEK, AND WE ARE PARTNERED ALSO WITH THE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB ON SATURDAY.
YOU'LL SEE IN THE DATA POINTS BEING PRESENTED TO YOU, INFORMATION WILL BE DIFFERENT IN BOTH THOSE AREAS.
SUBJECT TO YOU HAVE FOUR DAYS A WEEK VERSUS ONE DAY A WEEK.
WITH THAT MRS. DANSLER, I'D LIKE TO BRING YOU FORWARD TO START THE PRESENTATION, MA'AM.
I'VE, I'VE BEEN AT THIS NOW FOR ABOUT 10 MONTHS AND I'M EXCITED ABOUT THE FUTURE OF OUR COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT INITIATIVE.
I FEEL THAT WE ARE DEVELOPING AUTHENTIC PARTNERSHIPS, NURTURING RELATIONSHIPS, BUILDING TRUST, AND LEADING TO TRANSFORMATIVE STUDENT OUTCOMES.
THE NEXT SLIDE OUTLINES THE PILOT THAT BEGAN ON TIM HELEN IN LADIES ISLAND ON JANUARY 24TH THROUGH MAY 19TH.
WITH THAT PILOT, WE HAD SIX COMMUNITY PARTNERS THAT STARTED A PROGRAM ON, UH, JANUARY 24TH, UH, INADVERTENTLY, UH, LEFT OFF THE HILTON HEAD BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB.
IT STARTED IN NOVEMBER PRIOR TO ME COMING ON BOARD, BUT THEY HAD APPROXIMATELY 50 STUDENTS ENROLLED IN THE, IN THEIR SATURDAY PROGRAM, WHICH BROUGHT OUR TOTAL STUDENTS THAT PARTICIPATED, UH, WITH THE PILOT ON SOME HELEN, A LADIES ISLAND, AS WELL AS THE HILTON HEAD, BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB TO 173 STUDENTS, 1 23 FROM SOME HELEN, A LADIES ISLAND, AND 50 OF THOSE STUDENTS AT THE, THE HILTON HEAD BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB.
ON THE NEXT SLIDE, OUR SUMMER ENRICHMENT PROGRAM, WE HAD, UH, EIGHT SITES OR EIGHT PARTNERS WHO PARTICIPATED IN THE SUMMER ENRICHMENT PROGRAM.
ONE OF THE SITES ON HELENA DID NOT PARTICIPATE, BUT WE ADDED THREE ADDITIONAL SITES FOR THE SUMMER ENRICHMENT PROGRAM, WHICH WAS MARK CARMEL BAPTIST CHURCH, WHICH TARGET THE WELL BRANCH CLUSTER, UH, ST.
PAUL BAPTIST CHURCH, WHICH WHICH TARGETS THE BROAD RIVER ELEMENTARY, ROBERT SMALLS INTERNATIONAL AND BATTERY CREEK HIGH SCHOOL.
AND THEN WE BROUGHT ON THE BLUFFTON SOUP KITCHEN.
THEY TARGET THE SCHOOL'S, UM, UH, BEAUFORD ELEMENTARY, I'M SORRY, UM, I'M SORRY, BLUFFTON ELEMENTARY, BLUFFTON MIDDLE, BLUFFTON, HIGH OAK, T ELEMENTARY, RED CEDAR, AND MC RILEY.
WE ALSO WILL BE, UM, PARTNERING WITH THE ST.
ANDREWS BY THE SEA ON HILTON HEAD.
THEY DECIDED THAT THEY WILL START THEIR PROGRAM IN JANUARY, WHICH WOULD BRING OUR TOTAL, UM, PARTNERS TO, UH, 11 SITES DURING THE, UM, EXCUSE ME JUST A MINUTE.
ROBIN, CAN YOU GO? ARE YOU CONTROLLING THE OH, CUZ WE'RE ONE SLIDE BEHIND.
SO DURING THE SUMMER, PRIOR TO, WELL THE PREVIOUS SLIDE, DURING THE SUMMER, WE HAD A TOTAL OF 162 STUDENTS ENROLLED IN THE SUMMER ENRICHMENT PROGRAM WITH EIGHT PARTNERS OPERATING DURING THE MONTH OF JUNE AND JULY.
SO STARTING ON SEPTEMBER 26TH, WE HAVE A TOTAL OF 11 PARTNERS.
AND AS I STATED EARLIER, THE ST.
ANDREWS BY THE SEA ON HILTON HEAD, THEY DECIDED TO START IN JANUARY.
THE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB IN HILTON HEAD WILL START THEIR PROGRAM THIS COMING SATURDAY ON OCTOBER 22ND.
SO EXCLUDING THE HILTON HEAD BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB IN ST.
ANDREW, SINCE THEY HAVEN'T STARTED ALREADY, WE HAVE A TOTAL OF 207 STUDENTS AND THAT'S WHERE WE WERE WHEN I SUBMITTED THE, UH, POWERPOINT PRESENTATION.
BUT WE HAVE SINCE ADDED ADDITIONAL STUDENTS.
SO WITH THE STUDENTS THAT THE HILTON HEAD, BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS HAVE ENROLLED ALREADY, THAT BRINGS US TO ABOUT 282 STUDENTS THAT'S ENROLLED IN THE, UM, AFTERSCHOOL PROGRAM ON HILTON HEAD AND ST.
HELEN NOTE LADIES ISLAND WORLD BRANCH CLUSTER, AS WELL AS THE MAIN POINT AREA AND BLUFFTON COMMUNITY SOUP KITCHEN.
SO I WANTED TO CREATE SOME DATA POINTS OR PULL SOME DATA POINTS FROM OUR MAP TESTING.
AND I LOOKED AT THE OVERALL PERCENTAGE GAIN OF THE STUDENTS THAT PARTICIPATED IN THE PILOT.
AND THE REASON I USED THE PILOT IS BECAUSE THE PILOT WAS MORE CONSISTENT DURING THE SUMMER.
SOME OF THE STUDENTS HAD TO GO TO THE SUMMER READING AT THEIR SCHOOLS, SOME OF THEM WENT ON VACATION.
SO I FIGURED THAT THE, UM, PILOT THAT STARTED ON ST.
HELENA IN LADIES ISLAND WOULD BE MORE CONSISTENT AS FAR AS PRESENTING DATA
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THAT YOU CAN SEE ON THE SLIDE, WHICH HIGHLIGHTS THE THIRD AND FOURTH GRADE STUDENTS, THEIR PERCENTILE GAIN IN MATH.THEY TOOK THE WINTER MAP IN JANUARY PRIOR TO STARTING THE AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAM.
THEN THEY TOOK IT AGAIN IN APRIL, WHICH GAVE THEM ABOUT THREE MONTHS OF ACTIVELY BEING A PART OF THE AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAM.
SO, OR THE MAP MATH, THEY HAD A TWO-TEN OF PERCENTAGE GAIN, UM, DURING THAT TIME OR THEIR WINTER READING MAP SCORES COMPARED TO THEIR MRS. DANSLER READING SCORES, THEY HAD AN 8%.
MRS. DANSLER, IS IT POSSIBLE FOR YOU TO SPEAK UP JUST A BIT LOUDER? I'LL GET CLOSER TO THE MIC.
SO WITH THE THIRD GRADE AND FOURTH GRADE PERCENTILE GAIN, YOU CAN SEE THERE WE HAD, UH, SOME GAINS WITH THE READING AND AND MAP SCORES COMPARED TO, UM, WHAT THEY DID ON, ON WINTER MAP AS WELL AS THE SPRING MAP.
THE FIFTH AND SIXTH GRADE STUDENTS, WE HAD A 7% GAIN WITHIN THAT 3.3 MONTHS PERIOD.
AND THEN WE HAD A 3% GAIN WITHIN THE THREE MONTH PERIOD FOR THE READING MAP, I WANTED TO, I FELT IT WAS NECESSARY TO HIGHLIGHT THESE DATA POINTS BECAUSE THE GAINS WERE, UH, OBTAINED IN SUCH A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME.
THE OVERALL GAIN FOR ALL OF THE STUDENTS FROM THIRD THROUGH NINTH GRADE THAT ATTENDED THE AFTERSCHOOL PROGRAM, HUDSON, HELEN, AND LADIES ISLAND, THERE'S A 2% GAIN OVERALL IN THE THREE MONTH PERIOD FOR THE WINTER MAP COMPARED TO SPRING MAP.
AND THEN A 3% GAIN FOR THE READING MAP SCORES.
SO JUST TO LEAVE YOU WITH A QUOTE, THERE IS NO POWER FOR CHANGE GREATER THAN A COMMUNITY DISCOVERING WHAT IT CARES ABOUT.
SO I JUST WANT TO ADD THAT I'M JUST REALLY EXCITED ABOUT WHERE WE'RE HEADED.
I THINK THAT YOU WILL DEFINITELY SEE RETURNS ON YOUR INVESTMENT BECAUSE I THINK THAT WE'RE HEADING IN A GOOD PLACE.
WE ALSO WILL START USING THE SOFTWARE, UM, MY PATH, WHICH WILL BE EXCLUSIVELY USED FOR THE STUDENTS IN THE AFTERSCHOOL PROGRAM, WHICH WILL GIVE US AN OPPORTUNITY TO BE ABLE TO HIGHLIGHT, UH, OR USE SOME BASELINE DATA SO THAT WE CAN ACT, UM, BE ABLE TO REALLY MONITOR THE STUDENT'S PROGRESS AS THEY USE THE SOFTWARE IN THE AFTERSCHOOL PROGRAM.
THAT CONCLUDES MY PRESENTATION.
MR, DID YOU WANNA ADD SOMETHING? JUST TO BUILD ON THAT MADAM BYS CHAIR, THAT WHAT ARE THE DATA BEING EMBARGOED? UH, MRS. DANSLER IS NOW WORKING ON THE DATA POINTS IN COMPARISON TO SC READY AND OTHER STATE STANDARDIZED TESTING IN ORDER TO HAVE THOSE REPORTING MECHANISMS FOR US AS WELL, MA'AM.
UH, MR. EARL CAMPBELL? UM, YES.
MY QUESTION IS, CAN WE, UM, MAKE SURE WE GET MORE STUDENTS? I MEAN, WE HAVE A TOTAL OF WHAT, 207 STUDENTS? WE HAVE TWO AND SEVEN ON THE FOUR DAYS A WEEK AND 75 ON SATURDAYS ALREADY REGISTERED, SIR? UH, YES.
WHY, WHY THAT NUMBER SO LOW IS, IS THE STUDENTS DON'T WANT TO COME OR THE PARENTS, BECAUSE I KNOW WE HAVE A LOT MORE STUDENT NEED HELP THAN WHAT WE HAVE ON THIS PAPER.
MRS. DANZI, MAY YOU SPEAK TO THE INITIATIVE YOU YOU WERE SHARING IN MY OFFICE? SURE.
BASED, BASED ON THE MOA AND THE AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE PARTNERS, UH, WE HAD CAPPED THE NUMBER OF STUDENTS THAT WOULD ATTEND EACH, EACH PROGRAM TO 25.
IF WE WANT TO INCREASE THAT NUMBER, THEN WE WOULD HAVE TO REVISIT OUR MOA AND DISCUSS, UM, WHAT IT WOULD COST TO HIRE MORE TEACHERS AND INCLUDE MORE STUDENTS IN THE AFTERSCHOOL PROGRAMS. WE'RE WORKING AT THIS TIME AT A RATIO ABOUT 10 TO ONE.
SIR, THAT WAS THE AGREEMENT WITH THE EDUCATORS WHO WE WERE WORKING WITH, UM, WHO'VE COME BACK IN FROM RETIREMENT.
BUT WE HAD A CONVERSATION EARLY ON.
SO WE YOU'RE DRIVING THE BUS, SIR.
WELL, I LOOK AT THE, THE NUMBER OF, OF SITES AND SOME OF THE CHURCHES.
WE, WE HAVE SOME OF OVER 200 AND SOME CHURCHES IN THIS COUNTY.
YOU KNOW, SOMETHING, YOU KNOW THIS, I DON'T, I DO NOT UNDERSTAND.
PARENTS KNOW THAT THEIR STUDENT NEED HELP, BUT YET THEY DON'T TRY TO GIVE THEM THE HELP.
AND WE ARE NOT GOING TO SEE ANY CHANGE IN THE STUDENT'S ACHIEVEMENT GAP UNLESS PARENTS GET MORE INVOLVED.
YOU KNOW, WE CAN SPEND ALL THE MONEY WE WANT,
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BUT IT STARTS AT HOME.WHAT ARE THE AGE RANGES OF THE STUDENTS THAT ARE BEING SERVED AT THIRD THROUGH NINTH GRADE? I SAW THAT SOMEWHERE.
YEAH, THEY, THEY'RE THIRD THROUGH NINTH GRADE.
SO NO ONE OVER NINTH GRADE AND NO, UNDER THIRD GRADE KINDERGARTEN, THE PROGRAM IS OFFERED TO STUDENTS AND KINDERGARTEN, PRE-K THROUGH 12TH GRADE.
BUT THE BULK OF THE STUDENTS, THAT'S, THAT'S WHAT, THAT'S WHO'S ATTENDING THE PROGRAM.
WE REALLY DON'T HAVE A WHOLE LOT OF HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS THAT ATTEND, BUT THE MAJORITY OF THE KIDS ARE WHAT YOU SEE IN THE, IN THE PRESENTATION, THE THIRD THROUGH NINTH GRADERS.
AND HOW MUCH HAVE WE SPENT SO FAR ON THE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT PROGRAMS? DO WE HAVE A, A FIGURE THAT I DON'T HAVE WITH ME ON THE FINANCIAL PERSPECTIVE, WE CAN REPORT THAT.
I HAPPEN TO HAVE SOMEONE NEARBY ME AT THIS TIME WHO HAS RECORDS, MAN
I LIKE THE DATA THAT'S, YOU KNOW, WE'RE, WE'RE, WE'RE STARTING TO TRACK BECAUSE TO ME AS, AND, AND I SHARE MR. CAMPBELL'S CONCERN.
SO ONE OTHER QUESTION I HAVE AS FAR AS, I DON'T LIKE TO SEE ALL THE INITIATIVES CLUMPED INTO ONE POPULATION.
ANDREW'S CHURCH IS GONNA BE COMING ON BOARD.
I KNOW THAT THERE ARE A LOT OF CHURCHES BOTH NORTH AND SOUTH OF THE BROAD THAT WOULD LIKE TO HELP.
UM, SOMETIMES THEY'RE NOT EVEN LOOKING FOR FINANCIAL SUPPORT, THEY'RE JUST LOOKING FOR SOME CURRICULUM, SOME LEADERSHIP, SOME PARTNERING SHARE.
LET'S SHARE THE DATA, LET'S SHARE THE SOFTWARE.
SO I HOPE THAT WE CONTINUE TO PUSH INTO THESE OTHER AREAS.
WHAT IS, IF SOMEONE IS A CHURCH NOW, UM, OUT IN WHALE BRANCH OR ON HILTON HEAD AND THEY WOULD LIKE TO PARTICIPATE, THEY'VE GOT A GROUP OF STUDENTS THAT THEY'RE WORKING WITH, IS THERE AN APPLICATION PROCESS? WE'VE ACTUALLY WORKED DIRECTLY WITH MS. DANS LAND MYSELF, THAT WE SIT AND HAVE A CONVERSATION TO SEE IF THEY ARE 5 0 1 3 C, FIND OUT HOW THEY'RE OPERATING.
ALSO TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE FOLLOWING DISTRICT GUIDELINES WITH REGARD TO OTHER POLICIES THAT WE HAVE IN PLACE.
SO WE START WITH INITIAL MEETING.
WE HAVE HAD AN OPEN CALL THAT, UM, THAT'S ACTUALLY HOW THIS ALL INITIATED EARLIER THIS YEAR.
CAMPBELL ONLINE RIGHT NOW CUZ SHE STARTED THE INITIAL, IF I WANNA SAY THE MARKETING OF THE PRO OF THIS INITIATIVE LAST DECEMBER.
SO THAT'S HOW WE STARTED WITH THE PILOT THAT NELL HAS BEEN WORKING WITH.
MA'AM, MRS. CAMPBELL, CAN YOU BUILD ON TO HOW YOU WERE ABLE TO REACH OUT TO SOME OF THE CHURCHES FROM THE VERY BEGINNING? ALSO WITH THE WORK OF OUR BOARD MEMBERS, SHE MAY BE FORMS IT MM-HMM.
WELL, I, AND I, I, I, I THINK I'M SATISFIED WITH THE PROCESS UP TO THIS POINT.
WHAT IS IT NOW IF YOU'RE, NOW WE TALKING ABOUT THIS AND THERE ARE CHURCHES THAT WANNA GET INVOLVED, WE CAN REACH OUT TO MYSELF DIRECTLY.
SO FIRST STEP IS A MEETING, MA'AM, WITH YOU, MA'AM? YES MA'AM.
UM, I, I, I RECOGNIZE THAT WE'RE ONLY, UH, TALKING TO THE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT INITIATIVE AND THAT THAT POCKET OF STUDENTS MIGHT SEEM SMALL.
UM, SO MY QUESTION IS IN REGARD TO ALL OF THE DISTRICT-WIDE AFTER SCHOOL TUTORING PROGRAMS THAT WE HAVE GOING ON, BECAUSE I'M, I'M FAMILIAR WITH TWO OTHERS, AND THAT'S AT MCCRACKEN MIDDLE SCHOOL AND ALSO AT BLUFFTON ELEMENTARY.
UM, THEY'RE OFFERING THREE AND FOUR DAYS, UM, A WEEK, I BELIEVE, AT THOSE SITES.
SO HOW MANY STUDENTS ARE WE CAPTURING WITH THIS INITIATIVE AND WITH OUR OTHER AFTER SCHOOL INITIATIVES DISTRICT WIDE? BECAUSE 200 SEEMS SMALL.
ALTHOUGH I THINK IT'S AMAZING BECAUSE I THINK THAT THAT COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP IS, IS THE BACKBONE AND WHAT WE ALWAYS PREACH ABOUT GETTING PEOPLE ENGAGED, GETTING OUR COMMUNITY ENGAGED IN THE CONVERSATIONS.
I'M JUST LOOKING TO, TO GET AN OVERALL NUMBER OF HOW MANY CHILDREN ARE IN OUR AFTER SCHOOL TOTALITY, DR.
WE COULD PUT THAT INFORMATION TOGETHER.
IF IT BECOMES AN AGENDA ITEM, WE COULD HAVE THAT INFORMATION PUT TOGETHER.
AND JUST TO BUILD ON MRS. BOATRIGHT, THE BREAKDOWN OF THE DATA IS COLLECTIVE, SO I'LL HAVE TO GET THAT FINANCIAL INFORMATION TO YOU AND A FOLLOW UP TIME.
DO YOU MIND IF I ASK A FOLLOW UP? I HAD ONE OF THEIR DATA RELATED QUESTION AND, AND I'M GLAD THAT DR.
WISNESKI POINTED OUT THAT WE HAVE OTHER AFTERSCHOOL PROGRAMS. I THINK IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT AS THE, WHEN WE START STEPPING AWAY FROM THE ESSER FUNDING THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT MAXIMIZING OUR DOLLARS.
I AM A HUGE PROPONENT OF THIS COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT.
MY FRUSTRATION COMES FROM I WANT TO SEE MY COMMUNITY, MR. CAMPBELL'S COMMUNITY, UH, DR.
WIS, YOU KNOW, I WANNA SEE ALL THE COMMUNITIES ENGAGED.
SO THAT'S SOMETHING I'M PUSHING ON.
BUT, UM, AS FAR AS COMPARING THIS DATA, THE 8% GAIN IN THREE MONTHS, THE 0.2 PER, OR, YOU KNOW, GAIN IN TWO MONTHS, I THINK WE NEED TO LOOK AT HOW DOES THAT COMPARE TO THE POPULATION AS A WHOLE OF THE SCHOOL DISTRICT AND HOW DOES THAT COMPARE TO OTHER TUTORING PROGRAMS SO THAT WE KNOW THE VALUE OF
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THESE PROGRAMS. I THINK THE UNMEASURABLE ENDS, UM, ASPECT IS, AND I THINK THIS IS AGAIN, WHY I'M REALLY PUSHING FOR IT TO SPREAD INTO FURTHER PARTS OF THE COUNTY, IS THE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT.THE PEOPLE THAT GO TO THAT, THOSE CHURCHES AND TO GO TO THE, UM, BLUFF AND SOUP KITCHEN ARE BLUFF AND SELF HELP.
AND THEY SEE THE KIDS THERE AND THEY SEE THE WORK THAT'S BEING DONE, IT'S HARD TO MEASURE THAT IMPACT.
SO AGAIN, I DON'T THINK IT'S STRICTLY A QUESTION OF LINING UP BAR GRAPHS AND SEEING WHICH ONE'S TALLER.
BUT I DO THINK THAT AT SOME POINT WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO, WE'RE, YOU KNOW, WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO FACE WHICH PROGRAMS WE CAN CONTINUE TO FUND POST SER AND WHICH ONES WE CAN'T.
SO CAPTURING THIS DATA AND COMPARING IT, I THINK IS REALLY IMPORTANT.
AND I GUESS THAT THAT WASN'T REALLY A QUESTION, WAS IT? THAT WAS, IT WAS, I THINK IN MY OWN MIND, UH, YEAH, I AGREE WITH LOTS OF THOSE POINTS.
BUT, UH, YOU KNOW, DATA IS, IN THIS CASE, THE DATA IS SPECIFIC TO THIS POPULATION AND WE HAVE TO CROSS REFERENCE WHAT WE PROBABLY DON'T HAVE EXCEPT RESULTS.
WHAT IS THIS POPULATION DONE OR IN THE PAST? AND, YOU KNOW, IT'S, IT WOULDN'T BE FAIR TO COMPARE DIFFERENT POPULATIONS AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAMS, BUT THE, THE GOALS THAT ARE SET IN PLACE FOR THOSE AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAMS WOULD BE WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING AT.
I AM CONCERNED WITH OUR MARKETING OF THE AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAM.
HOW WE, HOW WE DESIGN IT, HOW WE PUSH IT, AND HOW WE GET PARENTS INVOLVED.
AND, AND THE, THE, THE ONE THING THAT, THAT WILL WORK, AND I'M AN INSIDE OUT PERSON IN TERMS OF THAT, IS STUDENT DRIVEN INITIATIVES THAT ALLOW STUDENTS TO SELL THE PROGRAMS. AND, UH, THAT WOULD MEAN SOME HIGHLIGHT OF THEIR EFFECTIVENESS THROUGH IN SCHOOL INITIATIVES INSTEAD OF AFTER SCHOOL INITIATIVES.
YOU KNOW, SOME OF THE THINGS THEY, THEY BRING FROM THOSE AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAMS INTO THE SCHOOL WILL SELL IT TO OTHER STUDENTS.
UH, TO EXAMPLE, WHY DO YOU GET A CHANCE TO WEAR THAT T-SHIRT TODAY? CAUSE I'M IN THE AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAM AND SO AND SO, GEE, I WANT TO BE THERE.
YOU KNOW, THINGS LIKE THAT WORKS.
AND THE KIDS, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE, THEY TELL A STORY OF WHAT THEY'RE DOING AND OTHER KIDS WHO NEED THE HELP WILL FIND THE HELP.
WE ARE NOT GOING TO BE ABLE TO DO A PARENTING UNIVERSITY OFFICIALLY.
I MEAN, WE GOT, WE CAN HAVE THOSE, THOSE COURSES AND THOSE OVERTURES, BUT PARENTS ARE 50 YEARS OLD AND SET MANY TIMES AND DOING THE BEST THEY CAN WITH WHAT THEY HAVE.
SO US TRYING TO REWRITE THOSE BOOKS, IT'S NOT EXACTLY WHERE WE NEED TO BE GOING.
UM, MR. SMITH, UM, BEFORE I GET STARTED, UM, MRS. UM, DOC, DOCTOR STRATA STRADDLE, EXCUSE ME, PLEASE BLAME ON MY HEART, NOT MY BRAIN RIGHT NOW.
CAMPBELL TO, UH, TO ANSWER A QUESTION THAT WAS, THAT THAT WAS, THAT SOMEONE BOUGHT? DO YOU REMEMBER? YOU WANNA, WHAT'D YOU DO THAT? CAUSE I, I'M GONNA BRING MY POINT BEHIND THAT.
CAMPBELL TO BRING FORWARD WAS HOW WE INITIATED THE MARKETING PROGRAM, THE MARKETING OF THIS INITIATIVE, BUT I BELIEVE SHE YEP.
SO HOW THE MARKETING WAS DONE IS THERE WAS AN INITIAL INTEREST SURVEY THAT WAS SENT OUT TO THE SCHOOLS, AND THE SCHOOLS FILTERED THAT SURVEY ONTO THE PARENTS.
THEY SENT IT OUT TO THE PARENTS.
AND FROM THAT SURVEY, THAT'S HOW PARENTS GAIN INTEREST INTO THE PROGRAM.
THEY INITIALLY DID A, UM, A INTEREST SURVEY COMPLETED, THE LENGTH WAS SENT, AND THEY, UM, COMPLETED THE SURVEY AND EXPRESSED THEIR INTEREST IN THEIR, THEIR CHILDREN ATTENDING THE AFTERSCHOOL PROGRAM.
THIS TIME AROUND, WE DIDN'T DO AN INTEREST SURVEY.
WE ACTUALLY SENT OUT A REGISTRATION LINK TO THE SCHOOLS AND ALL OF THE PRINCIPALS FILTERED THAT LINK OUT TO THE PARENTS.
AND THAT'S HOW THE PARENTS FOUND OUT ABOUT THE PROGRAM.
BUT THEN WE ALSO HAD PARENTS WHO WANTED THEIR KIDS TO ATTEND THIS TIME AROUND, WHO ATTENDED THE PROGRAM BACK IN JANUARY.
SO A LOT OF THE STUDENTS THAT ATTENDED THE PROGRAM FROM JANUARY THROUGH MAY, A LOT OF THOSE STUDENTS ARE ENROLLED IN A PROGRAM AGAIN THIS TIME.
UM, AND JUST, AND JUST TO ADD TO THAT, YOU KNOW, I, I I, I'M, I'M HEARING ABOUT, YOU KNOW, ABOUT THE MARKETING.
YEAH, WE CAN MARKET IT A LITTLE DIFFERENT.
WE GOT SOME DIFFERENT THINGS THAT THAT CAN HAPPEN.
BUT YOU KNOW, AND I'LL SAY IT, WHAT I'VE SAID, KIDS SAID CONTINUOUSLY ONE THING THAT COMMUNITY RELATIONSHIPS, AND SOMETIMES UNFORTUNATELY THEY STOP AT THE TOP BECAUSE THERE WAS, THERE WAS SOME, I SAY THERE WERE SOME BOARD MEMBERS
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AS WELL WHO'VE HELPED ALONG THE WAY, WHO'VE KIND OF GUARDED, I MEAN, WE'RE NOT KIND OF HELP IN TERMS OF PUTTING COMMUNITY RELATIONS WITH, WITH, WITH SOME, WITH SOME PEOPLE ALONG THE WAY TO GET SOME OF THESE SITES GOING.SO, YOU KNOW, AS A BOARD MEMBER, IF YOU, IF YOU KNOW OF CHURCH OR YOU KNOW OF COMMUNITY GROUPS, THEN THAT'S PART OF WHAT WE DO COM COMMUNITY RELATIONS, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE TO STOP THIS DIVISION IN TERMS OF JUST THE DISTRICT HANDLES EVERYTHING IN THE DISTRICT.
THERE'S, THERE'S CERTAIN FUNCTIONS WHERE AS BOARD MEMBERS WE CAN HELP OUT BECAUSE IT IS OUR JOB TO HAVE COMMUNITY RELATIONSHIPS, TO HAVE COMMUNITY RELATIONSHIPS WITH PEOPLE.
AND, AND, AND I'VE HEARD IN CERTAIN MEANS, CERTAIN PEOPLE HAVE SAID, WELL, YEAH, WELL I KNOW SOMEBODY FROM THAT DEPARTMENT.
I GOTTA, I GOT A CONNECTION WITH THAT.
AND THEY TURN THE SUPERINTENDENT OR DIFFERENT PEOPLE ONTO THEIR CONNECTIONS.
THAT'S NO DIFFERENT THAN WHAT HAS TO BE DONE ALONG THE WAY IN DRIVING AND DRIVING SOME OF THESE KIDS AND SOME OF THESE CHURCHES AND COMMUNITY CENTERS IN THE TO, UH, TO, IN THE HANDS OF DR.
STRADDLES AND HER STAFF IF WE WANT IT.
SOMETIMES WE GOT GET OUT OUT OF OUR COMFORT ZONES AND WE HAVE TO GUIDE PEOPLE TO, TO DR.
R REASON OR HOWEVER HE WANTS TO, TO THIS, TO THE STAFF.
AND LET KNOW THAT, THAT THAT OPTION IS OPEN.
AND I'M NOT TELLING YOU I HAD NOTHING THAT, THAT, THAT I DON'T KNOW, THAT WON'T WORK.
WE HAVE TO BE ABLE TO NOT BE AFRAID TO HAVE THAT OPEN CONVERSATION, THAT TOUGH CONVERSATION WITH PEOPLE.
WELL, OKAY, WELL YOU WANT THE, YOU, YOU, YOU WANT, AND AND I HAVE THEM MY COMMUNITY.
YOU WANT, WE WANT THE GRADE COMMUNITY TO CHANGE.
WE WANT THE KIDS' GRADE TO CHANGE.
WHAT ARE YOU WILLING TO DO? WHAT ARE YOU WILLING TO PUT UP? WHAT ARE IN YOUR ORGANIZATION? WHAT STEPS ARE Y'ALL WILLING TO TAKE? ARE YOU WILLING TO IMPLEMENT A PROGRAM IN YOUR COMMUNITY OR IN, OR IN YOUR CHURCH OR IN YOUR, IN YOUR COMMUNITY? SOMETIMES WE HAVE TO HELP OUT TOO.
ORGANIZATION LEADERSHIP STARTS AT THE TOP AND THE BOARD IS THE TOP.
SO I MEAN, AND I MEAN, SOME PEOPLE MIGHT NOT LIKE TO HEAR THAT I'M NOT, I'M, I'M NOT CHOPPING THIS DOWN.
I'M JUST BRINGING THAT OTHER OPTION IN THIS ANOTHER, ANOTHER FORM OF THINKING THAT THOSE ARE GREAT WAYS, OTHER WAYS TO ENGAGE US, TO, TO HELP, TO HELP OUT.
AND, AND I, I'M JUST ASKING MY COMMON PARTS TO JUST THINK ABOUT THAT.
AND YOU MAY KNOW SOME PEOPLE IN YOUR COMPUTER, YOU MAY KNOW A TENNIS COACH WHO MAY HAVE A BUILDING OR MAY NOT, MAY ONLY USE IT FOR A CERTAIN, CERTAIN THING.
AND YOU KNOW, WE MAY ME BE ABLE TO TELL DR.
SROS AND HER STAFF THAT, HEY, MAYBE THIS IS ANOTHER BUILDING THAT YOU CAN GET AND YOU CAN PUT 25 KIDS IN HOT AND HOUSE THEM THERE.
IT'S JUST, UH, FOOD, FOOD FOR THOUGHT.
AND ALONG THE WAY, YES, WE COULD HAVE SOME MORE KIDS, BUT ALSO IN TERMS OF WHAT, WHAT MR. CAMPBELL SAID, UM, THERE WAS A, A PARENT THAT WAS EXCITED TO STORE ME IN THE GROCERY STORE.
SHE HAD ME LAUGHING BECAUSE, UH, HER AND THE TEACHER WAS IN THERE.
SHE SAID THEY WAS A BOARD MEMBER AND THEY WERE, THEY WERE LAUGHING ABOUT SOMETHING AT SCOTT.
THEY WAS BASICALLY, THEY HAD A SONG IN TERMS OF TIMETABLES.
AND THE KID AND THE PARENTED TEACHER, THEY WERE ALL SINGING IT LOUDLY IN THE STORE.
AND SHE WAS SAYING, THE TEACHER WAS SAYING, MOM, THIS IS WHAT THIS IS FROM GOING TO THE AFTER SCHOOL.
THIS IS WHAT, THIS IS WHAT HE DO.
WHEN I ASKED HIM THOSE TIMES, AND HIM AND A GROUP OF THEM, THEY JUST, THEY JUST, THEY GO OFF WITH THIS SONG AND BEFORE I KNOW IT, THEY MOVE ON WITHOUT ME EVEN ASKING.
SO, SO THOSE ARE REASONS FOR, FOR, FOR THESE PROGRAMS AND, UH, SUCCESS STORIES THAT, THAT, THAT HAS TO TRANSFER TO THE COMMUNITY, BUT ALSO NEED TO HAVE MORE OF AND MORE UNDERSTANDING AND MORE DRIVEN TO HAVE THE, THOSE RESULTS HAPPEN SO THAT WE CAN SEE THEM, NOT JUST HEAR ABOUT THEM, BUT WE CAN SEE THEM ACTUALLY IN THE FLESH.
STRATOS, ANYTHING ELSE? NO, NOT AT THIS TIME.
MA'AM, NEXT ITEM UNDER STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT IS AN UPDATE, UH, ON THE REPORT CARD.
STRATOS WILL BE, UH, SO THIS EVENING, BOARD MEMBERS, UH, DANIEL FALLON, OUR DIRECTOR OF DATA SERVICES, WILL PROVIDE AN UPDATE ON OUR ESTATE REPORT CARD.
THE PRESENTATION WAS FINALIZED TODAY AT MID-AFTERNOON AS HE EMBARGOED DATA WAS RELEASED YESTERDAY TO LEND SUPPORT WITH POTENTIAL QUESTIONINGS AS WELL.
STRAT, AS I SEE SOME OF YOU LOOKING, LOOKING FOR THE DATA IN THE FOLDER.
IT'S NOT IN THE FOLDER AT THE MOMENT, WE JUST, BUT IT IS ON BOARD DOCS FOR YOU TO PULL UP.
UM, IT WAS JUST PLACED ON BOARD DOCS.
SO THIS IS, THIS IS DATA THAT WE JUST GOT AND JUST RECEIVED.
AND SO WE GO THROUGH OUR PROCESS AS, AS WE DO THAT.
SO YOU'LL, YOU'LL SEE IT, UH, FRESH TODAY AS YOU EMBARGO DATA WAS RELEASED, THE PRESENTATION WAS COMPLETED THIS AFTERNOON.
SO IT IS IN BOARD DOCS FOR YOU TO SUPPORT WITH QUESTIONING AS WELL.
WE HAVE OUR EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS HERE, DR.
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DR.CELESTINE LEVANN, AND MRS. MONA DIXON.
NOW YOU CAN ASK ALL THE QUESTIONS THAT I'VE BEEN EMBARGOED
SO BOARD MEMBERS TONIGHT WE WILL REVIEW THE 2022 SOUTH CAROLINA REPORT CARD.
I DO WANT TO BEGIN BY RECOGNIZING THE HARD WORK OF OUR TEACHERS, STUDENTS, AND ADMINISTRATORS DURING THE 2122 ACADEMIC SCHOOL YEAR.
ON SLIDE ONE, YOU WILL SEE THE PROFILE OF THE SOUTH CAROLINA GRADUATE.
THIS IS THE BACKBONE OF SOUTH CAROLINA'S ESSO WAIVER.
THE SER WAIVER IS EVERY, EVERY STUDENT SUCCEEDS ACT.
IT IS FEDERAL LEGISLATION THAT EACH STATE HAS AN OPPORTUNITY TO WRITE A WAIVER OR THEIR OWN PLAN AGAINST.
THIS HAPPENS TO BE THE, THE BACKBONE OF OUR SO WAIVER.
YOU SEE THINGS SUCH AS WORLD CLASS KNOWLEDGE, WORLD CLASS SKILLS, AND LIFE AND CAREER CHARACTERISTICS.
THESE INCLUDE RIGOROUS STANDARDS IN LANGUAGE ARTS AND MATHEMATICS, CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION, AS WELL AS INTEGRITY, SELF-DIRECTION, AND GLOBAL PER PERSPECTIVE.
IF WE GO TO SLIDE TWO, HOW DOES THE PROFILE OF THE SOUTH CAROLINA GRADUATE, HOW DOES THE SOUTH CAROLINA S A WAIVER IMPACT THE REPORT CARD? SO IF WE START WITH LINE ONE, ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT, THIS IS DIFFERENT FOR ELEMENTARY, MIDDLE, AND THEN HIGH SCHOOL.
SO ELEMENTARY AND MIDDLE SCHOOL, THESE ARE GRADES THREE THROUGH EIGHT.
IT'S ELI AND MATHEMATICS AND C SC READY ASSESSMENT IN HIGH SCHOOL.
THIS IS THE ALGEBRA ONE AND ENGLISH ONE.
END OF COURSE ASSESSMENTS, PREPARING FOR SUCCESS, GRADES FOUR AND SIX.
IN ELEMENTARY AND MIDDLE SCHOOL.
THAT'S SC PATH SCIENCE IN BIOLOGY AND THE END OF COURSE EXAM.
IF YOU REMEMBER EARLIER IN THE PRESENTATION, UH, IN PRIOR PRESENTATIONS, UH, US HISTORY WAS REN NORMED AS FAR AS THE STANDARDS, AS WELL AS THE CALIBRATION OF THE ASSESSMENT.
SO IT WAS NOT INCLUDED IN THE SOUTH COUNTER REPORT CARDS FOR THE 2022 YEAR STUDENT PROGRESS.
THIS IS AN ELEMENTARY AND MIDDLE SCHOOL ONLY MEASURE, AND IT IS MEASURED, UH, FOR STUDENTS IN GRADES FOUR THROUGH EIGHT.
IT IS A COMPARISON OF OF YEAR ONE TO YEAR TWO.
SO AN EXAMPLE, A THIRD GRADE STUDENT TAKES SC READY, UH, IN 2021.
THEY TAKE SC READY AS A FOURTH GRADER IN 2022.
UM, THAT, UM, IS ANALYZED TO SHOW WHETHER OR NOT IN A VALUE ADDED MODEL THAT STUDENT EITHER PERFORMED AS EXPECTED, UH, ABOVE WHAT IS EXPECTED OR A LITTLE BELOW.
THIS METRIC IS WORTH, UH, EITHER 40 POINTS OR 35 POINTS FOR THE ELEMENTARY MIDDLE SCHOOL, DEPENDING ON WHETHER THEY HAVE AN ML POPULATION.
BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY THAN THE POINTS, UH, IT'S BROKEN DOWN BETWEEN ALL STUDENTS AND THE LOWEST QUINTILE.
SO HALF OF THE POINTS COME FOR GROWING THE ENTIRE BUILDING.
HALF OF THE POINTS COME FOR GROWING YOUR LOWEST 20%.
AND THAT DOES APPLY TO EACH SCHOOL.
EACH SCHOOL HAS ITS OWN UNIQUE BOTTOM 20% SCHOOL CLIMATE.
SCHOOL CLIMATE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 2022, UH, INCLUDES, UH, BOTH STUDENT AND TEACHER SURVEYS.
UH, THERE WAS AN ATTEMPT IN PRIOR YEARS TO DO SURVEY SYSTEM AND, AND THE ONLY INCLUDED POPULATION ON THE SURVEY WERE STUDENTS.
UH, BUT THIS YEAR THERE WAS A STUDENT AND TEACHER, UH, FEEDBACK ON THE SCHOOL CLIMATE ENGLISH LEARNERS PROGRESS TOWARDS PROFICIENCY.
THIS IS MEASURED ON THE WEDA ACCESS ASSESSMENT.
AGAIN, THAT'S YEAR ONE VERSUS A YEAR TWO, BUT IT'S ALSO ON A FIVE YEAR ACQUISITION OF PROFICIENCY, THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE.
SO THE SECOND THE STUDENT ENTERS, UH, OUR SYSTEM AND TAKES A SCREENER, THEY START A FIVE YEAR CLOCK TOWARDS PROFICIENCY.
AND THERE'S INCREMENTAL GROWTH ALONG THE WAY.
STUDENTS OBVIOUSLY DO NOT HAVE TO AND DO NOT MEET PROFICIENCY IN ONE YEAR.
BUT A STUDENT'S SCORING TO LEVEL ONE, FOR EXAMPLE, AT THE END OF YEAR ONE IN THE COUNTRY OR THE YEAR TWO OF THE ACCESS ASSESSMENT, THEY WERE TO BE EXPECTED TO SCORE A 1.9 FOR EFFICIENCY.
THE NEXT TWO METRICS ARE HIGH SCHOOL ONLY, UH, GRADUATION RATE.
THAT IS A FOUR YEAR COHORT MODEL, MEANING A STUDENT STARTING SCHOOL FOUR YEARS AGO IS EXPECTED TO FINISH ON TIME WITH A DIPLOMA.
AND FINALLY, THE COLLEGE AND CAREER READINESS.
UH, THIS METRIC HAS CHANGED OVER THE YEARS.
UH, THE MOST RECENT, UH, DEFINITION THAT WE ARE WORKING ON, I IS THE PERCENT OF THE GRADUATING CLASS IN PRIOR YEARS.
AND SOMETIMES WHAT WE'VE PRESENTED BEFORE, IT'S THE PERCENTAGE OF GRADUATES THAT ARE COLLEGE AND CAREER READY.
AND THIS IN THIS METRIC, AND THIS YEAR IN THIS REPORT CARD, IT IS THE PERCENT OF COLLEGE AND CAREER STUDENTS THAT WERE IN THE OVERALL GRADUATION COHORTS.
SO, MOVING FORWARD, UH, SOUTH CAROLINA REPORT CARD RATINGS, THERE ARE FIVE LEVELS, UH, RANGING FROM UNSATISFACTORY TO EXCELLENT.
AND THE DEFINITIONS ARE BEFORE YOU.
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EXCELLENT SCHOOLS A SCHOOL RECEIVING AN EXCELLENT RATING, THAT SCHOOL PERFORMANCE SUBSTANTIALLY EXCEEDS THEIR CRITERIA TO ENSURE ALL STUDENTS MEET THE PROFILE.A SCHOOL WITH A GOOD RATING EXCEEDS THE CRITERIA.
SCHOOLS WITH AVERAGE RATINGS MEET THE CRITERIA TO ENSURE BELOW AVERAGE SCHOOLS ARE IN JEOPARDY OF NOT MEETING THE CRITERIA.
AND UNSATISFACTORY RATED SCHOOLS FAIL TO MEET THE CRITERIA TO ENSURE ALL STUDENTS MEET THE PROFILE OF THE SOUTH CAROLINA GRADUATE.
SO, WITH THAT, ON THE NEXT SLIDE IS HOW BEAUFORT COUNTY SCHOOLS FOR THE 2022 ACADEMIC SCHOOL YEAR SCORED, UH, OUR EXCELLENT SCHOOLS AND SHOULD BE, UH, VERY HONORED AND PROUD OF THESE SCORES.
UH, BEAUFORT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, UH, BLUFFTON HIGH SCHOOL, CUSA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
HE E MCCRACKEN MIDDLE SCHOOL, OKEE ELEMENTARY, RED CEDAR ELEMENTARY, AND RIVERVIEW RIVER RIDGE ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL, OUR K EIGHT, OUR PRE-K EIGHT SCHOOLS, THEY RECEIVE TWO REPORT CARDS EACH.
THEY HAVE AN ELEMENTARY ONE AND A MIDDLE ONE.
SO YOU WILL SEE RIVER RIDGE, UH, LISTED IN THE NEXT LINE AS WELL.
THOSE SCHOOLS ARE BLUFFTON L BLUFFTON MIDDLE SCHOOL, HILTON HEAD ISLAND HIGH SCHOOL, MAY RIVER HIGH SCHOOL, MC RILEY ELEMENTARY, PORT ROYAL ELEMENTARY, PRITCHARD, BILL ELEMENTARY, RIVER RIDGE ACADEMY, AND RIVERVIEW CHARTER SCHOOL MIDDLE.
YOU CAN CONTINUE DOWN THE LIST OF THE AVERAGE BELOW AVERAGE IN UNSATISFACTORY SCHOOLS AS WELL.
SO, HOW DID BEAUFORT COUNTY FAIR AS IT RELATES TO THE STATE? WHEN WE LOOK AT THE DISTRIBUTION OF THAT FIVE POINT RATING SCALE, BOTH THE STATE AND BEAUFORT COUNTY COUNTY HAVE 6% OF OUR THEIR SCHOOLS OR THEIR REPORT CARDS, BECAUSE WE DO HAVE SCHOOLS WITH MULTIPLE REPORT CARDS SCORING UNSATISFACTORY BELOW AVERAGE.
UH, BEFOR COUNTY HAD 15% IN THE DISTRIBUTION VERSUS THE STATE WITH 16 AVERAGE, UH, 32% OF BEAUFORT COUNTY SCHOOLS VERSUS THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA 36.
BEAUFORD COUNTY HAS 26% OF THEIR SCHOOLS, THE STATE 22, AND THEN EXCELLENT.
BOTH THE STATE AND THE COUNTY AT 21% RATED.
SO NEARLY 50% OF BEAUFORD COUNTY SCHOOLS RECEIVED A RATING OF GOOD OR EXCELLENT.
THE NEXT SLIDE, HOPE YOU CAN SEE THIS.
I WILL DO MY BEST TO GO OVER ALL OF THIS IN THE DATA.
WE'RE GONNA START WITH ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT.
AS WE'VE ALREADY NOTED UNDER THE PROFILE, THERE'S AN ELEMENTARY AND MIDDLE RATING, AND THEN THERE'S A HIGH SCHOOL RATING, THE ELEMENTARY AND MIDDLE AS A REMINDER.
THAT'S SC READY, UH, ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS AND MATHEMATICS.
AGAIN, GRADES THREE THROUGH EIGHT.
AND THIS DATA ON THE LEFT HAND SIDE IN THE LEFT CHART FOR THE ELEMENTARY MIDDLE, THAT IS DATA THAT WAS COMPLETED IN THE SPRING OF THE 2022 ACADEMIC YEAR.
I'VE REPORTED ALL STUDENT SUBGROUP AFRICAN AMERICAN, HISPANIC, CAUCASIAN, ARE MULTILINGUAL LEARNERS, STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES AND PUPILS IN POVERTY.
THE DARK BLUE BAR IS BUER COUNTY.
IF WE LOOK AT HIGH SCHOOL, THIS AGAIN IS ENGLISH ONE AND ALGEBRA ONE ON THE END.
OFCOURSE, UH, EXAMINATION PROTOCOL ASSESSMENT.
IT IS A POINT TO KNOW ON THIS METRIC FOR HIGH SCHOOL, THE SCORE FOLLOWS THE STUDENT.
I KNOW WE'VE TALKED ABOUT THIS BEFORE, BUT THESE STUDENTS ON ALGEBRA ONE AND ENGLISH ONE COULD HAVE TAKEN THE ENG THE ALGEBRA ONE ASSESSMENT BACK IN SEVENTH GRADE.
SO SIX YEARS LATER, THAT ALGEBRA ONE SCORE HITS THEIR 12TH GRADE YEARS REPORTED.
SO THIS IS NOT GOING TO MATCH WHAT WAS NECESSARILY PRESENTED OVER THE SUMMER WITH THE RELEASE OF THE END, OF COURSE, EXAMS FROM THE 2022 ACADEMIC SCHOOL YEAR.
THIS IS A LONGITUDINAL COHORT MODEL.
THIS DATA FOLLOWS A STUDENT UNTIL THEY HIT THEIR GRADUATING COHORT.
TYPICALLY, THE STUDENTS, ANY RANGING FROM ALGEBRA ONE, COULD BE GRADE SEVEN, UM, THROUGH NINE, MAYBE THEIR FALL SEMESTER OR THEIR 10TH GRADE YEAR.
UM, ENGLISH ONE, UH, NINTH OR 10TH GRADE YEAR, USUALLY NINE.
THIS IS GRADES FOUR AND SIX FOR SC PASS.
IT'S REPORTED THIS YEAR, THE SAME DEMOGRAPHIC GROUPS REPORTED HIGH SCHOOL.
THIS IS THE INTERCOURSE ASSESSMENT FOR BIOLOGY.
AND AGAIN, THIS ASSESSMENT FOLLOWS THE STUDENT.
TYPICALLY, UH, 10TH OR 11TH GRADE YEAR ARE WHEN STUDENTS ARE TAKING THEIR BIOLOGY EXAMS AND THEIR COURSES.
SO IT'S A TWO TO THREE YEAR DELAY ON REPORTING THE REPORT CARD BIOLOGY SCORES VERSUS THE ACTUAL, UH, EOC SCORES FOR THAT AC ACADEMIC YEAR.
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FINALLY, AS IT RELATES TO DATA GRADUATION RATE AND COLLEGE AND CAREER READINESS RATES, AGAIN, THE GRADUATION RATE, THAT IS A FOUR YEAR COHORT OF BEAUFORT COUNTY'S, UH, GRADUATION RATE WAS 86% VERSUS STATE AT 84% IN COLLEGE AND CAREER READINESS.THIS AGAIN, THE PERCENTAGE OF THE GRADUATING COHORT THAT IS COLLEGE AND OR CAREER READY.
THAT IS REGARDLESS OF WHETHER THE STUDENT EARNED A DIPLOMA, THE ENTIRE COHORT IN THE GRADUATING CLASS, BEAUFORT COUNTY HAS A 76% COLLEGE AND CAREER READY NA RATE FOR ALL STUDENTS.
UH, THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA HAS A 66, SOME, SOME BRIEF TAKEAWAYS.
WHILE THE MAJORITY OF BEAUFORT COUNTY REPORT CAR DATA IS POSITIVE, THE REALITY IS THAT THE STATE AND BEAUFORT COUNTY ARE IN A MULTI-YEAR PERIOD OF ACADEMIC RECOVERY.
I KNOW I HAVE AT EVERY PRESENTATION WITH ASSESSMENT DATA.
UH, WHILE WE DO, UM, WE ARE THANKFUL FOR POSITIVE RESULTS AND GROWTH.
UM, WE DO REALIZE THAT THERE IS, THERE IS A WAYS TO GO WHEN WE ARE IN A RECOVERY PERIOD.
OUR PRIOR CONCLUSIONS REGARDING THE FOCUS ON SUBJECT AREAS OF MATHEMATIC AND SCIENCE HOLD TRUE.
UH, AND THEY ARE ACROSS ALL SUBJECT AREAS.
AND FINALLY, THE RESULTS HIGHLIGHT THE HEROIC EFFORTS OF EDUCATORS AND STUDENTS ACROSS THE BEAUFORT COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT.
STRATIS MENTIONED, THERE IS A TEAM HERE THIS EVENING, UM, FOR THIS PRESENTATION.
BUT THAT CONCLUDES THE DATA AND THE REPORT OF THE SOUTH CAROLINA REPORT CARDS.
READY FOR QUESTIONS? OKAY, MS. VIV, IT'S A LOT TO DIGEST.
THERE IS A LOT TO CELEBRATE HERE.
THERE IS ABSOLUTELY A LOT TO CELEBRATE.
UM, AND THAT, THAT'S A GOOD THING.
SO, UM, WITHOUT HAVING HAD ANY TIME TO PREVIEW THIS OR ANYTHING, CAN WE TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT A PLAN FOR OUR AREAS OF CONCERN, UM, AS FAR AS THOSE, UM, SCHOOLS THAT MAY HAVE FALLEN IN UNSATISFACTORY? I MEAN, WHAT, WHAT IS OUR PLAN? AND, AND THEN DANIEL, CAN YOU ALSO HELP ME A LITTLE BIT HERE? UM, CUZ I KNOW WE DIDN'T HAVE A REPORT CARD SINCE WHEN, UH, 2019 WAS THE LAST TIME ANY SCHOOL RECEIVED RATINGS.
RIGHT? SO, AND, AND THE TSI SCHOOLS AND THE ATSI SCHOOLS ARE BASED ON THAT.
SO THESE ARE NEW TSI SCHOOLS OR ATS? NO.
CAN YOU TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THAT? THOSE, THOSE WILL COME OUT LATER THIS CALENDAR YEAR.
UM, SOMEWHERE IN THE DECEMBER RANGE.
THE STATE WILL IDENTIFY THOSE OFF OF THIS DATA.
THEY HAVE NOT BEEN IDENTIFIED AND THEY HAVE NOT BEEN CALCULATED YET.
THE STATE HAS NOT YET, AT A SUPERINTENDENT'S MEETING LAST WEEK, THE STATE BASICALLY SAID THAT THEY HAVE NOT YET DETERMINED WHAT THEY'RE GONNA DO AND MANAGE THIS BECAUSE THERE ARE SOME SCHOOLS THAT, UH, SHOULD HAVE COME OFF OR COULD HAVE COME OFF.
THERE ARE SOME, THERE ARE SOME SCHOOLS THAT MAY GO ON AND THEY'RE NOT SURE HOW TO RIGHT.
YET THEY'RE SORTING OUT HOW TO HANDLE IT WITH THE MISSED, UH, UH, COUPLE OF YEARS OF ASSESSMENTS.
SO THEY'RE, THEY'RE WORKING THROUGH THAT.
CUZ SOME OF THOSE SCHOOLS SHOULD HAVE BEEN OFF PERHAPS AFTER THREE YEARS AND THEY'RE STILL ON IT.
SO BACK TO MY BASIC QUESTION THEN.
SOME OF THOSE SCHOOLS THAT, UM, ARE LISTED ON HERE'S UNSATISFACTORY.
WHAT, WHAT ARE WE THINKING? HOW, HOW ARE WE GOING TO, TO HELP THOSE SCHOOLS TOO? SO I'LL BRING FORWARD MRS. DIXON AS WELL AS, UM, DR.
BUT I DO WANNA PUT FORWARD THAT IN THE PAST YEAR, THE TEAM OF EXEC EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS WORKING WITH ISD AND MOST OF ALL WITH THE SCHOOL SITES AND EDUCATORS, HAVE GONE THROUGH A SYSTEM OF, IN INSTRUCTIONAL REVIEWS.
YOU'RE GONNA HEAR A LITTLE BIT REGARDING THAT.
NOW, YOU'LL ALSO HEAR A LITTLE BIT FROM ONE SCHOOL IN PARTICULAR, THEIR 90 DAY PLAN, WHICH IS VERY POINTED AND SPECIFIC.
THEY'RE ONE OF OUR UVA SCHOOLS.
SO, WITH THAT, IF I COULD HAVE MRS. DIXON, PLEASE COME FORWARD FIRST.
WHILE THEY ARE ON THE WAY UP, UM, I JUST WANT TO POINT OUT A FEW THINGS.
SO THE, THE INSTRUCTIONAL REVIEWS ARE PART OF WHAT WE BEGAN LAST YEAR TO BEGIN ADDRESSING THE SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS OF, UH, OF THE, UH, UM, PANDEMIC ON STUDENT LEARNING.
AND THERE ARE SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS ABOUT IT, RIGHT? WE, WE'VE TALKED ABOUT THAT FREQUENTLY.
ONE OF THE THINGS THAT, UH, YOU KNOW, THAT, THAT WE NOTICE ALSO IS THAT, UH, SCHOOLS WITH HIGH LEVELS OF, OF STUDENTS WHOSE FAMILIES CHOSE TO STAY VIRTUAL FOR ESSENTIALLY OVER
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A YEAR, UH, A YEAR AND A QUARTER, A YEAR AND A HALF, WHEN YOU COUNT THAT FIRST YEAR, RIGHT? THAT, UH, THAT WE SEE IMPACTS, SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS THERE.SO EVEN THOUGH THERE IS GROWTH, THE GROWTH IS NOT ENOUGH TO CLIMB OUT OF, UH, WHERE THEY WERE IN ANY ONE GIVEN YEAR.
RIGHT? SO, SO I THINK THAT'S PART OF, OF, UH, OF THE IMPACT THAT WE'RE SEEING.
UM, AND THOSE INSTRUCTIONAL REVIEWS ARE A CRITICAL TOOL IN HELPING IMPACT, UH, THE, THE STANDARDS BASED INSTRUCTION THAT ALIGN TO THE, THE STANDARDS THAT STUDENTS HAVE TO MASTER.
SO, WE'LL, WE'LL BEGIN SHARING WITH SOME SPECIFIC PLANS THAT, THAT ARE, HAVE BEEN EMPLOY, YOU KNOW, DEPLOYED AT SCHOOLS, AND THAT SCHOOLS ARE WORKING THROUGH THEMSELVES.
SO, WELL, FIRST AND FOREMOST, THANK YOU FOR HAVING US HERE AND PRESENTING THIS INFORMATION, UM, TO YOU.
SO, UM, ONE OF OUR TOP PRIORITIES FOR SCHOOL YEAR, UM, IS TO IMPROVE ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT IN THE RATINGS FOR OUR PREPARED FOR SCHOOL SUCCESS.
THE SCIENCE THAT IS TAKEN BY FOURTH GRADE, THERE ARE SEVERAL KEY STRATEGIES ARE IN PLACE TO HELP IMPROVE ACADEMIC, UM, INITIATIVE.
ONE IS THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA PARTNERSHIP WITH BUILDING SYSTEMS AROUND CURRICULUM, INSTRUCTION, ASSESSMENTS, DATA SYSTEMS, AND CLIMATE AND CULTURE.
ANOTHER IS TO ENSURE TEACHERS ARE PROVIDING, AS DR.
RODRIGUEZ SAYS, AND STATED, PROVIDING HIGH QUALITY, UM, TIER ONE INSTRUCTION IN THE CLASSROOM.
SO WHAT HAVE WE HAD? WE'VE HAD I S D AND ALSO OUR HUMAN RESOURCES, UM, DIVISIONS COME TOGETHER AND PROVIDE INSTRUCTIONAL COACHES.
AND WE ALSO HAVE A MASTER TEACHER AT WELL BRANCH E THIS YEAR.
UM, EACH TEACHER GOING THROUGH A COACHING CYCLE, PROFESSIONAL LEARNING COMMUNITIES WITH COLLABORATIVE PLANNING.
UM, THE STATE HAS PROVIDED A NEW RESEARCH BASED PHONICS PROGRAM WE ARE IMPLEMENTING IN KINDERGARTEN THROUGH FOURTH GRADE.
KINDERGARTEN THROUGH FOURTH GRADE TEACHERS.
UM, SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS AND OTHER KEY STAFF MEMBERS ARE INVOLVED IN GRADUATE LEVEL WORK WITH A TWO YEAR COMMITMENT TO PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT.
THE GRADUATE LEVEL, THE GRADUATE LEVEL WORK WILL STRENGTHEN OUR KNOWLEDGE OF LANGUAGE STRUCTURE, THE DEVELOPMENT OF READING, UM, THE BY THE BRAIN AND HOW TO NURTURE THE DEVELOPMENT AND THE FOUNDATIONAL LITERACY SKILLS NEEDED TO DO ON, WELL, ON THESE ASSESSMENTS.
OUR THIRD AND FOURTH GRADERS, THEY WILL AND HAVE, UM, BEEN ATTENDING A STEM LAB.
AND WE ALSO HAVE THE PROJECT LEAD THE WAY SCIENCE, AND ALSO WITH S A, OUR Z SPACE, UM, MACHINES, OR Z SPACE, THE TECHNOLOGY.
UM, ALSO LITERACY AND MATH INTERVENTIONISTS ARE ASSIGNED TO WORK WITH STUDENTS DEMONSTRATING, UM, DIFFICULTY IN READING AND MATHEMATICS.
WE ARE LOOKING AT OUR DATA WITH MAP IREADY.
UM, ALSO WITHIN PERFORMANCE MATTERS WITH OUR TDAS, WITH OUR, IN OUR INTERNAL, UM, ASSESSMENT BENCHMARKS THAT WE HAVE AS A DISTRICT.
AND WE ARE COLLABORATING ON THIS DATA SO THAT WE CAN DRIVE OUR INSTRUCTION MUCH BETTER.
SO, WELL BRANCH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WILL CONTINUE TO FOCUS ON MEETING THE NEEDS OF OUR STUDENTS THROUGH LEADERSHIP, CULTURE, AND ACADEMICS.
COX COMES FORWARD, I DO WANNA BRING TO, TO YOU, EACH OF YOU TO RECOGNIZE THAT THE LITERACY PROGRAM THAT MRS. DIXON HAS SHARED WITH YOU IS LETTERS.
IT IS SUPPORTED ALSO BY OPEN COURT.
THESE ARE REQUIRED, UM, INSTRUCTIONAL TOOLS.
SO THAT'D BE EMBEDDED INTO KEY SCHOOLS HERE IN THE DISTRICT, SUPPORTED WITH A STATE INITIATIVE.
THAT IS ALSO GONNA, YOU'LL SEE THAT IN HERE A LITTLE MORE, MORE REGARDING THIS WITH ROBERT SWANS INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY.
ALSO, TO SHARE WITH YOU THAT THERE HAS BEEN AN INCREASED EMPHASIS ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF WRITING SKILLS, WHICH IS 16% OF THE YOU READY? SO I DO NEED TO SHARE THAT THESE INITIATIVES GOING FORWARD, AND AS MRS. FRIGER PUT FORWARD AS MUCH TO CELEBRATE EMPHASIS IS ALSO BE IN PLACE TO MODEL OR REPLICATE WHAT HAS BEEN DONE AT SOME OF OUR SUCCESSFUL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS, WHO WENT TO AN EXCELLENT RATING.
AND THAT WOULD BE FOR CASE INPUT.
LET'S, FOR BEAUFORD ELEMENTARY, WHICH HAS DONE A VERY FOCUS AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAM, UTILIZING OTHER SOFTWARES THAT WE DON'T HAVE OUR STUDENTS WITH SOFTWARE FATIGUE INTO THE AFTERNOON.
SO WITH THAT, I DO WANNA BRING FOOD.
UM, AS MS. DIXON SAID, THIS IS THE SECOND YEAR OF THE EXISTENCE OF THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS IN BEAUFORT COUNTY.
AND IF TO EXPERIENCE WHAT I'VE SEEN AT ROBERT SMALLS, YOU WOULD, YOU
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WOULD HAVE TO DO IT, UM, GOING IN THERE LAST FALL, GOING IN THERE.NOW IT, I KNOW THEY'RE BUILDING A NEW BUILDING ON THE OUTSIDE, BUT IT FEELS LIKE A NEW BUILDING ON THE INSIDE.
UM, ONE OF THE, TWO OF THE MAIN THINGS I'LL START WITH, UH, I BELIEVE IN PEOPLE OVER PROGRAMS, AND I WANNA, HR AND MYSELF, WE COLLABORATED WITH THE PRINCIPAL, UM, TO REALLY GO IN AND HIRE THE BEST AND THE BRIGHTEST AND HIGHLY, MOST HIGHLY EFFECTIVE TEACHERS.
AND IT HAS MADE A DRASTIC DIFFERENCE IN WHAT WE ARE SEEING NOW IN THE FALL.
UM, ANOTHER THING THAT I WANNA POINT OUT IS WITH THOSE TEACHERS HAVING AN EXEMPLAR TO TEACH AND SHOW THEM A MODEL FOR THEM, I GOT THE OPPORTUNITY THROUGH THE INSTRUCTIONAL ROUNDS TO OBSERVE, UM, A MASTER TEACHER RIGHT BESIDE A FIRST YEAR NOVICE TEACHER.
I'VE NEVER SEEN ANYTHING QUITE LIKE THAT.
UM, SO YOU GOT A BRAND NEW TEACHER WHO'S NEW TO THE PROFESSION WITH SOMEONE BESIDE THEM WHO MODELS THAT FIRST LESSON, THAT VERY NEXT CLASS PERIOD.
THAT TEACHER GETS TO TEACH THAT LESSON IN THE INVERSE WITH THAT MODEL TEACHER IN THE BACKGROUND.
AND THEN SHE TEACHES SMALL POPULATIONS.
AND SPECIFICALLY AT ROBERT SMALLS, SHE FOCUSES ON WRITING, UM, FOR THE STUDENTS BECAUSE WE KNOW THAT'S GONNA HAVE A GREATER IMPACT.
ONE OF THE IMPORTANT THINGS TO NOTE ABOUT ROBERT SMALLS IS IF YOU GO BACK TO THIS, AND WE'RE NOT GONNA FLIP BACK AND FORTH, BUT THEY HAVE TWO REPORT CARDS.
SO THEY DON'T HAVE A TRUE FEEDER SYSTEM FROM THE ELEMENTARY TO MIDDLE.
SO THEIR NUMBERS IN ELEMENTARY ARE QUITE SMALLER.
SO WITH THAT SMALLER POPULATION, YOU HAVE STUDENTS THAT COUNT MORE IN THE EQUATION.
UM, AND SO BECAUSE OF THAT, THEIR ADMINISTRATION TOOK AND RESHUFFLED THEIR ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBILITIES.
UM, AND THEY HAVE TDAS AND COMMON ASSESSMENTS THAT THEY'RE WORKING ON.
BUT WHAT I APPLAUD IS IN THE SHUFFLING OF THEIR RESPONSIBILITIES, IF YOU GO THERE ON A TUESDAY OR A WEDNESDAY OR THURSDAY, YOU'RE GONNA SEE THE PRINCIPAL, THE TWO INSTRUCTIONAL COACHES, AND THEY REDELEGATED HOW THEIR INSTRUCTIONAL COACHES SERVE THEIR STUDENTS.
THEY RE DELEGATED HOW THEY SERVE ALL THEIR SP SPECIAL POPULATIONS.
I GOTTA WITNESS THE ACTUAL PRINCIPAL SITTING WITH FIRST GRADE TEACHERS, SECOND GRADE TEACHERS, THIRD GRADE TEACHERS GOING THROUGH THESE ASSESSMENTS, LOOKING FOR EXEMPLARS TO MODEL AND SHOW THEIR OTHER STUDENTS.
UM, IT IS A NUMBERS GAME WITH THEM.
AND TRYING TO MAKE SURE THAT EVERY STUDENT, BECAUSE WHEN YOU'RE, IF YOU'RE LOOKING IN A COHORT, AND DAN, AND FORGIVE ME IF I BUTCHER THIS DANIEL, IN COMPARISON TO THE WAY HE IS, BUT IF YOU GOT A COHORT OF 300 STUDENTS AND THEIR ACCOMPLISHMENT, WELL YOU GOT A COHORT OF 40 OR 50 PER GRADE LEVEL, THOSE HANDFUL OF STUDENTS REALLY MAKE A DIFFERENCE.
SO THEY'VE NARROWED DOWN TO EACH INDIVIDUAL KID.
THEY ALSO HAVE, IN THEIR RESTRUCTURING, THEY TOOK A STAFF MEMBER WHO'S AN MTSS COORDINATOR, AND THAT'S THE MULTI-TIERED SYSTEM OF SUPPORT.
AND GOING IN AND LOOKING AT IF THE KIDS AREN'T DOING WELL, WHAT ARE WE GONNA DO BOTH INSIDE OF SCHOOL AND OUTSIDE OF SCHOOL? I ACTUALLY ENCOURAGE YOU, UM, IF YOU HAVEN'T BEEN THERE, AND I KNOW YOU HAVE SEEN YOU THERE A COUPLE TIMES, BUT IF YOU HAVEN'T BEEN THERE TO SEE AND EXPERIENCE, WHAT THEY HAVE GOING ON IS, YOU KNOW, I'M REALLY EXCITED ABOUT WHERE THEY'RE HEADED AND WHAT THEY'RE DOING.
AND THEY HAVE A VERY PRESCRIBED PLAN OF HOW THEY'RE GONNA GET THERE.
AND THAT'S THROUGH LOOKING AT THE ASSESSMENTS A LITTLE BIT ALONG THE WAY, MONITORING AND ADJUSTING THEIR INSTRUCTIONAL ALONG THE WAY.
AND I CAN'T BRAG ENOUGH, THEY HAVE TWO NEW INSTRUCTIONAL COACHES IN ADDITION TO THAT MASTER TEACHER, WHEN WE HAVE A LOT OF NEW STAFF THAT MAY OR MAY NOT BE AS EXPERIENCED, YOU GET EXCITEMENT, BUT THEY NEED GUIDANCE.
AND SO THEY'VE GOT THE MASTER TEACHER, THE TWO INSTRUCTIONAL COACHES, THEY GOT THE MTSS COORDINATOR THAT'S ALSO GOING IN AND MODELING LESSONS.
AND SO WE'RE VERY STRATEGIC AND TARGETED, AND I REALLY AM EXCITED TO SEE GROWTH IN NOT JUST THE ELEMENTARY SIDE, BUT IN THE MIDDLE SCHOOL SIDE AS WELL.
I ALSO VISITED ROBERT SMALLS AND, UH, IN FACT, THEY HAD A MASTER MATH TEACHER THERE TODAY.
AND TO GO IN AND SHOW TEACHERS RATHER THAN TELL TEACHERS MAKES ALL THE DIFFERENCE IN THE WORLD.
BUT IN ANOTHER ISSUE IS, IT'S VERY OBVIOUS TO ME THAT THE MAJOR IMPACT OF THE VIRTUAL EXPERIENCE THAT WE HAD OVER THE LAST YEAR AND A HALF, THE OLDER KIDS SEEMED TO COPE MUCH BETTER WITH IT.
BUT THE YOUNGER THE KIDS, THE WORSE IT HIT HIM.
AND YEAH, I GUESS WE SHOULD HAVE KIND OF INTUITIVELY KNOWN THAT BECAUSE OF THEIR
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ATTENTION SPAN AND THEIR MATURITY AND THEIR SELF DISCIPLINE TENDS TO GROW WITH AGE.BUT I ALSO NOTICED WE HAVE DEMOGRAPHIC DIFFERENCES.
AND SOME OF OUR DEMOGRAPHICS WERE MORE INTO THE VIRTUAL BECAUSE OF THE FEAR OF THE DISEASE.
SO WHEN I WOULD GO TO SCHOOLS AND I'D SAY, WELL, WHO'S TAKEN VIRTUAL? AND IT WAS PRIMARILY AFRICAN AMERICAN AND THE VIRTUAL JUST, WE, IT JUST DIDN'T WORK AS WELL.
AND THEY HAD PROBLEMS WITH ACCESSIBILITY FOR THE, FOR THE INTERNET.
AND SO WE'VE GOT A LOT OF WORK TO DO TO CATCH UP, BUT I THINK, I THINK YOU ALL KNOW WHAT THE TARGET IS.
AND ONCE YOU KNOW WHAT THE TARGET IS, THEN YOU JUST GOTTA MAKE SURE YOU GOT THE RIGHT BULLET AND THE RIGHT RIFLE TO HIT THE TARGET.
YOUR NOT, BUT, BUT YOU KNOW WHAT, IT'S SIMILARLY BAD MILITARY COLONEL.
UH, I, I THINK YOU GOT SOME GOOD THINGS GOING, COLONEL.
I THINK, YOU KNOW, YOU HIT THE NAIL ON THE HEAD ON, UH, CHOICES THAT WERE MADE, UH, UM, BY FAMILIES.
AND THE CONCERN AND THE WORRY, I THINK YOU HIT THE NAIL ON THE HEAD ABOUT, UM, THE YOUNGER THE STUDENTS ARE, UH, THE LESS EFFECTIVE, UH, UM, VIRTUAL INSTRUCTION WAS OR IS, YOU KNOW? AND I THINK, UM, UM, YOU KNOW, ESSENTIALLY THAT'S, THAT'S ONE OF THE REASONS WHY WHEN THAT YEAR WAS OVER, YOU KNOW, WE ESSENTIALLY DID AWAY WITH, UH, THE VIRTUAL OPTION, UH, BECAUSE IT WAS CLEAR THAT, THAT, UM, THAT THAT JUST WASN'T THE WAY TO GO.
YOU KNOW, AND, AND, UH, YOU KNOW, I I I WILL SAY THIS, YOU KNOW, UM, I THINK THERE'S PROGRESS THAT WAS MADE FROM LAST YEAR TO THIS YEAR.
EVEN THOUGH THERE WAS NO REPORT CARD LAST YEAR.
BUT IN TERMS OF, OF OF, OF WHAT WE'VE SEEN, UM, AND IT'S A MULTI-YEAR EFFORT AS WE'VE BEEN SAYING.
YOU KNOW, I, I, YOU KNOW, HAVING SAID THAT, YOU KNOW, IN NO WAY, YOU KNOW, IS THIS SATISFACTORY, YOU KNOW, OR, OR REALLY, YOU KNOW, EVEN ACCEPT THEM, RIGHT? WE NEED TO SHIFT THOSE BARS OVER TO THE RIGHT, YOU KNOW, AND THAT'S WHAT THE WORK IS FOCUSED ON, YOU KNOW, THE TARGET, YOU KNOW.
AND SO I I, UH, THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS CUZ I THINK YOU HIT THE NAIL ON THE HEAD WITH THAT, MR. CAMPBELL.
UM, I APPLAUDED ALL OF THE EFFORTS AND COMMENTS THAT WERE MADE.
MY QUESTION IS, SINCE THERE IS A, A FEEDING SYSTEM THAT'S OBVIOUSLY NOT CLEAR.
I LOOKED AT, YOU KNOW, THE OTHER TWO FEET FEETER SCHOOLS INTO ROBERTS MALLS.
CAN YOU TALK TO THE MIC A SECOND HERE? IS THERE A WAY THAT WE ARE ARTICULATING BETWEEN THOSE THREE SCHOOLS SO THAT WE ARE SORT OF, SO, SO THAT WE ARE NOT CLOSING THE BOND DOOR AFTER THE HORSES GET OUT? WELL, TWO OF 'EM HAVE ACTUALLY, THREE OF THEM HAPPEN TO BE BEHIND ME.
I HAVE TO SHARE THAT THE OPPORTUNITY OF HAVING EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS WHO ARE THE BRIDGE ACTUALLY AMONGST EACH OTHER, BUT AMONGST OUR SCHOOLS LOOKING FOR CONSISTENCY OF PRACTICE, SHARING BEST PRACTICES.
IT STARTS WITH THE THREE OF THE THREE EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS BEHIND US THAT YOU, WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO HAVE PUT IN PLACE FOR THE PAST YEARS.
I HAVE TO SHARE THAT, UM, AS THEY'VE GROWN IN AT THEIR WORK.
SO HAVE THE SCHOOLS GROWN AT THEIR WORK? SOME OF THE SCHOOLS THAT FEED INTO ROBERT'S SMALLS, ACTUALLY ONE SCHOOL IN PARTICULAR, MS. GOOD BY ONE POINT.
AND I HAVE TO TOUT THAT BECAUSE THAT'S, THIS IS STANCE GOOD WINE, AND I HAVE TO T THAT.
AND THAT IS THE WORK OF THE COLLECTIVE EFFICACY AND AGENCY OWNING WHAT THEY DO.
SIR, UM, MR. CAMPBELL, CAN I, UH, I WANT TO TOUCH BASE ON SOMETHING TOO.
UM, I BELIEVE, UH, UH, IF YOU LOOK AT WILL BRANCH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IS AN EXAMPLE.
I THINK, I THINK THEY MISSED MOVING OUT OF THE CATEGORY, BUT LIKE 400 TENTHS OF A POINT, OR, OR ACTUALLY IT WAS 0.3 1.3 1.31, OKAY.
THEY MISSED BEING BELOW ACT, BUT IT'S NOT STILL WHAT WE WANNA BE.
BUT YES, I, I THINK ON A, ON A, ON A, ON A STRUCTURAL, UH, JUST BEAR WITH ME FOR A MINUTE HERE AS I'M THINKING THROUGH THIS ON A, ON A STRUCTURAL,
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UH, UH, QUESTION THAT WE ARE GONNA DIG INTO AND WE NEED TO LOOK AT A LITTLE BIT AT WILL BRANCH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, THEY HAVE A THIRD GRADE AND THEY HAVE A FOURTH GRADE.THE FIFTH GRADE IS AT THE MIDDLE SCHOOL.
OKAY? HERE'S WHY THAT'S SIGNIFICANT, OKAY? BECAUSE, WELL, BRANCH ELEMENTARY LOSES ON GROWTH OPPORTUNITIES FOR THOSE FIFTH GRADE STUDENTS.
YOU SEE THE IMPACT THAT, THAT CAN HAVE.
OKAY? THE OTHER STRUCTURAL ISSUE, UH, HAS ALREADY BEEN BROUGHT UP, WHICH IS, UH, WHICH IS THE FEEDER ISSUE WITH ROBERT SMALLS AS WELL.
SO THOSE ARE THINGS, I MEAN, I THINK WE, WE HAVE TO, WE ARE WHERE WE ARE EVEN IN THIS YEAR IN TERMS OF THOSE STRUCTURES.
BUT THAT IS SOMETHING AS WE, AS WE LOOK FORWARD THAT WE PROBABLY NEED TO REEVALUATE AND, AND THINK ABOUT.
UM, MR. SMITH, UM, I'M JUST GONNA, UH, I APPRECIATE EVERYONE FOR THEIR WORK.
UM, BUT IN, IN TERMS OF C O AND THESE SCORES, UM, I, I HEAR THAT, BUT I, I, I, I DON'T BECAUSE OF THE, THE, THE FACT THAT SOME OF THIS, UM, SOME, SOME, SOME OF IT COMES FROM, SOME OF IT COMES FROM LEADERSHIP BECAUSE THERE WERE SOME SCHOOLS OUT THERE WHO HAD PEOPLE AND WHO HAD STAFF MEMBERS KNOCKING ON DOORS TO GET THEIR KIDS BACK IN THE SCHOOL.
I'M TALKING ABOUT ON SATURDAY AND SUNDAYS.
THERE WERE PRINCIPALS THAT I KNOW OF HAVING THEIR STAFF TO KNOCK ON DOORS TO GET KIDS BACK, SAY, HEY, LOOK HERE, YOUR CHILD GRADES ARE HORRIBLE, POINT BLANK, FLAT OUT PERIOD.
YOUR CHILD NEEDS TO COME BACK TO SCHOOL.
YOUR CHILD GRADES IS, YOUR CHILD'S NOT GETTING IT.
SO I HEAR THAT, BUT I JUST, I, I JUST CAN'T GET COMPLACENT WITH SAYING WE ALL CAN IMPROVE SOMEHOW.
SO THAT'S JUST, THAT'S JUST ONE MAJOR REASON OF WHY WE'RE WHERE WE ARE.
I, I JUST, I, I CAN'T SIT AND DIGEST THAT THAT DOESN'T SIT WELL WITH ME.
AND IT'S, AND IT'S UNCOMFORTABLE, BUT IT'S THE TRUTH.
WHEN I'VE SEEN CERTAIN SCHOOLS HAVE CERTAIN MOVES AND I'VE SEEN WHAT THEY'VE BEEN DOING, AND I'VE BEEN UNDERSTANDING, AND I'VE HAD PEOPLE SAYING, WELL, YOU KNOW, MY PRINCIPAL PUSHING YOUR PRINCIPAL PUSH YOU AND LOOK WHERE Y'ALL ARE AT.
YOU KNOW, I TOLD YOU, YEAH, I'M GLAD.
YEAH, OUR KIDS, EVERYBODY APPRECIATE WE DOING GOOD.
SO I MEAN, SOME OF THAT, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE TO, UNFORTUNATELY, IT IS TOUGH, BUT WE HAVE TO OWN THAT.
UM, AND, AND, AND, AND, AND, AND SECONDLY, ALI, THAT THERE SEC, SECONDLY, UM, MY QUESTION IS TOO, UH, MR. COX STOOD THEN HE SAID THAT, THAT THEY HAD A HR THAT THAT HR WAS A BIG COMPONENT IN TERMS OF THE RESHUFFLING OF THE SCHOOL AND WHAT IT LOOKED LIKE.
BUT MY, MY QUESTIONS ARE IN TERMS OF THERE, THERE'S UNSATISFACTORY, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT UNSATISFACTORY, BUT ON, ON THE BELOW AVERAGE, HAVE WE DONE THOSE SAME THINGS? BECAUSE BELOW AVERAGE AIN'T TOO GOOD.
YOU KNOW, SO IN TERMS OF GETTING OUR BEST AND BRIGHTEST TEACHERS INTO THESE OTHER SCHOOLS, YOU KNOW, HAVE, HAVE WE DONE THAT AS WELL? BECAUSE I'M NOT JUST COMPLACENT WITH JUST, YOU KNOW, JUST DOING THAT WITH, IN TERMS OF THESE OTHER SCHOOLS, YOU KNOW, DID WELL, BRANCH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, DID, DID, DID THEY DO THAT? DID THEY GET WITH THEIR CHILD DIRECTOR? AND DID THEY MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE PUTTING THE BEST AND BRIGHT, BRIGHT, BRIGHT TEACHERS IN THE SCHOOL TO WORK ON THE, UH, I GUESS THE ACHIEVEMENT GAP? I MEAN THAT, I MEAN, THOSE ARE, ARE QUESTIONS THAT ARE, THAT ARE VALID.
MR. SMITH, IF YOU WOULD'VE HEARD ME WHEN I FIRST SPOKE, I DID SAY THAT, UM, WE'VE BEEN WORKING WITH HR AND I S D UM, WE DO WORK VERY HAND IN HAND WITH MS. WALTON AND HER TEAM.
UM, AND THE TALENT ACQUISITION IS SPECIALISTS ABOUT WHAT TEACHERS THAT WE HAVE, UM, GOING INTO, UM, WELL BRANCH E WELL BRANCH MIDDLE SCHOOL, EVERY, ALL OF OUR SCHOOLS ACTUALLY.
BUT ESPECIALLY WITH THAT PARTNERSHIP WITH UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA AND THE PARTNERSHIP FOR LEADERS, UM, IN EDUCATION, THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS THAT'S ONE OF THE LEVERS THAT WE REALLY LOOK AT, IS HOW WE RECRUIT, UM, TEACHERS NOT ONLY RECRUIT, BUT WE RETAIN TEACHERS.
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DR.RODRIGUEZ AND MS. WALTON IS ALWAYS TALKING TO US ABOUT HOW ARE WE GROWING OUR, OUR TEACHERS THAT WE'RE WORKING WITH.
BUT NOT ONLY THAT, BUT THE CULTURE AND THE CLIMATE OF THE SCHOOL, UM, REALLY WORKING TOWARDS THAT.
SO WE, ALL OF US, AND I CAN SPEAK FOR DR.
LAVAN AS WELL, UM, THAT WE ALL THREE EDS, WE MEET WITH MS. WALTON AND WE TALK WITH HER ABOUT, UM, OUR SCHOOLS AND ABOUT, UM, IF ANY MOVEMENT, BUT THE FIRST THING THAT WE ALWAYS AND WE RECOGNIZE IS THAT NATIONWIDE, THAT WE HAVE A SCHOOL SHORTAGE OF TEACHERS.
AND THAT ONE OF THE THINGS THAT MS. WALTON TELLS US, YOU HAVE THE TEACHERS, IS UP TO YOU AND YOUR PRINCIPALS AND YOUR ADMIN TO GROW YOUR TEACHERS.
AND THAT IS WHY WE REALLY HAVE REALLY WORKED HARD WITH DR.
COX AND MYSELF REALLY WORKED HARD WITH OUR PRINCIPALS ABOUT OUR PROFESSIONAL LEARNING COMMUNITIES, OUR PLCS, AND WHERE WE'RE WORKING WITH OUR TEACHERS ON MAKING AND ENSURING THAT WE GET THAT TIER ONE INSTRUCTION.
BECAUSE IF WE DON'T HAVE THAT TIER ONE INSTRUCTION, THE ASSESSMENT, YOU'RE GONNA CONTINUE A GAP.
SO ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE'RE REALLY FOCUSED ON IS OUR TIER ONE INSTRUCTION AND REALLY WORKING WITH OUR TEACHERS TO UNDERSTAND THE STANDARDS, UNDERSTAND THE LEVEL OF QUESTION, OF DEPTH OF THE WEB'S, DEPTH OF KNOWLEDGE OF A QUESTION WITHIN THAT ASSESSMENT SO THAT WE CAN INSTRUCT AND EXECUTE EFFECTIVELY AND EFFICIENTLY.
RIGHT? AND, AND I'M GLAD YOU BROUGHT IT UP, BUT, BUT ALONGSIDE OF THE, UH, THE, THE BUILDUP IN THAT IS WE HAVE THESE, WE HAVE COACHES AND WE HAVE MASTER TA TEACHERS AND NOT MASTER MASTER TEACHERS, MASTER TEACHER.
WHATEVER, YOU KNOW, WHATEVER IT IS.
BUT YOU KNOW, WE ALL UNDERSTAND WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT.
AND IT WAS BROUGHT UP IN NOT, MAYBE NOT THE LAST MEETING, ONE OF THE MEETINGS WHEN IT WAS SAID THAT A COUPLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS OR SO HAVE TWO OR THREE MATH TEACHERS, WELL, ARE THEY NEEDED THERE? AND, AND HEAR ME, HEAR ME OUT? ARE THEY NEEDED THERE? AND WHAT ARE THEY DOING THERE? AND SO ALL THIS IS IN TERMS OF WHEN WE'RE GOING INTO BUDGETING AND WE'RE TALKING ABOUT, AND WE'RE TALKING ABOUT CLOSING THESE GAPS, THESE, THESE, AS A BOARD MEMBER, THESE ARE ALL, ALL THINGS THAT, AND WE'RE SAYING THAT WE HAVE A SHORTAGE.
WELL, IF WE, IF WE HAVE A SHORTAGE, IF THESE TEACHERS ARE GOOD, THEN SOMETIMES THEY MAY, YOU MAY HAVE TO LEAVE FROM THE CLASSROOM IF THEY'RE THAT GOOD.
YOU MIGHT HAVE TO PUT 'EM PUT, I MEAN, I MEAN, WHEN YOU LOOK AT IT AS A BUSINESS IN TERMS OF, OF GETTING THE RESULTS THAT WE NEED, SOME PEOPLE MAY SAY THAT THEY NEED TO GO BACK IN THE CLASSROOM.
SO, SO THESE ARE ALL COMPENSATIONS THAT MAY HAVE TO BE, MAY HAVE TO BE HAD, AND THAT PEOPLE ARE, ARE, ARE, MAY, MAY BE UN UNCOMFORTABLE, BUT THESE ARE QUESTION THAT OUR CONSTITUENTS ARE ASKING US.
COULD, COULD YOU, YOU HAVE ALL THESE TEACHERS AND YOU'RE TOP HEAVY, WOULD THEY BE BETTER UTILIZED IN THE, IN THE CLASSROOM? YEAH.
I MEAN, YOU KNOW, SO IN, IN THE SHORT TERM VERSION OF THIS, BECAUSE I KNOW, I KNOW EVERYBODY NOT LOOKING AROUND, EVERYBODY'S LIKE, NO, NO, NO.
YEAH, IT'S AN UNCOMFORTABLE CONVERSATION.
BUT THE THE POINT OF IT IS, IS THAT WHEN THE CONSTITUENTS ARE ASKING US AND PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT THAT, THEN WE NEED, I WANNA MAKE SURE THAT, THAT, THAT I CAN SAY AT THE END OF THE DAY, YES, THE MATCHES, TEACHERS ARE NEEDED.
YES, COACHES ARE NEEDED, WE HAVE RESULTS.
YOU CAN GO TO SO AND SO, AND THESE ARE THE RESULTS.
SO THAT'S WHY I'M ASKING THESE QUESTIONS THAT I'M ASKING, BECAUSE THIS IS, THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT AND THIS IS RELATIVE, UH, RELEVANT INFORMATION.
NOT QUITE FRANKLY, IT'S NOT UNCOMFORTABLE CONVERSATION.
NO, BECAUSE THESE ARE CONVERSATIONS WE HAVE INTERNALLY, AND BELIEVE ME WHEN I TELL YOU, WE BEAT IT UP PRETTY GOOD, RIGHT? AND SO, SO HERE, HERE, HERE'S THE DEAL.
WHEN YOU HAVE A MASTER TEACHER AND THEY'RE IN ONE ROOM, RIGHT? THEY MAY IMPACT 20 KIDS, OKAY? BUT IF YOU HAVE A MASTER TEACHER AND YOU HAVE THEM WORKING ALONGSIDE OTHER TEACHERS OR SUPPORTING IN OTHER PLACES, NOW, THEY MAY BE IMPACTING 45, 50, 60 KIDS.
OKAY? AND SO THAT IS THE NATURE OF THE APPROACH.
BUT BELIEVE ME WHEN I TELL YOU, WE BATTLE THAT BACK AND FORTH ALL THE TIME TO MAKE SURE THAT WE THINK WE'RE LANDING IN THE RIGHT PLACE.
MS. DIXON, COULD YOU ALSO, YOU CAN GO AHEAD AND COMMENT ON WHAT YOU WANNA SAY, BUT WOULD YOU ALSO MM-HMM.
THE MASTER TEACHERS DO TEACH, THEY DO DUAL ROLE.
SO THEN THAT, UH, THE COACH, THE INSTRUCTIONAL COACH CAN BRING A TEACHER IN THERE, LIKE DR.
COX HAD A NOVICE TEACHER INTO THE CLASSROOM AND WATCH THEM TEACH.
THEY ARE TEACHING AND THEY'RE ALSO SUPPORTING.
THAT WAS PART OF OUR PLAN, THE INITIATIVE BY DR.
RODRIGUEZ AND MS. WALTON ABOUT OUR MASTER TEACHERS, THAT WE WANTED THEM NOT ONLY TO AFFECT TE UM, KIDS, BUT ALSO WITHIN WITH THE TEACHERS AS WELL.
ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE'VE TALKED ABOUT WITH MATH IS TO MAKE SURE THAT, UH, WE'VE TALKED ABOUT MATH, IS TO MAKE SURE THAT, ESPECIALLY AT OUR ELEMENTARY
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SCHOOLS AND BEING A MATH TEACHER, IT IS VERY IMPORTANT THAT WE MAKE SURE THAT THEY NOT ONLY GET THE MATHEMATICAL PRACTICES, BUT THEY GET TO PLAY WITH IT.THE KINESTHETICS, THEY GET TO, UM, UTILIZE THOSE MATH MANIPULATIVES.
RODRIGUEZ, WE WERE SAYING IS, WHY AREN'T THEY USING THE MATH, MATH MANIPULATIVES? SO THAT IS A CONVERSATION THAT WE HAVE HAD WITH OUR COACHES, ESPECIALLY OUR NUMERACY COACHES, TO MAKE SURE THAT THE TEACHERS ARE COMFORTABLE WITH SHOWING KIDS HOW TO UTILIZE THE MATH MANIPULATIVES AS WELL, AND BEFORE RELEASING THEM TO INDEPENDENT PRACTICE, THAT WE MAKE SURE THAT THEY UNDERSTAND THE EXPECTATIONS OF THE STANDARD BEFORE RELEASING THEM TO THAT INDEPENDENT PRACTICE.
AND, AND THANKS FOR TELLING, GIVING THAT, UH, THAT, UM, EXPLAINING WHAT THE MATH TEACHER, HOW THE TAUGHT THAT STRATEGIC, THE MASTER TEACHER, HOW SHE DOES TWO COMPONENTS.
I'M IN THE SCHOOL, SO I, I, I, I HAVE, I I'VE SEEN THAT AND THEY HAVE KIND OF TAUGHT ME THAT.
SO I'M, I'M, I'M GLAD I DIDN'T KNOW THAT.
BUT IT'S, IT'S STILL, STILL JUST DRIVE, DRIVING THE BALL TO, TO THE BASKET IS MY POINT.
IS THAT JUST THAT IN, IN TERMS OF IT, IT'S GOOD TO BE, IT IS GOOD FOR THE PUBLIC TO KNOW AS WELL, THAT JUST US TO NO, AND THAT RODRIGUEZ JUST ANSWER TO YOU ANSWER WHAT YOU'RE SAYING.
I MEAN, WHEN YOU, IN THAT CONFERENCE ROOM OR YOU IN THAT BATTLEFIELD, HAVING THAT CONVERSATION AMONG EACH OTHER, YES, I UNDERSTAND THAT.
IT'S TOUGH THEN, BUT HAVING IT PUBLICLY, TO ME, IT'S, IT'S A LITTLE MORE, LITTLE MORE TOUGHER BECAUSE YOU HAVE PEOPLE SCRUTINIZING WHAT YOU'RE SAYING AND WHERE FUNDING IS GOING.
RODRIGUEZ, WILL YOU HAVE ANY, UM, INFLUENCE OR, UH, UM, INPUT TO THE, WE ARE STILL, AS YOU ALREADY MENTIONED IN THIS DISCUSSION, UM, IN, WE HAVE THE SCHOOLS THAT ARE STILL IN THE TSI, UH, PRIORITY SCHOOL CATEGORIES.
I'M PRETTY SURE BECAUSE IT'S, I SIGNED THAT AGREEMENT WITH THE STATE OF THE SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION WHEN I WAS THE CHAIR, AND WE HAVE CERTAIN, CERTAIN REQUIREMENTS THAT WE HAVE TO FOLLOW BECAUSE OF THAT AGREEMENT.
AND I GUESS I SORT OF FEEL PERSONALLY RESPONSIBLE THAT THOSE GET DONE.
SO, UM, UH, ONE OF OTHER REQUIREMENTS IS THAT WE HAVE TO HAVE, UH, QUARTERLY PRESENTATIONS TO THE BOARD ABOUT THOSE SCHOOLS.
SO HOW LONG ARE WE GONNA BE IN THAT CATEGORY FOR THOSE, I THINK THEY'RE EIGHT SCHOOLS.
HONESTLY, I THINK THEY ARE WORKING THROUGH ALL OF THAT, UH, STATEWIDE BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, THE, THE ABSENCE OF TWO YEARS OF, UH, ESSENTIALLY, UH, YOU KNOW, ONE YEAR OF NO ASSESSMENT AND ONE YEAR OF ASSESSMENT, BUT NO REPORT CARD RATINGS AND NOT REALLY DEALING WITH THAT ISSUE, UH, UH, IN ESSENCE, THEY'RE TRYING TO SORT OUT WHAT MAKES SENSE AS, AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE, CARRYING INTO THE UPCOMING, THE UPCOMING YEAR AS THEY, AS THEY GO AHEAD AND SORT, YOU KNOW, PICK THEM OUT.
UM, AND THEN WHAT THEY'RE GONNA DO IN TERMS OF MOVING THEM OUT.
CUZ IF YOU REMEMBER, UH, UM, YOU KNOW, A COUPLE OF 'EM COULD HAVE MOVED RIGHT OUT OF THAT, AND JUST BECAUSE THEY FROZE IT, THEY JUST STAYED IN IT, RIGHT? MM-HMM.
UM, SO, SO, YOU KNOW, THERE ARE SOME ADVANTAGES, UM, TO IT, UH, TO BE HONEST, RIGHT? BECAUSE, BECAUSE IT IMPACTS SOME OF THE FUNDING FOR, FOR THOSE SCHOOLS TOO, RIGHT? SO, YOU KNOW, IN TERMS OF INFLUENCE ON IT, UH, YOU KNOW, AS A SUPERINTENDENT, I DON'T, UH, HAVE ANY SAY REALLY ON THE ACCOUNTABILITY SYSTEM.
THE ACCOUNTABILITY SYSTEM IS AT DONE AT THE, AT THE STATE LEVEL.
UM, UM, BUT I CAN GIVE AN OPINION, YOU KNOW? GOOD.
MY SECOND THING IS BEING ONE OF BLUFFTON REPRESENTATIVES, I GOT A GLOAT.
EVERY SINGLE BLUFFTON PUBLIC SCHOOL IS IN THE GOOD OR EXCELLENT REPORT CARD RATING.
AND I THINK WE, WE WANT ALL OUR SCHOOLS TO MOVE IN THAT DIRECTION, WHICH IS A COUNTYWIDE SCHOOL SYSTEM.
I DON'T WANT JUST, YOU KNOW, ONE AREA OF THE, OF THE COUNTY TO BE, BE, UH, WE WITH THOSE HIGHER RATINGS.
SO TO ME, IT SEEMS LIKE, WHAT ARE WE DOING AT THOSE SCHOOLS? WHAT'S HAPPENING AT THOSE SCHOOLS? BECAUSE THAT, I WOULD THINK COULD ALSO BE, UH, USED TO TRY TO TRY TO MOVE THE OTHER SCHOOLS THAT WERE MM-HMM.
AND I WANT TO JUST SAY TO THE, UM, STUDENTS, THE EDUCATORS, THE PARENTS IN THOSE BLUFFTON SCHOOLS, AND THAT'S EVERY SINGLE ELEMENTARY, MIDDLE SCHOOL, HIGH SCHOOLS, AND THERE'S TWO HIGH SCHOOLS IN BLUFFTON AND A K THROUGH EIGHT SCHOOL WAY TO GO AND DON'T LET OFF THAT GAS PEDAL.
UH, I, I WOULD, I WOULD SAY, UM, WHEN I, WHEN I LOOK AT, AT THE LIST IN, IN DIFFERENT, UH, RATINGS, OKAY? UH, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT, THAT WE DO IS TO LOOK AT PROLIFERATING
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GREAT PRACTICES.OKAY? THAT'S PART OF WHAT WE DO THROUGH INSTRUCTIONAL REVIEWS AS WELL, RIGHT? UH, WE LOOK AT TRENDS THAT WE'RE SEEING, AND THEN WE LOOK AT PROLIFERATING GREAT PRACTICES THAT WE'VE IDENTIFIED.
EACH OF THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS HAS PORTFOLIO MEETINGS, UH, WITH PRINCIPLES.
PART OF THOSE PORTFOLIO MEETINGS ARE INSTRUCTIONAL WA THEY MOVE 'EM AROUND TO DIFFERENT SCHOOLS, AND THEY HAVE INSTRUCTIONAL WALKS AT EACH OF THOSE SCHOOLS WHEN THEY'RE THERE AS WELL.
IT'S NOT AN INSTRUCTIONAL REVIEW, BUT IT IS AN INSTRUCTIONAL WALK WHERE THEY GO THROUGH AND SEE INSTRUCTION AND, AND HIGHLIGHT OTHER SPECIFIC THINGS.
THAT'S ANOTHER ONE OF THE KEY ADVANTAGES, UH, OF THE WORK OF, OF, UH, EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS.
BUT IT'S TO PROLIFERATE TO SEE AND PROLIFERATE THOSE GREAT PRACTICES TO TALK ABOUT THE BENEFITS.
I WANNA CALL OUT, UH, TWO THINGS ON HERE.
ONE, YOU SEE, RED CEDAR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, RED CEDAR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, UH, I BELIEVE RECEIVED THEIR FIRST EXCELLENT RATING, RIGHT? THEY, THEY ALWAYS DO VERY WELL.
UH, BUT, BUT THEY'VE RECEIVED THEIR FIRST EXCELLENT RATING, YOU KNOW, AND, AND, UH, UH, I RECALL WHEN YOU ALL WERE GOING THROUGH INTERVIEWS FOR A SUPERINTENDENT, AND YOU ASKED THAT THE CANDIDATES COME IN AND DO, UH, A DATA DIVE ON THE SYSTEM, I PICKED OUT RED CEDAR ELEMENTARY, NEVER VISITED IT, BUT JUST ON THE SURFACE, BY LOOKING AT DATA, I WAS ABLE TO, TO, TO DRILL DOWN TO TELL YOU THERE'S SOMETHING SPECIAL THAT'S HAPPENING THERE, RIGHT? AND TO BE ABLE TO, UH, TO LOOK AT HOW WE CAN PROLIFERATE THAT IS IMPORTANT.
I'M GONNA, I'M GONNA SHIFT TO ANOTHER ONE.
UH, YOU KNOW, UH, BLUFFTON HIGH SCHOOL, RIGHT? UH, IS IS A, A SCHOOL, A HIGH SCHOOL THAT HAS AN EXCELLENT RATING.
I BELIEVE THEY'VE, THEY'VE SCORED PROBABLY THE HIGHEST, UH, DANIEL THAT MAYBE ANYBODY'S EVER DON'T, YOU DON'T RECALL 71 TOTAL POINTS ON THERE, UH, ON, ON THE, ON THE ACCOUNTABILITY SYSTEM.
ANOTHER PLACE WE CAN PROLIFERATE PRACTICES FROM HIGH SCHOOLS, BEAUFORT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, IT'S NOT IN SOUTHERN COUNTY, IT'S IN NORTHERN BEAUFORT COUNTY, RIGHT? AND BEAUFORT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, UH, HAS PRACTICES THAT HAVE BEEN PUT IN PLACE THAT CAN BE PROLIFERATED EVEN IN SOUTHERN BEAUFORT COUNTY, RIGHT? BECAUSE, BECAUSE THEY HAVE, UH, UH, REALLY DONE SOME REMARKABLE WORK, RIGHT? UH, SO, SO, UH, KUSA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, RIGHT? WHEN YOU LOOK AT THAT, IT'S KUSA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IS DRIVING, UH, TO MOVE FURTHER BEYOND WHERE, WHERE THEY HAVE, UH, EVEN PERFORMED.
BUT I'LL TELL YOU ONE THING THAT'S VERY COMMON WHEN I LOOK AT, UH, AT THESE SCHOOLS THAT ARE SITTING THERE, OKAY? STRONG PLCS, STRONG CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT MODEL, UTILIZING DATA TO HELP DRIVE INSTRUCTION IS VERY RICH IN THESE SCHOOLS.
RIVER RIDGE ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL, REALLY THIS PAST YEAR, UH, THE, THE ELEMENTARY AND THE MIDDLE SCHOOL, BOTH, BUT DID, UH, UH, A HUGE DIVE IN THEIR DATA, UH, DATA DRIVEN INSTRUCTION, RIGHT? AND, AND YOU SEE SOME PAYOFFS THERE IN THE MIDDLE SCHOOL, RIGHT? AND YOU SEE, UH, SO THO THOSE ARE, THOSE ARE THINGS THAT ON THE SURFACE, THESE SCORES JUST COMING OUT.
AS I RECOLLECT, WITHOUT GOING BACK TO ANY OF MY OWN PERSONAL NOTES, AS I VISIT SCHOOLS, THOSE ARE THINGS THAT I CAN CALL OUT THAT I SEE THAT, THAT WE NEED TO PROLIFERATE.
MR. CAMPBELL, UM, BOARD MEMBERS, WE DO, WE'RE RUNNING INTO THE, UM, SECOND PUBLIC COMMENTS HAVE TO HAPPEN NO LATER THAN NINE O'CLOCK.
SO, MR. CAMPBELL, DO YOU WANT TO GO NOW? GO AHEAD.
AND THEN IN, IN TWO MINUTES, WE'LL HAVE, I, I JUST WANNA SAY THIS, AND I'VE SAID THIS BEFORE, I'VE SAID IT TONIGHT, ONCE DAY, AND MS. DIXON CAN, CAN YOU AGREE WITH WHAT I'M SAYING? PARENTS, THOSE FOLKS, THESE ARE NOT FAILING BECAUSE OF, OF, YOU DON'T HAVE THE TEACHERS IN THE SCHOOLS.
YOU HAVE PARENTS THAT DON'T SEEM TO DON'T SUPPORT THE SCHOOLS, PERIOD.
AND WE, YOU KNOW, THAT WE, WE STOP MAKING EXCUSES.
PARENTS ARE NOT SUPPORTED IN THE SCHOOLS.
THAT'S THE REASON WHY THE SCHOOLS ARE WHERE THEY ARE.
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UNTIL PER DO THAT, MRS. DIS CAN TELL YOU, WHEN SHE WAS, WAS AT THE MIDDLE SCHOOL AND MR. MR. UH, WHAT'S DOG WAS AT THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.THOSE PARENTS WAS IN THAT SCHOOL.
THEY SUPPORTED THE SCHOOL, AND THEY, IN FACT, WELL, BRANCH MIDDLE SCHOOL WAS THE TOP MIDDLE SCHOOL IN THIS COUNTY.
SO DON'T TELL ME, YOU KNOW, IT'S TIME TO STOP MAKING EXCUSES.
PARENTS NEED TO GET OFF THEIR BUTT AND DO WHAT THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO DO, PERIOD.
DOES THAT COMPLETE YOUR PRESENTATION? THERE'S NOTHING TO TOP THAT, MA'AM, AT THIS TIME.
WE, WE DO NEED TO STOP FOR PUBLIC COMMENTS.
[Second Public Comments]
NINE O'CLOCK.SO WE WILL DO OUR PUBLIC COMMENTS.
OUR FIRST PUBLIC COMMENTER IS LYNN.
AND IS THIS A, IS YOUR LAST NAME START WITH A K OR AN R? I CAN'T GREELEY.
I WAS NOT ABLE TO WRITE TOO WELL.
UM, YEAH, I WANTED TO ASK ON THIS FORENSIC AUDIT, UM, WHO, WHO DID THE AUDIT AND, AND WAS IT ACTUALLY A FORENSIC AUDIT? BECAUSE I HEARD IT WAS AN AUDIT, NOT A, IT WAS.
AND WHO DID IT? WE CAN'T RESPOND TO THAT, BUT, UM, OKAY.
YOU CAN'T EVEN RESPOND WHERE I CAN FIND THE INFORMATION, THEN WE'LL TELL YOU AFTER THE MEETING.
AND THEN, UM, ON THE SCHOOLS, UH, WHO SH I, I, I MEAN, ON THE, UM, WHAT I'M THINKING IS THAT, THAT THE SCHOOLS SHOULD BE GETTING THE STUDENTS READY FOR CAREERS AND EVERYTHING ELSE, NOT LEARNING HOW TO PLEASURE THEMSELVES WITH THESE BOOKS THAT THEY HAVE OUT THERE OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN.
I THINK PEOPLE HAVE TALKED ABOUT THESE BOOKS AND NEVER HAVE YOU TALKED ABOUT THESE BOOKS? UM, THIS GENTLEMAN SAYING THAT HE HAS TO HAVE A LAWSUIT TO, YOU KNOW, GET SOMETHING DONE, TO GET THESE FILTHY, FILTHY BOOKS OUT, WHAT THEY READ TONIGHT.
I'VE READ SOME OF THEM BECAUSE, AND I COULDN'T EVEN BELIEVE IT.
I MEAN, I, I DIDN'T EVEN WANNA TOUCH 'EM AFTER IT.
WHAT WASN'T EVEN WHAT THEY HAD TONIGHT.
I MEAN, SOME OF THE THINGS WERE, UM, INCESTUAL SEXUAL THE FATHER WITH THE DAUGHTER, THESE ACTS.
YOU DO, YOU, HAVE YOU EVEN READ THESE BOOKS? I MEAN, I JUST CAN'T EVEN BELIEVE THAT NOTHING HAS BEEN DONE, THAT YOU HAVEN'T READ THESE BOOKS, AND THAT YOU DON'T GET RID OF THEM OR EVEN TALK ABOUT 'EM.
IT'S LIKE, WHAT, WHAT IS, WHAT IS THE PROBLEM HERE? I MEAN, IT'S, IT'S, IT'S OBVIOUS THESE CHILDREN ARE GETTING INDOCTRINATED, UH, FOR EXPLOITATION, FOR SEXUAL EXPLOITATION, AND FOR HUMAN TRAFFICKING.
I, I DON'T, THERE'S NOTHING IN MY MIND THAT THAT IS NOT SAYING THOSE WORDS RIGHT THERE.
AND SO, I HOPE THAT THE NEXT MEETING THAT YOU ADDRESS THIS, BECAUSE IF YOU DON'T, IT'S JUST, UH, I DON'T, THERE'S NOT EVEN ANY WORDS THERE.
THERE ISN'T EVEN ANY WORDS ANYMORE ABOUT THIS.
I'M CALLING YOU FOR PUBLIC COMMENTS.
ONCE AGAIN, THERE ARE NO CURSE WORDS THIS TIME, I PROMISE.
UM, MR. CAMPBELL, I JUST WANTED TO THANK YOU FOR SHINING A LIGHT ON THE IMPORTANCE OF PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT.
UM, TO TOUCH ON WHAT WILL SMITH SAID ABOUT THE SCHOOL REPORT CARDS IMPROVING WHEN TEACHER SALARY INCREASES, THAT'S A PREPOSTEROUS STATEMENT.
IT'S STATEMENTS LIKE THIS THAT MAKE TEACHERS LEAVE.
IT SEEMS THAT SOME PEOPLE GLAZE OVER THE FACT THAT STUDENTS DID NOT HAVE EFFECTIVE EDUCATION FOR ALMOST TWO WHOLE YEARS.
MANY PEOPLE DON'T KNOW JUST HOW MUCH IS EXPECTED OF TEACHERS.
MY HUSBAND LEFT BEAUFORD COUNTY AFTER ONE YEAR.
I LA LEFT TEACHING A CAREER OF 20 YEARS AND MY LAST THREE YEARS HERE IN BEAUFORD COUNTY BECAUSE I KNOW MY WORTH.
AND I REFUSE TO DO ALL THIS NONSENSICAL PAPERWORK AND DOCUMENTATION, EXTRA JUMP REQUIRED OF OUR TEACHERS.
THESE EXTRA EXTRANEOUS TASKS HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH EDUCATING AND REACHING OUR STUDENTS.
AS FOR THOSE SURVEYS THAT ARE ON THE REPORT CARDS, TEACHERS ARE PRESSURED BY MOST ADMINISTRATION TO WRITE IN SPECIFIC ANSWERS.
ASK ANY TEACHER WITH A NERVE TO SPEAK UP THOSE STANDARDIZED TESTS, THE ONLY THING THEY ACCURATELY MEASURE IS HOW WELL A CHILD TAKES A TEST.
DIANE RAVAGED THE AUTHOR OF MUCH OF THE NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND ACT.
SHE'S WRITTEN BOOKS ABOUT HOW LONG SHE WAS TO PUSH
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STANDARDIZED TESTS.WHY SO MUCH EMPHASIS ON SOMETHING INACCURATE AND HARMFUL.
YOU TAKE SO MUCH EDUCATIONAL TIME AWAY FROM TEACHERS WITH THESE ASININE SOCIAL SURVEYS, STANDARDIZED TESTS, AND PRACTICE FOR THE TESTS.
THEN THROW IN THE COMPUTER PROGRAMS THAT MUST BE USED TO PROVE THE DISTRICT THAT THEY WERE BEING USED AND THE TIME SPENT TROUBLESHOOTING COMPUTERS, ATTENDING MEETINGS DURING PLANNING PERIODS, AND LUNCHES, COVERING CLASSES, WORKING LUNCH AND CAR RIDER DUTY.
WHAT TIME DO THEY HAVE TO TEACH OR PLAN? I'LL TELL YOU WHEN THEY PLAN, WHEN THEY'RE HOME NIGHTS AND ON WEEKENDS, MR. SMITH, YOU SAID WE HAVE TO HAVE THE UNCOMFORTABLE CONVERSATIONS ABOUT HOW TO GET GRADES UP.
I THINK YOU HAVE TO DO A BIT OF RESEARCH INTO HOW MASTER TEACHERS AND COACHES WORK IN T WITH EDUCATORS.
YOU SAID WE HAVE TO HAVE THE UNCOMFORTABLE CONVERSATIONS ON HOW TO GET THE GRADES UP.
GET RID OF IREY, GET RID OF IL, USE UCLA USA TEST, PREP AND READING.
PLUS GET RID OF COMPUTERS AND GO BACK TO BOOKS.
HAVE THEM WRITE, STOP TELLING TEACHERS THEY AREN'T WORTH THEIR SALARIES.
GIVE TEACHERS TIME TO BREATHE DURING THE SCHOOL DAY.
ALLOW THEM TO INFUSE THEIR STUDENTS WITH A LOVE OF LEARNING INSTEAD OF A HATRED OF DATA AND TESTING.
YOU ARE LUCKY, LUCKY TO HAVE AS MANY TEACHERS AS YOU DO IN THIS DISTRICT.
IF THIS CONTINUES, YOU'RE GOING TO BE LEFT WITH A HANDFUL OF VERY GREEN TEACHERS WHO ARE TOO NEW TO STAND UP FOR THEIR STUDENTS, AND A HANDFUL OF TEACHERS SIMPLY WAITING FOR RETIREMENT.
I HAVE TRIED TO EXPLAIN THIS TO OUR BOARD IN THE PAST, BUT NO ONE WANTS TO DO ANYTHING REAL ABOUT IT.
YES, YOU GAVE THEM MONEY, BUT HOW ABOUT RESPECTED EDUCATIONAL AUTONOMY IN THE CLASSROOM? IF ANYONE ELSE WANTS TO DISCUSS HOW TO GET, GET AND KEEP TEACHERS, FEEL FREE TO CONTACT ME.
I MIGHT BE OUTSPOKEN, BUT WITH THREE MASTER'S DEGREES ALL IN EDUCATION AND SUPERVISION AND 20 YEARS UNDER MY BELT, I KNOW MY STUFF.
WE ARE NOW UP TO, UH, ACTUALLY, I HAD, I HAD SOMETHING I WANTED TO FINISH, UM, IN TERMS OF THAT, UH, YOU SAID WE WANT TO HOLD ON.
ONE MORE QUESTION, MR. SMITH, AND THEN WE HAVE TO MOVE ON BECAUSE WE'RE ALSO UP, UH, WE'RE GONNA NEED A MOTION TO CONTINUE THE MEETING.
UM, IN, IN TERMS OF, IN, IN TERMS, IN TERMS OF, WE WERE TALKING ABOUT SCHOOLS AND TALKING ABOUT THE COMPARISON TO THE DIFFERENT TYPES OF SCHOOLS, AND WE, WE, WE WERE TALKING ABOUT KUSA AND B L, UH, BEAUFORD L DEFINITELY MAY HAVE SOME STUDENTS WHO ARE PROBABLY IN THE LESS FORTUNATE, UH, AREA.
BUT ALSO WHEN, WHEN, WHEN I LOOK INTO, UH, BASICALLY UPON THE AVERAGE, I ALSO WOULD HAVE TO COMMEND OUR BROAD RIVER IN LAY ISLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TOO AS WELL.
UH, BECAUSE THOSE ARE DEFINITELY SCHOOLS WHO ARE IN THE TARGET MARKET AREAS THAT WE WOULD WANT TO KIND OF SEE AND UNDERSTAND WHAT THEIR PROCESS OF DOING THINGS SO THAT WE CAN GET SCHOOLS WHO ARE IN THE UNSATISFACTORY AND BELOW AVERAGE, UH, AREAS.
BECAUSE THO THO THOSE ARE SCHOOLS THAT WHO CAN, WHO ARE, WHO HAVE MORE.
IF YOU WAS A, IF YOU WERE, IF YOU WAS A PLUMBER, THEN THEY HAD, THEN THOSE ARE, THOSE ARE PEOPLE WHO ARE MORE, LESS LIKELY TO BE YOUR CLIENTS.
SO THEY, THEY, THEY, THEY, THEY, THEY SEE THAT.
SO THAT'S SOMETHING JUST TO UNDERSTAND EVEN WHEN WE TALK ABOUT THE AFTERSCHOOL PROGRAMS AND ALL THOSE OTHER THINGS, TO UNDERSTAND WHAT, WHAT PARTICULAR PROGRAM AND HOW WHAT THEY'RE DOING TARGETS A CERTAIN AUDIENCE.
AND, AND I THINK THOSE ARE BIG, UH, THOSE ARE BIG INFORMATIONAL PIECES WHEN WE'RE MOVING FORWARD.
JUST, JUST, I JUST WANTED TO PUT THAT OUT THERE.
AND ALSO, CONGRAT, I GIVE THEM KUDOS FOR WHAT THEY, WHAT THEY'RE DOING TOO, FOR BEING, UM, FOR BEING, IN, BEING ABOUT BEING AVERAGE AND DOING WHAT THEY'RE DOING BECAUSE, UH, I'M SURE IT'S NOT EASY FOR EVERYONE.
I MOVE THAT WE EXTEND THIS MEETING BEYOND NINE 15 TO FINISH TONIGHT.
SECOND IT, ANY DISCUSSION? OKAY.
ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF EXTENDING THE MEETING? AYE.
SO THE NEXT ITEM ON THE AGENDA, IS IT
[Superintendent’s Report (Part 2 of 2) ]
UPDATE ON THE COMMUNITY PROJECT REVIEW COMMITTEE.IT'S UNDER, UNDER OTHER MATTERS, UH, UPDATE ON THE COMMUNITY PROJECT REVIEW COMMITTEE AT THE, THE LAST MEETING, UH, ASKED FOR A LIST OF NAMES FROM, UH, BOARD MEMBERS TO, UH, UH, FROM EACH BOARD MEMBER.
AND SO I HAVE, UH, SOME OF THAT, A FEW BOARD MEMBERS REACHED OUT ASKING, UH, TO SEE IF IT WAS POSSIBLE TO GET SOME ADDITIONAL TIME ON THAT.
I, UH, WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO MOVE, UH, UH, ON IT, UH, RATHER SOON BECAUSE WE HAVE A TIMELINE THAT, THAT WE'VE SET UP THAT WE WANNA MAKE SURE, SURE.
UH, BUT IF, IF YOU WERE NOT ABLE TO, UH, PROVIDE ME YOUR TWO NAMES, IF YOU CAN DO
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THAT, UM, BY THE END OF THIS WEEK, IT WOULD BE HELPFUL.QUESTIONS? BOARD MEMBERS COMMENTS? NO.
[Board Business Action]
BUSINESS ACTION.I'M THINKING, INGRID, THIS BOAT, RIGHT? YOU HAVE THE MOTION? YEAH, IT'S RIGHT HERE.
I WAS JUST GONNA, I MEAN, IT, IS IT A FANCY MOTION? IT'S RIGHT NOW.
TINA WOULD WANNA BREAK FROM DR.
I O THAT WE ACCEPT THE DONATION FROM GREG AND TONY WRINGER TO BEAUFORT HIGH SCHOOL IN THE AMOUNT OF $5,000 TO BE USED FOR J R O TC NEEDS.
UH, THE MOTION IS TO ACCEPT, UH, GENEROUS DONATION.
UM, ANY DISCUSSION MR. SMITH? I JUST WANTED TO SAY, I WOULD DEFINITELY LIKE TO, TO THANK THEM FOR THEIR GENERATION, UH, THEIR GENERATION, UH, DONATION.
AND, UH, WE DEF THEIR, THEIR GENERATION, I MEAN, EXCUSE ME, THEIR GENEROUS, EXCUSE ME.
MY TONGUE TIED FOR THEIR GENEROUS DONATION.
AND WE DEFINITELY APPRECIATE THAT.
I'M SURE I'LL BE WITH HIGH SCHOOL AND IN THE COMMUNITY.
UH, EVERY LITTLE BIT HELPS, UH, TOWARDS THE BOTTOM LINE.
WE DEFINITELY APPRECIATE THEM.
AND, AND WE'LL TAKE MORE IF THEY GOT IT.
ALL, ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF THE MOTION, PLEASE SIGNIFY BY SAYING I.
[Consent Agenda]
WE MOVE ON TO THE CONSENT AGENDA.UH, I MOVE, WE ACCEPT THE CONSENT AGENDA.
THE MOTION ON THE FLOOR IS TO ACCEPT THE CONSENT AGENDA.
ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SIGNIFY BY SAYING AYE.
MADAME CHAIR, I'M GOING TO ABSTAIN.
I WAS NOT AT THE OCTOBER 4TH MEETING.
[Future Agenda Topics]
ON THE AGENDA.UM, I'D LIKE TO HAVE A DISCUSSION ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF DISTRICT STANDARDS FOR LIBRARY AND MEDIA CENTER CONTENT, UM, TO INCLUDE AN AUDIT FOR AND REMOVAL OF ANY OBSCENE OR SEXUALLY EXPLICIT MATERIAL.
AND I CAN PUT THAT IN THE CHAT FOR YOU'ALL.
UH, MS. FEDRICK, WERE YOU, WERE YOU RAISING YOUR HAND? I DID, BUT DR.
THAT'S ADDED TO OUR FUTURE, UH, TOPICS.
[Announcements]
MR. SMITH? I WAS GONNA SAY, UM, OKAY.NOW WE NEED A MOTION FOR ADJOURNMENT.
WE DIDN'T EVEN NEED THE EXTENSION.
UH, ANY DISCUSSION? EVERYONE IN FAVOR? HI.
THE COUNTY CHANNEL IS ALSO AVAILABLE ON VIDEO ON DEMAND.
SCROLL DOWN TO PUBLIC MEETINGS.
AND THEN CLICK THE VIDEO AND DEMAND BUTTON AND SELECT YOUR PROGRAM FROM THE LIST.
CALL THE MEETING TO, UH, 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.
I'M DENNIS ADAMS, AND THIS IS A BEAUFORT COUNTY MOMENT.
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GUMP, THE PRINCE OF TIDES, THE GREAT SANTINI.THESE ARE JUST A FEW OF THE BIG HOLLYWOOD MOVIES FILMED IN BEAUFORT COUNTY DURING THE 1980S AND 1990S.
BUT THE EARLIEST BIG SCREEN PRODUCTION, A SHOT HERE DATES BACK NEARLY A CENTURY.
LATE IN NOVEMBER, 1917, AMERICAN FEATURE FILMS OF GREENVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA SENT A COMPANY OF ACTORS ON LOCATION TO ST.
HELEN ISLAND AND AMONG THE ANTEBELLUM MANSIONS OF BEAUFORT.
IN THE WORDS OF THE BEAUFORT GAZETTE, THE RISE AND FALL OF THE CONFEDERACY IS ONE OF THE MOST REMARKABLE AND STUPENDOUS MOTION PICTURE SCENARIOS EVER ATTEMPTED BY ANY DRAMATIST.
IT CERTAINLY WAS A COSTUME DRAMA WITH OVER 640 PIECES OF PERIOD CLOTHING SHIPPED IN FOR THE ACTORS.
JOINING THE PRODUCTION JUST BEFORE FILMING WAS ONE WILLIAM CUNNINGHAM OF PEERLESS FILM COMPANY OF LOS ANGELES.
HE LENT A HOLLYWOOD TOUCH TO THE PRODUCTION.
UNFORTUNATELY, THE FILM HAS DISAPPEARED.
IT WOULD SEEM THAT THE STUDIO EXAGGERATED ITS CLAIMS OF THE MOST IMPRESSIVE MOVING PICTURE SINCE THE BIRTH OF A NATION.
I'M DENNIS ADAMS, AND THIS HAS BEEN YOUR BEAUFORT KATI MOMENT.
TO SEE MORE BEAUFORT COUNTY MOMENTS GO TO THE BEAUFORT COUNTY LIBRARY HOMEPAGE AND CLICK ON THE LOCAL HISTORY TAB.
LAST WEEK, HILTON HEAD ISLAND HIGH SCHOOL CELEBRATED ITS 2022 HOMECOMING BY FOCUSING ON HONORING THE MEMORY OF A FORMER SEAHAWK.
THROUGHOUT THE WEEK, STUDENTS TOOK PART IN SEVERAL HOMECOMING ACTIVITIES AND RAISED MORE THAN $6,000 FOR THE NEWLY CREATED TIMMY VIDELA SCHOLARSHIP FUND.
TIMMY WAS A SCHOOL COUNSELOR AT HILTON HEAD HIGH AND PASSED AWAY IN JULY FROM CANCER.
SHE IMPACTED A LOT OF THE LIVES HERE AT OUR SCHOOL, OUR STUDENTS, OUR STAFF, AND WE WANTED TO KEEP HER MEMORY ALIVE.
SO WE, WE, WE KIND OF TIED THE TWO TOGETHER BECAUSE WE WANTED TO PRESERVE HER MEMORY, BUT ALSO START SOME NEW TRADITIONS.
SO WE THOUGHT BY DOING THE FUNDRAISING THIS WEEK, WE CAN CREATE A SCHOLARSHIP FUND FOR A SENIOR THAT, UH, MEETS A CRITERIA THAT OUR GUIDANCE DEPARTMENT WILL EVENTUALLY SET OUT AND CREATE.
DURING HOMECOMING, STUDENTS TOOK PART IN SEVERAL THEMED DRESS UP DAYS.
THERE WERE CORN HOLE MATCHES, A THREE ON THREE BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT, POWDERPUFF GAMES, UH, PEP RALLY AND MORE.
THE STUDENTS HAD LOTS OF FUN DURING THE WEEK, AND ALSO REMEMBERING THEIR SCHOOL COUNSELOR.
I THINK IT'S QUITE AMAZING THE FACT THAT A LOT OF PEOPLE, EVEN THOUGH THEY DIDN'T KNOW HER, I PERSONALLY NOT KNEW HER.
AND SHE WAS A VERY NICE PERSON TO ME.
AND I FEEL LIKE SHE WILL, LIKE THE THOUGHT THAT THEY STILL, EVEN THOUGH THEY DIDN'T KNOW HER, THEY WILL RAISE SO MUCH MONEY ON HER NAME.
I THINK SHE WOULD'VE FELT PRETTY ODDED BECAUSE EVEN AFTER THE WORST, THERE WAS STILL SOME WAY FOR HER TO HELP STUDENTS AROUND THE SCHOOL.
THE SCHOOL IS ALSO PLANNING OTHER WAYS TO REMEMBER TAMMY, THE SENIOR CLASS IS GONNA DONATE A PLAQUE THAT WILL BE HELD IN PUTTING GUIDANCE, SO WE'LL BE ABLE TO KEEP HER MEMORY ALIVE.
AND EVEN IF STUDENTS DIDN'T KNOW HER, THEY'LL ALWAYS FEEL AN IMPACT OF WHAT SHE GAVE TO THE SCHOOL EACH YEAR.
SCHOOL AND EDUCATION AND THE STUDENTS WERE HER TOP PRIORITY.
AND WHEN MS. LEE CAME UP WITH THE IDEA ALONG WITH THE SGA, I THOUGHT IT WAS AN EXCELLENT IDEA FROM THE GUIDANCE STANDPOINT BECAUSE I KNEW HOW HARD AND DEDICATED SHE WAS TO HILTON HEAD HIGH SCHOOL AND SHE WOULD DEFINITELY WANT THE BEST FOR THE STUDENTS.
TIM VIDELA WORKED AT THE SCHOOL FOR SEVEN YEARS AT HILTON HEAD ISLAND HIGH SCHOOL ON LOBES BEAUFORT COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT.
I'M ERIC MCCLELLAN, COMMUNICATIONS MANAGER WITH THE BEAUFORT COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE 9 1 1 DISPATCH CENTER.
CRIME HAPPENS OFTEN, HOWEVER, CLOSURE TO THOSE CASES DOES.
TOO MANY ARE SOLVED WITH TIPS FROM THE PUBLIC THROUGH CRIME STOPPERS OF THE LOW COUNTRY.
THE PROGRAM RECEIVES AND DISSEMINATES CRIME TIPS TO LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES ALL WHILE ALLOWING THE TIPSTER TO REMAIN ANONYMOUS.
IF YOU HAVE INFORMATION ABOUT ANY CRIME OR CASE IN BEAUFORT COUNTY, YOU CAN SHARE INFORMATION WITHOUT SHARING YOUR IDENTITY.
YOU CAN EASILY SUBMIT AN ANONYMOUS TIP BY CALLING CRIME STOPPERS OF THE LOW COUNTRY AT 8 4 3 5 5 4 1 1 1 1 OR ONLINE@P3TIPS.COM.
TIPS THAT LEAD TO THE ARREST OF A SUSPECT OR RECOVERY OF STOLEN PROPERTY CAN RESULT IN THE CASH REWARD.
PLEASE HELP LAW ENFORCEMENT TAKE AND KEEP CRIMINALS OFF.
QUALITY HABITATS ARE ESSENTIAL TO THE ANIMALS OF THE LOW COUNTRY.
WEN ONES LIKE THIS ARE GREAT PLACES FOR BABY ALLIGATORS.
LIKE THESE LITTLE GUYS, THEY NEED PROPER HABITATS SO THAT THEY CAN FIND THEIR FOOD, STAY PROTECTED, AND REPRODUCE AND WETLANDS ARE ESPECIALLY IMPORTANT FOR FISH, BIRDS, AMPHIBIANS, AND OTHER LIFE.
JOIN US FOR COASTAL KINGDOM, A FIELD TRIP THROUGH THE LOW COUNTRY, AND A CHANCE TO MEET SOME OF THE ANIMALS THAT LIVE HERE.
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CAN'T BELIEVE YOU DOING THIS ALONE.I REMEMBER YOU THREW YOUR BACK OUT.
HOW YOU HOLDING UP? HAND ME THAT BOARD.
NOTHING WRONG WITH GETTING HELP.
I KNOW YOU WILL, BUT YOU DON'T HAVE TO DO IT ALONE.
IF I PROMISE TO LOOK INTO IT, WE DROP IT AND HELP ME BUILD THIS FENCE.
IF YOU OR A VETERAN YOU KNOW NEED SUPPORT, DON'T WAIT.
FIND RESOURCES AT VA.GOV/REACH.
I'M MARIA WALZ, YOUR BEAUFORT COUNTY TREASURER.
IF YOU'VE EVER WONDERED WHAT'S E-BILLING OR MY BEAUFORT COUNTY, I'D LIKE TO GIVE YOU A SNEAK PEEK BECAUSE MY BEAUFORT COUNTY IS YOUR ONE STOP LOCATION ONLINE TO MANAGE AND PAY YOUR BEAUFORT COUNTY PROPERTY TAX BILLS.
SIMPLY TYPE IN MY BEAUFORT COUNTY.COM OR DOWNLOAD THE APP IN THE APP STORE AND YOU'LL CONTINUE TO LOG IN.
SO HERE YOU HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO CONTINUE AS A GUEST.
IF YOU DON'T WANNA CREATE AN ACCOUNT OR IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO CREATE AN ACCOUNT, YOU HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO SIGN UP FOR E-BILLING, STORE YOUR PAYMENT INFORMATION, AND MANAGE ALL OF YOUR TAX BILLS FROM A SIMPLE DASHBOARD SCREEN.
TO MANAGE YOUR PROPERTY ACCOUNTS IN YOUR DASHBOARD, SIMPLY CLICK LINK ACCOUNT AND TALK TO TAX BOT WHO IS HAPPY TO ASSIST YOU IN SIGNING YOU UP.
YOU CAN SEARCH FOR A PROPERTY BY YOUR PIN, WHICH IS YOUR PARCEL IDENTIFICATION NUMBER, YOUR AIAN, YOUR ALTERNATE IDENTIFICATION NUMBER, OR SIMPLY USING AN OWNER'S LAST NAME AND MAILING ZIP CODE.
ONCE YOU'VE SEARCHED, GO AHEAD AND SELECT THE PROPERTIES THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO ASSOCIATE WITH YOUR PROFILE.
YOU CAN EITHER CHOOSE TO KEEP GOING OR LET TAX BOT KNOW THAT YOU'RE FINISHED BY PAYING YOUR TAXES, FINDING ANOTHER PROPERTY, OR SIMPLY GOING BACK TO THE DASHBOARD.
IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO ALSO SIGN UP FOR E-BILLING, YOU CAN DO THAT BY CLICKING MANAGE E-BILLING AND SIGN UP EACH PROPERTY TO RECEIVE YOUR BILL ELECTRONICALLY.
WANNA KNOW WHERE YOUR PAYMENT INFORMATION IS STORED OR YOUR RECEIPTS? GO AHEAD AND CLICK YOUR WALLET IN THE WALLET.
EACH RECEIPT YOU'VE PAID ONLINE IS AVAILABLE FOR OBSERVATION, DOWNLOAD AND PRINTING RIGHT HERE.
NEED TO UPDATE YOUR PROFILE, NO PROBLEM.
SIMPLY CLICK THE ICON, THE TOP RIGHT HAND CORNER, AND YOU CAN UPDATE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION AND MANAGE YOUR PAYMENT METHODS.
AN ADDED BONUS WHEN YOU USE AN ECHECK TO PAY ON MY B BEAUFORD COUNTY, THERE'S NO ADDITIONAL COSTS.
YOU HAVE YOUR BILL AND YOUR ELECTRONIC RECEIPT ALL IN ONE LOCATION AND AT YOUR FINGERTIPS, WHATEVER YOU NEED IT.
IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS ABOUT USING MY BEAUFORT COUNTY OR TAXES IN GENERAL, PLEASE CALL MY FRIENDLY STAFF AND I AT 8 4 3 2 5 5 2 6 0 0 OR YOU CAN VISIT US@BEAUFORTCOUNTYTREASURE.COM.
HELLO, MY NAME IS EBONY SANDERS.
I AM THE BEAUFORT COUNTY ASSESSOR.
OUR GOAL AT THE BEAUFORT COUNTY ASSESSOR'S OFFICE IS TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC IN THE AREAS OF REAL PROPERTY TAXATION IN AN EFFORT TO MEET THAT GOAL.
WE ARE HERE TODAY TO SHOW YOU A SERIES OF VIDEOS.
STARTING WITH THIS ONE CONCERNING THE BEAUFORT COUNTY ASSESSOR'S OFFICE WAGE.
START BY GOING TO THE BEAUFORT COUNTY WEBSITE, WWW.BEAUFORTCOUNTYSC.GOV, AND YOU CAN GO THERE TO LOCATE OUR WEBPAGE.
TO BEGIN, WHEN YOU'RE AT THE WEBPAGE, YOU'LL START BY GOING TO THE GOVERNMENT TAB ON YOUR PAGE.
THEN YOU WILL FIND DEPARTMENTS AN UNDER ASSESSOR.
WHEN YOU SELECT ASSESSOR, THE PAGE WILL DIRECT YOU TO OUR WEBPAGE.
ON THE ASSESSOR'S WEBPAGE, YOU WILL FIND A HOST OF INFORMATION THAT YOU CAN DO RESEARCH ON.
YOU CAN FIND ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ABOUT YOUR PARTICULAR PROPERTY, BUT YOU CAN ALSO ACTUALLY ON FIND ONLINE APPLICATIONS WHEN YOU CAN APPLY FOR LEGAL RESIDENCY APPLICATIONS
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AS WELL AS AG USE.SO LET'S LOOK AT THE LEGAL RESIDENCY APPLICATION.
TO BEGIN, YOU'LL SEE THERE'S A LINK THAT YOU CAN APPLY FOR THE LEGAL RESIDENCY APPLICATION.
YOU SELECT OUR LINK, AND HERE THE APPLICATION IS PROVIDED FOR YOU.
MY SUGGESTION WOULD BE TO READ THE ENTIRE APPLICATION THOROUGHLY BEFORE YOU BEGIN, AS YOU WILL NEED CERTAIN DOCUMENTS TO SUBMIT WITH YOUR APPLICATION.
IF YOU CHOOSE NOT TO APPLY ONLINE, YOU CAN ALSO APPLY IN PAPER FORM.
GO BACK TO THE ASSESSOR'S OFFICE WEBPAGE, GO TO FORMS, AND HERE YOU'LL SEE A LIST OF ALL THE FORMS THAT OUR OFFICE SUB SUPPLY OUR TAXPAYERS.
YOU CAN ACTUALLY DOWNLOAD THESE FORMS AND PRINT THEM OFF AND SUBMIT THEM IN WRITING.
YOUR APPLICATION CAN BE MAILED INTO OUR OFFICE AS WELL.
YOU CAN MAIL THEM BY USING OUR MAILING ADDRESS, WHICH IS LOCATED IN OUR CONTACT INFORMATION ON OUR WEBPAGE.
YOU CAN ALSO FAX YOUR APPLICATION IN ALONG WITH YOUR DOCUMENTS TO THE FAX NUMBER THAT'S LISTED ON OUR WEBPAGE.
AGAIN, THE FORM SECTION OF OUR WEBPAGE DOES HAVE A LOT OF INFORMATION THERE.
YOU CAN BROWSE, YOU CAN NAVIGATE THROUGH THE DIFFERENT TYPES OF APPLICATIONS AND SELECT THE ONE THAT'S MOST APPROPRIATE FOR YOUR SITUATION.
ADDITIONALLY, ON OUR WEBPAGE, YOU'LL FIND INFORMATION ABOUT WHO WE ARE AND WHAT WE DO.
THERE'S A SHORT VIDEO BLANES ASSESSOR'S OFFICE ROLE IN THE TAXATION PROCESS.
ANOTHER PART OF OUR ONLINE WEBPAGES THAT WILL BE VERY INTERESTED, MAY BE VERY INTERESTING, MAYBE BENEFICIAL, IS TO DOWNLOAD THE 2018 REASSESSMENT GUIDE BY SELECTING THE REASSESSMENT GUIDE.
YOU CAN ACTUALLY DOWNLOAD THIS PARTICULAR BROCHURE AND READ IT AT YOUR CONVENIENCE OR READ IT WHILE YOU'RE ONLINE.
IT WILL GIVE YOU MORE DETAILED INFORMATION ABOUT OUR OFFICE AND WHAT WE DO AND HOW WE CAN HELP YOU AS A TAXPAYER WITH REGARDS TO YOUR REAL PROPERTY UM, VALUATION.
RETURNING TO THE ASSESSOR'S OFFICE WEBPAGE, YOU WILL SEE THAT YOU CAN CONTACT US BY REACHING US AT 8 4 3 2 5 5 2 4 0 0.
OUR LOCATION IS LISTED ON OUR WEBPAGE AS WELL.
WE HAVE THREE DIFFERENT OFFICES.
WE HAVE TWO SATELLITE OFFICES, ONE LOCATED IN BLUFFTON, ONE LOCATED IN HILTON HEAD, AND OUR MAIN CAMPUS IS HERE IN BEAUFORT.
CAROLINA, IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO KNOW THE ADDRESSES FOR THOSE LOCATIONS AND FIND THE ONE'S CLOSEST NEAR TO YOU, YOU CAN GO GO BACK TO OUR PAGE TO RESOURCES, SELECT OFFICE LOCATION, AND THE ADDRESSES TO OUR BUILDINGS ARE LOCATIONS ARE LISTED THERE.
ADDITIONALLY, WHAT WOULD BE VERY HELPFUL TO A LOT OF OUR TAXPAYERS, THEY WOULD LIKE TO FIND OUT MORE ABOUT THEIR PROPERTY VALUE OR PROPERTIES IN THEIR SURROUNDING AREAS.
YOU CAN USE OUR PROPERTY MAX FEATURE UNDER RESOURCES TO SEARCH FOR REAL PROPERTY BY YOUR PERSONAL P N NUMBER, YOUR AIAN NUMBER, OR YOUR NAME AND YOUR SITE ADDRESS IS HELPFUL TO HAVE AS WELL IF YOU WANNA SEARCH FOR A PARTICULAR ONE BY YOUR SATISFACTION IN THE NEAR FUTURE, WE'RE GONNA DO SERIES OF VIDEOS THAT WILL GIVE YOU MORE DETAILED INFORMATION ON THE PROPERTY MAX PORTION OF OUR WEBSITE.
ANOTHER FEATURE THAT YOU MAY FIND VERY, VERY INTERESTING CAN FOLLOW US ON TWITTER.
OUR TWITTER ADDRESS IS LOCATED HERE ON OUR WEBPAGE, AND YOU CAN ACTUALLY LINK TO OUR TWITTER ACCOUNT AND YOU CAN ACTUALLY SEE ANY NEW UPDATED EVENTS THAT ARE OCCURRING WITH THE ASSESSOR'S OFFICE THAT'S IMPORTANT TO YOU AS A TAXPAYER OR JUST INFORMATION THAT WE WOULD LIKE TO SHARE.
THANK YOU FOR JOINING US AND ALLOWING ME TO INTRODUCE MYSELF.
YOU CAN GAIN ADDITIONAL INFORMATION BY GOING TO WWW.BEAUFORTCOUNTYETSEA.GOV.
YOU CAN CONTACT US BY CALLING US AT 8 4 3 2 5 5 2 4 0 0 AND YOU CAN ALWAYS SEND A MESSAGE TO US USING OUR CITIZEN GRAHAM.
AGAIN, THANK YOU FOR JOINING US.