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SO, UM, LET'S SEE WHAT, SORRY.
UM, I GUESS WE'LL START WITH THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE AND I, WE'D NEED UP OF SILENCE PLEDGE ALLEGATIONS TO, OF THE STATES OF AMERICA NATION JUSTICE.
AND DURING THIS MOMENT OF SILENCE, UH, WE LEARNED THAT BOARD CHAIRMAN DAVID STRIP PASSED AWAY OVER THE WEEKEND.
THIS IS THE FIRST BOARD MEETING HE HELD, UH, SINCE RECEIVING THAT DAY.
SO I WANNA TAKE A MOMENT TO REMEMBER HIS SERVICE TO THE BOARD AND TO LET THOSE, UM, LISTENING KNOW THAT WE WILL BE HAVING A MUCH MORE IN DEPTH TRIBUTE TO HIM TOMORROW NIGHT AT OUR REGULAR BOARD BUSINESS MEETING.
SO, A MOMENT OF SILENCE FOR CHAIR, MR. OKAY.
UM, MOTION NUMBER, APPROVE THE AGENDA COMING IN.
AND THE, MR. SMITH, CAN YOU HEAR US AUDIO? MR. SMITH, WE JUST, UH, HAD A MOTION SECONDED TO PROVE THE AGENDA.
DO YOU HAVE ANY OBJECTION? NO, I DON'T HAVE ANY OBJECTIONS.
OH, MR. SMITH, UM, YOU'RE HAVING THAT, UM, WHEREVER YOU ARE, ASSUME THAT ELECTRONIC ROBOT VOICE WE'RE.
SO, UM, BUT I HEARD YOU SAY YOU DON'T HAVE ANY OBJECTIONS, SO WE'RE GONNA GO AHEAD AND VOTE ALL FAVOR.
THINK MR. SMITH IS GOING TO BE ABSENT TO THE, OH, OKAY.
WE'RE GONNA TAKE THIS, PUT IN THE CHAT IF YOU, THAT'S NOT THE CASE.
SO, LIKE I SAID, YOUR VOICE IS, UH, QUITE DISTORTED.
UH, NEXT I'M GONNA BE PUBLIC COMMENTS.
UM, AND WE JUST NEED THE APPROVAL OF THE MARCH 30TH MINI MEETING.
DO YOU SECOND THAT, MR. SMITH? YEAH, I THAT, YES MA'AM.
I THAT SOUNDS BETTER, MR. SMITH.
SO NOW WE ARE GOING TO HAVE A PRESENTATION OF THE RESULTS OF THE MUCH ANTICIPATED TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT.
WE HAVE KYLE, MA, PEOPLE, AND MR. THERE WE GO.
AND YES, JUST LIKE KYLE, IT'S SAWYER.
ACTUALLY, WE THOUGHT WE'D GET YOU, UH, ON BOTH LAST NAMES.
SO DO YOU GUYS NEED TO SCREEN SHARE OR DO YOU WANT OUR, UM, UH, BOARD EXECUTIVE TO YOU? DO YOU CAN, WE CAN SCREEN SHARE IF, IF I'M ABLE TO AS A PARTICIPANT HERE.
YOU FOR EVERYBODY, CAN YOU ALL SEE MY SCREEN? YES.
UM, WELL, WE WILL GET STARTED THEN.
UM, OBVIOUSLY THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO MEET WITH ALL OF YOU.
UM, WE APPRECIATE THE OPPORTUNITY TO WORK WITH THE DISTRICT, UH, ON THE, YOU TITLED THE MUCH ANTICIPATED TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT.
UM, AND SO AGAIN, ON BEHALF OF THE ANTI TEAM, WE APPRECIATED THE OPPORTUNITY.
JUST A LITTLE QUICK, ONCE OVER ON MARIN, I KNOW SOME OF YOU MIGHT HAVE BEEN FAMILIAR WITH US JUST THROUGH, UM, YOU KNOW, THE WORK WE DID PROPOSING ON THE WORK, BUT WE'RE, UM, MARIN IS OF SCHOOL DISTRICTS.
UM, IT'S A LARGE FOCUS OF OURS, YOU KNOW, DEDICATED PRACTICE AROUND HELPING SCHOOL DISTRICTS IN THE NUMBER OF THEIR NEEDS,
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INCLUDING, UH, TECHNOLOGY, UM, TECHNOLOGY BONDS, IT ASSESSMENTS, PLANNING, AND NUMBER OF ACTIVITIES.AND SO WE WORK WITH, UH, DISTRICTS LIKE YOURSELF ACROSS THE COUNTRY, AND CERTAINLY A LOT OF WHAT WE, UM, HOPEFULLY HAVE BROUGHT TO THIS ASSESSMENT AND IT'S SUBJECTIVE ON YOUR BEHALF OF SOME OF THAT EXPERIENCE, SOME OF WHAT OTHERS ARE DOING.
UM, AND REALLY, AGAIN, TO HELP, HELP YOU ALL FIGURE OUT WHERE YOU'RE AT TODAY AND PROVIDE SOME RECOMMENDATIONS, A QUICK LEVEL SET ON THE GOALS, EXCUSE ME, GOALS AND OBJECTIVES.
THE ASSESSMENT, AS YOU ARE LIKELY AWARE, UM, WE WERE HERE TO HELP FOCUS ON LOOKING AT THE ENVIRONMENT, UH, TECHNOLOGY ENVIRONMENT IN THE DISTRICT, UM, LOOKING AT IDENTIFYING POTENTIAL, UM, TECHNOLOGIES, EXISTING TECHNOLOGIES, EMERGING NEW TECHNOLOGIES, UH, AS WELL AS PROVIDING SOME RECOMMENDATIONS AROUND SOME TACTICAL, NEAR TERM, UH, RECOMMENDATIONS.
THEN, YOU KNOW, FRANKLY, SOME LONGER TERM MAYBE, UH, YOU'LL SEE SOME RECOMMENDATIONS TO HELP KIND OF MOVE THE DISTRICT FORWARD, UM, AND KINDA ADVANCE IT ALONG THE MATURITY SCALE.
AND FEEL FREE IF THERE'S QUESTIONS.
I KNOW, UM, I'M, I THINK THERE WAS MENTIONED THAT PERHAPS A BALANCE OF TIME, MR. REFLECTING, BUT, UM, DON'T FEEL FREE IF IT'S OKAY TO ASK QUESTIONS.
PLEASE DO FEEL ALL COMFORTABLE FROM A FLOW PERSPECTIVE.
MARVIN AND I ARE HERE TO HELP FILL IT IN RATHER THAN US JUST BEING TALKING HEADS AT FOR YOU.
UM, SO LET'S LOOK AT THE APPROACH.
SO WE HAD A TWO PHASED APPROACH TO THE ASSESSMENT.
PHASE ONE WAS FOCUSED ON THE DISCOVERY PHASE, AND THIS WAS US GOING THROUGH AND, AND MARBLE TOUCH ON A LITTLE BIT IN THE NEXT SLIDE.
MEETING WITH FOLKS, UM, ACROSS THE DISTRICT LOOKING AT INFORMATION THAT WAS PROVIDED TO US, UH, VIA COLLECTION, UH, PROCESS WHERE WE REVIEWED INFORMATION AND JUST A TAG DOCUMENTATION PROCESS PROCEDURE.
WE MET WITH, UM, EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY, TECH SERVICES STAFF.
AND REALLY A LOT OF THAT IS JUST TO UNDERSTAND, UH, WHERE YOU'RE AT TODAY AND USE THIS APPROACH, MULTI-SOURCING OF DATA, UM, AND INFORMATION.
SO THAT REALLY HELPS US KIND OF BALANCE OUR OBSERVATIONS AND OUR RECOMMENDATIONS BASED ON THE NUMBER OF SOURCES.
THAT PHASE TWO IS REALLY WHERE WE WENT AND LOOKED AT ALL OF THAT DATA.
WE, UM, DOCUMENTED OUR OBSERVATIONS WHERE IT WAS APPROPRIATE IN THE AREAS YOU SEE ON THE RIGHT HALF OF THE SCREEN.
SO FOCUSING ON PEOPLE PROCESSING TECHNOLOGY.
I THINK AS A FIRM, THESE THREE PILLARS, UH, WE LOOK IN THAT IF YOU'RE, THE TECHNOLOGY IS MANAGED WITH PROCESS, WHICH IS FOLLOW BY PEOPLE, AND WE THINK THAT, YOU KNOW, THIS HOLISTIC VIEW, UH, IS THE BEST APPROACH TO LOOKING AT TECHNOLOGY ENVIRONMENT, AND THAT WE'VE PROVIDED SOMES IN RECOMMENDATIONS IN THESE AREAS AS APPROPRIATE.
AND I KNOW IN THE RP OR THERE PARTICULAR AREAS OF FOCUS TO WHICH WE AS A TEAM, YOU KNOW, TOOK A LITTLE DEEPER DIVE IN THOSE AREAS, MADE SURE THAT WE WERE, UH, COVERING 'EM AS AN EXAMPLE OF NON RECOMMENDED PROJECTS.
SO THAT WAS PARTICULARLY CALLED OUT.
AND SO WE SOME EXTRA TIME, UM, YOU WALKING SOME BUILDINGS WITH A CLASSROOM, UNDERSTAND THE, ANY QUESTIONS SO FAR? IT'S OKAY TO ASK.
UM, MARK, YOU WANNA GO A LITTLE BIT INTO ENGAGEMENT? UH, SURE.
UH, SO, UH, IN TERMS OF WHAT DID WE DO TO GET AT ALL OF THOSE DIFFERENT AREAS THAT KYLE MENTIONED? SO WE HAD, UH, AN END USER SURVEY THAT, UH, OVER 900 END USERS PARTICIPATED IN.
SO VERY GREAT, UH, RESPONSE RATE FOR THAT.
WE HAD, UM, INTERVIEWS WITH TECHNICAL SERVICES, EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY STAFF.
WE TALKED TO A VARIETY OF, UH, STAKEHOLDERS, UH, ACROSS THE DISTRICT, INCLUDING SEPARATE, UH, TEACHER GROUPS AND STUDENT GROUPS.
AND, UH, YOUR TEAM SHOULD BE COMMENDED.
WE, UH, STARTED WITH A BIG INFORMATION REQUEST, UH, AND GOT QUITE A BIT OF DOCUMENTATION, UH, FROM BOTH, UH, TECHNICAL SERVICES AND EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY TEAMS. YOU KNOW, THAT IT REALLY GIVES US THE BASELINE, UH, OF INFORMATION, IF YOU WILL, TO THEN GO ABOUT LOOKING AT, WE USE ALL OF THESE DIFFERENT METRICS.
AND THEN, AS KYLE MENTIONED, YOU KNOW, IN THOSE DIFFERENT AREAS OF PEOPLE PROCESSING TECHNOLOGY, UH, WE'VE GOT ALL OF THIS TO GO ACROSS THAT WE'VE GOT, AGAIN, ALL OF THE WORK WE'VE DONE WITH OTHER DISTRICTS AND, UH, BEST PRACTICES TO KIND OF COMPARE, UM, YOUR
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DISTRICT TO, AND THAT'S REALLY WHERE ALL OF OUR INFORMATION COMES FROM.AND A LOT OF IT WE SHOULD POINT OUT, WE, WE TRY TO USE MULTIPLE SOURCES TOO, RIGHT THERE.
WE DON'T HAVE SOMETHING, UM, IN THE REPORT WHERE IT'S, WELL, YOU KNOW, MARK SAID THAT, AND SO IT MUST BE TRUE OR ROB SAID THIS, WE TRY TO LOOK AT IT AS A CROSS SECTION OF ONE OR MULTIPLE PEOPLE, AND IT'S VALIDATED.
THE SURVEY SAID THAT INTERVIEWS WITH USERS, OH, AND YOU LOOK AT THE DOCUMENTATION, AND YET IT'S CONSISTENT.
SO WITH THAT IN MIND, UH, WE THOUGHT IT'D BE GOOD TO SHARE WITH YOU THEN SOME FEEDBACK.
UM, AND THIS IS MORE, UH, I'D SAY AT A, AT A HIGHER LEVEL, RIGHT? SOME AREAS IS, UM, NOW IS MINE NOT ADVANCING, UH, KYLE, ARE WE STILL ON? OH, OKAY.
MAYBE IT WAS JUST SLOW TO RESPOND.
YOU DIDN'T GET THAT BIG LEAD IN.
I WAS, UH, MAKING THERE TO, SO WE WANNA SHARE, ALL RIGHT, WANNA SHARE WHAT ARE SOME, UH, KEY AREAS FOR RECOGNITION? AND, UH, WE WANNA TALK REALLY ABOUT THOSE FIRST TWO.
UM, IN TERMS OF END USER SATISFACTION BEING HIGH, PROBABLY ONE OF THE HIGHEST WE'VE SEEN, UH, IN A SCHOOL DISTRICT WHERE WE'VE DONE IT, ASSESSMENTS AND THE COOPERATION AND COORDINATION BETWEEN TECHNOLOGY SERVICES AND EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY IS WHAT WE WOULD CALL BEST IN CLASS.
YOU WOULD BE, UM, YOU'D BE, UH, SOMEONE WE'D BENCHMARK OTHER DISTRICTS AGAINST, UH, BECAUSE OF WHAT YOU HAVE IN PLACE IN THAT AREA.
THE WAY THINGS ARE WORKING, THE SATISFACTION THAT WE'RE SEEING FROM THE END USERS, UM, IS SOMETHING, UH, TO BE PROUD OF.
UH, YOU LEVERAGE EXTERNAL SERVICES WHEN YOU NEED TO.
THAT'S ALSO FOR US, A BEST PRACTICE TO, AND, AND HOW DO YOU DO THAT WHEN YOU'RE LOOKING AT WORKLOADS, OR IF YOU'RE LOOKING AND YOU SAY, YOU KNOW, IT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE FOR US TO INVEST THE KIND OF DOLLARS AND RESOURCES TO LEARN THIS SKILL.
WHY DON'T WE LOOK AT, UM, YOU KNOW, EXTERNAL CONSULTING FIRM OR THIRD PARTY VENDOR, SOMEONE THAT WE CAN PARTNER WITH.
UH, AND THEN WE LOOKED AT ANOTHER AREA THAT WE'RE SAYING, WOW, YOU GUYS ARE DOING VERY WELL IN IS PUTTING SOME STANDARDS AND POLICIES AND PROCESSES IN PLACE, YOU KNOW, WHEN IT RELATES TO SOME OF THE, WE SAY SOME OF THE KEY AREAS FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY OR CYBER.
UM, AND THEN ALSO, UH, BEST PRACTICES ARE REALLY IN PLACE FOR, UH, CYBER AS WELL.
WHEN YOU LOOK AT TECHNICAL CONTROLS, WE'RE ALSO, UM, TRYING NOT TO, IN THIS GIVE ANY OBVIOUSLY DETAILED, UH, CYBER, UH, INFORMATION.
UM, NOT TO SHARE THAT, UM, YOU KNOW, ON A PUBLIC TYPE, UH, SETTING OR ENVIRONMENT.
SO THOSE, THOSE WOULD BE THE AREAS, AND THESE WERE THE KEY ONES.
IT'S NOT AS IF THERE AREN'T OTHERS, BUT THESE REALLY STAND OUT AS, UH, ABOVE OTHERS AND ABOVE, UH, WHAT WE'VE SEEN IN OTHER DISTRICTS OF SIMILAR SIZE, AND IN SOME CASES EVEN IN LARGER, UH, DISTRICTS AS WELL.
UH, YOU GUYS ARE DEFINITELY BEST IN, BEST IN CLASS.
NOW, YOU DIDN'T, UH, HIRE US TO ONLY TALK ABOUT THE GOOD, UH, SO IF WE THINK, YOU HIRED US TO ALSO TALK ABOUT WHAT ARE SOME OPPORTUNITIES AND IMPROVEMENT AREAS.
UM, AND ONE OF THE THINGS, UH, WE TALK ABOUT IS THE ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE AND MAYBE STAFFING LEVELS.
NOW THE ORGANIZ ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE IS RELATED TO, UM, WHEN WE LOOK AT HOW TECHNOLOGY SERVICES AND EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY ARE SEPARATE AND MAYBE NOT UNDER ONE, UH, REPORTING UMBRELLA.
AND YOU MIGHT SAY, WELL, WAIT A MINUTE, YOU JUST COMMENDED US, UH, A MINUTE AGO.
UH, BUT AGAIN, THAT COULD BE PEOPLE RELATED AS OPPOSED TO STRUCTURE RELATED, RIGHT? YOU HAVE COLLEEN AND MARK WORKING
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TOGETHER VERY WELL, BUT WE'D LIKE TO SEE, YOU KNOW, SOME CTO LEVEL POSITION THAT'S ACTUALLY SITTING AT CABINET AND HAS THAT DIRECT, UH, INTERFACE.YOU HAVE SOME TECHNOLOGY COACHES IN PLACE, THEY'RE WELL RECEIVED.
UH, WE'D LIKE TO SEE YOU EXPAND THAT EVEN MORE.
UM, WE TALK ABOUT YOUR SOFTWARE, UH, UH, ENVIRONMENT.
SO BOTH BUSINESS AND INSTRUCTIONAL.
IS THERE A COMMENT? OH, COMMENT, YES.
UH, I HAVE BEEN, I'VE HAD SOME EXPERIENCE IN, IN THIS, AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WAS VERY INTERESTING TO ME, WHEN YOU LOOK AT STAFFING IS THE EMPLOYEE LEVEL OF EXPERTISE.
VICE THE NUMBERS THAT YOU HAVE IN YOUR STAFF.
DID YOU LOOK AT THAT AT THE, AT THE LEVELS OF EXPERTISE WE HAVE IN THE, UH, ORGANIZATION AND THE KNOWLEDGE LEVEL? SO DO WE HAVE PERHAPS PEOPLE THAT CAN DO MULTIPLE THINGS WITH, UH, A MUCH BROADER SKILL? DID YOU LOOK AT THAT? SO THIS IS, UM, KYLE, IS THIS, UH, YEAH, I CAN JUMP IN.
IS THIS A SKILLS ASSESSMENT THAT WE'RE YEAH, NO, THIS, OH, GO AHEAD.
WASN'T, YEAH, THAT'S A GREAT QUESTION.
NO, IT JUST WASN'T A SKILLS ASSESSMENT.
WHEN WE TALKED ABOUT COMPETENCY, UM, IN THE CONTEXT OF ASSESSMENT, IT'S REALLY AT A DEPARTMENTAL LEVEL.
SO KIND OF A ED TECH TECHNOLOGY SERVICES, WHAT ARE THE CAPABILITIES OF THAT COLLECTIVE GROUP? IT WAS NOT A, AN INDIVIDUALIZED, UH, PROFICIENCY ASSESSMENT OF SORTS.
SO, UM, AGAIN, WE CAN'T PROVIDE AN INDICATION ON THAT, ON AN INDIVIDUAL LEVEL, UH, TO YOUR POINT, WHILE RECEIVED, UH, CERTAINLY THE SKILLS OF AN INDIVIDUAL, THE PROCESSES THAT THEY FOLLOW, BOTH EFFICIENCY AND EFFECTIVENESS CAN IMPACT STAFFING LEVELS, RIGHT? AND HOW MANY OF WHAT TYPE OF STAFF, BUT NOT THE INTENT OF ASSESSMENT.
NO OTHER QUESTIONS AT THIS POINT.
SO, CARRY, MR, CAN YOU HEAR ME? COULDN'T HEAR THE QUESTION OR COMMENT.
THE QUESTIONS AT THIS POINT, SO, OKAY.
SO THE NEXT, UH, IS ACTUALLY TALKING ABOUT THE SOFTWARE ENVIRONMENT, RIGHT? AND YOUR BUSINESS AND INSTRUCTIONAL ENVIRONMENT, THE SOFTWARE THAT YOU HAVE IN PLACE, MEETING THE NEEDS OF THE USERS.
BUT, UH, YOU'RE ALMOST, IN SOME CASES, WHEN YOU HAVE TOO MANY OPTIONS, UH, THAT LEADS TO THEN, YOU KNOW, SHOULD WE DO MAYBE SOME STANDARDIZATION? CAN WE OPTIMIZE WHAT WE HAVE IN PLACE AND SAY, YOU KNOW, THIS IS THE BEST PRODUCT FOR THIS PARTICULAR, UH, AREA.
YOU'VE GOT, AGAIN, BUILDINGS THAT MIGHT, YOU MIGHT HAVE MULTIPLE APPLICATIONS THAT ARE IN PLACE, OR HOW DO WE GET BETTER INTEGRATION AMONGST WHAT WE HAVE? UM, WE COMPLIMENTED YOU ON KEY, UM, UH, POLICIES, PROCEDURES, THAT ARE IN PLACE WHEN YOU LOOK AT, UM, STRATEGY, GOVERNANCE, YOUR, YOUR ARCHITECTURE, AND WE WANNA GET YOU TO THE NEXT LEVEL.
WE THINK, AND YOU'LL HEAR AS WE GET INTO THIS, THERE PROB THERE'S SOME AREAS THAT WE CAN EXPAND ON AND PROVE ON.
WHEN WE GET INTO THAT, WE'LL, WE'LL SHARE SOME OF THAT ACTUALLY COMING UP.
WE'LL HAVE, UH, A MATURITY ASSESSMENT THAT'LL, THAT'LL SPEAK TO THAT A LITTLE BIT MORE.
UM, YOU GUYS ARE DOING QUITE A BIT WITH BOND REFERENDUM TECHNOLOGY PROJECTS.
AND BECAUSE YOU'RE DOING SO MUCH, AGAIN, GOT LIMITED RESOURCES DEDICATED TO THAT FROM A TECHNOLOGY PERSPECTIVE.
AND THAT MEANS, YOU KNOW, ARE WE DOING THE BEST THAT WE CAN FROM COORDINATION, RIGHT? FROM THE INITIAL DESIGN ALL THE WAY THROUGH WHEN IT'S IMPLEMENTED, DOCUMENTED, TURNED OVER FOR SUPPORT.
AND SO WE SITE, UH, THAT IS AN AREA THAT WE CAN IMPROVE.
AND THEN, UM, YOU KNOW, SOME OF THE OPERATIONAL, UH, AREAS FOR TOOLS AND PROCEDURES, YOU KNOW, YOU'VE GOT A LOT OF THE TOOLS IN PLACE, AGAIN, BECAUSE YOU'RE AT A, A GOOD LEVEL, YOU KNOW, WE, WE WANNA MOVE YOU TO THE NEXT LEVEL, WHICH WOULD, UH, GET YOU MAYBE MORE PROACTIVE, UH, IN THOSE AREAS, TOOLS, AND THINGS THAT ALLOW YOU TO MONITOR AND MANAGE THE ENVIRONMENT
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MORE, UM, AUTOMATED.UH, AND SO WE'LL TALK A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT THAT AS WELL.
BUT THESE ARE, UM, SOME AREAS WE SAY COULD BE FOR, FOR OPPORTUNITIES TO CONTINUE TO EXPAND.
YOU'RE AT A GREAT LEVEL, BUT, YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY TECHNOLOGY CONTINUES TO MOVE IN ADVANCE, AND SO WE NEED TO MAKE SURE TECHNOLOGY SERVICES AND EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY ARE ALSO MOVING IN ADVANCE.
SO, MR, SO A COUPLE QUESTIONS FROM, FROM NOW HERE.
UM, ONE YOU REFERENCED THAT WE'RE GOING TO GET INTO THIS, WE'RE GOING TO GET INTO THIS.
IS THAT IN THIS PRESENTATION OR IN YOUR OWN RELATIONSHIP WITH THE CAMERA? I, I COULDN'T HEAR THE COMMENT OR QUESTION.
OH, IS THAT IT? OVER THERE? OVER THERE? UM, CAN YOU HEAR IF I, I YELL REALLY LOUD.
MY INITIAL QUESTION IS, WE'RE SEVERAL TIMES WE'LL GET INTO THAT LATER.
IS THAT IN THIS PRESENTATION OR ARE YOU REFERRING IN PART OF THE ONGOING RELATIONSHIP YOU'RE GONNA HAVE WITH THE COUNTY? WITH THIS, THIS PRESENTATION? KYLE'S SCOTT, WE'VE GOT SOME ADDITIONAL THINGS WE'LL COVER HERE IN A MINUTE.
THIS WAS JUST KIND OF THE HIGH LEVEL OVERVIEW.
I WASN'T MISSING MY OPPORTUNITY.
I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT, UH, YOU'RE GONNA TALK ABOUT PERHAPS THE TECHNOLOGY PROJECT MANAGER LEARN UNDERGOING A REFERENDUM.
IT'S ALMOST BEING WRAPPED UP, BUT WE HAVE ANOTHER ONE COMING UP.
AND PERHAPS ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE HAVE LEARNED FROM THIS, FROM OUR TECHNOLOGY BUILD OUT IS THAT WE DID NOT HAVE, TO MY KNOWLEDGE, A SEPARATE TECHNOLOGY PROJECT MANAGER.
AND I SEE THAT THAT CAUSED SOME PROBLEMS, UH, IN INTEGRATING THE TECHNOLOGY INTO THE SPECIFIC, UH, SCHOOLS DURING THIS, UH, DURING THIS BUILD OUT.
ARE YOU GONNA TALK ABOUT THAT? YEAH, WE, WE, WE DO.
UM, THERE WAS, THERE'S A PLACEHOLDER FARTHER IN THE, UH, IN THE SLIDES, BUT I MEAN, IF IT'S APPROPRIATE TO TALK ABOUT IT NOW, WE CAN, BUT I WOULD SAY WE CAN COME BACK TO THAT TOPIC, UM, BECAUSE I THINK WHAT YOU'VE MENTIONED, UH, WE'VE CERTAINLY OBSERVED SOME OF THE, THE CHALLENGES, UM, AND WE CAN KIND OF JUST STUFF AS WE GET, I'LL WAIT YOU GET TO IT.
IF THAT'S OKAY, THEN LET'S DO THAT.
I THINK MAR I'M GONNA TAKE CONTROL AGAIN HERE.
UM, SO MAR'S BEEN ALLUDING TWO MORE TO COME.
UM, WE'VE KIND OF BEEN TALKING ABOUT THE MATURITY AND IN THIS NOTE OF MOVING THE DISTRICT FORWARD.
I THINK WHAT YOU HAVE ON THE SCREEN HERE IS, IS WHAT WE AT PLANT MARIN, UH, CALL THE IT MATURITY CONTINUUM.
AND REALLY WHAT THIS IS, IS, IS A MEASURE OF HOW THE DISTRICT'S, UM, PROGRESS CURRENT STATE, FUTURE STATE, RELATE TO THE SCALE OF, OF IT MATURITY.
SO ON ONE END OF THE SPECTRUM, AS YOU CAN SEE, WE'VE GOT A HOC WITH A VERY INFORMAL, UM, YOU KNOW, THERE MAY BE REPEATABLE PROCESSES.
THERE MAY, MAY, MAY NOT BE ON THE OTHER END.
WE LOOK AT ADVANCED, WHICH IS REALLY, IS A, A BEST IN CLASS.
IT WOULD BE, UM, YOU KNOW, AS FAR AS ONE COURSE IN PARTICULAR AREA, A COMMON EXAMPLE WOULD SAY, UM, CYBER SECURITY FOR A BANK, RIGHT? WE WOULD, YOU KNOW, WE WOULD NOT WANT THEM TO BE AS STABLE, NOR WOULD YOU IF YOU HAD YOUR MONEY IN THE BANK, YOU'D WANT THEM TO BE ADVANCED, RIGHT? UM, AND SO WE REALLY LOOK AT WHERE YOU'RE AT TODAY AND THEN TRY TO PROVIDE SOME RECOMMENDED MATURITIES GOING FORWARD.
AND, UM, THAT'S REALLY BASED ON IS WE'VE TOUCHED ON OUR EXPERIENCE WITH OTHER, UH, DISTRICTS ACROSS THE NATION, FRIENDS IN THE INDUSTRY, UM, A NUMBER OF THINGS THAT WE COMBINE SAY, HEY, YOU KNOW, THIS IS WHERE WE FEEL AS YOU SHOULD TRY TO STRIVE.
WE'LL ALSO SEE ON THE NEXT SLIDE, THE TREND THEATER RATING.
AND SO JUST REALLY IS, UM, INTENDED TO SHOW YOU IF LEFT IN THE CURRENT STATE, BOTH THE WAY THE CONDITION OF THE ENVIRONMENT TODAY, AS WELL AS PLANNED FOR UNPLANNED PROJECTS TO, UM, THAT PARTICULAR AREA WHERE THINGS GET BETTER, WILL THEY IMPROVE? WILL THEY STAY IN THE SAME, THEY DECLINE OVER IT.
AND SO WE FIND THAT THIS, UH, PRESENTING IN THIS, IN THIS MANNER HAS HAD A LOT OF SUCCESS.
UM, IT KIND HELPS US A QUICK SNAPSHOT OF, UH, WHERE YOU'RE AT TODAY AND WHERE WE'RE RECOMMEND YOU GO FORWARD.
SO WITHOUT FURTHER ADO, UH, IF YOU'VE SEEN THIS SLIDE, I DON'T KNOW IF NOT, THIS IS YOUR FIRST TIME.
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GOT THE AREAS THAT WE LOOKED AT IN SCOPE, IF YOU SAW CONSISTENT IN THE COMPLIANCE.UH, WE'VE GOT PEOPLE, PROCESS AND TECHNOLOGY.
AND WITHIN EACH OF THOSE AREAS, UH, WE'VE GOT KIND OF THE SUB CATEGORIES THAT WE, I WOULD SAY JUST AT A 10,000 FOOT VIEWS TOUCHED ON IT IN THE LEAD IN, YOU KNOW, THE, THE CONDITION OF THE DISTRICT'S ENVIRONMENT.
I THINK THIS, UM, SCORECARD IS AN EXCELLENT SCORECARD WHEN WE LOOK IMPERATIVELY THE OTHER CLIENTS IN THE PAST.
I THINK A LOT OF THE AREAS THAT YOU ARE AT TODAY, YOU'RE EITHER, YOU KNOW, IN STABLE WHERE YOU'RE CLOSE TO.
UM, AND REALLY THAT TENDS TO BE SOMETIMES AS FAR AS DISTRICTS GO, RIGHT? IN TERMS OF PROGRESS, IT'S SOME WHERE A LOT OF THEM ARE UNDER REACTIVE, AD HOC AND, YOU KNOW, MOVING TO ADVANCE THE PROACTIVELY, UH, WOULDN'T.
BUT I THINK IN YOUR POSITION, THE DISTRICT HAS A LOT OF AREAS WHERE, UM, YOU KNOW, YOU, YOU ARE STABLE AND IN THOSE AREAS WE'RE LOOKING TO MOVE YOU FORWARD.
UM, THIS NOTION OF CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT AND ADVANCEMENT.
SO TAKING YOU FORWARD IN, IN STRATEGY AND OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT, RISK MANAGE.
SO TAKING IT TO THAT PROACTIVE, UH, LEVEL.
SO AGAIN, MOVING IT UP A NOT, UM, AND IN A COUPLE OF THE AREAS WE'VE GOT YOU AT REACTIVE AND, YOU KNOW, CANDIDLY STABLE IS, IS ADEQUATE TO NORTH.
AND SO WE'VE PARTICULARLY POSTED A NUMBER OF AREAS, UM, AS WELL, YOU'LL SEE A LOT OF UPWARD TRENDING, UM, WHICH IS GREAT, RIGHT? WE'VE ONLY GOTTEN IT TO SWITCH WHERE WE FEEL LIKE IT'S DECLINING.
UM, BUT RELATIVELY SPEAKING, VERY POSITIVE.
LOT OF THINGS BEING DONE TO, TO MOVE THINGS FORWARD.
A QUESTION? NO, WAIT, WAIT, SORRY.
IS THERE QUESTION I, IS THERE RELATED TO THE BACKGROUND, I'M SORRY, GO AHEAD.
WE'RE LOOKING AT OUR EXCELLENT, FUN AND HAVING SOME TECHNOLOGICAL DIFFICULTIES WITH IT.
UM, CAN YOU CLARIFY SOME OF THE TERMINOLOGY? CAN YOU TALK ABOUT HUMAN CAPITAL MANAGEMENT? S CAN YOU GIVE US JUST A LITTLE MORE AS YOU GO THROUGH THIS SLIDE, WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT THERE? YOU WANT ME TO SWITCH OVER? OKAY, WE'RE GONNA SWITCH OVER.
LET ME AT THIS REAL QUICK WAITING.
RIGHT, ALL SOUNDS MUCH BETTER.
SO, UM, KYLE, CAN YOU, AS YOU'RE GOING THROUGH THIS SLIDE, CAN YOU JUST GIMME ONE OR TWO SENTENCE, SORT OF PLAIN ENGLISH DESCRIPTION OF THE CATEGORIES THERE, LIKE WHAT HUMAN CAPITAL MANAGEMENT MEANS TO YOU? CAUSE I'M NOT SURE ABOUT THE SAME THING.
UM, AND IT'S ALMOST LIKE WE TRAVERSE THE DARK SET OF THE MOON THERE, RIGHT? TWO MINUTES OF SILENCE IN YOUR BACK.
SO, UM, YEAH, SO HUMAN CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, THAT'S, UM, ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE, UM, STAFFING, REPORTING LINES, SUCCESSION PLANNING TYPE OF THINGS.
UM, STRATEGIC SOURCING, THAT WOULD BE EXTERNAL VENDORS, UM, PROCUREMENT, CONTRACT MANAGEMENT, THOSE TYPE OF THINGS.
STAKEHOLDERS, SOMEWHAT SELF-EVIDENT, RIGHT? SATISFACTION, UM, YOU KNOW, ENGAGEMENT WITH, YOU KNOW, STRUCTURAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE FOLKS.
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STRATEGY AND GOVERNANCE, SO PROJECT MANAGEMENT, UM, YOU KNOW, CHANGE MANAGEMENT, ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE, UH, STANDARD POLICIES, THINGS LIKE THAT.SO HOW THE ENVIRONMENTS, YOU KNOW, HOW, HOW ARE DECISIONS BEING MADE, STRATEGIZED, YOU KNOW, WHAT ARE SOME OF THE POLICIES, UM, OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT, THAT WOULD BE HOW IS THE ENVIRONMENT RUN? UM, MONITORED ADMINISTERED RISK MANAGEMENT WOULD BE THINGS LIKE CYBER SECURITY, DISASTER RECOVERY PLANNING, BUSINESS CONTINUITY, THOSE TYPE OF THINGS.
UM, AND THEN INFRASTRUCTURE WOULD BE THE DATA CENTER, THE NETWORK, UM, BACKUP, THINGS LIKE THAT.
WE PUT UNDER APPLICATIONS AND END USER COMPUTING DEVICES.
WE HAVE, UM, DESKTOPS, THINGS OF THAT NATURE.
SO REALLY THE APPLICATIONS AND DEVICES AND THEN BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE AND DATAS AROUND REPORTING, DATA GOVERNANCE, THINGS LIKE THAT.
SO THOSE ARE HOW WE DEFINE THEM, UM, IN TERMS OF THE SCOPE OF THOSE AREAS, I'M HAPPY TO GO BACK TO ANY OF THEM IF YOU WANT.
THAT'S ACTUALLY A MUCH BETTER, UM, LAYOUT TO ME.
I JUST WANNA, I, I JUST NEEDED SOME HARD, UM, CATEGORIES.
YEAH, SO I DON'T THINK ANYONE ELSE HAD ANY QUESTIONS ON THIS SLIDE, SO IF YOU, YOU KNOW, WE CAN MOVE ON TO PLAN.
SO, UM, THAT'S KIND OF WHERE YOU'RE AT TODAY, OBVIOUSLY WHERE WE'RE LOOKING, WE'VE PUT TOGETHER AN ACTION PLAN AND WE, WE REALLY GRABBED A LOT OF THE, THE SALIENT RECOMMENDATIONS THAT WERE IN THE REPORT.
AGAIN, THERE'S A ACCOMPANYING THIS SUMMARY PRESENTATION, THERE'S A LONG FORM REPORT, WHICH HAS, UM, YOU KNOW, ADDITIONAL DETAIL AS WELL AS A FULL LISTING OF THE RECOMMENDATIONS THAT BE PROVIDED.
UH, BUT WE FIND THAT PUTTING IT IN THIS FORMAT OF AN ACTION PLAN WHERE YOU FOCUSING ON STABILIZING ENVIRONMENTS OF REALLY THOSE PRACTICAL ITEMS, MAYBE SOME OF THE PRESSING ITEMS THAT NEED TO BE ADDRESSED TO BUILD A GOOD FOUNDATION.
THEN WE TALKED ABOUT ADVANCEMENT, SO ENHANCING THE ENVIRONMENT AND MOVING IMMATURITY FORWARD FOR THE DISTRICT.
AND THEN THERE'S A SUSTAINABILITY PIECE OF JUST HOW DO YOU MAINTAIN THAT LEVEL, UM, GOING FORWARD.
AND SO HE WAS STRUCTURED JUST PRESENTATIONS IN THOSE AREAS.
UM, TO GET AT A HIGH LEVEL, I THINK MARK TOUCHED ON IT A FEW SLIDES AGO.
I THINK ONE OF THE THINGS WE'RE RECOMMENDING IS LOOKING AT THE TECHNOLOGY AND SUPPORT AND OPERATIONAL MODEL, UM, AS WAS SAID EARLIER, UM, PUTTING THIS, UH, PUTTING EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY, TECHNOLOGY SERVICES, UH, UNDER SAY A COMMON, UH, REPORTING STRUCTURE SO THAT THERE'S A, A CHIEF LEADER OF TECHNOLOGY THAT HAS A SECRET AT THE TABLE IN TERMS OF CABINET REPRESENTATION.
THAT KIND OF HELPED, I THINK, BUILD THAT, UH, FOCUS ON TECHNOLOGY.
AGAIN, WE ALLUDED TO THINGS ARE CERTAINLY WORKING WELL, UH, BETWEEN THE TWO GROUPS TODAY.
I THINK IT'S, IT'S, SOME OF IT IS, UH, I WOULD SAY SOME, BUT A LOT OF IT'S PROBABLY PERSONNEL AND PERSONALITIES AND WORKING RELATIONSHIPS.
YOU HAVE THIS STRUCTURE OF HAVING KIND OF A, A COMMON, UH, REPORTING LINE IS SOMETHING WE SEE QUITE FREQUENTLY.
SIMULATING YOURSELF, THE SALARY STUDY.
SO LOOKING AT, UM, YOU KNOW, SOURCING AND RETAINING TALENT THERE, CERTAINLY THE, AN ISSUE, RIGHT? WE KNOW IT'S BEEN INCREASINGLY CHALLENGING.
WE'VE GOT REMOTE WORK OPPORTUNITIES.
I THINK THIS CERTAINLY IS COMPETING, UM, YOU KNOW, WITH, UH, PRIVATE BUSINESSES WITH COMPETING FOR TALENT WITH THE COUNTY CORPORATE.
AND I WAS JUST CURIOUS, MS. CROSBY DID THE, UM, CLASSIFIED COMPENSATION ANALYSIS? YES.
BOTH OF THESE SURVEYS WERE RUNNING ABOUT THE SAME TIME.
AND THE SALARY SURVEY WAS NOT PRESENTED TO THE BOARD UNTIL AFTER THEY WERE COMPLETED.
THAT'S WHY IT WAS KINDA INTERNAL QUESTIONS.
SO WE DID GET THE SALARY SURVEYS DONE.
SO, SO I'M, I'M SINGING TO THE CHOIR HERE, UM, AS YOU KNOW, UH, YEAH.
UM, MOVING FORWARD THEN WE TALKED ABOUT, AND I THINK THE QUESTION CAME UP ABOUT TECHNOLOGY REPRESENTATION IN BOND REP PROJECTS.
I THINK SOME OF WHAT HAS ALREADY BEEN SHARED, WE HEARD SIMILAR FEEDBACK THAT THERE'S A RESOURCE CHALLENGE, UM, THAT, UH, TECHNO THE SERVICE OF FOLKS ARE NOT GETTING INVOLVED EARLY ENOUGH IN THE STATE FOR SOME OF THESE BOND PROJECTS.
AND SO THAT KINDA INHIBITS THEIR DEPLOYMENT, THE KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER, THE SUPPORT AND OPERATIONS OF THOSE TECHNOLOGIES LONG TERM.
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SOME CHANGES THERE TO INVOLVE EARLY ON IN THE, SORRY, THIS IS PART OF THE PROBLEM WITH ZOOM MEETINGS.I'M TRYING TO INTERRUPT, BUT IT'S HARD CUZ YOU'RE YEAH, I'M SORRY.
AND I, AND YEAH, THAT'S IN AND OUT.
JUST WE HAVE ANOTHER QUESTION,
DO, DO YOU ALL HAVE SOME RECOMMENDATIONS OF FIRMS THAT DO, UH, SIGNIFICANT, UH, PROJECT MANAGEMENT FOR A VERY COMPLEX, UH, NEW CONSTRUCTION AND SO ON? WE'RE ACTUALLY, I'M ACTUALLY LOOKING AT SOME THAT ARE CURRENTLY ON STATE CONTRACT TO GO AHEAD AND GIVE US A BETTER OPINION ON WHAT WE WERE TOLD BY, UM, OUR CONTRACTOR, OUR, OUR MAJOR CONTRACTOR.
ARE WE TALKING ABOUT BUDGET ISSUES PERHAPS A LITTLE BIT OR, WELL, WE WOULD LIKE TO GET OUR OWN OPINION OF SOME OF OUR COSTS.
THAT I FOUND THAT AS PROBABLY OUR WEAKEST AREA IN OUR BOND REFERENDUM, UH, EXECUTION OF THAT AGREED PLAN THAT WE DID NOT HAVE A CENTRALIZED PROJECT MANAGER FOR TECHNOLOGY.
HAD WE HAD THAT PROBABLY WORKING FOR THE OVERALL DIRECT, UH, PRIME CONTRACTOR, BUT AS A SEPARATE ENTITY THAT WOULD BE UNDER CONTROLLED BY THE, THE MAJOR PRIME CONTRACT.
THE BUDGET, BUDGET ISSUE JUST KILLED OUR CONTINGENCY.
NO, I, YOU KNOW, NO APOLOGY NECESSARY.
I MEAN, WE, YOU KNOW, WE DO A LOT OF THAT TYPE OF WORK, YOU KNOW, WITH DISTRICTS KIND OF IN OUR REGION JUST DUE TO THE NEED TO BE ON SITE FOR THAT TYPE OF WORK.
SO WE'RE FAMILIAR WITH A LOT OF THE CHALLENGES AND BENEFIT THAT CAN BRING.
I'VE BEEN CERTAINLY LOOKING AT, UM, YOU KNOW, IF GETTING SUPPLEMENT WITH A PARTNER, SOMEONE HELP MANAGE THAT, I WOULD TELL YOU FIRSTHAND, YOU KNOW, THERE'S A LOT OF MOVING PIECES AS YOU ALL ARE AWARE.
UM, AND IT CAN BE REALLY, REALLY TIME CONSUMING, UH, TO NEW GROWTH PROJECT REFEREND PROJECTS.
SO WE'RE ON THE FOURTH AND FINAL OF THE STABILIZED? THAT'S CORRECT.
WHERE WOULD BE ON COMPLETE SERVING STORAGE ACTIVITIES.
THERE'S A NUMBER OF PROJECTS THAT ARE PLANNED KIND OF UNDERWAY.
UH, WE'RE CERTAINLY, YOU KNOW, WE KNOW THIS IS A SNAPSHOT IN TIME.
UH, WE CERTAINLY WANNA MAKE SURE THAT THOSE, THOSE INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS ARE COMPLETED.
UM, PRIORITIZE MAKING SURE THAT THEY'RE GETTING DONE BEFORE YOU EQUIPMENT KIND OF GOES INTO, UM, YOU KNOW, BEYOND ITS USABLE LIFESPAN.
DID YOU ALL TAKE A GOOD LOOK AT THE NETWORK DIAGRAM, BOTH PRESENT AND PROJECTED? THE SECOND PART OF YOUR QUESTION PROJECTED, I WOULD HAVE TO GO BACK AND LOOK THE MARK PERHAPS TO HELP ME ON THAT ONE.
UH, WE DID LOOK AT THE CURRENT STATE.
UH, WE ALWAYS LOOK AT NETWORK DIAGRAM, NETWORK ARCHITECTURE.
UM, SO YES, WE DID LOOK AT THAT AS PART OF IT.
I'M NOT SURE THE SECOND PART QUESTION, BUT MR. SHOHAN, YOU FEEL LIKE YOU'VE GOT SOMETHING TO WELL, YES.
WE PROVIDED DIAGRAMS THAT SHOWED OUR FULL FUNCTIONALITY ON THE SWITCHING SIDE, WIRELESS SIDE TO LEFTY SIDE, AND GAVE THEM ALL THOSE DOCUMENTS TO REVIEW.
UM, AND THEN WE BASICALLY GAVE THEM DOCUMENTS GIVEN STUDENT PROJECTIONS AND THOSE TYPE OF DEALS.
AND BANDWIDTH HAS BEEN, WAS LOOKED AT IN INCLUDED IN THAT DIAGRAM? YES.
AND WE CONSTANTLY, UH, MONITOR THAT.
UM, BUT AS OF NOW, WE ARE NOT, WE, WE HIT OUR FIVE AND A HALF GIGS THAT WERE PROVIDED BY THE STATE EVERY NOW AND AGAIN,
SO, UM, LOOKING AT THE, THE SUMMARIZED PLANS WHERE THERE WAS A SUMMARIZED, UH, TECHNOLOGY PLAN SUBMITTED TO THE DEPARTMENT OF ED AT MARK AND THIS TEAM'S WORK DONE.
SO WE'RE LOOKING AT, YOU KNOW, COMPLETING THAT EFFORT AND KIND OF BUILDING OUT A COMPREHENSIVE, UM, STRATEGIC PLAN, WHICH I KNOW MARK WAS VERY MUCH AWARE DURING THE INTERVIEWS AND THE SOMETHING THAT WAS INTENDED TO BE DONE.
WE THINK THAT A FULLY DEVELOPED STRATEGIC PLAN IS BENEFICIAL TO THE DISTRICT.
I THINK TAKING WHAT WE'VE PROVIDED HERE AND INTEGRATING THAT INTO THAT PLAN WE APPROPRIATE WOULD BE A BEST PRACTICE.
UM, WE'RE MAKING SURE THAT, YOU KNOW, AGAIN, IT'S ALIGNED WITH THE DISTRICT'S OVERALL STRATEGY FROM AN, YOU KNOW, AN INSTRUCTIONAL PERSPECTIVE,
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DISTRICT GOALS, AS WELL AS THE BUDGET, RIGHT? SO THE PLAN NEEDS TO, YOU KNOW, SUPPORT WITH THE, WITH THE BUDGET CAN ALLOW AS WELL.UM, AND CERTAINLY SEEING THAT FREE TO ATTEND IS SOMETHING WE'D RECOMMEND LOOKING AT THE DATA CENTER.
SO PART OF OUR REVIEW DID INCLUDE LOOKING AT SOME OPERATIONAL ASPECTS, THE ENVIRONMENT, UH, WE KNOW THERE WERE, UH, SOME, UH, ISSUES, THE BACKUP DATA CENTER AROUND ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS. UM, YES, FIRE SUPPRESSIONS AND ENVIRONMENTALS AT BOARD PRIMARY BACKUP.
SO REALLY GOING THROUGH MAKING SURE THAT, YOU KNOW, FOR THE SYSTEMS THAT RESIDE ON PREMISE, YOU KNOW, AT THE COUNTY DATA CENTER, THAT IT, YOU KNOW, ANY OF THE OPERATIONAL CHALLENGES THAT THOSE FACILITIES ARE ADDRESSED, THAT THEY, YOU KNOW, ARE AT A LEVEL WHERE THEY CAN SUPPORT, YOU KNOW, OPERATION OF THOSE SYSTEMS IF THEY'RE YOU POWER FAILURES GENERATORS, RIGHT? AS REQUIRE SUPPRESSION, SECURITY, NUMBER OF BEST PRACTICES.
SO THERE'S AN THERE AND KYLE, WE HAVE THAT HERE, COLONEL GEIER.
DID YOU PROVIDE MARK ANY, UH, BENCHMARKING ANY, UH, OTHER SCHOOL DISTRICTS OR, OR LIKE SIZE ENTITIES ON WHAT THEY HAVE DONE TO DEVELOP A COMPREHENSIVE, A DISASTER RECOVERY PLAN IS NO, YOU KNOW, IT'S REALLY NICE TO NOT START WITH A BLANK SHEET OF PAPER WHEN YOU'RE DOING THAT, THAT YOU HAVE A BENCHMARK.
UH, AND, AND I WONDERED IF YOU PROVIDED ANY BENCHMARKING, UH, INFORMATION FOR, UH, FOR MARK.
SO WE PROVIDED, UM, TO YOUR QUESTION, WE PROVIDED SOME, AS AN APPEND, SOME DIRECTION ON HOW TO GO ABOUT KINDA BUILDING OUT A DISASTER RECOVERY PLAN.
NOW, WE DIDN'T PROVIDE A SAMPLE PLAN OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT, THAT WOULDN'T NECESSARILY BE SOMETHING THAT YOU CAN JUST DROP IN.
I THINK THERE'S A PROCESS THAT CERTAINLY SHOULD BE FOLLOWED, UM, INCLUDING, YOU KNOW, MEETINGS WITH INSTRUCTIONAL ADMINISTRATIVE AS WELL AS, UM, YOU KNOW, DEFINING WHAT IS ACCEPTABLE EXPECTATIONS FOR KIND SYSTEMS. SO THERE'S SOME OF THOSE PIECES FOR IT FROM THE NEW BOARD WITH, BUT THERE WASN'T, UH, A FULLY DEVELOPED DISASTER RECOVERY PLAN THAT YOU COULD PICK UP AND SAY, IF THIS HAPPENS, WE'RE GONNA DO THIS, AND HERE'S THE SYSTEMS WE'RE GONNA RECOVER, AND HERE'S THE PRIORITY IN WHICH THE SYSTEMS WILL BE RECOVERED.
UM, THAT'S WHAT WE'D BE LOOKING FOR.
AND THEN TYPICALLY IT FOLKS, UM, SO TECHNOLOGY SERVICE THAT THEMSELVES, THAT SERVICE PROCESS COVER SYSTEM X.
SO MARK'S GOT, MARK'S GOT A COMMENT.
ONE THING, WE ARE WORKING, WE'VE, UH, UH, CONTRACTED WITH EGROUP OUT OF CHARLESTON TO PROVIDE A, UH, DISASTER RECOVERY ENGINEER TO HELP US DEVELOP THIS PLAN.
WELL, WE HAVE A ORIGINAL PLAN THAT'S OUTDATED, AND THEY'RE GONNA LOOK AT OUR OLD PLAN, UPDATE IT TO OUR NEW SPECS, BECAUSE WE HAVE DIFFERENT EQUIPMENT NOW IN HER CLOSETS BECAUSE THEY HAVE TO GO THROUGH AND DO THE POWER CALCULATIONS, AC CALCULATIONS TO MAKE SURE WE ARE IN SPECS.
AND THAT WILL LAY OUT SOME OF THE RECOVERY OPTIONS FOR OUR MOST CRUCIAL, UM, APPLICATIONS, OUR MUNIS, OUR POWER SCHOOL.
BUT LUCKILY NOW THAT WE'VE GOT MOST OF THOSE UP IN THE CLOUD, WE FIND IT VERY EASY TO FALL BACK IN A DISASTER SITUATION.
DO WE HAVE COLD STORAGE AND ALL THAT STUFF TOO? WE DO, WE DO.
WE'VE GOT COLD, HOT, AND OFFSITE STORAGE.
I THINK ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE TOUCHED ON ABOUT THE CLOUD MIGRATION, OBVIOUSLY A BIG COMPONENT OF YOUR RISK MITIGATION APPROACH IS TO MOVE THINGS TO THE CLOUD WHERE IT'S FEASIBLE, RIGHT? THAT, THAT GETS IT OUT OF YOUR FACILITIES, MAKES IT LESS SUSCEPTIBLE TO SOME OPERATIONAL ISSUES.
SO AGAIN, I KNOW MARK AND THE TEAM HAS BEEN WORKING, UM, YOU KNOW, VERY FOCUSED ON MOVING AS MUCH AS I CAN.
AND ALWAYS IT'S, IT'S, IT'S ALWAYS A JOURNEY.
SO, YOU KNOW, IN OUR VIEW, THERE'S ALWAYS ROOM TO CONTINUE TO LOOK AT SYSTEM THAT WE GO THROUGH AND SAY WHAT MAKES SENSE TO MOVE OUT TO THE CLOUD AND CONTINUE MOVING.
I'VE DONE A LOT OF TALKING, SO I'M GONNA OVER TO YOU'RE DOING A GREAT JOB, KYLE.
SO UNDER SUSTAIN, WE TALK ABOUT REENGAGING THE TECHNOLOGY ADVISORY COMMITTEE AND MAKING SURE, YOU KNOW, YOU'VE GOT LEADER, IT'S CROSS-FUNCTIONAL LEADERSHIP, UH, DEPARTMENT, UH, TECHNOLOGY SERVICE, EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY, UM, AND, YOU KNOW, VARIETY OF DIFFERENT STAFF LEVELS, RIGHT? SO THAT GROUP WE THINK SHOULD HAVE RESPONSIBILITY FOR SETTING DIRECTION,
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UH, ESTABLISHING PRIORITIES, MAYBE GETTING INPUT TO THE, THE BUDGETING, UH, PROCESS AS WELL, DEVELOPMENT OF THE BUDGET.UM, THEN, UH, SECOND ONE IS TALKING ABOUT ASSET MANAGEMENT, RIGHT? MAKING SURE WE'VE GOT A COMPREHENSIVE AND UP TO DATE INVENTORY OF REALLY ALL HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE ASSETS.
AND WE'VE GOT, YOU KNOW, WE'RE LOOKING AT THE, YOU HAVE TOOLS IN PLACE FOR DOING THAT.
YOU KNOW, MAYBE WE'RE EITHER, UH, LOOKING AT CONSOLIDATION, REPLACEMENT, UH, INTEGRATION TO JUST MAKE SURE WE HAVE ONE, ONE, UH, PLACE TO GO FOR ASSET MANAGEMENT, CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT, UH, IN THAT AREA.
AND THEN, UM, FINAL ONE UNDER SUSTAIN IS, I MEAN, IT SAYS FOLLOW, MAYBE IT'S CONTINUE TO FOLLOW AN ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE APPROACH, RIGHT? YOU'VE GOT A LOT OF EFFORTS GOING ON TO MAKE SURE, UH, YOU'RE ED FI COMPLIANT, UH, FOR KIND OF THAT WHOLE, UH, DATA MODEL, IF YOU WILL.
UM, AND IT'S JUST A HOLISTIC VIEW TO MAKE SURE YOU KNOW, YOUR DATA, UH, WHERE IT'S STORED, HOW IT'S STORED, UM, WHO HAS ACCESS TO IT.
YOU KNOW, DATA GOVERNANCE IS PART OF THAT, THE STRATEGY AROUND DATA.
UM, IT'S, IT'S REALLY TAKING, IT SAYS ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURES.
SO THAT'S LOOKING AT ALL COMPONENTS OF YOUR DATA.
COLONEL GEIER, DID YOU GET A CHANCE TO EVALUATE OUR ENTERPRISE SOFTWARE, THE MUNIS SYSTEM, AND ITS, UH, CURRENCY, ITS USABILITY, ITS POTENTIAL FOR GROWTH AND ITS SPECIFICITY FOR A SCHOOL DISTRICT? UH, WELL THERE ARE A LOT OF SCHOOL DISTRICTS CHOOSING MUNUS.
WE DID TALK TO YOUR, UH, QUITE A FEW OF THOSE STAKEHOLDER INTERVIEWS THAT WE MENTIONED.
UH, WE HAD SOME THAT WERE JUST VERY SPECIFIC, UH, TO MUNUS AND POWER SCHOOL TO GIVE US SOME FEEDBACK ON YES.
HOW YOU'RE USING IT, HOW WELL IT'S BEEN IMPLEMENTED.
AND YEAH, WE DID HAVE SOME COMMENTS ABOUT, UM, UH, THE OVERALL FUNCTIONALITY OF YOUR E R P SUITE, BOTH YOUR FINANCIAL AND STUDENT MANAGEMENT APPLICATIONS.
THE REASON, REASON I ASK IS, IS THERE ARE MANY, HAVING GONE THROUGH A, AN ENTERPRISE SOFTWARE, UH, UPGRADE OR ACTUALLY A COMPETITIVE BIDDING PROCESS FOR A PRIVATE UNIVERSITY, I FOUND THAT, UH, THERE'S A LOT OF ENTERPRISE SOFTWARE OUT THERE, BUT THERE ARE ALSO ENTERPRISE SOFTWARES THAT ARE SPECIFICALLY DESIGNED FOR TYPES OF EDUCATIONAL, UH, ENTITIES.
AND MUNIS IS NOT ONE OF THOSE THAT I FIND IN MY SHORT LIST OF ENTERPRISE SOFTWARE IS USED IN SCHOOL DISTRICTS.
UH, I, THERE ARE SOME, I REALIZE THAT, BUT, UM, I WAS WONDERING IF, UH, IF THAT WAS EVER LOOKED AT AS, AS IT'S ABILITY TO SERVE A EDUCATIONAL SPECIFIC WITH, WE HAVE SPECIFIC THINGS THAT WE HAVE TO TRACK FOR THE STATE GOVERNMENT, FOR THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AND SO ON, THAT AN ENTERPRISE SOFTWARE THAT IS DESIGNED FOR EDUCATION TENDS TO BE A LITTLE BIT MORE USER FRIENDLY AND EFFICIENT.
SO WE, AGAIN, AS I SAID, WE DID LOOK AT, UH, YOUR ENTERPRISE SOFTWARE ENVIRONMENT SPECIFICALLY MUNIS.
UM, AND YEAH, I THINK YOU'RE REFERRING TO THE FACT THAT, SO MUNIS IS OWNED BY TYLER, MUNIS STARTED AS MORE IN THE GOVERNMENTAL SPACE OR PUBLIC SECTOR, BUT MUNUS IS STILL A VIABLE, UH, K12 SOFTWARE PRODUCT.
AND WE HAVE SCHOOL, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE A DIVISION A A PART OF OUR GROUP DOES SOFTWARE SELECTION PROJECTS FOR K12, UH, AND TYLER, IF YOU WILL, IS UH, STILL, UM, OUT THERE PROMOTING THEIR SOFTWARE AND, AND IMPLEMENTING THEIR SOFTWARE IN, UH, IN NEW ENVIRONMENTS.
SO, UH, THERE ARE COMMENTS IN THE REPORT.
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OUR REPORT.AND I DO HAVE SEVERAL QUESTIONS,
SO WE DID, UH, TALK ABOUT SPENDING SOME TIME WITH, UM, TYLER MUNIS, UH, TO TALK ABOUT SOME OF THEIR, THEY DO HAVE SOME INTEGRATION, UH, OPTIONS.
SO WE, WE TALKED ABOUT HAVING A MEETING WITH THEIR, THEY HAVE SOMEONE, A CUSTOMER SUCCESS MANAGER.
SO THERE IS, THERE'S SOME ADDITIONAL INFORMATION IN THE REPORT ABOUT THAT.
ALSO LOOKING AT YOUR BUSINESS PROCESSES, UM, IS PART OF THAT, UH, THERE MIGHT BE A FEW MORE COMMENTS RELATED TO THAT AS WELL AS DATA ANALYTICS AND HOW YOU GET SOME OF THE REPORTING OUT AS WELL.
WHAT I WAS CONCERNED ABOUT IS CHANGING ENTERPRISE SOFTWARE IS A VERY EXPENSIVE TIME CONSUMING LA UH, LABOR INTENSIVE ACTION.
AND WHAT I'M HEARING FROM YOU IS YOU DON'T SEE THE COST BENEFIT OF GOING TO A, LET'S SAY, MORE MODERN AND PERHAPS MORE SPECIFIC ENTERPRISE SOFTWARE BECAUSE MUNIS SEEMS TO BE ACCEPTABLE.
IS, IS THAT A VALID, UH, STATEMENT? UM, SO, UH, WHILE WE DIDN'T, WE DIDN'T DO A DEEP DIVE INTO MUNUS, BUT THE FEEDBACK WE GOT, UH, FROM THE USERS DOES SUPPORT THAT, YOU KNOW, RIGHT NOW IT, IT IS MEETING YOUR NEEDS AND WE DID MAKE SOME RECOMMENDATIONS ON SOME AREAS WHERE YOU CAN, UH, MAYBE LOOK TO ENHANCE AND EXPANDED.
UM, WELL LET ME PIGGYBACK ON WHAT, UH, COLONEL GUY WAS SAYING CUZ ONE OF MY QUESTIONS HAS ALWAYS BEEN LIKE, WE USE FRONTLINE AND POWER SCHOOL HAS HR AND WHAT I WANNA MAKE SURE IS WE'RE NOT PAYING FOR POWER SCHOOL'S, HR FUNCTIONALITY, FRONTLINE'S HR FUNCTIONALITY, AND MUNIS HR FUNCTIONALITY AND ONLY USING FRONTLINE.
I MEAN THERE I WELL THAT'S WHAT I WONDER FROM A BUDGET STANDPOINT, IF WE'RE DOING A LOT OF OVERLAPPING, DID YOU GUYS LOOK AT OVERLAP? WELL THAT WAS THE RECOMMENDATION WHERE WE TALKED ABOUT OVERALL ON YOUR SOFTWARE ENVIRONMENT.
YEAH, MAKING SURE YOU, WE CALL IT KIND OF RATIONALIZING THE SOFTWARE ENVIRONMENT WHERE YOU DO HAVE SOME OVERLAP IN TERMS OF, SO, UM, SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS THAT MIGHT AGAIN, HAVE DUPLICATE UH, FUNCTIONALITY IN OTHER PRODUCTS.
AND SO THAT'S WHERE WE SAID TAKE A LOOK AT EACH OF THOSE SOFTWARE PRODUCTS, TRY TO STANDARDIZE, OPTIMIZE OR INTEGRATE WHERE YOU CAN, BECAUSE SOMETIMES FOLKS WILL SAY, WELL, YOU KNOW, IT DOESN'T HAVE THIS ONE PIECE THAT I WAS LOOKING FOR AND SO I'M USING ANOTHER PRODUCT, UH, BECAUSE OF THAT.
AND THEN YOU'VE GOT MULTIPLE PLACES WHERE YOU HAVE THE DATA, UH, BEING HOUSED.
DID YOU GUYS GUYS IDENTIFY SPECIFIC AREAS OR WAS THIS A GENERAL RECOMMENDATION OR DID YOU SAY, HEY LOOK YOU HAVE, YOU KNOW, THREE DIFFERENT, YOU KNOW, WE GAVE UH, SOME EXAMPLES BUT WE YOU HAVE HUNDREDS OF, UH, SOFTWARE PRODUCTS.
SO WE DIDN'T GO PRODUCT BY PRODUCT AND DO A RATIONALIZATION.
THAT WAS NOT PART OF THE SCOPE OF OUR UH, ASSIGNMENT.
SO DOES THAT, THAT END SUSTAIN, DOES THAT KIND OF CONCLUDE THE PRESENTATION AND YOU'RE READY FOR QUESTIONS OR HUH? YEP, I WAS IT FOR THE SLIDE.
CAUSE I HAVE A LOT OF QUESTIONS BUT, UM, COMMITTEE MEMBERS GO AHEAD.
MR. SMITH, DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS AT THIS TIME OR YOU WANNA JUMP IN IN A FEW MINUTES? OKAY, SO MY FIRST QUESTION IS, UM, IT'S, I SEE KIND OF IMPLIED IN HERE A LOT OF DIFFERENT WAYS IS THAT YOU THINK TECHNOLOGY SHOULD BE ITS OWN DEPARTMENT RIGHT NOW.
IT SEEMS LIKE THAT'S A CLEAR RECOMMENDATION THAT'S BEING MADE.
WOULD THAT BE AN ACCURATE ASSESSMENT OR AM I OVERSTATING YOUR RECOMMENDATION? SAY, SAY THAT ONE MORE TIME PLEASE.
TECHNOLOGY BEING ITS OWN CABINET LEVEL DEPARTMENT.
AND IS THAT WHAT OTHER DISTRICTS ARE THAT YOU SEE ARE DOING, BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, A LOT OF TECHNOLOGY GETS KIND OF STUCK UNDER FINANCE, RIGHT? TRADITIONALLY DO YOU SEE MOST SCHOOL DISTRICTS MOVING TOWARDS MAKING, HAVING A CTO? IS THAT KIND OF BECOMING MORE THE NORM? WE'RE SEEING, I DON'T KNOW IF I CAN MAKE THAT GENERALIZATION, BUT WE ARE SEEING MORE OF
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THAT HAPPENING, ESPECIALLY IN YOUR SIZE DISTRICT.UM, YOU REFERENCED A STRATEGIC, UH, TECH REENGAGE OR REENGAGED THE TECHNOLOGY ADVISORY COMMITTEE.
DID WE USED TO HAVE A TECHNOLOGY ADVISORY WE DID BEFORE COVID? I HOPE SO.
SO YOU BETTER HAVE HAD ONE
AND THEN YOU ALSO SAID, UM, REFERENCED A STRATEGIC TECHNOLOGY PLAN.
WE HAD A VERY, THAT'S THE ONE WE DO.
THE VERY GENERALIZED ONE WE GAVE TO THE STATE TO GET THROUGH THIS YEAR.
BUT IT WAS KIND OF HALFWAY DONE CUZ OF COVID THEY KEPT, BECAUSE THEY NEVER GAVE US THE ACTUAL SPECS AND THEY KEPT CHANGING THEIR FORMAT.
SO, UM, YES, BY, UH, BY 2023 WE'LL BE STARTING THE YEAR WITH A NEW PLAN
SO WHEN WOULD THAT BE READY TO COME TO THE BOARD, LIKE THE STRATEGIC? UM, WE'RE HOPING, UH, MAYBE NOVEMBER, DECEMBER EARLY 2023 AT THE LATEST.
WE'RE WAITING FOR THE, THE NEXT GO AROUND FROM THE STATE TO COME DOWN TO GIVE US THE AUTHORIZATION TO KEEP GOING.
AND THEN, UM, THE, THE OTHER QUESTIONS I HAD, UH, WERE ABOUT THE DATA, UM, WHAT YOU GUYS CALL IT, DISTRICT ENGAGEMENT.
SO YOU SAID YOU INTERVIEWED TEACHER AND STUDENT GROUPS.
HOW DID YOU IDENTIFY TEACHER AND STUDENT GROUPS? LIKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, WAS IT MOSTLY HIGH SCHOOL, WAS IT NO, WE HAD ONE.
WE HAD AN ELEMENTARY, A MIDDLE, AND A HIGH SCHOOL TEACHER GROUP.
AND THEN FOR THE STUDENTS, AND COLLEEN CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG, THOSE WERE MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOL.
STUDENTS THAT THAT WE, UH, YOU KNOW, I DID HAVE ELEMENTARY STUDENTS AT ONE POINT IN MY LIFE A LITTLE HARD TO GET GOOD FEEDBACK FROM ELEMENTARY STUDENTS.
SO WE DID NOT INCLUDE THEM IN OUR FOCUS GROUP.
WHAT PERCENTAGE OF THE, OF THE 900 END USER SURVEYS OR WHAT PERCENTAGE OF THE RESPONSES THAT YOU GOT HOWEVER YOU GOT THEM, WERE FROM TEACHERS AND STUDENTS VERSUS STAFF? UH, WELL THAT'S NOT ONE I HAVE OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD.
HAVE TO ACTUALLY, YEAH, WE DON'T, I DON'T THINK WE HAVE THAT PARTICULAR INFORMATION AVAILABLE RIGHT NOW.
WE, WE CAN GET, WE CAN GET THAT TO YOU, BUT, UH, I'D SAY WE HAD GOOD REPRESENTATION FROM, UH, TEACHERS FILLING OUT THAT INFORMA.
WELL, WE'D HAVE TO FOR 900 RESPONSES.
UM, AND THEN YOU SAID THAT, UM, LET'S SEE, WHAT WAS IT? UM, INTERVIEWED STAKEHOLDERS THROUGHOUT THE DISTRICT.
OH, I REMEMBER THEY WERE GONNA, YOU WERE GONNA GO TO SPECIFIC SCHOOLS, RIGHT? YOU SAID ABOUT SIX SCHOOLS.
AND I HAD REQUESTED THAT IN THIS LAST BOND REFERENDUM, SOME SCHOOLS GOT TECHNOLOGY UPGRADES AND A FEW DID NOT.
AND DID YOU NOTICE A DIFFERENCE IN THE TECHNOLOGY BETWEEN, UH, THE SCHOOLS THAT DID NOT GET THE UPGRADED TECHNOLOGY AND THE SCHOOLS THAT DID? SO KYLE, THAT'D BE DIGGING INTO DAN'S NOTES.
YEAH, I, I'D HAVE TO GO AND RECONCILE.
UM, I DON'T HAVE WHAT PARTICULAR SCHOOLS WE VISITED UNLESS COUNTING MARK TOP OF THEIR I BACK APPRECIABLE DIFFERENCE.
WELL YOU SAID HILTON HEAD WAS ONE AND MAY RIVER WAS ONE.
SO I WAS THAT YOU CALLING SAYING YOU WERE GONNA YEAH, I WAS TRYING TO LOOK BACK AT MY NOTES QUICKLY TO SEE IF I COULD FIND THAT LIST.
AND THEN FINAL, WHILE SHE'S LOOKING AT THAT, DID YOU, UM, LOOK AT ANY PARENT END USER EXPERIENCES THAT'S PROBABLY OUTSIDE OF YOUR GUYS' SCOPE, BUT I WAS JUST WONDERING IF THAT GOT CAPTURED.
WE DID NOT HAVE A PARENT SESSION, IF I'M RECALLING CORRECTLY.
THAT'S PROBABLY NOT THE NORMAL.
IT WAS, YEAH, NO, I DON'T, NO, WE DID NOT.
HOWEVER, THAT WAS NOT WHEN I WAS ASKED TO HELP SCHEDULE.
SO I DON'T BELIEVE WE HAD ONE
HOWEVER, I WILL SAY THAT SOME OF YOUR TEACHERS WERE ALSO PARENTS.
UM, AND SO I DID GET SOME ANECDOTAL INFORMATION, BUT WE DIDN'T HAVE A FOCUSED ONE.
JUST ONE OF MY ISSUES IS THAT PARENTS, AND THIS IS NOT YOU GUYS, THIS IS MORE IN GENERAL, BUT CAPTURING PARENT AS END USERS BECAUSE WE'RE AT HOME HAVING TO HELP KIDS, RIGHT.
ASSIGNMENTS THROUGH GOOGLE CLASSROOM WORK, SOME COMPUTER PROGRAM.
AND THERE'S BEEN MANY A TEARFUL NIGHT WHERE I'M LIKE, DANG IT
SO IT'D BE SOMETHING I HEAR YOU ON THAT ONE.
UM, THOSE WERE KIND OF MY QUESTIONS, SO I'M WAITING TO HEAR ON THE DIFFERENT SCHOOLS.
UH, THEY WERE VISITING BUFORD HIGH, BUFORD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, UH, ROBERT SMALLS, HILTON HEAD HIGH, HILTON
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HEAD IDE AND MCCRACKEN AND MAY RIVER.SO THE TWO SCHOOLS THAT WERE, THAT WERE HILTON HEAD HIGH AND MAY RIVER, THE TWO SCHOOLS THAT DON'T HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY UPGRADES, WAS THERE ANY DIFFERENCE IN THE ASSESSMENT BETWEEN THOSE TWO SCHOOLS OR ARE THEY SEEN AS THE SAME LEVEL OF TECHNOLOGY FOR THESE PURPOSES? I WOULD HAVE TO GET THAT.
I, I DON'T KNOW OFF THE TOP MY END.
SO IF THAT'S, UH, WHAT, WHAT PARTICULAR TWO WERE YOU ASKING ABOUT? JUST CLEAR THERE.
HELTON HEAD HIGH AND MAY RIVER HIGH DID NOT GET THE TECHNOLOGY UPGRADES THAT THE REST OF THE DISTRICT GOT AND RIVER RIDGE, BUT I DON'T THINK THAT WAS ON THE LIST, UH, AT THIS LAST REFERENDUM.
SO WHAT I WANT TO MAKE SURE I UNDERSTAND IS, WAS THERE A DIFFERENCE IN THE TECHNOLOGY EXPERIENCE, FOR LACK OF A BETTER TERM, BETWEEN HILTON HEAD, MAY RIVER AND THE OTHER SCHOOLS THAT HAVE HAD THE TECHNOLOGY UPGRADES? YEAH, I WILL CHECK WITH MY TEAM AND SEE IF I CAN, YOU KNOW, PROVIDE A RESPONSE TO THAT.
UM, YEAH, BASED ON, ALL RIGHT.
UM, THAT PRETTY MUCH WRAPS UP MY QUESTIONS FOR PLANT MARIN.
MR. SMITH, DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS FOR THE PLANT, MARIN? OH, NO.
MY QUESTION OR QUESTION WOULD BE LIKE, UM, THE INFORMATION THAT Y'ALL, THAT Y'ALL ARE GIVING US, WHO CAME UP WITH THE SCOPE OF IT? WE DID, UH, WE RESPONDED TO AN RFP THAT, UH, THE DISTRICT PROVIDED US, AND I THINK WE REVIEWED THE RFP YEAH.
BACK AT THE BEGINNING OF THE PROCESS.
WELL, WELL JUST TO GO, UH, JUST TO GIVE YOU A, A UNDERSTANDING OF, IN TERMS OF WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT, MRS. UM, MRS. UM, BOATRIGHT, THANK YOU.
UM, MRS. BOATRIGHT JUST GAVE YOU A COUPLE QUESTIONS AND I I I, I THOUGHT THAT THAT WOULD BE PART OF SOME OF THE SCOPE OF, UH, OF, OF, OF THE WORK.
AND THERE WERE, AND THERE WERE QUITE A FEW QUESTIONS THAT WERE KIND OF ASKED, UM, TODAY THAT I THOUGHT THAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN IN THE SCOPE OF THE WORK.
AND SO THAT WAS MY, MY MY POINT OF ASKING THAT QUESTION, JUST TO GET A CLEAR, A CLEAR SCOPE OR A CLEAR UNDER, BUT A CLEAR UNDERSTANDING OF EXACTLY WHAT ALL WAS IDENTIFIED TO DO AND, AND WAS THERE A SURFACE LEVEL OR WAS THERE NO, NO DEEP DIVING OR, AND IF SO, WHERE THERE, THERE THERE WERE ANY DEEP DIVING, WHERE WERE THOSE SPOTS BE DIVING AT? WHAT WAS THE PROCESS OF IT? SO LET ME JUST SAY, AND MR. SMITH, THIS IS MY QUESTION TO YOU.
I THINK THOSE ARE GOOD QUESTIONS.
I THINK THAT THERE'S SOME WORK STILL TO BE DONE THAT THIS TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT DIDN'T COVER, BUT I THINK FOR PLANT MORAN, WHAT I WANNA KNOW IS THERE'S ANYTHING ELSE WE HAVE THAT THEY CAN ANSWER, BECAUSE I THINK THAT'S MORE A QUESTION FOR, UH, MR. SHOHAN IS THE SCOPE AND WHAT ELSE WE DIDN'T COVER AND WHAT STILL NEEDS TO BE PICKED UP.
CAUSE I FEEL LIKE PLANT MORAN DID TO THE RFP.
UM, AND THEY'RE GONNA GET BACK TO ME ABOUT SOME OF THIS, BUT THEN I THINK THERE'S SOME CONVERSATIONS WE HAVE WITH THE DISTRICT STAFF IN TERMS OF HOW THIS TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT IS BEING DIGESTED.
SO DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS? I MEAN, IF YOU WANT THEM TO HELP, WE'LL ANSWER THAT.
WE, I OVER THEM TO ANSWER THAT.
CAUSE MY, MY QUESTIONS STILL REMAIN.
WHAT, WHAT WAS THE PROCESS GOING IN THE MINDSET GOING INTO THIS, GATHERING THIS DATA? WELL, WE, WE DEVELOPED THE SCOPE.
I MEAN, WE, YES, WE HAD TO ASK, UH, MARK TO GIVE US A, A DRAFT, RIGHT? I REMEMBER THAT.
AND, AND WE, WE SAID IT, WHAT'S GONNA BE SPECIFICALLY EVALUATED BY THIS FIRM? AND THEY HAVE DONE THAT.
SOME OF THE QUESTIONS THAT, THAT HAVE BEEN ASKED HERE, WERE NOT SPECIFICALLY PUT IN THE SCOPE BECAUSE WE, WE DIDN'T KNOW WHAT WE DIDN'T KNOW, FRANKLY.
WE DIDN'T HAVE THE, ALL THE EXPERIENCE THAT WE HAVE NOW WHEN WE DID THIS.
REMEMBER WE DID THIS, UH, TWO YEARS AGO.
SO WE'VE LEARNED A LOT IN THE LAST TWO YEARS BECAUSE OF COVID, BECAUSE WE WENT VIRTUAL AND THAT'S, THAT WAS A WHOLE DIFFERENT, UH, WICK BEFORE WE GOT REALLY INVOLVED IN THIS PROCESS.
SO THESE ARE QUESTIONS THAT MS. BOATRIGHT ASKED THAT WE'RE PROBABLY GONNA NEED ANOTHER LOOK, RIGHT? WE'RE GONNA TO ASK THESE SPECIFIC THINGS WITH ANOTHER CONTRACT.
BECAUSE AGAIN, AND I THINK THAT, UM, WHAT THIS, WHAT THIS IS DOING IS I HAVE A LIST OF FUTURE TOPICS FOR THE TECHNOLOGY COMMITTEE.
WE NEED, WE'VE GENERATING A LOT OF CONVERSATIONS.
SO I WANNA HAVE THAT CONVERSATION NOW HERE WITH MARK JOHAN.
I JUST DON'T THINK PLANT MARIN, UNLESS THERE'S SOMETHING SPECIFIC OUTSIDE OF WHAT THEY'RE, I MEAN, AGAIN, I STILL WANNA GET AN OPPORTUNITY TO TELL US WHAT THEIR PROCESS OF GOING INTO THIS, YOU KNOW,
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OFF OF THE INFORMATION THAT EVEN OUT THERE OFF DAY THAT WE GAVE THEM.WHAT WAS THAT PROCESS? DO YOU HAVE A, UM, CAN YOU ANSWER MR. SMITH'S QUESTION ABOUT WHAT YOUR PROCESS WAS? SURE.
KYLE, DO YOU WANT TO, YOU CAN BRING BACK UP.
I'M GONNA, UM, ACTUALLY, I'M GONNA BRING UP THE PROPOSAL THAT MY, THE ANSWERS QUESTION IN OF SCOPE, WHAT WE WERE AT THIS, THE, WAS IN THE RFP PROPOSAL THAT YOU'RE ABOUT TO SHOW US, RIGHT? OKAY.
UH, YEAH, I'M ACTUALLY GONNA YOU OUR, OUR RESPONSE.
ALL RIGHT, SO LEMME BRING THIS UP REAL QUICK.
HOPEFULLY YOU SEE, YOU SEE MY SCREEN? YEP.
SO THE ITEMS ON THIS, ON THIS PAGE, IN THIS TABLE THAT ARE BOLDED, THOSE WERE THE ITEMS THAT YOU INCLUDED IN, UH, YOUR RFP STONE THAT WAS SENT OUT AND WE JUST FOUNDED TO, BUT WHAT WE DID IS THE ITEMS THAT ARE NOT BOLDED PART OF OUR STANDARD APPROACH, WE FELT IT WAS APPROPRIATE TO EVEN EXPAND WHAT YOU ASKED US TO DO INTO THESE OTHER AREAS FOR COMPLETENESS.
SO THE FOCUS OF OUR EFFORT WERE, WAS ON A LOT OF THE BUILD ITEMS, BUT WE DID ALSO ENCOMPASS THE OTHER AREAS ON HERE.
AGAIN, AS I SAID, CORE COMPLETENESS, UM, OF THE ASSESSMENT.
WE FELT THAT THIS APPROACH KIND OF COMBINED, UH, KIND OF OUR FULL SCALE ASSESSMENT, AGAIN, THIS, OUR STANDARD ASSESSMENT WOULD HAVE EVEN MORE THAN WHAT'S ON HERE.
WE FELT THAT WE WOULD COMBINE THAT WITH WHAT SPECIFICALLY YOU WERE LOOKING FOR IN OUR R P, UM, TO PROVIDE VALUE TO YOU.
AND AGAIN, WE FOCUSED ON THESE AREAS UNDER, YOU KNOW, UH, A LOT OF THE TECHNOLOGY AS YOU CAN SEE HERE, INVESTMENT STRATEGIES, CYBER, UM, PERFORMANCE CAPACITY MANAGEMENT, NUMBER OF OFS.
SO THAT'S HOW WE APPROACHED IT.
AND AGAIN, WE USED THIS KIND OF TO GUIDE, YOU KNOW, WHERE WE NEEDED TO GO DEEPER, WHAT AREAS MAYBE WE NEEDED UNPACK A LITTLE FURTHER, UH, THROUGH OUR ASSESSMENT PROCESS.
IS THAT HELPFUL? WELL, THANK YOU.
SO, UM, I DON'T SEE ANY OF OUR OTHER BOARD MEMBERS HERE.
KATHY, DID I MISS YOU ON ANY QUESTIONS? NO.
SO, UM, KYLE AND MARVIN, I THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
I THINK, OH, I DIDN'T SEE HIS HAND UP THOUGH.
MR. EARL CAMPBELL, DO YOU HAVE A QUESTION? IS HE, HE'S GONE.
HE'S SO, UM, MARVIN AND KYLE, I WANNA, UH, SAY THANK YOU FOR BRINGING THIS INFORMATION.
I THANK YOU FOR TAKING OUR QUESTIONS.
UM, SOME OF THE QUESTIONS THAT MOSTLY I ASK, BUT IF YOU HAVE FURTHER INSIGHT YOU WANNA, UH, SEND THEM AHEAD, THAT'D BE GREAT.
AND, UM, WE'RE GONNA CHEW THIS OVER AND DISCUSS IT WITH, UH, DISTRICT STAFF.
AND, UH, I GUESS, ARE YOU COMING, ARE THEY COMING TOMORROW TO THE BOARD MEETING OR BY ZOOM? NOT TOMORROW.
BECAUSE WE WOULDN'T HAD ENOUGH TIME TO GET IT ON THE AGENDA.
I WILL AT LEAST INTRODUCE THIS, UH, TO THE FULL BOARD TOMORROW.
WE MAY HAVE SOME MORE QUESTIONS JUST BECAUSE I THINK, WELL, I THINK MAYBE I'M ALONE.
I THINK THIS IS SUCH A CRITICAL, UH, THING FOR THE DISTRICT GOING FORWARD.
SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR TIME AND YOUR PRESENTATION.
ENJOY THE REST OF YOUR EVENING.
THIS IS MY PROPOSAL, GENTLEMEN TOLD ME TO THINK, BUT I FEEL LIKE AT THIS POINT, THIS IS JUST SUCH A JUMPING OFF YES.
POINT FOR SO MANY DISCUSSIONS AND SO MANY AREAS.
I MEAN, AND WE KNOW WE HAD THAT OTHER, UM, UH, CONSULTANT WHO SAID TECHNOLOGY SHOULD BE ITS OWN DEPARTMENT AND WE'VE KIND OF BACK BIRDED THAT.
I KNOW THAT'S A BIG DISCUSSION.
SO MY THOUGHT IS AT THIS POINT, HAVING HEARD THAT, UM, ASKING, YOU KNOW, IF MR. SMITH OR COLONEL GEIER OR ANYBODY ELSE HAS QUESTIONS FOR MARK SHOHAN RIGHT NOW, BUT I MIGHT JUST BRING THIS TO THE BOARD AND SAY WE'VE HEARD THE PRESENTATION AND THEN USE THIS TO START SETTING UP SOME MORE COM, SOME, SOME ADDITIONAL MEETINGS.
UM, YOU KNOW, AS FAR AS TECHNOLOGY COMMITTEE, CUZ I, I THINK TO MY MIND WHETHER OR NOT TECHNOLOGY SHOULD BE ITS OWN DEPARTMENT, I THINK IS ONE WE SHOULD, THE BOARD SHOULD TALK ABOUT, UM, THE TECHNOLOGY ADVISORY COMMITTEE, THE TR TECHNOLOGY STRATEGIC PLAN.
AND I THINK I AM ON BOARD WITH COLONEL GUY A HUNDRED PERCENT LOOKING AT ALL THIS OVERLAP AND MUNUS AND YOU KNOW, MAKING SURE WE, YOU KNOW, WE'RE NOT, WE'RE GONNA GET RID OF ID AND GET SOMETHING THAT INTEGRATES WITH POWER SCHOOL, WHICH WAS UNDER STABILITY.
ONE THING I CAN'T SAY IS WHILE WE HAVE COLLEEN HERE ON THE PHONE ON THE LINE.
UM, COLLEEN HAS SOME INSIGHT IN SOME OF THE OVERLAP THEY FOUND OUT IN THE SCHOOLS.
UM, WITH SOME OF OUR EDUCATIONAL SOFTWARE.
UM, AND WE WANT TO, I WOULD RATHER AN EDUCATOR EXPLAIN THAT THAN I CUZ UH, SHE CAN DO IT WAY BETTER THAN I CAN.
SORRY I COULDN'T BE THERE IN PERSON.
MY KIDS WERE OFF, SO I
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SO WE, WE DID TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE INSTRUCTIONAL SOFTWARE PIECE AND UM, WHEN WE SPOKE TO SENIOR STAFF ABOUT IT TOO, WE LOOKED AT THE, SPECIFICALLY THE INSTRUCTIONAL PIECE AND JUST MAKING SURE THAT WE, TRYING TO EDUCATE OUR STAFF ON, UM, WHERE THINGS ARE USED, WHEN THINGS ARE PURCHASED FOR SPECIFIC SUBGROUPS OF KIDS OR IF THEY'RE FOR A SPECIFIC CONTENT AREA.SOMETHING THAT'S VERY REAL THAT WE HAVE FELT TREMENDOUSLY OVER THE YEARS IS JUST PROGRAM FATIGUE AND KIDS JUST GET TIRED OF SOMETIMES THE SAME THING OVER AND OVER AGAIN.
SO WE HAVE TO IDENTIFY WHERE THOSE MIGHT MAY LIE AS WELL.
SO WE'RE REALLY LOOKING AT EDUCATING THE STAFF ON WHERE SPECIFIC INSTRUCTIONAL SOFTWARE, UM, LENDS ITSELF IN THE MOST LIGHT AND WHAT PORTIONS OF INSTRUCTIONAL SOFTWARE MIGHT BE BEING UTILIZED FOR SPECIFIC GOALS THAT I S D IN THE TEAM MAY HAVE.
UM, SO WE, WE STARTED SOME OF THAT WORK ALREADY.
I WORKED THIS PAST YEAR WITH OUR DIRECTORS IN ISD TO IDENTIFY THAT WHICH ONES ARE FOR TIER ONE STUDENTS, TIER TWO INTERVENTIONS, WHICH MIGHT BE FOR MULTILINGUAL LEARNERS, THOUGH THE, THE SOFTWARE ITSELF MIGHT HAVE MANY FACETS, BUT KIND OF WHAT THE PURPOSE OF EACH OF THEM ARE.
UM, SO WE'VE STARTED THAT WORK.
WE'RE GONNA TRY AND WORK TO REFINE THAT EVEN MORE TO HELP OUR STAFF REALLY UNDERSTAND THAT.
UM, BUT I THINK SOME OF THE, THE TALK AROUND THE INSTRUCTIONAL SOFTWARE DUPLICATES CAME FROM TEACHERS THAT ARE JUST NOT WELL VERSED IN ALL THAT THEY HAVE AT THEIR FINGERTIPS YET.
AND WE REALLY ARE TRYING TO GET OUT THERE AND EDUCATE THEM THERE, WHICH IS A BIG JOB, BUT WE'RE GETTING, WE'RE GETTING OUR FOOT IN THAT DOOR AND GETTING STARTED IN THAT SENSE.
SO THAT'S ON THAT INSTRUCTIONAL SOFTWARE SIDE.
I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE, YOU KNOW, MENTION THAT TO, TO THE FULL GROUP.
I WOULD LIKE TO SAY THOUGH THAT THE RESULTS OF THIS REPORT IN MY MIND GIVES YOU AN A BECAUSE THIS IS HARD STUFF AND I, I CAME INTO AN EDUCATIONAL, UH, ENTITY THAT WAS REALLY SCREWED UP AND, YOU KNOW, I DIDN'T, DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO EXPECT.
BUT WHEN YOU HAVE SOMEBODY LIKE THAT TELLING YOU'VE GOT BEST IN CLASS PROCEDURES, THAT'S SAYING A HECK OF A LOT.
AND SO, YOU KNOW, YOU AND YOUR TEAM SHOULD BE VERY, UH, PROUD OF THE RESULTS OF THIS.
WE GOT SOME THINGS WE GOTTA WORK ON.
BUT WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE MATRIX AND, AND WHERE EVERYONE, WHERE YOU ARE IN THIS PIECE RIGHT HERE, THAT'S PRETTY DARN GOOD.
AND IF IT WASN'T FOR PEOPLE LIKE COLLEEN THAT, UH, HELP US SO MUCH, WE COULDN'T GET THIS DONE.
UH, COLLEEN AND I HAVE A GREAT WORKING RELATIONSHIP.
UM, AND THEY COULD BE RIGHT ABOUT IT, MAYBE IN PEOPLE ALSO BECAUSE WE DO REALLY PLAY OFF ONE OF ANO ANOTHER VERY WELL.
BUT, UH, THANK YOU HAVE A QUESTION, COLLEEN.
UM, SO YOU, YOU TALKED ABOUT THE INSTRUCTIONAL SOFTWARE AND, UM, THE IMPORTANCE OF, UH, THE TEACHERS KNOWING THE PURPOSE OF EACH, UM, PIECE IN, IN THE BEST TARGET GROUP SPORT.
IN YOUR REVIEW OF THE INSTRUCTIONAL SOFTWARE, DO YOU FIND ANY THAT'S OBSOLETE OR DO YOU FIND ANY THAT ARE REDUNDANT THAT COULD BE ELIMINATED? UM, I, I'M JUST, I'M JUST CURIOUS.
I, I KNOW THAT AS A TEACHER SOMETIMES THE FATIGUE, UH, STUDENT FATIGUE AND IT SEEMS LIKE WE JUST KEEP, HAVE THE SAME STUFF, KEEP PAYING FOR IT WHEN PERHAPS IT'S NOT EFFECTIVE ANYMORE.
THAT, THAT'S BEEN A, HONESTLY, A PERSONAL GOAL OF MINE.
UH, THIS IS ONLY MY SECOND YEAR AS THE DIRECTOR, SO I'VE KIND OF TAKEN A GOOD LOOK AT, AT WHERE WE ARE AND, UH, YOU KNOW, WHAT PROCESS YOU COULD PUT IN PLACE TO, TO DO THAT SORT OF LOOK DEEP LOOK AT EACH OF THESE AND WHERE THEY FALL INTO PLACE AND REALLY LEANING ON THE CONTENT EXPERTS IN ISD TO, YOU KNOW, LISTEN TO WHAT THEY'RE SAYING THEY NEED FOR THE GOALS THAT THEY'RE TRYING TO REACH.
UM, I THINK THAT THAT'S DEFINITELY SOMETHING I'M GONNA KEEP STRIVING TO DO AND REFINE.
TYPICALLY WE START TO DO THAT PROCESS, UH, RIGHT AROUND NOW, STARTING NOW AND THEN INTO BUDGET SEASONS.
SO, WE'LL, WE'LL START LOOKING EVEN DEEPER AT USAGE REPORTS, YOU KNOW, AS THE OUTPUT, WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT.
WE LOOK AT, UH, SOME SOFTWARE COMPANIES WILL GIVE US IMPACT REPORTS, WHICH IS REALLY GREAT.
SO WE'RE ABLE TO SEE, YOU KNOW, THE DEEPER DIVE INTO WHAT IS ACTUALLY BEING TARGETED.
I WISH THEY ALL DID, BUT THEY'RE GETTING THERE.
UM, BUT YEAH, IT, IT'S DEFINITELY A GOAL OF, OF MINE TO
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WORK REALLY CLOSELY WITH ISD AND THE OTHER DEPARTMENTS THAT, THAT WORK WITH OUR STUDENTS IN THEIR SOFTWARE TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE, YOU KNOW, LOOKING AT THESE STRATEGICALLY IN MAKING SURE THAT IF WE ARE GOING TO WHAT, WHAT WE CALL STRATEGICALLY ABANDONING SOMETHING THAT IT'S, IT'S FOR, UM, THE RIGHT REASONS AND THAT, YOU KNOW, WE'RE NOT LEAVING A GAP BY DOING THAT ALSO.SO IT'S, IT'S A QUITE A, A FINE BALANCING ACT, BUT THAT'S DEFINITELY A GOAL THAT I'VE PUT OUT THERE FOR MYSELF AND FOR MY WORK WITH ISD FOR SURE.
I, I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT FOR THE BOARD TO HEAR, UM, WHEN YOU THAT INSTEAD OF JUST ADDING ON ALL THE TIME, WE'RE THINGS ON
CAUSE I THINK WE SOMETIMES HEAR THAT DOESN'T HAPPEN.
SO I THINK, UM, WHEN THAT DOES HAPPEN, WE SHOULD REPORT IT.
AND I THINK ONE THING GOOD TO NOTE IS THAT IS D USUALLY FOCUSES THOSE SMALLER PIECES OF SOFTWARE AT A PARTICULAR SCHOOL AT FIRST AS A PILOT AND ENGAGE FEEDBACK AND EVALUATE THAT FEEDBACK IN THEIR YEARLY SESSIONS.
THAT SHOULD BE COMING UP VERY SHORTLY.
UM, SO THIS IS MY THOUGHTS ARE THESE ARE THE, UM, FUTURE TOPICS I HAVE COMING OFF OF THIS TECHNOLOGY IS ITS OWN DEPARTMENT.
I THINK WE DON'T HAVE A POLICY ON THAT.
UM, SOME OF THE STUFF WE ALREADY HAVE POLICIES ON, LIKE DEVELOP A COMPREHENSIVE DISASTER RECOVERY PLAN THAT'S IN OUR OE.
UM, AND UH, YOU KNOW, WE DO HAVE AN, THE NEW OE DID GET APPROVED BY THE BOARD WITH ALL OF ITS READINGS.
SO WE NEED TO LOOK AT THAT IN TERMS OF MONITORING COMPLIANCE.
UM, I THINK, SO HERE, MY, I'M GONNA SEND THIS TO YOU AS AN EMAIL.
UM, WE'RE LIKE, UM, AND THEN I THINK WE NEED TO LOOK AT THE SALARY STAFFING.
WE NEED TO TAKE THE RESULTS OF THE COMP, UM, COMP, COMPREHENSIVE COMPENSATION ANALYSIS.
ONE OF MY CONCERNS IS ED TECH COACHES, I THINK WE NEED MORE OF THOSE, THOSE OUT IN THE COMMUNITY.
SO NOT ONLY LOOKING AT WHAT STAFFING WE HAVE AND WE NEED AND LOOKING AT OUR COMPENSATION ANALYSIS.
SO I THINK THAT'S A FUTURE TOPIC.
UM, I THINK THEN ANOTHER BIG ONE IS THE PRO HIRING A PROGRAM MANAGER HAVING A, UM, RETROSPECTIVE ON THE LAST REFERENDUM AND WHAT WE'RE YEAH, I'M, I'M LOOKING FOR A REFERENDUM AFTER ACTION REVIEW.
WHAT'S A POSTMORTEM SORT OF A REFERENDUM? YEAH, RIGHT.
SO BEFORE WE LAUNCH INTO OUR NEXT REFERENDUM, BECAUSE WE HAVE TO COST IT SO ACCURATELY, ACCURATELY AND WITHIN A CERTAIN RANGE, RIGHT? AND SO WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO PROBABLY IN ABOUT, I THINK FEBRUARY, MARCH, WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO START LOOKING AT AN AFTER ACTION REVIEW AND START BRINGING INTO THOSE, THOSE THINGS WHAT WE'VE LEARNED AND THEN WHAT WE'RE GOING TO ADJUST BECAUSE WE HAVE TO PACKAGE THIS REFERENDUM.
WE HAVE TO HAVE THE KNOWLEDGE TO DO THAT.
UM, SO A REFERENDUM POSTMORTEM REVIEW, I HAVE YOU IN POSTMORTEM.
YOU WANT ME TO CHANGE THAT AFTER ACTION? NOT POSTMORTEM MEDICAL.
LITTLE MORBID
UM, THEN I'M GONNA PUT DOWN ANOTHER ONE, PLANNING FOR THE NEXT REFERENDUM.
CAUSE THAT'LL BE AN ONGOING THING.
UM, I WOULD LIKE, WE NEED TO REVIEW THE COMPREHENSIVE STRATEGIC PLAN, WHICH I THINK IS OUR OE UM, AT THE END OF THE YEAR.
UM, I THINK DEFINITELY LOOKING AT A TECHNOLOGY ADVISORY COMMITTEE AND I KIND OF PUT AS A SUBCATEGORY, I DO THINK THAT ONE OF THE AREAS THE SCOPE COULD HAVE BEEN BETTER WAS PARENTS BECAUSE I, IT'S, THEY DO SO MUCH OF IT AND, AND HAVE TO HANDLE SO MUCH OF IT.
AND I CAN TELL YOU PERSONAL EXPERIENCE IS VERY FRUSTRATING WHEN THERE'S NO TRAINING, YOU KNOW, AND YOU'RE, SO, UM, AND THEN I, WELL YEAH, ED TECH COACHES, SO TO MY OTHER COMMITTEE MEMBERS, WERE THERE OTHER ISSUES THAT CAME OUT OF THIS REPORT THAT I DID NOT ADDRESS PART YET? ALSO, WHEN I A, UM, A ORG CHART A OF EVERYONE IN THE DEPARTMENT WHO, WHO THEY, WHO THEY, WHO THEY, UH, REPORT AND EVERYTHING ELSE.
I THINK THAT WE'RE GOING AROUND IDEA, IT'D BE IMPORTANT TO GET AN UPDATED ONE TO KNOW EXACTLY WHAT'S WHAT, WHAT'S WHAT.
AND ALSO IN TERMS OF POSITIONS AND SEEING EXACTLY WHAT WE HAVE, WHERE WE HAVE THAT SO THAT WE NEED A CLEAR UNDERSTANDING MOVING FORWARD.
I THINK THAT TIES IN NICELY TO LOOKING AT TECHNOLOGY AS A DEPARTMENT AND WHAT THAT WOULD MEAN.
UM, CUZ THERE'S A, I THINK THERE'S SOME AREAS WHERE THEY INTERSECT WITH OTHER DEPARTMENTS.
UM, COLONEL GAR, DID I, IS THERE ANYTHING THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO ADD TO THAT LIST? I MEAN, THAT'S ONE THING I CAN SAY.
COLLEEN AND MYSELF, WE HAVE NO CHOICE.
WE WORK WITH EVERY DEPARTMENT, EVERY SCHOOL WE HAVE TO MAKE IT WORK FIRST.
UM, SO I THINK THAT WILL KEEP US PRETTY BUSY FOR THE NEXT SIX MONTHS AND THESE ARE ALL PRETTY SUBSTANTIAL CONVERSATIONS.
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SO I'M GONNA EMAIL YOU GUYS THIS LIST AND THEN, BUT I DO THINK WE HAVEN'T HAD A MEETING SINCE MARCH CUZ WE'RE KIND OF WAITING ON THIS TO COME OUT.UM, NOW THAT WE HAVE THIS, I THINK WE PROBABLY NEED TO HAVE MAYBE EVEN MONTHLY MEETINGS FOR A LITTLE WHILE JUST UNTIL WE KIND OF GET ALL THESE THINGS WE MAYBE BREAK IT UP INTO SOME BITES.
LIKE I HAVE SIX MEETINGS HERE.
YEAH, THAT'S, THAT'S I'M SAYING SIX DIFFERENT MEETINGS, LIKE ONCE A MONTH AND JUST KIND OF SHOOT, DIGEST THIS AND GET SET UP FOR THE NEXT REFERENDUM AND THEN I'M SURE OTHER STUFF WILL COME UP.
SO I'M GONNA EMAIL THIS TO BOTH OF YOU.
AND THEN, UM, WHAT I'LL DO AT THE BOARD MEETING IS I'LL JUST IN, WE'LL HAVE A LITTLE REPORT AND I'LL JUST SAY THAT IT WAS PRESENTED THAT THE TECHNOLOGY COMMITTEE'S KIND OF GEARING UP TO DO SOME, SOME WORK AND, AND JUST A GENERAL SENSE THAT THIS REPORT CARD WAS GOOD AND THEY FELT THAT WE WERE IN A STRONG POSITION AND BETTER THAN MOST DISTRICTS.
BUT THIS WILL GO, THIS WILL WILL GO INTO, BUT THAT WE DIDN'T REALLY TAKE ANY ACTION OR DO A LOT OF ANALYSIS.
UM, AND I GUESS THAT'S ALL I HAVE ON MR. SMITH.
DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING ELSE TO ADD ON THAT? YOU'RE GOOD.
AND THEN, UM, THE ONLY THING I'LL BE WAITING ON IS A ANSWER BACK FROM PLANT BRAND ON WHETHER THEY CAN MEET, UH, MAKE THE FIRST OR SECOND MEETING IN NOVEMBER.
ACTUALLY THERE'S NOT A, IS THERE A THERE IS.
THERE'S NOT, I THINK IT'S A GOOD, YEAH, I THOUGHT HIT THAT IT'S, YOU KNOW, THEY CAN LOOK AT IT.
UM, AND THEN WE'LL GET WHEN WE HAVE TIME, UM, THERE'S NOT A WORK SESSION IN BETWEEN ANYWHERE.
IS THERE? THERE THERE IS BUT IN NOVEMBER PRETTY, BUT IT'S PRETTY FULL.
WE'LL SEE AS WE COME DOWN THE PIKE HERE.
UM, ALRIGHT, SO THEN I GUESS THAT'LL KIND OF CLOSE OFF THIS AGENDA ITEM FOR RIGHT NOW.
AND UM, I HAD ASKED YOU TO PUT CYBER SECURITY ON THE AGENDA CUZ I WANTED TO HEAR, I SHARED MY PERSONAL CONCERNS WITH YOU ABOUT WHETHER OR NOT WE WERE DOING ENOUGH CYBER SECURITY.
I KNOW WHALE BRANCH IS DOING A LOT WITH CYBER SECURITY AND THEY'RE COMPETING IN CYBER PATRIOT.
I, IT SEEMS LIKE WE'RE HAVING A LITTLE BIT HARDER TIME GETTING THAT OUT TO THEIR SCHOOLS AND I JUST THINK IT'S SO CRITICAL.
SO I THOUGHT MAYBE IF YOU COULD JUST UPDATE US ON WHERE WE ARE WITH OUR CYBER SECURITY PROGRAMS. UM, YES.
RIGHT NOW, WELL, BRANCH HIGH IS OUR ONLY HIGH SCHOOL ACTIVELY INVOLVED IN THE CYBER PATRIOTS, UM, PROGRAM.
UM, WE DO HAVE A GAMING PROGRAM AT, UM, MAY RIVER HIGH SCHOOL AT, UM, IT WILL BE AT HILTON HEAD HIGH AS THE GAMING CLUB.
UM, AND WE HAVE ONE AT UH, BLUFFTON.
UM, MIDDLE SCHOOL HAS A GAMING CLUB, BUT AS OF RIGHT NOW, THOSE ARE THE ONLY THREE CLUBS AND ONLY ONE SCHOOL ACTIVELY PARTICIPATING IN THE CYBER PATRIOTS.
UM, BACK A FEW YEARS AGO WE DID HAVE, UM, CYBER PATRIOTS AT MAY RIVER HIGH FOR ONE SEASON, BUT AFTER THAT TEACHER LEFT IT UM, HAS NOT BEEN TAKEN UP.
WE JUST HAVE MAINTAINED THE GAMING CLUB THERE NOW.
SO THAT SEEMS TO BE ONE OF THE ISSUES IS THAT IF A TEACHER'S RAW, YOU KNOW, REALLY INTO IT, IT GOES IF THEY'RE NOT AND THEY DON'T GET PAID REALLY TO DO IT, IT'S SORT OF, YOU KNOW, ON YOUR OWN TIME.
IS THAT A REASONABLE WAY TO HANDLE SOMETHING? LIKE, CUZ I MEAN WE'RE A MILITARY PURPLE STAR SCHOOL, THE MILITARY IS ACTIVELY RECRUITING.
IT SOUNDS LIKE A, LIKE A AMBER ALERT OVER THERE
UM, YOU KNOW, THIS IS SUCH AN IMPORTANT THING.
IS THAT REALLY THE WAY TO HANDLE THIS GOING FORWARD? OR CAN WE DO DIFFERENTLY FOR, UM, I WOULD DEFINITELY CHECK WITH INSTRUCTION ON POSSIBLE OTHER WAYS TO DO IT.
UM, WE REALLY LOOK FOR THOSE SHINING STAR TEACHERS THAT REALLY WANT TO GIVE THAT EXTRA AND GO FOR IT.
BUT THAT TEACHER HAS TO BE PRETTY COMPUTER PROFICIENT AND THAT'S A TOUGH CALL NOWADAYS CUZ THE CYBER PATRIOT PROGRAM IS AN INTENSE PROGRAM.
UM, YOU ARE DEALING WITH SOME VERY COMPLEX COMPUTER, UM, PROBLEMS AND SITUATIONS AND OUR AVERAGE TEACHERS, YOU'RE REALLY NOT UP TO THAT.
UM, AND FINDING THOSE SPECIAL TEACHERS IS, UH, IT'S BEEN DIFFICULT.
I MEAN, IT'S BEEN DIFFICULT TO FIND THEM FOR OUR CAPE PROGRAMS IN OUR DIFFERENT PROGRAMS THROUGHOUT THE DISTRICT.
WE STILL HAVE A TEACHER SHORTAGE.
I I I CAN JUST SAY A LITTLE BIT, I KNOW THAT, UM, UH, KAREN MCKENZIE WORKED AND GOT OUR ACADEMIC WORLD, UM, QUEST.
AND OUR MODEL UN TEACHERS A STIPEND.
NOW THE PROBLEM IS THOSE CLUBS ARE ALL PULLING ON THE SAME KIDS.
THE KIDS THAT ARE IN ACADEMIC WORLD CLASS.
I, I THINK KIDS THAT RISE TO THE TOP AND HAVE THOSE, AND MAYBE THE COMPUTER KIDS ARE A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT.
BUT I, THAT'S WHAT I HEAR OUT IN THE SCHOOLS.
WHEN I TALK TO THE PRINCIPALS, IT'S THE SAME STUDENTS, THE AP GOVERNMENT KIDS, THE A, YOU KNOW, THAT ARE INVOLVED IN THOSE AND YOU KNOW, SO IF WE HAVE, DO WE HAVE AP COMPUTER SCIENCE? KINDA,
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KINDA, YEAH.SO THAT'S, IT'S GETTING CLOSER TO, BUT I CAN TELL YOU MY SON'S IN THE AP COMPUTER SCIENCE, IT'S A DIFFERENT GROUP OF KIDS.
THERE ARE, I'M NOT SAYING THERE AREN'T SOME OF THE SAME KIDS YEAH.
BUT WORLD OR THE, YOU KNOW, MODEL UN AND WORLD HISTORY QUIZ BOWL, THAT'S THE SAME GROUP COMPUTER KIDS AND THEN YOU'VE GOT ROTC.
IT'S A BIG DEAL THAT WHEN THEY WERE GONNA DO IT AT HILTON HEAD, THE ROTC WAS GONNA DO IT.
UM, SO I DO THINK YOU'RE HITTING ON A DIFFERENT THING.
MY THING IS EITHER, YOU KNOW, WE JUST, AND IT'S NOT EVEN A CYBER PATRIOT, WE JUST NEED TO BE TEACHING WHETHER HOWEVER WE DO IT, WE NEED TO BE TEACHING SOME OF THESE SKILLS TO THESE KIDS.
AND THE FACT THAT WE DON'T HAVE TEACHERS THAT CAN DO IT, WHAT ARE WE GONNA DO ABOUT THAT? IT'S SORT OF LIKE SAYING WE DON'T HAVE TEACHERS THAT CAN TEACH MATH.
SO IT'S, WE HAVE TO KINDA HAVE TO HOOK INTO, UH, TCLS PROGRAM.
WELL, PARIS PI YOU THINK WOULD HAVE SOME, WELL, WELL I ALSO THINK THAT TOO, THAT THAT'S THE COMPETITION THAT HAS TO BE HAD WITH HR DEPARTMENT IN TERMS OF, UH, UH, RESOURCES AND IN TERMS OF ALL AS WELL AS RECRUITMENT.
UH, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE YOU, YOU CAN'T GET SOMETHING THAT YOU HADN'T ADVERTISED ABOUT EITHER.
SO, I MEAN, I MEAN, IT IS ALL ABOUT HOW YOU SELL IT.
IF YOU SELL, THAT'S WHAT YOU, IF YOU SELL THAT TO A TEACHER, THAT YOU'RE LOOKING FOR SOMEONE OF THAT, OF THAT STATUE VERSUS THEM GOING INTO, UH, COMING INTO AN IT DEPARTMENT VERSUS GOING TO TO A CLASS TO DO THAT, THAT MIGHT INTRIGUE THEM MORE TO WANNA DO THAT ROLE VERSUS JUST GOING TO IT DEPARTMENT AND JUST GETTING PAID THE SAME THING VERSUS, YOU KNOW, SOMEONE WHO LIKE DEALING KIDS AND WHO MAY LIKE TO TAKE THAT CHALLENGE ON.
SO I THINK IT'S ABOUT, IT'S ABOUT HOW YOU PACKAGE IT UP AND HOW YOU SELL THIS AS WELL.
SO I THINK IT'S A, IT'S A, IT, IT IT'S, IT'S A, IT IS SOME MORE WORK THAT NEEDS NEED TO POSSIBLY GO INTO THAT.
IF THAT IS, IF THAT IS WHERE WE WANNA GO AT IN TERMS OF, OF OF, OF A DISTRICT.
YOU KNOW, PARIS ISLAND IS BASIC TRAINING, SO THEY'RE, THEY'RE NOT INTO THAT, UH, AT ALL AT THE AIR STAGE.
AND SPECIFICALLY LOCK LOCKHEED MARTIN CONTRACTORS THERE, THOSE ARE THE PEOPLE THAT ARE GONNA HAVE A LOT TO DO WITH CYBERSECURITY.
CAUSE THEY GOTTA THEY GOTTA PROTECT THAT AT 35.
WE WANNA GET SOME OF OUR KIDS READY TO GO TO WORK AT SKUNKWORK AND, AND THAT AND THAT.
WELL, YEAH, THAT WOULD BE WHO I NEED.
I CAN, I CAN I HAVE A CONTACT ME TOO THAT, UH, I CAN EXPLORE THAT A LITTLE BIT, BUT I WOULD THINK THAT THEY COULD GET SOME INTEREST IN THAT.
SO I GUESS WHAT I'M ASKING IS JUST, I DON'T, IT BOTHERS ME THAT WE HAVE JUST ONE SCHOOL AND IT'S OUR SMALLEST HIGH SCHOOL DOING CYBER SECURITY.
WHEN, TO ME THIS IS SORT OF BECOMING SUCH A CRITICAL WORKFORCE ISSUE AND IT'S SOMETHING WE DO, WE HAVE HERE, IT CAN BE DONE REMOTELY,
UM, SO I DON'T KNOW, IT'S NOT JUST A CYBER PATRIOT, BUT I MEAN, IS THERE A WAY TO START INCREASING? I JUST KIND OF WANTED TO BRAINSTORM SOME IDEAS TO GET THAT INTO MORE SCHOOLS, GAMING CLUBS, CYBER SECURITY, ROBOTICS, COMPUTER PROGRAMS, ROBOTICS.
UM, THAT'S, THAT'S ONE OF THE GOOD THINGS I CAN SAY.
WE ARE ADDING MORE AND MORE OF THOSE HIGHER TIERED COMPUTER NETWORKING ROBOTICS PROGRAMS, WHICH IS GONNA GET THOSE HIGHER TIERED TEACHERS.
I MEAN, IT'S A TOTALLY DIFFERENCE FROM TEACHING A ROBOTICS OR CYBERSECURITY SIDE THAN IT IS FROM TEACHING THE BUSINESS APPLICATIONS AND THAT SIDE OF THE COMPUTER LEARNING SIDE.
SO IT'S, IF WE CAN GET THOSE, THOSE, THOSE, THOSE WONDERFUL TEACHERS HERE THAT HAVE THAT DRIVE AND IT REALLY TAKES THAT BECAUSE, UH, MR. WILLIAMS FROM, UH, WELL BRANCH HIGH, I MEAN THE FIRST THING HE SAID WHEN HE WALKED IN THE DOORS, I WANNA, I WANNA CREATE A GROUP THAT THAT COMPETES WITH CYBER PATRIOTS.
AND AT FIRST WE WERE LIKE, NO
UH, AND THAT WAS ONE TEACHER WHO SAID, I WANNA DO THIS AND I'VE DONE IT IN ANOTHER SCHOOL AND BROUGHT IT HERE.
AND IT WAS WILDLY SUCCESSFUL AT MAY RIVER.
BUT IT, BUT IT BEGINS FINDING THAT CHAMPION AND THAT, AND THEN SUPPORTING THAT CHAMPION AND THEN SUPPORT YOU'RE RIGHT.
SUPPORTING WHETHER IT'S, YOU KNOW, SORRY, BUT WE HAVE TO ADVERTISE THE WE'RE LOOKING FOR, BUT OTHERWISE, AND AND THAT GOES, THAT GOES BACK TO EXACTLY WHAT I JUST SAID.
IT'S ABOUT, IT'S ABOUT ALSO ABOUT HOW YOU PACKAGE IT UP AND THAT YOU, THAT YOU'RE MAKING IT KNOWN THIS IS WHAT YOU WANT AND THAT YOU ARE OFFERED AND THAT YOU ARE WILLING TO HELP CHAMPION THE SUPPORT OF, OF WHAT, WHAT THEY NEED TO GET THAT TASK, GET THAT TASK DONE.
LIKE I SAID, I'M SURE THEY ARE, THERE ARE SEVERAL PEOPLE THAT COULD BE WILLING TO COME AND DO IT.
BUT THE QUESTION IS, I I, WE SHOULD GO FROM ZERO TO A HUNDRED.
I THINK WE SHOULD, WE SHOULD, WE SHOULD STOP THE PROCESS IN TERMS OF HOW DOES, HOW DOES IT LOOK PACKAGE, PACKAGE IT UP, YOU KNOW, AND, AND, AND FIGURE OUT, YOU KNOW, WHAT, WHAT ARE WE WANT TO DO AND, AND GOING INTO BUDGET AND ALL THAT.
ALL THIS, I THINK ALL THIS STUFF IS, IS PART OF THOSE CONVERSATIONS
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IN TERMS TO TRAVEL WITH THE BUDGET BECAUSE WE HAVE TO MAKE SURE THE FINANCES IS THERE AS WELL.I MEAN, YOU KNOW, AND BRINGING IN THERE THAT WE'RE FACTORING THE INTO MOVING FORWARD BECAUSE THESE, THESE ARE A LOT OF THINGS THAT WE ARE, THAT WE AREN'T DISCUSSING UNTIL THE LAST MINUTE WHEN THEY BRING THESE BUDGETS.
I BASICALLY WE'RE, WE'RE FORCED TO SAY THIS IS WHAT WE'RE GONNA GO WITH.
YOU KNOW, BUT, BUT, BUT IN TERMS OF THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WE WANT, THEN THIS IS SOMETHING THAT TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT CAN BRING FORTH AND SAY, HEY KID, HEY, THIS IS ONE MORE THING THAT, THAT THE BOARD THAT THE DISTRICT SAID THAT THEY WANTED AND THIS IS WHAT IT'S GONNA COST US AND WE'RE SHOPPING IT.
WE ALREADY SHOPPING THAT WE ALREADY SHOPPING.
WE ALREADY PACKAGE IT UP AND PUT IT OUT.
ADVERTISE THAT THIS IS, THIS IS, THIS IS WHAT WE'RE GONNA GIVE THAT PERSON.
I IS NO DIFFERENT FROM, FROM COACHING WHERE YOU GET, WHEN YOU STIP IT, I MEAN YOU HAVE SOME FOOTBALL COACH WHO, WHO WHO, WHO MAKES THAT.
THAT'S THAT'S WHAT I WAS GONNA SAY.
THE THESE TYPES OF POSITIONS, PERHAPS RATHER THAN BEING YOUR FULL TIME TEACHING POSITION ARE OPEN TO THE COMMUNITY MEMBERS THAT WANNA COACH OR BE CLUB SPONSORS AND AND THEY HAVE THE TECHNICAL, YOU ONLY HAVE A LOT OF RETIRED PEOPLE HERE.
THAT HAVE THE TECHNICAL AND IF THEY COULD JUST WORK ONE OR TWO HOURS A DAY OR THREE HOURS A WEEK, YOU KNOW, MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, FRIDAY, THEY GO IN AT A CERTAIN TIME AND AND AND UM, HAVE A CLUB.
SO THEY DON'T, CAUSE TEACHER CERTIFICATION IS ONE OF THOSE THINGS TOO.
BUT I THINK THAT WE THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX HERE.
AND THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT I'M SAYING.
YOU KNOW, I THINK WHAT IF WE HAD LIKE A, SOME, A COMMUNITY MEMBER THAT WORKED AS LIKE A TEACHER ASSISTANT FOR THE ROTC PRO.
THEY, YOU KNOW, I'M JUST SAYING LIKE WE WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO DO SOMETHING BECAUSE WE CAN'T JUST SAY WE DON'T HAVE THE TEACHERS.
WE'RE NOT GONNA TRAIN THESE KIDS TO DO CYBER SECURITY.
I MEAN THE GOOD PART ABOUT THIS IS WE'VE DEVELOPED A WAY TO SEGREGATE THIS WHOLE PROJECT AWAY FROM OUR NETWORK.
SO WE PUT IT IN A SAFE ENVIRONMENT.
UM, SO IF THERE WAS A VOLUNTEER THAT WOULD COME IN AND DO IT, I'M, I'M SURE THERE WAS A WAY TO FULFILL THAT.
AND IF SOUTH CAROLINA EVER RECOGNIZES IT AS A FULL LEE SPORT FOR THE GAMING SIDE, THAT'S GONNA DRIVE A LOT OF FUNDING.
NOT ONLY, UH, FOR THE PROGRAM ITSELF, BUT SOME MONETARY FUNDING FOR THE TEACHER.
IS RON LOPEZ GONNA DO ANYTHING? CAUSE I KNOW THEY'RE, THEY GOT A GENERATION, UH, GRANT AT MAY RIVER, THE E GENERATION GRANT, WHICH IS A SEATTLE BASED LOCATION, UM, GROUP.
BUT THEY'RE DOING SOME REALLY AMAZING, I WONDER IF WE COULD GET, CUZ I THINK ALSO PEOPLE HERE GAMING CLUB AND THEY DON'T UNDERSTAND THE TECHNICAL SKILLS THAT CYBER PATRIOT AND GAMING CLUB.
AND I KNOW RON LOES IS ALWAYS LOOKING FOR GREAT PIECES TO PUT ON OUR YOUTUBE PAGE AND STUFF AND HE'D BE HAPPY TO GO TO SCHOOLS AND VIDEOTAPE IT UP ANYTIME SOMETHING GREAT'S GOING ON.
WE TRY TO LET 'EM KNOW SURE YOU'RE DOING A GOOD JOB.
I THINK WE, SO I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S REALLY ON YOU
I I WANT WHATEVER I DON'T WANNA TAKE AWAY DAVE WILL BRANCH.
I THINK IT'S GREAT THEY'VE GOT CTE POTENTIAL, RIGHT? YES.
THAT, YOU KNOW, I'M, I'M WAITING TO HEAR WHAT THEY'RE GONNA PUT AT UH, MAIN RIVER.
WE HAD A MOTION COMING OUTTA OPERATIONS COMMITTEE, UH, THAT WE WANT THE OPTIONS PRESENTED ON THE MAY RIVER BECAUSE THEY'VE ALREADY STARTED DOING DESIGN WORK AND UM, I FEEL LIKE WE'VE BEEN PAUSING THAT CONVERSATION.
SO THAT ACTUALLY IS COMING TO ONTO THE FULL BOARD.
BUT THAT'S ANOTHER THING YOU THINK ABOUT, YOU KNOW, IF WE CAN'T GET THE TEACHERS, DO WE HAVE A SOUTH OF THE BROAD, A NORTH OF THE BROAD LOCATION WHERE AT LEAST KIDS THAT HAVE A STRONG INTEREST COULD TAKE CLASSES OR BUS OR MAGNET OF SOME SORT.
CAUSE I JUST FEEL LIKE WE'RE, WE CAN'T KEEP WAITING FOR THIS TO, THIS WOULD BE DEFINITELY SOMETHING WE'D HAVE TO GET ISD INVOLVED BECAUSE
AND I, I WORK WITH KAREN AND UM, RALPH EVERY YEAR WE USUALLY MEET TWICE A YEAR TO TALK ABOUT WHAT KIND OF MONEY THEY'RE GETTING, WHAT THE STATE OF THEIR TECHNOLOGY IS PLANNING UPGRADES FOR EQUIPMENT.
UM, AND THEY ARE ALWAYS TRYING TO GET MORE AND MORE PROGRAMS UNDER THAT CAKE BANNER THAT LIKE TO KATHY'S POINT, ONE OF THE THINGS TO LOOK AT IS WHAT STUDENTS ARE COMING.
BECAUSE ONE OF THE THINGS YOU LOOK AT LIKE WHAT I WAS STRUCK BY KIDS THAT DO GAMING, WHATNOT, YOU KNOW LIKE WHETHER IT'S THE CREATIVE ARTS OR SPORTS, SOMETIMES THAT'S A THING THAT KEEPS THE KID COMING TO SCHOOL UNTIL THEY MATURE ENOUGH AND YOU KNOW, SO IF THEY'RE, IF YOU'RE NOT A GREAT ATHLETE AND YOU CAN'T SING AND DANCE BUT YOU'RE REALLY GOOD AT, YOU KNOW, ROCKET LEAGUE, THAT'S ANOTHER THING THAT KEEPS THOSE KIDS COMING TO SCHOOL.
AND THAT IS, I DON'T THINK THAT'S THE ACADEMIC WORLD CLUB PER SE.
I DON'T THINK THIS NOT FOR EVERY KID.
I THINK THERE'S OVERLAP BUT YEAH, I'M JUST SAYING YOU ARE.
BUT ANYWAY, SO I JUST UM, I KIND OF, IT'S SORT OF MY PERSONAL THING.
I KNOW CAUSE IT KINDA GOT THE AIR CONDITIONER CRANK.
SO I DON'T THINK WE'RE LOVING IN ACTION BUT SEE YOU TOMORROW.
UM, 5, 5, 5 O'CLOCK AT DO EITHER OF YOU, I MEAN I DON'T WANNA BE HERE ON MY OWN.
I, CAUSE I FEEL LIKE THIS IS IMPORTANT TO ME.
DO YOU GUYS AGREE WITH THE UH, CYBER PATRIOT AND
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CYBER SECURITY AND WORKING ON DEVELOPING THAT OR IS THAT NOT SOMETHING YOU THINK THE BOARD SHOULD REALLY WORK ON? I THINK NO, I DO AGREE BECAUSE I I CYBER AND SECURITY UH, WORKSHOP RIGHT.AND YOU FOR THIS BIG ON, SO THAT'S SOMETHING THAT I BROUGHT UP.
I'M VERY INTERESTED IN SEE WHERE, WHERE WE CAN GO WITH THIS.
IT DOES TIE IN NICELY TO THE WHOLE MILITARY AND WHAT IT WAS, WHAT DO THEY CALL IT? THE HIGH TECH CORRIDOR OF THE SOUTH OR UH, CYBERSECURITY CORRIDOR.
WE JUST GOTTA CAPITALIZE THAT AND GET OUR KIDS DOING THAT.
SO, UM, BUT IT SOUNDS LIKE TO ME BASICALLY RIGHT NOW IT'S STILL JUST PRETTY MUCH AT WHALE BRANCH.
THERE ARE LITTLE SHOOTS COMING OUT.
BUT WE NEED TO NURTURE THOSE SHOOTS,
HUH? WELL THAT CYBER COATING CODING COMPETITION, THAT'S WHAT HER IS, IT'S CAPTURE THE FLAG FOR HACKERS IN A MILITARY ENVIRONMENT.
I MEAN THERE, IF YOU HAD A COMPETITION AND YOU KNOW YOU COULD, YOU COULD REALLY ATTRACT A LOT.
OR UH, IT'S LIKE CALL OF DUTY BUT REAL STUFF.
WELL NOT ONLY THAT, YOU HAVE DIFFERENT ORGANIZATIONS, NOT ONLY COLLEGES BUT YOU HAVE GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATIONS THAT PAY ATTENTION AT THESE.
YOUR NSA, MICROSOFT DIFFERENT MICROSOFT.
AND THEY LOOK FOR THOSE UP AND COMING STARS CUZ THEY WANT TO GRAB 'EM EARLY.
AND GO AHEAD AND GO, I'LL PAY FOR YOUR COLLEGE.
JUST, YOU KNOW, WRITE ME A LITTLE GUARANTEE.
AND YOU KNOW, THEY HAVE FOUND, THEY HAVE FOUND NUGGETS IN UNBELIEVABLE PLACES AND MICROSOFT THAT GO IN AND GO TO INNER CITY AND THEY DON'T BE A KID.
AND THEY'LL GRAB THAT GUY UP OR GAL UP AND TAKE HIM UP TO REDMOND AND WORK 'EM TO DEATH AND EMPIRE HAVE A LOT OF MONEY.
IS THERE, HAVE YOU WATCHED NFL GAMES THIS YEAR? ALL THE, IT'S FOR, IT'S NOT CALL OF DUTY THE OTHER ONE.
BUT IT IS ALL IT IS AIMED AT, IT'S NOT AIMED AT THE QUIZ BOWL KIDS.
IT IS AIMED AT AND THAT IS A BIG DEAL.
UM, SO WHAT I'D LIKE TO DO IN THESE MEETINGS AS WE HAVE TACKLED THESE OTHER ISSUES IS HAVE AN UPDATE AT EACH MEETING IS TO, YOU KNOW, HOW WE'RE DOING IN TERMS OF EXPANDING OUR, CUZ WE UH, RECOGNIZING IT'S A CHALLENGE BUT JUST KIND OF NOT LETTING IT, CUZ I KNOW IT'S HARD TO FIND PEOPLE THAT WILL TEACH COMPUTERS AND MAKING SURE WE'RE PAYING THEM UPDATE ON CYBERSECURITY.
I MEAN, UM, ON THE QUIT ON THE, LET'S SAY UPDATE ON UM, TECHNOLOGY, UH, WHAT'S CURRICULUM? JUST, YOU KNOW, KIND OF HOW THE PROGRESS WE'RE MAKING JUST A SORT OF A STANDING THING AND SOMETIMES THERE MAY BE A MEETING WHERE THERE'S NOT MUCH PROGRESS AND SOMETIMES THERE MIGHT BE CURRICULUM SLASH SLASH LABOR SECURITY THAT NAME YEAH TECHNOLOGY, CU TECHNOLOGY SLASH CYBERSECURITY CURRICULUM.
CAUSE MAN THAT IS JUST, YOU KNOW, YEAH, LA COUNTY GOT MAN SOMEWHERE.
THE THING ABOUT IT IS, IS THOSE GYMS, WHEN YOU'RE FROM A COMPUTER SIDE, YOU'RE IN YOUR BEDROOM, YOU'RE NOT COMING OUT.
IF WE DON'T PROVIDE THAT, THAT SPACE FOR THEM TO BE SEEN, THEY COULD GO UNNOTICED.
AND LIKE YOU SAID, THERE'S PROBABLY GYMS RIGHT HERE IN OUR COUNTY WAITING TO BE DISCOVERED AND THIS WILL KEEP 'EM COMING TO SCHOOL.
ESPECIALLY FOR THOSE KIND OF KIDS.
THOSE ARE SOME OF YOUR KIDS THAT GET BULLIED THE MOST.
AND THEY ALSO, THEY HAVE TO, BUT THEY'RE DIFFERENT.
WELL I APPRECIATE THAT UPDATE.
UM, AND I THINK THAT PRETTY MUCH CONCLUDES THIS MEETING, BUT I WILL SEND YOU GUYS THIS LIST.
I'LL SCC BOTH OF YOU
OH, CAN WE HAVE A MOTION TO ADJOURN? SO WHAT IS IT WITHOUT OBJECTION.