* This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. The transcript has not been edited for errors or omissions, it is for reference only and is not the official minutes of the meeting. [00:00:01] CLOSED CAPTIONING PROVIDED BY BUFORT COUNTY TO [Call to Order] THE BUFORT COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION. UH, SEMI-MONTHLY MEETING. IT IS OCTOBER 7TH, 2025 AT 5:00 PM AND THIS PUBLIC SESSION WILL BEGIN AT 6:00 PM IN HYBRID VIDEO CONFERENCING. AND THIS MEETING WILL BE BROADCAST BY THE COUNTY CHANNEL. I'M NOT GONNA READ THE PUBLIC COMMENTS PIECE AT THIS TIME. I'LL READ THEM BEFORE PUBLIC COMMENTS, UH, BEGINS. [Executive Session] AND MR. NA, CAN YOU, UH, HAVE A MOTION TO, UH, CALL OR TO PROVIDE THE EXECUTIVE SESSION? YES, MR. CHAIR. I MOVE THAT WE ENTER EXECUTIVE SESSION REGARDING FOR, UH, PERSONAL OR FOR THE FOLLOWING REASONS, EMPLOYMENT MATTER REGARDING PERSONAL RATIFICATION REPORT, EMPLOYMENT, EMPLOYMENT, PROMOTION, COMPENSATION PURSUANT TO THE SOUTH CAROLINA CODE ANNOTATED SECTION 30 T FOUR T 70 A ONE. DISCUSSION OF PROPOSED AWARD OF LED LIGHTING REPLACEMENT SERVICES CONTRACT RFP NUMBER 26 TAK 0 0 4 PURSUANT TO SOUTH CAROLINA, SOUTH CAROLINA CODE ANNOTATED SECTION 30 TAK FOUR T 70 A TWO. DISCUSSION OF NEGOTIATION, UH, INCIDENT TO PROPOSED PURCHASE OF PROPERTY OF SOUTH CAROLINA OR SOUTHERN BEAUFORT COUNTY PURSUANT TO SOUTH CAROLINA CODE ANNOTATED SECTION 30 T FOUR TAX 70 A TWO. AND DISCUSSION OF PHASE SIX, A RENOVATIONS SCOPE AT THE DISTRICT EDUCATIONAL SERVICE CENTER PURSUANT TO SOUTH CAROLINA CODE ANNOTATED SECTION 30 T FOUR TAX 70 A TWO, HALF A SECOND, SECOND BY DR. CARR. ANY DISCUSSION? YES, SIR. SEEING NO HANDS? YES, SIR. IS THAT MR. MR. SMITH? HOW YOU DOING SIR? UH, WHO WILL BE ADVISING US THE EXECUTIVE SESSION? GOOD EVENING. UM, DISTRICT STAFF, UH, WILL BE ADVISING. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. OKAY. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. SO ALL THOSE IN FAVOR IN THE ROOM PLEASE SIGNIFY BY SAYING AYE. AYE. I GOT FOUR. AND ONLINE, UH, MS. BOATWRIGHT? AYE. MS. BOATWRIGHT IS AYE UH, MR. DALLAS? AYE THAT MR. DALLAS IS AN I AND MR. SMITH? MR. SMITH? MR. SMITH, YOU'RE MUTE. MUTED. OKAY, I'LL GO TO, UH, AYE. UH, OKAY. I GOT THE, UH, MR. SMITH IS AYE UH, MS. FRAZIER FRAZIER? AYE. MS. FRAZIER IS AN AYE. I GOT AND MR. DALLAS? AYE. MS. DALLAS IS AYE. SO WE HAVE, UH, EVERYONE EXCEPT FOR MR. GORDON OR PASTOR GORDON, UH, MS. GORDON AND, UH, MS. HAY, BUT THE MOTION CARRIES. SO WE'LL NOW GO INTO EXECUTIVE SESSION RECORDING IN PROGRESS. IT'S NOW SIX O'CLOCK AND CALLED CALL [Action as Necessary or Appropriate Regarding Matters Discussed in Executive Session (Part 1 of 2)] SIX O'CLOCK AND IT'S CALLED AT SIX O'CLOCK AND IT'S CALLED AT SIX O'CLOCK. AND CALL THE MEETING TO ORDER. MR. NAY, IS THERE ANY ACTIONS AS NECESSARY OR APPROPRIATE REGARDING MATTERS DISCUSSED IN EXECUTIVE SESSION? YES, MR. CHAIR, [00:05:01] WE HAVE FOUR MOTIONS. FIRST ONE, I MOVE THAT THE BOARD OF EDUCATION APPROVE THE SUPERINTENDENT'S RECOMMENDATIONS FOR EMPLOYMENT LISTED ON THE SEPTEMBER 1ST, 2025 THROUGH SEPTEMBER 30TH, 25. PERSONNEL RATIFICATION REPORT. WE HAVE A SECOND, SECOND BY MR. SMALL AND DISCUSSION, HEARING NONE. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR IN THE ROOM SIGNIFY BY SAYING AYE. AYE. AYE. OKAY. ONLINE, UH, MS. GORDON. OKAY. I DON'T HEAR FROM MS. GORDON. UH, MR. DALLAS. AYE. A AYE IS THAT, IS THAT MR. DALLAS? YEAH. YES SIR. OKAY. ALRIGHT. THANK YOU. UM, MS. FRAZIER FRAZIER. IYE RAISE YOUR I MS. HAY. HAY AYE. AND MS. GORDON? OKAY. UH, ARE THERE ANY PARDON ME? SHE SAID AYE. GOT. OKAY. UH, ANY NAYS? MR. SMITH? MR. MR. SMITH IS A NO. AND MR. SMITH IS NO. MOTION CARRIES. NEXT ITEM, SIR. ITEM NUMBER TWO. I MOVE THAT THE BOARD OF EDUCATION AUTHORIZED THE SUPERINTENDENT TO ISSUE AN AWARD FOR RFP NUMBER 26 T 0 0 4. THE BOARD AUTHORIZES THE SUPERINTENDENT TO EXECUTE A CONTRACT WITH THE CONTRACTORS UPON THE EXPIRATION OF THE PROTEST PERIOD. SECOND, SECOND. SECOND BY DR. CARR. ANY DISCUSSION? OKAY. HEARING NONE. ALL THOSE IN THE ROOM THAT SIGNIFY BY SAYING AYE. AYE. ONLINE, UH, MS. GORDON, MR. HAND, RAISE YOUR HAND. OKAY. UH, TAKE THAT AS AN AYE. MR. DALLAS. DALLAS AS AN AYE. THANK YOU MR. DALLAS. UH, MS. FRAZIER FRAZIER. AYE. THANK YOU MS. FRAZIER AND, UH, MS. UH, MS. HAY. HAY AYE. AND, UH, MS. BOATRIGHT, IT WAS NOT AVAILABLE AT THIS TIME. UH, ANY NAYS. MR. SMITH IS GOING TO BE ABS ABSTENTION. AB STATE ONE. MOTION CARRIES NUMBER THREE. I MOVE THAT THE BOARD OF EDUCATION APPROVE AMENDMENT NUMBER 110 WITH THOMPSON TURNER CONSTRUCTION, INCORPORATED FOR THE DISTRICT EDUCATIONAL SERVICES CENTER. PHASE SIX, A RENOVATIONS BASED ON THE GUARANTEED MAXIMUM PRICE PROPOSAL OF $1,209,963 USING 2023 AND 2027 8% FUNDS. DO I HAVE A SECOND? SECOND, SECOND BY DR. CARR. ANY DISCUSSION? SEEING NONE. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? IN THE ROOM PLEASE SIGNIFY BY SAYING AYE. AYE. AND MS. GORDON, HANDS UP HAND IS UP. THANK YOU. UH, MR. DALLAS. DALLAS IS AN AYE. NO. DE MR. DALLAS IS AN AYE, UH, MS. FRAZIER FRAZIER. AYE. THANK YOU MS. FRAZIER. UH, MS. HAY HAY AYE. MS. BOATWRIGHT IS NOT AVAILABLE. ARE THERE ANY NAYS? MR. SMITH IS NAY. MR. SMITH IS NAY. UH, MOTION CARRIES. AND FINALLY, I MOVE THAT THE BOARD OF EDUCATION APPROVE THE SUPERINTENDENT TO PURCHASE A PROPERTY IN SOUTH BEAUFORT COUNTY USING THE PROCEEDS OF PRIOR LAND SALES AND FISCAL YEAR 24 CAPITAL FUND PROJECTS TRANSFER FUNDS OF 4,610,000. DO I HAVE A SECOND? DR. CARR? UH, ALL THOSE, UH, ANY DISCUSSION? SO NO. HANDS UP. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? IN THE ROOM, PLEASE, UH, SIGNIFY BY SAYING AYE. AYE. AYE. ONLINE, MS. GORDON, HANDS UP HAND IS UP. THANK YOU. UH, MR. DALLAS. DALLAS IS AN AYE. DALLAS IS AN AYE. MS. FRAZIER. FRAZIER. AYE. THANK YOU. UH, MS. HAY. HAY. AYE. AND IS THERE ANY NAYS OR ABSTENTIONS IN TERMS OF MOVING? I'M JUST GOING TO ABSTAIN. I'M NOT, I'M JUST GONNA ABSTAIN FOR RIGHT NOW. OKAY. UH, THAT MOTION IS, UH, PASSED. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. UH, MR. CHAIR, THAT, UH, CONCLUDES ALL EXECUTIVE SESSION BUSINESS. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. NEXT ITEM IS APPROVAL [Approval of Agenda] OF THE AGENDA. WE DO HAVE ONE, UH, LITTLE SCHEDULING ISSUE. THE BLUFFTON [00:10:01] HIGH SCHOOL STRING ORCHESTRA IS, UH, IN TRAFFIC SOMEWHERE. SO, WE'LL, WE WILL HAVE TO ENCA INCORPORATE THEM WHEN THEY ARRIVE UNLESS THERE'S AN OBJECTION. DO I HAVE A MOTION TO APPROVE THE AGENDA? SO, MOVED BY DR. CARTER. DO I HAVE A SECOND? I HAVE A, I WILL SECOND THAT MOTION HERE. MR. SMITH IS A SECOND NAME. DISCUSSION. HEARING NONE. ALL THOSE IN THE ROOM, PLEASE SIGNIFY BY SAYING AYE. AYE. AYE. AYE. ONLINE, MS. GORDON, UM, HAND IS UP. THANK YOU. UH, MR. DALLAS. DALLAS. AYE. THANK YOU, SIR. UH, MS. FRAZIER FRAZIER. AYE. THANK YOU MA'AM. MS. UH, HAY AYE. AYE. THANK YOU, MA'AM. AND MS. INGRID, UH, VOTE RIGHT IS NOT AVAILABLE OR MR. UH, ISAAC? PASTOR GORDON IS NOT AVAILABLE. SO THE MOTION CARRIES. NEXT ITEM [Pledge of Allegiance, Moment of Silence, Statement of Media Notification] IS THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE, FOLLOWED BY A MOMENT OF SILENCE. I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE APPLY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AND TO THE REPUBLICS STAND. ONE NATION UNDER GOD FOR LIBERTY, JUSTICE FOR ALL. PLEASE REMAIN STANDING FOR THE MOMENT OF SILENCE. THANK YOU. HAS THE MEDIA BEEN NOTIFIED? MS. CUSHEN BERRY. ALL RIGHT, WE NOW WILL MOVE. WE WILL, BECAUSE THE ORCHESTRA IS NOT HERE YET. WE'LL GO TO POINTS OF CELEBRATION. [Points of Celebration (Part 1 of 2)] AND WE HAVE AN AUGUST STUDENT OF THE MONTH FROM, UH, NORTHERN BEAUFORT COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT, EIGHTH GRADE STUDENT, ALEJANDRO MARTINEZ ES HOPE I'M PRONOUNCING THAT RIGHT. FROM ROBERT SMALLS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY, MR. CHAIR, THE, UH, CHARACTER ED FOR AUGUST. UH, WE'RE CELEBRATING STUDENT OF THE MONTH AND AUGUST AUGUST'S CHARACTER TRAIT. WERE FRIENDSHIP AND KINDNESS AND FRIENDSHIPS DEFINED AS THE EMOTIONS OR CONDUCT OF FRIENDS, THE STATE OF BEING FRIENDS. KINDNESS IS DEFINED AS THE QUALITY OF BEING FRIENDLY, GENEROUS, AND CONSIDERATE. AND THE AUGUST STUDENT OF THE MONTH FOR NORTHERN BEAUFORT COUNTY IS ALEJANDRO MARTINEZ SIAMA AND EIGHTH GRADE STUDENT AT ROBERT SMALLS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY. AND, UH, PRINCIPAL BRADLEY TER BRADLEY. TERRENCE IS HERE TO INTRODUCE ALEJANDRO. ALEJANDRO, COME ON UP HERE. THANK YOU. ANYBODY WHO KNOWS ME, UH, KNOWS THAT I, UH, APPRECIATE AUTHENTICITY AND THIS NOMINATION FOR FRIENDSHIP AND KINDNESS DEALS WITH A VERY AUTHENTIC YOUNG MAN RIGHT HERE. AND YOU'LL HEAR IT IN THESE STORIES THAT I'M ABOUT TO TELL YOU. I'M GONNA READ IT VERBATIM FROM THE TEACHER. ALEJANDRO HAS EXEMPLIFIED THE AUGUST STUDENT OF THE MONTH CHARACTERISTIC OF FRIENDSHIP AND KINDNESS IN THE BEST OF WAYS. FIRST, HE HAS BEEN VERY KIND TO HIS PEERS. DURING THOSE SOMEWHAT SOMETIMES AWKWARD GET TO KNOW YOU ACTIVITIES, HE TRIES TO INCLUDE OTHERS AND SOCIALIZE WITH EVERYBODY RESPECTIVELY AND ACTIVELY LISTEN. WHEN THEY SPOKE, THIS WAS WONDERFUL TO SEE AND SEND A GOOD SIGN THAT HE WAS GONNA BE A GREAT ADDITION TO THE CLASS. HOWEVER, HIS INITIAL KINDNESS WAS NOT THAT MOMENT WHERE I KNEW HE DESERVED THE RECOGNITION AS STUDENT OF THE MONTH. ONE DAY IN CLASS, MY STUDENTS WERE PRACTICING WRITING CLAIMS, COUNTERCLAIMS AND REBUTTALS TO DIFFERENT TOPICS. AFTER WRITING THOSE ARGUMENTS, STUDENTS WERE REQUIRED TO GET UP AND SHARE THEIR WORK WITH A PEER AND GET FEEDBACK ON WHAT WAS STRONG AND WHAT NEEDED EXTRA WORK. A STUDENT OF MINE WITH PARTICULAR NEEDS WHO STRUGGLES TO MAKE FRIENDS, MADE A COMMENT TO ME, NO ONE WILL WORK WITH ME. I DO NOT HAVE ANY FRIENDS. I WAS PREPARED TO LOOK AROUND THE ROOM TO FIND A GROUP THAT HE COULD JOIN, BUT ALEJANDRO BEAT ME TO IT BEFORE I WOULD GLANCE AROUND. ALEJANDRO STOOD UP, WALKED OVER TO THIS STUDENT AND SAID, I WANNA TRADE PAPERS FOR OUR FEEDBACK. THE OTHER STUDENT IMMEDIATELY SMILED AND RELAXED WITH ALEJANDRO. ALEJANDRO ROY WROTE KIND, BUT CONSTRUCTIVE FEEDBACK AND THEN TRADED PAPERS BACK AFTER. AND THE OTHER STUDENT FINISHED AT THE END. THE OTHER STUDENT WHISPERED THANKS TO ALEJANDRO, AND WENT BACK TO HIS SEAT. I WATCHED THIS INTERACTION WITH WARMTH IN MY HEART AND A SMILE ON MY FACE TO SEE A STUDENT CARE ABOUT ANOTHER HUMAN BEING. AND THIS HUMAN BEING BEING INCLUDED AND INTERACTED WITH DESPITE DISABILITIES GAVE US HOPE FOR THIS YEAR. AND WITH THIS CLASS, ALEJANDRO HAS NOT ONLY CONTINUED TO HELP TALK WITH AND GUIDE THIS STUDENT IN CLASS BY HIS CHOSEN TO SIT BESIDE THE STUDENT EACH DAY TO THE POINT WHERE THAT'S HIS ACTUALLY ASSIGNED SETA. ALEJANDRO HAS MADE A DIFFERENCE WITH HIS KINDNESS AND FRIENDLY DEMEANOR FOR THAT [00:15:01] STUDENT AND OUR CLASSROOM AND OUR SCHOOL. I'M VERY PROUD OF YOU. I'M VERY PROUD TO BE YOUR PRINCIPAL. THIS TEACHER IS VERY PROUD OF YOU. CONTINUE DOING WHAT YOU'RE DOING. ALEJANDRO OFF THE MOTION OUT OF EXECUTIVE SESSION. PARDON? I LEFT THE MOTION OUT OF EXECUTIVE SESSION, SO VICTOR'S GONNA READ IT. OKAY. THE LED LIGHTS. OH, OKAY. GOT IT. MR. CHAIR, BEFORE WE MOVE ON, [Action as Necessary or Appropriate Regarding Matters Discussed in Executive Session (Part 2 of 2)] MY APOLOGIES. UH, I LEFT A MOTION OFF OF OUR, UH, EXECUTIVE SESSION BUSINESS. UH, THE FINAL MOTION, FIFTH AND FINAL, IS I MOVE THAT THE BOARD AUTHORIZE A SUPERINTENDENT EDITION AWARD FOR LED LIGHTING REPLACEMENT SERVICES TO ENERGY HARNESS CORPORATION AS DESCRIBED IN RFP 26, TECH 0 0 4. THE BOARD AUTHORIZES THE SUPERINTENDENT TO EXECUTE CONTRACT WITH CONTRACTORS UPON THE EXPIRATION OF THE PROTEST PERIOD. DIDN'T WE HAD THAT ON THERE? OH, WE DIDN'T NAME THE COMPANY. MY APOLOGIES. SO, DO WE NEED TO RE-VOTE ON IT IF WE NEED TO, UH, RENAME THE OR TO NAME THE COMPANY? YES, WE DO RFP TECH 0 0 4. SO, YES. MY APOLOGIES. SO WE NEED TO NAME THE COMPANY. OKAY. GO AHEAD. AND YOU DID? UH, I JUST MADE THE MOTION. YES. WE NEED A SECOND. OKAY. NEED A SECOND? SECOND, SECOND FOR MR. SMALL. ANY DISCUSSION? UH, YES, SIR. UH, CAN YOU, UH, THESE LIGHTS ARE FOR, FOR WHAT, WHAT BUILDING? ALL OF THEM, UH, IN TER IN TERMS OF L LIGHTS, IN TERMS OF REPLACEMENT FOR ALL, FOR ALL, UH, UM, OF THE, THE, THE LIGHTING THAT WE HAVE RIGHT NOW, UH, TO TURN IT INTO LED LIGHTING, IT'S A THREE YEAR PERIOD. OKAY. OKAY. UH, ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? ALL RIGHT. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF THIS MOTION, PLEASE SIT IN THE ROOM SIGNIFY BY SAYING AYE. AYE. AYE. ONLINE, UH, MS. GORDON, YOUR HAND? YEAH. HAS YOUR HAND RAISED? THANK YOU, MS. GORDON. UH, MR. DALLAS. DALLAS. AYE. DALLAS AS AN AYE. THANK YOU, SIR. UH, MS. FRAZIER. ER, FRAZIER. AYE. THANK YOU, MA'AM. UH, MS. HAY. HAY AYE. MS. BOATRIGHT IS NOT AVAILABLE. UH, MS. PASTOR GORDON IS NOT AVAILABLE. UH, ANY ABSTENTIONS OR NO VOTES? MS. SMITH'S GONNA VOTE NO ON THIS. THANK YOU. OKAY. NO VOTE. THE MOTION CARRIES. ALRIGHT. THANK YOU MR. CHAIR. THAT CON THAT CONCLUDES THANK YOU. WE HAVE THE NEXT ITEM IS A SCHOOL BOARD MEMBER. MR. MR. CHAIR? YES. [Points of Celebration (Part 2 of 2)] UM, BEFORE WE MOVE ON, I'D LIKE TO SHARE SOME GOOD NEWS AND EXTEND A THANKS. UM, THROUGH THE FURNITURE DESIGN WAREHOUSE, RESTOCK THE CLASSROOM, UH, RESTOCK THE CLASSROOM PUBLIC VOTE. ROBERT SMALLS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY WAS NOMINATED BY OUR COMMUNITY AND CHOSEN AS A WINNER. AND THANKS TO THIS GENEROUS DONATION, ROBERT SMALLS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY CLASSROOM WILL BE RESTOCKED WITH THE SUPPLIES THAT TEACHERS AND STUDENTS NEED TO BE SUCCESSFUL. UH, LATER THIS EVENING, UH, THE BOARD WILL BE VOTING ON, UH, ON THAT, UH, DONATION, BUT I WANTED TO, UH, GO AHEAD AND, AND MAKE THOSE COMMENTS. WE'RE GRATEFUL, UH, TO FURNITURE DESIGN WAREHOUSE RESTOCK THE CLASSROOM FOR, UH, THEIR INVESTMENT IN EDUCATION INTO OUR COMMUNITY FOR RALLYING BEHIND ROBERT SMALLS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY. IT'S A RECOGNITION AND SUPPORT SHOWS THE STRENGTH OF OUR PARTNERSHIPS AND THE VALUE OF THAT OUR COMMUNITY, PLACES ON EDUCATION. SO, THANK YOU AGAIN TO FDW FOR HELPING US ENSURE THAT OUR STUDENTS HAVE EVERY OPPORTUNITY TO THRIVE. THANK YOU, SIR. NEXT, NEXT ITEM IS A SCHOOL BOARD MEMBER, UH, RECOGNITION. THIS IS A BOARDMAN SHIP INSTITUTE TRAINING REPORT AND AN AWARD TO OUR VERY OWN CERTIFICATE ACHIEVEMENT TO VICTOR NAY REACHING LEVEL TWO OF THE BOARDMAN INSTITUTE. CONGRATULATIONS. THANKS, . CAN WE PUT THAT ON THE WALL? YES. OKAY. A CHAIR'S [Chair’s Report] REPORT, UH, IN YOUR PACKET, AND WE'LL MAKE SURE THAT WE GET IT. UH, TO THOSE OF YOU THAT ARE REMOTE, A COPY OF A JOINT MEETING WITH THE SCHOOL BOARD AND COUNTY COUNCIL [00:20:01] ON SEPTEMBER 30TH CONCERNING THE MULTI-COUNTY INDUSTRIAL PARK. UH, I THINK IT'S A, A VERY GOOD REPORT DONE BY, UM, COUNCILWOMAN TABER THAT TALKS ABOUT ALL THE THINGS THAT WERE DISCUSSED AT THAT MEETING. SO IT'S NOW, UH, PUBLIC AND IT IS AVAILABLE, UH, FOR, UH, Y'ALL TO READ IF YOU WERE NOT ABLE TO ATTEND. ALSO, WE ASK THAT EVERYBODY THAT WAS INTERESTED IN SERVING ON AN AD HOC POLICY COMMITTEE, AND I HAVE THE NAMES OF THE PEOPLE THAT SAID THAT THEY WISH TO PARTICIPATE. UH, MS. FRAZIER. OKAY. MS. UH, MR. SMITH. UH, MR. NAY, MS. BOATRIGHT, UH, PASTOR GORDON AND MS. HAY. SO THOSE SIX PEOPLE WILL COMPRISE OF THE POLICY COMMITTEE. AND SO THE NEXT, UH, NEXT ITEM, UH, FOR THIS COMMITTEE TO DO IS TO SET AN INITIAL MEETING DATE, UH, WITH, UM, UH, MS. CUSHEN BARRY. SO, MS. CUSHEN BARRY WILL REACH OUT TO EVERY MEMBER OF THAT COMMITTEE AND SEE WHEN YOU'RE AVAILABLE TO, TO MEET AND IN PERSON, IF POSSIBLE FOR THAT FIRST MEETING. HUH? YEAH. THERE'S SOMEBODY HAS SOMETHING TO SAY. MS. UH, FRAZIER. WE CAN HEAR YOU. SORRY. OKAY. THAT'S ALL RIGHT. UH, THE FIRST ITEM IN, UH, BUSINESS WHEN YOU HAVE THAT MEETING IS TO ELECT A CHAIR. THE COMMITTEE WILL MEET AND ELECT THE CHAIR, AND THEN AT THAT MEETING, ESTABLISH A WORK PLAN, UH, TO BRIEF THE FULL BOARD OF WHAT THE WORK PLAN WILL BE, AND ESTABLISH MILESTONES FOR PRODUCTS. SO, MS. UH, CUSHEN BERRY WILL BE REACHING OUT TO YOU. AND, UH, I THANK YOU ALL FOR VOLUNTEERING TO, UH, SIT ON THAT COMMITTEE. WE STILL DON'T [Committee Reports (Part 1 of 2)] HAVE ANY WORD ON OUR ORCHESTRA, SO WE'LL GO AND START WITH, UH, COMMITTEE REPORTS UNTIL THEY ARRIVE. THE FIRST COMMITTEE REPORT IS THE ACADEMIC COMMITTEE, UH, MS. GORDON, UH, YOU ARE ONLINE, UH, BUT YOUR, UH, ASSISTANT OTHER BOARD, UH, COMMITTEE MEMBER IS HERE. UH, DR. CARR. IF, UH, IF YOU'D LIKE, WOULD YOU LIKE TO SAY SOMETHING, UH, BEFORE HE BEGINS? OKAY. I DON'T HEAR . OKAY. NO, GO AHEAD. GO AHEAD. UH, DR. CARR. OKAY. IT WORKING. UH, THE ACADEMIC COMMITTEE MET ON SEPTEMBER 23RD, AND MEMBERSHIP INCLUDED BOARD MEMBERS, CHLOE GORDON, LEAH FRAZIER, AND MYSELF. STAFF MEMBERS IN ATTENDANCE INCLUDED FROM THE SUPERINTENDENT'S OFFICE, DR. MELO LEE, DEPUTY DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT FROM INSTRUCTIONAL SERVICES, KAREN MCKENZIE, SECOND DIRECTOR FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING. EMILY GRAY, HEALTH AND PHYSICAL FITNESS COORDINATOR, DR. STRATAS, CHIEF INSTRUCTOR, UH, INSTRUCTIONAL OFFICER, AND FROM STUDENT SERVICES, KAREN STUDER, UH, DI DISTRICT NURSE, AND DR. CHAD COX, STUDENT SERVICES CHIEF OFFICER. UH, THE MEETING STARTED WITH A MOTION TO AMEND THE AGENDA TO ADD NEW ADMINISTRATIVE REGULATION FOR REVIEW OF STUDENT SERVICES, 47.1, UH, STUDENT SEIZURES. SO THERE WAS, UH, SOME LANGUAGE AND A POLICY CHANGE TO ADDRESS STUDENT SEIZURES AND HOW THEY'RE, UH, ADDRESSED IN, IN THE SCHOOLS. UH, UPON APPROVAL, THE MEETING CONTINUED WITH REQUIRED AGENDA FORMALITIES AND APPROVAL OF PRIOR MINUTES. INSTRUCTIONAL SERVICES THEN PRESENTED OPERATION EXPECTATION 12.0 THROUGH 12.17. THE PRESENTATION PROVIDED EVIDENCE, UH, AND PRACTICES FOR EACH OE SUBSECTION. AND A MOTION WAS UNANIMOUSLY, UNANIMOUSLY PASSED TO PLACE THE OE ON THE OCTOBER 7TH BEAUFORT COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION CONSENT AGENDA. THE MEETING CONTINUED WITH ADMINISTRATIVE REGULATION PRESENTATIONS. THE FOLLOWING ARS [00:25:01] UPDATES WERE SHARED, UH, STUDENT GOALS AND PRIORITIES, EQUAL EDUCATION OPPORTUNITIES AND NON-DISCRIMINATION ASSIGNMENT OF STUDENTS TO CLASSES, ADMINISTRATION OF RESIDENTS, STUDENTS, ADMINISTRATION OF HOMELESS STUDENTS, STUDENT RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES, STUDENT INVOLVEMENT IN DECISION MAKING AND STUDENT SERVICES. THE MEETING CONTINUED WITH AN UPDATE FROM THE HEALTH ADVISORY COMMITTEE COORDINATOR. EMILY GRAY SHARED THE COMMITTEE'S UPDATES IN REGARD TO THE DISTRICT'S COMPLIANCE WITH AARON'S AND GAVIN'S LAW. SECTIONS 59 DASH 32 DASH 20 PART B OF THE SOUTH CAROLINA CODE OF LAWS APPARENT LETTER THAT SHARES THE INSTRUCTIONAL MODULE MODULES THAT STUDENTS WILL PARTICIPATE IN WAS PROVIDED. IN CONCLUSION OF THE MEETING, THE HEALTH ADVISORY COMMITTEE WAS INFORMED THAT THEY ARE THE RECIPIENTS OF THE SOUTH CAROLINA ALLIANCE FOR HEALTH PHYSICAL EDUCATION, RECREATION AND DANCE AWARD ON NOVEMBER 14TH. REPRESENTATIVES FROM THE DISTRICT AND COMMITTEE WILL BE IN ATTENDANCE TO RECEIVE THIS AWARD. THAT CONCLUDES MY REPORT. ANY QUESTIONS FOR THE ACADEMIC COMMITTEE? I SEE NO HANDS. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. YOU'RE WELCOME. I, ONE THING I DID NOT MENTION IS WE HAD NO, UH, PUBLIC COMMENTS FOR THE FIRST PUBLIC COMMENT SESSION. UH, FINANCE COMMITTEE, UH, MR. UH, DALLAS, ARE YOU PREPARED? YES, SIR, I AM. THANK YOU, COLONEL. THANKS. UH, FELLOW BOARD MEMBERS AND PEOPLE IN THE AUDIENCE. THE FINANCE COMMITTEE, UH, MET AND DISCUSSED THE JULY TRANSPARENCY REPORTS. CFO TANYA CROSBY PRESENTED THE JULY TRANSPARENCY REPORTS AND COMMITTEE MEMBERS ENGAGED IN DISCUSSION FOLLOWING THE PRESENTATION. ONE OF THE THINGS THAT, UH, THE FINANCE COMMITTEE, UH, AND THE STAFF HAS DONE AND WE'RE VERY PROUD OF, IS LOOK FOR WAYS TO BECOME MORE EFFICIENT WHILE STILL ENSURING THAT ANYONE WHO IS INTERESTED CAN SEE THE ACTUAL DETAILS AT A VERY, UH, PRECISE LEVEL. THE, UH, NEXT THING IS THE INTRODUCTION OF THE NEW TRANSPARENCY ANALYTICS REPORT, WHICH IS A NEW SIX PAGE, UH, ANALYTICS REPORT. AND IT'S DEVELOPED USING A SPREADSHEET PLATFORM ENHANCED WITH AI. SO I, WE WERE VERY HAPPY TO LEARN THAT OUR FINANCE COMMITTEE AND THE STAFF ARE USING AI FEATURES. AND THE REPORT FEATURES VISUAL GRAPHICS THAT SIMPLIFY COMPLEX FINANCIAL DATA. SO IT IS VERY PRECISE. UH, YOU CAN IDENTIFY WHERE TRENDS MAY NEED FURTHER DISCUSSION. AND AGAIN, THE NEXT LEVEL DOWN, YOU, YOU HAVE ACCESS TO THE DETAIL. THE REPORT IS GENERATED THROUGH A SECURE SYSTEM AND ORGANIZED INTO A STANDARDIZED TEMPLATE CREATED BY STAFF SIGNIFICANTLY REDUCING PRODUCTION TIME AND REVIEW TIME. UH, THE NEXT ITEM THAT WAS DISCUSSED IS POSITIVE RECEPTION OF NEW REPORTING FORMAT COMMITTEE MEMBERS RESPONDED POSITIVE TO THE NEW FORMAT. SO THANK THE COMMITTEE MEMBERS AND STAFF WILL ADOPT THIS FOR FORMAT FOR ALL FUTURE COMMITTEE, UH, FINANCE COMMITTEE MEETINGS. THE FULL SET OF 100 PLUS TRANSPARENCY REPORTS WILL CONTINUE TO BE ACCESSIBLE VIA WEB SENT LINK INCLUDED IN THE BOARD'S REPORT. I AM WORKING PERSONALLY AS A TECHNOPHOBE INSTEAD OF A TECHNO FILE TO LEARN HOW TO BETTER UTILIZE THESE REPORTS. AND I WILL HOPE THAT OTHER BOARD MEMBERS WILL JOIN ME IN TRYING TO ASCEND THAT LEARNING CURVE. WE ALSO HAVE DISCUSSED WITH THE CFO ABOUT ENGAGING AND ONE OF OUR FINANCE COMMITTEE MEMBERS ABOUT ENGAGING ON HOW WE MIGHT HELP TRAIN OURSELVES. UH, SO IT'S A TEAM EFFORT. THE NEXT TOPIC WAS EXPANSION OF AI ENHANCED REPORTING, WHERE FEASIBLE FINANCE STAFF WILL PILOT ADDITIONAL PUBLIC REPORTS USING THE NEW AI ENHANCED FORMAT. UH, THE FOURTH QUARTER FINANCIAL SUMMARY WAS PRESENTED SHOWING FAVORABLE RESULTS ADMINISTRATION PROJECTS A 6.8 MILLION INCREASE IN THE FUND BALANCE FOR FISCAL YEAR 2024 THROUGH 2025, BRINGING THE TOTAL TO 21%, WHICH GIVES US A LITTLE BIT MORE CUSHION IN TERMS OF UNEXPECTED, UM, THINGS THAT COULD HAPPEN IN SOCIETY OR LIFE OR THE MARKETPLACE. THIS ALIGNS WITH THE BOARDS PREVIOUSLY EXPRESSED INTEREST IN A MODEST INCREASE. THE MINORITY WOMEN'S BUSINESS ENTERPRISE REPORT, UH, DIRECTOR OF PROCUREMENT, MS. KAYLEE JINGER, PRESENTED THE MINORITY WOMEN BUSINESS ENTERPRISE REPORT AS OF JUNE 30TH. IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE DIS DISTRICT'S PROCUREMENT CODE, THE DISTRICT AIMS TO ALLOCATE 10% OF ITS CONTROLLABLE BUDGET TO CERTIFY MWBE MWBES. [00:30:01] FOR THE SIX MONTH PERIOD, 3.2% WAS SPENT WITH CERTIFIED MWBES AND 14 POINT 11%, APPROXIMATELY 2020 1 MILLION WAS SPENT WITH ALL MWBES, INCLUDING NON-CERTIFIED VENDORS. UH, NE BEFORE I GO ON, UH, I ALSO WOULD LIKE TO SHARE WITH THE, UM, THE COLLEAGUES THERE AND THE PUBLIC THAT'S THERE. UH, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT, UM, YOU KNOW, WE ARE LOOKING AT AND WE'LL BE SEEING SHORTLY IS THE BUDGET BOOK. AND SO THAT'S AN OPPORTUNITY. I THINK THE FINANCE COMMITTEE HAS TAKEN A REAL GOOD EFFORT TO ENSURE THAT THE LEVEL OF GRANULARITY IS THERE AND CAN ANSWER A LOT OF QUESTIONS. I THINK IT WILL BE 216 PAGES, AND THERE'S SO MUCH DETAIL IN THERE ABOUT THINGS THAT ARE OCCURRING. AND I THINK IT WILL EQUIP THE BOARD MEMBERS TO, UH, ACTUALLY GO INTO THE PUBLIC AND SHARE SOME OF THOSE AMAZING THINGS THAT ARE OCCURRING. AND WE MAY NOT ALL KNOW ABOUT THEM WITH THE SAME DEGREE OF, OF, UH, AWARENESS. SO I SEE THAT OUR COLLEAGUE, UH, CFO CROSBY IS AT THE PODIUM, SO I'LL DEFER TO HER AND, UH, ANY COMMENTS OR REFINEMENT SHE'D LIKE TO SHARE. I, UM, JUST ONE, UH, LAST ITEM IS, UH, WE DID ARE WORKING ON A PLAN FOR, UH, THE, AN AI BASICS BASIC TRAINING FOR ANY BOARD MEMBERS WHO ARE INTERESTED IN JUST BEGINNING TO UNDERSTAND THE BASICS OF IT. AND THEN DOING SOME, UM, PRACTICING SOME REAL WORLD EXAMPLES OF, UH, SEARCHES AND IMPORTING, UPLOADING DOCUMENTS INTO AI TO MAYBE SUMMARIZE. SO, UH, MS. UH, CUSHEN BARRY AND MS. COLLEEN BECK UN BARSKI, UH, WHO PROVIDES, UH, REGULAR TRAINING TO STAFF AND STUDENTS WILL BE INVOLVED. AND WE'LL COME UP WITH SOME DATES THAT MIGHT WORK FOR BOARD MEMBERS WHO ARE INTERESTED IN SORT OF A BASIC TRAINING KIND OF SCENARIO. AND, UH, WE'LL GET THINGS STARTED. AND REALLY, IT'S A SYSTEM WHERE YOU JUST PLAY WITH IT AND SEE WHAT IT DOES, AND YOU, IT, YOU JUST UNDERSTAND IT MORE AND MORE AS YOU USE IT. SO THAT'LL BE A GREAT OPPORTUNITY. AND OUR NEXT MEETING DATE IS ON THIS THURSDAY, AND IT WILL BE VIA ZOOM. SO JUST WANTED TO MAKE THAT NOTE. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. ANY QUESTIONS FOR THE FINANCE COMMITTEE? MR. SMITH? I'LL JUST SAY I'D LIKE TO, UH, THANK, UH, THE STAFF AS WELL AS, UH, MR. UM, MR. DALLAS FOR THEIR, UH, FOR, FOR, FOR, FOR SOME OF THE CHA FOR THE CHANGE THAT THEY'RE, UH, MAKING. BUT I, I ALSO STILL STAND BY WHAT I, UM, BY, BY, BY WHAT I STAND, EVEN THOUGH THAT, UH, AND I APPRECIATE THE STAFF FOR MAKING SOME, SOME, SOME, UM, OPENINGS SO THAT WE CAN LEARN, UM, HOW TO USE THE AI TO HELP US TO, I GUESS, GET SOME OF THE INFORMATION THAT I'M, THAT I'M STILL, UH, SAYING THAT WE'RE CHANGING SOME OF OUR EFFORTS IN TERMS OF HOW WE'RE, WHAT ALL, WHAT ALL WE'RE LOOKING AT AND HOW WE'RE LOOKING AT THE INFORMATION. UM, AND I JUST STILL STAND BY SAY THAT I WILL STAND BY WHAT I'VE SAID BEFORE I WON. I WON'T GO, BUT GO BACK ON FORTH ON IT TONIGHT. BUT I'LL JUST STILL STAND, SAY I STAND. W WHY STAND BEFORE ON IT. THANK YOU. OKAY. THANK YOU. I UNDERSTAND THAT THE BAND OF THE ORCHESTRA HAS ARRIVED, SO LET'S BRING THEM IN. AND MR. CHAIR? UM, YES, SIR. THERE WAS SOMETHING, THERE WAS ACTUALLY SOMETHING THAT I BELIEVE THAT WE MISSED UNDER THE, UH, ACADEMICS THAT, UH, THAT WE JUST NEED TO, UH, MAKE MENTION, IF WE COULD GO BACK TO THAT REAL QUICK, UH, ONCE THE OFFICER LEAVES OR SOMETHING. WELL, GO AHEAD, BRETT. NOW WHILE THEY'RE GETTING, UH, ACTUALLY, UH, THE, UH, HEALTH IN THE HEALTH COMMITTEE UNDER THE ACADEMICS. YEAH. YES, SIR. I, I DON'T KNOW IF I HEARD, IF I HEARD YOU, BUT, UH, I KNOW THAT, UM, FOR OUR, FOR OUR HEALTH, UH, ADVISORY COMMITTEE, UM, THAT THERE WAS, WE HAD SOME OPENINGS ON THAT. UM, AND, AND I KNOW, UH, FROM PARTICIPATION FROM THE COMMUNITY, WE GET, WE HAVE TWO PARENTS, TWO CLERGY, UH, TWO STUDENTS, ONE TEACHER AND, AND, UH, ONE DISTRICT EMPLOYEE. AND ALSO, I JUST ALSO WANTED TO THANK THE STAFF, THESE PEOPLE WHO VOLUNTEER BECAUSE THEY PUT COUNTLESS HOURS IN. AND THE, THE, THE AMOUNT OF MATERIAL THAT THEY GET TO THAT THEY HAVE TO READ, UH, ABOUT UPON EACH POST WAS PROBABLY ABOUT THIS AMOUNT OF PAPERWORK. AND THEY ACTUALLY GO THROUGH IT VERY THOROUGHLY, AND THEY PUT A LOT OF TIME IN. SO DIDN'T WANT TO HAVE TONIGHT LEAVE WITHOUT THANKING THE PEOPLE WHO DO COME AND WHO ARE A PART OF THE, UH, A PART OF THE, UH, HEALTH ADVISORY COMMITTEE, BECAUSE THEY PUT A LOT OF WORK IN, AND WE CAN'T LET THAT GO UNNOTICED. UM, BUT IF ANYONE IS INTERESTED IN, PLEASE DO LET THE DISTRICT KNOW THAT YOU ARE INTERESTED IN BEING ON THAT, UH, ON THAT, ON THAT COMMITTEE, BECAUSE WE ALL LOOKING FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE ABLE AND WILLING AND WELCOME TO, UH, HELP US OUT ON THAT. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, SIR. [00:35:41] LADIES, AND MOVE. [Student Performance] THAT'S REALLY ALIVE. SORRY. UH, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, UH, MEMBERS OF THE BOARD, UH, DR. RODRIGUEZ, THANK YOU FOR, UH, HAVING US HERE TODAY. THIS IS THE BLUFFTON HIGH SCHOOL STRING ORCHESTRA. THEY'LL BE PERFORMING TWO PIECES FOR YOU TODAY. THEY'LL BE PERFORMING, UH, SORRY, UNDER THE DIRECTION OF, UH, MISS ALANA IRWIN. I SHOULD NOT FORGET THAT. MY APOLOGIES. UM, , THEY'LL BE PERFORMING TWO PIECES FOR US TODAY. THE FIRST IS LAB BRUJA, UH, BY JORGE VARGAS. AND THE SECOND IS BLAZING BOWS OF THE WEST, ARRANGED BY MICHAEL STORY. UH, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, THE BLUFFTON HIGH SCHOOL STRING ORCHESTRA. [00:42:03] GREAT, GREAT JOB. WHAT MOVIE WAS THAT? FRONT? THE P AT SEVEN? YEAH. AND THEN THE, HOW THE WEST WAS WHAT YOU, THANK YOU. THANK YOU GUYS SO MUCH FOR HELPING. THANK YOU. APPRECIATE IT. YEAH, EVERYBODY. NICE JOB. OKAY. ALL RIGHT. THE NEXT ITEM [Committee Reports (Part 2 of 2)] ON THE AGENDA IS, UH, THE RESULTS COMMITTEE REPORT. MS. HAY, ARE YOU, UH, PREPARED TO GIVE THAT REPORT? YES, SIR, I AM. I HAVE A COUGH DROP IN, SO I'M HOPING I DON'T HAVE A COUGHING FIT WHILE I GIVE YOU THIS REPORT. UM, THE RESULTS COMMITTEE MET ON SEPTEMBER 23RD, 2025. UM, ALL INDIVIDUALS THAT ARE A PART OF THE COMMITTEE WERE PRESENT. MYSELF, COLONEL GEIER, AND DR. CARR, IF MY MEMORY SERVES ME CORRECTLY, MR. SMITH WAS AVAILABLE, UM, VIA ZOOM, AND THEN CAME IN PERSON AS WELL. MR. DALLAS WAS THERE IN PERSON, AND MS. FRAZIER ATTENDED. ALSO IN ATTENDANCE WAS DR. RODRIGUEZ. WE HAD THREE PRIMARY POINTS OF DISCUSSION THAT RESULTED IN MOTIONS THAT WILL BE BEFORE THE FULL BOARD THIS EVENING. THOSE DISCUSSIONS REVOLVED AROUND, NUMBER ONE, UM, THE BOARD RATING REQUIREMENTS FOR THE 2024 TO 2025 EVALUATION, UM, AND ALSO FOR FUTURE EVALUATIONS. THE SECOND ITEM WAS A DISCUSSION TO THE CHANGE OF THE MEASURABLE COMPONENTS SECTION OF THE SUPERINTENDENT'S EVALUATION. AND, AND THE THIRD POINT OF DISCUSSION WAS THE WEIGHTED PERCENTAGE ADJUSTMENT OF, UM, THE MEASURABLE COMPONENTS SECTION OF THE EVALUATION, SORRY, AS WELL AS THE TEACHER RECRUITMENT AND RETENTION SECTION OF THE EVALUATION TOOL. UM, I SHOULD MENTION ALL MOTIONS THAT WERE PRESENTED. WE HAD A ROBUST CONVERSATION AMONG EVERYBODY WHO WAS PRESENT. UM, THE MAJORITY OF US WERE ALL ON THE SAME PAGE, AND ALL MOTIONS PASSED IN COMMITTEE WITH ALL, UM, [00:45:01] MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE VOTING IN THE AFFIRMATIVE TO PASS THE MOTIONS AS PRESENTED. AND I BELIEVE DR. CARR HAS THOSE MOTIONS TO PRESENT THIS EVENING. I DO, I MOVE THAT THE BOARD MEMBERS, THAT BOARD MEMBERS WHO ARE RATING THE SUPERINTENDENT AT A RATING OF ONE OR FOUR, THEY MUST INCLUDE A MINIMUM OF TWO TO THREE SENTENCE EXPLANATIONS FOR EACH RATING. EXPLANATIONS ARE NOT TO BE REPEATED IN THE EVALUATION. ANY REPEATS WILL BE EXEMPT FROM INCLUSION. THIS RATING REQUIREMENT WILL BE EFFECTIVE FOR THE 20 24, 20 25 ACADEMIC YEAR AND PROCEEDING YEARS. IS THERE A SECOND? I SECOND. OKAY. MS. MS. HAYES, UH, SECONDS. UH, ANY DISCUSSION MR. MR. SMITH? SO DO WE ELABORATE ON THAT ONE? WE SAY THAT ANYTHING REPEATED WON'T BE, UH, WHAT WAS THE, WHAT WAS THE TERM THAT SAID IT WON'T, IT WON'T, IT WILL BE ELIMINATED. IS THAT WHAT WAS CORRECT? IF THE RATING, IF THE SENTENCES THAT ARE GIVEN ARE REPEATED THROUGHOUT THE EVALUATION TOOL IN MULTIPLE SECTIONS, THE SUBSEQUENT EXPLANATIONS THAT ARE REPEATS WILL BE DISQUALIFIED AND REMOVED. WELL, FOR ONE, I DON'T THINK THAT THIS BOARD HAS THAT AUTONOMY TO DIS DIS, UH, TO BASICALLY TO DISAGREE, DISAGREE OR TO TELL ANYONE IN TERMS OF HOW TO EVALUATE THE SUPERINTENDENT, BECAUSE THAT'S OUR JOB THEN. THAT'S OUR JOB. NOW, WHETHER YOU PERSONALLY WANT TO ACCEPT THAT, THEN THAT'S UPON YOU. BUT, UH, IN ALL MY YEARS ON THIS BOARD, WE'VE, THE BOARD HAVE NEVER SAID THAT THEY ARE GOING TO DISCOUNT YOU FOR WHAT YOU, FROM WHAT, FROM WHAT YOU EVALUATING. BECAUSE IF MY MEMORY SHOULD SPEAK CORRECTLY AND EVEN EVALUATE TEACHER OR EVEN EVALUATION AT A D JOB, YOU DO THE EVALUATION, BUT YOU DON'T, YOU DON'T EVALUATE THE EVALUATOR. AND THAT, THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT THIS SOUNDS LIKE. LIKE WE ARE EVALUATING THE EVALUATOR, AND THAT'S NOT OUR JOB. WE ARE ALL ELECTED OFFICIALS HERE. HOW WE, HOW WE DO IT IS UPON US. AND THEN, AND THEN IF, IF OUR CONSTITUENTS DON'T LIKE IT, THEN THEY WANT US OUT OF OFFICE. BUT I THINK THAT WE ARE FAR REACH IN DOING WHAT WE ARE DOING. AND AS I, AS I STATED AT THE MEETING, I BELIEVE THAT EVERY, EVERY, EVERYONE HAVE THEIR, AND FOR THE TOTALITY TO DO THEIR JOB THE WAY HOW THEY SEE FIT TO. I MEAN, I'M SURE, I'M SURE, UH, ACTUALLY, I, I'LL JUST LEAVE THAT THERE. I JUST, I THINK THAT THAT RIGHT THERE IS TOTALLY OUT OF LINE. LEMME SAY THAT. OKAY, MS. BE WRIGHT, YOU HAVE YOUR HAND UP. THANK YOU. COLONEL GUYER. CAN YOU GUYS HEAR ME OKAY? YES, MA'AM. YES, MA'AM. I MEAN, FROM ZOOM, I, I SUPPORT THE MOTION. IN SOME WAYS, I AM CONCERNED ABOUT THE FOUR REQUIRING SENTENCES, AND I'LL TELL YOU WHY. I THINK THAT, UH, DR. RODRIGUEZ IS OUR EMPLOYEE, AND IT IS OUR DESIRE THAT HE BE SUCCESSFUL. AND IF SOMEONE FEELS THAT HE IS BEING INEFFECTIVE IN AN AREA, I THINK IT SHOULD BE MANDATORY THAT THEY GIVE HIM SOME FEEDBACK. THAT'S WHAT HR DOES. THAT'S WHAT YOU DO WHEN YOU ARE A LEADER, AND THAT'S WHAT YOU DO WHEN YOU HAVE AN EMPLOYEE BECAUSE YOU WANT THEM TO BE SUCCESSFUL. THE DIFFERENCE IS WHEN YOU SAY SOMEONE IS HIGHLY EFFECTIVE, AND IN MOST OF THESE CATEGORIES, THE TERMS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE ARE FAIRLY WELL LAID OUT. HAVING TO PUT TWO TO THREE SENTENCES FOR EACH OF THOSE IS GOING TO POTENTIALLY MAKE A FOUR FEEL LIKE A BIGGER DEAL THAN IT SHOULD BE. BECAUSE IN MY HAVING DONE THIS EVALUATION NUMEROUS TIMES, NOW I'VE, I I'VE SAID ON THE RECORD MANY TIMES, I'M NOT A FAVORITE, UH, A BIG FAN OF THIS INSTRUMENT. BUT THE WAY IT'S BEEN DONE IN THE PAST, AND WE COMPARE YEAR OVER YEAR, I BELIEVE HIS AVERAGE, UH, SCORE HAS BEEN AROUND A THREE SEVEN, LIKE ON A, ON A FOUR POINT SCALE, POSSIBLY A THREE, I CAN'T REMEMBER EXACTLY, BUT HE'S BEEN IN THE HIGH, HIGH THREES. UM, BECAUSE GENERALLY SPEAKING, AT THAT TIME, AND I'M NOT GONNA SPEAK FOR THE CURRENT BOARD MEMBERS, BUT PREVIOUS BOARDS HAVE FOUND HIM TO BE HIGHLY EFFECTIVE. UM, I CONSIDER HIM A HIGHLY EFFECTIVE SUPERINTENDENT. I KNOW MY CONSTITUENTS CONSIDER HIM A HIGHLY EFFECTIVE SUPERINTENDENT. SO I DO WANNA MAKE SURE THAT PEOPLE REALIZE THAT IF WE THINK THAT A FOUR IS SOME SORT OF EXTRAORDINARY RATING, THAT THAT COULD SKEW THE, UH, YEAR OVER YEAR COMPARISONS. UM, AND I DON'T NECESSARILY THINK THAT IF WE'RE IDENTIFYING THAT HE IS HIGHLY EFFECTIVE IN AN AREA THAT SORT OF SPEAKS TO ITSELF, I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE FEEDBACK WOULD BE, UM, TO LET HIM KNOW THAT YES, INDEED, HE IS HIGHLY EFFECTIVE. SO I, I DO HAVE THAT CONCERN ABOUT REQUIRING TWO TO THREE SENTENCES FOR EACH FOUR. [00:50:01] OKAY. ANY OTHER COMMENTS, MR. NAY? THANK YOU, MR. CHAIR. UH, THANK YOU, MR. CHAIR. UH, I, UH, I CONCUR WITH, UH, MRS. BOATWRIGHT. UM, I, UH, THE FOURS, UH, WE, WE GET, UH, WE, WE GET A LOT OF MATERIAL THAT, THAT SHOWS HOW HIGHLY EFFECTIVE OUR, OR OUR, UH, SUPERINTENDENT IS, AS WELL AS HIS NOMINATION AND, UH, APPOINTMENT OF THE, THE EARNING OF THE NUMBER ONE SUPERINTENDENT OF THE STATE. I MEAN, UM, BUT AS FAR AS THE ONES GO, UM, I, I, I THINK IT'S ABSOLUTELY UNFAIR TO GIVE HIM A ONE WITHOUT AN EXPLANATION. UH, THAT'S, THAT'S, I, I JUST DON'T GET THAT, THAT, THAT, UM, I FELT BAD BECAUSE, UH, I, I GAVE HIM, UH, UH, LESS THAN A FOUR LAST YEAR, AND I DIDN'T PUT AN EXPLANATION. AND THEN WE HAD A MEETING LATER, AND I, I EXPLAINED MYSELF. UH, BUT LIKE A ONE, ABSOLUTELY. I MEAN, IF, IF YOU, IF IF ANYBODY ON THE BOARD BELIEVES THAT HIS, UH, HIS CONDUCT OR HIS PERFORMANCE IS A ONE, UH, WHY, HOW WOULD YOU EXPECT HIM NOT TO DEVELOP FROM THAT? IF YOU DON'T EXPLAIN WHY YOU GAVE HIM A ONE? UM, SO MAY MAYBE WE CAN AMEND THE, UH, UH, AMEND THE MOTION TO ONLY INCLUDE, UH, ONE'S REQUIRED EXPLANATION. IF I, OTHER COMMENTS, IF CHIME REALLY QUICK? I WAS, UM, THE ORIGINAL MOTION DID NOT INCLUDE FOURS. I'M HAPPY TO GO THE ROUTE WHERE THE REQUIREMENT IS ONLY FOR ONE'S. AS FOR ALL THE REASONS ALREADY STATED BY MS. BOATWRIGHT AND MR. NAY. UM, IF WE WANNA AMEND THAT, THAT'S FINE. AGAIN, THIS WAS TO OPEN IT FOR BOARD DISCUSSION. OKAY. SO, UH, SINCE YOU BROUGHT THE MOTION UP, YOU CAN, YOU CAN AMEND IT IF YOU WANT TO, UH, TAKE OUT THE, UH, PART ABOUT THE FOUR, UH, YOU CAN DO THAT. YES. IF WE CAN REMOVE THE OR FOUR. OKAY. THEN WE COULD MOVE FORWARD. MS. MS. BOW, RIGHT? YEAH, I WAS JUST GONNA MAKE THAT MOTION TO AMEND. SO IF WE'RE JUST GONNA GO AHEAD AND DO THAT, THEN THAT'S FINE WITH ME. OKAY. ALL RIGHT. SO OTHER COMMENTS? MR. SMITH? UH, ONCE AGAIN, UH, IT STILL DOES, DOES NOT NEGATE. AND, BUT LEMME ASK, LEMME ASK, LEMME ASK A QUESTION ALSO FOR, UH, WHEN WE, WHEN WE ARE, WHEN WE'RE NOT, WE, WHEN THEY'RE EVALUATING TEACHERS, IS THERE SOMETHING THAT SAYS THAT IF YOU EVALUATE A TEACHER LE, UH, ON A ONE THAT YOU HAVE TO GIVE A, I MEAN, AND NOT, NOT THAT YOU WOULD, THAT YOU NOT NORMALLY WOULD, BECAUSE I BELIEVE THAT WE ALL DO, UH, SPEAK TO THE, SPEAK TO THE SPEAK TO THE SUPERINTENDENT AT VARIOUS TIMES. AND SO I THINK THAT THAT CONVERSATION, UH, IS, IS, IS PRETTY MUCH HAD, UH, DURING THAT TIME AND THROUGHOUT THE YEAR. BUT MY QUESTION IS, ARE WE, ARE WE, ARE WE REQUIRED BY STATE LAW TO, IF, IF A TEACHER HAVE A WARRANT ON EVALUATION, ARE WE REQUIRED TO GIVE THEM A, A REASON, UH, UH, WHY THEY HAVE THAT? COULD SOMEONE SPEAK TO THAT? MISS MS. MS. HOWARD? I, I MEAN, MS. WALTON. MS. WALTON, COULD YOU COME UP PLEASE? MS. WALTON'S HAVING A ROUGH DAY. SHE'S HAD THREE DIFFERENT NAMES TODAY. I'M SORRY. YEAH, ALICE. SO, MR. SMITH, TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION, IF YOU GIVE A TEACHER ANYTHING LOWER THAN A SATISFACTORY, YOU DO NEED TO GIVE THEM AN EXPLANATION AS TO WHY. BECAUSE YOU WANT THEM TO GROW, RIGHT? YOU WANT THEM TO IMPROVE, RIGHT? AND THEY CAN'T, IF THEY DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY THEY'RE RECEIVING THIS SCHOOL, ESPECIALLY IF IT'S A, A SCORE, THAT'S NOT SATISFACTORY. SO YOU WOULD GIVE THEM AN EXPLANATION, RIGHT. AND I DON'T SAY NOTHING, BUT MY, MY QUESTION IS IN TERMS OF, YOU KNOW, YOU SAID THAT THEY, BY LAW, IT IS REQUIRED, RIGHT? WELL, I DON'T KNOW IF I WOULD SAY IT'S BY LAW, RIGHT? BUT IT IS A REQUIREMENT THAT WE DO AS A DISTRICT, RIGHT? TO SAY, YES, YOU DO NEED TO GIVE AN EXPLANATION IF YOUR SCORE IS LOWER THAN X. RIGHT? RIGHT. I UNDERSTAND THAT. I MEAN, AND THAT'S, THAT'S JUST, THAT'S, THAT'S HAVING EMPATHY. SO I, I DO UNDERSTAND THAT. BUT MY POINT IS FOR US TO SAY, AS BOARD MEMBERS, ARE WE GONNA MAKE THIS LAW THAT WE ARE GONNA DISCOUNT YOUR EVALUATION IF YOU DON'T HAVE THAT THIS BOARD DOESN'T HAVE THE GROUNDS? AND THAT, THAT'S WHY I'M ASKING MY LAW, IS IT FOR, FOR, FOR, FOR A REGULAR TEACHER EVALUATION? IS IT, IS IT, IS THERE A LAW STATING THAT IF YOU GIVE A ONE, THAT YOU MUST GIVE AN EXPLANATION BY LAW? AND, AND I THINK YOU'VE, YOU'VE, YOU'VE ANSWERED THAT, UH, THAT, THAT, THAT THERE IS NOT. AND SO THAT'S MY CONCERN HERE TODAY, THAT WE'RE JUST FIRST AND FIRST, FIRST UP. UH, THANK YOU, MS. WALTON. UH, AND, AND, AND FIRST, FIRST, FIRST OFF, THERE WERE SOME MOTIONS THAT WERE GIVEN PRIOR TO THE, PRIOR TO THIS MEETING THAT I DON'T BELIEVE THAT ALL BOARD MEMBERS WHO ATTENDED THAT MEETING HAD. SO, SO, SO LET ME START BY [00:55:01] BY SAYING THAT, BY THAT, BY THAT TOO. THAT BE, AND, AND I, AND I REMEMBER ASKING MONTHS AGO ABOUT HAVING THIS MEETING BECAUSE MS. BO, ANGRY BOLT WHITE BROUGHT UP DIFFERENT ISSUES, AND A COUPLE OTHER BOARD MEMBERS LAST YEAR BROUGHT UP DIFFERENT, UH, ISSUES ABOUT THE TOOL. AND, AND WHEN WE CAME TO THE TABLE, IT APPEARED THAT THE TABLE HAD BEEN SET. AND TO ME, I'VE HAD A PROBLEM WITH THAT. ALSO, WE TALKED ABOUT LAST WEEK ABOUT EMOTION OR ABOUT SOMEONE COMING IN ONE OF MY MEETINGS AND TREATING SOMEONE WITH EMPATHY. AND YET STILL AT THIS MEETING, MY MIC WAS SILENCE. AND I WAS TOLD MR. SMITH, OH, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO. NAH. I WAS TREATED RUDELY. SO, TO, TO GET TO, TO GET TO THE POINT OF IT, FOR US TO HAVE HAD MOTIONS THAT WERE KIND OF PRE AND PREEXISTING AND PRE PRECON TERM, I MEAN, FOR US TO HAVE MOTIONS TO US, TO, SHE LIKE, LIKE THEY HAVE ALREADY KNEW COMING IN THIS MEETING WHERE THEY WERE GOING. I THINK IT WAS QUITE WRONG FOR SOMEONE WHO'S BEEN REQUESTING TO ASK, DID, WAS THIS A FORMALITY THAT THAT, THAT WE WOULD EVEN WANT IT TO GO, DID WE WANT TO KEEP THIS TOOL THAT WAS NOT, I DON'T REMEMBER THAT BE A QUESTION EVEN BEING ASKED. I REMEMBER GOING OVER THE MOTIONS THAT WAS GIVEN TO, I BELIEVE IT PROBABLY WAS GIVEN TO MRS. C BARRY AND TO PROBABLY SOME OF THE OTHER MEMBERS OF, OF, OF THAT COMMITTEE, WHICH WAS WRONG. THAT GOES TO A MEETING BEFORE THE MEETING MEETING, WHICH IS LEGAL MEETING. SO I JUST WANNA, I WANNA PUT THAT OUT, THIS SENSE, YOU KNOW, WHEN WE'RE TALKING UPON THINGS OF ASKING FOR IN TERMS OF, OF THIS MOTION, I THINK THIS, THIS, THIS MOTION, I'M NOT SURE WHERE IT IS DERIVED FROM, BUT I, I THINK, I THINK THAT THAT IS, IS NOT ETHICAL. AND I, I DON'T THINK THAT IS IT'S LAW. IN FACT, I, I DON'T, I KNOW IT'S NOT LAW. MS. BE WRIGHT, YOUR HAND IS UP. YES. THANK YOU. UM, I WOULD LIKE TO REMIND, UH, WE ARE NOT A JUDICIAL BODY. WE DO NOT MAKE LAWS. WE GOVERN BY POLICY. WE ARE AN ADMINISTRATIVE BOARD, AND WE ARE SETTING A POLICY, AND WE HAVE SOLE DISCRETION IN SETTING THE POLICY AS TO HOW WE WILL EVALUATE THE SUPERINTENDENT WITHIN THE CONFINES OF WHAT THE STATE LAW REQUIRES. WE ARE WELL WITHIN THE CONFINES. IT IS UNFORTUNATE THAT WE HAVE TO MAKE THIS A FORMAL POLICY BECAUSE IT SHOULD JUST BE GOOD BEHAVIOR OF SOMEONE WHO IS IN A LEADERSHIP ROLE IN TERMS OF GUIDING AND DIRECTING, UH, THEIR SOLE EMPLOYEE INTO WHICH WE ENTRUST 21,000 CHILDREN AND SEVERAL HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS. LIKE I, IT'S, IT'S, IT IS TO A CERTAIN EXTENT, SILLY THAT WE EVEN HAVE TO MAKE THIS A POLICY, BUT WE ARE ABSOLUTELY ENTITLED TO MAKE THIS POLICY. AND WE WOULD, WE DO NOT MAKE LAWS AT ANY POINT. THAT IS NOT WHAT THE BEAUFORT COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT DOES. WE ARE A ADMINISTRATIVE BOARD. WE RULE BY POLICY. WE CAN MAKE OUR OWN POLICIES, WE CAN ENFORCE OUR OWN POLICIES IF WE HAVE TO. SO I JUST WANTED TO MAKE THAT CLEAR. OKAY. THANK YOU. ANY OTHER COMMENTS? UH, MR NA OH, GO AHEAD, MR. DALLAS. UM, I, I JUST WANTED TO SAY IT IS PRETTY COMMON PRACTICE IN, UM, WELL RUN ORGANIZATIONS THAT IF YOU GIVE SOMEONE A LOW SCORE THAT YOU, TO HELP THEM, YOU IDENTIFY SPECIFICALLY WHAT YOU SAW THAT NECESSITATED THAT SCORE SO THEY CAN HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO CHANGE IT. SO THAT'S, THAT'S ONE POINT. THE OTHER POINT TO SUBSTANTIATE WHAT MS. BOATWRIGHT SAID ON THE COHERENT GOVERNANCE, THE BOARD SETS THE TARGETS AND THE BOARD SETS THE POLICIES, AND THEN THE BOARD STEPS BACK AND ALLOWS THIS, UH, SUPERINTENDENT AND HIS ENTIRE, OR HER ENTIRE STAFF TO MOVE FORWARD. SO I THINK THAT'S WHAT, I THINK THAT'S WHAT WE'RE DOING HERE. SO I'M VERY COMFORTABLE WITH IT. AND THEN THE LAST POINT IS THAT I HAVE TO GIVE RECOGNITION TO THE LEADERS AND MEMBERS OF THE RESULTS COMMITTEE BECAUSE THEY DID CHANGE THEIR MIND. UH, AND, AND, AND SO THERE WAS THAT, UH, OPPORTUNITY WHERE EDITS WERE SUGGESTED, THEY ACCEPTED THOSE. SO I'M SEEING THE PROCESS BEING FAIRLY THOROUGH AND, UH, FAIR AT THIS PARTICULAR POINT. SO JUST WANTED TO SHARE THAT. THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT, MR. NAY, UH, MR. DALLAS, UH, ALREADY SAID A LOT OF WHAT I WAS GONNA SAY, BUT, UH, I WAS GONNA SAY, FOR EXAMPLE, GC FOUR, UH, BOARD MEMBER CODE OF CONDUCT, WE, WE PLACE A POLICY OUT, WE HAVE A POLICY OF A CODE OF CONDUCT THAT WE'RE SUPPOSED TO FOLLOW, AND THAT IS IMPOSED UPON ALL BOARD MEMBERS. AND IT WAS VOTED ON WHEN IT WAS VOTED IN AS POLICY. SO YES, WE, WE, IF, IF, IF WE HAVE A BOARD, UH, AS THE MAJORITY OF THE BOARD VOTES ON IT, EVEN THE MINORITY THAT DIDN'T VOTE FOR IT STILL HAS TO FOLLOW THE POLICY. THAT'S THE WHOLE POINT, MR. SMITH. AND THAT, AND ACTUALLY, AND, AND ACTUALLY, AND ALSO ALSO GO OFF OF EVEN, UH, PAST PRACTICES OF THIS BOARD, UH, IT WAS ALSO, ALSO, UH, STATED THAT, UM, UH, THAT BOARD [01:00:01] PO BOARD POLICY IS, IS NOT LAW. AND SO THAT'S WHY I REFERRED TO THE LAW. SO I, I DIDN'T ASK TO SPEAK TO AN ATTORNEY TODAY, BUT NOT NECESSARILY SAYING THAT I DON'T DISAGREE WITH WHAT WE'RE ASKING FOR. BUT THEN IN TERMS OF BEING HEAVY HANDED AND SAYING THAT, LOOK HERE, THAT IF YOU DON'T DO THIS, THEN WE'RE NOT, LISTEN, LISTEN, WE ALL ELECTED THE OFFICIALS. NO, NO, THIS BOARD, WE HADN'T DONE IT IN THE PAST. AND NO BOARD HAS GOING TO, HAS THE RIGHT TO SAY, HEY, WE ARE GOING TO DISCOUNT, OR WE NOT GONNA COUNT YOUR EVALUATION BASED UPON OF VIEW. DON'T DO THIS. AND THAT TO ME, THAT THAT'S ONE OF OUR SOLE JOBS. SO WHO IN THE HECK ARE WE TO SAY, BECAUSE THIS PERSON DIDN'T DO IT? AN EVALUATION IS AN EVALUATION. WHEN YOU TURN THE, WHEN YOU TURN THE A TEST IN THE TEACHER, THIS TEACHER GRADE TO TEST OFF WHAT YOU TURNED IN. IF YOU DON'T WANNA DO IT, HEY, YOU CAN, YOU CAN COME OUT HER PROCESSION AND SAY, HEY, LOOK AT, WE GET, WE GOT THIS SCORE. A CERTAIN, UH, MR. SMITH GAVE THIS SCORE. MR. DALLAS GAVE THIS SCORE, UH, MR. CARR GAVE THIS SCORE. AND BASED UPON, YOU KNOW, THERE'S FEEDBACK ON THIS ONE, BUT TO GO OUT THERE AND TO COME HERE PUBLICLY AND SAY, HEY, WE'RE GONNA COME OUT WITH THAT, THAT'S MY AGREEMENT, BUT THAT'S MY DISAGREEMENT. I'M NOT SAYING THAT, HEY, IF YOU GIVE HIM LOWER THAN THIS RIGHT HERE, THEN THEN TELL HIM WHAT IT WAS BASED UPON OR WITH THAT. BUT THE PROBLEM IS THE HEAVY HANDEDNESS. AND THEN, AND THEN, UH, WHY I SAYING IS THAT WITH HAND, HAND HAND COLLEAGUES SAYING THAT BOARD, UH, GOVERNANCE IS NOT, SO WE HAVE TO PICK AND CHOOSE WHICH ONE. WE CAN'T GO BACK AND FORTH AND USE WHICH ONE WE WANT TO WHEN IT'S CONVENIENT. SO THAT'S WHY I, I STICK WITH THE LAW, BECAUSE THE LAW IS WHAT KEEPS ME SAFE. SO, I MEAN, REGARDLESS OF HOW, WHETHER I LIKE WHAT I SAY OR NOT ABOUT IT, THAT'S, THAT'S WHERE I STAND AT. SO I DON'T MIND TELLING PEOPLE, AND I'M NOT SITTING, I'M, I'M OPPOSING WE'RE SAYING IN TERMS OF DOING IT, BUT THE HEAVY HEADNESS OF TELLING US, THERE'S CERTAIN TIMES WHERE, WHERE WE IN EXECUTIVE SESSION OR WE IN CERTAIN PLACES, AND WE, WE TALK ABOUT, EVEN OUT HERE, WE DISCUSS THE THING AND WE SAY, WELL, YOU KNOW WHAT? WE THINK THE SUPERINTENDENT AND STAFF HAS IT. WE DON'T NEED TO PUT IT IN MOTION. WE DON'T NEED TO PUT A MOTION IN. BUT HERE NOW WE, WE MUST PUT A MOTION IN. SO WHICH ONE IS IT? SO, BECAUSE IF WE GONNA PUT A MOTION IN FOR THIS, THEN EVERY TIME WE GIVE THE SUPERINTENDENT DIRECTION, THEN MAYBE WE NEED TO PUT A MOTION WHETHER HIM AND HIS STAFF GOT IT OR NOT. SO I SAID, I MEAN, THAT'S JUST ANOTHER WAY TO LOOK AT IT. WE CAN'T PICK AND CHOOSE WHEN IT'S CONVENIENT FOR US OR WHEN, WHEN WE, WE FEEL GOOD. AND THEN PREACHER GETS YOU ALL RIDE UP, MAKE YOU FEEL UHUH. WHAT IS IT GONNA BE FROM HERE ON OUT? THAT'S WHAT I'M ASKING THE BOARD. OKAY. IS THERE ANY OTHER COMMENTS THAT FOR ANYBODY? ARE WE READY TO CALL THE QUESTION? ALRIGHT, ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF THE MOTION IN THE ROOM, YOU NEED TO, UH, VOTE FIRST ON THE AMENDED MOTION? NO, BECAUSE THE PERSON THAT AMENDED IT IS THE PERSON THAT PROVIDED IT. OKAY. SO SHE CAN, SHE, WE DON'T HAVE TO VOTE FOR THAT AMENDMENT. SHE OKAY. OKAY. ALRIGHT. SHOULD WE REREAD IT? YES. UH, YES, MR. CHAIR. I THINK, UH, WE SHOULD REREAD THE, THE MOTION AS AS IT IS. YES. THAT'S, THAT'S, THAT'S FINE. LET'S, UH, REREAD THE MOTION THEN. UH, MS. CUSHEN BARRY, DO YOU HAVE THE MOTION? I MOVE THAT BOARD MEMBERS ARE RATING TO SUPERINTENDENT AT A RATING OF ONE. THEY MUST INCLUDE A MINIMUM OF TWO TO THREE SENTENCE EXPLANATION. EXPLANATIONS ARE NOT TO BE REPEATED IN THE EVALUATION. ANY REPEATS WILL BE EXEMPT FROM INCLUSION. THIS RATING REQUIREMENT WILL BE EFFECTIVE FOR THE 24 25 ACADEMIC YEAR IN THE PROCEEDING YEARS. UM, I CHANGE, I YOU REMOVED THE, THE FOUR, RIGHT? THAT'S OKAY. WHAT, UH, DR. CAR PRECEDING YEARS WOULD BE THE YEARS BEFORE THAT. DO WE MEAN THE FOLLOWING YEARS? YES. PROCEED THE FOLLOWING SEATING, PROCEED PROCEEDING. OH, PROCEEDING. YEAH. PROCEEDING. PROCEEDING. OKAY. YEP. ALL RIGHT. I, I, I MAKE A SUPPLEMENT MOTION OF THAT. I'M SORRY. I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A SUPPLEMENT MOTION OF THAT. UH, GO AHEAD. COULD YOU PUT THE MOTION BACK UP? I'D LIKE TO TAKE OUT THE PART ABOUT THE, UM, THE EXPLANATION PART. I THINK, UH, OH, LEMME SEE. UH, EXPLANATIONS ARE NOT TO BE REPEATED. I, UH, I'D LIKE TO TAKE THAT PART OUT OF IT. THAT'S HEAVY HANDED. WANT THAT? DON'T WE NEED TO VOTE ON THAT? IT REQUIRES A YES. WE'LL HAVE TO, HE HAS, HE MADE A MOTION. ARE MOVING FORWARD WITH THE ORIGINAL MOTION, [01:05:03] UH, BECAUSE IT'S, IT'S CALLED, IT'S, IT'S CALLED ROBERT ROBERT RU OF WATER. I, SO HE HAS, I'M ASKING THE CHAIR. YES, I FIGURED YOU'D SAY THAT WE WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO, UH, ALLOW HIM TO MAKE A, A ADDITIONAL MOTION TO THIS MOTION BECAUSE IT IS, IT, IT, IT CAUSES THE ORIGINAL MOTION TO CHANGE. SO WE HAVE TO, WE HAVE TO VOTE ON IF HE HAS A SECOND. RIGHT? BUT HE'S MADE A MOTION. IS THERE A SECOND FOR THE MOTION? A SECOND. GO. GO AHEAD. SECOND, ARE YOU REMOVING EXPLANATIONS ARE NOT TO BE REPEATED IN THE EVALUATION. ANY REPEATS WILL BE EXEMPT FROM INCLUSION OR JUST EXPLANATIONS ARE NOT TO BE REPEATED IN THE EVALUATION. WHAT YOU HAVE THE POINT CAN SEE WHAT YOU HAVE RIGHT NOW. SHARE OF THE RESULTS COMMITTEE. THE WHOLE POINT OF SAYING THAT EXPLANATIONS CANNOT NOT BE REPEATED THROUGH THE EVALUATION IS SO THAT SOMEBODY CAN'T COPY AND PASTE THE SAME THING THAT DOESN'T ACCOUNT TO DIFFERENT, UM, LET'S SAY IN STAFF RELATIONS. YOU CAN'T GIVE HIM THE SAME TWO TO THREE SENTENCE EXPLANATION OF WHY HE'D BE RATED A ONE FOR, FOR EXAMPLE, STAFF FEEDBACK, STAFF COMMUNICATION, PERSONNEL MATTERS, DELEGATION OF DUTIES. THOSE WOULD ALL NEED TO HAVE SEPARATE EXPLANATIONS BECAUSE THEY'RE SEPARATE MATTERS. BUT IF SOMEONE SITS DOWN AND WRITES THE SAME TWO TO THREE SENTENCE SENTENCES FOR EACH OF THOSE QUALIFYING AREAS, THOSE WOULD NEED TO BE EXEMPT BECAUSE IT SHOWS THAT THE PERSON'S NOT REALLY GIVING VALUABLE FEEDBACK. OKAY. I I, I, I UNDERSTAND. I UNDERSTAND, UH, WHAT YOU'VE JUST MENTIONED, BUT WE HAVE A MOTION. WE, BUT WE DON'T HAVE A SECOND YET. SO SECOND, MS. GORDON HAS SECONDED. OKAY. SO NOW, NOW WE HAVE A SECOND. AND NOW MS. UH, HAY HAS BROUGHT UP WHY SHE BELIEVES THAT THAT, UH, MOTION SHOULD BE DEFEATED. IS THAT CORRECT, MS. HAY? CORRECT. I'M JUST EXPLAINING WHY THOSE SENTENCES RIGHT. DO SERVE A PURPOSE. RIGHT. OKAY. ARE THERE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS ON THIS MOTION, MR. SMITH? AND JUST TO RESPOND TO THAT, TO THAT, WHAT, WHAT SHE JUST SAID IS THAT IT COULD POSSIBLY BE THE, UH, THE THE SAME THING, BUT WHAT YOU, WHAT YOU, WHAT YOU, WHAT YOU'RE SAYING THAT YOU, JUST, IN YOUR, IN YOUR EXPLANATION, YOU JUST SHOWED BASICALLY THAT EXACTLY WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO STOP FROM DOING. YOU, YOU BASICALLY JUST SAID THAT YOU, YOU ARE TRYING TO, UH, BE HEAVY HANDED AND TELL SOMEONE HOW TO DO THEIR JOB OR, OR, OR DE DELEGATING TO THEM WHAT THEY MUST DO AS A BOARD MEMBER. NO, SIR, I'M NOT, I'M TRYING TO HAVE US GIVE VALUABLE FEEDBACK TO THE SUPERINTENDENT SO THAT WE'RE BE BEHAVING IN A FAIR MANNER. POINT OF RESPECTFULLY. DON'T TALK WHILE I'M TODAY. MS. HAY, PLEASE, UH, LET MR. SMITH FINISH AND THEN WE'LL LET YOU, UH, RESPOND. GO AHEAD, SIR. THANK YOU, MR. CHAIRMAN. UM, TO, TO ME, I THINK THIS IS, THIS IS A MIDDLE GROUND. IT'S STILL ALLOWING THAT TO BE IN THERE, THE TWO OR THREE SENTENCES, OR TO GIVE THE EXPLANATION WITHOUT BEING HEAVY HANDED AND SAYING THAT IF YOU DON'T DO, IF YOU DON'T DO A, B, AND C, THAT WE'RE GOING TO THAT, THAT WE'RE GOING TO NOT COUNT YOUR EVALUATION. TO ME, THAT PART IS WHAT'S THE CLINCH IS WHAT MAKES ME CLENCH. IT'S SAYING THAT IF YOU DON'T DO IT MY WAY, HOW WE TELL YOU DO IT, THAT WE WON'T COUNTED. AND THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS THAT FOR BOARD MEMBERS TO PART OF OUR JOB FUNCTIONS OF OUR JOB, THIS IN FINANCE AND, AND, AND IN FINANCE. SO TO, TO, TO HAVE ANOTHER BOARD MEMBER SAY, OR FOR US TO TELL A BOARD MEMBER THAT WE'RE GONNA DISCOUNT WHAT THEY SAY BECAUSE WE DON'T LIKE IT AND WE DON'T LIKE HOW THEY SAY IT, OR IF THEY DON'T DO IT THE WAY HOW WE WANT TO SAY, LISTEN, YOU DON'T HAVE TO, YOU DON'T HAVE TO LIKE WHAT I SAY. THAT'S NOT FOR YOU. THAT'S NOT FOR YOU. AND HOW AND HOW DO YOU KNOW IN THAT SENTENCE? I MAY, WE, WE COULD PUT DOWN A, A PARAGRAPH, BUT WE WILL FURTHER DISCUSS THAT WITH THE SUPERINTENDENT. SO ONCE AGAIN, I THINK IT, IT, IT IS, YOU ARE DRIVING US TO TELL US WHAT WE MUST AND WHAT WE CANNOT DO. AND IF WE DON'T DO IT YOUR WAY, THEN WE, THEN OUR, THEN YOU ARE SOLA IN OUR VOICES TO ME THAT IF WE DON'T DO IT YOUR WAY, THAT'S THE MOST LOUD THING THAT YOU CONTINUE TO SCREAM. EVEN WHEN YOU CAME ACROSS US, NOW, YOU, AND, AND YOU DISRUPTED ME, THAT'S WHAT YOUR POINT WAS, IS THAT, HEY, NO, IT NEEDS TO BE THIS WAY. I GET THE POINT. I'M COMING TO MIDDLE GROUND AND SAYING, HEY, THE TWO OR THREE SENTENCES OR, OR PAT [01:10:01] GRAPH OR WHATEVER, THAT'S, THAT, THAT'S FINE. BUT THE POINT OF DISCOUNTING A BOYS AND MEMBERS, UM, RIGHT. TO HOW, HOW THEY WANT DO THAT. I THINK THAT, THAT, THAT COULD BRING US TO, TO, TO, TO LEGAL, LEGAL LEGALITY. I MEAN, SO BECAUSE YOU, WE DON'T HAVE THE, WE DON'T HAVE THE RIGHT TO TELL A COMMUNITY THAT WE DON'T WANNA HEAR WHAT THEY HAVE TO SAY OR, OR, OR, OR TELL A BOARD MEMBER THAT YOU DON'T HAVE A VOICE. THANK YOU. ALRIGHT, MS. HAY, YOU, YOU NOW MAY RESPOND. NOPE, JUST MOVE ON WITH THE MOTION. PLEASE MOVE. JUST GO ON WITH THE MOTION. ALL RIGHT. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF THIS MOTION TO REMOVE THOSE WORDS, UH, PLEASE SIGNIFY BY SAYING AYE. HERE IN THE ROOM. AYE MS. MR. SMALL, YOU VOTE? AYE MR. VOTE, VOTE AS AYE TOO. OKAY. AYE. AND AYE. AND, UH, ALL THOSE ONLINE, UM, MS. UH, MS. CORDEN, HOW DO YOU VOTE? AYE. AYE. OKAY. UH, MR. DALLAS, HOW DO YOU VOTE? CAN YOU RESTATE THE MOTION JUST SO I'M CLEAR, PLEASE. OKAY. PLEASE RESTATE THE MOTION. I MOVE THAT IF BOARD MEMBERS ARE RATING THE SUPERINTENDENT AT A RATING OF ONE, THEY MUST INCLUDE A MINIMUM OF TWO TO THREE SENTENCE EXPLANATION. THIS RATING REQUIREMENT WILL BE EFFECTIVE FOR THE 24 25 ACADEMIC YEAR AND THE PROCEEDINGS, THE YEARS. AND MR. CHAIRMAN, CAN I HAVE OF ORDER FOR JUST A SECOND? I DON'T, I DON'T THINK THAT'S THE ORIGINAL MOTION IS, IT'S NOT, IT, WHAT WE'RE VOTING ON IS THE AMENDMENT. SO WHAT WE'RE ASKING, IT'S AMENDED MOTION. OKAY. IS TO REMOVE THOSE SENTENCES. THAT, THERE YOU GO. THAT'S WHAT I WANTED TO HEAR. YEAH. SORRY. YEAH. AND HOW DO YOU VOTE, SIR? THE REPEAT? I, I, I VOTE NAY IN TERMS OF REMOVING, I MEAN, UM, UM, NOW I'M PRETTY OKAY. I HAVE IT. THANK YOU. UH, MS. FRAZIER, HOW DO YOU VOTE? MS. FRAZIER, HOW DO YOU VOTE? NAY. MS. HAY, HOW DO YOU VOTE? NAY. MS. BOATRIGHT, HOW DO YOU VOTE? NO. OKAY. UH, PASTOR GORDON IS NOT HERE. MR. YEAH, HE'S HERE. OH, PASTOR GORDON. OKAY. UH, MR. PASTOR GORDON, HOW DO YOU VOTE? I VOTE NAY, NAY. AND MR. SMITH VOTES CA I ASSUME PASTOR GORDON IS, AYE UM, DR. CARR, HOW DO YOU VOTE? NAY. NAY. UM, MR. NAY, HOW DO YOU VOTE? NAY AND I VOTE NAY. MOTION. MOTION FAILS. SO WE GO BACK TO THE ORIGINAL MOTION. COULD YOU READ THE ORIGINAL MOTION? UH, MS. CUSHEN BARRY, I MOVE THAT IF BOARD MEMBERS ARE RATING THE SUPERINTENDENT AT A RATING OF ONE, THEY MUST INCLUDE A MINIMUM OF TWO TO THREE SENTENCE EXPLANATION. EXPLANATIONS ARE NOT TO BE REPEATED IN THE EVALUATION. ANY REPEATS WILL BE EXEMPT FROM INCLUSION. THIS RATING REQUIREMENT WILL BE EFFECTIVE FOR THE 24 25 ACADEMIC YEAR, THE PROCEEDING YEARS. OKAY. IT'S BEEN MOVED AND SECONDED. UH, GORDON, HOW DO YOU VOTE? I VOTE YES. YES. UH, MS. MS. UH, GORDON? YES. OKAY. MR. SMITH? ABSOLUTELY NOT. NO. OKAY. NO. UH, I WILL VOTE YES. UH, MR. NAY. AYE. AYE, UH, MR. SMALL ABSTAIN. ABSTAIN. OKAY. DR. CARR? YAY. A UH, MR. DALLAS? I VOTE A. AYE. OKAY. UH, MS. FRAZIER. FRAZIER. AYE. AYE. UH, MS. HAY? HAY AYE. AND MS. BOATWRIGHT? AYE. SO THE MOTION CARRIES 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. YAY. ONE NAY AND ONE ABSTENTION. MOTION CARRIES. DO YOU HAVE ANOTHER MOTION? YES, THERE [01:15:01] SHOULD BE A SECOND MOTION WITH DR. CARR. OKAY. SECOND MOTION. I MOVE THAT THE BOARD OF EDUCATION ACCEPT THE FOLLOWING RECOMMENDED CHANGES TO THE 20 25 20 26 EVALUATION INSTRUMENT. AND THERE'S TWO PARTS TO IT. ONE, REMOVE GAP GAP CLOSURE FROM MEASURABLE COMPONENTS SECTION OF THE EVALUATION TOOL. AND IN ITS PLACE THE ADDITION OF SUPERINTENDENT'S PROJECTS TWO TO THREE PROJECTS WILL BE SELECTED BY THE BOARD AND THE SUPERINTENDENT. OKAY. IS THERE A SECOND? SECONDED. I'LL SECOND. SECONDED BY MS. HAY . ALL RIGHT. AND WOULD YOU LIKE TO EXPLAIN THE MOTION, MA'AM? SURE. UM, GAP CLOSURES WAS SOMETHING THAT WAS INSTITUTED DURING COVID. NOW WE'RE FIVE YEARS OUT FROM THAT AS FAR AS I'M AWARE. UM, THAT HAS ESSENTIALLY CLOSED AND IS WITHIN RANGE. SO WE WANTED TO IMPLEMENT SOMETHING THAT'S MORE MEASURABLE FOR THE SUPERINTENDENT THAT WE CAN HAVE MEASUREMENT ON THROUGHOUT AN ACADEMIC YEAR. UM, THE PROJECTS AS PROPOSED, WE WOULD VOTE ON AS A BOARD. THOSE CAN BE LIKE IT SAID IN THE MOTION, TWO TO THREE PROJECTS ANNUALLY. THOSE CAN BE LARGE PROJECTS. THEY CAN BE ACADEMIC FOCUSED, THEY COULD BE TECHNOLOGY DRIVEN. UM, THEY COULD BE SAFETY IMPLEMENTATIONS FOR SCHOOLS, BUT IT JUST GIVES US SOMETHING TANGIBLE AND MEASURABLE, UM, TO HOLD DR. RODRIGUEZ OR ANY, YOU KNOW, FUTURE SUPERINTENDENTS TO ACCOUNT. UM, SO THAT'S, THAT'S REALLY WHERE THAT THOUGHT PROCESS CAME FROM. AND AGAIN, THIS WAS A MOTION THAT WAS FULLY SUPPORTED, UM, AT THE RESULTS COMMITTEE MEETING. ALL RIGHT. AND THERE IS A SECOND PART OF THE MOTION, THE SECOND PART, GO AHEAD. DECREASE TEACHER RECRUITMENT AND RETENTION FROM 15% TO 10%, GIVEN THE WEIGHT OF 8% TO SUPERINTENDENT'S PROJECTS, 12% TO ACHIEVEMENT, AND 10% TO COLLEGE OR CAREER READY. OKAY. AND IF I CAN COMMENT ON THAT REALLY QUICK, THIS IS PROBABLY ONE OF THE MAIN AREAS MR. DALLAS WAS REFERENCING THAT IT WAS THE TEAMWORK STRATEGY. UM, I HAD COME IN, YOU KNOW, AS CHAIR OF A COMMITTEE, YOU NEED TO PREPARE FOR THESE MEETINGS. YOU NEED TO HAVE SPECIFIC IDEAS THAT COME FROM RESEARCH AND YOUR OWN EXPERIENCES IN THE WORLD AND IN YOUR CAREERS. UM, TEACHER RECRUITMENT AND RETENTION, WE WERE TRYING TO DROP THE WEIGHT OF THAT TO GIVE MORE WEIGHT, UM, TO THE STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT SECTION. ESPECIALLY SEEING AS WE HAVE A NATIONAL TEACHER SHORTAGE IN GENERAL, THAT'S OUT OF THE DISTRICT'S CONTROL. AND FRANKLY, OUT OF THE SOUTH CAROLINA AS A WHOLE, IT'S OUT OF OUR CONTROL WHEN IT'S NATIONWIDE, A DROP IN, IT'S A DROP IN THOSE INTERESTED IN THE TEACHING PROFESSION, UM, AND PEOPLE LEAVING THE PROFESSION WHO HAVE ACTIVELY BEEN ENGAGED IN THE PROFESSION. SO IT'S DIFFICULT TO RECRUIT AND RETAIN STAFF. UM, SO AGAIN, WE WERE TAKING 5% FROM TEACHER RECRUITMENT AND RETENTION AND MOVING IT TO THE STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT SECTION. AND ONCE WE DOVE INTO THAT STU STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT SECTION, IT WAS A GROUP EFFORT TO WIGGLE AROUND. THE PERCENTAGES WE LANDED ON HAD A TON OF THOUGHT AND DISCUSSION BEHIND, UM, THE PERCENTAGES GIVEN TO ACHIEVEMENT, THE PROJECTS AND COLLEGE OR CAREER READINESS. OKAY. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, MR. SMITH? NO. OH, GO AHEAD. NO, GO AHEAD MR. SMITH. GO AHEAD. UH, I'LL GET MY THOUGHTS. GO. YOU CAN HAVE IT. MR. DALLAS. MR. DALLAS. GO AHEAD. O OKAY. I I JUST WANT TO APPLAUD THE COMMITTEE AND THE MEMBERS WHO PARTICIPATE IN THIS, UH, VERY VIBRANT CONVERSATION, UH, FOR INCREASING THE IMPORTANCE OF ACHIEVEMENT AND COLLEGE AND CAREER READY. AND THOSE ARE TWO AREAS WHERE WE NOT ONLY JUDGE OURSELVES, BUT THE LARGER SOCIETY JUDGES US AS WELL. SO I APPRECIATE THE FLEXIBILITY AND THE, UM, THE COMFORT WITH, UH, LISTENING TO DISPARATE POINTS OF VIEW AND, UH, MOVING FORWARD. AND SO THIS, I THINK THIS PASSED UNANIMOUSLY, IF I RECALL CORRECTLY. SO THANKS TO THE, UH, RESULTS COMMITTEE. THANK YOU, SIR. ALRIGHT, MR. SMITH, I, I WAS TRYING TO MAKE A QUICK, UM, I, I, I'LL STATE, AS I STATED EARLIER, UM, [01:20:01] I THINK THAT THIS EVALUATION TOOL, UH, AND HAS BEEN BROUGHT UP, UM, I, I THINK THIS EVALUATION TOOL SHOULD HAVE BEEN LOOKED AT FROM A, A WIDER SCOPE AND NOT A, UM, A, UH, A KALEIDOSCOPE SCOPE IN TERMS OF BRINGING IN WHERE THE COMMITTEE CHAIR AND THE C UH, AND THE COLLEAGUES WANTED TO TAKE THIS, UH, DISCUSSION AS A, AS SOMEONE WHO'S SAT ON THIS BOARD FOR YEARS, FOR 47 YEARS AND HAVE WENT THROUGH THIS PROCESS. I, I THINK THAT EVERY NOW AND THEN, UH, AS THE, UH, MY COLLEAGUES LIKE TO TALK ABOUT AI AND THE HOW AS THE WORLD EVOLVES AND TIMES EVOLVE AND THINGS CHANGE, JUST KEEP THE SAME TOOL AND JUST CHANGE MAYBE A COUPLE THINGS ON IT, YOU KNOW, IT MAKES ME WANNA DO IS THAT, IS THAT, IS THAT WHAT WE REALLY REAL, IS THAT WHAT WE REALLY MEAN WHEN WE ARE SAYING THAT? OR ARE WE JUST SAYING IT BECAUSE IT BENEFITS US AT THAT TIME? YOU KNOW, BECAUSE I DO BELIEVE IN, UH, BEING CONSISTENT. AND, AND WITH THAT BEING, WITH THAT BEING SAID, I THINK THAT THE MORE THE, MY TO MY SECOND POINT IS THAT THE CONVERSATION SHOULD HAVE BEEN MORE OF, IS THIS STILL THIS THE TOOL THAT WE, THAT WILL GET US TOWARDS THE GOALS OF OUR DISTRICT OR THE, OR THE WARD, THE, THE TOWARD THE GOALS OF OUR BOARD. UM, AND, AND, AND, AND, AND, AND, AND LA AND, AND LASTLY I'LL GIVE CREDIT THAT, THAT, THAT CONVERSATION WAS, HAD, WAS, WAS HAD IN TERMS OF, UH, WHAT NEEDS TO BE CHANGED. BUT I THINK THAT IT, IT, IT NEEDS TO HAVE A DIFFERENT LOOK. I THINK IT WAS MORE OF A QUICK JUST TO KIND OF GET, GET, GET, GET US OVER AND, YOU KNOW, TO SAY, HEY, HEY, WE, WE MADE A CHANGE. THERE YOU GO. BUT I, I THINK WHEN, IF WE WANT OUR STUDENTS TO BE THE BEST AND THE BRIGHT, THEN WE HAVE TO TAKE THE, PUT THE, PUT THE NECESSARY TIME IN AND TO UNDERSTAND THE TOOL. BECAUSE ONCE, ONE, MY QUESTION IS, DO THE NEW BOARD MEMBERS, DO THEY, DO THEY EVEN UNDERSTAND THE TOOL THAT THAT DATA THAT THEY WILL BE GIVEN TO, UM, EVALUATE THE SUPERINTENDENT ON THEY, DO WE HAVE A, COULD WE HAVE A, DO WE HAVE A, A CONVERSATION ABOUT THIS? DO, DO THEY UNDERSTAND IT? I MEAN, AND, AND HOW ARE THEY SURE. E EVEN ABOUT THE GOVERNANCE. SO TO ME, THIS, THIS BROUGHT UP A WHOLE BUNCH OF QUE A BUNCH OF CONVERSATIONS AND QUESTIONS AS MY COLLEAGUE NEXT TO ME RIGHT NOW IS BLOWING BECAUSE HE'S READY FOR ME TO GET, FOR ME TO GET DONE WITH, WITH, WITH THIS CONVERSATION. IN TERMS OF RESPECT, THIS IS CONVERSATIONS, AND THIS IS A PART OF BEING A BOARD. WE CAN DISAGREE AND AGREE WITH EACH OTHER, BUT STILL, STILL SAY PROFESSIONALS AND STILL, AND, AND STILL BE NICE AND STILL MAKE SURE THAT EVERYONE LEARNS JUST AND EVERYONE UNDERSTANDS DIFFERENTLY AND THAT THEY'RE UNDERSTANDING WHAT THEY'RE DOING. BECAUSE ONCE AGAIN, THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS THAT WE DO ON THIS BOARD IS TO EVALUATE THE SUPERINTENDENT. SO I JUST WANNA BE CLEAR ON THAT. THANK YOU. OKAY. ANY OTHER COMMENTS, MR. NAY? THEN MAYBE WE SHOULD HAVE THIS CONVERSATION IN JANUARY. UH, HOW ABOUT IN JANUARY, WE PROPOSE A FUTURE TOPIC SOMEWHERE IN A BOARD MEETING TO BRING UP THE EVALUATION AS OPPOSED TO HAVING THIS CONVERSATION? NEVERMIND RIGHT NOW, RIGHT? YES. YES. AS OPPOSED TO HAVING THIS CONVERSATION RIGHT NOW OR ON THE EVE OF PEOPLE BRING ALTERNATE TOOLS TO THE TABLE THAT, OH, I FIND A HAND. LEMME RAISE MY HAND. BECAUSE IF WE WANTED TO GET RID OF THE SUPERINTENDENT, IT, THIS WOULD NOT BE THE ONLY TOOL THAT WE'D HAVE TO USE OR THE TOOL THAT'S NECESSARY TO BE USED. SO THIS WHOLE CONVERSATION SHOULDN'T LAST THIS LONG. CAN WE VOTE AND MOVE ON, PLEASE? OKAY. WE HAVE A MOTION AND A SECOND. UH, WE, WE NEED TO, UH, WE NEED TO HAVE A VOTE. SO WE'LL CALL THE QUESTION. I'LL CALL A ROLL. UH, PASTOR GORDON, HOW DO YOU VOTE? AYE, UM, MS. GORDON, HOW DO YOU VOTE? AYE, MR. SMITH? NO, BECAUSE I ASKED MONTHS TO GO OVER BEFORE THIS TOOL SEVERAL MONTHS AGO. IF I CAN LOOK AT THE RECORD, THE ANSWER IS NO. THE ANSWER IS NO. NO. DUE TO THAT. ALL RIGHT. UH, I, MY VOTE IS AYE. UH, MR. NAY. AYE. MR. SMALL. AYE. UH, DR. CARR? AYE, UH, MR. DALLAS? UH, DALLAS IS, AYE SIR. THANK YOU. AYE. THANK YOU. UH, MS. FRAZIER FRAZIER. AYE. MS. HAY A AYE. MS. BOATWRIGHT? AYE. MOTION CARRIES. [01:25:01] UH, TEN ONE. IS THERE ANY OTHER MOTIONS? NO. NOPE. THAT'S, THAT'S IT. THAT'S IT. AND THAT CONCLUDES THE RESULTS COMMITTEE. YES. THANK YOU ALL. MS. HAYES. IS THAT YES SIR, IT DOES. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. ALRIGHT, THANK, THANK YOU. THE NEXT ITEM IS THE TECHNOLOGY COMMITTEE, MS. BO WRIGHT. HELLO. THANK YOU SO MUCH. UM, AND I'M GOING TO KEEP IT SHORT AND SWEET. UH, BASICALLY YOU CAN SEE THE DOCUMENTS THERE. WE ARE GETTING SOME BETTER DATA AND BETTER DATA VISUALIZATIONS ABOUT SOME OF OUR HARDWARE ISSUES. UM, WHAT IS FRONT OF MIND RIGHT NOW FOR THE TECHNOLOGY COMMITTEE IS TRYING TO GO OUT INTO THE COMMUNITY, INTO PARENTS, TEACHERS, ADMINISTRATORS, COMMUNITY MEMBERS, AND TALK TO THEM ABOUT TECHNOLOGY. UM, HOW THEY FEEL ABOUT IT AND WHAT DIRECTION THEY THINK WE MOST BENEFICIAL FOR THE SCHOOL DISTRICT TO TAKE. THERE IS SO MUCH GOING ON IN THE TECHNOLOGY SPACE. IT IS NOT ABOUT SPREADSHEETS OR HARDWARE OR NETWORK SPEEDS. IT'S REALLY FUNDAMENTALLY RESHAPING THE JOB MARKET. IT'S, UH, HAVING A HUGE IMPACT AND THAT IMPACT IS GONNA GROW, UH, AT A PRETTY HIGH RATE HERE OVER THE NEXT FEW YEARS. SO I THINK AS PART OF ONE OF OUR PRIMARY MISSIONS OF PREPARING OUR STUDENTS TO, UH, BECOME PRODUCTIVE CITIZENS, WE NEED TO TEACH THEM RESPONSIBLE, ETHICAL, UH, USE OF TECHNOLOGY. UH, BUT THAT'S A TRICKY SUBJECT. SO WE HAVE TASKED POOR MR. JOHAN WITH COMING UP WITH SURVEYS THAT WE ARE GONNA ROLL OUT TO, HOPEFULLY IN NOVEMBER. UM, AND UTILIZE THIS SIC TO REALLY TRY AND GET PARENT FEEDBACK, UM, AND TO REALLY TRY AND GET, UH, FEEDBACK FROM THE COMMUNITY AS A WHOLE TO SORT OF GIVE US A LITTLE BIT OF A SNAPSHOT AS TO WHAT THE PUBLIC IS THINKING AND FEELING ABOUT TECHNOLOGY, UH, IN TERMS OF SETTING TECHNOLOGY STRATEGY. SO IT'S A VERY BIG FIRST BITE AND IT'S A BIG FIRST STEP, AND IT'S WHAT WE'RE GONNA BE FOCUSED ON THIS FALL. AND I'M HAPPY TO TAKE ANY QUESTIONS. ANY QUESTIONS FOR MS. BOATWRIGHT? UH, COLONEL, UH, GUY, I HAVE ONE AT THE APPROPRIATE TIME, SIR. UH, MR. MR. DALLAS, GO AHEAD. HI, MS. BOATWRIGHT, THANK YOU FOR TAKING THIS ON AND, AND LEADING IT WITH VIM AND VIGOR, UH, PLAY ON VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE. , I WAS GONNA SAY . . UM, YOU KNOW, WHEN I WENT THROUGH THE BUDGET BOOK PREPARED BY THE FINANCE GROUP, BOY, THERE'S SO MUCH DETAIL IN THERE. ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I REALLY LOOKED AT IS THE GROWTH IN, IN CERTAIN POPULATIONS AND THE DECREASE IN OTHER POPULATIONS. UH, AND SO THE QUESTION BECOMES, SURVEYING SURVEYS IS CRITICALLY IMPORTANT THAT WE PENETRATE ALL THE DIFFERENT DEMOGRAPHICS, UH, NOT JUST THOSE, AND I DON'T, I KNOW YOU'RE VERY VERSED IN THIS, NOT JUST THOSE THAT ARE EASILY ACCESSIBLE TO US, BUT IS, IS THAT SOMETHING MR. CHOAN AND YOURSELF ARE CONSIDERING MAKING SURE WE GET NORMALLY UNDERSERVED POPULATIONS, HIGH INCOME POPULATIONS ACROSS THE SPECTRUM? ABSOLUTELY. AND THAT'S WHY WE ARE GOING TO TRY AND LEAN INTO THE SICS OF ALL THE SCHOOLS, UM, AS SORT OF THE PARENT AND COMMUNITY REPRESENTATIVES FOR EACH SCHOOL, UH, TO FIGURE OUT HOW THEY CAN HELP US GET THAT SURVEY OUT TO THE POPULATION. 'CAUSE YOU'RE A HUNDRED PERCENT RIGHT IF YOU DO IT ON THE WEBSITE, IT'S GOING TO SKEW TO PEOPLE LIKE ME WHO ARE, YOU KNOW, UH, INTERESTED IN TECHNOLOGY. AND WE ABSOLUTELY WANNA CAPTURE BOTH ENDS OF THE TAIL HERE AND MAKE SURE THAT MM-HMM . THERE ARE PEOPLE, AND AS, AS YOU HAVE BROUGHT UP NUMEROUS TIMES, UM, THAT THE IMPORTANT ISSUE OF, THERE ARE A LOT OF PEOPLE IN OUR COMMUNITY WHO ARE NOT EVEN CONNECTED TO WIFI. UM, AND WE NEED TO BE AWARE OF THAT. SO I THINK THAT LEVERAGING THE KNOWLEDGE, UH, SCHOOL-BASED KNOWLEDGE OF THE SICS WILL REALLY HELP. UM, I'M HOPING THAT THROUGH THAT WE CAN FIND OTHER AVENUES, UH, COMMUNITY EVENTS, UM, SCHOOL ANNOUNCEMENTS, THE DIFFERENT WAYS THAT, UM, EACH INDIVIDUAL SCHOOL HAS FOUND SUCCESSFUL IN REACHING THEIR, UH, DIVERSE PARENT, STUDENT AND, UM, COMMUNITY POPULATION. SO THAT'S KIND OF WHERE WE'RE STARTING WITH. AND WHAT WE'LL HAVE TO DO IS JUST SORT OF SEE WHAT KIND OF RESULT WE GET, UM, AND, AND CONSISTENTLY REEVALUATE TO SEE IF WE CAN GET A MORE DIVERSE, UH, SURVEY SET OF RESULTS. SO THAT IS ABSOLUTELY, UH, TOP OF MIND FOR THIS SURVEY. OKAY. IF I COULD JUST ADD ONE, ONE SMALL, UH, COMMENT IN, IN SUPPORT OF WHAT YOU'RE SAYING. I THINK IF YOU WERE TO GO TO, UH, WHICH I'M SURE YOU ALREADY CONSIDERED, BUT, UH, INQUIRE WITH, UH, COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE LOW COUNTRY, UNITED WAY OF, UH, THE LOW COUNTRY. UH, ALSO LOOK AT THE PHILANTHROPIC AND RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS, UH, ACROSS ALL THEOLOGIES. AND I THINK THAT WILL BE REALLY APPROACHING, UH, SURVEY THAT THAT COULD BE STATISTICALLY VALID. UH, WHAT MAY NOT. THAT'S AN EXCELLENT SUGGESTION. YEAH. MAY NOT BE ACHIEVABLE, BUT IT WILL HELP US. THANK YOU, MA'AM. THANK YOU FOR THOSE EXCELLENT SUGGESTIONS. AND WE WILL MAKE ANY EFFORTS. AND IF ANYBODY ELSE HAS ANY SUGGESTIONS, FEEL FREE TO DIRECT THEM TO ME OR TO MR. SHOHAN. ANY OTHER COMMENTS? [01:30:01] OKAY. THANK YOU. UH, MS. HAY, THE NEXT ITEM [Superintendent’s Report] ON THE AGENDA IS SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT. THANK YOU. UH, MR. GEIER AND BOARD MEMBERS THIS EVENING UNDER STUDENT, UH, ACHIEVEMENT IN THE SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT. WE'RE GONNA BE, UH, TALKING ABOUT THE ADVANCED COURSES AND UPDATE REGARDING THE ADVANCED COURSES THAT WE OFFER, UH, WITHIN THE SCHOOL DISTRICT. DR. STRADDLES, WHENEVER YOU'RE READY. THANK YOU, DR. RODRIGUEZ. AND THANK YOU CHAIRMAN. I DO WANNA START THIS EVENING WITH SHARING THAT OUR PRESENTER, MS. MCKINSEY, THIS IS A PRESENTATION SHE HAD WORKED ON AT LENGTH AND SHE WASN'T FEELING IT'S VERY RURAL. AND I WANNA PUT THAT FORWARD. I WANTED TO SHARE THAT WITH OUR BOARD MEMBERS BECAUSE SHE DOES PUT A LOT OF HARD WORK TO REPRESENT AND PRODUCE FOR US AS A SYSTEM, SO WE CAN GO TO THE NEXT THANK YOU. SO I DO WANNA TAKE A MOMENT, AND REALLY LET'S TAKE, START FROM THE FIRST ROW WHERE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT AIMS, ALSO KNOWN AS GIFTED PROGRAMS THAT WE PROVIDE AT THE ELEMENTARY. AND THIS IS THE ENTRY LEVEL FOR OUR STUDENTS FOR ADVANCED PROGRAMS. WE RECOGNIZE THAT IDENTIFYING OUR CHILDREN FOR GIFTED AND TALENTED FOR ACADEMICS AND THE ARTS STARTS EARLY. WE ALSO RECOGNIZE THAT IT'S SECOND GRADE. WE HAVE PLACEMENT. THAT PLACEMENT ACTUALLY GOES ALL THE WAY THROUGH OUR STUDENTS AS THEY CROSS THE STAGE FOR GRADUATION. WHAT YOU SEE IN THE SECOND COLUMN ARE OUR SCHOOLS THAT ACTUALLY HAVE A DIRECT FOCUS ON CHOICE GIFTED PROGRAMS. I'M NOT SAYING THAT OUR STUDENTS WHO ARE GIFTED AND TALENTED ARE NOT SERVED, THAT ARE ALL OF OUR 18 ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS, BUT THIS IS DIRECTLY CALLED OUR AIMS PROGRAM. ALL OF OUR ELEMENTARY PROGRAMS HAVE THE PROVISION FOR GIFTED AND TALENTED TEACHERS, AND OUR STUDENTS ARE SERVICED AS WELL. AS I WANNA TAKE TO ONE POINT THAT WE HAVE SCHOOLS THAT WE CALL HAVE STUDENTS THAT WE STRETCH, THAT WE BLEND, THAT MARY MAY SHOW A LITTLE MORE STAMINA, A LITTLE MORE CHUTZPAH MAY BE A WORD THAT'S USED, AND THEY MAY PUT MARY INTO THAT GIFTED AND TALENTED CLASS AS WELL. AND THERE'S BENEFITS OF THAT FOR ALL OF OUR CHILDREN, WHICH YOU'LL SEE AT IN THE FIRST COLUMN. IF WE CAN TAP ONTO THE ACADEMICS, WE'VE ALSO FOUND THAT IT DECREASES THE NUMBER OF BEHAVIOR, BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY, IT KEEPS NEARING FROM BEING BORED IN CLASS. OUR NEXT ITEM, ANOTHER THANK YOU. WE COULD SAY THERE, MRS. CUSH BARRY, ARE HONORS COURSES, WHICH ARE AVAILABLE AMONGST ALL OF OUR SCHOOLS HERE IN BEAUFORT COUNTY FROM K THROUGH 12, EVEN IN THE AREA OF CAREER TECHNICAL EDUCATION AND JUNIOR ROTC. WE NOW ALSO OFFER HONORED WEIGHTED WEIGHTED COURSES AND THANK YOU TO OUR ACADEMIC COMMITTEE WHO HAS APPROVED THOSE LOCAL BOARD, UM, COURSES FOR US. ANOTHER AREA WE HAVE IS BCS TIDES. WE ARE IN OUR SECOND YEAR. WE'RE SERVING ABOUT 94 STUDENTS NORTH AND SOUTH ABROAD IN THESE PROGRAMS RIGHT NOW. DUAL ENROLLMENT BOARD MEMBERS, YOU ARE VERY GENEROUS AT PROVIDING WE, WE SERVICE OVER $1.2 MILLION IN STUDENTS IN DUAL ENROLLMENT. IT'S A VERY GENEROUS GIFT FROM OUR BOARD. NOT ALL SCHOOL DISTRICTS IN SOUTH CAROLINA PICK UP THE BILL, AND WE DO FOR TUITION AS WELL AS FOR BOOKS. AND THE OPPORTUNITIES YOU GIVE TO OUR FAMILIES IS THREEFOLD. YOU GIVE THE STUDENT THE OPPORTUNITY TO EARN CREDIT COST EFFECTIVENESS FOR OUR FAMILIES HERE IN BEAUFORT COUNTY. AND YOU'RE GIVING ME AN OPPORTUNITY AS A STUDENT FOR EARLY COLLEGE, UM, CREDITS AT AN EARLY PART OF MY LIFE, CAMBRIDGE. THIS IS PROBABLY ONE OF THE MAIN REASONS I WANTED TO TAKE AN OPPORTUNITY SHARE. CAMBRIDGE IS ANOTHER ADVANCED PROGRAM THAT WE HAVE. BATTERY CREEK HAS A PATHWAY, AS IS MAY RIVER HIGH SCHOOL. IN A LATER TIME THIS YEAR, WE'LL BRING FORWARD SOME OF OUR DATA POINTS WITH MAY RIVER. BUT I DO WANNA TOUT SOMETHING THAT IS OVERLOOKED AT MANY TIMES. AND THE PRINCIPAL IS VERY SHY. DR. WEBB. HE DOESN'T TOUT THAT MAY RIVER HIGH SCHOOL HAS SOME OF THE HIGHEST NATIONAL SCORES IN CAMBRIDGE TESTING. I WANT YOU TO ALSO LOOK AT INTERNATIONAL BACCALAUREATE HILTON HEAD HIGH SCHOOL, THE SIX HIGHEST SCORES FOR DIPLOMA COURSE ASSESSMENTS IN THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA. AND THEN WE ALSO KNOW OUR ADVANCED PLACEMENT COURSES TO SHARE WITH YOU. LAST YEAR, BLUFFTON HIGH SCHOOL SERVICED OVER 700 ADVANCED PLACEMENT TESTS. THAT IS A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF ASSESSMENTS FOR SCHOOLS. THANK YOU MRS. CUSHEN. BARRY. SO WHAT WE LOOK AT HERE ARE THE PREPARATIONS. HOW DO WE KIND OF GET OUR STUDENTS READY? WE'VE STARTED WITH AVID RIGHT? SELF-ADVOCACY FOR STUDENTS TO HELPING TO DEVELOP THE FRONTAL LO DEVELOPMENT FOR OUR STUDENTS AND OTHERS. I'VE SHARED WITH YOU BOARD MEMBERS THAT IT HELPS OUR STUDENTS LEARN HOW TO LEARN. IT'S A COLLEGE PREPARATORY PROGRAM, HAS STARTED WITHIN TWO OF OUR MIDDLE SCHOOLS NOW. ONE IS BEAUFORD MIDDLE, THE [01:35:01] SECOND ONE IS HILTON HILTON, HEAD MIDDLE. OUR GOAL IS TO HAVE IT AT A HIGH SCHOOL NORTH AND ABROAD GOAL AS WELL. WE, WE WILL HAVE, I ACTUALLY DO HAVE IT, HILTON HEAD HIGH SCHOOL THIS YEAR BEING FUNDED THROUGH FEDERAL FUNDS LEADER, LEADER IN ME. ONE OF THE BEAUTIFUL ATTRIBUTE ATTRIBUTES OF THIS PROGRAM, GETTING OUR STUDENTS READY FOR COLLEGE AND ADVANCED COURSES, IS SETTING GOALS, EFFICACY AGENCY, MY OWNERSHIP OF MY LEARNING, AND THEN I'LL DRAW YOUR ATTENTION TO THE ACADEMIC AND ARTS OPPORTUNITY FOR OUR STUDENTS. AND THAT IS THE OPPORTUNITY FOR OUR GIFTED STUDENTS THAT I SHARED WITH YOU EARLIER. AND I WOULD LIKE TO SHARE WITH YOU THAT WE ARE VERY MUCH ALIGNED TO THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR GIFTED CHILDREN. THAT IS ONE OF THE STRONGEST ASSOCIATIONS IN OUR COUNTRY AND OUR WORK THAT'S BEING PUT THROUGH, THROUGH OUR GIFTED AND TALENTED LEAD EDUCATORS, AS WELL AS THROUGH SCARLET MOONEY, WHO ALSO HEADS OUR TIDES PROGRAM, IS HELPING US BUILD THAT PROGRAM AS WELL IN THE DISTRICT. SO ADVANCED PROGRAM RESEARCH BASED ON OUTCOMES. I WANTED TO GIVE YOU A LITTLE OF THE WHY HONORS, AND I WILL SHARE THIS IN ALL OF THE ADVANCED CLASSES, ENHANCES CRITICAL THINKING, GIVES THE OPPORTUNITY FOR INCREASED GPAS. THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE HAVE STUDENTS IN HIGH SCHOOL, YOU KNOW HOW COMPETITIVE THAT GPA IS. WHAT IS MY CLASS RANK? AND IT PROVIDES A COMPETITIVE EDGE FOR COLLEGE ADMISSIONS. WE RECOGNIZE HERE IN BEAUFORT COUNTY, THAT'S A 5.0 WAITING. NOT ALL STATES HAVE THAT. FLORIDA, IT'S A 4.5. SOUTH CAROLINA, IT'S A 5.0. SO SOUTH CAROLINA ACTUALLY PROVIDES A LITTLE EDGE, EXTRA EDGE FOR OUR STUDENTS HERE IN THE STATE. OUR TIDES PROGRAM, WE SHARE WITH YOU THAT AS, AS WELL AS OUR WORLD BRANCH EARLY COLLEGE STUDENTS HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY OF GRADUATING HIGH SCHOOL WITH A DIPLOMA WITH ONE ASSOCIATE DEGREE. AND THEN LET'S ADD A THIRD ASSOCIATE'S DEGREE. AND THIS JANUARY WE ARE GONNA BE ADDING OUR NEW PHASE TO THAT, WORKING WITH OUR CAREER TECHNICAL EDUCATION THROUGH CULINARY AT THE CULINARY INSTITUTE. THERE'RE KIND OF SAYING IN A LOW TONE, TIDES 2.0. NEXT SLIDE. THANK YOU CAMBRIDGE. I'VE GIVEN YOU SOME INFORMATION REGARDING THE PERFORMANCE OF ONE OF OUR STELLAR HIGH SCHOOLS. AND WHAT DOES IT DO AS WELL? IT DEEPENS THE LEVEL OF SUBJECT MASTERY, CONCEPTUAL THINKING AND UNDERSTANDING RESEARCH SKILLS. ONE OF THE TIGHTEST COURSES THAT THEY OFFER IS CALLED GENERAL PAPER STUDENT. BASICALLY FOR THE WHOLE SEMESTER HERE, 'CAUSE WE'RE ON A FOUR BY FOUR, IS THAT OPPORTUNITY TO LEARN HOW TO DIVE INTO A TOPIC AND WRITE A STRONG RESEARCH PAPER. I'M LOOKING AT YOU, DR. CARR, YOU UNDERSTAND HOW THAT'S NECESSARY AS WE GO INTO POST-SECONDARY OPPORTUNITIES, BUT NOT EVEN FOR THAT HAD OPPORTUNITY TO COMMUNICATE. SHOULD I CHOOSE TO GO TO A TECHNICAL COLLEGE THAT THOUGHT PROCESS? INTERNATIONAL BACCALAUREATE. WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN IB AND AP AND AP? LET'S LOOK AT IT. AP IS A NATIONAL TEST WITHIN THE UNITED STATES. IB IS A GLOBAL TEST, NOT JUST UNITED STATES. SO SHOULD A CHILD REALLY WANNA GO TO CAMBRIDGE AND STUDY WITH AN IB DIPLOMA PROVIDES OTHER OPPORTUNITIES. I THINK THAT'S A CLEAN WAY OF HAVING THAT COMPARISON. ONE MORE THING TO KEEP IN MIND IS THAT AP HAS A NATIONAL STANDARD FOR THEIR SYLLABUS. SO A STUDENT COULD MOVE FROM SOUTH CAROLINA TO GEORGIA, AND AN EP LIT COURSE MAY NOT BE THE SAME BOOK, BUT IS FOCUSED ON THE SAME APPROACH AT BREAKING DOWN THE LITERATURE. TAKE YOU TO WHAT'S, WHAT IS SOME OF THE SUPPORT THAT WE HAVE FOR OUR STUDENTS TO GET YOU THERE. SCHOOL COUNSELORS, TEACHER MENTORING, ACTUALLY OUR DIRECTOR FOR SCHOOL COUNSELING THIS WEEK PRESENTED A PROGRAM THAT SHOWS TO THE POINT TRACKING OF OUR STUDENTS WHO ARE IN HIGH SCHOOL. ARE THEY READY FOR GRADUATION? ARE THEY PASSING THEIR CLASSES THAT ALSO COULD BE USED FOR MIDDLE SCHOOL. CAN WE IDENTIFY OUR STUDENTS WHO CAN GO ONTO THE TRACK? ONE OF THE AREAS THAT WE'RE BUILDING SKILLSET AT, BECAUSE WE WILL HAVE MS. MILITANT, MS. TON, AS WELL AS, UH, MS. MCKINSEY ATTEND THE AP COLLEGE NATIONAL CONFERENCE THIS WEEK TO HAVE AP BE PART OF OUR PRACTICE OF CONVERSATION ON THE AP READINESS. THAT'S A RESULT OF THE SITTING FOR THE SAT AND, AND ACTUALLY THE PSAT. SO IS MARY READY TO GO INTO THIS COURSE? LET'S USE MULTIPLE POINTS TO SCHEDULE STUDENTS INTO ADVANCED COURSES SHARED WITH YOU. TIDE. IT'S ON A TCL CAMPUS. THERE ARE TWO LOCATIONS, NEW RIVER AND THE MATHERS CAMPUS HERE IN BEAUFORT. WE PROVIDE DISTRICT TUTORING. TUTORING IS NOT JUST FOR THAT STUDENT WHO IS HAVING A STRUGGLING READER, BUT PROVIDING TUTORING AS WELL FOR THE STUDENTS WHO WE WANNA STRETCH OR WHO NEED THAT EXTRA IN AP CALC. HOW MANY OF WE TAKEN AN AP [01:40:01] CALC TEST? I'LL BE QUIET. AND THEN OUR EXTENDED LEARNING, WHICH IS A PHENOMENAL PARTNERSHIP THAT WE PROVIDE FOR, FOR OUR STUDENTS IN OUR COMMUNITIES. RIGHT NOW WE HAVE 11 SITES. WE'RE BUILDING ON TWO MORE ADDITIONAL SITES COMING ON BOARD. UM, THERE, THERE WILL BE SOUTH OF THE BOARD. THAT'S AN ADDITIONAL PARTNERSHIPS THAT WE'RE BUILDING WITH THE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB. SO IN CLOSING, JUST A REMINDER OF THE COMMITMENT THAT YOU AS A BOARD HAVE MADE TO OUR COMMUNITY. SO BEAUFORT COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT IS COMMITTED TO OFFERING OUR STUDENTS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR ADVANCED COURSEWORK. ADVANCED COURSEWORK PROVIDE WORK, IMPROVES STUDENTS ACADEMIC SKILLS AND INCREASES THEIR CHANCES FOR ACCEPTANCE TO THEIR SELECTED COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES. ADVANCED COURSEWORK ALSO PROVIDES A HIGHER LEVEL OF SKILL AND ABILITY FOR STUDENTS MOVING TO A CAREER OR MIL MILITARY PATHWAY. AFTER HIGH SCHOOL, ADVANCED LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES PROVIDE CHIL CHALLENGING CONTENT STRUCTURES TO DEVELOP CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS, RESEARCH SKILLS AND FOSTER LIFELONG LEARNING AND BOARD MEMBERS HAS CONSIDERED WORK AND DEDICATION. YOU ALSO GIVE BACK TO OUR SCHOOL. SO I WANNA THANK YOU FOR THAT AS WELL. AND TO OUR SUPERINTENDENT. THANK YOU CHAIRMAN. QUESTIONS, COMMENTS? MR. SMITH? FIRST ALL I WOULD JUST LIKE TO SAY I THANK YOU DR. CROS, FOR THIS GREAT, UM, FOR THIS GREAT PRESENTATION. IN TERMS OF, UH, UM, ADVANCED COURSES LIKE, UH, COLLEGE PREP AND UM, IB COURSES, UH, IS IT, IS IT, IS IT THE DISTRICT PRACTICE THAT AT THE HIGH SCHOOL LEVEL THAT WE, THAT IN ORDER TO GET IN THESE COURSES, THAT WE GIVE YOU A TEST THAT YOU HAVE TO TEST TO TELL WHEREVER YOU CAN BE, YOU CAN ENTER THESE COURSES OR YOU CAN'T COURSES? IS THAT, HOW IS THAT, IS THAT A DISTRICT PRACTICE THAT YOU, YOU CAN TEST? WE TEST YOU TO SEE WHETHER YOU, UM, YOU CAN BE PUT IN THESE CLASSES OR NOT. IT'S MY UNDERSTANDING THAT, THAT A PLACEMENT OPPORTUNITY MAY BE ESTABLISHED AT SOME OF OUR HIGH SCHOOLS IN ORDER TO DETERMINE IF THE STUDENT HAS THE POTENTIAL BY WHICH TO MEET THE RIGOR AND DEPTH OF THE COURSE. IT IS NOT A REQUIREMENT, BUT SOME SCHOOLS DO HAVE A PLACEMENT IN ORDER TO HELP SCHEDULE STUDENTS. AND, AND SO MY QUESTION THEN WILL BECOME, IF, IF, IF THAT'S THE CASE, THEN IF THAT, IF THAT KID COULD NOT BE SOME, SOME OF US YOU LIKE TO SAY EVERYBODY'S NOT A TEST TAKER. SO THAT KID'S NOT A TEST TAKER AND THEY, AND THEY, AND THEY CRASH OUT ON THAT, ON THAT TEST, BUT THEY DO HAVE THE SKILL SET TO ACTUALLY TO HANDLE THE WORK, THEN HOW FAIR IS THAT TO THE ACTUAL STUDENT? BECAUSE THAT'S A CONCERN. SO WE HAVE TO RECOGNIZE TWO THINGS. SO SOME OF THESE COURSES DO REQUIRE AN EX, EX EXIT EXAM THAT DOES HAVE AN IMPACT ON THEIR GRADE AS WELL, SIR. SO THERE'S, THERE'S A BALANCE THAT A SCHOOL COUNSELOR HAS TO TAKE UNDER FOR ANALYSIS. DO I HAVE MARY START WITH AN HONORS CLASS TO BUILD HER CAPACITY AND HER CONFIDENCE? DO I HAVE MARY HAVE THAT OPPORTUNITY FOR TUTORING TO BUILD HER AND STRETCHER, EXCUSE ME. AND THEN THE OPPORTUNITY AS A 10TH GRADER, LET'S SIT AND GIVE THAT OPPORTUNITY AGAIN, I DON'T BELIEVE IT'S A PRACTICE OF THE SYSTEM TO CLOSE THE DOOR ON STUDENTS OPPORTUNITIES. MEAN, AND I I DO HEAR YOU, BUT I JUST HAD A COUPLE PARENTS, BUT THANK YOU. THANK YOU SO MUCH, MA'AM. UH, I JUST HAS A COUPLE PARENTS WHO HAVE BROUGHT THAT TO MY ATTENTION AND SAYING THAT THEY THINK THAT THAT'S KIND OF, UH, THAT'S CONCERNING BECAUSE TO THE, UH, TO THE ONE, ONE OF THE PARENTS SAID THAT SHE THOUGHT THAT THAT WAS, THAT COULD BE, UM, WHAT'S THE WORD? SHE'S GONNA USE HER WORD, , BASICALLY. SHE THOUGHT THAT, THAT, THAT THAT COULD BE, UH, NOT DISCOUNTED KID, BUT, UM, OH MAN. MAY, MAY I ASK IF THAT PARENT COULD POSSIBLY REACH BACK OUT TO THE SCHOOL COUNSELOR TO SEE IF THERE'S ADDITIONAL TUTORING AND A STEP OF GOING INTO AN HONORS CLASS FIRST AT A 5.0 WAITING BEFORE THEY GO INTO A 6.0. SO THAT WE'RE GIVING OUR STUDENTS THE OPPORTUNITIES, AS I'VE SHARED WITH YOU, THAT WE TRY, WE WORK AS A SYSTEM TO DO. CAN WE MAKE THAT SUGGESTION TO THE PARENT IF WE COULD REACH OUT TO THE SCHOOL COUNSELOR? WELL, ACTUALLY I WAS AT A MEETING, UM, AND, AND, AND ACTUALLY THAT KID WAS COMING IN. I THINK THAT THAT KID WAS A, UM, I WAS, I WAS, UH, I DON'T KNOW. I DON'T KNOW WHO THE PARENT, I DON'T KNOW THE PARENT. I THINK I WAS, I WAS AT A MEETING IN THE, IN THE PARENT, I THINK IT WAS A MILITARY PARENT, AND THIS KID WAS COMING IN OR SOMETHING, AND THE PARENT WAS TELLING ME THAT, EXCUSE ME, THAT, THAT, THAT, THAT THOSE, UH, SHE DISCRIMINATORY IS WHAT SHE SAID. SHE SAID THAT SHE THOUGHT THAT THOSE WAS DISCRIMINATORY PRACTICES AND THAT SHE THOUGHT THAT THAT WAS, THAT, THAT THAT WAS KIND OF UNHEALTHY. SHE SAID THAT, YOU KNOW, HER CHILD MAY NOT DO WELL IN TERMS IN TERMS OF THAT, BUT FOR IN THE, IN THE CONTINUING OF AN UNDERSTANDING OF BEING ABLE TO PROCESS THE INFORMATION, SHE THOUGHT THAT THAT, THAT, THAT, UH, THAT HE WOULD, [01:45:01] THAT HE WOULD DO, THAT HE WOULD DO WELL, AND THAT HE HAD, HAD PREVIOUSLY HAD SOME OF THOSE COURSES. AND SO THAT'S JUST, THAT'S JUST WHAT, WHAT, WHAT I'LL, I MEAN, I'LL SAY I, I'M, I MEAN, I'M JUST TELLING YOU, YOU KNOW, WHAT KIND OF WHAT, I DIDN'T REALLY KNOW HER LIKE THAT. BUT THAT'S A LITTLE MORE ALARMING. IF YOU CAN HELP WITH ADVISING. EVERY PARENT HAS THAT OPPORTUNITY TO SIGN A WAIVER TO HAVE THEIR STUDENT GO INTO AN ADVANCED COURSE. THAT'S GOOD TO KNOW THAT CHOICE IS OUT THERE FOR OUR FAMILIES. SO IT MAY BE, I I MAY BE RECOMMENDING MARY TO START AT, LET'S JUST SAY A A OWNER'S COURSE, AND YOU MAY FEEL DIFFERENTLY FOR YOUR CHILD. YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO ASK FOR A WAIVER. OKAY. ALWAYS KEEP THAT IN MIND. ON THE FLIP SIDE OF THAT, WE ALSO GIVE THE OPPORTUNITY FOR A STUDENT IF THEY FEEL THEY HAVE THAT ACQUISITION OF THE CONTENT OF AN AP LITERATURE COURSE, THEY COULD PETITION TO GO AND SIT AND BASICALLY CLIP THAT CLASS AND SIT FOR THE TEST. SO WE DO HAVE OPPORTUNITIES AND WAIVERS AND EVEN LET OUR STUDENTS SIT FOR A TEST IF THEY HAVEN'T BEEN IN THE CLASS AS WELL. THANK YOU. I APPRECIATE THAT. THAT YES, SIR. THAT'S DEFINITELY GOOD. NO, UH, THAT'S WHY COMMUNICATION IS SO IMPORTANT. BUT WHAT I TOLD HER WAS I SAID, I, I, I, I CHARGED HER, I ASKED HER, CHARGED HER WITH THE THING OF, I SAID, WELL, WHY DON'T YOU, DON'T YOU MAYBE GO BACK OUT TO THE SCHOOL AND HAVE TO ASK, SPEAK TO THE PRINCIPAL AND SEE IF THE, WHAT, WHAT Y'ALL, WHAT GROUND, COMMON GROUND Y'ALL? BECAUSE I SAID THAT I WILL NEVER THINK THAT, THAT AND KNOW THAT, THAT THAT'S NOT OUR INTENTIONS TO, UH, DISCOUNT STUDENT OR NOT OFFER A STUDENT THAT OPPORTUNITY. SO I, UH, ACTUALLY REACHED BACK OUT TO THE, THE PRINCIPAL AND THE PRINCIPAL DIDN'T MEET HER. SATISFACTORY DIDN'T COME TO THE DISTRICT, BUT LIKE I SAID, I DIDN'T KNOW HER. SHE WAS REAL KIND OF STANDOFFISH. SO I DIDN'T WANNA PUSH HER OFF ANYMORE THAN SHE WAS ALREADY TICKED OFF AT THAT MOMENT AND GAVE A RIGHT ADVICE. BUT YOU CAN SHARE, WE DO HAVE RULES THAT PARENTS MAY SIGN. THANK YOU. YES, SIR. ALRIGHT, OTHER QUESTIONS, COMMENTS? I HAVE A, YES, I HAVE A COMMENT. UH, DID I HEAR A VOICE? YES. JUST PASTOR GORDON AND PASTOR GORDON. ALL RIGHT, GO AHEAD. YEAH. HERE'S MY QUESTION. IS, UM, THE AIMS PROGRAM, THE ACCELERATED AIMS PROGRAM, THAT'S FOR, FOR THE ELEMENTARY, CORRECT? YES, SIR. THAT IS. OKAY. OKAY. WELL, IS IT ANY WAY THAT WE COULD TRACK THE PERFORMANCE, UM, OF OUR STUDENTS COMPARED TO DISTRICT AND STATE? I HAVE DONE A COMPARISON WITHIN THE DISTRICT, SIR. I DON'T HAVE THE INFORMATION WITH ME. NO, THAT'S FINE. UM, I DON'T, BUT UNFORTUNATELY I DO NOT HAVE ACCESS TO THE STUDENT INFORMATION SYSTEM. RIGHT. SIS OF OTHER DISTRICTS. BUT I COULD PUT A QUESTION TO OUR DEPARTMENT, BOTH BRETT FRITZ AND, UM, NICHOLAS FLOWERS. I COULD INQUIRE WITH THEM, BUT I KNOW I DON'T HAVE THAT CAPABILITY OF COMPARING GT BEAUFORT TRACKING IT TO GT. I'M JUST GONNA USE AIKENS FOR AN EXAMPLE RIGHT NOW. UM, BUT I COULD INQUIRE DEEPER ON THAT. OKAY. OKAY. UM, ONE OF THE OTHER QUESTIONS WAS, UH, THE RETENTION RATE. I MEAN, DO WE HAVE KIDS? THAT'D BE LIKE, YOU KNOW, AND IT IS A, A PROGRAM OF CHOICE. WE HAVE OUR PARENTS THAT SAY, WELL, I WANT MY CHILD IN IT. THEN AFTER THEY GET IN THERE, IT'S LIKE, OH, WELL, IT, IT MIGHT BE A LITTLE BIT TOO MUCH. YOU KNOW, BECAUSE NOW YOU, YOU KNOW, NOT ONLY DOES THE CHILD IS, IS DIGGING A LITTLE DEEPER, SO IS THE PARENTS, SO DO WE DO, IS THERE A RETENTION RATE ON IT? LIKE SOME KIDS COMING IN? I GO AHEAD. I COULD, I DO APOLOGIZE, PASTOR GORDON. UM, I DO REVIEW THE RETENTION OF THIRD GRADE WHERE YOU, WE RECOGNIZE IT'S MANDATORY. I HAVE NOT SEEN GIFTED AND TALENTED CHILDREN BEING RECOMMENDED FOR RETENTION OF THIRD GRADE AS A RESULT OF THAT, OF NOT NEEDING THE STATE REQUIREMENT ON THE SC READY READING. SO THAT EXPERIENCE I HAVEN'T SEEN AT THAT LEVEL. 'CAUSE THAT IS WHERE RETENTION IS A REQUIREMENT. BUT WHAT I CAN SHARE WITH YOU, IF A FAMILY FEELS THAT THE WORK IS TOO RIGOROUS AND YOU DID GIVE THAT CHILD THE OPPORTUNITY, NO ONE WOULD LEAVE A CHILD WITHOUT SUPPORT OR HAVE THAT OPPORTUNITY TO TALK AND SAY, WELL, MAYBE THERE'S ANOTHER FIT FOR THE STUDENT THAT WE WANT OUR CHILDREN TO HAVE THE BEST EXPERIENCE. AND IN THE HIGH SCHOOL LEVEL, WE HAVE UP UNTIL 10 DAYS UNDER STATE GUIDELINES TO SHIFT A STUDENT FROM A CLASS WITHOUT IT HAVING ANYTHING NEGATIVE ONTO A STUDENT. SO IN OUR TIDES PROGRAM, I ACTUALLY HAD TWO STUDENTS OVER, WE WENT INTO OUR SECOND YEAR THAT WHO WE, WE SCHEDULED BACK TO THEIR HIGH SCHOOL BECAUSE THEY JUST FELT IT WAS A LITTLE TOO MUCH. SO WE WILL, YOU KNOW, THAT'S THE BEAUTY OF FLEXIBILITY, SIR. THANK YOU, MSRA. IT'S AWESOME. THE PROGRAMS ARE AWESOME TO RECOGNIZE OUR OVERACHIEVERS. THANK YOU. BYE. I, ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? I HAVE, I HAVE ONE COMMENT. UM, LAST SPRING, MY OLDEST GRANDSON GRADUATED FROM BUFORT HIGH. MM-HMM . UH, GRADUATED FROM, UH, [01:50:01] CLEMSON SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING IN FOUR YEARS. THE REASON HE GRADUATED IN FOUR YEARS IS BECAUSE OF THE ADVANCED PLACEMENT TESTS THAT HE TOOK IN BUFORT HIGH. UH, HE TOLD ME THAT LESS THAN HALF OF ENGINEERING, UH, GRADUATES ARE ABLE TO GRADUATE IN FOUR YEARS. SO THAT SAVED HIS FATHER, MY SON, CONSIDERABLE AMOUNT OF MONEY. AND THAT'S SOMETHING THAT, YOU KNOW, WE SHOULD PROBABLY ADVERTISE A LITTLE BIT MORE, UH, TO OUR PARENTS THAT THIS IS A GREAT PROGRAM. MY SECOND GRANDSON IS IN HIS, UH, JUNIOR YEAR WITH, AT CLEMSON AND PRE-MEDICAL, AND HE IS ON TRACK TO GRADUATE IN FOUR YEARS BECAUSE OF THE ADVANCED PLACEMENT, UH, COURSES THAT HE TOOK AT BEAUFORT HIGH. THIS IS A, IT'S A BIG DEAL. YES, IT IS. AND IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE SHOULD, UH, WE SHOULD MAKE SURE THAT WE GET THAT KIND OF, UH, STATISTICS OUT TO THE PUBLIC. SO PARENTS KNOW, GET YOUR KID IN ADVANCED PLACEMENT CLASSES. IF I MAY JUST BILL THAT, THAT CHAIRMAN GEIER THE INGENUITY OF OUR SUPERINTENDENT, DR. RODRIGUEZ IS WORKING ON WAYS OF GETTING THAT INFORMATION OUT. I ASSURE YOU, SIR. MR. SMITH, THANK UM, I DEFINITELY HEAR WHAT YOU'RE, WHAT YOU'RE, WHAT YOU'RE SAYING. BUT TO ME, I'M STILL, UH, I I, I WOULD BE CONCERNED IN, IN TERMS OF HOW WE MOVE THAT FORWARD, ESPECIALLY IF IT'S NOT DISTRICT LED. UM, I BELIEVE THAT DR. SCRS PROBABLY SAID THAT WE HAVE CERTAIN HIGH SCHOOLS THAT MAY DO THAT. SO WHEN WE ARE HAVING THOSE, IF WE ARE HAVING DIFFERENT TESTS AT DIFFERENT SCHOOLS, THEY'LL DO IT. RIGHT. NOT AGREE THAT, BUT I THINK THAT MY, MY POINT IS THAT IF WE'RE GOING TO DO SOMETHING OF THAT MAGNITUDE, I THINK IT WOULD, IT WOULD NEED TO, THE INITIATIVE OF THAT WOULD PROBABLY NEED TO BE, UH, DISTRICT LED TO KEEP US, UH, SAFE. BECAUSE LIKE I SAID, THE WAY HOW THAT PARENT AND HOW SHE PUT IT, THAT COULD POSSIBLY NOT GO OVER IF SHE CAME UP HERE AND SHE ELABORATED, LIKE I SAID, I GAVE THE CLEAN VERSION OF, YOU KNOW, AND, AND, AND THE ANGRY AND SOME POINTS THAT SHE DID HAVE TO ME DID COME ACROSS AS, AS CONCERNING OR, OR ALARMING HER. SO I JUST WANT TO SAY IN TERMS OF HOW IF WE DID MOVE TO THAT, THEN I THINK THAT THE DISTRICT WOULD NEED TO HA THE DISTRICT WOULD NEED TO, UM, PUT THEIR SPIN ON THE OTHER, THEY WOULD NEED TO CERTIFY THAT JUST, JUST SO THAT WE ARE BEING SAFE AND WE'RE BEING FAIR TO EVERYONE IS BEING EQUITABLE ACROSS THE BOARD FOR ALL KIDS. SO THAT, THAT'S, THAT'S ONE THING I WILL SAY. AND I, AND I STAND BY. I JUST WANT THAT TO BE, TO BE STATED, NOT, NOT QUESTIONING, ABOUT NOT QUESTIONING THE, THE GALL OF IT OR THE RUBBER FOR THE GOOD OF THE KIDS. I'M SURE IT'S SHOULD BE GOOD FOR GOOD OF ALL, BUT I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE CAREFULLY BEHIND WHAT WE'RE, WHAT WE'RE PUTTING OUT IN TERMS OF A PRODUCT THAT WE CAN, THAT WE CAN STAND BEHIND OUR PRODUCT. AND IF ANYONE COMES UP AND HAS OBJECTION TO IT, THAT WE, THAT WE'RE SAFE, WE'RE, WE'RE SAFE. WE PUT THAT OUT. THANK YOU. OKAY. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, SIR. THANK YOU. BOARD. NEXT. DO YOU HAVE ANY OTHER PARTS FOR, UH, SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT, SIR? NO, SIR. THAT CONCLUDES SUPERINTENDENT AND BOARD BUSINESS ACTION. [Board Business Action (Part 1 of 2)] UH, DR. RODRIGUEZ READ, UH, THE DONATION FROM FWDG FURNITURE STORE AND THE AMOUNT OF $5,000 TO ROBERT SMALL'S LEADERSHIP ACADEMY FOR SCHOOL SUPPLIES. UH, WE NEED TO HAVE SOME MOVE, SOME MOVE ON THAT MOTION. YOU, YOU, YOU MAKE THE MOTION. ALL RIGHT. A SECOND. FIVE. MR. SMALL. ANY, ANY DISCUSSION? ALL THOSE IN FAVOR IN THE ROOM PLEASE SIGNIFY BY SAYING AYE. AYE. AYE. UH, ONLINE PASTOR GORDON. AYE. UH, MS. GORDON? AYE. AYE, UH, MR. DALLAS? MS. MR. DALLAS. OKAY. MS. FRAZIER FRAZIER. AYE. MS. HAY? HAY AYE. MS. BOATRIGHT, I THINK SHE'S LEFT. BOATRIGHT IS LEFT. OKAY. MS. BOATRIGHT ISS LEFT. IS MR. DALLAS? UH, I'M MUTED. YOU'RE MUTED, SIR. ALL RIGHT. WELL, UH, NOTHING HEARD FROM MR. DALLAS. SO, WE'LL, THE MOTION WILL CARRY, UH, WE HAD AN AFFORDABLE HOUSING UPDATE AND, UH, MR. DALLAS WAS GOING TO GIVE IT. I DON'T KNOW IF, UH, MR. DALLAS IS STILL AVAILABLE. IT DOESN'T LOOK LIKE IT. SO WE WON'T HAVE THE [01:55:01] AFFORDABLE HOUSING UPDATE AT THIS TIME. UH, CONSENT AGENDA. DO I [Consent Agenda (Part 1 of 2)] HAVE A MOTION TO APPROVE THE CONSENT AGENDA? SO MOVED. SECOND. SECOND BY MR. SMALL DISCUSSION, HEARING NONE. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR IN THE ROOM SIGNIFY BY SAYING AYE. AYE. MRM SMITH? AYE. OKAY. THANK YOU. UH, MR. GORDON. GORDON. AYE MS. UH, MS. GORDON, THANK YOU. AYE. THANK YOU, MR. DALLAS. I HEARD MS. FRAZIER, I, MS. FRAZIER, NOTHING HEARD. MS. MS. HAY A AYE. THANK YOU, MS. BOATWRIGHT. MS. BOATWRIGHTS NOT ON MOTION CARRIES. UH, UH, UH, COLONEL, I'M, I'M BACK. I HAD TO STEP OUT BECAUSE OF, UH, SOME PHYSICAL MATTERS. UH, SO I VOTE. AYE. OKAY. YOU GOT A I. OKAY. CAN YOU ALSO GIVE [Board Business Action (Part 2 of 2)] A UPDATE ON THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING? ABSOLUTELY. THANK YOU, SIR. SO, UM, WAS ABLE TO, UH, ATTEND THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING UPDATE PUT ON BY THE BEAUFORT JASPER HOUSING TRUST AND WAS HELD AT THE, UM, PALMETTO ELECTRIC. AND SO IT WAS A VERY FASCINATING PRESENTATION, AND I'LL, I'LL BE BRIEF, BUT THEY HAD A LADY, A DR. LAURA ULRICH, WHO IS THE ECONOMIST FOR INDEED ECONOMIC RESEARCH. AND WE ALL KNOW ABOUT INDEED IT'S A HECK OF A JOB, UH, SITE. A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE GONE IT THE REVELATION, THE PRESENTATION WAS A REVELATION FOR ME. IT LOOKED AT JOB GROWTH PRE COVID AND POST COVID BY GENERATIONS SOBERING SUMMATION THAT MS. ORIC SHARED IN HER VERY HIGH VOLUME DEBT. THIS IS THE LATEST GENERATION THAT WILL NOT BE AS WEALTHY AS THE BABY BOOMERS, WHICH ARE THE WEALTHIEST GENERATION IN AMERICAN HISTORY. AND SHE WENT INTO WHAT CAUSES THAT. SO THE BABY BOOMERS AND SUBSEQUENT GENERATIONS, UM, HAVE BENEFITED FROM SUPPORT PROGRAMS SUCH AS THE GI BILL, WHICH HELPED EDUCATE ALL STRATA OF AMERICAN SOCIETY, INCLUDING RETURNING WORLD WAR II VETERANS AND SUBSEQUENT GENERATIONS FOR DECADES. SO THAT GROUP WAS ABLE TO ACTUALLY GO TO COLLEGE ON SOME EXTREMELY BENEFICIAL, LOW COST, UH, ENTITLEMENT PROGRAMS, ACADEMIC PROGRAMS, AND THEY, THEY WERE ABLE TO BUY HOMES. THIS BEST EXAMPLE OF THAT IS LEVITTOWN, WHICH IS ON LONG ISLAND, WHICH WAS STARTED IN 1947, WHICH IN ABLE PEOPLE WHO DIDN'T HAVE A LOT OF WEALTH TO ACTUALLY BE ABLE TO GET A HOME. AS THE ECONOMY AND POPULATIONS HAVE GROWN OVER THE LAST 60 OR 70 YEARS, ALL OF THESE BABY BOOMERS HAVE BASICALLY GENERATED FROM TREMENDOUS HOME APPRECIATION FOR, UH, PRICES. AND SO THEY'RE SITTING ON THEIR HOMES AS WELL. THEY ALSO WERE CONCERTED EFFORTS VIA HOOD AND OTHER FEDERAL AND STATE PROGRAMS THAT HELP POST WARD GENERATIONS NOT ONLY GET HOUSING, BUT ALSO LOW ENTRY TO, FOR JOBS, TRAINING PROGRAMS THAT HELP THEM BOOST THEIR NET WORTH AND ALSO CONTINUE THAT APPRECIATION OF WEALTH. AND THEN DR. RIDGE TURNED TO THE CHALLENGES FACED BY MORE RECENT GENERA GENERATIONS, THE MILLENNIALS, THE GEN X, THE WHAT HAVE YOU, UH, WHICH ARE AUTOMATION, GLOBAL COMPETITION, PRIVATIZATION. AND SHE HIGHLIGHTED THAT THE JOB EXPERIENCE TODAY TENDS TO BE MORE ENTRY LEVEL SERVICE JOBS, WHICH SHE HAD A GRAPH THAT SHOWED THE PERCENTAGE OF NEW JOBS CREATED AND WHAT THE MEDIAN SALARY WAS, WHICH PAY LESS WITH FEWER BENEFITS IF ANY COLLEGE COSTS HAVE GONE UP. AND THE LOANS THAT WERE BASICALLY RELATIVELY ALMOST FREE DURING THE EARLY STAGES OF THE BABY BOOMERS RETURNING FROM WAR. THOSE, AS WE KNOW, LENDING HAS BEEN PRIVATIZED. AND SO THE PRIVATE SECTOR HAS TO GET THEIR CUT. AND SHE HAD AN EYE OPEN A PRESENTATION, WHICH LED TO THAT. THESE ARE HURDLES. NOW, WHAT MUST BE DONE THAT LED TO THE SECOND PHASE OF THE PRESENTATION, WHICH WAS THERE WERE ABOUT 32 PEOPLE. THEY DIVIDED US UP INTO SIX GROUPS AT SIX DIFFERENT TABLES, WAS A MIXTURE OF DEVELOPERS, FINANCIERS, WHAT HAVE YOU, UH, IN BACKGROUND, EXPERTISE, UH, PEOPLE WHO WERE AFFORDABLE HOUSING PROFESSIONALS AND SITTING NEXT TO BANKERS. AND EACH TABLE SHARED THEIR IDEAS WITH THE LARGER GROUPS. SO LEMME TELL YOU SOME OF THE THINGS THAT THEY TALKED ABOUT. [02:00:01] DEVELOPERS SAID THEY CANNOT BUILD A HOUSE IN JASPER BEAUFORT COUNTY FOR LESS THAN $300,000. THAT IS A HECK OF A STARTING PRICE. AND THE QUESTION IS, CAN THE THRESHOLD BE LOWERED? WHAT HAS TO BE DONE TO MAKE IT FEASIBLE? WHAT OF THE BIGGEST BARRIERS? ONE OF THE BIGGEST BARRIERS IS THE COST OF LAND. I THINK THAT'S PRETTY SORT OF INTUITIVE. BUT WHAT I DIDN'T REALIZE IS THAT SOME OF THE CODES, FOR EXAMPLE, ON THE ISLAND AT OTHER PLACES NEAR THE SHORE, NEAR THE WATER, YOU HAVE TO HAVE A MUCH STRONGER LOWER FLOOR WINDOW IN CASE THINGS COME FLYING THROUGH YOUR WINDOW. FINANCING HAS GOTTEN A LOT MORE EXPENSIVE. AND THEN ALSO INFRASTRUCTURE. SO ROADS, WHICH THE, THE COST PER MILE FOR INFRASTRUCTURE AND ROADS IS JUST, UH, SIMPLY AMAZING TO ME. SO THERE HAVE TO BE CHANGES THAT ARE MADE THAT WERE DISCUSSED, UH, TO ALLOW PEOPLE WHO ARE STARTING OUT OUR STUDENTS, AS MS. BOATWRIGHT BOATWRIGHT MENTIONED EARLIER, HER DAUGHTER COMES BACK LOOKING FOR A JOB ALONG WITH HER PEERS, HIGHLY EDUCATED, HIGHLY MOTIVATED, WHAT HAVE YOU, BUT THERE JUST AREN'T THE NUMBER OF JOBS THAT THERE WERE RELATIVE TO THE SIZE OF THE ECONOMY. THE OTHER THING THAT WAS MENTIONED IS ADUS, WHICH ARE IN ALTERNATIVE DWELLING UNITS. AND THEY RECOMMENDED THAT ONE OF THE SIMPLEST WAYS TO POPULATE IS TO PUT A A DU IN AN AREA WHERE THERE'S ALREADY AN ESTABLISHED NEIGHBORHOODS. SO THE A DU INHABITANTS WILL BENEFIT FROM AN ESTABLISHED NEIGHBORHOOD WITH GOOD NETWORKS THAT CAN HELP THEM SORT OF, UM, YOU KNOW, GET INGRAINED INTO THE SYSTEM. AND A LOT OF OPPORTUNITIES COME FROM YOUR NETWORK. SO, UM, THE THING THAT I, I LEFT WITH IS THAT THE, UH, EXERCISE WAS VERY, VERY EYE-OPENING AND SOBERING ACTUALLY. AND THEN LASTLY, WE HAD THE, UH, THIS LAST SEGMENT WHERE THE PRESIDENT OF THE JASPER BEAUFORT, JASPER HOUSING TRUST, LOCAL DEVELOPER AND GLOBAL BUSINESS LEADER, UH, DICK STEWART, SPOKE ON THE VALUE OF SUPPORTING DEVELOPMENT FOR THE GREATER BENEFIT AND GROWTH OF THE COMMUNITY. KEY DATA POINTS ON THE BEAUFORT JASPER HAMPTON TRUST, WHICH I DID NOT KNOW. THEY'VE DEPLOYED $2 MILLION IN BASICALLY A YEAR AND A HALF SINCE 20 24, 2 THOU, 700,000 IN GRANTS TO NONPROFITS AND ONE LOCAL GOVERNMENT TO REPAIR AND PRESERVE. THEY'VE SUPPORTED AFFORDABLE INCOME, QUALIFIED HOUSING, AND THEN PROGRAMS SUCH AS HOME BUYER ASSISTANCE FOR WORKING FAMILY. MY TAKE IS, IT WAS A VERY INFORMATIVE EVENT WHERE HOPEFULLY THE REALITY THAT MAJOR FS WILL BE NEEDED TO SORT OF JUMPSTART AFFORDABLE HOUSING SO THEY CAN BE IN REACH OF THOSE. OUR KIDS IN MANY CASES WHO WOULD LOVE TO COME BACK, BUT THEY JUST DON'T HAVE THE, THE EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES. EXCUSE ME. UH, THERE ARE SOME BOOKLETS THAT WERE DISTRIBUTED AND, UH, ONE OF THOSE IS FROM STRONG TOWNS, WHICH IS A THINK TANK PRODUCTION, THE HOUSING READY CITY, A TOOLKIT FOR LOCAL CODE REFORM, AND THEN THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, EXCUSE ME, HOME BUILDERS BLUEPRINT TO ADDRESS HOUSING AFFORDABILITY CRISIS. THE BEAUFORT, JASPER HOUSING TRUST CAN HELP US GET THOSE. UH, AND IF, UM, MR. CHAIR, I'LL DEFER TO YOU, BUT, UH, WE'RE CERTAINLY HAPPY TO, UH, FOLLOW YOUR GUIDANCE AND LEAD OF THE GROUP AND IF THAT WILL BE OF, UH, OF, UH, INTEREST TO THE REST OF THE TEAM. AND I APPRECIATE THE OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE GONE AND PARTICIPATE. THANK YOU. AND IS THERE ANY COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS MR. SMITH, UH, IN, IN, IN TERMS OF, UH, THIS MEETING? HOW DID, UH, WHO, WHERE, WHAT, WHEN, WHEN, HOW, HOW DID, DID THIS, HOW DID WE GET, OR DID SOMEONE GET INVITED AFTER? YES, I, I WAS, I WAS INVITED TO COME IN AND TALK TO 'EM. I HAD NO IDEA THEY EVEN EXISTED. AND THEN, UH, THEY GAVE ME A, A BRIEFING AND ASK IF I WOULD ATTEND THE MEETING THAT, UM, UM, MR. DALLAS ATTENDED MY, MY WIFE WAS, UH, HAD A HOSPITAL, UH, ISSUE. SO I WAS THERE WITH HER. AND, UM, HE ATTENDED TO REPRESENT, TO PROVIDE INFORMATION AND MOSTLY TO GATHER INFORMATION ABOUT AFFORDABLE HOUSING CHALLENGES IN BEAUFORT COUNTY. SO THAT'S HOW, THAT'S HOW THIS HAPPENED. OKAY. OKAY. THAT'S PRETTY INTERESTING. BUT ALSO JUST OFF OF WHAT HE, OFF OF, UH, WHAT MR. UM, MR. DALLAS PRESENTED ALSO, YOU, YOU, YOU, YOU, YOU MADE A, YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT THE COST OF, UM, OF, OF THE PROCESS. UH, AND ONE THING, IF I WAS THERE, ONE THING I WOULD WANNA SAY OF GO, IF, IF Y IF Y'ALL GOT BACK TOGETHER, WAS THAT ONE THING THAT'S VERY IMPORTANT, IMPORTANTLY IN TERMS OF EVEN BRINGING OUR YOUNG PEOPLE BACK, UH, [02:05:01] IN TERMS OF, UH, AFFORDABLE HOUSING IS THERE'S A, THERE'S A IMPACT FEE. UH, AND BEFORE YOU CAN EVEN PUT THE HOUSE ON THE LAND, THAT'S NOT EVEN INCLUDING PURCHASING THE LAND. YOU GOTTA PAY ABOUT, MAYBE ABOUT, ROUGHLY ABOUT MAYBE 7,000 MILES OR SO ON. AND IN TERMS OF BEFORE YOU EVEN PUT THE EXCUSE, BEFORE YOU CAN EVEN MOVE THE HOUSE TO THE, UH, TO THE LAND AND, AND THAT, AND THAT, A LOT OF TIMES IT TRIPS UP PEOPLE, EVEN YOUNGER PEOPLE WHO MAY HAVE SOMEONE COULD POSSIBLY GIVE THEM A GOOD DEAL ON, ON A TRAILER. SO ON TOP OF THAT, OF, OF SOMEONE GIVING YOU A GOOD DEAL ON A HOUSE TO EVEN PUT IT ON THAT, ON THAT PIECE OF PROPERTY, THE, THE, THE, THE, THE COUNTY IS, THE COUNTY IS PUTTING A, ABOUT A $7,000, UH, MINIMUM ON, ON, ON TOP OF THAT TO YOU. AND THE QUESTION BECOMES WHERE IS THAT MONEY GOING, GOING, GOING TO, UH, IN, IN, IN TERMS OF UTILIZING OF THAT MONEY. SO, UH, I THINK THAT WAS SOMETHING THAT COULD HAVE BEEN DISCUSSED THERE AS WELL, THAT, THAT, THAT, THAT HUGE IMPACT FEE AND WHAT THAT LOOKED LIKE AND HOW THAT HINDERS PEOPLE FROM COMING HOME, BECAUSE THAT, THAT, THAT'S A LOT. SO, I MEAN, AND GOD FORBID YOU GOT IN THE WRONG PLACE, DEPENDING ON WHAT YOU'RE MOVING TO GET SOMEONE OUT THERE TO EVEN MOVE A MOBILE HOME, IT'S ABOUT FIVE, $6,000. SO IF YOU GOT IN THE WRONG PLACE, YOU GOTTA CALL 'EM AGAIN AND PAY THAT, PAY THAT, THAT PRICE AGAIN. SO THAT, THOSE ARE JUST THINGS THAT WOULD GO GOOD TO THAT CONVERSATION AND UNDERSTANDING WHAT, UH, THIS CONVERSATION AND WHAT IT REALLY ENTAIL OF EVEN BRINGING OUR YOUNGER, UH, WORKING CLASS BACK TO THIS AREA, OR EVEN HELPING THEM TO EVEN GET THEIR OWN HOMES. THANK YOU. YEAH. UM, MR. CHAIR, CAN I RESPOND? UH, GO AHEAD. YEAH. SO MR. SMITH IS CORRECT. UH, THERE WAS A BROAD AREA CALLED CODES. CODES. UM, IMPACT FEES FALL UNDER THE DISCUSSION OF CODES. SO THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS I THINK THE PO THE COMMUNITY HAS TO ORGANIZE AND UNDERSTAND AND HAVE SOME VERY DETAILED, UM, INSIGHTS INTO WHAT IS ELEVATING THE COST. THE COST OF LAND IS HIGH, UH, BUT WHEN COMPARED TO THE INFRASTRUCTURE THAT HAS TO BE PUT IN THE ROADS, THE SEWERS, THE DRAINAGE, THOSE TYPES OF THINGS, PROTECTING THE, UM, THE, UM, YOU KNOW, WATER ENVIRONMENT WHERE THERE'S, UM, DRAINAGE, WE GOTTA PROTECT ALL THOSE THINGS. AND SO THAT IS WRITTEN INTO CODE, SO IT WOULD BENEFIT THE COMMUNITY. I KNOW BACK IN THE DAY, THE RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS USED TO SORT OF PULL PEOPLE TOGETHER AND DO THAT. AND SO IT MAY FALL TO, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE IN THE PUBLIC WHO JUST SAY, HEY, I WANNA LEARN MORE ABOUT IT AND SHOW UP. THERE WAS NO RESISTANCE, UH, I DETECTED WHATSOEVER. UH, IN TERMS OF EXPANDING IT, BEAUFORT, JASPER HAMPTON TRUST ACTUALLY IS LOOKING FOR MORE ALLIES. SO THAT MAY BE SOMETHING, UH, FOR ALL OF US TO CONSIDER. THANKS FOR BRINGING THAT UP, MR. SMITH? YEP. OKAY. THE NEXT ITEM [Consent Agenda (Part 2 of 2)] IS A CONSENT AGENDA. DO I HAVE A MOTION TO APPROVE THE CONSENT AGENDA? SO MOVED. UH, MR. SMALLS, UH, MADE THE MOTION AND A SECOND BY DR. CARR. ANY DISCUSSION? HEARING NONE. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR IN THE ROOM SIGNIFY BY SAYING AYE. AYE. ONLINE PASTOR GORDON. AYE. THANK YOU, MS. GORDON. AYE. THANK YOU. UH, MR. DALLAS. AYE. MS. FRAZIER, FRAZIER. AYE. UH, MS. HAY? HAY. AYE. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. MOTION CARRIES. NEXT ITEM IS FUTURE AGENDA [Future Agenda Topics] TOPICS. DO WE HAVE ANY FUTURE AGENDA TOPICS? MR. SMITH? UM, I WAS ASKED ABOUT, UH, THE, UH, ATHLETES, UM, WHO WON STATE CHAMPIONSHIP AWARDS LAST YEAR FOR TRACK. UM, UH, I KNOW, I KNOW WE SOMETIMES, WE NORMALLY, UH, BRING UP, WE NORMALLY BRING THEM IN BEFORE THE BOARD TO ACKNOWLEDGE THEM. OUR LAST YEAR ATHLETES, WE NEED TO BRING THEM MONEY TO, UH, BRING THEM UP AS WELL SO THAT APPARENTLY, UH, WE HAVE SOME STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS FROM LAST YEAR THAT WE DIDN'T BRING UP. THESE ARE, THIS IS LAST YEAR'S. YEAH. YEAH. YOU KNOW, NORMALLY, LIKE WHEN WE BRING UP STATE CHAMPIONSHIP ATHLETES, THEY JACKSONVILLE? YEAH. NO, NO. THEY KIDS WHO, WHO WERE, WHO WERE, WHO WAS, WHO WERE NOT HERE. THEY, THEY KIDS WHO WEREN'T HERE MOST. MR. CHAIR. MAY I ALSO, NO, NO, I DON'T THINK THEY WERE, I DON'T THINK THEY WERE ASKED. I THINK IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE CAN LET THE, WE CAN LET THE ATHLETIC DEPARTMENT LOOK INTO SO THAT WE CAN GET SOME CLARIFICATION ON IT. I, I, FROM, FROM WHAT I'M UNDERSTANDING, THAT THEY WERE NOT, THEY WERE, THEY WERE, THEY WERE NOT. AND THEY WERE NOT BROUGHT UP. THEY WERE, THEY WERE, THEY WERE. RIGHT. THEY WERE NOT RECOGNIZING, I THINK THAT PARENTS, YEAH, PARENTS WANT, WANT THEIR KIDS TO BE RECOGNIZED FOR THAT. SO, SO, UH, I'M RAC TRACK AND FIELD. [02:10:01] I MEAN, I'M BRINGING THAT BECAUSE, RIGHT. YEAH. NATIVE ON THAT. ANY, ANY OTHER FUTURE GENDER TOPICS? UH, COLONEL GUY, IF I COULD JUST BRIEFLY, UH, NOTE THAT THE, UM, THE BOYS AND GIRLS TRACK AND FIELD TEAMS WON STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS. AND, UH, HERE'S A PLUG FOR, FOR THE, UH, BUDGET BOOK CREATED BY OUR FINANCE DEPARTMENT. THOSE TWO WINNERS ARE NOTED IN THERE. SO, MRS. I DON'T KNOW ABOUT WHETHER OR NOT THEY'VE APPEARED BEFORE US, BUT, UM, THAT EFFORTS ARE BEING MADE TO RECOGNIZE THEM. THANK YOU. OKAY. IT DOESN'T HAVE TO, UH, JUST FY IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE. UH, AND TRACK, TRACK IS A LITTLE DIFFERENT. YOU CAN HAVE INDIVIDUALS WHO WIN STATE CHAMPIONSHIP VERSUS A TEAMS THAT WIN. SO A TEAM IS DIFFERENT VERSUS THE ACTUAL KID WHO COULD HAVE WON NUMBER ONE IN THE, IN THE DISC COULD, COULD BE THROUGHOUT THE STATE. SO WE WOULDN'T WANNA OVERLOOK THAT, THAT STUDENT IF WE, OR IF WE, IF WE'RE ACKNOWLEDGING OTHER, OTHER, UH, OTHER STUDENTS. AND IT COULD BE JUST A, A, A MISS OR OVERLOOK. UH, SO IT IS, IT'S A, IT'S A MINOR THING, BUT IT'S BEEN BROUGHT TO ME SO THE PARENT ARE ENOUGH, SO I'M JUST, I'M JUST SAYING, LET'S LOOK AT IT. OKAY. THANK YOU. THAT'S SO, ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. ARE THERE ANY ANNOUNCEMENTS? OH, YES, MR. SMITH. I JUST WANTED TO, UH, THANK, UH, MAY RIVER, UH, MR. UH, MR. CARR AND I WENT TO, UH, THE, THE, UH, MAY RIVER HAD A HISPANIC, UH, HERITAGE MONTH, UH, PROGRAM OVER THERE. IT WAS TOP NOTCH. IT WAS VERY, IT WAS VERY NICE. UM, I ENJOYED, ENJOYED THE KIDS, ENJOYED THE STAFF. THEY WERE TOLD US THEY NEED SOME NEW SPEAKERS OVER THERE, . WE TOLD THEM TO PUT THAT IN THE BUDGET, TOLD 'EM TO PUT THAT IN, PUT THAT IN, PUT THAT IN THE BUDGET, AND, UH, WE SEE WHAT, WE SEE WHAT ENDS UP ON THE LIST. BUT I JUST WANTED TO DEFINITELY ACKNOWLEDGE THEM AND THANK THEM FOR THE OPPORTUNITY FOR, FOR HAVING, HAVING, HAVING A BOARD OVER THERE AND BEING ABLE TO JUST TO SEE THAT. SO, UH, HAPPY HERITAGE, UH, HAPPY, UH, HISPANIC MONTH. ALSO TO THIS MISS MONTH IS ALSO, UH, BREAST CANCER AWARENESS. UH, LISTEN, I, I THINK THAT IT'S VERY IMPORTANT THAT WE, THAT WE EMBRACE THOSE WHO ARE GOING THROUGH THAT, UH, STAFF AND PEOPLE WHO MAY HAVE DIFFERENT ISSUES THAT WE MAY NOT KNOW ABOUT OR MAY EVEN KNOW ABOUT. UH, SO THAT'S WHY I WANT MY PAINT, THE SUPPORT OF THAT, BECAUSE YOU JUST CAN'T, WE CAN'T PUT A PRICE ON THAT. AND AS WELL, AS WELL AS I BELIEVE THIS IS, UM, ALSO, UH, VIOLENCE, UH, WHAT IS IT? UM, I DON'T WANNA MISS IT. I DON'T, I DON'T WANNA GET CHEWED OUT ABOUT IT. IS IT, I THINK IT'S DOMESTIC VIOLENCE. I THINK THIS IS ALSO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE MONTH AS WELL. SO I JUST WANNA GIVE, UH, IF YOU KNOW SOMEONE, THE HOTLINES THAT THEY CAN CALL. SO I JUST WANTED TO PUT THOSE THINGS OUT THERE. AND WE SUPPORT AND I SUPPORT ALL, ALL THOSE THINGS AND ALL THOSE CALLS BECAUSE THEY'RE VERY IMPORTANT. AND YOU SEE ME WEARING TO THAT, I BRIEF A KIND YOUTH CONFERENCE SHIRT. I MENTIONED AT THE LAST BOARD MEETING THAT, THAT IF ANYONE WANTED TO COME, WE DID HAVE MEMBERS OF CITY COUNCIL COME. WE HAD MEMBERS OF PORT WALL WHO CAME, AND EVERY MEMBER WHO CAME, UH, BEAUFORT CITY CAME, SOME MEMBERS CAME, UH, UM, THE MAYOR, UH, WE ALLOWED THEM TO SPEAK TO THE KIDS. THEY WERE, THEY SPOKE TO THE KIDS. YOU'LL BE SURPRISED. AND, AND MY ACTUALLY, MY MESSAGE TO THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE, UH, UPON WHAT THE SHIRT SAID. BASICALLY THE KIDS SAID THAT WE, THEY WANNA BE HEARD, THEY NEED HELP WITH IT SAYS DOT, DOT, DOT, DOT. ACTUALLY, ACTUALLY, THAT'S NOT THE TITLE. LET ME, KIDS NEED A BETTER WAY TO, TO DEAL WITH DOT, DOT, DOT.DOT WAS THE, SO IN TERMS OF KIDS WANNA BE HEARD. SO THAT'S WHY IT WAS VERY IMPORTANT. AND I MAY, AT THE LAST MEETING, I OFFERED, OFFERED, UH, EVERYONE TO COME TO THE MEETING. SO NEXT YEAR, IF YOU GET A CHANCE, IT'S VERY IMPORTANT THAT YOU DO COME, COME. SO YOU CAN HEAR WITH THE KIDS OF OUR DISTRICT AND WANT, WANT TO, UH, WANT US TO KNOW. THANK YOU. OKAY. THANK YOU. SO, UH, NOW [Second Public Comments] WE HAVE SECOND PUBLIC COMMENTS. UH, MR. MILLER, THANK YOU FOR YOUR PATIENCE. UH, YOUR TOPIC IS, UH, KUDOS TO WHALE BRANCH BAND. YES. KUDOS TO ROYAL BRANCH BAN. IF I AM, LET ME JUST FIRST SAY WE'RE IN THE MIDDLE OF, OR, AND NEAR THE END OF THE C UH, UH, MARCHING CONTEST, UH, SEASON. AND I HAVEN'T FOLLOWED OR DON'T HAVE THE MEANS TO FOLLOW WHALE BRANCH AS MUCH AS I WOULD LIKE, BUT I THINK, AND YOU FOLKS THAT ARE THERE IN THE AREA MAY CORRECT ME, BUT I THINK THIS IS THE FIRST TIME THEY'VE HAD, HAVE ENTERED A CONTEST AND I REALLY APPRECIATE IT. AND THEY, THEIR SHOW ISN'T IT IS, IS IN ITS PRELIMINARY STAGES, BUT THEY ARE ALSO GOING TO THE STATE CONTEST. AND THAT'S [02:15:01] A REALLY GRATIFYING TO ME. EVERY, THE STATE CONTEST, YOU MIGHT THINK OF STATE, GOING TO STATE LIKE A FOOTBALL, YOU HAVE TO WIN ONE GAME, YOU GO TO ANOTHER AND ANOTHER, THE STATE CONTESTS ARE AVAILABLE TO ANY SCHOOL. YOU DON'T HAVE TO PROCEED AND, AND QUALIFY EARLIER. EVERYBODY QUALIFIES FOR GRADE, UH, FOUR. I DID A LITTLE CALCULATION GRADE THREE, UH, FOUR, THREE A AND FOUR A. ABOUT LITTLE MORE THAN 80% OF THE SCHOOLS GO, UH, HERE IN BEAUFORT COUNTY. WE'RE GONNA HA THAT CONTEST IS A WEEK FROM NOW AND WE'RE GONNA HAVE TWO OUT OF THE SIX SCHOOL SCHOOL. UH, BUT MY CONGRATULATIONS TO, UH, WHALE BRANCH. I'LL ALSO MENTION BUFORD, IT IS THE FIRST TIME THEY HAVE BEEN IN SOME CONTESTS. I THINK THE BEST I CAN RECOLLECT I RECALL IS ABOUT FOUR YEARS. AND SO I SEE THINGS MOVING DOWN AND IMPROVING AND GETTING MORE INVOLVED, AND I APPRECIATE THAT. THANK YOU MUCH. THANK YOU, SIR. UH, MR. SMITH, UH, [Announcements] MR. CHAIRMAN, I THINK IT'S, UH, I HAVE SOME ON MY HEART. I WANT TO, UH, MAKE IT IN TERMS OF ANNOUNCEMENTS. WANTED TO SAY TONIGHT. UM, WHEN WE WERE TALKING ABOUT THE EVALUATION PROCESS EARLIER, THERE WAS A COMMENT THAT SOMEONE SAID THAT, THAT THE EVALUATION TOOL IS NOT THE ONLY WAY TO GET RID OF A SUPERINTENDENT. AND I JUST WANNA SAY THAT I DON'T THINK THAT THAT WAS HEALTHY TO SAY. AND THAT RODRIGUEZ, I JUST WANNA LOOK YOU IN YOUR EYE DIRECTLY AND SAY TO YOU PUBLICLY, I DON'T HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THE JOB THAT YOU'RE DOING. I, THAT IS NEVER MY INTENTION. I JUST, I JUST LIKE TO BE CONSISTENT. AND ON THE PRINCIPLE, THE CONVERSATION TONIGHT HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH YOU BECAUSE YOU COULD GET OFFERED A A MILLION DOLLAR JOB TOMORROW, AND THIS PERSON WHO COMES IN THAT, WE STILL HAVE TO COME TO AGREEMENT ON THAT TOOL. SO IT'S ABOUT THE TOOL AND NOT THE PERSONAL. AND WE SHOULD NEVER MAKE IT PERSONAL WHEN WE MAKE IT PERSONAL IS THEN WE GET, WE GET, WE, WE, WE, WE GET IN IN BLOOD CONVERSATIONS WITH EACH OTHER AND, AND, AND THAT'S, AND THAT, THAT PART IS UNHEALTHY AND SO I JUST WANTED TO LET YOU KNOW THAT PUBLICLY I DIDN'T WANNA TAKE THAT HOME AND THAT BE ON MY HEART THAT I WANTED TO GET OUT BEFORE I LEAVE. AND I MEAN EXACTLY THAT. IT'S ABOUT THE TOOL, NOT THE PERSON. AND THAT'S WHAT WE HAVE TO UNDERSTAND AS BOARD MEMBERS. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. IF THERE ARE NO OBJECTIONS, WE WILL ADJOURN BY UNANIMOUS CONSENT. OKAY. THANKS EVERYBODY. YOU'RE WATCHING BEAUFORT COUNTY TV, LIVE, WORK, PLAY. THIS IS LARRY ROWLAND AND THIS IS A BEAUFORT COUNTY MOMENT. ONE OF THE, UH, MOST FASCINATING ARTIFACTS IN BEAUFORT COUNTY TO TOURISTS AND RESIDENTS ALIKE ARE THE RUINS OF THE OLD SHELDON CHURCH. THE PROPER NAME IS THE PARISH CHURCH OF PRINCE WILLIAM PARISH, SOUTH CAROLINA. PRINCE WILLIAM PARISH WAS FOUNDED IN 1745. IN RESPONSE, IT WAS THE SECOND ANGLICAN PARISH IN THE BEAUFORT DISTRICT. AFTER ST. HELENA PARISH FOUNDED IN 1712. THE ORIGINAL PARISH, PRINCE WILLIAM PARISH IN 1745 WAS IN THE MIDST OF AN ECONOMIC BOOM BECAUSE RICE PLANTATION SURROUNDED THE SITE ON HUSB NECK WHERE THE CHURCH EVENTUALLY WAS BUILT, AND THOSE RICE PLANTERS WERE VERY WEALTHY. IN 1745, THE COMMONS HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY ESTABLISHED PRINCE WILLIAM PARRISH, AND IN 1751, THEY LAID THE CORNERSTONE FOR PRINCE WILLIAM PARISH CHURCH. THE CHURCH WAS FINISHED BY 1755 AND WELL APPOINTED. IT HAS THE DISTINCTION OF BEING THE FIRST OR OLDEST TEMPLE FORM GREEK REVIVAL BUILDING IN THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE. SO THAT RUIN AT SHELDON, WHICH FASCINATES PEOPLE, ABSOLUTELY SHOULD FASCINATE PEOPLE BECAUSE IT IS THE FIRST EXAMPLE OF A TYPE OF ARCHITECTURE THAT BECAME ASSOCIATED WITH AMERICAN DEMOCRACY AND AMERICAN PUBLIC BUILDINGS. PRINCE [02:20:01] WILLIAM PARISH CHURCH, OR THE OLD SHELDON RUINS, WAS BURNED BY BRITISH TORIES DURING THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION IN 1779, IT LAYIN RUINS UNTIL 1826. CHARLES FRAZIER, THE FAMOUS LOW COUNTRY ARTIST, PAINTED A PICTURE OF IT IN 1819 AFTER IT WAS RESTORED TO USE AND SERVICES. IN 1826, HE CAME AND LOOKED AT IT AND HE SAID, MY GOD, THEY'VE TAKEN A BEAUTIFUL RUIN AND TURNED IT INTO AN UGLY CHURCH. SO THE UNION ARMY AND THE EVENTS OF THE CIVIL WAR RESTORED IT TO A BEAUTIFUL RUIN. WE THOUGHT FOR MANY YEARS THAT PRINCE WILLIAM PARISH CHURCH HAD BEEN BURNED BY SHERMAN'S FORCES AS THEY MARCHED THROUGH THIS DISTRICT. THAT TURNS OUT NOT TO BE TRUE. THE CHURCH WAS INTACT AFTER THE CIVIL WAR AND WAS DISMANTLED BY LOCAL FOLKS WHO USED THE PARTS OF THE CHURCH TO BUILD THEIR HOMES AND BARNS. AND SO THE WOOD BASICALLY WAS TAKEN OUT. THE ROOF FELL IN THE CHURCH, BECAME A RUIN, AND WAS IN DISUSE UNTIL MODERN TIMES IT HAS REMAINED. AS CHARLES FRASER SAID, A BEAUTIFUL AND ENTICING RUIN. THIS IS LARRY ROWLAND. THIS HAS BEEN A BEAUFORT COUNTY MOMENT. TO SEE MORE BEAUFORT COUNTY MOMENTS GO TO THE BEAUFORT COUNTY LIBRARY HOMEPAGE AND CLICK ON THE LOCAL HISTORY TAB. * This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. The transcript has not been edited for errors or omissions, it is for reference only and is not the official minutes of the meeting.