WE'RE GONNA CALL THIS MEETING TO
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ORDER.FIRST THING UP IS THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE.
I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS, ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE.
CAN I PLEASE GET, UH, A MOTION TO PROVE THE AGENDA? MINUS, MINUS THE APPROVAL OF THE OCTOBER 15TH COMMITTEE MEETING, MEETING MINUTES, WHICH ARE NOT AVAILABLE.
AND WHAT EXACTLY IS THIS MOTION TO APPROVE THE AGENDA WITHOUT THE COMMITTEE MEETING? MINUTES.
UH, YEAH, GO AHEAD AND CLERK AND, UH, I'LL GO AHEAD AND CONVERSATION.
IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION, UM, JUST TO UNDERSTAND THE, THE MEETING THAT WAS CANCELED, IS THIS THE AGENDA FOR THAT? NO, THIS IS THERE A DIFFERENT ONE, RIGHT? YES.
AND SO I'M JUST LOOKING AT THIS.
I, I'M, I'M GONNA JUST LEAVE RIGHT NOW.
I'LL LEAVE BACK ALL THOSE IN PAPERWORK.
GORDON, I'M, I'M GOING, I'M GOING TO SAY NO LATER.
I SAY NO AND I JUST DEAL WITH THAT LATER.
SO WE GOT A FORM, SORRY,
UH, ARE THERE ANY PUBLIC COMMENTS? NO, SIR.
UH, WE WERE ASKED BY THE BOARD CHAIR TO RE REMOVE, TO MOVE THE LUCO PROPERTY DISCUSSION UP TO THE FIRST, UH, THING ON THE AGENDA.
SO, UH, LET US BEGIN WITH THAT.
WHAT IS THE LUCO PROPERTY IN THE PACKAGE? YES, IT'S OKAY.
I, IN THE BACK, ON THE VERY BACK.
WELL, I MEAN, THIS IS A, A TOPIC THAT, UM, THE COMMITTEE WANTED TO, UH, HAVE A CONVERSATION ABOUT.
I'VE JUST PROVIDED SOME BACKGROUND INFORMATION.
ONE OF THE, THE BIG QUESTIONS, I THINK LAST TIME THERE WAS SOME QUESTION ON WHETHER WE, UH, LEGITIMATELY OWN THE PROPERTY, AND WE HAVE VERIFIED THAT, UH, THAT IT GOES BACK, UM, TO AN AGREEMENT, UM, SIGNED IN 1921, I BELIEVE.
UM, SO WE HAVE THAT'S, AND OUTSIDE OF THAT, WE'VE HAD THIS CONVERSATION BEFORE.
UM, IN THAT WE HAVE LEASES RIGHT NOW WITH, WITH HEAD START, UH, WELL, BEAUFORT, JASPER, EOC, AND BEAUFORT COUNTY.
AND I'VE KIND OF GOT THOSE LEASES SPELLED OUT, THREE OF THEM.
AND SO WITH THAT, ANY QUESTIONS OR CONVERSATIONS YOU'D LIKE TO HAVE? GIVE YOU SOME BACKGROUND? UH, THE EOC IS A, UH, ENTITY THAT, THAT RUNS
AND THEY LEASED, UH, THE MOBILE CLASSROOMS THERE LONG AGO.
IT WAS IN THE NINETIES, I BELIEVE.
UH, IT STARTED IN 84, BUT YEAH.
WELL, AND THEY HAVE A SCHOOL BUILDING, THE OLD SCHOOL BUILDING.
AND IN THE OLD SCHOOL BUILDING THERE, IT'S BEEN ABANDONED.
AND, UH, THEY CONTACTED ME AFTER A SHELDON COUNTY, UH, TOWNSHIP MEETING, WHICH THEY HAVE ONCE A YEAR.
I WENT TO THE LAST, LAST SATURDAY, AND HE WAS THERE AGAIN SAYING, WHAT ARE WE DOING ABOUT NOW? KNOW, WE, WE WANTED TO GET, WE, OC WANTED TO SIGN A LEASE WITH US SO THAT THEY COULD GO INTO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AND GET A GRANT, BUILD A, MAYBE ADAPT THE BUILDING THAT'S THERE AND BUILD ONTO IT.
FOUR YEARS AGO, UH, WHEN THIS CAME UP, UH, GERALD DAWSON AND I, AND, UH, A COUPLE OF THE STAFF FROM THE COUNTY WENT OUT AND WALKED THE GROUND, TOOK A LOOK AT IT, AND I SAID, YOU KNOW, THIS COUNTY LIBRARY IS THERE.
AND I JUST NOTICED IN HERE THAT THE COUNTY LIBRARY'S LEASE, WHICH THEY PAID $1 FOR ENDS THE 31ST OF THIS YEAR.
AND FRANKLY, I FORGOT ABOUT THIS AND, AND BASED, 'CAUSE AT THE TIME, WE SAID, WELL, WE'D HAVE TO GET THE PROPERTY ASSESSED, SEE WHAT IT'S WORTH, SEE IF THE COUNTY WANTED TO PURCHASE IT FOR US OR WHATEVER.
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BUT THEN WE GOT THIS PROPERTY TO US, UH, FROM THE COUNTY AND THE GREEN SPACE THAT'S ADJACENT TO, UH, LADIES ISLAND MIDDLE SCHOOL.AND IT HIT ME THERE THAT, WAIT A MINUTE, THAT'S ABOUT THE SAME SIZE PROPERTY AS THE PROPERTY AT LAKO.
AND SO WE HAD TALKED FOUR YEARS AGO, WE SAID, WELL, MAYBE WE COULD FIND A PIECE OF PROPERTY THAT WE COULD SWAP.
AND WHEN WE WERE TALKING ABOUT THAT PROPERTY NEXT TO THE LADY, WE, THERE WAS CONCERN BY THE BOARD, BY SOME MEMBERS OF THE BOARD ABOUT OUR LIABILITY THAT COUNTY'S GIVING US, BUT NOW WE'RE GETTING LIABILITY.
I THOUGHT, WELL, YEAH, WE HAVE LIABILITY UP AT LECO.
WHY DON'T WE GIVE THAT TO THEM AND CONSIDER IT A SWAP OF TITLE.
SO THEY HAVE A LIBRARY THERE, AND EOC CAN THEN NEGOTIATE WITH THE COUNTY IF THEY WANT TO DO SOMETHING THERE.
BUT THAT'S A, WE, WE WEREN'T REALLY INTERESTED.
I, I SAY WE, DR. RODRIGUEZ WASN'T REALLY INTERESTED IN DOING THAT HEAD START.
I ALREADY HAVE A HEAD START AT JAMES H. DAVIS.
AND WHY HAVE ONE IF CLOSE BY, IT'S NOT, IT'S NOT, IT'S NOT TWO MILES AWAY FROM WHERE THE JAMES H. DAVIS, UH, THING IS.
SO THE QUESTION FOR THIS COMMITTEE IS, UH, DO WE GO TO THE FULL BOARD AND, UM, TELL THEM THE BACKGROUND AND BEFORE THE END OF DECEMBER WHEN THE LEASE IS UP, WE JUST GO INTO AN AGREEMENT.
HERE'S A TITLE TO THE LIVE ECO PROPERTY.
HERE'S THE TITLE THAT THEY'RE WORKING ON RIGHT NOW, UH, TO GIVE TO US FROM THE, THROUGH THE COUNTY FROM GREEN SPACE FOR THAT PROPERTY AT LADIES ISLAND.
SO WE, WE ARE SHIFTING LIABILITY FROM THAT PROPERTY UP THERE, WHICH WE'LL NEVER USE TO THE PROPERTY THAT WE'VE ALREADY APPROVED THAT WE'RE GOING TO TAKE ON HERE.
AND THIS DISCUSSION COMMITTEE, THE COMMITTEE DECIDES TO DO ON THAT.
BUT IT WOULD BE GOOD TO BE GOOD FOR GOOD FAITH FOR THE COUNTY AS WELL.
SO WHAT DO YOU THINK? I I THINK IT'S WEIRD THAT THE EOC, THE ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY COMMITTEE IS NAMED THAT FOR IF THEY WANT A HEAD START BUILDING, WHATEVER, THEY'VE HAD IT FOR A LONG TIME.
UM, BUT, UH, IN, IN, IN DOING THE PRE-READ O OKAY, SURE.
UM, BUT, UM, SO THE, IS THE, THE EOC, THE, THE MAIN DRIVING FORCE BEHIND THIS SWAP OR THE, OR THE MAIN IMPETUS? WELL, THE COUNTY WOULD LIKE TO HAVE THE PROPERTY.
SO SOMEBODY DOWN THE COUNTY HAS ALREADY EXPRESSED INTEREST.
GERALD DAWSON WOULD LIKE TO SEE A COMMUNITY CENTER THERE.
AND THE, UH, THE OPERATION STAFF AT THE COUNTY WOULD LIKE TO SEE THAT ALSO SERVING AS A, UH, TRAFFIC CONTROL PLACE AS YOU, THEY BRING, UH, POPULATION BACK INTO THE COUNTY AFTER CLOSED DOWN FOR A HURRICANE.
THAT'D BE A GOOD PLACE TO HAVE A KIND OF LIKE A HEADQUARTERS THAT COULD CONTROL THE TRAFFIC BEFORE IT GOT OVER THE WILL BRANCH BRIDGE.
SO, SO THERE IS, AND GERALD DAWSON WANTS, WANTS THE LAND, YOU KNOW, HE'S THE COUNCILMAN FOR THAT, FOR THAT DISTRICT.
UM, WHEN YOU'RE READY, LEAH FRAZIER'S, HANDS UP, MRS. FRAZIER.
HAVE WE DECIDED TO AGREE TO THE GREEN SPACE? SECOND, ISN'T THE GREEN SPACE SUPPOSED TO BE NOT BUILT UPON? SO HOW DOES THAT BENEFIT EOC? SO IT'S NOT A BUILD UPON, WE'RE NOT PLANNING ON BUILD ON WHAT THE GREEN SPACE IS GIVING US.
AND WE MAY, WE MAY U USE IT, THE OPEN AREA FOR A, BUT WE HAVEN'T DECIDED ON THAT TO BE A LIABILITY.
SO I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY IT'S BEING USED AS AN OPPORTUNITY TO SWITCH LAND.
I DECIDED WE, WE DID DECIDE TO TAKE, UH, TO TAKE THE, THE GREEN SPACE.
HOW IS THIS A WIN? THE EOC WOULDN'T HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH YEAH, THE SWAP.
IT, IT, IT'S A, IT'S A, UM, IT, IT'S A, IT'S, IT, THE, THE SWAP OF LIABILITY IS WE ARE TAKING THE LIABILITY OF
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SOMEBODY TROUTS IN ON THE, UH, YOU KNOW, PICNIC ON THE GREEN SPACE AND BREAKING AN ANKLE.THAT'S THE LI LIABILITY WE'RE TAKING ON, AND WE'RE DUMPING THE LIABILITY OF HAVING THE PROPERTY AT LEKO THAT WE'RE NOT DOING ANYTHING WITH, WHICH SOMEBODY ELSE COULD DO THE SAME THING ON.
RIGHT NOW, WE'RE, WE'RE GIVING THAT TO THE, THE COUNTY SO THEY CAN TURN IT INTO WHATEVER THEY WANNA DEVELOP.
BUT IT'S, YOU'RE RIGHT, IT'S NOT AN EVEN SWAP BECAUSE WE CAN'T DEVELOP OUR PROPERTY, BUT THEY CAN DEVELOP THEIRS IF WE GIVE THEM THE LUKO PROPERTY, IF THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE GETTING AT.
SEE, WE, WE BOUGHT THIS PROPERTY IN 1921 FOR PROBABLY $200.
YOU HAVE INVESTED NOTHING IN THAT PROPERTY.
THAT PROPERTY IS NOT AN ASSET FOR US AT ALL.
THIS PROPERTY BY, UH, LADIES ISLAND MIDDLE SCHOOL, WILL BE AN ASSET FOR US, FOR THE KIDS TO USE OR THE SCHOOL TO USE.
SO, UM, AND WE, WE COULD ASK, HE COULD ASK THE COUNTY TO PAY THE $200, BUT WHY BOTHER IF WE CAN BURY, AND IT'S BEEN DONE BEFORE, TRANSFER PROPERTY, IT SOUNDS LIKE WE'RE DOING THE COUNTY A FAVOR, AND IF THEY WANT THE LAND, MAYBE THEY CAN OFFER SOMETHING MORE THAN $200 OR A SWAP OF LIABILITY.
OR MAYBE WE SHOULD LOOK INTO DOING SOMETHING AT THE LAB, DOING SOMETHING WHERE, WITH THE LAB PROPERTY, WE, WE, WE HAVE LOOKED AT THAT.
THE, THE SUPERINTENDENT LOOKED AT THAT.
HE SAID, I HAVE, IT'S NOT BIG ENOUGH FOR US TO USE, IT'S ONLY ABOUT FOUR OR FIVE ACRES.
THERE IS NO, THERE'S, AND WE'VE HAD IT SINCE 1922, AND WE HAVEN'T DONE ANYTHING WITH THAT PROPERTY OTHER THAN THAT OTHER, OTHER THAN HAVE THE HEAD START COME IN, AND THEN THE, THE COUNTY LIBRARY COME IN, WHICH THEY PAY US A DOLLAR A YEAR FOR, FOR THE LEASE.
SO, I MEAN, IF THE, THE COUNTY TAKES IT OVER, ARE THEY GOING TO, TO GET RID OF THE LIBRARY? OH, NO, NO.
THAT'S, THAT THAT LIBRARY WILL STAY THERE.
PLUS, PLUS THEY WANT TO MAYBE PUT A, A, A COMMUNITY CENTER IN THERE.
UH, FIRST LET'S, LET'S GO BACK TO A KIND OF COMMENT.
UM, WHEN WE FIRST, UH, GOT STARTED WITH THIS MEETING, MR. OTING SAID, UH, SAID THAT WE SAID THAT WE ASK HIM FOR THIS TO BE ON THE AGENDA.
WHO IS WE? UH, MR. NAY? UH, MR. I KNOW THAT THERE'S ALSO TALK OF IT BEING ON THE WORK I SHOP AGENDA, BUT I BELIEVE MR. NAY ASKED ME TO BRING THIS INFORMATION.
BECAUSE I'M ON, I'M ON THE COMMITTEE SIDE.
I JUST WASN'T AWARE OF US WHEN YOU SAYING THAT Y'ALL ASKED FOR, FOR US TO PUT US ON THE AGENDA.
SO I'M THAT, THAT'S WHY I'M NOT, WHEN YOU SAY V OKAY.
SO THE CHAIR OF THE COMMITTEE ASKED YOU TO PUT THIS AS AN ITEM ON THE AGENDA? YES, SIR.
'CAUSE I JUST WANNA, I JUST WANNA BE UNDERSTANDING, YOU KNOW, WHY WE HAVE THIS BEFORE TODAY, BECAUSE I KNOW I CAN HAVE.
SO THANK THANKS FOR, THANKS FOR THAT.
THANKS FOR THAT CLARIFICATION.
UM, OFF THE TOP, OFF THE TOP OF MY, OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD, UM, I DEFINITELY DO HAVE SOME CONCERNS, UM, IN, IN TERMS, IN TERMS OF, UM, THE SAME THING THAT, UM, MRS. FRAZIER BROUGHT UP.
UM, AND I'VE HEARD, I'VE HEARD WHAT MY COLLEAGUES HAVE, HAVE SET AT TA HAVE SET AT THIS TABLE IN, IN, IN TERMS OF, OF THE PROPERTY SWAP.
I DON'T, I DON'T BELIEVE IN THIS.
I DON'T BELIEVE IN THE POWER IN THE PROPERTY SWAP.
UM, I LOOK AROUND THE ROOM, BUT TODAY WE GOT, UM, UM, IN THE HOSPITAL, UH, NOVANTO, WE GOT, WE GOT NO, NO, WE HAVE NO, WE HAVE NO NOVAN HERE.
WHO, WHO, WHO, WHO GOT SOME MONEY TO, TO, TO THROW AT US.
UM, WE HAVE A WHOLE BUNCH OF D DIFFERENT THINGS GOING JUST CASUALLY JUST, UH, BRING THAT IN THERE.
BUT, UM, AND, AND, AND IN ALL, IN ALL, IN ALL ALL SERIOUSNESS, IF WE, IF WE HAVE THE HEAD START AT THE, WELL, BRANCH ELEMENTARY, WE HAVE HEAD STARTS AT ST.
HELEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, AND WE HAVE HEAD STARTS AT, BUT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AND C AND, AND SOME OTHER, SOME OTHER, SOME OTHER ENTITIES I DIDN'T HAVE.
BUT MY MEMORY STARTED DIRECTLY.
THERE WERE SOME CONVERSATIONS THAT STARTED THAT PROBABLY TO TAKE OFF THE RIGHT WAY.
I THINK WE OUGHT TO POSSIBLY SEE IF WE CAN RENT THOSE CONVERSATIONS ANOTHER WAY AND SEE IF WE CAN GET SOME THINGS DONE WITH THE PROPERTIES THAT WE DO HAVE.
UH, THE, THE, THE SCHOOL, THE, THE, THE SCHOOL, THE SCHOOL DISTRICT, I BELIEVE WE CAN UTILIZE THAT LA THAT LAND TO HELP SERVE THAT COMMUNITY AND TO SERVE,
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SERVE EOC IF, IF THAT'S IF, IF THEY'VE COME BACK TO BRING THE CONVERSATION BACK UP WITH, WITH, WITH, WITH THE, WITH THE LEASE BEING OLD, BEING OVER.BECAUSE AT THE END OF THE DAY, WE HAVE TO BE GOOD STEWARDS OF, OF, OF, OF, OF, OF PEOPLE'S, UH, OF, OF, OF PEOPLE'S MONEY.
AND OBVIOUSLY WHEN WE PURCHASE THAT LAND, WE PURCHASE THAT LAND FOR, FOR A REASON.
AND, AND I, AND I, I JUST DO HONESTLY BELIEVE THAT WE CAN POSSIBLY WORK WITH EOC AND MR. DAWSON AND SEE HOW WE CAN BETTER SERVE THAT COMMUNITY BECAUSE RIGHT.
I WHAT I'M HEARING IN COMMUNITY THAT THERE'S NOT MANY THINGS FOR THE COMMUNITY TO BE ABLE TO, TO HAVE IN, IN, IN, IN, IN DIFFERENT PARTS OF, OF, OF, UH, BEAUFORT COUNTY.
AND I THINK OUT THERE IS A DIFFERENT PART OF IT, BUT TO SAY THAT WE WANT TO GIVE UP THIS, UH, WE WANNA MAKE A SWAP, I DON'T THINK THAT THAT THAT WILL BE IN, IN OUR, IN OUR, IN OUR BEST INTEREST AS A DISTRICT IN, IN, IN, IN, IN, IN, IN TERMS OF, UH, LOOKING IN HINDSIGHT, AT, AT, AT MY FIRST, AT MY FIRST LOOK AT THIS POINT IN TIME, I DON'T THINK THAT THAT WOULD BE, UH, GOOD FOR US TO JUST SAY WE WANNA MAKE, MAKE, MAKE, MAKE THAT, MAKE THAT SWAP.
I DO UNDERSTAND WHAT MR. DAWSON IS, UH, WHAT MR. DAWSON CAN WANNA PITCH.
UM, I, I DON'T KNOW THE LOGISTICS OF IT.
YOU KNOW, I HAVEN'T TALKED, I I DON'T KNOW WHAT, WHAT, UH, WHAT'S BEEN TALKED ABOUT.
BUT I DO THINK THAT WE CAN MAKE, THAT WE CAN MAKE, UH, A CONVERSATION BETWEEN US AND HEAD START, BECAUSE THEY ARE ONE OF OUR PARTNERS, AND THEY ARE, AND THEY, AND THEY, AND THEY, WE DO SERVE THEIR KIDS.
THEIR KIDS DO COME, COME OUR KIDS ONE DAY.
SO WE'VE BEEN SAYING, WE'VE BEEN SAYING THAT WE WANNA PUT EMPHASIS ON THE YOUNGER GENERATION, THE YOUNGER KIDS, BECAUSE THEY, WE, WE, AND WE, WE DO TAKE THEIR NUMBERS ON SO THAT THIS COULD BE ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY TO BRING KIDS INTO OUR DISTRICT, UH, THAT, THAT, THAT HAVE, THAT MAY, THAT MAY NO, UH, FOUR OR 500 WORDS VERSUS THE 50 WORDS.
SO THIS IS THE OPPORTUNITY FOR, FOR THAT.
SO I, I, I, AT THIS POINT IN TIME, I WOULD JUST SAY ON HINDSIGHT, I DON'T THINK THAT NOW WOULD BE THE TIME TO, UH, MAKE THAT, AND WE WOULD DEFINITELY NEED MORE, MORE INFORMATION SURROUNDING THIS TO MAKE A, A BETTER INFORMED, A BETTER INFORMED DECISION.
MR. GORDON, AM I, UH, MISTAKEN IN, UH, THINKING THIS IS IN YOUR AREA? IT IS, IT IS IN MY AREA.
UM, I WOULD HEAR YOUR OPINION OF THE SITUATION THEN.
WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO, UM, DO IS TALK, HAVE A CONVERSATION WITH, UM, WITH MR. DAWSON FIRST, JUST TO SEE WHERE HE'S A ACTUALLY AT WITH IT, JUST TO HAVE A KIND OF DETAILED CONVERSATION WITH HER.
AND I KNOW THE AREA THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT, UM, SWAPPING, IS THAT YORK GLOVER'S, YORK GLOVER'S AREA? YES.
I'M JUST TRYING TO, AND ONLY THING WE DOING, WE JUST HAVING A CONVERSATION.
THIS, THIS SWAP HAS NOT COME UP YET.
WE'RE JUST TALKING, RIGHT? CORRECT.
WELL, I WOULD LOVE TO HAVE A CONVERSATION WITH, WITH YOUR, NAH, WITH GERALD, JUST TO SEE WHERE, YOU KNOW HIS HEAD IS AT.
I HAVEN'T HEARD ANYTHING FROM HIM YET.
YOU HAVE NO OPINION SITUATION? WELL, I, I'VE GIVEN COUPLE OF THE CONCERNS AND, AND I THINK THE CONVERSATIONS WITH MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL WOULD, WOULD BE, JUST MAKE SURE WE'RE ALL ON THE SAME PAGE, I THINK WOULD BE WISE.
I COULD ADD JUST A COUPLE CLARIFICATION POINTS.
'CAUSE WE HAD THIS CONVERSATION SEVERAL YEARS AGO, AND, UH, JUST SO EVERYBODY KNOWS KIND OF WHAT SOME OF THE ISSUES ARE, YOU KNOW, THE ISSUES ARE THAT WE HAVE THESE AGREEMENT WITH HEAD START.
THE COUNTY WAS INTERESTED IN TAKING OVER AND OWNING IT.
THERE IS A SHARED SEPTIC FIELD, AND, AND DUE TO THE SIZE OF THE PROPER, THEY REALLY CAN'T SPLIT IT.
SO THERE WASN'T A WAY BACK THEN TO SAY, ALL RIGHT, WE'RE GONNA DIVIDE IT DOWN THE MIDDLE COUNTY, HERE'S YOUR PIECE, HEAD START, HERE'S YOUR PIECE.
SO WHOEVER OWNS IT HAS TO DEAL WITH BOTH ENTITIES FOR THE MOST PART.
AND, UM, SO I JUST WANT, AND, AND YOU CAN'T BREAK THOSE APART, WHOEVER OWNS, IT'S GONNA BECOME THE
SO, JUST WANTED TO ADD THAT LITTLE BIT OF INFORMATION.
I, I ALSO, IN TERMS, IN TERMS OF, UM, THIS IDEA OF SWAPPING, LET'S NOT COMPARE APPLES TO ORANGES, BECAUSE THE COUNTY CAME TO US BECAUSE THE OWNER IN THE, IN THE, IN THE GREEN SPACE CAME TO THE COUNTY SAYING THAT, LISTEN, WE WANNA PURCHASE THIS LAND.
WE WANNA GO THROUGH YOU AND PURCHASE THIS LAND AND GIVE IT TO YOU.
AND THE COUNTY CAME AND SAID, LOOK, HERE, WE WANT TO GIVE YOU THIS LAND TO MAINTAIN AND TO, UH, HAVE, THAT'S BY YOUR SCHOOL.
SO TO ME, I DON'T WANNA BEGIN TO GO, I, I, AS I SAY, I DON'T WANNA SAY TICK FOR TAT OR IN TERMS OF GIVING, GIVING AND, AND TAKING SOMETHING.
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I DON'T WANNA GET INTO A BACK AND FORTH OF WE GIVING Y'ALL THIS.BECAUSE AT THE END OF THE DAY, I BELIEVE WE ALL IN ABOUT, WE ALL IN THE BUSINESS OF SERVING, OF SERVING PEOPLE.
SO I, I JUST, YOU KNOW, I, I JUST WANNA BE CAREFUL HOW WE, YOU KNOW, AS IN WE OWE YOU A FAVOR, HEY, THAT'S WHEN, REMEMBER WE OWE Y AT, AT THE END OF THE DAY, WE'RE ALL, WE'RE ALL IN THE BUSINESS OF, OF PEOPLE.
AND THESE, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE, PEOPLE TAKE CERTAIN THINGS AND, AND TURN, TURN AND TWIST IT.
SO WE DON'T WANNA, WE, I DON'T THINK THAT, THAT THAT'S NOT THE BLACK GUY THAT WE WOULD WANT.
SO I, I, I JUST THINK THAT STRAIGHT, STRAIGHT UP BUSINESSES IS WHERE WE WANNA, UH, STICK WITH.
SO IF THAT THEY, THEY, LIKE, LIKE MRS. FRAZIER SAID THEY WANT TO PURCHASE IT, THEN THAT'S SOMETHING DIFFERENT.
AND I'LL JUST LEAVE THAT THERE.
SO I'M JUST NOT COMFORTABLE WITH THE BUSINESS OF, OF THE, UH, OF THE, OF THE, OF THE, YOU GIVE ME THIS, I GAVE YOU THAT IN, IN TERMS OF, UH, DOLLAR AMOUNT RIGHT NOW.
UM, SO IF I'M READING THE ROOM, UH, UH, TABLE IT UNTIL WE CAN HAVE A DISCUSSION WITH, UH, COUNTY REPRESENTATIVES, UH, AND TALK ABOUT WHAT THEY PERCEIVE AS THEIR FUTURE FOR THE PROPERTY.
UM, MS. BOATRIGHT RIGHT'S, HANDS UP, MRS. BOATRIGHT.
UM, I ALSO THINK FRANK NEEDS TO BE IN THIS CONVERSATION, UM, BECAUSE AS A SUPERINTENDENT, I'D LIKE TO KNOW, YOU KNOW, HE MIGHT HAVE PLANS OR USES FOR THE PROPERTY OR CONCERNS ABOUT THE SALE.
SO I THINK IF WE'RE GONNA BRING IN COUNTY COUNCIL, WE SHOULD BRING IN, UH, OUR, OUR EMPLOYEE, OUR SUPERINTENDENT.
WELL, AND, AND ALSO AT THIS TIME, JUST AN FYI, I THINK THAT COUNCIL AND COUNCIL WAS TALKING MS.
I DON'T THINK THAT, I DON'T THINK THAT NO ONE MENTIONED THE, UH, THE COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR AT THIS TIME.
SO I THINK IT WAS JUST MORE OF COUNCIL VERSUS COUNSEL HAVING A, A, A LIKE BLIND OF CONVERSATION, UH, BECAUSE I, I BELIEVE, I'M SURE HIS STAFF'S GONNA GO BACK AND TELL HIM.
SO I, I JUST DON WANT SAY THAT WE, WE, WE DIDN'T, WE DIDN'T LEAVE HIM OUT.
I MEAN, I, I THINK RIGHT NOW WE WE'RE JUST TALKING IN TERMS OF HIGH, OF HIGH SIGHT OF, AS THE TOP COMING UP WITH THE, UH, WITH THE, WITH THE, WITH THE, WITH THE PLAN TO, UH, TAKE BACK TO EVEN COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR AND UM, SUPERINTENDENT TO UNDERSTAND WELL, WHAT, WHAT SHOULD BE EXECUTED.
ANY OTHER DISCUSSION ON THIS? TED BROWNS GOING ONCE, GOING TWICE, YES.
OH, ARE WE SKIPPING OVER NOVANT HEALTH? OH, NOVO.
WHAT THE REASON I CHECKED THAT OFF.
ACTUALLY, UM, I'LL LET ALL OF Y'ALL COME TO THE TABLE AND I WILL MOVE OUTTA YOUR WAY.
I BELIEVE, ARE Y'ALL WANTING TO, DO YOU WANNA JOIN AS WELL? YOU SURE? ALL RIGHT.
UM, I'M GONNA LET, UH, THE MEMBERS AROUND THE TABLE INTRODUCE THEMSELVES 'CAUSE I COULDN'T, UM, AND, AND I'M GONNA HAND IT OFF TO YOU, BUT BASICALLY, UM, THEY HAVE COME TO US IN A REQUEST FOR AN EASEMENT TO TIE, UH, TO WK AUSTIN, UH, SPECIFICALLY WITH, UM, UH, I BELIEVE WATER, WATER CONNECTION.
SO, UH, AND STORMWATER, I BELIEVE IS CORRECT.
SO IF Y'ALL INTRODUCE YOURSELVES AND THEN Y'ALL CAN HAVE THE FLOW.
I'M THE MARKET PRESIDENT FOR NOVANT HEALTH HILTON HEAD MARKET.
UH, I, UH, BEEN IN THE AREA FOR NINE YEARS AND OUR HOSPITALS BECAME PART OF NOVANT HEALTH ABOUT 18 MONTHS AGO.
AND SO THIS PROJECT AND HOW IT REALLY RELATES TO THE COMMITTEE TODAY, UH, WE ARE PURSUING, WE HAVE PURCHASED 14 AND A HALF ACRES HERE IN BEAUFORT, UM, RIGHT IN FRONT OF, UH, UH, ROBERT SMALLS SCHOOL.
AND OUR DESIRE IS TO CONSTRUCT, UH, TO START A FREESTANDING EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT.
THEY'RE ON THE SITE AS WELL AS A PRIMARY CARE CLINIC IN ALL LIKELIHOOD AS WELL.
AND SO I'LL LET CONNOR AND STEVE TALK THE SPECIFICS ABOUT THE CONNECTIONS AND THE EASEMENT THAT WE'RE SEEKING.
BUT THIS IS, NOVANT HEALTH HAS COME INTO OUR STATE AND INTO THE AREA TO EXPAND ACCESS THOUGH.
AND, UH, AS, UH, THIS IS ONE OF THOSE PURSUITS.
SO STEVE KLEBER IS HERE WITH MEADOWS AND OLE PART OF THE OWNER'S REPRESENTATIVE TEAM.
I'M CONNOR BLANEY WITH WARD EDWARDS ENGINEERING, UH, THE CIVIL ENGINEER, UM, ON BEHALF OF THIS PROJECT, EXCITED ABOUT THIS PROJECT.
UM, AND AS ROBERT ALLUDED TO Y'ALL HAVE, WE SUBMITTED PLANS, A TRAFFIC STUDY, A NARRATIVE, UM, AND ESSENTIALLY THAT PARCEL JUST SOUTH OF PROPER SMALLS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY, NAVAN HEALTH HAS PURCHASED.
THEY'RE PURSUING THE DEVELOPMENT JOEL JUST OUTLINED AS PART OF THAT DEVELOPMENT.
WE'VE HAD DISCUSSIONS WITH THE CITY OF BUFORD, WITH S-C-D-O-T.
WE'VE BEEN INFORMED AND ADVISED TO PROPOSE A REAR ACCESS CONNECTING TO THE 4,000, UH, MARGARET APARTMENT COMPLEX, UH, ALL THE WAY OVER TO WK AUSTIN DRIVE WITH UTILITIES AND DRAINAGE.
THE DRAINAGE ALLOWS THE, THE SITE TO, INSTEAD OF, UH, DISCHARGING DIRECTLY
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INTO THE SOUTHERNMOST POND ONUH, B-J-W-S-A IS, UM, EMPHASIZING AND ENCOURAGING, UH, DUAL CONNECTIONS TO ENHANCE OVERALL SYSTEM PRESSURE.
UM, THIS WILL ALLOW BOTH THE SCHOOL AND THE HEALTHCARE FACILITIES TO HAVE, UM, INCREASED PRESSURE TO THEIR WATERLINE SYSTEMS. AND THEN ULTIMATELY THE ACCESS, UM, THE ACCESS PROPOSING THE ACCESS SOUTH OF THE BUS LOOP ONTO WK AUSTIN DRIVE.
SC DT IS IN AGREEANCE WITH THIS APPROACH, AND IT ALLOWS LEFT HAND SIGNALED ACCESS AT THE EXISTING SIGNAL.
UM, ONE THING THAT THESE PLANS DON'T SHOW THAT WE ARE COMMITTED TO DOING AND HAVE ALREADY UPDATED THE PLANS SINCE MAKING THIS SUBMITTAL, IS ADDING A FIVE FOOT SIDEWALK ALONG THE ENTIRE LENGTH OF THAT ACCESS.
I THINK THAT CREATES A REALLY GOOD OPPORTUNITY TO ENHANCE PEDESTRIAN AND SAFE ACCESS TO THE SCHOOL IF YOU'RE IN THAT ADJACENT COMPLEX.
UM, BUT WE HAVE THE TEAM OF PEOPLE HERE, WE'RE HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS.
COULD YOU SHOW ME ON THE MAP WHERE THAT SIDEWALK, HOW IT'S GONNA RUN? WE HAVE PROPOSED IT ON THE NORTH SIDE OF THE ROAD, AND THEN IT WILL TURN THE CORNER UP WK AUSTIN DRIVE, UM, AND CONNECT TO THE EXISTING SIDEWALK NEAR THE BUS ACCESS.
SO YOU'LL HAVE CONTINUAL ACCESS, THE WHOLE LENGTH OF THAT DRIVE AND THEN GO OFF W KS YES.
AND HIT THE EXISTING SIDEWALK.
HELLO? DID YOU CATCH THAT OR UNDERSTAND IT? NO, I DIDN'T QUITE UNDERSTAND IT.
DO YOU SEE THE MAP IN FRONT OF YOU? YES.
SO THERE'S WHAT YOU NOTICE, UH, SO THAT FOOTBALL STADIUM IN THE TOP MIDDLE OF THE SCREEN IS, THAT'S ROBERT'S FOOTBALL STADIUM, RIGHT? THAT DRIVE THAT RUNS, UH, THAT'S THE BUS, UM, DRIVE, UH, INTO THE SCHOOL.
SO WHAT THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT, AND SO YOU SEE THAT RUNS INTO WK AUSTIN, RIGHT? EVERYTHING SOUTH OF THAT IS WHAT THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT DEVELOPING.
AND THEN SO YOU SEE A ROAD THAT GOES FROM WK AUSTIN ALL THE WAY OVER TO THAT APARTMENT COMPLEX, RIGHT? THAT THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT PUTTING A SIDEWALK ON THE TOP PART OF THAT ROAD ALL FROM ONE END TO WK AUSTIN.
AND THERE'S ALREADY SIDEWALK ON WK AUSTIN.
THERE IS, WE WE'LL NEED TO TURN THE CORNER JUST 50 FEET OR SO YEAH.
I WAS WAITING FOR THE COMMITTEE, BUT SINCE THERE WAS AN UNCOMFORTABLE SILENCE, I THOUGHT I'D JUMP IN.
UM, I'M SURE, UH, THE GENTLEMAN FROM WARD EDWARDS KNOW THAT WE HAVE BEEN SOMEWHAT OPPOSED TO RUNNING, UH, EASEMENT THROUGH THE, BASICALLY, ESSENTIALLY THE BACKSIDE OF WALMART ONTO WK ALLISON AT THE REQUEST OF THE WATER SOMETHING APARTMENTS.
IT'S A LOT OF APARTMENTS GOING IN THAT LITTLE AREA THERE.
AND I HAVE SOME CONCERNS ABOUT ONE 70, BUT I DO THINK THIS PROPOSAL IS SUPERIOR TO THE WATER APARTMENTS.
I DON'T KNOW THE WATER SOMETHING.
UM, BECAUSE THEY ARE OUT OF THE GATE OFFERING, UH, HOUSING FOR TEACHERS, I THINK THE SIDEWALKS ARE A NICE ADDITION.
I ALSO, YOU KNOW, THINK THAT A MEDICAL, UH, FACILITY THAT MIGHT HAVE SOME BENEFITS FOR THE STUDENTS POTENTIALLY WITH MAYBE SOME, UM, IN-SCHOOL TYPE ARRANGEMENTS OR, YOU KNOW, DIFFERENT THINGS LIKE THAT.
SO I THINK THIS IS A SUPERIOR REQUEST.
THE CONCERNS I HAVE THOUGH ARE STILL THE SAME.
AND WHAT I BROUGHT UP WITH THE OTHER APARTMENT EASEMENT IS TRAFFIC CALMING THROUGH THAT AREA.
BECAUSE IF YOU'RE THINKING ABOUT AN EMERGENCY ROOM AND SOMEONE'S IN LABOR AND THEY'RE RACE, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE RACING TO THE ER AND YOU GOT KIDS ON THAT SIDEWALK, LIKE IS THERE A PROPOSAL TO PUT IN SPEED BUMPS ROUNDABOUT, SOMETHING TO KIND OF KEEP THAT TRAFFIC FROM FLYING THROUGH, ESSENTIALLY ADJACENT TO THE TRACK AND FIELD THERE? WE CAN ABSOLUTELY CONSIDER THAT, THAT I, UM, THE AMBULATORY ROUTE IS PRIMARILY TO FUNCTION WITHIN THE WRITE AND WRITE OUT DIRECTLY OFF THE HIGHWAY ONE 70.
HOWEVER, WE UNDERSTAND THE PROPOSED USE.
UM, WHEN PEOPLE HAVE AN EMERGENCY, THEY'RE GONNA BE GONNA BE DRIVING FAST.
AND, UM, WE CAN ABSOLUTELY CONSIDER, UH, TRAFFIC CALMING AND, AND SPEED BUMPS ALONG THE BACK.
BUT FROM MY VANTAGE POINT, THAT'S VERY REASONABLE AND APPROPRIATE.
I, I, I WOULD SAY JUST MAYBE A LITTLE BIT OF ATION AND CONTEXT ON A FREESTANDING EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT.
SO NOVAN HEALTH HAS WON SOUTH ON ONE 70 SOUTH FROM THIS SITE
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ON ONE 70.AMBULANCE TRAFFIC IS SOMEWHERE IN THE RANGE OF ONE TO TWO A DAY.
UM, SO IT IS LARGELY WHAT WE CONSIDER KIND OF AMBULATORY CARS.
UH, WE WOULD EXPECT SOMEWHERE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF 30 TO, TO 40, UH, CARS A DAY AT MOST.
BUT I DO LIKE THE IDEA OF, UH, SPEED DETERRENCE DEVICES.
UH, MR. OT HAS ANYBODY FROM OUR TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT, UH, TAKEN A LOOK AT THIS, WEIGHED IN ON IT? I, I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW, I MEAN, I KNOW THERE WAS A TRAFFIC STUDY DONE, BUT I, I, I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW, UH, I MEAN THIS IS, IS IT GONNA BE 24 HOURS SINCE YES, SIR.
IT, SO LIKE, WE'RE, WE'RE, I MEAN, WHAT'S GONNA HAPPEN TO TRAFFIC DURING OUR PEAK TIMES WHEN WE HAVE A PICKUP LINE AND ALL BUSES AND ALL THAT KIND OF STUFF? UM, I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY, UH, HOW MANY, WHAT'S THE VOLUME OF PEOPLE YOU'RE PARTICIPATE, UH, THAT YOU KNOW, GONNA BE, THAT YOU ANTICIPATE YOUR OR GONNA BE HERE EVERY DAY AT YOUR, UH, AT THESE
AND THEN THE TRAFFIC OFF, YOU KNOW, THE, THE, THE INGRESS ON ONE 70 IS MAYBE THE PRIMARY, BUT EVERYBODY'S STILL COMING DOWN WK AUSTIN TO GET IN THERE ON THE BACKGROUND ALSO.
UM, OR TRYING TO LEAVE THAT WAY.
UM, IF THEY'RE NOT ABLE TO TURN OUT ON ONE 70 'CAUSE THEY'RE GONNA GO TO THE LIGHT, RIGHT.
SO, AND NOW THEY'RE COMPETING WITH BUSES AND OUR, OUR PICKUP TRAFFIC.
SO THAT'S, THAT'S WHERE I HAVE A A, A BIG CONCERN.
WE WANT, FIRST AND FOREMOST, WE WANT TO BE GOOD NEIGHBORS.
AND SO MS. BOAT WRITES, UH, COMMENT ABOUT, YOU KNOW, IS THERE A RELATIONSHIP WITH THE SCHOOLS? I'M GONNA LOOK TO THE EDUCATORS TO SEE HOW WE CAN PARTNER.
UM, BUT THAT'S CERTAINLY SOMETHING WE'RE INTERESTED AND WILLING TO DO.
I WOULD SAY THIS AS BEING PART OF NOVANT HEALTH, WE'VE NEVER BEEN MORE ACTIVE IN OUR PURSUIT OF WORKING WITH LOCAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, UH, LOCAL, UH, UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES AS WELL.
UM, IN TERMS OF THE, THE VOLUME OF, OF PATIENTS AND VISITORS, I'M, I CAN BALLPARK IT, BUT I UNDERSTAND THE REQUEST TO HAVE THE, THE COUNTY TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT LOOK AT IT.
WE HAVE A TRANSPORTATION DIRECTOR THAT'S, SORRY, THAT, THAT, THAT, I MEAN, TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION, NO, THEY HAVE NOT, BUT I DON'T MIND, UH, GOING OVER IT WITH THEM.
YEAH, I MEAN, I, YEAH, I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW WHAT THE, WHAT THE, WHAT THEIR OPINION OF, UH, WHAT THAT WOULD DO TO OUR TRAFFIC, UH, PATTERN WOULD BE.
MR. UH, MR. GORDON, WHAT'S THE, WHAT'S THE SIZE OF, UM, YOUR FACILITY IS GOING BE BUILT? SO THE, THE FREESTANDING EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT IS SCOPED AT 11,600 SQUARE FEET.
UM, THE PRIMARY CARE OFFICE IS SCOPED AT 5,500 SQUARE FEET WHERE EARLY DESIGNS EFFECTIVELY.
WHEN YOU SAY FREESTANDING, WHAT, WHAT EXACTLY DOES THAT MEAN? SO, UM, TO THE, TO THE QUESTION, SO IT IS A, IT'S AN EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT STAFF 24 7 BY BOARD CERTIFIED PHYSICIANS READY AND, UH, PREPARED FOR ANY EMERGENCY OR URGENT CARE NEED THAT A PERSON WOULD HAVE.
UH, THE DIFFERENCE IS IT'S NOT IMMEDIATELY ADJACENT TO A HOSPITAL.
UM, BUT IT HAS DEDICATED IMAGING EQUIPMENT LAB, UM, AND STAFF 24 7.
MR. SMITH, BASICALLY, BASICALLY, I LIKE THAT ONE ON UNDER WAY GOING.
THE HILTON HEAD THAT SITS OVER THERE THAT SAYS EMERGENCY WILL, WILL IT, WILL IT BE THE EXACT, EXACT EXACT WHAT IT IS THAT IS WHAT IT IS IN TERMS OF FUNCTION? IT'LL BE A DIFFERENT BUILDING DESIGN, BUT, UM, YES, SIR.
THAT IS, THAT WAS THE AREAS FIRST FREESTANDING EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT.
LOOK, THAT'S, THAT'S KIND OF WHEN YOU SAID THAT, THAT'S WHERE MY LOGIC THAT'S, I WAS, UH, THINKING I WAS GONNA ASK YOU THAT QUESTION.
UM, ALSO, UM, HEARING THIS ON, ON THE FIRST, ON THE ON AND WITHIN THE FIRST, UM, SPILL, WELL, BUT LEMME BACK UP, LEMME ASK YOU THIS.
WHAT, WHAT'S DIFFERENT ABOUT, IN TERMS OF WHERE WE ARE VERSUS WHAT THE OTHER APARTMENT COMPARTMENT UP, THE OTHER, UM, APARTMENT COMPLEX, WHAT DID THEY, IN TERMS OF THE, WHAT THEY, WHAT, WHAT, WHAT DID THEY ACCESS FOR EXACTLY, IN TERMS WHAT, WHAT'S DIFFERENT ABOUT THEIR PLAN VERSUS THE, THEIR PLAN TO UNDERSTAND THAT? WELL, I MEAN, THE REQUEST IS VERY SIMILAR.
THEY NEED AN EASEMENT TO TIE IN.
NOW THEY, THEY HAVE THEIR OWN TIE IN FOR DRIVEWAY.
THEY HAVE TO TIE INTO SOME UTILITIES OFFICE WHAT THEY'RE REQUESTING.
IS THAT CORRECT? UM, THE OTHER ONE, A LOT OF THE CONCERN IS THE CONNECTION TO WALMART AND WHAT THE IMPACT MAY BE ON WK AUSTIN.
I, I BELIEVE THAT'S WHAT THE BOARD HAS DISCUSSED IS, UH, THERE'S SOME CONCERN THERE OF IT BEING A CUT THROUGH FOR WALMART AND OTHER TRAFFIC, UH, HAS BEEN A LOT OF THAT CONVERSATION.
SO THIS, UH, PROPERTY OBVIOUSLY IS ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE ROAD.
IT DOES NOT CONNECT TO WALMART.
IT DOES CONNECT TO AN APARTMENT COMPLEX.
UM, AND IT HAS ANOTHER DIFFERENCE, I WOULD SAY IS THIS HAS
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ITS OWN DRIVE ONTO ONE 70.THERE'S ALREADY A WRITE IN AND WRITE OUT ON ONE 70.
SO IF YOU'RE ON ONE 70, AT LEAST, IF YOU'RE COMING FROM BEAUFORT, YOU DON'T NEED TO GET ON WK AUSTIN.
UM, AND IF YOU'RE LEAVING THIS AREA, AND IF YOU'RE HEADING AWAY FROM BUFORD, I GUESS YOU COULD TURN AROUND WITH THE BACK, BUT YOU DON'T HAVE TO GO ON WK AUSTIN.
SO SPECIFICALLY, IF YOU WERE HEADED TO BLUFFTON AREA, YOU'RE NOT GONNA GET ON WK AUSTIN.
WELL, WELL, MY, MY, UH, MY, MY FIRST, UH, MY, MY FIRST THOUGHT IS THIS IS A, A FIRST, UH, MEETING YOU CAME TO, TO, TO THE TABLE WITH SOME DIFFERENT, WITH SOME DIFFERENT THINGS.
AND, UM, WHAT THE ASK IS ON OUR PART, ON OUR PART OF IT, I'M NOT EVEN SURE WHAT WHAT THAT IS BECAUSE THIS IS KIND OF, TO BE BLUNTLY HONEST, THIS IS MY, UH, FIRST TIME KIND OF LOOKING, LOOKING, LOOKING AT, LOOKING AT THIS GLANCE AT GLANCE AT IT.
BUT THIS IS THE, AND I WANTED TO MORE OF, I WANTED TO HEAR WHAT YOU GUYS WERE HAVING, WHAT YOUR PITCH WAS, SO TO SAY WHAT THE ASK WOULD BE IN TERMS FROM ME AT THIS MOMENT.
I, I DON'T LIKE TO MAKE THIS, I CALL THESE BEING ALL DECISIONS.
UH, JUST ON THE PEAK, PEAK PEAK OF A MOMENT, I LIKE TO SLEEP IN, IN DIGESTION, PROBABLY WALK IN AND UNDERSTAND EXACTLY.
TO SEE EXACTLY WHAT, WHAT, WHAT, WHAT, WHAT WE COULD POSSIBLY NEED.
I CAN THINK OF A COUPLE THINGS, BUT I WILL WAIT AND SEE, UH, IF MY COLLEAGUES HAVE ANYTHING.
BUT I THINK THIS IS, UH, A, A GREAT, UM, A, A A GREAT, A GREAT START.
AND, UM, I HAVE, UH, WATCHED YOU GUYS, UH, N UM, DEVON HOSPITAL.
I THOUGHT, YOU GUYS GOTTA GET OUT, GOTTA GET OUT THE COMMUNITY.
AND YOU GUYS HAVE BEEN VISIBLE.
AND SO IF WE CAN MAKE THIS WORK, YOU KNOW, I, I I'M OPEN MY TO AND THEN I WILL PREVENT IT WITH SAME I WAY I WOULD BE WITH, WITH ANYONE.
UM, SO, UM, THE ASK, I'M NOT SURE WHAT, WHAT, WHAT, WHAT MY ASK WOULD BE IN TERMS OF YET, BUT, BUT I DO, BUT LET ME SAY THIS UPFRONT, I DON'T, BUT JUST, I DO NOT BELIEVE IN JUST GIVING AWAY EASEMENTS BECAUSE WHERE I'M FROM, BEFORD COUNTY EASEMENTS COSTS.
AND SO BEING A GOOD STUDENT OF TAX STEWARD OF TAXPAYERS MONEY, WE JUST, UH, AFTER YOU GUYS JUST HEARD US TALK ABOUT IN TERMS OF SWAPPING LAND, I DO BELIEVE IN DOING, GIVING THE TAXPAYERS THEIR DUE DILIGENCE IN, IN TERMS OF GIVE, GIVING RIGHT AWAYS AND, AND, AND, AND SO ON.
I'M SURE YOU GUYS PREPARED TO DO THAT, SO I'LL JUST LEAVE IT THERE.
HEY, I JUST WANTED TO SAY I AGREE WITH MR. SMITH.
I MEAN, THIS IS, AND, AND MR. GORD FOR THAT MATTER, YOU KNOW, THERE'S A LOT OF DOCUMENTS AND MAPS AND IT'S HARD TO REALLY GET A HANDLE ON WHAT EXACTLY IS BEING ASKED FOR.
AND IN ALL HONESTY, MY INITIAL REACTION WAS, GOODNESS, THAT'S A LOT OF APARTMENTS AND A LOT OF TRAFFIC INTO THAT SCHOOL ENVELOPE.
AND I HAVE BEEN EXTREMELY PROTECTIVE OF THE SCHOOL ENVELOPE, UM, SINCE I'VE BEEN ON THE BOARD.
BUT I THINK ONE THING, UH, TO MR. SMITH'S POINT, AND WHEN HE, WE HAVE SAT DOWN, HE AND I HAVE SERVED ON OPERATIONS FOR A LONG TIME TOGETHER, UM, HE IS ALWAYS LOOKING TO LEVERAGE THE SCHOOL BOARD, WHICH I AGREE WITH WHOLEHEARTEDLY.
AND I THINK ONE THING TO POINT OUT, WHICH WE ALWAYS BRING UP, IS THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING ISSUE.
SO THAT'S AN ISSUE RIGHT THERE, BECAUSE NOVANT IS BUILDING AFFORDABLE HOUSING AT A MUCH, UH, MORE EFFICIENT PACE THAN, UH, SOME OF OUR, OUR GOVERNMENT COLLEAGUES.
BUT THE OTHER THING IS, I THINK IT'S INTERESTING, WHEN I WAS AT MUSC BEFORE COMING ON THE BOARD, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WAS REALLY AN, UH, EMERGING FIELD, UH, ESPECIALLY IN PLACES LIKE SOUTH CAROLINA THAT ARE CONSIDERED A LITTLE MORE RURAL IS SCHOOL-BASED HEALTHCARE.
AND I THINK THERE'S AN, YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU'RE LOOKING AT AN EASEMENT FOR PURELY DEVELOPERS WHO ARE TRYING TO RENT APARTMENTS, IT'S A LITTLE MORE TRANSACTIONAL WHEN YOU'VE GOT, YOU KNOW, A COMMUNITY PARTNER, A NONPROFIT WHO'S THERE, WHO'S SERVING THE COMMUNITY, YOU KNOW, IT'S A LITTLE BIT OF A DIFFERENT LAND FOR ME.
BUT I THINK ALSO THERE ARE SOME REALLY EXCITING POSSIBILITIES BECAUSE THAT'S ONE OF OUR LARGER SCHOOLS, UH, NORTH OF ABROAD.
UM, I KNOW THAT THERE'S A LOT OF THINGS THAT ARE BEING DONE AT THE STATE LEVEL TO ENCOURAGE SCHOOL-BASED CARE, IMMUNIZATIONS, WELL VISITS, UM, EVEN SOME TELEHEALTH, SOME SIMPLE THINGS.
AND SO THERE ARE SOME REALLY EXCITING OPPORTUNITIES FOR PARTNERSHIPS.
SO I THINK FOR ME, I'M CONSIDERING THIS A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENTLY.
AND TO ADDRESS MR. SMITH'S CONCERNS, I AGREE WITH THEM WHOLEHEARTEDLY, BUT I DO THINK THAT WE HAVE TO SEPARATE OUT A DEVELOPER TRYING TO BUILD AND SELL APARTMENTS, LOOKING FOR AN EASEMENT TO WORKING WITH SOMEONE THAT WANTS TO PARTNER WITH US IN THE COMMUNITY TO SERVE THE COMMUNITY MEMBERS.
UM, AND I KNOW NOVO'S BEEN DOING THAT, SO I THINK THERE'S ACTUALLY SOME PRETTY COOL IDEAS THAT WE COULD KICK AROUND AS WE MOVE THIS THING ALONG, UH, WITH THE BOARD.
SO I JUST WANTED TO POINT THAT OUT.
I THINK WE ARE GONNA HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT, UH, TRAFFIC ON WK AUSTIN.
ANYBODY TRYING TO TURN LEFT OUT OF THAT IS NOT GONNA BE ABLE TO TURN ACROSS ONE 70.
SO THEY'RE GONNA GO OVER TO WK AUSTIN TO GET TO THE LIGHT.
YEAH, SO, WELL, IT'S RIGHT OUT TOO.
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HAVE TO GO UP, TURN AROUND OR DO A U OR, YEAH, SO, UH, YEAH, I'M NOT SURE SOMETHING'S GONNA HAVE TO, WELL, YEAH, WHATEVER.SO, UH, WHAT DOES SUCCESS LOOK LIKE? WHAT DOES MOVING FORWARD LOOK LIKE ON THIS? OH, I MEAN, I MEAN, A MOTION FROM THE BOARD TO, UH, YOU KNOW, TO GRANT IT WOULD BE ONE WAY TO MOVE FORWARD.
UH, IF YOU'RE NOT READY FOR THAT, I'D SUGGEST, UH, THAT YOU HAVE, I ASK FOR SOME INFORMATION FROM THESE GENTLEMEN.
UM, TO ME THAT'S YOUR TWO ODD, WELL, YOU CAN APPROVE IT, DENY IT, ASK FOR MORE INFORMATION.
I, I DON'T THINK THAT THIS TIME THAT WE ARE READY TO, I CAN SAY I'M NOT NO SIGN.
IT DON'T SOUND LIKE, UH, UH, I'M NOT SURE.
SO I WOULD JUST THINK THAT AT THIS TIME, THAT, UM, THIS IS OUR, THIS IS OUR FIRST LOOK, UH, TO BE RE TO BE, UH, RESPECTFUL AND HAVE, YOU KNOW, AND, AND PLUS OUR TO BE ALL GOOD STEWARDS, YOU KNOW? UM, I THINK, I THINK WE SHOULD CONTINUE TO HAVE THE CONVERSATION UNTIL WE GET TO THE POINT TO WHERE WE ALREADY TO DIGEST THIS AND WHERE TO MAKE MOVES INTO ACTUALLY MAKE A MOTION TO HAVE SOME CONVERSATIONS.
RIGHT NOW, I THINK THAT MAYBE THIS MAY BE A DISCUSSION THAT WE REVISIT, BUT AT THIS POINT IN TIME, UM, I DON'T THINK NO ONE, UNLESS YOU'RE AN ARCHITECT AND YOU, AND YOU, UH, JUST WANNA, WE'RE NOT, WE'RE NOT MAKING THAT DECISION.
I, I DON'T THINK, I DON'T BELIEVE THAT WE ARE, LEMME SAY THAT.
I DON'T, I DON'T, I DON'T THINK WE ARE.
I THINK THAT, THAT WE ARE CONTINUE TO HAVE THESE CONVERSATIONS.
UH, WE DO APPRECIATE YOU BRINGING THIS FORWARD.
AND I, I BELIEVE THAT THE BOARD THAT PO POSSIBLY COLLEAGUES ARE LOOKING FORWARD, I'LL LET THEM TALK, TALK, SAY WHERE THEY'RE AT.
I BELIEVE THAT, THAT, THAT WE ALL ARE, IT'S NOT LIKE WE IN FAVOR OF TO THE OPPORTUNITIES THAT THIS COULD POSSIBLY BRING AND THE THINGS THAT THIS COULD POSSIBLY CHANGE IN, IN OUR COMMUNITY TO HELP US OUT.
I THINK THAT WE ARE ALL LOOKING FORWARD TO THAT.
BUT TODAY, I DON'T THINK THAT ANY OF US IS, UH, WELL, I'M, SAY, I'M SAY ME.
I'M NOT READY TO GO FORWARD WITH, UH, WITH, WITH, WITH THE EMOTION ON THIS.
BUT I WOULD LIKE TO CONTINUE, I WOULD LIKE TO CONTINUE HAVING THIS CONVERSATION IN DIALOGUES WHERE WE CAN GET TO A POINT WHERE WE CAN SEAL THIS DEAL.
YOUR HAND IS UP, MRS. FRAZIER, TO MAKE IT BENEFICIAL.
GIVE THEM THE ISSUES THAT WE HAVE.
SO THE NEXT TIME THAT THEY DO COME BACK, WE CAN MOVE THIS ALONG.
THEY KNOW EXACTLY WE'RE CONCERNED ABOUT.
SO, UH, WHAT I'VE HEARD SO FAR IS, UM, TRAFFIC CALLING OPTIONS.
UH, SO IF YOU COULD COME BACK WITH SOME TRAFFIC CALLING OPTIONS, UH, I'D LIKE TO SEE AN ALTERNATIVE, UH, TRAFFIC PATTERN.
UH, SO WE'RE NOT INTERRUPTING OUR DROP OFF AND OUR BUSES.
SO WHAT CAN WE DO, UH, AS FAR AS AN ALTERNATIVE TRAFFIC PATTERN, UH, THAT MAYBE DOESN'T USE WK AUSTIN AT ALL? UM, UNLESS YOU'RE GONNA FIGURE OUT A WAY TO EITHER WIDEN THAT, UM, UH, THAT'S, THAT'S, BUT THAT AGAIN, WHERE MAYBE, UH, THAT'S WHERE WE HAVE TO PULL IN OUR OWN, UH, TRAFFIC DIRECTOR AND FIND OUT IF, IF THEY BELIEVE WHAT THIS IS GONNA HAVE AN IMPACT.
UH, AND THEN WE'RE ALSO TALKING ABOUT, UM, WHAT ARE OUR OPTIONS FOR IN-SCHOOL HEALTHCARE.
MAY I ASK FOR CLARIFICATION ON ALTERNATIVE FOR TRAFFIC PATTERNS? IS THAT TEMPORARY DURING PICKUP AND DROP OFF HOURS OF THE SCHOOL OPERATIONS OR IS THAT AS A WELL, IT WOULDN'T BE TEMPORARY BECAUSE IT HAPPENS FIVE DAYS A WEEK.
DURING, DURING THE PICKUP AND DROP OFF.
SO LIKE TEMPORARY BARRICADES DURING THOSE HOURS TO, OR WAY FINDING SIGNAGE OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT FOR DISCONNECT OF, OF NOT UTILIZING, I, I DON'T KNOW.
I WOULD SAY, UH, COME WITH THREE COAS, UH, AND THEN SEE WHAT HAPPENS.
UH, BOARD MEMBERS LIKES OPTIONS, SO LIKE COME UP WITH THREE COURSES OF ACTION ABOUT WHAT WOULD BE A A, A TRAFFIC OPTION OR TRAFFIC OPTIONS.
UH, I THINK ONE OF THEM SHOULD BE, UH, COULD BE A DISCONNECT FROM W CHAOS UNLESS WE CAN FIGURE OUT HOW TO MITIGATE THE TRAFFIC, UH, ALONG WITH OUR PICKUP AND DROP OFF AND OUR BUSES.
MAY I ASK A CLARIFYING QUESTION AS WELL, JUST KIND OF A PROCESS STANDPOINT? 'CAUSE I APPRECIATE, NOW I APPRECIATE THAT THE SCHOOLS HAVE A TRAFFIC PLANNER, ENGINEER.
IS THAT SOMETHING WE COULD, SOMEONE WE COULD ALSO SPEAK WITH TRYING TO FIND THIS? DOES THAT MAKE SENSE IN THE PROCESS? IF IT DOESN'T, THAT'S OKAY.
I'M JUST TRYING TO, WHEN WE COME BACK TO BE ABLE TO, YOU KNOW, ANSWER YOUR QUESTION AND YOUR POINT EARLIER YES.
SAY, OKAY, WE VETTED THESE THREE OPTIONS AND IT MAKES SENSE FROM, FROM THE SCHOOL SYSTEM TRAFFIC PLANNER.
AGAIN, I, I DON'T, I DON'T WANNA OVERSTEP, I, WE ACTUALLY, TRANSPORTATION IS MEETING TOMORROW.
THEY'VE NOT SEEN THIS OR I WON'T DO THIS WITH, UH, AND IF THERE ARE ANY COMMENTS, I'LL LET CONNOR KNOW.
AND THEN, I MEAN, MAYBE EVEN HAVE THEM COME BACK TO THE, THE NEXT, UH, COMMITTEE MEETING, UH, IF WE NEED TO.
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ALRIGHT, SO WE'VE GOT AT LEAST THOSE THREE THINGS.TRAFFIC CALL ME, ALTERNATIVE TRAFFIC PATTERNS, THREE COAS, AND THEN, UH, POSSIBILITIES FOR IN-SCHOOL HEALTH.
ANYTHING ELSE? AND ALSO, ARE YOU, ARE YOU GUYS FAMILIAR WITH OUR MEDTECH? WE HAVE A MEDTECH, UM, SEVEN PROGRAM.
AS IN, BUT I'M NOT, I DON'T KNOW THE INTRICACIES OF IT.
UM, UM, AND IN, IN TERMS OF SOMETHING LIKE THAT AS WELL WOULD BE, WOULD BE KIND OF BE IN INTERESTING AND DEFINITELY A SELLING, A SELLING POINT.
THAT, THAT AND, BUT, BUT THE ACTUAL, THE OWNER THAT, WHO WAS THE OWNER WHO WAS THE OWNER OF THAT? OR WHAT IS THAT? WHO, WHAT, WHAT MEDICAL ENTITY? THE, BUT DR.
STRATOS KIND OF IS THE MAIN SHORT PERSON OVERHEAD.
AND, AND, AND, AND, AND THE, AND THE REASON WHY I'M ASKING FOR, FOR CLARIFICATION BECAUSE, UH, JUST ANY, I, I THINK ANY, UM, OPPORTUNITY THAT YOU CAN BRING OUR, UH, OUR UH, OUR YOUNG, OUR STUDENTS, OUR STUDENTS TO HELP, TO HELP, UH, OR TO BE ABLE TO GET LIKE, UH, ON, ON THE DRIVE CHANNEL.
LIKE ON DRIVE, UM, ON THE JOB TRAINING.
I KNOW ALSO THAT THROUGH ACE, WE HAVE SOME PEOPLE NOW, I SAW A YOUNG LADY OTHER DAY, UM, SHE WAS TRIPPING ME OUT.
UH, SHE WOULD ON THE SCENES AND I REMEMBER SEEING HER IN THE AMBULANCE WORKING IN THE EMS, UH, CLASS AT ACE AND NOW SHE'S ACTUALLY IN THE EMS ON THE ROAD MM-HMM
SO WE, YOU KNOW, THINGS LIKE THAT WHERE WE CAN WORK TOGETHER AND, UH, MAKE THE COMMUNITY BETTER.
UM, I'LL DEFINITELY NOT AN OPTION LIKE THAT TOO WOULD DEFINITELY BE, YOU KNOW, SOMETHING TO HELP IT.
WE CAN MAKE A TAXPAYER LITTLE, UH, EASE IN TERMS OF GET, GET, GETTING YOU GUYS TO, UH, WE WE'RE WORKING TOGETHER.
ALRIGHT, SO POSSIBLE MEDTECH, PARTNERSHIP, EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES, RIGHT? YEAH.
YEAH, WE COULD GO IN A LOT OF DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS, CORRECT.
ANYTHING ELSE? SAME ROUND ONE, ONE WISE.
ALRIGHT GENTLEMEN, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR TIME.
MR. YOU HAVE TABLE NOW MEETING.
UM, I KNOW YOU GUYS HAVE A LOT OF STUFF TO, TO GET THROUGH.
UM, IN THE INTEREST OF TIME, ARE YOU GOOD IF I GO THROUGH OE ONE AND OE 11 AT THE SAME TIME? YES, MA'AM.
SO I'M, BEFORE I START, I WANNA TALK ABOUT, UM, OE ONE IS GLOBAL OPERATIONAL EXPECTATION.
OE 1111 IS COMMUNICATING WITH THE PUBLIC.
AND, UM, THIS IS THE COMMUNICATIONS DEPARTMENT WAS VERY EXCITED TO BE PART OF THE STRATEGIC PLAN.
THE PREVIOUS STRATEGIC PLAN COMMUNICATIONS REALLY DIDN'T HAVE A PLACE TO LIVE IN IT.
UM, AND OBVIOUSLY WE WOULD LIKE THE STRUCTURE AND THE GOALS.
AND SO, UM, ON THE NEW STRATEGIC PLAN, THERE'S THE SUPPORT PILLAR, THE ENGAGEMENT PILLAR, ACHIEVEMENT STEWARDSHIP, WHICH I KNOW YOU ALL KNOW.
BUT, UM, THIS YEAR WE WERE, I WAS REALLY HAPPY THAT WE WERE ABLE TO FOCUS ON THE ENGAGEMENT PILLAR AND WE MADE A REAL EFFORT TO ALIGN OUR OES WITH THE ENGAGEMENT PILLAR.
UM, AND A LOT, SOME OF THAT CAME THROUGH LIKE DR. CAMPBELL, UM, ALICE
AND SO WE'RE KIND OF FOLLOWING HER LEAD ON THAT AS WELL.
SO IN TERMS OF, UM, OE ONE IS TAKE REASONABLE MEASURES TO PROTECT THE DISTRICT'S PUBLIC IMAGE.
AND OE 11 IS THE SUPERINTENDENT SHALL ENSURE THE PUBLIC IS ADEQUATELY INFORMED ABOUT THE CONDITION DIRECTION OF THE DISTRICT.
SO AGAIN, BOTH OF THESE FOLLOW THE SECOND PILLAR, THE ENGAGEMENT PILLAR, AND THAT PILLAR IS TO BUILD DISTRICT-WIDE CULTURE OF PRIDE, TRUST AND RESPECT, ALIGN NEW AND EXISTING COMMUNITY AND PARENT PARTNERSHIPS AND ENSURE STAFF, FAMILIES, STUDENTS, AND THE COMMUNITY HAVE TIMELY ACCESS TO INFORMATION AND ENGAGEMENT OPPORTUNITIES.
SO IN TERMS OF BUILDING A DISTRICT-WIDE CULTURE OF PRIDE AND RESPECT, UM, BUILDING ON THE SUCCESS OF THE DISTRICT'S NEW LOGO, UH, THE COMMUNICATIONS DEPARTMENT IMPLEMENTED A STRATEGIC BRANDING PROJECT, WHICH I KNOW YOU ARE ALL FAMILIAR WITH THE GO PUBLIC CAMPAIGN, WHICH WE'RE EXCITED ABOUT AND WE NEED TO COMPETE, UM, THIS DAY AND AGE WITH CHARTER SCHOOLS AND PRIVATE SCHOOLS, UM, THERE'S JUST A LOT OF CHOICES AND PEOPLE TO KNOW THAT WE'RE THE BEST CHOICE.
UM, WE CONTINUE TO KEEP EVERYONE INFORMED OF IMPORTANT MATTERS AND INITIATIVES THROUGH THE DISTRICT'S.
30 PLUS SCHOOL WEBSITES, NEWS RELEASES, EMAIL MESSAGING, YOUTUBE VIDEOS, SOCIAL MEDIA AND ROAD CALL COMMUNICATIONS.
UH, ONE THING WE ALSO DO A LOT IS WE HANDLE EMERGENCY SITUATIONS, UM, THAT RANGE FROM, YOU KNOW, THERE COULD BE A LEAK IN THE BUILDING, THERE COULD BE, YOU KNOW, WE'VE HAD, YOU
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KNOW, A TORNADO CONCERN DURING DROP OFF IN THE MORNING, YOU KNOW, ALL SORTS OF THINGS LIKE THAT.UM, AND WE HANDLE THAT THROUGH TEXT MESSAGING, EMAILS, UM, ALL SORTS OF WAYS TO DO THAT THROUGH THE MEDIA AS WELL.
UM, I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT IN TERMS OF FOSTERING DISTRICT TRUST AND TRANSPARENCY, THE CLOCK, EVEN THOUGH IT'S BEEN AROUND SINCE 2019, IT JUST CONTINUES TO REALLY BE A SOLID, SOLID FORCE.
AND I'D BE REMISS IF I DIDN'T MENTION THAT AND ALL OF THEIR DOCUMENTS ARE ON THE WEBSITE.
UM, THE OTHER THING WE'VE DONE THIS YEAR IS WE'VE BEEN, UM, A LOT BETTER ON HAVING QUARTERLY MEETINGS FOR DISTRICT OFFICE STAFF TO KEEP EVERYBODY INFORMED ON THAT FRONT AS WELL, SO THEY KIND OF KNOW WHAT'S COMING DOWN THE PIKE.
DR. RODRIGUEZ CAN ANSWER QUESTIONS AND WHEN I TALK A LOT ABOUT INTERNAL COMMUNICATIONS, IT'S VERY, VERY IMPORTANT.
AND I KNOW ATLAS AGREES WITH THIS TOO, LIKE, WE HAVE 3000 EMPLOYEES AND WE NEED THEM TO BE INFORMED AND FOR THEM TO BE AMBASSADORS TOO AND FEEL LIKE THEY'RE PART OF THE TEAM.
UM, SO WE HAVE BEEN FOCUSING ON THAT VERY, VERY FORTUNATE.
UM, WE HAD A GREAT HIRE, I THINK I MIGHT'VE TOLD YOU ALL THIS ALREADY, BUT, UM, OUR NEW INTERNAL COMMUNICATIONS AND EVENTS PERSON IS LEE COPELAND.
SHE WAS TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOR 19 YEARS.
SHE'S WONDERFUL AND IT'S BEEN A GREAT ASSET TO OUR TEAM, SO THERE'S GONNA BE SOME EXCITING THINGS COMING DOWN THE PIKE ALREADY.
SHE'S DONE EVEN IN HER SHORT TIME HERE, SHE'S DONE SOME REALLY GREAT THINGS.
WE HAVE THE, UM, INTERNAL EMPLOYEE NEWSLETTER THAT COMES DIRECTLY FORMATTED TO PEOPLE'S EMAIL INBOXES.
THE, UM, READ RATE ON THAT IS SIX, THERE'S 6,000 IN 6,000 CLICKS, SO THAT'S ABOUT TWO CLICKS PER EMPLOYEE, WHICH IS VERY, VERY HIGH.
SHE HAS LIKE VA REVAMPED THAT AS WELL.
WE HAVE A LOT MORE THINGS ON THERE, LIKE THINGS TO DO IN THE COMMUNITY WHERE YOU CAN GET DISCOUNTS, THINGS LIKE THAT.
AND THAT'S REALLY IMPORTANT FOR OUR YOUNG TEACHERS THAT ARE COMING HERE AND JUST NEED TO FEEL CONNECTED.
YOUR THE OTHER THING TOO, UM, IN TERMS OF TRANSPARENCY, AS YOU GUYS KNOW, OUR FOIA RESPONSES ARE ALL POSTED TO THE WEBSITE, SO THAT IS EXTREMELY TRANSPARENT.
THE, UM, ONE THING THAT WAS KIND OF NEAT THIS YEAR BECAUSE OF OUR DISTRICT'S, UH, SUCCESSFUL CELL PHONE POLICY COMMUNICATIONS, WE WERE ASKED TO PRESENT AT THE, UM, IN INSPIRA NATIONAL CONFERENCE, UH, WAS DIALING INTO COMPLIANCE, DEVELOPING AND IMPLEMENTING A NEW CELL PHONE POLICY AT THE, THIS CONFERENCE WAS IN WASHINGTON DC AND IT WAS LIKE, I WILL SAY IT'S REALLY NEAT, LIKE WE WENT TO THIS CONFERENCE AND I, A LOT OF THE PROGRAMS THAT WE GO WENT TO THE SESSIONS LIKE BUFORD COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT WAS ALREADY DOING THOSE THINGS.
AND THAT'S A REALLY GOOD FEELING WHEN YOU GO AND YOU'RE ABLE TO SEE THAT.
I THINK FOR, YOU DON'T THINK OF SOUTH CAROLINA ALWAYS AS BEING AT THE FOREFRONT OF THINGS, BUT DR. RODRIGUEZ IS REALLY, REALLY GOOD AT KEEPING US THERE.
AND SO WE'RE VERY, VERY FORTUNATE, UM, TO BE ABLE TO DO WHAT WE DO.
ANOTHER THING THAT WE HAVE THAT'S GOING TO BE LAUNCHING IN JANUARY, BUT WE WE'RE BUSY DEVELOPING THIS YEAR, IS OUR PARTNERS IN EDUCATION PROGRAM.
UM, WE WILL AGAIN, HAVE OUR BIG LAUNCH IN JANUARY.
UH, I DO HAVE SOME OF THESE, IF ANYBODY WANTS TO TAKE SOME AND HAND THEM OUT.
IT'S BASICALLY, UM, JUST WAY TO GET BUSINESS PARTNERS ENGAGED, PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY ENGAGED, SPEAKING TO A CLASS OR CAREER GROUP, MENTORING A STUDENT, HOSTING A FIELD EXPERIENCE OR TOUR, PROVIDING SUPPLIES OR SPONSORSHIPS, SUPPORTING EVENTS AND CELEBRATION.
THIS IS, UM, SOMETHING THE BOARD HAS BEEN ASKING FOR, FOR A WHILE TO ENGAGE OUR COMMUNITY PARTNERS IN OUR BUSINESSES.
SO WE'RE REALLY HAPPY TO BE STARTING WITH THIS.
UM, WE'RE GOING TO HAVE AN NEWSLETTER FOR OUR COMMUNITY PARTNERS AND WE HAVE THE TEMPLATE FOR THAT ALREADY TO GO.
AND, UM, WE'RE ALSO DOING A MAILING TO BUSINESSES ACROSS THE COUNTY, UM, AND OBVIOUSLY TALKING WITH SCHOOLS.
SCHOOLS ALREADY HAVE SOME PARTNERS, SO WE'RE KIND OF GETTING ALL THAT ORGANIZED THIS YEAR, WHICH WE'RE EXCITED ABOUT.
WE ALSO, UM, OUR VOLUNTEER PROGRAM, THERE'S SOME OF THESE, UM, IF Y'ALL WANTED TO TAKE ANY OF THESE TOO, YOU'RE WELCOME TO TAKE SOME OF THESE OVER THERE.
UM, ARE LOOKING AT A NEW PLATFORM FOR OUR VOLUNTEERS.
THE ONE THAT WE'RE INTERESTED IN IS VOLLEY AND IT HAS A, IT, IT HAS AN APP.
IT ALSO, IT'S THE ONE PROGRAM THAT HAS WHAT Y'ALL WERE INTERESTED IN WAS THE PUBLIC FACING DASHBOARD.
SO SOMEBODY CAN COME AND LIKE, GO TO THE WEBSITE AND SAY, I'M INTERESTED IN THIS SCHOOL.
WHAT DOES THIS SCHOOL HAVE THAT I MIGHT BE INTERESTED IN, WHETHER IT'S A GARDENING CLUB OR WHATEVER.
UM, SO, BUT IT, IT DID TAKE SOME LEGWORK TO FIND THAT PLATFORM, BUT THAT'S WHAT WE'RE PLANNING ON MOVING FORWARD WITH ON THAT.
UM, YOU GUYS KNOW, I THINK, UH, WE HAVE BCSD UNIVERSITY THAT WE LAUNCHED IN 2023, UM, WHICH IS A PROGRAM, IT'S KINDA LIKE A BEAUFORT LEADERSHIP PROGRAM, BUT IT'S FOR THE DISTRICT.
UM, AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS CAN BE PART OF THAT PROGRAM AND THEY LEARN ABOUT EACH DIVISION OF THE DISTRICT BECAUSE PEOPLE REALLY DON'T REALIZE LIKE, WHAT A BIG KIND OF MACHINE THIS IS HERE.
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UM, AND I, WE'VE HAD SOME GOOD CONVERSATIONS WITH THE PEOPLE THAT EVEN ATTENDED, UM, ALICE'S TEAM, YOU KNOW, DID A PRESENTATION.PEOPLE JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND THE SCOPE AND IT KIND OF GIVES THEM SOME INSIGHT TO THAT.
THIS YEAR, UM, WE'RE ACTUALLY HAVE, WE'RE EXPANDING THE PROGRAM TO, UM, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA, BEAUFORT, OSHA LIFELONG LEARNING INSTITUTE.
SO IT'LL BE OFFERED TO THEIR PEOPLE.
UM, AND THEN WE'LL GO DURING THE DAY, STILL ONCE A WEEK AND HAVE OUR COURSES THERE.
SO IT THAT'LL BE A NICE EXPANDED REACH, I THINK.
YEAH, I THINK IT'S GONNA BE GOOD.
UM, YEAH, I THINK IT'S ALSO PART IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT DR. RODRIGUEZ, HE ACCEPTS ALL INVITATIONS TO GO SPEAK WITH ANY POLITICAL GROUPS OR ANY COMMUNITY GROUPS, UM, REGARDLESS OF AFFILIATION.
UM, AND WHICH I THINK HE DOES MEET PEOPLE WHERE THEY ARE.
UM, AND WE'VE BEEN VERY SUCCESSFUL WITH THAT.
HE GETS A LOT OF INVITATIONS AND AGAIN, ALWAYS MAKES IT WORK TO GO MEET WITH THESE DIFFERENT PEOPLE.
UM, WE HAVE OUR BCSD CONNECTED ENGAGEMENT PLATFORM ON THE WEBSITE.
UH, THIS YEAR WE DID THE MASS COMMUNICATION AND CLASSROOM COMMUNICATION PLATFORM.
THAT WAS THE, THE SURVEY TO GET INPUT ON WHAT KIND OF WE'RE REPLACING BRIGHT ARROW OR MESSAGING SYSTEM TO GET FEEDBACK FROM PARENTS AS TO WHAT THEY WANTED.
UH, WE WENT THROUGH THE RFP PROCESS ON THAT.
AS A RESULT, WE'RE GONNA BE LAUNCHING PARENTS SQUARE THAT'S GONNA BE COMING OUT IN JANUARY.
THAT IS SOMETHING I THINK THAT RACHEL KY HAD BEEN WANTING FOR A WHILE, WAS TO HAVE ONE PLATFORM FOR ALL THINGS FOR, UM, PARENTS TO HAVE.
SO IF YOU HAVE THREE KIDS, YOU DON'T HAVE BLOOMS AND CLASSDOJO AND ALL THIS, YOU HAVE ONE THING.
SO THAT'S, THAT'S OUR NEXT THING WE'RE GONNA BE LAUNCHING, UH, WHICH WE'RE EXCITED ABOUT THAT AS WELL.
AND DISTRICT WEBSITE HAD NEARLY 900,000 PAGE VIEWS.
UM, JUST AS A POINT OF INTEREST, THE TOP 10 VISITING AGENTS ARE THE HOMEPAGE, ACADEMIC CALENDAR, FACULTY, STAFF, INTRANET, UM, EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES, CAREERS, STUDENT SERVICES, SCHOOL COUNSELING, THAT VIRTUAL CALMING ROOM, JERRY THAT YOU STARTED, THAT'S STILL UP THERE.
UM, OUR SOCIAL MEDIA, WE HAVE ON FACEBOOK, WE HAVE OVER 26,000 PEOPLE.
RON LOPES HAS BEEN DOING, UH, REELS THIS YEAR ON SOCIAL MEDIA, UM, AND THEY'VE BEEN VIEWED MORE THAN 2.3 MILLION TIMES, SO WE'VE BEEN INCREASING THAT AS WELL.
OH, THE OTHER THING WE'VE DONE, WHICH YOU GET MIGHT HAVE SEEN EITHER IN THE ISLAND NEWS OR IN THE BLUFFTON SUN, WE HAVE THE BCSD BEACON.
THEY BASICALLY HAVE, UM, THE CHARACTER EDUCATION OF THE MONTH AWARDS, WHEN STUDENTS GET DIFFERENT AWARDS, ATHLETIC THINGS.
UM, A LOT OF PRIVATE SCHOOLS WILL DO ADVERTISING IN THINGS LIKE THAT.
AND SO WE WILL SEND OUR PRESS RELEASES.
SO WE HAVE THE INSERTS AND WE HAVE OUR PRESS RELEASES THAT THEY PRINT.
UM, AND THOSE ARE IMPORTANT THINGS TOO.
THEY'RE PRINT, BUT THEY'RE HANGING OUT ON PEOPLE'S COFFEE TABLES.
THEY'RE HANGING OUT IN, YOU KNOW, WAITING ROOMS AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
SO IT'S JUST ANOTHER WAY TO GET THE WORD OUT NEW THIS YEAR IS WE HAD THE, THE SHOWCASE EVENTS.
THERE'S ONE THIS EVENING OBVIOUSLY THAT YOU GUYS KNOW ABOUT MR. SMITH, YOU WERE AT THE OTHER ONE.
UM, AND, UM, SO I THINK THAT'S THE START OF SOMETHING REALLY GOOD AS WELL.
I, THE THING WE'VE BEEN TALKING A LOT ABOUT WITH, WITH DR. RODRIGUEZ IS JUST THE SCOPE OF WHAT WE HAVE TO OFFER.
SO WHEN WE DO EVENTS LIKE THIS IN COMPARISON TO A SINGLE CHARTER SCHOOL OR TO A PRIVATE SCHOOL, LIKE JUST THE BREADTH THAT WE HAVE, UM, WE'RE VERY POWERFUL IN THAT REGARD.
AND I THINK THAT IS A STRONG POINT THAT WE DO HAVE.
UM, I HAVE TO GIVE A SHOUT OUT TO MOLLY MERCADO, AND I KNOW I ALWAYS DO THAT WHEN I COME HERE, BUT YOU GUYS KNOW HER AND SHE'S BEEN DOING AN AWESOME JOB, EVEN FOR THE SHOWCASE.
UM, SHE MADE INDIVIDUAL WRAP CARDS FOR ALL THE SCHOOLS.
SHE DESIGNED THE TABLE RUNNERS FOR THEM, LIKE NAME TAGS FOR ALL THE PRINCIPALS WITH THEIR STUFF ON IT.
SO EVERYBODY HAS THEIR INDIVIDUAL SCHOOL BRANDING, BUT IT'S VERY CONSISTENT AND TALK TO WITH THE RECRUITERS.
AND THEY'RE GOING TO HAVE THE RAC CARDS TOO, SO THEY CAN TAKE THEM WITH THEM.
SO, UM, I WILL SAY ON OE 11, THE LAST THING HERE IS, UM, IN TERMS OF, UH, PUBLISHING THE REPORT CARD, UM, THE ANNUAL REPORT THAT WE HAVE ON THE WEBSITE, UM, AND SHARING THE BOARD'S RESULTS, POLICY, REVENUES, EXPENDITURES, ALL THAT, DR. RODRIGUEZ, UH, FREQUENTLY PRESENTS TO COMMUNITY GROUPS ON THESE TOPICS.
UH, DISTRICT STAFF MAKES PRESENTATIONS TO THE BOARD OF EDUCATION MEETINGS, WHICH, YOU KNOW, UH, WE DISTRIBUTE PRESS RELEASES REGARDING ACADEMIC INITIATIVES AND FISCAL MATTERS.
THE COMMUNITY REPORT CARD IS, UM,
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POSTED TO THE WEBSITE ANNUALLY.WE ARE WORKING ON THE NEW VERSION OF THAT NOW BECAUSE TEST SCORES CAME IN LATE.
THEY CAME IN NOVEMBER THIS YEAR.
UM, BUT WE'RE ADDING EVEN MORE THINGS TO THAT TOO.
SO, UM, AND I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO KNOW OUR FINANCIAL DEPARTMENT IS REALLY, REALLY GREAT AT KEEPING THEIR PORTION OF THE WEBSITE UP TO DATE AND EVERYTHING IS, UM, ON THERE AND VERY, VERY TRANSPARENT.
UM, DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ON THESE TWO QUESTIONS? UM, MR. SMITH? YES.
UM, IN, IN, IN, IN, IN TERMS OF, I UNDERSTAND THE PILLOWS, BUT HOW, HOW, YOU KNOW, I, I KNOW AT ONE TIME WE WERE ENGAGING STUDENTS, WE WERE DOING THE TALK, THE TALKS ABOUT THE, UM, WE WERE ENGAGING STUDENTS.
IT'S ACTUALLY, I DIDN'T READ IT RIGHT NOW, BUT DR. RODRIGUEZ DOES DO THAT.
THE STUDENT, IS THAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT THE STUDENT ADVISOR? YEAH.
WE HADN'T DONE THAT THIS YEAR.
HE, HE DID ONE LAST WEEK AT BATTERY CREEK.
HE HAS, HE HAS BEEN DOING THEM ALSO THE, NORMALLY THE BOARD WE NORMALLY KNOW ABOUT THE, UH, STUDENT ADVISORS.
I KNOW THAT, I'M NOT SURE ABOUT THE PROCESS ON THAT, BUT I KNOW HE DOES DO THEM.
WELL, JUST WHEN WE TALK ABOUT THESE, THESE STUDENTS AND DIFFERENT THINGS, BECAUSE I'VE HAD SOME STUDENTS THAT HAVE ASKED ME A COUPLE QUESTIONS.
IN FACT, I WAS ALSO AT A BOARD MEETING WHERE THEY SAID SOMETHING.
I SAID, WELL, I GUESS MAYBE IT WASN'T A STUDENT ADVISORY, BUT WE USED TO GET THOSE, UH, MESSAGES TO COME TO THOSE.
AND I GUESS NOW I'M NOT SURE, MAYBE WE NOT INVITED OR, OR MAYBE I MISSED.
MAYBE I MISSED IT OR, YEAH, BUT WHAT, BUT WHATEVER.
BUT, UM, IN, IN, IN TERMS OF COMMUN COMMUNICATION AND ENGAGING, I THINK THAT AT SOME POINT IN TIME THAT IT WOULD BE GREAT TO GET THE YOUNGER GENERATION INVOLVED IN SOME OF WHAT, WHAT WE'RE DOING AND SOME OF THIS TRANSPARENCY BECAUSE THEY ARE YEARNING DIFFERENT THINGS THAT I'M IN, IN TERMS OF THINGS THAT THEY WANT, OR THINGS THAT THEY DON'T UNDERSTAND OR THEY HAVE DIFFERENT QUESTIONS.
AND IN TERMS OF HOW DO THEY GET TO SOME OF, SOME OF, SOME OF THE BOARD MEMBERS, HOW DO THEY GET TO, UH, GET, GET, GET OUR SUPPORT ON DIFFERENT THINGS.
SO I I, I JUST THINK IN, IN, IN TERMS OF, OF, UH, COMMUNICATIONS.
I WILL TELL YOU THIS, THAT PARENT SQUARE, AND THIS IS, WE'RE ROLLING PARENTS SQUARE THAT NEW COMMUNICATION APP OUT, WE'RE ROLLING IT OUT FIRST TO FAMILIES.
IT DOES HAVE THE OPTION FOR US TO COMMUNICATE, LIKE, SHARE THINGS WITH STUDENTS.
AND SO THAT IS SOMETHING THAT WE PROBABLY WILL ROLL OUT IN A PHASE TWO.
AND WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT THAT BECAUSE LIKE YOU SAID, DURING THE STUDENT, STUDENTS WANT, THEY WANT TO KNOW, LIKE FOR EXAMPLE, WE HAVE THAT DISTRICT DASH, THAT 5K RUN, LIKE WE COULD SHARE THAT WITH STUDENTS, THINGS LIKE THAT.
THERE'S DISTRICT INITIATIVES THAT WE COULD SHARE WITH THEM, AND THEY DO, THEY NEED TO KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON.
'CAUSE THEY GET IT FROM THEIR SCHOOLS, BUT THERE ARE SOME DISTRICT THINGS WE CAN DO AS WELL.
AND THAT'S THAT, THAT'S ONE OF 'EM.
UM, AND THAT MAY BE ONE OF THEM.
THEN, THEN ALSO, UM, SOMETIMES WHEN WE, WHEN WE GET, WHEN WE GET EMAILS, A ACCORDING THIS TO SOME OF THESE THINGS THAT HAPPENED, UM, ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT NUMBER 10? LIKE THE BOARD UPDATES? YEAH, YEAH.
WHEN IT COMES TO LIKE THE POINT POOL AND PASSIVE INFORMATION, UM, WHEN THE, WHEN THE BOARD OR COMMITTEES ASK SPECIFIC DEPARTMENTS SAY, CAN WE PUT OUT A SURVEY FOR THIS? SO WE'RE PULLING INFORMATION FROM THE COMMUNITY.
DOES, OR DO THOSE SURVEYS COME TO YOU GUYS TO EDIT, TO SAY, OKAY, SO A, YOU KNOW, MAYBE THIS QUESTION MAKES SENSE, MAYBE IT DOESN'T, MAYBE IT ALIGNS WITH OUR, SO TYPICALLY WHAT HAPPENS IS, SO WE HAVE THAT SOFTWARE, THE BCS D CONNECTED SOFTWARE, BUT LET'S SAY, I'LL USE FINANCE FOR AN EXAMPLE.
FINANCE IS GOING TO DO A BUDGET SURVEY.
UM, THEY TYPICALLY HAVE LIKE, STUDENTS PARTICIPATE IN THAT AS WELL.
SO, UM, THEY WILL COME TO US AND SAY, HEY, WE HAVE A SURVEY.
CAN YOU LOAD THIS UP INTO THE SYSTEM? WE WILL LOAD IT UP INTO THE SYSTEM, SEND IT BACK TO THEM AND SAY, HEY, WE'VE LOADED THIS UP.
PLEASE REVIEW THIS AND LET US KNOW IF YOU HAVE ANY CHANGES.
ONCE THEY GIVE US THE OKAY, THEN WE WILL TYPICALLY RELEASE IT AND PUT OUT A PRESS RELEASE AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
SO WE HAVE THE CHECKS AND BALANCES IN THERE.
IT GOES TO WHATEVER DEPARTMENT INITIATED IT.
AND THEN IF THEY, FOR EXAMPLE, LIKE IF FINANCE COMES TO US, BUT THAT, THAT PERSON, WHEN WE GIVE IT BACK TO HER, SHE WILL PROBABLY TAKE IT TO TANYA AND TANYA WILL GO THROUGH IT AND LOOK AT IT.
SO THAT'S KIND OF HOW IT ROLLS.
SO WE JUST WENT THROUGH THE WHOLE THING WITH THE, WITH THE TECHNOLOGY.
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RIGHT.WENT THROUGH THE THING WITH TECHNOLOGY, BUT THERE WAS A, A BUMP IN THE ROAD WITH THAT, WITH THAT CHECKS AND BALANCES PROCESS.
UM, MS. BREWER, Y'ALL DOING AN AWESOME JOB.
UM, I HEARD YOU MENTION, AND CORRECT ME, I HEARD YOU MENTION TWO NEWSLETTERS.
ONE THAT WOULD WANNA GO OUT TO THE TEACHERS AND THE OTHER ONE TO COMMUNITY PARTNERS.
SO THE, WE HAVE OUR ONE THAT GOES OUT TO OUR STAFF MEMBERS, LIKE YOU MENTIONED.
UM, AND I THINK YOU GUYS GET THAT.
YOU SHOULD GET THAT IN YOUR, UH, BCSC EMAIL.
AND THEN WE'RE GOING TO LAUNCH AND CREATE THE ONE FOR COMMUNITY PARTNERS.
AND SO, AND, AND THERE'S A, WE HAVE A THING, UM, WHERE PEOPLE THEN CAN ALSO SIGN UP FOR IT.
SO LIKE, FOR EXAMPLE, WE CAN GIVE YOU THE, UM, THE PAGE INFORMATION AND HOW PEOPLE SIGN UP.
IF YOU HAVE PEOPLE YOU WOULD LIKE TO ADD TO THAT, UM, WE CAN DO IT THAT WAY.
OH, PLEASE LET ME KNOW WHEN THAT, WHEN Y'ALL, UM, LAUNCH THAT.
NO, I HAVE NO QUESTIONS AT THIS TIME.
MR. SMITH, ALSO, SHE SAID THAT YOU ALSO, YOU UH, YOU SAID THAT, UH, THAT WE, UH, TRIED TO, UH, HAVE PEOPLE TO BE AMBASSADORS.
HOW, HOW ARE WE DOING THAT? SO WE HAVE THE, WE HAD A PILOT PROGRAM FOR THE BCSD UNIVERSITY THING WHERE THERE'S PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY THAT WERE EXPRESSED INTEREST IN THE DISTRICT.
AND WE DID IT LIKE SINCE I THINK 2023.
UM, AND THEN ONCE A WEEK IN THE SPRING, WE HAD EACH DEPARTMENT GO PRESENT TO THESE FOLKS AND JUST TO KIND OF EXPLAIN IT TO ME AND ALL THAT STUFF.
SO THEN THEY BECOME KNOWLEDGEABLE AND, AND AMBASSADORS OUT IN THE COMMUNITY.
UM, AND IT'S NICE BECAUSE IT, THEY HAVE THEIR CONNECTIONS IN THE COMMUNITY, RIGHT? SO PEOPLE THAT WERE IN THAT ROLE STILL LIKE, EMAIL ME AND SAY, HEY, OUR FRIENDS ARE SAYING THIS IS GOING ON WITH THE DISTRICT.
IS THAT ACCURATE? IS THAT NOT ACCURATE? AND LIKE, FOR EXAMPLE, WE HAD QUESTIONS ABOUT THE BOOK PROCESS, RIGHT? WHEN ALL THAT WAS GOING ON, AND WE'D EXPLAIN, OKAY, THERE'S A WEBSITE.
YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING THAT'S HAPPENING WITH THE BOOK REVIEW PROCESS.
SO THINGS LIKE THAT, YOU KNOW.
I JUST, I WAS THINKING THERE WAS SOMETHING ELSE.
I I WANTED TO LET YOU, I DIDN'T WANNA INTERRUPT YOU WHILE YOU WERE TALKING.
I WAS JUST LOOKING, YOU KNOW, AND MORE, AND, AND ALSO, UH, IN, IN TERMS OF, UM, I, I, I, THAT I HEAR, I HEAR THAT AVENUE, BUT I WAS JUST WONDERING IN TERMS OF ANY OTHER, ANY OTHER, ANY OTHER, UM, OPPORTUNITIES THAT WE DO HAVE TO, AND TO BRING PEOPLE IN THAT AMBASSADORS, WILL WE DOING ANYTHING ELSE JUST BESIDES THAT RIGHT THERE? OR NOT? NOT RIGHT NOW, BUT THAT IS SOMETHING THAT WE DO WANNA DO RIGHT DOWN THE ROAD.
I MEAN, I'M GLAD YOU BROUGHT THAT UP.
'CAUSE WE DO WANNA HAVE SORT OF LIKE AN AMBASSADOR PROGRAM, LIKE EVEN, YOU KNOW, STAFF MEMBERS MIGHT WANT TO BE PART OF THAT AS WELL.
SO I, I THINK IT'S AN IMPORTANT PIECE.
I THINK WE'RE STARTING IT OFF AND KIND OF GROWING IT, BUT I THINK THERE PROBABLY WILL BE MORE OF AN OFFICIAL PROGRAM DOWN THE ROAD.
ANY OTHER QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, CONCERNS FOR OES? ONE AND 11? SAY BROWN'S GOING ONCE OR TWICE.
SO OE 10 IS COMMUNICATING WITH THE BOARD, OBVIOUSLY.
UM, SO BASICALLY THIS IS THE ONE, THE SUPERINTENDENT SHALL ENSURE THE BOARD IS FULLY AND ADEQUATELY INFORMED ABOUT MATTERS RELATING TO BOARD WORK AND SIGNIFICANT ORGANIZATIONAL CONCERN.
AND SO BASICALLY, UM, SO EITHER THE SUPERINTENDENT, UM, OR ASSIGNED DESIGNEE WILL PRO PROVIDE COMMUNICATION UPDATES AS NECESSARY AND INFORM THE, THE FOLLOWING IF NEEDED.
SO MEDIA INTERVIEWS AND PUBLICITY, YOU TYPICALLY GET THAT FROM ME.
UM, SIGNIFICANT INCIDENTS ON SCHOOL GROUNDS, UM, OR AT, AT ATHLETIC FACILITIES OR ON OUR BUSES.
UM, SOMETIMES YOU GET THE INFORMATION FROM ME ON THAT.
SOMETIMES DR. RODRIGUEZ WILL GIVE YOU GUYS A CALL.
UM, I KNOW SOMETIMES ONE OF Y'ALL MIGHT HEAR SOMETHING GOING ON IN THE COMMUNITY AND THEN CALL DR. RODRIGUEZ AND DR. RODRIGUEZ, YOU KNOW, CAN LOOK INTO THAT.
UM, HE'S VERY GOOD ABOUT DOING THAT, BUT IF YOU EVER HAVE A QUESTION ABOUT ANYTHING, I KNOW YOU ALL KNOW THIS, BUT HE'S SO APPROACHABLE, YOU CAN GIVE HIM A CALL FOR SURE.
UM, AND THEN IF SOMEONE WAS ARRESTED ON SCHOOL GROUNDS, UM, THE BUDGET TRANSFERS OF GREATER THAN 50,000.
UM, ANY, UH, ANTICIPATED NON-COMPLIANCE WITH BOARD OPERATIONALS EXPECTATIONS? I DON'T WANNA GO THROUGH THIS AND READ THIS, YOU GUYS KNOW THIS.
BUT BASICALLY IF THERE, IF THERE'S ANY, UM, ISSUES, SIGNIFICANT ISSUES
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WITH EMPLOYEES OR INCIDENCES, UM, OR THE CONTRACTOR, UM, AND THEN THE REVISIONS TO ADMINISTRATIVE REGULATIONS ARE PRESENTED AT BOARD COMMITTEES AND THEN TO THE BOARD AS NEEDED.AND WE DID, WE DID, I WILL SAY WE DID UPDATE BECAUSE YOU GUYS ASKED FOR IT.
THE, UM, TEXT MESSAGES NOW TO GETTING TEXT MESSAGES AND NOT JUST EMAILS, BUT THE UPDATES, QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, CONCERNS, ANYBODY ONLINE.
SO WE HAVE, UH, SO SOME OF THESE PROPOSED MOTIONS, UM, FOR ALL THREE OF THESE, UH, THEY, THEY SEEM A LITTLE WEIRD.
I, I MOVE TO ACCEPT OPERATIONAL EXPECTATION COMMUNICATION WITH THE BOARD.
ARE WE, THIS IS, WE, WE DON'T NEED APPROVAL FROM THE BOARD, RIGHT? WE'RE NO, WE DO, WE DO NEED FOR, FOR THE FULL BOARD.
UH, ALRIGHT, SO THEN WE'RE MOVING TO, TO TAKE THESE TO THE FULL BOARD.
YOU TAKE THEM AND YOU CAN PLACE THEM ON CONSENT AGENDA.
SO YEAH, THAT'S WHY I WAS A LITTLE CONFUSED ABOUT THE RECOMMENDED MOTIONS.
SO, UH, CAN, UH, SINCE WE'VE HEARD ALL THREE, I HAVE A QUESTION.
UH, JUST IN, IN REGARD TO THIS, THERE'S A, UM, IN, IN, IN, IN TERMS OF Y'ALL SENDING, SENDING THIS OUT, UH, WHERE WHERE DOES THE FLASHING LIGHT PLAY INTO THESE? INTO THIS? SO A FLASHING LIGHT IS, IF SOMETHING HAPPENS AT A SCHOOL, LIKE LET'S SAY A SCHOOL IS ON A MEDICAL HOLD, THEY MIGHT SEND A FLASHING LIGHTS AND IT GOES TO KEY PEOPLE, LIKE ON THE CRISIS TEAM, UM, THAT BASICALLY SAY THIS IS GOING ON AT A, AT A SCHOOL, UM, SOMETHING LIKE A MEDICAL HOLD.
LIKE WE WON'T INFORM THE BOARD OF THAT.
YOU WOULD BE GETTING LIKE 10 EMAILS A DAY FROM US ABOUT A MEDICAL HOLD AND, AND THERE'S THINGS WITH HIPAA AND THINGS LIKE THAT, RIGHT? SO YOU COULDN'T GO INTO DETAIL ANYWAYS.
BUT, UM, OR IF THERE WAS, FOR AN INSTANCE WE HAD YESTERDAY, WE HAD THE CAR THAT RAN INTO THE PILLAR AT MC RILEY, UM, THAT CAME IN THROUGH FLASHING LIGHTS.
AND THEN I NOTIFIED YOU GUYS OF THAT.
SO THAT'S KIND OF THE PROGRESSION WE HEAR ABOUT IT.
I WILL USUALLY, WE'LL GET A FLASHING LIGHTS EMAIL, LIKE IF THERE WAS A PROBLEM WITH LIKE AN AIR CONDITIONER, I'LL GET THE EMAIL, I'LL CALL ROBERT, ROBERT WILL FILL ME IN.
AND IF IT'S A SIGNIFICANT ISSUE, LIKE A LEAK OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT, AND SOMETHING HAS TO GET CHANGED, WE LET THE BOARD KNOW.
LIKE, I THINK THIS MORNING WE LET YOU GUYS KNOW
SO IT'S JUST, I DO LIKE TO TRY TO GO DIG A LITTLE BIT AND GET SOME MORE INFORMATION TO CONVEY THE RIGHT INFORMATION TO YOU GUYS.
SO IT MIGHT NOT BE INSTANTANEOUS, BUT I WILL, WE DO A VERY GOOD JOB OF LETTING YOU KNOW, RIGHT? WELL, WHO DOES THE FASHION? I GO TO IT.
UM, I THINK JENNIFER STATON IS ON IT.
DO YOU KNOW ALICE? WHO'S ALL ON THE FLASHING LIGHTS? SENIOR STAFF.
SO, AND I'M, I'M GLAD BECAUSE I'VE HEARD EVERYONE SAY, WELL, YOU GOTTA GET THE FLASH NIGHT.
I'M LIKE, NO, WE DON'T GET FLASH NIGHT.
WHAT, WHAT, WHAT IS A FLASH? WHAT IS A, WHAT IS A FLASHLIGHT?
WE OPEN WITH A PARENT CALLED I, NO, THE PARENT CALLED ME, BUT YOU SHOULD GOT THERE.
I TRIED TO TELL SOMEONE IN THE BUILDING ONE TIME.
NO, WE DON'T, WE DON'T, WE DON'T GET THOSE FLASHING LIGHTS.
AND THAT'S WHY I WANT TO UNDERSTAND EXACTLY.
YEAH, EXCEPT FOR THAT THAT FLASHLIGHT GOES TO STAFF.
NOT, NOT, NOT THE ACTUAL REPORT.
AND COMMUNICATION COMES TO YOU, DR.
ROD, DR. RODRIGUEZ, TO THE BOARD ACTUALLY ON WHAT? ON WHAT, YES.
SO ALMOST ALL FLASHING LIGHTS WOULD WE GIVE 'EM VERY, VERY LITTLE INFORMATION ON THERE.
NORMALLY WHEN WE GET THOSE MYSELF, STUART CAN PICK UP THE PHONE AND START CALLING AND FIGURE OUT WHAT'S GOING ON.
THAT'S, THAT'S, THAT'S HOW WE GET THE INFORMATION.
FLASHING LIGHT IS NORMALLY A ONE OR TWO, THREE LINER, VERY SIMPLE.
I MEAN, AND, AND I, AND I UNDERSTAND THAT, BUT PEOPLE, PEOPLE IN SCHOOLS ARE THINKING, AND THERE'S SOME OF THEM UNDER THE PERSON WHO DON'T KNOW, BUT THAT THE BOARD GET FLASH LINES AND THE BOARD DON'T GET FLASHLIGHTS.
SO I JUST WANT TO UNDERSTAND WHAT THAT PROCESS IS AND MAKE THAT CLEAR SO THAT THEY DO UNDERSTAND NOW THAT WE DON'T GET FLASHLIGHTS.
AND I WANT TO UNDERSTAND WHO DO GET FLASHING LIGHTS AND WHAT AND, AND WHAT, WHAT, WHAT, WHAT THAT MAKEUP WAS.
THAT'S BECAUSE THAT WOULD FALL UNDER THAT.
ALRIGHT, SO, UM, HOW ABOUT, HOW ABOUT WE LISTENED TO THE, UH, THE SAFETY AND SECURITY, AND THEN WE MAKE A MOTION TO PUT ALL FOUR ON THE CONSENT AGENDA.
IS EVERYBODY OKAY WITH THAT? OKAY.
UM, CAN WE TAKE A, LIKE A FIVE MINUTE RECESS? UH, I, EYEBALLS ARE ABOUT TO FLOAT.
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IS WHAT IT IS.I WOULD JUST GO TO THE MONITORING REPORT.
THEN WE'LL DO EACH OF THE ATTACHMENTS OR EVEN JUST DO IT UNDER THE REPORT.
DIDN'T KNOW WITH THE MONITORING, YOU JUST TELL US ABOUT THAT.
BUT, UH, IF INVITED, WE DIDN'T HAVE A BIG TURNOUT ANYWAY, BUT IT'S GOOD THAT WE'RE HAVING THEM.
IF BEEN PUT SCHOOL DOCUMENTS, YOU'RE THE, YOU'RE THE, WELL NOT, UH, YEAH, OPPORTUNITY.
ARE YOU JUST CHECKING, ROBIN? YOU DID, DID IT GO IN THERE? WELL, IT, I JUST PUT IT, OKAY, I MADE A COMMENT.
I DIDN'T TAKE PICTURES MY PHONE.
SO FIRST OF ALL, BE MADE PLEASE.
THE BOARD I'D LIKE TO BE INTRODUCED.
UH, MS. HENDERSON, IF YOU STAND UP AND NOT YOURSELF, I'M SURE YOU KNOW ALSO MS. ANDREA MURRAY.
UH, SHE, BOTH OF THESE LADIES ARE CAPABLE THROUGH OUR PROCESSES HERE TODAY.
ALRIGHT, UH, EVERYBODY, YOU READY TO RESUME THIS? GOOD? UH, MAYBE NOT.
WE HAVE A O UM, BUT, UM, UM, A DIFFERENT ONE IN OU 50 RIGHT HERE.
I'M TALKING ABOUT THE, UH, SHEET, LIKE SHEET, LIKE, LIKE THAT RIGHT THERE.
IT SHOULD BE RIGHT HERE ON THE COVER.
YOU'VE, UH, MR. SMITH, YOU'VE GOT THE SUMMARY AND YOU'VE GOT THE MORE BROADER REPORT.
THE SUMMARY BUILDS OFF OF THE REPORT, BUT ALL OF IT'S THERE ENUMERATED AS WELL AS WITH THE ATTACHMENTS.
AND I THINK IT'S VERY VOLUMOUS AND WE REFER TO ATTACHMENTS AS NECESSARY, BUT THE ATTACHMENTS KIND OF FEED OFF OF ONE ANOTHER, RIGHT? THEY MAY APPLY TO DIFFERENT SECTIONS OF THIS OOOE.
TO GIVE YOU AN EXAMPLE, THIS IS GOING TO BE PRIMARY EMPHASIZING 2024 TO 2025 SCHOOL YEAR.
BUT IT MAY HAVE SOME OVERLAP IN THE CURRENT SCHOOL YEAR BECAUSE THERE'S THINGS THAT HAPPEN OPERATIONALLY THAT WE MAY BE ADDRESSING THAT CARRIES OVER FROM ONE YEAR TO THE NEXT AND WILL CONTINUE WITH OPERATIONS PURPOSES TO LET YOU KNOW ON THAT.
SO ROBIN, IF YOU PULL UP 15.1.
YEAH, IF YOU'LL SCROLL DOWN, I'LL
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TEXT.WHAT DO YOU WANT? YOU WANT ME UNDER THE EXECUTIVE SUMMARY OR THE MONETARY REPORT? THE, UH, THE REPORT.
OH, I SEE WHY, I SEE WHY 2024.
THIS, THIS ONE WAS MADE DIFFERENTLY FROM THIS ONE HERE.
YEAH, BECAUSE THERE MAY BE MORE TO ADD OR, YEAH, I'LL GOOD.
ENSURE SCHOOL HAS DEDICATED TRAINING OF CERTIFIED SECURITY PERSONNEL IN ADDITION TO A DISTRICT-WIDE SAFETY AND SECURITY DEPARTMENT WHO MANAGES SAFETY AND SECURITY EFFORTS, EVIDENCE OF COMPLIANCE.
WE USE, UH, STATE FUNDED SCHOOL RESOURCE OFFICER GRANTS.
WE'RE MOVING TO A MODEL OF WHERE WE HAVE CLASS ONE AND CLASS TWO SOUTH CAROLINA CRIMINAL JUSTICE ACADEMY POLICE OFFICERS IN OUR HIGH SCHOOLS, ALL THE WAY DOWN TO OUR EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTERS.
CURRENTLY WE HAVE THAT ACCOMPLISHED STARTING IN THE 2024 TO 2025 SCHOOL YEAR.
WE HAVE CLASS ONES AND CLASS TWOS IN ALL OF OUR SCHOOLS AT DURING THAT TIME PERIOD, EXCEPT FOR THREE EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTERS.
WE AUGMENTED SECURITY AT THOSE EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTERS WITHOUT SCHOOL RESOURCE OFFICERS WITH COASTAL SECURITY OFFICERS.
THEY'RE SLED CERTIFIED SECURITY GUARDS.
THE COASTAL SECURITY PROVIDES US AS A SERVICE FOR OUR SCHOOLS.
UH, HOPEFULLY DURING THIS CURRENT SCHOOL YEAR, WE WILL HAVE ALL CLASS ONE AND CLASS THREE SCHOOL RESOURCE OFFICERS IN ALL OF OUR SCHOOL.
AND WE WOULD AUGMENT IN SER SCHOOLS COASTAL SECURITY.
UH, CURRENTLY WE USE COASTAL SECURITY TO AUGMENT, UH, CLASS ONE OFFICERS IN OUR HIGH SCHOOLS, PARTICULARLY RIGHT NOW, BATTERY CREEK AS WELL AS MAY RIVER HIGH SCHOOL.
SO GOING FORWARD IN JUST A FEW WEEKS, I THINK WE'LL HAVE PLACEMENT, UH, I THINK BEFORE DECEMBER, BUT ALWAYS GIVE A LITTLE BIT ON EACH SIDE OF HAVING CLASS ONE FOR CLASS THREE OFFICERS IN ALL OF OUR SCHOOLS FUNDED THROUGH GRANTS ADMINISTERED THROUGH THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY HERE IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
IN, UH, IN ADDITION TO THAT, I'D LIKE TO ENTER, EVERYBODY KNOWS DAVE GRISSOM.
HE'S THE PROTECTOR DIRECTOR OF PROTECTIVE SERVICES.
MY NAME IS STEWART COTTINGHAM.
UH, I AM THE COORDINATOR OF PROTECTIVE SERVICES HERE FOR THE SCHOOL DISTRICT.
UH, MR. GRISSOM, WOULD YOU LIKE TO GIVE ANY OF YOUR PEDIGREE WHILE WE'RE SITTING HERE? MAY BEEN, I'VE GIVEN THIS, THIS BRIEFING FOR, UH, THE LAST 13 YEARS, SO IF YOU GUYS GOT ANY QUESTIONS FOR ME, I'M HERE TO ASSIST.
I'VE BEEN WITH THE SCHOOL DISTRICT SINCE NOVEMBER OF 2023.
I SPENT 28 AND A HALF YEARS WITH THE US MARSHALS IN VARIOUS CAPACITIES.
I STARTED OUT AS A DEPUTY OF MARSHALL IN ATLANTA.
I WAS A SUPERVISORY INSPECTOR OVER ONE OF OUR REGIONAL FUGITIVE OFFICERS FOR WELL OVER, UH, A DECADE.
AND I WAS ALSO A SUPERVISORY DEPUTY US MARSHALL, PRIMARILY RESPONSIBLE FOR, UH, THE SECURITY OF CLASS FIVE LEVEL BUILDINGS.
AND I, I THINK YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MR. NA, WHAT I MEAN WHEN I SAY THAT.
IN ADDITION TO THAT, I'M A PHYSICAL SECURITY CERTIFIED PHYSICAL SECURITY SPECIALIST THROUGH THE FEDERAL LAW LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS TRAINING CENTER, UM, ME AND MR. RISSO THROUGH THROUGHOUT THE SCHOOL YEAR.
WE ATTEND BIMONTHLY MEETINGS HERE FOR THE SCHOOL DISTRICT PROVIDING SECURITY.
WE ALSO PROVIDE SECURITY AT VAR, VARIOUS ATHLETIC EVENTS, ESPECIALLY EVENTS AS, AS NEEDED AND DESIGNATED, UH, PRIMARILY WITH ATHLETIC DEF DEFENSE, UH, EVENTS WHERE WE CONCENTRATE HEAVILY ON THAT FOOTBALL GAME.
FOOTBALL, THERE IS A TREMENDOUS CROWD THAT GOES TO EACH AND EVERY ONE OF THESE GAMES.
YOU'VE GOT SIX HIGH SCHOOLS IN THE DISTRICT, SO THERE'S A, A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF, UM, CUSTOMERS THAT WE HAVE TO OVERSEE DURING THAT TIME.
WE ALSO GO TO VARIOUS TRAINING CONFERENCES THROUGHOUT THE YEAR, AS WELL AS CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDITS THAT WE GET THROUGH VARIOUS, UH, ONLINE PORTALS FOR OUTSIDE VENDORS THAT BRING IN SECURITY TRAINING PROGRAMS THROUGHOUT THE DISTRICT.
AND I'VE ATTACHED, IF YOU LOOK AT ATTACHMENT ONE FOR THIS, WE HAVE THE SECURITY OFFICER TRAINING MATERIALS FOR COASTAL SECURITY, AND I ALSO INCLUDED A YOUTUBE VIDEO HYPERLINK THAT IS OFFERED SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT VIA STUDENT CHIEF OF POLICE, BUT THE POLICE DEPARTMENT AS WELL AS THE BEEF POLICE DEPARTMENT DESCRIBING THE CLASS THREE OFFICER PROGRAM.
SO BE THREE TO LOOK AT THOSE MATERIALS AND REVIEW THEM ACCORDINGLY.
I THINK THAT IT WOULD GIVE YOU A VERY GOOD EXPLANATION ON THE CLASS THREE OFFICER PROGRAM.
AND THERE'S A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A CLASS ONE OFFICER AND A CLASS THREE OFFICER.
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FULL LAW ENFORCEMENT POWERS INSIDE AND OUTSIDE THE SCHOOL.HE CAN TAKE ANY REGULAR PATROL DUTIES, INVESTIGATIVE DUTIES, ET CETERA, THROUGHOUT THIS CA THROUGHOUT THIS COUNTY OR HIS AREA OF JURISDICTION, A CLASS THREE.
HIS LAW ENFORCEMENT POWERS ARE THE CURTILAGE OF THE SCHOOL.
SO WITH THAT, HE HAS FULL LAW ENFORCEMENT POWERS ON THE SCHOOL GROUNDS, BUT OUTSIDE OF THE CURTILAGE OF THE SCHOOL, HE DOES NOT HAVE THE SAME POWERS AS A CLASS ONE LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER.
WELL, WELL, UH, FOR QUESTIONS, UH, LONGEVITY OF THE GRANTS, YOU HAVE TO RE YOU HAVE TO RENEW THEM YEARLY.
AND THAT'S NORMALLY DONE IN YEAH, I, I, AT THE END OF THE SCHOOL YEAR, I APPLY, WELL, PROBABLY FEBRUARY, FEBRUARY, MARCH, I'LL START APPLYING FOR THE GRANTS FOR NEXT YEAR.
ONCE, ONCE THE STATE'S GIVEN US THE FULL GRANT, I, I, I DOUBT THEY'D TAKE IT AWAY.
IN FACT, THEY'RE LOOKING AT, UM, REIMBURSING US FOR OUR CURRENT SROS THAT WE'VE ALWAYS HAD.
AND THERE'S ALSO, THAT'S GONNA BE ON THE AGENDA FOR NEXT YEAR.
AND THERE'S ALSO CHECKS AND BALANCES WITH THAT.
DEPARTMENT OF OF PUBLIC SAFETY HAS AUDITORS THAT THEY SEND OUT TO THE SCHOOLS IN THIS, A HODGEPODGE HIT OR MISS ON WHICH SCHOOLS THEY CHOOSE.
BUT THEY COME IN AND AUDIT THAT THOSE OFFICERS ARE DOING THE JOB THAT THE GRANT SAYS THAT THEY DO.
SO IT'S INTENSIVELY MONITORED ON THAT END BY THE, BY THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA.
AND THOSE GRANTS ARE ADMINISTERED THROUGH THE OFFICE OF THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY.
THEY HAVE THEIR OWN, UH, RESOURCE OFFICER GRANT OFFICE THAT MANAGES THAT PROGRAM.
AND IT'S A, IT IS A YEARLY EXERCISE THAT YOU HAVE TO DO TO KEEP THAT MONEY.
AND IT'S BEEN LIKE A THREE OR FOUR YEAR PROCESS FOR US TO GET EVERY SINGLE SCHOOL FINALLY APPROVED FOR THE GRANT.
FINALLY, HOW MUCH OF OUR PROGRAM IS FUNDED BY CREDITS? DO YOU KNOW, OFF THE TOP OF ALL THE, ALL THE ELEMENTARIES, UM, OR BY THE GRANT, WHEREVER THERE'S A SCHOOL RESOURCE OFFICER, HIS SALARY AND EQUIPMENT FUNDING, ET CETERA, I THINK EVEN HIS CAR.
EVERYTHING, EVERYTHING THAT GRANT, EVERYTHING WHOLE SECURITY SIDE OF IT IS CARRIED BY THE, BY THE SCHOOL DISTRICT THAT THAT IS A SET ASIDE.
SO THAT WE HAVE TO DIRECTLY FUND THAT.
IS THERE ANY, ANY OTHER QUESTIONS ON THAT? NO, I WAS GONNA, I WAS GONNA, UH, JUST SAY THAT THAT, UH, UM, AND, AND, AND THEN THAT, THAT'S WHY, UH, YOU ACTUALLY CORRECT ABOUT THE, ABOUT THAT BECAUSE I REMEMBER THE C MEETING, WE WERE TALKING ABOUT HOW MUCH OF, OF THE SRO THAT WE ACTUALLY PAID FOR, WHEN FROM THE PEOPLE FOUND OUT THAT WE PAY FOR ACTUALLY THE CAR AND THE UNIFORM.
AND PARTICULARLY WE PAY OUT THE, I THINK IT'S BASICALLY RIGHT, RIGHT.
THERE'S THERE'S AN ACTUAL PER PERCENTAGE OF THAT.
AND SO WHEN WE HAVE THEM WORK THESE DIFFERENT GAMES AND DIFFERENT THINGS, PEOPLE ARE WONDERING, YOU KNOW, UH, TO WHAT DEGREE, UH, HOW'S, HOW, HOW'S, HOW'S THAT PAID FOR? IT? DOES ANYTHING GO INTO, UH, DOES IT GO, DOES ANYTHING GO INTO QUESTION IN TERMS OF, UH, WHEREVER THE SHERIFF DEPARTMENT, WHEN DO THEY KICK IN THAT THAT'S SOMETHING THAT'S NOT, IT'S NOT, NOT FOR TODAY, BUT THAT IS DEFINITELY A QUESTION PEOPLE HAVE BEEN PEOPLE HAVE.
I'VE HAD, I'VE HAD A COUPLE PEOPLE ASKED THAT.
SO AT THE END OF THE YEAR, THEY, THEY, WELL, DURING THE YEAR, THEY CALCULATE ALL THEIR BILLS FOR THEIR SROS, THE EQUIPMENT, GAS, OIL CHANGES, TRAINING THEY HAVE TO HAVE, AND WE PAY 75% OF IT.
SO YOU SAID THEY SAY 75 25 7 5 25.
AND, AND, AND THAT'S, AND THAT'S ALSO H HOW, HOW ABOUT WHEN THEY WORK ON FOOTBALL GAMES? THAT'S A HUNDRED PERCENT US.
THEIR WORKDAY IS A SCHOOL WORKDAY.
ANYTHING OUTSIDE OF THAT THAT WE EMPLOY OR CONTRACT THEM DO.
AND THEY'RE INDIVIDUALLY CONTRACTED THROUGH BY THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE? CORRECT.
AND THEY'RE PAID THROUGH THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE, CORRECT.
LET'S JUST BLOCK, OR, OR BEAUFORD CITY OR, YEAH, IT'S, UH, YEAH.
AND I JUST WANTED TO GET THAT ACCURATE, SO, BECAUSE I CAN GIVE OUT ACCURATE INFORMATION AS WELL.
THAT'S NOT A FREEBIE WHEN YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT EXTRACURRICULAR DUTIES, RIGHT? OUTSIDE OF THE REGULAR SCHOOL WORK DAY? I DON'T THINK SO.
THAT, SO THAT'S ONE, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE HAVE TO FUND OUT OUT OF OUR ACCOUNTS.
ANY OTHER QUESTIONS ON THAT FOR MS. KENSON TOO? RIGHT ALONG ENSURE THE DISTRICT WILL COLLECT DATA, ANALYZE THE RESULTS FROM EACH, EACH SCHOOL INTENDED TO IMPROVE OR ENHANCE THE DISTRICT'S CLIMATE.
BASED ON THIS DATA SEARCH, EACH SCHOOL WITHIN THE DISTRICT WILL IMPLEMENT AND OPERATE PROGRAMS SUCH AS VIOLENCE PREVENTION, PREVENTION, BULLYING PREVENTION TRAINING, AND USE REPORTING SYSTEMS TO PROVIDE DATA FROM THESE PROGRAMS TO THE DISTRICT.
AND THERE'S SEVERAL PROGRAMS THAT WE USE, WE USE, WE STOP IT PLACED TO SEE SOMETHING, TO SAY SOMETHING GOT FORM PLATFORM.
THE, WE ALSO HAVE A BULLYING PROGRAM UNDER DENISE LASAR.
SHE'S NOT HERE TONIGHT CAUSE OF FAMILY CONCERNS, BUT SHE ADMINISTERS THE DISTRICT'S BULLYING PREVENTION.
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I WAS GONNA ASK, UH, ANDREA MURRAY TO EXPAND UPON THE STOP IT.AND, BUT SHE AND I, WE WILL TALK ABOUT THE BULLYING PROGRAM.
WE STARTED USING THAT, I BELIEVE LAST YEAR.
DR. GRAHAM IS WORKING WITH IT.
UH, SHE'S NO LONGER WITH THE DISTRICT, AND I HAVE BEEN WORKING WITH IT SO FAR THIS YEAR IN TERMS OF MONITORING IT.
IT IS A 24 HOUR A DAY, UH, PLATFORM.
STUDENTS CAN USUALLY TO ANONYMOUSLY REPORT, UH, BULLYING, DRUGS, WHATEVER, UM, YOU KNOW, SOMETHING THAT THEY'RE NOT COMFORTABLE MAYBE GOING TO AN ADULT WITH.
THEY'RE ABLE TO DO THAT ON THEIR COMPUTERS.
THERE IS AN ICON ON CLASSMATE FOR THEM TO USE.
UM, AND THEY'RE ABLE TO DO THAT.
THERE'S ALSO, UH, THE ABILITY TO ACCESS, STOP IT ON THE DISTRICT'S WEBSITE AS WELL.
UM, AGAIN, THEY CAN MAKE ANONYMOUS REPORTS AND SHE, SHE'S SKIPPED.
AND, UH, THAT WAS THE MAIN CONCERN ABOUT THAT.
AND IT IS, UM, FUNDED THROUGH THE SOUTH CAROLINA SCHOOL BOARD INSURANCE TRUST, TRUST.
UH, AND AGAIN, AS STEWART SAID, MS. LESSARD IS, SHE COORDINATES THE BULLYING PREVENTION, UH, PROGRAM.
AND IN TERMS OF THE VIOLENCE, VIOLENCE PREVENTION, UH, WE CONTINUE TO PARTNER WITH HOPEFUL HORIZONS.
THEY NO LONGER HAVE THE TWO SEPARATE CLUBS, WHICH WERE, UM, WHICH WERE GEARED TOWARD MALES AND FEMALES.
THEY COMBINE THEM, AND IT IS CALLED RAVE.
AND THAT'S RISING AGAINST VIOLENCE, UM, EVERYWHERE.
AND THAT IS INTENDED TO PROVIDE BASICALLY, UM, VIOLENCE PREVENTION SESSIONS FOR OUR MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS.
UM, ATTACHMENT TWO CONTAINS, UH, BULLYING, UH, CONTAINS THE STOP IT REPORTS, WHICH BREAK DOWN, UH, BY TYPE AND GIVES YOU THE VARIOUS BULLYING, OTHERS INAPPROPRIATE CONDUCT AND SO ON.
UM, THE PERCENTAGE AND THE COUNTS, AND THAT WAS FROM JULY 1ST, 2024 TO JUNE 30TH, 2025.
WE HAD A TOTAL OF 646 SUBMISSION.
THEY WERE ALL OPENED AND THEY WERE ALL CLOSED BY THE END OF THE YEAR.
AND JUST, JUST SO YOU GUYS ARE AWARE, UM, NOT ALL OF THEM, BUT THERE ARE CERTAIN OCCASIONS WHEN THEY DEEM IT BE IN IMMEDIATE EMERGENCY, I GET A PHONE CALL.
SO I, I'VE GOTTEN PHONE CALLS AT NOONTIME DURING THE DAY.
I'VE GOTTEN PHONE CALLS FROM STOP AT 2:00 AM.
UM, WHEN I GET THE PHONE CALL, I'VE EITHER GOTTA CALL THE SCHOOL IMMEDIATELY, THE SRO OR DISPATCH TO LET 'EM KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON.
SO IN EMERGENCY, THEY CALL ME INSTEAD OF JUST, IT'S LOOKING FOR KEYWORDS TOO.
AND IF YOU HAVE A STOP AT SAYING THAT THERE'S THIS PRIORITY ONE EMERGENCY, THEY'LL REACH OUT TO US AND THEY'LL ASK US, LIKE I SAID, DO WE NEED TO ES ESCALATE THIS WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT INVOLVED, ET CETERA.
BUT IT'S, IT'S REAL TIME, JUST IN TIME.
AND IT COVERS THE GAMUT OF SIMPLE, UH, SCHOOL ISSUES THAT NEED TO BE ADDRESSED TO, TO EMERGENCY SITUATIONS.
AND IT IS JUST IN TIME IS READILY, READILY AVAILABLE TO, UH, SCHOOL PRINCIPALS AS WELL AS SENIOR STAFF SECURITY.
UH, MS. MURRAY ET UH, HAD 50 15
AND YOU, YOU CAN SEE THE BULL PROCESS TOO, ON THE HAND DOWN, HAS STEP BY STEP UNDER IT ATTACHMENT TOO, AS WELL AS SOME STATISTICS.
THEY SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES IN ATTACHMENT TWO, GIVE STATISTICS, BUT SHE, UH, BASICALLY REITERATES 646 STOP.
ANY QUESTIONS ON, ON THAT? YOU WANNA MOVE TO 15 POINT? ANYBODY ONLINE HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OR ANY COMMENTS OR CONCERNS SO FAR? HEARING NONE.
WHO RUNS THIS PROGRAM? STOP IT IN AND OF ITSELF IS FUNDED TO THROUGH THE SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION.
RIGHT? IS IS SET UP TO HAVE, UM, A STAFF ON WHAT STAFF.
WE HAVE A STAFF MEMBER THAT'S RUNNING THIS, THAT RUNS THE PROGRAM.
AND MS. MS. MURRAY OVERSEES THE PROGRAM, RIGHT.
BUT THROUGHOUT THE SCHOOL DISTRICT, THERE'S, THERE ARE SUBSCRIBERS THAT SHE PUTS ALL THIS STOP AT SCHOOL, PRINCIPALS, SENIOR STAFF,
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ET CETERA.THEY GET THESE ALERTS ON A DAILY BASIS.
AND THAT ALLOWS US IN REAL TIME TO RESPOND TO THE, TO THESE ISSUES, DEPENDING IF IT TAKES, IF IT'S JUST A PRINCIPAL LEVEL OR AN ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL LEVEL ON SOMETHING I GOT, I GOT, I GOT, I GOT ALL THAT.
MY QUESTION IS MORE TO THE DARE SAY WE ALL WERE SAYING THAT Y'ALL COULD GET A CALL AT TWO OR THREE O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING.
SO BASICALLY THE I'LL STOP IT COMES FROM STUDENT DEVICES.
IS IS THAT WHERE IT CAN COME FROM THE STUDENT DEVICES USING CLASS LINK OR YOU CAN ALSO USE THE DISTRICT WEBSITE.
SO I BASICALLY SAY SOMEONE'S USING THE DISTRICT WEBSITE AND SOMETHING THEY CAN ALSO YES.
AND THEY COME IN ON THE WEEKENDS, THEY COME IN, UM, THAT'S WHY THEY GET THE CALLS.
THEY COME ON THE WEEKENDS, BUT YES.
THEY, HOW DOES IT START? THEY ACCESS IT ON THEIR DEVICES ON THE WEBSITE.
I I'M JUST ASKING BECAUSE I, WHEN WHEN YOU GET THESE CALLS AT THESE TIMES OF NIGHT, I'M JUST WONDERING.
SO WE DO ACTUALLY HAVE STUDENTS THAT HAVE TAKE HOME COMPUTERS THAT ARE ACTUALLY ON THE COMPUTERS AT TWO AND THREE O'CLOCK IN FOUR O'CLOCK IN, IN, IN THE MORNING.
IS MY, IS MY I'M JUST TRYING TO GET A GRASP UNDERSTANDING.
RIGHT? THE, THE STOP IT IS DRIVEN IS A PORTAL THAT THE STUDENTS CAN USE RIGHT.
TO VOICE A CONCERN THAT THEY HAVE.
IT MAY BE ABOUT THEMSELVES, IT MAY BE ABOUT ANOTHER STUDENT.
BUT IT'S THE STUDENTS HAVE THIS PORTAL THAT GIVES THEM THE CAPABILITY, WRITE THIS ALERT TO NOTIFY US OF AN INCIDENT.
THAT JUST S**T STUDENTS CAN, UH, REPORT LIKE POSSIBLE FIGHTS MAYBE, OR, YOU KNOW, BRING IN A, A WEAPON SCHOOL OR SOMETHING LIKE, I MEAN, NOT ONLY THAT, UM, SUZY HAS A, HAS A VAPE, SUZY HAS A NICOTINE VAPE.
IT COULD BE SOMETHING VARIED BY LIKE A DISCIPLINARY MANNER.
OR JUST A COMPLAINT ABOUT A TEACHER THAT THEY DON'T LIKE WHAT A TEACHER SAID TO THEM.
BUT IT CAPTURES ALL THAT DATA AND IT GIVES US A WAY TO COMMUNICATE, COMMUNICATE DIRECTLY TO THE PERSON BULLETED THE CONCERN.
15.3, EACH SCHOOL HAS TWO OR MORE TYPES OF REPORTING TECHNOLOGY AND A THREAT ASSESSMENT TEAM THAT COORDINATES WITH THE COMMUNITY STAKEHOLDERS AND DISTRICT, STATE OR FEDERAL RESOURCES WHERE APPROPRIATE.
AND, UH, WE HAVE THREE PROGRAMS. WE HAVE STOP IT AGAIN.
WE HAVE GAGGLE, WE HAVE ARCHIVE.
SO SOCIAL, UM, I DON'T THINK WE NEED TO REGURGITATE NO.
AND NAME DIFFERENCE WITH STOP IT.
GAGGLE IS NOT, GAGGLE IS TIED DIRECTLY TO THAT STUDENT'S NAME AND EMAIL.
SO THAT'S THE MAJOR DIFFERENCE WITH THOSE STOP.
IT GIVES YOU THAT ANONYMITY TO REPORT.
GAGGLE DOES NOT, GAGGLE LETS US KNOW WHAT STUDENT MADE THE REPORT AND THEY STILL REPORT.
THEY MAY REPORT THE SAME THINGS.
SOMEONE HAS A VAPE, UM, YOU KNOW, SOMEONE THREATENED TO FIGHT, THEY'RE THREATENING TO FIGHT IN THE BATHROOM.
UH, SOMEONE HAS A WEAPON, A A ANY, ANY PART OF THAT GAMUT.
UM, WITH GAGGLE, IT IS, IT, IT ALSO LOOKS FOR KEYWORDS.
UM, AND THEY HAVE REFINED GAGGLE NOW BECAUSE WE WERE GETTING, UH, NOTIFICATIONS WHEN KIDS WERE COMPLETING ASSIGNMENTS AND, UM, COLLEGE ESSAYS, THINGS OF THAT NATURE THAT MAY, YOU KNOW, REFERENCE SOMETHING THAT HAS HAPPENED IN THE PAST.
THEY HAVE REFINED THAT WHOLE PROCESS AND IT'S PICKING THAT UP A LOT BETTER NOW.
UM, BUT, UH, THE, UM, AND WE ALSO, LAST YEAR, UH, WE ARE NOW REIMBURSED A PORTION OF WHAT WE PAY FOR GAS THROUGH THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION.
WHEN YOU HAVE THESE SAFETY SOFTWARE PROGRAMS, YOU ARE ACTUALLY ABLE TO RECEIVE, UM, A PORTION OF REIMBURSEMENT.
SO THAT CAME OUT JANUARY OF THIS YEAR, BUT LAST SCHOOL YEAR.
SO, UM, WE WERE ABLE TO MARK, I WASN'T HERE.
I WAS ACTUALLY AT A, AN EVENT WITH GAGGLE, BUT MARK, UM, MR. SHAN COMPLETED EVERYTHING AND WE WERE ABLE TO GET THAT.
UM, BUT THE MAJOR DIFFERENCES THAT, TWO MAJOR DIFFERENCES.
AND I DON'T GET PHONE CALLS AT TWO AND THREE IN THE MORNING ANYMORE.
UH, WE HAVE GAGGLE AFTER HOURS AND IT, UM, IT FLOWS THROUGH THE DISPATCH CENTER FOR BEAUFORT COUNTY.
SO WHATEVER MUNICIPALITY, UM, IT COMES INTO, WHETHER IT'S BLUFFED IN OR UM, COUNTY OR CITY, UH, DEPENDING ON, UH, WELL USUALLY IF IT GOES TO AFTER HOURS, IT IS A PSS, WHICH IS A HIGH NEED.
THAT MAY BE SOMEONE EXPRESSING SUICIDAL IDEATIONS.
SOMEONE IS ACTUALLY SENT OUT TO THE HOME, WE FOLLOW UP THE NEXT MORNING.
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THAT'S, THAT'S THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE TWO.AND, UM, ARCHIVE SOCIAL IS, I BELIEVE, MONITORED BY COMMUNICATIONS DEPARTMENT.
I DON'T NECESSARILY HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH THAT, BUT THAT PICKS UP KEYWORDS AND THINGS THAT APPEAR ON SOCIAL MEDIA.
YEAH, WE HAVE ALL TYPES OF SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS AT DISTRICT LEVEL THAT THE COMMUNITY CAN PARTICIPATE IN AS WELL AS A DRILLING DOWN TO THE INDIVIDUAL SCHOOL.
SO WE HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY TO KEEP ELECTRONIC RECORDS ON WHAT THAT ACTIVITY IS.
BUT ONE OF THE THINGS WITH ARCHIVE SOCIAL, IT ALSO CAN TARGET, LIKE SHE SAID, KEY WORDS.
AND IF YOU HAVE DEROGATORY WORDS COMING OUT, INAPPROPRIATE, IT'S PROBABLY A BETTER, BETTER PHRASE.
IT CAN ISOLATE, BUT THAT, THAT'S NOT OUT IN THE GENERAL PUBLIC.
BECAUSE SOME OF, AND YOU KNOW HOW SOCIAL MEDIA IS, IT CAN BE PARTICULARLY VICIOUS.
YOU DON'T NECESSARILY WANT THAT TYPE OF LANGUAGE ON A SCHOOL WEBSITE.
SO WE TAKE THE APPROPRIATE ACTION TO MAKE SURE THAT ESCO DEPART, PENALIZE SO THAT IT'S NOT A CONCERN.
ANY, ANY QUESTIONS ON THAT? AND IN TERMS OF GAGGLE, JUST TO GIVE YOU I AN IDEA IT THAT IS IN YOUR ATTACHMENT, THEY, UM, THERE WERE 18,591 ITEMS THAT WERE REVIEWED FOR LAST SCHOOL YEAR.
SO KIDS ARE USING GAGGLE WAY, WAY MORE THAN WELL WHAT, WHAT THEY, WELL, IT, BECAUSE WITH GAGGLE, IF THEY'RE TYPING SOMETHING INAPPROPRIATE, UM, YOU KNOW, THE WORD GUN COMES UP, UH, IT AUTOMATICALLY GAGGLE AUTOMATICALLY GETS IT UP.
IT'S NOT INPUTTING, THEY'RE NOT INPUTTING ANYTHING.
IT'S JUST WHAT THEY MAY BE DOING ON THEIR DEVICE.
THAT, THAT'S THE QUESTION I WAS GONNA ASK NEXT IS THEY DON'T HAVE TO BE LOGGED INTO THE GAGGLE PORTAL? NO, NO, NO.
THEY'RE IN THEIR GOOGLE CLASSROOM AND THEY'RE MESSAGING ANOTHER STUDENT ABOUT, YOU KNOW, PLANNING A FIGHT IN THE BATHROOM.
IT COULD BE THROUGH A PORTAL, WHICH IS NOT ON THE SCHOOL DEVICE.
THAT THERE'S A BIG DIFFERENCE THERE ON WHAT YOU CAN AND CAN'T.
IT IS AN, IT IS AN EFFECTIVE TOOL AND BEING ABLE TO PINPOINT, GO DOWN AND SEE WHAT IT SAYS, WHERE THIS ORIGINATED FROM, STOP IT.
IF IT'S ANONYMOUS AND IT, IT'S NOT DONE ONE OF OUR DEVICES, THEN YOU MAY NOT BE ABLE TO VALIDATE WHAT THE STOP WOULD SAY DOWN CEILING, INVESTIGATE IT.
BUT IF IT SAYS BILLY OR JIMMY DID THIS AND IT COME AND THEY, THEY TELL YOU WHAT SCHOOL IT IS, HOW MANY BILLY OR JIMMY'S ARE IN THAT SCHOOL.
IT IT'S DESIGNED TO BE ANONYMOUS IF YOU CHOOSE TO BE YEAH.
IS NOT, THEY'RE ON THEIR DEVICE.
UM, YOU, I CAN EVEN GET WITH ALEX IN, UH, TECHNOLOGY BECAUSE SOMETIMES WE GET THINGS THAT ARE INAPPROPRIATE.
BUT HE IS ABLE TO TO LET US KNOW WHAT DAY, WHAT TIME, AND HE CAN, UM, AND, AND LET US KNOW.
AND IN THAT WAY, ADMINISTRATION CAN ADDRESS IT.
WELL, GAGGLE SCHOOL DEVICES, UM, STOP IT.
PERSONAL DEVICES OR SCHOOL DEVICES, THOSE COME IN NONSTOP.
IT SEEMS LIKE THEY ARE THEY THOUSAND NONSTOP FOR GAGGLE.
UH, ONE'S ALWAYS GOING UP FOR THOSE.
ONE, ONE TAKEAWAY I WOULD DEFINITELY GIVE THE TWO, UH, THESE PROGRAMS THAT I'M GONNA GET POINTED OUT IS THAT EVEN IN MY TALKING TO THE PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY, EVEN TO THE KIDS, UH, NOW I, I REALIZE TO TELL THEM, UH, IF THERE'S A PROBLEM IN SCHOOL, YOU DON'T WANNA TELL SOMEBODY YOU DON'T WANT, WANT IT TO BE KNOWN.
YOU CAN REPORT IT TO, UH, STOP IT AND YOU'LL BE ANONYMOUS.
VERSUS REPORTING TO GAG GGO KNOW EXACTLY WHO YOU ARE.
SO THAT'S, SO THAT, THAT'S SOME GOOD, THAT'S A GOOD TAKEAWAY FROM THIS, UH, UNDERSTANDING THE BOTH OF THE PROGRAMS THAT ONE OF 'EM IS ANONYMOUS, THAT YOU CAN TELL STUDENTS TO, UH, REPORT TO STOP IT AND STOP IT, OR, UH, BASICALLY LET THE PEOPLE WHO NEED TO KNOW, KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON.
THAT'S, AND THE REPORTING CONCERN IS ON OUR SCHOOL'S WEBSITE.
AND THAT ALLOWS FOR COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT TOO, RIGHT? NOT JUST STUDENT INVOLVEMENT.
AND GIVE YOU SOME, GIVE YOU A LIKE I'M JUST TALKING, I'M, I'M TALKING NECESSARILY, I'M TALKING ABOUT THE KIDS.
AND SO EVEN WHEN SPEAKING TO THEM, I'M SAYING THAT WHEN, WHEN YOU SPEAK, WHEN YOU, WHEN WE WE GO TO THESE COMMUNITY MEETINGS, THEN WE CAN, WE CAN ELABORATE, LET THE COMMUNITY AND LET PEOPLE KNOW.
THE KIDS KNOW, HEY, LISTEN, THEY, THAT WE HAVE, THE DISTRICT DOES HAVE A COUPLE PROGRAMS WHERE ONE IS THE GAGGLE THAT PICKS UP IF YOU, THEY DOING SOMETHING YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BE DOING MM-HMM
BUT ALSO ON THE FLIP SIDE, WE HAVE ONE CALLED STOP IT.
IF YOU WANT TO GO UP THERE AND TELL THE TEACHER SOMEBODY TO SEE YOU, THEN YOU CAN JUST GO TO STOP IT AND TELL, STOP IT WHAT YOU NEED TO, WHAT NEEDS TO BE TRANSLATED TO, TO A TEACHER OR TO WHOEVER NEEDS TO GET THAT, THAT THAT SITUATION.
AND THEN THEY'LL LET Y GUYS KNOW.
SO I THINK THAT'S A, THAT THAT'S A, THAT'S A, THAT'S A GOOD TAKEAWAY.
AND, UM, THERE WAS A PROGRAM THAT, THAT WE HAD, WE TALKED ABOUT AT THE ROUND TABLE, AT THIS TABLE LAST YEAR.
UH, WAS IT LAST YEAR THAT, UH, THAT WE WERE GONNA ADD? CAN YOU TELL ME THE RESULTS OF
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THAT PROGRAM? 14.THAT'S, THAT'S NOT THIS THOUGH.
WELL ACTUALLY I HAVE NO PROBLEM WITH NO QUESTIONS.
RIGHT ALONG THE DISTRICT AND EACH SCHOOL HAVE A MULTIDISCIPLINARY THREAT ASSESSMENT TEAM THAT RECEIVES ANNUAL TRAINING, HAS COMPREHENSIVE WRITTEN PLANS AND PROCEDURES, MEET REGULARLY, TRAINS TOGETHER, WRITTEN MATERIALS ABOUT THE TEAM'S PURPOSE ARE WIDELY AVAILABLE.
THE TEAMS HAVE RELATIONSHIPS WITH EXTERNAL COMMUNITY PARTNERS.
AND THE THREAT ASSESSMENT POLICY HAS EXPLAINED TO FACULTY, STAFF, STUDENTS AND FAMILIES.
THE TEAMS HAVE A CENTRALIZED REPORTING MECHANISM AND INVESTIGATE MANAGEMENT REPORTS.
AND ANDREW, UH, THE DISTRICT, WE, WE FOLLOW THE SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION'S, UM, THREAT ASSESSMENT PROTOCOL.
I AM A TRAINER, UH, AND I TRAIN, I TRY TO DO TRAINING EVERY MONTH.
AND BECAUSE NOW WE HAVE ANNUAL TRAINING, WE ALSO DO REFRESHERS WHERE I MEET WITH STAFF SO THAT WE CAN STRENGTHEN WHAT WE'RE DOING AND OUR PROCESSES.
AND, UH, THIS FULLY, ALL OF OUR ASSESSMENTS GO INTO ED PLAN.
SO THEY'RE ALL ELEC, THEY'RE ELECTRONIC.
UH, AND WE'VE BEEN WORKING, UM, WITH THAT THROUGH TRAINING.
AND THAT HELPS US TREMENDOUSLY BECAUSE IF A STUDENT TRANSFERS THAT AUTOMATICALLY, SCHOOL IS AUTOMATICALLY ALERTED.
WE DON'T HAVE TO DO ANY PAPER.
UH, SO THAT HAS IT, IT IS A BUMPY START, BUT WE ARE REALLY GOING NOW.
AND I TRY TO HAVE, UM, I'VE SCHEDULED TRAININGS EVERY MONTH THROUGH THE MONTH OF FEBRUARY TO WORK WITH OUR STAFF TO, TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE FOLLOWING THE CORRECT, UH, PROTOCOL.
AND I, THERE'S NOW STANDALONE REGULATION SS 62.
AND WE NOW HAVE SS 62, WHICH WAS PRESENTED ALREADY.
AND THAT ADDRESSED, UM, OH, MATTER OF FACT, I WAS HERE THAT ADDRESSED SCHOOL, UM, SCHOOL-BASED BEHAVIOR THREAT ASSESSMENT AND MANAGEMENT.
ALSO IN THE ATTACHMENT IS THE CRISIS RESPONSE COUNSELING MANUAL.
IT INCLUDES OUR SUICIDE PREVENTION, UH, ASSESSMENT AND POSTVENTION.
AND IT ALSO, UM, INCLUDES OUR THREAT ASSESSMENT PROTOCOL.
THOSE ARE THE STILL OUR HARD COPIES FOR ANY EVENT.
UM, EARLIER THIS YEAR, ED PLAN WAS DOWN.
SO OF COURSE WE ALWAYS HAVE THAT BACKUP TO DO THOSE, UH, HARD COPIES AND STILL BE ABLE TO TURN THEM.
AND THAT'S A KEY COMPONENT, IF I'M NOT MISTAKEN, OF OUR EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PLAN.
15.5, THE DISTRICT AND EACH SCHOOL HAVE PLANS AND PROCEDURES THAT COVER ALL IDENTIFIED THREATS AND HAVES AND ADDRESS WHAT HAPPENS BEFORE, DURING, AND AFTER EMERGENCY.
THE PLANS ARE INTEGRATED INTO A CON, A CONSOLIDATED EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PLAN THAT IS REVIEWED AND UPDATED AT LEAST EVERY OTHER YEAR.
THE PLANNING TEAM INCLUDES A WIDE RANGE OF SCHOOL PERSONNEL PLUS COMMUNITY PARTNERS LIKE FIRST RESPONDERS.
THE UP IS A REGULAR PART OF TRAINING FOR STAFF, FACULTY, AND STUDENTS.
AND THIS IS AN EXAMPLE OF THE EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PLAN.
IT'S OVER TWO, 200 PAGES ALONG.
UM, IT COVERS A VARIETY OF DIFFERENT SITUATIONS ON HOW WE'RE SUPPOSED TO OBVIOUSLY COUNTER THOSE.
AND, UH, I KNOW THAT MURPHY'S LAW GETS INVOLVED IN SOME YOU ON SOME THINGS, BUT THIS GIVES A PR A PRACTICAL GUIDE ON HOW TO RES RESPOND TO ACCIDENTS AS THEY OCCUR.
ANY QUESTIONS ON THAT? UH, I KNOW THAT, UH, MARCH OF 2025, UH, I WENT THROUGH THIS REVIEWING IT.
EACH, EACH MEMBER WHO HAS A PART OF THIS EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PLAN, REVIEWS IT, UPDATES IT, AND THEN WE HAVE A CONSOLIDATED, A PLAN FOR THE UPCOMING SCHOOL YEAR IN PLACE.
AND THEN EACH SCHOOL HAS TO, HAS TO FORMULATE THEIR OWN EMERGENCY PLAN.
THINK OF A PYRAMID AND IT DRILLS DOWN TO THE INDIVIDUAL SCHOOLS, BUT THE SCHOOL'S PLANS ARE THE FOUNDATION FOR THE TOP OF THE PYRAMID STAY EFFECT.
15 SIX, THE DISTRICT CONDUCTS SITE ASSESSMENTS FOR ALL DISTRICT FACILITIES THAT INVOLVE SCHOOLS, STAFF, DISTRICT, DISTRICT STAFF, AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS.
THE RESULTS OF THE ASSESSMENT ARE INTEGRATED INTO THE EMP AND IMPLEMENTED INTO INFRASTRUCTURE SCHOOLS AND DISTRICT FACILITIES.
SITE ASSESSMENTS ARE CONDUCTIVE MONTHLY.
WE'RE IN THESE SCHOOLS AND ARE IN THESE SCHOOL EVERY DAY.
WE ARE CONSTANTLY DOING OUR CONTINUOUS IN INSPECTIONS TO MAKE SURE THINGS ARE FUNCTIONING, ET CETERA.
BUT IN ADDITION TO THAT, AS A PART OF THE SCHOOL, UH, SCHOOL SAFETY PRESENTATION THAT
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I'M A PART OF IS, AND I'M SAYINGUH, SHE, SHE AND I GO OUT AND WE GIVE THESE PRESENTATIONS TO EVERY CRISIS TEAM WITHIN THE SCHOOL DISTRICT.
WELL, HERE'S THE WAY I LOOK AT IT, IS THAT EVERYONE'S RESPONSIBLE FOR SCHOOL SAFETY.
WHERE ARE THE EXPERTS? THEY'RE IN THE SCHOOLS, THE PRINCIPALS, THE TEACHERS, THE SUPPORT STAFF.
THEY'RE IN THE SCHOOLS EVERY DAY.
AND WITH THE SECURITY AUDIT CHECKLIST, WE'RE GETTING THEM THE TOOL WHERE THEY TAKE OWNERSHIP OF THE FACILITY.
THEY'RE THERE EVERY DAY LOOKING AT DEFICIENCIES, SOMETHING THAT MAY BE BROKEN, ET CETERA.
AND IF THEY SEE SOMETHING THAT NEEDS TO BE REPAIRED, IT EMPOWERS THEM TO, TO PUT TOGETHER WORK ORDERS AND CREATES AWARENESS.
AND I THINK IT'S GOTTA BE VERTICAL AND HORIZONTAL INTEGRATION ON HOW YOU DO THIS.
AND WE'VE INCORPORATED, WE'VE BEEN INCORPORATED WITH THIS IN THE SCHOOL SAFETY PRESENTATION.
WOULD YOU LIKE TO COMMENT ON THAT, MS. HENDERSON? ABOUT, I DON'T.
IT, IT IS AMAZING THE AMOUNT OF HARD WORK THAT SHE PUTS IN GOING TO EVERY SCHOOL, GIVING THESE PRESENTATIONS.
AND I HAVE TO GIVE HER CREDIT FOR CREDITS DUE.
AND IT SERVES AS A TRAINING VESSEL FOR THE CRISIS MANAGEMENT TEAMS TO DRILL THIS DOWN TO THE INDIVIDUAL TEACHERS IN THE SCHOOL SO THAT THEY CAN PUT THAT KNOWLEDGE IN STUDENTS, ESPECIALLY IF YOU HAVE LOCKDOWN DRILLS, ET CETERA.
IT GIVES A KNOWLEDGE BASE FOR WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE DURING EMERGENCY.
AND IT COVERS A LOT OF KEY POINTS OF THIS EMERGENCY MANAGE PLAN.
UM, UM, MR. COTHAM, AS MR. CUNNINGHAM MENTIONED, THAT WE USE THE EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PLAN AS A RESOURCE.
IT IS STATED SPECIFICALLY IN THE MANUAL THAT IT IS A RESOURCE FOR DISTRICT LEVEL AND SCHOOL LEVEL PERSONNEL IN RESPONSE TO A SERIOUS INCIDENT OR A CRISIS.
AND THAT INCLUDES, I THINK, ABOUT 14 APPENDIXES TO INCLUDE THE CRISIS COUNSELING PIECE.
UH, AND AS HE MENTIONED, WE GO TO EVERY SCHOOL A MINIMUM OF ONE TIME A YEAR, AND MEET WITH THE ACTUAL SCHOOL CRISIS TEAM.
THE STATE MANDATES THAT EACH SCHOOL HAS A SCHOOL CRISIS TEAM IN ADDITION, AND EQUALLY AS IMPORTANT HAVE A DISTRICT CRISIS TEAM.
AND WE ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR TRAINING DISTRICT LEVEL PERSONNEL BECAUSE A CRISIS CAN OCCUR IN THIS BUILDING.
IT HAS OCCURRED IN THIS BUILDING.
SO WE HAVE TO TRAIN THEM ON HOW TO RESPOND TO A CRISIS AND TO ACT QUICKLY BECAUSE TIME IS AN ESSENCE.
AND AS HE MENTIONED, WE ARE TRULY THE FIRST RESPONDERS.
IT'S GOING TO TAKE THOSE FOLKS, UH, FIRST RESPONDERS TO, UH, RESPOND TO A CALL FROM THREE TO SEVEN MINUTES.
SO WHO OWNS THE CRISIS? THE FOLKS IN THE BUILDING OWN IT UNTIL THEY ARRIVE.
SO WE ENSURE, PLEASE, DON GRANT, UH, WE ENSURE THAT THEY'RE FAMILIAR WITH PROCESSES AND PROCEDURES AS FAR AS RESPONDING TO, UM, CRISIS.
AND THAT THE MANUAL ACTUALLY HAS TABLETOP SCENARIOS THAT THE SCHOOL CRISIS TEAM WORK WITH THEIR FACULTY AND STAFF.
UH, DURING THEIR STAFF MEETINGS.
UH, I'M GIVING THEM, UH, TOOLS TO CREATE WEEKLY, UH, TIPS, SAFETY TIPS.
SO HOW DO YOU AND MY QUESTION TO THEM, HOW DO YOU TRAIN YOUR STAKEHOLDERS TO INCLUDE PARENTS? WHEN A PARENT GET A PHONE MESSENGER THAT COMES FROM THE DISTRICT OR THE SCHOOL AND THEY HEAR WORD, THE SCHOOL IS ON A WHOLE, BUT IS WHOLE IF OR A NEW PARENT THAT'S IN THE SCHOOL SYSTEM, UNLESS WE EDUCATE THEM EXACTLY WHAT THAT THAT IS.
AND NOT ONLY THAT, EVERY STUDENT, I MEAN EVERY STAFF MEMBER IN THE BUILDING HAS WHAT WE CALL A BADGE BACKERS.
SO IT TELLS THEM, UH, HOW DO WE, UH, RESPOND TO A CRISIS? BECAUSE ANYBODY IN THAT SCHOOL THAT'S A FACULTY OR STAFF MEMBER CAN PUT THE SCHOOL IN ONE OF THOSE FIVE EMERGENCY STATUS.
SO IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE EDUCATE THEM.
WE GET AN AVERAGE FIVE, 600 NEW EMPLOYEES A YEAR.
HOW DO THEY KNOW HOW TO RESPOND? BECAUSE A CRISIS CAN HAPPEN THE FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL.
SO WE, WE CONDUCT OVER 150 TRAININGS A YEAR.
IT INCLUDES, UH, DOCUMENTATION, AGENDA ITEMS, AND HOW MANY PEOPLE PARTICIPATE IN THOSE TRAININGS.
WE PRACTICE SPECIFICITY ON THE BACK CARD.
IT HAS PARTICULAR THINGS, PHASES, LOCKDOWN, SECURE HOLD.
'CAUSE I KNOW OUTSIDE OF THE SCHOOL ENVIRONMENT, YOU TALK LAW ENFORCEMENT CENTER, THEY THINK EVERYTHING'S A LOCKDOWN.
IT'S SITUATIONAL BASED ON WHAT HAPPENS.
AND WE PREACH BEING SPECIFICITY, MAKING SURE YOU'RE IN THE RIGHT MODE, BE IT SECURE HOLD,
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ET CETERA.UH, SEVERE WEATHER BECAUSE YOU DON'T WANT IT, EVERYTHING TO BE GENERALIZED AS A LOCKDOWN BECAUSE YOU, WITH A LOCKDOWN, YOU'RE TEACHING THROUGH YOUR CRAZE.
WE WANT THE SITUATION TO MEET WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT IN THE BOAT.
WITH, AND I THINK THAT'S IMPORTANT BECAUSE WE, THERE IS A TENDENCY, 'CAUSE I USED TO BE ON THAT SIDE OF DEFENSE EVERY TIME YOU WENT AROUND A SCHOOL DOING SOME TYPE OF OPERATION IN THE COMMUNITY, OH, WE GOTTA CALL US IN, IN A LOCKDOWN.
SO IT'S VERY IMPORTANT WE STRESS THIS BECAUSE YOU HAVE TO BE IN RIGHT MODE OR AS MANY THINK.
SO THAT BEING SAID, IS THERE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS ABOUT THIS? NO, I JUST SAY EVEN THE PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY, THEY KNOW, THEY KNOW ABOUT IT.
AND THEN IN, IN TERMS OF, UM, I, I HAD ONE OF THE, UM, ONE OF THE GUYS ASKED ME, HE SAID, UM, YOU SPEAK SPANISH? I SAID, WELL, I, I, I, I SAID, UH, HE SAID, HE SAID, UM, HE SAID, HE SAID SOMETHING, I'M GLAD YOU WALKING IN.
HE SAID, YOU CAN TELL ME THIS SIGN, SAY IN SPANISH.
I SAID, WHAT? SAY, WHAT HE WAS TALKING ABOUT WAS THE, WAS THE LOCK LEVEL WAS WAS THE, UH, THE, THE, THE, UH, ONE, BASICALLY THE SIGNS OF WHAT IT, HE WAS SAYING THAT THAT'S, THAT'S GOOD THAT YOU HAVE EVERYTHING
BECAUSE APPARENTLY HIS CHILD BASICALLY TOLD HIM THAT, THAT THAT, THAT SOMETIMES SOMETHING HAPPENED THAT THEY, THEY PUT THE BUILDING IN, IN CERTAIN LEVELS OF LOCKDOWN.
SO EVEN THE KIDS, THEY APPARENTLY THROUGHOUT THE DISTRICT, DECEMBER, I DIDN'T KNOW, 7, 5, 7, 5 9, 2.
LOCKDOWN MEANS IN TERMS OF DIFFERENT, DIFFERENT LEVELS OF IT.
WELL, THE SYSTEM ITSELF, WHEN IT'S ACTIVATED, IT'S DECENT SPANISH AND IN ENGLISH.
AND IF YOU PRESS IT, IT SAY LOCKDOWN PRIOR TO US GOING INTO ONE OF THESE DRILLS, ET CETERA.
WE MAKE SURE IN ENGLISH AND SPANISH THAT OUR CUSTOMERS IN THE SCHOOL, THE STUDENTS WHO, SOME OF 'EM DON'T EVEN SPEAK ENGLISH, THAT THEY KNOW THAT THIS IS A DRILL VERSUS A TRUE LOCKDOWN.
SO THAT'S DONE TO MEET THE DIFFERENT CULTURES THAT WE HAVE IN, IN OUR SCHOOL.
YOU THINK ABOUT IT, IF YOU'RE A HISPANIC STUDENT, YOU DON'T SPEAK ENGLISH AND YOU HIT THE BUTTON.
WHAT DOES A LOCKDOWN MEAN? YOU'RE UNDER ATTACK.
SO WE PREFACE THAT BY INSERTING SPANISH LANGUAGE TO, TO LET THEM KNOW THAT THIS IS JUST A DRILL.
AND THAT'S WHAT HOW WE TRY TO ACCOMMODATE ALL OF THE, ALL THE DIFFERENT STUDENTS THAT WE HAVE IN OUR SCHOOL DISTRICT.
AND I THINK THAT'S MARKED BUSINESS.
EACH SCHOOL PROVIDES TRAINING ON ALL EMERGENCY POLICIES AND PROCEDURES FROM THE SCHOOL'S, EMP, INCLUDING THE ROLES OF STAFF AND FACULTY.
ALL STAFF AND FACULTY MEMBERS ARE TRAINED AND TRAINING AS PROVIDED WHEN STAFF AND FACULTY ARE HIRED AT THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR FOR RETURNING EMPLOYEES.
AND THROUGHOUT THE YEAR, UH, BASICALLY, UH, DISTRICTS ARE REQUIRED TO PROVIDE ANNUAL TRAINING FOR STAFF ON A, ON A VARIETY OF EMERGENCY POLICIES AND PROCEDURES.
THAT'S COVERED UNDER THE, UH, EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PLAN.
UH, THIS IS SCHOOLS, HERE'S AN EXEMPLAR OF THE FLIP SHARPS THAT ARE AVAILABLE IN EACH CLASSROOM.
THAT IS QUICK GUIDE GIVING INSTRUCTION TO TEACHERS.
AND STUDENTS CAN LOOK AT THIS ON WHAT THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO DO IN THE EVENT OF ONE OF THESE PARTICULAR EMERGENCIES.
UM, WE CON WE CONDUCT SEVERE WEATHER DRILLS IN THE SCHOOLS TO INCLUDE EARTHQUAKE PREPAREDNESS, WINTER WEATHER PREPAREDNESS, SEVERE WEATHER AND FLOOD SAFETY, TORNADOES AND HURRICANES.
AND ALL SCHOOLS CONDUCT TWO SEVERE WEATHER DRILLS EACH YEAR.
AND A LOT OF OUR SCHOOLS IN, IN EMPHASIZING THIS LED TO GREAT SHAKEOUT EARTHQUAKE AWARENESS SINCE WE LIVE IN EARTHQUAKE ZONES, PARTICIPATE IN THOSE TWO.
AND, UH, AGAIN, THIS IS A REGURGITATION OF ATTACHMENT FIVE, EATING THIS AND PREFERENCE FOR DRILLS SEND OUT A MANDATORY TRAINING PACKET THAT ALERTS EACH AND EVERY SCHOOL OF WHAT THEIR, WHAT DRILLS ARE AND REQUIREMENTS ARE FOR THE DRILLS DURING THE SCHOOL YEAR.
AND THAT'S INCLUDED UNDER THIS ATTACHMENT TOO.
UH, MS. HENDERSON HAS A COMPREHENSIVE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SCHEDULE THAT SHE GOES THROUGH.
AND I THINK WE HAVE AN EXEMPLAR IN THERE OF WHAT SHEET SYLLABUS.
AND, UH, IN ADDITION TO THAT, AND I'LL SEGUE BACK, BULLYING, IF YOU LOOKED AT SOME OF THE, THE BULLYING TRAINING THAT, THAT, THAT'S BEEN HELD IN THE DISTRICT, THAT'S EXTENSIVE TOO.
AND I GIVE KUDOS TO MS. MURRAY ON EVERYTHING THAT SHE DOES BECAUSE SHE'S ON TOP OF ALL THAT.
ANY QUESTIONS ON THAT? 15 EIGHT E SCHOOL PROVIDES COMPREHENSIVE TRAINING ON ALL EMERGENCY POLICIES AND PROCEDURES, FIRE DRILLS, TORNADO DRILLS, EVACUATION PROTOCOLS AND LOCKDOWN PROCEDURES BASED
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ON THE SCHOOL'S EMP AND ON GENERAL SCHOOL POLICIES, UH, DEVELOPMENTALLY APPROPRIATE AND TRAUMA INFORMED TRAINING IS PROVIDED TO ALL STUDENTS AT THE BEGINNING OF THE SCHOOL YEAR AND IS REINFORCED THROUGHOUT THE YEAR.OUR SRO OFFICERS AND THE LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES THAT THEY WORK FOR, THEY CONSTANTLY DO, UH, ACTIVE SHOOTER DRILLS, UH, TRAINING FOR, TO ELIMINATE THE THREAT.
YOU GIVE THEM ACCESS TO PARTICULAR SCHOOLS.
I THINK THE MOST RECENT ONE WAS PRI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL COMING INTO THIS SCHOOL YEAR WHERE THEY COME IN AND DO ACTIVE SHOOTER TRAINING IN THE FIELDING SERVICE TO FAMILIARIZE THEM WITH THE LAYOUTS OF THE SCHOOL AND TEACH THEM MOVEMENTS BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, SKILLS DETERIORATE.
SO YOU CONSTANTLY HAVE TO, UM, TRAIN TO MAKE SURE THAT YOU KNOW WHAT YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO DO AS A LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER.
IN THE EVENT OF THE ACT ACTIVE SHOOTER ACTUALLY OCCURRING, THEY USE THE ALERT PROGRAM HERE, UM, AS FAR AS TRAINING SCHOOL RESOURCE OFFICERS AND LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS.
AND ALSO IN EACH SCHOOL, THE SROS AND DANNY ALLEN FROM THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE COME IN AND CONDUCT TRAINING, UH, APP PRAISE TRAINING TWICE A YEAR TO DISTRICT STAFF, UH, TELLING THEM THE PARTICULARS OF AVOID NOT FEND AN EVENT.
THERE IS AN ACTIVE SHOOTER IN YOUR BUILDING.
IT SHOWS SOME OF THE, UH, ACTIVE SHOOTER TRAINING THAT THEY'RE, THAT THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE AND OTHER PARTNERS ENGAGE IN.
IN ADDITION TO THAT, YOU KNOW THAT MS. HENDERSON, UM, TEACHES THE I LOVE YOU GUYS STANDARD PROTOCOL, AND I THINK YOU'RE FAMILIAR WITH THAT FROM PAST SESSIONS.
WE DO LOCKDOWN DRILLS IN THE SCHOOLS.
I HAVE THOSE SCHEDULES THERE CANINE SEARCHES, AS WELL AS THE OTHER DRILLS THAT WERE REQUIRED TO THE INTERSTATE MANDATES.
AND WE ACTUALLY EXCEED THE STATE MANDATE AND WHICH IS ONLY TWO, AND WE DO IT THREE TIMES A YEAR.
ANY, ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT THAT? YEAH, I DO KEY NINE SEARCHES JUST THREE TIMES A YEAR.
HOW WORK ARE WE DOING? K NINE CAN NINE SEARCHES WITH, WE TRY TO HIT EVERY SCHOOL THAT, THAT WE CAN, WE CONCENTRATE.
YOU DON'T, YOU DON'T WANT TO DO 'EM IN THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS OR EARLY CHILDHOOD BECAUSE OF THE, THE AGE GROUP.
BUT WHEN YOU LOOK AT OUR PRIMARY FOCUS IS ON THE HIGH SCHOOLS AS WELL AS MIDDLE SCHOOLS.
BUT, BUT MY QUESTION IS, HOW REGULAR ARE WE DOING THEM THOUGH? WE, BECAUSE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT, YOU KNOW, WE, YOU KNOW THAT ALL THAT IS A
WE TALKING ABOUT, YOU KNOW, BRINGING IN THE METAL DETECTORS, ALL THAT'S A PART OF THE DETERRENT.
AND, AND THEN THE KIDS KNOWING WHEN I WAS IN SCHOOL, WE KNEW, WE NEVER KNOW WHEN THEY'RE GONNA BRING THE CANINES.
SO MY, SO MY QUESTION IS, WHEN, WHEN DO, WHEN HAVE WE DONE THEM AND WHAT TRACK RECORD DO WE HAVE OF DOING THEM IN, IN, IN, IN OUR SCHOOLS, WE TRY TO HIT EVERY SCHOOL DURING THE SCHOOL YEAR WITH THE CANINES.
WE NORMALLY HAVE TO DO THOSE ON WEDNESDAYS.
THAT'S, THAT'S THE TRAINING DAYS OF IT.
WE TRY TO HIT THEM AT LEAST ONCE A YEAR.
THERE ARE ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS THAT MAY PREVENT US HAVING A PARTICULAR SCHOOL DONE DURING THE YEAR.
UM, IF THERE'S A SITUATION WHERE THERE'S AN OUTSIDE, UH, SITUATION THAT PREVENTS US FROM DOING IT, OR THEY CAN'T SCHEDULE IT WHEN WE'RE AVAILABLE TO, THEN WE HAVE, WE HAVE TO LOOK AT DOING IT AT A SEPARATE TIME.
BUT WE TRY TO GET TO AT LEAST ONCE A YEAR AT EACH HIGH SCHOOL TO MIDDLE SCHOOL.
SO, FOR EXAMPLE, WE, WE'VE PROBABLY HAD FIVE OR SIX THAT HAVE BEEN SCHEDULED IN THE LAST MONTH AND A HALF ON WEDNESDAYS THAT THE, THEY'D HAD TO CANCELED ON US BECAUSE EITHER MANPOWER WASN'T AVAILABLE OR SOMETHING HAPPENED WITH THEIR POLICE DEPARTMENT, OR DIFFERENT REASONS THEY HAD TO CANCEL.
WE, WE TRY TO SCHEDULE ONE ALMOST EVERY WEDNESDAY IF THEY'RE AVAILABLE.
AND IF YOU, AND FOR INSTANCE, WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS, UH, YOU KNOW, THE, UH, TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF SWATTING WITH THE ACTIVE SHOOTER SITUATION THAT HAPPENED IN GEORGIA LAST YEAR.
THERE ARE A LOT OF FAKE CALLS THROUGHOUT THE NATION CREATING CONCERNS IN THE SCHOOL THAT DREW LAW ENFORCEMENT RESOURCES AWAY TO TAKE CARE OF THOSE SITUATIONS.
'CAUSE SCHOOLS WERE GETTING INUNDATED WITH THESE FALSE, FALSE ALARMS. PEOPLE TRYING BASICALLY TO SWATTING CALLS SAYING THAT THIS WAS GOING TO HAPPEN AT A PARTICULAR SCHOOL.
THAT'S, WE HAVE TO ADDRESS THOSE TOO.
AND THAT COULD, THESE ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS COULD INFLUENCE WHETHER OR NOT WE HAVE THOSE RE THOSE DOG RESOURCES AVAILABLE TO COME IN WHEN WE COULD DO THE DRILLS.
AND WE ALSO HAVE TESTING THAT CAN INTERFERE WITH DRILLS AS WELL.
AND YOU CAN'T INTERFERE WITH THE, WITH THE TESTING TO BRING IN DO SO.
SO WE DO A VERY THOROUGH JOB IN GETTING THESE CANINE SEARCHES DONE.
ANY QUESTION? 15 9 15 9 E SCHOOL CONDUCTS
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DISCUSSION BASED EXERCISES AT POINTS ONCE A YEAR WITH STAFF AND FACULTY AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS.EXERCISE RESULTS ARE DOCUMENTED AND THE SCHOOL EMP IS REVISED AS THE E SCHOOL CONDUCTS OPERATIONS BASED EXERCISES WITH STAFF AND FACULTY AND DEVELOPMENTALLY APPROPRIATE DRILLS WITH STUDENTS IN ACCORDANCE WITH EMP.
EACH SCHOOL CONDUCTS THREE LOCKDOWN DRILLS YEARLY FOLLOWING EACH LOCKDOWN, DRILL, LAW ENFORCEMENT, DISTRICT SERVICE PERSONNEL AND SCHOOL ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF MEET TO DISCUSS THE DRILL AND PREPARE AN ACT, ACT OR IMPROVEMENT PLAN.
AND NORMALLY AFTER WE DO LOCKDOWN DRILLS, I, WE WE'RE IN A ROOM JUST LIKE THIS AND WE'RE DISCUSSING WHAT WENT RIGHT, WHAT WENT WRONG, AND WE PUT TOGETHER A PLAN TO SEE HOW WE CAN DO IT BETTER NEXT TIME AT THAT SCHOOL.
CONTINUOUS REQUIREMENT, CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT AND BRIEFINGS CAN BE ORAL, THEY CAN BE THESE AFTER ACTION REVIEWS CAN BE ORAL, THEY CAN BE WRITTEN, ET CETERA.
IN DISCUSSING THESE SITUATIONS, 15.
AND I THINK THAT'S THE LAST ONE.
EACH SCHOOL'S EMP INCLUDES RECOVERY PLANS THAT ADDRESS THE FOUR MAIN COMPONENTS OF RECOVERY AND PLANS FOR DIFFERENT TIMEFRAMES.
RECOVERY PLANS ARE REVIEWED AND UPDATED ANNUALLY.
STAFF AND STUDENTS ARE TRAINED ON RECOVERY PLANS ON AN AD HOC BASIS.
THERE'S FOUR COMPONENTS OF RECOVERY, MITIGATION, PREPAREDNESS, RESPONSE AND RECOVERY.
UM, AS YOU COULD SEE IN THE EXPLANATIONS OF WHAT EACH ARE, UH, LAKEISHA SWIN SERVES AS THE
AND SHE'S THE HEAD OF REUNIFICATION WITH REUNIFICATION.
I THINK WE HAVE IDENTIFIED EIGHT SITES AT THIS POINT.
ON THE NORTHERN END OF THE SOUTHERN END OF THE COUNTY.
WE HAVE THREE REUNIFICATION TRAILERS THAT ARE STOCKED WITH THE MATERIALS NECESSARY TO, UH, FOR THE DISTRICT STAFF TO COME IN AND TO ASSIST A SCHOOL AT THESE REUNIFICATION SITES TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY'RE MATCHED BACK UP TO THEIR PARENTS AS, AS WELL AS, UM, THERE'S OTHER LOGISTICAL CONSTRAINTS THERE TOO.
YOU GOTTA THINK ABOUT THE NECESSITIES OF LIFE BECAUSE THESE COULD BE A TIME CONSUMING EVENT.
AND IT'S A COMPREHENSIVE PLAN ON WHAT WE DO TO REUNIFY THESE PEOPLE ACCORDING TO WHAT OUR UNIVERSITY MANAGEMENT PROCEDURES ARE.
AND A REUNIFICATION PLAN THAT IS ATTACHED IN LAST ATTACHMENT, WHICH I THINK IS NUMBER SEVEN, FOLLOWS THE I LOVE YOU GUYS STANDARD RE RESPONSE PROTOCOL.
AND THE SCHOOL'S GOT THEIR RESPONSIBILITIES TO ACCOUNT FOR THEIR PEOPLE.
GOTTA GET THE PEOPLE TO OUR REUNIFICATION CENTER TO STUDENTS AND DISTRIBUTE THEM TO THEIR PARENTS, AND ALSO COMMUNICATE THAT TO THE PARENTS OF WHERE TO GO TO GET THEIR CHILD.
'CAUSE IT'S GONNA BE A CHAOTIC SITUATION.
ANY, ANY QUESTIONS? I WANTED TO, I WANTED TO THANK YOU FOR ALLOWING ME TO DO THIS, BUT I GIVE ALL THE MERITS TO THESE LADIES RIGHT HERE AND THE PROGRAMS THAT THEY OVERSEE.
IT IS A GROUP THERE IN DOING ALL THIS.
AND YOU'LL BE AMAZED AT THE PARTICIPATION AT THE SCHOOL LEVEL.
EVERYONE TAKES THIS SERIOUS 'CAUSE THEY KNOW WHAT THE CONSEQUENCES ARE.
WE'VE GOTTA GET IT RIGHT EVERY TIME.
AND IT'S CONTINUOUS LEARNING ON ANY OF THESE BECAUSE IN A TRUE CRISIS, WE'RE, WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO FUNCTION UNDER A GREAT AMOUNT OF PRESSURE AND WE'LL HAVE TO REFINE IT FOR THE NEXT TIME TOO.
IS CONTINUOUS LEARNING AND IMPROVE IS, UH, LEVEL TRAINING? YES, SIR.
UM, I HAVE A QUESTION AND I HAVE TO, UH, GO BACK.
UM, WHEN YOU TALKED ABOUT THE SAFETY OVER THE, UM, THE FOOTBALL FIELDS OVER THE FIELDS, UM, ONE QUESTION, CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG, BUT I THINK, I THOUGHT THAT SOMEHOW FIELDS ARE USED BY THE COUNTY, LIKE FOR LITTLE LEAGUES.
I I'M JUST TRYING TO FIGURE OUT, UM, ARE WE RESPONSIBLE FOR, UM, THE SAFETY ON, YOU KNOW, WHEN THE COUNTY USES IT OR DOES THE COUNTY, UM, HAVE THEIR, UM, RESOURCES OUT THERE? WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT SAFETY, DO THEY HAVE OFFICERS OUT THERE? YES.
THOSE ARE CONTRACTED BY FACILITIES.
AND DURING THAT AGREEMENT, THEY HAVE TO PROVIDE THEIR SECURITY.
WELL, I WOULD SAY WE DO NOT HAVE COUNTY RUN ORGANIZATIONS THERE.
THIS IS ROBERT REGISTER, OR, UM, THERE ARE ORGANIZATIONS THAT USE OUR FACILITIES.
THEY'RE UNDER OUR JURISDICTION THEN.
SO THEY ARE OUR RESPONSIBILITY, OUR FACILITIES USE AGREEMENT DOES REQUIRE ALL OF
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THEM TO HAVE ARMED SECURITY PRESENT FOR ANY KIND OF ATHLETIC EVENT.AND, UH, CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG, IF IT'S A CERTAIN SIZE OF EVENT, THERE HAS TO BE A SCHOOL REPRESENTATIVE THERE FOOTPRINT, ESPECIALLY ATHLETICS.
I MEAN, ONCE IT GETS TO A CERTAIN SIZE, WE'LL BRING IT TO THE NATIVE ITSELF AND TALK ABOUT, YOU KNOW, WHAT LEVEL OF SECURITY DO WE NEED? THINGS OF THAT NATURE.
BECAUSE THE ONLY TIME THE COUNTY HAS GOTTEN INVOLVED IS WHEN THERE'S BEEN I THINK SOME POLITICAL, UM, PEOPLE THAT COME, BUT OUTSIDE OF THAT, THAT THEY'RE, THEY ARE OUR RESPONSIBILITY.
THEY ARE NOT UNDER THE COUNTY'S JURISDICTION WHEN THEY COME.
SO WE DO HAVE PEOPLE OUT THERE WHEN WE HAVE THE COUNTIES DOING THEIR THING FOR SAFETY.
I'M ASKING, WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY THE COUNTY DOING THEIR THING? WELL, I'M SAYING THEY'RE, THEY'RE LIKE THE LITTLE LEAGUE TEAMS AND STUFF THAT, THAT DO USE OUR GROUNDS ATHLETIC PER RIGHT.
BUT THEY'RE NOT UNDER THE COUNTY.
THEY'RE, THEY ARE INDIVIDUAL LITTLE LEAGUE ORGANIZATIONS THAT LEASE OUR FIELDS AND USE THEM.
THEIR AGREEMENT IS WITH US, NOT THE COUNTY.
AND WE DO REQUIRE SOME TYPE OF SECURITY, AND IF IT WAS A LARGE ENOUGH EVENT, WE MAY NEED TO GET THE COUNTY INVOLVED TO SEE, YOU KNOW, IF THEY USE MULTIPLE FACILITIES AND HAVE THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE, WE WOULD GET THE COUNTY INVOLVED.
ANY OTHER QUESTIONS ONLINE? ANY OTHER QUESTIONS IN THE ROOM? ALRIGHT.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR PRESENTATION AND THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING YOU'VE DONE.
IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, I'M ALWAYS AVAILABLE OFFLINE TO DISCUSS IT.
UH, SO FOR ALL FOUR OF THE OES, IS THERE A MOTION TO APPROVE AND MOVE TO THE CONSENT AGENDA? SO MOVED.
ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? UH, SECONDED BY SAYING AYE.
APPRECIATE YOU, APPRECIATE YOU.
ANY TREES? THIS PROCESS YOUR FLOOR
SEE IF I COULD DO IT QUICKER IN A MINUTE.
UH, THE SECONDED SUMMARY OF PROJECTS, UH, THROUGH OCTOBER, UM, 31ST.
SO AT THE END OF THE MONTH ON THE 2019 REFERENDUM, WE REPORTED THAT WE HAD 10 PROJECTS CLOSED OUT REMAINING.
RIGHT NOW WE ARE CONFIRMED THAT WE WILL HAVE SEVENTH THIS MONTH.
WE ARE WORKING ON TWO THAT WE NEED SOME CONFIRMATION ON SOME ITEMS ON THE FINAL.
MORE THIS MONTH OR DOWN TO SEVEN THIS MONTH? NO, NO, NO.
SO THAT WILL LEAVE US WITH 18.
OH, YOU HAD 10 REPORTED AT THE END OF OCTOBER.
AND THEN WE'RE ADDING, UH, SEVEN FOUR TO THAT LIST.
THERE'S A COUP, THERE'S THREE OTHERS THAT ARE POTENTIAL AS WELL FOR THE END OF THE MONTH.
SO WE COULD POTENTIALLY HAVE ALL THE CONTRACTORS WRAPPED UP.
I'M ALREADY WORKING WITH THE DESIGNERS SO THAT WE CAN RECONCILE THEM AS WELL.
WE HAVE ONE OF THE DESIGN TEAMS ALREADY TAKEN CARE OF.
THAT LEAVES US WITH ABOUT THREE TO FOUR OTHER FIRMS TO JUST WRAP UP.
SO ONCE THE CON CONTRACTORS ARE DONE, WE CAN MOVE ON TO THE DESIGNERS.
AND IT JUST LEAVES THE, UH, LAST COMMITMENTS, WHICH WERE, UH, SOME OF THOSE, UH, ITEMS THAT WE PURCHASED.
THE REMAINING FUNDS, UH, THAT IS ACTUALLY, WE HAVE FIVE COMMITMENTS AS OF TODAY.
UH, TWO OF THOSE COMMITMENTS WERE THE AEDS THAT WE WERE DOING, UH, SOME ADDITIONAL, UH, SUPPLEMENTATION ON SOME OF THE SCHOOLS OR ALL OF THE LOCATIONS TO NOT SOME OF THE SCHOOLS.
UH, AND ALSO THE WEAPON DETECTION SYSTEMS THAT WERE PURCHASED SO THAT WE CAN, UH, INSTEAD, UM, THAT BEING SAID, THE 2019 REFERENDUM FINANCIALS, UH, AT THE END OF THE MONTH WHERE, UH, WE HAD A REMAINING AVAILABLE FUNDS, WHICH INCLUDED THE CONTINGENCY OF, UH, $833,000, THE CONTINGENCY
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ACTIVITY, WE HAD A RETURN OF 652,000, AND WE HAVE THE USE OF 268,000.SO, UH, AT THE CURRENT MOMENT, THE CONTINGENCY REMAINING, UH, AS OF THE END OF OCTOBER, ABOUT 716,000.
UH, ANY QUESTIONS ON 2019? ALL RIGHT.
HOW MUCH MONEY WAS THAT NOW? 7 7 16.
652,000 TO THE CONTINGENCY IN 2019.
SO THAT MEANS EVERYTHING FROM FROM, FROM 2019 IS OVER AT THIS POINT, IS THAT WHAT YOU'RE SAYING? NO, NO, NO.
WE'RE, WE'RE, WE'RE WORKING RECONCILING.
SO THERE'S STILL SOME MONEY THAT'S COMING BACK, BUT WE HAVE A PLAN ON HOW TO CLOSE THIS WHOLE THING OUT TO ZERO IT OUT.
WE HAVE A LOT GOING ON MAY RIVER ELEMENTARY.
UH, BIGGEST THING IS THAT WE HAVE THE BUILDING PAD, WHICH IS SCHEDULED FOR COMPLETION IN NOVEMBER.
SO THAT SHOULD ALLOW US TO START COMING OFF THE GROUND WITH THE BUILDING, UH, AT MAY RIVER HIGH SCHOOL, C-T-E-J-R-O-T-C.
WE ARE COORDINATING A RIBBON CUTTING TAKE PLACE EITHER IN DECEMBER, I KNOW, UH, THAT HASN'T SOLIDIFIED, SO WE'RE, WE'RE WORKING ON IT.
RIGHT NOW, TENTATIVELY THE 16TH, YOU HAD A QUESTION REGARDING THAT ARTICULATING ARM FOR THE WELDING ROOM.
UH, WE FOUND OUT ONE OF THE, EACH ONE OF THOSE COSTS SOMEWHERE BETWEEN THIR 1300 TO $5,000, SO OH, YEAH.
YOU ADD A COUPLE OF THOSE, BUT THEY'RE, THEY'RE PRETTY NEAT PIECE OF EQUIPMENT.
SO HOPEFULLY WHEN THE RIBBON CUTTING HAPPENS, YOU GUYS CAN ALL SEE WHAT, UH, THOSE ET SPACE ARE GONNA LOOK LIKE.
UM, THE NEW ECC WE'RE GETTING, WE HAVE A PRICING REVIEW ON THURSDAY.
AS OF THE MOMENT THE EVS HAVE BEGUN.
WE ARE GONNA COLLECT SOME OF THOSE COMMENTS, BUT WE ARE, THIS IS GONNA HELP US DETERMINE WHERE WE ARE WITH THE PRICE POINT ON THAT FACILITY.
SO LOOKING FORWARD TO THAT DISCUSSION WITH THE CM, UH, HILTON HIGH SCHOOL, THE CONSTRUCTIONIST PROGRESSING ON PHASE ONE.
WE HAVE A COST REVIEW TOMORROW WITH THE CONTRACTOR TO SEE WHERE WE'RE AT WITH THAT PROJECT.
HOPEFULLY WE ARE WITH TARGET SO THAT WE CAN MOVE TO THE GMP IF EVERYTHING IS OKAY.
THE PLAN IS TO BRING THAT AMENDMENT TO THE BOARD.
UH, IN THE DECEMBER MEETING, UH,
SO, UH, WE'RE NEARING THAT PROJECT ENTRY, UH, CONTRACT AS WELL.
AND THE LADIES ISLAND MIDDLE SCHOOL PROJECT, WE HAVE THE CDS, WHICH ARE SCHEDULED TO BE PERCEIVED NEXT WEEK.
SO WE ARE, THAT'S GONNA BE 50% CDS, WHICH IS GONNA ALLOW US TO DO ANOTHER, UH, REVIEW OF THE DESIGN TO SEE WHERE WE'RE AT.
AND THEN WE CAN PROCEED, UH, TO THE A HUNDRED PERCENT.
UH, PLAN RIGHT NOW FOR THAT PROJECT IS TO BE UNDER CONTRACT SOMEWHERE IN Q1 OF NEXT YEAR.
UM, AND IN, IN TERMS OF THE OUT MIDDLE SCHOOL YOU TALKING ABOUT? YEAH.
UH, IN TERMS OF THE LAY OUT MIDDLE SCHOOL PROJECT, UM, THEY, I HAVE, MY COMMUNITY HAS REACHED OUT TO ME.
I'VE HAD SEVERAL, SEVERAL PEOPLE I WAS ALSO AT, AT THE SICB, AND THEY ARE CONCERNED THAT THIS SCHOOL DOES NOT HAVE A, A, UM, AUDITORIUM.
AND, AND, AND ALSO, AND ALSO, UM, I HAD A COUPLE PEOPLE WHO, WHO, UH, APPARENTLY WE, WE HAD A MEETING AT THE SIC MEETING AND PEOPLE WERE NOT, THEY FROM STANDING, THEY WERE EXPECTING US.
THEY SAID NORMALLY THAT, THAT THEY'VE COME WITH THIS ADDITIONAL MEETING IN TERMS OF TELLING THEM WHAT, UH, WHAT THAT THE BUILDING, WHAT'S GOING ON WITH THE BUILDING.
AND SO PEOPLE WERE SAYING, WELL, HOW, HOW, HOW THEY SUPPOSED TO KNOW.
SO I THINK THAT WE WOULD, AT SOME POINT IN TIME, WE MAY NEED TO, UM, WE DIDN'T HAVE ENOUGH MEETINGS WITH THE SIC NO, NO, THEY WERE SAYING THAT, THAT, THAT, OH, THAT, THAT THEM SIC MEETING, SIC MEETING, NOT THE BUILDING, NOT IN TERMS OF WHAT THE CONSIST OF AND THAT WHAT ALL THAT, HOW, HOW, BASICALLY HOW, AND, AND IN TERMS OF WHAT, OF HAVING A MEETING ABOUT THE BUILDING WAS NOT JUST AT, AT, AT, AT SIC MEETING, THEY WERE LIKE, NORMALLY THAT'S A SEPARATE MEETING.
BECAUSE THEY, I MEAN, IF THAT'S HOW THEY, LIKE, THEY, THEY DIDN'T INTERPRET, THEY INTERPRETED THE SIC MEETING BETWEEN THE SIC NOT THE BUILDING.
AND I WAS LIKE, OH, YEAH, WELL, THAT'S WHAT WE HAVE HAD 'EM.
AND THEY'RE LIKE, WELL, HOW, HOW ARE WE SUPPOSED TO, I WAS LIKE, UH, UH, WELL, WE ALSO SAID, YOU KNOW, IF THE COMMUNITY WANTS US TO HAVE A MEETING, WE'LL BE GLAD TO COME.
BUT IF THE SCHOOL WANTS US TO HAVE A SEPARATE MEETING OUTSIDE OF SIC, THAT'S FINE TOO.
THEY JUST NEED TO TELL US THAT.
WELL, THIS WAS, THIS WAS MORE COMMUNITY PEOPLE AND SOME PARENTS WHO THOUGHT, WHO I GUESS WENT, WANTS THAT THERE'S A COMMUNITY GROUP THAT WANTS US TO COME PRESENT.
JUST, JUST HAVE 'EM REACH OUT TO US.
TELL US WHAT TIME, PLACE WE'LL BE THERE.
WELL, BUT JUST ONLY THAT, THAT THERE'S A CONCERN IN TERMS OF LADIES MIDDLE SCHOOL NOT HAVING ANY AUDITORIUM, UM, UM, MOVING FORWARD, IF THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE, UH, NEED TO, THAT'S SOMETHING THAT, THAT'S A CONCERN OF THE COMMUNITIES AND HOW, HOW WE, HOW WE GET TO THE
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BOTTOM OF THAT RIGHT NOW, I'M NOT SURE.BUT THAT IS A, A, A SERIOUS CONCERN.
AND, AND, AND THE FORM OF US, UH, BEFORE WE STARTED TO PUT THE FIRST BLOCK DOWN, THAT THAT IS, THAT IS A SERIOUS, UH, CONCERN BECAUSE THEY ARE A SCHOOL OF THE ARTS.
AND SO WE'RE NOT HAVING THAT COULD, IT COULD, UH, THE COMMUNITY FIELD THAT IT COULD BE SOME RESTRICTIONS THERE.
AND THAT, THAT STUDENTS ARE NOT, I'M NOT, I'M NOT GUARANTEED THE FULL EFFECT OF WHAT AN AUDITORIUM AND WHAT, WHAT, WHAT, WHAT, WHAT THAT IS.
MRS. FRAZIER DO, WHICH MIDDLE SCHOOLS HAVE AUDITORIUMS? SO THE ONLY MIDDLE SCHOOLS THAT HAD AUDITORIUMS WERE LADIES ISLAND MIDDLE AND HILTON HEAD ISLAND HIGH SCHOOL, NO OTHER MIDDLE SCHOOL.
AND THOSE ARE BOTH, I'M SORRY, I'M SORRY.
AND THOSE WERE BUILT IN THE EIGHTIES.
AND SINCE THE EIGHTIES, WE HAVE NOT BUILT A MIDDLE SCHOOL WITH AN AUDITORIUM.
I, THAT'S WHAT, THAT'S WHAT I'M TRYING TO FIGURE OUT THE ISSUE, BECAUSE I KNOW RIVERRIDGE DIDN'T HAVE AN AUDITORIUM.
THE GYMS ARE EITHER THE CAFETERIA OR ELEMENTARY AND MIDDLE SCHOOLS ARE ONES THAT DOUBLE AS AUDITORIUMS. SO THERE ARE NO MIDDLE SCHOOLS WITH AUDITORIUM.
SO LADIES ALLEN MIDDLE SCHOOL, NOT HAVING ONE SHOULDN'T BE SUCH A LARGE ISSUE.
UH, ACTUALLY, MS. F, MS. FRAZIER, ACTUALLY, UH, YOU'RE WRONG.
THERE ARE, HE JUST STATED THAT THERE ARE TWO MIDDLE SCHOOLS WITH AUDITORIUMS. WHICH ONES HE, HE, HE DID WELL, WHICH, WELL, HILTON HAD ISLAND MIDDLE SCHOOL.
SO HILTON HAD AS A SMALL AUDITORIUM, I WOULD SAY, LEMME ASK YOU A QUESTION, PLEASE.
FROM WHAT HE'S SAYING, THAT MIDDLE SCHOOL, HILTON HEAD, MIDDLE SCHOOL HAS ONE, AND
SO THAT'S WHERE THE CONCERN WAS COMING FROM IN TERMS OF THINGS WITH DIFFERENT THINGS WITH PARENTS AND, AND, AND, AND, AND THEIR SHOWS.
SO THAT'S WHERE, THAT'S WHERE THIS CONCERN COME FROM.
'CAUSE THERE ARE, THERE ARE AUDITORIUMS IN TWO THOSE, IN TWO, UH, MIDDLE SCHOOLS RIGHT NOW.
AND, AND ALSO THERE, THERE HAVE BEEN PARENTS WHO HAVE SAID, BROUGHT SMALLS THAT THEM HAVING DIFFERENT THINGS IN, IN, IN THEIR PLACE AND NOT ACTUALLY HAVING AUDITORIUM IS, IS NOT, IS NOT VERY COMFORTABLE IN TERMS OF SEATING, IN TERMS OF AMBIENCE AND GETTING A FULL EXPERIENCE OF THOSE PROGRAMS. SO PARENTS ARE TALKING.
AND SO THAT'S WHERE, UH, THE CONVERSATION HAPPENED, BECAUSE WE DO PRESENTLY AT THIS TIME, HAVE AUDITORIUMS IN THE DISTRICT AT THOSE GROUPS.
SO THAT, THAT, THAT, THAT, THAT, THAT'S THE TRUE FACTOR OF THAT.
THAT'S AND WHAT YEAR WAS HILTON HAD ISLAND MIDDLE SCHOOL BUILT.
SO THEY WERE BUILT IN THE EIGHTIES.
SO ANY OTHER MIDDLE SCHOOL THAT HAS BEEN BUILT UP TO THIS DAY SINCE THE EIGHTIES DOES NOT HAVE ONE.
IS IT AN ISSUE WHICH YOU EXPLAINING TO THE COMMUNITY, APPRECIATE THE BRAND NEW BUILDING THAT YOU'RE BEING BUILT INSTEAD OF SEEING A SHORTFALL BECAUSE, OR SEND THE TEACHERS TO THE OTHER SCHOOLS AND SHOW THEM HOW THEY'RE USING THEIR NON-AUDIT AUDITORIUMS TO ACTUALLY PUT ON GRAND PERFORMANCES AND LET'S LEAVE THIS LADY ALLEN MIDDLE SCHOOL ALONE.
WELL, WELL, WELL, ACTUALLY, WE'RE, WE'RE ACTUALLY ASKING THE TAXPAYERS TO SPEND THEIR MONEY.
RIGHTFULLY SPEAKING, THIS IS THEIR MONEY AND WHAT THEY WANT IN THEIR C IN THEIR, IN THEIR COMMUNITY.
SO THEREFORE, UH, I I, I WANT MY PERSONAL SELF, I WILL NOT DO THAT BECAUSE I UNDERSTAND I DO WORK FOR THE TAXPAYERS AND, AND, AND, AND, AND IF THEY HAVE CONCERN, IT IS MY JOB TO CONVEY THEIR MESSAGING AND, AND, AND WHAT AND WHAT THEY'RE, WHAT THEY'RE WANTING.
BECAUSE TECHNICALLY SPEAKING, UH, YOU KNOW, FOR IN, FOR INSTANCE, WELL, WHY I WON'T CONVEY THAT MESSAGE IS BECAUSE YOU LOOK OVER AT ROBERT SMALL, AT ROBERT SMALLS, UH, UH, ROBERT SMALLS, UM, UM,
THAT'S WHAT'S TOTALLY TOO SMALL.
AND I, I, I CANNOT IMAGINE HAVING A PROGRAM THAT WE WOULD HAVE TIME IN, IN ONE OF THE AUDITORIUMS TO HAVE IT AND, AND TO HAVE THAT GYMNASIUM.
SO WHEN YOU HAVE A HUGE GAME, YOU CAN'T, YOU, ONE OF THE GAMES WHERE YOU COULDN'T EVEN, BASICALLY EVERYONE AT A MUSLIM GAME COULDN'T EVEN, COULDN'T EVEN GET IN THERE.
AND, AND GOD FORBID YOU TALKING ABOUT HAVING ONE OF THOSE PLAYOFF GAMES, YOU CAN HAVE THOSE PLAYOFF GAMES AT THOSE MIDDLE SCHOOLS.
SO WHAT FUNCTION ARE THE, ARE THESE CAPACITIES, ARE THESE SCHOOLS REALLY FUNCTIONING IN? AND SO THESE ARE, THESE ARE OUR BEING THE STEWARDS OF PEOPLE'S MONEY, THESE ARE QUESTIONS THAT WE MUST A, WE MUST ASK OURSELVES ALONG THE WAY TOO.
BECAUSE ONCE AGAIN, WE DO KEEP IN MIND, WE DO GO TO TAXPAYERS AND ASK THEM FOR, FOR MONEY, AND THEN WE'RE GONNA COME BACK A COMPANY AND SAY, OH, THE SCHOOL IS GROWING OLD.
THE SCHOOL NEEDS AN AUDITORIUM NOW.
EITHER YOU PAY NOW OR YOU PAY LATER.
SO NOW WE'RE GONNA GO BACK TO TAXPAYERS AND ASK THEM FOR AN AUDITORIUM.
SO IT, IT IS JUST, IT'S JUST, IT'S JUST NOT A, IT IS NOT NOT JUST COMING FROM ME, IT'S COMING FROM THE COMMUNITY.
IT'S COMING FROM THE PRINCIPAL.
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AND IT'S COME FROM SEVERAL OTHER PEOPLE AT THAT MEETING WHO HAVE, WHO HAVE, WHO HAVE SAID, THESE ARE THESE, THESE ARE UNDERLYING CONCERNS.SO ONCE AGAIN, THAT'S WHERE WE'RE, THAT'S WHERE WE'RE, THAT'S WHERE WE'RE AT WITH IT.
WHAT'S THE CAPACITY AT LADIES ISLAND IN MIDDLE SCHOOL? SO WE ARE BUILDING IT FOR 600 STUDENTS.
THAT COULD BE EXPANDED TO 800.
THE CURRENT ENROLLMENT, I THINK IS AROUND THREE 50 TO 400.
AND I'M PRETTY SURE RIVER RIDGE ACADEMY IS LEAKING AT THE SEAMS, GO TO THE OTHER MIDDLE SCHOOLS.
WILL, THAT'S ALL I'M ASKING YOU TO, 'CAUSE YOU KEEP HOPPING ON THIS, THAT LADY ALLEN MIDDLE SCHOOL IS BEING MISTREATED.
GO TO THE OTHER MIDDLE SCHOOLS AND SEE WHAT THEY HAVE TO DEAL WITH.
NOW, I'M NOT SAYING THAT THAT SCHOOL IS BEING MISTREATED OR WHAT, WHAT I, WHAT I'M STATING IS THAT ME VERSUS WANTING SUPPLY VERSUS SUPPLY VERSUS MAN, IF WE'RE SAYING THAT WE'RE SUPPORTING ARTS, THAT WE'RE SUPPORTING THE ARTS, THEN AT A LAYS ISLAND MIDDLE SCHOOL, THE COMMUNITY IS ASKING, BECAUSE WE'VE ASKED THE COMMUNITY FOR SOME MONEY, WE'VE ASKED, WE'VE ASKED THE COMMUNITY TO SUPPORT, TO SUPPORT THESE, UM, TO, TO SUPPORT THESE REFERENDUMS AND BUILDING THESE SCHOOLS.
WE'VE BEEN, WE'VE BEEN SEVERAL OTHER SCHOOLS ON, ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE BROAD.
AND, AND, AND THIS IS A SIMPLE ACT BECAUSE ACTUALLY THIS SCHOOL, THIS WAS SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEEN IN THE FIRST REFERENDUM, AND IT, AND IT GOT TURNED, PUT, PUSHED BACK TO THE SECOND ONE.
AND SO I THINK, I THINK THAT THAT, THAT THAT'S SOMETHING THAT COULD BE GRANTED.
AND IT IS JUST, I MEAN, IT IS, IT IS, IT IS.
IT IS JUST THAT, I MEAN, HAVE WE EVEN TALKED ABOUT SAVING THE AUDITORIUM THAT WE HAVE? WELL, I MEAN, COULD, COULD, COULD, COULD WE SAVE THE, THE, THE ONE THAT, THAT WE CURRENTLY HAVE AND, AND UPDATE IT? I THINK THERE ARE, THERE ARE OTHER OPTIONS IN TERMS OF, OF GETTING RID OF THINGS THAT, THAT, THAT, THAT WE HAVE.
I I, I JUST THINK THAT, THAT HAVING THE CONVERSATION TRUTHFULLY AND BEING OPEN TO THE IDEA OF WHAT WE HAVE AND HOW, HOW WE CAN UTILIZE IT OR HOW WE, HOW, HOW WE CAN MEET IN THE MIDDLE.
I THINK THAT'S MORE FRUITFUL OF JUST SAYING, HEY, YOU AIN'T GONNA HAVE IT.
AND, AND THAT'S, AND THAT'S THE APPROACH THAT, THAT, THAT SOME THAT GRANTEE DO NOT.
THAT'S WHAT THEY, THEY, THEY, THEY, THEY DON'T WANT TO ACCEPT.
SO, SO I, I THINK THAT THAT'S PRETTY MUCH IS IS IS WHERE I'M COMING FROM.
I MEAN, I DO, IF I CAN MAKE ONE LITTLE CORRECTION, LADIES LIAISON MIDDLE SCHOOL DOES NOT HAVE A FULL FLEDGED AUDITORIUM.
IT HAS A LARGE LECTURE HALL WITH A STAGE, AND THEN IT STAGES ON THE GYM AS WELL, WHICH THEY HAVE IT USED.
SO IT IS NOT, I MEAN, IT SEATS LIKE 150 PEOPLE OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
SO IT IS JUST, JUST FOR THE RECORD, IT'S NOT A FULL FLEDGED AUDITORIUM.
WHAT HILTON MIDDLE SCHOOL HAS IS NOT A FULL CAPACITY AUDITORIUM, BUT IT IS MORE OF AN AUDITORIUM.
UM, SO JUST FOR THE RECORD LIAISON, MIDDLE SCHOOL DOESN'T HAVE A FULL FLEDGE AUDITORIUM RIGHT NOW.
WW WELL, FOR, AND THEN FOR THE RECORD, I, I COULD, I WOULD, I COULD ALSO SAY FOR THE RECORD THEN, WHY DID WE NOT LOOK, LOOK AT, TO HAVE THAT SAME STYLE THAT WE HAVE THERE NOW BACK THERE? BECAUSE YOU, YOU, YOU HAVE AN AUDITORIUM THAT, 'CAUSE THAT SEATS DIFFERENT EVENTS AND DIFFERENT THINGS WHEN THEY HAVE, WHEN THEY HAVE IT GOING ON NOW.
I MEAN, BECAUSE, I MEAN, IT'S NOT OUR, HOW COULD NOT OUR MIDDLE SCHOOL STANDARD.
IT HAS NOT BEEN OUR, THAT'S NOT WHAT WE DO TO MISS FRAZIER'S POINT.
WE HAVE NOT DONE A MIDDLE SCHOOL LIKE THAT SINCE THE EIGHTIES.
SO THAT IS NOT OUR STANDARD FOR A NEW MODERN MIDDLE SCHOOL.
BUT WHEN WE DID SEE HELE IN THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, THAT WASN'T, THAT WASN'T A NORMAL STANDARD GYMNASIUM EITHER.
BUT THAT WAS DONE IN THE FIFTIES.
HOLD ON, HOLD ON, HOLD ON, HOLD ON.
WHEN WE DID SEE HE IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL GYM, THAT WAS NOT THE NORMAL STANDARD EITHER.
SO THEREFORE WE WENT BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD, AND I GUESS I FORGOT, BUT NONE, NONE OF THE OTHER BOARD MEMBERS WERE I IN HERE WHO WERE THERE.
AND SO WE, WE MADE THE, UH, DECISIONS VERSUS GETTING TECHNOLOGY, THE WHOLE BUILDING OR VERSUS KEEPING THE BUILDING AND GUTTING IT OUT AND BRINGING IT UP AND BRINGING IT UP TO DATE AND MAKING IT LOOK NICE AND BEING THE SAME, THE SAME NICE BUILDING FOR, FOR THE OVER THERE.
SO THEREFORE, WE BASICALLY, BASICALLY A, A STEADY TEARING DOWN AND REBUILDING.
WE JUST WENT AHEAD AND WE RENOVATED AND SAID, AND SAID, THIS WAS SOME MONEY AS WELL, AND THEREFORE WE, AND WE, WE, WE KEPT THAT SIDE OF GYMNASIUM THAT WE HAD VERSUS JUST ADDING A CLASSROOM ON ONTO THE BUILDING IS WHAT WE WERE, WHAT WE WERE LOOKING AT.
AND SO THAT'S MY SAME THING HERE.
A A STEADY TEARING DOWN THE EXISTED ONE, BUT COULD, COULD, COULD WE POSS, COULD WE POSSIBLY DO SOME OTHER THINGS? AND I I DON'T THINK THAT, THAT THIS IS A RIGHT NOW CONFERENCE.
NO, I CAN ANSWER THAT QUESTION.
HENA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IS A STANDALONE GYM.
IT WAS A STANDALONE GYM, RIGHT.
WE LEFT WHEN IT WAS PART OF THE HIGH SCHOOL.
WE LEFT IT AS A STANDALONE GYM.
THE, THE, UM, UH, BLACK BOX PERFORMING ARTS, THEATER, WHATEVER YOU WANNA CALL IT, LADIES ISLAND MIDDLE SCHOOL IS AN INTEGRAL PART OF THAT BUILDING.
IT CANNOT BE LEFT AS A STANDALONE IN THAT BUILDING FUNCTION.
AND I WOULD SAY, AND I, AND I WOULD SAY, AND I, AND I WOULD SAY, I WOULD SAY
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ABSOLUTELY THAT, THAT YOU CAN'T, THAT, THAT YOU'RE NOT SURE THAT BECAUSE NO, I, THEY, THEY, THEY ARE, THEY THEY DO, THERE'S SO MANY STUFF THAT IN, IN THE, IN THE BUILDING WORLD HAS CHANGED SO DRASTICALLY.AND I JUST DON'T THINK THAT THAT'S A, A AFFORDABLY.
SO I JUST THINK THAT THIS IS A CONVERSATION, I I BROUGHT THIS UP TO BE MOVED FORWARD SO THAT WE CAN HAVE THIS CONVERSATION AND NOT JUST OTHER COMMUNITY BE TO, TO HAVE THEM BE IGNORED.
BECAUSE COMMUNITY AT THIS POINT FEEL THAT THEY, THAT THEY, THAT THEY'VE BEEN IGNORED BY.
AND ALSO THEY HAD, THEY HAVE NOT HAD THE RIGHT DUE DILIGENCE TO BE, UH, TO BE KNOWN THAT THERE WAS A CONVERSATION AROUND BUILDING THE NEW LAY ISLAND IN THE MIDDLE SCHOOL, UH, LAYDOWN MIDDLE SCHOOL.
THAT, THAT, THAT, THAT'S JUST POINT BLANK PERIOD.
WHAT, WHAT MY REMARKS WERE TO BRING UP, TO UNDERSTAND IN TERMS OF THOSE, THOSE TWO THINGS ARE THERE ABOUT THE AUDITORIUM AND ABOUT HAVING A CONVERSATION THAT'S STRICTLY ABOUT THE MAINTENANCE IN THE, IN THE BUILDING OF THE, OF THE SCHOOL POINT BLANK PERIOD.
IT'S TIME FOR US BECAUSE IT IS NOT ABOUT ME, IT'S ABOUT MY CONSTITUENTS.
WELL, SO I CAN EVEN MOVE FORWARD WITH IT.
UH, IS THERE ANYBODY ELSE THAT HASN'T SPOKEN YET, WANNA SPEAK? MR. CARR? UM, BUT I, I'LL GET TO YOU.
MS. FRAZIER AND ALFONSO AND ALFONSO.
UH, DID YOU HAVE ANYTHING TO SAY? NO, NOT AT THIS TIME.
UM, SO CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG, THE FOOTPRINT OF THE NEW LADIES ISLAND SCHOOL WAS CHANGED, RIGHT? UH, IT WAS GOING TO BE SOMETHING ELSE.
AND THEN THEY CHANGED TO BE A THREE STORY BUILDING.
AND ONE OF THE REASONS WAS TO SAVE MONEY, CORRECT? YES.
SAVE MONEY AND TIME, WHICH SAVED MONEY.
SO, AND SAVES TREES AND SAVES TREES AND SAVES THE ATHLETIC FIELD.
SO THAT, I MEAN, THAT, THAT WAS DONE FOR, FOR SEVERAL REASONS.
UM, BUT ONE OF THEM, ONE OF THEM WAS TO SAVE MONEY.
UM, BECAUSE THERE'S NOT A WHOLE LOT OF MONEY OUT THERE.
THE, THE, THE TAXPAYERS, AS YOU'VE MENTIONED, HAVE PAID FOR A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF MONEY.
WHEN WE SAID, THIS IS HOW MUCH MONEY WE NEED FOR THE REFERENDUM, THIS IS HOW MUCH WE ARE PUTTING TOWARDS LADY ISLAND MIDDLE SCHOOL, MAKE SURE THAT WE FALL WITHIN THAT BUDGET.
A GYM OR AN AUDITORIUM WAS NOT INCLUDED.
SO WE CAN'T, WE CAN'T CHANGE THE SCOPE, BUDGET, OR TIME ALLOTTED FOR THAT PROJECT TO ADD, I DON'T EVEN KNOW HOW MUCH IT WOULD.
10 MILLION, 12 MILLION, $30 MILLION.
WHAT WOULD IT COST? IT IT WOULD BE CLOSER TO 10.
SO, I MEAN, SO LIKE, I MEAN, $10 MILLION IS, IS A ALLOWED, I MEAN, AND WE, IT IS, WE CAN'T JUST PULL IT OUT OF OUR ARMPITS, YOU KNOW? UH, SO NOT, NOT, I'M SAYING THAT THERE AREN'T OPTIONS OUT THERE, BUT JUST SAYING WE'RE, LET'S, LET'S FIND, LET'S FIND THE MONEY.
WE'RE NOT GONNA FIND THE MONEY TO FIND $10 MILLION.
WE HAVE TO TAKE MILLION, $10 MILLION AWAY FROM SOMETHING.
SO IF, IF, IF WE GONNA HAVE THOSE DECISIONS, THEN WE HAVE TO MAKE MOTIONS TO READDRESS THIS AND MAKE THOSE DECISIONS.
AND THAT, ARE THOSE DECISIONS STILL IN LINE WITH THE REFERENDUM SPENDING THAT THE TAXPAYERS PAID FOR OR VOTED FOR? EXCUSE ME.
SO THAT, I MEAN, WE CAN HAVE THOSE CONVERSATIONS, OR WE AT LEAST CAN MAKE A MOTION TO MAKE THOSE CONVERSATIONS, HAVE THOSE CONVERSATIONS, BUT UNDERSTAND THAT THERE'S A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF MONEY ALLOTTED TO LADIES ISLAND MIDDLE SCHOOL AND 10 MILLION ISH DOLLARS FOR AN AUDITORIUM WASN'T IN THE PACKAGE.
SO WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO MAKE DECISIONS TO CUT $10 MILLION FROM SOMEWHERE TO BUILD THAT.
MRS. FRAZIER, MY LAST QUESTION WAS JUST, WHERE ARE WE IN A STAGE FOR THE BUILDING OF LADIES ALLEN MIDDLE? WE'RE CDS? YEAH.
WE'RE A CONSTRUCTION DOCUMENT.
ONE OF THE THINGS WE DID TO ADDRESS THIS IS WE DID MAKE SURE THAT THERE IS A SPACE IN THE NEW PROGRAM FOR AN AUDITORIUM IF IT IS CHOSEN TO BE ADDED.
SO WE ARE MOVING FORWARD WITH THE PROJECT.
AND IF AT ANY TIME MONEY IS AVAILABLE, YOU COULD ADD THAT, UM, AUDITORIUM ON, EVEN IF WE'VE ALREADY STARTED CONSTRUCTION.
I MEAN, THAT IS SOMETHING THAT COULD BE DONE AT ANY TIME.
UH, UM, WELL, ONCE YOU MAKE THAT DECISION, ONCE THE MONEY IS FI FOUND, LET'S JUST SAY YOU GOTTA GIVE US, UH, UH, EIGHT, EIGHT MONTHS TO A YEAR, A YEAR LATER, WE COULD START CONSTRUCTION ON IT, RIGHT? BUT SO SAY, BUT, BUT THE BUILDING IS BEING BUILT IN A MANNER TO WHICH YOU CAN ADD AN EXTENSION.
IN THE EVENT THAT IN THE NEXT REFERENDUM YES.
THAT TO VOTERS, ONE OF PASS PART TO ADD A, UH, AN AUDITORIUM.
I MEAN, THAT, THAT MAKES ME FEEL GOOD.
BUT IN THAT CAPACITY TO THE FACILITY, THAT IS BASED ON Y'ALL'S CONVERSATION AND THE REQUEST THAT'S COME OUT OF THE COMMUNITY FOR THAT, WE'VE MADE SURE THAT THAT'S GONNA BE A POSSIBILITY.
ANY OTHER QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, CONCERNS? UH, WHENEVER THEY MEET AGAIN, CAN WE MAKE SURE THAT HIS CONSTITUENTS KNOW THIS ABOUT THE AUDITORIUM OR ABOUT A MEETING ABOUT THE AUDITORIUM BEING $10 MILLION
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AND THE POSSIBILITY THAT WHEN WE FIND THE $10 MILLION, THEY'LL GET IT.IF WE FIND $10 MILLION THAT WE CAN AIRMARK TO BUILD AN AUDITORIUM FOR 400 STUDENTS.
IF THE BOARD CHOOSES TO, YEAH.
ALLOCATE $10 MILLION FOR IT THROUGH REFERENDUM, 8% WHATEVER FUND.
SO MR. SMITH, THE NEXT MEETING YOU HAVE, I MEAN, $10 MILLION GOING OUT AS A NUMBER, BUT TO SPEAK TO YOUR CONSTITUENTS ABOUT THAT, PERHAPS INVITE SOMEONE FROM OPERATIONS SO THEY CAN EXPLAIN IT TO THEM IN DETAIL, PLEASE.
BUT, UH, BUT, BUT, BUT, BUT, BUT, BUT ACT ACTUALLY, UH, UM, JUST, JUST, JUST TO BE, UH, TO BE, TO BE CRYSTAL CLEAR HERE, UH, WHEN, WHEN WE HAVE, WHEN WE HAVE THESE, UH, WE, WE TALKED, WE TALKED ABOUT BEFORE, UH, ON THE BOARD,
BECAUSE AT NO POINT DO YOU ACTUALLY GO OUT AND SAY YOU'RE GONNA BUILD A HOUSE FROM THE GROUND UP AND NOT KNOW WHAT YOU'RE PAYING FOR.
SO IT SOUNDS LIKE I'M NOT GONNA, AS A BOARD MEMBER, IT SOUNDS LIKE WE WENT OUT AND, AND PURCHASED A HOUSE AND WE DIDN'T KNOW WHAT THE HECK WE WERE PAYING FOR, BECAUSE OBVIOUSLY WHAT WE WERE PAYING FOR IS NOT WHAT WAS CONVEYED TO THE COMMUNITY.
AND, AND, AND, AND, AND IT, IT IS NOT WHAT, UH, WHAT WHAT THEY, WHAT THEY SIGNED TO PAY FOR.
SO THIS IS A DEFINITELY A SERIOUS CONCERN.
AND THIS IS NOT THE FIRST TIME THAT THIS CONCERN HAS AS CACAS COME UP.
SO TO ME, THIS IS A, A SERIOUS CONCERN THAT, THAT, THAT STRESS, THAT SCREAM, THAT, THAT WE NEED SOME, WE NEED THAT AS BOARD MEMBERS, THAT WE NEED, WE NEED SOME SUPPORT IN TERMS OF WHAT WE ARE, WHAT WE ARE ALIGNED TO, UH, BE BIRTHED FROM THIS DISTRICT.
BECAUSE YOU'RE, YOU HAVING, YOU, YOU HAVING PEOPLE WHO, WHO SIGNED UP WHO SAID THAT THEY, THAT, THAT THEY WERE WILLING TO PAY AND SUPPORT EDUCATION, BUT THERE WAS A COMPONENT IN EDUCATION THAT, THAT, THAT, THAT, THAT, THAT THEY, THAT THEY'RE LOOKING AT, THEY PAID FOR, THAT THEY'RE NOT GETTING.
THIS IS NOT ABOUT TELLING SOMEBODY, OH, YOU NEED TO COME OVER WITH, WITH 10,000.
THEY COULD SAY, WELL, OH, WELL TAKE 10,000 THAT SIGNED UP FOR, BECAUSE ON THE OTHER SIDE, Y'ALL DIDN'T GIVE, Y'ALL DIDN'T CUT 'EM SHORT OR ANYTHING ELSE.
OR Y'ALL NOT CUTTING 'EM SHORT ON, ON, ON, ON OTHER THINGS.
SO, YOU KNOW, SO BEFORE WE GO ON THAT RABBIT HOLE, I THINK WE WANNA BE CAREFUL AND, AND, AND, AND CAUTIOUS ABOUT HOW WE DEAL WITH PEOPLE AND, AND HOW, HOW THEIR FEELINGS ARE TOO.
BECAUSE AT THE END OF THE DAY, WE, THEY ARE STILL TAXPAYERS.
SO I WANTED CLARIFY ABOUT THAT.
SO, UH, LET'S PUT FORWARD WITH THE CONSTRUCTION UPDATE PLEASE.
ALRIGHT, MOVING ON TO THE FINANCIAL UPDATES FOR THE END OF OCTOBER, WE HAD A PAY A COMMITTEE MONTHS TOTALING EIGHT 9.36 MILLION.
THE REMAINING AVAILABLE AVAILABLE FUNDS, INCLUDING THE 249.68 MILLION, WE HAD NO CONTINGENT ACTIVITY FOR THE MONTH.
UH, WE ARE STILL SITTING OUT THE PROGRAM CONTINGENCY OF 11.43 MILLION, AND THE CURRENT REMAINING PROJECT LEVEL CONTINGENCIES ARE AT 13 6 MILLION.
ANY QUESTIONS IN 23 OR MOVE RIGHT ALONG? ALL RIGHT, ON THE 8%, NOT, NOT MUCH A REALLY REPORT, WE ARE MOVING RIGHT ALONG.
A LOT OF THE PROJECTS ARE CURRENTLY BEING PUT UNDER CONTRACT.
UH, WE ARE WORKING RIGHT NOW THROUGH THE RFPS AND THE RF QS ARE OUT THERE FOR, UH, UH, THE DESIGN SERVICES AND THE TM, UH, AT RISK, UH, SERVICES.
UH, BIGGEST THING OUT HERE AT THE DISTRICT OFFICE WAS JUST THE MAIN ENTRANCE HAS REOPENED.
SAME WITH, UH, ISZ AND STUDENT SERVICES.
SO, UH, A LOT OF WORK'S GOING ON NOW IN THE FINANCE DEPARTMENT AND, UH, HR AND, UH, STAFF OFFICES.
WE HAD THE GROUNDBREAKING FOR MAY RIVER ELEMENTARY, UH, LAST MONTH.
UH, WE ALSO HAD THE MEETING WITH THE SIC, UH, THE JOINT MEETING WITH THE SIC AND THE PUBLIC AT LADIES ISLAND MIDDLE SCHOOL, WHICH IS WHERE A LOT OF THESE DECISIONS WERE BROUGHT TO, TO, UH, THE ATTENTION OF, UH, THE PROJECT MANAGER AND DESIGN TEAM.
AND THEN WE HAD THE, ALSO THE STUDENT ASSIGNMENT MEETINGS THAT HAVE TAKEN PLACE.
UH, RIGHT NOW THERE'S ONLY ONE REMAINING STUDENT ASSIGNMENT MEETING REQUIRED FOR THE OPENING OF MARY RIVER, UH, ELEMENTARY.
AND THAT IS AT NC RILEY ELEMENTARY, WHICH IS SCHEDULED TO TAKE PLACE ON WHAT THURSDAY? UH, NOVEMBER 20TH.
SO, UM, THAT'S THE LAST MEETING BEFORE, UH, UH, THOSE, THOSE THE PUBLIC HEAR ABOUT THE STUDENT REASSIGNMENTS.
UH, THE LAST ITEM WE HAVE IS THE RFPS AND THE RF QS FOR THE PROFESSIONAL DESIGN SERVICES CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT AND RISK SERVICES.
LIKE I MENTIONED, UH, THE RFP FOR THE CONSTRUCTION SERVICES WAS AWARDED.
THIS TIME AROUND, WE ONLY HAVE TWO CONTRACTORS THAT HAVE BEEN AWARDED THE, UH, RFP.
THAT WAS, UH, THOMPSON TURNER CONSTRUCTION AND MB CON CONSTRUCTION ON THE RFQ FOR THE PROFESSIONAL DESIGN SERVICES THAT IS GONNA BE PRESENTED AT THE BOARD OF EDUCATION, UH, WORKSHOP
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THIS COMING FRIDAY.SO WE'LL FIND OUT WHO THOSE ARCHITECTS ARE.
THEN, UM, WITH THAT, THAT'S IT FOR MY REPORT.
ANY QUESTIONS? QUESTIONS HERE? ANY QUESTIONS ONLINE? NO, SIR.
HERE WE, WHAT HAVE WE BEEN WAITING FOR? SEVEN 40.
AND MS. SMITH, THIS IS, UH, TOPIC YOU REQUESTED, AND IT GOES RIGHT IN HAND, I THINK, WITH WHAT YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT WITH BEING STEWARDS OF THE PEOPLE'S MONEY, UM, AND HOW WE MAKE DECISIONS ON BUILDING CONSTRUCTION.
SO WE'VE NOT DONE A PRESENTATION LIKE THIS BEFORE, SO I KIND OF APPRECIATE IT.
AND WE'RE, UH, WANTING TO GET THROUGH.
I'M GONNA, I'LL GO THROUGH THIS QUICKLY, BUT IT IS KIND OF BEEN A FUN TOPIC TO PUT TOGETHER.
SO THE TWO QUOTES HERE, UM, AND, AND THESE ARE TWO THINGS THAT, UM, I REALLY BELIEVE IN, AND THAT, UH, THE MATERIAL SOMEONE CHOOSES WHEN BUILDING A SCHOOL REFLECTS, UH, REALLY WHAT IS IMPORTANT TO THE DISTRICT.
THAT'S WHAT WE'RE COMING BACK.
AND THAT'S KIND OF WHAT THAT FIRST LINE OF QUOTE INVOLVES.
UH, AND THIS, YOU KNOW, WHERE IS THE BOARD GET INVOLVED IN THIS, IN MY MIND, IS TO GIVE THE STAFF THE DIRECTION ON WHAT IS, IN AN EXAMPLE WOULD BE IF THE BOARD FEELS THAT PERFORMING ARTS CENTERS NEED TO BE IN ALL MIDDLE SCHOOLS, WE NEED THAT DIRECTION BEFORE, AND THAT NEEDS TO HAPPEN IN THE BUDGET STAGE.
UM, SAME THING WITH MATERIALS.
AND WE'LL GET IT, YOU KNOW, WHAT IS IMPORTANT TO THE BOARD? WHAT, WHAT DO THEY WANT SEE IN THEIR BUILDINGS, MOVE FORWARD.
SO, UH, WHOA, THAT CAME ACROSS DIFFERENT.
I DON'T KNOW WHY THAT LOOKS LIKE THAT.
UM, OKAY, SO KEEP ON THE SQUARE IS SUPPOSED TO BE DIFFERENT SYSTEMS, ACTUALLY.
AND, AND THAT JUST GOES TO SAY THAT THERE ARE, IN EVERY SCHOOL BUILDING, THERE ARE HUNDREDS, IF NOT THERE, THOUSANDS OF DIFFERENT SYSTEMS. EACH SYSTEM HAS A CHOICE.
AND REALLY, ONE OF THE THINGS WE TRY TO DO, AND EACH CHOICE HAS A PLUS AND MINUS OF EVERY KIND TO GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE, WHAT WE ARE TRYING TO DO.
I GUESS THIS IS WHAT I SENT YOU.
THIS IS WHAT I PRINTED OFF, OFF WHAT I SENT YOU.
I DON'T KNOW WHY IT CAME ACROSS LIKE THIS.
BUT OPTIMIZING, OPTIMIZING IS WHAT WE STRIVE FOR, WHICH BALANCES THE DIFFERENCE OF COST, QUALITY, MAINTAINABILITY, AND TERM MAXIMIZING WOULD BE JUST FOCUSING ON THE SINGLE BEST, SUCH AS WHAT IS THE CHEAPEST COST, OR WHAT IS EVEN THE MOST EXPENSIVE COST, DEPENDING ON WHICH WAY YOU WANT TO GO.
NEXT ONE, WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE.
SO OBVIOUSLY I NEED PROOF WHAT YOU'RE IN LOOKS LIKE IT'S THE SAME THING I SENT YOU.
BUT, UM, SO OPTIMIZING IS IMPORTANT BECAUSE BUILDINGS LAST A LONG AMOUNT OF TIME, AND IT'S MORE THAN JUST THE UPFRONT COSTS IN THAT IS ALL YOUR OPERATING AND MAINTENANCE COSTS, BECAUSE THEY HAVE TO LAST 40 TO 50 YEARS.
SO I'M GONNA GIVE A A REAL QUICK, AND ONE OF THE THINGS WE TRY TO FOCUS ON IS WHAT CAN, HOW CAN WE, WHAT IS IMPORTANT TO US AND WHAT CAN WE SAVE MONEY ON THAT PEOPLE DON'T EVEN RECOGNIZE WHAT THAT HAS UP THERE IS A COPPER AND ALUMINUM FEED.
THIS IS AN EXAMPLE OF ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE TOOK OUTTA MAY RIVER HIGH SCHOOL TO SAVE MONEY.
UM, WE USE ALUMINUM FEEDS INSTEAD OF COPPER.
DOES THAT IMPACT EDUCATION? NO.
BUT PRICE, COPPER AND ALUMINUM ARE BOTH COMMODITIES.
AND SOMETIMES, AT THE TIME WE BUILT MAY RIVER HIGH SCHOOL, ACTUALLY COPPER WAS VERY EXPENSIVE.
SO WE SAVED HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS BY GOING TO AN ALUMINUM FEED INTO THE BUILDING.
THERE ARE SOME ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES, BUT DOES ANYBODY KNOW THAT? NO.
THAT'S WHAT WE TRY TO, UM, UH, OPTIMIZE AND GET THE MOST VALUE OUT OF EVERY BUILDING SO THAT WE CAN SPEND SMARTER, ENSURING EVERY DOLLAR SUPPORT SUPPORTS INSTRUCTION, SAFETY, AND COVER IN THE CLASSROOM, WHICH IS BASICALLY, UM, AND, AND SO THAT'S WHAT WE ASK OURSELVES WHEN WE'RE LOOKING AT EVERY DECISION, YOU KNOW, HOW DOES THAT DECISION IMPACT SAFETY OR THE CLASSROOM OR LEARNING AND FUNCTION? NOW, HOPE, I'M GONNA SLOW DOWN HERE.
SO FIVE STRATEGIES THAT MATTER.
THIS KIND OF SUMMARIZES WHEN WE BUILD BUILT RIGHT NOW, WHAT IS IMPORTANT TO US, AND I, AND, AND IT DOES CHANGE OVER TIME, WHICH I'M GONNA TALK ABOUT A LITTLE BIT.
HVAC SYSTEMS. WE SPEND MONEY ON HVAC SYSTEMS. WE DO NOT BUY
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THE CHEAPEST.THIS IS OUTSIDE OF MAINTAINING THEM.
WE BUY SYSTEMS THAT ALLOW FOR COMFORT CONTROL IN EVERY ROOM.
UM, WE HAVE, UH, BUILDING MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS SO THAT WE CAN MANAGE WHEN THEY'RE BEING USED SO THAT WE CAN TURN 'EM OFF.
WE HAVE FRESH AIR THAT, YOU KNOW, SAVING MONEY ON ENERGY SAVES MONEY THAT WE SPEND, UM, THAT GIVES US MORE MONEY TO SPEND ON TEACHERS, BASICALLY.
UM, OTHER THINGS ARE TECHNOLOGY.
WE PROBABLY HAVE, YOU FIND ANOTHER SCHOOL DISTRICT HAS AS MUCH TECHNOLOGY IN THE BUILDINGS AS WE DO.
I CAN SEE IF YOU GO AROUND AND LOOK AT OTHER SCHOOL DISTRICTS ACROSS THE COUNTRY, WE'RE PROBABLY UP THERE IN THE TOP TIER.
WE HAVE SMART BOARDS IN EVERY ROOM.
WE HAVE MULTIPLE WIFI IN EVERY ROOM.
UM, WE HAVE IN-ROOM SOUND SYSTEMS WITH LAPEL MICS THAT CAN BE USED AS A ALERT SYSTEMS. I MEAN, WE SPEND A LOT, WE HAVE ONE-TO-ONE DEVICES THAT IS, THAT IS IMPORTANT TO OUR DISTRICT, THAT IS VERY OBVIOUS.
WE SPEND A LOT OF OUR MONEY ON TECHNOLOGY.
UM, SO, AND, AND THAT'S NOT A GOOD OR A BAD THING.
THAT'S JUST, JUST SAYING, YOU KNOW, WHAT IS IMPORTANT TO US? SAFETY AND SECURITY.
WE WERE ONE OF THE FIRST DISTRICTS IN THE, IN THE ALL OF SOUTH CAROLINA THAT WENT WITH OUR, UM, UH, UH, PORT, WHAT DO YOU CALL THE, YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT THE, THE ENTRY? NO, THE ENTRY SPACE.
WE WERE ONE OF THE FIRST ONES IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
AND WE HAVE IT IN ALL OUR SCHOOL DISTRICTS.
WE WERE ONE OF THE FIRST ONES THAT CAME ACROSS WITH, UH, UH, BULLET RESISTANT GLASS.
I MEAN, WHEN IT COMES TO SAFETY AND SECURITY, WE SPEND MONEY ON IT.
THAT IS WHAT'S IMPORTANT TO OUR DISTRICT.
UM, AND THEN THE LAST ONE ON THERE IS, UH, THE COMMUNICATION AND CONNECTIVITY.
THAT'S, YOU KNOW, THAT'S ALONG WITH TECHNOLOGY.
WE'VE ALREADY KIND OF TALKED ABOUT THAT WITH ONE, ONE DEVICES WIFI.
UM, WE'VE UP, WE ARE ONE OF THE ONLY DISTRICT HAS THE RADIOS THAT TIE INTO THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE.
SO THAT'S WHAT'S IMPORTANT TO US.
AND THEN WHERE HAVE WE INVESTED OUR MONEY? BUT OBVIOUSLY WE ARE STARTING TO INVEST MORE MONEY IN OUR BUILDINGS IN LARGER SCHOOL SPACE SIZES.
OUR BUILDINGS ARE GETTING BIGGER.
WE ARE HAVING MORE SQUARE FEET PER STUDENT.
UM, SO WE'RE HAVING MORE BREAKOUT SPACES, MORE COLLABORATION SPACES, LARGER ROOMS. WE'VE ALREADY TALKED ABOUT EFFICIENT, HVAC.
WE'VE ALREADY TALKED ABOUT TECHNOLOGY AND SECURITY, BUT TO ME, THOSE ARE THE CHOICES THAT WE HAVE MADE.
NOW THERE ARE LOTS OF OTHER CHOICES AND, BUT THAT'S WHERE, AS A BOARD, IF THERE'S THINGS THAT YOU WANT US TO FOCUS ON THAT, THAT, YOU KNOW, AND MAYBE WE NEED TO CHANGE OUR FOCUS.
UM, THAT WE'VE SPENT THE BULK OF OUR MONEY ON NEXT COST COMPARISON OF, UH, BEAUFORT COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICTS.
AND THE SCHOOL COSTS HIERARCHY, YOU KNOW, IT MOVES FROM ELEMENTARY TO HIGH WITH, WITH ELEMENTARIES ARE GONNA COST THEM LE LEAST AMOUNT PER SQUARE FOOT.
HIGH SCHOOLS ARE GONNA COST THE MOST.
ONE OF THE PRIMARY DRIVERS IN HIGH SCHOOLS IS, OF COURSE, ATHLETICS.
ON TOP OF THAT ARE THE ARTS AND SUPPORT SPACES.
THEY, WE SPEND MORE MONEY ON THOSE.
THE MIDDLE SCHOOLS, YOU KNOW, HAVE A LITTLE LESS AND THEN ELEMENTARY, OR QUITE A LOT LESS THAN ANYTHING ELSE IF YOU LOOK ON THERE.
AS FAR AS COST EFFICIENCY, THE STANDOUT IS RIVER RIDGE ACADEMY.
UM, IT WAS A K THROUGH EIGHT, UH, BUT IT'S STILL THE CHEAPEST OF ALL THE SCHOOLS PER SQUARE FOOT UP THERE, INCLUDING FOUR ELEMENTARY AND EARLY CHILDHOOD.
UM, AND THEY DO NOT HAVE ATHLETICS.
SO MY POINT HERE IS RIVERRIDGE ACADEMY AND MAY RIVER WERE DESIGNED AS COST CONSCIOUS SCHOOLS.
UM, THEY'RE, THEY'RE PREMIUMS EVERY BUILDING THAT YOU BUILD, IT'S A BOX.
AND YOU GET TO CHOOSE A FEW NICETIES AT RIVERRIDGE IN MAY RIVER, WE HAVE A METAL SLOPED ROOF, WHICH IS KIND OF A PRE, WHICH IS A PREMIUM.
AND WE HAVE, UH, MECHANICAL MEZZANINES UP TOP.
THAT'S WHERE WE SPENT, WE SPENT OUR MONEY ON, UM, UH, ON MAINTENANCE ITEMS, QUITE HONESTLY, TO MAKE SURE THAT THAT BUILDING WOULD LAST A LONG AMOUNT OF TIME AND STILL LOOK IN GOOD SHAPE.
SO THOSE WERE THE PREMIUMS. BUT WE WERE AT THAT TIME SPECIFICALLY UNDER THE SUPERINTENDENT, WE WERE DRIVING COSTS PER SQUARE FOOT COSTS.
WE WERE FOCUSED SOLELY ON LOWERING OUR COST PER SQUARE FOOT AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE.
AND THAT'S WHY RIVERRIDGE ACADEMY AND MAY RIVER HIGH SCHOOL ARE TWO OF THE MOST AFFORDABLE BUILDINGS.
UH, WE'VE BUILT MAY RIVER HIGH SCHOOL BEING A FULL, UM, HIGH SCHOOL AT, AT THE TIME WE BUILT THAT AND WE TOLD THEM HOW MUCH WE WERE BUILDING THAT SCHOOL FOR AT THAT TIME WAS $298 A SQUARE FOOT.
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IT? YOU KNOW, THAT WAS UNHEARD OF.UM, SO HOW DID WE DO IT? NEXT SLIDE.
AND THEY'RE STILL GOOD LOOKING BUILDINGS, I'LL SAY THEY DON'T LOOK LIKE TEAM BUILDINGS, BUT GO AHEAD MS. FRAZIER.
SO I JUST HAVE A COMMENT AS FAR AS LIKE MY FAVORITE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, IT'LL BE RED SEALER.
AS FAR AS RIVER RIDGE AS A TEACHER IN THE ELEMENTARY SECTION, THE LACK OF LOCKERS AND CUBBIES IN THE SCHOOL, IN THE CLASSROOMS. SO IF ANYTHING CHANGES WITH LIKE LADIES ISLAND MIDDLE SCHOOL OR WHATEVER, IT'D BE LIKE THE SMALL DETAILS TO PAY ATTENTION TO.
NO, THAT'S VERY, YOU'RE EXACTLY RIGHT.
AND WHEN YOU'RE BUILDING A COST CONSCIOUS SCHOOL MM-HMM
YOU'RE NOT BUILDING MONEY ON THOSE NICETIES,
I MEAN IT, I MEAN, SO IT'S VERY SIMPLE.
UM, AND THAT'S WHAT WE WERE DRIVEN TO DO.
AND I'M VERY PROUD OF WHAT THE PRODUCT WAS THAT WE ENDED UP WITH.
'CAUSE WHEN YOU LOOK AT WHAT YOU GOT OUT OF THAT TRUE FOR A COST SQUARE FOOT, IT'S AMAZING.
I MEAN, NO ONE THINKS OF IT AS A CHEAP SCHOOL, BUT IT IS.
AND THEN THE WAY YOU WERE ABLE TO DO THE ADDITION TOO, THAT WAS AMAZING HOW TO DO THE WHAT NOW? THE WAY YOU WERE JUST ABLE TO LINK ON THE ADDITIONS WHEN THEY WERE NECESSARY PLAN FROM THE BEGINNING.
WE KNEW YES, WE WERE GONNA ADD ON THE ADDITIONS, JUST LIKE WE COULD DO IT LADIES ISLAND MIDDLE SCHOOL, IF WE ADD ON THE AUDITORIUM EDITION, THAT WAS ALL PART OF THE ORIGINAL PLAN.
IS FFE CON INCLUDED IN THE COST BUT IN THOSE PRICES? YES.
THAT, I MEAN, THAT'S A VERY GOOD QUESTION.
TYPICALLY, YOU KNOW, AND THAT'S WHERE YOU GET, WHEN YOU START COMPARING BUILDINGS TO OTHER DISTRICTS, YOU GO DOWN A RABBIT HOLE OF WHAT'S IN IT.
BECAUSE A LOT OF TIMES THEY'RE DIFFERENT NUMBERS THAT ARE CONSIDERED.
BUT YEAH, IN THOSE NUMBERS, THAT'S A COMPLETE PACKAGE.
ALSO, WE'RE MISSING WHAT ROBERT SMALL IS NOT ON THERE.
THESE ARE BUILDINGS THAT WERE ALREADY BUILT.
SO IT'S GONNA BE TOWARDS, WE'RE GONNA HAVE IT.
ALRIGHT, SO, UM, AND, AND SO PART OF THIS IS, YOU KNOW, MS. SMITH, YOU'VE BEEN A FOCUSED ON THE FLOORING AT, UH, MAY RIVER HIGH SCHOOL AND MAY RIVER HIGH SCHOOL.
RIVERRIDGE ACADEMY WAS THE FIRST BUILDING THAT WE USED MCT, WHICH IS CALLED MAMO, UH, MARMOL TILE AND MARMOL COMPOSITE TILE.
AND THAT'S A LINOLEUM PRODUCT.
AND THERE'S SEVERAL REASONS WHY WE USED IT.
UM, IT WAS, UH, VERY AFFORDABLE.
IT ALSO, AND WE'RE GONNA GET INTO THIS AND GO AHEAD AND GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE.
UM, ON TOP OF THAT, IT WAS VERY SOUND DEADENING.
SO WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING AT HERE IS KIND OF THE COST PER SQUARE FOOT OVER A 20 YEAR PERIOD.
AND THAT'S WHERE LIKE BCT IS THE CHEAPEST BY FAR AT INSULATION.
AND THAT'S BEEN OUR, WHAT HAVE BEEN IN SCHOOLS FOR YEARS.
BUT YOU HAVE TO STRIP AND WAX IT EVERY YEAR.
STRIPPING AND WAXING, UM, STRIPPING IS A HAZARD.
I MEAN, IT'S ENVIRONMENTALLY BAD.
YOU GET TRIPS AND FALLS AND ALL SORTS OF THINGS.
BUT WHEN YOU START LOOKING AT IT OVER A 20 YEAR PERIOD, IT IS THE MOST EXPENSIVE FLOOR YOU COULD PUT IN A BUILDING BY FAR.
UM, AND THAT'S WHERE MCT, SINCE YOU DON'T HAVE TO STRIP AND WAX IT, YOU'RE, WHEN YOU'RE LOOKING LONG TERM, IT'S A GOOD, IT IS A VERY AFFORDABLE PRODUCT.
AND THAT'S WHAT WE WERE GOING FOR WHEN WE BUILT MAY RIVER HIGH SCHOOL AND RIVERRIDGE ACADEMY.
SINCE THEN, WE'VE KIND OF TAKEN ON AND USED IT AT OTHERS BECAUSE THERE'S LIKE, IT'S GOT GOOD DOWN, UH, UH, UH, SOUND DEADENING QUALITIES.
THE PROBLEM WITH MCT BEING A LINOLEUM NATURAL PRODUCT, IT OFF GASSES OVER TIME AND IT ACTUALLY CHANGES COLORS.
AND WHAT HAPPENS IS, AS LONG AS IT'S IN A ROOM TOGETHER, YOU DON'T KNOW.
IT ALL CHANGES AT THE SAME TIME.
DO, WHEN IT'S EXPOSED TO, UH, LIGHT, LIKE WHEN YOU BRING IN EVEN THE SAME TILE AND BRING IT IN, IT'S NOT GONNA WORK BECAUSE IT, IT HAS NOT HAD THE SAME LIGHT EXPOSURE.
AND THEN IF YOU BRING IN A TILE THAT COMES FROM, UH, ANOTHER, UH, BATCH LOT OR ANOTHER RUN, IT'S NOT IT.
WHAT WE STRUGGLED WITH AT MARY RIVER HIGH SCHOOL, WHICH IS THE FIRST PLACE WE'VE HAD IT, IS THE GLUE THAT ADHERED THE TILE TO THE, UM, CONCRETE.
UH, AND THAT, AND WE'VE HAD IT POP UP AND SO WE'VE HAD TO REPLACE IT.
SO WHEN WE'VE REPLACED THEM, WE'VE USED UP ALL THE LOTS WE HAD.
UM, AND, AND THAT'S BEEN, AND WHAT WE DID IS WE'VE GONE TO A HIRING GLUE SINCE MAYOR HIGH SCHOOL.
IT ALLOWS FOR IT TO HAVE, UM, BE ABLE TO TAKE ON MORE WATER, UH, CONTENT.
AND SINCE THEN WE HAVE NOT HAD THAT PROBLEM
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AS BAD AS IT'S BEEN MEN IN MAY RIVER HIGH SCHOOL, IT'S BEEN A LEARNING, UH, PROCESS.I'D SAY NOT A LOT OF SCHOOL DISTRICTS USE MCT.
WE'RE ONE OF THE FEW ONES THAT DO.
UM, AND IT WAS A COST CONSCIOUS DECISION.
NOW YOU'LL SEE ON THERE, AND I THINK WE HAVE ON THE NEXT SLIDE, DON'T WE? UH, ZO WELL GO BACK.
SO TEZO IS THE MOST EXPENSIVE BY FAR.
WHEN YOU LOOK AT A 20 YEAR TIMELINE, IT STARTS TO LEVEL OUT.
BUT IF YOU'RE GONNA LOOK AT A 50 YEAR TIMELINE, NOTHING IS GONNA BE TEZO.
'CAUSE 50 YEARS FROM WHEN YOU PUT IT IN, RAZZO IS A CONCRETE PRODUCT.
SO IF YOU'RE THINKING 50 YEARS OUT, RAZZO IS THE WAY TO GO.
IT'S GONNA LOOK GOOD 50 YEARS FROM NOW.
UM, AND HOLD UP AND BE, AS LONG AS YOU MAINTAIN IT AND LOOK BEAUTIFUL AND THERE'S LOTS OF THINGS YOU CAN DO WITH IT, THOSE ARE THE CHOICES YOU HAVE TO MAKE.
BUT IF YOU'RE GONNA TELL US, WE'VE PUT TERRAZZO IN THE FRONT ENTRY TO ROBERT SMALLS.
WE'VE USED IT IN PLACES THAT NEED FOCAL BEAUTY.
I'D SAY BECAUSE IT'S, IT CAN BE AN EYE POPPER.
THAT'S WHERE WE DID ALL THE FLOOR INLAYS, UH, FOR ROBERT SMALLS.
I'D LOVE TO PUT IT IN ALL OF OUR BUILDINGS BUT IF YOU LOOKED AT THE DIFFERENCE, I THINK I HAVE A NOTE HERE SOMEWHERE.
I'VE GOTTEN OFF, I'VE GOTTEN OFF IT, IT WAS ABOUT THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TERRAZZO AND MCT.
I CAN'T REMEMBER WHAT SCHOOL, I THINK AT, UM, AT ONE SCHOOL, I, I, MAYBE IT WAS MAY RIVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WOULD BE ALMOST $3 MILLION.
I MEAN, AND IF THAT IS GONNA BE THE FOCAL OF WHAT'S IMPORTANT TO THE BOARD, DON'T NEED TO TELL US.
SAY I WENT TO RASO IN ALL OUR SCHOOLS.
OKAY, WELL, WE MAY HAVE TO TAKE SOME TECHNOLOGY OUT.
OH, WELL, OR ASK TAXPAYERS FOR MORE MONEY.
I MEAN, THAT'S IN THE END RESULT.
I MEAN, THEN AT THE END THEN YOU'RE GOING TO ASK THE TAXPAYERS HOW MUCH.
AND WE, WE HAD THAT CONVERSATION WHEN WE DO THE COMMUNITY PROJECT REVIEW COMMITTEES, YOU KNOW, JUST KINDA LIKE WHAT IS IMPORTANT TO THEM.
AND THAT'S A GOOD PLACE TO FEEL SOME OF THOSE OUT AS WELL.
YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, WOULD YOU PAY A LITTLE EXTRA TO HAVE NICER FLOORS OR NICER ROOFS? UM, GO TO, SO JUST TO END, THESE ARE SOME OF THE LAST PROJECTS TALKING ABOUT COST PER SQUARE FOOT.
THERE'S A LOT OF DIFFERENCES HERE.
UM, AND, YOU KNOW, WE'VE CHANGED OUR MODEL AWAY FROM THAT COST CONSCIOUS WHERE JUST THE CHEAPEST COST IS WHAT'S IMPORTANT.
LIKE AT ROBERT SMALL LEADERSHIP ACADEMY, WE'VE DONE SOME, YOU KNOW, WE, WE SPENT A LOT OF MONEY ON THE FLOOR WITH THE TERRAZZO FLOOR.
WE STILL HAVE MCT IN LOTS OF OTHER PLACES, BUT WHERE WE COULD, WE PUT THAT IN, UM, AT, UH, MAY RIVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
AND WHAT'S KIND OF A TREND IS A LOT.
AND, UH, HILTON HEAD HIGH SCHOOL IS A LOT OF MORE HIGHER END, UH, CEILING ACOUSTICS THAT ADD SOME, UM, VISUAL PRO WHAT'S, UH, I'M RAMBLING NOW, BUT THE KIND OF, ALL THE SEEDLING BAFFLES, THEY, THEY LOOK GOOD AND THEY HELP BAFFLE THE SOUND, AESTHETICS, AESTHETICS.
SO THE WHOLE POINT HERE, YOU KNOW, IS LOOK, AND, AND HILTON HEAD HIGH SCHOOL IS ONE OF OUR HIGHER COST, UH, BUILDINGS, BUT THAT'S BECAUSE IT'S, UM, YOU KNOW, IT, IT'S GOT RENOVATION AND, AND EVERYTHING ELSE.
I WOULD POINT OUT LADIES ISLAND MIDDLE SCHOOL IS GONNA BE OUR HIGHEST COST BY FAR.
AND ONE OF THAT REASONS, QUITE HONESTLY, IS BECAUSE YOU'RE BUILDING A SMALLER MIDDLE SCHOOL AND, AND JUST ON A SQUARE FOOT BASIS, IT GETS WAY, YOU KNOW, IT GETS MORE EXPENSIVE PER SQUARE FOOT WHEN YOU BUILD A SMALLER SCHOOL LIKE THAT.
BUT I, I LIKE THIS CONVERSATION.
WHAT DO YOU THINK? GOOD QUESTION.
UH, THE QUESTION, THE, THE, THE, THE, THE QUESTION AND THE, THE STATEMENT I MADE A FEW MINUTES AGO WHEN WE HAD THAT LAST CONVERSATION, AND THE SAME REMAINS FOR THIS RIGHT HERE.
AND, AND, AND, AND IN TERMS OF, I TOO, I SLEEP ON THIS ONE.
I'M NOT GONNA NO, I THINK YOU'RE, YOU'RE EXACTLY RIGHT.
I'M GONNA SLEEP ON IT BECAUSE I, I JUST SAID I CAN'T TELL ME I AIN'T BUYING IT.
WELL, MY, MY MY POINT THOUGH HERE IS PLEASE, I'M LOOKING FOR DIRECTION.
IF THE BOARD WANTS US TO SPEND MONEY ON HIGHER END FLOORS, LET US KNOW.
AND WE NEED TO KNOW THAT WHEN WE'RE IN THE BUDGETING STAGE, YOU KNOW, ONE OF OUR PROBLEMS IS LIKE, NOW WE'VE BUDGETED JUST NOT TO BRING IT UP, YOU KNOW, A MIDDLE SCHOOL BASED ON OUR STANDARD MIDDLE SCHOOL.
NOW, IF YOU START ADDING STUFF ON, TO YOUR POINT, WE CAN'T FIT ALL THAT IN.
THAT MEANS WE GOTTA TAKE THINGS OUT AND IT MEANS YOU LOSE THINGS.
UM, SO THE, THE TIME TO DO THAT IS WHEN WE START BUDGETING REFERENDUM, AND WE'RE WORKING WITH THAT COMMUNITY PROJECT REVIEW COMMITTEE, IS TO GET SOME BOARD INPUT.
IF Y'ALL WANT SOME THINGS FOR US TO FOCUS ON, LET US KNOW.
I MEAN, I, WE'LL BUILD WHATEVER YOU
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WANT US TO BUILD.AND, AND, AND, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, IT COMES DOWN TO ROBERT, TRUE TRUTH SPEAKING.
PART OF IT IS THAT WE'RE FAILING THE PLAN.
WHAT NOW? WE'RE FAILING THE PLAN.
IN WHAT WAY? UH, BECAUSE ME AND MY GRANDMA WAS AT LOWE'S AND MY, AND, AND, AND, AND I WAS PICKING UP SOMETHING AND SHE SAID, UH, HER, HER QUESTION WAS, SHE SAID, WHERE? UH, SHE SAID, UM, ACTUALLY, I SAID, I SAID, WHICH ONE DO YOU WANT? AND SHE SAID, HOW SOON ARE YOU TRYING TO COME BACK AT LOW'S? AND IN OTHER WORDS, THE QUESTION WAS, I'M, I'M BUILDING, I I I'M BUILDING TO SECURE IT FOR YEARS.
NOT JUST TO, NOT JUST FOR THE HOLIDAYS.
IN OTHER WORDS, I'M, I'M NOT LOOKING FOR LOOKS FOR RIGHT NOW FOR THE HOLIDAYS.
SO, SO, SO WHEN, WHEN I LISTEN TO SOME ASPECTS AND SOME, SOME THINGS THAT WE'RE, THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT AND SPENDING THE PEOPLE'S MONEY STRATEGICALLY, AND I LOOK AT EVEN SOME OF THE BILLS THAT, THAT, THAT, THAT WE, THAT WE HAVE RIGHT NOW, THE BUILDINGS THAT, THAT WE'RE TEARING DOWN, SOME OF THE QUALITY OF THE BUILDINGS THAT WE'RE PUTTING UP AREN'T EQUAL IN THE BUILDING THAT WE'RE TEARING DOWN.
I MEAN, I MEAN, WHEN YOU LOOK AT SOME OF THE LEAKS AND THINGS THAT, THAT, THAT, THAT WE'VE HAD IN, IN THE TIER OF THE FLOORS, SOME OF THE BUILDINGS THAT WE'VE TEAR DOWN HAVE BEEN BETTER THAN THESE BUILDINGS THAT WE'RE PUTTING UP.
SO ALL THAT IN THE, IN THE
WELL, NO, I SAID WHAT I WANNA SAY.
YEAH, I, I WAS CLEAR ABOUT IT.
YEAH, THAT'S, THAT'S, THAT'S JUST, I'LL LEAVE IT THERE.
SO YOU'RE SAYING WE SHOULD HAVE TORN 'EM DOWN? SOME OF THEM PROBABLY.
WHICH ONE? I, I, I'M, I'M NOT, I WON'T GO, I WON'T GO INTO THAT TODAY.
ANY FUTURE TOPICS? MINIMIZE THIS
THIS IS, THIS IS A BRUTAL MEETING.
AND THE THING IS, WE DIVIDED, WE, WE HAVE A SECOND MEETING WE DIDN'T GET TO DO YET.
UM, UH, SINCE WE ALL ARE IN THE ROOM, UM, WE'RE LOOKING AT A POSSIBLE DECEMBER.
OH, OR NO, WE WOULD NOT, THE CLOCK IS THE SECOND.
SO WOULD BE DECEMBER 3RD, ANYTIME AFTER FOUR 30.
IF WE START AT FOUR 30, THAT, I MEAN, WE MIGHT GET DONE.
A FOUR 30 IS A CHALLENGE FOR ME.
FIVE O'CLOCK IS BETTER FOR ME.
SO NOW I, DO YOU HAVE ANY OBJECTIONS? AND YOU HAVE, UH, ISAAC? I'M GOOD WITH THAT.
WE'RE STILL GONNA HAVE TWO MEETINGS IN DECEMBER.
THIS IS THE MAKEUP FOR WHAT WE MISSED YESTERDAY.
THEN WE WILL HAVE ANOTHER MEETING LATER FOR OPERATIONS.
SO ANOTHER REGULAR OPERATIONS MEETING.
WE'LL HAVE TO HAVE, WHEN WOULD YOU NEED TO HAVE THAT? I MEAN, BECAUSE THE BOARD MEETING IN DECEMBER IS DECEMBER 9TH, AND THAT IS THE ONLY BOARD MEETING IN DECEMBER.
SO WHAT'S THAT NEXT WEEK? SO THE NEXT WEEK AFTER THAT IS THE WEEK OF THE 15TH.
AND WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE 16TH HAVING THE RIBBON CUTTING FOR MAY WE HAVE A MEETING THAT DAY? WELL, THAT'S PROBABLY TOO EARLY AND YOU WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO MAKE IT THERE.
SO LATER WE'D HAVE TO BE ABLE TO HAVE A MEETING UNTIL FIVE O'CLOCK.
WELL, WE COULD HAVE A MEETING ON THE 16TH.
AND THAT INFORMATION WOULD'VE NOT GO TO THE TO THE UNTIL, GO, UNTIL JANUARY.
I DON'T, I DON'T THINK WE'RE GONNA HAVE ANYTHING COMING OUT.
YOU HAVE OPERATIONS, WHICH WOULD BE THE HR, UM, DOCUMENTS.
AND THAT WOULD BE DECEMBER 3RD AT FIVE O'CLOCK.
THEN YOU'LL HAVE ANOTHER MEETING, WHICH WOULD BE YOUR REGULAR OPERATIONS WITH, UM, CONSTRUCTION, WHATEVER.
AND THAT IS DECEMBER 16TH AT FIVE O'CLOCK.
ALRIGHT, I'M GONNA TEXT ALICE, MAN.
YEAH, ALICE GAVE ME THE, THAT DATE DECEMBER 16TH.
SO ACTUALLY, UH, YOU, YOU GO, YOU
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GO AHEAD.ALL THAT'S GOTTA BE ONE SC MEETING ON DECEMBER 4TH.
AND JUST CONFIRM THAT THAT'S THE JOINT ELEMENTARY? YES, THAT'S A JOINT SIC AND WE'LL BE SENDING THAT OUT THIS WEEK.
WHAT TIME? IT SAYS SIX O'CLOCK PICTURE.
THE CALENDAR, THE, THE CALENDAR WEST.
I'LL JUST LEAVE THAT THERE SYSTEM AND I'LL, I'LL WHAT YOU WANNA, I MEAN, WE ARE TRYING TO DO THE CALENDAR NOW IN, IN, AND WE'RE DOING JA DECEMBER STUFF NOW, SO WE'LL BE SENDING THAT OUT.
IS THAT WHAT YOU'RE ASKING? UH, YEAH, THAT, THAT, THAT, THAT, THAT, THAT THAT'D BE, YEAH.
BECAUSE NOW, YEAH, SO I, SO, SO I CAN, YEAH, THAT'D BE FINE.
OBJECTION, ADJOURN WITH UNANIMOUS CONSENT MOVED.