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CLOSED CAPTIONING PROVIDED BY BUFORT COUNTY 4:00 PM SO WE'LL GO AHEAD AND START WITH OUR EXECUTIVE SESSION.
WE NEED A MOTION TO GO INTO EXECUTIVE SESSION.
GOING INTO EXECUTIVE STATE MOTION.
WE NEED THE APPROVAL OF THE AGENDA AND THEN A MOTION TO GO INTO SECOND.
A MOTION FOR APPROVAL OF THE AGENDA.
YOU WANNA DO THE I'LL, I'LL, I'LL DO, YES.
SO MOVE TO APPROVE THE AGENDA.
UM, PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE AND MS. HAY IS ONLINE.
UH, HAS THE MEDIA BEEN PROPERLY NOTIFIED? YES.
WE NOW ARE CAN WE MOTION TO GO INTO THE EXECUTIVE MOTION TO GO INTO EXECUTIVE
UH, FOR REASON TO DISCUSS THE SUPERINTENDENT'S EVALUATION.
THE SECRETARY TEAM A, YOU SECOND.
WE ARE NOW MS. HAY ARE YOU AYE.
I'LL, I'LL START LOOKING IN THAT WAY FIRST, MA'AM.
SO YOU'RE IN EXECUTIVE SESSION AND YOU WANT ME TO, SO I'D LIKE TO, UH, READ THIS, UH, AS INDICATED BY THE BOARD'S ACTIONS TONIGHT REGARDING THE SUPERINTENDENT'S CONTRACT, WE ARE VERY APPRECIATIVE OF THE WORK THAT HE HAS DONE FOR THE STUDENTS OF BEAUFORT COUNTY DURING THE PAST YEAR AND WE LOOK FORWARD TO CONTINUING MOVING FORWARD WITH DR. RODRIGUEZ AS OUR LEADER.
THE BOARD IN CONJUNCTION WITH HIS LEGAL COUNSEL, WILL NOW PREPARE AN AMENDMENT TO THE SUPERINTENDENT'S CONTRACT REFLECTING THESE ACTIONS, WHICH WILL BE SIGNED BY THE CHAIR.
THERE ARE TWO MOTIONS COMING OUT OF EXECUTIVE SESSION.
THE FIRST MOTION IN LIGHT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT'S SUPERIOR EVALUATE EVALUATION RESULTS.
I MOVE THAT THE BOARD EXTEND THE SUPERINTENDENT'S CONTRACT BY ONE YEAR, HIS BASE SALARY BY 5%, AND SET FORTH A PROCESS IN HIS CONTRACT, WHICH THE BOARD MUST FOLLOW PRIOR TO ANY UNILATERAL TERMINATION OF CONTRACT.
OKAY, IT'S BEEN PROP PROPERLY MOTIONED.
BASED ON THE EXCELLENT PERFORMANCE DEMONSTRATED BY THE SUPERINTENDENT, INCLUDING HIS RECOGNITION AS THE STATE SUPERINTENDENT OF THE YEAR, I MOVE THAT THE BOARD PROVIDE THE SUPERINTENDENT WITH A ONE-TIME MERIT BONUS IN THE AMOUNT OF $10,000.
SECOND, A MOTION AND IS PROPERLY SECOND.
THANK YOU MA'AM, AS UNANIMOUSLY.
ANY COMMENTS? JUST WANNA SAY, UH, THANK YOU TO THE BOARD.
UH, I APPRECIATE, UH, YOUR CONFIDENCE AND RECOGNITION OF THE WORK, UH, TAKING PLACE HERE IN BEFORD COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT.
I APPRECIATE THE OPPORTUNITY TO CONTINUE LEADING, UM, THE STRAIGHT SCHOOL DISTRICT.
ANY OTHER THERE? MOTION TO ADJOURN.
THIS IS LARRY ROWLAND AND THIS IS A BEAUFORT COUNTY MOMENT.
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MOST FASCINATING ARTIFACTS IN BEAUFORT COUNTY TO TOURISTS AND RESIDENTS ALIKE ARE THE RUINS OF THE OLD SHELDON CHURCH.THE PROPER NAME IS THE PARISH CHURCH OF PRINCE WILLIAM PARISH, SOUTH CAROLINA.
PRINCE WILLIAM PARISH WAS FOUNDED IN 1745.
IN RESPONSE, IT WAS THE SECOND ANGLICAN PARISH IN THE BEAUFORT DISTRICT.
HELENA PARISH FOUNDED IN 1712, THE ORIGINAL PARISH, PRINCE WILLIAM PARISH IN 1745 WAS IN THE MIDST OF AN ECONOMIC BOOM BECAUSE RICE PLANTATION SURROUNDED THE SITE ON HUSSAH NECK WHERE THE CHURCH EVENTUALLY WAS BUILT AND THOSE RICE PLANTERS WERE VERY WEALTHY.
IN 1745, THE COMMONS HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY ESTABLISHED PRINCE WILLIAM PARRISH, AND IN 1751 THEY LAID THE CORNERSTONE FOR PRINCE WILLIAM PARISH CHURCH.
THE CHURCH WAS FINISHED BY 1755 AND WELL APPOINTED.
IT HAS THE DISTINCTION OF BEING THE FIRST OR OLDEST TEMPLE FORM GREEK REVIVAL BUILDING IN THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE.
SO THAT RUINED AT SHELDON, WHICH FASCINATES PEOPLE ABSOLUTELY SHOULD FASCINATE PEOPLE BECAUSE IT IS THE FIRST EXAMPLE OF A TYPE OF ARCHITECTURE THAT BECAME ASSOCIATED WITH AMERICAN DEMOCRACY IN AMERICAN PUBLIC BUILDINGS.
PRINCE WILLIAM PARISH CHURCH, OR THE OLD SHELDON RUINS, WAS BURNED BY BRITISH TORRIES DURING THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION.
IN 1779, IT LAYIN RUINS UNTIL 1826.
CHARLES FRAZIER, THE FAMOUS LOW COUNTRY ARTIST, PAINTED A PICTURE OF IT IN 1819 AFTER IT WAS RESTORED TO USE AND SERVICES.
IN 1826, HE CAME AND LOOKED AT IT AND HE SAID, MY GOD, THEY'VE TAKEN A BEAUTIFUL RUIN AND TURNED IT INTO AN UGLY CHURCH.
SO THE UNION ARMY AND THE EVENTS OF THE CIVIL WAR RESTORED IT TO A BEAUTIFUL RUIN.
WE THOUGHT FOR MANY YEARS THAT PRINCE WILLIAM PARISH CHURCH HAD BEEN BURNED BY SHERMAN'S FORCES AS THEY MARCHED THROUGH THIS DISTRICT.
THAT TURNS OUT NOT TO BE TRUE.
THE CHURCH WAS INTACT AFTER THE CIVIL WAR AND WAS DISMANTLED BY LOCAL FOLKS WHO USED THE PARTS OF THE CHURCH TO BUILD THEIR HOMES AND BARNS.
AND SO THE WOOD BASICALLY WAS TAKEN OUT.
THE ROOF FELL IN THE CHURCH, BECAME A RUIN, AND WAS IN DISUSE UNTIL MODERN TIMES IT HAS REMAINED.
AS CHARLES FRASER SAID, A BEAUTIFUL AND ENTICING RUIN.
THIS HAS BEEN A BEAUFORT COUNTY MOMENT.
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