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TO ORDER.UH, WE HAD THE FIRST PART OF OUR MEETING LAST EVENING AND WE HAVE SEVERAL AGENDA ITEMS LEFT TO COMPLETE TONIGHT.
THIS IS THE BUFORD COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION BUSINESS MEETING OF AUGUST, 1920 20.
[Superintendent’s Report: Other Matters • COVID – 19 “Coronavirus” Update ]
WE WERE TO THE COVID-19, UM, UPDATE ON OUR, UNDER THE SUPERINTENDENTS REPORT.MADAM CHAIR, MEMBERS OF THE BOARD.
UM, LAST EVENING I GAVE A REALLY COMPREHENSIVE OVERVIEW OF A NEW INITIATIVE AS PRESCRIBED BY THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION CALLED LEAP.
I WON'T GO INTO GREAT DETAIL ABOUT LEAP THIS EVENING, BUT I'LL CERTAINLY WE'LL OPEN THE FLOOR FOR ANY QUESTIONS, BUT LET ME JUST MENTION VERY QUICKLY, WHICH I FAILED TO MENTION LAST NIGHT THAT LEE REALLY KIND OF IS BORN OUT OF, UH, AN ACKNOWLEDGEMENT, UH, FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, THAT THERE WAS LIKELY SOME LEARNING LOSS THAT OUR YOUNG PEOPLE ACROSS THE COUNTRY EXPERIENCED DURING THE PERIOD OF SHUTDOWN, UH, LAST SPRING.
AND SO THE IDEA IS THAT THROUGH CARES ACT FUNDING MONIES WERE DEPLOYED TO STATES, UH, WITH THE, UH, THE GENERAL ASSEMBLIES PROVING THOSE MONIES TO BE GIVEN TO STATE DEPARTMENTS OF EDUCATION AND BY EXTENSION.
SO LONG AS, UH, INDIVIDUAL DISTRICTS WERE IMPLEMENTING, UH, CERTAIN PRACTICES RELATIVE TO ADDRESSING THE NEEDS OF HIGH RISK, UH, UM, UH, STUDENTS, STUDENTS WHO HAVE DEMONSTRATED EITHER LEARNING LOSS OR, UH, OR HAVING SOME KIND OF LIMITATIONS TO THEIR, TO THEIR LEARNING, UM, IS AS LONG AS WE WERE WORKING TO ADDRESS THEIR NEEDS, UH, WHATEVER, UH, UH, RESOURCES, HUMAN CAPITAL THAT WILL BE DEPLOYED TO SUPPORT THAT PROCESS, THOSE DISTRICTS COULD BE REIMBURSED FOR THAT.
UM, IT IS A REQUIREMENT, UH, FOR LEAP.
SO IT IS NOT OPTIONAL IS NOT SOMETHING THAT WE AS A DISTRICT CAN OPT OUT OF.
UH, BUT WHAT IS INTERESTING ABOUT LEAP IS THAT IS NOT REQUIRED FOR TEACHERS.
SO TEACHERS CAN PARTICIPATE IN LEAP ON A VOLUNTARY BASIS.
UH, BUT THERE WAS, AND HAS BEEN A GENERAL EXPECTATION THAT SCHOOL DISTRICTS INVITE ALL STUDENTS.
ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE QUICKLY NOTICED IS THAT, UM, IF, IF, IF THERE, IF TEACHERS WERE NOT REQUIRED TO PARTICIPATE IN LEAP, BUT INVITATIONS WOULD GO OUT TO ALL STUDENTS, UM, IT WAS VERY POSSIBLE AND PERHAPS LIKELY THAT WE WOULD HAVE MORE STUDENTS COME INTO OUR BUILDINGS THAT WE HAD CERTIFIED STAFF TO BE ABLE TO ACCOMMODATE.
SO THAT WAS SOMETHING OBVIOUSLY THAT OUR PRINCIPALS BROUGHT TO OUR ATTENTION.
WE IMMEDIATELY GOT ON THE PHONE WITH, UM, UM, UM, UH, FOLKS IN MOLLY SPEARMAN'S OFFICE AND INDICATED THAT THIS WAS SOMETHING THAT WE WERE LIKELY GOING TO EXPERIENCE.
AND THEN WE WERE GIVEN PERMISSION TO DEPLOY AN ALTERNATIVE PLAN.
THE ALTERNATIVE PLAN THAT WE IMPLEMENTED, UH, WAS INTENDED OR IS INTENDED TO HONOR THE FUNDAMENTALS AND THE BASIC PREMISE OF WHAT LEAP IS INTENDED TO DO, WHICH IS TO ADDRESS THE NEEDS OF OUR MOST AT RISK STUDENTS.
WHAT WE DIDN'T DO IS EXTEND INVITATIONS TO ALL OF OUR PARENTS AND FAMILIES.
WE WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE GAVE BROAD LATITUDE AND AUTONOMY TO OUR PRINCIPALS AND OUR, TO OUR SCHOOL LEADERS, BECAUSE THEY HAVE THE GREATEST RELATIONSHIPS AND ARE MORE INTIMATELY FAMILIAR WITH THEIR STUDENT POPULATIONS AND THEIR NEEDS THAN WE ARE TO BE ABLE TO SAY, YOU IDENTIFY WHAT STUDENTS YOU BELIEVE WOULD BE BEST SERVED BY SOME INTERVENTION DURING THIS PERIOD OF LEAP, AND THEN EXTENDED INVITATIONS TO THEM.
WE WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT THERE WAS AT LEAST A BASELINE NUMBER THAT WOULD CORRESPOND WITH, UM, THE NUMBER OF TEACHERS, UH, THAT THEY HAD, UH, TO PARTICIPATE.
SO WE SAID ABOUT A 10 TO ONE RATIO, UH, WAS REASONABLE, BUT OBVIOUSLY WE ENCOURAGED MORE.
UH, AND SO I, IT WAS INTERESTING.
I HAD A GREAT MEETING WITH ALL OF OUR PRINCIPALS TODAY.
UH, THEY'RE REALLY EXCITED AND MOTIVATED ABOUT WHAT LEAP CAN ACTUALLY DO.
UH, THEY HAVE ORGANIZED A BATTERY OF ASSESSMENTS, WHETHER IT IS, YOU KNOW, UM, DOING EARLY INTERVENTION WORK WITH OUR INCOMING KINDERGARTNERS, WHETHER IT IS MAP TESTING, WORKING WITH OUR ELL POPULATIONS, WHETHER IT'S DOING BEHAVIORAL ASSESSMENTS ON YOUNG PEOPLE, OR DOING INTRODUCTIONS INTO TECHNOLOGY USAGE AND THINGS OF THAT SORT AS WE PREPARE FOR, UM, VIRTUAL INSTRUCTION.
SO IT'S REALLY GOING TO GIVE US A LEG UP WITH REGARD TO MAKING SURE THAT STUDENTS ARE WELL POSITIONED GOING INTO THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR AND THEN SECONDARY TO THIS IS THAT, UM, THE STATE ALSO ALLOWS, UM, DISTRICTS TO BE ABLE TO PROVIDE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR TEACHERS.
AND I THINK THIS IS A REAL BONUS
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FOR US BECAUSE OBVIOUSLY WE HAVE JUST RECENTLY INVESTED A SIGNIFICANT SUM, UH, INTO OUR VIRTUAL LEARNING PLATFORM, WHICH IS K-12 LEARNING SOLUTIONS.UH, AND SO, UM, ALTHOUGH TEACHERS DURING LEAP ARE NOT TECHNICALLY UNDER CONTRACT, IT IS A UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY FOR THEM TO COME IN AND GET EARLY ACCESS AND TO FAMILIARIZE THEMSELVES WITH THE PLATFORM THAT THEY'RE GOING TO NEED TO BE PREPARED TO UTILIZE.
UM, A COUPLE OF WEEKS LATER ON SEPTEMBER 8TH, WHERE DO WE START? SO WE, UM, FROM THAT POINT CREATED SCHEDULES THAT ESSENTIALLY ALLOW FOR TEACHERS TO ENGAGE WITH STUDENTS IN THE MORNINGS, UH, AND THEN, UH, PARTICIPATE IN PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE AFTERNOONS.
THAT PROCESS IS EXPECTED TO LAST OVER A FIVE DAY PERIOD, AND THEN SUBSEQUENT TO THAT, ALL TEACHERS WILL BE UNDER CONTRACT.
UM, UH, AND THEN WE'LL BE READY TO START, UH, START, UH, THE SCHOOL YEAR.
SO WE'RE REALLY EXCITED ABOUT LEAP.
UH, THERE WAS A LOT OF OPTIMISM, UH, ESPECIALLY FROM OUR ELEMENTARY PRINCIPALS TODAY.
WHEN I WAS SPEAKING WITH THEM, THERE ARE FEWER, UH, ASSESSMENTS THAT ARE MIDDLE SCHOOL, UM, UH, MIDDLE SCHOOLS CAN PROVIDE, BUT THEY, THEY ARE ALL PROVIDING WONDERFUL PROGRAMMING THAT AGAIN, WILL WE BELIEVE WILL WELL POSITION OUR YOUNG PEOPLE GOING INTO THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR.
SO THAT IN A NUTSHELL IS LEAP.
UH, AND FROM THERE, I'LL OPEN IT UP TO ANY QUESTIONS.
UM, THERE'D BE, THEY DON'T SEEM TO BE ANY QUESTIONS.
BRADLEY, YOU MENTIONED A 10 TO ONE RATIO.
UM, DO YOU ANTICIPATE THAT STUDENTS WILL BE COMING IN ONE AT A TIME TWO AT A TIME? IT'S KIND OF IRONIC THAT THE STATE'S REQUIRING THIS, AND I UNDERSTAND IT'S A REQUIREMENT BY THE STATE BECAUSE I, I, I HAVE READ MUCH ABOUT IT AND THIS IS WHAT CAUSED, UM, JASPER COUNTY TO CLOSE ONE OF THEIR BUILDINGS.
SO I'M JUST WONDERING, UM, YOU KNOW, HOW MANY, HOW IS IT 10 TO ONE AT ONE TIME, OR ARE THEY SPACING THEM OUT? JUST CURIOUS.
SO, FIRST OF ALL, A REALLY GREAT QUESTION, AND IT IS SOMETHING THAT WE SPEND A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF TIME TALKING ABOUT REALLY WITH THE GUIDANCE OF OUR PRINCIPALS THAT I REALLY JUST WANT TO PAUSE TO ACKNOWLEDGE THEM.
I THINK ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I'VE LEARNED VERY QUICKLY IS THAT WE'VE GOT A REALLY STRONG TROOP OF PRINCIPALS IN THIS DISTRICT.
AND WHEN WE TAKE ISSUES TO THEM, THEY TYPICALLY ARE CREATIVE ENOUGH AND, UH, ARE, ARE ABLE TO KIND OF COLLECTIVELY IDEATE TO FIND RESOLUTIONS FOR THINGS THAT SOMETIMES WE DON'T ARE NOT ABLE TO DO AT HERE AT THE DISTRICT LEVEL.
BUT ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE QUICKLY REALIZED WAS THAT ALTHOUGH TRANSPORTATION IS A REIMBURSABLE EXPENSE UNDER, UM, LEAP, WE DECIDED NOT TO PROVIDE TRANSPORTATION.
AND LET ME EXPLAIN TO YOU WHY THE FIRST REASON IS THAT IT DID NOT COMPORT WITH OUR PLANS T UH, OUR PRINCIPALS AND OUR SCHOOL LEADERS WERE ADAMANT ABOUT THE FACT THAT WE WANTED TO BRING STUDENTS IN, IN A MANAGED WAY.
SO WE WANTED TO BRING THEM IN UNDER, UM, THE PROVISION OF APPOINTMENTS.
SO IF WE COULD GIVE THEM APPOINTMENTS, THEY COULD COME IN FOR A SPECIFIED PERIOD OF TIME.
THEY COULD GET THE SERVICES THAT WERE NECESSARY.
THEY COULD GET THE INTERVENTIONS THAT THEY WANT IT TO BE WANTING TO BE PROVIDED.
UH, AND THEN WE COULD GET THEM OUT OF THE BUILDING.
WE FELT LIKE THAT WAS THE BEST WAY TO EXECUTE THE PLAN, BUT ALSO IT WAS AN EXPRESSION OF AN ABUNDANCE OF CAUTION.
WE WERE OBSERVING SOME OF THE CHALLENGES THAT SOME OF THE DISTRICTS THAT SURROUND US WERE HAVING WITH REGARD TO LEAP IN SOME OF THEM ACTUALLY, UM, RESULTED IN LI UH, IN, UM, COVID INFECTIONS.
THAT'S THE LAST THING THAT WE WANT TO DO FOR TEACHERS WHO ARE WORKING ON A VOLUNTARY BASIS ON A NON-CONTRACT PERIOD, IS TO COME TO WORK AND BE EXPOSED TO THE VIRUS.
AND SO IF WE PROVIDE A TRANSPORTATION, WE WOULD HAVE LARGE GROUPS OF STUDENTS COMING INTO THE BUILDINGS, WHICH OBVIOUSLY, UH, IS MUCH MORE DIFFICULT TO MANAGE WHEN YOU'RE TRYING TO ACCOMMODATE STUDENTS AT A 10 TO ONE RATIO.
AND THE THIRD PIECE IS, UM, WHEN WE MAKE THE REQUESTS FOR FOUR OR THE EXTENT OF THE INVITATIONS TO PARENTS AND FAMILIES, UH, THE CONFIRMATIONS OF THEIR ATTENDANCE, DON'T ALWAYS QUICKLY COME.
AND SO WITH REGARD TO TRANSPORTATION, THERE NEEDS TO BE AT LEAST A WEEK OR TWO OF LEAD TIME TO PREPARE, TO PREPARE BUS SCHEDULES.
AND SO IF YOU'RE, IF YOU'RE GETTING A SLOW DRIP OF CONFIRMATIONS OF PARENTS WANTING TO PARTICIPATE IN LEAD, THAT DOESN'T NECESSARILY POSITION US WELL, TO BE ABLE TO BUILD OUT A BUS SCHEDULES, TO BE ABLE TO BRING THEM IN.
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AND SO FOR THOSE REALLY THREE REASONS ARE WHY NUMBER ONE, WE DIDN'T PROVIDE TRANSPORTATION, BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY, THEY, UH, THEY, UH, KIND OF DID NOT CORRESPOND WITH THE PLANS THAT WE HAVE FOR HOW WE WANTED TO SERVE OUR STUDENTS.IRONICALLY, I MET WITH PRINCIPALS TODAY AND I ASKED THE QUESTION, I SAID, HAVE YOU GOTTEN ANY PUSHBACK FROM ANY PARENTS ABOUT NOT BEING ABLE OR NOT PROVIDING TRANSPORTATION? IN OTHER WORDS, HAS ANYONE SAID, LOOK, I REALLY WANT TO COME, BUT I CAN'T COME UNLESS YOU PROVIDE TRANSPORTATION.
AND JUST FROM HAVING TAKEN A STRAW POLL WITH BOTH OUR ELEMENTARY AND MIDDLE SCHOOL PRINCIPALS, NOT ONE OF THEM INDICATED THAT THEY HAD PARENTS THAT WERE NOT GOING TO PARTICIPATE OR COULD NOT PARTICIPATE.
SO THEY, I, AND I PAUSED TO SAY TO ME THAT INDICATES TWO THINGS.
NUMBER ONE, THAT THERE IS A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF CONFIDENCE IN THE LEADERSHIP.
THERE IS A TRUST IN THE LEADERSHIP, UH, AND THEN THERE IS A CULTURE OF, UH, GENERAL COOPERATION AND SUPPORT FOR, FOR THE, UM, YOU KNOW, RECRUIT GENERAL REASONABLE REQUESTS THAT ARE MADE FOR PRINCIPALS.
SO I WANTED TO TAKE A MOMENT TO RECOGNIZE THEM FOR THAT.
SO AGAIN, WE'RE REALLY EXCITED.
I THINK THE, THE SMALLEST NUMBER OF TEACHERS WE HAVE IN SCHOOLS RIGHT NOW, UH, I THINK WE'VE GOT A SCHOOL THAT ONLY HAS 15 TEACHERS WHO VOLUNTEERED FOR LEAP.
SO IF YOU DO 10 TO ONE RATIO, THAT'S ABOUT 150 STUDENTS.
AND THEN WE HAVE SOME SCHOOLS THAT HAVE UPWARDS OF ABOUT 45 TO 50 TEACHERS.
SO THEY'RE GOING TO BE EXTENDING INVITATIONS TO THEIR ENTIRE SCHOOL COMMUNITY.
SO WE THINK THAT AT THE END OF LEAD, WE WILL HAVE NUMBER ONE, MET ALL OF THE REQUISITES THAT HAVE BEEN PRESCRIBED TO US BY THE STATE.
AND THEN ULTIMATELY WE WOULD HAVE BEEN ABLE TO SERVE A GOOD, UH, UM, REPRESENTATIVE NUMBER OF YOUNG PEOPLE, BISHOP GOODRICH.
BRADLEY, THANK YOU FOR THIS RECAP OF THE NINTH INNING, UH, THAT OCCURRED LAST NIGHT.
THIS IS IT'S, IT'S GREATLY APPRECIATED.
UM, SO IF YOU COULD HELP ME UNDERSTAND A LITTLE BIT MORE OF WHAT THE WEEK WILL LOOK LIKE.
SO LET'S SAY FOR INSTANCE, A STUDENT COMES IN THAT MIGHT BE A FOURTH GRADER, AND ON MONDAY THAT FOURTH GRADER HAS GIVEN A MAP, UH, UM, AND THE TEACHER, YOU KNOW, I DON'T KNOW IF THE MAP WINDOW WAS OPEN OR NOT, BUT THE TEACHER SEES THE RESULTS QUICKLY, OR MAYBE IT'S IREADY.
I'M NOT SURE WHAT THE ASSESSMENT COULD BE.
WELL, THAT STUDENT THEN HAD LIKE A PRESCRIPTION FOR THE REST OF THE WEEK OF WHAT THEY WILL LEARN, UH, WHAT THEY WILL BE IN SMALL GROUP INSTRUCTION, OR IS IT STRICTLY JUST, JUST COME IN, TAKE AN ASSESSMENT, AND THAT WILL BE FORWARDED TO YOUR TEACHER WHEN ONLINE LEARNING STARTS.
W WHAT, WHAT DOES IT LOOK LIKE? SO IT COULD LOOK DIFFERENT DEPENDING ON THE SCHOOL THAT STUDENT MIGHT OWN, THAT, THAT SCHOOL MAY ONLY WANT THE STUDENT TO TAKE A MAP ASSESSMENT.
AND THEN THERE ARE OTHER STUDENTS THAT THEY MIGHT WANT TO DO MULTIPLE ASSESSMENTS.
SO YOU MIGHT HAVE STUDENTS THAT ARE COMING INTO THE BUILDING FOR ONE DAY, SOME FOR MULTIPLE DAYS, SOME FOR EACH DAY, IT REALLY DEPENDS ON WHAT THE SCHOOL HAS IDENTIFIED FOR THAT PARTICULAR STUDENT.
WHAT IS, WHAT IS COMMON OR CONSISTENT ACROSS THE SCHOOLS IS THAT WE'LL HAVE STUDENTS IN BUILDINGS EACH AND EVERY DAY.
AND SO, AGAIN, THAT'S WHY WE WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE WERE PROVIDING BROAD LATITUDE FOR THOSE SCHOOLS TO NUMBER ONE, IDENTIFY WHICH STUDENTS NEEDED TO COME IN AND THEN LATITUDE AROUND WHAT SPECIFICALLY THEY WANTED TO ACTUALLY DO WITH THOSE YOUNG PEOPLE WHEN THEY CAME INTO THE BUILDINGS.
BROADLY, UM, OTHER THAN MAYBE SOME SERVICES THAT ARE MANDATED BY AN IEP THAT ARE HARD TO DO VIRTUALLY, OTHER THAN MAYBE THOSE SERVICES, THIS NECK, THIS LEAP WEEK IS REALLY NOT GOING TO BE A SMALL GROUP INSTRUCTION ON SKILLS.
IS THAT CORRECT? IT'S GOING TO BE MOSTLY ASSESSMENTS.
UM, IT, IT, I MEAN, THERE CAN BE SOME SKILLS BUILDING SKILL BUILDING AND SKILLS DEVELOPMENT WORK, BUT MOST OF OUR PRINCIPALS FELT LIKE IT WAS REALLY IMPORTANT TO GET W GET A SENSE OF WHERE THEIR YOUNG PEOPLE WERE BECAUSE OF THE FACT THAT, UM, YOU KNOW, THERE WAS THE POTENTIAL FOR LEARNING LOSS THAT HAPPENED DURING THE SPRING.
SO I DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH THEY FELT THAT THERE WOULD BE A LOT OF VALUE IN SMALL GROUP INSTRUCTION.
THEY FELT LIKE IT WAS MO MOST IMPORTANT TO BE ABLE TO GET, UM, A TROVE OF DATA AND INFORMATION ABOUT THEIR YOUNG PEOPLE AS THEY TRANSITIONED INTO A VIRTUAL SPACE TO BE ABLE TO INFORM WHAT KIND OF INSTRUCTION THEY RECEIVED WHEN WE STARTED SCHOOL ON SEPTEMBER 8TH.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR MAKING THAT CLEARER FOR ME.
I ONLY HAD ONE, BUT NOW I HAVE TO, UM,
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FOR THE TEACHERS WHO, WHO ARE NOT COMING IN, UM, A BIG PART OF THIS IS THE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT COMPONENT.UM, IS THERE A WAY WE ARE GOING TO BE ABLE TO PUSH THAT OUT TO THEM? UM, YEAH, SO PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT IS GOING TO BE CONDUCTED VIRTUALLY, RIGHT.
UM, HOWEVER, IN ORDER FOR YOU TO BE REIMBURSED FOR TEACHER'S TIME, THEY HAVE TO COME INTO THE BUILDING TO RECEIVE IT.
SO ONE OF THE, ONE OF THE ISSUES THAT WE'VE HAD TO KIND OF WORK THROUGH IS THE FACT THAT WE'VE HAD TEACHERS WHO HAVE REQUESTED ACCOMMODATIONS MEANINGFUL, SOME REASON OR ANOTHER.
UM, I'M TALKING ABOUT WHEN SCHOOL STARTS, THEY'RE GOING TO BE TEACHING REMOTELY FOR AN EXTENDED PERIOD OF TIME, BUT THEY HAVE ALSO REQUESTED PARTICIPATION IN LEAP WHERE WE AT, AND IT WAS UNDER THOSE CIRCUMSTANCES.
WE HAD TO MAKE A CALL AS A DISTRICT TO SAY, WE CAN'T HONOR THAT, RIGHT, BECAUSE IF YOU'VE REQUESTED ACCOMMODATIONS TO TEACH VIRTUALLY FOR AN EXTENDED PERIOD OF TIME DURING SCHOOL, WE CANNOT IN GOOD CONSCIENCE, ALLOW YOU TO COME INTO THE BUILDING TO PARTICIPATE IN PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT, UM, AND OBVIOUSLY, YOU KNOW, RECEIVE EXTRA PAY.
UM, SO THEN THEY WOULD BE ABLE TO RECEIVE THEIR VIRTUAL PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE FOLLOWING WEEK.
SO I DON'T KNOW IF THAT, I HOPE THAT ANSWERS YOUR QUESTION.
UM, BUT I WILL TELL YOU, YES, ALL OF THE K-12 LEARNING SOLUTIONS, UH, PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT WILL BE CONDUCTED IN A VIRTUAL FORMAT.
AND FOR THOSE TEACHERS WHO HAVE AGREED TO PARTICIPATE, NUMBER ONE, THEY STILL HAVE TO DO THEIR AM WORK AND ENGAGE WITH KIDS.
AND THEN THEY CAN REMAIN IN THE BUILDINGS IN THE AFTERNOONS TO PARTICIPATE IN PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND THEY WILL BE COMPENSATED FOR THAT.
THE BOTTOM LINE FOR ME IS ALL THE TEACHERS AREN'T GOING TO GET THE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT.
ALL TEACHERS WILL, ALL TEACHERS WILL BE TRAINED.
JUST SOME TEACHERS WILL, WILL BE PAID AN ADDITIONAL SON FOR PARTICIPATING IN LEAP AND GETTING A JUMPSTART.
ALL OF THE OTHERS WILL BE TRAINED IN THE FOLLOWING WEEK.
AND THEN TO FOLLOW UP ON MS. FIDRYCH HIS QUESTION, UM, ON, ON OUR CHART THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT ON THE 27TH AND THE 28TH, IT SAYS STUDENT INSTRUCTION WITH TRANSPORTATION AND MEALS.
SO FIRST OF ALL, WE'RE NOT GOING TO BE PROVIDING TRANSPORTATION.
UM, THIS WAS A MOCK SCHEDULE THAT WE INITIALLY PRESENTED TO PRINCIPALS SO THAT THEY COULD GET AN IDEA OF WHAT THE WEEK WOULD LOOK LIKE.
SO, UM, I REGRET THAT THAT'S STILL ON, ON THIS SLIDE DECK, BUT WE WILL NOT BE PROVIDING TRANSPORTATION.
HOWEVER, WE WILL BE PROVIDING FOOD SERVICES.
WE GOT AN UPDATE, UM, UH, FROM MS. CROSBY, WE WILL BE PROVIDING, UH, UH, GRABBING GO MEALS, UM, YOU KNOW, LIKE A MUFFIN, A GRANOLA BAR, A JUICE, UH, FRUIT FOR PEOPLE AS THEY, AS THEY ARE COMING IN TO, UM, UH, PARTICIPATE IN THEIR LEARNING SESSIONS OR THEIR ASSESSMENT SESSIONS THAT IS ALSO REIMBURSABLE.
UH, AND I THINK ALSO, UM, WE GOT AN UPDATE TODAY FROM, UH, MR.
SO FOR THE, FOR THE FOLKS WATCHING, JUST IGNORE THAT STUDENT INSTRUCTION ON, I REGRET THAT THAT'S THERE, BUT THAT'S CORRECT.
UM, I HAD TWO QUESTIONS, BUT THAT JUST ANSWERED ONE OF THEM.
UM, ARE WE CONCERNED THAT THERE, UH, MAYBE ANY STUDENTS THAT WOULD BE CONSIDERED ONE OF THOSE IN THAT, UM, RISK AREA, UM, THAT DUE TO STAFFING AT ONE OF THOSE SCHOOLS? I KNOW YOU MENTIONED SOME SCENARIOS WHERE YOU HAVE MORE TEACHERS AT ONE SCHOOL THAN OTHERS.
UH, IS, ARE WE CONCERNED THAT THERE MIGHT BE SOME THAT ARE, YOU KNOW, MAYBE FALLING THROUGH THE CRACKS BECAUSE OF THAT.
AND DO WE HAVE ANY PLANS IN PLACE TO, UM, TRY TO FIX THAT OR MITIGATE IT? THAT IS A CONCERN OF MINE, YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU HAVE A BUILDING.
I MEAN, I MEAN, I THINK WHAT YOU'RE REALLY DOING IS HIGHLIGHTING ONE OF THE FUNDAMENTAL ISSUES THAT WE'RE, THAT WE KIND OF DISCUSSED LAST WEEK, WHICH IS, YOU KNOW, WE WANT TO SERVE AS MANY KIDS AS WE POSSIBLY CAN, BUT WE CAN ONLY SERVE AS MANY KIDS AS WE HAVE PROFESSIONALS THAT CAN COME IN AND REASONABLY ACCOMMODATE THOSE YOUNG PEOPLE.
SO IF YOU ARE IN, YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY, YOU KNOW, 40 TEACHERS, YOU CAN, YOU CAN, YOU
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CAN MEET THE NEEDS OF, OF MORE KIDS.NOW I WILL TELL YOU JUST BECAUSE AN INVITATION GOES OUT DOESN'T MEAN THAT A PARENT IS COMFORTABLE IN BRINGING THEIR KIDS IN.
SO INEVITABLY THEM, THERE MAY VERY WELL BE SOME STUDENTS WHO COULD BENEFIT FROM DOING THESE ASSESSMENTS AND THESE EVALUATIONS PRIOR TO THE START OF SCHOOL.
BUT THE, UM, BUT THE, THE REAL BENEFIT IS THAT WE'RE JUST GETTING DATA SOONER THAN WE NORMALLY WOULD.
I MEAN, THESE ARE THE THINGS THAT WE STILL WILL BE DOING ONCE SCHOOL STARTS.
UM, SO I, I DON'T KNOW THAT THERE WILL BE ANY STUDENTS THAT WILL FALL THROUGH THE CRACKS.
THERE WILL JUST BE STUDENTS THAT WE WON'T GET DATA ON SOONER THAN WE WOULD HAVE IF THEY DID NOT PARTICIPATE.
SO THEY, UM, THE PRINCIPALS LIKELY HAVE IN THOSE SCENARIOS WHERE THERE MIGHT BE PARENTS THAT ARE SAYING WE'RE NOT COMFORTABLE, THEY LIKELY HAVE A B LIST TO GO TO, TO TRY TO INVITE MORE.
SO IT WOULDN'T SIMPLY SAY, YOU KNOW, UM, JOHNNY IS A STUDENT THAT WE THINK COULD BENEFIT FROM LEAP.
AND SO WE DON'T TRY TO REPLACE JOHNNY.
UM, SO I MEAN, REMEMBER, IT CAN BE HIGH RISK KIDS, BUT IT CAN BE REGULAR EDUCATION KIDS.
IT CAN BE ELL STUDENTS, IT COULD BE MIGRANT STUDENTS, AND IT REALLY SHOULD BE A REAL CROSS SECTION OF YOUNG PEOPLE THAT WE SEE IN OUR BUILDINGS THAT WE SERVE.
MA'AM UM, UH, I'VE GOT A THOUSAND QUESTIONS WITH TWO MINUTES TO GO, UM, EXPLAIN THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE K DOLLARS THAT WE GOT, WHICH WE SELECTED AT K-12 PROGRAM AND THESE DOLLARS WHERE THOSE MONIES, THOSE MONIES, WHATEVER MR. CAMPBELL, I THINK TO ANSWER THAT QUESTION, TONYA, UH, CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG, BUT I BELIEVE THAT THAT THE STATE GOT, HAS AN ALLOCATION OF CARES FUNDING THEMSELVES, AND THEN THEY PROVIDE, PROVIDED A ALLOCATION TO DISTRICTS, RIGHT? SO THE ALLOCATION TO DISTRICTS IS WHERE YOU SEE ARE OUR USE AT THE, FOR THE K-12 SOLUTIONS, FOR EXAMPLE.
FOR REIMBURSEMENT FOR THIS IS COMING FROM THE STATE CARE.
DOES THAT MAKE SENSE? WELL, YES AND NO.
I MEAN, WHAT YOU'RE SAYING, DAN, IT'S POSSIBLE THAT, THAT THIS JUST GETS $0 OUT OF THE 210 MILLION.
WELL, WE DON'T, THAT'S A GREAT QUESTION.
WE DON'T ACTUALLY GET THE MONEY.
THESE ARE REIMBURSABLE FUNDS MONEY THAT WOULD TYPICALLY BE UNBUDGETED.
SO IT WAS PUT OUT THERE, BUT NO GUARANTEE OF USAGE BY ANYONE POSSIBLE.
IF THE BEAUTIFUL KIND OF, YOU SAID THERE WERE MANDATING US TO DO IT, BUT AT THE SAME TIME, TEACHERS ARE BEING VOLUNTEERED AND WE WILL BE REIMBURSED FOR WHAT WE DO.
BUT WHAT IF WE DON'T DO ANYTHING? WHAT HAPPENS? SO, SO IT IT'S, IT'S, UH, MANDATED THAT SCHOOL DISTRICTS PROVIDE THIS LEAP WEEK.
SO WHAT ON DOC? I MEAN, OBVIOUSLY IT'S GOT NO, IT'S GOT NO PARAMETERS.
I MEAN, WHEN YOU SAY PROVIDE THIS LIFT YOU, I MEAN, OUR PROGRAM THAT YOU HAVE DESCRIBED TO ME IS ALMOST ON A VOLUNTARY BASIS FOR TEACHERS AND STUDENTS.
AND IF NOBODY PARTICIPATES, THEN WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO PROVIDE? UH, OH, WELL, THAT'S NOT THAT, THAT, THAT, THAT HOLDS TRUE FOR ALL PROGRAMS ACROSS THE STATE.
ANYBODY'S LEAP PROGRAM IS BASED ON A VOLUNTEER COMPONENT THAT, THAT TEACHERS ARE, ARE VOLUNTEERING TO PARTICIPATE IN IT.
AND THEN THAT STUDENTS ARE VOLUNTEERING.
OUR PARENTS ARE SAYING, YES, WE WILL, WE WILL PARTICIPATE.
WE WILL HAVE OUR, OUR CHILD ATTENDANCE IS MANDATED.
I MEAN, MANDATED TO ME, YOU GOTTA GET IT DONE.
IT'S MANDATED THAT YOU OFFER IT OH, MONDAY THAT YOU OFFER IT.
THAT'S A DIFFERENT, THAT'S A DIFFERENT GAME THAT, YEAH.
VERY IMPORTANT POINT, MR. CAMPBELL, BECAUSE THERE, THERE SEEMS TO BE A LITTLE BIT OF
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BUT THEN MAKING THE PEOPLE THAT ARE NECESSARY TO DO IT VOLUNTEER.I MEAN, THERE'S NO, THERE'S NO TASK AND YOU GOT TO DO IT, BUT IF YOU CAN'T GET THE PEOPLE TO DO IT, THEN YOU DRIVE RIGHT IN MY MIND AND YOU'RE TALKING 200 AND SOMETHING MILLION DOLLARS ACROSS THE, ACROSS THE STATE.
AND EVERYBODY HAS GOT THEIR OWN POCKETS.
IF YOU CAN PUT SOMETHING TOGETHER.
AND MY SECOND QUESTION WAS HOW LONG THAT WE KNEW ABOUT THIS PROGRAM.
I PROBABLY WAS INTRODUCED TO IT MAYBE A COUPLE OF WEEKS AFTER I STARTED.
UM, BUT WHAT'S INTERESTING ABOUT LEAP IS THAT IT IS ACTUALLY GONE THROUGH UPDATES AND REFRESHED ALMOST, YOU KNOW, EVERY COUPLE OF WEEKS.
SO FOR EXAMPLE, JUST IN A CONVERSATION THAT I HAD WITH MS. CROSBY, UH, WE GOT ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ABOUT WHICH STUDENTS SHOULD YOU PRIORITIZE.
AND IT HASN'T ALWAYS BEEN THE SAME.
THEN WE GOT ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ABOUT HOW THE REIMBURSEMENT WOULD ACTUALLY WORK FOR TEACHERS.
UH, AND SO I'M ACTUALLY GLAD THAT WE'VE TAKEN OUR TIME AND GETTING INFORMATION OUT BECAUSE HAD WE GONE OUT TOO FAR, TOO QUICKLY, WE COULD HAVE FOUND OURSELVES IN A, IN A, IN A ROUGH SPOT, BUT I THINK WE HAVE A STRONG, OKAY.
NOW THAT BRINGS ME TO QUESTION NUMBER FOUR.
I DON'T KNOW, A THOUSAND, UM, HOW, UH, WE AND DISTRICT EVALUATE OUR PERFORMANCE, DESPITE THE REIMBURSEMENT PART, MAN, HOW ARE WE GOING TO EVALUATE WHAT WE'VE DONE AND WHAT ARE WE EXPECTING OUT OF THIS? IT'S JUST SOME, JUST A FEW DOLLARS.
THIS WAS INTERESTING IS THAT I'M NOT SURE THAT THERE IS REALLY A QUALITATIVE MEASURE FOR LEAP.
I THINK IT'S MORE OUR ABILITY TO EXECUTE ON DELIVERY OR OUR ABILITY TO EXECUTE ON GETTING THESE PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENTS DONE SO THAT WE CAN GET GOOD DATA ON OUR KIDS IN TERMS OF THE QUALITY OF IT.
YOU'VE GOT TO REMEMBER, THERE'S STILL VARIABILITY IN TERMS OF WHAT IS ACTUALLY HAPPENING AT EACH SCHOOL.
SO I THINK THE MEASURE OF SUCCESS HINGES ON WHAT THE PRINCIPALS WANT TO SEE HAPPEN.
IF THE, IF THEIR GOAL IS TO GET 150 KIDS MAP TESTED, THAT'S A SUCCESS, RIGHT? OR IF THEIR GOAL IS TO MAKE SURE THAT YOU'RE GETTING KRA ASSESSMENTS OF YOUR INCOMING KINDERGARTNERS AND YOU GET 60% OF THOSE DONE, THAT'S A SUCCESS.
SO I DON'T KNOW THAT THERE IS A CLEAR QUALITATIVE MEASURE THAT WE HAVE PROVIDED.
I MEAN, IF THEIR GOAL IS A AND THEY GET THAT BE ACCOMPLISHED, THAT'S, THAT'S, THAT'S A MEASURING STICK THAT I THINK ON THE OTHER HAND, WE ALSO, AS A DISTRICT, NEED TO LOOK AT THE INDIVIDUAL SCHOOLS AND SEE, YOU KNOW, WHAT MEASURING STICK.
AND WE APPLIED TO THEM JUST LIKE THE STATE.
I'M SURE IT'S GOING TO LOOK AT EACH SCHOOL DISTRICT AND DECIDE HOW MUCH IMPLEMENTATION THEY'RE GOING TO DO WITH LEAP.
YOU CAN REUSE IT, WHO DIDN'T USE AND ET CETERA, ET CETERA.
SO, YOU KNOW, THAT'S, THAT'S MY CONCERN.
BRADLEY, UM, LET'S SAY PARENT CONTACT THE PRINCIPAL THAT THEIR AS IS NOT COMPREHENDING ON VIRTUAL.
I MEAN, VIRTUAL LEARNING, WHAT, WHAT IS PUT IN PLACE TO HELP THAT PARENT? WELL, SO ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE REALLY FELT WAS REALLY IMPORTANT IS THAT, UM, WE ARE NUMBER ONE, RESPONSIVE TO PARENTS.
I MEAN, WE DIDN'T WANT TO EVER BE IN A PLACE WHERE WE WERE NOT, YOU KNOW, THAT WE HADN'T SYSTEMATIZED RECEIVING INFORMATION FROM PARENTS AND FAMILIES ABOUT THE LIMITATIONS THAT THEIR, THAT THEIR KIDS WERE HAVING IN A VIRTUAL FORMAT.
SO ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE HAVE COMMUNICATED TO TO SCHOOLS IS, IS ACTUALLY CONSISTENT WITH WHAT WE WOULD DO IN A FACE-TO-FACE ENVIRONMENT.
LET'S MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE CORRESPONDING WITH THE TEACHER.
LET'S MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE ISOLATING AND BEING VERY CLEAR ABOUT WHAT THE LEARNING DEFICIT OR LEARNING CHALLENGES.
AND THEN LET'S HAVE SOME KIND OF SPECIFIED INTERVENTION FOR THAT YOUNG, FOR THAT YOUNG PERSON IN A VIRTUAL FORMAT.
IT'S PROBABLY GOING TO BE, UM, THINGS THAT YOU MAY NOT ALWAYS SEE IN A FACE-TO-FACE ENVIRONMENT.
IT MIGHT BE THINGS LIKE THEIR INABILITY TO REMAIN FOCUSED, UH, FOR THE DURATION OF THE PERIOD.
SO IN THAT POINT, WE WOULD DIFFERENTIATE, DIFFERENTIATE THE INSTRUCTION.
WE WOULD SAY, LOOK, ALTHOUGH IT'S A 90 MINUTE BLOCK, WE'RE GOING TO, UM, HAVE YOUR CHILD, YOU
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KNOW, RECEIVE 30 MINUTES OF DIRECT INSTRUCTION.AND THEN THE BALANCE OF THE TIME, MAYBE THERE WILL BE, YOU KNOW, SOME KIND OF INDEPENDENT WORK OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
SO, UM, THERE ARE A VARIETY OF THINGS THAT WE CAN DO.
I THINK THE POINT IS THAT WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT IT IS PARTICULAR EYES AND DIFFERENTIATE IT TO THE LEARNING DEFICIT OR CHALLENGE THAT THE KID IS EXPERIENCING.
MY QUESTION TO YOU, DOC, IS, UH, IS, UH, DR.
BRADLEY IS, I'VE HEARD WHAT YOU SAID ABOUT NOT GIVING KIDS, UH, NOT HAVING STUDENTS RIDE THE BUS, BUT MY QUESTION IS, IS THAT EQUITABLE ACROSS THE BOARD? IS THAT, THAT ARE WE BEING FAIR AND SENSITIVE TO ALL KIDS' NEEDS AS WELL BECAUSE, OH, GO AHEAD.
WE REALLY WRESTLED WITH THIS, RIGHT.
WE REALLY WRESTLED WITH, I MEAN, BECAUSE WE KNEW THAT IT WAS, THE TRANSPORTATION WAS A REIMBURSABLE EXPENSE.
WE KNEW THAT IF WE, THAT WE COULD PROVIDE IT AND IF WE DID, WE WOULD GET REIMBURSED FOR IT.
UM, UM, BUT AFTER REALLY KIND OF EVALUATING OUR PLAN, WE DID NOT FEEL THAT WE COULD APPROPRIATELY IMPLEMENT OUR PLAN AND PROVIDE TRANSPORTATION AT THE SAME TIME, ESPECIALLY WITH A 10 TO ONE RATIO.
AND IN, IN, IN SOME INSTANCES YOU'LL HAVE MORE THAN A 10 TO ONE RATIO, WHICH IS ACTUALLY WHAT WE ENCOURAGE.
UM, WE ALWAYS ARE WEIGHING THE BEST INTEREST OF KIDS AND THE SAFETY OF OUR, OF OUR FACULTY AND STAFF OF GETS MATTERS OF EQUITY.
AND UNFORTUNATELY THERE ALWAYS AREN'T REALLY GREAT ANSWERS.
I DO THINK TO YOUR QUESTION THOUGH, THAT IT WOULD BE MORE EQUITABLE, RIGHT.
IF WE WERE TO PROVIDE TRANSPORTATION.
UM, HOWEVER, WE ALSO FELT REALLY POSITIVE.
AND SO, SO FAR WE'VE GOTTEN REALLY ENCOURAGING RESPONSES FROM OUR PARENTS ABOUT THEIR COMMITMENT TO BRING THEIR KIDS IN ALBEIT FOR A LIMITED PERIOD OF TIME TO RECEIVE THESE SERVICES.
SO I WILL TELL YOU, WE DID NOT SMEES AT, UH, OR WEREN'T WE WEREN'T IN THAT INDIFFERENT ABOUT THE, THE, THE, THE IMPORTANCE, UH, OR THE BENEFIT OF THE PROVISION OF TRANSPORTATION.
WE JUST FELT LIKE IT WOULD BE A LITTLE BIT CHALLENGING FOR US TO DO THAT AND BE ABLE TO EXECUTE OUR PLAN AT THE SAME TIME.
WELL, I HEAR WHAT YOU'RE SAYING, BUT I AM VERY CONCERNED THAT STUDENTS, THAT, THAT MAY MEET HIS PROGRAM, THAT THEIR PARENTS WILL POSSIBLY BE THE ONES WHO WILL NOT HAVE THE TIME OR NOT WANT ME TO SAY, I TAKE TIME FACULTY TIME ON THEM.
THOSE WOULD PROBABLY BE SOME OF THE PARENTS WHO MAY NOT HAVE RIDES TO GET THEIR KIDS TO THIS PROGRAM.
AND RIGHT NOW I'M SURE WE ALL KNOW THAT, UH, EVERYONE IS WILLING TO GIVE CERTAIN PEOPLE EVERYONE'S NOT WILLING TO GIVE THEIR NEIGHBOR'S KIDS ARRIVED TO THIS PROGRAM RIGHT NOW.
SO, YOU KNOW, SO, SO FOR ME, THAT'S A VERY DEEP CONCERN BECAUSE AS A DISTRICT, I FEEL THAT WE SHOULD, THAT WE SHOULD HAVE MONEY AND WE ALREADY HAVE PLANTED KOREAN BUSES.
I MEAN, IF YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT MAYBE 10 KIDS AT A PER CLASS, YOU MAY BE TALKING ABOUT MAYBE 10 KIDS ON THE WHOLE BUS.
SO I'M KIND OF WRESTLING WITH THAT RIGHT NOW ABOUT NO RIDE FOR KIDS, BECAUSE THAT'S A REAL CONCERN OF MINE THAT, YOU KNOW, I MEAN, BECAUSE I, ONCE AGAIN, I KEEP MY EYES ON THE ACHIEVEMENT GAP AND LEE AND I, I DO LIKE SOME OF, SOME OF THE, UH, SOME OF THE, THE, THE, THE, UH, THINGS THAT LEAP WAS BRINGING, BECAUSE I KEEP MY EYES ON THE ACHIEVEMENT GAP AND IT SEEMED LIKE ANYTHING WAS GOING TO HELP US LEAP AWAY FROM THE ACHIEVEMENT GAP, BELIEVED THAT GIVEN, GETTING MORE CLOSURE ON IT, BUT THAT'S JUST A, THAT'S JUST A CONCERN OF MINE AS OF, UM, WHAT, HOW, HOW ARE WE GOING TO GET SOME OF THESE KIDS TO THESE PROGRAMS? UM, WELL, MOVING FORWARD THAT THAT'S JUST, UH, A REAL, A REAL CONCERN OF MINE.
UM, ALSO, UM, SO, UH, THE, THE QUESTION WAS ASKED ABOUT THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN US AND JASPER.
I W W AT THIS TIME, WE'LL WHEN, WHEN THE, WHEN THE KIDS ENTER THE BUILDING, WHAT ABOUT THE KIDS WHO DON'T, WHO DON'T HAVE FUNDING FOR MASK AND LEAVE? I I'LL DO THAT.
WHERE ARE WE GONNA GET FUNDING FOR THAT? WE'RE GOING TO GIVE FUNDING FOR STAFF MEMBERS.
WE'RE WORRIED ABOUT THE KIDS WHO CAN'T AFFORD TO GET MASKS.
OH, WE HAVE A SUPPLY OF MASKS FOR OUR YOUNG PEOPLE AS WELL.
UM, I JUST LIKE TO MAKE ANOTHER COMMENT.
I KNOW WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE VALUE OF ASSESSMENT, UM, AND FINDING OUT WHERE THE KIDS ARE.
I THINK THERE'S ANOTHER VALUE TO THIS, UH, AND THAT IS THAT STUDENTS WILL BE NEEDING MAKING A CONNECTION, PARTICULARLY THE ELEMENTARY STUDENTS THEY'LL BE MAKING A CONNECTION WITH THE TEACHER.
SO WHEN WE REVERT, WHEN WE REVERT TO, UH, YOU KNOW, TO THE REMOTE LEARNING,
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I, THAT CAN ONLY HELP THAT THEY'VE ALREADY MET THAT TEACHER, THAT THEY, YOU KNOW, MAY, IT WAS ONLY AN ASSESSMENT, AND THEY MAY HAVE ONLY BEEN THERE ONE HOUR DURING THAT WEEK, BUT BY, BUT MY GOODNESS THAT ONE HOUR CAN BE VERY POWERFUL AND MOVING FORWARD, MS. ROBOT, YOU ACTUALLY MAY RAISE A VERY GOOD POINT.I THINK YOU ARE IN ALIGNMENT PHILOSOPHICALLY WITH THE DISTRICT, BECAUSE OUT OF WHAT, OUT OF THE SEVEN PROVISIONS OF ACTIVITIES THAT THE STATE SAYS YOU CAN DO, ONE OF THEM IS SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL PREPARATION, SPECIFICALLY AROUND BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS AND WORKING WITH STUDENTS AND GET A SENSE OF THEIR MENTAL, EMOTIONAL STATE.
THAT'S JUST AN INVESTMENT ON THE FRONT END THAT CAN BE CAPITALIZED ON.
ONCE WE GO BACK INTO THE BUILT TO THE BUILDING, TO YOUR POINT, WELL, CAMPBELL RODRIGUEZ, THOSE STUDENTS AT THE BEGINNING OF THIS THAT ARE MISSING AND ABLE TO LOCATE SOME OF THEM.
STRATOS I KNOW, WAS, UH, WORKING, WORKING THROUGH THAT.
STRATOSE ARE WE DOWN TO ABOUT A HUNDRED OR SO? SO MR. CAMPBELL AND DR.
RODRIGUEZ IS SOMETHING VERY UNIQUE THAT ON THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA HAS DONE STUDENTS WHO HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED, WHO WERE DISTRICTS WERE NOT ABLE TO HAVE CONNECTIVITY WITH THE STATE HAS ACTUALLY GONE FORWARD WITH MINORS AND REPORTED THESE FAMILIES TO FAMILY SERVICES.
WE'RE WORKING WITH MRS. SWINTON AND RUNNING A LIST WITH REGARD TO FAMILY SERVICES AND CONTEXTS THAT ARE HAPPENING.
I BELIEVE A GREGORY DECISION PUT FORWARD.
WE ARE CLOSE IN LESS THAN A HUNDRED IS AN UPDATE THAT GOES DIRECTLY TO MRS. SWINTON FROM FAMILY SERVICES, WITH REGARD TO THE FAMILIES THAT HAVE MADE CONTACT, OR THEIR STATE IS ALSO REACHING OUT TO ALL THE PRINCIPALS AT SCHOOLS.
SO THEY ARE, THEY ARE BEING PART OF THE BRIDGE.
WE'RE HOPING TO UTILIZE THE DEVICE DISTRIBUTION AS ANOTHER WAY OF GIVING SOME TYPE OF UPDATE AND COMBINATION AND SOCIAL WORKERS WITH KIKI KIKI ARE WORKING AT IT SAFETY NET DESIGN THAT WE HAD SPOKEN ABOUT EARLIER, SIR.
THANK YOU, MR. CAMPBELL, MR. CAMPBELL, THANK YOU FOR THAT QUESTION, BECAUSE WE HAVE NOT STOPPED TRYING TO ENGAGE AND CONNECT WITH THOSE KIDS.
SINCE SCHOOL ENDED, WE HAVE CONTINUED OUR EFFORTS TO DO THAT, AND WE HAVE, WE HAVE, UH, BEEN ABLE TO, TO DO THAT, UH, IN MANY CASES.
THANK YOU, MR. MELVIN, MELVIN CAMPBELL.
BUT TO ME, THIS WAS AN OPPORTUNITY TO FULLY ENGAGE IN THAT, UH, PARTICULAR CLIENTELE.
AND I THINK WE, WE, WE WENT RIGHT BACK TO THE TEMPLATE THAT, WHICH WE MISSED THE SAME KIDS.
I MEAN, THOSE TRANSPORTATION VOLUNTEERISM BY THE STUDENTS AND THE TEACHERS, WHICH WOULD TEACH THAT WAS MAD AT THE TEACHERS.
BUT I THINK WE COULD HAVE TARGETED A LITTLE BIT BETTER AND, AND ANALYZE A LITTLE BIT BETTER FROM OUR DATA, WHICH WE HAD DRIVEN FROM LAST YEAR, FROM, FROM THE SPRING TO TARGET PARTICULAR SET OF CHILDREN THAT WE KNOW WE NEED TO GET.
AND, UH, I, MAN, IT WAS TIME TO THINK OUT OF THE BOX TO ME THAT THE ALLOCATION OF THOSE DOLLARS WERE NOT FINE TUNED ENOUGH FOR US NOT TO BE FINE TUNED AND DO SOMETHING WITH IT.
AND I DON'T SEE, YOU KNOW, I ALWAYS, BUT THE RESULTS FROM WHAT WE ATTEMPT TO DO, BUT I GOT THAT FEELING THAT WE DON'T MISS THE SAME KIDS AT, WHO DEFINITELY NEED THE SERVICES AND COULD UTILIZE SOME OF THIS ASSISTANCE HERE.
YOUR HAND IS STILL UP, BUT I THINK YOU DIDN'T PUT IT DOWN.
OH, MY, MY QUESTION IS, UM, I WISH I DID THIS.
WHY I ACTUALLY, I ACTUALLY LIKE, I WOULD LIKE TO, IF DOCTOR, I READ THIS, IF YOU DON'T MIND, I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW WHAT DR
AND I WAS JUST WONDERING, WHAT, WHAT, WHAT IS HER, UH, WHAT IS SOME OF HER, UH, UH, OPINION ON, ON THE, ON THE LEAD PROGRAM? I WANT ME TO PUT OUT THERE LIKE THAT, BUT IF SHE'S WILLING TO
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GIVE AN OPINION OF IT.I ACTUALLY SAVED MY OPINIONS FOR MYSELF BECAUSE WHEN HE SEE, BECAUSE IT'S NOT A MATTER OF OPINION, IT'S A MATTER OF WHAT WE'RE DOING AS A GROUP IN A SYSTEM.
AND MY OPINION IS AS A SYSTEM, NOT THE BRADLEY AND TEAM AND OUR PRINCIPALS HAVE WORKED EXTREMELY HARD AT BEING ABLE TO PUT FORWARD ACCESSING STUDENTS.
I HEAR VERY STRONGLY TO COMMENTARY PUT FORWARD BY MR. CAMP CAMPBELL, MALE, YOURSELF, UM, MR. EARL CAMPBELL, AS WELL REGARDING REACHING OUT TO OUR NEEDIEST STUDENTS.
I WILL SHARE WITH YOU THAT THAT IS SOMETHING UNDERLINING THAT OUR PRINCIPALS KNOW.
I KNOW FOR A FACT THAT MANY OF OUR SCHOOLS HAVE REACHED OUT AND MADE HUNDREDS OF PHONE CALLS.
I HAVE TO SHARE THAT DIRECTLY BECAUSE THAT THE BRADLEY AND MYSELF ARE IN CONSTANT COMMUNICATION WITH OUR PRINCIPALS.
UM, ONE SCHOOL IN PARTICULAR, I WILL SHARE THAT 316 PHONE CALLS BETWEEN A TEAM OF TEACHERS AND ADMINISTRATORS RECEIVED 80 CONFIRMATION OF THOSE WHO WILL BE PARTICIPATING.
SO WE ARE REACHING OUT INDIVIDUALLY.
WE DO NOT LEAVE A STONE UNTURNED.
UM, I APPRECIATE THE RECOGNITION THAT, UM, EDUCATION IS MY BABY, BUT I WILL SHARE WITH YOU THAT'S OUR LEADERSHIP TEAM AS TO SMITH AS YOURSELF.
UM, OUR GOAL WAS TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN THE LIVES OF CHILDREN.
BUT I ALSO LIKE TO HEAR FROM ME BECAUSE OF THE FACT THAT I'M SURE THIS IS A TEAM EFFORT, BUT WHEN IT COMES TO THE, TO THE LEVEL OF EXPECTATIONS AND ALSO THE OTHER PERSON WHO IS HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR THE INSTRUCTIONAL COMPONENT, I KNOW THAT THAT'S A PART OF A PART OF YOUR OFFICE.
SO I, I, UM, YOU KNOW, IT'S DEFINITELY, IT'S DEFINITELY, UM, IMPORTANT TO ME THAT, THAT I HEAR WHERE, WHAT YOUR LOGICAL THINKING, BECAUSE THIS IS A VERY IMPORTANT DECISION THAT WE'RE MAKING.
AND, UH, UH, A PIECE OF IT COMES, UH, ONSEN, UH, BRADLEY WORKS WITH THEM WITH PRINCIPALS, BUT WHEN IT COMES TO HOLDING PEOPLE ACCOUNTABLE, UH, YOU KNOW, YOUR OFFICE IS HELD ACCOUNTABLE AS WELL.
SO I THANK YOU FOR YOUR, THANK YOU FOR THAT, FOR THAT INPUT.
LET ME JUST ALSO ADD VERY QUICKLY IS THAT I, IT, I THINK IT'S VERY EASY FOR US TO THINK THAT IF STUDENTS, IF THERE ARE A GROUP OF STUDENTS WHO DO NOT PARTICIPATE IN LEAP, THEN SOMEHOW THEY ARE MISSING OUT ON SOMETHING.
THE TRUTH OF THE MATTER IS THAT FOR THE, FOR THE MODELS THAT OUR PRINCIPALS HAVE DESIGNED, THEY'RE ACTUALLY NOT MISSING OUT ON ANYTHING.
THEY'RE JUST NOT, UH, THE, THE REAL, THE, THE, THE, THE, THE GROUP THAT WOULD BE REALLY DISADVANTAGED IS THE SCHOOL.
THE GROUP OF PEOPLE WHO ARE ACTUALLY PROVIDING THE EDUCATION AND THE INSTRUCTION, BECAUSE THEY WOULD NOT BE GETTING DATA ON THEIR STUDENTS EARLY ENOUGH, OR EARLIER THAN THEY ORDINARILY WOULD WITH REGARD TO WHAT THE STUDENTS ARE ACTUALLY EXPERIENCING.
THEY'RE GOING TO BE THE STUDENTS WHO DO NOT PARTICIPATE IN LEAP.
WE'LL GET THOSE SAME EXPERIENCES ONCE SCHOOLS START.
SO THE IDEA IS THE REAL BENEFIT HERE IN MANY WAYS IS FOR THE SCHOOLS TO BE ABLE TO GET DATA SOONER THAN THEY WOULD FOR STUDENTS WHO MAY HAVE HAD SOME EXPERIENCE OF SOME EXPERIENCE LEARNING LOSS DURING THE PERIOD OF TIME THAT WE SHUT DOWN DURING, UH COVID-19.
SO I FULLY ACKNOWLEDGE AND RECOGNIZE THE GENERAL SENTIMENT THAT, THAT, THAT WE MAY HAVE SOME STUDENTS THAT ARE MISSING OUT ON SOMETHING.
THE TRUTH OF THE MATTER IS THEY'RE NOT, THEY'RE GOING TO BE ABLE TO GET THE SAME ASSESSMENTS JUST A FEW WEEKS LATER THAN THOSE YOUNG PEOPLE WOULD, WHO ARE PARTICIPATING IN LEAP DURING THE WEEK OF THE 24TH.
AND I DEFINITELY THINK, I DEFINITELY THANK YOU FOR THAT, DR.
BRADLEY, BUT, YOU KNOW, I'M JUST SPEAKING FROM MY OWN EXPERIENCE OF, OF MYSELF HAVING AN AND AN IEP WHEN I WAS AT SCHOOL.
UH, AND I KNOW THAT THERE WERE TIMES WHEN I LEARNED TO BETTER HANDS ON, UH, AND ACTUALLY IF THIS WAS WHEN I WAS IN THIS SITUATION, I THINK OF WHERE, FOR ME, WHERE, WHERE POSSIBLY WOULD BE MORE BENEFICIAL, UH, ON THE HILL, ONLY ON ONE SIDE HEALTHY-WISE AND ON, AND ON ONE SIDE, THE ACTUAL LEARNING SIZE, IT WOULD POSSIBLY BE AN IN PERSON, UH, IF ALL THE RIGHT MEASURES WERE TAKEN, BUT ALSO THE, THE FACT THAT, THAT I'M, I'M, I'M PUSHING THAT.
AND ACTUALLY THESE QUESTIONS, BECAUSE AT THE END OF THE DAY, I'M SURE THERE'S GOING TO BE GREAT TO GO BE GREAT MEASURES.
THEY'RE GOING TO BE GREAT MEASUREMENTS, BUT I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT AT THE SAME TIME AS A BOARD MEMBER, WE ALL HAVE TO BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR WHAT
SO, I MEAN, THERE ARE, THERE ARE, THERE ARE TOUGH QUESTIONS THAT HAS TO BE ASKED, SO THANK YOU, DR.
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THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.UM, YEAH, I JUST HAVE ONE MORE QUESTION.
IT HAS TO DO WITH THOSE THAT ARE NEW TO THE DISTRICT, UM, IN ANY GRADE, REALLY, HOW ARE WE, UM, ARE WE INCLUDING THEM IN THE EXTENSION OF AN INVITATION FOR LI UM, THOSE SPECIFICALLY ALSO THAT I'M MOST CONCERNED ABOUT ARE THE PRE-K AND K STUDENTS, UM, AND MAKING SURE THAT THEY'RE BEING ASSESSED, BECAUSE WE DON'T REALLY KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THEM.
SO I DON'T KNOW HOW WE COULD IDENTIFY THEM.
UM, IS THAT BEING OFFERED AUTOMATICALLY, UH, TO NEW STUDENTS, TO THE DISTRICT, OR IS THAT SPECIFIC TO THE SCHOOL? HOW'S THAT WORKING? WE'LL GIVE YOU ANY INCORRECT INFORMATION.
IF I REMEMBER CORRECTLY, I BELIEVE IS THAT IF THOSE STUDENTS ARE REGISTERED AND THEY ARE IN POWER SCHOOL, THEN OUR, OUR, OUR, UM, OUR PRINCIPALS HAVE ACCESS TO THEIR CONTACT INFORMATION, AND YES, THEY ARE BEING EXTENDED INVITATIONS.
BRADLEY, THANK YOU AND VERY MUCH FOR YOUR PRESENTATION.
UM, REAL GOOD AND REAL GOOD QUESTIONS AND ABSOLUTELY TIME I THINK, TO MOVE TO THE NEXT ITEM ON THE AGENDA.
I WAS WAITING UNTIL HE WAS DONE WITH THE LEAP, UM, TO ASK OTHER THINGS THAT WERE UNDER COVID OR JUST ABOUT GENERAL, UM, QUESTIONS THAT I HAD RECEIVED RECENTLY.
UM, SO FOR STUDENTS AS THEY'RE PARTICIPATING IN, IF SOME OF THE SCHOOLS HAVE BEEN DISTRIBUTING OUT SCHEDULES, UM, RECENTLY, AND SO I HAD A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS AROUND SCHEDULES AND CALENDARS.
UM, ONE IS FOR EXAMPLE, UM, A STUDENT DOESN'T LOG IN, UH, RIGHT AT EIGHT 30 AND MAYBE WHEN THE SCHOOL DAY IS SUPPOSED TO START, THEY LOG IN A LITTLE BIT LATER, UM, IS ATTENDANCE STILL BEING WAIVED, UM, BY THE SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION? I KNOW THAT EARLIER DURING ALL THE BEGINNING OF COVID STUFF, ATTENDANCE REQUIREMENTS WERE WAIVED.
I DON'T KNOW IF THEY STILL ARE AND WAS WONDERING HOW THAT WAS GOING TO AFFECT STUDENTS.
ATTENDANCE REQUIREMENTS HAVE NOT BEEN WAIVED.
UH, SO WE ARE STILL, WE ARE NOW REQUIRED TO COMPLY WITH ATTENDANCE REGULATIONS THAT HAVE BEEN PRESCRIBED BY THE STATE.
SO, UM, THEY'LL BE MARKED TARDY IF THEY COME IN LATER THAN EIGHT 30, IS THAT ACCURATE? YES.
UM, THEY WILL BE MARKED TARDY, UH, BUT WHAT, YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY WHAT WE VS THEY WILL BE MARKED TARDY, BUT WITH REGARD TO WHAT'S MOST IMPORTANT FOR US IS THAT THEY ARE COMPLETING THEIR WORK.
SO WE HAVE ENCOURAGED OUR, OUR PRINCIPALS TO COMMUNICATE TO THEIR TEACHERS, TO BE FLEXIBLE WITH OUR YOUNG PEOPLE AND THEIR FAMILIES, BECAUSE FLEXIBILITY IS IN ORDER AT THIS POINT.
SO AGAIN, THEY MAY VERY WELL BE MARKED TARDY, BUT WHAT IS MOST IMPORTANT TO US IS THAT THEY ARE GETTING ACCESS TO THE INSTRUCTION THAT'S BEING FACILITATED BY THE TEACHER.
UM, AND THEN MY OTHER QUESTION IS ABOUT THE SCHEDULES.
UM, IS THERE A UNIFORMITY FOR THE SCHEDULES THROUGHOUT THE DISTRICT AND ALSO IN SPECIFIC SCHOOLS AMONG GRADES? CAUSE I KNOW SOME PARENTS MIGHT HAVE, UM, A OLDER STUDENT STAYING HOME, HELPING TO GUIDE A YOUNGER STUDENT AND IF THEIR SCHEDULES ARE IN CONFLICT, UM, MAYBE AT LUNCHTIME OR RECESS OR WHATNOT THAT MIGHT PRESENT A PROBLEM AND THAT FLEXIBILITY THAT'S SO NEEDED.
SO I WAS WONDERING, UM, IS THERE A UNIFORMITY THROUGHOUT THE DISTRICT AND ALSO, UH, WHAT DOES IT LOOK LIKE IN BETWEEN GRADE LEVELS? THAT'S A GREAT QUESTION.
SO THERE IS ALIGNMENT ACROSS ALL SCHOOLS FOR THEIR SCHEDULES BASED ON GRADE LEVEL, RIGHT? SO ALL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS HAVE A, HAVE A CONSISTENT SCHEDULE.
UM, MIDDLE SCHOOLS HAVE A CONSISTENT SCHEDULE.
ALL HIGH SCHOOLS HAVE A CONSISTENT SCHEDULE, BUT THERE IS, BUT THERE MAY VERY WELL BE IN CONGRUENCE VERTICALLY, RIGHT? UM, SO YOU, YOU, YOU, YOU KNOW, UH, UM, ELEMENTARY STUDENTS WILL BE LOGGING ON THEIR DEVICES AT EIGHT 30 HIGH SCHOOL WILL BE LOGGING ON AND IN MIDDLE WILL BE LOGGING ON AT EIGHT 45.
SO THERE'S A LITTLE BIT OF VARIANCE IN THINGS LIKE RECESS OR LUNCH FOR YOUNG PEOPLE VERSUS OUR SECONDARY STUDENTS.
BUT THEY SHOULD BE UNIFORM, YOU KNOW, ALL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS IN THE DISTRICT SHOULD BE FOLLOWING A SIMILAR SCHEDULE.
UM, AND AMONG GRADES AS WELL IS WHAT YOU'RE SAYING.
NOW WE, WE HAVE TO, THERE, THERE ARE CIRCUMSTANCES WHERE IT MAY BE WHERE IT MAY LOOK LIKE THE SCHEDULES AREN'T THE SAME.
SO FOR EXAMPLE, LET'S SAY YOU HAVE A READING PERIOD OR A LANGUAGE ARTS PERIOD THAT PRECEDES LUNCH, AND THAT TEACHER HAS GIVEN 35 MINUTES OF DIRECT INSTRUCTION.
AND THE BALANCE OF THE CLASS PERIOD IS LEFT TO INDEPENDENT WORK.
WELL, IF THAT STUDENT FINISHES THAT INDEPENDENT WORK A LITTLE SOONER, IT MAY LOOK LIKE THEY STARTED THEIR LUNCH PERIOD A LITTLE EARLIER.
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BUT THE FUNDAMENTAL, THE BASICS OF THE SCHEDULES AGAIN, WILL BE THE SAME ACROSS THE LEVELS, UH, ACROSS, UM, UH, UH, GRADE DESIGNATIONS OR GRADE LEVELS, THE ELEMENTARY, THE SAME MIDDLE, THE SAME HIGH SCHOOL.UM, AND THEN ONE OF THE OTHER THINGS THAT I HAD BEEN HEARING FROM SOME PARENTS IS, UM, THEY LIKE THE INFORMATIONAL, UH, VIDEOS THAT ARE COMING OUT.
THOSE ARE REALLY, UM, BUT I DON'T KNOW, IS THERE A SCHEDULE OF THOSE AND THE TITLES AND WHAT THE CONTENT IS GOING TO BE? IS THERE A SCHEDULE AND WHERE CAN THEY FIND THAT? YEAH.
SO FIRST OF ALL, LET ME JUST SAY FOR THE BENEFIT OF THOSE WHO ARE WATCHING.
ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE ANNOUNCED A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO IS THAT WE WERE GOING TO DOUBLE DOWN ON OUR COMMUNICATIONS EFFORTS BECAUSE WE REALLY WANTED TO UNTIED THE, THE HANDS OF OUR PRINCIPALS FROM BEING RELEGATED, TO BEING COST CENTERS, TO ANSWER QUESTIONS.
SO WE NEEDED TO BE MORE FORTHRIGHT AND MORE DIRECT AND MORE AGGRESSIVE AROUND ANSWERING AND ANTICIPATING SOME OF THE QUESTIONS THAT OUR PARENTS OR FAMILIES WOULD HAVE.
SO WE STARTED TO RELEASE A SERIES OF BRIEFINGS.
THE FIRST BRIEFING WAS A GENERAL INSTRUCTION BRIEFING, WHICH I LED ALONG WITH DR.
CHAVEZ, CHAVONNE BROWN AND NIKKI LUCAS, UM, AT, AT LADY'S ISLAND AND HILTON HEAD, UM, ELEMENTARY FOR THE CREATIVE ARTS RESPECTIVELY.
UH, AND THEN THIS WEEK WE RELEASED A TECHNOLOGY BRIEFING.
UM, TOMORROW WE'LL BE RELEASING A SPECIAL EDUCATION BRIEFING.
THEN FOLLOWING THAT WE'LL BE RELEASING, UH, AN ESL BRIEFING AND THEN ON MUD EARLY NEXT WEEK, WE'LL BE DOING A HIGH SCHOOL SPECIFIC BRIEFING.
SO I JUST RE KIND OF, UM, SHARE THE SCHEDULE.
BUT WHAT WE'LL DO IS WE WILL MAKE SURE THAT WE PUT ON OUR WEBSITE, THE BRIEFINGS THAT ARE FORTHCOMING AND THE DATES THAT WE ANTICIPATE THAT THEY'LL BE RELEASED RELEASED.
AND THEN WE ALSO DECIDED JUST A LITTLE BIT EARLIER TODAY, IS THAT WHEN THOSE BRIEFINGS ARE COMPLETE, WE WILL JUST POST THEM ALL TO THE FACEBOOK PAGES OF ALL OF OUR SCHOOLS.
THAT'D BE REALLY GREAT A FORTHCOMING LIST SO THAT PEOPLE CAN PUT IT ON THEIR CALENDARS AND TRY TO BLOCK OFF THAT TIME, UM, WOULD BE REALLY HELPFUL.
MY LAST QUESTION, UM, I WANTED TO GET AN UPDATE ON OUR CORE CURRENT REGISTRATIONS, AND IF WE HAD ANY WITHDRAWAL NUMBERS, YEAH.
I DON'T HAVE A WITHDRAWAL NUMBERS.
WE ARE RIGHT AROUND, UH, 19,000 RIGHT NOW.
SO THAT'S ABOUT A THOUSAND SINCE LAST TIME I THINK I ASKED.
THEY, THEY, THEY, THEY, THEY KEEP MOVING, YOU KNOW, AND KEEP GOING FORWARD.
AND WHAT I'M TOLD RIGHT, IS THAT IT'S ABOUT SIMILAR TO WHERE WE ARE EVERY YEAR AS WE APPROACH THE BEGINNING OF SCHOOL IN TERMS OF THE NUMBERS.
THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH FOR THE WONDERFUL QUESTIONS THIS EVENING, THAT CONCLUDES, UH, DR.
GWADAR THAT CONCLUDES THE, UH, SUPERINTENDENTS REPORT AT THIS TIME.
AND, UH, I'LL TURN IT BACK OVER TO YOU.
SO NOW DOWN TO THE BOARD BUSINESS ACTION, DO WE HAVE A MOTION, ACTUALLY, A POINT OF ORDER, MATTER OF MY HAND, MY HAND UP, I WAS, BUT YOU DIDN'T ANSWER.
SO I THOUGHT IT MAYBE WAS UP FROM PREVIOUS.
OH, NO, I DIDN'T HEAR YOU CALLING ME JUST NOW.
UH, I THOUGHT THAT, UM, AFTER DR.
RODRIGUEZ SPOKE AND THEN, AND THEN I PUT MY, I PUT MY HAND UP, UH, AFTER THE RADAR.
WILLIAM, LET'S GET TO YOUR QUESTIONS.
UM, I ACTUALLY, I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION AT THIS TIME, UM, ALLERGAN MAKE A MOTION THAT ANY, ANYTHING THAT WILL BE PRESENTED TO THE BOARD MUST BE PUT INTO A BOARD DOCS PRIOR TO, UH, PRIOR TO THE BOARD MEETING ANY PRESENTATIONS OR ANYTHING.
DOES ANYBODY HAVE ANYTHING TO SAY MR. SMITH? UH, YES, MA'AM ACTUALLY, UM, THE REASON WHY I'M ASKING THIS TODAY IS BECAUSE, UH, AND THIS, AND THIS IS NOT INTO, PARTICULARLY TO ANYONE PERSONAL.
IT'S JUST THAT I KNOW SOMETIMES, UH, AS BOARD MEMBERS, PEOPLE SEND US EMAILS OR THEY SEND US REPORTS AND THEY MIGHT AS SOON A REPORT ON A MONDAY OF A WEEK AGO.
AND THEN THEY MAY BRING THAT SAME REPORT AND DISCUSS IT WITH THE BOARD AT THAT PARTICULAR BOARD MEETING.
AND SOME BOARD MEMBERS MAY HAVE LOOKED INTO IT AND ALL MAY HAVE READ THE REPORT.
AND THEN, AND THEN AT THE SAME, AT THE SAME TIME BOARD MEMBERS, WE, WE GET A LOT OF EMAILS.
BUT WHEN THE, WHEN WE HAVE EMAILS THAT ARE PERTAINING TO OUR MEETING OR DOCUMENTS THAT WAS SENT OUT AND PARTICULARLY SOMETHING THAT WE HAVE COMING
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UP, UH, THEY, THEY, THEY SHOULD BE INTERESTING TO BOARD DOCS SO THAT WE CAN BE PREPARED TO PREPARE FOR WHAT WAS POSSIBLY GOING TO BE DISCUSSED.AND THAT'S NO DIFFERENT FROM A, IF YOU USE A COURT, UH, AS IN ANYTHING YOU WOULD LIKE TO PRESENT IN COURT, IT HAS TO BE WORN INTO EVIDENCE.
AND SO THAT, THAT LOOKS KIND OF IN THE SAME,
AND WE CAN HAVE IT TANGIBLE BECAUSE BOARD DOCS IS KIND OF A HOME PLACE WHERE WE GO AT IT, WE LOOK, AND WE SEE WHAT'S COMING UP AND WE UNDERSTAND WHERE WE START PROCESSING THAT INFORMATION.
SO THAT'S THE PERSON THAT, THAT'S THE REASON FOR ME MAKING THIS MOTION TODAY.
THANK YOU, MR. OBI, WE ALL READY HAVE A POLICY THAT REQUIRES THAT THINGS BE PUT INTO BOARD DOCS.
WE AMENDED THAT POLICY NOT TOO LONG AGO BY REQUIRING THAT, UM, UH, OUTSIDE SPEAKERS SUBMIT TO US INFORMATION FOR BOARD DOCS.
I WAS GOING TO REFERENCE PAULA THE CURRENT POLICY UNDER WHICH WE ARE WORKING AS TO POLICY 2.4, ROMAN NUMERAL SEVEN, AND IT'S LETTER A AND MR. SMITH, IF THIS ANSWERS YOUR QUESTION, LET ME KNOW.
IT DOES SAY THAT ALL BOARD MEMBERS AND STAFF MEMBERS ARE TO PROVIDE ALL MATERIALS TO THE BOARD'S EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT NO LATER THAN 5:00 PM ON THE THURSDAY, IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING THE NEXT REGULAR BOARD MEETING.
IF A BOARD MEMBER OR STAFF MEMBER MISSES THE DEADLINE, THAT PERSON IS RESPONSIBLE FOR DISTRIBUTING THE NECESSARY MATERIALS TO BOARD MEMBERS, THE BOARDS, EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT, AND THE SENIOR STAFF.
SO WE ARE THAT'S THE POLICY UNDER WHICH WE ARE CURRENTLY WORKING.
I WAS GOING TO CITE THE CURRENT POLICY, BUT THE CURRENT POLICY AS MS. FENDERS, JUST READ SAYS THAT IF YOU DON'T HIT THE DEADLINE, THEN YOU'RE RESPONSIBLE FOR GETTING IT OUT TO THE BOARD MEMBERS.
AND SO MY QUESTION ON, ON THIS MOTION IS WHAT WOULD BE THE CONSEQUENCES OF NOT GETTING IT OUT THERE, UM, BECAUSE WHAT HAPPENED, WHAT HAPPENED WITH, YOU KNOW, IN THIS PARTICULAR INSTANCE, ADHERES TO OUR CURRENT POLICY, UM, SO, OR WOULD ASK MR. SMITH, ARE YOU THINKING OF SOME DIFFERENT CONSEQUENCE TO NOT HAVING AN OUT THERE ON THAT THURSDAY? UH, UH, W W WE HAVE THIS POLICY WE HAVE AS POLICY? UM, WE, WE DON'T, I SAY THAT AS A BOARD, AS A COMPLETE BOY, WE DON'T, WE DON'T, UH, I'VE HEAR TOO, THAT I'VE SEEN TOO MANY TIMES WHERE, UH, TOO MANY PEOPLE HAVE BROUGHT UP THINGS AND PRESENTED IT TO US AND THAT, THAT NOT IMPORTANT BOARD DOCS.
SO, I MEAN, I DON'T, I DON'T TO, I DON'T WANT TO, UH, GET AMNESIA, BUT I DON'T WANT TO SINGLE OUT ANY SINGLE ANYONE OUT IN PARTICULARLY, BUT THIS IS A CONTINUE, THE CONTINUOUS SOMETHING THAT HAPPENS FROM TIME TO TIME.
AND, YOU KNOW, YOU CAN'T MAKE YOUR EMERGENCY EMERGENCY EVERY TIME.
AND THAT'S, THAT'S WHAT I WANT TO, I WANT TO, I WANT TO GET THE BOARD IN THE RHYTHM OF, YOU KNOW, DON'T TELL ME THAT YOU WANT ME TO VALUE YOUR TIME, BUT THEN YOU, YOU, SOMETIMES YOU, YOU KNOW, YOU DON'T VALUE OUR TIME.
AND WHEN YOU BRING NEW THINGS, THEN WE MAY NOT BE PREPARED AS WE SHOULD BE WHEN YOU BRING A DOCUMENT BEFORE THE BOARD FOR CERTAIN DOCUMENTS BEFORE THE BOARD.
SO THAT, THAT THAT'S A CONCERN OF MINE.
SO ROBIN, COULD YOU PLEASE DISPLAY THE MOTION ZUORA SHACK? I THINK THE WAY THAT WILLIAMS, UH, MOTION DIFFERS THAN OUR POLICY IS IT VERY SPECIFICALLY CITES BOARD DOCS.
AND I KNOW FOR ME, WORD DOCS IS MY ONE GO-TO SOURCE WHERE I CHECK THE ACCURACY OF THE AGENDA ITEMS, THE SEQUENCE, UM, THE DOCUMENTS.
AND I DON'T KNOW THAT OUR POLICY CITES FOUR DOTS.
UM, MRS. FIDRYCH CAN YOU, DOES IT SAY FOR DOGS SPECIFICALLY, OR IT DOESN'T MAKE IT THE PLATFORM, UM, FOR THE DISSEMINATION OF DOCUMENTS? UH, NO, IT DOES NOT SAY BOARD DOCS.
UH, YOU KNOW, I THINK THESE WERE WRITTEN, UH, THINKING THAT WE WOULD BE MEETING IN PERSON.
UM, SO MR. SMITH, I'M, I'M NOT DISAGREEING AT ALL WITH WHAT YOU'RE SAYING.
I THINK IT'S CRUCIAL THAT WE DO, BUT, UM, HAVE HAD THE INFORMATION PRIOR TO, UM,
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I WOULD JUST RECOMMEND THAT WHEN THIS COMES UP, THIS PARTICULAR POLICY COMES UP IN OUR REVIEW OF THE POLICIES THAT WE MAY BE, CAN TIGHTEN THIS UP.AND, UM, BUT, BUT I TOTALLY, I WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT I ONLY READ THAT TO SAY THAT IS UNDER THE CURRENT POLICIES UNDER WHICH WE ARE WORKING.
HOWEVER, I THINK YOU HAVE A VERY EXCELLENT POINT THAT IT IS HARD TO PROCESS AND THINK ABOUT SOMETHING WHEN YOU DON'T HAVE IT PRIOR.
I JUST WANTED TO ADD THAT, UM, YOU KNOW, WE DO RECEIVE DOCUMENTS VIA EMAIL.
WE RECEIVED THEM SOMETIMES VIA OR DOTS.
I THINK HAVING ONE CONSISTENT AREA, YOUR INPUT MIGHT BE IDEAL.
I, NOW I HAVE MISSED THE OCCASIONAL JUST HAPPENED.
A MATTER OF FACT, UM, I JUST MISSED A LATE COMING DOCUMENT VIA EMAIL BECAUSE I WAS SOLELY FOCUSING ON, UM, BOARD DOCS AS OUR, ONCE AGAIN, OUR GO TO PLACE FOR ALL OF OUR MEETINGS AND DOCUMENTATION.
SO I'M GOING TO SUPPORT THIS AND I, I SEE NO REASON WHY THE POLICY CAN'T, UH, POLICY COMMITTEE CAN'T RUN WITH IT SHOULD THE BOARD.
UM, THE BOARDS WILL BE TO APPROVE, UM, THE ADDITION OF BOARD DOCS AS THE, AS THE, UH, PRIMARY SOURCE FOR, UH, GOOD MEETING DOCUMENTS GOING FORWARD.
UH, JUST A COMMENT AND A QUESTION.
UH, THE COMMENT IS, UH, WE'VE BEEN DISCUSSING THAT PA THE PRESENT POLICY FOR A LONG, LONG TIME.
ROBIN IS DISTRIBUTING AND UPDATING BOARD DOCS ALL WEEKEND LONG.
IF SHE WAS GETTING THE PRESENTATIONS ON THURSDAY NIGHT, AS THE POLICY REQUIRES, SHE WILL BE ABLE TO GET THEM INTO BOARD DOCS BEFORE THE CONCLUSION OF THE WORKWEEK AND NOT HAVE TO WORK SATURDAY, SUNDAY AND MONDAY TO GET IT CAUGHT UP.
WE COULD HAVE TO MAKE A COMMITMENT TO ENFORCING WHATEVER POLICY WE'RE HANDLING THE BOOKS, NO MATTER WHAT READS.
HOWEVER, MY QUESTION FOR WILL IS FOR DOCS PRIOR TO THE PRESENTATION, HOW PRIOR ONE DAY, THREE DAYS, FOUR DAYS, WHAT IT'S NOT DEMOTION WOULD BE UNENFORCEABLE BECAUSE PRIOR TO THE PRESENTATION COULD MAKE FIVE MINUTES BEFORE YOU'RE RIGHT.
WELL, I, I WOULD MAKE IT, I WOULD MAKE IT, UH, I WOULD, I WOULD, I WOULD MAKE IT CONCURRENT WITH, WITH, WITH THE POLICY THAT WE, THAT WE CURRENT, THAT WE CURRENT HAT THAT WE, THAT WE, UH, POSSIBLY, THAT WE HAVE TO ALIGN WITH THE SAME WITH THE POLICY THAT THAT IS CURRENT RIGHT NOW, W W UH, WOULD THAT BE FARMERS OF DOLLAR? I'D BE GLAD TO VOTE FOR IT, BUT I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE SOME CONFIDENCE THAT IT WILL BE ENFORCED, BUT WHAT IS YOUR WORDING, MR. SMITH FOR THIS MOTION? UH, FOR, FOR MY MOM, MY WORRYING WOULD BE FOR THE MOTION IS FOR IT TO BE CONCURRENT ALL, TO ALIGN WITH THE CURRENT POLICY THAT MRS. FRIDGES STATED THAT WE HAVE, OH, PATRICIA CAN, IT WAS TWO POINT.
CAN YOU SAY WHAT YOU QUOTED? OKAY.
I DID TOO, HONESTLY, I THINK IT WAS TWO FOR A SOMETHING.
UM, SO IT SEEMS LIKE THE PURPOSE OF THIS MOTION IS JUST TO SAY, EVERYTHING HAS TO GO IN BOARD DOCS AS OPPOSED TO GETTING THE, THE, UM, DOCUMENTS IN A DIFFERENT, IN DIFFERENT, UH, I GUESS YOU'D SAY MANNERS OF DISTRIBUTION.
IS THAT THE IDEA? ARE YOU TALKING TO ME? UH, ARE YOU TALKING TO ME? ARE YOU SICK? COULD YOU REPEAT THE QUESTION? SO WHAT'S THE PURPOSE OF THIS? THE PURPOSE OF THIS IS TO HAVE THE, AS TRICIA POINTED OUT, WE ALREADY HAVE A POLICY FOR, UM, YOU KNOW, HOW TO RECEIVE DOCUMENTS AHEAD OF TIME, BUT IT DOESN'T SPECIFY HOW THEY'RE DELIVERED.
I E HARD COPY, EMAIL, BOARD DOCS, WHATEVER IT DOESN'T SPECIFY.
SO YOU'RE SAYING THAT THEY HAVE TO BE DELIVERED VIA VIA BOARD DOCS.
IS THAT THE IDEA BASED BASICALLY,
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I'LL IMAGINE THIS PEN IN MY HAND, IF I KNEW THAT THE ANKLE, THE ANKLE WAS COMING OUT OF THIS PIN, THEN THE IS ONLY COMING OUT OF THIS PIN.BUT IF I HAD, IF I HAVE TWO PINS IN THERE AND I'M POINTING OUT THAT I'M NOT SURE WHICH, WHICH, WHICH PIN THE INK COULD BE COMING FROM.
SO IF EVERYTHING IS, IS, IS, HAS BEEN PUT INTO BOARD DARTS, FOR INSTANCE, THEN WE KNOW THAT WHATEVER'S IN BOARD DOCTORS, IT'S POSSIBLY WHAT WILL BE DISCUSSED IS POSSIBLY WILL BE, WAS ONE WAS WHAT WILL BE DISCUSSED IS TO IS INFORMATION THAT W THAT WE NEED.
SO THEREFORE ON THAT, WE MAKE SURE THAT WE ALSO WERE PREPARED FOR ANY DISCUSSION THAT THAT IS COMING IN.
THERE'S NO, THERE'S NO, UH, THERE'S NO POP-UP OF DIFFERENT INFORMATION.
AND THE LATIN, LASTLY BOARD MEMBERS GET A TON OF EMAILS SO THAT WE GET A TON OF EMAILS.
SO IT IS VERY EASILY TO MISS ONE EMAIL OR CHECK WITH EMAIL.
BUT IF IT'S PUT IN THE BOARD DOCS THAT YOU HAD, THEN YOU HAVE IT.
SO THE SAME PALM, THE SAME COURTESY, THE SAME GRACE AND MERCY, WE GIVE, WE GIVE THE STAFF SHOULD BE THE SAME GRACE AND MERCY THAT WE GIVE BOARD MEMBERS BECAUSE WE'RE ONLY HUMAN AS WELL.
SO THEREFORE WE HAVE IT ALL IN ONE PLACE.
THEN THAT KIND OF HELPS US WHERE TO LOOK AT IT, BECAUSE ALL IS ALL THERE AND THE SAME ACCESSES FOR EVERYONE.
I MEAN, I, I SEE THAT, THAT, THAT, THAT, THAT THAT'S ONE THING IS JUST THAT, IT'S JUST A POINT OF, LIKE I SAID, THAT WHEN YOU GO INTO, WHEN YOU GOING TO COURT, ALL EVIDENCE IS IN ONE PLACE.
SO THAT'S, THAT'S MY, THAT'S MY POINT.
FIRST OF ALL, THIS IS A BUSINESS MEETING AND NOT A COURT OF LAW.
SECOND OF ALL, I AGREE THAT IT WOULD BE NICE IF ALL THE DOCUMENTS ARE IN BOARD DOCS.
BUT AS AN EXAMPLE, WILLIAM AND I SEND AN EMAIL TO EVERYONE, INCLUDING A ROBIN AND MOLLY, MONDAY NIGHT, I COULDN'T ACCESS ANYTHING IN BOARD DOCS.
WELL, IT WASN'T THEIR PROBLEM.
IT WAS ACTUALLY BOARD DOCS PROBLEM.
SO YOU COULDN'T GET THEM THAT WAY.
SO THAT IS WHY MS. CUSHING BARRY, THEREFORE DISTRIBUTED ALL THE, ALL THE DOCUMENTS SHE HAD UP TO THAT POINT VIA EMAIL.
SHE HAD TO, THERE WAS NO OTHER WAY TO GET IT.
NOW, I GUESS OTHER BOARD MEMBERS DIDN'T TRY TO ACCESS THE DOCUMENTS ON MONDAY NIGHT BECAUSE NO ONE RESPONDED TO THE EMAIL THAT I SENT OUT.
THE SECOND I HAVE NOT FINISHED, AND I HAVE THE FLOOR.
THE SECOND THING IS THIS, UM, MEETING, UH, TONIGHT, UM, IS NOW, LET'S SEE, WE HAVE MET FOUR OF THE LAST SIX DAYS AND WE'VE HAD A SUNDAY IN THERE AS WELL.
SO WE'VE MET, WE'VE MET FRIDAY, FRIDAY, ALL DAY, SATURDAY, ALL DAY.
SO NORMALLY, YES, THE DOCUMENTS WOULD GO IN THURSDAY, BUT I THINK THE STAFF IS, HAS GOT, HAS GOT TO HAVE TIME TO DO THAT.
SO THEY'RE PREPARING THEIR PRESENTATIONS AND THE DOCUMENTS FOR FRIDAY AND SATURDAY.
AND THEN THEY HAD A DAY OFF ON ONE ON SUNDAY AFTER WORKING A SIX DAY WEEK, I ASSUME.
AND THEN ON MONDAY NIGHT, THE DOCUMENT HOLDERS NOT WORKING.
SO THEY SENT THAT, SENT THE DOCUMENTS VIA EMAIL.
AND THEN HERE, WE HAD A LONG MEETING LAST NIGHT, AND NOW WE'RE CLEARLY GOING TO HAVE A LONG MEETING TONIGHT.
SO I THINK NORMALLY, YES, IT WOULD BE NICE IF ALL THE DOCUMENTS WERE WERE IN, IN BOARD DOCS, BUT IT'S NOT ALWAYS POSSIBLE.
SO I DON'T THINK I'LL SUPPORT THIS ONLY FOR THAT REASON.
I DO THINK WE SHOULD HAVE ALL THE DOCUMENTS.
AND I DO THINK THAT SHOULD BE THE HOLDER FOR THEM, BUT IT'S, THERE'S EXCEPTIONS TO THAT.
MR. CHAIR, JUST TO RESPOND BACK TO WHAT YOU JUST SAID, I'M KIND OF LOST MR. SMITH.
SO YOU CAN GO BACK IN THE QUEUE.
OH, NO PROBLEM, MR. EARL CAMPBELL.
EMAIL THAT BOARD MEMBER RECEIVED.
ARE WE TALKING ABOUT THE EMAILS THAT WE RECEIVED FROM THE DISTRICT OR THE FOLKS THAT WE NEED TO PUT IT IN BOARD WE'LL BE TALKING ABOUT? NO, I DON'T THINK SO.
WHAT EMAIL ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? I'M TALKING ABOUT EMAILS THAT MAY COMES FROM STAFF.
I'D LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION TO AMEND AND, UM, I'M GOING TO BE ADDING SOME LANGUAGE.
SO ROBIN, PLEASE TELL ME WHEN YOU'RE READY.
I WOULD LIKE TO ADD BEFORE AT THE VERY BEGINNING OF THE SENTENCE UPON RECEIPT.
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THE WORD WHERE AFTER THE COMA OF, TO THE BOARD, UM, TO THE BOARD COMMENT, IT SHOULD BE PLACED.AND AFTER THE LANGUAGE BOARD DOCS, PLEASE ADD BY THE BOARD ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT PERIOD AND EVERYTHING ELSE CAN BE STRICKEN RECEIPT OF ANY PRESENTATION THAT IS BEING MADE TO THE BOARD.
IT SHOULD BE PLACED IN BOARD THAT'S BY THE BOARD ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT.
AND YOU'RE ALSO STRIKING THE SECOND SENTENCE.
SO WE NOW NEED TO THAT'S THE AMENDMENT.
THIS WAS THE, YOU WANT TO HAVE ANY, SINCE YOU MADE THE MOTION OR THE AMENDMENT, RACHEL, DO YOU WANT TO SAY ANY MORE ABOUT IT? UM, YES.
MA'AM I WAS JUST TRYING TO, UH, GET IT MORE CLEAR THAT, UH, ONCE WE RECEIVED THOSE, WHETHER IT BE BY EMAIL OR OTHERWISE, IT WOULD THEN BE PLACED INTO BOARD DOCS.
SO THEREFORE THERE, IN MY MIND, THERE SHOULDN'T BE AN ISSUE OF, UH, HAVING TO GO BACK AND FORTH BETWEEN EMAIL OR WHATNOT.
WELL, THE ONLY THING ABOUT THIS, AND I AGREE WITH JOHN IS IF IT'S NOT IN FORCE, THEN IT'S MORE OF THE SAME.
WE WILL, THERE'LL BE GETTING THE DOCUMENTS ALL BEFORE THE MEETING AND THEY GET INTO THE DOCUMENT TWO HOURS BEFORE SHE POSTED THEM TO THE BOARD.
SO WE STILL WON'T HAVE ANYBODY BEING HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR GIVING US THE INFORMATION AHEAD OF TIME.
SO WE CAN STUDY THE INFORMATION.
NOW, THE ONLY ALTERNATIVE TO THAT IN MY MIND, AND I THINK WE'VE DONE IT A COUPLE OF TIMES IS NOT TO ENTERTAIN IT.
WE DIDN'T HAVE TIME TO STUDY IT.
AND IF WE GET INTO THOSE DOCUMENTS A FEW HOURS OR A DAY AHEAD OF TIME, AND IT REQUIRES MORE THAN A DAY, THEN, THEN WE, WHEN WE DO HAVE THE OPTION OF NOT ENTERTAINING THAT BUSINESS.
BUT, UM, I, YOU KNOW, UNLESS SOMEBODY IS GONNA ENFORCE THE TIME PERIOD AND I WILL CUT OFF TIME, PERIOD, IT'LL BE THE SAME.
IT'LL BE PEOPLE SUBMITTING INFORMATION THE DAY OF, AND SOME OF US SEEING IT'S, ALL OF US WOULD HAVE DONE OUR BOARD DOES WORK AND NOT SEEING IT AS, OH, YOU KNOW, I DON'T KNOW HOW WE CAN RESOLVE THIS, UM, SENSIBLE POLICY UNLESS WE ENFORCE THE POLICY.
UH, HERE WE GO AGAIN, WE'RE HAVING A MOTION AND WE'RE TALKING ABOUT IT AND WE'RE TALKING ABOUT IT AND WE'RE AMENDING IT.
AND THIS IS SOMETHING THAT SHOULD COME UP AGAIN.
WHEN WE HAVE THIS DISCUSSION ABOUT THE POLICY, WHICH WE WILL ALSO BE SPENDING A LOT OF TIME TALKING ABOUT.
IT WOULD SEEM TO ME WITH ALL RESPECT THAT THIS SHOULD BE TABLED UNTIL WE COME TO OUR POLICY MEETING TO DISCUSS AND PLACE IN POLICY.
WHAT THIS SHOULD BE SPENDING A LOT OF TIME ON SOMETHING THAT WE CAN SPEND A LOT OF TIME DURING THE POLICY COMMITTEE OR POLICY STATEMENT.
SO I WOULD JUST LIKE TO MOVE ON TO IMPORTANT BUSINESS.
THIS IS IMPORTANT, BUT IT'S A POLICY AND IT SHOULD BE DONE IN THE POLICY MEETING.
SO DO YOU WANT TO MAKE A MOTION? YOU CAN MAKE THAT MOTION CAUSE IT WOULD TAKE FOREVER.
I MOVED, I MOVED THAT WE TABLE THIS DISCUSSION UNTIL WE HAVE THE POLICY 2.4 DISCUSSED BY THE BOARD.
AND THEN WHY DON'T YOU USE THE WORD? UM, POSTPONE TABLE IS REALLY FROM WHAT MS. MCFADDEN SAID IS THAT MEETING.
AND SO WHO'S SECOND THAT OKAY.
SO ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION ON, ON THE, ON THE CURRENT MOTION ON THE TABLE IS THE POSTPONING UNTIL WE HAVE POLICY, THE POLICY DISCUSSION.
I GOT THE CUE, MR. DALLIN, AND THEN YOU, MR. SMITH, MR. DALLY, I WAS JUST GOING TO CLIMB.
AND, UM, AS FAR AS THE POLICY NOT BEING ENFORCED IN THE PAST,
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I DON'T, I DON'T THINK IT'S FAIR TO JUDGE IT.WHAT HAPPENED LAST WEEK, LAST WEEK WAS AN ABERRATION.
WHAT I THINK HAPPENS EVERY WEEK.
EVERY TIME IT SAY, I THINK AGENDA SHEDDING MEETING IS TOO CLOSE TO THE MEETING.
IF THE STAFF IS HAVING TROUBLE GETTING IT TOGETHER IN TIME, MOVE THE AGENDA, SHEDDING, BAITING FURTHER BACK FROM THE MEETING AND GIVE THE STAFF MORE TIME TO GET IT TOGETHER.
JUST KEEP THAT IN MIND WHEN WE DO FINALLY, PLEASE, MR. SMITH.
UH, FIRST AND FOREMOST, I WOULD LIKE TO SAY, UH, THAT, UM, I WAS VERY LOST IN DISCUSSION IN DISCUSSING THE MOTION ABOUT SUNDAY NIGHT OR THAT IT WAS PUT INTO THAT.
IT WAS EMAILED TO US BY THE, THE, THE SECRETARY, OUR, I DON'T KNOW WHERE ANY OF THAT CAME FROM THAT HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THAT LAST MOTION.
UM, SO, UH, I'M, I'M JUST GOING TO PUT THAT OUT THERE THAT IT WOULDN'T BASED OFF, OFF, OFF OF MY MOTION, THAT THAT MOTION WAS NOT BASED OFF OF TODAY.
THAT MOTION HAS BEEN BASED OFF OF SEVERAL THINGS THAT I'VE HAD THAT I'VE HAD HAPPENED SINCE I'VE BEEN ON THE BOARD.
AND SINCE WE'VE BEEN HAVING MEETINGS WITH THEM THE LAST SIX MONTHS, UM, AND ON THIS ONE TO BE EXACT, UM, MR. GUYER SAID THAT THIS WAS NOT IMPORTANT.
I HAVE TO DEFER BECAUSE THE POINT THAT IS VERY IMPORTANT.
UH, AND THE WORD
AND IT'S GIVEN TO US WITHIN A CERTAIN PERIOD OF TIME.
AND WHEN WE, AND WE, AND WHERE WE HAVE TO LIVE OUR REGULAR DAILY LIVES, IF YOU HAVE ANOTHER JOB WORK, YOUR OTHER JOB, I, IF YOU HAVE TO FEED YOUR FAMILY, FEED YOUR FAMILY, ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT THERE 24 HOURS IN A DAY? AND YOU ARE REALLY A ACTUAL, A REGULAR PERSON AS WELL, IS IT, UH, IS IT, IT MIGHT NOT BE AS EASY AS SOME PEOPLE MAY THINK IT MAY BE TO, UH, TO PROCESS AND UNDERSTAND AND DO YOUR JOB.
SO TO GET, TO GO BACK TO MY POINT, WHEN YOU'RE MAKING A DECISION ON A $1.2 MILLION OVER THE DISTRICT, GIVE, SPEND THAT MONEY AND YOU JUST GOT DOCUMENT AND YOU HAVE LONGER TO LOOK AT YOUR CABLE BILL, THEN YOU HAVE TO LOOK AT THESE ACTUAL DOCUMENTS.
THERE'S SOMETIMES THAT COULD BE, THAT COULD BE DANGEROUS.
AND THAT'S WHEN YOU ASK YOURSELF, AM I REALLY DOING WHAT THE PEOPLE ELECTED ME TO DO? SO I THINK THAT IS VERY, THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT.
IT'S NOTHING NOT, NOT IMPORTANT ABOUT THIS.
THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT WHEN WE'RE MAKING MILLION DOLLAR DECISIONS ON, ON TECHNOLOGY, ON OTHER, ON OTHER THINGS, ESPECIALLY AT A TIME LIKE THIS, RIGHT, WITH THE COVID 19 UPDATE, THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT.
SO I'M DISAPPOINTED THAT SOME OF US THINK THAT THIS IS NOT IMPORTANT, AND WE HAVE LONGER LOOK AT OUR CAPABILITY THAN WE DO SOME OF THE INFORMATION THAT WE, THAT WE'RE BEING GIVEN.
I JUST WANT TO EXPLAIN MY VOTE ON THIS MOTION.
I WON'T SUPPORT POSTPONING ONLY BECAUSE WE HAVE A WELL-CRAFTED MOTION IN, UM, UH, THE AMENDED, THE AMENDMENT THAT, UM, DR.
WISNIEWSKI APPLIED TO MR. SMITH'S MOTION AND, AND SHOULD, SHOULD IT BE THE BOARD'S RULE? WE COULD SEND THAT RIGHT OFF TO THE POLICY COMMITTEE TONIGHT AND BE DONE WITH IT, AS OPPOSED TO PUSHING IT OFF AND HAVING THEM BATTED AROUND AND HAMMER THE ALREADY DONE.
UM, I DO THINK IT IS IMPORTANT.
I WANT TO JUST QUICKLY ADDRESS MAIL AND JOHN DOWLING.
UM, LOOK, THERE'S NO WAY TO ENFORCE IT OTHER THAN TWO WAYS.
WE DON'T POST OUR AGENDA UNTIL 24 HOURS IN ADVANCE.
IF THE OFFICERS DON'T HAVE ALL THE DOCUMENTS AT THAT JUNCTURE, THEY'VE REMOVED THE ITEMS WHERE THE DOCUMENTS WERE SUBMITTED BEYOND THE POLICIES GUIDELINES.
SO IT PUTS IT IN THE HANDS OF THE OFFICERS.
IF THE OFFICERS DON'T CATCH IT, FOR SOME REASON, IT COMES TO THE BOARD ON THE AGENDA.
ANY BOARD MEMBER CAN THEN MOVE THE TOPIC WITH IT WITH A TWO-THIRDS VOTE.
SO, I MEAN, WE HAVE TWO OPTIONS IN FRONT OF US.
THOSE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN OPTIONS.
UM, SO I'M NOT GOING TO POST PLAN.
I'M GOING TO GO AHEAD AND VOTE ON THE MOTION.
SHOULDN'T MAKE IT BEYOND THIS AND SEND IT RIGHT TO THE POLICY COMMITTEE VOTING POSTPONE MOTION THAT IS HERE, MOVED TO POSTPONE THIS DISCUSSION UNTIL THE POLICY DISCUSSION.
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MR. JOHN DALIN, HOW ARE YOU VOTING? I'M SORRY.YES, WE CAN DISCUSS IT, RACHEL.
DID YOU GET IT THAT TIME? I JUST BOUGHT, I JUST MARKED IT.
I'LL LOG OUT AND THEN NOT BACK THERE.
THE NO'S ARE DOWLING OR SHACK AND SMITH.
[Board Business Action: SC Dept of Commerce - Kim Statler, in the amount of $5,000 for district-wide trauma responsive care professional development.]
DOWN TO THE BOARD BUSINESS ACTION.UM, THE SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, KIM STATLER REGARDING A DONATION IN THE AMOUNT OF $5,000 FOR DISTRICT-WIDE TRAUMA, RESPONSIVE CARE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT.
DO WE HAVE A MOTION TO ACCEPT? I MOVE THAT.
WE ACCEPT THE DONATION IN THE AMOUNT OF $5,000 FROM THE SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE FOR DISTRICT-WIDE TRAUMA, RESPONSIVE CARE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT.
DO WE HAVE A SECOND? I WAS TRISHA FIDRYCH.
ANY DISCUSSION? HEY KATHY, CAN YOU, ARE YOU GOOD? I PUT MY HAND UP TO SECOND.
YES, ROBIN, FOR ME, THAT WAS NASTY.
THE MOTION CARRIES UNANIMOUSLY.
[Board Business Action: Discussion of modification of Executive Assistant Evaluation Tool]
NOW WE'RE DOWN TO DISCUSSION OF MODIFICATION OF EXECUTIVE THIS AN EVALUATION TOOL, MR. SMITH.WHEN THE LAST TIME WE SAW THIS, UH, THIS, THIS TOOL THAT WE HAD TO EVALUATE THE EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT, THERE, THERE WERE, THERE WERE THINGS ON THE, THE TOOL THAT LEADS TO BE UPDATED.
DOWNLOAD THAT OCTOBER WAS COMING UP, UH, FOR, FOR US TO USE THIS TOOL AGAIN.
AND I DIDN'T WANT TO WAIT TO US TO, I DIDN'T WANT TO WAIT FOR US TO GET AT OCTOBER TO START WORKING ON THIS TOOL.
SO, UM, THERE WAS ALSO A TOOL SENT OUT TO US AND BOARD DOCS, THIS TOOL, CERTAIN THINGS IN THIS TOOL I WAS NOT FAMILIAR WITH, UH, VERSUS THE TOOL THAT WE ACTUALLY HAD, UM, VIEWS PRIOR IN THE LAST TIME WE USED THIS TOO.
AND I DON'T AS AN OFFICER, I DON'T REMEMBER HAVING A MEETING TO CHANGE THE TOOL OR TO DO ANY UPDATES ON THE TWO.
BUT I DID SEE, UH, ONE OR TWO, I GUESS, IN THE, IN THE FIRST PAGES OF THIS TOOL AND THEN THE TOOL AND THE TOOL THAT WE USE IS NOT THE TOOL THAT IS, THAT, THAT SITS ON THE, ON BUTTON, MORE DOCS RIGHT NOW.
THAT'S, I'M LOOKING AT, UH, THE TOOL THAT WE USE IS THIS TOOL HERE THAT I HAVE IN FRONT OF ME, UH, AND THIS TO HERE, WHAT IT SAYS AT THE TOP, IT SAYS, AH, THIS INSTRUMENT IS TO BE COMPLETED BY THE PRINCIPAL, UH, AS WELL AS WELL AS, UH, DATA FOR EACH PERFORMANCE RATING MUST BE INCLUDED.
SO THERE ARE THINGS IN THIS TOOL THAT MEANS NEEDS TO BE WORKED ON.
SO, UM, I, I ASKED FOR THIS TO BE AT, TO BE ORDERED BY THE LAST WORST NORTH SESSION, BECAUSE IF YOU ASKED ME THIS IS A WORK SESSION, THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WE SHOULD WORK ON IN A WORK SESSION AS A BOARD, AS A BOARD, UH, WOULD BE, PROBABLY, WOULD BE PROBABLY BETTER THAN THE ACTUAL MEETING.
SO THAT, THAT IS MY, UH, THAT IS MY REASONING FOR BRINGING UP THIS, UM, TO BRING UP THIS, THIS TOOL.
UH, LIKE I SAID, THAT THE, THE, THE FIRST PAGE THAT'S ON THERE IS FOREIGN TO ME.
I'VE NEVER SEEN IT PRIOR TO IT BEING, UH, PUTTING BOARDDOCS THE LAST ONE.
I ACTUALLY, THE ACTUAL TOOL THAT
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WE HAVE, I HAVE IT IN FRONT OF ME.SO W W WHAT'S THAT, THAT THAT'S, UH, UM, AS, AS IS, WHEREAS WHERE I'M AT ON THIS, I DO UNDERSTAND THAT, UM, THAT WE DID WORK ON IT.
UH, WE DID, WE DID WORK ON THIS, BUT THIS, THIS TOOL WAS ALSO KIND OF
SO, UH, THAT, THAT, THAT'S WHERE I'M AT ON THAT.
SO, MR. SMITH, I DON'T THINK YOU, I MEAN, I, YOU HAVE NOT PROVIDED THE DOCUMENT, YOU HAVE TO THE BOARD, SO I CAN'T, YOU KNOW, SEE THE DOCUMENT THE WAY YOU HELD IT.
SO I, I DON'T THINK YOU HAVE THE RIGHT DOCUMENT BECAUSE OBVIOUSLY THE PRINCIPALS ARE NOT GOING TO BE EVALUATING THE EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT TO THE BOARD OF EDUCATION.
UM, MY CONCERNS WITH THIS DOCUMENT ARE PREDOMINANTLY IN THE STANDARD STANDARD APS, WHICH IS WITH REGARD TO JOB KNOWLEDGE.
THAT SEEMS TO BE THE BULK OF THE AREA WHERE THE RESPONSIBILITIES THAT OUR ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT IS RESPONSIBLE FOR, UM, LIES.
IT HAS QUITE A FEW BULLETS, UM, WITH REGARD TO WHAT SHE DOES ON, ON A REGULAR BASIS.
AND I DO RECALL, UM, PREVIOUSLY THAT I HAD MENTIONED THIS, I BELIEVE WITH SOME OTHER BOARD MEMBERS THAT, UM, I THINK, UH, FROM A REVIEW STANDPOINT THAT IT WOULD BE BENEFICIAL IF WE WERE ABLE TO SCORE EACH OF THOSE BULLETS.
SO THAT IN DISCUSSION VERY, OR WHOEVER IS IN THAT POSITION, UM, IS ABLE TO KNOW WHERE THEY NEED TO IMPROVE ON THOSE SPECIFIC TASKS.
I THINK LABELING THEM ALL UNDER JOB KNOWLEDGE, UM, IT IT'S A DISSERVICE TO THE POSITION AND HOW THEY CAN IMPROVE.
UM, THAT'S MY MAIN CONCERN, MY MAIN SUGGESTION FOR IF WE DO MODIFY THIS DOCUMENT.
UM, AND I, I THOUGHT KATHY ROBOT, UH, YES, WE DID MODIFY THIS DOCUMENT, UM, LAST YEAR AND WE DID CHANGE THE TIME AHEAD, LIKE WILLIAM WAS READING AND THE HEADING DOES READ AND DID READ WHEN WE DID THE EVALUATION, THAT IT WAS TO BE COMPLETED BY THE BOARD OF EDUCATION.
WE ALSO, AND I, I SEE WHAT RACHEL IS SAYING.
UM, LAST YEAR WE DID A COMPLETE REDO OF THE, UM, STANDARD NUMBER EIGHT, WHICH IS JOB KNOWLEDGE AND TOOK EVERYTHING THAT WAS THAT, UM, THE EXECUTIVE, UM, ADMINISTRATOR TO THE BOARD OF EDUCATION, EVERY ESSENTIAL FUNCTION AND WROTE IT INTO THE STANDARD EIGHT IT'S, IT'S A, UH, BULLET POINT.
EVERY ONE OF THOSE, UM, IS LISTED ON STANDARD EIGHT.
NOW, I THINK WHAT RACHEL IS SAYING IS RATHER THAN HAVING ONE SCORE FOR THAT STANDARD, THAT THOSE SHOULD BE BROKEN DOWN AND THAT'S IT, THAT'S ALL OF THE STANDARDS ARE LISTED ON HERE UNDER JOB FUNCTION.
UM, THE OTHER STANDARDS, YOU KNOW, ATTENDANCE, THAT TYPE OF STUFF.
THEY'RE ALSO REFERENCED IF YOU LOOK AT THE QUALIFICATIONS THAT ARE LISTED IN THE, UM, THE EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT ADMINISTRATOR TO THE BOARD OF EDUCATION.
SO, UM, UH, IT WAS CROSS RUNS, CROSS REFERENCE LAST YEAR.
AND THOSE CHANGES WERE MADE PRIOR TO US DOING MISS DOING THE EVALUATION.
UM, MAYBE MS. WALTON COULD SPEAK TO THAT.
UM, AND THEN GOSH, NEW BOARD, YES.
THIS, UH, JOB DESCRIPTION WAS ALTERED LAST YEAR TO JOB DESCRIPTION WAS CHANGED.
UM, I DO REMEMBER MR. SMITH'S COMMENT ABOUT PRINCIPALS BECAUSE IT DID FOLLOW ALONG WITH, UM, ALL OF THE OTHER, UM, CLASSIFIED EMPLOYEES THAT SERVED IN AN ASSISTANCE ROLE THAT WAS BROUGHT TO OUR ATTENTION LAST YEAR.
ALL OF THE CHANGES THAT WERE MADE WERE MADE BEFORE THE ACTUAL EVALUATION OF MRS. CHRISTIAN BARRIER WAS DONE.
SO THE JOB DESCRIPTION HAS NOT BEEN ALTERED IN ANY WAY.
NEITHER HAS THE INSTRUMENT BEEN ALTERED.
WE CHANGED IT TO YOUR SPECIFICATIONS, AND IF YOU NEED TO ALTER AND CHANGE AGAIN, THEN JUST LET US KNOW IN TERMS OF, UM, RACHEL'S QUESTION WITH THE JOB KNOWLEDGE AND ALL OF THE BULLET POINTS.
WHAT WE NORMALLY DO IS CATEGORIZE ALL OF THOSE KEY ELEMENTS
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AND PUT THEM INTO GROUPS.SO YOU DON'T HAVE EACH ONE OF THEM LISTED SEPARATELY, BUT IT WAS THE BOARD'S WISH TO HAVE ALL OF THOSE FUNCTIONS LISTED SEPARATELY.
AND THAT'S WHAT WE DID SO THAT YOU COULD SEE CLEARLY WHAT THE EXPECTATIONS WERE AND HOW YOU WERE GOING TO EVALUATE THEM.
BUT CERTAINLY YOU CAN GROUP THEM.
IT'S IT'S REALLY LEFT UP TO YOU, MR. DALLIN.
I'D JUST LIKE TO COMMENT THAT I GET CONCERNED ABOUT THE MINDSET THAT I HEAR WHEN WE'RE DISCUSSING AN EVALUATION.
I HEAR A MEMBER SAYING TO HIGHLIGHT THE AREAS WHERE SHE NEEDS TO IMPROVE.
I TAKE, WE ALSO AS EMPLOYERS, THIS IS EMPLOYER ONE OH ONE.
AS EMPLOYERS, WE HAVE TO BE ABLE TO, DURING AN EVALUATION, HIGHLIGHT THE AREAS WHERE THE PERSON EXCELS THE PURPOSE OF THE EVALUATION IS JUST NOT TO BEAT THE PERSON UP.
THE PURPOSE OF THE EVALUATION IS TO GIVE A BALANCED VIEW OF THE PLUSES IN THE PERSON'S PERFORMANCE, AS WELL AS AREAS THAT CAN BE IMPROVED UPON.
PLEASE KEEP THAT IN MIND, MR. EARL CAMPBELL.
WAS HIS LAST EVALUATION, RIGHT? YES.
WHY DO WE WANT TO GO AND CHANGE IT NOW AGAIN? OH, YOU KNOW, I WILL PROBABLY DO THE BOARD TO DO THE SAME THING.
WHY CAN'T WE JUST LEAVE IT THE WAY IT IS MR.
I WOULD SUGGEST THAT IF WE'RE GOING TO CHANGE THE INSTRUMENT OR THE DESCRIPTION THERE WOULD BE FOR NEXT YEAR'S EVALUATION, UM, I DON'T, I DON'T THINK IT'S FAIR TO TRY TO CHANGE THIS NOW, UM, FOR LAST YEAR'S EVALUATION.
AND IF WE WANT TO DO THAT, MAYBE WE SHOULD JUST HAVE A COMMITTEE LOOK AT IT, SEE ANY CHANGES THEY WANT TO MAKE FOR NEXT YEAR.
I JUST DON'T THINK IT'S FAIR TO ANY EMPLOYEE TO CHANGE RIGHT BEFORE YOU DO THE EVALUATION FOR LAST YEAR'S PERFORMANCE.
SO I DON'T THINK THERE'S AN URGENCY TO IT.
I THINK THERE WOULD BE TIME FOR A COMMITTEE TO GO OVER IT AND MODIFY IT, OR WOULD HAVE TO BE FOR NEXT YEAR, MR. MEL CAMPBELL.
UNLESS THE CHANGE, UH, DAVID, TO SPEAK TO YOUR PLAN LESS TO CHANGE WOULD BE SOMETHING THAT'S THAT'S RELEVANT TO COVID 19.
BUT MY SENSE, THIS IS THE SAME DISCUSSION WE HAD LAST YEAR ABOUT THIS DOCUMENT, AND YES, THIS IS THE NEW DOCUMENT.
THE OLD DOCUMENT DID HAVE PRINCIPAL ON IT.
AND THAT WAS ONE OF OUR CONCERNS TO MAKE THAT ADJUSTMENT.
SO THIS IS THE NEW DOCUMENT AND, UH, I, THE, WE DISCUSS ALL THE SAME POINTS.
RACHEL HAD THE SAME POINT LAST YEAR BUTTON NUMBER EIGHT, AND WE DISCUSSED IT.
I DON'T KNOW WELL WHY WE WILL WANT TO GO ANYWHERE ELSE, UNLESS THERE IS SOME CONCERNS AND WE NEED TO EVALUATE IT IN TERMS OF, UH, YOU KNOW, WE VERY GOOD.
I THOUGHT WE DID EXECUTIVE SESSION LAST YEAR, BUT MAYBE NOT.
UM, YES, WE DID DO AN EXECUTIVE SESSION, BUT I, UM, I LIKED THAT THE BOARD IS WILLING TO ENTERTAIN, EVALUATING AN INSTRUMENT IN OPEN SESSION.
THAT'S A PLUS, UM, MR. CAMPBELL, NOT MR. CAMPBELL, MR. SMITH, CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG.
BUT YOU SAID YOU REQUESTED THIS AGENDA ITEM TO GO ON A WORK SESSION, WHICH I BELIEVE OUR NEXT WORK SESSION IS NOVEMBER.
SO I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHY IT'S ON THE AGENDA, THE SAME THING, OR WHILE WE'RE DISCUSSING IT, IF YOUR REQUEST WAS TO PUT IT ON THE WORK SESSION, WHICH IF YOU LOOK AT THE TIMELINE, IF WE DID DISCUSS IT AT THE WORK SESSION, IT WOULD BE FOR THE FOLLOWING EVALUATION.
IS THAT CORRECT? THE FOLLOWING YEAR'S EVALUATION.
MADAM CHAIR, WHO ORIGINALLY CREATED OR FORMULATED, I GUESS THE DIFFERENT CATEGORIES, BECAUSE MY RECOLLECTION IS, IS THAT I PRESENTED MY CONCERNS WITH THE DOCUMENT AFTER WE HAD ALREADY DONE THE, UM, THE GRADING, IF YOU WILL.
UM, SO AT THAT POINT WE REALLY COULDN'T GO BACK AND CHANGE THE DOCUMENT, WHICH I THINK IS WHY MR. SMITH IS BRINGING IT UP NOW
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SO THAT IF WE WERE GOING TO HAVE ANY MODIFICATIONS, IT COULD OCCUR.UM, THAT'S JUST MY RECOLLECTION OF THINGS.
SO WHO, WHO DID COMPILE IT OR PUT IT TOGETHER ORIGINALLY? THAT'S OKAY.
THAT WAS MY RECOLLECTION AS WELL.
WELL, I WAS JUST GOING TO SAY THE, UM, THE FORM ITSELF.
UM, RACHEL IS A FORM THAT'S CONSISTENT ACROSS THE DISTRICT FOR CLASSIFIED STAFF, THE CATEGORIES, THE STANDARDS, AND, UM, THE, UH, THE RATINGS, THE RATINGS SCHEDULE THAT'S CONSISTENT, BUT WE TOOK WHAT WAS THERE FROM LAST, UM, PREVIOUS.
AND WE MADE IT ALIGN WITH THE, UM, UH, ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS THAT ARE FOUND ON THE JOB DESCRIPTION AND WE UPDATED THE, THE JOB DESCRIPTION.
UM, AND WE WORKED ON THAT TOGETHER.
IT WAS PRESENTED, UM, AT A WORK SESSION LAST YEAR.
IF I CAN CORRECT MISTAKES SMITH ON SOMETHING.
UM, HE SAID THAT, UH, OFFICERS AND MRS. WALTON COMPILE THIS, MY RESPONSIBILITY IS THE INSTRUMENT ITSELF BECAUSE IT IS CONSISTENT WITH ALL OTHER CLASSIFIED STAFF INSTRUMENT.
THEY ALL LOOK THIS WAY WITH THE ONLY DIFFERENCE BEING THE JOB FUNCTIONS, WHICH IS, UM, THE EXPECTATION NUMBER EIGHT, AND THAT IS DIRECTLY RELATED TO ANY POSITION AND THE FUNCTIONS OF THAT POSITION.
WHEN THE BOARD ALTERED THE RESPONSIBILITIES, THEN THOSE RESPONSIBILITIES HAVE SLOTTED IN, UM, THE EXPECTATION NUMBER EIGHT.
SO THE INSTRUMENT YES IS CREATED IN HR BECAUSE IT IS OUR STANDARD INSTRUMENT FOR ALL CLASSIFIED STAFF IN THE DISTRICT, MR. SMITH, AND, UM, MRS. WALTON DIDN'T, UH, DIDN'T WE MEET TOGETHER, UH, TO WORK ON THIS, UH, INSTRUMENT AND THE HILTON HEAD.
I MEAN, OF THE BLUFFING LIBRARY TO LOOK AT THE INSTRUMENT, CORRECT? CORRECT.
UH, I, I DON'T REMEMBER THAT MRS. SMITH, BUT IF WE MET TO LOOK AT THE INSTRUMENT, IT WOULD BE TO EXPLAIN TO YOU HOW THE INSTRUMENT WORKS AND WHERE CATEGORIES WOULD FIT AND WHERE YOU PUT JOB FUNCTIONS, AND THEN MAYBE EXPLAIN WHAT EACH ONE OF THOSE FUNCTIONS OR THE EXPECTATIONS WOULD BE LOOKING FOR.
UM, UH, AT THIS TIME, I'LL, I, I MOVED THAT WE MOVED THIS, THIS, UH, THIS, UH, THIS, THE, I MOVE THAT WE MOVED THIS TO THE EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT EVALUATION TO THE NEXT WORK SESSION.
CHECK-IN THANK YOU, MR. DALLY.
AND THE REASON IS I THINK WE WORKED ON THIS WELL LAST YEAR AND ALIGNED EVERYTHING.
SO I, I WILL BE VOTING NO, MS. ROBOT.
NO, AND I WOULD RATHER SUBSTITUTE THAT WE CREATE, YOU KNOW, IF PEOPLE ARE INTERESTED IN THIS, CREATE AN AD HOC COMMITTEE FOR PEOPLE TO WORK ON THE INSTRUMENT AND BRING IT TO THE BOARD AT A, AT A BOARD WORK SESSION, I THINK FOR US TO SIT DOWN AT A BOARD WORK SESSION AND TACKLE THE, THE WHOLE THING, I DON'T THINK WE'LL GET ANY, ANYWHERE.
THERE WAS A LOT OF WORK THAT WAS DONE BEFOREHAND, UM, THAT WAS PRESENTED THE LAST TIME.
SO I THINK WITH 11 PEOPLE SITTING DOWN AND, AND WORKING ON THIS, I THINK WE'D BE BETTER SERVED IF WE HAD A COMMITTEE THAT WENT AN AD HOC COMMITTEE THAT LOOKED AT IT AND THEN BROUGHT SOMETHING TO THE WORK SESSION TO DISCUSS.
SO I WILL, I WILL VOTE NO ON THIS, MR. DOWLING.
I GET, I GET TO DEFENDING THE WORK.
HOW, HOW DID IT, HOW DID IT WORK OUT WITH PEOPLE HAPPY, WHICH THE EVALUATION LAST YEAR, WHAT DO YOU MEAN? WHO ARE THEY HANGING? I MEAN, ARE THEY SATISFIED WITH THE PERFORMANCE OF THE DOCUMENT OF THE TOOL? I DON'T, I HEAR DEFENSES OF IT THAT IT'S TOO MUCH WORK TO REDO IT.
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JUSTIFICATION TO REDO IT, AND I DON'T HEAR JUSTIFICATION NOT TO DO IT.I JUST HEAR OPINIONS MS. ROBIN LAST YEAR WHEN WE WERE DOING THE EVALUATION, UM, I, I DON'T RECALL ANYONE OTHER THAN, UM, ONE BOARD MEMBER SAYING THAT THEY DIDN'T LIKE IT OR THAT THEY WERE AT THAT BOARD MEMBER DIDN'T PARTICIPATE AND DO THE EVALUATION.
I, UM, I DIDN'T HEAR ANYTHING AT THE TIME OF PEOPLE COMPLAINING, BUT I DON'T KNOW THAT I WOULD, SO I DON'T KNOW, JOHN, THE ANSWER TO THAT.
WE READY TO VOTE MR. SMITH? UM, I THINK THIS IS AS SIMPLE AS, UH, WORKING OUT THERE.
THERE'S ONLY BEEN A COUPLE QUESTIONS, UH, AND I THINK THAT THIS COULD BE, UH, IRONED OUT IN THE END, THE WORK SESSION.
I THINK THIS IS, THIS IS SOMETHING THAT I THINK IS IMPORTANT FOR 11 PEOPLES DO, BECAUSE, BECAUSE OF THE FACT THAT 11 PEOPLE RIGHTFULLY IS DOING THIS EVALUATION.
SO I DON'T SEE A PROBLEM WITH US.
WHAT WOULD THAT WHAT'S THAT I'M JUST SPEAKING.
I DON'T SEE A PROBLEM WITH US DOING IT.
AND THERE WERE ONLY A COUPLE AREAS THAT I SEE THAT THEN, UM, I'LL BE THAT PEOPLE WERE IN AGREEANCE WERE ON IT.
AND I JUST THINK THAT THIS IS SOME, THIS IS THE WORK SESSION ITEM THAT THE BOARD CAN DO INPUT AND, AND EVERYONE CAN BE IN AGREEMENT TOGETHER AND BE DONE WITH IT.
I WAS SUPPORTED DO, AND YOU'RE MUTED.
UM, THAT SEEMS LATELY WE'RE PRONE TO AN AD HOC COMMITTEE FOR EVERYTHING.
REMEMBER FOLKS, EVERY TIME WE FORM AN AD HOC COMMITTEE, WE'RE ADDING STIPENDS, YOU KNOW, WE'RE, WE'RE DRAINING THE TIME OF A STAFF MEMBER WHO MS. WALTON WOULD HAVE TO HAVE THE INPUT HERE TO ENSURE THAT ANY CHANGES THAT COMMITTEE MIGHT WANT TO INSTITUTE COMPORT WITH LAW.
SO, UM, HONESTLY I JUST THINK IT'S A BUSY WORK SESSION.
I DON'T THINK WE NEED ANOTHER POP UP MR. DALLY.
UM, I CHECKING INTO THIS BECAUSE WE'VE HAD SOME NEBULOUS AGENDA DISHES SHOULD ALL, ALL I BELIEVE THAT MR. SMITH IS ASKING FOR IS A TWEAK.
SO I THINK THAT SCHEDULING A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME AT THE WORKSHOP TO RESPECT A MEMBERS WHERE SHE HAS TO HAVE IT DISCUSSED IS PERFECTLY APPROPRIATE.
UM, THE YESES ARE DIALING OR SHACK.
RACHEL WAS NASTY AND WILLIAM SMITH.
UM, WE'RE NOW DOWN TO FUTURE AGENDA TOPICS.