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YOU WANNA READ US OUT? ACCORDING TO THE, TO THE VOTES RECORDED BY THE CLERK, THE SCHOOL BOARD OF WARREN COUNTY DOES HEREBY CERTIFY THAT TO THE BEST OF EACH MEMBER'S KNOWLEDGE, ONE, ONLY PUBLIC BUSINESS MATTERS, LAWFULLY EXEMPTED FROM OPEN MEETING REQUIREMENTS UNDER THE VIRGINIA FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT WERE DISCUSSED IN THE CLOSED MEETING TO WHICH THE CERTIFICATION APPLIES.AND TWO, ONLY SUCH PUBLIC BUSINESS MATTERS AS WERE IDENTIFIED IN THE MOTION BY WHICH THE CLOSED MEETING WAS CONVENED, WERE HEARD, DISCUSSED, OR CONSIDERED BY THE SCHOOL BOARD.
IS THERE A SECOND? DID YOU SECOND MR. VALENTINE? COULD YOU DO ROLL CALL PLEASE? MRS. SALAN? AYE.
[ 2.A. Call to Order - Pledge of Allegiance and Moment of Silence - School Board Chair]
EVERYONE THIS EVENING.IF YOU'LL PLEASE STAND AND JOIN ME FOR THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE, FOLLOWED BY A MOMENT OF SILENCE, A PLEDGE OF TO THRIVE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND REPUBLIC FOR WHICH STANDS, ONE NATION UNDER GOD IN LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL.
[ 2.B. Accept or Modify the Agenda - School Board]
IS THERE A MOTION TO ACCEPT OR MODIFY THE AGENDA THIS EVENING? YES.I MOVE THAT THE AGENDA BE MODIFIED, UM, TO MOVE ITEMS E AND F IN THE ACTION AGENDA, UM, TO THE FRONT OF THE ACTION AGENDA, SO THAT THOSE WILL BE THE FIRST TWO ITEMS. IS THERE A SECOND ON THAT? I SECOND.
[2.C. Recognition of Warren County Public Schools Teachers of the Year - Mr. Smith]
NEXT UP THIS EVENING, WE HAVE RECOGNITION OF WARREN COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS TEACHERS OF THE YEAR, AND MR. SMITH COULDN'T SEE YOU UP THERE.UH, THIS EVENING WE WOULD LIKE TO RECOGNIZE OUR, UH, TEACHERS OF THE YEAR AT OUR, UH, AT OUR SCHOOL SITES, AS WELL AS OUR DIVISION, UH, TEACHER OF THE YEAR.
UH, WE WILL HAVE A, A BANQUET IN AUGUST FOR OUR, UH, TEACHERS OF THE YEAR.
UM, AND AT THIS TIME I'D LIKE TO GO AHEAD AND INTRODUCE OUR, UH, TEACHERS OF THE YEAR.
UM, AND I'LL JUST GO ALPHABETICALLY FROM ELEMENTARY TO HIGH SCHOOL.
UM, OUR AS RHODES TEACHER OF THE YEAR, MS. UH, JULIE SMITH.
UH, SHE'S ACTUALLY UNABLE TO BE HERE THIS EVENING.
SHE HAS A, A CLASS THAT SHE IS TAKING.
BUT, UH, JULIE IS, UH, MS. SMITH IS A SPECIAL EDUCATION TEACHER AT AS ROADS.
UM, SHE HAS BEEN AT AS ROADS AND HAS BEEN IN TEACHING FOR, UH, SEVEN YEARS AND FROM HER PRINCIPAL, MRS. LEHMAN.
UH, MS. LEHMAN STATES THAT JULIE EMBODIES ALL THE QUALITIES OF A GREAT TEACHER.
SHE IS CONSTANTLY SEEKING OUT PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND FEEDBACK TO IMPROVE HER SKILLS.
HER PROFESSIONALISM IS UNPARALLELED AS DIFFICULT SITUATIONS ARRIVE.
JULIE IS ALWAYS CALM, RESPECTFUL, AND CREATIVE WHEN WORKING TOWARDS SOLUTIONS, HER POSITIVE ATTITUDE SHINES THROUGH IN EVERYTHING SHE DOES.
UH, THE FAMILIES OF HER STUDENTS ALWAYS COMMENT ABOUT THE POSITIVE IMPACT JULIE HAS IN THEIR LIVES AND THE LIVES OF THEIR CHILDREN.
PARENTS KNOW EXACTLY HOW THEIR CHILD, UH, IS PERFORMING AS WELL AS THEIR STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES.
SHE SHARES SUGGESTIONS AND RESOURCES FOR ADDITIONAL PRACTICES AND MONITOR STUDENT PROGRESS TOWARD THEIR GOALS.
SO, UNFORTUNATELY, MS. SMITH IS NOT HERE THIS EVENING, BUT, UH, MS. JULIE SMITH IS AS RHODES TEACHER OF THE YEAR.
I THINK MS. ARIEL MCCARTER IS HERE.
ARIEL IS A SPECIAL EDUCATION TEACHER AT E WILSON, WORSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
SHE'S BEEN IN TEACHING FOR SEVEN YEARS AND THREE YEARS IN HER CURRENT POSITION.
MS. KNOX, UH, IN HER LETTER OF RECOMMENDATION FROM MS. MCCARTER IS THAT ARIEL IS PASSIONATE ABOUT TEACHING AND ABOUT SERVING STUDENTS WITH SPECIAL NEEDS.
SHE CAN CONTINUALLY ENRICHES THE CURRICULUM AND SERVES AS A ROLE MODEL IN HER KNOWLEDGE OF STUDENTS WITH SPECIAL NEEDS AND REMEDIATION OF DIFFICULT STUDENT BEHAVIORS.
ARIEL, UM, MODIFIES, UH, STRATEGIES,
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UM, MATERIALS AND GROUPINGS TO OPTIMIZE STUDENTS OPPORTUNITIES TO LEARN.SHE COLLABORATES WITH COLLEAGUES TO USE STUDENTS' DATA TO DRIVE INSTRUCTION AND INTERACTION WITH STUDENTS.
REEXAMINES AND FINE TUNES TEACHING, UH, BASED ON THIS DATA, AND TEACHES STUDENTS HOW TO MONITOR THEIR OWN PROGRESS TOWARD THEIR INDIVIDUAL GOALS.
AND THAT IS, UH, A QUOTE FROM MS. JENNIFER KNOX, THE PRINCIPLE OF E WILSON.
SO, UH, I INTRODUCED, UH, MS. ARIEL MCCARTER, UH, TEACHER OF THE YEAR, E WILSON MORRISON ELEMENTARY.
I GAVE EACH THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK.
UM, AND SO WE'LL, WE'LL SEE HOW THIS GOES.
NEXT WILL BE MISSY JOHNSON FROM HILDA J BARBER.
MISSY IS A FIFTH GRADE, UH, TEACHER, UH, FROM WITH MATH AND SCIENCE.
SHE'S BEEN IN, UH, TEACHING FOR SEVEN YEARS AND SEVEN YEARS IN HER POSITION.
AND, UH, HER PRINCIPAL STATES THAT ONE OF MISSY'S GREATEST STRENGTHS IS HER REMARKABLE ABILITY TO GO ABOVE AND BEYOND AND CREATING A POSITIVE AND INCLUSIVE CLASSROOM CULTURE.
SHE NOT ONLY IPARTS ACADEMIC KNOWLEDGE, BUT ALSO INSTILLS ESSENTIAL LIFE SKILLS, ENCOURAGING CRITICAL THINKING, EMPATHY, AND A SENSE OF RESPONSIBILITY AMONG HER STUDENTS.
SO I INTRODUCE MS. MISSY JOHNSON, TEACHER OF THE YEAR.
MS. OWENS IS THE LESLIE FOX KAISER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TEACHER OF THE YEAR.
SHE'S A FOURTH GRADE MATH AND VIRGINIA STUDIES TEACHER.
SHE HAS 13 YEARS TOTAL OF TEACHING AND SIX YEARS IN THE PRESENT POSITION.
UM, HER MS. VACA, HER PRINCIPAL, STATES THAT HER UPLIFTING SPIRIT AND GENUINE KINDNESS ARE FELT BY EVERYONE FORTUNATE ENOUGH TO INTERACT WITH HER.
SHE IS EXCEPTIONALLY, UH, STUDENT ORIENTED AND DEMONSTRATES AN UNPARALLELED LEVEL OF CARE AND CONSIDERATION FOR ALL CHILDREN.
HER KINDNESS IS NOT ONLY EVIDENT, BUT CELEBRATES AMONG HER STUDENTS WHO SPEAK HIGHLY OF HER WARMTH, APPROACHABILITY, AND GENUINE INTEREST IN THEIR WELLBEING.
AND SO I PRESENT TO YOU, MS. DEVIN OWENS, TEACHER OF THE YEAR, LESLIE FOX, KAISER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, MS. TR, TRISH AKINS ATKINS.
TRISH IS CLOSE AND SHE GETS UP HERE REAL QUICK.
TRISH IS RUSSY JEFFRIES ELEMENTARY, UM, SCHOOL TEACHER OF THE YEAR.
SHE'S BEEN TEACHING FOR 29 YEARS AND 29 YEARS AT SIE JEFFRIES.
A FEW OF HER COLLEAGUES HAD TO SAY THIS ABOUT HER.
TRISH WORKS SO HARD TO MAKE SURE THAT HER STUDENTS ARE LEARNING AT HIGH LEVELS.
SHE IS THE DEFINITION OF A MASTER TEACHER.
SHE IS PROFESSIONAL WITH PARENTS, STUDENTS, AND HER COLLEAGUES.
TRISH HAS BEEN A MODEL FOR WHAT A TEACHER SHOULD LOOK LIKE HERE AT RESI FOR MANY YEARS, AND WE WILL ALL BE SAD TO SEE HER LEAVE WHEN SHE DECIDES TO RETIRE ONE DAY.
SO I PRESENT TO YOU MS. TRISH ATKINS FOR RUY JEFFRIES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
BEN BAILEY, SKYLINE MIDDLE SCHOOL.
MR. BAILEY, UM, TEACHER AT SKYLINE MIDDLE SCHOOL TEACHES SEVENTH GRADE SCIENCE, 21 YEARS OF TOTAL TEACHING EXPERIENCE AND THREE YEARS IN HIS CURRENT POSITION.
HIS COLLEAGUES HAD TO SAY THIS, UH, ABOUT HIM.
HE IS A GREAT TEACHER AND ENGAGES THE STUDENTS IN EVERY LESSON.
HE IS ALSO A GREAT MENTOR TO HIS FELLOW TEACHERS AND HAS LIFTED THE SCIENCE DEPARTMENT HERE AT SMS. I NOMINATE BEN BAILEY FOR TEACHER OF THE YEAR BECAUSE HE HAS, HE HAS BEEN ESSENTIAL IN KEEPING THE SEVENTH GRADE TEAM, UH, AFLOAT FOR THE PAST FEW YEARS.
HE IS AN EXCELLENT LEADER, HE'S PROFESSIONAL, AND IT IS CLEAR THAT HE PUTS THE NEEDS OF HIS STUDENTS BEFORE HIS OWN.
EVERY TIME I SEE WHAT STUDENTS ARE LEARNING ABOUT IN HIS SCIENCE CLASS, I'M INSPIRED BY HIS
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ENGAGING LESSONS AND CREATIVE ACTIVITIES.BEN HAS ALSO BEEN A GREAT EXAMPLE IN MENTOR TO ME, UH, THE LAST YEAR, JUST FOR THIS PAST YEAR.
SO I PRESENT MR. BEN BAILEY, TEACHER OF THE YEAR, SKYLINE MIDDLE SCHOOL, OUR NON-TRADITIONAL PROGRAM.
SHE'S UNABLE TO BE HERE, UH, THIS EVENING.
UM, SHE IS, UH, 10 YEARS INTO TEACHING AND FOUR YEARS AT HER, UH, CURRENT, UH, POSITION.
JACKIE IS ALWAYS WORKING HARD TO TEACH HER STUDENTS, UH, TO THE BEST OF THEIR ABILITIES.
SHE IS ALWAYS READY TO GO ABOVE AND BEYOND HER TEACHING DUTIES TO HELP THE TEAM WITH ANYTHING FROM CALLING PARENTS, COVERING CLASSES, SITTING, UM, IN ON MEETINGS OR MANNING THE FRONT DESK.
SO IT'S WITH GREAT HONOR THAT WE, UH, RECOGNIZE, UH, JACKIE FOR TEACHER OF THE YEAR FOR OUR NON-TRADITIONAL PROGRAMS. WE WILL NOW MOVE TO BLUE RIDGE TECH AND MS. KELLY RACY.
MS. RAEY IS, UH, IS THE BLUE RIDGE, UH, TECHNICAL CENTER TEACHER OF THE YEAR.
UH, SHE IS NO STRANGER TO THIS AWARD.
UM, SHE IS A PROJECT LEAD THE WAY BIO, UH, MEDICAL SCIENCES.
SHE'S BEEN IN TEACHING 27 YEARS AND EIGHT YEARS AT BLUE RIDGE TECH.
UM, FOR MR. VINCE, GREG, UH, KELLY'S CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE STUDENTS AND TEACHERS OF WARREN COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS ARE WELL KNOWN FAR BEYOND THE WALLS OF THE BLUE RIDGE TECH CENTER.
KELLY IS ONE OF THE MOST RESPECTED TEACHERS I HAVE EVER WORKED WITH, BOTH IN MY TIME WITH HER AT SKYLINE HIGH SCHOOL AND BLUE RIDGE TECHNICAL CENTER.
SHE TAKES THE ART OF TEACHING SERIOUSLY, POURING HER HEART AND SOUL INTO LESSONS THAT ENGAGE AND INSTRUCT AS WELL AS INSPIRE.
SO I PRESENT, UH, BLUE RIDGE TECH, UH, TEACHER OF THE YEAR, MS. KELLY RACI.
MR. GILBERT IS A PE A DRIVER'S ED ADVANCED WEIGHTLIFTING TEACHER AT SKYLINE HIGH SCHOOL.
UM, MR. GILBERT HAS 25 YEARS OF, OF SERVICE AND, UH, AND OPENED THERE WITH SKYLINE HIGH SCHOOL WITH 17 YEARS OR SO, UH, BEING THERE, UM, FROM HIS PRINCIPAL.
UM, MS. SPURLING HEATH IS COMMITTED TO DEVELOPING THE EXCELLENCE OF EACH AND EVERY SKYLINE HULK STUDENT, WHETHER IT BE IN THE GYM, THE CLASSROOM, THE HALLWAY, OR ON THE FIELD.
IN ADDITION, HEATH TEACHES THE ADAPTIVE PE CLASS AT SKYLINE HIGH SCHOOL AND ENGAGES STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITIES, ACTIVITY THAT IS FUN, MEANINGFUL, AND ALLOWS EACH STUDENT'S ABILITIES TO SHINE.
SO I PRESENT MR. HEATH GILBERT SKYLINE HIGH SCHOOL TEACHER OF THE YEAR.
NEXT UP FROM WARREN COUNTY, UH, HIGH SCHOOL, MS. LEE MEADOWS.
MS. MEADOWS IS WARREN COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL'S, UH, TEACHER OF THE YEAR.
SHE IS A CTE AGRICULTURE, UH, TEACHER.
SHE HAS 21 YEARS IN THE TEACHING FIELD AND THREE AT WARREN COUNTY, UH, HIGH SCHOOL.
AS THE SPONSOR OF THE FFA PROGRAM, MS. MEADOWS HAS DONE A PHENOMENAL JOB BRINGING A PROGRAM THAT WAS STARTED ONLY A FEW YEARS AGO TO NEW HEIGHTS.
HER STUDENTS TRAVEL THE COMMONWEALTH COMPETING IN EVENTS SUCH AS, UH, SOIL COMPETITIONS, ANIMAL JUDGING, AND PUBLIC SPEAKING UNDER HER LEADERSHIP OF MS. MEADOWS.
OUR STUDENTS NOW TRAVEL TO THE STATE FFA FAIR TO COMPETE AT THE STATE LEVEL AND LEARN ABOUT, UH, THE FFA PROGRAM.
SO I GIVE YOU MS. LEE MEADOWS, WARRING COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL TEACHER OF THE YEAR.
I WILL NOW BRING UP MR. TONY CLARK.
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TONY HAS BROUGHT ALONG AN ENTOURAGE HERE TONIGHT.UM, TONY, UH, TONY CLARK IS WARRING COUNTY MIDDLE SCHOOL TEACHER OF THE YEAR, AND ALSO WARRING COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOL'S DIVISION, UH, TEACHER OF THE YEAR.
UM, MR. CLARK IS A SIXTH GRADE MATH TEACHER AT WARREN COUNTY MIDDLE SCHOOL.
HE HAS 23 YEARS OF TEACH AND EXPERIENCE AND SIX YEARS AT, UH, WARREN COUNTY MIDDLE SCHOOL FROM HIS PRINCIPAL, UH, DR. JOHNSTON.
HE SAYS, WHAT TRULY SETS MR. CLARK APART ARE THE RELATIONSHIPS HE BUILDS WITH HIS STUDENTS.
HE SEAMLESSLY INCORPORATES HUMOR AND REAL, REAL WORLD APPLICATIONS INTO HIS LESSONS, MAKING MATH BOTH ENJOYFUL, UH, ENJOYABLE AND MEANINGFUL FOR HIS STUDENTS.
HE EMPOWERS THEM TO TAKE OWNERSHIP OF THEIR LEARNING, WHERE STUDENTS ALSO FEEL COMFORTABLE TAKING RISK AND EXPLORING MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS AND CONFIDENCE.
SO I PRESENT TO YOU OUR DIVISION TEACHER OF THE YEAR, LONGEST AS WARREN COUNTY MIDDLE SCHOOL TEACHER OF THE YEAR.
THANK YOU SO MUCH TO ALL OF OUR TEACHERS WHO ATTENDED AND FAMILIES WHO ATTENDED THIS EVENING.
AND CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL OF YOU.
I KNOW WE'RE A LITTLE CRAMMED IN AND IT'S STANDING ROOM ONLY, SO IF ANYBODY FEELS LIKE THEY NEED TO, TO STEP OUT, THAT'S OKAY.
UM, WE'RE GONNA MOVE ALONG NOW TO
[2.D. Attendance Award Presentation - Dr. Ballenger]
OUR ATTENDANCE AWARD PRESENTATIONS THIS EVENING.UM, EACH MONTH WE DO OUR ATTENDANCE AWARDS, HONORING THE SCHOOLS THAT HAVE THE HIGHEST ATTENDANCE RATES.
AND SO FOR THIS MONTH, I WOULD LIKE TO RECOGNIZE OUR ELEMENTARY, UM, RECIPIENT WITH A 95.14% ATTENDANCE RATE FOR THE MONTH OF JANUARY.
UM, THEY ARE KIND OF AN OLD HAT TO THIS AWARD, AND SO I WOULD LIKE TO ASK AND PRESENT THIS AWARD TO AS RHODES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
SO I KNOW YOU HAVE A VERY BUSY AGENDA TONIGHT.
UM, WE'RE DOING THE SAME THINGS WE'VE BEEN DOING WITH ATTENDANCE.
IT'S WORKING, SO THERE'S NO NEED TO CHANGE THAT RIGHT NOW.
UM, DEFINITELY IT'S THE SUPPORT OF OUR PARENTS, THEM VALUING EDUCATION, VALUING THAT THEIR CHILD IS IN SCHOOL EVERY DAY.
UM, YOU KNOW, OUR STAFF, YOU KNOW, OUR KIDS WANTING TO BE AT SCHOOL.
SO THE ONLY PEOPLE THAT I HAVEN'T THANKED YET, AND I DO WANT TO THANK OUR CUSTODIAL STAFF, UM, MISS SHARON AND MISS TRISH, THEY DO AN AMAZING JOB.
AND I THINK THAT DEFINITELY HELPS KEEP THE GERMS DOWN.
UM, AND AGAIN, WE, YOU KNOW, EVERY MONTH WE HEAR WHAT ALL THE OTHER SCHOOLS ARE DOING AND I'M LIKE, OH YEAH, THAT'S A GREAT IDEA.
OR WE'VE, YOU KNOW, WE'VE DONE THAT OR WE DO THAT IN OUR OWN LITTLE WAY.
SO WE'RE ALL WORKING REALLY HARD AT ATTENDANCE AND IT JUST KIND OF HAPPENS TO BE THAT IT'S US.
SO CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE OTHERS.
UM, I DID LEAVE SOME GIFTS FOR YOU FOR SCHOOL BOARD APPRECIATION MONTH.
WE APPRECIATE YOUR HARD WORK AND THE TIME THAT YOU DEDICATE TO MAKING SURE THIS IS A PLACE WHERE STUDENTS WANT TO BE, STAFF WANT TO BE.
UM, AND WE REALLY APPRECIATE THE JOB YOU DO.
AND FOR OUR SECONDARY, UM, ATTENDANCE AWARD WITH A ATTEN WITH AN ATTENDANCE RATE OF 92.24% FOR THE MONTH OF JANUARY THAT GOES TO SKYLINE MIDDLE SCHOOL.
HI, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS RECOGNITION.
I'M SHERRY DUNN, I'M THE ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL.
UM, DR. JOHNSTON COULD NOT BE HERE THIS EVENING.
UH, I DO WANT TO JUST ACKNOWLEDGE WE HAVE SOME OF OUR WONDERFUL STUDENTS HERE WITH US.
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AND WE THINK THAT PART OF THE, UH, CONTRIBUTION TO OUR ATTENDANCE RATE IS PROVIDING EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES FOR OUR STUDENTS.UM, WE KNOW IN EDUCATION THAT IT'S NOT ONLY THE CLASSROOM THAT'S IMPORTANT, IT'S ALSO ALL OF THE DIFFERENT AREAS THAT WE CAN PROMOTE TO PEAK INTEREST, UM, TO HELP OUR STUDENTS DETERMINE WHAT THEY'D LIKE TO BE INVOLVED IN, UM, AND TO EXPLORE THOSE AVENUES AS WELL.
UM, SO I HAVE MS. SARAH KENNY WITH ME, WHO IS OUR SIXTH GRADE TEACHER.
AND I HAVE MS. JONES WHO IS ONE OF OUR SPECIAL EDUCATION TEACHERS.
UM, AND THEY HAVE THEIR STUDENTS WITH THEM THAT ARE PART OF THE INTERACT CLUB AS WELL AS THE NATIONAL JUNIOR HONOR SOCIETY.
UM, AND SO I'M GOING TO TURN IT OVER TO THEM.
UM, I'M ALSO THE SPONSOR FOR NATIONAL JUNIOR HONORS SOCIETY AND INTERACT.
UM, OUR INTERACT PROGRAM IS SPONSORED THROUGH THE, UH, WARREN COUNTY ROTARY.
UM, I'M GONNA LET THEM TALK BECAUSE IT'S THEIR TIME TO SHINE, UM, ABOUT SOME OF THE PROJECTS THAT WE'VE DONE.
THEY'RE GONNA TELL YOU A LITTLE BIT ABOUT WHAT'S REQUIRED TO BE A NATIONAL HONOR SOCIETY.
INTERACT IS OPEN TO ANY STUDENT WHO WOULD LIKE TO PARTICIPATE, UM, AND THEN THEY'RE ALSO GONNA TELL YOU A LITTLE BIT ABOUT WHAT WE ARE DOING NEXT WEEK.
I WAS INDUCTED INTO THE NATIONAL JUNIOR HONORS SOCIETY LAST SPRING.
NEXT WEEK WE ARE HAVING A KINDNESS THEME.
SPIRIT WEEK MONDAY IS CRAZY ABOUT KINDNESS.
TUESDAY IS DOUBLE THE KINDNESS DRESS AS A TWIN DAY.
WEDNESDAY IS WE LOVE KINDNESS.
WEAR RED TO SHOW HOW YOU LOVE KINDNESS.
THURSDAY IS DREAM OF A KIND FUTURE.
FRIDAY IS TEAM UP FOR KINDNESS.
WEAR YOUR FAVORITE SPORTS TEAM.
WE WILL ALSO BE PLAYING KINDNESS BINGO TO WIN PRIZES THROUGHOUT THE WEEK.
WE WILL BE COMPETING, KIND, COMPLETING KIND ACTS TOWARD OUR TEACHERS AND FELLOW STUDENTS.
MY NAME IS MELODY AND I'M IN SIXTH GRADE.
MY FAVORITE THING ABOUT INTERACT IS PROBABLY THE THINGS THAT WE DO FOR OUR COMMUNITY.
ONE PROJECT WE DID THIS YEAR WAS WE CREATED POSTERS OF OUR SCHOOL'S EXPECTATIONS TO BE DISPLAYED IN THE HALLWAY.
INTERACT IS ONE OF THE BEST THINGS I'VE EVER BEEN A PART OF, AND I'M REALLY EXCITED TO BE HERE REPRESENTING MY SCHOOL AS WE RECEIVE AN ATTENDANCE AWARD.
HI, MY NAME IS KARA AND I AM IN INTERACT.
WE HAVE COMPLETED A FEW SERVICE PROJECTS THIS YEAR, BUT HERE ARE MY THREE FAVORITE.
THE FIRST ONE IS WE DID CARDS FOR HONOR FLIGHT.
WE WROTE CARDS TO VETERANS WHO ARE PARTICIPATING IN HONOR FLIGHT.
NEXT, WE RANG THE BELL FOR THE SALVATION ARMY.
MS. KENNY WENT WITH US ON A SATURDAY AND DECEMBER TO WALMART TO RING THE BELL FOR DONATIONS FOR PEOPLE IN NEED.
AND MY LAST ONE IS, ONE OF MY PARTICULAR FAVORITES THAT I LOVE THE MOST IS THE WHEELCHAIR PROJECT.
OUR SCHOOL RAISED ABOUT $108 TO HELP FUND WHEELCHAIRS FOR PEOPLE IN NEED THROUGH THE WHEELCHAIR PROJECT.
I WAS IN INDUCTED INTO NATIONAL JUNIOR HONORS SOCIETY LAST SPRING.
THERE ARE FIVE PILLARS TO NJHS MEMBERSHIP THAT CANDIDATES MUST DEMONSTRATE EXCELLENCE AT.
EACH CANDIDATE MUST HAVE AND MAINTAIN A CERTAIN GPA.
THIS INVOLVES VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS MADE WITHOUT COMPENSATION.
CHAPTERS REQUIRE EVIDENCE OF SERVICE TO THE SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY.
STUDENT LEADERS ARE THOSE WHO ARE RE RESOURCEFUL, GOOD PROBLEM SOLVERS AND IDEA CONTR CONTRIBUTORS.
LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCES CAN BE DRAWN FROM SCHOOL OR COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES.
THE STUDENT OF GOOD CHARACTER IS COOPERATIVE, DEMONSTRATES HIGH STANDARDS OF HONESTY AND RELIABILITY, SHOWS COURTESY, CONCERN, AND RESPECT FOR OTHERS.
CITIZENSHIP, THE STUDENT WHO DEMONSTRATES CITIZENSHIP UNDER UNDERSTANDS THE IMPORTANCE OF CIVIC ENGAGEMENT, HAS A HIGH REGARD FOR FREEDOM AND JUSTICE AND RESPECTS DEMOCRACY.
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AND OUR MOST IMPROVED, THEY IMPROVED FROM THE PREVIOUS MONTH BY 3.54%.UH, THEIR ATTENDANCE RATE FOR THE MONTH OF JANUARY WAS 89.03%, AND THAT IS SKYLINE HIGH SCHOOL.
THANK YOU FOR ALLOWING US TO BE PRESENT THIS EVENING TO ACCEPT THIS ATTENDANCE FLAG IN RECOGNITION OF SKYLINE HIGH SCHOOL'S.
MOST IMPROVED ATTENDANCE DURING THE MONTH OF JANUARY.
UM, DANELLE SPERLING PRINCIPLE AND I HAVE DR. REEVES WITH US, UH, ONE OF OUR ASSISTANT PRINCIPALS.
UM, AS AN ADMINISTRATION AND STAFF, WE'VE WORKED REALLY HARD TO ENCOURAGE STUDENTS TO ATTEND SCHOOL REGULARLY AND ON TIME.
THIS IS VERY MUCH A TEAM EFFORT THAT INVOLVES EVERY ADULT AT SKYLINE HIGH SCHOOL.
FROM OUR ADMINISTRATION TO OUR TEACHERS, TO OUR SUPPORT STAFF, AND OUR PARTNERSHIPS WITH STUDENTS AND THEIR FAMILIES.
WE'D LIKE TO TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO THANK YOU FOR THE APPROVAL OF THE ADDITION OF OF THE SCHOOL SAFETY OFFICERS.
UM, THEY CAME ON BOARD IN JANUARY, UH, AT THE START OF A NEW SEMESTER, AND THEY JOINED OUR EXISTING STAFF OF ONE SSO AND ONE SCHOOL RESOURCE OFFICER.
THESE INDIVIDUALS ARE PRESENT IN OUR BUILDING ON A DAILY BASIS, PROVIDING ADULT SUPERVISION, MENTORSHIP, AND STRUCTURE, WHICH SIGNIFICANTLY CONTRIBUTES TO OUR POSITIVE SCHOOL ENVIRONMENT.
THEY'VE MADE A HUMONGOUS DIFFERENCE AND WE ARE SO GRATEFUL FOR THAT.
THEY HELP US TO MANAGE A SYSTEM WE USE CALLED SMART PASS, WHICH IS A DIGITAL PASS SYSTEM THAT ALLOWS STUDENTS AND TEACHERS TO CREATE PASSES TO SPECIFIC LOCATIONS FOR A CERTAIN PERIOD OF TIME.
AS AN SSO AN ADMINISTRATOR OR A STAFF MEMBER ON HALL DUTY, WE CAN LOOK ON OUR PHONE AT A HANDY APP AND SEE WHICH STUDENTS ARE CURRENTLY OUT FROM WHICH CLASS, WHERE THEY INTENDED TO GO, AND HOW LONG THEY HAVE BEEN GONE.
WHILE THIS PROGRAM DOES COME WITH A SUBSCRIPTION FEE, IT HAS PROVIDED US WITH A MUCH NEEDED STRUCTURE AND HAS RESULTED IN STUDENTS BEING OUT OF THE HALLS AND IN OUR CLASSROOMS, LEARNING AND CONTRIBUTING TO INCREASED ACCOUNTABILITY FOR ON-TIME ATTENDANCE AND BETTER EDUCATIONAL OUTCOMES.
ANOTHER METHOD WE USED TO CREATE POSITIVE CONNECTIONS TO SCHOOL WAS OUR HAWK CLUBS, WHERE STUDENTS HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO CHOOSE TO PARTICIPATE IN A CLUB TWICE PER MONTH DURING THE SCHOOL DAY IN THINGS LIKE FFA, NATIONAL HONOR SOCIETY, KEY CLUB, WALKING CLUB, ANIME CLUB, HAWK FIT CLUB, AND MANY, MANY MORE.
THESE CLUBS CONNECT LIKE-MINDED STUDENTS AND ADULTS WITH EACH OTHER IN A NON-ACADEMIC SETTING, WHICH CONTRIBUTES TO A SENSE OF BELONGING AND HAWK PRIDE.
ALL OF THESE THINGS SOLIDIFY OUR COMMITMENT TO OUR SAFE AND ORDERLY LEARNING ENVIRONMENT AT SKYLINE THAT ALLOWS OUR TEACHERS TO TEACH OUR STUDENTS TO FEEL WELCOME AND ENGAGE IN MEANINGFUL LEARNING IN OUR CLASSROOMS. THIS MOST APPROVED ATTENDANCE FLAG HIGHLIGHTS THE PROGRESS THAT WE HAVE MADE TOWARDS THAT GOAL, AND WE CONTINUE TO SUPPORT STUDENTS TO SET THE FOUNDATION FOR THEIR ACADEMIC SUCCESS, THEIR PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT, AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, WIDE ACCESS TO FUTURE OPPORTUNITIES IN LIFE.
I SEE MS. OAKLAND PATIENTLY WAITING BACK THERE WITH SOME PATIENT STUDENTS.
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FOR SOME SCHOOL REPORTS.AND WE'RE, WE ARE GOING TO START WITH RUSI JEFFREY.
SO I WOULD ASK, UM, MS. HELME TO COME UP WHILE OUR KIDDO KIDDOS ARE GETTING READY.
I JUST WANTED TO SAY WE'RE CERTAINLY NOT WEARING OUR HATS BECAUSE IT'S SCHOOL IN HERE.
YOU NEED TO TALK TO THE FACILITY DIRECTOR
TONIGHT IS THE NIGHT THAT RUY JEFFRIES GETS TO COME AND SHOWCASE SOME OF OUR, UH, EXCITING THINGS THAT ARE HAPPENING
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AT OUR SCHOOL.UH, FIRST WE'D LIKE TO SAY THANK YOU TO OUR BOARD FOR, UH, APPRECIATION WEEK.
WE HAVE A LITTLE SOMETHING FOR YOU FROM RESCUE JEFFERIES.
SO THANK YOU FOR ALL YOU DO FOR, UH, STAFF, STUDENTS AND FAMILIES OF RESCUE JEFFERIES.
SECOND, I'D LIKE TO THANK ALL THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK THAT BROUGHT THEIR STUDENTS TODAY THAT ARE LETTING, UH, US SHARE THEM WITH YOU TONIGHT.
UM, I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE A GOOD IDEA MAYBE TO SHOWCASE SOME OF THE THINGS THAT WE DO OTHER THAN TEACH, LEARN, AND, UH, ALL THE OTHER THINGS THAT GO ON IN OUR SCHOOL.
I MEAN, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE TEACHING AND LEARNING, BUT YOU KNOW, ALL THE ACADEMIC STUFF.
WE ARE TEACHING THE WHOLE CHILD AND THERE ARE SO MANY COMPONENTS THAT GO INTO TEACHING THE WHOLE CHILD THAT WE WANTED TO SHOWCASE A LITTLE BIT OF THAT TODAY AS WELL.
SO WE HAVE OUR COUNSELORS HERE TO TALK ABOUT OUR COUNSELING PROGRAM.
WE HAVE MR. SIMMONS, HE'S NOT HERE, BUT MS. BRADLEY'S GONNA SPEAK ON HIS BEHALF ABOUT OUR PE PROGRAM.
AND THEN WE HAVE MISS OAKLAND AND OUR JAZZY JAGUARS HERE TO SHARE A SONG WITH YOU.
SO I'LL LET COUNSELORS SPEAK FIRST.
I'M THE SCHOOL COUNSELOR AT RUSTY JEFFRIES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, AND I, UM, USUALLY WORK WITH CHILDREN K THROUGH SECOND.
UM, THANK YOU FOR ALLOWING US TO BE HERE AND SHOW EVERYONE WHAT WE'RE DOING AT RESI AND ESPECIALLY FOR KINDNESS MONTH.
COME RIGHT, RIGHT HERE IN FEBRUARY.
UM, WE'RE HAPPY TO BE HERE TO SHOW THAT.
UM, SO FOR KINDNESS MONTH AT RESI, WE UH, STARTED A SCHOOL-WIDE INITIATIVE WHERE STUDENTS CAN SHOW HOW KIND THEY ARE.
AND THROUGH THAT, UH, WE, THIS INITIATIVE, WE, WE CALL IT THE, UM, LINKED TOGETHER BY KINDNESS AND LOVE AND ALL STUDENTS WHO OBSERVED, UH, BEING KIND OR REWARDED WITH A STRIP OF KINDNESS.
UM, ALL, UM, THE STRIP OF KINDNESS IS THEN ADDED TO A PAPER LINK.
UM, AND AS THEIR STUDENTS SHOW, AS, AS THE STUDENTS SHOW THEIR KINDNESS, UM, IT, THE LOVE CHAIN BECOMES LONGER AND GROWS.
AND AT THE END OF THE MONTH, WE CAN'T WAIT TO SEE HOW FAR OUR KINDNESS GOES.
UM, THE LOVE CHAIN BE BEGINS IN OUR SPECIALS HALLWAY AND NOW IS REACHING JUST WITHIN A WEEK OUT INTO OUR FIRST GRADE HALLWAY.
UM, IN ADDITION TO OUR SCHOOLWIDE INITIATIVE, THE SECOND GRADERS AT RESE ARE, UM, PARTICIPATING IN A LIKE NATIONWIDE INITIATIVE OR MOVEMENT.
THE PROJECT IS CALLED HATE, OR I'M SORRY, HAT NOT HATE.
UM, AND HAT NOT HATE IS A PROGRAM THAT DISTRIBUTES HOMEMADE BLUE HATS, UM, TO SCHOOLS IN AN EFFORT TO BRING AWARENESS TO BULLYING AND PUT A STOP TO IT.
SO STUDENTS IN THE SECOND GRADE LEARN ABOUT THE PROGRAM AND THE RESPONSIBILITY OF WEARING THE BLUE HATS THROUGH SCHOOL GUIDANCE CLASSES.
AND THEY LEARN THAT THESE HATS REMIND EVERYONE THAT IT'S OKAY TO BE DIFFERENT.
AND JUST LIKE EACH OF US WE'RE DIFFERENT.
SO THROUGHOUT THE MONTH, IF YOU SEE A SECOND GRADER AT RUSTY WEARING A BLUE HAT, REMEMBER THESE HATS REPRESENT HOW UNIQUE WE ALL ARE THAT IT'S OKAY TO BE DIFFERENT AND THAT WE ARE ALL A PART OF A THE MISSION TO STOP BULLYING.
SO CONTINUING OFF OF MS. CHARLES'S DISCUSSION OF KINDNESS MONTH, UM, ALL OF OUR OTHER GRADE LEVELS ARE ALSO RECEIVING CLASS LESSONS THROUGH GUIDANCE ON KINDNESS AND ACCEPTING OTHERS.
THIS MONTH I KNOW MY FOURTH GRADERS WHO HAVE RECEIVED THE KINDNESS ESCAPE ROOM PARTICULARLY ENJOYED THAT.
THIS MONTH, UH, WE HAVE DAILY ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM OUR LOVELY ADMINISTRATORS TO REMIND EVERYONE OF KINDNESS MONTH AND ALL OF OUR INITIATIVES.
AND ALSO WE'VE PROVIDED EVERY STUDENT WITH A LIST OF VERY SIMPLE ACTS OF KINDNESS TO SPREAD.
AND THEN WE HAVE LOTS OF PRIZES AND DIFFERENT WAYS THAT WE ARE REWARDING AND CELEBRATING THOSE STUDENTS WHO DO COMPLETE THOSE KIND ACTS FOR OUR STAFF, WE HAVE COMBINED KINDNESS MONTH WITH NATIONAL SCHOOL COUNSELING WEEK.
ALL OF OUR STAFF HAVE RECEIVED A BINGO BOARD WHERE THEY CAN CHOOSE WHICH ACTS OF KINDNESS THEY PERFORM, WHETHER IT'S TO OTHERS OR JUST THEMSELVES.
THEY CAN ALSO CHOOSE TO PICK UP SOME QUICK SIMPLE RESOURCES FOR THEIR STUDENTS AND CLASSES AND THEN WHAT INFORMATION THEY WANNA LEARN ABOUT SCHOOL COUNSELING PROGRAMS. THEN WE ARE GONNA BE RAFFLING OFF TWO AMAZON GIFT CARDS FOR OUR STAFF WHO GET BINGO.
AND WE'VE ALREADY HAD SEVERAL TURNED IN IN JUST A COUPLE OF DAYS.
UM, IN CONJUNCTION WITH OUR KINDNESS MONTH, WE ARE ALSO CURRENTLY HOSTING OUR ANNUAL FOOD DRIVE TO BENEFIT THE BACKPACK BUDDIES PROGRAM AT RESI.
THIS PROGRAM HAS BEEN PROVIDING FOOD FOR WELL OVER 200 KIDS EACH WEEKEND AND SCHOOL BREAK THIS YEAR.
THAT NUMBER IS LARGELY RESI STUDENTS, BUT ALSO DOES INCLUDE SOME YOUNGER SIBLINGS WHO AREN'T YET SCHOOL AGE.
IT DOES NOT INCLUDE ANY OTHER SCHOOL.
SO THAT 200 IS VERY MUCH OUR RESI FAMILIES THAT WE'RE SERVING.
UM, OUR BACKPACK PROGRAM DOES DEPEND ON THIS FOOD DRIVE AND THE COMMUNITY DONATIONS EACH YEAR.
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SO WE HOPE TO SEE LOTS OF DONATIONS COMING INTO RESI THIS MONTH.OR HOPEFULLY PEOPLE REACH OUT TO CALVARY EPISCOPAL CHURCH WHO WE ARE PAIRED UP WITH AND THEY CAN JUST DONATE STRAIGHT TO THEM AS WELL.
AND LAST BUT DEFINITELY NOT LEAST, UM, MS. CHARLES AND I HAVE REALLY BEEN GOING ABOVE AND BEYOND THE MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS FOR OUR SCHOOL COUNSELING PROGRAM THIS YEAR BY IMPLEMENTING SOMETHING CALLED OUR NATIONAL MODEL.
PROGRAMS THAT FOLLOW THIS MODEL REALLY ARE EVIDENCE-BASED AND DATA-DRIVEN.
THEY USE DATA TO DRIVE INTERVENTIONS AND THEN LATER REFLECT ON THEM TO SEE THE IMPACT THAT WE'VE HAD ON OUR STUDENTS.
AND WE ARE REALLY EXCITED TO BE CURRENTLY WORKING ON AN APPLICATION FOR NATIONAL RECOGNITION FOR OUR SCHOOL COUNSELING PROGRAM.
THE APPLICATION'S DUE IN OCTOBER, SO WE STILL HAVE A LONG TIME TO WORK ON IT, BUT HOPEFULLY NEXT YEAR AT THIS TIME WE'LL BE ABLE TO GIVE YOU SOME FEEDBACK ON THAT FIRST ATTEMPT AT RECOGNITION ON THE NATIONAL LEVEL.
SO THANK YOU FOR LETTING US SHARE ABOUT OUR SCHOOL COUNSELING PROGRAM, ESPECIALLY WITH IT BEING NATIONAL SCHOOL COUNSELING WEEK.
SO I TOLD MR. SIMMONS I WOULD DO HIM PROUD AND TALK ABOUT HIS BIKES.
AND THIS AFTERNOON I WAS HANDED A VERY DETAILED SHEET TO READ.
CURRENTLY 1,238 SCHOOLS IN ALL 50 STATES ARE USING THIS PROGRAM DURING KINDERGARTEN PHYSICAL EDUCATION CLASSES.
OUR JOURNEY BEGAN EARLY IN 2022 WHEN WE HEARD ABOUT ALL KIDS BIKE FROM A SCHOOL IN A NEIGHBORING COUNTY.
WE APPLIED TO BE A PART OF THE PROGRAM IN MARCH OF 2022 AND WE WERE APPROVED SHORTLY THEREAFTER.
WE IMMEDIATELY BEGAN FUNDRAISING BY SHARING OUR PLANS VIA WORD OF MOUTH AND SOCIAL MEDIA.
DONATIONS BEGAN COMING IN FROM COMMUNITY MEMBERS AND FRIENDS FROM AFAR.
WE WERE CONTACTED BY SEVERAL INDIVIDUALS AS WELL AS ORGANIZATIONS ASKING HOW THEY COULD HELP.
OUR TIMING WAS PERFECT AS WE WERE ABLE TO APPLY FOR A GRANT WITH THE FRONT ROYAL ROTARY CLUB ON THE VERY LAST DAY.
UPON A PRESENTATION TO THE ROTARY, WE WERE SELECTED AS A WINNER IN THE AMOUNT OF $3,000.
WE WERE ALSO CONTACTED BY THE FRONT ROYAL MOOSE RIDERS, WHO ALSO WROTE A SIZABLE CHECK TO FINISH FUNDING THE PROGRAM.
BECAUSE OF OUR GENEROUS COMMUNITY HERE IN FRONT ROYAL AS WELL AS THESE ORGANIZATIONS, WE WERE FULLY FUNDED BY JUNE 9TH, WE RECEIVED OUR BIKES.
IN AUGUST OF 2022, WE BEGAN TEACHING OUR KINDERGARTNERS HOW TO RIDE IN FEBRUARY OF 23.
WITH THE HELP OF MANY STAFF MEMBERS AND PARENTS, WE CHANGED OUR SCHEDULE SO THAT WE SEE EACH KINDERGARTEN CLASS FOR FIVE DAYS IN A ROW TO MAKE THE PROCESS RUN SMOOTHLY.
DAY ONE CONSISTS OF GETTING EACH STUDENT FIT TO THEIR BIKE AND HELMET AND THEN GETTING THEM USED TO THE BIKE.
THAT IS THE BEST DAY, THAT IS THE MOST PRECIOUS DAY.
ON DAY FOUR AND FIVE, THE PEDAL KITS ARE INSTALLED ON THE BIKE AND THE STUDENTS BEGAN LEARNING TO USE THEIR PEDALS TO MOVE THE BIKE FORWARD WHILE SITTING STILL BEING ABLE TO PUT THEIR FEET DOWN IF NECESSARY.
YEAR ONE WAS A HUGE SUCCESS AND IT WAS VERY EXCITING TO SEE CHILDREN WHO WERE VERY HESITANT TO EVEN GET ON THE BIKE BE PEDALING AND RIDING BY FRIDAY'S CLASS.
WE START YEAR TWO OF THIS PROGRAM ON FEBRUARY 20TH AND CAN'T WAIT TO GET STARTED.
WE INVITE ALL OF YOU, ANY OF YOU TO COME AND SEE THE KINDERGARTNERS.
IT RUNS FOR PROBABLY SIX WEEKS WITH OUR SIX CLASSES.
SO STARTING FEBRUARY 20TH, 1150 TO 1235.
ANYTIME DURING THE THAT SIX WEEKS, WE'D LOVE FOR YOU GUYS TO COME AND SEE 'EM.
I'M KIM OKLA, THE MUSIC TEACHER AT SSI JEFFRIES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
AND MANY OF YOU ALREADY KNOW ME.
AS I OFTEN SAY, I HAVE BEEN HERE SO LONG.
I HAVE GRAND STUDENTS, MEANING I TAUGHT THEIR PARENTS, MANY OF WHICH ARE IN THE, UH, AUDIENCE TONIGHT AT RESI.
OUR YOUNGER GRADES SPEND MUCH OF THEIR MUSIC CLASSES PRACTICING, KEEPING THE BEAT, LEARNING BASIC MUSIC ELEMENTS, SINGING, DANCING, AND PLAYING A VARIETY OF CLASSROOM INSTRUMENTS.
IN THIRD AND FOURTH GRADE, WE PLAY THE RECORDER, WHICH DESPITE ONE PARENT TELLING ME IT IS, THE INSTRUMENT OF THE DEVIL IS AN INSTRUMENT THAT DATES BACK TO BEFORE THE RENAISSANCE AND IS EASY TO LEARN AND FUN TO PLAY.
AND WE HAD NOT STARTED OUR RECORDER UNIT, WE JUST STARTED IT THIS WEEK.
SO WE DIDN'T BRING ANY RECORDERS TO SHARE WITH YOU.
UM, IN FIFTH GRADE, WE PLAY THE UKULELE, ANOTHER INSTRUMENT THAT IS FUN TO LEARN AND PLAY.
AND SINCE MY STUDENTS AND I WANT TO GET TO THE GOOD STUFF, I'M GONNA COME BACK NEXT MONTH DURING MUSIC IN OUR SCHOOL'S MONTH TO SHARE HOW IMPORTANT MUSIC EDUCATION IS TO LITERACY AND OUR CORE SUBJECTS.
TONIGHT, HOWEVER, I WOULD LIKE TO INTRODUCE YOU TO A GROUP OF THIRD, FOURTH, AND FIFTH GRADE STUDENTS WHO WILL PLAY BUCKET DRUMS, UKULELES, AND SING AND DANCE.
AND WOULD YOU LIKE TO HEAR THEIR NAMES? SURE.
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OKAY.I'M GONNA GO DOWN MY LIST REALLY QUICK HERE.
'CAUSE THEY WANNA GET TO PLAY.
RAISE YOUR HAND WHEN I CALL YOUR NAME.
ADDIE ADAMS. MILEY GOODE, MACY HOT.
EVAN BARRETT, WYATT ONG, SOPHIA ROSSIUS.
HE, JUDE, HE CHARLOTTE WELLER AND BLAKE ADAMS. DID I MISS ANYONE? WE HAD A COUPLE STUDENTS THAT WERE ON THE LIST THAT DIDN'T GET TO COME.
SINCE FEBRUARY IS AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY MONTH, WE THOUGHT IT WOULD BE APPROPRIATE TO SHARE OUR VERSION OF FUNGI ALAFIA.
THIS IS A GREETING SONG FROM THE WESTERN PART OF AFRICA WITH VARIATIONS FROM NIGERIA, LIBERIA, SENEGAL, ALI, GHANA, AND SEVERAL OTHER COUNTRIES IN THAT REGION.
AND WHILE THERE ARE MANY DIALECTS IN AFRICA, OR WHILE THERE ARE MANY DIALECTS IN AFRICA, OURS, OUR VERSION IS IN THE YUBA LANGUAGE.
ALAFIA MEANS PEACE AND ASHE MEANS, AND SO IT IS, WHEN WE PUT THESE WORDS TOGETHER, OUR OUR SONG MEANS WELCOME.
AND SO IT IS, WE'RE GLAD YOU'RE HERE.
AND THEY WILL HAVE SOME MOTIONS THAT SHOW YOU, YOU KNOW, WITH OUR EYES.
WE WELCOME YOU AND DIFFERENT THINGS.
THANK YOU EVERYONE FROM RESI AND OUR JAZZY JAGUARS ESPECIALLY.
WE'LL GIVE A SECOND FOR PARENTS AND EVERYBODY TO CLEAR.
NO, MR. GREG BLUE RIDGE TECH IS HERE.
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OH GOODNESS.I THINK UP NEXT WE HAVE A REPORT FROM BLUE RIDGE TECH.
TALK ABOUT A CLASSIC CASE OF SHOULD HAVE GONE FIRST.
I DON'T KNOW HOW WE FOLLOW THAT, BUT WE'RE GONNA TRY.
UH, MY NAME'S VINCE GREG, I'M THE PRINCIPAL OF THE BLUE RIDGE TECH CENTER.
I HATE TO SAY IT BECAUSE I KNOW THERE'S OTHER SCHOOL SYSTEM EMPLOYEES HERE, BUT I REALLY BELIEVE I HAVE THE COOLEST JOB IN THE COUNTY.
UM, AND THAT'S LARGELY BECAUSE I GET TO HANG OUT WITH A WONDERFUL GROUP OF TEACHERS AND JUST AN AWESOME GROUP OF STUDENTS.
SO, UH, FEBRUARY IS ALSO A CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION MONTH.
SO WE THOUGHT WE WOULD START OUT TONIGHT, UH, BY JUST GIVING YOU GUYS KIND OF A, A, A VIEW OF SOME OF OUR PROGRAMS. I THINK THE FIRST ONE WE'RE GONNA LOOK AT IS OUR CRIMINAL JUSTICE PROGRAM.
IT'S A RELATIVELY NEW PROGRAM TO THE COUNTY, BUT IT IS VERY POPULAR WITH THE KIDS.
I THINK THAT'S LARGELY DUE JUST TO WHAT MR. WOLF BRINGS TO THE CLASS, THE ENERGY, UM, AND JUST THE EXPERIENCE THAT HE BRINGS IS TOP NOTCH.
HE HAS TWO CRIMINAL JUSTICE STUDENTS WITH HIM TODAY.
I BELIEVE THEY WERE OUT IN THE PARKING LOT CHECKING STATE INSPECTION STICKERS.
SO IF THERE'S A CITATION ON YOUR CAR, SEE THEM BOOTED YOU.
SO GUYS, GUYS, IF YOU HAVE ANYTHING TO SAY, COME ON UP.
WE ARE 12TH GRADE STUDENTS AT WARREN COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL.
AND THIS IS OUR SECOND YEAR OF TAKING MUST WOLF'S CLASS.
WE ARE IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE TWO THIS YEAR.
UM, MR. WOLF HAS ALWAYS PROVIDED A WIDE RANGE OF ANY SORT OF CAREER OPTION THAT WAS OUTSIDE OF ANY SORT OF LAW ENFORCEMENT OR CRIMINAL JUSTICE PROGRAM.
WHETHER IT BE THE MILITARY, UH, MS. DORSEY, UH, PLANS TO BECOME A CONSERVATION OFFICER AFTER GRADUATION.
I DO NOT PLAN TO GO INTO LAW ENFORCEMENT, BUT NONETHELESS, MR. WOLF HAS ALWAYS WELCOMED ME WITH OPEN ARMS AND EVERYTHING THAT HE DOES.
AND HE'S ALWAYS PRESENTED A WIDE RANGE OF OPPORTUNITIES FOR SOMETHING FOR SOMEONE LIKE ME WHO HAS NO PLANS OF GOING INTO CRIMINAL JUSTICE.
SO, AS CONNOR SAID, I PLAN ON BECOMING A CONSERVATION OFFICER.
HOPEFULLY EVERYTHING WORKS OUT.
BUT, UM, MR. WOLF DEFINITELY PROVIDES A WHOLE LOT FOR US AS I AM ONE OF THE FEW PEOPLE THAT ACTUALLY WANNA GO INTO IT.
BUT DEFINITELY GIVE ME THE CONTEXT THAT I MAY NEED EVENTUALLY WHEN I FINALLY GRADUATE AND START GOING INTO IT.
SO HE DEFINITELY REACHES ALL THE RANGE.
HAVING ALL THE MILITARY COME IN, ARMY NAVY.
AND DEFINITELY HIS EXPERIENCE AS A POLICE OFFICER AND GOING INTO THE ARMY IS DEFINITELY WHAT HELPS US BECAUSE HE CAN GIVE US A LITTLE PIECE OF WHAT HE DOES IN THE FIELD AND HAS DONE AND THE EXPERIENCE, BUT ALSO GET TO WATCH IT IN YOUTUBE VIDEOS AND TALK TO DIFFERENT PEOPLE THAT HE HAS MET OVER THE TIME.
WE'VE HAD A WIDE RANGE OF GUEST SPEAKERS COME IN.
WE'VE HAD THE MARINE CORPS'S, AIR FORCE, NAVY, COAST GUARD.
WE'VE HAD CIRCUIT COURT JUDGES.
A CIRCUIT, CIRCUIT, CIRCUIT COURT JUDGE COME IN AND SPEAK TO EVERYONE.
NO MATTER WHAT ANYBODY WANTS TO DO, HE WILL AL HE ALWAYS KNOWS SOMEBODY TO CALL.
UM, DO YOU WANNA GET INTO THE DEMONSTRATION? YES.
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CRIMINAL JUSTICE TEACHES EVERYBODY IMPORTANT LIFE SKILLS.WHETHER IT IS ALWAYS KEEPING AN EYE ON YOURSELF, YOUR PARTNER.
COMPLEX PROBLEM SOLVING SKILLS, MENTAL HEALTH.
AND TO ALWAYS HELP SOMEONE WHO MIGHT NOT KNOW THAT THEY NEED HELP.
MORE IMPORTANTLY, HE HAS TAUGHT US HOW TO SUCCESSFULLY AND RIGHTFULLY PUT SOMEONE IN HANDCUFFS.
OF WHICH WE HAVE A GREAT NEED THAT
AND WE CAN LEAD THEM ON FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE NIGHT.
THE OFFICER, THE OFFICER WILL ALWAYS ASK THE PERSON BEING ARRESTED TO INTERLOCK THEIR FINGERS AND TAKE A HOLD AT THE VERY TOP.
AND TO ENSURE THEIR SAFETY THAT THEY CAN'T BREAK AWAY OR TURN AROUND AND, AND HARM THE OFFICER.
THEY WANT CUBS OVER THEIR ARMS. YOU'LL KNOW YOU HAVE IT RIGHT? BECAUSE THE KEYHOLE WILL BE FACING THE INSIDE OF YOUR PALM.
NOW YOU NOW YOU JUST HAVE YEAH.
WE CAN ALWAYS SHOW YOU HOW TO DOUBLE WATCH ANY DAY.
HEY, WHILE, WHILE THEY'RE DOING THAT, JUST A PLUG FOR THE REST OF THESE TEACHERS.
BALLINGER, I KNOW YOU'VE BEEN BY, BUT THIS IS GOLDEN HERE.
UH, THESE TEACHERS AND WHAT WE DO FOR WHAT WE DO, WHAT WE DO FOR THE KIDS, THE THE DOORS THAT WE OPEN FOR THEM, UH, THEY'RE YOUNG ADULTS.
I MEAN, TOMORROW THEY'RE GONNA BE THE VOTERS.
I TOLD 'EM, YOU DON'T LIKE THE WORLD.
AND I MEAN THAT, YOU KNOW, I MEAN, SO WE GO THROUGH EVERYTHING AS CONNOR SAID, AND I KNOW THAT THESE FOLKS DO.
WE'RE GETTING THESE FOLKS OUT HERE INTO THE WORKFORCE AND IT'S THE GREATEST THING THAT I'VE EVER BEEN A PART OF.
I JUST HOPE NOBODY ELSE GETS HANDCUFFED AT THIS MEETING TONIGHT.
UH, SO UP NEXT I LIKE TO THINK OF THE PHRASE GIRL POWER.
SHE'S CRINGING WHEN I SAY THAT.
BUT I'M THE, I'M THE PROUD FATHER OF A DAUGHTER.
SHE HAPPENS TO BE BACK HERE WATCHING.
UM, AND SO WE HAVE A YOUNG LADY NAMED DELILAH.
SHE HAS TAKEN PRETTY MUCH ANY CLASS THAT WE OFFER AT THE BLUE RIDGE TECH CENTER THAT IS FOCUSED ON THE TRADES.
SHE'S PLANNING ON BEING A LINES WOMAN AND IF IT IS AN OPPORTUNITY THAT WE CAN OFFER, SHE JUMPS ON IT.
SO SHE WANTED AN OPPORTUNITY JUST TO COME UP AND, AND TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT HER EXPERIENCES.
UM, SO I JUST REALLY APPRECIATE BLUERIDGE 'CAUSE THEY HAVE OFFERED EVERY OPPORTUNITY POSSIBLE TO JUST PROVIDE ME WITH ANY INFORMATION AND ANY EDUCATION THAT I CAN GET.
I'VE TAKEN, TAKEN CARPENTRY, ELECTRICAL.
I'VE TAKEN BIOMEDICAL STUDIES.
UM, AND JUST, IT'S AMAZING HOW IF YOU'RE WILLING TO PUT AN EFFORT, THEY JUST JUMP ON IT AND THEY'RE WILLING TO JUST SIT THERE AND BE LIKE, YES, WE CAN DO ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING FOR YOU TO HELP YOU GET TO WHERE YOU WANNA BE.
AND UM, THEY'RE EVEN HELPING ME RIGHT NOW, HOPEFULLY GETTING A CONTRACT WITH A CONSTRUCTION COMPANY TO WORK WITH THEM OVER SUMMER.
AND, UM, THEY'VE JUST DONE SO MUCH FOR ME AND I REALLY APPRECIATE IT.
AND UM, THIS WASN'T EVEN REALLY WHERE I WAS PLANNING ON GOING WHEN I WAS IN MIDDLE SCHOOL.
'CAUSE I WAS GOING TO SCHOOL IN LOUDOUN COUNTY.
I WAS SUPPOSED TO GO TO COLLEGE IN HIGH SCHOOL AND THAT WAS LIKE THE BEST HIGH SCHOOL TO GO TO.
BUT THEY DIDN'T OFFER ANY CLASSES LIKE THIS.
THEY DIDN'T HAVE A TECHNICAL SCHOOL.
AND JUST THE WAY THAT PEOPLE MAY VIEW THESE SCHOOLS AS NOT AS GOOD OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT, JUST BECAUSE WE MAY NOT BE AS FANCY OR ANYTHING, BUT THEY OFFERED ME SO MANY MORE OPPORTUNITIES AND JUST GOING TO COLLEGE AND BECOMING A LAWYER, THEY SHOWED ME THAT THERE'S SO MANY MORE WAYS TO BE SUCCESSFUL AND HAPPY IN LIFE AND DIDN'T JUST DO THE NORMAL GO INTO YOUR CAREER IMMEDIATELY IN DEBT.
AND, UM, I JUST REALLY, REALLY APPRECIATE IT AND I'M HAPPY THAT I CAME HERE FOR MY HIGH SCHOOL CAREER AND THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
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THANK YOU DELILAH.ALRIGHT, UP NEXT IS OUR ENGINEERING PROGRAM.
UH, OUR TEACHER, MR. SEARS, I LIKE TO SAY HE HAS THE UNIQUE ABILITY TO TAKE REALLY ROWDY, UH, 15-YEAR-OLD BOYS AND TURN THEM INTO ENGINEERS.
I MEAN, IT'S AMAZING SOME OF THE KIDS THAT HE HAS GOTTEN MOTIVATED AND INSPIRED AND ARCHITECTURE AND ENGINEERING.
UM, SO LIKE I SAID, HE'S IN CHARGE OF OUR PROJECT LEAD THE WAY ENGINEERING PROGRAM.
AND HE HAS ONE OF HIS STUDENTS, KYLA RAMEY KYLER WAS WITH, UH, MR. SEARS LAST SEMESTER.
AND I BELIEVE YOU'RE TAKING CARPENTRY TWO THIS SEMESTER, RIGHT? YEAH.
AND I'M NOT GONNA GIVE KYLER THE FLOOR 'CAUSE I'M NOT SURE WHAT HE'LL SAY, BUT, UH, WHAT YOU HAVE IN FRONT OF YOU IS SOME OF THE WORD KYLER WOULD WANT YOU TO TURN TO PAGE SIX AND SEVEN TO LOOK AT THE PRAYER ROOM.
THIS IS WHAT WE DID AS OUR SUBMISSION FOR THE WASHINGTON COMMANDERS', UH, NEW STADIUM, OBVIOUSLY THEY HAVE SOMEBODY DOING IT PROFESSIONALLY, BUT KYLER THOUGHT THEY NEEDED A PRAYER ROOM.
AND IF YOU OUT FOLLOW THE COMMANDERS, YOU WOULD KNOW WHY.
BUT HE ALSO, IF YOU LOOK AT PAGE SEVEN, THERE'S UH, THE STORE.
AND ONE OF THE GREAT THINGS ABOUT THIS EXERCISE WAS WE WERE ABLE TO TAKE THE CAD PROGRAM THEY LEARNED IN AS FRESHMEN AND MAKE ALL THOSE COMPONENTS.
YOU SEE ALL THE POSTERS ON THE WALL AND EVERYTHING.
THEY WERE ABLE TO MAKE THOSE, TAKE 'EM INTO REVIT, WHICH IS THE PROGRAM THAT MAKES THE BUILDING.
UNFORTUNATELY OUR SEATS DIDN'T FIT IN THE STADIUM.
SO, UH, IT WAS A, IT WAS A BIG BITE AND UH, WE CHOKED ON IT A LITTLE BIT, BUT THAT'S OKAY.
WE DID REALLY WELL AND WE GOT TO GO WATCH A FOOTBALL GAME.
THE GREAT THING IS WE TAUGHT THIS CLASS BACKWARDS BECAUSE OF THE CLASS.
AND I WOULD SAY TURN TO PAGE 10, IT'S GOT ALL THE NUMBERS ON HOW MANY BATHROOMS YOU NEED FOR WOMEN AND MEN.
AND WE WERE ABLE TO COVER ALL THOSE THINGS THAT THEY NEEDED TO LEARN AS WE WENT THROUGH.
AND I WAS A LITTLE WORRIED, UH, TO BE HONEST, THAT UH, BECAUSE WE TOOK THIS BIG BITE THAT THEY WERE GONNA SUFFER AT THEIR INTERCOURSE TEST.
I HAD A GREAT GROUP OF KIDS, I'M GONNA BRAG ON THEM, I HOPE HE TURNS RED.
BUT OUR CLASS, UH, SEVEN INDIVIDUALS, OUR AVERAGE SCORE ON THAT INTERCOURSE TEST WAS IN THE 91ST PERCENTILE OF EVERYBODY NATIONWIDE TAKING THAT TEST.
SO IS HE TURNING AROUND? COME ON.
BUT THAT REALLY GREAT JOB AND I'M PROUD OF HIM.
UH, SIR, I, I GAVE YOU A COPY OF THE CUT SHEET AND THE ASSEMBLY OF THE NEXT GO-KART.
IF YOU COULD JUST LOOK OVER THAT, IF THERE'S ANYTHING THAT JUMPS OUT AT YOU IS WRONG FROM PREVIOUS LIFE, WE SURE APPRECIATE THAT.
ALRIGHT, UP NEXT IS, UH, MS. TAMMY WARD, WHO, UH, HEADS UP OUR NURSE AID PROGRAM AND SHE HAS SHANA DINGUS AND IS CARLY WITH US? I THOUGHT I SAW CARLY.
NO, SHE WAS, UH, WE MIGHT HAVE CARLY BARTON HERE AS WELL.
UM, WHAT I LOVE ABOUT THIS PROGRAM IS, AS YOU COULD PROBABLY SEE, SHANA'S A LITTLE NERVOUS RIGHT NOW.
SHE TOOK MY BLOOD PRESSURE YESTERDAY, THEY WERE PRACTICING VITALS, UH, AND SHE LOOKED AT THOSE NUMBERS AND WAS LIKE, MR. GREG, MINE'S HIGH TOO, RIGHT NOW.
I GET A LITTLE NERVOUS AT THESE THINGS TOO, SO DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT.
BUT WHAT I LOVE ABOUT THESE GUYS IS THE SENSE OF PRIDE WHEN THEY PUT ON THEIR SCRUBS AND THEY'RE HEADING, HEADING OUT TO A CLINICAL SITE.
UM, THEY GO INTO HERITAGE HALL, THEY WORK WITH LIVE PATIENTS, UM, AND MS. WARD DOES A GREAT JOB OF GETTING 'EM READY FOR THAT.
SO WE'LL TURN THE FLOOR OVER TO YOU GUYS JUST TO TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT WHAT YOU GUYS ARE DOING.
UM, LIKE MR. GREG SAID, I'M, I'M TAMMY WARD.
I AM THE NURSE AID INSTRUCTOR AT BLUE RIDGE TECHNICAL CENTER.
I WANNA THANK YOU FOR HAVING US HERE TONIGHT.
AND, UM, UH, FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO, UH, TEACH I THOROUGHLY ENJOY IT, BE IN THE CLASSROOM WITH THESE STUDENTS AND, AND ALSO THE OPPORTUNITY TO RAISE UP THE NEXT GENERATION OF HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS.
UM, WE HAVE AN AWESOME TEAM AT BLUE RIDGE TECHNICAL CENTER, UM, WHICH MAKES, UH, OUR JOBS A LOT EASIER, UM, BEING WITH OUR FELLOW STAFF.
AND WE HAVE AN AWESOME TEAM OF NURSE AID STUDENTS THIS YEAR.
SO, UM, SOME WE HAVE, AGAIN, MS. SHANA DINGES HERE TONIGHT.
MANY OF THEM WERE VERY DISAPPOINTED THEY COULDN'T BE HERE TONIGHT BECAUSE THEY HAD, UM, SPORTS, UH, JOB COMMITMENTS AND OTHER, UM, OBLIGATIONS.
OUR NURSE AID PROGRAM HAS GUIDED IT BY AND ANSWERS TO NOT ONLY WARREN COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS, BUT THE VIRGINIA BOARD OF NURSING, UM, POLICIES AND REGULATIONS.
SO WE'RE A LITTLE DIFFERENT, UM, UP AND ENTERING THE PROGRAM.
THESE STUDENTS, THEY ARE REQUIRED TO HAVE BACKGROUND CHECKS.
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URINE DRUG SCREENS AND IMMUNIZATIONS.UM, A LOT OF TIMES THE FLU SHOT, THE TB TEST, AND SOMETIMES OTHERS, IF THEY'RE NOT UPDATED, UH, BEFORE THEY ALLOW US TO GO FORWARD AND TAKE THEM INTO THE CLINICAL SETTING.
UM, THE EXPECTATION IS THAT THEY WILL PASS THE COURSE WITH 80%.
UM, AND WHEN THEY SIT FOR THAT CERTIFICATION EXAM, WHICH FOR THEM IT'LL BE AN, UH, APRIL 16TH, AGAIN, THEY ARE REQUIRED TO HAVE 80%, UM, TO BE LICENSED OR CERTIFIED WITH THE, UM, IN NURSING WITH VIRGINIA.
UM, I AM, UH, REQUIRED TO REPORT TO THE VIRGINIA BOARD OF NURSING THEIR CLASSROOM, LAB AND CLINICAL HOURS.
UM, SO, UH, THEY ARE CURRENTLY IN CLINICALS AS MR. GREG SAID AT HERITAGE HALL.
AND I JUST WANNA DO A, A SHOUT OUT TO HERITAGE HALL, THEIR STAFF, THEIR ADMIN TEAM ALSO, UM, ESPECIALLY THE, THE RESIDENTS OF HERITAGE HALL AND THEIR FAMILIES FOR ALLOWING US TO COME IN AND HONE OUR SKILLS.
UM, AND THEN WE HAVE, UM, WE HAVE WORKED IN THE PAST WITH VALLEY HEALTH AND WE'RE EXCITED MR. GREG'S BEEN WORKING, UH, ON GETTING THAT RELATIONSHIP BACK.
UM, COVID KIND OF TOOK A BITE OUT OF IT THERE FOR A LITTLE WHILE, BUT, UM, WE'LL BE RETURNING AND WORKING WITH HERITAGE HALL IN MARCH FOR THE MONTH OF MARCH.
WE'LL BE DOING CLINICALS AT WARREN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL.
SO WE'RE VERY EXCITED TO HAVE THAT VERY CLINICAL EXPERIENCE, NOT ONLY AT THE, THE, UH, HERITAGE HALL, BUT AT THE HOSPITAL AS WELL.
UM, SO THESE STUDENTS, THEY HAVE, UM, 22 SKILLS THAT THEY LEARN THROUGHOUT THE YEAR WITH ME.
EACH SKILL HAS ANYWHERE FROM FIVE TO 17 STEPS.
UM, SO THEY HAVE TO BECOME AS THEY WORK WITH ME PROFICIENT.
UM, AND THEN THERE IS THE, UM, THE 70 QUESTION WRITTEN EXAM.
SO WHEN THEY SIT FOR THAT EXAM IN MARCH, THEIR BOARD EXAM, IT'LL BE A 70 QUESTION WRITTEN EXAM.
AND THEN THEY HAVE THE SKILLS PART, WHICH WILL BE, THEY'RE EXPECTED TO PERFORM FIVE OF THOSE 22 SKILLS.
UM, VIRGINIA BOARD NURSING RANDOMLY PICKS FIVE HAND HAND WASHING WILL BE THE FIRST ONE AND THEY HAVE TO PERFORM THE FIVE SKILLS IN 30 MINUTES.
SO THAT'S WHAT WE WORK TOWARDS, UM, THE SCHOOL YEAR.
UM, AND THAT'S, THAT'S ALL I HAVE FOR YOU AND I'M GONNA LET SHAYNA THANK YOU.
SO AS BECOMING A NURSE AID, IT'S MADE ME REALIZE HOW MUCH I LIKE AND HOW MUCH I LOVE MAKING AN IMPACT ON SOME PEOPLE'S LIVES.
JUST BY, IF IT'S A SIMPLE THING AS BRUSHING THEIR HAIR WITH THEM IN THE MORNING OR HELP THEM PUT MAKEUP ON, KNOWING THAT YOU TOUCH THEIR HEART IS SOMETHING I ADMIRE TO CONTINUE.
AND WHAT MS. WARD HAS TAUGHT ME WILL STICK WITH ME THROUGHOUT MY ENTIRE CAREER.
SO WE'RE ALMOST TO THE GRAND FINALE AND IT, IT'S A GOOD ONE.
I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S GONNA COMPETE WITH THE UKULELES, BUT WE'RE GONNA TRY.
UM, ONE THING I DID WANNA MENTION IS THAT IN ADDITION TO ALL THESE REALLY COOL PROGRAMS WE OFFER FOR STUDENTS, UH, WORK-BASED LEARNING IS THE OTHER PIECE OF THAT PUZZLE.
AND THE STATE OF VIRGINIA IS REALLY STARTING A BIG PUSH ON WORK-BASED LEARNING.
WE CURRENTLY HAVE A PART-TIME WORK-BASED LEARNING COORDINATOR, UH, JAMESON WILLS.
SHE JUST STARTED WITH US THIS YEAR.
UM, AND REALLY WHAT SHE DOES IS KIND OF BRIDGES THAT GAP BETWEEN HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION AND WHERE STUDENTS GO NEXT.
UM, SHE HAS SPENT A TON OF TIME MAKING COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS WITH AREA EMPLOYERS AND OPENING UP, EXCUSE ME, OPENING UP OPPORTUNITIES FOR OUR STUDENTS TO EARN HIGH SCHOOL CREDIT WHILE ALSO DOING A PAID OR AN UNPAID INTERNSHIP WITHIN THE COMMUNITY.
UM, THAT REALLY IS MOTIVATING TO THE KIDS.
AND I HAVE TO BELIEVE THAT HAVING A SUCCESSFUL EXPERIENCE IN WORK-BASED LEARNING LIKE THAT, UH, MAKES IT THAT MUCH MORE LIKELY THAT A STUDENT IS GONNA TURN INTO A PRODUCTIVE, UH, EMPLOYEE WHEN THEY, WHEN THEY GRADUATE, WHICH IS A WIN-WIN FOR US, RIGHT? IT'S GREAT FOR THE KIDS.
UM, AND IT'S ALSO REALLY GOOD FOR OUR COMMUNITY.
KIND OF KEEPS OUR TALENT POOL HERE INSTEAD OF GOING OUT EAST TO THE BIG CITY FOR BIG MONEY.
SO, UM, I APPRECIATE YOU GUYS' SUPPORT WITH THAT TOO.
UH, IT'S A, I GOTTA DO A SHAMELESS PLUG.
IF WE COULD GET THAT FULL TIME, THAT WOULD BE FANTASTIC.
UM, I'D BE REMISS IF I DIDN'T SAY THAT, BUT IT, IT REALLY IS VITAL AND I JUST, I BELIEVE SO STRONGLY IN THAT.
SO THERE'S MY SHAMELESS PLUG AND NOW I'M GONNA MAKE UP FOR THAT WITH COOKIES.
SO I HAVE THE BEST FOR LAST YEAR.
UH, HE'S AN AWESOME STUDENT, AWESOME ATHLETE, BUT ALSO AN AWESOME LEADER IN CHEF SMITH'S CULINARY ARTS PROGRAM.
UM, THE KIDS, EVERY TWICE A MONTH, THEY RUN THE ONE LOVE CAFE.
AND I'M GONNA TELL YOU GUYS, IF YOU'RE IN OUR NECK OF THE WOODS, STOP BY.
'CAUSE FOR LIKE FIVE BUCKS, YOU GET ENOUGH THAT YOU'RE NOT HUNGRY FOR THE REST OF THE DAY.
UM, IT'S, IT'S, IT'S TRUE, RIGHT? MR. WOLF
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USUALLY IN FRONT OF ME IN LINE, HE TAKES MY SPOT.BUT ANYWAY, SO DARNELL AND HIS TEAM TODAY BAKED ABOUT THREE DOZEN COOKIES AND WE WOULD LIKE TO WALK AROUND AND OFFER EVERYBODY A COOKIE.
AND I'M SORRY FOR ALL THOSE ELEMENTARY KIDS THAT LEFT 'CAUSE WE HAD A LOT OF COOKIES READY FOR 'EM.
SO WE'RE GONNA WALK AROUND AND FEED YOU GUYS.
WE DO HAVE SOME GIFTS ALSO THAT MR. SEARS MADE.
UM, SOME REALLY NICE WOODEN LITTLE, UM, WHAT WOULD WE CALL 'EM? CHANGE TRAYS MAYBE THAT HAVE THE BRTC EMBLEM ON THEM.
THOSE ARE MADE WITH THE CNC MACHINE, UH, WHICH IS SOME EQUIPMENT THAT WE INTEGRATE INTO OUR CLASSES, JUST AS A THANK YOU FOR SCHOOL BOARD APPRECIATION WEEK.
SO EAT UP THOSE SCHOOL BOARD MEETINGS, GET A LITTLE LONG SOMETIME.
SO HOPEFULLY THIS WILL HELP YOU GUYS GET THROUGH IT.
IF WE WANNA TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY, IF ANYBODY ELSE IS, WELL, I KNOW YOU'RE ALL WAITING FOR COOKIES, BUT ONCE THAT'S DONE, UM, IF ANYBODY ELSE WANTS TO LEAVE AT THIS TIME, YOU'RE WELCOME TO DO SO.
I THINK THAT'S THE END OF OUR SCHOOL REPORTS.
IT IS VERY HOT, BUT MY SHIRT IS KIND OF WEIRD.
[2.F. School Resource Officer Report and Update]
SO UP NEXT THIS EVENING WE HAVE SOMETHING A LITTLE BIT NEW ON THE AGENDA AND THAT'S A REPORT FROM OUR SCHOOL RESOURCE OFFICER IF YOU GUYS WOULD LIKE TO COME UP.I WILL START WITH, I HAVE A HANDOUT FOR, ALL RIGHT.
SO I, UM, MY NAME IS SERGEANT UC.
UM, I AM CHARGE OF ALL THE SROS.
UM, AND THIS IS LIEUTENANT LANG.
UM, SO TOGETHER WE ARE OVER THE SROS.
UM, SO WE WANTED TO START OFF THE YEAR KIND OF BUILDING THE RELATIONSHIP GAP BETWEEN THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE AND THE SCHOOL SO THAT WE CAN ALL KIND OF COME TOGETHER AS ONE TEAM, UM, AND BE TRANSPARENT AS WE CAN WITH EVERYTHING GOING ON.
UM, SO THANKFULLY YOU GUYS LET US COME AND SPEAK.
UM, SO THE FIRST THING YOU GUYS ARE LOOKING AT, AND I'LL GO OVER THE NUMBERS FOR EVERYBODY ELSE, IS WE KIND OF BROKE DOWN KIND OF SO WE CAN SAY THE INCIDENT REPORTS THAT THE SROS ARE DEALING WITH ON A DAILY BASIS.
UM, AND BEFORE I GO OVER THAT, I WOULD LIKE TO REITERATE THAT WHAT YOU SEE HERE IS JUST A NUMBER OF THE REPORTS.
IT DOES NOT MEAN THAT A CHARGE WAS GENERATED EVERY SINGLE TIME.
IT DOES NOT MEAN THAT A KID WAS ARRESTED.
NONE OF THAT APPLIES IN GENERAL, IT'S JUST WHAT WAS REPORTED TO US.
WHETHER IT WAS ENDED UP BEING A, A FACTUAL REPORT OR NOT, WE STILL KEPT THOSE NUMBERS AS GENUINE AS POSSIBLE SO THAT YOU CAN KIND OF SEE WHAT WE DEAL WITH ON A DAY-TO-DAY BASIS.
UM, SO FOR THE MONTH OF JANUARY, UM, WE KIND OF JUST BROKE IT DOWN BY EACH SCHOOLS.
WE HAD ONE REPORT OF A POSSESSION OF A WEAPON ON SCHOOL PROPERTY, UM, HILL TO J WE HAD AN INFORMATIONAL, UM, AND I'LL GO AHEAD AND NOTE THE INFORMATIONALS CAN BE A LOT OF VARIES OF THINGS.
IT COULD JUST BE SOMEBODY CALLING IN, HEY, YOU KNOW, LOOK OUT FOR THIS.
SO THE INFORMATIONAL IS JUST THAT.
IT'S JUST SOMETHING OF AN INFORMATIONAL NATURE THAT DOESN'T NECESSARILY RISE TO THE LEVEL OF A CRIME.
UM, SO AT SKYLINE HIGH SCHOOL, UM, FOR THE MONTH OF JANUARY, WE HAD THREE POSSESSIONS OF A VAPE, ONE POSSESSION, OR ONE SELLING OF A VAPE.
AND SIX, UH, POSSESSIONS OF A THC VAPE ON SCHOOL GROUND.
UM, FOR SKYLINE MIDDLE SCHOOL, WE HAD ONE POSSESSION OF A VAPE.
UM, ONE INCIDENT OF, UH, POSSESSION OF CHILD PORNOGRAPHY, TWO ASSAULT AND BATTERIES, AND ONE THREAT
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OF BODILY HARM.UM, WARREN COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL, WE HAD TWO POSSESSIONS OF A VAPE.
UM, ONE THREAT OF BODILY HARM, UH, ONE INSTANCE OF STALKING AND ONE INFORMATIONAL REPORT.
UM, AND THEN FOR WARREN COUNTY MIDDLE SCHOOL WE HAD ONE POSSESSION OF A VAPE, ONE POSSESSION OF A WEAPON ON SCHOOL PROPERTY, ONE USE OF PROFANE THREATENING OR INDECENT LANGUAGE OVER AIRWAYS, WHICH THAT WILL CORRELATE WITH YOUR CYBER BULLYING IS WHAT THAT ESSENTIALLY CORRELATES TO IS CYBER BULLYING THAT WE HAVE PROOF OF.
UM, AND THEN FOR INFORMATIONAL REQUESTS.
UM, AND ADDITIONALLY AT WARREN COUNTY MIDDLE, UM, OUR, ONE OF OUR SROS HAS A K NINE ACE.
UM, ACE AND HIS HANDLER ARE USUALLY AT SKYLINE HIGH SCHOOL.
THANK YOU MS. FURLING FOR ALLOWING US
BUT WHAT WE ALSO DO WITH ACE IN OUR SECONDARY SCHOOLS IS WE TRY TO AT LEAST ONCE A MONTH, IF NOT MORE, UM, WE WILL RUN ACE THROUGH THE BUILDINGS.
UM, AND THEN ELEMENTARY, WE WILL TRY TO RUN HIM THROUGH THE PLAYGROUNDS, UM, AS WELL AS THE PARKING LOT AREA, JUST BECAUSE SOME KIDS GO THERE AND UNFORTUNATELY AT NIGHT WE CAN'T CONTAIN ALL THE, EVERYTHING THAT GOES ON THERE.
SO WE USE ACE AS A TOOL TO CHECK THE AREA OUTSIDE OF THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AS WELL.
UM, AND THEN I KIND OF JUST GAVE YOU GUYS AN OVERVIEW OF WHERE WE ARE YEAR TO DATE, UM, ON ALL OF THAT BROKEN DOWN BY SCHOOL.
UM, SO FOR THIS SCHOOL YEAR, FOR INSTANCE, STARTING IN AUGUST THROUGH, UM, JANUARY, 2024, WE HAD A TOTAL OF 261 INCIDENT REPORTS IN THE ENTIRE SCHOOL SYSTEM.
UM, AND THAT'S KIND OF BROKEN DOWN.
UM, YOU CAN SEE THAT OUR HIGHEST, OF COURSE, IS VAPE.
SO VAPES ARE OUR BIGGEST ISSUE.
UM, AND I PUT MY PLUGIN, VAPE DETECTORS, VAPE DETECTORS, VAPE DETECTORS, THEY ARE WORKING.
UM, AND YOU CAN SEE IN OUR HIGH SCHOOL LEVELS WITH THOSE ADDITIONAL SSOS LIKE MS. SPURLING SPOKE ABOUT, THEY ARE HELPING US WHEN THOSE VAPE DETECTORS HIT, BEING PRESENT, BEING THERE, UM, AND THEN GETTING THOSE THAT ARE HAVING THE VAPES.
THAT'S BEEN A BIG ASSET FOR THE SCHOOLS AS WELL AS US TO KIND OF HELP CURB SOME OF THIS VAPING PROBLEM.
UM, SO IF WE COULD GET MORE OF THEM, UM, IN OTHER SCHOOLS, UM, ESPECIALLY MAYBE EVEN THE MIDDLE SCHOOL LEVEL, THAT WOULD BE GREAT.
UM, SO YEAH, SO WE HOPE TO EACH MONTH KIND OF GIVE YOU GUYS AN OVERVIEW OF WHAT WE'RE SEEING, WHAT WE'RE KIND OF DEALING WITH OUT THERE, AND THEN OF COURSE ANY FEEDBACK THAT YOU GUYS HAVE.
SO THAT IS ALL I HAVE
APPRECIATE YOU COMING THIS EVENING.
[2.G. Community Participation]
UP NEXT, WE HAVE COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION THIS EVENING, IT IS THE DUTY OF THE CHAIRPERSON OF THE SCHOOL BOARD WITH ASSISTANCE FROM THE COUNTY SHERIFF AS NECESSARY TO CONDUCT THE MEETING IN AN ORDERLY MANNER AND TO LIMIT DISCUSSION TO TOPICS RELEVANT TO THE ISSUE BEFORE THE BOARD FOR CONSIDERATION.PERSONS ADDRESSING THE SCHOOL BOARD ARE ADVISED TO LIMIT THE REMARKS TO THOSE RELEVANT TO THE PENDING ITEMS. NO PERSONS IN ATTENDANCE SHALL BE ALLOWED TO VOICE REMARKS EXCEPT AS RECOGNIZED BY THE CHAIRPERSON OR THE CLERK OF THE BOARD AFTER AUDIBLY STATING THEIR NAME AND WHOM THEY REPRESENT.
IF APPLICABLE, NO PERSON SHALL BRING INTO THE BOARDROOM ANY SIGN, BANNER, OR OTHER SUCH ITEM WHICH WOULD INTERFERE WITH OTHER MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC IN SEEING, HEARING OR OTHERWISE PARTICIPATING IN THE MEETING.
PROVIDED THAT MODELS, PHOTOS, MAPS, CHARTS, DRAWINGS, AND OTHER SUCH DEMONSTRATIVE MATERIALS INTENDED FOR USE IN A PRESENTATION BY A SPECIFIC PERSON SHALL BE PERMITTED UPON RECOGNITION BY THE CHAIR OR THE CLERK OF THE BOARD.
THE SPEAKER SHALL ADDRESS THE SCHOOL BOARD CHAIR CONFINE THEIR COMMENTS TO ISSUES OF PUBLIC CONCERN RELATING TO THE OPERATION OF WARREN COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS REFRAIN FROM WORDS OR STATEMENTS, WHICH FROM THEIR USUAL CONSTRUCTION AND COMMON ACCEPTANCE ARE DEFAMATORY TO SPECIFIC INDIVIDUALS OR TEND TO VIOLENCE OR BREACH OF THE PEACE.
REFRAIN FROM OBSCENITY AND VULGARITY.
STAY WITHIN ALLOTTED TIME AND STOP SPEAKING.
WHEN DIRECTED BY THE CHAIRPERSON GROUPS OR INDIVIDUALS IN THE AUDIENCE CREATING AN ATMOSPHERE DETRIMENTAL TO OR DISTURBING, THE ORDERLY CONDUCT OF THE MEETING WILL BE ASKED TO REFRAIN FROM SUCH CONDUCT ONCE ANY ADDITIONAL DISTURBANCE AFTER THE WARNING WILL BE NOT, WILL NOT BE TOLERATED.
AND THE CHAIRPERSON WILL ASK THE COUNTY SHERIFF TO REMOVE THE INDIVIDUAL GROUP OR CLEAR THE BOARDROOM SO THAT THE BOARD CAN CONDUCT THE BUSINESS OF THE SCHOOL DIVISION WHEN RECOGNIZED.
PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME FOR THE RECORD, WHETHER YOU'RE A COUNTY RESIDENT, PARENT OF WARREN COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOL STUDENT, OR AN EMPLOYEE OF THE SCHOOL DIVISION, AND LIMIT YOUR COMMENTS TO THREE MINUTES.
YES, WE HAVE, UH, FIVE INDIVIDUALS THAT HAVE SIGNED UP IN ADVANCE, THE FIRST OF WHICH IS
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MELISSA HOUSE.WE LIVE ON ONE 12 LITTLE SOL DRIVE, MIDDLETOWN, THE WARREN COUNTY SIDE.
UM, WE ARE THE HOUSE FAMILY AND AS MOST TEACHERS THAT HAVE GOTTEN TO KNOW OUR BOYS, UM, KNOW OUR CHILDREN AS THE HOUSE BOYS.
UM, BUT TONIGHT WE ARE HERE TO TALK ABOUT OUR OLDEST BOY DMITRI.
UM, IT IS JULY 12TH, 2006 OUTSIDE OF ST.
A BABY IS BORN WITH DOWN SYNDROME AND WAS NAMED DMITRI.
HIS PARENTS LEFT HIM AT THE HOSPITAL NEVER TO BE SEEN AGAIN.
THIS BABY IS THEN MOVED TO AN ORPHANAGE CALLED A BABY HOUSE, WHERE HE WILL SPEND THE NEXT FOUR AND A HALF OF HIS YEARS.
HE'LL BE SEPARATED FROM THE REST OF THE CHILDREN BECAUSE HE IS CONSIDERED UNEDIBLE AND UNADOPTABLE.
THIS MEANS HE'LL MISS ALL THE ESSENTIAL MOMENTS OF TOUCH, LOVE, AND HUMAN INTERACTION THAT HE NEEDS.
HE WILL LEARN THAT CRYING WILL NOT GET HIS BASIC NEEDS MET.
SO HE STOPS CRYING ALTOGETHER BECAUSE FOR CRYING, FOR A BABY IS MET, SEEKING COMFORT.
AND FOR HIM, THAT COMFORT NEVER COMES AT THE AGE OF FOUR AND A HALF.
HE HAS THEN MOVED TO AN ADULT MENTAL INSTITUTION IN RUSSIA WHERE HE WILL THEN SHARE OF ONE ROOM WITH 14 OTHER KIDS WHOSE FAMILIES ALSO LEFT HIM BEHIND.
WE ADOPTED DMITRI WHEN HE WAS ALMOST SIX.
HE WEIGHED 18 POUNDS AND WAS SMALLER THAN OUR YOUNGEST, WHO WAS 18 MONTHS AT THE TIME.
HE HAD NEVER EATEN SOLID FOOD, DIDN'T WALK, COULDN'T TALK, AND STILL WORE DIAPERS.
RESEARCH SHOWS THAT IT TAKES THE SAME LENGTH OF TIME OUTSIDE OF AN ORPHANAGE, ADJUSTING TO THE WORLD AS THE LENGTH OF TIME THAT THE CHILD SPENDS IN AN ORPHANAGE IN ORDER TO GET THOSE INSTITUTIONALIZED BEHAVIORS EXTINGUISHED.
BUT THAT'S FOR CHILDREN WITHOUT INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES.
IT TOOK SEVERAL YEARS FOR DMITRI TO GET TO WHERE HE IS NOW.
HE HAD SOME EXTREME INSTITUTIONALIZED BEHAVIORS SUCH AS ROCKING UNTIL HIS SKIN, BLOOD BANGING HIS HEAD ON HARD SURFACES, SCREAMING AND MANIACAL LAUGHTER.
WHEN OVERSTIMULATED DMITRI HAS CERTAIN BEHAVIORS THAT WILL NEVER FADE, AND THAT'S OKAY BECAUSE THE GOOD NEWS IS HE'S SAFE WITH US.
FOR OVER 11 YEARS NOW, SAFE UNTIL THE BEGINNING OF THIS YEAR, HE BEGAN EXHIBITING SOME OF THE SAME EXTREME BEHAVIORS AGAIN AT HOME.
AND WE COULD NOT FIGURE OUT WHAT WAS TRIGGERING THIS.
THE REPORTS FROM THE TEACHER APPEARED THAT EVERYTHING WAS JUST FINE, HOWEVER THINGS WERE NOT FINE.
AND AFTER SEVERAL ATTEMPTS ON THE AIDS PART TO BRING THEIR CONCERNS INDIVIDUALLY AND AS A GROUP TO THE ADMINISTRATION AT SKYLINE HIGH SCHOOL, NO RELIEF OR HELP TOOK PLACE.
AND IT TOOK THE AIDES FINALLY COMING TO US TO LET US KNOW WHAT WAS REALLY GOING ON IN THAT CLASSROOM.
BUT THIS STORY ISN'T FOR YOU BECAUSE WE'VE SEEN TIME AND TIME AGAIN HOW THESE POWERFUL STORIES OF THE KIDS THAT ARE MOST VULNERABLE IN THE SCHOOLS AND THE HEARTFELT VULNERABLE POLICE GET NOWHERE WITH YOU.
THIS IS FOR THE AIDES AND THE TEACHERS AND FOR THE REST OF THE EMPLOYEES AT SKYLINE HIGH SCHOOL TO GET TO KNOW DMITRI A LITTLE BIT BETTER.
AND FOR ALL THE PARENTS AND CAREGIVERS THAT HAVE CHILDREN IN THE PATHWAY AND CONNECTIONS CLASSROOM TO MAKE SURE THAT THEIR CHILDREN ARE CARED FOR AND NOT DISCRIMINATED AGAINST BECAUSE OF THEIR DISABILITY HARASSED AND BULLIED BY THE PERSON THAT THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO BE TRUSTING.
AND TO RECOGNIZE THAT KIDS LIKE DMITRI NEED TO HAVE A VOICE AT SCHOOL.
AND OUR SON'S AIDES WHO CARRIED HIS VOICE TO US FOR THE COUNTLESS INDIVIDUALS WHO AIDED IN OUR DISCOVERY OF OUR SON WAS REALLY BEING TREATED.
NEXT SPEAKER IS CHARLIE HOUSE.
UH, BEFORE THE CLOCK START, I JUST WANT TO SHOW THIS.
I HAVE THREE MINUTES AND 30 SECONDS AND I WANT TO BE ABLE TO TAKE THAT TIME AS MR. MCFADDEN DID LAST, UH, IN DECEMBER DURING HIS MANIFESTO TO THE BOARD WITHOUT HAVING BEEN TOLD TO WRAP IT UP.
UNLIKE THE PARENTS IN THE PAST THAT TOLD GET TOLD TO WRAP IT UP AT THREE MINUTES EXACTLY, SUCH AS TYLER WRIGHT AND THE OTHER FAMILIES THERE.
UH, YOU MET MY WIFE AND SHE INTRODUCED YOU TO OUR FAMILY.
SO WHY ARE WE HERE TONIGHT? AS YOU ARE WELL AWARE OF WHO WE ARE BY NOW, WE ARE NOT HERE TO TALK ABOUT OUR FORMAL COMPLAINT AGAINST THE TEACHER AT SKYLINE.
WE'RE NOT HERE TO PULL ON YOUR HEARTSTRINGS BECAUSE WE HAVE SEEN IN THE PAST EIGHT MONTHS OF TESTIMONY FROM PARENTS, FAMILIES AND CAREGIVERS.
WE ARE HERE TO ADDRESS ONE THING AND THAT'S ACCOUNTABILITY.
IT WASN'T UNTIL WE FOUND OUT WHAT WAS HAPPENING IN OUR SON'S CLASSROOM THAT WE BEGAN TO WONDER WHAT ELSE WAS GOING ON.
WE STARTED BY ATTENDING AND THEN REVIEWING PAST BOARD MEETINGS.
WE ALSO MADE A FOYER REQUEST FOR ALL FORMAL AND INFORMAL COMPLAINTS AGAINST THE COUNTY SPECIAL EDUCATION CLASSROOMS AND SPECIAL SERVICES OVER THE PAST FIVE YEARS.
SO WHAT YOU SEE HERE IS OUR FOUR YEAR REQUEST.
AND YOU SEE IN THE BLUE IS ALL OF THE, UM, ALL THE COMPLAINTS THAT CAME THROUGH THAT OFFICIAL REQUEST.
THERE WERE 22 COMPLAINTS OF THOSE 2221
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WERE SINCE MR. BALLINGER AND MS. SPERLING WERE APPOINTED, AND 20 SINCE MS. MCDONALD WAS TRANSFERRED TO HER CURRENT POSITIONS.AS DISTURBING AS THIS WAS, WE THEN DID OUR OWN INVESTIGATION AND VERIFIED AN ADDITIONAL 18 COMPLAINTS IN THE PAST 12 MONTHS IN SKYLINE SPECIAL EDUCATION CLASSROOM THAT WERE PROVIDED THAT WERE NOT PROVIDED.
THAT WAS A TOTAL OF A 40, 40 COMPLAINTS IN ONE CLASSROOM.
HERE IS WHERE ACCOUNTABILITY COMES INTO PLAY.
THE BOARD SUPERINTENDENT, THE PRINCIPAL AND DIRECTOR OF SPECIAL SERVICES, WERE AWARE OF ALL OF THESE COMPLAINTS AS A MAJORITY OF THEM WERE ON EMAILS WITH THEIR NAMES INTERWOVEN IN THERE.
SO WHAT NEXT? THERE ARE THREE LEVELS OF ACCOUNTABILITY HERE.
HOW YOU CHOOSE TO MOVE FORWARD WILL DICTATE OR WILL INDICATE TO THE RESIDENTS WHAT OUR NEXT MOVE WILL LOOK LIKE, STARTING FROM THE BOTTOM.
AND I'M NOT GOING TO ADDRESS THE TEACHER BECAUSE THAT IS AN AUTOMATIC OR THAT SHOULD BE AN AUTOMATIC DISMISSAL AND A REVOCATION OF HER LICENSE.
FIRST, THE PRINCIPAL AND SPECIAL SERVICES DIRECTOR MUST BE DISMISSED SIMPLY EACH TIME THEY CHOSE NOT TO ACT.
AND LET ME REFRESH YOUR MEMORY.
THAT'S 40 TIMES EACH TIME THEY DID NOT ACT ON THOSE.
THEY NOT ONLY LET OUR CHILDREN AND OTHERS TO BE BULLIED, HARASSED, AND, AND SOMETIMES TRAUMATIZED LIKE DMITRI, THEY'RE CONDONING IT.
SECOND, THE SUPERINTENDENT, THE BOARD IS RESPONSIBLE FOR HOLDING YOU ACCOUNTABLE TO YOUR DEFICIENCIES, TO YOUR ACTIONS AND YOUR NON AND YOUR NON-ACTION PER VIRGINIA CODE.
THEY CAN FIND YOU, SUSPEND YOU OR TERMINATE YOU, OR YOU CAN SIMPLY STEP DOWN BOARD.
BUT I WARN YOU, HIS TWO AND A HALF YEARS OF MISHANDLING STAFF AND PARENT COMPLAINTS, YOUR ACTIONS SHOULD BE DECISIVE AND SWIFT.
AND LASTLY, THE BOARD YOU WERE VOTED IN.
BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN YOU GET TO STAY REMOVING YOU, IS ACTUALLY THE EASIEST ALL THREE OF THESE LEVELS.
AND THAT IS BECAUSE IT IS THE ONE THING WE AS WARREN COUNTY CITIZENS CAN DO.
AND THERE IS A VIRGINIA CODE FOR YOUR REMOVAL.
SIMPLY PUT WITH A PETITION OF 10% OF THE VOTER TURNOUT.
AND THAT'S ROUGHLY 250 PEOPLE PER EACH OF YOU.
THE CIRCUIT COURT MAY REMOVE YOU FROM OFFICE IF FOUND.
YOU ARE INCOMPETENT IN THE PERFORMANCE OF YOUR DUTIES AND WHEN YOU INCOMPETENCE HAS AN ADVERSE EFFECT UPON THE CONDUCT OF THIS OFFICE.
SO BOARD, IT'S TIME TO MAKE THE DISTRICT A SAFE PLACE FOR ALL OF OUR CHILDREN AND EMPLOYEES.
THE NEXT SPEAKER IS JACKIE SALA.
MARCELLA, UM, PARENT WARREN COUNTY SCHOOL STUDENT.
IT'S INTERESTING THAT MR. AND MRS. HOUSE TALKED ABOUT THEIR, UM, SPECIAL NEEDS CHILD BECAUSE MY SUGGESTION FOR THE BUDGET WAS THAT ALL THE TEACHERS TAKE CRISIS INTERVENTION TRAINING THAT WE OFFER AT GRAFTON.
IT TEACHES THEM TRAUMA-INFORMED CARE.
IT TEACHES THEM, UM, ABOUT SPECIAL NEEDS AND HOW THE DIFFERENT BEHAVIORS AND WHAT CAUSES THEM, WHAT THE FUNCTION.
IT ALSO TALKS ABOUT, UM, HOW THE BODY KEEPS A SCORE ABOUT HOW EVEN IN THE WOMB CHILDREN, WHEN THEY ARE SUBJECTED TO TRAUMA, IT AFFECTS THEM WAY, WAY INTO ADULTHOOD.
SO IT'S A REALLY GOOD PROGRAM.
IT ALSO HELPS WITH, UM, IF THEY'RE GETTING SELF-INJURIOUS OR AGGRESSIVE.
UM, WE TEACH RELEASES AND HOLDS BECAUSE WHERE I WORK, WE ARE NOT, UM, WE DON'T RESTRAIN AND WE DON'T SECLUDE.
AND I FOUND THAT THAT MAKES THE KIDS A LOT LESS DRAMATIZED.
UM, THE OTHER THING I THOUGHT MIGHT HELP IS IF, UM, YOU KNOW, YOU HAD MAYBE HAVE THE TEACHERS TAKE A SENSITIVITY TRAINING.
UM, I'M JUST GONNA TALK REALLY QUICK ABOUT AN INCIDENT THAT HAPPENED TO MY CHILD AT SKYLINE HIGH SCHOOL.
UM, WAS PUTTING IN SCHOOL SUSPENSION FOR SOMETHING HE DIDN'T DO.
HOWEVER, WHEN HE WAS IN IN SCHOOL SUSPENSION, MY CHILD IS TRANS, HAS FEMALE ANATOMY, THEREFORE DOES STILL HAVE A PERIOD, ASKED TO GO TO THE NURSE DISCREETLY SO THAT HE COULD USE THE FACILITIES.
AND THE TEACHER PROCEEDED TO HOLD OUT A BOX OF PADS AND SAID, DO YOU THINK I DON'T HAVE THESE IN HERE IN FRONT OF THE WHOLE CLASS? SO
AND I COULD TELL YOU IF SOMEONE DID THAT TO ME, EVEN AT 37 YEARS OLD, I WOULD BE LIKE, MORTIFIED.
SO IT'S JUST A SUGGESTION THAT MAYBE TEACHERS NEED A LITTLE BIT OF SENSITIVITY TRAINING.
UM, AND THAT'S NOT JUST FOR TRANS STUDENTS, THAT'S ANY STUDENT.
SO THOSE ARE JUST MY TWO SUGGESTIONS.
UM, I THINK I'VE EMAILED YOU GUYS BEFORE, SO IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS ABOUT OUR CRISIS INTERVENTION TRAINING, UM, PM KEEL IS OUR CLINICAL DIRECTOR AND I'M SURE SHE'D BE HAPPY TO TALK TO YOU GUYS ABOUT THAT.
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CONNOR.ELLA, UH,
UM, FOR THE PAST THREE YEARS, I'VE BEEN GOING TO, UH, UH, WAKEFIELD COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL, WHICH IS A PRIVATE SCHOOL IN HUNTLEY, VIRGINIA.
AND SOMETHING THAT I'VE FOUND THERE IS MY FAVORITE SUBJECT IS LATIN.
AND EVERY YEAR WE WOULD GO TO LATIN CONVENTIONS WHERE WE WOULD TAKE TESTS AND WE WOULD DO SPEECHES.
AND IT WAS VERY ENRICHING ABOUT, UM, THE CLASSICS AND STUFF LIKE THAT.
AND I'VE COME TO FIND OUT THAT SKYLAND DOES NOT GO TO THESE CONVENTIONS.
AND I KNOW THAT SKYLAND GOES TO LIKE AN FFA CONVENTION, I BELIEVE.
AND I WOULD, I WAS WONDERING IF MAYBE THERE COULD BE SOME CUSHIONING FOR A LATIN CONVENTION.
THERE ARE THREE MAIN REASONS WHY I THINK THIS WOULD BE GOOD FOR STUDENTS.
NUMBER ONE, IT HELPS STUDENTS WITH THEIR FUTURE.
UH, AT STATE CONVENTIONS, YOU HAVE TO, THERE'S A SCHEDULE WITH THINGS AND YOU HAVE TO KNOW WHEN THINGS ARE.
YOU HAVE TO KNOW WHEN TO LEAVE.
YOU HAD TO KNOW WHEN TO GO PLACES AND YOU TAKE TESTS, WHICH IS THE SECOND THING.
THERE'S TESTS YOU HAVE TO TAKE.
THERE'S PROJECTS YOU HAVE TO MAKE IN ADVANCE, AND YOU CAN EARN AWARDS FOR ALL OF THESE.
AND YOU ARE RECOGNIZED IN FRONT OF THE ENTIRE CONVENTION FOR THESE AWARDS, OBVIOUSLY.
UH, AND THE THIRD THING IS IT'S SOCIAL.
YOU GET TO MEET THESE PEOPLE THAT ARE ALL INTERESTED IN LATIN LIKE YOU ARE.
AND THESE ARE THE PEOPLE THAT ALWAYS GO TO CONVENTIONS.
AND YOU'LL SEE THEM A LOT AT ALL THE CONVENTIONS YOU GO TO.
YOU'LL NOTICE THEM AT, IF THEY'RE IN YOUR DELEGATION AT VIRGINIA, UH, UM, A VIRGINIA CONVENTION SPECIFICALLY, OR EVEN AT NATIONALS.
THEY MIGHT BE IN THE VIRGINIA DELEGATION FOR NATIONALS.
SO THAT IS, UH, ALL THANK YOU SO MUCH.
TELL THEM WHY, WHY YOU CARE ABOUT IT BEING AT WARREN COUNTY PUBLIC SCIENCE.
SHE SAID YOU WERE IN PRIVATE SCHOOL.
WHERE ARE YOU GOING? OH, SORRY.
NEXT YEAR I'M GOING TO, UH, SKYLINE HIGH SCHOOL, LESLIE MATTHEWS.
AND I AM A PARENT OF WARREN COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOL STUDENTS.
UM, ABOUT A SHORT TIME BEFORE WORLD WAR II BROKE OUT, SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL IN DEEP FRUSTRATION, TRIED TO WARN THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT WHAT WAS GOING ON AROUND THEM, ONLY TO BE IGNORED.
HE ASKED, WHO IS IN CHARGE OF THIS CLATTERING TRAIN? NOW, I MYSELF RECEIVED MY ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION IN WARREN COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS, AS DID MY CHILDREN.
I AM A GUARDIAN OF TWO STUDENTS WHO ARE CURRENTLY ENROLLED AT SKYLINE MIDDLE SCHOOL.
AND I HAVE WITNESSED WITHIN THE PAST DECADE A SEVERE DECLINE IN OUR SCHOOL SYSTEM.
I STAND HERE TONIGHT IN DEEP FRUSTRATION ABOUT THE ONGOING OCCURRENCES THAT TAKE PLACE IN OUR SCHOOLS ON A DAILY BASIS.
WE HAVE LICENSED PROFESSIONALS RESIGNING, LONG-TERM SUBSTITUTES, TEACHING BEHAVIORAL ISSUES, CONTINUING POLICIES NOT BEING ENFORCED, ATHLETIC DIRECTORS AND COACHES, NOT INSTILLING PRIDE AND RESPECT IN OUR STUDENT ATHLETES, AND SOME ONLY PROVIDING AN HOUR OF PRACTICE ONE DAY AND A HALF HOUR THE NEXT FOR STUDENTS WHO DESIRE TO TRY OUT AND BE A PART OF THEIR SCHOOL TEAMS. I WAS AN ATHLETE IN WARREN COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL AND THIS LACK OF FAIR COMPETITION HAS BOTHERED ME.
SO I RECENTLY INQUIRED ABOUT THIS TO A COACH AND WAS TOLD THAT'S WHAT FITS INTO MY TIME.
THIS SCHOOL SYSTEM'S OPERATIONS IN ITS ENTIRETY CONTINUE
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TO FORCE PARENTS TO REMOVE THEIR CHILDREN AND SEEK EDUCATIONAL ALTERNATIVES IN ORDER TO PROVIDE THEM WITH A QUALITY EDUCATION.YOUR $10,000 MONTHLY BONUS INCENTIVE THAT DR.
BALLINGER AND EVERYONE ON THIS BOARD, EXCEPT FOR MR. MCFADDEN, WHO WAS NOT ON IT LAST YEAR, AGREED UPON TO OFFER ALL WARREN COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOL EMPLOYEES AND HAVING THEM SHOW UP FOR WORK AND FOR THEM MISSING LESS THAN ONE DAY DURING THE GIVING MONTH.
OBVIOUSLY THIS ISN'T WORKING AND ONLY PROVES TO HAVE ADDED A HEAVIER BURDEN ON THE BACKS OF THE TAXPAYERS.
IN MY FRUSTRATION, I ASK ALL OF YOU WHERE AND WHAT IS THE STANDARD OF QUALITY IN A WARREN COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOL EDUCATION? AND WHO IS IN CHARGE OF THIS CLATTERING TRAIN BECAUSE URGENT ACTION IS NEEDED.
IS THERE ANYONE ELSE THAT WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK THIS EVENING FOR COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION? SORRY.
MY NAME IS MICHAEL WILLIAMS. I LIVE AT 1405 JEFFERSON AVENUE IN THE VILLAGE HERE IN THE COUNTY, WHERE MANY, IF NOT THE MAJORITY OF STUDENTS WHO ATTEND E WILSON MORRISON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL RESIDE.
I'M ALSO THE PROUD PARENT OF AN EWM GRAD WHO STILL TALKS FINELY OF HIS DAYS AT EWM.
ONE THING HE DID NOT TALK FINELY OF HOWEVER, WAS GOING TO THE ONLY SCHOOL IN THE COUNTY THAT DID NOT HAVE A GYMNASIUM, BUT CONVERTED CLASSROOM SPACE FOR A PE ROOM.
IF I EVER WON THE LOTTERY THAT I NEVER PLAYED, I WOULD GLADLY DONATE THE MONEY MYSELF.
AND HOW HAVE ALL OF THOSE GODFORSAKEN TRAILERS, EXCUSE ME, EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING COTTAGES REMOVED, PAUSE FOR LAUGHTER.
THE FINANCIAL REALITY IS, THE FINANCIAL REALITY IS THAT I DO NOT HAVE THE MONEY.
OUR COUNTY DOESN'T HAVE THE MONEY.
WE NEEDED ANOTHER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL YESTERDAY.
AND DON'T GET ME STARTED ON THE REMAINING PHYSICAL PLANT NEEDS AT EWM, WHICH CONTINUE TO MAKE OUR STUDENTS, STAFF AND FAMILIES FEEL LIKE THE UNWANTED STEPCHILD AND THE SCHOOL THAT KEEPS GETTING FORGOTTEN IN TIME.
DO I APPRECIATE BEING THE ONLY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IN THE COUNTY WITH AN AUDITORIUM? DO I RESPECT AND APPRECIATE THE HISTORY OF A SCHOOL I HAVE LOVED AND ADVOCATED FOR TIRELESSLY SINCE THE DAY MY WIFE AND I BECAME PART OF THIS BEAUTIFUL COMMUNITY BACK IN 1997? OF COURSE I DO.
I HAVE MANY FOND MEMORIES AS A PARENT COMMUNITY LEADER AND CURRENT STAFF, WHICH I'M CURRENT, WHICH I'M HAPPY TO SHARE AFTER THIS MEETING.
WHAT I DO NOT HAVE FOND MEMORIES OF IS PICKING UP ONE OF THESE ON MONDAY MORNING ON THE FLOOR OF OUR AUDITORIUM FROM THE UNSAFE WOODEN SEATS, WHICH I WILL BE MORE THAN HAPPY TO HELP AUCTION OFF.
SHOULD THE BOARD DO THE RIGHT THING TO THIS EVENING AND MOVE TO FO MOVE FORWARD WITH THIS OVERDUE PROJECT.
HAVING SAID THIS, I LOVE HISTORY.
IF ANYONE HERE THIS EVENING HAS THE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS SITTING IN THEIR POCKETS THAT IT WOULD TAKE TO REMOVE THE EYESORE TRAILERS FROM THE ALLEY BETWEEN CHESTER CHESTER STREET AND ROYAL AVENUE AND BUILD A STANDALONE GYMNASIUM AND ADDED CLASSROOM SPACE AND CAN GUARANTEE THE DEDICATED MONEY IN THE HANDS OF THE SCHOOL BOARD.
BY THE END OF THIS MEETING, I'LL BE YOUR STRONGEST ADVOCATE.
OTHERWISE, PLEASE QUIT TELLING THE CHILDREN THAT I AM BEYOND BLESSED TO SERVE.
THEY'VE BEEN TOLD THIS THEIR ENTIRE LIVES.
90% OF THE CHILDREN WE SERVE ACROSS THAT STREET BEHIND ME LIVE OUT OR BELOW THE POVERTY LEVEL.
QUIT TELLING OUR STUDENTS IT'S GOOD ENOUGH TO LEARN IN THE HALLWAYS.
QUIT TELLING OUR FIFTH GRADE STUDENTS THAT THE DEN RIGHT ACROSS THE HALLWAY IN THE PE ROOM IS GOOD ENOUGH FOR THEM AND THEY SHOULD BE ABLE TO FOCUS WHILE TAKING TESTS, EVEN IF THEY'RE AS A DHD, AS THEIR BELOVED.
MR. WILLIAMS. FINALLY, TO THOSE WHO DIFFER WITH ME, PLEASE KNOW THAT I HAVE NO ILL WILL NOR BAD FEELINGS.
MY FAVORITE BOOK OF ALL TIME HAS A CHAPTER WHICH STARTS OUT TO EVERYTHING.
I KINDLY ASK THAT WE RESPECT THAT THE SEASON FOR THE PRESENT AND FUTURE CHILDREN OF E WILSON MORRISON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IS NOT TO BE CONTINUOUSLY TOLD THAT THIS IS GOOD ENOUGH FOR THEM.
IS THERE ANYONE ELSE WHO WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK THIS EVENING? HI EVERYBODY.
I'M FROM BENTONVILLE, VIRGINIA.
MY DAUGHTER, CASSIDY FOLEY IS A STUDENT AT SKYLINE HIGH SCHOOL IN THE SPECIAL ED DEPARTMENT.
UM, TWO MONTHS AGO, STARTED A BIG OLD MESS.
AND UM, TO BE HONEST, I STARTED COMPLAINING TWO MONTHS AGO BECAUSE I ALSO WAS TOLD BY MY DAUGHTER'S AIDE WHO WAS HER VOICE AT SCHOOL.
'CAUSE MY DAUGHTER IS NONVERBAL IN A WHEELCHAIR AND SHE DOESN'T EAT THAT.
WE WERE HAVING PROBLEMS AND THAT THEY WENT TO ADMIN WITH THOSE PROBLEMS AND WITH THE WHOLE MESS GOING ON IN THAT SCHOOL I HAVE YET TO MEET, UM, MRS. SPURLING
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HAS NEVER CONTACTED ME.I'VE GOTTEN A COUPLE LITTLE NOTES WRITTEN IN MY DAUGHTER'S NOTEBOOK.
UM, I THINK THAT'S RIDICULOUS.
OUR TEA, WE IN TWO CLASSROOMS WE'RE DOWN TWO TEACHERS AND FOUR OR FIVE AIDES NOW.
UM, THEY JUST MOVED OUR, OUR TEACHER TO ANOTHER PART OF THE SCHOOL, WHICH IS BECOMING SOMEBODY ELSE'S PROBLEM.
SHE WAS VAPING AND BREAKING THE LAW AND NOTHING WAS DONE.
GOT A NEW TEACHER NOW AND WE, I'VE GOT HIGH HOPES FOR, BUT WE'RE STILL SHORT ON AIDS AND WE'RE STUCK WITH A BUNCH OF AIDES WHO DON'T KNOW OUR KIDS 'CAUSE THEY'VE BEEN RUN OUTTA THAT CLASS.
SO PLEASE, I ASK THAT YOU ALL KEEP UP ON THIS AND DO SOMETHING.
IS THERE ANYONE WHO ELSE WHO WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK THIS EVENING? OKAY, NEXT THIS
[3.A. Public Hearing on the Fiscal Year 2025 Budget - Dr. Ballenger/School Board Chair]
EVENING I'M GONNA OPEN UP, UM, A PUBLIC HEARING ON THE FISCAL YEAR 2025 BUDGET.AGAIN, THIS IS NOT SOMETHING THAT WE'VE PRESENTED YET AS FAR AS THE BUDGET GOES.
THIS IS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR COMMUNITY MEMBERS TO SPEAK ON WHAT YOU FEEL LIKE WE SHOULD BE TAKING INTO CONSIDERATION, WHAT OUR BUDGET COMMITTEE SHOULD BE TAKING INTO CONSIDERATION, WHAT, UM, OUR BOARD SHOULD BE THINKING ABOUT AS WE GET INTO THIS BUDGET SEASON.
IS THERE ANYONE WHO WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK THIS EVENING? HELLO, I'M SARAH BRACKET.
I HAD A CHILD AT, UM, SKYLINE HIGH SCHOOL BECAUSE WE LIVE IN BENTONVILLE.
UM, THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE BUILDING, IF YOU'RE FACING IT, HAS VERY LITTLE LIGHTING IN THE PARKING LOT.
WHEN MY DAUGHTER WAS DOING AFTERSCHOOL ACTIVITIES, ESPECIALLY DURING THIS WINTER, IT WAS VERY, VERY HARD TO SEE.
IT'S ALSO VERY DANGEROUS IF YOU'RE A YOUNG WOMAN TO BE OUT THERE WITH NO LIGHT AND NO ABILITY TO REALLY SEE OR BE SEEN.
IT MAKES ME WONDER IF YOU HAVE ANY LIKE, SECURITY OUT THERE, IF YOU COULD ACTUALLY SEE ANYTHING THAT MIGHT HAPPEN.
SO IF YOU WOULD JUST CONSIDER MAYBE THE LIGHTING AROUND THE HIGH SCHOOL AND THE SAFETY THAT YOU KNOW, IT SHOULD BE AFFORDED TO OUR CHILDREN.
IS THERE ANYONE ELSE WHO WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK? OKAY, WITH THAT, WE'LL CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING SECTION THIS EVENING AND
[4. Consent Agenda]
WE'LL MOVE ON TO THE CONSENT AGENDA.IS THERE A MOTION, I, I MOVE THAT THE CONSENT AGENDA BE APPROVED AS PRESENTED? IS THERE A SECOND? I'LL SECOND.
ANY DISCUSSION ON THAT? UM, I, THE ONE THING I'D LIKE TO SAY WITH THE, THE DISCUSSION ON THIS IS, UM, TO JUST DRAW ATTENTION TO THE DISCIPLINE REPORT THAT IS NOW GOING TO BE MADE PUBLIC GOING FORWARD.
UM, THIS USED TO BE DISCUSSED AND CLOSED.
I THINK IT'S VERY IMPORTANT FOR THE PARENTS TO GET A CHANCE TO SEE, UM, EXACTLY WHAT IS GOING ON INSIDE OF THE SCHOOLS.
ANYTHING ADDITIONAL? ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? AYE.
[5.A. Superintendent]
UP WE HAVE REPORTS.UH, FIRST I'D LIKE TO WELCOME EVERYBODY THAT WAS IN ATTENDANCE TONIGHT AND EVERYBODY THAT IS ATTENDING VIRTUALLY.
UM, I WOULD LIKE TO RECOGNIZE THAT FEBRUARY IS BLACK HISTORY MONTH, UH, AS WE HAD A WONDERFUL PERFORMANCE FROM SY JEFFRIES.
UH, ALSO, UH, THIS IS SCHOOL BOARD APPRECIATION MONTH.
UM, I DID SET SOME BAGS THAT WERE DELIVERED TO THE OFFICE, UM, UP HERE FOR YOU EARLIER IN THE DAY.
WE DO HAVE PARENT TEACHER CONFERENCES.
I DO, I WOULD LIKE TO INVITE ALL THE PARENTS OUT TO THE SCHOOLS, UM, AND TO VISIT WITH THEIR TEACHER, UH, CONCERNING THEIR CHILD'S PROGRESS.
UH, ALSO FEBRUARY 9TH IS A PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT DAY.
AND THEN I'M JUST GOING TO ECHO WHAT MS. SALIN JUST SAID.
THE DISCIPLINE REPORT IS LISTED UNDER THE CONSENT AGENDA.
UM, I WOULD LIKE TO RECOGNIZE THAT THERE IS, UH, THERE WAS ONE, UM, SECTION THAT WAS, UM, IT WAS COPIED.
I GUESS IT'S DOUBLED ON THERE ON.
IF YOU LOOK AT THE SKYLINE HIGH SCHOOL REPORT, RB NINE IS LISTED TWICE.
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UH, THAT THE ACTUAL NUMBER SHOULD BE 77.SO ON THAT REPORT, IT WAS LISTED TWICE.
[5.B. School Board]
SCHOOL BOARD REPORTS.AND I'D LIKE TO SAY, UM, THANK YOU TO ALL THE PEOPLE WHO CAME OUT TODAY.
I DON'T KNOW IF ANY OF THEM ARE STILL WATCHING, BUT, UM, I REALLY APPRECIATE ALL THE TEACHERS AND STUDENTS WE HAD HERE.
IT WAS, UM, GREAT TO SEE THEM AND HEAR FROM THEM.
I'M ALWAYS IMPRESSED BY BLUE RIDGE TECHNICAL CENTER.
UM, WHAT WE HEAR EVERY TIME THEY COME, JUST THE THINGS THAT ARE BEING DONE OVER THERE I THINK ARE AMAZING AND, AND SUCH A GREAT HIGHLIGHT FOR OUR COUNTY.
UM, AND THANK YOU TO THE, THE SCHOOLS AND STAFF WHO PROVIDED US WITH, UM, RECOGNITION FOR, UM, SCHOOL BOARD APPRECIATION MONTH.
UM, THIS MORNING I HAD BREAKFAST AT WARREN COUNTY MIDDLE SCHOOL, UM, WITH DR. JOHNSTON AND HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK WITH SOME OF THE TEACHERS OVER THERE ABOUT THEIR, UM, THOUGHTS AND CONCERNS, WHICH I APPRECIATED.
I GOT TO SEE THE CONCERT BAND, OR NOT THE CONCERT BAND, EXCUSE ME, THE JAZZ BAND PERFORM THIS MORNING.
UM, WHICH WERE PRETTY AMAZING, ESPECIALLY CONSIDERING THAT MOST OF 'EM HAD ALL BEEN PLAYING FOR LIKE ONE AND A HALF TO TWO AND A HALF YEARS.
AND WE, UM, WERE PROVIDED BREAKFAST BY THE PATHWAYS AND CONNECTIONS CLASSROOM, WHICH I APPRECIATED AS WELL.
UM, OVER THE PAST MONTH, UM, I AND, AND ALL OF US ATTENDED THE SCHOOL BOARD RETREAT, UM, AND AN RETREAT WITH ADMINISTRATION.
SO WE WERE ABLE TO SPEAK WITH, UM, THE DIFFERENT ADMINISTRATORS THROUGHOUT THE COUNTY, WHICH I APPRECIATED.
UM, WE HAVE ALSO STARTED BUDGET SEASON, SO WE HAVE HAD THREE, UM, BUDGET COMMITTEE MEETINGS.
AND SO I'LL JUST BRIEFLY GO OVER SOME OF THAT STUFF FROM THE BUDGET JUST TO BRING PEOPLE UP TO DATE.
UM, SO I'LL EXPLAIN A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE REVENUES, WHERE IT COMES FROM.
THIS IS SOMETHING I DIDN'T KNOW BEFORE I WAS ON THE SCHOOL BOARD, UM, QUITE HOW THIS ALL WORKED.
UM, SO A, A BIG PART OF OUR BUDGET IS THE STATE BUDGET, UM, AND THE MONEY THAT WE RECEIVE FROM THE STATE THAT TYPICALLY COMES TO US FOR THE MOST PART IN A, UM, FORMULA THAT IS DETERMINED BY A FEW DIFFERENT THINGS, BUT MAINLY BY OUR ATTENDANCE, HOW MANY STUDENTS WE HAVE.
UM, AND WE USUALLY GET FOUR BUDGETS FROM THE STATE IN SUCCESSION.
SO FIRST TYPICALLY WE GET THE GOVERNOR'S BUDGET, WHICH WE DO HAVE NOW WE HAVE RECEIVED THAT.
SO THAT'S THE GOVERNOR'S PROPOSED BUDGET.
UM, AND THEN WE'RE ABLE TO PLUG IN OUR ESTIMATED ATTENDANCE, WHAT WE THINK WE'LL HAVE FOR, FOR NEXT YEAR, AND COME UP WITH WHAT WE WOULD GET IF THAT WERE THE REAL FINAL STATE BUDGET.
WE'LL ALSO RECEIVE A BUDGET FROM THE HOUSE, THE VIRGINIA HOUSE AND THE VIRGINIA SENATE.
AND THEN AT THE END WE'LL GET THE FOURTH AND FINAL BUDGET WHERE THEY EVENTUALLY WILL ALL AGREE ON SOMETHING.
AND THAT WILL BE THE REAL BUDGET WITH THE ACTUAL FUNDING THAT WE RECEIVE.
UM, WE ARE HOPEFUL THAT FOURTH BUDGET WILL COME OUT IN THE NEXT SIX TO EIGHT WEEKS.
UM, BUT THERE'S NO GUARANTEE THAT WILL HAPPEN.
UM, SO AT THIS POINT, WELL, SO, SO LEMME BACK UP.
WE ALSO GET FUNDING FROM FEDERAL SOURCES, UM, WHICH GENERALLY PL STAY RELATIVELY STEADY, ALTHOUGH THERE CAN BE SOME VARIATION.
UM, OBVIOUSLY A BIG CHANGE HAS BEEN, THERE WAS A LOT OF ONE TIME COVID MONEY THAT WAS COMING THROUGH THAT HAS NOW ENDED.
BUT OTHERWISE, UM, USUALLY WHAT WE EXPECT IS ROUGHLY WHAT WE GET IN TERMS OF FEDERAL MONEY.
AND THEN WE ALSO GET LOCAL FUNDING OF COURSE, AND THEN SOME MISCELLANEOUS THINGS AS WELL.
UM, SO THERE ARE REALLY A LOT OF QUESTION MARKS ON ALL OF THOSE REVENUE FIGURES AT THIS POINT.
UM, SO THE BEST THAT WE CAN DO IN OUR BUDGET COMMITTEE IS TRY TO ESTIMATE THAT AS ACCURATELY AS WE CAN AND TO KNOW THAT WE NEED TO BE NIMBLE AND CHANGE AS THOSE, UM, PROJECTIONS GET UPDATED.
UM, SO THAT'S KIND OF WHERE WE ARE WITH THE REVENUES AS FAR AS OUR MEMBERSHIP.
UM, LAST YEAR WE BUDGETED ON MEMBERSHIP OF 4,998 STUDENTS.
UM, WE ENDED UP, IT LOOKS LIKE WE'RE ENDING UP A LITTLE BIT ABOVE THAT, A FEW STUDENTS ABOVE THAT THIS YEAR.
UM, SO WE'RE GONNA BE LOOKING AT PROJECTING OUR FIGURES WITH A KIND OF THAT SAME RATE.
AGAIN, THAT'S JUST LIKE A STARTING POINT AND AN ESTIMATE.
UM, AND I WILL MENTION THAT DOES NOT INCLUDE OUR PRE-K STUDENTS, WHICH THERE'S AROUND 240, 250 PRE-K STUDENTS, UM, IN ADDITION TO THAT NUMBER THAT I MENTIONED.
AND THE REASON WHY IS THOSE PRE-K STUDENTS AREN'T FIGURED IN THE SAME BUDGET FORMULA.
THEY'RE FIGURED IN A SEPARATE BUDGET FORMULA.
SO THAT'S WHY THAT NUMBER IS NOT USUALLY INCLUDED THERE.
UM, SO WITH THOSE ESTIMATES, UM, THAT WE HAVE, YOU KNOW, GOTTEN US A STARTING POINT, UM, OUR FIRST PRIORITY THAT WE HAVE DISCUSSED, UM, THAT WE'RE KIND OF LOOKING AT WOULD BE TO GIVE OUR CURRENT EMPLOYEES THEIR STEP RAISE THAT THEY'RE EXPECTING.
UM, SO THAT'S THE FIRST THING THAT WE REALLY WOULD LIKE TO BE ABLE TO DO.
UM, SO WE HAVE RUN THOSE NUMBERS, WHAT THE STEP RAISE WOULD LOOK LIKE.
THE GOVERNOR'S PROPOSED BUDGET ALSO INCLUDED A ONE-TIME, 1% BONUS FOR TEACHERS.
UM, SO WE'VE CALCULATED WHAT THAT WOULD COST FOR OUR CURRENT STAFF LEVELS TO DO THOSE TWO THINGS.
UM, AND THEN THERE'S A LOT OF OTHER THINGS THAT WE'LL BE CONSIDERED.
UM, SOME OF THESE WE WILL HAVE, UM, SOME SAY OVER AS A BOARD.
SOME OF THEM WE WON'T, UM, WHICH INCLUDE A POSSIBLE INCREASE IN HEALTHCARE COSTS THAT'S NOT KNOWN RIGHT NOW.
UM, WE HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT POTENTIALLY CHANGING THE WAY WE HANDLE SUBS, WHICH COULD CAUSE THE COST THERE TO CHANGE.
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WE HAVE RECEIVED, UH, REQUESTS FROM ALL OF THE COST CENTERS, WHICH INCLUDE THE SCHOOLS AND THE DIFFERENT UNITS.UM, THEY HAVE REQUESTED STAFF THAT THEY WOULD LIKE TO SEE, UM, FACILITIES REQUESTS, AS WELL AS NON-LABOR REQUESTS, YOU KNOW, MATERIALS AND THINGS THAT THEY FEEL THEY NEED FOR THEIR SCHOOLS.
SO THOSE ARE ALL UNDER CONSIDERATION.
UM, THERE ARE ALSO, UM, THERE'S ALSO INFLATION OF COURSE, BRINGING UP THE COST OF EVERYTHING COMPARED TO LAST YEAR.
AND I KNOW THAT ALL OF US HAVE EXPERIENCED THAT.
SO THOSE ARE SOME OF THE ISSUES THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT.
UM, AND A LOT OF THOSE, THERE ARE NUMBERS ATTACHED WITH THOSE THINGS THAT I JUST MENTIONED.
IF YOU'RE INTERESTED, YOU CAN GO ON BOARD DOCS AND LOOK AT OUR BUDGET MEETINGS.
THOSE DOCUMENTS ARE LISTED THERE.
IF YOU DO LOOK, JUST REMEMBER, AS I SAID, THESE ARE ESTIMATES.
THOSE FIGURES ARE EXPECTED TO CHANGE.
SO IT'S NOT FINAL NUMBERS, BUT IT'S A STARTING POINT THAT WE WORK WITH.
UM, OUR NEXT BUDGET COMMITTEE MEETING IS SCHEDULED FOR TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20TH AT 4:00 PM IF ANYONE IS INTERESTED.
UM, SO I WAS ABLE TO ATTEND, UM, ALONG WITH MS. LOWE.
WE ATTENDED THE, UM, JANUARY 10TH, UH, WARREN COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS 1 0 1 THAT WAS HELD AT THE TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT.
AND, UM, THAT WAS A, A GREAT EVENING.
LEARNED A LOT ABOUT TRANSPORTATION.
UM, I BELIEVE IT WAS A LITTLE SAD TO HEAR, UH, EVERYBODY THAT CAME WAS GREAT.
LOVED ALL HAVING ALL THE, THE COMMUNITY MEMBERS AND PARENTS THERE.
I WAS SAD TO HEAR THAT IT WAS OPENED UP TO 20 AND WE, THERE WAS ONLY ABOUT, I THINK 14 OR 15, UM, WHO HAD, UM, YOU KNOW, UH, VOLUNTEER TO PARTICIPATE.
SO I WOULD LOVE TO SEE THAT PROGRAM CONTINUE.
I THINK WE HAVE SOME OTHER SCHOOL, SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS THAT ARE WITH EVERYBODY IS ATTENDING DIFFERENT, UM, SECTIONS OF THAT AND EVENINGS.
AND, UM, I THINK IT'S A GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO JUST, YOU KNOW, SIT ASK QUESTIONS AND LEARN MORE, UM, ABOUT THE SCHOOL BOARD.
AND, AND, UH, ONE OF THE THINGS WE TALKED ABOUT A LOT WAS, YOU KNOW, THE BIG QUESTION ABOUT HOW ARE SNOW DAYS DETERMINED AND WHAT DOES THAT REALLY LOOK LIKE FOR OUR STAFF? YOU KNOW, THAT'S A HUGE, HUGE DECISION TO MAKE.
AND SO, UM, HEARING HOW THEY, THEY DO ALL OF THAT AND WE GOT A GREAT TOUR, BUT, UM, HOPEFULLY WE WILL BE ABLE TO CONTINUE THAT IN THE FUTURE AND WE'LL HAVE MORE COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION, UH, TO, YOU KNOW, TO COME AND BE THERE AND, UH, PART TO, TO DEAL WITH THAT.
UM, AS FAR AS THE BUDGET, I DON'T REALLY HAVE ANYTHING ADDITIONAL, UM, TO SHARE.
SHE, SHE, UH, MS. LOWE GAVE A GREAT, UM, SYNOPSIS OF WHAT WE'VE, UH, BEEN DOING THUS FAR.
YOU KNOW, IT'S A LOT OF INFORMATION GATHERING.
IT'S DONE, YOU KNOW, THROUGHOUT, I BELIEVE, UM, IT STARTS AROUND IN NOVEMBER WHERE DR.
BALLINGER MEETS WITH ALL OF HIS COST CENTERS.
HE GIVES THEM EXPECTATIONS OF WHAT TO SET FORTH.
UM, AND THEN WE JUST HAVE LONG, LONG LISTS.
AND THAT'S WHAT WE'VE BEEN REALLY LOOKING THROUGH.
EVERYTHING THAT WE HAVE RIGHT NOW IS, YOU KNOW, IT'S THE PIE IN THE SKY THAT OUR COST CENTERS WANT.
UM, AND THEN OF COURSE, YOU KNOW, WHAT BUDGET ARE WE GONNA END UP WITH? THE GOVERNORS A MIXTURE.
UM, LAST YEAR TOOK AN EXTREMELY LONG TIME TO HAVE THAT FINAL BUDGET.
IT WASN'T ALMOST UNTIL SEPTEMBER REALLY, THAT IT WAS, 'CAUSE IT WAS DONE, AND THEN IT WAS, UM, REVAMPED.
SO, UM, ALL OF THAT IS, IS IS IN THE MAKING.
WE'VE, UM, WE HAVE SOME JOINT, YOU KNOW, COMMITTEE MID MEETINGS WITH OUR BOARDS OF SUPERVISORS.
UM, SO WE HAVE SOME NEW MEMBERS O UM, THIS YEAR WITH THAT.
WE LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING WITH THEM.
AT OUR LAST MEETING, WE WERE PRESENTED WITH SOME INFORMATION FROM MR. JAMESON.
OBVIOUSLY AT THE MEETING I WASN'T ABLE TO THUMB THROUGH THE 10 PAGES AND LOOK.
UM, SO WE DIDN'T REALLY HAVE A DISCUSSION OR ANYTHING ABOUT THAT.
BUT, UM, I LOOK FORWARD TO OUR CONTINUED DISCUSSIONS BECAUSE, UM, YOU KNOW, WE'LL, WE'LL TAKE A LOOK AT ALL THAT AND, AND, UM, SO, YOU KNOW, IT'S GONNA, IT'S A PROCESS AND IT'S, YOU KNOW, TAKING INTO EVERYTHING, UH, THE CONSIDERATION AS A WHOLE.
SO WE WILL CONTINUE TO PUSH FORWARD WITH THAT.
UM, OUR BOARD TRAININGS THAT WE HAD AND OUR RETREATS, I DO APPRECIATE THE OPPORTUNITY THAT WE DID HAVE TO MEET, UM, WITH ALL OF OUR COUNTY PRINCIPALS AND HAVE SOME CONVERSATIONS.
UM, AND, YOU KNOW, SET SOME, UM, HOPEFULLY SOME GOOD EXPECTA EXPECTATIONS THAT WE, UH, WILL BE SEEING COMING FORWARD.
UM, DEFINITELY WANNA CONGRATULATE ALL OF OUR TEACHER OF THE YEARS, UM, THAT WE HAD TONIGHT.
YOU KNOW, IF YOU EVER SEE ME UP HERE AND I'M LIKE WIPING MY EYE ALL THE TIME, WHEN WE HAVE, UM, THESE, THOSE, THOSE PERFORMANCES, IT'S, IT'S JUST THAT TEACHER IN ME.
'CAUSE I'M SO PROUD OF THESE KIDS.
AND, UM, HEARING EVERYTHING THAT THEY'RE DOING, UM, SEEING THEM TALK FROM BLUE RIDGE TECH, UM, ALL OF THE, THE WONDERFUL THINGS THAT EVERYTHING WAS SAID ABOUT OUR TEACHERS, UH, SOME OF WHOM I HAVE WORKED WITH, UH, HAND
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IN HAND AND CAN CERTAINLY VALIDATE ALL OF THOSE WONDERFUL PIECES OF INFORMATION.UM, SO I THANK YOU TO ALL OF OUR PARENTS FOR BRINGING YOUR CHILDREN OUT TONIGHT.
I THANK YOU FOR EVERYBODY FOR BEING HERE.
UM, YOU KNOW, AND AT THE SAME TIME, I'M CERTAINLY NOT GONNA DISMISS THAT.
I, I TAKE THAT VERY SERIOUSLY AND, YOU KNOW, WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE DOING THAT.
LET'S SEE, I WROTE SOME CHICKEN SCRATCH THERE, BUT IF YOU CAN'T READ MY OWN HANDWRITING ABOUT WHAT I WANTED TO SAY.
UM, OH, AND JUST WANTED TO THANK EVERYONE WHO HAS, UH, RECOGNIZED US FOR SCHOOL BOARD APPRECIATION MONTH.
THAT IS, UM, CERTAINLY APPRECIATED, I KNOW BY ALL OF US.
AND I THINK THAT WAS EVERYTHING.
SO I'M GETTING PRETTY TIRED OF SITTING UP HERE AND HAVING TO HEAR ABOUT THE, THE CHILD ABUSE THAT'S HAPPENING IN OUR SCHOOL SYSTEM.
AND, UM, WHILE YES, I HAVE MY LIST OF PLEASANTRIES AND THINGS THAT, THAT WE'VE, WE'VE DONE, I CAN'T HELP BUT FEEL LIKE WE ARE SAYING THAT I LIKE TO USE IS SWEEPING THE KITCHEN FLOOR WHILE THE HOUSE IS ON FIRE.
UM, I, I JUST, I DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH LONGER WE, WE SIT UP HERE AND, UM, IGNORE THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM.
UM, I'M HOPING TONIGHT SOME OF MY OTHER FELLOW BOARD MEMBERS WILL HELP WITH THIS BECAUSE I, I, I LITERALLY, I'M SHAKING SITTING HERE WHEN I HEAR ALL OF THIS STUFF.
I, IT'S JUST, IT WOULD BE NICE TO HEAR FROM SOME OF YOUR FELLOW BLIND MEMBERS.
I RESPOND FROM AN EMAIL, SOMETHING I AGREE.
UM, NO OFFENSE GUYS, BUT YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE.
UM, SO YES, THANK YOU FOR THE, FOR THE PRESENTATION.
AND FOR THE GIFTS OF APPRECIATION, WHICH I SIT HERE FEELING LIKE I HAVE NOT EARNED, UM, THANK YOU FOR, TO THE TEACHERS OF THE YEAR WHO HAVE BEEN DOING A WONDERFUL JOB.
UM, THANK YOU TO THE, TO THE DEPUTIES WHO CAME OUT TO ADDRESS, UM, SOME OF THE LESS PLEASANT THINGS THAT WE NEED TO ACKNOWLEDGE AND DISCUSS.
UM, WE'VE ADDED A SECTION TO THE AGENDA, SO JUST CUT ME OFF IF THIS IS SUPPOSED TO GO IN THAT SECTION INSTEAD, THE BOARD MEMBER REQUESTS.
UM, WE HAD A LOT OF QUESTIONS ABOUT THE, THE BUDGET SCHEDULE.
OBVIOUSLY OUR BUDGET HAS NOT BEEN PRESENTED YET, SO TONIGHT WE HAD THE PUBLIC HEARING TO WISHLIST ITEMS. UM, BUT I'M HOPING WE ARE GOING TO HAVE ADDITIONAL PUBLIC HEARINGS AS THE BUDGET IS IN FACT PRESENTED.
UM, GOING INTO BUDGET SEASON, I WANNA SEE THIS BUDGET DIRECTED INTO A WAY IN WHICH INFLUENCES OUR, OUR MAIN OBJECTIVE AS A SCHOOL SYSTEM, WHICH IS EDUCATING CHILDREN, THE THINGS THAT ARE GOING INTO THE CLASSROOM.
I DO NOT WANNA SEE INFLATED ADDITIONAL ADMINISTRATOR COSTS.
I WANT TO SEE THE BOOTS ON THE GROUND THAT ARE DOING THE WORK, GET THIS MONEY.
UM, SHALL I GO INTO THIS MORE IN THE BOARD MEMBER REQUEST SECTION? BECAUSE I'D LIKE TO ACTUALLY SEE AN A, I WANNA SEE THIS FOLLOWED THROUGH WITH AND, AND AN ACTUAL SCHEDULE PUT TOGETHER BECAUSE I'VE COMPLAINED ABOUT THIS FOR THREE YEARS IN A ROW AND IT'S STILL DONE THE SAME WAY.
SO, I MEAN, I THINK I HAVE KIND OF THE SAME THING ON MINE, JUST FIGURING OUT, UM, DO YOU MEAN LIKE PUBLIC DISCUSSION FOR THE BUDGET? MM-HMM.
AND IF WE'RE GONNA HAVE A SEPARATE PUBLIC HEARING CORRECT.
DIFFERENT FROM OUR MEETINGS, CORRECT.
I THINK MAYBE JUST DURING THE DISCUSSION WHEN WE ACTUALLY ARE ALL BACK AND FORTH MEETING.
THE BUILDING COMMITTEE MEETING, THAT WAS PROBABLY ONE OF THE MOST EXCITING MEETINGS THAT MR. MCFADDEN AND I GOT TO ATTEND.
AS WE KNOW, E WILSON MORRISON DOES NOT HAVE A GYM.
UM, THEY HAVE A CLASSROOM THAT'S BEING UTILIZED AS A GYM.
I, I HAVE TAUGHT PE THROUGH THE HOMESCHOOLING SYSTEM, SO I'VE TAUGHT PE TO ELEMENTARY SCHOOLERS INSIDE OF A CLASSROOM.
YOU DON'T HAVE THE HIGH CEILING, YOU DON'T HAVE THE, THE SAME SPACE.
THE CLASSES THAT I WAS TEACHING, IT'S GOT 12 KITS IN IT.
I CANNOT EVEN IMAGINE TRYING TO TEACH A GYM CLASS INSIDE OF A, A REGULAR CLASSROOM
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SETTING WITH, WITH 25 CHILDREN.YES, THE AUDITORIUM IS BEAUTIFUL.
WHEN I WAS A PROFESSIONAL BEFORE I, MY SPECIALTY WAS RISK TO VALUE INSPECTIONS OF HISTORIC BUILDINGS.
UM, HOWEVER, THAT SPACE IS NOT BEING UTILIZED IN A WAY IN WHICH OUR KIDS DESPERATELY NEED IT.
UM, I CAN GO INTO THAT MORE ONCE WE GET TO THE SECTION ON, ON E WILSON MORRISON TONIGHT.
UH, BUT I WANNA ASSURE EVERYBODY THESE SEATS, THEY, THEY ARE NOT JUST GONNA GO INTO THE GARBAGE CAN.
UM, ONTO THE NEXT, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I WOULD LIKE TO, I WOULD LOVE TO SEE ADDED TO OUR AGENDA, AND AGAIN, MAYBE THIS IS THE WRONG SECTION TO PRESENT THIS IN.
UM, BUT SINCE WE'VE ADDED IN THE DEPUTIES, I'D LOVE TO SEE A-W-C-E-A REPRESENTATIVE ADDED TO GIVE A REPORT AT EACH, UM, MEETING.
I KNOW THIS HAS BEEN SOMETHING I'VE BEEN ASKING FOR, FOR A WHILE.
UM, AND WE GET THE INFORMATION RELAYED TO US.
BUT FOR ME, I, OKAY, THIS IS WHAT WE HEAR FROM THE WCEA MEETINGS, NUMBER OF STAFF MEMBERS HELPING OUT WITH SUBBING.
I, I DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS.
UM, CALENDAR AND PD, PD DAYS, UM, ADMIN SURVEYS, FIELD TRIP TRANSPORTATION FORMS, LIKE WE GET THESE LISTS, BUT I, I DON'T, I, I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH THAT.
LIKE, IF WE TRULY WANT INPUT FROM OUR TEACHERS WHO ARE INSIDE OF OUR CLASSROOMS AS WE SHOULD WANT TO HAVE INPUT FROM THOSE TEACHERS, WE NEED TO HAVE A-W-C-E-A REPRESENTATIVE COME TO OUR BOARD MEM TO OUR BOARD MEETINGS AND GIVE A SHORT TALK THE SAME WAY EVERYBODY ELSE IS GIVEN THE, THE CHANCE TO PRESENT TO US.
UM, SO THAT'S SOMETHING THAT I WOULD LIKE TO SEE ADDED.
UM, I WAS HOPING THAT WE WOULD HAVE HAD, HAVE HEARD SOMETHING FROM THE WCEA TONIGHT WITH THE, UM, WITH THE, WITH THE BUDGET.
LIKE, PLEASE LET US KNOW, LIKE AS A BOARD, WE VOTE AND MAKE ALL THESE DECISIONS BASED OFF OF WHAT WE HEAR.
AND IF WHAT WE HEAR IS FILTERED AND NOT DIRECTLY FROM THE BOOTS ON THE GROUND, THEN WE DON'T KNOW WHAT TO WHAT YOU NEED.
WE NEED TO HEAR FROM, FROM THE TEACHERS.
UM, SO I THINK THAT IS PRETTY MUCH IT FOR ME.
UM, I WANNA RE REITERATE WHAT OTHER PEOPLE HAVE SAID ABOUT THE, UM, CONGRATULATING THE TEACHERS OF THE YEAR AND THE PERFORMANCES.
IT'S GREAT TO, TO GET A FEEL FOR THE, THE SCHOOLS AND THE, AND THE PEOPLE IN IT FROM BEING HERE.
UM, AS PEOPLE KNOW, I'M THE NEW GUY HERE, SO I'M STILL GETTING, UH, MY HANDLE OF WHAT'S GOING ON IN THE, IN THE SCHOOLS.
BUT WITH THAT BEING SAID, I'VE BEEN READING OVER THE PAST FOR THE PAST MONTH, READING OVER POLICY AND POLICY AND POLICY.
THE POLICY MANUAL'S THIS BIG, I DON'T KNOW IF THAT EVER FINISHED, BUT AT LEAST I'M TRYING TO GO THROUGH IT.
AND I'M NOTICING A LOT OF THE POLICIES HAVEN'T BEEN UPDATED SINCE LIKE 1996 AND SO ON AND SO FORTH.
SO I THINK THAT'S SOMETHING THAT'S ONE OF THE, THE MAIN, UH, JOBS OF THE BOARD OF, UH, BOARD SCHOOL BOARD IS TO REVIEW POLICY, SET POLICY.
SO I THINK IT'S A GOOD THING WE'RE GONNA BE STARTING ON OUR, OUR LAST WORK SESSION IS FOCUSING ON A COUPLE OF THE MAIN POLICY SECTIONS THAT WE THINK ARE MOST VITAL TO THE SCHOOL.
SO THAT'S A, THAT'S A NEVER ENDING PROCESS.
READING OVER THAT, I DID DO MY TWO REQUIRED TRAININGS FOR A CONFLICT OF INTEREST IN THE FOYER POLICIES THAT ARE REQUIRED BY ME AS A NEW SCHOOL BOARD MEMBER.
I MET WITH TWO GUYS, A GUY NAMED DAVE LONG AND TOM MCGUIRE OF A LOCALLY BASED SECURITY COMPANY CALLED LEY SECURITY.
UM, THEY, THEY WERE PRESENTING TO ME A POSSIBILITY OF BEING ABLE TO PROVIDE PRIVATE SECURITY FOR THE, UM, SCHOOL SECURITY OFFICERS.
YOU KNOW, WHERE WE, WE'VE HIRED A COUPLE NEW ONES.
I DON'T KNOW WHERE THE FUTURE'S GOING TO GO.
THEY KNEW WITH A, A COMPANY WHO THEY MAY BE ABLE TO BE, PROVIDE THEM IN A MORE ECONOMICAL WAY AT A, AT A, AT A DEAL WITHOUT, UM, YOU KNOW, MAKING THEM FULL-TIME EMPLOYEES.
BALLINGER IS GONNA FOLLOW UP WITH THEM.
UM, I TOOK PART IN THE TWO DIFFERENT IN-PERSON TRAININGS WITH THE REST OF THE BOARD MEMBERS, UH, TRYING TO WORK ON COMMUNICATION SKILLS AND SORT OF GETTING TO KNOW EACH OTHER.
WE DON'T KNOW EACH OTHER VERY WELL.
I MEAN, WHEN OUTSIDE OF THIS, WE, WE DO SEEM TO SEND A, A LOT OF EMAILS EVERY DAY, BUT OUTSIDE OF THIS, THERE'S NOT A LOT OF COMMUNICATION, UH, PERSONALLY.
SO IT WAS GOOD TO HAVE TWO MEETINGS WITH THEM AND THEN ALSO TO MEET WITH SOME OF THE LOCAL SCHOOL, UH, PRINCIPALS AND, AND ADMINISTRATORS.
UH, PRINCIPAL CHRIS JOHNSTON INVITED ME TO VISIT WARREN COUNTY MIDDLE SCHOOL THIS MORNING WITH, UH, MRS. LOWE, UH, WHERE I HAD THE CHANCE TO TALK WITH SOME TEACHERS AND STUDENTS AND, AND, UH, AND, AND SEE WHAT WAS GOING ON THERE.
IT'S SUCH A BEAUTIFUL BUILDING.
AND THE JAZZ BAND IN THE MORNING, IT WAS GREAT.
IT WOKE, WOKE ME UP AT EIGHT 30 IN THE MORNING, SO GOT ME SHAKEN.
DO WANNA DO A LITTLE SWING DANCING OR SOMETHING.
UM, I WAS ALSO INVITED, UH, A COUPLE OF US INVITED TO BE A JUDGE FOR THE C ECHO, UH, FUTURE CHEFS 2024 COMPETITION FOR FOURTH AND FIFTH GRADERS AT LFK ON MARCH 28TH.
UM, SO I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO GOING IN
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THERE AND BEING A JUDGE ON THEIR VERSION OF CHOPPED.UM, AND THEN LASTLY, UH, IS I DID ATTEND THE BUILDING, UH, MEETING WITH MRS. SALAN.
AND, AND IT WAS ALL NEW TO ME SEEING WHAT WAS IN THERE, BUT IT SEEMS LIKE THE, THE PEOPLE IN CHARGE OF RUNNING IT, THE, THE CONSTRUCTION, THE, THE, THE FOLKS HERE ON ON THE GROUND HAVE A GREAT PLAN FOR WHAT'S GOING ON THERE, AND IT'S GONNA BE A VERY BEAUTIFUL BUILDING ONCE IT GOES OUT.
THEY'D ASK THE CONSTRUCTION FOLKS TO TRY TO PUT LIKE THE 3D MODEL TOGETHER SO PEOPLE CAN LOOK AT IT AND SUDDENLY GET EXCITED ABOUT IT.
UM, BUT IT LOOKS LIKE IT'S GONNA BE A GREAT USE OF, OF TRANS TRANSFORMING THAT SPACE.
AND THEN LASTLY, I WATCHED A BUNCH OF TRAINING VIDEOS PUT OUT BY THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION, VERY INFORMATIVE.
UH, WHAT IS EVERY SCHOOL BOARD'S PRIMARY MISSION AND PURPOSE, HOW TO UNDERSTAND AND NAVIGATE SCHOOL BOARD FINANCE, SCHOOL SAFETY AND DISCIPLINE POLICIES, AND THEN THE VALUE OF A PARENTAL BILL OF RIGHTS TO SAFEGUARD FAMILIES.
SO I'M DOING A LOT OF TRYING TO GET UP TO SPEED, UH, READING ALL THE EMAILS THAT COME OUT AND THERE'S, THAT'S A FULL-TIME JOB UNTO ITSELF.
BUT IT'S, IT'S, UH, VERY EXCITING TO BE ON HERE.
AND I THINK AS WE'RE, WE'RE STARTING TO CLICK AS A BOARD STARTING TO MOVE FORWARD, BUT THERE ARE OF COURSE, YOU KNOW, BUMPS ALONG THE WAY AND BUMPS SOME MONEY FINDING OUT ALONG THE WAY, BUT OUR HOPE IS TO IMPROVE.
SO THAT'S MY THANK YOU MR. MCFADDEN MCDON.
UM, THING ABOUT GOING LAST IS THERE'S NOT MUCH ELSE I DON'T THINK TO ADD TO WHAT EVERYONE ELSE HAS ALREADY SAID THIS EVENING.
UM, OF COURSE, AS ALWAYS, I APPRECIATE ALL THE STUDENTS IN THE SCHOOLS THAT CAME TO DO THE REPORTS THIS EVENING.
BIG CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL OF OUR TEACHERS OF THE YEAR.
THANK YOU TO OUR SROS FOR COMING AND GIVING A REPORT.
I LOOK FORWARD TO HEARING FROM YOU GUYS AT EACH MEETING MOVING FORWARD, AND HOPEFULLY AT A FUTURE WORK SESSION.
UM, REALLY SITTING DOWN SO THAT THE PUBLIC CAN ALSO HEAR REALLY WHAT OUR S-R-S-R-O DUTIES ARE WITHIN THE SCHOOL.
UM, I THINK THAT'S GONNA BE IMPORTANT FOR EVERYONE TO SORT OF SIT IN HERE TOGETHER.
UM, I THINK THAT, AGAIN, EVERYBODY ELSE HAS SAID WE TRAINED TOGETHER, AND THAT WAS, THAT WAS GOOD TO SIT WITH THE ADMINISTRATORS AND GET TO HEAR SOME OF THAT.
I LOOK FORWARD TO OUR UPCOMING WORK SESSION IN FEBRUARY.
WE'RE GONNA TALK ABOUT SOME OF THESE POLICIES.
IT SEEMS LIKE WE'RE ALWAYS TALKING ABOUT REDOING THEM AND WE HAVEN'T MADE MUCH HEADWAY, BUT I THINK WE HAVE HOPEFULLY AT LEAST A SOLID PLAN ON WHERE TO START.
AND SOME JUST REALLY BASELINE STUFF LIKE YOU JUST MENTIONED, THE PARENTAL BILL OF RIGHTS, WHICH WE'VE TALKED ABOUT.
BUT REALLY JUST HAVING SOMETHING THAT PARENTS CAN EASILY ACCESS ON OUR WEBSITE THAT SHOWS EXACTLY WHO TO CONTACT WHEN THERE IS AN ISSUE.
FLOWCHARTS THAT MAKE THINGS EASY TO FIND, TO CONTACT WHO YOU NEED TO BE IN CONTACT WITH, HOW YOU MAKE A COMPLAINT.
WE'RE, WE ARE AWARE THAT ALL OF THIS CAN BE CUMBERSOME WHEN YOU'RE TRYING TO CONTACT NOT JUST US AS A SCHOOL BOARD, BUT WHAT STEPS DO YOU NEED TO TAKE, UM, TO GET THE INFORMATION WHERE IT NEEDS TO GO.
AND SO WE ARE PAINFULLY AWARE OF THAT, UM, THAT IT'S NOT AS EASY AS WE ALL WANT IT TO BE, AND ARE CERTAINLY TRYING TO MAKE THAT, THAT BETTER, HOPEFULLY MOVING FORWARD.
UM, I THINK THAT'S IT FOR ME TODAY,
[6.E. Recognition and Thanks to the Rotary Clubs of Front Royal and Warren County - Ms. Bragg]
AND WE'RE GONNA MOVE ON INTO OUR ACTION AGENDA.THE FIRST ITEM THIS EVENING IS RECOGNITION AND THANKS TO THE ROTARY CLUBS OF FRONT ROYAL AND WARREN COUNTY.
WARREN COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS WOULD LIKE TO RECOGNIZE AND THANK THE ROTARY CLUB OF FRONT ROYAL AND THE ROTARY CLUB OF WARREN COUNTY FOR THEIR KIND CONTRIBUTION OF $2,500 EACH.
TO COVER THE COST OF ANTI-TRAFFICKING INTERNATIONALS.
JUST ASK PREVENTION CURRICULUM FOR GRADES SIX THROUGH 12.
THE ROTARY ORGANIZATIONS HELPED WARREN COUNTY SCHOOLS MAKE THE CONNECTION WITH A TI AND THE SCHOOL BOARD WAS PROVIDED WITH A PRESENTATION FROM ATI'S EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AARON FISHER AT THE NOVEMBER 14TH WORK SESSION.
A TI WILL BE PROVIDING TRAINING TO OUR MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOL PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND SCHOOL COUNSELOR STAFF THIS FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9TH ON, UH, THE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT DAY.
AND THAT TRAINING WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE MORNING FOR SEVERAL HOURS.
UM, A TI WILL ALSO HELP US TO ORGANIZE AND SUPPORT A PARENT COMMUNITY EVENT THAT WILL BE SCHEDULED EITHER FOR LATER FEBRUARY OR EARLY MARCH, UH, FOR FAMILIES TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE CURRICULUM.
AND SO WE'RE EXPECTING THOSE LESSONS TO START TO BE ABLE TO BE DELIVERED IN OUR SIXTH THROUGH 10TH GRADE CLASSROOMS, PROBABLY AROUND MID-MARCH.
SO WE WANTED TO SAY THANK YOU TO, UM, I KNOW THAT, UH, MR. MICHAEL WILLIAMS IS HERE FROM THE ROTARY CLUB OF WARREN COUNTY, IF YOU'D LIKE TO COME UP.
AND, UM, AGAIN, THE, UH, ROTARY CLUB OF FRONT ROYAL TOGETHER.
WITHOUT THEM BRINGING THIS, UH, TO OUR ATTENTION AND MAKING IT AVAILABLE TO US THROUGH THEIR KIND CONTRIBUTION, WE MIGHT NOT HAVE KNOWN THAT THIS CURRICULUM WAS AVAILABLE.
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YOU SO MUCH.ANYTHING YOU WANT TO SAY? YOU'RE GOOD.
ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS FOR MS. BRAGG ON THIS? IS THERE A MOTION I MOVE THAT THE WARREN COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS, THAT WARREN COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS ACCEPT THE $5,000 DONATION FROM THE ROTARY CLUB OF FRONT ROYAL AND WARREN COUNTY TO PURCHASE THE JUST ASK PREVENTION CURRICULUM WITH GRATITUDE AND THANKS.
IS THERE A SECOND ON THAT? A SECOND? ANY DISCUSSION? ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? AYE.
[6.F. Donation of a Snow Blower to the Maintenance Department - Mr. Helmick]
NEXT UP WE HAVE DONATION OF A SNOWBLOWER AND POWER WASHER TO THE MAINTENANCE DEPARTMENT.THIS WILL PROBABLY BE THE EASIEST THING YOU DO ALL EVENING.
UH, THE WARREN COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS MAINTENANCE DEPARTMENT, RESPECTFULLY REQUEST APPROVAL OF A GENEROUS DONATION OF A SNOWBLOWER AND POWER WATCHER FROM MR. ZACH LOGAN.
THE SNOWBLOWER AND POWER WASHER ARE IN EXCELLENT CONDITION.
ANY QUESTIONS FOR MR. HELMICK? IS THERE A MOTION I MOVE THAT THE WARREN COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD ACCEPTS THE DONATION FROM MR. ZACH LOGAN OF A SNOWBLOWER AND POWER WASHER TO THE WARREN COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOL'S MAINTENANCE DEPARTMENT WITH GRATITUDE? IS THERE A SECOND? SECOND.
[6.A. Third Reading and Approval of Policy JO: Student Records - Mr. Smith]
NEXT UP WE HAVE THE THIRD READING AND APPROVAL OF POLICY.UM, THIS PARTICULAR ITEM IS THE THIRD READING.
WE HAVE, UM, HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO LOOK THROUGH AND, UH, THE CHANGES THAT WERE MADE WERE WITHIN THE CHART AND IT WAS, UH, WHO WOULD BE THE CUSTODIAN OF THE RECORDS, UH, AS WELL AS HAVING THE SPECIAL EDU SPECIAL EDUCATION, UH, FILE, UH, TO REMAIN WITH THE PRINCIPAL, THE ORIGINAL, UM, AND THAT A COPY WOULD BE KEPT AT, UM, SPECIAL SERVICES.
ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS FOR MR. SMITH ON THIS? IS THERE A MOTION I MOVE THAT THE WARREN COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD APPROVES POLICY JO AS PRESENTED? IS THERE A SECOND? I SECOND IT.
ANY DISCUSSION ON THIS? ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? AYE.
[6.B. Purchase of Interactive Boards for LFK - Mr. Smith]
NEXT UP, PURCHASE OF INTERACTIVE BOARDS FOR LFK.UH, THIS PARTICULAR PER UH, PURCHASE GOES ALONG WITH OUR, UH, CONSTRUCTION PROJECT THERE, UH, ON THE ORIGINAL AMOUNT OF SMART BOARDS, I BELIEVE IT WAS 29 THAT WAS PRESENTED, UH, EARLIER IN THE YEAR.
ACTUALLY, THAT WAS 12 SHORT OF WHICH IS NEEDED TO COMPLETE THAT ENTIRE, UH, UH, PROJECT.
UM, SO WE WOULD LIKE TO PURCHASE 12 INTERACTIVE DISPLAY BOARDS, MOBILE STANDS, AND ONBOARD COMPUTERS FOR THE REMAINING CLASSROOMS AT LFK.
UH, THESE ITEMS ARE PURCHASED OFF OF THE STATE CONTRACT.
UM, THE TOTAL COST OF THE PROJECT IS 37,896 AND IS PAID OUT OF THE TECHNOLOGY PORTION OF THE LFK CONSTRUCTION PROJECT.
ANY QUESTIONS FOR MR. SMITH ON THIS? IS THERE A MOTION I MOVE TO ALLOW WARREN COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS TO PURCHASE 12 INTERACTIVE DISPLAY BOARDS, MOBILE STANDS AND ONBOARD COMPUTERS FROM CDW IN THE AMOUNT OF $37,896? IS THERE A SECOND? I SECOND IT.
ANY DISCUSSION? ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? AYE.
[6.C. Approval to Request Funding from the Capital Reserve (Schools) Fund for the E. Wilson Morrison Multipurpose Room Renovation- Mr. Smith]
THING.APPROVAL TO REQUEST FUNDING FROM THE CAPITAL RESERVE SCHOOLS FUND FOR THE E WILSON MORRISON MULTIPURPOSE ROOM RENOVATION.
WARREN COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS HAS A NEED TO CONVERT THE EXISTING AUDITORIUM AT E WILSON, UH, MORRISON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL INTO A MULTIPURPOSE GYMNASIUM ROOM.
UH, WE'VE COMPLETED THE A AND E FOR THIS PROJECT.
WE'VE ALSO COMPLETED THE RFP AND THE BID OPENING PROCESS.
UH, TWO BIDS WERE RECEIVED AND THE LOW BID OF 288,200 WAS FROM LANCE CONSTRUCTION OF CHESTER.
OUR NEXT STEP IS TO SEEK THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS APPROVAL TO APPROPRIATE THE FUNDING FROM OUR CAPITAL RESERVE SCHOOLS FUND PRIOR TO THE CONTRACT APPROVAL PROCESS.
THE LESLIE FOX KAISER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IS, UH, IS, IS THE
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PROJECT ITSELF IS, IS GOING WELL.UH, WE'RE CURRENTLY TWO MONTHS AHEAD OF SCHEDULE AND WE FEEL LIKE THERE, THE ANTICIPATED, UH, SAVINGS THAT WE WILL HAVE FROM THAT PROJECT CAN COVER, UH, UH, MOST HOPEFULLY, UH, THE ENTIRE COST, BUT HOPEFULLY AT LEAST MOST OF THE E WILSON MORRISON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MULTIPURPOSE GYMNASIUM ROOM, UH, CONVERSION, UM, THE COST AND FINANCING, UM, THE 288,000, UH, 200, UH, BID IS, UH, IS BROKEN DOWN WITH, INCLUDED IN THAT IS A $50,000 CONTINGENCY FEE, OR, I'M SORRY, CONTINGENCY FUND AND THERE'S A $10,000 HARDWARE FUND WITHIN THAT, THAT AMOUNT.
UM, THERE IS ONE THING THAT I WOULD LIKE TO MODIFY IN REGARDS TO THIS, UM, REQUEST IS THAT ONE THING THAT WE'RE RESPONSIBLE FOR AS THE, AS THE OWNERS, IS THAT WE HAVE TO PROVIDE THE SPECIAL INSPECTIONS OF THE PROJECT THEMSELVES.
UM, WHEN IN THE MAJORITY OF THE INSPECTIONS THAT WOULD OCCUR DURING THIS PARTICULAR PROJECT WOULD BE THAT OF CONCRETE IN THERE.
SO A, A A SPECIAL INSPECTIONS IS REALLY, WE GO AND HAVE A THIRD PARTY INSPECTOR THAT WOULD COME IN AND DO THE INSPECTING AND THOSE TYPES OF THINGS, UH, OF, OF WHAT'S HAPPENING THERE.
AND SO THAT, UM, IT'S A THIRD PARTY.
IT'S A NON-BIAS, UH, UM, SOURCE.
WE HAVE IT ON OUR LFK PROJECT AS WELL.
AND WHEN I SPOKE WITH THE, UH, ZMM, WHO IS OUR A AND E, UH, THEY SAID, UH, ROUGHLY IT SHOULD BE AROUND 20,000 TO, TO HAVE A SPECIAL INSPECTION OVER THE PERIOD OF THE PROJECT.
THE PROJECT ITSELF, UH, IS A FOUR MONTH, UH, FOUR MONTH PROJECT.
SO THAT WOULD TAKE THAT 2 88 2 UP TO, UM, 308,200.
SO THAT WOULD BE THE AMOUNT THAT I WOULD, UH, ASK THAT WE REQUEST, UM, FROM THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS.
I'M SORRY, THAT AMOUNT? YES, MA'AM.
ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS FOR MR. SMITH? UM, I HAVE A QUESTION FOR THIS.
SO THE 308,200 IS, IS BASICALLY COMING FROM THE SAVINGS ON THE LFK PROJECT IS THE MAIN WAY WE'RE GETTING, RIGHT? YES.
UM, WE HAVE OUR, WE HAVE MULTIPLE FUNDS THAT WE ARE, WE'RE DRAWING THIS FROM.
WE HAVE A, WE HAVE A, A CAPITAL RESERVES FUND WITH THE, THE COUNTY ITSELF, IT USED TO ACTUALLY BE IN MULTIPLE DIFFERENT FUNDS, BUT NOW IT HAS BEEN CONSOLIDATED INTO TO ONE OF THE FUNDS.
BUT PRIOR, PRIOR OF IT BEING, UH, CONSOLIDATED, WE WERE GIVEN, UH, LIKE THERE WAS A $2.2 MILLION, UH, ALLOWANCE.
AND THEN THERE WAS SEVERAL $1 MILLION IN THOSE TYPE OF THINGS, GIVEN THAT MAKES UP THAT FUND.
SO WHAT I ENDED UP DOING IS, SAY FOR EXAMPLE, ONE OF THE $1 MILLION FUNDS THAT WOULD BE IN THERE, I SPLIT AND PUT 520,000 OF THAT IN CONTINGENCIES.
CONTINGENCIES NORMALLY ARE, I THINK IT'S, I THINK IT'S NORMALLY LIKE 7.5% OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT, THAT YOU NORMALLY DO ON A PROJECT.
WE ACTUALLY LOWERED IT A LITTLE BIT, UM, AND IT WAS 520 AND THE OTHER $480,000 WAS USED TOWARD THE ACTUAL CONSTRUCTION ITSELF.
CURRENTLY OFF THE CONTINGENCIES, WE'VE USED ABOUT AROUND $70,000 OF THAT.
WE WILL HAVE OTHER CONTINGENCY ITEMS COMING UP THAT, UH, THAT, UM, SOME THAT WE KNOW, OR SOME THAT WE, WE, WE MAY NOT KNOW AT THIS TIME.
SO I WOULD LIKE TO TAKE WHATEVER SAVINGS THAT WE HAD THERE AND PUT IT TOWARD THIS PROJECT.
WE ALSO HAVE ONE FROM ORIGINALLY, WHICH WAS THE CIP FUND, WHERE WE WERE LOOKING AT THREE, $300,000 TO DRAW FROM THAT TO HELP FINISH OUT THIS PROJECT.
BUT I THINK THERE WE'RE PROBABLY ONLY GONNA NEED ABOUT 80 AT THIS TIME, ABOUT 87 OR $88,000.
SO THERE WILL BE SOME FUNDING THAT WOULD BE LEFT THERE AS WELL.
UM, SO YES, IT WOULD BE SAVINGS UPON THIS, BUT IT'S STILL SORT OF ONE BIG POT OF MONEY.
I, IF THE, I GUESS MY FOLLOW UP QUESTION IS OBVIOUSLY WE'RE AHEAD OF SCHEDULE IN LFK SAVING MONEY.
UM, YOU KNOW, WE DON'T KNOW WHAT'S, THEY'RE STILL BUILDING STILL ANYTIME WITH BUILDING THERE COULD ALWAYS BE SOME PROBLEM.
YOU KNOW, SOMETHING YOU DON'T KNOW ABOUT, AND THERE'D BE A HORRIBLE EXPERIENCE TO START ON A NEW PROJECT AND THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN WE HIT, YOU KNOW, WHATEVER IT IS WE HIT AND IT'S, IT'S A BIG EXPENSE, AND THEN WE, WE SORT OF HAVE A PROBLEM.
WE WERE GONNA USE THE MONEY FOR THAT, BUT NOW WE HAVE TO FUND THE MONEY INTO LFK BECAUSE IT'S SOMETHING UNKNOWN.
WHAT IS, WHAT DO YOU THINK THE, WHAT'S THE OVERLAP DATE IS? IT IS LIKE A TWO MONTH DATE.
LIKE WHEN'S LFK SUPPOSED TO BE FINISHED COMPARED? 'CAUSE THIS WAS GONNA START THEORETICALLY AT SPRING BREAK.
THE, UH, LF KLFK PROJECT ORIGINALLY WAS FOR, UH,
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TO END IN JULY OR IN AUGUST.AND CURRENTLY WE'RE LOOKING AROUND JUNE.
UM, SO I ASKED, UH, UH, OUR, OUR ZMM TO REACH OUT TO LANCE, UH, TO LOOK AT WHAT COULD BE A, WHAT COULD BE THE LATEST TIMELINE THAT WE COULD START ON THIS PARTICULAR PROJECT.
TO HAVE IT, TO HAVE IT FOR NEXT YEAR.
IT, IT IS A FOUR MONTH, A FOUR MONTH, UH, UH, PROJECT TIMELINE THAT THEY'RE GIVING US.
HOW CLOSE CAN WE GET TO THE LFK FINISH LINE BEFORE WE START ANOTHER RACE? YEAH.
AND OBVIOUSLY IF IT'S THE SAME CONSTRUCTION COMPANY FOR WORK DOING BOTH, IT WOULD BE IN THEIR BEST INTEREST TO RIGHT.
FIGURE OUT HOW WE, WE, WE CAN, WE CAN GUARD OUR ASSETS AND MAKE SURE WE'RE NOT GONNA BE IN A, IN A HOLE, OBVIOUSLY, WHEN THEY'RE DOING THE BUILDING.
AND LANCE, THEY CAN, UM, I MEAN, WITH THE BUILDING LFK, THERE'S A MATTER OF, YOU KNOW, ONCE THEY PASS WHATEVER HURDLES, I MEAN, IF THEY'RE IN THE BUSINESS, THEY SHOULD KNOW, WELL, NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS, THESE ARE THE ONLY OTHER THINGS THAT COULD HAPPEN.
AND IT, IT'S A SMALLER EXPENSE, BUT IF THEY'RE GONNA BE BREAKING DOWN SOME WALLS OR DOING, YOU JUST, YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT'S BACK THERE.
SO I KNOW FROM MY PART, FROM LOOKING AT IT, IT WOULD BE, IF THERE'S A BETTER WAY TO GET 'EM CLOSER TOGETHER, SO NOT OVERLAPPING AS MUCH, IT'D BE MUCH SAFER TO BE ABLE TO, YOU KNOW, PUT, PUT THE, THE MONEY IN, IN, IN, UH, YOU DON'T PUT THE MONEY IN DANGER.
I THINK IT WOULD BE, I THINK IT WOULD BE MORE PRUDENT.
I THINK IT WOULD BE PRUDENT TO DO THAT, UM, BECAUSE WE DON'T KNOW WHAT WE WERE GETTING.
UH, THAT, UH, NORMALLY WITH WHAT WE'VE BEEN DOING, WE REALLY HAVEN'T BEEN TEARING DOWN LIKE A LOT OF WALLS.
UH, WE'VE BEEN JUST KIND OF RENOVATING THOSE PARTICULAR WALLS AND, UM, WE'RE FORTUNATE BECAUSE A LOT OF IT, IT WAS PODS, SO WE KINDA KNEW WHAT WAS ON THE OTHER SIDE OF IT BECAUSE IT REALLY TRULY WASN'T A REAL WALL.
UM, BUT YEAH, WHAT, WHAT, WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO DO IS AT OUR NEXT, UH, BOARD MEETING, WHICH WOULD BE A WORK SESSION TO BRING SOME OF THIS INFORMATION BACK TO MEET WITH THE BOARD AND TO LOOK AT A TIMELINE THAT WE FELT MOST COMFORTABLE WITH.
SO THAT ALSO SORT OF, KIND OF PLAYS INTO IT A LITTLE BIT.
AND THAT 60 DAYS, YOU SAID WAS FROM JANUARY 18TH, CORRECT? I BELIE YES.
WE OPENED THOSE, WE OPENED THE BIDS ON JANUARY THE 18TH, AND I'LL GET CLARIFICATION ON THAT.
BUT I'M USING THAT PARTICULAR DATE AS THE DATE THAT WOULD START THE 60 DAY.
WE'RE NOT ACCEPTING A, A CONTRACT.
WE'RE NOT SIGNING A CONTRACT, WE'RE NOT STARTING THE WORK.
WE'RE SIMPLY STARTING TO LAY THE GROUNDWORK FOR GOING FORWARD IN THE NEXT MONTH.
BECAUSE EVERYTHING TAKES LONG IN GOVERNMENT.
ANY ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS FOR MR. SMITH ON THIS? IS THERE A MOTION I MOVE THAT THE WARREN COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD AUTHORIZES THE SUPERINTENDENT TO REQUEST THAT THE WARREN COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS APPROPRIATE 200 OH, WELL, $308,200 FROM THE CAPITAL RESERVE SCHOOLS FUND FOR THE RENOVATION COST OF THE E WILSON MORRISON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MULTIPURPOSE ROOM.
IS THERE A SECOND? I SECOND IT.
ANY ADDITIONAL DISCUSSION ON THIS? ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? AYE.
[6.D. Approval of Expenditure - Virtual Virginia Spring Enrollments - Ms. Bragg]
NEXT UP WE HAVE APPROVAL OF EXPENDITURE, VIRTUAL VIRGINIA SPRING ENROLLMENTS.UM, THE VIRTUAL VIRGINIA SPRING ENROLLMENT BILL IS IN THE AMOUNT OF $51,875.
UM, I COME BEFORE THE BOARD ASKING FOR YOUR APPROVAL TO PAY FOR OUR 2024, UH, SPRING SEMESTER ENROLLMENTS.
ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS FOR MS. BRAGG ON THIS? HOW MANY STUDENTS IS THAT ABOUT? UH, WE HAVE ROUGHLY ABOUT FIVE ELEMENTARY STUDENTS.
SO THAT IS PAYING FOR THE SECOND HALF OF THEIR FULL YEAR ENROLLMENT.
UM, THE SAME CAN BE SAID FOR, UH, ABOUT 105 MIDDLE SCHOOL COURSES.
SO, YOU KNOW, ONE STUDENT MAY HAVE FOUR COURSES, OR IT MAY JUST BE ONE COURSE PER STUDENT.
SO 105, UH, COURSES TO COMPLETE OUT THEIR FULL YEAR AND 173 HIGH SCHOOL SEMESTER ENROLLMENTS.
AND AGAIN, THAT 173 CAN BREAK DOWN TO FOUR OR FIVE CLASSES PER KID, OR ONE ENROLLMENT PER KID.
THE WAY THAT DATA IS PROVIDED, IT'S JUST SINGLE LINE COURSE ENROLLMENTS, AND THEY NEED TO HAVE DONE WELL IN THE FIRST SEMESTER
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IN ORDER TO CONTINUE IN THIS SEMESTER.WE, UH, THIS SCHOOL YEAR STARTED WITH THAT APPLICATION PROCESS THAT THE SCHOOLS NEEDED TO REVIEW IN ORDER TO APPROVE A STUDENT FOR VIRTUAL VIRGINIA.
AND A STUDENT THAT DID POORLY IN THE FALL SEMESTER, EITHER DID NOT ATTEND ACCORDING TO THE REGULATIONS OF VIRTUAL VIRGINIA, AND WAS ASKED, UM, ESSENTIALLY TO, TO BE DROPPED FROM VIRTUAL VIRGINIA, UM, OR DID NOT PASS THEIR CLASS, THAT THEY NOT BE READMITTED TO A SPRING ENROLLMENT.
THE SCHOOLS WENT THROUGH THAT DATA AND TALKED TO THOSE STUDENTS AND FAMILIES.
ARE THE CHILDREN, THE CHILDREN WHO ARE ENROLLED VIRTUALLY, THEY'RE STILL COUNTED IN THE, THE TOTAL OF THE ROUGHLY 5,000 STUDENTS, CORRECT? THEY ARE.
SO THAT'S THE KIND OF THE AGREEMENT WITH VIRTUAL VIRGINIA, YOU ENROLL AS A WARREN COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOL STUDENT, AND IN RETURN WE PAY THE PUBLIC SCHOOL ENROLLMENT FEE FOR YOU TO ATTEND VIRTUAL VIRGINIA VERSUS DOING IT THROUGH, YOU KNOW, YOUR OWN PARENTS OR LIKE A HOMESCHOOL KIND OF OPTION.
SO WE STILL RECEIVE THE FULL STATE FUNDING AND, AND THAT WE, WE DO.
DO WE HAVE A, A WAY OF EVALUATING WHETHER THE PEOPLE LIKE THIS? I THINK I'VE HEARD A COUPLE COMMENTS FROM SOME PARENTS THAT, YOU KNOW, THAT THEY WEREN'T ALL THAT HAPPY WITH IT.
I MEAN, I DON'T KNOW MUCH MORE ABOUT IT, BUT DO WE HAVE A WAY OF, OBVIOUSLY WITH, IF IT'S IN-HOUSE, IT'S ONE OF THESE AREN'T OUR TEACHERS.
WE, WE HAVE SUPERVISORS AS YOU, AS IT SAYS.
IS YOUR WAY TO EVALUATE, DO PEOPLE LEARN? DO, DO THEY OBVIOUSLY THEY'RE DOING IT FOR A CERTAIN REASON, I GUESS, BUT, UM, I WOULD SAY THAT WE HAVE HAD MIXED REVIEWS IN CERTAIN SORT OF CAVEATS.
SO WITH OUR YOUNGER ELEMENTARY STUDENTS, UM, WE'VE SEEN THE ENROLLMENT LAST YEAR AND THIS YEAR DROP TO ABOUT FIVE ELEMENTARY STUDENTS A YEAR.
PRIOR TO THAT, THERE WERE MANY MORE.
AND I THINK THAT, YOU KNOW, THAT'S PROBABLY, YOU KNOW, APPROXIMATE FOR AN ELEMENTARY STUDENT, A TON OF ENROLLMENTS IN ELEMENTARY THAT REQUIRES A LOT OF PARENTAL SUPPORT AND THAT SORT OF THING.
AND SO, UM, YOU KNOW, THOSE ENROLLMENTS, I THINK PARENTS ARE VERY INVOLVED IN KEEPING THEM UP WITH THEIR, WITH THEIR STUDIES.
UM, AT MIDDLE SCHOOL, WE DID HAVE A SETBACK, IF YOU WILL, WARREN COUNTY MIDDLE SCHOOL.
WE USED VIRTUAL VIRGINIA TO TRY TO COVER FOR NOT HAVING A SPANISH TEACHER.
AND SO WE HAD A HIGH LEVEL OF SPANISH ENROLL, SPANISH ONE ENROLLMENTS, UM, IN THE FALL.
AND MANY OF THOSE STUDENTS DID NOT COMPLETE THE COURSE.
AND IT WAS FOR A VARIETY OF REASONS.
THERE, UM, YOU KNOW, WERE, UH, SOME STUDENTS WHO EXPRESSED, YOU KNOW, JUST THAT LACK OF INTERACTION WITH THE TEACHER.
THEY JUST WEREN'T ABLE TO KIND OF KEEP UP WITH THE WORK.
UM, OTHER STUDENTS HAD SOME CONCERNS ABOUT, YOU KNOW, HOW THE GRADING WAS CARRIED OUT AND THAT SORT OF THING.
SO GOING FORWARD, I WOULD NOT MAKE A RECOMMENDATION TO USE ANY VIRTUAL PROGRAM FOR A FOREIGN LANGUAGE.
WE HAVE NOT SEEN THAT BE SUCCESSFUL WHEN WE TRIED APEX AT THE HIGH SCHOOL TO COVER FOR A TEACHER FOR A SHORT TERM.
UM, AND IT WAS NOT SUCCESSFUL ON VIRTUAL VIRGINIA.
SO TRYING TO FIND A WORLD LANGUAGE TEACHER AT WARREN COUNTY MIDDLE SCHOOL IS HIGH ON EVERYONE'S LIST BECAUSE WE NEED TO OFFER THAT LEVEL ONE OPPORTUNITY TO THOSE STUDENTS.
BUT DOING IT VIRTUALLY, IN MY OPINION, IS NOT A GOOD OPTION.
UM, AND THEN AT HIGH SCHOOL, THAT PRIMARILY DEPENDS ON THE STUDENT.
YOU DO HAVE TO HAVE A LEVEL OF SORT OF SELF-MOTIVATION TO WORK THROUGH A VIRTUAL CLASS, ESPECIALLY IF IT'S, YOU KNOW, ASYNCHRONOUS OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
UM, OUR, OUR PRINCIPALS AND COUNSELORS WORK WITH THOSE STUDENTS TO KEEP 'EM ON TASK.
I WILL SHARE WITH THE BOARD THAT PROBABLY THE BIGGEST PROBLEM WE HAVE IS GETTING THE VIRTUAL STUDENTS IN TO TAKE THEIR STANDARDS OF LEARNING TEST.
AND THAT IS, THAT CAN BE REFLECTED IN OUR PARTICIPATION RATES AT OUR SCHOOLS.
WHEN THOSE STUDENTS, DESPITE THE NUMBER OF PHONE CALLS THAT PRINCIPALS ARE MAKING AND REACHING OUT TO, UM, TO THOSE FAMILIES, IF THEY DON'T BRING THEIR TO SCHOOL, YOU CANNOT SOL TEST AT HOME.
YOU KNOW, AND WE MAKE ACCOMMODATIONS.
I MEAN, THEY'RE, WE'LL, WE'LL DO IT AT ANY TIME.
PRETTY MUCH SET 'EM UP IN ANY ROOM, UM, YOU KNOW, DURING THE TESTING WINDOW TO DELIVER THAT.
UM, AND SO WE HAVE DISCUSSED FOR NEXT YEAR THAT ALSO BECOMING A REQUIREMENT.
IF YOU DID NOT SIT FOR YOUR SOL TEST THIS YEAR, THEN IS THAT A REASON FOR US TO POTENTIALLY DENY VIRTUAL ENROLLMENT NEXT YEAR? BECAUSE IT IS IMPACTING POTENTIALLY PARTICIPATION RATE.
IS THE VIRTUAL VIRGINIA, IS THAT THE SAME, UM, VIRTUAL SCHOOLING THAT'S USED AS WHEN A CHILD HAS BEEN SUSPENDED LONG TERM AND THEY HAVE TO, THAT'S A DIFFERENT VIRTUAL.
UM, SO VIRTUAL VIRGINIA, THEIR ENROLLMENT DEADLINE IS SO EARLY THAT IT DOESN'T WORK FOR ANY SHORT TERM OR TEMPORARY TYPE THINGS.
UM, I COULD SEE WHERE A STUDENT WHO MAYBE HAD RECEIVED, YOU KNOW,
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A LONG TERM SUSPENSION AT THE END OF LIKE, FIRST ADVISORY COULD POTENTIALLY MOVE TO VIRTUAL VIRGINIA FOR THEIR FULL SECOND SEMESTER, IF THAT MAKES SENSE.BUT IT'S NOT SOMETHING THAT WE CAN DIP IN AND OUT OF BECAUSE THEY HAVE, UM, AN EARLY ENROLLMENT DEADLINE SO THAT THEY CAN DETERMINE HOW MANY TEACHERS THEY NEED.
AND THEN WE GET BILLED FOR THOSE SLOTS PRETTY EARLY ON.
UM, THEY WILL OFFER LATE ENROLLMENT.
UM, IT'S NOT A FEE TO LATE ENROLL, BUT I HAVE TO JUMP THROUGH A FEW HOOPS OF REGISTERING A STUDENT.
UM, THOSE ARE USUALLY RESERVED FOR LIKE MEDICAL EMERGENCIES.
WE JUST, YOU KNOW, DID ONE RECENTLY.
AND SO THERE'S VERY LIMITED LATE ENROLLMENT.
SO IT DOESN'T WORK FOR LIKE, NECESSARILY LIKE A LONG-TERM SUSPENSION.
I THINK THOSE STUDENTS MAY BE GETTING SERVICES ELSEWHERE THROUGH HOMEBOUND SERVICES OR APEX.
SO APEX WE BUY SLOTS FOR, SO WE CAN ROTATE STUDENTS IN AND OUT THROUGHOUT THE SEMESTERS IN THOSE VIRTUAL VIRGINIA, IT'S, WE HAVE TO PAY UP FRONT FOR THE SEMESTER.
ONE FOLLOW UP QUESTION, YOU SAID, UM, I'M TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHO, WHO ENROLLS IN VIRTUAL VIRGINIA.
YOU MENTIONED, YOU KNOW, IF YOU'RE MISSING A TEACHER AND YOU THE FOREIGN LANGUAGE, WHAT, WHAT ARE THE OTHER REASONS PEOPLE DO THIS? SOME, SOME ENROLLMENT HAS STEMMED OUT OF COVID AND PEOPLE'S, UM, YOU KNOW, PERSONAL AND FAM FAMILIAL CHOICES OF RELUCTANCE TO TURN RETURN TO IN-PERSON LEARNING.
UM, SO THAT'S KIND OF WHERE IT ALL STARTED.
THAT'S WHERE THE RELATIONSHIP STARTED.
UM, YOU KNOW, OTHER OPTIONS FOR VIRTUAL ENROLLMENT MAY HAVE INCLUDED THINGS, UM, LIKE ACCESS TO, UM, AN EXTRA CLASS OR SOMETHING THEY NEEDED.
SO THEY MAY NOT HAVE A FULL-TIME ENROLLMENT, BUT THEY MAY BE COMING IN TO TAKE, YOU KNOW, THREE CLASSES WITH US AND THEN DOING ONE OR TWO CLASSES.
UM, SOME STUDENTS EVEN COME INTO THE SCHOOL AND COMPLETE SOME OF THEIR VIRTUAL VIRGINIA CLASSES, YOU KNOW, IN THE LIBRARY OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
UM, WE HAVEN'T PUT A LOT OF RESTRICTION ON, YOU DON'T HAVE TO PRODUCE ANY MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT.
SO IF THE FAMILY CHOOSES IT AND THE STUDENT MEETS THE REQUIREMENTS, WE'VE, WE'VE ALLOWED IT.
AND, AND SOMETIMES, SOMETIMES, AND IN MOST CASES I WOULD SAY THAT'S WORKED, BUT SINCE PUTTING IN THAT THE STUDENT HAS TO COMPLETE THE CLASS OR THE PARENT HAS TO PAY US BACK, UM, YOU KNOW, WE'VE, WE'VE TRIED TO FOLLOW, FOLLOW UP ON THAT.
IT'S TRIED TO PUT A LITTLE WEIGHT BEHIND IT.
'CAUSE WE DO HAVE TO PAY UP FRONT.
YEAH, WE DID NOT DO THAT WITH THE STUDENTS WHO DROPPED THE SPANISH CLASS.
WE DID NOT TRY TO COLLECT MONEY FROM THE, FROM THE PARENTS ON THAT.
'CAUSE THAT WAS OUR INABILITY TO PROVIDE THAT TEACHER.
SORRY, I JUST WANTED TO CLARIFY THAT.
IS THERE A MOTION ON THIS? I MOVE THAT APPROVAL BE GIVEN TO PAY VIRTUAL VIRGINIA FOR ONLINE INSTRUCTION PROVIDED TO WARREN COUNTY STUDENTS FOR THE SPRING 2024 SEMESTER IN THE AMOUNT OF $51,875.
ANY ADDITIONAL DISCUSSION? ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? AYE.
[6.G. Specialized Programs Coordinator Position]
NEXT UP WE HAVE SPECIALIZED PROGRAMS COORDINATOR POSITION MS. MCDONALD.GOOD AFTERNOON, WHILE REVIEWING DATA FOR THE, OVER THE PAST FIVE YEARS AND, UM, LOOKING TO REORGANIZE.
AND WE WOULD LIKE TO CONTINUE TO SUPPORT PROGRAMS WITH FIDELITY.
UM, WE ARE PROPOSING THAT A 12 MONTH SPECIALIZED PROGRAM COORDINATOR POSITION BE CONSIDERED IN ORDER TO ENSURE COMPLIANCE WITH OUR SPECIALIZED PROGRAMS. WE ARE PROPOSING A 12 MONTH COORDINATOR POSITION TO SUPPORT OUR PATHWAYS IN CONNECTIONS CLASSROOMS. I, ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS FOR MS. MCDONALD? I THINK WHAT WE HAD TALKED ABOUT IS THIS WOULD NOT REMOVE A TEACHER FROM THE ROOM.
THIS IS, THIS IS ADDING CORRECT.
ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? IS THERE A MOTION ON THIS? I MOVE THAT THE WARREN COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD APPROVE THE SPECIALIZED PROGRAM COORDINATOR POSITION AS PRESENTED.
IS THERE A SECOND? I'LL SECOND.
ANY DISCUSSION ON THIS? ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? AYE.
[7.A. Discussion on Substitutes]
OKAY.NEXT UP WE HAVE DISCUSSION ON SUBSTITUTES.
FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO DIDN'T ATTEND OR HAVEN'T WATCHED OUR, UM, WORK SESSION FROM JANUARY, WE STARTED TO HAVE A PRESENTATION, UM, ON WHAT IT WOULD LOOK LIKE TO DO OUR SUBSTITUTES
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THROUGH WARREN COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS VERSUS USING ESS.WE CAME OUT OF THAT MEETING WITH A LOT OF QUESTIONS.
THE INITIAL PLAN WAS TO CONTINUE THE DISCUSSION AT OUR WORK SESSION LATER THIS MONTH, WHICH OF COURSE, WE'RE STILL GONNA DO BECAUSE WE'VE DEVELOPED EVEN MORE QUESTIONS SINCE THEN.
UM, BUT FOR TONIGHT, UM, MR. LEE AND MS. POE ARE GONNA KIND OF UPDATE US A LITTLE BIT MORE ON WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE TO HAVE THE SUBSTITUTES HOUSED IN WARREN COUNTY.
UM, I JUST WANTED TO SAY THANK YOU ALL AGAIN FOR ALL OF YOUR THOUGHTS AND, UM, YOU KNOW, IDEAS THAT I THINK WE TRIED TO CAPTURE KENDALL, UH, HAS, HAS I, I THINK PUT TOGETHER A A REALLY GOOD PRESENTATION, UM, THAT I'M GONNA GO THROUGH HERE WITH YOU ALL, UH, BASED ON SOME INFORMATION THAT WE, WE SHARED AND WE UPDATED FROM OUR PREVIOUS MEETING THAT, UM, YOU KNOW, THERE'S SOME QUESTIONS ABOUT THE DATA.
AND, AND WE'VE, WE'VE, WE'VE WORKED, UH, WITH OUR, OUR CURRENT PARTNER, UM, TO GET SOME OF THOSE THINGS UPDATED AND CHANGED.
AND, AND OF COURSE YOUR FEEDBACK WAS, WAS, UM, UM, TAKEN INTO CONSIDERATION HEAVILY TO, TO MAKE SOME OF THOSE ADJUSTMENTS TO KIND OF GET THE, GET THOSE, UH, PRICES DOWN, UM, AS, AS AS REQUESTED.
SO PREVIOUSLY WE PRESENTED, PRESENTED THE IDEA OF HAVING THREE STAFF MEMBERS, UH, THAT WOULD BE PART OF HR TO OVERSEE THE, UM, THE SUB-PROCESS.
UH, SO WE'VE CHA WE'VE UPDATED THAT, UM, THERE ON SLIDE ONE.
SO, UH, IT WOULD BE A COORDINATOR POSITION.
AGAIN, THIS WOULD BE A, A, UM, WE, WE WOULD LIKE FOR IT TO BE A TEACHER, UH, OR AN INDIVIDUAL THAT HAS TEACHER, UH, TEACHING EXPERIENCE, UM, THAT, THAT COULD PROVIDE THAT, THAT VALUABLE CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT, UM, PIECE.
I'M SORRY, I THOUGHT IT WAS ALREADY UP THERE.
NOBODY GAVE YOU A SLIDE CHECK FOR THIS.
UH, IT'S ON BOARD, IT'S ON BOARD DOCS, IT'S ON, IT'S ON BOARD DOCS, IT'S ON THE, IT'S ON BOARD DOCS, IT'S ON THE SUB PRESENTATION.
UM, THAT'S WHILE MR. BUDD GETS THAT SQUARED AWAY FOR US.
I, I'LL JUST CONTINUE WITH THE, THE HR, UH, PERSONNEL CONVERSATION.
UH, WE REALLY FEEL STRONGLY WITH, WITH THIS, THIS PERSON BEING A, A, UM, A VETERAN TEACHER, UM, THEY WOULD STILL REMAIN ON THAT PAY SCALE.
THEY WOULD GET AT, YOU KNOW, THE ADDITIONAL COORDINATOR STIPEND, UM, AT, AT, AT THE, AT THE, AT A 12 MONTH POSITION.
UM, AND, AND ALSO, YOU KNOW, THEY WOULD BE, THEY WOULD BE THE, THE TRAINER FOR THE FOR, FOR THAT MAN PIECE, UM, THAT WE, WE KNOW IS, IS, IS SUPER, SUPER IMPORTANT.
UM, SO THAT WOULD BE, THAT WOULD BE OUR, OUR COORDINATOR POSITION.
UM, AND THEN WE, WE MOVED FROM AN ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT TO A, TO A SECRETARY ON THE, FROM THE GRADE SEVEN SCALE TO THE GRADE NINE SCALE, UM, AT, AT THAT, AT THAT DOLLAR AMOUNT.
SO THAT, THAT'S THE, THE PERSONNEL CHANGES THAT WE MADE FROM OUR, OUR PREVIOUS, UM,
THE, UM, THE SECOND SLIDE TALKS ABOUT SUPPORTING PERSONNEL BUDGET REQUESTS.
UM, SO AGAIN, WE, WE FEEL THAT, THAT THE COORDINATOR AND THE SECRETARY KIND OF NEED THEIR OWN SEPARATE BUDGET.
UM, THAT WOULD INCLUDE THE SOFTWARE SYSTEM, UM, WHICH WE WOULD USE TO TRACK, YOU KNOW, THE EMPLOYEE ABSENCES AND TIME.
UM, AGAIN, OUR SUB COORDINATOR WOULD BE THE, WOULD BE THE MAN TRAINER.
SO, UM, KIND OF BASED ON, ON SOME OF THE, SOME OF THE AMOUNTS THAT, THAT WE CURRENTLY HAVE, UH, FOR OUR, FOR OUR, OUR OWN HR PURPOSES.
SO, SO, SO TO RECRUIT AND RETAIN, WE'RE ASKING THAT THEY HAVE, UH, UH, BE ALLOTTED $5,000 OFFICE SUPPLIES, 1300.
UH, THE MAN CERTIFICATION TRAINING IS, IS A, IS $3,000.
UM, AND THEN THE SOFTWARE THAT THAT RIGHT NOW IS CURRENTLY MANAGED BY ESS, UH, WE WOULD HAVE TO TAKE ON BOTH PARTS OF THAT.
UM, THE ABSENCE MANAGEMENT PIECE AND THE TIME ATTENDANCE, UH, SO THAT DOLLAR AMOUNT WOULD BE THE, THE 70 $72,000
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THAT YOU SEE THERE IS THE, THE MAT TRAINING.IS THAT DIFFERENT THAN THE CRISIS INTERVENTION TRAINING THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT? THAT'S NOT RESTRAINT AND SECLUSION, THAT'S RESTRAINT.
SO IS MA TRAINING RESTRAINT? YES.
I'M TRAINED IT, IF THAT'S FINE.
IT'S RESTRAINT AND SECLUSION AT THAT POINT, RESTRAINT AND SECLUSION THAT DOUBLE BAD.
THERE'S A, THERE'S A RELATIONAL AND A TECHNICAL PIECE FOR MATH.
THERE'S TWO DIFFERENT TYPES OF, OF TRAINING CAN WHAT IS, CAN, ARE WE TRAINING TO TEACHERS? IT'S, IT'S OFFERED TO TEACHERS, CORRECT.
WHAT I'M, MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT IT ALREADY IS OFFERED TO TEACHERS, RIGHT? YES.
MR. LEE, CAN YOU CONTINUE, PLEASE? YES.
I'M, I'M SORRY, I'M SUPER CONFUSED BECAUSE WHEN I HAD ASKED MR. HIRSH ABOUT THIS BEFORE, UM, BECAUSE THIS CAME UP LIKE TWO YEARS AGO WITH THE, WITH THE MAN TRAINING BECAUSE OF FREDERICK COUNTY, UH, MARYLAND AND ALL OF THE, THE STUFF, AND, AND MY STEPMOM WAS DIRECTLY INVOLVED IN TRYING TO GET THAT STOPPED.
AND I SPECIFICALLY ASKED IF WE DID RE RESTRAINT AND SECLUSION, AND MR. HIRSCH TOLD ME NO, THAT WE DO NOT.
AND THAT, SO I, I'M SO SORRY TO DERAIL YOUR PRESENTATION, BUT I, I'M JUST, I'M FEELING VERY LIED TO RIGHT NOW.
SO WHEN WE, MR. HURST DID, AND, AND HE DID SAY WE DO NOT SECLUDE, SO THE, THE MAN TRAINING IS USED.
AND WOULD YOU MIND SPEAKING ON THE MAN TRAINING AND HOW IT IS UTILIZED WITHIN OUR SCHOOL DIVISION? AND IF YOU REMEMBER, SO ALL OF OUR SPECIAL EDUCATION TEACHERS THAT, UM, THEY ARE CERTIFIED IN MAN TRAINING BECAUSE WE, WE DO HAVE THOSE THAT ARE CERTIFIED, BUT THEN WE WERE OFFERING JUST THE TECHNICAL OR NO, THE RELATIONAL FOR ALL OTHER TEACHERS WHERE IT'S, IT'S A HANDS OFF.
BUT IF YOU DON'T MIND, MS. MCDONALD CAN TALK ABOUT THAT.
YES, THERE IS, THERE ARE TWO, UM, SKILLS.
SO YOU CAN TEACH ON RELATIONAL SKILLS, WHICH EVERY TEACHER IN THE DIVISION HAS BEEN PROVIDED.
AND THERE'S ALSO RESTRAINT AND SECLUSION AND I'M SORRY, NOT RESTRAIN RESTRAINT TRAINING THAT SOME SPECIALIZED TEACHERS ARE PROVIDED AND SOME ASSISTANCE.
AND MOST OF THOSE ASSISTANTS ARE IN OUR SPECIALIZED PROGRAM.
SO IF NEEDED, AND IF THEY'RE FROM TRAUMA, THEN A TRAINING INDIVIDUAL CAN RESTRAIN A STUDENT.
WHAT LOOKS LIKE, SORRY, SORRY, I HAVE ASKED THAT QUESTION.
SINCE SPENCER WAS FOUR YEARS OLD, MS. NELSON.
SO WHAT WE CAN DO IS PROVIDE SOME TRAINING TO PARENTS BECAUSE WE CAN LET THEM KNOW WHAT THEIR STRENGTH LOOK LIKE.
WHEN I WAS IN THE CLASSROOM, I WOULD DO THAT WITH ALL OF MY PARENTS BECAUSE IN MY CLASSROOM I DID HAVE TO PUT HANDS ON MULTIPLE TIMES, SOMETIMES MULTIPLE TIMES IN A DAY.
UM, SO THAT CAN BE PROVIDED TO OUR PARENTS SO THAT THEY KNOW THAT THEY STRENGTH.
CAN YOU SHARE REAL QUICKLY, A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT WHAT THE RELATIONAL IS ABOUT THE DEESCALATION AND THEN BUILDING RE THE RELATIONSHIP? YES.
WHAT, WHAT THE, EVERYBODY IN THE COUNTY IS TRAINED ON AS FAR AS THE RELATIONAL EXPECTATIONS.
IT'S BUILDING UP THOSE RELATIONSHIPS WITH STUDENTS SO THAT YOU'RE AT THEIR LEVEL AND YOU UNDERSTAND MASLOW, UM, AND JUST KNOWING WHERE THEY'RE AT.
SOMETIMES STUDENTS ARE, WE HAVE, WE HAVE 74 HOMELESS STUDENTS IN OUR DIVISION, SO TRYING TO GET THAT STUDENT TO COMPLETE THEIR ASSIGNMENT ON DEMAND, THEY ARE NOT GOING TO DO THAT.
UM, SO THEY MAY NEED THAT EXTRA SUPPORT, JUST BEING ABLE TO GIVE THEM SOME COMMON TECHNIQUES AND SOME STRATEGIES AND SKILLS TO HELP SUPPORT AND DEESCALATE THAT BEHAVIOR AT THAT TIME.
SO IT'S JUST MEETING THE STUDENTS WHERE THEY ARE AND BUILDING THOSE POSITIVE RELATIONSHIPS.
I MEAN, NO, I MEAN, THEY DO TEACH THAT.
IT'S JUST, UM, I WOULD SAY THAT YOU CARE SYSTEMS RESTRICTIVE, BUT YES, THEY DO TEACH FIRST.
I WILL SAY THEY DO TEACH HOW TO TRY AND DEESCALATE
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WORDS BEFORE POLICE.THAT IS, AND I'LL SAY THAT FOR THIS YEAR, I HAVE NOT RECEIVED ANY RE DOCUMENTATION OBJECTIONS.
ARE WE HAVING ISSUES WITH IT NOT BEING REPORTED? YEAH.
ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? ARE THOSE, ARE THOSE FOIBLE? ARE THERE ANY OTHER DIRECT QUESTIONS FOR MS. MCDONALD FROM OUR BOARD MEMBERS THIS EVENING? COULD WE ADD THIS TO LIKE MAYBE A WORK SESSION COMING? LIKE, WE'RE GONNA HAVE A BOARD, OUR BOARD DISCUSSION.
THANK YOU FOR BEING ABLE TO JUMP IN AND ANSWER SOME OF THOSE QUESTIONS.
I'M GONNA HEAD BACK TO MR. LEE AND, UM, MS. POWELL.
UM, THIS IS THE, THE DATA THAT ESS PROVIDED US.
SO THIS IS NOT, THIS IS NOT OUR NUMBERS, THIS IS, THIS IS THEIR NUMBERS.
UM, ON THE LEFT SIDE, THERE IS THE INFORMATION THAT WE PROVIDED, UM, THAT WAS INCORRECT.
IT, IT'S NOT THE 2223, THE, IT'S NOT THE FULL YEAR.
IT, IT, IT WAS ONLY THE, THE JULY THROUGH THROUGH, UH, DECEMBER.
SO THERE, THOSE CORRECTIONS WERE MADE ON THE RIGHT SIDE THERE.
SO THOSE ARE THE ESL, THIS IS THE ESS DATA THAT THEY PROVIDED US WITH THEIR, THEIR MID-YEAR DATA.
JULY THROUGH DECEMBER, UH, FOR 21, 22, 22 23, AND THE 2324 SCHOOL YEARS.
UM, AND THEN THE, THE BOTTOM SECTION THERE IS, IS THE JULY TO JUNE.
SO THE FULL YEAR SCOPE WOULD BE THOSE, THOSE TWO, THOSE TWO AREAS OR TWO BOXES TOGETHER THERE.
UM, SO THIS IS THE WARREN COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOL'S ABSENCE REQUEST.
SO WE'RE USING OUR DATA BASED ON THE, UH, FOUR AREAS THAT, THAT, YOU KNOW, WE, WE, WE WOULD NEED COVERAGE FOR.
SO ESS PROVIDES COVERAGE FOR TEACHERS, AIDES AND CLERICAL.
THEY DO NOT PROVIDE COVERAGE COVERAGE FOR NURSES.
UH, WE, WE USE OUR OWN IN-HOUSE SUBSTITUTES FOR, FOR, FOR A NURSE SUB.
UM, SO AGAIN, THIS IS, THIS IS THE DATA THAT, THAT KENDALL PULLED FROM FRONTLINE.
SO IT'S, IT'S THE RAW NUMBER FROM, UH, FROM FRONTLINE.
WHEN A TEACHER PUTS IN AN A, AN ABSENCE OR A, AN ADMINISTRATIVE, UH, SECRETARY OR ADMINISTRATOR, SOMEBODY PUTS IN AN ABSENCE FOR, FOR, FOR A TEACHER OR, OR AN INSTRUCTIONAL ASSISTANT, UM, OR, OR A, OR A, A CLERICAL POSITION.
SO THAT, THAT'S, THAT'S WHERE THESE NUMBERS ARE COMING FROM.
SO, UM, THE BOX THERE AT THE BOTTOM, THE BREAKDOWN, IF YOU ADDED THOSE THREE WITHOUT THE NURSES WOULD, WOULD BE A LITTLE BIT OVER 13,000 ABSENCES.
UM, AND AGAIN, THIS IS FROM THE 2223 SCHOOL YEAR.
AND, UM, THE BREAKDOWN TO THE RIGHT WOULD BE FULL DAY, HALF DAY, UH, BREAKDOWN FOR THOSE, THOSE THOSE FOUR POSITIONS, TEACHERS, AIDE, CLERICAL, AND NURSE.
SO REMEMBER THIS INFORMATION BECAUSE AS WE MOVE FORWARD, WE'RE GONNA REVERT BACK TO THAT, UH, FOR, FOR SOME, SOME OF OUR, SOME OF OUR DATA HERE.
CAN I INSERT A QUESTION HERE? YES, MA'AM.
UM, FOR OUR PURPOSES, THEY ONLY CAN, STAFF CAN ONLY TAKE A, A FULL DAY OR A HALF DAY.
THEY CAN'T TAKE LIKE A QUARTER DAY OR THREE QUARTERS A DAY.
SO IT'S EITHER YOU HAVE TO TAKE A FULL HALF DAY OR A FULL FULL DAY.
FOR A SUB TO COME IN, IT'S IN HALF DAY INCREMENTS.
UM, COULD YOU ELABORATE ON WHAT YOU HAD TOLD? UM, DR.
PENCE AND I, WHEN WE DID OUR REVIEW OF THIS WITH THE, UM, HOW THE ESS DATA WAS NOT MATCHING UP TO THE ACTUAL RAW DATA AND HOW WHEN THE SCHOOLS WERE FILLING POSITIONS, IT WAS ABSOLUTELY BEING CHANGED.
SO ON THIS SLIDE HERE, YOU'RE GONNA SEE WHAT I CALL RAW DATA.
IT IS IDENTIFYING BY THEIR TITLE TO IDENTIFY IF THEY ACTUALLY NEEDED A SUB.
WHEN I WAS HANDS ON INTO THIS DATA, I SAW THAT I HAD A CLASSROOM TEACHER SAY THEY NEEDED A SUB, BUT THEN THE FLAG WAS FLIPPED, NO FOR NO SUB NEEDED, WHICH IS INCORRECT.
AND WE WOULD'VE NEEDED A SUB FOR THAT POSITION.
SO WHEN I PULLED THIS DATA, I DIDN'T REALLY LOOK AT THOSE FLAGS NECESSARILY AS, DID THEY NEED A SUB OR DID THEY NOT NEED A SUB? WHEN IT COMES DOWN TO THEM REQUESTING A SUB, I LOOKED AT THEIR TITLE AND BROKE IT DOWN.
AS YOU'RE A CLASSROOM TEACHER, YOU NEED A SUB, WE NEED COVERAGE FOR THAT ROOM.
YOU'RE AN AIDE IN A CLASSROOM, WE WOULD NEED COVERAGE FOR THAT.
SUB CLERICAL, NOT ALL OF OUR CLERICALS NEED SUBS, BUT WE DO HAVE MAJORITY OF OUR CLERICALS THAT DO NEED A SUB.
SO WE JUST LOOKED AT THE TITLES.
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UM, S'S DATA IS NOT LOOKING AT TITLES.THEY'RE LOOKING AT FLAGS AT THIS POINT TO SEE, DID YOU REQUEST A SUB? DID YOU NOT REQUEST A SUB? DO I NEED TO FILL IT? DO I NOT NEED TO FILL IT? AND THAT SORT OF THING.
SO YOU ARE GONNA SEE SOME DISCREPANCIES HERE WHEN IT COMES DOWN TO S'S NUMBERS OF REQUEST VERSUS WHAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN REQUESTED AND WHAT WE WOULD LIKE TO FILL AT THIS POINT.
AND IT'S A INTERNAL THAT WE ARE TRYING TO RESOLVE AT THIS MOMENT, THAT WE ARE NOW AWARE OF THESE, UM, INCIDENTS.
WELL, AND BECAUSE WHAT THAT MEANS IS SOMEBODY WITHIN THE BUILDING IS FILLING THAT SPOT, AND THAT'S WHAT WE ARE TRYING TO AVOID MOVING FORWARD.
A TEACHER USING HIS OR HER PLANNING PERIODS TIME AFTER TIME AGAIN TO FILL THESE SPOTS AND NOT GETTING THAT PLANNING PERIOD.
OR WE HAVE BUILDING BASED SUBS, WHICH SHOULD BE THE LAST RESORT.
A TEACHER OR AN IA SHOULD BE PUTTING IN THEIR SUB REQUESTS, GIVING THE POTENTIAL TO GET A SUB AT THAT POINT.
AND IF THAT'S NOT THE CASE, IF THEY CAN'T GET A SUB LAST MINUTE OR THEY CAN'T FILL IT, THEN THE BUILDING BASE IS DESIGNED TO COME IN AND FILL THOSE LAST MINUTE ABSENCES OR UNFILLED ABSENCES.
AND THAT'S JUST NOT THE CASE AT THIS MOMENT.
BUT NOW WE HAVE GRASP ON IT AND WE ARE ADDRESSING IT.
CAN I DO ANOTHER FOLLOW UP? UM, YOU HAD SAID SOMETIMES THERE'S NO SUB REQUIRED.
'CAUSE YOU KNOW, IN A, IN A SYSTEM THERE'S LOTS OF DIFFERENT POSITIONS THAT IF THEY'RE OUT, THERE'S NO SUB.
SO HOW IS THAT, YOU SAID, I THINK YOU SAID IT WAS MORE FOR THE CLERICAL POSITIONS.
IS THAT COUNTY-WIDE BASED? DO WE, DO YOU ALL DECIDE AS A COUNTY THAT WHEN THIS PERSON'S HIRED, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE NOT GONNA, IF THEY'RE ABSENT, THEY'RE GONNA BE ABSENT FOR THE DAY, THEY DON'T REQUIRE A SUB? UM, OR IS THAT SCHOOL BASED BY THE BUILDING? HOW, HOW, YEAH.
DOES IT'S, OR WHAT WOULD POTENTIALLY THAT LOOK LIKE? I THINK IT'S, IT'S BUILDING BASED, WELL, I SHOULDN'T SAY BUILDING BASED.
'CAUSE THAT'LL CONFUSE, UH, SO I, I THINK IT'S, IT'S, IT'S PROBABLY PRINCIPALS WOULD HAVE THE MOST INPUT ON THAT BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, FOR EXAMPLE, IF, IF YOU HAVE A, AN ATTENDANCE SECRETARY THAT'S OUT, YOU'RE NOT GONNA PUT A SUB IN THERE THAT, YOU KNOW, TO DO A JOB THAT THAT'S, THAT'S, THAT JUST DOESN'T MAKE SENSE.
YOU WOULD PROBABLY SWITCH YOUR, YOU KNOW, YOUR RECEPTIONIST WHO'S FAMILIAR WITH THAT POSITION, UM, AND, AND THEN REQUEST A SUB FOR YOUR RECEPTIONIST.
UM, I, I, I THINK THAT'S, THAT'S WHERE SOME OF THE, SOME OF THE AREAS THAT WE'RE, WE'RE, YOU KNOW, OUR, OUR PRINCIPALS ARE STEPPING IN AND SAYING, YEAH, WE DON'T TYPICALLY GET A SUB FOR OUR BOOKKEEPER, BUT YOU KNOW, OUR BOOKKEEPER'S BEEN HELPING OUT, OUT FRONT, SO, SO MAYBE WE'LL GET A SUB HERE AND PUT SOMEBODY BACK THERE, OR VICE VERSA.
UM, SO WE'RE, YOU KNOW, WE'RE UTILIZING SUBS IN THAT WAY TO, TO COVER THE AREAS THAT, YOU KNOW, AREN'T, AREN'T, SHOULDN'T BE FILLED BY A SUBSTITUTE TEACHER, UH, OR A SUBSTITUTE, UH, CLERICAL, UH, INDIVIDUAL.
THE CLERICAL DOES NOT ADD IN ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANCE AT THIS POINT.
IT'S MORE DESIGNED FOR YOUR SECRETARY'S RECEPTIONIST HEAD SECRETARY AT THAT RIGHT LEVEL.
SO ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT, TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION, IS NOT GONNA BE, IT'LL BE NO SUB REQUIRED AT THAT POINT.
DID WE FIGURE OUT FOR CERTAINTY ABOUT THE QUARTER DAY SUBS THAT WERE LISTED AS FILLED? DID WE PAY OUT THE HALF DAY FOR THAT? BECAUSE WE DID.
AND, AND SO ESS IS NOT GONNA REFUND US FOR THAT? NO.
WE'RE NOW TAKING ADDRESS, NOW THAT WE ARE AWARE OF THIS, THAT QUARTER DAYS WILL NOT BE ABLE TO ACCEPT A SUB REQUEST.
SO, UM, AS I, AS I SAID BEFORE, THE, UM, THE DATA THAT KENDALL PULLED FROM SLIDE FOUR, UM, IS, IS, IS, IS BEING USED TO, UM, GIVE US THE COMPARISONS HERE FOR SLIDE FIVE.
SO SLIDE FIVE IS THE 80% FILL RATE COMPARISON DATA, UM, WITH WARREN COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS, THE IN-HOUSE PROPOSAL, AND, AND THE, THE CURRENT ESS PROPOSAL.
SO, UH, YOU CAN SEE THE BREAKDOWN THERE.
SO THE, THE 80% FILL RATE, UH, FOR THE WARREN COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS, UH, IS TO THE LEFT THERE.
AND, AND WITH, WITH FICA, WITH THE 7.6%, UH, WOULD BE THE DIFFERENCE THERE BETWEEN THE, THE, THE, THE TWO COLUMNS THERE.
AND THAT'S WITH, WITH US USING S'S CURRENT, UH, PAY RATES FOR THOSE, FOR THOSE SUB SUB JOBS.
SO I WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK ON THIS SLIDE PARTICULARLY BECAUSE WE PROPOSE 80% FILL RATE AS AN ULTIMATE GOAL TO ACCOMPLISH.
AND WITH THIS, USING OUR RAW DATA, AGAIN, IDENTIFYING MOST
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TITLES, WE RECOGNIZE HOW MANY ABSENCES WE WOULD'VE NEEDED TO FILL.AND IN THOSE CASES, SOME OF THEM HAVE THE DEGREE LEVELS BECAUSE FOR BUDGETING PURPOSES, WE DON'T KNOW IF OUR SUBSTITUTES ARE ALL GONNA HAVE DEGREES OR NON DEGREES.
SO BY BUDGETING PURPOSES, WE PULLED THE HIGHEST NUMBER THAT THEY COULD HAVE EARNED AT THAT POINT.
THAT WAY WE ARE COVERED IF THEY HAVE A DEGREE OR NON-DEGREE.
WITH THIS BEING SAID, WITH THE WARREN COUNTY SIDE OF IT, IT WAS PRESENTED THE 80%, THE FICA WAS NOT INCLUDED.
SO THE FICA IS UPDATED TO INCLUDE IN THESE SLIDES.
THE SS NUMBERS WHEN WE PRESENTED WAS AT THE 66% RATE OF LAST YEAR THAT ESS PROVIDED US THAT DATA.
AND HOW MUCH DID IT COST LAST YEAR AT THE 60? I THINK IT 66% OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD.
SO WHEN WE UPDATED THESE SLIDES FOR YOU, IT WAS USING THE DATA THAT WE PULLED AT THE RATE THAT ESS HAS PROVIDED.
SO IT'S WITH THE INCLUDED 31.5% TO GIVE YOU AN ACTUAL TRUE TO TRUE COMPARISON.
SO YOU WILL NOT SEE THE EXTRA, THE 62% AND ANY OF THESE ADDITIONAL SLIDES, BECAUSE WE CAN'T COMPARE THE 80 THROUGH 66 WHERE YOU'RE COMPARING THE 80 TO 80 WITH OUR NUMBERS OF WHAT IT WOULD LOOK LIKE IN WARREN COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND WHAT IT WOULD LOOK LIKE AT S S'S LEVEL.
AND THAT THAT'S ALSO WITH US, INCLUDING THAT INSTRUCTIONAL COVERAGE THAT DR.
QUESTION I HAVE ON THIS AND FROM THE LAST PRESENTATION IS, ARE ARE, I MEAN, YOU FOLKS ARE THE ONES RUNNING THIS, ARE, ARE YOU PUSHING FOR EITHER ONE? THERE'S, THERE DOESN'T SEEM TO BE A, THIS IS JUST A BUNCH OF NUMBERS AND SLIDES AND HERE'S THE WAY IT COULD BE.
DO YOU HAVE A PREFERENCE TO STICK WITH ESS OR GO IN-HOUSE? THERE DOESN'T, THERE NEVER SEEMS TO BE A SORT OF A EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ON THE FRONT OR BACK OF THESE SLIDES TO SAY, HERE'S WHY WE THINK WE SHOULD DO THIS.
IT'S JUST, HERE'S STUFF TO KNOW ABOUT.
DO YOU, I I THINK, AND I DON'T WANNA SPEAK FOR KENDALL, BUT, BUT I, I THINK FOR US GOING THROUGH THIS PROCESS HAS BEEN VERY HELPFUL.
I, I THINK IF WE DID STAY WITH ESS, WE'VE LEARNED A LOT OF, OF THINGS THAT WE'RE NOT DOING RIGHT ON OUR SIDE THAT COULD MAKE, YOU KNOW, UM, THEIR PRODUCTS MORE BENEFICIAL FOR US.
UM, YOU KNOW, UH, I, I THINK IF, IF WE DID BRING IT IN HOUSE, WE, WE WOULD WANT TO OFFER A QUALITY PRODUCT SO THAT, THAT'S WHY, YOU KNOW, WE, WE'VE, WE'VE, YOU KNOW, KENDALL'S DONE TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF RESEARCH AND, AND PUT THIS, THIS TOGETHER AND, UM, YOU KNOW, I I I THINK WE'RE, WE'RE FINE EITHER WAY.
WE JUST, YOU KNOW, WE, WE, WE'VE GOTTA ALSO KEEP SOME TIMELINES IN MIND BECAUSE ESS REQUIRES A, UM, A 60 DAY NOTICE BEFORE, UM, WE, WE DECIDE WHETHER WE'RE, WE'RE, WE'RE MOVING FORWARD AND THEN FRONTLINE IS TELLING US IT'S GONNA BE, UH, FOUR MONTHS TO IMPLEMENT, UM, THE ABSENCE MANAGEMENT AND THE THE TIME PIECE THAT WE WOULD, WE WOULD HAVE TO BRING IN, IN-HOUSE TO MANAGE OUR SUBS.
SO, UM, WITH THAT SAID, WE WOULD, WE WOULD NEED YOU ALL TO MAKE A DECISION BY THE MARCH 6TH MEETING TO BE ABLE TO IMPLEMENT A QUALITY PROGRAM IF IT IS IN-HOUSE.
UM, AND, AND TO LET A SS KNOW IF, IF WE'RE NOT GONNA CONTINUE WITH THAT.
IS THERE ANY, UH, ALTERNATE PLANS TO TRY TO JUST NO.
NOT HAVE AS MANY ABSENCES ON BEHALF OF THE TEACHERS AND THE OTHER FOLKS? I MEAN, I, I, I DON'T KNOW WHY EVERYONE'S ABSENT.
I DON'T, I MEAN, I'M, SO, I DON'T HAVE ANY DETAILS.
I'M JUST, IS THERE A WAY TO, IT'S LIKE WHAT WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT FOR A COUPLE YEARS NOW.
I MEAN THAT WHEN TEACHERS ARE GIVEN THEIR 10 DAYS AND THEIR FIVE DAYS, OF COURSE THEY'RE GONNA TAKE THEM BECAUSE THEY, I MEAN IT'S, IT'S, IT'S, HONESTLY, IT'S INSULTING TO EVEN SAY THIS, BUT I THINK WE PAY OUT WHAT, LIKE $10, $15 AT WHEN THEY RETIRE.
SO OF COURSE THEY'RE GONNA TAKE THEIR DAYS OFF.
SO, YOU KNOW, LIKE WE'VE BEEN DISCUSSING FOR A WHILE NOW, THROWING THE IDEA AROUND OF PAYING 'EM THEIR DAYS AT THE END OF EVERY SCHOOL YEAR.
YOU KNOW, FIND A HAPPY MEDIUM IF IT COSTS US $110 TO GET A SUB IN THEIR PLACE FOR THAT REDUNDANCY, THEN OFFER A DOLLAR AMOUNT TO CASH THAT DAY, NOT USED IN AT THE END OF THE SCHOOL YEAR, THEN THE TEACHER IS COMPENSATED FOR THEIR BENEFIT AND THE SCHOOL SYSTEM SAVES THE DIFFERENCE AND THE STUDENTS HAVE A BETTER EDUCATION BECAUSE THEIR TEACHER CONTINUES TEACHING WITH THEM.
IT'S A WAY THAT IT'S SOMETHING TO LOOK AT.
BECAUSE AGAIN, IF YOU CAN INCENTIVIZE PEOPLE TO NOT TAKE THE DAYS OFF, OBVIOUSLY IF PEOPLE ARE SICK, YOU NEED TO STAY OUT, RIGHT? BUT IF YOU'RE TAKING IT FOR OTHER REASONS, JUST 'CAUSE YOU WANNA BURN 'EM, BECAUSE I MIGHT AS WELL,
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I GET THAT CONCEPT.BUT IF THERE'S A WAY TO SAY, IF YOU DON'T BURN 'EM, YOU GET PAID.
MAYBE THERE'S SOME WAY OF LOOKING AT THIS.
I MEAN, SOMEONE CAN RUN THE MAGIC NUMBERS ON THAT AND SEE WHAT THAT WOULD BE, BUT I KNOW SOME TEACHERS HAVE SUGGESTED THAT TO ME.
BALLINGER IS, AND, AND MS. POE HAS BEEN PULLING THOSE NUMBERS TO LOOK AT THAT AND JUST TO KIND OF SEE WHERE WE WOULD BE.
SO SHE'S INITIALLY STARTED ON THAT AND HAS A, SOME NUMBERS THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT CURRENTLY, BUT WE HAVE SOME OTHER QUESTIONS TO ASK AND TRY TO CLEAN IT UP BEFORE WE LET YOU GUYS LOOK AT IT AND SHOW YOU WHAT SHE COME UP WITH.
WE'RE EXCITED TO SEE WHAT YOU COME UP WITH.
SO THIS YEAR IS OUR FIRST YEAR OF OFFERING AN INCENTIVE FOR ATTENDANCE AS WELL.
SO IF YOU DON'T TAKE OFF MORE THAN ONE ONE DAY, THEN YOU'RE IN A POLL TO DRAW FOR AN INCENTIVE EACH MONTH.
SO WE'RE TRYING THAT AS A, UH, AN ATTENDANCE INCENTIVE.
AND I THINK WE'RE GONNA LOOK AT SOME OF THAT DATA AT OUR WORK SESSION.
SO THAT'S ACTUALLY FOR THIS COMING, THEY'RE GONNA BRING TO US, WELL, AGAIN, WHAT WE'VE DONE THIS YEAR AND SHOW HOW SUCCESSFUL OR TREMENDOUSLY NOT SUCCESSFUL THAT'S BEEN AS THE CASE MAY BE.
UM, AND THEN TALK ABOUT THESE, THESE PAYOUTS AND HOW CAN WE INCREASE THAT AND WHAT DOES THAT POLICY CHANGE LOOK LIKE AND IS THAT A BETTER WAY TO DO IT? BUT I THINK THE, THE TAKEAWAY FOR ME FOR THIS SLIDE, BECAUSE OBVIOUSLY IT WAS PUBLISHED ALL OVER THE PLACE LAST TIME, THAT IF WE WERE GONNA LEAVE ESS, IT WAS GONNA COST US 1.8 MILLION TO BRING SUBS IN HOUSE.
AND IF WE'RE GONNA STAY WITH ESS, OH, IT WAS ONLY 900 SOME ODD THOUSAND DOLLARS.
THE TAKEAWAY IS IT'S ACTUALLY A SAVINGS.
OF COURSE IT'S A SAVINGS BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE TO PAY THEM THEIR 31.5% TO BRING THIS BACK IN-HOUSE.
SO, UM, ALL THE NEWS OUTLETS OUT THERE, PLEASE TAKE NOTE OF THAT SO WE CAN CORRECT THAT IN THE HEADLINES.
ALRIGHT, MOVING ALONG RIGHT ALONG.
SO SLIDE SIX, UH, PAY RATE COMPARISON.
SO, UH, THAT'S S'S CURRENT RATES THAT WE USE.
UM, SO OUR PAYOUT WITH FICA WOULD BE THAT MIDDLE COLUMN.
AND THEN OF COURSE S'S RATES WITH, WITH A 31.5%, UM, ARE, ARE THEIR PAYOUT NUMBERS, SO THE SUB'S STILL GONNA GET THEIR ORIGINAL PAY.
WE ARE NOT DECREASING THEIR INCREASING THAT AT THIS TIME, BUT WHAT DOES IT COST TO WARREN COUNTY? SO WE INCLUDED THE FICA AND THEN WHAT DOES IT COST TO WARREN COUNTY WITH ESS IS 31.5%.
SO IT JUST KIND OF GIVES YOU THAT COMPARISON.
SO THE SUB'S STILL GONNA RECEIVE THE SAME PAY.
CAN I INTERJECT SOMETHING AND I APOLOGIZE, BUT I'M GONNA GO BACK REAL QUICK TO THE VERY FIRST SLIDE WITH THE PRICES FOR THE COORDINATOR AND THE SECRETARY.
UM, CAN YOU JUST SHARE WITH US, AND I APOLOGIZE FOR NOT DOING IT WHEN WE WERE ON THAT SLIDE, CAN YOU SHARE WITH US YOUR, THE COORDINATOR, YOU AS I'M, I'M, I KNOW LOTS OF TIMES WHEN WE PUT IN A NUMBER, WE USUALLY KIND OF LAND ON LIKE TENURE EXPERIENCE.
IS THAT WHAT YOU USED AS FAR AS, YOU KNOW, THAT COULD CERTAINLY FLUCTUATE DEPENDING ON THE PERSON AND THEIR EXPERIENCE AND THEIR BACKGROUND AND WHAT THAT, BUT CAN YOU, UM, I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO KNOW HOW THOSE TWO NUMBERS WERE DERIVED.
YOU'RE JUST, YOU KNOW, GUESSTIMATING ON, IT'S A PERSON WITH X AMOUNT OF EXPERIENCE AND WHATNOT.
I THINK THAT'S IMPORTANT FOR OUR, FOR US TO KNOW WHERE THAT NUMBER MIGHT HAVE COME FROM.
AND, UM, I STRONGLY BELIEVE IT WAS 10, 10 YEARS, BUT I CAN CONFIRM WITH YOU.
I'M SORRY, SAY THAT ONE 10 YEARS.
I THOUGHT, BECAUSE I KNOW THAT'S THE NUMBER THAT WHEN WE'VE TALKED TO, TYPICALLY WE'VE KIND OF SAID TYPICALLY 10, THEY COULD HAVE MORE.
SO IT IS 10 YEARS ON THE TEACHER SCALE TEACHER, 10 YEARS ON A TEACHER SCALE.
BUT, BUT, BUT THERE'S A SUPPLEMENT BECAUSE THEY WOULD BE A 12 MONTH EMPLOYEE.
SO THEY WOULD GET THE ADDITIONAL DAYS WHERE TEACHERS WORK, A 200 CONTRACT, 200 DAY CONTRACT.
UH, THIS WOULD BE A, A 12 MONTH CONTRACT.
RIGHT? SO IT WOULD BE FROM 200 DAYS TO 250 DAYS, I GUESS.
AND THEN THEY GET THE COORDINATOR STIPEND AS WELL, WHICH IS $7,500.
UM, AND THIS IS ONLY BASED ON A BACHELOR'S DEGREE.
DOESN'T, I DON'T KNOW IF THEY'RE GONNA HAVE ANY EDUCATION HIGHER EDUCATION THAN A BACHELOR'S DEGREE, BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT WE WOULD REQUIRE OF A TEACHER.
A TEACHER IS A BACHELOR'S DEGREE.
WELL, THAT'S A FIRM NO FOR ME.
SO IF WE CAN PLEASE COME UP WITH AN ALTERNATIVE TO THAT TO BRING THAT IN-HOUSE, I THINK IT'S ABSOLUTELY INSULTING TO OUR LONG-TERM TEACHERS THAT SOMEBODY WHO COMES IN TO JUST, YOU KNOW, FILL THEIR SPOTS WITH, WITH SUBS IS GOING TO MAKE GROSSLY MORE THAN THEM.
AND THIS IT'S SIX FIGURE SALARY.
I THINK I, I WOULD LIKE TO SEE ALTERNATIVES COME UP WITH THAT'S GOING TO, UM, PUT THIS MORE INTO EACH INDIVIDUAL SCHOOL.
IT'S GOING TO PUT MORE RESPONSIBILITY ON EACH PRINCIPAL TO KEEP THEIR TEACHER'S ABSENCES DOWN.
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PLACE SUBS BETTER IF IT'S DONE ON A PER SCHOOL BASIS.UM, I WOULD SEE THAT YOU'RE GONNA HAVE SUBS THAT ARE GOING TO WANT TO, PARENTS ARE GONNA WANT SUB IN THEIR CHILD'S SCHOOL.
AND SO YOU'RE GOING TO, I I THINK SMALLER IS BETTER.
WE NEED TO THINK SMALLER IS BETTER.
I'M GOING TO FIGHT TOOTH AND NAIL ON MAKING SURE THAT WE DO NOT HAVE ANOTHER SIX FIGURE ADMINISTRATOR ADDED TO OUR BUDGET TO TAKE CARE OF THIS JOB.
SO WE CAN DISCUSS THAT FURTHER LATER.
BUT THAT'S MY THOUGHTS ON THAT.
SLIDE SEVEN, UM, IS A BREAKDOWN OF THE INSTRUCTIONAL, UH, COVERAGE, INTERNAL INSTRUCTIONAL COVERAGE.
SO THESE ARE, UM, INSTRUCTIONAL ASSISTANTS OR TEACHERS THAT ARE COVERING, UM, A CLASS OR, OR, UM, AN ENTIRE DAY FOR, FOR AN INSTRUCTIONAL ASSISTANT IN SOME CASES.
SO THE 20 22 23 NUMBERS ARE, ARE ON THE LEFT SIDE.
UM, AND THE, UM, THE NUMBER, THE, THE SCALE, THE NUMBERS THERE ON THE RIGHT ARE, ARE THE CURRENT NUMBERS FOR THIS SCHOOL YEAR, UH, TO THE, THROUGH THE END OF OF JANUARY.
SO YOU CAN SEE THERE AT THE BOTTOM, UM, WE ARE PROJECTED TO, TO LAND PRETTY CLOSE TO WHERE WE WERE LAST YEAR WITH, WITH THAT $68,000, UM, AMOUNT FROM 20 22, 23.
UM, TO THIS YEAR WE'VE, WE'VE, WE'VE ALREADY USED, UM, A LITTLE OVER $40,000 FOR THAT INSTRUCTIONAL COVERAGE.
UM, AND IT, YOU KNOW, SOMETHING ELSE TO TO POINT OUT TOO IS THE, THE NUMBER OF STAFF MEMBERS THAT ARE RECEIVING THAT, THAT EXTRA PAY AND 2223, IT WAS 220, UH, 2324, IT'S ALREADY UP TO 174.
AND THOSE ARE INDIVIDUAL STAFFS.
SO YOU'RE GONNA SEE THE WHOLE TOTAL BREAKDOWN BY MONTH, HOW MANY STAFF MEMBERS ARE BEING PAID DURING THOSE MONTHS.
SO WE HAVE A LOT OF INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE REPEATEDLY, REPETITIVELY CONTINUING TO GO INTO CERTAIN CLASSROOMS TO FILL UNFILLED ABSENCES.
AND I THINK THE IMPORTANT PART TO ADD, AND THANK YOU FOR ADDING THAT, THE TWO 20 AND THE 1 74, I APPRECIATE YOU ADDING THAT WITH OUR REQUEST.
UM, THE BURNOUT FACTOR IN THIS, I THINK YOU CAN'T EVEN PUT A PRICE TAG ON BECAUSE WHILE THERE MIGHT BE SOME STAFF MEMBERS WHO DO WANT TO EARN THAT EXTRA MONEY AND COVER THOSE EXTRA CLASSES, MY TAKEAWAY FROM THE TEACHERS I'VE SPOKEN TO IS THAT THEY, THEY'RE BURNT OUT.
THEY DON'T WANT SACRIFICE THEIR PLANNING PERIOD.
THEY'RE, THEY'RE TAKING ONE FOR THE TEAM, BUT IT, THEY'RE NOT HAPPY ABOUT HAVING TO DO IT.
SO I DON'T THINK WE CAN EVEN PUT A PRICE TAG ON THAT.
SLIDE EIGHT IS THE BUILDING BASE SUBSTITUTES, UH, THE BREAKDOWNS.
SO CURRENTLY ESS UH, PROVIDES 16 BUILDING BASE SUBS FOR ALL OF OUR SCHOOLS.
UM, DEPENDING ON THE SIZE OF THE SCHOOL, DEPENDS ON THE NUMBER OF BUILDING BASED SUBS EACH, EACH SCHOOL HAS.
UM, SO WE WOULD LIKE TO CONTINUE THAT IF WE BRING IT BACK IN HOUSE.
UM, SO KENDALL'S GIVING YOU THREE DIFFERENT SCENARIO OR TWO DIFFERENT SCENARIOS WITH, WITH ES S'S, UM, CURRENT, CURRENT NUMBERS THERE.
SO THE, THE, THE, THE LEFT SIDE IS THE BUILDING BASED SUBSTITUTES, UM, WITHOUT BENEFITS.
AND THEN THE MIDDLE ONE IS THE, WITH BUILDING BASED SUBSTITUTES WITH BENEFITS.
SO OUR, OUR THOUGHT IS WE WOULD NOT HAVE OUR, ANY OF OUR SUBS, UH, BUILDING BASED, LONG TERM, ANYONE.
UM, THEY WOULD NOT HAVE, UH, BENEFITS.
THEY WOULD, THEY WOULD ALL BE CONSIDERED PART-TIME.
UM, OUR BUILDING BASED SUBS WOULD, WOULD WORK ONLY FOUR DAYS A WEEK, UH, TO, TO STAY UNDER THE, UH, 30 HOUR REQUIREMENT OR WHATEVER IT IS, UH, TO BE CONSIDERED, BE CONSIDERED FULL-TIME.
AND I THINK THE IMPORTANT THING WITH THIS AS WELL WAS, I KNOW ESS HAS ALWAYS KINDA LURED ME IN FOR YEARS BY SAYING, OH, WE OFFER BENEFITS.
WE OFFER BENEFITS, WE OFFER BENEFITS.
THEN WE STARTED LOOKING AT THE BENEFITS THAT THEY OFFER, WHICH ARE HORRIBLE.
AND SO THEN I THINK FINALLY WE GOT ASKED THE QUESTION OF HOW MANY SUBS ARE ACTUALLY UTILIZING THE BENEFITS? AND IT WAS, IT WAS THREE.
SO OF ALL THE SUBS, WE ONLY HAVE THREE THAT ARE UTILIZING THOSE BENEFITS.
SO THE NEXT COUPLE OF SLIDES, UM, SLIDES 9, 10, 11, 12, AND 13.
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ARE ALL, UH, USING OUR DATA.UM, IT'S THE BREAKDOWN OF EACH, EACH POSITION.
SO CLERICAL AID TEACHER, AND THEN WE'VE INCLUDED NURSE THERE AS WELL, JUST SO YOU COULD SEE, YOU COULD SEE THAT NUMBER.
UM, BUT, BUT KENDALL'S BROKEN THAT OUT FOR A COMPARISON FOR WARREN COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS COMPARED TO ESSA HUNDRED PERCENT FILL RATE, 80% FILL RATE.
AND THE FICA NUMBER IS BASED ON THE 80% FILL RATE, CORRECT? YES.
SO THE, THE VERY LAST COLUMN THAT YOU'LL SEE THERE FOR OUR NUMBERS, THE, THE FICA FOR EACH, EACH ONE OF THOSE POSITIONS, THAT'S BASED ON THAT 80% NUMBER.
SO THESE ARE JUST SUPPORTING SLIDES FROM THE TRUE 80% COMPARISON TO THE 86% COMPARISON.
HOW DID WE COME UP WITH THOSE NUMBERS? WHAT PAY RATE ARE WE USING AND HOW DO YOU DETERMINE, UM, THE 80% AND THEN THE FICA AS WELL? SO UNLESS I HEAR OTHERWISE FROM EVERYBODY ON THIS BOARD, OUR PLAN FOR THE WORK SESSION IS GONNA BE ESS PRESENTS THEIR SIDE OF THE STORY.
WE HAVE THESE NUMBERS IN THIS PRESENTATION TO COMPARE TO.
UM, THERE CAN STILL BE SOME MORE ADJUSTMENTS MOVING FORWARD WITH THE SPECIFICS OF HOW THIS PROGRAM WILL RUN IN-HOUSE.
UM, AND THEN TIED INTO THAT, I KNOW MR. MCFADDEN SENT, UM, A FEW QUESTIONS, UM, THAT, THAT WAS ON ESS STUFF, WASN'T IT? I DON'T EVEN REMEMBER THAT.
I SAID, CAN WE WAIT SOME HISTORICAL DATA, SOME HISTORICAL DATA, WHAT WE, WHAT WE'VE BEEN SPENDING FOR REAL FOR THE PAST FIVE, SIX YEARS? RIGHT? AND THEN, UM, AND THEN YOU GUYS ARE WORKING ON THE ATTENDANCE, HOW, WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE THIS YEAR.
AND THEN WE CAN ALSO DISCUSS WHAT WE CAN TRY INSTEAD MOVING FORWARD.
'CAUSE THAT'S GONNA GO HAND IN HAND WITH HOW MANY SUBSTITUTES WE NEED, OBVIOUSLY.
DO WE AS A BOARD, DO WE WANT TO SPEND OUR TIME AT THE WORK SESSION HEARING FROM ESS? I MEAN, WE'VE DISCOVERED THAT THEY'VE BEEN LYING TO US AND IT'S DEFINITELY GONNA BE CHEAPER TO LEAVE.
SO COULD WE MAYBE JUST MAKE A MOTION TO GO AHEAD AND GIVE THE SS THEIR NOTICE AND, AND FOCUS ALL OF OUR EFFORTS INTO DEVELOPING THE BEST POSSIBLE SOLUTION GOING FORWARD WITH BRINGING SUBS IN-HOUSE AND FOCUS ALL OF OUR ATTENTION ON, ON THAT BASED ON THE INFORMATION WE'VE SEEN IT, IT DOES SEEM LIKE, WHY, WHY WOULD WE WANT TO GO WITH ESS UNLESS SOMEONE SAID, WELL, THERE'S NO WAY WE CAN DO IT AS EFFICIENTLY OR EFFECTIVELY, BUT IT SEEMS LIKE WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO DO IT EVEN WITH WHETHER WE HIRE THESE PEOPLE OR NOT, OR WHETHER IT GOES INTO THE SCHOOL BASE.
SO IT DOES SEEM A LITTLE BIT LIKE, WELL, WHY? THAT WAS SOMETHING WE WERE TALKING ABOUT BEFORE.
WE'RE NOT SURE, BUT NOW THE DATA IS SHOWING THAT ESS IS DEFINITELY MORE EXPENSIVE, AND APPARENTLY WE HAD A, WE HAD SOME PROBLEMATIC COMMUNICATIONS WITH THEM OR, YOU KNOW, BEING PAID THE WRONG PAIN THAN THE WRONG AMOUNT.
SO, UM, YOUR NEW DATA SUGGESTS IT, IT WOULD BE MUCH MORE ECONOMICAL FOR THE PEOPLE OF WARREN COUNTY TO, TO FOR THIS, FOR YOUR, FOR THE IN-HOUSE TO WORK.
SO I WOULD SORT OF AGREE WITH THAT.
LIKE WE COULD SPEND OUR TIME HASHING OUT HOW TO DO THAT THING RATHER THAN LISTENING TO E ESS FOR A WHILE.
WELL, I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE ALL AWARE OF THE FINAL SLIDE.
I DON'T, I FEEL LIKE WE KIND OF JUST THAT'S WHAT I WAS GONNA SAY.
I MEAN, WHEN WE'RE JUST LOOKING AT THESE RATES, THAT DOESN'T INCLUDE ANY OF THE OVERHEAD, RIGHT? THAT DOESN'T INCLUDE THE, SO YES, YOUR FINAL SLIDE IS GONNA SHOW YOUR PERSONNEL, YOUR BUDGET FOR YOUR PERSONNEL, AND THEN INCLUDING THE 80% FOR ALL YOUR SUBSTITUTES NUMBERS.
SO THAT FINAL NUMBER DOWN THERE AT THE BOTTOM IS WHAT WARREN COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS WOULD LIKE TO BUDGET FOR.
AND I, I MEAN, I FEEL LIKE OUR BOARD IS LEANING TOWARDS GOING IN-HOUSE.
I DON'T DISAGREE WITH THAT, BUT I DO THINK IT, IT WOULD PROBABLY BE RESPONSIBLE FOR US TO AT LEAST HEAR OUT LIKE THE OTHER OPTIONS SO THAT WE HAVE, WHO KNOWS WHAT THEY'LL SAY.
UM, IT'S NOT LOOKING GOOD RIGHT NOW, BUT I WOULD RATHER HEAR THAT OUT SO WE HAVE AT LEAST SOMETHING TO COMPARE TO.
SO WE HAVE, YOU KNOW, AT LEAST A CHOICE.
AND WE'RE NOT CUTTING OFF OUR OPTION.
I MEAN, WE COULD, UH, CONTACT THEM AND SAY, LOOK, WE'RE, WE'RE, WE'RE THINKING THIS WAY.
IF YOU'RE YOUR BUSINESS, I MENTIONED THIS LAST TIME, IF YOU WANT OUR BUSINESS, IF THERE'S SOME WAY YOU CAN LOOK AT THIS AND THEN, AND CRUNCH THE NUMBERS AND MAKE IT BETTER AND MAKE IT EASIER.
I MEAN, THAT, THAT WOULD BE THE ONLY BENEFIT OF WHY WE, WE'D WANT TO GO WITH IT, IT SEEMS LIKE.
BUT I MEAN, WE COULD ALERT THEM THAT THAT'S WHERE WE'RE GOING RATHER THAN THEM COMING TALKING, YOU KNOW, MAYBE THEY'RE WATCHING THIS NOW, WHATEVER.
BUT THE POINT IS TO SAY, HERE'S WHAT YOU NEED TO COME AND SELL US ON A, EXPLAIN WHY YOUR PRODUCT IS BETTER AND WHY, AND HOW IT'S GONNA BE MORE EFFICIENT AND EFFECTIVE AND MORE COST EFFECTIVE THAN OURS.
WELL, I MEAN, I THINK THEY WOULD APPRECIATE THAT.
I MEAN, WE'VE PARTNERED WITH THEM FOR I
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DON'T KNOW HOW MANY YEARS.UM, I THINK, YOU KNOW, I, I BEING IN THIS POSITION NOW, I WOULD APPRECIATE THAT IF WE WOULD JUST AT LEAST HEAR 'EM OUT AND LET 'EM SEE WHAT THEY, YOU KNOW, WHAT THEY HAVE TO SAY.
BUT CERTAINLY I WOULD SUPPORT WHATEVER DECISION YOU GUYS GO WITH TOO.
SO, I MEAN, I THINK MR. MCFADDEN'S RIGHT THOUGH, LIKE, THEY CAN'T BE COMING IN JUST THINKING WE'RE JUST GONNA GIVE THIS PRESENTATION AND YEAH.
THEY NEED TO KNOW THEIR JOBS IN A LINE.
I FEEL LIKE THEY'VE KNOWN THAT THEY'RE WELL AWARE.
YEAH, I THINK THEY'VE KNOWN THAT.
I WILL GIVE, LIKE, I'LL GIVE YOU GUYS THE RESPECT OF, OF, YOU WANNA HEAR IT, THEN WE'LL HEAR IT FOR ME, UM, ONCE A COMPANY HAS LIED TO ME AND LIED TO ME THE NUMBER OF TIMES THAT WE'VE NOW BEEN LIED TO AND OVERBUILD NOW CONFIRMED, I'M NOT TRUSTING THAT COMPANY EVER AGAIN.
SO IF THEY'D LIKE TO WASTE THEIR TIME, I WILL SIT THERE FOR IT AND HAVE QUESTIONS READY FOR 'EM.
I, I HEAR WHAT EVERYBODY'S SAYING.
UM, BUT I THINK, YEAH, IF WE CAN JUST LISTEN TO WHAT THEY SAY, HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO ASK QUESTIONS.
AND, UM, BUT I AGREE, IT'S, IT'S LOOKING LIKE THIS COULD VERY WELL, UM, WITH SOME DETAILED DIRECTION, COULD BE BROUGHT IN HOUSE.
MAYBE THEY'LL BRING US REFUND CHECKS, YOU KNOW, YOU NEVER
I WOULD SAY THAT'D BE THE BEST WAY TO START THAT CONVERSATION.
IF YOU'RE LISTENING, REFUND CHECKS ARE GOOD.
WELL, I APPRECIATE YOU GUYS PUTTING ALL THE EXTRA TIME INTO THIS.
UM, YOU'VE ANSWERED SOME GOOD QUESTIONS FOR US, SO YES, THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
[7.B. Board Member Requests]
ALL RIGHT, SO I ADDED THIS SECTION.WE TALKED ABOUT IT A COUPLE OF TIMES LEADING UP TO THIS EVENING.
I THINK WE'VE, AT LEAST THREE OF US HAVE ALREADY MENTIONED THINGS THAT WE WOULD KINDA HAVE IN THIS SECTION.
SO I'M NOT, I'M NOT SURE IF THIS IS GONNA BE HELPFUL OR NOT.
UM, BUT SO FAR, JUST FROM THE NOTES THAT I'VE WRITTEN DOWN THIS EVENING, UM, WE TALKED ABOUT THINGS LIKE HAVING SOMEONE FROM WCEA COME AND SPEAK AND THAT I THINK IT COULD EITHER BE AT OUR MAIN MONTHLY MEETING, WE COULD MAKE SPACE FOR IT IN OUR WORK SESSION.
IF THIS MEETING IS GETTING A LITTLE HEAVIER WITH PRESENTATIONS, DO WE WANT TO KIND OF SPLIT THAT? UM, I THINK PREVIOUSLY THEY DID FOR SOME, I MEAN LIKE PREVIOUS TO LIKE QUITE A FEW YEARS AGO.
LIKE, NOT WITHIN THE LAST TWO TO THREE, BUT I THINK HISTORICALLY MM-HMM.
SHE ALWAYS CAME DURING COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION.
AND JUST SO YOU, IT WOULD BE AN ACTUAL, NOT JUST COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION, BUT JUST AN ACTUAL LIKE REPORT.
WE, I MEAN WE CAN EXTEND THAT INVITATION TO THEM AND HAVE A PLACEHOLDER.
IS IT EVERYONE'S PREFERENCE THAT WE THINK ABOUT DOING THAT AT THIS MEETING OR AT THE WORK SESSION? MAYBE THE WORK SESSION.
YOU KNOW, THE WORK SESSION MIGHT ACTUALLY BE BETTER.
'CAUSE THEN WE COULD HAVE THE TWO WAY MM-HMM.
AND THEN WE'VE TALKED ABOUT THE ATTEND, LIKE WHAT WE'RE GONNA TALK ABOUT AT THE WORK SESSION NEXT TIME.
I THINK WE'VE KIND OF HIT ALL OF THAT.
UM, IT'S COME UP A COUPLE OF TIMES WITH BUDGET MEETINGS AND BUDGET PRESENTATIONS GOING FORWARD.
CERTAINLY AT EVERY, UM, MAIN MEETING, COMMUNITY MEMBERS CAN TALK ANYTIME ABOUT THE BUDGET DURING THE COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION.
WELL, DURING OUR, BUT I MEAN, I'M JUST LISTING WHAT IS GOING TO BE AVAILABLE.
AND THEN BECAUSE IT, WHEN IT'S A PUBLIC HEARING, AS WE SAW TONIGHT, LIKE YOU GOT THE PUBLIC HEARING SECTION WHERE IT WAS LIKE, OKAY, WHO WANTS TO TALK ABOUT THE BUDGET? EVERYBODY CAN TALK ABOUT THE BUDGET.
AND THEN IF THERE ARE OTHER ITEMS ON THE AGENDA OR CONCERNS OR WHATNOT, THEY, THEY STILL HAD THE COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION SECTION TO TALK ABOUT THOSE ITEMS. SO BY OFFERING THE ONLY PUBLIC HEARING BEFORE THE BUDGET'S BEEN PRESENTED, THEN YOU'RE FACED WITH, WELL, WHICH THING AM I GONNA TALK ABOUT WHEN I COME TO THE MEETING? SO YOU CUT ME OFF
I'M SORRY, I WAS JUST LISTENING.
WHAT WE CAN DO, UM, SO THERE WILL BE THOSE OPPORTUNITIES AND THEN AT THE WORK SESSIONS WE CAN MAKE IT AN ACTION ITEM.
SO AT WORK SESSIONS, EVERYONE CAN HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK, YOU KNOW, ONCE WE START TALKING ABOUT THE BUDGET, AND THEN AS A BOARD TONIGHT, IF WE KNOW OUR SCHEDULES, IF WE WANT TO ADD A SEPARATE, LIKE AWAY FROM OUR WEDNESDAY NIGHTS, LIKE IS WEDNESDAY NOT THE BEST NIGHT FOR EVERYONE? OR DO WE JUST WANT TO HAVE THE PUBLIC HEARING IN ADDITION TO EACH OF OUR MONTHLY MEETINGS? I MEAN, THOSE ARE OTHER OPTIONS THAT WE CAN ADD IN AS THE BUDGET GETS PRESENTED.
I THINK, YOU KNOW, ONCE THERE IS A PROPOSED BUDGET, IT WOULD BE A, A GOOD PRACTICE
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TO HAVE AN ADDITIONAL SECOND PUBLIC HEARING BECAUSE NOW, UM, YOU KNOW, THEY HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO SAY, HEY, CONSIDER THIS, CONSIDER THIS.AND NOW, OKAY, THIS IS WHAT'S BEING PROPOSED.
THEN PEOPLE CAN SAY, YOU KNOW, THESE ARE MY THOUGHTS ON THIS PROPOSAL.
I THINK HAVING IT DURING OUR MEETING WOULD MAKE SENSE.
I MEAN, I, I'M NOT OPPOSED TO PUTTING IT ON A SEPARATE NIGHT IF, IF THAT'S WHAT YOU ALL WANNA DO, BUT I WORRY THAT THAT IS LESS KNOWN.
YOU KNOW, I FEEL LIKE PEOPLE KNOW WHEN OUR PUBLIC MEETING IS AND THEY KNOW TO LOOK AT THAT AND I FEEL LIKE IT MIGHT GET MORE ATTENTION IF WE ADDED JUST LIKE IT WAS TONIGHT AS ITS OWN ITEM IN THAT WAY.
LIKE YOU WERE SAYING, IF THEY WANNA TALK ABOUT SOMETHING ELSE AND THE BUDGET, THEN THEY WOULD HAVE THREE MINUTES FOR EACH.
SO I THINK IF WE PLAN FOR APRIL, THAT WOULD BE GOOD.
BUT I WAS GONNA SAY EVEN THE WORK SESSION OR IN MARCH, BUT I MEAN, YEAH, I THINK APRIL, APRIL WOULD BE FUN.
I THINK, LIKE YOU WERE SAYING TO ALSO HAVE IT, UM, AT OUR WORK SESSIONS.
I MEAN, JUST TO GIVE PEOPLE EVERY OPPORTUNITY TO RESPOND, I THINK WOULD MAKE SENSE BECAUSE THEN I, YOU KNOW, I THINK THEY'LL HAVE SOME IDEA ABOUT IT.
AND EVEN IF IT'S NOT AN OFFICIAL ADVERTISED 60 DAYS IN ADVANCE THING, WE COULD JUST HAVE IT AS AN ITEM AND THAT WAY PEOPLE COULD SPEAK ON IT IF THEY WANT TO BECAUSE YEAH, BECAUSE PEOPLE KNOW THAT'S HOW OUR ACTION ITEMS WERE.
SO HAVING JUST THAT EXTRA PUBLIC COMMENT, YEAH, IT WOULD STILL BE AVERAGE.
IT WASN'T, IT WASN'T CLICKING FOR ME ON THAT ONE.
SO WE'LL ADD A, A PUBLIC HEARING FOR THE APRIL.
WHAT IF, IS THAT A DIFFERENT DATE? BECAUSE IT'S SPRING BREAK.
SO IT'S THE SECOND, IT'S THE SECOND WEDNESDAY THAT MONTH.
APRIL 10TH IT WOULD BE APRIL 10TH.
SO WE'LL DO THAT ONE AND THEN WE'LL MAKE SURE ONCE WE HAVE A BUDGET THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT AT OUR WORK SESSIONS, WE CAN HAVE THAT AS AN ACTION ITEM.
SO THAT ALLOWS PEOPLE TO HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK ON THE BUDGET.
UM, AND THEN WE'LL JUST PLAY IT BY EAR WITH MAY OR JUNE, DEPENDING ON HOW FAR ALONG WE ARE.
PUT MY BOOK AWAY AFTER I MADE THIS LIST.
UM, WELL, AND THEN DURING OUR CONVERSATION FROM THE SUBS TONIGHT, I JOTTED DOWN A NOTE ABOUT MANT TRAINING AND WHAT OUR OTHER OPTIONS ARE AS WELL.
SO THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE COULD ADD ON AT A WORK SESSION AND AN UPCOMING WORK SESSION, JUST SO WE ALL AS A BOARD, UM, CAN HEAR, UM, ABOUT THAT AND SEE SPECIFICALLY WHAT OUR TEACHERS ARE BEING TRAINED, WHAT CHANGES WE DO OR DO NOT NEED TO DO.
UM, I DON'T KNOW HOW HEAVY THE FEBRUARY WORK SESSION IS ALREADY GONNA BE, BUT CERTAINLY MARCH WOULD BE IF THAT'S AGREEABLE.
ANOTHER THING IS WE'VE TALKED AT A NUMBER OF MEETINGS ABOUT A COMMUNICATION SPECIALIST OF SOME SORT.
I, I MEAN OBVIOUSLY IT HAS TO BE IN THE BUDGET IF IT'S GONNA HAPPEN THIS YEAR.
BUT EVEN DISCUSSING HOW, HOW IT WOULD WORK, WHAT A JOB DESCRIPTION WOULD BE.
YOU KNOW, THERE'S ALL THESE THINGS THAT PERSON COULD MANAGE, BUT IT MIGHT BE A GOOD THING TO TALK ABOUT THAT AT SOME POINT, UM, IN ONE OF THE MEETINGS.
THAT WAS GONNA BE MY PERSONAL BUDGET PLEA.
IF I WAS GONNA STAND UP HERE THIS EVENING, UM, TO TRY TO MAKE, EVEN IF IT'S JUST KIND OF ENTRY LEVEL GETTING STARTED, SOMEBODY THAT JUST TIES ALL OF OUR DIVISION WIDE INFORMATION TOGETHER.
EVEN IF THAT PERSON'S JUST BLASTING ALL THE SCHOOL, CONSOLIDATING EVERYTHING AND GETTING IT OUT.
AND WE, WE, YOU KNOW, UM, WE'VE, WE'VE BROUGHT THAT TO THE TABLE.
I MEAN, I KNOW I'VE MENTIONED IT, LIKE, HEY, WE NEED TO MAKE SURE WE CONSIDER, UM, WE CERTAINLY WANNA HAVE THOSE PRIORITIES WITH THE STEP, BUT I AGREE A HUNDRED PERCENT.
AND THAT PERSON COULD ALSO MAKE SURE THAT OUR WEBSITE'S A LITTLE MORE FRIENDLY, LIKE WITH WHAT NEEDS TO BE
I'D BE HAPPY TO SUPPORT INFORMATION FOR A JOB DESCRIPTION.
'CAUSE I HAVE A WHOLE THING IN MY MIND OF WHAT THAT PERSON COULD DO.
WELL, SOMETIMES YOU, I'M NOT SURE THEY CAN PROVIDE IT FOR US.
WELL, SOMETIMES WHEN YOU CREATE A JOB DESCRIPTION, YOU HAVE ALL THESE THINGS, YOU'RE LIKE, OH, IT'S A, YOU KNOW, THIS AND THE KITCHEN SINK AND JUST THROW IT ON THERE AND THEN IT BECOMES UNRULY.
SO IT HAS, THERE HAS TO BE SOME OTHER, THE JOB DESCRIPTION EXISTS AT SOME OTHER, WE HAVE ONE THAT WE CREATED AS A, A TEMPLATE WHEN WE, WHEN WE HAD CONVERSATIONS A COUPLE YEARS AGO ABOUT ONE.
SO WE HAVE A BASIS THAT WE CAN BRING UP AND YOU GUYS CAN LOOK AT AND MODIFY AS YOU WANNA MODIFY.
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JUST SAYING THAT WHOLE SIX FIGURE SUB COORDINATOR JOB IS I SEE A ROADBLOCK TO THE COMMUNICATIONS PERSON.SO MAYBE WE CHOOSE, I THINK IF WE COLLABORATE AND COORDINATE, THAT WOULD BE A GREAT PROCESS.
UM, SO THEY HAVE SORT OF AN OPPORTUNITY.
I THINK WE ALL GOT ABOUT 50 MILLION EMAILS JUST TODAY.
AND SO THAT'S, UM, THAT MAKES IT VERY DIFFICULT TO PREPARE AND BE ABLE TO TALK ABOUT THAT AT THE BOARD MEETING THAT WE'RE HAVING RIGHT NOW.
SO WE'RE SORT OF TRYING TO GET AHEAD OF THAT.
UM, YEAH, JUST FOR PUBLIC AWARENESS.
THE EMAILS THAT COME IN EVEN TWO HOURS BEFORE THE MEETING.
I MEAN, I KNOW YOU GUYS ARE PROBABLY THE SAME BOAT.
LIKE, I'M TRYING TO GET KIDS FED, GET MYSELF TOGETHER AND OUT THE DOOR.
I DON'T SEE THEM UNTIL I GET HERE.
AND BY THEN THE MEETING'S STARTING.
SO THAT CORRESPONDENCE SOONER IS CERTAINLY HELPFUL.
UM, I KNOW ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I WOULD LIKE TO SEE IS, UM, AND THIS WILL APPLY WITH THE ESS PRESENTATION AT THE WORK SESSION, IS, IS THAT IF THERE'S ANY PRESENTATION LIKE THAT GIVEN TO US, IF THAT COULD BE ATTACHED ELECTRONICALLY TO THE AGENDA, BECAUSE I KNOW WHEN, WHEN WE HAD THE FIRST SUB PRESENTATION, UM, AND CERTAIN NUMBERS WEREN'T SOUNDING RIGHT TO ME, UM, I WENT BACK AND, AND TRIED TO PULL UP PAST AGENDAS.
'CAUSE I KNOW ESS HAD HAD PRESENTED BEFORE AND IT HAPPENED TO BE THE, THE JUNE OF WHAT? 2022? I BELIEVE IT WAS MEETING THE ROYAL EXAMINER WASN'T THERE AT THE WORK SESSION.
I MEAN, THANKFULLY, AS WE ALL KNOW, I PRINT EVERYTHING AND HAVE COPIES OF STUFF SO I COULD GO BACK AND REFERENCE LIKE THE DATA ON WHAT THE NUMBERS WERE GIVEN TO US BEFORE AND, AND STARTED SEEING OKAY, THAT THESE NUMBERS ARE NOT MATCHING UP, THEY'RE NOT ADDING UP, WE'RE NOT GETTING CONSISTENT DATA.
ESS HAS GIVEN US CONFLICTING NUMBERS AT EVERY PRESENTATION.
UM, BUT I THINK FOR RECORD KEEPING SAKE, IT WOULD BE HELPFUL TO HAVE, IF YOU'RE PRESENTING SOMETHING TO US, IT NEEDS TO BE ATTACHED TO THE AGENDA SO THAT IT'S PRESERVED FOR REFERENCE.
UM, SO THAT WAS, UH, I ON MY LIST.
AND THEN, UM, ALSO I KNOW WE'VE BEEN, I, I REQUESTED THE, UH, RESIGNATION LETTERS WHEN, WHEN WE GET THE NAME LIST OF WHO'S RESIGNING AND, AND WE'VE BEEN ASKING TO REVIEW THOSE RESIGNATION LETTERS.
UM, BUT JUST FOR, I KNOW THIS IS LIVE STREAMED, SO FOR STAFF MEMBERS WHO ARE LISTENING, WE WOULD LIKE TO ACTUALLY KNOW WHY YOU'RE REALLY LEAVING.
UM, MORE THAN JUST LIKE, HEY, I QUIT AT SUCH AND SUCH AND, UM, THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME.
LIKE THAT RESIGNATION LETTER IS YOUR OPPORTUNITY TO TELL US IF WE'VE FAILED YOU IN SOME WAY SO THAT WE CAN FIX IT GOING FORWARD.
SO PLEASE KEEP THAT IN MIND WHEN WRITING THOSE RESIGNATION LETTERS.
AND THANK YOU FOR HAVING THE IDEA TO ADD THIS SECTION TO THE AGENDA.
[8. Approval of Closed Meeting Item(s)]
READY TO READ AND TO READ BACK IN.SO THIS WILL BE FUN TO REMEMBER WHICH THINGS I'M READING INTO.
THIS MOTION IS MADE THAT THIS OPEN PUBLIC MEETING OF THE WARREN COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD BECOME A CLOSED MEETING PURSUANT TO VIRGINIA CODE SECTION 2.2 DASH 3 7 1 1.
THIS SCHOOL BOARD DESIRES TO DISCUSS THE FOLLOWING MATTERS IN A CLOSED MEETING SECTION 2.2 DASH 3 7 1 A ONE, DISCUSSION, CONSIDERATION OR INTERVIEWS OF PROSPECTIVE CANDIDATES FOR EMPLOYMENT ASSIGNMENT, APPOINTMENT, PROMOTION, PERFORMANCE, DEMOTION, SALARIES, DISCIPLINING, OR RESIGNATION OF EMPLOYEES OF THE SCHOOL BOARD, SPECIFICALLY THE SUPERINTENDENT AND THE PERFORMANCE OF LEGAL COUNSEL.
UM, SHOULD I JUST READ ALL OF THE NUMBERS EVEN THOUGH I KNOW SOME,
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I DON'T REMEMBER WHICH NUMBER WE ASSIGNED TO WHICH THING.SO I THINK COMPLAINT, YOU'RE GOOD STILL, RIGHT? OKAY.
AND THEN YOU CAN SKIP TO THE NEXT ONE.
AND THEN SECTION 2.2 DASH 3 7 1 1 A TWO.
UM, SORRY, MY SCREEN IS NOT SCROLLING FAST ENOUGH WITH ME HERE.
DISCUSSION OR CONSIDERATION OF ADMISSION OR DISCIPLINARY MATTERS OF ANY OF ANY OTHER MATTERS THAT WOULD INVOLVE THE DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THE SCHOLASTIC RECORD CONCERNING ANY STUDENT IN WARREN COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
SPECIFICALLY DISCUSSION OF STUDENT SLASH STAFF COMPLAINT 2 0 7 2 4 DASH ONE FOIA REQUEST 2 0 7 2 4 2.
IS THERE A SECOND ON THAT? A SECOND.
MR. VALENTINE, COULD YOU DO ROLL CALL PLEASE? YES.