It was just ready for an upgrade and we're going to upgrade it, but at this time we're and it's not that much. It isn't you know, a large number. So, we are going to push that for a year just to get another savings there. These are things that we're trying to remember I put in the slide least impactful. Some are very impactful, but some things we're hoping are least impactful and that's what we're looking for. And then in the area of curriculum, we've already reduced almost 50% on page one, about $15,000 out of about a 30 five. 32. Yeah, 32 370 or yeah, $32,000. So, almost 50% and now we're looking to reduce another $10,000. We will look at how efficiently and effectively we can use funds from let's say title grants and other grants that we might be able to access, IDEA grants. It does impact us for professional learning opportunities, but again, you know, we spoke to what we needed and this is what we've been given.
Um we also were very grateful that we were able to meet on a very regular basis. We had uh a couple of hours chunk at a time and we had our um subs paid for by the district. And knowing that we could do this and have the time to do it and just not have to try to rush through it, I think, actually made it go faster. Yeah. I'll also say what was really great about the process is the amount of collaboration that got to happen in that room. It wasn't everybody working in a silo on a given thing. You know, so even though biology team was looking at biology resources, we were all looking at resources together and using and going through this checks process of saying, "Is it meeting what we want for our kids, right? Is it doing what we want for our students?" Um and everybody got to weigh in on that.
They're a great team. Our operating referendum goals not only include great teachers and classified staff and strong student outcomes, it also includes safe schools. We are grateful to have six school resource officers and five student safety officers who are all trained by the National Association of School Resource Officers. I'm pleased to hand the microphone over to Gary Moody to speak about the Nazro triangle and the importance of safe schools at BCSC. >> Thank you. I can sit here and talk all night about the kids here at Columbus North High School and what a great job this is, but I'll keep to the facts here. Um, the thing is with SSOs, SA school safety officers, we work in conjunction with the SRO's. Um, Officer Plank back there didn't want me to mention him, but I'm going to anyway. We work in conjunction with him, assist him in different things.
He just did a fantastic job. Yeah. Just uh I heard a story about Marty when I first came on and it just made me so happy and that was uh there were some issues before and and things resonated but when Marty came on Marty was not a guy that sat in his office. He was not a guy that sat in his room. Marty went and had lunch with his employees. He sat at the table and I think those kind of things makes a difference. He listened. He heard. He created relationships. He created bonds. And I think uh that's the expectation for all our leaders that you would be personal sit with our people and and build those relationships. So thank you Marty. I know you're an East Central guy. Hopefully you're staying around. I don't know. All right. And uh we thank you for all your work.
Uh Redevelopment Commission, I serve on the Redevelopment Commission for the City of Huntington. It's been a very educational experience. So if you have questions about that, I'm more than willing to sit down and and discuss it. Um I don't believe they meet very regularly, so it's not going to be a lot of board meetings, but uh it's always interesting and I appreciate your willingness to sit on that board. All of the Everyone in favor of the motion uh say I. I. Opposed motion same sign. Abstains? I. I have five one and one abstention from Mr. Thompson. Cool. Moving on to J1, items of discussion for board members. Go ahead. I just like to give a shout out to our students at the high school. Wednesday I attended the induction ceremony for the National Honor Society and it's always refreshing to see how hard our students are working.
Any opposed? All right, we have approved the the curriculum committee recommendations. Moving on to Mr. Kusznick again, approval of the K through 12 English Language Arts recommendations. Madam President, Dr. Smith, members of the board, I recommend the board approve the K-12 English Language Arts recommendations as submitted. So moved. Second. Properly moved, Ms. Dunn, and seconded, Dr. Mulholland. If there are no final questions or comments, all in favor of the approval of the CTE Wait a minute. Am I on the English language? Okay, I jumped ahead. English Language Arts recommendations, say I. I. I. All right. The language English Language Arts recommendations have been approved. 4.5, approval of the CTE recommendations, Mr. Kusznick. Madam President, Dr. Smith, members of the board, I recommend the board approve the CTE recommendations as submitted. So moved. Second. Properly moved, Dr. Mulholland, and seconded, Ms. Puckett. If there are no final questions or comments, all in favor of the approval of the CTE recommendations say I.
So, we are going to do our best with what we're given. But it it eliminated the need to reduce staffing further and to us that would have been more impactful than than this area here. Not easy, but more impactful. >> So, the blue are the the strike throughs those are the things that you considered, but then >> And the last are are blue. Uh I >> a question really quick about PD before we move on? >> Yes. >> Yeah, I wanted to ask that. >> So, for PD, um is there is it the kind of professional development where we could maybe call upon the expertise in some of our current staff and teachers to use some of their training to take the lead on some of the deficits that we might see with not being able to bring in outside >> Like a train the trainer?
And I love that we also set up opportunities to bring the whole entire collective together, the entire science team uh on like our SIP days to review where we've been and what we've done and get their feedback as well. So, this has really been a very big collaborative process. It's [laughter] working out really >> else you want to add anything? And And just thank you for your leadership. Thank you for those answers. You're welcome. I think the thing that makes it a reality is that we were able to bring both of the schools together so that we will have a common curriculum map, scope and sequence, and common assess- common assessments um for all four of these courses so that moving forward, if you're taking biology, chemistry, Earth and Space Science, or Spanish chug, you're going to have the same experience at both buildings. Um and so that was one of the the key things for me is how do we make that learning be equal um at those schools.
Uh, he and I are working this Thursday morning with one of the school teachers for a class project. So, we will assist with that. Um, he's got immediate backup here at the school. if something does happen, he needs needs assistance and uh if he has to make an arrest or whatever the case may be, um we're here for him. In the very beginning, we were told that they had this vision for school safety officers and they said, "This is kind of what we want to do and well, how are we going to do that?" Well, we're kind of putting the plane together as we're flying it was what we were told and we're still putting it together, but it's getting getting closer. Um, you know, one of the thoughts was, okay, we're going to put an armed guard at the door and if anyone comes in, school shooter, we're there to stop them.
I know we didn't have you a long time but man, what a difference. So All right. With that being said, I we can uh look for a motion to adjourn. Uh moved. So moved by Mr. Angel. Seconded by Ms. Faison. All in favor signify by saying I. I. Nays? Vote carries 4-0.
Um this doesn't start at the high school, it starts very early in their educational career and to see those students take such pride in their class work, it's a tribute to them, but it's a tribute to their parents and their teachers as well. Thank you. Anyone else? I'm just want to shout out that um I won't be here for Cindy's last meeting cuz I'm going to cry. So but Cindy, thank you. It's been an honor. So somebody got some big shoes to fill, but I think you'll do you'll do fine. You do have to work with Chuck every day, but you'll be fine. Thanks, Cindy. I just want to thank Mr. Brembry of getting his staff up to speed. There was a lot of great hires that we made tonight and I can't wait to see everyone being here and rowing in the same direction and I'll look forward to that.
I. Any opposed? The CTE recommendations have been approved. 4.6, approval of the before and aftercare recommendations, Ms. LaPlant. Thank you, Dr. Smith, President Norman, members of the board. Tonight I gave an update on before and aftercare programming, and I recommend that you approve the changes that were discussed. All right. I'll entertain a motion. So moved. Second. All right, properly moved, Ms. Dunn, and seconded, Ms. Puckett. If there are no final questions or comments, all in favor of the approval of before and aftercare recommendations say I. I.
>> Yeah, like I I mean we have a lot of like certified really talented, like really experienced staff members that may be willing to sort of fill some gaps if there's an opportunity to like do peer-to-peer training or if someone had gotten training this year rather than sending, you know, like whoever's supposed to go this next year, maybe it could be a peer-to-peer kind of training. I don't know. Is that >> So, yes, yes, and yes. We absolutely want to capitalize on the folks that we have in-house that are experts or have expertise in an area. So, and we do that. I know I know Deb is amazing at >> Not that we don't. >> working with folks to do that, and we'll do we'll continue to do more of it. Um where we know we have deficits, however, I do just want to be crystal clear.
So, I'm excited. I have great teammates. Um yeah, and I'm excited excited to see what our kids can do. You make it sound fun. >> [laughter] >> Thank you. Thank you. All right. Uh 10.4, this is our student rights and responsibilities handbook uh information. Do I have that already? Okay. For those watching online, BoardDocs is down. The system is down, but we will be working you will to get it back. >> Board of Education, thank you for allowing us to present the student rights and responsibilities sheet tonight. Um we uh are required annually to update our student handbook um as well as provide the student handbook to any and all uh families within 15 days of enrollment or 15 days of the start of the school year. So annually we take a look at this document. It does go back and forth with our legal team um to make sure that we're in incorporating any updated legislative changes and those types of things, so we'll kind of uh provide you with a high-level overview.
And that is 100% correct. Yes, that will happen. But there's other ways we can keep this school safe. Um, there are 43 sets of doors here at Columbus North High School, and each one of those get checked um at least a dozen times a day. Make sure they're lashing properly, make sure they haven't been propped open, make sure students aren't opening it for other students and things like that. So, we we've got that. We also check the doors on the inside of the building. The classrooms are preset to be locked. Should something happen, they can just pull the door closed and that door should be locked. So, we check to ensure that those are are there as well. As well as checking the hallways, make sure, you know, nothing's going on that shouldn't be going on. Listen at the restrooms as we go by, see if there's any, you know, shenanigans going on in there that shouldn't be.
Um and to all the new members, new appointments, welcome to the corporation and I can't wait to get to meet you and and talk to you, at least the new ones and and I'll look forward to see what's going on. So. Board, just informationally, there's some I believe Tanya might have had to provide even for her own celebration tonight, but no job too small, right Tanya? And honoring Cindy and our new hires tonight. So I know we have a lot of things to eat over there, so please make yourself welcome after Ryan dismisses us. Mr. Wall. One more thing I'd like to add. Just appreciation to Ms. Drummond and the learning center for their encouragement and support of the fire and safety program. I understand that we have also introduced some new technology in that program and it's also my understanding that we are the first high school nationwide and maybe internationally to be able to use that technology.
Any opposed? The before and aftercare recommendations have been approved. 4.7, approval of the 27-28-28-29 proposed school calendars, plus the amendment of the 26-27 school calendar, Dr. Haas-Brown and Dr. Thorpe. President Norman, Dr. Smith, members of the board, Dr. Thorpe and I recommend that the board approve the proposed 27-28 and 28-29 school calendars, plus the amendment to the 26-27 school calendar as submitted. All entertain a motion. So moved. Second. Properly moved, Ms. Lawrence, and seconded, Dr. Mulholland. If there are no final questions or comments, all in favor of approving the 27-28-28-29 and the amended 26-27 school calendars say I. I.
Unless we can apply certain funding to it and we have enough, because we are using that for other things now because we've been reduced so much. For example, if we want to get, and I know it's been talked about around this table uh frequently, um more staff or in Gilliam him certified or, you know, classrooms, you know, beyond the training that they currently have. That costs a significant amount of money. It's more than a week-long course, you know, there are and and so we just keep edging away at our ability to do those things that are like forward-moving when we get reduced like this. Um I spoke to a 425 would have gotten us in a little better place so we could still push monies and things in those areas. We didn't get that. That's okay. We're where we are now. We will do that, but we will we may or may not now be able to do those other things that are leading us forward.
Um one of the things that we do uh is we do provide this to you in electronic, but as you will see this hard copy um is sometimes easier to compare and contrast when we're going through uh a summary of the items and the changes. Um and we've worked uh really hard to kind of indicate where those changes are occurring. Okay? Uh I don't know if we need introductions, but um Jeremy Bell, Assistant Superintendent of Student Services, my counterpart here. Hi, Bailey Campbell, Executive Director of Student Services. All right. Uh and and with as with everything that we do, um we want to highlight kind of those alignment features with our our values, our strategic plan, um and the things that uh come to us every single day. All right. So just to kind of set the stage a little bit, um our rights and responsibilities a lot of times is interchangeable with our student handbook.
Um, but the second part of that interview we had was how can you protect the school? I've got 39 years of law enforcement, 25 of that as a SWAT team member, team leader, and team commander. Um, none of that prepared me to deal with high school kids. Okay. I raised I raised two sons and that's a lot different than having the teenage girls that are here come to me. But that was part how are we going to build relationships? And it's actually been a lot easier than I thought it would be. I came in thinking, okay, the kids are going to be intimidated by us. They're going to be afraid of a guy there standing at the door with a gun. Um I can't even go into detail the things that these kids will share with me. It's uh way too personal to to get in here tonight.