001At this time, I bring the Chesterfield County March 29th Board of Education meeting to order. If there's no objection, we will approve the agenda by consent. Okay. At this time, I need a motion to go into executive session. I move to enter executive session to discuss personnel matters pertaining to employee hiring, compensation, terminations, resignations, contractual and legal matters. All those in favor? Aye. All right, we should be back in about 30 minutes. >> Mhm. >> [music] >> Thank you for your patience. Had some discussion. Okay, at this time I need a motion to come out of executive session. All those in favor? Okay. Um Now we're going to have a moment of silence. Um followed by the Pledge of Allegiance. It's going to be led by Ryan Ryan Milton, who's a student at New Heights
002Middle School. So if we can have that moment of silence now. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you, ma'am. Okay, I'd would to welcome the 25, 26 induction class this evening. The SRO Lee. Can you hear? Thank you for being here. Can you hear? I guess he's outside. All you principals, administrators, and our area citizens and students. Can you hear? Okay, can you hear me now? >> Yeah. Thank everyone for being here. Um Now, down to business. Our coordinator of testing and accountability, Mrs. Brunet, uh for our special recognitions. Good evening, everyone. Can you Grand. Sorry. Thank you. We didn't need a spelling bee tonight. Okay, members, you've been
003given the minutes for our February 9th meeting, the overnight student travel, and stone podium, and commemorative bell installation. If I hear no objections, these will be approved by consent. The commemorative bell went to the facilities meeting uh last month, and we approved that to go with Pageland Elementary. It's an add-on to where the monument it is monument is in front of the old gym. Which was Pageland High School. Do we know the wording on the Is there going to be any wording to that The bell? To that bell, to that uh base >> going to have My paperwork's out. Okay. No, actually it's down here. There it is. Okay. Sorry. Okay. Okay. If I hear no objections, it will be approved by consent. All right. Now, we're going to turn our meeting over to our
004chief financial officer, Mr. Caskey, for our financial report. Madam Chair, Dr. Ballinger, members of the board, good evening. Prior to this evening, you all received a copy of the financial review for the month of January and the highlights of that report are as follows. So our revenues received as of January 31st are as shown here. Uh we received a significant amount of local tax revenue in January as expected increasing our percentage from 22% to 58.7% collected. This represents normal cyclical collection of real estate taxes during the winter months. Our state revenues continue to come in regularly putting us at 52.3% collected. However, it is noted that our monthly allocations did fall by approximately $100,000 due to our 45th day student count reduction. Federal claims were processed on January 30th and reimbursements were received in February.
005Therefore, our federal collections should increase with my February report. So in total, our local revenue collected is 58.7, state revenue collected 52.3, and federal is at three. And keeping in mind that federal budget is just representative of the federal money that's in the general fund. Any questions related to revenue? Do we know whether we had any major cuts in Title I program? Uh in Title I, uh no major cuts and I've talked with Dr. Hoffman uh at right before the meeting and she was saying that she's got no indications that we're going to get major cuts for the 2026-2027 year either. Uh I know we had some scares this past year with, you know, talks of cutting whole grants. Uh but to our knowledge, that that's that conversation has kind of ceased at this point.
006So the only significant cut that we saw this year was in Title I. That was reduced by by a little bit but not not anything major. And then I think it was like a thousand dollars different for Title I this year. Thank you. Any other questions? All Thank you, Mr. Caskey. Uh we can see our labor expenditures progressing consistently month to month as expected putting us at approximately 54% expended as of January 31st. Our non-labor expenditures were 69% expended. Keep in mind that that largest expenditure on that non-labor budget is the fees we pay for our contracted employees each month. So, in total our labor budget was 54% and non-labor at 69% expended. That's just for your general fund expenditures. Any questions related to those? None. All right. Uh did want to go over the
007sales tax collections again. We're still in that procurement phase with the with a lot of the projects, so we don't see any expenditures hitting these expenditures hitting this yet. But, we did receive another allocation of our of our monthly sales tax, so that puts us at a total of $3,233,000 collected year to date. And a projected annual collection at just over 5.5 million, which is right in line with what we had thought at the beginning of the year. Any questions related to the sales tax? All right. Now, I'll go through this real quick. Um as I mentioned before, we did have a reduction uh in our state revenue due to the 45th day counts, which represented about $100,000 per month in our allocation and a reduction there. Uh we're hoping that reduction may be less
008severe once we get our 135th day numbers cuz we have seen some positive regression in that area, some enrollment numbers coming up a little bit. So, hopefully we won't recognize that full $1.18 million reduction by the end of the year. Uh additionally, we do have a lot of debt issuances that are coming due in March. The first two TAN payments have been processed, and we will uh pay that third one back at the end of March, towards the end of March, and we'll have that fully paid off. Uh we do have repayments of the 2025B taxable bond, uh the 2025A, uh that's the IPRB uh interest on the general obligation bond, and then the 2025C. All of those are uh going to be paid in March, and it's about $10 million that will be paid
009out of our debt service account. And we do I I've had on here this from the finance meeting last week, but I got an update at my conference last week. We're expected to have some numbers from House Ways and Means on our revenue for next year, hopefully on Wednesday once the house finishes up with their their full session. But we still don't have those numbers yet. And that is all of my report. Any questions related to this or anything else in the finance review? One question on You said that the $2 million would be paid out of the debt service account. Yes, sir. What's the balance of the account? We After the payment of that $10 million, it'll be somewhere around $7 million, maybe just shy of that. And that's inclusive of the sales tax
010we collected so far. I'm working with the county treasurer right now to get a separate bank account set up to help cuz in the past our the first sales tax uh referendum that we did back in 2001, all of those monies were held in one bank account, and I'm working on trying to get something that can separate those so we can more accurately track those. Any other questions? All right, we'll see you later. >> sir. I heard you saying you're working on something to divide those accounts. What's holding that to keep those from dividing up? There There's some There's some legal questions with regard to who has to have possession of the funds. Like for our debt service account, technically those are held by the county, uh and we have to request the treasurer's permission
011to make these payments because if that money is held by the county. But with the sales tax referendum, there's some gray area there as to whether or not the county has to hold those or whether we can hold those individually. I know there's some districts that do it both ways, so I think Fred Harris, our treasurer, was getting in touch with his legal counsel just to see what the what the possibilities were there. Any other questions? Thank you. All right. Thank you, sir. >> All right, our chief academic officer, Ms. Stubbs. Good evening, Madam Chair, Dr. Ballenger, members of the board. I know that you have a copy of the curriculum report, so I'm not going to go over everything, but would just like to highlight a few items there. The first is adult education.
012The the day program is off to a a great start. Participants focused on completion of their SC digital literacy credential and practice those tape-style questions that centered on black history, women in science, and American Heart Month. In March, adult ed will begin the new CLP or commercial learning permit program in Cheraw. So, those are some things going on with adult ed. With CTE, all of the FFA chapters participated in the South Carolina FFA Legislative Day in Columbia, and you will note that Cheraw High School was one of only three high schools in the state to receive the National FFA Living to Grow grant of $1,500, so that was exciting. CTE students and their instructors have been working on lots of community building activities such as shelving units for the local food banks. They are volunteering
013at Cascade Farms to refurbish raised garden beds and install shade cloth for greenhouse operations. So, of course, that is taking a lot of leadership, teamwork, and technical skills for those students to achieve those things. Um with special education, want to remind all of you that April 16th is our special track and field day. And this is an event that's a highlight for students, their families, and teachers. Um and so the the team is working together with Sherrills Ford High School and Sherrills Ford Rec Department um to make sure that the students have a wonderful experience that day. Um so please please join us that day for the the special field day. Um February intersession went well. We had over um well, approximately 322 students do participate um district-wide. And so there were 3 days of
014of intense learning experiences for students. And so that went really well. And and we're we're excited about that opportunity for our students. Um February Yes, sir. Uh let me ask you a quick question here. The students that's in the uh February uh in the intersession program, especially elementary students in the middle school, Mhm. uh are they all repeaters or that different groups each time we have intersession period? So sometimes it's repeaters and sometimes it's different groups. It just depends. Look, you know, the teachers are looking at the need of the students. So it could be it could be the same students at at times. And so how do we manage with the students? How how are we tracking them? So um kind of what we've done with our we're we're looking at that that I-Ready
015data, um which is our formative assessment. Um and one of the things that we found especially in our spring intersession was that we saw those students that um we're not doing a pre and post as far as we're not doing something on Monday and then something on Wednesday. But we do have a a winter I-Ready measurement and then something in the spring. So um we're looking closely at data. And what we found is that those students that did attend last year, especially in the spring, that we saw a lot of growth um those students and and we think that the reason we're seeing that is because it's very targeted. We're looking at those skills that those students need especially third graders because that is our retention grade and so that that really has been a
016focus. with intersession. Can you tell the difference whenever we do the state exam in the spring of the year? Can we go back and pinpoint those students and say okay they actually increased on this. Can we tell the difference? I know it have to be a mixture of class or >> Yes, it it is. It sometimes it's hard because there's so many different things happening with that student whether it's you know middle school could be after school tutoring, you know, you might have an intervention block within the day. So sometimes it's hard to say that this one thing did it but I think it's a multitude of uh really strong instructional practices. And and and I think that one thing that we've done a much better job of is really looking at data and making
017sure that okay if this is what this if this is the lowest domain in I ready and I'm really honing in on this skill or these skills here then that's going to improve the outcomes for those students. All right, one last question on this. The third graders that can be retained. Are we making a special effort to make sure that the intersession Would you repeat that question? Are we making a special effort to make sure that any student that we feel like is going to fail third grade be in these type of Yes, definitely. That is something we that Miss Suggs works very closely with our elementary principals. We have a a timeline. We have letters that go out at a specific date, conferences at a specific time. We're looking at data and um we
018we really are getting good results. The students are coming to summer school. They are coming to intersession. Um, and I think parents do understand, you know, how important it is that students receive these interventions. Thank you. >> [clears throat] >> Uh, federal programs highlighted Pageland Elementary School. Um, they're highlighting a school uh title one school uh monthly. And um, with Pageland Elementary, um, there are lots of family engagement activities happening at the school. Um, some of these are what to expect sessions, um, family literacy nights, family math nights, real men read, SC ready night to kind of let parents know what what that state testing is all about. Um, there's also been cultural appreciation events such as parent university for Spanish-speaking families, Hispanic Heritage Month celebrations, Black History Month programs. Um, and then they've got
019a lot of fun things going on like the Flying Eagles Jump Rope group, the Dribbling Eagles, and ballet. Um, and so there's those are activities that really promote that teamwork, wellness, and confidence for students that's so important um, to our children. Is that federal news letter that's statewide? Is that is No, that's just some That's just something within the district. That's just within the district. That's the daughter of Hal Furman. That's um, the department. Thank you. Um, fine arts, we just had our fine arts festival this past week. Um, it was a wonderful evening. Um, our students showcased their talent and I think that that everyone that came out really enjoyed it. We got some very talented students. Uh, Miss Hannah Maguire will give us more information about that next month. Um, but want to
020also mention that the Pride of Cheraw Winter Guard um, won their class at the Carolina Winter Ensemble. A number of our band students were selected for region band and then they traveled to Cane Bay High School. And those students names are in the curriculum report. Might be elementary school just presented Aladdin. I think that had a wonderful response. Had a packed house there. Want to congratulate Long Middle School for earning the arts and basic curriculum recertification for the next 3 years. And so they will get additional funding to help integrate arts into their um into the the school day throughout school year. Um human resources recognize national board certified teachers who completed what we call the maintenance of certification which extended their national board certification for an additional 5 years. So that was exciting. And
021then at the high school in February we are using Mastery Connect to um help teachers with benchmarks to give to benchmarks to students for those EOC classes. And so it really allows teachers to look at their own data and make preparations for end of course exams. And want to mention that this week on Thursday our eighth grade junior scholars will be going to Winthrop for the for opportunity to tour the campus, meet other junior scholars and learn about college expectations and requirements. And then of course March is the month of testing. So we've got WIN testing going on, ACT and SAT testing for juniors and seniors. So any questions? You had a nice workout, didn't you? Yeah. >> [laughter] >> All right. Thank you. Thank you. very much. Thank you. All right, our chief of
022student services, Dr. King, you're going to present our discipline report. Good afternoon, Dr. Ballenger, Madam Chair, and members of the board. I would like to go over the discipline data for the month of February. Uh this data is an overview of discipline trends throughout the district within our and within our grade levels. So, starting with high school, our top five infractions for the high school uh was tardies at 24.2% uh cell phone violations at 15% dress code violations at 8.5% disrupting class at 6% and cutting class at 4.8% totaling 58.5% of incidents reported in PowerSchool for the high school level. For the middle school infractions for the month of February coming at the top would be inappropriate behavior at 23.6% violation of class rules is 16.2% truants is 8.8% disrupting class is at 6% and
023hit, kick, push is at 5.1% Oh. 59.7% of incidents reported in PowerSchool for middle school and lastly uh elementary top five infractions for the month of February at the top was inappropriate behavior at 29% truancy at 22.6% bus violations at 15.10% hit, kick, push infractions at 12.9% and inappropriate language at 5.4% that totaled 85% of the incidents reported in PowerSchool for the elementary level. So, district-wide our top five infraction was inappropriate behavior at 14.8% tardies at 9.9% truancy at 8.5% phone violations at 7.5% violation of class rules at 7.3% totaling 40% of all incidents reported in PowerSchool district-wide. So, kind of like an overview of our discipline data from August to February. So, district-wide discipline data indicates that a consistent group of behavioral and attendance-related infractions accounts for approximately to 55% of all incidents reported
024in PowerSchool. The data continues to highlight inappropriate behavior, attendance concerns, classroom disruption, and phone violations as the most frequent discipline challenges across the district. So, February data enforces the continued need for interventions related to student behavior expectations attendance monitoring, and classroom engagement. So, from a strategic standpoint the district discipline data suggests that behavior expectations, attendance, and classroom engagement remain the most significant drivers of the disciplinary incidents. So, sustained focus on tier one behavior supports, attendance interventions, and classroom management practices will be critical in reducing the discipline incidents during the remainder of the school year. Any questions? I got a couple of questions. Sure. It look like I'm the only one asking questions tonight. But, uh anyway, I see a nice trend Mhm. based on where we started off Absolutely. to where we are now. Uh
025and even though you're giving districts, I'm looking at individual schools. >> Mhm. Look at some schools here that have Petersburg Elementary as uh five infractions during the whole month. Yes, sir. Uh and then you're looking at all your high schools uh that have basically cut their infraction in half >> Mhm. or better. Yes, sir. So, I guess the question is what what these schools is down in those single digit double digits digits like 19 18 20 and what have you. What are they doing so successful that we can't share the information with other schools? Well, I think that's a that's a that's layered. Um so, you have to look at the the expectations within the school. You look at the school culture. Um and you look at the expectations in those individual classrooms. I think
026that the more you see with student engagement, the less you'll see with discipline infractions. So, if you look at your schools that are you know, you see engaging classroom um settings, you see the culture um it's it you start to see that trend going downward. Also too, by now we're in March. This the kids should be acclimated with the expectations in the school. So, you would see that trend you should start to see a trending downward in every school because of the expectations. But I I would say I commend um your school administrators and the teachers within the building because the expectations are set. The the principal and the teachers set the climate within the classrooms and within the school. So, as long as that climate is set at the right temperature, I think that
027you will see a lot of good stuff happening within the schools. But it's important it starts at the top with leadership and it trickles down through the teachers and then through the kids. And I think also too, when you see a lot of these schools having less and less discipline infractions, it's because a lot of time you're incorporating the parental aspect of it as well. Keeping parents informed about you know, discipline and behavior that you may be having within the classroom and just making those contacts cuz I think the parents can be your biggest advocates when it comes to the student behaviors within the classroom. But March is spring, you know. Things tend to go up. So, March is Don't say that too loud. Yes, sir. It may break the trend. >> trending down. >>
028[laughter] >> We hope the hope is to keep trending down. All right. Okay. >> I have one question. Yes, sir. Like you're saying just a little bit earlier, you're really nice people. Mhm. the right way. But I I was just looking right now at your statistics at the high school level, your highest incident rate is bullying. Mhm. And and I agree. I think classifying and engaging, I think parental involvement, those two are going to drive the numbers down. But also just all of these interventions within the school, Absolutely. monitoring that stuff will make a difference. I I think that also I'm looking at the uh primary school, the highest incident is uh inappropriate behavior. Uh Can you Can you Can you give me an indication of the most minor inappropriate behavior? Ooh. So, what level?
029You mean like kindergarten, first grade, second, or >> I'm speaking of your K-3, first, whatever your primary level. Okay. >> That's where you have the highest inappropriate behavior. Yes, sir. So, you have to look at we at that level you have to model the appropriate behavior first of all. But when it gets to the inappropriate part, it could be something as simple as throwing pencils across the room or jumping on the kids' back or something like that, something that you would have to teach and model. Um and you would always hope for that inappropriate behavior at that level to decrease because there's they're still learning how to do school, I like to say. They're still learning how to do school. So, but it it depends. Now, if you get to the middle and high school
030level and you're seeing pencils and stuff being thrown across the classroom, that's a whole different situation. So, but at that that small level, you still have to model You still have to model it even at the higher grades, but it's important that you you consistently model that behavior, that expectation at the lower grades so that once they get to the higher grades, the expectation is already set. And and that's the main indicator about your potentials and the types. Mhm. The house key told you that my highest strength Maybe that's something I say that it's better modeling and cultural environment between the schools relative to the relationship with parents. Mhm. Uh and I I I'm looking at the anecdote that the you know, Casey started bringing up. You you like that it's going to be a
031lot of just modeling what it look like. Helping trying to get some time with that you know, hopefully actually maybe part of the norm within that social setting Mhm. outside of the school environment. But I I I agree with Mr. Casey 100%. I think the plan is going the right way. Mhm. And I do totally agree with those two with the class on the school climate and the home environment and the community environment as well. Absolutely. Going forward, can we can we get the breakdown you give there on the top five at each school level? I can give it to you what >> Whatever you want. >> Yeah, that if you can do that, I mean, we've got everything at every school, but can you just include the >> of like what I'm giving you
032all in my presentation, you want to share Absolutely. >> five at each level would be great. Yeah, I got you. I I'd like to see that in a pie graph type situation. Sure. I think that'd be great. Education part. Am I going to get a stipend for this extra work? I'm just joking. I'm kidding. I'm joking. I promise I'm kidding. I got you, no problem. That's a joke. >> We'll remember it on the 26th, 27th, budget. But yeah, I got you. This is not a problem. I'll get that information to you. >> I I do have a question, Dr. I know these infractions, if I'm looking at this correctly, it seems like New Heights is like 125 for the total February. It seems like they are highest out of all of the schools in Mhm.
033What's going on there? Well, I think it's you have to look at a a plethora of things and that's not always a a bad thing because you see that the discipline is being recorded and it's being monitored because you can have some cases and like I said, data can it can be interpreted multiple ways. So, a lot of times, if if it's not reported then it looks like the numbers are low, but then you when you have the data that is being reported, the numbers can look kind of high. So, it just depends on how you're looking at it, but I will say at the middle school as a whole, now New Heights is our larger middle school, the largest middle school in our district. So, you have more kids. So, when I when you
034look at the the numbers like, let's say 137 infractions, I'm just making it up cuz I don't have that before me. But, you may have 60 more kids or 70 more kids than Long Middle School. So, those numbers may be elevated from time to time because you just have you just have more kids. So, it just depends, but I will say, you know, a constant focus, you know, at schools that have a high number of incidences is classroom management. So, a lot of that can be, you know, go back to as far as classroom management um and and student engagement and different things like that, but I will say, you know, the number if you look at that number and in particular you talk about New Heights, in the beginning it I think it was
035like 200 and something one a month and now it's like half. So, it's still trending downward, but it's still kind of high in comparison to the other middle schools, um but I do see a the same trend like we said district wide is the behaviors are are going down. I think just to add to that I think it boils down to who's reporting what and who's not. I think some people report things A lot of people go by a paper trail is I mean you know if it didn't if it's not on paper it never happened. So I think some people report more than others for that reason. >> Right and that's that's the the point I made earlier. Just like what's what's being reported but like I said overall it is the the discipline
036the trend is going down which is a good thing. Any other questions? All right. Thank you have a good day. >> Now we'll have our superintendent's report from Dr. Ballenger. Thank you Madam Chair members of the board. I would like to welcome everybody that's in attendance tonight. Um, also would like to welcome those that are joining us online and watching this live. So um, it's always good when you take an active part in the uh, your school system. So I do appreciate that. I'm going to make sure that my uh, my report's a little bit short because I know we've had some really good detailed reports from um, all of the chiefs um, earlier tonight but uh, so for me as of March 9th, 2026 calendars and events um, are provided. That's on the next
037section. You're going to see some advisory council minutes and also some uh, varsity and and uh, from the high schools and then our junior high schedules um, in case you would like to go catch a game or two. Uh, those are provided there. Schools will be out on March 13th. This is designated in-service day for the two late days of January 8th, 2026 and January 15th, 2026. March 19th is the end of the third nine weeks. March 26th, 2026 report cards will be issued and then I believe we will go on spring break April 6th through the 10th before we actually meet back in here as a board, so I want to be sure to provide that as well. And um that's all I have for tonight. Thank you, Dr. Ballenger. Now we're going to
038hear our from our Chief of Human Resources, Dr. Bone, on our personnel exhibits, addendum, and new positions. Thank you, Madam Chair, members of the board. Um I would like to recommend the approval of the personnel report and the addendum I presented tonight. So moved. All in favor? Aye. And then on 4.2, um two of our IEP teams in the district have recommended additional positions. An IEP team at Macby Elementary at at Macby Elementary and Edwards Elementary recommend additional assistance for educational needs of students at those schools. I recommend your approval of those positions. So moved. All those in favor? Aye. Thank you so much. >> Thank you very much. All right. Now we're going to have Dr. Ballenger talk to us about the super um substitute contracts. Thank you, Madam Chair. Chesterfield County School District
039issued an RFP to solicit to solicit proposals for contracting substitute services across the district. The outsourcing of substitute coverage ensures consistent support for both instructional and support positions when employees are absent due to personal personal, sick, or extended medical leave, professional development, or unfilled vacancies. The ability to provide long-term substitute placements help maintain continuity in student learning and overall school operations. Recommended action um is to approve the superintendent to contract with the selected substitute service company for the FY26-27 school year with four one-year um renewal options. Okay. I need a motion to accept the services. I move that superintendent be given the authority to enter into contract with the selected substitute service company for the fiscal year 26-27 with four one year renewal options. Second. All those in favor? Aye. Okay. All those negative? Okay.
040It passed. Now, Dr. Ballenger will speak to us about digital signage for all of our schools. Sorry. Thank you, Madam Chair. Uh Chesterfield County School District this year in RFP to solicit proposals to purchase and install 18 outdoor digital digital display boards for all schools um and the district office. Uh this signage project aims to improve community communication, enhance campus branding, and increase emergency message uh vis- uh visibility. This project includes the provision uh provision, fabrication, uh delivery, installation, configuration, and testing of double-sided high high resolution LED displays at each site, the unique unique graphic toppers per location. The recommended action uh is to approve the superintendent to contract with the selected digital sign board vendor based on the proposal uh proposals uh evaluated. And I thought that we uh had discussed that maybe that
041the central office was not getting a a digital sign. Huh? I don't think we had a need for the central office to have a digital sign. I'll verify Okay. Huh? Well, I mean, so I just I you know, we were having a discussion about whether that was um Yeah, if we had one. Currently. So, I would have to refer back to the RFP to see if it was Is it included? >> included? Okay. All right. And I think it like this would be one of the the first items that would fall under the bond referendum spending. Is that correct? >> So, it's one of the first um >> the first visible items. >> the first visible. Yes, yes, because we've been doing roofs on on many of our facilities. We're also updating the badge entries
042um as far as at all of our facilities. So, those things people can't see, but yes, you are correct, Mr. Sims. This will be one of the first visible. This is a question. And we were going with the larger sign, all right? That That is my recommendation um from the board as far as I I would recommend that we go with the 4 by 8 over the 3 by 7. 4 by 8. Madam Chairman. Yes. Uh I move that the superintendent be given the authority to enter into contract with the selected digital board display board vendor. All right, all those in favor. Aye. Okay, that We're good. Okay. Dr. King, you got a mouthful coming up. Yes, ma'am. I told you I'd be back. Minutes, policies, and administrative rules. So, good evening once again. You
043have already been given a copy of policy JLCEF, uh rule JLCEF associated with the policy, and the form JLCEF-E, policy IHAM, and policy DKC. So, at this time, I would like to recommend it as presented for second reading and approval. I so move. Second. We have a motion and a second. All those in favor? I. Okay. All right. So, back in August, we got the approval to utilize uh South Carolina School Board Association to update all of our policies. Um we have now received the policy revisions for sections A and B of our board policies. As a district team, we have gone through section A, and you have been given those updated policies in advance. But, I wanted to read through some of the notable changes to the policies. So, for policy AA, the recommended
044changes was to the policy was updated the the language was updated, revising introductory information, and revised legal references. The School Board Association recommended deletion of policy AB, as this information will be included in the K section. Also, the rule associated with policy AC, it updated the policy language throughout, revised the non-discrimination statement, and added an equal access statement. It says expanded information on the resolution of discrimination complaints. And, we also specified in the policy who those complaints would go through or go to. Policy ACD, I'm sorry, ACB, this policy specifically addresses equity in all aspects of the educational program. Currently, we do not have this information, and so we are considering we want to adopt this particular policy because we did not originally have it. Policy ACE This policy establishes guidelines for members of the
045public permitted to utilize service animals in district buildings and on district property. It coincides with the service animal policy set forth in sections G, I, and J. So the district does not currently have this particular information and we have decided to adopt this particular one into our policy. Policy ACG The school board association recommends deletion as this information will be included in the G and J sections. Also policy AD The school board association recommends deletion as this information is now covered in the policy ADA. School district goals and objectives and the language regarding the board commitments is covered in policy BDD. Policy ADA The rule associated with policy ADA, the district does not currently have this information and we have considered we want to adopt this information. Policy ADB This is the drug and alcohol
046free workplace in schools. The language was revised throughout this particular policy. Revised the title and added a section on prescription and over-the-counter medication use. And we revised the legal references. Policy ADC, tobacco free school district Revised the title, updated the policy language throughout to include to comply with both state and federal requirements. Revised introduction which incorporates some of your current policy language. Revised legal references. And lastly policy ADF, there was no change to this policy because we just recently updated this policy last year. So, at this time, I recommend policy AA, AC, AC-R, ACB, ACE, ADA, ADA-R, ADB, and ADC for first reading. And a Well, first reading, sorry. Okay, I need a motion. Madam Chair, I move that we accept the first reading of administrative rules uh section A. Okay. Second that motion. All
047right, all those in favor? Aye. Okay. That's it. And so it shall be first reading. Yes, ma'am. Thank you. >> Thank you. Okay, board members, don't forget to turn in your ethics your statement of economic interest by March the 30th at noon. Remember, $100 a day Yes, we'll get you. for failure to comply. Our next board meeting is April the 13th at the here at Palmetto Learning Center at 5:30, executive session at 5:00. Now, I need a motion to adjourn. So moved. All those in favor? Aye. And we are adjourned.