001Good afternoon and welcome to the February 10th business meeting of the Rockville School Board. Local news media outlets were notified in writing of the agenda for this meeting on Sunday, February 8th and again on Monday, February 9th. If you will please join me for the pledge of allegiance followed by a silence 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. Please be seated. First up is uh the approval of the agenda. I'll entertain a motion to approve the agenda as presented. >> So move. >> Thank you, Mr. Burns. Do I have a second? >> Second. >> Thank you, Miss or sorry. Um any discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor? >> I. >>
002All opposed. Motion carries 70. First up until 6 o'clock, we do have an executive session for the purpose of discussion regarding the development of cyber security program, discussion regarding the development of an organizational pattern for the administration and discussion regarding employment. Do I have a motion to adjourn the open session and enter the executive session for those listed reasons? >> So moved. >> Thank you, Miss Daniel. Do I have a second? >> Second. >> Thank you, Mr. Nosal. Any discussion hearing? None. All those in favor? >> I. All post carries 70. We will be back at 6:00. Thank you. Good evening and welcome to uh or welcome back I should say to the uh business meeting of the rocket school board. We've been meeting for the past hour in executive session for the purpose of
003uh discussion regarding development of cyber programs um regarding development of an organizational pattern for the administration and uh an employment there. So at this point I will open or entertain a motion to adjourn the executive session and reconvene the open session. >> Thank you Mr. Burns. Do I have a second? >> Second. >> Thank you. >> Any discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor. >> All opposed. Motion carries 6. Are there any motions coming out? I don't believe so. All right. Uh then we are going to go into recognitions and I am going to turn it over to Dr. Elder for the recognition of some new administrators. Dr. Elder. Thank you, Madam Chair, members of the board. I am incredibly pleased to introduce our ne new chief financial officer, Kevin Madden, right here with us.
004Um, he brings extensive experience in budgeting, capital planning, organizational development, growth management. Um, most recently, he has served as the Do I need to start again? I am very pleased, Madam Chair, and members of the board to introduce our new chief financial officer, Kevin Madden. He brings a wealth of experience in budgeting, capital planning, organizational development, and growth management. Um, most recently, he he has served as assistant county manager, treasurer, and CFO for York County. He oversaw $450 million budget and more than,300 employees. He improved the county's credit ratings, eliminated debt service millage, and implemented a pay as you go capital funding model. Kevin also spent more than a decade as an audit partner, auditing state government ent government entities, including school districts, giving him deep insight and expertise into school finance, transparency, and accountability
005in in alignment with our goals. He holds a master of science in finance and a bachelor of business administration in accounting from Texas&M. No booing. And is a certified public accountant in South Carolina. Just kidding. Um, as CFO, Kevin will bring a collaborative student centered approach focused on aligning resources with educational priorities, supporting our educators, staff, and students. Please join me in welcoming Kevin Madden to Rockill Schools. And as Bobby Barnes comes up to do his introduction, I'd like to thank Mr. Barnes for his time as interim CFO. Um he stepped in in a very difficult situation um when the district was in great need. Um has demonstrated outstanding work ethic. Um fantastic planning and has been able to tow the line and keep us afloat. So thank you Mr. Mr. Barnes, Mr. Barnes will
006be moving into the executive director position. Um, and so a promotion from where he was prior to taking over as interim CFO. So, thank you, Mr. Barnes. And I'll give you the microphone for your introduction. >> Thank you, Dr. Heler. I am pleased to introduce our new director of budget and compliance, Amanda Hackne. Amanda brings extensive experience in budget development, financial compliance, and ERP systems, most recently serving as manager of student account services, and previously as a budget analyst at Winthre University. She has a strong record of fiscal stewardship, process improvement, and cross department collaboration with zero audit findings, and consistent regulatory compliance. We are confident her expertise and leadership will strengthen our district's financial planning and operational effectiveness. Welcome, Amanda. >> Thank you. >> Hello. >> Welcome back. >> Thank you. >> Excited to
007have you, >> Mr. Barnes. Congratulations. >> Thank you. Congratulations. >> Good side. two, two, one. >> Thank you. Welcome to the team. >> Thank you. >> Good to see you. So, next up, I'm going to welcome up Saluda Trail State Honor Choir. I'd like to recognize students who were selected for the American Coral Directors Association State Honors Choir. This is a highly competitive coral ensemble with students auditioning from all over South Carolina. This achievement reflects exceptional musicianship, dedication, and effort beyond the classroom. We're proud of these students and the way they represent our school and our district. This is Brayley McCullum and And we also have John Ashbot and Chris Barry who were not able to make it due to other um school events that they are participating in. >> Congratulations. Next up, I have
008the pleasure of introducing all three of our high schools, both Northwestern, Rockill High, as well as South Point for the State Chorus Awards. Welcome. picture of your parents. Everyone smile. Your parents can see you and then you can turn around. One, two, three. Okay, now we can >> Good evening, Dr. Elder, Chairwoman Miller, and Rockville Schools board. We wanted to uh take an opportunity to acknowledge some of the students ahead of you this evening. Um there are um the South Carolina American Coral Directors Association holds auditions at the start of the school year. These students submit a virtual recording of an audition and they are selected by via blind auditions for an honors uh chorus uh that is held actually was supposed to be held a couple weeks ago but yay by snow. Um so
009uh but these students still earned a spot in those ensembles and we are going to acknowledge those students by school Northwestern. >> Greetings Madden Mad and Chairwoman Miller and Dr. Elder and the school board. We have two groups. The first group is going to be the honors choir. And so first up we have Mr. Kayen Kayen Phillips, 12th grader. And then we also have Jonah Snider, a 10th grader. And we also have Angel Chambers, also a 10th grader. >> Good evening, board chairman Miller, um, Superintendent Dr. Elder and and board here this evening like to uh introduce and recognize students from Rockill High School. Um South Carolina ACDA Honors Choir, Johanna Spencer, Emma Rodriguez, Eva Bumgardner, and Laney Elkins. Good afternoon again board members. Thank you all and representing South Point High School. We have
010the following students. Students that are present, please raise your hand. Benjamin Garner, Anna Raymond, Elena Hicklin, Kyle Dawson, and Serenity Mack. The second honor uh for these students is actually going to be the weekend after we return from intercession. Um students auditioned in November, the first week of November for the SC Allstate Choir. It will be held at Winthrop University. That audition is quite rigorous. Um and involves a solo um portion of singing the required piece uh that they rotate every year. Um and then doing a completing a an eight measure site reading um that they're reading for the first time. Um and these students um are selected after that process of um from students from across the entire state of South Carolina. Do you remember how many students auditioned? I don't I don't remember
011how many students auditioned. I apologize. But um the um students from Rockill Schools that were acknowledged for that are going to be from Northwestern. >> Again, we have Kayen Phillips and the two that's not in attendance. They're also working hard at theater at this moment. And that's Macy Manzinski and Bailey Darren. Good evening again from Rockill High School, South Pan Hall State course 90s. And also representing South Point High School for the All State, we have Anna Raymond and Yolina Higley. >> Good evening. My name is Charlotte Coffin. Um, I am the course teacher at South Point. This year, the American Coral Directors Association gave gifted and talented students in the coral arts the opportunity to audition for a Southern Regional High School honor choir. Students were asked to submit a recording of a pre-selected
012advanced coral music piece along with vocalizes. Students submissions were were reviewed by judges and scored. Across our southern region, almost 1,400 students auditioned for this choir. From those 567 scored high enough to be invited to participate in the honors event that will take place in Memphis, Tennessee March 4th through the 7th in just a month or so. The following students will be traveling to Memphis to represent their schools and we are so proud of them. Rockill High again from Rocky High School the um ACDA Southern Division, Laney Elkins. Yes. >> Emma Rodriguez and Jordan Panther. Last but not least, from South Point High School, the following students are being recognized. Honor Raymond, Yelina Hicklin, Al Lima Land, Kyle Dawson, and Serenity Mack. >> Thank you. That's all >> by school. So, South Point and then
013>> congratulations to all of you. >> Over and Dr. Elder stand. Yep. Maybe just sing one of these. They're here and they got these amazing voices. Okay. One, two, three. All right. >> Thank you. >> Yes. Yes. >> Next up, I would like to introduce the Dutchman Creek Middle School State Beta Club. All right. Good evening, Chair Miller, Vice Chair Hutchinson, and members of the board. I'm excited to introduce to you some of our members of our Beta Club. Currently, Dutchman Creek has 184 Beta Club members that do anything from volunteering and participating in multiple functions, organizations, and community events. This will be the third consecutive year that Dutchman Creek students have actually qualified for the nationals that will take place in Nashville this year. Um, also wanted to highlight that we are proud to
014be the only school in York County that participates at both the state and the national level of Beta Club competition. And so we just wanted to recognize two of our students that are currently here. Um for second place vocalist solo, we have Carmen Forte. Second place club trading pin, Landon Tucker. Fifth place onsite drawing was Mabvery Stevenson. And then fifth place living literature was Landon Tucker and Mabry Stevenson as well. And so we are very honored for them to go and represent Dutchman Creek and Nashville this year. and we just appreciate y'all um you know giving back to them and letting them know how much you guys appreciate them too as well with our academic service and everything that we have in Dutchman. So thank you all. All right. >> Thank you. Great job. >>
015Great. And our last recognition for the evening is Sullivan Middle School State Wrestling. Welcome. Hello. Thank you for having us. By the way, I'm uh Ted Hector. I'm the co-athlete director at Sullivan Middle School. Uh and on behalf of Dr. Bzinski, our principal, we have coach uh Francis Aguire here, coach Jamie Pacheco, and then coach John Robinson is not he's not here tonight, but we had six girls go to the state uh tournament in wrestling and four boys qualify. and uh Manuela Vargas, she took second place in the state uh for the girls and uh Francis Eli Aguire took third place in state for boys at the state tournament for rest. >> Thank you for having us. >> Thank you and congratulations. >> Your parents real quick. One, two, three. Thank you for coming. >>
016Congratulations. Thank you. >> Congratulations. >> Thank you. >> Next up is citizen participation. Uh per our uh policy uh during business meetings. Uh any uh member can sign up at 6:00 for a threeminut allotment to address the board regarding any agenda item. And tonight we have Mr. Lani Harvey um on behalf of NAACP that has signed up to speak regarding citizen participation. Welcome. >> Good evening. Uh my concern is the inability for citizens to actively participate in communicating with this body. Right now you say that in order for citizens to participate, they have to be talking about something that's that's on the agenda. Well, if there's an issue that's not on the agenda or was on the agenda in the past meeting, then he can't speak of it. For instance, if uh if I'm if
017I'm at home and I'm watching on TV and an issue comes up that I think that I want to speak to uh at the next speak to, I can't do it. I can't do it from home and I can't do it at the next meeting if it's not on the agenda. The other if there are things that this body is doing that I object to that never shows up then I can't do it. For instance, if there are members of this body who are participating and even co-hosting and all white introduce introduction of uh candidates to the community, then it can't be addressed. You guys just fly under the radar. And since there's no longer a newspaper delivered every day, it doesn't make the newspaper. If I am told that by um some faculty members
018that the school puts out a box of books at the beginning of the year with a sign that says help yourself and that they feel that this is just a manner in which the uh school board is is banning books because there was a policy that was that was passed a couple years ago book and which I tried to object to uh about banning books and said it wasn't banning books but it was a policy that encouraged people to come in and talk to the librarian to about specific books about getting them removed. Okay. So if that is happening then I think that every citizen should have an opportunity if not every citizen every citizens organization should have an opportunity to request a list of the books that are being given away. They're inventoried. You
019know you have a list of them and they're saying that they're being replaced. There should also be a list of them being replaced. That way they can be compared be be compared to you know those books that nationally are being banned by moms for liberty. I'd asked at one time if uh the members who are on the board who have pledged made a pledge to moms for liberty would uh admit it and nobody would. But I did notice that the the uh uh the the uh introduction to all white uh members uh ignored some white members and it was those members who objected to the pro to the policies and principles of moms for liberty. I noticed the very first meeting that uh Robin Owens was left off and wanted to find out why was
020she excluded? One of the reasons she was excluded is that she objected to the bigotry the bigotry of race and homophobic homophobia of moms for liberty. I think because of that it's still being it that those principles run rampant >> within this board and the citizens can't objective and I think that it's that is something that needs to be object that needs to be addressed. >> Thank you. That concludes the citizen participation and we're going to move now to our consent action agenda. On our consent action agenda, there are uh a couple of different items. Uh first is minutes uh from the January 27th business meeting and the January 27th uh work session. Uh as well as a uh list of personnel recommendations. Do I have a motion to uh uh approve the consent action
021agenda as presented? >> Move. >> Thank you, Mr. Burns. Do I have a second? >> Thank you, Dr. Belton. Any discussion? Varing not. All those in favor. >> All opposed. Motion carries. 70. So, with that, we are going to go down to our action agenda, and we're going to start off with our fiscal year 27 budget preparation process. Uh, and I'm going to welcome up uh our superintendent, Dr. Oak. >> Thank you, Madam Chair, board members. Um, in the spirit of improving fiscal transparency, um, I bring for your approval this evening of our budget preparation process for our fisc year 27 budget. So, what I will cover in this evening's presentation are first the budget roles. Um, next a quick a quick recap of the board of trustees goals, our superintendent budget priorities, our timeline,
022and our stakeholder engagement opportunities. So to start with, our roles um are clearly defined in policy and we spent a great deal of time at our last work session and following our last meeting with um Dr. Peter Gorman going through um the roles of governance and the roles of administration in preparing the budget. So this is just a quick recap um for ourselves as well as for the public. So the board of trustees role as governance of the organization um is to one approve salary schedules, approve the budget and approve revenue generation. The role of superintendent and administration is to recommend salary schedules, prepare, present and recommend the budget and establish budget priorities. And so as the budget priorities, the budget priorities from the superintendent will be based on the board of trustees goals. And
023just a quick recap of our board goals around academic excellence, operational, human, financial and capital resource optimization, um stakeholder engagement and implementation polic implementation of policy and making Rockill Schools a proud first choice for all of our stakeholders. And so from those goals, the superintendent priorities for the budget are first and foremost to accelerate student learning. Students are at the center of absolutely everything I will ever bring you as a recommendation. And so they are the north star um in my budget priorities. Second, supporting and developing employees so that they can support and grow our students. And finally, investing in and maintaining our facilities. Our timeline for development of the general fund budget begins tonight with board action around the process and timeline. Next board meeting, we'll have a work session on the demographic study
024presentation. That'll be from a guest speaker and that'll be for information that will help us understand the trends in our demographics and our enrollment and look at projections over time so that we can engage in long-term strategic planning. Um so that we know that the actions we create today will have actions down the road and so we want to be fully informed of what that looks like. March 10th we'll have our federal and state programs overview. Now, of course, these funds are separate from the general fund, but they're an important piece to the puzzle of our total budget. And my understanding is in in past years, we've had our federal and state programs overview at about this time of year. We'll also look as information at our Rockill School District staffing standards. March 24th, we'll
025have a work session on our facilities study. Again, capital money is separate but related some to a general fund. So, it's an important piece of the equation as well. And the facilities are an important part of that as my goal. Priority number three, April 14th, we'll have a salary look back at which RO groups in our um in our staff have had what raises when. So we have very clear data and information to make and to make informed judgments on in the future. April 28th, we'll have our third of our four of our four quarterly finance reports. Um we will also bring for your approval the 2627 salary schedules and the 2627 meal prices. May 10th is not a board meeting day, but that is the date that we will publish publish the board notice
026in the newspaper and May 12th will be the um presentation of the general fund budget. That'll be an information session. It won't be action. Action will come May 26th prior to the business meeting. will have a public hear hearing followed by the presentation of the general fund budget at the business meeting um followed by board action. So our stakeholder engagement timeline is crafted so that we're able to inform budget decisions with um stakeholder engagement. So, starting February 25th through March 11th, we'll have school employee engagement opportunities as well as district office division engagement opportunities per policy CCP. And I want to be really clear both with the board as well as with the public that what this will not look like is tell me everything you want because if we ask for what everybody wants,
027we know we can't deliver everything everybody wants. So we don't want to create a perception that we're able to do everything because we know that we can do anything but we can't do everything. So these engagements will look more like tell us about your top priorities. Tell us about the top things that you wish we would stop doing. Many many of our employees talked about things they wished we would stop doing in our roundts. This is our chance to start actionizing those things that we need to stop doing through the budget and having those um employee engagement opportunities will help us to identify those as well as where to prioritize resources moving forward. Um the dates are to be announced but we will have two public community meetings so that public can come and provide
028their ideas and their thoughts and their priorities. Um, again, not a whole laundry list of what do you want, but but helping us prioritize and narrow that down. Um, March 18th through April 1st, principles will represent their schools in budget meetings um with with executive leadership. April 2nd through 16th, cabinet will also represent their divisions in budget meetings with leadership. And then that will give us ample time to prepare a budget for that first read in May. And so thank you for your attention. Do you have any questions? >> I do have um probably more of a request rather than a question. When it comes to the uh community meetings, uh those two uh could we please make sure that those are scheduled at differing types of times so that we can allow working parents
029as well as community members the opportunity to attend as well so that we don't have for instance two Thursday nights at 6:00 because at that point we're going to have the same group of people who may not be able to attend. So just draw us. >> Thank you chair. We'll we'll run it similar to the way we ran the community um stakeholder meetings and roundts where we have different times of day from different locations. >> Fantastic assumptions. Thank you. Um just looking at the calendar, I noticed um on April 14th, you're going to be doing a salary look back. So you mentioned that that's going to you're going to take an assessment and look at data of different roles that received raises in the last couple years. Maybe looking at cost of living adjustments. The
030question though that I have of that one of that process, but two also um in in here it goes from April 14th to April 28th and then we take action that means that we vote on the new salary schedules. Well, we have an opportunity at that time since that is one of our um governance policies to have some give some feedback to you as to some of the things that we need because I just want to make sure that we have inputs because I know we've discussed different, you know, parts of our school district that rightfully deserve raises. So, how will we be able to engage with you during that process before actually voting for it on April the 28th? >> Thank you, Madam Chair, vice chair. Um the reason for having that salary look
031back scheduled April 14th. The discussion around and around that board information session will be will will help focus what individual board members and then ultimately the board collectively wants to see in salary schedules. >> So you'll you'll have a draft of this you potentially have a draft of the salary schedules at the April 14th so that we could see it um prior to >> we can do that. >> Okay. >> Yeah. that the the idea was to have the salary look back so we knew where we were coming from and then that would inform the look ahead to future salary schedules. >> Okay. Just wondering if we can have have an opportunity to add some inputs to that. >> Thank you, Dr. Elder. >> Anyone else has any question? Any questions? >> Nope. Then uh
032at this point I will entertain a uh motion to approve the fiscal year 27 budget preparation process pass recommended by Dr. Ed. >> Thank you Mr. Roberts. Uh do I have a second? >> Second. >> Uh thank you Mr. Nosen. Any discussion? Very none. All those in favor. >> All opposed. Motion carries 70. >> Thank you Dr. This wasn't part of the conversation. You can answer this. When does the new CFO come on board? >> March 2nd. Thank you. >> Okay, perfect. Uh, so our next agenda item is the academic seminar course request. And I'm going to welcome off Miss Alicia Jensen. Come on up. >> Good evening, Chair Miller, Vice Chair Hutchinson, members of the board, Dr. Elder, and members of the community. I'm here this evening to request approval for an academic seminar
033course. So, this course is already approved at the state department. This is a course description. It's really a support course for our students who have an individualized um education plan, an IEP. The course can be repeated as necessary for the student, but it serves as a a a course that supports their learning in other courses. So the course at the state department is already approved as a full credit course. So what I am asking is if we can have a half credit course. And the reason that we need a half credit course is when a student has an IEP change in the middle of the semester or a student moves into the district after the semester has started, those students will lose credit in the course as it's currently built. So if we had a
034half credit course, we would be able to get those students some credit once their IEP changes or a new student comes into the district. Any questions? I don't believe there are any questions. So with that, I'll entertain a motion to approve uh the academic seminar course request. >> So moved. >> Thank you, Mr. Nosal. Do I have a second? >> Second. >> Uh thank you, Miss Daniel. Any discussion? Var not. All those in favor? >> I >> do you have >> all oppose? Motion carries. 70. >> M madam chair lady while Miss Johnson is up there. I'm direct this to Dr. Dr. Elder. Um this actually raised a thought for me. Um I've heard from a pretty trusted colleague in Colombia that there is and it appears that's what they're trying to do with this
035academic seminar for children with IEPs. but with children without IEPs that there's some waiver that Rock Hills what school districts across the state could potentially get to wave some of the seat time almost some carryover from CO do you mind look well I'm going to ask you I'm asking as an individual and maybe the rest of the board agrees or disagrees I don't know but looking at whether or not there's a particular waiver that we can get on some seat time um to help out anyway I think you know the question I'm asking. Is that possible? I see you're shaking your head. So, is the answer to that? Yes. >> I'm shaking my head because I'm already working on that. >> Oh, okay. All right. Thank you. >> The answer is emphatically yes. >> Okay.
036All right. Thank you. >> Yes. >> Thank you. >> Then please let us know how it goes. Uh and if there's anything we can do to help. Yes. >> Yeah. >> So, I assume that's information you'll get back to us. And if you certainly need any help from any of us to do anything in Colombia, um I would love to I lend my hand to do that. That could be a game changer for a lot of our kids. >> I my daughter is currently sitting in classroom doing nothing and she's a straight A student just for seat time. It's ridiculous. All >> right. Well, with that we say thank you and uh yeah, >> thank you. >> Okay, communications. We do not have any communications today. Um and uh just as a reminder to the
037public that communications is a way that any citizen can or group or organization can sign up uh a week ahead of time uh for a segment to address the board on any topic that they so wish for. Um and you do that by uh contacting uh our uh uh board secretary Miss Guts. Uh her email is on the website. Moving on to presentations. Uh the first one we have is the exceptional student education also known as ES. And I'm going to welcome uh up uh Dr. Christina Dicki. Madam Chair, before they start one more time, um I do want to apologize to the presenters tonight and to the public at some point and I do have my phone out. Um senior night at Rocky High School. I see the principal here. He and I both
038are waiting on the 15minute um bail that we're going to slip out and get to senior night. So if I leave, it's certainly not no reflection of you all. I'm just going to I want to apologize on the front. So Mr. King and I will be leaving probably at the same time back here. Thank you all. >> So before I turn it over to you, Dr. Dinky, uh I'm going to turn it over to uh Dr. Elder to uh introduce uh some things for >> sure. Thank you um Madam Chair, members of the board. Um I just want to clarify the purpose of the next three presentations at this evening's meeting as well as similar presentations that we will have in upcoming meetings is to give the board and the public a broad view of
039our major programs. So this is of course in advance of the budget but I want everybody to have again that transparency knowing all the things that we do and we won't be able to cover everything but we'll cover the major bodies of work in the district programmatically for these presentations. We will bring budget to that at a later time in the budget process. So this is just setup in understanding our programs. This is not budget, but this is setting us up for when we then talk about budget and we talk about certain items, we have a solid common understanding of what we're talking about. So, thank you, Madam Chair. >> Thank you. So, I'm going to turn it back over to Dr. Dicki and Miss McKinn. >> Thank you, Chair Miller, Vice Chair Hutcherson, Superintendent
040Elder, our in-person and online viewing audience. I am Christina Dicki, assistant superintendent of school performance and accountability and I have with me Leah McKay, our director of exceptional student education. As Dr. Elder mentioned, our presentation tonight is to provide a broad overview which addresses school board of trustees goal one. So, I'll start by providing a definition of exceptional student education um often referred to as ESSE and probably more commonly known as special education. And it just provides specially individualized um programming, education, instruction, and related services to make sure that our students who have disabilities or varying needs get the support. And this um these needs range from very mild disabilities to more severe disabilities. And all of this falls under our IDA, individuals um with disabilities education act. So if you hear ESSE, that's what
041we're talking about. So I'll start by just providing an overview of how our ESSE department is structured. You'll see at the very top of this organizational chart, it's led with three major positions, starting with the executive director of ESC, which is currently vacant. As I mentioned before, we have Miss McKay, who serves as our director, and we hope to soon be welcoming a compliance specialist. This leadership supports our school-based coaches and as you can see we have several coaches who are assigned to support schools from instructional delivery compliance, IEP, um writing, uh they are assigned to our various schools and we also have a compliance facilitator whose main role is to make sure that we are remaining in compliance with our IEPs and federal guidelines and also to make sure that we are implementing and
042using programs that truly support the individual needs of all students. We have a dynamic office support staff that also supports that work from bookkeeping to child find to IT and technology um support. So, this is just a broad overview of our ESC department. Next, I want to just call your attention to the students and staff um that currently support our ESSE students. So you'll notice at the very top um a child fine number and I want to clarify that that particular number includes any student that we are providing exceptional um student services to. So that may range from students who are actually in our buildings to students who are in daycare settings, private settings because by law we are required to provide those services from age from birth to 21. In our district, we're currently
043um serving students um from 3K to 21. You'll notice at the bottom that our district serves as a local authorizer for New Hope um as well as the Palmetto School. So, the 2757 does include the students who um have IEPs at our Palmetto School, but those numbers do not include our New Hope students, but we do have seven. And on the right you see the various um staffing roles ranging from resource teachers who either pull students out for small groupoup instructions or push in um to our self-contained teachers um our speech therapists. We have students who receive occupational therapy, physical therapy, our school psychologists support us with doing the necessary testing to determine if our students um qualify for special education or ESC services. and of course our pair of professionals. Those are our instructional
044assistants who really support us heavily with providing those specialized needs. This particular slide highlights our current enrollment and you'll see that same number that was on the previous slide. So ideally we um would love for our percentage of ESSE students to range around that 10 to 12%. So what you see here is if we include every single student that we are currently serving the percentage compared to our um general enrollment or students not receiving um special education services is about 17 and a half%. The next bullet encompasses students that are actually in our buildings, meaning they are currently enrolled in um in power school within our Rock Hill school system. And that percentage is about a little over 16% when we compare it to our non-ES students. Um the most current state percentage of ESSE
045versus none students is 14.21%. Our state doesn't release that um data every year, but the most recent data that are available um is 14.21%. So, as you can see, we're trending slightly above that, but working to address address that through strong tier one instruction. We know that the stronger our tier one instruction um is, the better we can support all of our students. I want to highlight the fact too that people often assume that ESC is a is a designation. you go there to to be there forever. And that is really not what it's designed to do. It's designed to get students the support they need in hopes that they will be able to transition out of needing those specialized services. We have many ESSE programs within our district again ranging from preschool um through
046age through adulthood through age 21. And um at the top you'll see that we serve students um to provide that early intervention support because that is also very key in making sure that our students they need to transition into ESC they're also able to transition out. We have a learning connections classroom. That classroom is specifically designed to support our students with autism spectrum disorder. And then we have resource services that provides that indivi individualized academic support that could be both in a pushin or a pullout model. We have building bridges classes because some of our students have behavior needs that um differ from what they may need academically. So those classes are designed to provide um that behavior support. And our middle and high schools, we have that academic seminar support. You heard Miss Johnson
047um kind of speak to that classroom. And then we have three um levels of support in our unique pathways. So unique pathways one would be that mo multicategorical class where you're looking at a mile. UP2 would be moderate. UP3 would be our more our students with our more severe disabilities. There are many ESC initiatives that our um teams schools um participate in. You might remember Miss McKay presented earlier on the South Carolina Pathways Project that we will be partnering with the state. Our team does a great job of organizing a community resource fair to make sure parents and community members realize that there are lots of support both internally within our district as well as wraparound support within our community. We have job coaches um for our high school students. We have active and consistent
048participation in the Special Olympics. We have um schools that are certified unified champion schools. And I um am really excited that we're one of maybe only um districts that has a district sensory prom where our high school students with um special needs has a prom that um and that program has just evolved over the year. Um kudos to Rock Hill High. They're going to expand it um even further to occur on the same night as um prom. So, we're excited about some of those initiatives. And then we have partnerships that also expand outside of the district. Definitely want to highlight our partnerships with um Windsor Life where they work with our students because we are preparing them for success in our schools, but also in life and beyond. So, making sure that they have the
049skills that they need to be successful. We partner with um Vote Rehab, Able SC, and several um partnerships that support um technical assistant programs again all across the state. So this as Dr. Elder mentioned is just a very broad overview of some of the services that we provide here in Rock Hill Schools and some of the partners um some of our external partners. So I'll pause for any questions that you may have. I don't believe there are any. >> All right. Thank you for your time. >> So, next up, I'm going to welcome up Mr. Darren Wilson, who is going to give you or give us a uh overview of the transportation program. Welcome. >> Thank you. Thank you. First of all, I'd like to uh welcome. No need to ever apologize about going to
050be with your family. It's where you need to be. Um, good evening, Madame Chair Miller, Madame Chair Hudson, Vice Chair Hudson, and members of the board. Uh, tonight we would like to give a brief overview of transportation department and how that the uh, operations portion falls under the goal uh, number two. Um, before I start too long in I think uh, do I see? Yep. Dr. Mr. Gil, our director of transportation and Mr. Owens, our assistant director of transportation are here. I'd like to take the opportunity first to thank them publicly for what they do every day. You'll see as I go through the presentation, the uh extensive amount of work that they oversee and and take care of to make sure our children get to and from school safely each day. Um, as we
051start to talk about the trans uh transportation department, one of the first things that I want to make note of is we have a extremely large department when comparatively speaking to other districts around the area. uh both geographically that we serve and also through the programs that we try to uh provide and support. As you look at uh transportation as a whole, we do have about 110 of uh buses within our fleet. 96 of those buses are stateowned. We do have some other buses that belong to the district and we'll talk about those in a second. Um state drivers, we have 110 actually on staff at this point in time. Uh we run about 713 routes per day which if if you don't know too much about it it is extensive. That is that is
052a very high number. Uh we also cover about 11,300 miles per day. Uh during that process we do have as I mentioned we do have some some buses that are district owned and maintained. We have 11 that are actually uh put in place for school of choice or to support school of choice. But we also have three others that we refer to as hazard buses. Um that that's an odd term, I know. Um but if you're thinking in terms of a lot of students or some students live too close to a school to actually qualify for transportation. However, when the district looks at where they live, there may be some type of hazard between there and the school that they do not want those students walking through. Maybe it's a four-lane highway or something like
053that. So then we use those three buses to provide transportation for that. We do have 11 of the school of choice bus drivers. One thing that I do want to note on that, that number was actually pulled from the state allotted drivers. So that would be an addition if we were uh getting the full aotment. You would have 11 additional drivers to that state uh that total number of 110 straight state drivers. Those were moved over to provide transportation for school of choice. They were not replaced. Okay. So, I mentioned that because it does that does provide a little bit of extra strain on the transportation department as they go through and try to to uh designate routes, work extra hours, that sort of thing. We can replace those, but it does come at a
054cost. So, we have not replaced them at this point. Okay. Uh we run about 44 shuttle routes for uh excuse me, not shuttle routes, but uh school of choice routes and then we run 18 shuttle routes between facilities within the district during the day. We also have 29 activity buses. Those activity buses run somewhere about uh that up or down depending on how the year goes in athletics and and different requests and the number may go up or down, but about 2,700 actual trips each year. There's about 13 different types of programs that we try to support within the district uh through transportation. If you're looking up here, you'll notice that our 4K programs do have shuttles that run each day to ATC and CDC. Um, we also provide transportation to all three of our
055alternative programs. We have students that have abbreviated uh school days, for example. Uh, some people with IEP or some students with IEPs or other circumstances that have an abbreviated day, we do run transportation for them, special transportation. You have McKenna Vento that comes into play from time to time. Currently, we have one student that is outside of the district that we provide transportation for. You have school of choice that I've already mentioned. You have community- based instruction um that is for some of our special uh education students going to and from businesses around town. You have day treatment um shuttles that run just to make sure that our students social emotional needs are met. Um you have students that excuse me, you have shuttles that go each day from ATC to high schools. three from
056each high school three times a day. So then you have Winthre uh immersion language immersion program that we support that we run shuttles to and from there as well. And then lastly, we do try to provide as much transportation as we can to summer programs that we offer each summer. Okay, if you're looking up at the numbers of students that we impact with transportation, it is uh very significant. you're looking at almost half of our student population that requires or requests some type of transportation. Um approaching 8,000 total. You have uh about 3,100 elementary stu school students, about 2,300 middle school students, and then about 2500 uh high school students that take advantage of our transportation each day. the fleet. Uh we have we have seen some improvements in our fleet over the last couple
057of years. In 2024, you'll notice there that we did receive 41 actual new buses. 35 of those are propane. So hopefully that has had an impact on our fuel consumption. Um six of those are uh the regular standard diesel uh buses. Um it has brought that that age down. If you notice, we're in pretty good shape there. We our average uh life of the school bus or average age of the school buses right now is about 15 years. Um some of our um district-owned buses are getting a little bit up in age. If you notice we do have five of the 11 of the school choice that are above 20 years of age um and 12 of the 29 activity buses that are also above the age of 20 years old. Uh the reason I
058that I put that out there is we will be facing in the coming years of replacing a few of those. The last one that we we replaced was in 2023 and that was roughly about $167,000. So they are not cheap. Uh so I did want you to kind of see that and note where the age of those uh those buses were. Okay. One of the um the last things that I want to mention as we we finish up um again I want to publicly thank Mr. Gil and Mr. Owens for what they do. Um the transportation office is a um it is it is something to be seen if you've never been there. I've can actually say this because I've gotten up at 4:30 and gone to actually see it and witness it. Uh so
059I knew exactly what was going on. But we have staff members that start to roll in about 4:45. Um we have buses start to roll out a little after 5:00 a.m. and the last bus doesn't roll back in until almost 6:00 in the evening. So, it's a 13-hour day every day that those guys are are are working. So, it is no uh minimal task that they perform. So, I want to make sure that they uh know how much we appreciate what they do um and all they provide for the district. As you can see that the uh the amount of programs that they try to support is numerous. Okay. And with that, I'll finish up and answer any questions you may have. >> Any questions? No, >> I don't have questions, a comment. Uh, I
060just wanted to say thank you to Mr. Owens. Thank you, Mr. Gail. Thank you for what you did during the ice and snowstorms. Uh, you were out in the district looking at the roads, Mr. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you all for what you did going out and making sure that we were making right decisions and Dr. Elder was definitely on top of that. But just thank you for your sacrifice and ensuring that we had the proper preparation for our students to ride the buses to get to school to and from safely. So, thank you for that. definitely do appreciate that. Um I believe you Dr. Belton. >> I do just one quick question. I I don't think that most of us knew that on the days that other staff members were
061able to stay safely at home, your transportation people had to get out and assess roads and things. So I echo that. Thank you um to your director and assistant director and you. But this is a question in the grand scheme of buses. By the way, it is a pretty impressive operation over there. And so if anyone has not seen it, I would highly encourage you to see it. It's pretty impressive, sophisticated, high-tech operation over there. And the fact that you can see where every bus is and the GPS is on. It's it's a pretty sophisticated, impressive operation. Just one question. We run a shuttle from Northwestern High School to ATC. >> I'm going to defer. No. >> Okay. Because I saw three. Okay. >> This quote. >> All right. Thank All right. Thank you. All
062right. Any other questions? Well, if not, uh, then Oh, you had a question. >> I actually had a comment about the previous one. I can I can I go back? I just wanted to thank Dr. Dicki and Miss McCay for your presentation. I was actually I was slow on the draw today, so I do apologize, but just looking at the numbers of all of the students that we service inside and outside of the district, it's a very like advanced operation. So just thank you for the work that you are doing to ensure that we have a robust amount of services for our ESC students, our most vulnerable students. So thank you for that. I just wanted to say that. Apologize. I was slow for the draw chairman. >> Miss McCay, she's holding the fort down.
063>> Thank you, Miss McCay for holding it down >> and her team. So thank you. >> Thank you for that. Just want to say thank you. >> Well, perfect. Then we say thank you to uh you, Mr. Winsler. >> Thank you. And uh last but certainly not least, we are going to get a uh presentation from Dr. Marty Connor uh regarding athletics program over you. >> Good evening to Chair Miller, Superintendent Elder. We're here to present tonight the uh athletic updates. First of all, I want to uh thank uh Jimmy Duncan, our athlete director, who's here uh this evening, and also Miss Smalls, who runs a very large operation with the twoman team. With my support, he's been doing a lot of detail work. So, I want to thank him publicly for all his hard
064work and dedication to our athletic program. Uh we want to start tonight by sharing our update, but of course, first of all, we want to be sure that we're aligning uh what we're doing to our goals of the board of trustees and also to the superintendent goals. Uh the first goal here is to go four that was approved a few weeks ago to uh elevate Rock Hill Schools be proud first choice for students, families, and employees. And of course, objective three that aligns to that as well is to promote a well-rounded um education through extracurricular and co-curricular uh programs and activities. We have five goals that we have operated by since July. uh Jimmy and I met uh back in July and wanted to be sure that we have some clear action that we were
065taking on how we were operating as athlet department. So we have five goals we'll share with you and we meet uh once a month as a team to kind of go through where we are with those goals. Uh the first goal is to ensure compliance, safety, and program uh integrity. Uh what that means is how we operate with school safety. Uh there's a large operation to ensure that we're in compliance of all the requirements of the high school league, the National Federation of High School Policies. Uh we are proud to say right now that we had have had zero compliance or safety violations. You're talking about a very large operation where you're having uh kids coming out to practice every day and having to monitor uh their grades and submitting information to the high school
066league. We had zero compliance violations so far this year. So we're proud to say that we are uh very well in compliance and staying safe. Goal number two is to strengthen the athletic uh leadership and accountability. Uh what we've endeavored to do this year is to make sure that all of our ads were uh certified uh through uh an organization uh that's called the National Intercolastic Athletic Administration Association. And that's the pre-minent organization that really uh gives you indication how you're to operate as district uh or state ads. So we have four right now of our 10 who've already received that certification by the end of June. We will have 100% in compliance uh this particular goal here by the end of the school year. Goal number three uh is one that we wanted to
067make sure not only that we're doing things that are on the football field or basketball courts and the track, but ensuring that we are aligning what we're doing as a district to what we know is important is surrounding uh performance students in the classroom. And so uh goal three uh entails that I'll share you with more details later but right now I'll give you one just quick data point. We've been tracking the last two years where we're aligning uh our graduation rates of our student athletes. So we're proud to say that right now we have 100% uh student athletes to that uh they're graduating on time. So that's one the notion that we'll share a little bit later on. Goal number four is to ensure that we're aligning equitable access to uh our student athletes.
068We did some research to determine where we were providing access to certain demographics and we saw that we were not uh really out of compliance. We wanted to increase our access to uh some of our female students. So we added to um our suite of of athletic programs this year uh middle school flag football and al also high school flag football as well. Goal number five is to increase our revenue uh through corporate sponsorships. Uh I don't want to know all those but certainly uh what Mr. Duncan does is goes out and solicit for additional uh funding through corporate partnerships. We have very large uh partnerships with our community uh agencies and also those that do things across the state and also nationally as well. So we are well on our way right now at
069about 8% uh increasing our revenues. What that does for us is to support uh and under a lot of our additional uh general funds for athletics. you're talking about uniforms, backpacks, um sometimes even meals that helps us to operate our general budget in athletics. I want to share now give an overview just uh the structures of the athletic department. Uh for the high school you see here, uh we have that's for grades 9 through 10 and for middle school it's grades uh seven and eight. We do not offer for the most part uh any athletics for students in grade six. You're talking about a very small uh grade band for middle school, but for high schools grades 9 uh through uh uh 12. We have 103 total teams in high school. Uh over 1,600 student
070athletes in high school, 226 coaches, and very proud to say about 34 almost 36 35% of our student athletes um participate uh in sports. So you're talking about about a third of our student population in high school, which is a very large number. Uh that's trending somewhere between 10 and 15% beyond the average numbers across the state. Uh for middle school, uh we have 62 total teams. Uh a little bit over a thousand student athletes, 83 coaches, uh and right now a little bit less than a third for middle school. Again, that one grade band, sixth grade does not participate. We're still talking about a very high number at almost 30% of student athletes part uh students participate in athletics at the middle school level as well. We're very proud to say um you know
071athletes very often are deemed those persons who are doing a lot on the field uh but we have taken a lot of time to focus on uh some intentionality around making sure that they are uh doing their work in the classroom and perform at a very high level. I do want to share just some brief data u Mr. Duncan along with the ads and also the principles are meeting uh doing great gradebook checks and audits. Uh they have study halls all the things that encompasses uh being a great student athlete. We do that uh in a very uh a very intentional way. Uh on the student academic side we have 548 student athletes are in middle school or on the honor ro the high school is over 1300 student athletes are on the honor roll.
072Uh and the average for this fall uh about 3.6 six uh is a grade point average for some for our student athletes. There are some other teams that they're somewhat in competition. If we identify those uh you'll see a little bit higher numbers, but that's our overall average GPA for our student athletes for the fall this semester at high school. One big part I think of being a student athlete is you want to make sure that you are giving them opportunities beyond uh high school. And so we have been very intentional to create some programs around informing student athletes of college access what it takes to go through the clearing house process, recruitment process. Uh as you know, if you are like myself, I have three sons at home or involved in athletics, it's a
073very different ballgame now than what it was years ago. So, making sure parents are informed uh and have the right education about what they should be doing to put your child in the right position to be not only uh a good student but potentially student that can be a college athlete. So, we have a few um endeavors. Uh one in bullet number two here, a lot of our programs take kids on college visits. Um there's some in the summertime um one particular program they went on a five uh college tour uh to several schools in the Midwest was exposing kids to opportunity beyond South Carolina. So we've taken a lot of um opportunities to put resources where we want to share that we're providing exposure for those student athletes as well. We have on March
074the 19th in the first bullet uh inviting parents out to NCAA uh eligibility and recruitment night. Again, making sure parents are educated and aware of what the recruiting process is like and what you should be doing preparing for um beyond high school. The bullets here at the very bottom, uh right now we have 134 student athletes that are being actively recruited. And what that means, they have engaged with some uh university college coach or another in some endeavor to recruit them. and they may not have an offer, but there certainly been having conversation about opportunities to go uh from high school to potentially play at the college level. Uh we've also uh if you look at what we have in that who's been offered scholarships, uh it could be one student having five offers or
075one student having one offer, but right now over 36 uh million dollars uh been offered in scholarships for our student athletes. That's a a very large number. Uh we had a few schools uh today that were had uh signing day uh and right now uh from August through today we have 53 student athletes who have signed uh college scholarships at this point in time. That is a huge accomplishment for a lot of our student athletes who endeavor to play uh beyond high school. Want to share a couple highlights. Now, of course, uh for those coaches and those parents and student athletes who you play the game to win and this kind of showcases, uh some of their accomplishments, championships, and recognition awards they receive. Um as of the this presentation was done last Thursday, uh
076we had one team that was bidding for the state championship. It has four state championships. We probably say we have five now as of Saturday. So, this is a ongoing uh championship that we are show showcasing here. We have five state championships, seven region championships, 31 teams have qualified for state playoffs, nine conference championships for the middle school sports, uh some larger awards and recognitions, 105 all region selections, uh 23 all state selection, that is a huge number, uh six region coach of the year, uh two state coaches of the year, and we have uh two of our athletes, one in particular has received uh the South Carolina Gatorade player of the year award. that's the best uh football player of the state for the most part and also the Mr. Football award and also
077we've gone even across to to uh the Carolina and receive some awards there at the Charlotte Touchdown Club. So, you know, all the things that we do as you guys know we were um at the Panthers um uh keep pounding class back in back in August. So, a lot of recognitions of what our programs are being rewarded and recognized for and here's to showcase what we've been doing thus far for this for this semester this year. We also um as I mentioned earlier uh the academics is one piece uh athletics is what students are playing for. So, we want to make sure we're developing the young men and women that are playing every day by uh providing different leadership opportunities. So, I want to highlight a few things uh with that. We also uh ensure
078that we have opportunities and sometime mandates for community service events. Uh so high school students, we have about 149 students involved in leadership development. Uh what that is things like character development, uh fellowship of Christian athletes and our academic achievement leadership program. So they're engaged beyond the norm of just playing uh on the field and on the courts. There's also 136 middle school students also involved in those same endeavors as well. Uh we also often you will see uh our student athletes are required as teams to do things in our community. A few to note of course we've had some teams go over to help with back to pack. Uh some have gone into some of our elementary classroom to read to some of our second third grade students. And also uh we've had some
079neighborhood cleanups. So again, you know, just making sure that we have a very well-rounded student athlete uh that we have uh in Rock Hill. That concludes uh our presentation for the most part. Um, as a former student athlete myself, I will say that uh this is a lot uh that goes on to make making sure that we're not only having high quality athletes, but also high quality student athletes. And so you talk about the student part by evidence of some intentional work that's been done. The 3.6 GPA does not happen because you just magically appear. It is work being done at the coaches level at the principal level to ensure that we are developing our student athletes even beyond that 100% graduation rate for the last two years. Uh that is a lot of behind
080that and for the coaches uh to expose uh the students beyond where they are to give them opportunities for scholarships and what Mr. Duncan has done to uh raise some additional funds to support us beyond the norm is just phenomenal. So I want to thank him again his team. I think the uh the principles at all our schools and middle schools and the high schools and also uh those coaches who are in the trenches I myself coached for about a year and I quit because it was too much. So I can commend those coaches for the work that they do. It's a lot. So thank them as well for the work that they do. Be glad to answer any question you have at this time. >> Miss Dr. Connor, how are we coming with middle
081school soccer? Is it progressing at all? um progressing in in what >> do we have any teams yet? >> Jimmy, you want to share? >> Thank you. Um Mr. Duncan, go ahead. >> I apologize. Yeah, I'm Jimmy Duncan. I'm the district athletic director. Uh Mr. Burns to ask to answer your question. Um we do offer it up at the high school, but having something in the building, we are trying that as more of an inter mural for um at at Sullivan Middle School right now. Try to increase uh opportunities uh and availability for those students. That is something that we are trying to push for going into next year. >> It's just to to me soccer is there's take football for example, you it's 100% male. It's um it's when you when you move over
082to soccer, you have every ethnicity, every gender. It's just it's so many more athletes that play soccer than they do football, but yet we don't have soccer in middle school. >> So So I think I think one thing is important though. I think you're I mean your your question is aligned to really I guess one part is equity in regards to what we offer, but also uh what we've been working towards is seeing what the opportunity is for that. Right. So, as we move forward to present even different budget items for that, you know, middle school sports where we have we're in compliance with Title N, we'll certainly be looking to what the opportunities may be down the road, but right now, no, we don't offer it as a the middle school sport. >> Anyone
083else? Just just a positive comment and just want to commend you all for all the road bus offerings that you do have. I think the the flag football has been exciting to kind of see evolve especially at like the middle school and just seeing those girls up at uh the Panther Stadium. That was really cool. But this is also just a testament our athletes the number of students that we have in the honor roll that's a testament to the coaches and principles and the teachers and that that's really something we should definitely highlight in this district that our student athletes they only they not only work hard on the field but they work hard in the classroom. So just thank you to all you all for the leadership that you do to ensure that our
084student athletes are also academically grounded as well. >> Thank you. I believe that concludes the questions. >> Yes. Yes. >> Oh no, never mind. >> I was just going to say thank you. Um it just seems we we are seeing tremendous growth throughout the district and I'm looking forward to to more growth in the future. >> Absolutely. Okay, sounds good. Um, then we're going to move on to the report of the superintendent and I'm going to turn it over to you, Dr. Thank you, Madam Chair, members of the board. Um, just a few announcements starting with we are already preparing for the 2627 school year. New student registration is now open. Um, encourage your friends, your neighbors, anybody who buys one of those houses that had a sold sign on it to get up, get
085themselves registered for next school year. We want to be prepared for a great first day of school and know exactly who's going to show up. Our returning student registration will begin March 1st. We want to be fully ready for kids. Can't wait to support them in the new school year. The program options lottery will open on February 23. Um applicants can visit our website for details. That's coming up very quickly. Um next week also coming up very quickly is the inter session. Um there will be no school for students for or for teachers. Child care options are available. They are on the district website and were also emailed to families. instructional days remain unchanged as intercession is built into the calendar through adjusted summer vacation. Um parents, we know that your kids have been home
086a lot with the weather lately. Um but we stick with the regular school calendar. Um during the February inter session, we will have makeup school available for high school students who need to get those hours in. um Tuesday, Wednesday and th Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday fe from 8 to 11:00 and 12 to 3. They can come to those different sessions for makeup school. All sess all sessions will be at Northwestern High School. Whether you're a student at Rockhill High School or Northwestern or South Point, all the makeup school will be at Northwestern. We have rescheduled our um hiring fair a couple of times due to weather. Um we are now holding it on February 25th at Cherry Park and Sullivan Middle School. They are right conveniently located right next to each other. Um unfortunately we
087did have to cancel our first first few dates due to weather. So we appreciate everyone's understanding. And those are my announcements. Thank you very much. >> And Dr. Elder, do we have a time for that hiring figure? >> 4:30 to 6:30. >> Thank you ma'am. And it's actually February 26th, not the 25th. >> February 26th. >> Thursday. No, it's a Thursday. >> Thank you. >> Well, with that, we say thank you, Dr. Thank you. >> Next up is other and future business. Um, I don't believe we have anything. So with that um we do have an executive session uh which is uh for the purpose of discussing uh contractual matters. Uh so at this point I will uh entertain a motion to enjoy the open session and enter the executive session for that reason. >>
088So thank you Daniel. Uh do I have a second? >> Second. >> I believe Miss Hutchinson. Uh any discussion hearing? None. All those in favor? All measure carries This is here. Good evening and welcome back to the uh business meeting of the Rockville School Board. We have been meeting in executive session for the purpose of discussion of contractual matters. At this point uh I will a motion to adjourn the executive session and reconvene the open session. >> So moved. >> Thank you, Miss Daniel. Do I have a second? >> Second. >> Uh thank you, Mr. Burns. Uh any discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor? >> All opposed. Motion carries. 5. Uh I believe there are no motions. Actually, we don't even have action on here. So with that, I will entertain a motion to
089move. >> Thank you, Mr. Burns. Any second? Second. >> Thank you, Mr. Nosal. Um any discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor? All opposed? The motion carries. 5-0 is