001Oh yeah. Good evening and uh welcome to the April 29th business meeting of the Rock Hill School District. Local news media outlets were notified in writing of the agenda for this meeting on 4:24 at 3:05 p.m. If you will please uh join me for the pledge of allegiance followed by a moment of I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Please be seated. So, first off, we have approval of the agenda. Do I have a motion to approve the agenda? Madam Chair, before a motion is made, um Rocky High School tonight has its award ceremony obviously and we have a board meeting. We have some probably pretty important matters that are going to come
002out of executive session. Um, I'm going to ask that we move item number two, um, 2A, uh, specifically that we move it later in the agenda to give me an opportunity to leave executive session, go to Rocky High School, and come back so I can be here for the vote. So, you're asking for item 2 A to be, I'm assuming, moved. I'm sorry, it's action. It's item three, not 2 A. It's item three. The actual vote. The actual vote. Okay. So, you want the actionable vote moved um when it it it doesn't matter to me just later in the agenda. Um it it doesn't matter to me. Um preferably at the end before we go to executive session to deal with the superintendent um search. So maybe after what would be number 11 now report
003after the report of the superintendent. Uh Okay. So, you are requesting that the action item is moved to item to become the new item 12 in other words. Is that correct? Yes. Yes. Thanks. Um I'm assuming that you are making a motion to the agenda. Explaining why. So, I am making a motion that we amend the agenda to move what is now um item three and make it the new item number 12. Okay. Um, that is the motion made by Dr. Belton. Do I have a second? Second. Thank you, Miss Hutchinson. Any discussion on this? Hearing none. All those in favor? All opposed? Motion carries. 70. Thank you. Um, so next up, uh, we do have an executive session. Um and uh at this point I will entertain a motion to adjourn the open session
004and enter the executive session for that matter. I'm sorry. Sorry. I just I just had something really quick before Sure. you make that. Just a point of order. Um it's in regards to to to what was going on at Rockco High. I I got a call from a community member who was very upset about what was going on at Rockco High. um both with the the leadership and with athletics and told me that was asking me how could members of the board discuss and make decisions based on with what's going on in Rockville High if they were not transparent with the community in regards to their ethics filings. And I don't know if everyone on the board is in compliance with the South Carolina Ethics Commission or not, but that was an issue that was
005raised to me and I think it's an understandable one that if we're going to be discussing administrators at all of our schools and the superintendent that we do need to be transparent about our ethical our ethic files. So, okay, is everybody in compliance? Mr. Loza, I mean, what's the particular issue? And isn't that an issue for the ethics commission? I mean, that's a process and someone is I don't know if a complaint's been filed or not, but if we are going to be discussing contracts and talking about a superintendent, the community needs to know that who is funding our campaigns. Yeah, I think that's way beyond the purview of the board if there's an issue. And I mean, I don't know who they're referring to because, you know, fortunately, some of us didn't necessarily have
006to get funding from others, but I yeah, I think that's way beyond the perview of the board. And if a community member has an issue, then we file a complaint with the ethics commission. That's the proper process. Okay. So, any other comments there? If not, um, at this point, I will entertain a motion to adjourn the open. I have I have one comment. Uh we're sitting here talking about contracts. What if one of those contracts was someone that funded one of the board members? So that may be a conversation for legal in the executive session as we discuss those I I would say. Um so how about entertaining the motion to adjourn the open session and enter the executive session for following the matter which is personnel discussion and employment contract recommendations and legal advice
007regarding the same move second. Thank you Mr. Burns seconded by Mr. Nosal. Any discussion? Yes. Um Madame Chair, I'm I'm not sure what's going on here. Um can Mr. Burns or Mr. Noble. I mean, let's let's be transparent and put it out on table. Are there an allegation made against someone? Well, that if somebody has not filed their all the requ you know, we have to file a statement of economic interest. We have to file quarterly filings with the ethics commission. I file every quarter. I file a inactivity report. I mean, I assume that you you file every quarter. Yeah. I mean, it's like it's like being I I got to file my CL every year to be a lawyer, right? And when you know when people the ethics commission website exists so people can
008look us up to see who gave money to our campaigns. It's it's transparency. Yeah. If somebody if somebody's concerned about that and tells me that there's at least one member of the board that is not making the required ethics filings and we're going to be going in and talking about contracts and talking about a superintendent. I mean I think it's the community needs to know that who's funding these campaigns. I mean, I I don't I don't know if people that work for the district are funding. I haven't received any money from somebody that works for the for the school district that I know of. So, I didn't either that I know of either. So, I think it's for transparency purposes. It was an issue that was brought to my attention and I'm bringing it up
009here because I think it's important to be transparent. So, we do have a motion that has been made and seconded. And uh one more comment, but I think we just need to be clear because someone works for the district. I mean, obviously I have a conflict because my wife works for the district and I didn't vote for her contract and I filed a couple weeks ago how much money she makes and everyone can look on the website and see what she makes. And I guess that's the statement of economic interest and um I don't receive any other government money and I don't know if anyone else does here and that's none of my business. Um but I I'm guess I'm still trying to get the understanding of what does the board have to do with
010that. That's an ethics commission issue. Someone has an issue. There's a legal process that they can follow with the ethics commission. Secondly, is there a particular statute or law? Let's say that someone does Let me finish. Let's say that someone does work for the district and they gave a campaign contribution. Is that illegal? I don't. It's absolutely not illegal. Okay. So, what's the issue then? The issue is what if we're talking about one of their contracts and they gave money to a certain individual and that that person probably should recuse themselves in my my eyes if if we're talking about their contract and that board member is is voting on it. So again, I think that we do have our legal counsel here tonight and we have an executive session where we're talking about these
011contracts and I think that that may be time to get some guidance on this and then we can follow back up later possibly or just it was an issue that was brought to my attention and so in an effort to be transparent and when somebody asks me a question I you know I can't answer it I can just you know raise the issue so at least we're talking about in an open session and There's nothing nefarious going on. Yeah, that that's fair enough. I think that though when we have the public listening and looking and we are throwing out what appears to be a veil allegation against another board member that puts all of us cuz now I assume whomever is looking say well who are they talking about? What are they talking about? And
012I think it's only fair that maybe we have that conversation with that particular person. I just when we throw out veil allegations like that, it just makes us all look like we're doing something dishonest or someone is voting on something. I mean, I'm sure with 2,000 employees here in the school district, I'm sure we probably can dig through and probably teachers have developed that is a very wise gentleman once told me and I've said this before the the appear often times the appearance of worse than the actual improv. Absolutely. And so I'm just just being transparent. That's all. I'm not saying anybody did anything wrong. Let's just it's absolutely fine if somebody wanted to fund a a school board candidate and work for the school system. That is absolutely fine. I'm not saying it's illegal.
013So I think we need to stick to the original motion that has been made and seconded. And I think this concludes the discussion. Correct. All those in favor of going into the executive session. All opposed? Motion carries 70. And just for those who are maybe joining us now, uh we have moved the actionable item coming out of this exe executive session until later on in the agenda. It is now number 12. Thank you. Good evening and welcome back. Uh for those of you who were here at 5:'all, uh the board has been meeting in executive session for about an hour. And at this point, I will entertain a motion to adjourn uh the uh open or the executive session and reconvene the open session. Thank you, Miss Daniel. Do I have a second? Second. I
014thank you, Miss Harris. Um any discussion hearing none. All those in favor? All votes. Motion carries 6. Um, Madam Chair, before we move forward, um, could I just ask, I know we don't have Facebook live in front of us, but I have gotten several phone calls from constituents that sometimes the audio is not full, you know, fully um, to his volume. So, I just want to make sure that our people in our viewing audience are able to clearly hear us. So, I don't know if someone who's managing our Facebook page if someone any of our parents or constituents if they can just give a thumbs up or let us know if if we're audible. Thank you. I think that's a good reminder, but it's also a good reminder to our presenters tonight as well as
015board members because uh it does help if we really focus on talking to the microphone as well. Um earlier this evening we moved the uh number three which is action as required from the executive session to become the new number 12. So because of that we are going to go straight into our recognitions. And uh first up I believe that we have the Saluda Trail Middle School 8th grade basketball team. So, we're going to welcome them in. [Applause] Uh, good evening everyone. Uh my name is Chanty Dunham. I'm athletic director and one of the coaches at SL Trail Middle School. Um here with us you have our principal Dr. Marshall and then also head basketball coach Lamont Jennings. Um and I kind of almost want to start off by saying uh we kind of said
016this last year cuz last year probably a couple of months earlier than right now we stood with this group when they were seventh grade champions and we said they were going to be back. uh and this group uh they finished the race. So, it's kind of us with us being delayed right now and us celebrating a basketball championship uh is kind of part for the course and right where we need to be because we're right here finishing up and we always talk about student athletics and with these young men not only have they done a great job on the court and I mean seventh grade basketball players this year's eighth grade champions repeating and going undefeated they also get it done in the classroom which they know that's our standard. So, for us to be
017standing right before you all before we get ready to spring and just testing, uh, I I think this shows what these guys are. They're more than basketball players. They're student athletes. They uphold the standards of Slooh Trail Middle School. And we thank you all board members for you all having us back up again and celebrating our middle school because that is the foundation for our student athletes. We said and we talked earlier about us being able to say again as we watch one of our former Wildcats be drafted by the Seattle Seahawks this weekend. It's great to see some of those individuals continue to live out those lifelong dreams that we know start at the middle school. So we thank you for all for honoring their efforts and what they do. Again to our parents,
018we can't get it done without you all. So we thank you for getting these guys to every practice. We thank you for getting them and getting them picked up out of the games. We really appreciate you. And we always tell them that they got to know and understand that you are their greatest supporters. And y'all do it out of love. And we tell them the most important thing that we're going to tell them day in and day out is what guys, we love them. They're a little bit stage fright right now, but I promise they're a little shy right now. They're not like that on the court. So be looking to hear great things from these young men moving forward. We appreciate your time and we're not going to take them anymore. [Applause] If you
019guys want to take photos, too, you're welcome to come on two rows, guys. I can't see you. You can't see me. All right. Two. Three. And then let your folks take their pictures. Congratulations. [Applause] Next up is the Dutchman Creek Middle School National Junior Beta Club. Welcome. [Applause] Good evening. Good evening. Good evening. I bring you greetings from the best school in Rockville School District, the best school in York County, the best school in the state of South Carolina, the best school in the world, home of the Gator Dutchman Creek Middle School under the leadership of Mr. Clayton B. Molten. I am Shandra James, one of the school counselors at DCMS, and the co-advisor of the National Junior Beta Club. Um, in absence, Miss Alexis Rainey. She's our instructional coach, and she's also my co-sponsor.
020So, we thank you guys for giving us the opportunity to recognize these young scholars that I have with me tonight. Um, we are missing three of them just because they had other obligations, but they would love to have been here to give this recognition. So, we thank you for that opportunity. Um, these students had the chance to compete at for the um state convention in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina earlier in the semester. Um, and so I'm just so appreciative to get to work with them. I thank their parents for my last minute phone calls. Uh, you know, going the extra mile. Anytime I call on them, they're ready to step up to the challenge. So, I do appreciate them. Um, these students also have afforded themselves the opportunity to compete on the national level. So,
021they did compete against 75 to 100 different schools and they top place in the top five in their respective categories. So, we are very proud of them and their hard work. Um, and like I said, they will be competing in Orlando, Florida at the end of June for a national spot. So, we are very proud of them. So, thank you, Landon Tucker and Caitlyn. [Applause] All right. Three, two, one. [Applause] Next up is the Dutchman Creek Middle School. [Applause] Good evening. If I may, just for a moment, uh we have several groups that are going to be recognized tonight. I just wanted to say a few things and then I'll introduce uh Miss Galbast. Um how do you measure achievement of students in visual and performing arts? That's a question that you may already have
022a great answer for. Um but but you do this by evaluating their performance and so these students that are recognized tonight and these teachers take students to perform for adjudication and those are done by metric that has levels just like you have on SC ready. Um, all of these groups that we're recognizing tonight reached the level of superior, which would be the equivalent of exceeds expectations. Some of these groups reached an even higher level of performance with their students. So, I just wanted to kind of mention that to you to say that the arts are alive and well and thriving and per outperforming many of their their light counterparts around the state. So with that being said, I want to recognize Miss Katie Galvvis and the Belto Choir that received a superior rating at the
023con the South Carolina concert performance assessment. So please congratulate them and their and their [Applause] students. Thank you so much. I'm so excited to be here. I'm so glad that our parents are in attendance. I'm so proud of these students. This is my first year teaching at Dutchman Creek. And we were a little timid about going out and trying to go to this hard competition right away. But these students along with some others that couldn't be here tonight did their very best. They sang in Spanish and they sang in French and they did a phenomenal job. They're of excellent character, great grades, wonderful leadership skills, and of course, very talented musically. And I am so fortunate to be teaching at Dutchman Creek where Mr. Motton is so supportive along with the rest of the administration.
024And I'm very thankful for Kim Grant to be over all of the fine arts to help support and encourage all of us. So, thank you so much for allowing us to be here tonight. [Applause] Yes. Very nice to see. Good job. See if we can do it. [Music] Thank you guys. [Applause] Next up, we have the Castle Heights Middle School Concert. [Applause] So, I would like to congratulate the Castle Heights Concert Band under the direction of Jane Evans. They received a superior with distinction rating at the South Carolina concert performance assessment. What does that mean? It means that all of the judges gave them the highest score available in their performance. So, they were scored the highest score possible by all of the judges at that performance. So, congratulations [Applause] Thank you parents. Thank you
025board. Um and thank you others who are here supporting us. Um it is I love what I do. I am very fortunate to work in this district and to have a principal who is amazing and also Miss Grant who um helps lead us and get us in the right place and with your continued support we can continue doing these types of things and bringing forth superior performances. Um and I brought some of of our friends here from the band. We couldn't bring the whole band uh but we had some volunteers who wanted to come and and represent the band. So thank you again [Applause] Next up, we have the South Point High Symphony. [Applause] Welcome. So, next I would like to congratulate the South Point symphonic band under the dire of direction of James Turner.
026They also received a superior with distinction of the South Carolina band director directors association concert performance assessment. Congratulations. [Applause] Like to thank you, the board, the Dr. Jones superintendent, and uh everybody that supports us uh at South Point High School, uh Dr. Williams at South Point uh for supporting us. I also like to thank my colleagues uh Jonathan Rudd and Bill Keith who helped us in this tremendous achievement and without your support we couldn't do this and uh really appreciate all the students and hard work that they've done and uh this was a hard one this year because we were very young but um they rose to the occasion. I'm super proud of them. Probably the most proud uh spirit rating I've ever gotten. So appreciate that. Thank you. [Applause] [Music] So, last but certainly
027not least is the Rock Hill High School Theater Group. [Applause] So, I will say this is my last recognition for tonight, but strap in because next month we have a bunch more because many of um these groups are just now receiving their scores and so springtime is a busy time and I appreciate the board's um time and letting us recognize these students. So, we thank you so much for that. So, my final recognition tonight is the Rockill High School theater program under the direction of of Miss Stephanie Daniels received a superior rating at the Palmetto Dramatic Association of South Carolina Thesbsian Festival for their performance of Small Actors. I'd like to thank the board for recognizing um and also Dr. Jones and Mr. all for supporting us and I really want to say thank you
028so much for always supporting the arts in this district. That is super important to me and to these students. Um I also want to say one more thing. Eight of these students also uh receive superiors in their individual events. Would you guys step out if you got a superior in your individual events? Thank you. I miss her. jump in. [Applause] Next up is citizen participation. I don't think we have any. Followed by the consent action agenda. Uh there are two items on here. The first one is the minutes from the April 8th school board business meeting. And the second is personnel recommendations. And just as a reminder to board that list this is amended includes two additional names uh for what was originally presented in the packet. Do I have a motion to approve the
029consent action agenda as move? Thank you. Do I have a second? Thank you, M. Any discussion on that madam chair? Yes. Um, this was actually an email that was sent to all of us and I was reading it at five o'clock and I think a light of of what we are approving in this consent action agenda and some of the decisions that we have to make later today. It came from a parent that was impacted by what have been going on in Rockill High. And I don't think I ever talked to this parent outside of I don't think this parent ever directly contacted me, but it has been a very very difficult time in the lives of our our kids and our families that were impacted with what happened with the coach at Rock Hill
030High. And I just want to I want to read this because I I agree with this 100%. This this parent wrote to us all and said, "We need a district administration and board that remembers its purpose. The purpose is to support the schools in educating the students. Let's review every dollar spent and see how each dollar directly impacts student learning. The school district exists to educate the students in the community who show up. For the students who do not show up, let's be ready to educate them as well. And we have to keep that in mind. This district exists for our kids. It does not exist for the adults that we employ. Let's think about that and let's not be afraid to be bold and make changes and let's hope that what we're about to
031approve is last a long time in Rockill High and we don't ever have to go through another three to six months that we've gone through this year. So, thank Thank you, Mr. Any further discussion on this? Did you have something? Oh, sorry. I saw your hand go up. If not, uh, all those in favor, all opposed. Motion carries 6. And, um, to to sort of um, in relation to Mr. proposal's uh comment. There was a communication sent out uh by Laura Bri, our um communications professional um that the any announcements regarding um the Rockville High coaching position will be announced tomorrow at 9:00 a.m. 9:00 a.m. Perfect. Thank you. Good morning. since we have viewers to address that. Um, and that takes us now to the action agenda. We do have one item here tonight.
032It is the school renewal plan goals and strategic plan goals and that is Dr. Keith Wils. So, I'm going to welcome him on Good evening, Dr. Good evening. I somehow got ahead of myself, so I apologize. Think I hit the button as I was walking up. Um, I already said good evening to Chairman Miller, Dr. Jones, board members. Um this evening I come to present to you actually represent to you our school excuse me our school renewal plan goals and our district renewal plan goals. Uh these goals were initially uh presented uh last spring when we completed our strategic plan um for the new cycle of 2024 through 2029. Realizing that several of our board members were not a part of the board at that point, um I wanted to give a basic overview of
033just some of the information that uh we provided. And this is um a quick snapshot from the memo uh that was uh sent to you all. So if you have any additional questions uh but very quickly um the school renewal plan and the district uh renewal plan goals are part of the five-year plan. Um it is the basic for the school renewal plan goals that's the basic accountability measure uh what that they use to assess plan execute monitor and assess again uh those three goal areas of student achievement um school climate and teacher administrative quality. Uh the district uh renewal plans um are really just the accumulation um of all of those school goals um that align with the student achievement, the um climate and as well as the teacher administrative quality. And it is
034the basic accountability measure. It's what all districts have to have and it aligns with uh the goals that the state um holds us accountable for as far as student achievement is concerned uh climate and teacher um teacher administrative um quality. Uh these are those three areas and the areas because the district own um have oversight uh for those student achievement is academic center accountability um there's um the school climate is um support services and teacher administrative quality that is going to be um through resources and so at the elementary level you see that it's SC ready the high school I mean elementary and middle is SE ready testing high schools it is the algebra one. Uh you'll see in the English 2 ALC as well graduation rate and then all of the schools have a
035theme that they work with um from the student climate from the teacher climate and they all have two areas in the teacher administrative quality for recruitment and retention. Um giving just a quick overview of the report that was provided. I can't see it right here, so I'll click over to the individual parts. At the very top of each one, each of the reports is the um overall target goal for 2029. That's what all of our schools are reaching to achieve by 2029. Uh what we were faced with and did not realize until June of last year, the state department came back and told us that we had to account for our 2024 goals in our current plan. So the goals were um the plans were actually revised to accommodate uh those goals within this plan
036uh which was fine because we already had uh some of those linear um uh measures in the goals already. And so the schools worked on that in the fall to come up with the results uh that are found in black on each of those reports. Uh the information in green is actually the 2025 goals which were part of what the board approved last year and um that information is uh part of the linear progression uh from our baseline data of 2023 through 2029. And the goals that we're looking at uh for um the board to look at this evening are part of that linear progression from 2023 through 2029. and it's the 2026 goals. They were part of what was presented last year. Uh but all of that was um part of the documentation. Are
037there any questions or clarifications? What we're asking is again those that have already been presented for 2026 um for approval to move forward with um for this next cycle. There any questions? I've got a question. You kept referring to school climate and culture for the teachers and the students. What did I mean we this is my fourth year of going through these strategic plans and it seems like we're trending in the wrong direction. I'm looking at right now our EOC scores for Northwestern High School in particular are about it looks about 10% 10 to 15% below state average and trending in the and they're trending in the wrong way. Um so what exactly are you doing to change these climates and these cultures? The climate and the cultures the there are the state gave us
038two different theme areas that we could work on and we the other 51 questions. And so the schools chose a theme that they wanted to work on. So each of the schools had a choice of themes that they could work on over the next five years. And it wasn't just one. So the district chose the top three because there are um for the students there are two of them that impact their report cards. So the schools were encouraged to work on the theme areas that impacts their report cards and also can impact what goes on in the schools on a daily basis. So all they weren't told what they had to do but most of the schools worked on the social physical environment uh in the school. Um for students and for teachers most of
039them worked on not all of them but most of them worked on the teacher working conditions um because those are two different two different surveys. And so those are two areas that definitely would impact the culture of the school. Remembering we just set these goals last year. We really were supposed to be waiting on our results for this year to even start the plan, but we had to use last year's results that the schools were actually developing the um developing their goals while the students were taking the surveys. So, our true measure is going to be where our students uh completed the surveys this year. So you're the surveys are what what you're how how you're trying to correct the climate and culture. No, the surveys are the um the climate part of it that
040climate is how people feel about what's going on. And so the culture what the schools are doing is they're looking at the results and they have individual questions that they can look at. And most of our school, well I can say all of our schools this year looked at those individual questions and they set they set strategies to um make a group of questions better and so a lot of them have used um strategies around things that they're doing with um leader and me. Uh many of them have um can I just I mean I was going to cut the chase. I left work and came here. On my way from work to here, I passed by Sullivan Middle School and there were about 40 kids out in front of CC's Pizza. Five of them
041fighting. They left school, walk down there. That's what when I talk about culture and climate, that's what I'm talking about. I'm not talking about a survey. I'm talking about is it a place that we where the kids feel safe and secure, the teachers feel safe and secure. So, but you're talking about surveys. I'm talking about actual climate and culture. And I I don't know where we're going with this conversation now because that is the real culture of the schools. That is the real climate of the schools and that is where the teachers have to feel safety, security as well of our students because that's the kind of culture we want to have throughout our school system. And that's what keep parents want to put their kids into. And so that's where I'm going with this.
042And to serve anything, I I'll let someone else have a question. Well, hang on a second. I do believe Dr. has something that I do want to make a note that in the past you have requested uh data and information from the teacher surveys regarding administrators that teacher and and another items of school the teacher South Carolina teacher work working uh survey has completed and I think it's around the 28th we're going to get that data so we'll be providing that to the board. I have a question Dr. Wils um isn't the uh the school place. Isn't that injunction what school improvement councils do kind of help that is part of what school improvement councils work to once areas have been identified and so the the schools have those three areas and this is just
043and that's why I identified it as the baseline um that schools would do. So they have the baseline for their student achievement. They have the baseline for the the climate uh based on the climate survey because that's what the state provides to us um to gauge what the climate is in the schools. And so yes, many of the schools work with their school improvement councils to look at a specific area. It could be teacher administrative quality. When you think about retention, what can we do to make our our teachers feel uh better about retain uh staying in the schools and um many of those strategies are involving uh outside agencies and outside groups to come in and um provide incentives to pro provide things like that uh to the to the teachers. And so the
044strategies vary from school to school as far as what they want to focus on. Is there anything that I guess the district could do to help school improvement councils that may be struggling in trying to help some of those areas? We have a school improvement council meeting uh next Tuesday. We have um the state requires that we have one a year in the fall as a kickoff. Um for the last probably seven or eight years as a district, we've had one in the fall and one in the spring. And the one in the spring is really to um let the school let the school improvement councils know and we do it via Zoom. So people can actually join via Zoom or they can come face to face here and we look at uh some of
045the culminating activities things that highlights from the school over the this past year. We look at um actually this data right here is part of what we share with the school improvement councils because many of those parents move up the next year either at the same school or at another school. They have an idea of what they can be looking at and what kind of ideas and working with the school administration to see what they can do. So, I know the school council at my school's elected position when I I was elected to mine, but if there's a parent that wants to give feedback, is there any way that they could give feedback to help with this outside of actually having been elected position on the council? And when they when the state sends out
046the um teacher and the student survey, there's also a parent survey that goes out and um that was sent out in the middle of March and it was due um midappril uh if I'm not mistaken. My timeline may be a little off because it doesn't come through my division of my department. it it goes through um another division but those surveys are not at one time it was a paper survey the parents had to bring back to us now everything is done electronically parents have an option to go in and complete that and that is a great source of information as far as feedback from parents there's a window that the state gives us and once it's closed it's closed and it is closed for this year but there is another opportunity um and we
047encourage encourage parents in the schools send multiple um opportunities and um for parents to complete that survey. And we'll get all of that information in the early fall is when we usually get that information uh for parent surveys as well as for the the teacher and student surveys. And as a followup, all the SIC meetings, even if you are not elected to be on the SIC, those meetings should by law be open to all parents who want to come and sit in on this and hear the conversations just as a sidebar for the community. Yes. Oh, I'm sorry. I don't know. I was checking to make sure um I don't want to speak for Mr. Burns, but I think he and I may be wondering some of the same things. So these school renewal plans
048be our district renewal plan. Correct. So ultimately we're looked at as a district and held accountable for what goes on underneath and their success. Um and I understand that the surveys put out and it sounds like there were some overall things you said each school is a little bit different but were some of the themes the same? Well all of there there are a set of themes that were created from the survey questions for years. They just sent us the surveys and we had 51 questions for student surveys. There's a elementary middle school student survey. Then there's a high school survey. Then there actually 72 questions in in the teacher survey. And uh when we when I started this process for the new strategic plan, I went through and the state had already themed Yeah.
049And so I went through and themed the rest of them and allowed the schools to decide which one of those themes they wanted to work on because we gave them data, their average data to show where they had the most disagrees in certain areas. And so what the goal here is is to improve the disagrees, get more people to agree with the positive things that are going on. And so that's where we uh the schools have been they start literally in the summer working on what it is that they can do for this particular area and most of the schools chose two or three things that they're working on. It's not just one correct but we have to do at least one for the state department as and that's why I say it's the basic
050basic um part of the strategic plan but most of our schools chose more than one area to focus on and that leads me to a further question because you have your information all comes down to your action steps right so maybe I don't know if this is where Mr. Burns was going um I think maybe you mentioned earlier that it appeared for the students it was about the environment, social physical, correct? And then the teachers, it was the work work environment. That is where most of most of So that appears to be a district, not a district, but most of those two are the most. So then my question would be if we see this as a district, then what action setups are the individual schools taking? Can you identify some of those? And then
051what because it's a districtwide issue, support from the district I feel is important for each of the schools so that they're not isolated. So do you have actions that you have t not you but the district has taken to support our schools in those areas that we can report out to our families so that they know we're actually it's good to have information about what you do with it and move forward as the most important. Yes. So the the report here didn't have the action steps, but within their analysis, the schools talk about what it is that they did last year for that they feel impacted the results that they got. again they were doing the survey this survey when these goals were actually being set up. So what we're looking forward to is they
052were actually able to work on these things this year and the results from the survey that we get this year. To answer your question, yes, all of them have strategies, action steps for each of the areas, not just climate and culture, but for um teacher administrative quality, for academics, uh for student achievement. There are action steps for all of those. I did not put all of that front-facing because that it's a lot of information. Um, we could develop a report that would have all of that in it. Um, if if that is what the board is asking for. Um, we have all of it in a program where we can we can pull that extrapolate that information and get it to you. I just Sorry. Can I go ahead? Sorry. Um, I would like see
053it only for the fact of um I know sometimes when you're in the middle of it, you're in the thick of it. The steps that you come up with, someone else may have an idea, you know, for a step and that's I guess what I'm wondering is did the district offer steps or suggestions since we saw it was an overarching theme for our district. Were the strategies and support and things put in place that we're all moving in the same direction with the same steps, you know, to to see if it's a good does actually have an impact on the results for I get I understand the survey is what tells us if it worked or not. Um, but part of getting there is having your plan in place and and just isolating those steps,
054I guess, is and and the schools uh for each of their areas, all three of the areas, they have the district plan that they can look at that is that is live that um updates whenever we do an update at the district, it automatically updates in their spreadsheet. So, they have those for all of the areas. So as they were creating their goals, if they chose um one of the goals, we had a baseline that they could not go below a certain thing for academics. I I'll use that one for SC ready. Um the whatever the baseline was for the district, they could choose to go above that, but they couldn't go below that. And they they know what that was. We actually created that um information um year and a half two years ago
055in preparation for our new strategic plan. And so for the areas of um for the areas of the climate and culture, it depends on where their baseline is. So we know what it is as an average for the district, but you had some people who were above it, you had some people who were below. And so they they chose that and then they set up their action steps based on that information. Thank you, Dr. Wills. Um, and that was my question. My first question was, can you identify any action steps that the two schools that Mr. terms reference northwestern off the top of my head. No sir. I mean what we're talking about all 22 of the schools um actually um what I do remember is that Sullivan um they were they had to do
056one academic um goal as the baseline. one academic goal and then they had the teacher and administrator. Sullivan went above and beyond with all of theirs including subgroups. U theirs was uh one that um Dr. Presinski has worked on and that's simply because just going through all of the plans I know how extensive it was. That's information that I can't pull together. It will be a pretty hefty um lift to get the information pulled out. But again, if you all want I think I know that's what I want and I want results and I want to know that we're actually doing something to try to improve culture. Who who writes the survey? The state. This is a state survey uh for the teacher and the student surveys. Um we don't know from year to year
057until we get the results if they've even changed. The last two years um the surveys have changed. So we have a rubric set up to be able to pull together the student the school information. And it wasn't until we got the survey and found out that they had switched questions around, taking some questions out uh that we we had to work on getting it um arranged so that we could actually pull the data for the students. And that was that was we're able to do that. And so that's why we chose a theme. When I say a theme, we have a safety theme. There's a safety theme that the state made up. It's three questions for students and it's three questions for teachers. And um there were there were a couple schools who chose the
058safety, but our safety rating for teachers and for our students are in the high 80s to mid 90s as far as um the the um how they are positively saying how they feel about the safety. And those three questions are, do you feel safe on your way to and from school? Well, we don't know how students get to and from school. Some may walk. Some may ride a bus. Do you feel safe before and after school? It's very general. You don't know if they're talking about once they get home. The only one that we have definitively is, do you feel safe during the school day? And that question actually has a very good rating uh with all three of the surveys. that I can provide that day for you to last um for the 22
05923 and the 23 24 and by the fall we'll get that information to you as well. It's very difficult to compare survey year to year when you have a different set of teacher you different group of teachers taking the survey every year instead of students every year that's it's not the same class of people every year just like our testing and and so it's just I I think we just we do want action and I think that's a very good way to measure it is the our retention of our teachers and the retention of our our students because we know that if students don't feel safe in Harris. Thank you, Dr. Wills. Um I did have a couple of questions that you may have answered. You mentioned that the district chose the top three themes.
060So was one of the one social physical environment social physical environment. Second was teacher working conditions and what was that is actually two different surveys. Okay. So in the student survey um social physical environment safety and one second uh for the student surveys um student perception of safety, student perception of social physical environment and student perception of rules. behaviors and consequences. And that was for elementary, middle survey, and the high school survey. Uh for the teacher survey, um teacher perception of safety, teacher perception of um homeschool relations, and teacher perception of work conditions for the three um surveys. Thank you. Um three themes that we Thank you for that. Yeah, I'm in agreement. I think if we can take a deeper dive that would be beneficial for me as I serve in this position. So,
061thank you for your hard work and for pulling this um the plan together. I do have one more question as it relates to your um goals and objectives. Do you have checkpoints when you go in and just do you have like dates of deliverables or action items on your plan? Yes, we we actually went through that today with principles. We have a annual um created an annual progression. So there there's different data that comes in throughout the year and so we're not holding on to it to the end of the year. When the data comes in, we check the results. We do a analysis of the results. Um schools have been working with this since last summer. um when they got um they were looking at the previous year's data. Then when their last year's
062data came in in September or so, they were looking at all of that information again. And we have it now where we haven't had it before where both of the census survey data are side by side and once we get this next year's data, it'll be it will be right beside it. So they can literally do a comparison to see if there are improvements that are happening over one year to the next. all the way down to the specific questions. Um, one of the worst questions for the entire state is um, are your bathrooms kept clean? And that one across the state um, has a nearly 60% negative rate. Our district is just below that. Um but it is and all of the schools have been working on that whether they chose that area or
063not working on that because what they um the schools realize is in some of our older schools they talked with the students and they saw old as being dirty and they were saying well no it doesn't smell there's you know it's nothing wrong with it but it's just old. So they they associated old with dirty and some of the schools talked about that there's a difference between being not clean and so no so that we can make sure that we get it cleaned up for your part to make sure that the bathrooms are kept clean as well. That's been a campaign probably in just about every one of our schools uh over the last year and a half. Great. Yes, Dr. Jones. And if I could just add as the interim superintendent, you know, in
064the question about the SIC's, the school improvement council, those are critical parts if utilized effectively within how we address climate and culture, not only within our schools, but what is the call to action? We have data, but what is the investment and call to action for the climate and culture of the community that we serve? U I have to say that last week two board members and I attended a a little forum talking about access to weapons and violence that students can face. Uh and unfortunately that was two weeks ago and then last during spring break we lost the student um and in the community and speaking with the principal. I'm hearing such wonderful things about that student and I'm hearing what what a contributing member he was to the school but what happened in
065the climate and culture beyond our school or why is it that you would pass a school that I know Mr. B has a school that I know that implements a structure where they're synergizing with students and they're coming together and they're each developing with the leadership and yet but yet there's a fight happening outside across the street and how is it that our SIC's our administrators and all of us are looking at that climate and culture not just within the school but we're utilizing to say hey this is the expectation of climate culture within the community. some long good Oh, never mind. I just have one when you start talking about bathrooms. Um I think the big complaint I hear is about the the vaping in the bathrooms and and the inconsistent enforcement of vaping
066across the district in our middle school and high schools. I think this is actually a pretty good suggestion that I because we used to have smoking sections at the high schools before that you can go outside and smoke and a lot of parents were like if we're not going to enforce vaping you know anti- vaping why don't we just get a vaping section outside at least so the bathrooms are are clean and the kids aren't afraid to go in because of all the kids vaping. So, if we just let them vape outside, if we're not enforcing, let them vape outside. So, they're not supposed to have them. Um, so we can't set up a location for them to be able to vape. We should enforce it. Then it's illegal. You can't be letting them vape
067in the bathrooms. So, I believe that the I've got to ask this question. Um, our EOC I'm just going to go straight to Northwestern. the information you put out our ESC scores for algebra one there. U in 2024 they landed at about 30.6 The goal for algebra for 2025 is 45.93. I see you got even up going in 26 going to 50 basically 50.5. What are you doing to like inside the class in the learning environment? What are you doing to remove types of you know obstructions from student learning? What is I mean that's kind of what I want to hear because we've got these goals right here. We're we're falling so far short of them. So what are we doing to correct that in the learning environment in the classrooms and in the hallways
068in the actual schools? The schools have we have two goals that you're you're working with here. You have the academic goals which of course are being impacted by um the other issues that are going on. That's why I wanted to make sure that I pointed out one of our goals that we're looking at uh from our schools are the um rules, behaviors, and consequences. what are the students saying about how they how they are acting kind of policing themselves. So the school that's where the schools have set up their individual goals. We have district initiatives that we familiar need to differently. Can I just can I sorry interrupt but we've been talking about this for too long. I was going to go ahead and say your goals are going higher yet your results are going
069backwards. So so leader in me is obviously not working. Those are two different areas. When you you're talking about algebra goals, those are the student achievement goals and then we have the set of goals that are um that are this the um climate goals um that are over on the other side. Uh so have we been able to say that this goal is impacting that to a measure that it's bringing down the algebra um or the English to results. Now academics and accountability um Dr. Dicki has has made several presentations about what they're doing to work with teachers and part of that professional development is making that our environments are conducive for learning and that is setting expectations holding students accountable for those expectations. That's all a part of that part of our um framework
070uh for the structure. So that part of the framework actually works with the climate part of it as well. That's real quick on on on the learning environment in the classroom. You you know, you over the last probably year or so, but certainly over the past three or four months, there's been a lot of questions and comments and concerns brought up with this board regarding discipline enforcement in our schools that it is is an administrative role to a large extent. And I think what Mr. I'm not 100. But what you're saying is yes, we have fantastic goals that are measurable, but if we are not enforcing the framework that we have in our policy manual to hold both students and everyone in that building accountable that those things are being followed, we are never going
071to reach those goals. So when we when what I'm hearing sort of as as an undertone of today's discussion is what action steps are we doing to make sure that policies are enforced in the school district. And if we don't think that the policies that we have are aiding in reaching these goals, then we need to change the policies. Regardless, what are we doing actionable steps in order to make sure that our policies are being followed within our school buildings? So, the the administrators are on the front line, the school administrators, principles, assistant principles on the front line of ensuring that the uh school rules, district policies are followed and enforced. Um, if there's that is needed from either student services or from me uh in my position. Um we have been contacted and have
072followed through with um support uh to the schools. um action steps. We're providing the I say the general supports for uh the structures that the district has identified as um those strategies that we're working on. And I go back to all the way back to when we've worked with the virus and being able to give that information for students to identify areas of assistance that they may need because a lot of this goes back to those individual students who may have um u have struggles that they're working with what we what we have done as a district to support uh and the board has gone through with supporting our mental health. Um those are the strategies that that we're doing uh to help support uh the schools. Um and it I don't know of a
073time when we have been called on and ask for something in particular um that we have not made an effort to provide it. Um Dr. Will that was that was my exact question to you. Um if because being having children at Rocky Line, I have, you know, this is my neck of the woods. On a daily basis, I get phone calls about constant vaping in the bathrooms. Kids can't go to the bathrooms because they're scared of being accosted because there's a fight club happening in the bathrooms and it's videoed. Um, so my question to you is, has anyone from Rock Hill High asked for support services to help monitor the bathrooms? Help monitor as in physically come out and help monitor. What what I'm hearing from some of the staff is that yes, we know
074it's happening, but what can we do? We're in our classrooms. there's not enough support staff to go in and monitor these kids and make sure that vaping is not happening. Like you to your point, Pete, if we know what's happening, parents know what's happening. Kids come home and tell us and it's illegal and it's Yeah. And then there's fight clubs happening. You can pick up, you know, your phone and some of these kids are, you know, getting a badge of honor by videoing their uh friends fighting. So, as a parent that has a child that attends this school is is very concerning for me. And so, I guess my first question would be has the have those parents reached out to the school? I'm not aware of anyone asking me personally to come over and
075monitor a a bathroom. Um, it I would say it would be difficult. I mean because if that one school the other 21 schools uh and it's me and Dr. Smith make up support services as far as um we don't have you know additional uh people home. So I guess and I'm sorry to cut you off but I guess that maybe goes back to what we're talking about as goals. If we know this is happening what goals and supports can we can we put in place as a district level so we know Dr. Wills isn't going to be the one going to the restroom and mantra, but what what supports can be created through these um actionable items in plans to help support schools that we know may not have enough manpower to monitor and keep
076that safe environment. Is that am I on the right track with that? It's not. It should be common sense. Yeah. And again, that would have to be that we would get from the schools. When I was at the school level as as an assistant principal, we had hall monitors who were paid to literally roam throughout the school during the day. They were retired educators who um wanted something to do and they came over. Those uh positions were the stipen was paid for by the district. I think that was one of the things that fell by the wayside years ago. So the schools don't have as many of those, but they do have some other positions in the schools from the BMAS and Cas and uh but they're usually working with small groups of students, individual
077students on um uh areas that can help keep them in the classroom on a day-to-day basis. Uh so they going around and monitoring bathrooms, I I know that that is not the intent of that position. um it is really to assist small groups or individuals uh to keep them engaged in the in the educational process. Okay, lots of conversation regarding this. Uh if there is not any other conversation at this point, I know that uh the superintendent and Dr. Wils is asking for the board to approve the goals and the strategic manuals. Do I have a motion to approve of this strategic renewal plan goals and the strategic plan goals? I do not have a motion to approve. Okay. Uh then I'm going to have a follow-up question. Do we have a time constraint on
078this document as to when it has to be filed by the state? Well, the strategic plan goals have already been approved. The overall goal that was approved last year. The incremental goals which are the yearly goals um which is basically from our baseline data to where we were in 2029. that was already established and the the state says in the gym's document, you know, when was it approved by the district. Okay. Um this was something that we have to have by April 30th is what the date for. Um so you have to have an approval by April 30th. What uh happens if you don't because currently you do not have an approval based on no motion being made. Well, we have again we have our overall goal has already been approved. the incremental goal for
0792023, I mean for 2026. Um if it is not then um I guess we will have to go back and just let the state know that the board wants to re-examine uh our annual goal for 2026. Okay. So um I I see several hands I believe follow Mr. Nel and possibly Dr. Bam maybe or no Mr. Burns um upon the uh presentation of the data can Dr. Brooks and Dr. Jones come back and then represent the goals to us, maybe even amend the goals. Certainly, that's why I was asking about the April 30th because I need to see the data, right? So, you know, one way of of handling it would be to put it on the agenda for the upcoming board meeting on May 11th, maybe possibly for a re Yeah. two weeks from
080today. uh to to put it back on for potential approval. I just needed to know if there was a timeline that the board needed to be aware of and if there were any consequences that we needed to take into consideration if we were not to approve it tonight. So, uh I believe Mr. Nusel followed by a couple of things that would help me um potentially approve this would be action items and consequences for a failure to reach the goals. The last part, there has to be consequences for not reaching the goals. You just can't keep setting goals and not reaching them and then just striving to reach the goals and get them this year. Mr. M, what are we what are the action items we're actually going to do to hit these goals? I mean,
081we look at this data year in and year out and we don't ever we never hit our goals. What are we going to do actually hit them? And we and what are we going what I really want to hear you say is we're going to follow board policy that's already written. It's been written way before we got on any anybody got on this board and follow it to the tea and quit using perspective when it comes to discipline and accountability. So I think that the consensus what I'm hearing from discussion is that we would love to see an amended version with some of these things included be presented for potential approval at our upcoming board meeting second Tuesday in um May and that board members will if they have anything else that they would like
082to share um can can talk to the superintendent and and copy you in to kind of get more ideas of what it is specifically that we're looking for um in in the proposal. So when you say amended or I know initially you were asking for the action steps and the um the correct strategies and action steps that's that's what I'm saying. I think we need to give you through the superintendent a more clear expectation of what the board would like to see for that meeting in May. So, um, again, that's for board members to communicate back to Darth Jones and then you you should have that information, um, and and together with your team and and the DO team um, makes make some changes that that kind of incorporate some of the things that we
083are asking about. And certainly we at the state level and we can explain if needed that we want a plan that comes from Rock Hill that has the buyin from our board and has the buy in from uh our schools and our leaders and and what is what is specific on the action items that we have. Well then we say thank you Dr. Wils uh to work for your presentation and um again for board it's crucial that you have an opportunity to follow up with with Dr. Jones so that everybody's expectation for what needs to be in the banner of information uh is being met. Um, Madam Chair, I think regarding that issue, um, like so many other or not so many other, like other issues, if we can get a presentation before we're under,
084you know, I think there's an assumption that the board is going to rub a stamp or going to vote affirmative, but when something like this happens and we got a deadline that's two days from now, that could potentially have consequences for the district. I think in fairness to the board, these things need to be presented with some type of runway. So if it doesn't pass, so maybe next year it's presented in February as opposed to April. Just food for thought for administration and chair and vice chair. Good point. Very good point. So uh with that, next up we have communications and I'm going to welcome up uh Julian Murphy and she uh is going to address the board regarding financial analysis. Welcome up. Good evening. My name is Can you hear me? Good evening. My
085name is Jolan Murphy. I am a taxpayer and a concerned citizen. Let me start by stating I support public education. I love it. My daughter attended public education. and I think it's so important. I support public education, teachers pay raises, and the rebuild of Sunset Park. I come before you tonight with deep concern for our district's fiscal health and its impact on our students. I attended the special meeting where Dr. Miley presented his findings after a financial audit of Rock Hill Schools. I quote Dr. mileate. As he stated, children's lives are affected. The budget shortfall was mostly in part of a decision decision made by members of this board to rebuild Sunset Park without the 30-year bond. This choice was frankly reckless financial planning. It diverted funds that were needed for safety upgrades and maintenance.
086These were or are are direct threats to student learning and safety. Our next issue is transparency. Community deserves to know exactly how our tax dollars are spent. Transparency in school budgeting has never been more important. You should provide quarterly public updates on revenue and expend expenditures. Clear and accessible reporting with help will help parents and taxpayers understand the tradeoffs. Presenting financial information openly with simple graphs or online reports. We must move from confusion and surprised open dialogue. Finally, I urge you to focus on our teachers. Research confirms that teachers are our single most important in school influence on a student achievement. We owe it to our educators support, resources, and respect. If we want our children to succeed, we must remember that success depends on supporting and retaining good teachers. Our children spend 12 critical
087years in the school system. We cannot afford to fail them through poor decisions or poor communication. This speech is not a list of demands but a respectful request. Please consider how we can do better together for the sake of our students. Thank you. Yes. Thank you. And before you have a seat but yeah I do I do have a quick comment. Um, I think that quarterly updates for the community is an absolutely amazing idea and I think that Miss Hutchinson and I would be very willing to work on that as we set our agendas with with the superintendent. I think that's great. Open transparency. Sorry because the audience can't hear you. I think open transparency with the public, the parents, teachers will get you more success, will get you more support, more help in moving
088forward. We all want to move forward. No one is. But I believe decisions in the past were not. A 30-year bond spend sends those payments to future homeowners, residents is spread over 30 years rather than take all that money and not fix a leaking roof or maintenance in a school that affects a child. That child who's here that year may have been miserable learning. I mean to me, yes. I I love the rebuild of Sunset Park. Yes. I want every child in Rock Hill to succeed. I don't care your zip code, where you live. We owe these children the best education. And without that, I mean, what what are we doing here? You know, I love public education. So, and you have another fantastic idea, and I think that that one actually may be in
089the works, but we have a little bit of time on that one. So, our website has needed a major overhaul for a long time. And under Laura Brew Monday's uh leadership as a PIO, uh that process is going to come to uh I'm not going to say too much because I don't want to reveal timelines and have her look at me. No, no, no, no. We are working on a very substantial rebuild, is that a sick way of saying it? Of our website and that even before that is finished, we can absolutely make sure that we have quarterly where are we now? What are our needs? What can we do without? What are we not? We want each child every year to thrive. And so decisions have to be made in a prudent manner. And
090I think paying cash for a school was grossly irresponsible. It if you believe it didn't affect children here, it did. It did. So, and I don't want to take anything away from any child. I don't care your zip code, the house you live in. I want each child. That is the foundation for life. Education. So my thank you. Thank you for being here tonight and thank you for caring about our kids and our community. Thank you. So um making sure I get this right. Um next up is uh presentations superintendent search update. This is going to be the shortest update in the in the history of Rockland schools. Um our update tonight is that we are starting to look at the bigger batch of uh application in executive session tonight. There will be no announcements
091regarding this. There will be no decisions, but we are diligently going through the work of finding the next leader for Brock Schools and uh we will update you as the process comes along. But uh as of right now the timeline that we have communicated out throughout this process which is a target date for the first week of uh June as a potential identification of the next superintendent is at this point still what we're aiming for and target. So with that I'm going to turn it over to Dr. Jones for report. Thank you very much Chair Miller. uh our program options uh that we provide every year for learning opportunities for our child. Our second application lottery will open on May the 12th and run to May 23rd. Space is limited, but please visit our website
092and search our program options to learn more about availability for your students. Uh we have um one more board meeting and then we will be at the time to celebrate commencement. Uh at Winthrop Coliseum and three ceremonies on May 27th. Uh we do have another board meeting before then. But we do want to remind you and let you know that uh commencement as well as you can look at at program uh and and promotion programs at schools. It is the season, but 10:00 a.m. for Rock Hill High School on the 27th, 1 p.m. for Northwestern High School, and 400 pm at South Point High School. We had a walk through the coliseum the other day and we are ready to commence commencement. So that will uh take place. Um just to go back also on
093on a couple of of comments that were made, you know, really when it comes to supporting our schools and making sure that we're aware of safety and needs, it really comes down to awareness. It comes down to tools and it comes down to action. And uh in some future board meetings, you're going to hear about some tools. You're going to receive a safety update uh to hear um and and more information will come. But we are adding to uh and refreshing our camera systems. Um so much so to look at how can the technology now can zero in even more and further to support cameras. Not the answer total, but certainly how we strategically are using that technology. uh even on our buses now and looking at the refresh in the buses that there are
094many cameras that I was on a bus the other day and they had six of them and a student that may decide to vapor pull their jacket over there's a camera right there. Is that the answer? No. But it does help us. It helps us with tools and strategies. So as mentioned safety and upgrades and safety yes that's important and you'll hear uh you'll hear more about that as well. but also what's the action at the school level. I actually was at Rockill High School not too long ago in the science building. They were doing dissection. It's different from when I did dissection. They had dissection. I was walking through the building and actually the SSO, the school safety officer was with me and he said, "Stop. I need to duck in right here. Just
095take a look." And um he said that's what I spent a lot of my day doing. But that's call to action. So again, it's very important and we'll have more information that um that is available about that. Thank you for your interest and certainly your your support of how you can support our schools for safety being paramount. Our next school board meeting is scheduled for May 13th, uh 6 o'clock p.m. It will be streamed on our website and replays will be available after the meeting. Perfect. Uh so next up is the executive session. Um and we are going to have uh one potentially well actually two items in here overflow from the um original executive session and the superintendent search to review those applications and again we do not expect or will take any action
096on the superintendent search. Uh but that action item uh from earlier on has been moved until after this executive session. So with that, do I have a motion to adjourn the open session and end the executive session for that matter with those none? So thank you. Do I have a second? Second. Thank you, Miss Daniel. Any discussion? Very none. All those in favor? All motion carries 70. Good evening and uh welcome back to our last board meeting of April. Um we have been meeting in the executive session for the purpose of um reviewing contracts and reviewing applications for the superintendent search. this point I will entertain a motion to adjourn the executive session and reconvene the open session. So move. Thank you Mr. Burns. Do I have a second? Second. Uh thank you. Any discussion?
097Var not. All those in favor. All opposed. Motion carries. 70. Madam chair, I do have a motion. I move that the board approve the district issuing administrative contracts for the 2025 2026 school year to employees with the following employee number. And I'll read slow so everyone can get me. 47 49 59 71 85 87 and 97. Again, that's 47, 49, 59, 71, 85, 87, and 97. Okay. So, I have a motion made by Dr. Belton uh to approve um administrative contracts uh for employee 47, 49, 59, 71, 85, 87, and 97 and 97. Is that correct? Yes, madam chair. Okay. Do I have a second? Second. Okay. And it is second. Any discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor? Motion fails. Three. Four. Okay. this point. Um, I will entertain a motion um to approve
098the district issuing administrative contract for employee 47. Do I have a second or do I have a motion for employee 47? Yes, I make a motion for employee 47. Thank you. Do I have a second? Second. Thank you, Miss Hutchinson. Um, any discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor? All opposed. Motion carries. The order do not carry. 34. Um um make a motion for employee number 49 for administrative contract. Thank you, Dr. Belton. A second. Uh thank you, Mr. Burns. Any discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor. All against. Motion carries. 43. And just to make sure we have Belton, Burns, Miller, and Harris four. Correct. No. No Hudson. Hudson. Sorry. Okay. Next, um I will entertain a motion to approve a administrative contract for employee number 59. Madam Chair, I make a motion to
099approve the administrative contract for um employee 59. Thank you. Do I have a second? Second. Thank you, Miss Hopson. Any discussion hearing? None. All those in favor? All oppose? Measure carries 43. And um Madam Chair, I make a motion to approve. May one second. I'm sorry. Um I'm speaking faster than your writing. Lacy Hutchinson Belton. Do I have a motion to approve an administrative contract for uh employee number 71? So moved. Thank you, Dr. Belton. Do I have a second? Second. Thank you, such. Any discussion? Varing none. All those in favor? All opposed? Motion carries. 61 the noal against. Next up is uh do I have a uh motion to approve an administrative contract for employee 85? So moved, Madam Chair. Thank you, Madam Chair. Clarification. Did we do just do eight or No, we
100just did 71. We just did 71. Okay. 85 is now. Yes. Uh so motion made by seconded. Thank you. Okay. Uh any discussion on that one? None. All those in favor? All opposed? Motion carries. 52. Next up, uh do I have a motion for an administrative contract for uh employee 87? Madam Chair, I move to issue an administrative contract for employee 87. Okay. Um second and you I second from you. Thank you. Any discussion on that one? There none. All those in favor? All opposed? Motion carries 43. Next up, um, do I have a motion to approve an administrative contract for 9 number 97? Go ahead, Madam Chair. The board approve the district issuing an administrative contract of employee number 97. Okay. And I believe I have a second. Dr. Thank you. Any discussion on
101that one? Varing none. All those in favor? All opposed? Motion fails. 34. Um, how did I voted affirmative? Correct. You did. Okay. You did. So, affirmative on that one was Uh Daniels Hutcherson 97 3 to four I I was in the top position on that one. 34. So the affirmative was bel. So, um the second number one, uh yes. Um do I have a motion to um ad issue an administrative contract for employee number one? So move. Thank you, Mr. Burns. A second. Thank you, Mr. Nome. Any discussion on that one? Hearing none. All those in favor? All opposed? Motion fails. Two thumb. Okay. So, um, do I have a motion to issue a teacher contract for employee 105? Madam Chair, Madam Chair, I move the board issue a teacher contract for employee number one.
102Thank you. Second. Any discussion? None. All those in favor? All opposed? Motion carries 70. Okay. Um, do I have a motion to approve a teacher contract for um, employee number 47? So, move. Thank you. Do I have a second? Yes, I do. From Mr. Nosal. Um, any discussion? Var. All those in favor? All opposed? Motion carries 70. Um and I believe 97 97. Uh do I have a motion to approve um a teacher contract for employee 97? So move second and seconded by Any discussion? Var. All those in favor. All opposed. Motion carries. 70. Eas. I believe that this concludes the motions for tonight or you have any more. We're going to give Mr. Duff. Yes. Sorry. What was the question? She's just giving you time to double check. Yeah, double check that we don't
103have any other motions. I I think that covers it, but I can compare notes with you if you'd like. Okay. On 47. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. These are the teachers. Those are the teachers. And then okay, that does conclude those motions. Um and um with that, uh we do have a segment for other and future business. Uh is there anything that we would like to discuss there? If not, I will entertain a motion to address. Thank you. I have a second second to thank you Dr. Any discussion there not all those all opposed motion car [Applause]