001to order the January 12th school board meeting. At this time, I ask that everyone please rise for the pledge of allegiance and a moment of silence. >> I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. All right. Well, let me start by wishing everybody a happy new year and uh welcome back. So, our first order of business for this this year is to elect a chairman. So at this time I will open the floor for nominations. >> I make excuse me I'll make a motion that we David Phillips >> second. >> Okay. Are there any other nominations? I mean All right. We've got a motion on the floor um in a
002second. All those in favor say I. >> I. >> All right. Mr. Phillips, you're our chairman. >> All right. >> Thank you, Dr. Stanley. need to close the nomination. >> And we close the nominations. Yes. >> I make a motion we close the nominations >> for second. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I. >> Thank you. >> All right. So now we need to nominate a vice chairman. Uh do we have any nominations for vice chairman? >> Nominate Miss Tanner. >> Second. We've got a motion and a second for Miss Tanner. All those in favor say I. I. >> Those opposed. Okay. Motion carries. Do we have any other nominations? Okay. Hearing none, I'll ask for a motion to close the nominations for vice chair. >> Second. Mr. Jones and Mr. Maddox. There's a
003second. All right. Thank you. All right. We need to do the appointment of clerk and deputy clerk. Clerk. Um, so do we have a motion for clerk and deputy? Well, let's do clerk first. Motion for clerk. >> You can do them together. >> Do them together. Clerk and deputy clerk together. Have a motion. I'm sorry. >> Not at all. >> Um, Mr. Chairman, I'd recommend Michelle Mlanahan as clerk and Tracy Daven as um, assistant clerk. >> I'll make that a motion. >> Second. >> Have a motion in a second. >> All those in favor say I. >> I. >> Those opposed. >> All right. Motion carries. Uh, we got committee appointments. Um, so we have a list of the committees handy. >> Okay. I know we got I've served on parks and wreck >> and
004then we had >> we had the joint committee. >> Can I make sure you all speak up >> here back here? >> Okay. Thank you. >> I can't even hear. >> You got the joint committee. >> Joint committee. >> You've got school. STEM >> and STEM. >> Correct. >> All right. So, I've got parks recent committee, gov school, Laurel, and STEM program. Is that it? >> Isn't there a community college or something? C >> college? No. >> Okay. >> I feel like we're missing something. >> I do too. I feel like there's a whole >> All right. So, who's >> And I've only ever been on parks and recck, so I don't know what the other ones are. >> Who is serving on our joint committee? Do we want to keep those same representatives? Who's
005on that right now? >> Testing the mic. >> Right. Right now, Karen and I are on it. >> I'd like to stay on it with the construction of Brookville. >> Gary's agreed to take my place on it since Vista is going to be in a highlight reel. All right. So, this is um for approval. So, we got a motion for >> You can just do them all. >> Yeah. You want to do them all together? >> Yeah. >> All right. Let's cover them all then. So, that'll be Gary Maddox and Karen Tanner for joint committee. And the Gov School, who's got that right now? >> I do. >> Okay. Are you going to stay on that? >> Yes. >> Barry. Okay. And the Laurel, >> it's currently me. I don't mind staying, but if somebody
006wants to step into that, that's fine, too. >> Anybody else interested in Laurel? >> That's kind of cool. Yeah. >> Okay. Hearing none. Looks like you're good for that, Karen. >> Perfectly fine. >> And then the STEM. Um, who's currently on? >> I had it. Ann, weren't you interested in that or >> Yeah, I'd like STEM plus. >> Okay. So that'll go from Gary to an and then parks and wreck. I'm currently on that. Maurice, I know you're >> I'm so we're doubled up there. So >> do you want to cover that? >> That's fine. >> Okay. Since you're on there already, so >> that doesn't affect him for stay. >> No, that he can stay chair and do that. If there's a voting, if it's a voting, it would be double votes. By Robert's
007rules, you couldn't have both of you doing the same vote counting for two votes. >> Well, it's it's not even just the parks and wreck, but you can't have an appointment. So, you're in a char appointed position by Charlie. So, now that you're elected, you can be a liazison from the school board, but you can't serve as Brookmeal representative on the same parks and recck. So, Charlie will have to appoint somebody extra. >> Okay. There has been some conversation between Jordan and I think the county about that and they were said it wouldn't be a problem but we'll we'll handle it. >> That's great. >> You guys will have a meeting tomorrow night to square that away then and get the new position there. Okay. All right. So, I've got um Mr. Pierman for parks
008and wreck, Gary Maddox and Karen Karen Tanner for the joint committee. Barry Jones for governor school. Karen Tanner for Laurel and Ann Parker for STEM. So, can I get a motion for those positions? >> Motion to approve those positions for the committees that were listed. >> Second. >> Okay, we have a motion and a second. All those in favor? >> I. >> Those opposed? Okay, motion carries. All right. Um, >> do we have the meeting dates and times? Is that >> Yes, >> Mr. Chairman, you should have a copy of that. Um, and if you look at those meeting dates and times, we have the same time that we've been when we've been meeting at 6:30 and the dates are consistent with >> what we've been doing the second Monday of the month. with two
009exceptions. We have one exception on April the 20th, which is um the third Monday because it's after spring break. And then we've also asked you to consider October the 19th. That's the third uh Monday because it is after fall break. So other than those two third Mondays, everything all other meetings are on the uh second Monday with the exception of the additional meeting in March for the budget. Motion to approve it. >> Want a motion to approve those dates? >> Yes. >> Motion. >> Second. >> Uh Maurice's got the second, I think, on that. So, I've got a motion and a second. All those in favor of the meeting dates for 2026, say, "I." >> I. >> What's the date in March again, Clay? The >> date in March is March 23rd. Uh, we got
010two. March 9th, >> 9th, and 23rd. >> And 23rd. That's right. 23rd. >> I'll email you those dates out to everybody tomorrow. >> Okay. Uh any opposed on that? >> Okay. Motion carries. >> All right. Matters from the floor. Do we have any speakers for tonight? None. Okay. And then we got the approval of the December 15th meeting minutes. Can I get a motion to approve? >> Like to make a motion that we approve the minutes from the December 15th meeting. >> Second. >> Um, can Maurice make the motion if he was not part of the board at that time? I just want to Is that >> probably >> everybody >> clear on that? I don't know if that's true or not. >> Mr. Mr. Chairman, I have reviewed the minutes from the December 15th
011meeting and I make a motion to approve. >> Okay. Sorry, Mr. Herman. >> No worries. >> That's technicality >> after the fact. >> I appreciate you stepping up. >> No worries. >> Um, all those in favor say I. I. >> Any opposed? >> Okay. Motion carries. All right. Payment of the bills. Um have a motion for payment of the bills last month. >> Mr. Chairman, I've reviewed the list of the bills. Don't find any fault with them. Move for approval. >> Second. >> Okay. Motion and a second for the bills. All those in favor say I. >> I. >> Those opposed. Okay. Motion carries. All right. Acceptance of donations, Miss McClanahan. >> Tonight, you have a nice long list of donations for approval. Unless you have any questions on those, I would ask that you
012approve them as presented. >> Motion. >> Second. >> A motion and a second. Any discussion about donations? Just thinking that's a big number. >> Yeah. All right. All those in favor say I. I. >> Those opposed. Okay. Motion carries. And consideration of request for supplemental appropriations. Miss McClennahan. >> Tonight you have two supplemental appropriations for approval. If you have any questions, I can answer those now. Otherwise, I'd ask for you to approve those. Have a motion. >> Motion. >> Second. >> Motion to second. All those in favor say I. >> I. >> Any opposed. Okay. Motion carries. Consideration of non-resident tuition. Miss McClennahan. >> Tonight you have two residents for approval. Unless you have any questions, I'd ask that you approve that as presented. Get a motion. >> Motion to approve. >> Second. >> A
013motion and a second. All those in favor say I. >> I. >> Those opposed. Motion carries. Consideration of designation of alternate staff members attending the board meeting. Dr. Stanley. >> Yeah. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I would ask that you consider um Dr. Amy Hail as my designate. Okay, we have a motion. >> I make a motion to approve. Dr. Hail. >> Second. Okay, >> we got a motion and a second. All those in favor? >> I. >> Those opposed. Okay. Congratulations, Dr. Hail. You're stuck here every second Monday of the month this year. Um, consideration of personnel report. Miss Hunley. >> Thank you, Mr. Chairman, members of the board. The personnel report for this month is relatively short. There's a couple of midyear hires on there that we had planned for. Um, other than that,
014Dr. Reanella let me know that he still has right around eight openings. Um, the majority in the Timberlake area. Um, where we have been pretty much all year. So, unless you have any other questions, I'd ask that you approve it as written. >> When's the job fair? >> I was going to tell you that after this. Um, it's going to be February 7th at Leville Road. Um, I would love if you guys could attend. that would be great. It's 9 to 11:30 that morning. Um, having it at Leville Road last year worked out really well. It'll be in the gym again. All the schools will be set up. The format is great. Um, we're going to do some social media blasts in the next couple of weeks. Um, we talked about that today to get
015some different um, information out there to entice more people to come, talk about the support that we offer. Um, and we had the idea to talk about um, applicants coming to us to make Campbell County um, uh, their career here, their home here. So, that's what the next couple of social media um, advertising will be about. >> Any other questions about the career fair? >> Okay. Do you have a motion on the personnel report? >> Motion. >> Second. >> Okay. Motion and a second. Any further discussion before we put it up for vote? All right. All those in favor say I. >> I. >> Those opposed. Okay. Thank you. And consideration of the 2627 academic calendar proposal. Dr. Hail. >> Um, good evening chairman, members of the board. You have the same calendar before you
016that was brought in December. And I did just want to highlight some of the changes from the 2526 to 2627 calendar. Um the 2627 calendar does have us starting school on a Wednesday. This was a request to give us an extra day to refine our bus routes after our back to school day um which is held on that Wednesday, August 5th. As a reminder, our ridership has increased over time. So we do want to make sure that we're able to adjust from those. and we actually used to start school on a Wednesday in the past. Other changes from this past school year include that we moved the first PD day up one week because there is the change in fall break. Um fall break um there has been um some conversation and request about considering
017Columbus Day since it is a federal holiday as part of our fall break. And so now when we move that up, it does overlap with Columbus Indigenous People's Day and that is a federal holiday which some of our families already have off. Um, and that doesn't necessarily impact grading for the end of the semester because we wait to do our grades anyways. It just is a deadline for our students. That will also give us the opportunity to use November 2nd. That will be used as a school PD and grading day, especially as we've had some changes in our elementary report cards. We want to be respectful of our teachers times. Some things that cannot be changed that I did discuss at the last meeting. May 31st is the very last possible day Memorial Day could
018be. So we will end school prior to um Memorial Day since we will end the week before and we will have a week between that and graduation. So our graduation will be June 4th and 5th. The Vine Center is already booked with Bedford County Schools the week before um and so we are not able to move it to then and has been um requested that we we do our best to keep it on the weekend for our families. It does give us a week to prepare so we will be ready for graduation when it happens. But I did just want to note those changes from the calendar that are different from this past school year to this year. really trying to take into account everyone's feedback and come up with the best compromise that we
019can for our calendar. I'm happy to answer any questions that you may have. >> All right. Any questions for Dr. Hail? >> No, just a big thank you about Columbus Day. I moved here in 1994. We were one of the only districts that I knew that was in school that day. So, thank you. >> Thank you. Okay. >> All right. So, we are voting on this tonight. >> It is an action item and so um there is the request for a vote. >> Okay. We have a motion. >> Motion that we accept the calendar as submitted. >> Second. >> Motion and second by Miss Vaughn. All those in favor say I. >> I. >> Those opposed. Okay. Thank you, Dr. Hail. >> Thank you. Okay. County easement and property transfer. Dr. Stanley. Thank you, Mr.
020Chairman. Um, of course, tonight we've got two requests from the county. Um, one is for the easement from the proposed emergency services building onto Dennis Riddle Drive. And then the other one was a request for I think it was 2.4 acres um that is now school property to be turned over to the county for a new humane society. I want to thank you, Mr. Tweety, for being here. Um, if you'd like to kind of give us a a brief overview and then answer any questions, I'd appreciate it. >> Right. Be glad to glad to be here tonight. Uh, just to briefly go over the there's two pieces of property adjacent to this piece of property. The first one is over here on this side. The county is considering building a uh EMS public safety facility
021there to uh provide for better service to the county since it's centrally located on two main roads. And so in order to do that, um I think one of the questions that it comes up is the access on to 24. Uh when we started doing the site plan, I think you have a copy of one of the things first thing we did was talk to VOTE to be sure that we could get access and they indicated when I talked to them that they didn't believe it qualified between this other road here that's a public road and the fact that there's a del lane for the Augusta Springs. They said we couldn't get an access and I started to push back some on that and they were pretty adamant about that and they said well you've
022got a road that is a public road on the side there and they would be willing to work with us to get an entrance there. So, uh, again, even though you maybe you can force them to, I do think that it's not the best safety issue from a standpoint. You've got a road with some fair amount of traffic at times from this facility and you've got a fairly large residential development with a del lane. Bringing emergency vehicles out when they're trying to answer a call that close to another road and another entrance is not the best thing. So, I didn't push back but so hard because I think it's more safe to actually access since we um onto this road and would be very close to 24. Again, that the I think the B do
023was under the impression that we could work this thing out and it would be safer from an access and on to 24. Again, we can if you have any other questions about the site plan or anything else with that. The other request is for property on the other side over here. The animal shelter's been there since 1992 and um it's been on the school property. It just we're hopefully we've got some money. The uh bark has raised over 1.2 million and we hope that project can get off the ground in the not too distant future pending board approval. But it made sense to build it on county owned property instead of school property. And I guess it's not a huge deal, but it looked like it made sense to if we've got a it's our
024building and our responsibility that would actually own the property. So they are the two requests and I'll be glad to go into any more detail that you'd like. >> Do you have a site plan for Bark? >> There is no site plan yet because at this point they've been doing the board gave them until December 25 to raise funds. They did a front elevation and a floor plan, but they have no there was no site plan done because it was preliminary and still fundraising. So now at this point, the board decides to move forward. We will go out and get the rest of the engineering done. Uh the plan would be to build it on the lower side of between that and the pump station and improve the entrance and pave things and make it
025look a whole lot better. Well, that's the plan, but there's no detailed site plan been worked out. >> So, that could potentially increase traffic coming down from the other direction right >> next to the elementary school. What's >> is that? Or there would be another entrance to that. >> It would be the same entrance is there now. >> So, still going down beside that gets backed up during >> drop off and dismissal with Yellow Branch. >> Well, the I think the plan for the facility is going to be the same size as what's there now. I mean, as far as the capacity, okay, >> might be a little bit bigger building, but the capacity would be the same. So, I wouldn't think it would generate any more traffic than what it's got now. >> We're
026in no rush to approve this. >> It's again, that's up to y'all. >> I like I'd like to see site plan first for me, but I mean, I'm good with going. I just want to know what to do. I don't have a problem with it all, but I would like to see what's what's on that. and this side. My only concern is the ambulances and fire trucks aren't rhythm. You know, we work out where they don't cut through. >> Well, I can assure you that we would that I t I asked that question to public safety. They said there's no way they would be going through that. I mentioned it to the county administrator and he said he would make it a policy that they would not be going through this road either in or
027out. There's no need to and there's no reason to. So, we would I think we can basically guarantee that they would not be using coming through here. they would only be using the first 100 ft to get on to 24. >> And I guess that's my question. I want to see where that is. Like where's that entrance going to be? You've got that >> from the site plan that we had. Yeah, >> it's right there. >> And I don't see any emergency vehicle being able to navigate that giant bump. This is not the site plan. This is the site plan. >> Yeah. Can we get >> Did you guys see the curve in this? >> Um and there's nothing on here, Cliff, that I apologize. I meant to get to you all day today and
028ask some questions. That is still >> plan. >> Yeah, >> I sent it to you. >> Clay sent it to us like last week. >> Yeah, it's in there. >> Um, so we definitely need to the whole board does need to see it before we make a decision because I do have a question about this site plan though, Cliff. I don't know. Can I come up and show it to you? >> I've got the copy. I know what it looks like. >> Okay. I don't know if I'm east, west. There's no doors south, east, west online to give me any reference. So where are the where are the trucks come? Where are they parking? >> They're parking in the bay facing that way. >> Okay. So they have to face here and they have to
029curve all the way around here in a sixderee absolute Uturn to get out to this stop sign. They're sharing the road with everybody who's coming in and out of Dennis Riddle. And I can't believe that they're allowing this because the worst visibility. When I leave here at night, I can't tell if cars are coming off of 29. Everyone in this room knows that. You can't see if anybody's coming off 29. I can't imagine we're going to put emergency vehicles out there. Plus, if I'm already there at that stop sign, this is my biggest concern. We have a student driver there or a school bus there and then emergencies coming out on this really weird angle. I mean, we're talking the fire truck's going to literally have to go like that to get out then. And
030it's not up here, Barry. I'm showing to >> Oh, no. I'm um then I'm sitting there with emergency vehicle. Do I turn left? Do I stay there and wait for them to go around me into the oncoming traffic lane? Do I turn right even though I'm trying to turn left? Where do I go? What do I do? And I'm just shocked if we do this. Um Cliff, can we just And I know V dot, trust me. I mean, I've had them turn down personal residents driveways. I mean, they're horrible. They have been for about 15 years. Um, especially with like the accelerator acceleration or deceleration lane, but even close to another access point. So, I know that's why they want them to come out on Dennis Riddle, but it's definitely going to slow response time.
031It's definitely going to put more people in danger, and it has the worst visibility of that whole site if they're going to pull out either on 24 or not. And honestly, you know, I wanted to go across the street. I think it should be across the street directly across from the new road to that subdivision. But anyway, um that it should come out over here. They already have the back exit to the Augustus Springs development. They will actually have an easier time getting out that way. All you have to do is have the bay doors open on the back obviously, but um to not have this big bump here and have them have their own access to 24 right beside Dennis Riddle. Like a lot of people here said the last few times we talked
032about this, you guys, they're flashing lights on the truck. You know, people are going to see that something's happening when they're pulling out, right? Every fire station, I don't know if you guys have ever been to a big city, but where do they dump out? right on the street, between businesses, between stop lights, across sidewalks where they could literally run over people walking or on a bicycle, but it's a direct access to minimize response time. And um I think this would be a I just think it's all bad. I think it needs to come out on 24. Um not only do we have drivers learning how to drive here, we have student drivers coming in and out, you know, school bus bed buses, you know. Oh my gosh. I just And there is no way
033we can prevent them from using the access to 29 like Karen mentioned. There's no way even if it's just them reporting to work um for an emergency situation. >> Yeah. My concern is similar. You know the the concern about and and it's not I just want answers. I want a solution to this. >> See the truck can't pull out here and then make this whole >> car actually leaving when emergency people pull behind. You know the panic right that comes and where do they go? like where where's the space there to pull out somebody's coming in behind you? Um I'm also concerned about the use of these soccer fields, the softball fields, the parking chaos. I guess that was kind of my question along with Gary's on that easement. Are we still going to allow
034cars to park there? Because then you've got we've already lost one Campbell County child to baseball fields recently um because of parking chaos and coming running in and out of parking, you know, around parked cars during sport events. I just want us to be aware >> happens to us when we leave at night. >> I just want to be aware that we've got cars parking right up on that edge and now we're adding, you know, another rush of panic situation, right, for drivers >> to that. So, >> and then they don't have visibility. They don't have visibility. Even if I've asked some CDL drivers that I know, if you guys all know probably who I'm talking about, um, to park to be at that stop sign, they still can't see over that ridge. I mean,
035you know, so I haven't seen any request of the property owner there to increase visibility. You know, that's usually a thing. Even for a single family home that would be putting their driveway on Dennis Riddle, I can promise you they would ask me to ask the neighbors to cut down that bank for visibility to give me a driveway to a single family home at that same intersection. So, I think those things should still apply even at least 10 times more of a safety concern to me that we're going to have large vehicles there. They're going to pull out and the people who are turning left or turning off 29 are not going to have time to see them coming out behind that hill. >> They'll see the lights in the dark, but in the daytime
036they're not going to see them pulling out. Um, I think everybody just like uh and I appreciate a shout out to Mr. Hardy. He always goes out to all the job sites, all of the sites for zoning issues and actually walks around with the owners and does it themselves. I think that all of us should drive that ourselves. And just think about it feels different when you're on the ground and you're actually driving it and walking it. You know what I mean? How it's going to look when it's done. And I think there's a lot of safety concerns there. >> I would make a suggestion if you want to drive it, drive it in a fire truck. >> Yeah. >> Because There's no hood on a firet truck. So pulling up to there, it's not
037like a firetruck has a hood like a bus. >> Yep. >> So as far as visibility, I don't see a problem in that. >> Allan has a cab over >> and he can pull right up to. So that doesn't bother me at all as far as visibility. If you got to cut some trees up here, fine. Cut some trees. Although I don't know who owns the property. >> We don't own the property. Um >> my my like I said my concern is them staying off real and you say that's >> we're not going to do that. We are not going to do that. >> I I'm I'm good with it. >> I'll Would you like me to address a few of your concerns? >> Yes. I mean I'm just going to vote no because this
038is nowhere near a safe plan. So I can I mean I don't think you can um I mean if the board and you haven't even seen the site plan guys if you're going to call for a vote today I would ple strong cautionly strongly caution against it if you haven't studied the site plan. >> I've had the site plan for a couple weeks. >> Mr. All right. In at the rush hour of the day, how many buses and cars line up to get off Dennis Riddle on to going east or west? >> How many buses? >> Right. I mean, >> um, that's hard for me to to say exactly. I would say we have hot times. One of our busiest times, uh, whether it's it's a little bit of coming and going, um, if you
039will, Mr. Jones, is certainly right around 8:30 in the morning till about 8:50 in the morning. Um, why the technical center start time for our students is at 8:30, right? So, we've got high school drivers coming in, you know, 8 8:20 to 8:30. They're parking in this parking lot over here. We also at the same time you have Yellow Branch Elementary School start time. Um I think everybody's got to be there by 8:40. I'm remembering correctly. Is that right? >> That's correct. So, you know, you have um a bulk of parents that are pulling into the complex off of, you know, onto dentist at this end. Um you also have a bulk of the buses because I know when Dr. Odin was here. Uh he really uh stopped buses from exiting and entering the complex
040here by Yellow Ranch Elementary School because of the slope and the danger of um pulling out onto 29 and crossing over 29. So, you know, as far as a a backup, I can't tell you how many cars and for how long because I'm in the building. Um, you know, dealing with students. I'm not watching that all the time. Um, some significant adjustments were made at the end of the day with the way they loop stu uh parents in our parking lot to cut down on it, but there's usually it's not unusual when parents have picked up their kids from Yellow Ranch in the afternoon. Um they are u you know they're lined up at the stop sign. Some are going to go left, some are going to go right. Just depends on where they're headed
041to next. And um it's not unusual to have uh seven, eight cars lined up um pretty constantly there for you know 20 30 minutes of the day. It's not an extended period obviously but it is a time that is one of our busier times. So, like I said, we have some hot spots. Um, I would say the beginning of your school day for Branch Elementary School and end of your school day elementary school are your two hot spots. Um, other than that to um, you know, Miss Parker was sharing some information. Um, things that I seen in the complex, you all have seen some nights when softball's being played on the fields. Uh the preer one probably one of the most preferred fields or used fields is the one that corner of the complex. They
042do not park in the parking spaces because the cars will get hit by just not laid out very well from the standpoint of where your parking should go. Um used complex but um they do park along the road. So that is something that I know brought up. Um, I think the county staff it would have to be mitated and arranged that you would have to to to have some deterrence up there to keep people from really blocking or hovering around that that entrance area as far as just where they park because um people will take lots of people not all people will take That's my two cents. >> John, can I ask you a question about in the morning with Yellow Branch? >> Yes, sir. >> Do those car riders, how far back? I mean,
043I know I've come over sometimes in the morning and seen them, you know, backed up to the field. Do they go all the way around? Have you ever seen the cars back up quite that far >> from Yellow Branch >> in the morning? >> Yeah. >> Here they pull them on to the driving branch in the morning. >> Okay. So they they've relieved some of that >> to kind of deal with some of the extra overflow. >> Yeah. >> Because Dennis Riddle is a state maintained road >> and well it used to back up pretty far. That's why I'm asking. >> You shouldn't be blocking right. It's a state maintained road. >> It was supposed to be a complete thoroughare. So um for example the section of the road beside the sidewalk technically has to
044be do maintained. The reason why we have speed bumps on the back side >> right >> is because that is owned by county schools and is a parking lot. >> Okay >> even though that is the the road that everybody travels. So, the reason why we have speed bumps back there, which Bot would never install on a regular roadway, it's because that is not the road. That is technically the parking lot. The road is technically right here in front by the sidewalk here. It's a really weird thing. I can't tell you the history behind it. So that road basically that's how it is through how I got the signs for one way and stuff like that put up here by V. >> But what you're saying is that road pretty much stays open. It doesn't
045get backed up anymore. >> No, it's um it's usually not backed up. I don't notice anything. Mr. Do you notice anything in the morning by yellow? No, it doesn't get backed up like said driving. So kids, parents, you know, pretty steady. >> So the biggest traffic issues are the seven or eight cars that might back up as they're leaving or and on softball night. >> Yeah, I would say parking. >> Yeah. At the stop sign when you're asking how long that line of traffic is. It could be seven to 10 cars. It's going to move when they can get on the 24, right? >> That's what it's going to be. >> Um, would they leave an opening and everything like that? >> The trucks are going to come all the way out of here, go
046all the way around. It's ridiculous. >> And you're going to widen that, make that >> Well, there's a couple things. One is we're looking at widening it and also painting it so that you've got a right turn, a left turn, and a 12oot in lane. So, that would help some, I think. uh putting a law a heavy uh stop line closer to the if you want to get your sight distance where people know where to stop out there. I'm not sure there's a big one out there now. But the biggest thing I'd also point out is the connection to Augusta Springs. The plan is if they come around there and they see anybody in that intersection that they can't access safely, they can make the loop and go through Augusta Springs. It might take them
047an extra minute, a minute and a half, which in safety when you're responding to emergency, that is critical. But if it's a if that intersection is blocked, that's what that other's for, is to make that loop and go on out through Augusta Springs. Again, you got some traffic through there you have to deal with, but it does allow you to avoid the intersection here if it's blocked up. Why wouldn't the bays be facing this access? If you're going to if the board's going to allow this access the way it's drawn, why do they have to drive all the way around the building and around this big hump? >> Well, the the issue is you want to pull through space and I don't believe the building is wide enough to make to get lined up to
048pull through from the back. If you turn the building sideways, >> well, you could just flip what it is here and have operations further west and the Bay Area further east. >> Just a simple flip and then it's pull through both ways. Then you you would again it would making the turn would be if you moved it closer would be more difficult to make that turn and then go straight out into Dennis Riddle. I'm gonna ask this question. >> Go walk. You could go straight out. I could draw it for you right now. >> I'm going to ask this question. If it's if it's a morning and and it says you're going to provide a 12T right turn lane and 12T left turn lane, plus a 12T entrance lane. Three lanes out here getting on
049to 24. >> Right. If traffic is backed up there in the mornings at 8 to 9:00 and they have to exit the rest the building, they're going to come out here and find that traffic's backed up. What are they going to do? Are they going to back up and go out Augusta Springs or >> They just keep circling right on around. There's a loop right there that goes right on out behind them. >> They would have to back up the Yes. >> where the bush is. >> Cuz they'd already be here. So they would back up and then they would go out here. >> Is that they back up and go around where the bush is? Go around where the bushes are. >> They go around this right here. >> I mean, >> the bushes
050are going to be gone. This over here says they'll take the bushes out there. I thought >> But if we're going to have these three lanes, why isn't it on the site plan? >> Well, it is right there. It is right there. >> Oh, it's So, in other words, they come around and >> keep going this way. >> So, they'll get here >> and if they see traffic, they will just continue right on down this road and they're that way. >> That way. So as soon as they turn this corner, they'll be able to look. If there's any traffic there, they will just keep on driving. >> Okay. And go out and come out on 24 hours. >> There's no traffic there. >> If there's no traffic, >> okay? >> And again, that's 45 minutes
051in the morning, 45 in afternoon. They'll probably know once they've been here when those times are, and they'll probably even know if it's that time. They won't probably, unless it's completely wide open, they will just make the loop. >> Okay. All right. It would definitely make more sense to have a that hotspot time designated for them to take the alternate exit out automatically during that time frame every single day. >> Great idea. >> Yep. I think that would probably what would happen. Clean everything up. You got a wide open view. You know that it's that time unless there's just absolutely nothing in sight. We going to make the loop. >> Yeah. But I mean, I just hate for the the vehicle to get there and both lanes are blocked and the signs going off and
052that ambulance is going to go somewhere either in the grass or somewhere to get to 24. >> Again, that's a opposite operating policy, but I can that's the plan. They will not even hesitate. They see any vehicles there that are locked up at intersection, they just going to keep on going. >> Okay. >> I'm just really curious. Has anyone ever seen a fire station where they had to drive around the block of their own block? Their own block. So if it's a pull in, pull out. I mean, there's just so many things. You know, when I say flip it, >> Cliff, you know, you've got to know that I also mean this way. So you're you're reversing it twice. So that bay is lined up with that 30foot access, which I still think is a
053colossal mistake. Um, and then you would have straight out. You could turn right or left and then you could get right out on the highway and then you're not driving all the way around your building. All you have to do is turn left to go out that other access. I just I just can't even imagine. I mean um I've never seen this in a business or a fire station where somebody had to drive all the way around the building to get out onto a road. >> Well, normally they wouldn't do that. They would go right out onto Dennis Riddle. This is another >> they go right on 24. So, Miss Parker, I would say that's up to the ambulance emergency facilities to determine the orientation of the of the building. We're >> Did they draw
054this? >> I'm sorry. >> Do you know if they drew this? >> I do not, but that's not that's not our perview to determine how the building is oriented on the lot. We're we need to discuss the entry and exit of it. Um, and unless we have any further questions, Mr. Tweety, I've got the blind spot concern as you exit. Um, no traffic coming back down this way on Dennis Riddle Drive, which you said that's going to be more or less put in their policy not to come around this way. They'll exit out onto 24. um the softball parking and the school entry and exit times where we have traffic back up there. Are there any other concerns from the board that I haven't mentioned? Those are the four I've got jotted down so far.
055>> Uh yes, we just got confirmation that Dennis Riddle is a statemaintained road. So, we cannot tell them not to use it for emergency purposes. >> We can ask them. That's we got the same issue. Camel County Public Safety is in our station. >> We have >> We went and made some deals. >> No interest at all. >> Central and it works perfect. Central Health is right beside and we asked do not blow the sirene till you get on Main Street. >> And that's Yeah. >> And that's exactly what they do. So I don't >> as far as the softball, y'all can put some nets up. I mean, that'll cure that problem. >> I think we could even work together to put some parking on the other side of the road just like the parking
056on the other side. That's that's a simple fix. I think when we get into the final design, if that's a big concern, >> but I I agree with Dave. It's not our job to tell y'all what kind of building there. >> Yeah. >> Um, like I said, my issue is the traffic on Riddle >> and the park. >> This is I I'm personally I'm good with it. >> This is a conceptual site plan. I spent a lot of time talking to the folks in public safety to get what they wanted. This is one way that will work. I'm not saying that when you you get the folks that design these all the time and they work through it, they may turn the building around, they may change the size a little bit. I want to
057make sure that this would work and it would fit on there and how it would work and hopefully address some of the concerns. This may not be the this is not the final site plan. This is a conceptual to get to reson when's the what's the time limit on building this? >> We the board has not decided to move forward. We have they know that >> so once again we're not in a big rush ei >> it's not again they are not ready to break ground. No hopefully there will be sooner rather than later but again they have not decided to move forward yet. >> Do have any other questions from the board other than the four we've talked about. So Mr. Tweety correct me if I'm wrong. What I'm hearing is the blind spot.
058We can correct that concern with the three lanes and the painting to the painting the stop bar where you can kind of pull up closer to 24 and get a better visual up and down east and west of 24. >> I'm again I'm if if it's a I'm surprised if it's a sight distance that hadn't been the schools hadn't wanted to correct it already. >> Yeah. So that I don't I'm not sure what to do with that, >> especially with the front end of the bus. You're not going to have that with a fire power fire truck. >> The no traffic on Dennis Riddle. That's going to be >> taken care of via policy. >> We're not going to do that. >> Right. Um softball parking, I'm not worried about that. It looks like you
059got about 90 to 100 ft from the entrance on a Dennis Riddle to the road. And if we can't keep cars from parking in a 90 foot spot, we got bigger problems. I think we can put something there to deter parking in that one little strip. Um because they're not going to be going back the other direction anyway. So, and then the school heavy traffic times where you may have buses or cars um you got a backup plan to go the other direction if there's traffic backed up there or as Mr. Pierman stated maybe that can be built into the policy of during these hours we're going to use the back exit and not endanger any cars that may be entering or exiting the facility during school entrance or exit times. So, sounds to me
060like we have solutions to the four concerns brought up. Um, I understand timing may not be critical, but in my opinion, this is one other box that we need to check off to move forward and um, I personally don't see dragging this out. The rescue squad area. Now, Mr. Tweety, I would say it would be good that Gary had the concern of the site plan for the um, >> what am I bark >> bark? Yeah. The bark facility. >> Animal shelter. Yeah. So, is that something you can >> get so we have some conceptualization kind of like what we're looking at here to better understand what's going on? >> We'll be glad to share it when we get to that point. We haven't even got to the design point yet. So, >> so maybe we
061table that vote and we just vote tonight on the rescue squad entrance. Is that >> That's up It's totally up to y'all. >> Fair to the board. So, I would ask for a motion at this time on the entrance exit of the ambulance facility onto Dennis Riddle Drive. If there aren't any any other questions. >> I got one question and this may not be a lot of places where there's a fire station or rescue squad when the when they know the vehicle is going to exit signs start flashing. >> You know what I'm saying? like >> Mhm. Mhm. >> If that if something like that was set on Dennis Riddle, alerting traffic that's coming towards 24 to stop when that starts. That may alleviate, you know, that traffic between I don't know. >> Are you
062worried about Dennis Riddle or you worried about 24? I think it's something we would certainly look into. Yes. Either way, >> I'm just saying Dennis Riddle. I mean, well, I'm trying to pull out, you know. >> Yeah. I mean, that would keep that would keep cars from piling up just in front of the the the ambulance coming out of there. >> Cars may take the other exit if they see the way. >> My again, no matter what time it is, if it's more than one car there, I don't think they going to go the back way. They're not going to take a chance on getting hung up by a car. They going >> if it's I think it's they just going to go the other way. >> I think it probably require >> I They
063might subdivision that's going to be backing up there, too. >> Yeah. I'll make the motion. >> Second. >> Okay, we got a motion in a second. Uh, all those in favor say I. >> I. >> Those opposed? >> Nay. >> All right, let me get a raise of hands. All those in favor, raise your right hand. One, two, three, and I'll be four. All those in opposed, raise your right hand. One, two, three. >> Oh, sorry. That's my left. I'm left-handed. I was devalued. >> Okay. The eyes have it on a vote of four or three. Um, and then Mr. Tweety will table the bark facility. If we can get a site plan, a little bit more information on how that's going to be oriented over here, entry exit points, that kind of thing. I
064think that would be >> may be a while, but if that's what you'd like, uh, somebody can come back and >> and if it's some type of urgency that comes up where we need to make a decision to help them move forward, then let us know and we can revisit it. >> Unless you're simply unless you're saying you don't think we're going to be able to put it on the property, that would make a big difference if we were for some reason you were going to say no, we don't want all of that. >> I don't think that's the case. >> That's fine. God's not making any more land and before we start giving up >> school property right across the street. >> We just want to make sure we kind of know what's going
065on there. >> All right. Thank you, Mr. Tweety. Thank you. >> Hey, while while you're here and I'm thinking about it, you also were instrumental in helping us get the school zone lights over to Enterprise and B Drive and I want to thank you for that. >> Okay. Again, hopefully that we are working through the process. Now, the shop drawings have been submitted to VOTE for their final approval, and as soon as they approve it, we'll get it ordered and get it here. So, we're working on it as fast as the processes allow. So, again, we're going to get it done probably this spring sometime. >> Thank you very much, >> Cliff. As long as you're here and we're having that discussion, and you might not be able to answer this. How come there's no
066lights on 24 or 29 saying school song? There's no sign. There's nothing that says that these schools are >> uh >> I can I can probably answer that a little bit. When we fought for enterprise while I was talking to the engineers at VOTE, they said that we didn't get it by right unless there was an access directly to the school from that road. So since Dennis Riddle is the access off 29 sense >> I just always wonder why there were no signs that >> I don't agree with it but that was their policy. the access to the road, not to the directly onto the others. Okay. >> I don't like it, but that's what they said. >> Any other questions for Mr. Tweety while we >> got it. See you tomorrow night. >> All
067right. >> Well, I'll make it look technically B drive is not they got one there. >> Yeah. >> I was wondering the same thing. It's not directly on, >> but again, you had a special situation there with a NV DOT tends if you have a a serious accidents, unfortunately, they tend to take a little more uh >> it's a shame they wait until >> Yes. And the access access to three they actually >> three schools a lot of traffic on that road, so it makes a difference >> and it's already a blind spot there. >> Yep. So anyway, some extra factors there that may have affected the ability to get that sign. >> Yeah. >> Well, maybe with this we can get one. >> Thank you. >> All right. Thank you. >> All right. Thanks.
068>> Thank you. >> Okay. We got the uh statement of local or state and local statement of economic interest. Miss McClanahan, >> just a reminder, I sent everybody their form on December 19th. It is due back by February 1st. So, please get it to me as soon as possible. >> All right. Um, have student support services update. Dr. Wilson. Evening, Chairman Phillips, Dr. Stanley, members of the board. Uh, congratulations on your chairman position. >> Thank you. Uh tonight I wanted to update you on our student services uh information. If you remember at the end of last year we kind of looked at discipline and referrals and how we were going to handle expectations moving forward. One of our big targets was that >> one of our big targets were just now shifting focus to addressing
069minor disruptive behaviors. When we look at a tiered system of supports, you know, it kind of goes in that direction. The universal is that tier one where we look at all students and as it works its way up, kids that need more support to be successful, develop skills and the different levels of support we need. So tonight, I want to focus on the big picture first and what we've kind of found when we take this proactive approach, we have clear consistent expectations. The good news is the students rise to meet those expectations. That that partnership comes with families communicating those things out. Our teachers and training, our administrators really doing a great job of getting those expectations out early and clear and concise. And so our first graphic I want to show you this evening
070is just the number of incidents. So when we look at discipline referrals across the board, about 90% of our students have never had a discipline referral this year. Right? So these are just numbers from this year. So when we look at the total number of kids that had an incident in school that resulted in them having to have some type of administrative attention, about 90% of our kids come to school every day, do exactly what they're supposed to do and and go home, right? And then if we look at the next slide, what we see is the total number of incidents from last year this year dropped about 600. So we had about 600 fewer incidents this year than last year that required administrative attention. Um, and I think all that is proactive work and
071our teachers and administrators doing the front-end work and really working with families and with kids to address those behaviors before they become major incidents. If we look at our next graphic, when we talk about serious school-based incidents, which require out of school suspension, that number decreases dramatically. And so about 97% of our kids have have had in no type of out of school suspension this year. So, we're really focusing in on that 3% at the top of our pyramid. So, I say all that to say, what a great place to be in work, right? About 90% of our kids do exactly what they're supposed to do. And only about 3% of our students get to that point where they need more assistance and spend some time out of school. So, it's really been a productive
072big picture when we look at the mass and kind of the whole for our students here in Campbell County Public Schools. We look big picture for our out of school suspensions on a three-year trend. We start from 23 24 and work our way down. The number of days kids are spending out of school are continuing to drop, which means there are less major infractions this year than they were last year and fewer than the year before that. So I credit really our administrators again and our teachers for working with families, partnering and really developing interventions before these kids get to a point where they need to be removed from school. So a lot of good consistent work and clarifying those expectations and reinforcing them in the school building leads to kids being in school and
073kids are in school they can learn. >> Is this a percentage based? >> So this is a steady drop. So >> or the number of >> No, it's it's a raw number. >> So when we're looking at the number of short-term suspensions, we're about a hundred fewer this year than last year. >> And I can I can definitely give you the raw numbers. um they're in a chart behind the graph. So >> I was wondering because I mean student population is decreased some as well. So I don't know >> how much of that was just kind of in parallel with the decreasing population versus >> that's fair and that's something I could look into percentage versus last year's numbers. >> Um but yeah, this is just a raw number. >> Okay. All right. >> Another
074question I have in regards to that. I see of course 20 to 2026 school year is not over yet. So, as far as pace year-over-year, >> so this is year these are year-to- date numbers. Okay. >> So, this would be um actually the end of November because this was going to be a December presentation. I want to have apples to apples comparisons, right? So, this is actually a year-to- date number from 24 and a year-to- date number for 25 26. So, the November of each school year, the end of November. And so as we talked while we look at those universal supports, we also did some things, you know, over the summer and moving into the fall to work with those students that have our most needs, our greatest area of needs that typically fill
075that 3% of space. And so these are the things we've kind of put in place that you all approved and were aware of as we move forward with putting extra behavioral support into our elementary schools. Our kind of a middle school redesign for Cornerstone where we have some students there that are there for intervention purposes, not necessarily there for long-term suspensions. And transition planning for our kids that are going back from Cornerstone and a I'll get a number, but a vast majority of our students that returned from Cornerstone, the recidivism rate of them coming back this year was much lower than it has been in the past. some kids went back and stayed at their school with the support of the staff at at Cornerstone and those student support specialists that are visiting them daily
076or weekly within their school and kind of supporting helping their transition and being that advocate when they need it and keeping them there at their base school. So, we did those things and the numbers we saw here, we kind of continue to see a drop in our severe behavior issues. So, our 10-day suspensions that require a discipline hearing. And again, we see a three-year trend where that's continually going down. Uh, this year, there are about 19 fewer discipline hearings the year to date from November, end of November of last year to the end of November this year. Once again, I think it's just a credit to our folks that are we have behavior teams in all of our schools now. They work um to identify kids early, work with students and their families to put
077interventions in place at their base school so they're able to stay, find academic supports for these students to limit frustration for those big disruptive behaviors that often end in long-term suspensions. So I think our schools have done a great job particularly as we grow in our middle and high school levels to develop those teams that identify kids early and get them help early so we don't end up in these types of situations. So, we see that trend working. Um, and hopefully we'll continue in that way where we're focused more on intervention than having to deal with it on the back end and being reactive. Our continued partnership with the Department of Justice and our courts unit, Campbell County Sheriff's Department still very strong. Um, we had a little bump at the beginning of the year
078with some processes, but we got that straightened out and have a been able to continue with our diversion type programs. And this year we've seen the same kind of consistency as last year. Um so again year to date we look at the end of November we had 11 drug infractions last year. The end of November we had 11 drug infractions this year. Um similar trend where some of those most of those occurred at the beginning of the year where it kind of tapered down. Our tobacco infractions and vaping infractions uh slightly lower. We had about four or five less end of November to end of November. So, while we're not making that dramatic change, we are keeping those numbers pretty low. And unfortunately, the reality is I we're going to shoot for zero, but zero,
079you know, maybe uh not always the we're going to shoot for zero. We'll see what we um we'll see if we can get there. So, those numbers have still been pretty good and I I think our again our staff's do a great job of monitoring those things, keeping everybody safe in our schools. One other big focus in all of education is attendance. And our attendance folks work very hard. We took and decentralized our attendance staff this year. Took our atrisisk coordinators, pushed them out into the division. So they now all specialize in a zone. Uh so each zone has an atrisisk coordinator that works with those specific school administrators in the zone. And so what we've seen, I think, is a much more intentional partnership uh with some of our family school administrators and really
080multiplying our impact. So, as we look and focus it on communication and effort and being proactive again, our our at risk coordinators now are at every school-based meeting. So, instead of having to wait till it gets to a division level meeting, they're having those conversations earlier with families and putting things in place to keep kids in school. Um so just giving an example at the end of November last year we had you know about 20 let me see 26 students that had attended our division level ITRT meeting that's the step right before you go to court you're there with with truency officers and those folks this year at the end of November we had had seven because everyone else we had found some solution to keep them in school prior to that so taking a
081proactive approach um I think our our attendance folks have done an outstanding job and our numbers for critical absenteeism while they were already really good all things considered last year I think it was a big highlight for our school division uh when you look around the area and you see numbers where kids people have chronic absenteeism in the 20% 25 28 30% in some locations we were about nine at the end of school last school year and if we keep pace year to date last year at the end of November we were about 5.4 four 5.5 and this year we've cut that percentage down to about 4.3 chronic absenteeism at the end of November. So I think the impact they're having um numbers are great but I'm also when I speak to them I meet
082them all collectively monthly monthly but I talk to them more often u hearing some of the stories where they've impacted families and families trusting the school division and working with them instead of feeling like it's punitive right there is a punitive side to it there's a punitive side to everything but if we can get on the other side where we have a trusting relationship I think that's proven to be more proactive and and more productive in getting kids in school and keeping them in So um they've seen some really good numbers and I'm I'm proud of that team of folks that have been working really hard to do that. So what we other things that we started this year you all gave us the permission to go ahead and utilize care portal as an agent
083that helps students who have specific needs mostly material but sometimes um in relational needs community members that reach out. So now anytime something drops in the care portal goes out to 22 nonprofit agencies around the region you know and a good situation has been that often our schools have done such a good job of partnering with community people before this was a thing a lot of small needs are met but we have seen six me six uh different incidents where there were bigger needs that were met and they were met by partners in our community within the first week. Uh, example would be, you know, we had a family have a hot water heater replaced because their kids couldn't take warm baths, right? We had, uh, recently a family who needed a dryer because their
084clothing didn't smell great because it it, you know, with mildew and things like that. So, and local churches have picked up these needs. We had a family mother out out of employment right around Christmas and it was honestly it was the 19th this occurred and we had somebody pick that up. So, those kids had Christmas, right? So material things, things on the spur of the moment. When our student support specialists get those needs, u they've been put in and our community does a great job of meeting a vast majority of those needs. And some things as simple as somebody needed a car battery, right, so they could get their kids to school. Um, and so those things are plugged in and it's been a relatively quick turnaround. I won't say the numbers. I thought we
085would have more requests, but the requests we have had have been genuine and people have had a pretty quick turnaround in getting them in there. Last thing, a lot of our staff trained on uh coping and support strategies training over the first semester and that implementation will actually start tomorrow with an identified group of people at every every high school in our division. Uh we ask high school teams that are part of their intervention process to identify kids that may be would benefit from learning a set of skills that would help them be more productive while in the school setting. And so we'll have individuals that'll go out weekly for the next 12 weeks in our second semester and work with small groups of individuals on skill-based training to help them with things like deregulation
086or um conflict or peer resolution and help them become more productive members in their school and hopefully keep them at their base school so they can continue to do the things that they want to do there. At this time I'll take any questions. I'll just replay that story I told you a week or two ago in your office that that one of the most impressive news stories I'd seen for a long time was the state of Mississippi which notoriously suffered you know in the past and they've had one of the steepest increases in student achievement and reading and so forth and they they interviewed whoever the head of the school system and and he said they focus on student behavior to you know and it everything he said just made sense. I mean it said
087just like you know if the kids are there and they're behaving and they're not distracting other kids from learning, you know, everything works good. And I mean it's like how can it be that simple? But but it makes it made so much sense. I just think what you're doing is great. Thank you. Agreed. >> Just a quick question about cast. I just kind of scrolled down quickly that the students are invited to participate. I noticed that. >> Yeah. >> So to make it not seem like, you know, the little bad kid club over here, you know, how how do we how does it look in the school? >> Right. So those those intervention teams are sometimes referrals from counselors. It's a pre-con conversation between that student and their parents about what the curriculum is going
088to be. And then like any good kind of skill-based training, you have to be a willing participant, right? So we didn't want to put it in a situation where pitted kids against the adults that were coming in. So they're actually going to go uh our staff worked with administrators to identify a time that would be the least disruptive least disruptive during the day. Most of them are in the for first 45 minutes of block one or the last 45 minutes of block two. That way kids are able to get that initial instruction within the block and not miss that much class time, but then they would report and have a 45 minute session with that individual. And every week they get a lesson based on whatever skill they're working on that week. Uh they have
089some kind of homework to practice and talk with their family about and process. And then the next week it's a new skill review and move forward. So they they 45 minutes 4550 minutes once a week in a small group setting usually six to eight kids uh with one of our trained personnel. Any other questions, concerns for Dr. Wilson? >> Keep up the great work. >> It's very encouraging. Thank you. >> Thank you. Thank you. >> All right. Um, Dr. Stanley, superintendent update. >> Well, first first let me say I mean that is encouraging. I mean, you talk about things that you can do where you can support kids with their behaviors and their attendance. And if they're in class, they're more likely to learn than when they're suspended or sitting in ISS. And uh and
090it doesn't happen by accident. It does. It takes a lot of effort. Um effort that tells kids we care. And I think that that makes a huge difference. Um so, thank you for that. Okay. And uh I think we're doing more in a in a proactive way now than we've ever done. And I think you saw the results. The numbers numbers don't lie. Even though we do have less fewer, we have fewer kids. >> You think about it, 95 96% kids over 90%, you know, they don't not only get in trouble for a year. I used to tell parents, I've got 90% of my kids in in the building that have never been to the office ever during the whole time they've been in school. It's not that complicated. They can do it. And uh
091and so those numbers reflect that. Thank you. Um well, I've got a little bit more good news for you. Um and then we're going to get into the not so good news. So, um you know, we talk an awful lot about pathways and and what are we doing to to get kids from the classroom to a successful career and and John, he stepped out of the room, but he and his staff over here do a great job of getting kids exposure. And you all know that we've got a great partnership with Terry Subaru. Um, so we got a brief video here to show you on uh one of the trips that they had over there. It's just it's just phenomenal. This trip is important because it doesn't just allow them to see what goes on
092in a service shop, but they get to visit the parts department. They get to visit sales. They get to take a look at finance and service writing in case maybe their interest is still in the industry but not necessarily turning wrenches. >> There's so many different areas within just one company that they get introduced to in a field trip like this. >> We looked at the sales department this morning and went through the parts room and got to look around the shop uh which is interesting cuz they have the Volkswagen and the Subaru side of the shop. We service roughly 90 cars at this location a day. Sales, service, parts, cleanup, technicians, service riders. >> What I would really like to do is engine building. I saw that they do a whole rebuild on the
093engine. they have like a separate job just for an uh alignment like tech as opposed to just everyone doing alignments >> to actually work with kids are interested in being in the automotive field and um introducing them to it and what's involved in um hopefully getting them to be interested in selecting this field as a career. >> Terry Suber seems like a great place. I mean great family of people, great atmosphere. We've done everything from having them into our labs to to work with our students, a lot of donations of materials even to vehicles. Right now, we have three students that are former students that are working here. >> I certainly wouldn't be here if it wasn't for the tech center. Uh, you know, I did a lot of work at the tech center that,
094you know, overprepared me to come to work here and it put me in a really good spot. You know, I didn't really have to spend a whole lot of time actually learning here. I got right to work. It really helped build a more of a work ethic and getting the understanding of how the field works and building the connections as well. Like taking the field trips, people coming in and interviewing and things like that helped us get that connection and just get our foot in the door and understand how it all operates. >> Before tech center class, I had never stepped foot in a shop before. Definitely conditioned me to what it would be like in the shop. >> It really it just was a great opening. You know, it was an opportunity for this
095job. >> Future students, don't wait. When I was a student, I spent a lot of my time thinking about what I was going to want to do and not actually doing what I wanted to do. Get it done now. Get it out of the way. And you start making money a lot faster. That's for sure. >> My favorite part of Mr. Myers class is just the fact that it's so hands-on. >> I know Mr. Myers wants the absolute best for us. He wants us to succeed and have the best when we graduate. >> I'm very happy with my decision to go to the tech center. We're really grateful to Terry for this longtime relationship and everything that they've done to support our program and our students. >> In my opinion, the best dealership in Lynchburg.
096I've been here 35 years. >> We look forward to continuing our relationship with them. >> Good stuff. >> So anyway, that's kind of what it's all about, right? Um, another great example of John, one of your staff members. That's that's two months in a in a row, I guess, with your electricity class. And now Mr. Myers, if you if you don't know Mr. Myers, I mean, what a what a great gentleman he is. Great example for our kids. Um, you hear the kids talk about him and uh and they're absolutely spot on. What a what a great guy. We're lucky to have him. So, the next thing I want to talk to you about is our joint board meeting tomorrow night with the board of supervisors. Um, that will be at the Haver building uh
097in the multi-purpose room at 7 o'clock. And I believe we've already forwarded you the agenda. >> Yeah. >> Uh agenda is pretty short. I mean, we'll open that up. Both, you know, boards open the meeting. Um and then Mr. Rogers will talk about um you know, um potential revenues for the county. Um and then it'll be my turn to talk about really the state of the school system and kind of where we are. And what I'll talk about is I'll I'll show some some slides on graduation rates, kind of where we are with performance and support framework and where each of our schools are and then talk about really what our focus is for the school year. And I wish I had some of those slats on attendance for in uh in behavior because they
098were fantastic. Um and and really just try to highlight, you know, what we've been dialed into this year and that really starts as always with safety and security. what are we doing there? Um, you know, our overarching focus this year was tier one instruction. I mean, we remember we had conversations over the summer. What's the most important thing? Tier one instruction. We've got all these new standards and we've got all these new resources. We've got to make sure that we're focusing on the right stuff, that we're teaching the right materials, and we're staying on track. So, so that has been a major focus. Um, but then we've also got the Brookville renovation. Obviously, that's going well. um slowly right but but it's moving Christine you see that every every day um and then we've just
099recently you know started in a into a partnership with another architectural firm RRM and we're doing a feasibility study at Alta Vista to talk about what those priorities would be if we did a renovation there. Um so kind of kind of setting the stage for the county. Obviously we don't do that without a ton of support from them. Um, and so we want them to know that their money is being well spent. Um, and then we're also going to show a brief video on the STEM plus M lab. And you know, you you've all seen it. We've shown you a few videos. Tomorrow night, it's going to be a new one and it's going to be really good. I promise. Um, but the supervisors, other than John, I don't think have seen it. Um so
100we got a great thing way to spotlight that and show that what we're doing there leads to pathways which leads to workforce which benefits everybody. So so we understand that is of the utmost importance. Um I'll give a snapshot on enrollment and and show you all have seen I've shown you some of these slides how enrollment is continuing to decline and that's for a number of reasons. Um and I can't say that I'm I have the all the right answers. I am doing an interview with SCT later this week to talk about homeschooling. Homeschool numbers in Camel County are up. They've gone up almost 150 over the past year. Um so so that's obviously having an impact overall and then you know declining birth rate you couple those two things together and it leads to
101less students and for us less students means less money. Okay. So so we'll talk about that in just a little bit. Um, so I'll show them the I'll show you all and and the board, you know, what our enrollment looks like throughout the county and then also show show our one blip, which you all know is Tomahawk Elementary School. Um, they're still sitting at 700 students, um, which is at capacity and I would say in the core classrooms probably 95, you know, approaching above capacity. So, we can talk about that tomorrow night in in terms of, you know, how can we ever potentially address that issue. Um, because you all know, you know, I've shown you some some we've talked about some some ideas of attendance boundary changes. You know, we're not just moving 100
102kids, okay? It's not that simple. It's kind of a domino effect. As you move one group of kids impacts another school, you got to move more. You got to move more. You got to move more. Um, so that's obviously a last, you know, a a solution of last resort. Um we'll continue to monitor that and uh and hopefully we won't get to a point where that has to happen. Um but it's certainly something that we have to keep our eyes on. Um then I will get into budget projections and I'm going to go ahead and show you that slide. um you know next year and I don't know if you've seen the paper but you see other school divisions talking about um budget priorities for next year and I have seen a ton of positions.
103We're not asking for a ton of positions. Okay. What I'm asking for for next year is basically one um 2% raise. That's what was um offered in the governor's budget which came out right before Christmas. So I would love to do a 3% raise. I mean, if we can somehow squeeze that out before this pro uh budget process is over, that would be the dream. Um, but right now, the governor's budget's got 2% and and you'll see how much that impacts our budget in just a minute. Um, we do have a few positions that we're anticipating needing when it comes to special education aids, um, and one adaptive classroom at Concord. You know, that will potentially be paid for through federal money. Um, but if you remember back to our performance and support framework, we
104got a couple cl couple schools that were off track and and and hopefully these aids will help address some of those issues that we're talking about. And then I would like to be able to put an administrative assistant at Tomahawk to address the the the capacity issues there. I mean, not only are their overall numbers growing, but their special ed population has doubled in the last 10 years. Their EL population has doubled in the last two years. So they've got more at risk kids that need more attention. Um we need to make sure we're providing them the supports. So our main focus goes back to instruction, tier one instruction, tier one instruction. Um so if you look at the the slide, you know, not only did we get a proposed budget from the governor for
105the next two years, the next baludget, but we also got a caboose budget for the remainder of this year. And in that budget, we had projected for this year having 7,374 kids. And in their budget, in the governor's budget, he built it on an ADM of 7,199, which is 175 fewer kids. That's from what we projected this year to what's sitting in the classrooms. When I look at my numbers, um, I don't see quite that low of a number. So, I've used the number 140. And just kind of understand that all all numbers are fluid. Okay? All numbers are fluid. And so, so we do a lot of rounding this time of year because this is going to change three or four times before it's over. But when we lose 140 kids, that's that's over
106a million dollars. I put a million dollars and that's that's that's conservative. It's probably more like 1.3. Um, so that's out of this year's budget that I have already budgeted for other things. Okay. Um, the governor also proposed a 2% bonus for this year, right? That bonus because that only applies to SOQ funded positions, we'd like to do a 2% bonus for everybody. Okay? So I we have to pick up the difference and that's roughly $600,000 to this year's budget. Okay. So then right out of right out of the gate that creates a $1.6 million gap for this year. So on Thursday when we meet with our principles I will be telling them we're going to be very conservative. I know they all have big ticket items and things that they want. But right now
107I've got to figure how to give everybody hopefully a 2% bonus at the end of the year. That's the number one priority. So everything else is going to have to kind of take a back seat um until we have a clear picture. So So how do we do that? Well, hopefully we'll have some unrealized savings in in fuel cost. Gas prices have been good. Um and maybe we have a few unfilled positions that we can fall back on. And then we're just going to have to look at every every category and see how we can squeeze $600,000 out of it to to to meet this goal of a of a bonus at the end of the year if it continues to go through. Okay. Again, that that could change. The general assembly could take this
108and and make um you know, take the bonus away, take the money away from the bonus and put that into a raise for next year. We just we just don't know at this point. This is kind of where we are now. So, right now for 2627, every two years the state will will do a rebenchmarking. Okay? It's kind of looking at the cost of living, do a rebenchmarking, and part of that means changing or evaluating the local composite index. The local composite index of a locality is really based on overall annual um sales t sales um home uh property values, things like that. and and what they do is they determine how much a locality can pay compared to what the state pays. So our local composite index went up, you can see 2877 to3094.
109That's saying that's a 7 and a half% increase, which is saying that our county can pay more because we're doing well in our county. Our county is thriving. All right. they can pay more in the in the amount of $4 million. Our county treats us very well. Okay, so $4 million and then if you look at loss of ADM this year we're looking at 140 to 175. Okay, next year they're projecting us to lose another 60 students. So that is a loss of $2 million in state revenues. So now we're up to six. If I do a 2% raise, which in the governor's budget, he's got a 2% raise for next year and the following year. Two a 2% raise. Okay. Cost us 1.6 million700,000 of that is our share to cover nonSOQ positions. Okay.
110So now we're up to six uh 7 7.7. All right. In the governor's budget, we've got rebenchmarking which is where the county I mean the state pretty much accounts for inflation and and other factors. And we've got more money, okay, potentially there. They did give us an additional $3 million in basic aid and in the overall state budget. So that's a great thing. That gets our number down to about 300 uh 3.7 million that we're looking at for next year. And that does not include insurance increases, which every every news outlet you look at have told me about increasing insurance rates. So I expect our insurance to go up next year. If it goes up 10%, that's a million dollars. Okay? So it doesn't include utilities, maintenance, any kind of additional pay increase increases above
111the 2%. So you can see we've got our work cut out for us, but at the same time, it's still very early. Okay? And and like I say, hopefully when the general assembly um tweaks the budget, you know, it will show some more money there. And this is to help us continue to offer services that we're offering. It's not adding a lot of positions. It's not adding new programs. got a lot of programs we'd like to add. Um, but at the same time, the priority is paying our paying our teachers, paying our staff, and continuing to operate as we are. Any questions? >> Sorry, we have to end on that note. >> Um, that's all I've got for you. >> Covering the bad stuff first. >> I know. Next time we'll cover the bad stuff
112first. All right. Thank you, Dr. Stanley. And we'll look forward to getting into a little more detail maybe tomorrow night at the joint meeting. Um, okay. Board topics. Um, Miss Parker, you start on your end. >> All right. Thank you, Chairman. Actually, it just uh popped up as a result of the discussion about budget. So, something else we're going to need to watch is um our new governor is planning on entering back into the Reggie, which will make us back to California rates of electric. So, uh we are one of the large we are, I believe, the largest consumer of electric in our county. I think uh one of the supervisors told me either the county or the county schools, one of the largest consumers of electric. So, that could be um another budget concern
113we keep our eyes out on. And so I also wanted to ask about that too. Uh, so I guess I'd direct it to our chairman um of you know or as someone as as chair would you be watching the legislation that starts Wednesday because we are going to have a lot of legislative changes that are going to affect us at the school level and I'm concerned about some of our policies might not be um strong enough to hold Campbell County values against some of the potential laws that we'll pass. >> Um, I mentioned one specifically, the one that we wrote a u approved a an amendment to the bill to allow felons to work and volunteer in our schools. While I realize Campbell County would be, you know, um, uh, good stewards of who we
114hire, of course, um, want to make sure our policy protects us if that does become a law that we have to consider those people. So that's just one example. So I would I would like the board to decide, you know, at the chair's discretion how we can keep a weather eye on the general assembly this year. And that's all I have. Thank you. >> All right. And Miss Parker, I don't know if you would be interested or not in serving as our liaison to um new laws that are coming our way, but um if so um >> I would love >> you could bring those to our attention as they come available and we could discuss them and make sure our policies are in alignment with as you say the Camel County values so to
115speak and uh try not to um go in a very severe different direction than we already are because that's what our >> I would love to participate in that but since our vice chair position does the delegation and does the amendments and dissensions and things um through the VSBA lobbying I think that would be something maybe we even do an ad hoc committee for legislation this year maybe with um Miss Tanner being the chair of that and maybe I be just a member of that. >> Okay. Um just just thinking out loud. >> All right, Miss Tanner, is that something? >> Absolutely. >> Okay. >> All right. Um and any other members of the board? Um other than I guess so, Miss Tanner, Miss Parker, you two could tag team that. I don't know if
116there's any other members of the board that have an interest in taking part on that. >> Can't have any more. That'd be three members. >> Okay. All right. So, we'll have you too and let us know and we'll dig into policies that are challenged by new laws that legislation that may come up. So, thank you for bringing that up, Mr. Parker. >> Okay, Mr. Jones. Uh, I had to go back to Christmas time stuff, but I had to do it because Concord had quite a few events following our December meeting. But they had um the Christmas play was called Jingle Bell Jukebox, which was kind of set a new standard for Concord Elementary because they used to just have acting and but they had dancing and tumbling and I mean it was it was it
117was pretty impressive. Even even I said it was impressive. And then they had the Christmas at Concord event which last year was outside and it was really spectacular and this year they had to move it inside because of rain but must have been said they had 800 people there. >> Mhm. >> And it was amazing to see everything that was there for the kids to participate in and enjoy and they were just having a great time and my hats off to Mr. minute for him and his staff and spouses of the staff and volunteers and just everybody there pitching in and helping. And it was really, really, really impressive. And he says they're having a Valentine's Day event on February 6th. I don't know what that is, but he said there's a Valentine's Day event
118on February 6th and the first and second grade sing along in February. and Rusber Middle School, which David I apologize, but at Rusburg Middle School, they're having the play Alice in Wonderland Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. Golly, Dad, I have to tell you. Um, it's the last month, last week in a month. >> Um, but it's going to be it's going to be good. I got to go to that. And again, the donations um and certainly Georgia Pacific made a a a big a big donation to all of our schools pretty much and it was just very very impressive. And on a personal note, um my mother taught school at Concord forever and ever and ever. She started teaching when I started going to school and she had a hundred hundred year old birthday Saturday >>
119and a lot of her a lot of her student teachers came to the event and they're not student teachers anymore. They're old negative folks like me. But but um they they they were just my mother had to um she was known as a teacher who could teach a rock to read and >> and and it was amazing to see getting old is tough. You get you lose your hair, you lose your mind, you lose your teeth, you get fat, you get wrinkles and that getting old is tough. But I was presented evidence that some people don't suffer. Uh the man to my right, bottom left, fourth grade, looks the same as he did in the fourth grade today. >> Yeah. Right. >> No gray hair. >> Right. >> Uh that was that was brought to
120my attention. So some people ace like fire wine and I'd be like you. >> I thought you going to call me a rock. Oh yeah, she learned how to read. >> Did she teach you? >> She did. >> So she taught you how to read. Is that right? >> One of her students was there and said that I remember she remembered my mother hitting her over the head with a pencil >> and cracking her knuckles with a ruler. >> And my mother said there Saturday, she said, "Well, you must have been misbehaving." And she said, "Oh, I was." So, but that's all I got. But I I thought you'd enjoy your picture. >> Fantastic. Dr. saying you need to work on those collars a little bit. They're way too tucked in. Need to flare back
121out a little more. >> All right, Miss Tanner. >> Just to let you guys know, I'll be reaching out to all of you when you're um assigned schools. This is totally unrelated to my board position, but my extension position is I'm invading the schools with um financial literacy workshops from elementary school all the way up to high school. So, I will send you I think I already gave Gary some dates um as those are coming up just because we love to have volunteers kind of work those tables. We need some extra hands. Um B meal contacted me today about getting on the list um for our kids marketplace. So, don't ignore that email when I send it to you or I'll send a text message and just give y'all some dates. If y'all can be
122there, I'd love to have you because those are filling up. We always need extra people. Um don't have a whole lot because we've not been in school very long. um by all means. But I got good news today and so I don't want to mess up the award, but Sherry Spar, our economic um teacher at Brookall High School was awarded the outstanding economic educator, but I wasn't sure who it was by um award for economics. >> Yes, >> I think that's right. Okay, counsel. Perfect. Wonderful. So, congratulations to one of our teachers and I'm going to hand it over and let Christina give any updates. I was thrilled to see tons and tons of workers still over Christmas break um that they were there. They were working um as I made my my daily drive
123to the Y um with little one for practice. It was nice to see that those >> the building was still, you know, under construction. They were still working and they were still Yeah. Yeah. No, but I know that we've started work on on the the theater and so I think you want to update us on >> Well, they took over the auditorium which meant that now we don't have where our historical um entrance is. It's now in a different place. But the kids have done fabulous figuring out which way to get in. I mean, they're getting in. So, um so that's been good. They've done a good job with that. And I just want to say kudos to Mr. Mario Ruiz who has really helped continue the middle school band program with the loss of
124Mr. Paulus and I know that Dr. Stanley and Dr. Hail attended the band concert at Brookville Middle. So, he has really stepped up and taken over and done a really good job with that. So, kudos to him. >> Great. That's all I had. >> Thank you, Christine. >> All right. Thank you, Mr. Maddox. Um, I had a workable parent contact me and asked me why we were I guess the word requiring our administration to go to VHSO training. And I said we weren't. And then I said, let me check into it. And so I asked Dr. Stanley for our agreement with the VHSL. And to my surprise, article six says that we will require them. And I was I just want to know, did other board were other board members aware of this? And if
125not, how did this get put in here without I mean, based on what we discussed in our meeting, that wasn't in there. So I'm just concerned about how that got in there, whose idea it was, and why we weren't informed. >> So what the requirement for training is part of the VHSL policies or part of the agreement? >> Part of our agreement with the VHSL. >> Okay. Yeah. I was not I don't recall any >> I got what we agreed to right here. Whatever the date was. Um, you know, a couple things bothered me with that, but um, one, the fact I didn't know made me look like a fool. So, uh, anybody wants to answer that question, I'd appreciate it. When I got that, I shared that with I think our Brookville um members
126and and thought that a reconciliation training, a way for us to sit down face to face with the high school league um with Miss White, members of her staff. We've talked about that. Um I've asked Mr. Wilson um as a central office lays as well as myself to go and to kind of work these things through and to have conversations about um what happened with that um situation and how we can best avoid it in the future. I think working it through as adults is probably the best thing for everybody and uh and a good idea. And the board members that I did speak to agreed. >> Did we put that in there though or was that brought was that something the BHSL added? something the BHSL added. >> They added that. >> Correct. >>
127The executive committee that >> but we we were not notified of that. >> Not as a not as a board. No, you weren't. >> That's a problem. That's all I got. Thank you. >> Is that a one time >> one time >> training event? That's our training slashd discussion type event, I guess, is what it sounds like. So, >> correct. Okay. So, is that just for Campbell? Just for Brook >> and central office. We're going to go as well. >> Why don't we send everybody? >> Well, after I attend it, if it's good, maybe we will. >> Well, I mean, I guess technically the training maybe should what I'm being told is the school board is the ones that caused this problem because we've ever let them play. So if that's the case, looks to
128me like we should have had to try. The >> best thing that we can have moving forward is from uh Miss White and her staff to be in on good terms and have a good working relationship with the Virginia High School League. That's going to be best for her school and for her students. Hopefully we can ensure that by going to this um again, Miss White and I have talked about it. Um we've included her AD and one of our assistant principles. um and and also good uh conversations for some of our senior staff. So, we look at this as an opportunity. >> I agree 100%, but we should have been in the loop. >> Not. >> Okay. Anything else, Mr. Maddox? >> That's it. >> All right, Mr. Pierman. >> Good evening, everyone. Uh
129chairman, Dr. Hail, uh Dr. Stanley and the rest of the board. Um it has been a pleasure to uh to be here today and to uh hit the ground rolling to get started. Uh I had a great orientation where I spent the day uh uh at central office and got to meet um a lot of people and got to learn a lot of items. So uh I did not leave out with my head spinning. So that was a good thing um first of all. Uh, so since I've been sworn in, uh, I've got to sit down and meet, uh, again with, uh, Principal Cartwright and, uh, with Principal Harrison and had good conversations with both of them. Actually, this week I got to go visit both campuses. Um, and I got to, uh, have a
130I probably got about 8,000 steps in with Mr. Harrison. I think he was giving me a workout as we as we talked, but we had a great visit. Uh, but I started at uh, William Camel Combined, so I'll talk a little bit about what um, we have going on there. So tonight, first of all, there is a uh Brookdale Elementary School night at William Campbell uh at the games tonight. So all of the Brookdale Elementary School students got to uh get in for free with a paying adult. Uh so I'm sure that was a great event. I would have been there to to see um you know that. Uh but we had a meeting tonight. Um and I have got to attend a um JV and varsity game. Uh I I got to go Monday
131and check uh out the JV team and they got a win uh against uh Smith Mountain Lake uh Christian Academy. Uh also uh William Campbell just had an open house on the 7th. Uh that went really great. Uh the PTO uh provided meals for the entire school staff. Uh they love that. We're very appreciative. Um the B team for basketball is off to a six and0 start. Uh they've been undefeated and their margin of victory is uh nearing 20 points. So, they're having a very good season. So, it looks like the future is bright with the uh the younger uh staff there. Uh and and the older guys on JV and varsity and our our ladies team are working really hard. Um we've got our future center up and running. Uh Dr. King uh is
132there and has already met with a lot of high school students and is helping them with career exploration and future planning uh for when they attend high school. So, I think that is very key. um so testing uh and exams of course uh is underway that started Thursday and CTE testing uh for the semester. So uh that's underway at William Campbell and they're um having a a really good uh year so far. Um as I was saying before, I got to go and uh talk to principal um Harrison as well. Uh had a great visit with him. Got to take a full tour of the school. even got to see the basement. Um the infamous basement, uh which is not as bad as you think. It's not a dungeon. Uh but we got some highlights
133from there. First of all, um the kids there this year are actually having lunch uh in the cafeteria now. That's the first time they've been able to do that in the last four years. Um kids were there and were eating as I got there. So uh they were uh well behaved. Um you know, teachers and staff were engaging. Uh things went really well. Um I I stopped counting at 16 high fives with Mr. Harrison uh with the children uh during lunch. So very good interaction there. Uh again I told you about be dees night. Um and then there was a holiday event that got postponed uh because of the weather. So that's coming up on the 23rd and that's going to be at 5:00. So their holiday event which the students are very excited about
134is coming up there. Uh and then we've got the 100th day of school coming up on on uh the 2nd of February. So, those are some of the things that are going on uh in bees. Uh I've uh tried to hit the ground running. Um I thank everybody for your patience. Uh and uh hopefully I don't ask too many questions because uh tend to be pretty inquisitive. >> That's all I have. >> All right. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Uh Miss Fawn. >> All right. Well, again, I wanted to echo thank you for the donations. looking at that um number is definitely humbling and um appreciative to be a part of a community that cares so much and gives back so much to um our young people. Um coming back from break, it's been a pretty
135quiet and short week, especially after all the snow days. It almost feels like we had three weeks off, even though I know it was only two. Uh my kids are on Monday, last Monday, the bus pulled up and they're just like dragging to get to the bus. The poor bus driver is like, "Nobody wants to go with me today." I was like, "Oh no, get out of here. Get out of here." Um so, you know, they're wiped out getting back into routine. And um my son was convinced that um we don't have school tomorrow because he said it was a 4-day weekend. And I'm like, "No, buddy. It was it was today. You have school tomorrow." but he's he's protesting uh getting up early tomorrow. So, um I hope everyone enjoyed the break. Looking forward
136to getting back to a normal routine. Uh quick reminder that Brookville Middle School has an open house on January 15th from 4:30 to 6:30. And congratulations to the BHS one act team on their awards, especially Sarah Beaker and Ethan Emanuel for earning top actor awards. Well done, Be's. That's all I got. >> Okay. Thank you. Um few things ahead this evening. Um so there's a life changer of the year. It's a national recognition program that honors K through2 educators and we have two educators that have been nominated. Cassie King. Um Mr. Hardy, I think she's with the culinary center here. Um so that's >> she retired. she retired, >> but she was so and she's still nominated for the award. So, yeah, >> it's her second. >> And Haley Blanks uh is a math teacher
137at Rusber High School. She's also nominated for that. So, um I didn't get information. I think over the next few weeks um a panel will be getting together to look at all applicants. So, we'll see kind of how that pans out, but it's good to have a couple of nominees for that award. Congratulations to those teachers. Um, Dr. Joan, Dr. Jones, you're not a doctor. Mr. Jones, you mentioned uh the middle school had a play. We also have a play being put on by the theater department at the high school in Rustburg and it is every Hallmark movie ever. So, um, kind of have an idea of seeing a few of these myself, probably a lady coming back to a hometown and meeting somebody. Um, but that's January 23rd and 24th at 700 p.m. So,
138um, admission is free, but they're taking canned food items, which will go to the Howland Height Baptist Church Food Bank. So, that's a a great um, community involvement issue that they're doing. So, congratulations to them. Um, Mr. Pierman, welcome to the board. Um, happy to have you and thanks for your um, input tonight and updates. Uh, thanks to Mr. Tweety. He snuck out on us a while ago, but I appreciate him coming and updating us on the real estate proposals. Uh, Dr. Hail and Dr. Wilson, thank you guys for your presentations tonight. Um, again, I'll echo the uh, gratitude for our donations from the community. And I think that is all I had noted. So if there's nothing else, I'll ask for a motion to adjurnn motion. >> Got a second. All right. All those
139in favor. >> All right. Thank you guys. >> Now I'm going to call you. That's okay. with a company called Black and they have changed