001welcome everybody I'd like to bring the Monday March 10th Schoolboard meeting to order and as usual we're going to start with Pledge of Allegiance followed by 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 liy and justice for all thank you all and I understand we have no speakers this evening correct all right well then we will start with approval of the February 10th meeting minutes I ask for a motion to approve motion second all right we have a motion and second any comments or Corrections on the meeting minutes all in favor please indicate by saying I I any opposed thank you and then our joint board meeting minutes from January 14th I ask
002for a motion to approve those to approve second got a motion and second any comments on that set of minutes on let me let me ask his question okay I'm I'm sorry I was thinking I was thinking the other joint committee meeting okay I'm we're good all right uh all in favor of approving the motion indicate by saying I I any opposed thank you payment of bills Mr chairman I move we pay the bills in so far as funds allow a motion second second have a second thank you any questions about the bills all in favor of paying indicate by saying I I any opposed motion carries donations we had another very generous month Mr mccan tonight you have a list of donations for your approval unless you have any questions I ask that you
003present them as presented approve them as presented sorry I would just like to mention that Pacific life is a very good Steward to our County appreciate that motion to approve the donations motion second motion to Second any followup any questions all in favor please indicate by saying I I any opposed carries motion carries non-resident tuition Mr mle Hand we have a list of non-resident students for approval unless you have any questions I ask that you approve those motion to approve second motion second any questions all in favor please indicate by saying I I any opposed motion carries supplemental Appropriations tonight you have four Appropriations for approval unless you have any questions on those I ask you approve those as presented motion to approve second I have a question the um the money the technology money
004was that new money um that I already asked that trick trickled in out of nowhere um they've um I guess had extra money and reallocated in addition to some new money that's great news so good I'm sure we can put it I'm sure we can put it to good use yeah 154,000 yeah I'm sure we we can do something with that yeah great um any question any other questions all in favor of approving that motion indicate by saying I I any opposed thank you motion carries Personnel report Miss Hunley thank you Mr chairman members of the board we are steadily filling our vacancies for next year our principes are doing a great job um just to let you know a couple reminders on the um Personnel report the asterisks are um Campbell County graduates so
005we started putting that designation on there so you guys will see that um a number of these hires are also from our career fair um and then Mr Dr Anella let me know that we still have our shortages however he does have five of our current van drivers in a CDL class this week so we're hoping that all five of those van drivers that he's working with to get their CDL will work out um after this class so that's good news so unless you have any other questions I'd ask that you approve it as written did you mention the amount of driver short as you could have or do you know ACC combination 10 full-time and part-time 10 okay any questions all right then I ask for approv I I noticed the asteris and Katherine
006Baker that's Katie Baker from rusber I'm not sure I'd have to double check yeah no she's not Katy baker anymore that's right not okay I I thought to I can look it up and let that's okay that's all right good be okay um it was a great report and um it's good news are there any more filtering through from the job fair at all yes yeah we still have um like I said principes are still hiring um we started off we always hire our student teachers that are in our buildings um and then usually the top couple from the career fair several principles are wanting to talk to but yes sir there are several still from the career fair that will end up hiring good and there's actually since this Personnel report was done there's
007there's been a couple more so hires do we ever have principes fighting Uber well I wouldn't say fighting but maybe there's there they are um they they talk to the same people so we have a process for that where they have to call me and we make sure that it happens fairly that we're not putting too many offers on the table for um the candidate because not the best terminology yeah so friend friendly banter yes it does happen though where they do want the same folks so we try to work it out with whoever has the greatest needs or sometimes it is you know where the applicant would be the best fit um for them what they prefer that kind of thing but it does happen every once in a while any other questions comments
008okay all in favor oh did we get a motion yet no motion we need a motion second we got a motion and a second great and all in favor please indicate by saying I I any opposed motion carries thank you very much all right Dr McCormack consideration of the special education annual plan good evening Mr chairman Dr Stanley members of the board I'm here this evening to present to you the special education annual plan application for funding which you have attached in your board docks the annual plan application actually serves as a formal agreement between the Campbell school board and the Virginia Department of Education to ensure that we are implementing the regulations regarding special education services the purpose of the plan is to assure that all children with disabilities have available to them a
009free and appropriate public education the plan is actually a three-step process first the plan must be presented to our special education advisory committee this has been completed on February 10th the next component is presenting the plan for approval to our school board and then upon approval we submit the plan to the Virginia Department of Education for approval upon approval by the Virginia Department of Education funds are released and we would anticipate this being in late summer to give you a reference point of um how our funds are calculated this is our December one snapshot and our funds are calculated on the student count that we have every December one this year our count was 1,247 students with disabilities which is up approximately 28 students from last year in Breaking that number down for you you
010can see the different disability categories and how many of those have stayed the same um we do still continue to see growth in our categories of autism which is represented by aut as well as other health impairment which is Ohi the actual annual plan is made up of eight different sections the assurances the special education and local and Regional JY how we implemented our previous year's plan funds our maintenance of effort coordinated early intervening Services proportionate set aside part 611 and part 619 in the application you will notice that both part 611 and 619 have funding amounts attached to them in the assurances we must certify that we do not have any barriers that would impact the implementation of special education programs in Campbell County we also seek to ensure full participation of students teachers
011and other program people with special needs in designing their federally assisted projects or activities in doing so we also have to take a look at our mission and vision which aligns with us not having any barriers so our mission enables every student to choose and pursue any post K12 Endeavor the next component you will notice in the application is special education and local and Regional jails we do have an adult facility in our division so we are required to participate ate in anou with our local and Regional jails what this means is that if an individual um is in one of our facilities that's located within Campbell County who is considered a student with a disability age 18 to 22 who has not graduated with a standard diploma is detained for 10 or more days
012and wishes to have Services as a School Division we send someone to provide those Services the third section is the implementation of the previous year's plan our previous year plan was was implemented with Fidelity and all of the funds were used to pay salary and benefits for staff for our special education program the fourth section is maintenance of effort eligibility and what this means is that we are required as a division to spend as much in local in state funds or local plus State funds as we did in the previous fiscal year for our students with disabilities you can see in this component of the application that we have budgeted um to ensure that we are spending more than we spent the last year the fifth section of the application is what is called comprehensive
013coordinated early intervening services or cceis and these are services that are required for us to set aside if we show disproportionality and discipline or eligibility we are not required to set aside These funds at this point in time which is a good thing because we don't want to have to take 15% of our federal funds and set them aside the next component is proportionate set aside and what this money is this these are funds that are required for us to set aside based on the number of parentally privately placed students or homeschooled students who have disabilities right now that's around 31 students that we are required to set aside funds for the last two components of the application are the actual funding components of the application so part 611 funds are flow through federal funds
014that are used for school age programs for students identified as having a disability under idea these funds are used to pay salaries for 20 full-time teachers three Specialists and six teacher assistants the part 619 funds are also known as preschool funds or early childhood special education funds we use these funds to pay for one full-time Early Childhood special education teacher but it is important to note that the amount of money that we receive here does not pay that individual's full salary and benefits you can see that for 611 funds um we anticipate receiving about $1.9 million $72,000 of that would have to be set aside for proportionate set aside and then for our 619 funds we anticipate receiving about $46,000 with 1,300 of that being set aside for proportionate set aside this slide just gives
015you an overview of funding what we Reed received this year compared to the previous year as you can see our 619 funds um are pretty commensurate 611 dropped a little bit but not a significant amount and then just to remind you all that that we use that to pay for 20 full-time special education teachers six par professionals and three instructional staff support staff it's important to remember that along with this application that this is only addressing our federal funding local and state funding are also requ to meet the needs of students with disabilities and the maintenance of effort requires us to spend at least as much in state and local funds as we did in the previous school year and to end on a positive note I would just like to highlight the work of
016our students our families our teachers and our administrators for our overall local determination on the special education annual performance report we received meets requirement which is the highest ranking that you can receive on this report and we received 37 out of 40 points we also continue to be high with graduation rates for our students with disabilities with about 71% receiving standard or higher diplomas I'm happy to answer any questions that you have regarding the application can you go back like three to the funding if you can't that's fine sure this one the 611 dropped is the reason the funding dropped I mean it's just based on their C calculations for the year so they look at the number of students that we have with disabilities our total number of students and then our local Composite
017Index okay thank you but didn't you say you had to spend more each year in local and state local and State okay what if your needs drop I which would be a blessing but you know if you had fewer students that needed care if your needs drop you can apply for what they call an exception so they have different categories where if you had a student who required very intensive services for one year that was expensive and they graduated then you could deduct that the next year you just have to fill out the paperwork for the exception there is no exceeds requirements meets requirements is the top our teachers exceed requirements so I'm very proud of our teachers and the administration and our buildings for the work that they do for our students okay how
018frequently is the um local jail um how frequently is that used it depends so in the past two years it has not been used frequently because many of the the individuals who who are detained actually go to Amherst and so we don't go to Amherst um but three to five years ago we would have several individuals that we worked with on an annual basis but for the last two years we have not served any individuals so so does ammer County Schools have to pay for that Amherst County would have to do their own application for which they receive funding even if there are even though it might be our student if they're in Amhurst County yes in the Region Jail corre okay thank any other questions Dr Cory so we have to we have to
019approve this plan sir yes sir and you're comfortable with the plan I am yes sir we only use it to pay for staff salary and benefits and that's a requirement for us to be able to help students so I'm very comfortable with okay and you're comfortable with the numbers I am yes sir So eventually we may have to look at reducing the number of staff that we pay for through this because when we offer raises the increase in the actual Grant doesn't meet or doesn't isn't commensurate with our raises so I'm comfortable with it for this year next year we may have to look at removing one person from the Grant and paying for that through local funds or other means so the numbers that you came up with for state and local budget where
020where did those numbers come from did they tell you what those numbers were going to be ahead of time or for state and local no sir we have to make an estimate based on the number of students that we have and I work with our finance department to make that estimate so in theory If instead of losing a person you could ask for more correct we could so it would we wouldn't necessarily lose a person I could not fund that person with federal funds we would have to look at other funding sources for them thank you okay any other questions all right well then so what does it take to get more Federal funding I mean I saw both you and Michelle looking like that's the way it goes what does it take to get
021more Federal funding if you need the bodies to get more Federal funding they would have to change their funding model speak to your legislators yes I think that's the struggle with special education is that our federal funding is based purely on numbers and positions with numbers not on true need or true cost and so we all recognize that the cost sometimes exceeds what the federal funding allows us with state and local unfortunately okay all right so I would entertain a motion motion to approve second any other questions all in favor please indicate by saying I I any opposed thank you for an excellent presentation and explanation I don't know that we've had that explanation in that detail before all right Dr Wilson evening sir Mr chairman Dr Stanley members of the board we have one
022request for Rel religious exemption brought for your consideration this evening if you don't have any questions ask that you approve it as present make a motion to approve second have a motion second any questions all in favor please indicate by saying I I any opposed thank you Dr Wilson sir all right Dr Stanley calendar change thank you Mr chairman after uh after two full weeks of school thankfully uh hopefully we've got our our snow days behind us um but due to the fact that we had eight and some schools had nine days that they missed um mostly due to weather I think Concord and Brook may have had one day they missed because of power outages um we're asking you to consider a revision to our calendar and make next Friday's March 21st work day
023a regular school day for students um again we've had approximately eight to nine full days that we missed three of those we use remote learning to get content to our kids um and those remote learning days the feedback that I've heard that it went very well very pleased um but at the same time even though I think we're going to be okay in terms of our clock hours and instructional hours at the high school um level any High School Credit bearing course um they're supposed to get 140 hours of seat time and we're going to have to request a waiver because we're not going to meet that um and we just think that this um inperson instruction is important for our students um it's hard because we know our teachers a planning day and a
024work day but at the same time we feel like it's best for our kids to be in school that day so I'll be happy to that's next that's next Friday 21st so Dr Stanley I have a question uh was in and you know uh had some inquiries about that today um and I kind of referred teachers to their principes or their Department directors and of never taught so I've only I've only been a mom so I didn't know how it would look but I suggested maybe they have suggestions I don't know if they could do some shared classes depending on where the studies fall or have a quiz or a test time that maybe won't be a total teaching burden on the Stu the teachers that day I didn't know if anybody's already discussed something
025like that and uh and I took the full blame too for working really hard to get this teacher work day on the calendar because we haven't had bad weather and then year it's on the calendar so I I took 100% credit um that I apologize that it it really does stink to have to take it back um instead of give it when we don't have um snow days so had to learn the hard way and I apologize for that uh for to the teachers but I was also seeing maybe if they could have if it was appropriate in the course of their studies for like media day like a movie or something where the teachers could still have a little bit of time for planning because I I know they're very concerned um about not
026having enough of their time that they were looking forward to right so I didn't know if well we've got a principal me more and that's certainly something we can discuss and to see if we can be creative on how we can carve out some time for our teachers yeah wherever possible it's not easy I can assure you I know I know yeah well well the only other alternative is extending the school year and I don't think we want to do that either and then we have a tag day correct these these days prior to AP testing prior to so testing for the ones that matter the best option I mean I've been on the fence you know I think it's coming from an elementary perspective and you think you know you need that planning time
027because we've got those kids that full day constantly all the time but then you look at it as a block schedule and you think of these you know middle school high school classes that have really haven't had had their subject area since we started this new semester you know they've missed this many days that's hard on correct those teachers and and those kids to be ready for AP exams and everything else so it's it's a hard toss up because I agree teachers need the professional development day and I know Ann fought for that and I supported that 100% to have those extra days in but it's a hard balance and I don't want to extend the calendar into June I think we already are going longer than area school districts I'm hearing that too Dr
028Stanley didn't you say we've only been two full weeks since Christmas I have not gone through and counted it out but I know that the past two weeks um may have been the first time we've had two weeks back to back since Christmas yeah potentially yes so basically this is what the central office is recommending correct well I would I I'm sorry for the teachers and um but U I think any of the entertain was recommended so I I would ask for a motion to approve the calendar change and eliminate the teacher work day motion second all in favor please indicate by saying I I any opposed it's okay if you oppose so okay motion carries so kids have to go to school next Friday okay and what we've all been waiting for is our
029budget Stanley us how much money we got don't have good question I keep asking Michelle um first of all let me start by saying I want to thank Michelle and her staff I think I walk down just about every day and say do we have any updates and uh you know as you all know this time of year we we've got a mooving Target okay so it's kind of hard to say this is exactly what the budget's going to look like um but we've got some estimates and we're going to give you our best you know guess as to what we expect and uh and show you what we did to balance what we have so far um to start with you know the governor has already proposed a budget and both the the House
030and Senate have come back with a proposed budget themselves but it has not been signed and I think the governor has until end of the month um 2th yeah um March 24th to veto or sign it or or amend it um so this process could go on a little longer um hopefully it'll be wrapped up and and we'll have a done deal here um fairly soon um to start with tonight I do want to show you a slide that pertains to this year's budget in the general assembly's um budget for next year and and and really wrapping up this year they have included a one-time $1,000 bonus for all s soq funded positions and that's to be paid no later than June 1st okay again this is not passed yet but we're anticipating it passing
031okay and as you look at that slide there you can see that we've had a decrease of 89 almost 90 students in ADM throughout the course of this school year so even though we've lost that funding Michelle's been able to squeeze out enough to make sure that if this bonus passes we've got enough to give all full-time employees $1,000 bonus and part-time employees will get a $500 bonus so we feel really good about that we're we're in good place if that passes this is is this instead of the the the governor approved or wants to have a 3% raise correct for next year oh this is from this okay for this year okay this is this is one slide that pertains to this year and that was included in the general assembly budget okay but
032the governor could veto that if correct correct okay all right so for next year's budget we're still projecting a loss of ADM so money that we get from the state looks like we'll will slowly decline over the next five eight 10 years what we did is we took the governor's budget and the budget from the House and Senate and we did an average okay the additional money coming to us from the general assembly side includes money for special education it also Al provides money um because they raised the support cap in uh from 24 to 27 um positions per th000 kids and it includes a 3% raise so as you all know our main targets our main priorities for this year's budget was to do a 3% raise if we could add two and a
033half gifted positions for our elementary level gift program and also address our bus driver pay scale so if we average the governor's budget and what the general assembly gives us we can come out with all three of those things however we do have some Cuts in some other areas to get there what we had to do is basically take 1% from everybody's budget non-personnel items and where we could we went back in our budget and when we saw um maybe we have not been spending as much as we have in the past we we shed up our budget to make sure that we were um more in line with what we were actually spending and anything that was over and above what we had spent the last few years we took that out so we
034we Tred up our lines we also realized the savings uh I don't know if you recall but last year we switched insurance carriers I we went went Vore we saved approximately $140 $150,000 there there was no change in vrs um employer contribution rates which was good and one thing that this budget does not do is it does not budget for health insurance increases um we have seen health insurance increases pretty much every year for for as long as I can remember this budget doesn't include any so what would that mean if insurance goes up well we've got a fund balance that we can rely back on to possibly cover that increase or when we have an adopted budget if it includes all of the money from the general assembly we'll put that money back in
035so what we did basically is we tightened our belt but we got the two and a half get give positions we addressed the bus driver pay scale um and we gave a 3% raise for all employees so I'm pretty excited about that would you go over there adding one elementary teacher but it was absorbed at the secondary level correct know what that means when it comes to Personnel changes you see right there where it says two and a half gifted positions It also says we're in need of adding one elementary teacher at yellow Branch but in going through our our I guess our schedules we've identified that at one of our secondary school so we're just going to absorb it and it'll be a wash okay and then we also removed one vacant position uh
036we will not refill is that a teaching position um yes it's considered a teaching position but yeah so um even though we're losing our ADM I can't recall I can't recall them raising the support cap for is this the first time or first time in a long time first time in a long time so apparently the support cap was lowered back during the recession and there has been a push to raise that because we all know that it takes more people than what's provided for an soq positions and so they have uh raise that in the general assembly budget from 24 to 27 so by doing that is that going to offset some of that decrease in our ADM yes yeah that provides us with more funds to pay people that we're already paying right
037that's that's significant yes it is yes it is so again it's still kind of a moving Target if if all we get is the governor's budget then we're going to have to go back and we're going to make some more Cuts okay we'll have to go back and we'll review um the the Personnel additions of Two and a Half gifted positions and we'll have to look at um the bus driver pay scale that might have to come off the table okay if we don't have the money to fund it what I've done here this is an average the governor and the general assembly if the general assembly's budget passes fully then I will go back and and and add to some of these lines that we that we um took money out of and go
038back to our health insurance and make sure that we've budgeted for a significant increase the bus driver pay scale um at the increase that you've indicated do we have a feel for how much more competitive we are or we're more competitive with that amount yes we're we're at the top of the list behind one other School Division but I'm not naming names so with that additional money there for bus drivers will do is not only will they get a 3% pay increase but they will also get an average from top of the scale to bottom of an additional 6% I think van drivers it was an additional 1.2% on top of the three so almost a 10% increase correct so what you'll see when you go through the budget is you'll see a lot of
039categories where we've reduced lines again that's kind of the 1% from everybody um where we've made sure that our budget is is reflection about what we've actually spent over the last few years so traditionally we've had carryover some of it has to do with just fiscal differences by cutting these this 1% we're cutting into whatever that typical carryover is going to be is that potentially potentially yeah until until the end of this school year is done you know we're talking about the end of next year so yeah that could potentially happen so yeah and then of course whatever we normally carry over the county sets aside for us in CIP projects okay so we go to the next slide I mean we've got some other just kind of informational slides here for you so our
040ADM this year when we started the school year was 7,461 um our spring projected you can see is is dropped from to 7,393 and what we're projecting for the for next year is losing another another 20 some kids um we have a projected ADM of 7,374 what was are projected versus our actual um because there's a difference you know almost 40 kids on projected what was our do you have a rough idea so our projected number there CC for cam schools is lower um and that's pretty much just a reflection of lower birth rates but doesn't take into effect people moving in so Doe's got us a little bit higher we felt safe with that number and that that uh Department of Education projections what we've pretty much used over the last few years that's
041been fairly accurate of course again this can always fluctuate as the school year goes on we could uh potentially lose a few more and we could potentially U sure keep you know a few more okay next slide pretty much shows a breakdown of where our funds come from as you know the vast majority of it comes from the state um the County right now they adopt their budget at the beginning of April um but they are looking at level funding for us um for this coming school year this is the same breakdown in in a different format and then this is how we um spend our money you can see the major categories and um almost 70% of our funds go into instruction and that includes teachers um benefits salaries that sort of thing the
042next largest item there is operations and maintenance and then Jan huner she she's Al she's over her own budget in school nutrition but you can see that she's provided us with a um a balanced budget based on revenues that she expects to receive um and and what she typically pays out for Food Service payroll and maintenance so in two weeks we'll come back and maybe we'll have a finalized budget at that time and if so it could change so so this may be tweaked a little bit if not we'll ask that you between now and then if you got any questions certainly contact me or Michelle um we'll be happy to answer them we'll bring them up at our next meeting um but then once we approve our budget then it will go to the
043county we'll send it over um and they'll look to approve their budget by I think April so you're in we're going to ask the county for level funding correct correct that's right so I mean if as you look at this I feel good about our budget I mean this is kind of an average I really deep down think we'll get more than what we have on here um but this at the same time want to be conservative with when creating our budget um I don't think anything that we've cut is going to be too painful um at the same time I certainly do hope we get the additional money in the in the House and Senate versions of the budget any questions I have any questions backing no just great work cuz I know that
044was a lot for everybody that was was helping you Michelle try and Michelle thank you Michelle and because yeah those are a lot of really creative and uh Deep dive ways to to get the deficit that we were looking at so I appreciate that well the health insurance I think is a big one okay hopefully we get all the money that we need to put money there for increase because when it comes to health insurance the past few years we've gotten 10% increases and uh if I'm remembering correctly every 1% of increase with health insurance equals about $100,000 so you get a 10% increase you're looking at a million dollars so that a million dollars is the million dollars is not there that's in the general assembly's budget but we don't need a motion on
045this it's just a draft it's just a draft exactly like I said if you have any questions feel free to call me um call Michelle we'll be glad to talk to you through it and uh show you exactly what we did and then we'll come back in two weeks take a look at it again for for approv all right okay what else do you have for us just a reminder next week okay we've got our meeting uh the week after next we've got our meeting on the 24th I've also talked to Miss White about doing a tour at Brookville High School for anyone that's interested that'll be Monday the 24th at 4:30 so my thoughts where we would tour the building and then we can come back here um and have our meeting at a
046regular schu scheduled time 6:30 Board of Supervisors are invited to that Board of Supervisors have been invited to that as well they would like to attend and walk with us we're happy to have so we're excited about that and then on the 26th that Wednesday we've got our vsba spring Forum um the conference that we're host at Rustburg middle school and I believe everything is lined up okay caterer um artwork ideas we've got um presentations that other school divisions have signed up to do if you remember last year we had round taes we've decided to put you in classrooms all going down to sixth sixth grade all way at rberg middle so every presentation will be taking place in a classroom um and people can see the the design of each room how the the
047ceilings are slanted and the bulkheads are over the teaching areas um and we'll explain that ahead of time before you before people go into those rooms um I've asked rrmm they've got one of their Architects who's going to be there to speak at the beginning to talk about some of the architectural highlights so I expect that to be a great day Mak just that we can show us show it off yeah yeah ban will be playing and culinary class is doing o derves and desserts so perfect are are any like students leading tours through the new facility prior what time does that begin so that can begin at 5:00 okay 5:15 and that'll be taking place until approximately 6 good so was Karen like the keynote speaker for that event keynote speaker give me a
048m that's all right all right of course I did send you an impressive list of uh Award winners from the from the latest science fair wasn't that impressive yeah yeah I thought so as well I got to understand what it was I'm not getting into details it was good A little deep yeah yeah all right I think we'll start at this end Mr Parker uh yes thank you um not a lot this past month been super busy uh politically of course with a session which was great um but I do want to also thank uh Dr Stanley and miss wilers and whoever else he pulled in looking into I was able to get a bunch of information together from the local school boards I didn't realized that the student uh School Board member program that
049Pennsylvania County's been doing it for over 20 years and city of Lynchberg has it ammer county has it so I could reach out to people I already knew to get some you know boilerplate uh information and I shared that with uh the administration and they're talking about doing an advisory counsel um with students so really appreciate their time on that looking forward to um moving that forward and that's all I have today we're plan to bring something to you next meeting perfect just some ideas that's Swit you for St representative excellent thank thank you an for yeah Mr Jones Mr Bennett I'm gonna let the horse speak about concour as well hear it from the horse's mouth hold on I looking up there well I can read what you sent me but I thought you
050could speak from the heart I think that's pretty much it it's a Monday you got a dance this Friday dance Friday we have a musical performance tomorrow night um not sure what the grade levels are tomorrow we did K one since probably U two and three tomorrow um and then there was one more reading events linbury hillcats participated with South Paul title one has a planed reading challenging an escape room to promote National reading month and a dance this Friday the theme is K kicking it classy I don't know what that means but he um it's sort of a take off what we did last year be where you dress pretty nice and you wear tennis shoes so girls come in nice dresses with tennis shoes and I'll be my suit good for you good
051for you that's great um reading thing has really G really well kicking off it's you know work the hillcats come and kicked it off title one has done some special things and it's great because kids are reading a lot because they're so competive my daughter told me that my two grandsons were reading books instead of looking at their iPad which I fell in the floor that's that's good um thank you sir we had a meeting of the Central Virginia governor School Wednesday um a little bit of news of course the tuition is going up $300 ahead next year but the biggest thing is is Dr Smith who runs that show been doing a great job for I 14 15 years I think maybe longer than that but he's going to step aside at the end
052of next year so we got to find somebody to replace him in that period of time so that'll be um that'll be a challenge to find somebody to fill his shoes because he's just a extraordinary leader and administrator um certainly the donations we've received this year very impressive again certainly express our thanks for that and that's all I got thank you all right um so Tomahawk has had their glow party family engagement night I think that's getting its way around because roads got theirs coming up as well so that's exciting I think Tomahawk took it a step further and it's having a glow dance coming up soon so that's exciting for our kids um leel road is kicking off their book fair this week um we also have' got our glow night coming up in
053April um went by and saw um Mr Martin at the middle school today and he was excited about the number of of kids that not only came for their fifth grade visits but the parents that came to the open house and the number of fifth grade parents that were really generally interested in being engaged early on and making sure they kicked off that the plans for them in in Middle School um but he shared that the not a single student from our winter sports you know athletic teams had missed a game due to school discipline and that was a first um for this season in quite long time that they've not had to you know have kids hold out from events at the middle school level due to school discipline so I think that's you
054know definitely accolades to to celebrate for them um they're excited about that Pacific Life Grant the $4,000 Grant so thank you for not only for us I think it was 4,500 to Rustburg Middle School um that they're going to use that to kind of continue to expand what we've got going on with the stem Labs so they're super excited using that money to kind of add on and and things that aren't going to be covered with that grant that they can use some of the Pacific Life money to to enrich that um so that's that's exciting as well um do you want to say anything about Brookville I mean I I do want to I'm I'm we hit the national news it's not why we wanted to but I think we need to commend the
055grace that not only kin has has had herself her family um but also from our coaching staff our athletic directors and handling um that that event um and what happened it was tragic and it was very unfortunate and not how we wanted to make People's magazine um today when that was let out but definitely um commend that it was it was the grace that they're handling that so and both her brother are great students at high school parents are the reason why they are easy to work with lot of communication very easy good process not the one you want to have to do and what an athlete that she is and the records that she you has accomplished so far and and still has you know for next year ahead of her so hopefully she
056will be on the menend and be able to to hit Nationals soon anything else you want to sharea walk down there and see that new part um potentially seniors could be using that as a seating area because seniors are kind of going Construction so we're trying to find things like that to do [Laughter] our thank you it all right last week we celebrated read Across America week across the county Across the Nation really Le Road had dress up days for each day last week ending on Friday with a pajama day which was always a favorite um yellow branch is having a spirit night PTO fundraiser at fun quests on Friday March 14th from 5: to 10 p.m. tickets must be purchased by Friday and you can purchase online at funquest fun.com congratulations to BHS wintergard
057for placing second at their competition at James River High School last week there is an open house here at the tech center on March 13 from 3:30 to 6:30 p.m. for all Rising 9th and 10th graders to come visit in tour classrooms and see all that the Tex Center has to offer including technical programs and early college programs did you have anything that you wanted to add with that no I think for their last two years in high school and while we've made dedicated effort to students St ex this is new right this is new have we done this for last Mr it's been a go SCH open part of the second semester um you know our students are you know well asserted with where they are inders students are we felt opportunity to just
058give the community the opportunity to come in check out me our we feel like it brings like a lot of walls down with Career and Technical education schol that perhaps people St show up their good thank you it's a great opportunity to see what um is in store what you guys have to offer um I also wanted to congratulate Ken Tucker for her new School record in the 55 meter dash with a time of 7.02 seconds and a second place State finish that's incredible I also wanted to congratulate taon cooks for a new triple jump record with 45t 7 in and uh 3/4 inches another congratulations to Michaela akuli for being runner up in the state finals for the girls pole vault across the board amazing amazing great job um graduation is around the corner
059there are numerous senior events coming up in April and in may be sure to visit the BHS Facebook page and update all of your calendars um March 7th was maintenance worker appreciation day so shout out to all of our fantastic maintenance staff we appre appreciate you that's all I've got thank you Mr Phillips yeah Dr Shields sent me a great report earlier today as did I got a great report from yellow Branch I printed them out at work and left them in my planner but if I recall you had nine students that won science fair Awards and then two that advanced on to the next level if I recall correctly and um then also had a swim um award or and then somebody with like extemporary speaking or debate so yeah great great achievements there
060at rberg high school so thank you for that great email my apologies for failing to bring my paperwork to the meeting um and thank you Dr mccor for your great report I appreciate that tonight and thanks to the finance Team U Michelle for all your hard work and from you and your team for pulling the budget together this evening so thank you short sweet uh Mary Beth Laney was named kindness Ambassador by the vdoe is that a new something name this is the first time we've had someone who it is a very prestigious award yeah and elementary school they're starting a kindness project today a coin drive with donations going to bark for a new animal shelter so if y'all have any extra change we'll take it um swim team Juran sherlin plays fourth in
061the 100 freestyle and sixth in the Hun backstroke and indoor track Shane Stevens third in the th000 meter and the Relay Team 4 by 200 Place fourth got Andy McCracken back helping coach that so that's been a good program if you hav to go to alista when it's dark go by and look at the new lights they're they're amazing at the baseball field they are amazing and that's all I've got all right Dr seals did you want to share anything else uh I a lot this time um we're nearing the end of completion for our back stop project for softb and baseball so really really excited phenomenal job at science mention good thank your science teacher too so yeah can I say something real quick just just as Dr Shield says that about the the
062back stop projects there's some pretty nice it's pretty nice project that's going on there the back stops are going to have have walls that are lined with brick and going to have new Nets new poles everything a lot of it's been done through donation and just hard work um so we appreciate everybody that's been involved with that project I know that Mr C right at William Campbell's been working extremely hard on his Fieldhouse and and you know he's in there the coaches are just working hard to to bring the facilities up to to grade and you know with what's going on at out to Vista with new Fieldhouse I mean just just every school is really doing something and it's something to really be proud of okay obviously brookville's got a lot more than anybody
063else um but at the same time it's all important and I appreciate your efforts good all right all right well um I would just follow up a little bit on something that M Tanner mentioned a noticeable many months since we've had any type of discipline uh to deal with at this at the board level and so I don't know and I don't want to jinx anything but but I don't so I don't know what what's going on but I'm thankful and so if um because I think over the last several years Behavior's suffered postco and so maybe that's starting to work its way out um Dr Wilson I don't know if you have any observations you want to share or you just been lucky or principles but but it but at the board level we're
064noticing it way handling so when they get to interv onned out it's I ADR teams people build those team yeah well I just encourage you to keep up the good work because because because we at the board level are noticing a difference so so good you keep your principles in your prayers because it's going to hit 80 degrees this week so all right so um I got a great email from Mr Harrison but why don't you just share what you emailed to me been a very eventful couple weeks we had a School Musical two weeks ago where our students perform did a great job that was Tuesday we had night so like several of element schools the goal was toote math and to increase our family engagement we had a great turnout we just wrapped
065up our book fair we finished that two days ago again huge success we were able to give every student a book so every student left with some form of literacy in their hand which you know as mentioned is always much better than looking down screen we had a musical I'm sorry not we had our dance last Friday that was another huge turnout it's always amazing to me to see young absolutely no shame just go out [Laughter] there all things considered we're moving in the right direction facing our challenges as they come our teachers are working hard our students are working hard I am very thankful for you all approving that calendar change I think consistency is good every day matters and our students need that day of school so thank you for that thank you
066uh got an email from Mr cartright um girls and boys B basketball teams made it a second round of the regional tournament so congratulations to them and three members from from those teams were named to All Region team wanted to share that arnesia dues who's a junior finished second in the state in the 55 meter race is that what what you were mentioning was it a 55 yeah yeah uh but that was at the indoor track state championship so we're very proud uh they're hosting a March Madness attendance incentive throughout the month to encourage student participation and now that um bones are not allowed during lunch they've introduced a board and card games table during all three lunch periods so um kudos to that for having good face-to-face interaction uh Jack Wagstaff the natural resource
067education coordinator for the 4 Center at holiday Lake visited their sixth graders to demonstrate watersheds impact waste and pollution management and they recently unveiled what Dr Stanley was sharing recently unveiled the first phase of our Fieldhouse renovation the entire interior has been repainted so it's all good the other thing that I would like to note and again not to jinx anything but no bus incidents in the last since the last three days we had one three days ago no so I'm thankful for that you know got that got to be old real quick all right I think that I and and again just uh thank you very much for the the donations that we receive and um it's just U we have a very giving community so that's good I think that's it I'll add
068one thing um Dr hay I don't know if you new board members know but our organiz ational charts are you know available with pictures and you know a hierarchy and Dr hail promis promises me that there will be a face with every box sometime and assistant principles right they're in the next phase of being added to help help people like us I can't remember where did you find that huh I've got print out but it's on the website now it's on the website sa her man yeah Dr hail knocks it out for those of you that did not know Miss McCormack who just gave a speech her daughter was here last meeting as the female FFA student from rbur middle school and took me a while to towel it together okay but with her so
069congratulations proud mother the wall that's all all right so that's it then I guess I'll entone entertain a motion to adjourn motion to adjourn second motion a second all in favor close your laptops everybody