001School Board invitation this evening will be done by Pastor Lester Harvey. [Music] Good evening. Good evening. Oh, that's more like it. Glory to God. I've been asked to do take on the most important part of this meeting and that is to ask God to come into the myth. Is that all right? Glory to God. Might we bow at this time? Most holy and everlasting father, father of us all, we greet you right now, heavenly father, giving you all the honor and all the praise. Heavenly Father, you have allowed this company to gather here this evening in this auditorium. They're here, Heavenly Father, but we realize that apart from you, we can do nothing. So, heavenly father, we ask that you come into the midst. Take total control of this board meeting this evening, heavenly father.
002Just lead them and guide them, heavenly father, and in in everything, God. Not our will, but oh father, thy will be done. Please come, heavenly father. Please take control. Please remain. And heavenly father, as they go forward, we ask that you let the words of thy mouth, the meditation of their heart, heavenly father, be acceptable to you, oh God. You are our strength. You are our redeemer. Heavenly Father, you are everything, everything to us. Lead them and guide them now, Father. And one more time, not thy will but heavenly father we pray that your will be done in Jesus mighty name I do pray. Amen. Amen and amen. Madam chair, can I move? Yes. Um, I move that the board allow board member David Bush to participate in tonight's closed meeting and open meeting of
003the school board through electronic communication means from Lewisville, Kentucky due to a professional obligation. Second. All those in favor? I motion carries. Thank you. The pledge of allegiance this evening will be done by the preschool and Miss Lori wages and we will have the moment of silence right after that. Okay, we're gonna face the flag up there. Okay. All right. And then listen, we're going to say it's right over there. There's the flag. Ready? Okay, you guys practice. Ready? Go ahead. I States of America and to the republic for it. One nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. For all. Thank you for the pledge of allegiance. Thank you. Would we like to introduce everybody? Is that okay? That would be great. Okay. So, this is Miss Jennifer Hanks's class. That's Miss
004Jennifer and Miss Shannon and Miss Savannah. And these are some of our students. You guys want to tell them your name? And they practice their favorite thing about preschool. Is that okay? Okay. All right. Go ahead. My name is Anukica. And what's your favorite thing about preschool? Playing with my friends. Playing with your friends. And do you want to introduce our friend over there? Go ahead. Introduce him. That's Thomas. And they're all best friends. So Anukica is gonna tell you what Thomas's favorite thing about preschool is. What's his favorite thing? Playing with the rain toys at my classroom. Playing with the rainbow toys. Okay. William, you want to What's your name? Oh, my name is William. And what's your favorite thing? playing with my friend Callie. My name is Nolan with Logan and William. My
005name is Logan. My whole classroom. Your whole classroom is your favorite. Miss Jennifer's favorite. Her kids. Yeah. Thanks for having us, you guys. What do you all say to them? Say, "Thanks for letting us come." Thanks for letting us. Good job, guys. Thank you. Okay, right off the bat we have some recognition. [Music] Hello. There we go. Uh, good evening members of our school board and staff, students, and distinguished guests. Tonight, we are honored to recognize two outstanding uh individuals and groups uh who have committed to education and the students of King George County. uh and have provided opportunities for our students that have been engaging and exciting and I'd like to share uh those uh events and those things with you uh and call those people down uh so that they can be recognized
006at this time. So uh we have topside federal credit union if you would like to come down please. So, uh, we are recognizing, uh, the 2025 business honor roll for the Virginia School Board Association. And our first recognition goes to Top Five Federal Credit Union. and we have representatives from their business. Uh Bruce Sticks is the CEO of the Topside Federal Credit Union and Morgan Dawson is uh their educator, financial educator for Topside. And let me read to you a little bit about what they did for our our school system. So they work tireless tirelessly to provide support and in particular uh they worked with us to help with our financial education program and they brought in a market day which is like a live Monopoly game almost uh where they had personal finance uh
007teachers, personal finance students go through a uh a situation, a simulation that included uh getting insurance, child care, housing, and uh trying to balance their money without going broke through all of those pieces. Topside is also currently in the process, we hope, at giving us a uh work-based learning opportunity that's possibly paid for the summer. So, thank you very much, Topside, for all of your support. And I'd like to present you with this certificate. [Applause] So our second recognition goes to um another business in our community and that's Four Elements Electric and we would like to acknowledge Bobby Mclofflin. So, Mr. Mclofflin. Um I just remember this personally because um we have struggled at trying to build partnerships in our division often uh hearing things like we didn't know you had career and technical education
008or we thought when the high school the former high school closed down that you did not have uh career and technical education anymore. And we have really struggled to try to get the word out that we have thriving programs uh and programs that uh are really in alignment with what we see across the state with our students competing and and in earning uh credentials that are comparable to other divisions if not better. And so uh I can remember Mr. Mclofflin sitting and having a conversation and I don't know if you remember this but he he was struggling uh finding employees and he came to our meeting and sat there and said well I need employees and I'm not sure how to get employees I'm not sure how to get uh people to come into my
009field with the knowledge base that they need so that I can um so that I can have them on my team. And so I asked him like,"Well, what are you doing to give back? Like what where where are you in this process?" And and I don't know. Uh I feel like shortly after that, he was everywhere. So um and maybe he was everywhere before and I just didn't know it. But I can tell you now that I after I met him that evening, then he came to everything and he is at all of our meetings. uh for CTE and our CTE advisory meetings. Uh and he's in the schools and he offered he he puts his his pocketbook where his mouth is and gives us these opportunities. So, uh he offered to give two scholarships
010to our students that um were in our charter Germanana Community College core craft. And after he did that, then others wanted to participate as well. And so he really um led the way at getting other businesses interested and he really has led the way uh for other businesses especially in our skills area in our trades and I can't thank you enough for that. Um, in addition, he has provided our first electrical apprenticeship for King George High School with his company and it uh compares to um maybe what we would want to do with some of our brand new teachers. I mean, his brand new uh apprentice is going to really be able to make a career and and that's a wonderful thing. So, I just want to thank you very much and I hope that
011um you'll stick with us as we continue to u expand and to do new things with career and technical education. So, [Applause] Thank you to topside and for elements and of course Minnesota. Thank you. Do we have anybody signed up for public comment? We do. If you have not signed up for public comment, please see the clerk if you are interested in doing so. Public comment is a time for the community to present matters that they believe deserve the board's attention. Comments are one-way communication from the community member to the school board and they're not a forum for dialogue or debate. School board applies the following procedures to all speakers and does not discriminate based on the identity of the speaker, the viewpoint of the speaker. Comments should be presented in a courteous, respectful, and
012appropriate manner. The public shall address the school board only on matters that are related to the service services and policies of the school division. Speeches that cause disruptions to the meeting, promote private business ventures, involve threats of any kind, involve intimidating language, relate to public office campaigns, involve complaints identifying individual students, or personal attacks with staff members is prohibited. Property decorum and the provisions of this procedural directive are expected to be followed in all public meetings of the school board. Members of the audience shall conduct themselves in the same manner as outlined above for the individual speakers and shall not disrupt an open public meeting of the school board nor incite others to do so. At the discretion of the chair, any person violating the rules listed above may be asked to leave the board
013meetings. When recognized by the chair, speakers will be asked to identify themselves by name, state their relationship to the school division, and indicate in which magisterial district they reside. Commentary during public comment time is limited to three minutes. Our first speaker this evening is Sherman Davis. Thank you. I am Sherman Davis. I've been in King George County for 48 years, pastor of Tabernacle Baptist Church, and here to read a verse of scripture and make a comment. Uh, Matthew chapter 27, the Bible says, "Pilate said unto them, what shall I do then with Jesus which is called Christ? They all say unto him, let him be crucified." Verse 24, he says, "When Pilate now saw that he uh could prevail nothing, but that rather turmoil made was made, he took water and washed his hands before
014the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person. What shall I do then with Jesus?" Really is a personal question that we all have to answer. and uh the question uh about Jesus and his question about Pilot, his question about you and his question about me. And so Pilate tried to uh evade the question and uh he took uh sent Jesus to to hurried. Hurried, ruler of Galilee, he examined him and sent him back to Pilate. punish pilot. He tried again to dodge the issue with uh uh the thief that was uh supposed to be crucified uh Barabus and they let Barabus go and of course crucified the Lord Jesus Christ. This was a desperation of Pilate of course to avoid taking a stand and he washed his hands of the
015whole matter at least he thought he did. You can't wash it the blood off your hands. But um you cannot escape the question. You uh cannot dodge the issue. The question is really heaven or hell, receive or reject. Not there's no neutral ground. He is uh there's no in between. And uh what you do with Jesus one day will determine what Jesus will do with you. Uh he of course we know the story. It's Easter time, right? And we know the story he was crucified. But unlike all other religions in the world, whether it's Buddha, Hinduism or whatever religion it is, all those folks have died. And none of them have the power to resurrect themselves from the grave. And nobody has the power after we're dead to resurrect oursel from the grave. That's what
016makes Christianity different from all other religions of this world. Jesus Christ the Bible says that he said destroyed this temple and in three days I will raise it up again in three days Christ victorious three days three nights he was in the grave victorious from the grave that's the reason he can say come unto me all you labor heaven laden and I can give you rest that's the reason Christ can say uh in John 14 I am the way I am the truth I am the life no man cometh to the father except by me. That's it. Lord Jesus, that's the question we all have to answer. What will I do for Jesus? And my time is up. Thank you. God bless. Thank you, Pastor Davis. Nothing additional, Madam Chair. Just thank you, Pastor Davis.
017Certainly appreciate you being here. You're a staple of our schoolboard meetings now, so I don't think we can have a complete one without you, sir. So, thank you. Thank you, Madison. Do I have any changes to the agenda? Okay, moving on. Let's go to our studentto student club presentation. members and superintendent boy. Uh thank you for having me. I supposed to have Zoe Bowman and over here but I don't know where she's at. I don't have uh her contact information only the school. I had a communication with her. But um actually I want to make this like an annual uh habit of my routine as you can say um uh during the month of the military child to present you what I have or what the Navy how the Navy supports King George County School
018and um one of them is the student to student which is uh actually has been uh more than 15 years that this student student club has been brought into uh King George High School and was under military child education coalition. That's the first uh funding that the Navy offered to the public schools and um as you can see in the picture, Mrs. Ashley Price is the advisor of the student to students and we had the proclamation for month of the military child um uh creed that uh actually uh her son uh is holding and that is um one way that we do every every year as well during month of the military child that our commanding officer signed a proclamation that April is month of the military child wherein the Virginia Department of Ed does
019the same saying next slide please do I have a control or you guys have control you do uh next slide please so what is student to student is a school affiliated club just like I mentioned that uh again this is a leadership uh club wherein the children are the one who's running this particular club so they um actually the main goal before was to serve the military transition because they are the ones who is actually uh transitioning a lot but uh but when we funded it it's not just to help the military children. It's for everybody who are transitioning civilians and military but the goal is to mostly help those military children who are struggling with their social and emotional development during the transition period. And um you know for sure that um you some
020of you uh based from my last year's presentation are connected to military and you have your children for sure experienced the same struggles just like my children when they when they were moving from one place to the other they were struggling um to connect with other children and this particular actually group of children the ones would that make connections with this new children. So, and also next slide, please. And the the uh studentto student group at King George's High School actually give tours to those children, not just just like I mentioned, not just military children. and they have some activities and uh they had actually today I drop off some uh cookies for those group of children to put them in bags and have S2S to to like an advertisement uh let everybody in the
021school know that they are that it exists that they are there to help them even even actually even they are not uh they are not new into the the school if they need mentor those club those club members are the ones who are connecting with them. And of course, they're creating a welcome and friendly environment for all of those children. And they have some community events based from last year. They had um actually some donations of um uh uh care packages to the the military who are overseas. They sent they uh some of the members actually uh uh collected some of the care packages items and then sent them to the military overseas. Next slide please. And then uh of course their goal is to spread awareness some more. And they were actually last year
022they had a bulletin board of uh active military children uh uh coaches and stuff. And this year that was their goal but somehow it fell apart. They were not able they were not able to do it. And um of course they are um uh part of the community events. they uh have some tables and chairs and making sure that they they are um uh advertising that they are there to help other children and of course um and the main goal is to help military children to adjust to new school. Next slide please. And again, this is under military child education coalition, which is um actually the Navy lost the contract because it cost a lot of money when we uh sent the two high school students and a counselor way back then 15 years ago.
023Yeah. More than 15 years ago, it cost the Navy like more than $25,000 and wasn't, you know, we couldn't maintain that funding. So, we have another another um actually contract. The Navy uh have another contract which what we call uh the next presentation is anchored for life. This is um actually opened to elementary school. I started with elementary school wherein we have um the next presentation is anchored for life. Can you please uh do the next one? Yeah. So, um I would like to uh share with you uh the status of the anchor for life at King George Public Schools. And I have some brochures here for the uh my intention was Zoe to go up there and give you this brochures, but since since it's not here. Okay. So what the what the Navy
024did was look for another contractor who can be able to sustain the club. The leadership skills our goals are again to train these children to be mentors and leaders at an early age. So next slide please. And as you can see in in the handout uh it is a peer-to-peer club to connect youth while building change and resiliency skills. And we have um th those are um opportunities for the the the children to enhance their social skills. Just like I said, I've been emphasizing early leadership skills is very important. Build character, improve self-esteem, integration and so forth and so on. And um in this particular uh contract actually when it's open up as a school for the Navy I actually um is the one who initiate the the contract with the contractor. I um I
025give them list of of names of schools who are willing to actually entertain this particular club and I have talked to Dr. Benson way back then and then yeah and he approved of it the student to student and anything leadership skills like this so and I um mentioned to Dr. Boyd about it as well and then I have um actually the first name that I actually um entered was Potomic Elementary School and and and Dr. um uh Brown there will uh testify how effective this is to the kids and um the the the uh process goes this way. Okay. I sent send out a names of schools and then if there is allocation specific allocations then the the the uh contract will contact me and said okay there is a opening for the school that
026you uh suggested. So I connect to the the school principal making sure that they have the information that they needed to be able for the contractor to contact them. Next slide please. So what are the benefits? Of course just like I mentioned is contracted by the Navy. So it's free for the schools and um King George County School is what we call tier two which is um tier one is just like school wherein um 100% of the children are military connected. So even civilians, combination of civilians and and active military. But um unfortunately King George County uh any of the schools in King George County does not have more than 10% in in the schools of active military children. So they are put into tier two. So tier two meaning to say they receive free
027training, free training of the adults, the advisors. We require two advisors. You'll see in the in the brochure. we um require the the principal assistant principal to be aware of the program. So they have to be part of the information session. So and and um during information session those are the the people that you would like to to be part of it and then uh they receive free training there continuous support from the the contractor. So there's a six six month support after the initial training and there will be um after a year there will be a yearly support and they get free materials and they have the welcome kit. It's a bag there going away kit, the deployment kit, the together again kit and the divorce and griff griff um kits are being done
028by by uh counselors but the welcome kit going away deployment together again kit. there is a training online for the kids to be be learning how to present it to the new children or to do whatever situation they are experiencing that particular child. So they will be trained on how to use those to present it to the other child. So that's another leadership skill for them. And of course they have um as soon as the the the school accepted the contract of course they go through the training and they will have access to the resources bunch of them resources uh videos for the kids because this is one thing that you will see in the in the brochure that the children are are actually given the opportunity to teach other children and their canned curriculum
029can um how to be friend how to make friends and stuff like And then um of course the website has plenty also for adults. So um if Miss Dr. Brown wants to share something about the program, yes, she can um share with you as well those things. And the next slide, please. And you can see this is Potamak Elementary School. They're using the the can curriculum, the resources online. And I believe those are um members of the anchored for life. So next slide please. So what is the current status of King George County in anchored for life contract? We have uh elementary school uh successfully implementing it and the Silston and King George elementary school. they attended the information sessions and uh and the contractors just waiting for the administration to administration to respond to
030them if they want the program or not. And um the the brochure that I have given you is for elementary school but we have middle school anchored for life as well and high school. So um I requested both actually since we have studentto student at um at the high school I still want them to learn about anchor for life. So I did put in um a uh allocation for both kindard middle school and and uh kindergart you have any questions. So again, um I'm here. Yes. Hi. Thank you. That was a great presentation. I just wanted to say thank you. I I I jotted some notes down about the first presentation with a student to student. Um and it and it is so difficult for military kids when they're, you know, switching schools mid year
031or coming into a new school system. They have no friends. So I I appreciate everything that you guys are doing to help those students, you know, make friends and get acclimated. And then the question I had about this anchored for life, I'm I I I didn't understand is this just for military kids as well or is this for we encourage the military children to be part of it to be part of the club. So if um the counselors have um identified those children, encourage them to be part of it. But again we cannot force them to be included in that club. But we do really encourage them to be part of it because again it helps them in that part that they experience the transition and they will be able to be a good fit
032to those children who are transition new children into the uh school as well. So we do encourage them. So um actually one of the schools that I service is um in Maryland actually that's what they do. They um actually identify the children on active mil because they have of course just like here in King George County school you have identification of uh in the registration and checklist of who are active military. So and then they look at the list and then offer them and look at okay who is the best uh you know person the best child to be able to do this kind of job and then yeah and then they choose those they offer it to the parents of course there in the resources there are permission slips that the parents have to
033sign up online and then those children um be part of that and with with PTOAM elementary school since there are existing um clubs there I I asked them because again the Davy will not fund the the educators who are part of the the the the uh club because we don't have that money to do that but we have the money to support that particular um uh club the contract and what I suggested to Dr. Brown is incorporated with your existing club just like the safety patrol club is where they connected this particular um group with that group of children. So it made a lot easier for them. Yeah. So and and again uh they have children already there so but they can invite active military children to be part of it. Madam chair is Mr.
034Bush. Yes Mr. Bush. Um I have a question. Um is there are there any efforts to reach out to the military children that are homeschooled or that that can't be part of the program? So again with a homeschooling program that you are offer actually you are asking the homeschooler to be part of King George County School. as long as they're part of King George County School, they can be part of it. But if they want to be um have a separate club, uh they have to reach out to me and see how we can be able to work that out. That is a that's not part of King Jones County School that is going to be part of the homeschooling group. Then I can uh probably work that out and see. That's a great qu
035question, Mr. Bush. Thank you. Yeah, it is. Yeah. Because because tech, if I can speak on technically, ma'am, um the homeschool students, we have responsibility for them um in the King George County schools. I know they're homeschooled, but we still have responsibility for them. My question also would be I know they could maybe contact you as a separate program, but would they be able to join say um those that might live in the PTOIC um elementary school area and they were homeschooled? Could they join the PTOI kids? if they're registered at King George Public School, right? If they're registered with King George County Public School. So, I I think it's a logistical issue. I I think the club would meet during the school day and and you know, this is um it would be challenging
036for homeschool students to get into the school during the school day to participate. But what you're saying, Miss Gunter, is if if they're interested possibly, then there can be a a homeschool organization possibly that could reach out to you and figure out if that would be Yeah, I Yeah, I can figure that out. I will talk to the contractor and of course to my uh uh point of contact at the district office because there's the one they're the one who's pushing the the allocations to the the contractor. So, yeah, I can um probably uh discuss that with them and how it works for the homeschooling program. I can do that. All right. All right. Thank you. Um I'll have some of my contacts there with the homeschool co-ops contacted. Thank you. Okay. You're welcome. Any
037other Does anyone else have any questions? Thank you so much. back in Bowman. She's the the president of SOS at the King George High School. Do you want to say something? Say hi. Do something. Hi everyone. I'm Zoe. So, as you heard, I'm the president S2S. Um, I'm sure she mostly covered the basis of what we do with S2S, but our main purpose is just to provide a community and a support for those incoming military students. So, you know, a big thing we do is tours. If you show up in the middle of the semester as a new student, you don't want to have, you know, a counselor or a teacher show you around and just say, "Well, here's your class. Go figure it out." Having those students who can give you those tours and
038say, "Well, take the back stairwell instead of the front stairwell." Or, you know, "This is the better way around the hallway, or this bathroom never works." things like that that really gives the students an insight into student life as well as our monthly club meetings where we can invite those students to come. We have a meal so that's always a bonus. And then um they just get to have a community coming into the school automatically have a chance to make friends and be with people because up and moving as a military child can be a very hard thing. You know, there's lots of sacrifices they're making within their lives that they're just leaving. So this just gives them a chance to make friends, make a community, and have a support system who's willing to listen
039to them and support them. I think that's all I have to say. Thank you. Thank you. Next, we have a presentation by Dr. Howard um from the special education advisory committee. Good evening everyone. I appreciate you giving me time tonight to talk. I'll be very brief. Um, our special education advisory committee, which we like to call SEAK for short. Everything has an acronym and special education is like another language. But we're very proud of uh the work we've done over the past three years. We started off with just a handful of people. And now our seat committee comprised of between 10 and 15 people on a regular basis. And I know it doesn't sound like a lot, but that is a lot for our small little community because everyone who comes has such a vested
040interest in coming to the meetings. And it's a pretty powerful group. The reason that we have the SEAK is actually um it's sort of a state mandate that we we have to have these uh it's like an advisory committee for our special education students to uh meet annually. We have to meet at least four times a year which is what we do. We open up every year with does anyone want to meet more regularly and it seems like four times a year is a pretty good amount. We uh adhere to bylaws. There's voting chairpeople. Um it is all comprised of about 10 to 15 participants like I mentioned and these are school reps who are either staff members or they could be teachers who actually actually have children as well um with special needs. We
041also have community members and of course our families which is the heart and soul of how we want to work together as a community and a team to make our special education programs flourish. These meetings as the flyer says are open to the public. Anyone can attend and it seems that each time we meet we have a new face and that's fantastic. And there is a designated time for public comment at the beginning of the meeting. Uh we have our Facebook page. Miriam Na has been the chair the past three years. So she will be giving that a role to someone else. Um but she manages our Facebook page. So she puts a lot of information on there as we receive it from the state and the local community. We meet at the schoolboard office
042at 5:00 and those are the dates. So, we put this flyer out in the fall so everyone can pair prepare for the whole year. Um, we we did have our goal this year as last year as being creating a resource fair for families. So, it's called just that, the family resource fair. And so, this is our third year doing it. We partner with the local library. They're phenomenal. They always allow us to use their rooms and it's a beautiful space. We've had anywhere from say like 10 to 30 vendors come from the community in King George also from the surrounding areas in our region. Um this year we learn about change can sometimes open up doors and sometimes give us a different vision. Um we changed the date this year by week to make sure
043that we accommodate accommodated for steam night because it seemed like we were always competing with them. As a result, we did not um have the amount of people this year. But what I always remind people is even if we have one family that comes and gets the resources that they need, we've done what we should be doing. And we did. We had at least three or four families that came and actually I think we had about six families total, but three or four came and they were just so grateful. What we've learned from this is it may become a bianual event instead of an annual event, but we're going to continue to monitor that and look at what the results are from everyone's hard work. So, the next meeting that we have is May 7th.
044Um, and that will be the presentation of uh what we've done over the year and also talk about elected offices for next year. uh as well as um the March meeting, it is a mandate that I'll be talking about in my next presentation later on this evening is our annual plan and that is a really big deal. So we present it I present it I should say at the SEAK meeting so everyone hears it there first that is a regulation and then I come and present it to you. So the special education advisory committee is very instrumental in the success of our programs here in King George. And with you having your voice, I would love for you to encourage all those that you speak with to to join us. Anybody have any questions for
045me? No, Madam Chair, I don't have any questions, but um I did see that post on Facebook and it looked like that session that you guys gave was really informative. Um, so I I will say that next time I'll make sure that I spread the word a little bit more for you so you get more people because I know that you had a lot of great information there. Thank you. And one thing I did want to mention is, you know, we uh also reach out to local agencies and like love thy neighbor cane. We might not think of that right as a support system specifically for special education, but if we think about our whole families and what they may or may not need, that was actually a resource that three of the families were
046they were just so grateful for because it's one less thing they have to worry about if they have a child with special needs if they need those resources. And that was definitely an aha moment for us. So, we'll continue to to add on to our local resources. Thanks for your observation, Miss Cleveland. Anyone else? Okay. Thank you. Thank you, Dr. Howard. Looks like we don't have any student representatives. So, we will move on to closed meeting. Can I have a motion? I move that the board convene in a closed meeting to review hires, substitute, resignations, stipens, and retirements as permitted under 2.2-3711A number one of the code of Virginia. All those in favor? I I Kathy, can you can you call me when you get in there? Yes, sir, I will. Votes I. Motion carries.
047We are now in close session. [Music] I move that the King George County School Board return to open session and certify that pursuit to state code section 2.2-3712D 2-3712D. Only public business matters lawfully exempted from open meeting requirements under this chapter and only such public business matters as were identified in the motion by which the closed meeting was convened were heard, discussed or considered in the meeting by the public body. Second certify certify chair vote. I'm sorry. Certify. Certify. Motion carries. I need an action from resulting from the closed meeting. Oh, yeah. I I move that we accept the proposed hires as written. Second. All in favor. I motion carries. Now let's take a look at our meeting minutes from April 7th. Anybody have any changes or questions about them? I make a motion to
048approve um April 7th meeting minutes as presented. Second. All in favor? I car I motion carries. Miss Hill. Good evening, uh, school board members, Dr. Boyd, and our school family here. Uh, I'm here to answer any questions that you may have in regards to the Perkins 5 formula grant. The grant is based on allocations that are awarded to the state and then through a predetermined formula um awarded then to school divisions and this is uh referred to as a state administered uh grant. Some of our other formula grants would include uh the idea grant which is going to be presented a little bit later by Dr. Howard. uh our title one grant, our title two grant, title three grant, t title four grant. These are all uh state awarded grants. By approving the grant and
049funds, you certify that the division will adhere to the requirements and regulations that are outlined in our plans that we will present. And tonight, um I will present the Perkins plan to you. Those requirements are listed uh on the first six pages of the grant that are in your board packet. funding is used to support our career and technical education program at King George High School and King George Middle School. And we use those funds not to supplant what we already allocate in our local budget to our CTE program. The budget, you can see, is in schedule 16 uh or I'm sorry, 17 and 18 uh pages one and two. And that's a little bit further in the grant. Um major funding is used on equipment and supplies and typically we use the funding uh
050for larger purchases. Uh we are not allowed to use it on consumables. So for example, if uh we need wood for a project or metal or things like that, we we are not allowed to purchase that with the Perkins grant. Uh the grant is also used for professional development for our teachers. It also is used to help support our CTSOs uh for students in the categories um where uh students may need assistance financially. teachers uh also go to their CTSO or their uh career and technical education um professional organizations through support from this grant as well. Are there any questions about the grant? Are there any questions? I move that we approve the Carl D. Perkins grant. I move that we approve the Carl D. Perkins grant. Second. All in favor? Do we need the
051dollars amount mentions on it? I don't think we do. Do we need the dollar amount mentions on the motion? Do you have the dollar amount, Christine? Yes, it's on here. Did I leave it off of the It's on here. $61,69166. But that is based on this year's allocation because they've not provided our new allocation for the 202526 school year. So we uh we build the budget based on this year's allocation. You can just say that you move to um accept it in the 2526 amount. Um I move that we approve the Carl D. Perkins grant for the 20 2025 20226 amount. Second. All in favor? I I go. Motion carries. Thank you guys. Thank you. Appreciate it. Thank you. Moving right along. All right. Thank you again. Good evening. I'm Dr. Howard, supervisor, special services
052for the division. I want to thank Dr. Boyd and all of you for uh welcoming here me this evening and allowing me to present the proposal for the local special education annual plan part B flow through funding for the upcoming school year. This money comes from the state and and is an addition to our uh the special education section of the annual school budget. This plan is reviewed by our seat committee as I explained earlier before it comes to the board as required. So I'm going to break down quickly the plan for you in the next three slides. So we can go to the next slide. And the first part of the plan reports how the fund was spent last year. I know it's confusing because it says 2324, but we're finishing out this year.
053So, it's speaking about that that prior year. And there are two pots of money with this annual plan. There's the 611 fund and there's the 619 fund. The 611 fund is for specifically for students in kindergarten through grades 12. As it says, the majority of this is used for staffing. The other big piece of this is for professional development, instructional and assessment materials, and all purchase services. The second pot of money, the 619 funding covers our early childhood special education, which we also call ECSE. This is used for professional development, instructional and assessment materials, and purchase services as well. The next page. Okay, this is a really important piece of this annual plan. There are three major elements that are requirements. The first one is called the maintenance of effort ore. And this is a
054stipulation of the grant made by the states that says that we have to spend the same amount of money or more each year on our students with disabilities based on our numbers. We have what's called a December one count. And every year on December 1st we do it it basically it's a snapshot of how many students we have with disabilities on that day every year it is reported to the state and that those that is what's used for the calculation for all of these these plans. The second piece of the requirement for these grants are what's called coordinated early intervention services. And I'm really proud to say that we are not required to facilitate this or be a part of this. What it means um is that we are doing an exceptional job appropriating our
055money and spending our money the way we're supposed to. If we're don't if we don't then the state would come in and say you have to set aside this much money for your coordinated early intervent intervening services. Bless you. Um, and since we don't have to do that, that's a good job. The second require or the third requirement, sorry, is what's called the proportionate set aside or PSA. This amount is what we have to set aside based on our number of homeschool students or students that live in our division that um sometimes if they go to a private day school, we we have to work with them to provide some evaluations depending on the situation. But if we have homeschool students that have what we call service plan, so if they have an IEP and
056they require occupational therapy, physical therapy, or speech and language therapy, we have to offer that to the family. So we have to say, we know you're a homeschool student, but if you would like to have a service plan, then our school division, we are responsible for providing those specific services for you. So based on our number of homes parents or families, sorry, in the division this year who use those services, the amount that we are required to set aside is going to be about $7,38 for next year and that will cover those services. Okay. Okay. And finally, the good part. So, our projection based on our December 1 count that I alluded to earlier is that we are going to be uh requesting in our annual plan $1,49,971.90. This 619 projection will be $22,116. All
057of these, all of this money from these two different pots will cover, like I mentioned earlier, staff, professional development, supplies, contracted services, travel. It really, it really is the intent is to supplement our local budget to really give students what they deserve and need. And the state realizes that that's an exceptional cost at times. So, we're very fortunate to have this opportunity for this grant and I'm happy to answer any questions you may have at this time. Does anyone have questions? Yes, ma'am. Is that homeschooling side of it? Pardon? Dealing with the homeschool side. I didn't know that the state required that. The the state requires Yes, ma'am. the the portionate set aside on page or that you just serviced homeschool families that are in need of those. Right. So if we have a homeschool
058family whose student has an IEP, we don't provide them the education because they're being homeschooled. What we offer them is the services that they might need in order to access their education. We offer them what's called a service plan for occupational therapy, speech therapy, physical therapy if they desire. They don't have to. How many are Do you have a round of I do? I do. It really fluctuates. Um 3 years ago, I believe we had like 11. Um the year after I say we had eight and this past year, we had like six. So, it it's and I think sometimes it's because families move, you know, or you may have family uh one family that has maybe three students, you know, and if they move, but um you can see by setting aside $7,000, we
059really try to safeguard that money to provide those services that they're entitled to. It just shows that we're caring about this child, not doesn't matter where they're at. 100%. 100%. I have a lot of families that call me that are homeschooled families and they don't even know that, you know, that it's just again it goes back to communication and putting those services out there that they're allowed to ask for that. That's their right. Any questions? Dr. Howard, would it be beneficial to have a motion this evening or I know it says first review. Would it's that's a technicality we always usually do. Not always, I shouldn't say that. That's an overgeneralization. Um, typically in the past three years, it's been my experience that you would make a motion to approve tonight if you're comfortable and
060then I would be able to submit this uh plan to the state in well in advance of the due date. So, if there's any questions that they have, they would get it back to me. Madam Chair, yes, sir. I'll make a motion that we approve the 2025 2026 special educational annual plan B application as written. Second. Any discussion? All in favor? I thank you so much. Thank you, Dr. H. Thank you so much. Now, the discussion about the May 5th meeting. Do we have to uh Yes, Madam Chair. I think this might be a moot point at this at this venture. Um let me see if I can give you some background. So, our next meeting is May 5th. the board of supervisors, I think you know, they had a work session uh about a
061week ago. Uh and then they have their public hearing on the budget scheduled for May 7th. I was under the assumption that that was going to be passage of the budget for them, but it looks like from the board of supervisors side, passage of budget will probably be around May 20. So, um I was thinking at the time that it might be beneficial for us to move the meeting from the 5th to the 12th so that we can and we are responsible for approving our budget allocation after the board of supervisors approves their budget as a whole. now that they won't approve till the 20th. What that'll do is it'll um it'll allow us to present at our June or to accept our budget at the June 2nd to approve our budget at the June
0622nd meeting. Uh what that'll mean though is that we will issue contracts here soon with language in it and we've done this in the past. It's not uncommon. Uh we'll we'll put language in it that says pending budget approval. uh just in case if by chance we have to go back and and revise contracts or revise the budget. And I was going to mention this in my report, but I'll go ahead and mention it now. Uh it looks like the board of supervisors uh based on my experience at the work session is going to provide the funds needed to the school division for the 3% raise uh to cover the healthc care expense to our employees uh to cover compression at step 10. And then the uh things that were ne necessities in the budget
063bill. Uh all of that all of those numbers uh for those funds are really based on the general assembly's calc tool. This is an important point and one that we all need to take to heart. Right now we're working off the general assembly's cal tool. The governor has until May 2nd to revise the budget in any way before it's finalized and we will receive a new cow tool. If that calcul changes drastically, uh, then we'll have to have conversations about what direction we need to go in to cover things like the salary increase and and other things. All of that to say that we I'll be paying close attention on May 2nd to the bud to the uh governor's final budget and I'll report back to the school board most likely on our meeting on
064the 5th as to where that stands. But right now, I don't think there's any need to have to change our May 5th date. Thank you, Madam Chair. Okay, thank you. We'll just stick with that date then. Now, let's move on to committee report. Mr. Frank, do you have any committee report? Yes, I do. On the 14th, we had the title one. Yes, I do. On the 14th, we had the title one uh advisory meeting. Um I'm really impressed every time I go uh to one of these at the uh professionalism that the leadership team has that are going on there. Uh what these the people have done as far as or teachers have done for the the reading uh stuff the new reading materials we have math uh is is really great. uh they have
065the specialists that are there now that are that are working those uh you know some behavior specialists if we get uh get some money for that would be great also but uh very very professional very very good meeting Mr. Bush do you have any committee reports no I have a ATI meeting tomorrow which I will join online I've already arranged that with Dr. Um and then of course you probably heard the SEAK meeting which I'm on um will not be until I think it's May the 7th. So um no I don't have anything to report but I will at the next board meeting. Okay. Thank you Miss Cleveland. Mrs. David, I went to a CTE meeting in I guess that was last week. Um and uh I'm always amazed at Miss Hill and Mrs. Rinko
066how um much excitement there is and the room was I mean I think that the room gets more and more crowded every time. So, and of course, uh, you guys, I'm sorry, they presented, um, a lot of information about a tour that we took of Olive White the week before and their VOTE program. It's a lot of exciting stuff moving forward. So, that's the only thing I have for that. So, now we can move on to your comments, sir. My comment, ma'am. So, I'll be brief. Uh, I do want to remind the board that graduation is right around the corner. So, that will be on the 15th of May. And, uh, make sure you take your gown out and pressed and ready to roll. So, we're getting very close and and I'm excited. We're back
067at National Stadium again this year. So, certainly looking forward to that. I know the board has uh charged me with taking a look at some school safety solutions. I'm happy to report that uh last week we met with another company. company is named Open Gate. Uh, and they're they're a branch out of a a larger company called CSCIA Security. Um, and this is a weapon detection system and uh, we had a demo, a virtual demo. I was very impressed with the product and we're going to continue our conversations with them. If you remember, uh the other company that we were talking to was really the price point was really high and it was for a lease uh for four years. Uh this company actually allows you to purchase the weapon detection systems and it looks
068like um if our numbers are correct, and we'll continue to work through them, uh we can outfit uh the the entire division with this weapon detection system for the cost uh of roughly what it would cost for one unit. Um yeah, so the the cost point is much better. Uh these are the same type of weapon detection systems that are used at uh stadiums. Uh they're used at a it's probably the most one of the most popular. It's a slightly different technology. Uh the other great thing about it is that um it works through an app. Uh you can connect it through through a phone and you can adjust the frequency. Uh so you can as the gentleman was explaining to us uh in in the demo you can adjust it to different frequencies to
069pick up for different things. Uh so if you know the very low end is is certainly things like weapons, guns. Uh but if if you're in so inclined uh you can adjust the frequency all the way up. And I wouldn't recommend this all the time, but you can adjust the frequency up to smaller metal items, you know, like vape devices and things of that nature as well. So, uh there's that capability. Uh there's certainly um more that we want to have, more we want to discuss with this company, but I was very very impressed with with this product and it's one that um I I think has some promise for us moving forward. One of the things that they that they claim is that they've got the highest throughpoint weapon detection system uh for you
070can walk right through with your backpacks, purses, and bags. So, it's I I think it's going to it could possibly speed up the entry into school every morning. Uh it won't be a backlog or a log jam of kids trying to get into the building if if the board decides to go that route. So, we'll continue to look at options, but I'm telling you that uh this was a promising one. Is it something that's available right away that we could have potentially before school starts next year? Yes, I asked that. I think they said uh two to three week turnaround. Outstanding. That concludes my report, Madam Chair. Thank you, Dr. Boyd. Mrs. Davis. Okay, so the preschool coming. I want to just I know there's a lot of teachers involved, but Miss Hanks always makes
071me smile when I see her and it's just she doesn't even have to be looking at me, but my son had her as his preschool teacher and people remember the way you make them feel and that whole year she just she just was amazing. So, I just want to give her a shout out. Um, thank you Topside SDU. I love you. I've been with you for 30 years. um for Elements Electric. I want to talk with him, but I want to talk with Miss Christine Hill because my neighbor, yes, we have to meet my neighbor at LA Fusion. Her and I were talking today with Deb Newman, who is the Northern Networking marketer, but she's really trying to get in. And we were just talking today how about interns and working with the schools. And
072she said there's so many businesses that are looking for employees and don't know that they can connect with schools possibly. Um, and so we're gonna schedule a meeting, but we can work with you on that. And maybe I got a whole list of all the businesses in King George and I'm going to call them all and invite them to this. And it would be great to have someone from the school come out and explain that any type of way we can work together. And you might have already done that, but my eyes were a little bit more opened today about the need um of people who just don't know that they can be involved. Um, so Pastor Davis, he thought it started at six. That's why he had that look in his face. Um, great
073question. What shall we do with Jesus? That's a great question. Mrs. Gunter from the military or this program, anchored for life. Uh, you know, my kids were military. We traveled a lot. On a good note, my son adapted to everything. Almost too much. When he got in trouble, he adapted. he could go without his mom just because he had to adapt to everything in life with all the moving around. So her heart and it inspires me because she has such a heart to help those children that are struggling through those transition phases. Um Mrs. Kate, same thing I was thinking about you, Dr. Howard. I've known you for a long time now um in different facilities and you've always are the same as far as just smiling at me. the people, you always um seem
074pretty optimistic about everything. So, just want to give you that shout out, too. All your hard work, Mr. Bush. Yes. I also um want to thank the uh the preschool presentation and u it's having been a preschool director I know how hard it is and it's so good to see the kids smile like that. It brings back memories. Um also Miss Hill, thank you for her presentation and Miss Howard's of course in SEAK and um all the special education activities that are going on. I also want to apologize for not being at the last board meeting. I was with a group of refugees and who have suffered a tremendous amount. Makes me appreciate our education programs here because there's so many people throughout the world that are um killed and are not going able to
075go to school at all because of war and turmoil. But it makes me appreciate it even more. I thank you for the board letting me to come online today. We're on our way back home. We should be back by the end of the week sometime. I also want to mention something. It sounds like the board of supervisors through all the efforts that we've had that I want to thank them for um working with us this year and um looks like we've uh uh made a lot of progress in terms of communication and I just appreciate want to thank the board of supervisors for doing that and especially for um Dr. Boyd's efforts and continually working with um Mr. Smallik the um uh the county administrator and um I'm so thankful that they have formed a
076real team and a bond which helped a tremendous amount in um for the entire county especially for our division and that's all I have. I'll be I'll be there for the next board meeting. Thank you. Thank you Mr. Bush. Mrs. Cleveland. Yes. Um I wanted to make sure that we acknowledge our community partners topside and also for Element Electric. I was happy to see that they got recognized tonight. It's so important for our community to be involved with our schools and the introduction to our students um for the different trades and different opportunities for them for their careers in their future. Um I want to thank Dr. Boyd. Thank you for looking into those um different safety measures that we can implement. Um I know that I spoke with um several board of supervisors. they
077were um very concerned about the price of the last weapon system, which I understandably so. Uh if we could find uh a lower cost, that would be great and hopefully be able to implement it by next year. Um I also wanted to make the board aware that I did reach out to our delegate um about some help with any funding for security, any funding for any equipment for grants, etc. as it relates to school security. Um, she did get back with me and um, told me I just got this today, so I want to make sure that you guys know that there is a grant available for 250,000. I believe this is probably the grant that you guys got last year. It's the the school security equipment grant. Um, it was authorized for $12 million
078under the public school security equipment grant of 2013. So those are going to be accepted I think until July of this year and that's 250,000. So that would be something towards our effort there. Yeah. Thank you. Mrs. Cleveland, Mr. Frank. Yes. I'd like to as always thank all the teachers and staff for all you do. Like to thank uh Pastor Lester Harvey for his uh in invocation today this morning. also pastor Davis for his uh comments and then recognition for the top side four elements uh electric and all the presentations that were given. They're always very professional and and always very good. Thank you. I also wanted to thank all the presenters, but I also have a special spot in my heart for preschoolers. So, um, thank you to all the staff and the, um,
079administrators at all the schools. I know, uh, it's been a rough go the last few weeks with all the things around us and thank you for keeping our children safe and being so vigilant. We're very fortunate to have everybody just always looking out for our students. Um, I've been around to some spring sports games and everyone I went to, our students won softball, soccer. I encourage everybody to get out there and support our kids because sometimes the crowd is pretty sparse and the kids are super excited. Um, but I just thank thank everybody who's always a part of everything. I see you everywhere. You go you go recognize that's all madam chair. Yes. uh question. This book Dr. Boyd gave us the culturize. Do we have any plans for this? Read it. I have already
080read it. It's uh it's a fantastic book and uh definitely recommend it for anybody who's in a leadership position, especially a school leadership position to read this book. Yes. Thank you for the book. Are are we gonna do anything with it? I don't like are we going to set out a goal to make sure people do it and on on our team? I I can look into some putting something together and get we'll talk about it tomorrow. Okay. We Dr. Borg and I meet on Wednesday morning, so we'll talk about it in the morning. Good idea. Do I have a motion to adjurnn? I make a motion we adjourn. Second. All in favor? I vot. Mason carried.