001e e e you live thank you please fitgerald yes Mr Henderson Mr here we have any additions to G yes sir yes sir have a motion approve the agenda mron all right at this time I'd like to open the public hearing for propos 2025 2026 someone okay the public hearing is now open is there any names on the list to speak okay anybody in the audience that wanted to sign up that didn't would like to speak okay so if not then I guess we'll close the public hear for the proposed 2025 2026 school budget at what time 602 I need a motion close car I'll make a motion a motion second roll please yes yes all right now we're going to discuss the 2025 2026 school budget I know the governor did not sign it
002yet I do believe he had some amendments to the for K12 if I read the article correct good evening you are correct I am sorry but we do not have any um definite information tonight I can just sort of tell you what we've heard so far okay okay all right so um we we did learn from vast today that one of the the big numbers in the budget that we were looking forward to um cutting support cap um taking that away giving us our back for that the governor did cut that by two CS so that's over a million dollars US it also has a local match so that would affect minimum required local match that will bring down some and I'm not sure if everyone knows but I know you had some check but
003right now supervisors we $2.1 million um increase in our budget for um next year that was 6% above the proposed minimum the board has right now the county administrator's budget is cutting that back to just four and a half% of so that is also add ,000 cut so if the support cap twoth third of it goes away the match goes away for that and then count already the budget I me it could be up but everything is just specula right now we don't know so I say budget we have tonight and I did go back and look you know we had talked about in the in the priority list that we had there are several things that we are this year so that's going to help you know next year and I believe the canva
004softare is by state so that's another expenditure um that will help us there so we're just I know that want to contracts as soon as possible we hard to do contracts before that is it it will be they are going to propose their um County Administrator Budget on April 15th which now we're waiting for April 2nd to see what general assembly's going to do to so we're just kind of in a a little waiting time frame now um we know what the county administrator's budget looks I will to that meeting until May we thought we budget maybe early we're gonna go back to the same old thing on Y and we'll just have to see I mean like I said we have several things that we're I'm very hopeful that we're going to be able
005to use money some onetime projects that W right now our proposed 2526 budget is 125 699 356 correct yeah you want that's what we're going to approve tonight right plus 701 okay all right does anybody have any questions from Mr any of y'all have any questions the budget I was just ask maybe it already have probably none is anything going on in Washington going to flow through the Virginia and throw a monkey wrench into it at this time is it any knowledge of that I hope not but you know everybody still says that're away with the Department of Education at the federal level I'm on the news I know has been on us to make sure those Federal reimbursements are up to date we're also still waiting to have plans approved at the level so
006we're not up to dat I don't know thanks according to the news they're going to give the money to the state to give to us rather I mean that's what the new but hey and everything can happen right monitors all that money anyway I mean our Title One our title I mean you know our plans go to the state to be improved our rebs go to the state you know to receive our funding so none of that would really change for us nutrition is is that is under the Department of Agriculture not under the Department of Education okay any other questions Dr Jones do you have any comments I do um so please reach out to the Board of Supervisors and encourage them to fully find the schools also I sent you all copied you
007all my correspondence today with the legislators I'd encourage you all to do the same with the legislators um we need we need a sport cap Vass has been working on sport cap for years it it it came into existence in 2008 they cut us then it's been what 17 years that we've had this and so Vass over the years always requested to reinstate um where we are 271 sport cap we've gotten there um we need we need these dollars for a School Division we need them to be competitive um just to be competitive not to put us at an advantage over anyone else in hiring but right now that's that's a critical need for us is to hire the best and we're having a difficult time with that and and so I would encourage you
008take the verbiage that I have in my email to legislators and use that and send it out to them um because to reinstate that and also there are a couple of other items that I mentioned in the email if you would also bring that up too those are things that are taking money away from K12 education and diverting them elsewhere and so I'd encourage you to do the same so please do that thank you okay anybody else thank you m Worley I appreciate all the hard work and I thought was going to be a little earlier this year but it's not looking too good again is it okay [Music] so yeah this time just want to remind you that we can if we approve our budget we can always if it gets lowered we okay
009we just can't go any higher without another so if if we get Cuts we don't have to come back and do another public hearing I think I'm right right yes sir yes sir so this time I'd ask that we approve the proposed budget of 25,6 199,000 $356 our regular school budget and $7,150 220 $5 for our school nutrition budget any discussion on either one of these any more call please Mr Fitz J Mr Henderson yes M Mar yes Mr Ms yes Mr Moon Mr Shi yes yes okay so we have a up next is a VBA showcase innov Innovation award Miss Brooks is going to talk to us I think you got a little clip for us to look at correct okay okay and I'm told you have a packet at your desk be safe
010together all right Brook good evening chairman or below St more program be considered for the reive appr I'd like to share with you aals that application our first video is precision it's two students School andol they're talking a little bit about their experiences my name is uh Christian ringcon and I come from D River p and um I'm currently enrolled in Precision Machining at PC and I'm in the 11 grade I'm Travis I am in 11th grade and I am from tun high school and I'm in the Precision Machinery course I feel this course is important because it's needed everywhere in the world to to do basic functions in the world you need tools you need parts you need any thing that can just be used to make other think you can't drive a nail
011into the ground without a hammer you can't screw anything in without a drill you need parts for that stuff I think this is a good course to tap just because um you get to like learn a lot of things like measuring try and get a job at bwxt and like you know just like have a good experience and like earn money while you're doing it too when I was in STEM Academy we got to do lots of things with measuring we got to do come here on field trips and like explore the shop look at the people and talk to the people that currently are the seniors I think last year and we got to talk to them and we got some like experience like not experience but like we got to talk to them
012about like what they do in here that sounded sounded very interesting to me I was at the STEM Academy we got to again we did get to use our calipers and learn how to measure objects and stuff which was very useful to actually know here we also got to do with the CNC mil there which was fun albe it very simple compared to what we do now now we have to mess with all the dials and gizmos and make sure everything's correct when before all we had to do is press go watch it work and it just worked now you have to individually do everything make sure everything's correct size have everything with correct tolerance or else it's wrong but it's still f it's still very the way it is shaped what I want to
013do is just made me want to do this in the future when I go to college and DCC I'm gonna go to mors and do Precision Machinery there to just make more parts make more stuff that's useful for people this class has helped us with lathe work we've learned how to use these lathes uh we're learning how to use those machines back there right now the Mills uh we've learned how to use our calipers we've learned how to use many different tools for different odd situations odd shaped Parts they need very specific things sometimes you can mess something up and there's a tool that can just fix it easily which is very nice to have I've used many of them since you're here for I believe it's four semesters you get one full year of
014credit here which skips one year at DCC and that saves a lot of money compared to doing two years you also get to just jump ahead of everyone who just didn't do this course and goes there to do Precision Machinery you could just join in with everyone else there immediately my future plans are as well as like something like his like go to DCC get like second year done third try to get in thir year for like more advanced manufacturing with more access in the CNC machine try to get a job like atx2 or another place where you really need like where you feel like you're needed to make parts and stuff and like you said like you can skip a whole year like you're the new guy and like younger than everybody else and
015you get you see there like older than you already the STEM Academy isn't just for precision Machinery people there's also a health and medical side there's also the welding part that we learn there's also the robotics part that we learn we get to use the meca 500 robot mini which was fun uh there's the 3D printing side we get to we got to make our own things out of uh we get to also take techically I guess model 3D modeling we got to do that somewhat with the Tinker CAD which is just a very simple drafting program but it still worked very well we have plenty of things that we learn at the STEM Academy we do a lot more than just Precision Machinery there just wanted to add that STEM Academy like like you
016said it's not like just like learn about one thing is like multiple things that can like help you in life like communication skills and like talking to other people and learning and paying attention to like the things and like lots of the things that we learn there we we bring them over here and like bring them life and like doing it in the machine and the parts yeah got a lot of G mes over actually several materials that go that Curr you don't have Topol and shape their future STEM Academy is one of those things that bries that gap between Middle School investigations and high school 12th grade when they determine something B in terms of training um I'd like to express special thanks to Aon Burton in the PCS it department for his hard
017work with all the students near about eight I'm GNA really hard that one it's long it has everything in it your students did well they were two outstanding choices there good choices so do well I I told M Mr Shields I'd like to see those two students next year after they've been through the course for two years the vocabulary and the difference in their explanations U it just see the growth in the kids uh but you could really tell they they clearly learned a lot in STEM Academy and they really see a future in these these professions that they're choosing anybody have any questions comments from Miss Brooks thank you very much we do appreciate it I appreciate all the hard work you and Miss blue off for doing over there and and with the
018schools and all that y'all doing I was over there today for a little while and wanted to see um the new weld boost got four of them up if you haven't gone and kids make them you know the students are actually making the new welding boost and the well shop and to go and look at what those students are doing right now to me is just amazing what Mr Wood's done and that with that one program and and what they're making if you haven't had a chance to go by that please try to stop by the the uh CT pc pc school over next to the middle school because what they doing is fantastic got a really good group y'all doing a great job thank you all right I need a motion to approve the
019heard to submit this a motion I make motion for the approval to submit this grant second any other discussion call please yes Mr Henderson yes yes we're gonna go in closed in a minute um y'all see the good work they doing over there I hope I hope the Press really if you need anything from her please showcase what these students are doing over there that's that's kind of the the gy that's not ever talked about much is what's going on in the pctc over there that's really a lot of good work going on over there I think a lot of people mening that soose I move that Bo going close session pursuing to the Virginia Freedom of Information for the following purpose discuss Personnel mods under Section 2.2 3711 A1 of the code of Virginia
020particular Personnel appointment Personnel employment appointments resignations leaves and assignments second you need a roll call do a roll call Mr Fitzgerald yes Mr Henderson M Mr M Mr Mr do yes e e e okay thank you do you want to redo it yes let's let's do it one more time since we went streaming do I have a motion to certify so move second okay roll call please Mr Fitzgerald yes Mr h May Mr yes motion foros please a motion to approve Personnel changes for March 25 2025 as presented and discussed Some Mo second any discussion on any Personnel call please Mr Fitzgerald yes Mr Henderson yes Mr yes yes yes yes have a motion to adjourn before we do that there's things going on tomorrow to remind people um gifted is having and their eth
021grade presentations at 10 at Chad no ST I think the student Forum forum is from 10: to two tomorrow school board has a event tomorrow night tomorrow night me tomorrow night and then I would like to invite you all to um Dan Riv High School softball team is doing a benefit for Cara Eastwood on Friday when Dan River plays tun starts at 5:30 there'll be bake Sals salent auctions auction items all of that to benefit here I know the last time she had her treatment her second round of chemo did not treat her well at all so she's taking to start her third round now you that five o' 5:30 on Friday Dan River Dan River soft will be playing an a drug that cost $50,000 and they denied that didn't they I didn't hear
022that what I told last night she she had a I mean it was a struggle yeah second round how many more rounds you got to go H many more rounds is your she she's a ninth grader yes SP birday in the hospital wow need to keep so if you guys can be out Friday night we would love to see you got got a motion toj roll call please yes thank you