001Okay, good afternoon everyone. It's May 8th, 2020. I'm Cindy Anderson and this is the special called school board meeting for Alexandria City Public Schools. I'm calling the meeting to order at 12.03 and now I'll do the roll call. Cindy Anderson, I'm here. Veronica Nolan. Present. Megan Alderton. Present. Rami Jantri. Present. Jacinta Green. Present. Margaret Lorber. Present. Christopher Suarez. Present. Heather Thornton. Present. Okay, great. Next up, I need a motion to adopt the agenda, please. Madam Chair, I move that we adopt the agenda. Okay, I hear Ms. Gentry. Do I have a second? Ms. Green, did you want a second? Sure. Second. Okay. I have a motion by Ms. Gentry, seconded by Ms. Green. And now I call for the vote by roll call. Cindy Anderson, yes. Veronica Nolan. Yes. Megan Alderton. Yes. Renee Gentry. Yes.
002Jacinta Green. Yes. Margaret Lorber. Yes. Michelle Reif. Yes. Christopher Suarez. Yes. Heather Thornton. Yes. Okay, now we're on to the superintendent's report. Dr. Hutchings. So I don't have any reports to give today. I've been giving you all reports each day, but I do will take any questions that people have in regards to any of our updates from this week that you may have that I haven't already answered. All right, that was almost not enough time for me to mute myself. So I don't see any questions. Is anyone, you can text me ever if you're having trouble raising your hand. Okay, so I don't have any questions. So I'm going to have to ask, I know we changed, Ms. Nielsen, did we change the time of the work session to which time? Is Susan still on?
003I see Susan. All right, it has changed to 12.05. Sorry about that. Okay, so then we're good because otherwise we would have to wait, everybody. It was 12.15 and then we'd have had 10 minutes of just Zen here. And that's probably not what everybody wants to do. So I'm glad we changed it. Thank you, Susan. So now we are going to recess the meeting, everybody to go into our work session. And just for everybody who's... you know, joining us and hasn't gotten all the paperwork we have. After the work session, we will have a closed session. So really after the work session, there's not going to be any much public discussion of anything. We have a closed session. We'll only come back into the public session to certify the closed session and possibly make some
004statement about it, but no, nothing that the general public would be. should be really interested in. So just for people's knowledge. So I actually need a motion to, and everybody got this, I need a motion for the board to recess until the conclusion of today's budget work session. Madam Chair, I moved at the board recess until we come back to adjourn the meeting. For a closed meeting. I'm sorry, for a closed meeting. Okay, Ms. Green seconds to Ms. Alderton's motion. And so now I'll do a roll call vote. Cindy Anderson, yes. Veronica Nolan? Yes. Megan Alderton? Yes. Rami Jantri? Yes. Jacinta Green? Yes. Margaret Lorber? Yes. Michelle Reif? Yes. Christopher Suarez? Yes. Heather Thornton? Yes. So the motion's carried, and so the board now stands in recess, and the time is 12.07. And go back
005to our meeting, and then I think we need to have maybe Ms. Nolan lead us into closed session. Okay, this one's a doozy. I got three closed sessions to say, so hang with me here. For student madams, Madam Chair, I move that the board convene a closed meeting pursuant to Virginia Code 2.2-3711A2 for the discussion and consideration of a matter that would involve the disclosure of information contained in a scholastic record concerning any student. Madam Chair, I also move that the board convene a closed meeting pursuant to Virginia Code 2.2-3711A7 for the consultation with legal counsel and briefings by staff members or consultants pertaining to actual or probable litigation, where such consultation or briefing in open meeting would adversely affect the negotiating or litigating posture of the board. And finally, Madam Chair, I move that
006the board convene a closed meeting pursuant to Virginia Code 2.2-3711A8 for consultation with legal counsel employed or retained by a public body regarding specific legal matters requiring the provision of legal counsel, legal advice, excuse me, by such counsel. Okay, I have Ms. Green seconding Ms. Nolan's motion. And before I call for the roll call for a vote, I just want to remind everyone that there's a separate link to join for that. And then for the public, we won't be broadcasting any longer. The only thing we'll come back to is to certify and possibly make a statement about anything that happened, but it really won't be. anything in detail. Okay, so I have Miss Green seconding Miss Nolan's motion and I'll call for a roll call vote. Cindy Anderson, yes. Veronica Nolan, yes. Megan Alterton, yes.
007Rami Jantri, oh I think Rami, she had to go for a... a meeting i believe oh no she's here i'm not hearing her and she's yeah we're not hearing you ramey i see you're not muted okay yeah thumbs up yes okay um descender green yes margaret larber yes michelle yes christopher suarez yes heather thornton yes okay i'll we'll the board members we will um meet on these other zoom call see you in a minute And you have to leave this meeting. I got worried for a moment that we wouldn't have quorum, but we had quorum. So, Ms. Nolan, could you please read us out a closed session? Yes, pursuant to Virginia Code 2.2-3712, I move that the Board certify that to the best of each member's knowledge, only public business matters identified in the motion
008by which the closed meeting was convened and are lawfully exempted by the Freedom of Information Act were heard, discussed, or considered by the Board in the closed meeting held on May 8, 2020. Second. Second. I'm sorry, who seconded? I think Chris said it at first. Oh, Chris did. Oh, sorry. There's a dog in my house. Mr. Suarez seconded Ms. Nolan's motion, and now I'll call for a vote on it, and I will read the roll call. Cindy Anderson, yes. Veronica Nolan? Yes. Megan Alderton? Yes. Ramey Gentry has left us for another meeting. Jacinta Green? Yes. Margaret Lorber? Yes. Michelle Reeve? Yes. Christopher Suarez? Yes. And Heather Thornton also had another meeting she had to jump on for business. So we have seven people still here voting yes. Now the last matter is about the student
009matter. And if I could get someone to move that the board affirmed the decision of the superintendent and the student matter discussed in closed session. Madam chair, I move that the board affirmed the decision of the superintendent and the student matter discussed in closed session. Second. Okay. I have Ms. Lerber seconding Ms. Nolan's motion. And now I will call for a vote. Cindy Anderson, yes. Veronica Nolan, yes. Megan Alderton, yes. Remy Gentry is absent. Jacinta Green, yes. Margaret Lorber, yes. Christopher Suarez, yes. Michelle Reeve is abstaining. And Heather Thornton also is absent at this moment. So that we have, Susan, you're counting. We have, I guess, six. Yes, one abstention and two absent. Is that right? And so now we are, one last thing is adjourning, but we have to do it officially. So if
010I could get a motion. Madam Chair, a move that we adjourn. Second. Ms. Alderton seconded Ms. Green's motion for adjournment. All those in favor, I'm going to call. Cindy Anderson, yes. Veronica Nolan, yes. Megan Alderton, yes. Jacinta Green, yes. Margaret Lorber, finally, yes. Michelle Reeve, yes. Christopher Suarez, yes. Okay, everybody have a great weekend and we will be seeing each other next week a couple of times. Thank you, Manapier. Thank you. Bye, everyone. Thank you.