001I know. I've not seen her yet. Give superintendent one. >> Thank you. All right, good deal. Good evening. Good evening and uh welcome back board members. The time is 6:10 p.m. and we're calling this meeting back to order. Before I get started with the uh pledge of allegiance, if our new intern, Mr. Nonvo, if you could come out here for me, please. If you could stand right behind me. Mr. Mr. Mr. Non Vo is a Marorrow High School rising senior who is um one of our new board interns. Thank you. [applause] And and when I tell you this guy is sharp, this guy is sharp. you know, I've been dealing with him all year and um excited to have him on board. So, I want to thank the um the other interns for doing the
002panel interview with him and thank you, Miss Blackwood, for um guiding them through that interview. We actually let our board interns interview the new coming um um board members. So, we try to try to give them that experience. If everybody would stand for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. All right, board members, let's call this roll call. >> I got District One, Miss Jasmine Bose. She's absent. I got District 2, Mr. Mark Christmas. >> District three, Dr. Jesse Gory. >> District four, Miss Victoria Williams. >> District five, Dr. D. Haney, >> present. Doc, District 6, Miss Mary Baker, >> present. >> District seven, Miss Sabrina Hill,
003>> present. >> District 8, Miss Joy Telis Cooper, >> present. >> And myself, District 9, Ben Straker. Interim superintendent, Dr. Douglas Hendricks, >> present. >> Board attorney, Mr. Clim Doyle, >> assistant to the interim superintendent, Miss Dawn Bl. And lastly, but not least, board liaison, Miss Kim Blackwood. >> Present. >> Thank you. >> At this time, board members, if we could all step to the front, we have uh board recognitions. I think it's only one one recognition, but a bunch of folks. This is a combination. While board members are coming to the front, I would ask that Dr. Keith Colbert, Dr. Tim Gy, uh Dr. Elder Horton, M Dr. Prince Buouie, and Mr. Harold and the leadership team from Marorrow Magnet High School if they would come forward and join the board. Mr. Chairman, Miss
004Vice Chair, members of the board, interim superintendent Dr. Hendricks. Ladies and gentlemen, tonight we recognize a special artistic moment in history for Clayton County Public Schools and specifically for Maro Magnet High School and its symphonic band. would director of bands Teddy Taylor II, assistant director of bands Cedric Evans, and director of ensembles and drum majors Jules Douly. Please lead those student members who are present to the stage to join the board. [applause] >> [applause] >> And I think we have a number of band parents that are here. If they would stand so we could show our appreciation for supporting this outstanding group of young people. >> [applause] [applause] >> The Marorrow Magnet High School Symphonic Band achieved a remarkable milestone earlier this year by performing on the worldrenowned stage of Carnegie Hall in New York
005City. [applause] >> [applause] >> The performance was part of a distinguished concert series presented by Mid America Productions. Marorrow Magnet High School was featured in the ensemble spotlight series and highlighted the school's commitment to excellence in music education and student development. Under the direction of Teddy Taylor II, the symphonic band delivered a powerful and inspiring performance representing not only their school, but the entire Clayton County community on a national stage. The trip to Carnegie Hall was made possible through the support of parents, community partners, and local sponsors who rallied behind the students to bring this vision to life. Their collective investment ensured that students from a title one school could experience and excel on a national platform. The board offers its congratulations to everyone associated with this amazing accomplishment and specifically to these young people
006who have gathered with us tonight in recognizing the outstanding accomplishment. Congratulations [applause] >> [applause] [applause] >> Take a picture. >> [applause] >> Board members, let me read the ethics statement. In accordance with policy, I'm sorry, in accordance with board policy BH, it is the duty of every board member to avoid both conflicts of interest and appearances of such conflicts. Does any board member have any known conflict of interest or appearance of such conflict with respect to any matter scheduled to come before the board at this meeting or appearing on our proposed agenda? If so, please identify the conflict or appearance of conflict and refrain from participation in the matter involved. Board members, I need an adoption of the agenda. Can I get a motion to adopt the um agenda? >> Miss Hill agenda as it
007is presented. >> Miss Telis Cooper second. >> Motion has been made and properly seconded. Can I get a vote? You got everybody? All right, good deal. We'll now move to part public participation. I'll read a statement before we get started with public participation. The Clayton County Board of Education welcomes public participation and will hear any interested individual pursuant to the guidelines outlined by policy BCBI. Members of the public will not be allowed to discuss individual personnel issues or confidential student matters. Speakers must identify themselves and the topics before speaking. Speaking will be given speakers will be given three minutes to speak and may not yield from one speaker to another. Board members will not respond to comments from speakers. The chairman may respond as appropriate. Issues requiring possible action by the board may be added
008to future agendas. Issues that may need to be addressed by the administration will be duly noted. Abuse of language and/or personal attacks will not be permitted. My first public speaker for this evening is Miss Latia Ret Laterial Francis. Is Miss Francis here? Miss Francis, are you here? >> Okay. Okay. So, you guys are gonna sub in for her. Go for it. >> Yep. Please identify yourself before starting. >> All right. Good evening. My name is Monica Williams. I am representing Leadership Clayton class of 2026. And I have with me my team members Tracy and Pinar. I want to thank you for the opportunity to share an initiative that that directly supports our students and staff of Riverdale [snorts] Middle School, the giving shelf. As many of you may already know, in Clayton County, we have
009one of the highest rates of food insecure families in metro Atlanta. For many Riverdale students and teachers, school supplies, hygiene items, and reliable meals are not guaranteed at home. And that is exactly the gap that the get itself is designed to close. This is a leadership Clayton group one project developed in partnership with the Clayton County Chamber of Commerce. We are building a sustainable restockable chef at Riverdale Middle School that will offer school supplies, hygiene items, non-p perishable foods, basic clothing items such as socks and t-shirts, first aid items, clear backpacks, and storage. To launch the shelf, we are hosting a community donation drive on July the 11th, 2026. from 10:00 a.m. to 200 p.m. with two locations. One location will be a drive-thru drop off at Jonesboro City Center. An additional drop off will
010be at the Clayton County Library Headquarters in Jonesboro. We will be collecting inind items and monetary contributions with a planned shelf opening at Riverdale Middle School in August when our students return back to school. Participating sponsors will be recognized through school approved flyers, sponsor acknowledgements, and certificates of appreciation. Sponsorship can take many forms. Purchasing supplies, hosting a collection drive at your business, or donating bins, shelves, or shoe racks so we can help organize the shelf itself. Our goal is for this to be an ongoing community partnerships partnership that will stock the chef not only throughout this school year but for many years to come. We respectfully ask the board for two things tonight. First, your endorsement of the Giving Chef as an approved school resource. And second, your help spreading the word through district communication,
011school newsletters, or by encouraging staff and families to take part in our July 11th drive. This may be a small initiative in the big grand scheme of quality education, but our goal is to help students and staff focus less on what they lack and more on what they can achieve. Thank you for your consideration in this partnership and for everything that you do to support our schools. We we definitely commend you on that initiative and I'm pretty sure I speak for everybody on the board with the two requests that you have. We'll definitely um get behind that and we'll ask the superintendent to actually follow up on that and make sure that the communication is out there and if we can get some type of communication from the school board that endorses this initiative. So,
012thank you so much for what you're doing for the community. >> Thank you, >> Mr. Chairman. >> Yes, ma'am. >> I know that we're not supposed to speak to the speakers, but since it is Riverdale Middle School, >> uh could you speak to the to uh to the group about why not have a drop off in the city of Riverdale? >> Let let me open up the mic so that you can ask your request yourself. >> Since it's for Riverdale Middle School, which happens to be one of my schools, why do you not have a drop off in Riverdale? That's a very good question. Uh we basically use the resources that our team members have. So one of our team members, he's a director at the school, well at the library. So we were able
013to use the library as a um site and then we another team member donated well she was able to get her work of business as also a drop off site. The plan is although um >> I get >> they're you know we're dropping off on June the I mean July the 11th we plan to actually restock the shelves when the teachers or the staff return back to school that last or next to the last weekend July. So that'll be ready to go when the students arrive. >> All right. I'll just get I'll reach out to you all. >> Okay. But more to Mary if you have another location we'll be more than happy. >> I live in Riverdale. >> Okay. All right. Thank you so much for that. >> Next on the list, I have
014a Mr. Gabrielle Addinson. Addinson, are you here? Take your time, sir. Good evening everyone. Uh, Mr. Chair, Madame Vice Chair, board members, and esteemed guests. My name is Gabriel Addison. And first off, I would like to thank the board members, teachers, and administrative staff throughout the county for making it possible for students such as myself to graduate. And I would just like to once again give a special thank you to everybody. But unfortunately, that's not why I'm here today. I'm here today to address the lack of mentorship opportunities available to young men throughout our county. I've noticed that many young men lack the resources, guidance, and support systems necessary to thrive and become successful adults. Too often our mental health concerns are overlooked and there are shortage there is a shortage of positive male mentors
015who can help guide us through life's challenges. As a mentor myself, it saddens me to see so many young men without proper outlets to express their frustrations, learn valuable life skills, and receive guidance on how to navigate adulthood. Every day we see stories of young men becoming victims of gang violence, entering the criminal justice system, or even losing their lives far too soon. Throughout my time in Clayton County Public Schools, I've had the privilege of having mentors who taught me leadership, responsibility, and perseverance. Those mentors show me that leadership is not about power or position. It is about service, character, and setting the right example. Without those mentors, I would not be standing here today as a student leader, mentor, and future college student. Unfortunately, not every young man in our county has access to
016those same opportunities. Our young men need a centralized mentorship mentorship program where they can develop their talents, build their character, learn leadership skills, and become productive members of society. Today I am asking indeed urging the board to take action by establishing a countywide members mentorship initiative focused on supporting and empowering our young men. >> How many more young men must end up in jail, become victim to violence, or lose hope before we decide it is enough? I stand here before you today as a product of Clayton County Public Schools, a third generation high school graduate and a second generation college student. My success did not happen by accident. It happened because people invested their time, guidance, and belief in me. We often say that we are building a better tomorrow. But how can tomorrow be
017better if so many young men are being led astray today? That's why I urge this board to make a to make mentor mentorship a priority. There are too many young men who need guidance, support, and someone who believes in their potential. Students are our future. If we want them to do better and be better, we must be present, involved, and committed to helping them succeed. Thank you for your time and consideration, [applause] Mr. Addison. Thank you so much for that. That's near and dear to my heart. Um I'm going to get up with um uh board member Mark Christmas and we'll see what we'll sit down with the um the interim superintendent and see what kind of initiative we can get get um started or or continued. So your your your message is wellreceived and
018I assure you we will move on it. >> In addition to the conference that happens, the inaugural was in October. That's where I met Mr. Addison. So that was an initial start. Thanks to you for that and to Miss Rice as well and her team for that for the boys. So >> right. So we we'll definitely be on it and actually I'll um engage you in in our talks also. So I I would love to sit down with you, Mr. Christmas, the interim superintendent, and see if we can brainstorm and get some ideas on how to get an initiative like that started. I I totally agree with with your your points. Thank you. We now have the the um executive session recommendations. I'm going to pass the podium over to the interim superintendent. >> Good
019evening, Mr. Chair, Madame Vice Chair, members of the board, colleagues, and community. This evening, I have several personnel recommendations for you. The first will be the principal at BC Haney Elementary and the recommendation uh my recommendation to the board is Dr. Natasha Ball. >> Can I get a motion for the principal at BC Haney? I got Miss Hill accept the recommendation of the superintendent for Dr. Natasha as principal at BC. Miss Baker, >> I second. >> The motion has been made and properly seconded. Can I get a vote? >> It's unanimous with the individuals that are here minus Miss BS. Thank you very much. Mr. Miss I'm sorry, Miss Ball. Dr. Ball, can you stand for for me, please? [applause] Miss Ball, please do not leave the the facility until we take our picture with
020you at the end of executive session. Congratulations once again. >> The next position that I have for you is the assistant principal at Marorrow High School and the candidate is Brook Sers. >> Miss Tis Cooper. >> How about asking for a motion? I move that we accept the recommendation of the superintendent for Miss Brook Sailors as the assistant principal at Mororrow High. And I second that motion. Um board members, can I get a vote? It's unanimous. Minus Miss Bose. Miss Seller, can you please stand? Where are you? [applause] Same message. Please don't leave the building until we take our picture with you. >> Next recommendation is for the assistant principal at North Clayton High School. And the candidate's name is Tanisha Barlo Macdonald. >> Dr. Gore. I move that we accept the superintendent's recommendation for
021>> Tanisha >> the assistant principal at North Clayton High School. That person being Tanisha Barlo McDonald. >> Okay, the motion has been made and properly seconded. Can I get a vote? >> It's unanimous minus Miss BS. Miss McDonald, would you please stand? Where are you? Congratulations. [applause] >> Next position is the chief operations officer and the candidate that I bring to you this evening is Mr. Landry Merkinson. >> Dr. Gory, >> I move that we accept the superintendent's recommendation for Chief Operations Officer North Clayton Eagle. Mr. Landry Mccasen. >> Miss Baker. >> I second. >> The motion has been made and properly seconded. Can I get a vote? >> It is unanimous minus Miss BS. Sir, would you please stand? Congratulations. [applause] Welcome to Clayton County Public Schools. The next position that I bring for
022your consideration is assistant superintendent elementary [clears throat] schools. The person I bring before you is Mrs. Erica Johnson. >> Miss Hill, >> I make a motion that we accept this uh inim superintendence recommendation for uh Miss Erica Johnson as assistant superintendent of elementary. >> Miss Miss Gurie, >> I second the motion. >> The motion has been made and properly seconded. Can I get a vote? Miss Williams. >> Abstain. Okay. The motion has been made. Properly seconded. We have a vote. Minus Miss Bose. She's absent. Miss Williams is abstaining. The motion passes. >> [applause] >> The next recommendation that I have you have for you this evening is the executive director arena operations and oversight. And the person that I'm recommending is Mrs. Mercedes Miller. Miss Cooper, >> I move that we accept the superintendent's recommendation
023for Miss Mercedes Miller as the executive director of the arena operations and oversight. >> Miss Baker, >> I second. >> Motion has been made and properly seconded. Can I get a vote? It is unanimous minus Miss BS because of absence. >> Miss Miller, if you're here, Miss Miller, if you're here, will you please stand? All right. For all of the candidates that were approved today, could you please step up to the um front of here so we could take a photo with you? That's when they clear this picture on the block. Right. When they clear off, two Mr. Chair, that concludes my recommendation, sir. >> Thank you, Mr. Superintendent. What was that? I'm I'm sorry. We Yeah, we have the uh tribunal. Can I get uh Let's see who we got for that one. Stop.
024>> You going to start? >> Miss Williams, would you give us the motion for the tribunal? >> In the matter of the employee tribunal hearing number 2025-2026-09, I move to uphold the tribunal's recommendation. >> Miss Hell, >> I second the motion. Okay, the motion's been made and properly seconded. Board members, can I have your vote? It is >> It is um >> Miss BS is absent. Miss um Baker has abstained. >> Motion passes. Do we have anything else from executive session? >> No, sir. >> Okay. Not hearing none, we can now move on to the uh board members updates. I'm going to start with you, Mr. Christmas. You have anything? >> Yeah. >> Go ahead. >> Let me say I think the board uh uh uh update is a waste of time cuz it's not
025talking about children. We're speaking about what we did or what we've done or what we're going to do. And so we're wasting 30 minutes of time and how does that impact children? Thank you. >> Thank thanks for your comments, Dr. Gori. >> I will uh just say that we had a very uh informative uh GSBA conference in Savannah. We did it in person and we were able to get uh quite a bit of knowledge and uh I will be sharing it with all of the board members. >> Miss Williams. >> Good evening everybody. Uh I just want to say I have a wellness conference July 11th from 8 to 11 at 4603 Jones Road. And like always next week everybody take care of yourself. Do something fun. do something that you've been waiting to do.
026Don't prolong it. >> Thank you, Miss Williams. I have nothing, Miss Baker. >> Um, I just want to say, um, y'all take care of yourself next week. She's talking about wellness. That includes you. I need you guys to be rested before the new uh, school year starts. And I'm going to say something that's probably not going to make some people happy, but I'm going to tell you to turn off your phones. You all need time to yourself. Remember back in the day when people couldn't get a hold of you if you weren't in the office? That's what it needs to be. Thanks, >> Dr. Dehaney. >> Um, mine is about a student. Um, I just want us to first of all take a moment of silence for one of our students. Um, he's a graduate.
027He was a graduate of Jonesboro High School. Um, Reginald Stark. So, let's just take a moment. Thank you. He graduated from Jonesboro High School in 2025 and I had the distinct pleasure of attending his celebration of service celebration of life service on Saturday over at Greater Piney Grove and to see the students and I want to commend Is Dr. Goodwin still here? I want to commend you. Would you stand up? I want to commend him for rallying our students, our Cardinals. Um, the students basically took over the church for the attendance and support they had shown this family. And so I just want to say thank you for that. That took a lot. It took a lot for you and Mr. Curry to make those remarks considering the impact that Reggie had on the on
028the group. Also, I want to thank Dr. Hendris as well as Miss Bailey over at Jonesboro High School because I tell people in the community if two things outside of the fire department, police station, hospital, if two things cannot be open and a county, we fail as a community. That's the church and the school. And if those particular entities cannot be opened, we have lost our community. And I say that to say that Jonesboro High School on behalf of Clayton County Public Schools and Board of Education to open up their doors to have a repass. And I'm not saying this for nobody else. I'm not saying that no other school would do this because I know that we will come together for our students and families. But to see that support on a weekend and
029to know that those families, boosters, and everybody as a booster parents and everybody came out to support. So Dr. Hendricks, thank you for allowing us to be able to share our schools with our community and show support for this student and his family during this time. So, thank you Dr. Goodwin. Thank you Dr. Hendricks and thank you board as well as the community. So again, thank you all and let's just keep that family lifted up in prayer. >> Thank you Dr. Haney, Miss Hill, >> Miss Cooper. Um, I really don't have anything, but I just want to thank thank district 8 for my reelection to the school board for the next. So, thank you all for Okay, that has completed the um board members update. We're now going to hear the announcements. >> Good evening,
030Mr. Chairman, Madame Vice Chair, board members, interim superintendent Hendrickx, district administrators, and citizen of Clayton County. My name is Leila Allen and I am a junior at Alabama agriculture. Miss Miss Dawkins and team that was a really sweet touch. I I I really appreciate that. And those were graduates of our schools. Am I correct? >> Perfect. Good deal. Okay, we have the approval of the minutes. I have the minutes from board session May 26, 2026. Are there any changes in the board work session May 26, 2026? Seeing none, they will go they will be approved as written. Next is the minutes from the board meeting June 1st, 2026. Is there any changes in the the minutes for board meeting June 1st, 2026? Seeing none, those will go approved as written. Last, we have the called
031board meeting which was on June 15, 2026. Um, is there any discussion on those? Any changes? Seeing no changes, those will be approved as written. Mr. Superintendent, the floor is all yours on your updates. >> Yes. Uh good evening again, Mr. Chair, Madame Vice Chair, members of the board, colleagues, and members of our community. This evening, we will provide twoformational reports for the board's consideration. The first report will focus on our audit status and related compliance efforts as we continue strengthening our fiscal systems and accountable accountability measures. The second report will provide an overview of graduation outcomes and highlights from the class of 2026. Before those reports though, I would like to briefly highlight a significant milestone for our district. The inaugural Clayton County Public Schools District Leadership Symposium held June 9th through the 11th
032under the theme confident leaders, coherent systems. The symposium brought together district and school leaders from across the organization for the first time in a unified leadership development experience. The focus was simple but important. Creating greater coherence across our system so that every decision, every department, and every school is aligned around improving outcomes for students. Participants engaged in sessions on leadership, communication, strategic planning, workforce development, safety, budgeting, and instructional alignment, all centered on our vision of building a better tomorrow. Today, the symposium represents the first phase of our ongoing leadership development efforts that will continue throughout the 2026 2027 school year. At this time we will hear uh from our team on our audit reports followed by the report aforementioned. >> Excuse me. >> Graduation. >> Oh, we want to do graduation first. I stand corrected.
033We're doing graduation first. >> Steps in. >> Good evening, Mr. Chair, Mrs. Vice Chair, board members, interim superintendent, colleagues, and community. Major Williams and I will share graduation updates as well as the successes and priorities as we move forward with planning graduation 2027. During our last board work session, Dr. Dunn, she shared the graduation profile highlights. This evening, we'll talk about some of the insights from the debriefings. So, we're really proud to share that the utilization of the arena at South Lake, as well as having greater control of our operations, yielded a savings of over 5 million um I'm sorry, a half a million dollar um and savings as a result of having the arena at South Lake. Um and so you see there 538,000 saved in comparison to fiscal year 2025. >> Excellent. Other
034highlights we're proud to share is the continued cross-dep departmental collaboration among various departments and divisions as you'll see in the left that allowed us to successfully operate 13 high school graduations in our venue. Miss Trice, as you all know, Miss Stephanie Trice is a project lead for graduation. And throughout the preparation season, there were a series of meetings, orientations at the venue, and clear timelines and deadlines for meeting those required actions so that we could host our students. We also are proud to share that the experience was well organized and executed and you all were there so you experienced the excitement. One area we would like to note is if you notice that each graduation when it came to the four E the students stood acknowledging a clear plan and pathway for their future. We
035also would like to acknowledge the CCPS production team for capturing content at each session that was highlighted on social media allowing us to reach 1 million views for the first time on social media. So that's a lot of attention, positive um traction to Clayton County Public Schools. We we additionally we receive feedback for the VIP accommodations to include our validictorians and saludiatorans and postumous families who were hosted in their private spaces. So those were some of the positive insights that occurred during the initial debriefing. An area that we we must continue to refine, particularly in our new space, is accessibility and inclusive accommodations for our staff, our students, our guests, and others that may require um ADA support. We want to make sure that upon arrival, during seating, and exiting that it's a seamless process.
036And so, we will have a graduation accessibility plan um moving forward to complement the graduation manual. and other areas was just the overall hospitality and volunteer support services. Um making sure that we have supports in place for individuals who are moving to the ceremony versus in their host area. I know one area um of interest was making sure there's food available um as well as other support services for those who are supporting um graduation. At this time, Major Williams will share some of the safety and security highlights. Thank you. >> Good evening again, Mr. Chairman, madam vice chair, board members, interim superintendent Dr. Hendrickx. On behalf of Chief Walker, I bring you greetings. I'm going to speak briefly with you this evening about the successes and outcomes from the 2026 graduation ceremonies and future considerations
037for 2027 ceremonies. Our successes to start off with were the planning itself. We met with Miss Trice and her team and the graduation committee. We had several meetings with them. Uh the special operations division did. We also conducted uh on-site risk assessments. The t tactical response team did that to identify any specific or potential threats to the graduates, guests, staff, members of the board, and the interim superintendent. As you all are aware, prior to the CCPS graduation, we held four major events at the arena. the GHSA wrestling championships, the Florry concert, the Si SAC men's and women's basketball tournament, and the Clay State commencement ceremony. Those aforementioned events were instrumental in providing the Department of Safety and Security with real-time information that helped us make necessary adjustments in our operational tactics. A number of those
038tactics were utilized during our graduation ceremonies. One issue we noted during the uh GHSA wrestling tournament was the traffic signal that controls traffic leading from the mall's main entrance onto Jonesburg Road. It was holding red for an inordinate amount of time. When it did turn green, it only held green for approximately two seconds. That maybe allowed one vehicle to exit the uh main entrance. So that was causing a bottleneck. So to not have that be an issue for our graduations, we got with Klay County Department of Transportation, had them come out to um re reccalibrate the light, which uh took care of that situation. Also during our graduations, we staged officers at that light to eliminate any any further issues from that traffic signal along with the three ingress and egress points off of Mount
039Zion Road. Doing th doing those things helped mitigate the traffic congestion and efficiently cycle vehicles off the property, thereby clearing parking spaces for the next graduations. Continuing on with our successes, time management being one and safety security security adjustments being another. The time between each graduation allow safety and security to debrief and make operational adjustments as necessary prior to the next graduation. Safety and security personnel were also afforded time to physically and mentally recover between graduations. Something to note that all safety and security personnel were afforded the opportunity to eat. Security screening moved attendees through entrances efficiently. When we did notice a bottleneck, it was at the Love Joy graduation. When we opened the doors for the Love Joy graduation, we noticed a bottleneck to the main entrance. We immediately sprang into action and opened
040an additional ingress point that eliminated that bottleneck. Um, so I want to thank Miss Trice and her team for moving staff over there along with our safety and security team to open that checkpoint. Lastly, I will say I created the detective response team in 2024. I have strategically assigned team member to provide security support to members of the board of education and the superintendent before, during, and after each graduation. That decision proved invaluable during the recessional of one of the graduations when a number of the graduates became rowdy and began crowding the board of education members and the interim superintendent. When I conducted my afteraction briefing with the team out of an abundance of caution, I made the decision to reroute the board of education members and the interim superintendent away from the recessionals for
041the upcoming graduation with the exception of the Utopia graduation. improvement priorities and future considerations. We would recommend that schools with larger graduation ceremonies hold those events during the day or we could possibly look at virtual learning or not schedule classes at all during the week if possible. This would allow the Department of Safety Security to reallocate that manpower to the arena, thereby increasing the number of SRO's and CSOS at the venue venue during graduations. That increased manpower will give us more flexibility with our crowd management strategies, decrease response time to incidents throughout the venue, and provide better overall officer presence to make people feel safer. In addition, it will reduce the need for external law enforcement officers and allow more of our officers who are uniquely qualified to police in a school environment. It will
042also decrease the department security budget because we will not have to uh bring in outside officers to assist us. Lastly, my recommendation would be to assign additional staff to manage and monitor the students on the arena floor before, during, and after graduation ceremonies. Having additional staff on the arena floor will deter disruptive behavior. I'll feel any questions at this point. Thank you. >> Board members, do you have any questions for either Dr. Lee or security concerns? Dr. Haney, >> this is from U. Major Williams, um you said that you had to reallocate manpower. Um how much or how many staff members did you have present as of you know your law enforcement there? And also was there any debrief debriefings with the arena security when you all were doing your debriefs or was there any
043type of format communication as to where they're supposed to be at oppos? So, so what we did, ma'am, uh we didn't have arena security, their in-house security. We had vets. >> Okay. >> We had vet security that we that we contract with. >> As far as the officers, um we had officers to uh sufficiently cover the areas that we needed. However, we could have used more because we had to we had to shift depending on the uh graduation, the times. And some officers, they got off. they worked one shift and they got off and some didn't want to work didn't want to work over. So, we just had to make adjustments. >> Uh, and we we did that without a problem. But it would be beneficial for us to have our own personnel. As I
044mentioned earlier, it's >> to reduce cost. >> Our people are uniquely uh qualified um to police in schools. >> And how many um do you have on your tactical team? How many employees >> to include me? Five. >> I'm looking to increase that number. I'm looking for a few good men and women if anybody want to try. [laughter] >> Thank you. >> Go ahead. I I'll go with Dr. Gare first then Miss Baker. Uh the only thing really that I need wanted to say is the next time that we have people that don't want to cooperate uh with the recessional that when they if they don't cooperate then they should not receive their diplomas until maybe a week later when they write an essay on the proper decorum for um graduation. they can they can
045come back with their parents with a written essay and then get their diplomas. Although I know it was a rookie principal, but that behavior was not acceptable and they should not have been rewarded that evening. Now, the only other little complaint I had was poor little utopian only had about 72 graduates and you all tried to rush us off of the property. They were the last one on Saturday and seeing as I had been on the stage and that was finally my first grandchild's graduation. My feelings were a little hurt and I don't know if that officer that I had to tell off is watching the board meeting, but I am going to apologize to him and I would like to know his name so I can personally apologize to him. But all that noise
046and racket that they were making to get us off of that property would was just not necessary on a Saturday morning. >> Yes, ma'am. I'll provide you with his name, >> Miss Baker. >> Um, I just wanted to say, you know, this this has been a a big dream, long time coming. And for the very first graduations, I thought over for the most part, they were they were incredibly good. Um, there's a few little tweaks and I appreciate you guys taking the time to figure out what those are for next year. Um, I'm sure next year will be perfect. Um, as long as we have perfect people. But again, I just want to thank every one of the staff who either volunteered or or you know, Miss Trice's group, you know, every every department I
047I mean, every every every department had a piece of this um from maintenance to to communications. Um, >> you know, our officers, I'm sure I'm forgetting somebody, but again, it it was everybody coming together to make this an incredible thing. And I kept hearing people come up saying, "Oh, this is so intimate with how it was done versus being, you know, at the other building and they appreciated it." Um, more and more and more compliments throughout the community. So again, just thank you to each and every one of you. Um, I know y'all were exhausted afterwards. So, thank you. >> Thank you, Miss Baker. Is there any other discussion, questions? Seeing none, you can move forward. >> Thank you all. And now for our audit team. Good afternoon, board chair, vice chair, board members, internal,
048interim superintendent, colleagues, and community members. This evening, I will be providing an update on the progress of our FY25 audit. The first phase of this audit, the finance team began preparing for this audit back in January with a clear focus on addressing the four findings identified during the FY24 audit. Through this period, we held several meetings and dedicated significant time collaborating with various departments within [clears throat] uh with various departments within business service to ensure we met the goal of resolving the findings in phase two. I'm pleased to report that we are approximately 85% finished with the task required for submitting to our external auditors. One major improvement this year is the enhanced clarity and accuracy of our trial balance report which notably is clear compared to previous years. This improvement reflects the diligent effort
049of our teams and the comm and the commitment to strengthen our financial processes. Looking forward, we expect that by mid July, the external auditors will begin their review process with the internal team with their internal team. Once their review is complete, we will be ready to respond promptly to any questions or requests that cl for for clarification that may arise. If the auditors do not have any additional questions, we anticipate that the audit will be finalized by the end of July and at the latest early August. And in the final phase of this process in September, we anticipate presenting the final audit to the board in September. And that concludes my presentation. >> Is there any questions in regards to the audit? Looking to the left, I see none. Miss Baker. Um, again, I just
050want to give great thanks to the team um, in finance because when you all came in, we were behind the eightball to put it mildly and y'all have have worked to get us not only caught up but back on schedule. So, I just want to again thank say thank you um, for all your hard work. >> We appreciate it and we completed almost four audits in two years and a half. >> Is there any other questions? I I have a question since we're on the superintendent's updates, it's not necessarily a question for you. Um but uh I but with the other presentation uh the announcements that were given and we talked about the back to school bash, I I wanted to ask the superintendent uh did anyone consider using the arena for the back to
051school bash instead of just or is this something you're thinking about doing next year? I know maybe you all had already planned the four sites, but you know, Atlanta Public School does they do theirs all day in in one large venue at the World Congress Center. And since we have the facility and I noticed uh some of the dates, I was thinking why wouldn't we just go ahead and just do everything in one place? And I mean, even if we broke it down to different uh areas instead of going to those schools, you could just have it in one big place and and and get it over with. But I, you know, I will yield to what you have. But I just wondered had anybody thought about that. >> Well, we're meeting on the back,
052>> Mr. Chair. >> We're meeting on the back to school bash this week. I know some work has already gone into it and we'll see how far along we are. I'll report back to the board where we are with that. >> Okay. >> Mr. Chair, >> go ahead. Miss Hill, >> may I um just wanted to uh follow up and piggyback on uh Miss Gore's comment. Um and just when you take it into consideration, can you also give us a cost analysis? Because if it's if I'm understanding correctly, when we use the arena, um it always has a cost associated with it. So, I would be interested to know if that's um accurate. >> Yes, ma'am. Any other questions? Seeing none, we'll now move to the consent agenda. Board members, tonight we have a combined
053meeting. We have a board meeting and a work session combined. Therefore, the consent agenda that we're getting ready to go over will be voted on this evening. So, listen carefully to the items and be prepared to vote on these items as she as they complete the consent agenda. The podium is all yours, Miss Bivvens. Good evening, Mr. Chair, Madame Vice Chair, members of the board, interim superintendent, Dr. Douglas Hendrick, Senior, colleagues, and community. This evening, I will be giving a update on the monthly financial report as of I'm going the wrong way. Hold on. There we go. as of May 31st, 2026. Um through um receipts on our revenue, we've collected 78% of our um revenue five at 579.9 million. And on the to expenditure side, we expended 600.5 or 81% of our expenditures. and
054are also included in your board packet a summary by function and object for you all to review as well. So I'll be happy to answer any questions you may have on the monthly financial report. >> Is there any questions in regards to the monthly financial report? I'm looking left, I'm looking right. I see none. Move on. Miss >> next we had the SPLS revenue collection. Um as of March I'm sorry May 31st 2026. Um, in May, the revenue that we received is the revenue that was actually collected in April. So, there's a one-mon lag. So, for this year, we received $6,524,927. That is almost um a little over $900,000 increase um the same time last year. >> Good to hear. >> So, we're still averaging right at 6 million, a little over $6 million a
055month in um revenue collections for our spast. Any questions? >> Looking left, I see no questions. I'm looking right. I see no questions. You can move on. >> Okay. Next, I have budget amend. Well, I guess I'll go on the order here. We got the um purchasing reports. We have three reports that you received in your um packet. Report A is for consumables. Um report B is non-consumables that's greater than 10,000 but less than 100,000 that don't that don't require board approval. And on report C or contracts that are greater than $100,000 requiring board approval. and we'll be happy to answer any questions on the purchasing report. >> Yes, Miss Hill. >> Thank you. I just have one question. I know that we had um a purchase uh for um athletic uh wear and uniforms.
056And I just wanted to know, does that include Riverdale High School girls basketball? And I was approached with that question and I just wanted to know. I understand that it said for all uniforms and I just wanted to know if they were included. >> Is Mr. Townsen or somebody from our athletic department here? >> I don't see Mr. Townsen but I see Mr. Shiffler here. Good evening. Basketball uniforms are not included in those uniforms. Um, all um schools purchase their own basketball uniforms. Gotcha. >> I have a qu I have a question, >> Dr. Haney. >> Um, Mr. Shipley. Um, and not to take Marks because this is his baby, but I want to know about Clayton Eagles. Will they be included with I mean their uniforms are not included as >> they they are.
057They're in >> They are. Okay. And so they're going to be up under the athletic department now, right? >> Yes, ma'am. >> And that goes into effect this school year. >> Yes, ma'am. >> Coming up. Okay. Thank you. >> Over here. >> I'd like to know. That seems to be a bit discriminatory right there that we don't Why Why aren't basketball uniforms included? Because the schools um they uh take up their own funds and they keep their basketball gate for the entire year and they and that um in turn they buy their own uniforms and basketball equipment. >> Yeah. But before they get to before I would think that we we should provide some type of a supplement because I'm I'm just looking at our the income and I remember being a parent of a
058swim team member. You all don't buy those uniforms either, do you? >> No, ma'am. >> Right. And and I'm going just say you look it was a hot mess when I went to the swimming competition. I couldn't tell what team who was who. It's I just think that some areas that we where we get a lot of revenue at we spend money for them but we don't spend money for others. And it just seems to me like I'm just saying I think everybody should be included because they wear more than one uniform and some parents might not be able to have afford it. We're always they're always out selling and we should have enough revenue from some of those big sports that we could give them at least one uniform because we do it for
059elementary sports, don't we? >> Um yes ma'am. the elementary sports also that they made quite a bit of money themselves >> because they they've been complaining to me as well about cheerleading uh uniforms for the girls. >> Yes, ma'am. Sir, what I could ask you is um [clears throat] eventually this week, next week, can you send us a um a cost analysis on that and show us how much they're actually making at the schools and how much those uniforms are costing them to see if they're actually getting a profit from, you know, from the gate at at the high schools. So, if you can get some type of email over there analyzing that, that would help us to get more information. >> Mr. here. What I ask is that they get that information to me
060and we'll get with Mr. Townsen and then we'll circulate it back to the board and we'll also take a look at what's paid for, what's not paid for to make sure >> that all >> right and I apologize that what I meant was to get the email over to the superintendent and he'd get it over to us. >> I apologize. >> We knew it. I was >> Yes, sir. Is there any other questions for purchasing hearing? None. Miss Bivvens, you can move. >> Okay, great. So, next I have some budget amendments. Um, the first one, >> no, I do have another question. I'm sorry. >> Okay. I'm I think my concern is uh I'm and I won't partic uh pick out anything particular but you know we had this whole thing about trying to use
061minorities for uh supplies and I know that we have some minority companies that are on the list but yet it it never fails. I don't I see these large companies that already make a lot of money, but we we're not letting I I wish we could start looking at some minority companies, small businesses. We're talking about the four E and people being entrepreneurs. Poor little Clayton County kids that might be an entrepreneur that had a business, they'd be out of luck doing business with Clayton County Public Schools. >> Miss Biffens, let me clear something up for the record. I don't think we have a minority prime um policy. I think we have a local business policy. Am I correct? >> I believe I would hate to get dinged with the minority um um label on
062on our purchasing. So, it's the local business, small local business, >> right? We have a listing and I'm not saying anything about a policy. I'm look I'm saying that we could at least consider looking at the vendors that we have and and and in particular if we're expousing 4E then you know we have some entrepreneurs coming out of Clayton County Public Schools I think we should look at those people sometimes instead of these large companies. >> Thank you. >> You want to move to the amendments? >> Sure. All right. So the first budget amendment is to establish the original budget for the high-cost grant in the amount of $159,747. Can uh since we didn't have I won't I don't want to belabor the time, but can you uh you know normally we meet with you
063prior to this, but I know the holiday and all of that played into that. I think I might have I don't know if I sent a question, but can you at some point explain what that is? just send it to us for information only, Mr. Superintendent. >> Yes, ma'am. >> Okay. Yes, ma'am. I can do that. It's It's the flowthrough grant, though. >> Okay. The next one is an amendment to accept donations in the amount of 10,293 from the Clayton County Public Schools Foundation. The donation received will be utilized to support literacy celebration, tap celebration, the perfect pitch competition awards, and providing um meal reimbursement for the citizens budget advisory committee. >> Any questions? Okay. >> The next is to accept a donation in the amount of $500 from Georgia's own credit union. These funds
064are designated to assist with event related hospitality and food expenses for universities, volunteers, and staff participating in in recruitment events. >> Any questions about George's own? Next, superintendent. >> Okay. Next is the amendment for the superintendent scholarship is to recognize a donation received from the Clayton County Foundation for $2,500 and then revenue from golf status from the superintendent golf tournament in the amount of $146,500.87 for a total amount of $149,00087. >> Uh I have a question on that one. And I might need an explanation uh regarding that uh because we're saying it's coming from the foundation. But is that actually money that the foundation raised or is that from the golf tournament that the school district had but the money was sent through the foundation and then sent to us? >> I am unable to
065answer that question. I will have to get with the foundation. I don't believe anyone is here from the foundation to answer that question for us. Okay. And the last budget amendment is for transportation is to recognize revenue from the department of for the department of transportation to retain and utilize funds received through vendor donations in the sale of scrap metal generated from decommissioned transportation assets in the amount of $4,492.37. And that's all I had this evening. >> Any questions on the amendments? Seeing none, >> Mr. Ronnie Joseph. >> Good. Good evening once again, uh, Mr. Chair, Madame Vice Chair, members of the board, Superintendent Dr. Hendricks. Uh, you have before you uh two items for consideration. The first being the splice construction update for the month of June. >> Is there any questions in regards
066to that report? >> For the month of June, uh total payments were $12.6 million. Uh there were two items for your consideration. Uh there were a deduct and deductive deductive change order in the amount of uh $2.5 million and an ad at Rosen Wall for $500,000 for an overall deduct of $1.9 million. Are there any questions about the splice update? >> Any questions, Miss Baker? >> Um, we did the um ribbon cutting on Forest Park Middle School. Has the punch list been completed for that school? >> Yes, ma'am. It has been completed. We are still under the one-year warranty period. So, if there's anything that was overlooked or missed, we u the contractor is still obligated to f fulfill its obligations. >> Thank you. >> Any other questions, board members, in regards to that report,
067Miss Hill? >> Mr. Chair, I just have a follow-up question on um the completion of the convocation center. Have we completed that as well with the uh punch list? >> Uh no, ma'am. Uh so, we have achieved substantial completion. So, the architect has completed the punch list. the contractor has received that report. Uh they have till the end of July to complete said work. >> Uh I want to follow up. So you say punch list which is me that the company is going to complete that. >> No the punch list is formulated by um all inspectors be the architect, the engineers um CCPS staff. uh we formulate a list of items that are deficient that don't don't meet the standards, the quality standards and so we present that list to the contractor and we do
068not release final payment until said list is complete. Uh, I'm going to ask the superintendent if the board can see that because we keep hearing about these lists, but we don't see them. And these buildings actually are the property of the board. And uh I believe we should have some oversight with what is actually happening, what they're looking at cuz you know I had my own punch list uh after I walked through there and saw a few things. I just need to know if what I saw is on is what you all saw. And since we're we're on the construction report, I already warned >> say something to this location. Huh? >> Go ahead. >> I've already told Mr. Joseph that I love him, but I need to know, will I see the completion of
069of the new North Clayton High School before my term ends. We have students that were supposed to walk in that school this year. [clears throat] They were supposed to be the graduating class. They actually made a pack. The football team made a pack to stay together. And our report says is we're only at 18%. But we did a groundbreaking ceremony in December of 2024. So we're two years behind. I have two more years left on the board. Will I see my school built? >> The short answer is yes. Uh the the target completion date remains August of 2028. We are on schedule to meet that date. If you were to drive by the site, you will see structural still going up. Um uh progress is um moving along. >> All right. I'm I'm going to
070ask the superintendent, can we get a ride over on the property, Miss Williams and I, since those are our schools, can we can we schedule something with you, Mr. Superintendent? >> Yes, ma'am. We got a scooter, one of those scooters, you can put the >> Okay, I'm happy. I'm happy to get on it. >> And then the other thing is I am proud of you. I'm giving you some goodies over here. I saw the fences down around the early learning center. So, I want to know when we can get a walk through for that, Mr. Superintendent. And thank you, Mr. Joseph >> and team. >> Yeah, we'll schedule a walk through on on both of those. >> Uh, yes. Yes, sir. Yes, ma'am. And the uh we're working with communications to schedule the ribbon cutting
071ceremony for the Riverdale Learning Center, which is, I believe, tenatively July 30th. >> And we'll add those invitations for all board members. We'll probably do a couple of different ones so you can choose the time. We'll work with you. >> Excuse me, >> Mr. Christmas. >> Thank you, >> Mr. Joseph. Uh, give me that date for the the completion of the punch list for the convocation center. >> The end of July, sir. >> What is it? You mean the end of July this year? >> You say August 1. Yes, sir. >> This year. >> So, if that's work, if that work is not done, what happens? Um we will continue to withhold payment. Um we there are um options in the contract that can be enforced. Um ultimately we you know we could uh use
072said funds that are withheld to hire someone else to uh complete set of work and so we have a lot of options within our uh tool belt uh and we will do so appropriately. So, with the funds being held, uh, will it be enough to complete the punch list? >> Absolutely. The, uh, the the amount that's being withheld, it far exceeds the the punch list amount. >> All right. Thank you. >> Any other questions? Mr. Joseph, you can move forward. >> Thank you, sir. Miss Albriden. >> Well, the last item is the capital purchase report for items over $250,000. Is there any questions in regards to the capital purchasing report? None on the left, none on the right. >> Thank you, sir. Miss Albert. >> Good evening, Mr. Chair, madam madame vice chair, members of
073the board, interim superintendent Dr. Hendris, colleagues, and community members. The personnel changes report summarizes all personnel actions for the period of May 12th through June 8th, 2026. At time of submission, I do want to highlight that there were 246 teacher vacancies and as of today that number is 196. Um, all other HR updates were submitted to the board of education for your review. I'm happy to answer any questions that you have. >> Looking to the left, you have anything over there? Yes, ma'am. Uh I'm glad to hear that that number has come down with the vacancies. I wish that uh we can get superintendent and you all to give a report regarding the breakdown because you know my biggest concern. We we really lost some good people due to retirement, especially at even I was
074I I was happy to nominate the assistant principal at North Clayton, but I saw she was um another good person we're losing from special ed, but of course she'll do great at North Clayton. But I'm an equal opportunity spanker tonight. Okay. So I, you know, I got to have a little gripe about the interns, uh, the hiring that we did for the interns. I'm going just say this, you all, next year student interns, if we could go back to the way it was, uh, if we could get I'm going since finance has set down, but I'm it's HR and finance. Please don't. I don't know why y'all what y'all came up with this year, but we're in week four [cough and clears throat] since schools shut down and we have interns that are still waiting
075to be placed. And we have I've had a few people say they just, you know, wish they could have a little help. I don't know what you all did. You probably have a rationale, but you know, if the if the what what's she saying? If the the children eat first, if the children eat first, let the children eat and earn some money from from working in the summertime. And you know, just we got a list of kids, let them go over there and work where they were going to work at and not go through this process. >> Thank you, Miss >> Thank you. Yes, ma'am. >> Uh thank you, uh Miss Albrittton. Um, thank you for the update on the numbers. I still have a concern with our resignations. I really would like us to
076do better with our exit surveys. Um, I am gravely concerned with the number of resignations at the end of the year. And this is separate and apart from norm renewals um and retirements. We we we have to do better in being diligent in understanding why people are leaving Clayton County Public Schools. We invest a lot of training. We invest a a lot of support um in making sure that our district is growing and thriving. And then to have a number like this for resignations and have one or two explanations from an exit survey, I I'm I'm not able to follow that. And so I'm I'm really um Dr. Hendris, I'm going to really ask that we push and have a clear understanding as to why we have so many resignations. I'm gravely concerned that this
077is happening at the record number that we're experiencing this time. >> Thank you. Uh I would like >> I would like to piggyback on what Miss Hill just said and I would like to uh ask um Dr. Hendricks and also asked Mr. Doyle if uh if it's possible that the board could actually if we could do a our survey and have it go to a independent person because I think a lot of people don't want to respond to the survey that the school district provides because they fear reprisals even though they are exiting you know they might want to come back. I know a lot of us don't look at social media, but I would I would ask that the uh superintendent and the cabinet actually go to that teacher page on Facebook and look
078at some of the comments that the teachers make. the they r every single uh entity school district around they talk about how great the training is in Clayton County Public Schools, but the the main thing they talk about is the money and uh I know that uh I believe it was Forest Park Middle School. I meant to screenshot it and share it. They they put up a page of all the vacancies at Forest Park Middle School and I noticed that one person said, "Well, we didn't ask you all to bash uh, you know, the school or whatever, but the training we do, you know, is tremendous." And I know we're happy about a balanced budget, but I'm going just, you know, we need to look at some things. We need to look at salaries, not
079just for teachers. Even the APS are saying that even whatever little raise that we're giving this year, I don't even think they're going to get it if they're top of the scale because we don't pay people for their degrees and we need to look at some things that we kn we really do need a compensation study. But maybe an independent survey, maybe we can really get some truths as to, you know, why people are leaving. >> We will do that. I think that that's important. We want to know why people are leaving. In fact, we want people to stay and choose us. And that's why I say to the board and to the staff, coherence is still important. And making sure that we are a district of choice in all ways. And I would also
080add that we all have a responsibility to that. Those of us who supervise, those of us who are co-workers, those of us who lead, govern, and otherwise, it everything that we do or don't do, it plays into why people leave. And I think it's very important that we find out why people are leaving and do everything that we can to stop that collectively. I don't think that it lies in any one place. It definitely can't just sit in HR. We all have a responsibility. And I'm speaking to the community, too. When we approach schools and we talk to people a certain way or we deal with people a certain way, that has an effect as well. So everything everybody needs to look in that mirror and say, "How can I be better at retaining people?"
081So, I agree with everything I've heard and we'll do better. Collectively, we all have to do better. Thank you so much. >> And I'll make just one additional comment. Um, certainly we can um augment the exit survey process. In addition to that, at this year's leadership symposium, one of the common session was on workforce excellence. As a part of that presentation, we um introduced to all district leaders the notion of stay interviews. While it is important to understand why employees leave our organization, it is equally, if not more important to realize why employees stay and capitalize on those elements of our organization. Um, and so that will be an element that we push moving forward. >> Dr. Haney, >> may I add I'm so sorry. Go ahead. Go ahead, doc. >> Well, I was just
082going to say we also can use the climate surveys that we have been amassing as well to find out information too. Um so please go ahead. >> That was going to be a point I was going to bring Dr. Hendricks was I like to see the climate surveys also miss Britain um not divulging names or anything. I just want to see um along with colleagues um for teachers specifically the schools that are affected with with these resignations. I like to see the schools what schools how have that high resignation. I just want to see that itemized out because out of all these resignations as what Miss Hill stated 142 plus I like to see the schools who were affected by this. It's not like you have to get it tomorrow but just get it to
083us when you can. >> Thank you Mr. Albert Britain. >> Thank you >> board members. We have now completed the consent agenda. We now need to vote on that same consent agenda. Is there any item on the consent agenda that any one of the board members want pulled? >> Okay. I would like to have personnel changes report pulled and voted on separately, please. >> Is there anything else that any one of the board members want pulled? If not, we now need a motion to approve the consent agenda for the financial report, budget amendments, high cost grants, CCPS foundation, Georgia's own credit union, superintendent scholarships, transportation, SPLS revenue report, purchasing report, splass construction report, and lastly, the capital purchasing report, personnel change report will be pulled and voted on separately. Can I get a motion, Miss
084Baker? >> I make a motion that we accept the uh consent agenda as just um stated. >> Can I get a second? Miss Hill. >> Can I get a vote? Okay, everybody except for Miss BS. >> We now will vote separately on the personnel changes report. Can I get a motion for the personnel changes report? >> Miss Williamsel changes report. >> Second, please. Miss L. >> I second. >> The motion has been made and properly seconded. Can I get a vote on the personnel change report? Is yours abstained, negative, or >> Okay, Miss Bile, do you got it? >> All right, good deal. Board members, we now move on to board matters. We have a policy series D first read. Is there any discussion on policy series D? You're seeing none, please indulge yourself [clears
085throat] in reading that for the um for discussion on the second read. Next, we have policy series E. This is our first read of policy series E. Is there any discussions or questions in regards to policy series E? Board members, make sure that you indulge yourself in reading policy series E for the second read and discussion. Next we go to the first read of policy series GCR D. Is there any discussions in regards to policy series GCRD? Seeing none, I give the same advice as the previous ones. Lastly, this one is going to be voted on this evening. The CCPS board norms and protocols that's for vote tonight. Is there any discussion, >> Mr. Chair? >> Yes, ma'am. >> I have I have a few suggestions um with our board norms. There's just some language
086that we use um such as like never. I think that we could um really revisit that and restate it. Um and also when you're saying um it says uh never the board should make reasonable efforts to communicate significant concerns to the superintendent in advance of meetings whenever practical instead of saying never surprise. >> Gotcha. >> So there's just a few things where we're using strong language that I think that we could >> make it a little less definitive >> because things happen. Okay. So, um >> do we have time to wait for the next meeting? >> Okay. What we'll do is we we can go forward and approve these board protocols with the changes in which you've suggested. So, the motion will will um um approve going forward the protocols with the suggested changes that
087that you've made. >> Right. Okay, >> go for it. >> Suggestion. Go ahead, M. It sounds like we're going to pull it and that would be great to do because there's some things on here I think we need to discuss like not engaging in public controversy topics on social media and there's a lot of different things that we need to talk about. So, I'm not ready to vote on it tonight. >> Okay. Miss Miss Blackwood, could you chime in on what the timeline on that? We yeah we >> before when >> we >> yeah we we have >> what what is what is the the urgency see now my coach told me about this what is the urgency on on doing that >> urgency is it has to be approved to be an exemplary board
088>> in order to be an exemplary board >> in that case can I make a suggestion and I think these the language in this has been in place for quite some time it's a little like the budget there is Nothing that stops the board from amending it from time to time. So, if you wanted, you could approve it tonight and then put it on the agenda for the next. >> I thought I thought I just suggested that. >> no. I'm saying approve it as presented and then make the make the adjustments later on if we if we choose. >> Yep. That's just a way. I'm just trying to come up with a way to meet your timeline, but also respect that changes can be made. >> Gotcha. Board members, are you okay with that? that
089recommendation. >> Mr. Chair, >> I'm gonna survey the the board. Um, I'll get her question one. >> It's not a I mean, if you could just let me ask the question. >> Go for it. >> Uh, Miss Hill, I couldn't Were Did you say you wanted the word were you saying never? >> Is that what you said? >> Yes. In some of our board protocols, we use the word never do, never this, never that. And I think that that's a little definitive and we needed to make some changes. And there's just a couple of other recommendations that I have um with the way the I'm sorry, the way that it's worded and um and to your point um attorney Doyle, I have mentioned this in the past, but we never got around to it. But
090>> why you use that word? >> I would like I would like us to uh I mean, however we move forward, I understand the sense of urgency. Um and I'm happy to vote my truth tonight. However, we move. So, I'm fine with that, >> Miss Baker. >> And I can make the recommendations at later. >> Good deal. Miss Baker, >> I move that we accept the nor the bud uh board norms and protocols as presented tonight for time sensitive material. >> Gotcha. Can I get a second? >> A second, please. >> I'll second. All right. But I but I have some discussion because I want to go back to >> All right. Let's discuss. Let's discuss before you vote. >> I'm not I'm saying as they're currently written, not her changes. >> I I know.
091But but I just I second what you said, but I wanted to go to what Miss uh Telus Cooper just said. I think M. Is that is that your concern? >> My concern is >> Was that one of your concerns? >> That's one of my concern. >> Okay. cuz we we have we kind of had it too. Can we can we take out M? >> Well, here's what's happening. >> But I I know his recommendation. I'm just asking. >> So, what what we're going to do is we're going to vote, right? We're going to vote on the the the protocol as it's stated tonight. We will revisit the amendments among ourselves whenever you guys want to. So, we can do that at any time. It could. Right. We'll put it on the next work session.
092>> Well, can I change the motion to accepting the protocols as presented tonight with the intent to edit? >> Sounds good. >> Is that all right? >> We we could probably do it even easier to say if there is no objection, there will be edits upcoming in the next cycle, board cycle. >> All right. Hearing no objection. >> Right. >> Okay. So, the motion was made. The motion was seconded. Can I get a vote? >> One, two, three, four. >> Mark. >> Five. Okay. We have five. We got Mr. Christmas. We got Mr. Gorie. Um, Baker. We got Haney. And we got That's it, right? >> And myself. Right. All against >> two. >> Any abstensions? >> Okay, so we got two against, one abstension with Miss Williams. The um motion passes. >> Okay, folks.
093We have a um we have a um tenative adoption for the 2026 fiscal year 2027 millage rate. >> Miss Bivvens. Good evening again. So this evening we're asking the board to adopt a ten tenative mill rate which is necessary to generate local revenues. This proposed tenative miller rate reflects the district commitment to maintaining fiscal responsibility while ensuring adequate resources are available to support student achievement and the strategic priorities for the board of education. The adoption of this tenative rate does not constitute final approval of the miller rate. Following this adoption, the district will comply with all required public notices and hearing requirements. Um, this will allow the district to proceed with those hearings. And um, I just got a phone call on the way here this evening from the tax commissioner and the notices will
094be mailed out um, I want to say she said in August. The tax bills will go out in October with a due date of December. So, she's asking us to hold public hearings um in September. We would have to have some special call meetings, but I will forward that email to Dr. Hendris to forward to the board members or if he will just I will send it at his direction to you all so you can see what the recommendation dates are. >> Um hold on. Okay. So, the recommendation is to adopt that tenative administrator of 20 mills for the district's maintenance and operations. So I had a question of clarity. >> If we vote positive on this um tenative adoption for the 2026 um millage rate, >> is that a affirmative vote for the 20
095mills or that vote comes later? >> The final vote comes later would be in I think we said September is when the final vote will because we won't get the final digest until um August. So we have to advertise and then um the board can either adopt the final mill rate of 20 mills or adopt whatever they want to want to drop less and leave if you want to leave it at 19.6 at that time we can but this is just to get the um ball moving so we can advertise for our hearings and all of that and once we get the digest in um at the end of August of September >> and you don't anticipate the um hearings to take place until September. >> That is correct. >> Right. And how many how
096many um hearings do we have? >> Three public hearings. >> So it'll be September and and and I assume in October also. >> If you can give me my phone, I can tell you. Okay. >> Okay. Good deal. >> All right. So board members, voting on this affirmatively this evening does not mean that that is your military vote. This is just to move forward with the public hearings and all of the administrative stuff that Miss Bivvens has to do prior to that hearing. >> Okay. So, the mail out date for the notices is going to be June 30th. The deadline to appeal is August 14th. The lock the tenative lockdown digest date uh is August 21st. And then we will prepare for the hearing. So for the board of education on August 31st I will
097submit my advertisements to Clayton News Daily. They will publish it on September 9th. We would have she's asking us to have a special call meeting on the 16th and on the 23rd of September and adopt on the 23rd. >> Gotcha. Board members, are are are you clear on that? Everybody's clear. So can I get a motion for Is there any other questions before we move forward? No questions. Can I get a motion for the tenative adoption of the 2026 fiscal year 2027 millage rate? Miss Baker, >> I move that we accept the tenative millage rate of 20 mills for the 2026 2027 year. >> Can I get a second? >> I'll second it. >> The motion has been made and properly seconded. Can I get a vote? Miss Hill, are you voting? >> Okay, Mr.
098Christmas. >> All right. I got two OB obsessions and the rest are are affirmative. >> Thank you. Lastly, this is the policy series I. I know Miss Hill, did you ever send in your um your changes to the I or the regulations of I? >> Yes, that information was sent to MO. Um, >> is everybody comfortable with voting on policy series I this evening? >> Can I get a motion for on policy series I? >> Mr. Christmas I. >> Okay, Miss Hill. >> The motion has been made and properly seconded. Can I get a vote? >> Okay, go for it. Did she say she sent something to us to change it? >> She did. >> She She sent the changes in which she had to send were for regulation, not for the actual policy. Am
099I correct? >> Yes. What? Yes. Miss Low reached out to me and um we were not able to get together and make any changes. So, I'm fine with what we have. >> Oh, yeah. That's what I'm trying to find out cuz I didn't see anything. No, there were no there were no we made no addits and no changes. >> All right, let's get a vote. It looked like it's unanimous minus Miss BS. Madame vice chair, is there something I'm missing? Seeing that I'm missing nothing, the time now is 7:54 p.m. and this meeting is adjourned.