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002[music] of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under [music] God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. I'm now going to call the role. District 1 Jasmine BS. Is she coming or? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. At this moment, she's absent. District two, Mark Christmas. >> Present. >> District three, Dr. Jesse Gor. She's absent today. District four, Miss Victoria Williams, >> present. >> District five, Dr. D. Haney >> here. >> District six, Vice Chair Mary Baker, >> present. >> District seven, Miss Sabrina Hill, >> present. District 8, Miss Joy Telis Cooper. >> She's here. >> She is here. She stepped away for a second. >> And District 9, which is myself, Ben Straker. Superintendent, Dr. Anthony Smith, >> present. >> Senior Deputy Superintendent, Dr. Douglas Hendris.
003Board attorney, Mr. Clen Doyle. >> Present. >> Assistant to the Superintendent, Miss Alicia Battle. Chris, >> assistant to the deputy superintendent, Miss Dawn Biles. And we're joined here with our board interns, Adrien Francz, Edith Perez, and Kingston Parish. They're actually running this meeting this evening. Their their boss is on um vacation. So everything that you see happening tonight Oh, Miss BS just stepped in. So um um I called you. So Miss BS is is present. Also, the interns are actually running the meeting tonight. So everything that you see going on tonight is ran by them. Okay, let me take a moment out to read the ethics statement. In accordance with board policy BH, it is the duty of every board member to avoid both conflicts of interest and the appearance of such conflicts. Does any
004board 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. Okay, I need a motion to adopt the agenda, but I do think that we have one change to the agenda. Am I correct, Dr. Smith? >> You going to pull something? >> Uh, no. Um, we >> the consent agenda. >> Uh, a request was made and I did not allow for it to to to be a part of this meeting night. So, >> no, but it's actually listed on our agenda for RFQ261, construction material. Oh, >> what was that? >> That was not what was
005requested to be. >> Okay. So, we're still going forward with the RFQ. >> Okay. >> Right. Mr. Pul, am I correct? Are we still going forward with the RFQ >> that's listed here? >> Okay. Because we had one omission in there that needed to be corrected. Correct. All right. So, we'll we'll we'll acknowledge that omission and get it corrected for us to vote on the consent agenda >> for next week. Right. Or Miss Biles, do we add it to the business agenda? >> Right. >> Gotcha. So, we're pulling it from the consent agenda. >> Consent. >> All right. So, so let me just do this and I and I apologize for this. I'm looking at an RFQ2601 capital improvements purchasing >> right >> it's an additional item that they requested the purchasing supplement or corrective
006purchasing report came from business services that was not sent until today >> all right Mr. Poke, I'm I need you to help me out with this. I'm looking at and I apologize to everybody. I'm just trying to make sure that before we move forward, we're all talking about the same thing. I'm looking on my agenda right now at an RFQ 2601 construction material testing and inspection services. That's on the consent agenda. Isn't that the one that had the missing um um contractor on there? So that's supposed to be corrected and voted on next week. >> So they will next week. >> So we're going to pull it from the consent agenda. Am I correct? >> No, I think they're going to talk about it tonight. >> They'll talk about it tonight. You'll add that omission
007in there and then we'll be able to vote for it next week on the consent agenda. Am I correct, >> Miss BS? You got that? Am I Mr. Dr. Smith? Yeah, that's fine. >> I just want to make sure that we're not voting for something that would think is is Okay. So, what was that? >> Incomplete. >> Right. Okay. All right. So, there is no adjustments to the to the um agenda this evening. Can I get a motion to adopt the agenda, Miss Baker? >> So, moved. >> Miss Hill. >> Second. >> All right. The motion has been made and properly seconded. Can I get a vote? >> All right. It's unanimous. There are no recommendations from the executive session. We didn't have one. Board member updates. Who's ready to start? Because I know some
008of you wanted to. >> You'll start. >> Mine is true. >> All right. I'll get everybody. I'm going to be going in different orders. Go ahead, Miss Tis. >> Okay. Good afternoon. Good afternoon. The only updates that I have tonight is um for an announcement is Commissioner Reeves is having a Halloween carnival at Rex Park on 10:31 from 5:00 p.m. to 8:30. Um I will be there with a table for uh District 8 school board. So please bring your kids and stop by for some fun. The other announcement that I have is we have a birthday tonight, Mr. Eugene Haritton from the finance department. So, if we could all just give him a happy birthday. >> I'll go be. >> Thank you, Miss Talis. >> Go ahead, Mr. Christmas. >> First, uh, I want to
009thank the dees department for coming out to our special needs forum on Friday. Also want to recognize that the Clayton Eagles will be uh playing in the semi uh championship game on Saturday with Holston County. Uh we'll be in Holston County. Uh >> and uh that's it. Thank you, Mr. Christmas, Miss Williams. >> Good evening, everybody. I just wanted to say if you didn't get a chance to come out to the ribbon cutting they had last Monday, you missed the treat at the new Forest Park Middle School. If you get a chance to go by and see it and Forest Park High School is having a food giveaway this Thursday at 11:00 a.m. And don't forget to vote November 4th. >> Thank you, Miss Williams. >> Thank you. Thanks, Miss Williams. Miss Bows, are you
010ready? Go for it. >> Good evening everyone. Um, I actually have three buckets I want to address. The first one is about how right now is early voting for the public service commission. And the public service commission is one of maybe several things on your ballot right now, but I hope you know how important it is. And if you don't know, I just wanted to give you a few updates. Um, one, this is the first time in almost five years that the PSC has had an election and this is the sole governing body responsible for your energy rates and that means the energy rate hikes that you've also been experiencing. Um, this is also a space where you can think about uh the decision makers on power grid priority. they can literally choose a daycare
011center or a data center and the people in those seats are up to us and those are decisions that we can make as soon as right now but at the latest next Tuesday. Um the second update I wanted to share is just a little closer to home. I know many of us have been um hopefully not consumed by the news but paying attention nonetheless. And so just to update you all on how the federal shutdown might impact some of us here at home, just to be mindful that um according to the 2022 census data, um over 75,000 people here in Clayton County rely on SNAP benefits. That's 21,000, excuse me, over 21% of our total county population. But as you know, here at CCPS, we feed all of our scholars. Um, I want you to
012also just think about how we can support each other during that time. And I think that leads me to my last update, which is just some resources. If you or anyone you know needs support, um, you can text or call 211. That is the United Ways resource line. Um, and then also feedingjah.org has a constant list of food banks. That's all for me. Thank you. >> Thank you so much, Miss Bose. Next up is Dr. Haney. >> Hello everyone. Um just want to recognize Jonesboro High School. They um were traveling down to Pthun Cookman. Um great request for them to be down there. Also back on October 13th, if you all noticed um between the Falcons and the Bills, the Majestic Cardinals performed halftime of Jeezy, which was really a major event for them as
013well amongst all the other accolades they've received. Also, they have been keeping up their grade point average as of their academics and so they are receiving scholarships as we speak. I'm just having a conversation with Dr. Goodwin in regards to that. Also, um, one of our very own Don will have her birthday celebrated on Wednesday as I was told. So, let's give it up for Don. >> So, those are my updates. >> Thank you so much, Dr. Haney, Miss Baker. >> Okay, we've had a very, very busy week. Um, just to piggyback on um, Miss Williams, the ribbon cutting at Forest Park Middle School was fantastic. Um, it's amazing what they did with such little land to give it such a wonderful school. Um, there were two gun violence or safety pep rallies at um,
014Jonesboro High School this week. Um, I went to one on Tuesday, um, where the students signed oaths to use something other than gun violence, uh, to use their words, to to help others to do that. And then the safety pep rally, which I give kudos to Dr. Simpson, um, for really giving the kids an insight of of their future and and, you know, telling his story because sometimes it's hard to tell your own story. Um, Saturday we had the breast cancer walk. Uh, I think we had I don't know how many more people than we did last year, but it was it was incredible. And then after that was the sneaker shuffle for um for our homeless division, which now is McKenna Vento, are we calling MVP department? And um some incredible those kids were
015so excited for those shoes. I was excited. Um, but one thing I just wanted you to know that they're going to start their um fundraiser this year uh for Christmas and they're asking everyone to give um gift cards for the families so that the families can decide how they want to use that money to buy gifts for their children and such. Um they're asking for them to be at least $25 and I'm sure um anybody in that department can help you give and it is the season to get started. So that's about it I think. >> Thank you. Thank you, Miss Baker. Um, in my update, I want to piggyback off of Dr. Haney. I was at that game with the Jonesboro um um band and it was awesome. Like, it was amazing. It was
016um it was a nationwide event. Um I'm proud of them. They did an excellent job. And kudos to um our superintendent, Dr. Smith for that appointment of the band director. I I I see I see it paying off already. So, thank you for that. I also want to um this evening I want to acknowledge the passing of Mr. Paris Belzer. >> Say the last name again. >> Beler. um a beloved member of Eddie White Middle Academy family since 2010. He survived by his wife, Miss Nikia Boyd Belzer, a school counselor for Michelle Obama STEM Elementary, and by his son. We ask that you keep Miss Boyd Belzer Beler, the Belzer family, and the entire Eddie White community in your thoughts and prayers during this difficult time. Let's pause for a moment of silence for this
017family. Thank you. The last person tonight is Miss um Miss Hill. And I believe you have a video that needs to be seen. >> Yes. But that'll I'll Yes. >> Go ahead. >> Okay. The floor is >> um good evening everyone. Um I just want to as we begin our board work session um reflect on the importance of education, what it truly means and how we define it. I'd like to share a true example of a portrait of a graduate born, educated, and now serving right here in Clayton County District 1. Our very own board member, Miss Jasmine BS embodies the values, excellence, and commitment that our educational system strives to instill in every student. her um day job had a Senate committee testimony stand as a powerful reminder of why our core business, educating
018and preparing our scholars for success matter so deeply. >> Good afternoon, Chairman Jones and members of the committee. Thank you so much for having me. Um, I'm joined today with by my colleague. >> Oops. Sorry about that. >> I thought we were going to see. >> Oh, I guess you were sitting right here. >> You better have to come take this away from us. matter. >> Good afternoon, Chairman Jones and and members of the committee. Thank you so much for having me. Um I'm joined today with by my colleague Oketchi who's gonna help me on the tech and and ultimately I want to thank you all for this opportunity to speak with you directly today particularly after hearing such powerful testimony from the previous speakers. My name is Jasmine BS and I am the executive
019state director of 9to5 Georgia and I'm also a caregiver. 9 to5 Georgia is a part of a national organization called the national association of working women. We are a grassroots member led organization that advocates for worker protections for families and working women here in Georgia. We have members all across the state and we have bases right here in metro Atlanta but also in Albany and Savannah. >> Okay. Later, I'm honored to introduce you to one of our members, Joanna, whose voice carries the weight of so many Georgians who are doing caregiving work in the shadows from our rural communities. Today, Joanna will share her story. But first, I really want to anchor us in the broader reality we witness throughout our work. >> Thank you. Um, everyone, um, I I apologize for our audio, but
020I just wanted to share an example of not only does Miss BS work tirelessly here as a board member, but the work that she does in her day job is just phenomenal. to see her before that Senate committee and to speak and advocate and work diligently for the rights of others, particularly women. So, I wanted to highlight that because she is a portrait of a graduate, which is our core business and why we gather twice a month to talk about our education and how we can make sure our children have that high quality education. And so I just wanted to highlight that because I felt that that should be an example of what we strive for. >> Fantastic. Thank you so much. So much. >> We will also have that video that you just seen.
021We'll have it posted on our new board social media platform. So that's Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. The interns will get that on there tomorrow. So you'll be able to go right into our social media and see that full video on on Facebook. So definitely tune in and and and and listen to that. Dr. Smith, the updates are now the the meeting is now yours. Uh thank you, Mr. Chairman, Miss uh Vice Chairwoman, members of the board, staff, and community. Um thank you uh Miss Hill for acknowledging uh one of my former students and a uh a very valuable member of this board. Uh I too had the pleasure of um witnessing uh her address the committee as they plan uh to advocate for very important issues at the state level. and I was uh so
022proud and uh I'm glad I witnessed um her strong advocacy and and the way in which she carries herself and um really support this community in such a phenomenal way. So, thank you, ma'am. Um, I'm uh excited to share that Clayton County Public Schools received multiple recognitions at the 2025 American Association of Adapted Sports program Aspire Awards celebrating excellence in adapted athletics and follow and allowing students with physical disabilities to participate in competitive sports. Our very own Clayton Eagles team received the educationbased program award. Miss Kyla Ray Brown, a Clayton County Public Schools graduate, received the 2024 2025 Varsity Most Valuable Player Award. So, we're so proud of her. Also, our very own Mr. Mark Christmas, board member, District 2, received the prestigious Eli Wolf Advocacy Award. And everybody knows Mr. Christmas, that is his
023baby, and he is so deserving of that uh acknowledgement last night. So, congratulations, Mr. Christmas. Congratulations to our department for exceptional students, athletes, and supporters for championing inclusion and ensuring every student has the opportunity to soar. Also, throughout October, Clayton County Public Schools joined communities across the nation in supporting breast cancer awareness month. This past Saturday, our annual Clayton County Public Schools breast cancer walk drew over 1,400 participants. Miss Baker, our largest turnout to date. We proudly honor We proudly honored 12 Clayton County Public School survivors at special survivor stops during the walk where they share powerful stories of strength and resilience. It was a day filled with unity, love, and hope as our community school, I mean community stood together in pink in the fight against breast cancer. I would like to thank the
024engagement department led by Miss Shakira Rice and her team within the division of student support services as well as all divisions, departments, and volunteers who collaborate collaboration made this incredible event possible. I would like to take this time to share a special video clip that highlights a member of our Clayton County Public Schools family who is a breast cancer survivor. Her name is Miss Allegra Herd. She is a prek lead teacher at Lake City Elementary School. Here's just a glimpse into her journey. Her complete story will be shared on all platforms tomorrow morning. I guess you were sitting right there where it says >> yes I beat breast cancer but still I'm on that journey. I still have to go every year to get tested. I still have six months appointments stuck by needles. Have
025to be in machine. So even though I won breast cancer, I'm still fighting every day Okay. on what I was going to do. If I stopped moving, I might not have made it. At first, I didn't really understand what was going on. You know, my mom just randomly got sick out of nowhere. You know, like she said, she's not good at showing that something's wrong. So, for a long time, we didn't know. Like, you you would never know that something was wrong. She never showed it on her face. She never cried. It was just like, "Okay, if we're going to go in here, I need somebody to come with me." I got in the car every time. Like, >> I cried, but I cried in the shower cuz I didn't want anybody to see me
026break down because I had to be strong cuz I felt like if I wasn't strong, they would give up hope. And I didn't need them to give up hope. I didn't have time to think. I didn't have time to process. I just know I hadn't been through from Monday through Thursday. I hadn't been into every machine that was cat scan, [music] bone scan. My body took a toll. But I came to work out of the whole time from chemo to surgery to radiation. I think I stayed out one time and that was on for one week. And that was only because they was like, "You have to stay out. you can't be at work. So, >> fantastic. Wow. Sorry. I would like to thank uh the award-winning communications division and its uh production team led
027by Miss Jada Dawkins and Mr. Ronald John Jones Shields for capturing uh Miss Hurst's incredible journey. Well done, Mr. Chairman and board members, at this time I would like to turn it over to Dr. Cynthia James to bring u further updates. Good evening. Can you guys hear me? No. We're just a few more meetings out from being able to uh have our board meetings at a much more sophisticated uh with a much more reliable uh technology system in place. So, just bear with us. We're getting there. >> Do we have the PowerPoint? >> Good evening. Um Mr. Chair, Miss Vice Chair, members of the board, Dr. Smith, staff, and community at large. My name is Dr. Cynthia James and I am the director of second language learners Esau. I am here to update you all
028on the uh Hispanic Heritage Month. So if the slide is ready. >> Okay. Thank you. Next slide, please. Thank you very much. Clayton County Public School proudly celebrated Hispanic Heritage Month, recognizing and honoring the rich traditions, diverse cultures, and significant contributions of our Hispanic and Latina students, families, and community members. These events not only celebrated culture, but also strengthened our district's commitment to inclusion, belonging, and appreciation for the diverse communities that make Clayton County Public Schools so special, reflecting our shared pride and cultural heritage and community engagement. And I would like to share with you all some of the events that took place. Well, Stillwell School of the Arts kicked off celebrations with a performance a performance hour in honor of his spirit Hispanic heritage. Several schools hosted wax museums, art walks, musicals, family nights,
029lunchons, and taste of our culture celebrations featuring music, dance, and authentic foods. The ESOL and rural language departments led district celebrations and the international center hosted fall ESL parent workshops covering topics such as RTI, MTSS attendance, healthy families, nutrition, and school choice. Eddie White Middle, Forest Park Middle, and Kilpatrick Elementary showcase students talent through art displays, performances, and cultural dinners. All schools held their Spanish spelling bees, selecting winners to compete in the third annual Clayton County Public Schools Spanish Spelling B to be held uh tomorrow, actually Tuesday, October 28th at 9. actually starts at 9 a.m. here at the performing arts center and we invite you all and those are some of the highlights of Hispanic America Hispanic Month. >> Thank you. >> Question? >> Not really a question. Um I appreciate all the things
030that you have done. >> Um because over the years we haven't celebrated as much as I thought we should. Um my challenge to you is maybe in the future we have authors come in or um dance musical groups. Um I don't know about anybody else but I love a good mariachi band. So, um just that's just something to look forward to in the future possibly doing >> of course and several of the schools did have um dance groups and celebrations of that uh nature, but I think the we have to be more intentional about inviting and getting announcements out to all. >> Yeah. Um, one of the things, um, Miss Anna Cox did a couple years ago is had a dance group from, um, uh, the Asian community come and I saw it here and
031it was it was fantastic and I just I really think our children would enjoy seeing stuff like that. >> Excellent suggestions and we'll work on that. >> Thank you. >> Yes. Good. Any other questions? >> Thank you, Dr. James. >> Okay. At this time, Mr. Chairman, I'd like to call up Mrs. Shakira Rice to give an update relative to engagement. >> Mr. Rice, you have the you have the clicker there, right? >> Yes. Oh, yes. Thank you. Hey, good evening um board chair Straker, Vice uh Chair Baker, all members of the board, Dr. Smith, all staff and community at large. Again I am Shakira Rice is providing high level overview and updates for the engagement department. >> Okay. This summer, our um staff, our team spent time um researching and also gleaning from experience to
032develop frameworks um for student engagement, family engagement, employee engagement, and community engagement. These frameworks were presented to our principles during our student support services leadership retreat. Uh these frameworks were introduced as a way to standardize the approach to the work in terms of engaging all of our stakeholders. Um they are very they're pretty lengthy um and I will not go through those those tonight but u we can send those um to you if you'll like to see those. But there are uh three different areas where um all of the frameworks um had some information um regarding fostering inclusive engagement. That means it's making sure that all of the stakeholders feel connected to CCPS. They feel respected. They feel seen. They feel valued and they feel heard. Um this is very important as we move forward
033with any type of engagement that we have with all all of our stakeholders. Um we also wanted to make sure that all of the frameworks encompass creating an atmosphere that supports exceptional customer service. Um people will always remember you based upon how you made them feel during your interaction. Um and also making sure that um we have profession we showed professionalism when dealing with all of our stakeholders and being very responsive at every level to all stakeholders. And last but not least, we wanted to make sure all frameworks encompass actively incorporating cultural awareness. Um Miss Baker, you just you stated that and also relevance when in terms of all interactions, communications and in a decision making process. One example that is included inside of our family engagement framework is just simply making sure that we
034use family use language that families and stakeholders can truly understand. In the world of education we have a lot of um acronyms a lot of professional jargon and oftent times our community and our parents they would not understand that type of jargon. So just simply being intentional with uh speaking to them in practical terms um presenting information in in in familyfriendly ways, communityfriendly ways, studentfriendly ways. Um those that um information is included inside of our family engage engagement framework as well including all frameworks. Now our student um engagement framework um three key areas of focus making sure that when we curate engagement opportunities for our students we are keeping in mind keeping in mind that uh we want to make some real world connections for our students making sure that these opportunities are meaningful to
035the students. So we uh we have conversations with our students quite often to hear what it is they would like to see included into their um opportunities that we have for them. Also of course we support the four um enrollment enlist enlistment employment and entrepreneurship and some key initiatives that we have under the um in included with the bucket of student engagement our first generation college trips. We take four of these trips a a year. And the unique thing about these particular college trips, they're for firstg generation college students and for one of their parents to attend with them. Because again, if this is the first time that a child, a student is going to college, it's the first time that the parent is experiencing um college preparedness as well. So last year was the
036first year we began this and it was quite powerful, very emotional. Some of the parents became very emotional even stepping into the cafeteria because no one was there to tell you what to do. And so we I had to calm down one of the parents because her daughter just went straight to the pizza line and started getting her food, but the parent just stood there frozen because she didn't know what to do. Um so again that is very we think beneficial to the family as a whole in terms of um this being making making sure our kids are successful. Um we're going to skip down to college sendoffs because um we had some of one of those what two of those first generation college students and their parent come back to this year's college sendoff
037and provide some tidbits of information for our current parents. And so that was very powerful for the parents to hear from another parent who just experienced being that first generation college parent. And uh a new initiative Dr. Smith um gave us permission to begin this year is a district-wide student government association because again it's about student advocacy and student voice. And so uh we are standing that initiative up and we will be working very closely with the social studies department with that initiative. um working with the principles, they uh like to see celebrations, academic celebrations for their kids. And so we were able to work with um principal Brenda Ross to head up a top 10% celebration. Youth and notice, we all know that that is for it started originally to um highlight our uh
038staff members, but thanks to the generosity from some of our community partners, we are now able to also notice two students each time. And those students will each receive a $100 gift card um for going above and beyond and their principles um will nominate them each month. And last but not least, and this is not an exhaustive list, this is just some of the the initiatives we wanted to include tonight. Um we take our scholars on nursing home visits and we do these u four times a year. And again, this is a way to build empathy in our kids and just foster that sense of humanity and giving back um to our community. Our next engagement is of course family engagement and empowerment. We like to use the word empowerment. Um it's one thing to
039give a person a fish, but it's another thing to teach them how to fish. And so I not to my princess voice. Okay, we got it. Okay, it's getting ready to go back to that principal voice. Okay, and so again with that empowerment, it is um just empowering our families um every member of that family. And we do this again by trying to curate meaningful opportunities because we um listen and we read the feedback but more importantly we're uh we're able to work with all parent liaison in order to get a lot of this work done. And um we asked some to come tonight just to kind of be here to support as well. Um and also to um strengthen that homeschool partnership because again it has to be that successful partnership in order for
040not just the student but the family um to be successful. And again building that capacity um through collaboration. None of the work none of the engagement none of the events that you see come from the engagement department happen just with engagement. Um it's a very small team. So everything every event we put on we are collaborating with one or more uh departments or divisions within Clayton County Public Schools. Now some key initiatives regarding family engagement. Passport to success. We're very excited to launch this this year. Passport to success. Um just to summarize it is where um our families receive stamps along the journey to success and um the way they receive those stamps on that passport if they attend an academic um meeting any type of meeting or engagement opportunities at the schools and or
041with the district they will receive a stamp. And the second part about this, our community came together. Any once a parent receives a full stem, some businesses within the community will incentivize or reward them for that type of engagement. Um some of those may be a haircut for every member of the family, a hairdo for every member of the family, a free family meal um for the family. So, we do have our community stepping up to say yes, we want to encourage our families to be more engaged. Um, our fall family photo shoot, again, everything is centered around working as a family unit, not apart. We work together um as families. Um, our parents again attend those college field trips. We have monthly meetings at the schools. Parent leaison are holding three um informational sessions.
042Those are academic in nature. And one always involve infinite campus because again we want to make sure all parents are connected to what it is their student is doing every single day. Looking at the grades, checking attendance, but more importantly being engaged. Um we have food giveaways, um events such as mother son dance, daddy daughter dance, and of course we have family nights at the Falcons, the Hawks, and Skyhawks. And the tickets for these um are typically at a $20 price tag so that it can be affordable to all of our families if they choose to go out for a family night at one of these events. Community engagement. Um of course again u we are a micros microcosm of the larger community. So we reflect all the values, the challenges and the strengths of
043our community. So we cannot do this work alone. And some key initiatives that we have um we have our village on patrol program and this is where our community and parents are volunteering in our schools and um we had some of them come tonight. If you can stand if you notice our village on patrol they have a certain shirt they wear when they are volunteering. So anytime you see those shirts thank you. And we have one with a birthday Miss Twilight Townsen. You may recognize that last name Townsen. She has a birthday today. But Miss Susie Nash, will you please wave your hand? Miss Susie Nash is a very active village on patrol. But the special thing about Miss Nash, she integrated North Clayton High School in 1969. >> Wow. >> So that's the caliber,
044that's the quality of people that we have coming in to say, I want to be part of the solution with Clayton County Public Schools. And Dr. Dr. Smith, Miss Nash wants to meet with you. She say you owe her something. [laughter] Okay. We also have our safe program. Um about two years ago, uh we had some people come to the the board meeting. Um some some of our elders, they had formed a group and they wanted to become more involved in the schools. And so we heard that cry. And so we sat down and we curated this particular um opportunity for them. It's called the SAFE program. sitting at the feet of our elders. So the majority of our elementary schools, I think with the exception of maybe four or five now, they have a
045safe volunteer, the grandparent for their school. They read to the kids there. Um, one shows up, well, several of them every single day just to be there. And she she often states that the kids give her more than she can ever give them at the school. And we have some of them with us here tonight. So when you ever see this particular shirt, there's this blue. I see you. Stand on. We have a couple. There it is blue. And um the image on the front of their shirt was designed by one of our students from um Mount Zion Primary. Um Principal Bryant, one of her students won that design contest. And so we're in we include our students with everything that we try to do. So when they see that shirt, they know that many
046of them um entered the design contest for that. Of course, our faith-based partnerships, we have each and every one of our high schools have a partner, a church partner, and um we go out to a lot of these events and the the churches are there. The churches are serving um juice, they're serving snacks, they're helping to volunteer at the schools because again, we can't do this alone. Um, of course we have our district signature events, our breast cancer walk day one back to school bash and our veterans day program that is actually coming up November the 13th. We offer uh we have business lunches. We do this in clusters because we want the different clusters. We want those businesses to invest into their cluster schools, their neighborhood schools. And we want our principles to invite
047those businesses in so they can help them with those heavy lifts and those heavy loads. And of course, we have a partnership also with Calvary Refuge that anytime we have families um or teachers experiencing hardships, Calvary Refuge has been my go-to to help parents sometimes um if they need somewhere to live temporarily. And last but not least, we have our employee engagement. Again, um our motto, happy staff, happy life. And uh this is also just making sure our employees feel seen, they feel respected, they feel heard. And um some of these key initiatives, of course, our signature dinner and denim at the beginning of the year, we followed a national education appreciation calendar. every event you see on that calendar, we make sure that we provide um some type of token of appreciation in terms
048of a lunchon or um some type of gift during every national educational appreciation calendar. We have an employee suit yourself and uh you mentioned it was Mr. Harrington's birthday uh Miss Telis Cooper. Um Mr. Harrington has probably donated about 200 suits to our employee suit yourself closet. About 200 suits. So, thank I see Andy um Andy um actually donated his um father's ties to the to the boys for the boys conference. So, um thank you Dr. Hendris has um donated suits. Um we had one um teacher had had it on actually one day and see I got Dr. Hendrickx. He was proud to say that. So again, that is um an opportunity for any staff member if they need anything. We have male clothes, we have female clothing. Um Cynthia James probably gave us every
049piece of her grandchildren clothes and new clothes that um she bought. Um so we have for children and guess what? We have household items. We have furniture, living room furniture, bedroom furniture, bedroom furniture. So when a teacher needs or a staff member needs something, we want to be able to help them because if we can remove a barrier for a teacher, they can be stronger for our kids in the classroom. And again, um some of our just as an example, community partners, South Atlanta injury attorneys, uh they provide $50 a month to every teacher and student of the month at the Jonesboro schools. Of course, you've been noticed and they get $500 a month. our teacher of the year, Gayla. We really enjoy working with our teachers of the year. Um, do we have any
050with us? We have there some of them are here with us representing. We work very closely with them. Not only we don't just stop at that teacher of the year gayla, they have a monthly a monthly experience because if they're going to be the creme de la creme of Clayton County or their in of their various schools, we have to make sure that they feel very appreciated um for that honor. Um this year we kicked it off I think uh with Miss Telis Cooper and Miss Baker. They um had a a little chat or two with them. But every month they have some type of experience with community members or with us. And now we take them on an annual trip. And so they will find out soon where their their annual trip will be.
051Of course we have the retirement celebration. We have our employee spirit week. We have teacher appreciation week. Now we have our honor guard. Dr. Smith was very um serious about creating this. This is where our honor guard anytime we have the untimely death of a staff member, we make contact with the family. Uh we make contact with the family to to see if they would like for us to bring the honor guard and honor the life of their loved one which was our employee as well because often times we spend more waking hours at work during the day than we do at home. So, we want to make sure we honor the um service that their employee their their loved one provided to us. And so, we offer that as well through our department and
052also employee workforce housing um to our employees as well, employees in need um if they're just moving in, we do have that collaboration with Clayton State where we can offer that housing to them. And this is a copy of the National Employee Appreciation Calendar. Every one of those lines is an event that we host to show appreciation for any class of employee within Clayton County Public Schools. And last but not least, we have the several pictures um to encompass some of the work. At the top there, you have some scholars we um took to the nursing homes. We went back during Christmas time and all of the scholars that was Sequoia Middle School, the scholars, we didn't ask, but we spent time with them talking talking to them about empathy and giving back. They purchased
053with their own money a gift for each and every resident at the assisted living facility. And down on the uh left hand um bottom, that was at Mount Zion High School. That is a family vision board night. Uh I think uh Miss Williams, she's been to one of those, but we sat down with families and asked them to come up with a plan for your family. Um come up with a plan and post it somewhere so it's a visual reminder. That's one of our young ladies from North Clayton Middle School. She was one of the um you've been noticed winners with her $100 card. And at the bottom, that's a daddy daughter um picture from the daddy daughter dance. So if you have any questions, that's the end of our report. Miss Rice, that was
054quite impressive. You're doing a a lot in regards to engagement. Um, Dr. Young, I we have a dashboard, correct? We have a Is there any way to integrate the the um activities that she's doing so that we can get a number count of some of the activities that she's doing for the purpose board members of when the end of the year come and we're talking about budget. We can look at the things that you know are highly impact and you know make our decisions around that. Is there a way to integrate some of the metrics? >> Sure. the same, >> right? [clears throat] >> Right. So, for instance, how many attendees came to some of these events or and and some type of metric and this is your your world of expertise where it's showing
055the correlation of of um how it's impacting the student achievement, you know, or family engagement. So, I think that would be excellent for the board members to see those numbers on a dashboard. >> Thank you. We're working with um technology to to try to determine if there's a correlation between the increase infinite campus parent access to the decrease in missing assignments and also attendance. >> Right. Those are the things that I would I would love to see and and be presented. >> Miss Williams, Miss Williams, I'll be right with you. I seen Cooper first, then Williams, then Haney. >> Yes, ma'am. >> Hi, Dr. Thank you for the presentation. Thank you. >> Get to your mic. >> Oh, sorry. >> Thank you. Thank you for the presentation. It was very informative. And again, I had
056no idea y'all are little busy bees over there. But a couple of things that I wanted to ask you. First of all, great job. Um, what type of feedback have you gotten from the teachers, the student, the staff, I mean the community? I know you had three different buckets. I know they have no complaints, but just to hear some of the things that they're saying, what what do they think about the initiatives that your department is carrying out? Um, that's number one. And then number two, with the you've been noticed with the student part of it, um, what grade levels? So, I know that you answered one of the questions. How's it determined and it's determined by the principles but what grade levels are participating whether you you've been noticed. Okay, thank you for those
057questions. Um number one are thoughts or feedback from stakeholders. We do um give surveys and for feedback and oftent times it's regarding the type of food or what type of food they would like to be served and um other times um ways in which they would like to engage. For instance, we heard from our um our older our seasoned citizens and that's why we went back and created the safe program. Um during the back to school bash um this time we received about 1,300 parent surveys and from those surveys that's how we then build our family engagement um initiatives. Um so everything we build we build it with the stakeholder in mind. We listen to them. Our teachers of the year we often ask them and they give us the ideas. they they give us
058they gave us the ideas for the boys conference um because we go to the people who are actually you know on the front lines doing that and with youth been noticed that's any scholar any elementary middle high school um principal kid could um enter their scholar and into that drawing >> okay >> for you've been noticed thank you >> thank you Miss Williams >> hello Miss Rice how you doing >> I'm good thank you >> okay I have Three questions. How do the students sign up for if they want to participate in the college tours or the nursing homes? Is it something that's out and available to every student or do they have to? >> Yes. Yes. With the youth and uh with the first generation college tours, we send those flyers out um to
059all the schools and we also um CCPS info sends those out as well. So the parents see those and the students see those. And um based upon how many we can take um this first trip will be November 14th, November 14th to Payne College and uh we can take a 100red students and 100 parents and so that flyer will go out this week and so once we hit 100 we'll have to cut it off. >> Doesn't matter if it be middle school or high school. >> It doesn't matter. We've all we've taken elementary, middle, and high school scholars. >> Okay. Second question. When is this fall photo shoot? cuz last year you had it during one of our meetings and I missed it. >> So I would like a date now. >> Yes ma'am. Yes
060ma'am. Miss Daffany Andrews will get that out to you as soon as possible. >> And the third one I had a um a parent approach me well I guess a grandparent about volunteering at the fourth park middle school. How do I get what do I send them to to sign up to be a part of the safe program? >> The parent liaison. >> The parent leazison. >> The parent leaison. >> Thank you >> Dr. Haney, >> this is really a kudos. Um, just I'm very proud to know that we are on the map. Um, listening to the radio v103. I hear a lot of our teachers are making shoutouts. Um, Greg Street makes it a point to highlight Clayton County Public Schools. I know that your team ran um, often visits this station and put
061us on the map and highlight what we're doing. I've heard Dr. Hendricks out there as well. Um just to hear that presence and thanks to communication as well. Just to hear that we are above and then just to hear it on Friday how they highlighted all of our doc uh Mr. Townsen you had been proud of that how they highlighted our our athletic department be 103 and so I was very proud to hear that as I was leaving the special education forum on Friday. So it's just good to see what your team is doing. All I ask is that when you have these events, just send the board just a calendar so that we'll know so that we can plan our schedules accordingly so that we can continue to support your initiatives that you and
062your team are doing. And personally, I want to thank you and your team for assisting me um with the leadership um the legacy builders conference and the boys really appreciated it. I saw some on Thursday at Jonesboro High School and they were really excited about it. As you know, we've already had discussions about the little people and they are wanting something as well. So, we'll be working on that as well. So, I just want to give your team kudos. Thank you for putting Clayton County Public Schools on the map with all the initiatives. And also on the first day of school at Riverdale High School, I seen the VOP in action and I was almost scared to pull up in there. I called Chief. I was about freaked out because of the traffic, but nevertheless,
063the VOP scared me because they were really on top of their jobs. just to see those grandparents and the synergy that they had to ensure that our students were making it okay, calming their nerves and just being there for that new principal that's over there at Riverdale High School. So, kudos again to you and your team and the VOP and all that you're doing for Clayton County Public Schools. Thank you, >> Miss Hill. >> Um, thank thank you um Dr. Rice for your presentation and all the great things that your team is doing. I just have one question on how do our students understand and know about enrollment and list employment and entrepreneurship. I had the pleasure of talking to a young man who is a senior and I asked him what was his next
064and he said he didn't know and I said well did you want help with that? He said I'll figure it out. And so I just feel like some of our scholars are not getting the information as to what it looks like um for them to have these opportunities available to them. >> Duly noted. Duly noted. Um we're all all departments are uh working to support those um four initiatives and making sure that all scholars are aware of those. And um if we could just maybe get that information, we can all make sure that we're over there to wherever that was. and um work with all the personnel over there to ensure that all all of the scholars are aware. >> Thank you. >> Any other questions board members? >> Seeing none. Miss Rice, thank you
065so much for that brilliant presentation. >> Before I leave, I would like to introduce uh this mighty mighty team. Miss Tiffany um Brown, she keeps us all organized. Um Daffany Andrews, Sheree Smith, and Stacy Nelson. >> Excellent. Excellent. All right. Great job. >> Thank you. Thank you, Miss Rice and team. At this time, I'd like to ask Dr. Melvin Blocker come forward with to do his presentation around student discip uh Mr. Chair, Madame Vice Chair, members of the board, uh, Superintendent Smith, and the community at large. Uh, I would just like to bring a few updates to you guys regarding discipline as we stand. Dr. Boon, would you come on down and assist me, please? Uh, we got the >> You have to click her. >> Uh, should be on the podium. >> She stole
066it. So, uh, Dr. will will go over the data for us real quick. I'm not sure how to work this. Okay. And then I'll come back and share the highlights. Good afternoon, Mr. Chairman, Madame Vice Chair, members of the board, our superintendent, Dr. Smith members of Clayton County community. The board members have already received a copy of our presentation. So I'll just do a very brief review of our discipline data. The first slide that you're looking at is really uh our historical data. And what we did here was compare financial year 24 to that of 25. And as you can see, we had well minor reductions in office discipline referrals that I'll refer to as ODR as well as our out of school suspension days. But we recorded a slight increase in in school suspensions.
067It went from 5,141 to 5335. That is between financial year 24 and 25. And then the next slide is in Clinton County, we track what we refer to as our major infractions. And those ones are weapons, fighting, bullying, drugs, and gangs. And what we did here was compare the first two months of school, which is August and September of last year, 2024, and then this year 2025. and we recorded reductions in two of the five major infractions that is bullying and gang activity. However, there was some slight increase uh when we reviewed our weapons, fighting and drugs, but the increase is not very significant in terms of numbers and I will do just a quick overview of what the weapons are. There was no record of firearms or guns. It was more like knives. are
068one that is less than 2 in, one that is above 2 in, and then some hazardous objects that our scholars may utilize as a weapon like staples and razor blades and all that. We just wanted to be clear as far as the type of weapons that we were referring to. Okay. Okay. Oh, okay. So, this one, this screen you have uh our office discipline referrals for the month of August and September. We compared 2024 and 2025. And there was a slight increase as well um for the simple reason that we had a couple of group fights in some of our middle schools and high schools. So there was 10% increase which number wise it's uh 215 when you compare um 24 and 25 during the months of August and September and um this is a
069record of our tribunals for financial year 24 25 and 26 and as you can see between 24 and 25 there was an increase of roughly 25% and from 60 2024 2025 to 2025 2026 there was an increase as well of about there was a reduction actually from 84 to 63 but an increase in between 24 and 25 but that is just between the two months August and September And then uh just to top it up um we just want note that even though we've noticed some we've recorded some increase in the number of office discipline referrals that we've had but overall over 95% of our scholars do not have referrals at all. They have zero referrals and that speaks to the fact that we do have a very strong PBS1 supports being provided by our
070behavior intervention specialists as well as the PBI school teams and also it speaks to the fact that majority of our students 95% of them and over are really compliant when it comes to behavioral expectations. But we also recognize that we do have that small margin of 5% of scholars that are struggling behavioral that we really need to intensify our support. So our behavior intervention specialists will intensify their support with that population. And when we talk about intensifying supports, we're looking at making sure that all of our scholars on tier 2, that they have a behavior correction action plan, and our scholars in tier three have their behavior intervention plans in place, and that we do company resolution classes with them individually or in small groups. And we make sure that they have behavior contracts that
071will deal address the specific behaviors that are struggling with. Um but overall we will continue our BBIS proactive supports with our behavior intervention specialist as well support to make sure that we sustain that strong tier one that we have in place in all our schools. So at this point I will yield to Dr. Blocker unless you have questions. question. >> Um, Baker first, Haney second. >> Oh, you Okay. >> Okay. Go ahead. Please jot down your questions. >> Go ahead. Sure. >> So, aside from all the professional development that we provide for the district, uh teachers, restorative practices, enhancing student engagement in the schools, uh we want to just share some of the other things that we're doing as a department to reduce discipline incidents. So for example, our proactive measures uh districtwide behavior instructional
072skills and the behavior intervention specialists are implementing in the schools. Uh you can see here we conflict resolution uh lessons on empathy, respect, teamwork, interpersonal skills and effective communication. We believe that some of these things are the proactive work that students need, you know, essential life skills to ensure that they are able to uh coexist with other students in the school. Um and uh here recently we just co-mitted our power of peace tour at all of the high schools. Uh I think last week we've uh just co-mitted over at the alternative school with roughly about uh 135 students who probably make up the 5% of the data the the the poor data the poor data that we have in terms of student behavior infractions in the district at the alternative school. A very powerful session
073that day. I just want to thank uh Department of Juvenile Justice for coming out and supporting us with that work. And we've been partnering with uh the district attorney's office, the local faith-based community, and other leaders in the district uh just to try to get in front of those children. You can see here Dr. Smith and other members of of the uh cabinet assisted us with that. And the followup students will, you know, after about 90 days, students, we will be looking at student data again. all the children who are involved in one or more fights, we will try to see whether or not those kids engage in other fights again and we will do some positive incentive things with those students as well. Um and of course you know we have preventions to alternatives
074uh I'm sorry preventions and alternative suspension program we have about 11 different types of ways of kids can avoid being suspended from school. Uh these this is no no different here in our multi-ter system and then of course our circle of support program. All right. Um something that we just uh we're proud to announce that our level up program that's going to be piloted over at Jonesboro Middle School where there's a mentorship program uh we were able to lay some funding to get that in place for the students at over at Jonesboro Middle School be about 100 sixth graders that will be receiving ongoing mentor services at that particular school. So our goal is to ensure that those children are receive some some adequate mentorship pro uh uh strategies to ensure that they are improving
075their behavior. The most important we want to work on their decision making and of course you know our caring adult in the building program we have CAP and the CAP 2.0 CAB 2.0 know is expanded into the that's in an initiative across all the schools but more importantly we are doing check-ins with those kids targeting behavior and support you know supporting those children from a relationships building standpoint and then we just culminated school safety week started the week out over at uh Jonesboro I want to thank the principal Jonesboro High School for allowing us to have parent night uh that was a we had a huge turnout over 40 50 parents showed up at that event that night. Uh we uh also had a school safety pep rally at Jonesboro High School as well. I
076just want to thank the members that came out. Dr. Simpson gave a powerful message that day on uh making sure that we ensure our schools are safe and so I'll answer any questions at this time. >> Okay. Same same request Dr. Young. If we can get those numbers on our dashboard also so that we can um when when the time comes for us to talk about budget priorities, we can look at those numbers and associate those numbers with you know the initiatives that you're >> whichever numbers you guys can figure out metrics on. >> They're already on there. Okay. Fantastic. Fantastic. Um Dr. blocker, before I get to the rest of our members, um um great job at keeping us at that 5% cap. When I look at other districts throughout um Georgia and specifically
077the metro Atlanta area, they're sitting at seven and 8%. So, obviously, you're doing a a a wonderful job at keeping us at that cap. Obviously, we're not finished with the work, but keeping us under that 5% if 95% of our students are not even visiting, you know, discipline issues, you know, I'm I'm I'm satisfied with that. But there's obviously more work to be done. Also, I have to give you kudos on conversation that you and I have had in regards to getting mentors. And I'm hoping that the program that you're piloting now will become a lot more um um widespread in our district. Is there any other questions, Miss BS? >> Um well done. I'm excited, inspired, all the things. I also um invite you and and our whole team to just remember our internal
078resources and I think an underleveraged internal resource is your alumni base here at Clayton County Public Schools. We have talked for years about mentorship programs and all the things, but you have a love the partnership with Big Sisters Big Brothers, but you have big sisters and big brothers right here in our neighborhoods and communities. What can we do to um enlist the support of those people who um do it thanklessly anyway? >> Thank you, >> Mr. Chris. Uh Dr. Blocker, um was it the level up program that you were starting over at Jonesboro Middle? >> Yes, sir. It's the It's Big Brothers Big Sisters program and the level it's the level of mentorship program. >> Okay. Uh, one, you know, I appreciate you doing it at Jonesboro, but why Jonesboro when you just told me
079your data uh, presented at the alternative school that the needs were greater because of the data and why wouldn't you pilot it there? >> Well, it's more of a proactive approach. So, we're not, you know, the children at the alternative school have already made bad choices. They have a plethora of resources already there that we're trying to redirect. We're trying to sort of reinstate them, but the students at Jonesboro, the sixth graders that just got in middle school. So, what we're trying to do is prevent them from ending up in the alternative program >> or making decisions further down the road. So, we want to mentor them now. >> It's almost like early learning behavior process to be proactive rather than waiting till the children make bad decisions. We want to try to teach them
080how to make better decisions. >> Okay. Well, I appreciate that. and and but once again uh what are we doing for those scholars over at the alternative schools that that have already made bad choices uh to get them back on track and maybe into their home schools? >> Yeah. Well, we could do a lot more, you know, but but we have ongoing services over there that the alternative program with service support have behavior two behavior specialists assigned to that school, right? We have school psychologists, social workers, and we do a rotation of mentorships. I'm over there all the time myself personally, but we do a whole lot of conversations with those kids about getting them ready to go back to the schools. So the the exit process includes an interview, includes ongoing the kids have
081to meet exit criteria in order to go back to their home schools. And so they have to be successful academically. They have to be successful behavior-wise. And so they get to go back to the home schools with that by meeting exit criteria. So we don't have a real high recidivism rate once the children go back to to the to the comprehensive school because they receive all the services on the Sharon Morgan over at the alternative program. >> All right. Thank you, Miss Williams. >> I thought somebody had a question. You just go in order. Go ahead. >> Um this um slideshow you showed, we don't have that over here. Can that be sent to us? The one I have on it is only has two pages. It's like a summary, but it's not the detail
082that you have. >> Okay. Make sure >> can you eat the met tools, please? And I'm interested in the CAD program. Is the CAD program supposed to be for every student or just students y'all identify? >> Every student in the school is supposed to have a caring adult in the building. Every single student. >> So, how do y'all verify that every single student is going to have a cab? >> Uh, we can tell you right now, we're not at that. We're not at our goal. you know, it's we can verify it's infinite campus and we're working diligently to get that taken care of, but we're not at our goal. >> Okay? Because you know, my son's in the school and every year here I ask him about a cab, he act like damn know what
083I'm talking about. >> We're working on it. >> Or the most of the kids who I ask them if they have one, they're not sure. So, I'm not sure if it's for everybody or just for the ones y'all see may need, you know, like an extra support or somebody to talk to. >> Yeah. It's supposed to it's supposed to improve connectivity, you know, with between the students and the staff in the building. kids to be able to go to an adult in the building before they make a bad choice and build a relationship with with an adult in the building, you know, and we're not at our goal with that, >> right? So, who initiates it? Is the kid going to the teacher or is the teacher kind of picking like 20 kids or how
084how is it >> the student can initiate going to his or her calf? >> Every single student is supposed to be assigned a calf. And so the students are assigned calves but they get to a point where because they don't participate in the process or with participate they don't know who their cab is or they might not know who their cab is. So we have to continue to reemphasize uh we probably almost have to schedule some time for students to actually meet with the caring adult in the building. But you know we have a lot going on in school. We don't want to interrupt instructional time. So there's so many different things going on in school. So we can't necessarily force a principal to schedule time for students to meet with a caring adult in
085the building. >> Well, hopefully throughout the year they can meet with somebody cuz something happen. You want them to have somebody they can go to >> one time each semester. >> Thank you, Miss Williams. Dr. Haney, >> I actually had to type out my questions here. Um, going back to the data that Dr. he presented. I just want to confirm are student discipline and prevention and safety and security capturing and reporting the same major infractions data or are there differences between the two? Because when I'm reading this, you're saying there was an uptick then you're saying there's a decrease and then the chief comes is you know is this information the same different or indifferent? So, if you can answer that, are we capturing the same data um [snorts] between the two departments and how
086is that captured? Also, in reference to your um I'm glad you put up there what the behavior specialists their their roles and functions are. How many do we currently have? How many are staffed? >> 20. >> By the way, in the orders, would you all stand up? I just want to re acknowledge all of the be members of the Department of Intervention. Let's give them a round of applause for the work that they do here in Clay County. >> All right. >> Okay. And so they're assigned to how many schools? >> how many schools are each one of those assigned to? >> They have approximately four four schools. >> Okay. >> But the ones that serve the big high schools like Mara High School and Jonesboro High School, they may just have like two, but
087the other ones have approximately four. A few of them have like five. if they have mostly elementary schools. >> Okay. I was just asking because I'm just looking at what how many we have, how many they're assigned, and what we're looking at as a data here. That's that's I'm just trying to put apples and apples together. >> Yes, ma'am. >> Um, also, well, Mr. Christmas had already asked a question. How is it that you all chose Jonesboro Middle opposed to other schools? How is that being chosen? Or so, you know, how do you all make that determination? So, you've already answered that question, but I was just pretty much curious as to um the BIS's, how many we had, how their schools are separated, how their their workload is basically, and also that question about
088how the data is captured because if you can answer that for me, I appreciate it. >> Yeah. Well, safety and security are more along the lines of law enforcement. We capture our data through ODRs to an infinite campus, which is office discipline referrals. And so we uh we were able to uh identify our five biggest uh uh serious infractions and we call them our five non-negotiables, our behavior norms, and we build everything all of our efforts around that. And so what we're reporting out is we're reporting out based on those five behavior norms, which we believe are significant to disrupting the school, which may not necessarily coincide with law enforcement or kids breaking the law. So, not every child that gets in a fight is arrested or to that effect. You understand what I'm saying?
089They might, but they might be involved in physical physical physical aggression. We capture that data. Law enforcement might not. >> All right. Thank you. >> And of course, we have, like I said, we have 20 behavior specialists that stretch across all of our schools in the district. Uh some of them have up upwards of four schools and some of them have uh two schools but it would be two large high schools and they have they have to service each school over the course of the week >> and they're solid, right? Solid. I mean ain't nobody >> y'all want to stand up again. >> Ain't nobody trying to get rid of them. >> I know they're solid, but I'm talking about are we solid with keeping them, making sure they're solid. That's what I'm talking about.
090>> I would hope that's agree on that. >> Okay. All right. Let me get some things. Okay, >> Miss Hill. >> Uh, yes. Thank you. Thank you, Dr. Blocker, for this information. Um, and I and I really appreciate that we are making sure that our students even with disciplinary problems that we are still providing resources. Um, and one question I have is I know that we have percentage, but I would like to see numbers. How many students that we're serving per school? Um, and what does that look like? And in addition to that, um, and please forgive me if I missed it because I may have stepped away. I'm not hearing that academic support. I don't I'm not hearing what are we doing because a lot of times um, and I'm not a specialist in
091this area, but behavior comes from other issues, inadequacy in uh, housing insecurity, just different things that they're dealing with. Um, how are we supporting them academically and helping them to stay on task? um because that empowers them. Um when our children have knowledge, they're better. And when they feel secure in their classroom and they are able to maintain and stay on uh task with whatever the assignment is, that makes them feel better. So where is the academic piece that helps with this disciplinary? Because if we're getting to the root, I mean we I mean I love that we're doing it, but I want us to get to the core. >> Yes. and how do we support them to there's not even a possibility that they're talking have to go to an alternative school. So, I
092just want to hear more about how are we supporting them academically so that they are if they're not on grade level that we're getting them to grade level that they're proficient and I would love to see the data for these students. Where are they um on the data? I mean, are they proficient? Are they below proficient? So, those are the things that I'm really looking for us to really support our students. And when you have knowledge, you actually make better decisions for >> Yeah, we you know our our department, we have a comprehensive behavior skills instructional component where they are teaching behavior skills, essential life skills uh through through through their connection classes or their elective classes. So that's an ongoing thing that behavior specialists do at every single school. um the connection between academic
093performance, whether our students are proficient, we can um it'll be very easy to probably connect that data. So, we can just simply look at our 5% of our children. How many what what percentage of the 5% are proficient academically? We can definitely share that back out a little later on. That may give us a little bit that may answer your question, but we haven't we haven't we haven't calculated it through our department, but we can we can actually work with uh teaching and learning to get it. >> Thank Thank you. That's that's a great point, Michelle. [clears throat] Everything that we do should always come back to academic achievement because that's the true indicator of how successful our district is. So, great point. >> Yeah. >> And Miss Tons, >> you can go first. >>
094Okay. >> So, really just one question. My colleagues did a very good job of asking some of the questions. Um, could you tell us which specific and I think uh Mr. Christmas kind of touched on one of the schools. The schools are the grade levels where there's an increase in these um infractions and what how prevalent are they as far as >> well we we had an anomaly at our high schools this year. So we had uh maybe three or four large fights. >> Okay. >> Right. So you're talking six, seven, nine kids at one time. >> So it's mostly our high school. >> Yeah. What this particular year what contributed to that data three different incidents. >> Gotcha. >> So where we were last year we were doing very well but we had three
095particular incidents that contributed that just raise that to that to that percentage. Otherwise if it was just three fights then you talking about just three maybe six kids but now you talking up 20 kids. >> Okay. And then one other question just for me. Could you walk me through because I know when I was looking at the data it said [clears throat] that there was a decrease in out of school suspensions but a a increase in in school suspensions. So um could you tell me and walk us through what that process looks like? What does that entail? What are they doing on a daily basis? Um how many days what considers how many days they do in in school suspension? And um what was the change? Well, you know, you know, if a school is
096being recommended for tribunal after a violent act on campus, it typically comes with 10 days of out of school suspension. So, that can increase the OSS that number of days while you process the tribunal. The tribunal has to go through the factf finding, the evidence process, and then uh the actual sending the parents information so they have enough time to be able to attend the tribunal. And then you have the tribal unit then the kids are assigned to wherever they're going to be assigned to. >> So that typically takes up upwards of 10 days that that contributes to that note. >> Okay. >> And so students you know but then if it's an increase in indoor suspension this you know the principal or whoever who's issuing the the consequence is issuing the consequence in lie
097of out of school suspension. So that I rather you attend in school suspension for a certain amount of time but we don't want to send you home. We need you in school. the I guess what I'm trying to get to is kind of what Miss um Hill was saying as far as with their academics when they're in this in school suspension. They're still going through all of their course classes and everything that they need to. >> Okay. >> Yes. They're still getting instruction daily in in school suspension. >> Okay. >> So, they should be completing their assignments while they're in school. >> Gotcha. >> Right. Miss Baker. >> Um again, I wanted to say thank you for the pep rally we had the other day. Um, I I thought it was wonderful. Um, it did
098give me a chance to talk to a bunch of our uh DPI people um one- on- one. Um, I could call names, but I won't. But, um, I really appreciate your insight for me because it's a learning process for me, too. Um, and then with that being said, I just want you to know that I'm going to be praying for each and every one of you more. Um, it's a lot of work and I think the numbers show. Um, there's increases and decreases. There's always going to be that, but they're the first line of defense to get these children so we don't lose them. And, um, I'm probably going to tick off some people, but I'm going to do it anyway. Um, when we get ready to do this budget, I think there needs to
099be an expansion of this department. [applause] Thank you. Thank you, Miss Baker. [laughter] >> All right, we need to jazz. >> Yeah, I had um just two more. No worries. Um I actually really like the Big Brother Big Sister model and wanted to ask which Big Sister Big Brother club is the partnership with? >> Well, it's out of Atlanta. >> So Big Sisters Big Brother Atlanta. We don't have to look for it in Clayton, but we don't have it. >> We sure don't. Um, and the reason I'm asking is they actually in addition to that being a smart partnership for mentors, their in-house training for mentors is really helpful. And I think that's been a gap with the alumni work. So, I really do want to connect because it sounds like it's a a plugandplay.
100And then my last um piece isn't actually a question. It's I think we've talked about this before. The CAB program has been a brainchild for years. So, I'm really excited. It's been birthed, right? But one of the things that I've seen because this works. >> This this is a an effective model having a resource. It's kind of like when we use our budget every year and we look at um we audit our programs for computers and we say, "Wow, we spend all this money on this program, but the students don't log in. We should do away with that program." All that to say is like having a thing is no good if we don't use it. So, I'm hearing the conversation just now about how our scholars have what I call an advisory model. You
101call CAB, right? But every scholar has an advisory and a caring adult in the building. That's really that is a step further than we were a year or two ago. It's huge. But I want to challenge us. You know how you were you kind of made it sound like um and I understand school site autonomy. But you were like, you know, principles their schedules, you know, some some prioritize this, some don't. They've got to do it twice a year, but time in the day, yada yada yada. The only way I have seen this really proven, tested, effective model work is >> mandatory, >> managed mandatory advisory group time. It's a schedule. I don't care if it's zero period, 7th period, lunch period. I don't even care if it's one day a week like Friday mornings
102or whatever. But the the all optional only twice a year um makes it ineffective and it's just like that computer program we waste and don't invest in. Right? So I just want to acknowledge how awesome and exciting this is. The advisory model is effective. Um but one thing I think that could enhance that is making sure um school sites know you know these things require incubators. >> Yes ma'am. vote it. >> That's all. >> Thank you. That was all for me. >> I think that's I think that's it for the questions. Dr. Smith. >> Okay. Thank you, Dr. Blocker. Thank you. Dr. Bono, [applause] this time I can get uh Miss Sheranne Taylor to come down and give us an update. Good evening. >> Good evening, >> Mr. Chair, Miss Vice Chair, board members, staff,
103and community. I would like to provide for you an update on mental health this evening. Thank you so much Dr. Adbuna and Dr. Blocker for your updates as I get to ours as well. Am I going backwards? >> Backwards. >> You were back. You're going backwards. >> Apologies. Now I'm going forward. Apologies. Okay. All right, these updates are being brought to you on behalf of myself and Dr. Crawford. We want to remind you that student mental health remains central in Clayton County Public Schools. We are approaching mental health as a system of care. We've talked to you about this before with mental health not being by itself, but being a part of a comprehensive tiered approach. My colleagues have talked to you today about highlights that are a part of the system of care such
104as engagement and discipline. We want to talk about those strong strong partnerships today as well and the data that we utilize to provide mental health services here in Clayton County. Our school's partner to advance resilience and knowledge. Our spark model since 2020 has been um here in Clayton County as a school-based model. We have grown to 22 partnerships with our community- based partners all in Clayton County. So, we're using our local providers to provide school-based supports. We do have providers such as Impact Therapy that have hired staff and they are in buildings every day. That's Kilpatrick Elementary and Rex Mill Middle School where they provide daily support through their uh partnerships with us and that is at no cost to those locations. To date we have 547 referrals and those referrals are not only for
105community- based uh supports but also small group and individual supports as well. Our executive functioning which serves as our skills for life and learning. Um those small groups are delivered through the spark model as well. To date we have had 3,900 hours of school-based interventions provided. Last school year, there was a total of 1,088 just community-based referrals that were served at no cost to our families. So, Clayton County Public Schools pays if you have insurance and you need to be able to pay that co-ay, that $20 a week, that's covered here in Clayton County. And we also have grant partnerships that support as well with the United Way. going into the grant-f funed conversations. We have through the school-based mental health uh program that is ending in December interns that come from Kennesaw State and
106Georgia State. But as you know, that program is ending in December. However, the interns have volunteered to stay on in Clayton County for the remainder of their internship. They want to uh finish the programming that we've talked about and that they've dedicated their time to. say they will be coming on a volunteer basis to complete their programming um all the way through May. We have another grant that's a three-year grant. It is providing taotherapy through Daybreak. The Jesse Parker Foundation has granted us $25,000 annually for the next three years. And we have partnered with Daybreak therapy to provide the virtual programs, alternative schools, Stillwell Elite, and all hospital homebound students with free therapy. They may get individual or small group or family therapy at no cost. Beyond the school day, we're um offering school clubs
107because we'd like to work with our middle school and high school students who are interested in the field of psychology and who would like to be mentors in the area of mental health pro working with us to provide mindfulness to younger students. So those afterchool club experiences would begin in the spring. We would like to train our students for the remainder of fall. Those that have volunteered, we identified volunteers through the walk, the mental health walk. They will work with our school psychologists and student behavioral health specialists to provide after school clubs. And I want to also highlight beyond the school days. We have two signature events, the 5K, which occurred in September and raise $3,000 for school mental health support. Those funds will be utilized to expand our teacher wellness rooms. will be able
108to provide four additional rooms. So, Forest Park Middle School will finish the room there and we'll go on to Mount Zion High School as the next location. Additionally, we utilize data to uh look at our resources every school year and decide exactly where we're going to target our supports. Last school year, we had a total of 1,681 safety and wellness assessments as well as threat assessments. that is completed when a student says that I want to harm myself or someone else or if they are going to tribunal for uh experiencing threats. Those um incidences often result in spark referrals and also therapy. We also work with the crisis team to provide support through Kate's Club. If there is a student or teacher death, those uh Kate's Club members come in and provide six weeks of
109group therapy to our students free as well. To date, we've had 230 safety assessments this school year alone, and those 230 safety assessments have dealt mostly with self harm. We do collaborate with safety and security to continue to provide that Gaggle support. As a reminder, Gaggle is the softwarebased program that monitors the student use. Last year, we had over 900 Gaggle reports that dealt with violence, sexual inappropriate content, drug use, and self harm. To date, we're working again with safety and security to provide those supports with our after hours team, which is made up of our counselors, social workers, behavior interventionists, and school psychologists. This department is also responsible for the annual suicide prevention training, which is offered through Jason Foundation. And I want to highlight that we are working um to address our social
110emotional learning through executive functioning and skills for life and learning. We're broadening the scope and focus for our students. not only working on um those regulation strategies with the computer but working with our smaller students, our K1 students to first build those skills and with our grades 2 through 12 students in small groups providing executive functioning through Spark again referral base. In the spring of 2026, we will launch our SEAL 2.0 0 which will be less focused on our teachers having to do all of the lessons and more focused on our students having a student-led and driven path towards their own skills for life and learning. Just looking at some contacts within the staff of this department are the school psychologists and student behavioral health specialists. Again, student behavioral health specialists deal specifically with mental
111health related tasks. And your school psychologists are primarily focused on evaluation and working with students to provide individual mental health supports. To date, we've had over 3,000 contacts with the school psychologist and over 1,000 contacts with the student behavioral health specialists. I do want to highlight that those contacts are from your 15 school psychologists. though they're experiencing a vacancy of 13, they've been able to keep up and provide those individual supports as well as the uh evaluation supports to the students as well going into the wellness interventions and how we've expanded. We're still focused on our students through Spark and our small groups. We're making sure that we take care of our teachers as well. The wellness spaces are not just spaces. They are places where our teachers can go and get awareness and support.
112We have blood pressure machines available in there. We have a QR code where they can connect and we can make sure that they're not just connecting with EAP, but they have an adult that can help walk them through the process of connecting with EAP as well. We're working on also bringing forth more wellness rooms. We have 24 complete rooms at this time. Our goal is all rooms. We're a finalist in the Kaiser grant that we received last year. We're a finalist for it this year as well. So, we're hoping to get that $25,000 to finish out the rooms. And we're doing our teacher wellness pop-up activities, which are hands-on activities that are not just self-care, but giving our teachers financial wellness, physical wellness, making sure that we give them everything they need to be productive
113for our students. Just highlighting our 21 providers. We're very proud that these are community-based right here in Clayton County. Many of them starting with us from the beginning. And just some highlights and slides from um our activities showing our wellness space in the side and our 5K as well. Just some key takeaways. We are aligning our work to our priorities, our safety priorities. We're making sure that the impact is there not only for our students, our families, and our staff. We're using data to ensure that this is sustainable, that we look at partnerships every year, and that this is not just a one-stop shop where we're going to community providers, but we're utilizing our internal supports, our counselors, our school psychologists, our behavior interventionists, and our school social workers to provide the supports as well.
114I'm going to pause here for any questions. >> Um, Miss Taylor, thank you so much for the work that you do. the um 13 vacant psychologist um spots. What are we doing to to um close that gap? >> We work with Georgia State to provide intern and practicum students that work with us yearly. Um we've now expanded that partnership to be with Capella, which is an online program. So this year we have five students. Uh two of which are interns that we have hired, three are practicum students. Um we're working um to obtain grant funding as well so that we can um offer some incentives to make us a little comparable to our areas, but we continuously work to recruit um to go to national uh conventions. We're now two of us are at the
115Georgia Association of School Psychologists right now um advocating. We're very competitive with uh what we offer here professional development wise. If you're a school psychologist, you can gain your lensure here. you're able to um just really grow. So, we're just working really hard, but it is a national shortage at this time. You have some districts with seven psychologists in surrounding areas. You have people with uh vacancies of 16. What I can say and I'm proud of is in Clayton County, these people have been here for over 10 years, majority of the staff. They're loyal. Um and so we we'll get new staff in. I'm just proud that we retain our staff as well. >> Good deal. Do we have a partnership with Clayton State University in regards to their psychology department? >> Unfortunately, there is
116one school psychologist program in the state of Georgia right now that is producing school psychologists and that's Georgia State. >> Georgia State. >> Yes. Georgia Southern has gone to a doctoral program and so has UG. >> Gotcha. >> Miss Williams, >> how you doing, ma'am? >> I have a question about the Spark program. >> Yes, ma'am. How long is it taking for the students to request um assistance to actually receive the counseling? >> So once the student requests assistance and their parent signs the referral because that's the important part they have to sign. It is 24 hours for the provider to make contact with that family and staff them. So 24 hours we have in ourou you have to make contact with the family and staff them offer staffing. From there, the agency runs insurance
117and lets us know if we need to do any funding. So, within 48 hours, they have to let us know. In total, it should be no more than 72 hours between you've made a referral and someone showing up at the school to provide services pending the parent signature. >> Okay. If somebody has like a a instant issue, then they just go through safety and security or something like that. If something like this, >> you know, like need to be handled now. That would be the schoolbased staff. So we utilize them as tier one. Your counselor, your social worker, your psychologist. They would make sure you're safe. If you're in immediate danger, they would call what's called Georgia Mobile Crisis and they would uh have a conversation with that person to see if you need needed
118911 support. >> Thank you. >> Yes, ma'am. >> Miss Baker, >> um I don't know if you can quickly do this. I'm sorry. >> I don't know if you can quickly go over this or if it's something that you can send us later. And either way is fine. Um the Daybreak program, I'd like some more information about that. >> I can do both just quickly. I can send you more definitely so you can read up about it, but Daybreak is a tea uh therapy program that is HIPPA compliant. We heard about this program from the Jesse Parker Foundation. So they were vetted first from um the funding source. They've partnered with Fulton and Gwynette as well to provide through their community schools their uh taotherapy for community schools in those areas. Daybreak has clinicians that
119are uh licensed professional counselors and licensed uh clinical social workers. They give us an account manager. That account manager trains the staff at the school to utilize daybreaks onboarding and from there the taotherapy is set up to be uh secure. So the school has to provide a space if it is a school. So elite and um Stillwell are our only locations where the student is there. Telea therapy at home for the virtual and alternative school students the parents have to give a secure site >> but I can definitely send more information as well. >> Thank you. >> Any other questions board members? I just wanted to invite all the your whole team and all that y'all do, all the caregivers um to yoga. Yes. >> Yeah. Wednesday yoga fourth Wednesday of every month. Um but
120um not only as a modality for all the incredible spaces you're setting up, but um just so that you're poured back into. So, but anyway, thanks for all that you do and for your presentation tonight. Thank you and thank you for your time. >> Thank you, Miss Taylor. Thank you, Miss Taylor. Uh, Miss Bivvens. >> Miss Bivven, you're with us on Saturday, right? For the retreat. Yes. >> Yes. Okay. >> Good evening, Mr. Chair, Madame Vice Chair, board members, staff, and community. This evening, I have your monthly financial report on your budget to actual comparisons as of September 30th. Um, we have collected 57.7 million or 7.9% of our budgeted revenues and we've expended 108.1 million or 14.9% of our budgeted expenditures for the fiscal year. Of the revenue.9% of that is coming in local
121taxes. Of course, the tax bills just went out, so we should begin receiving some of those funds soon. and then the other local revenue and QBE funding. I answer any questions on this report if you have any questions. >> Go ahead, Miss Baker. >> Um I'm one of those lucky people who got my tax bill. Um usually they've been due like I want to say November 15th and now it says December 1st. >> How is that going to affect us? >> That's what I have. We have some three ones scheduled tomorrow. >> Okay. >> And to discuss that. So yes, the tax bills were supposed to go out in September, towards the end of September, but they did not go out until later in October, which puts the date the due date from November to
122December. >> Okay. >> So, it's a bit of a one-off year, but uh uh in our meetings, we can uh give a thorough explanation in terms of what's going on with the tax commission's office, but you're absolutely right. It's a a delay, >> Miss H. >> Um yes. Um >> just uh I have to wanted to know do we have an update on our um our audit. >> The fiscal year 24 audit is complete. >> Okay. >> And um we got it back and we will have I'm going to speak with the auditor to come and give you an update at the next work session. >> Okay. >> Findings. >> We have four findings. We went from eight to four. >> Some of them are repeat findings. >> Um as I told Dr. Smith and
123cabinet, the one that really concerned me the most that we've had over the past three or four years was the cash reconciliation. That one is gone. >> Okay. Yes. And so, um, my other question is I understand, um, hearing my colleague that this tax bill is was out and it doesn't come till December and I'm looking at our fund balance at this particular time. Is that something that we need to be concerned about or do you you find that from your expertise and where we are um and looking at this fund balance what does that look like? >> So again we're going to talk about this tomorrow how that impacts because when we our fund balance our cash usually carries us through November when we get that infusion of taxes but we're going to talk
124about that tomorrow the how the delay in taxes is going to impact us. love that we going to talk about that tomorrow, but we are at this is the public. This is I mean I'm I'm confused. I'm sorry. Um and I'm I'm I'm really understanding that tomorrow we'll talk. And what happens is when we leave these meetings, we I get questions about why wouldn't why didn't we talk about that? Why is this a secret? And and if I'm out of order and I'm misunderstanding, I really would like clarification for why we're waiting till tomorrow because we we're here today and I'm looking at it and I'm and I'm and I want to be able to answer it. I had a ad advisory council meeting um and you know some of the questions and I don't
125know how accurate it is but just when Colin Kaepernick was in our community it was said that they believe that we spent $200,000 for whatever he was offering and I can't answer that but I really want us to continue to make sure that answers are available to the public. >> Um as far as the Colin Kaepernick and the $200,000 I'm not aware that Dr. Smith can address that. Um to my knowledge we did not spend any money on that. I haven't seen anything come across my desk or any of my staff members desk on that. So I would have to yield to Dr. on that >> question. I think I'm thinking about this was what I was going to say before um Miss Hill's comment, but I think there's they're connected. Um, respectfully, the threeon-ree
126meetings are kind and I'm glad that some board members have some place to go for answers. they are also during the workday and some colleagues work and I think it's awesome when we invite you to a meeting that works for our schedules you know versus always um being assumed that we are available for meetings based on y'all's schedules respectfully. So last week's threeon three, which never works for my schedule anyway, didn't happen. They were cancelled tomorrow. And I hear that tomorrow is going down. That sounds great, but I'm going to miss out again. They're not recorded, and it's not a formal committee. It's our district's attempt at um sharing the same information with all nine, even though, you know, you can get a lot more targeted in a committee, but I digress. So, I just
127wanted to I I think they're connected. Even if you for some reason um don't feel comfortable ex expanding this evening, um I would love an opportunity to be asked when our schedules um work to hear more about these really important topics. >> Yes, ma'am. I understand. And I I'm always available. I've been not available um on the days that the um >> Yes, we try to, you know, we we we >> Oh, it's not it's not about the days. It's not about the scheduled times that that that we provide for board members to be able to uh access and gain more knowledge and ask robust in-depth questions and gain information to go back out and share with your constituents. But we also avail ourselves when a request is made of us to accommodate a specific
128board member's time. >> Thank you, Dr. Smith. My comment though is not about the premise. This is great. Nobody has challenged you or our team on that practice. I wanted to update you all that you can see that there's not 100% participation. No judgment. And my kind, respectful invitation this evening is that moving forward so that we all get equal opportunities, especially because your answer is I'll talk to you tomorrow. You said that >> that wasn't and so we're we're unbothered by the fact that we can wait 24 hours. I just wanted you to know even still even if y'all talk about it tomorrow, all of the minds around this table still won't know unless there's another way to hear from you. That's all. But thank you again and I really appreciate the small groups.
129>> Miss Bivvens, question for you. [clears throat] This Saturday we have a um scheduled retreat, correct? That retreat is public. >> Yes. >> Will you be covering these items at that retreat? >> I will. Yes, sir. >> Okay. And we have to go by this set agenda and you know it's difficult to uh try to shift and pivot to uh uh request on the fly. Uh that's that's a bit unfair, but we try to make certain that we have as many communication opportunities as possible and we avail ourselves to accommodate personal schedules and we allow for information to get to the constituents and the general public through many opportunities, work sessions, board meetings, retreats, and whatever else that the board members may deem an opportunity for us to provide more information to the general public.
130We will certainly try to accommodate those opportunities. >> Dr. Haney, >> thank you. Um just just three questions I posed before I didn't get a response um because you all were in conferences or whatever it may be, but is the district posting monthly financial reports? >> They're not on the website. No, ma'am. >> Okay. So, that answers that. So, um is the district reporting timelines for budget resolutions? >> I'm sorry. Could you repeat that? >> It's the district reporting timelines for budget budget resolutions. So when you say timeline for budget >> like just to let us know what is going on, let the public know how we're coming up because it always seems to be at the budget time everything goes down rather than just having a timeline as to what's going on as of
131what Miss Hill stated as of the transparency so they can see because what is happening is that there's rumblings within these advisory council meetings that we aren't being transparent until budget time and then the allotted time they have to make a response. So, I was just making sure and also the reason I was posing these questions um I was reading and listening to um our superintendent um Richard Woods and he was stating this is what he wants districts board members to start doing as of districts having this information posted and he has charged board members to have this information out there as well as districts and it's our responsibility at board members to have that governance over that. So, I just want to make sure that Clayton's what we're supposed to be doing is complying
132to what he is now requesting and this has just been recently reported as I was reading some of his reports that he just made a big address on. So, I just want to make sure that we are transparent and as Mrs. Heel and Miss B said we can't keep waiting and wait and I understand your point Dr. Smith and I don't like to do the gotchas and all this, but I need honesty when the public is looking at us, listening to us, and they catch us off guard and we're asking they're asking us questions and I just want us to be in sync to what we're saying versus what you're telling us versus what we're reading. And so I just want that just to be consistent along when we have these budget advisory committees. we
133need to kind of rethink that and how we're strategizing those meetings because what has been coming back to me through my meetings and just conversations with D5 is just a listening session. So, I just want to be a little bit more robust, a little bit more challenging to those members who taking out their time cuz they're citizens and they pay these taxes um to be able to have a little bit more input year round, not just at budget time. So, we can just do those things. I just want Clayton to be in compliance. I don't want us to be back in 1902 when this man is trying to push us to 2025 26. I just want us to be more consistent in what we're doing and what we're saying. And there's no slight. Please understand
134there's no shade, no slight to your department. >> It's just that I just want to see that and I'm sure other colleagues I can't speak for them, but I'm sure we're all in sync that we just want to see the consistency and transparency of all. >> Yes, ma'am. Um I will say that the monthly financial reports that we present at the board meeting um is in your board packets. I believe that is posted on the website um and for the public to go out and look at as well. So even though it's not a particular place in say under financing which we can change that I can put it under there as well every month um because we do post the budget out there every year and as well as the um annual financial audits
135once we get them we we post those out there for the public to see as well. We can um in addition to posting this under publishing it with the board agenda, we can also post it on that once the board has reviewed it and um voted on it under the consent agenda, we can then post it after that. That's what I did when I was at the county. So, I don't have a problem doing that. Um but it is available to the public by way of um people when they can go out there and put the agenda down and look at the attachment. So, it is available for the public. It's the same exact information. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Okay. You're welcome. >> Great point. Um, board [clears throat] members, I would ask that
136>> Mr. Chair. >> Yes, ma'am. >> I had one more. >> Go for it. Um, I wonder if I was looking at something wrong, but and I don't know the name association, but some of the tech features that stood out to me from this purchasing was I'm really excited about our cyber security um, investment that we're making. But I did see the AI piece for about 200k and just wanted to close that loop because but maybe I'm, you know, a contract update or something, but I feel like in the purchasing report just to answer um Miss Tis, >> okay, Miss Hill's question specifically, I believe that there was an investment made from those visits and that we have it here. Am I mis misreading something because I don't remember? >> Okay. >> Lumi Lundy. Am
137I conflating or thinking of the wrong vendor? >> Was it under the um contract that the board has to approve? >> Maybe >> technology. Hold on. >> But yeah, I was I just thought >> No, it's not there. The only thing I see on here for technology that's over the $100,000 that the board has to approve is them exercising the third or four one-year renewal options with education networks for the -ate reimbursement. >> Okay. Where was even the piece about the um we're about to prop up a whole one-stop shop cyber security program. I think it was in that same report which is exciting stuff. >> Um that's over You don't know. Hold on. Let me look back here. Was it for technology? >> You would know. But I just wanted to confirm that that
138contract exists. >> So board members, we have a retreat this Sunday, Saturday, and the um finance department is actually featured on that on that agenda. One of the things that I personally would like is for us, and I'm saying us, just us, to start really nailing down our board priorities. We own the board. We own the budget. We own it. So, we need to have deep discussions on exactly what we want to see in the budget with the assistance of the staff. Notice I said with the assistance of the staff. So, we need to come up with our priorities together, number one. And like Miss Hill has alluded to earlier, um this just my personal opinion, those budget priorities should really center around academic achievement. So those are the things that for the next few
139weeks I'm going to be working with each and every one of you to see when we can get those togetherness so that before they begin to dictate the budget to us, we can have some ideas of what we want to see. >> We recommend the budget. We don't dictate. Mr. Sure. >> Recommend, dictate, tell, >> whisper, whatever it is. Whatever it is, we need to be ahead of that game um with the budget process. And that's going to begin this Saturday when you give us ideas of exactly where you're at with figuring out where with where where the budget is going for the next year. >> Yes, sir. And also, Miss Bose, your question, Mr. Sykes, our chief of technology said that was on last month's um person reports. That's why we couldn't find it
140on here. >> Makes sense. >> And it was approved at last month's at the last meeting. Perfect. >> I remember they were together. So, >> thank you. and and and as we prepare for um November 1st when we have come together, I still would like to um have a clear understanding of our open enrollment and healthc care cost and what does that look like for the district or if that is something that has been um that will be incurred by our employees. Um, also I'd like to have more information that I noticed that we don't get um updates on our federal dollars with the shutdown and the impact that that's having um and where is that shortfall coming from if there is a shortfall. So, um just like our title two, our title three, our
141title four, all of those I understand are um federal dollars. The services um have they ceased? Have they stopped? And again, back to our core business of academics. Are these impacted because we don't have federal dollars? And if not, please share out with the board how we are compensating and ensuring that there is no interruption in the needs for our children. >> Miss Hill, I would ask, did you email the superintendent in regards to those points so that they can be prepared on Saturday? >> Um, no, I I I did not. Um, >> but you will. I I'm happy to do that. >> Fantastic. >> And this and my federal question has been ongoing for over a year. >> Okay. All right. So, any questions that we have that need to be discussed on Saturday,
142please get those those um emails over to the superintendent so that he can communicate with the finance department and they can be better prepared to have that discussion with us on Saturday. Okay, you can move. So, >> next we have the splast report, revenue collection report. Um, in the month of September, we received revenue that was collected in um August of 6.2 million or $6.3 million. And um as you can see compared to last year, it's a little more than what we've collected um at the same time last year and around the same amount for the last two months. Um, and we're still on target to meet the projected collections for our splash revenue. >> Um, thank you for that. And then and um, I just have to ask, can we please explain the splash
143again? I just think that um there's sometimes a confusion that people think that our splash can be used for other operations within our district and it's specifically for >> if you capital A. So, but if you could please. >> Yes, no problem. So, the SPLS is a special purpose local option sales tax. is a penny sales tax if the voters approved in the referendum. And these funds provide it's the primary source of funding for the districts for all of our capital needs for any school bus purchases, building facilities, any of those things that are capital items. And it's a way for us to fund those items without having any additional burden on the taxpayer through way of another abaloma property tax. So that penny sales tax is paid by anyone that shops in the county.
144And I always tell everyone, think about the airport. Millions of people come through that airport every day or throughout the year and they are they are buying things. So they pay a penny sales tax. That penny from there comes to us. >> And technology is included in that. >> Yes. >> Technology also. Yes. Computer purchases. Yes sir. Textbooks. And this year we have school uniforms. Not school uniforms, athletic um uniforms and band uniforms as well. >> Thank you. >> You're welcome. >> All right. move. >> And then the last item I have is the purchasing report. So we have report A, which are consumables. Report B of the non-consumables that are um greater than $10,000 but less than $100,000. And then report C are those contracts that are greater than $100,000 that require board approval.
145So I'll be happy to answer any questions on um anything those on the purchasing report. >> Any questions in regards to the purchasing report? I apologize, but I do have a question. Um, just one of our technology purchases, um, just wanted to know if we were taking advantage of the e- rate, um, for that particular purchase. >> Which purchase is it, Miss? >> The communication system upgrade. >> Okay. >> She's asking right for that. Um, as far as on on this purchasing report, that would not be us. That would be facilities maintenance. But I can tell you as far as rate goes in the district, and I'm sorry. Um, good evening, Mr. Chair, [laughter] vice chair, members of the board, superintendent, Dr. Smith, I can tell you for purchases, we maximize our rate funding in
146both category one and category 2 every five years. Um, we get we we get audited every time because we get such a large amount of -ate funding. Uh, because we're able to maximize all of that funding. Um, and we we roughly get, you know, between 10 to 14 million per fiveyear cycle out of - funds. >> Thank you. Excellent. >> I have a quick question for Mr. Sykes. M Mr. Chair, if I may, just really quick, Mr. Sykes. Um, one of the constituents approached you about the Chromebooks and I want to know um, probably the board as well. How much is it to basically repair or how do you all do that? What's the cost of repairing these Chromebooks? Because it's been, let me just explain the backdrop. Parent called said, "Dr. D, my child's
147Chromebook barely works in class, school. They have to use their personal computers for homework, school work, and um, we need some resolve." and she was able to get in touch with Mr. Sykes. Thank you for addressing that parent, but could you just give the general public um some information regarding that, the cost and all that and what's the resolve that you told that parent so that everybody can hear it as well? >> Uh yes. So, um as far as Chromebooks go in the district, when those Chromebooks are purchased, we purchase them with different warranty services wrapped around it. One of those is u it comes with a 5-year warranty on anything that would go wrong. such as just a a part going bad. We also purchase it with five years of accidental damage protection, which
148would protect against an accidental drop, maybe a spill, something like that. Um, and that's built into the cost of those Chromebooks that we purchase. So, um, I don't know those figures right off the top of my head, but to to think of it this way where it may be an an additional $25 per Chromebook for those that fiveyear time period. Um, and during that time, if anything's reported wrong with that device that's turned in at the school level. Um, we try and fix it at the school to uh reduce downtime. We can't fix it at the school, we send it offsite to be repaired uh by a third-party vendor. um offsite to do any repair that they can in that nature. Um so that's that's really how it goes. >> Is there a co-ay or
149a deductible for that? >> Uh no, because um the it's all built in. It's all baked into that that cost. So we do that so that way our uh students don't have to pay anything additional to get that taken care of. Now there are uh situations where it may be the third time water damage has happened on a device or if it if it looks like I mean there's a difference between between dropping something two or three feet off the ground and dropping something off the second story of their house or something like that. So, uh, that vendor does do an assessment to to see is that something that, you know, is is does it cost more? The really the question comes down to does it cost more to repair the device than it would
150to replace the entire device? >> Is there any cost to the parents? >> Currently, no. Well, the only time there's cost to the parents is if it's determined to go outside of that accidental damage protection to where if um that's a very broad coverage. So, it's usually something uh very extensive of of you can really tell it's intentionally dam. >> How is that how is that communicated to the parents? >> Um we work with the school to com so the school can communicate it with the parents. Is that is that expressed to them or is there a form that they fill out when they're receiving the the um Chromebook? >> It's it's part of the form that's signed every at the beginning of each school year >> and the parent is actually signed. >> Well,
151it's a digital signature. Okay. >> So, u but we will not send a device home unless that paperwork's been signed. >> Good deal. >> Thank you, Mr. Sykes for transparency. Thank you. >> Any other questions? Okay. Thank you. >> Go ahead. >> Oh, that's it. That's all. >> That's it. Thank you. >> I guess um thank you. U Miss Crawford is representing Mr. Joseph tonight. >> Yes. Um good evening everyone. Um Mr. Chair, Madame Board Chair, members of the board, Dr. Dr. Smith, superintendent, and the Clayton County community. You have received the monthly capital improvements report that includes our executive summary, which notes the $10.95 million that was dispersed in payments. Also included is the board summary report, which is a status update of all of our current projects, as well as our capital purchasing
152report. >> Are there any questions? Seeing no. Go ahead, Miss H. Miss Hell, then Dr. Haiti. >> Okay. Um, thank you so much. It's great to see you this evening. Um, I just have um two questions on our um North Clayton High School and and we need it. I agree 100%. We need it. I just want to know um have we projected the expense of what it would take for us to manage and maintain that property once it is built and do we have a expected return on our investment and you may not have that information now but I would really like to have um a clear understanding especially when we're talking about budget that has to be delayed although I know squash and our general is different But just because we have to really
153really hone in on our fiscal responsibility and I'd like to have more information so I can better understand where we're headed. Thank you. >> Um, completely understood. Um, I'm I presume you're referring to the golf course component. Um, there are internal there are internal conversations to try and determine what is the operation cost and maintenance costs for a deliverable such as that. and we'll get that information back to you. >> Okay. I wasn't speaking of anything specific, but just an understanding. And also, I know when we started this project that there was a survey from our community or a meeting with our community. Um, and this may be for you, Dr. Smith, if there's some way to get feedback from our community as to what their position is with the golf course and whatever we're
154doing um in that area. So, again, I know you may not have it tonight, but I would just like to hear more. Yes, ma'am. We're uh looking to have a community meeting actually next week along with uh uh board members who want to participate. I guess if it's in your district or any board members along with uh delegation members and commissioners that support that particular community. Um they were wanting to do it this week, but uh it just didn't work out. So, we're looking to nail down a date for next week uh that we will send out this week uh informing the community that we're uh available uh to answer uh questions or concerns or get input from the community as that development is underway. >> Thank you. >> Miss Crawford, you are you um
155you're you're doing your presenting on this Saturday's um board retreat, correct? Correct. And um um items like this will be discussed at the retreat. >> Yes, correct. >> Okay. >> Um I just want to clarify um I believe you are a North Clayton graduate. Are you not? >> Absolutely. >> So when we're talking about the great things that happen in Clayton County, um Miss Crawford and um Mr. Mr. Joseph. Yes. But you know, Jonesboro, go Jonesboro. Anyway, I won't start a fight with Jesse tonight. [laughter] >> I Are you talking? >> So, this is personal for you. This >> Absolutely. This is personal. Got you, >> Miss Dr. Haney. >> I just had a quick question. Where is the new communication studio located? Where is it at? I don't know. >> It is at the
156South Lake office. It's just directly across the street from the new commocation center. >> Okay. All right. That's fine. Thank you. >> Yeah. >> Right. If there's any questions in regards to um the construction and and the um due dates of these projects, if there's if there's anything specific, please email the superintendent so that he can get it over to Miss Crawford and she could be better prepared for the retreat on Saturday. >> Yes. >> Thank you, Miss Crawford. Good evening, Mr. Chair, Madame Vice Chair, other members of the board, Superintendent Dr. Smith, colleagues, and community members. The personnel changes report summarizes all personnel actions for the period of September 11th through October 10th, 2025. Human resources updates were submitted to the board of education for your review. I'm happy to answer any questions that
157you have. >> Are there any questions, board members? >> Um, yes. I just have two questions. And um thank you, Miss Albertton. Um I noticed that on this report that there were three new general funded positions and I just want to know um if we could have specific on what positions they were. Um were their student needs and how does it um align with our current budget constraints? >> Yes, I will partner with business services to provide it. >> Thank you. >> Is there any other questions board members? Seeing none, we'll move to the next topic which is going to be board matters. All right. Um board members, we have a first read for policy series A. I will be having changes for that. Let me go through the process in changing any of these
158policies. Please give your recommendations and your suggestions. You can um email those over to um Dearis's department. Who? [clears throat] Latasha. Low. Okay. So, get those emails over to to Latasha for any changes that we have. They then will look into those changes to see if they're appropriate based off of state law. They then will communicate with with um CLM to make sure that um everything is is is copathetic. Then we will have a discussion on those changes. So the changes that I'm going to be um offering for next week, which is going to be the board meeting. You guys will see those changes. I'll actually get them over to you way in advance so that we could start our discussion via email so that when we get here, we can have a brief discussion.
159And then I believe that the following work session or the following board meeting we then will vote on any of the changes that we come up. Remember series I'm going to combine all of these now so that I don't have to go through each individual one but policy series A, policy series B and policy series C which are all in its first read are board specific policies. So we should deeply be looking into those policies if we want to see any changes in regards to those policies. Um also policy series G which is the third read will be voting on that next Monday. So be prepared to to vote on the policy series G. I know that Miss Gore said that she wanted to meet with the superintendent to have any discussion in regards to
160any changes. Has she has she met with you in regards to any of those changes? >> All right. Well, when we come to to the to the table next Monday, I need everybody to be prepared to vote for that. >> You want me to discuss? >> Okay. You were just announc >> I have a few changes. Should I just mail them to >> Right. L Yeah, you you mail them over there. Um, I believe that that Miss Garrett's department will shape it up in the document and then share it with all of us. We'll get to read that and then if I have a question for you, I'll reach out to you and or email you so that everybody else can can chime in on those changes. >> All right. >> Yeah, I got to
161go back. All right. So, um, next. So, I I told you about policy series G. We'll be voting on that November 3rd. Let me back up a little bit because I did skip an item which we started talking about at the beginning of the the um meeting. That's the RFQ26-1 construction materials testing and inspection services and that's going to be on the consent agenda for next Monday. that document or that RFQ is missing one of the vendors that is supposed to be on there and was a mistake. You you overlooked that when adding them. They're going to add that, get it over to Miss Biles. She'll update that, get it back on Eboard for all of us to look at, and then we will vote on that come next Monday. Does any of the board
162members have a problem with that? All right. So, getting back this is now this discussion that we're going to have with the student calendar. I want I want you guys to ask questions in regards to this, but I don't think that we'll be able to sort that out this evening. But let's get the questions on the table so that we can at least get that discussion going. And before I do that, let me see if I could streamline this. Mr. Charles, Mr. White, if you don't mind giving us an update on where you're at with the um student calendar and the board board meeting board meeting calendar. Board meeting calendar is us. All right. You you're not involved with that, right? No. Okay. Just the student calendar. >> Just the student calendar. Yes, sir. >>
163I wouldn't think of trying to tell you guys when to meet. I will [laughter] tell you that. Uh basically where we are is we're working up a general information first level survey that's going to go out later this week that'll be going to adults and to students asking them and providing them with the same options that you received. uh the three options that you received uh the two for uh 26 27 and the one for 2728 and asking them their opinion wanting to get suggestions just a general idea of how they they can be reformatted if in fact they can be reformatted. Uh the the very important thing to note is that we we're dealing with 180 days for students and 190 days for teachers and we have a certain time frame to to work
164within. One thing I will tell you very quickly is the fact I've done a little bit of research and the last time the the latest that our school district has gone into session uh since the year 2000 1999 2000 school year was back in August 25th. Since that time we have slowly over the course of the two decades moved our starting date closer and closer to the 1st of August. >> Right. However, the last time that we closed school in June was the same year. Ever since then, we have been within the magical date of May 31st. And that seems to be the important element in how we put our calendars together. We start in August and we end before May 31st. That's the way it's been for 25 years roughly. Gotcha. Can you tell
165me a little bit about the committee that you have together to actually come up with with these calendar recommendations? >> A good committee of different people leaders in the school district and we also have been contacting and have reached out to students the uh superintendent student council. In fact, one of the things we dealt with was to give them the opportunity to take a look at it. They're going to be one of the first groups that we send our survey to to get the idea from what how the students are are looking at it. If you notice the uh one of the count one of the calendars starts on Monday uh in 2627 this other calendar starts on Tuesday. The students um it wasn't unanimous but the majority of the students wanted to start on
166Tuesday. They weren't really excited about starting on Monday of the week. that was something that they had indicated. [clears throat] Uh we're also trying to get an idea as to uh break time when they like it when when where where they like to see the breaks fall that kind of thing. We received some recommendations in the spring that they think there needs to be some manipulation to provide some break time for students and staff during that long stretch from um from February to spring break. And so we're going to we're so those were some suggestions that came out of that meeting. >> Right. Can you can you I'll be right with you. Can you also expedite those those calendars to our um board interns? And we're going to require you at the next meeting to
167give us a presentation in regards to your your your thoughts and recommendations from a student perspective. So that's going to be an assignment for you guys at the next work station work. >> Make sure that the interns are included in our uh survey. >> Good deal. That gives them that opportunity to see everything. And teachers, what are there any teachers that are giving input? >> Teachers are going to we're going to be sending these out to the uh teachers of the year. And we also have some other teachers that were a part of our discussion last year that we're bringing back onto the group to and working with them. We're also going to be bringing this up at our classified employee uh advisory as well as the certified employee advisory. Those meetings are coming up
168within the next uh next week or so, next 10 days. >> Good deal. Ne last question before I pass it off to my board members. Um when is our perspective um time of completion with this? >> We really would like to be able to put you at least some options for you to look at and to make some uh action on. I'm hoping before at the next work session at the next >> we're going to do our very best to pull that off. >> Okay, Miss B Maker. >> Um are we going to be using the uh EB or ELBCAS as also um teacher training days? those were placed on the calendar because what these these three options were based on this year's calendar because I had not received any uh discussion from anyone in
169our committee at the time that we first met that they needed to be removed or that they needed to be expanded or if we were going to use a different format. uh I have not heard from and I think one of the things that we want to do in our discussion is to find out how beneficial these days have been this year and whether they have if they've been beneficial how we can make use of them again in the future to help enhance our teacher training. >> Okay. Because I mean if we can do two things at once it seems like a great thing. And you know me you can move that date another week back in August to start later >> not earlier. And I know I know all your problems, but at the
170end of the day, you know me and I'm just gonna say it. I >> Well, one of the things that might be beneficial is the fact that we have our own convocation center. So that may be able to adjust or come up with a way of dealing with the the process of scheduling graduation because we we always try to make sure that we can get graduation in and the end of school in before Memorial Day weekend or definitely before May 31st. We may have to think about crossing that meridian in order to move the starting date back, but we can take that into account as well. Okay. Um, I'm looking at the calendar here. I'm going to get right with you, Miss Williams. I'm looking at the calendar here and it looks like we're going
171to have a board meeting and a work session on December 1st. Looks like it's going to be one meeting. >> Okay. Is will we be ready to vote on December 1st for the calendars? Can Can we be ready for that? >> I think you can. We're going to try to pull a couple of meetings together uh zoom meetings that will help facilitate everyone being able to be present. I think the fact that we are meeting with our advisories in the next this week and next week, right? I think that that fact is uh going to carry a lot of weight because that gives us access to a lot of employees that can help chime in on what we're doing and hopefully we can float a secondary survey out during the time frame to get uh
172as we get more information in to fill out the calendar. >> Good deal, Miss Williams. >> Okay. Okay. So, these two calendars you gave us is literally just one is Monday, one is Tuesday. Everything else is exactly the same until after you get the um [snorts] >> word again. I'm sorry, ma'am. >> The calendar, the option one. Option two, the only difference is starting on Monday, starting on Tuesday. >> Uh there that is one of the changes. The other change was fact that we uh we added a u we added a an another break day uh in the winter uh break uh on that uh that second calendar for 26 27 in the winter uh we had we we kind of expanded that as something extra. I think what we were looking at that we
173were taking into account the indication that there was a desire to to come back on Monday or uh to come back on Tuesday. We were looking at that. We also have to take into account that in 2026 we will be looking at a midterm well we're looking at a midterm election coming up in 2026. And so that means that we're we're potentially losing a day during fall semester if the decision is made to go with only a student a teacher learning day or staff development day. >> Uh rather than having students in school because of the number of schools that are used as polling places. >> Okay. I just want to um I got an email from a teacher that had a suggestion. I just want to throw out there so it can be heard
174that during February to make that a full week in February and then extend the last week to to the end of the week for school in May and then get rid of the ELBC days because they says the kids can't bring home their Chromebooks. They're not doing the work anyway. That's just the email I received and I'm just putting it out there that >> Thank you. >> I I appreciate that. One of the things I will point out is that if you go and take a look at all of the calendars that we've got uh going uh in metro Atlanta, uh you will tell you will see that just about every school district is starting in early August and they're ending before the 31st of May. And those and it's just a different way of
175manipulating their leave days. uh they some of them don't use full weeks for staff leave. Um uh they may do it for student leave and some of them don't do it even for student leave. So it's just a way that you can work around the idea of those. Right now we've got 29 between 27 and 29 weekdays that we take off during the course of the school year from August to uh May of the following May. So, it's how we manipulate those days that can make some differences and maybe change the way that we uh set up our school year. >> Good deal. >> Thank you. >> Good deal. Thank you. Um Adrian, so the board board interns are going to have to do a Zoom call for the board members in order to analyze
176the calendar and give us student recommendations. I would like that to be done next week towards the latter part of next week. Board members, I need each and every one of you to be ready for December 1st. So, as many questions as you have, recommendations, advice, get that out to to Mr. White's department so that we can be prepared on December 1st to um approve a calendar. All right. Um, the board meeting calendar, we're going to put that on hold because according to Miss Blackwood, she has to wait until we have a student calendar in order to come up with a board meeting calendar. All right. So, that that'll be put on hold. That we'll we'll have both of those items together as we as we um talk about December 1st. The time now is
1778:37 and I'm um this meeting is adjourned. Thank you so much. >> Oh, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. You guys were ready to go, right? All right. Just one more item. This should be quick. I need an um a motion for the approval of the proposed board meeting agenda for November 3rd, Miss Baker. And um it's been seconded by Miss BS. Can I get a vote? The time now is 8:38. You guys can leave.