001Okay, we will call our meeting to order. At this time, we are regular session for the Walker County Board of Education. Uh, Mr. Wilson, we do our invitation again. >> Again, thank you today for what you've given us. It's been beautiful day and uh I ask that you be with us tonight as we continue uh with business of Walk County. So ask for wisdom and understanding and each person represented here they should not miss their families and open up the eyes of our understanding. We may see clearly what we may do need to do. So father we give you the praise in Jesus name we pray. Amen. >> Uh Mr. Richardson will you lead us in our pledge. >> Absolutely. Please stand. Pledge the American flag. Attention. Salute. Pledge. I aliance to the flag of
002the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation indivisible with liberty and justice for all. >> The Georgia flag attiance to the flag and to the principles for which it stands. Wisdom, justice, moderation, and courage. >> Thank you. We did we do need an approval of the agenda. Do we have a motion? >> A second. >> Second. >> All those in favor and special recognitions, Mr. Rates. >> So, we have one this evening that we've been trying to get on the books for a while and it just didn't work out, but we we we we stuck to the course and so we've got several. Uh Jamie's going to come up and talk a little bit about this, but I if you if you if you do anything on social
003media, right, you see a lot of times uh people passing stop arms on buses when they're letting kids out and you see the near misses and you see all those things how sometimes you I can't imagine a a bus that you don't notice on the road, but so many people just don't notice them, right? and and and that's a little frustrating because they're carrying our our our top commodity and that's our students, right? And we have a lot of students that ride with us. But when you see somebody that's in distress, that's in a bus and someone stops to help them, that's the other thing you don't see a lot in our world anymore is somebody that just decides they're going to be a good Samaritan and stop and offer a level of help. And
004so that's what this story is tonight. and we just felt like it was worthy of recognition. And we did find out that the driver was going to be here tonight and she's in the hospital. So, I'm hope I'm not sharing fer breaking some but we that was the plan and so anyway, Jamie's going to give you an idea of what this situation was and how we'd like to recognize and honor this individual in front of the board tonight. So, Jamie, thank you. >> And Miss Silver just got off phone with her. Apologize. She she is in the hospital. She wanted to be here. This is one of the biggest things she wanted to be a part of because she was so grateful. I just want you to imagine being on a school bus with 2430
005elementary kids on a dark road 6:30 in the morning in the winter time and your bus breaks down and you're stuck in a road. You can't get out of the road. You have to be the guardian of those children and you have to make sure they're safe. And to do that, you're supposed to leave that bus, put markers on the road, put lighting out, and make sure that bus doesn't get as safe as position you can. That is a scary thought. And put yourself where you're the only adult and all those kids are terrified on that. And that's what happened in this case. And just when not all not all heroes wear capes. Sometimes they they drive by, right? And so Mr. Joseph Burch did just that. He he stopped. He didn't have to. He
006put the safety triangles out. He secured the bus. He let Miss Silver stay on the bus to take care of those babies who were scared so they didn't have she didn't have to leave. And he made sure that everyone was calm and everything was protected until law enforcement got there. And to tell you how busy this road was, law enforcement with blue lights on got clipped by a another car going by and and actually had to take care of that. That's how scary it is when you tell about your st road. I don't know if you've ever been in a broken down vehicle. I have and that thing coasts in. and you're like, "Don't give me head on the interstate." And that's kind of the feeling they had on that dark road. So, I just
007want to present to Mr. Burge a thank you for M County School and Transpark and definitely Miss Silver who on phone she said she can't leave I cannot be there because she is most kindhearted and she would probably give me the biggest hug there right now. She really would be and so I just want to say thank you and I wanted to present you with something if you would challenge coin walk schools is basically a small presentation to say thank you for all you do and appreciate that you stop being that hero and I don't know really what to say but I'll just share a little bit of the story. Um my name is Joseph Burge. I actually live in Somerville, Touya County and I work at Elite Lineman which is Tunnel Hill area and
008and I actually lead their CDL program and um you know we train quite a bit of students coming through and stuff so I knew a lot of the protocols and and I do I have my S&P as well so I understood you know she wasn't going to be able to leave the bus and leave the students and and was a little chaotic you know right there in Dylan's a mess and uh people were going around her on the wrong side actually like going in the ditch to get around her and stuff and um very thankful and I talked Miss Silver for a little while and you know I believe what we do to lead a ministry and and I believe each and everyone here you know if you really have passion in what you do
009you're doing a ministry for the Lord and um she and I kind of spoke on that sometimes God just put you in the right place right time and and nothing to me you know I I do um take a lot of pride in this and I'm very very thankful for y'all doing this for me but but it's not a Joe Bur thing it's it's the Lord and um just very appreciate to him. Thank you. >> Can we get a picture on the board? Jamie, if you'll join me up here. Whoops. Okay, right here on three. One, two, three. Let's get one more. One, two, three. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. >> Shake yours too. Okay. I want to get your permission before I post it. >> And Mr. Burge, I'll tell you,
010you're welcome to stay for the meeting, but if you don't want to, you can feel. >> We got a son at home, so thank you. >> Thank y'all. God bless. >> Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Thank you. >> Uh, next on our agenda is superintendent report. >> Just a couple of things. One, I've got an item that I want uh Rachel to go over with you and she's giving you a copy of it. But but the other thing I'll say is I know when we left Tuesday night's meeting, one of the conversations that we had was about extending the process of approval on the budget and moving it on into July. And I wanted them and I know Heather's here as well. I wanted them to give you an idea of what that looks like if
011we push that into July. We've still got to go through the re uh um advertisement of the two budget hearings. We would have to have two required hearings again because we're not approving it tonight and that's what we advertised. If we do that, then the first night that we could actually get something scheduled would be Monday the 6th. Then you have a planning session on Tuesday the 14th. That means it would approve, potentially approve on the 14th. That means we would get started on all the data input on the 15th to get paid and to get benefits aligned with all of our employees in a much shorter window. So I wanted if y'all don't mind kind of talk through a little bit of that process of what it looks like for you guys and then
012we'll get into this department of audits piece that you guys have in front of you as well. >> Basically what Mr. is talking about is when whenever you approve the budget, then I go in the system in budget prep and roll the budget into approved status. Well, when we're hiring new people for the new ski school year, I can't let HR go in there and start adding people because then when I do the recalculation process, the budget's going to keep growing as they add people and we would have to go back and literally go back through all of the the people and take somebody out. So we can't let HR start adding new people or putting in new pay and we calculate finance calculates payroll calculates and we all come together with the numbers with
013that HR has input in Smart Fusion and so that's one of the reasons that we started in 200 I think in 2022 we had a new payroll person and she said you mean you're going to get the pay scales approved in July mid July and then I have to some of the 12 month people in July. She's like, I don't I don't know how you make sure everybody's pays right. It just just the crunch time to get everybody added and do all that. So, we backed it up to trying to get the budget approved in June so that we would have time to actually recalculate pay and make sure Smart Fusion was pulling all the pay scales in correctly and all that. So, it just it pushes that time down to just a twoe period
014before July payroll. So, we've been that's reasons we've tried to back up the time frame because we did used to do a continuing resolution to spend money and do the budget in July, but that just it doesn't give HR or finance or payroll very much time. >> Anything add when you have your new employees, you have to input them into Smart Fusion and as Rachel said, we can't do that until she rolls up and it's not as simple as first name, last name, and all of that. There is a lot of information that has to be put in different locations within the Smart Fusion uh program. Um when you look at our new hires, you're going to see two huge crates where we have to look at all of their information, put in their withholdings,
015put in their correct certification. Then you want to go back and you always want to recheck everything, especially birth dates and security number because since they are starting, our new employees are starting on July 31st, they will be benefits eligible September 1st, which means we are under the uh timeline of having to get a information submitted to both state health and our supplemental broker, Alexander Company, for supplemental benefits. uh these new employees cannot go in and select any type of benefits if this information has not been sent to those other entities. So, not only do we have to input that information, but that information has to be sent to both state health, the supplemental benefits broker has to be processed so that then when they can go in during their open enrollment window as new
016employees, all of their information is there where they can make their selections. Does that help? >> Yes. Thank you. And then then the other piece was the Department of Audits and Rachel, we were talking about this today. So I wanted to get that to you so you start reviewing. I think some of you may have gotten a letter about this ahead of time. So I want you to start reviewing this and then they're going to is it a webinar or to >> a webinar next week. >> Okay. where they'll get some more information about it and we're hoping that at the planning session we can go into a lot of detail about this. But I wanted to go ahead and get that information to you so you can be reviewing it and know kind of
017what the general premise is of some of the changes and then she can come back and explain what that's going to look like, you know, boots on the ground here for us. So, and that's the only two things unless you have additional questions for me about anything we've discussed over the last couple weeks or any other things I can clarify. Any questions, comments? Um, facilities report. >> Uh, nothing really to add. Last week talked about Regent and Gilbert progressing at pacing there still on track. Uh Gilbert's roof is I would say completed today with the guttering about to go on and all that is in progress and regul I think demolition Josh is completed now and everything is now building back now in the classrooms and HVAC are the bar units I think are >>
018all set and ready to get generated. air conditioning units are in place now. I'm just getting online unit. Um, and the only thing coming up there next is a roof over the gym that was in part of the project. It's going to start soon too. That's kind of a weather type thing with that. So, we'll get that going pretty soon as well. Other than that, if you have any questions, >> questions. >> So, so last week we we talked about the love grass. So, when will that be complete? So that's a process that has been stemmed over. We're retaining money from the contractor in order to that's not going to be paid until there's established love grass on site. What happened was by the time they got ready to sew it during the project, the
019ground temperature was too hot for it to take root. So they just put down coverage grass. They came back already this year and um receeded it and they're actually mowing it, finished mowing it again today. The contractor did because they're saying they've got to keep everything else beat back for the love grass to take established. But um this Thursday, the architect, the contract administrator will be up again to review. And um basically, it's just a part of the process where we have to go back and forth. They don't want to come up and keep working on it, but they're not going to get their retainage paid out until it's got the established grass that the contract cost. >> Can you have him them here at the next meeting at planning in July? >> Yeah, I
020don't think that we need to continue feeding the bushes, right? So, >> they they've been very diligent about coming up and working on it. It's just a matter of time of getting the grass. I mean, I was there when they seated it. I saw them do it, but it's just a matter of wait basically literally waiting on grass to grow and >> right and and so you know Thursday when the contract administrators up we'll walk the site and see if we can tell the established grass is coming through and stuff like that. But um you know, part of the problem was it went for so long after they sold it without anybody taking care of it that they were actually gracious enough to come back and mow it after it was turned over to us
021to continue to mow. And um and so I've been working with getting prices on somebody to maintain that for us to keep it mowed on a regular interval so the weeds and the brars don't have time to come up and grow. But um yeah, I mean if you want them here, I can get them here. But uh it's just it's just a matter of like I said, waiting on it to come up, >> I think. But but what you're I guess the question or the thing is is we're waiting on grass to grow. The the temperature is going to be too hot for it to grow, right? So >> no, it it won't it don't affect it growing. It just affects its germination when you when you first plant it. So they've already planted it
022about about four weeks ago, right out a month ago was when they planted it with the soil temperature. They actually came up two days in a row checking temperatures and then the third day they came back and planted it. And the first time you saw them mow it, >> um they planted it the day after they mowed all of the cover off of it is when they sewed the grass. But um what's the time frame? I guess this is >> I think the germination time frame on that typically six weeks. So that will be August. So >> it should be in the next week or two we should be able to see it really start to show because it was about four weeks ago when they opened. >> Anything else? >> Next we have two
023individual action items. First one uh it's recommended that County Board of Education approved the tenative general fund budget uh for year end 2027 in the amount of $164,199137 and associated salary schedules. Do we have a motion? We have a motion. We have to have a motion to discuss motion. >> Do we have a second? >> Second. >> Okay. Um, any discussion? >> Looking at my question, I guess there has been some cuts here with the vacancies in the budget. What does that look like? Where are those where are those coming from? The seven the 787 144. What are we what are we taking out? Is that impacting class? Is that support services. What are those positions? >> Um, it was spread Yeah, it was spread throughout and we were told not to do classrooms. Um
024there was a couple classes that were academic coach and the other ones were bus drivers. They're positions that haven't been filled and didn't look like it's going to be filled. So that's why they were vacancies that were there. And on the K3 literacy coaches, Robin's here too. Um, this is the state I mean the the law that has not actually been signed into law yet. Correct. >> July 15th. >> So if we if we're taking that out, are we are we pretty much I know you kind of referenced it earlier. Are we pretty much saying we're not going to do this at all or what are we saying here? only kept in the budget what the state is providing revenue for. That's it. So, you got to remember that our academic coaches are currently paid
025out of title funding. So, it's all federal dollars, right? Except for the person that serves at Fairland and the two high schools because they don't qualify. Okay. So, the largest portion of that fund is coming from federal dollars. So, we take the 541, I think it's 541 that we're using. We'll use that money for literacy coaches up front and then we'll I don't want to even say the word supplement because I can't say that because it's title. That's a no no. But we'll use the the title funds to offset the other academic coaches. So hopefully Kevin, to your point, we'll find the folks that are qualified to do that, use that 541 to pay their salaries, and then the other academic coaches will be paid out of federal dollars like they've been in the past.
026The other thing Robin came to me this afternoon and basically there were two cert that that aren't in this two certificated positions that we felt like we could go ahead and not rehire for this year and they were two certificated jobs. We they're not they're not evident here. It'll be part of that potential 5% that I talked about is that we won't spend in the budget. So, we've already looked at two positions today that were certificated, whereas Angela was looking at spreading them across non-certificated in the areas that we were already struggling finding folks to fill those positions. That makes sense. >> Any more questions? Any more comments? >> So, I I guess what is it? I know the other night you said we had seven. Was it seven that applied for this and two
027were qualified. Are we still at the same >> um we had four that actually had elementary certification and we interviewed two of those today and those are the positions that Mr. A when I say we're looking at every line item um for example one has gifted certification. And so I came to Rachel and said this one we feel confident principles interviewed her today. She is gifted certified based on the number of gifted in this school. We could pay her locally one day. She could she could serve gifted not rehire a gifted teacher at that school. She could serve gifted and the other four days pay her out of literacy funds. But that would save benefits on a person. The other one wanted to interview, we looked at, she is Esau certified. So I met with
028Autumn and I said, I'm looking at our numbers from October count to March count. I really feel like if we hire this position, we're not going to rehire another ESAW person. You can do it based on the numbers you have. Yes, if you have to move schools, but that's another person we're paying benefits that we don't need. >> So then as attrition goes, clerical as attrition goes in this thing of clerical we just streamline that and and all hands on deck kind of let's let's take I guess let's just say Rachel's I don't know if you have a clerical person or not probably do but >> okay y'all are clerical so there you go so Rachel decides hey I'm done and you're the you're the clerk and and so uh Michelle, Miss Stoker has a
029clerical person. Will they just flow to share at that point? >> Really depends on the positions because there's so many things in the job responsibilities that differ. Plus, you know, you've got federal dollars coming in to support some share, >> right? So, those two can't share, but if there was two that could share, >> you you could definitely re-evaluate all of those positions. you're you're you're going to get the and this sounds terrible. It's going to have a gr a greater impact on the budget savings from a certificated perspective versus a not certificated. And so what happens is and I shared you know we we had 20 I'll have to go back and look. I think it was 24 people retired this year but we had another 27 that relocated decided not to teach any
030longer. So there's a approximately 50 folks that we lost this year. Now we've replaced a lot of those folks, but next year is when we look at that and go, okay, if your aotment is reduced by one or two and you're having two or three people retire, who don't we replace? That way, it's not cutting a position if somebody's sitting there expecting a contract, but it's somebody walking away on their own provision anyway. So we're that that's the commitment that we made is to really look at that next year so that we that's the only way we're going to be able to do this with the exponential impact of of budget increases. So but we can look at the non-certificated side as well and we'll continue to do that. I guess I'll ask this. There
031was on slide 17 you said that in the buildings basic or basically 70% of the funding was going into the building. The other 30% was not that was what construction and all the and administration. Yes. 70%. >> So 70% of the buildings 30% I guess you know maintenance operations and personnel funding. Is there anywhere else in that 30% that you foresee there could be any cuts >> made? I mean the only thing that we talked about Kevin and it's really I don't know Rachel would be you know more in tune with where that would be from but that state health benefit piece was the only other piece that we saw because I felt very comfortable that you guys had on the front end of in in February you started the discussion about non-certificating step increases
032you also have been having the discussion over a year now about athletic supplements. So, I kind of felt like that those were going to stay in the budget. The state health benefit is the one piece that they don't have a comfort level with, and I'm trepidacious about it. But also know that's a large sum that potentially we could work with. I just don't want to have to come back to you in December, January, and have to amend the budget to include more. But that's why we brought that up as an option. >> I guess where and where I'm going with that is I know in the classrooms the state sets the standard. Hey, you've got student ratio is this at elementary, this at middle school, this at high school. I know in a lot of
033our departments with our support staff that's in place, a lot of that is local decisions. You know, we're we're saying we need this many in this in transportation. We need this many folks in maintenance. Is there anywhere in those departments that we can start looking at again where it doesn't impact the classroom? Can I address that question? >> Yeah, please. >> On that page where it the the the graph where Mr. Reigns was talking about instructional being 63%. >> If you just look at that page, the instructional is all in the classroom. >> Okay. >> The next category is pupil services at 7%. That is our student services department, but it is also all of the guidance counselors in the schools and it's other staff that's in the schools. Um, Instructional services includes some uh
034also items in the schools and also our technology department and some of the people at central office. The instructional staff training is some of that fund funding goes to the schools. The media services the 2% is 100% schools at your librarians. Um the general administration is basically uh the superintendent's department and the board any costs associated. The school administration is all in the school office. Business services is my department. Um maintenance and operations 8%. The largest line item in that is the school's um utilities, the the phone bills, the water bills, the light bills, the gas bills. The largest items in that um the school safety and security funds all have to be spent on the schools. We don't purchase safety items for the central office out of that. The transportation budget, you're familiar with
035that one. And and the areas where we did cut in there, one of the areas where we have always had funding left that was significant amount was in fuel. >> Now with the cost going up right now, we may have to revisit that if they don't start coming back down. Um but that's where we've always had funding left and it's been significant in in fuel. Um the support services pretty much is HR and it's very small. I think I think the largest thing in that budget is to pay for frontline which is our application software and all that. So, a lot of these items are still school budgets, too, just like um we give all of the schools maintenance money too and that's included in the maintenance budget, but they have to have money for
036their warehouse supplies or their cleaning supplies, their, you know, paper products and all that. So each each category so it's more than 70% that's attributed to the school's budgets if that makes sense. I just >> I will say one of the areas and I you'll have to tell me I know it falls under services but one of the things that we've talked about in the past is the expenditure for um home buds. So we we looked at that a couple years ago and they were right in the middle of lease agreements and things and we were about to back out of that which means we would have to hire the teachers to do that take them under our wing. Our benefits were going way up. So when we did the cost analysis, it wasn't really
037saving us any money at that time, but that runs us $650,000 a year. We utilize that to I mean we get a huge bang for our buck out of it, but we also know that might be something we can pull underneath the opaces of what we do and that's something we've started looking into to make that decision hopefully going into next year too. So I don't know if that falls in operating but I mean >> it's under instructional instructional Um, >> but that well that when we did look at that several years ago with the increasing cost of health insurance, if you try to hire your own teachers, you may be right back up there. I'm not sure what that cost savings would be because that would be an example of something that we have
038contracted out. I mean, that's just my thoughts and I could run some numbers >> and with the truency I'm taking the chronic absenteeism one of the requirements is that alternative scheduling. >> Yes. >> On budsman, we've been able to do that with them before. If it's inhouse, we control it a little more, but it might cost us to do that as well after hours. >> That's exactly right. >> Mr. When we do that analysis a couple years ago, the cost was much higher. If we did that internally, we're looking around $900,000. >> Okay. I couldn't remember the number. Thank you. I knew we did some cost comparisons and it wasn't feasible for us to look at. >> Where does the social workers fall? The social social workers fall in this 2100 people's services. It's >>
039in the same area as the guidance. >> Any more questions? maybe a suggestion for for next year and and I you and I don't want to feel like we're we're crunched and we have to do something tonight with not being totally comfortable, but but what I will say is this. If we could start and and I know you guys have been working on it, but if we could start this even a month earlier, I think it would give more time to kind of digest process. So, not February, but back it up to Janu. I mean, >> I'm saying I'm saying we got we got the initial information June 1st. >> Well, you got in February, you got a projected fund balance and you got a projection on expenditures, what was going to happen over the
040course of this year. We those are information. We didn't have the aotment sheet. >> And that's what I'm I guess that's what I'm saying is when we start >> getting kind of more details and you're right. You're exactly right. We got those kind of things, but >> you know, the first time we laid eyes on, hey, we're we're taking in this much. We're going to send out that much. And that was June 1st. Yeah. And and that I'm just saying if we could get that even earlier, then we start looking, hey, can we can we move here? Can we what can we do? Right. >> We were very late. We were late. Have there been times when we when I have received the state revenue aotment in April, but this year it was really I
041mean it was like I think the last week of May or something. We saw those numbers >> and I know I know it was kind of built on the fact that we had even said hey we have no desire to >> raise any kind of you know we're going to take the roll back we sure do what we had last year I >> understand that so I mean we could >> and that's still open for discussion I I don't want to you know give a a predetermined answer for the board I would never do that I just know that in our conversations you guys have had that conversation but you know we know we got the preliminary digest and so gives us a chance to start looking at it. But at that point you're, you
042know, it should validate what you're already projecting for revenue based on what you collected last year. So, but to your point, Kevin, we we definitely as we get that information or if we begin to project out and it's going to be a level of shock, we we'll make sure that that's ahead of time versus it being um, you know, going into the month of June. and and two uh kudos to Rachel because the you know I think it was last month month before last year we had asked for or I had asked more information and she was giving us in our financial report more of what we I think we were looking for. Um, I think part of this goes back to this board's just now getting used to their budget. And so they're they're
043wanting to look at more things, which is great. And so I I think >> and what I said was not meant as a negative in any way >> toward you guys. I'm just saying I'm just saying for for our sake, I think it would be if possible more time to to a lot. Any more questions, comments? Okay. So, um, all those in favor, >> you remember the recommendation? >> So, all those in favor of approving >> the budget. >> Those opposed. Okay. And so, it passes. Um, also, um, individual action items, it's recommended that the Walker County Board of Education approve the year-to- date financial report for the month ending April 30th, 2026. Um, need a motion. >> Motion. >> Second. Any discussion? >> All those in favor? None of those. Okay. We also need
044a motion for the recommendation recommendation of consent action items as listed on the agenda. Do we have a motion? >> Motion. >> A second. >> Second. >> Any discussion? >> Uh yes ma'am. Actually on the agreement with Orange Grove. It is XBI I think is the on my Um, in the in the explanation it says that there are two students that would be that have been determined to be in need of services through Orange Grove. Um, if you look at the back, the contract is for four. So, are we approving two or we approving four? >> That's a great question. So, let me just start there. Um, you know, I we could get try to get Destiny on the phone if that's okay because I I know this is timesensitive with the potential of going
045into next month. And so, um, is I'm looking at Steve who's behind the the banner now. >> I haven't read the contract, but I know that from the bills that come in, we have typically been paying for I think four students. So, I wonder if it's Well, I'm wondering if we actually have two that's eligible, but maybe we're >> extra slots, but they when they do the billing, I'm pretty sure they build by each individual and the daily rate. >> So, I don't know if that helps with that question. I >> mean, I just don't want to get locked in to where we've only got two spots and they need four or or pay for four and we only are using two. >> No, I'm working on Facebook. You want to talk to her? >>
046Is she on >> the ball? She's on third base coaching right now. So you'reware >> my suggestion, Kevin, is we we approve that four just in case we have four that we need slots for so we don't lose slots then if we find out that it's just the two then we'll get with Orange Grove and we'll provide an addendum for you next we'll do that >> question let's No, >> the policy is 30 days, >> but there I have question about that. >> Okay. >> All right. Thank you. >> Sorry about that. >> You have another question. >> I do about the policy updates, but that's Oh, sure. >> that are going to sit. But that's that's outside that's outside of this. So, let's finish that. >> All right. So, um all those in favor
047motion passes. Uh next we have uh new business. U Mr. Middleton, do you have anything? >> I'll be on vacation the July the 20th meeting. Just the one here. Robin's going on. It looks like too >> Florida for that meeting. >> Yeah, I'll call in. >> Okay. No, we will come down there. Plenty of room. Plenty of room. >> Um, Mr. Richardson, >> would this be a time appropriate time to bring up policy? >> Yes, sir. Okay. >> Uh, the policy update on JCD AF and JCD AG about the electronic communication. Um, only question I had on that and this may be a Mr. Brown question. Um, is there any consideration in there about the those the smart glasses, the meta glasses? Because I don't think there's any I didn't see anything in there. I
048got still got pagers, but we got smartphones, phones, all that good stuff. But >> so there's a clause in there that talks about smart devices such as glasses, rings, pendants, earrings. All those categories are already covered in the existing policy as the board is already. And is it probably proper procedure to allow the schools to assign the discipline instead of putting it directly in the policy for those you know when when policy is violated? Will that will be will that be school level discretion or will we provide guidance from the board? >> We will provide guidelines uh but those should be made not shall so ministerial expectations. >> Okay. And we've sent this to them. So they're reviewing it now as well. So they'll be ahead of the high school. Yes, >> that's the only
049question I have on that. >> Um, anything else? Um, Miss Harden, do you have anything? >> I do. Not this. >> Mr. Will. >> Okay. And I do not u Mr. Range, do we have any public participation? >> No, ma'am. We do not. No one signed up according to the policy. >> Okay. Uh next is the executive session for reasons of personnel >> and litigation. Uh we need a motion. >> Second. >> All those in favor and we are in executive session. >> Okay, we are back in session. We have a recommendation personnel for certificated and nonertificated and others. Do we have the motion? >> Motion. >> Second. All those in favor? We need a motion to adjurnn. >> Motion. >> Second. >> All those in favor.