CorpusRecord 178820

Called Board Meeting

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Source
YouTube / Walker County Schools Media
Date
2025-07-16
Location
Walker County, GA
Material
Transcript
Extent
650 words · about 4 min
Collected
2026-06-26

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001Okay, we will call the meeting to order at this time. Uh, Mr. Willerson, will you do our invocation, please? >> Yes, ma'am. Father, we thank you today for what you've given us in Jesus Christ and we appreciate the freedom that we have. Been a beautiful day today. a little hot, but it's been beautiful and we appreciate the weather that you give us. As long as we come together today to work and make decisions, it's in the best interest of the county schools. I pray that you will bless these proceedings, watch over our superintendent and the board, the teachers in the county and the kids. And uh Father, we know that uh when uh everything is in your hands, you work all things to the good after the council of your own will. And Father, we

002appreciate having your word to to lean to that in times of trouble, in times when when we really just don't understand what's going on. probably said this before, but things that give us comfort is the depth of the riches both of the knowledge and wisdom of God. How unsearchable are your judgments and your ways past finding out. We don't have to understand it to believe it. You know, you're here. We're watching over. So, Father, bless this time and we'll give you the praise for all you do. It's in Jesus name. Amen. >> And Mr. Can we do our pledge, please? I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all >> to the flag and to

003the principal justice, moderation, and courage. >> Uh, and before we go into executive session, we do have one action item. It's recommended that the W County Board of Education approve the purchase of meth into reading version three for Walker County Schools for students K through. Do we have a motion? >> Motion. >> Second. >> All those in favor. And we need a motion to go into executive session. >> I got a question. >> Oh, yes. Sorry. >> Sorry. Um, just before we go in there. Um, the I guess I'm trying to We got that email about a change order for Rosville. What's that for? Is it just because I thought we already had a credit? If there's So we had a credit and it went down from 40 to 35,000 somewhere around in there just

004for simple math and now there's a change order for 8,000. Does that m mean that it's 8,000 more than the credit? >> From what I understand the initial >> Sorry to put you on. >> Not at all. I'm just trying to think back through this so you know it's not fresh on my mind but Josh Josh and I were talking about this. >> So they they first looked at how much they thought we were going to have to replace because we had bad school. Okay. So, it ended up being like $85,000 or something. And then Josh brought to them a disagreement about it and they brought in the engineers. So, then that's when it reduced down to that 39 or whatever you're saying. >> Pass that. Travis, I I'm not sure, but I'll get that

005answer. Fine. I just >> when I seen that change order for 8,000, I was just thinking that was it the 8,000 plus the 35. So that would have been like, you know, a 43. >> Yeah. >> I just >> I was just curious. I didn't know if >> the plans for those rocks. >> So if you and I haven't laid eyes on it, but Travis when he mentioned that the other night that the turf field has to be bedded in rock. So I wonder if we're I don't know >> the rock that they donate. >> Yes. And so when one of the things >> and that might be part of the change order is removing that. So that 39 down to eight was the removal. That may be it, but I I don't I'm not

006clear. So >> and that's fine. And one of the things too I just want to keep on the forefront is we talked about uh and unfortunately who we talked about with is no longer here. We talked about there's several big rocks on the softball field. >> Just going ahead and getting those that since the equipment's there because we've been trying to get rid of those rocks for 33 years now and with the equipment being there and it's already there. Let's just bite the bullet and do it. Especially since we have >> accredited, right? Sure. >> So, yeah, >> something to look at. >> I'll find out. Let you know. And it's it's not life. >> No. No. Sure. Sure. >> I don't have to know tomorrow. Just whatever. Okay. All right. Sorry. Anything else? >>

007I think that's it for me. >> All right, we need a motion to go into executive session. Personnel have a motion. >> Motion. >> Second. >> All those in favor? Okay. Okay. We will call our meeting back to order. We have a recommendation personnel for certificated non certificated and >> do uh we have motion >> motion >> second in favor we need a motion to motion >> second >> all those in favor we're journed Okay.

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