Board Meeting

001[Music] Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. And I have some young people in the audience tonight. And I want to thank each and every one of you for coming. I know you put aside something special for this occasion. So, we are so grateful that you're here with us. At this time, we will call the Burke County uh Board of Education meeting to order. March 18, 2025, 5:00 p.m. On our agenda tonight for invocation, we have someone who I consider to be very special to bring our invocation. She's someone who wears two hats. Not only she's a community person, uh, one who's very active with the school system, uh, and I shall say no more, none other than Reverend Johnson. Reverend Johnson, better known as Ms. Loretta Johnson. Let us pray. Almighty God, it's in the name

002of your son Jesus, our Lord and our Savior that you have allowed us to see this glorious day. And for that, Lord, we tell you, thank you. Lord, we are so grateful for the many blessings that you continue to show us here in Birham. We are so grateful for this board members, Dr. Williams chairperson Payton and all the decisions that they have to make. We thank you for continually touching their hearts and to lead and guide them and all that they have to do. And Lord, we want to pause and ask right now prayers for the teachers, principles, children in this time when their minds are on the upcoming tests. May you be with them, guide them, calm them to make the right decisions. We ask decisions that are made tonight that you guide us,

003Lord, that you may be glorified in all that you do because our desire is to continue to bring excellence in our community. Thank you, Reverend Johnson. Now we have the pledge and uh I'm going to ask um Dr. Williams will she introduce this is new for us. This is history. Not only this is history for us to have a pledge done, but the I'll let her the young men that are going to do it will go down in history with us tonight. Amen. This time I'm going to ask um Ian and Emory Ellison to come forward and they would like to actually introduce themselves. [Music] To the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you,

004Ann. And thank you, Emry. and um their mother is not here tonight, but they're here with their grandmother, Miss Shirley Brady. So, thank you for bringing them this evening and also their aunt, Dr. Chair. And can you share what school you're from? The school that you're representing Middle School. Okay. Bount Middle School. Thank you. Uh we are now ready for roll call. Dr. Miles is running a little late, but she did call and say she's on her way. Okay, Dr. Miles is missing right now, but she will be here and so let the minute show that um four of us are present and one is on the way. When she gets here, we deem her present. Okay. At this time, we need the uh the adoption of the agenda. But before we adopt the agenda

005tonight, we need to make some quick changes. If you look at uh Roman numeral 9A, numeral 9A, we will uh that is the certificate of the board of education resolution. We will remove that tonight because it's not quite ready. And we're going to add Archway and Archway. Just a couple of statements about that. We'll add at the end of uh at the end of new business. At the end of business. So, right now, I need a motion and a second uh for our adoption of the agenda with the necessary changes. Make a motion to adopt the agenda with the proposed changes. A second. Second. Any discussion? No discussion. All in favor? Raising your right hand. Okay. Thank you. Motion carries. Okay. Now, we need the approval of the minutes. Madam Chair, we have two sets

006of minutes tonight. Okay. um the public hearing from February 18th and then the regular board meeting also on February 18th. Okay, we need a motion and a second. A motion to approve the minutes as presented for the public hearing number three on February 18th as well as the regular board meeting on February 18th. Second. I second motion. Uh motion and it's been second. Any discussion? All in favor? Motion carries. Okay, we're now ready to marginal for our financial. Good evening everyone. Good evening. Tonight I have the financial report for February 2025. And if you will please turn with me to the first page, see your revenues. These are through February 28th, 2025. At that point in time, 66.67% of the fiscal year is complete. Um, you can see total revenues at the end of the

007month were 68,154,735. That does represent 68.87% of your budgeted revenues. So, I'm sure you all can tell that that means that we have started to receive some of the property tax and digest payments and you see that has increased significantly on that line item. More to come where that is concerned as well. If you'll please flip to the next page, expenditures as of February 8th, 2025 were 47 million 514,066. That represents 63.01% 01% of your general fund budget. So again, when compared to completion of the fiscal year, you can see that spending is following that percentage closely. The next page shows the general fund balance sheet as of February 28, 2025. Total assets were 256,43,032 with total liabilities and fund equity equaling the same amount. The next page shows your changes in general fund equity.

008End of period general fund equity at February 28, 2025 was $254,987,529. The next page shows investments in all funds. As of February 28, 2025, total investments were 2444,639,1549. And just as a reminder, this is where you will see the revenues from the property taxes and the utility digest deposited because of the high interest rate that we receive in this investment account. It is also very clear so I can get into that. The next eight pages represent your purchase order incumbrance report. This is a cumulative incumbrance report through the end of February. You may see that it's starting to creep up slightly from the last month's report and that is going to be normal at this point in the year. We have asked for all purchasing to be completed by the end of the month. So

009you know that activity is going to increase for that reason. And your final pages of your report um which are numerous represent your vendor activity report and this is cumulative by $5,000 for each vendor. Are there any questions about the financial report? questions. Thank you very much. There are no questions. Uh we need to make a motion and a second for our financial report. I make a motion to accept the February 2025 financial report as presented. Second. Has been motioned and second. Is there any discussion? No discussion. All in favor, please raise your right hand. Thank you. Motion carries. Thank you so much. Next, we have public participation. And we have one person tonight and that is this is Johnson. Miss Johnson. Good evening. Good evening. I I'm here for one reason only to tell

010you all thank you. Thank you for all of your support that you have shown watch over the years almost eight years. Now I understand that there may be some consideration to allow us to use classroom when the teachers leave but that's not ideal. So what I have decided to do is to take a one-year sabbatical for one goal only and that is to seek the finances we need to get our home place, our own facility. But we are so grateful for everything that you have done for the children and the parents that watch. And I have a few parents here that she is with. May they stand ahead? Yes, please. So on behalf of watch the parents, the children, we officially thank you. And that's my sole reason for coming. I wanted to look in

011your faces myself and say thank you. And I think maybe one of the parents can say something. Is that okay? Sure. Yes. Yes. Good evening. Good evening. My name is Ashley Bennett and I'd like to extend my appreciation to Miss Johnson, her staff, and the watch program and the watch board members for giving our children and the parents of Burke County the opportunities for a safe, resourceful um and after school program. Miss Johnson and her staff, they have went above and beyond to facilitate a safe environment for our children. And I just want to thank the board of education members for believing in Miss Johnson, her vision to educate, to accelerate and motivate our youth of this town, and for allowing her to utilize her facility to bring safety, comfort, and security to the students

012and parents. Psalms 127:3 says, "Children are a heritage of the Lord and offspring a reward from him." Good luck, Miss Johnson. Thank y'all. Miss Johnson. Yes, ma'am. I would like to thank you and I want to give other board members an opportunity to thank you as well. But I want to thank you for your dedication, your hard work, and your commitment to the children of Burke County. Knowing you are a third grade teacher, knowing you from the beginning, knowing that you had an opportunity to attend uh the middle school as a middle school teacher, but you chose to go back to elementary school. I just want to thank you because I know the odds have been stacked against you, but you have persevered for our children and for that I am so mighty grateful. Thank

013you and may God continue to bless you. Thank you. Anyway, I'd like to say to Miss Johnson and all of the staff people who worked with you, um, I'm grateful. I have visited the area where you were not often but when I did they were always on task and the children were always happy and that's what made me feel good. The kids were learning, they were engaged and they were happy and that's what you want in education when you're working with children. Uh we did discuss possibilities and we don't know what all those possibilities are going to be yet. But there were possibilities discussed with your program in mind and so I hope that you are able to get grant funding but if you are not remember to come back always keep our superintendent informed

014of where you are because there were possibilities that were being discussed. Thank you all so very much. I definitely appreciate that. One more [Music] thing, Miss Johnson was one of my parents. I taught her a son in the sixth grade who is now a playright. Yes, ma'am. And all of those good things that have gone before him. So, thank you. It's just a delight to see you as one of my parents. I said, we're not going anywhere. I want to take that soatical and do what the Lord is leading me to do. And you watch will watch cuz we'll be back. All right. All right. Thank you. We're ready to continue with old business. Next we have athletic supplements. You want to say something about that? um just that you all had asked us to

015go back and um visit uh those sports like golf, wrestling, esports and um I've shared that information and u coach Marsman and I have had some additional um conversation about it and one of the things that we talked about was that those um particular sports do not exceed into another like the basketball and football that have to go on for another four weeks or what have you when they're going into a championship. So, we talked about things like that, but he's here as well. Um, and we're really just coming back to you um with follow up from the retreat to um approve those supplements that we talked about during the retreat in February. And if you have any questions that he or I can answer um about that question. So this is including band and

016chair with Yes. So we approved the supplement supplements last month. Yes. Um as far as the amounts, but I will make a motion to approve the revised statement uh that includes both teams and individuals. Second. A second. Okay. Any discussion? There's no further discussion. Calling for a vote. Okay. Motion carries. Thank you, Coach Marcus. Okay, we're ready to continue. Yes, sir. Next, we have the Burke County High School Auditorium Media Center restroom project. Yes. Um, and so with that project, um, I sent you the guaranteed maximum price that was, uh, given to us by, uh, Pope Construction, uh, sent that to you on the 28th and all of you did give some tenative approval via email. Um we do need need to have it reflected in our minutes uh with the formal approval that uh

017we can move forward with this project for the amount quoted on the maximum um guaranteed maximum price sheet. I have a motion. I make a motion to approve and accept the Burke County High School auditorium renovations guaranteed maximum price for Poke Construction. Second, Madam Chair, I second that motion. Any discussion? There's no discussion. You're ready to vote. No opposes. Motion carries. And I would like to say that I had an opportunity to visit the high school. It's just simply beautiful. Beautiful. That's all I can say. makes you think you're walking in a college campus or somewhere. All right. Okay. Next, we have a a field trip addendum. Burke County High School. So, as you all know, you did approve the majority of the field trips at the August 20th board meeting, but as you also

018know, additional learning opportunities come up from time to time throughout the year. And so there are a few requests to be added to the high school. One um is for the monthly exchange club meetings that are um held in town. Um for the month of March, esports has been invited, but we want to approve this as a field trip because it may be a different group from time to time. So we do want that reflected on the on the uh field trip form. The second being um math and science day um field trip for that is in April, April 25th and that is in Atlanta. It will involve about 60 to 80 students. And then the third for the Academy of Inclusive Learning and Social Growth um special needs students. That's about 35 students and

019that one is actually this week. Um, so asking to add those trips uh to the high schools list of field trips that you approved back in August. Okay. I did have one question. So the monthly ex excuse me the monthly exchange club meeting. Is that going to be an open field trip for the monthly meeting or are we approving the March meeting? I would like to just include it because for March they invited esports. for April or May may be a different group. So if we can get it on the list, we won't won't have to come back each time. Have a motion. Motion that we approve the addendum for the B County high school field trips. Second. Second. Any discussion? There's no discussion. We are ready to vote. Show of hands. No opposes. Motion

020carries. Next we have the Burke County middle school field trip addiction. And likewise with the middle school um I had you all did get tenative approval or email approval for the debate team to attend model UN which is held at Augusta University. Um and then junior achievement discovery are sixth graders for March 6th and 7th. You approve those. uh eighth grade has been invited for March 24th and 25th and then also asking for PBIS field trips in May that are not on the original form. One at Red Robin and the other at Morris Museum of Art and both of those are PBIS field trips to be added. Need a motion. I also had one other question on the uh the Excuse me just a second. the uh the JA discovery that screenshot there. There was

021aou included in the bottom there. Have we looked that over? I I'm not sure what the um I don't know what what the memorandum of understanding would be for the field trip. They just opened it up for us. Remember, we talked about that during the retreat that it was initially for Richmond and um Columbia County only. Okay. And they opened it up for other school systems in the CSR this starting this year. Okay. So, and it deals with curriculums around finance finance one that we were hoping that we could have gotten into at some point. So, closed. Okay. We need a motion. I make a motion to approve the um addendums to the Burke County Middle School field trip. Second. Not second, but point of discussion, please. Yes. When we vote on these field trips,

022it's important that in the minutes we reflect exactly what field trips we approving because that's why we had discussion before because we could not recall having approved this field trip or that. So in the minutes we have to document exactly what field trips we are approving per school and then that will take care of all of our questions and concerns as present. So I noticed that your motion was just a blanket motion but as as presented. Okay. Thank you very Thank you very much. It was added in. Okay. Let's continue. We need to state those new business or head. Oh, did we vote? Okay. Okay, that's motion second and then we had our discussion and now let's vote for sure. Thank you so very much. No opposes. Motion carried. Okay. Okay. Early head stop. Mrs.

023Reed. Good afternoon. Good afternoon. Today uh I'm doing the report for our March meeting. It is reporting or giving the report for February for the early head start program. If we can look at our second page, our funded enrollment is 94 and our actual enrollment is 94. We went in and we did some adjustments in terms of being able to um just identify where some children were and what their status was. And so uh we are now up to 94 where it is that we are supposed to be with our actual enrollment. Our average daily attendance for the month is 89. We have four uh children that are waiting uh that are on the wait list. 32 children will be transitioning out of the program at the end of the year in June. We have

024uh five pregnant women. Our our health checks are up to date 80 1%. Our immunizations are up to date as well. We have 100% with that. Uh the monthly reportable uh incidents we did not have any at all for the month of February. Our number of children with disabilities is at 9%. Our number should be 10% uh because we should always have 10% of our actual enrollment and as accounted for our to account for our disabilities. We have some uh applications that are waiting to be uh recognized by Vegas can't wait. So we do believe that by the time we get to uh the end of the year in June, we will have our 10%. Uh as just as long as we have that 10% before we close out uh for the end of June.

025We have uh had one staff training, we will have some more uh because we are in staff training this week as well. So that number will change for next month as well. Our parent involvement activities are at three. Our our biggest problem right now and well it's not the biggest problem that we got some other problems but our inind is not at the level that it should be and so we're going to need to apply for a waiver before the end of the year. that will probably uh be done more than likely in May so that uh we'll have enough time uh to get it into uh office of head start before we close out in June. Um we should be at uh our inind should be uh $114,57. and you see where we are

026at this point in time. So, at at um we we just got some work to do, but um if we do not get the number that we're supposed to have, we'll just apply for a waiver. And so if we can go to the next page where we talk about uh what has been charged on the charge card. We are using Walmart and uh in the month of February we charged $1,37.39. And the next page, this is for uh we're looking at the budget year from January to December 2025, which is the first. This is where we are with this year's budget. Uh but I do have some information about last year's budget. We have so far uh used uh we have left 74% of our budget which is uh 662,868.39. If we go to our

027next pages that's just the description of what it is our expenditures what it is that we have spent during the month of February. So, when we go got a couple of those pages and we're going to go to this now is uh the description of the budget that is left over from 2024. We still have uh some bills out there that have not been processed. And so, um, at this point, until we can clear out all of those bills, we I will still be bringing this report back to let you know of where we are in terms of getting those bills cleared out. And it does not mean that they aren't being processed, but the companies are just slow in terms of being able to process. or once we get bills for it then we

028pay the bill but it it just takes them a minute or two to be able to bill us for what it is that we have spent. So uh this then would be ending uh and I really thought but because I've been looking at February so we still have March and April to be able to clear these up. Um, not to worry. We we'll just hang in there until we get all those bills processed and uh this this this ends my report if there are no questions. Any questions? Thank you. Thank you, Miss Reed. We can accept this report as information. Let's put it in our minutes that we're going to vote on. Do we have a motion? Make a motion to approve the early head start report uh as presented. I second the motion check.

029Do we have any discussion? No discussion. Let's vote. No opposes. Motion carries. Let's move right along. We have our SNP report from Miss Larry. Good afternoon. Good evening. Yes, ma'am. So, I have two items this afternoon. The first one is um I'm seeking approval to operate summer feeding for six weeks this summer. Um we're going to go June 10th and June 12th and then we'll be off for June 10th week. Then we'll go back June 24th and operate through July 24th. We're still presenting the weekly meal boxes with five breakfast and five lunch. And we're still operating the Tuesday and Thursday. Tuesday for half the count, Thursday for the other half the count. And we're looking at 12 buses each day. Okay. Do you have any questions? Okay. So, we are going to not have

030any meal during the week of June 16th through 20th. Yes, ma'am. Okay. So, I'll try to stay away from that for our summer program then. Yes. Yeah. We have to stay away from that. But on your last day, which is June 12th, sometimes you send, and I don't mean the ending of the program. I'm talking about that week. Yes, ma'am. Do you send food home for that week or not? For the um for the week that we're going to be out. No, ma'am. We said we only can operate on these dates and then I will send flyers home in the boxes letting them know that we won't be operating the next week so they don't come looking for the bus and we'll try and put flyers on the bus itself. Okay. On the windows to

031let them know. Okay. Thank you. I recall and I'll never forget it and you may recall there was a young lady because I know we going to be out July 4th as well. Oh, not this year. Not this year. You're going to We're only going to take the week of Junth this year. So, it won't interfere with our operations. Okay. So, what I see is July 3rd. Yes, that's Thursday. Oh, yes, ma'am. That Thursday, we will go out. Yeah. I remember this young lady called and I'm sure Donald told you about it. And she said, "Where are you? I've been waiting for you all day." She say, "I had not I haven't had anything to eat all day." Yeah. And I'm so hungry. Where's the bus? And I think when Donna brought that to our

032attention, I'll never forget it. It really touched my heart because how many of us throw food away on July 4th? So, with your last day being July 3rd, will you send anything extra? Oh, it'll be a weekly box that we deliver on the And so it should be enough to help them for July 4th. Oh, yeah. I hope so. Yes. And this information is found on the website and you will also send flyers home. Yes, ma'am. In May, I'm going to send a flyer home to let everybody know what dates we're operating when I put in the newspaper and we will have it on the website. Okay. Thank you. But we need to uh have a vote a motion for the summer key approval. Madame chair, lady, I move that we accept the recommendation coming

033from my food service director for the summer food service program with special attention to the dates that are listed. I need a second. A second. Any other discussion? There's no other discussion. We are ready to vote. Okay. No opposes. Motion carries. Thank you. Your second part. Yes. My second part is for a bid for chicken processing this year. And I had three companies then. We did a little different. We had them off of price, taste, appearance, and references. So our one that came back as the top one was Gold Creek with 100 points and the other two were only at 55. So we are recommending Gold Creek for the chicken process. We need a motion for Gold Creek. Make a motion to approve Gold Creek for our chicken processing. Second, Madam Chair. Go ahead. I

034second. Okay. Any discussion? Okay. We get involved in the taste testing. Okay. There's no other discussion. We are ready to vote. Okay. No opposes. Motion carries. Thank you very much. Now we are down to scholarship applications. Yes, ma'am. I have um given you all a folder with the 15 um scholarship applications for the Johnny and Jenkins scholarship. We thank Dr. forgot to pull those together. Um so that you all have the opportunity to go through those um and select. Remember there's one recipient who will receive that scholarship at the high school scholarship night which um I believe they're planning for May May 15th. May 15th. May 15th. So, um, you all have, I think, maybe want to take the next several weeks and look through it and, um, have a decision by the April board

035meeting. April board meeting. Sure. Um, Madam Chair, may some of us made a pledge. I think I just owe $100 more on my pledge, which was 500. And I owe a hundred that I'm prepared to pay tonight. If if whom and who do we give it to now? Our treasurer is Mr. Lane. Oh, Mr. Lane. I give it to Mr. Lang. Okay. Now we I think we need to give new board members an opportunity if they choose because they were not involved because if you're going to continue, we have to keep it open and uh board members made a pledge. Many of them went ahead and paid all this one time and I did not. I paid mine in increments. Um so we do want to give them an opportunity. Um um that's up to

036them. Yes, it is. But I will give hopefully so. But let me just let me just share uh so you all will understand. This is the Johnny M. Jenkins Memorial Scholarship and it was established in 2021 to honor the memory of Mr. John Miller Johnny Jenkins who served on our board for 43 years. And um each recipient each year receives $1,000 and their name will be added to a plaque that hangs at the high school. Okay. And so Mr. Lane will get with you too a little bit later. Thank you very much. Thank you. Oh, inside your folders you also have your scholarship eligibility form and we can discuss that a little bit if you have any questions in regard to it. Okay. Let's continue. Yes, ma'am. So, the next item was the Burke County

037Debut TD. Um, the board has pretty consistently, as far as I could go back to like 2013, um, purchased an ad. It may go back even further than that. That's as far back as I was able to trace. Um, it came to us again this year asking for the board to u purchase a full page ad and the cost of that ad is $100. So, seeking the board's approval to purchase that ad and to u pay that $100. and we have published the book. This is what it looks like. Um, we try to produce the quality for the people. And this is the ad for the Burke County Board of Education. And, uh, the purpose of this organization, we're basically a scholarship organization. Um, our fair was held last Saturday night and uh we gave

038away about a little over 3,000 in scholarship funding. And uh I must say that there's a lot of apathy out there. Our children drop out. They're not sticking to anything. And not just with this organization. other organizations are having the same problem with our children wanting to apply, wanting to be a part of something. And so, uh, this we do lots of, uh, workshops with our children. And I discovered that a lot of our children lack the ability to present themselves just to say their name. When they say their name, it's an undertone. Ruby B. Now, we had a workshop where we worked with him and learning how to present yourself because when you present yourself and you give that respect, opportunities really flow. So, I'm going to pass this to Dr. Williams and I

039have a copy for the rest of you. We just assumed that you would, but if you don't, it's really all right because we're going to continue to move forward. Thank you. Dr. U M, will you tell us what makes your Debbie T scholarship a little bit different from some others? Okay. Because we give every child a scholarship. That's what makes it different. Usually with the a catillian botilian you crown a miss debutant and that one person gets a scholarship. I've always had a problem with that. I worked with an organization I'm not going to call the name one in Augusta well known and I remember that year we raised $37,000 and one child was given $1,000. I always wondered in my mind what happened to the rest of that bank because when the people support

040you and I must say Burke County supports as well. Uh when the people support you, they expect you to have a standard and they expect you to live up to it. And that is what we try to do. That's why we personally deliver the books to the persons who have purchased ads so that they will see that we do what we say we're going to do. That's what makes us different. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. All right. So, at this time, we are looking to make a motion. Make a motion to approve payment for the Burke County um debit. And I second. You second it. This is not only for just this year. This is something you want to contribute to every year. Is that was was that the question or we just this year?

041I was just asking. We do. Okay. We do it yearly because I have to do that contract. Okay. Yearly. All right. Okay. So, we got a motion. We got a second. Now, we need to vote. Thank you. Thank you. No opposes. Motion carries. Let's continue. Dr. Williams. Yes, ma'am. Um the next item would be our SRO contract and that is for 2526. Um I have given that contract to Mr. Hire to look over. Um it is the standard contract that you all have signed for the last several years with two changes. um every year the um ranks of the uh SRO's is updated. So that will be one change and then um in the past whenever there was a overtime for basketball game or football game or whatever the sheriff's department has typically picked that

042up and they're asking us to pick that up now. So that is another difference. Mr. Hinrich, you may want to add something else. No, that's it. I have I wrote the original contract and I've reviewed these changes and it's all good and I think we ought to support our SRO's all the way. And this also includes travel to away games when they escort us to this. Okay, we need to make a motion to accept the contract. Make a motion to accept our SRO 2025 2026 contract. Second. Second. Any discussion? No discussion. We're ready to vote. Show by side of hand. No opposes. Motion carries. Let's continue. Okay. Um, we have a request from the recck department and um, by the way, Mr. Steven was here tonight and um, you want to handle that or you

043want me to go ahead and I can pick up from there? I'll just answer any questions that you might have. Okay. The request is for the use of the track. Um and and we've done this before for Saturday, April 12th. And they all also want to run concessions um for that track meet. No, that changed. Usually the touchdown club runs concessions. Okay. Touchdown Club. I think that was in there. Okay. And that's outside of the date. No, the touchdown club runs it out of Yeah, they they typically run out of excession like they do football games and everything. All right. But now we will charge a gate because it's a GRPA, Georgia Parks Recreation District meet. Um my question is will you be insured? Who's going to insure up any applicants? We are the Burke

044County is uh insured. We're insured for the county. Okay. One other question. Uh, do we need to have an official? Do we previously had an official there from the school? An official. Not typical. Not typical. Okay. You usually um, Coach Stevens is is is there with the touchdown club helping out. He may come and go and everything, but usually he's there. Okay. Thank you. We need a motion. Make a motion to approve the B County Recreations Department request for the track football field for April 12th. Second, I second that motion. Any discussion? There's no discussion. We're ready to vote. A show of hands. No opposes. Motion chairs. All right. Um the next item is for playground equipment for SGA. Um we're looking to replace some playground equipment and to make some some changes out there.

045Miss Cooper was able to secure the three quotes. Um the policy requires at least two, but she does have three quotes there. Um, and the recommendation is great outdoors play. That's the cheapest quote. It's also relatively close in proximity. They're located out in Margas. So, seeking the board's approval to move forward with the company with that company in the amount of 73,23. Um, I know that you mentioned that Tara worked this up for you and of course the principal had a chance to talk to you and review. Okay, that's important. And is there is suitable? Is it suitable? Has it been checked by Miss W? Okay. Okay. All right then. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, that's that's important. I just want to make sure the communication was here. All right. Um, Madam Chair, I move that we

046approve the quote given to us for the SGAA playground equipment. And the name of the company is important to have in the motion, but I don't see it. Great outdoors. Great outdoor equipment. Yes. Okay. We need a second. A second. Do we have any more discussion? No more discussion. We are ready to vote. A show of hands. No opposes. Motion carries. Maybe I get to play on that. Okay. This next uh request came via uh Reverend Dishman. This is uh Faith Christian Academy is requesting transportation assistance for Friday, May 2nd. They're traveling to uh Charlotte for education day at Carowinds. Um think you saw there the time departure time is 7 a.m. and they will be returning around 10:00 p.m. That is on a Friday night. Um, so Reverend Dish is fully aware they have

047assisted them with transportation before and he's on board for this. So I'm bringing this to the board for approval. They um do take care of their own insurance. Okay. All right. Let's make a motion. Any motion? Um, Madam Chair, I move that we allow Faith Christian School to use one of our buses uh for the trip to Carowinds in Charlotte, North Carolina. Okay. Second. We're providing the driver. Yes. Any more discussion? There's no more discussion. We're ready to vote. Show our hands. Thank you very much. Believe me, he's going to have you sign your life away. No opposers motion car. Thank you. And we have last item I have there is um it's just an FYI. There's nothing to um vote on. I think I mentioned to you all we have traditionally been on a

048five-year accredititation cycle, right? Um this is the official letter from Cogna stating that um our uh review next review will be during the 2728 school year. So that's just the official letter there for you to peruse. So we are currently um accredited through June 30th 2020. Madam Chair, may I ask question? I noticed that they changed the standards um because we will be interviewed. when will we be given those standards so that we can become familiar? I imagine they will be sending them sometime shortly. That was part of the reason they pushed back to this uh six-year accreditation to get uh opportunity for the districts to become familiar with the standards and those kinds of things but they have not pushed those out at this school. That's interesting because it's always been five years for

049N6. That's interesting. got to give us a chance to do a little studying. I noticed they mentioned uh in that letter also in regard to some tools they had if they wanted to use them. So my question is do we already with the walkthroughs and observations do are they aligned with that's a great question. So when you hear us talk about Elliott observations that is a coia tool. Okay. how they may be tweaking that as they tweak the standards but that is what we've been using so some of the data that I've shared with you okay yes thank you very much that's what okay so that pardon excuse me what who's over that what what uh agency no I I know cognitive change from what from advance and all of that what employee So that

050will be Miss Cooper and then we also have Mr. Charles who's a lead evaluator. So yes, he is. Yes. Okay. Some role in that as well. Okay. But we haven't started that process because we don't have anything. I noticed that it did say that there will be an orientation for your training for your team. Okay. Okay. Our last item is uh the one that I added and that's Archway. Archway will not be meeting the first week in April. They moved it to the next week. But we have been posed with a question as whether the board wants to continue uh with archway not continue with it but want to see it evaluated where it is and we graduate or whether you want to revisit it but do we want to take apart so that's something

051that we need to discuss. They also said if there are questions and I wanted to mention it tonight because you may have some questions to think about that um Ms. um can't think of her name um what's the name or Connie? Yeah, Connie. Connie or either Stephen will come to one of our meetings um if we have any questions. But I wanted to let you all know that now so you can be thinking about it and we can have some further discussion on Archway. Okay, let's see. Is there anything else I wanted to say about Archway? I think that's it. That's the most important thing you need to put on your list. Okay. Well, that concludes everything I have right now. And I have nothing further. You have nothing further. We have nothing further ladies

052and gentlemen. So we are now ready to go into executive session. Mr. Haido, I have real estate and journal. Okay. And personnel. Okay. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. I'm not going. I make a motion to go into executive session. Second. Okay. All right. Well, this weekend was last week, but I get a good picture of y'all before.