001S global. Good afternoon. Uh at this time, I'd like to call to order this April uh this May 12th uh session of work session for the Carol County Board of Education. I'd like to welcome all of our visitors. We're glad to have you here this afternoon. And now, if you would join me for our pledge of allegiance. I pledge algiance 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. At this time, uh, I would like to read, uh, I would like to read the disciplinary tribunal hearing decision, uh, on this date, May 12th, after reviewing the record of the disciplinary tribunal hearing of April 2nd, 2025, and providing for representation of all parties concerning student number
00292149. It is the decision of the Carol County Board of Education to uphold the decision that student number 92149 would be suspended from Vera Middle School through the first semester of 202526 school year. The student will be able to attend gold program for that time period. At this time, I would like to turn it over to Mr. Glenn Harding for organizational excellence. Uh Mr. Harding. Thank you very much, chair. I'd like to take this opportunity to give a report on our construction, our our two current facilities. Uh the first one is uh Central Middle School. The interior brick work is done on the outside. It's starting to look like a school. The uh HVAC duct works been in u installed, not completely, but it's it's getting close. And the interior painting is actually got the
003first coat as well. So really starting to see that come together and look like a school. Looking forward in the next couple of weeks when they can get inside the school building and start the renovations that are on tap there with the restrooms and a few things uh including the cafeteria. So really excited about the way that one's progressed. It seems like every month that I've said that so they got the first part done with the the weather and all. So, we're in good shape at Central Middle School. The second one's Mountains Eye High School update with the band and chorus room starting out. Uh, a little bit further behind in this project simply because of the the site work that had to be done prior to, but still on schedule, still feeling good about
004it. Uh, continue to have a lot of excitement when I meet with the school administration out there on the things that are happening. Uh currently outside of the scope of the band room and course room up top, the U outside uh greenhouse has been taken down. The new one is act the foundation has been placed at the new location and the greenhouse most uh mostly is on site now and start looking forward to that going up as well as the band tower in the next week or so. As far as down on the multi-purpose room that progressing very well. The siding, metal siding is completely in, starting to work on the the inside ceiling finishes on that. So, again, that has been something that we've been very excited about these two projects and we're on
005tap to finish those uh prior to school opening in August. Any questions about the Central Middle School or Mount Zion High School project from the board? Mr. Sheriff, I have a question. Will this be completed for the new school year? Yes, ma'am. We're on tap for to be complete. Any other questions? Very good. All right. I want to apologize for some reason. I don't see Mr. Bissell. Mr. Bissell is next. He's going to give a report on transportation. Uh permission to go out of order a second, Mr. Chair. Sure. Right ahead. I want to skip to the fundraising and field trip. As you can note on there, we have fundraisers that I'd ask to be put on the consent agenda for Thursday night. Uh we have no field trips that need to be approved for
006Thursday night on the cassette agenda. Okay. All right. So, so none of that's got to go. It's all information. The u got the consent agenda. Consent agenda on the um fundraising request. Everybody good with that? Okay. Very good. at this time board. Um each year um I like to get the directors in front of the board to give a quick update on their uh department, their area. Uh tonight's going to be Mr. Bissell. He's our director of transportation. And this time I'm going to turn it over to him to come up. Bissell. Good evening. Thank you for allowing me to come and present to you an update on the Carol County Schools Transportation. First of all, I'd be remiss if I did not start off by talking about our wonderful new facility, the JC Daniel
007Operation Center. Thank you guys so much. You guys have given us a facility that is technological. It's highly effective. I have seen so much just in my staff morale because they're in a nice bright building. It is not like what we used to be in. We've been so effective in what we've done and we're just growing every day to get to make better and make it better in that sense. Next like to talk to you about growth. Carol County is growing. So is our school system. Along with that, so is our transportation department. If you see the data that's presented to you over the last five years. You see that we've increased the number of school bus drivers. The number of miles driven daily has increased. The number of students riding buses has increased. What
008I'd like you to take note of is that we're transporting about 7,500 students to school every morning and we're taking just over 8,000 home every day. That's about 50% of our population that we're getting to school safely every day. Wow. Next, in order to be able to do the work that we do, we've got to have a strong fleet. We have 141 regular ed buses, 36 special ed buses, and 10 activity buses totaling 187 buses. Of these buses, every day about 110 of them run regular education rounds and 30 of them run special education routes. But if you look up in the upper right hand corner of that data, you'll see that we have 48 buses that are equipped with air conditioning. This has been the commitment that you guys have made to make our
009buses safer for our students, more comfortable for our drivers and students, as well as it's a recruiting tool for us because there's a lot of school systems out there that are not putting air conditioning in their routes. So, thank you again for the commitment that you guys have given to Carol County Schools Transportation. Next, the director of transportation for Carol County schools. You guys have purchased 83 school buses. You've done this even while co made a lot of changes in our industry. You've done this and the the price of school buses has skyrocketed by about 50%. You guys continue to add buses to our fleet. Thank you again. Next, I'd like to talk about some priorities that we set this year. The first priority we set, we accomplished in October, we moved into the JC
010Daniel operations center. Next, we wanted to make sure that our fleets safe for our drivers and for our students. In September, the Georgia Motor Carrier Compliance Division came out and inspected all of our school buses. 92% of our buses passed their inspection the first time they went through. The other 8% were quickly fixed or adjusted, and they the second time they went through. We are highly respected by the Georgia Motor Carry Compliance Division because they see that we do run a good, strong, and safe. Next, I wanted to talk about our staff. As you saw a couple of slides ago, our staff has increased year after year after year. Even right now today, we trained drivers and got them hired uh as part-time drivers, but they will be full-time drivers next year to make Carol
011County Schools transportation even more efficient for our students and our stakeholders. We've also focused on improved culture and performance. This year we had Tanner EAP come out and do presentations with our staff, work with our employees on stress management and and conflict resolution. Our human resources department came out to work with our people on financial planning. We had a driver appreciation lunchon in December and we had an open house to go along with it so that our drivers and our monitors could come in and see the new facilities and have a meal of appreciation. In February, we did the same once again with town hall meetings with each cluster of drivers and employees. We also uh in in April we were donating t-shirts by Nancy Bus Sales. We put all of our new t-shirts for
012driver appreciation week. And we ended that week with our yearly rodeo. This year's rodeo was the biggest rodeo we've ever had. We had 20 bus drivers compete. We had eight school system officials do test drives in buses on the Mount Park. So that was really fun to see people get in those buses. Next, if you will, please look at the pictures on this slide. Focus your attention to that middle slide. Transportation, just like every department in our school system, is committed to changing lives. We're doing it for those kids, for those parents, and for our community. Thank you all very much. All right. You have any any any questions for Mr. Bissell? I'd like to just make a comment. I'm pretty well known as as catching all the bus driver complaints. You have made a
013big difference and I want to thank you personally. You have led the group. You've you've done well and I appreciate it. I didn't mind taking the complaints, but I hated having to worry about the kids and the families. So, I appreciate everything you've done. And uh it this is it's a terrible job. I mean, it really is. I had someone tell me this morning, you know, I wouldn't want to be a bus driver for anything and you know, it's it's just you've done a great job. Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Yes, sir. I I would echo what Miss Mars said. I've been here for long enough. I've seen transportation directors come in and get blown up, burned up, throwed out, kicked out. Wow. The whole nine yards. And but you seem to have brought
014some semblance of of sanity there. And and bringing some people together. So, that's appreciated by me because I've seen it go really bad. But, I do have one question as I was looking through the budget for this. What does a $1.2 million bus wash look like? What we're what we're imagining right now is a three arch system. Um, and this comes from a company that was started up north. The first arch you would go through detention. The next part you go through would be a basic detergent. Basically, it neutralizes the charges on the bus. It keeps dirt from sticking to the bus and cleans it. The third part will be so because the bus is so long, it has to be a long building. The major cost is the building in this end. It would
015be out there at the main uh operation center, I guess. Yes, sir. Go ahead, sir. Mr. BL, I'd like to say that. Go ahead. I add something. Go ahead. One of the things with that too, you know, it allows those buses to to go through there on their date of inspection, too. So, once a month it'd be going through. I just like to say the same thing. We really do appreciate it. It has been really uh nice for us to be able to see the response as positive as as just as they've shared. I just wanted to say the exact same thing. It's been great to see your support, your leadership, and your direction for our drivers. But not only that, just the hard work you put in to try to enlist and be creative
016on how to enlist additional drivers, keep those happy and retain them. And so it's been very much recognized. I would uh love to have uh just a just a recommendation to throw out there. Uh you know, we have as a board we oftentimes have an opportunity to be around our teachers and we often have times to be around our administrators, those kind of things. But I I can't recall since I've been on the board that we've ever really been at something where the drivers are. And it would be neat if there was the right situation that that you would allow or you know it might be a good fit at some point that that we might have that opportunity to come and be able to be with them and and and meet them and just
017be a part of something that that would allow us to connect uh better with them as individual workers. So just a suggestion a thought and like to throw that out there. Love to have you all come to our rodeo and picnic behind the wheel. give us a little advanced notice so we get on the calendar. I know we spend a little time on this, Mr. Bissell. I I I echo what everybody's saying. You guys are the tip of the sword and you know, school starts at 8, but yours yours starts really early and you got to get them there to to to teach them. And you know, things happen, but I've watched and we've all watched how you've handled it with such care and sincerity. And I think everything starts at the top. And we
018we do appreciate you're embracing this role all these years now. And I wish you would carry on and please pass this on from the board, not just for you, but your leaders, your mechanics, everybody, how much we sincerely appreciate. We get a text about a school bus, and I guarantee everybody on this board, we're praying about it. We're thinking about it. and we're always so thankful for how you guys have handled it and and and you take care of of kids every day. So again, like everybody else said, we are in your corner and we we respect and look up to you and appreciate what you're doing. Thank you all for Thank you. All right, good report there. Now, we're going to shift gears and go to something of interest to everybody. We're going to
019go to our financials uh from Mr. Lean Wolf. Uh thank you Mr. Miller. So I have two um items to share. First is the March financial report and secondly a budget update. The March financial report includes each of our funds, the year-to-ate activity and the outstanding incumbrances. drilling down the general fund March is is on target compared to the budget as well as um last year's year-to- date transactions. Revenues are 14.1 million. Expenditures 15.6 million. Fund balance is 51.7 million with 3.6 million in outstanding purchase orders. for Splast. Uh, collections were 1.8 million, which is a 1.3% increase over March of last year. Expenditures totaled, 1.3 million with a balance of 5.1 million for the scheduled projects. And lastly, we have our um third quarter of the fiscal year report for school activity funds. I
020would be happy to answer any questions before moving on to the budget. Mr. Chair. Yes, sir. It's not exactly on the report, but since you mentioned something about splashed, when when do you expect us to actually go issue the bond, do the bonding, and that kind of stuff with the splash that was passed? We're actually finishing up all the paperwork with it this month. Uh and then we'll be looking at the markets between now and December and trying to do our best financial uh prognostication of when the right time to kind of Yeah. Uh so sometime after the first of the year next year is when we anticipate to do that. Um so it's not far off, but so construction really won't start till next spring probably. I don't see anything. Yeah. potentially early spring.
021Uh probably later spring is what I'm thinking right now. But the projects will be far enough along the pipeline that they'll be sitting there waiting on the money to catch up. Yeah. Oh yes. Yeah. Right now. And and again we because of your master planning, you know, your guidance over the last couple years. We've got different projects or in design stage ready to to submit and go. Thank you. Thank you. Any other questions? That's a good question. Okay. All right. Next is an update on the uh budget for next fiscal year. Attached in Eboard is the entire budget package with the calendar, the totals for each fund, um the budget assumptions, the items for consideration. On page six, this includes the totals for each fund. the pages that follow. The totals include um the subtotals
022by function and object and lastly the details within um each of those functions. Um since the last meeting we have received our preliminary aotment sheet for the state and those revenue estimates have been updated that is for the um general fund portion of the budget. Additionally, I've received some preliminary um draft information from the um tax assessor and tax commissioner for next year for estimated changes in the digest. And so the local estimates have been decreased. Additionally, moving to the capital projects fund, which is the second to the right in the report, I've updated this to include the proposed um bond issuance from SPLOS that um Mr. Kar just asked about in the event the board approves the issuance of bonds. expenditures within capital projects have also been updated as well. For um the local
023estimates, there is one new um action that is new for this fiscal year and that is a certification of an estimated roll back. This will be shared and scheduled for Thursday's meeting. Otherwise, there's no change in that process. In looking at the special revenues fund, we continue to monitor information about federal program budgets. Um, at this time the initial estimate for federal programs is that most of our the federal programs will remain at flat funding. So that would be approximately 83% of our federal funds. For the remaining 17% there are estimates that those could be reduced. We are going to continue to follow that information as more becomes available. No reductions have been comm no final reductions have been communicated at this time. But based on the timing of federal budgeting and versus the district's
024fiscal year any impacts if there were a cut it would impact um FY27 most likely. So, not this upcoming fiscal year, but the next one. Overall, looking at revenues for the general fund um versus um the initial FY25 budget, there's an increase of 8.1 million, which is a 4% increase. Most of this increase is driven by changes in the state aotment from growth and the employee benefit cost. Then moving to um expenditures, the expenditure budget um represents a 3.6% increase or 7.2 million. The majority of this increase is driven by the employee benefit cost increases. Those rate rates are set by the state and um that equates to 5 million of that 7.2 million increase. Almost half of that increase is fund will be funded by the state. Additionally, there's a total of um 1.9
025million in operating cost increases, 3.1 million for new teachers and staff, as well as a um increase of 1% to the local certified supplement and a 1% overall increase for for classified employees. There are also 3.1 million in budget cuts in the proposed budget. Overall the budget um priority is instruction at 68% you with personnel um technology instructional programs pupil support media center and oper and other operations make up the rest of the budget. This the total governmental funds budget also includes two more SRO's and additional classrooms funded by the east. The uh next step in the process um tenative approval of the budget is scheduled for this meeting as a business item that allows the district to advertise the budget in the paper on the um website and then also um to have the
026public meetings. The first one is scheduled for Thursday, the second one at the June work session. And then lastly, um the board is scheduled to adopt next year's budget in in June. Um I'd be happy to answer any questions. Okay. Any questions from the board? I have one question. Yes, sir. on page four where it's got the recurring and non-recurring items and it's got the asterisks by some of them and it says down at the bottom they're estimated expenditures included in the FY26 budget. Does that mean the ones that are not that don't have an asterisk are currently not included in next year's budget? Correct. That's correct. only the -ate project for 20,000 and the um under non-recurring and then the additional supply school supply and equipment money. Those that 320,000 are the only ones
027in the budget. That's how the 3.1 million in cuts were from one-time items. Last year we had 3.1 more million more onetime items that we have reduced which allowed us to present to you tonight a balanced budget. So theoretically we could come back and add some of that back. Yes sir. If we wanted to and then the only and there's two two ways you can do that. One obviously by the time you vote in June you could do that but you also can do that in our any of our budget amendments that happen during the school year next year. But if we've got like $58 million in our fund equity, we could use technically use some of that would be one of the funding mechanisms, I guess. Yes, sir. The the other question I had
028on that was there by the increase the number of school resource officers. It says zero dollars and then the maintain pass advocates. No, no, no, no. Yes. increase number of school resource officers and reallocate SRO budget to security. Is that why it shows a zero number there because you're kind of moving it? Yeah. That you as a reallocation? Thank you. Thank you. Others so one question. So, as tonight we're going we're going to uh look at Thursday or this month doing a tenative, but we can we can change anything between now and June. Yes. Okay. All right. Anything else from the board? Any questions? Okay, Mr. Chair, I make a motion that we tenatively adopt the 2025 2026 budget as presented. We have a motion. Do we have a second? I'll second that motion. We
029have a second. All those in favor, please raise your right hand. And that's everyone. Thank you, Miss Miss Wool. Thank you, board. At this time, we'll turn everything over to We got a a business item. Discuss. Well, I think that's what we just did. Did we not? Yes, we did. You said discussing the possible action. I think we just took care of that. I'm sorry. No, no, I got ahead. No, I like that. We Now we go to number six. So, we go to Dr. Jessica Ainssworth for student achievement. Thank you, Mr. Miller. Mr. Miller, and members of the board, our first item tonight is our PASS update, and we are so grateful for our continued partnership with PASS, partners, advancing student success organization. Tonight, Brooke Mobly is here as well as several others. So,
030Brooke, I'm going to turn it over to you and you update the board on what been going on in the past. Thank you. Good evening. I have a few updates or highlights um on the school year that I would like to share with you all tonight on um behalf of PASS. So, let's start out um talking some numbers that you guys have here. This school year, our advocates have proudly served a total of 310 students on case load. 71 of those students are seniors, which we celebrated a few weeks ago at our senior celebration. Um and of those seniors we are achieving an outstanding 98.5% graduation rate. Um so that is huge and a true testament I believe um to the dedication of our students of our advocates and um our school staff. We also
031continue to offer um well stocked care closets in all of our high schools. Um, these are open to all students, not just our case load students. Um, if you've had an opportunity to look at our website and see some of our um, look at the testimonial page, um, please, if you haven't, do that. Um, we've got some great quotes from some of our students and one of them shares their experience on this care closet and and the student says, "Because of PASS, I didn't have to worry about hygiene products, clothes, food, and other necessities. My advocate made sure I was taken care of and that I focused on high school and graduation. Our Carol County advocates have logged nearly 18,000 visits um since the beginning of school year in our care closets, ensuring that no
032student has to go without having these basic essentials and and and fulfilling those needs. Um, from a programming standpoint, last year we introduced and really amped up our tutoring services for our students and that was a new um kind of a new initiative that we like I said we really kind of amped it up last year and a new small group support for them. This year um we successfully launched a pioneer mentorship program at Mount Zion High School and this initiative connected some of our community members with our students. These were caring adult mentors that you know we put in place to foster growth to build relationships with these students and ultimately prepare them for life beyond graduation. It was widely accepted by both our students and our mentors and everyone really found it to
033be super beneficial. We actually did a survey when we concluded the program with both the mentors and the students and when we asked what stood out about the student and mentors time together. One student replied just how attentive they were about everything. And then when we asked him recommendations, the same student for next year, his response was, I just wish we could meet twice a month instead of once a month. Um, so again, you know, these students were very much impacted. I think the mentors were as well. Um, just by these relationships that they formed and they really enjoyed that time together. And we're we're proud to report that all four seniors who participated in this mentorship program um they are graduating and all have intentions and plans to either enroll in a college or
034technical school or immediately become employed in the workforce. So um it's been a very successful program and due to that our intentions are to expand it to some of the other high schools um next year. Like I say, it was kind of a pioneer program, but um we felt really good about it and the feedback we received um seemed to be very very positive and I think it will be beneficial. So, those are just a few highlights to share with you guys to show what a successful year that it has been with PASS. And I would say that many of this is in part to just being able to retain some of these highly qualified and caring advocates and also the addition of the two advocates that you guys so graciously allowed us um to
035hire on to our larger schools last year. So, I think, you know, just being able to take care of our staff um and also just um expand our services with these additions was just extremely extremely impactful. So, thank you all so much for that. And on behalf of PASS, you know, I just want to thank you all for continuing to believe in the mission. Um, you know, for walking alongside us just to make sure that we create these meaningful and lasting um impressions on these students to change their lives. And we our hope is that the outcomes we've shared today and what you've seen um historically through this organization kind of affirms the value of this partnership and you know inspires continued collaboration in the future. And I know we're we're in a time crunch
036and I'm going to turn this over to our board chair, Jerome, but um also I just wanted to personally thank you all. Um you know, as many of you are aware, I'll be stepping down as um the executive director for PASS and pursuing a new position. And as this, you know, I will say like as as this chapter closes for me personally, I just want to express like what a true honor it has been to serve in this role. Um I can honestly tell you that this is the most rewarding job that I have have ever had. And you know while I am stepping aside um you know I do remain um committed to the organization and its mission you know and I just um I just can't wait to see this special partnership between
037the organization and the school system um what the future holds for it. So thank you all so very much. Good evening everyone again. My name is Jerome Johnston and I'm the uh board chair for PASS. Really appreciate the opportunity to be here tonight and and speak to you all. And on behalf of the board, I just want to say just echo a little bit of what what Brooke just said, how much we we greatly appreciate this partnership, but you know, more importantly what we've been able to accomplish, you know, working together for our students. Uh you know, like what Brooke just shared. And uh and speaking of Brook's uh departure, uh you know, obviously we're we're very bittersweet about that. Very thankful for her her leadership and dedication and you know, everything that she's done
038for pass over the past three years uh has just been uh just been tremendous and uh but at the same time, we know this is a great opportunity that she's she's leaving us for. Uh so uh certainly wish her well, but uh I know she'll still be involved in uh in some way or the other. So uh but the primary reason I'm here tonight is to talk about that transition. So the uh executive committee uh recently went through uh an internal interview process and u just just wrapped that up. Uh, and I'm very pleased to report uh that we have just named uh Miss Meredith Browning to uh serve as our interim executive director. Uh so very excited about that. So I'm sure many of you know Meredith. She's been serving as the advocate for
039Central High School and has uh has done an excellent job there. Great member of the team. Prior to that, she had a uh had a very long and and uh you know, very great career with Carolton Police Department. Many of the years that she spent there, uh she worked uh to uh investigate crimes against children and defax cases and the like. So, and I can tell you she is she has got a uh a very very uh sincere uh passion for our mission. and she's got a deep understanding of what we do and and I just know she's she's going to do a great job helping us work through this transition. So very happy to be making that announcement. Uh so the uh announcement has already been made to internally to the staff and uh
040we have a a press release prepared that I have a copy uh of in front of me that's going to be going out sometime tomorrow to announce that. So very excited about that. So, uh, also wanted to take the opportunity just really quickly to, uh, you know, give you some updates on some board, uh, leadership changes. So, my time as chair is is coming to a close. So, I'll I'll be uh, serving through the end of next month. And then happy to report that Miss Jennifer Harmon with Carol EMC, who's our current vice chair, she'll be moving into the chair role. And also, Miss Ashley Bush with Southwire. uh will be moving into the vice chair role. So, uh we're in a very good place in terms of board leadership. So, uh wanted to report
041that. Also, um wanted to mention really quickly, we're bringing on four new members to the board that are replacing uh some folks that are rolling off. Uh and one of those includes Miss Tanya Haynes, who'll be coming on the board to replace Heather North, who is retiring and be the representative for Carol County Schools on the board. Uh, also we have a change with the Carolton City Schools representative. Uh, we have uh, Dr. Kylie Carroll that's coming on the board to replace Miss Miss Ashley Paul. So, a lot of good things going on there in terms of the board as well. So, wanted to wanted to provide an update on that as well. So, with that, I'll uh I'll pause and see if there are any questions for me. I just had one question. First
042off, thank you so much for what you do and thank you for your service. uh and excited about what's going on. And for you you coming on as as the uh uh interim uh deal there. What about the past advocates for next year? Are we are we fully uh we had a full staff for next year or or you are you looking for any? Yeah, we've got a few positions that we need to fill. So at Central High School, we've had a resignation. uh Miss Anahos is is stepping away and so we need to be refilling that position. And also at Bowen High School, uh Mr. Scott Benfield is going to be leaving us to pursue another opportunity. So we'll be looking to fill that position. Uh and then uh as I mentioned uh Miss
043Browning is also at central and uh we're going to be keep the plan is to kind of keep that position open temporarily kind of through at least part of this inter interim period before we refill it. But other than that we're we're staffed in all the other locations. Good deal. I'd just like to say thank you. You do a tremendous job. I love this program and we'd keep all of you forever if we could. But it's a great program. We just need more of it. Like to say, as you guys know, I'm always been such a huge advocate for you guys. I just believe in what you do and and the the response that you make uh towards our graduation rates is incredible because we know that you guys are servicing those that are in
044greatest need not to do that. And so to see you guys at 98 and a half percent and our overall at 97, you know, that just tells us that we're still in this same thing together and in this groove. And you guys have super impacted our graduation rate since you've been on board. And we can't say thank you enough for for your leadership and and Brooke, we're so thankful for for all that you've done since you've been there. You've just carried past to another level. We recognize that and we're thankful for it. And I'm super excited about Meredith and her leadership, at least during this interim time. And so, thank you guys for what you do. Thank you very much, M. Miller. As part of our past update this evening, we also are presenting our
045annual memorandum of understanding between Carol County Schools and the PASS organization. This is our annual renewal. This continues funding for our seven advocates as we have done this year. That includes one at Bowen, two at Central, one at Mount Zion, one at Temple, and two at Villa Ricka High School. Attached an eboard, you'll see the 2526 annual for your review. And we recommend it be placed on the consent agenda for Thursday night. And I'll turn it back over to you for board discussion or questions. Thank you, Dr. Ainsworth. Is there any discussion about us putting that on theou on consent agenda? Is everybody okay with that? I think we're all in agreement. Thank you. The next item is anotherou this evening. Tonight we're presenting our multi-system annual memorandum of understanding between Carol County schools, Carolton
046City Schools, Herd County, and West Georgia. This is our annual renewal that allows student who's are eligible to attend the Carolton City Harry Morgan program center. That's kindergarten through 8th grade. And then the Carol County program which 9th through 12th grade. In addition, West Georgia will continue to be our physical agent for both programs. Theou outlines items such as student reporting, nursing services, technology, and that's all described in theou. Attached in eboard is the 2526 annual for your review and we recommend it be placed on the consent agenda for Thursday night. Any questions regarding that? Is everybody okay if we add that to consent agenda for Thursday? Okay, very good. The next thing you do is kids piece. We are presenting our bianual kids piece school of Georgia memorandum of agreements. This happens every other
047year. This agreement defines responsibilities of kids piece and also Carol County that includes the day-to-day functions and responsibilities, professional learning, special education, state testing. Um, attached in eboard is the 2025 through 27 MOA for your review. We recommend it be placed on the consent agenda for Thursday night. And Mr. Miller, I'll turn it back over to you for board discussion or questions. Any discussion on that? Is everybody good with adding that to the consent agenda? Okay. Very good. And the last item from student achievement. Every other year, Carol County Schools publishes a request for proposal for physical therapy and occupational therapy to support students with a disability based on services described in their IEP. The committee recommends based on the request for proposal that Carol County Schools enters into a contract with Tanner Medical Center
048based on the evaluation summary. Attached Eboard for your review is our request for proposal, our request for proposal rubric, our request for proposal evaluation summary, as well as the contract from Tanner Medical Center. We recommend we accept the contract and place it on the consent agenda for Thursday night. And I'll turn it back over to you, Mr. Miller, for any questions or board discussions. Any question regarding this contracts? Is everybody good with that we add that for Thursday? Seeing no objection, we're good to go. Okay, Mr. Miller, that concludes my update from student achievement. Now, we'll turn it over to Mr. Scott Coward, our superintendent for stakeholder engagement. Thank you, Mr. Chair. U want to start with anotherou. This isou night. Uh the family connections uh annual umou or contract. Uh once again, much like
04912 me piece, we are just a pass through. I mean, their money passes through us. Um, but we do have a member of our staff who serves on our board on their board. And also, Dr. Brooks, I believe you still serve on the family connection board. You don't be rolled off, but you you did for many years. Anyway, another good group that uh engages and helps families in our community. So, we'd like to ask that this be placed on the consent agenda. Okay. Is everybody good with that? Yes. We see no objection there. So, we're good. And the last thing under my section is is just a couple updates. end of the year. Uh we have seven days left with students. Uh it's amazing, but it is here around the corner. But of course, next
050week is full of a lot of different things. Uh graduations and um hopefully you've got all the times and dates of your graduations and any others. If you have any information about any of that, please get with Miss Mayor. She'll she'll make sure you got all that you need on that. Would remind you about the foul s breakfast next Monday. Uh that's at 9:00 at the uh PAC. Uh all of you that can attend, please be there. Really excited about a new part of the Val breakfast being that uh this is the first year of our 24 strong foundation. Uh those young people will also be getting scholarships from the foundation as a part of their vow recognition. Uh so really really excited about that. Um, I also remind you about uh in June on
051June 16th, the day of our work session. That's the day you chose to have our second board advance for the year. Uh, Miss Mayor will stay in contact with you. But we'll start around 1 one o'clockish, go to about 4:30, something like that, and then stop and have our our work session in in June. Looking forward to that. Dr. Angel North and I have already been looking at some things that I think you're going to be really excited to to see and and we look forward to any things that the board would want to discuss that particular day. Mr. Chair, I'd be glad to answer any questions about the end of the school year. Any questions for Mr. Coward about the end of the year? I've got one the val breakfast I had 8:30 on
052my calendar. Is that it's going to be nine. And I apologize if we gave you. All right. Okay. Anything else for Mr. Cow? If there's nothing else, we'll go to Mr. Jerry Griffith for continuous improvement. Thank you, Mr. Miller. Good evening. I'd like to remind the board that uh this Thursday night we have our annual retirement ceremony for our district. It'll be in the performing arts center. retirees will start arriving at the reception around 5:45 p.m. We hope you can join us at the reception to honor these retirees. It will be a wonderful night of fellowship. U also want to point out there will not be any personnel recommendations to approve tonight. We're working to get as many of our late recommendations on Thursday night's report um so that we can do them all at
053once. Um, and as you see in Eboard, there are a few and MOAs for consideration. The BAU University is an agreement to allow their counseling and psychologist interns to be placed in our schools. Kennesaw Stateou is an agreement to allow KSU to place education student interns in our schools to complete their programs. and the MOA with West Georgia Technical College allows nursing students to complete clinical experiences in our school clinics. These agreements are in line with our previous agreements with similar institutions. We recommend theus and this MOA be placed on the consent agenda for Thursday evening. This concludes my report. Is everybody okay with adding those to the consent agenda? Yes. Yes. I do have one comment. Yes, sir. And I don't I don't even really remember why we stopped, but for what it's worth,
054my country opinion here is, you know, used to the board would sign all of the retirees certificate. And to me that if a teacher could put in 30 years worth of time, it was worth my time to take some time to sign it. And then that would mean something to them or their family. Not not that we're special. I think it means something that we took the time to sign. So what do we do now? I can't even reme remember. Do we even give them a certificate or something? We don't. We give them a small gift. They also get a baton that they pass to their success. Think about the baton. I couldn't remember. I don't know. Just food for thought. I think that's like Thank you, Mr. Kater. Anything else for Mr. Griffith. Okay.
055At this time, we'll come to our time of public input. Do we have anyone would like to address the board tonight? Okay. Seeing none, I we'll go to uh would like to review the agenda for the May 15th board meeting. Okay. Do we need an approval? Okay, good deal. And now we have no executive session tonight unless there's a need for it, but we don't don't see any need. So we call the way down to board member comments for tonight. Way down there. Yes, ma'am. I just Mr. Chair, I wanted to share the experience I had with the High School jazz band on Saturday night. It was Awesome. Those young people really know their stuff. I couldn't stay all night because I don't do driving uh a whole lot at night, but I thoroughly enjoyed
056myself. That's awesome. That's awesome. I think I think we had a lot of our different band concerts recently and and we're very very fortunate. Are we not? We had uh a young lady who was a professional artist who came and she did some things with Justin Bieber. So that was a highlight but she sang some jazz songs. Who Who is that Dr. Brooks? I can't think of a name but she Oh, I don't know Justin. But she was good. She had on this nice little frilly dress and she was a friend of uh Mr. Brown. They grew up in the same area. So, she was a professional artist. That's awesome. I I did want to mention a couple of uh of events that just stood out to me. You know, we recognized 45 advanced degree
057advanced graduates. I'm not sure exact terms, but there's a quite a line. No, no, no. uh advanced academic pathways, the advanced academic pathways with this, you know, just a tremendous amount of of items that you have to go through and and so they they did that and then afterwards everybody had they had booths set up with each individual and it was interesting to go around and talk to all the the different graduates. What amazed me was that they had completed this rigorous these rigorous tasks, but what really got to me was that they most all of them seemed to be very focused on what they were going to do at the next level. And uh it was a lot of great kids. But then another thing that I'm sure many of you got to go
058to, but this time Lana and I, we were able to go to the Yes, I can. And in my years of being on the board, it may been the may have been the most incredible thing I got to go to. These kids are so special. And that whole group of uh of educators, you could tell it was just like most everybody, it was a calling and they were all so excited. The kids were, but uh just a tremendous tremendous group. And to think that we're doing that for all these special kids in this county. It really stood out to me. Uh they were thanking us for coming and even got a letter, but I got to tell you, they didn't even thank me because it was our blessing to get to go because it was
059tremendous. So, other comments before we go tonight? All right. Well, if if there's not, then I will count us adjourned. Everybody have a great evening. Okay. Oh, no. We got to have a motion to adjurnn. I'll make a motion to apologize. I second. We got a motion, a second. All those in favor, raise your right hand. Now we're a jerk.