001All right. I'm just to order the regular meeting for um November 18th. We'll Miss Lee is on the phone. She's out of town. So um Mr. Dodge is going to lead us in the invitation and pledge. >> Let's pray. >> Heavenly Father God, we thank you for today. God, we thank you for how you love us and how you bless us, Lord. For the the grace and the mercy that you shower upon us, Lord. I pray that um as we go through our meeting tonight that you'll be here with us that you would uh that that that we would be um a blessing to you in the way that we conduct our business. And Lord, we just pray for your blessings of our students and our teachers and our staff um each and every day
002as we get ready for holidays. We just pray for their protection and safety as they're out. And um again, Lord, just pray your blessings over this entire school system. And we thank you for again for how you love us. In Jesus name we pray. Amen. >> Amen. 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. >> Thank you, Mr. Dodger. >> Before we move on, I just want to say um once again to Mr. McVey, welcome uh back, I guess um is appropriate. Um I think I speak for the board when I say it's nice to be whole finally after a little while. So um welcome. I know it'll be a good exciting
003um year if not more than that. So thank you again for your willingness to serve. >> It was only 20 years ago. >> Right. Sounds about right. It's one of the first things I did on the board was um when when Mr. Newman had to step down, but we thank you for being here. Um >> thank you Mike. >> All we have the spotlight on county, Miss Johnson. Yep. Good evening. We do have two spotlights to share with you this evening. We have an impressive group of students that's with us today and some amazing schools and their principles. So, I'm going to ask our assistant superintendents come up and share them with y'all. >> Good afternoon. We are here to spotlight several of our elementary schools for earning their distinguished and reward school status. We
004have, if y'all want to come up, Miss Robin Hunter from CB Greer. They have the national um title one distinguished schools for being in the top 5% in the state of Georgia and Miss Katie Gin as well from St. Simon's Elementary. Congratulations to both of them for their distinguished status. We also have our reward school here. Um, we have and this is the top 5% for their growth and their progress. We have Miss Alicia Flowers from Goodyear Elementary, Mr. Steven Brooks from Sterling Elementary, and Mr. Jason Smith from Golden Isles Elementary. Congratulations to y'all for all of your hard work. We do appreciate you. While y'all do that, I just want to say thank you for all you do. I know it's not an easy job. We we know and appreciate everything you do and
005and we're just thankful and so proud of all of you here tonight, but all of our elementary school, middle school, and high schools. We seem to be in the news with with accolades um just about every week and every month that we have a meeting. So, we appreciate all you all you do and your hard work for sure. Thank y'all. >> And good evening. At our last board meeting, we got to celebrate those individuals who saved a life. And tonight, we get to celebrate four students whose lives are going to be changed uh through this year's Reach Scholarship. Tonight, we are proud to recognize and introduce four exceptional middle school students who have been selected as the 2025 Georgia Reach Scholar. Reach Georgia is a needs-based mentoring and scholarship program that equips promising students with
006the academic, social, and financial support necessary to graduate from high school and pursue post-secary success. In October, we held our official uh signing ceremony in which each of these four students alongside a chosen guardian and/or parent uh and a school witness signed their reach contract officially marking the beginning of this scholarship journey. So tonight we would like to introduce those four scholars to the board here representing Glenn Middle School, McKenzie Ammoni Common. So McKenzie if you come on up. representing Jane Min Middle School. Jala Cole representing Needwood Middle School, Quinton Morel. Quinton and representing Rizley Middle School, Miss Khloe Knight. This opportunity for scholarship would not be possible without the support of the chamber and Mr. Ralph Staffins is here to join us in tonight's ceremony. Glen County Schools congratulates these four individuals for this
007notable achievement and looks forward to supporting their continued growth and success. Let's go ahead and give them a round of applause. Thank you, Mr. Thank you very much. >> Anybody want to speak? Anybody want to talk about their school or plans or anything? You're welcome to. >> Sure. >> Good evening. >> I do want to say thank you to my mom and you know my support system. I do want to say thank you for giving me this opportunity cuz this is really something big. And yeah, I just want to say thank you. >> Well, thank you. CONGRATULATIONS. >> Good evening. I just wanted to say thank you to everybody for giving me this big um opportunity. Um this will help me like accomplish going to college and stuff, but I just wanted to say thank
008you. >> AWESOME. >> Good evening. >> I just wanted to say thank you to the people that helped me be here. Like my mom, I wouldn't be here without her. Like my teachers, everyone in need would. and like all the people that have taught me because if they didn't teach me, I probably wouldn't be here right now. >> I just wanted to say thank you to everyone who supported me through my journey and given me this opportunity to be discovered my dreams. >> AWESOME. >> LORD, I I just want to say thank you all for the partnership. I thank you for your friendship and our partnership means so much to the business community. It it goes far beyond these scholarships, but we're proud to have funded these scholarships the past three years. And I wanted
009to let you know that this year we will be funding $70,000 in scholarships to Glenn County uh seniors going into college. So, I just know that partnership is alive and strong. So, thank you'all for what you do. I know that um elected service is not easy all the time, so we appreciate what you do. THANK YOU. MR. STAFENS AND AND the chamber and and of all of our business partners, we we couldn't do this without you. We appreciate your continued support, you know, over the years. And and to our to our students, congratulations. Um keep up that confidence. Keep keep working hard. You wouldn't be here and you wouldn't have received this honor if you didn't deserve it. Um so just make your parents and your supporters proud, okay? And and uh we'll check back
010with you in a few years. Y'all take care. Have a good night. Thank you. >> Quick question. Does that come out of the foundation, Ralph? >> Yes, sir, it does. >> Good. >> We do have one citizen um sign in to address the board tonight. I'll probably just forego the uh reading of the preamble because um I think we all know and our speakers regular with us, but um Mr. Craig Campbell has signed in. Good evening, Mr. Blackabby and board of education members, district cabinet. I respectfully with spiritual discernment defer my comments to another meeting not to give the imper appearance of raining on Mr. Shawn McVey and family parade. Thank you. >> Thank you. We welcome you back anytime. Thank you. All right. Next is the approval of the agenda. Do I hear a
011motion to approve? >> Moved by Mr. Dodgen. >> Second by Mr. Jackson. Any discussion? All those in favor? >> It's unanimous. 70. How about that? Not in a minute. Okay. Consent agenda items. Um, I'd like to add number seven. And just stop me guys as we go through if there's anything you want to pull. Um, 8 A personnel. 8B field trips. Um, 8 C1 good report. 8 D is finance committee. 8D1 approval of September 2025 financials. Um D2 is approval of 2026 board meeting dates and we did discuss that last meeting and made made a few changes. Um D3 is approval of the ESC mental health services. Um D4 is approval of parent square renewal. Do we need to discuss that policy any further or can we just put it on? >> It's 30 days
012on the table already. >> It's been on there for 30 days. We can go. Anybody putting that on the consent? >> This is a different one. This is the one from last month. >> Okay. >> You can put it on the consent. >> Does anybody have any issues with it? >> No. >> Consent. >> The mental health service. That's the grant, right? >> Yes, sir. >> Right. >> All right. Here. A motion to approve the consent. Oh, sorry. >> With the October board meeting minute approval being in the consent, should that be set aside just with Mr. McBay being his first meeting, >> right? It should be set aside because he has to abstain. He wasn't here. >> Okay. And I'll allow him to vote on the rest of the consent. So, we'll pull um
013seven, the approval of the October board meeting minutes. Thank you. Prepare a motion to approve the rest of the consent agenda items as listed. >> So, move. >> Move by Mr. Jackson. >> Second by Miss Sams. Any discussion? All those in favor? I >> 70. >> Okay. To hear a motion to approve the October board meeting minutes. >> So move. >> Second. >> Moved by Mr. Madala, second by Mr. Jackson. Any discussion? All those in favor? >> I >> 61 abstension >> and I abstain. >> Okay. Gotcha. Thank you'all very much. We don't have executive session unless anybody has anything >> that we're not aware of. >> Cabinet everybody good. Motion to adjurnn. >> So move Mr. Jackson. >> Second by Mr. Dodin. All those in favor I >> unanimous. Shaw, you're a lucky charm.
014It >> might be the record.