001Could I'd like to call the um work session for 10925 to order. Um we start with items information. Mr. >> Yes. And we will jump straight into the August financials with Miss Cody. Okay, we'll start with the um August budget amendments. We had a couple of decreases. The first was for the QBE bonus grant in the amount of $1,387,300 and the second was for $517,900 for state school bus funding. We also had two increases. one to record additional property tax revenue in the amount of $688,200 and another for a mini vaping grant in the amount of 10,000. Um, if you'll remember when we adopted the budget back in June, we adopted it with an estimated uh 8% increase in the tax digest and the actual increase came in at 8.67 and that accounts for the
002$688,200 increase. Then moving on to the general fund financials. Uh August revenues came in at 2.5% of budget and expenses were at 12.1. Overall our budget position stood at 16.7% at the end of August. And then uh sales tax collections July collections which we received in August totaled $3,599,88. that uh was a 4.8% increase compared to August of last year. And then I did want to share a kind of quick update looking ahead. Um August sales tax collections which came in during September were up 10.9%. And so that was a little more in line with what we were expecting with the BIES opening in July. So I'd give a little preview of that. Are there any questions on the financials? Okay, then I will move on to investments. So, August interest received was 57,9822. Any
003question on the financials or the interest statement? All right, we'll move into Mr. Haywood with a facilities update. All right, got a few a few updates to make on our first of our East Flass projects. Um, College of Coastal Georgia again is performing arts center is still progressing well. Um, not much on the inside has changed. Still hanging sheetrock, but have began painting um the drywall in there now. Um, they'll get that finished up. Most of the work now is going on still and I'll show you some pictures as I as we go through them. But um the windows on the lower level and the uh up in the tower, they've installed all the windows and they have be the paving and the grading of the uh area where you'll walk up to the facility.
004Um moving on to the Glendale Elementary replacement. Um of course we're in phase two of the site development. Um right now they are bringing in just a whole lot of dirt and just trying to build up the um the pads the building pads. Um the storm storm drainage boxes were ordered to yesterday and um Oki Pinoi RMC has run the condor for the primary power to the road for the transformer location. Woodro SAP will begin well drilling uh very soon. And lastly, we're still waiting on the LDA permit to dig the third retention pond and the uh the roadway that hasn't been put in yet. And I'll go ahead and pull this up. And um I had to take a picture of that. That is the That's the big retention pond at the rear of
005the uh that's going to be at the rear of the school. And I did speak with Keith Ross from Ridge Enterprises today. Um they are going to have to take about 20 ft off of the back side of it, fill it back in about 20 ft on the back side of it. But um there will be a total of three retention ponds. Two of them have been dug. That's the one at the rear. The one at the parking lot has been dug, but we still need clearance to dig the third one. And then this is just a lot of dirt. And um just continuing to bring in dirt to build up the build up the building pads. And as far as the performing arts center, again, I said, like I say, they've installed all the
006windows down here on the lower level and the windows up in the up in the tower. Um, we'll move on to our local funded projects, the BHS fieldhouse edition. Again, it's going extremely well. The picture on the left, um, that's the main entrance going into the facility. All of the brick work is done, masonry work, everything is done. And just a picture from the inside, that picture on the left, that's the coach's office. And that'll be looking out into the actual area. It is temporarily dried in right now so they can uh do the work that we've ordered cow walls, but they won't be here until December, but it is temporarily dried in so that they can really begin on the work. So, it should talk with the contractor. It'll start really changing um between
007now and when we have our next board meeting. And then lastly, our BOE, Board of Education, wing 4. Um the on the left, this is the restroom area. Um they put the floor leveler down on all of the office spaces and the one on the right, that's just a office space and all the windows are framed up and um it is progressing very well. So that is BOE wing 4. Um and that's it. Any questions on any of the east blast or capital uh outlay projects? All right, we will move on now to the good report and we will go to page six of the summary report. And as you can see our our fifth uh month collections um which were August 1st through August 31st 1st we collected 3,266 $123,.96 and that is $32161.78
008more than our collections from this time same time last here. So, you can see they're ranging from with these plus 5 from 3.2 to 3 uh 5 million. Pretty consistent uh up to this point. All right, we will get into the first item. We have some surplus items that I'm asking for you all to approve for us to be able to auction off um or dispose of if no one purchases those items. And we'll do it on gov deals as always. But welder, uh three lawnmowers, a flatbed trailer, and a dump trailer that we are um wanting to auction off through gov deals. So asking the board to approve >> that. Any questions? >> How old is the SCAD? >> How old is that SCAD? >> It has seen She's seen her better days. >>
009I would say I would say it exceeds 10 years easily and it's it's very hard miles. >> Yeah. When Yes. >> If you buy it, you need to know how to work on it, >> right? you can get a lot of parts. That's about it. All right. Next, uh asking the board to please approve the guaranteed maximum price of $46,725,000 for the Glendale Elementary School replacement from RH Tyson Construction. And again, this is out of East Bllo 4. Um I have Mr. Tutin here that came tonight. If there are any questions about the GMP, he will be happy to answer any questions that the board may have. >> What's a square foot? >> 126,000. >> It's >> so it's about 10 11,000 square feet bigger than Alama. Part of the reason for that is we're
010we're adding on some additional space for our Glee daycare uh which also could be flexible space if needed particularly for special ed classrooms. Any other questions? Questions for Mr. Tuton? >> I don't have a Glendo question, but I do have one. If we could go back to the um performing arts center real quick, what do we what do we um and you don't have to go back pictures or anything. What have we paid out so far? Either percentage wise or total dollars. >> We're right at about 12 million that we've paid out. I think the last payout. Is that correct, Avery? At performing arts, I think wasn't the last payment. We were at the 12 million mark. >> Yes. >> Okay. >> And we just paid a payment this week, I think. Yeah. I think
011we were Okay. A little over 12 million. So, we have 8 million. >> Good. Thank you. >> All right. Moving on to the Brunswick High School OGM sanitary system replacement. I'm asking the board to approve $39,000 for the replacement of the sanitary system on the south side of the old BHS gym. And that is the side closest to the baseball field. Um, and here you can see the proposed budget is $276,000 $276,860. That's what it will cost if we don't have to do the work in the concession stand area. But we won't know if the contractors won't know if they'll have to do that until they get into until they get into it. So, um, that's why I'm asking for $39,000, which is that 276860 plus the 32,140 for a total of 309. So, asking
012the board to approve that. Um, it's the old cast iron pipes that have been there, sewer that have been there for a very long time, and it's finally getting to the point where we've got to do something. And this will be out on out of East Blast 5. for the funding. >> Who's going to pay for the permits and impact fees and all that? >> Tyson Construction will take care of >> they'll handle all of that. >> Yeah, there's there's not a lot of there's no additional tap in fees or anything such as that. This is connecting this is connecting and Mr. Ton can correct me, but these these sanitary lines will be connecting into the lines that we just recently replaced when we did the parking lot out out back. So, it it all
013is is a continual cycle of that system. >> We connected as close as we could to the building, right? >> Yeah. So, we we had we had replaced everything that taps into water sewer. We had ordered to replace that all the way to the building when we did the parking lot, but now it's discovered that we are having issues inside the building. >> All right, moving on to the change order for Satillaa Marsh Elementary School. Please approve the change order from Pope Construction in the amount of 198,700 $67.19 for the Satillaa Marsh uh elementary renovation. And this change order will close out the project. Um and there are a couple of big ticket items on there that kind of came after the fact. Um it was budgeted but just wasn't in the GMP initially. Um,
014we had to pour some concrete in the in the islands of the parking lot. You didn't want, you know, the grounds crew trying to get in between cars cutting grass and that that came to a pretty good amount. Um, they had some issues with the canopy footers. Um, after the fact and then um the moving the portables, that was a pretty costly endeavor. So anyway, um asking the board to approve $198,767.19 to close out the Satillaa Marsh Elementary project. >> Did we have any contingency in that or did we eat that up in something else or what? Where? >> We did. Yeah, we have we had this money in the in the good budget. We just didn't have it in the >> in the GMP >> in the PO GMP. Uh we did have some
015contingency money in there, but a lot of our site work uh ate up some of those contingencies. And then the portables, which we actually attempted to sell and did sell, but the the the buyers all had several different buyers and they all defaulted because of the moving cost. Um so in the end, we had to at last the last minute we had to pay to get those out of there. And the last one asking the board to please approve the Glendale Elementary order credit in the amount of $229,77340 from Ridge Enterprises. So, um that's a credit that's coming back from the phase one uh portion of the site work. I'm asking the board to approve that change order as well. That credit. >> It's good to see you found a credit. >> Yeah. You >>
016and the credit is more than so in the plus. >> Any questions? >> We will uh we'll move on to something without money right now. Mr. Benson. >> So, this one should be pretty simple. Um, I think all of you as board members are aware that one of the initiatives that state superintendent Richard Woods has had is for all of our students to be prepared for life following their K12 experience. One of the ways that he has tried to do this is to try to free up time in students schedules so that they can focus on career exploration, advancement for college, taking AP or dual enrollment courses and a variety of things. And so out of the CTA efforts has come an idea beginning in the 2526 school year that if students complete the carpentry
017pathway that they can be a awarded geometry credit. So we know that students need four math credits to in order to graduate. And so this idea um was presented to both of our high schools. We don't currently have any students who this would necessarily need this. Okay. But in order for us to use this, I would call this a backup. And there's some reasons maybe why we would consider that this being a backup. But in order for us to use it as a backup, it does take board approval from you guys. Um I think we need to keep in mind that um when students go this route, the math credit is only um applicable to the technical college system. So if they were um going the other route, the USG route, the university route, they
018wouldn't be able to apply that math credit. So these are students that are probably more going the career route. Um, we know that we have more and more accelerated career diploma students and as part of that program, they um need a they need a second math credit. This would be an opportunity for them if they completed the carpentry pathway to get that second credit and be able to finish early. Um, Dr. Devenheart provided some data. Right now, we have about 15 students that are enrolled in the carpentry pathway, but as I said before, everybody has the math credits they need. So, this would be a backup plan. If a student didn't wasn't able to get that math credit that they need for graduation, our school counselors, register would be able to apply this pending approval.
019I think I think it's a good idea. Great idea >> for contingency plan for math because we did it with >> uh varsity sports and physical education. >> So I think that's that's a great idea. Makes uh geography geometry useful >> and it says that right in Mr. Jackson it says that right in the the FAQ here. You know the carpentry pathway includes skills and competencies that apply to key geometry concepts. If you think about that, >> you know, we we often hear students that say, "When are we going to use this?" >> Well, you're going to use it when you're in the carpentry pathway. And so, um, they've been able to make that connection and make it so it's an advantage to the students. >> Good idea. >> So, they have to complete the
020pathway. That's all three courses and it counts as the one semester of geometry. >> Correct. >> Okay. >> Yep. And they've given us some guidance. We call that construction geometry when we would put it on the transcript. >> Right. Okay. Right. We will move on to Dr. Depenheart with the economic development partnership designation. >> Good evening. >> So unlike everybody else here tonight, I'm not here to ask for anything. I'm here to actually bring you something. So throughout last school year, uh, Glen County Schools CTAE participated in the economic development partnership review with the Georgia Department of Ed. Now, this review is a district-wide certification process that prepares us for to adopt best practices and behaviors that support economic development, strengthen CTAE programs, and align education with key regional industries. Now, three weeks ago, Brian
021Whis and I had the opportunity to attend the Georgia Economic Developers Association annual banquet where we became one of just 21 districts in the state of Georgia to receive the economic development designation for Glen County Schools. Okay. So, in addition to this plaque that I'm presenting to the district here tonight, we also received a grant from Georgia Power for $3,500, which we are using to help offset the district's cost of this year's teacher externship program. So, this is for the district. >> Thank you, Dr. Dehart. Uh, we will move on to Miss Haywood. Good evening everyone. >> Um I'm here tonight to ask the board to consider a new policy JCDAF and it's entitled the use of electronic devices by students. House Bill 340 which is connected to the distraction-free law has required that local
022school systems and boards establish clear policies and procedures to remove access to personal devices during school hours for students grades K through eight. As shared previously when we talked about the distraction-free back in August, the bill has exceptions for this policy. Um those exceptions are um deal with plans such as IEPs, 504s or medical plans that are developed with parents and guardians and academic teams. The policy must be in place by January 1, 2026 per law. And so placing this policy on the table for 30 days would ensure that our district is in compliance with state law. So, we're asking if the board will consider this policy for um to sit on the table for 30 days for any public um revisions or discussions and then if you would consider it for adoption in November.
023>> Well, we don't have a choice, >> right? >> No, we don't. But >> you say that so nicely and it's like but it started out with you don't have a choice. >> But thank you. Yes. >> And these are the procedures we're already using the uh you know as as we started the school year the policy does say K8 although um because this per this limits use totally during the school day as you may know 9 through 12 we also limit cell phone use during the actual class period time but the uh the state law is for for K8 is bell in the morning till till dismissal in the afternoon. So, we'll still be handling our 912 just through our regular procedures and there's not a requirement for for a policy on that. >>
024Thank you. >> Back to been the money. >> Yep. >> Mr. Mr. >> We had a little break. >> To make you feel better, we did offer free candy tonight. Well, now we'd like to uh request that the board of education approve the purchase of seven new 84 passenger school buses, six new micro buses, which are 14 passenger plus the driver, and four new vehicles using capital outlay funds. The total cost is 2,373,31.32 for all the buses and vehicles. >> What were the four new vehicles? The last one, >> the forded vehicles will be used to um for transport of any student services um such as athletics, field trips, um things of that nature. Um >> state state regulations changed last year or the year before last that we could start using uh certain sized
025su the larger SUVs. Still can't use the larger passenger vans, but we can use SUVs now to transport smaller groups of students. So you tennis team, golf team, things such as that without tying up a school bus. >> Drivers too, >> right? It also it also does not require that we have the CDL which um which many of our coaches and and club sponsors are sometimes hesitant to get. So they they have a much much smaller amount of training to go through for the SUV than the >> Why are they hesitant to get it? Many of them just are hesitant to get the CDO and have to drive a a fullsize bus. They want to do they don't they don't want to drive a bus. >> I want to be on that. >> You get
026on that list. [Laughter] >> I think he's right. >> All right. Thank you. >> And we do have it land. >> So we do have um land legal and personnel for executive session. So I'll entertain a motion to go into executive session for those three. >> So move >> moved by Mr. Jackson. >> Second by Mr. Dodge. >> Go to executive for land legal personnel. Um any discussion? All those in favor? 6. All right. session move by Mr. Jackson >> Second >> Mr. Madala with a second. >> Um any discussion? All those in favor? Good. Okay. Before we adjourn, just had a quick announcement. Um we have had some discussions and we've emailed back and forth a few times about a timeline for um replacing the district 4 position um seat. So what we're planning
027to do is starting Monday the 13th um it's going to run a lot like it did last time and this is more for the community than anybody else. But um we're going to start taking resumeumés, applications if you will on Monday the 13th. We're going to have a link that will go live hopefully 8 or 9:00 um that morning. Um the resumes will filter through Miss Pearl and she will send those to the board members as we receive them. She's not going to collect and send. We would prefer to review those as they come in. Uh we're going to close that um on Sunday the 26th, five o'clock probably um on that day and then we're going to take time from the 26th through um November 6th to review those um application slashresumés um and
028then possibly have interviews before the meeting on 116 which is our work session and and hopefully vote that evening on 116 on who who that new board member um will be. Um, part of the reason we don't want to extend that any further out is because there's a little bit of a gap between our work session and regular meeting in November because of Veterans Day. So, we don't want to wait too too too long because we have the conference coming up at the first part of December uh in Atlanta as well. So, does anybody have any comments? Is that pretty clear? M Miss Sams, >> I do. I just want to re reiterate that the people applying or submitting resumeumés need to be residing in District 4 >> 100%. And um the board of elections
029will need to check that out. >> We're gonna have we're going to send um Chris and and his office a list of people that have have qualified or would like to to become a member, but they can certainly call. I would think you would do that ahead of time anyway, but we had a little issue last time. So, um if you're thinking about um sending a resume in, please do your diligence and and check that first with the board of elections. That'd be great. Save us all a little bit of time at the end. So >> primary residence, >> correct? >> That's one thing that a lot of people miss. It has to be your primary residence. Can't be >> I mean, do we really have to I mean, do we really do we really
030have to say >> what's on your voter registration? I mean, if you can't figure that out, please don't send a res. >> I just want I just want to go on record by saying that. >> If you don't know where you live or where you vote, please do not send us an application. I'd appreciate it. >> Lord, help us. Um, any other discussion with you tonight? Hear a motion to adjurnn. So move >> by Mr. Jackson. >> Second by Miss Lee. All those in favor? >> 6. Awesome. Thank you'all very much.