001Good evening everyone. I hope everyone had a great tax day. I'd like to call the meeting to uh Glen County Board of Educ education regular meeting uh to order. Please rise for the invocation and pledge of allegiance by Miss Lee. Please bow your heads. Dear heavenly father, we just thank you for the beauty of this day. We thank you for everything, so many blessings that we don't deserve. But Lord, we just ask that you be with us as we make decisions for students, teachers, parents, and this community. And may we make the best possible. We ask these things in Jesus name. 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
002you, Miss Lee. All right, that brings us to Spotlight on Glen County, Miss Doer. All right. Good evening, everyone. Good evening. Evening. I do not think my first um spotlight's here, but I'm going to recognize her anyways. Sterling Elementary Media Specialist Lauren Moody is known for the supportive connections she makes with those in her school. She is celebrated as someone who always goes above and beyond for her students and colleagues, lending a hand whenever needed and sharing valuable knowledge with all of the media specialists in our district. One nominator said, "Sterling is truly blessed to have such a kind, intelligent, caring, and enthusiastically creative promoter of a love for reading. Thank you for all that you do for our students and staff." In February, Mr. Moody was recognized for her contributions to our school system
003as the 2025 Media Specialist of the Year and is now in the running to be considered for the 2025 Georgia Regional Library Media Specialist of the Year for Coastal Georgia. So, please join me in recognizing her for this outstanding achievement. Next up, we have our Skills USA team. In February, Golden's College and Career Academy students excelled at the Skills USA Georgia State Skills Competition. These talented students exemplified dedication, skill, and excellence, earning top honors in various categories. the winners and if I miss mispronounced your name please forgive me. John Bjornaby who earned a bronze medal in the threeaxis CNC programming for his precision and technical expertise. Giga AV team who achieved gold for their exceptional creativity and production in the short film category. Alyssa Elliot recognized with a gold medal for her exemplary performance. Michaela
004Bequ Vasquez honored with a gold medal for her outstanding dedication. Krupa Patel awarded a gold medal for her remarkable achievements. Lucas Binnal who earned a gold medal for his excellence and commitment. Gideon McNorton celebrated with a gold medal for his extraordinary skill. And Cali Ko who won gold in job skills demonstration showcasing her talent and professionalism. We are incredibly proud of their hard work and commitment which continues to elevate the standards of excellence at GGA. So please join me in recognizing these students. Anybody have anything they would like to add? This is uh I will say that this is the most students that we have sent to Skills USA state championships since well before co we had over 30 students make the trip to Atlanta this year and to bring back it six state championships
005and one student that's going to be going on to compete at nationals in June in Atlanta. [Applause] That's all I have. Thank you, Miss Doer. Congratulations, students. That That's a job well done. And personally, I know that all your teachers are working really hard for y'all. And just goes to show you what GIA is can do and is doing for the community of Glen County. So, thank y'all. All right. That brings us to citizens address the board. We do have someone signed up. Before we begin, I'd like to read a little preamble. The board of education has adopted a policy that permits citizens under certain circumstances to address the board on a variety of topics of general concern to the operation of our schools. We welcome visitors to board meetings and are interested in hearing
006from the taxpayers and patrons of our school system. However, board members will not respond at this meeting to comment or questions from speakers or make immediate decisions. Board members contact information can be found on the Glen County Schools website. We've established a few simple rules for public comment. Each person wishing to address the board must sign a roster before the meeting begins. Each person is limited to five minutes and the public comment portion of the meeting will not exceed 30 minutes. Any citizen who has a specific complaint involving an employee may first address the issue with the superintendent and if not resolved then may request to speak with the board. However, certain matters involving personnel and students may be heard in close session. The superintendent will inform you whether your complaint is one which may
007be referred to an executive session with the board. By signing this roster before the meeting, you agree to abide by these rules. And our only speaker tonight is Miss Ethel Stanley. I'd like to say good evening. Good evening. Good evening. I wasn't expecting to be here, but I didn't get the situation resolved about my school transcript. Uh, I come to pick up a school transcript in 2019 and almost passed out when I signed it and been disturbed ever since. Um, it's not complete. It's not been signed. Um, I've been to to college, 30-year federal retired, but I was going back to school and to start a new political career and uh I needed to get a copy of my transcript so I can get the classes that I needed. But when I uh got my
008transcript, it's something that is so devastating and several people have reviewed my transcript. Um the office where I get the transcript from had uh gave a stamp sign to the bottom. No signature. It only shows the ninth grade, 11th grade year. What happened to my 10th grade and my 12th grade year? I passed all of my state testes. I have a sister that was in school the same time and I was and also a brother and another brother. But my sister decided to get her transcript. Her transcript looks correct. But I'm trying to figure out she has the ninth uh 9inth grade, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade year like it's supposed to be, but I only have the ninth grade and the 11th grade. That was in 2019 when I picked it up. came
009back a couple of weeks ago on the 19th of March to get another copy because I misplaced the other one. I was busy doing some stuff. I had to sign a release form here to give them three to five days to locate my transcript was no longer inside the computer where everybody else's transcript located at this from 1978. So why is mine the only one that is missing out all the other classes? um they are aware of this but as I was saying in 2019 I thought they would count to look out and look through the classes and contact some of the teachers. No one reached out to none of the teachers. No one investigated it. Came back. They give me the same copy. Ninth grade year, 11th grade year. Where's my 10th grade and
01012th grade year on my transcript? It's not signed. It's 22 Fs on this card. 22. I was called by the general during the war to help our soldiers. Personal call. millions of dollars, never lost a penny. All of our soldiers returned home safe. But I'm to look at this 22 elves on here. Some of us trying to destroy my thoughts. And I passed a state test. How can I pass a state test and miss the 10th grade? 12th grade. Sorry about that. I do have some people looking at on right now. I did contact some people today because this is uh timeconsuming and it's very stressful. It's emergency. I'm sorry about that. Let me turn this off here. It's very very stressful uh to see this. Uh a lot of the information on here is
011not filled out properly. It is handwritten. My sister's on is typed. If you all like to look at it, you're more than welcome. Um, I would like a big investigation for that year in 1978 to pull files. I was given this the other day to send out to the college, but I decide to open it up. Same old information. No investigation. Your transcript must be signed. It must be signed by the principal or by the school register's office. Mine is not signed. Why is that? Now, you all know just like I know Dolge is is cutting benefits for the Department of Education, and I want to reach out to them to assist me in getting this done. I think this is a shame. This should have been taken care of. I've talked to several of
012my teachers, principal, several other people. They got a class on here called Let's Eat. Let's Eat. They gave me a L in Let's Eat. Miss Stanley, you've reached your five minutes. I understand. I reached my five minutes. Yes, ma'am. And I really appreciate you. And we don't know anything. Thank you for that. I understand. We don't know anything about this. What we can do is advise the superintendent to look into this and try to get back to you. Thank you so much. Yes, ma'am. And I I wish they would have said that last time to and I will have this investigated and I I have already reached out to do. Thank you so much. Thank you very much. That brings us down to approval of the agenda. I hear a motion to approve the agenda.
013So moved. Motion by Miss Lee. Second. Second by Mr. Dodin. Any discussion? All in favor? I. And it's unanimous. All right. Consent agenda. I'd like to add item seven, approval of the board of the March board meeting minutes. Item eight, the superintendent report that includes personnel and field trips. Item C, the facilities committee, which includes the good report. Items D1, the approval of February 2025 financials. Item D2, the approval of St. Simon's elementary change order. Item Item D3, approval of the Goodyear Elementary System. Item D4, approval of incident IQ help desk renewal. Item D5, approval of Brunswick High wait room additions. And item D6, the approval of elementary classroom cameras. And we discussed all of these last week at our work session. Any additions or deletions. Entertain a motion to approve the consent agenda as
014presented. So motion by Mr. Dodging. I second it. Second by Miss Lee. Any discussion? All in favor? And it's unanimous. That brings us to the computer refresh, Mr. Blackerby. Yes. The uh computer refresh item was not on the work session agenda. It was originally intended to be on the work session agenda, but at the uh I believe the day of the work session, Dale, who was the supplier of the computers through the state contract, they pulled the quote um and would not guarantee it due to some concerns in the supply chain. After subsequent conversations with them on Friday and then again yesterday, they came back and said, "Well, now they would honor the quote as it as it were, but it the quote is only um good until May 10th and then they're going to
015put a hold on computers again for an extended period of time or and so we felt like it was time that we needed to go ahead and put this on here now and not wait till the May meeting because May would be after the the quote was good and they pretty much assured us they are going to raise prices after May 10th and the amount of the quote is for 3,57944 and 63 cent and this covers um all the uh computers that are you 4 to6 years old that are out of warranty and and out of the service contracts through uh and it's primarily Bronzai Glenn Academy uh and some admin computers as well as I believe the career academy is is included as part of Can I 3 million or 3,000? Yes, 3 million.
01657,000. Three. All right. All right. And And this is keeping up with what we've been refreshing. Yeah. These are taking the ones basically that are out of warranty. And this is being paid for through ESPOS 4. Okay. Any anyone have any questions? Is this about the amount that we do annually? I don't It's the the overall amount is a little bit more just because it's more computers. The the per unit is is is roughly what it is. We But more we've been refreshing kind of per facility and this takes care of two high schools which is bigger than than what we you know have been but particularly with the Chromebooks. I mean because we have a lot more Chromebooks at the high schools than we do locations. Thank you. Is it general that we have
017to do an annual is there an annual cycle or is this kind of become a bianual I mean do we get a period where we get a full year of no refresh or is there always some computers there will most likely always be a ref but there'll be some years that are less um I guess during the 2019 through 21 years there was was the heaviest years of purchasing so we're kind of into into the refresh of those right Any other I believe last year's was maybe like a third of this number of computers. Yeah. Any other discussion? Entertain a motion to pass the computer refresh for the amount of $3 million $3,57,99463. Hear a motion to approve. So moved. Motion by Miss Lee. Second. Second by Mr. Madala. Any discussion? Further discussion. All in
018favor raise your hand or say I. Any opposed? All in favor? Mike. Uh ah sorry and uh that passes unanimous. All right and uh let's see any policy Mr. Mandala. Not that I know. All right. All right. So, we'll skip policy and before we uh discuss executive session, I'd like to take a little moment of personal privilege and just open up the floor for to discuss the appointment of district 5 schoolboard member to replace Miss Gibbons. Um, just personally, I've kind of briefly discussed with most all of y'all that, you know, who are we've had time to look over the resumeumés and uh, and three names just keep popping up for me and so I'm going to present those names out of the the candidates. Uh, no specific order. Uh, Mr. Brad Brown, Mr. Reggie
019Jackson, and Miss Maryanne Stonefield. uh those three names just kind of kept up kind of head of the crop of the rest of them. Um and just wanted to get y'all's feelings and thoughts. um in looking through the resumeumés um and looking at the qu qualifications of those people I feel that they have qualifications to to be part of the board. I think each of them bring a little something unique. Um so I think we have talked about potentially an interview type situation. Correct. Which I think would be a good way to narrow down to the finalists from there. Does anyone have any one else they would like to add or take off the list? I think it's a pretty good summary. All right. That the idea was we have a whole board training on
020the 25th of April this month on a Friday and it's from what 9 to 12 I believe. Yes. And then after that, uh, we may just break for a minute to get a bite to eat, but maybe around 12:30 or 1, uh, begin interviews, all three of them, all three of the candidates here, uh, to, you know, to come to a conclusion and we vote on it in May. And that'll be open session for those interviews for the public. Yes, that'll be open for Yes. I won't be available that afternoon. Okay. But I guess it'll be recorded session. I can I can go back and watch. Okay. Okay. All right. All right. Mr. Mr. Hoy, you have any discussion on that? No, I'm okay with that. And we would like to uh recognize Miss Lauren
021Moody. She just walked in. We recognized you earlier. We gave you a big round of applause. Congratulations. That's a great honor. And we we hope hope you for you the best of luck in regionals and hopefully even state. Thank you. All right. Personally, I don't have anything for executive session. Do you have Does anybody have anything for executive session? All right. Well, with that said, I uh entertain a motion to adjourn. Motion by Miss Lee. I'll second. Second by Miss SS. Any discussion? All in favor to adjourn, raise your hand. And it's unanimous at 6:22. I'm supposed to be here in Florida. [Music]