001e e e good evening I like to call to order the regular meeting for Glen County Board of Education for March 11th uh thank you all for being here and we'll start off off with the invocation and Pledge of Allegiance by Mr Hol let's pray dear heavenly father thank you so much for this day and for your many wonderful blessings please just continue to bless and guide us in all that we do to the glory of your name and forgive us our sins in your heavenly name we pray amen amen amen the United States of America and to the repic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liy and jce for all thank you Mr Hy all right it's time for the spotlight on Glen County Miss Miss doer good evening evening
002good evening in February the Brunswick Women's Club hosted its annual star recognition Lon identifying Drew Davis a senior at Brunswick High and mallerie Mitchell a senior at Glenn Academy as 2025 star student students during the ceremony mallerie was named the Glen County star student and will represent the county at the region 11 event this month if she wins at that level she will be considered for the State title at the page Foundation star banquet in April the student teacher achievement recognition which is known as star program honors Georgia's outstanding High School seniors and the teachers who have been most influential in their academic development this year BHS teacher Mr John Hall and Glenn Academy teacher Dr Heath Horton were named Stars teachers each student and teacher received certificates for their hard work and dedication but
003tonight we wanted to publicly recognize them for this honor so please join me in congratulating them hello everyone um my name is Drew Davis I was a star student selected from Brunswick High School um I selected Mr John Hall as my starred teacher who unfortunately couldn't be here today um I chose him due to the way he teaches things it just clicks with me I just understand it um in the future I plan to attend Georgia Tech where I will study electrical engineering thank you hi I'm M Mitchell I was the star student selected for Glenn Academy I chose DR Horton to be my star teacher it's no wonder that she's been selected so many times she's just such an excellent teacher and I so thoroughly enjoyed my time with her as her student in
004her AP class last year she has so much um love for her students and just is so um willing to help them learn anything and that as if they have questions she's always willing to ask them she's always willing to lend a helping hand so I'm very thankful for her for that and then um I plan to attend the University of Geor Morehead Honors College next year to study [Applause] biology so how many is this e how many uh I think it's eight eight eight star teachers that's pretty good pretty impressive great job everybody all right Glenn County Schools along with districts across the state is celebrating School Board appreciation week from March 10th through the 14th this week is all about recognizing the amazing contributions of our local Boards of Education our board members
005have collectively served 59 years for the Glen County Board of Education as the Georgia School Board Association says serving on the school board requires a commitment to positively impact students and communities it's challenging but incredibly rewarding work that helps build strong resilient young people from setting educational policies and hiring School Personnel to providing buildings and equipment and managing School funds board members are advocates for our schools and make decisions that are in the best interest of our students so thank you for your time dedication and unwavering support in helping our students succeed we truly appreciate all that you do and uh please join me and uh thanking them for their [Applause] service I think Mr Holly has half of those 50 some OD yes he does and also a special thank you to the art
006students at Jane Bon middle they provided the gifted artwork in your bags wow thank you thank you very much thank you and we're just going to go ahead and move on I think our next one's going to come in a little later okay yeah we'll save that for uh whenever he does come and we'll be glad to recognize coost re soccer thank uh that brings us to Citizens address the board there was no one signed up so we'll move on do I hear a motion to approve the agenda motion by Mr Hy second second second by Mr dodging all in favor and it's unanimous thank you all right that brings us to the consent agenda i' like to add item number seven approval of the February board meeting minutes item 8A Personnel item 8 B
007field trips item 8 C1 the good report item D1 approval of the January 2025 financial report item D2 approval of the Surplus items item D3 approval of the access control and Camera maintenance agreement item D4 approval of the school resource officers radios item D5 approval of the Microsoft enrollment for Education item item D6 approval of the District web page item D7 approval of the applicant training and ab absence management software and item F1 if that's all right with Mr madala board policy djd travel policy we discussed that back in January all the others we discussed on Thursday at the work session any additions or deletions I hear a motion to approve the consent agenda Move Motion by Mr Hy second second by Miss Lee any discussion all in favor and it's unanimous all right that
008brings us to uh the Board of Education norms and protocols first I'd like to thank Miss Sams for all her hard work we had a whole board training on this back in I believe it was August and we went through it and it's a little bit more than just uh the uh what's I called theod ethics the code of ethics uh it's just things that the board normally just how we practice on a day-to-day basis and it just kind of to me it kind of helps any new board member coming on um just help helps us reflect back to hey what happens in this situation um each of us have gotten a copy of that anybody any discussion I would like to vote on this and just kind of adopt this uh I hear entertain
009a motion to approve the the norms and protocols for Glen County Board of Education so moved motion by Miss Sams second and second by Mr Hy any further discussion I just like to make a statement y'all this was an excellent group effort and um our past board members that rolled off at the end of the calendar year were part of the group that discussed it as well as Miss Lee and Mr dodgeon who graciously gave their time when they weren't even really on the board yet but it was a collaborative effort and it allowed everybody to kind of come together and work together to create this document there were a lot of sticky notes used and easel paper used and um anyway we we had a a good time it was it was a we
010were at the end of the day we were all uh felt like we'd put in a day's work for sure so I appreciate everybody that had a part in this and um Miss Donna hunon at gsba that helped facilitate everything thank you for organizing everything getting it in final form well now miss Brit had a big hand in that too so thank you Miss Brit any further discussion all in favor raise your hand and it's unanimous and with that said I would like to remind the board of the whole board training on March 17th is it at 1:00 at noon at noon o'clock you know to be here at the board office noon o'cl noon o'clock is that what I said yes hey it's noon o'clock somewhere uh and uh will that be here at
011the board office Miss Pearl yes sir yes room so that'll be next Monday basically so don't go to Savannah on St St Patrick's Day all right that brings us to Executive session I know we have see Personnel legal do we have land Dr Spence we can discuss land yes I'd like to add safety to that and safety okay so we'll have Personnel land legal and safety for executive session do I hear entertain a motion hold on just see who that is oh yeah yeah yeah okay is that him all right I take that back glad nobody made the motion come on to the podium SE I tried to stall for as long as POS possible and next up we have Mr Sean Williams with Coastal Outreach soccer uh you know you you do all the
012planning um and somehow it's still sometimes just don't work out um well we are here tonight I have one of our student athletes with me as well Danielle Ro um is with me tonight um the first thing we wanted to do is to be able to thank the board in 2004 kosart Rara was started to give access to students that live in low to moderate income families access to soccer um and with the premise that we would stay in their lives stay involved in their lives help them with their academic development and be there to shake their hand when you gave them their diploma as they were coming off the stage and today's 20 years we started out in August of last year started our 20th year celebration each month we have uh done a
013different activity to continue to promote that um throughout the community and just to celebrate um the accomplishment of our students those have been involved with us for the last 20 years and to also recognize them as as well um because we know that uh a group of non-educators would not be in this realm if there was not for the assistance of the staff at each School uh the principls the administrative staff at whole parent involvement workers guidance counselors superintendent the school board we would not have the academic achievements that we have without each one of these persons being involved with us um so tonight we wanted to um take a moment to give a special recognition to someone who personally has always been there through my to receive my emails my telephone calls in-person meetings
014and saying I just don't know what I'm doing I need your help and never let me feel like I didn't belong in this space always welcoming to say okay here's here's how you do it you know here's some suggestions here's a person to call um and and we are greatly appreciative of that so would like for S he to come forward please so this is our community Heroes award and and this is not just a war from coastar RE soccer you know you have impacted so many students over the years of your education educating them the number of teachers that you've been able to guide and and so this is not just a coal award this is truly a community award because of your dedicated service that you provided to our community um and especially
015over the 20 years that I've been around working with Coast ster so thank you you thank [Applause] you let me just say you picked a good one yes and and you said it perfectly she deserves every award she gets her impact is still being felt in the school system thank you Miss doer all right that brings us to Executive session entertain a motion to go into executive session for land legal personnel and safety so Move Motion by Miss Lee second second by Mr dodging all in favor and it's unanimous at 6:15 53 that car e e e Open Session motion by Mr Hy to return to open session to hear a second second second by Miss Lee any discussion all in favor raise your hand and it's unanimous at 659 I would like to make
016a couple of announcements uh we have had an overwhelmingly amount of uh resumés presented to us for the to for the inter room position for District 5 board member and our plan was initially it still is to have a selection by April the April board meeting uh but we're going to have to go through these and you know we'll U and look at them and we'll try our best to do that but it may be an extended amount of time due to the the numbers of resumés so and also on a lighter note I would like to announce that this month will be Dr Spence's last month as superintendent of Glen County schools and he's been an integral part of our school system for his entire 35y year career personally I would like to tell
017him thank you and congratulations on a job well done I think I was in one of your first classes 35 years ago in 1990 in the Annex Building Glenn Academy teaching algebra too and I can beat that because I taught him in the sixth grade so be careful teachers how nice you are to kids or how mean because one day they could be your bosses he was my principal at J Mak and he's just wonderful I'm going to miss him and I'm going to cry he will be remembered as an effective and great leader you help guide us through Co and that's I wouldn't wish that on anyone Y and so you did a great job and your impact has been affected many generations so Dr Spence thank you and congratulations thank you and thank
018you boor for giving me a chance I never thought I would have this opportunity but thank you for giving me a chance and thank you for believing in me and supporting me thank you it was easy when you're doing a good job and so beginning April 1st Mr blackerby will be the inter room superintendent until July 1st when this contract will be uh will begin as superintendent with no inter room so just want to let the public know that and congratulations again Dr Spence do I hear a motion to adjourn move second motion by Mr DOD he told me he didn't want an Applause second by Mr Holley all in favor raise your hand and it's unanimous meetings adjourned at 702 [Applause] congratulations e e e