001e e e what e order the work session meeting for March 2025 and we'll move to items of information with Dr Spence we'll start off with the January financial report with Miss Cody okay the first thing we will go through are the general fund budget amendments the first four amendments for January are an increase to revenue and expenditures we have the economic development partnership Grant in the amount of $3,500 the Risa mental health awareness and space grant for $6,000 the pera to teacher grant for $ 15,000 and the literacy lead Grant from First District Risa in the amount of $12,000 the interest income projection for the remainder of this fiscal year resulted in a 9,000 $95,900 increase to revenue and then in addition to that we had some um expenditure budget increases we had an
002increase for the gsba insurance in the amount of $124,500 an increase of 300,000 for Leeds Academy and an increase of 33,100 for um e rate are there any questions about the budget amendments the gsba increase what was that for that was for um we didn't actually get our renewal until the end of June so those were just the increases that weren't budgeted part of it was the um cyber security um we increased the cyber security and then um just our regular um liability insurance but it's such a large well I think the um I think the Cyber insurance was about 50,000 of that and then the other was just you know just an increase in insurance and they're they're saying it's going to go up a little more this year too yeah kind what the
003markets do insurance but I when I do the budget this year I he's actually gone ahead and given us what he thinks the increase is going to be so I'll be able to include that when I do the start the budget in April any other questions thank you okay we will move on to the general fund so um our revenues are at 76.9% of budget the expenditures are at 53.4% and the budget position at the end of January was 58% then the um investment analysis um oh go oh yeah January okay so interest for January was sorry uh 682,000 any questions about the financials or the investment yeah our tax collection Trend the percentage trending is it is it holding steady is it dropped a little bit a couple points or it up it it's
004kind of about the same place it was last year um I did have a conversation with the um Tax Commissioner's Office and I do think when I do the budget next year instead of a 98% collection rate we're going to drop back to a 97% um so I'll I'll build that into the budget next year thank you any other questions from Miss Cody all right we move on to our uh facilities update Mr blackerby all project update um our East blast projects our East blast projects primarily have two things going on right now you written down out T forestry you can see that there is good progress being made on performing art so they do have a lot of structural steel up so you again we're kind of we're just in the reimbursement process with
005that this point but we are tracking what they're doing making sure that it is uh that the project is moving along which it is and the other things we're in the early stages or of getting some approvals with the doe as far as the the building we already got our site approvals but the building approvals for the new Elementary School the Glendale replacement we have a group of administrators that you know have been meeting with Mr toon making sure that we have everything accounted for in the building and their needs accounted for so that we can continue to refine those plans over the next couple of months so we should have something to share on that as we approach this the summer with hopefully anticipating a start doing groundbreaking in in early fall we can
006begin the construction process there and from a lap local Capital outlay fund project uh main thing is we have asphalt up front so uh the parking lot has been paved and they are making good progress on the wing three Renovations here at the board office the the roof is uh is being put back on the on the wing and uh the rough end Plumbing is is underway as well as HVAC work the other local Capital funded project we have going on is the Brunswick K Fieldhouse Edition and we're still in the site work phase that project any questions on on the capital projects what's the anticipated date for Brunswick High Fieldhouse we were shooting for for midf fall it was they said it was going to take about 10 months so it was going to
007be be around October obviously we're going have to juggle things around football season so we're trying to do do things to be as least disruptive as possible for spring practice summer practice and still be able to use the existing facility so we're kind of juggling some things with that so it won't be fully op the new part for the the start of football okay and as far as the uh the good report goes there's not necessarily uh a lot to talk about about there we kind of closing out a lot of projects but then starting the you was up with with Lindale and we haven't started our East plus 5 collections yet those will start this coming month uh one thing I did want to point out to you which is on the detailed summary
008I blow this up this on the work session detail we have been taking a lot of the for anybody who tracks the the budgets in here we have been taking a lot of the contingencies and monies that were left in some of the projects that we know we have no additional work to do in and we're placing that in the tech upgrades and the contingency category which we use for things such as the classroom cameras and other things that we're doing and as you can see we've increased that budget 6.9 million that includes interest that we're earning as well as the project Closeouts we're putting into that that pot of money so we can see in the end you know how much balance we do have left in East B 3 as we move forward
009did we resolve all of our Lendale site issues are you comfortable with the the land and wetlands and I know we talked about it we're not going to be able to to place two schools on that side which was which was we don't really need it any we don't need it but no we can now it it'll essentially be an elementary school kind of buried behind a small Wetland area much like overal for is okay sounds good thank you and just just to note there was about 25,000 in residual collections on East plus 4 this past month all right anything else we do have a few Surplus items this month that we would like to get approved to um dispose of it's U some modular classrooms the three modulars that are behind this facility so
010that once we're done with with fully occupying this we can get rid of those as well as two additional ones over at the rizzly anex building we surplused three of those several months ago we were able to auction those off still trying to get them fully moved off of the property or partially off of the property as we speak but hopefully in the in the coming weeks those will be gone and then we can auction the other off and there's also two pieces of kitchen equipment two comi of them from Brunswick High School these were replaced by a grant that you approved um a couple of months ago and these will be U used for spare parts and option off we also have our access control and Camera maintenance agreement this is the same agreement
011that we've had the last several years and it's uh basically handles all the licensing as well as the repair maintenance on our door controls and our camera maintenance the the price is 14137 there is this is a slight increase over last year but it's due to the number of UN units where we have the cameras are on a three-year license so in this particular cycle we had more cameras that were coming off of the license this time than than we did last time so we had a few more cameras out of this time and that's coming from the general technology fund and Microsoft enrollment for Education this is our Microsoft licenses that controls everything from our Microsoft Office tools as well as some of our security tools which is the A3 security which we added
012um or A5 security we added last year and this year we're also adding additional Microsoft Defender security the total cost of this is here total cost is $39,000 8786 and it's du the source for purchasing contract and again it's it is a slight increase but it's due we're adding the Microsoft Defender for endpoint detection and incidentally Bob CRA a wrong but we've been doing a trial for a couple of months on this and in sort he CAU 65 different incidents of bad threats to the system and and issued 234 additional alerts so so it it is it is working as far as catching hits on the system are they able to stop the threat yeah and then if immediately it immediately gives our our tech department information that they can immediately shut down and it's
013it's it's for the when it's the endpoint it's the particular device so it it can tell them which which particular laptop which desktop printer any any any device that is that just attack that time one more approval and this is uh for the radios for our sro's and this will allow them to basically communicate with the U 911 system throughout the county and the city and and allow allow us to communicate both within the department and with the other law enforcement agencies and 911 the cost of the radios is $41,250 120 and it's being paid for through the school security Grant which is a reimbursable grant that we have for for school security items and they were also pric to the sourcewell contract I believe it is radio it's a fiveyear contract 20 28 28
01428 yeah any questions on all right Miss Haywood with the remedy project good evening good evening before you start let me ask a question about the radios can you have a portable radio outside of here and talk to somebody on St Simon's Island yes off of the to off of the tower yes they will hit off these towers that's yeah that's the purpose of these radios is to communicate with well lots of them don't okay been in the fire service for so long I I get it um I was just making sure that they can talk to St Simons from here I'll confirm with JD make sure that yeah that's that was the reason for the purchase and I know they're getting better and better I get it since I've been in it but our
015our biggest issue is is once someone's inside of the building the steel and the glass communica through that good evening everyone I wanted to give you an update on our um current partnership with the remedy project this started um during the 23 24 school year as many of you are aware THC Vapes and gummies have become more readily available ailable and accessible there's a vape shop on every corner and while reviewing Behavior data during the 20 through 24 school year and student enrollment at our alternative school last fall we noticed that there were a repeat number of students that were coming over for THC bait pins we were seeing that students were returning for two and three times to the alternative school and so the student services department got together and started brainstorming thinking okay
016what is going on why are we seeing repeat students coming to the alternative school for the same offense and so our mental health coordinator said you know I I know about this group remedy project and they could probably help us out with looking at some ways that we can support students because substance abuse is real right the addiction is real and so we reached out to remedy project Beth and Johnny and talked about doing anou with the school system to Pilot in the spring of 2024 and so in partnership with our school system we identified eight students in the first group which were students who had been at GLC for two or more times for having THC Vapes and of those eight students seven students decided that they would participate and when they decided to
017participate this is an opin program they came over and were learning about how substances affected the events and consequences um understanding everyday life and realizing that utilizing Vapes is really a symptom right of something that may be deeper and so having conversations about you know the consequences of events and decisions that we make they started having conversations about things that weren't really about the THC Vapes but learning about other issues that were really happening and really trying to get to the root of what was happening and trying to take more of a preventative proactive approach to trying to help students with resolving issues and so we started seeing success with those students um started seeing breakthroughs with those students they started talking about different things that were happening and started being more concerned about their
018grades being more concerned about coming to school and started seeing a lot of positive outcomes so at the end of the spring semester of the seven students that participated in that group we're glad that 100% of those students have not returned to GLC for any drug rated offenses now I'm going to be honest one of those students has returned but it was not for anything that was related to drugs in any way but um it's it's true that it worked works and so um we currently have eight students that opted in to participate one of the unique things that we did in the spring was we had another group of students that we were looking at participating in that group and we had a couple of those students come back and talk about their experience
019with the remedy project and talking about how much they enjoyed and how much they loved participating and those kids got really excited and I had the opportunity this past week I went to one of their groups this past week and when they knew that the guys were coming to talk with with them those kids were so excited to come down to the room and when they came in they saw me and it was like okay so some say was in here that didn't matter but they came in and they were so excited to start talking about where they left off from the week before and one of the students that was in there it was just a breakthrough for that particular student and it was just overwhelming to see how excited those kids were to
020start talking about some of the issues that were happening with them y'all you just don't know sometimes some of the things that our kids have to carry and again just it was just overwhelming and so the reason I wanted to talk to you all about this tonight is because while we are addressing issues that deal with vaping we recognize that it's simply an it is simply a symptom of something else and the groups have allowed them to really get to the root of some of their issues that are really being masked by The Vaping and learning how to separate their feelings from issues you know often times there are problems that exist in our lives the problem may not go away but the feelings that are associated with it sometimes kids just want to cover
021up how do I just cope with it and many times we take for granted that kids don't know how to deal with those feelings those are things we really have to teach them right and so helping them to recognize that you don't have to replace that with a vape you could replace it with talking to somebody you can replace it with getting a journal and learning how to write you can replace it with taking a walk finding other ways to do deal with those feelings to deal with those problems and learning how to work through those issues and to be better prepared because that's how life is one issue after another either you're coming into a situation you're going through a situation or you're coming out and that's life but this has really been a
022blessing for our school system um the the partnership with remedy project has just been overwhelming and they're doing it pro bono and so I just felt like it was important that our board know about some of our community partners that are coming in to really support our students and provide these services to our youth um we've been talking about how can we expand this because one of the things that we really want to make sure we're doing is providing that ongoing support for those students that have participated but we want to make sure we go slow to go fast we don't want to just you know put all this in place and not be able to sustain it so um just going to talk with Johnny and those guys about how do we move forward
023how do we continue to provide the support when these students go back to the main to their main school and so I just wanted to make sure we kind of told you guys that's where we were those are the things that we're thinking about and to thank you all for your continued support of what we're doing with student services and how we're trying to support our students um that are in our school system any questions that I can answer I would like to publicly tell the remedy project thank you you know I mean that that's unfortunately we see that just in everyday life you go down Atlanta New York any major city and you can't get away from and and like you said it's on every corner um that is very it looks great to
024have 100% success especially in the pilot group unfortunately we we all know this is a growing problem and it is going to be continue to grow you know my personal feelings I would love to see just any they don't have to have two you know if they get in trouble for you know any type of THC or drugs let them go through that program that because they're doing it for a reason like you said and nobody just hey I want to do this you know they happen to stumble upon it and makes me feel better so and you're right but tell them thank you please for us yes yes sir I'll just mention to I do have a connection to this group I'm on their board and they don't just serve youth they it's really
025mainly adults and they're kind of branching out into this uh youth program with our students but they do all come from a background of working with Eagle Ranch up in North Georgia so that's a onsite facil facility where um children actually live so they have many years of experience with this and they just know how to reach these kids because they do come to the kids that were at Eagle Ranch come from all different situations and um I I think it's wonderful it's it's hard enough to get any teenager to be excited about something but you know ones that are you know having a troubled way a lot of times they don't you know they want to push back and so so for these people to reach these kids it it's just a great thing
026to see so I thank y'all for putting it together I know Miss Barbie was instrumental in that I thank you for that too because I would love to see these kids realize the value of this and how they can move forward so much better in life without relying on things like that yes yeah so thank you thank you thank you all thank you Mr Benson so good evening good evening tonight we would just like to bring forth a recommendation for our District web page um believe it or not the district launched the site back in 2020 and it's been 5 years and over those five years um most recently we've had a few struggles with some of the features of our web page um when teachers have gone to add their lesson plans or other
027information they've had to experience what we call Capia that's where you have to click on the different pictures and in some instances they've had to do that over and over and and still been unsuccessful so back this fall uh a District web design uh committee was formed and individuals began looking at the strengths and weaknesses of our current site one of the things that was noted in that was if you try to access our current site on your cell phone it's often very difficult you have to move things is out of the way and then if depending on which page you're trying to go to and clicking along the way um kind of becomes um somewhat of a burden the other thing that we've noticed in the past 5 Years is as technology changes the
028idea of of individual teacher web pages has kind of gone away with the times and one of the things that we have seen though is in the past 5 years especially with um covid was the onset of Google classroom and so as we started to think about a new District web page um we do we did look at five different vendors and the committee was sold and would like to recommend uh this evening as a point of information for you the implementation of smart sites and the reason for smart sites is a couple of different things the main though is the fact that this is a subsidary of our um parent Square our mass communication tool and we have experienced a lot of success with parents and families with that and so um in working
029with smart sites we'll be able to um continue that ongoing communication but again tie it back to our websites and they actually will utilize um either the the parents Square uh teacher portal or the Google Classroom so that we can still redeliver those um lesson plans and provide those in case you know parents would like to see that type of information unfortunately on the heels of what Miss Cody delivered as with all things there is a slight increase um in this change um but we are prepared for that be happy to answer any questions what's the time frame to get it up and running under the newform we would like to um begin this summer and kind of have that um so we would like to have that migration beginning this right now this spring
030so we can go live in July okay get that for the new New Year exactly yeah I'm glad I'm on the site quite often but it's on my cell phone all the time and it's pretty rough to navigate on your cell phone for sure yeah any other questions for Mr Benson so we will move on to the resoning Task Force update so was thinking where is it should be right is it on your screen log back in maybe just click on um yeah to the next Mee and then click back and I made the mouse bigger think for as a recommendation from one of our board members um so uh I want to talk a little bit about uh about our task force so our task force was made up of uh you can go
031to the next one uh eight uh community members from very very diverse backgrounds all of their children or and them had attended Glen County Schools have attended or ar attending um our first meeting was last year February 5th and we had a total of eight uh final eight meetings with uh this past Tuesday being the last one and so I I want to talk a little bit about the issues that uh issues that we we faced in some of our reasonings and and decisions um you know we're build the reason we started this is because of Glendale Elementary we're building that school and it will be done in the fall of 2027 um it's going to force us to reone at the elementary level we knew that and so we decided that we would look
032at all schools and all all elementary middle and high school and I've told you this before but that's not been done since the 70s um there have been little pieces of of resoning but it's we haven't really looked at all levels at the same time since the 70s in fact I was in the sixth grade when that happened um most systems our size do it every five years and uh and but we have not and over the past 50 years people have moved to certain areas in our community probably because of the school the school zones they're in during that time as a school system I'm afraid we haven't done a very good job of keeping up with the movement of those folks so then um another issue that we face is the the reduction
033you can move to the you can move back back back back back back back back right right there right there right there there uh oh yeah just stay right there okay um there's been some shifts in school age population um in in Glen County we we have seen that uh there's not as many school- AG students in downtown Brunswick or on St Simon's Island in fact in the Brunswick News just uh yesterday yesterday maybe Tuesday but it was it's one of those days they reported that since 2010 the over 65 of age population has grown from 15.1% to 22.9% in Glen County and the school age population between 5 and 19 has decreased by 6.7% so we're seeing that not just in the schools but in our community too um there's been some shifts in
034uh in in the school age population um there are as I said there are fewer kidss on St Simons there are fewer students in city of Brunswick there are more off out near Exit 29 the population is Shifting to the northern part of the county which north of here um the high school our high school population at each Glenn Academy in Bron the diversity is is widening it used to be pretty similar the the demographics but now that there's been a quite a change in the two high schools and our um overall numbers that are zoned to attend Bron aai versus Glenn Academy is is is widening right now in the next couple of years if we if everyone went to their Zone school there would be 2200 students zoned for Brunswick High School and
0351600 zoned for Glenn Academy and so that is a problem I have uh obtained some input and advice from experts uh during the past year I talked to several superintendents I've also talked to who have done zoning I've also talked to several people who are specialists in that field every one of them to a to a te told me that this is going to be extremely difficult because we haven't done it in quite some time again they they're the ones that told me most people do it every 5 years uh we had some public meetings we found that having large public meetings could be problematic but having smaller public meetings was uh was was seem to be easier and you could have conversation so I did continue uh the the smaller meetings over the past
036uh months and have got some input from our citizens so we're going to go to the next slide we'll talk a little bit about the process moving forward as I said the uh last the last meeting for our uh resoning task force was Tuesday and I do want to thank those folks they did a good job they volunteered hours of their time they took questions from the community just like you have to and they answered them um then we're going to present this information that they they've told us uh here today and so uh and then afterwards we're going to uh we're going to offer an opportunity for uh the public to see the zones and then provide feedback um we're going to have on our website after this meeting the the the current school
037zones the proposed school zones and a survey for stakeholders to provide feedback the survey can be open for six seven eight months until the school board decides what they want to do with the school zones and that would be your decision whether you want to let the the future superintendent decide how to handle it or that you take a vote so our process moving forward we uh you can you can move on to the next uh no that's it you're good you're good go back Glendale would be replaced in the fall of 2000 you guys will have two approximately two years to make a final decision you got to remember there could be population shifts during that time there could be movement but there are places being built in the northern part of the county
038that really could force us to make some changes so this might not be permanent because of the population shifts that we may see um and so the zones may be have have to be altered or balanced a little bit at that point in time so let's move to the high school zones I hope this link works I changed this to a PDF because Mr Brit asked me to go ahead hit that did it work how about that now go back and let that load so go back to our think okay so go back to what we just pulled up let go right there okay high schools right so you're going to see the term 521 five means five elementary schools feeding into exactly two middle schools that feed into exactly one high school we do
039not have that it is random it is a cluster it's all over the place and we don't have that I think there is an advantage to having five elementary schools feeding directly into two uh middle schools that feed directly into one high school and I think there's a advantage in terms of instruction because you can see where your problems really lie if you have that um the issues that oh all Al that we talked about the diversity between Brunswick High and uh Glen acad we also talked about the uh overall student population at the two The Zone population um some issues that we could see the um the history of our zoning have we haven't looked at this since the 70s um the location of the two high schools our two high schools are two
040and a half miles apart that's crazy now when when broni was built I don't know how much you know about this but this was the country right out in here this was there was this was with dirt road when Bron was built so there was nothing Mr madala remembers but there was nothing out here but this is no longer the country this is the center of our community now for the most part um and then our population is Shifting to the north and it's shifting to the North in masses uh major changes to the high school population and this is the one I want you guys to hear because these are probably where we're going to have some people have concerns so north of I95 along 341 if you go north on 341 and you
041start say at Seldon Park everything thing to the West is is zoned for Glenn Academy all the way until you get to the road I forget this road every time chisen Boulevard where that one that goes to PL Manis okay so there is a little spot north of uh of I95 to Chrisman Boulevard that is going to be zoned to bronic high school and but everything south of I95 west of 341 will be still going to Glenn Academy so that's one of the major changes the other major change is going to to be because of the demographics between the two high schools we needed to change that a little bit so and the numbers so our number our our line for Glenn Academy is El Street and we're going to move that line from El
042Street to fourth street so everything south of Fourth Street would go to Glenn Academy and everything north of Fourth Street would go to bronze Academy those are the two major changes that that we're proposing for the high schools you want to see the map it's pretty easy once you see it go now you can go to the map you don't have yeah get now so that's why this is why Miss Sams wanted this thing bigger so you got what you have to do now is go out of go to high school check high school and take off Elementary School yeah and then go over to the little plus thing up top keep chucking right there and start making that bigger a little bit bigger little bit bigger now grab the map and pull there you
043go a little more okay stop right there that's good so sen can you find Fourth Street right there it's it's where the it's where the pink and the right right there okay hold on just be still not they join so of course you can yall remember the airport that was right down the street yep I mean that was a long time I I'm not gonna lie okay so here is Fourth Street right here all of the outside to the East and to the West goes to Glenn Academy everything south of four street is Glenn Academy all of this in here would be bronz aai the population is not demographically equal but the numbers are equal okay it is a little closer than it is now the only way that I could really make it equal
044is to send kids off of Alama Avenue to Glenn Academy and I don't think that's fair and and you're going to see that Alama Avenue does create a problem because there are so many students down this road and so this was the fairest way that the committee felt to Zone the high schools the numbers are consistent the demographics are not the same but they are closer than they are now are there any questions about the high school zones can you drag down a little bit just the whole map how far north does the Glenn Academy zone go east of it goes all the way okay east of 17 to Macintosh County okay yeah that's the same as it is now there's really nothing the only two changes is what I just told you do you
045know what the demographics are going to be I have a guess and but I don't I off the top of my head it's not going to be they're not going to be equal okay yeah it's going to get a little closer maybe four or five percentage points closer well as you were saying to we're talking a year to two maybe yeah years before we have to make decisions on it there could be other that's right changes I mean if Trends aren't continuing the way we're seeing now or you know another business comes in and you know kind of pushes people towards a different direction we may have to alter what we've got here and if the high schools were in different locations it would be a lot easier if ronok Kai were where Gea is
046then it would be so easy but it's just not so right I would like to say you know like you said it's been what close to 50 years 1978 7778 is the last time that we really um Fairway Oaks was a Glen Academy Zone believe it or not and so you know I would like to thank the committee for taking their time and doing an outstanding job is it difficult yes but does it need to happen yes you know we've been in the same situation and times change and people change homes change um I do like the fact of revisiting this every five years just so that each time it may become a little bit easier and easier and you know I feel like as we rezone we continue to think about the Dynamics of
047the whole County and you know to me I feel like the whole Community the county is stronger when we do have diversity and we you know I know I grew up with so and so because we went to elementary school together and you know we we graduated high school together or I played the ball against this guy or or this lady and so I like the idea of doing it every five years let's move on to to Middle Schools what was this I'm going to let this bad boy load while I move so I'm going to pull up the pro Lord yeah okay so let's move to Middle School all right so and there's a link there too for the Pres for the proposed Z map but it's the same link as as what I
048just took you to so um looking at this that what we wanted to really do is balance the population at the middle schools Jan Mak is by far the largest middle school and because it has the most students in their Zone it it is really getting overcrowded and rizley would be the smallest um middle school and they're sitting at around 600 Kids versus 900 so we have to do something there um issues and and also looking at our uh our 521 plan where five elementary schools feed into two one the idea is that both Glen middle and rizzly feed 100% into Glen Academy both Jane Mak and Needwood feed 100% into brunck high school that is the idea that is not what happens now there's about a 10 to 20% difference in each school um
049the issues of course a shift to the north we talked about Al Avenue the number of students that live here future changes that could come and also the population that is so large at J Mak those are the issues we fac there uh major changes here so um west of 34 41 everything west of 341 up until you get to I95 is going to go to rizley right now a lot of that goes to Jane Mak so the West part of 341 that is not on BL Island right now goes to Jane Mak and we will move that to rley Middle um east of 17 right now a lot of East that is east of 17 goes to Needwood because those students will be going to Glenn Academy they will be going to Glenn Middle
050and so those are the two major changes that we're taking in as far as as our Middle School okay I can show you the map there if I can pull that we going the next the green oh you you can understand I'm color blind oh I forgot the third one third okay good all right okay so here's rizley Z Shan M on Needwood on Glen Middle on this little area right here is the area around Brunswick High School that is kind of offset a little bit and mainly Magnolia part right now that goes to Jane Mak but if the population continues to shift to where Jane Mak is that may have to end up going to Needwood so just just throwing that out there but you can see how the population runs uh the middle
051school zones basically are are the same as the high school zones that's up within the high school zones we we we differentiated there okay and you can look at this and play with it all you want to any questions about the middle school zones as it's proposed now does that well with today's population in these zones would that kind of balance the numbers yes it would reduce Jane making a bit it would increase Needwood a bit keep Glenn Middle roughly the same and increase uh um rizley quite a bit but everybody has capacity for whatever their change is going to be and and again that's the day's numbers that's what we have today yeah right like good middle Zone runs all the way to Macintosh as well or to the line yes it would do
052the same exact thing as uh as as gleny what's your guesstimation on tra the longest travel time oh the people that live out out off of in Hortense I mean you out there way out there and that go to J Mak that's that's quite a bit of travel time out there that live on the Brantley County Line Old Post Road just as long as they're not my my whole point is that they're not passing a school going to another school yeah the only people that nobody's going to actually pass a school they're going to pass a road that goes to a school yeah yeah if you go to Glen Middle you'll be passing Harry Driggers go Glen Middle if you live North yeah I don't think there's a whole lot there's not a whole lot
053north of har Driggers anymore no not on the right I don't think there's anything in New Hope anymore and then you got off right I guess you can live it two-way yeah I mean that could be a possibility but it's not something if we if we truly want two two middle schools feeding into one high school we we're not going to have a choice so but it's not going to be as as much as it was in the 70s I can tell you that my biggest thing is I don't want a whole bunch of people passing a bunch of schools just to go to another school for yeah the people that live north of Harry dger Road would pass Harry drier's road to go to Glenville on the east side that's about it that's all
054I can think of am that right what was that question again he said he didn't want anyone passing a school I said the folks that live north of Harry Driggers road on the east side 17 would go by Harry jger road on the way to really there's not there's not a lot of residential if you go up on the east side there because you hope it closed down M that was where okay hopefully travel will get easier you have any idea about the about 17 and the expansion when we finished the road I we'll be finished by in two years when we get ready to do all I mean that roundabout looks like about the last thing really thej thing to do there they're trying to BU yeah the next major thing that's going to
055occur I believe is that the the golden Al Parkway in 99 intersection right I believe that they may put a roundabout there which will hopefully that'll be complet finally got one so let's keep trucking here we're going to elementary schools I thought I thought high schools were going to be the biggest problem but it wasn't it was elementary schools um I I did not see that but but because of the location of our elementary schools some of them if you think about the two on St Simon's Island Good Year and Burl moleta very close together golden Al and Glendale are so close together because of the location that that created a problem so um we wanted to keep kids Clos as possible home that was the first thing that we said as a committee that's
056just not something that we can do in most instances that is true but because of the location of our elementary schools we can't it's not possible um and again that goes back to not looking at it every five years um so we talked about proximity burls mlet and goodar have their issues and and they wanted to keep their population relatively the same which I agree they they really wanted not we were looking at possibly put putting more students at burlet in Good Year and They begged us not to um and so uh and also with them there were some folks that asked not to do that also so pretty much everyone I talked to wanted to keep burlet good you the same um we have a very high population at ALA Elementary Sterling and Greer
057very high and and also Satilla but not a bunch we can do about that because we did increase the size of Satilla um so here here are some of the issues the population of the St Simon's Island schools there are 600 students that go to public school grades K through five that live on St Simon's Island there are two Public Schools that's 300 per school so we have no choice but to send kids to St Simon's Island if we want to keep those schools open that that is a fact because then it otherwise we're going to have to build a school here in Glen County um we talked about the location of the schools every kid on ala cannot go to Alma Avenue just not possible there are too many kids who live on Alam
058Avenue so it's just not possible that school is busting of the seams um so here are the major changes and I'm sure you've heard about some of these every student who lives south of glosser will attend St Simon's elementary school right now half of that attends St Simons half of them attend OK for point there is enough room at St Simons for every student who lives south of of of uh glester to attend Saint Simons every student who lives east of 17 from I think it's about yach Club Road South we'll attend o for point and so that was we did that so that we could keep the the um op to to Glenn Middle to Glenn Academy the same so you you have to understand that Greer is very crowded that's where a lot
059of those kids go now and ala is very crowded we have to move kids from those schools somewhere that's not crowded that would be othor Point Elementary okay so I will show you that map now the green one so if you'll look I'm going to show you the two places right here this road right here is going to separate these kids will go to gri this is one of the very few places where kids will go to a school that doesn't feed into directly into the other school so these kids will go to gri but then we'll go to Glen middle and then Glenn Academy and so where his pointer is there now as Winward Acres yeah south of Winward Acres where the Christian Academy is right here everything south of wward Acres all the
060way to the cway will attend oako Point Elementary for two reasons one is ala and Greer are full second reason is it's a lot easier for transportation to just scoop those kids up and get all the kids who live south of gloss sister and take them in the same direction right now we have when they south of glester goes to e Oort or St Simon there so we have several buses down there okay um yeah and then you can see if we go to south of glester here the Burl mlet zone is relatively the same Goode Zone stayed relatively same south of G sister right here half of that went to St Simons half of it went to O for they will all go to St Simons and they have enough room so with that
061said are there any questions about the elementary zones I'm sure you're going to get questions this is this map will be up for months and months and it could change according to population shifts I know this is long TR apologize I'm going get it there all right let's move on so I I told the committee that they all could have comments and I would post them on this so that you could see it and everybody could see it and so every every Committee Member they 100% agreed to the proposed Z changes because they have been around for the reasoning during this process I learned a lot about the history of Glen County Schools but I learned a lot about people and so I'll I'll always remember that and it's always stay in the back of
062my mind um they recommended that we revisit the zoning process every five years um uh and then a few said that it was they felt like it was irresponsible to the taxpayers to keep two schools open on St Simons I'll just what they said I told them they could say it and they could and we'd put it down um they were concerned that some of the parents living in Brunswick could not get to St Simons or op uh for uh parent meetings Etc and they wanted to make sure we did something like that um one of the things that we have discussed doing when I went to speak to the folks uh down in south of glester was bringing the teachers to the them for parent teacher evenings or parent teacher events and so we
063certainly can do that I know that Jane Mak because when Miss seals was there she started a program where they have Saturday school at Jane Mak and the buses pick them up they use some of their Title One funds for the buses to pick them up to take them so they also said could we find resources to to to to help with the proximity issues by getting kids to Saturday school or kids to events that we you know they couldn't otherwise get to and so certainly that's something they they're interested in something that I think is important so so with that said there's a link there and Britney will post the link she has created a little page and when we go to the little page you'll see we have a a a school resoning
064feedback form and and then we have the maps right there folks can see their map um one of the committee members asked could if if you as a parent you can go on and type your address in it'll tell you which bus is coming to get you and and and what schools zone so they wanted us to see if we could do that for the proposed school zones and I'm I'm talking with Jim Horton to see if we can do that that goes through edog so we'll see if we can do that also right um this survey is going to stay open for uh quite some time no rush and then the board will finally make a decision on how they want to proceed any questions about the resoning it was certainly fun oh it's
065going to get fun for us now hey I told you going to do not I do just and I think maybe an extended conversation is better for a later time but as far as the two schools on St Simons um when we look overall as a district we've got so many seats in elementary schools and like you said our high schools are close you know if we could go back and take every school that exists now and move it to the perfect spot that would be a great solution but when we build schools how much are they an elementary school 4 yeah so it's kind of behooves us to keep what we have in cases where we can make it work um especially schools that were just built or just renovated and you look at
066land you know we just don't we could do a lot of different things but as far as being irresponsible to the taxpayers I don't know that I agree with that because it would cost us construction prices a lot to build schools places and uh you know we can get comments from the community about you know the ones that are changing to go to St Simons when they previously gone to Brunswick and we can take those into consideration but when we talk about the total number of seats we need we would need seats in those schools is that correct right yeah and one thing to remember I think Mr Man told me this um about 20 when they built over foot point before that there were 1100 students at St Simons Elementary so that means there
067were 1100 elementary students on St Simon Island um now we say there are 600 but there are also 200 we keep up with who goes to we keep up with who goes to private school also so there are 200 at private school so there's really 800 on St Simon so if all those 200 came back we would have to educate them there and so one school would not educate those 800 students on St Sun but you're right yeah I just told them that they could I know and I was there and I agree I mean they need to be able to to voice their opinion I just um if you think about what the alternative is and the big picture and the price tag on that it's pretty expensive so yeah we couldn't build St
068s's Elementary on that piece of property for what we have in it okay any other questions guys um is there a way that by the next meeting I know it's aggressive but is there a way we can look at just a chart Bic School current population current diversity and then proposed sure population and proposed raal make there is whatever you want to call it there is a way the problem with the way is is we have to draw it it can happen it can happen it might be two meetings from now but it can happen it takes a little longer for edog edog is a kind of like as400 it was buil in because there's just a little you know we can talk about it later but there's there's a coup high schools can be
069done could be done the quickest we I could get the high school elementary schools when you have 10 of them and they're all changing so much it's going to be like redraw the whole map if nothing else we can look at population shift you know if we can't get the the other numbers right away but I still want to see them we've got time like you said but I still like to see them any other questions I would like to say that U you know again this hadn't been done in 50 years and so to the public that this will be a change and sometimes change brings disappointment but what we were trying to do and what the committee and you have done a very good job of making this open and very transparent so
070it gives us at least Le two years to prepare for that change so I just want to again re reiterate thank you thank you and thanks to the committee because they did put a lot of time and effort so if you see those people do think and it does make it more clean this way I know some people may not like it but you know we and we have done some redistricting in 50 years it may not have been to high school we've done a lot we've touched a little bit of everything the problem was we were literally grabbing pockets of people everywhere pockets of students no matter what just to try to make things work and it got kind of messy that's sure um just cleans it up a lot for sure okay all
071right we will move on to uh the last item uh Miss seals and the applicant tracking and absence management software good evening currently we use Frontline education um uh applicant tracking system uh recruiting and hiring to track our applications um and there's a call support for those we've been using uh front line since the we launched it January of 2019 and so this year you probably say misss we haven't heard you talk about it with us before well it's because um the current renewal cost now is over $440,000 um in the past last school year that amount was $ 38,6 471 this year is $ 4,576 36 with a difference of $1,929 so while it didn't go up a whole lot there was an increase and that increase because of the amount the total amount
072it requires board approval um we like I said we currently use applicant tracking and we also have our absence management system through Frontline as well too so both of those software products go through Frontline education and this is simply just the renewal can questions from Miss seals that includes Apple track like where people go and apply yes yes sir yes sir okay are they making any updates that it's kind of I don't know it's not that great either I mean I know everybody uses it but a lot of people use it try to navigate it's kind of there's definitely some things I wish that will be improved and we'll be taking that under consideration as we move forward than that's all I have Mr chairman Dr chairman I guess that brings us to Executive session
073um do we have any legal um yes yes all right then U I'll entertain a motion to go into executive session for land personnel and legal motion by Mr Hy can I'm sorry can we add safety to that and we add safety I will amend my motion all right to add safety also thank you thank L I hear a second second second by Mr dodging all in favor bu your and it's unanimous at e e e return to open session so move Mr madala than about Mr Hy any discussion I did we said at the same time he just pick his favorite he can have it Le favorite any any discussion all in favor and it's unanimous at 658 I would like to make a comment to remind the public that if anyone's interested in
074uh submitting a resume for the interim uh School Board member position for District 5 the deadline is tomorrow at 5:00 all right must live in District Five they must live within the boundaries of District 5 entertain a motion to adjourn so moved by Miss Sams second second by Miss Miss Lee all in favor and unanimous at 659 [Music]