001I call this December 8th regular session meeting to order. First of all, I need a motion to approve the agenda. >> So move, >> Mr. Tulle. >> Miss Parish. All in favor? Passes. 5-0. Next, I may need a motion to approve the minutes. >> So moved. Second, >> Mr. Hann all in favor passes 5-0. Recognitions, Mr. Coughlin. >> Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Ransom. Good evening, board members and Dr. Butler. We have several folks to uh recognize this evening, so I'll ask that you come forward. As you do so, we'll point out that the art display this month is provided by the students of High Shoes Elementary School. Their instructor is Charles Clinkenbeard. Their work will be displayed on the hallway monitors throughout the month. Sorry, let me go back for you. There you go.
002>> Good. And we also want to thank Colum Ferry for their I'm sorry, High Scholes for their uh great uh contributions to our lobby. I'm sure you saw those pieces out there as well. First this evening, the board will recognize pair professional Mary Street of Rocky Branch Elementary as the December Pursuit of Excellence Award winner. She will receive a $50 Visa gift card, a fleece blanket, stainless steel mug, and tote from Pete State Federal Credit Union. Chops and Hops and Rosy's Hometown Meets provided additional gift cards while Okone County Schools presented a commemorative plaque. As part of her nomination form, some co-workers wrote this. Mary exemplifies professionalism and dedication in every aspect of her role at Rocky Branch. Her positive energy, reliability, and genuine care for others make her an indispensable part of our school
003community. Whether she is assisting students in classrooms, supporting teachers, or ensuring smooth transitions during car rider and lunch, Mary performs every task with efficiency, grace, and neverpresent smile. Mary not only models excellence in her own work, but also mentors and supports her colleagues. She is the first to lend a hand, share ideas, and offer encouragement to both new and veteran staff members. Her calm demeanor, empathy, and problem solving skills make her a trusted and respected teammate. Mary represents the teaching profession and the Rocket's way with distinction. Her kindness, professionalism, and tireless tireless dedication inspire everyone around her. She goes above and beyond every single day to ensure that Rocky Branch remains a warm, welcoming, and thriving environment. She radiates joy and positivity. She works hard, loves deeply, and shows up each day with unwavering dedication.
004She is an angel walking among us. The December Pursuit of Excellence winner, Mary Street. Next, a board will recognize Dawson Presley of Dove Creek Middle. Dawson recently placed second in state tree dendrology notebook at the Georgia National Fair. His adviser is Brandon Walker. And that concludes recognitions. Next we have Points of Pride. Welcome High Scholes Elementary. Good evening members of the board and Dr. Butler. I'm excited to introduce a group a group of our fourth grade students who have been hard at work on one of our favorite events at High Scholes, our annual wax museum project. This project challenges students to research a historical figure, syn synthesize what they've learned, and step into that person's shoes to bring history to life. They've spent the last several weeks reading, writing, creating, and practicing. And tonight, they
005are eager to share a small glimpse of their work with you. We are incredibly proud of their e their effort, their growth, and the con confidence they've built through this experience. Please join me in welcoming our fourth grade presenters. >> Good evening. We're thrilled to share our historical wax museum with you. This project allows us to bring history to life by learning more about important figures and embodying the people we have studied. To get to re we get to research, write, and speak about a person we chose. And it's a fun way to show what we've learned. Each of us picked someone from our social studies standards like George Washington, Benedict Arnold, Paul Rivere, or Harriet Tubman. We learned about what they did to make a difference in our world. We started by researching our
006person and writing anformational essay. We used books, websites, and classroom resources to learn about their life and their accomplishments. After writing, we turned our essays into short speeches. We practiced in class and at home so we could sound confident and knowledgeable. Working together made the black museum even better. Everyone supported each other and we were al so proud of what we created. To make it even more fun, we dressed up as our person. We used things we already had at home like clothes hats or props to show to show something special about our person's life or job. Museum day which is Friday. We will stand frozen until someone presses our button. Then we will come to life and give our speech about our historical figure. Families and friends will walk through all the famous people
007we will become. This project helped us learn how to research, write better essays, and speak in front of others. It also taught us about perseverance, leadership, and creativity. Just like the people we studied, as we wrap up, you may have noticed the button in front of you, we'd like to invite you to take part of in a piece of our wax museum experience. When you're ready to hear from one of our wax figures, press the button that will signal the student to come to life and share their story with you. >> I get to choose first. I got the remote control. Let's see. I hope the sound is turned up loud. Going to press here. Can you imagine? All right, it's my turn now. You ready, Dolly? I love the first. I was the first
008instruction. How is the first I left 1829. We are incredibly proud of our students and grateful for the support of our board of education who make this possible. Thank you for celebrating learning that's engaging, meaningful, memorable, and supportive for our student center that makes us a student- centered education in our school system. Thank you for allowing us to share just one piece of what makes High Shoes Elementary such an incredible place to learn and grow. >> Thank you. >> Great job. I'll take that break. Next we have the superintendent report. Dr. Butler. >> Thank you, Mr. Ransom. And good evening, board members. Aone County Schools are pleased to host the Thanksgiving feast at all 12 of our campuses last month. More than 7,100 meals were served. And I want to recognize director of school nutrition,
009Mr. David Seagull, and his team for an outstanding job. This event is always a highlight for our community, and it was wonderful to welcome parents and grandparents into our schools to enjoy the day with our students. Also, our students and staff collected more than 45,000 cans and non-p perishable items in November. These donations went to Axe, which is area churches together serving, and we're grateful to everyone who contributed to show strong support for our families in the community. Last week was the Georgia School Board and Georgia School Superintendent Association Conference in Atlanta, which was a beneficial time of learning for our team. Board members, congratulations again on being recognized as an ex exemplary board. Aone County has earned this distinction every year since 2015, including being named governance team of the year in 2020. This
010board works tirelessly for our students and staff, and you're all very deserving of this honor. As we move into December, Aona County Schools was proud to take part in the Watkinsville Christmas parade yesterday. I want to thank our board of education as well as our bands, athletic teams, and clubs for representing Aona County so well. I'm especially grateful to Mr. Charles Clinkenbeard and his creative team at High Scholes Elementary School for designing the gingerbread man and woman um for the float and making it look fantastic. Even though it was a little chilly, it was such a great experience and I know we all love seeing our community bundled up, smiling, and enjoying the parade together. On a more solemn note, we want to extend our deepest sympathies to the family of Mr. Jerry Stutard, who
011passed away recently. Mr. stutterard had a deep sense of civic duty, including more than a decade of service on the Aona County Board of Education, where he served as the board chairman for a portion of that time. Our thoughts and prayers are with his daughters and grandchildren. As we look ahead, it's hard to believe we're down to just nine days left in the semester. We appreciate our students for their hard work and our teachers and leaders for their continued guidance as we finish out the calendar year on a strong note. Finally, tonight marks the last board meeting for Mrs. Suzanne Cornold, our chief special education officer. Mrs. Cornold has served a Coney County schools for 13 years with dedication and passion, always ensuring that every student receives the highest quality of education and support. Miss
012Cornold, you have set a standard of excellence that will continue to guide us for years to come. And we wish you the very best in your retirement. That concludes the superintendent's report unless there are questions. >> Thank you, Dr. Buller. Next, we have teaching and learning, Miss Whitaker. >> Good evening, Dr. Butler and board. The December 25th teaching and learning report contains one item of information and no action items. The first item of information is the 2025 college and career ready performance index. CCPI is a lagging measure based largely on last year's end of grade and end of course assessments. These results were recently released by the Georgia Department of Education and offer important insight into system performance. Okone County Schools earned the number one ranking for county school systems in the state for both
013elementary content mastery and elementary readiness. Our middle schools also achieved number one in the state for both middle school content mastery and middle school readiness. At the high school level, Okone County schools ranked number two statewide in content mastery and number three in readiness. These measures reflect high performance in core academic areas as well as strong indicators of preparedness for college careers and post-secary opportunities. As I have previously highlighted, Okone County schools achieved the number one graduation rate in Georgia at 99.5%. When compared with all 11 districts within our resa county schools ranked number one in three of four domains, content mastery, progress, and readiness and number one overall with a score of 94.1. The next highest score was Commerce City with a score of 89.34. These results affirm that Okone County Schools continues to
014set the standard for academic excellence across the state. These outcomes reflect the dedication of our students, the expertise of our teachers and the leaders, and the strong support of our families and communities. This concludes the teaching and learning report unless there are questions. >> Thank you, Maker. Student services, Dr. Yansy. Good evening, Dr. Budler and board members. The December 2025 student services report contains three items of information and one action item. The first item of information is the school choice timeline for the 2627 school year. Applications for public school choice opened on Friday, November the 9th. The window will close on Friday, January the uh excuse me, November the 14th and will close on Friday, January the 9th at 4 pm. Decision letters will be mailed on Friday, January the 16th. Interested families can access
015the application through a Google form link that is available on the district website and shared through our district social media accounts. This year, all school all 12 schools are open for school choice and school choice remains a two decision process. once for elementary school and once again for a secondary pathway from middle to high school. The second item of information is our annual participation in the Georgia Department of Education's school climate survey system. These surveys measure the overall quality of school life by capturing the experiences of students and adults in areas such as academics, relationship, safety, and learning environment. The surveys are conducted with four stakeholder groups, students, teachers, staff, and families. The family survey opened on December the 1st and will close on March 31st. Teacher and staff surveys will be administered in January,
016and student surveys will be administered in uh February. Parents and guardians were emailed information about the family survey earlier this month and will receive additional information about the student survey in January. The third item of information is a recap of our secondary athletic performance for the fall semester. Although although our fall sports season is still going on tonight with North Okony's flag football team playing. Quick update, they just won the first game which is the quarterfinals 34 to zero and they were waiting to play the winner of uh Northside Warner Robbins and Southeast Bulock in the semi-finals tonight about 7:30. But I wanted to take this opportunity to recognize the outstanding performances of our secondary athletic programs. Starting with our middle school teams, you can see it was a very successful fall season for our
017programs. Uh some areas to highlight include back-to-back uh state and appalache league championships for OKone Middle School's boys cross country. uh state runner up for Okony's girls program, back-to-back Appalache League football championships for Dove Creek Middle School, and Malcolm Bridge finished their volleyball season as the runner up in the Appalache League and moved on to compete at the state level. As you can see, our middle schools consistently achieve at a high level of competition within the middle school league and across the region. Moving on to our high school athletic programs. Looking at their fall performances, it is clear that both programs continue to excel in competition, demonstrating strong results both locally and statewide. A few areas and streaks to highlight include in 12 of 16 sports, North or OKone either won the region or area
018championship or were the were the region or area runnerup. 15 of 18 Georgia high school governed sports or activities successfully qualified for state competition. As I mentioned, North Flag football team is competing tonight with a chance of making second straight appearance in the state championship. If they win tonight, that will be on December the 16th at 10:00 a.m. The Okoney boys cross country team secured its fourth consecutive state championship with Aaron Brick claiming his second individual title. The Okoney girls team was a trip AAA state runnerup and this season marks for both boys and girls programs at Okoney the sixth consecutive region championship. The North Okone football team fresh off of its 2024 state championship made another deep run playoff run reaching the quarterfinals. This marks their eighth consecutive state playoff appearance. This year's senior
019class had an incredible run playing 55 games over four years and they finished with a record of 52 and three over those 55 games. And to put that in perspective over these four years, that is playing five and a half years of regular season football. The Okone County football team secured its 12th consecutive appearance in the state playoffs, reaching the second round or further in the playoffs in nine of the last 12 years. And finally, both the North and OKone volleyball programs continue their excellence by securing playoff spots. This season marks the ninth consecutive season that both North and OKone programs were in the playoffs. Uh to conclude, I would first like to express my gratitude to our student athletes for their dedication not only to their sport, but for also embracing the responsibility of
020leaving a lasting legacy and being a bigger being a part of something as bigger than themselves. Additionally, many thanks go out to our coaches for the endless hours they spend mentoring our student athletes and for the structure and accountability they consistently provide. And finally, board, thank you for your continued and unwavering support of all of our athletic programs. Student services has one action item for tonight's regular board meeting. The action item is an outofstate field trip for a Coney County Middle School's course program to travel to Greenville, South Carolina in February. The superintendent re recommends approving the field trip as presented. And this concludes the student services report unless there are questions. >> Thank you, Dr. Yansy. >> Yes, sir. >> Next, we have special education, Miss Cornold. >> Good evening, Dr. Butler and board
021members. Special education department for December 8th for the board meeting has six items of information and no action items. We just loaded it up tonight. So, the first item of information is going to be on victory day. We were not able to um share that uh last board. So, we want to make sure that we recognize this event. Okone County High School hosted another successful victory day established in 2016. Victory Day offers the Friday night lights experience for our students of the adapted curriculum. students from Colum Ferry Preschool, Okoney Primary, Okone Elementary, Okone um High School, Okone Middle, High Scholes, even some uh past Warriors um alumni joined us this year as well. These um amazing students enjoyed the full Friday night experience, running through the tunnel as the band played, being cheered on by
022the cheerleaders, running plays with the football team, and showing off their tackling skills with the tackle dummy station. Throughout the event, they were surrounded by encouragement and support from the football team, the cheerleaders, the band, and parents. An enormous thank you goes to all the football coaches, our band director, our cheerleading coach, and of course our players and members of the band and cheerleaders. The um the one constant of this worthy community event um I must say thank you to Kyle Tanner. He is a former teacher of the year at Okone High School and he plans this event every year and does an outstanding job. And of course, Mr. Mr. Brop tool is always a constant every year too and we want to recognize that and thank you for attending every year. The second item
023of information is our manufacturing institute. We've been doing this for about six years now. We partner with high school high techch to offer North Okone and Okone High School students the opportunity to participate in a manufacturing institute. It's a three-day training experience and the purpose of the training is to learn more about field of manufacturing and then job opportunities post secondary. So these students earn certificates that can go on their resume and assist them with obtaining employment as they transition out of high school. Students receive three industry recognized certificates upon the completion. The certificates include an OSHA one certificate. Oops, sorry about that. Lean six sigma white belt training and then also the hands-on CPR and AED. Manufacturing industries such as AKA, Shaun Industries, AB, ABB Motors, Caterpillar employ nearly a million Georgians every year.
024And as the manufacturing industry grows in the state of Georgia, we need skill workers as well to grow with it. So, we're excited about offering our students this opportunity to separate themselves, to separate their resumes from the big pile to the small pile and having these three certificates upon graduation. The next item of information is our allstar bowling that just occurred on November 21st. We had 110 students from our adaptive curriculum across the district participate in allstar bowling at Showtime bowling. Every school was represented and our student athletes demonstrated exceptional enthusiasm, teamwork, sportsmanships throughout the day. Many participated um had achieved their personal best, celebrated accomplishments with their classmates, their peer buddies and parents as well were welcome to come. This was a great social event for all. Each athlete received a ribbon of recognition
025for their efforts and their achievements. And the event was extremely successful and a powerful reflection of our commitment to inclusion, student growth, and community spirit. I'd like to take the time to thank Kevin Stewart. He's the teacher at North Okone High School and he does an outstanding job with leadership and support in this in organizing this event for us. Fourth item of information is our parent advisory board. The special education parent advisory committee held its first last in November. We just recently had another one, but this was a picture taken at our first meeting. We have representations from every single school. The meeting begins with introductions. It's a great opportunities for parent to connect with other parents um across different schools. We highlight all of the um special education um highlights and dedication and different
026services. And um this the first meeting we even had um Mr. uh Peter Adams came and talked about um Eastloss and the impact that would have um on planning for special education facilities and resources. So we were glad we were able to get that in at our first meeting. So here are kind of just an overview of what we've come up with with the purpose and um you know how to promote collaboration, how to get input and to educate and inform our families and making them a part. We have a great group of parents. They are so positive and so willing to do whatever and share that we're we're super excited about this committee meeting. The fifth item of information is um our recent transition resource fair that we held November 20th. It was from
0275 to 7 here in the um instructional um center. It's a free event designed to help parents with special needs and their families learn about options for resources available after high school. So the goal is to make the process of planning for the future both informative and enjoyable for our parents. We had representatives from local providers, community organizations, educational programs. Um were all on hair hand to share information, answer questions and connect with our families. We got extremely positive results from our parents who attended and um definitely want us to continue doing this each year. We had uh probably 15 um different organizations from GVR, Hope Haven, Georgia Options, Briggs and Associates, Okone Law, Bobby Do Institute, Destination Dogs, ESP, Goodwill Career, um Parent App to Parents were just a few that came. So, it
028was a very successful evening. Last item of information is just kind of to share with the board a new program. Um, we did it probably maybe 12 years ago and we've kind of changed our approaches over the years and we're bringing it back. It's called the lips program. It's the um, Lindamoo Bell phone sequencing and it's about it's for our SLPs to go in and work with our kindergarten students. So the lips program uses a multiensory approach to teach students how to produce and verify correct word sounds and sound articulation. So they are becoming more familiar with how speech sound production looks and feels and empowers the students to self-monitor their own skills when speaking, spelling, and tackling reading and writing. So it's the it it's kind of a wraparound with literacy and speech. They
029get into the whole brain, the mouth, the tongue, the vocal box, the lungs, the ears, how it all impacts how they speak and present themselves. So, we decided on second quarter because we felt that second quarter is an ideal time for our speech language pathologists to teach these sound production lessons because the kindergarten students have now learned the letters and sounds by this point in the school year. So, it was strategic on when we were going to be doing these lessons. The SLPs go into every kindergarten class from 15 to 20 minutes weekly for six weeks. They have lessons and they all are um standardized on what they go into each class with. During the uh preparation for these lessons, the speech language pathologists incorporate foundations, which is our reading program in our kindergarten classes.
030They use their visuals into the lips lesson to foster the connection between the two programs. The SLPs work with the kindergarten class every week, as I said. Um, additionally, we have found that the kindergarten teachers and the pair of professionals are also engaging in these lessons and are learning through the process as well and are able to take what they've seen in the modeled instruction and interact with students in small groups or even individually as needed. So, it's another way for us to be able to early identify some students that may need speech, you know, services. So, our therapists are in there each week and they can look at who possibly could need to be screened as well. And then, you know, besides the teachers referring students, but that's the last item of information for
031special education unless someone has a question. >> Questions? >> Thank you, Mr. Morgan. >> You're welcome. >> Technology, Mr. McCullers. >> Thank you. Good evening, board members and Dr. Butler Croner County Schools technology services report includes two action items for tonight's regular session meeting. At last month's board meeting, I presented the quotes to purchase student Chromebooks and staff laptops as a part of our established uh replacement cycle. First action item is the Chromebook computers. Virtue comma secured a state contract with the Georgia Department of Administrative Services to supply and service endusing computing including HP Chromebooks and laptops. Under the state contract, Okoney County Schools plans to purchase 1,165 HP Foris G10 Chromebook computers and 60 HP ProBook 440 G11 laptop computers. Superintendent's recommendation is for the board of education to approve Virtuom with a bid
032of $452,020 for 1,165 HP Chromebook computers. This project will be paid for using ESPLOS and general fund dollars. Action item two, the laptop computers. The superintendent also recommends that the board of education approve VirtCon with a bid of $49,620 for the purchase of 60 HP laptop computers. This project will also be funded through eslos and general fund dollars. And with that, that concludes technology services report. I'm happy to answer any questions if you have any >> questions. Thank you, Mr. McCullers. >> Thank you. >> Human resources, Mr. Kof. Good evening board members and Dr. Butler. The human resources report this evening contains no items of information and two action items. Last month, we presented to you the draft calendar for the 2728 school year. It is the superintendent's recommendation that the board approve the placement
033of the 2728 academic calendar on the table for community input until our January board meeting with a final calendar recommendation to be made at that meeting. Our second item of information is a mechanics paycale update. Board members, as you know, one of the primary functions of the human resources division is the recruitment and retention of both certified and classified staff. Over the last year and a half, we've conducted a comprehensive salary study focused on some of our harder to fill and harder to retain positions. As a result of that work, you have already taken action to enhance the pay scales for our bus drivers, supervisors, and school food nutrition workers. Tonight, we bring forward our next targeted position, our mechanics. Our mechanics play a critical role in student safety by maintaining the safety and reliability
034of our transportation fleet. and recruitment in skilled trades continue to be a regional challenge. Our proposal this evening is to enhance our mechanic pay scale to ensure we remain competitive with neighboring districts and to continue to recruit and retain highly skilled employees. Retention is driven primarily by competitive pay, predictable salary growth, and long-term earning potential. This proposal directly addresses all three, as well as market misalignment. The superintendent's recommendation is to approve the enhanced mechanic pay scale to be effective on January 2nd, 2026. This concludes the human resources report for the evening, unless there are any questions. >> Thank you, Mr. Ker. Business services, Mr. Adams. >> Uh, good evening, board members and Dr. Butler. Uh, business services has six items of information tonight and no action items. Our first item of information is the November
035cash balances report. As of November 30th, the closing general fund balance represents an 8.71% increase over last month. State funding projections are currently stable, but we will continue to monitor any changes to funding levels in the coming months. And our cash balances for number was strong and we will are well positioned to meet our financial obligations for the fiscal year. Our second item of information is our vendor report. We paid 399 vendors $2.3 million for the month. The third item of information is the budget report for November. Revenue and expenditures will be expected to be at 41.6%. Our monthly report shows us at 43.7. I'd like to point out this number includes incumbrances of $2.5 million or just about 2.08%. Without these incumbrances expenditures would be more aligned with our monthly expectations, but we will
036continue to monitor these figures closely as we move toward the end of the fiscal year. The fourth item of information is our East BLOS collections report. We had a decrease of 1.62% in collections over last month, but a 2.07 07% increase over over November of last year. So, our collections are still strong year-over-year. The fifth item information is our ELOS 6 report. Revenues and expenditures have been updated through November 30th. And our sixth item of information is our federal funds report. This report provides an update on the federal funding allocations and expenditures for the month of November. These funds are reimbursement based and we will see these funds continue to be sent to us throughout the fiscal year. And that concludes my report unless the board has any questions. >> Thank you, Mr. Adams. Operations.
037Dr. White. >> Good evening, board members and Dr. Butler. Operations has three items of information for this evening and no action items for this month's regular session. The firstformational item for operations is an update on our energy report. Our kilowatt usage per day for a thousand square feet has been updated for the month of October. The secondformational item is our transportation update. For the previous month, we had 31 field trips, 63 athletic trips, 29 special education trips, 161 buses deployed for a total of 14,194 miles. Our final item of information is an update on school nutrition participation for the month of November. Board members, you'll see that we saw an increase in participation for breakfast of 0.1.14% and lunch participation of 1.3% as compared to November of 2024. This concludes the operations report unless there
038are any questions. >> Dr. White says, Mr. Rickson. >> Good evening. The Okone County Schools operations and facilities October 8th, 2025 board of education report contains two items of information and one action item. First items of November league custodian meeting was held on the 13th at held on the 13th at Duff Creek Elementary School. The team learned several about several important facility topics, including strategies for preventing squirrel intrusion, best practices for using ice melt, and proper storage procedures for utility rooms. We continue to be grateful for the tireless work of our custodial teams whose efforts keep our schools clean, healthy, and ready for learning. No, we did not. >> I think we all need to be trained on that. If there's a video out there, >> there's video. I wonder if we need to uh
039to watch that. >> Yeah, >> we will have a separate session for you guys if you would like. >> Uh item information number two is a construction update. Districtwide generators. The contractor will complete the installation of the monitoring system this week. And I am happy to report after all this time this project will be closed out this month. Transportation offices. A request for proposals has been advertised for this project. We'll receive proposals this month and will present the results in the January board meeting. North County storm water pipe contractor is nearly complete with only a couple of punch list items remaining. This project will be closed out this month as well. We do have one action item. That's the Okone Primary School driveway project. This project will widen the entry road to Okone Primary and
040Okone Middle Schools from the Hog Mountain Road entrance. This project was requested by our transportation mechanics as well as our bus drivers. The road was an was originally designed to be one lane, but is being used as two lanes during our afternoon pickup time. It is so narrow that buses have to ride on the shoulder of the road, sometimes narrowly missing cars in the car rider line. The and and it's also damaging bus tires on the jagged edge of the pavement. The road will be widened anywhere from 4 to 8 feet as necessary to make it sa make travel safe for our school buses and our families waiting in the car rider line. If approved, this work will be completed over spring break. The superintendent's recommendation is for the board of education to approve all
041about asphalt for the Okone primary driveways uh project for a proposal cost of $55,46. This project will be paid for using the east blast. That concludes the operations uh facilities report unless there are any questions. >> Questions. >> Thank you, Mr. Communications. Mr. Cal. >> Thank you, Mr. Ransom. Good evening board members and Dr. Butler. Communications report contains two items of information. The first is November social media information. Okone County Schools had 31 social media posts in November with an average of 17,618 views. The top post for the month was the announcement of the district's governor's honors program nominees. That post was viewed more than 85,000 times. Coverage of veteran days over a two-year uh two day span had a combined 58,700 views for the month. 19 posts were viewed more than 10,000 times led
042by Governor's Honors and followed by three at 30,000, six at 20,000, and nine at 10,000. The top 10 posts for the month had a great deal of variety, including Governor's Honors, Veterans Day, the announcement of the 27 and 28 region assignments for the two high schools, the state championship for the Aon County boys cross country team, the farewell rec reception for Dr. Deborah Harden, and the prestigious special education award presented to Suzanne Corbel. OCS gained 83 followers in November, giving the district 23,967 followers on social media. In addition, the OCS newsletter was opened 10,332 times at a rate of 68%. The industry average for education is 37%. We are so appreciative of the parents, students, community members, businesses, and media outlets that have follow and engage with AOCS social media accounts. The second item of
043information is the November highlights video. Heat. Heat. And that concludes communications unless you have any questions for me. >> Arpet, we have anyone signed up to speak tonight? >> We have no one signed up this evening. >> Thank you. Next, we have action items. Dr. Butler. >> Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Item A is the seventh and eighth grade Aon County middle school chorus field trip to Greenville, South Carolina to attend a musical at the Peace Center. We would recommend that trip be approved as presented. >> A motion. So moved. >> Mr. Hammock. >> Second. >> Mr. Hammond. All in favor? Pass 5 Z. >> Item B is the is for the board to vote on the draft 2027208 of Coney County Schools academic calendar to be placed on the table for public review and comment
044until the next board meeting. >> Motion moved. >> Mr. Tool. >> Second. >> Miss Parish. All in favor? Passes 50. >> Item C is the mechanic pay scale. We would recommend this pay scale be updated as presented. >> Motion. >> So moved. >> Mr. >> Second, >> Mr. Ham, >> go for it. >> All in favor? Passes. 5. >> Item D is the purchase of 1,165 HP Foris G10 Chromebooks as a part of the regular replacement cycle through Virtuom for a bid of $452,20. We would recommend the approval of this purchase using east blast and general fund dollars. Need >> a motion. >> So moved. >> Mr. Hammond. >> Second. >> Parish. All in favor? Passes 50. >> Item E is the purchase of 60 HP Pro 440 G1 laptop computers as a part of
045the regular replacement cycle through Burchcom with a bid of $49,620. We would recommend approval of this purchase using East Blast and general fund dollars. Motion >> still moved. >> Mr. >> Ham second. >> Parish. All in favor? >> Passes 5-0. >> And finally, item F is the O County Primary Driveway project. We would recommend the approval of this project with all about Asphalt with a bid of $55,46 and this P project will be paid using East Blast and general fund dollars. >> Need a motion. >> So moved. >> Mr. Second, >> Mr. Hammond. All in favor? Passes 5-0. We do have a need to enter executive session to discuss personnel. I need a motion to do so. >> I'll make a motion that the board will adjourn to executive session to discuss or deliberate upon
046personnel matters as described on the affidavit to be attached to the minutes. >> Thank you, Miss Parish. You need a second. >> Second, Mr. Hammock. All in favor? Passes 50. We're journed to executive session.