001All right, let's try it one more time. So, I will call the County Schools Board of Education meeting for Tuesday, October 14th, 202. will join me. Thank you so much. Thank you for attending your kiddos and being a partner with us so much. We will go ahead and start our meeting with the pledge of allegiance. And we have some guests with us tonight to lead the pledge and I'm gonna introduce them to y'all. So I have Miss Flora Bernstein and she is from Childers. She is a kindergartener and I heard from your teacher that you love to read and you love art and her martial arts. She likes to ride and she likes to dance. And your teacher had this to say about you. She wants to Not just that she wants to highlight Flora
002not just because she is a bright student but because of the light she brings to the classroom. She is full of questions, always eager to learn more and genuinely excited about school and learning. She enjoys sharing ideas, helping classmates, and bringing a level of leadership that you don't expect to see in a kindergarter. She said that she is proud to have you as part of your classroom family. Thank you for being here. Let's give her a round of applause, y'all. Love it. So, up next, I have Will and he is in first grade in Miss Parker's room. He loves What? So, what do you love most, Will? What class do you love most? Yeah, Parker's room. He said that he loves PE the absolute most. And in his free time, he likes to ride his
003four-wheeler. He plays on the trampoline, and he likes to spend a lot of time outside. So, his teacher said that Will is bright, he's hardworking, and he's an attentive student who always puts forth his best effort. He's kind to his classmates. He's a great helper in the classroom, and he takes pride in producing neat, thoughtful work, that he is a leader in their class. Thank you for being here. And from GE Massie, we have Juliana. She is in the fourth grade. Whose class are you in? >> Radius. >> Miss Radio. >> That. So, you love to read. And in your free time, it says that you like to craft. Do you like crafting? Yeah. So, her teacher had this to say that she's an extremely hard worker that not only works hard in the classroom,
004but also works hard to support her peers and to be a kind friend. Thank you for being here. And then last but not least, we have Christian. And he is in the fifth grade in Mrs. Dillard's room. He loves math. And what do you like to do on your free time? Uh, ride my bike. >> Ride your bike. So, my paper says that you also love golf. What's your best score? Do you know? >> You just play. He's just out there doing it. I like that. So, I won't let I won't let my family keep score when I play because I'm really terrible. So, it your teacher had this to say that you are an overall great kid, that you are a friend to all, and that you reach out to all the kids in
005the classroom, that you take up for all of your classmates. You're responsible for your work and if you see someone down, you work to lift them up. So, thank y'all for being here. So, if y'all will stand and face the flag, we will say the pledge. [Music] America and justice for all. So, I'll go ahead and turn it over to Miss Christa Hebner to lead us in our mission statement. >> Good evening, everyone. Uh, thank you all so much for being here. I like seeing a full parking lot. Um, it is such an honor and a privilege to be up here and be part of the board of education. And as we go out and about and see different activities going on all over the county, I'm just so proud that my children have gone
006through this school system and that um I don't know, we just have so many things to celebrate and you're going to hear about some of those things tonight. Um our mission statement, if you would like to read it with me, it is on the wall over here um to your right um and we will read it all together. Lincoln County Schools will work together with students, families, and the community to ensure a quality, innovative educational program in a safe environment where students become responsible, contributing citizens and lifelong learners. >> Thank you, Miss Heer. So, at this time, I will entertain a motion to approve the agenda as presented. I move that we approve the agenda. >> I have a motion by Miss Heer. Is there a second? >> Second. >> Have a second by Miss
007Wyant. Any further discussion? All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Those opposed. Motion is carried. We have our agenda. Well, I will turn it over to Dr. Allen for our superintendent updates. >> Thank you, Miss Sutton. So, uh, gallery and those online, um, and board of education members, just want to bring up a few things to celebrate and bring to note. So, uh, today is our work day for the end of the first nine weeks, the first quarter's completed. We have many things to celebrate. Some of those will be celebrated tonight. Um, so appreciate the hard work from our staff and our students and our families in making sure this first nine weeks was a success. October 2nd this month, we celebrated National Custodian Worker Day for all the custodians that we have
008in our system. We appreciate the work you do to make our buildings look pretty dagam good. October 6 was National Coaches Appreciation Day. Again, thanks to all the coaches that we have, volunteer, paid, unpaid staff, um, and community coaches that pour into our middle school and our high school student athletes um, each day. October is also National Principal Appreciation Month, and we're going to celebrate our principal of the year tonight, um, as well. But I bet most of you didn't know that October is also known as Augmented Alternative Communication Awareness Month. And so that's a lot. It's basically short for AAC is what it's short for. And we have programs at Love Memorial Pumpkin Center. Um both of our pumpkin centers Norris Childers and Iron Station where our programs of study require students that can't
009communicate or struggle to communicate to use augmented communication devices. And so I want to appreciate the staff members that are teaching kids how to communicate with iPads, with um recordable buttons, with apps, and with lemonated picture charts to be able to communicate their their wants, their needs, their their their thoughts because we're able to unlock the genius in those students. And even though we're we're missing a mode of communication, we're still able to supplement that in a different way. And it's pretty neat to watch. If you get a chance to stop by and appreciate those teachers in those programs at Love Memorial, Pumpkin Center, Children's, and Iron Station, please do so because it is it's pretty um pretty impressive. And then last but not least, I want to remind the public and our board that
010our Lincoln County Public Education will be hosting a 50-50 raffle coming up soon in the next couple of weeks. Be looking for social media communication for that. But all of those proceeds that go to our public ed foundation uh raffle go back into our classrooms and you can check out some of those uh items that have been purchased with the grants that our teachers ever receive from the public ed foundation currently on our website and I appreciate the work to highlight those teachers and the good things that they're doing. That's all my updates. >> All right. Well, thank you so much for sharing. Board team, if you will join me out front of the DAS, we will kick off our uh recognitions. Good evening board. National Arts and Education Week is celebrated the second week
011in September. We're a little bit later recognizing our folks because it was after the September board meeting. We honored the remarkable fine arts teachers in Lincoln County uh who enrich students lives through music, theater, chorus, band, and the visual arts. These passionate educators open doors to new worlds of expression and creativity, teaching students not only technical skills, but also discipline, teamwork, and synergy. Fine arts teachers often juggle multiple roles, director, choreographer, conductor, mentor, while advocating tirelessly for programs that might otherwise be overlooked. They create transformative experiences through concerts, exhibitions, and performances that build confidence and bring communities together. Their dedication shapes well-rounded individuals who understand the power of the arts to communicate and to inspire. To all fine arts teachers, thank you for nurturing the artist, performers, and creative thinkers who will carry the torch
012of artistic expression into the future. If you are a fine arts educator in attendance tonight, will you please stand? Let's give them a round of applause. You can be seated for now, but you'll come back up in just a minute. So, in September, Miss Clancy introduced a new initiative to honor our fine arts teachers. And I'm going to say it was a phenomenal recognition. She emailed all seniors asking them to nominate a fine arts teacher who had made a significant impact on their lives. After receiving the nominations, one educator was selected from each zone. Miss Clancy then filmed the interviews with the nominating students and then surprised the selected educator with an on camera interview and recognition. If you haven't watched these four recognition videos, I encourage you to take a few minutes to view
013them. They were uh just tremendous. Tonight, we want to publicly recognize these outstanding individuals from each zone. It was a little challenging in the selection process because 12 of our fine arts educators across the district uh from all levels received nominations and then Miss Clancy graciously sent each nominated educator a certificate with words included from their students. So, I'm going to invite the students up. We did invite them tonight. Many of them had different events, but I'm going to invite a couple of them up at a time to help us honor their teachers. So, if I call your name, if you'll join me. Violet Sullivan, are you here? Isabelle Mack, Grace Henley, Christina Troenko, Caitlyn Wooten, and Emily Roberts. Did you hear all of those names? All of those students nominated Miss Brooke Russell. So,
014Miss Russell, will you join us up here, please? Miss Russell teaches art at North Lincoln High School. I'm going to give you a chance to shake their hands. And if you'll just stay up here. So if these following students are here, Macy Scott and Mia Connell, these students nominated Miss Jennifer Falenberry. If you will come up, please, Miss Falenberry teaches art at East Lincoln High School. Right. Is Emma Taylor here? Right. This student nominated Miss Tina Balls. Miss Balls teaches at West Lincoln Middle School. If you will join us, she teaches art. And then uh Jason Clinch, Samantha Lawrence, Ashley Gonzalez, are you here tonight? They nominated Mr. William Fischer. Now, I told Mr. Fischer I was not going to say this, but I changed my mind. Mr. Fer Fischer teaches band at Lincoln High
015School. So, let's give him a hand and then I'll [Applause] So, there's there's always a uh band preview at the beginning of the season and for some reason the students and parents vote for the ugliest band director. I'm not I'm not sure why they've done that, but they do. And for five years in a row, Mr. Fisher has won that award. He says it's a popularity contest, but for some reason last Saturday at the East Lincoln High School band competition, he won it again. So, he's won it twice uh this year. So, to close, I have the awesome privilege to visit each of our fine arts classrooms. We have some of the finest, most passionate educators, I think, in the Southeast. more than just North Carolina. Let's give them all another round of applause. [Applause]
016Good evening board. At this time, we are going to recognize our schools for academic growth in the 2024 2025 school year. We will start by recognizing the schools who met growth. with each school. I'll share a little bit about their accomplishments last year. So, first we have Love Memorial Elementary School who met growth overall in both reading and math. They increased overall math proficiency by eight percentage points, fifth grade science proficiency by four percentage points, and boosted EL progress by 10%. [Applause] Next, we have Rock Springs Elementary School that met growth overall in reading and in math individually and across all subgroups. They increased overall proficiency as well as college and career readiness in reading. Rock Springs scored in the top 10% of elementary schools in the Southwest region for fifth grade science proficiency and
017then a top 17% for third grade math proficiency. [Applause] It's really hard. Esray Louderder Elementary met growth overall and in both reading and math individually. They increased reading proficiency across the entire school, raised college and career readiness scores for reading and math in the fourth grade cohort, and increased EL progress by an impressive 28%. [Applause] St. James Elementary met growth overall in reading and math individually and across all subgroups. They increased overall math proficiency by 5 percentage points and achieved a 23% increase in EL progress. St. James also increased college and career readiness scores in both their fourth and fifth grade cohorts. Union Elementary met growth overall in reading and math individually and across all subgroups. They increased math proficiency across the school and raised college and career readiness and reading for the fourth grade
018cohort and in math for the fifth grade cohort. [Applause] East Lincoln High School increased their graduation rate to over 90%. They gained over 20 proficiency points on the math 3 EOCC, placing them seventh in the Southwest region for traditional high schools. And for the fourth year in a row, they increased overall proficiency on the English 2 EOC. Congratulations. [Applause] We have three schools who exceeded growth the 2425 school year. Battleground Elementary ranked first in overall math growth for the pre-K to fifth grade public schools across all of North Carolina. They placed in the top 4% for fifth grade math achievement statewide, 23rd in overall growth in the entire Southwest region, and seventh in overall growth for preK to fifth grade schools in the Southwest region. >> I'm gonna let them say their words. I know.
019>> And as their shirts say, Battleground raised their school performance grade from a C to a B in the 2425 school year. Iron Station Elementary placed in the top 15% for fifth grade science achievement and in the top 20% for math growth among pre-K to fifth grade schools in the Southwest region. They met growth in reading and exceeded growth in math during the 2425 school year. Iron Station also increased their overall school performance grade from a C to a B, gaining five points during the 24-25 school year. And last but not least, Norris Childers Elementary School placed in the top 16% for math growth among preK to fifth grade schools in the Southwest region and increased overall math achievement by four percentage points. They met growth in reading and exceeded growth in math for the
02024-2 school years and met growth across all subgroups. [Applause] Good evening. I have the amazing pleasure of recognizing our principal of the year this year who is just such such a sweet lady and a great friend. Kelly Delinger at Union Elementary School. If you'll come on up. [Applause] Kelly is so much more than a principal to the students and staff at Union Elementary. She is an instructional leader, an experienced elementary school teacher herself, and is quick to step back into teacher mode to help teachers analyze data and find the necessary pathway to making students successful. teachers have great respect for her ability to truly comprehend the curriculum and offer sound advice. She is a caring advocate for students. She knows all the students and their families at Union. She makes it a point to be
021familiar enough to know what might be going on with the students if they're not having a good day. She's quick to reach out to parents or outside agencies for assistance if needed and will sit down and talk with parents to help them find the best ways to be there for their children. She talks with parents using language that helps them understand educational jargon and makes them comforter, excuse me, comfortable. Kelly is also a supportive encourager to her staff. Teaching is a difficult profession that can often be thankless. She does not let her staff feel underappreciated. She is constantly looking for ways to show appreciation, whether working with her PTO or local churches to provide duty-free lunches or even offering to cover their classes when they have family emergencies and need to leave. It is not
022uncommon to find her sitting at the front desk fielding calls and signing in visitors so the office staff can have their lunch break. She celebrates with staff when there are births and graduations, but also grieavves with them when they suffer their losses. The sense of community and family at Union is strong because Kelly genuinely cares for her staff and students as if they were her own family. Kelly is an excellent mentor and is mindful of providing opportunities for growth and reflection with her teachers and support staff. She feels strongly that it is important to have staff input on schoolwide decisions. She values the discussions that she has in school improvement meetings, but also in staff evaluations. She provides effective feedback and allows room for her staff to grow without lowering her expectations. Now, this is
023coming for your from your assistant principal. As someone who just finished their first year as an assistant principal, she can say that you have provided her with endless guidance and patience. Watching her calm demeanor and her professionalism day after day has taught her so much about the kind of administrator she one day hopes to be. Those who work with Kelly each day see how dedicated she is. There is no job she would ask a staff member to do that she would not be willing to do herself. We often reprimand her for working too many hours, for being too independent, and for being too much of a perfectionist. But the truth is, there's absolutely no limit to the deep love she has for what she does and for the people of her school. Everybody sees how
024blessed they are to have you, someone so selfless, to be their leader. These are only a few reasons that you were nominated. We are so proud of you. Congratulations, Miss Ellinger. [Applause] Next up is our beginning teacher of the year from West Lincoln High School, Miss Caroline Beam. On September 30th, Miss Caroline Jenkins Beam was awarded with the honor of Lincoln County School's beginning teacher of the year. She is currently in her second year of teaching English at West High. She herself graduated from West High in 2020, right in the middle of COVID. She then continued her love of learning at App State as a creative writing major and a dance studies major. She had dreams of becoming a writer, but quickly realized that writing by itself was not what she was felt compelled to
025do. Caroline longed for a community to share her love of reading and writing, and she knew that she was being called to teach. After changing her major to English secondary education, she was launched into the world of internships and field experiences in high school surrounding Appalachin. It was in those opportunities she began to feel connected to all of the wonderful aspects of teaching, not strictly content. Before her graduation in December of 23, Caroline spent a semester as a student teacher teaching all levels of English 4 at Fred T. Ford High School in Kataba County. While teaching at Ford, she was nominated and deemed a finalist for student teacher of the year at AppState. After countless hours of planning lessons for all types of learners, completing and passing ed TPA, and successfully pass passing the practice
026exams, she graduated magnaum lad with a bachelor's of science in English secondary education. She graduated in December and jumped straight into teaching in January as a long-term sub for an English teacher at Ford. Although Caroline loved her students and community at Ford, Lincoln County has always will be home. As a position opened up at West Lincoln, she applied right away. Now she's happy to call West High her home again, but as a teacher this time around. Caroline currently teaches all levels of English, creative writing, and AP literature. But her teaching does not stop in the classroom. During her first year, she took on the role of coaching JV cheerleading, and still enjoys coaching and watching her girls spread Rebel pride throughout the school and community. Caroline is also in the process of creating a poetry
027out loud club at West Lincoln and looking to create a sector of NCP in Lincoln County Schools is coming. She's an instructor at Extreme Edge Dance Studio teaching all types of competitive dance and tumbling for kids ranging between the ages of 3 to 18. Caroline is a teacher through and through and very busy in every aspect of her life. She currently resides with her husband Dylan and their two dogs in Vale. She feels so extremely honored to teach in Lincoln County as well as be recognized as the beginning teacher of the year for 2526. [Applause] Good evening board members. I'm honored to recognize Mr. Joseph Rothwell as our 2025 exceptional children's educator of excellence. Mr. Mr. Rothell will be honored at the 74th Conference on Exceptional Children in Greensboro on November 20th. Mr. Rothell has
028dedicated 12 years to the teaching profession, serving the last two years as a key staff member at East Lincoln High School. Joe, your leadership, professionalism, professionalism, and unwavering commitment are what set you apart. You exhibit the skills and the abilities of true leadership. We are proud to honor you as this year's recipient. And at this time, I'm going to invite Nate Mlan, the principal, to share a few words. Joe Rothwell was recommended for the exceptional children's educ educator of excellence for his outstanding leadership, dedication, and contributions within the field of special education. I've had the privilege of observing Joseph's work, and I'm continually impressed by his ability to lead with both vision and compassion while making a meaningful difference in the lives of students and colleagues alike. Joe's leadership is marked by his again his
029unwavering commitment to foster an inclusive, supportive learning environment. He consistently demonstrates initiative whether by developing innovative strategies to meet students diverse needs, mentoring colleagues and best practices, or advocating for resources that allow students to thrive. His ability to collaborate effectively with families, staff, and community members has strengthened the overall support network for his students and our entire EC department, ensuring all students receive the individualized care and attention they deserve. Beyond his leadership, Joseph's dedication is evident in the countless hours he invests to ensure the success of his students. He appreciates, excuse me, he approaches and challenges with resilience, creativity, and a student first mindset. His contributions to special education extend beyond the classroom. He has helped shape our program, built strong professional teams, and established a culture of empathy and high expectations. In every respect,
030Joe embodies the qualities of a true leader in education. His passion, integrity, and tireless dedication have left a lasting impact, and I have no doubt that he will continue to inspire and lead wherever his career takes him. Thank you. I'm here to recognize the 2024 2025 ejectionfree schools in Lincoln County School Athletics. I'm very proud of these three schools. So will North Lincoln Middle, Lincolnington Middle, and West Lincoln Middle please come up. Local school systems established guidelines for ejection related to fighting, taunting, profanity, obscene gestures, or disrespectful addressing the official or contacting the official. We would like to thank the administration, the coaching staff, and all the athletes for modeling behavior that positively reflects Ling County Schools. Again, congratulations to these three schools. Congratulations. Our final two recognitions are our we are Lincoln recognitions and
031these are this are the same two schools that we had coming to lead our pledge today. So we're going to start by recognizing Hannah Richardson at Child. She is their school social worker. If you'll come on up. Hannah is being recognized for embodying Lincoln County schools as we are Lincoln in showing teamwork and culture. Mr. Go ahead. Mr. Oak says that Hannah is a wonderful member of team children. She serves multiple schools in the districts as school social workers. She's a humble servant. She will go above and beyond to ensure that our kids' needs are met. Takes on any task that we or the other schools ask of her. She has been an integral part of the community meal that we host at Childers. She organized community donations of food, paper products, and beverages to
032feed over 100 people. She is also very involved in coordinating Thanksgiving meals, Christmas events, shopping days at the Ark, and the back to school bash. She will rarely try to shine the spotlight on herself, but she deserves the highest of praise. Okay, finally we have a recognition from GE Massie of five different students for being student focused and collaborating with staff. And this is what their principal, Miss Skybo, had to say. First of all, let me call them up. We've got Kayn Ally, Preston Anderson, McKenzie Pope, Mey Stroop, and Levi Sadler. Come on up. This is a group of students that came to teachers and administration at the start of the year asking to help their school. We have a large number of car riders this year at GE Massie and with only three adults
033outside, students were late to class. This group asked to help at car riders. They work to select students to be a part of what this what is called the Massie morning crew. These students open car doors for students, carry in those heavy items, greet parents, and make sure that Massiey's mornings are efficiently run and that the line keeps moving. They've practiced hand signals. I got to see them. What are your hand signals? Show us some. Okay. All right. It looks good. I like the hand signals. And they make sure that traffic flows correctly. They advocated for vests, very fancy, so that others would see them and have arranged a schedule for student placement. Massie and Miss Skybo are extremely proud of them for taking leadership, being proactive, and finding ways to get our students quickly
034and safety into the safely into the building so that everyone can start their day without being in a rush. Great job. [Applause] I like that. Thank you. Keep on This is just going through each school. No, this is made it for us to make sure we board members. We do have um two folks from the community who have uh signed up for board protocol to speak before the board. So, I will pass this over to our board attorney, Dean Shadley. >> Thank you, Madam Chairman. I think we have two people signed up for public comment tonight. Each member will get will be called in the order in which they signed up. Each um community member will have three minutes to speak. I will be the timekeeper. I will raise my hand at two and a
035half minutes just as a 30 second warning and then I will let you know when your time is up and we'll ask you just to quickly wrap up at that point in time at three minutes. Um, we do ask that uh members remain respectful when talking to the board as well as respectful to the audience. We also ask that you do not use profanity or obscinities or and refrain from talking about confidential student or personnel matters. So, I think we're ready. The first one is Mr. Kino Candidate. Good evening, Chair Sutton, members of the board, superintendent, superintendent of community. My name is Reverend Kino Kennedy, serving pastor of Popular Springs Amy Zion Church. I come again before you tonight with a heavy heart, yet with some hope I carried two months ago. Jesus said in
036Matthew 25:40, "Truly I tell you, whatever you did for the one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did also unto me." And in Luke 10, when asked, "Who is my neighbor?" Jesus told the story of the good Samaritan. That story calls us to see the one who has been harmed, the one made vulnerable, and responds not with silence, but with compassion and courage. Four months ago, this board and district publicly condemned the racial harassment of Richard R.J. Lynch, a student at Lincoln High School. You told WCNC, "This behavior is unacceptable and does not reflect the values of our school athletic program or community." You promised disciplinary actions according to district policy and said educational and restorative measures were being implemented. You said that publicly, yet four months later, no public
037followup, no clarity, no accountability. The community still wants to know, still doesn't know how the district applied policy 4329/7311, which bans bullying, harassment, even off-campus when it's when it impacts the school. Or how West Lincoln High School student handbook was enforced, which says off-campus conduct that disrupts school safety, is subject to discipline, that racial harassment is prohibited, and that athletes are held to a higher standard. These aren't my words. They're yours written in your policy, spoken by your statements. So tonight, I ask plainly plainly how, if, when, or whether you are making it known publicly what policy applied here and how it was enforced. We're not asking for names. We're asking for truth because public trust requires public clarity. When a district speaks to the media about disciplinary actions and restorative measures, the public has
038a right to know those actions truly take place. Four months of silence sends its own message, but there is still time to correct it because the measure of your leadership isn't found in what's said during controversy. It's found in what's done after the headlines fed away. Thank you. >> Thank you, Reverend. Uh the second public speaker is Mr. Matt Sin. Good evening. Thank you board employees, staff, especially teachers and parents and students for giving me a couple minutes to speak. Before I go into detail of what I came to speak about, I would just like to recognize that in neighboring Kataba County, they lost a very valuable school board member, Dr. Leslie Barnett. I encourage everyone in the sound hearing my voice to look her up. That's an example of a person who spent a
039lifetime devoted to strengthening public education. She served in every role imaginable. She had as much experience as the superintendent of North Carolina and she deserves to be recognized. My name is Matson, born and raised in North Carolina public schools K through 12. there were re I hope Lincoln County Schools considers me a friend. I've helped pay off uh some public school uh meal debt and that's the reason I'm here to speak. Um I had pledged to help and it turned out that um the public school meal debt at the end of the year was almost $9,000. Now I can't do this every year, but I'd like to offer again my support. Maybe we can do a fundraiser something for next year. Now, what I want to say is we as a community need to take
040responsibility at nonC schools. Even if your students friend at a C school doesn't have to pay for meals, please take the responsibility to pay for your students meals. If you cannot afford to pay, please take the time to register for assistance. The money at the end of the year does not just disappear. Okay? This is money that has to be withheld so from activities for that could be used for other students. Now, I tried to help out. I volunteer uh at our my county's uh educator warehouse and uh continue to support public schools, but we also have to send a message to our representatives in Raleigh and DC that for those representatives that do not make public schools a priority, we have a saying where I come from that dog don't hunt. Thank you, Mr.
041Sim. >> Board members, before we go into close session, I would like to take a moment um just to recognize a staff member that we lost at West Lincoln um our ISS coordinator um last week, Mr. Terry Reinhardt. I know he was a valued staff member. So, if you will join me in a moment of silence. Thank you very much. So, we do have a need for close session. I will turn it back over to Mr. Shatley. >> Madam Chair, we need a motion to go into close session pursuant to North Carolina General Statute 143-318.11 under subsection A1. to discuss confidential matters under the law particularly student personnel matters and under subsection A3 discuss matters protected by the attorney client privilege. >> This time I will entertain that motion. >> So move madam chair. >>
042I have a motion by Mr. Jarrett. Is there a second? >> Second by Mr. Sanders. Any further discussion? All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Those opposed. Motion is carried. We are now in close session. board members. We are now back in open session. No action was taken. So, moving on to our action items. First up, we have our school improvement plans for the 2526 school year. Um, all of these items were discussed at length at our work session last Tuesday. Um, so at this time I will entertain a motion to approve the 2526 school improvement plans as submitted with the exception of the 2025 low performing schools, G. Massie Elementary, Love Memorial Elementary, and Lincoln Middle School. >> Move to approve. Madam Chair, >> I have a motion by Mr. Jared. Is
043there a second? >> Second. >> Have a second by Miss Long. Any further discussion? All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Those opposed. Motion is carried. We also have the West Lincoln High School barn. Um I will entertain a motion to approve Avery Builders as the official builder for the West Lincoln High School barn. >> I move that we approve Avery Builders for the West Lincoln High School barn project. >> I have a motion by his. Is there a second? Second. I have a second by Miss Heavner. Any further discussion? All those in favor signify by saying I. Those opposed. Motion is carried. We have our consent agenda items that we reviewed um October 7th at our work session which include the approval of minutes of the board work session for September 2nd
0442025 the board meeting September 2nd 2025 personnel recommendations extended field trips curricular the budget timeline the approval of policies which stood open for 25 days for input as presented in the agenda the NCSBA voting delegate select ction for 2025. The approval of bids um for Kazaba Springs Elementary School fire alarm as presented in the proposal. The Rock Springs Elementary School intercom as presented in the proposal. I will entertain a motion to approve the consent agenda items as presented. >> Make that motion. >> I have a motion by Mr. Jenkins. Is there a second? I have a second by Mr. Sanders. Any further discussion? All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Those opposed. Motion is carried. So board members, you'll take a look at our reminders and announcements. Um we have our work session
045and monthly board meeting on November the 4th. We'll begin at 100 p.m. And our report cards, they go out soon. Feels like we just started. So at this time, I will entertain a motion to adjurnn. I have a motion by Miss Heer. Is there a second? >> Second by Miss Wyant. Any further discussion? All those in favor signify by saying I. There's a post.