001Mr. Johnson 6 o' >> just waiting for you. [clears throat] Hallelujah. >> All right. Good evening everyone. Thank you for joining us for our Monday, November 3rd regular scheduled meeting. We're going to go ahead and call this meeting to order. Being that all board members are seated and present, we have determined that there is a quorum. Board members, if you could take a look at the agenda and let me know your pleasure. >> Make a motion to approve. >> Motion to approve by Mr. Beck. Do we have a second? >> Second by Mrs. Taylor. All those in favor indicate by saying I. Those opposed, nay. Eyes have it. Agenda is approved. We are now going to have a moment of silence and the board invocation by Mr. Wyoff. Let's first have a moment of silence.
002Heavenly Father, we thank you Lord for bringing uh us together here tonight. We ask that you give us your wisdom and guidance as we make decisions that's going to affect our schools and our staff and our students and help us to love the same way that you've shown us to love. Thank you Lord for the chance to serve and let everything we do bring you honor and glory. In his name we pray. Amen. >> Amen. Please say stand for the presentation of United States and North Carolina flag. to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> [applause] >> Thank you to Patton High School's Fire Academy led by Chief Mike Long. All right, moving on
003in the agenda. Mr. Wyoff, do we have any public comment? >> We do not. >> All right, we have the consent agenda. Uh first is school improvement plans with Dr. Wilson. >> Madam Chair, members of the board, good to see you all tonight. >> Last Monday night, we presented the school improvement plans for your consideration and requested those go to the consent agenda. Are there any questions about those plans as presented? Hearing none. Do we have a motion to approve? >> Motion to approve. >> Motion by Mrs. Rocket. Do we have a second? >> Second by Mr. Johnson. All those in favor indicate by saying I. >> I. Those opposed, nay. Eyes have it. The school improvement plans have been approved. Thank you, Dr. Wilson. Next, we have uh board policy 1725 4035 7236 with
004Dr. Autton. >> Yes. Thank you. So, we brought this policy before you last Monday evening um and added some clarification as requested by Mr. Camp. And so, if there are no um questions or uh further adjustments needed, we ask that we approve um this policy this evening. >> All right. Do we have any questions? If not, do we have a motion? >> I move we approve it. >> Motion by Mr. Kemp. Do we have a second? >> Second by Mr. Beck. All those in favor indicate by saying I. Those opposed, nay. Eyes have it. Policy is approved. Thank you, Dr. Oden. >> Thank you. >> Next board, we have the open session minutes for September 29th, September 30th, October 2nd, and October 13th. Do we have a motion or any questions? >> Motion by Mr.
005Wyoff. Do we have a second? >> Second by Mr. Johnson. All those in favor indicate by saying I. >> Those opposed, nay. Eyes have it. The minutes are approved. Close session minutes for October 13th. Do we have any comments or do we have a motion? >> Motion to approve. >> Motion by Mr. Beck. Do we have a second? >> Second by Mr. [clears throat] Camp. All those in favor indicate by saying I. I. >> Those opposed? Nay. Eyes have it. Close session minutes for October 13th are approved. Next we have the federal title grant fund plans with Dr. Wilson. Last Monday night, I had the pleasure of presenting our title one, two, three, and four plans to you. Uh went over a little details with those and request at this time, if you don't have
006questions, if we could move forward with submitting those for approval. Do we have a motion for approval? >> Motion by Mr. Johnson. Do we have a second? >> Second by Mrs. Rocket. All those in favor indicate by saying I. >> Those opposed, nay. Eyes have it. >> The federal title grant funding plans are approved. Dr. Wilson. >> Thank you, ma'am. >> Next, we have the retesting plan with Dr. Abernathy. Good evening, Madam Chair and board. We're just asking for approval for a retest plan that we submitted to you um so that we can get that in motion if it's approved. Any questions? >> No, just looking forward to, you know, just seeing some new creative ways on how we can get get folks motivated to come back and take those tests and and families to
007ensure that they get here. >> With that, >> approve with that. Mr. Taylor, do you have a motion? >> Yes, ma'am. Motion to approve. Motion to approve by Mrs. Taylor. Do we have a second? >> Second by Mr. Johnson. All those in favor indicate by saying I. I. >> Those opposed, [snorts] nay. Eyes have it. The retesting plan is approved. Thank you, Dr. >> Next, we have this new central office construction intent to award to Neil Construction with Dr. Swan. >> Yes. Last week, we presented the [clears throat] intent to award Neil Construction. Um, and I'd be happy to entertain any questions. >> Hearing none, I'll make a motion to approve. Do we have a second? >> Second by Mr. Wyoff. All those in favor indicate by saying I. >> I. Those opposed, nay. Eyes
008have it. The contract the construction intent to award to no construction is approved. Thank you, Dr. Swan. Uh, next we have the personnel board action report for Mr. Keith Recker. Remember, if there are any questions regarding any of those listed, please use the number. >> Miss Recker is not here this evening, but we'll be happy to answer any questions that you might have. >> Do we have a motion? >> Motion by Mrs. Rocket. Do we have a second? Second by Mr. Camp. Any further discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor indicate by saying I. I. Those opposed, nay. Eyes have it. The personnel board action report is approved. Next we have the board amendment budget revision with Mr. Lawson. Good evening Mr. Lawson. >> Good evening. >> I request your consideration and approval of budget
009amendment uh 04103-25 as presented at our last work session. >> Any questions or do we have a motion? >> Motion to approve. >> Motion by Mr. Beck. Do we have a second? >> Second by Mrs. Rocket. [clears throat] Any further discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor indicate by saying I. I. Those opposed, nay. Eyes have it. The board revision, the budget revision has been passed. Thank you, Mr. Lawson. >> All right. Next, we have board policy 4160. >> Thank you. So, this um we brought this policy to you at the work session last Monday, and I think after some other conversation, discussion, there might have been some requests for some other um language. So, I want to share with you this evening some modified language uh before approving this policy. And again, this is
010to address our graduation rate because we are um taking some hits from students who are duly enrolled. And so, you can see the changes in red on the screen. I think we originally had suggested that they finish before the end of their first semester of their senior year. But in order to make it fair for athletic reasons and different reasons, we um have changed the language where they would not be able to begin their senior year with dually enrolled if they choose to graduate from another school other than the Burke County Public Schools. >> Thank you. Did we agree that this was going to start effective immediately? >> It would have to be for next school year since some students are already doing enrolled for this. >> But we're not but we're not grandfathering people
011in like we discussed. >> I don't think we're grandfathering for second semester is my understanding. >> That's correct. It will begin um for the second [clears throat] semester of the 2526 school year and then it'll take full effect for the 26 27 school year beginning [clears throat] first semester and second semester >> and that's because we already have juniors. >> Yeah, we already have seniors already started with us right now that are that fit that category. >> Okay, so for clarification, this [clears throat] is uh Dr. Swan, Dr. Utton um and potentially Dr. Abernathy, we are most likely going to take a hit to our graduation rate for this upcoming school year. >> This year, >> we're I believe we're looking around six students potentially >> if we grandfathered them in. But if we don't
012grandfather, then we should alleviate. >> Yeah, we should recoup those hits. So, >> so okay to your point, Dr. Abernathy, if if we go ahead and approve this tonight with the amended language, would we still have those conversations with the potentially impacted students, letting them know that a decision needs to be made before the end of the second semester? >> Yes. If this gets approved tonight, our team, uh, Miss Kerpatrick and Dr. Abernati will begin making those calls along with the high school principles this week once we identify those students >> so that a decision will be made in 2025. >> Correct. >> Okay. >> What we're saying to them is if they want to graduate from their home school, they need to go back by the semester. >> Correct. >> Yeah. >> They won't.
013and and the big reason they they will not obtain enough high school credits from a traditional setting in order to be counted as a high school graduate based on the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction standards. >> I believe I heard a motion to approve by Mr. Beck. >> I'll second that with the added language here. >> Okay. So, your motion is with the amended language. I'm sorry. >> All right. And then Mr. Johnson is a second to that. Do we have any further discussion? All right. All those in favor indicate by saying I. Those opposed nay. Eyes have it. Thank you. Dr. Swan, Dr. Odin, and Dr. Abernathy. Do we have need for close session tonight? >> Awesome sauce. All right. Do we have a motion to adjurnn? >> Motion by Mr. Beck. Do
014we have a second? >> Second by Mrs. Rocky. All those in favor indicate by saying I. I. Those opposed, nay. Eyes have it. The meeting is adjourned. Thank you everyone.