001beautiful thank you good evening I would like to make a motion to approve the agenda do I have a second okay thank you all those in favor thank you this time I'm going to turn it over to Dr Mike Swann for our superintendent updates and informational items thank you madam chair members of the board good to see everyone um at this time about a month ago we were kind of wrapping up the end of the school year now where I was just talking to somebody we're 10 almost 10 days into a summer vacation for our students hard to believe right now that we've been out of school 10 days so we had a great year culmination of it of course we were able to get all of our high school graduations worked out on different
002days this year which it took a little uh head struggling work kind of scratch brain scratching a little bit to get it all worked out but we were able to get all the graduations on different days so that Administration and the board members could participate in those graduation so I do want to share just a kind of a quick video [Music] that a defined your time at Eastbourne High School congratulations [Music] [Applause] hmm [Applause] [Music] so just just a great celebration for our graduations and our seniors it's a special it kind of starts with that month before where they start doing the graduation walks where they go to their elementary schools and their cap and gowns and they get showered in gifts and praise from the younger students so it's just a great culmination end
003of the year activity for us and I've thrown together a slideshow with some pictures on here as well also want to shout out we've had some students visit Senator Warren Daniel over the last several weeks and Mr Hugh Blackwell we've had a one of our Mountain View Elementary classrooms uh miss zabrina's classes were on the senate floor our Senate chamber with Senator Daniel and also Patton art student Anna Christensen won the North Carolina General Assembly youth Art Exhibit award for her painting titled Duality and met with Senator Daniel and Senator or I'm sorry Mr Blackwell legislation as well so just like to celebrate our students we've got a lot of students participating in summer school and reading Camp going on right now began last week Elementary summer programs will run from the 12th through the
00415th remediation retesting at all Elementary Schools summer reading Camp will run from the 14th through the 29th we have 11 sites going on right now first through third grade it's read to Chi read to achieve legislation so we have 72 hours of intensive literacy instruction so that's something that we continue to push during the even though school's out we have a lot of parents participating students 598 roughly that are participating in the summer reading program so some great information our secondary program as well we have EOC remediation and retesting we have Apex credit recovery and cvps which is North Carolina virtual public school middle school we have EOG remediation retesting and once again summer enrichment for those students as well um we have two sites this summer for free summer Mills for any student under
005the age of 18 18 and Below they could go to Valdese Elementary or Mountain View Elementary School for breakfast and lunch on those those days as well so Monday through Friday also Burke our Burke Education Foundation we were able to give out three grants through the Burke Education Foundation Mrs was one of the grant recipients she and this all happened within the last two weeks of school so she applied she was selected and then she went out and bought the it's basically a greenhouse so we got nice thank you letters this morning at our board meeting from that classroom as well so I just we had some great Grant um Grant presentations of course with our limited funds we had to select the ones that we felt had the largest impact for the students just
006found out last Thursday that we did receive the 22 000 feasibility study for Chesterfield Elementary so I've been on the phone with Mr acre we've already got two vendors lined up that will be going in and beginning that feasibility to study for teacher and first responder housing opportunities so here again this is just the next step we got our notification a little sooner than July so I wanted to make sure I shared that with the board this year as well so once again as a recap that feasibility study they'll go in they'll study the property they'll study the existing building and basically give us a plan on will it work or will it not work and after that then we'll be able to meet as a full board and then we can determine next steps
007also Burke Virtual Academy um during covid Virtual Academy expanded and we are happy to say that it's downsizing so to speak right now we have a lot more students coming in face to face so um we we have decreased as expected we have less than 90 kindergarten through eight students I know we've we've had some conversation about students wanting to continue with excuse me Burke Virtual Academy and we'll continue to do that as long as we can substantially maintain the funding for those programs the decision was made off fifth through eighth grade for the 23-24 school year to allow those who've been in VA for several years to continue so the small the younger grades if we had 10 or 12 kids in the classroom we had to put those teachers back into the classroom
008to help offset larger class sizes so just wanted to share that information with the board also happy to announce that we will be offering our first ever virtual French class for our high school students so any high school students student can take a virtual French course online and we're working through the hiring process of that teacher as well I wanted to share some summer projects with the board this is always a busy time for Dr Aker and Mr Herring and his crew scheduling activities around summer camp summer schools so as you see here we have North Liberty the boilers are going in I think the afternoon that the students left I saw him hauling a a roll-off dumpster where they begin just starting gutting the HVAC over at that campus so Walter Johnson new new
009chillers as well North Liberty projects new tile and media center at Forest Hill so it's going in it's probably completed after this week we have Chiller replacement new school entrance at Hillcrest Mr Hunt that's that's going to happen over the summer window replacements at Forest Hill lower gym HVAC units at East Burke and freedom new kitchen unit for the cafeteria drone concessions gym floor refinishing paving at various schools new doors awnings at Oak Hill Elementary HVAC wheelchair lift upgrades window upgrades at Hildebrand multiple upgrades across across the county and I'll I'll be presenting some updates in the fall as we get those projects completed as well um also wanted to share some statistics with vacancies here in Burke County if you'll see to the top left 21-22 school year we had 63 certified and 34
010classified last year we had 109 certified in 46 this year for the upcoming school year we only have 40 and 90. uh so we're we're doing well with our vacancies right now 21 certified and 14 classified as of 6 13 23. so where I feel by us advertising those positions and making good hires prior to the end of the school year we tried to get our graduates right out of college so we're ahead of the curve in a lot of situations compared to other counties right now and also we will begin the new school subcommittee in August where we're going to be looking at a school site on East Burke Elementary School campus we'll be looking at getting some details and I know Miss Taylor or Mr Hunt agreed to be part of that committee
011as well so I'll be in touch with you guys on some dates and times also we're happy to say that we've continued our Safety Council meetings as we mentioned at our last meeting we will bump those back to quarterly meetings rather than monthly very beneficial still maintain that strong partnership with our local law enforcement and we're still working with the county as well as the city about increasing our Workforce on our SRO division by two so we there's a lot of hurdles to cross with when we're talking about that right now also I saw this and thought it would it really made sense to me as I started looking at Burke County um you know we always look at what what is our product we really can't put a thumb on what a product is
012what do we make students are our product right so we're 142 million dollar school system um 88.1 graduation rate which is above the state rate by the numbers were 12 153 students our market share is 86.4 percent uh which is pretty good uh if you're a a financer uh 86.4 percent in Burke County Public Schools is the number one choice for education in Burke County so we wrap our heads around that is yes there's other programs out there but I as a superintendent and you guys is the board I know you want to make Burke County Public Schools the number one choice for our parents so we're going to continue to push that all in promise that we are doing all right Madam chair those are the superintendent updates um athletic update Mr Rogers you
013did good you bumped me off quick good yep all right um just some athletic updates first of all thank you guys for giving me the chance to update you on some things again as you can see in this first slide another banner year uh for athletic teams in the county these first couple slides are just some Spring sport highlights Freedom hosted the 3A West regions at Mimosa Hills this past spring they had two state qualifiers for the 3A state championships the women's track team at Freedom also had some State finalists in track with one top ten finish at the state championships and the women's soccer team Advanced to the state playoffs East Burke had a really really successful spring season they also hosted the 2A West Regional in track and that's a that's a big
014Kudo to you guys for getting the tracks done it allows those stadiums that freedom and espurr that allows for those places to kind of be the the central Hub so to speak moving forward there and eastberg was the 2A west region runner-up in that event that they hosted we did have one state championship by KJ Byrd and we recognized him actually at the winter indoor meeting at the winter meeting for his state championship success during indoor track so and then they also had several other athletes that finished in the top 10 at the state championships and then I this is not a obviously a Spring sport but East Burke recently received an award from The High School Athletic Association for having the highest football team GPA in the state of North Carolina and that was
015all classification so kind of the piggyback off of Dr Swan's that's you know Athletics is is as many people say as the front porch but that academic piece right there speaks for itself to what all we're doing in the county here also their baseball softball and women's soccer teams made this state playoffs and they also had a few Regional qualifiers in men's golf so pretty good spring season for East Burke another Eastern school that had a quite successful spring season drone baseball softball and women's soccer all one conference championships uh baseball made it to the fourth round and softball and soccer made it to the second round and I believe if I'm not mistaken soccer making it to the second round was the first time in the history of the school so uh drone men's
016women's track also had State finalists that finished in the top 10 in various events they also hosted the 1A West regionals again those rubberized tracks and some of the facilities that we've got um are proving very successful in terms of Hosting things they're men's and women's golf I mean sorry men's golf and women's tennis also had Regional playoff qualifiers and then Patton men's and women's track Had State finalists that finished in the top 10 in their events uh softball men's and women's lacrosse made the state playoffs and they also had a regional qualifier in men's golf so as you guys can see is a pretty successful uh spring Sports season for our high schools some athletic training updates uh recently uh June 3rd we had 332 student athletes that received a free physical at our
017clear to compete event with UNC health Blue Ridge that was an increase of 82 from last year so whether it was getting Word of Mouth out or better advertising whatever the case may be we did have an increase of 82 student athletes in middle school and high school that were able to get that free physical and then June 12th and 13th part of coaching certification is they have to have the CPR certification renewable every two years we had 68 coaches that got trained and certified on those two dates in our athletic trainers were able to do that at East Burton drones kind of a One-Stop shop where they were able to come in and so oh excuse me I want to use this mic after I get done but uh um that was a great
018opportunity for athletic trainers to provide that some High School Athletic Association updates uh this most recently got in inducted into the NCAA but name image likeness was approved by the High School Athletic Association there are no policies and guidelines that they have to go by right now with their situation with the state board so it's not going to be enacted this year but it was approved and it's something that we're gonna we're gonna be tasked with looking at moving forward and and hopefully they will provide those policies and guidelines for us to be able to Simply enact folks to be able to follow the coaches clinics coming up in July 17th through the 19th in Greensboro and that just allows our coaches opportunity for professional development sessions uh their sport updates they have rules clinics
019for each particular Sport and it allows for registration for the memberships we do have two dead periods those dead periods basically say nothing can go on athletically on our campuses during these times one's the week of the fourth other is the week of the uh coaches Clinic Fall Sports practices begin July 1st and false Sports first contest can begin on August 14th so that kind of gives you guys an update of what's coming up for our fall Sports realignment updates so the seven classification model was approved by the High School Athletic Association state board now again going back to their not take over but their partnership with the High School Athletic Association still has the ability to move that to a four-class system but the seven classification model was approved what that looks like is
020again that would be 25-26 when that would go into effect there would be 64 teams in each classification and it's solely based off of ADM so the lowest one through 64 would be 1A 65 through the next 60 would be 2A so it is strictly 64 teams east west 32 in each side and that would create the seven classification model just for some informational items 432 member schools as of this past year and so their thinking is if they stay with this seven class model 432 goes to 480 eventually it still doesn't matter during that four-year time frame it would be 64 schools cut off 64 schools cut off 64 schools so that and what that would look like based off of what I looked at is we would have two schools in the same
021classification one school in the next classification and then another school so we would at least get away from four classifications for conferences we would get back to two classifications they would obviously have to be in the same classification in the third school could be lumped in there because they're not doing away with split conferences so 4A could still be with a 582 acres do it so it I think it that's I think this model will at least take away some of our concern in that as it relates to that and the first draft usually is released sometime uh two years prior one year prior so in the fall of 24 we should get the first release of the draft there's typically three versions of that draft the fourth being the finalized so just to kind
022of give you a time frame we're still a year away from that first draft but that gives you a little bit of information yes sir it should decrease yeah it is and so what what I probably should have said instead of schools what it would look like right now is patent and drone would be in the same classification East Burke would be in another classification Freedom would obviously be in the highest classification based off of now but with them not taking away split conferences and allowing the state the ability to just worry about geography it should take away the situation that we're in now drastically no it's not but it should it should really fix some of that stuff and again as we go through that process that first draft comes out it will allow
023us uh and you guys as the board the opportunity to challenge anything that we see in in terms of inequities that we feel like we're facing as a County um uh some helmet updates uh we did purchase 275 helmets this past year and that was enough to meet the needs of our middle school and high school teams based off of their feedback we are going to look at a purchasing plan moving forward what we found out and again this is to no fault of anybody but helmets last about 10 years if they meet reconditioning every year obviously some get thrown out based off of the defections in those helmets but what we ran into again to no fault of anyone we have turnover whether it's principals athletic directors at schools 10 years is a long
024time for somebody to be in place so you may have one one one set of schools may have a different purchasing plan those schools may have a difference what we're going to do is I'm hopefully going to take over that to kind of say every year you have to purchase three helmets four helmets again Middle School and High School different based off of numbers but that'll allow us to in 10 years we go we've got 35 helmets that just expired why are we purchasing 35 now at X number of dollars versus just a little chunk at a time to kind of take care of that that'll alleviate a big purchasing there and again those purchases came from uh school system each individual school and the county so it was not a big purchase either way
025on each end everybody had a little bit of ownership in that what's the unit per cost of these things so the youth helmets so Middle School helmets except for our we probably say high school high school helmets 265 75 a helmet okay I guess my next question would be for Mr Lawson are we how are we inventorying those how are we tracking them it's not a fixed asset is it and Riddell Riddell the company we use they they have the number of helmets we've had how many past reconditioning how many didn't pass reconditioning so they're kind of our inventory right Supply we don't have Folks at school that are keeping paper or computer tracks of these things and don't just do the coaches do yeah coaches do and that's where I think that's where I
026hope I can help is like I said that purchasing plan moving forward of as of today I know that School a has 75 they don't be a database centralized with you yeah with yeah no yes absolutely um all reconditioned helmets have been returned except for one of our middle schools so the everybody's got those reconditioned helmets back and our new helmets are coming in as we speak we've got about half the schools that have received those so um we were we were able to get ahead of some of the delivery concerns that that some folks had in terms of getting stuff here on time our athletic fields just an update on that um we do have a plan for our annual and major field maintenance as far as football baseball soccer and softball myself uh
027County moved down to number three Dr akard Mr Herron Mr Pearson and Mr Curtis Mr Pearson and Curtis are filled experts so to speak Mr Curtis is a Yahoo's very well informed when it comes to when to spray what needs to be happened this field Mr Pearson does a lot of our mowing on campuses but also has done some Athletic Field updates but Dr Aker and Mr Herron were able to um get some equipment that will service things outside of athletic fields but also really help with athletic fields in terms of they've got a piece of equipment and I could let either one of them discuss this but as far as top dressing it used to be you get a bunch of you get four or five dump truck loads of sand the coaches throw
028them on the gator they drive it out there it takes three or four days they've got a piece of equipment that Mr Pearson can go out there and knock that out in about three hours so it's just a way to help improve all our fields and we really wanted to make sure that we didn't leave any any field out that's why we've got all four of those fields but he'll go around basically and look at top dressing as it's needed dethatchianism Fields aeration of fields at a scheduled time spraying for summer and winter weed control during a necessary period so we we talked about this back last fall this is going to allow us one guy who's able to answer for good and bad what's going on at each field and we've got some knowledge
029and some expertise our coaches again will still be responsible for the day-to-day mowing but this is just those annual things that have to happen every year that sometimes get neglected um but now we've got a guy saying every October we need to do this every March we need to do this so that we don't get caught in situations that uh allow our fields to get into the spots that sometimes they can get into so yes sir no this is just middle and high school I'm sorry yep yep they mostly have their own racks at their own booster clubs handle those Dr M Street I know our Oak Hill Aaron you could probably speak on that you guys go out and maintain that as a booster club there at that because they don't have as much
030traffic on them as they would in high school or middle school yeah and in our middle schools I'll be honest with you they were really excited about this opportunity because I feel like sometimes as I move into this next slide they they're they're under the umbrella of Athletics but it's like the high school gets all the attention so to speak now which leads into this next thing so last year we had the athletic handbook that we've had for quite some time after going through it um this year during the year I felt like there's a lot of missing pieces as far as our middle schools would go so we're looking at and uh and we've also we've got it pretty well done the creation of a middle school specific handbook because everything in the old
031handbook talked about middle schools well it's whatever the High School Athletic Association says well the High School Athletic Association does not monitor Middle School sports DPI does so we've looked at creating a handbook specific for them so that they know what applies to them as it relates to rules regulations policies um and so we're we're we've also looked at adding a piece that I hope a lot of folks will appreciate coaches parent spectator code of conduct so that we can take care of some of these these outside issues that we run into and so what we're looking at we're also going to do a high school only handbook a coach's handbook all these will be electronically posted on our website so that folks can click it see the handbook and that's it and that's where
032the online Link and then the parent meetings what we're going to ask again of our coaches and ads is before every Sports season you have that parent meeting once you have the parent meeting if the parent or Guardian did not show up that that that student's not allowed to play until we have to have these people showing up so that they can say sign off that they're responsible for the information in the handbook so that if we have good or bad issues we can come back and say I've got your signature right here it says you understood what it's supposed to look like for a spectator to attend the game and these are the repercussions of them not following suit with those so it's a layer for us to to add for everybody our students
033and I think more importantly are student athletes I mean you know they don't need to worry about what's going on in the stands they need to be able to play the game play it the right way and move forward so those are just some athletic uh updates that we've got if you got any questions I'll be happy to answer it anytime thank you Mr Rogers thank you good job thank you Casey all right now we'll move to our discussion items uh the 2023-2024 continuing budget resolution Mr Lawson good evening Madam chair Mr Vice chair members of the board hope you all had an enjoyable Father's Day just working uh as you all are well aware our fiscal year end is June 30. so that's quickly approaching uh what I have for your consideration tonight is
034simply a formality uh what it represents are 50 of our anticipated revenues by funding source for next year obviously at this point uh and and still being in the 22-23 fiscal year and still not having a state budget you all can adopt a resolution so this is a continuation resolution that simply complies with state law to allow Burke County Public Schools to continue operating as of July 1 until we can adopt a more formal and complete resolution for key all right I don't know okay now we'll move on to the capital projects summer and I'll very brief here Dr Swann actually covered most of these projects in his presentation in the in the update uh some of these projects you all have already approved there are some sprinkled through which are new projects for the
035summer uh so as a whole I request that these projects be approved for uh this summer for the auxiliary Services Department all right so anybody got any questions okay thank you Mr Lawson thank you now we'll move on to Mr wall cep and student meal prices Madam chair members of the board good evening good evening isn't that just the cutest kid I have some updates for you and then I want to talk about cep um with just a little bit something we've kind of been talking about before uh at our last meeting uh you had you guys had mentioned I think um a couple of you had gone to freedom to talk and some kids were concerned about getting enough vegetables so I want to let you know when you bring things up like that
036up we take that serious and and uh so here's kind of what we did with that there's a little Tick Tock video that Bethany did [Music] and we put the fill it up signs on on the high school lines so the kids can know they can get all the vegetables and fruits and fresh stuff that they want um I did want to mention that uh we we uh we received a grant and for about forty two thousand dollars we're able to spend about 13 000 at a fresh local strawberries and they were really good I don't know if any of your kids tried them but um they were really good strawberries is still only one piece [Laughter] um I did want to brag on my folks a little bit uh we served a little over
037a million and one thousand breakfast uh an increase of 11 percent and we served 1.2 million lunches which increased to one percent we did about 59 000 suppers and a little under 50 000 snacks so our folks had a busy year and and our numbers are increasing um and I attribute that to to your support of our program uh through things like our coffee shops and uh our Free Fridays and our Pig rig things that are novel and different that our kids are getting to experience and I appreciate again I appreciate your support and all that I want to talk with you about cep we've mentioned it last month and you guys uh we've kind of I hinted at it last year when I met with a few of you um and and we feel
038like it's time with your support but I wanted to talk with you through that a little bit um cep is a community eligibility provision it would allow free lunch and breakfast for all of our students in Burke County Public Schools if you guys were to approve it families would no longer have to fill out a free introduced lunch form and our reimbursement is based upon our snap and our TANF benefits some people call that food stamps uh that was kind of the old name but it goes through Snap and TANF benefits is how they figure our reimbursement level so we kind of did a simple analysis I can get an in as in depth as you'd like for me too but if we keep our meal prices the same for our students this year at
039285 and 260. we project that we will lose 491 thousand dollars this year if we go with cep because the increased reimbursement associated with that number of students who would eat free the way the way that we're paid back for the number of students that would eat free we project only losing a little under a hundred thousand now this is worst case I want you to understand if the federal government comes through and bumps up our 40 cents per plate that they're taking away this hundred thousand dollar deficit would go um much much into the black and not in the red Okay so we're we're looking at worst case 98 000 we we think it can be better than that but we also think that we feel certain that if we don't do cep that
040our deficit will be much more significant by not doing cep than we will be doing cep I think you did a quick cost breakdown you're looking at having to raise the meal prices of a student around five dollars to help offset that 491 000 loss we have to go up to about 490 for high school kids to break even if if we don't get this 40 cents that they've said they're taken away [Music] uh we get our rates into July and we used to get those much earlier but since covered they've kind of not gotten those to Us near as fast uh it's a federal government thing and nobody in the in the nation none of the Child Nutrition programs know um and we won't know until towards the end of July Mr wall when
041we met before he kind of educated me a little bit on like there were different levels of tiers of plates so like you know our premiums premium days or Free Fridays you know sometimes those are Fuller meals you know it's your bigger meals would those kind of things go away I'm assuming if we went well everybody would be free so we wouldn't do free Friday anymore could we do premium sure we could do premium dates the quality yeah exactly if you would like to if you guys would like for us to continue to support premium day so it's a contract that we could do with Chartwells like we did last year if Chartwells is okay with that they don't care we pay for it right yeah so so what am I missing here is it's
042not I mean uh why would we not endorse the cep model I I can't think of a reason that we wouldn't do it um five dollars is too much for a kid to have to play for lunch I mean that's that's crazy yeah yeah I heard somebody in the Title One is typically you do your title one dollars it comes from Child Nutrition pre-introduced lunch how many kids so not each school for example icard they have a certain pot of money based on how many free and reduced lunch kids that they have compared to Mountain View Elementary that their numbers are higher so their pot of money their pot of Title One money is higher so that we would have to take an old formula an old model and try to do our calculations and
043then redistribute that money that way yeah right so we we talked with Dr Wilson who's over title one and and he's got a person at the state level who runs Federal programs that he can talk with about that um I think I shared with you guys in your board packet um that there's like a been a 21 increase in cep across the country and I don't know how many are going to do it this year but I know locally it's a lot Buncombe County approved it their board approved it last week um or the week before it's been in June also there's a lot of counties that are that are getting on this this year because it's finally become become profitable or uh better it's better for our kids first of all but it also
044helps the program stay afloat um I wanted to talk with you real quick um I don't want to get too much in the weeds unless you want me to but um our current free introduced lunch rate is 69 percent that's what we had this past year that's what we ended at cep is calculated like I said by the the DC number which is snap and ta and F um and they multiply that number the multiplier that the federal government gives us is 1.6 so if you take our current uh number of snap and TANF kids and multiply it by 1.6 you get 91 percent so 91 of our kids that eat if you guys approve cep that eating our cafeterias we will get reimbursed at the free rate okay nine percent of our kids who
045eat in the cafeteria we will get reimbursed at the paid rate which is about 80 cents for the paid and four dollars and 35 cents for the free it doesn't matter if 10 kids eat basically nine of them we will get reimbursed at the Free level and one of them we will get reimbursed at the paid level and that's the way cep works so it doesn't matter if 10 of the kids are if 10 kids eat and they're all um if they did they theoretically in the old system didn't qualify for free introduce it wouldn't matter if 10 of them eat nine of them get we get reimbursed at the Free level and one of them we get reimbursed the paid level so it benefits us and our program to increase participation because that will
046help help offset the ten percent of the kids that we get reimbursed at the um paid level how does this help out with your um student debt for I know at some point in time we probably eat some of that I know you try to recoup some of that throughout the year but you're you're uh you're a slight ahead okay sorry but short answer that go down to it I'll just go to myself the short answer to that is there will be no more student debt right um when we had free lunch two years ago during covid at the end of the year our student debt was four hundred dollars this year at the end of the year it was 000. so this does away with student debt and it and and it is in
047a later slide but I'll go and address it it saves our principles and our guidance counselors and our assistant principals and our parent Educators that are helping get all this money and it it saves them a tremendous amount of time to not have to chase down debt now the a la carte meal of course that's still going to be extra so if they choose not to pay for that that could accumulate some student debt but it's not going to be as high but we don't let them buy ice cream unless they got money in their account we're not going to tell a kindergartner you can't have ice cream at the register that would break hearts and we don't want to do that but um so we try to let them know but we don't we
048don't let them buy extras unless they have money in their account so that stops that debt that's the only place debt could accumulate would be buying extra that's true and our e-rate would increase as well through technology at e-rate of course helps with our technology upgrades across the county so that'll increase for the better as well that is our number it is and it keeps getting a little higher which is also good um I mentioned some of this to y'all before but I want to make sure that I um was clear with it with you every student will receive uh every student in Burke County Public Schools will receive a 30 credit on their family internet bill that's one credit per family every student would receive an EBT card with forty dollars per student per
049month during the summer to assist with food purchases during summer break it will as Mr Johnson ask eliminate it will eliminate debt collection and I think a big thing that's overlooked a lot especially in our high schools is students won't feel the stigma of of getting a free meal versus those that pay and if you work the registry at the hospitals which I do from time with Tommy you kind of feel you just kind of feel that they you know they just don't appreciate having to know the difference and and we don't tell them but they just kind of know the 30 credit on internet is that annually or a monthly monthly does Mr Lawson see a downside in that does Mr Lawson see a downsize but it's only up if it's the kids they
050all have an opportunity for free breakfast and uh and lunch and it minimizes our loss risk looks good any other questions thank you very much okay so um each year um the state of North Carolina DPI evaluates all public schools uh by a letter grade and a b c d f grade uh those will probably be out sometime for next year in December maybe into the spring and each year then we have to decide how we need to best evaluate our two alternate Alternative Learning programs Halliburton and North Liberty there are three model or option models we've gone with B the last several years um option b I'm going to recommend that again tonight uh it evaluates both North Liberty and Halliburton on a progressing or maintaining or declining model rather than a letter grade
051honestly if we did a letter grade they'd be F's every year based on the proficiency on test scores and graduation rates and that kind of thing this seems to be a more fair way to evaluate schools that are full of children in need and Trauma and all kinds of things so I would recommend again that we do option b for both Halliburton and North Liberty and I think you have some documents in your folders digital folders about about those and if you have any questions please ask to make any questions do we know what our graduation rate is for Halliburton um we have a good idea this because this is a public forum the state won't approve that probably for another two to three months so I would not want to put it out there
052publicly um so I think it's overall it looks like we're gonna be a little bit higher as a county than we were last year yeah that's good yeah good some good work going in several of our schools yes and once we okay thank you all right Mr Recker calendar good evening board we do need to revisit our calendar our currently approved calendar spans 210 days and we need to add five days and put it at 215. so the recommendation is for those five additional days to be work days that are optional for our staff we considered having those at the beginning of the year we didn't think that was fair to our folks that have already have something planned could be vacations we consider putting them throughout the year that would push our end date
053back for students so we didn't want to go that route either so our recommendation is that we put those five days at the very end of the year so we would add optional work days on June 5th 6th 7th 10th and 11th if I got any questions for Mr Recker thank you the next topic is board of education training credit you I offer the credit to you guys based on our Retreat that we held and then you guys will grant yourself I believe it's 0.3 CEUs of credits uh that can you could apply it towards your professional development as well um so that's in your packet as well right Dr Alton first reading of policies so we have two new policies well actually they're not new policies just some edits to current policies uh 6402
054and 7815 and these changes came from the ncsba and have also been vetted through Chris Campbell's office so if there any questions be happy to take a look at them see if I got any questions for Dr Alton okay go to the next one anybody got any questions on the evaluation of non-licensed employees okay all right we're good on that all right let's go to our potential action items Personnel report remember that if you have any questions go by number does anybody have any questions for Mr Recker all right next we will move to round robin um I will start with Mr Hunt um just a quick question our our low wealth money have we heard anything on that yet we have not so I just I checked with Keith every hour or so throughout
055the day our last indication was it's been kind of vetted at the DPI level they're happy with it now it's got to go up legislatively uh is that correct Mr Lawson really filing all of that excluding the industry did that happen soon ER too much terribly busy but hopefully we'll have answers and the Commissioners will be voting on their local budget tomorrow as well so that okay just wanted to share that with the board as well all right great thank you Mr Johnson do you have anything okay I don't have anything Miss Taylor you have anything Miss Bachelor do you have anything uh just really quick I will have the opportunity to visit um a neighboring County school board meeting and as they were going through their updating policy for their instructional and supplemental materials
056in the classroom I noticed that they had a time frame for which reviews should be completed I was wondering if that was something that one do we do and that's not noted in policy and if it's something that we can do or could look at I would say it's not noted in policy but it's something I I know that one of the last book challenges we had we had a hard time getting enough books um so that that would of course as soon as we get the challenges our team begins that review process Dr Honeycutt you want to elaborate on that probably the biggest held up is receiving enough books for everyone to have an opportunity to really what's the last challenge as quickly as possible because because here that's it okay Dr hamstring okay
057and Jane didn't share anything with me that she wanted to be brought up so we're good to go next we'll move to um the potential consent agenda items and discussion any questions about our Open Session minutes closed session minutes anything there all right Dr Swan do we have a need to go into closed session yes ma'am we do okay persuade it to the North Carolina General statute 143-318.11 subsection a one and six for the purpose of considering confidential Personnel matters as further defined by North Carolina General statute 115c-319-321 and persuade it to subsection A3 to receive information protected by the attorney client privilege I make a motion to go into closed session do I have a second all right those in favor all right thank you we're now in closed session