001so good evening i would like to reconvene the november 2 2nd 2021 davie county school board meeting uh first item on our agenda is our invocation loving and gracious god we thank you today for all your blessings for the successful outcomes of our school events and for all of our staff members we ask that you bless them abundantly and we continue to seek your wisdom guidance courage and strength be with us in our deliberations and help us to be wise in the decisions we make for the good of all of those who place their trust and confidence in us give us insight to lead with integrity that our decisions may reflect what is right and good keep us from short-sightedness and pettiness help us to make decisions that are for the good of all and
002guard us from blind self-interest grant us the humility to always seek your will in all that we do and say amen now if you will stand and join me for the pledge of allegiance i pledge allegiance 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 thank you next uh on the agenda is the approval of the minutes from the october 5th board meeting and do i have a motion i have a motion by mr carroll i have a second by mr drexler any discussion all those in favor motion carries 7-0 next moving on board report important dates to remember i don't have many november 11th through the 13th for those who are attending the north carolina
003school board annual conference and then we are back in here on december as scary as that can be a board of education meeting then the 17th is the board of commissioners meeting next i will call your attention to board of education meeting dates for all pretty standard stuff there's a couple exceptions there as far as our normal times so just draw your attention to those next i'll turn it over to mr wallace for the superintendent's report yes the april 5th is what it has no i i recall that we should have corrected that if we didn't we will correct it it may have been mr potts and i may have failed to to mention that to ms nelson when i looked through that but you're right there was a but it is it is the
004tuesday yeah we so we will amend these april 5th is a tuesday looks like it's been fixed yeah and that's a tuesday okay so we should be tuesday right you can come on thursday and tuesday all right mr wallace all right thank you mr chairman good evening everyone it's uh thank you for being here and guest online it's great to see a fine looking group of students supporting those conference championship shirts that's uh that's good stuff so people ask me how my day is when i walked into school today i said it got a lot better i'm in school so it's always good to be hanging out with some of our students so again welcome everyone um you've heard me say this for the past two years and as long as i'm your superintendent you're
005gonna continue to hear me say it fall in november is one of my favorite times of the year many reasons obviously the cooling of the temperatures which i really love but the changing of fall colors and just the beauty of nature and what god's hand has done in the on work for us and it is just beautiful two real important dates holidays we celebrate in thanksgiving one being our veterans day which we can never say thank you enough and and i'm thankful we live in a country where we do honor our veterans so that our families and our some of some of our staff that work for us have served in the military and your families we we're very very thankful the other special holiday is thanksgiving which always clips me at my knees and
006makes me step back and remember how thankful i am and um i shared with the board some unfortunate news some of our staff is dealing with some tragedy and their families and just one of the one of those people responded to me today and and said and all the busyness this has really put things in perspective um and that's unfortunate we have to go through that but that is the loss of a life and is very tragic but but it is a wonderful time and i'm very thankful for you board i'm thankful for our staff our parents our students and our community for just being able to to live in this wonderful community i would encourage you all as we have obviously dealt with a lot of pressure since march of 2020 and it continues
007and there's so much misinformation and polarization and divide out there i would strongly encourage you to find a time to reach out to give to someone and just be thankful for what we have coveted updates as of today we have 14 students i have active cases we have five staff members we have 81 students quarantined and three staff members attendance for the month the second month the second set of 20 or 21 days was 90.64 percent now again where should it be jeff we should be around 96 but obviously covid and quarantine's has a lot to do that and if you recall even if if you're not at school and you're not on a school trip then you're absent from school it can be excused but it's still an absence so if you are if
008you're quarantined you are absent from school although you may be doing your work so that does have some impact on this for sure so we do hope to see that get better if you recall last month our first month was 91.21 and this month is 90.64 percent so again hoping to see that change i i don't recall if i mentioned this last time i just want to bring it up one more time our enrollment is uh staying pretty steady at 59.75 just shy of our allotment was 6041. so we we have once you get through the 20th and the 40th day you can pretty much know where you should stand and again i mentioned that that is important because you need to be within 100 of your allotment or you may have to send positions
009back or if you go over 100 you get another position but we're at 59c as of a week or so ago so in pmr the last pmr miss machinda haynes has put together a pulled together her calendar committee and they are scheduled to meet two times in the month of november and they will bring a some calendar proposals before you at the december meeting and those will get be voted on by staff as their typical typical procedures and then we will hopefully be able to be have you to vote present a calendar to you in january and vote for that we don't anticipate any calendar changes as far as laws or anything or any delays this year due to covid and regarding the calendar board and families there are some districts that have amended school
010calendars to include days off wellness days mental health days for staff some have asked why we cannot do the same we have re we have reviewed leave options and consulted with council and dpi last friday we received superintendents received and i shared it with you all and i have since shared that with directors and principals and we will ask them at the staff meeting this thursday to share with all their staff but that memo clearly talks about what is legal around mental health or wellness days are adding additional days so again we the this came from allison shaffer the general counsel for school board association excuse me for the state board and from chairman eric davis and i want to read you just about three lines from this from the memo and it references article
0111 section 32 of the north carolina state constitution and the one line it says quote the bottom line is that school districts are not free to give extra paid leave days to employees other than those permitted by statute state statute or state board of association rules or policies now we can always look for ways to amend and work with our staff but we build calendars well in advance for plenty of reasons when i was in a meeting this morning jenny was in the meeting it was with dpi same meeting dpi and the dhhs and deputy superintendent dr david stegall said boards superintendents please follow the policy that is the law so just in case there's any question and you ask me how other districts are doing i can't answer that for you but i know
012our council sits right there and again we get direct line that says don't do it so that's what we where we are um jeff can i wrap you a second sure on the calendar for next year has there been any discussion or follow-up on the calendar flexibility from the bills in raleigh anything there's nothing nothing and every year ms smith we see 40 50 60 bills you know uh uh sent out there and then i'm getting a lot of traction but we wish i we we and we'll keep trying we'll keep trying the uh i will say this and again staying in the in the line of calendars we the leadership team is working to try to find some time in the calendar to accommodate two state mandated requirements the mental health training the six
013hours that is again mandated by the state for all staff and then there's the letters spelled l-e-t-r-s is an acronym that's required for k-5 teachers l-e-t-r-s that's mandated over the for the next two years six days in a year two of those are face-to-face so we had hoped to present to you some calendar proposal changes tonight and i'll it'll explain itself so with me going into detail now once we can get it to you but my point is we have to tell the state here are the days that we can train the state has to approve while i check this afternoon we will know by friday what days so when we make these changes in part is to accommodate the six days the six six hours for mental health and then the six days for
014k-5 but we're looking for days that won't disrupt the secondary group as well because if you recall high school kids have you have 90 days and then really 85 or so because of exams and stuff but we'll bring you we'll bring you a proposed calendar amendment and we and we will if we get that by friday we may go ahead and communicate that with you and at least if with your permission to send that out to staff so they can begin to plan and we're trying to accommodate and meet the needs of our staff what we're trying to do there's just two sets of required training that we have no control over that's been packed in on top of what we're trying to do it's already hard so we're trying our best to accommodate our
015staff and we're going to bring you a plan for sure in december to to consider a vote on i hope i didn't confuse you there just stay with me it'll make a lot more sense in december sorry um last night miss fall miss haynes and myself we presented uh at the board of commissioner meeting just missed you all during the retreat ms haynes presented a an hr update she did a little bit of a modified version last night miss excuse me miss full presented the student performance data and uh she will share some of that with you all tonight but again good meeting good opportunity to quit do some questioning back and forth and very thankful for the relationship we have with our county commissioners i want to want to reach out to or say
016commend mr michael pruitt the principal at david county high school and seth james as we those two are always looking for ways to challenge our students to try new learning and career opportunities on october 13th seth james again auto tech auto technology teacher at davey county high school took 18 18 young ladies to the nascar institute for the first i think it's the first ever ignite worldwide event women in motorsports so it was uh quite the event and it's to encourage young ladies to get involved in in nascar motorsports uh and also into stem more stem related activities as well so i want to come in michael who's here tonight and mr james is not here but uh i didn't expect him to be and i want you to think he's laying out on me
017michael scared him today he said you're recognizing him tonight he doesn't know anything about it i said no i'm just going to mention it i just need to make sure my that my information is correct so again thank you for them and thank you for always reaching out in ways to do that um boarding i want to say in closing there's a couple items in tonight's agenda that um that we are honored and to recommend to you as a team as a leadership team and as a staff that is supporting our staff in a way that we want to say thank you to to every staff member and how much we appreciate you and i'm not going to steal the thunder yet but we will mr harris will be presenting a couple things here in
018just a few minutes that i want to say thank you to you board i want to thank our team our leadership team for finding ways to show appreciation but again he will unpack more of that so and board i hope you all have a thanks a wonderful thanksgiving and we appreciate all of you thank you thank you moving on to recognitions uh good to see you that we have so many on here we're going to start off with the 2021 united way campaign i'll call on mr chuck taylor thank you for giving me your time this evening there are a lot of words that can easily define the last two years however when i think of people who have dedicated themselves to the service of our children every day the word that comes to my
019mind is sacrifice as a community advocate it is my job my duty and my honor to seek out the local issues that must be addressed in our county and connect those concerns with the local people best able to help we live in a world that believes the super wealthy are the ultimate answer to the problems that face us but that belief is centered on the idea that money is the solution however i contend that the real solution is what is at the heart of sacrifice regard each year the united way of david county goes to local companies and organizations we ask them to consider giving their employees a chance to donate to whatever cause they want to support and any undesignated funds are used to support our mission which is to advance the common good
020of davie county by uniting the resources of the community to identify and address the most pressing human needs what gives me a strong sense of pride is the dedication from teachers maintenance staff custodial staff administrators and the rest of the school personnel to give small gifts from the funds they earn to make a big difference i truly believe this is because the culture of the davie county school system is to have regard for each person therefore sacrifice is a skill set born from the concerns everyone has for those they serve and for that i say thank you this year the total amount raised from our davie county schools was sixteen thousand one hundred ninety six dollars and eight cents i'm not sure where the eight cents came from but i appreciate it nonetheless there were
021150 people who donated the average gift size was 107 dollars and the largest gift was a thousand dollars from coulomb elementary go redskins sorry a little enthusiasm for the school that's done so much for my kids these donations help us connect cancer patients with resources and support needed for their care to help senior shut-ins have food and visits to offset their loneliness to advocate for abused children help them find healing and freedom from trauma provide additional educational opportunities to expand the minds of our children and provide services to those who are financially stuck therefore i want to extend a generous note of appreciation to this board the leadership the staff and anyone involved in making sure the davie county school employees had access to give to our campaign the helpfulness that you give our county
022starts in your hearts and extends through your hands your feet your words and your gifts myself and our board of local volunteer leaders at the united way appreciate you thank you so much that being said uh the school decided that it was worthwhile to give away a a prize two panthers tickets and as we learned this past weekend they can actually win a game and not stay on an undefeated streak so this is two tickets to the december 12th game against the atlanta falcons which are sure to lose to them again and that award goes to carol stewart thank you so much is she here this evening very well come on up you're excited about this [Applause] thank you for donating and forgiving congratulations you're sure to win just because you're there thank you chuck
023uh next uh david county high school women's tennis team cpc champions i'll call them mr colin paraby and mr deberts through your curveball it's okay it's my honor to uh present uh coach fairby and his team um what a tremendous season they've had 20 2021 central piedmont conference champions overall record of 14-0 12-0 in the cpc four ladies elliot newsom true corin whitney delosh sarah west marklin were named to the all-conference team and our very own coach fairby was the cpc coach of the year so please join me in congratulating the women's tennis team and thank you colin we have another team to recognize i don't think we have a representative that slipped in but uh our volleyball team the 2021 central piedmont conference champions with an overall record of 22 and 5. they had
024a conference record of 12 and 2. the 2021 team advanced to the third round of the state playoffs in a very competitive match two ladies ali angel and amy lowe were named to the all-conference team and one young lady peyton joseph was named the cpc defensive player of the year so please join me in congratulating coach brandon on a great year congratulations uh to all uh next i will call him miss uh cindy stone for south davey uh middle school volleyball team we got representatives [Music] good evening wherever you would like to stand stand across these good evening chairman junker mr wallace and board members tonight i bring to you our conference champs the south davie varsity volleyball team had a great season they started out dropping the first two matches of the year but
025from that point on they won seven out of the last nine matches they played finishing the regular season 7-4 drawing the number three seed for the conference tournament that's why we're kind of impressed because they faced north davie in the semi-final match south and north had each one once during the regular season when playing each other after a very close first set south won the match 2-0 to move to the final match against high point wesleyan the number one seed during the final match south won the first set and wesleyan won the second set setting up the deciding third set south won the third set to win the conference tournament we are very proud of each of these young ladies and their coach gloria thomas escorted by her husband curtis chalmers these ladies show true
026perseverance on and off the court we are so proud of them and just are honored to share this with you this evening congratulations congratulations guys congratulations again next moving on to uh consent agenda and i will entertain a motion i have a motion by miss smith i have a second by mr carroll any further discussion all those in favor motion carries 7-0 next onto business items uh and i will call on mr wallace for the face covering policy thank you mr chairman board you can see there we have a policy regarding policy 4231 5021 7263 regarding masking and with this as you well know we're statutorily required to vote on this each month you can see there that i've made a recommendation tonight and prior to making this recommendation i want you to know that
027i have consulted with the reopening team as i've mentioned to you that can includes county manager local physician and our lead nurse and suzanne wright with dhhs we also met with the dhhs team our nursing staff and we communicated with specifically with two other districts one that has been masked optional for quite some time and then one that has recently converted went to mask optional in october or at the beginning of october i want to make sure that it was clear that it is which is stated in the in the updated policy that tran masking is still required and will be required on trans on all school david county schools transportation or contracted transportation which is still clearly stated in the toolkit that is not that is not an option the exposure uh protocol will
028remain the same that was discussed with the hhs and that is currently that within six feet more than 15 minutes and the quarantine protocol will remain the same which is 10 days in the first day starting after the known exposure of course now that's not that has not changed so we will as the policy the updated policy states and the recommendation states that we will continue to monitor the situation and if during the next month the metrics change materially or circumstances make the spread of the virus more likely i will alert the board to reconsider this policy i'll be glad to try to entertain any questions or address the recommendation some questions of mr wallace i will entertain a motion make a motion that's a motion to approve uh second a second by ms horn
029any further discussion i'd like to just share a couple things i don't have one of those passionate speeches like my fellow board members gave in august in your prayer i noticed you said keep us from being short-sighted so i hope that that is the situation here tonight that we're not being short-sighted we do have an opportunity in fact we have a requirement that says every month we've got to address this whether we like it or not so for that reason and because mr wallace has done his homework and meeting with committees and those governments i will support his recommendation but i want everybody to know that when we have problems that this thing could change we experienced that in august and it wasn't pleasant i hope we don't have to experience that again thank you
030thank you um just one question and for clarification um assuming we vote for mass masking optional it's effective immediately yes that is good point miss horn that will be effective immediately we will now there's still some question about i mean there's a question about do you extend it to next week do you wait to the following week and then and consulting with superintendent colleagues that have made this change you know typically is bet they just said if they had to do it again and do it the next day well that limits you know we meet tonight but i got to communicate that out with with principals and staff we still have to be mindful of who's masked and who's not who's sitting where those are those are things that are all important but tomorrow i
031will do a video jenny and i miss pleasant and i will work on a video to make sure we get some more information out there will still be questions sure there will be that's why i want to make sure i emphasize a couple points about the quarantine remain the same exposure protocol remains the same and the masking on transportation remains the same yes so that makes me go back to my question at the very onset when we started voting does that mean those kids who may be positive and kids unmasked beside of that we're going are you anticipating a larger percentage of quarantines sitting here and logically thinking yes but in talking to both two different counties that are optional their numbers are relatively considerably low one of those counties has 1 000 more kids
032than we do is that union county no okay they have 47 000 kids okay and i just checked before i came to the meeting they have 1600 quarantine out of 47 out little 16 10 i think and 81 positive cases which is great they also dealt with clusters as well they did so and what we heard again from pender county which is similar in size to us right that they initially saw a spike of quarantines and shortly after that it began to come down okay and again we don't know so is that one of the things that we're going to be looking at oh absolutely transmission rates but the amount of quarantines our ultimate goal is still to keep the kids in the classroom yeah absolutely you're you're exactly right yes did you get any
033sense from these two counties that you talked to did you get any sense about what uh percentage of kids probably choose to wear a mask i did not okay you know some of them are and and i had a fair question i think maybe mr carroll how many of those kids are vaccinated i don't know but i can tell you in our dpi meeting this yesterday morning this this morning 12 to 17 year olds in the state and miss pleasant if you if you recall this you can help me if i'm wrong but i think it's 46 percent of 12 to 17 year olds across north carolina are vaccinated so still tells us approximately half are not but you know again that is an option for families for and and i just saw tonight before
034we walked in that fda of course you know it's proven cdc i think has approved for kids 5 to 11 to receive the vaccine so again that's an option for parents but but let me make sure again the protocol so if kids are sitting beside of each other and one is positive and the other is vaccinated masked or not that vaccinated kid does not have to go home does not have quarantine that's not changed none of the protocols are changing but i am concerned about the number of quarantines yes jeff in regards to corn teams at one time we were averaging about 175 students in quarantine how many of those have actually tested positive from a school exposure we don't know that exactly but we have anecdotally and i say not exactly we could figure
035that out but i will say it's been less than one percent for sure so 99 of the students that are actually being quarantined don't get sick that's that's true but i will tell you we in in the other side of that in in one experimental setting if you were in our pre-k last week we had our first cluster because we had seven positives out of one classroom that includes adults to a few adults and some kids so those are things that we have that are concerning to us that we have to continue to monitor and mr potts as you've eloquently said you've shown the courage to make the change we may have to do it again we'll do what we said we would do we would follow the numbers and that's what we're going to
036do that's my recommendation for tonight just one more thing so regarding the quarantine the way it's determined who would have to go into quarantine who would not that has nothing to do with anything any types of rules that we set absolutely not okay and for those who maybe i know you said you're going gonna need to communicate it to principals and that type of thing um but for folks who may be watching it online if child i mean they can go to school tomorrow without their mask if they choose to do optional that's correct now again i did notify principals friday once the board packet went live i did notify them of the recommendation so they are aware they're aware the principles have been aware since friday another question sorry if we choose to go
037mask optional let's say we vote to go optional this month next month or january we see a rise in cases so we revisit the issue is there is it all or none i mean do we have to be all six thousand kids in a mask and we're optional or can it be if there's a situation where we have a a cluster at a preschool or a cluster at pembroke or somewhere we can maybe those students wear a mask for a couple weeks instead of putting everyone in them is there an option to do that does it have to be none i think when you look at the policy when it says the board of education will reconsider the mitigation strategies and then it says the superintendent is authorized to consider health metrics and to return
038to mandatory face masking if as a mitigation strategy and event the metrics change so yes it's clearly in the policy that if we run into a crazy situation we could potentially do that i have one colleague that is doing is monitoring they are going mask optional where he is he the superintendent will present to his board this month to be mask optional and where they're going to do it by school or take a look at metrics by school now we could look at that if if but to your point instead of just a blanket if there are situations can we do that absolutely we can do that yes yep and i will tell you up front some of our coaches will ask their athletes when they're in the locker room to wear a mask and
039we will support that we will support that because that's that's where it could be a potential problem and if you bust your bottom all week for a game you don't want something like that to mess it up yes sir and you're talking about the school buses i know i've had a couple of parents who sent emails that their child was on activity bus athletics and someone didn't require them to wear their math so maybe we need to make sure that if we approve this tonight for that it's during the daytime it's in school it but if you're on a bus that's federal that is correct thank you for that absolutely any other questions about the current policy as as written all right i have a motion and i have a second all those in favor
040motion carries seven zero thank you so much uh next i will call on mr harris for uh minimum bus driver pay um the executive leadership team will actually bring two things to you tonight the first one we want to talk about is uh bus drivers it's where we want to start with the classified staff we would like to make the bus driver minimum pay 15 an hour and that that wouldn't then move anybody that's making 1471 or more they would end up getting a two percent raise um that way all bus drivers are we'll see an increase in what they what their compensation is this will require a 91 000 um influx of funds either through state transportation a lot of dollars or out of the local excuse me the local budget to make that
041happen so our recommendation is if we could move forward and approve this i'll be happy to answer questions yes sir currently there are different bus drivers are making different amounts that's how did you address that with this raise to tonight what i'm saying is we'll move everybody that's below 1471 to 15 an hour and then move anybody at that point to a two percent raise we're currently looking at a salary study for classifieds that will address the the schedules and everything else as we do with any steps or anything else to make sure that if we make the change we make it one time in the right in the right manner so mr dressler to your question is a good question and we were concerned about that but there is just and i don't recall
042the number but there is minimal drivers we run 68 yellow buses a day but we have probably 200 people with cdls something of that nature but only a handful relative to 200 10 15 maybe that are making more than 14.71 an hour for us we have 12. but that's 12. okay there you go 12 that are making more than 15 bucks an hour is this for a permanent or does this include substitutes this will include substitutes okay so that will be our minimum you know in our our sub drivers are at the minimum whenever they drop so they'll be at 15. yep yes sir any other questions thank you uh entertaining motion have a motion by mr potts have a second by mr drexler any further questions you thought you did [Music] sorry that's right
043clay i guess to you is the best direction but jeff may jump in we have employees that are making i'm making this up 16 of an hour already so they're gonna get a two percent somebody that's being paid currently for driving a bus at what did you say 1470 something 1471. two percent so if i'm making 14.71 to drive a bus but i'm also a cafeteria worker is there a situation where somebody's working in the cafeteria making 16 already and they're only being paid 1471 to drive a bus but it's going to jump up to 15. is the reverse there somebody's going to make more money driving a bus than they are for their other paid job is that a potential issue that has already been addressed i see head shaking in the vast majority
044of the case you'll have the situation your last situation the individual is going to be in another role that's going to make less than that fifteen dollars an hour and therefore it works as an incentive right to find to help us find we sure hope so find and retain bus drivers so there's some volunteers i saw hands go up i think i saw three hands of indigo people that see clay before you leave yeah any other questions all those in favor motion carries 7-0 i think i'll come back to you mr harris uh for staff retention bonus yep so the the second adjustment that we'd like to discuss involves all of our full-time and part-time davie county schools employees um leadership team has been discussing staffing impacts due to pandemic and limited replacement staff for
045several months last week i attended a conference for all the finance officers in north carolina and as you can imagine esther's spending was top of top of mind when we talked and a big discussion point in that meeting we met with dpi's monitoring staff for federal programs specifically esser dollars and we we discussed allowable expenses and reasonableness of those expenses um the guidance that they gave us and our understanding um with that guidance and our understanding we've gone back and reevaluated some of the money that we were planning on spending with esser and um a retention bonus is an allowable expense under learning loss um and when they went back and reevaluated that it was they heard loud and clear that we're struggling across the state with retaining people and so when i came back
046and we had conversations we would like to move forward with a retention bonus for all of our full-time and part-time employees um in in kind of a two-fold situation so it's going to be a total of a thousand dollars utilizing the extra funds for all full-time and part-time employees that are on staff and working for the district effective yesterday they'll get the first half of it in their december check for 500 they have to be working at the time of the payment then there'll be a subsequent payment um in june for anybody that was on staff and working march 1st so these two so if we've got an individual that's been with us all year long these two plus the 450 dollars we've already paid at a local funds earlier this year we have a
047total of 1450 dollars for all of our all of our full-time and part-time employees this does not include our substitutes and it does not include our contract workers but it does make everybody in the district whether they're full-time or part-time eligible for this if they've met all the criteria higher date they're working at the time of the payment and everything else the question came up about 10-month employees they won't be working in june when we make the payment as long as they met their commitment for year end they'll be eligible for that that bonus our recommendation our request is that we approve the ability to move forward with this one as well i'll be happy to answer what questions we have yes sir sorry again are you hearing that this sort of process is being
048utilized of of the sr funds being used in other counties as well that's all all of the bonuses that you hear uh in counties districts around us they're using the same learning loss um criteria for retention um when we go back and look at exactly what the wording has to be it's got to be forward-facing that's the reason we made a november first date of higher you have to be hired on this date and it moves forward from there it's reason we could not go back and look if you're working july 1st or january 1st or anything like that it's got to be forward-facing and so that's the reason that we have the november first date in there with the conclusion of pay dates you've got to still be working and then the retention to
049uh and incent people to stay and retain until the end of the year what's that nerd it's taxable it it is taxable it's wages so it's tax i didn't hear the question is it a taxable wage transaction and it is so it's it's taxable because it is a retention bonus it's also uh retirement eligible and so that's that cost is included inside of that are other districts also doing part-time and full-time with the same payout districts are doing different things some are doing it based on the hours that you work so you get a percentage of it some are doing it um this date i mean a certain date and then you get this much or that much or whatever we just said you know everybody is working hard let's make it eligible for everybody
050so we did not take any consideration percent employed or anything else or not standpoint we wanted everybody to benefit from and that was the concern i was going to bring forward so i hope that the leadership team in the future has will consider those kind of things just for morale purposes i'm thinking of a teacher who is getting a thousand dollars and working nine ten hours every day because they're going home and working and i can be a three hour cafeteria worker come in at ten o'clock serve food till one and i'm getting the same bonus and i'd have a little concern about that uh so i hope that in the future because i think the cat's already out of the bag now but hope that in the future we'll make sure that we're considered
051and that's not to suggest that you didn't consider it but uh from my heart i want you to know that that's that's something that's uh important we do we did consider a lot of a lot of different options so yeah potts great point and it's been discussed more than i mean many times we've talked to colleagues we've all thought about that a couple things i'll say we are involved in a salary study doesn't mean we're going to increase pay but classified staff salary study we do still anticipate if we get a state budget that there will be an increase for minimum wage for up to 13 and maybe the second year 15. the third thing i will tell you that we are still in the in the discussions with the board of commissioner leadership regarding
052supplements so great point i do hear you and here's the probably the deciding factor for all of us and then just speaking with teachers speaking with ncae reps and different folks it's taken everyone how do we divide right now even those people and you saw fox 8 came out and did a special on sam brown assistant principal william r davey cleaning toilets dumping trash sweeping rooms and the pictures also you saw with elizabeth bullock spielman serving lunch driving buses they're all doing it and i agree with you it it and it's but that's what we heard just when speaking make sure you reach out to everyone so we did mr wallace if i can also just add to be able to do this with the ester funds we really have to be able to use
053data to support what we're doing this will be very closely monitored and audited and so if you think back to the hr report that i did in the last meeting and i totally understand your comment and have lived the life of of that teacher working long hours um we also have to look at that data and so if we look at our vacancy report on day one if you remember we had 16 teacher vacancies which was five times higher than the first day of school last year but we had over 40 classified vacancies on day one and so that data supports giving strong bonuses in both accounts and when i saw the recommendation mr wallace and i talked and one of the comforting things is that he had talked to the principals and the principals
054pretty much directed him to say look if you can give everybody the same thing it helps our morale so that's important that we get those that level of support jeff i would like to i mean i i personally am glad that it's the same across the board i think you know um you know it goes back to what was done in august with the the first bonus that was given for 450 and you know we were kind of the first ones who did that and that was paid out of local funds so that wasn't used out of uh s or funds and i applaud finance for being you know proceeding cautiously because i mean there has been a lot in the media there's a lot of money being thrown around so i'm thankful that we
055made sure that we were where we were doing what was allowable and i would expect us to do no less but um but i i personally am glad to see that it's um for all with the struggle everywhere so and not just in the school system so glad we're able to do something uh no no more discussion i will entertain a motion i have a motion by ms smith i have a second by mr drexler any further discussion all those in favor motion carries 7-0 thank you so much for that uh next miss wilson public address to the board thank you very much chairman junker and i hope i do better this month than i did last month with names i've already corrected the spelling of one so i know i'll get it right our
056first speaker and just to remind y'all the process is that i'll call the first speaker and then ask the second speaker to be ready so that we don't have too much of a time delay so in in honor of tonight's clinching of the world series by the braves we're going to call the second person the on deck speaker so our first speaker tonight is jennifer webster and she will be followed by marie helms good evening everyone my name is jennifer webster i'm a law student at wake forest university i'm really excited to be here i'm also required to be here so i thank you all up front for your time [Music] we all are yeah um i wanted to take a few minutes tonight to encourage this board to continue providing a safe school environment
057for our students teachers and staff as part of your efforts to mitigate the impact of cobit 19 this board should consider and to consider supplementing teacher and staff salaries in order to compensate them for the stress and extra responsibilities they have assumed over the past two years our teachers administrators and staff are on the front line of this pandemic and their retention is essential to the success of our students surveys conducted prior to 2020 found teaching to be one of the most stressful jobs in the united states this stress has only been compounded by covet 19. our teachers administrators and staff have been working tirelessly to provide our students with a safe and effective education in order to do so they have assumed more responsibility and risk their physical and mental health across the country
058educators are having to continuously adapt to an ever-changing learning environment here in davie county the number of students in the classroom has increased and the amount of time teachers have for planning has decreased because of personnel shortages administrators teachers and staff are having to cover for absent teachers bus drivers and custodians the risk of losing our teachers is real and substantial in january of 2021 a rand survey found that nearly one in every four teacher respondents were likely to leave their jobs by the end of the school year additionally that survey found that frequent job-related stress feelings of burnout and symptoms of depression appear to be nearly universal among teachers while we may not be able to fully relieve that stress we can compensate these dedicated employees for their time labor and sacrifice i urge
059this board to supplement their salaries to compensate them for their hard work thank you for your time so our next speaker will be marie helms and marie will be followed by pete hilario there's even a timer up here that's great oh i forgot to hit the timer oh gosh okay hi everyone thanks for allowing me to speak tonight a lot of good stuff happening tonight i'm glad that i was here to witness everything so thanks for everyone i just want to say i realize that over the past two years our country in the state has put incredible pressure on local board of educations to make decisions for entire districts that would normally have been made at the state or federal level i realize your time and effort and the research you all have done when
060making these decisions last year in 2020 you all made the hard but correct decision allowing our children to go back to in-person learning when the majority of the state did otherwise at that time i heard mostly negative rhetoric from our community about your decision i listen to people say it will never work i give them two weeks why don't they listen to the science in fact the week after y'all made the decision to return our children to in-person learning i walked into a local doctor's office and was told by the provider that they questioned your decision and were concerned it was going to end in a bad outcome all those people were wrong and you guys were right you believed in your staff you believed in our community and you believed in our kids and
061we thank you for that i have a ten-year-old daughter that goes to kulamie her name's eliana your decisions as hard as they have been have changed kids lives like ellie's ellie needs vision therapy speech therapy otpt a one-on-one teacher and a teacher specialized in learning disabilities if you would have made the decision to virtual school our kids last year ellie's life would have been changed forever and she would have lost an entire year of progress we would have not got back last year because of your decision ellie drove her wheelchair into her school by herself for the first time she fed herself all by herself for the first time she added for the first time she learned blended letters for the first time and she mastered more iep goals than any year before your decision
062changed my daughter's life for the better regardless of the feedback and rhetoric that you all received your decisions on these masks and quarantines is also going to change lives i think of the second graders now who have never had a normal school year i think of my seventh grader whose last normal year was fourth grade our kids need to get back to normal thank you for giving their this option to wear masks and i hope you continue to look at this quarantine process ellie was given a fentanyl overdose by a doctor two hours after she was born that caused her to code and die she's been hospitalized twice with drug reactions that were causing organ failure from drugs prescribed by doctors we seek out second and third opinions because what i know is that science
063is right as many times as it is wrong doctors are people doing their best to give us opinions they believe to be true and i trust that you guys are seeking counsel from doctors with multiple viewpoints and more importantly using data to make the mandate and quarantine decisions and not just opinions viruses and illnesses are always going to be a part of our lives in fact ellie contracted strep in 2018 from a child in davie county schools which caused her to spike a fever that ended her in the hospital in an epileptic coma for 10 days we would never blame or sue or condemn a child a teacher a board of education it is nobody's fault that that happened illnesses are going to happen based on data the flu rsv and bronchitis can all have
064much more detrimental effects on kids than coveting hospital numbers for admissions of covert and youth prove this on the north carolina department of health and human resources website it states that hospitalization of children ages 0 to 17 between october of last year and august of this year has been very low registering statistically between zero and one percent recently the cdc admitted that the probability of a child being hospitalized and dying from covet is less than that of the flu yet we do not nor have we ever master quarantined our non-symptomatic children for another illness the cdc states children generally do not spread cover 19 and have little risk of any adverse effects so i would ask that in addition to putting your focus on the pediatric positive cases when making your decisions on these masks
065and quarantines in the future you also look at the pediatric hospitalization rates due to the illnesses and their outcomes cover numbers are going to rise and fall but i hope that we're looking at the outcomes of infection and not just the positive cases i realize that much of the quarantine decision comes from the health department we talked about that tonight are they fully aware of the implications these non-symptomatic quarantines are having on kids teachers and families that's my question we we heard tonight that one percent of the kids in quarantine have tested positive teachers are exhausted they're beat down from trying to catch up kids who are forced to be out of school with no symptoms and no illness can we change the quarantine process i don't know if you guys can i'm just i'm
066just concerned about it if kids are exposed can we not test them daily can we not take their temperatures can we not mask them for a couple days but do something to let them get back into school a parent recently told me because of the 10-day unnecessary quarantine her child went from an ab student to a d student and is still having a hard time trying to catch up teachers are exhausted and these quarantines are lending to it contrary to some people i believe every sick patient is a person equal in dignity and equally worthy of receiving medical care that's the golden rule and a simple love for humanity i respect and appreciate your leadership i do not envy the decisions you all have had to make and i can assure you you are not
067responsible for human illness my ask is that we get back to a normal school setting with a continued option to mask our children and no more asymptomatic quarantining thank you all so much for your time thank you our next speaker is peter hilaria followed by laura hilario obviously i'm not pete but i am laura um as does that mean pete is not speaking he's next all right thank you i just wanted to say as everybody does know and you had mentioned earlier that there is an approval for vaccines for five to 11 year olds i do just want to stress that i do think that decision is a parent only decision this is an fda emergency use authorization that means it's for emergency use only i do my heart of heart i know everybody has
068the best interest of children at heart but i do believe that that alone especially in that very very young age group is a parent's only decision when they did when the fda panel a question was asked to the panel of do the benefits of the pfizer biantech cova 19 vaccine when administered as a two dose series three weeks apart outweigh it to risk for use in five to eleven-year-olds a dr eric rubin who was of the harvard university said and this is his words not mine but we are never going to learn about how safe the vaccine is unless we start giving it that's just the way it goes i promise you i'm not here to give out disinformation that was a quote from an actual doctor i think children that are that young five
069years old six years old that is a parent's decision to make that and i would hope and i'm not saying you are going to do this in the school i by no means i'm saying that's your decision but i do ultimately believe that is a parent's only decision to make and i would just hope that the school going forward would keep that in mind and i did get from our own davie county health department and went under the updates for the covid vaccines and it led me to pfizer's website and it does say the emergency use of the vaccine or the emergency uses of the vaccine have not been approved or licensed by the fda but have been authorized by the fda under an emergency use authorization to prevent the coronavirus disease 2019 coven 19
070for use in individuals five years of age or older so i just ask that i know you guys have a lot of hard decisions to make that one i think is ultimately a parent's decision to make and would hope that it would never be a mandatory decision from the school district because i believe every parent that's that's their baby my child's you know one of them's 20 something years old he's still my baby but i i would just ask that that ultimately would be a parent's decision thank you and our final speaker tonight is joanne landry i'm pete hilario out of advance okay we hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are life liberty and the
071pursuit of happiness that to secure these rights governments are instituted among men deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed that whatever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it and to institute new government laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such forms as to them shall seem most likely to affect their safety and happiness critical race theory social emotional learning where diversity equity and inclusion are all part of a movement to trample the american way of life as we know it today crt proponents object the first amendment oppose equality for example confiscate property from one group of group and giving it to another they discard the idea that laws should apply equally to everyone
072but rather to embrace individualized justice white children are coerced into making statements that belittle and condescend toward themselves for racial racial oppression anyone protesting their innocence and further are further condemned for white fragility additional complicity in racism disagreeing with crt exposes young young children to retribution crt sel dei are not limited to individual berating in recent weeks in raleigh durham and charlotte schools discovered in several pre-teen classes that pornographic reading material was easily accessible to the children several days later the same type of material was found in teen classrooms and was just as accessible within the last two weeks charlotte the same took place in a public library north carolina general statute 14-190.1 it is a class 1 felony for a person firm or corporation to intentionally disseminate obscenity it's excuse me obscenity that depicts
073or describes in a patently effective way sexual conduct that could be directed at children as a potential audience general statute 14-1 90.17 is distribution that is a class e felony what i'm asking here of the school board is that we respectfully i ask that we do not become raleigh durham charlotte or even loudoun county virginia and i don't want to touch on that because it was uh pretty saddening and disheartening but i think we all know what story we're talking about i thank you for your time thank you thank you and our final speaker tonight is joanne landry the north carolina department of health and human services strongly advises that school leaders adopt the strategies in the should section of the strong north carolina toolkit on page nine it talks about schools should require face
074mask wearing on page 10 it talks about minimizing distance and exposure on page 12 it talks about testing the north carolina department of health and human services pays for the testing program for k-12 schools there's no expense to the school for this operation but for complying to the extent of nazim to their conditions quote screen twist testing should be offered to students who have not been fully vaccinated when community transmission is moderate substantial or high levels or at any level the community trans uh transmission screening testing should also be offered to all teachers and staff who have not been fully vaccinated so let's talk about scientific facts and what the fda really knows you can check out the download document at fda.com.gov two slash media134922 and other information can be found on the fda website
075as to what i'm about to state the fda document admits that quote covet pcr test was developed without an isolated samples for the test calibration effectively admitting it's testing something else not coveted a lengthy read of the document clearly indicates that there is no legitimate test out there that accurately identifies the presence of sars covid another revelation in the document is the admission by the fda that the tests are pooled together to produce a number that is inaccurate the fda is quite literally manufacturing data to support their faulty narrative so in your school kits all schools should offer a free rapid antigen testing on the site and yet the fda has admitted that there is no isolated covid19 virus and that the pcr test ding all other kinds of items documents and information out there
076that the pcr tests are invalid set so low as to test positive for covit on a goat an apple or any other device you might want to swipe it across so why are you wasting precious time of education having people tested during school this is what your kid asks for to make matters worse last month i told you of the number of deaths that were caused by each vaccine maker and the number of significant injuries as a result of being vaccinated the european model was what i discussed as our media continues to lie to us and you can't get true information isn't one death supposed to be one death too many and yet thousands of people are dying as a result of being vaccinated and millions are being injured now on page seven of your
077toolkit it talks about school administrators should encourage staff and families to be immunized and take actions to support efforts through the use of strong school vaccinated operational guidance in your book schools can promote vaccinations among teachers staff families by providing information about kavit-19 vaccinations encouraging vaccine trust and confidence and establishing support of policies and practices making vaccine getting vaccinated as easy and convenient as possible it goes on to say to promote vaccinations schools can encourage teachers staff and families to get vaccinated as soon as they can and to become more confident about the vaccines by using language tone and format that fits the needs you are to offer flexible support of 60 sick leave options for employees who get vaccinated or who have side effects after the vaccination also to promote vaccination information to parents
078and guardians and other household members as a part of the kindergarten transition and enrollment of summer activities for families entering the school system again think about the fda you're supposed to provide students and families flexible options for excuse absences to receive the vaccine or for the possible side effects after vaccination so they know there's going to be possible side effects because the various systems reports it as well as the european one you're supposed to find ways to adapt key messages to brainwash because we're supposed to trust the science that won't really admit that they're lying you're supposed to require teachers and staff to report their vaccination status which is a violation of privacy and hipaa the vaccination is an ongoing human lab experience there is no science to say that it's safe and effective it
079doesn't even stop you from getting coveted and that's the reason for all these booster shots you're you're not vaccinated according to bears until day 15 after getting the shot because they don't want the number of deaths to increase from its day 1 to day 14 and you're gonna sit here and follow the nc department of health and human services because they give you money money to brainwash our kids in their key messages to muzzle our children by forcing them to wear a mask when the masks are proven not affected even dr fauci the go-to guru said so he reported that the millions that died from the spanish flu isn't what killed them it was the bacterial pneumonia from wearing the mask to prevent the spanish flu and if you think i'm wrong show me where
080where's the proof the real proof i am asking from for that they don't have it we have a system of laws in this country and the laws are written by congress and signed by the president not the department of health officials in which 40 people in north carolina who were not even elected are trying to dictate what you should make our kids do it's not their place nor yours so why don't you try doing the right thing and return the money that the federal government is causing you to act like the nazism type school system and use the real money for education to educate truth and fact not critical race which happens to be written by the son-in-law of the attorney general who's pushing the vaccines i have one quick question that's not related i
081wrote a letter to an email to each one of you asking about the policy the board does not respond to questions i'm just saying i wrote a letter of in june i asked for a policy to stop teachers from being political in our classrooms and last month there was a teacher right here who gave testimony that sometimes they have to get political i've been complaining about that since my kids have been thank you miss landry i've written a letter and i'd like to get a response each one of you received that letter thank you that concludes tonight's comments thank you very much uh moving on committee staff reports and i'll call them miss forward for accountability good evening chairman junker board members staff guests i'm here tonight to talk a little bit more about the
0822020 2021 accountability results you'll recall i was here two months ago to talk about the same thing i'm not going to repeat that whole presentation i promise if you remember that presentation came a little bit less than a week after they actually came out with all the data so we've been able to really look at that data and do a little bit more analysis on it since then and i wanted to come back and talk to you about a couple of things that we're looking at actually district district leadership has been going around to every school to talk about this and to celebrate this data with staff and we wanted to make sure that you heard it also so last year teachers were really laser focused on what they had to teach in the classroom
083they had to be their time was limited and it showed although that we know we know that all the way across the state all subjects all grade levels the proficiencies went down that's what we expected um we know that but we also know that we can compare ourselves to other districts across the state so comparison to other districts doesn't always reflect the same circumstances right some people were virtual more than we were some were in school more than we were and so we look at that stuff knowing that those differences exist but what it does reflect is the decisions that we did make in order to keep our kids in school and to best educate our children so we're going to look at some numbers that compare us to the other 115 districts in the
084state it is grade level proficiency so your levels three four and five for the different tests first let's look at our elementary school students these students were in school two days a week up until october grades three through five and then past that they were in school four days a week that one day a week of course they had virtual assignments and learning assigned to them these students often needed support from parents or siblings in order to complete their work when they got to the end of the school year and we looked at their eogs and we compared them to the other districts in the state the reading and math grade 3 were in the top 24 percent of the state reading in math grade 5 top 23 percent of the state reading in math
085grade 4 top 16 percent of the state and our science grade five scored in the top nine percent of the state that means that our students scored better than 91 percent of the other districts in the state i also want to look at the elementary data a little bit more closely um specifically our literacy data in 2017-18 we partnered with the mebin foundation for an initiative called davey one of the reasons that maybe the only reason that we hated to not have testing in 2019 20 was to con to see the progression of that initiative and to see how what the results look like well now that we have our 2020 2021 data we can start looking at some of that data again to see how our students are progressing now of course we know
086proficiency went down right that's what happened in all of our subjects in grade levels so we couldn't look at our proficiency but when you start to look at how our students did compared to other districts let's look at some percentile rankings so for reading grade three you can see in 1718 our schools our our third grade students scored better than 85 percent of the other districts in the state in 2018-19 we saw a bit of an implementation dip or a sophomore slump that's a very typical thing that happens we scored better than 65 percent of other districts in the state but in 2020 2021 we actually went back up to almost 83 percent percentile so that means we scored better than almost 83 percent of the districts in the state for reading grade four you
087see a much clearer progression almost 50 percent 50th percentile in 1718 up to 79.1 in 1819 and then 84.3 in 2021. for reading grade 5 our percentile was about almost 74 in 1718 dropped down to 56.5 in 1819 but went back up to 77.4 percent in 2021 i also included sixth grade in here because those students have benefited from that learning and that initiative that happened all through elementary school and you can see in 1718 our sixth grade students were better than 61 percent of the other districts in 1819 77.4 and in 2021 up to 88.7 that means our kids were in the top 13 percent of the state for reading grade 6. i also wanted to look a little bit at middle schools our middle school students of course were in school um two
088days a week and they ended up getting a course their virtual learning for three days of three days a week these students were often old enough to stay home by themselves but maybe not mature enough to get all the stuff done that they needed to get done during the school day while they were home by themselves so when they got to the end of the school year we saw our reading in math grade 7 we're in the top 35 percent of the state reading and math grade 8 top 25 percent of the state are reading in math grade 6 top 14 percent of the state and our science grade 8 top 13 percent of the state and finally we have our high school students of course they don't take their end of grade tests but
089they take end of course test um these students again were in school two days a week virtual learning three days a week a lot of these students were um quasi adults during this time frame they held down jobs to help support their families during the pandemic they may have had siblings in the house that they were helping school also when we look at how they did for english 2 and math 1 they were both in the top 25 percent of the state math 3 top 18 percent of the state and biology eoc was in the top 13 percent of the state when you look at it this way it's very clear the impact that we had on students it wasn't easy lots of times it was downright hard we've talked a lot about that in
090this room but i think we did the very best that we could for students and it took everyone it took all of our employees to get that done and i will say that all the test scores are not the only way we should measure students or schools it is a way to be able to see the impact that we've had on students and to see that the decisions we made led our students to be in many cases more successful than most of the students in the state on our end of grade and end of course test if you combine all of our tests elementary middle and high school our composite proficiency puts us at in the top 17 percent of the state we ranked 15th no i'm sorry we ranked 19th out of 115 leas
091so i did want to bring that information to you tonight do you have any questions for me looking at those circles up there the four for elementary school and middle school and high school first comment or thing that i saw in some charts that showed the graft went up and then down and then up in other charts that went continuously up in no chart did it go down can you i don't mean you but can we not all just imagine what those charts would have looked like what those percentages would have looked like had there not been all this mess for the last two years my hat's off to the teachers the support personnel that are involved around face-to-face contact with students all the teachers that spent double hours doing face-to-face and at the same
092time doing online stuff so that the ones that were not face-to-face had work to do that was relevant and it obviously impactful and if you take all those percentages davey was at what percentage this past period of time in the state and that that we were in the top 17 percent top in the state um you've all heard the thing numbers don't lie and then you've all may have heard liar figures can lie and liars can figure so you said it's not the only way to measure but it is a way and understanding that it is a way when i was a teacher and even now in this job but in professional world more important than numbers for me i mean numbers are significant it is a way but more important to me is why
093or why not if we finished in the top 16 percent why did we do that what what did we do that caused that well even with all this mess going on and then the other half of the picture or the other side of the coin why not in the top five percent in the state and and i i know that your job is to do all the number crunching and the test information gathering and i i'm asking this question i already know the answer but i'm asking it so that other people understand that we don't do all this gathering of information just to make ourselves look good or hope we're going to look good we have a group of people that take all these results and figure out what to do differently next year what
094tools what strategies etc can we to do so those stair steps keep going up i'm getting tongue tied um that that's hats off congratulations pat's on the back another bonus take a day off [Music] we did this well in this county compared to the other counties but according to those charts we have done better this last year than we did the year before there's an accumulative effect of what happens in the third grade in the fourth and the fifth grade and the sixth so i applaud every teacher that has or staff member or bus driver or custodian that sits down with the child and makes them feel better about what they're getting ready to do today or what they did yesterday any congratulations we can give to teams or extracurricular activities anything that enthusia gives
095students some enthusiasm for wanting to come back tomorrow pat's on the back for making possibly and and probably in some cases being in school the safest hours that some of our students have in their world um we're doing a lot of really really good things here and your numbers even that's not the only way to prove it your numbers bear that out so thank you for doing the study work that you do to be able to disseminate it to the staff that gets their heads wrapped around it to figure out what to do next year very good thank you congratulations david county schools erin i understand that this is really just comparing us to what other people other schools across the the um north carolina that's really the comparison you're sharing we still have learning
096loss though that we have to address oh sure sure and i think we can't forget that right and that's what when i mentioned that the proficiency did go down all the way across the state and we do know that um but this helps us know that the path that we chose at least keeps our head above water exactly and and so we'll continue doing so a couple of things that that i think would help [Music] paul and paul's comment about how we went up immediately come to comes to mind that davie county schools bit the bullet and went back to school in the elementary four days a week in my personal family situation how much my wife would wanted our grandchildren to go back to school is just unbelievable so that's that's a big thing
097the other thing you ordered the computers in a timely manner we got those in where some counties i understand miss wilson some counties suffered on up through after christmas trying to get their laptops and those kind of things so you know you start thinking what did we do differently and all of a sudden you realize we put a little time and money into it and it made a difference and the great staff that we have of course did their jobs when they had the resources to do it thank you thank you any other questions for miss boyle thank you thank you very much lastly we will call on mr harris for the quarterly revenue report good evening we'll spend a little bit of time talking about the first three months our spending our revenue um
098where we are the the quarterly update that that we um provide um every quarter um this this update's a little bit different than the others um because we've had some upfront costs that as you take a look at it um every every one i've given in the past our revenue has always been better than our expenses and overall we're there and i'm not concerned about it but as you take a look at part of our appreciation things we did at the first of the year and then some of our the lack of budget um when we approve the budget tonight that'll take care of part of the issues because of i'm realizing revenue and everything else so i want to lay that foundation to start with we're not we're not in trouble so please don't
099take please don't take that we just as we continue to work through you'll see some you'll see some different numbers tonight than what we normally have so we take a look and this is the revenue versus spending as you'll see our revenue overall is greater than our than our expenses and that's exactly where we want to be um but when you look at um i'll take child nutrition for example they they've done very very well from their spending versus their revenue again that has to do with the summer feeding reimbursement rate that we're getting the our opportunity to feed students one of the key things we need to do in the pandemic state funding our revenue is higher than our spending which is exactly where we want to be um from a local perspective that
100difference is driven by the appreciation to 450 that we um that we approved that's that's the variance inside our local spending federal spending is simply related to timing of revenue versus when we spent the money capital outlay revenue is higher than our spending so where we want to be child nutrition we talked about and restricted funds you say our spending is greater than revenue that has to do with recognized revenue when we realized it so part of our restricted funds we get our money in may june time frame for the following year and so in the in the budget we have a fund balance where we can move that revenue over and recognize it in this year and so that that drives the differences from that perspective any questions i want to before we move
101on and make sure everybody's kind of comfortable with what we have what we have here is we take a look go forward okay so this is the category piece where we talk about overall where are we um overall our personnel spending has remained at about 82 percent we usually in the 84 to 87 range um so 82 is right where we need to be another 15 is to maintain our facilities and operations and then the remaining three percent is around staff and student development we take a look at that by fund um this is our this is fund one our state funds about 95 of our state spending is related to personnel whether that's salary and benefits states crystal clear in their expectations you use my money to pay for people and that's what we
102do whether it's positions or dollars how all that's laid out and that's exactly what we've done here at 95 percent locally about 76 of our spending is related to personnel and the remaining 24 percent is related to school operations and building maintenance our federal funding 71 of our federal funding supports personnel while another 25 percent goes towards school operations supporting our students and the remaining six percent is directed to staff development um these these percentages are off just a little bit because as we've received federal money for esser that will drive part of these percentages as well um as we we spent money for any number of things from covet risk mitigation to summer school those type of things as we look at that supplies and all for that capital outlay 86 of our money
103is spent on facility repairs maintenance these are all the big dollar projects and everything else that where we spend our money to keep our buildings up you'll notice that there's another thirty five thousand dollars that's related to our activity bus lease and our synovial lease so that's what the other is inside of that last this is school nutrition again i talked about school nutrition the two key things there that's designed for school nutrition is feeding our students and the staff to do that so 44 of the spending is related to food so we can feed our students and 42 is related to our personnel cost and then the last area is restricted this is very specialized specific spending when we receive these dollars and 84 percent of this we've we've pigeonholed four personnel so far
104this year and then the remaining 16 is around student and staff development so overall i'm we're right where we need to be i mean i i have a very good feeling on where we are and how we're doing as we continue to look at managing personnel managing cost the second quarter will be a very different answer as we um very front loaded with some expenses such as insurance and things like that and that's all driven from local and so that's the reason that we we kind of sit where we are a little bit from that standpoint i'll be happy to answer what questions you may have questions from mr harris you must have done well thank you very much i think the last last item on our agenda is the german and i will entertain
105a motion if clay would say anything about this that we have at our place how did you this is uh related to the anderson smith and white certified public accountants what is the i haven't had time to i don't guess any of us have had an opportunity to read it is it just uh okay thank you very much i'll entertain a motion to adjourn have a motion by ms smith have a second by mr drexler all those in favor motion carries 7-0 we are now adjourned thank you for being here please [Music] you