001good evening i would like to reconvene the october 5th meeting of the davie county school board first before we get moving i need to ask for a motion to modify the agenda we've got a scheduling conflict and so the united way recognition will have to be removed and then also need to add a personnel action right before committee staff reports of a motion by mr carroll have a second by miss whip all those in favor motion carries 7-0 thank you so before we move into the tonight's meeting items i want to say thank you for being here your uh your attendance and participation although sometimes is uh uncomfortable uh is important to this board it helps us guide us as we try to do what is best for all the children of this community at
002the same time we ask that everyone be respectful and and honor the procedure of the board there is a time to hear from you on the agenda during public comments and we look forward to that time there are copies of the agenda located at the entrance if you care to have one again thank you for being here our next item on the 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 seek 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
003those who have placed 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 guard us from blind self-interest grant us the humility to always seek your will in all that we do and say amen uh now if you will join me in 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 uh next is the approval of the minutes i'll ask a motion to approve the minutes from the september 7th meeting i have a motion by mr drexler i
004have a second by miss smith any further discussion all those in favor motion carries seven zero next important dates we've got a couple october 13th through the 15th is the school board fall law conference in asheville and then october 15th the friday is the davie experience it's a district-wide professional development davie county school with schools employees november 1st at 6 p.m the board of commissioners meeting and november 2nd we are back in here for our november meeting at six o'clock closed session at five and then we also have uh november 11th through the 13th is the north carolina school board association annual conference for those who are attending that next i will call on mr wallace for the superintendent's report thank you mr chairman good evening board staff and guests i want to thank you
005for joining us tonight first state or step of action would be to recognize miss maville nelson to my right mr nelson welcome we're glad you're here and miss deanna has taken a position to be with her family or more with often with her family she's told us a few times that she has fridays off so she reminds us of that but either way she's taking a part-time position but we want to again thank miss nelson she is uh quite the background in her and and she and her um this point in her career has decided to work with children she spent quite a bit of time working i think maybe five years at william ellis somewhere in there close and then working at the front office at central office and then applied and was definitely
006a qualified candidate for this position so welcome we're off to a good start so thank you tonight's meeting and and all other board meetings are an opportunity to engage in a democratic process that is valuable to davie county north carolina and this country we should never make light of this opportunity moreover we should never disrespect the process or others parents your input and partnership are vital in the education process even when there are differences please know we want to hear from you but we expect the privilege and interactions to be respectful as we work together for our children it's been stated thank you all for being here board i want to thank you for your taking the time last friday to be to participate in a retreat and that's always interesting when i asked dr
007coble i said dr coble i've done these personality trainings with you before i said do you typically post all of this on the wall he said not usually he said but you got the right kind of board you got a great board he said so the trust and relationship among your board i knew that we could do that so i said well i wasn't quite sure but again thank you for your vulnerability thank you for being willing to talk and share and group staff and folks i want you know your board is continued to learn are interested in growing and building a stronger relationship with each other so we can better serve and that was the whole point just to become better and to better serve update on school nutrition you all know that schools
008were closed and on march 13th which is friday 2020 and on march since march the 16th 2020 through the beginning of this school year through august 20. our school nutrition continue to operate under emergency feeding and they have served 1.31 million 577 meals which is phenomenal probably one of the most efficient groups and pleasurable groups to be around over the summer just in the summer still in emergency feeding they provided one over 108 000 meals to families so just a phenomenal phenomenal job and i commend mr salecki and that team we uh board we have our first month of of attendance rate we have monthly attendance rates and for the first month of school it was 91.21 percent and that's compared to the last two to three years it has been 96 percent now students
009that are quarantined are counted as absent they're not there now they can do their work but it is an excused absence but you know the school attendance laws are pretty strict you all have to physically be at school or on a school trip something school sponsored but a little lower of course than we hope but 91.21 for the first month and hopefully as we continue to get better it's covered we can get a better handle on that and things to begin to settle that will it would be improved um on thursday uh september 3rd 23rd excuse me september 23rd the ashley furniture team part of their team visited davie county schools i want to come in mr anthony davis he led a group led by chris gingler chris is the education foundation manager the ashley
010education foundation manager and he had two fine ladies with him that i understand i wasn't able to join but uh sheree wagner and katie forsyth and when i found out later that that's both of those are mr ron wanik's daughters so they were they toured davie county high school they toured north davie middle school taking a look at many of our career offerings career and technical career technical offerings and they were particularly interested in the greenhouse ag mechanics they took a look at welding our plasma cutter and uh the pittsco lab which is primarily a stem lab and the unique thing about the pittsco lab is it incorporates reflection you don't just go build bridges and tear them down and try to figure out what happened you build and when you work when you design
011as an engineer you reflect on your practice in the moment so it was really neat so uh we're grateful again to have that group working with us and uh we're very thankful for them and again thankful for anthony to uh that's willing to work with that group and the two principals mr pruitt and mr copeland k-building update uh over the past few weeks mr spielman and the fuller architect team has met with each individual director and looked at their work space that they need and it's late that's designed in the in the plans that are being put together one specific area as you well know for k building will be the location will house our virtual school and many of our student services staff and then with a virtual school obviously we're trying to take
012a look at what learning looks like in the future and making sure we can differentiate and serve our our staff our kids and staff as best we can covet has forced us to rethink how we deliver instruction therefore david county virtual school is one of the options that we've provided we'll have a student community lab that will be open after hours for students can and families can get help would centralize some of our services that are scattered over two or three campuses and no doubt that this will have a direct impact on student learning the focus is on student learning forward thinking and the learning loss that we've we've talked about for quite some time we um we're excited to again to find ways to um to just improve learning and and to keep moving
013with the recent acts sad acts and unfortunate acts of violence and weapons on school campuses there's been much discussion around among superintendents and just about everyone in schools about safety and protecting our children and our staff we i've mentioned many times that we your district leadership we have we are in continuous communication about safety to make sure we're prepared properly monitoring and conducting specific drills um recently davie county schools lead sro met with and met with an officer that from the west salem police department that actually worked the mount tabor shooting and they sat down and had time to talk about what went on and how how could we improve and get better so we follow up from that meeting last week ms haines mr harris myself met with uh lead sro jeff jones sheriff
014uh j.d hartman and chief deputy brian jacobs and we discussed topics and we discussed what jeff had learned in in being prepared we are planning a drill over christmas while the bill would not have students there unless they want to participate but it'll be primarily an empty building but there will be a a serious or a large scale drill be conducted there with uh with the sheriff's department and our sros and the ems and some of those siri thinks i'm talking to her sorry i don't want her to say anything so all right um but jeff we want to thank you for sure and your your part and involvement with that so again thankful for that relationship covett update as of yesterday board we shared with you that we have 29 students that are then
015active cases of 29 students and 10 staff members quarantined 173 students and 10 staff members this morning we were informed of a very positive change uh with the quarantine protocol if you were if you recall and it's again if you'll go to our website you can see the updated one but in a school setting two fourth graders are properly masked consistently and properly masked and one of those young men or young ladies whatever the fourth grader is contracts coveted then the person within that six foot radius of them during the school day or in their in their classroom does not have to quarantine that's not changed what has changed was announced this morning so i'm the teacher of those fourth grade kids before today i was properly masked the fourth grader was properly masked the
016fourth grader contracts coven i still had to go home to as of to immediately tomorrow same scenario i'm fourth grade teacher working with a fourth grade kid that contracts the virus we're both properly masked i do not have to go home i do not have to quarantine now it has been prior to that it had been if i had been back if i was vaccinated i didn't have to anyway but we have some of our staff that are not vaccinated but now if both parties now just says individuals and not doesn't say students anymore it says individuals that are within proximity the six-foot radius potentially was exposed properly masked you do neither one has to go with covet kit has to go home yes sorry so but that is a real positive change for us
017and you're going to hear from miss haines tonight in the hr report about the difficulties with staffing and finding um finding some substitutes eddie do you mind pulling up a couple of slides i want to show you two slides board i presented this to you i think i shared this with you today if i have it i will but this will be on the you can see this is from the north carolina department of health and human services and it delineates out the three counties without mask mandates and their average clusters per 100 schools now that i mean they had 17.2 clusters in every district that's just the ratio that they use and you can see the 89 counties it speaks for itself of those that that were masked and the number of clusters that
018were in those schools per 100 i am somewhat reluctant to brag but at the same time i will tell you we have not had a cluster in any of our schools i'm very very we're very fortunate and very thankful for that but again this is from the health and human services and you see the time frame from august 26 through september 26th um one other if you'll take a look at the next slide please one of the studies uh nick go ahead next nope yeah there we go thank you um and again you can see it for yourself there but k-12 school mass policies and schools are not outbreaks the point there is the likelihood of outbreaks when schools that are not are making masks optional versus those that are requiring mask now we talk
019about using data now i'm going to make it loud and clear again board i'm not sitting here debating whether i agree with mask or not i'm sharing with you what the data that is collected from the hot from the not the high school legislation the north carolina department of health and human services presented this information in a statewide meeting this morning also as you recall in this meeting that i did send to you in a link today i had to send a second when there was an incorrect link about covid19 in schools legal authority and requirements documents there have been some questions about union county so deciding whether to follow the quarantine guidelines or not and there's a lot of intricate stuff involved with that that we don't all know about i did talk to
020a few but my point is there's some legal guidelines that was issued today about the quarantine protocol that we have to follow so all right um recently i met with the school reopening team that includes the county manager a local physician the director of dhhs suzanne wright and uh lori dingler and we are constantly monitoring and talking about the kovitz situation you can see in our county and across our state there seems to be somewhat of a decline in the presentation this morning dhh has talked about that which is very positive we but again we continue to talk about what's next for us we also talked about meeting we i will meet with that group once a month prior to each board meeting and to talk about what our next steps are and then again
021we just get their advice the professionals and as you know i also communicate with continue to communicate with the abc sites collaborative every two to three weeks we have a meeting so if i can attend ms nelson sits in so we um one thing i will i really want you know that we continue to work with them in monitoring the situation but i asked them today i met with them again today and i said do you have a message that you want me to bring out to our board and our community and the word just thank you they all said thank you very much we don't like the situation we're in but thank you and they commended this board for making a tough decision and partnering with them and listening and being thankful for you
022they know it's hard but they wanted to tell you how much that they did appreciate you all i just want to make sure that i share that all right my next piece in my report i'm going to step to the podium so any questions about anything i've mentioned thus far are we on schedule with k building for the bidding process we would yes okay we are on schedule with with the meeting with the groups we should have something a tentative or a draft to look at hopefully this week mr spellman i got a thumbs up from mr spielman so we should be yes sir yes sir yes ma'am um back to your meeting this morning with the back to school yep group um i'm sure there was some conversation on where we are now and
023where we are going right um i know they can't read the future but did you get the impression that they feel like right now we're in a holding pattern that they feel like i mean obviously numbers going down it looks like we are trending in the right direction so did you get any sense for what their opinion was on that i i did uh and and to your point i said what can you tell me they said well jeff we can't we're not sure but what we can tell you is it is did trend down our current positivity rate was 11.1 11.2 both the doctor and suzanne said we expect that to trend up just a little bit this this week you know that number's a lagging number because they have seen a little bit
024more activity but they've not seen a spike so they do feel good about where we're heading and and uh they did mention that this seems to be what they had predicted with the delta variant of the spike and then hopefully decline the one thing that they they did landmark it says we will be really curious to see what happens after thanksgiving you know if you look at the month of november we have we have a work day a holiday two holidays so it's broken up and so our kids will be with families more so we'll be real curious to see that's kind of a landmark they want to see what happens after that now it doesn't mean we won't we're going to talk you know in in through october but um uh of course we
025want to see the positivity rate continue to come down we are still a red county um for sure in a matter of fact i think all 100 counties are still red uh and that's pretty much as far as they'd go yep but we are discussing that yes kind of as a follow-up to wendy's is there any like goal in sight or is there a metric or any kind of guideline that people could sort of look towards to see what we're we're headed the right direction yes but i know we can't put a set date on it but if there's something i think people kind of knew there was an end goal in sight well i i don't know what that is and again that's um we talked about before setting up setting up okay if
026we get to five percent then we do away with the mask well and i'm gonna go to the opposite side of that if you recall last year after christmas we were seeing a spike in our county there was and we were red but we still came back to school and there were quite a few demands that we extend christmas or stay virtual but we didn't so if we and so it's a good it's a fair question we've got to know where we're going at some point that's a fair question ms smith i agree 100 um but i think it schools are what with the more data we're seeing that schools are more of a unique setting if we do it the right way so i don't know i don't know what that is again i
027think it's a lower positivity rate for sure absolutely but if you say five percent then we could still have clusters in school i'm just not sure yet but it is a fair question and one that we continue to monitor and look at absolutely all right i'm going to step up to the microphone mr spellman would you join me podium please in audience i want to have a opportunity here to recognize mr michael spellman who failed to tell his supervisors something very special michael spielman was recently honored as north carolina maintenance association maintenance director of the year for the entire state of north carolina so congratulations [Applause] mr spielman has a big anniversary coming up with david county schools and november 1st 1987. correct that's correct 34 years i may have told this story if i
028did bear with me it's worth repeating when michael a year or two ago was talking about moving toward his retirement and i knew his wife his beautiful wife with him tonight who's a retired educator we were in a conversation and someone asked the question what's the temperature of the water that comes out of a hot water heater and he just rattled it off like that and i said oh my goodness we've got to keep him for a long time who knows the water temperature that comes out of particular water heaters or dishwashers i said we got to keep michael for a while in 1987 michael started in delivery and maintenance of school serve food services 1993 he transferred to a full-time maintenance position in 2001 mr spellman became the assistant maintenance director and in march
029of 2013 michael became the director of facilities michael's leadership and hard work has an absolute direct impact on every child in our school and every teacher he do he knows so much now his challenge is to get someone ready he keeps saying i don't have anybody i said get someone ready so now we've taken on the k building in the virtual school i said you cannot retire until that's done so we've had good conversations and michael i can't tell you how much i appreciate you personally i appreciate you have known you for a long time prior to our careers together and um i know what i'm going to get from you we know that you know what you're doing and it is an honor to see our davie county schools maintenance director be recognized on
030a state level as the state maintenance director of the year so i we stole this from his office today we took miss nelson had a first task and miss and carol and uh michael's assistant we were able to steal this out of his office so be careful okay okay michael thank you buddy thank you appreciate it very much [Applause] lose my reporters jim thank you congratulations mr spellman you ready to be back up next i will call mr wallace again for the government finance officers association certificate of achievement i will remind everyone in the audience and board members and mr harris while he's standing here there's one person in this district that works at the will of the superintendent here he stands so he does a great job you're going to hear more about that
031from our audit report but another recognition we were notified clay and his team were notified by the government finance officers association of the united states and canada that davie county schools finance department has been awarded a financial reporting achievement basically he dotted all of his eyes and crossed all of his t's and the numbers were right again which you're going to hear more about later tonight but clay has a great team he just added a new member and he's taking on some more responsibilities as chief operations officer but clay i want to tell you how important it is you do a good job and like and again personally you you do it you do more than just numbers and we appreciate that and we're very proud of you and your team congratulations sir thank you
032thank you very much [Applause] congratulations mr harris next uh item on our agenda is a consent agenda and i will entertain a motion i have a motion by mr carroll have a second i have a second by mr drexler any discussion questions all those in favor motion carries 7-0 next item is the added personnel prior earlier just earlier we met as a board in closed session to discuss our superintendent to review our superintendent and and i will say is raving reviews a lot of a lot of things were said some programs were mentioned through covid [Music] mr wallace joined our school system in that position and was thrown right into the fire pretty quick uh with with with what happened through cobit i got to see firsthand uh what mr wallace was made of and
033the one comment that i always say when someone asked me about him is i've never seen someone so willing to run towards the fire instead of away from the fire [Music] willing to meet everything head on so a lot of the words that that were said just the partnership that you have with with the community leadership professionalism respect communication humility and the willingness to celebrate the team um and and to empower your team uh i think all those characteristics uh speak more about you as a person and just your management skill and your style uh and just the way you carry yourself so i will entertain a motion or sorry thank you mr junk i'd be privileged to make that motion and i would move that we extend mr wallace contract for one year to
034june the 30th 2025. i would move that we increase his base salary by 7.13 123 percent especially in light of last year we were not able to give a salary increase we like to increase this annually by six days and all of which can be converted at a per diem rate in accordance with this contract and then provide a contribution to his retirement uh account for uh the amount of six thousand dollars do i have a motion sorry that that was a that was that was a motion okay sorry do i have a second i have a segment smith any further discussion all those in favor motion carries seven zero thank you sir for your leadership uh next staff committee reports um we've got uh annual audit mr harris board i want to take a
035minute to introduce uh andy diehl he's with our external auditor firm anderson smith and white um the recognition was for last year he 4 20 i'm sorry 1920. he's gonna talk about our 2021 audit that we just finished up um what about a month or so ago six weeks ago something like that so good evening hope everyone's doing well again my name is andy diehl i'm a partner with the accounting firm anderson smith and wike um we're the auditors for davie county schools um and yes the year we're talking about tonight is the the all debt for the fiscal year ended june 30th 2021 so school year 2020 2021. we'll start tonight on page one on page one we have our first auditor's report um there are four auditors reports in these financial statements the
036first one here deals with the financial statements and whether they're in accordance with gaap or generally accepted accounting principles the next three audit reports deal with compliance and we'll talk about those later but the first audit report here is an unmodified report which you could also call a clean report the reason we call it an unmodified report means we didn't note anything during our audit that would require us to modify our auditor's report so that's why we refer to it as an unmodified report and it's the cleanest report you can give it's the highest level of assurance we can give on a set of financial statements next if you'll flip over to page 14. on page 14 this is the um the balance sheet for the governmental funds so it's going to be all the
037funds for the school district except for the child nutrition fund the child nutrition fund has different accounting rules the accounting rules for the child nutrition fund are more like a for-profit business therefore their statements are on in a different part of this report here but if you look at this here this is our balance sheet for your governmental funds this is going to give you a snapshot of the financial condition of the school district as of june 30th 2021. so it's going to show you what your cash balance is as of june 30. it's going to show you what your accounts payable balance is what your ending fund balance is so it's a very important part of these financial statements one number i want to highlight if you look at the first column that's the
038general fund if you look at the second number from the bottom that is the total fund balance so as of june 30 2021 the general fund had a fund balance of just over four million dollars if you'll flip to the next page page 15 this is the statement of revenues expenditures and changes in fund balance for the governmental funds you could also call this a profit and loss statement or an income statement but this is going to have all of your revenues and expenses for all of your governmental funds and if you look at the first column that's the general fund if you look at the third number from the bottom that's going to tell you your net income for the general fund for the year and uh for the year ended june 30th 2020
039the general fund had a net increase in fund balance of just under 1.3 million dollars so fund balance increase just shy of 1.3 million with an ending fund balance of 4 million and then another number i want to highlight on this page your ending fund balance is 4 million that may seem like a lot but one thing i want to point out your general fund fund balance is pretty much your financial reserves um if you get in any kind of financial bind it's going to be the general fund that kind of kicks in to to pay it um if you look at the second column the state public school fund if you look at the third number from the top your total revenues for the state public school fund are about 40 million dollars so
040if you had a three percent cut in your state revenues that would be 1.2 million so and that's just a three percent cut on your state revenues that's not counting federal revenues county revenues so you can see that if there's any cuts or anything in the future you could shoot through four million dollars really quickly just want to point that out another thing i want to look at is on page 23 on page 23 this is the statement of cash flows for the school food service fund or the child nutrition fund um as i mentioned before the accounting rules for your child nutrition fund are more for a for-profit business they're more similar to like a for-profit business and due to that they have to record uh long-term liabilities like for the pension plan the
041retirement health plan and i'll be honest it really muddies the water on okay how well did the child nutrition program do financially because you have all these non-cash liabilities that they have to record where you know they're not writing checks for these items um it's just the actuary says this is what the liability is and they divvy it up amongst all the school districts so one thing i like to look at to see okay how well did the child nutrition program do is the statement of cash flows it's basically just like it sounds it's going to give you the change in cash for the year if you look at the third number from the bottom the net change in cash for the child nutrition fund was 680 thousand dollars increase that is a strong financial
042performance for the district and it got better in 2021 with with the uh the coveted feeding initiatives as far as school nutrition programs making cash but across the state child nutrition programs are struggling to make cash so the fact that they made that much cash is a um is a good sign and i think you know what causes it is just uh you know years and years of trying to cut your costs cut your cost because it's been so tight financially and then you get this you know rush of stimulus funding and coveted feeding initiatives and their reimbursements go up and this is what happens but just compared to other school districts your size that is a strong strong number so that that's honestly uh good to see because we don't see that much a
043lot of a lot of times what we see is child nutrition is losing cash and then the general fund has to bail them out so that's a good sign there next if you'll turn to page 63 on page 63 this is where the compliance portion of the audit begins um there are three auditors reports in the compliance section this is the first one this report is on the district's compliance with internal control over financial reporting and internal control over compliance and again this is an unmodified report all three reports are unmodified which again is the cleanest report you can get so that is definitely good news next if you flip over to page 65 this is our auditor's report on the district's compliance with the major federal programs and again this is an unmodified report
044and if you flip over to page 67 this is our auditor's report on the district's compliance with the major state programs and again it's an unmodified report or a clean report we didn't have any audit findings or anything like that so you know no news is good news there um the next thing i want to go over is does everybody have this retirement contributions for the past seven years um we were talking about fund balance um earlier and how you could chew through you know fund balance pretty quickly this simple chart here really drills that in what what this is is you have your your pension contribution that the district makes for the past seven years the post employment health care contribution that the district has made for the past seven years and then the
045the average covered employees for the past seven years so you can see from 2015 to 2021 our average employees went from 855 in down to 759 in 2021 and our retirement costs went from 5 million to 7.4 million so a decrease in in employees and the costs just keep going up and up and up and you know i don't i don't see that trend stopping in in the near term i believe they've increased the retirement rate again for next year and if they haven't officially approved it i think that's what everybody thinks they're going to approve um so one thing to keep in mind here too the the school district has no control over these retirement contributions raleigh says okay per employee all the school districts going to are going to chip in you know
04625 per employee 25 of their wages to these plans um and another thing i want to highlight this is retirement health care this isn't current health care this is just health care they get when they retire so the district has no control in you know setting these rates and these costs you know raleigh sets the rate and you guys just have to pay it so if raleigh increases your rate which they have for the past seven years at least when raleigh increases your rate that doesn't mean the federal government goes oh the state of north carolina increased their retirement rates we've got to give davie county schools more money that's not how it works that doesn't mean the county of davey is going to give you more money because raleigh increased these rates so this
047makes it really really hard for districts to grow and maintain fund balance and another thing too it's the same thing with with uh state mandated raises if the state mandates a raise that doesn't mean the federal government is going to give you more money to pay that raise you know you you may get more money but not due to that reason but you may get less money and then also a lot of your state allotments are dollar allotments meaning they're not some of them are positioned meaning they're going to pay you for a number of positions but a lot of them are you know we're just going to give you a set amount of money and they don't always increase that when they increase these rates so this is something that can really put a
048strain on fund balance at school districts um and and the reason i like to bring it up is yeah um you know fund balance your fund balance may be good right now but it's it's easy to chew through it and um you know where we're at right now is very similar to where we were probably eight nine years ago with the um with the aura funding to me school districts that were smart they they use their aura funds wisely to kind of maintain and grow their fund balance because after the aura funds ran out uh education funds were just cut cut cut so if you didn't have that fund balance i mean all you could really do was lay off employees um so you know this this schedule really helps drill that in and um
049it's just it's a very simple schedule that i like to go over with the boards just to kind of um you know help folks realize you know just keep in mind you know if you get a small cut it can really hurt you and um you know like i said this this schedule helps show that um but that's uh oh yeah one more thing i want to go over tonight due to auditing standards if we have difficulties in completing our audit we are required to share those difficulties with you the board it is an audit standard we are pleased to report we had no difficulties in completing our audit when we do an audit we ask for a ton of documentation we ask a lot of questions and at davie county schools you know if
050we ask for documentation we got it timely if we asked a question we didn't get a vague response that you know left us asking more questions and that just allows us to do a much more effective audit so um i always like to go over that with with the board but um that's all i have to go over tonight if anybody has any specific questions let me know do you know what the current federal reimbursement rate for free and reduced lunch and breakfast it used to be based on a single plate that was served does that still operate the same way is that one of the ways that we've kept our child nutrition in the in the black um i don't know exactly how the rate is calculated and i know with the covid it
051was i think everybody got the free rate um but i think what it is is i'll be honest um your child nutrition program financially historically has performed good you know over the years especially if you compare it to other school districts this small they just seem to have a real hard time of not losing money and um i think what it is is it's it's kind of sound financial management um before the coveted feeding initiatives there was you know it was harder to make cash so i think you know they were doing stuff to make sure they weren't gonna you know go into the red and then um like i said you you have the free red the free reimbursement rate that they got for the coven meal so that helped and i think it
052was just you know you're so lean on your costs for several years and then you get you know stimulus money and code covered feeding initiatives and it's kind of a perfect storm of of you know the increase in cash yeah just let me compliment you that's probably one of the clearest detailed presentations on the had the pleasure of experiencing thank you yes any other questions thank you very much next i will call on miss haynes for hr update good evening chairman junker board members staff and guests um i am here tonight to share with you a an update on human resources and actually i feel like he he paved the way and touched on some things that that i will touch on as well um i also will say up front certainly stop me if
053you have questions as we go through or i'll entertain questions at the end i may not have all the answers um but if not we'll we'll figure them out or i'll go back and look up some information if if you want more information i also would say to mr harris because hr and finance are so closely tied that i may turn to him if there's a question related to money or mr willis who was in hr before me so certainly jump in as needed as we start this i want to give you just an overview to begin with just as a reminder in case you don't remember as far as staff overview is concerned we typically have about 800 permanent employees so about 500 certified and about 300 that are classified let me figure out
054the best way to click my slides here that makes us the second largest employer in davie county schools behind ashley furniture just to give you kind of overview and an idea of where we stand keep in mind if we run a report on any given day depending on who has resigned who's coming in those numbers may fluctuate just a little bit but this is this is basically where we hover what that means is that personnel represents somewhere between 84 and 87 percent of our total budget depending upon funding for a given year depending on grants that we may have written depending on you know federal funds title 1 how many positions we're paying for with title 1 money so lots of different things but that's kind of the ballpark just to give you an overview
055as we talk about this because again closely tied to the funding situation so again this is very related to the audit report and i didn't realize i was going to have that nice preface to this so if you look at the cost of a first-year teacher and we want to compare that in 2008 versus 2021 where we are right now first of all i want to make sure to highlight that with the numbers that you see in orange are not take-home pay this is not what a first year teacher makes because that looks a lot better than what it really is that is the total cost of a first year teacher so that is their salary that is their retirement which right now is 21.68 percent their health care plan and fica that's total package
056or cost of an employee so if you look at that in 2008 versus 2021 you see the significant change and again you've seen that on the other hand out that he gave you tonight so ultimately what that means is when our the increase in cost of an employee outpaces the increase in funding we experience a reduction in employees again i didn't know that he was going to provide that handout for you tonight but you see that you know that we've had to make reductions over the years in 2008 a million dollars would employ about 26 teachers today that same amount of money will will pay for less than 20 teachers so that's what we see over time so even though our adm may have decreased slightly our staff has decreased at a much more significant
057rate so not proportionately let's go ahead and jump forward because we talked about projections and what we think is coming and this is mr harris's job so again i'm going to refer you to him if you have questions about this it is his job to try to forecast and help you guys as far as figuring out budget for the next year so as he forecasts cost for the 2022 fiscal year this is what he's looking at so if you see the the teacher to the far right or the silhouette of a teacher to the far right you'll see with no salary increase we're still talking about an increase in cost for each individual employee and again this is a first year teacher then you see below that the increase in cost with a four percent
058increase in salary so the first number is just based on an increase in the cost of benefits in the retirement going up which is out of our control and the health care plan going up which is out of our control okay again i had such a great intro tonight so thank you to the auditor this gives you a little more detail as far as the personnel cost so if you take a look at that retirement over over time from 2008 to 2014 to 2021 you see that climb right there we are now predicting that that retirement will be 22.88 percent that's what's proposed so again continuing to go up and here's your health care as you compare that from 2008 to 2014 to 2021 that is projected to increase seven hundred and twenty dollars per
059employee this year so that's going to go from that six thousand three hundred and twenty six dollars to seven thousand forty six dollars per employee the other note on here is our challenge about minimum wage and this is specifically related to some of our classified staff who are hourly employees we're going to talk about this some more as we go through some other slides our classified employee salaries need to be addressed we absolutely acknowledge that but as mr harris is trying to project and as we're trying to budget we have to look at what the state's talking about when they're talking about a 13 minimum wage or a 15 minimum wage and figuring out how are we going to pay for that because again sometimes those are not positions those are dollars that we're paying
060for out of local local funds and again if you two need to interject anything you're certainly welcome all right so i'm going to jump a little more into the hr side of things and give you a little bit of hiring overview each year in march we send intent forms out to all of our employees because it helps us plan it helps us know are you planning to be back with us the following school year or not it also prompts some employees who might they may have already made a decision or they may be thinking about making a decision as to not returning the next year they may have already decided they're going to retire but they haven't told us yet so we send those intent forms out in march and again that helps kind of
061prompt that so that we can begin planning for the following year traditionally we would not start posting positions any earlier than may 1st and and typically we would complete all of our hiring by sometime in july before students are returning in august however i have to say with kovid hr has changed significantly in addition we are seeing you've heard about previously even prior to ko kova the teacher shortage but again the unpredictability of covet is making a significant impact so with that we started posting positions as early as april this year trying to get ahead of the game at the same time being very cautious not to over staff and not knowing exactly what our student numbers would look like returning and opening opening school back up with covid but it has been a record-breaking
062summer we're going to take a look at that obviously it takes a lot of extra work from school level as well as district level there are lots of folks involved in the hiring process we're processing resignations and retirements and those sorts of things but we're also screening and we're interviewing and processing paperwork and onboarding so there's just a lot of work that's behind the scenes when we talk about this timeline i started tallying up some information if you took the time to review the personnel report since intent forms were collected in march we started posting positions in april to where we are today october 6 i think is what it is so beginning of october i want you to take a moment to let these numbers sink in considering the size of our staff and
063the numbers i presented on the first slide 72 resignations 25 retirements for the entire year so some of those started actually prior to april we hired 128 permanent employees we reassigned or transferred 56. keep in mind a lot of times that is not someone who we just have reorganized and moved but it's someone who has applied for an op for a position has still gone through the interview process so in that reassignment number this is not i teach fourth grade this year and next year i'm teaching fifth grade this is i'm moving to another school i'm moving to another position i might be moving from a teacher to a media coordinator but this is a real what i call a real transfer not just the change of grade level or what subject i'm teaching okay
064so this obviously creates a lot of domino effect when one person is reassigned or transferred that creates a domino and opens up another spot to hire we also hired 44 interim temporary or substitute positions but i want you to see that these numbers are tremendous i dare say mr wallace this is a record a record year again it adds tremendous workload to all of our staff involved not only from the hr standpoint but for our staff who are in schools when we have this many new people we have this many changes we have this many transfers and people in new positions it means we have folks who need to be mentored that are learning how to work together that are that are being onboarded um so there's there's a lot behind that now when you
065look at these numbers you might jump to the conclusion that we've added a lot of positions because it looks like we hired a lot more than we lost so i do want to address that because that's really not the case that would be overly simplified math we do have just a few grant funded positions that are new but i will say last year in some situations we were not fully staffed so that's part of the thing when we were on a plan b we were not fully staffed with bus drivers because we weren't running full routes every day we weren't fully staffed with custodians in some cases so there's some situations where we weren't fully staffed we weren't as we weren't as staffed in even school nutrition so not having some positions that we could
066that we could feel in some situations we've also had to become creative and i'm going to talk about that at the end of this presentation in some cases we've had to hire two part-time permanent people to fill one permanent position so again it's not a matter of increasing position but it's about being creative in our hiring to cover bases do you have questions about this slide before i move on how many substitutes would you really need if we were going to be in good shape we're going to get to that because i've got some slides on that so great question so hang on i've got some i've got some good information for that actually all right so one of the things that we want to look about and look at as we're talking about all
067of this hiring that we've been doing is the teacher attrition and we do and we do a teacher attrition report we work with the state on that each year so let me just kind of give you a little bit of overview and then i'll dig a little bit deeper into the data so we generally have somewhere between 420 and 425 teachers and so you see kind of funnel down when we get through all of that all of that process with intent forms and we lose some folks to retirement to transfers and when i say transfers in this case i'm talking about transferring out of the district somewhere else to teach maybe family obligations or other reasons we lose about 35 per year each year though when we report that attrition rate this is a little
068bit of a lagging indicator but it's typically about nine percent so when we are looking at this we're looking at it from march of one year to march of the next year so we'll take a closer look so that you can see what some of that data looks like so here is our retirement our retirements for actually over the last several years and you see that in 2021 again i said we had 25. so if we look at that trend overall it doesn't i mean it's not the highest retirement rate that we've ever seen we see we see a slight increase since 2020 but not a not a huge number i was really a little bit surprised when we looked at this information here's what i think is is maybe more telling in typical times
069in a traditional situation a teacher or anyone really working for a school system is going to work the school year so you're going to retire at the end of the school year you're going to finish in june and we're going to replace that person and have someone new that starts in august what we've seen with retirements is that retirements are happening at unusual times we've had folks who've retired a week or two weeks into the school year a month or two months into the school year a month or two months before the school year ends with just a little bit of time left or mid-year sometimes a very late retirement late in the summer like a last-minute decision so it's not so much that we have felt a huge increase in retirements and this is
070really all retirements not just teachers but we're seeing non-traditional timing when can i go out when is the soonest i can go out in some cases and i think some of that really has to do with the challenges of covid and the stress that people that people are living through this time all right so let's talk about transfers and the attrition with that so again i said we start with 400 420 to 25 teachers per year we lose about 35 about a third of those each year are transferring to other districts so since i've been in hr i've really been trying to track this and look at where are people going so in 2019 20 of the folks who left davie county schools continued to teach but left to teach somewhere else 80 percent of
071them transferred to a neighboring district with a higher teacher supplement in 89 percent of those who left us to and continued to teach but taught somewhere else transferred to a neighboring district with a higher teacher supplement i don't know what our 2021-22 data is going to look like yet because this will be measured from march of 2021 who's on our payroll then versus who's on our payroll in march of but i can already estimate it's going to look worse because i know what your personnel reports are looking like and i know where people are going so it's important that we take a look at our teacher supplements as as you all know we've been talking we've been talking with commissioners commissioners are supportive in this we need to look at our teacher supplements we have
072been at five and a half percent since 2006 2007 that's when it increased our staff our teachers get a third of that in november and two-thirds of that in june but if you look at the lineup and rowan county is not included on this because they have a flat rate instead of percent so it's very difficult to compare but clay can also tell you that it's still in comparison you see where we fall now winston-salem forsyth county just they have increased theirs recently and i do want to explain what that number looks like because it looks funny you see 7.2 plus to 15.4 plus so when you pull out their supplement scales what you'll see is the lowest teacher supplement is 7.2 percent plus 200 a month so that's why it look that's why this
073looks that way um iredel increased theirs recently and moved up to 6.75 but you will see of our region of our area we are tied with yadkin at the bottom at 5.5 percent if we talk about classified supplements there are some districts that have classified supplements but this really varies from place to place in some cases it's a percentage in some cases it's a flat rate and in some cases districts don't have a classified supplement just like davey but again we're going to talk about classified a little bit more as we look at our vacancy ratings okay so this leads us to our recruiting challenges you've heard i'm sure you've seen on the news it's no secret we have seen sharp declines across the nation in college of education the preparation programs most reports will
074tell you that they're seeing a decline of about one-third but you'll find different states and different places anywhere from 25 percent to over 50 percent just depending on the on the state or the region i can say and with a fellow adk member in the room um we tried to give away an adk scholarship last year and we had zero applicants at davie high school who applied for that scholarship to go on to be a teacher that's heartbreaking y'all i just have to say that's heartbreaking there are lots of things that have made the field unattractive over the last 10 years and it's really hard to turn that around and to turn it around fast so let's take a look at our day one vacancies this is again another report that we work with the
075state so we look at how many vacancies we have on the first day of students and the 40th day with students so you will see over on the right hand side of the screen the caption educators absent so these are the vacancies that we had on the very first day of school we had four positions in elementary that were unfilled middle school we had one six nine math at the high school level we had five in a variety of subject areas and then we had six ec that were in a variety of grade spans and areas so that totals 16 vacancies and you might ask why well lots of reasons um of course we can talk about some of the previous conversation where it's you know supplement and covid stress and all of those sorts
076of things but when we look at the vacancies and and and why we ended up here on day one part of it is you know late summer enrollments when students were continuing to enroll late and we had to go into the full implementation of our k3 class size this year so that means very strict class sizes and no leniency in that so that meant that we had to add some positions or we had to post some elementary positions at the last minute as those numbers continued decline we also had some delayed resignations and of course like everybody across the state we had some very hard to fill areas or some shortages so when we look at those especially ec you'll see ec is our hardest to feel there are not enough people out there to
077fill those spots math is our second so anything stem field but math is typically even a little bit harder than science but again even this year when we're talking about late hiring we're struggling to get k5 applicants when it's late that's why we were trying to start so early in april now you may want to know where we are now um current certified vacancies are about 10 we will look at this count again on our 40th day and that's when we'll complete our official report with the state and i anticipate that will improve but it's going to improve in lots of different ways and again some of that's going to go back to creative hiring some of that's going back to some of these some of the folks have been have been um hired they've
078been on your board packet and you've approved them but they're in a 30-day hold somewhere else so we're waiting for them to get here so again you'll see some some more of these disappear and you'll see that vacancy number decline as we hit day 40. questions before i go on from there feel the need to pause because i'm racing okay so let's take a look at our classified vacancies this is not something that we actually report or have to do any kind of um data analysis with the state but i think it's pretty important again something that you're seeing nationwide um is an issue with not having enough bus drivers and so you see them kind of at the top of our list when mr wallace looked at my slides he said i like your
079where we're hiring sign and i said where have you not seen one where have we what business what restaurant have you been in that you have not seen a we're hiring sign they'll interview you on the spot um so that that's our greatest challenge and i would say hiring classified staff has been our greatest challenge we really and we know this we need to look at our classified salaries they they need attention to be competitive with the market we don't have the flexibility to offer the signing bonuses and the incentives um that even fast food restaurants have posted on their sign so it is it's a real struggle and as i mentioned before our classified staff does not receive a local supplement at the same time i will say i will preach from the rooftop
080these are essential jobs our schools cannot operate without these folks we have to have bus drivers bringing kids to school and taking them home we have to have the assistance of our our teacher assistants our instructional assistants our custodians our school nutrition even and i know you've heard jeff talk about this before we had a mechanic position that we've had for months has offered has been offered at least three times and declined because of salary so we have a maintenance and a transportation position that it's taken us months to try to fill so this is a huge challenge and again i'll preach that one all right so mr potts substitutes we've done some analysis of where we are with substitute so this line graph shows over the last four years the number of active substitutes
081that we have and when you look at this you you see that big decline from 2020 to 2021 and obviously a lot of that had to do with covid many of our retirees are or many of our substitutes are retirees we had folks that called us and said i'm not comfortable being in the school you know they might be in an age category might have an underlying health condition whatever but not comfortable doing that at least earlier on so that has that's been a struggle i will also say as we had to pivot and move to blended and hybrid learning and introducing canvas and seesaw our substitutes didn't have time to pivot with us to get training and to really be able to be effective with that so that's that's been a little bit of
082a struggle as well but when you look at that overall if you look at where we started in 2018 on this graph we had 106 and we have 98 now so that doesn't look that doesn't look like a huge issue the problem is our need for substitutes has increased so much and it's because of quarantines and it's because of the things that we're dealing with so that's going to take us to our next slide this is the one that really gets to me and this is what we're hearing from staff across the county so this graph shows us the substitute fill rate we use a system that's called sub finder so our teachers our staff call in and they they put their jobs so to speak in sub finder and our substitutes pick up those
083jobs they accept those substitute positions so we can run a report from subfinder and look at our fill rate how many of those positions were filled now keep in mind if we if we have positions that aren't filled that's when the principal or the bookkeeper is on the phone making personal calls to try to get those positions filled at the last minute but if they can't be filled what do we do we stretch we pull teachers during planning times we have administrators that are covering we pull from all different directions because we can't leave students in classrooms unsupervised and not learning so when you look at these fill rates 2017 through 2020 before covet hit you will see that our fill rate from sub finder was 90 percent off the get-go so we have 10
084percent to try to make phone calls and try to cover in some shape or fashion not too bad 2021 that feel rate dropped to 77 percent where we are right now in 2122 our fill rate is 60 percent 40 of our substitute positions our substitute jobs are not filled are not picked up so as you can imagine this is adding tremendous burden and stress to our staff so when people say well i don't understand why teachers are so overwhelmed this is one big reason one really big reason i reached out to our school bookkeepers because i wanted to go further than what i could run from a report i wanted to know how many subs are you short on a given day on average in the month of september again just back in school every
085school's trying to manage it and again it's different at different places but most schools are short somewhere between one and three subs per day that they're covering for one to three completely short davey high is running short on average six teachers a day and it's been as high as 10. so again kind of let that sink in stretched is the word i'm not sure how else to say it does that answer your questions mr potts all right so substitutes are related to covet leave so i wanted to put this slide in here it's really difficult for us to measure the cost of covet leave but i wanted to give you something to look at um as you as you are already aware when coveted hit the family's first coronavirus relief act which we typically call
086ffcra for short mandated up to two weeks of leave that's related to covid and this originally ran up to april 1st of 2021 then there was an update and an option for us to extend that and even to reset it and it ran through the last day of september so just recently so this shows us the cost of ffcra leave that that's what's showing to you in the teal bar in addition to that we have access to what's called contagious disease leave and this has to be approved by the director of dhhs this is a policy that was created long before covid i'm sure that the writers of that policy had no idea that covid was coming but you'll you'll see that layered on top and that policy just says that if someone is considered
087contagious we can tell them to stay home and and we have we still have to pay them but we can tell them to stay home so that we do not continue to spread a contagious disease keep in mind and clay certainly jump in a lot of this cost ends up hitting our pocketbook even locally when we have a when we have a mandate like ffcra this was a federal mandate there weren't specific dollars attached to this that said here's your pot of money for your substitutes so generally speaking when someone uses coveted leave it is free to them it is not free to davie county schools and so they will continue to be paid out of their typical code but we may be paying we may be paying substitute cost on top of that it
088may be actually increasing our cost in lots of different ways but again you can see even even comparing you know a month or two into the school year we're already seeing significant numbers there i also want to say that this graph doesn't tell the whole story this doesn't tell us the cost of substitutes this is the cost of what was paid to employees who were not able to work so it doesn't tell you the additional cost of substitutes it doesn't tell you if we had staff who were who were able to work remotely if we had teachers who were on a google meet teaching from the front of their classroom but on a smart board okay it also doesn't tell you when we had those substitute jobs that weren't covered so again there's lots of
089other costs there so that means teachers and teacher assistants and counselors and administrators and every staff that we can pull from are stretched to make sure that that students are supervised and continuing to learn so the cost is not just in dollars okay all right so i have been like complete debbie downer like all of the all of the challenges i don't want to end there so i want to i want to add to sharing all of this data i want to add some some positives and and what you see that we're hopefully that we're doing i don't want to leave you on that note we have many many employees going the extra mile many employees going the extra mile at all levels at the school level in departments at central office just doing extraordinary
090things to keep things running so let's talk about some things that we're doing to overcome the challenges that we're facing as far as human resources are concerned this slide is pretty power packed i tried to pack a lot into it so as i've said many times unprecedented is not a word that we ever want to use after covid but unprecedented times call for unprecedented measures so we have been and will continue to go the extra mile and what we're doing because we know that recruiting the highest quality staff is really what makes this district as strong as it is so let's talk about some of these i'm going to kind of start on the left-hand side and work my way around one of the things that we've done is we've participated in virtual job fairs
091um when coveted hit all of our face-to-face job fairs shut down we didn't have access to colleges and universities and couldn't do that so we also had to pivot you'll see to the far left we've had to create like a virtual job fair booth we have zoomed we've zoomed with groups we've zoomed with one-on-one interviews one-on-one appointments i will say that as a small district we are really disadvantaged in virtual job fairs because we might not have the name recognition that a winston-salem forsyth a durham awake a charlotte mech has people say davie county who david county where so it is much more advantageous for us to be in a face-to-face fair to be able to make eye contact and say good morning can i talk with you about david county schools that's how you
092reel people in so shifting to virtual job fairs has been a challenge but we have we have done that one advantage that it has had though is that we have been able to participate in fairs that were too far or too expensive to participate in so it's really hard to go to unc wilmington but they've got a great education program so being able to participate in their in their fair and even getting one spanish teacher was a huge win so we've taken advantage of that opportunity we've also you'll see as you shift right we have held our own local job fairs i think that's a first for davie county schools we've had at least five local job fairs some of those have been completely independent at the main street park and some of those have
093been in the walmart parking lot with the david chamber so we've done whatever we can do to recruit folks particularly for those classified positions we've had lots of help from clay and jenny and other directors principals assistant principals coming to help with those we've even used some 25 gift cards as incentives to share your information come see us we've been able to hire about 30 percent of the folks that we're that we were able to see so again it was worth the effort that number i think will increase as we finish our bus classes we had record number in our bus class in this last month and have an even higher number in the next month so i hope that 30 percent grows as we hire more bus drivers as they are trained so we're
094excited about that as you continue to shift right in this honeycomb you'll see international teaching organizations we hadn't reached out to vif or participate or some of those groups in a long long time but they are also feeling the teacher shortage and said they couldn't help us unless we needed spanish or esl jenny has helped tremendously with the marketing piece we've had a big push on social media you've seen some of that stuff on facebook instagram twitter school messenger messages we have been in july 4th parades we have handed out flyers we have decorated golf carts as buses we've driven big buses in the tractor parade we'll throw candy we have just really been willing to do whatever it takes we've gotten on community calendars we've posted positions on additional job boards that we could
095get access to we've built a profile on teach nc which can help us recruit outside of the state and we've also really capitalized on our job fair video and tried to send that out so lots of different things with marketing that's that i think has been helpful you'll also see some additional college connections there trying to participate in some in some other opportunities so when job fairs are shut down what else can we do can i be a guest speaker can i serve on a discussion panel can i participate in mock interviews i will do anything jennifer custer is the same way we will do jennifer line let a workshop for asu we will do anything to get in front of your students and connect with them and we certainly have we've made personal contacts
096you'll see handwritten notes on there follow-up messages in some cases following up on linkedin or handshake or those sorts of things making personal phone calls just really trying to put a personal touch i can't offer you the highest supplement but i can show you that david county schools cares about our people and we want you to be here and it's a good place to be and we provide a culture that other places don't have so trying to capitalize on what we do have and then the last thing you'll see over to the far right and you've seen this come out just recently still trying to increase our number of subs and our and the activity of our subs so we want to reward the substitutes who are subbing for us so much we want to
097encourage those that aren't subbing as much to sub more and we want to recruit additional subs you saw on your personnel packet tonight you have i think seven or eight more substitutes that you approved in that consent agenda um so hopefully it is helping us to offer an incentive to say if you will sub at least 12 days in a month we'll give you a hundred dollar bonus that's a very small amount an extra maybe ten dollars a day but hopefully that that will help a little bit so lots of efforts there the other thing and i've referenced this a few times in this presentation is really getting creative with hiring so we have hired some retirees in part-time positions as i said before sometimes we're hiring two to fill one we have hired people
098and are looking at alternate licensing pathways folks who may be coming through a residency program or we can get them into a residency program in some cases we have teachers that we ask them would you be willing to take a practice and add a certification we really need you to teach math if that's something that you're comfortable doing so again getting creative with the licensing and the certifications in some cases we've bought some planning periods that is not ideal and it's not something that teachers can do long term but in a few situations we've had to go to some folks and say we really need you to teach an extra class we need you to take this on if it's something that you're willing to do the next bullet on there is contracting out services
099as you guys know and you've been told before we hadn't been fully staffed in custodians at davey high school since it opened and when coveted hit that that really became an even more uphill battle and so we had to get again creative and so we ended up contracting out with bud services in hopes that they could attract employees a little bit better than we could with not having the benefit expenses but maybe being able to offer a little bit higher hourly rate so again just get being creative and then the last couple of bullets are really related to teacher assistance we've had more trouble hiring teacher assistants than we have in the past we do have folks that want to be a teacher assistant who don't want to drive a bus but under the circumstances
100that still has to be part of our procedures and our policy we need them to hire a bus but in some cases we're able to hire a temporary tutor instead of a teacher assistant we also are able to hire some teacher assistants who might not meet the requirements with no child left behind and and the education requirements with that but we can put them through our own training program so that's something that miss london and i've been meeting about and working with the community college and developing our own training program in hopes that we will actually end up with teacher assistants who are better prepared than if they just went and got an associate's degree and maybe a transfer program or something like that so that's something that's in the works and we will continue
101to develop and implement this year so that is a lot and i hope that you're not too glazed over but i'll be glad to open up the floor for questions and again if it's something that i don't know off the top of my head i'll be glad to look it up or research it or call on clay or jeff to help me any questions for miss haines i mean that's what i take away is you're doing everything you can so thank you for being so creative and pushing and you're a lot better than the last one we had [Music] thank you i'll take that i'm sure i won't hear that again thank you next esther report mr harris good evening i'd have to say that i'm not have quite as many pictures as miss haynes
102had but um we'll get through it been a lot of conversation about covid money coming in spending and um mitch wallace and i sat down and talked we said you know let's just take a few minutes and talk about kind of where we are what we've got and how we spent the money just so you're aware of it and then we'll talk a little bit about kind of where we're headed so that's what tonight's all about so we take a look at it the first pot of money that i'll talk about is our crf money that's coveted relief funding this is really the i'm gonna say the initial um pot of money that we got is really state driven i'm very specific in what we could use it for and so what i tried to
103give you is what we spent in fy 20 what we spent in 21 last year kind of where we are right now through august 31st um as so you see total expenses what our allotment was what we were eligible for and then what balance is left so when you take a look at that there's money left in a couple places and it's really slated for um devices for k2 we we've got a need in that area for our ipads so there's some ipads that will be purchased with that ec support as we take a look at that and ppe personal protective equipment inside of that are bottle filling stations that we can put in our schools so that students can get back and and be able to to get water because water fountains will still
104be turned off but they will be able to use bottle filling stations and so we're looking at that so that'll be something that is slated for this year um to exhaust that money so if you take a look at it that money expires december 31st of 2022 no i'm sorry i got the wrong date yeah this is 21. so 2021 is when it expires sorry i put the wrong date in there so we have till the end of december to use that money uh and we've got a plan to get there and use that use that up the next set of money is state supplemental uh money so 154 that was the what the state gave us money that expired on 6 30 and so we we used that money up uh and in 26
10530 of 20 so that was what really got us through march to june of what we needed and then you get into the last two 169 and that's supplemental support for instruction um and that expires 9 30 of 22. so when you take a look at that what we've got left is really around contract work and what we're going to use for that there's a little bit that we'll use um for nursing support we have a nurse's aide so to speak at the high school that's helping us so that's funding for that position and then the the 170 is around really tutoring it's answering to at-risk students and so we use that in our in our tutoring as we build a tutoring program out any questions okay the third part of money is is our
106biggest pot of money that's that's what we call esther money this is esther one sr2 and sr3 they expire in september 30th of 22 september 30th of 23 and september 30 to 24. and so when you take a look at that you'll see large large pockets of money very very specific in what we can use the money for so we have to be very careful in and kind of what we do and how we spend that money and and where we spent it to be in compliance with the federal government um this money will be audited so we will have to answer for how we spent it did we get the proper um bids for before we spent the money did we use it the way it was supposed to when we built the budget
107did we match what we said we want to spend the money for so anything that we change we've got to go in and it's got to be approved before we go and change that before we change where we're spending that money questions okay so we take a look at it um for esser2 and sr3 which were the last two buckets of money that they expired in 23 and 24 we had to build a plan for that and what i wanted to show here is is kind of how we built the budget and why we placed the money and where we placed it so 58 of the money we said was going to be directly related to learning loss so right at 60 percent facilities is 24 technology was 13 transportation is 2 and then i
108left 3 unbudgeted in case we get some some costs that that are higher than what we anticipated whatever the case may be let me talk a little bit about learning loss what what that is learning loss is really around software to support i want to make sure i don't miss anything software to support student growth assessment progress monitoring i mean salaries for teachers that come in and work with us in our tutoring program it's a for staff development to to teach them to teach in the new world so to speak but as we've touched on with the last two presenters we have positions that we want to hire with this money to be able to do it we were personnel limited in the availability is just not there and so we continue to look i
109mean uh mrs haynes talked a little bit about um grant funded positions that's what she's talking about we have positions that we want to fund out of this esther money but we can't get people to come in math is a prime example to kind of where we want to go and where we need to work through that um facilities facilities is the k building we talk about k building that learning center what we need to do with that there's work um to to work with to work through that and and get it ready for the virtual school to go there our um student services to go in there that type of work so that's part of that as well as ionization last board meeting we talked about the ionization bars and we approved that that's
110inside that facilities piece as well technology we have aging technology in some of our buildings and it doesn't meet what we need with some of our classrooms um such as our smart board so i think i don't have butch here but i think our smart boards are 13 14 years old and they're starting to fail so we're not able to meet the needs of what we've got it what we need to do to teach so that's inside of that transportation is around our buses and and making sure we can meet the requirements for distancing social distancing as well as being able to put cameras on some of these buses at donut so that we can do contract tracing as we work through that and and really become security so that's what makes those different buckets
111up when we take a look at that questions as we went in as we talk about that so the last few sides a few slides are the same categories that we talk about when we talk about quarterly spending so i just put them in those same buckets so we can kind of take and talk through that so overall all of them together we've spent about 38 percent of the money related to salaries we've spent about 45 percent of the money related to school operations so school operation you say what is that that's what it takes to run schools so that is student devices when we need to go to one to one that's um furniture so we we've introduced new new people furniture for them to be able to work in those situations um staff
112computers to get us up ready to go last year and this year with our virtual school and being able to work through that software and supplies that's that's really what makes up our our school operations contract services is is in there 146 000 and we contracted with a psychologist to meet our social emotional learning um to be able to do that because we couldn't hire hire one so we contracted that work out professional services as we take a look at things that we need so we've got audiologists that we contract with we've got speech therapists we contract with and then people transportation that's a part of what we need to do we contract that service out to be able to get students to school that may not be able to ride our yellow buses so
113that's that's a piece of what's inside that contract services okay so then i just took a look and same category i'll breeze through this pretty quickly crf they're all pretty standard in kind of where we take a look contract services and school operations so that money that we got that was state related that's where we spent school operations there is really around computers staff and student devices i'm the staffs i mean the state supplemental we take a look at that again school operations is a big part of where where we spent the money some salaries from that perspective and then when you take a look at esr again salaries school operations that's where we spend uh most of that money most of the salary associated with that is teacher stipends summer school that we did
114over this summer that's all inside of that esther money that's what paid for all of that so that that's the reason that salary number is so high questions for mr harris thank you very much mr chairman i just want to commend both of those and all of our staff as you've been mentioned tonight but one of the challenges we face is to make decisions for the immediate but also have perpetual impact and and when you try to resolve issues now but you still don't want to just go through money in a situation now some we have to ppe and things i hope and pray we don't need that too much longer but we also again the challenge of making decisions now for future future need thank you next item on our agenda is a public
115address to the board ms wilson thank you chairman junker ladies and gentlemen we're so glad to have you here and we look forward to hearing what you have to say and i'm telling you right now and i'm telling you someone with terrible handwriting i'm gonna do an okay job on your names but probably not a great job please don't be offended and feel free to correct me when you go up and say your name the right way after i butcher it because i'm afraid i'm gonna at least on some of these so we'd like you have five minutes and you'll see your time right in front of you please don't make me have to interrupt you i hate to do that and i know y'all can say what you need to say in five minutes
116and i'm hopeful that we won't have to interrupt you at all uh so remember to do that and as as i said when you go up please say your name and address just in case i've done a bad job i'm going to say your name and then i'm going to say the next person's name just so they can be ready and we don't have a lot of transition time because we have eight speakers which puts us chairman junker over the limit again um i assume it is the will of the board again to continue forward and hopefully if you don't really need the whole five minutes feel free to take less and let me also remind you that it is the policy of the board not to respond to public comment the point is for
117us to hear from you not for you to hear from us we deal with our things by agenda items please be polite to each other and um don't interrupt each other that would also be really helpful so here i go and i'm so sorry i i think i've got the letters right but i'm not positive the first speaker is nick giblitus okay give believe this i added it now and then following will be emory just wanted to focus today again a little bit on communication and i appreciate uh chairman junker and mr mr potts taking the time to talk to me personally over the phone and express just communicating i think that's one thing that uh has probably needs an improvement i love to see more open dialogue i know that sometimes it may come
118across sometimes at adversarial that i don't think anybody here has that case we're all parents we're all people care about our our our children here all the students um so i appreciate the time what i do um want to stress is that again we are davie county um and we're not uh we're not mecklenburg we're not forsyth county and uh you know the board you are the board and all due respect to you superintendent wallace you're not the part of the board you have a voice but you have the vote and you guys represent us as i said last time you represent the people that elected you here and i encourage you to do that i encourage you to talk out and reach out to the people on this county because we have i lived
119in davidson's uh outside of charlotte i think i mentioned last time it was a very bluntly left-leaning county they called the people republic of davidson and it didn't did not reflect my values um and that's why my wife and i moved up here to davey uh number eight you know eight years ago seven eight years ago because davey is a more conservative county it reflects our values and i think those values are not being reflected in some of these decisions especially around masking and guidelines and i think that's uh key is that again communicate with with the people that you represent you that that you voted for reading from you know miss webb your your your flyer from your election last fall was the last bullet point was talking about open communication was been the
120biggest thing in taking the tough decision making the tough decisions so please do that um and again we are not we're not mecklenburg we're not forsyth we're not certainly not maricopa which is phoenix and pima out in arizona my family lives in phoenix uh which is a transient illegal alien population is veg for diverse it's a human soup pot here we have a very open rural area um and and to correct you uh superintendent wallace says we're not in the red zone eve i just looked up the health and human services for north carolina we're as clean as clint can be our survival rate is the highest of any of the counties um we have you know our you know we have one of the lowest transmission rates and we actually for all the counties
121we have the lowest transmission rate right now so please consider that in voting on this policy and on voting on what the governor brings down uh to you as a board i don't want to see the the you know mindy cohen uh mandy cohen whatever you know threatening to union county and the two other counties that have stood up against what cooper wants you know and i'm gonna read i'm gonna leave it at this i'm gonna read the law that you guys i assume we're gonna vote on later later on and this is the law that this is that was put in place uh um august 31st and this is around look part 10 local face covering policies section 10 for the 20 20 21 2022 school year all public school units shall adopt a
122policy regarding the use of face coverings by employees and students the governing body of the public school unit shall vote at least once a month on whether for face covering policy should be modified it doesn't say and that's that's it that is the whole part of it it doesn't say we require masks or we're making them optional it's telling you to make a policy which you have so but again it's not telling anybody to do anything it's just a saying make a policy so they i think again represent what what davie county is all about you have last time you had 100 of people out here certainly against the you know mandatory face coverings in the school and uh you know that's with that i appreciate your time and thank you very much thank you
123emory will be next and then tanya kerr or carr you can say it both ways good evening everyone i'm emory gavidis of 217 vans ant road i'm here to address social emotional learning which i heard discussed by a gentleman representing ymca in last month's board meeting i want to ensure that you know this social emotional learning is simply critical race theory with a new name it has been sneakily rebranded and renamed to make it more palatable and acceptable critical race theory and social emotional learning are two sides of the same coin both wrongly assumed that certain races are unable to succeed in our society without intervention from the government which is racism is also untrue just look at how many minorities in america achieve success barack obama oprah winfrey ben carson and kamala harris to
124name a few these insidious practices put children in our schools against each other as the oppressor and depressed teaching children they hate to color their own skin while assuming that certain races cannot succeed in life this is utter nonsense one reason is dangerous is because encourages children not think outside the box and not think for themselves people being able to think for themselves is an important life skill which is one that formed the backbone of america without it children could become unable to think for themselves and will potentially believe lies that are represented as truth parents are the ones designed by god to teach values attitudes and morals to their children this is not the school's job the school should be teaching academic skills not establishing a certain mindset moral training is the parent's duty
125in addition article 4 of the us constitution gives us our right to privacy and this is an obvious violation of that right especially schools aren't notifying parents about this instruction data collection etc with social emotional learning students information is gathered stored in the database and in the case that doesn't fit the predetermined standards it can result in bullying and discrimination this is even worse for children who come from households where their parents don't give them adequate love and discipline school may be their only hope of feeling loved and respected this will negatively affect them far beyond their school lives this must stop as it will only lead to division and strife among students i am extremely alarmed that social emotional learning fuses equality with equity equality means treating people the same equity means treating supposedly
126aggrieved persons better than others based on their skin color race nationality gender etc this is obviously racist and unconstitutional probably the best known part of the declaration of independence says all men are created equal there is still time to help the students of davie county whom i know you care about very much i hope you take my speech into consideration and then do your own research as i have remember the lord puts you into positions of power so use your power wisely students of david county are counting on you our belief if you listen to the lord's voice he will guide you well in life most of all i pray that the lord who rules over all will give you discernment to make right decisions god bless you all goodbye [Applause] next is tonya carr
127or kerr and then followed by joanne i think it's launchy land landry oh got it okay that's not a c okay chairman junker board members mr wallace and staff my name is tanya carr i'll accept either one i'll answer to either one my address is 187 woodburn place advance this is my 25th year of teaching here in davie county schools and most of that time has been at north davie middle and i'm proud to be an educator in davie county schools and i have loved my job every single minute i'm here tonight to thank you to express my appreciation to you board members and to you mr wallace for your upholding of the mask mandate for students and for staff i know that this decision was not an easy one to make and i know
128that you have faced fierce opposition and i know that opposition has cited everything from this being a political move to causing depression in students so i am also president of our north carolina association of educators chapter here in davie county and i can tell you that in education there are times when you have to be political we have to be involved in politics to fight for resources for our students for our staff members we're entering our third year we've talked a lot of money tonight but we're entering our third year with no state budget no funding for those school counselors who are desperately needed to help our students with mental health issues no funding for teacher positions as our students sit in overcrowded crowded classrooms 35 in my eighth grade class 37 is some seventh
129grade classes at north davey um no funding for the increases in teacher pay as we sit with our frozen salaries um you know so there are times for that there are times for political action we have to press our general assembly to to make the right choices to make decisions for our for our students and for for our schools um but you know that's a political move to press our general assembly to press to pass a fair budget um this decision for masking is a safety move it is um requiring our students to wear a mask as a safety move to keep us all safe and to protect everybody involved last year was really really difficult um parents shared with me that their students struggled they were struggling with depression struggling with anxiety as they
130tried to navigate canvas and their emotions without that daily support of teachers and friends around them and this year those students are back in classrooms we're together and it's wonderful to return to our routines it's wonderful to be able to see each other but what's keeping us in class what's keeping us in those classrooms is the wearing a mask that we're having them every day and we're there together every day this school year is even more difficult and more taxing for teachers we are we are struggling working hard to educate our students while facing tick-tock challenges and keeping quarantine students up to date with assignments and as mrs haynes thank you for sharing that information we're covering those classes when we don't have enough substitutes so it's tough this year a year ago this month
131my husband suffered a stroke and he's recovering but you know every day i go home and i'm worried that i'm going to take covet home to him and that would be a really difficult battle for him so it's frightening that our students are suffering through coveted actual cases this year um that's scary but that masculine mandate eases our minds a bit so thank you thank you for putting safety first standing firm on math squaring and your leadership and support mean the world to us as a staff and to the students in your care so thank you miss carr next is joanne landry followed by david waterson i believe okay um i think this is being recorded so real quickly i'm going to talk to the parents who may be watching this online when they go
132back to see it parenting uh the home school has increased in 19 percent north carolina if you take an average from the websites i look at they spend about 9 37 dollars per student that ties into two teachers pensions funds retirement all that kind of stuff in the school budget they get 14.41 billion dollars annually and they lost 2 million 639 953 because of homeschooling students also parents if you're watching this online go to www.edfirstnc.org there is a schoolhouse shock program it's called the whistleblower whistleblower program and it fights against racially inflammatory and sexualized curriculum children that are being immersed in all over the state of north carolina north carolina is the largest school system in the united states with 2 695 public schools 1 million 553 334 students also mark robinson our lieutenant government
133uh governor has facts to expose indoctrination in classrooms we need to teach our children how to think and not what to think okay subject number three davie county got over 6 million four hundred thousand nine hundred and six and essers there was a conversation about esther's but let's just talk about what the government the federal government dictates how you use it and how it will be used and if they really cared about kids and teachers lives i'll get to that in a minute you'd know what they would spend it on uh udra or yuja vigilance is the european reveres reporting system the their verse reporting system in europe the vigilance says that there's been twenty six thousand forty one deaths from the coveted vaccination two million four hundred and forty eight thousand three hundred and
134sixty two injuries other european countries have validated this number to date pfizer has had twelve million twelve thousand three hundred and sixty two deaths one million fifty four thousand seven hundred forty one injuries modernist six thousand nine hundred and seven three thousand six hundred and forty four hundred ninety injuries astrazeneca has five thousand four hundred and sixty eight deaths with one million eight thousand eight three hundred fifty one injuries johnson johnson has one thousand three hundred and four deaths with seventy eight thousand seven hundred and seventy four injuries the government of slovenia has suspended the jansen vaccine due to the death of a 20 year old france had a 15 year old who was blinded and a woman within days of taking the vaccine a woman a young woman who died seven days after taking
135the shot in ukraine a 19 year old died on the same day after their religious family told him not to get it they had religious meanings but he died the exact same day in greece a 15 year old died three days after the pfizer shot in italy a 14 year old guy girl died one month after receiving the shot if you haven't heard attorney rent as proof that the department of defense or dod has shown documented and stamped on their own department letterhead 60 of those hospitalized patients are fully vaccinated proving that natural herd immunity is superior to the vaccine israel is 90 complete vaccinated hospitalized majority are the people who are in the hospital or the majority ones have been vaccinated iceland 80 percent of their population took the first shot 75 percent have
136taken the second shot their chief etymologist says that it's imp it's impossible to obtain collective immunity through vaccination in the uk are doubly vaccinated and andrew poland of oxford vaccine group before their parliament like our congress said that the collective immunity through vaccine is a myth so if you board members want to trust the science let me give you another little piece of information nigeria sued pfizer for seven billion dollars for illegally testing on kids pfizer lost 486 million on celebrex and merrick settled a 4.85 billion in vioxx claims also blacco smith klein had a 3 billion lawsuit for for fraud so my question to you is why not just spend the six million four hundred thousand nine hundred and six dollars that the federal government has given instead making the right choice and saving
137everybody in davie county there's five hundred 42 seventy people that live in davie county according to the last census that is about 151.47 cents per person ivermectin which sells for one dollar and fifty cents a pill or hydrochloric and for thirty seven cents up to a dollar twenty a pill could be handed out and that would do away with all the mask and the vaccine stuff now the reason why i'm bringing all this vaccine stuff is because strong schools north carolina public health toolkit it's funny that the cdc should mention in your your department of health meeting mr wallace the two arizona counties that happened i know only because of the election fraud but you know they're doing the forensic stuff but anyway here if the cdc has recommended that this thing be put in
138through to the north carolina schools the north carolina school public health toolkit was updated july 21st to align to the cdc guidelines or guidance for covet 19 prevention and k through 12. andre your time is up if you'll you're welcome to submit the rest of your comments online if you'd like to or by email to the superintendent okay i just say instead of pushing for vaccines which is your next goal spend the money wisely and get rid of the math our next speaker is david waterson followed by charles claiborne members of the board fellow parents thank you for the opportunity to speak to you today i come to you before you board to express my gratitude to you let me rewind for a second my name is david waterson my wife and i have two
139daughters that attend shady grove elementary school our oldest daughter graduated from david county high school last year and is now attending as a freshman the university of north carolina at wilmington the board in late july made a decision to make masks optional for on-campus activities and at the time that was a reasonable decision there could be reasonable debate about that but it was a reasonable decision unfortunately mr carroll's comments on the impact of the delta variant proved quite prescient on august 16th i mailed a letter to board members and leadership of the school district in which i expressed some concerns regarding the changing circumstances around the covid around the cobot pandemic but specifically within davie county specifically this letter cited the the higher average per day case rate of 14 cases over 14 cases in
1402021 versus merely four in 2020 this letter also cited the empirical evidence of the efficacy of mask usage and the benefits thereof who masks benefit it also expressed it also provided detailed the experience of districts that did not have mask mandates specifically the school did one of the school districts in mooresville it did acknowledge parental rights concerns and i share those with you as well but i also understand the safety of our children and the ability ability of our children to be on campus in those settings is critically important i express gratitude to this board because several days later the board and the superintendent in the school district made the decision to go ahead and require masks that decision was incredibly responsive that decision was incredibly wise that decision was incredibly agile and required leadership
141and introspection that is uncommon today as the board is about to vote on this matter again as required by the state i do not bring doom and gloom although statistics do state that we are still not in the most positive circumstance in which we could be our average daily case counts for the past two weeks of mature data from the north carolina department of health and human services says the davie county has 32 new cases per day by date of specimen collection however despite these dire statistics county-wide went back and counted in shady grove elementary we've received about a half dozen notices for students that have had the coronavirus i think the statistics that mr wallace put up before regarding the incidence of outbreaks per 100 schools speaks to the efficacy of this practice despite
142it not being despite it being one that none of us really do want i would quibble with a comment that was made earlier i do think there is a light at the end of the tunnel the fda should have the first round of the first vaccines for children in front of it for emergency youth authorization and i understand there are concerns with vaccine usage i can't speak to that but what i will say is that i do see a light at the end of the tunnel and the strength the discipline the focus the leadership and the solidarity shown by this board by this district and by this county as everyone has navigated these these unforeseen times and unprecedented times is admirable and further convinces me that we chose the right place to call home those
143are the end of my comments thank you very much and thank you again for the opportunity to speak with you for your leadership and for your communication thank you mr claiborne our next speaker is laura hilario and she will be and she'll be followed by pete hilario that'll be real quick i promise oh i'm sorry i thought oh i'm sorry mr claiborne is next i thought that was mr cleburne and i thanked him and you haven't even gone yet i'm so sorry my name is charles claiborne i was here last month talking i live in columbia north carolina um and it's funny because you brought up the dhs dhhs thing this morning about that but did you know on monday the secretary of education cardona talked to in front of the congress and was asked
144pretty much the same question and he brought up that same very statement about a school in wisconsin i believe it was and the lady who was the senior author of that study at wisconsin refuted him on his own twitter account in fact um whether he's deleted it off his twitter account or not i don't know but he said a wisconsin study found that schools required masking had a 37 percent lower incident of coven 19 than the surrounding community cardio claimed on twitter later that day it caught the attention of tracy beth hogue an epidemiologist and physician resident of the university of california davis who worked on the study cited by cardona she said i was the senior author of the study hoag replied our study is not able to give any information about the role
145mass played in the observed low-end school transmission rates we had no control group and so we don't know if the rate would have been different without mass then i'll bring up the uh the eua the authorization for mass under the eua's authorization for mask it says that math should be concluded the criteria in the authorization of our met the scoop of face masks in accordance with the cdc rex's messages described at the scope of authorization and pursuant to the positions of authorizations of this letter in it it says source control refers to the use of a face mask or cloth faith covering over the mouth or nose to contain that individual's respiratory secretions to help prevent transmission from infected individuals who may or may not have symptoms of covid19 scope of authorization i have concluded
146pursuant to section 564 d1 of the act that the scope of this authorization is limited to the use of face mask including cost face coverings as a source control for use by members of the general public as well as hcp and health care settings to cover their noses and mouth in accordance with cdc recommendations so therefore i don't know how we can go into requiring face masks when even under the fda's own thing it says it's only you supposed to be used as a source control and then it got me really curious started getting and looking into it because i came across the study that was done by dr anthony fosse in 2008 along with 30 other scientists where in this study it played a predominant role of bacterial pneumonia as a cause in pandemic
147influenza implications for epidemic influenza preparedness the background of the study was basically for the 18 19 18 pandemic influenza in this case study he basically said that the majority of deaths in the 1819 influenza pandemic likely resulted directly from secondary bacterial pneumonia caused by common upper respiratory tract bacteria i mean so that got me into looking so when you start looking up into the different pneumonias and everything i found a guy came across the study that was done in france and in that study in france while they the direct study wasn't that of mass it found that twenty percent of all coveted patients coming into the hospitals actually have pre-pneumonia prior to coming into the hospital i mean you compare that to the study that dr fosse wrote in 2008 which is actually in a
148medical journal um it has a medical number somewhere journal no id number somewhere uh volume 198 issue seven one october 2008 pages 962 to 970. um so you look at that and then you look at what that study says and it's like how can we sit there and continue to push mass on kids when we don't even know if they're effective or ineffective you know you look at hiv hiv has killed 36 million people worldwide in 40 years it currently affects somewhere around 39 million people in this world we don't have a suitable vaccine for it yet 40 years and then somehow magically we get covered and now you know they've linked covid influenza and pneumonia all together when you look into it how is it that you can have a disease like hiv that's
149killed 36 million people worldwide but yet we haven't stopped kids from having sex in fact a hundred and seventy one thousand teenage pregnancies were reported in 2018 that's not that's only live bursts that's not counting to over half a million abortions done in the us during that same year mr claiborne your time is off thank you yes ma'am thank you our next speaker will be laura hilario followed by pete hello as i was saying for mine i'll be quick so i won't need five minutes um i'm just going to play a quick i won't play the video but so you can hear it this is um from dr sherry 10 penny she's been in the field since the 80s and i just felt everyone should hear what she has to say everybody has to know
150and i'm sure that some of you are listening to this have heard me say this before but it bears repeating because what we are dealing with maureen is absolutely the smartest virus ever smartest virus ever created it can count the number of people in a room it knows that that if there's less than four you're safe if it's more than 10 oh man you're really in trouble if you're in a nursing home it can tell that there's more than two people at a time in the room it can count it can tell the difference between talking and singing it can tell the difference between if you're standing up you're dangerous and you better put on a mask but if you're sitting here down here everything's cool you can take off the mask and the virus
151will leave you alone it can measure distance it knows how far apart six feet is it comes out of your mouth it goes poof right down to the floor six feet away just absolutely like come out right down it can tell distance it can tell height it can tell time it knows if it's after 10 o'clock if it's before 10 o'clock at night everything's cool go to a restaurant do whatever after 10 o'clock at night it's gonna come out and pounce on you because it can tell time it can tell if you're eating like on an airplane if you're eating you can pull the mass down you're just fine if you're not you better pull it up because it's not safe it can tell the type of building you're in i mean if you're in
152a home depot it's cool not a problem if you're in church it's not because it's going to pounce on you and get you it can tell if you're talking or you're singing because if you're in church and you're talking it's okay but if you're in church and you're singing you're as good as dead it can tell the difference between a wind instrument and a drum if you're playing a drum it's all cool but if you're playing a wind instrument you're probably going to die or kill somebody it can tell the difference between being an anarchist group or a church group it can tell and now the most important thing that it can do besides besides telling time counting the number of people telling distance telling heights it's now learned how to read a calendar it
153knows that effective this date everything is safe moving forward all the coveted stuff can go away no mask no distance saying no tracing no anything on this date because but the day before it's the last chance it's got to pounce on you and probably kill you right i hope that everybody gets how ridiculous it is and sometimes when you add a little humor to the elements of what you're talking about people see how absolutely ridiculous it is that we have to wear a mask seven masks and we have to wear gloves and have a touchless thing i mean your new credit cards i mean everything is fast so you don't touch and they have um you go into a restaurant and you've got um you've got menus that nobody can touch or that they can
154wipe them off or they just crinkle them up and throw them away because you just might spread something i mean if people really see how absolutely absurd and they make it up they change the rules all along the way and so all of the people that say it's all about the science it's like show me the science there is none i have her resume if anybody would like it thank you miss hilario our last speaker tonight is pete palario i'm pete i live in advance excuse the voice here to talk about critical race theory social emotional learning that fine young man did earlier to this evening so in a paper from greg childress dated october 1st 2021 the johnston county school board of education unanimously approved revisions to the district's code of ethics policy friday
155intended to prevent elements of critical race theory from being taught in k-12 schools under the revisions teachers could be disciplined or fired if they undermine the nation's foundational documents or fail to recognize or present all people who contributed to the american society as reformists innovators and heroes of our culture there's a 7.9 million dollar in-school funding hinging on these revisions the johnson county board of commissioners is currently withholding the board's funding request until it adopts a policy banning crt review house bill 324 for more information christopher ruffo of city journal wrote an oppa an expose on wake county public school systems teachers conference with sessions on whiteness microaggressions racial mapping and disrupting texts encouraging educators to form equity teams in schools and push the new party line anti-racism rufo with the help of dylan reported
156that more than 200 north carolina public school teachers were subjected to what amounts to brainwashing the first session included whiteness in educational spaces school administrators provided they were provided two handouts norms of whiteness the documents claim that white cultural values include denial fear blame control punishment scarcity and one-dimensional thinking wake county conference formed the basis for the north carolina department of instructions or the ncdpi new culturally responsible responsive teaching crt teaching system rolled out to teachers statewide the ncdpi offered two crt courses it is the first comprehensive statewide rollout and appears to coincide with the impending rollout of the new critical race theory based social studies curriculum sloan rackmuth wrote the north carolina board of education as well as its prominent member most prominent member reportedly received money from an organization tied to china to
157combat structural racism within the education system a month after passing a statewide critical race theory policy this foreign entity paid at least one north carolina public school district ninety thousand dollars to create and then analyze student surveys to collect sensitive information this summer the north carolina board of education member james ford and the north carolina board of education itself was reportedly awarded part of a 1.4 million dollar grant from switzerland-based oak foundation to combat structural racism within the education system in north carolina retraining teachers to educate through an equity and culturally responsive lens transforming students and families into activists against the systemic racism just one month before the announcement the state board of education released a draft of an equities resolution that parroted exactly what the plan of oak foundation sought to fund the new
158fund new policy proposed and acknowledged north carolina schools are systemically racist race and gender are a determinant of equity an equity lens will be the new policy and practice for every school district and will be achieved through social and emotional learning programs parents in the community are responsible for achieving equity for all students an equity officer was needed to work with the superintendent of public instruction to ensure new policies and practices are implemented and followed lastly schools must be renamed if students are offended by its current name oak foundation's foreign control of north carolina school system is being carried out by groups like durham-based education justice alliance who trains student activists to campaign against all school discipline policies and against allowing school resource officers on campus the foundation's enmeshment in north carolina's public education system
159should alarm everyone foreign policy group capital research reports that oak foundation founder and its directors are heavily invested with the chinese communist government in a development project called the belt road initiative where they stand to gain billions of dollars thank you that concludes our speakers for tonight thank you very much to everyone taking the time to be here and to speak to us before we adjourn i do want to point out because i heard a couple of comments but the face covering policy 4231-50217263 was part of our consent agenda in which we voted 7-0 to continue with that until next month so with that i'll call for a motion to adjourn chairman jonker do we need to amend a previous motion about mr wallace's increase to include an effective date it's effective for the beginning
160july 1. it's effective for this contract here thank you i believe that was true but i didn't know if it needed to be stated gotcha now entertain a motion to adjourn i'd like to make a couple of comments beforehand i was absent last month i had coded and i did watch the meeting online and as it has been mentioned i very much appreciate all of you coming here and voicing your opinions but something that keeps was said last month and was also said this month during public comments the same thing came up and i just i just want to make sure that the audience or that the public understands the reasoning for the mask this has absolutely nothing to do and i feel fairly certain if you would pull this board this has nothing to
161do with whether or not a mask works or does not work what this has to do with we as a board need to make a decision on what enables our students to have the best chance of staying in the classroom the north carolina health and human services has mandated these quarantine regulations we are required to do that my son i i'm going to speak my son due to myself having quarantine my parents have or haven't quarantined having coveted my parents having coveted and i don't want to come across like i'm trying to be argumentative because that's not it at all i i truly believe the importance of being open and honest with what you all are feeling but also where we're coming from my son is in 10th grade at davie high school he was
162in quarantine for three weeks over three weeks trust me i have been there he never tested positive we sat in our house my husband never tested positive i tested positive but he like many of your students many of your children had to endure the quarantine did i like it no i hated it i absolutely hated it but i want you all to understand state level health and human services are the ones who are putting us in this position so they're i'm not gonna i can't do that i apologize and i probably am going to regret doing this because maybe i just i shouldn't but i just felt led to try and explain that this has absolutely nothing to do with mask versus mass work masks don't work we have to do we all can i
163think we all can sit here and say we remember last year was so unfortunate for our students to be stuck at home to be stuck in front of a computer to be stuck in family settings where there probably was not an adult present to help them we have to look out for children who may not have a parent like many of us because we are engaged who may not have a parent who is advocating for them and who is trying to help them get an education and being in school is the one of the best things we can do so i apologize if you don't agree with us i'm i'm not i don't love it either but that is that is just where we are and so i apologize for for taking that but like
164i said i i watched i watched last month on online and i listened tonight i hear your frustration but i did i did feel like it was my responsibility to to say that so thank you all for coming i really do appreciate it and i i understand we're we're gonna disagree on things but thank you motion to adjourn i have a motion by mr drexler john ii and the second mother smith all those in favor motion carries 7-0 thank you yes money decides to change the future next time when you come up here have some documents you