001Thank you very much 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. Okay. Tonight's meeting includes Tonight's meeting include a public hearing for the adoption of the 25 20226 general fund budget. This is an opportunity for members of the public to speak specifically to the purpose of proposed general fund budget. If anyone has signed up to address board withdraw in the budget, we will now hear those comments. And I didn't receive any signing card specific to the budget. So, we're going to thank everyone for being here tonight and move along in the meeting. We now come to public comments. We now move to public comments or requests. This portion of the meeting is reserved for citizens
002to address the board on any item appearing on the agenda. Each speaker is limited to three minutes and the entire comment period will not exceed 30 minutes. While public comments are broadcast live, the board does not respond to individual remarks during this portion of the meeting. We kindly remind speakers that comments should remain respectful and complaints involving individual students or personnel should be handled privately with appropriate district staff. At this time I call for Dr. Myrtle Brown Milton topic consistency and pay for employment concerned citizen. Thank you. Before you start the clock, uh, Chairman, uh, Moore, Vice Chairman Walker, and Hack and Senator Apttons, I would like to thank you all for your condolences when I lost my mother. While most of you know me, let me share to those of you who don't, I
003serve 26 years here in HR, and I'm here to address a few concerns that were addressed previously through other means. I asked you to make sure district vehicles are used for district purposes. There's one employee who seems to behave as though they're exempt from this rule. And I've seen this firsthand. Also, I ask you to challenge administration to stop checking boxes just to say a position has been filled. We must look at the needs of all of our schools and all of our students. Some positions require repurposing while others don't. the largest high school in our district with about 61% minority enrollments to my understanding have no minority administrators in house for the 2526 school year. I also ask you to launch an inquiry into Kelly Services retired employees and respectfully ask that they all
004be identified and they they all implement consistency. I encourage you to inquire about hours that they work and determine who's responsible for the validity of their hours as well as the accuracy of their possible overtime hours. Additionally, the information that's been circulating around about the retirement systems requiring Kelly services employees to pay retirement contributions, I ask that you please dig deeper into that. Finally, I urge you to look into longstanding highpay retirees who continue to work from year after year with no interview process and no secession plans. I'm not referring to those high paid retirees who are truly just helping in to secure position. I'm speaking about retirees like me who retired making six figures annually. And while I have no financial need or desire to return, these retirees have returned some 5 to 10
005plus years postretirement. They continue to receive their monthly retirement check as well as their continue to make six figures as full-time employees. One top level retired person in particular has an office with many retirees and this person seems to have great autonomy to hire who they deem necessary, especially temporary employees. Another top level retirey has several departments, but in one department, a temporary retired manager has been allowed to remain beyond the official agreement. This temporary retired person was told in July of 2023 and again in September of 2023 that they would only be placed until a director was hired for that department. The director was hired and reported to work on December 4th, 2023. However, that retired retired manager is still here almost two years later. Board members with all these district highlevel paid retiring
006positions, there's no surprise we have employees working two and three jobs to make ends meet. They work extremely hard and yet their pay is extremely low. I realize time is of the essence, but a budget approved tonight should be in favor of and focused on a great increase for our teachers, our school level personnel, and definitely for our classified employees. Anything else should be revisited. Thank you for your time. Thank you very much, Dr. Milton. Next, we will approve the minutes for June from June 3rd, 2025 meeting. May I have a motion to approve the minutes as presented? Some move. Is there any discussion? All in favor, please say I. I. Any opposers? Motion carried. Thank you very much. We will now adopt today's agenda. May I have a motion to approve the agenda as
007presented? Second. Is there any discussion? All in favor, please say I. I. Any opposes? Motion carries. Moving right along. Adoption of of the 2025 2026 general fund budget presented by Miss Lisa Johnson. Uh, thank you, Chairman Moore, board members, and Dr. G. The 2526 fiscal year budget general fund budget that we are asking the board to approve this evening reflects the districts and boards continued commitment to supporting employees, preserving instructional services, and maintaining long-term financial stability. A state mandated $1,500 increase has been applied to each sale of the teacher salary schedule with an additional $1,000 per sale requested and funded by the U board of education. This results in a total increase of $2,500 per sale for all teachers. All eligible employees will also receive step or years of experience increases. Classified and administrative salary
008schedules include a 2% increase and associated fridge benefit costs for all employees are included in the district's lowest hourly rate for temporary employment has been set at applicable to both district employed temporary staff and county services substitute professionals. Due to declining student enrollment, teacher allocations were reduced by a net of eight positions after allocating a special area teacher for Walk Elementary School. These adjustments assisted the district in balancing the general fund budget without using fund balance for support. A windmill increase in the tax levy is included to help fund the budget applied only to second homes, rental properties, and businesses, not to owner occupied primary residences. and that's compared to a 5.9 mil increase for fiscal year 2425. An additional 1,380,000 has been allocated to support compliance and instructional services for students with disabilities. These
009funds will enhance the district's ability to meet federal and state special ed requirements while also strengthening direct instructional support. Investments include staffing designed to promote equitable access to highquality education and improve outcomes for students receiving special education services. The budget also incorporates ongoing instructional software and licenses previously funded by ESSER and which will ensure continued support for student learning as federal relief funds have phased out. Additional funds have also been allocated to increase security coverage at school campuses which will ensure the safety and well-being of students, staff, and community members. The continuation of the academic support teachers and college and career ready coaches are also included. There are still a number of uncertainties as the year begins, including the final roll back millillage calculation and the potential impact of proposed federal budget changes. If passed
010as currently written, the federal budget could result in reduced or eliminated grant programs, which would affect future funding at the district level. As additional information becomes available regarding the federal budget and the roll back millillage rate reassessed property values, the district will return to the board of ed with budget amendment proposals if needed. This approach ensures flexibility and responsiveness to changing financial conditions while maintaining transparency and board oversight. I wanted uh the district administration and I would like to thank the board of ed for their support and throughput throughout the budget process. Your guidance has helped ensure a balanced approach that prioritizes student achievement, employee support, and financial responsibility. After going through the PowerPoint presentation um and and just giving some highlights, I'll try to answer any questions that you might have. Any questions? Yeah.
011Uh I noticed the bus drivers you got a 2% increase. Uh where is that for other classified employees? What all classified employees pay scales went up 2%. Okay. Can you specify bus drivers here? So that's across the board for all. Okay. Mr. Johnson, the fund balance that we show 24 million. Yes, ma'am. Does that include the money that we've have we already earmarked the money for the fieldhouse out of this money? It has already been removed and uh transferred to the capital projects. Okay. So, that and project is out of our high school project already. Okay. Thank you. You're welcome. Any other questions? I have some comment that I reserve in regards to the copy project for the end of the meeting. Uh, no other question. Might have a motion to adopt the general fund
012budget as present. Agree. It's been move second. Is there any discussion? And I do have some things I would like to discuss before I call for a vote. Uh going through the budget now, like I said, this is always the most difficult time of year for me is when we do budgets. Uh some things I would like to see put in place. Uh the schools or or administrators will come in front of us and have these ask. I would love to know that we're going to communicate with them and let them know, hey, look, we really looked at it. This is where we are with the budget and just give an explanation of why we cannot get this done right here. In particular, uh I want to talk about Browns Fair School and Carvers Bay.
013I want to know that because we all know that Carver made a great sacrifice and I want to know that we have gotten with them because we talked and we said that there's a plan to fix their acts without getting put them in the budget. I want all update from that meeting when we have that meeting with them and make sure that they understand that they're okay with the plan that we were told that in place. So I would love to get an update that at our next board meeting. Thank you. Any other discussion? All in favor, please say I. I. Any opposing? Motion carried. Thank you very much, Mr. Thank you. [Music] I would like to say, and this is concerning future next year budget, I would like to see us set up some
014more workshops. I'm sorry. I would like to see us uh set up more detailed workshops planned out ahead of time prior to our next [Music] I said that next year we will be a little bit more informed. [Music] Hear me now. But I heard you on Johnson. I certainly appreciate that. Uh it was an effort to have it done different this year. We're going to certainly make sure we get it done different next year so we can have more time to sit and work and discuss things. So thank you very much for that. Any we now move forward with our personal list presented by Mr. Scott Back and Mr. Richard. The administration recommends final approval of the personalist as presented. May I have a motion to approve the personal list? So move. It's been moved
015and properly second. Any discussion? All in favor, please say I. Any opposers? Thank you very much. The motion car you now moving to the information item all will be presented by Mr. K. Chairman, do you mind if I take just one second? This is a technical problem, but I'm not able to have access to any of the documents on my computer. I have the same problem. So, if I don't see it on there, I don't see it at all here. Even though I've seen it, but as we're going through it, I'd like to just Gotcha. I I'll work on it. I don't know why she doesn't ask. Can you see that? Okay. Would you like Do you have paper copies back here? You like the paper copy? I don't understand why it's not working. It
016says they have. Thank you. In 2024, the South Carolina School Board Association released suggested revisions to its district wellness and competitive food sales policy and administrative rules. Prior to Miss Thompson and Mr. Street leaving the district in December, we began looking at these revisions with an intent to bring them before the board this summer as part of our ongoing review of GCSD's policies. Because policy EF is closely tied to policy IHF IH AF. Miss Thompson, Mr. Street and I reviewed that policy as well. So, Chairman Moore, if you're agreeable, I'm going to speak on policy E F AF and the administrative rule I AF together because they are so closely related. Thank you. Within the agenda, it does start with policy EF. I'm going to actually start with policy IH AF, healthy and nutritious school
017environment because just to keep the flow of the policies and the understanding going I think for the ease of understanding starting with that policy will then explain policy EF. So as you look at policy IH AF, healthy and nutritious school environment, this policy was originally issued in 2007. We did revisit it as a district in 2017. And this policy outlines the board's vision to promote wellness in all schools within the district through nutrition, physical education, and physical activity under the super vision of the superintendent or her design. At this time for policy IH AF, I'm not recommending any changes to this specific policy because it still aligns with the recommendations presented in the mo model policy by the school board's association. However, I thought that if we're going to review the we're going to look
018at the administrative rule, we needed to start with the policy. So again, I'm not recommending any changes to policy HAF for the administrative rule for IH AF. This rule goes a lot more into a lot more detail on the actual policy. It's going to give specifics on nutrition and nutrition education with an emphasis on the smart snack standards. It lists the physical education requirements. It stresses the promotion uh it stresses promoting wellness in our schools and monitoring and reviewing the policies, which is what we're going to be doing over the next three board meetings. There's only one small change that is actually needed to this administrative rule, but it's pretty significant with us moving into EF. So, if you look in the second bullet on the first page, and I'm going to enlarge this, the
019only change that kind of kept us out of alignment is I'm recommending the removal of the word middle. This policy prohibits, as it's currently writen, us from having vending machines that students can access in middle schools. That is not in alignment with the model policy, nor is it currently our practice. So to make sure that this policy is in alignment and that it aligns that it aligns up with policy EF, that is the only change that I am recommending to this policy. And as I as I stated, but I'll share again, Miss Thompson and Mr. Street did a pretty thorough comparison of the model policy and our policy and administrative rule prior to their leaving the district. And this was the one change that they both pointed out that was needed. So then if you
020go to policy EF, that's where you see a lot of changes. Since policy EF was written in 2001, food trucks have become very popular. We all know that we see food trucks all over the place and our schools like to invite food trucks in. But we need to ensure that we are in within guidelines when we have these food trucks on our property. And so that's what's going to be addressed within this policy. Because of all the changes, I am going to go through them specifically within the first paragraph. We did I am recommending that we add food trucks, trailers, and carts. Um, I was afraid that if I just said food trucks that somebody would say, I don't have a truck, I have a trailer. So, I tried to be all encompassing with the
021words that were chosen. And then from this point on in the policy, when you see competitive food sales, that does refer to vending machines, concession stands, food trucks, food trailers, carts, etc. In the first bullet, we did take out we just we're going to leave it as use of competitive food sales and implementation of guidelines to make it so that it's not just specific to vending machines. It's to all food that is in competition with our cafeteria. In the second bullet, we did much of the same thing. We removed vending machines and replaced it with competitive food sales. Notice in the uh the last statement in that portion of the policy, however, vending machines must not be operated while meals are being served in the cafeteria unless all items in the vending machine are smart
022snack compliant. I do give credit to our cap to our schools. If you go in the in the schools and you look at the vending machines in the cafeteria, I know you'll notice that the chips, they'll say either smart snack compliant on them or they'll list the nutritional information that allows them to be smart snack compliant. You'll see drink the certain like you'll see juice in some of the vending machines. You'll see water. That is to show that they are following this policy. The next bullet down is totally new. This is completely new. Any food, beverage, and vending machines must be Smart Snack compliant. Any food, beverage sold by food truck, trailer, or cart on campus must be Smart Smack compliant unless the food truck, trailer, or cart is being used as an exempt fundraiser.
023Schools are allowed 30 exempt fundraisers per year. And if they're going to have a food truck that is selling something that is not smart snack compliant, it would have to go onto their list of 30 exempt fundraisers. Any use of a food truck, trailer, or cart must be recorded in the school's log of exempt fundraisers. We are going to provide schools with a a log to use to record their exempt fundraisers. The next bullet down, the only change was replacing vending machine with competitive food sales. Same thing in the next one. We did change assistant superintendent for business services to chief finance officer. That was just a title change within the district. The uh last bullet on this page again notice that we changed canteen to vending machine funds and changed uh assistant superintendent to
024chief finance officer. So those are basically the changes that Mr. Street, Miss Thompson, and I found that we needed to make in order to make these policies and administrative rule compliant or in um make them align with the model policy provided by the school boards association. Did anybody have any questions? I know that was a lot of information. I actually do have one question uh just to make sure I understand. So, if it is going to be listed under these exempt fundraisers, does that mean that the food uh the money that this food truck makes off of selling it does is that mandated to go towards a specific thing for fundraising or does the food truck owner keep it or is there a certain percentage that has to go? So, it sometimes it sometimes it
025depends on the agreement that the school has with the food truck. There are some, for example, um, KA Ice comes in, they give a, they work out an agreement with KA Ice. Each school does an individual agreement with KA ICE for what percentage of it they get, unless the school is bringing KA Ice in to use it for, say, their PBIS rewards. Sometimes they'll have KA Ice come in. Koma ice is a sometimes an easier one to bring in because they do have sa say snack compliant juices that you can put so you don't have to use it as an exempt fundraiser. Um there are times where some of our schools as a will invite well they will invite food trucks to be on campus and they don't get any of the profits from it.
026it's just done because their stu their students have said, you know, can we have a food truck? But again, we don't work out as a as a district office, we don't work out that agreement with the um with the food truck vendor. That's something they work out more with the schools. They're pretty consistent from school to school with the amount that they do, but it's not we don't say you have to give 25 35 45% to the school. Okay, thank you for the explanation. Excuse me. So, you said that each school has 30 fundraisers, right? They have 30 fundraisers. They can be for exempt for exempt fundraisers, meaning that it can compete with what's being sold in the school cafeteria. Okay. Well, I guess my question is how do you police say two or three
027repeatedly come? you police how many times they could come or something but I don't know how that works because you might have a lot of people want to have fundraisers right so do 30 people and and cut it off all so it depends on it's not all fundraisers it depends on the fund raiser that's being done um I'll use an example um when we were in school when I was in school we used to sell world's finest chocolate and We would sell it during the school day. Everybody Everybody sold it during the school day. If you've noticed over the last few years, they quit selling it at school during the school day. They do it after school. They send the chocolate home with students. If they sell it at school during the school day, it
028becomes um it's competitive. What's with what's being sold in the cafeteria and therefore it has to count as one of their exemption dates. um say school snacks. It the federal guidelines do set a time frame for when uh food can be sold after school and before school and stuff like that. If you're selling um wrapping paper, you don't have to worry about that because the wrapping paper is not in competition with the cafeteria. um to have food trucks come in. They are that the sale of their food is in competition with the cafeteria and so that would need to go on their list. Schools can get audited. So if they a school one of our schools was to get audited, they would have to produce that form that listed their exemp their their exemption days.
029And that is something that has to be maintained by in a certain office in the school. Sounds like a lot. Any other question? Muslims when you were in school. I did. That's a long time ago. Yes, it was. It was. Thank you very much. The um the last policy that I have is policy HA. And you may actually be saying some of you, I think we just reviewed this policy. We did last review this policy in 2023. Um policy IHA is used by teachers kindergarten to 12th grade for guidance on grading, reporting grades, calculating grade point averages, end of course exams, final exams, credit recovery, course uh types of courses, transferring grades from one school, transcripts, credit recovery. It's a huge policy if you look through it. It has a lot in it. I'm not
030looking at the whole thing tonight. I'm actually coming to you because it has been brought to district administration's attention that the section on page 123. Six entitled final exams where it talks about exam exemption does not actually outline exam exemption for quarter classes like government or econ at the high school level. Um you don't take a state EOC in those classes. You take a district final exam or a teacher final exam in that class. And so there was some conversation about is it five days, is it two days, is it three days and to ensure consistency across the district and to make sure that everybody knew the expectation um a decision was made that we should add a statement in to this policy to address absences in a 9 weeks, quarter, 45day class, however you
031want to call it. The other thing that we did in talking about the policy is I'm sure all of you are familiar with seat time and Seat time guidelines don't look at absences as lawful or unlawful. It says all absences apply to seat time. So we as a district group talked about the fact that to make our stuff more in alignment for final exams, it should also be all absences. Currently in our policy or in our procedures for attendance right now in a semester long class and this is in a semester long class you could have five absences to count towards seat that would count towards seat time for exam exemption. It said five unexcused or unlawful absences. that became very confusing when figuring out can I exempt my exam or not. For ease of
032both parents, students and teachers, our recommendation is that we make our procedures for attendance and our policy for final exam exemption align. Being that for a 9 weeks course, it would be no more than three absences to exempt the exam. In a block schedule or 90day course, it would be five days or five absences. And in a year-long or 180day course, it would be 10 absences. Again, just removing that word unexcused or unlawful and adding in the requirements for a nine weeks course. I know that was a lot worse. So, does anybody have any questions? Any questions? I have one. Um, does Denver exist? I'm sure there is. What mandatory state requirements are for endocourse exams? Would that include like STEM courses? What end of course exams? So there's which which exams they can't exempt.
033So you cannot exempt a state in the course exam that would be US history and the constitution algebra 1, English 2 or biology one. Okay, those are state and course exam. Thank you. Any other question? Thank you very much. Our last information item on today's agenda is the 2425 year in review presented by Stephanie G. Thank you, Mr. Moore. Again, good evening to everyone. Chairman Moore, members of the board, we've had a remarkable school year in Georgetown County School District. I'm filled with pride as well as gratitude for all that team GCSD has been able to accomplish together across our age of academics, arts, athletics, accountability, and achievement. Our schools have demonstrated unwavering commitment to continuous improvement. Here's a look back at some of the highlights for our school year. This year we continued a
034strong focus on growing degree. Our educators participated in impactful professional development sessions designed to elevate teaching and learning across all grade levels. We also expanded and embraced the district-wide hashgcdreads initiative, sparking a culture of reading and relationship. GCSD's dedication to the arts shone brightly throughout the year. Students dazzled audiences during our all county music performances, showcasing their talents and passion. We made significant investments in our music programs with the purchase of new band instruments. The beach's gifted and talented arts program grew in participation numbers, offering students unique opportunities to explore their creative abilities. Across our schools, visual and theatrical arts programs flourished, giving students meaningful platforms to express themselves creatively through exhibitions, stage productions, and dramatic performances that inspired and united our community. It was an exciting year for GCSD athletics. Our student athletes demonstrated
035resilience, sportsmanship, and skill with several teams capturing state championships. Numerous students earned recognition as all state athletes, setting an example of dedication and hard work. We also celebrated the success of our annual middle school basketball tournament which brought our community together in the spirit of competition and camaraderie. We strengthened collaboration and communication through regular joint leadership meetings and intentional professional learning communities. Initiatives like free throw Fridays gave students a platform to share ideas and concern while superintendent cabinet meetings extended this opportunity to staff, students, and parents. Our district's investment in positive behavior systems has contributed to a more supportive and encouraging learning environment. This year, we proudly recognize the accomplishments of our students and staff. The academic scholars awards program celebrated outstanding academic performance. We acknowledged the success of our CTE completers who are prepared
036to enter the workforce or continue their education. Graduation ceremonies honored the achievements of our senior class. And at our of the year gala, we celebrated the exceptional educators and staff members who exemplify the spirit and mission of team GCSD. Again, as we reflect on this year of teamwork and continuous improvement, I want you to understand that we do remain inspired by those members of team GS GCSD, our teachers, our administrators, support staff, students, and families. We thank them all for making this such a wonderful place to be. Certainly we are not there yet but we are working to be better each and every day. So thank you for a successful as well as a positive year. Thank you very much. At this time I'll open the floor for any comments or request from the board
037members. pull your mic down. I was scared it would go berserk again. Um, we not only have the responsibility of worrying about the children and making sure that they get the best education they can possibly get to go forward. And I think we work diligently on that. But we also have a responsibility for safety and security for thousands of people, not just a few. We also have responsibility to the taxpayers and the parents that we spend the money very carefully that we do not waste a penny that we look at the budget through a very fine tooth comb and make sure that every cent that we spend goes back to the classroom. And that being said, I do know that we've had a lot of achievements. We do have a lot of things to do,
038but we certainly have a lot of things we need to improve on. And uh that being said, I would hope that my our fellow board members would agree that this is something that we need to take on head on. We can no longer ignore something. We have got a huge budget, probably one of the biggest budgets in the county and we need that to reflect back in the classrooms. So, um, I challenge us to make for going forward that we work together on all of those three things, the security, the budget, and the classrooms, and the education, and put that classroom first. Anyone else? I guess I'm be a little mouthy tonight. Uh, and I do celebrate all the accomplishments that we've had this year, but there's a lot more work to be done. I
039said earlier when Miss Patty talked about the project for walk that I would elaborate on that a little bit more, and I must report tonight that I'm not happy. Uh, we've been meeting and we've been discussing this more than two years. Uh back in March, we had we indicated things that would be done and nothing for Carver's Day is done yet. That's unacceptable. I'm very irritated by that today because uh we've been being told was going to get done and nothing has been done. I went out today to take some pictures of stuff that's still not done that we celebrated happened a lower state of carbon this year. We all celebrated that and we knew that there was work that we wanted done before state and we were assured that it would get done. Today
040it's still not done. That's unacceptable. So what I'm proposing tonight is that every school board meeting moving forward, I want to report on progress, updates on what's being done, not promises of looking into it. We met, we said that we were going to take off that that main interest that we talked about two years ago at request administrator at carpet. We said we're going to take it off the table and give them what they were asked for instead. We came up with that plan. So I shouldn't be hearing any discussion about architect for the the interest because that's off the table. We we talked about that. We agreed to that before we left that meeting back in March. So I I I don't accept that that progress. I still say we need architect. That's not
041the case anymore. We were explaining how our kids are getting dressed and undressed behind vehicles, our boys baseball team because they have a locker room. We said that we will get a locker room and start. We haven't started that again. We understand and we all agree that our football locker room is in very bad condition. Nothing happened to them. Simple fix plexiglasses on a concession stand so that you can see and that happened in their head. baseball screen falling down. You talk about raising that up. Understand that there might be some situation for adding additional piece to it, but we can raise that screen up. That is a very dangerous machine. My son plays baseball. I'm at the game. I watch all the time how our pitchers on the mound are doing this when the
042catcher simply trying to throw a ball back because they can't see. Just imagine a bat a ball come up that bat and they're shooting it because they can't because of sunscreen. still not tuned out properly out of car. When I first came to this board and I felt then that walk was treated differently in Carter Bay area things got things gotten worse for me. Uh this would not be the case. I feel stronger cuz we're talking about school walk and it is unacceptable for me to be representing that area representing that area and and and know the condition out here and not come here tonight feeling the way I did and and it's not good for me. So Dr. G, I'm going to ask you that I want to update every meeting moving forward until
043the project is completed about where we are with that. I understand. I want I know that we've gotten drawings or submitted already mobile and that is great. I my concern is for all the schools but I represent and nothing's been I want to know that something's being done to catch us up. uh also uh monthly report back we used to get monthly report uh sent to us as a board new board. I'm sure y'all experienced that or not on what each department head was doing. I want to implement that plan. I want the board to know what each department is doing every month. Thus, as you said, it's not going to give you whole folks accountable. you can know where the money is going, know what everybody's doing. So, I want that back implemented. Uh,
044I want to update um chairman myself and vice chairman Randy M and we discussed the weight training/sport class, football class, whatever you want to call it. Uh, we was told that they're going to be the committee to look into that because we were thinking that's a good idea for our kids here in Georgetown as it is for many other counties who have it in place now and are reporting great success in it. I want I want an update on the status of that committee being formed, looked into it, and and how we're going to be able to implement it before school comes back in session. Uh I've had some concerns about uh kids and enrollment in in summer school. I I want to see what it looks like for since we started the uh year
045round mod year round modified schedule. We had these breaks implemented in there that was supposed to give kids an opportunity to get caught up. Thus, they don't have to go to SH school, but it's my understanding right here that there's a high number of kids enrolled in SH school. So, I want to do I want to see some information information far as how does that look? Is it working for us with the modifi year round? Far the intentions and there are other things but uh a different time to discuss but those are some things I I really got to have. I'm just I don't even like speaking to this length, but this bothered me when it's been over two years when we met back in March and all what was said, nothing got done. I'm
046not satisfied with that. Thank you very much, Chair Moore. I I just want to bring up one um item that we spoke about at our subcommittee meeting last night. Uh, one of the things that um, we had brought up at a previous subcommittee meeting was radio communication in our schools. Um, I was very happy to hear at our subcommittee meeting last night that the radios have been looked into. I think the vendor is Motorola and um, Dr. Giles, if you could just give us an update again so the board can hear where we're at or Mr. Walters because I just feel like in the event of an emergency in our schools, if we don't have communication, we're in trouble. We got to be able to communicate with so many different agencies, so many different people
047on staff, um, law enforcement. Um, so if we could get a quick update on that and I would ask that whatever we can do financially the board to expedite this to get our radios updated. I think it's very important that we uh we look into that. So if you could give us an update please. Certainly we can bring that before you at in depth but for a quick update as we shared yesterday with the committee. Motorola dealer we have been having communications with um there is no one fixed in order to have 100% um communication. And I will share that all of our dealers um not just dealers but the the companies themselves said there is no one fix. However, they are working with us to pilot as well as to test um the systems
048within our district so that we have 100% assurance of what they are able to do. So those are the things that we hope to bring back before you. We've worked on a quote and uh we're still trying to get that information back so that we can move to next steps. Um do you think they can be done before the coming year? Do you think we're going to be able to have all this in place by the coming year? I'm confident we'll have the process started. How many of the radios will be in before actually July 15th or July 7th? I'm unsure of, but we can have an update as far as the inventory and what would be there. Okay. And I would like a uh you know for everybody to get kind of a brief
049review. I know that we we will be ending up our meetings shortly and we will come before y'all with our conclusions. But to me, that's essential part of communication is essential part of some of the active shooter or anything that's going on within a school. not only with the outside um law enforcement but with everybody. I mean from you know fire to whatever that communication is critical to saving lives. I would like to say that um with all the notes that we've taken the sessions that we've had with the safety committee I did also want to let the other board members know that we are of course going to be sharing everything with you. uh that has been discussed and I will be taking the time to type up the initial report uh and findings
050and we're going to uh hopefully go over it with our last meeting together to make sure that everything is on point so that way it can be presented to the whole entire board so that way nobody is left out and we can do this moving forward together. And just right quick I certainly want to let you know that I've been on the phone with Robin after every meeting. I know I haven't been at those meeting with Dr. Robert after every meeting for an update and I do want to thank that committee for the work that y'all put in this effort to make our school safer. So, thank you very much and I look forward to getting that report from you. Again, chairman Moore, thank you members of the board. Thank you for all you do
051on a daily basis as well as our meeting times. Thank you for your feedback and input. everything that they said we certainly will take back to our team and bring forward in the format of uh reports in our upcoming meetings. I will share also that the summertime is often time thought of as a pause within um our work schedules but please know that several of our staff members are working very very hard. Um most recently I left a presentation. I'm very proud of the team leaders that led that presentation as well as the participation so that we can increase our professional knowledge in order to grow and learn. Next week we will have end of summer and that's hard to believe I'm already saying end of summer performances with our beach arts, music, and drama
052performances at Georgetown High School on June 25th. We'll share those dates with you as well as publicize those on our social media outlets. I encourage everyone to continue as always, as I've said throughout the year, kindness matters. Continue to be kind to one another as well as to yourselves. Lastly, I do end on a somber note. Um I was informed today that we we lost a student Alejandro Bernal Grim Khan from Wakamar High School. Um sadly he lost his battle to cancer but we will continue to uplift Walke High School but specifically um this student's family as as they go through these days and times understanding that it's more than just a moment in time but it is something that we will forever um hold close and dear in our hearts and we'll continue to
053uplift this family and the Walk High School not just high school um the Walk Middle School family as he was a student at Walk Middle School um the years prior to so we will continue to uplift them in ours. Thank you. And once receive any information far as any opportunity that we can go through our support please let me know please let us know any anything we can do. So thank you very much. We will now enter session. Get a motion to enter session. Second. All in favor, please say I. I. We're now in session. Thank you.