001The time is now 6:00. Um, I would like to call this meeting to order. Um, I'd like to welcome Josiah Gary to do the invocation of our pledge. Let's break. We thank you for this day. We thank you for everyone in your presence this evening. We ask that you watch over each and every one of us here at this meeting. Allow every policy, every agenda to be carried out smoothly. Allow all to remain well within where school district 51 here at this school board meeting in your son Jesus name. Amen. 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. >> Sorry about that. Thank you. >> Thank you. Good job. I'm assuming everybody's had a chance
002to look at their minutes from the August 18th meeting. Is there any corrections need to be made? Anything added or taken away? Hearing none. Um, do I have a motion to approve the minutes from last month August meeting? >> I'll make a motion to approve the minutes from the August 18th meeting. Do I have a second? >> I'll second. >> All in favor or any discussion? All in favor? Um, raise your right hand. >> Any opposed? >> All right. And then moving on to approve the agenda. Do I have a motion to approve the agenda? >> Make a motion to approve tonight's agenda. >> Do I have a second? >> Second. All in favor or any any discussion on the agenda? >> All in favor raise your right hand if you approve public input. Do
003we have any public input? Hearing none, um we're going to go to refer to Dr. Crockett for the heart of a hornet. >> Thank you very much. I'm very excited to uh introduce this this month's Heart of Hornet Award to one of our students. And I think I'd like to start off by uh trying to pull up a really quick video. It's it's about one we're going to watch about one minute of it. Uh but we have one of our students, Josiah Gary, and just uh a special kid. I'll let the video speak for itself. Now that's a voice. You're listening to the voice of March High School and also our upstate top team finalist Josiah Gary presented by our friends at Engles. Of course we love having QL from 96 feet of block here
004with us. You guys do a great job of putting this whole competition together and uh we get a you know we get a chance to kind of feature the young people. This is a lot of fun Marcus because there's so many teenagers here in the upstate just doing some really great things. And then of course we saw the story of Josiah out of Donald South Carolina and we read the story. I remember like we we sent emails back and we were like you know what that's our person. >> Josiah is the winner. And it's rare that we're all kind of unanimous in that but everybody was unanimous about about this one. So Josiah, congratulations on being our first upstate top team of this season presented by our friends at Engles. They are all passionate about
005young people doing great things in the in the community and Q. They get a really good uh price package. >> Absolutely. I mean, sometimes I wish I was a teenager again being the English is doing this and you're going home with a $250 gift card, a $250 Visa gift card as well, but kind of talk about like what does this mean to you? Of course, you saw the commercials on on television or whatever, but now you're actually sitting on this couch with myself and the markets and you are of state team. >> Um, I am incredibly blessed to be here. I'm very thankful to Eng thank thank you guys so very much for doing this not just for me but for top teams around the upstate because this means a lot to us. This shows
006that our good character, our good works, our trying to make our way in the world is valued by those that are in the higher places. So we sincerely appreciate you guys for your voice. >> Josiah is already full, bro. I mean like We can stop there. Listen, we could go on and on. Okay. In fact, he could lead this meeting. I mean, just um just extremely mature. Uh he's he's very well-grounded, extremely well spoken. uh and and very much admired by our our our school district as a whole as the voice of the Hornets on on Friday night football games as student body president uh for his leadership. Um his his peers look up to him, his teachers, we all and staff, we all adore him and uh just has wonderful things in store for
007him. So for for now I would like to recognize uh Josiah Gary as this month's heart of a hornet award winner. [Applause] Come on, man. This guy's our spotter for three years, ladies and gentlemen. >> All right, you ready? >> There we go. >> Super proud of you. Thank you. Great kid. Supporting you. >> You want to tell the group uh your plans for down the road? >> So down the road, which hopefully is not so quickly traveled. >> Um I am planning to go to a four-year college to study broadcast journalism and hopefully land a major opportunity with a sports network either in the deer area or if it's a major network, I don't have a problem with that either. >> So that is the ideal plan. just thank you so much for being
008here and leading us uh to start our meeting as well and um you're you're just a great kid and we're uh very very proud of you and look forward to supporting you down the road as well. >> Thank you, sir. I appreciate >> you, sir. Thank you. [Applause] >> Uh referring back to Dr. Crockett uh for the superintendent update. >> Great. That's hard. It's hard to top that. Okay, that's um those are that's that's that's our business, right? Is kids and seeing kids do well and um helping them chase their dreams. Uh trying to draw out that, you know, god-given talent that they have and just, you know, push them and nurture them in the right uh in the right direction that they they should be going in and looking for ways to support them
009in doing that. And so, um that's that's what we're about. And this that's just a great example of kind of the joys that we get from from the profession and this is why we do it. Um I want to start off by just simply saying it is a great day to be aware hornet and uh I want to try to keep this as brief as I can but there's a lot of great things that's happening and I want to make sure that we draw our attention to it. The first is our SC ready. I think you probably saw some things in the in the news, but I want to kind of highlight truly where we are, where where are we? And so they're on the rise in 20 23 24 uh the composite results for
010ELA and for math out of 75 districts. And last year in 2324, uh we ranked 36th out of uh 75 schools in ELA. In math, we ranked 29th out of those 75 schools. This year, extremely impressive what we've been able to accomplish. In 2425, our ratings jumped from 36 in the state to 23. So, we're in the top 23 of our um of of all districts across the straight uh across the state in composite rating for ELA. And that's combining the grades three through eight. Uh we also are 31st in math. So right about where we were last year in math, but so much work. Um we're seeing extremely um promising results in our ELA. And so that's been uh been been wonderful. Nothing here in this seat. all because of of the teachers hard
011work, the students hard work, uh the administrators, our support staff, everyone jumping in and making sure that instruction and academic excellence is a priority in our district. It'll always be. And so, first and foremost, we have to produce wonderful graduates. Just in perspective, just as a visual for this, I made one more slide because this is really the impact of where we are. That's Greenwood 51 above the red line. You can see of course all the districts below and you can see the districts that are ahead. Uh we're not where we want to be and that's towards the very very top. Uh we have goals that we have set as an administrative staff to that we're going to continue to focus in on and hone in on. Um but we're getting there. We're getting there.
012Our job's not done, but we'll take encouragement from um the results of hard work. And so we're very very pleased with that and um have made those adjustments in our goals. And so we know the districts that are ahead. Uh we also know the districts that are trying to catch us uh where where we are. And so we we use that as as um as more as a motivator to say this is we we need to provide an excellent academic environment for our students and that's what we're committing to do. So very very proud of the hard work of lots of people. Uh the Hall of Fame event took place last Friday. Loved it. It was great. Just five fantastic um inductees this year. I just wanted to share just a few photos of it.
013I appreciate the so much of the hard work that that goes into it from the Wshaw Schools Hall of Fame committee. Uh we had Dr. Taylor absolutely jam up job and like like always, Sean Davenport. Uh we also had um Miss uh Miss Perl was down there with the reception, Miss Dana Loner. We also had our our custodial staff. We had uh Tim Tim Allen of course and um and also we had Miss Miss Tammy was there has a huge help. We had Miss Tyer was also that was there and doing a a jam up job re reccalibrating the schedules and we we uh we just had a really really great day from from technology all the way through. just so much that goes into a great day, but uh we tried to make it
014as special as we could. We try to tailor that day to the the skills and the um the backgrounds of those individuals and and and that's what it's about. Just um just just a great a great day with some great people and uh just really proud of that event and that that went went well. Great examples for our kids for sure. Um I was going through It was it it was actually it was funny the timing of this. We had it was kind of a grind of a day and I was going through paperwork and trying to get some reports done and picked up another envelope and opened it up and it was said from the self family foundation you received $25,000 to support our kids to go to Camp Leopold and boy did that
015change that the the tone of that day. I was like wow that's in incredible. So, the FA uh South Family Foundation supporting Wesholes Middle School students to go to uh Camp Leupold. I'm a huge believer in Camp Leupold. Um I you know that that I believe there's so much that can be learned outside the four walls of the classroom and when students kind of get off their their phones and and get into nature um and experience it, I think that's a a really great thing. And so excited about that trip, Miss Webb. and that that'll be lots of work that'll be taking place there um uh to to get that uh uh all together. So that's that's an exciting trip and lots of students have benefited from it and um thank you to the self
016family foundation for that. I have a card that's um already kind of written up for them. If if appropriate if you're interested in signing that card um I can get that to where it needs to go at the South Family Foundation. So super generous. Super generous. All right. We also had our alliance club uh came in and did uh screening for every student in our district. And so uh the time that they gave um up out of their schedules to to uh screen all of our students, there was uh we had a number of students identified as having vision impairments, several that didn't know that they did. And so now the followup of trying to make sure they have um uh follow-up appointments uh to see if they can uh get either some glasses or
017other other fixes uh is just so important for what we're trying to do is to teach kids and if they can see better um you know obviously that's going to translate well to what they learn in the class. college fair day. We had close to 40, I think 38, 39 uh colleges and universities came on our campus uh last week and it I I loved it. I was down there, got to meet the a lot of these these young recruiters from these schools uh to put them right in in plain sight of our students to be able to see all the options that's afforded uh to them. everything from military to two-year two-year college to fouryear institutions. So, it was a really really great day and I appreciate the high school, Miss Campbell um being
018able to coordinate all that and it was just it was quick all of a sudden all of a sudden they were here all at the same time and then they all left. It was and in and out but uh it was it was great exposure to to to to our students for our students. We had guest reader day at the middle school. I appreciate uh several of you that were able to come as well and to read and uh it was just a a a great time. Um reading is so important. You could see the growth that we've made on our uh ELA results as as a district and uh it's about making it a priority and seeing adults reading and uh and modeling that that is uh so important for our kids to see.
019Uh the primary school had donuts for grown-ups as well. that that place was uh that parking lot was was uh >> Full. That's good. That's the That's the adjective there. Yeah, it was full. It was very full. And um and we had had a great had a great time there. It was I appre appreciate all the parents and grandparents that waited through a long line for just one one donut. But if you were to ask them, I said, "That's a lot of work for a donut." all of them said it's not it's not about the donut, right? It's it's the experience with your kid or or the hey, I'll do anything for my grandbabies. You know, that's the responses that I was getting. And um we we have a we have a community that one
020that they they love their kids and they love our our our district. And I I I'm so so thankful to to be here and experience uh donuts for grown-ups and all the participation that we had there. had a chance to to uh have a conversation with our ninth graders and I try to try to have these class meetings and um and trying to make sure that we are building that vision for them like what their focus of where do they want to be, what's their five-year plan, what's what's their goals, what are their talents, and trying to to work work through that. we had this um this this idea of making sure that they're going to stay focused and um that they're also going to understand the power of no. That was the big that
021was the big topic of of this conversation that that you're able to to set boundaries for yourself. You're able to set parameters for yourself and the choices that you make and that there's power in saying no uh to other negative influences that come in. And so uh afterwards I did uh I did poll um I did have a survey for them when they completed. It's very interesting what they what they had shared with us and I wanted to share it with you as well. Uh the first question was I I can believe he said I believe I can work harder and prove my behavior. How about that? I'm willing to push myself to do better in school and my teachers will soon see a change in me. I asked them to be be honest. Of
022course 100% said yes. Count on me. I'm going to do I'm going to do better. So I that's that's good. That's good. Hopefully we'll see that translate. But this is the one that I really wanted to share. There's question number three. I believe there are adults at my school who care for me. And so you can see that 90% of our students, our ninth grader students uh that were there that took the survey said there's an adult in the building that cares for me. And uh 90% is great, but we have four kids that said I'm not so sure. and we know who they are and it's going to be our purpose to make sure that they have without a shadow of a doubt know that there's an adult in that school that's uh that's
023going to be there that that loves them that cares for them is there to help them. And so uh really really productive meeting and of course the things that are going on around our school from from from athletics to the band to uh everything's taking place. It's just there's this school spirit in our district that is is uh infectious and um I I just am so so proud of our students, so proud of our student athletes from cheer camp um which was such a treat to watch them uh perform uh to the Landram and the Wsholes uh high band coming together for the national anthem. Uh I thought that was spectacular. Even even the the gesture of feeding uh Landram's band uh coming here that's just a really nice gesture and to show hey this
024is what Greenwood 51 this is what Scholes is all about and it it was uh very very well done very very well done and speaks volumes of of the people leading these I love the patriotism as well uh appreciate the local fire departments with the ladder truck and showing that just you know it's important for our students to to see that um our our our flag our our patriotism that we have for our country is so important and um and it also helps when we win 4 and0 right now 4 and0 that solves a lot of problems and um and it just uh it's it's great. It I'm I'm very very proud of them. They're playing extremely tough. Uh the first three games were with 2A 2A opponents and we were able to take care
025of business and uh setting us up for region play. We have a buy this week and then uh soon within maybe two weeks clear dot and then we start getting into Whitmire for for region play and that's that's will soon be upon us. Um so that's that kind of sums up a little bit of just the many many things that we have going on in our district. Um, it was hard to do it justice with just these, you know, few few moments, but lots going on. If you have any questions regarding those those things that I shared, I'd be glad to answer any questions at this time. >> Thank you, Dr. Appreciate it. >> Absolutely. >> Anybody have any questions? >> All right, moving on to the technology update and CIPA public hearing um with
026Michael Armstrong. This will be quick. Um, as far as technology updates, since the start of the school year, we have 191 tickets closed. Um, that sounds like a lot. This year's actually been a little bit slower than usual, which I'm not complaining about. Um, but we we have been working pretty steady and working pretty hard to take care of the needs in our classrooms for our students and our teachers. Um over the summer, excuse me, we deployed 165 new laptops to our middle school students in grades 5 through 7. We're trying to secure some funding so we can finish out grade number eight. Uh that's to that's coming down down the road hopefully. Uh and part of that process we moved Windows 10 to Windows 11. We still have a few stragglers out there being
027one of them. It's got to be switched out before October. Uh but we're going to work on that here in the next few weeks. The other big project in the summer was our class link integration. The state purchased class link for every district in the state. We were using Clever before, but now we have class link, which is really powerful tool. It should allow us to do a little bit better job of provisioning apps for our students. Um, and we look forward to that partnership as the state continues to pay for it. Hopefully, they continue to pay for it. Um, and next thing we've done in the last week or so is we've renewed our partnership with SC Kick, which is a division of SLED. that stands for their cyber uh internet and excuse me
028their consortium for internet and cyber security. Uh we signed up for our cyber defenders training for myself and the Logan Simpson and Zach Burton who work with me. Uh we're all going to take the cyber defenders course to get more up to speed on our cyber security stance. Uh we'll be pushing out some fishing test here in the coming weeks to our staff members. Try to better educate our people on on the importance of being vigilant when they see those emails come in. We've been very fortunate thus far and I hope we continue to be fortunate. We want to make sure people stay on their toes. Uh the other part that they offer are Microsoft 365 assessments. They partner with a company and they'll come in and assess where we are in Office 365 environment
029to tell us things we need to improve, things we're doing well and look forward to seeing what they can find for us there. And they also have an agent on staff who does an enhanced thread intelligence. Once I get him all the information he needs, if he sees any of our users information on the dark web, he'll let us know and say, "Hey, you got compromised credentials. You take care of this." So, we look forward to those things in the coming weeks to see how it develops. Um, but the real reason for tonight is SIP. Each year we're required by law to go over our SIP requirements. SIPA is required because we receive funds. You met anybody familiar with But as a as a public school district or as a library, if you receive money
030from the FCC, if anybody see those taxes on your phone books, FCC charges, that's what funds. Well, because the - money, we get discounts on infrastructure as far as networking concerns. So, wireless APs, network cabling, network switches, all that stuff we can purchase. We pay 15% of full value. Ray pays or USA pays the other 85%. So it's a great program for us, but as part of that, we have to make sure we're following this our requirements for the Children's Internet Protection Act. What that essentially means is I'm sure you've heard your students or your uh spouses talk about eyeballs. I boss is what we use to filter web content from students. Make sure they stay out of the stuff that could be potentially harmful to them. The other part of that is we have
031to monitor their use. So for our high school and middle school students, we monitor their one drive accounts, their teams accounts and email through a company called Gaggle and they monitor that 24/7. So if there any mention of self harm or anything like that, we get notified almost immediately saying, "Hey, you may want to check on this student." Um, so that in a nutshell is SIPA. Um, there, you know, that stuff goes on forever. If you want any more information, I'd be glad to share that link with you. You can read all about it while you're having trouble falling asleep tonight. Anybody questions? >> Michael, great job, not only tonight, but but also uh the job that you do in our district as far as technology. Um I know we we we view our SRO's
032obviously as you know our first line of defense for safety. Um but there is a whole different division of safety and um and that is making sure that we keep our information, our data safe. um from our everything from our staff, the the hund nearly 150 staff members that we have uh to our uh to all of our students uh making sure that we protect protect their information. And it's all if you don't think it's under attack, it's you just look across the state for um lots of um ransom u issues that are taking place for for data and and and having those breaches. So staying on top of it uh protecting protecting our students from themselves as far as uh internet searches and all those things. locking locking down um any potential threats to
033to them as well is is very important not only on our campus but at home if it's our device and no matter where that where that goes it's it's making sure that that buffer that safety buffer is there and so we're we're very thankful for the job of our IT team and and their buil uh um their diligence in making sure that we protect our our data for sure. So um and appreciate SLED uh taking that step and making sure that they're providing resources to districts to kind of help with that. So, we're we're appreciative of that for sure. >> Thank you, Michael. >> Thank you, sir. Um, at this time would like to recognize Christy Hodgej and Paula Taylor for a band update and a field trip. >> How are you Paul? Um, I
034don't have my voice. It's fan season. Um, so the band's off to a great start this year. We have our um First contest this Saturday, we're going to Midland Valley High School. Um there's about 47 of them this year in the band. Show is called Dream. Um which is why you keep hearing Dream On by Eric Smith and Sweet Dream by Beyonce. And um I think they're really bought into the show. We've got it all on the field. Um trying to just clean it up and get it ready for the judges. Um we threw the paint on the wall and now we need to make it stick a little bit. you know, we just need to clean it a little bit. But there we've had really great attitudes. We've had really great parent um help.
035The props are done. Um you know, it's just we have seven weeks left of the season seven contest. So, we'll tell you um how those go. We'll we'll keep you updated. We're going to the first one. This the goal is to get on the field and not fall apart and get off successfully, you know. Um so, we're going to go and see how it how it works out. But, I think they're going to be great. I think we'll have really good things. But tonight we're here because um I was shocked when I received an email. Um I won't lie, it was shocking. But um the band has been chosen by the historical society. Um not just like some field trip, you know, go person, but like by the historic.org for to be the South Carolina
036representative in the Pearl Harbor Day parade in Hawaii. And I was like, what? I was just blown away. But the email just said, you know, because of your success in concert, band, and in marching band, you're you're you've been recommended by your colleagues. And so, the first thing I did was go to Miss Tyer because she's our my principal. And I was like, um, and she said, "This is like such a great opportunity. We have to talk to Dr. Crockett about it. Like we can't, you know, we can't just hide that. We we can't not do something with it. So, we went to Dr. Crockett who also thought it was a great opportunity, but he laid out some guidelines to help us just kind of plan with it. And his his first thing was, please
037take it to your booster board and um and see if they think that it's a doable um idea. It is a pile of money. and so how would you fund raise and come up with a way that you would pay for it? See if they think it's doable just your core group of people. And so we did that. We went back to Dr. Crockett and we're like, "These people are all in." Like these people are all in. They're all willing to work and raise. And so Dr. Taylor started coming up with a fundraising plan for how we would raise the money each month and what fundraisers we would have. And then Dr. Dr. said, "I think the fundraising plan," well, he's just been my right arm in planning for it. It's been he's been a
038huge help to us. Um, and then he said, "Now take it after you, now that you have the fundraising plan, take it to your parents and try to keep it a secret." And so we called all the band parents together last week and we were like, "Listen, you keep these children's Christmas gifts a secret and you don't tell them what they're going to get, right? So, we really need you to not say a word and keep this quiet. And they'll vouch for me. I'm not I'm not telling you a lie. When I said, "This is what we've been invited to do." The air sucked out of the room. They were like, you know, they were just like blown away. And um I asked them, I said, you know, what do y'all think? And so they
039said, um, well, one one parent asked the question like, we know that we know that we're good, but how did we get the historic society to know that we're good, you know, and so I read them the email, you know, based upon your achievements in marching and concert band, you know, you've been recommended this. And this parent said, so the kids earned this, like their accomplishments, the kids earned this. And I said, yeah, I didn't do it. I didn't I didn't put us up for it. It just came. They said, "Then then yes, they need to go. They they they did this. They earned this." And so they were a thousand% sold in. And I told them, I said, "If we have a car wash, you are either buying some soap or you are out
040there with a sponge washing some cars." Like everybody, if it is a gift wrapping fundraiser, you are there with some Scotch tape wrapping gifts. like everybody is all in and they were Dr. Taylor can talk about it too, but they were they were sold out for it and um and I really think somehow we have managed to mostly keep it a secret. The kids are out there practicing now and they don't they didn't even notice I left because the staff was running it. They So, Dr. Taylor has um all the logistics to talk to you about. Um we know that it is a huge ask and we know that it is a huge goal for us to set, but I also think it's such a once in a-lifetime opportunity that we could never do this.
041You know, they this would be something that would last for them forever. So, I would like to attempt to be able to fundra this to them. You know, I just think it's very worthwhile. So, um I will just add that this um parade next year is the 85th annual parade and so it's going to be even larger than a typical Pearl Harbor Day parade. Um and just in doing some research, we found that other South Carolina bands have been invited in the past, but in the last 5 to 10 years, I couldn't find where a South Carolina band actually went. Um North Carolina, Georgia, they've all attended. So, this will be the first time in quite a while that a South Carolina van was able to attend this um parade. Um, and we have a
042travel agent who will help us to work through the logistics of planning all of this information and that's in your packet for you. It's a 6 day, five night trip. Um, and you can see the total cost per student there is 2919 and that would vary based on the baggage fees. That's for their instrument to travel with them. So, some would need those fees, some would not depending on the size of their instrument. Um, so we're looking at right around $120,000 for everyone to go. And so, as we took that into consideration as a group, the board back here and myself, we started to look at what are some options of things that we could do and how um could we try and all of us invest throughout the process. And so, we're asking students
043and families to pay $600. And so they would break that up into monthly payments that they could make. So it's very manageable for them to make a $50 payment um each month until they have paid their $600. So that's about a quarter of the funds that we need. And then the other quarter we're hoping is going to come from fundraisers that we do within our community. So selling some merchandise again, having like a wrapping night and those sorts of things. the remainder, the other half, the other $60,000 we're hoping to raise through corporate sponsors and other donors that we found out that actually want children to go to this parade. Um, a lot of veteran groups will support this as well. >> Yeah, we when we talked to the travel agent, he said that there
044were people like VFW groups and things like that um that want children to see Pearl Harbor because they don't want another world war. So he said, "You're thinking you're thinking like statewide and communitywide with your fundraiser, but I'm thinking regionally and nationally, and I have those contacts for you." And I was like, "Well, that is super helpful." You know, so he he said, "As soon as you get an approval, if you get an approval, you call me back and I'll start helping you with the fundraising for it on a national level >> to to other groups because we don't want this to be a burden to our community, to our students, to any of the families. um because there are some families like my own that they have more than one children and you know
045more than one child in the band. So we're trying to be mindful of all those things. So just a couple of things about logistics. This is not just we go and we perform in the parade and we come back. So they do have plans for us to visit Pearl Harbor and you'll see like motor coach is included in this. We always have a tour guide with us. Um they're going to Pearl Harbor. They would also have a luau that they would be part of the Polynesian Cultural Center. There's lots of sightseeing that also happens in between those days of the parade. Um the parade is a nighttime parade and they close down pretty much Wiki. Um and so they actually start at Fort Duser in Wiki. I hope that's how you pronounce it. Yeah. So
046all of the bands who are part of the parade play two pieces of music there. They have dignitaries that will speak. We will have some representatives um more than likely from South Carolina legislature that will be there as well if our band attends and so they'll speak all the bands will get together and then they walk and they play for one mile down um to a gathering where participants are part of a concert afterwards. Um a couple other things just about logistics. We have to have a minimum of 40 people to be able to travel and to be part of the parade. And so if you look in your parent meeting, we had 36 of our 47 have agreed and we've spoken to others since that initial parent meeting and they said that they are
047interested as well. But between those children and then the six school employees that we would take with us, we would have that minimum of 40. Um that we would need transportation from here to GSP. So likely that would be an activity bus um that would take us there and then we would fly from GSP more than likely to Seattle and then onto Hawaii. Um we would more than likely also be put on two flights and so that'd be three adults that are district employees on each flight with those students that we're going to split up. Um, and then the hotel arrangements are very close to the parade, and we'll find out more about that once we know exactly how many can travel, but they'll stay four to a room. They'll be more than likely on
048the same floor or on two floors, and we divide up our parents and our staff members in between those so we make sure everyone is taken care of. And then there's a lot of information about different fundraisers that we have planned for you in the next several pages of your packet. Um, and then it's broken down actually by month. So, we would like to start fundraising now if we get your approval so that we could be ready for December of 2026. >> Thank you. >> Do y'all have any questions about us? >> Do y'all have Do you have any questions? I I I will tell you we um we had an anonymous person and if you want me to tell you who it is privately, I will. But um we had an anonymous person come
049up already and tell me that they would pay to ship the instruments over there. So that took about $9,000 off the price. So I was like, "Thank you." You know, that was that was great, too. So Ronnie, do you have >> So that was one question. Are we shipping the instruments or are they flying with you guys? >> You need two buses then to get to the airport >> or trailer. >> Yeah. >> No, we just take the trailer. >> Take the trailer. >> Yeah, we just take the trailer. So it would just be one bus. >> All right. And what about I hate to ask this question. >> No, go for it. >> Go ahead. >> What about this year's seniors that are going to help participate in raising money, but they're gonna question.
050>> That's a great question. >> They're going with us. >> They're going >> You're a member of this year's band. You're go. >> All right. So, I'm trying to figure out like exactly what band are we labeling to. Okay. >> Yes. >> This current members of this year's band. >> Okay. >> Um, we did talk to them. you know, you're going to be in college and you might have exams that week. So, when you get there, you got to tell your professor. >> We told the parents, >> you know, we told the We didn't tell the kids. No, but we told the parents and they were like, "That's fine. We can work, we can work out exams." >> That is exam. >> Yeah, it is. Um, but we, you know, knowing before you even walk
051in the class that this is something you need to work out. Um, yes, everybody everybody would go because they earned it. Those are the kids that earned it, not next year's mam, >> right? >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, I just want you to know from from the bottom of my heart, it is the the greatest honor of my career has been to be at the school. A proof is true or not, these kids are wonderful. These parents are wonderful. I did not apply for this. This came to us because of what they have achieved. Okay? I I just really am proud of how of the effort. They practice for three hours a day and and they never give me a negative attitude. You know, they're just great kids. So, I just want to make sure
052I tell you how much I appreciate the opportunity. >> Thank you. >> Um, I believe so. Thank you ladies very much. Yeah, absolutely. >> Yes, sir. That's right. >> All right. Going into action items. Um, y'all heard uh Miss Christie Hive and Miss Paula Taylor. Um, we have this an action item in tab one. Um, do I have a motion to approve this field trip? >> I'll make a motion to approve. >> Go ahead. >> I'll make a motion to approve the field trip for the van. >> Do I have a second? >> Second. >> Any discussion? I just think I I would like to discuss privately because I just I have a few more questions that that if I need to make a motion for an executive session or if we can make a
053motion to table it for further discussion. Do we have time? That's what I'm asking. We're looking at a 12 month because the packet said June, correct? Is what we're looking at. >> December 3rd. >> Yes. There. So, it's it's um we're we're about 14 months out right now. >> Okay. I I would I would say this is um >> I would be very reluctant. Um if it was any other group I think um there's it's our largest extracurricular activity that we have. um the the flights, you know, um are are obviously paused for concern. You have a group, but you have a group of parents who um the heart when I when I spoke with Christine, when I spoke with Paul, it was honestly it was well, we don't want to approve a field trip
054that the parents aren't in support of. like you you don't want to bring it here, you know, try to make a decision on it and then bring it to the parents and have 15 say that's something that I'm interested in. And so trying to get enough gauge for our board to say, "Yeah, there's there's interest there regardless of how large that that task was um is it was was important to me to make sure that our our parents are are on board with that. Kids don't know at this point. And so >> uh that's The the other important piece too I would I would say um uh I think it's a my recommendation just to hear hear from me is um you know it would be heartbreaking to see if we get to $75,000 and
055don't don't get that goal and we fall short. But I do think that there um the the numbers that are in this extracurricular and the the group that's involved with it and the the support that I could see from even other groups. Um it would be it would be something that would I would I would give my blessing on uh to be able to do that. It's a it's a huge task, huge ask. Um I get it's one that that I was very hesitant to even to bring it this far, but after much it would be that I would I would have I would be in support in support of as well if there are um but I think that you bring up a good point if there are some reservations that we had some
056safeguards that we have to have in place. Um if I I think we would have to either do one one of a couple things for for order here. I think one would be uh we have a motion and we have a second to approve it. Um, and then if there are some uh if it doesn't pass, then we can go from there. If uh if it passes, then um and we still want some safeguards in there, then I I think um obviously there's going to have to be some some sort of guard rails that we're have to keep keep in here, but um I'm trying trying to get Rodney what what you're trying to get to and those needs and and concerns that you might have addressed as well. >> I just I like The
057outline is great, the idea is great, >> but it's the safeguard. It's, you know, I I honestly I'm okay passing this tonight as long as there are things put in place for us to be able >> to enforce if you can get I think we can do that. That's no that's no problem to say. Okay. And then present, hey, these are the guardrails we're working with. >> Come back to us next time. >> I'll cut it off and come back next time. >> Yeah, I can come back next month. >> We basically we're just asking you for permission to begin the fundraising because we need to do that. You know, we >> that Yeah, but I'm happy to come back every month with an update to you if you want me to. >> I think
058it's great that you say, you know, ain't no van went so I mean in years. So hopefully, you know, >> hopefully we can go statewide and get the funding and funding won't be an issue, >> right? >> And we do have many, I should have said, many district employees who are van parents. District employees will be traveling with us. You know, we have Lache Wimbush, we have help me out, um Dr. Taylor, um Mary Paige Blackwell, Amy Hash, she is a district employee. Um Carrie Young, Blake, Bishop. Um, like we have we have enough chaprons to cover the board policy just in district employees plus the parents that also want to go. There will be many adults. So that's we we have those same concerns that you have. We want to keep them as safe
059as you know. >> Okay. If that's if that's suitable then then we'll have we'll have Um, >> we we'll have an update to make sure that that what we're doing is locks that work with policy into things that that the board would approve of as well. >> So, we've got our motion, we've got our second, we've had our discussion. All in favor, raise your right hand if you approve this. >> Any opposed? Moving on to policy update. >> Thank you so much. >> Um, sure. You know, um, for policy JLCDA, the individualized healthcare plans tab 2 and the seizure safe schools. This is second reading of a policy that we provided last last um last month. And so again, just uh how to how to kind of to handle situations where we have students that
060have chronic health conditions, uh students that have seizures. This is this is a requirement from from the state uh state legislation state legislature. So we're um putting this into policy uh which we're asked to do. So no changes from from last reading. >> All right. Um y'all heard presented. We want to vote or >> uh we'll do one at a time. That's okay. Okay. All right. Y'all heard uh Dr. Crockett's recommendation for the second reading. Um do I have a motion to approve the second reading? >> I'll make a motion to approve your second reading. >> Do I have a second? >> Second. >> Any discussion? All in favor? Raise your right hand. Thank you. >> Schools. >> Um same same same principle. Uh we presented seizure safe schools. Um just uh practices that we
061have to put in place. And um again, these policies were also shared with with families. they had an opportunity to take a look at this policy before we even brought it brought it to our board. Um I think we have uh less than 50 I think across the district that we we emailed them a draft of what we were going to present. Uh we just had one uh one feedback and we took that into consideration. Uh but our district nurse does a great job uh and keeping us uh in lock step with what we're supposed to be doing for requirements. So, um, this is second reading of, uh, JLCG. >> All right, y'all heard Dr. Crockett's recommendation. Um, do I have a motion to approve the seizure safe school for the second reading in tab
062three? >> I'll make a motion for the second reading. Seizure safe school. >> Do I have a second? >> Any discussion? Hearing none. If you approve this, raise your right hand. >> All righty. And moving on to SCABA delegation assembly appointment and tab four. >> Okay. The uh South Carolina School Boards Association requires um asks that we submit uh a delegate. The larger the districts, they have more they can have more than one delegate. Our district, we have one delegate. So someone from our board to to go and and I believe typically they have this the school boards association presents their platform their legislative platform and that you know the things that they are trying to uh set for their agenda for the upcoming year and then each district is to be able to vote
063for that in in favor of that or other other things they bring up to the to the group. And so each year we're required to send a send a delegate or to declare who that delegate is. I think if I'm not mistaken, we may have um in speaking with Cody that's something that you would you would be interested or somebody else will go, but they're not >> is willing to do. And so that's just uh I wanted to present that so I could the so I could submit that the deadline is November the 12th to be able to share who our delegate um will be and and be able to vote in that in that u in that group. That was kind >> you had to go that day or would it be the night
064before? How' that work? >> Um I >> if you can let me >> I'll let you know. >> Okay. Yeah, I'm fine with going. >> Okay. Motion. >> Uh do we have You want to make a motion? >> I'll make a motion. >> Second. >> I'll second. >> All in favor raise your right hand. Okay. And um >> I got a quick question about this. >> Will you have an opportunity, Cody, to review that information beforehand as our representative sharing with the board so that we kind of know what's going on? >> I've never went to this. I've went to the meetings and stuff, but I've never went to the this. I just wonder if they would email or or send a packet or something ahead of time, >> you know, to allow you to
065prepare and kind of discuss with us what >> our thoughts are collectively. I would think if they're looking at making changes that they are outlined in the in the legislation that's it's outlined what they're looking to change it to kind of as like a >> like a draft or a preing >> of what they're looking to change. So, >> you know, I would imagine that stuff's got it's got to be out there on the floor somewhere to be to be viewable. So, >> from what I've understood of it, they try to get a few things to see what's the biggest issue that each district wants to tackle from what I've understood of it. But I've never went I've never done any. >> If it's anything like if it's anything like state law, they may not
066even get to every change that they're looking to make this year. So there are some things in in other forums that get left out that that just they don't they don't make it through. So if if there is a draft form of that platform, I I think we can share that with members. >> Well, I was reading too in the letter it says there that um all board members will get an email with that information late September, early October. >> Okay. >> So >> great. >> Okay, that would answer my question. I mean, y'all just tell me how you feel cuz I >> I was just cur, you know, just so that we kind of have an idea. >> I just I I'll be honest. I just want somebody to go to be there for
067representing our district. >> Absolutely. >> All right, moving on to the monthly finance review. >> Uh yes, just uh we're we're trucking right along. Uh we still don't have a um don't have a calendar report though for the for the month of uh August. Hasn't come hasn't come yet. So, we're we're anticipating that should be anytime soon. But, uh, as far as where we are in our budget, uh, we're right where exactly where we're supposed to be. In fact, we're slightly ahead, which is which is good. Um, and and so month three and so just just getting early into the budget season. I just want to kind of let our board know of important date. the 45th day is is so important in our state now as of like the last maybe four or five
068years where this funding formula has changed. And so we will be anxiously seeing how any adjustments to our budget as far as state funding uh comes in. So on that 45th day, there's there's kind of this reshuffle that happens. So uh we'll be anxious to see uh how those numbers come in and any adjustments that we might have to make. And I'll be sure to to make sure you're notified of what those adjustments are when they come in. Anybody have any questions concerning the monthly finance review or any questions for Dr. Crocker as well? >> Uh, no. >> Okay. All right. Um, do we have a motion to adjourn? Do we have a balance? >> No, we don't have I I I mentioned that earlier. Yes. Yeah, we don't we don't have it yet. Um
069so August hasn't been there. >> Yeah, I'm anxious to see that as well. >> I make a motion. >> Do I have a second? >> I'll second. >> All in favor, raise your right hand. You made it through time 655 as well.