Regular Meeting of the Board of Trustees - August 21, 2025

001like to call this u board meeting to order. It is 6 pm on August 21st, 2025. This is our first regular scheduled board meeting of the year. I think all the schools started off good, so we start off on the right track. So that's always good. We we honored a lot of teachers and staff members today. Um so congratulate them. But we are going to I'm going to go ahead and turn it over to Miss Wooten to introduce our invocation pledge of allegiance tonight. >> All right. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Um um is Justin and Emma. Okay, come on up. >> They were hiding from us. >> You were hiding. Okay. Tonight, um, we have Justin Citler, uh, doing the invocation, and we have Emma Cook leading us in the pledge of allegiance. Justin is

002an exceptional high school senior with a 4.78 GPA, who is also a member of the National Honor Society. He served as a junior marshall for the class of 2025, recognizing his academic excellence and leadership. Outside the classroom, Justin is actively involved in his community through the student ambassador leadership team at Trinity Baptist Church. a standout athlete. He plays catcher for the airport varsity baseball team and helped lead them to a 4A state championship victory last season. His talent and dedication on the field earned him all region honors for his outstanding performance this past season. Emma is a dedicated and accomplished high school senior with a 4.192 GPA. She serves as vice president of the National Technical Honor Society and is a proud member of both the National Honor Society and the Beta Club. A varsity

003cheerleader since the eighth grade, Emma exemplifies school spirit and leadership both on and off the field. This past summer, she attended Palmeta Girls State where she was elected to serve on her city council. A K completer in sports medicine, Emma is passionate about helping others and finds great joy in volunteering with the Special Olympics. One of her most cherished high school experiences. After graduation, she plans to attend the University of South Carolina. Very smart girl. uh to major in exercise science and psychology with aspirations to earn a master's degree in pediatric occupational therapy. We'll now turn it over to Justin. >> Y'all bow. I just want to come to you today, Lord, and just thank you for gathering us all here today, Lord. I just want to ask that you'll place your hand over us

004as we go throughout the school year and give all the teachers just the strength they need to deal with us as students. I just want to thank you for bringing us all here safely today, Lord, and just place your hand over this meeting and use it as a way to glorify you in your name. Amen. >> Amen. >> Please stand. >> I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Thank you both. >> All right, Emma, go cheer them Eagles on tonight. >> All right, we're going to move on into cons the consent agenda. With no objections, the consent agenda stands approved as presented. And I'm going to turn over Dr.

005Hector for our accomplishments and honors. >> Okay. Thank you, Mr. Chair. You may recall that at the June board meeting, we had Airport High School coaches and players from the Class 4A championship baseball team here to be recognized. and they are not here with us tonight, minus the one. But before we get underway with our honors and accomplishments, I do want to note that our airport baseball coaches and athletes were invited to the state house earlier this month and given a proclamation recognizing their historic championship achievement. So, we were so proud that they had the opportunity to represent Airport High School and Lexington 2 at the state level. And so, once again, just want to congratulate these coaches and players. So, good job Now, on to tonight's honors and achievements. First up, I would like

006to invite Stacy Baker and Sharia Wilson from our Lexington 2 Innovation Center, who will introduce us to the recipient of the South Carolina Association for Career and Technical Educations Counseling and Career Professional of the Year, Miss Wilson and Miss Baker. Come on up. Good evening. The Counseling and Career Development Professional Award recognizes career development professionals who have demonstrated a commitment to connecting students with opportunities for success who have shown innovation in career exploration and development who have advocated for CTE as a viable option for students. Mrs. Kimberly Plowen meets and exceeds these qualities. She utilizes components of CTE to connect students with opportunities for success. She does this by staying ab breast of the current work-based learning opportunities that are available to students in all content areas by seeking out new partners to ex to

007expand the opportunities for students to gain valuable experience in their preferred fields. Her efforts extend to building strong industry partnerships with companies like Michelin, Zeus, and Dominion Energy. An example of one of her newest partnerships is with Carolina Power. Pictured here are Shaun Harris and Chris Crosslin. They were 2025 graduates of the Lexing of Lexington School District 2. Both were CTE completers in the electricity pathway and both earned industry certifications. They signed with Carolina Power and are currently full-time employees earning a livable wage. And if that is not enough to speak of the benefits of partnerships, Carolina Power just yesterday donated more than $10,000 in equipment and supplies to our electricity program. This is not just good fortune. This is the result of intentional earnest effort of a highly qualified professional. It is my distinct

008pleasure to honor our 2025 counseling and career development professional of the year, Mrs. Kimberly Plowden. We're so proud of you. Thank you. It's wonderful news. Thank you. Next, we have Fulmer Middle School principal Jonathan Wilurn, who's going to introduce us to this year's recipient of the University of South Carolina College of Education's Coaching Teacher Award of Excellence. Mr. Wilbur, >> thank you. Good evening. Um, the coaching teacher of the of the year award of excellence is um bestowed upon my friend Roger Vieas. He um is a product of Lexington School District 2. He was at Fulmer for three years and then graduated from Airport High School, went on to University of South Carolina. Um majored in education. Finally found his way back at Fulmer. Um and I'm going to read a statement that um the

009University of South Carolina College of Education wanted me to to uh read. The College of Education knows that placing interns in the field is paramount to their learning. As dedicated coaching teachers in the field, the College of Education appreciates their time, expertise, commitments, uh, and committed these outstanding mentors provide all of our College of Education interns. The College of Education truly could not accomplish our mission without these mentors. When the college of education first conceptualized the coaching teacher of a year of award of excellence, our main goal was to create an avenue to recognize the hard work of those in classrooms who support our mission of training teachers, especially those who excelled in the in this pivotal role. With the coaching teacher of award excellence, any anyone fellow teachers, USC faculty, staff members, past teacher

010candidates are free to nominate a coaching teacher they felt deserving of the recognition. Once the nomination is completed, a selection committee comprised of both college of education members and public school constituents convene to review each nomination packet. From this esteemed selection committee and from all of these nominations, three outstanding educators were selected for this honor this year. Roger Vieas's nomination spoke to his commitment to interns and his positive attitude and disposition. A university supervisor wrote, quote, "As a teacher candidate, coaching teacher, Mr. Viegas has the ability to take all of the important facets of teaching and scaffold them into experiences that allow his interns to grow and succeed all while keeping interns challenged, pushed, and supported to step outside of their comfort areas. This demonstrated time and time again through his detailed hours of time

011spent with his interns, his constant communication with university supervisors, and his track record of graduating interns who are now successful educators. end quote. A College of Education faculty member wrote, quote, "With interns, Mr. Viega supports their growth in individualized ways. He is able to ac assess their relative strengths in both content and ped pedigogy and coach them toward growth. He always completes I'm he always uh completes his intern assessments with fidelity and always assists the interns in meeting both program expectations and overall professional standards. The Chief College of Education is honored and to recognize Roger Viegas as a recipient of the coaching teacher award of excellence. Sorry, they didn't tell me I had to say something, but here I am. Um, uh, just a huge thank you for the board for taking the time to

012recognize me. I know y'all contacted me back in May and I couldn't make it couldn't make it in June, but finally was able to make it. Um, but again, just thank you all to the board, University of South Carolina, and I'm just happy I could play just a small role in helping future educators become or want to do this job that can be very challenging. So, thank you. >> Next, we have Busby principal Alicia Dickerson and archery coach Robin Walsh, who are going to introduce us to a Busby archer whose play has earned him a national ranking. Good evening, Mr. Chair, members of the board, and Dr. Hafner. It is my honor to introduce Decker Anderson. Decker is an eighth grader at Busby Creative Arts Academy, where he maintains an impressive 4.755 GPA. He is

013currently enrolled in three high school credit courses, English one honors, geometry honors, and art one honors. While I'm proud to highlight his outstanding academic achievements tonight, we have also we also have something more to celebrate at this time. I'd like to turn it over to his archery coach, Coach Walsh, and and to Decker himself. First of all, I'd like to make one correction. um and take it up a notch. It wasn't nationals, it was the championship. So, just kudos. So, good good evening members of the board, Dr. Hfner, parents, guests, and those watching at home. I'm excited to share with you the outstanding achievements of one of our students. I'll do this. Decorate Anderson. Sorry. One of these years I'll not do this. >> Decker, you got this affecting on all women. >> Thank you.

014>> In June, Decker competed at the NASP Ibo 3D Championship in Myrtle Beach. This is one of the most competitive archery. Gets older when you need glasses closer. Um, the most competitive archery tournaments in the nation, bringing over 1100 archers from across the country to test their skills on life-sized 3D animal targets. Decker rose to the occasion, shooting his personal best of a 285 out of 300 with 1910s. His performance earned him as well as our school recognition on the national stage. He finished in the top 5% of all male competitors. He placed top 4% of the middle school boys. And among seventh grade boys in the country, he is fourth. Here at home, he is currently ranked number two in the state of South Carolina. Beyond his scores, Decker present represented Busby with tremendous

015character and sportsmanship. He is an academic archer, balancing athletics and academics with excellence. Decker is known by his teammates for his leadership and generosity. Always willing to share strategies and encourage others to grow in the sport. Ryan Bass, the VP of International Bow Hunting, IBO, which is originally from South Carolina as well, met Decker and his family and said, "It is great seeing our local youth excel in a sport that they are passionate about. Decker's achievements are a testament to his hard work and focus. His success reflects the values of dedication, sportsmanship, and teamwork that we strive to build in all of our programs. Please join me in congratulate um I'll do better next time. Please join me in congratulating William Decker Anderson and this incredible accomp accomplishment on the championship stage. Thank you. Um,

016thank you for uh recognizing me and I'm looking forward to a good year this year and not just for me but for my teammates cuz uh I want them to do good there. Okay. And finally tonight, we have six Lexington 2 schools that have been selected as national Beta Schools of Merit. That is Wood Elementary, Conger Elementary, Springdale Elementary, Busby Creative Arts Academy, Fulmer Middle, and North Side Middle. So, this honor is given to honor a Beta Club's dedication and commitment to academic excellence. So, I would like to invite the principles of these schools to the podium to tell us a little bit more. And I know some of you have brought some Beta Club leaders as well. Please come forward. We'll go first. Good evening. I'm Annette Ariel from Springdale and I'm very excited

017for this opportunity. But instead of me talking about it, I brought our legend, Miss Jay. Um, who has come out of retirement four different times since I've been at Springdale in whatever position I put her in. and she does wonderfully and she'll do the same tonight. So, I'll turn it over to Miss Jay. >> Good evening board members, Dr. Hafner. I am Susan Jeninson, otherwise known as Miss Jay, and I am the founding sponsor of the Springdale Elementary Beta Club. And it is my honor to announce that Springdale Elementary is a National Beta Club's merit award recipient. A merit award recipient shows academic excellence but also provides altruistic projects for our students to participate in. During the 2425 school year, Springdale Elementary Beta Club members had a Veterans Day service project where they colored pictures

018and wrote cards to our veterans in the local VA hospital. had grippy socks for seniors where we collected grippy socks to send to nursing homes in our area to support our seniors who may have opportunities to fall without a little help. We have donations of the heart which were our canned food drive which supported Mission Lexington which is here in our area. We also provide opportunities for our students to do service projects of their own choosing within the community for the 25 26 school year. We will continue these projects and hopefully see our beta club grow. Thank you. [Applause] Hello. Uh former middle school has had a beta club probably for about five years, very short period of time. And um in that time it's starting to take off in the past two or three

019years where we've had students that have competed at the local level and have won uh high enough uh to go to the national level and compete at the national level. Um but I won't speak very much longer. I'm going to turn it over to um my friend Mason Payne who is the assistant director. The director is out so couldn't be here but um he will talk about it. And little unknown fact about him is he was the beta club president for the state of South Carolina. what is he in high school? So, >> one small adjustment, vice president. Uh, but this is my first year as a co-sponsor of the former middle school Beta Club. Uh, I just going to say that I'm very, very proud of our students that are a part of the

020club. Uh, this past year at the state convention, we actually placed an on podium for multiple events. Uh, and we do a lot of good uh projects. oftentimes we will host uh car wash drives to raise funds for our middle school beta club. So I recommend when those times come around to come get your car cleaned by the former middle school Beta Club. Uh but again, I'm just very very proud of our students and I can't wait to see what great things we have in store this year. Thank you. [Applause] >> Good evening. So, as a leadership school, we do believe in leadership for all students and community service for all students, but our beta club does some special projects. And so, I think it's more important that one of our students tells you a

021little bit about um how we earn the merit the merit. Yeah. >> Poor thing. Be easy on her. She's >> Hello, I am Kia Singleton, a proud representative of Northside Middle School Junior Beta Club. Last year, we had a first place winner at the state beta club convention for a solo performer. Also, some of our community service projects were pet supply drives, food drives, and Alzheimer's fundraisers to name a few. Good evening. I'm Angela Brown. and I have the pleasure to be principal of um Wood Elementary School and I have two we have a team that helps us with our beta club. Um but we have two of the leaders that are here tonight that are going to tell you some of the wonderful things that would accomplish this year. >> Good evening. My name

022is Stacy Calbertt and I am accompanied um by Christy Sawyer. We have the honor of serving as the Wood Elementary Beta Club sponsors. Tonight we are here to celebrate a year that truly lived out the motto of Beta Club. Let us lead by serving others. This year our students showed up with big hearts and even bigger ideas. They raised money from multiple charities, choosing causes that mattered to our students and our community. The students raised a little over $4,500 in total. We hosted our first Wood Elementary sneaker ball. Um, it was a super fun event that the students led, um, brought our school together and showcased leadership, creativity, and school spirit. It also generated over $1,000. Our students completed numerous hours of community service, pitching in wherever they could and wherever there was a need

023on campus and beyond. We organized a Clemson versus Carolina food drive. Go Tigers. which turned a friendly rivalry into generosity that stocked shelves and supplied over 1,200 cans of food to support local families. None of this happens without support. Our Beta Club members set goals, work hard, and learn from challenges and made a real difference. The events hosted weren't just dates on a calendar. They were opportunities for our students to practice leadership, empathy, and integrity. Leadership isn't a title. It's a choice you make every day to serve others and Wood will keep choosing it. We are thrilled that Wood Elementary Beta Club has once again earned the title of merit school. Thank you. [Applause] >> Good evening everyone. I'm Chris Dicki, principal at Conger Elementary School. We've had a junior beta club for a number

024of years. We've been very active. Um we've got two of our sponsors that are here today. We've got Stacy Lynch, our school counselor, and we've got Nicole Santiago, our school social worker, who works with Wood Elementary as well. So, uh, they can share a couple of things that we've done over the course of the year to be recognized with this honor. >> Good evening. We are very honored to accept this award on behalf of our school that has been part of the community for generations. We have teachers that even went to our school back when they were children as well. So to be able to serve our community through the Beta Club, encouraging our kids to build upon their academics, their character, leadership, and service opportunities. Previously, we had a huge anniversary for our school

025last year, and our beta club was an active part of the development of that program, giving tours around the school, giving a history of our school from 50 years. It was inspiring to see them take initiative and lead the charge in that. We allow them the independence to guide the themes of our fundraisers that raise money for this great program. And for us as new members of the Congerey family, we hope to build upon this program in the future by engaging in more service opportunities outside of the school with our local churches, our local businesses that also have a heart for our school. So, we are very honored to share a little bit about the things they've been involved in and have a bright future for them in the years to come. Thank you. Good

026evening. Our Junior Beta Club adviser, Miss Lambert, could not be here tonight, but wanted to share a few things about our Junior Beta Club. At Busby Creative Arts Academy, our Junior Beta Club stands out for excellence in academics, leadership, arts, and service. From winning top awards at state and national competitions to being named Junior Beta Merit Scholars, our students consistently demonstrate talent, character, and dedication. Their commitment goes beyond the classroom. Through community service like neighborhood cleanups and volunteering at local soup kitchens, they show what it means to lead with compassion and purpose. At Busby, we're proud to nurture not just scholars, but leaders and change makers ready to make a difference. I also have the I also have the honor of introducing three of our current members, Khloe Lawrence, Piper Lovevet, and Kelsey Summers. My

027name is Piper Love and I'm an eighth grade Beta Club member. Our Beta Club helps us develop character and leadership abilities that will have a long lasting impact on my life. My name is Kelsey Summers. I'm an eighth grade Beta Club member. I enjoy Beta Club because we participate in community service activities such as campus clean up and packing snack packs. My name is Chloe Lawrence. I'm an eighth grade junior bay club member and I really like being able to help the community and people outside of our school. Thank you all for what you do for our community. Mr. Chair, this concludes honors and accomplishments. >> All right. And I believe we do not have any public participation. Miss Kava is out now. So, we're going to move on through. Um, and we're going to

028give Dr. Hefner off the rest of the night off because she ain't have no superintendent report because we had an in-depth one on August the 7th of >> Yes, sir. >> complete detail. So, we're going to move on into finance now, and I'm going to turn over to Mr. Strickland. >> Good evening, everyone. Um, the July financials were uploaded to Diligent. Are there any questions about the July financials? >> Mr. Brick, there we go. Um, are we going to get 25 the last year's final closeout ones? >> That would be with the audit when the audit's presented. >> Okay. Yeah. Perfect. Thank you. Mhm. >> Any others? All right. Without objection, the monthly financial reports will are accepted as presented. >> Okay. Next, I have on the agenda the soul source and emergency procurement report

029and the semianual minority business utilization report. And I would like to call Stephen Taylor, our director of procurement to the podium. He joined our team in April. So, he's got a few months under his belt and he is doing a fantastic job. So, I will turn it over to Stephen. >> All right. Um, so my name is Stephen Taylor. I'm going to do a brief overview of our procurement process. Um, and go over why we have the Lexus and 2 procurement code and regulations and the sole source and emergency procurements that we had in fiscal year 2425 and our minority business um, utilization. Um so some a little bit of background about myself. Um I'm a USC and Citadel Graduate College alumni. I'm a father and u a father of two boys, twins, three years

030old, married for seven years. Uh began my procurement career in uh Washington DC working for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration uh in Silver Spring, Maryland in 2012. uh relocated back in Colombia in 2014 as an internal auditor for South Carolina DSS. Uh in 2017 to January, I was a procurement manager one for SCDSS and in September 2020 in the midst of COVID, I moved on to the South Carolina State Physical Accountability Authority. Um you may know it as the state procurement office. Um I was there for five years and as Scott said in April, I started here at Lexington. Um so just a brief uh overview of procurement and what we do in the department. Um basically procurement is the uh process of acquiring goods and services. We do this legally. Uh we're using

031taxpayer money and we just want to make sure that this process is is efficient and effective as possible. Uh my job is to um make sure we're getting the best pricing as also uh the best services for um the goods and services we get. So we are under the Lexington 2 procurement code and regulations from the South Carolina state um building uh the lawyers. Uh we adopted this code in October of 2021. Uh basically why we use this code is that our expenditures are over um $75 million yearly. Uh looking at the fiscal year 2324 report, I believe those expenditure amounts was 172.4 million. So that's why we have to go through that code and regulations. Uh brief overview of the procurement thresholds. uh any goods and services that's under $10,000, we do not have

032to go by the uh competitive um method. So, anything under 10,000 that our uh schools can go out and get them themselves. Uh 10,000 to 25,000 uh we require three quotes, three bonafide quotes from a qualified vendor. They need to be attached to our purchase orders and they must be made to the lowest responsible and responsive bidder. uh anything over $25,000 um I will handle that. I will do a solicitation. I will work with the schools to get a scope of work, put that solicitation out. We'll advertise that inke that is uh better known as South Carolina business opportunities. Uh I will use one of the procurement methods, invitations for bid, um request for proposal, a fixed price bid. Um those methods can take six to 12 months depending on which we choose to uh

033use. So um with the invitations for bid, we'll go to the lowest responsive and responsible bidder for a request for proposal. I will have an evaluation and they will read through the proposals received by each uh vendor and they will score accordingly. And a fixed price bid uh that offers the opportunity to award multiple vendors and set up a qualified provider list for those services. Uh our soul source procurements for fiscal year 24-2 there were three total. Uh VEX robotics um was used by Fulmer Middle School for their STEM program uh for robotic components and supplies. CEV Multimedia was uh used with Airport High School in Brooklyn Casey for software and licenses for their fundamentals of computing I believe for their business um business courses and their curriculum. and Imagine Learning LLC was for comprehensive

034digital education solutions and they specialize in digital education solutions. Um the for sole source those need to be met by one item or method and by only one source of supply. Um, moving on our emergency procurements, uh, there were only there was only one, uh, inverter and mechanical piping solutions, uh, with Riverbank Elementary. That was an emergency to fix the HVAC units. Um, there was a HVAC refrigerant and leak found at that level. Moving on to minority business enterprise procurements. Uh I feel like our schools have been doing a great job of giving services uh to our minority businesses. FSI office that is a big one that has been used. Shred with us is our shredding. SHI has the uh statewide term contract for Microsoft products. So they're a big use. Discount Toner and Inc.

035Uh Mottown Lawn Care Services. They provide the lawn care maintenance uh at this building. Um they've been doing a great job with that. Uh, as you can see, our uh, annual goal was to meet 1% of our um, expenditures, and with that list, we actually made it to 2%. So, doing a great job with that. Most of our purchases have come from forms and supplies. You see, with 378 shred with us with our shredding at 72. Um so in conclusion um importance of our our procurement department effective procurement drives organizational success by optimizing purchasing decisions and resource allocation. Uh soul source procurement is defined as uh needs of the district by only one item and that can be got by uh purchased by one source of supply. An emergency procurement uh exists when there is

036a threat to public health or welfare, a threat to the safety of people or property when normal daily operations are adversely affected. Um that was true with the um HVAC units back in December. And our minority business expenditures, our goal was to exceed 1% of total expenditures which we met. You got a question? >> Yeah, I've got a couple questions in the world of a >> You're almost there. >> Snuck right out of there. >> Try to. >> No, I I appreciate that you're here. I love that you've got the federal and the state background and internal audit. With the internal audit side, um you know, we've had some change over in the procurement world. I would love if there's time available to use some of those audit skills to go through our procurement methods

037in the past and experiences and see what kind of new and innovative procurement methods are out there. Um because it hasn't felt like we have really kind of turned that stone in the procurement world yet. So that's number one. Uh number two, do we present a procurement schedule for vendors to start seeing ahead of time and for the board? of, you know, something I've looked at that's it's very common in the world of procurement, but I've never seen one here. >> Or do you have a plan to do that? >> Um, I've just gone by what uh the budget is for the year. We put out the solicitations. Um, I've been using Planet Biz. That's our new e procurement solution. So, the vendors are notified um in advance that that's going to come out and

038they have an opportunity to bid on it. >> So, they're just notified when the request for proposals comes out. There's no schedule ahead of time. There's no industry day. There's nothing like that that we're doing. >> Um I would like us to consider doing that. Um that will increase competition and get us a better deal, but also it'll make it marketable across the board. And it's pretty typical. I'm sure you did that with the state quite often. Uh number three, the soul sources. Were they all single? They were all over 10K. I'm assuming they were all single product items, >> right? They were um proprietary to the uh solution that the schools needed. and the emergency procurement that we had on there. Do we not carry an Idiq already sitting there for those vendors so

039we don't have to do an emergency procurement or was that in an Idiq? >> I I believe that they did reach out to one of the vendors on that and they said that it would take like six weeks. So something that needed to be done immediately >> I would love for us to look at that. That's the entire purpose of an Idiq that we have these emergency vendors on hand so we don't have to do an emergency procurement. We don't want to waste their time making an Idiq, you know, all the time it takes to make a response for it and then then no work go that way and then you have to stir up a procurement last minute for something else that we definitely should have that Idiq sitting there available. And then lastly

040is um I know we have just a minority business report. Do we do any other set aside reporting SDVOSP womenowned ADA? Is it just minority? um just minority but on the vendor application forms I've have I have added uh for womenowned business as well so we can >> so if the set aides were just going so far for women and minority >> yes >> on the form if it's possible just for tracking I think it'd be great to add service disabled uh ADA I don't know if we have hub zone here but let let's get to what the rest of the world procurement has so that we can start tracking it and seeing which ones of those set aides make sense for us to use in the future >> that's all I have thank you

041glad you're here >> thank Is that all you have, Mr.? >> Yes. I'm sorry. Thank you. >> Over there napping on us. All right. We're going to move on into our national human recess source director of the year, Dr. Cooper. >> Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'm going to call up our director of human resources, Stephanie H. Thank you. >> Miss H is going to provide our timely um vacancy report. >> Thank you. Good evening, Mr. Chair, board members, and Dr. Havner. I'm here to provide you with an updated vacancy report. As of this afternoon, we currently have 12 support staff vacancies and four certified vacancies, two of which are special education. Are there any questions? No questions there. >> Thank you. Thank you, Miss Hu. That concludes our open session report. >> All right, we're

042going to move on into instruction and turn over Dr. McDonald. >> Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Good evening, everyone. U first up tonight, we have a report from the first 10 days of school enrollment, which you all have access to. And you can see we provided you with a comparison of where we were in 24 uh at the first 10 days and then where we are this year after the first 10 days of school. So that's my report. I'm happy to answer any questions you have. >> Yes, ma'am. >> Point of order. Miss Miss Burket, you want to turn that on? So that >> there you go. >> There we go. Um I noticed that we um level off in 8th grade and then in high school we're losing numbers across the board in both high

043schools. Can you comment on that at all? So, you know, to give you a reason, I don't have one. I don't have a specific reason. Of course, a lot of that deals with that becomes the age where students can leave school lawfully. Um, we have a number of school students who leave school to to go to work. And so, I think that's where that number really looks. Um, we are going to be doing some additional work with that. Just trying to understand that we track all of those. We have to account for every single one of those high school kids for every year. So if we lose one kid, we have to account for it because their senior what would be their senior year, we have to provide documentation to the state as to where

044they may have gone. Um and that gets challenging sometimes when we're trying to track down kids who have left the country, kids who have, you know, changed their phone numbers or other things. But um but most of that is deals with that age when students can leave school. >> So if if the students have withdrawn with the knowledge of parents, do we inquire from the parents or the students why? We I believe the schools do ask that information and encourage them to think of things and work on things such as adult education or GED programs, but many of those parents in that situation are just not they do not reply. >> Okay. Thank you so much. >> Any other >> If they go to governor's school, are they is that a totally different thing or

045does that number still stay with their high school? So, the governor's school number, as I understand, will go to the governor's school for accounting purposes. Yes. >> All right. >> Is that all you have? >> That's it for that. And the next item we have tonight is we are presenting to you the fine art strategic plan. And to do that, Mr. Leblanc is going to come up. And I believe he has some guests to help him with it as well. deep. >> Thank you, Dr. McDonald, Dr. Hafner, Mr. Chair, members of the board. I am excited to bring before you for your consideration our five-year strategic plan. A lot of things hopefully you've noticed over the last year or so have already begun to be implemented and, uh, we've, uh, already put a lot of

046things in place to make progress towards these goals. But um part of our district arts coordinator grant that we receive uh from the arts commission requires us to bring before you this five-year plan. So um you should hopefully have that in front of you in your packets. Um and it is available online as well. I've brought with me some folks that have helped us. Um these are some of our leaders in the fine arts world in Lexon 2 and beyond in our community. You recognize many of them because all last year and prior years they've stood before you celebrating many accomplishments. They've been on the big stage here in the big stage in their schools as well as um all over the state and beyond. And some of them you've approved to go to uh

047places like Italy and other things that hopefully they will invite us all to go visit. Also, as part of this process, we started this a couple of years ago, and these folks behind me, I'm not going to take a lot of the time, but they spent a lot of time developing our mission, our vision, our reason why are we doing what we're doing in our district, how are we going to serve our students and the community best. Um, they established the belief statements that you see on the board right now, and also, um, in your packets in front of you. Let's see. We have a so many celebrations, y'all. Um, we thank y'all so much for the opportunity to celebrate publicly here at board meetings. You can see just a very few pictures from last

048year's uh celebrations. Our first year at the performing arts center held numerous events for district, for schools, state. Um, and these are examples of our kids getting to perform and showcase their talents on uh truly the best stage that that is around. We've grown our programs. We've over doubled our gifted and talented enrollments. Um, and something I u appreciate the most is that it's not just in quantity, but we've also really grown in quality of those programs and the outcomes that our students receive from them. These folks behind me that I'm going to introduce now, come on up. Um, they are who have helped to plan, coordinate, and really lead the endeavor for each of these art domains. They've also are the the people that have led the charge with developing this uh strategic plan

049for each department. First off, we have Tabitha Laden Slagger. She is the visual art teacher at Pineidge and also our visual art um lead for Lexington 2. >> Thank you, Jim. Thank you, uh Dr. Hfner and Mr. chairman and members of the board for your continued support of the arts and the advancements of our arts opportunities that we provide for our students here in Lexington District 2. It really means a lot to all of us. Our visual arts department has made progress towards several of the goals we mentioned in our strategic plan, including recognizing and celebrating student successes. And we've done that through at our district um art show last March. We were able to offer student awards and have those students be recognized at our board meeting for that month, as well as having

050student work displayed at um other outside contests and art shows, including the South Carolina State Fair. Our teachers have been able to attend strategically planned professional development sessions that align with their specific needs as art educators, including opportunities to work with guest speakers from the University of South Carolina and then learning new art forms as well. The district was also able to provide funding for art teachers at each of our schools last year to purchase and replace large-scale art equipment and non-consumables in effort to ensure that our students across the district have had equitable access to arts opportunities. And then also this year we are able to offer art one in 8th grade to artistically gifted students at each of our middle schools. And this summer, we worked together as a group of several art

051teachers to create a district-wide standard for identifying and placing those students in those uh programs. Several art teachers also worked together this summer to create a vertically aligned curriculum that is for art through from elementary through high school art one coursework. And we plan to continue that up to our advanced high school courses this coming summer. Thank you again. >> Thank you Slagger. Next, I'd like to invite up Miss Amanda Rona from Airport High School. She's the coral director there and also helps lead our coral uh cohort here in Lexington, too, and also uh helped to musically direct Frozen last year. So, >> um thank you. First, I want to take this opportunity to thank Dr. Hafner, the cabinet, and the board for your support. I would also like to thank Jim Leblanc, Laura Roby,

052and Josh Woodall. Thank you for allowing me to speak with you tonight, and most importantly, thank you for your continued support of the coral programs across the six secondary schools in Lexington, too. The last few years have been remarkable years of growth and achievement. We proudly celebrated students earning spots in statewide and nationwide honor choirs for the first time ever, which is an an incredible recognition of their talent and dedication. Our coral educators have also been actively engaged in professional development and are involved in multiple professional associations, ensuring that our instruction remains innovative and impactful. We would love the opportunity to continue being able to fund our memberships to continue the opportunities for both ourselves and our students. Looking ahead, we are excited about the goals we've set to continue enhancing our students experiences. These

053include providing essential resources like piano tunings and new furniture for our classrooms, improving the quality and scope of our Lex 2 district honor choir. We are picking repertoire next week at cohorts and increasing student enrollment in all of our programs and raising the bar in competitions and festivals of which there are many that we participate in. We are also thrilled to share two major milestones happening this year. Airport High School Chorus will perform in Italy this January and Brooklyn KC High School Chorus will perform in Ireland in April. These international performance opportunities are a once- ina-lifetime experiences for our students made possible by the foundation of support you helped us build. Uh when I was in college, I got to sing um in Italy with my college choir and it was it's a core memory

054for me and I am so excited to share that with my students and I I cannot wait. Um, so thank you again for believing in the power of music education and for standing behind our students and staff. We are grateful for all that you do. >> Thank you, Miss Rona. Next, I'm going to invite up Mr. Hunter Ree. You might have skipped a slide. We'll go back. Come on up, M. Mr. Ree. I want to just congratulate him publicly. For the first time ever in Lexon 2, we received our first superior with distinction rating and um that was at Busby Creative Arts Academy last spring under Hunter Reese's direction. So that's the highest uh award you can get at a competition. >> Okay. >> Good evening, Dr. Hefner, Mr. Speaker, and the board. Uh thank

055you for having me uh come and speak. I have a couple things I want to mention that we've been working on in the band director cohort. Uh, one of them is our focus on professional development. Um, last year our cohort completed a book study that focused on the best practices for teaching band. Uh, directors signed up for chapters of interest uh that they then presented at our cohort sessions. Um, additionally, last year we were fortunate to work with two master educators, Miss Kelly Tucker and Miss Edna Grace, who observed our directors and then after these observations sat down and pointed out strengths and areas of growth uh for our directors to continue our own professional learning and achievement. Um, both teachers recommended that we move to peer observations this year to see the great things

056that are happening in our classrooms here at Lexington, too. So, that's uh next plans for that. Um, I'm happy to report that we have an increased enrollment and uh, excuse me, increase in student enrollment throughout our band programs. Um, Fulmer and Busby are maintaining around 100 and 120 respectively. And I also want to give a shout out to Mr. McCutchen, the band director at Brooklyn Casey High School, who has doubled the program's enrollment since his first year teaching last year from 17 to 35 in the marching band and from 30 to 58 in concert band. So for a secondyear teacher, Mr. McCutchen is really doing great things at Brooklyn Casey. um instrument repair and purchases. Over the last few years, we've been able to purchase over 35 new instruments uh districtwide and repair many existing

057instruments. Um this has helped increase enrollment and the ability for students to participate in our band programs. Um our Lexington 2 Honor Band Clinic is something that I'm happy to say is going into their seventh year for the middle school and third year for the high school. Uh throughout the years we've uh provided outstanding musical experience for over 350 students in our band programs. Um during these clinic students prepare a concert with the very best musicians from Lexington 2, they actually audition at Busby Creative Arts Academy and then about 10 hours they prepare a concert. So if you can imagine looking at new music you've never seen and 10 hours later given a concert is really a remarkable thing. Um this year we're kind of continuing the professional development focus uh by having one of

058our directors serve as a co-cl clinician. Uh Mr. Easter Day will be working with our at Fulmer Middle School. We'll be working with our middle school clinician and both Mr. McCutchen and Mr. Spitler from Brooklyn Casey Airport will be working with the high school clinician um preparing our teachers to continue to serve as guest clinicians. Um I welcome you to come to our performance that is in January on the 30th. That's a Friday evening. Um, we've also seen increased uh enrollment or participation in region band. Uh, when we designed our Lexington 2 honor band auditions, we mimicked or copied the requirements from region band. So, our students are actually undergoing a complete audition in December before they actually have to audition in January. So, that gives our students a leg up. Last year, we had

059six students from Brooklyn Casey High School from four from airport, one from Pine Ridge, and three from Busby Creative Arts Academy. And lastly, our successes in our competitions and festivals. Uh last year in marching band, Airport High School placed 14th out of 22 bands at state competition and earned first and second place at regional competitions. As well as their uh winter guard earned seventh place at the Carolina Winter uh Ensemble Association championships. In concert band, we saw a lot of growth and success. um at concert performances assessment which is like our state testing for our band programs. Brooklyn Casey High School attended for the first time in many years. North side earned an excellent rating and Busby Creative Arts Academy earned the superior with distinction. Mr. Leblanc Venshin um receiving a superior rating from all

060five judges. Um at Carowind's Festival of Music, Pineriidge Middle School earned an excellent rating. North Side Fulmer and Busby um also earned superior rating. So I just want to thank you. Uh, thank you for your support and of our fine arts programs in Lexington, too. We really appreciate all of the support. It allows our students to succeed and flourish in the arts. So, thank you very much. [Applause] >> All right. Next, I'd like to invite up Mr. Jeff Chen. He is the orchestra teacher at Brooklyn Casey High School and he also has helped to lead all of our district uh orchestra co uh clinics that we've had as well as help serve in our summer camp uh the last two years. [Music] >> Good evening Dr. Haur and members of the school board. Uh thank

061you for allowing me to for the chance to speak on behalf of the Lexington Orchestra directors. Uh last year I had the chance to showcase our all region and our all state students and frankly I was incredibly nervous and I still am. Uh hence why I've decided to write down everything um for my script today. I was also told uh upon coming here that I had to cut a lot of it and I didn't. So I will speak fast and hope that what I lack in organization I uh gain in charm. Uh the orchestras elected in two set out to achieve the following goals and define our strategic plan. Uh we planned to increase enrollment which includes recruitment to middle school and high school programs. Uh increase participation in the South Carolina American String Teachers

062Association and uh SCMA events. Uh as well as an annual district honors orchestra which I believe is going into its fourth year. Um I wouldn't quite remember because I wasn't here for the first one. Um to allow students to audition and perform more challenging music. Uh we are also trying to provide ample materials, equipment and overall resources to support the orchestra programs. Uh we are aiming to provide opportunities for development with uh local communities, universities and other professional organizations uh and providing quality and specialized professional development to our orchestra directors. While we are working to fulfill the and continue the last goal of providing PD for our orchestra directors uh especially since many of us are uh either within our first year of teaching or within our first five years of teaching myself included uh

063I would like to share some of the following achievements. Uh I say some because I know that I'm missing a lot of them. Uh and especially many that were accomplished by former directors such as John Rogers, Colin Richardson, and Adam Rafferty. Let's see. All right. So, uh, Fulmore Middle School recruitment events with elementary schools, uh, airport high school recruitment events with Fulmore orchestras, uh, participation in region orchestra concert performance assessment, uh, solo and ensemble, uh, American String Teachers Association Eclectic Styles Workshop, the American String Teachers Association's violin viola choir, the American String Teachers Association celebration, uh, Carowind's Music Festival and Disney Imagination Campus. Um, Brooklyn Casey had recruitment concert with North Side Orchestras. Uh, purchases of new music and new, uh, new instruments across all programs. Uh, purchases of, uh, I was redundant in that.

064Excuse me. Um, Brooklyn Casey uh, Brooklyn Casey Foundation grant for new instruments as well. Uh, Airport High School purchased new two new bases that was very iconic. uh in 2024. Uh significant participation in the Lexon 2 summer camps these past two years. Uh Lexon Airport High School uh orchestra performed at the Lex 2 Gala. The South Carolina Governor School string faculty workshopped with the Brooklyn KC orchestra students in 20234 and 24. Uh airport students participated in many of the uh South Carolina Youth Philarmonic Orchestras. student participation uh in all orchestras at the University of South Carolina stream project. And then most recently um Brooklyn Casey High School orchestra uh just had their trip to Disney World or Disney World Orlando uh where we had a workshop as well. Uh and literally also this morning we

065just got 10 new guitars. And so thank you so much. Thank you for all your support. >> Thank you, Mr. Chen. All right. Next up, I would like to invite this duo. We have Kayla Jennings and Stephanie Walker. Kayla Jennings is the dance teacher at Saluda River. Miss Walker is the theater teacher at Saluda River, and they help lead our uh theater and dance programs, and they've been an integral part for well over a decade with building those programs in our district. So, welcome. >> Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Leblanc. Uh thank you so much, Dr. Hafner, the cabinet, and board for your support of our dance and theater programs here in Lexington, too. As Mr. Leblanc said, I'm Stephanie Walker, theater teacher at Saluda River, and I'm Kayla Jennings, the dance teacher

066at Saluda River. >> We have been so proud of all of the ways that we have shared our programs in the Lexington 2 community. One annual highlight for us has been SCTA's theater for youth festival that Saluta River hosts and our students at Saluta River and Busby participate in. This event allows students to compete, learn, and network with other theater students from across the state, earning superior and excellent ratings. Busby and Saluda River also competed at the South Carolina Dance Association sponsors competitions last year where Busby earned second place and Saluda River placed first. And we have big plans for this coming year to continue to compete. I like trophies. Um, this year, well, this past summer, Miss Walker and myself worked with the South Carolina Arts Assessment Program to help write dance and theater

067um, assessments that are going to be piloted this year and will be available for all dance and theater teachers across the state. All right. So, some additional community events um include performing at the state house during our arts advocacy week, the Casey West Columbia Parade of Lights, Riverbank Zoo, Fireflies baseball game, and more. The community has also graciously reached out to sponsor several of our events. Lexin and 2 now offers theater and dance at the elementary, middle, and high schools with designated classrooms that meet the state's opportunity to learn standards. Thank you. I absolutely love my Marley floor. Our afterchool gifted and talented classes for dance and theater have also grown. In fact, we are going to have our first ever joint performance here on at the pack on March 11th and we would love

068for you to attend. The dance teachers last year started our first dance showcase and we have plans to continue that this year where we will showcase dances from our home schools as well as our gifted and talented programs. again. We would love to have you back here at the pack on April 21 22nd. Sorry, >> there's a lot of dates coming up. >> There are. >> So, our theater and dance educators in Lexington 2 make it a priority to continue their own learning with professional development. These include conferences, workshops and classes offered by the South Carolina State Department, Arts Commission, Arts and Basic Curriculum Institute, Palmetto State Arts Education Association, and we also belong to our own state organizations. Miss White, the theater teacher at Airport High School, and I recently attended the first ever

069theater educator convention, which offered theater educators from across the state to learn from professionals and one another. We also continue to offer professional development in the arts to teachers at our home school. We have been so thrilled that our students have gotten the opportunity to perform on the stage here at the beautiful pack with gifted and talented performances our Saluda River musical Annie last year and district musical Frozen which included elementary, middle, and high school students. And I love that. I'm just going to go off script for a second because it really allows a lot of mentorship and you know kids learning from each other. So, I just love that this space allows students to be part of a professional setting both on and backstage and has inspired greater attendance for our summer arts camp

070here at the pack. Thank you all again for your continued support of the arts, especially dance and theater here in Lexon and >> thank you very much. And and next, I'd like to invite up Gene Batau. She's going to round out the general music uh department for our school district. She served as our elementary cohort lead for a number of years and she's going to speak about the general music. >> Hello everybody. So glad to see you. >> I would like to say an additional thank you to Dr. Hafner. Um, I really appreciated that you reached out to us for performing for the convocation and I think we need to add more tissues backstage. That was >> amazing. That was an amazing performance. So, thank you for that opportunity. And I'd also like to thank

071the U members of the board who attended an elementary music event last year. Your presence was noted and we thank you very much for all the time you spend together with us. in our elementary schools. Um during the 2425 school year, the elementary general music program celebrated about 30 members participating in our first district 2 musical Frozen. It was amazing. Uh we had a student selected to participate in the South Carolina Music Educators Association State Honors Choir in February 2025. Um to my knowledge, this student um made the highest score of all of the auditions and um did a fabulous job representing Lexington 2. We had over 200 elementary students participate in the dayong uh district honors choir clinic and performance held here at our beautiful new performing arts center for the first time um

072back last February during uh the school year last year during our collaborative planning days elementary teachers we developed plans for what we feel every child attending Lexington 2 elementary school should have access to and experience during their music classes. And what we would like in our music classes is quality instruments and materials to support the Lexington 2 elementary general music curriculum that is currently under development um in our cohort days. We would love to continue high quality in district instrumental and coral clinics with performances and we would love access and continuing access to worldclass musicians and performances um here in the district that our students can be a part of and come to obsery. um included in our strategic plan that we've shared with you. We would like to plan what a highquality music educator

073should have access to in Lexington 2 and we would really like some content specific professional development provided in district and this fabulous facility um that is well equipped for us to come together as teachers. Uh we are going to continue to and look forward to more skillsharing sessions between our elementary music educators. Our curriculum development and refining of our curriculum development we're looking forward to as well. And uh we are developing some common and quality assessment tools to measure the musical development of our youngest musicians in the district. And uh we would also like to say that we're going to continue working on our common essential music vocabulary visual aids for use in our music classrooms and we got started on that last year and we're looking forward to uh rolling that out this year.

074So thank you so much. Thank you Mr. Leblanc. And uh thank you. Thank you. So, they gave some highlights about the things that we are working towards, some of the accomplishments we've already made, and I just want to say thank you all for your support again uh for fine arts and Lexon, too. And um I'll be happy to answer any questions. Miss Castle, >> I don't have a question, but I I was just sitting back listening these uh folks talk and I I was listening, but I was just thinking about some of I'm showing my age, some of our former educators in this district that I just know their hearts are filled. Think about Jackie. >> Uh oh gosh, now I've forgotten her name. Jackie >> McNeel. Thank you. Jackie McNeel and Miss Cox and

075and uh oh any anyway so many people just how proud they must be of our district to carry this on. And I love the fact that we have some of the best in the district that you guys are letting them go out and if I understood correctly to go observe and see some other teachers to see where they're strong. So just appreciate all of y'all and >> thank you. I think we're blessed. Yes. And I think we have to remember it's just surreal to see to be here still and and convocation. Oh gosh. I was sitting by Christine and I was like that's a district course. I just love the kid that just wonderful. So >> thank you so much. >> Appreciate y'all. >> They deserve all the credit. Yeah. >> Okay. >> Um I

076just wanted to share with you, Mr. Leblanc that uh four of my children attended school in this district, but uh one of them who graduated 25 years ago, her best friend played in the band at BC. He now plays in the presidential Navy band and played for the inauguration, lives in Washington DC, and uh plays for all sorts of spectacular things. So, I would love it if y'all would share that with your students and say there's a there's a long way you can go from here. >> We'd love to connect him too back to to our students. All right. Thank you. >> We'll move on into operations. Now, >> I got I got an instruction question since we hadn't hit instruction. Um I know ABC's probably a little early, but the email today came out

077about e-learning days, which I was super excited. You know, I think that trends with our whole goal of student outcomes being number one focus. question is though like this might have just come out so the logistics and planning might not be there yet. I'm excited about it, but do we have any intent to do a practice uh be ahead of time maybe on a half day like a Wednesday where they're getting out something so that if we're taking attendance from what I read on this policy, a kid who's, you know, doesn't have somebody at home to help them get on their computer, can we take a practice ahead of time before it's the real deal and we start losing attendance? That's question number one to think about. I don't need an answer now. Um, and

078then number two is what I have seen struggle and you know I don't see near what y'all see but are teachers with kids either in or outside of the district. It's going to be very difficult to do synchronous learning while you also have your child next to you. You know assuming at the same time trying to monitor their synchronous learning with their teacher either in this district or another district or whatever. Um, and so I again I don't I'm not here to provide answers, but have we if we haven't, can we look at options like finding those teachers ahead of time and seeing if there's TAs available or the coaching teacher teacher coaches and all the interventionist, all these certified teachers we have out there that might not have be responsible for a classroom on

079that day, but could potentially help cover for these working moms on that day when they're trying to do synchronous learning from their house to kids while their kids are sitting right next to them trying to receive synchronous learning. So, those are the two things that popped into my head and I would love, again, I know it just came out today, but I would love if we can get an update on that and really be proactive with it so that those e-learning days hopefully they don't happen, but if they do happen that they can be successful. >> Thank you. Noted. Thank you. >> All right, Mr. Warren. >> All right. Uh, thank you. Uh, before Mr. McFersonen comes up. I do want to make note that you have the uh 2425 and 2526 uh CPF progress

080update um attached shared a diligent. We've already over halfway um either completed or having started projects in the 2526 uh CPF plan. So well on our way to accomplishing a lot more uh great things facilities uh you know this school year. So, um, that's in there for your review and happy to answer any questions or provide any additional information on that. Um, so now I'll call, uh, Mr. McFersonen up um to the podium. Like a lot of, like I said, a lot of good things have happened here in the last um last year, especially this summer. Um, thanks in part largely to Miss McFersonen and his team and our maintenance facilities department. So he's here to provide us with a with an update on some of those key items that that we want to bring

081to your attention. So all right. Well, Mr. Chairman, Dr. H, members of the board, thank you very much for having us up here today. My name is Bill Mcfirsten, director of operations. Um, just kind of an update of where we are. Maybe, maybe not. There we go. Quick rundown of the uh this is a this isn't right. That's that's fine. Um, a quick update where we are in this district. um about 2 million square feet of buildings, about 4,000 um acres of land, about 1,700 HVAC units. Uh this is my maintenance crew right here, the uh bread and butter, salt to the earth. These are good guys that a lot of them went to school in this district or around this district. Um I just can't do anything without them. So, um kudos to them.

082It's a big shout out for those guys. So, um getting into the CPIF projects, furniture upgrades, we've had about eight schools got new furniture. A lot of that stuff's kind of coming in now. Riverbank got some the other day. Next week we got Buzzby chairs going in. So we got some uh getting all that furniture in for us out here. HVAC control upgrades. Um upgraded four different schools. Um we've got about 11 of them. We've been upgrading lately in the last couple years. Uh you get thermal imaging kind of kind of shows you know what the classrooms are, hot, cold, and you know what the issues are. And then you kind of break down and dive into them. So it's a real good tool. It allows to be able to see into those schools and

083figure out you know what's going on and troubleshoot a little bit better. So good stuff there. Flooring. Slutter River, Busby, and Newbridge Academy. Um, we've been putting some new flooring in there. So, the thing about flooring is that, uh, with summer cleaning, there's only 39 days in that summer, 39 business days to get all those floors clean. So, 2,000 square feet, that's about 52,000 square feet a day they got to clean. And that's pretty simple. The schools are empty. But what do we have? We have, you know, boys and well, not not boys and girls, but, you know, you have Camp Gigi, Camp Learn some more, you have band camp, you have open houses, you have all sorts of stuff going on. So, we're having to work around all that stuff to get these floors

084clean. So, um, we're looking for innovative ways of kind of removing w stripping and waxing of floors, which a lot of y'all know from the past. So, in Busby here, we put Texas granite. This this does not require stripping and waxing. So, we're um trying out that floor to see how we like it. We swapped some carpet out in the orchestra room over at Busby. We put in these new floors, 37 restrooms in Riverbank. Um got rid of the VCT. VCT has cracks. Little boys miss. So, you know, it causes a lot of issues right there. So, um this is a food service. We actually um put in four new dishwashers, the new refriger refrigeration equipment for freezer and coolers, airport in BC, and then replaced a freezer floor at Casey Elementary that was bad.

085So, here's one of our um dish machines in BC. So, a nice new Hobart. It's good stuff. We get to work on it and hopefully it runs a lot lot better than the old one did. So, concrete and asphalt work um four schools Brooklyn Casey Riverbank Casey Elementary Pine Ridge did a lot of work there. So, um the handicap ramp installed in front of Casey. Before they had to kind of go all the way down the sidewalk and kind of walk back. So, this cuts out a lot of work for those guys. Um a ramp on the back side of Riverbank to kind of help get kids out of school, too. So, that was good. At BC, um the city of Casey did a big project out there and and y'all probably you maybe cursed

086them as the road was blocked off for a while or something like that. But I just got this picture because I wanted you to see the size of pipe they're putting in there. So, there's me standing that piece of pipe and that's it's it's monstrous right here on the right side is a big old where they dig a hole. They put a big old thing in to kind of keep the sides collapsing. It doesn't doesn't look real big, but there's a 16ft extension ladder in the back of that thing. So, that is a absolutely huge hole they have in the ground. So, we didn't do that, but it was kind of neat to show. So, I I didn't want to do that. Yeah, that's definitely So, >> he allowed him to do it. >> That's

087right. We had Yeah, we got them do it. So, so this is the dance room at uh BC High School. Um project Matt was involved with. And there's another Marley floor. We got a Marley floor shout out a minute ago. So, that's awesome stuff. We like those floors. This is our theater room right here. And then we also have um offices and locker rooms in there for the for the thing. So, it's a good addition to BC High School. And I'll get this clicker down in a minute. Um, this is a break room out in the I2 Tech. And I took another picture. I got the wrong wrong session loaded up in here, I guess. So, but this is an older picture. But anyways, um, back in I2 Tech, they had didn't play have a

088have a a place for teachers to take a break in. And so, we added in had to bust a hole in the wall, put some drain, pull some water in, put in a nice cabinets back there, sink, refrigerator. So they got a place to take a break in back there. Um, and actually while we're doing that, we punched a hole out here and put a drinking water fountain out there in the uh in the in the back. So now like Mr. Vance, Dr. Vance was saying, it's kind of a self-contained area. Teachers can do their instruction, have a break room, kids can use restroom, they got place to get water. So versus walking down the hall a little bit. This is a picture. Get it on. There you go. This is a picture of a

089naked uh naked football field out here at BC High School. So, um, while we had the turf off, there's some underground detention system underneath that thing, and you can't really access it unless you kind of cut the turf. So, um, it's been there for 10 years. We took it off. Um, Forest and Wildlife, one of our contractors, came out and helped us inspect that and then clean it out a little bit. It really wasn't bad, so was good to get in there and check it out while we had the turf off. Um, old turf at BC High School. Um, come on. New turf there. So, this is a real nice design. um appreciate mass involvement in this project. Kind of got a good engineer who's kind of helped design it and manage it. And um

090this is a really good look good really good look for for that airport high school 300 wing. We had a big uh drain a sewer line that kept stopping up and causing lots of issues. So we dug down. It's about a 10 11 foot in the ground there. Um fix a bunch of issues in there and kind of put it all back together. So fun stuff. Uh a little aerial view of the tennis courts at Airport High School and then the new ones here. So you got a nice blue. We did a gray border just like we did on last year at BC High School. Gray border with the burgundy interior. So um that looks that looks sharp. They should be state champions on that field. So um Airport High School. Here's the football thing,

091the football old football field. And then here's the new football field right there. So um it's a great design. You know, Mr. Fiddler, he he did a lot of research and um it was kind of nice to see something look that good and that awesome right there. So, we also did some upgrades on the back of the scoreboards. That's something that him and I were working on. And then, uh, the sign guy said, "Well, hold on because they're kind of making a run for it." So, we held off on getting those done, but when they got it, we uh upgraded them, added some verbiage on there. And that's a that's a great addition to Airport High School, both both fields. Uh, we also painted the fieldhouse and renamed it there. So, that's that's the look

092right there, which is um a very good good thing to do. New Bridge Academy. This is an old office in there. We we fixed that sucker up. This for the SRO, new paint, new floor, new um HVAC. On the left here, this is what we're doing. We did the entire CEC and now we're kind of going through Newbridge Academy. On the left, the old school old the old rooms. So, you got the old nasty carpet is 20, 30 years old, built-ins and all that. We're stripping all that stuff out and kind of going back. So, on the right, it's a nice modern room. Um this is room 203. The target the um the target program is kind of expanding. So, they need more room. So, we put a wall, put some water in, drain, put

093a whole new electrical system, um, and kind of got it operational. So, now they have one area that's kind of like a kitchen. We knocked a hole in the wall to the other room and that's like a living room. So, they're going to trans transfer the kids between the two right there. Pine Ridge Middle, um, we redid, tore out that big old huge front office right there, put in new flooring, put a new desk in. So, that's a a really nice look, a really clean look for that school. So, good job, Karen. Help me out with that project. So, we also tore out a bunch of um lockers and about 500 lockers in the hallway, painted the whole school, fixed the floor, so the hallways are nice, big, open. And then we out out back.

094We had a lot of issues with some erosion and stuff. So, um we put in this retaining wall to kind of help with that. And this is a retainer wall on the other side. So, that really helped clean that area up and make it nice. Back filled it in, put some grass in there. So, Wood Elementary, um if y'all remember the front of this school, there was a a light blue down on this end. And there's a yellow in the middle and dark blue up there. So, um, I was given directions by Miss Brown to, uh, make this nice, clean, professional. So, we painted everything on the black, outside on the black like that, which was really nice. Inside, we picked a nice good blue, painted the whole school up, went back with the same

095blue color throughout the interior. Um, put a new roof on that in the primary side, which is awesome because that was one of our schools that had a lot of, uh, lot of lot of leaks. We were fighting a lot last year. This is another picture of the room that the trim metal is going on black which matches what we did downstairs. So, it's continuous continuous good look on the inside. Um, and we're putting a little playground out back. So, this is a little playground. They pour some concrete in there today. They're going to turf it and everything. So, this will allow because right now with great certain grade levels, they're not allowed to send all the kids to recess. They're having to kind of send part of them and not send part of them.

096If you're rotating through a group of teachers, that kind of inter interferes with instruction. So this way all her whole grade level will be able to go at the same time. So that's good. And North Side Middle, come on. There we go. We got a new roof on that school. And that was school number two with leaks. So um we've been fighting that one a lot. So it's good to have a good new roof on that one. Um went inside and took a bunch of lockers out. Um and they were like about a 12 inch li little um shelf. So So we had to put in some steel studs, some sheetrock and kind of kind of get that. So it's a good look down the hallway. always been there. The lockers were never there. The

097lockers were purple, yellow, and green. So, they were all sorts of different colors in there. HVAC, we installed one at New Bridge and we got nine units in last week going to BC Busby Airport. Painting, we painted um Pineriidge Wood and parts of North Side Airport, New Bridge and Community Education Center. Coming soon on the next half day, we got sand panels in Pine Ridge. We're craying two AC units up on Brooklyn Casey half cafeteria and then rigging two units up to upstairs for the science labs. So, we're taking advantage of those down days when kids aren't there. Um, thank you guys very much for your support because without you kind of approving projects that we kind of kind of have and providing that funding, we're not able to do what we do. But in

09839 days, that's a that's a pretty good little list. So, any questions? >> I have one question and it's kind of with contingency. um that LA one of those second to last or whatnot picture of Woods playground which is awesome but it had a good shade and I know that I've constantly heard from different playgrounds especially elementary can we get some shade is there a way that we can use contingency or get in the next I mean I'm looking at the price it should be feasible to be able to get some more of those shade across the across all district at least for the littles >> so the reason I put that shade on there is because Mr. Trey Bray mentioned shade last year. >> Thank you. >> Smart smart guy. >> And I have

099I've had um Kelly Kelly Remy over there in Newbridge Academy. She's she's um wanting some. So we we have that in there. We're looking at that trying to figure out what size and shape and all that stuff. So as we put ones in, we are as we're going back and kind of doing some retrofit, we are too. So that's definitely a priority for us. >> Perfect. And the only other thing was a shout out to Casey and Mlan because I would have bet money that there was no way that parking lot was going to get open at BC before school started. Beautiful when you see how and they they smashed it. And I also enjoyed State Street being closed. It was quiet. Life was nice. So good. Kudos to them and to y'all. >> Our

100goal was to have the field finished first and we did. So we beat them. >> I like it. >> No, that was good. Great partnership and they were kept us very well informed throughout the whole project. So they had a foreman Steve who was just the most um yeah he was all about customers and he made that place immaculate when he left and it was I was like wow that's that was impressive. So good man else? Yes ma'am. >> I was just going to say we have some awesome grant writers in this district and that would be a great thing. I think we did that a couple years ago for the the shade and get some community members involved with that. >> Wonderful. I just wanted to recognize that that is a tremendous amount of

101work. So, thank you for that. Thank you for the documentation and photos because it's great to see to see it all. Um I just, you know, sometimes can't get over what we have to accomplish in those few days. So, Amen. Amen. So, thank you for that. First of all, I did want to just double check and make sure that all of our Hback units are we're cool. Every school is cooling and that we're all good at the moment with with >> Hback. I'm I'm never going to get where I have every one of them working. Ma'am, I'm I you know, we we put a blower motor in at BC High School, room 209. The next day, the compressor went out. It's like I just, you know, we can't win for losing. So, we are fighting

102diligently. We have stuff ordered and every day we're on there. We're looking, we're getting guys. We're we're fighting the fight. So, >> Okay. >> Yeah. >> Very good. >> And we're in a lot better place, you know. I mean, but it's for some reason we and Daniel Le can attest to I mean, Angela Lebran can attest to it. We went home on Friday from Wood, came back on Monday and it's like 10 15 of them down. It's like how did that happen? Just I mean I don't know, >> right? >> But it's it's the curse of starting school. >> Okay. >> But it was the cool when the kids came back. I think it was the coolest week we've probably ever started school. So that was a blessing this year. >> That was my prayer

103was answered on that. >> Must have been. Okay. Thank you. >> I'm not sure where I heard this, but what about the roof at Springdale? I heard there were some issues there. >> So So when we did the expansion and and added to it, we have a new roof there, a new roof on the back. So there's a section right there in the middle, the media center that has an old roof. You guys approved a project in CPI for 2425 or 2526. I wasn't able to get that designed bid out and all that. So next summer we're doing roof work at Springdale Saluda River. >> Busby. >> One other one I'm working on, >> Busby. Thank you, Busby. So yes, sir. That that that's coming down the road. So >> on the HVAC side, do

104we rent temp HVAC when these air conditioners go out? Do we just shut a room off or do we have a uh you know 15 portable units that we move in? What how do we handle that? >> So we have some we have some portable units. Um I have rented stuff in the past. Um spent a lot of money and it didn't really do a lot, right? So So you know, unfortunately nobody's really stocking parts these days. So you want a compressor? Yeah. You got to wait two days. And so so we're into that. So most of the time if if the the principles thank you guys very much for what you do they find some way they shift the kids around a little bit and try to give us a little time to get

105it on get it get it get a part to fix it. >> I can imagine it's difficult especially in the first couple weeks to try to shift your room. Um, if it's something where in a future CPIF, which I'd assume fall into capital, that we could put a few more where we purchase our own large rental movable units, that might be something that gives us a little bit of slack to cover so that we're not asking a teacher a day before school or trying to move 50 kids. You maybe we have enough, but if it's to a point where we need to move classrooms, maybe we look at purchasing. I don't know if those units are worth a darn anymore or not, but something to think of. >> No, definitely. >> Thank you. >> Sorry,

106Miss Castle had one. this is not for you as much, but this this whole topic um I know you guys have tons of stuff to do and doesn't always go on schedule, but I would like to see if maybe next year we can uh it was a lot for some of our teachers when they especially if they're on the schedule of being painted or polishing the floor. I feel like we had a like a time for the whole district that schools are closed for blah blah blah and we have some principles that probably feel like, oh, I can I can let some of my teachers in if they're getting ready to start their classroom and they haven't been able to. Maybe we could be more flexible with our administrators and if they feel like, hey

107teachers, I'm gonna be up here on Sunday from 10 to 3. If y'all feel like you because all teachers do not put their room together at the same pace and when you have to take everything off the wall and get all that that is very stressful and that has nothing to do with your curriculum and all those things. So maybe if we could not necessarily say Lexon and two will be open from but maybe some of our administrators if they feel like they could go up there for the weekend which some of them probably do anyway but we have some rule followers and they probably are like this is what it says. So we're not going to be able to open. So that's just my we could remember that from next year for our teachers

108to be able to prepare. >> All right. Any more questions? All right. >> Thank you very Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Oh, we're going to move over into old business now and we're going to have a consideration of first and final reading. >> Oh, I'm sorry, second and final reading. >> Yeah, Mr. Chairman, um I make a motion that we approve um the final re reading of proposed revisions to board policy KBE, relations with parent organization, proposed deletion of board policy LEC, support organization, and proposed revisions renaming of administration rule ARLEC-R. R support organization to new administration rule AR KBE-R relations with parent organizations. >> Second. >> I had a motion and a second by Miss Rucker. Any discussion on that? >> All in favor say I. >> I. >> Motion carries. All right.

109Now we got another consideration of a community request for naming of airport high school football field. >> Yes sir, Mr. Chair. Sometime back you all may remember most of you that we had community members before us to petition for the naming of a portion of the facility over at Airport High School. This has been resubmitted for the naming of the field at Airport High School. And Mr. Warren's going to uh hit a few highlights regarding Mr. less Evans for us just to refresh your memory of what was shared with us at that time. >> Yes, ma'am. Uh here to present to you um a proposal from the admin administration to uh name Airport High School's uh stadium field uh the Les Evans Field. 1976, Coach Evans became the AD and head football coach at Airport.

110Coached for the next 25 years until he retired. uh some of his accolades, six region championships, state playoffs, 18 of 25 years, upper state champions, nine times coach of the year, um Columbia record coach of the year in 81, WIS coach of the year, six time area coach of the year, North South Asant, North South head coach, Shambball assistant, Shramball head coach in 1992. He's in the South Carolina Athletic Hall of Fame 2004, Airport Athletic Hall of Fame 2004. um distinguished coach award by the South Carolina football coaches association. Uh many accomplishments on the field. Uh mostly the way he um he touched the lives of students, athletes, coaches, uh community, teachers, administrators he worked with. Um was like a father figure uh much more than a coach to his players, continued to support his

111programs on most Friday nights. You could find him at the stadium. Uh very very um strong member of his church, Springdale Baptist Church with his family. um a man of strong beliefs and values and so you know with that we bring this recommendation to you to to name the field the less Evans field. >> All right. Thank you. >> All right. Do I have a motion or anything on this? >> Um Mr. Chairman, I make a motion that we um accept the administration's recommendation of naming the airport high school football field after Mr. Les Evans. >> Second. >> I have a motion and a second. Any discussion? >> All right. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Motion carries. Okay. Okay, we're going to move into new business now and we are con consideration

112of first reading of a proposed revision of board policy. >> Uh Mr. Chairman, um I make a motion that we um accept the administration's uh recommendation for proposed revision to board policy J A field trips proposed revisions to exhibit file J O A- uh field trip or event chaperone statement. >> All right, had a motion and I got a second from Mr. Any discussion on that? >> Be interested to know what uh >> we're talking about doing a background check on every mom that gets on a bus with the third graders to go to wherever. Is that correct? >> And and do we have that money allotted somewhere? >> We we do. If there's >> I mean it sounds like potentially that could be a lot of people but I mean but in my experience

113you have a lot of different moms and people who go on things. I mean are we going to have to do 30 different moms at a school etc. >> I don't think there would typically be that many on one trip. Um >> no I don't mean on one trip but I just mean cumulatively. Typically those costs are incorporated into u some of the costs possibly but mostly activity funds, school funds. Um you know that's something that we feel is very necessary to be with our children while they're away from the building. So >> okay, thanks. >> Any more discussion on that? All right. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Motion carries. All right, we got another one bea BEB. >> Mr. Chairman, um um make a motion that we um approve the first

114reading for proposed revision to board policy BED board agenda. >> Second. >> Got a motion and a second by Mr. Bray. Any discussion? Well, I would like to propose a an amendment to it and uh and the I think Miss Bquette submitted this forward and I think it it really hits you know hits the nail on the head. I think the purpose is to put all board members on the same footing and I think you know I've heard that was really what we wanted to accomplish and so any board member can you know submit uh an agenda item and so uh I'm we lose a little bit of um I say guidance on this from from the officers and you got new members board members like me and I kind of look for the officers

115and the superintendent to get some guidance. I just had a couple words I wanted to a couple sentences I wanted to add to to the end and I don't think it changes you know how this will work but I just I did look at some other um uh other school board policies and just wanted to make sure when we submit agenda item I wanted to add the proposed agenda item must be within the scope of the board's duties and then again we get some full the second sentence I want to add is the superintendent in collaboration with the board officers may choose to postpone the agenda item to the next meeting as necessary. And the intent there is we may have a full meeting, a full board meeting already set with some regulatory or legal

116requirements we need to get through. So, I just wanted to give the officers and the superintendent a little bit of leeway of of when they wanted to um place the the agenda. The other amendment has really just the wording. I don't think we used the word he in there. We maybe say the member shall submit the items. So those were the the main things I wanted to to add here. Um the other item for for discussions I think is if one board member now can get something on the agenda, I I think then the the whole next paragraph could be stricken because uh I really didn't even know how that would how that would work without having a meet a board meeting for for an agenda. But now the public can just get one board

117member to sponsor um uh sponsor an agenda item and it'll be placed on on the agenda. So I I don't think that's necessarily you know I relate it to you know it's a rep we we're elected officials a representative democracy and anyone in the in the public can come to us and and and get our support to place something on the agenda be much like you know I couldn't go to the state house and and put something on on the agenda I would have to go through my representative so those are the the the two things again I I love the intent as a new board member I I've always not totally understood how we how we got, you know, how we get things on the agenda moving. So, I think Miss Burkehead hit the

118nail on the head and I've heard others speak of it. We've visited this several times. I'm hoping, you know, we can all agree this and then and and be successful with it and move forward. >> We got a amended motion. Do we have a >> second? >> All right. Any discussion on this? >> Can we Can we see that amend that amendment is tough to >> Yeah. Do we have here? We can pass them all the way down. The whole stuff. >> Okay. Easier. >> All right. So, it says now each board member shall have the right to have items placed on the agenda for discussion of adoption or action. If a member desires something to be placed on the agenda, the member shall submit the item. And then the last sentence is a new

119one that says, "The proposed agenda item must be within the scope of the board's duties. the superintendent in collaboration with the board officers may choose to postpone the agenda item to the next meeting as necessary and then removal of the last one. Um I I completely agree that removal of the paragraph that starts with items of business blah blah blah that makes you're spot on there. Um and changing to the member makes sense. The pro proposed agenda item within the scope is is fantastic. The only issue I have is the line and it might be good to get legal weighin between the first and second reading. Um, but the superintendent quote sorry quote the superintendent in collaboration with the board officers may choose to postpone the agenda item to the next meeting as necessary. That

120goes I have two issues with that one. One it goes against the kind of leveling of the powers to to 5919. Um because at that point three people then now have the power to say hey we'll we'll push that to the next meeting. Um and then B as our one of our three major duties outside of levy leving taxes and writing policies. It's hiring and firing the superintendent. And so if the superintendent now has the ability to usurp something that you as a board member puts on there, you have now putting the power of someone that you hire and fire above the board member. And you know typically in in boards that is you the CEO can't say hey board member or or board person you can't put this on until next time. And the

121only reason I think the next matters here is because there's such a timely situation especially with two readings in a in a policy world where when I mean just this year we were late on a CPF CPIF budget. If you push something that was should be an agenda item even just for discussion and it gets pushed off one month and it's got to have two readings, you can now be four months later. So if you're not on the spot four months in advance now, then you could really you as a board member can now have your power that you like you noted is being usurped. And so there's people that you're trying to represent, you cannot represent them because we added this one thing. So that's the only I I love the amendments outside of

122that, but that's the only reason I can't vote for that amendment since you put all three of those together. That's all I have. >> More discussion, Mr. Rer. >> Yeah. So, you know, I appreciate the work that's gone into this. The original proposed changes, you know, I really like a lot what Mr. Al said makes, you know, a lot of sense, too. Um, it does state here next next meeting as necessary. So I would say most of our meetings aren't so packed that they it can't any item would not be added but if there happened to be an agenda that was very very full and it could easily be moved to the next meeting you know I think that just you know two to four weeks depending on when the next meeting which could be

123a special meeting if it's called or the next monthly meeting you know it would it would cover that. So, you know, as far as the original proposed and then this amendment that we're talking about now, um, you know, I think it would I think it works fine. So, I just miss share that. I I just think that sometimes we do have a very heavy agenda and we might even need legal people to look at what's going to be put on the agenda or get all the different sides. But I also feel um like we voted on these officers and I want to trust who is an officer and our superintendent to make the best decision for our next meeting. And that that's just how I feel about that. Okay. >> Um I think the intent

124was that an agenda item would be turned in in the 10day, you know, time period and then placed on the agenda of the upcoming meeting. And that if that were not possible, then it would be placed on the following meeting, not indefinitely pushed off or anything else. it would go on the next scheduled meeting and if that was not possible it would go on the following meeting. Um but the intent uh you know the words in green were written by our uh legal council and the intent was that the item would just simply go on the agenda if somebody asked to have it on the agenda. So do we need to clean up that that verbiage or can we do that in between the first and second reading? uh because I think that it could

125say the member shall submit the item to the chairman who shall place the item on the agenda of the next meeting at the appropriate place. And then the last sentence would be the superintendent in collaboration with the board officers may choose to postpone the agenda item to the following meeting as necessary. Does that clarify it? >> Yeah. Again, I my intent was not to, you know, delay anything for one board member. It was just knowing the realities of of of what's on the agenda and and how the um superintendent and the cabinet and then the officers ordered this and they know we have a full agenda and that that was all my intent. If we can just say in a in a way that to to to accomplish that and and and not have your

126objection, I'm I'm all for that. >> All right. So, we need to vote on the amended motion. >> Right. That's what we got. >> I just Are we voting on both things? The the change in verbiage and the removal of the paragraph. We're voting on both of those at one time. Okay. >> All right. with your comment. Were we going were you a we >> were we going to amend the amendment? >> May I suggest since this is between first and second reading? We just accept this amendment vote on it with the idea the in between first and second reading legal review can check it add your comment as need be and we can make any amendments on the second reading as need be. >> Okay. >> Y >> all right so we voting on

127the amended >> M's amend. >> All right there's any more discussion on that? All in favor say I. >> I. >> All right. Motion carries. Now we got to go back to the initial motion and vote it. >> All right. All in favor of the initial motion say I. >> I. >> All oppose. All right. Motion carries. All right. A little tricky. All right. We are now what we got next here. Chair, I move that we consider the first reading of the proposed revisions to board policy KFD, clear bag use of district events. >> Second. >> All right, got motion and a second. Any discussion on that? >> Wait, wait, wait. Say it again. Clear back. >> All right. All in favor say I. >> I. Motion carries. All right. Now, we got some travel

128requests. >> Yeah. U Mr. Chairman, um uh make a motion that we approve the two travel request. um as presented one deputy superintendent to attend A4LE learning scapes conference um in Arizona October 29th through November 1st and airport high school chorus to attend South Carolina region choir at Charleston Southern University um October 27th through the 28th. >> Second. >> All right, we got a motion and a second. >> All in favor say I. I >> All right. Motion carries. >> And Mr. Chairman, before you make the announcements, I just want to say it's always nice to have a former board member in the house. And we want to recognize Miss Cindy Kessler that has enjoyed. [Applause] >> I'll tag on with the recognition since you're sitting next to me. If y'all didn't see, Saluda River

129got a new uh addition to their school this year and it was a rock, a huge rock so that you can paint it directly from Miss Wooten's yard. So, congratulations for giving that piece that'll be there forever. That's really cool. >> It was an honor to give it to Saluda River. >> All right, we're gonna move on into announcements. Uh coming this weekend, board members, we got had school law conference down in Charleston, the 23rd and 24th. August 27th is early release day. September 1st is Labor Day holiday. September 4th is interims go home. God, that seems quick. Right after Labor Day, interims going home. >> September 18th, employee service milestones reception at 8:15 at 5:15 in the pack center. And then September 18th following that be a regular monthly meeting of the board of

130trustees at six o'clock in the boardroom. All right, I will entertain a motion going into executive. Mr. Chairman, I make a motion that the board of trustees enter close session for the following consideration of personnel appointments and resignations and receipt of legal advice regarding property matter. Second. I had a motion and a second. All in favor say I. I. >> We are now in executive. Thank y'all. All right. I make a motion that the meeting be reconvened in open session and the appropriate affidavit executed. >> Motion a second. >> Mr. Chairman. >> Uh, Mr. Chairman, I make a motion that we accept the administration's recommendation for personnel appointments, resignations, and reappointments. >> Motion and a second. >> And then go ahead. >> All in favor say I. >> I. >> All right. And then I

131would like to make a friendly amendment um that we uh make sure that it is in the minutes. Miss Strange that the consideration uh request for the naming of the airport high school football field after Mr. Le Evans. It says it is a community request, not administrative request. And motion to ad second. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Motion to adjurnn. >> Second. >> We are ajourned.