001e e e w that was a loud one good evening everyone it's 6:00 on February 27th I'd like to call this regular schedule board meeting to order um as you can tell Miss Rucker is not here tonight she is down with a some serious back problems right now so I'm sure she's online now watching us live but we wish her well and we pray for the best for her to get back and come back and join us but um last month if you remember I talked about um um little Johnny that was went to an orphanage and he gained support and love from a family and that's where you know I related it to a school district and what he gained through a family is what we try to scribe for here because I can
002tell you if you love and support these kids you GNA gain one thing that's so important it's hard to gain but easy to lose and it was talked about after during the meeting Miss Lundy stood up here and she said that Dr McDonald asked her do you trust your staff trust that's one thing we want to build on here and so I want to turn it around and ask you does your staff and students trust you trust is a two-way Road here that we need to work on and strive to gain because one thing if you gain a child's love and he knows that you there to support him you gonna get that trust and the education part becomes easy so you know we work hard to get our report cards up and make sure
003everybody's doing the right thing but if you gain somebody's trust and they know that you love them they going to do all they can to make sure you it's a success so tonight we got two students here and I know they've gained love and support for all the accomplishments and Honors that they' they got here on this list they got it through trust and love so I'm gonna turn it over to miss Wooten to introduce them thank you Mr ke um we're delighted to have two students from airport high school with us tonight um we have Hannah Beckham and Joshua Nicks Hannah will be doing the um invocation and Joshua will be leading Us in the Pledge of Allegiance Hannah Beckham is a senior at airport high school with a GPA of 4.5 and currently
004ranked 25th in her class she has been a student athlete playing volleyball since the seventh grade and has worked hard to maintain her grades and athletic performance she has also taken all four courses of Health Science at The Lex 2 Innovation Center and will be getting her cnaa soon through her time at airport and being a volleyball player she has volunteered to help at some Lexington 2 elementary schools Special Olympics and Field Days club travel volleyball has been a huge part of Hannah's life for the past seven years and last year was her final season Hannah was so thankful for her opportunity to speak at the district convocation on behalf of the Innovation Center this past August Hannah is enrolled in two dual enrollment programs in partnership with Midland's Technical College this has given her
005the chance to push herself and work hard for her final semester of high school this fall Hannah will be attending the University of South Carolina to pursue a degree in nursing Go game cop Josh Nicks is a senior at airport high school with a GPA of 5378 I just asked him how can you have a GPA and he was and explained it to me quite in detail he is currently ranked fourth in his class during his high school years he has participated in student government swim team Beta Club and attended did many FCA events Josh has done some Community work with serving the elderly and assisting the student Ministry at his church during his freshman year he part participated in the Mr Eagle event to help raise money for Camp Cho Josh has earned quite
006a few honors and awards such as being on the principal's list every year of high school while on the swim team he earned All Region twice and and attended the state swim meet all four years he also placed in the top 10 of his events his Junior and senior years Josh plans to attend the University of South Carolina and major in mechanical engineering while hoping to possibly finish a master's degree by the end of his four-year term go Gamecocks again so um Hannah and Josh if y'all will still please step to the podium [Applause] hope everyone's doing well um I'm Hannah Beckham and I'm really honored to be given the opportunity to invite the Lord into this meeting tonight so let's pray Heavenly Father we thank you for the safety security and happiness of every
007student teacher staff and board member we pray that you will guide our board today and help them make the right decisions father we pray for the continuous opportunities you've given this district for success and we are than hopeful for many more in Jesus name amen amen please stand and join me in the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God and indivisible with liy and justice for all y'all two drew a crowd here tonight um next item on agenda is the consent agenda and I we'll make a motion the agenda of and the minutes of Jui January 16 2025 the regular meeting the Board of Trustees meeting on January 25th board workshop and February 3rd 25
008that a special call meeting with no objections the consent agenda stands approved as presented okay moving along next one will be the honors and accomplishments and I'm GNA turn over to Dr Hafner thank you Mr chair there we go thank you Mr chair February is Career and Technical Education Month and we have Kate director Stacy Baker and Innovation Center Director Joanie Coleman here to introduce us to some of their students who've already achieved completer status and earned certifications in some of our Innovation Center programs come on up good evening Dr hner Mr chair board members thank you so much for the opportunity to showcase just a few of our completers um there are many more but we we want to take a few minutes just to Showcase a few of them um we're going to
009start first with M Elizabeth Pitman from airport High School Elizabeth is already an autot Tech complet and will Complete Welding to make her a double completer she's earned the OSHA 10 certification the 504 multimedia multi multimeter certification AWS certification she has also earned her maintenance and light repair certifications in brakes engine repair and steering suspension I'm gonna let her tell you her future plans hi I'm Elizabeth Pitman um I do have a very good problem thanks to the programs at Innovation Center um the two programs I chose welding with Mr Thompson and automotive tech with Mr thoron who are both amazing instructors and all they have led me to multiple options which is very hard to choose just one so as for right now I cannot give you a specific answer but I know no
010matter what I choose with their guidance that I have received and know I will be very successful in life next from BC Mr Tanner Addie Tanner is already a welding completer and will complete auto technology to make him a double completer he has earned his ocean 10 certification AWS certification shopkey Pro service and repair level one certification and the digital multimeter 525 certification hello I'm Tanner um I'm planning right now to go to Midlands Tech Midland Technical College and attend their uh welding field and get a degree in their ass associates degree in the welding field next from airport High School Miss Bianca Bryant Bianca is a double completer in health science and sports medicine she's earned first aid CPR and AED certifications basic life support certification and stop the bleed certifications I wrote out
011a lot but it seems like I should just summarize it um so hi um I plan on becoming an EMT after graduation and contining my education to become a par [Applause] from airport High School Miss Jada Johnson Jada is also a health science completer she has earned her first aid CPR and AED certification and her stop the bleed certification hi my name is Jada I also wrote a lot but I'm gonna summarize it um so I plan to attend the University South Carolina while I was Major in biology and my ultimate goal is to attend PA school afterwards where I can make a positive difference in people's lives thank you next from airport Miss Maggie right Maggie is a health science completer she has earned her first aid CPR and AED certification and also her
012stop the bed certification hi I'm Maggie um I'm currently anxiously waiting an exception from the University of South Carolina and I plan to major in nursing to eventually One Day become a nurse anesthetist um I love helping people and I feel like getting my Head Start into the medical field is the best way to do that for myself I've also been able to maintain a 4.5 GPA now representing my school as the new Crown Miss aquillo and lastly but certainly not least Aiden tarda from airport High School Aiden is an emergency and fire management firefighter completer and an electricity concentrator he has has Hazmat awareness and operation certifications South Carolina fire academy fire one and two certifications Auto extrication certification first aid CPR and AED certification and FEMA active shooter certification he is also a
013nationally certified firefighter which means he can go to work in any state that he chooses to do my name is Aiden um seeking a job at Firehouse 13 I'm seeking a job at Firehouse 13 with my certifications in fham Georgia and that's really all I'm doing right now much we have a couple our instructors here Derek Thorton our automative Tech instructor is right here and chief David CW and I fire frighting short is here a and our work Lear oh miss Cloud's over there too she was right there thank you for sharing that impressive group of students next we have Airport's Orchestra director Colin Richardson who is going to tell us about a prestigious honor for one of our student musicians good evening uh tonight I want to share an incredible achievement by one of
014our students uh that speaks to the hard work and Excellence within our Orchestra programs this year Avery McCree has earned a spot in the All State Orchestra by competing against the most talented musicians across South Carolina being accepted into this Orchestra is a prestigious honor that represents the highest level of musical achievement in our state this achievement reflects A's dedication the highest quality of our music education and the importance of the Arts in developing a well-rounded discipline and creative student opportunities like this are made possible through your support of our Orchestra programs in our district we thank you for your time this evening and I would like to turn the microphone over to Avery so she can tell you more also got to compete and win a scavenger hunt and now I have a bag
015full of little tiny baby ducks so that was my takeaway from the weekend it was an amazing experience and I hope to go again next year thank you and now we have Jana loair and Carol Jones of Pine Ridge Middle School who are coaches for the school's academic challenge team which has qualified for the state competition being held very soon on March the 7th and they're going to tell us a bit about the team and their season so far welcome thank you so much for having us here tonight that for those of y'all that don't know the academic challenge team we compete in four rounds the first two rounds are team captain can answer only and we actually have our team captain here tonight the second two rounds are Jeopardy style buzzer questions we love
016buzzer questions but we actually thought we would be rebuilding this year but I kind of knew at a match where they asked name the city name the capitol city yellan where is it located and Cairo said Northwest Territory and everyone's looking me like how in the world did they know that and from that moment on I kind of knew that we were going to be the the ones to watch we do go next Friday March 7th we're g to be leaving at 6:45 in the morning 9:15 is our first match semifinals which we plan to win and then we'll play for the championship right after that but one thing that the kids are really looking forward to Landers going to open up their cafeteria and let them eat all they can eat after the trophy
017ceremony so we're looking forward to bringing back a trophy for Lexington 2 next Friday and I've got to introduce my assistant coach first year at Pine Ridge she stepped up found sponsors to get us this t-shirt which one of our players actually designed for us has helped non-stop put quizlets together for our students to practice with so I'll name the students that are not here and then I'll let my three introduce themselves we have Ricardo Alvarez Vargas who is seventh grade Kayla Castillo Estrada grade elas Gambino kixo eighth grade CYO Glover seventh grade Lucas price seventh grade Lucas shumer e8th grade Natalie Singleton seventh grade Kai Turner eighth grade and Tyler Williams seventh grade and let's let our captain go first hello my name is PR and I'm in eighth grade she is quiet but
018she knows what she's doing hi my name is Ellie self and I'm in eth grade Ellie went to a tiebreaker the students actually said put Ellie in she's gonna bring the wind home for us and she did and last but not least the other coaches nicknamed him the little man hi my name is hyro Moscoso Orga and I'm in s Glade so thank you so much for honoring us and have a good evening [Applause] please thank you we are thrilled to share that airport High School principal Matt chillet has been named the South Carolina Council for exceptional children principal of the year he has been Mr schill is being recognized had an awards lunch in tomorrow February 28th in Greenville South Carolina and Airport High School teacher Shauna Gardner is she's with us tonight yep
019is among a group who nominated him for the award and she's now going to talk with us about his work at airport thank you for being here that was a surprise yeah good evening Mr sh shill is truly deserving of this award because of his unwavering commitment to all students and his exceptional leadership within our school community he consistently goes out of his way to ensure that every student feels Valu and supported particularly those with disabilities I have showed up in his office many of times his dedication to inclusion means that all students have access to the same opportunities and he actively engages with them to make sure their voices are heard Beyond his advocacy he leads by example always offering a kind word showing genuine interest in Student Success and fostering a positive and
020welcoming environment his impact is not only felt in the class classroom but throughout the entire school which makes working for him so enjoyable I definitely can top that thank you Shauna and Airport high and whoever else is included in that um Dr Hafner Mr chair U members of the board I believe that we all have defining moments in our career and this is definitely one for me um certainly proud to represent airport proud to represent lexingon too anyone that knows me knows that if I could pick any award this particular one it would be special to me um so personally and professionally this is about the top for me I'm really excited about it and I just appreciate the recognition so go Eagles and happy to be here thank you much deserved thank you Mr
021Shiller we also have uh Philip Raven our coordinator of employee capacity is going to introduce us to one of the finalists for the C ASC induction teacher of the year who happens to be a teacher here in Lexington too at KC Elementary that's right thank you Dr havner and School Board um a couple years ago we started a rookie Teacher of the Year Award with our induction program and we were honored last year to have a top five finalists and Miss Kendall Branton from Fulmer represent us for this um State award for the induction teacher of the year and this year we are honored to have fourth grade teacher launch teacher from KC Elementary Miss Brook High H to represent our district she's our rookie Teacher of the Year this year for us and then
022she'll be competing for the the state award this week um I just feel super blessed to be able to be a finalist I never in a million years would have thought that I would have made it this far but I originally applied for the grant to be able to make the garden at Casey Elementary um I thought it was like oh I'll get it if I get it if I don't I don't then it's okay um but it's been wonderful to see my students be excited about learning and knowing more about healthy food and what we can do with healthy food and a part of that Grant was to be able to collaborate with others and give back to the community and recently we were able to do that by going over to the Innovation
023Center and CC Parker was able to help us create some carrot cake pops out of carrots that we got out of our garden and they passed them out in the car rider line after school and we kind of gave them out around school as well and they really enjoyed that and I was very thankful for that because last fall I made sweet potato pies 16 of them by myself so that was wonderful to have some help but I felt so supported by Casey Elementary and Lexing 2 throughout this journey and I hope to win next week thank you okay and I would like to now go off script just a little bit yesterday in a surprise visit from the South Carolina Association of school administrators Dr Angela Cooper was named the 2025 South Carolina personnel
024administrator of the [Applause] Year Dr Quincy Moore with scasa is quoted as saying we are thrilled to name Dr Angela Cooper the 2025 South Carolina personnel administrator of the Year her Innovative approach to addressing ing the teacher shortage and her commitment to developing the next generation of Educators has made a significant impact in Lexington 2 we are proud to recognize Dr Cooper's e Dr Cooper's efforts with this award and I could not agree more so thank you for what you do for us thank thank you Dr Cooper is so focused on the professional side she's standing up here not knowing what's going on we walk in this door and it's four or five of us walk in and her husband's in the back of the line with balloons flowers and she does not even see
025them until after the presentation she's presented and then all a sudden she turns to walk away and realize her husband's there but that's how focused she is on education so so we thank you all right and I think Santana said there's no public participation signed in so we're gonna move on to the next one we'll bring us to the superintendent report and turn back over to Dr Hafner thank you Mr chair I just want to touch on career and Technology education one more time the career and Technology Education team was able to join me at chamber this past Tuesday where we spoke brief about our Pathways but most importantly about the opportunity to partner with our schools and students as advisors work-based learning Partners appren ships or job shadow shadowing experiences and we put these
026cards at each of the tables and chamber and there were about 120 people there um attorney general Alan Wilson was speaking and on the back was an opportunity to discover the pathways that we offer at The Innovation Center but also a QR code where business and industry could register to partner with us and we're really trying to focus on that this school year to build those Partnerships so we're hoping that will give us um some great leads to follow up on and if anyone in the room is also a business and industry leader and would like to connect with us these cards are on the table outside when you exit tonight so just feel free to pick one up and take a look we'd love to have you um participate with us as Mrs Baker
027and Mrs Coleman shared we have several students that were highlighted for completer and certification status but also many of our graduates from last year were also double completers several of our students are currently employed at Tesla Michelin sou Eastern Truck Company Zeus several fire departments across the area culinary students gained employment at their colleges and universities and even the military uh many students went into one of the Armed Forces utilizing those credentials earned here with us and will further their training and education with the military in that track and in addition many students entered postsecondary schools to major in the areas they have studied with the hopes of accelerating their Workforce placement when they graduate like we heard here from some of our students so we look forward to the class of 25 2025 excuse
028me and anticipate even higher numbers as we grow enrollment and grow completer participation so just want to make a note on that in addition we have some special guests here tonight the board may remember one or two one or two meetings in the fall and in January we shared with you a new learning and professional growth platform that we were going to start this semester and uh we previously have had Lex two leads but recently tweaked our approach that's during the summer with our school administrators we survey and find out what their needs are so we're building on that professional development and then last year we also began Lex 2 learns where we had professional development right before school started with all of our employees and that was built upon um survey wishes and needs
029within the professional development realm and it was led by many of our Master Teachers our human resources department and different folks on our instructional team and that was very successful but the lat latest platform on our quest for for professional growth is Lex 2 grows and I think that Mr LeBlanc is going to put that y that's just a participant guide that we share with them when we started the program and the purpose behind Lex two grows is to support staff members who wish to deepen and broaden their understanding of leadership in our district individuals applied last November and were accepted in notified in December if they were selected and as you can see on page five if you scroll down of the overview topics range from goal setting to Leading with purpose and intentionality
030Leadership etiquette interpersonal skill development emotional intelligence Team Dynamics and continued growth planning just today in in our second session we talked about building that trust and identifying kind of who we are as a leader in our district and and what that might look like um we're happy to say that we held that session just before this meeting and I would like for you all I was going to ask you to stand but you've been standing this whole time patiently awaiting so I would love to give you a round of applause for your dedication to leadership and your willingness to grow these are folks who who are wishing to develop that professionally and with leadership skills from wherever they sit on our organizational bus so we're very excited to see what happens with these folks as
031they plan their growth their growth pattern so thank You' all for being here with us tonight and you're welcome to either have a seat or I know you've had a full day and you're welcome to depart but thank you for coming I appreciate the [Applause] effort all right we're GNA move along to our finance report and we turn over to miss Strickland Mr rck you couldn't keep a crowd here don't run out on you I don't understand all it takes is finance bring up Finance there run all right good evening to everyone tonight I have the January 2025 financial statements I'm going to start with the general fund revenue and expenses report um you see our total budget for revenue is the same at 124 million 8,542 actual collected for the year is 62 milon
032655,000 and that is 50% of our general fund Revenue budget you'll see I did add the the column on the end for the ideal so ideally we would want to be at 58% but that's due to the tax collections our expense budget 124 m128 542 as of January 31st we have expended m798 571 and that is 47% of our general fund expenditure budget next I'll go to the Essa report our total award amount was um 22 million $958,000 the deadline to spend these funds was September 30th we have we applied for late liquidation so we have until I believe 2026 to expend These funds but they all have to be encumbered which ours have been encumbered um so you see we we have a remaining balance of ative - 24284 which is we've overexpanded just
033to be sure we expend them all next I have the pupil activity activity report the de there's a decrease from December of 2024 to January 31st of 2025 of 12698 in the fund balance for pupil activities and you see the rationale for the larger amounts out there and then the last one is the pack um the the what we have expended as of January 31st is 52 mil 387 320 and we have remaining $796,000 our um minority business expense Enterprise procurement report this is for July 24th through December 24 our goal is to spend 1% for minority businesses this period of time our we did not extend any expenses for minority um businesses we have changing our procedure and how the vendors are sending in their reports so we know if they're a vendor of
034minority or not um so our goal again is to increase that percentage over the next six months and this is a goal this is not a requirement Mr chair it can in our procurement I know we don't have ton of procurements but when we have them can we not have some that are set aside so that we feel confident that we can meet this goal yes we can try to do that yes uh or and even you know in the world of procurement we the prime doesn't have to be minority status we can just request that they use at least 5% of AA or women-owned or sdbb or whatever so that we can guarantee that those contractors go out and they do that work of pulling in subcontractors that meet those minority status we can
035work on that um today today was our last our last day having our current procur director so we are in the process of interviewing and hiring a new one so when that person gets in place we can you know focus on this thank you thank you any other questions for strickly all right we're gonna move along to our human resources to our illustrious Dr Cooper thank you I appreciate it Mr chair board members um call Miss Stephanie Hu of Human Resources to the podium um it is at this time of the year we give you our annual spring report most of it focuses on recruiting our our efforts into this year we will remind you of our some data from last fall where we presented our annual report to the board um with regard to
036some performance objectives regarding um retention of teachers and administrators in particular um and after that we'll give an update on our vacancy report Miss H when you're ready you can take it away Mr chair board members Dr Hafner I'm pleased to present the annual spring report from the human resources department tonight we will review the human resources Mission Vision and performance goals as well as Lexington 2 priorities we will also examine Statewide data Trends and compare them to Lexington to additionally I will provide an overview of our recruiting efforts and the support systems that we have in place to retain our Educators our mission and vision in Human Resources remains clear to recruit retain and develop the best employees while showcasing their talents that Inspire everyone to achieve their personal best ultimately making a difference
037in the lives of our Lexington 2 students our performance goal focuses on reducing the percentage of teachers and administrators leaving the district aligning with the Lexing to priority of recruiting and retaining top talent so looking at the teacher vacancies across South Carolina the state saw a 35% decrease compared to the previous year according to the South Carolina annual educator supply and demand report for 2425 regarding certified educator departures South Carolina districts reported a a 13% decrease and of those who left 19% were retirees 27% transferred from another South Carolina Public School District this chart captures key data pieces from the South Carolina annual report it includes overall teacher departures including transfers to another district and includes the retirees across the state so let's take a closer look at the Lexington 2 Data um these are
038teacher departures from 24-25 we had a total of 667 teachers 41 left for another District or a lateral move 38 moved for personal reasons um either a spouse relocation or just moved uh a breach of contract or termination there were seven and we had 11 retirees and we certainly want to extend our GR itude for their service this gives us an attrition rate of 14.5% our administrative departures were slightly higher this year um our total administrators are 45 we had three leave the district for a lateral move for another district one termination and five retirees so as it relates to our Lexington 2 performance goal in the district's strategic plan you can see we continue to to decrease the percent of teachers leaving the district this gives us an overall departure rate for all other
039districts at 6.6% you can see that's slightly lower than last year at 6.5 and as I mentioned earlier the administrative numbers were slightly higher this year so recruiting does Staffing shortages a key focus in HR is growing our own so this year we hosted two informational sessions for Lexington 2 community community members and our support staff where we had over 80 individuals who signed up to explore those different Pathways of becoming a teacher um nearly half of those were Lexington 2 support staff so our efforts are not just about recruiting but it's also about retaining and developing our own Educators we continue to enhance our support system systems and invest in our employees just as Dr hner said earlier and mentioned our Lex two grow group that was here this is um combination of of
040collaboration with instruction and the human resources department we know that they help us find folks to to support our CTE programs and um we also gave you some data sets tonight to review your ABC report at the back page um the last page of that is for this month our Dr score so this gives you some idea of where our kids are reading uh in those early GR grades and so you can sort of see how we track that progress um for our kindergarten first and second grade students that gives you a breakdown that sort of shows you how we're how we're looking the work that we know we still need to do in those early grades with reading but I wanted you to have access to that tonight um also uh in the January
041Workshop we provided you with some map data at that time was still projection because we were still collecting some final scores but we also I believe tonight have given you um some additional map information to look at and just just for your information I think we we do want to celebrate that we're seeing some some good gains in some areas for example um when we look at those scores in general uh we're finding that our kids are making progress in math this year which was something that had sort of Fallen flat for the last few years but we're seeing some good Improvement there uh between that fall administration of map and spring which means the kids are picking up what they what they should be learning um we also saw that um we had some
042above average growth in both math and La in our eighth graders which means that even on the opposite end of that map assessment scale we're seeing some some progress there as well uh Riverbank was one of our highest growth schools uh between the fall and spring Administration um particularly in in the area of math it did some really nice work with goal setting there to really highlight and encourage kids and the teachers and and everyone has done a really nice job there with that uh followed closely by Springdale so Springdale was right on their heels in terms of that overall gr growth piece um Springdale continues to perform above average in both Ela and math so we're seeing good results there and just a little shout out to our fourth grade ELA at Wood Elementary
043uh for having the highest amount of growth in The District in a single grade level subject so it's a lots of things to be excited about um we still see that there's some slides on the opposite side so we're working with schools to to develop some plans to address that and you know sometimes that happens that maybe a a student is growing faster than what they should or maybe their growth just wasn't quite where it needed to be and so sometimes those things do yield uh differing results so uh we've given you that we we if you have questions make sure you you ask us we want to we want to explain that as best we can to you but we want to make sure that that you have access to those data sets um
044with regard to looking at that early reading piece but also looking at our growth progress that we're making over the course of the year um tonight in my in my additional report pieces um we have one course request for you to um consider improving tonight um as we continue to scrub our courses we're we're checking every single individual uh transcript we're looking very closely at State information but also we're looking at those opportunity gaps for us as a district and one of the ones that we found was um we offer a course uh called Special Olympics um and it is is basically a PE class where students at our high schools are working with students with with disabilities um and this gives them an opportunity to do some buddy pairing and sharing um and our
045students need to get the proper sequence of of courses and you see here tonight we're requesting that you approve a local board approved course uh called Special Olympics 5 four three uh and no five six seven and eight we already have the others because this allows students to potentially take this course multiple times in the same year for multiple years and so we have to be able to have that all the way across um the course approval spectrum and I'm G ask Dr burra if I think I'll explain that to you correctly tonight this is one of those we're still trying to make sure we give them all the credits that we can give them uh in these Innovative areas so that's our request tonight is for you to consider approving this Dr McDonald will
046you repeat You Want It Special Olympics course 543 five six seven eight five six seven and eight okay sorry all right I need to learn my ROM at numerals I guess I was getting a little confused away it's wise what great is that in you said both and I was like okay I just need to get some clarification Mr chairman make a motion that we um approve the request for addition of a Special Olympics course 5678 second have a motion and a second any discussion or anything all in favor say I I I thank you motion carries and if you get the chance to visit those courses I would encourage enourage you it's really a rewarding experience our high school students do a great job working with their peers um in these classes so thank
047you very much for that the second item I have for you tonight is Just for information we are uh homeschool associations are required to report annually the number of students to a district that they have who should have been enrolled in a in a public school and so tonight we're giving you the report that we have um you you as you look at page two of that you may see some increases one of the um one of the explanations we have right now that we're of course pick this apart looking at why these kids are leaving where they came from um different things of that nature and we'll continue to to dissect that information now that we have all of those reports um it could be that the reason there is such a a gap
048or growth between 2324 and 2425 is that some of these associations may not have reported in time by the time you all received it last year so um that could be uh but we're we're going to look at all of that information very closely to again as we constantly are looking at where kids are coming and going to and from uh in our district to better understand that narrative uh we'll continue to look at that but we're presented to you this to you tonight just for information purposes that concludes my report thank you thank you all right we're gonna move on along to operations turn over to Mr W Mr chair sorry question sorry yeah uh a couple questions first one on the home school report I appreciate y'all looking into seeing while that seventh
049grade cohort has such a massive swing compared to everything else so uh hopefully we can get an update on that in the next meeting to to see if there's any data that shown shown through and then I'm sorry that everybody can't see what I'm about to ask but on this Dr levels each little box does that equal the student count so like if I pick Casey uh and go to number two first grade does that mean there are six students that scored A2 yes I'm gonna get Dr Burg to answer that but but yes yes so it is the student C the Dr window is currently open through the end of February so that is in progress data which is why some of those lines you're we have way more kindergarteners than that suming didn't
050add up what I was okay yes it is a student count and then once the window closes and we have all of the data we can give you a final report but that is as of Wednesday the only other thing for Dr is down on the bottom it says K through two but we're testing third graders what's the why is that it says yes it should be through third it says K through two but that's k k through three that works um and then Dr McDonald you mentioned that we had map score up I don't see it in here did we not get that we will get that to you you you will send that to you guys we have that thank you Dr madonald thank you Dr Bri all right any others now we're
051gonna go back to you Mr War thank you um Mr chair members of the board Dr Hafner um decided once again to provide you an operations update uh from the operations uh division uh for February I told told you last time that we provide an update from the winter but this one wouldn't be quite as lengthy while I was incorrect because our team's been been hard at work um you know Ju Just this month so lots of updates here I won't go through all of them you have it provided to you um in your packet and on board docs just hitting a few highlights uh Safety and Security our new radios are fully functional and all of our schools and we rolled those rolled those out completely so excited to have that um project complete
052uh for for our district also ly serving on um the Department of Transportation Safe Streets for all program it's a initiative by um the US do for improving and identifying uh safety Pro projects across the C uh the county and so I've already gotten feedback from our schools our principals provide us some good feedback about just their areas things that they've seen things that could be improved it could be signage it could be you know additional turn Lanes it could be you know uh traffic lights and so they provided me some good feedback that we provided to that committee as they look at to improve safety in our area uh facilities and maintenance things continue to roll there just a few highlights HVAC controls have installed at airport we replaced a fire alarm system at
053the maintenance department uh we've done some some uh intense Renovations at Newbridge with um gutting and um upfitting uh two classrooms of tank cabinets and new flooring also work continues on the the Brooklyn Casey High dance room project was out there again today and really trending towards a substantial completion the end of this month to bring that online and have our students and staff able to access that that new space very excited about that and look forward to having you out there when it's when it's completed uh Transportation you know nobody recruits well outside of Dr Cooper um nobody recruits as well as um as transportation and they're they're rolling out their recruitment for um back in February advertising recruiting we'll run that through August trying to continue to attract and retain you know Quality
054quality um staff for our transportation department uh technology you know Department continues to roll we have rfps out for activity bus WiFi is something we're looking at doing for our activity buses really focusing on uh students that have long athletic trips being able to access uh their schoolwork you know from the bus either to the contest and also back back to their school you know from the contest to stay on top of their assignments um access points Network switches also cameras and door access continues to be a focus for Mr Hower and his team um student Support Services continuing to update forms yearly you have to look at those forms your affidavits your residency forms and make sure they're up to dat and in line with you know uh what they need to to be
055so Mr Chapman his team continues to work on that also um our School nurses updating um our AED information something they're looking at doing an audit throughout the district preparing A needs assessment for for next school year year nurse Barfield leading that charge and um thankful for her her leadership and then uh in athletics is providing an update you know in that Arena um just once again hitting a few highlights a lot here for you to look at and review but our former boys basketball team made it to the championship in the Middle School um bracket lost the hard fought game very proud of of of their work we had a um All State wrestler Bryant Cherry at airport High School this year um BC High boys basketball team a great run um this season
056finished with an 18 and8 record 11 and3 in the region that that uh region win total was a school record so excited about you know what they did this year um Pine Ridge moving into our middle more middle schools they this year they showcased a a cheer Pep Squad Coach chassid Johnson really got some good feedback you know from them and and the enthusiasm they brought um to their school this year also uh Dr McDonald it's okay with you I made anx operations the pond Ridge academic challenge team that's okay I'm going to bring them in operations because you know they obviously you know very very successful in that Arena as well North Side you talking to coach py there you know very competitive basketball Seasons really you know worked hard and improved this year
057and then in moving down to Busby the archery team actually competed in the State Championship today and had a good showing there at the state championship and you see first place finishes second place finishes um just very proud of of I saw actually uh one of the BC students is wearing R3 shirt today so so I'm proud of proud of their work as always um so any questions plus Wi-Fi what kind of cost are we looking at there I don't know if we've gotten those is Mr Hower in here hasn't come in yet I mean I I would I make a guess I would think 15 to 20,000 Mr Hower kind of a ballp part in that area so in the world of Wi-Fi connection activity the technology changes every year my concern is that
058we spend 10 plus thousand dolls on one bus or several buses when one or two hot spots they could be dedicated and carry a much cheaper cost they could be upgraded I'm sure we have a a contract with a wireless provider so getting a hot spot to that would be way cheaper and would be able it's like a lease that we could keep up with the changing technology as we go to 4G 5c I I'm concerned that we're going to spend $15,000 on a a overpriced thing that doesn't get used much and will be out of uh out of commission within probably 18 to 24 months just based off my experience with it yeah I mean we can evaluate uh that method of providing that that service I mean we'll get the rfpn and kind
059of look at cost and you know obious not committing to anything with an RFP but we'll look at that and see if there are other avenues we definitely score up uh last thing is the student body presidents dropped us a little letter about the sports pass um I was ignorant I didn't know that students even had to pay to go to uh athletic competitions and whatnot obviously if it's state or something of that uh I would love to see if maybe by next go round we could have some type of report or idea that the administration wants to do with this I think it's a genius idea whatever we can do to get more kids kind of like they pointed out here cheering on their their peers and being safe and in a good environment
060versus somewhere else I I love the idea so kudos to both of those student bodies we did receive that as well we'll review that and provide some followup thank you sir that's all I have and along them lines Matt does the airport still have the B27 Club going okay that was a club in the past where long as you maintain a B average of 27 weeks all students can go to athletic events for free so that was pretty good at the time all right any other questions for Mr Warren also just want to knowe you also have your cpf um progress update in your packet as well so kind of G gives you an update on what we completed you miss first and his team and then what's 2bd you know the green is what
061is done the yellow is in process and then just a few things down towards the bottom that that we still you know close to attacking okay I did not realize we were were purchasing a whole new scoreboard for Brooklyn Casey there were no parts we could do to keep the old one in use we looked at that um some repair I mean it just to make sure we had substantial life on it you know that that board what did have some age on it and getting the right parts the maintenance on it the upkeep on it we did evaluate that and felt like it was it was right to to replace it and actually that's planned to be installed March 6th currently depending any of changes so we're getting close to seeing that board go
062up and why is that one more expensive than the one over airport is it different or just the area one was 300 and one was 200 like I don't believe there were substantial cost difference in them I mean my understanding you know this was you know this was first help me I think there was some CPI funding allotted a couple years ago for the board that that wasn't spent so then we just supplemented that with some more funding so I don't think there was a I know they put a lot I hate that they can't use it because I know Brooklyn Casey put a lot of their funds into that scoreboard to begin with so I just hate to see that being lost well all right thank you thank you sir appreciate that yeah my
063question was actually the same thing it it's it's not terribly close it's a $100,000 difference according to this well with this the this was the the budget of money through this cpif funding there was also uh some money for airports in a previous cpif approved budget so this was just to supplement that money so the actual cost was very similar it's just the money that we budgeted some more money for it this year because enough wasn't budgeted in a previous year am I'm stating that correctly right so is $300,000 about the cost we're looking at for each one of them 350 okay yeah we happy to provide that yes ma'am okay thank you very much any others all right we're gonna move along to new business under new business we got consideration of first reading
064of of proposed revisions and board policies bdb board board officers BB board agenda and BH public participation Mr shair I move that we approve the first reading of board policies bdb bedb and BH do I have a second I have a second any discussion all right Mr hit it again there you go I'm just trying to understand you know the the intent of these uh the first one doesn't seem you know like there really anything but some wording but this is the what worries me a little bit I just got back from School Board conference that I was required to go to as a new school board member and I I learned a lot but also um I learned that there's a lot more to it than maybe I thought so from a legal regulatory
065you know reporting environment and it just seems like the intent on at least the second one is to take the superintendent out more out of setting the agenda and that just scares me that's my comments any other discussion on anything all right he no discussion we got a motion as second we we call for a vote all in favor c i i all oppose CI I no okay 42 all right next I'm sorry all right next one is consideration of seven student travel requests Mr chairman um I make a motion that we approve the seven student travel request as presented on the agenda second I have a motion in a second all in favor say I I I all oppos all right and under C we have consideration of three staff trbal requests Mr chairman
066I make a motion that we approve um the request the three requests for staff travel second have a motion and a second all in favor say I I all oppos motion carries all right brings us to our announcements on March 14th a full day of school pre previously scheduled as an early release day um March 14th is end of the third nine weeks and then March 17th will be a in-person weather makeup day March 20th that treaded day when the report cards go home oh Lordy I hated them days March 20th Heroes and heroin's reception in the pack Center at 5:30 and then immediately following that at 6:00 on March 20th be our regular monthly meeting of the Board of Trustees in the district education center at 6 pm and now we will move for
067executive session I believe M won has a motion for us thank you Mr Kitty I make a motion that the Board of Trustees inter exec um inter executive e e e m all right I'm going turn turn it over to miss Wooten Mr chairman I make a motion that the meeting be reconvened in Open Session and the appropriate affidavit executed I have a motion do I have a second second all right without objection we're back in Open Session no votes were taken during executive session are there any motion to put forth before the board as a result of a discussion from exective session Mr chairman I make a motion that we approve the administration's um Personnel appointments and resignations I have a motion on a second any discussion being none all those in favor sign
068by saying I I I any oppose motion carries um Mr chairman I make a motion that we accept the administration recommendation for candidate a for the administration job at the district office any discussion there we go all right being none all those in favor see by saying I I oppose motion carries um Mr chairman I make a motion that we approve the um contract for Real Estate representation as presented second we have a motion and second any discussion being none all those in favor s by saying I I oppose motion carries motion to adjourn second second