001I certify that to the best of our knowledge, only public business matters lawfully exempted from open meeting requirements and only such public business matters as were identified in the motion to go into executive session were heard, discussed, or considered in executive session. >> Second. >> A motion was made by Mrs. Morris and second by Mr. Goodman to [clears throat] return from um close session. Roll call vote. I >> I >> We are back in session. 3.02 Certificate of action taken in close session. >> Which one we doing? Madam chair, I certify to the best of my knowledge that only per personal agenda >> personal agenda um retirements, resignations, transfer of specific employees, contract of renewal, salary scale, student discipline, student records, and public contracts were taken in close session. >> Jesus didn't work when he
002said. >> So just do >> just personnel. All right, >> Madam Chair, certify that only personnel agenda was >> make a motion. [laughter] >> Madam Chair, I move that we approve the personnel agenda as as presented. >> Second. >> A motion was made by Mr. Snotty and second by Mrs. Morris to approve the personnel agenda as presented. Are there any questions on the motion? All those in favor, please raise your hand. All those opposed. [clears throat] It's 6 to one. I mean 5 to one. Motion carries. Uh, madame chair, student number 2026512-01 to um relinquish student from compulsory attendance. Second. >> A motion was made by Mr. Goodman and second by Mrs. Morris to relinquish student 2026 512-01 from compulsory attendance. Are there any questions? All those in favor, please raise your hand. That's unanimous.
003Motion carries. Salary. Salary schools. Make a motion. salary scales. >> Madame chair, I make a motion to approve uh salary scales for 2026 through 2027. >> Second. >> Motion was made by Mr. Goodman and second by Mr. Snotty to approve [clears throat] the salary scales for the year 2026 27. Any questions on the motion? All those in favor, please raise your hand. >> That's unanimous. to do contracts for us. >> Madam Chair, I move that we um approve contracts as presented. >> Second. >> A motion was made by Mrs. Morris and second by Mr. Snotty to approve the contracts for 2026 27. Are there any questions on the motion? All those in favor, please raise your hand. That's unanimous. The motion carries. Now we will open this the school board meeting and we'll say a
004prayer first and then the um pledge of allegiance. So everyone please stand and remove your head. >> Let's bow our heads. Dear heavenly father, thank you for allowing us to gather here today. Thank you for allowing us to serve this community as we serve to honor you as well. Help us to make wise judgments. Help us to be fair and impartial. Bless these upcoming seniors as they leave this school and to their future endeavors. In Jesus name we pray. Amen. >> Amen. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for its stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. That leads us to 3.04, adoption of the agenda. Madam Chair, I make a motion to approve the to adopt the agenda as presented.
005>> Second. >> A motion was made by Mr. Goodman and second by Mrs. Morris to adopt the agenda as presented. Are there any questions? All those in favor, please raise your hand. That's unanimous. Motion carries. Now 4.01, student recognitions. Good morning. >> Okay, good evening. We have a packed house and lots of students to recognize this evening and so this is absolutely wonderful. Okay, we're going to start with our Buckingham 4 forestry team who won the state forestry contest that was held at Mountain Gateway Community College. Individual results include Owen Anderson placed eighth, Kaylee Stton plays pla placed seventh, Colin Snotty placed fourth, Luke Llewellyn was a first place individual, and the team has advanced to compete in West Virginia at the National 4 forestry contest that will be held in July. Members of our
006forestry team, please come forward and let's give them a round of applause. >> [applause] [applause] >> pictures. Stand here. And we always ask our families that are here to support their students to please come forward and we'll we'll file in and have our families if they would like to join on us on the stage to have a picture with your child. Hey, Luke. Luke, when y'all finish, come around and shake your hands. Okay, >> Luke. Duke. [laughter] >> Can we get everybody in? Congratulations. [applause] >> Congratulations. Congratulations. >> Our next >> Congratulations. >> Excuse me. >> Congratulations. >> Okay, our next group that we're going to recognize is the senior division FFA team. Placed second overall in the state forestry contest. They advanced to participate in the Big E contest that will be held this
007fall in Massachusetts. The individual results include Brian Halden, fourth place, Ben Gillum, third place, Sarah Bryant, first place, and I also have Luke Gillum, but I'm I don't know what what um place he was. It didn't say second overall. >> Second overall, excuse me. Uh would you please come forward? [applause] >> [applause] >> in case something our family members that are here to support our students. If you'd like to come forward for pictures, we'd love to have you. [laughter] >> I don't want to get up there. Y'all go on up there. That's exactly what happened. Hey, Ben. When y'all finish, come around and shake your hand. >> See, you better tell Ben tighten up. >> You better tighten up. I was going to smack Congratulations again. [applause] >> Congratulations. >> Whoops. >> Congratulations. >> [cough]
008>> Okay, next we have Elellanar Hensley from the middle school. She's being recognized for her artwork being chosen as representing the LCVA's Art Youth Month exhibit and her um artwork is on display. And Elellanar, would you please come forward? [applause] >> [applause] >> Is that >> Elanar's family would like to come and have their picture taken with Ellen? Is that something else? [snorts] >> Congratulations. [applause] >> Congratulations. It's awesome work. Good job. >> Buckingham County High School is proud to recognize Miss Grace Grace Martin for her appointment to Governor Yncan's 2025 2026 student advisory board. Grace is one of just eight high school seniors across the state of Virginia selected to represent their superintendent region and provide student voice and insight to the Virginia Board of Education. The student advisory board is made up of
009outstanding student leaders chosen for their academic achievement and passion for education. members serve a one-year term researching important topics and offering recommendations that help shape education policy across the Commonwealth of Virginia. Congratulations, Grace. Would you please come FORWARD [applause] [applause] and Grace's family, please come forward. [laughter] >> Try and get other [laughter] >> [applause] >> Thank you for serving us. >> Congratulations. >> Next, we have Mr. John Miller who's being recognized for his dedication, willingness, and a great accomplishment of being our high school mascot. Sir Nights a lot. Would John please come forward? [applause] [applause] [music] and will John's family please come forward. He >> did a great presentation the other day. >> Thank you. >> Best job in the house. >> Thank you. >> You're going to take your family family photo. >> [applause]
010>> Okay, we are also recognizing our junior ROC students. They placed third in the Junior ROC National Raider Challenge at Fort Knox. Okay. And so we're going to call them all up. There's quite a few. Maria Portello. >> Portillo. [applause] Portillo. I'm sorry. All >> [laughter] >> right. She's gonna she's going to help me with pronunciation. I want to apologize. >> Maya Portio. >> Portio. [laughter] [applause] >> So, yes. Thank you. Thank you, >> Cheyenne Schaer. [applause] >> Ava Shoemaker. [applause] Haley's sangronis. [laughter] >> Sangrronis Haley's Sangronis [applause] >> [applause] >> Elise Lake, [applause] Allison Martin. [applause] This must be the girls team. Olivia Miller. [applause] Eden Reese, [applause] [applause] Pette Battle. [applause] whole squad there. >> Payton Stout. [applause] PAYTON BEAM. >> [applause] >> AND BONNIE BROWNIE. [applause] You fall in squeeze. We have
011to turn. [laughter] >> Yes, ma'am. Okay. So, we're going to have our parents come up, our family members, but we're going to chunk it and do um three at a time. So, Maria, Cheyenne, and Ava's family, if you could come and we'll have your pictures made. The rest of you come off stage until it's your turn. Okay. So, Maria, if anyone from Maria, Cheyenne, here, >> we can start moving up to the front to have our family photos. She's got like seven kids in her family. >> Really? >> Goodness. >> Nice. Nice. >> Okay. >> And she's got a sister that's in it. >> It's in it, too. This was a single class. >> This girl. >> Okay. She's under class. Okay. Great. Everybody smile and look forward. >> Okay, great. Thank you. Congratulations. [applause]
012A Okay, so we're going to do Haley's, Elise, and Allison's family. If you could please come forward and make your way to the stage for photos. So trying to smile. >> Okay. Thank you. Okay. Olivia, Eden, and Pette's family, please come forward. >> Olivia, Eden, and Pette. >> Congratulations. >> [laughter] >> I know, right? Great. Thank you. Congratulations. [applause] >> And then finally, Payton and Bonnie's family. If you can make your way uh to the stage, Pton and Bonnie. Okay. >> Oh. And congratulations to all of our honores tonight. >> Hey, I want to thank the parents of those ROC because I know that they have put in a lot of uh blood, sweat, and tears, too. So, CONGRATULATIONS TO EVERYBODY. [applause] GOOD LUCK. >> That leads us to 5.01 public comment. Do we have
013anyone? >> Yeah. >> Okay. Public comment is closed. approval of the consent agenda. Madam Chair, I move to approve the consent agenda items. >> Second. >> Motion was made by Mr. Snotty and second by Mr. Jamerson to approve the consent agenda. Are there any questions on the motion? I do have a few. Sorry. Um on the accounts payable. Um who is Cordell Farley? Is that one of our uh therapy type? Did you say Cordell Farley? Yes. That's for our after school program at the middle school. >> Okay. >> And what is Everway News to you? Does anybody know what that means? >> That was like $4,000. I was just wondering what it was. >> Does it have a description beside it? >> It just says Everway News to you. >> Everway. What invoices it? >>
014Um, it was on the original ones. All right. It's a special education curriculum for high school. >> All right. Thank you. I'm sorry. And uh for the ROC, [laughter] I know that I talked to Mr. TA about this. Did you ever find out for me about whether or not they got the money for nationals? >> They did. He's coming up. That's a negative, ma'am. I spoke with um Sergeant Graasier about it. Um I mean to speak with Wendy to figure out how that that went. So >> it's I think it's in the invoice list this month. >> Well, I saw one invoice for 80164, but that was it. >> That's all they spent. >> But do they get >> they get what they spend? Okay. Up to a thousand. >> Okay. All right. Good enough.
015I'm I'm just making sure. All right. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> All right. Uh all those in favor of the motion, raise your hand. That's unanimous. The motion carries. Um I guess no one's here for the student liaison report, so we'll go past that. 7.02 recommend approval of the Medford League basketball team for the 202627 school year. >> Miss had a conference. Sorry, just making sure that was on. [laughter] Miss Grazer's had a conference, so she asked me to present hers. Um, so I have the letter that Stephanie Jones wrote to her requesting for continued participation in the Medford Heartland Basketball League. It says, "Dear Miss Graasier, on behalf of the Buckingham County High School Medford League, I would like to extend our sincere appreciation to Superintendent Dr. Cynthia Rezner and the members of
016the school board for your continued support of the BCHS Medford Heartland Basketball League. Since 2014, BCHS has proudly participated in this league, which has provided our students with meaningful opportunities to showcase their talents and engage with their peers. Through this experience, students have developed valuable teamwork skills while also growing in self-confidence and maturity. The special education department respectfully requests the school board's approval for BCHS to continue its participation in the Medford Heartland Basketball League during the 2026 2027 school year. >> Thank you. Madam Chair, I recommend we approve the Medford League basketball team reinstatement for the 2627 school year. >> Second. >> A motion was made by Mr. Snotty and second by Mrs. Morris to approve the Medford League basketball team for the 2627 school year. Are there any questions on the motion? All those
017in favor, please raise your hand. That's unanimous. The motion carries. 7.03 special education out of county placement update. So, Miss Graaser asked me to share that as well. She said after discussing outside placement students with their administrators, we currently have one student returning to our schools in the fall, she will be meeting with them again in July to see if there may be some students who could transition back to the school in the fall with a specific plan and support in place. Um, and she said currently we have had five students return this school year. >> Thank you. [snorts] >> This is a moving target. So, make sure we provide her with that. We want we want that on a regular basis. Yes. Not every month or anything, but like at least a quarterly update
018on where we're at with those students. >> We'll provide a quarterly update moving forward. >> Thank you. >> Um 7.04 recommending approval of the 2627 title one improving basic programs grant. So this is these are all the title federal grants that we apply for every year. Um title one part A improving basic programs. This is servicing our preschool, primary and elementary schools through various ways. Um we have them for intervention services, instructional staff, supplemental materials, family engagement, homeless materials. It's a wide variety. Um it is for $795,67921. So I'm asking for your approval for our application. >> I recommend approval for the uh application title one improving basic programs grant. >> Second. >> Motion was made by Mr. Snotty and second by Mr. Jamerson to approve the 2627 Title One improving basic programs grant as
019presented. Any questions? All those in favor, please raise your hand. That's unanimous. The motion carries. Thank you. Um 7.05 recommend approval of the 2627 title 2 part A supporting effective instruction grant. >> Yes. So this grant is for $110,745.34. This supports our class size reduction teacher as well as a change this year. We are adding in um support to help ensure lure for our teachers through practice testing to be able to help reimburse for that. So I'm asking for your approval of that as well. >> Madam chair, I recommend approval of the 2026 2027 title 2 part A supporting effective instruction grant. >> Second. >> A motion was made by Mr. Snotty and second by Mr. Jameson to approve title 2 part A supporting effective instruction grant for the 202627 school year. Any questions? All
020those in favor please raise your hand. That's unanimous. The motion carries. 7.06 recommend approval of the 2627 title 3 part A language instruction for English learners and immigrant [snorts] students grant. >> Yes. So this is a smaller grant. It's for our EL population. Um, it's for $3,73128. We use this mostly for translation services and for materials for our EL students, dictionaries, um, any vocabulary support they might need. So, I'm asking for your support of that. >> Question. >> Sure. >> Madam Chair, I move. >> Mr. Goodman wanted to ask a question. >> Yeah. Just um, one question. I know that sometimes we get students that don't speak English at all. kind of and I know we use some electronic devices and stuff. How how does that work? Like what is >> So we have iPads
021at every school with translation programming on there. We also have pocket talks where they you can speak to it and it'll translate. We also have the earbuds and we were fortunate this year that our e teacher for the division was fluent in Spanish and so >> Okay. So we do have an actual person that can reinforce some of this. Okay. All right. Thank you. Madam Chair, I recommend the approval of the 2026 2027 title 3 part A language instruction for English learners and immigrant studies grant. >> Second. >> A motion was made by Mrs. Morris and second by Mr. Goodman to approve the 2026 27 title 3 part A language instruction for English learners and immigrant students grant as presented. Any other questions? All those in favor, please raise your hand. That's unanimous. The motion
022carries. 7.07 recommend approval of the 2627 title 4 part A student support and academics enrichment grant. Miss Lissa Haynes. So this is our title four grant like you said for student support and academic enrichment. It's for $52,53.70. We use this. There's three categories with this. Safe and healthy, uh well-rounded, and tech. Tech is a very small amount of what we can use and we can't purchase devices. So it's usually used for professional development within technology. We've used it for AI in the past, things like that. Um we use it majorly for our alternative eda and then for our steam camp and steam materials maker space materials to encourage that. So I'm asking for your approval of that as well. Madam Chair, I recommend approval of the 2026 2027 title 4 part A student support and
023academics enrichment grant. >> Second. >> Motion was made by Mr. Snidy and second by Mr. Goodman to approve the 202627 title 4 part A enrichment grant. Any questions on the motion? All those in favor, please raise your hand. >> That's unanimous. The motion carries. >> Thank you. [laughter] 7.0 08 recommend approval of property liability, auto workers compensation and student insurance for 2026 27. Miss Patty Branch, good evening. Um, so if you notice the renewal that came in this year is about $17,214 less than it was last year. Um, the main reason to that was due to a decrease in student accident claims and also in workers compensation claims. So that's a good thing. Great. >> Um, if you noticed on the last page, I am doing an amendment to the estimate they gave us. Um,
024if we spend about $500 more dollars, we can increase our cyber security by from 1 million to 2 million. And in the recent events of the world and this latest hack with Canva, um, in talking with Mr. Moore, we thought that would be a good idea to do. So, this quote that I gave you may go up by 500. >> Any questions? >> Sure. Go ahead. >> Yeah. So, and I don't know if you can answer this question. Of course, you know, we know about the cyber security hack. I guess specifically, what do you mean by how how would that equate to extra security with regards to cyber security? >> So, it would ensure or protect us um financial wise as to you know with resources of how we fight it or how we fix
025it. Um, >> so would would would it cause like increased security in terms of a hacker not being able to get in or are you saying if a hacker gets in and then there's a data breach that we would receive some type of compensation from that or we would receive some type of assurance that >> right? So it itself is not going to beef up our security but if we were to get hacked this is going to help us combat it financially. >> Okay. >> Speaking >> Yeah. It just essentially covers us in the ransom event. Essentially, this is to pay a ransom if we were to fault them. >> Okay. All right. >> It doesn't strengthen anything. We're not doing anything on the network side. This is essentially just >> helping with that side.
026>> Okay. Thank you. >> What's the pleasure of the board? >> I recommend approval of property liability, auto workers compensation, student insurance for 2026 through 2027 school year. >> Second. Motion was made by Mr. Snotty and second by Mr. Jameson to approve the property liability auto workers compensation and student insurance for 2026 27 as presented. Uh any questions? All those in favor please raise your hand. Um all those opposed it it's uh approved 5 to one. Uh 7.09 09 recommend approval of the health, dental, and vision insurance coverage for 2026 27. Mr. Chuck Clement of Savvy Health. Madam Chairman, board of directors, Dr. Rezner, um you have in front of you a presentation that I'll go through briefly. Uh the biggest item is uh everything in the in my comments conforms with the budgeted amount
027that was uh presented earlier uh in the year. The secondly the uh first slide uh denotes the changes that have not been that will not be made and that is the plan contributions for the total uh health insurance plan will not change. The employee rates will not change. The plan options will not change either in health insurance, dental or vision. Um the network Sigma will stay the same and the TPA covet will stay the same. Uh direct primary care with troublesome creek medicine will continue and um it has been a really well um developed program. We have uh over 20% of the employees participating in that program and it maintains costs and uh Chris Hux is delighted with the service that that you are allowing him to provide. Uh the biggest change in the health
028insurance piece is the Mishi program will be uh terminated and we will be uh installing a new program for specifically to continue to reduce the cost of out-ofpocket expenses for employees. That's number one. And two to reduce the large claim exposure for the plan. On the next slide, uh it's just simply Savvy Health will become the direct contact point for employees with a dedicated number. It's a 247 number uh where our team will take the calls. We will listen to the employees uh desires relative to health services and we will be able to direct them personally. uh we have two tranches of where the employee can get services and they can save their deductibles, co-pays and co- insurance. One is through a special network that's already predescribed. An example would be Ortho Virginia. All the
029employees can go to Ortho Virginia and not pay anything out of pocket. Um the plan pays the cost for Ortho Virginia in a discounted network strategy. The second trunch is where an individual needs to go to outpatient. Uh our we have registered nurses that will call the outpatient clinics, negotiate the rate, pay, prepay the uh the rate and so therefore the employee will no longer have a co-pay deductible or co- insurance in those transactions. the uh the individuals that are partnering with Savvy Health to deliver to deliver these services have changed. Uh primarily two larger entities, one is diversified benefit strategies. Uh it's called a MERP. They will be housing the funds to do the direct pay that Savvy Health will be doing with their registered nurses. The other is a very special plan called
030ESC 100 where individual employees that have expenses that will exceed approximately $36,000 a year will have an option to uh take advantage of the uh benefit program and enroll in a special benefit program where they would not have co-pays, co- insurance deductibles or premium payments. this the plan impact of that choice would be that the plan would have no further liability other than 36 to $45,000 uh of expenses. As we know that our individual stop loss on a self-insured plan right now each employees cost could be up to $125,000 for the plan. So what we're achieving here is radically reducing the cost out of pocket for the employee and capitating the liability for the plan. Uh so both ends all of that's underneath the expenses of the plan that was talked about earlier. Um Troublesome
031Creek Medicine as I mentioned will continue and we hope to expand that on the administrative side. Uh with our changes, the administrative expenses actually reduce about 50 cents per employee per month. Uh nominal but nonetheless reduced. Um I would ask for your approval of these changes for the health insurance plan. >> Have a question. >> Any questions? What's the pleasure of the board? >> Madam Chair, I recommend approval of the health dental and vision insurance coverage for 2026 through 2027. >> Second. >> A motion was made by Mr. and second by Mr. Goodman to approve the health, dental, and [snorts] vision insurance coverage for 2026 27. Are there any questions? All those in favor, please raise your hand. >> That's unanimous. The motion carries. Thank you, Mr. Clemens. >> Thank you. >> 7.10 recommend approval
032of the 2627 payroll dates. So, Buckingham County Public Schools recently explored payroll schedule options for staff. Currently, employees are paid on a 12pay schedule once per month. We gathered feedback on whether staff would prefer to continue with this structure or shift to a 24pay schedule twice per month. Please note that non-contracted employees may still experience some months with only one paycheck due to processing timelines impacted by holidays and scheduled breaks. The survey with for employees remained open through May 4th, 2026. To ensure accurate results, staff must have been logged into their BCPS email account to complete this survey. Responses remained anonymous. However, each email account was limited to one response. So, there were a total of 210 responses to the survey. 116 respondents or 55.2% were teachers or specialized support services. 37 respondents or 17.6%
033were paraprofessionals. 22 respondents or 10.5% were support staff such as maintenance, grounds, transportation, food service or technology. 15 respondents or 7.1% were clerical or secretaries. 11 respondents or 5.2% 2% were administrative staff and finally nine respondents or 4.3% were class had classified themselves as other. Overall we received strong participation from our employees and we believe the survey results to be extremely valid as employees were limited to one response only. Of the respondents, 192 or 91.4% were contracted employees and 18 or 8.6% were hourly or non-contracted employees. Of the respondents, 118 or 56.2% of employees prefer a 24 pay schedule or two paychecks per month. or 31.4% of employees prefer to remain on a 12pay schedule or one paycheck per month. 45 or 21.4% of employees would prefer to adjust the December and/or January pay dates
034to shorten the time between each paycheck. Finally, 15 or 7.1% of employees have no payroll preference. In examining this survey data, it appears as though a majority of our employees prefer a 24-pay schedule or two paychecks per month. We understand that moving forward with a 24pay schedule will cost Buckingham County additional expenses and a loss in revenue. Double work each month regarding payroll will be required. We believe it is prudent that we have a detailed discussion with Mr. Carl Carter, the county administrator, and the Buckingham County Treasurer's office along with members of the board of supervisors before such a change might be implemented. With regards to the December 2026 paycheck, we could keep the pay date as [clears throat] scheduled on December 16th or we could consider moving it forward one week to December 23rd.
035This would leave five weeks instead of six weeks in between the December and January paychecks. We would also like to survey employees in the early fall after school begins as to which date that they would like to receive the bonus payment. And we would give them three options. It would be December 16th, December 23rd or December 31st. And we would go with the majority. So is this is this justformational for now or >> Well, we need to approve our payroll dates. Okay. And so presently option one has the December pay falling on December 16th. That's option one. Option two has us having the December pay on December 23rd. Option one has six approximately six weeks between December and January paychecks. Option two would have about approximately five weeks between December and January paychecks and not
036everyone gets a bonus, right? If you're netty, the bonus it would be what we're looking at currently would be and of course we'd have to seek a supplemental appropriation from the the board of supervisors out of our um year-end reserve to be able to fund the bonus for everyone, but we're looking at a $1,500 bonus for contracted employees and a $750 bonus for hourly employees. >> So, everyone would get a bonus, but it wouldn't be the same amount. it. Everyone gets a bonus and it's not the same amount. This this bonus that's being um presented by the state and let me reiterate, we still do not have a state budget approved yet, but it's it's still in there. Um this is not a retention bonus. And so therefore, we would not require employees to sign
037um the letter in order to receive the bonus because it's not being uh worded as such in the legislation. >> One other question. when the date of employment if they just started what's the cut off for getting a bonus? >> We have not determined that but my feeling is is my my initial thought and of course we could have further conversation but [clears throat] my initial thought would be if they are employed by X date that we give the bonus then they'd be eligible to receive the bonus. That's my initial thought because we're not using it as a recruitment or retention tool, but you know, we we have some time between now and then and we can certainly um have further conversations. >> Okay. I just wanted to make sure we >> Miss Auburn, do
038you have anything to add? >> Yeah. Before we've given them if you are employed at the time of the bonus, you got the bonus. >> Okay. >> But you all can decide that between now and the time we issue the bonus. >> Okay. So we have to vote on the the option one or option two. Your recommendation was >> for payroll. Um correct. Well, I mean if you look at the survey data and you look at um what the employees say they desire and that is for us to move to a 24 pay cycle. There is significant impact that this has on the county and I feel that it's prudent that we have a conversation with the county. Okay. And so I would, if we were going to make a change this this dramatic, I
039would want to have a full year of conversation and them a lot of heads up that this is coming so they can uh be prepared on their end as well and that this would go into effect potentially with um FY28, okay? Not FY27. But because our employees asked for this, I feel that option two is what I would recommend because it's at least squeezing that December paycheck a little bit for employees, paying them on December 23rd. You know, we are going to um survey our employees on which of the three dates in December they'd like to have the bonus. We cannot give the bonus in January. It has to be done in December. That's the latest that we could give it based on how it's how it's worded in the in the in the regulation.
040Um, so we would have to do it in December and we give them three options. Uh, do you want to see receive your uh bonus bonus before, you know, the holiday on the last day we're out? Do you want to receive it with your your your paycheck if if we move to December 23rd? or do you want to receive it a week later, you know, after after the holiday to help maybe perhaps bridge you until you can get your January paycheck. So, there's three three ways to look at it. And so, um, we would offer that as an option. when we put it out to survey >> and this is comp dependent upon the budget being approved by the state >> it's dependent upon the state budget and it's also dependent upon the when we
041when I I will ask for um I we will do a supplemental appropriation request from our year-end funds with the board of supervisors we would do that in the fall and they they helped us this year and so um we're going to continue to you know ask for their assistance with allowing us to have back. You know, this is our money, so we would ask for it back >> to be able to fund the bonus. >> I would think it would be easier on the employees for option two for the most part. I know it's late in the >> based off their input >> Christmas time, but I just feel like >> when you're trying to make ends meet in the winter, it's not easy sometimes. >> And they got the option for the bonus,
042too, right around that date. So, >> we still >> Do you want us to put it out to survey the the three options for the for the bonus? >> No. No. So the bonus all we're talking about right now is just the recommended action for this item >> for the payroll >> right for this item. So if you want if we want to talk about the the board of supervisors and we want to talk about the bonus we can talk about that later but I want to get the action done on this right now and then we can have a conversation separately if you want to do that. >> Uh but uh I agree based off of the input received I recommend approval of the uh 2026 2027 option two payroll due dates as presented.
043>> Second. >> A motion was made by Mr. Snotty and second by Mr. Goodman to approve option two of the fiscal year 27 payroll due dates as presented. Any questions? All those in favor, please raise your hand. That's unanimous. The motion carries. 7.11 recommend approval of the 2627 BCPS budget. Okay. Um good evening. We are um seeking your approval this evening of our school division budget for FY27, which is the upcoming 2026 2027 school year. And so before I uh begin, I would like to take a moment and thank Mrs. Wendy Oliver, our director of finance, for her assistance with developing our budget. Her support and dedication to our school division is truly tremendous. As we stated during our joint board joint board meeting with the board of supervisors on March 18, 2026, the state
044has not yet adopted its final budget. So, our budget will likely change based on the state's final appropriation. However, now that the board of supervisors has approved its budget and our request of an additional $381,717 above what was appropriated last year by the board due to the increase in the local composite index. We are requesting approval of our current proposed FY27 school division budget, which is the best estimate at this time of our revenue and expenditures for the upcoming 2026 2027 school year. The only FY27 calculation tool or calc tool that we currently have from the state is for Governor Yncan's budget, which is the most conservative version of the state budgets. When you look at the House version, the Senate version, and the governor's budget with an ADM of 1650, the state share would
045be 20,486,752 and the local share would be 9,124,273. However, our March 30th ADM was $1642, which is a reduction of eight students from 1650. And so we will continue to closely monitor our ADM and make any adjustments as needed. And so I will now go over some of the changes in revenues in the regular operations fund budget. So we are removing $5,000 in local tuition revenue. This year the school board elected to no longer charge tuition for students enrolling in Buckingham County schools who do not reside in the county. The amount of money that we would receive in ADM per student is more than what we would receive by charging parents tuition. The state budget as mentioned for the governor's budget will increase by a total of $374,269. The breakdown of these funds includes an
046increase in SOQ program funds mainly from basic aid and at risk revenues. Incentive funds are decreasing by a total of $425,537. This is due to the lower ADM and the change of the state pay raise in FY26 of 3%. And this year it includes a 2% pay raise. Categorical funds are decreasing by $627 and lottery funds are decreasing by $32,36. Once again, due to the loss of ADM, early child care, excuse me, early child care or childhood care funds are increasing $75,652 due to the state increase in the amount they are contributing per pupil in this program. Other state revenues are decreasing by $127,182. The special education tuition and alternative education grants are both less for the coming school year. Federal funds are increasing a total of 118,283. We have been awarded a continuation of
047the current 21st century grant at the Cardig Woodson complex and the middle school for our before and after school programs. We've also been awarded two new grants, the Gear Up and the Comprehensive Literacy State Development Grant. The revenue changes for the self-funded cafeteria fund are as follows. In local funds, we are decreasing the food service revenue by $50,000 as we have fully eligible C schools, which means that our schools do not charge students for breakfast and lunch. These funds are collected from adult meals and alleart purchases and we have seen a decrease in that revenue and so we are also removing the one-time bonus funds. In state revenue, there is an increase of $12,76 in lunch and breakfast funds. The largest portion of revenue funding for this fund is federal and we are projecting an
048increase of $151,000 due to an increase in students participating in our school breakfast and lunch programs. So this is a total adjustment in our cafeteria fund of $97,020 um to the proposed 2627 cafeteria fund budget. Our total proposed FY27 cafeteria budget is $1,940,563. Okay. When you put it all together, our proposed FY27 regular operations budget is 33 million6,985. And when you add in the cafeteria for a grand total budget total of $35,47,548, this budget includes a 4% salary increase and a step increase for contracted employees, an increase of the daily rate for teacher substitutes with a high school degree from $91 to $98 a day, as well as a 50 cent increase per hour in the CA in the cafeteria hourly rate for aids, dishwashers, and substitutes. There is no increase. Also, as as we
049stated with Mr. Clement's presentation, there is no increase for the employee or the employer portion of insurance premiums for the 2026 2027 school year. and having the the 0% increase on health insurance is a gamecher in terms of what we are able to provide our employees [clears throat] uh with regards to compensation increase for this coming school year. Do you have any questions regarding our request to approve the budget? >> What's the pleasure of the board? [clears throat] Madam Chair, I recommend approval of the 2026 2027 BCPS budget as presented. >> A motion was made by Mr. Snotty and second by Mr. Jameson to approve the BCPS proposed budget as presented. Are there any questions? All those in favor, please raise your hand. That's unanimous. The motion carries. 7.12 recommend approving a 4-day work week
050starting the week of May 18th through the week of July 20th. Okay. This evening, uh we are seeking your approval of a 4-day work week beginning the week of May 18th, 2026 through the week of July 20th, 2026. Normal work hours would resume beginning Monday, July 27th, 2026. And I do want to, you know, just to kind of give you some information to help you inform your, um, the the information that we're sharing this evening. Um, Halifax, uh, we we have gotten some information from other surrounding counties or counties in region 8. You know, Halifax will will operate on a on a 4-day week. Lunberg, um, Brunswick, Cumberland, Amelia, and Fluana. Those are just some of the surrounding areas um that are operating. um on a 4-day week. I do I did ask Mr. Heslip
051approximately how much we would save per day if with having you know the the buildings closed on Fridays and it's approximately 300 to $400 uh dollars per day. And if you look at the calendar, that's approximately 10 days. And so the cost savings could be as much as $4,000 to the school division um for implementing a 4-day work week during the summer. >> I have one question. Why are we starting the same week that we're getting out of school? [laughter] >> I'm just like because we're going half days and all that kind of stuff and then we're having graduation and so people might want to go to that. I'm just asking. >> Yeah. Well, you know, well, we would still be working our normal hours and, you know, there's a there's quite a few uh
05212-month employees that are involved with graduation and we anticipate, we're going to get to that item next, but uh we anticipate graduation. Um, you know, an employee might not um get home from graduation on graduation night until after, you know, it could be as late as 10:30 for some people or even 11 o'clock depending on where you live. So, um that that that is a long week. um we feel the hours are are are in. Even though we're getting out early, doesn't mean the employees are getting out early, the students are getting out early. And so um this is just I guess a tradition that we've started historically um with that first Friday. Um and so that's what that's what the that's what we have done historically. I always thought it was after school had
053let out. That's that's my only question about it. Um, as far as like May 25th, would you just go Tuesday through Friday? Work Tuesday through Friday or you have >> because of that being Monday or is that a holiday? >> No, Monday's a paid holiday irregardless. So it would so um so they would go to they would work Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday that week. >> Okay. >> What are the hours? I know previously it had been like 7 to 5 10 hour day as opposed to a normal 8 hour day. I believe it's 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. I believe that is what's is what what our hours are. >> I know the discussions have been that u sometimes those weren't adhered to in the past. Um that's been a comment that's been br bought up
054to us at the board level from members of the community anyway having gone by the office at said times and nobody was there or nobody was answering the door or whatever. So, um, I have no problem with doing it, but if we're going to say we're going to work the hours, then I recommend we adhere to the hours that were approving. >> Okay. Yeah, I will have that >> 7:30 to 5. >> I'm sorry. 7:30 to 5, excuse me, is what I was That's what I was told. 7:30 to 5, >> right? >> And we will have a note on the schoolboard office. I assume >> all all offices. >> Okay. Okay. Thank you. >> I mean, we we had comments on uh lunch breaks coincided with an hour, you know, walk up the street
055or whatever. I mean, these are we were we were having workout sessions and a 30-minute lunch or an hour lunch or whatever in conjunction with our timelines that we're that we're using to work. Uh, and that bothers people to say the least when >> Okay. So, what we will do is we will have a conversation with our administrators um prior to starting on Friday and we will then follow up we'll we'll continue to have follow-up conversations throughout the summer about the importance that we adhere to um this gift of time from you. Yeah, because if I could say so. Sure. Because I've I've experienced that. And of course, uh, you know, you go and you, you know, hit on the door and nobody answers and it's still an hour left until the quote unquote hour
056that you're supposed to get off. Um, you know, I just don't think that that's uh conducive with who we are. But thank you, Madam Chair. >> And I'll tell you, it wasn't the schools, it was the actual schoolboard office that these issues ran across. So, um, that's the big rub. Nobody has a problem with having the time off or or or condensing the work schedule, if you will. Compressed work schedule. You use it across the government entities all the time, but a compressed work schedule is fine as long as you're working the compressed work schedule. >> Okay. We will have those conversations that need to be need to be said and we'll make sure that that's reiterated. >> We need a motion. With that being said, Madam Chair, following the guidance of the board, I
057do recommend approving a 4-day work week starting the week of May 18th through the week of July 20th as presented. >> Second. >> A motion was made by Mr. Snotty and second by Mrs. Morris to approve the 4-day work week starting the week of May 18th through the week of July 20th. Are there any questions? All those in favor, please raise your hand. All those opposed. It's 5 to one. Motion carries. 7.13 recommend May 20th, graduation day, teacher work day, high school only. Yes. So, I would like uh for you to consider making May, Wednesday, [clears throat] May 20th, 2026 a teacher work day for the high school only. And this would mean that the 9th, 10th, and 11th grade students would not report to school on May 20th. All other Buckingham County public school
058students, that would include preschool, primary, elementary, and middle school, would not be affected and would continue to attend school on May 20th as scheduled. May 20th will be an extremely long day for high school teachers given that graduation this year is at Liberty University in Lynchburg and it will begin at 6:00 p.m. and likely will not end until 8:00 p.m. With traffic, some high school teachers and staff may not arrive home from Liberty until potentially 10:30 p.m. or later. Making it a teacher work day for the high school would allow the high school teachers to at least come in a little bit later on May 20th and not have the additional responsibility of student student instruction as well. They would also be able to make their way to Liberty University with plenty of time to
059spare and not feel rushed. Um I did speak with Mr. tally about this idea when we were at Liberty University on May 8th for the walkthrough meeting with Liberty and he is in full support of this idea. Again, this is just I know this is a late consideration. Uh but I do think it's um it's warranted um to balance to to offer work life balance to our high school teachers and staff. >> I have a question. Go ahead. So, I mean, it does help the high school teachers out. I said it does help the high school teachers out, but you have to consider that there are other teachers in the county who are going to be attending and are going to be impacted the same way and working all day, right? How do you balance
060that out? they are. But the expectation for high school teachers is that they are at gradu I mean that's an expectation that I think most every high school teacher attends graduation all the the whole staff and I mean we could certainly look at it. I it would I did not have the conversation with other principles to determine the impact that having an early release on you know a workday not having students at all on May 20th would have on the other schools. This was just something that I was thinking of for the high school. I mean, we can look at that as a calendar adjustment for next year, you know, for all schools, but, you know, I just felt like this year, um, it's something that we can think about, um, because high school teachers,
061you know, are would be teaching students if they're n, 10th, and 11th graders and and on top of that go to graduation and everything else. So, but I do I do see your point, Miss Morris. I do. [clears throat] >> If I could say something. >> Sure. Go ahead. >> You know, and I mean, I'm not opposed to it. I I celebrate the fact that you're thinking about others. Um, I would just say, uh, from a parent perspective, having, you know, multiple children in the school system, you know, you got your littleer kids that are going to be going to school and then your one that you have in high school, they they're [laughter] kind of at home and everything that day. Um, so I I mean I don't know I don't know if I'm
062kind of with Mrs. Mort. I don't know if there's a way that we can make it kind of more balanced. I mean I don't know um you know the students that would be out that day uh on the teacher work day. What would they be doing? I mean uh but thank you Madam Chair. >> Anyone else? >> Yeah. So um just thinking at it from different angles but all of the testing has been done. The only criteria being met would be the days in the seat >> and I have checked with I did check with Dr. Ring staff before I even you spoke with Miss Bryant last week about this. Um and seat time is not I mean we have we have the instruction hours the the instructional hours is not an issue. I would
063recommend modifying to have it all for for all then >> I think they have some programs slated for the other schools though possibly or not >> possibly I mean principles are here we could ask them to approach the mic and tell us what the impact >> got awards thinking >> awards >> elementary school >> who else >> let's see if somebody else had something >> I mean it is a half day for everyone. Um, it is it was just a thought that I had to help out those high school teachers >> and and this was not a request from anyone. No one reached out to me specifically regarding this issue. This was simply me >> taking it all in and thinking it through and saying, you know what, what if we did this for a
064high school? >> Well, you're dead on for far as timeline goes. I mean, you got people coming from Arvonia side all the way to Lynchburg. We're going from Scottsville side all the way to Lynchburg and you know everywhere in between. So it's a it's a at the longest about an hour and a half and the short is probably an hour and 15 minutes. So either way that's you know one way only. Um so I get it. I understand it. Totally agree with it. Um yes it is last minute. I have no problem with with the with the day off, you know, because I think the teachers probably could use the extra time to get their people ready, get their outfits ready, get their whatever speaking they might have to do ready. Um, I have no
065problem with that. It's just it is short and it's not really fair to the other teachers at the other schools, uh, or the staff for that matter. Um, so moving forward, yes, let's make make the unnecessary adjustments to the schedule. >> Uh, but I but I have no problem with this as far as this instance at the last minute. >> Yeah, I have no problem with it. >> So, we could what we could do is that, you know, if you if you [clears throat] want to we can kind of look at this in as two separate entities. what we're going to whether you're going to approve this or not for this year for high school only and then uh I will have Miss Haynes uh rework up the calendar and bring you a updated calendar
066where perhaps it's a teacher work day for we'll have to look and see how that might impact and we could have that ready for you for next month. >> Well, you you you'll want to have it not just this day, but you got teachers and staff that are coming in late at night after going out to eat and everything else that same drive in that's got to show up to work the next day possibly. So, you know, there's there's more than just the day of the event. There's there's the follow on day. >> I I agree. But, you know, but the last day of school is the 21st. And sure, >> you know, I I understand that it would be great to be able to not to be able not have school the next very
067next day. And that's one of the benefits of having graduation on a weekend. Um, but this is what I can this is what we can do right now given the time constraints that we have and the calendar that we have. >> Is the objective to have our graduation from this from now on at the Vine Center in Lynchburg or do we know? >> I can't speak to that. I want to just take a look at how things go this year and then we survey I think we need to survey >> I think we need to do a postgraduation survey to the community um parents the staff I think we need to get that feedback be you know before we plan further ahead um but I I we were highly impressed with the the visit that
068we had on March on May 8th highly highly impressed with the venue um the attentiveness the attention to detail that's going into this event. We think it's going to be um very special and the fact that the students can bring as many family members and loved ones uh and supporters that they wish is is great. >> Any other questions or >> that being said, I recommend May 20th, graduation day, teacher work day, high school only. Second. >> A motion was made by Mr. Snidy and second by Mr. Goodman to make May 20th graduation day, teacher work day at the high school only. Uh, any other questions? All those in favor, please raise your hand. All those opposed. If pass to one, [laughter] we will immediately get that word out um tomorrow to the high school
069students, parents, and staff. All right. 7.14 recommend moving the Junth June 19th holiday to be observed on June 18th. >> Madam Chair, >> that's for summer school, I'm assuming. >> Madam Chair, >> because it it'll be a 4 day work week. Yes. >> Uh we are recommending that the school board approve moving the Junth holiday, Friday, June 19th to be observed on Thursday, June 18th. Since you've approved the 4-day work calendar, um all schools and school offices would be closed on Thursday, June 18th in observance of June Junth as well as Friday, June 19th for um 4-day work week. >> I move to move the Junth to the 18th. >> Second. >> A motion was made by Mrs. Morris and second by Mr. Goodman to move the Junth June 19th holiday to be observed on
070June 18th as presented. Any questions? All those in favor, please raise your hand. That's unanimous. The motion carries. 7.15 Summer School updates by Dr. John Ring staff. Good evening board. I've [clears throat] also asked Dr. Harris, the principal of summer school, to join me. Some logistical items. Just a reminder that dates for summer school are June 1st through June 25th. And with your prior approval, June 18th will be a holiday. There is a teacher work day on May 27th from 8:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Work and instructional hours are 7:45 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. for teachers, 8:00 a.m. to 12:30 for students and peer professionals. And just with an overview of what happens at each school, I've asked Dr. Harris to to present that. >> So, our primary and elementary are both housed at the
071complex. And our primary school has nightife. They cover the reading, math, STEM, art, recreation. They also go on a lot of fun field trips. So, at the end of summer school, when we come back with our slideshow, we'll be able to show you all of the fun things [cough] that have taken place. Uh, elementary school has remediation that really targets our math and reading, and they also offer enrichment to challenge the students. They have encourse such as cooking, music, art, um, ASL, drama. They also go on several field trips throughout the time. At the middle school, we mostly target our math and English. And we have our 21st century that comes along with us. We also offer a summer camp for students who might necessarily have qualified for needing to come to summer school, but
072just would like to come spend some extra time here at school. We have about 13 kids signed up for the summer school camp. Outside of that, we do the cooking, STEM, fitness, life skills, and then at high school, they focus on English, algebra, geometry, world history, um, US and Virginia history. They also offer like a boot camp and a project graduation where we have some kids who just need to come in and get a little extra remediation to try to pass that so move along. And we have um it's a lot of moving pieces to the high school. So, we're not really sure what all that's going to look like yet, but we'll be able to report back and show more after summer school's taken place. >> Madam Chair, I got a question. >> Sure.
073Go ahead. >> What's the purpose of summer school? Because I see a lot of extracurricular activities up here that don't pertain to reading, writing, arithmetic. So a lot of our younger grades do have some of the extra fun stuff in sprinkled into it, but like at the middle and high school, a lot of that is focusing on our credit recovery. >> So we don't have a lot of the extra. So what happens ex um I can speak to the middle especially. So when you're seeing the enrichment that they do, so they'll come for it's actually they do three periods. So they'll spend an hour of intensive math. They'll do an hour of intensive English and then those extra enrichment. It's almost as if it's like a little encore class that they'll have sprinkled in between
074the two of those along with a lunch period. So those aren't as long as the other periods and it just gives them some extra time to learn. Um we're going to do a life skills one this year like can you write a check, can you sign your name in cursive and some other things like that. The reason why I ask is um long time you know when I was in school the purpose of summer school was for the the kids that might have been lacking behind in their grades um you know throughout the year give them a chance to catch up and get promoted into the next grade. So I guess over the decades things have changed with the philosophy of summer school >> right? So, the only students that we invite are the ones
075that have failed and they need to come. So, we sent out roughly um about 50 letters for students that were failing a core class that needed to come to summer school. So, when we're saying those core classes get them in the door and then some of the extra stuff is just there to entice them and keep them happy while they're there because it is summer, but it's mostly intensive and focusing on those core subjects so that they can move to the next grade level. So, we have several students who have failed those core courses that will be retained if they do not come to summer school. >> Do you have any special education uh students enrolled in summer school? >> We do. So, once we get the list of summer school names, we send them
076to the special ed directors in the building and they share all the accommodations that those students will need and then we have extra paras and other people on hand in case they needed to provide a collaborative setting. >> Okay. Thank you. That's all I got. >> Sure. Um, I was going to say my my daughter, my second youngest daughter, um, she didn't fail anything or whatever, but she wanted to she wants to go to the summer school. I didn't even realize that that was even possible. So, I guess kind of get the word out that y'all have >> the summer camp. We post it's on posted on our Thrillshare and we've shared it out on the Facebook page. >> Okay. Yeah. Because she's excited about doing that cuz I didn't even realize >> that's something
077we're offering through the Century 21 grant. >> Okay. that kind of coincides with the same time. So, they'll be in the building with us and they are just kind of a supplement to our summer school program. >> Okay. Yeah. Well, that's wonderful. She was excited and said, "I want to go." And I I'm thinking of, you know, old school, you know, summer school. You there and you don't want to be there, but I didn't realize that, like you said, you have these programs. And so, I think that that's great. >> Yeah, that's where the some of the extracurricular enrichment comes in. So we have our basic summer school and then the Century 21 their teachers come in and provide that extra enrichment. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Do we look at transition timelines for data
078from previous schools? By that I mean this if I have a student who's been successful in say uh middle school transitions to the high school and they fail to meet criteria in high school. Do we look at the transition information whether it be from data centric or information input from the from the teachers like what what's the disconnect between a student leaving the middle school or even leaving the the complex for example going to the middle school if there's a transition data piece there between that lower level and the upper level you know we talk about that what is it called the the vertical approach to to to instruction right the vertical alignment piece right but but if I'm if I'm only inviting students that were here am I looking at the data from before
079and saying I I'm going to look at these other students because while they passed, right, they're on that cusp. And if I look at the data from the next follow- on grade, the transition grade, if you will, at the next institution, then what I'm looking at is, okay, these guys are in a gray area where they're passing barely, but they get here and they're they're just not ready. So, are we are we comparing the data between the the previous, you know, the transition years, if you will? >> Yep. So these are datainformed decisions to recruit individuals for summer school and in other cases just just like she said these are enrichment opportunities because we want to serve all students. So we want to give enrichment we we don't want to see learning loss in the
080summer >> and I hate to use that co phrase but still you know they're [clears throat] away from school. So yes these are datainformed decisions. Just speaking from as a former high school principal, I'm taking my list of those who failed the so whether they were below 375 or they failed on the retest if they were a 375 to 399. And I'm on the phone. It could be a counselor, it could be a teacher, but we're on the phone talking to parents about why they need to come to summer school in order to get that verified credit for graduation. You know, that information is very fresh. If I'm coming out of say biology for instance as a former bio bio teacher and you know you're close now if you come to summer school and take
081this intense prep there's a good chance you're going to be able to pass but on the other levels they're looking at say vow scores or grades or attendance there there's metrics that inform them to say we've got to recruit this student for summer school and in some cases it's you know they don't want to give up their summer but in other cases once you have that conversation with the parent and incentivize and say, you know, in order for you to be promoted or in order for you to get the standard credit, recover the credit like old school, then those parents are saying, you need to go to summer school. I'm sorry. You know, so it is data informed. What's our what's our other than they're passing, what what other push back is there? Just I
082would assume transportation. No, we offer door-to-door transportation. So, we normally have the dump. Um, so Ronnie had asked for the dates by the 20th, but we're working on compiling them now to give him a preliminary list, and we do offer doortodoor. >> Okay. >> So, transportation's not an issue because we can even get our Century 21 kids and like the K life kids, they also share in that transportation. >> Okay. >> And we do ask for teacher input, too. So if it lots of times or if a parent calls and they say, you know, hey, I've really noticed. A lot of our good information comes from parents when they say, you know, this is how we were performing that year, could we look at this? And we do allow those students to come as well.
083But a lot of times it's just the resources of having three summer school teachers at the middle school and how many kids can we successfully take help and service. So, not only data driven, but >> resource driven. >> As well as teacher input. Yes. >> Got it. Resource driven. >> How many uh students routinely attend summer school? >> Um, usually it's about 30 to 40 per school that we take care of as far as just our kids that need recovery. And then additional students come through those Century 21 programs. Like right now we have about 13 signed up, but we just opened signups up maybe a day ago. So we expect quite a bit more >> success. >> Yes. >> How about the end of the school year, summer school year, summer school month, summer
084school week? >> Are we are we seeing success moving forward? I mean, how do we capture that? >> Yeah. So after summer school happens and we come back and we do the presentation, we'll show because each of them do a pre-EST and a post- test. So, we show what kind of growth they've had. We show their record of attendance, are they coming, what they're getting done, and we put on the big presentation where each of the uh leaders at the different schools, we put together all of that data for you, and that will be presented at the schoolboard meeting following summer school. >> I bring it up only because I'm interested. Uh I'm not discarding any summer school. I did it. That's the only way I graduated. But, uh when you have a a shortened
085season like that, like I was happy. I told my algebra 2trig teacher, I was like, "Look, all I need is a C." He was like, "All right, C." So, I know it doesn't happen now, but I'm like, "I need a C to get my math credits, but if but if at the end of summer school, I got to have the credit for the so or the credit for the alternative, right, scoring method or whatever you want to call it." Uh, is that are we seeing that happen, >> especially at the high school level, I would imagine, [clears throat] >> where we got the criteria for graduation. >> That's more relevant, I would think. >> Yeah. I don't remember the exact numbers, but I know when Mr. Tally spoke last year, there were quite several students
086who had come in and were able to successfully pass what they needed to move on. >> Okay, >> I remember the presentation. >> Good. >> That's all I have. Sorry. >> Okay. Um, moving on to 7.16 instructional update by Dr. Ringstead. >> Good evening again, board. I wanted to bring you up to speed on some items. Registration is continuing for both kindergarten and preschool. interest has increased in Buckingham County for offering an additional three-year-old class. And this is in addition to what Head Start supports. This new class will be funded if approved through the Virginia Preschool Initiative. So, generally what we're seeing is is a little fewer fourth grade, four-year-old students, and more three-year-old students. So, we have shuffled our formula to support a new three-year-old class, which will be funded by BPI. I'm not
087asking for additional funds there. Standards of learning testing continues through May 21st. While some of our grade level and EOCC or end of course tests are complete, there are still outstanding makeup and retake test to complete before we report scores. I don't want to report preliminary scores. Much of the past few weeks has been used to purchase and/or order materials for our teachers to be to put into use in August. This includes scheduling professional development for work week. Currently recruiting staff to participate in region. Just like for students in summer school, there are opportunities for professional development for students or for teachers and for administrators. And so we're recruiting uh for those events. This includes our administrators on topics including discipline using Val's data, parent student engagement, and more. I wanted to to pause to
088do an instructional highlight that I think is very deserving. I was witnessed to Buckingham County High School's JOTC. They recently hosted the retired uh military guest who do a JPA inspection. This is a program for accreditation. The battalion as well as our community should be proud of their outstanding performance. This includes almost a practical piece where they drill and they march in the and and participate, you know, in full dress. And then it's also a presentation to these retired military uh and current military instructors. And I wanted to pick. It's very hard because that battalion is so good across the board, but I felt like one particular student was very deserving of a public praise. And she is a senior and she is a recipient of a 4-year Gerity scholarship to JMU. She's going to
089be a nurse. She's going to represent Buckingham. Well, she maintained such poise beyond her years and confidence. She had to handle the most direct questions when the JOTC presented the data and she ma and it was those were tough questions and I know some of you saw it. She maintained such good poise and confidence that I wanted to publicly praise Sierra Moore. She she is an amazing person. [applause] That concludes the instructional. >> Okay. I would also like to say that all of them really did great. I mean, for them to still get above 95, >> which they asked a lot of questions of them and they were worried because they said the other group only did 20 minutes and we got about two hours worth of questions [laughter] it seemed like, >> but they
090did great. So, thank you. That leads us to 7.17 uh energy efficiency update by Mr. JB Hes. >> Thank you so much, board. [clears throat] I'd like to get right into it. Um, spoiler alert, everyone gets smiley faces this month. Good job by everybody. Um, also like to thank you guys for giving me the opportunity to not only look at this data, but be your facilities director. It means a lot to me. So, going right into the numbers. PreK, um, down 29 almost 30%, they save $650 off of their bill. Um, primary school $1,5818 savings. Elementary 766 um and 34. Middle school 2,42525 savings from last year. Um high school $2,197.37. The cottage $2.13. Dollar saved, dollar earned. CTE $88.93. Bus shop $63.89. Schoolboard office $126.13. Alternative edid $7241. So as you remember we started
091this in October and we still have some months to go. Um we still have June, July, August, and September bills to look at. Um we projected we thought we'd be doing great if we had a 7% increase, excuse me, decrease of kilowatt usage across the county. Right now we're almost at 12% which is great. And we've saved in kilowatt [clears throat] hours over 300,000 kilowatt hours as a school system. That's tremendous. Um and right now our total savings uh for this initiative is $37,8868. I'm predicting that next month if everything trends like we like we're doing that we'll be over our mark well early in advance of our goal. So that's great. I'd like to thank you guys for having the uh initiative or giving us the initiative, Dr. Rezner for the vision and also
092teachers and admin making this happen. So after we got rolling, we're we're making some good progress. >> Questions for me. >> Thank you so much. >> Impressive. >> Thank you. >> Awesome job, brother. Awesome job, JB. >> Everybody, I mean, it takes a village, so well, you know, it was [laughter] >> everybody did awesome. Everybody had to do it. So it's not just one person, but he spearheaded it. Thank you. [laughter] 7.18 monthly enrollment report. Okay. So on our monthly uh membership report, Miss D has added a couple of lines to provide additional information for you. Our our yeartoate average days of membership is 1653, but 10 students are grant funded through SISNA. So they come out of that calculation because we receive a separate pot of money for those students. So our projected ADM
093year to date is 1643 for the month of April. Our enrollment for the preschool is 92 students. Our enrollment for the primary school is 349 students. Our enrollment for the elementary school is 353 students. Our enrollment for the middle school is six is 385 students. And finally, our enrollment for the high school is 576 students. Okay, any questions on that? Thank you for that. >> Thank you. >> All right. 8.01 schoolboard uh member committee updates or other business. I guess >> I know facilities is coming up one June, right? JB >> June 1st 4 4:00 >> Um I do want to make sure that we make a uh formal um invitation to the board of supervisors for our graduation. Um so I'd like to send something to them if we can. They got them last
094night. >> They got them last night. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Any other business to come before the board? >> Oh, um I went to a um one of the uh parent engagement nights and it was wonderful. So, all of those that were involved with that, that was wonderful. Wonderful. >> Yeah, that was Chinese night, right? >> Yeah, you were there. Yeah, you were. [laughter] >> That was good. That was interesting. I was working. I did want to say one other thing that we um we did not approve two policies last month. We need to bring those back next month to go over >> and they are GB and JFCD. So, we just need to bring those back next. >> Yes, we were aware of that and we u thought we would include them in
095the next policy update that will be coming up fairly fair soon. We would get them approved at that time. >> All right. I just wanted to make sure we didn't lose sight of >> we're going to have the u policies regarding um what is it the um security piece we had. >> Yeah, that's so we I did contact Sans Anderson regarding that. >> Um and there's quite a bit of things that you we will need to consider um >> going into that one >> if we were if you wanted to approach approach that subject. >> Okay, >> I think. >> Got it. >> All right. Any other um items to come before the board? >> May I ask one thing? >> I'd just like to um to remind everyone that um Mr. Ralph Jones's, you
096know, um memorial service is um Sunday, May 17th at the high school beginning at 2 p.m. I plan on being in in attendance. Um, we have a memorial we have a bubble memorial planned for the students on Thursday, May 14th. I think it's at 1:30. We've bought a bubble machine and and bottles of bubbles and we've got them nicely decorated with his picture on it. And this is an opportunity for the students to have a a special memorial for Mr. Jones. you know, certainly I'm sure the high school would allow, you know, others to participate, but we designed this memorial for the students that that worked with Mr. Jones and loved him so much. Um, this past week um the um I asked Mr. Heslip to a to have the grounds team go out to
097the Jones home to um fix the fix the yard that Mr. Jones had started and that was taken care of by us and um then I then I visited Miss Patterson Jones um along with Mr. Heslip and Mr. Tally and Mr. Palmer. We had a nice visit with her. Um, and then, um, this past Monday, Monday, I I dedicated my my weekly nightly news to honor Mr. Jones. So, we're, you know, we're deeply saddened by his passing. Um, and but we're pulling together as a team Buckingham community to honor and recognize him. And um I hope I know that I know that his memorial service will be well attended on Sunday because so many people within our school division truly loved him and he had a memorable impact on on everyone he encountered. So I
098just wanted to share that information. >> Thank you. >> And and that is at 2 o'clock. >> Two o'clock at the high school. Yes, ma'am. On uh Sunday, May 17th. Okay. >> Anything else to come before the board? If not, we