001Item 3.01, returning from close session. We need someone to certify close session. To the best of our knowledge, the recommended 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. Sudden roll call vote. I I. Motion carries. Item 3.02. We need a motion for actions taken in close session. I make a motion to approve the personnel agenda as amended. Second. All in favor? I. Motion carries. Thank you. Item 3.03. Please stand for prayer and the pledge of allegiance. Let us pray. Heavenly Father, thank you for allowing us to serve our community. Help us to make wise decisions based on knowledge and facts. Watch over
002us and help us to do your will and to provide for our children and students. In Jesus name we pray. Amen. Amen. To the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Item 3.04. We need a motion to adopt the agenda as presented. I move that we adopt the agenda as presented. Second. Any discussion? All in favor? Motion carries. Item 3.05, selection of chairman for the fiscal year 2526. The floor is open for nominations for schoolboard chair for the 2025 2026 school year. I nominate Teresa Bryant as chair. Second. Are there any other nominations? Nominations are closed. Any discussion? Calling for votes for schoolboard chair. All in favor. Motion carries. Congratulations, Mrs. Bryant. Okay. Thank you. [Applause] That's
003another [Music] Thank you all for your confidence in me. I guess that should be u. Uh let's go to 3.06. Selection of the vice chair for 2526. Madam chair, I nominate Joe Snotty. Second. Are there any other motions for vice chair? Any discussion? All those in favor for Joe Snidy for vice chair, please raise your hand. That's unanimous. Congratulations. Thank you. Item 3.07, selection of the clerk of the board for 2526. Madam chair, I nominate Wendy Oliver. Second. Are there any other nominations? Hearing none. Um, any discussion? All those in favor of Wendy Oliver for clerk of the board, please raise your hand. That's unanimous. Motion carries. 3.07, 07 I mean 3.08 I'm sorry selection of the deputy clerk of the board for 2526. Are there any nominations? Madam chair I nominate Candace D. Second.
004A motion's been made for Candace D for deputy clerk of the board for 2526. Is there any discussion? All those in favor please raise your hand. as unanimous for Candace Clerk Candace Dows deputy clerk of the board for 2526. Uh that leads us to 3.09 times and locations of the 2526 school board meetings. Okay. And I think this is the one that u Dr. Rezner wanted us to move the May 13th meeting um to May 11th if possible. Is everybody in agreement with that? What what day is the board of supervisors meeting? Does anyone know? Is that the same day or Probably is. It's usually the same week, but ours is a little bit earlier. So, we could go starts at seven. Six or seven, I think. What do Do we have a motion to
005correct that or amend the um schedule meetings? Madam Chair, I make a motion to amend the scheduled meetings. Second. A motion's been made and properly seconded by Mr. Goodman and Mrs. Morris. All those in favor? Oh, is there any discussion on this? Madam Chair, um lady, person ma'am. Um, yeah, quickly looking at my calendar, you know, it does fall on the same day as the board of supervisors meeting. And in order not to conflict with that, even though their meeting starts a little bit after ours, in case anybody wanted to go, in order not to conflict, I recommend an alternate date besides May the 11th. Well, I have a question. Could we move it up instead of um starting our close session at three, we could move that up an hour or two and that
006way I hopefully we wouldn't go too much longer than what we normally do. Yeah, it's the end of the year. Um and we're Well, they're closing up shop, too. They're doing a lot of dang on extra paperwork and stuff for closing, right? So, I'm not opposed to um moving the time up an hour or so or couple of hours, whatever's needed. I just didn't want to um have a conflict with the board of supervisors meeting in case somebody wanted to attend and participate in that. you know, I'm perfectly fine with moving it off the the date that it's on now or uh May 12th is certainly a possibility if if we we did not discuss May 12th as an option, but um that would certainly be something that we could that would work with my
007within my request. Well, what do what does the board want to do? Do you want to move it up to May 11th, maybe an hour or two hours earlier, or do you want to go with May 12th? I I would rather just go with May 11th and move it up an hour or two. I concur. So we need a motion. Just the timing. You just need to remember students in the building. Yeah. For our open session. Yeah. You moved it up two hours. It may be an issue. One hour. You may like I said, they're still in school through the next two three weeks. Two weeks after that. Obviously the 12th it was me. The 12th may be better. Well, it's still going to be in school. No, no, but Well, I know that she
008was trying to make sure she had a travel day, though. If it's May 12th, we're fine. Okay, we're good. All right. So, do we need a mo different motion then? Yes. Please change your motion. May. All right. Madam Chair, I move we change the May 13th meeting to May 12th meeting at the same times that we already have. Second. A motion's been made by Mr. Snotty and second by Mr. Goodman to move the May 11th uh May 13th uh schoolboard meeting to May 12th. Right as amended. So all those in favor, please raise your hand. That's unanimous. Motion carries. If there's an issue, we can always readress it later in the school year as we progress. So as we develop the rest of the school calendar, the teachers and stuff like that, we need to
009amend it. We can do it later, too. Okay. Thank you. Okay. Um, we need to uh go to 4.01. Recommend the adoption and presentation of a resolution for Robert Leroy Gregory. So, we need to make a motion. Madam Chair, I make a motion that um that we adopt the presentation of a resolution for Robert Leroy Gregory. Second. And um we'll will you go ahead and do the other one and then I'll read them. All right. Madame Chair, I recommend the adoption and presentation of a resolution for Joan Ford Jones. Joanne Ford Jones. Okay. A motion's been made on both of those and properly second. All those in favor, please raise your hand. Should have done that differently. All right. I'm going to go ahead and read these um for Mr. Robert Leroy Gregory. I'm just
010going to read it from here because his uh family did not want to be here. Um, this is a resolution expressing the consensus of the Buckingham County School Board regarding the services of Robert Leroy Gregory. Whereas Mr. Gregory had served the students, parents, and staff of Buckingham Public Schools in multiple roads roles for 48 years. Whereas he served the community with his barber skills by bringing confidence and comfort to all who sat in his chair. Whereas he had a special gift for making pizzas for the students during his time working in the school cafeteria. Whereas he served as a member of Bright and Morning Star Holy Church for many years. Whereas he also served as the chairman of the deacon board, head of hospitality ministries and several other ministries at Bright and Morning Star Holy
011Church. Whereas he was a family man who deeply loved his family and often gave them affectionate nicknames. whereas he was a loving husband married to his devoted wife for 54 years. Whereas he he was a loving brother, brother-in-law, uncle, and godfather. Therefore, be it resolved that the members of the Buckingham County School Board wish to express the deepest appreciation for all he has done for the students and staff at Buckingham County Public Schools and to extend our condolences to his family and friends. and this resolution is to be adopted and presented to his family by the Buckingham County School Board on Wednesday, July 9th, 2025. And I do want to say that he was one of my constituents and uh him and Irma were always a really good good group, good family. So, let's just
012give them a hand. [Applause] Could the family of Joanne Ford Jones please come forward? [Music] Yes. Come on. This resolution is expressing the consensus of the Buckingham County School Board regarding the services of Joanne Ford Jones. Whereas Joanne Ford Jones has served the students, parents, and staff of Buckingham Public Schools for 18 years. Whereas she served as a member of Baptist Union Baptist Church from a young age. Whereas she served as youth director, missionary member, pastor's aid, ministry, daycare board, and was ordained as a deacon. Whereas her favorite activities were shopping, doing word search puzzles, collecting unicorns, and working as do or doing activities with children. Whereas she worked in Washington DC and retired from the US Department of Agriculture. Whereas she worked in Virginia at BOT, the region 10 community services board, and Buckingham
013County Public Schools. Whereas she was finally known as Nana by many. whereas she was a loving mother, grandmother, sister, sister-in-law, and godmother. Therefore, be it resolved that the members of the Buckingham County School Board wish to express the deepest appreciation for all she has done for the students and staff at Buckingham County Public Schools and to extend our condolences to her family and friends. This resolution is to be adopted and presented to the family by the Buckingham County School Board on Wednesday, July 9th, 2025. [Applause] [Music] Thank you so much. Thank you so much. Thank you. [Music] That leads us to 5.01 public comment. Anyone who wishes to address the school board must share their name and address and limit their comments to three minutes. Speakers must refrain from referring to employees by name. The
014school board will not entertain comments regarding any pending student discipline or employee grievance matters. The appropriate form for such matters is the application to the applicable administrative hearing provided by state law or were appropriate a court proceeding or a court proceeding. This is a time for comments only. Board members do not respond to the comments made. Questions should be submitted to the school board in writing and will be given the appropriate person to answer as soon as possible. Do we have anyone signed up? No one signed up. Okay. Now, I do see that we have some board of supervisors meeting uh board of supervisors here and I wanted to welcome you all. Uh could you all please stand? Uh Mr. Gillum, Mr. uh Joe Chambers, Mr. Davis and um Mr. Palmer. Thank you all for
015coming. Would any of you like to speak? Thank you. That leads us to item 6.01, approval of the consent agenda. Madam Chair, I move that we approve the agenda as presented. Consent agenda. Okay. Um any second? Second. Okay. Uh motion's been made to approve the consent agenda as presented. Um any questions on the motion? All those in favor, please raise your hand. Thank you. It's unanimous. 7.01 Superintendent Entry Plan and Comprehensive Plan Timeline. Thank you, Madam Chair, and members of the board. Uh first I would like to thank uh team Buckingham for their absolutely wonderful welcome I received last week and the tremendous help and support our schoolboard office team and administrators have provided me in helping acclimate me to Buckingham County Public Schools. The facility tours and conversations that we have had have been
016extremely meaningful and impactful. I also appreciate the one-to-one meetings with our schoolboard members that are already taking place. So, thank you again for your time and support this evening. I'm honored to share with you and the Buckingham community my 100 day superintendent entry plan. Buckingham County is a supportive rural small town community with a rich history and an exceptionally bright future. Our mission is to cultivate successful citizens, ensure safe, positive learning environments, and foster collaboration as well as critical and creative thinking among all students. Working together, we will enhance the existing culture of Buckingham County Public Schools and build consensus through communication, collaboration, transparency, and teamwork. I have established three main goals to help ensure a smooth leadership transition. The first goal is to communicate and build relationships. I believe that effective communication and transparency
017helps to build relationships and a foundation of trust. The second goal is to collect data. Collecting data helps me to learn much about Buckingham County Public Schools as well as make well-informed decisions. The third goal is to analyze data and plan. Using the information and data collected will help us to identify our strengths and opportunities as well as help with the process of creating a new comprehensive plan for our school division. Communication and relationships are the keys to help build a fan a foundation for continued success. I plan on meeting with as many stakeholders as possible to help create connections, to promote two-way communication, and to obtain information regarding our perceived strengths and opportunities for growth. Over the next three months, I will be meeting with the chair, the vice chair, and members of the
018school board. I will also plan meetings with student groups, parents, teachers, support staff, school and division administrators and community supporters to include Mr. Carter, our county administrator, Mr. Chambers, our chairman of the board of supervisors, and individual board members, town officials, Sheriff Kidd, Mr. Davis, our chief of emergency services, local ministers, and members of the Chamber of Commerce and community groups. Decisions that are wellinformed are based on data from multiple sources. Collecting data helps me to become informed of our total school division operations to include instruction, finance, human resources, student services, maintenance, transportation, and food services. It also helps to ensure our processes are effective, efficient, and student centered. In addition, it helps to identify our strengths and opportunities from multiple perspectives. I will be conducting focus group and individual interviews with stakeholders. I will
019be meeting with school and community groups with our central office leadership team with school leadership teams and participating in site visits both with within our schools and also off-site programs that our students attend. During this time, I will be conducting a comprehensive review of our approved FY26 budget, as well as reviewing our previous comprehensive plan, our current crisis management and emergency plans, our PD and assessment plans, and examining our co our capital improvement plans. I will also be examining documents related to student academic achievement schedules, handbooks, school websites, federal grants and programs, human resource documents, and finance and operation documents. Inter information gathered through interviews, our community survey, meetings, site visits, and document review will be used to identify strengths and challenges within our school division. I will use this data to determine what practices
020may need to be stopped, what initiatives we need to start, and what programs and practices should continue. This information will be shared with the school board and will also be used to help inform the school division's upcoming comprehensive plan. During the October 2025 schoolboard meeting, I will be sharing a 100-day report with the school board and the Buckingham community. This report will include results from the community survey, student feedback, stakeholder input from focus groups and interviews, and my own personal observations. Updates will be provided in February and May, and a one-year review will be shared during the July 2026 schoolboard meeting. I would like to conclude my entry plan presentation by sharing my core beliefs. Every student is capable of high achievement no matter his or her background. It is our responsibility to ensure high
021expectations, provide multiple opportunities and supports and cultivate relationships with students, parents, and families. School leaders should support the needs of each and every student and have a hands-on all-in approach. Parents entrust us with their children, the most important people in their lives, to teach, nurture, and keep safe. Communication, collaboration, and teamwork help to ensure success for all. Transparency and consistency in our daily work helps to build trust. And finally, a school division's greatest resource is it is our employees. Every employee should be valued for who they are, what they do, and encouraged to lead from where they are. I would now like to tra to transition into sharing our comprehensive plan 2025 timeline and action steps with you. So we will be engaging all stakeholders to help plan for the future of Buckingham County Public
022Schools. The comprehensive plan will establish the beliefs, mission, objectives, strategies, actions, and results that will help each and every student reach their fullest potential and highest aspirations. The plan will also outline how school division resources will be dedicated and allocated to meet our objectives and ensure success for each and every student. We will begin this work tonight. We are launching our community survey this evening and we will be meeting with division and school administrators tomorrow in August. We will meet with all employees, share our timeline and seek their support and participation. We will begin analyzing survey data and seek volunteers to serve on our comprehensive planning teams. In September and October, we will provide a planning update with the school board, establish action teams based on our objectives, and begin researching and developing result statements
023to support our objectives. In November, we will share a first draft of the comprehensive plan. And we'll seek stakeholder and community feedback regarding our draft. In December or at the very latest in January, we will seek approval from the school board for our comprehensive plan. Beginning in January through early February, we will collaborate with our administrators to establish our implementation timeline of our plan, assign responsibilities, and establish what documentation we would like to collect to ensure that we are meeting our objectives. During the February schoolboard meeting, we will share the comprehensive plan strategies, actions, and results implementation chart with the school board. And finally, we will provide two annual updates to the school board regarding the comprehensive plan imple implementation. Once in May of each year and again in November of each year.