001I will now call to order the April 22nd, 2025 regular Clark County School Board meeting. Please rise for Please rise for the pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Any questions about tonight's agenda? May I have a motion, please? I move to accept the tonight's agenda. A second. All in favor? I. All opposed. Any questions about the consent agenda? May I have a motion, please? I move that we approve the April 22nd, 2025 consent agenda as presented. Second. Um, all in favor? I. All opposed. Sorry, I lost the agenda. Um, okay. Next is presentation. Sorry, I lost the agenda. Um, next is presentation for workbased learning. So, Mr. Coleman. You got
002it. All right. Wow. Okay. I can stand over here. That's not her. Okay. I was I was waiting on one more. Yeah, I was waiting on one more student to to come in. Um hopefully she'll come in by the time Oh, there she is. All right. Um if you could just quickly scroll down to page seven. Um I'm going to do last part really quickly and then I'm going to let them talk uh because that's who you'll want to hear from. Um so this is something that uh we started this year. It's a steps postsecondary program for special ed students who are between the ages of 18 and 22. Um right now we're going two days a week at Shannido University. Um they're treated like Shannondoa University students. They have um IDs. Um they work
003on campus. Um, and then they have students, uh, teachers who come in and help with the, uh, the, uh, the program. But we're looking at continuing this next year, hopefully going five days a week, um, to where we finally have a post-secondary program for our students between ages of 18 to 22. I'm done. All right, you can keep going. Yeah. U,, this is just what workbased learning is. U, that's just on there for basic information. Um, but then the next slide is all of the workbased learning uh categories that students can do. Um, right now we're doing all of those except for I believe the uh I can't I need glasses. Um, better glasses. Entrepreneurship is the only one that we're not doing as of right now. Thanks. U Yeah, you can keep on going.
004Scroll up. All right. So, this year we did the you have options career fair. We had 103 businesses that came in um which is the largest in the area. Um I have over 300 students. All the students had a chance to participate. Um we had 40 colleges there um as well as everyone from trades to um health and medical. Um then we had people outside that were um students were able to actually try out different um simulation machines. Um they had big excavators there that students were able to get into and see what it was like to to actually drive those around. Um if you can keep on going. Um this is it duplicated. Oh, you Okay. Yeah, it duplicated itself. And then these are some other uh workbased learning opportunities. Right now we have
00518 students in internships. You'll be able to hear from some of them today. Uh 56 students who have done job shedding so far. Um over 300 students have done uh participated in work-based learning presentations. Um that's where we bring in people from the community to talk as well as take them out um and do tours. Um next uh the two 2026 27 school year we're going to be the first district in the lower Fairfax Lur Ridge um region that will be able to offer the UCGs which is the first year um of their college done uh without having to take any classes online. Our teachers will be able to teach it. Students will leave with their first year degree u completely done. What's UCGs? It's the uniform certificate of general studies. It's the first year
006um of of community college completed. Um then we went to Shannon University for esports. Uh gaming is a big thing. They have a the program um to where you can actually get a degree in esports. Um it's kind of like marketing uh but uh they do have a degree uh for esports. Um, and here's some other presentations that we've done. We've had NASA come in. Um, we had an entrepreneur come in. It's Good News Coffee. Um, she's 20 years old and runs her own business. Um, and she came in to talk to students about what it takes to be a young entrepreneur and what all the stuff that she has to go through. We did aviation uh because aviation is a big thing now uh with students. U someone from the Winchester Regional Airport came
007in and talked about that. And then continuing, we had Shepard University. Um that's an annual trip that we take now. Um if you've never been to Shephard's uh School of Nursing, um it when you walk in, it feels like you're actually in a hospital. Um it's very well put together. Like it's probably the best one that I've seen. Um Eugene Smith was gracious enough to allow our students to come there and see him do some art demonstrations. We were able to get the Department of Forensics to come in um and do uh talk about what it takes to be uh get into forensic science. Uh so they came in from the Manasses area. and then so forth. We had thread intelligence for Google. Dr. Thomas Turner came over. We did the Valley Health Job Expo.
008And then here's some other ones. I'm not going to read them all, but these are all the things that we've done so far this year. And continuing on, those are some other things that we've done. Um this Thursday and Friday, we're taking students to take the FAA 107 lensure exam. Um this is for our unmanned aircraft class. So, they'll be certified as long as they pass the exam um to where they could be able to go out and get jobs because presently if you can fly a drone, you can make anywhere between $150 to $300 an hour. Um just flying a drone around for insurance companies, for Walmart, um some other places. Um did you say our students are doing what they uh they'll be juniors and seniors? And we have to uh we have
009eight that will be taking the exam this year. Uh Mr. Mr. Lane teaches it and he comes and tells me who he thinks has the best chances of of passing it based off of of their class performance. So, like, do we support them in studying for this exam outside of just our regular Yes. Y uh Mr. Lane gives them study guides uh because he actually took it and I believe he scored a 96 on the exam and only missed three or four questions. So, two, sorry, two questions. Two, right? Um and these are things that are coming up. Uh we we're starting the firefighting amt class um over with the innovation center in uh Winchester. We're also rolling out the forensics or introduction to forensics uh for students. We're doing a senior uh shadow day
010next school year to where we're going to have all the senior class go out and shadow different careers. Um on one specific day, uh Shocki has agreed to do a construction apprenticeship. Um, we're going to be rolling out some cool schoolbased enterprises within the high school. We're doing the fourth annual um, college and career fair. I've already got 60 people that have already come back and said yes, they want to participate again. Um, and then a new one that we just uh, were able to get completed is the community college of Beaver County in Pennsylvania, which is the top air traffic control um, program in the nation, has agreed to allow our students to take um, all of their courses for an instate tuition. Um and then if they decide to continue on with them,
011they will keep that same tuition cost. There won't be any increase um for them to if they decide to continue on. Is that online or they Yes. Yep. They'll be able to take it all asynchronous online. Awesome. And then that is just all of our CTE courses if you ever wanted to look and see what all classes that we offer. Uh, so if you scroll back to the top because I'm I'm Yes, ma'am. All right. So, the student presentations. Who would like to go first? All right. Marley. Uh, so Marley, uh, back over. She does our physical therapy mentorship with Barryville Physical Therapy. And floor is yours. Okay. Hi, I'm Marley. Um, yeah, I work at Burville Physical Therapy. I get early release. So I'm out of school at 1:30 and then from 2 to
0124 after school I work there as a paid aid. It started out as a unpaid internship but I very quickly got like a paid aid position. So that's really nice. Um I on Tuesdays and Thursdays I ate a senior exercise class. So I think our ages range from like 60 to late 80s. Um and basically it's just to keep them in shape. We do a lot of balance exercises. Um, and that has gotten me like I'm not allowed to manipulate patients when I shadow on Wednesdays. So, that has allowed me the opportunity to work hands-on with patients without actually the like it's not therapy, but I get to be hands-on, if that makes sense. Um, because in the actual like therapy part of it, I can only watch, which is still really exciting for me
013because um, like I've done this all through Mr. Coleman. So it doesn't really feel like a job because it's something that I like to do whereas you know some other things that I've worked it's like oh I have to go to work today but it doesn't actually feel like work. Um it's really fun and I love talking to patients and it's been really beneficial to me because um I've learned a lot of stuff just like all the medical terminology that you don't really get to know until you're into college. Um so I think it's definitely given me a jump start on any physical therapy programs that I might be starting soon. Um, I also will get the office hours. So, if I continue into the summer, which I plan on doing, um, I have a
014lot more office hours than any of my future opponents when trying to get into a master's program. That's kind of all I had. I'm a senior this year. Thank you. Excuse me. Are you you're planning on pursuing this as a university thing? This is not something I thought once upon a time that all you needed was an associates or something. Found out you actually need a master's to work. Uh, is that what you're planning on doing? Yeah. So, I'm going to Bridgewwater College for four years and I'm going to study health and exercise science and then from there I hope to get a master's degree at a bigger university. Okay. Thank you. Is there any other questions for uh Marley? Okay. Um, so here we have Sasha Danchek. She is in our um, culinary arts,
015culinary arts program at at Blige and then Cole Vincent, he's in our welding program. Um, so they So our culinary arts at Blige is full of um, incredibly experienced chefs. We have people from around the world. Um I think one of our main chefs is from Scotland and um she went to the large she went to the like most renowned um culinary school like the best one in the world and then we have another chef who has actually been on TV multiple times and like won competitions. So it's really cool to work with them. Um it's obviously very hands-on every day. Um well every other day we're cooking and then the other days we are doing um nutrition or we are doing um like study halls and so we constantly have chefs who are making
016sure that we are doing everything right and making sure that we are um completing things to the best of our abilities. And it's really helped me learn more about the um career and learn more about um how to better cook in the kitchen. And I absolutely love it. I love every second of it. It's a little challenging at times, but it helps you push yourself. So, all right. Uh, good afternoon. I am, uh, Colton Vincent, and I'm in the welding and mechatronics program at Blige. Um, it's an incredible program that I have come to value so incredibly much. Um, we have learned, uh, not just welding and mechatronics. Um, we have also taken electronics and fluid power courses and OSHA. Um, so we're learning a broad spectrum of valuable skills that I will be able
017to put to use in the workplace. Um, as well as, uh, studying welding, which I plan to continue my education with. Um, following my graduation, I'll be shipping out for basic training for the, uh, Pennsylvania Army National Guard over the summer. And then following um basic training, I'll be going to Penn College of Technology where I will pursue a bachelor's degree in welding technology with a minor in non-destructive testing, which is testing welds for quality assurance. Um I'm very excited for that. But this program has been so incredibly valuable and I've learned so much that I definitely have a jump start as the program is called. So what's meatronics? So, mechatronics is uh it's almost a little confusing, but we cover a broad spectrum of shop skills. Um, anything from working with motors to also
018learning just, you know, how to do taps and dyes and, you know, just general shop knowledge. Um, I don't know if that's exactly what it's supposed to be, but that's what we've learned and it's definitely valuable. Thank you. Oh, thank you. All right. And our last two because they've been they wanted to go last anyway. Um so we have Mia and Savannah. Um they are part of our first Aldi internship. U the students have the ability to work with uh Jamie with the horse side and then Turner on the business side. So they're going to talk about that for a little bit. Okay. Um as I already told you, my name is Mia. Mia Wolf and I'm a part of the Oddly internship. We kind of got set up through an email from Mr. Coleman.
019Actually, I had no idea what Oddly Farm was. And both my parents grew up farmers, but I've never been within that like atmosphere. And I've kind of grown to really love it and really love the animals. I kind of used to just It's 2 minutes from my house. I did not and I had no idea like what was going on behind like the fence. And I've kind of grown to love not only the horses but also the cattle. And it's just given us a new it's a great way to start our morning in a way because I know Marley talked about how she has two early releases but Savannah and I were kind of the opposite. Our first and second block are at this farm. So it's kind of a great way to start our
020morning with fresh air and be around the animals. And everyone who works there is extremely nice and they do a really good job there. And I think it's also kind of broadened my horizons, I guess, and potentially being a vet because part of me kind of wants to be a dermatologist, but on the other hand, I suppose I would kind of enjoy being a vet and I wasn't entirely sure because I haven't had like large animal experience prior to Oddly, but after working with the horses and being around the cattle, I've kind of been like, "Oh, this is something I could actually see myself doing, not just because of the big fat paycheck either. And then after, oddly, I or after I'm also a senior and then I plan to attend Virginia Tech, hopefully rooming
021with Savannah if she'll have me. And I plan to sadly study medicinal chemistry. We'll see how that one goes. And that'll potentially lead me to be a dermatologist or maybe a vet, but I first got to get into med school or vet school. and with the help of the farm manager Turner and his letter of recommendation, that is what got me to Virginia Tech and I hope I can pursue those dreams. Hi, I'm Savannah. As Mia said, um she pretty much covered it all, but going into this I had no idea about animals like at all in the slightest, but I joined it because of the business side we were told about. So we every now and then we meet with Turner Kobayashi who is the manager and we talk about the cattle business and
022learn about the history of Oddley in their equin industry and their cattle industry and kind of how they sell their meat. So that's kind of what's helping me because I'm also going to Virginia Tech and majoring in business. So being in that business side and seeing how they market and how they finance their cattle industry that they're still working on building is just really educational to me. like I just it's a great opportunity. Any questions? Thank you. No, like I don't have any questions. I'm just blown away by by all of you guys. Um it's like and and the work that Mr. Coleman has put in um with making connections within our community and then also outside of our community. And in the past, I've like driven past the um the kind of CTE center
023that Winchester City has. And you know, you feel so jealous when you look at this like gorgeous building that's that was probably millions of millions of dollars, but the opportunities that you guys have are just as awesome. We may not have the same facility, but the work that you've put in, Mr. Coleman and then um all of you guys for taking advantage of it because it's I think it's hard sometimes to um leave your peers at the high school like to to not want to be with your classmates all day long especially like with the welding and the culinary arts program like you miss kind of a large part of your day right with your classmates. So it's that's a sacrifice that you guys have made. Um, but it's awesome that you've stuck with it
024and that you're seeing the value of of taking these classes. And I'm so glad that you guys just came and presented um because so often you hear about teenagers and you know how awful they are and you know making mistakes and all of the bad stuff. Um, but you guys are um just proof that that our educ our we have a great educational system in Clark County and we're really proud of you. And Colton, you're like I don't know a monthly um attendee to our schoolboard meetings. I don't know how many times you've been here, but um we're really excited for for your future. And are you Sasha? Are you a senior this year? Okay. Wow. So, good luck to all of you. Thank you. Yeah. U Mr. Coleman and Miss Wearing since I know
025nothing happens at high school without Miss Wearing's blessing. Uh I ran for school board. One of the things I thought I might have to do is get deeply involved with a CTE program because there were some problems a few years ago. Got here and I found out I didn't have to do a damn thing. me home watching TV now. But uh Mr. Coleman, congratulations. Miss Wearing again, congratulations. And to you students, uh I'm sure you're all going to do well. Uh most of the Clark County kids seem to. So well done one and all. I'm going to put another hat on. I'm going to put my Farm Bureau hat on right now. And anyway, uh certainly uh I want to give credit to everybody that was involved. Certainly Mr. Coleman has done has taken it
026uh where we had hoped to be and Dr. Nail and Dr. Seal in the last four or five years. Farm Bureau had always been trying to uh push some things with the with the with in a but uh recognizing the opportunities in all our the businesses around and and and for apprentice and workbased learning and so man super wonderful. Um a couple other things Colton I have NDE textbook if you want it. um the uh the ladies that are pursuing the large animal vets, please do so. It's a huge huge deficit, not only in the state, but uh across the nation. Um and uh I sure hope you make a lot of money, but these old poor cattle farmers might not be able to pay what the horse people do. But anyway, you all are
027very impressive and uh I I'm sure I speak for everybody here that we are very proud of you and good luck, Mr. Pullman. I feel like I say it every single year that you come and present here, but you are like one of our greatest assets. So really, we thank you for everything you've done. I've known you a long time. I remember when we hired you and we're just we're really really fortunate to have you. So thank you and good luck to all of you. Thank you. You guys are amazing and thanks for being here on Tuesday night. And Mr. Coleman, do you have any more? Um I didn't know if you had anything else to present there. Any other pieces um for the tri-state Nissan? Yeah, the only other thing is Hayden Fleetwood um
028he actually couldn't make it. He worked um so the tri-state Nissan um the automotive apprenticeship he actually leaves high school um around 12:40 and then goes there u to work at with Tri-State. They're paying for his um they've agreed to pay for his schooling. Um so when he graduates, they're going to send him to New Jersey and pay for housing. Um a car, a meal allowance to get all the training he needs to get done. Um and then he's just going to roll into full-time employment uh with Tri-State. I think that was the only um Addison trying to get her to talk in front of people is difficult. Uh but she's doing the criminal justice part of the of the Jumpstart program. um and she plans to go on and continue with George Mason in
029um what by taking criminal justice she decided she wants to do forensic psychology. So she's going to go into that after she graduates and Sasha's going into the Air Force. So she has to decide her jobs by tomorrow. So and Mr. Coleman, the reason I'd asked before I talked, I wanted to say just a couple things. Um, we were delighted to turn the Jumpstart program in for a VSBA showcasing award. We've not heard anything back on that yet, but I think our chances are good because we did get asked to submit uh four highresolution color photos with that. And I do believe that was extremely innovative leadership to look at CTE opportunities beyond, you know, the state of Virginia and being the first district to look at partnering with someone outside of the Commonwealth when
030stellar programming is there. So I think that's a just a wonderful opportunity and had a lot of vision there with it. Um, one good thing that we have been asked to do so far and I guess by me saying this we're committing to it. I sent you the email but um, we'll be there. we'll figure it out together. But BSBA did contact me today and said they would like to do a podcast with Clark County on the uh jump start program. So I think that could be a really an interesting adventure for us to go into. But I'm also really happy that the state of Virginia and the Commonwealth I do think one good thing of the way we're taking accountability is we're giving much more credit to CTE programming um and valuable work-based learning
031experiences. So, that is one part that I'll I really think that they got right in this going forward. But I was really impressed by the students tonight. I was just thinking how intimidating it could be to come and speak to a school board and you know, people who are at a school board meeting and they were as polished or more polished than a lot of adults would be and just as at ease. So, it was really impressive. Thank you. You guys don't have to stay for the [Laughter] [Applause] whole finance. Brenda asked if I would do it. She was unable to attend tonight. So, um the first thing on the finance report is the review of the fiscal year 25 expenditure report to date and through March 31st. The operating fund expenditures are at 18
032million roughly, which is about 63% of our revised budget. And when you look at incumbrances, that's about 93% of our budget um encumbered. And that's what we would expect at this time of year. The food service fund um shows expenditures roughly of $600,000 um and a corresponding revenue to date of 588,900. The capital fund project shows an available balance of 360,000, but the majority of that in the amount of about 265,000 is already budgeted for HVAC security improvements and high school repairs. So, that's kind of where we're at today, right about where we would expect to be on the um the uh bonus part we'll actually have as an action item later. This is kind of we're thankful for it and a great thing, but a little bit different that you amend a budget after
033the budget's in the year. Um, but we do have an FY25 budget for educators that has been introduced into the um as an amendment to the fiscal year 25 bonus. We did meet with the finance committee and the finance committee consensus was to provide a $1,000 bonus to all contracted employees of Clark County Public Schools that were on contract as of April 1st, 2025. The bonus would be contingent though upon receipt of state appropriated funding for the 2025 educator bonus from the state. If funding has been received by Clark County Public Schools before May 23rd, 2025, the bonus would be paid on May 30th, 2025. Otherwise, the bonus would be paid as soon as possible. We'll kind of talk about some details of that timeline and some a little bit of changes to the budget
034on when you have to get that out. But that is a um a budget uh amendment for FY25. And then we do have two supplemental appropriation requests. One of them is that the Claude Moore Grant Grant Foundation, we got a grant in the amount of $4,499. Um, which is used for a knee and ankle sports injury simulator. Um, and we would need to get approval to do an additional appropriation request for that. Also, Clark County Public Schools um was thankful to get a $75,000 STEM immersive curriculum building grant by the BDOE and we would need a $75,000 additional appropriation for that which will be later on in action items. So, I believe that is all that we have for the finance report tonight. Any questions? Thank you, Dr. Thank you, All right. Um, just a
035whole lot of recognitions of individuals that play a pivotal role in education. National Instructional Assistant Day was April 2nd. All these are very valuable people in our school system. National School Librarian Day was April 4th. School bus driver appreciation day is actually today. Um, administrative professionals day is tomorrow. So we'd like to thank them for their contributions to the workplace. April is Virginia School Boards Association Workforce Readiness Month. That's why we have Mr. Coleman present on at this agenda. And during April 7 through 11, we were able to celebrate National Assistant Principles Week. So we honored our assistant principles and deans during that time. April is the month of the military child and it's a special time to honor the sacrifices and contributions of military connected students across Virginia. Based on our most recent data
036collection, there are over 77,000 military connected students attending public schools in the Commonwealth. According to the Department of Defense, Virginia has more military connected students residing within its state lines than any other state in the nation. Also, the widget cup was uh happened recently and it was great to go see the tremendous work that the kids did and the innovative thinking they had to do. And also that incorporated everything from listening to a proposal by business of a true need, planning, doing the math and the calculation work and then building and presenting. and Clark County won first place for the fourth consecutive row row in the uh consecutive year in the Widget Cup. And we are going to ask our coaches and members to come to our May board meeting to recognize them, but it
037happened right before break. So, we didn't have time to coordinate getting them here. The Giant Companies sponsors a feeding school kids program where patrons can round up their total purchase when they check out at their stores. The local Martins in Barryville come to our division on April 10th to announce that Clark County Public Schools will receive a check in the approximate amount of $4,000. These funds will be used to help offset student meal debt. So, we're thankful for that. On Tuesday, April 29th, uh, Boyce and fourth graders will be visiting with Newberry Medal winning and number one New York Times selling best uh, best-selling author Katherine Applegate and librarian rockstar John Shu at Shannidoa University as part of the Books and Bloom celebration. On April 30th, Boyce and Kulie second grade students will be visiting
038with Troy Cummins, who has written and illustrated more than 50 children's books. These in-person sessions with readalouds by the authors, candid discussion about the stories behind their stories and fun good bags for goodie bags with copies of the author's books for each child in attendance are a uh continuence of the author visits for elementary students that were previously supported by the Claude Moore Foundation and the Clark County Education Foundation. And we do have a flyer attached. And we'd like to say a big thank you to Dr. Karen Hut for providing this opportunity to Clark County students. Boy, yes. I'm very jealous. I love um Katherine Applegates novels are so good. That's what an opportunity and that's such a great way to get kids engaged with novels that they're reading in in the classroom. So, it
039that's that's an awesome opportunity. I'm very jealous. Oh, yeah. It certainly is. And then we had Boyce and Each had two teams that participated in a Lego robotics challenge over the last couple of months and an expo to showcase their creations was held on April 2nd, 2025. We'd also like to invite the students and uh mentor leads to uh potentially be recognized for that at our May meeting. Also, the balarat service will be held on Sunday, May 18th at 5:00 pm and the senior awards will be will be beginning at 6:30 p.m. on that night. Audience comments. Consideration of employee bonuses. All right. The um let me give you just a couple little pieces here. Then I will read the summary and you can look there at the recommended motion. When this developed, this is
040part of the budget for this year. Early on, the governor mentioned it as a possibility, but it wasn't in the governor's initial budget, but it was widely um popular among with bipartisan support in the general assembly budget. And then the governor signed this with the total appropriation. Now, to say it's completely done would not be the case yet because you pass it all as one hole and they the general assembly asked for another amendment and it's now been back to the governor's desk and he has till midnight on May the 2nd to sign that. So, I I wouldn't say it's a complete done deal, but it's been approved by the general assembly and the governor. It's just kind of now that it's tied with other things, it's back up for, you know, there is always
041that possibility because it was sent back from the general assembly to restore the not only increasing the support cap but the increased funding that the general assembly had requested for it was amended and sent back to the governor's desk and he has till midnight on May 2nd to approve that. So, I do want to kind of give that disclaimer, but initially it was pretty rigid that you had to it was a bonus that was to be paid out by June 1st, 2025. You got the money. It was $1,000 for all full-time SOQ positions was required, but divisions could divide up the funding according to how they felt most appropriate. Um, one thing that's happened since then is it does look like the language would be a little bit different. And I think the reason being
042we're getting so close to that June 1st deadline and that's why this budget or the uh recommended motion has a lot of language to it. But it looks like the language is going to be that the BDOE has to distribute funding for the $1,000 bonus by June 1st. And the goal would still be to have it out in time to get the bonus out by June 1st. But the concern right now with the May 2nd and it could get kicked back is about timing um and having time to process it. So they have said that they it will be that you do not have to pay the bonus by June 1st. And actually, you could do a request to carry it forward into FY26, but you would have to the money would come in FY25,
043and you would have to do a request of the school board and board of supervisors to carry the funds forward. I hope we don't get in that situation because it's going to be a lot easier to pay it out in FY25 because it's intended to be an FY25 bonus. But there are some caveats there with that, which is due to timing. And that's why that's like that. When we met with the finance committee, um what we started doing was looking at who would be eligible. And one thing, and it's a mixed bag, and there's really no set rules on this as far as what you do with part-time and full-time. There are some divisions in the Commonwealth that are going to recommend everybody get the same amount and some will prorrate it based upon the
044amount of hours they work or saying all part-time or halftime. When we looked at it, we only had roughly about 10 part-time people and many of them were working within five hours of full-time. So, it just didn't seem like it was worth, you know, that point and we value those individuals for their contribution as well. So the finance committee felt it would be best to do the same amount for everybody of a $1,000 bonus. Now to do that, we first seen if we could afford it. And the cost to do it, we have 309 eligible employees at a,000 each. When you include the FCA to that, it would be $332,639. The state appropriated funding, and it's under the same language. which I don't really understand why the amount is different for the Senate and the
045House, but one of them is 209 and one of them is 217. So, we went with the more conservative amount and said $29,000 would be directly funded by the Commonwealth of Virginia. That would leave $123,593 to be covered by Clark County Public Schools. And the good thing is you're allowed to use um excess food service funds for food service employees. So then we were able to take out the $4,36 for the Clark County Public School employees that are funded through that which would remain which would mean at worst it would be and it could be a little bit more if we got the higher aotment of money the cost to be $119,287. Now, we would have to be physically responsible, I mean, and really watch every dime, but we do that anyway. But we've worked
046with Brenda and Nancy, and we do have the funding to match that. The committee felt strongly that giving a thousand to everybody and showing them a gratitude for what they do um would be a a nice offer, especially considering that our salary increase we're very thankful for, but it's not quite as much as some of the surrounding counties. Um but one other option would be if the board felt inclined, we could certainly divide just the amount of money equally and go with that amount. Um, for the motion, if you'll notice there, the recommended one is to pay a $1,000 bonus to all contracted employees of Clark County Public Schools. And I want to draw attention to that contracted. The reason being, and I don't know of anybody doing this, but there's no way we could
047afford to do all of our substitute teachers, even though we really value their contribution. um that would be more itinerate work and could be a large pool. The other thing are people who are coaches and coaches alone don't get a contract. they get a pay agreement. But like if somebody just, you know, coached one sport, one season, they wouldn't get this. But it's all contracted employees that were on contract as of ma April 1st, 2025. And an important part of that motion would be that the bonus would be contingent upon the receipt of state appropriated funding for the 2025 educator bonus from the state. If funding has been received by Clark County before May 23rd, 2025, the bonus would be paid on May 30th. Otherwise, the bonus would be paid as soon as possible after
048state funding is received. Um, and the reason the May 23rd piece, we have to have time to get it ready for payroll. And the other thing is once we get this exact amount, we're going to have to ask for an additional appropriation of it. So, it's going to be a lot of steps, but I'm just really hopeful that it'll come in a timely manner and we're able to pay this out before June 30th, 2025. Um, because it's going to be a lot more seamless at that time. And we may also not have the funding part to bring everybody up to a thousand if it goes into next year, if that makes sense. So, um, that's why that action item is pretty wordy and verbose. Do y'all have any questions? And you all can debate among
049yourselves too. Any questions about it was it was important to us and we both felt strongly that um because we only had these 10 part, you know, just makes sense to be able to give everybody. any possibility that the this the money from the state does not come in. I would think it's very slim. Um had the general assembly approved the budget with the reduced amount of support cap on the last signing of the governor, he signed the full funding for the bonus. But anytime you send it back with amendments, it all could start completely over. And that's why we put there and I want every employee to know it that we put it in the motion that it's contingent upon the receipt re receipt of state appropriated funds because since it was kicked back
050I don't think this would happen but it could even revert back to year two of the of the banual budget. So once you kick something back it could completely start over. Just a thought because you know it's out there. And uh it'd be pretty disappointing if it didn't come through. And um if we're already saying that we can do the part that we have, I'm just thinking out loud here. Would we do that by the June 30th date regardless? and and then anything that came from the state added on. Is that something that we could possib you know do that? The reason I think we looked at it tonight with the motion is knowing we'd have to have board approval and we're getting very close to that June 1st if they stick to it part
051and then we'd have to get an additional appropriation piece. But what we could come back to is if the funding didn't come through, we could amend it at our May meeting to just distribute the matching part. And I do want everybody to know, I think since the governor had signed it and the general assembly, I wouldn't see it changing, but where we're not there, I don't want anybody to think that it's a guarantee. Well, if it fell through, at least we could we could do what we we could do what we were already planning on doing and that would be something for our employees since we're already since it's already been figured out that we can do that. Yeah. And with SOQ people, so unfortunately the bulk of it is coming from the state. So
052it wouldn't be a very large amount, but everything is nice. It would speak to showing what appreciation we we can. Yes, that's exactly right. If we want to throw some beef and apple butter in and then we can do that, too. Um, we have a motion. Read it. Um, I moved to pay a $1,000 bonus to all contracted employees of Clark County Public Schools that were on contract as of April 1st, 2025, the bonus will be contingent upon the receipt of state appropriated funding for the 2025 educator bonus from the state. If funding has been received by Clark County before May 23rd, 2025, the bonus will be paid on May 30th, 2025. Otherwise, the bonus will be paid as soon as possible after state funding is received. Second. Any additional question? All in favor? I
053do want to talk about this what call it. So, I guess any questions about this appropriation? All right. We have a motion, please. I move that the FY25 school operating fund budgeted expenditure and appropriation be increased by $75,000 and that the revenue budget I'm sorry I move that the FY25 school operating fund budgeted expenditure and appropriation be increased by $4,499 and that the revenue budget and appropriation be increased by the same amount. All for the purpose of receiving local grant funds from a Claude Moore grant to be used to purchase a knee and ankle sports injury simulator. There second second. Any further discussion? All in favor? I. All opposed. Um appropriation for members. I move that FI25 school operating fund budgeted expenditure and appropriation be increased $75,000 and that revenue budget and appropriation be increased
054by the same amount. All for the purpose of receiving state funds from the Virginia Department of Education for the STEM versive curriculum building grant. Second. Second. Any further discussion? All in favor? I. All opposed. Thank you. ation of um policies for first and second. The policy committee met on April 9th and recommend the following policies for first and second reading. Um did anybody have any questions? All right, I have a motion, please. I move to approve the policies presented as first and second reading. Second. Second. Any further discussion? All in favor? Opposed? Fantastic. I really don't have a whole lot to say. We didn't have a uh uh governor school uh meeting this past because spring break, so I don't have any updates there. Um as far as our slots being filled, do you have
055anything for next year? Yeah, all of our slots are filled for next year except for one. Okay. How many slots do we have again? Six. Oh, six total. Total six total. 10 to 12. What grade's missing? It's It's not really a grade that's missing. It's just we get allotted a certain number of slots. Oh, so it doesn't matter how many 10th, 11th, or 12th graders. Yeah. So, they can apply really at any point um depending on their course. Do you remember our spread? Like what is it right now? How many are in each grade level? That's fine. Yeah, I do have a spreadsheet that I can Yeah, that's all Mr. Wilson. I said most of what I had to say when the young people were up here getting their or giving their presentation. We're certainly
056happy that you decided to join the board of CT. Keep you on your toes, Madam Chair. We appreciate Mr. Penny. Uh CT is exciting for sure. The Widget Cup four years in a row. That's pretty awesome. It's fun to watch fun. So, I wasn't able to be a part of it this year. Um but it is exciting. Thank you um for all you do. So uh our community lost a dear member um in Kim Braithweight. So we want to remember her and Joey. Um phenomenal family and what they do for this community and the athletic association and everything else. There's probably not a a youth that has come through any of our sports program that they haven't touched the life of in the last 30 years. Guaranteed. So, um, our condolences to them. Um, well,
057I think that by the time we have our next board meeting, teacher appreciation will have passed probably, right? So, so I just wanted to um extend my gratitude towards all of our teachers throughout the county, but also instructional assistants and and you know, our bus drivers, obviously, our administrators, food service. Um there's so many people and trans the whole transportation department. Um there's so many different jobs that that make this all work. Um, so very thankful for them. And then, um, I know we'll meet before the kids graduate, but, um, I hope that our seniors are enjoying the these last few weeks of school and mostly that they're safe, but also that, you know, they take advantage of all of these fun events that that are coming up. Um, because real life hits hard after
058that graduation date. um no matter what path you take. Um and um lastly to go along with Mr. Kennedy um I our board of supervisors uh school board joint session meeting um Mr. Boyce talked about uh the role of of different community members and how fortunate we are um to live in a community that um that in in which people don't think twice about helping one another. And um so along with you know the loss of of a tremendous community member it it he did hit home the point that um I think we're successful as a community because of the way that we're able to work together and um I was extremely grateful to both Mr. Boyce and Dr. bowling for the way that that that meeting went and all the work that both of
059you put into making our jobs as board members really easy. So, um I thought that was that was an excellent meeting. So, that's it. Thank you. Um I don't really have anything to say other than as always, thank you all for being here Tuesday night. I hope you enjoyed spring break. End of the school year is around the corner. I know you don't feel it, but it's there. May I have a motion to convene to close session, please? I move to convene uh a close session to discuss personnel matters, including appointments, resignations, and retirement pursuant to Code of Virginia 2.2-3711A1. And for student discipline matters of students A, B, and C pursuant to Code of Virginia 2.2-3711A2, 2-3711A2. The estimated time for required for the close session is 60 minutes and action is expected. Is
060there a second? Second. Second. No one wants to second that. All in favor? I oppose. Okay. This is a big chance. We want to get out of here. May I have a motion to reconvene to open session, please? I move to reconvene in open session. Is there a second? Second. Second. That was easy. All in favor? I I. All oppose. Certification of close session. Miss Weer, please. Present to code section 2.2-3712D of the code of Virginia. Do you certify that to the best of your knowledge during the close session just concluded? This board discussed only matters lawfully exempt for the open meeting requirements under section 2.2-3711 of the code and identified in the motion convening the close session. Mr. Brumach I. Mr. Wilson. I. Mr. Kennedy. Hi. Miss Kerberg. I I All right. Action based
061on um close session. May I have a motion, please? [Music] Um so personnel agenda. I Yeah. So I move to accept the personnel agenda as presented. Is there a second? Second. All in favor? I. All opposed. Okay. And then the second um motion is for student A and student B. Um it's recommended to remand back to staff. For discipline matters. Is there a second? Second. All in favor? I. I. All opposed. Okay. Okay. And then the third motion regarding the disciplinary matter of student C. The disciplinary committee acting school board the the school board the school board Clark County school board under the opaces of policy JG D/J recommend that student C be expelled from Clark County Public Schools for a period of 365 calendar days effective April 22nd, 2025. Five. Is there a second?
062Second. All in favor? I I. All opposed. All right. Thanks everybody. I'll join the meeting.