001e e e yes we're live okay good evening I would uh like to Now call to order the February 24th uh 20255 Clark County Schoolboard meeting 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 liy and justice for all any questions about tonight's agenda may have a motion I move to approve the agenda as presented there a second second all in favor I I all opposed any questions about the consent agenda may have a motion I move to approve the consent agenda as presented sir second second all in favor I all opposed and that was about the um gifts right like this yes okay so I wanted to make a comment oh sure um
002just a tremendous thank you to um Acra Capital Management and uh for the $2,500 um for the track um jumping pit I think and then also um to coach oslander um is I guess is family um for the contributions that they made to the basketball team yeah okay recognition uh for Mr van SC good evening um we'd like to take a few minutes to uh recognize uh coach Van SI who was a former Clark County High School wrestling coach who will be the TW uh 2025 National wrestling Hall of Fame Honore um we'd like to recognize Mr van for such a prestigious career and a most deserved recognition um he retired after 24 seasons from coaching Clark County High School varsity wrestling in 2024 um some accomplishments included winning the 2015 Virginia High School league
003Class 2 State title and surmounting over 400 dual meet victories um so we're very thankful and like to recognize him and if um Mr vanas or anybody from the family would like to say anything you're more than welcome to do so like to thank the for taking the time me on the agenda toight uh it's been a real privilege to coach at the high school for the past 24 years met uh met some great great people some great guys uh still have relationships with uh after all that time it was quite an experience and I wouldn't traded it for anything um also U like to point out U who started that program uh who was ad when that program started and that was Randy trer back in 1998 he's worn many hats several hats since
004then but would have been wrest program if he wouldn't have been the ad at that time that's awesome I think that's a something that is long forgotten by most everybody in the community except the people who were actually there at that time but like to thank him for what the effort he put out to start that program he really threw us into the into the fire we had about 30 kids and none of them except one only one of them never even seen a wrestling match before we had no coaching experience between the three coaches uh we had no act we didn't have a place to practice U it was all just roll the dice and see what happens but uh it continued and it all worked out and U had a had a really
005good run through the 20 27 years of the program so I appreciate the appreciate your recognition and I it was a real privilege to work with young men for as long as I did thank you well sir I'd like to thank you for all that you've done um coaches are certainly Role Models um and a lot goes beyond just winning or losing but you know being a model for the community and I've heard great things about you and someone you mentioned Mr tary is a wonderful gentleman and I think highly of him so I appreciate you saying that um very much so um if any members of our board would like to say anything at this time um always felt a little jilted because when I was in Clark County we didn't have wrestling and
006I I graduated in 88 but I always we always were sorry that we didn't have that but when you came on and Randy started that program and where it is now is just tremendous and uh unfortunately I was always wanting to be a part of that but it's a great thing that what what you have accomplished and the people that have come out of it and uh it's it's really a testament to you and and to all the your people and your staff so just thank you very much app I wish we could go back in time and you could have showed up about 10 years earlier anybody else so if you don't mind um so obviously um your family is is very very special to me and um I'm thankful that um you've given
007so much time to our community and I really enjoyed reading the article that was attached in the board docks um because I didn't know that you and Kyle would practice moves prior to like a practice so that you could so that you could demonstrate or help your dad demonstrate um things that you were going to work on during practice and it was just really special to read um and I'm sure that there's so much more that I don't know like just moments like that that you all had um as a family um and so I just want to say thank you for all that you've given to to so many kids in our community and and the time that your family has given um because it's certainly has wasn't just you but thank you people
008in theill certainly thank you thank you um if you just let me read just quickly uh in this little attachment we have the the quote that um in your letter that you receiv received from the national wrestling hall of fame um you use the disciplines learned from wrestling to become a role model to young people making the right decision as opposed to the easy decision easy decision when confronted with difficult Life Choices this award acknowledges that your life was significant and you are leaving behind a benchmark example and Legacy John you will always have a special place in wrestling history and that place is the National Wrestling Hall of Fame so congratulations I I would also like to thank you for your patience during Co cuz I know wrestling was uh there was um definitely
009a spotlight on it so we really appreciate you um helping the team get through that as well so um thanks very much and we can pop again um okay data review Dr bowling and now um right on Miss uh Renee to get up there she's already got the uh first screen up there one of the Hallmarks that I think is an important trait of effective leadership is being transparent and looking at successes and places that we can go so what I've done is I initially did a quick data review from the state data from build a table um since 2006 forward but then I did ask a friend of mine to make it look better cuz I'm not the best at making things look pretty after I've done it um but anyway um there are
010and it did change around 2022 I believe is the year that um Covington City Schools merged with alany Highland and at one point when that started in ' 06 there would been 132 School Division somewhere around 2022 that became um a 131 School divisions but one thing that the vdoe does each year is um rank uh divisions By Pass rates um on the state so assessments now I do acknowledge that there is a whole lot more to effective teaching than just this but it is certainly one indicator of progress that we're doing you know what we're doing um I certainly wish that things like the Arts and Music would be included you know CTE is but there are things that are certainly left out of this Matrix but certainly it's important because it's the four
011core areas in writing so when you look at that being able to produce people or graduates that are able to take a reading passage and comprehend what's in it and make high level decisions or do math problems is certainly important um so I do think it is definitely a value and if you look at 2024 overall Clark County Public Schools was 57th in the state there's 131 divisions that year so that means roughly um about 70 somewhere below us so definitely in the upper half there which is a good uh place to be and you can see that since 2006 um in the overall the lowest that I see that we've been is 70th in the state and the um highest is 35th so that's kind of the range we've been in but we can't
012monitor where we've been and where we're going unless we have discussions of these things so what that table is it's a summary of Reading Writing mathematics history and science so assessment Pass rates as a whole and they just aggregate all that together and that's where we're at would be 57th out of 100 and 31 districts as of last year so definitely in the upper half but we could definitely you know make some progress there and work on that the next two um two or three slides here and I won't read all of them because they're a lot of individual tests and things like that but the very next one just actually looks at all the tests combined by discipline and it actually looks at our subgroups as well as far as how we've done and
013for instance if you look look at our overall reading last year we were 66 out of 101 131 in Reading we were 28th out of 131 in writing and something that I do find interesting about that Statewide much more districts more often struggle by far with writing than reading which is an interesting you know piece there but we were 28 out of 131 in writing we were 2 7th out of 131 in history so writing and history were definitely strong points for us our area the most struggle was 75th out of 131 for the overall population in mathematics and 59th out of 131 in science the um next few screens are what I wanted to show you all and you all can certainly look at it on board docs or break it down but I
014did it by every single assessment that we give um starting in third grade where they start and you can kind of see the overall of how we fared in each one of those grade levels by assessment um some of the ones I would speak to being highlights for being really strong was grade eight writing we were 28th in the state for that one and then um and actually we were I'll have to count it down I know that it is a strong point but it kind of broke page to page we are actually um 20th in the state in the grade eight writing okay um but anyway you can kind of see some of the areas that are higher for us and some of the areas that are a little bit lower based on that
015um and we'll recognize uh some of our Higher Achievement accomplishments this evening um and then as we go to the very last slide I think it's kind of an important slide I'm not great enough at doing um charts to do this so I had another a friend of mine do this it's out of just public data but that's why all the other divisions are on there it's a a presentation that he normally gives but I had him to go ahead and identify the uh point for Clark and what this is is a um chart of academic performance versus relative poverty and typically you're you know considered to be doing the most exceptional work when you're really going against the trend and closing subgroup population differences and are far above that that line down through there
016is the line of best fit or the regression line there of how districts perform um versus poverty when you look at the green up there those are the 10 top performing districts of working with students from diverse backgrounds and poverty is what those are but you can see where Clark is at we're very close and over halfway up there there's a lot more dots below us but our poverty rate is pretty low too so that's where we're at we're pretty close to the trend line but I just wanted to give you all kind of a glimpse of where we were at as Baseline and where we were at last year and to keep looking at this stuff as things go on and I've asked for some brief data updates I've asked that maybe we look
017at our um Virginia literacy act data and our literacy plans and bow data at the next meeting okay do you'all have any questions for me of that information no thank you for putting this together yeah you're very welcome that yes thank you the next part will be um my update and we have a lot cuz it seems like February is the month that we recognize everyone so it it's a good thing because it's positive but we do have quite a bit of things to look at tonight um one of the first things I'd like to recommend is thank the uh five of you all because school board appreciation month is February and February 25 has been um dedicated to the honor and dedication of over 800 school board members in Virginia during vsba School Board
018appreciation month the theme this year champions of opportunity advocates for excellence highlights the efforts made by school board members to create Pathways to student achievement and Innovation this month-long observation is an opportunity for local school divisions and communities to build stronger understanding of the crucial role School boards assume and representative democracy school boards voluntarily tackle the enormous job of governing multi-million dollar Public School divisions while preserving the core of our democ uh Democratic Values so certainly like to thank the five of you all and something we have for you tonight is the schools got you all um some gifts so we made you up some uh gift baskets for that recognition thank you all right the uh next part um is um School Board clerk appreciation week is feu uary 17th through the 21st so
019Mr nay certainly keeps all of us in line it's probably the most valuable um employee that we have in this division so we are very thankful for her thank you um and uh we have a few uh little gifts for you that we'll present to you here in a little bit too okay thank you all right then also February is Black History Month and um Black History Month is an annual celebration of achievement by African-Americans and a time for recognizing their Central role in US history President's Day is Monday or was Monday February 17th and is celebrated every year on the third Monday of February to Mark the birth anniversaries of the legendary former presidents of our country George Washington and Abraham Lincoln also February is Career and Technical Ed Education Month in Virginia so
020we certainly understand how important that um division of our academic core is and that everything that they do because it takes us all working together and those are skills that can help any of our graduates so we're really thankful for them and we included a bunch of dates that we're doing with CTE from February to April for you all to look at also prek Expo will be held in Clark County on March 7th from 2:30 to 6 and there's a flyer there um included for your all's information also February includes National School counseling week which is celebrated February 3rd through the 7th of 2025 or was to highlight the tremendous efforts of school counselors to meet social emotional needs academic Endeavors and career aspirations the theme for 2025 is School counseling helping students students Thrive
021school counselors are devoted professionals who help students work through challenges as they unite their own interest and talents our counselors are vital to education also um this year uh Virginia kindness week happens in February which is February 10th through the 14th which looked at ways that schools can promote and Foster kindness all year however each year in Virginia we celebrate kindness week during the second week in February kindness week has a purpose to recognize the simple day-to-day acts of kindness that enable our schools communities and state to be a Kinder safer healthier and more inclusive place to live work learn and play as to why kindness matters kindness helps us to form meaningful connections with others which are reported to be a strong factor and increasing happiness kindness has been proven to boost serotonin reduce
022stress increase positive effect and release endorphins and the um hormone oxytocin in numerous scientific studies teaching and recognizing kindness in schools and communities po empathy builds Community reduces bullying and nurtures nurtures a safe and welcoming environment by promoting kindness we're promoting inclusivity by extending an opportunity for Grace empathy dignity and acceptance across Virginia okay and then um also wanted to recognize our very own Patrick hman will be the keynote speaker at the annual Tech spash Conference in Abington Virginia on July the 7th 2025 and then um we have a few teacher recognitions for outstanding student learning outcomes that I would like to do and that relates to that data presentation that we just looked at um the first uh big standout was Tessa fosha taught World Geography last year at Clark County High School um
023Clark County public schools had the fourth highest pass rate on the World Geography so assessment out of 131 School divisions and I think that's even more impressive because some divisions you may not have everybody taking in to what they use as the gatekeeper class but at Clark County High School everyone either takes World Geography or world history too um so miss fosa if you'd like to say anything um we have a certificate for you but you don't have [Applause] to you're welcome to if you Lu just wanted to say thank you to everybody at Clark County this division has been um such a great fit these last nine years and really excited about this and we had a great group of students last year too so I have to give them credit that's great well
024done thank you and then miss Rachel Crawford taught World History 2 last year at Clark County High School and Clark County public schools had the highest and other words first place pass rate on the world history 2 assessment out of3 31 school divisions so M [Applause] Crawford sure um like Miss fosa said we have a really great team that we work with um we had a really great group of students last year and we're really really thankful that we get all the support that we do that they let us teach how we know how to teach and and we get some great results from it so thank you guys and thank you to our thank [Applause] you um oh do you want to do that as we're preparing I'll quickly put this together because we
025were getting everybody's last signatures but we did go ahead and frame Rene's certificate of appreciation and signed it so want to go ahead and give that to you thank you oh that's very nice thank you I think the recognition continues first then you can say something so I feel like I feel like every year I'm I'm you know letting you know how important you are to us and you're our glue and we would die without you and blah blah blah which is all true um but this year cuz I'm in the spirit of using AI respons L I asked um I asked uh Genesis I think it's Genesis from Google to or Gemini sorry to um write a poem for you for clerk a clerk of a school board so here we go um behind
026the desk where paper Stacks reside reside a quiet Force where order does abide the clerk of board with steady knowing hand a keeper of the records of this Learning Land from bud lines to meetings careful Trace they navigate the rules with practiced Grace the minutes kept with every eye and nay a history preserved of each and every day the policies they know the codes they keep while Restless voices rise in secret sleep they file the forms and answer every call a silent Guardian watching overall the contract signed the notices displayed the calendar they hold where plans are made they know the parents' names the teachers please the subtle currents flowing through the trees no ground no Grand pronouncements no Spotlight sudden glare but diligence and care beyond compare a steady rhythm in the school's grand
027scheme the clerk of board fulfilling every dream so thank you um and surprisingly this is you so it's amazing um so anyway obviously the little um Orchid is our uh is sort of a little gesture of appreciation I did look up the order the um meaning of giving an order as a gift one was fertility that is not why we gave it to you we gave it to you for for uh for thoughtfulness that is also um a reason for giving an orchid so um again thank you for everything I'm going to give you this so you can post it in the in the minutes because I'd like it in the minutes for you so yes so I can copy and paste yes you copy so anyway any other comments for Miss and I'd certainly
028like the other board members to be able to say something one thing I wanted to do before he had moved on though I did leave off with the two teachers recognition that you know I would like to thank the them as outstanding leaders and Educators and inspiring students and making a difference and I want you to know that I realize that your impact goes far beyond these so assessments but they are one measure of outstanding teaching and before we move on to any other board comments about recognitions we only got one so you all can kind of fight over it but in addition to your baskets vsba sent you all cards okay probably we can we can change it around every week guys thank you um any other comments from anybody no yeah was weird
029yes sir I got that uh certificate and I started to think of all the help you gave me when I joined this board and I said if I write down everything every area in which you help me won't be any room for anybody else to write so I just wrote thanks but believe it is heartfelt and profound thank you I want to thank you all very much for recognizing that work but uh yall make it easy all five of you and all of those people that sit out there they're my friends as well as you all and you all make it easy and I want to thank you all for the work you do and for hiring the best people including the superintendent assistant write on down to everybody who all have consistently made what
030I think the best choices for this community so thank you very much thank you um and thanks for all you do I mean I it's no um it's a thankless job as we know but um for you all to dedicate your time to this um is much appreciated and just like Renee said having you on the board definitely makes this easy um and I appreciate how well we work together um and I'd like to uh also acknowledge how I can call you my friends as well so thanks for everything especially you Mr Wilson you bring us all joy well look at the guidance you're getting I think he wrote that poem yeah right it' certainly be a lot easier to write poems now than when I grew up um and before our teachers leave because
031we don't expect you all to stay through all of this um thank you both um it's I've had um the fortunate pleasure of getting of getting to know both of you um because of having students in both of your classes and I'm just really tremendously grateful for the fact that you've stayed with us um and that you've stuck with us through you know the covid mess and and just um all sorts of things but um I am so grateful that um my children have have had the opportunity to be in your classes you're both top-notch teachers and they and their friends you know have really positive great things to say about both of you so proud of you thank you for being here um okay audience comments audience comments um are limited to three minutes
032per person those wishing to speak should fill out a comments card um Miss wear NOP okay excuse me ladies could you wait just one second do we take a break here I'd like to thank you and you all might actually you know it' be good too because we don't have too much more and you'll get to learn about the calendar and the budget so bud that's applicable yeah so you can hear about the budget that'll be great next year she can do it for you hold on I I thought we' do pretty good with retention if you start requiring them to stay for the whole board meeting that may not work it's true ladies I've been in two Wars in a peacekeeping operation and I realize just how important it is that we learn what
033has happened the mistakes that have been made and not just that how to prevent them in the future uh I've got well you are important jul thank you um was there any comments no okay um you really don't have to stay but if you want to like more you and we can take a break take a couple couple couple minutes yeah okay we'll do that for just a couple minutes can you tell um Daryl okay fine okay e e e live um okay Dr bowling you want to talk about the calendar yes um and we did this and looked at it as an initial look last month um and you've kind of had the time there to look at draft one and draft two basically the big difference in draft one and draft two is
034the start date draft one has um the first day for students to be um August the 19th it's only one day later but draft 2 has it as August the 20th that probably relates a lot to sometimes it's very challenging when you're doing lower elementary the longer initial week other than that everything's just kind of moved around um and then one other difference is um draft uh the draft 2 has a 4-day weekend um for everybody but our 12 month staff in February around the 13th through the 16th and that is not in draft one other than that they're pretty much the same the feedback we got from doing the survey was that uh 73% of our um staff preferred draft one so 73% of our employees preferred draft one which is the first student
035day being August the 19th both calendars reduce what we had this year which was A5 days that our um teaching staff was committed to being in the school and had to be in the school went from 195 down to 190 um the we were already given you know awarding credit for 5 days cuz Virginia codes is a teaching contract is 2 200 days but we did have everybody comparatively to the local area in the building more than any other District but we do know that teachers do a tremendous amount of grading and planning at home and things that are not always measured in days that may come in an hour and a half here two hours here so I want to I think it's very important for efficacy and also for autonomy to treat professionals
036as professionals so what we're doing is saying the days between 190 and 200 are awarded for your planning and your grading which happens often off the clock at home so there's an equal number of days that teachers would report there's 176 student days in both calendars with four 14 work days in both calendars which is where you get to the 190 there are actually three additional work days in there for new employees so I do want to make sure everybody understands that new teachers would be working 193 days in our buildings okay um as far as the comments related to it it's probably the most you know I would say debatable issue and I think maybe debatable that way it's a much Kinder phrase is the uh Elementary work days and that really divides our
037um employees dramatically you know between the elementary then versus the middle and the high school level and one of the things though I think there's good arguments you know considering one of them being that Elementary work days really make it harder for our community and other employees that need child care on those days but that's not our primary focus as an educational institution is not not to provide child care it's just one consideration but on the other side of that um AIS is the fact that our elementary teachers do get a lot less you know planning time and everywhere I've been and in one place it was never really brought up as a difference they it was just everybody was pretty mellow about it but that is pretty much synonymous I think with about every
038School Division in the Commonwealth especially when you have a lot of uh middle and high schools that are on block schedules which have a 90minut period that elementaries have less but I do recognize that they've got a tremendous amount of grading planning and hard work to do so I certainly have empathy um one other consideration with that is we've been using the unscheduled remote learning days but technically those are meant for more inclement weather type things and emergencies and we do have to provide instruction to count those as days otherwise we should be making them up one thing that we did get clarification on though the manual says that every Division if they use a remote learning day should um plan for continuation of meal services breakfast and lunch um I kind of read since
039it's in the manual there weren't any clarification that should meant you would do it um and I'd never heard of any division not providing food but somebody had mentioned that they were going to do it without it so um um we did contact UM Renee did the food services and they said it's not a required thing to provide meals it's just a suggested best practice and it would be very challenging if due to weather we ever did a remote learning day to provide meals because we're not a community eligible breakfast and lunch at no cost division so if we provided meals we'd have to be deciding who to charge and who not and sending food home or that's just very difficult which would add another layer to it but I wanted to give you all
040the background over all that having said that I think there's one Elementary work day which remains in this C both calendar options that we would work around but I believe the best option is for me um to work alongside our elementary principles and some of our other central office staff and see if there's any way possibly that we could build additional planning time into the day I'm not guaranteeing that could happen but I think if that could happen that's the best answer other than that I'll take any questions and then just let you all decide which calendar you approve um I know when we had a discussion about this last month we did I think come to a consensus that we um are in favor of draft number one only because that seems to be
041the one that the teachers favored um and preferred but has anybody had any additional thoughts about it or do we feel comfortable approving draft one yeah okay may have a motion I move to approve draft one for the 2025 2026 Clark County Public Schools calendar second um any further discussion all in favor all oppose thank you um budget proposal right and what I'll do because there's not that much new from the previous so I'll just hit what's new and then let you all ask any questions of me that you would like to um basically um since last time what has developed at the state level and I'll kind of tell you there are nothing's in stone but some different directives do you remember that approximately 292,000 and that we may get an additional State money
042if the house or Senate budget were to pass well what's happened since then is last week they made it were able to come up with a conference budget and it actually was pretty quick compromise and everything for Education stayed almost essentially unchanged so the additional monies for special education for the support cap removal and um those other minor items actually did did remain in there and it made it through to the U General Assembly final budget they voted on Saturday and that did pass the general assembly so we do have a general assembly budget and they've not put out a c tool yet based on that but it would be very close to the um vdo's estimate of 292 and that's probably a conservative estimate because when they do those they go pretty low on
043ADM and they base that on 1791 students we're actually at 18850 so it would probably be a little bit more but when you look at a pot that's not like our overall budget that's like 292 it's really not going to move it up that much farther um so pretty much everything remained in there for the general assembly budget one other thing that did come out of that is it was included as a vote to do a $1,000 educator bonus made it through but it wouldn't be under that it's in addition to the 292,000 because the uh educator bonus was put in as an amendment a late amendment to fiscal year 25 which is kind of really unusual but um something that we would still be grateful for and I believe they did either a one
044or one and a half% um bonus for state workers as well but the timeline was different for both Chambers but in the conference budget it's any bonuses have to be paid out on or before uh June 1st 2025 so that really would not be a factor in next year's budget I just want you all to understand that and it's in there that it's recommended for districts if they can because it's a non LCI non uh match based bonus but what that means is they give $11,000 Plus faka for every soq position but there's no District in the common wealth of Virginia that operates solely on S soqs because it's a very skeletal um Staffing model and districts probably range most of them between 40 to 60% of their Workforce are actually nons soq positions so
045it was um in there noted that for divisions to try to prioritize if they could come up with the funding for everybody else but if they could not that you could take the total um allotment if it passes finally and divide it evenly among your Workforce so that is a possibility as well that does not mean that the budget is done it would been um sent on to the governor that he could sign it as is or he could reject it and send it back so we're at this point that the state budget may be done or we could even start over you know we got till June 30th but that's pretty much the update on what's happened with the state budget hearing what you all were um mainly interested with we worked on executive
046summary number three and executive summary number three is the one with the 4% salary increase it also includes the um all the new positions of $264,700 news possible um I believe it was uh Friday or Thursday of last week I sent it to you all we got it but we were waiting on health insurance and we had $31,000 penel in there for a potential of up to 10% increase and we got a 0% increase so our health insurance um is going to be exactly even priced to this current year fy2 so we were able to remove a full $31,000 from executive summary number four now it's still overall positive news but a little disheartening thing is um our insurance provider for workman's comp and all of our insurance plans goes on a three-year rolling average
047which is pretty common but we actually had a workman's comp claim I think back in maybe a couple three years ago or so in like FY 23 that now the year before it was lower so now it has more of a bearing effect so our workman's comp insurance went up $30,000 and we didn't anticipate that we've been told it would probably be around e even so basically we were able to remove $31,000 from health insurance but we did have to put 30,000 back in for our workman's comp insurance so we Ned around $270,000 in savings there and on the um state budget if it gets signed soon we'll probably net close to $300,000 which would help the locality that's not in there currently right now another thing that we did today we're just really working
048hard to be good stewards and money the capital um committee and I met today and it may make it kind of tight but we wanted to really try to help the county as much as we could so we were able to allocate really being very tight with money 135,000 of removing it from other projects little bit by little bit today and allow Randy to go ahead and buy one of the two buses this year which would then remove another 135,000 out of the request and it's already in there so including taking the other bus out we've got our total general fund tax U funding increased to 1.26 63 million and that's still you know quite a bit but we worked really hard to get to that point and I really want to thank Nancy because
049she provided this today and got that done for us but it's 1.2 63 million would be our total increase um with the 4% raise and I think that's everything but I'll take any questions that you all have or Brenda can answer when I don't know too any um any comments I think it's all pretty good news and I certainly appreciate going through it and SC scraping and pulling that together getting that bus for this year that's that's a that's a big thing yeah and we were really fortunate cuz we have to take possession by June 30th and I really want to thank Randy Mr tary too because when I said we might could do this I want to meet because it's his you know it's his funding under Capital but within that time he went
050ahead and called and there are um six buses on lots that are not sold at this point so that made this more plausible too yeah anything else I know we talked a lot about this during the work session and and our meeting last month but I mean I think to Clay's Point having the insurance come in at 0% increase is is a huge win for us so um you know well done one and all yeah um that anything nope all right um may I have a motion please I move to approve the FY 26 operating capital and Food Service budgets as proposed second any additional discussion all in favor all [Music] opposed um Dr bowling well done for your first time here with us this was you only came and just came in December and
051kind of had to catch on pretty quickly so we appreciate all your effort in the slicing and dicing and the state information you provided and really explained I know for all of us or at least me but I think for all of us that was really that was new um and really helped me understand um how things work down there so thank you and then obviously um Brenda and Nancy are rock stars thank you very much um I know it's never an easy process so um kudos to everyone thank you all and I it to takes a tremendous team and it's well beyond that scope there's a lot of other people but Nancy and Brenda are tremendous yep as two leaders in that role y when is this presented to the county I've got it
052in my big blue binder upstairs is it April or is it March oh don't tell me that it's pretty yeah it's pretty soon it's when really that I was thinking next Monday night March Genesis to help me again um yes so please if everybody can be there this year that would be great because we have to Dr bowling will I'll make a couple comments and then Dr bowling will present to the to the Board of Supervisors so I think that's at 6:30 okay yep okay um consideration of policies for first and second reading policy committee met on February 14th and recommended the following policies for first and second um the three are listed there one of them to highlight um quickly Dr bowling if you'll just um talk about it is the holidays and employee
053work calendar um that is where we did update to um allow for um 12-month employees to have five floating holidays right what we um did there and two of these policies actually interrelate so really that's why there's three here you'll notice that the paragraph addition on one of them is the same on both but basically we worked hard to try and um reduce the number of days that our 10-month employees would have to be physically in the building down to 190 um and looking at 12 month positions it's been brought up to me um by I'd say five to 10 of our employees that we actually have our people working more than most other localities and school systems and this does not put us by any means anywhere near the top of that ranking but
054it's a way to at least chip away and reward our 12-month employees for what they do um one way that I could have looked at it was to provide additional holidays and specify those and recommend that for a policy but one thing that made that challenging is we have um two different contract Links of 12-month employees we have 240 and 247 which is something that I've not worked with in the past so if I picked a day that 240 already had offed and there was no benefit to them and there was to 247 so something that's pretty common are floating holidays awarded to 12-month employees so I looked at some policies that had that from other places in the state um the reason why you may say well why don't we just add on five
055additional annual days to each category the reason there is that annual days um have a monetary value because they could be cashed out at the end so if you give them that they could be more carried forward and it could be a larger payout which makes it have a financial line to the budget or an impact also if we did it on um personal days that would not be a good situation because our 10-month employees already get personal days which are three which is the same as our 12 month and also those can be cashed out when you retire so people could potentially save those days and make them become a financial line item to the budget the way that floating holidays are done is typically you know that those are going to be the
056first five either what would traditionally be personal or annual days that you use and you expend those first because they do not have any balance that can urue going forward and they have no monetary value so if you don't use them between June 1st or July 1st and June 30th they go away so it's just something that people can use before going into their annual leave or their personal days and it certainly doesn't cover all of the breaks that we have off but it would allow our employees if they wanted to to pick five days in those breaks whether it be in Thanksgiving or spring that they'd like to take off um and it moves us in a you know somewhere in a direction I think that would be most appropriate but it's also not
057too far you know out of line with how many how much time our current County government has off what's a challenge is this is one of those things that varies completely there is no standard form throughout the whole state there are a lot of districts that all 12-month employees get the full Thanksgiving Christmas spring breakoff um and they only come in and work snow days and the summer is the difference in 12 months and 10 month and then there are some that have more designated holidays it's just there is no standardization to this but I think that where we have the 240 and the 247 I think that this is the most effective way for us to do this so I also want to make it a you know 100% aware that the only um
058employees because everybody else gets to observe all breaks and holidays the 10 and 11 month the only employees that have annual leave or personal are 12 month so the floating holidays would only apply to 12 month but the 190 days in the building versus a 200 day contract benefits our 10 and 11 month if that makes sense yep okay so that's two of the policies and then the other one um relates to tuition reimbursement and basically all it does is allow us to um out of an employees last paycheck if they owe us money for paying tuition toward courses that we can actually dock their pay that amount of what they owe us okay but that's all those three policies are oh and we did have our um attorneys help with that last tuition reimbursement
059inform forms um to make sure our language was uh was on point so um any questions may have a motion Lise I move to approve policies presented I move to approve the policies presented as first and second reading there a second a second all in favor I I all opposed School Board member comments Mr brombeck I don't really have a whole lot um we have still have slots open from our governor school meeting for students but we were they did uh the director came and visited and went over that um and the only thing I was going to mention was it was great recognizing coach Van SC and of course the wrestling tourn state tournament was moved to this coming weekend so that's coming up so it's in Bristol it's a little far away for
060us but anyway that's going on and I would also mention that the girls basketball team starts Regional playoffs uh tomorrow so if we don't finish our meeting tonight we can move it to the gym tomorrow I [Laughter] can that's all I really have Mr Wilson as you know I've been kind of out of the whole whole thing with this bug that's going around for the last month really so I really don't have that much to add I will I will make it to basketball game tomorrow see you there Mr Kennedy I'm in the same boat don't have much um it's great to get through the budget smoothly nice job well done everyone appreciate that um hard work and dedication I know it's no easy task we got that the calendar all wrapped up with um
061with little than no heartache seems like so appreciate it m kber um no I really don't have a lot um but other than to say thank you to Dr bowling and then also to um Brenda and Nancy um and everyone that's the Board of Supervisors who've also come um twice over the past two months and then Dr seal as well um for our finance meetings that they've taken a lot of time and um so I appreciate um the way that it's just really gone seamlessly um and I am genuinely grateful for that because we've kind of been through a lot of transition and it feels great to you know kind of H finally have you here and in place and um I'm just very very grateful for that cuz I was getting kind of tired
062um but uh and then also um thank you to miss Weir um and um also Mr van and then the teachers that were here earlier that's it um so many thank yous to go around so um just appreciate you as always our principles and everybody else here for being here tonight on a Monday evening um and that's it it for me so may have a motion for convene to close session I move to convene a close session to discuss personal Personnel matters including appointments resignations and performance of a teacher pursuant to code of Virginia 2.2 3711 A1 estimated time required for the close session is 30 minutes and action is expected second all in favor I I all opposed I also want to say thank you to the schools for our um lovely baskets I
063can tell you I enjoy them and love them so thank you thank you very much I look forward to taking a sneak peek one thing before we um disband I will tell you if any of y'all can go to the state wrestling on Friday I do know Bristol is a a long driveway but it is a beautiful city and Virginia high is a wonderful facility I was hopeful that I could go down and watch our boys but the Calendar's getting pretty impacted I don't know that I can but if you can Pals is a local Southern fast food chain down there and that's pretty remarkable and some other things like that so if you need any buice I'll give it to you but it's it's a it's a nice place if you can go thanks
064e e e Twi Jimmy Carter said live okay may have a motion to reconvene to open session please I move to reconvene an open session second all in favor I I all oppose certification you oh I'm sorry I mean we can say I I I pursu to code section 2.2 3712 of the code of Virginia how do you certify Mr hi Mr keny i i i i action base may have a motion for Action please um I move to except the Personnel except the personnel's agenda y I move to accept the Personnel agenda as presented yes so second all in favor I I all oppos great good I will adjourn the meeting thank you look at all those eyes in name