001[Music] You do. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] our May 1st, 2025 Reno County School Board work session to order. Madam Chair, will you please call the role? Mr. Greenway. Yes, ma'am. Mr. London. Yes, ma'am. Mr. Pani. Mr. Hudson. Yes, ma'am. Miss Clemens. Yes, ma'am. Item 2.01, approval of support contracts and personnel changes. Mr. Jim Bradshaw. Yes. Good afternoon. Uh, this is normally a consent agenda item, but due to the way the board meetings have fallen this year, I am requesting that we do this on approval item today at the work session. Uh, the normal one that you have is the personnel change. That's looks like every one that you get on a board meeting. The other one is a once a year. It's the support contracts and that's for every employee in our
002division that is on a one-year support contract that's required to be voted on by the school board so we can issue contracts again for the following year. Uh our contracts are slated to go out next Friday on May 9th. So that's why I'm bringing these two items to you tonight or I guess this afternoon uh for your approval. and I'll be glad to answer any questions or anything about it, but it's just our personal changes. Do we have a motion to approve? I'll make the motion. Second. Any discussion, Madame Clerk? Mr. Greenway? Yes, ma'am. Mr. London? Yes, ma'am. Mr. Hudson? Yes, ma'am. Miss Clemens? Yes, ma'am. Thank you. Thank you. So just just for clarification, you know, support contracts is everybody who's not on a continuing contract like a teacher. So teachers automatically are that
003rolls over. That's why you have to do this every year. Just hope everybody understands that and it is okay even though we haven't approved it officially at the meeting if it goes on consent to go ahead. I think we just rather than do correct. I'm sorry. Yeah, we needed for you to go ahead. This is normally a consent item, but yes, I needed an approval. So I can technically issue all the contracts to those people. That's correct. Which is about a thousand as you saw the list about a thousand people. So it's it's quite a large number that if we didn't issue context would be a a concern to Rona County. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Item 3.01 major construction project updates. Mr. Todd Cable. Good afternoon everybody. Sorry for uh I don't know
004somehow I didn't know the meeting was at 2:30 instead of uh 3:30 today. So uh my apologies. The guys from scans school would have been here uh if I had told them the right time. So I will do their part. I have all their information so that shouldn't be a problem. uh updates at the CTE facility. They've continued uh to do the grade work out there. Uh if you've been out there, the shape of the property has really changed over the last uh four weeks or so. They're getting close to um final grade outside the building. You can actually see uh the building now from uh Peters Creek Road. Looks great. They're doing um a lot of concrete masonry unit is CMU. They're doing a lot of CMU uh walls out there. in the school
005is actually starting to take shape. The uh slab the the final set of slabs will be poured I think within the next two weeks. And uh then if you come out you'll actually be able to see the entire footprint of the building. Uh and like I said everything else is going vertical. Area D um you can see there on the right is uh really progressing well. Uh area A which is the entrance and the commons section um is starting to have walls now and the and of course the footprints there. So when you go into that space, you can really get an idea of uh you know what we're going to have at our disposal in the future. And it really is really is amazing. It's going to be a going to be a beautiful
006building. Now there you can just see some of the slab work and additional steel that's been put in place that's prepped for the uh slab in area B and area A. That's the if you approach the building, those are the left hand sides of the uh building, the two sections over there. That's the main driveway into the building. They're working on uh final grade there. Uh and then at our elementary schools, uh I think you know already that we've taken possession of phase 1A if you haven't seen it since it's been completed. It's um it's fun to go there and walk through and kind of compare that to what the rest of the building looks looks like. It's amazing. Be happy to take you over there anytime. Uh they are working on waterproofing and actually
007uh the brick installation for um the fronts of the building for the facade now and it's just looks fantastic. Um the dining and the kitchen areas at WE Kundiff are really taking shape. I've got some pictures we added here in just a second that you'll see. Uh that on the left is the um corridor, the new corridor along the front edge. That's the administrative sort of over to the left and that's the new corridor there. They're getting ready to pour curbs and um the hills there at the bus loop at W Kundiff have are at final grade. Get ready to pour curbs and actually lay the first coat of asphalt. Uh so it'll have a a base coat of asphalt down uh for the remainder of the project. They're going to put that down in
008the next couple of weeks and then that final inch and a half will go on uh you know at the end of the project when everything is finished. But in terms of what that parking lot's going to look like here in just a few weeks, you'll be able to to to see what everything's going to look like. Uh that's just the uh outside view. Um what you see on the left there, the lower part of the roof, that's the new kitchen. The uh higher section is the new cafeteria. These are interior shots of uh on the left of the new cafeteria and on the right of uh the new uh kitchen. And then from the outside, you can see that they've poured the concrete slab. And this is actually um the service entry area of
009the building. Now, currently, it's on the opposite end of the building where the loading dock is. This is the new area where trucks will be able to come around and then and then back up to the building there. That's the uh over here on the left, that's the um new administrative addition and the new entry to the building. The large opening there is the new entry to the building. that's down here at Glen Cove. You can see they've started adding uh the brick work down there. This is interior framing and some plumbing work going over in um area 1B. This is the area that we it's identical to 1A which we just took possession of. It's the opposite end of the building and we'll take possession of that at the end of the summer before
010school starts is the plan. Uh any questions on the construction projects? They're coming along great. No, but I would like to ask if we could schedule another CTE visit because I wasn't able to go to the first one. Yes, sir. Love to go back and Yeah. In the next two weeks, they're going to have all the slabs poured. So, I would suggest that we wait about a week or so and then go over and uh we'll really be able to to take a look at, you know, at the progress. So, I'll be happy to set the set that up for you guys and invite everybody. If I may just say real quick, u uh we had our our state superintendent conference in in Rono um earlier this week and I got had the opportunity to
011give a a brief speech to the to the group and um just talked about our you know different um projects and things we're working on, things we're proud of in Reno County. And Mr. Kaggles gave me some of that drone footage with the fly over just w you know seeing the construction just the views uh is beautiful. So, just appreciate um you give me that and appreciate all the all the things you're doing to shepherd that project. It's it's good stuff. No, thank you. It's going to be great. Yeah. Thank you. Item 3.02, surplus items request, Mr. Todd Kaggles. Uh yes, ma'am. We have um a list, the full list is available in board docks, but it's primarily food service equipment and then a few items uh that are either no longer functional or no
012longer uh useful to the school system. Um short list, I'll read it to you. We have some uh food warmers, a solar power trainer, which is uh like a little solar power demonstration kit that I believe doesn't function any any longer. uh some kettles, meat slicers, and um some swing door operators. Those are the the closers that go on the door. If there are no objections, we would ask that those just be added to the consent agenda for the next meeting uh for surplus. Thank you. That's all I have. Hey, Todd, I just want to say thank you for all your work last couple days with that situation. Oh, yes sir. I don't think it's public. I don't need to make it public what it was about, but I just appreciate your professionalism and and
013going above and beyond to make that work. Yes, sir. Appreciate you saying that. Thank you. All right. Um and before we go into close, I just want to take a few minutes to talk about our procedures um when we have a disruption in a schoolboard meeting. Um I just think it's good for us to kind of go over that again. Um I think first it's important to discuss what would constitute as a disruption to the meeting. um and what would cause us to call for a recess. Um the decision to call a recess is made when there's a number of audience members that are yelling. Um and it prevents the business of the meeting to continue. Um as was the case at our last board meeting. Um when you have half or more of the
014audience members yelling, it creates a disruption that prevents us from being able to move forward. Um, previously when these disruptions have happened, the board consulted with law enforcement and others with knowledge and experience of these types of situations. The board was advised to call a recess and leave the room. Um, and this is standard procedure across other school divisions. Um, the reason for calling the recess and leaving the room is to allow for deescalation um, and to restore order to the room so that the meeting can continue. Um so that would be the reason that we would would need to leave the room. Um all board members have been advised of this and they and need to leave during um the disruption as to not hinder law enforcement from doing their job to deescalate and
015provide restoration so that we can continue forward. Um and then just one last thing I would mention is that um the live feed is um that we have going cannot be discontinued until the chair calls for the recess. Um the meeting isn't in recess until that time. Um this happened um at the previous board meeting and um it does prevent those watching um from seeing the meeting in its entirety. So going forward, we need to make sure that the live feed continues until the recess is called um just so that there's no discrepancy between what what they're seeing and what is actually happening in the official meeting. So, um, I just wanted to kind of go over some of those things, um, as a group with everyone here so that we're all on the same
016page. I don't know if anyone has anything else they want to add to that. Anything? All right. I I would just like to say that in the moment it's uh very uh disconcerting and I think you tried to manage the situation as best we could and I appreciate your your leadership on that. uh for anyone that's watching this to think it's not gut-wrenching for all of us for what's happened and what the families have went through. And uh you know, we wouldn't have a heart if we weren't if our hearts weren't breaking for the very situation that we're discussing. But in the moment of public safety and uh the officers were saying you should go back to the room and and let things calm down a little bit. Um, I, you know, I appreciate what
017you did. Uh, there's no roadmap for how to handle this situation. We certainly wanted to hear everyone's comments, uh, the discussion and and I'm sure we'll have an opportunity to do that going forward. So, it's uh, it's just a tough situation u, and uh, I think you did a nice job. Thank you. Appreciate it. It is a tough decision to make, but given the circumstances and what we've been asked to do, I think it is the only way to create order in the room. So, anything else? Thank you. All right. Mr. Greenway, would you like to read us into closed? Sure, I'd be happy to. I move that Rona County School Board convene in close session for the following to discuss ongoing personnel matters under investigation pursuant to the personnel exemption at 2.2-37. 2-3711A1 of
018the code of Virginia and to discuss the investigation of a student matter pursuant to the Scholastic record exemption at 2.2-3711 2-3711 A2 of the Code of Virginia and for consultation with legal counsel and briefings by staff members pertaining to actual or probable litig litigation and consultation with legal counsel regarding specific legal matters requiring the provision of legal advice by such council pursuant to 2.2-3711 A7 of the code of Virginia. Second, Madam Clerk, Mr. Green. Yes, ma'am. Mr. L. Yes, ma'am. Mr. Yes, ma'am. Miss Clemen. Yes, ma'am. [Music]