001Mhm. >> Mhm. >> Testing, testing, 1 2. >> Mhm. >> Mike is mute. >> Sir, how you spoke that everybody up there supposed to know what's going on, not just two people the way you said it. So, when it comes to a three to four vote is wrong. What you did is wrong. And you know what? Since then, we had a meeting in town about doubling United. And that's where this is going to go, doubling United. We're uniting against the four of you that voted yes. The three that voted no, we're your fourth vote out here. We're standing behind you that voted no, and we're going to speak up. And if it means to go to the school board in Georgia, I'm going there to talk. Okay? Because this is not right. What you done,
002you four, is not right. And then if it means to talk to the superintendent of Georgia, I'm going to put my foot down and I'm going to speak. If it means that person, whoever that person is, doesn't speak and says something, I'm going to write to the governor of the state because what you done is wrong. When the lady before me on the last meeting said out publicly that you know, cuz you fired all these teachers here in town, 49 of them. You all know that lady before me stood up and said, "Do you don't remember that there is school students in town that does not have a certified teacher?" Licensed. But no, you four thought it was all right to do what you did on the last meeting. You think it's all right for
003AIG to have your improvements, but the improvements for these students that need a licensed teacher so they can get a good education, that don't mean nothing to you four. They didn't mean nothing. You voted your way because that's what you want in this system. That's not what we want. And you know what? This ain't over with yet. This is going to go on. Thank you very much. >> [applause] >> Good evening. My name is Courtney Cony, and I'm speaking tonight um as a concerned citizen, as a aunt of two children that are at the middle school, and a product of Dublin City Schools. Last meeting I raised concerns regarding the recommendation for a zero-based budget approach and whether it was truly considered or implemented. Tonight I want to address the decision to move the IGA
004Academy into Moore Street School. At a time when this district is facing serious financial challenges, staffing shortages, and academic concerns, I believe we need to reevaluate our priorities. The IGA Academy is a program, not a separate school. Meanwhile, Moore Street School houses the alternative school, and many in the community are struggling to understand how expanding or restructuring programs in in this way aligns with the district's current financial reality. I also think it is important to acknowledge that the community has already experienced a school closure, restructuring, and impacts to teachers during previous financial hardships. So naturally, many people are asking why during another financial crisis we are discussing expansion instead of stabilization. At some point, we have to stop focusing on expansion and start focusing on strengthening the schools we already have. Right now, our priority
005should be stabilizing classrooms, recruiting and retaining qualified teachers, improving student achievement, and addressing the concerns surrounding support at the middle school level. We should be taking a serious look at curriculum and student performance data. Are milestone scores improving? Are students receiving the academic support they truly need? In addition, I recently learned that the human resources position at the district level was reportedly reclassified as a coordinator. As someone with extensive HR experience, I do not understand how a coordinator level position is expected to effectively manage the complexity of staffing, recruitment, and operational challenges facing the district. The district does not need a weakened operational leadership during the crisis. It needs experienced leadership capable of recruiting class Excuse me, qualified educators, responsibly managing staffing allocations and FTEs, and providing sound guidance regarding compensation. I also want to
006address a statement made during the last meeting that once a vote is concluded, whether board members agree or disagree, they simply have to go along with it. Respectfully, I do not believe that fully reflects how governance works. We have already seen situations where clarification, executive sessions, discussions Yeah. Thank you. >> [applause] >> I talked, so I got to help myself out, y'all. Can you hear me? Okay. Thank you. Good evening. I'm Regina McCray McCray, former board member. I'm here, um, again to make public comments. The purpose is to ask questions and to gain an understanding of the current decisions being made. I I again am asking for the specific written recommendations to be made public. It's my understanding that any recommendation made by the state also had the cost savings attached to it. Of all
007the recommendations given, why was the IB magnet school the best fit for DCS? Given our current financial hardships, what are the immediate cost savings to the IB school? The community is being told that it will be anywhere from two to four years before an IB school will be able to operate as an independent school in the in the district. Until this happens, how will the IB school be funded? Will funding continue to come from Susie, Hillcrest, or DMS? If so, how long? And what continued impact will this have on those schools? There is a feeling in the community that the board and the interim are simply managing the demise of DCS. We are seeking strong leadership that is willing to make the hard decisions, but the ones that benefit benefit the entire district. So, in
008summary, please post or release specific recommendations so that we as a community can understand how these decisions were made. Additionally, we are asking that you reconsider the IB school. Based on the limited information released, it is likely that the creation of a school in the district will continue to demand the attention and resources from the district to ensure its success. How can you ensure that the other schools will not continue to suffer as a result of an already strained district creating a new school? At what point will we be able to focus on the serious concerns at the other schools? When will we truly begin to build DCS? >> [applause] [clears throat] >> All right. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak. I wanted to speak at the last board meeting, but something
009came up. I couldn't. But I'm here to this evening. And I want to voice my concern about I don't have any children. I don't have any grandchildren, but the reason I'm here, I have multiple properties that I own in the city. And when I feel it, I have to let people hear from me. And and they because they are being taxed excessively. And I just want to encourage you all to be good stewards of the taxpayers' money. And the second thing I want to mention is about the 4-3 vote. We had the vote and three of the blacks voted I I no and three of the whites voted yes. And the chairperson couldn't seem like she couldn't wait to say I vote yes, so the recommendation passed. That is wrong. We can't do that. If
010we want the best for our children, I heard many of you on the board say you love the children whether they black or white. You're not loving the children if you all are voting among racial lines and won't wait postpone the vote to talk about it to find out well what they have all of them are voting a no and all of you are voting yes. Something is wrong with that. A 4-3 vote should not stand. Um next thing I want to speak about um is that we have to work with the school system that we've been provided. It's predominantly African-American now, but it used to be different. And so since this is the school system we have, that's what we have to work with. Uh so now I know you all allow students that
011live in the district to go to any other school that they want to. I I I I would agree with that. They should be able to go where they want to go, but if you get funding for students that live in the district, let them go, but the funding need to stay in the district that it belong to. And I encourage you to continue to have a curriculum where you teach all of the students at a high level. So you could eliminate the need for having a IGA or a magnet school, especially in the funding position that we are in now. So um uh And those that do not comprehend or falling behind, perhaps we can have that have a after school program to get some further tutoring to keep them bring them up to
012speed. That would be much more cost effective than uh having a IGA or a magnet school. The final thing I want to say that we need to you all need to provide a financial report at every board meeting considering the financial position that we are in. Thank you very much. >> [applause] >> Thank you. Next is superintendent comments and announcements. Ms. Poole? Good evening. Thank you all for coming and having such a great interest in Dublin City Schools. Um just a couple of things that I wanted to mention that's been going on in our district. We did have a reduction day today, so our our students did not attend school today. Um we have filed the intent to respond as far as Cognia and we are working on that action plan um and working in
013partnership with Cognia to ensure that our accreditation stays just like um it is and we climb that ladder back up to where we were before the monitoring review. Um this week on Friday and Saturday evening, we had uh troop 669. They hosted a dinner theater. It was a a great time. There was a lot of people that that came out for that and um I thoroughly enjoyed our kids um doing their thing on the stage. It was right here in the rotunda and so I appreciate all of those students and Mr. Ellingburg putting that on for us this past weekend. Also, uh board in your packet you have the Moore Street uh school graduation invitation and that is going to be on Thursday evening, May 21st. It'll be right here in the auditorium. So, I
014hope that all of you are able to come and if you could just let me know if you are planning to come so that we can make arrangements for you to have a seat on the stage. Um we also had our boys and girls uh basketball banquet this week. Uh we we had some great teams this year. We're very proud of those boys and girls. Uh the boys finished strong as region runner-ups, and both teams earned spots in the GHSA Class A State Playoffs. So, they worked really hard this year, and we hope to see that continue next year. Also, we had one of our teachers, Mr. Jimmy Walker, that was chosen to participate in the celebration um with the State Department. And this was a celebration for Teach in the Peach. Um and I
015received these pictures back from Dr. Stephanie Johnson. Uh she was there, and you see uh in your uh pamphlet, you see where she took a picture with uh Mr. Walker. He completed his TAPS program with Oconee RESA. So, he is fully certified at this point. So. Um we also have the uh Dublin High School Track and Field athletes. They have qualified for the State Championship at the University of Georgia, and that starts tomorrow, or they're going up tomorrow. And we had the girls 4 by 200-m race. We had the boys 4 by 100-m race, and the boys two 4 by 200-m race. And then we also had uh Major Morton that um qualified in the discus. So, we were excited about them heading out tomorrow morning for that. We do have our football team that
016are gearing up with spring practice. I've seen them out there this week, and uh so we hope everything's going well with that. We also um want to congratulate um Tyrese Robinson. He is a DHS alumni and Irish legend, and he is at Piedmont University on the team, and the team claimed the 2026 CCS Championship. Uh Robinson is a Dublin High School Class of 2025 alumni. And um he was one of Dublin's baseball top performers in the 2020s. So, we're excited for him. As well as >> [applause] >> we have Miss Jelana Smith. Um, she was part of our Dublin High School class of 2023. She was a valedictorian and she was recently honored at the Georgia Institute of Technology's Up with the White and Gold Ceremony as a recipient of the Celebrating Student Leaders Award
017and as a completer of the John Lewis Student Leadership Pathway Program. So, we were very excited for her as well. Uh, we love to hear about our Dublin High School alumni going on to do great things. I also have with me Miss Susan Curtis, not Susan Curtis, Miss Jackie Curtis tonight. Sorry about that. Um, too many Curtises around here. Um, but she is here to to speak with us about our summer program. We are very excited to partner with Communities in Schools. And so, you want to come to the mic and just kind of tell us a little bit about what you're doing to help our students here at Dublin City Schools. Yes, ma'am. Um I am Jackie Curtis. When Miss Curtis started the high school, they thought I was teaching up there, so I
018understand. Um, good evening. I'm excited to be here and um, I hope you'll just give me a little bit of privilege, um, Miss Poole to share a little bit about Communities in Schools just because we've had a very long-standing relationship with Dublin City Schools. Uh, I serve as the regional director uh, with Communities in Schools of Georgia and my region spans from Bibb County down to Camden County. When we started in 1999, we started in More Street School in the library and we served Dublin City and Laurens County. In 2013, we added Twiggs County and right now I have uh, programming in Wilkinson County, Emanuel County, Charlton County, and Camden County and we will be adding Appling County in the fall. Um, I wanted to come tonight just to make sure that you were aware
019not only that Communities in Schools has been a good partner, but the financial contributions that we make to the district. Um, when I met with Ms. Poole, she said, "Well, I know y'all have been a good partner to us." And I said, "So, you don't know about the money?" And she said, "No." I said, "Well, let me tell you." Um, so, I want to make sure that you're aware of um what we've been doing. In 2023, Communities in Schools of Georgia wrote a community schools grant. It's a federal grant, and we were the only uh organization in the state of Georgia to be awarded. We were awarded $15 million. Thank you. [applause] We're We were awarded $15 million, and our portion of that is $4 million to serve um Laurens County, Twiggs, and Dublin City.
020And that's over a 5-year period. So, how have we used that money? Um, in July of 2023, we placed site coordinators in Dublin Middle School and Dublin High School. These coordinators are paid solely by CIS through the grant, and they work with 10% of the school's population um to ensure that we are working with those students that have the most discipline issues, um low academic performance, and attendance. Um, they work closely with the school administration, and they focus on the needs that um are identified by the schools in their school improvement plan. Second, um since 2013 2023, both schools have received $50,000 from us per year to support programming, PBIS supplies, and after-school and summer programming. Um, I will be emailing um to Ms. Poole a copy of our recent um impact report for Dublin
021City Schools as well as a copy of our recent site visit from our grant um evaluators. But, in 2024-2025 school year, um between the two schools, Dublin Middle and Dublin High School, 978 students were served through CIS and received some type of programming and resource. Of those uh 978, 110 were case managed. That meant they met with a CIS person and received services, programming, etc. Of those students, 76.5 of those improved attendance, 100% of those case managed students of behavior improved, and 49.1% of academically struggling students improved, and 100% of the students that we work with were promoted or they graduated. Also, our site coordinators make referrals to our resource center um for services, and we served um over 7,000 people at our resource center last year. So, the main reason I'm here tonight, um
022we're all aware of the situation that you're in financially, and um again, CIS wants to be a good partner. And so, when I found out that there was a possibility that you were not going to be able to offer summer enrichment or summer school, as I call it, cuz I'm very old, um I went back and looked at how we had spent our money each year historically, and tried to figure out how we could help. And so, I'm happy to tell you tonight that um CIS will be able to provide WCC schools this summer $100,000 to provide summer enrichment. [applause] Thank you, Ms. Curtis, for that and and the partnership. It's me now, right? >> [laughter] >> A few other things, um I met with Dublin High School um and their graduation committee this week.
023They have um done an amazing job getting that prepared for graduation. Don't forget our graduation is coming up on the 22nd. So, hopefully everyone can be there for that. Um also, the um Baccalaureate service is at Liberty uh Baptist Church on Sunday, May 17th at 3:00 p.m. So, if you can be at that as well, that would be great. And that's all I have, Mr. Chairman. All right, we'll just move right on into general administration with the school spotlight. And tonight, our school spotlight is Moore Street School with Ms. Katina Puckett. And we're going to take just a few minutes to get everything [applause and cheering] set. Okay. Good evening. Good evening. And thank you all for having me. And for the good of the group, I am Ms. Puckett. I'm the principal of Moore
024Street School. Um if you were here when Dr. Overstreet, I think, was the last school spotlight for Dublin High School. And if you was in that in attendance for that meeting, I want to make you two promises. The first one is I won't be as long as Dr. Overstreet was. And the second [clears throat] one is I'm only going to have one closing. >> [laughter] >> But on a more serious note, I would like to commend my colleagues who have gone before me to spotlight their school. They have done a phenomenal job. And Moore Street is bringing up the rear and I just want I won't trouble you long, but I do want to share with you some of the great things that's going on at Moore Street School. I'm also want I want to
025introduce my staff. Uh Jennifer Martin serves our ELA and sped students. Miss Juliet Newton, math, science, and she's also our counselor. Mr. Maurice Stanley, um social studies, and he's our PBIS coach. And if you see to the right our program schedule, we have three schedules. The first is our middle school schedule. They have a traditional school day from 8:00 until 2:00 p.m. And then we have a morning group of high schoolers, and their school day in person is from 8:00 to 12:10, and then they're virtual from 1:40 until 3:40, and then we have an afternoon high school group who's in person from 11:40 until 3:40 p.m. and they're virtual from 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 That should say 10:00 a.m. not 10:00 p.m. That's a typo. Please forgive me. Um there's an overlap from 11:40 until
02612:10. That's lunch. Everybody eats lunch at the same time. Next slide. So, who are we? We are a non-traditional behavior and academic alternative school of the Dublin City School District, and we believe in a supportive environment that every student deserves a second chance and a path to success. And some of our values include, and the first one is probably the most important to us, is relationships. We believe in respect, responsibility, resilience, and restoration. Next slide. When you're identifying something or you're you want to define something, sometimes understanding what it is not helps. So, what we are not is a small version of Dublin High School or Dublin Middle School. Also, what we are not we are not limited by labels, perceptions, or stereotypes about alternative education. Next slide. >> [snorts] >> What we offer. We
027offer flexible scheduling, as you can see as we just went over the schedule is very flexible. Um we also offer move on when ready, fast track credit recovery, individualized learning, and we are the only campus I believe that offer all three learning environments. That's in person, hybrid, and completely virtual. Next slide. So I want to give you a few of our demographics. We have uh served for this school year we have served a total of 108 students. Our current enrollment 25 middle school students, 44 high school students, and we have two students who are still pending enrollment. Those two students were sent to us by way of a tribunal hearing, but we have not they have not officially enrolled with us. And that breaks down to we have 14 students with disabilities, which is equivalent
028to 20% of our enrollment. We have one student with the 504, that is less than 1% of our total enrollment. Um 21 of our 69 students are served completely in the virtual uh space. That's 31% of our enrollment. Of those 21 students who are virtual, 21 of those students are virtual at the parents' request. The other four are virtual um because of behavior issues. Um 34 of the 69 students currently enrolled at Moore Street School was uh assigned to us by way of a tribunal hearing. That represents 49% of our total enrollment. And of all the students that we have currently enrolled, 51 of those students have been retained one or more times. Next slide. Just some of our academic data that we are most uh proud of. This is our beacon growth data. And
029you can see as uh reflected in the in the um here, that 78% of our ELA students showed moderate to high growth on the most recent administration of our beacon. Y'all, that's worthy of a hand clap. >> [applause] >> And 62% of our of our students showed moderate to high growth in math. And that's worthy of a hand clap. [applause] Uh the beacon assessment is given to our students in grades 6 through 8. So, that that represents our middle school population. Next slide. And um some academic informa- uh academic data for our high school students. In the fall semester, our high school students earned 184 credits. When I put this presentation together on last Thursday for the spring semester, 160 credits had already been earned. We still have somewhere between 20 and 30 credits still
030in progress. So, we still we have an opportunity to earn an additional 30 credits before we uh finish for the school year. That is phenomenal. That's you know, well over 300 credits earned for the school year for our students. >> [applause] >> Next slide. >> [snorts] >> So, some additional accomplishments. We have 17 graduates uh for this uh school year. Three of those graduates are in the class of 2025. Um that means that they have already counted against a school somewhere. And these students were still seeking to earn a high school diploma. And there are not many options when you've already counted against somebody's cohort. Most people are not going to accept you. Two of those students came to us from Double High School. One came to us from Lawrence County. I am happy to
031report that all three of those students will be graduating on the 21st. >> [applause] >> We have 10 students in the of 2026 on track to graduate and we have four students that's in the cohort of 2027 which equate to those students graduating early and we are super proud of them. >> [applause] >> Um, I went through the graduating class of Dublin High School because I wanted to know how many of those students had matriculated through Moore Street School during their high school career and 12 students who are slated to graduate from Dublin High School matriculated through Moore Street School sometime during their high school career. So that means Moore Street School did exactly what it was supposed to do, got the kids back on track, they were [applause] able to return to their base
032school and now they're ready to graduate. So we're super proud of that. Some other key academic and operational successes is that we have we successfully fast-tracked two eighth-grade repeaters. They started the school year with us as eighth-grade repeaters. We were able to effectively move them to ninth grade and I am happy to report that they have completed all their ninth-grade requirements and they will be >> [applause] >> going to starting next school term as tenth-graders. Super proud of that. Um, Moore Street has also collaborated across four campuses, Dublin High School, Dublin Middle School, IGA and Heart of the Land Academy. Just to give a couple examples, we had a student who was in the third class of his um, he was completing his pathway. He was in the third class, third course of that. >>
033[snorts] >> He got sent to Moore Street School and we didn't we didn't offer the pathway. So we were able to collaborate with Dublin High School in particular being who that kid was able to report to Dublin High School to continue his pathway and complete his pathway and then complete the rest rest of his school day at Moore Street School. That was it it took a few meetings back and forth to get it set up. Being [applause] Being basically led that work, but Moore Street School was in agreement with with it, and he did a phenomenal job with that. So, um we're super grateful for that. Also, we have had students who are attending Moore Street School to continue to be able to work with the JROTC program, also to attend prom. Just some of
034the collaboration with Dublin High School, Dublin Middle School. Students were able to attend the green and gold ball. We had three students who came to us from the IGA because they were off track academically. We are super excited to report that those students were able to get back on track academically and return to IGA, and we currently have one student who is serving part of his day at Heartland Academy and part of his day at Moore Street School. Just speaks to um our ability to collaborate across campuses. >> [applause] >> And we also offer dual enrollment opportunities for our students. Next slide. So, the uh the next few slides is going to be some snapshots of some different celebrations, just opportunities that we've had at Moore Street School. This particular one, instead of the staff
035having our traditional uh Christmas celebration where we pull names and give gifts to each other, this particular year we had three team parents. So, we had those parents to uh create a Christmas wish list for their children. We converted our conference room into like a winter wonderland. Um we had Christmas tree, we had Santa Claus there, we had a meal prepared, everything that they had on their Christmas list, we were able to provide. And the staff of Moore Street, along with our community partners, in particular Word and Season Ministry, and we do have Pastor Luther here. We were [applause] able We were able to provide every single thing on the Christmas list for those students. We invited the families in, and it was a phenomenal time. It is probably one of the most impo- precious
036celebrations that we have hosted at Moore Street School. Next slide. Um this is our student celebration we had. We converted the cafeteria into gaming stations. The kids were able to rotate from station to station and partake of the games. They absolutely loved it. Most of the prizes were the staff donated about all of the prizes and most of them were like the king-size candy bars. We had they liked the different color for socks. Sometimes they like the Cheetos socks and hot fries. Yeah, we had all different kinds and they really enjoyed that. We had a phenomenal time with with our Christmas celebration. Next slide. Next slide. Since that's well, so we try to incorporate as many of those opportunities as we can. The spirit week was just one that we were able to successfully incorporate.
037Next slide. PBI celebration. Again, with our along with our staff and our community partners, we're able to do PBIS celebrations. So, typically the first celebration, every kid is invited to it. And then the celebrations moving forward, you have to earn your way by having um enough points or meeting the behavior and the attendance requirement to be able to participate in celebration. This was one of the kickoff celebrations where we were able to have a slush a slushy machine provided for us and I think one of these pictures may show me on the fryer. I was frying hot wings for our students and they were participating in a number of things, water slides, games, so forth. Again, this was just a phenomenal time. None of this could be possible without having committed staff first of all
038and secondly having good business and community partners. So, we're we're super appreciative. Next slide. Staff celebration. So, we have we try to keep everybody happy and we're looking for opportunities to celebrate each other. And it just comes so natural because Moore Street School it really is an extension of our families. Like we love each other for real. Like we we've been there for each other. Celebrations There's children graduating from high school and or college, marriages, the birth of children, all of the things, even the death of parents and our grandparents just to be there to support each other. And these are just a few of the snapshots of different celebrations, uh staff celebrations that we that we have. We're always looking for opportunities to celebrate each other and just to love on each other because
039this is a you know, this is a heavy lift. This isn't education is not easy and especially not easy in the crisis that we're currently experiencing. So, we're just looking for opportunities to love on each other and to encourage each other. Next slide. Uh these snapshots are from a field trip to the Tubman Museum. Um, some people when I remember when I first asked and they was like, "You want to do what?" I got I want to take my kids to on a field trip. Well, then we got full support from the central office. We were able to take them out to Macon to the Tubman Museum. We had a a wonderful time. We did not have any behavior incidents while we were there and then we're able to take them out to eat. The
040kids absolutely enjoyed it and the staff was very pleased to be able to give them that experience. Next slide. And, uh, these next, uh, this next these next slide right here is just, um, a few snapshots of just student engagement. I know some of you haven't had the opportunity to come in and and literally see what's going on in Mosley School. And these are just a few snapshots of student interactive, um, hands-on collaboration, class participation. You can see some peer, um, tutoring going on. You can see some whole group going on as well, small group in the corner. I just, you know, we try to meet the kids where they are and provide what they need. Uh, every day to look absolutely different and we just want to be there to support the kids. I
041Like I said, I meet them where they are. I like to say what we do at Mosley School is trench work. We don't stand on the side yelling directions down. We get down in the trenches and help fill those gaps and build them up. >> [applause] >> And that's not to negate what anybody else is doing on any other campus because I do know that there are there is great work going on in every campus, but tonight is Mosley School spotlight, so I'm just talking about what we do. Next [snorts] slide. And this, uh, the next two slides are going to just highlight our community partners and sponsors because this is very important. I've already mentioned Word and Season Ministry. Word and Season Ministry has been a long-term partner of Mosley School. Um, and they
042don't just show up with with their words. They're not just showing up with firing words. This year they gave us a $800 check um to More Street School to support whatever efforts we had going on with they gave us that with no stipulations on how it was to be used [applause] and we're absolutely grateful for that. The Dublin Housing Authority has been a long standing partner of ours and um more recently Envision Hope Counseling Service with Faith and Hope Snail as well and we're super important. They also gave a cash donation recently to More Street School. >> [applause] >> Next slide. Um Dab Transport uh these the next slides are they they are more new to More Street School as far as community partners and sponsors, but we still think it's very important to acknowledge
043them because they don't have to be kind to us. They don't have to sow their resources to us and we want to show our gratitude. Dab Transport LLC sponsored a meal for um our teachers during um Teacher Appreciation Week this past week. >> [clears throat] >> Miss Curtis had already mentioned that Communities in Schools have been a partner and they have specifically reached out to More Street School on multiple occasions this school year and we are super grateful for that. Thank you very much Miss um Turner had uh supported us in two or three different uh events and we're very grateful for that and Crystal I think Crystal Waller kind of linked us together for that partnership. Again, we're super grateful. Um Christ Deliverance also uh the Kate sponsored a meal for um Teacher Appreciation
044Week this past week and Chick-fil-A has been a partner with Dublin City Schools and in particular More Street School as well and G-CAPS, which is another um organization that we were privy to get exposed to by Word and Season Ministries, but they have also sown into More Street School as a community um partner and our sponsor and we're super grateful. >> [applause] >> Next slide. And this is our why. This is why we lace them up every single day, when it's hard, when we're when we're happy, when we're sad. Um my pastor like to say that her her favorite scripture is uh Romans 8 and 28. Anybody know it? And we know And we know And we know that all things work together for the good of them who love God and called according to
045his purpose. [applause] And that all things represents the good things, the bad things, the things we understand, the things we don't understand, the things we agree with, the things we do not agree with. It represents all things. reason we continue to get up and do it every single day, show up with a smile on our face, and continue to pour and give back is because we get to have moments like this, when we get to bring the kids in and give them their cap and gowns and they put them on for the first time and those smiles are so big and the parents are standing to the side super proud of all of the hard work, all of the heartache, all of whatever it took to get to this moment. This is why we do
046it. Because we get to celebrate moments like this. So, when people say, "Why would you stay in education?" This is my why. >> [applause] >> The final slide is just a slide of if y'all have any questions. I hope I stay true to my word and I didn't trouble you as long as Dr. Overstreet did. >> [laughter] >> I'm getting close. I'm sorry. But I'm going to go ahead and sit down unless you all have any uh particular questions for me. I do appreciate uh Ms. Poole and the board for an opportunity to just spotlight some of the great work that's going on at Moore Street School. >> [applause] >> Thank you, Ms. Puckett for that. We're going to move on to the next item, summer floor maintenance approval. Mr. Curtis, would you come and
047talk to us about the summer floor maintenance? Thank you, Ms. Poole. Good evening. I am the uh the environmental specialist uh coordinator for Dublin City Schools. And uh I have included uh three quotes for floor detailing this summer for our schools. You know, initially we explored the option of uh having our custodial staff complete all floor work in our schools. However, after reviewing the scope of the work, the timeline, and overall cost effectiveness, it was determined after meeting with Ms. Poole and the finance team, this would not be the most efficient approach. Based on the quotes received and the needs of the district, I would like to recommend Georgia Gym Floors for this task of detailing our floors at our schools. We have uh worked with uh this company in the past, and they have
048been very We have been very satisfied uh with their work. And they will be detailing the floors at Dublin High School, Dublin Middle School, and also Susie Dasher Elementary School. And our custodial staff will complete the floor detailing at Hillcrest Elementary, Moore Street School, and the K building, which is also known as the Irish Gifted Academy, without incurring any overtime cost. So, thank you for your time, and please let me know if you have any questions or any further concerns. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Curtis. Okay, go ahead. Uh Mr. Waters. I I noticed the last time I was there they did a good clean-up job. Yes, sir. So, they did a good job and I I got a lot of confidence in what they do. They do great work. So, you just tell them
049Uh for me and this board, we really appreciate them, okay? I sure will. Thank you, Mr. Waters. >> [clears throat] >> Okay. Yes. All right. So, at this time, I need a vote to approve Madam Chair, I move we accept staff recommendations. Mr. George Jimerson. Second. Okay. We've had a motion to approve. Any discussion? Mr. Johnson wants to know the schools again. Yes, Emma. As I understand it's Dublin High, Dublin Middle, Susie, and the staff will complete Hillcrest, Moore Street, and IGA K building. Correct, Mr. Curtis? Correct. Okay. Any other discussion? Okay. At this time, we've had a motion and a second to approve George Z. Johnson Floors to complete Dublin High School, Dublin Middle, and Susie Dasher. All in favor, I. I. All opposed, no. Eyes have it. Next, we have item C, Irish
050Healthcare Sponsorship Change. So, we have uh Ms. Trenny Steverson with us. Um and we also have two members of our community health team with us. Um We were approached by Dr. Waters, who is now serving as our sponsor with the Medical Center at um the Irish healthcare. He is losing his um his PA there, and so he was asking what what could we do to change the sponsorship because he doesn't have another person that's a PA to be able to put there. So, I'm going to turn that over to Ms. Trenney, Nurse Trenney, to tell us a little bit more about that. Okay. Um thank you all for having me this afternoon, this evening. Um so, like Ms. Poole said, she asked me to give you all kind of an update about what was going
051on and the good things that's going on within the clinic. So, the clinic program continues to provide valuable healthcare support to students, staff, and families across our district. Um although the clinic has only been operational, fully operational, for about a year and a half, the accomplishments of student health, attendance, and the utilization has been exceptionally strong. Um many of our students and staff have developed a great level of trust in the clinic and its providers, and this has ensured care that may have been delayed, avoided, and totally neglected if had not been for the clinic. Currently, 65% of our students have completed consent to utilize the clinic services. Excuse [clears throat] me. And we have provided more than a thousand clinic visits so far this school year alone. Approximately 25 students who need controlled medications
052for ADHD or other medical diagnosis are managed through the clinic insurance and it has ensured um consistent care and minimal to no gaps in the their prescribed medication administration. Dr. Waters and his team have done a fantastic job of laying the groundwork for the success of the program. But like Ms. Poole said, um he is losing Nurse K, as the kids like to call her. She's going back to her love, which is women's health, and so he feels at this time, you know, it's just not going to be something that he can um continue to do and try to get another nurse practitioner within his practice to continue to cover the clinic. Their practice does not currently utilize nurse practitioners or PAs in their practice, so they don't have that pool to draw from. We
053will miss Dr. Waters and his team and can't thank them enough for what they have done for our DCS family. So, to keep the clinic running, we need to kind of adjust our approach and we can't operate without a sponsor. But, fortunately, Community Health Care Services Systems is prepared and willing to try to step in to bridge that gap to continue the clinic with minimal changes and interruptions in care. Um this system is highly experienced in operating school-based health centers and currently manage several in surrounding communities and areas. Um so, with their continued partnership, established trust, and experience, I think the program is well-positioned to continue with long-term success. So, if y'all don't have any questions for me directly at this time, I would like to introduce Community Health Care Systems representatives. We have Jason
054Powell, who is the CFO, and also Monique Howard Brown, who is the practice manager, and they can elaborate on what they can offer for our students. Good evening. Um so, I'm going to go ahead and start and then I'll hand the floor over to Jason. So, um thank you so much, Ms. Trenney. My name is Monique Howard Brown. I'm the practice manager for Community Health Care Systems. So, I just want to just explain a little bit about Community Health Care Systems and what we do for the communities right now that we serve. So, we are a federally qualified health center located in central Georgia. We currently service 14 counties in central Georgia, and that spans across 23 sites, individual sites that we have. Of those 23 sites included are two mobile units. We do um
055currently have six school-based health centers. So, we are located within other um school um school districts as well across those um counties. Um as stated um uh you know, we we are um uh excited for this opportunity of how we can actually help without skipping a beat um with the students and their health because obviously the students, you know, without them being healthy, they they don't stay in school. Um and so, I am going to now turn over to Jason so that he can give you all um just a few of the numbers that we have um as well just going across what we have served um in the past. Hey. Um we opened our first um school-based health center in 2016 in Johnson County, and that partnership is still in full effect. Um pretty
056much once we start a school system, we never leave that school system. And we kind of when I came on board, Johnson County was the only school system that we had, and we've incorporated several others since then as Monique mentioned, we have six. Um and each one of our school systems is a different and unique in itself. We allow the school system decide who do you want us to see? Do you want us to see students and staff only? Do you want us to extend that to family? Do you want us to extend that to community? We we work with the school system to determine what is best for the school system. Um the number that um Nurse Trenae mentioned a while ago kind of blew me out of the water because so far this
057year across of our six school-based health centers, we've only we've seen almost 1,500, and for Dublin already see over 1,000. That's a dream come true. I mean I I'm ready to I like that number. As a CFO, I love to see those numbers. Um so yeah, we bring partnerships to this as Monique mentioned we're an FQHC. We have programs like the 340B pharmacy program that would allow students and family members as long as they're members and patients of our health center, they're able to get their medications for pennies on the dollar and we don't up our medication. We charge a the cost which could be an empty PM we will range between 1 cent to 3 cent. We have the dispense fee which is $8.50 for our slowest slide and we just charge $8.53 for
058that vital medication for the patient. So we do that's one of the benefits of us being an FQHC is the 340B drug program as well as several other programs that we do. And we also mentioned um State that we do have our own pharmacy. Yeah, we do have our own pharmacy by the way. Um so we can have those delivered. We also have partnerships here in Dublin with Walgreens, Kroger and Walmart that you can get those prescriptions also filled there if it's a uh antibiotic that they need relatively quick. Um we also do partnership with schools that we do school physicals at no cost to the students that we come in with our staff and provide school physicals. And we work with the athletic department and the school system to deem what's would be the
059correct or the what you would like to see and Monique can probably speak quicker to that than I can. >> Yes, so we've done um this year to date and we typically start school physicals around February or March. It seems like it gets earlier and earlier every year. Um but right now we've seen a roughly around 3,000 students for school's physical. So, and we provided that again at no cost to the students. Um, like Jason stated, we come in with our team. Um, we may set out a day, two days, three days, whatever that looks like as far as the students that you need um, or that need sports physicals. Um, and we go to each school, whatever schools those are, we set that aside and we knock them all out within few hours or
060a whole day whatever's needed for um, for those students. Um, Are there any questions for us? >> for us? So, with this we're working on an MOA with um, community um, health and um, so that's not complete yet, but I wanted you guys to to know that Dr. Waters and the Medical Center that that sponsorship we were looking at changing it. So, um, you know, that will be a future uh, approval. Um, I will also add with being a FQHC, we have to offer what we call a sliding fee scale. So, we base that off of family household um, and your the parents' income. So, depending on how that goes, a student could pay as low as $25 and no matter what we do in that visit, whether it be an EKG, um, you name
061it in office, the most they're going to pay is $25 and we write that off to and they get no bills, no we don't collect, we nothing. It's $25 and it's written off and we have slides A through E and those kind of go up in incremental. I think the highest on the slides is 45, then slide E is full pay, but we're very conscious of that and we offer some payment plans, whatever it needs to be done. Um, our goal is to eliminate any barrier that is out there. That is our one of our primary objectives set down by HRSA, which is our grantor, is eliminating those barriers. We do not want to cause a barrier for patients or their family to to keep from getting the health care that they need. All right,
062thank you. >> [clears throat] >> Are there any questions? No. Absolutely. Yes. I will also mention that since you say that, we do also um have a social a social services department as well. We have several different departments within our within our purview. Um but we also offer social services department. So we look at the social determinants of health. Whatever those families are in need of, as long as they're patient of ours, we help link them with all of those resources that they are in need of as well. So again, as he stated with the slide, if they are underinsured or uninsured, we have that option. We also have a social services coordinator that will actually assist them with obtaining insurance if that is something that they're in need of. Whether that's behavioral health um
063visits, um getting to any sort of um specialty appointment, we have a lot of specialists on hand with us. But even if we don't have a specialist on hand, we also um provide linkage of care for that as well. Yes. Yes, we do have we do have that as well. We have several behavioral health providers on staff um that are part of that. Um we have podiatry, we have dental, we have um behavioral health, uh women's health, um X-ray services >> as well. Um as well. So I mean it's and we're looking at adding um optometry in the near future. Chiropractic services >> Yeah, chiropractic services and uh so you >> services for kids. >> So, we've got a whole array of services that are maintained within our one umbrella. And um we've received that
064we are actually going to get a mobile vision unit that we're planning to deploy to school districts to help students that need those that eyewear. Thank you so much. We look forward to working with you. And we also want to thank Dr. Waters and his staff with Medical Center for doing everything that they have done so far. >> [applause] >> We're working on the MOA and so once we have that then we'll do an approval for it. All right, the next item is DCS progress update. I On Friday, we sent out information to our parents and our stakeholders about just the progress we've been making and you have a sheet in your packet that talks about the progress that we've made. As far as financial stability and accountability, we've reduced and refined the district's budget,
065identified nearly 10 million in savings for the FY27 budget. We hired a full-time CFO to lead our financial oversight. We've implemented new internal controls in both finance and personnel departments to improve accountability. We've ensured all outstanding liabilities are accurately recorded in the general ledger. We have transitioned to an industry-approved accounting software system replacing manual processes for financial records, payrolls, and benefits. As far as staffing and compensation alignment, we've adopted the state salary scale with supplements suggested to more sustainable and realistic levels. We are more closely aligned staffing levels with our QBE, our quality basic education allotments to ensure responsible resource management. We've completed the district's resource allocation method methodol- I can't say that word. methodology plan. Thank you. Tongue twisted. Um and we have we've had a reduction in compensated days for the district office
066staff from a 230 or 240 to a 230. We've had um progress with benefits and compliance. We successfully reconciled the state health benefit plan for employees and employer contributions for FY25 and 26. We've received approval from the state health benefit plan for a structural repayment plan that will be repaid in FY28 and that will be February of FY28. We have looked at our audits and our financial processes and completed the FY23 audit. We are currently working on the FY24 audit. We have ensured federal grants budgets are up to date uh consistent monthly drawdowns now in place. As far as organizational growth and structure, we've reorganized uh programs to maximize funding and provide additional student supports. We realigned job duties and responsibilities to account for staff reductions across the district and we've launched the superintendent search
067process to identify the district's next leader. So, we've had a lot of things um that we have worked on to get our district back on track and stable financially and throughout with internal controls and staffing. So, I just wanted to bring everyone up to speed on um just the updates and the progress that we've made. At this point in time, we'll have board member comments. Mr. Walters. Yes, uh Uh can you speak can this be can this be made to the public? It's on transit, okay. All right. >> [clears throat] >> Uh good evening everyone. I got a little a few things I want to ask well I want to start off uh with why I wanted that item put on the agenda to recend the decision that they made about moving IGA and Moore
068Street. That process it violated our norms and protocols cuz it says no surprises. It's listed on norms and protocol and we read them every every meeting. Our code of ethics said respect for your fellow board members. I think we violated that. I know we violated that. And to give respect to your your fellow board member and expect you to vote on something that you heard 5 minutes prior just not the way we work as a team. And I was really dedicated this is a team now and I and you've heard me say it everybody down here care. And that is not a good way of showing it so I was really really upset about doing that and voting for it. We have researched that it can be recended. We have recended votes before. Just because
069you vote on it and you don't have all the information you can vote on it again if you will. I just hate the idea that you have the mentality of you're not going to respect the total board. I remember the times when there was nobody sitting up in this board that looked like me because it was everybody was at large. And they decided to have these districts and super district so people can be represented. And that was the purpose of it. It should never come to come to the point that I got my four, I got my four, I got my four, and that's it. You should consider the decisions of other board members because what you see that's good for the district may not be what I see that's good for the district. And
070so it's it's really important for us to move forward as a team. And ask these questions and get input from everyone. And I know the story about Now, I've heard heard some board members say that IGA saved this district. And I know we were trying to get our FTE up by putting something out there that that would draw some other students into our district. But there was so many things that was moving during that time for these turbo abatements that we was giving these corporations, YKK, uh Best Buy, Pirelli's guys, we're not collecting that tax that we should have gotten. And our FTE didn't really get to the place that we needed to be because we weren't earning teachers. You ever have so many kids in the classroom not earning teacher? We were doing It
071was so many It's so much stuff that I learned the year I was chairman by asking questions and getting answers directly, not necessarily from here, but from people at the state level, the legislators. And I think I thought they were going to name 1164 the Dublin bill. The Dublin legislature. And SB uh because it said if we don't do what was recommended to us then we could be removed individually or collectively. So there's some things that we can do. I know we're going to be strong going forward because we got a lot of stuff in the oven right now that it's going to be a a much stronger district. But let's not make the same mistakes that we made that got us in this mess. I hate that happen. And I want to do everything
072to fight to make sure that we don't do that. And for y'all's support appreciate y'all coming out, being interested in this. All of us in this together. And silence no more. It's no It's no time to not say anything. Can't hold it no more. You got to talk. And if we're not going to speak collectively if you want to speak individually then everybody speak individually. I can call a news conference. I can get TV 35 to come down here or or MAZ or get a station in Atlanta to come down here and have me a news conference. And let's tell my feelings and what I said. You can't operate like that. You can't say I'm saying all this stuff and then say I ain't speaking for the board. Well, why are you speaking? That's right.
073So you may I can do I can call I mean I know a lot of people at the state level, I know legislators, everybody. Call them down here. Call organizations down here. Tell them everything. But I'll be I'll just be giving my how I see it. And we don't work like that. We got to work collectively. And not individually. Appreciate y'all Keep coming. Keep asking. And we're not going to give up. It's too important for our students, our teachers, our administrators in this district. Thank you. >> [applause] >> It's hard to follow that one up. Uh first off, I want to say thank y'all for coming because whether we agree or disagree, the fact that y'all want to be involved in the system is is encouraging to me because I've sat in this room a
074lot of times with four people in it. So, good, bad, or indifferent, having you involved in the school system is is is a betterment. So, we've improved that to begin with. But first, let me say something. I've been writing some notes down trying to figure out how to put my thoughts together. The recommendation about these schools actually accomplishes what what most of y'all are upset about, and rightfully so. If you go back and watch that presentation and read through the presentation we were given, and I'm going to clear up one thing. We were given that I came in here. If you'll notice, I'm in here probably 5:15, 5:30 every time we have a meeting simply so I can read the information in my board packet. That's why I do that. I go through it. I
075read it. I look at my minutes. I make sure those things are right the way I remember. And then that's what I do. That's when I got that information. And I'll stand on a book of Bibles as high as I am and tell you that's when I got that information. And I live with the guy that that put it together right now cuz I'm living in his house recovering recovering from his heart surgery. But he don't tell me nothing, and I don't tell him nothing. Of course, we have different agreeables in politics, so that makes us get along as a father and son much better. But what I want to tell you is this new setup will not siphon funds away from the schools that they are now. As a matter of fact, it ends
076that process. Right now, the way IGA was set up, those students are attributed to base schools. IGA is a program. If we could make IGA a school and leave it in the building it's in, we would. But guess what? A decision was made years ago without all the information we need, which seems to be a a recurring note here. One of those buildings is not on on our our approved list of buildings with the state. So, we can't get any funds in there. We can't earn any FTE for students in there. Those things are all out there for us not to do. All that was in that presentation if you watched it. So, what I'm going to tell you is each school will have to stand on its own. Bringing Moore Street back over the
077to that building will give them better focus. I can tell you, Ms. Pugh can tell you, I have been one of the biggest fans of Moore Street since this thing started. There are a lot of kids that I love have gone through that program over there and she saved a couple of them. I promise you she has. And and that is a blessing to the school system. I remember one story about a young lady who had gotten pregnant in high school and wasn't allowed to graduate from a school but came to Moore Street and that young lady had a graduation ceremony on her own. And in God's time and she was taken away from us about a couple months later. But she got to graduate. And it was because of Moore Street School. If you
078don't remember that, go look it up. It's on the website, it can tell you about it. That young lady pops up in my memories every often in in that in my Facebook memories and it touches my heart because that's the kind of impact that we need to be making in this school system, not fighting against each other. We need to be making things for the betterment for all our students, not one, not two, not a group, [clears throat] all of them. But if you look back, there's some confusion between this being an IB school and being a magnet school. That magnet school, that IB school process takes several years to have happen. Look at how long it took us to get it at Dublin High School. That wasn't something you jump through the hoops. This
079school can go in that building, have a school designated number. When it gets in that that designated number, it automatically earns a principal. It automatically earns security. I think it automatically earns a literacy coach. There's all kind of money that we're not getting because of the program. Well, let we going to eliminate the program. We going to bring it back over where it can earn the money. That's what it needs to do. It needs to pay for its own self. And we need to serve our gifted population. We don't need to try to push these back into the regular classrooms because what that does is that keeps our kids who need a little extra help from getting that extra help. Because those kids are are trying to push themselves forward, and our kids that need
080that extra help don't get it. I've sat in those classrooms. I've seen them. That's what happens. I love this school system. Every vote I make on this board is because I think it's better for all the school all the students in our system, not one or two. And sometimes I've had to vote on things I didn't agree with. And Kenny and I don't agree on everything, but the one thing we do agree on is we both love this system. And we going to fight to save it. And I just appreciate again, I appreciate y'all's involvement in this system. I appreciate y'all coming to the meetings. And again, whether we agree or disagree, I I want y'all to keep coming. Thank you. Good evening, everyone. First and foremost, I want to say thank each and every
081one of you for coming out tonight. Um for showing up constantly. We need that. I can't say enough and stress enough about the numbers that I have been hearing up here tonight. Ms. Puckett, first and foremost, if you all are going to talk about the numbers, you just saw the presentation of the numbers of the kids at Moore Street School. So, why would we want to interrupt the setting of the kids that have that focus in that building? >> [applause] >> That's just like trying to put me in the White House and I know I I know I ain't going to be able to deal with all them people there in that White House like that because I'm a different breed and I need to be there on that one-on-one. I need someone to guide
082me. So, why should we upset those kids as to where they are where they're motivated, they get that one-on-one. And I understand, James, what you're saying about the kids moving them from IGA and putting them in the same setting with those kids. They are gifted kids. If they are gifted kids, then what they know and learn if they're willing to see somebody else progress and see them get learn more, then they should be instructors and teachers as well to teach these kids to say, "Hey, it may not work like that, but if you just give the kids a chance, we Who knows? It might work." Because it I mean, sometimes when I see somebody doing something positive and it rubs off on me and then I do something positive. You know, whether they know that
083they're doing it or not. So, we got to stop focusing on to the fact that these kids are gifted and they're better than the other kids. We can't do that because kids are kids and we are Our main objective is to All kids deserve the same education. All. But, when you [applause] taking children out of a setting where they are getting better attention and they're comfortable in that area, it's going to disrupt them when you take them cuz now they got to figure out, "Oh, how am I going to deal with this area over here?" because they're used to being in the area they were in and we don't remove We already removed the people from them. So, putting them in another building is going We pray that it doesn't happen, but we just want
084y'all to continue to keep praying and fighting for more street and fighting for the kids as you all are doing. Uh Miss Courtney, I agree with you 100%. Hey, why do we have to spend more money on the programs that we already have? Just use these same programs with all the kids. And thank everyone for speaking. >> [applause] >> Good evening. And it's good to see all of you. From my perspective, when it comes to the uh IB prep school, to me, the biggest thing that this board is missing is that we said there were three board members that had no knowledge of what was what you were planning to do. And I don't think that's resonating with the other four board board members. I mean, I listened to the comments and I listened to
085how uh our other board members advocate for the school. But, I just don't understand why we were not included in that conversation. I don't understand why we had to find out that it was supposedly a recommendation from the state. Now, my understanding when it comes to recommendations from the state, they also show you how much money you going to save, how much money it's going to cost. But, see, we were not able to get that information. And I just think that uh out of respect for your fellow board members, we deserve a presentation where we know how much it's going to cost, how much are we saving, because we still don't know that. Because we got our presentation on the same night that the community got theirs. And although I know there were some board
086members say, "Well, I heard the presentation the same night you did." Well, maybe you did, but you were aware that the presentation was coming. Somebody had to have the conversation. You just don't get up here and talk about a school and then people vote on it and it passed without having a conversation. I mean, it just don't work like that. And so, that's my issue about the school and it it it it keeps going past the board members that wanted it. Now, in reference to the school was dying, what saved our school were the students that remained. We had a lot of people that left our school system. And the students that remained saved our school system because if those students had left, guess what? Dublin City School would be closed. I get tired of
087people making it seem like a few saved the system, but the What about the people that stayed? What about the people that remained committed to Dublin City School? What about the people that still remain committed to Dublin City schools? Yeah, we want to provide something for everybody, but we can do that in its own time. Right now, we're in financial hardship and we're trying to come out of this deficit that we're in. But, there's nothing wrong with providing the the correct presentation about what you want so that we can see, ask questions, we can think about it. You don't present anything about having a school on one night and then expect for it to pass. I don't care what nobody say. [applause] I don't think you could find a school in this district that would
088do that. I don't believe in this area, probably in the state of Georgia because it requires study. Even if the building that you are in was phased out. You know, maybe that's why it started out as a program. Because the person that started it knew that it could be a program, but not a school. But as the program continued, then it made a difference because you're draining resources. And for a long time, we couldn't even get anybody to say that it was taking resources from other uh schools. We couldn't get any kind of information other than how many people were over there. And so now, when it's time to you want it to be a school, then you you can admit that it is draining resources from other schools, which we saw that all the
089time. And that was a concern that we had from the very beginning when you separate children. And so, my hope going forward is that we allocate the resources properly based on the student needs, based on, you know, looking at our schools. And if our children need something, provide it. You know, because one thing we can say about gifted children, most of them, I mean, they on track. I mean, I was surprised when I heard Ms. Padgett say they had three IGA students over there. I mean, I never would have imagined. You know, I'm glad you were able to help them and glad you were able to get them back on track. Yeah. So, that lets us know y'all can work with everybody. And y'all do a great job. [applause] So, as a board, I would
090like to see us respect one another and think about how you would want to be treated if four of us presented something without your knowledge and then expected you to vote on it. I don't care how much I sit up here and said it was a good thing. The bottom line is it's wrong. Now that's just it. But sometimes we get a lot of things in school system that is not done the right way. Thank you for coming. >> [applause] >> Miss Duckett, thank you for that great presentation tonight. I really appreciate you and thank you so much for being willing to take over the sponsorship of the health care center. That's amazing. And Miss Curtis, thank you so much for what you do. Um and Mr. Curtis, too. We appreciate you. Um at this
091time I'm going to ask for a recommendation to go into executive session. A motion, please. We've [clears throat] had a motion to go into executive session for personnel, litigation, and real estate. I had a second by Mr. James Lanier. And a vote, please. Um all in favor, I. All opposed, no. Eyes have it. Thank you, Sarah. Okay. Don't worry about it. I'll be all right. >> Mhm.