Regular Meeting - March 2, 2022

001look at it good afternoon and welcome to this formal board meeting of the savannah chatham board of public education on wednesday march 2nd 2022. as i stated this is our regular board meeting this meeting is being streamed and also will be available when this meeting is over on our website as we begin our meeting today i would ask our secretary if it has been advertised in accordance with state laws and statutes she assures me that it has and uh i welcome you here today um we are pleased to to have uh students staff and parents and citizens here today and uh it's nice to be for the first time ask optional uh and we are pleased about that also uh we look forward to having you join us today and uh hope that you will

002come again uh on other occasions as the uh the agenda has been posted correct if we could um where our ask you to stand as we have the singing of the national anthem good afternoon this afternoon for our opening exercises oh [Music] boy [Music] me [Music] is [Music] was [Music] is oh [Music] [Applause] my united states of america into the republic for which it stands one nation indivisible with liberty and justice for all [Applause] thank you very much if i could have a motion to approve the agenda dr hall item 4.02 deaths and items 6.02 requests to appear for the board and pull item 8.25 policy ga hre employs sick leave bank heard the motion to approve the agenda as amended uh is there a second behind seconds all in favor of approving the agenda

003raise your hands please one two three four five six seven eight nine motion passes nine zero zero uh moving on to announcements amended to add item 11.0 certification for state one two three four five six seven eight nine motion passes nine zero zero now moving on to uh announcements um we have a capital improvements committee of the board scheduled for wednesday march 9th that's a week from today in this building it's at 9 00 a.m capital improvement capital improvements committee is the committee that deals primarily with all of those east los items and also buildings and roofs etc etc we also have an academic excellence committee meeting on thursday march the 10th at 3 pm and that is in this whitney complex also academic excellence really deals with most matters having to do with the

004academic programs that we provide for our students and third uh announcement has to do with the audit committee there will be a meeting on thursday march 24th at 8 a.m in this complex internal audit has to do primarily with looking at uh academic programs and financial programs to make certain that we're in compliance with all the the right rules and regulations those are all open and you can also see results of those meetings on our websites website um each month we recognize those students and employees who have passed away during the last month and today i have three uh names uh one is rima kalenna uh a custodian accurate custody custodian at white bluff elementary school second one is deborah brenson a retired paraprofessional from durham middle school and third one is glenn orenstoff senior

005accountant retired from the accounting department if you will stand with me as we honor these employees thank you my pleasure to uh introduce our superintendent dr anne lavette for her report thank you dr buck officers and members of the board it's my pleasure to uh begin my report with our february student of the month our featured student of the month for the month of february is a fifth grader at may howard elementary hard working and conscientious are just a few of the adjectives used to describe this student according to her principle she shows kindness to all students and staff she's a wonderful example of the may howard hawk her nominator told us that our student of the month has earned honor roll or high honor roll every marking period since first grade her scores show

006growth every time she's tested and her daily work ethic is to be admired by teachers and students alike she comes she constantly and consistently strives for us for excellence in addition she has been recognized as a high-flying hawk three times for her characteristics compassion peace and responsibility this young lady is a role model for other students and is particularly helpful as a peer mentor to an esl student she strives to please her teachers and other staff members she's a lifelong learner at the highest level and ready for a productive future our student of the month plays chatham county league fall and spring baseball be clear not softball baseball she has been the only girl on her county little league team since the age of six one of her goals is to be the first woman

007to play major league baseball [Applause] our student will receive several gifts from our community partners including a gift card from the savannah school's federal credit union a certificate donated by donald's pizza a gift certificate for cupcakes from j sweets creations and her class will receive printed copies of her favorite book and one of my favorite books diary of a wimpy kid the getaway by jeff kenney and that gift to her class is being sponsored by our longtime supporter e schaefer booksellers lastly she will take home a portrait by upscale photography that has been provided by the county public schools and will be proudly displayed in a central office building our student says as she's making her way up here i work hard because it makes me happy i like to make my mom happy and

008i like to be successful at school we are proud to introduce you to and announce the superintendent student of the month for february 2022. it's my pleasure to introduce you to caroline johnson congratulations caroline thank you caroline is joined today by her principal [Applause] it gives us great joy to recognize our student of the month we are just excited to have the opportunity to serve her and to count her among some of our best and brightest scholars again congratulations caroline very very happy for you and your family thank you for being here today you are probably aware that today is also read across america today we have been celebrating across america all week and i decided to put on display one of my very favorite books card roy so if you've not read it make

009sure that you read it it is a classic but we've also had the opportunity just since monday to be in our schools and read and talk with our young people about their favorite books so we encourage you to help us encourage young people to continue to read it will make the world of difference for them and if you've not heard it you may be aware that we named our district teacher of the year on february 11th at the savannah marriott elizabeth whalen is the 2023 sec pss teacher of the year we are very proud of all of our teachers of the year and we enjoyed celebrating venezuelan and all of her colleagues dr mark linsky our sccps instructional specialist for world languages has been selected as one of three national directors for the next cohort

010of the leadership institute for language acquisition language learning through the american council for teaching a foreign language mr linski is probably well known across the community certainly he's well known in our schools for definitely supporting world languages but also for doing great work in our community the leadership initiative for language learning established in 2015 provides an organized space for fought to foster future leaders in the field and to achieve focused professional growth and leadership skills the savannah georgia chapter of the links incorporated in partnership with savannah county public schools celebrated national children's dental health month that's a celebration sponsored by the american dental association with a proclamation from the city of savannah earlier this month at formey early learning center all students at that time received a dental health kit and a reminder that tooth

011decay is preventable this is the third year i think that we've had this partnership and we are excited to have reached over 9 000 young people and reminding them about the importance of good mental health hubert middle school students recently completed or recently competed in several fccla students taking action with recognition events at southeast high school and placed in the top two silver our goal for each event 8th grader anthony albright presented a portfolio about community service and an 8th grader alexis monroe presented a community service chapter display board the students will now advance to compete at the state leadership conference in athens georgia on february 7th the stem academy history by being the first class of students to visit the newly opened discovery center that is sponsored by junior achievement and colonial group the

012j.a colonial group discovery center is the fifth of its kind in georgia and provides real-world experiences such as running a business balancing a budget and applying for a loan as well as other it is designed for our area middle school students we are proud to partner with junior achievement to provide experiential learning experiences and financial literacy knowledge for our students we are very very proud that it has taken us i don't want to say decades but almost decades to get to this point we're very excited that our young people will have this experience here at home versus having to travel to atlanta for this experience monday february 21st was a very very busy day throughout the savannah county public schools first up a multi-departmental effort for a staff wellness day it allowed teachers and support

013staff to learn wellness and healthy habits in addition to enjoying stress-relieving activities and exercise the day began with a keynote address by dr emily massey who reminded reminded teachers all who are listening that self-care is important also on february 21st the office of college and career readiness celebrated cta month and school guidance counselors week with lunch at norwoodville cards were lined down the street as people came out to celebrate and recognize the work of our school counselors as well as the work of our career educators and then finally on february 21st the transportation department kicked off a special training effort for our bus drivers and other transportation staff with a drive safe online course that is designed to provide additional safety training and development for our transportation team as well as potential savings on insurance

014premiums for them and their families in addition to the certificate the drivers will earn upon completion the team also received a discount for family members who want to take the course we are grateful for the role transportation staff play in delivering exceptional educational services every day for the second year in a row the staff and teachers at hershelby jenkins high school have competed in the super bowl 2.0 to support the needs of the local ronald mcdonald house the teachers and staff were challenged in a football themed event to bring in laundry detergent that the ronald mcdonald house could use in their facilities laura gilbertson a school bookkeeper and avid packers fan kept the staff motivated by sharing daily veterinary quotes to inspire participation the eager competitors helped the school exceed the amount of detergent donated

015last year the school collected and donated over 80 bottles of laundry detergent to the ronald mcdonald house dr angie lewis has been named to the ctae advisory commission by governor brian kemp dr lewis is a paradigm in the state network uh cta educators and we are fortunate to have her leadership in the district she recently hosted educators business partners and staff from the georgia department of education to review our accomplishments and goals for our economic development program designation where we outlined our successes with work-based learning career pathways and secondary education preparation again the savannah georgia chapter of the lynx incorporated sponsored the new beginnings art exhibit which opened february 22nd the exhibit which is on display currently at the cultural arts center of savannah will be there for march 19th and the showcase showcases the

016work of our middle and high school art students amazing and exciting to see the students work there are more than 120 pieces of work on display and we'd like to offer congratulations to trendy jenkins trinity jenkins who is a middle school student for having best in show that was something we're very excited for her the star student teacher uh luncheon was held on tuesday february 22nd also to honor those students who scored the highest on the sat at their schools 14 sccps seniors and their teachers were honored at this time savannah arts academy had three honorees and you can see the list of honorees on our website kemp has proclaimed purchasing month in georgia and here at scc pss we are proud of our procurement family the procurement process is vital to our transparency and

017accountability that we owe our public and we celebrate their hard work not just the march but all year long we celebrate this because it gives us the opportunity to recognize their work is often done in the back we don't always see that and they help ensure that we are good stewards of the public's money we'd like to offer a special thank you to mrs scales and her team for their leadership and for doing all they can to provide outstanding uh services to our district [Applause] you have received in your packets and it is posted on board docs a uh recent um presentation on some operational changes for the district and i'm going to ask mr hecker to review about three to four slides which really summarize our most recent changes we are happy that we

018are able to move to uh that's optional and i will just remind everyone that it is our expectation that we will operate as we teach our young people to operate in a democracy that they will respect other people's choices and that we expect all of our staff and our students to demonstrate respect compassion and kindness during this transition period thank you madam superintendent as i will uh summarize the presentation of the boards previously received and that is of course posted to board docs for everyone to review and uh wonderful news in our good news lineup as the superintendent covered some great things going on we have some proclamations later than the agenda as well and of course we'd be remiss if we didn't uh recognize that march is also school board appreciation month uh so

019thank you to the great work of all of our board members and the public service that you provide uh we did want to say the numbers a quick snapshot of the numbers this is as a result of a weekend in february 25th i do want to point out that uh the previous numbers provided to the board we did tweak them we had one minor change positive students said 35 is actually 36. doesn't change the percentage of the total overall still 0.1 uh positive personnel as you can see are very low quarantine numbers are very low we did provide data comparison for you that uh on january the 14th when we were hitting the omicron wall we had 123 students who were positive with cova in our district and quarantined as a result of that 7

020000 students so 20 of our student population were in quarantine when we were going through what we call the omnichrome wall so when we look at where we are now in some of the changes that we've done in our responses you can effectively see that there's been a significant decrease in the amount of code that we're finding and becoming aware of in our schools one of the key components that we have recently changed this was as of early february was an approach to a cluster-based quarantine method which is also going to be triggered and indicated on a tiered approach so as we get closer to the situation where we realize that there are clusters in groups of positive cases then we look to enact a quarantine protocol of course isolation is still on the board

021that's no given if you have covid you're going to go through wrestling isolation uh components but the quarantine aspects of it are some things that we were able to tweak a little bit and one of the real indicators on this was what the department of health had said that school districts need to and have the flexibility to come up with their own criteria in this area to ensure that they're able to stay open and functional and provide in-person learning for students part of this was really based on a functional component that we realized we were we needed to ensure that staff were able to do this in a way that was rational and really reflected what was actually going on in schools as opposed to having to do contact tracing for every single case which

022has some staff members up until 10 o'clock midnight every night doing that so we recognize that these adjustments were necessary based on operational flexibility that we were given by the department of health uh under guidance of the cdc some additional adjustments have been provided over the last 30 days include athletics athletics is a big indicator of some areas where you have close contact possibilities which could create transmission components so we looked very closely at what was going on in the athletics we recognized we're winding down from the very scary winter months where we had close contact activities in indoor primarily indoor situations so if you're moving into outdoor sports from sports are coming along it really paved the way for us to say it's time to make some adjustments in the athletic realm as well

023so on the screen you'll see some of those uh non-region travels restated on february 7th the testing that we were doing with athletics that was phased out with the launch of spring sports because spring sports is primarily happening in outdoor components outdoor air and also with the declining rates of coven in our schools that happened on february the 21st we'll make note though that basketball continues to be an indoor sport and our students were traveling our students were traveling to markets where they did not have the layered mitigation strategies that we had in place so while we wanted to ensure that they were able to travel and come home with a win we didn't want them to come home with something else like covid so we continued to include the testing component for basketball and

024basketball will be uh coming it's tearing down as well because as teams are eliminated through the competition that game play ends however we're very excited because beach high as i understand has the money bulldogs are continuing on in region play and we also have three other teams that's right we're also set up for a possible historic moment here in savannah where we have three other basketball teams who are going to continue to play and if they win they could land in the final four this could be the first time ever that in our region play we have final four of chatham county teams only the testing component was still a necessary uh mitigation strategy because of the indoor component and the travel aspects of it concessions were allowed uh february trips we are allowing field

025trips but we are looking at them much closer and a little more of a discerning eye to ensure that they are connected to the content that's being taught and they have a programmatic connection for requirements that to meet the uh established standards of the curriculums that are being taught so field trips that allow us to also be very strategic in the way that we're doing it and it limited the amount of movement across the district but really allowed us to isolate into that what matters the most visitors and volunteers same component we're looking at approaching it with a gradual release model that will allow for more visitors and volunteers to come into our schools but we're also looking at this to ensure that they have a connection to the programmatic material that's being presented in

026the classrooms to support student learning the associate superintendents will be convening a principal advisory panel and will be reporting information from that back to the superintendent with recommendation on how we can continue to open up uh for visitors and volunteers i'll remind everyone as well march about 18 days of education in the month of march because students are out in the 17th and 18th and there's also spring break we're very cognizant that spring break is coming we could potentially see some spikes in covet after that we don't know though it's not expected to be as significant as what we had coming out of the winter break but it's still something that we are cautious about so knowing that april is coming around the corner we're hopeful that by april we'll be able to allow some

027more visitors and volunteers into our schools as well as we round out the school year and finally on the adjustments the employee testing site availability i'd like to specially thank the school leadership at savannah high and west chatham middle and the work of our campus police department for allowing us to set up logistically testing sites for savannah town county public school system employees where they were required to get a test or if they felt they needed one they could go to these sites and get it the first day that we opened it which was a month ago with 130 staff members come through at west chatham elementary to get tested uh to see if they possibly had the copa virus so another great service that we were able to provide for community partners that we've

028developed over this pandemic state but because of employee volumes have declined significantly for getting tests and of course the transmission rates in our schools declining we have phased out these sites as well employees still can go to memorial stadium as a location which is open monday through mass optional approach in our layered mitigation and what this is is indicators we're declining transmission rates and of course the high level of vaccinations among staff we know that we're in the 80 to 90 range of vaccinations among staff this is partly done because of the initiative that we put forth in the vaccination incentive program uh that we were able to utilize some of those cares funds for so with these indicators it made a natural pivot point for us that on march 1st we would shift to

029the mass optional component the cdc heard what we did and the very next day decided to update their guidance so this was not planned this way but it's just how it worked out on february 25th as we're all aware the cdc came out with updated guidance that indicated that they would no longer recommend universal indoor mask wearing in the k-12 environment in settings that had a low or medium copen 19 community level this also paved the way for their update to say that through its enforcement discretion they would no longer require it on school buses so i'll restate that for our immediate friends who are here in broadcasting and everyone that's in the audience the mass optional component in savannah county public schools also extends to the school bus and this is on guidance that's

030been released from the centers for disease control so that's optional now as we indicated the new metrics for the cdc on high medium or low covid in the community those have changed as well cdc is now basing that on three different indicators and that is on really hospitalizations emissions that are coming in and those that are actually in hospital beds and the amount of positive cases in a community what that does is it gives them an indicator that they can determine whether a community is at low community code in their community medium or high chatham county if you utilize the tool i've provided a link in this presentation where you can go to an interactive map it's currently at the low level so something great to celebrate there the key reason for this is the

031cdc shift is really looking at how the virus is impacting the strain on the health system so they're still recognizing that the uh transmissions of the positive are coming down however there is a concern about the health system and it created this new metric so we are at a low level of community uh transmission in chatham county we're very excited about that and that's based on the new indicators of the cdc of course as we say this as i close out the presentation and update that the gradual return of the pre-code operations is really the road that we're headed down we're certainly doing it with cautious optimism the change in the mass optional approach we would like to stress strongly does not mean that we are fully moving away from all of our mitigation strategies

032we are continuing to use uh sanitization practice there's sanitization sanitizers here all through this building if you feel the need to use it we encourage you to do so we're sanitizing high-touch surfaces in our schools we're also reminding everyone that if you are ill or you have any symptoms of covid stay home do not come to work and do not come to school stay home and follow guidance from your school nurse if you need additional uh guidance on when to return to work at school i mentioned hand sanitizer stations hand washing is being encouraged as well we do try the social distance when possible and of course as i mentioned isolation and quarantine practices uh are being in place where appropriate and the maintaining of quality air filtration systems also is critical we do want

033to remind everyone that the use of a mask whether you decide to wear one or not is a personal choice and we have provided guidance to our staff of 5600 on how to move forward in navigating this personal choice and on this particular note to wrap up this presentation i'll turn it back over to the superintendent for final comments thank you so much for providing that summary the i'll remind you again that the information the entire presentation which of course is in some ways our repeated previous presentations is on board and you'll of course have a full copy as mr heather indicated it is um school board appreciation week next week youth will be thousands of people in savannah to celebrate you on march 17th but we're going to celebrate you today uh savannah county

034public schools will join a statewide celebration to salute the efforts of our local school board members this month the week of march 14th which is next week has been proclaimed school board appreciation week in georgia the week-long observation calls attention to the contributions of local boards of education as constitutional officers of georgia school board members are responsible for setting educational policies approving employment recommendations for school personnel and approving contract awards and other budgetary budgetary actions as community leaders school board members serve as advocates for children in our local public schools and through and through effective policy and border governance must decide what actions are in the best interest of all students each year the georgia school boards association maintains a mission to ensure excellence in the governance of local school systems by providing leadership advocacy

035and services and by presenting or representing the collective resolve of georgia's 180 elected boards of education at this time i will invite board members to open up the confidential envelope that has been provided i am always a teacher so this is our unboxing but there is a certificate which thanks you for your outstanding service to our students and especially during these difficult times we want you to know how much we appreciate all that you do i'm going to ask my colleagues and especially our students who are here with us today to give you a big and again we will be joined by thousands of people on march 17th we'll also celebrate the services to our students um if they are if there are not any questions i want to thank you again for the opportunity

036to serve you it has been a very uh challenging road but i will tell you how inspired i have been over these past several months as we have worked our way um in a collaborative fashion through the most challenging times of the pandemic um i will say to you i'm also very proud that we're able to say to our colleagues that no now is perfect but when we come into this um horseshoe we are committed to all of our students regardless of where they live regardless of what their station is our commitment is to ensure that each of them has the opportunity to be successful in a world that we may not know but certainly we want them to feel confident as they go out into the world and have that productive future that we

037work toward thank you so much [Applause] that typically comes out so that you will decide yes ma'am we actually have some schools and we've acknowledged it before that have had uh visitors on a limited basis um for a while and so we have worked with 55 different groups you know people have um different ways of managing things so we're trying to come to some consensus by working with the principal um advisory team and those are the work groups um that come together and look at their individual situations and really come up with something that we can all operate off of um some instances have been very full and some have not so we want to really provide an opportunity for principals to have their voices heard now that we're at mass optional and chatham county

038is at the low level i think it will inspire some to be a little more open to that thank you for the question um moving on please um um we have a safety briefing that you watch as we get ready to have appearances mr good evening and welcome it's very important that uh give you a safety briefing in the case of an emergency notice the axes that you came in and the door to the left and to the right uh board members would actually shop for the back door once outside there would be over which the board has jurisdiction all comments should be made in a professional manner that is not destructive destructive excuse me to the meeting guests should avoid name calling towards staff or board members and should avoid using profanity appearance we

039appreciate your interest in the work at chatham county public school thank you thank you sir uh we have uh some folks who have signed up prior to today some for today and some who are speaking only on matters uh as they relate to something we're going to vote on today so the order you might have signed this sheet uh is not necessarily the order in which you'll speak the first person i would like to welcome today is coco pappy who is going to talk to us about the deep center uh i'm always excited to introduce folks from the deep center because it's one of the favorite things that we get to be a part of in this community so it's pappy welcome thank you so much um good afternoon um thank you chairman buck members

040of the school board and dr roulette um i'm very appreciative of the opportunity to speak here today as mentioned my name is coco pappy and i'm the director of public policy and communications at deep center at deep we work with young people and adults within the school district and also within juvenile court um and i'm really here today to talk about what we're seeing right now within our program spaces um and some of the positive impacts and what otherwise can be a stressful time the past few years which i feel like i don't need to emphasize to you have been brutal for almost everyone for teachers for principals administrators and young people and their families we seem to slowly but surely coming out of a pandemic thankfully um but still a pandemic that upended the

041sense of everyday normalcy that challenged the resiliency of this community and ultimately has left a permanent imprint and yes we are still struggling in some sense but we also want to name the assets that from where we stand at deep we are seeing as incredibly positive responses and i want to commend the district for the behavior interventionist team the restorative community the implementation of handling care the fact that apex is available within 10 schools the emphasis on meeting young people where they are at and we see this with the mindfulness programs and providing our young people with the tools to be able to process big emotions and yes to be trauma informed these are the mechanisms to provide our young people with what they need exactly in this moment and there are powerful ways that

042the district is meeting our young people but more so we want to commend our teachers for providing space and classrooms for our young people to not only be who they are but to push them towards developing intellectual curiosity that we know creates thoughtful leaders i'm reminded of a story of a young person who recently performed a piece at the african arts museum this peace uh this piece touched on conversations the young person was having within the classroom on the history of race in america and how he connected the struggles with where his own personal triumphs and losses and what he saw in his neighborhood he was celebrated by his peers and his elders for not only speaking his personal truth but for connecting his own humanity to the long road of those who had come

043before him and he was able to do that because he had an educator who held fast to the truth that the history of the world is not for interpretation it simply is our young people are impacted by this every day this peace he was celebrated for was written not because he was prompted to but because he wanted to and he was wanted to because he was empowered from what he learned about history in the classroom and with his own understanding he was able to distill that into a piece that affected the entire community that is not only the power of our young people but the power of our educators who in spite of what potentially might be happening at a state level we'll simply do so much more to ensure that our young we commend

044those people and we absolutely stand behind them last but not least we want to touch on the district's library policy that is up for review again a moment where it seems there are many efforts at the state level but also across the nation to sort of legislate what is taught within classrooms what type of books young people are allowed to access and whose history is taught we want to voice our support for this policy and commend it it's a solid policy it's fair it's practical and it's transparent if we had one recommendation it would be that the policy is one that offers the option to opt out rather than opt-in specifically we want to suggest that so we avoid a scenario where a young person has to allow themselves to access a particular book but

045once uh i want a created list of restricted books that opens the door to putting tons of books in the closet and it's a terrible precedent books are and should be challenging they should reflect back experiences that are not ours and if they make us uncomfortable that's good books especially the diverse array that young people should be able to access reflect back to the many different experiences we're all able to bring into the world and that is how we build strong leaders who will be capable of living in a world where people are different from them and that difference in diversity is created is considered a strengthened asset so thank you thank you for the work that is being done not only in the classroom every day but for considering a policy like this and

046understanding its importance to school board members to administrators principals and educators we see you and we see the work that is happening and we look forward to continuing to partner with you throughout this time thank you thank you very much as uh miss linda uh cleans the uh desk up there the next speakers um i uh are students and i had to sign up earlier but i'd also been told that there were several but all four would not be speaking is that i can't [Music] would like to speak okay then the first person i have is nave is that correct welcome we welcome you hello my name is james snape and i am a senior at islands high school thank you for this opportunity to speak about the challenge books this year i have had

047the pleasure of being able to be a peer facilitator at my high school library throughout the four years that i have been at island high school the library and media center have been one of my two homes away from home across the nation school libraries are facing big challenges in the district a texas lawmaker has already made a list containing over 800 books that he has determined needed to be banned from school libraries now the book challenges have made their way here there are books within the libraries of high schools middle schools and elementary schools that are being that are being challenged not by students but by parents i can only speak for high school students when i say that this feels like the parents are looking down at us by challenging these books for

048the good other children it makes me feel as if i'm not as if i'm not seen as someone who is smart enough to put down a book when i do not like it it makes me feel as if they are not listening to us the students but rather themselves within our district there are nine books being challenged how the challenge is best to focus on lgbtq plus community two focus on the african-american community three focus on both communities all nine of these books focus on real world issues and topics and none of them have these books not a single book has a straight white main character as mentioned the convicts discuss real world issues and topics many of these topics include poverty racism bullying with us with specifically homophobia and transphobia and addiction other than

049poverty are these topics not discussed in classrooms and at school assemblies the only difference is that these books discuss these matters with more weight and depth which is why they are just as important as when they are in taught in school these are not the only topics however on the writer's side these books also discuss things like positive self-discovery breaking social pressure and toxic social norms as first laws and finding true acceptance and support each one of these said topics have been discussed and heteronormative white cast books but none of these books are seen often on any of the lists if they are even seen at all the last two reasons to have been used to the inbox our current vanity and intellectual content has claimed to be pornography with regards to high school profanity

050is one of the very last resort reasons that should ever be used to challenge a book every day i hear profanities in the hallway at my high school it is scarier to me to not hear these profanities in the hall due to how common it is for high school students if profanity is not learned from a book then it will surely be picked up within the halls of schools when discussing pornography we must first know its definition miriam webster defines it as material as depict that depicts erotic behavior and is intended to cause sexual assault now a single one of the challenged books is certain for the purpose of sexual assault excitement if the challenge books are banned then you are not only ignoring the students of this district you are performing a far more

051terrible disservice by removing these specs from the shelves countless voices are being silenced not just the voices of authors but also the voices of countless students who have who have and will identify with these stories and authors a student and close friend of mine wrote the book gender queer one of the challenged books and was brought to tears because of it this close friend was struggling with who they were that they were having trouble putting their struggles into words for others to help them they were able to connect to the epic on a personal level and it was able to help them understand who they were and how to describe their struggles and feelings this is only one of countless and countless stories where people are able to understand who they are because of the

052books they read not only that the books are important tools for those who want to support and understand different communities i myself have about two of these books all boys aren't blue and genderqueer they have taught me so much about my own community as a gay man and the african community and the circles that many african-american lgbtqia plus members go through both internally and externally thank you next i have um i think it's laurel killau good just give her a chance to clean it thank you [Music] thank you [Music] hello hello hello my name is high school in valedictorian for the class of 22. i'm also vice president of globe which is ihs's inclusion club and i will say space for all students i'm speaking with you all today on behalf of all the underrepresented

053students of islands high school so that their first amendment rights may continue to be protected as outlined in the constitution and upheld by the school board thus far and i brought with me a list of some landmarks cases that i'm going to reference later um mainly one inc of the olsen from 1958 which ruled that pro-homosexual writings were not outright it's obscene and ireland's uh school district versus pico from 1982 in which school officials cannot remove books being defensive so um i introduced some rulings regarding first amendment rights of freedom of speech and protection these cases outline the protection of the books at risk of being banned today as will students access such among unconstitutionality of such banning where offensive material displays of public opinion and other passive forms of speech expression are protected thus

054lgbtqia plus fiction or literature may be seen as sinful by some people attempting to restrict but this material is lawful and constitutionally protected nonetheless people who are petitioning these arguments um against these books are directly avoiding due process and our bureaucratic system that we have put in place to protect civil liberties um uh with those access to school and public libraries sex education and sexual health advocacy is neither seen obscene or offensive and nevertheless entirely protected and legal artifice in the name of protecting children from an offensive scene is important an effective way of pushing one's beliefs upon others and arguably is equally offensive in and of itself in america we are entitled to inherent national inalienable rights as described in the constitution in the bill of rights regardless of desires of their neighbors again

055referencing one incorporated versus olsen um it's decided that homosexual writings are not outright obscene particularly if the word does not fall under the erotic genre um though they may be offensive for the uh overly sensitive parent um who would attempt to claim a mild work of fiction and public library obscene and offensive merely because the characters are in a same-sex relationship goes against uh protection of our um uh worse just because they're deemed offensive um it establishes the precedent that school officials nationally cannot remove books being defensive um so any decision will immediately be struck down or reviewed in any relatable court of law as municipalities cannot legally nullify whichever rulings they'd like thus petitioners can't continue to come up here and argue that things that they claim are offensive are offensive when it's not

056considered pornography in their the definition of pornography artificially concerned parents and public speakers uh just ask what's obscene and offensive about these books um that you rejected by passive bureaucratic due process meetings like um to continue to protect the books are expensive and our board is already doing the best they can on property taxes and lottery money and um i think it's a really poor move for parents to try and undercut the funding for their children's schools and undercut their children's libraries when um that the very board is the thing holding the school together in the libraries as well the curriculum that's taught is what is holding the school work together um and the school curriculum together um at a time when we are moving backward in technological innovation and the denial for science we

057are here um speaking about uh books being banned from being deemed defensive the removal of sources of sexual content and restricting of sexual education from health classes um such as some of the books on crosses list of 850 books to be banned is counter-intuitive given the concurrent push to ban abortion which is protected if one is so afraid of education and access to information with which to inform oneself amongst children um then i believe that uh we should not continue to petition against these books and these challenge books when it's unconstitutional and um [Applause] first two yes if you will uh make certain that you email a copy to ms davis brown and our board office that's the way we make sure the board members get to see what you've said okay and for the

058other speakers uh likewise not just uh students the next person is ian welcome thank you um hello i'm eden killough an island's high school senior in ninth grade i started our school's chapter of the national organization gsa which is a junior sexual acceptance club my goal when i started the club was to improve the school and eventually the community so we can include everyone without question it promotes positivity in our schools which i believe teenagers need the most when looking at the books and challenges i see our books and introduce inclusion to our schools in the january 5th 2022 scc faces regular meeting ms lisa peterson said quote there exists in our school our middle school and high school libraries that inappropriate books um many inappropriate books that normalize teenage sex in the context of

059heterosexuality homosexuality transsexuality in the quote therapy because transsexuality um does not exist being transsexual is an archaic term used decades ago to promote the idea that being transgender is the fetish instead of merely a personal orientation individuals who are transgender are simply people whose gender does not match the gender they were assigned at birth so making changes by how they look at themselves which may or may not involve other people helps them become more connected with themselves and feel like how cis people um normally do have always felt and why would that be a problem teaching others how to be comfortable in their own skin is not inappropriate or something worthy of being banned or districted furthermore um teenage sex is already normalized because when people go through puberty your sex drive computers and increases

060as you get older especially in high school this is a normal and natural biological effect denying this discourages children from feeling comfortable in their changing bodies while promoting unsafe sex porn ignorance if we are taught that having a sex drive is inappropriate does something to restrain we will we would be learning to hate irma's primitive biological drive this is not something we were able to learn in class like physical education because it goes beyond our physical well-being and focuses on mental many students health source of information that is not taught in school the opportunity of more sex education is especially important if it involves lgbtq plus sexual education which is not a topic discussed as much in our curriculum for health education um every child also has a device that can view the internet whether

061they have a personal advice or a school-issued chromebook they have access to whatever they want to see social could these books in question are not classified as erotica if an ihs student wants to read literary erotica they can walk next door and check out any books they want at the island salipa public library nevertheless our school still needs this information for kids who do not have public library access or ability to purchase a book no child should be denied access interesting however the books in question have not been checked out from our school library until the public challenged them and about 50 of the books in our library have not been checked out including classics plus the fact that we're required to leave romeo and juliet which is filled with the room for the sexual

062content undermines the public's view that children should not be exposed to sexual themes lgbtq plus representation means everything to an individual who is questioning themselves or if they want to feel more comfortable about their newfound identity there is a reason why we have gsas and organizations like the trevor project that has a youth focused campaign called uh called the it gets better project 65 of middle school lgbtq plus youth are bullied 49 uh high school students are bullied one-fourth of these individuals attempt suicide when representation is affirmed in schools bullying decreases dramatically so many youth are introduced to appearance of lgbtq plus themes like in books in the library um the overwhelm overall well-being of queer youth is much more positive as stated by the trevor project quote our findings here indicate the bullying is

063lower in schools that are described as lgbtq plus affirming and our previous findings indicate that lgbtq affirming schools are associated with significantly lower odds of past years suicide attempt um being in the lgbtq plus community is not something that should be banned from our schools just because these schools do not benefit every child there are hundreds of other students at our school if parents do not wish for their child to read certain books they can make that choice but they shouldn't be able to make that decision for every student especially those who committed her benefit from the book in question if this is necessary for parents to control what their child is reading contact ihs's school media specialist and let them know every parent has always had this option to control which books their child

064can check out this is not something that needs to be addressed at the district level because it has always been at the hands of parents thank you sir the last student speaker is it ransby [Music] thank you so much hello hello my name is corey ramsby i am a transgender student at islands high school graduating early since everybody else mentioned they were a senior hi also a senior i've been out for about four years now and i am here today to talk about some of the challenged books and how they have affected me personally for a moment i would like to invite you to my past and my experience as a young trans man as a young child there's not much difference between genders the focus was much more on who was fun to play

065with there were comments that i'd gotten girls don't do that these assertions upset me but at the time i had no clue as to why i didn't know the questions asked and this confused pain continued then at the age of 11 the chilliest beginnings of puberty had to fall in me which is not fun in the best of times um however feeling like you're in the wrong body makes it just that much more unbearable the book gender queer by mia which is this throughout the fear the shame and disgust as something inseparable from you your body i wish and i prayed for a new body or to just gender non-conforming character either showed them as horror or a joke they were the antagonists and horror films they were the evil transvestites ready to destroy all

066that was good and more within the world or the stupid silly ultimately misguided cross gesture not a trans character words like transgender weren't said on tv or in the books that i had access to at the time so i denied my feelings i got it was just a book that affected me we were both praised for realizing our feminine nature yet it didn't feel right i tried to feel right in my ever-changing body yet i couldn't i was trying desperately to be something someone who i wasn't three years later towards the end of the eighth grade i've heard the word transgender but don't have a crumb of understanding on the topic until someone else in my band came out i wasn't alone seeing him made me feel whole as opposed to the brokenness i had

067become accustomed to there was hope for me that seeing was accepting something i had denied myself for so long that the world had denied me it gave me confidence i'm still terrified to tell people but i must turn all my courage to come out to my band directors first then came my dad and my grandma who i was living with lastly was my mom i expected her to be the easiest as she's a member of the lgbtq plus community as well but she immediately said you will never be a son to me i am stunned um absolutely crushed there's a certain agony that only comes from a loved one hating and denying an inseparable part of you for a long time i held that hurt and it became resentment similar to felix love and felix

068forever after by casey calendar that is another one of the books that is being challenged his father took a long time to say his true name felix they felt that his father was denying the truth denying that someone was brought into this world as a daughter could not be a son but such a suffocating emotion of hate and hurt for someone who loved us the father after a while got the hang of it similar to my mom they learned that they changed they saw others like us because of this they saw us these stories these books they showed me i wasn't alone and i want that to be something that everybody who is in the position of questioning or not knowing the words be able to access it is not pornographic to talk about dysphoria

069which is the gender dysmorphia or being trans in general being part of the lgbtq community should not be viewed as pornographic the sexualization of our community leads to situations like this where books that we are part of are viewed as corrupt despite just simply being stories about our existence when that idea is spread that transgender people are too hard to understand that we are harmful that we corrupt the youth it says that we are too dangerous to read about it encourages hate it encourages all of the times that i've been asked about my genitals while trying to learn all the times i've been changed out of the bathroom mainly girls surprisingly and any of the times that i was told that someone could have fixed me or that i wasn't wanted by my family or

070that they had to protect the younger kids however i am a part of the youth trans kids deserve representation love care and of course understanding books a way to not feel broken and to help their parents and peers understand thank you for your time and opportunity thank you if uh if i could ask again for you four students be sure and send your remarks to the board secretary next on our list is ms dion hicks he's gonna talk about field trips i believe good afternoon mr president superintendent and board members uh my name is miss dionne washington higgs i'm here on behalf of my daughter alexis spouse she's the granddaughter of the late miss jeannie evans spouse she was the fifth district uh board member here um my uh issue is uh she had a

071field trip she's a senior at jenkins high school and they were supposed to attend the field trip with their first teacher mr daniel kamikowski um last week monday i believe and um they paid for their field trip and everything and she said at the last minute uh a board member told them that they could no longer attend the future she was confused she my daughter is the president of the student council at jenkins and she was confused because she said mom she didn't understand what to tell her fellow uh counsel uh you know board members whatever and she she said that the board member told them that um let me say i have it i'm quoting this she told us that while student council is good to have it is not necessary and she she

072was confused confused by that statement so i'm here today to try to get some clarity on behalf of my daughter to find out you know it will you all still have student council or mrs hicks i would i would tell you we value our student councils uh things for two years have not been as they used to be uh will be in the future i would like to ask you to talk to miss bernadette bald oliver who's sitting right back then she will follow you out and she will uh try to answer your questions the superintendent just said ms baldwin would be the one to give you the information honestly i would tell you as board members we don't know the answer to your question because none of us knew about what you say happened

073so she's got lots more information than any of us so um if you'll just let her help you ma'am yes sir thank you thank you thank you very much uh next i have uh mrs burrison who's going to talk about student activities [Music] thank you welcome mr person thank you for having me yes ma'am good evening everyone my name is trey burrison i am a graduate of sccps previously an employee of savannah county public school district small business owner and parent of a future graduate of the class 2039. oh my goodness i know i'm excited to announce that i will be qualified next week to run for school board for district 5. today i want to discuss the school system's obligations to be accountable to the students and ensure that their last few months of

074school resemble as much as possible pre-coded end-of-the-year student activities there has been much celebration this week with these mass optional policies being implemented in schools and on buses students can see their friends and many teachers smiles for the first time in almost two years with the new system the colbit 19 community level metrics implemented by the cbc last friday which is based on number of hospital beds being used hospital and admissions and the total number of new cold cases in an area versus just the number of new cases savannah town falls into the lowest risk category for copay the cdc charts of prevention steps for low medium and high risk suggests that even high risk people are considered safe without a mass unless their health provider says otherwise based on all this good news for

075our area which has been throughout the omnichrome peak i advocate for parents and students who request the following modifications in the district year-end plans course number one attendance at the graduation ceremonies at the new enmark arena should not be limited to two family members per student my question is can the school system allow pre-covered tickets allotment for graduations number two parental and volunteer access to the schools to go back to pre-copic assets assets parents and volunteers haven't been able to since march 2020. well you already pretty much answered that question earlier so i will go ahead and ask can all schools return to pre-coping entrance for parents and volunteers my next my next one my next question all of the arts events need to return to prequel operating procedures for example they are allowing athletes

076to increase capacity but the savannah arts junk for funk fashion show which has raised tens of thousands of dollars for savannah high all the arts events need to return to pre-co operations procedures for example my apologies okay okay but all right which has been raised to tens of thousands of dollars for savannah high in the past years must be reimagined this year with only two tickets per participant and only one night of the live show the attendees will be greatly limited as it usually sells out for all three nights all students will lose out of a lot of scholarship money can this be modified to include more than one live night and my last one junior and senior proms should operate under pre-coping guidelines these students have paid a terrible price for constant fear and

077psychological damage over covet this is supposed to be the most memorable time of their lives an experience they will never forget they deserve to have an amazing experience after such a devastation within their lifetime my question is can the junior and senior problems be conducted pre-code guidelines thank you for having me thank you very much if you will make certain that the officer gets a copy of those we can get an answer for you later okay yes thank you the last speaker i have uh first of all ms roberts will be speaking in relation to uh the naming of the woodland gym but the last speaker i have on the list is keith padgett welcome to this page good afternoon afternoon how's everybody good afternoon my name is keith padgett i'm a lifelong resident of

078savannah uh currently living in the 6th district i am a product of savannah county having graduated from windsor forest high school obtaining an advanced degree at a technical college i currently run a local paint company following my employment with major firms such as offspring and boeing and a half a billion years as an instructor in the department at savannah technical college i'm excited to announce that i'll be qualifying next week to run the school board for the 6th district my goal is to increase what i describe in an acronym of acts act a is for accountability c is for communication and t for transparency today i would like to discuss to see and act communication i spoke to you last month asking questions regarding technical school accommodations during covet and you kindly send me a

079response to my email to answer the questions while i appreciate the answers that you provided i would suggest that those who heard the questions on the live stream or replay during last school board meeting and still have no answers each month questions are asked of the board while i'm aware of the existing policy not to answer these questions at the meeting itself i suggest there is an opportunity for improvement in communication with the board would it be possible for mary davis brown to include an email response and instructions that she sends back to prospective speakers a statement knowing that the board does not answer questions at the time of presentation but will respond to any written questions um in addition would it be feasible to set up a link on the board website to toss

080a response that is sent back to each presenter in order to make the response public i will leave my suggestions with the um representative that's all i have for today and uh one more thing i want to add um earlier you guys were giving out um how do i say congratulations to the teachers and all that stuff before i leave out i would like to give a personal congratulations to a young lady who's always had something positive to say to young children even if they didn't know what path they should be on life so before i leave i just want to thank ms hines for everything a round of applause for you [Applause] there was a time where there was a a lot of young children that didn't know what they wanted to do in

081life and how they should act and i thank you for correcting the young men that got a lion thank you for everything god [Applause] that's our last speaker uh thank you mr padgett moving on to the board of education matters uh i'm going to ask mr heidegger take us through that and um education matters we do have some policy review for you these are first readers that are coming through on the four year review schedule 7.01 policy lec this is booster organizations no changes to the policy here but we did feel it was necessary to update regulation language in the administrative side of how we administer the policy to ensure that we had legal coverage in regards to gender equity uh for the use of the funds received through booster organizations we also recognized uh

082apologizes a typo in that line it should be must instead of much and we will get that corrected any comments from board members i have one serving as a previous booster club president for two years my children attended savannah i have an appreciation for number 10 where it says the principal may order at any time 7.02 the review on this particular policy again this is a four-year review first reader is to revise language to appropriately address ctae you'll note that this particular policy was written with a very specific intent around live work and we recognized also the way that it was written created a possibility for some policy infractions under ministerial duty so we have revised it to properly reflect ctae and we are looking at an appropriate place for live work recommendations which will

083come to you at a future board meeting on your agenda this is the policy regarding and regulation on media centers uh this as well uh was on the schedule for the four year review uh of course it is timed in a moment where we've had some um heightened interest in the areas of selection of books and the uh process for reviewing materials in our media centers uh so the timing just happens to be coincidental it is our four-year review schedule uh and the processes and procedures have been updated uh for improvements and for clarity any support members um i first wanted to say thank you to ms brown and all of the people that helped her put together a presentation that she gave me this morning um i think that the public should take the

084time to watch that um one question would be under this policy and regulation would there be any current book in our both physical and digital media centers removed from their place defer to mr feliciano uh no no books will be removed the regulation clarifies the the parents rights and the process for reconsideration of any materials that are located within each school thank you any other comments mr for the um during informal and encourage anyone to did not see that to watch that um i am in favor of the proposed policy i particularly um am pleased to see that it references the american library association's freedom to read statement and the american library association's access to resources and services in the school library media program after our january meeting when we had several speakers um who

085talked about some of the books and language in our media center i felt incumbent upon myself to read one of those books and i found the way in which information was presented to us in our january meeting was very misleading and the book in fact spoke to so many critical issues for our young adults and i believe it is imperative for us to have diversity in our library materials and for that diversity to reflect our community as a whole i appreciate and respect the professionalism of all of our media center specialists our teachers and our administrators to make informed decisions regarding the materials that are placed in our media centers and i'm very pleased to see this policy come forward as it is written i would like to ask one clarifying statement in regards to

086a comment mr made during the opening public remarks i do we do have this crafted as a an opt-out policy and not a non-opt-in policy is that correct okay i'm seeing mr vincent so for clarification this would allow parents which is something we've already had for over a decade the opportunity to opt out a book for their particular student but it does not place a certain category of books into an opt-in policy perhaps that needs to be stated more clearly but i think that's an important station it is an affordable distinction thank you for making it clear it should be on the record it is an opt-out not an opt-in so i think it's important thank you for bringing that forward it is an opt out not opt-in thank you um so i raised this

087issue during informal when we had an overview of our media senator selection process this is a first read on the policy and we're actually looking at our regulation most of the issues that y'all were talking about are the regulations not the policy but it's before we review the policy it's the first read we have to do a second read as i noted informal uh the general assembly passed senate bill 449 um which um i think is i can't remember the title it's something like a parental bill of rights but it requires it requires school districts to post uh curriculum material um and give parents the opportunity to view it and ask questions about it and it has some timing provisions in there and it's very broadly written right now the senate passed it the house

088is on its second reader i think the governor has said that he's is probably going to sign the bill so my thought is why are we we could sit here and debate the finances of the regulation but we're going to be told by the state pretty shortly here's what we need to do and not do so i think let's wait and see what that bill says and then we can craft our policy and regulation to comply with the bill i would say um i think between now and next month and and the regulation would go into effect immediately but i i think it's easy enough to wait one month i don't think it's strictly a review of a policy that's already in existence and we can certainly do that uh if that uh are you

089in agreement with that two boys yeah uh i would also just like to take this opportunity to say as i said in informal this morning i've had i believe uh 36 emails in the last two days from 36 different families who were supporting this policy and the fact that we continue to have a wide diversity of titles in our media centers and likewise that parents have the option to choose if they particularly feel that something should not be appropriate for that child and uh i wanted to commend those families who had told me why they were in support of this because sometimes as board members we get kind of a canned letter where they don't even bother to change our names at the top and and just say the same thing over and over each

090of these 36 letters was individually written and express the opinions of those family members and i appreciated that i wanted that read into the record thank you yes ma'am one more comment which i think is very important i want to commend the students who spoke today right that took an awful lot of courage for them and i just think it's so important that we hear our students so they're they their families should certainly be committed along with teachers and administration violence thank you mr basker we i should have said that too uh any other thing on media since we had to go we will keep close tabs and we will be prepared to do something next month yes sir we'll watch it closely we're also aware that anything that the legislative session does typically will

091have a effective date of july one so we we always have the ability to come back and modify it in this time frame so uh easily done uh but we do believe much of the language that we do have in there are strong enough to stand on as well and and as an aside mr kashmar's concern that bill that he's referencing is much broader than just the media and so yes sir because it has to do with anything they ask within three days we have to respond to so right yes uh anything else in the media centers moving on political yes sir 7.04 is a four-year review first reader this is policy kia political campaign materials we review this under the guise of understanding that the this is an opportunity for us to expand a

092little bit more on how we manage those who may want to politically campaign on our grounds it really extends beyond just materials so we have extended this to very clearly state that uh uh campaigning politically campaigning on our grounds or district on properties is prohibited okay first video okay i would ask a question that i asked already uh is when it says posting of political campaign materials does someone walking in this room to speak are they posted if they've gotten a t-shirt so we need to get we will uh get a further clarification from a legal standpoint on that however the the spirit of the way this was written was on the physical putting a poster up or a sign or something of that nature as opposed to wearing uh wearables thank you my in

093that same vein if we could explore um the pronouncement of campaign platforms in the public forum that would be helpful as well um because i think that that content is integrated in what we are doing as part of our work um but if if mr holiday could clarify if there's a distinction between platform announcements and addressing the operations of the district in public forum that would be good too thank you yes um i know it has been discussed also about um magazines cars because they are becoming a lot more prevalent for campaigns um about not just incumbents but also challengers having them on school property if we can somehow get clarification on that as well mr holliday assures me we will get a very definitive answer so moving forward moving on thank you sir 7.05

094on your board agenda this is policy djd expense reimbursement very minimal changes here however we did feel it was important to update the line to be a little bit more clear and straightforward and eliminate languages such as references from time to time uh to be very clear in stating that the superintendent is authorized by the board to implement administrative procedures for this policy any uh questions concerns i guess moving forward then moving on item 7.06 this is the staff side of political activities this is also a four year review first reader no real changes here other than taking one line and putting it to the end of the policy language so it is a standalone and very clearly stated and not to be confused or co-mingled with other language so you'll see that red strike

095and the movement of the line is unchanged comments questions concerns that concludes the policy review section of your board matters we do have uh two proclamations that will turn back over to the board for our reading to order uh into a public record and an official order in action i believe miss grabowski is reading one of those proclamations oh the second one okay i forgot you've got social worker miss hall okay would someone just choose to read nutrition i could clarify the school breakfast week and national school nutrition are also co-mingled in your agenda items it is one fail swoop on both of them okay i'm gonna do the social work national school social workers week proclamation this year the theme for national school social workers week is time to shine to recognize the valuable

096contributions of our school social workers the board of education would like to proclaim march 6 to march 12 2022 as national school social workers week thus being resolved that the following explanation be adopted whereas school social workers are employed in savannah successfully reach their full potential and whereas school social workers are actively committed to helping students explore their abilities strengths interests and talents as they remain in school to obtain their educational goals and whereas social workers help parents focus on ways to further the educational personal and social growth of their children and provide community resources as needed to accomplish these goals and we're at school social workers work teachers and other educators to help students explore their potential and set realistic goals for themselves while assisting educators and understanding the lifestyles of our students and

097their families and whereas social workers seek to identify and utilize community resources that can enhance and complement comprehensive school social work programs and help students become productive members of society and whereas social workers are considered an integral part of the educational process that enables all students to achieve success in school now therefore be it resolved that march 6 to march 12 2022 be claimed national school social workers week proclaim the second day of march 2022 dr joseph buck board president dr m vet superintendent i i believe we have uh bianchi uh thane and talbot here perhaps to receive the proclamation set correct come forward if you will please [Applause] we really want to see you though thank you thank you thank you so much thank you thank you so much [Applause] we actually have given

098out the proclamation we didn't even have a second vote on it so um dr hoskins brown seconded it all in favor say i'm vote i'm just getting um things that are passing me by um lastly now we have uh nutrition [Music] i i would like to add on to this proclamation that over the past two years we saw we really do know the importance of having social workers in the school system um with all the challenges that the children have had and it's not just the children of the social workers health they also help the staff members so from the bottom of my heart thank you for everything that you do not only for our children but also for our staff thank you and now who's doing is that you mr yes sir i will

099gladly share the national school breakfast week and school nutrition month proclamation the nsbw 2022 theme is take off with school breakfast reminds the entire school community the school breakfast provides a healthy and energizing start to the day for students that students who eat school breakfast are more likely to reach higher levels of achievement in reading and math score higher on assessments have better concentration and memory be more alert maintain a healthy weight whereas the school breakfast program has served our nation admirably since it was permanently established in 1975 and whereas the school breakfast program is dedicated to the health and well-being of our nation's children and whereas the school breakfast program joins and has been joined through the years by many other excellent child nutrition programs and whereas there is evidence of continued need for

100nutrition education and awareness of the value of school nutritious programs now therefore be a result that march 7th to march 11 2022 be proclaimed national school breakfast week and that the entire month of march is celebrated as national nutrition month proclaim the second day of march 2022 dr joseph buck for president and m.a vet superintendent mrs moved is there second second by mr johnson all in favor say aye aye motion passes unanimously are you still here come forward [Applause] please thank you thank you so much [Applause] yes sir i have to sing ms bonaparte's phrases every time she's here and uh in the providence of how things work out um today at lunch i got a text message from my daughter from jenkins of her lunch tray and she's like my lunch tray today was

101paper a supplier for biodegradable lunch trays so i will praise you for both nutrition week but also for the governor's purchasing week keep purchasing the biodegradable roberts i'll ask you mr respect i'll i'll ask in just a second to come forward but uh the next item is the adoption of the naming of woodrow tompkins gymnasium and uh who's going to okay mrs ballard is going to read that thank you good afternoon in accordance with policy fdc and administrative regulation fdr naming facilities a team has been appointed by the superintendent to provide a recommendation for the naming of the woodville tompkins gymnasium the proposed name was read into record during the regularly scheduled board meeting held on february 2nd 2022. the committee unanimously voted to name the gem after joe turner the naming of the gymnasium

102as joe turner is now being presented for board action in accordance with board policy that states before adopting a name for a facility the name shall be presented to the board at one meeting and voted on by the board at the next meeting thus be it resolved upon recommendation of the superintendent that the board approved the naming of the woodville tompkins gymnasium as the joe turner i'd like to gymnasium the motion made by doc howard hall she moves missing seconds uh before we have a vote uh comment ms roberts would you come forward good afternoon happy new members and year my name is dr brandon roberts i am a proud 1971 graduate of tompkins high now woodville tompkins high school i want to thank you for the opportunity to speak about naming the woodville tompkins

103high school gymnasium for the incomparable coach joseph joe turner i hope that you have had the opportunity to read the information submitted about these significant contributions coach turner made on the high school and collegiate level being named coach of the year seven times during his stellar career he coached olympic gold medalist lucinda william williams adams and he coached five thompson's high graduates who entered the nfl evan bailey of the c seahawks john holmes huber again and freddie woodson of the miami dolphins and solomon brandon of the new york jets of course i could go on but let me say the alumni of woodville thompson's high school the wolverine thanks you for your approval of naming the new gymnasium joe turner gymnasium in honor of our beloved coach joseph joe [Applause] you turner we have a

104motion in a second are there any other discussions yes i would just like to say this it's an honor and a privilege to be able to sit here and say that i personally knew coach turner and he personally knew me he was more than just our coach he was a teacher he was our mentor he was our disciplinarian he was our father figure he was our friend and he molded the lives of young boys into men in the lives of young girls and two women and we are forever grateful for what he's done and i'm quite sure that he's smiling down on us and to bruno i'm grateful that the board has moved to make the gymnasium i name it after coach turner he was i knew very well my brothers played unto him uh

105in sports and uh he helped to make men out of them with along with my father and he was a great figure as uh father figure as uh dr hollis said so we appreciate that the board has decided to move forward with this and yes my classmates say that i did read everything that that was submitted and i did some extra research on it um my question is you know i don't know why it took us so long to get something named after coach turner because he just seemed like an incredible man i did not have um the opportunity to know him but he just seemed like an incredible man for our community anything else all in favor of this motion raise your hands please one two three four five six seven eight nine motion

106passes nine zero zero and we now have the coach joe turner [Applause] gymnasium on to the last resolution for the board to consider thank you mr board president we do have a resolution of support for the board's review and subsequent action this is regarding sb419 board of public education for the city of savannah and county of chatham compensation of members under the current 2021-2022 legislative session senator lester jackson has proposed sb 419 to modify the compensation of members of the board of public education which was last adjusted in 2006. the board resolves to support this legislative action thus be it resolved that the board of public education by way of this resolution supports the passage of senate bill 419 in order to provide equitable compensation for its membership i need a motion please for this

107is something that some folks have advocated for and some folks have been reluctant to address um and and i've been pretty neutral on the matter but i want to talk about the advantage of this action if it should move forward despite the the obvious financial advantages for individuals who are sitting in these positions one of the challenges that we have in our community is having people who are willing to come forward step up and serve in these positions um and those who are in a position to be able to do so with very little expense may not pay much attention to what the salary is um but you also tend to exclude individuals who have significant talents to bring if they find that their talents are not being um appropriately compensated so what i hope

108may happen from this action if it is successful is that it will draw out more talent from our community to do the hard work of our half a billion dollar organization for the benefit of our children thank you thank you mr anything any other comments from board members all in favor of the resolution raise your hands please one two three four five six seven i'll oppose one two any extensions so the motion passes seven two zero congratulations board members moving on i need a motion to approve the consent agenda ms heinz moves second by dr constance brown all in favor say aye consent agenda is approved as yes oh i'm sorry all in favor say no all in favor raise your hands please one two three four five six all opposed and any abstentions two

109and let the rocket each other ms hall is out of the room so that pass six six zero two moving on then to our last action items strategic goal one the port wentworth elementary attendance zone reconfiguration dr brown welcome good afternoon um this is the proposal for western chattanooga modifications due to the closure of port wentworth elementary school savannah county public school system strives each year to maintain consistent attendance with limited disruption to student movement sccps regularly reviews enrollment trends population data and growth indicators to adapt to changing market and community conditions this review is completed in a manner that seeks to address school capacity levels for the effective effect of teaching learning to summarize this proposal port wentworth has been phased out for the specifications of the georgia department of education for instructional use

110at the close of the 20-20-21 school year at the conclusion of this school year the facility will be used administratively to support operational needs as identified by the school district district staff have met in small groups with board members held two public hearings met with receiving principals and set up meetings with the incoming new students and parents after carefully reviewing the current boundary lines and existing capacity levels boundary line modifications have been proposed for rice creek school brock elementary and garden city and lastly relocating the current 566 students from portland wentworth elementary to rice creek school brock elementary and garden city elementary yields a capacity capacity of 94 80 and 75 respectively thus being resolved upon the recommendation of the superintendent that the board approved the proposed attendance zone modifications as shown on the attached

111maps to rice creek school brock elementary rock elementary and garden city to create new attendance zones due to the closure port wentworth beginning school year 2022-2023 thus be further resolved that the superintendent shall implement a transition plan for identified students to attend the newly assigned schools the attendant zones with having the small group meetings with the hearings as well as reaching out to the community it's been a very smooth transition and i appreciate the work if you all have done with this thank you anybody else questions concerns all in favor of the resolution raise your hands please one two three four five six seven eight all opposed motion passes uh any extensions motion passes eight zero zero with miss hall out of the room when we voted so moving on to faculty and support staff

112retention rate good afternoon thank you for president um madam superintendent and board members just wanted to give you an update um certainly it was exciting going through the process of the way forward for the hr division certainly we were going through all the meetings we were trying to you know just culminate and come to something that we thought would be effective and as we you know go forward and move from where we were to where we're going and so this is kind of our start in our initial information provided to you based on what based on the information that we were able to gather and some of it was not available yet but as you can see i'll talk through that so we do have the nutrition rates we did we did want to compare

113ourselves with the national average which we which as we research is still 16 16 for a while actually um the support staff attribution rate under development along with the target areas give me some specifics release of 2020 2021 2022 you can see the support staff is at 16.5 and other support staff at 12.9 also you can see the teacher retention rate is that 14.3 um we just don't know what it actually means um certainly it's a little bit higher than it was i'm sorry it's lower than it was but we're certainly doing good to the national average but with the pandemic and everything we have to see where we're going to go as far as how we say baseline our target related to that you can see uh as we look at fostering a positive

114climate and culture based on openness inequity honesty and transparency in b increase the number of survey respondents to indicate a positive culture and climate that's undevelopment along with sea uh grow rural and maximize employee pathways and succession planning um increased pathway participation was in progress so i'm going to go a little bit more in depth into it and some of the thoughts that we've we have in the hr division along with these really cross divisions so some of it's in communications and um it's also academic affairs as well as even accountability but just some thoughts you were aware of the wellness day that we did and we have a successful mistake excellent feedback on the event that we thought was held on february 21st it was just the launch of the wellness changes that we

115want to have so the initial process that we started and certainly we're going to continue that as we move on some examples of uh well understand we move forward might be that we have something that is you know maybe starting from 7 00 am to 10 a.m as far as work and it may be something you know something related to lunch hour able to commute and then have a physical session uh mental session and emotional sessions in the afternoon just examples of how we might go again we're starting this we'll see we'll see what we're going to be doing going forward but this is certainly outside of what we've done in the past which is mainly just a report this is actually inter division working and working together uh with one common purpose creative competency

116a number of thoughts about that which was to select members we focus on the the um teacher of the year and the support person here one one thing that i recognize as i work with support personally and teachers here that sometimes like any job or anything you have you don't really realize what you're doing until halfway through it so maybe we maybe we capitalize on that and communicate or do something with that group after they've gone off and to stay in touch with them the year after they've gone off the scene because they would have gone through the process and maybe they have some different thoughts because they had to go into it as individuals and then they as they're going through the process they're thinking more about being globally and thinking about the school

117so maybe let's see what happens the year after they leave and maybe that's something that we can do to keep keep them engaged after they have served their first year so the thought process that we have with doing that volunteer day that something is done in many other school districts where you may have a part of the day that you can volunteer for the red cross salvation army just another example that may get approved um of different opportunities for employees to do um thank mechanism for staff support we certainly have a lot of mechanisms now for that but what are the other what are other aspects of what we may be able to do and that's something that we were thinking about and looking at doing as well focus groups uh focus groups just trying

118to narrow down maybe that's something we're going to do specifically with the emotional labor that's something we're doing specifically with social just other type aspects of what we could do with those groups to see what kind of what can we do to increase the climate culture in our in our organization and it's everywhere there are opportunities everywhere we need to find them we need to find those opportunities and they're going to be something that we do and then we don't need to do there may be other things that we're doing that we just need to magnify and again i was mentioning in support of the um the teacher of the year in the sp uh performance and service award programs been exploring uh possibilities of having um what we call i guess milestones so five

119years ten years fifteen years what do you have well there are other companies that we're gonna work we've seen that have also done things where you can actually get earn points and earn credits to be able to do what you want with it so maybe something that's not necessarily always something tangible but something you worked for that might be able to get you a game ticket to somewhere or something that you might like that is a physical item that you want to have as opposed to having the ability to go into the game or something like that so just just those things give employee flexibility and maybe motivation as their principles or supervisors were able to um have these prospects um things that they may do to earn the credits that they get to be

120able to ultimately um get something that they look for so that's all the things that we're looking at is opening opening up those doors as well examining the poi employee perks program is something else i would focus on um we we we have a amazing employee approach program we just need to make sure we're communicating it expanding what we have right now school competitions um maybe something the superintendent recognizes you know the school that ends up with the best poster uh really the closing time or just something that they're doing it may not be just be a poster maybe some activity or something that was done at the school that big debt is also recognized um live update a lot of trust to all employees uh from the superintendent one of the things that was

121brought up what we thought about was what um came through a few years ago we have a convocation at the end of the year where all of us went to the civic center uh we're able to address it by the superintendent so maybe there's something we're not doing that but maybe there's still a lot of addresses now we're in place but it 2022 could be a live presentation to all employees that is simultaneously done at the same time um you can see we don't focus enough on principles or at least recognize first of all administrators maybe there's something that comes out of us being able to recognize the principles that are doing those things that are creative and positive but um creating a positive culture and climate but also maybe something that the principles can

122can benefit from themselves of the year or something like that so you and recognizing you know what they're doing because they all do a great job increased pathway participation expanding on that um we already have an employee personal pathways that um actually was created without blocking that where we have succession planning that is done where we create these positions that are there when somebody leaves there's always somebody who can take over that's in a rule behind them so that's something that we've been doing ready set grow is something done through professional learning um to support or aspire to help all of these different areas of the mentioned academic coaches and students to become something what they something else they want to do what they want to do you want to grow in your own position

123the things that help them be be more of what they want and so that's something that we've we started we're doing now with the academic coaches and we'll be expanding it out to other groups as well paraprofessional classified transition training meetings um what we we were doing alternative pathways you all maybe may have heard about doing alternative pathways to get those that are interested in education to come are interested in teaching to become cutting education and we've always done that included our parents but one thing we found when we just had to perish by themselves that it was different so not having the community and just focusing on the parents they were able to ask us questions and we found that many of them just did not understand even even though we had those other

124methods they were not coming to those but they were they are starting but we'll also start doing something just specifically for our parents we're our employees we have we have a secretary to become a teacher we have areas that we want to expand and want to have because that we have to grow our own uh that's how we're gonna have to get our teacher in our teacher pipeline just not there through the traditional college pathway so we certainly want to do what we can to grow our own create our own programs that's what all these are expanding teacher residency program you see all those you'll see those residency teachers that come up on the board agenda that say nineteen thousand or twenty thousand trying to wonder what's going on with them and you know we've

125explained that that's just something that is a process for them to become a teacher so we can keep them as well thank you i was just i have a question or a comment about the culture and climate from earlier okay thank you i appreciate that and i appreciate the detail on this report in terms of what we're trying to do um for our workforce my question is about how we support well-being culture and climate uh through employee and staff affiliations and so here's my thought within the federal government there are what are called employee resource groups and those are i'll read directly from our website uh usually led and participated in by employees who share a characteristic whether it's gender ethnicity religious affiliation lifestyle or interest they exist to provide support and help in personal

126or career development and to create a safe place where employees can bring their whole selves to the table allies may also be invited to join the erg to support their colleagues they do not have to have agency approval to exist so it's basically a a club of affinities now the philippine groups are different affinity groups are associated with national organizations and they have dues but employee research resource groups bring together people on on other bases that can contribute to a positive climate um and so i know we do a good job of pairing people based on what their what they do and what their aspirations are for what they want to do with the district but i wonder if that is a you know a non-financial bit of well-being that we can foster uh or

127whether there is something analogous to this kind of entity in our district a little bit different and i think maybe if we can create those those different groups um because again it's about them being able to voice their opinions be able to to grow within themselves and so i think that is something that's positive and certainly we'll consider that and add that to something else i have miss holland with the cast arm um mr brady something i realized during my career was that most times when you wanted to um improve your lot the only way you could as a teacher is that you became an assistant principal and a principal those were the only you know and i'd and now okay academic coaches but what i found was that i had loads of teachers whose

128best talent was teaching in that classroom that's where they needed to be they didn't have the skill set or the leadership set to be an assistant principal or principal but there has to be some sort of way that we can compensate them across their career just to stay in that classroom where they excel so i'd like us to think more about that when i've become a teacher for 10 years something really extraordinary should happen for me 15 years 20 years that's that's the way that we could keep our employees without necessarily saying if you want a higher salary if you you must become an assistant principal or a principal to do that and they can keep their gold where it needs to be in that classroom yes but i do think we have um well

129over for teachers time as i was mentioning the teacher residency program that is a master teacher in the school that is supporting two teachers and so there's that inner ability to be able to support teachers that we still that we always have so i get what you're saying we need to focus on a compensation related area for that so i certainly hear that from you but that's an example of what you're right about that um we've taken great strides in the last several years to um look at our compensation plan and implement uh you know the changes that we've talked about in our in our five-year plan and renewed five-year plan um and um i think ms hall's comments are very well taken um we need we live in the time of the great resignation

130um we see that in all the media reports i live in the hr world i work with lots of employers who are struggling with recruitment and retention i read lots of consultant speak on recruitment and retention and um over the last three years the themes that emerged some people are in it for the money and so they're going to run to the you know the next job that will pay them a little bit more um but most of the teachers i know get into teaching for the money um money is important it's how we live um and so you know looking at our pay plan and looking for um more willingness to to deviate from our pay plan when warranted is important um and i think we need to be less rigid in saying this

131is the salary structure and that's it um we need to um explore some of those um exceptions and i'm not saying that as a criticism because i think um mr ray um and his his staff do that in some circumstances he's of course limited by the budget we voted on and approved uh and also by you know what the state says here's what your ft funding is going to be for teachers uh and by state mandates on class size and that kind of thing um but the one thing i wanted to address more specifically and also commend mr rayon is all of these these surveys that you read in these reports it's that a lot of employees are motivated by non-monetary compensation things like professional development and personal development opportunities um having a wellness day

132where we're letting staff focus on their mental health but also we're having financial literacy classes and yoga and health related things um that helps with their personal development and then also continued professional development opportunities the master teacher pathway um etc all of these things that these bullet points on your one sheet here i know this is not everything but um employers that offer more that recognize people as individuals and as people some people don't want to develop personally or professionally and and the more we can focus on non-monetary things and sell that when we're recruiting and then continually push it as a retention tool the more our numbers are going to keep staying below the national average of teacher losses so thank you yes based on my experience 32 years the most important components with

133retention for teachers mainly is culture climate and classroom management i've seen many teachers come and go first year mainly first year teachers and what keep what um enables them to leave this lack of classroom management skills i've seen them uh crying making them cry or first grader getting them so upset so i don't know if it's still going on now i'm just saying based on what i've experienced throughout my years of teaching and i know in a particular county not chatham county when it was time to play students in classes for some reason the new teacher ended up with a rough group of kids the rough group that had you know different um challenges and that was discouraging so i do know that that classroom management piece called decline items because we have all these

134wonderful ideas and then they kind of evaporate so we need to get this from here to action with the kurdish standing up there and giving us some resolutions thank you mr gray i have uh next uh strategic goal for fiscal responsibility and we have financials good afternoon everyone i will try to be brief and run through the financials you have received them prior in your package the finances also have been displayed on the public website um as far as general fund revenues we're pretty much on target as far as expenditures we're a little ahead on the expenditures we spent a little bit more than last year but i think as each year progress we we're going to spend more than prior year because we're getting away from a a year where we were virtual to

135become more hybrid and once we get more and more back into the classroom fully we're going to start spending more money at the site level uh so so far general phone relationship looking pretty good the phone that we're going to highlight this month is the workers compensation fund um and that funds basically deals with us being self-insured and the other phone that we're going to highlight is nutrition we're pretty much finally getting back on track with school nutrition unfortunately because of the way school nutrition is being funded has been funded the last couple years but with us receiving a lot of funds from the federal government that's giving us a chance to really catch up and add some money into food service so we're trying to finish the year in the black and be able

136to put some money into fund balance and food service um we're by policy we're supposed to maintain at least at least a month and a half of operating expenditures and food service funds we haven't done that in a couple years but no one's noticed it but we're trying to get back on track so we can put some funds back into food services and finish that year in the black are any questions regarding the financial statements service fund i imagine being back in school five days a week those costs went up um as opposed to that and i know we maintain food delivery et cetera so the grant money and the the money that we're getting is it is it a permanent way in the way school nutrition is funded or is it related is it

137temporary related to this ara cares it's temporary related to i believe some relationship cares that that when the federal government is funding all of the meals at least for the last year year and a half um a question won't be permanent hopefully we can get one more year um so we can fully recover uh food service but it is related to pandemic but it will get us in a good position but long term we still have challenges in terms of we need to figure out the balance between funding and our expenses and revenues that's that's yes anything else with this moving forward on the quarterly spots report since we have cic next week mr kashmar has offered to let that report be given at that meeting and i would though i answered it i think

138we do this always with that we make certain it's successful on our webpage so that people that are watching this right now absolutely but there's no questions we see i see is scheduled for next wednesday the night at nine o'clock a.m is the budget of adoption for response for the next few general items again they were posted uh on the public website they were also delivered to the board i believe all of this was done last week last friday from no mistake i will read the headings before you you have a budget for 420 million dollars for response for thus being resolved upon the recommendation of the superintendent that the board adopted multi-year each plus 4 budget as shown in the above tables the capital improvement committee will review economic trends and monthly income on

139a semi-annual basis to make necessary corrections for adjustment should academic conditions necessitate modifications you've heard the recommendation mr mr johnson moves ms heinz second with johnson anything besides anything any other board member i have any yes mr gabowski are we still on track uh to move forward as we discussed regarding bonds to move forward on the projects is to i think what we're trying to match up is are we going to have projects in a timeline ready to go in relation to when bonds would come in and is it worth is it worth getting the bonds that's we don't want to spend money if we don't have the projects there and a lot of it is supply chain and you know subs in the market and all that when we stuff on it we have

140a limited time by which we must enact what we voted on and so yes but we are moving yes yes and we have to complete the validation process i believe the hearing is coming up soon um so that will give us growing light to move forward on the bonds whenever we deem necessary any other questions adoption of budget for four hearing none all in favor raise your hands please one two three four five six seven eight nine motion passes nine zero zero folks do you realize just how much this has meant to us over many years those fisheries could not say this moving forward uh basic transfer coaching middle school renovations yes again this is just a routine budget transfer for coastal middle school thus being resolved upon recommendation of the superintendent that the board

141approved the transfer of funds from these spots to an allocated account to east plus two cultural middle school renovation accounts and the summer million dollars any other comment from board members hear none all in favor of motion raise your hands please one two three four five six seven eight nine motion passes nine zero zero moving on to [Music] design professionals for the lasting conversion to ka again when i read the board agenda item itself thus being resolved upon the recommendation of the superintendent that the board approved the contract with goodwin mill k wood llc for design services for pulaski elementary conversion to a k-8 facility for a total design professional fee of one million ten thousand the motion could dollars ask where these this design firm is from i'm not i they didn't sound familiar

142no they're not this is really probably the first major project with us okay i just um any other comments from board members questions exciting for pulaski all in favor on the motion raise your hands please one two three four five six seven eight nine motion passes nine zero zero moving on to network switches and wireless devices this is to approve the the award of a bid for switches and wireless devices devices for the new gross k forgive us on the name because of the grant because it's the federal grant we try to keep the name to matthew grant that was submitted so when they come to the audit our finances are pulling up our board of judges network switches and wireless devices for new growth faith 12 school is eligible to the firm of process

143information systems incorporated at a total estimated cost of six hundred and seventy seven thousand two hundred eighty nine dollars of motion raise your hands one two three four five six seven eight nine motion passes nine zero zero and now we're in the data cable again for the same site uh again this was a project that's eligible for e-rate reimbursements thus being resolved upon the recommendation of the superintendent that the board approved the award of rp 22-28 david cabling for new growth stage 12-2 era eligible to the firm of net planner incorporated at a total estimated cost of 988 thousand one hundred eleven dollars and forty cents the resolution [Music] raise your hands please one two three four five six seven eight nine motion passes nine zero zero moving on to the resolution to close port

144not school available facility will be utilized administratively to support operational needs identified by the school district two required public hearings have been held in accordance with safe requirements for a facility closure a resolution adopted by the board of education is also required the resolution has been reviewed by the board of attorney and the superintendent and approval is now recommended thus being resolved upon the recommendation of the superintendent that the board approved the resolution to close port wentworth elementary school and the resolution of the full resolution is imposed excuse me howard i'm glad to see the resolution outlines the usage the future usage of court went worth for the time in because there have been a lot of questions about what would be the future usage of the building so as of according to this is

145administrative purposes for now yes elementary school became a part of district three this morning according to the regent map um i think it's worthy that i did farewell on the same raise your hands please one two three four five six seven eight nine motion passes nine zero zero and the last item on our agenda is certification for state entitlement funding at ellis elementary yes this was the last month item item that was added um the state requires us to receive state entitlement funding that we certify that the project has been complete this is from our fy 2018 capital a project application thus being resolved upon recommendation of the superintendent that the border adopt the attack certificate of the board of education and authorize the superintendent and board president to sign on behalf of the district

146resolution is there a motion to that effect mr makes a motion about how and how gracious dr johnson is raise your hands please one two three four five six seven eight nine motion passes nine zero zero can i have a motion to adjourn any other business before i say that dr hall moved with johnson's second all in favor of the motion raise your hands please one two three four five six seven eight all opposed cash thank you you