001Good evening and welcome to the Tweets County Board of Education meeting. Uh, thank you to our in-person guests as well as our online community and stakeholders for joining us this evening. It is my pleasure to call the Twitch County Board of Education meeting to order. Today is Tuesday, uh, August the 12th, 2025. The time is 6:00. Let's all stand for the pledge of allegiance followed by a moment of silence. >> I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. May you see? >> Okay. At this time, I entertain a motion to approve today's agenda. >> So move. >> Second. >> Okay. The motion. The motion to approve the agenda for Tuesday uh August the 12th,
0022025 is properly made by Miss King and second by Miss uh Black Shear. Uh is there any discussion? Okay. All in favor raise your hand. Okay. The mot the uh the motion is approved unanimously. Uh you've had an opportunity to read the minutes for July 8th at our regular board meeting as well as the virtual meeting on July 15th, 2025. Are there any corrections to the minutes? If there are no corrections, then the minutes stand approved as distributed. Miss Blackshere. >> Thank you. In accordance with regulations set forth by the Georgia Ethics Commission, it is the duty of every board member to avoid both conflict of interest or interest of such conflict. Does any board member have any known conflict of interest? >> Seeing none, Mr. Chair, we'll proceed with the agenda. >> Thank you,
003Miss Black Shear. Well, I'm especially uh happy tonight. Uh we have uh started a new school year. It's been in about a week now. >> Yes, sir. >> And I haven't had any calls. So, so I'm thankful. I'm thankful. Um, are there any other comments from the board? >> I just want to say welcome back to everyone and this will be the best year ever. We're going to claim it. We don't play. >> All right. Uh, what is it? Boots on the ground. >> Scores in the air. >> That's right. >> Okay. I like it. Uh, uh, any any other comments? If not, superintendent. >> Thank you, Mr. Chair, vice chair, board members. We are excited about our new school year. We have had a great opening of school and our theme is boots on
004the ground scores in the air and if uh the this year is going to be in indication like last year was we're going to have a a as Miss Blackshere said the very best year we have ever had because last year our students soared in every area across our school district. Those milestone scores for 2025 have been released by the state on last Friday. Miss Rearen will give a full report in our next board meeting. We're still anticipating some possible updates even to the great scores that we have already received, but we do want to share those with the community. Uh they've already been released by the Department of Education. We put a news release out today uh following that state announcement. Miss Rearen will be given a full report in our next board meeting.
005I also want to make sure that the community comes and make sure that they register for if they came to our open house uh on uh two Saturdays ago, we were encouraging them to register for the parent infinite campus portal. We actually uh registered quite a few of them. Uh I want to say Mr. Basley uh reported 125 parents were registered uh at that event and we are still hoping to get even more registered. This is very important that you get your Infinite Campus portal registration done. That's how you'll get notified about student assignments. You'll get notified about activities happening in the school. Report cards will go home. Assignments from classes. You'll get notifications on. You'll when the grades go in the grade book for your children, you'll get notifications about what those grades are.
006When progress reports come home, if you don't get that hard copy, if the if the baby said that they left it on the bus, you don't have to wait till the next day. You can go online and see the progress report. That infinite campus portal is your lifeline to the school and whatever is happening in the school. So, we're encouraging all of our parents to it's very simple. go on our web page and you'll see a button that says parents and students and you just click that button and you'll see the infinite camp infinite campus new user login right there for you to set up your account. Very very simple. You'll need a couple things to do it. You'll need your student ID number and you'll need the last four digits of your of your
007child's social security number in order to register. But we encourage you to do so right now before grades heavily start going in the grade book and before report cards and progress reports go out. If you need any help, just call us here and they'll be willing to help you right there at the front desk. Also, I want our families to know about the first family engagement events that are happening here in our community. Miss Macaria Samson is our family engagement specialist for the district and she's already scheduled our first semester of events and we're encouraging our families to come out and to participate in all of these events. Uh they're great events, familyfriendly. You get to learn a lot about the curriculum that your children are participating in and you also have an opportunity to
008meet staff and engage with staff as well in the schools and with your children and build that very very important relationship. So the first one is going to first excuse me August the 21st. It's a Thursday night from 5 to 6:15. It's going to be in the cafeteria of JEES and it's called Drink and Draw. We're going to drink uh no non-alcoholic drinks. It's not like sip and draw. You know, when some of these ladies and gentlemen go to their adult even, but we're going to have some Kool-Aid or some lemonade for you to drink while you participate and have a an activity, engagement activity with your family. So, that's going to be at JES uh on the 21st from 5 to 6:15 p.m. Come out. That should be a whole lot of fun. I'll
009meet you there. And also on Friday, the very next night, we're going to have they're going to have a family feast Friday. And just as it said, family feast. Uh it will involve food. So we want you to come out as well. That's going to be at the high school, middle high school at the Cobra Care Center. And that event will be happening between 3 and 6 pm. And we want families to come out and learn about the Cobra Care Center, see all of the supplies uh that are there if uh for families who need those supplies, and you'll have an opportunity as well to socialize and be with the staff at the middle high school that evening. And we want to remind everyone to come out on this Friday night. Uh, our Cobra will
010be in competition, football competition against Troutland County High School right here at Cobra Stadium. So, we love to see everybody come out this Friday night, August the 15th, and support our Cobras to their second win of the season. They won their season scrimmage game, and we're going to root them on to their second win of the season. So, we hope to see you there. Mr. Chair, that concludes all of my announcements for this evening. >> Thank you, Dr. Bullet. >> Have a question. >> Um, I have a question if you please. >> Yes. Question. >> U, Dr. Bullet, for as the students that are not enrolled in the infinite campus, would you all be contacting the parents to help them through that process? I know you said they can call you if they need. Yes,
011all of the students if they need any help getting logged in, they actually do that at the school, they give them assistance getting their accounts. Most of them already have their accounts and they know how to get in. They can get in on their phone better than I can get in on my computer. >> Um, but yes, if the students need any help, any one of their teachers can help uh get them uh registered, but we certainly want the parents to have their own unique registration as well. So the students will have their registration, the parents will have their registration, and everybody can be contacted for all of those very important announcements that go out. Yes, ma'am. >> Are there any other questions? >> Okay. At this time, we're moving to our business agenda and
012superintendent, you have some district requests. >> Uh yes, sir. Protocol already being established. We do have a set of field trips and fundraiser requests that staff and some of our club sponsors would like your permission and approval on. Uh we'll start with the field trip request and we want to thank you for already approving for the FFA to travel to Coington on last Friday and Saturday. They had a wonderful trip. Mr. Shepherd talked about it uh at their huddle on this past Monday of how wonderful of a time they had and all of the exciting things they're planning on doing with competitions on this year. So, thank you for allowing them to go on that trip. Uh also, the middle high school would like to have your permission to go to the uh youth summit
013that's going to be in Mon and that's going to be on Saturday the 23rd. uh Miss Randolph, Miss Williams, and Candace Johnson will take a group of students there to help motivate them in reference to different messages aligned with empowerment. Um and that youth summit typically helps to inspire our children to to become their very best self. So, we hope uh to get your approval for that field trip. On Friday through Saturday the 25th through the 29th, the fifth graders would like your permission to go to Ron Robins Air Force Base at JEES. And this is a typical trip that they actually have every year uh to meet some of the science standards. And also the FCCLA would like your approval to travel to Fort Valley to discover train to discover training. And that'll be
014on Thursday the 28th. And on Wednesday, September the 10th, Twix County High School 9th through 10th graders would like your permission, the FFA, to go to Perry, Georgia. And again, this is for an agricultural experience through the A department. The clubs that are asking your permission for their field trip, I'm sorry, their fundraisers throughout the year. They want to start early raising funds because they all want to participate in their regional and their national competitions which will require funds for travel expenses, etc. So, they don't want to wait till the last minute. So you'll see several uh a couple of clubs who are asking for your approval throughout the year so that they can do these fundraisers to raise these funds for these activities. Starting with the JEES Beta Club, they ask your permission to
015have a world's finest chocolate bar uh sale. They'll start that this month if you allow and they'll have it periodically and sell that those chocolate bars throughout the school year. Lollipop fundraisers. Also, they'll have an event called sponsor a beta uh as well and a Coca-Cola sale. So, they'll have multiple fundraisers this year to raise funds. And again, that is to to raise funds for their leadership summits, their state and their national conventions. The fifth graders want to raise funds uh for their fifth grade week. As you know, fifth graders are the seniors at the elementary school. So, they have a fifth grade week at the end of the school year. And they'd like to start raising funds for that activity by having a bicycle raffle and they'll sell tickets for that raffle through the
016beginning of September. The PE department would like at JS would like to raise funds as well for field trips and for various equipment that they need throughout the year and they would do that by selling bottled waters uh etc during the school year and for outside events that they're having outside events they would sell bottled water at during those activities and that's to staff to adults uh and any uh students to participate in those outside activities. The cheerleaders would like your permission to have a couple from razors. They'd like to have a mini cheer camp. Uh that mini cheer camp would be during the month of August and they would like to have another fish fry if you participated in the fish fry during the summer. The fish was really good. Uh they'd like to
017have another one uh between September and October. and Miss Hunt will use those funds again to buy cheer help buy cheerleading uniforms and different items that they need for cheer. Also, they'd like to have a cheer t-shirt sale and that'll be promoting Cobra Pride and they'll sell those t-shirts to staff, to family members, and students. The girls basketball team would like to purchase additional basketball gear and prepare for their celebrations and their awards, have money in store for that. And they'd like to have a candy sale that they would have and they sell it through uh the the snack bar and throughout the the the spring, I'm sorry, through the fall until the end of their their season in the spring. and that's a candy and snack sale. The FCCLA is getting very active also
018at the middle high school. They're planning on going to their state leadership and their their fall leadership institute and those will be in at the University of Georgia and at COPE Camp John Hope and Orlando, Florida is their national convention. So again, they want to start early and get your approval to have multiple fundraisers throughout the year. They'd like to sell tea and coffee to staff. Um, and they'll set up at various locations where staff is located in the building, a boiled peanuts. Uh, they'd also like to uh have a what they call walking taco uh sale opportunity, and that's when individuals buy chips and they put different sauces or different flavors on the chips and they eat it in the cafeteria. They'd also like to have a plate sale later in the year and
019a hucker buck sale and that's like an icy um that they freeze uh like a freeze pop and they'd like to have that sale as well throughout the year to raise funds for their state leadership conferences and their national conference. That concludes our field trip request and our fundraising request on the night. >> Thank you, Dr. Bullet. Are there any questions? If there are no questions, I entertain a motion to accept the superintendent's recommendations for field trips and fundraisers. >> I move that motion. >> Second. >> Okay. The motion has been properly made by Miss King and second by Mr. Butler. >> Miss Black, >> I'm exc I'm sorry. properly made by Miss Blacks here and second by Mr. Butler. Is there any discussion? Okay. All in favor raise your hand. Okay. The motion passes
020unanimously. Thank you. Uh okay. At this time, um Miss Densson Good evening. >> Good evening, >> Board Chair Karstafen, board members, Superintendent Bullard. I would like to present to you the FY26 CTAE update and grant allocations. We'll begin with our district's vision and mission which is generating excellence one team one goal and our mission to inspire, challenge and prepare all students to compete globally. This presentation aligns with well with strategic goals one and two learning and wellness for all and excellence ahead academics facilities and opportunities. I want to take a moment to highlight some of the opportunities we have with our CTAE programs here in Twist County this year. In 2025 2026, we offer 18 career pathways. Nine of those pathways are dual enrollment pathways in partnership with Central Georgia Technical College. We have 62
021dual enrollment students. 31 of those students are in dual enrollment programs on our campus. Those include cosmetology, barbering, CNA, and cyber security. We also have students competing content courses in English and math. For our FY26 grant allocations as approved by the state board of education in our Perkins 5 program improvement grant, we have been allocated $26,946. Those funds will be used to address CTA needs that have been identified in our comprehensive local needs assessment. All of the funds that are used under Perkins 5 must be tied directly to an overarching need that have been identified as part of that assessment. They will also pay for substitutes, travel for CTA travel, CTA supplies, and our CTSO advisor registrations when we attend conferences with students. It also includes professional development opportunities that are offered through sea, which
022is the CTA resource network. For FY26, under the Perkins Plus grant, we've been allocated $10,000. That grant is used to support our summer camps that we host for students. We try to do weekly residential camps with them during the summer at different colleges. For the past two years, we've used it at Georgia Tech. students participated in STEM activities and brought those um ideas back to campus. Many of those students that have participated in the first and second year have gone on to do cyber security and engineering um with our system here. This year, four of those students of the four that are in cyber security this year, three of those students have participated in our summer program. Under the state funds, we've been allocated 27 $27,33. These funds will be used to fund our FBLA
023and FCCLA advisors for extended day, 25% of the CTA director salary, 25% of the youth apprentichip coordinator coordinator salary and travel to workshops, job sites, and supplies. For our state funds in the agricultural grants, we've been allocated $11,33. These funds take care of our CTE extended day and extended year for our A instructor. In total for FY26, we've been allocated in federal and state grants $65,12. Are there any questions? >> Questions? >> Thank you. >> You're welcome. >> Thank you, Miss Jensen. Thank you. >> Well, that concludes our uh business agenda. Uh at this time, we will be moving into executive session to discuss personnel personnel matters, future acquisitions of property, pending or potential litigation, school safety/cyber security. Can I get a motion to move to executive session? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Okay.
024The motion has been properly made by Miss King and second by Miss Black Shear. Is there any discussion? All in favor raise your hand. Okay. The motion passes unanimously. Thank you. Heat. Heat. Hey. Hey. Hey. Heat. Heat. Heat. Hey, hey, hey. Heat. Heat. Heat up. Heat. Heat. Heat. Hey, Heat. Heat. Heat. Okay. Can I get a motion to return from executive session? >> I move that motion. >> Second. >> Okay. The motion has been properly made by Miss Black Shear and second by Mr. Butler. Um, is there any discussion? Okay. All in favor raise your hand. Okay. The motion passes unanimously. Okay. At this time, um, can I get a motion to accept the superintendent's recommendation for a new hire, C number 5289? >> I move that motion to accept the new high recommendation per
025superintendent. >> Second. >> Okay. A motion has been properly made by Miss Blackshere, second by Miss King to accept the superintendent's recommendation for a new hire 5289. Is there any discussion? Okay. All in favor, raise your hand. Okay. Uh, nays. Okay. All right. So, the motion passes 4 to one. Uh, is there is there any other uh >> no other business? Okay. Talk to the board. >> All right. Um, can I get a motion to adjurnn? >> I make the motion to adjurnn. >> Second. >> All right. The motion has been properly made by Mr. Butler and second by by second by Miss King that we adjourn. This meeting is now adjourned.