001Good evening everyone. I'd like to call the meeting uh first no citizen comments. First item on the agenda is adopt adoption of the agenda. I have a motion to adopt the agenda. Got a motion by Dr. Ramsey. Second. Second by Mr. Young. All those in favor? Motion carries. All right. Uh Mr. Lindsay, you're up. You will give me just one second. Let me share the screen. Good evening. Good evening. Excited to be here tonight to talk about our uh 2425 athletic year. Um we're going to start with uh going into our fall sports with cross country. Um our boys finished ninth in the state. Well, our girls finished uh 13th. Um Joseth Graciano uh was a first team all region. We did have three college signees um in that group. Joseth going to Augusta State.
002Chris Lee going to Young Harris. Victoria also going to Young Harris. Uh moving on to volleyball. um they went 20 and 15 uh qualified for the state playoffs. They ended up playing Pope uh who was the eventual state champion. They they did um they did were the only team to take a set off of Pope in the playoffs um even through the state championship. So uh had uh some all region honors there. Uh, first team Avery Lindsay, second team Hannah Stewart and Prrentice Maccgarvey, and then Rachel Lawy ended up winning coach of the year. Uh, one college sign out of that group. Avery Lindsay going to Cleveland College. In football, uh, 7 and4, 4-2 in the region. Um, obviously they had a a very difficult uh schedule. Um, ended up losing in the first round
003of the playoffs. uh first team uh all region uh for Julius Columbus, Xavier Griffin, Jeremiah Wear, and Alex Payne. Um did want to point out Kareem Huey, who was a sophomore last year, went 157 for 262 passing with, uh over 2,800 yards and 25 touchdowns. Moving to the winter sports, boys wrestling. Uh finished second in region duels, second in region traditional, and seventh place in the GHSA in DS and 11th in traditional. Had uh three region champions, Rowan Kennedy, Christopher Pierre Louie, and William Childs, where William Childs won the state championship in the 170b 175 pound weight class. In girls wrestling, they had another great year. Uh they won the our red elephant dus. Um they were also the area 8 dus champions and ended up finishing fifth place at uh state dus. Had a
004couple of area places. Alicia Rogers finished first. Uh Ashley Morales finished second. Uh Kimberly Roa Trullia finished third. Crystal Guerrero finished third and Mia Tjo finished third. Our state placers in girls wrestling were Alicia Rogers and Ashley Morales. And uh girls basketball, they finished uh 14 and 13 and then were uh lost in the first round of the playoffs again losing to River Ridge who was the eventual state champion. All region honors Julia Payne and uh Dearia Coburn. Boys basketball went 19 and8 uh ended up winning the region tournament uh which was the first time that's been done since 2018. Um all region honors, Kevin uh White was all state and first team all region. Charlie Gershol uh was first team all region. They did have the number one strength of schedule in 5A. So
005girls track, there's a there's a lot here, so I'm not going to read everything. Uh but they they had a great season. Um region champions in the in the 800600. Uh Joseph Graciano. We also won the region championship in the 4x1, the 4x2, the 4x4, and the 4x8. So, they had a great relays season. Uh when it got to the state meet, the girls ended up finishing se seventh in the state. Um and you can see those finishes. Uh Chenise Chenise Newton ended up uh signing a scholarship to go to Mercer uh to run track. uh boys track uh region champions uh in the 400 for Deari Bailey, the 300 hurdles for Melvin Hendrickx, the 4x4 relay team, and then triple jump by Judy Knight. Um the uh state state meet finishes. You can see
006those there. the 4x2 ended up finishing third and then ended up having three of our athletes sign college scholarships for Dayon Neil going to Piedmont, Trent Jones going to Fort Valley and then Jarius Everheart also going to Fort Valley. Moving on to baseball, um they ended up with a 12-19 record which was is not reflective of their region play where they finished 10 and eight. uh had they had a really good mid midyear uh turnaround with how things went and ended up getting a three seed in the state playoffs. Um for uh region honors, you had uh Cohen Miller was second team all state. Cohen was also first team all region along with Ashen Asher Stevens. Second team all region was CJ Sawog, Dawson Vaughn, and Beckett Brown. Girls golf had a great year. They
007ended up finishing seventh at state. This is their first time qualifying for the state meet in the last 5 years. Um they actually ended up in a tie for second at the um area tournament and had to go into a playoff hole um which they ended up losing and had to go to sectionals. Um but they ended up with a great uh uh JV season as well. They're excited about the the future there moving up. So th that completes our our teams that made the playoffs. This next slide, I'm I'm obviously a little proud about this one. Um the athletic department GPA turned out to be an 88 which is up almost three whole points from last year. So our student athletes have uh done a real good job of with their grades over the
008last year. Looking at uh the next slide. Um so uh we had 13 teams that qualified for the state playoffs. Uh we ended up finishing 21st out of 61 uh in our um in our classification and GADA points. Just kind of getting a look of what what the rest of the region did. You had Milton who ended up finishing or finishing first in the state uh with 1,274 points. John's Creek was seventh and 95 points. Roswell 10818. Chattahuchi 638 and then Gainesville at 566. The interesting thing about this one is going into the spring sports, we were actually second in our region. Uh, and then we know that our region was heavily spring dominated and knew they'd pick up a ton of points in that one. Um, so going to the next slide, our our
009college athletic signes. So we had 22 um sneees this year. That is the most of Gainesville High School has ever had. Um, just pointing out some of the big ones. Uh, you got uh Christa Gibbons going to the University of Cincinnati to play soccer. Alex Payne going to the University of Southern California. He was actually a December grad, so he got to spend his spring semester there. Um, Julius Columbus was also going to Duke was also a um spring semester grad. A lot of lot of uh athletic success there for those people. Uh just so just talking about our region real quick. Um you know, we we have a very very tough region, region 75A. our our our region ended up winning seven state championships um this year. So just shows seven of the the
01025 that were available to the state. So just shows what how successful our region is and how tough it is. So as as I reported to you last year, our our athletics meals program is continuing to have great success. This year we will have served over 12,000 meals. Um still at a cost we're able to keep that right around 32 cents a meal. Um, the food is funded uh directly by the Gainesville Athletic Club. So, this slide just is I thought this was pretty cool. I wanted to be able to point this out to you. Um, we are fortunate enough to be able to host a bunch of different events throughout the year that are not school related where we rent out our facilities. Um, you can see everything that we've hosted this year. Um,
011but we were able to generate a rental revenue of $104,000 this year. Um, and then the cool part about that, um, working with the Gainesville, uh, tourism department, we were able to estimate that we generated over $5 million in spending in the city of Gainesville by those events that we hosted. So, I like to think about those people are giving back to our SPLAS dollars. So, I appreciate that. So, uh, the next slide, uh, you may or may not have noticed last year we rolled over to a new athletic website, um, with the name of Go Red Elephants. Um we had over 27,000 uh views on that website last year, new users visiting that website and we also added an app. Um and we had 609 downloads of that app last year and we rolled
012that out literally like August 1. So as y'all are fully aware, we are excited about adding uh esports and flag football. Flag football will be starting in the in the fall along with esports. Um, and then yes, so you have Jordan McCoy is going to be our flag football coach and then Elliot Viviant will be taking the lead on esports. Next slide. We're talking we're excited about adding uh a part-time athletic intern program this year. Uh we just completed up those interviews and that process uh in the last couple of weeks. Um the cool thing about this uh two of these uh people are Gainesville graduates. Um, all three of them are studying something sports related. Um, and then and so you can see what what they're currently doing, but also what sports they're going
013to be kind of assisting with. Um, and they you've got one that wants to be a sport agent, one wants to go into sports media, and the other one wants to go into sports management. Um, so we're looking forward to getting that process started and seeing, you know, not um not just what they can do for us, but how we can assist them in their in their future. We're adding just a couple of new coaches this year. Uh, really excited about our new head volleyball coach, Christina Lurve, is coming to us from Buford where she was a part of winning three state titles there. And then Tara Kleski is going to be working with our girls soccer program. She is a former um national team player uh and professional coach, college coach, and she's uh
014in the area and is excited about joining uh Gainesville athletics this next year. Last slide I have for you here. We are going to be adding a clear bag policy um for safety and security at football and basketball. Um so you'll see um these this new signage going up at both of those facilities. questions. Question. I got a question about the deal. as long as we know what their what their allergy is. Um, we're able to to accommodate them to the best of our ability. I mean, at the end of the day, we only have what we have and we're typically our our menu is kind of set from week to week. They build off of the food that we have, the food that we get. But we certainly Yeah. So, we get we get
015the food from a combination of the Atlanta food bank and the Georgia Mountain Food Bank here. So, um we kind of have a we we've taken one of those storage rooms and turned it into kind of like our dry storage. So, we have we have a good amount of food there, but then we order we order food kind of once a month or however it goes. We've got two freezers in there. So, we kind of kind of have to keep what's in there and build our meal plan off of what's in there. Makes sense. I imagine where as you can imagine most parents aren't just going to trust uh so I imagine this particular family would just not take part in it because the allergy is very serious so to trust that you know who's
016handling to trust that everybody's followed everything is probably too risky but I was just wondering because uh I know they go through a lot to prepare meals and that sort of thing to make sure that he has the nutrients that the program says he needs to get and they're kind of doing it all on their own just to make sure he doesn't Yeah. to make sure he's getting what the coaches say he needs. That makes sense. Thank you. Any other questions? Thank you. Thank you. What sports was the clear policy football? That's one. That's all that just for this year or just going as span the follow. Uh I think we'll see how it goes. I mean I think when you start looking at it um those are obviously our two highest attended ones um
017where we have large groups. So um may or may not be as much necessary at those other events. But you know we'll look at it and see how it goes. I I will say as as a dad going to a bunch of track meetings you go to reindeer and millions other places have out signage but they don't correct yeah so football basketball where you get your higher participation in the community and outside the community show up we don't get that much in baseball we don't get that much rest so we'll fill out put it in there or we send some region competition to do as well because right now we're the only school that's not correct now street signs. Yeah, we we've already got signage. What you see what you saw up there is we've
018already got it. So that's what Bonner's guys are going to do. Seven home games this year. does. And the scrimmage bet everything conduct. This is out. Hi, good evening board. Um, I'm presenting to you this evening annually. we do have to bring to the board the JCDA policy um for progressive um disciplinary measures. Um I've included we haven't had any changes in the language of the actual policy. What I've included um in this first read for your perusal is the current disciplinary procedures which is the progressive discipline the student code of conduct. And I did want to um point out that um as a result of legislation and there is a big bill um the Senate bill 351 um that has been passed. We do have to look at making some changes with the internet
019acceptable use policy and regulation. And so Eddie um Nimick and his team are currently drafting um that particular uh policy and he will be bringing that forth um to the board. Um we kind of have a timeline to make sure that we're in compliance with the um with the state uh department of I mean the uh Georgia Department of Education. Um so he'll be bringing that um as a first read probably in August and then for a final read in late October. So when that happens, the point talking about that is that we will have to bring the um the code of conduct um and the JCDA policy back to you all because of that revision. So I just wanted to point that out to you. All right. Do you have any questions? Thank you.
020Thank you. Thank you for presiding over all the tribunals. You probably have never been so we had 104 um letters issued not necessarily on the tribunals this past year. We only had 60. Souction in that. Good deal. All right. Next we have an action couple action items. We have the uh spending resolutions for July and August. Uh Dr. Williams, you kind of want to set the table for this. So we all know this year is is a little different than the previous years where we were able to adopt a tenative military and tenative budget made uh due to the 3% and also the floating that Hall County School decided to maintain. Uh it's creating a bit of a delay in us getting our preliminary digest. Uh we have not even seen a preliminary digest yet.
021Beth and I tomorrow have another meeting at the county offices uh to to kind of get an update on that. Right now they're saying best case scenario July 17th for us to get preliminary digest. Our hope is that we can bring you a preliminary budget and military on the July 21st uh board meeting which we would then hold the hearings quickly after that uh to meet the requirements and hopefully uh the first meeting in August actually adopt the but in order to do that we need to approve two spending resolutions one for July and one for August. August is not necessarily required yet, but we felt like no may not get those numbers till late late July if we go ahead and take that action. Of course, if we pass a budget, all of a
022sudden that resolution, this allows us to spend up to a 12th of our budget from the previous year uh in order to do that. So, right now, we're just waiting on all challenges that districts across the state are seeing. This is not just unique county schools county government city government all in the same boat. None of us have Yes. Just for an example, uh one 12th of our budget would be about 11 million of last year's budget. Our payroll is about 5.3. Payroll taxes 388,000. TRS is at 1 million and state health is 1.3 million. So that leaves us 4 million remaining as a cushion for other federal basically matter. It has to be 12. The one thing that would be different for us this year potentially is we may have to do later on
023because in the past we've military we typically get our notice fairly early August and it's usually due December 1st. Now we're not getting those assessments budget numbers until July, August, September. the money we typically receive earlier on that help our cash flow may be delayed about a month or two. So, we're just going to mon that and we can see what that that T possibly cost from a district standpoint. Hopefully, we don't need it. Hope everybody gets their bill and they're ready to pay and pay early. We don't know what that window looks like yet. So, what for you is an overview of spending resolutions within one for July. All right. Any more questions? Do we have a motion to approve the resolutions? Written. I've got a motion by Dr. Ramsey. Second by Mr. Young.
024All those in favor? Motion carries. All right, Kathy. And May financial statements. Yes. Next, I have a um update on our May 2025 general fund statements. Our year-to- date revenues are at 104.8 million, and that's 99.7% of our budgeted revenues. This time last year, we were at 97.6. So, we're up a little bit there compared to last year. Our year-to- date expenditures are at 98.4, and that's 92% of our budgeted expenditures. Last year, we were at 91.9. So rounded that's the same 92%. Um our ending fund balance for May is 26.9 million and this time last year we were 25.1. And just as an example coming back to that 112th general fund expenditures for the month of May were 8.4. So we're well within our no need to worry there. I think with the 112th
025of the prior year budget splice receipts for the month are at 1.1 million and our year-to- date spice receipts are at 11.8 if we continue trending on that 1 million and we hope we should be able to do that. That's going to push us to 13 million fiscal year. Any questions? Questions of Melton? We have a motion to approve the financial statement that says presented. A motion by Mr. Young. Second. Second by Mr. Pett. All those in favor? Motion carries. Um any discussion items? Um Dr. Williams and I spoke this afternoon uh about cancelling uh if there's no urgent need the July 7th meeting. I know everybody's crushed that news, but um we don't foresee anything. Uh we typically uh we don't have that meeting because it's usually right at the 4th. Uh we are
026usually off of course the fourth and leading up to that there's only few items left and that's really all that will be brought forward are personnel items. We felt like waiting until the 21st which is still two days before new employee orientation would still allow for those hires to take place whether they get approved on the 7th or the 21st. They would still be able to start a new employee orientation that Wednesday questions. All right. Do we have a motion to adjurnn? Motion by Mr. Young. Second by Mr. Pettit. All those in favor? Motion carries. Thank you.