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Gainesville Board of Education Meeting for June 9, 2025

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Source
YouTube / Gainesville City Schools Georgia
Date
2025-06-10
Location
Hall County, GA
Material
Transcript
Extent
759 words · about 5 min
Collected
2026-06-13

Transcript

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001is uh Mr. Nord Holmes has moved out of the district. Uh want to thank him on the record for everything that he's done to the schools class been my lifelong friend. He did email uh Jeremy, Dr. L and myself. Just want to go and read that email. Jeremy and Andy, as we've discussed, again, this was on Friday, May the 23rd. As we've discussed, my family is in the process of moving out of my current school ward, which means I can no longer represent the ward on the school board. Therefore, I will need to resign my position on the board at the end of this month. I'm proud of my 40 plus year affiliation with the school system and I'm thankful my children have the opportunity to grow up in the district with such high academic

002standards surrounded by so many good people. I'll continue to advocate for the system however I can and I hope the board will continue to serve the local children and families that have made Gainesville such a great community through the years. Um with that we do need to elect the vice chairman. I will take motion. Uh Mr. Chairman, if we do need a a vote on the resignation as well. Motion to accept the resolution. Make a motion to accept. Got a motion by Mr. I guess I have to second that or there's no we're going to be here all night waiting. I will second that motion. Second by Mr. Pett. Uh and then the election of the vice We have not. I'll second that. [Music] Do we have a motion to citizens comments? We have motion

003to adopt the agenda. Make a motion to adopt the agenda to include Roman numeral four and five. We got a motion to include Roman numerals four and five. Is there a second? Second. All right. All those in favor? Motion carries. All right. First action, Mrs. Fowler, thank you for all your work on bids for our school nutrition programs. Thank you. First uh second uh item is the uh first action item I should say is the second reading of final adoption of the policy for employee leaves and absence. Mrs. Collins. Good afternoon. Uh I ask that the board please u approve the um policy um effect on the um absences um for a final adoption. We brought it to you over five or six weeks ago. We have stopped pay which is basically rewarding employees who've

004been with us for a period of time with a fourth and then a fifth day that they can use towards of sick leave towards their personal leave. This would go into effect upcoming school year. All those in favor? Thank you, M. Next item is the uh Contential arts academy sling with Mr. President. Yes, it's continuous and and public and as as Mr. Presnell hits on some of these items, uh I will also have the images available uh for us to to view. Which one would you like to start with? Well, all of them look pretty bad. A lot of our pipe compromise has to go in dig. It collects all the storm water from the buildings in the road all the way down and from that point carries up. So we have that whole area

005under So when you say it like when we see this picture obviously it's not just replacing what we see in the picture. So talk a little bit about how far back it goes and down as well. So we'll actually go that pipe is maybe 44 in 84 with another structure and then farther down to 30 ft down there's a 30 in place of that and that's what actually goes up the build that to another structure. All of that has been once. What's the total linear feet of the whole replacement? Dr. William where your Yeah. David, tell me where to move on with my cursor. It connects here. So that's what we're connecting to. Yes. So basically from the road all the way back up to here connects. Yeah. So there's no chance of road on

006that bent place here. Okay. On the detention pond on the I guess the right side underneath y are going ahead and replacing everything all the way back even. We can't appear. So actually this part is where we're going with the concrete infield. What's our timeline on this? this area. What does it look like today with all the rain we've had the last few days? Has it has that sinkhole grown? No. We actually discovered this city track that used to be wood recreation. Any other questions? Make a motion to approve the funding for this repair. I second. Thank you, Mr. President. Um, couple of discussion items. Uh, thank you, Mrs. Hobson. This is the last official meeting. Miss Hobson, getting our efficient, safe, and secure. Um, Jeremy, excuse me, Dr. Williams, do you want to kind

007of go over the fulfillment process? Yeah, since uh Mr. have resigned his position district. We do have a press release that's going out to this evening that hits the placement process for that seat. Um the way it works because he is kind of almost midterm to have a special November to fill out term for those final two years but between now and the end of December you as a board. So in the press release we have a link to our website as well that has a link to anyone that lives in that district who is interested in the next 202 calendar year and then once that window closes I believe June 23rd I'll get those names to you Mr. chairman and board can decide to filter interview or whatever process like to move forward determine

008how to bring a recommendation for that place of course and the seat then anyone else not selected for that seat will have the opportunity to run possibly against that appointment Anyone else in November? All that. Make a motion to adjurnn. Second. Those favor motion carries.

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