001It's not recorded I then expect Welcome everyone to tonight's meeting. Uh first item on the agenda is the presentation of photos by hot and jc everybody please stand march time. March color guard. Oh, present colors to the United States of Americ. Earth and land colors. Ready? Cut. Mark time. March. Forward. March. Oh, more time Mothers ready. Be seated. Cadets, if you will, please tell us your name, which you're in, and what your plans are throughout the gospel. Good evening. My name is Cadet Chief Petty Officer Daniel. I'm a junior at Gel High School. My ambitions after high school is to be aircraft maintenance in the United Marine Corps. Good evening. I'm Ka Lieutenant Commander Merly Dutch. I'm currently in the 11th grade at Jamesville High School and my plans after high school is to study
002architecture at Georgia Tech. Good evening. My name is Cadet Petty Officer third class. I'm currently a junior at Kingsville High School. My plans after high school are do national guard as an electrician. Good evening. I get petty house in third class. Mark Cosmo. I'm currently a freshman at Gainsburg High School. My ambitious after high school is to enlist the United States Marine Corps as an artillery. All right, let's give the time before we go to our recommendations. Do we have any members of leadership Paul? If you would please stand up uh just tell us your name and which organization you're with. My name is Paul Anthony. I work for performance. My name is Ash. Well, Miss Freman, thank you for all that you do. Oh, okay. Property. Welcome everyone. We'll sign up here shortly. Dr.
003Led by Dana Kylie, our director of special education has been recognized our Phil award recipient. The bill brought award recipient in pioneer recently and we were able over the last month or so to recognize standing green. So is going to talk a little bit about the award and M. M. It is my honor to recognize Anna Green special education teacher at Exploration Academy as our 2055 rider award recipient. Each year, school districts in northeast Georgia area honor an individual who strongly commits to improving educational outcomes for students with disabilities. This award is given in the name of Philip Wright who created a legacy of service in this area. The award is given to an individual who exemplified service, deep respect, regard, commitment, and advocacy for children with special needs. Hannah is a conscientious teacher who
004truly takes her time to determine what best for each of her students. Her classroom nurtures growth, creates community, and inspires trust. She is deeply committed to doing what is best for each individual and picks all that she needs to figure out the perfect combination to reach them. This is evident in the way her students exude confidence and a willingness to take risks in their classroom because they know beyond a shadow of a doubt that Miss will be there to catch them if they fall. Hannah, thank you for your unwavering commitment to advocating for and serving your students. Congratulations. I'll share one. I just want to quick shout out to New Holland Academy. They have their testing pep rally last Friday, but I had an opportunity working with Earl and Pearls. It's a little mentoring group
005that Principal Buckle started and I was able to be their step coach. So, they did a great job last Friday comments. All right. Uh this is a perfect time if you need to leave uh before we uh start our formal business. Uh if you're leaving, thank you for coming. Uh we'll start with our funeral business here. Shores All right. Uh, I would like to entertain a motion to adopt the agenda. Mr. car make a motion to adopt the agenda with a couple of small changes. Uh letter D within agenda Roman numeral six if we can zoom that to executive session. Um and then in executive session I think the student disciplinary tribunal is no longer necessary. So we can um remove that. And with those suggested changes, I'm going to make a motion that we
006adopt Roman rule five and six. Second. All right. We got a motion by Mr. Second by Mr. Young in favor. Motion carries. First item is Mel for the donation report. Good evening. The first report that I have is the listing of donations. Okay. Each person individual businesses sent letter. So this is the listing as of March 1st, 2021. Any questions? All right. Next up, the fiscal 24 indicates that there were no instances that issues relations that govern expenditures. I thought this is I don't know how that reward um any questions. [Music] All right. Uh and then finally the uh Georgia audit on school system. Yes. pleased to announce that that is officially open by the early March 31st report which is also what we want the highest to standing issues um statement. So I found
007our children to be true. Any questions? M just tell a little about what that timeline looks like typically every year. Yes. Um the first deadline is the end of September 14 download all our files and send that to the state and then we kind of have a waiting period where we're waiting on college to contact that process. So uh back into January conferences last month addition to the month financial wins. Yeah. We have two years. Here it goes to you for another clean. Any questions for this sale? What takes so long? Thank you. All right, Mrs. This is the first reading in a policy on TVA R which relates to leads. Yes. So what I've done here um this is in regards to the personal leave. Um and so we're asking for you to update
008this policy. Um as some of you may or may not be aware, all employees earn one employer days a month of sick leave. of that amount. Three of those sick leave days can be used for personal reasons where as long as they follow the procedures, request it at least a week in advance, it doesn't happen on or before holidays and other things like that and then their their supervisor approves it. So, what we're asking tonight is we adjust that policy. Um the state legislature has looked at that for the last couple of years where they were looking at possibly increasing it to five personal genetics, but it didn't get approved um in this legisl legislative session. So back in our fall at our executive cabinet meeting, we um took a swing at it um not
009knowing what the legislature was going to do. And so the proposal in mind is to um look at offering personal increasing the personal leave from three to four days and to five days but it's based on the number of sick leave you have accumulated city and so it would stay the same if you have zero to 45 years of sick leave um then three of those days would be used as personal if you have 45 plus days of sick leave 45 to 65 I mean um 46 to 65 then you would be able to use four of those days as per and then if you had um um more than 65 more than 60 plus I'm sorry um more than 60 plus we want to reward folks who don't use all of their sick leave
010because we know that sick leave is important because you can of course um take those eggs into retirement for with you Um, as well as I want to make sure we've got folks, you know, attending school regularly because quite honest with you, we have folks that use every day of their sick week at the end of the year and then some that go above those sick days in those first one and actually get it done pay. So this would be a way she reward those folks um um who are banking their sick leave these days and then um but if they have special occasion that they need to go to like getting married or um you know just want to go somewhere for 45 days. Now this would not apply to those of us that
011are working 215 days more. So that would be it wouldn't apply to our assistant principles, coordinators, directors, executive cab um because we earn annual. So it would only be for those folks who are earning um who work less than 200. So we're asking that you approve this for uh first week. You have any questions? I'm happy to answer. Any questions? The budget be approved first read a motion by Nor is there four or five annually why don't you still have that yes we got a motion second on the floor all those in favor well this first school Thank you. Next item on the agenda is a by Mr. River. Yeah, Mr. Bear makes his way up. Every year at this time, we try to give the board an update of what's going to happen these
012last four or so weeks of schooling because you know jam bag and those of you who have seniors know how busy this time is. So, Mr. Mayor, thank you for pulling all this together. All right. Thank you school board members here to provide an update on our graduation plan and the exciting events that we have uh planned over the next several weeks and also give our honorary former students on our count we have nine days left um from our senior last day on campus 19 days until the graduation ceremony on May 9th 16th and are under 11 and have 23 days remaining. Super excited about that. Over the next couple weeks, we have several significant senior events planned. I like to kind of go over them and give you a little brief what they are.
013Um, we just completed our senior prom with a fantastic New York City theme. It was a memorable night for our students. But our next event is May 2nd, which is our end of the year celebration. Uh this will be a special day on campus to thank our seniors on their final day as high school students. Uh during this ceremony we hope to we will recognize a future path. That means we'll proudly announce uh the plans of our seniors whether they are pursuing higher education at a college and university in the military or entering the workforce network. We also like to present content awards. Each department will recognize their outstanding grade level students of the year. That's nine group of 12. Also in that end year celebration, we'll do our staff recognition uh which we will
014announce our teacher of the year new teacher of the year and it's your fourth teacher of the year. Also, I like to do what we call what we will call a changing of the chair ceremony. Uh it is a symbolic gesture where our graduating seniors will depart from the church's place on the chair floor and our rising juniors and then take their way to signify their transition into uh being the leaders in our building. I will have a incoming senior uh give a brief speech uh that will accompany this tradition. Immediately following the ceremony, food trucks will be available for our seniors followed by a card on campus. Um later in the afternoon, we'll invite students who receive a beyond perfect attendance and turn around recognition at the end of the third quarter to participate
015in our facilities. That is your end of the year celebration. May 8th, we have our senior awards and scholarship night. This will be at 6 p.m. at the workman art center. This important evening will celebrate the academic achievements and scholarship recipients among our graduating class. May 14th wall ceremonies. This tradition provides a meaningful standoff for our seniors as they walk the halls of their complimentary school day that they attended. And May 18 will be back at 6 PM. The First United Methodist Church denomination service offers a time of reflection and spir spiritual celebration in graduating students and their accomplishments. Then the day we're looking forward graduation May 16th. I just give you a couple bullish statements there. Uh Friday will arrive at the First Baptist Church at 6:00 p.m. The gates open for attendees at
0166:00 p.m. and the ceremony begins at 7:30 p.m. We do have a contingency plan. We don't really like to talk about necessarily, but I just give you a quick synopsis of that in case of weather. Our first option if May 16 does not work will be moved to Saturday May 17th. Everything else stays the same at 7:30. A decision will be made on that day as well by 12:00 p.m. on Saturday if we do have to move it. Okay. And so May 18th when we use that day on Sunday, we will use that day to move all necessary equipment to the gym. And at that point, our last option is on May 19th uh to have it at the PHS gym at 7:30 p.m. We will be providing a virtual school board day on May
01716th in order to ensure a seamless and well executed graduation ceremony. This will provide our faculty and staff with extension time final preparations. As the graduation duties will extend late into the evening, the virtual learning day will also allow for a more manageable schedule for them on Friday. Teacher will report at 12:00. Finally, it is my distinct honor to officially introduce our two honorary diploma siblings for the class of 2025. Our first recipient is Finston. They and her husband later moved to Danville in 1979 and were active members of Leer Christian Church. Her dedication to education began in 1998 at the church school and continue when she joined Gainsville Middle School in 1994 where she taught character education and and help for over 18 years. They passionately coach cheerleading, girls basketball, softball, track at both
018high school and middle school. Her commitment to our school system extended to administrative role serving as an intern and assistant principal engagement to schools and other districts to her retirement after 32 years of dedicated service. Even in retirement, Faith intends to support our students through substitute teaching and will work at Renown University. Beyond the school wall, state has served on national parks recreation board for the last 10 years and is is an active member of the wisdom keeper service organization. Notably, she was instrumental in creating a career fair with Gainesville High School providing valuable opportunities for our students. Our second honorary assistant is Scottford. Scotty and his wife made an intentional decision to move their family from the county school system to gain skills their children could benefit from a more diverse learning environment. Scott's
019a strong advocate for inclusive education for all students. His passion for sports is evident but his dedication sports particularly neuro softball soccer excuse me is truly remarkable. Driven by the daughter of other young women with exceptional athletic experiences, Scottly embracing mission of baseball high school. Since 2016, Scott had voluntary his time and considerable energy has been announced for the boys and girls varsity home soccer game as well as the football games. A commitment he has maintained every year since with the exception of the year box under construction. He plan to continue in his role for many years to come. Scott was the driving force behind the creation of the big red side of the booster club and has served as his president since its inception. Through his tireless celebration efforts, he has been instrumental in
020helping numerous student athletes receive athletic scholarships. Even though his daughters have now graduated, Scott remains a steadfast supporter of our soccer program and high school. And we know that they will continue for years to come. Thank you. Any questions? They have correct choices. Sure. Yeah. What are the invitations going out for this board scholarship thing? It will be uh coming up next. Next week is on May 2nd. The sixth class rented out for the schools or is it six class? Six class. Yeah. Friday night. That's six class Friday night or did we? No. All right. Any other questions for Mr. Bear? Thank you, Mr. All right. Uh, first action item. It is the second reading and final adoption of policy B8A regarding board officer method of election. Yeah, board members. This was off for you
021a month ago. So, it sat out there for 30 days and it just changes our officer appointments to a two-year term. Final questions have motion to adopt policy. Motion by Dr. Second by Mr. F. All those in favor? Motion carries. Thank you. Mrs. PL to present our March financial statements. Yes, I have March final statement. March 9th month of April. Our revenues for the month were just slightly over our expenditures are our revenues are 92.17.6% of our budget. This time last year we were 88% later today were 81.1 which is 75.9% this time last year we were a little bit higher7 our fund balance is this time last year we were at 30 million I wish that computer is an absurdity. However, we know that of our architect still maintain the entire fiscal year and
022that not ever make a mark. Any questions of M? Is it any indication of anything that March is actually lower than February? March numbers are collected in February. Okay. At the first time I saw it go down to the previous year. So we'll be watch the next couple of months. The the drawback is when you look at 22 and 23 and 24 now to 25 looking at about a half million dollar increase. It gets a little bit smaller if only the construction cost and technology cost and everything. We're keeping pace with that when we feel better about it. Um and so it's it's going to start getting tighter uh with these funds than it has been um the last few years. Any other questions? We have a motion to accept financial statements as presented. A
023motion by Mr. Young. A second by Mr. P. All those in favor. Thank you, Mr. Any discussion. Um we're have a motion to adjourn into exot second by all those in favor uh for leadership all folks if you have anything to sign up here today. Thank you.