Meeting of the Baltimore County Board of Education - May 5, 2026

001This is Chairwoman Jane Liar. I call to order the meeting of the Board of Education of Baltimore County for Tuesday, May 5th, 2026. This evening's board of education meeting is being broadcast through the BCPS online live meeting broadcast and on BCPS TVinity channel 1073 and Verizon Fios channel 34. In order to officially conduct this meeting, all voting items this evening will be done by roll call vote. May I have a motion to go into close session as permitted by the open meetings act as found in the annotated code of Maryland general provisions article 3-305B1 and B7 to discuss the disappointment employment assignment promotion discipline demotion compensation removal resignation or performance evaluation of appointees employees or officials over whom it has jurisdiction or any other personal matter that affects one or more specific individuals and consult

002with counsel IL to obtain legal advice. So move young. Thank you. Is there a second? Second to Goomb. Thank you. May I have a roll call vote, please? Mr. Dominowski. Miss Hen. Yes. Miss Fong. Miss Aumbbe. Yes. Miss Dowleski. Yes. Dr. Seavoy. Mr. McMillian. Yes. [laughter] Miss Pumphrey. Yes. Mr. Young. Yes. Miss Lictor. Yes. Thank you. Thank you. Good evening. This is Chairwoman Jane Lter. I now call to order the meeting of the board of education of Baltimore County for Tuesday, May 5th, 2026. I would like you to recite the pledge of allegiance to the flag to be led by Miss Foresight Angi. We will then have a moment of silence in recognition of those who have served education in Baltimore County. To the flag of the United States of Americ's board of education meeting

003is being broadcast through the BCPS PS online live meeting broadcast and on BCPS TV, Comcast Exfinity channel 1073 and Verizon FiOS channel 34. In order to efficiently conduct this meeting, all voting items this evening will be done by roll call vote. The first item on the agenda is the consideration of the May 5th agenda. Dr. Rogers, are there any additions or changes to tonight's agenda? I am unaware of any additions or changes to tonight's agenda. Okay. Hearing none, the agenda stands as presented. Earlier this evening, the board met in close session pursuant to the open meetings act for the following reasons. to discuss the appointment, employment, assignment, promotion, discipline, demotion, compensation, removal, resignation or performance evaluation of appointees, employees or officials over whom it has jurisdiction or any other personnel matter that affects one or

004more specific individuals and consult with council to obtain legal advice. The next item on the agenda is personnel matters and for that I call on Mr. McCall. Good evening, Chair Licer, Superintendent Dr. Rogers, and members of the board. I'd like the board's consent for the following per person personnel matters. Tonight, we have retirements, resignations, and leaves. Thank you. Do I have a motion to approve the personnel matters as presented in exhibits D1 through D3? So move Pumprey. Thank you. Do I have a second? Second. Thank you. Thank you. Any discussion? May I have a roll call vote, please? Miss Dominowski? Yes. Miss Hen? Yes. Miss Fong? Yes. Miss Abe? Yes. Miss Jlesuski? Yes. Dr. Seavoy? Yes. Mr. McMillian? Yes. Miss Pumphrey? Yes. Mr. Young? Yes. Miss Lter? Yes. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Mr.

005McCall. Thank you. The next item on the agenda is administrative appointments and for that I call on Dr. Rogers. Thank you, Madame Chair Licter and members of the board. I'm bringing forward the following administrative appointments for your approval. Executive Director, Department of Special Programs and Grant. Principal Caitensville High School, Principal, Middle Elementary School, and Seniors Operations Supervisor, Office of Facilities Maintenance. Thank you. Do I have a motion to approve the administrative appointments as presented in exhibit E1? So moved from Pong. Thank you. Do I have a second? Second. Thank you. Any discussion? May I have a roll call vote, please? Miss Dominowski? Yes. Miss Hen, yes. Miss Fren, yes. Miss Ambbe, yes. Miss Dowleski, yes. Dr. Seavoy, yes. Mr. McMillian, yes. Miss Pumphrey, yes. Mr. Young, yes. Miss Lter, yes. Thank you, Dr. Rogers. Thank

006you. Our first appointment this evening is Jacob Bastawick. Please stand to be recognized. [applause] Jacob is attending this evening with his guest Wayne Belt Jr. and is being appointed as the senior operations supervisor in the office of facilities maintenance. With 18 years of service with Baltimore County Public Schools, Jacob's prior experiences include building service worker at Middleboro Elementary, building service floor care worker with the office of facilities, assistant building operations supervisor at Perry Hall High School, building operations supervisor at Carney Elementary and Sparrows Point Middle and High Schools, preventative maintenance technician with the office of facilities operations, and lead building automations technician, senior facilities inspector and field representative with the office of facilities maintenance. Congratulations, Jacob. [applause] Our next appointment is Ann Caress. [applause] Annie is attending this evening with her husband Jason and is

007being appointed as the principal Kaitensville High School with 16 years of service with Baltimore County Public Schools. Her prior experiences include social studies teacher at Dundalk High in Caitensville High School and assistant principal at Caitensville High School. Prior to that and served as a program director for Teach for America and a social studies teacher in Baltimore City public schools. Congratulations. [applause] Our next appointment for this evening evening is Amy Rameki. Please stand to be recognized. [applause] Amy is attending this evening with her husband John and is being appointed as the principal at Middleboro Elementary School with 18 years of ex service with Baltimore County Public Schools. Her prior experiences include elementary classroom teacher at Randlestown Elementary and Warren elementary schools, staff development teacher at Essex Elementary School, and assistant principal at Sica Elementary School. Congratulations.

008[applause] Our next appointment this evening is Michelle Stanberry. [applause] Michelle Stanberry is attending this evening with her daughter and her soon-to-be son-in-law William and is being appointed as the executive director in the department of special programs and grants. With 27 years of service with Baltimore County Public Schools, Michelle's BCPS experience includes elementary classroom teacher at Hubville Elementary School, mentor teacher at Powhatten Elementary School, and specialist supervisor, coordinator, and director in the office of title one. Congratulations. [applause] Congratulations to everyone. Our next item is public comment. This is one of the opportunities the board provides to hear the views and receive the advice of community members. If not selected to address the board, members of the public may submit their comments to the board members via email at boeb bcps.org. The Baltimore County Police Department's Homeland

009Security Unit and Office of School Safety has recommended safety and security protocols, which are posted in the boardroom and available in board docs and on the board's participation by the public website. While we encourage public input on policy, programs, and practices within the purview of this board and this school system, this is not the proper form to address specific student or employee matters or to comment on matters that do not relate to public education in Baltimore County. Inappropriate personal remarks or other behavior such as language that promotes violence against a BCPS employer that disrupts or interferes with the conduct of this meeting are out of order and will not be tolerated. Persons who otherwise disrupt or disturb this meeting will not be allowed to continue their remarks and will be escorted from the meeting. Please

010observe the threeminut clock which will let you know when your time is up. The microphone will be turned off at the end of your time or prior to that time at the discretion of the board chair. We will begin with our unions and our first speaker um virtually is Mr. Billy Burke. Evening members of the board. I am Billy Burke, the executive director of case. I speak before you tonight to give voice to a question that is currently echoing through every hallway, office, and classroom in this district. It is a simple question, but the silence following it is becoming deafening. What is the plan? Our administrators are committed to success and safety of every student. However, we are facing a mathematical impossibility. We are being asked to raise achievement scores and tighten safety protocols while

011simultaneously facing significant staffing reductions. You cannot ask leaders to do more with less indefinitely without a roadmap. Our members need to know how they are expected to bridge the gap between rising expectations and shrinking resources. The uncertainty is perhaps most acute for our assistant principles. We have dedicated case members and central office staff who have been told their positions at their current schools and offices are being eliminated for next year. They are professionals. They understand the budget realities, but they are currently living in a professional limbo. How can we expect these leaders to finish the school year strong, providing resources and services, administering standardized testing, managing finals, graduations, and school climate when they don't know where they will be come July? We need a clear timeline and a transparent plan for these reassignments. They deserve

012the respect of knowing their future. Finally, we must address the clock. We are now less than 60 days away from having no superintendent at the helm of this district. A district of this size cannot drift. Stability starts at the top. And right now, our members feel as though they are rowing a ship without a captain in sight of the horizon. We need to know the plan for the transition of leadership. Who will be making the hard calls on July 1? In closing, what's the plan isn't just a slogan. It's a plea for stability. Our administrators are the backbone of this district. They are ready to do the work, but they cannot lead in the dark. We are again asking this board to provide the clarity, the timeline, and the vision necessary to move us forward.

013Our students, our staff, and our case members are waiting for an answer. Thank you. Thank you. Our next speaker from Tabco is Capathia Price Campbell. Good evening. Thank you. You're welcome. Don't stop that. Thank you, doctor. Thank you, Dr. Rogers, Chair Licer, and the entire board. Thank you again for your time. As I mention a few concerns to you today, my name is Capathia Campbell. I'm a member of the Tabco board and I serve district 1 on the west side. I'm also a proud library media specialist at Hebre Elementary. First, the issues of my colleagues, the secondary library media specialist. Tabco has reviewed the minutes and the video from the February 24th board member as well as the vote on the motion. And we believe BCPS has failed to follow your directions to restore all

014secondary library media specialist positions without requiring them to teach content classes. When asked how to fund Mr. McMillan's motions, BCPS indicated it would be treated as any other unexpected expenditure. This strongly suggests that you, the board members, knew that you were directing BCPS to reallocate funding, not to merely change the amount requested from the county executive. We call on the board to review this motion and the video to affixuate your will and to restore these positions. Next, the board policy 1250. It has a second read and vote tonight. We applaud you and we hope this critical initiative regarding federal immigrant enforcement and staff training become policy. It sends a signal to all members of the BCPS community that this board that you understand the moment that we are living in. We stand for fairness, clarity,

015and the rule of children and with the children of both immigrant and mixed status background. History calls on us to stand up and do the right thing. Now, history has its eyes on you. Tonight, you have the opportunity to do the right thing for children. And I want to say thank you to the Baltimore County Public School Board for your continued support and service to the students in the children, the classroom, and in every library. Thank you. [applause] Our next category is nonprofit community groups, and our speaker is Marietta English. Good evening. Let me bring you some good news. Yay. Good evening, Chair Lectctor, Dr. Rogers, and members of the school board. I am Marietta English, and I chair the education committee and AXO for the NAACP Baltimore County branch. I would like to thank

016Dr. Rogers and the school board for your continued support of the AXO program. Because of your support, you have helped us develop leaders in the community. Dr. Rogers and the board, I am so proud of our partnership and we are proud of the accomplishments of Baltimore County Public Schools. I am here to report that we had our competition on April 25th at New Town High School. Students from Carver, Pikesville, Dundock, and Woodlon participated. In the category of poetry written, Lyric Moore from Pikesville won silver, and Elon Bryant won bronze. In the category of painting, Nyla Wallace won gold, Elon Aaron Dixon won silver, and Elon Bryant won bronze. All from Carver. In the category of photography, Kaia Door Leachch won gold, Aaron Dixon won silver, and Nyla Wallace won bronze. All from Carver. In the

017category of drawing, Nyla Wallace won gold, Carmen Collins won silver, and Corey Coffee won bronze. All from Carver. If you can see, Carver kind of dominates the categories. In the category of musical instrument, both classical and contemporary, Demarcus Beal won gold in both categories. And he is a student at Woodlon. And if you could heard him play that saxophone, he was absolutely amazing. Sculpture gold went to Cyan Blae from Carver. And the dance contemporary one goal went to London right also from Carver. They are Carver kind of dominates the categories and we are really appreciate the support of the board. We appreciate the support of Dr. Rogers with AXO. Now we're getting ready for the national competition in Chicago and this year we intend to bring home gold in every category that we participate. Thank

018you again for your support and we'll see you in Chicago. Thank you. Our next category are individual citizens or students and our first speaker is Root Deio. I apologize if I pronounced your name wrong. And that's virtually. He's not there. Okay. Our next speaker is Jennifer Bookman. Good evening. Hi. So nice to see you. Good evening. All right. I'm a little nervous again. I was um before you earlier this year in November because there was a problem with my pay, so things weren't being taken out. Now, I'm a relatively healthy person. I mean, the occasional extra espresso shot in the morning because I teach elementary school in Baltimore County public schools and I need it, but otherwise fairly healthy. Thank God because my doctor called me a week and a half ago. I had a

019doctor's appointment and she said, "Can you please go print out your insurance cards? I seem to be there seems to be a problem." And I was like, "Sure." And imagine my surprise when I did not have health insurance. And in November, I had called the helpline to say, "My son is turning 26. He will be unenrolled from my health insurance. Are there steps I need to take?" And they said, "Absolutely not. Oracle, it's like magic, right? It is not magic. And when I contacted um benefits, they let me know there's a glitch in the system. I should not be hearing of a glitch in our system from my medical doctor. I should be hearing from the people in charge of our medical like our benefits. And apparently I am not the only person in Baltimore

020County public schools to also experience this glitch. And what I would really love is that our communication around issues, especially with Oracle, are more clearly communicated to all the stakeholders, especially people like me. I'm raising my granddaughter. I'm in a new grade level. My husband's self-employed. Like, I've got a lot. We all do. I don't want to go read the news hub on a Friday night and go through all the things to find out that I need to go back into Oracle every single time to make sure that my pay is correct and my benefits are correct. You have spent a lot of money on a program and what you bought was a car with no tires, no steering wheel, no airbags and our administrators are spending inordinate amounts of time also administering to this

021program. Time that should be spent with students and teachers and the community members instead of managing a program that you spent again a lot of money on. And I think it's just really important that we put a human face on these things. When we're in data meetings around students, we always say it's 2%, 1%, 10%. But we dig deeper. We want to know who those kids are so we can reach them. And I'm just here tonight to say, "Hey, luckily I did not have a heart attack or a car accident." And then my husband who he's a nice man but his attention is you know not the best for things like this he would have to manage that through a system he is not a part of and that would be an unfair ask. So

022please if we could just clarify some communications around glitches in these systems so people who will be in my position sometime don't go through what I went through which was really terrifying. Love the benefits by the way. Thanks for all you do. Thank you. [applause] Our next speaker is Bosch Ferrron. Miss Buckman, I think I thought you were being I did. Never mind. Good evening. I really appreciate you considering my remarks. I want to follow up on policy 12 and I ask you um this is plain. I ask you when you amended the policy from training employees every three month or four month into once a year. What is the proof that every three months was too much? And what is the proof that one year is adequate? There is nothing really factual about it.

023It's basically an opinion. It's basic basically just intuition that this is better than the other. The second question I ask you dearly to think about if you approve that policy which protects illegal aliens against the duly elected federal government. Will it improve the outcome of education in BCPS for the majority of students? 75% of student most students will it? I don't think so. I ask you not to approve that policy unless you were told to by someone higher authority to do it because it teaches students not to respect federal agents. By the way, this policy is anti-ICE. The sea in ICE is about customs. Some of my patients are from the customs department and actually called me up says you know what's this? We are doing our jobs. Federal Asians whether they are immigration or

024customs are doing their jobs. Last but not least, I know we are in a process of choosing a new superintendent. I ask you to appoint the one board member that always think about students and nothing else as an interim superintendent and that is Mr. McMillion. I have been watching the board for so long. Mr. McMillion is not about politics. It's about students and that will allow you time to make sure that the next superintendent is the right one. Thank you. Thank you. Our next speaker is so I lost my place here. Oh, it's sorry, Claire Jabagi. And I think I And you're gonna tell me exactly how to pronounce your last name. Jabaji. Okay. I put the hard G sound instead of the soft. Good evening, Dr. Rogers, Chair Licter, and esteemed board members. My

025name is Claire Jabaji, and I'm a junior at George Washington Carver Center. I'm so honored to introduce myself as a student member of the board elect for the 2026 through 2027 term. I would like to thank the board for this opportunity and Baltimore County Public School students for entrusting me with this role. The campaign season allowed me to meet so many new people and learn so many new skills. I'm so eager to collaborate and learn from fellow board members and follow in the amazing foresight of Goombbe's footsteps. I hope to work with fellow board members to address student concerns and improve the student experience. I hope after my term, school will be a more positive environment where students view school as something they not just have to attend, but something they get to attend. Thank

026you very much for your time and I'm so excited for this opportunity and congratulations. Thank you. [applause] Thank you. We um do have room for a wait list. So, um, Miss SH off, if you'd like to speak. Good evening. I'm going to raise an issue that I raised at the beginning of the school year, and that is the issue of staying in our own lane. We need to stop staying in our own lane when it comes to special education and general education because the two of them cannot exist in the same space if we continue to do that. We have special education students in general education classrooms. That is part of IDA. That is least restrictive environment at its best. And yet we continue to say I need to stay in my lane. I cannot

027talk about retention. I cannot talk about grades in an IEP meeting. Yet, when I raise an issue that needs to be addressed on an IEP or a placement, the grades are beautiful. They have straight A's. What's wrong with that? On the one hand, I can't talk about it because it's general education. Stay in my lane. On the other hand, that's how you make a decision. There is something radically wrong with that attitude. And we have to fix it before we go any further with saying special education or general education in general are priorities in this district. We are hurting students by saying that student is normal. No, they're not. They have an IEP. they have a disability that already changes the equation. Let's start crossing that aisle. I've been doing that a lot this school

028year. I've been doing that a lot in previous school years. I've been doing that for 35 years of experience in special ed. I communicate with people in Jed on a daily basis because I have to and because it's good teaching and it's good collaboration. So let's start preaching that in our classroom and having that the basis of our decisions. Thank you. Next is public comment on board policy 3720, behavior threat assessment. And our first speaker is Marietta English, I think. Or did her maybe not. Okay. Our next speaker, um, I'm sorry, Miss SH, but you are the next speaker for behavior threat assessment. Get my exercise. Okay. Couple extra steps. Good evening again. Going along with what I just said, I have a number of students who have behavioral concerns, but their behavioral concerns are

029not getting addressed because they're referred to as normal. They're referred to as well I don't see it therefore can't possibly have it. Certain disabilities do lend themselves to threat assessment and safety. It is necessary for us to recognize that students with emotional concerns do need threat assessment sometimes. Students with emotional concerns who alope need to be sometimes in a more restrictive environment with less stimulation because all of a sudden that makes them a threat. We're going to talk about safety, threat assessment, behavior intervention plans. gonna pull out an alphabet soup piece from my training. We have to think very clearly about every single disability that a child has on that IEP and make sure that all those disabilities are in the IEP so that we can do a proper threat assessment. Thank you. Our next

030speaker on policy 3720 is Bash Ferron. Good evening again. Policy 3720 line 23 through 26 talks about supporting the student impacted by a threat. I recommend that you would say something like student, teachers, visitors, um public speakers like us that come to you. that same concern also in line 28. Um in line 30 uh it uses the physical harm to someone or school prop property. I suggest that the term someone is too vague. I think it should be identified somehow better. Line 36 talks about dangerous or violent situation. Dangerous means violent. Violent mean dangerous is just two words mean the same thing. I don't think you should be repetitive in that manner. In the second page line number six talking about behavior who may pose threat to safety. I think this is very rubbery term

031and I really ask you to seriously consider it. Uh, of course you know I have been ejected from the board twice. Uh, one time for standing up to take a picture of Mr. McMillion. So what is the criteria? You know, if we keep it vague like this, that would allow some persons to abuse it against the civil rights of taxpayers. Then in the second page, line 25 talks about any person who exhibits threatening. Again, any person is vague and can be abused. Line number 30. Nothing in this policy shall preclude school system personnel from acting immediately to address imminent danger. Good. But then if they abuse that power as was applied on me, what do you do? There is no process to complain. as my practical example when I complained nothing really happened about that.

032I think this this part would be too dangerous to keep it the same way. And that is my comment about this policy. Would you like me to stay or Yes, you may stay for policy 4008 board data governance. Policy 4 0008 is about data um line number eight talks about the obvious that the data are the property of the school system. Of course it is the property just like this chair. Um then line number 11 talks about the quality of the data but that's really a vague term you know what does it mean quality of the data um I think it needs to be identified better line number 15 talks about support equitable access to accurate and timely data now I I used to be a parent, not anymore. But I am a taxpayer. I

033am not less worthy of knowing the information, the data. Whenever I ask for something, I don't get an answer. I asked for curriculum so many times. Um I didn't get any answer. I asked about methods of calculating the progress that the superintendent has shown us multiple times and I haven't really gotten any answer. Then line number 20 line number 20 33 34 talks about data integrity. Data integrity which is really a broad term. If you want to have data integrity then you need to allow a robust discussion. And I noticed that board members are limited in minutes to the time they use to ask questions or make comments. Example of that in real life, the budget. The budget basically the discussion was really brief, rushed, move forward, approve it, and later on, you know, it

034wasn't really a good budget. So in order to have data integrity, the board needs to be focused on allowing robust discussion in the board and not be the way you are right now where you are limiting board members from speaking up. And another real example, you know, Mr. Demonoski was um uh illreated because she was asking too many questions etc. and that has been turned down by the Maryland Board of Education. So I ask you to think about that and hopefully you will Thank you. And Dr. F you can comment on policy 6202 technology acceptable use policy for students. Technology is my love matter for all the years. I like that. Um, line number 16 talks about curriculum access by students which means probably parents will have that access too, right? So if the student

035has whatever passwords you know the parents would be aware of it but people like myself no matter how much I ask for access for the curriculum I get ignored and since day one I came to Baltimore 52 years ago I have been paying taxes to the school system and I don't get answers So when I see this thing, I say all taxpayers must have access to the curriculum or any other data that the system has. If you have a technology uh of some sort, it needs to be available for taxpayers. Line number 32 talks about responsibility of students. I like that. But you cannot really hold a student that is 9 years old, 12 years old with hormones regime to be responsible. I recommend for you to add parents, guardians. Parents needs to be co-responsible

036in that because they are the ones who are aware and who are watching what the students are doing. And the same thing for line number 36. I think parents and guardians should be held accountable. Thank you. Our next speaker for policy 6202, technology acceptable use policy for students is Sharon Serhoff. When we talk about um acceptable use, we have to model it and we have to enforce it. if it's on an IEP that a student doesn't get to be on their computer for a certain amount of time or that it it is a reward as opposed to um they're allowed to use it whenever they want. We need to practice what we preach. We need to make sure there is a balance because there are students who are going to need to use a computer

037to write to read. We practice on a daily basis the only way that students communicate with their teachers and sometimes the only way that teachers communicate with parents if they communicate with parents. Oh, it's on schooly. Schooly is a wonderful tool if it works. I've never seen it work well. If you're going to have a policy, it has to include students, parents, teachers, administration. I should not walk into a school building and see and know that my student is not allowed to have their phone or their computer, but the teacher's over in the corner there with the cell phone in the hand. And that's happened very frequently recently. We have to have a balance. We can't rely completely on computers to teach. It's a tool, not a replacement for our wonderful teachers. And we have

038to use it correctly. There is such a thing as email. There's also such a thing as a telephone. My favorite word this year is crickets because I hear a lot of crickets when I call the office of special ed. I shouldn't hear crickets. We have tools. We should use them properly and our policy should reflect that. Thank you. The next item on the agenda is the superintendent's report and for that I call on Dr. Rogers. Thank you, Chair Licer. Members of the board, I have a video that the team will play. Um, this video is uh focused on our students, the 108,000 students in BCPS. I received some help from our student member of the board, Foresight Ambbe, as well as our uh Maryland Association of Student Councils and Baltimore County Student Councils member Jordan

039Ske. So, Miss Gover, please play. Team BCPS students are at the center of all that we do as a system. BCPS is deeply committed to ensuring that every student, regardless of background or circumstance, has access to the resources they need to thrive. With every decision we make, we want to ensure we unlock students potential [music] and create pathways to success. And as we build an innovative and collaborative learning community where all students excel and reach their [music] highest potential, we recognize and celebrate the incredible talent and diversity of our students who make Team [music] BCPS great. Team BCPS students are so special because they take pride in their community. They put in the effort to learn about the individual identities of the people that they're surrounded by. Your friends, [music] family, mentors, and tears have

040seen how hard you've worked this entire year, and we appreciate you. Take pride in how far you've come. Team BCPS [music] students truly represent a diverse community. Whether it be diverse ideas, diverse cultures, every student [music] has the opportunity to learn from one another and hear different perspectives every day they enter school. Students are pivotal in moving our school system forward. Team BCPS [music] students are inspiring. students. You are team DCPS. You are the absolute reason why we exist. We made a commitment to you and [music] I am so proud that we have worked over the last several years to honor that commitment to each and every single one [music] of you. Please know that every single one of you is important. You matter. We are all dedicated to your success. I absolutely wish you

041the best and I congratulate [music] you on all the wonderful things that you have done already as a student in BCPS and all of the great things that you will continue to do [music] in the future. I wish you my very best. Okay, thank you for that. Um, next is chair's report and May marks the season of celebration at BCPS. In just a few weeks, our seniors will cross the stage to receive their high school diplomas and embark on new journeys. Whether heading into the workforce, starting a career, joining the military, or attending college, we extend heartfelt congratulations to each of them and their families. Our annual Champions for Children's event kicked off our celebrations last week. We appreciate the Department of Communications for planning and producing such a wonderful event. It's always special and

042important to recognize our teachers, school-based leaders, and central office leaders and staff who make a positive impact each day. Today, BCPS received national recognition for its commitment to music education for the 21st consecutive year. Special thanks are extended to Sonia Sinowski, coordinator in the BCPS Office of Integrated Arts, for her and her staff's dedication to music education. Throughout the year, numerous opportunities are available to observe the exceptional talents of our students. Whether performing vocally or instrumentally, their music reflects high quality instruction, dedicated practice, and the support of students and families. I encourage everyone to attend these performances and experience our students achievements firsthand. Congratulations are also extended to our newest upcoming student member of the BL board, Claire Jubaji, a junior at George Washington Carver Center for the Arts and Technology who has been elected

043by her peers as a student member of the Board of Education of Baltimore County for the 2026 2027 school year. She already possesses an impressive academic record, having served in several national honor societies. She's also a committed dancer and currently teaches within her dance company. The board of ed looks forward to to your service and your representation of our 110,000 students. Congratulations to all. Also, the superintendent search process is taking place. At the last board of ed meeting, we approved the contract Bane Associates as the search firm to guide the process. We are now working with our search consultant. Our website will be updated shortly to reflect the process. And next on the agenda is our current student member of the board, Miss Unambe. Good evening, Chair Licter, Superintendent Rogers, members of the board, staff,

044families, and BCPS community. Over the past few weeks, I've continued working closely with the Baltimore County student councils as we begin to close out the school year and transition into new leadership. We recently held our final BCSC executive board meeting, marking the conclusion of of the year. It was a moment to reflect on everything that has been accomp accomplished this year from student led initiatives to meaningful conversations that have shaped our schools. I am especially looking forward to our upcoming transition where we will officially swear in our new officers and take time to recognize and celebrate our seniors who have dedicated so much time to student leadership across the county. At the state level, the Maryland Association of Student Councils will be hosting its May executive board meeting on May 16th at our very own

045Eastern Tech High School. During this meeting, MASC will swear in its new executive board and officer team for the upcoming year. I am especially proud to share that Baltimore County's own goodness has been elected as the MASSE president for the 26 to 27 school year. This achievement reflects not only individual excellence, but also the strength of student leadership that continues to come out of BCPS. I am also excited to announce that BCPS students have elected Claire Jabaji, a junior from Carver Center as our 46th student student member of the board. Both candidates demonstrated strong leadership and a commitment to representing their peers throughout the campaign process. And I look forward to seeing them continue in their individual leadership journeys and to watch all the amazing things that Claire will accomplish during her term. As we

046move forward into this final stretch of the school year, I want to take a moment to recognize all of our students preparing for AP exams and final assessments. This is often one of the most demanding times of the year, and it's important to stay focused while also taking care of your well-being. Trust in the work you've put in. Give yourself grace. And remember that growth and effort are just as important as any final result. And to our seniors, as graduation approaches, this is a time filled with both excitement and reflection. You're closing an important chapter and stepping into new opportunities, whether that's college, careers, or other paths. Take pride in everything you've accomplished and the resilience you've shown along the way. More importantly, recognize the impact you've had on your schools and your communities. While

047your time in BCPS is coming to an end, the lessons, relationships, and memories you carry forward forward will continue to shape your future. Lastly, I want to be very clear that any language referring to BCPS students as unhuman or alien is deeply harmful. This board is committed to creating a safe, inclusive, and respectful environment for every student in Baltimore County public schools. Our students are not defined by labels meant to dehumanize them. They are value members of our community who deserve dignity, support, and protection. While I respect the right to free expression, that does not excuse rhetoric that targets, marginalizes, or harms our students. We expect all members of our community to engage in discourse that reflects our shared responsibility to uplift and protect young people. Thank you. Thank you very much. [applause] The next

048item on the agenda is unfinished business, consideration of the annual budget appropriation transfer and the supplemental appropriation. And for that I call on Dr. Grim and Mr. Tantliff. Good evening, Chair, Superintendent Dr. Rogers, members of the board. I think we have a few slides for you this evening as those are being brought up. Uh last board meeting we uh brought forth for you a uh budget appropriation transfer. Just as a reminder, this is an administrative uh function and is requested every year while the supple supplemental appropriation is needed when additional funds are required to complete um the year. Next slide. Um, there was some conversation last uh time asking for some clarification on instructional salaries and wages. In particular, we were talking about the Kelly Services contract. Um, but you can see in activity three,

049instructional salaries and wages. It's a true compensation paid directly to personnel. It's teachers, teaching assistants, um tutors, reading specialists, stipens, psychologists. It's really, uh just about everyone in uh the classroom. That's what falls under activity three, and that got a lot of conversation uh at our last meeting. Next slide. Uh activity five, and this is where the Kelly Services contract resides. It's all other expenditures for instruction that are not included. Instructional salaries and instructional supplies includes uh miscellaneous contracted services, um equipment rentals, software license fees, technology leases, mileage reimbursement, and and a host of other things. Next slide. Um so we uh attempted to do what the board had requested of us last meeting and uh in the next two slides and I think you have uh one slide inserted into your uh into your

050packages. uh we basically tried to reduce the amount of um comp of money funding the post adoption compensation increases with the supplemental. So if you recall last time we had shown you that uh all the money that was to support the compensation increases was spread amongst all of the uh different bargaining units and uh there was some push back on that and the request was to try to uh cancel them out and uh if there was positive money available under the bat use that for the compensation. increases and then what was remaining would be supported by the supplemental. So on this chart here you you know it's it's small up there but I think you all have it. You can uh see what the change was in each category. Um, and there's some comments, but

051some of the key things uh that we did, and I think I mentioned change the BAT categories to absorb as much of the post budget adoption impass agreement compensation increases as possible, minimize the use of instructional salaries uh wherever possible and change the supplement to support minimum amount of compensation increases with the result being most of the supplement is now paying for the ERP project and special But on the next slide you'll see the result of all this. Um so on the top you can see uh what you were presented with last time. On the bottom is uh what you have now. Uh and you can see the total dollars are the same in the bat and the total dollars of the supplement are the same uh total. They had to be but we shifted

052the dollars around between the categories. Um I just mentioned these things but the BAT is covering as much as the compensation as possible. Supplement was not used for the salary enhancements but the key is the BAT plus the supplemental are exactly the same. We just shifted uh which activities were funded by which and if you look at the top chart and the bottom chart under total it's exactly the same. So you can see that so the the activities that were funded by each of the documents shifted in accordance with the board's uh wishes from our last meeting but the end result is the same. The total when you add up the BAT plus a supplement for each activity it's the same. And then the aggregate adjusted budget which is the adopted budget plus a supplement

053plus the BAT is the same. Um, so we think we did what the board uh had requested of us and uh that's the last slide in our presentation. Uh if there's no questions. Thank you. Thank you. May I have a motion to approve the annual budget appropriation transfer as presented? So move young. Thank you. Do I have a second? Second. Stillowleski. Any discussion? Mr. Manowski. Uh so I noticed that um when we for transportation costs as far as uh VCPS field trip versus private bus operations that we take the money from the BCPS field trips and then put it into private operations bus operations. Why is that something that we have to do for accounting reasons? What's what's the reasoning for that? Is is your question why do we use a private operator to take

054the kids on a field trip? Well, it's in the millions of dollars. I'm just wondering is it's that is that what it's for or um I'm not What are you looking at, Miss Tominowski? Um okay, I may find it. But field trips in general are split between contractors and we use our buses whenever possible because it's less expensive. But because of covering all the routes, uh often we have to use contractors for field trips. And it's important to note that the schools collect the funds for the field trips. Um they are then transferred over to transportation and the contractors. Okay. So that was my main thing. So I actually it was it was kind of there was more money spent in private bus operations than there was taken out of BCBS field trip fund. That's

055what I'm Are you referring to the BAT or is this a different the budget line transfers that you gave it gave to us and in reference for the third quarter? Okay. I mean for all of I'm I'm not looking at that uh report right now but I know but it's it's it's in this so I just wonder if we could talk about it since it was presented as as part of this agenda. Can you say your say your question again please? Okay. What what exactly would you like? I would like to understand what the So a BCPS field trip dollars then it gets transferred over to private bus dollars is what I'm assuming. Correct. Yes. when we use a private contractor. So why would the I'm just wondering where the difference comes through in the

056is that part of the additional transportation costs that you needed to to fund that because there was the private bus was over like it didn't it didn't equal out what I'm saying it was more than what the BCPS field trip money was. So I don't what else does the private bus operations f like the majority of press private bus oper who spend more than in excess of $20 million uh they support um a large number of our routes where we don't use our in-house uh bus just in general that's the majority of what our contract bus costs are for. Okay I'll come back. Thank you. Other questions? Miss Dowski? Thank you. Um I just have a question about the expenditure appropriation which was on the the budget website. um when we voted in February and

057the motion was being discussed to relieve library media specialists of the two period content teaching duties. The question was asked you know if it if the motion passes what will happen and and the answer indicated that it would have to be figured out money would have to be Mr. Siski, is this about the bad? Is this about the bad or the supplement? Um, well, yes, because it is about the the ask for the additional funding. Okay. Well, that's FY27. We're only dealing with FY26 right here. Okay. Thank you. I'll reserve my question. Thank you. Further questions about the that or supplemental proposals, Miss Pong? Thank you. Um, so in the documentation that we have, it talks about the 5.5 uh million dollars for the continued implementation of the ERP system. So looking through the document

058that was linked I see where in the budget for software license fees um while fees were reduced by almost 200,000 then it gets transferred because we hired a contracted employee or another instance we have a reduction of 200k for fees but then um there's cost associated with a fishing email and it's um it's a cost of 200,000 and that's from December 2025 to Now, so what is that cost of 200,000 for? Um I I don't I apologize. I don't have that report in front of me and I don't um you know I would have to to look at that. But those are transactions that offices or schools submitted throughout the year. They were all budget neutral, but they just moved their dollars to where they needed to spend them. So, uh, every transaction on that

059report, and there's many, many transactions on that report, um, that go on throughout the year, um, those offices had, uh, just an expenditure that needed to be spent in a different place. They didn't spend any additional money but they just had to uh move their money so they could properly spend it uh in the place that they determined once the year had started which uh you know again is significantly uh passed when they put their budgets together which is in October November the year starts in July now you're a year later and you know a lot of needs change as the years go as the year goes on. Yeah. Thank you. Um, and and that makes sense. But yeah, I just I guess for this particular instance because it specifically speaks to a fishing email.

060So between December 2025 and now, which is May 5th, but I think your report ends earlier, there's $200,000 being spent on that. So that's a a large sum of money. I was just inquiring about that. Miss Fong, if I may, I've asked Mr. corns to come forward so he can provide some clarification on fishing email. Okay. Thank you, Dr. Rogers. Mr. Fong, that is uh for not a fishing email, but a service we use to send out um test emails to staff to do fishing training. So, there was no incident that involved a fishing email. It was more of a a software uh that we procured in order to do compliance training with our staff as well as uh fishing tests. So you get a you get an email from us that you know you

061click on the link and it takes you to a training video on maybe you shouldn't have clicked that link to keep us safe. Um and so we had money that was in uh a nonsoftware area and we needed to move it over to our security team in their software area to procure that service. Okay. Thank you for that clarification because it sounded like it was just an email and there was this issue versus right training and no no issue. This was uh this was designed to uh prevent us from having uh uh malicious emails in fact our uh impact our staff. Perfect. Thank you. Yes, ma'am. And then um so in our most recent budget with ERP, we had a newly created department that's costing us $4 million. So is this $5.5 million um for

062ERP? Is this on top of what we've already budgeted or this is considered to be part of the money we already allotted for ERP? Um the 5.5 million in this case was in addition to what we had budgeted. Um there was [clears throat] uh a couple million dollars where uh the our vendor changed and was acquired by IBM and so those purchase orders had to be closed out. So it was budgeted the prior year and moved to this year. Uh and the rest of it was really um just addressing uh different needs that arose as we went on and learned more about the project. There's uh different supports we needed, different personnel we needed to hire. So it was about half the dollars that needed to move from last year just through uh the name

063change of the vendor and then the rest was just needs that arose once the year began. Okay. So, where are we with like what's been budgeted versus the actual amount then for ERP? And I guess that's something you guys can get back to if you don't have that information, but I do think we need an update on on that because we keep getting information about didn't account for this and we have to adjust. So, I would just like to have a better understanding of where we are with the ERP with how much we actually spending. So, thank you. Thank you. Other questions? Miss Hen, thank you and thank you, Mr. Palong, for your questions on ERP. I do have one followup to that. Um, I don't recall and and perhaps Mr. Chant, if you have

064the information in front of you from last year's BAT and supplement that there was an um under spending on ERP that would reference what you had mentioned from the prior year's invoicing in the vendor change that you had just mentioned. that would explain the over um budget that we're seeing now requiring the supplemental of 5.5 million. Is that something that we that is reflected in last year's um BAT that there was a transfer of of funds that had been budgeted for ERP for last year that were transferred to another budget category? Um I guess I would say it two ways. So last year we did need a supplement for the ERP project because it wasn't in the budget at all in FY25. So during the supplement last year and the year before that, the board

065approved uh funding for the ERP project. So, uh, I guess if we had known about the name change at the time that it was occurring, we could have, um, requested $2 million less last year, needing the 2 million more this year. In the end, it's the same amount of money and anything unspent, that 2 million dropped to fund balance once the PE purchase order closed. Okay. I I don't seem to recall that we had no budgeted amount for ERP last year. Is it was funded through this supplemental. Uh and I'd remind the board we didn't actually need the supplemental for the ERP project this year. We were able to absorb it within the activity. You're seeing it now funded by the supplemental because of how the board requested us to move the dollars between the

066BAT and the supplemental. the supplemental was needed to fund um the post adoption compensation changes, things that got agreed to after impass. You had asked us to move the dollars around to look a little different, but we would have been able to absorb the increased costs from the ERP project. Um, and it was in the BAT last time instead of the supplemental, but I I just point out we aren't we didn't need to request extra money for the ERP project this year. We're able to absorb it within our existing budget, but more than the exist the original ERP budget, which was $7 million this year. Then then I would join in Miss Fong's request for a full accounting of ERP expenditures um to date. I I think we need a clearer picture of of [clears

067throat] what that looks like and I know that um internal audit when they present their work plan tonight that may be a question I ask about that because I know that's part of their work plan for the coming year. Sure. Thank you, Madam Chair. Thank you. Okay. May I have a roll call vote? We are voting on the BAT because we're separating these two. So, we're voting on motion to approve the annual BAT appropriation transfer as presented. Miss Dominowski, yes. Miss Hen, yes. Miss Framp, yes. Miss Aomebe, yes. Miss Stleski, yes. Dr. Seavoy, yes. Mr. McMillian, yes. Miss Pumphrey, yes. Mr. Young, yes. Miss Leicter, yes. Thank you. So, that is approved. May I have a motion to approve the annual supplemental budget appropriation as presented? So, move Dominowski. Thank you. Do I have a

068second? Second from P. Thank you. Any discussion on the supplemental budget appropriation as presented? May I have a roll call vote, please? Miss Damonowski? Yes. Miss Hen? Yes. Miss Framp? Yes. Miss Aumbbe? Yes. Miss Dleski? Yes. Dr. Seavoy? Yes. Mr. McMillian? Yes. Miss Pumprey? Yes. Mr. Young? Yes. Miss Leicter? Yes. Thank you both. Thank you. U Mr. Fmpong. So, with this passing, are we still meeting our for it being submitted to the county? Yes, we are meeting the timeline. Correct. They they let them know we were going to vote tonight. Okay, great. Okay, the next item on the agenda is unfinished business board policies. This is the second reader for this policy. And for that, I call Miss Christina Pumprey, chair of the policy review committee. Thank you, Madam Chair. Members of the board, the

069policy review committee asks that the board accept the committee's recommendation to adopt board policy 1250, immigration enforcement access to school buildings. This policy is presented to you on tonight's agenda as exhibit K. Thank you, Miss Pumphrey. May I have a motion to accept the recommendation of the board's policy review committee to adopt board policy 1250? So moved from P. Okay. No second is needed since the recommendation comes from the committee. Is there any discussion? Miss Pumphrey, just have a comment. Um, I will not be able to state this any better than our student of the me member of the board already stated, but um, I just feel inclined to state that referring to any of our children as illegal immigrants is appalling. Um, and it's the exact reason why we need a policy like this

070so that our students feel welcome, all of our students feel welcome in our school. how we decide as adults to address immigration outside of our school system is a different issue. We're talking about children here and I'm just appalled by those comments and I felt the need to state that during this presentation of the policy. Thank you. Thank you, Miss Pumprey, for your statement. [applause] Is there any further discussion, Mr. Demanowski? I I just wanted to read it. This is not interfering with actual federal laws or policy on the books. Correct. The legal team reviewed our legal office reviewed this to make sure there was no inter as a matter of fact it's making sure that we are in line with federal law as far as needing to have a signed judicial warrant to access

071a school building and not just an executive warrant. That is that is um federal law and this is part of the training that our staff members especially front office staff will have when um agents approach the school. Thank you. Any further discussion? May I have a roll call vote, please? Miss Dominowski, yes. Miss Hen, yes. Miss Fong, yes. Miss Abe, yes. Miss Stleski, yes. Dr. Seavoy, yes. Mr. McMillian, yes. Miss Pumphrey, yes. Mr. Young, yes. Miss Lear, yes. Thank you. Policy 1250 is approved. Thank you everyone who worked on that. Um and thank you Miss Pumprey for your leadership um as the chair of that committee. The next item on the agenda is action taken in close session. During the administrative function session, the board voted and approved to establish a standing budget and finance

072committee. May I have a motion to affirm the action taken in administrative function session? So moved. Miss Hen, may I have a second? Second, Stellleski. Thank you both. May I have a roll call vote, please? Miss Dominowski. Yes. Miss Hen, yes. Miss Framp, yes. Miss Aomebe, yes. Missky, yes. Dr. Seavoy, yes. Mr. McMillian, yes. Miss Pumphrey, yes. Mr. Young, yes. Miss Leicter, yes. Thank you. The next item on the agenda is new business board policies. This is the first reader for these policies. And for that, I call again on Miss Christina Pumphrey. Thank you. Members of the board, the policy review committee asks that the board accept the committee's recommendation of the proposed changes to the following board policies. Board policy 3720, behavior threat assessment. Board policy 408, board data governance, and board policy 6202,

073technology acceptable use policy for students. These policies are presented to you on tonight's agenda as exhibits M1 through M3. Thank you, Miss Pumprey. Board members, are there any separations being requested? May I have a motion to accept the recommendations of the board policy review committee for board policies 3720, 408, and 6202? So move, Stellleski. Thank you. No second is needed since the recommendation comes from the committee. Is there any discussion? Minowski, I'm sorry if this is off topic, but it has to do with digital content and um what we're doing as far as um when it comes to the assessments that we're giving our students. What kind of access do we give parents as to be able to to know what like those tests are like or being able to go over the scores and

074um because when you get it back you just get the grade but we don't actually get to see what our students are are writing and putting in there. It gets saved into a classified or protected document. How how can we mask is this about one of the three well it's about dig like the the way we're using our digital resources as far uh digital curriculums and technology that the policy review committee take a look at policies relevant well I don't is it is that in there as far as like is that part of our policy to protect that from it's not part of one of these three policies that we're voting on tonight. Okay, let me rephrase that. Are we how are how are we making this available? How can we make this available to

075students with this policy, I guess, or why aren't we putting that into policy? Why why are those assessments protected and not given to parents? Miss Pumprey, I'm not sure that what you're asking is appropriate for this particular policy. However, if you want to send me that request, we can as a policy review that to see what policies are available or if we want to discuss whether we need a policy addressing that matter. Okay. Thank you for that, Miss Hen. Um, I agree with Miss Pumper's comment and was going to comment that 408 doesn't include parent access to data, but was going to make the same recommendation that a motion be made to ask the policy review committee to explore whether or not a policy um should be created specifically for parent access to data. Yes,

076I'll thank you. Okay, thank you. There's a So, the motion on the floor is to accept the recommendation. No, it's okay. For the three policies, 3720, 408, and 6202, we had a second. Any further discussion? Okay. May I have a roll call vote on approving those three pol accepting the recommendations of those three policies? Miss Dominowski? Yes. Miss Hen? Yes. Miss Fong? Yes. Miss Aome? Yes. Miss Dleski? Yes. Dr. Seavoy? Yes. Mr. McMillian? Yes. Miss Pumprey? Yes. Mr. Young? Yes. And Miss Leicter? Yes. Thank you. The next item on the agenda is new business, consideration of the internal audit work plan for fiscal year 2027. And for that, I call Mr. Young, chair of the audit committee. [clears throat] Members of the board, the board's audit committee met on Tuesday, April 14th, 2026. The office

077of internal audit work plan for FY 2027 is being forwarded to the full board for approval. The the plan provides a high level overview of the audit areas, focus, objectives, and proposed timeline. Miss Bar is available if there are any questions. Thank you, Mr. Young. Do I have a motion to approve the Office of Internal Audit Work Plan for fiscal year 2027? So moved from Paul. Thank you. No second is needed since the recommendation comes from the committee. Is there any discussion? Miss Dominowski? I was just wondering if Miss Bar would want to come up and talk about the ERP audit plan. Good evening, Miss Bar. Good evening. Did you have a specific question, Mr. Tomowski? Can you just uh do an overview of what what that will entail or what the plan is as

078far as how we're going to Yeah. Basically what we do is we would look at the controls data migration making sure that um the users uh have the appropriate access to the system and um making sure that the third party vendors have the audits that are required. So that's basically a very high level uh look at the implementation and the data migration coming over from the prior system into the new. So there isn't any plan to go through the cost balance scenario like as far as you know are we getting what we're we're paying for or budgeting for or it's just as far as we've been going back and forth and saying we needed more money here maybe we didn't need that money then is there any um plan to audit or look into that

079portion of it the cost portion of it I'm sorry that was not planned for FY27 is there Any way we can talk about adding that or is that not going to once are we only that would be a different type of an audit. I mean there's always room and opportunity to have a discussion. That's why we do a riskbased audit plan because if other types of risks are identified or emerging then we can adjust what's what's planned and of course I would have to bring that back to the committee and the committee would then have to consider it and approve that and move it forward. Okay. Thank you Miss Bar. Welcome. Other discussion, Miss Hen. Thank you. Good evening, Miss Far. Good evening. Um, were the risks analyzed for um the ERP in the areas

080of financial risks um related to expenditures and also related to performance in terms of employee impact and the performance of the system when developing your work plan? Yes. So, the financial risks, no. But for the second part of your question, yes. And actually, we're looking uh two there are two projects um for the FY27 work plan related to payroll and payroll operations. And so we're we're now getting deeper into how the actual system is working. And because payroll is such a high percentage and large part of the budget, we're focusing and concentrating on there. So is would you say it is it accurate to say that those audit activities would cover the system performance itself of Oracle in in those related to the payroll process and payment to individuals. Yes. So it's it's operations it's

081looking at approval those types of processes. So um we're looking at also um the miscellaneous pays which is a little bit different because uh the some of those processes are still manual. So it's a different lens or view um and different type of documentation that we would have to review related to that. So it's it's two different payroll audits that we're scheduled for um if approved for next year. And is it strictly payroll or does that include benefits as well? We do have a benefits uh we're looking at benefits as as well. Um that's another project that that's planned as well. Okay. So, let me ask my my question a different way. If there were um control issues or system issues related to either payroll or benefits, would the work that you have planned uncover

082those types of issues as as potential findings if they were yes reported? Yes, they would. And it includes so they're IT or technical enough in nature to uncover any types of performance issues with the system itself. Yes. Okay. Yes. And we're actually working on a project now that has you committee will be getting audit results soon related to that. Okay. So I'm I have just have one followup um Madam Chair on the financial and that is we we discussed the BAT and the the supplemental this evening and I believe it was 80 million in ERP costs. So I'm curious as to with that large of an expenditure even given you know our our budget overall why or how that risk would have been assessed given the magnitude of that annual expenditure of of the ERP

083system related to our other single expenditures um based on the financial piece but but also the significant um system resources human resources that are involved in its implementation. Yes. So actually I brought the risk assessment for that um particular department. It wasn't of the um ERP system itself but what we looked for um in the IT IT department were several key processes. So uh they were IT governance and strategic planning, cyber security and and data protection, student data privacy and compliance, network and infrastructure management, application systems and integration, user access and identity management, the IT help desk operations and uh and device management. So those were the key processes. Oh, and and two more, I'm sorry, a vendor contract and asset management and business continuity continuity and disaster recovery. So those were the key processes

084that we identified and the key process examples. And then what we did is we looked at the likelihood of things that would occur and the impact also and they were assigned excuse [clears throat] me they were assigned a score and then um a final inherent risk was calculated if you will. And then the two areas that came up as the highest were the ones that were included in in the work plan. And then of course we develop the long range plan, you know, a three-year long range plan that we include other uh the other processes in. And as things emerge, like I said, throughout the the school year fiscal year, we can adjust the current year plan and move things from the long range plan or even if there's if it's not on the long

085range plan and it's something that we should look into, then we can adjust with the committee's approval. Okay. Thank you. And and my final final question, do you have a breakdown um of hours by project that the board can be provided? I think that's usually provided to the audit committee, but um that would be helpful to see of your you provide the total 10,500 hours overall, but is that broken out by by project to see the breakdown of how your team's work is alloc those hours are allocated by project? I'm curious to see, you know, investigating fraud, waste, and abuse complaints, the ERP project and and so on. Is that a breakdown that rough breakdown of course um we have um actual hours? We gave a a rough estimate, [clears throat] excuse me, at the

086beginning to budget the hours for a project. Sometimes we're under, sometimes we're over, but we do track the actual time spent on a project. We have not communicated that information to the committee. Um recently we many many years ago uh we used to provide that information to the audit committee but uh it it would be easy to do. Okay. Madam chair I'd like I'd like to receive that information. Would that require a motion to receive that? Um are you willing to facilitate that for the Mr. to receive. I will work I'll [clears throat] work with Miss Bar to facilitate that. Okay. Thank you. I mean, if you'd like to make the motion, you can, but you test it in what he I would. Um I move that the full board receive the breakdown of um

087internal audit hours by project listed in the office of internal audit FY27 work plan. Is there a second to Miss Hen's motion? Second, Dominowski. Any discussion? Miss Mo Hen, would you like to speak to the motion? Um I I believe I have. I I'm I would like to see where the resources are aligned according to the plan. It's information that um I used to serve on the audit committee many years ago and we we received it and it's helpful to see um where the priorities are and where the resources are allocated. Um it's also a useful justification as we look at limited um resources overall with staffing to say this is the the time commitment or the resources needed to complete these projects. And it's it's helpful justification for us as we develop our budget

088to say this is what it takes to do this type of work. So I think it's it's useful to have um that information in addition as quant as quantifiable data in addition to the work plan itself. So you're not talking about projected, you're talking about after it's done the actuals. No, I'm talking about projected and and I'm not looking for um exacts, you know, but but Miss Bar has provided that in the past and it's been very helpful to see um the activities of her team and the anticipated hours and what's required and should additional should she require additional resources, it's it's also a justification that she can come to us and say, you know, we need this additional staffing because these activities require more resources. It's having that quantifiable data is is useful in

089our decision- making. Is there any further discussion on Miss Hen's motion? Mr. Young, can we have Miss Hen repeat the motion? Or type it in chat. Of course, I'll do both. Um, I move that the board receive a breakdown of Office of Internal Audit hours by project listed in the FY27 work plan and I'll put that in the chat. Mr. Young, did you have a qu another question? Okay. Okay. Further discussion, Miss Rampang, Miss Bar. Um how um I guess how much do you how much variance do you find that you typically have? So if you do that projection I heard you say that you do track the actual have you actually looked at you know is there a large variance or are you guys typically kind of on on target? Yeah, it it really

090depends on the project and um if there's any type of difficulties or delays um trying to get the information, trying to get the documentation um whether there's an illness on the part of the audit or the auditor, you know, um sometimes it extends the amount of time that's spent on the project. Um but in general, we're pretty much on the, you know, in the ballpark. there there are some that have gone over that I get concerned about that we've spent a lot of time on and and you know we have to take that step back and make sure that we're um applying our resources appropriately um but pretty much we're we're pretty much in the ballpark. There are some outliers one way or the other but Okay, thank you. And sometimes uh the scope has

091to get adjusted uh because if we go in and do some preliminary work, sometimes um we'll we'll find out maybe we have to defer the project. So we only spend maybe 10 hours on it and then sometimes we have to increase the scope on projects which would then take it the other way and and really increase the number of hours spent which would be over budget then. Thank you. Yes. Now, investigations, we don't we have a general pot of ours, but we don't have um we we don't budget by project because we don't know what we're getting in allegation wise. So, I think I may have be out of order here because we had the motion to approve the work plan and then we have Miss Hens. So, can I stick to approving Miss Hen

092I mean voting on Miss Hens or do I need to go back to the audit work plan? Was Miss Darren Burns board council for the record? Was Miss Hen's motion intended to modify the primary motion? No, you should you should pause and dispose of the primary motion. Finish when you say depose. Dispose. Okay. Dispose of it. Okay. So, may I have a roll call vote? I had further discussion on Miss Hens or on the original. Okay. Go ahead, Miss Pumprey. Thank It's unrelated to Miss Hens. Okay. And I don't think anybody's asked this yet. Um, under special education student placements, would that include evaluating our identification of students as far as whether or not they need special education services, or is this only for students who have already been identified as needing those services? It

093would be for those students that have already been identified as needing the services. Okay. And would it be appropriate to place those things together or is that a separate issue that it wouldn't be appropriate to add to this topic? What are you saying to add to it? So my question was whether number eight special education student placements also included evaluating our the systems identification of students who may need special education services who aren't already receiving those services and the answer I think was no. Yeah, correct. You're correct. So my second follow-up question would be would that be something to combine with this or should that be a separate topic completely if we wanted to have a review of that? I think it it should be a separate topic completely because of the amount of time

094that would be required to to do that and the focus is would be different. Okay. Um I'll go back to that in a second. My second question is regarding the school safety, bullying, harassment or intimidation. Does that include um evaluating our evaluating our process as far as when students are filling out the reporting and harassment forms and how they are followed up on and our process for whether that's successful? Our process is successful successful, excuse me. Would that be included under this? Correct. That we be evaluating the process. And this this project um was asked to be deferred because they were updating the process and it didn't make sense at that time when we originally wanted to look at it to do it at that time. So now the the process has been updated and

095we'll be evaluating um the effectiveness of that process. Okay. Thank you. So um I'm I'm going to make a motion to amend. I think this is appropriate. If not, somebody can let me know and then to discuss before we vote on it because I want to make sure I'm in line here. Um, so I want to add an item to evaluate our identification of students needing special education services. Can you repeat that, Miss Pumprey? I want to I want Hold on. Sorry, my mouse isn't working. A motion to amend the general scope of work or the um work plan, excuse me, to add an audit area for evaluating our identification of students needing special education services. May I ask clarification? You're talking about the process to identify student. Yeah. So I add that word process,

096please. Motion to evaluate our process for identificating identification of students needing special education services. Is there a second to Miss Pumprey's amended motion? Second. Okay. Now, discussion. I I have a I'm not sure I understand, Miss Pumphrey, what you're you're trying to find out if the proc even for kids who weren't identified if the process was working. Yes. So that's why my first question was about number eight specifically if that included students who weren't already identified. I think we are hearing a lot of um from the public and issues as far as students who aren't already identifi identified that they're not being identified properly. So, I just think that we need a review of our process to make sure that students and parents who, you know, say their students should be identified and they're not

097um that that we're that process. We should audit that process, I think, to make sure that it's um successful, right? And it's two different if it is two different things. Yeah. And and you might not know the answer, but I know that MSD does extensive auditing of special education. Is that what Miss Pumprey's asking? Is that already part of an audit that that currently is being done? I know you're not going to know that, right? Know the answer to your question, but I I don't believe so. Okay. A further discussion on Miss Pumprey's amended motion. Okay. May I have a roll call vote on the amended motion? Can you reread it, Miss Cover? uh to amend the work plan to add an audit area to evaluate the process for identifying students needing special education services.

098Okay. Okay. Roll call vote, please. Miss Dominowski, yes. Miss Hen, yes. Miss Fong, yes. Miss Abe, yes. Mr. Dleski, yes. Dr. Seavoy, yes. Mr. McMillian, yes. Miss Pumprey, yes. Mr. Young, yes. Miss Leicter, yes. Okay. Right. Now we're back to Miss Hen's. No. Now the motion as amended. Yeah. Okay. Primary, Madam Chair. Okay. Yes, Miss Hen. I'd like to withdraw my motion and make a new motion to Okay. Wait, let us make it finish the Oh, you're still Okay. Go ahead. I'd like to withdraw the motion I made. Okay. And move to amend the work plan. Go ahead. By adding the hours for each project in the um work plan. Is there a second to Miss Hen's You mean the budgeted hours, excuse me. I'm sorry. Adding the budgeted hours to the You mean another

099column that would have projected hours? Is there a second to Miss Hen's motion? Second, Stleski. Thank you. It's the same rationale as you did before, right? Mr. Young discussion. She's not speaking to it because it's the same. So, I have a question for Miss Bar. Of course, you've planned this out and you've allocated, you know, uh I think they said 10,000 hours related to this and we've now added the implementation to that. So you the expectation is you will have to go back and recalculate or is the basics going to be the same u but this runs into the situation where you've talked about before where um this is a risk base so this is potentially more work than you could accomplish within the year with the other carryover and investigations that may come up.

100Yeah, you're you're correct. So, we're going to have to go back and readjust the hours with the addition of of the new project and it may or may not push one of these projects into the next fiscal year or we may have carryover. We may not get to it to the end of the fiscal year and it may carry over into the into the next fiscal year, but we're going to have to go back through now and and readjust the hours with the addition of the new project. Thank you. You're welcome. Further discussion. Okay. Roll call vote, but can you please read what we're voting on to add the budgeted hours to the work plan for FY27? And Madam Chair, I also put it in the chat if you'd like me to reread it. Okay.

101I move to amend the FY27 work plan by adding the budgeted hours for each audit area. So, we're still not voting on the work plan yet. We're just Okay. We have a roll call. I'm sorry. Go ahead, Miss Punk. Um, can we amend and just say instead of budgeted projected hours, you just want to change the language, Miss Punk? Yeah, I'm I'm happy to defer to what whatever Miss Bar would prefer. Mr. Punk, do you want to explain why you That would be helpful because it it is a projection. Just so we're clear that if we if we say it's going to a,000 hours and it takes us 1,500 hours, you know, you have the explanation as to why, but I think it's probably a better term to say projected budgeted hours. Projected budgeted hours.

102I will modify that. [clears throat] Thank you, Mr. Fong. Thank you, Miss Bar. Miss Gco, did you get that? You're just adding the word projected in front of budgeted. Okay. Yes. Okay. Okay. So, we're ready for roll call. Miss Dominowski? Yes. Miss Hen? Yes. Miss Fong? Yes. Miss Aumbbe? Yes. Miss Stleski? Yes. Dr. Seavoy? Yes, Mr. McMillian. Yes, Miss Pumphrey. Yes, Mr. Young. Yes, Miss Leicter. Yes. Thank you. Now, if I'm following the maze, we are back to the original motion. Correct. Correct. As amended. Right. So, do I have to say it again since? No. Okay. So, roll call vote, please, on the original motion to approve the office of internal audit work plan for FY2027 as amended. Miss Dominowski, yes. Miss Hen, yes. Miss Fong, yes. Miss Abe, yes. Miss Dowleski, yes. Dr. Seavoy,

103yes. Mr. McMillion, yes. Miss Pumprey, yes. Mr. Young, yes. Miss Leicter, yes. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Miss Bar. Thank you. The next item on the agenda is contract awards. And for that, I call on Mr. Young. Let's try this one. [laughter] Members [clears throat] of the board, the board's building and contracts committee met on Monday, May 4th, 2026. Items 01 through 09 were forwarded to the full board for approval. Thank you, Mr. Young. Board members, are there any separations being requested? Okay. Do I have a motion to approve items 01 through 09? No. Do I have a motion to approve items 01 through09? So move to Kay. Thank you. No second is needed since the recommendation comes from the committee. Is there any discussion? Miss Rempang. Thank you. Um I just I had

104a question on two of the contracts I believe. So 03. Um what is the neglected and delinquent institution? I understand it's just a reconfiguration of the church. Um, but what is the actual neglected and delinquent institution? Is that the church? Um, don't believe Miss Stanbury is here. Um the consent to assignment of this contract from the board of child care of the United Methodist Church Incorporated to the board of child care of the United Methodist Church Incorporated DBA ever stand. Um this is the result of a corporate merger and rebranding. Miss Webster, do you have anything to add? I'm not mist attempt um contract title title uncert this speaks to institutions that may not that may be where we have students attend that are eligible for title one funding but the money flows through BCPS.

105So the institutions are not neglected or delinquent. Okay. Um these are just places where students who would otherwise attend BCPS have chosen to attend and we pay for title one services for those students at that institution. Okay. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. And then the second one is um for 06, the radio communications master contract. Um so again, this one sounds like it's not a change in terms um but because there's still negotiations happening, we just need the additional money to function in the same way that we're functioning until everything gets cleared up, I guess, with these negotiations. So, we're just operating under the same terms of the existing agreement. The state h I'm sorry, the state has extended their contract. We actually just got word today that they've extended it through November. So, um

106their new solicitation had some issues. So, they are rebidding. So, they're extending this current contract through November. In this exhibit, we're only asking for, I believe, a month. We will be bringing it back again in June for the full November extension. Okay. And again, it'll be under the existing terms, the terms of the existing agreement. Yes, ma'am. Okay. Thank you. Certainly. Any other questions? Okay. May I have a roll call vote, please? Miss Dominowski? Yes. Miss Hen? Yes. Miss Fol? Yes. Miss Abe? Yes. Miss Dleski? Yes, Dr. Seavoy. Yes, Mr. McMillian. Yes, Miss Pumphrey. Yes, Mr. Young. Yes, Miss Leter. Yes. Thank you. Thank you both. Okay. The next item on the agenda is the report on the quarterly financial report for the month ending March 2026. And for that, I call on Dr. Grim

107and Mr. Tantliff. Uh, thank you. There should be a presentation. Uh good evening. Uh we're here today to present um the financial report which you've all seen uh many times. So this is just uh an update through the end of March for the general fund. You can see we spent uh one and a half billion which is 74% of our budget. Um and uh the bullet points there you're familiar with that uh we we um comply with all re requirements. Our revenues reported monthly. Um we get cash draws from the county when we need it, but uh state revenue comes automatically every other month and other revenue is primarily our fund balance. And we get almost no federal revenue in the general fund, just uh ROC a little bit. Next slide. [clears throat] Um here

108you can just see by different uh activity what percent of the budget we've obligated through the end of March. And uh that's on the right. And then on the left you can see um each of the categories in the pie and how much uh the budget is for the full year versus what we've spent for the year. Uh as you've heard many times before payroll is 82% of our budget uh payroll and benefits. So that's what consumes most of it. We report everything in accordance with MSD reporting requirements. And this does not include uh the supplemental and BAT that you all approve tonight and that the council uh should approve on June 1st. And last slide. Uh the last slide we have here uh just reports on our special revenue or grant budget. Um the

109budget is 257 million for the year and that's uh the sum of all grants across multiple years that are still active. Uh one minor note uh the report uh in front of you uh did have an error on special revenue. Uh this slide is correct but the report will be reposted uh tomorrow just with that correction for the final page of the report. um grant programs are generally re reimburseable and for us everything except concentration of poverty I think falls into that bucket. Um COP is by far our largest state grant and that as you all know is fairly new since blueprint came around. Um, title one, all the active grants equal 93.3 million and IDA pass through special ed grant is 63 million. And lastly, third party billing Medicaid rolls up under special revenue.

110Um, but those are all funds generated by our awesome third-party billing team and that totals a little over $14 million. Um, and thank you. That's what we have tonight on the financial report. Thank you. Any questions, Mr. [snorts] Manowski? So, the um the 1.6 billion you said you already have designated to be spent, that's from this fiscal year up until March 31st. So, going back to July 2025 to now. Yes, that's that's how much we've spent yearto date, either spent or encumbered through the end of March. in the general fund. So in the um document that was provided to us for the budget line transfer, it went all it it covers all of that. Would it be exact? Would it be 1.6 billion or would it be more? Uh well uh just the budget line

111transfer report equals zero. The budget line transfers are just moving dollars around and that's just deals with the budget. So, in theory, any budget dollars you have uh can be moved around, but it's it's a net of zero. This is talking about how much money we've actually spent. So, it's invoices we've paid, cash out the door, or purchase orders that are encumbered where we're waiting for the products and goods to come or the bill to come and um uh be put against that incumbrance and as we pay the invoice. So, they're they're really unrelated activities. unrelated. Is there a way to get that so we can see how like much we've spent so far? Not if not a budget line transfer but some other kind of accounting document that shows us what we've spent 1.6

112billion on. Um well uh the report that we turn in uh you know that was submitted for this month does have uh I guess I wouldn't call it granular but it does go through all of our expenditures through the year. So that's the primary method where we've been informing the board of our year-to-ate expenditures. But it's not like a a statement or an invoice of actually showing you it just it's more of a big picture or a you know highlevel overview of it. It doesn't it doesn't go down into detail like what we spent on each contract to equal that 1.6 billion or what we spent on whatever. You know I guess we we'd need to understand exactly a little more what you were interested in seeing. I mean there's thousands and thousands of financial

113transactions that have occurred. There's many thousands of transactions of payroll that have occurred. Um there's thousands of account strings. Thousands of accounts. So somehow you got to the number of 1.6 billion. So other than those like you know general generalizing through you know administration instructional whatever the however it's generalized there's got to be some way that we can put that together where whether it's thousands and thousands or just something more than just one page general this is what we spent the money on and more of a specific um invoice or statement kind of like the budget line transfer but just with what we've actually spent not what money moving around what we're actually spending. Does that make sense? Yeah. You know, I'm I guess we would need to understand and develop a report that met

114the board's needs, similar to how we developed the budget line transfer report for budget committee several years ago and now are presenting to the board. I mean, again, there's a certain level of granularity that would probably be more [snorts] than would be beneficial. I, you know, I mean, again, you could dump thousands and thousands of transactions out of the accounting system, but how would that help you? We can't exp you know, well, there's got to be some big ticket items as far as both the ERP and the million-dollar contracts that we're putting out. that kind of stuff isn't so granular. It's not thousands. It's it's just a couple that make up the bigger am that would just be a little helpful. Thank you. Any other questions about the quarterly financial report? Okay. Thank you, gentlemen.

115Thank you. The next item on the agenda is information which includes the final update on key school legislation and the meeting minutes of the November 17th, 2025 Southeast Area Education Advisory Council. The next item on the agenda is any board member comments and agenda settings. So, if you have an agenda item or any comments, please. Miss Stleski. Thank you. Um, I want to thank those that reached out to us um out of your concern about your changing workload as library media specialists. Clearly, this is an issue that continues to be important to many people. Um, and there does seem to be some confusion about what happened with the budget. Um, and thank you to Tabco for speaking on behalf of the library media specialists this evening. So, I'm just requesting, you know, in light of

116transparency and just make sure that, um, this situation is fully transparent to the public that um, two questions are answered. um based on the February 24th board meeting when the motion was made to um eliminate the two class uh class classes per day in in terms of a teaching requirement. Um it seemed to be that um that money was going to be reallocated to provide for that motion once it passed. So, why was the request for county executive funding an additional ask instead of reconfiguring that money? Thank you. Thank you. Other comments, Miss Pumprey. Um, I would like to request a report on the severe overcrowding at Overly High School. Whether u maybe discuss whether we need an emergency boundary study. Um, I've heard about the overcrowding. I've heard concerns about it, but I visited

117the school and saw it in person, and there are so many trailers in the back. My understanding is they're getting two more next year. Um, I did want to point out that the students and staff are incredibly resilient with how they're responding to the overcrowding. Um, staff member sharing offices. Um, and it just it it concerns me, so I'd like to address it. Um and also wanted to call out principal s samples for her um innovative ways of handling the overcrowding when there literally is no space for anyone. Um and I think oftentimes we have to hear from parents over and over again to come and address us about the overcrowding. But this particularly would be a group of students where we're not hearing from parents, but that doesn't mean that those students don't need

118our help. Um thank you. Anyone else? is from Hong. So May is mental health awareness month. Um as we come to the end of the school year, we have many students who are excited with the seniors graduating. They're ending this chapter of their life um with high school and beginning a new chapter with their plans following high school. But this can also be a anxious time of year um because we have projects, tests, AP exams, etc. So, just want to remind the teachers, students, and staff to please be sure to take care of yourselves um with self-care and mental health. Um use those resources that are available. We even have talk space here in BCPS. Uh reach out to loved ones. Um there has been a stigma for too long of admitting that you need

119help or having trouble. And there is no shame in admitting that you're not fine. And there's no shame in seeking healing. So people do and they would understand. Um you are not a burden. You do not have to struggle alone. So break your silence, speak your truth, and heal. And we're healing together. Thank you. Thank you, Miss Fong for your comments. Um my comment is to Miss Pumphrey and Miss Foresight, not Miss Foresight, Miss Angavi. I just want to thank you for the words that you spoke um and the courage that you had to say that language matters and our children, our students, nobody deserves to be belittled through the language that is used. So, I really appreciate you both speaking up on behalf of our kids. The last item on the agenda are announcements.

120The board will hold a virtual public hearing on the FY2028 capital budget on Wednesday, May 13, 2026 at 6:30 p.m. This is for input on the upcoming capital projects budget process to be held this summer. Online registration opens tomorrow, May 6th, and closes at 3 p.m. on May 12th. The link to register is in board docs and can also be found on the participation by the public page. The board's next meeting will be held on Tuesday, May 19th, 2026 at Miss Pumphrey. I apologize for interrupting, but I forgot some one very important thing to say. Happy teacher appreciation day to our teachers and happy teacher appreciation week to our teachers. Thank you. But we're still going to have a meeting on the Tuesday, May 19th, 2026 at 6:30 p.m. Thank you everyone for joining us

121tonight. The meeting is now adjourned.