001We're ready when you are. Are you ready? Excuse me. Good afternoon. This is Vice Chair Robin Harvey presiding on behalf of Chair Jane Lter. I call to order the meeting of the board of education of Baltimore County for Tuesday, August 12th, 2025. This evening's board of education meeting is being broadcast through the BCPS online live meeting broadcast and on BCPS TV. Comcast Xfin Exfinity channel 73, Verizon Files channel 34. In order to efficiently 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 annotated code of Maryland general provisions article sections 3-305B1 and B7 to discuss the appointment employment assignment promotion discipline demotion compensation removal resignation or performance evaluation of appointees
002employees or officials over whom it has jurisdiction or any other personnel matter that affects one or more specific individuals and consult with counsel to obtain legal advice. So moved. Thank you, Miss Hen. Is there a second? May I have a second, please? Second, Young. Thank you, Mr. Young. May I have a roll call vote? Miss He? Yes. Miss Fong, can you hear us? I can. Yes. Thank you, Miss Harvey. Yes, Miss Aunbe. Yes, Mr. Luski. Yes, Dr. Seavoy. Yes, Mr. McMillian. Yes, Miss Pumprey. Miss Lter, Mr. Young. Yes. Miss Dominowski. Miss Booker Dwire. Thank you. Favor is eight. Thank you. This is Vice Chair Robin Harvey presiding on behalf of Chair Jane Licter. I now call to order the meeting of the board of education of Baltimore County for Tuesday, August 12th, 2025. I invite
003you to recite the pledge of allegiance to the flag with us. We will then have a moment of silence in recognition of those who have served education in Baltimore County. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Tonight's board of education meeting is being broadcast through BCPS online live meeting broadcasts and on BCPS TV, Comcast Xfinity channel 73, Verizon Fios channel 34. And 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 tonight is consideration of the August 12th agenda. Dr. Rogers, are there any additions or changes to tonight's agenda? I'm unaware of any changes
004to this evening's agenda. Thank you. Hearing none, the agenda stands as presented. Is there any discussion? Wait, I don't have it. Oh, I apologize. I skipped a section. Thank you. Earlier this evening, the board met in close. No, I'm excuse me. Apologies. Okay, thank you. Apologies everyone. Earlier in the in 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 more specific individuals and consult with councils to obtain legal advice. The closed session summary and the open session information summary can be found on board docs under the board meeting agenda date. The next
005item on the agenda is personnel matters and for that I call on Mr. McCall. Good evening, Vice Chair Harvey, Superintendent Dr. Rogers, and members of the board. Like the board's consent for the following personnel matters. We have retirements, resignations, leave, and deceased recognition of service. Do I have a motion to approve the personnel matters as presented in exhibits D1 through D4? So moved. Thank you, Miss Hen. Is there a second? Second. Young. Thank you, Mr. Young. Is there any discussion? May I have a roll call vote, please? Miss Hen, yes. Miss FPOM, yes. Miss Abe, yes. Miss Tleski, yes. Dr. Seavoy, yes. Mr. McMillian, yes. Mr. Young, yes. Mr. Dominowski, yes. Miss Harvey, yes. Thank you. Motion carries. Thank you. Thank you. The next item on the agenda is administrative appointments. And for that, I
006call on Dr. Rogers. Thank you, Madame Vice Chair Harvey, and members of the board. I'm bringing forward the following administrative appointments for your approval. Assistant Principal, Caitensville Elementary School, Cedar Mayir Elementary School, Dogwood Elementary School, Lancetown High School. manager, Office of Budget and Reporting and ERP, Infrastructure Engineer, Office of Enterprise Solutions. Do I have a motion to approve the personnel matters as presented in exhibit E1? So move Dominowski. Thank you, Miss Dominowski. Is there a second? Second from Second, Hen. Thank you, Miss Hen. Is there any discussion? May I have a roll call vote, please? Miss Hem, yes. Miss Fmpong, yes. Miss Aumpbe, yes. Missky, yes. Dr. Seavoy, yes. Mr. McMillian, yes. Mr. Young, yes. Miss Dominowski, yes. Miss Harvey, yes. Thank you. Motion carries. Uh, Dr. Rogers. Thank you. Our first appointment this evening
007is Christopher Bun. Please stand and be recognized. Christopher is attending this evening and is being appointed as the assistant principal at Lanstown High School. I also saw him with the principal of Lancetown High School, Allison Seymour, with 24 years of service with Baltimore County Public Schools. Prior experiences include music teacher at Lanstown High School, technology education teacher and music teacher at Papskco High School and Center for the Arts, and consulting teacher in the office of educator development. Congratulations. [Applause] Our next appointment is Alicia Kagnel. Alicia is attending this evening with her husband Chris and was appointed at the July 22nd board of education meeting as the principal at Lions Mill Elementary School. With five years of service with Baltimore County Public Schools, her prior experiences include elementary teacher at Lions Mill Elementary School and assistant
008principal at Cedar Elementary School. Prior to that, Alicia served as secondary teacher in Los Angeles Unified School District, language arts and social studies teacher in Mareno Valley Unified School District, and special education teacher in Howard County Public Schools. Congratulations. [Applause] Our next appointment is Christine Caringer. Christine is attending this evening with her husband Mike and was appointed at the July 22nd board of education meeting as the assistant principal at Deep Creek Elementary School. With 23 years of service with Baltimore County Public Schools, Christine's BCPS services include elementary teacher at Dundock Elementary and Lions Mill Schools, kindergarten teacher at Hearnwood Elementary and New Town Elementary Schools, and resource teacher at Woodmore Elementary School. Congratulations, Our next appointment is Kristen Miles. Kristen is attending this evening with her husband Ryan and her two wonderful sons. She is
009being appointed as the manager in the office of budget and reporting. With 17 years of service with Baltimore County Public Schools, Kristen's experiences include data specialist and data anal analyst, excuse me, in the office of budget and reporting and fiscal supervisor in the Department of Transportation. Congratulations. [Applause] Our next appointment is Anthony Schultz. Anthony is attending this evening with his wife, Anna Fitzgibbon, and I think I saw some cute kids with them. Three, as she signals. Um, Anthony was appointed at the July 22nd board of education meeting as the principal at H Hallstead Academy with 17 years of experience with Baltimore County Public Schools. His prior service includes elementary teacher at Hebvil Elementary, stat teacher at Powhatten, resource teacher in the office of academics, and assistant principal at Westtown Elementary School. Congratulations. Our next appointment
010is Morgan Sledge. Morgan is attending this evening with her parents Glenn and Lkesha James and is being appointed as the assistant principal at Dogwood Elementary School. With six years of service with Baltimore County Public Schools, Morgan's BCPS experience includes elementary teacher at Randlestown Elementary School and staff development teacher at Dogwood Elementary School. Congratulations. Our next appointment is Malik Soyas. Malik is attending this evening with his wife Ebony and is being appointed as the assistant principal at Cedar Elementary School with four years of service with Baltimore County Public Schools. Malik's prior experiences include community school facilitator and senior community school facilitator in the office of community schools. Prior to that, Malik served as dean of culture at Civic Leadership Academy in Kip, Baltimore, dean of students at Ascend Middle School, and director student support at the
011Baltimore Collegiate School for Boys. Congratulations. [Applause] Our next appointment is Joseph Ting. [Applause] Joseph is attending this evening with his wife Anastasia and is being appointed as the assistant principal at Kaitensville Elementary School. With 15 years of service with Baltimore County Public Schools, Joseph BCPS experiences include resource teacher and elementary teacher at Dundulk Elementary School, elementary teacher at Padonia Elementary School, and resource teacher, supervisor, and specialist in the office of mathematics. Congratulations Our next appointment is Tracy Transparanti. Tracy is attending this evening with her children, Jackson and Abigail, and was appointed at the July 22nd board of education meeting as the specialist comprehensive coordinated intervening services student support team in section 504. That's a lot. in the department of student support services with 25 years of service with Baltimore County Public Schools. Prior experiences include
012special education teacher at Victory Villa Elementary and Martin Boulevard, pre kindergarten teacher at Victory Villa, and resource teacher at Victory Villa Elementary School in the Department of Student Support Services. Prior to that, Tracy served as a special education teacher in Baltimore City Public Schools. Congratulations, Final appointment for the evening is watching virtually, Jamar Davis. Jamar is being appointed as the ERP infrastructure engineer in the office of enterprise solutions with two years of service with Baltimore County Public Schools. His prior experiences include ERP database administrator in the office of enterprise solutions. Prior to that, he served as a senior SQL database administrator at Sienna Corporation and database engineer at Dell Technologies. Congratulations and welcome back to BCPS. [Applause] Thank you, Superintendent Rogers, and congratulations to all of tonight's appointees. Our next item on the agenda is
013public 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 to the board members via email at boebcps.org. The Baltimore County Police Department's Homeland Security 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 forum 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
014such as language that promotes violence against a BCPS employee or 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 observe the 3minut 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. It do we have any elected officials? I will we do not have any school system affiliated speakers for tonight. So we'll move on to unions and Miss Kelly Ols from Tabco. Good evening, Acting Chair Harvey, Dr. Rogers, and members of the board. Thank you for the
015opportunity to speak tonight. Tonight is my first opportunity to address the board as the president of Tamco. I can't believe how quickly August has gone so far. educators report back next week and our new educators seemed really excited and ready at NEO yesterday. Watching our new teachers reminded me of when I started in BCPS some time ago. As a new teacher, there were many things I didn't know. But what I did know was that I wanted to be able to advocate for my students and help them to learn to advocate for themselves. Being able to stand up for and speak out about what you need is important and necessary to improve and for growth. Somehow, though not surprising if you know me, I ended up also speaking out for my colleagues and quickly learned the
016rights that we are afforded through our master agreement. Striving for improved work conditions for educators, which are the learning conditions for our students. Advoc advocacy is one of Tapco's values as well. I am grateful for the opportunity afforded to me in the position of of president to continue to advocate for our educators and students. Transparency is another value that I share with TAMCO. Clear, honest, and open communication is necessary to ensure that those you are serving know the work that is expected and being done. Transparency is also an important way to build trusting and collegial relationships within a group or organization. This typically includes a level of checks and balances throughout decision-making processes. I look forward to working with you as we advocate for our students and educators in a meaningful and transparent way. Thank
017you. Thank you. Our next group of speakers is our nonprofit community and I will call on Mr. Derek McFersonson. Okay, we will move on to our individual citizens or students group and our first speaker in that group is Miss Sharon Sirhal. Good evening. The last time I was up here, I noted some concerns about special education, summer school, and extended school year. BCPS continues with the onesizefitsall. That doesn't work. The result this summer has been partially compliance concerns and schools scrambling to get IEPs and placements done before the school start year starts. That's not happening. For many, several of my clients included, that's going to cause chaos. At the end of last school year, we lost several IEP facilitators. This is to add to the facilitators that we already lost in the middle of the
018school year. Remember those school psychologists? We lost a lot of them, too. And as a result, we couldn't do meetings in the month of July because assessments weren't getting done. I spent a lot of time on the phone trying to get assessments done. And I can tell you that I still don't know whether or not they were completed. Some of the providers because schools are scrambling went outside the be the special ed process to get things moving as in no 10day notice. Hi, your meeting's tomorrow. Uh, none on my watch. Um, wait a minute. I don't have my assessment information. You're supposed to have that to me five days ahead of time. move the meeting. The result is schools are scrambling to get assessments reviewed, IEPs written, eligibility made, and placements made all in one
019meeting next week. That doesn't work. Then on top of that, what did we do with students who needed summer school, who needed credit recovery? Well, it doesn't matter if you failed the class, you're in middle school, you just move to the next level. And I know that happens because I've had several clients dealing with that. I also know that I have several clients right now in obeyance, not knowing whether or not they got their credit recovered because they're now waiting to take the test until the beginning of the school year. What's wrong with this picture? Thank you. Our next speaker is John Elias. John Elias. Our next speaker is Ashley Styvers. All right. Hi, I'm Ashley Styver right next to me. I want to remind you guys, especially the superintendent last time I was here,
020it's your job to run these schools. It's your job, if you hear something, to do something about it. Hold your principles accountable. It's also your job not to threaten families. This child right here, you guys work for this child, this email right here, all of you should take a note and not smile, not laugh at it. You discriminated against my son, and ma'am, I hold you responsible because you did nothing about it. Now my son wants to finish his year out fifth grade. He wants public comment is not for individual cases. Can if you have a concern regarding the school system as a whole, we're happy to hear it. But we this is not the form to discuss an individual case. You guys work for this child. Our kids you get plenty of money for.
021Okay. We've been discriminated against Baltimore by Baltimore County. What are you going to do with that policy? Okay. Please don't cut me off. I'm finishing up from Mr. Mr. Charles to Mr. Paradise. Nothing has been done to hold them accountable. Miss Divers, no. No. I'm here to speak. I'm here to speak. Then do something about it. Do something. Superintendent, you were put underneath. Miss Styver, please. You were put underneath an investigation. Miss Styver, your public comment time is done. If you have concerns that you'd like to individually discuss, this is not the forum. Please leave the podium. Thank you so much. Make sure you guys follow. The next speaker is Bosch Ferrron. The next speaker is Bosch Ferrron. I'll go back to Mr. John Elias. Oh, Mr. Ferrone, Dr. Ferrone, I apologize for that. Usually,
022usually I see you immediately. Thank you. It's a long day. Chissy, when you're ready, Dr. Ferrero. Good evening to all. Happy summer. I hope you rested and I really hope that you think about what I'm going to say to you. As you know, I don't ask you for money or favor and I'm not looking to be a board member. But if a historian wants to talk about you, write about you, what a historian would write about you, you are really good people. you are decent people but what have you accomplished? So in your instance uh chair uh woman Harvey um you will be remembered really for basically the political decision of censoring Miss Damonki to me that's the only thing I could recall others basically making contracts reviewing policies um adopting principles assistant principles you
023know maintenance of effort so I have been in this business now watching the board studying it for at least 25 years and really hasn't changed the problems the same poor performance of students the same and most recently we the taxpayer including people who are working like myself paid you $3 billion for operating budget. This is not really even adding the other budget about buildings and so forth. And that's really an expensive bill. Looking at the results, the results are poor. And it's not just today or this year or last year. It has been consistent for the past two decades. So what does history say about the board of education? What did you accomplish? Maintenance of effort. That's really all what it is. You're not, you know, if you are going to make airplanes, it will
024never fly. If you're going to make electric car, it will never be on the road. It's maintenance of effort. You're not even listening to angry taxpayer. Not I'm really sorry. I I'm really frustrated, disappointed. We pay Nordstrom prices. We get Dollar General results. The next item on the agenda is the superintendent's report. And for that, I call on Dr. Rogers. Thank you, Vice Chair Harvey, members of the board. I'm pleased to provide the August report. Right. Next slide, please. The first update I wanted to provide was on new educator orientation. I believe Miss Ols uh referenced this and that we started yesterday with welcoming more than 470 new educators to team BCPS. The theme for this year is stronger together, building a culture of support and engagement. Um we had a wonderful keynote from our
025teacher of the year and really gives us uh this week gives us the opportunity to bring in new educators and to start uh providing them that necessary support that they need. Um you'll note on the slide where we have our day one sessions listed. All of our teachers received the skillful teacher book so that we are speaking the same language around uh pedigogy meaning specifically how we teach students, how we ensure that they are um they meet objectives with success. and we are just excited about the group of um teachers, nurses, counselors uh who have joined team BCPS. Slide please. We also wanted to provide a staffing update. On this slide, you'll see data for the last three years around this date. Last year, uh we had the board meeting on the 13th. Today, we
026are meeting on the 12th. Last year, we had over 120 vacancies. At this time, we have 55.7 FTEEs. Over the summer, human resources has done an excellent job in hosting seven summer hiring events. Um, last year, they had about 500 attendees. To date, they've had well over 1,600 attendees. And you'll note when we look at our schools, 74% of schools have no vacancies. um you have uh 23% of our schools with two or fewer vacancies and five schools that have more than two but less than four vacancies. So we are definitely very grateful to the department of human the division of human resources, the department of staffing in particular, all of our principles and assistant principles um as well as the division of schools and division of curriculum instruction who have participating in helping us
027to uh close the gap on teacher vacancies. I did uh thank you for that slide. This slide is a reminder to all of our families. If you have not uh tuned back into your email, please take a look at your email. Please go to our website. Um we have started our back to BCPS annual campaign that began on August 1st with a message uh with many updates for our families. The updated student handbook is available. There are ways for you to be connected. Um you see our logo for off and away. Last year if you recall we spent a year in a pilot in some of our secondary schools around cell phones responding to the feedback that we had received from our teachers from our parents um around the distractions for cell phones and this
028year is full implementation. Off and away is our expectation for every school every day that the devices are away. For students who do not yet have their MAC uh vaccinations, we are proud again for the second year in a row to be hosting a mobile vaccination uh clinic. Uh they will be out and about this weekend at our BCPS Fest and we also have uh the mobile uh vaccination clinic in a variety of locations throughout the month. All of this information is available on our website. Next slide, please. And as a gentle reminder, the first day of school where we welcome back more than 110,000 students is Monday, August 25th, 2025. So if you have a three, four, or fiveyear-old, um, now is the time to enroll your child. If you have not had an
029opportunity to do that, simply go to our website and all of the information that you need for enrollment and registration is available. I would like to uh thank Dr. Burquist as well as Dr. Shay who are leading our new educator orientation program. Um and all of the divisions for your uh work and collaboration including the division of schools, division of curriculum instruction, our operations division um for all of your help to make sure that we have a successful uh beginning of year for all of our educators before we welcome our students in a very short period of time. Thank you. Thank you. The next item on the agenda is the student board members report. Miss Agumbbe. Yes. Thank you. Good evening, Vice Chair Miss Harvey, Superintendent Dr. Rogers, staff and community members, and of course,
030the students of Baltimore County. I'm so honored to be delivering my second ever board report as the student member of the board. This past month has been both extremely busy and deeply educational. While I wish I could be there in person with you all this evening, I'm grateful for the chance to still share my update. Over the past several weeks, I have had the opportunity to take part in a number of incredible experiences that have helped me grow as a leader and as a representative of our students. One highlight was attending the Maryland Association of Student Council's 3-day presenter certification and executive board meeting in Montgomery County. Over the course of those three days, I not only had the honor of serving as an executive board member by virtue of my position as SMOB, but
031I also continued my service as one of MASC state legislative affairs coordinators. During the conference, I presented multiple workshops to students from across the entire state on effective workshop presentation skills, empowering them to share their voices confidently and meaningfully in their own schools and communities. These conversations reminded me that strong student leadership isn't just about holding a title. It's about equipping others to lead as well. I also had the privilege of attending the American Civil Liberties Union National Advocacy Institute for the second time. Returning to this program was just as fulfilling, if not more so, than my first experience. One of our key areas of discussion this year was education and school safety, topics that are central to my role here on the board. One of the most impactful moments from the program was participating
032in phone banking and meeting with various representatives and their staff. Throughout the program, we explored the challenges schools face in creating environments that both physically safe and emotionally supportive. and I left with new perspectives and strategies that I'm eager to bring back into our BCPS conversations. Closer to home, I was able to attend the BCPS partnership fair where I met with a variety of organizations from organizations from across Baltimore County. It was inspiring to hear about their missions and their ways and the ways that they're working to support our students whether through mentorship, health services, extracurricular programs, or community engagement. These partnerships remind me how interconnected our school system is with within the broader community and how much potential there is when we collaborate toward shared goals. In just a few days, I will be
033attending the B the annual BCPS fest, a celebration of the back to school season in our BCPS family. This event is a is such a great way to start the year by bringing together students, families, staff, and community partners. In the same spirit of celebrating the new school year, I had the opportunity to launch the back to BCPS school campaign alongside Franklin High School principal Okonnell, Mr. Okonnell, setting a tone of excitement, unity, and high expectations for the year ahead within the Baltimore County Student Councils. Through my role as SMB, I also serve on the officer team where this past month, we reviewed over 100 applications and appointed 40 executive board members. I will specifically be overseeing the county affairs department which focuses on mental health support and school safety, two priorities that remain at
034the forefront of our work this year. Through BCSD, I will also be in attendance at all monthly board of board of selected students meetings led by our vice president Sam Park, which provide invaluable insights from students across every part of our county. Looking ahead on August 18th, I will attend the Maryland Association of Boards of Education student board member orientation. This will be an important opportunity to collaborate with other board members across the state, exchange ideas, and strengthen my ability to effectively represent Baltimore County students. This past month has been a whirlwind, but each experience has deepened my belief in the power of student voices and community collaboration. Progress has been made and we've taken steps forward in important conversations. I'm looking forward to continuing to listen, learn, and lead alongside all of you in
035the months ahead. Thank you. Thank you, Miss Ambbe. The next item on the agenda is unfinished business consideration of board policies. This is the second reader for these policies and for that I call on Miss Frim Pong, vice chair of the policy review committee. Miss Fong. Good evening 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 1270, parent and family engagement. The second one is board policy 5210, grading and reporting. These policies are presented to you on tonight's agenda as exhibits I1 and I2. Thank you, Miss Fong. May I have a motion to accept the recommendation of the board's policy review committee for board policies 1270 and 5210? So moved. Hen. Thank you, Miss Hen. No second
036is needed since the recommendation comes from the committee. Is there any discussion? May I have a roll call vote, please? Miss Hem, yes. Miss Fren, yes. Thank you. Miss Abe. Yes. Miss Dleski. Dr. Seavoy. Yes. Mr. McMillian. Thank you. Mr. McMillian, yes. Mr. Young, yes. Miss Dominowski, yes. Miss Harvey, yes. Thank you. Motion carries. Thank you. The next item on the agenda is action taken in close session. And for that, I call on Mr. Burns. Madam Chair, members of the board, Dr. Rogers, uh I can report tonight there are no matters requiring consideration open session uh with respect to matters in close session. Thank you, Mr. Burns. The next item on the agenda is contract awards. I'm sorry, sir. I'd like to say something before we get into contracts regarding contracts. I mean, we have
037Well, can we hold that discussion for when we actually get into contracts? Go ahead and start us off. The next item on the agenda is contract awards. And for that, I call on Mr. Young, chair of the building and contracts committee. Thank you, Miss Harvey. Members of the board, the board's building and contracts committee met on Monday, August 11, 2025. Items K2 through K11 were forwarded to the full board for approval. Item K1 was forwarded to the full board without a recommendation from the committee. Thank you, Mr. Young. Uh board members, we will separate item K1 for the vote. Are there any additional separations requested? Do I have a motion to approve items K through through K11? So moved. Hen. Thank you, Miss Hen. No second is needed since the recommendation comes from the committee.
038Is there any discussion? Mr. McMillian, did you want to make comments? Not on those contracts. Thank you. Is there any discussion? May I have a roll call vote, please? Miss Hen, yes. Miss FPOM, yes. Miss Abe, yes. Miss Dleski. Dr. Seavoy. Yes. Mr. McMillian. Yes. Miss Licter. Yes. Mr. Young. Yes. Miss Dominowski, yes. Miss Harvey, yes. Thank you. Motion carries. Thank you. Do I have a motion to approve item K1? Stor is there. Thank you. Is there any discussion? Mr. McMillian, I think this is the time for me to talk. I'm not a very eloquent speaker and I'm not going to pretend that I can do that. Uh, I'm going to I'm going to say I'm going to say this. Approximately a week ago, eight or nine days ago, I received a phone call. Somebody
039shared some information about this contract. And I wasn't going to specifically say this contract, but because of the the nature of the way this has played out, it's this contract. I listened to what the individual had to say. I went back. I'm the kind of person if somebody calls me, I'm going to try to help them or I'm going to try to answer their questions. I'm going to engage. I'm going to listen to them. I'm going to be an active listener. I'm going to engage with them. So when the individual shared the information with me, I went back and I started asking questions. I try to gather information so that I can come up with a with an informed decision with it. Uh so yesterday I go into the contract committee, we talked about this
040contract, I asked numerous questions about it. Uh the timeline was such that today at as I was on my way to this meeting, I received an email and I've been accused of targeting a contract award winner to assist another organization. And that is nonsense. I wasn't favoring anybody over anybody. I was concerned about the process and I think that as as governance, we talk about governance and policym I think that that I I interpret that as governance is that's part of my responsibilities. You know, I don't I'm not I'm not an employee of Baltimore County Public Schools. I'm a elected representative. I try to to I'm responsible to myself and to the people that voted for me. And I that's my responsibility. I don't appreciate it being targeted. And and then what so what happened
041with this comment was it went from this individual to this individual to this individual, from that individual, then it went over to the lawyers. And then it was recommended to me that I not talk about this and that I recuse myself and and that's not me and I'm not going to do that. And if I got something to say, I'll say it. And if I vote, I'll vote the way that I want to vote. And if somebody wants to do whatever they want to do to me, then go ahead and do it. I mean, at this point in my life, go ahead and do it. Thank you very much for letting me to say what I wanted to say. Thank you. Is there any other discussion or questions? Miss Dominowski, I just I unfortunately I
042wasn't able to watch or catch up on the contract committee meeting from last night, but I wanted to know um this contract it looked like um there's a separate vendor for every sport. Is that the way that it was present? Is that the way it was, you know, listed or solicited? Pardon me, Miss Dominowski. I'm going to have staff come forward so they can respond. Thank you. Good evening, Miss Delmanowski. I'll take that question as it's a purchasing related question. Yes, there are a a few of these suppliers who provide uh officials for multiple sports, particularly the women's sports, but as a general rule, there is one referee umpire official organization for each sport. But is that a is that a I guess I'm confused because if you're if you we need to fill the
043ref positions, why would we limit ourselves to one per vendor? We have never had a problem filling the positions with a single provider per sport. So if you don't have I guess is it do you turn someone away from um a vendor a v would you turn a vendor away who would do multiple sorts? No ma'am. We have at least one of the vendors who does provide multiple sports. Okay. So, it's not solicited as we can only accept one vendor per sport. So, you would never deny someone because they were a vendor of another sport. So, let me rephrase and see if that helps. the uh the one organization, the women's organization, they provide officials for I believe it's three different women's sports. Um some of the organizations only provide officials for a single sport.
044Um we the solicitation process and the evaluation process was low bid per sport. So if you had two suppliers who provided pricing for the same sport, we selected the lowest price for that sport. Does that help? So these are every bid that you accepted for a sport is because that bid was the lowest and not because they had multiple they were covering multiple sports. That is correct. Okay. Thank you. Mhm. Are there any other I see you Mr. McMillan. Are there any other questions or discussion? Mr. McMillian, Miss Webster, yesterday when we were talking about the solicitations, I asked you if you could find that in writing and did you I'm sorry I did not get a chance to do that. I will take care of that. Okay. And then secondly, you said that you
045would have to when I think it was Miss Hen asked you if you could pull that away, if we could separate that particular contract under question away from the others. And if I think your response was I have to think about that. That was my response. Yes, sir. We cannot do that. Um it calls into question um the appearance. Why are we separating that one vendor from the entire from all the rest? And that gives the appearance of impropriety. Yeah. And and and is am I accurate when yesterday used the example that we can't you used other contracts as an example where you send out a solicitation, you get numbers. Maybe sort of like the the vendors that do embroidery and that kind of thing. There would be a lot of different people that do
046that, right? And so a lot of them are awarded those contracts. Correct. Yes. But they're not all the same price in contract, right? They would vary, wouldn't they? That is correct. Okay. But in this case, the the contracts under question are are two specific organizations that have somebody giving you your 30 second note. Okay. So, he's still doing it, huh? Okay, Miss Webster. Thank you. Thank you, Miss Dominowski. So, just just a quick followup. So, when you say that you didn't turn away the vendor because it was you weren't able to like single out that per sport. It was that vendor. It was a total contract including both sports that was more than the single vendor with one sport. So, you don't know necessarily if by itself it was less. Is that making sense? I'm
047sorry. No, it's not. Well, I'm conf What I'm saying is like if you have one vendor doing multiple sports and you have another vendor coming in that wants to do one of those sports, how do you know that the vendor that's doing two sports is less than the vendor that just wants the one sport to take away? Is that making sense? Yeah, I think I can answer that question. So for for each sport, the lowest the lowest vendor, the lowest supplier is chosen. So let's say uh there's a there's a supplier who bids on three sports because they they can provide service for three different sports. In two of the three, they're the lowest supplier. They have the lowest cost. They would be awarded for those two sports, but not the third. Okay. Does that
048answer your question? Yes. Yes, it does. Thank you. Mi Miss Hen, thank you. So my question is procedural as well. Um following up on Mr. McMillan's question, then what is the difference between an embroidery contract for instance and a sports efficient um contract where we award the contract to multiple embroidery companies each with different rates versus efficients where we may choose one over the other based on um something other than price. for instance, um quality of service, you know, where schools make that determination ver and in this case perhaps availability of a ref. Um and and I know Miss Webster, you said we haven't had that difficulty in the past, but perhaps we do run into that. Um it would seem that having that flexibility or having options would be a good thing. And can
049can someone comment on that? And who made the determination that we were only going to limit it to it? And I'm also interested because it was my question as Mr. McMillian stated as to where in the solicitation was it specified that we were limiting this to one um vendor per sport. So that's multiple questions. If you need me to repeat any of that I will. I can speak in general. The method of award is outlined in the solicitation and the method of award is developed in partnership with the office who is going to be using the contract. In this case, it would have been with uh Mr. Sai and that method of award will indicate whether you have multiple award vendors or single award vendors. And in the history of this contract, has this method
050of award been consistently a single vendor per It's been consistently one vendor per sport. And have we consistently received? We have consistently received Yes. Okay. M 30 seconds. Mr. Mcmillion. Miss Webster, refresh my memory on the question yesterday about a rubric that you guys use to evaluate the contracts. That is correct. You use a rubric, correct? We have criteria that we use to evaluate every solicitation. Yes. And and and refresh my memory too is is experience as an organization one of those things. References that they provide as an organization are part of that. We also require a level of experience um that they have been in business providing this service for a certain number of years. Yes. Okay. Now, when you say this service, you're talking about providing high school soccer officials, assigning high school
051soccer officials to cover games. That's the service. So, I think that's a very specific question to a specific sport within the solicitation. So the solicitation itself would say that the supplier would need to have been in business and have qualified MPSSA certified referees for example. Okay. Thank you. Miss H. Thank you. My followup is to Miss Webster. Um when I had asked about separating these contracts out because they are eight individual contracts, I offered another um potential solution of separating all eight and not singling any particular vendor out to avoid the appearance of impropriy. Is that an option that you um had time to consider between our committee meeting yesterday and tonight? We considered several options and we came to the conclusion that separating them out was not a viable option. Can you comment on
052why it deviates from our current practice which leaves us open to audit findings and um it there there are times in a solicitation where an incumbent doesn't win the contract. So this is one of those times. In the past, the board has requested updated contract recommendation exhibits for any number of reasons because the terms are not clear because the structuring of the contract recommendation does not meet the board's desired action on that contract recommendation. and staff have graciously returned at a subsequent board meeting with a contract recommendation that is formatted in such a way that it meets the board's desired outcome because we can only vote up or down on a contract recommendation. So if there are members that would had their preference, we would rather vote up to approve a recommendation that met those
053specifications rather than vote down on a format that did not meet those specifications and for the mutual benefit of everyone. So my my recommendation or proposed solution was to separate them out so that board members could act according to their preferences which is why I made that that recommendation. So I I hear what you're saying. Thank you. Uh thank you Miss Hen. Mr. Young Mr. Young, I'm sorry, didn't get off mute. Um, thank you, Miss Harvey. Any previous modifications that Miss Hen has spoken about were was only for clarifying information. It was not separating out various vendors within a contract. Additionally, I think we are um diving deeply down into the weeds on this and this is getting to be an uncomfortable conversation when you have a board member who basically is talking about a
054contract and a particular vendor and that they've been advised to recuse themsel from voting on because of a possible connection. Um, so we should, you know, move this along and vote on this contract. Thank you, Miss Harvey. You're welcome, Mr. Young. May I have a roll call vote? Miss Hen, recuse. Miss Funk, yes. Miss Abe, yes. Mr. Dleski abstain. Dr. Seavoy abstain. Mr. McMillian. No. Mr. Young, yes. Miss Dominowski, no. Sorry. Miss Leicter, yes. Miss Harvey, yes. Motion does not care. Favor is five. Sorry. the next item on the agenda. Pardon me, Miss Harvey. Yes, I'm Yes, sir. I'm sorry to interrupt. Um, so I want a clarification. that since this contract has been voted down, that means the current one will run till I believe Miss Webster said September 1st and after that, what
055is the impact? Point of order. Madam Chair, this is not on the agenda and we're on to the next agenda item. Understood. Uh I would ask that the uh Dr. Rogers, that you provide that information to the board regarding the impact of uh not approving this contract after uh the current one expires in September, please. Yes. Um I believe this contract ends on September 30th and this is this will impact fall sports officially. Well, please provide that information to the board. We'll move to the next uh agenda item. The next item on the agenda is a report and consideration of the magnet programs update. And for that I call on Dr. Elmondorf. Good evening virtual chair Lter, Vice Chair Harvey, Superintendent Rogers, and members of the board. Um, tonight's presentation is to provide an annual
056report on magnet programs as described in BCPS board policy 6400. Go to the next slide, please. Uh we provided the definition here for you like we do every year. This is the definition that is within policy 6400. Uh we do have over 18,800 magnet students representing nearly 17% of our BCPS student population that are enrolled in one of 116 magnet programs at one of 32 locations. Next slide, please. Tonight we will discuss with you two types of updates to BCPS magnet programs. continue pauses, as you can see there in the yellow, as well as program sunsets, as you can see in the blue. A continued pause allows a magnet program to continue the pause the process for one additional year of taking new applicants. A sunset occurs when a magnet program no longer accepts applications
057with the intent to completely end the magnet program over an extended period of time. Next slide, please. Before we get into specific updates, it's important to understand that neither of the two types of updates, as described in the previous slide, will impact the participation in magnet programming for students currently enrolled in magnet programs or those who will be admitted in the fall of 25 in just a couple weeks. All proposed updates would apply to the upcoming application cycle, which opens in the fall, but it's for school year 2627. And of course appropriate staffing and funding will continue to support the programming um as appropriate. Next slide please. So we are proposing that we continue the pause on taking applications for the international baloria magnet programs at our two elementary IB schools as well as our
058three middle school IB schools. One of the reasons as we discussed last year was that four is that four of the five schools are identified by MSDE as schools in improvement status. So CSI or ATSI. Also, the continued pause will allow the schools to maintain their tighter focus on BCPS core curriculum and programmatic adjustments that need to be made in order to improve academic performance. The continued pause, I'll remind you from last year, is allowable under IB. And during this pause, the IB evaluation timeline also pauses. All schools would maintain their IB status, and the community would certainly be notified of the pause. Next slide, please. Milford Mill Academy acting and literacy arts programs are proposed to be sunset. As a reminder, these programs were approved last spring to be paused and no applications were
059accepted for fall 24 for school year 2526. We are also proposing discontinuing the strings and band and replacing these programs with instrumental music, which is a magnet program that exists in other schools. As you may recall, last year the board of ed approved a pause to um Milford Mills strings program as well. Beginning in the fall 25 magnet application for 2627, uh Milford Mill will begin taking applicants to the uh instrumental music magnet program for both strings and band. And then the Milford um academy, Milford Mill Academy Sunset would complete in June 28. The remaining magnet programs at Milford form Mill Academy, which aren't mentioned here, would remain and can continue to take applications. In um as a data point, the past magnet application from fall 23 cycle, um Milford Mill Academy received seven applications
060for 20 seats in instrumental music strings and five applications for 20 seats in acting. And as you can imagine, those numbers are not strong enough to maintain or sustain the program. Next slide, please. The Japanese World Language Magnet Program is proposed to Sunset. Japanese as a world language is not offered at any BCPS high school. Therefore, the magnet program does not afford students a vertical pathway. The Sunset would begin by not taking grade six applications in fall 25 for school year 2627. The sunset would be completed by June 2029. Additionally, tonight we propose the phase out of the literary arts magnet program at Papskco High School and Center for the Arts due to low interest and a lack of direct connection to the addition that is scheduled to take place for renovation. Um, as a
061data point, as I shared in the previous model, there were 24 applicants for literary arts. Of those 21 applied to of those 21 applied to grade nine, two to grade 10, and one to grade 11. Those numbers again are hard to sustain going forward. At this point, I want to turn it over to Leanne to talk about magnet and CTE programs. Good evening. Um this evening I am going to share a second update um that is related to our CTE programs and our magnet programs. The challenge we face and quite frankly have faced for many years in BCPS is that some of our CTE programs are available as both magnet programs and then also available as CTE programs of study in our comprehensive schools. As Dr. Elundorf shared with you, magnet programs are as accessed
062through an application process whereas the comprehensive school offerings are not accessed through an application pro uh uh process. In fact, I've had this conversation with several board members with confusion over why are they available as as both options. So, tonight we propose phase one of um a strategic plan to kind of decouple our CTE and magnet programs so that programs of study, our CTE programs of study are either available as a magnet option or as a CTE program of study um at our comprehensive schools. And with our goal is to provide consistency and cohesion across all of our schools with these programs. Next slide, please. So the um the first proposal is around our engineering project lead the way uh uh program. As you can see here, this program is available at nine BCPS schools.
063Two of these schools are magnet schools currently, Parkville High School and Woodlon High School. And at the other other seven schools, engineering project lead the way is available as a comprehensive CTE program. The proposal is to um phase out the magnet program, engineering project lead the way at Parkville and Woodlon, meaning those schools would no longer take applicants this fall. The programs could in fact remain in place at these schools because they have students coming in from across the boundary. So the programs would remain at these schools. Students simply would not access them. If approved this evening, that would allow uh engineering project lead the way to be consistently offered across all nine high schools as a CTE pro program of study. And also if approved um we would begin with this application season uh
064fall of 2025 taking applications for 2026 or in fact not taking applications for school year 26 for grade nine and the phase out would be completed by June of 2030. So the students at those two schools currently in the magnet program would finish those out. Next slide please. So also in phase one, we are looking at the mechanical construction plumbing careers program. This CTE program is currently available at two of our high schools, Western School of Technology and Kenwood High School. It is a magnet program at Western School of Technology. It is a CTE program of study at Kenwood. Um the proposal uh for this program is a little bit different. Uh we are proposing that this uh program be eliminated at Western School of Technology, remain in place at Kenwood, but at Western we
065would substitute the mechanical construction plumbing careers program with our building construction or BCT program. Um this is a program that looks at four aspects of construction. And I'm going to check my notes because I am not an expert on construction. It does include plumbing, but it also includes HVAC, carpentry, and electrical. So, students would get kind of that broad range approach um with the shift. Um it would align with BCT that is available as a magnet program in Eastern Tech, Carver, Milford Mill, and Solers Point Technical. So, again, we would have consistency there with how the programs are offered. Again, Kenwood would continue to offer um the mechanical construction plumbing program as a CTE program of study. And again, it separates our programs with clean lines. They're available as magnet programs or not as magnet
066programs. Next slide, please. And then the final uh change we are proposing this evening is around graphic print communications. Again, this program is currently available at two of our high schools. Western School of Technology again as a magnet program. Kenwood High School as a CTE program of study. We are actually proposing that both schools become or maintain magnet status. So Western would have no change. They continue to take applicants and the change at Kenwood would mean that students would apply to the graphic prints communication program. It would become a magnet program at Kenwood High School. Um what this change means is currently if students uh live in the Kenwood boundary and they come to Kenwood and choose to participate um those students would now simply apply in that process. Um, if approved, we would begin
067taking applications in fall of 2025 for school year uh 2627. And again, our goal is alignment. This would mean that the graphic print communications was only available as a magnet offering. Next slide, please. So we will continue to explore and analyze magnet programming across our system including expansion of existing programs and new innov magnet programs as a part of our annual process um and in uhformational updates that we provide to this board. Um as these recommendations are developed we will continue to present to this board of educ Thank you. And are there any questions? One minute Mr. McMillion, we need a motion to uh approve the magnet program updates as presented in exhibit L. Is there a motion? So move Young. Do I have a second? Thank you, Mr. McMillion. Thank you, Mr. Young. Mr.
068McMillian, we're in discussion. Please proceed. What what's the difference between the the carpet and plumbing program whatever in Eastern versus what's so Eastern Tech has building construction technology which includes those four programs. Let's see if I remember them off my top of my head. There's plumbing, HVAC, construction, and I do have to look at my notes. Electrical. Thank you. Um and so it's uh it is that BCT model where the students participate in kind of all four as opposed to just a plumbing focus. When you said technology is there on the computer? I do not believe so Mr. Soul technology relates around the actual career fields that are being explored. Right. So it would be technology that's related to carpentry or electric electricity or the other two fields. So do you have any slots available
069at Eastern? Um not off the top of my head. Typically, it's a class size, so about 25 students, but it could be give or take a little bit. Thank you. Are there other questions, Miss Dominoski? Just one really quick. Um, how many or if any students will be immediately affected by the continued pause and sunset? None. If you none, none. Okay. Thank you, Miss Fong member Fong. Thank you. Um, so from slide 12, I'm sorry, slide nine, we're talking about Parkville High School and Woodlon High School with Project Lead the Way. So, as it is currently between the magnet school offering and the CTE, how many seats are currently being offered? at each school ac or across all nine schools. Miss Rammo, so for Parkville High School and Woodlon High School are the ones based
070on that slide, it says it's magnet school and CTE. So for those two schools, how many seats are being offered currently? So again, it's about a class size. 20 to 25 students in each program are what we're offering. Um, Woodlon doesn't always fill all of their seats. Um, Parkfield typically does. So, it's just 20 to 25. So, the between 40 to 50 across both schools. Yes. Okay. So, then once the Magnus School offering is removed, how many seats are going to be offered? So, both of those schools would still be able to run and um their engineering project lead the way. It would be for students enrolled at Parkville High School and students enrolled at Woodlon High School. There would be no application process. So they could still run those classes at those schools. It
071doesn't mean the programs would go away. So understood. I was just trying to understand the difference in size. So right with the it's a district school and so just students now who live in that Parkville area or Woodlong area would attend. But is it still going to be able to I guess meet the needs of 40 to 50 students or is it going to decrease in size? The number of students that can be serviced through that through the CTE program would be the same. Okay. Okay. Got it. Great. Thank you. And then for slide six where it talks about um the sun setting of the programs between Mill formill Academy where there's the acting and then Patapsco um with the literary arts program. So, we heard the numbers that um it really wasn't a lot
072of applications for those seats, but I guess systemwide are we seeing other acting programs or other literary arts programs on the decline? Um acting is available also at Papsco and Carver and they fill their program each year. Um the literary arts program has continued has originated at Carver and it's continued to fill its program each year. So then it sounds like it's something specific to this I guess these particular schools and so I guess would Carver be the only option or what would be the other options for students who were still interested in pursuing the acting program or the literary arts programs in their area because I would guess going from a top school to a Carver is a is a is a big distance. So are there any kind of other local programs for
073those students in those areas? So my understanding 15 seconds, Miss Frman. I I'm not in the office of fine arts, but my understanding is there's theater or acting programs in almost all of our comprehensive high schools. So students have that opportunity at their home school. Carver transports for the entire county. So any student in the county who wants to participate in their literary arts or acting program has the opportunity to do that with transportation. and Pepsco High School transports for the entire east side. So students that want to participate in their acting program are able to do so. Great. Thank you. And then last question from slide 10. With the change for the Western School of Technology, um does that impact any of the certifications that the students would be able to receive with the
074change in the programs? I would have to check on the exact IRC's that are associated with medical construction plumbing as opposed to building construction technology. I don't have the IRC information off the top of my head. Okay. Thank you. Thank you, Miss. Yes. Thank you. um those students who might be interested in the magnet um program at Parkville and High, the engineering project lead the way. Um do we know if their home schools would would offer the same program as a CTE offering? Do we know where they're coming from now and if they would have that same opportunity at their home schools after this expansion? So, Project Lead the Way um is available uh currently as a magnet program at Parkville and Woodlon. Um it's also available at Caitensville High School, Chesapeake High School, Delaney
075High School, Dunduck High School, Owings Mills, Perry Hall, and Pikesville. So, there are quite a few schools that offer the engineering project lead the way. Um, I believe that if students wish to participate in a CTE program that's not available at their home school, um, they can pursue a special permission transfer to access that program at another school. Okay. Have we specifically looked though at those patterns to see where our magnet applicants are coming to Parkville from? those that are interest based on our current patterns um of magnet applicants since we said that Parkville is f talking about Parkville but also um Woodlon but Parkville is filling their um engineering project lead the way class are they pulling from mostly students zone for Parkville are they pulling from overly are they do we know what
076those trends are and have we considered expanding the program to the the schools that are drawing students or is it too small of a sample size to really make those correlations? So, I don't have exact numbers of applicants and from what feeder schools that they um they have come from. That's information I would need to get. Okay. Uh I have a question. I think it's along the lines uh of Miss Frim Punk's question. I attended a meeting at Western and talked to several students who were in the plumbing program uh and uh their ability to get their certifications and have internships as well as uh our partners in the community plumbing companies. Having kind of that feeder uh training program and being able to kind of build their own uh team from those students was
077uh very important. And so I'm also interested in the difference between what students will be able to achieve in terms of their certifications if they if the program switches from mechanical construction, I'm not quite sure what that is, if someone could explain it to me, and plumbing uh versus a broader kind of uh inclusion of these four different disciplines. So, I can certainly get back to this board with the industry recognized credential information off the top of my head. I don't have the IRC's connected with each of those separate magnet programs or I'm sorry, CTE programs. See, I'm mixing them myself now. Thank you. Are there any additional questions? May I have a roll call vote, please? Miss Hen. Yes. Miss Fol. Um, abstain. Miss Agome. Yes. M. Stleski. Yes. Dr. Seavoy. Yes. Mr. McMillian.
078Yes. Mr. Young. Yes. Miss Dominowski? Yes. Miss Harvey? Yes. Miss Lter? Miss Leicter favor is eight. Motion carries. Thank you everyone. Thank you. The next item on the agenda is consideration of the revised 2025 2026 school calendar. And for that I call on Miss Charlie Green and Miss Bilski. Good evening, Vice Chair Harvey, Dr. Rogers, members of the board. I'm here tonight with Miss Bilski to present for the board's consideration proposed changes to the 2025 2026 school year calendar. I will turn it over to Miss Bilski to go through the proposed changes. Thank you. Good evening. As part of the agreement with Tabco reached during mediation um subject to board revision of the school system calendar, our request includes um to change the Wednesday before Thanksgiving to a half-day remote PD and half day mental
079health. That was the the mediation request. Um because state law requires that there be 180 school days. um the Wednesday before Thanksgiving cannot be changed to a a half-day PD um and remote PD and a half-day mental health without extending the school year. So, in collaboration with Tabco and President Olds and gaining feedback from teachers, the alternative request is as follows. addition of November 14th, 2025 and February 20th, 2026 as threehour early early release days for students to provide teachers the opportunity to engage in professional development. The current calendars does not have any professional development days between November and March. And then November 26, the day before Thanksgiving, the proposal is for that to be a half day for students and a half day mental um health early release for teachers. Do I have a
080motion to approve the revised 2025 2026 school calendar as presented in exhibit M? I'm sorry. So move Victor. One moment. There's Wait a minute. Okay. Excuse me. Everyone, what's this state? Apologies. Let me repeat that. Revised. Do I have a motion to approve the the revised 2020? I thought I said that. The revi I thought I said that. Thank you. The revised 2025 2026 school calendar as presented in exhibit M as amended. Do I have a motion? Thank you, Miss. Is there a second? Seavoy. Thank you. Is there any discussion? Mr. McMillian on that November 26. So when you realize that you couldn't do that because 180 days. Correct. So then you went back and you came up with those two. Now is that something that BCPS came up with or was the mediator involved
081in that too? The mediator was not involved. We collaborated with Tabco to work it out and then you came up. Great. Thank you. You're welcome. Miss Dominowski, um my question is does this affect um 12-year employees, I mean 12 month employees the same as it affects 10-month employees? And what I mean by that is um with taking that day off um before the Wednesday instead of doing the half day on Wednesday before Thanksgiving and just having the day off and then adding the um June 17th, does that give um 12-month employees an extra day off that they didn't already have? No. No, it doesn't. No, because they would be already working on June 17th, but they wouldn't be but they wouldn't have been working on So they would have been working already June 17th, but
08210-month employees wouldn't have been. So it does give them an extra day. The 10-month employees per the mediation would have been working that day before Thanksgiving. It would have been a half day PD, half day um early release. 12 months would have done the same thing on that day. And to clarify, are we talking about the day before Thanksgiving? Because I thought, did you say June 17th? What day? Right. But you added June 17th as No, we didn't add it. We did not add it. They did not want to add it because they were So, we put students back students will be in school for a half day on the day before Thanksgiving versus a whole day off and we did not extend the school calendar to the 17th. You did not extend this calendar.
083That's correct. So by making the 26th a half day for students, it eliminated the need. So why does it say uh the school year was extended by one day on June 17th? It would have had to have been if we closed for students the day before Thanksgiving because students will be in the building half day. We don't need to extend. We'll have we'll have the 180 days. So, but I don't I'm still kind of confused. Miss Dominowski, if I could if I could try. So, you have an exhibit uh Miss Bilski referenced working together with Tabco. Um that's why the statement was made as amended. Uh Tabco pulled their membership to find out if they wanted to extend the school year or they wanted to come in. overwhelming majority. President Ols stated they did not
084want to extend the school year to June 17th. That explains it. Thank you. Thank you, Dr. Rogers. Miss Hen, um I think that answers my question. It clarifies it because the the description we have and for the public at home, our public content description seems outdated. the the description of the changes that were made were prior to the conversation that I'm hearing with Miss Olds in terms of correct that is correct. Okay. So, if if I may make the request, Madam Vice Chair, for that to be updated so that our public understands absolutely what what we're voting on. Um and were did any discussions take place that would have um resulted in full a full day solution versus half days? Because we know that ideally for instruction the the full day is an optimal solution
085for our students and and for teaching and learning versus two half days and and that would have been my preference in seeing this. It sounds like that's what what our preference was as well in proposing extending it by a day at the end of the year. Um, this does not seem ideal for our our student learning, but was that conversation something we we had or offered? So, yes, thank you. Our preference would have been a full day, but it's the 180day requirement um that brought us to this solution. So that if we did it on one of the other days, we would still have to extend the school day uh the school year in order to meet the 180day requirement for students. Okay. Thank you. Are there any other questions hearing? None. May I have
086a roll call vote, please? Miss Ham, no. Miss Faul. Thank you. Miss Abe. Yes, Mr. Leki. Yes, Dr. Seavoy. Yes, Mr. McMillian. Yes, Miss Licter. Yes, Mr. Young. Yes, Miss Dinowski. Yes, Miss Harvey. Yes. Motion carries. Thank you. The next item on the agenda is the report on the proposed FY2027 state capital budget request. And for that, I call on Dr. Grim. Good evening, Vice Chair uh Harvey, Superintendent Dr. Rogers and members of the board. Uh I'm here this evening with Miss Leslie Lazeri, director of facilities construction and improvement and Mr. Dean Symeck, manager uh facilities construction and improvement. We are here this evening to present to you the FY2027 state capital budget request for your information. Next slide, please. This slide provides the schedule for the FY2027 capital budget request. After tonight's introduction, there
087will be a board work session on August 26th, followed by your vote on September the 9th. Next slide, please. This slide shows the priority order of the FY2027 state capital budget request and it's been provided as a separate item as well um on its own. Next slide, please. Please note the FY2027 state capital budget request looks different than submissions in the past. Per note number one, this request is formatted to the new state requirement that all projects are listed in strict priority order. In the past, we had some flexibility uh with our list that uh we could move projects to some degree with the IA depending on uh funding need. Um, beginning last year, uh, they actually mid-process last year, uh, they wanted to see a strict priority order. Next slide, please. For FY2026, BCPS
088received just over $40 million in state capital funding. Based on July estimates, BCPS may receive just under 37 million in state capital funding for FY2027. However, the IA is sometimes able to secure additional funding and BCPS needs to be prepared for this possibility. Further, some projects may be funded through grants or other income. Thus, the state funding priority list includes projects totaling almost $49 million for FY2027. And we know, for example, that we have some schools um in the healthy schools funding program um that has helped us with a number of roof replacements that we may be able to pull off this list because they'll be funded in some other ways. Next slide, please. As a result of anticipated state funding for FY2027, the strict priority order includes capital needed for the Delaney High School
089replacement project and the Scots Branch Elementary School replacement project, but also systemic needs, including chiller, intercom, buller, and roof replacements that represent immediate capital needs. If state capital funding exceeds what is estimated, funding for planning and design for future product projects will continue. Thank you for your report, Dr. Grim and team. Board members, please submit any questions you may have on the proposed FY2027 state capital budget request to Dr. Rogers by Tuesday, August 19th, 2025 for discussion at the August 26, 2025 board work session. Thank you. The next item on the agenda is information. I'm sorry. Oh, pardon me, Madam Vice Chair. Um, in addition to the questions, could I ask for a list of built to projects funded using built tolearn or other funding sources in addition to the um state capital request so
090that we may see what projects are currently um in the pipeline or being prioritized but perhaps funded using other sources for this for the comparable in order to formulate our questions. Is that information that the board could receive? I would I would request that you put it in a question to the superintendent request to request that information. Okay. Thank you. The next item on the agenda is the first item is the quarter 4 audit report. The next two items include the revised superintendent rules 0200 basic board commitments and rule 5440 services to students. The next item on the agenda is board member comments and agenda setting. I'll just go around. Miss Dominowski, do you have any comments or agenda? Um, yes. I I was going to ask this during information, but um I wanted to
091request that we add the quarter 4 audit report to um the next audit committee meeting. I wait, say that again, Miss Dominowski, please. I I I wanted to ask if we were already had it on the the audit committee schedule for the next meeting, the um the quarter 4 audit report or if it's not to please add it to the uh the next September audit committee meeting. Thank you, Miss Hen. Nothing for me. Thank you. Thank you, Miss Agumbbe. I have no comments. Thank you. Thank you, Miss Stleski. I have none tonight. Thank you, Dr. Seavoi. Nothing at this time. Thank you so much, Mr. McMillian. I think I've said enough, Mr. Young. Yes, Miss Harvey. Thank you. Coming out of the building and contracts meeting yesterday, I believe Miss Webster said it would take,
092you know, approximately four weeks for um the officiating contract to be signed and and that would leave approximately two weeks of a transition period. That's why I asked what is the impact of our vote tonight on this? Because if we have a contract expiring at the end of September without a replacement in place, then you know I think but you know I'll wait for Dr. Rogers report that there's going to be an impact in our um ability to officiate fall sports. In addition, I I remind my colleagues that our role is governance and that we shouldn't be having conversations with vendors who lose bids to the point that we even go researching and trying to find out what happened. That puts us as a board in a very um tricky situation. Thank you. Have a
093good evening. Thank you. I I will close out uh by Miss Fong has left the meeting. I will close out by saying that on National Night Out, I had the opportunity to uh meet and speak with several of our SRO's and I cannot express uh the level of positivity they had for our students and our schools. They absolutely love working with the schools. they have connections with the staff, the teachers and the students and uh they are wonderful ambassadors for BCPS in the community and with our families and students. And so I just wanted to acknowledge the role that they play. Uh and with that and with that the last item on the agenda is announcements. The board's next meeting will be held on Tuesday, August 26, 2025 at 6:30 p.m. Thank you all for
094joining us tonight. The meeting is now adjourned.