001Board of Education meeting at this time. So I'll stand as Shannon Oxentine leads us in the pledge of >> allegiance. Attention salute. Pledge algiance 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. >> Please remain standing as Dr. Griffin leads us in our mission and vision statement. >> Guys will join me in Alison County Schools. Our mission is to build a legacy of excellence >> and our vision is to be the educational choice for every child. >> Thank you so much. >> Thank you. >> At this time, we need to approve the agenda. Do I have a motion to approve the agenda? >> Make a motion to approve the agenda. Motion by Corey Mlan, second by
002Anthony Mlan. All in favor say I. >> I. >> None opposed. >> On to the next part of the meeting, the best part of the meeting. Dr. Denita Del Revvis will lead us in honors and recognition. >> Thank you, Chairman Dagenheart. So, good evening everybody. We will get right into it because we have a lot of young people to recognize tonight. So, let's start with our elementary Battle of the Books winners. So, Stony Point, come on up. So, our members are Naomi Foot, Haley Smith, Olivia Klutz, Ansley Robertson, Arya Calhoun, Emily Cruz, Barum, Ace Atwood, Lily Linberry, and Claire Plyer. >> Congratulations. >> Congrats. Their coaches, their coaches um are Chelsea Harrington and Mr. Hefner, Jordan Hefner. He had a ball game tonight with his children, so he did not um make it. And Miss
003Harrington and I chatted, we have chatted a few times about her team. And she said that they had to understand and know the content of 16 books. and she says they worked really hard and she said is proud of them because they have the highest score that Stony Point has ever had >> as a team. So, good job. >> Congratulations. Good job. Makes you feel good. >> Everywhere I go. Happy new year. slide in together. >> Let's make two rows. Yeah. >> Short and that looks good. We're going to count to three and we're going to do two photos. Okay, >> stay there. Stay there. Good job. >> All righty. So, next we'd like to recognize the district winners of the um middle school Battle of the Books. And those winners um are West Alexander
004Middle School Bulldogs. So we'll ask them to come up. >> Great job. >> We had a lot of ball games and dance >> this that and the other. All right. As she said, we had a lot of um ball games, but let me read these um young ladies names. So on the team were Ava Lleier, Coulter Minton, Maline Wingler, Lane Bumgner, Sophie Black, Owen Crawford, Ian Hedrickk, Sophia Lynch, Aubrey Powell, Kate Bowman, Harper Hall, Paisley Winters, and Arine Fa. And these young people had to manage 20 books. They had a good showing at the regionals, and Miss Lewis says she is proud that they work so hard to compete. Excellent. >> All right. All right. So, also February is busy once poor Dr. bowls was able to get all these competitions in after the weather
005that we had at the end of January and in February. So on February 10th, we sponsored the district spelling bee and I have not seen the young man who won that come in, but he is an East Alexander Middle School student. His name is Jace Foster. Let's give it up for Jace. And he won with the word bodega. So, board, do y'all know how to spell bodega? >> Not even. >> There'll be a quiz after. >> All right. And then we do have our runner up for the district. She's an eighth grader from West Alexander Middle School. So, Cynthia, would you come on up? And Cynthia was our runner up, as I said, and she went out on the word maladaptive. So, again, test fellas. >> All right. Good job, Cynthia. I guess sculpture again.
006All right. Most important one, right? >> That's right. That's right. >> Congratulations. >> Good job. And now I'll pass it over to Mr. Hook who has a special recognition. Mr. Chairman, members of the board, Dr. Griffin, it is an honor to be here today to recognize one of your uh leadership me leadership team members. The North Carolina School Superintendent Association has announced the selection of Miss Jessica Anderson as a recipient of the Dr. Samuel Houston Leadership Award. The annual award is presented to a graduate of the North Carolina School Superintendent Association aspiring superintendent program. A program which is designated to empower transformational educational leaders for North Carolina's public schools. We currently have 62 of the graduates in the superintendency. I've got four more that will be named this month and we'll have 66. Dr. Griffin
007was a member of the cohorts. The award is named in honor of Dr. Sam Houston who was a president and chief exe chief executive officer of the North Carolina science, math and technology education center. He served as superintendent of the moral graded school district for 10 years where he opened the first yearround school in North Carolina. Has been a champion for strategic planning, student performance and accountability meeting the needs of the 21st century workforce skills for STEM world and building education partnership. Dr. Dr. Houston also served as the first executive director of the University of North Carolina Center for Leadership Development. Dr. Houston was awarded the Jay Robinson Leadership Award as an exemplary educator for his outstanding contributions to statewide public education. He's been inducted to the Appalachin State University Wright College of Education's Road
008Society and East Carolina's Education Hall of Fame and has received the distinguished career award from the University of North Carolina Greensboro School of Education. He received the order of the long leaf pine in December of 2024. Sponsored by the North Carolina School Superintendent Association, Miss Anderson exemplifies the traits that have guided Dr. Houston's career in educational leadership. She has a commitment to continuous improvement, high standards of ethical conduct, strategic planning, improving student performance, and meeting the needs of the 21st century workforce. She was she graduated with honors and had the opportunity to speak at our graduation. Dr. Griffin shared, "I consider myself extremely fortunate to have Jessica Anderson as part of our leadership team. >> Having hearing that she has been honored by other uh distinguished state leaders does not shock me. And I believe
009every professional endeavor that Jessica engages in is always completed with a high level of commitment provided quality results. She constantly prod provides notable work but does it with a smile, laughter, and displays a positive a positive attitude. She's devoted to the Alexander County School students and staff and can be easily seen and for that we are respectful. Jessica, if you would come forward to receive the Sam Houston award. And then I would like to encourage the board of education to come up and let's get a group photo together. You guys looking for >> I'll just do the whole >> Yes, sir. >> Congratulations. All right, >> perfect. >> All right, try the old one, two, three. I'm going to need everybody to shift just a little bit because we're all set. All right. One, two,
010three. >> One, two, three. >> Goodness. >> I don't have a veryction. All right. Everybody look in here. >> Let me get a job. Welld deserved. >> In closing, I want to commend the board of education, the work you're doing on behalf of the students of Alexander County Schools. I had the opportunity to serve superintendent for 12 years, a lot of meetings in this room. And what I plan on doing now, you know, most folks have a walk up song in baseball. I need a walk-off song in speech because I'm going to leave it in Dr. Griffin's good hands tonight. Y'all have a great meeting. Thank you for the great work you do. Appreciate Thank you for participating in our recognitions and celebrations. If you would like to be dismissed at this time, you may.
011>> But you are welcome to stay. Everybody leave at one time. >> You can stay. >> See you now. >> You don't have to go. >> See you. >> Yeah. I mean, thanks for coming. >> Thanks for coming. >> Line. That's good. >> See you. Foul. We'll see you, buddy. >> Can I get a last name, right? >> Yes. Oh, wow. Sure. >> Missing. How do you spell the name? >> How do you spell this? Bring it down here, sir. >> Come here, sir. >> I tell you what. >> Bring it here. >> Missing the nail. >> Right. Right in there. Exactly what it should be. We'll get you. Are you right on here? I'll run another one. >> T O Y L E R. >> Sorry about that. >> No worries, man. Not a
012problem. Not a problem. Sorry about that. Thanks for understanding, buddy. Not a big deal. Thank you. Happy to help you. See you pal. >> All righty then. Well, >> y'all can move forward. Y'all can move forward. >> Do I know you want to? >> No. No public comment. >> No public comment. We'll move on. >> Oh man. >> At this time, uh, we need to get approval of the consent agenda. Do I have a motion? >> Motion to approve. >> Motion approved by board member Anthony Mlan, second by Robert Aguayas. Uh all in favor say I. >> I. >> Consent agenda passes. At this time uh we move on to our report section of the meeting and we need a financial report from our CFO, Miss Sharon Mack. >> Well, I know you all had
013a long day, so I promised um Jesse that I wouldn't take over 30 minutes. >> Thank you, Sharon. Um tonight we have uh budget amendment number 10 uh state public school funds and that includes um an addition of a substitute pay to support personnel. Uh an ABC transfer between uh CTE months of employment and program support. A $500 deduction for the CTE bud uh allotment for Adobe software. And then um two additions to the transportation aotment. One for an equipment a contingency and I forgot what Joe told me that was. Um what what you replace a radiator. Was it a radiator? A radiator. >> Okay. >> And um and uh an additional aotment for fuel. Um the uh increase in the price of fuel. >> Sure. >> I u uh request that you approve these
014amendments. At this time, uh, we need approval for amendment number 10. Do I have a motion to approve? Make a motion. A >> motion by board member Shannon Oxentine, second by board member Robert Aguas. All in favor say, "I." >> I. >> Thank you, Sharon. Appreciate you. >> At this time, uh, we have Jessica Anderson, the executive director of Exceptional Children and Student Services for our human resources report. Good evening. I have the pleasure of standing in for Dr. Clure. So, I am here to request a motion to approve the personnel recommendations. >> Uh board members, you have seen the personnel recommendation by Dr. Clure. Uh do I have a motion and a second to approve? >> Make a motion to approve the personnel recommendations. >> Second. Motion by Corey Mlan. Uh second by Matthew
015Reese. All in favor say I. >> I. >> None oppose. Thank you so much. >> Thank you, Jessica. >> Thank you, M. >> Jessica. >> Uh, at this time, uh, we have our superintendence report from Dr. Bill Griffin. >> Thank you so much, Chair Dagenheart. I appreciate it. Members of the board, uh, just a brief update today. Um, I'd like to say that uh, welcome everybody back from spring break. Although, uh, we did come back a day early on Friday that I know everybody was rejoicing in and celebrating that opportunity. But I do appreciate our staff uh who was in attendance that day and our students uh we had some good things going on around the county. Uh and uh hate we had to make that day up over spring break, but we did get
016it in uh to meet those attendance requirements. So, thank you to all those that took place in that. And then today uh coming back, it was great to see our staff back and and our students back and let's get back on track to to close out uh this school year. Um today we we began our spring tour of schools with the board of education. Uh and we were joined today by Senator Senator Settle uh Representative Blair Edins. Uh Ronnie Reese was there on behalf of our county commissioners. We also had Justin Mundy uh our our county manager y uh along with our board of education. And uh it was just a wonderful day to have those elected officials together uh to give us an opportunity from the school system to celebrate the amazing things that
017we're doing. I get to showcase some of those and and just have conversation uh with those political officials. So I I'm I'm grateful for the time that we spent together. I'm grateful for being able to share the amazing things that we're doing within our school system. Uh and tomorrow will be day number two and we'll catch those schools up tomorrow that that we missed today. it it takes a lot of time to to get around the entire county. So, we'll do the other half tomorrow uh and just look for for wonderful things going on in our buildings uh with our staff and our students. Uh and I know it gives me great joy and the board too uh to see our our students uh learning taking place, the smiles on their faces uh and those
018elementary school students when they come up and just give you a hug. It makes your day. We appreciate them so much. So, thank you board members for for your time today. I think that we had a uh a a day of celebration for sure. Um and then finally uh the close of our school year is is uh gaining quickly upon us. Um before long we'll be walking across the stage for those graduates. Our middle school will be finished up, elementary will be finishing up and I just ask that uh all of our our faculty members and our students out there to finish strong. Uh it's it's almost here and before long we it'll be summertime. Uh and those times will be upon us in a hurry. So, just finished the year uh in a positive
019manner. And then finally, some of our upcoming dates that we have. Um AEC, our Alexander Early College will have a prom this weekend uh this Saturday. Alexander Central High School's prom will be on the April the 25th. Uh our state superintendent, Mo Green, will be visiting East Alexander Middle School on April the 30th. Uh an amazing another amazing thing that's taking place uh within our school district. I invite our media and other constituents to come to that. Uh we'll be showcasing the um the golden leaf grant that East Alexander Middle School is recip. >> Uh I'll get you those times. I think they're starting at at what time, Amy? Is it 11? I think >> it's the afternoon. >> Yeah. I I'll get those times to you board members and and make sure you have
020those here soon. Thank you. >> Uh that we uh are cognizant of your >> 12:30. Okay. I was going to have you there early, which early is better than late, but uh he he'll be here and sharing of of uh the things that are going on at East and be an opportunity to kind of hear from him as a state superintendent and for him to be join us within our school system. Just an incredible honor. >> Yes, sir. >> And then also on May 1st and 2nd, our spring musical will be at 7:00 over at Alexander County, Alexander Central High School auditorium. Uh, and your board members heard from some of those persons uh that were uh talking about that event today at the high school. So, >> Shrek, I believe Shrek is is what
021they're they're putting on. So, it'll be a good musical performance. Uh, but this time that's all I have and and just appreciate the support that you guys give me on a daily basis and our amazing faculty and staff and and of course our students out there. So, thank you very much. >> Thank you, Dr. Griffin. Thank you for today. Uh, it was eventful. It was great. >> Um the high school visit, seeing the kids, understanding everything that they're doing. It was just it was just wonderful to see the smiles on their faces from FFA to chorus to teacher academy to CNAs. Um AP Academy. Um we went to the early college, we went to Ellen. Um we visited East and uh we visited the SSC and we finished up um at Sugarloaf. It was just
022a a very great day today day. So, thanks for everybody that attended. At this time, looks like we are going to need a motion to uh close open session and enter into close session. Do I have a motion? >> I'll make a motion we close open session and enter into close session. I do that right? >> No. >> Did I do it wrong? >> I think so. >> Did I do it wrong? Okay. I make a motion that we end open session and enter into close session. Try again. >> I'll take the easy way and say I second that. >> Second. >> We've got a first by Anthony Mlan. We've got a second by Robert Arguas. All in favor say I. >> I. Third.