001wasn't a mistake. That was at dinner. I just want to see the receipt. See what she said. [Laughter] Y'all ready? Okay. Let me have your attention please. The recommended C County Board of Medicaid will now come to order. At this time, I ask you for a moment of silence followed by the pledge of allegiance. Thank you. I 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. [Music] First item of business is the approval of the minutes of June 9. We have a motion to that effect. I'll make a motion. Miss Blackwell. Is there a second? Knight. Any discussion? Motion is to approve the minutes. Been second. No discussion. All in favor raise your hand.
002opposed. Motion carries uh 6, Miss Kim. Uh next item, approval of the agenda. Mr. Lil, is there a second? M. Belet. Any discussion? If not, the motion is to approve the agenda. Second. No discussion. All in favor of the motion, raise your hand. Opposed? Motion's carried 6. Thank you. Announcements. special recognition we have. So the only recognition I would like to say is I would like to thank the service of Mr. Austin Morris who came to our district as an administrator Ban Senior High School. Um he currently now serves as um HR director. Um today is his last day. I wish him the best in his endeavors and thank you all you've done for the students of Caswood County as well as the faculty and staff. Um answer the phone on the call. That's all
003I got to say. Thank you. Thank you sir. Thank you for your service. All right. Any public comments, Mr. G? All right. Thank you. Any reports, ma'am? There's no reports. Okay. Uh, any unfinished business? None at this time. Okay. Very good. New business. Consent agenda. Uh, is there a motion to approve the consent agenda? Mr. Lila, any discussion? I'm sorry, second. Miss uh Dr. McGee, any discussion? Let me make sure I understand. Uh I do have one for close. This is for close. No, these two. Just these three as addition. Yes, I got you. I'm going be sure. I know you said that. Okay. If not, motion is to approve the consent agenda moved in and second. All discussion is done. Any favor with the motion? Raise your hand. Opposed. Motes carries. Thank you. We
004get you. Next item is the resolution resolution in memorial and appreciation of the life of Naomi Heath Slaughter. Whereas Naomi Hel Slaughter was born on March 13, 1968 and resided in Danville, Virginia until the time of her death on June 19th, 2025. And whereas Naomi's father was a faithful and loving mother, aunt, grandmother, sister, and friend, and her family's welfare was a major and constant concern. And whereas Dan started work for Casville County Schools as a bus driver and substitute teacher and also served in other roles as needed. And whereas Naomi Solo was a member of Fairy Road Friends Church and loved to spend time with her family and truly loved the time she spent with her grandchildren. Naomi enjoyed watching baseball and softball in her free time and was an avid fan of the
005Pittsburgh Steel. And now therefore, be it resolved that the Cas County Board of Education wishes to honor the memory of Naomi Slaughter and express this sympathy to her family by causing a copy of this resolution to be spread among the official minutes of the board of education. A copy forward to his family. This the 30th day of June 2025. A motion to approve the resolution. Black second night. Any discussion? If not, the motion is to approve the resolution. All in favor, raise your hand. Opposed? Motion's carried. Thank you. Uh, next item is budget amendments. Miss Underwood. Good afternoon. All right. Good afternoon. So, your first budget amendment is going to be budget amendment six. This is for the state funds. This is um to add a little bit more money. We have an09 guaranteed aotment
006that is paid for annual leave and um payouts and things is a guaranteed aotment. We wait till the end of the year to always do this. And then is also to an ABC transfer from months to dollars for CTE. Is there any questions on the state? Any concern? Let's do them one by one. All right. Is there a motion to approve budget amendment number uh six? All right. Is there a motion? There's not. Is there a second? It's black. Any discussion? All right. Motion is to approve budget amendment number six. All in favor raise your hand. phone discontin. The seventh budget amendment is to add a little bit more to before and after school care um from fund balance. We might need to look at next year increasing our um fees structure for this because
007this is just for to pay the employees to actually conduct before and after school care. Can I ask you a question? Sure. Let me let me ask it this way. Prior to school closing, according to what you're saying, we were running in the red. So, this is for the June payroll. That's what I'm asking. Yes. So, when we conducted the June payroll, which didn't drop until June 18th. Okay. That's what put this into the red. Okay. All right. Is better. So, did we have any people that did not pay at the end? I can get that from the schools, but I'm sure there has been. I would like to get that. And I would also like to know how many we actually have attend before and after school care because if we go up, it
008was bad last time we went up. Parents were really upset about that. And I understand things go up, but I hope we really take a strong look at that because I thought that was the part of just charge enough to pay for that one employee. So, you're saying that we need $5,000 more dollars to do that by time you take on benefits. Um, we're paying overtime for people. It's the total cost of all all the It's not just Yeah. the dollar rate, not just a straight dollar rate. There's other costs included associated with the fee with the paying. Why would we be paying overtime when the most of your people are like cafeteria/be and after school because when they do their before and after school care, it pushes them over 40 hours. But I thought
009we had a talk about that that they had to work if they were dual employees, they had to work it out where they could only work certain amount here and then rest of it was supposed to been no happened. There are people that are working over their eight hours a day for before and after school care. Before and after school care is what's pushing them over. And this before this um year we've been paying overtime as well. And this year it was approved by superintendent at the beginning of the year to pay out every time. All right. You done, Miss B? Yeah. Miss Knight, my question was I know that South had two full-time staff members doing it. So, were they paid their teacher? One was the teacher, one they paid their So, the teacher
010was paid like an extra stipen because teachers don't get overtime per se. So he was paid his uh before and after school care rate and a stipen and that was approved by the board in August I think you said it was paid it's like a little stipen stipen but not because go ahead that's the we find that in the minutes please member. He's gone. Thank you. That's That's news to me, too. Awesome. That's what the directive I was. I'm just saying it's news to me. So, please check that. Miss Lind, you had your hand. Well, I just think we talked about all during the year the policy was not being followed before in our school care. It's supposed to be x amount of students before we have it. Schools were running it with three and
011four children instead of I think it's six that we got to have. we talked about we wasn't making money. Um so I think this something we really need to look at at our next board meeting um and put some grammar behind it because if they're not if principles aren't following the policy we're not taking the payment we're still letting folks come as I've said before we can't continue running this fund in the red it just doesn't work. All right is black. So, um I'm to understand that it was only $5,000 in the red. Is $5,000 in the red or you said that it was ended on June 18th. You don't know exactly how much it is in the red, but it was way this is going to shore up that account that So, this $5,000
012is to shore up before and after school care. So, it is not in the red anymore. Okay. So does that mean that on June 18th? I was thinking that you were saying that where it was cut off that. So that is when the payroll was done. Okay. Yes. That's when payroll was done. So that's when we processed payroll. So that's when the final numbers for before and after school care came in. Okay. Last year was this less or more? It was about the same. About the same. We've typically had to spend because the budget was we've t typically had to spend about $20,000 extra from revenues that are brought in from before and after school care. Yes, ma'am. So, this is about this is about only 5,000. There's already was 14,000 appropriated. Okay. So, it's
013about $20,000 every year. Benefits are killing right now because you have a 24% retirement rate. Mhm. So that's what that's where that's increasing is um coming into um play. But I I think it's a needed service. I I um maybe we'll have to take a look at that's something that some parents definitely need and we do a lot of different things. So I think it is definitely needed service. Okay. M I just want to make sure I understand what you're saying. We already have $14,000 budgeted to go into the red. This is extra five. So we're $20,000 in the hole. Yes. On running before and after school care. Yes. Okay. But that is because of the benefits. Yes. Before and after before and after school care only pays benefits. There's nothing else that they pay
014for. It's a little bit of snack money that they pay for, but this is strictly benefits and salaries for employees. So, Mr. Underwood, if I could just get some clarity in regards to depending on who the staff member is, if it's a more experienced when they cost us more. Yes. And if more inexperience or when it cost us less. Yes. But we know that given projections for next school year benefits going to go even more. So, we do need to take a hard look at the sustainability of for and after school care for after school care and really hold um make some decision if we're going to have it and not because I don't know hearing the numbers it seems like there are small numbers of students attending that it isn't sustainable. I do know
015that I think um Oakwood stopped their before school program because it was only a few students attending that one. Nicole, you think we should look at what staff are in those position? I mean I would like to see what staffs are in those positions so that because if they were given the opportunity to just get overtime of course that's what people going to suggest in the past when you said comp time and then they had to be approved to get overtime but if you manage comp time correctly they could utilize it by month you know within that payroll and that might save someone and it's a good time to look at that because we're going into a new school year. Yes. But be it as it may, we cannot continue to operate this way. Uh
016I know it's a needed service, but you can't continue to go these types of dollars in the hole. It's not it's not feasible to do that because eventually though we're going to run out of fund balance and then local fund balance. Yes, I messed up. Well, I just ask we I'll vote on this after close session because I would like to talk about some of the personnel that we're using, but we can go ahead and approve it. Talk about personal. All right. All right. Is that a motion to approve budget amendment number seven? M a second. If not, any further discussion? All right. The motion is to approve budget amendment number seven. All in favor of that motion, raise your hand. Opposed? Motion is carried. Thank you. Continue, please. So budget amendment eight is for
017the bus lease. This is strictly because we have to put the bus lease revenue on our books. This does not add money to it. It looks like it adds money to it, but no funds are ever moved in capital outlay. This is strictly a journal entry that we have to do every year for the bus lease revenue that DPI pays. Okay. It just has to go through our books. Okay. Is there a motion to approve budget amendment number eight? Mr. Nicole makes the motion. Is there a second, Miss Blackman? Any discussion? So, basically what you just said, it's in out money that you got to have to show. Okay. It's just to show that we actually put on our books the bus revenue. I got you. All right. Any other discussion? All right. The motion
018is to approve budget amendment number eight. Been moved and second. All in favor raise your hands. Opposed. Motion's carried. Thank you. Budget amendment number nine. So budget amendment number nine is to cover um the final little bit of charter school expenses and it was just moved from one purpose code to another. There was no fun extra fund balance needed to appropriate for local money, anything like that. The budget stayed the same. Um it was just moved from one purpose code to another to cover charter schools. Miss Begley, what was the total number for kids in charter? We have about 271. I think it's almost 300. Yeah. 71 or 72. I think it's almost 300. Yes, ma'am. So, this says it's coming out of charter and going into instructional support. No. So, um, debit and credits
019run a little different in when you do budget amendments. So, a credit presents as a negative when you're removing it from two expense accounts. Okay. So, coming from instructional going to charge. Yes. We had a discussion when we was at the conference. Do from the county. Do you get the money appropriated the same time each month? I used to. No, that's a yes or no question. Okay, that's all I need to know because a lot of people had discussions about that. You know, why are you behind? If I don't have the money, I'm behind. That's a simple thing. Maybe, you know, well, not maybe that's something we need to make sure. I got another issue. Okay. Any other discussion on budget number nine? All right. It's been moved and propos discussed. All in favor, budget
020members number nine, raise your hand. I'm sorry. Wait a minute. Back up. How did we get into discussion today? Because this is local money. No, no, no, no, no. What? You went to V and then asked a question. She had a question. Okay. I'm sorry. She has so many charter school. Oh, got you. Okay, let's back up then. My fault. All right, you threw me off there. Is there a motion to Mr. Lil? Is there a second? Miss Black, any further discussion? Being none, all in favor raise your hand. Opposed? Motion carried. Thank you. Going now. So, budget amendment number 10 is um to cover some utility costs for the civic center. The civic center is another um rental that we have that is not really profitable and so the utilities and the cost to
021run the civic center kind of outweigh the revenue we're coming in. Okay. Well, I'm not going to make a motion. My question is though, I would like to see what we actually do at the city center and what I mean by that the yearly rental. Mhm. what we take in, what we pay out. Okay. And I know sometime we always have to add to it because we don't take in enough cuz I remember one time we tried to give this building to the county commission, but they wouldn't take it and utilities were eating us up. But it seems like to me we'll rent it more now than we have in past years. But I like to see what we are doing, you know. Uh actually I think in my opinion I think a monthly report
022would be very simple. Okay? You know this is what we did. This is what we did this year. This month uh I don't need to know who rented it but just if it was rented uh give you an example. This past this past Saturday there was a big crowd there. Uh and I know when you have a crowd like that it's more revenue somewhat. So, you know, yes, I can do that. Uh, so I make sure I understand we've used all the money in the city center fund plus we allotted 31,000 extra dollars that come out of our capital fund balance. This is fund eight. This is a totally different. So, this is for the operational side of the civic center. The capital outlay piece was to repair the bleachers and that's still in the
023capital outlay. How much do we normally budget in this fund without moving this 20,000 46? Okay. I don't know that number off the top of my head. I can get that to you, but um it it's ne it's never really been a revenue that's paid for the utilities and the garbage fee and all that kind of stuff. Mhm. And I think another um thing we need to look at too is possibly adding um a little bit more to the PB room. Because it's kind of all the same rental pot. So maybe looking at because I know um I was talking to maintenance and they were saying that the paper products and stuff that are used are really expensive for these kind of embits. So, we might need to look at an analysis for that, too.
024Okay. One last thing before we uh get a motion. I'm sorry. I'll get to you. Like toilet paper, paper towels. One last question before we get a motion. Um, one thing I I learned with the civic center is we had a price increase suggestions. Uh I think it was two or three years ago from what we're getting is what we're charging enough. I don't think so. You don't think so? I know we looked at last year bec um increasing the fee for an employee to be there because I understand that part but I I think the rent the rental itself needs to go up. Okay. And the reason I'm asking that is let's say if it were not used at all, you're still going to have the utility cost. And that's what we've not looked
025at in terms of this is what it cost this month, this month, then you add it all up. And uh like I said, you really I think we're ready more this year we have in the past, but we need to take a look at that. Okay. I'm sorry. Go ahead. I think if we go up, I think we really going to lose. We lost a lot of people already. Well, I understand what you're saying. Regardless, if nobody's renting it, we got to pay electricity. So, if somebody's renting it, then we are getting a little Oh, I understand that part. But it's just like you don't want to operate a losing enterprise either. Uh, a lot of people because when we did this re increase, we got these rates of surrounding people and we kind of
026based it on that. So, okay. But a monthly report, I can Okay. Be easy. Okay. All right. Is there a motion to approve the M Lillard? Is there a second Miss Begler? Any further discussion? If not, all in favor of approving budget amendment number 10, raise your hand. Opposed? Motion carries. So, the next one is child nutrition and that is appropriating $60,000 for child nutrition. Um, this is Mr. Stokes and I have had a discussion about talking with the new child nutrition director um about expenses, not necessarily like supplies and stuff, but employees or food has gotten expensive, things of those nature because we keep having to put fund balance up for child nutrition. All right, Miss Beckley. Well, my whole thoughts on this until we get better food, our expense is going to keep
027going up. That's been our number one complaint for the last seven years is that food and it seems like year after year is getting worse. So, until we can do something about food, there's different grade levels. We've been talking about that. Nobody seems to want to look into it. All right. Anybody else? Miss back. I'm sort of confused of what you're saying. Until we get better food, the expenses is going up. I thought that this is showing that these kids are not eat that the expenses are up. So, if my understanding of child nutrition, the more children that go through the line and the more children that actually eat it, the more we get reimbursed. That's correct. Because it's off of like a a headcount system. So we have to I understand what everyone is
028saying. Let me see if I can make clear in certain schools um the number of students who actually eat through the lunch line is less in compared to others. And so and that's due to menu chores that delight what's been served things that sort. And so, um, in order for us to get the reimbursement price per meal, we have to increase the actual number of students, um, purchasing a qualifying lunch. Um, you may have some kids go through the line, but they don't get all the necessary components is not considered reimburseable meal. I think that our elementary schools and our middle school is probably our better our bigger opportunity for improvement regarding that because we kind of went through that walk already at the high school um to get more reimburseable meals. So, um, the
029problem comes into is when you're looking when I talk with Laura, the problem comes into there's different dietary restrictions per level that limits some of the options. Now, it can happen, but we also got to see how find a way to how it can also make revenue. Um and so I I know it sounds bad but we have to make sure that our child nutrition um department also is in the business of also providing a great product for our students but also provides product more people participating in so that we can um not have to appropriate funds question. Yes. Do majority of our students get free lunch? So we have a lot of everybody through community c community bit of provision. Um however that's that doesn't mean all kids are going for the line and
030so what's happening we still have kids who may bring their lunch from home or may not choose not to eat and those things. So, um, there need to be a very organized effort to have kids go through the lunch line just to make sure that they're going through and getting all the products because we can't be reimbured for meals that aren't served. Okay. So, because I thought that we would had the majority of that. So, we got to make sure that they're picking up everything. So, but but it also comes down to the menu because there are some days where the line is some schools are very long because of the menu choices while other days it's not. And if child nutrition turns a profit um the local money actually gets a it's called indirect
031cost but we haven't been able to take indirect cost off of child nutrition since 2017 I think the last year. Do you recall did we did we make an appropriation last year too? We made a $200,000 $2,000. Now we are less this year. Less this year. Last year payroll, right? We had a lot of payroll cut because we went a little while without a director at the first of the year and then and a lot of the thing is probably because of turnover. Okay. Any other discussion on that? Well, just go ahead. I mean, I think we talked about our last meeting. You know, I think we have to look at the staff and at each location. It doesn't really add up. at this school a you have x amount of employees versus x amount
032of kids and then you look at this school and you're really heavy versus your amount of kids. So I think we need to look at all those things and we did change a few meal choices toward the end of the year that help things. Um we've been for a couple years now we've been on all this heat and serve stuff. It's just heat and serve. There's no more cooking. Um but we did a little cooking this year at Thanksgiving. We did some cooking. It was a great meal. And then here at the end of the year they did a little bit of cooking that produc some good meals. So I think um if we stay on that path kids will eat and then adding revenue you know our cafeters used to cater stuff for the
033school and for that you know teacher appreciation lunches and things like that. Seems like the schools are are calling different places to bring it in. We can hire cafeters to cater it and they cater a pretty good meal. It doesn't have to meet the nutritional standards that it meets when we're feeding kids. So they're able to do some things to turn some money. Okay. Any other discussion? Not. All in favor of budget amendment number 11. Is that motion? I'm sorry. Is that motion? I'm get ahead. I'm trying to get y'all out. Is that motion for budget amendment number 11? Mr. Le. Second. M. Blackman. Any discussion? All in favor raise your hand. Both. Now I got two sheets of number 11. I did too. I only had one. That shouldn't be though. Okay. I may
034have accidentally gave it to him. I got you there. So nice. We did it twice. All right. Got to go. Thank y'all. Thank you. All right. Superintendent updates. All right. Well, got a few things I need to get a little clarity on. I do have some updates. Um earlier this school year, the board of education approved the school calendar. Um my um concern that comes in is with the school calendar. We did not discuss the actual dismissal time for school. Follow me because since we got a since school some schools the secondary start at one time another time it cannot we don't want to put ourselves in a situation where we're counting hours um if we just have a universal dismissal time for um school on early release days. So on early release days is
035the question. And if you look at our current calendar, it doesn't tell you what time we get out of school on early days. The ear day should dismiss three hours from regular dismissal. So, um there not necessarily any board action, but I want to make sure we understand that it's not a universal time across the board for all schools at the same time, which had been in the past because this puts us in a situation with counting hours. um if we have inclement weather or what have you because those as you know those hours make a significant difference in calendar and so um uh staff need some clarity um and just make sure we can add it to we just want to make sure that we understand that before we get too far down the
036road with our handbooks we want to go ahead and put what the other release time is for schools um because it's I think it may be universal 12:30 at one point in time which causes some logistical concerns as far as cafeter and and as far as cafeteria as well as transportation. So, um we want just update you that we're going to be moving from 3 hours earlier than that time and that will be the time school would dismiss and we will add that to the calendar. What time is it? All right. I'm kind of have to help me out with times because I don't know the elementary as I should. 8 to 30 is high school. So the high school is out at 8 to 3. So it's about 1:00 for the high school. 3
0372 12:00 middle school is 7:45 to 2:45. Elementary was 8:10 to 3:10, right? 810 to 310 elementary and 7:45 to 2:45. Take up can give a high school takes in at what time? 8 to 3. 8 to 3. Dillard Dillard is 7:45 to 2:45 and elementary is 810 right so it's so that ends up being eight hours for every school so I mean well seven time you take away the month right so no teacher because I know that was a big discussion also um some of the the teachers at the high school were saying they had they put in more hours in the elementary. So, is everybody going to be seven straight? I'm not sure I understand your question, but I think we I think this board approved the calendar to make sure we had
038enough time to meet the calendar law. And so, I think elementary had an amendment to their time to give them more time to bank and have throughout throughout the school year. I wasn't in this seat at that time. But the question that I'm posing is the dismissal time of early release is three hours from is three hours earlier. So we don't want the community to think that if it's early lease day every school gets out at the same time. We need to be sure that we can publish that and communicate that to our community. That's why we're bringing that point because the current count does not um Mrs. Apple brought that to our concern. That current does not tell us what time school gets out early. So, it's three hours early, which soon is kind
039of finished figuring all that. She can tell me some time. Okay. I just want to make sure y'all understand. Yes. That part. Gotcha. What you brought up, Miss Becca is a great concern, a great point. Um, style, I got here early. Well, the instruction day doesn't start at 8:00. So, that doesn't change that. While she's figuring that out, if school starts at 8 at the high school, what time is our teachers asked to be there by? That'll be about 7:45. Okay. 7:45. And what time can they leave? So they should leave about 3:15. 3:15. What about Dillard? They get there at 7:45. Um 15 minutes before should be 7:30. 7:30. And what time do they leave? Well, this has been a standard practice. I'm I'm familiar. It's 15 minutes after. Um this not it's not
040classified for this is salary. So they get out 2:45. It should be around 3:00 provisions been taken. There's no no no reason that a teacher should be coming out the same time the kids kill theoretically. I understand what you're asking. You going you you're taking this to another place. No, I just asked. Yeah, I I understand. But I'm just And elementary 3. So you said 15 minutes black. So that's 35. You had a question. Well, I think the problem we had at Dillard last year is one reason we made the change is Dillard took in at 7:45, but they were not letting out to 255. So, in theory, yeah, teachers were leaving about 5 minutes after the kids were to but their time was still right because they were coming in 15 minutes early. But
041Dylan had a long day and that was the complaints we got. But, you know, we changed it back to the So, okay. Elementary, we didn't finish that. teachers teachers take in at 7:5 is it 15 minutes before? So it should be 15 minutes before 15 minutes after5 75 to 35 okay everybody clear on that any more question on that the only question I got is dealer Mr. So, I understand the three-hour thing that puts them on an early release. They get out 11:45. Are they going to be able to beat everybody? We have to I mean, we have to There's no There's no negotiation, too. We just have to make it work. Brunch. All right. Then, anything else? All right. Continue. So the time. So I just want to make sure we'll update that and
042we'll bring that back to that satisfy the board. All right. All right. Don't have to have it board approved. We'll just update the calendar so it clarifies everything. Correct. Correct. Yeah. All right. Well, I want to provide an update on our counter car paint project. The this work will officially begin Monday, July 7th. We have four cars going to be painted. Um we appreciate the board support with this. Um so I had an opportunity to check in on that. Um, as we officially close out the school year, I want to take a moment to highlight a few of the great things happening across Cas County schools. We want to extend our heartfelt thanks to the entire school community for the unwaver support. Um, also thank you for choosing Caswell County Schools, the best choice for
043students in our county. Um, our elementary schools north, Oakwood, Thorn Creek, and South participated in the Caswell County Extension with 4. Through this experience, they gain hands-on learning experience focus on the life cycle of butterflies. This program was a great success and well received the all for elementary schools. Um as we look ahead, South Elementary is beginning an exciting new partnership with Ballroom Beef Farms. Together they will implement a raised garden bed project that will give students u meaningful real experience in act sustainability and nutrition. Um we're grateful for all the interview ceremonies at all sites and it marked the conclusion of successful academic school year. Um, every school in our district showed growth in academic excellence in places and we applaud our students and staff for their hard work and dedication. In our build
044recently held a wonderful eighth grade promotion ceremony. In addition, the school was has been actively engaging parents and staff with meeting with the principal as they rebrand their efforts and relaunch new incentives for the upcoming academic school year at in Bian High School proudly celebrated 156 graduates. um congratulating our gradu also want to congratulate Urban Satderfield who placed second in the sheep production proficiency award at the state conference and our FFA is a national gold chapter um awarded for the national FFA. Also want to thank uh deep princ county board of education your leadership vision and commitment to our students staff committee are essential for the success. Thank you for your continued support. Finally, I want to offer a thanks to our departments including office staff, custodians, maintenance, child nutrition, transportation, IT teams. These behind
045the scene heroes play a vital role in the success and working with our teachers and our central office staff as we do the best for children. We look forward to another exciting school year and continue to show excellence in casual county schools. Thank you. Any questions concern? Thank you, Mr. I got one other. Go ahead. Um the state board of education um with the retest of those students who retook the ELGs. Um superintendent Mo Green announced at our superintendent regional meeting that those students will growth will be counted in addition to their academ performance. So that gives our schools an additional incentive with the model. So all students who retested um will have will be calculated in far proficiency as well as growth. and we're looking we're looking forward and excited to those outcomes once
046the state has verified. Okay, turn over to you. Anything else? That's all I have for today. All right, thank you very much member comments. Let's start with you, Miss Becker. I have none. Thank very good night. Uh, I guess graduation. I enjoyed that. You know, I guess I've been a couple years since I've been and I guess it was just nice to sit on the stage as a board member. It was a well um short week to the point. Yes, ma'am. I attended graduation as well and I just thought the students did a great job with their speeches and I also enjoyed the um conference that we went to. That was really good. First time I've been very good. Um, same thing with graduation. It was great. It was great to see that we continue
047growing in numbers of our associate degree program from PCC. Um, always great to see the numbers increase there. All right. Same graduation was great conference first time attending. Learned some things. Appreciate the opportunity. I think everyone has said everything uh and Mr. Stokes covered it to say to everyone uh we appreciate your services to Caswell County schools and we are advocating for all the students to go to Caswell County schools and we are still looking for staff people that would like to become a part of our system. uh graduation as as everyone said it was great and we for the first time we had a full board at the convention so that was really nice too. Very good. All right. Uh I want to take this opportunity I want to share something with you just
048a clarification if you would miss pass that out on that side and pass that on that side. This is a policy that has been adopted 2342 our voting methods. The reason I'm giving you this is this. Uh if you don't vote, you don't have to vote. You give a reason. It could be a personnel thing or whatever. uh an error that I made that I took from the county commissioners. By statute, Mr. Brad, a no vote in a statute, county commission is a yes vote. The only way you can do that in your local school board is to have a policy. We don't have that. But the thing I want to emphasize though is everybody must vote. All right? That's the difference what I'm showing. But if you want to recuse yourself, which people have
049done in the past, it mostly was dealing with personnel. So a lot of times uh we may go to sleep on a vote and you don't respond. That's the reason I call on you. But I want to make sure you had this though. Okay. Everybody clear on that? Miss policy does say one thing that I was pretty sure they said down there we could not do. Um it says here that for board elections we do a written ballot. Yeah. I was pretty sure that lady said it either has to be a voice or hand that you cannot do any written ballot form of voting anymore. I've never been comfortable with that, but it's always been there since I've been on the board and uh it it it's just like let me give you an example
050of something. Let's say you're voting for board chair. Okay, you get a nomination. If you don't get but one, then you don't have to do no written ballots. But if you get more than Well, you still got to put it down because those things are recorded. And the only thing uh that's something we may need to check, Miss Kim, just to make sure because if a policy is wrong, it needs to be changed. Simple as that. And we need to make sure we're doing it the correct way because ever since I've been on the board, we've always had written balance and they say that they are stored away. Anybody can view them or whatever. I've never known anybody to come request to look at them. But uh I hear this lady that was Kendra, right?
051Yeah. She said the same thing. So I wanted to make sure. But kind of I want you to check on that and then we'll know. Okay. All right. One thing I like to say, uh when you go to events, you always say, "Well, they did it this way. They did it that way." But it's your event. We had a very good event. Just a little over an hour. I thought the kids did well. And one thing I really like is when I think Miss Carter was saying, you know, applaud that student, then make sure you got time for the next one. Cuz I've been to graduations people when you get up like that, they escort you out of there. I've seen that. I don't want us to get to that point. Recognize that kid. When
052that kid's done, let's respect the next kid and move on. And we do a pretty good job of that. And I've been there and done that. So I I've seen that. Uh things move so fast. We almost getting ready to come back to school and you know like we just got out. And uh the last thing I'll say like Miss Blackman said, this is the first time since I've been on the board that every board member has been to the conference. All right. And I thought the camaraderie that we had dinner was good. uh that was a good thing and uh you meet a lot of new people meet a lot of old people do that you've been seeing all the time but I'm just thankful to be a part of that group and I
053want to take this time to express to uh Dr. give you a happy anniversary. Glad that you what 35 37 years or so. 29. Oh, 29. Somebody else had 37 months. So, I can't remember. Okay. That's all I got. Okay. All right. No other comments. If not, I move that the C County Board of Public Education go into close session for the purpose of consider action that involves an officer employee of this board NC general statute 14318.11 April 6 and for the purpose of discussing information confidential or not a public record NC 143 3181 parentheses Athen Is that a motion? Mr. Miller, is there a second? Miss Smith, any discussion? If not, all in favor raise your hand. Post. Let's take a short break and we'll be right back.