001no thank you [Music] thank you [Applause] okay we're ready [Applause] i'd like to call this meeting at the casual county board of education to order dr carter yes please pause for a moment of silence thank you please stand for the pledge of allegiance i pledge allegiance the republic for all this demands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you at this point we need approval of the minutes from the march 8th meeting and the march 15th budget work session minutes so i have a motion so move mr battle has made the motion is there a second miss garland's second some motion is there any discussion there's no discussion all in favor raise your hand pose the same scary that's part of the agenda yes i do have one uh recommendation
002to add to the agenda and that is under new business to add item number three summer learning 2021. [Applause] i have a motion to approve the agenda with the edition so move mr barrel has made the motion is there a second is beggarly second motion is there any discussion all in favor raise your hand motion carries announcements yes i have several announcements to share um in fact i have i think eight of them uh wanted to share first that redcoats our cleaning service that it will be in our schools this week will be their first full week meaning that they'll be in our schools on wednesday and friday sometimes saturday depending on their work schedule but we're very excited that they are now in our schools also um the calendar for the 2021-2022 school year
003uh the calendar committee will meet starting tomorrow and so uh over the coming weeks we'll be working on a calendar proposal and we hope to bring the draft calendar to the board the end of april for your consideration we're also excited as you know a few years ago the board approved an associate's degree program in partnership with pcc and the program what is a free uh degree associate's degree program that a student can earn an associate's degree in four years which is not that common normally it's five years uh at uh bartlett nc senior high school and it would be a it's a rigorous course of study and the first cohort will actually graduate this spring we have three students that plan to graduate in this school year and they will receive their high school
004diploma and at the same time receive a two-year associate's degree and we are very excited and very proud of the students that were in that first cohort i also would like to share that right now we have 12 in the wings for the following year so it's growing so we're very excited about that opportunity and just to know that we have our students that will have a free associate's degree when they graduate from high school that is amazing absolutely miss mcgee our director of hr uh provided me a list of uh caswell county schools employee recognition program recipients for the past several months and she's very excited to announce these recipients but i wanted to share the goal of the employees recognition program is to identify and recognize employees who demonstrate excellence in their job
005show professionalism support the vision and mission of the school system exhibits teamwork makes valuable contributions and service to the school district and the community of caswell county and the recognitions that are from november through february of this school year i have jerry hatchett director of maintenance and under that whoever nominated him says that mr hatchet is dedicated and loyal to making sure the buildings and grounds are safe for students faculty and staff he is always on call to take care of day-to-day problems and emergencies also recognized was is kim mims director of child nutrition the coworker that nominated her said miss mims made sure students were fed during the pandemic she ensured that food sites were staffed and food was delivered on time also nominated is james fowler from the child nutrition warehouse and the
006person nominated him said mr fowler is willing to help anyone he can he keeps child nutrition going even in bad weather he checks freezers and moves food if needed at vy release a thompson payroll specialist was nominated and the person said that miss thompson is always available to answer payroll and program funding questions she is calm understanding and willing to help anyone alfreda corbett uh teacher assistant at n.l dillard middle school was nominated and it was said that miss colbert did an outstanding job serving in the front office her presence and efficiency were phenomenal while in that role i have four others crystal carter pre-k teacher assistant at north it was said ms carter stepped up to take on a leadership role in her grade level with no hesitation and she's doing an outstanding job
007clint hyler a custodian of oakwood nominated and said that mr hyler has gone above and beyond and fulfilling his job extra custodial duties he always has a smile no matter the situation or task and every day he asks every staff member if they need anything to others randy jones custodian itself and mr jones is a hard worker and consistently goes above and beyond to keep the school clean and safe for teachers when he notices things to be done he takes care of them without being asked and the michelle pernell media specialist at stoney creek and it was said that miss purnell serves parents and teachers with remote learning ms purnell also helped to facilitate a new initiative books we love for the students we love that allow students an opportunity to listen to staff read
008positive stories in support of social and emotional needs so again i would like to congratulate the employees that were recognized during this time span and thank them for the work that they're doing for casper county schools doug can we go back to by was that thomas or thompson thomas release okay yes release the thomas okay yes payroll specialist all right i have a couple more things um i wanted to just share that um if you have not seen the march newsletter for castle county schools it's on our website we've also sent out the parents and it's in some of our local stores as well that it does share a lot of good things that are happening in casper county schools and uh it's almost april so you'll see another one out and about in april
009that shares a lot of good information so i hope that if you haven't seen it that you'll pick one up also on our district website we have a coven dashboard now that's up and running mr terrell assistant superintendent takes care of updating that each week and you can go on there during the week and see the confirmed cases we have and hopefully they're very low as well as staff that may be quarantined so that everyone can be informed and we're very transparent with our numbers two more things congratulations to our by athletics our football team friday night it was senior recognition night and they won against graham high school 48-6 and they are undefeated in the conference today and also our softball team is currently undefeated they had a double header against reidsville and won
010both games so congratulations on our athletics and then the last thing and they're all important is um i have some attendance numbers from now that our students have many of them have returned to in-person learning just wanted to give an update that in august of last year the first part of the school year we had students enrolled and we have 2290 that does include our 29 early graduates in february 2020 exactly well one year ago in uh february to this march we had 2290 and we still have that number so um we are we're certainly where we were at and we're hoping to continue to build on the good things happening in caswell county schools and that is all that i have thank you dr carter uh public comments they're not any public comments there's
011no unfinished business under new business the consent agenda i'd like to recommend approval of the consent agenda as presented to the board carter's recommended approval of the consent agenda do i have a motion i'll make that motion ms garland makes the motion is there a second to the motion second miss hudson's second some motion is there any discussion i got one more lesson observation uh i see we have three quotes here and the thing i don't understand and if i don't get the explanation then i don't know one of the companies charges is camco out of burleson they charge a install fee of course they were not selected but the other two did not have an install fee is there a reason is that something we're going to do ourselves and that's what was puzzling
012to me yeah i will need to uh follow up on that okay uh but my understanding is my understanding was that we are installing them but i will need to verify that before because when i see a discrepancy in the numbers like that that causes big concern uh i'd like to use local people in north carolina or whatever but you have to go you want to go with the lowest number but that installation fee was present to me i will certainly follow up and find out thank you any other discussion so i have a motion to approve the consent agenda i've already proved it i'm sorry that's my mistake uh okay the next item of resolutions please vote on you'd vote on me i'll get it together here tonight okay that's right okay all those
013in favor of the consent agenda raise your hand approve the same motion carries had a senior moment there folks ms darling resolutions we have two resolutions the first one is for blind foster page resolution immemorial and appreciation of the life of blanc foster page whereas blanche foster page was born on june 21st 1928 and resided at 1606 county home roads blanche north carolina 27379 at the time of her death on march the 3rd 2021 and whereas blanche page was a faithful and loving wife mother and friend and her family's welfare was a major and constant concern and whereas blanche page was a lifetime and faithful member of first baptist church in yanceville and served many years as a sunday school teacher and whereas blanche page was a graduate of bartley yancey senior high school and
014the university of north carolina at greensboro and whereas blanche page was a faithful and loyal employer of casper county schools she taught business education for seven years in elber north carolina and 31 years at bobby yancey senior high school she was head of the business department and treasurer for the school for many years she was also a member of the nea and ncae she was a member and past president of the alpha delta chapter of delta kappa gamma an honorary organization for women teachers and pearly blanche home demonstration club and the caswell chapter 239 order of the eastern star she was an exceptional lady who was respected by her students and will be dearly missed and never forgotten by her family and friends and will be remembered for her commitment to education and being known
015for her benevolence and servant's hearts to children and now therefore be resolved that the castersville county board of education wishes to honor the memory of blanche page and expresses its sympathy to her family by causing a copy of this resolution to be spread upon the official menace of the board of education in a confident fault to the family this the 22nd day of march 2021 resolution immemorial and appreciation of the life of ruth moore page whereas ruth moore page was born on march the 30th 1927 and resided at 820 page road yanceville north carolina 27379 at the time of her death on december 26 and whereas ruth page was a faithful and loving wife mother and friend and her family's welfare was a major and constant concern and whereas ruth page was an active member
016of prospect united methodist church in yenseville and served in many capacities and whereas ruth page was an active member of her community she was very active in the delta kappa gamma teacher sorority the latest auxiliary of the vfw so dance clothes for her daughters and for others when performing in the anne boyle dance recitals and enjoy preserving vegetables from her garden and whereas ruth page was a graduate of appalachian state university in 1950 then known as appalachian state teachers college majoring in english and business education she taught english and rwanda in ruffin north carolina and later business scepters at bargley yancey senior high school where she taught 26 years into her retirement in june 1990. when computer use became an integral part of everyone's life she took great pride in knowing that she had taught
017so many how to type she was a special lady who was well respected by her students and will be dearly missed and never forgotten by her family and friends and will be remembered for her commitment to education and being known for her benevolence and servant's heart to children and now therefore be it resolved that the casper county board of education wishes to honor the memory of ruth page and expresses his sympathy to her family by causing a copy of this resolution to be spread upon the official members of the board of education and it copy forwarded to the family this the 22nd day of march 2021 thank you do i have a motion mr battle has made a motion is there a second miss beggarly has made a second any discussion all in favor raise
018your hand suppose the same next item is summer learning dr carter yes i would like to share a framework uh proposal for summer learning 2021 the framework you have in front of you and i want to make sure you have the one that has elementary k5 dated today is is just that it's a framework it's based on two sessions um one in june and the other in july and i just want to make sure that uh the understanding that this is a draft framework because if house bill 82 is passed there could be some possible changes that are mandated or agreed to achieve legislation is passed there could be some changes but we need to go ahead and move on this in order to put out interest letters so we can start recruiting our staff
019and speaking to some area superintendents in the p-tech region they are doing the same thing because we know that there could be some changes but again we need to make sure that we have ample staff in order to move forward with it the framework is two pages and there's two components to it the first is how it's divided into the educational component of it and second is the budget and as you can see it's divided into the elementary middle and high because under this this is to help with any gaps in learning for our students over the past year and it is uh it is open to anyone however there will be a focus on math and reading with stem activities and then your tested areas and science as well as um in your uh
020english in math and biology of course at the high school we also would like to have opportunities for any student who was not able to complete their cte credentials during toga that has an opportunity to come to the high school and of course that would be dependent upon the teacher availability as well but to be able to complete any credentialing hours that they need in order to pick them up to where they need to be with their cte opportunities you can see the focus area in the first session is regarding hopefully math because that way in science so that we can retest if we need to for accountability in the month of june and you can see our attentive days there we are proposing a four day week to date uh there's been some back
021and forth conversations with house bill 82 as to if they're calculating hours or if it's days or they're going to require five days four days or is it hours so there's still a lot of things that we may need to tweak but this framework is for a full teacher day seven and a half hours to eight hour days and then four day work weeks and again depending upon the house bill and then the second page uh is the budget and the funds to support this are coming from our s or two funds and those are the federal funds that uh are our second wave from from coven and uh again that the assert funds uh esther ii funding is 3.013 million but when we take our indirect costs it's basically 2.8 million and we are
022asking that a substantial amount of this be used to pay the summer program with the resources and and supplies that they need including of course teacher assistance nurses leads transportation everything that's needed to carry out of a full summer program again it's much higher than we normally have because it is a k-12 program as well and you can see where we are asking for the percentages for the the rate of pay and the incentive for attendance is there as well and again it's a framework because until we know the number of students that will be attending it's very difficult to nail down a a cost or um you know how much you know we'll need to to support the program but we do need to go ahead and put out that interest to our staff
023so that we can have commitments so that we can go ahead and start planning and and one then once we put that out then of course we'll be asking for students to indicate whether they're going to attend the summer program they might be both or it might be one and again legislation might drive that as well but we can go ahead and start planning so i'm asking the approval of this framework mr really dr carter how how did you come up with this daily rating because the reason why i asked you got teacher assistance i mean i'm not downing the nurses by no means but would the teacher assistants be doing more than a nurse uh it went with certified licensed staff that was where it came from and actually i think that i don't
024think anyone can say anyone works harder because i think they all have quite a bit that they do and our nurses have certainly worked and i know you're not down in anyone that they have certainly worked diligently during this time and they'll be responsible for any concerns with health and temperature checks and and um you know there's there's quite a bit that they do as well um again the certified staff and licensed staff is the reason they increased there mr i've looked at this very closely and i've said before since march of 19 we've had some difficult times that we're dealing with and as i looked at this piggyback on what dr carter said everybody in this puzzle is important for example if you can't get them to school you can't have school simple as
025that and the thing i look at is this is i don't call this a cash cow but it's money that you've never seen before you'll never probably see it again and i think we need to use it wisely in terms of how we pay our employees giving it example as far as the teachers go i don't have a problem with the rate plus the 20 percent but when you come down to the i'm going down the list with the nurses uh if a member serves me correct one nurse is 11 months the other five are 10 months so the five would be gaining another month of employment more or less the lead nurse who already works 11 will probably have an option of not to work or take that mark off or whatever to be
026included in this or just came to 20 correct now personally i think the teacher's assistant should get 20 as well uh because we're in this game together transportation it's very hard to have perfect attendance anything could come up a doctor's appointment a death in a family emergency and if they are out one day then they don't get that money and it's it's it's not but fifty dollars uh i'd like to see uh a daily rate plus some percentage doesn't have to be 20 but at least they're there they're getting the kids back and forth to school and i think the same thing for custodians and the cafeteria staff perfect attendance is hard when we first started doing that for our bus drivers i don't know how many got that or whatever but i i think
027we've got an opportunity to give everybody a little piece of the pie and is the one million is that the max that we got to play with no it's 2.8 okay we're hoping that it will follow up for another summer school as well because the numbers of the kids are going to dictate the overall percentage and i hope the kids will participate in that but i want us to be fair to all our employees as much as we can because this person to me is just as important as the next person i agree i mean i agree they all need something it's and it's very difficult uh especially when you know you have some 12-month employees anyway so we've got to be careful of the funding source because they could not be paid like child
028nutrition still be paid out of child nutrition but anything on top of that could come from this as well but i agree all of our staff work hard it's just we need to to budget some way so that we can sustain it as much as possible but i think our best investment is our employees good and one last point let's go on there's one school system i know that's using some money they're pretending they're 140 a day certified and to me they're going to attract some people because of 140 and i know we don't have subs out there just by the drones sitting out there waiting to come to work but if you offer a person 140 as compared to 85 or 90 that may make a difference so that's how the big school systems
029do and that's how they siphon off people well that's where they want to work so when we have the opportunity i hope that we can just grab it and put the money where we can ms hudson dr carter i know you said this k-12 is for any student that chooses to come yes we're focusing on uh students that are at risk and that need extended school or various reasons but it can be open to anyone but we are going to focus uh with invitations to certain students that buy their scores need that extra gap learning but it could be for someone else as well how are you gonna i know the scores for um 312. how are we going to target our k2 kids teacher recommendation absolutely uh that that would be the i guess
030the greatest source at that point now dr carter i also would like to share just looking at the possibility of funds um out of this funds we would need to look at some things for the upcoming school year as well and that will be some of the things i'm bringing back to you the end of april cleaning supplies the cleaning program the custodial contract if we continue with the current one that starts this week with redcoats social workers if we chose we certainly need our chromebooks replenished we have two sets of chromebook or replenishing dates that need to occur and if you want to look at which you know some other opportunities for uh like a dropout prevention specialist and things such as that as well so there's some other things too to be looking
031at um you know within that monies that i hope to bring to you but again you know people are you know are burnt out and i think that you know we do know how important the summer program is and so we need to be competitive with other districts and offer money that will attract the best of the best and so whatever we need to do because again you know our students uh need support and you know we need to invest in our staff to gain that support ms blackwell dr carter um just i think she asked the question but i wanted to get a clarification so if any student whether they are at risk can attend this summer program yes it's k-12 k-12 k-12 okay so um have you all thought about how you will
032start to get that information out because i know that will drive how the funding will take place right if the board approves this framework we have a form that's ready to go out for staff tomorrow because we've got to make sure that we've got you know staff that already can say you know we can we can you know make plans around this and then we'll start collecting data from uh teachers and principals who have already you know they've already targeted students that may need some support from from any gaps which they would normally and then those are the ones that uh parent conferences talk to the teacher we have invitations that go out you know parent notices i mean there's a lot of ways that you know in the past we've contacted parents um i
033mean every parent will be notified of the students that rest but we'll put out a blanket if anyone else would like to attend uh for whatever reason but we want to make sure that the students that we see gaps in learning are the first priority for attending well i think this will be the first time that it will be for any student that's you can come and you not be at risk right so that means that there's going to be some additional type of planning too absolutely she could have you know an exceptional student as well for any student and then the uh when mr battle was talking about uh and i think miss beverly as well was talking about the um pay is that something that we go back and take a look at
034uh because of we do have the additional funding and um instead of doing something with perfect attendance to give them a percentage rate as well is that something that we have to do as a board to take that or are you going to take a look at it and bring it back to us i'm good with either way as long as it can attract personnel and we have it i i want to be able to have transportation and drivers are you know our concern is that we want to make sure that staff is there and that we're able to have a smooth summer school without looking for substitutes because there's not a lot of substitutes especially in transportation and with teachers so we want to make sure that we have a lot of staff that
035are invested in it's worthwhile to come there so i'm certainly not opposed to any percentages um i do feel that the uh top three lines of the daily rate plus 20 percent are are um needed and then after those um i feel like you know if the board feels like it should be higher i'm certainly um an advocate for that too i just want to make sure that you know we do and we will uh we can make sure that we have enough funding for our chromebooks as well as the other needs for sanitizing and um support for next school year as well so in that group and you know um i think i had some concerns too with perfect attendance being the um the goal point for them to receive their um fifty dollars
036or whatever so if we went with a percentage would we include in that group uh bus drivers child nutrition custodians we could we could put them all together we just need to make sure that the initial funding if they're employed 12 months of that initial funding comes out of the source that it would typically come out of and that any addition on top of that percentage would come from esser funds and if you feel that 10 across the board i mean i'm good with that too at the of the others or i mean i think the teacher assistant should be a little bit more because i think that they some of those teachers are assistants some of them have college degrees too but some of them just you know extraordinary people absolutely and and uh
037so i think that um we're gonna have a lot of students who are families that may take up on this opportunity uh so i just think that that should be higher as well so i mean that's that was my question whether you give us some new figures and bring it back to us or do we discuss that name um mr battle just give you an example let's take certified lead and the nurses uh you've got some nurses that make more money than the teachers make uh if they work one month and let's say it's six thousand dollars twenty percent of that is twelve hundred dollars and uh the difference of that is nurses get paid based upon their state state pay uh teaches the same thing but they own a little higher level especially with
038their experience uh and we're not talking about a lot of money because if you look at the totals over there the last two is three thousand and three thousand it's only six thousand dollars the 160 for drivers may be less for the simple reason of the number of kids that we have uh teacher assistants don't make way as much as a teacher would make and the 10 percent is going to lower them based upon what they're going to get first i'd like to well this is just me i'd like to see what 20 would be and have those numbers because i think when we get the numbers in for the kids and the teachers who want to work that 1 million is going to be adjusted anyway uh could be up could be down uh
039probably it's gonna be down but uh i just like i said i think all of them are important if we choose to get me if we choose to go with 20 for assistance it would be 380 projected rather than 190 right okay yeah um no i i agree uh please know that every again if we don't have uh the school clean we certainly cannot have summer programs there um i just want to make sure too that it could go up because you know if you look at the number of teachers and we've opened it up to k-12 it could be more than this it just really won't know we won't know and i really would like an approval of a framework today so that we can start attracting to find out how many staff are
040available because you know we've heard a lot are born out and don't plan to work however this is competitive with other districts surrounding us so i'm hoping that we can go ahead and snag staff whether it's a teacher nurse transportation bus driver teacher assistant whoever i hope we can go ahead and get that commitment so yes i want to make it attractive to every level um so i'm good with whatever the board so [Music] and in chooses it is we're planning for it to be in person however there could definitely be some areas where there would be a virtual need but the staff would be in school but we are um it is planning to be all in person dr carter and at each level elementary middle and high school there are two sessions if
041a student enrolls do they have to attend both sessions at the current time we're saying no because the first session is geared toward math or science however again that house bill 82 can change everything it could change our framework okay so they could say enroll for the first session in elementary for math correct integrated with stem okay but they wouldn't have to attend the other one as it is right now unless the law changes that is correct okay so our numbers will fluctuate and i mean we might start out you've got 40 teachers here in parentheses we might start out with 40. and end up with only 20 for the next period okay so or vice versa yeah or vice versa absolutely absolutely well dr carter i agree with uh adopting a framework um that
042we can adopt but in order to attract custodians cafeteria etc i think you're gonna have to have that ready to say okay we're gonna give you all 10 driver hourly rate i think you'll have to to do that in order to entice them as you say so what are we saying ten percent for transportation custodians cafeteria and 20 for assistance or are you saying 20 percent for everybody must battle i was 12 across the board 20 across the board and the reason i'm saying that they're the lowest paid people anyway and just to make it attractive i think i'm pretty sure it would any other questions or comments i'm very happy with that i'm very happy with that 20 across the board i'm very pleased thank you [Music] okay dr carter do you have a
043recommendation for us so that you can get started with looking into that yes and may i just get clarification on this um if someone is employed 12 months already uh this they may not be in every school in fact our elementary we're planning just two of the elementary schools so it would be only the staff that would be in that particular elementary school even though the other two schools might have staff there it would be the ones that would be in that school because they would have extra duties yes that would be the 20 percent need because they're doing extra duty to help with the students in that particular school okay just wanna make sure we're all in agreement there um i recommend uh approval of the framework for the summer learning program uh as
044presented to the board with the change that teacher assistants transportation custodians and the school staff the others listed um are also at a rate of daily rate plus our hourly rate as it depends plus 20 percent okay you've heard the superintendent's recommendation do i have a motion ms berger has made the motion is there a second mrs blackwell second promotion is there any further discussion if not all in favor raise your hand oppose the same question conclusion endlessly thank you see there are no reports or updates at this time superintendent updates if not can i have a motion that the caswell county board of public education go into closed session for the purpose of considering a personnel action that involves an officer or employee of this board nc general statutes 143 318-1186 and for the
045purpose of discussing information that is privileged confidential or not a public record nc general statutes 143 318-1181 and to confer with attorney so moot mrs garland has made the motion is there a second mr battle second some motion any discussion all in favor raise your hand