001[Music] um [Music] okay so we like now [Music] nice [Music] yes yours i took care of my attorney board of education to order that car please pause for a moment of silence thank you please stand for the pledge of allegiance [Music] of the united is of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you we have the minutes from our joint meeting with the commissioners on the 22nd and also our regular board minutes on the 22nd of february do i have a motion to approve the minutes i'd like to make a motion that we approve both sets of minutes one for february 22nd uh vote for february 22nd mr garland has made a motion is there a second there's very only seconds
002of motion is there any discussion no no no um it's not all in favor raise your hand oppose the same motion carries carter i'd like to recommend approval of the agenda as presented dr carter's made a recommendation for approval of the agenda do i have a motion so all in favor raise your hand oppose the same motion carries announcements dr carl uh i just have two announcements one i would like to welcome our students back to school that have chosen to uh come back in person and as you as you know it's a staggering entry so we have new students coming in today and more students coming in next week and i certainly appreciate all the work that our staff has done our teachers for making sure that our students are are safe and play
003so things are going very smoothly and just thankful that we're no longer red county and so i think things just fell in place and the timing was good i also would like to share that mr terrell has been working on the dashboard that will be on our website soon that is uh gives updates to the community regarding code information in our schools i just want to share that as well and that's all i have to do public comments there's one public comment this morning from dr ellen flaggett residing at 108 j lane providence north carolina dear board of education according to ms chandler's cfo your local funds are your general funds unrestricted funds function as your savings account and may be appropriated through your local slash general fund such as 112 000 for holiday bonuses
004in 2018-19 this transfer of funds was done to finance teachers supplements for 300 000 dollars on february 24 2021 i asked miss chandler can this thing be done for a teacher supplement this year moving from unrestricted funds to general funds for appropriation if the board of education approved if teachers supplements are a high priority for this board you can certainly use some of your 2 468 556 as of june 2020 in your unrestricted account funds rather than county dollars which may increase local tax rates for citizens our tax rates are already higher than surrounding counties and taxes are set to increase to pay for bart williamson's senior high school i also inquired about teachers pay raises according to ms chandler the state did not give an increase to the paid scale this past year they
005only gave a step increase for years of service in 2019-2020 step raises that were based on experience for one thousand dollars per year provides us up to 15 years teaching experience with additional wages so that is up to 25 years experience average salary for teacher with bachelor's degree 50 000 so one thousand dollars replaced to a two percent raise a small county sign bonus of two thousand in two thousand nineteen twenty was allocated by the state for teachers accepting employment last fall a deal was passed that painted 350 bonus for teachers and instructional support were employed on october 1st 2010. according to public schools first nc in 2018 11.8 million allocated to fund salary increases for teachers the average teacher raised 6.5 percent on february 24th by asking the casual teachers received these raises plus
006teacher supplements in 2018. in august 2019 henry stayed through employed 2.5 salary increases for each of the next two years for most state employees i inquire with state employees employing teachers it fits 2.5 in 2019. this request for public information subsequently forwarded to ms carter who required we will respond as soon as possible today march 6 2021 i have received no answers remember the lies of omission and commission over the past couple months to include a presentation that 100 of north elementary teachers did not want in-person classes when only 13 teachers responded to the survey remember when you were told concerns about not enough substitutes or safety only to be told the following meetings there were plenty of substitutes and a list of safety measures will review remember the recommendation to resume sports at bartley
007anthony high school but questioned if having children in classrooms was worth it remember when lack of teacher supplements was given as a reason for resignation from july through october 2019 37 teachers and staff resigned or retired during that same period in 2020 21 teachers and staff resigned were retired and this has continued monthly resignations are not about positive supplements it's about poor leadership how long will this yes masterboard training was brought forward from last meeting for the board to discuss the next training and possible days before training i think the next session would be um we'll be on building our team all right we receive the information and dance for consideration april 29th the 30th may 3rd through the 7th and may 10th through the 14th the start time of 8 30 how much how
008much time is involved in this three hours um i don't know about anyone else but i already have a commitment for april the 29th or and the 30th so any other date will suit me i would like to be a part but i know already that i cannot attend on those days okay may the third is a monday and it goes through that friday the seventh may three third through the seventh and the tenth through the fourteenth and the tenth we have a boardman meeting and then the rest of the week is there a particular date that would suit everybody maybe the third to see that's a monday i'm like doesn't have to third in the morning time it's maybe the third then at 8 30 a good time could you do tuesday i'm sorry
009miss blackwell here tuesday tuesday the 4th yes at 8 30 yes any objections there [Music] no problem with that okay we can set it up then do we need a motion for this okay i think we've got consensus so we'll set it up for 8 30 on tuesday may the 14th [Music] and we'll be in this room any other unfinished business new business i'd like to recommend approval of the consent agenda as presented to the board dr carter has recommended approval of the consent agenda do i have a motion [Music] [Applause] i would like to thank ms chandler for such the amendments that she sets forth everything is so clean and readable and she does such a good job as our cfo and i thank you very much for that absolutely absolutely any other discussion
010[Music] all in favor of approving the consent agenda raise your hand propose the same motion carries dr carl for the um cleaning services we have for you three quotes um there is um the quote for the one that i am recommending redcoats uh initially they had said two thousand nine 2950 per week but because of the cleaning uh recommendation that we have for the fluid that they use that we want to make sure that everything is uh extremely safe especially on desktops and such where contact will be uh the solution that they're using the organic type solution is a little bit more expensive but well worth it and so it's for the professional cleaning it's up for 3 500 a week and uh it's for all six schools twice a week and they will go
011into the schools after hours and need to clean the schools twice a week and we have set it for wednesday evening and either friday evening or saturday so that it's when the staff [Music] do i have a motion ms hudson makes a motion is there a second a second miss garland seconds of motion is there any discussion mr battle just a few observations uh when i look at something like this i'm looking hopefully each company is going to say the same thing but that's not the case here give you an example uh centos uh they outlined each school in terms of what they're going to charge proposed for example the high school was quoted as two thousand eighty dollars each time dealing with the same thing the one that really surprised me was oakwood school
012which is 580 dollars actually oakwood school is larger than north and south in terms of square feet and i don't understand that why it's like that um as i was telling dr carlos when i look at some i look at you know apples to apples to make sure everything is the same um of course i see what their total is too which is is high and then when i look at uh redcoats of course i understand that the difference of this 29 basis to 35. then when i look at the other one it just gives you what fcs that just gives you a figure and the third page is uh i guess it's a fax or something to mr terrell but i i can't read that i don't know what that is you know what
013that is about uh that was the original from redcoats um the uh actually that page probably should not have been included it's from redcoats not from fcs and just one more comment uh do you need something to say you know about the liability of this you know when do you pay them et cetera because it just says i want to do this job for you this is what i'm going to charge yes that will be uh outlined in the contract with them that uh has all that information and in fact mr terrell is i think at the door and he can share a little bit more okay that's what i'm driving at if we get all that information in advance i wouldn't be asking these questions now and just because i see a number doesn't
014mean that that's what i want to you know call it's the lowest number that saves a whole lot because this is going to be very particular in terms of the chemical you use uh is it the right chemicals it doesn't cause any reaction or anything like that because this is kind of this is important i was reading where i think uh alamance burlington their contract is 3.6 million dollars for this coming year because they got many more schools than we got but this is a big deal in terms of what we're doing with trigger of the cleaning so last question if we approve this today will they start wednesday no sir uh in fact mr trail's here to answer some more questions uh they'll need to make sure that they have their crew together um
015but one of the i think the delay that we had was because we want to make sure they were using the right cleaning fluid so that it was safe for all the students okay excuse me is that the same that we use it's compatible with what we use mr trail would you like to give a little bit more insight because i know you've been dealing directly with them he got a chance to look at that when we initially talked about um using their cleaners uh the first thing we do is that we had mr hatchet send it to people that we get our disinfectant cleaning products cleaning products to do exactly what make sure it doesn't do exactly what you said any kind of chemical reaction putting one on top of each other so they
016approved that the next step was when i had a meeting with them and the regional manager i brought up the question that since we are eating in the classroom i think that very very important whatever we use in the classroom it's not a food preparation area and that was the change where they uh so they did send me a statement as far as criminal background checks that they conduct on their individuals and the live bill bill insurance you do every day compared to this is what some people want to know can you explain it's just a deeper cleaning yeah especially on wednesday friday to bring in kids a different set of kids that we want to make sure that we our staff is doing a wonderful job don't get me wrong they are putting a
017lot of hours on a very recommended schedule spring we've done that since day one uh wiping down uh cleaning the restaurants and those types of things and so as we shifted to have kids come back and we shifted their responsibilities had to shift because she went into a school prior to kids coming back we had the student restrooms closed down because we weren't using them at all so we just want to make sure as we move forward that we are doing everything we can to make sure that we are creating this safe environment uh this is just another one of those mitigating strategies [Music] um custodians or something to let them in or stay extra in afternoons go from there um at first we we did talk about making sure that we had staff available
018in the evenings and of course the staff that would be there with the company would be sitting elsewhere because they could not be in the room where they're spraying and such um but then we talked about you know we now have keyless entry we have key fox we can uh cut off entry we can give access and we have camera systems everywhere and so actually we feel like it would be a waste of fun to have extra personnel just sitting up front unlock a door and lock the door back and we can do that remotely and then we can certainly view what's going on in our camera system and see more than one person put up front so i would prefer that we not pay someone extra just to sit up front for that purpose
019when we can do it electronically and view what's going on in the schools the other thing i just throw this out that the time frame we're looking at we haven't set up the sun but it's going to be like 5 30 6 and then it's going to go to like however long it takes the next step of course is uh to give them some blueprints about what our schools look like just because they're not familiar or do some walkthroughs with them so they know where everything is in most our schools we do have card access that we could give them access to the building on a limited basis but again the other thing is in the agreement that it's not a long-term agreement so we can re-evaluate as we go through but i do think
020that this this will be something that we will look at especially with the talk of expanded summer just like wearing our face and doing our temperature chat just one more layer that our staff and our families and our students is another life for that honestly i just want to make sure that you know sometimes when you're not watching some people they may not i just want to make sure it's being done if nobody is watching them it'd be very similar to someone going into the bank with the security system and making sure there's no one there usually from a bank but you know they have a camera system and they have the entry systems as well do we have cameras in the classrooms now just in the hallways is michael uh which two days are
021we looking at to do the spring and when i'm looking to get started it's a wednesday friday view right now uh that's the end that came from the suggestions from dr carter but also i think the last time it's right now on plan b so we've got new sets of students coming in uh on thursday and then we've got another second goal throughout friday um in communication with him uh he wouldn't would start this wednesday but i would probably be hoping for possibly the next day or wednesday after that i don't think it would be after spring break [Music] and we'd like to continue this contract uh as long as it says factory work uh and then as long as the care back money is there and the need is there so possibly going into
022the summer like he was saying with the summer programs if we have anything possible oh what happened that's some response thursday evening or friday but there are some changes that need to be made that's a they said it's a legal zoom contract as people use it's kind of paced but if you do anything today make it subject to modification of that agreement that the cleaning company provided and i'll have to see what happened i realized thank [Music] any other questions or comments dr carter has made the recommendation that we separate folks along with our attorney's information about based on the contract being approved or revised approval of the contract based on attorney recommendations right okay is there a motion okay all in favor raise your hand oppose the same motion carries unanimously dr carson updates
023no update at this time um i do under a superintendent updates just want to remind the board of our walk-throughs of the construction site for those that have been scheduled uh on different days and that begins tomorrow so looking forward to going through the construction site and be sure to wear your hard hat and we will have someone from the construction company there along with bill powell and of course mr stokes there as well to give you an update of what's occurring and that's tomorrow and wednesday right okay [Music] i made a motion that the casual 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 statute 143-318-1186 and for the purpose of discussing information that is
024privileged confidential or not a public record nc general statute 143 318 1181 and to confer with attorney do i have a motion i'll make a motion mr makes a motion is there a second ms stanley seconds of motion is there any discussion