001[Music] um so uh are you ready i'd like to call this meeting with the capital 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 of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you first item we have is the approval of the minutes of the february 8 2021 meeting do i have a motion i'd like to make a motion that we approve the minutes from the february 8th meeting we have a motion do i have a second second ms hudson seconds of motion is there any discussion there's no discussion all in favor raise your hand oppose the same motion carried unanimously dr carter
002um i recommend approval of the agenda as presented oppose the same public comments there was one public comment uh you do have a hard copy after place as there are some charts and um listings from internet websites this is from catherine peakleton acting president for caswell county american education association address is 635 rocky ridge road leesburg north carolina as always we do want our students back but safely but the cdc is crystal clear schools need six feet of social distancing to the greatest extent possible and in counties with a rate of more than 50 new coveted cases per week for 100 000 residents i'm sorry 100 000 residents the cdc says six feet should be required as of february 21st castle county has recorded 186 cases per week for 100 000 residents and she's referenced
003the chart below six feet of social distancing should be required if we open under plan a we are not complying with cdc guidance during a pandemic the cdc also said counties with substantial or high transmission of covid should require six feet of social distance and the chart is referenced below cdc's proper social distancing in schools is six feet north carolina's plan a full reopen rules do not comply with cdc guidance to be very clear north carolina's plan a guidelines do not have a social distance requirement north carolina's full enrollment rules do not comply with cdc guidance parents should know this school districts in plan a before we open mode should acknowledge this north carolina school reopened plans don't take community spread of the coveted virus into account at all when making decisions on whether or
004not to reopen schools when school boards decide to fully reopen elementary schools without guarantees or sexually associated parents should know those reopened plans do not follow cdc guidance it's no surprise that elementary schools have recorded the most clusters of five or more coveted infections in north carolina and the worst clusters if six feet is the standard for social distancing in all workplaces across america during a pandemic then it should be the standard for our school employees it will there is a solution if the board insists on sending public school employees during a pandemic building that do not comply with cdc guidance there is a reasonable compromise vaccinate all employees in those buildings without six feet of social distance before students return if you are going to reopen schools against cdc guidance you should vaccinate the
005school employees first has anyone from the maine office communicated with the castle county health department about vaccinating casual county school staff this week as of this coming wednesday according to the governor teachers are prioritized so there are so are there plans to set aside vaccines for staff for the next several weeks until everyone has been vaccinated could we set up some kind of event a drive-through or have sites set up at the schools what is the plan for accommodating teachers and staff as recommended below senate bill 37 which says in accordance with the requirements of the strong schools nc public health toolkit local boards of education shall create a process for teachers and staff to self-identify as high-risk from coven 19 and have a plan in place to address requests for alternative work reassignments for
006teachers and staff who self-identify as high risk from cobin 19 local boards are strongly encouraged to enable them to minimize face-to-face contact and to allow those teachers and staff to maintain a distance of six feet from others modify job responsibilities to minimize exposure risk or allow them to telework if possible for the purposes of this subdivision a teacher or staff member may also self-identify as high risk from coven 19 if that teacher or staff member is the direct caretaker of a minor with an underlying condition identified as high-risk and coping 19 for those teachers who are at high risk recovered and request an alternate work of fun we have an obligation to address and honor this do we have a plan in place for this situation or are we planning to deal with it on
007a case-by-case basis we have all spoken to teachers and staff who are contemplating early retirement or otherwise leaving the profession due to high-risk status of themselves or a family member as one teacher put it choosing between teaching or living should not be a choice any of us have to make in closing we are asking that you reconsider plan a for our elementary schools failing that that you find a way to prioritize and expedite vaccination of teachers and staff in these unsafe settings where social discipline of six feet is not costly and that teachers who request alternate assignments to the high-risk have those requests honored as always we thank you for considering the well-being of students staff and teachers um um in your packet you have two items that were uh carried forward from the previous
008board meeting one is the continuation of discussion regarding the community foundation and the stipulations that you'll be putting into a possible scholarship for by graduates you have in front of you the the scoring rubric that currently is in place with the community foundation for all scholarships and then you have with you also is a draft fund agreement that fund agreement is where the board of education will make any tweaks to to any areas of consideration or concern that you want to be considered for any student under this scholarship so just to recap this the rubric that's currently in place is used by all scholarships by the community foundation and that will still be in place anything in addition to that would go under the fund agreement draft and one of the questions or comments um
009that was brought by one of the board members is you know it says graduates should it not be graduating seniors um you know is there anything we need to add about community service or work or extracurricular activities or hardships another concern that was brought up is sometimes um not everyone is involved in a lot of activities and according to the rubric it's um 20 points is there something in the fund agreement that you could put that would say that you know maybe someone could write a paper if they don't have a lot of extracurricular activities and it go in place of the community service if there's not some those are just some considerations that were sent to me by various board members as you look at the fund agreement okay one suggestion that i have
010is that the graduating senior from bartley anthony high school be a resident of caswell county now what we can do is make some recommendations here and then we can either come back to it and vote on them all together or vote on them individually give me an example of wayne of why you said that has to be a resident of caswell county are you thinking of like a employee's child or something that's coming in with them no i i was well i mean that would be a possibility but i was thinking that that we wanted to do it for caswell county students and and and my saying being a resident of caswell county means they went through the school system here or have lived here and are going through the school system so anyone who
011just moved in their senior year would be out of it if they moved into the county they would be eligible okay i'm just trying to think of any way you know if we're asked why we said that there would be an any other way that somebody would receive it while we put that in there as a stipulation well i think the purpose is to try to help students from caswell county in hopes that they're going to come back to the county and serve as a teacher okay so i'm okay i get it now i'm thinking you're putting this in here because it is the dan river foundation that is we'll be interviewing is that why you put that well yeah well that's part of it but it's a barley antsy senior high graduate so that
012right that i mean anybody yeah i thought that we had already agreed on that yeah okay ms blackwell under unusual hardships or exceptional characteristics the last statement uh could you sort of interpret that a little bit more for me is saying remember that students who have received a scholarship from us the previous year will receive preference so should that be taken well we can't adjust their rubric the way i interpret it and we can certainly ask ms milner from the community foundation for clarification okay but since this is a great issues for multiple scholarships there could be scholarships out there that have recurring opportunities from year to year unlike what i'm hearing this one might be so that would be a sentence that if somebody applied for one of those and you had multiple possibilities
013a preference would be given to those who may have gotten it their prior year and if they're still eligible their second year maybe they're in college now and they're still keeping their grades up they would get it again again that's for other scholarships okay so this that would be taken away from that would not be a part of our rubric for our scholarship right we we would have to designate that am i correct right well true they well for one thing it would be the rubric would still be the same because it's the foundation but it really wouldn't apply because there would be no opportunity for graduating seniors to get the scholarship again so there'd be no reoccurring because they wouldn't be there because we're saying it has to be a graduating senior that would
014so that would make that that rubik wouldn't apply to correct castle county if you if that's the way the board so chooses to do this could you please repeat uh the statement you made about community service work extracurricular if you want to say something about reconsidering that um that was a um question that miss garland brought up and you want me to kind of or do you want to be fine had said that you know there's some seniors that have been uh not involved in a lot of extracurricular work because they might have the circumstance for maybe their caregiver of a of a grandparent or they're working a full-time job after school and don't have those opportunities and i know there's an unusual hardship you know bullet under there but it's only worth five points
015where the extracurricular activity area is worth 20 points and so ms brown had said she would hate to someone not have an opportunity to have that scholarship if they weren't involved in a lot of african activities so is there something you could put in the fund agreement that says if a student has had a hardship or an extra extra uh extenuating circumstance that kept them from uh extracurricular activities or community worker service can they write a statement that would be worth that 20 points and and up to 20 points is in lieu of those activities and if you do that could be in the agreement that you are saying it aligns with it and again all of this would have to be carried to the community foundation to make sure they understand and it could
016even be that she comes at the next meeting if possible if you would so choose uh to to answer any questions as well and i was not just only thinking about hardships there but what about the student who does not have an interest in the sports or being in the club they're just concentrating on their work in addition to what dr carter has already stated ms hudson well as someone who's been on scholarship committees forever and ever and ever you know i foresee a 900 to a thousand dollar scholarship as something that's going to get a lot of interest this is a decent decent scholarship i think there's got to be something other than gpas and letters of recommendation uh i think community service work extracurricular activities it has work in here you know if
017they're working a full-time job but i still believe church activities um volunteer activities if you're having a hardship and you have to stay with the grandparent i think that can be put on there as well but i think there has to be my opinion community service work and extracurricular activities it's got to be something as a dividing point it needs to be a well-rounded student that's my opinion um i'm very much in favor of keeping the community service working i think we agreed with that that that is an important part of it but we said that there will be some students who do due to extenuating circumstances like taking care of a family member or something along those lines where they don't have the opportunity to volunteer or to participate in spending sports sometimes transportation
018could be a problem for students as well and we just said that expectations sometimes could be of factors not being able to do some of the things but as you said volunteering and if you're taking care of a family member truly i think that should be something that should be written down you know part of your work right yeah well and what we were saying is the letter if there was a not very much in that category that a letter from the student indicating the reasoning yes not to say the other is not important but to say i could not do these things because and to have that taken into consideration long as we don't take any weight away from these things no no no no no no no no because i thought we were
019saying no no this is really important no no no well-rounded student in my opinion right and i think what they're saying is that you know i think we need to make sure that our counselors too stress the need how important this is as part of the application process not wait until they get to you know the 12th grade whatever to apply but discard you know earl only and that uh college and career path that you need these kinds of things if you can apply for scholarships any other questions or comments um under um the second uh under the first page of the agreement where it says second near the bottom accredited post-secondary educational or students entering the field of education are is the board um if you're entering the field of education then you've declared
020that going to a four-year institution you also want to include a transfer program at a two-year community college they may not have a um education program that they have a college transfer program so where is that um where do you want that to fall if you want it to be um include two-year with a college transfer program or do you want it just to be to a four-year post-secondary uh entering the field of education my personal opinion is i think we need to have it available to those that go to a community college for the first two years miss hudson yeah yeah that's what i was going to say you've got so many students now who are doing using their funds wisely right and doing the two-year program and it would be a college transfer
021it could cause transfer because otherwise it wouldn't they wouldn't be going into education to be a teacher okay yes you may want to say what community college has said with that transfer program that you've got like acc i think you're so affiliated with appalachian state and what they do is they transfer 100 of your core curriculum hours so kids will do the acc if they want to attend athletics because it's far cheaper to get their core requirements out of the way but um pcc um whatever it's associated with advanced scramble they all have some sort of program some are 100 transferable but if you do have that language so long as they're attending a two-year community college with the ability to transfer do you want to put some portion where you want to say 100
022because it used to be years ago you if you went to a community college they transformed ten percent of the hours you took something like that now it's changed a whole lot but i don't i don't think all of them will allow your language for us there cut off for their time for the hours if you attend a community college that does not have the ability to transfer a four-year program but 25 of the hours that are taken i thought most of the community colleges now offered a two-year program for transfer to college and transferring those classes right they're on the track with um universities okay i think pcc and just also consider you know we still have the four-year associates program in place and our students are taking advantage of that so we may
023have not made we will have students graduating high school with a two-year associate's degree but for those we would be looking at entering a four-year institution to qualify for the scholarship because basically they've already completed the two years so it's if they're going to continue and are they going to move forward because if somebody's completed that two years but they're entering something else then they wouldn't qualify because they're going into another field just make sure that that's okay how would we word that that's going to be tough well i think it's a graduating senior entering entering a program not that they've completed a program but they're entering a program i guess the board's not saying that it wants the scholarship awarded to students who will basically receive an associate's degree and not go further or
024does that matter my well you would you know to be a teacher you have to have a four-year degree right so that's the ultimate goal is to get that four-year degree and we said that they're basically planning on entering the field of education that's already in there any other comments mrs hudson i know of the commissioners as well as some of us that are around holding the recipients of the scholarship to coming back to casual i know we've discussed that would be really tough to do it's sort of like putting your tithes in the collection plate you hope it goes to the right right place and things are done correctly but my question to the attorney how difficult would that be uh for us to get rid of that would that would be a terrible
025death absolutely a horrible thing the military i know an individual that completed a doctorate in chemical engineering the military recruited him to via weapons design he completed his doctrine he presented himself to serve his term a simple physical worldly matter he wasn't allowed to invest in 20 years military he had to go in the private sector if you try to build in something that says they'll reimburse how do you collect it from school then go through the collection process you can't make them bind themselves to a particular major particular outcome you can't even make them bind themselves if you make an award this year of a thousand dollars to finish the year out you finish the semester so it's going to be just about impossible to take everything else take it all into consideration what
026you have to hope is that the awards um panel of group whatever they call it does a good job in embedding kids who apply they do need to take into account it should be taken into account is this somebody who from everything we have from all the information the responses to whatever questions this is somebody that looks like they are in fact do they really have aspirations to be a teacher or what's going to happen but that that's probably the best you can do the best out of their family thank you and i would imagine if we sue to get 900 dollars back we're going to spend more than 900 to start with dr carter one of the things you may want to consider is the essay i have not heard that they provide the
027essay topic they may but that might be a good time to ask you know you know explain how you are um you know why you want to become an educator in caswell county and how that will benefit you as well as the stu something to that effect um and that may have some insight as well and at least show that that is the intent of this money for that purpose um i can check though to make sure that we have control over the essay topic i would think we you would miss hudson could somewhere uh in our agreement or either in the um advertising of the scholarship that students that receive this scholarship are encouraged to you know come back to caswell and teach and get back to their you know something like that encouraged
028doesn't mean you got to do it but i'm interested in doing their student teaching in castle county a lot of them don't have a choice in that where they have to do their student teaching if [Music] to individuals who intend to pursue an educational degree and return to casper county and if nothing else sorry to give i'm gonna do that anything else all right i think now i think i have six things that we have mentioned here one is it attends bartley yancey senior high school a graduating senior and resident of caswell county that's two uh with the community service work and extra curricular activities if it's limited due to extenuating circumstances students should attach a letter explaining so that would be three that these are things that would need to go into the contract
029for entering a program with the purpose of becoming a teacher is did i work there a two or four year program okay encourage returning to casual county to teach would that go under the letter if we can whichever reason is i don't know how we can the essay topic i was my sixth one and that was why i want to become a teacher in capitol county so i don't know if we need number five then and uh ms baker we were talking about graduating seniors are we gonna put that current year because if we say graduating seniors that mean the past year i think tracy you brought that up last time it's a current graduation yes she would not specifically put in there currently yes it just because you've done it like yeah and that
030would cover two the students that graduate in uh january or december did you only limited to only a single award to a person in other words the returning student audience college yes sir the second year yeah that's what y'all talk about that yeah if you're limited to just a year seniors are graduating in 2021 yeah that was that question that i was talking about remember that students have received you said that was part of the rubric but we could change that remember that students who have received a scholarship from us the previous year will receive preference for those who did not as long as they have maintained a gpa of 2.5 that's on their rubric but we could add we're going to add we will be different for ours okay miss black would we have
031to would we have to stipulate that if we are saying current graduating seniors barley and senior high school current graduating seniors that does not that would eliminate anybody that was not a graduating senior right that does take care of that statement there because that would be new for us yes right okay so basically there are five items there uh ms beverly so what about if we don't have someone going into teach which we hope we do but you already have somebody in there which i think ms blackwell was talking about a past you know second year if we don't have anybody that is interested in applying yes applies that first you know but they did the following year is that something we could put in there that you know the seniors graduating then has first
032priority but then if they do not have someone then that past person could apply how would that work i hate to see it would not be used you used one here yeah dr carter your thoughts um my thought is to um well the one i know it would not be used but it would go back and build it for the next time so we might be able to give three scholarships or four scholarships next year my my thought is to see how it goes and then if you see a pattern of what you just explained is to come back and make an amendment to your your tennessee thank you we would be able to do that you can make an amendment you can't change the original fund agreement that you provide them but you can
033do amendments to it okay all right one more statement just miss stanley standing i'm sitting here looking at it and thinking to is this community foundation are they going to have the same committee for every um scholarship that they have i think they do uh i'll have to get clarification on that and i think they do because i'm sitting here thinking as someone who is in the last year done scott you know applied for scholarships and stuff there was a statement in here about remember if they may want to think about assigning extra points to the previous recipients remember students have received scholarship from us i don't want them thinking about other scholarships that the dan river you know sends out too we're thinking of this particular scholarship i don't want a kid not to
034get the scholarship because they have received something else from the dan river and i think that's something that we can make sure with them and with ms milner but i think the intent and i can verify the intent was a previous scholarship of that same scholar yeah you know they can receive several from dan river because it comes from different money other questions or comments all right we have five changes that we want to add into the contract do you want to vote on those or today or do you want to be polled on them in in a few days because we need to get this taken care of so because otherwise we could endanger having a scholarship to give next year we won't be able to get one this year but we'll have in
035danger giving one next year so we need to act on it so either we do it today or we do it as a poll what's your preference i think we pretty much covered a lot of information so the five items are a bartley yancey senior high school currently current graduating senior and resident of resident two is resident of caswell county three community service work ex curricular activity if it is limited due to extenuating circumstances the student should attach a letter explaining and four in the student must be entering a two or four year program with the purpose of becoming a teacher and five the essay topic why i want to become a teacher in caswell county where i want to be those are the five items you want to vote on them individually or is
036it consensus to vote on them together together yeah all right i need a motion i make a motion to vote on the community foundation rubric and information with the changes provided that would be in the this scholarship fund agreement [Music] okay we have a motion to accept those five items to be included in the scholarship fund agreement do i have a second second ms garland is second into motion is there any further discussion or comments if not all in favor raise your hand oppose the same emotion carries unanimously okay dr carter uh yes uh the other item from prior business was the master board training and ms kimray has provided you a summary of the courses and then the top two were um problem solving and making decisions and then building our team they and
037they both had six votes um taking that i even broke it down further and the number one choice that had the most priority was building your team of the of those two uh and then solving problems and making decisions was under that um so the top two uh are listed but building your team was the one that had the most priority um and then if you go down to the others uh they're listed uh they each had three votes and uh the one that had the most priority was affirming board of superintendent relations and the second priority of that grouping was working through conflicts and so i have it down here all of them as well uh but i think that would probably get you through the first couple um and i know miss kimray
038has been working with uh the school board association ramona powers and if i may i'll just ask miss camry to give us what she has relayed she just texted me this morning within the next couple of months uh the question to me was is the board expecting to do something within the next two weeks or with them in the next couple of months so she would know how to plan on getting us [Music] any questions or comments miss hudson with in-person um face-to-face learning coming in the next few weeks i and usually dr carter uh attends i think she's gonna be busy enough so i would like to push it out to the next april or whatever [Music] and would this person be in person connie or is this going to be a virtual i
039think even so like mrs says with everything coming forth with school rio i'm an opening maybe we need to push it back april 9. so i think the question was do you want the person to come in person or do we want to do it virtual well both questions have to be answered and it seems like most everybody is saying in the next month or two connie and we would do the building our team and uh virtual or in first i got a question is there a price difference connie was there virtual or in person okay i personally would rather listen to somebody standing in front of me than watching them scream personally we would we would would we have to we'd have to pay travel and expenses what did you say connie included i
040think we provided okay all right so we need to be looking at dates at some point um do we need to to look at a date today give her connie maybe towards the end of april first of may bob clark and bring some dates back to you at the next meeting and then there may be the shortest time down there it's three and a half to four hours basically perhaps we can get some information and see when they're available and then bring it back okay all right that would be good maybe dr connor you can look at your calendar too to make sure if we don't conflict with anything you as the superintendent has to do with your meetings thank you you have two items under the consent agenda and i recommend approval as president
041dr carter has recommended that we approve the consent agenda with the two items there do i have a motion agenda is there a second second by ms stanley is there any discussion or comments if not all favor raise your hand propose the same motion carries the next item is the resolution ms garland we have a resolution for carol and hillary resolution and memorial and appreciation of the life of carol and him whereas carol ann hill was born on june 29 1960 and resided at 1640 john oakley road prospered kill north carolina 27314 at the time of her death on february 1st 2021 and whereas carol hill was a faithful and loving wife mother and friend and her family's welfare was her major and constant concern and whereas carol hill was a very active member of
042grace independent baptist church where she taught young girls sunday school class for many years served as a bus driver when needed and most importantly was a witness for christ and whereas carol hill was a faithful and loving employee of castle county sues your 27 years of service she was employed as a bus driver at south elementary and a substitute teacher she will be dearly missed and never forgotten but her family and friends as well as her co-workers 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 in resolve that the castle county board of education wishes to honor the murder of carol hill and expresses his sympathy to her family by causing a copy of this resolution to be spread upon
043the official menace of the board of education and in common forward to the family this the 22nd day of february 2041. do i have a motion to accept the resolution mrs berger has made the motion is there a second second is garland's seconds of motion any comments or discussion it's not all in favor raise your hand close the same motion carries dr carter reports an update um i have no reports at this time i do have a superintendent update man yeah the timing i didn't know about the public comment but um mr terrell has been working closely with the health department and he is sending out to all staff uh shortly that he's been working with jennifer eastwood with the health department and friday on friday april the 26th all castle county staff that wishes
044to sign up will be able to receive a vaccination from three until five o'clock on friday and so i encourage any staff member that wants to receive the vaccination to make sure you're checking your email and sign up and uh again it's this friday from three until five o'clock and so that's the the first uh vaccination in the series of two so um that's a i appreciate the work that mr trump has been doing and the collaboration with jennifer eastwood and the health department to make that happen um the other thing i wanted to share with the board is uh also from mr terrell and student services he's been working since the board voted to return with plan b and plan a he's been working receiving quotes on cleaning services uh to enter our schools
045our custodians are still working hard they're still responsible for their normal duties of cleaning the school and the hallways and restrooms and classrooms and such that that won't change but we have been looking for a service that would do the deep cleaning uh twice a week coming to each every school all six schools uh on wednesday evening and either friday evening or saturday morning when no one's in the building and to do the electrostatic spraying uh to do that that cleaning and um as of about five minutes ago right before the board meeting started he received the last quote that he wanted to verify and so i i do have three quotes that i can share with you uh verbally but i would like to be able to um send them to you electronically this
046afternoon and hopefully be able to act on it um because or either we can wait till march 8th at your next board meeting but the sooner uh we can go ahead and commit the sooner we can have this cleaning service in place and the three quotes he received one is from centos and all of these are for every school twice a week uh centos was fourteen thousand nine hundred and sixty dollars now uh this funding would come from our coveted funding our cares act funding um the next quote was from uh fcs incorporated out of danville it was 7 dollars uh for twice a week and the one i'm recommending that the board approve and go with is from redcoats it's from the triad area and it's um fifty 2950. a week and uh again
047that is uh they all have the same um electrostatic spraying service that they use and um he actually um has some references and one is with a superintendent that i'm familiar with that i'm planning to call and check on as well but um i would certainly recommend going with that one and so that we can put that in place and when the teachers and students who are coming back we would have our our cleaning service professional cleaning service in place dr carter plans to send that out to us in an email and then give us a couple of days and then yes i'm sorry yes thank you thank you yes thank you very much um so um my recommendation would be to go with the redcoats the the lowest price one because you know they're
048all uh completing the electrostatic spraying service in all the schools and uh they were given the square footage and all the schools and all the the facilities so they're all aware of what needs to be done so we yes and that's what we verified again today okay wow it's a big difference one of the things that um if you recall right after kobe started we were fortunate enough to be able to purchase some of the sprayers that we use on buses and such and we found out that it's not as time consuming as um originally thought and and we think that this one is probably more in line with the time than some of the others is that um with them coming in on wednesday evening and either friday evening or saturday are we going
049to have to hire someone from our staff to be on on site while they're there yes then we would uh need to have someone on site whether it's a another custodian that we pay uh one of our current custodians our administrator someone to make sure that they are um being paid to you know locked up afterwards and these are bonded companies any other questions or comments this is good i'm glad that we were able to obtain someone so quickly we uh and that's one of the reasons we like to act on it quickly so that we can um be able to secure before others fill up his time so please respond to the poll as soon as you can after you've studied and looked at them it's pretty obvious that they're all doing the same
050thing which one we want to go with so but she will be doing that so we'll need to be on the lookout for it we'll send it out this afternoon and i'll get more this one yes and i think once we get this uh verified we can let the schools the staff and the public know that we are doing something in addition to to make sure that they are going to return to a safe environment and the good thing is that takes some of the load off of our custodians um mr trail is not in here after reading this we we are following the guidelines yes we're following i just want the public to make sure they know that yes we are following that we are following all the state guidelines for safety and protocol
051um you know there are concerns you know and i and again i will stress again the date for the vaccination is this friday february 26 from three to five and i think that that is one step in uh making sure that we all feel safe and i know it was um something that mr trail has said last time about ventilation we we have taken care of that um he is in the process he may have already received them i i have not asked him but he had planned to purchase some ventilators for uh fans or the ventilation system for uh some of the classes that don't have an outside window uh and and don't have um know that we are mrs garland um i was gonna talk about that later but i took it off
052you know certain couple things because we don't want the public getting information if it's not correct because if they don't have the correct information they'll believe what they see and so i'm hoping that we can i don't know how we can address it um but you may be saying something back here that we are doing having some protocols in place and we are following cdc guidelines as as we yeah as we are looking at um the survey results from what um students were planning to do one of the things we have seen is and i shared it in the commissioners meeting is there appears to be about 50 50 split between students it's not exact some are a little bit over some a little bit under various schools but on average about a 50 50
053of those who want to return and those who want to remain virtual and that will assist uh because not you know we don't have every elementary student returning to school and so that's going to help with those numbers as well on the february 26th vaccine from three to five is that all school personnel is that what you said yes not just teachers all school school personnel and um it's um i think we have about 170 that's already signed up uh because we mr terrell uh being on top of it had already you know asked for any staff member to sign up if they're interested and when it comes along we'll have already have a list started and he already has about 170 already signed up and so make sure that if you haven't signed up
054and you want that vaccine this friday from three to five and you're a casual county school employee to please um sign up for it and we will make sure that principals will even if a teacher has signed up and is receiving it at free our staff remember we want to make sure our principals are working with them so that they can be there at three o'clock they've received a vaccination mrs begley how are we letting all the staff know that they can get this vaccine email's going out today and then uh we're telling the principals to make sure that they notify the director i mean it goes out to all the faculty okay because i know all fact you know everybody doesn't have an email like the bus drivers cafeteria and custodians don't have emails
055so their their director supervisor should be relaying it all right that goes to all staff right is the ncaa taking a possession to elect representatives or otherwise um has to catholic county schools started in the process he knew that they had concerns about the way it was as far as making sure that my opinion was that vaccines were in place prior to students returning back that was my understanding was that was their number one um concern and so i think that has been um uh supported by the you know the push to make sure that we have faculty in our local health department making sure that our teachers have that vaccine started on friday but i think that was the main thing too and that schools are following the the safety uh and distancing and
056we are with our middle school and high school and then elementary um uh we're looking at i've got different numbers and it appears that we'll still have several that her have chosen to remain verbal out of the elementary school have they taken the position on the vaccine itself not that i'm aware other than [Music] than hoping that they did the vaccine that uh arrangements would be made for them to get a vaccine and i i guess that's what i was wondering okay this is um i know you said that we have 50 50 that may be coming virtually for the elementary uh students approximately how many do you expect to be that would be well and we're trying to keep it as small as possible and that's one of the reasons that we're not doing
057a blanket we're going to have people that can teach virtually and then others don't want to teach them in person because it depends on that classroom because if we see that we have a classroom where we have more students returning then that principal will share that those teachers will be teaching in person all the teachers of that grade level and then they might um you know have they would teach virtually at the same time however you know we might have another class do you have a set number has there been a set number that no more than 15 or 20 to be in that classroom i think that that's one of the things based on what they were saying is the concern of the six feet apart what's a approximate number you know um that
058maybe we're looking at to be in a classroom before you move it over to another classroom i think that could help sometimes with some understanding well with elementary there's no there's nothing there like there is six foot in middle school in high school there's nothing there but we know that we don't want that to occur so that we're trying to keep it as we're trying to make six foot occur as much as possible um yeah i hate to put out a number because i'm afraid if i say that number and it doesn't occur and then yeah i will set a number publicly but all i can say is we're trying to keep that number down as much as possible and that's why we're not saying that someone's going to teach virtually as opposed to being
059possible because those numbers are slow so they may have every teacher teaching students to keep those in-person numbers low so that they can separate and you know socially distance as much as possible what is approximately the number of students in a k5 classroom if we weren't doing virtual what's the your highest number of students in a classroom well we can't exceed i may have that number wrong 18 19 20. there i mean there's there's uh different grades fans in there there's a different number um you know at the lower um great span because we're funded on on that amount we can't exceed a district average of that amount as well any other questions or comments anything else no sir i need a motion that the casual county board of public education go into closed session
060for 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 privileged confidential or not a public record nc general statute 143-318-1181 and to confer with attorney do i have a motion ms garland has made the motion to go into closed session do i have a second second mrs stanley's second of the motion any discussion or comments all in favor raise your hand supposed to say