001crappy i recommend approval of the personnel agenda as presented to the board superintendent's recommendation is our motion garland made a motion is there a second okay the stanley has seconded the motion in the discussion all in favor raise your hand close the same [Music] yes um i have miss mcgee here uh to present you as you know the uh family first coronavirus relief act uh was made available to employees for leave under certain guidelines and it was uh it officially went out december 31st however since we were still employers had the option to continue since we continued on plan c at that time um we just allowed it to continue until the board made a decision of the next step uh when we uh made the decision to possibly go to plan d or just
002continue on safe we put a deadline of february 5th for the current people who are on this league and then um if you decide to go forward with it or with modifications uh they would need to reapply so mrs mcgee is here to share with you some uh some information regarding it and what some other counties are doing or some possibilities moving forward so what's the family first um we basically use these same guidelines and deciding for the television and the staff members able to work we allow them um for anyone who were isolated quarantined um having to care for a family member who may have been isolated quarantined or needed that assistance and due to child care as dr carter said it ended december 31st so we were looking at possibly extending it but
003the extension is based on the employer versus this was a federal um lead that was put in place after the state medical leave ended june 30th this was put in place so going forward if you all approve us to extend this leave as she stated it will end march 31st i was attending a webinar today with campbell and shadley attorney and you all probably already know that there was an executive order signed to extend this leave by our new elected president so it's possible that it could really be put in place anyway regardless of the decision you know we make tonight if we want to extend it and from my understanding but it hasn't been approved yet of course but my understanding would extend through september so with that in mind we as dr carter
004stated earlier we will look at a case by case the teachers teaches planet telework we will look at the telework agreement and if it's based on a child care need or if it's health related we will have guidelines in place to help make that decision and to make sure that we have the appropriate documentation the family first coronavirus relief act will allow our teachers to you know take leave off if they are unable to work that 80 hours however if anyone has exhausted that the 80 hour prior to december 31st then they're no longer eligible but we can offer the contagious lead contagious disease leave which is a little more open but it's only covert related for the employee versus where the family first coronavirus release act could be a family member or due to
005child care if a school is closed or daycare is closed other districts extended the family first from environment act they included the 80 hours up to eight hours of emergency paid sick leave to rock to their employees um they also offered it if an employee is has symptom or exposure but they should be seeking a diagnosis they also are offering it for individuals who are under quarantine due to covet or isolation due to covet and if they have a family member or if like i said before if there's a childcare need um so it is up to 80 hours only one district i talked to did not extend it but they are using the contagious disease policy but like i said we only use the contagious disease policy um our employees cannot take leave um
006unless it's the employee not for family not for children and if they've already used it and exhausted they're not eligible but we will look at using the other policies any questions i recommend continuing the family first coronavirus relief act extension until march 31st under the current guidelines of ensuring that we have paperwork that doesn't mean that anyone on it will continue unless they have uh paperwork you've heard the superintendent's recommendation do i have a motion beverly makes the motion is there our second is black we'll second some motion is there any discussion what happened after march at that point so they don't get paid they can either look at sick days or any other leave that they might have on their own i guess what i'm asking the first year teacher wouldn't have been if
007if it's covet related then they qualify for the potential if if it's a second year or someone else you know if they run out of the 80 hours for whatever reason they still have the contagious disease or some that may not if we had gone to plan b which we didn't they should have requested fmla but a regular fmla is pretty much to 10 days but it could be someone that's not eight hours you know seven and a half yeah it's based on their hour understand dr carter clarified the paperwork and he said that they have documentation for the lead for the guidelines new paperwork they're understanding that they take the work so they already have to update the paperwork correct well let's see if information be passed on to the teachers that we'll send
008out a memo so they don't know what to expect and what to submit any other discussion comments we have a motion in a second to extend it to march 31st all in favor indicate by raising your hand suppose the same the motion carries now thank you one of the things that i want to make certain of um our teachers some of the teachers that i've spoken to are putting lots of time in as dr carter has said it's a lot of work doing this job the way they're having to do it and i know they are having to do paperwork that we don't think about possible retention letters parent conferences having students that may need extra tutorial i just would like dr carter to and her directors to check the teacher's schedules to make certain
009that they're having time i mean it's always paperwork i know but they're having time in there for the planning for the calling for the conference because our teachers are working really hard it's new and it's different and i just want to make sure that they're given every opportunity if you've got a staff member for example that can help them out make sure that all job descriptions or you know anything that anyone can help them out with calls or conferences or anything our teachers are working really really hard what students are currently being tested what testing is given currently the eo the it's the high school um it's the eoc and cte high school and they're being brought in right yes how many students have been avoiding it at a time well it's the street guidelines
010how many it's half people number it varies but it's a very small number it's not a full class are they doing that over a period of days yes oh yes it's not in one day i didn't know whether they split them up it's the normal week and they do split them up and they haven't spread out all throughout the campus and availability um said they're smaller numbers and safety and spread policies when were the students or parents given the testing schedule uh i would have to verify the date but it was before the holidays ms garland i know that the school year is different from what it was last year and i think along with what ms hussain was saying that as we recognize the teachers for the fine jobs that they're doing so we
011also recognize the entire staff from the bus drivers physicians members whose nutrition department i don't know if they'll do some sort of celebration i know why she was different but something just to recognize and continue to think thank you staff for the wonderful job any other comments ms blackwell well graduation since we voted to go to plan c will graduation has been any thoughts as to how graduation will be we haven't had that discussion yet but i will assume that everything would be based on coded numbers we you know we want it in person but it really just depends on our last year we've received many compliments over last year's drive by graduation it was uh it was a very nice graduation right we even had some people say that they preferred that graduation um
012but i think it really depends on topic members and where we are but i think we're going to have to start planning on a possible [Music] um i think they were cancelled uh because of code uh because they were all coming in i think i may have to get uh clarification my understanding was they had them coming all in at one time i think but i have i don't really like to give you an answer to them [Music] along with um possible goals for the school board uh as soon as possible connie did you want the board members to board the master board schedule today tonight i mean if you get it give it to her tonight fill it out and give it to her tonight top five or whatever and uh but if you
013can't get it in as as quick as you can any other comments or observations if not i need a motion to adjourn