001come together uh to serve you in these various capacities, Lord, as members of the community, as parents, as teachers, board members to contemplate the business of DD2. Lord, we pray for your inspiration, your wisdom, discernment, and Lord, for your nature to be present with us here. Lord, that we would uh be respectful, Lord, we would hear with attentive ears, carefully consider the number one priority we have here, and that is uh for the children of our district. Lord, I pray that uh we conduct our business successfully this evening, and that uh in all things you would be glorified. in Jesus holy name I pray. Amen. [snorts] [clears throat] >> I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with
002liberty and justice for all. >> [clears throat] >> Good evening and welcome to the December 8th, 2025 Dorchester District 2 Board of Trustees meeting. At this time, I would ask for a motion to approve the consent agenda and meeting minutes. >> So moved. >> Motion made by Mr. Guthrie. >> Seconded by Mr. Lee. Any questions or discussion? All right. Hearing none, we will call for the vote. And also at this time I would like to make it known that we do have Miss Bates here um on the phone. So she is present and will be v voting remotely from home. Motion carries. Seven in favor. All right. Next up on our agenda this evening we have our district highlights. And we will welcome Mr. Mr. Bohannan up to bring us those. >> Thank you, Dr.
003Wimbley, Mr. Dhy. Board members, tonight we have four recognitions highlighting the creativity, talent, and achievement of our students across DD2. We're going to start with our Coastal Carolina Fair Youth Art Competition winners. The Coastal Carolina Fair obviously uh going on since 19 is it 57 on there, right? Dozens of years. And we're so pr proud each year that we have students that submit artwork and we get those blue ribbons. Uh you can see a number of students on there tonight. We have invited our first place and judges award recipients to join us tonight representing Ashley Ridge High School, Fort Dorchester Elementary, Fort Dorchester High School, Joseph Rai Elementary, Rawlings Middle School of the Arts, and Sand Hill Elementary. Uh in the interest of time, I'm going to invite any of those students that are with
004us today. We're going to come up. We're going to do a big group picture and then after district highlights, I am going to meet you in the lobby. We have certificates from all the board members, but it can take a long time going through. So, where are my Coastal Carolina art winners? Somebody's here. Come on. Yeah. [applause] Hold it up in the picture. While we're lining up, as a fun anecdote, Miss King informed me this afternoon that Gabby, I assume that's Gabby. Wave, Gabby. So, Gabby's first place winning artwork is of Miss King's daughter. Well, who's coloring where that mouse cursor is hovering? Adorable. Our [applause] next recognition celebrates more than 30 students across our district who have been selected for the 2026 South Carolina Allstate Choir. Selection for this ensemble is one of the
005highest honors a coral student can achieve in our state. And these students will perform with the best vocalists from across our state at Winthre University at the end of February. Since the group was so many, we didn't have them all here tonight, but we have representatives from each of their high schools. We have certificates signed by the superintendent and Dr. Wimberly so that they can be celebrated at their school sites this week. So, if we have our reps from Somerville High School, Ashley Ridge High School, Fort Dorchester High School, and Rawlings Middle School of the Arts, please come up and receive your certificates. [applause] Next up, we've got students from Somerville High School who absolutely uh destroyed the Dorchester County Soil and Water Conservation district's annual photo contest, as you can see above, sweeping some
006of these categories in first and second places. Um, this year's theme focused on conservation and agriculture across America. And our students photos captured the beauty and importance of environmental stewardship in the categories of close-up conservation, conservation practices, conservation and action, and conservation and agriculture across America. I believe we have two of our summer roll high school students here tonight. Please welcome Miss McKenzie Strady and Hana McClean is here. Or no, who else is here? Haley's here. I'm sorry. Haley Neville, please. [applause] Shout out to Miss McClean and Zachary Hicks as well. They were joined by wonderful photography teacher Miss Tony Olsen from Somerville High School. And finally, I'm going to invite the rest of the board to come and join us. It's been a long-standing tradition in DD2 to celebrate the holiday season with a
007unique piece of student artwork that we feature on our district's official holiday card. Students from across the district submitted designs through their art classes and our executive cabinet made the final selection a few weeks ago. This year's featured artist is Khloe Bennett, a ninth grade student. Yeah. from Somerville High School under the direction of Stephanie Nuner. Her beautiful design will appear on hundreds of cards sent out across our community this season. Don't run off till Miss Passmore gets hers. Don't go anywhere. >> [applause] >> Yeah, Chloe, that's yours. You keep the originals. This concludes our district highlights. If you're going to be exiting part of our Coastal Carolina group, I will meet you in the lobby. Thank you. [laughter] All right, we will continue with the meeting. The next item on our agenda this evenings
008are board committee reports and we will start with our policy committee. Um, Miss King. >> Absolutely. Thank you. Up for the first reading, we have policy GCA, evaluation of instructional staff. We also have policy GCO AR which is the evaluation of instructional staff administrative rule as well as policy ECA security. Policies up for second reading are policy ED materials and equipment management policy edr materials and equipment management rule policy JKD suspension of students. Policy JKD, suspension of students, administrative rule. Policy JKE, expulsion of students, and policy JKER, expulsion of students, administrative rule. Additionally, our next meeting will be December 15th at 5:00 p.m. >> All right. Thank you, Miss King. So, at this time, we do not need a second since these are coming out of committee. So, is there any discussion or questions? All
009right. hearing. Now we will call for the vote. Motion carries. Seven in favor. All right. Next, we have our finance committee, Mr. Guthrie. >> Yeah. So finance committee was able to meet today at 4 pm uh and we discussed doing a request for proposal for a new bank for the district. So taking new banks and then also we went over the proposed uh budget calendar for 2026 2027 fiscal year. Um so that's always upcoming. So always going to be fun. So um it's going to be the new budget season. I don't know if Mr. Lee had anything he wanted to share. Well, for many of you, this is the most wonderful time of the year, but for me, it's getting started with the budget process. Uh, and as I said last year about this time,
010the budget process is way too uh compressed for my comfort, but it is what it is. And I appreciate all the work that the team is doing to help prepare for this. They've added some additional uh focus and transparency on things that we're doing to consider for the budget this year. So, I thank them for that and looking forward to working our way through the the cycle and dealing with uh uh what probably will be a challenging year. Uh if not just financially, but if you're paying any attention to what's happening in Washington with regard to funding, uh we will have the uh state and figuring out its funding and whatnot. And then locally, we'll have to figure out how we uh make everything balance and accomplish the things that we need to do to
011drive student achievement in our district. All right. Thank you, Mr. Lee and Mr. Guthrie. And then next we have our facilities committee, Mr. Farnsworth. >> Um, thank you, Madam Chair. [clears throat] I think everybody would agree, saving the the best committee report for the the last, of course. Um, facilities hard at work. We met at 5:00 p.m. this afternoon. Um, as always in the facilities world in our district, a lot of stuff going on. I know later in our board meeting we'll be um getting a synopsis and and high level of a lot of those projects going on. Um we I did want to put out to the board and I think Miss Thomas is going to put this out um a little bit short notice but this Thursday morning [clears throat] we are planning
012a walk through for Sand Hill. So for the new um facility, the new uh building out there at Sand Hill. plan on that. I think we said 8 in the morning. I'm looking at Mr. Frell. We said 8. Yeah. So, 8 on Thursday morning. So, anybody who's able to make it out there, uh, please plan on that and, uh, we will keep rolling. That's what I got. Thank you. >> Great. Yes. Thank you very much. Okay. Um, that concludes our committee reports. Next item on our agendas are public comments on agenda items. And our first one this evening is, and I I'm apologize if I pronounce this wrong. You can correct me when you reach the podium. Coutura, is it Kimberlin? Kimberland. Okay, great. How y'all doing? I'm Coutura Kimberland. Good evening. My name is
013Couttor Kimberland. I'm actually here to address the emergency appeal for my kids safety and well-being. My daughter was recently involved in an incident where an adult employee of this district used physical force against her on school on school grounds. This was a severe situation that resulted in the visible injury to my young baby and more importantly caused her deep lasting trauma. We cannot and should not allow and should not ask a child who has been physically harmed by a staff member to return to that environment. My daughter is now terrified of returning to their school. When a child feels unsafe, all learning stops. Her education has been halted because of this. My kids have not been to school in two weeks. I have followed every process and provided all documentation required and requested by the
014district. The administration has investigated um this matter and knows the serious consequences. Tonight, I ask you to support the administration's recommendation to resolve this case, well, this crisis, excuse me. As the board of trustees, your primary well, board of director trustees, my bad. Um, your primary duty is to protect the students. Approving this transfer is the is the necessary and compassionate um action that provides my daughters with a clean safe um with a clean slate in a safe place to continue their education. Please demonstrate that you prioritize student safety above all else. I urge you to vote yes to approve this emergency transfer for both my kids. Thank you guys. >> Thank you, Miss Kimberlin. All right. Next, we have Mr. Ben Huff. >> Greetings, board members. I'm here to address item 4C on the
015agenda, which is in regards to school facilities. The facility I wish to directly speak to are the tennis courts at Somerville High School. Uh, it's been five years since I brought my initial concerns about the tennis courts to members of this board. So, I'm just going to briefly recount my experience and hopefully give a maybe some advice that I would take on this matter and um maybe in the future I we could get some feedback from you guys on what's going on in this situation. Five years ago, uh, Superintendent Pi was pushing the idea of doing a multi-school tennis facility in a central location to Ashley Ridge and Somerville. This plan included a partnership with the county uh so the general public could also have use of these courts when the high schools were not
016using them. This was necessary because Somerville's courts are in a swamp uh and they're just they can't be maintained anymore in their current location. And um anyway, to keep going, PI retired and that plan got exed out by the new superintendent that came in, Robins. And um which surprised me greatly because I had spoke to the AD during that time and the ADs were just adamant that no place on Summerville High School could we move courts and achieve um a better better design and and better lasting court on their campus at Summerville High School. So, I was all for the plan about partnering with the county and moving maybe the courts offsite so that they could be better maintained and longerlasting to a different location. Um, again, there was a abrupt departure of Mr. Robbins,
017the superintendent and um but the board went through and said last October that we would get new courts at Summerville High School uh only to find out later in the spring that there was not enough money to get it done. So, we're kind of circling back again to where we were five years ago, it sounded like, where we're just going to be on this resurfacing plan at Somerville High School, which we've already experienced doesn't last more than two years when we do that option. Um, we did it four years ago. We got almost two years out of the courts and then we couldn't play on them. we had to go to the town courts and the schools and kids had to use the town courts and that's a big strain on the town because they're
018already maxed out with their leagues and just the general public with our growing population to use the town courts. Anyway, I know we got resurfaced again last year. Courts are already flooded a month after they were resurfaced already seeing damage, sink holes, cracks. I doubt we might even get the two years this time around just from where they're heading already. So, I would love for the school board to revisit that option five years ago and think of ways to probably move these courts off campus. And if there's a partnership with the county or a town, they need courts, too. And we can maybe combine some pots of money in the budgets. I say full speed ahead in that option. I feel like that's the only way forward as of right now. Um, and I thank
019you for your time. >> Thank you, Mr. Huff. All right, that concludes our public comments on agenda items. Next, we have our board chairs report. Um, it doesn't look like we have any upcoming events, which is a little surprising. Usually, we have a couple things going on, but we will go ahead and give an update from our legislative advocacy conference that we attended this weekend. Um, I was able to attend as well as Mr. Farnsworth and Mr. Lee. Um and so the SCSBA, one of the main reasons that we are part of this group is because um they are advocates for our school board as well as um school boards across the state and public education in South Carolina. So legislative advocacy is a big part of what um a service that they provide. So
020at this conference, we get updates on um legislation. We have legislators come speak, you know, kind of gauging the temperature, what, you know, this new upcoming year is going to look like, but we also um look at and vote on our um legislative advocacy manual for this coming year and the things that the um school board association will be advocating for us behalf of us. So, each board across the state gets um an opportunity to have delegates for that. Mr. Lee was our delegate this year and he did a great job representing us. I was there watching and enjoyed it. There's always a little bit of spirited debate. It's it really is. It's it's very interesting and um yeah, so I enjoyed that. Um he he like I said, he did a great job representing
021us. So um it was a good conference. I was glad to be able to attend. I will um offer up the floor to Mr. Farnsworth and Mr. Lee if they would like to share anything about that. Welcome to you. Um yeah, I'll be super quick and and so as as I usually do with conferences, I I certainly want to say thank you to the community and and to the board to be able to attend um the conferences. They they really are uh from from a lot of perspectives networking with our other um school board representatives around the state. Um that's that's always a huge takeaway. But but a couple takeaways um from this one specifically, I would tell you the legislative advocacy conference, you you start to get, I would say, um kind of a
022temperament, if you will, or temperature of the room, uh legislatively moving into next year, so into 2026. um with with a lot of stuff with with obviously active bills and and stuff that legislators are looking uh to pass as well as budget type issues. Um what was interesting and and what I took away this year um and and this can be perceived as either a good thing or a bad thing um was that that the legislators that were there. What I took away is education does not seem like it is going to be the topic for the state house in 2026. Um, typically you can kind of see like what's what's the issue? Like is it nuclear power? Is it roads? Is it whatever it may be. Uh, every once in a while it'll be
023education. Um, this year it does not appear to be education. So again, that can be either a very very positive thing because then we don't have legislators monkeying with education. Um, or that could be a negative thing because there's things that we want and need that that we are potentially not going to have this next legis legislative cycle. So, uh, the temperament was was just kind of, um, they're seeing things as they come. It sounds like the the governor race is really going to take a lot of, um, air out of the room in Colombia moving into 2026. So, they're they're all talking about the governor race. One thing, um, one one big takeaway, and and this does impact our district, um, specifically, there was talk about, uh, felos. Um so um for those who
024don't know fee in lie of um and and so fee in lie of taxes is is something that entities can use counties uh towns government entities entities can use um to attract business commerce and industry to a certain area. And and while that sounds fantastic on face value, it tends to mean that that the school district potentially loses out on um taxes. We we lose out on revenue potentially. And and the problem there is we don't have a seat at the table. And so we find out after the fact, for instance, we just got a report recently. Um, we find out after the fact that the previous year we've we are losing $8 million specifically in Felos for Doorchester District 2. The year before that it was 7 million. I think it was 6 million
025prior to that. So over the span of of a number of years, you're talking tens of millions of dollars that that we have lost out on in Felos. So, I was at least glad to hear there was some discussion around that and and potentially something legislatively coming out um in order for a school board uh for any authority um the the fire departments, the sheriff's department, anybody that should have a seat at the table when it comes to felos um to have that seat at the table, which which we do not have right now. So that that was a positive takeaway that that I will continue to press um with our legislators for sure. So thank you. >> Yeah, I would say uh agree everything with uh what Mr. Farnsworth had to say. Um you
026know it was a a great experience from the standpoint that to a person everyone there was concerned about children and achievement. There were a lot of spot issues here and there that were more acute in certain areas, but everyone there was not there for politics, but rather there to talk about what we need to do to educate our children in this environment and the real world where we're at. Uh, a couple of key things I took away. Uh, they had a presentation on the education funding formula used by the Senate. Um, I was shocked to find out that there wasn't some attribute in the funding formula that took into account how many of your students went to South Carolina versus Clemson, but other than that, it's inane in my view. Um, and I'm not looking
027for good things to come out of the change in the funding formula that they've made. it doesn't really help matters particularly for a district such as ours that has been impacted by uh the way we do property taxes and uh local contribution. Um but it was interesting and the presentation was informative. Um, if any of you uh think you know how the process works, if any of you are as old as I am and you remember the Schoolhouse Rock video, how a bill becomes law, totally discount that. You may want to start all over again and try and get an understanding of how that's done here in South Carolina. Um, secondly, piggybacking on another comment was made. You know there are lots of lobbyists and particularly there are lots of lobbyists for the various aspects
028of the business of education. But what I took away from that from what not only the legislative panel told us but also in talking to the person that gave the federal uh federal education perspective is there really are no lobbyists for the children. The expectation is that we need to do that. And by we, I don't mean the seven members of the board here. I don't mean the members of our district staff and administrators, but we as individuals because our legislators are not hearing the messages. They're being given a ton of information or spin depending on who the lobbyist is. and they're being asked to make a decision quickly and move on without any real thought. They don't really understand the issues, but the expectation is that we need to seek them out. I would
029have liked to have seen a reciprocal feeling that they also need to seek us out to the point that Mr. Farnsworth made about having a seat at the table for things that impact us whether it's pho whether it's actual tax policy or whatnot. So that was very enlightening. Um uh pho was mentioned or filot as some would call it. Um and it was interesting to see how many people and these these are all people that are parts of districts across the state. 63 different school districts were represented didn't know what Pho was. I extend that to our community. I would argue most people in our district don't know what Philoss are. They don't understand how our schools are funded or not. And we have a a huge challenge to educate and to edify and to
030inform our community to get them involved. They need to be part of the team here as we advocate for our children and for and for public education. Um and then lastly was discussion around uh you know teachers what the challenges teachers are facing in the classroom the administrative burden and keeping up with rules and regulations and hearing some ideas and whatnot but all of those ideas involve hiring addition additional people and those additional people come with additional costs. So uh we need to think a lot about that. I took away a number of things on that. It was an honor and a privilege to be the delegate uh to uh actually watch the parliamentarian do a masterful job in conducting uh the debates and the discussions. And then uh the best time was on Sunday
031morning there was a debate on three different topics that are real uh before us. One has to do with whether or not we potentially arm certain volunteers in our schools to uh to augment our school resource officers. Uh and now I the other two escape me, but they're both bills that are currently before our legislature. And uh there were two different teams that were picked and they were assigned whether they were pro or four and to watch the conversations happen and they they were done respectfully. But knowing that some of the people because if you get to know some of these people, you know whether they're really pro or for the topic in front of them. Uh to see somebody who's against something to advocate vigorously for something was fun. But the key takeaway was
032in the entire uh group of the 63 districts there, the ability to have meaningful conversations and discussions around topics that don't have to be divisive, that don't necessarily have to come up with a decision in five minutes, but to really talk, to listen, to understand opposing points of view, maybe even learn new facts. that could influence how you think about those things. Uh that was my biggest takeaway from from the event and I I hope that we're able to to do that as a board. We're able to do that as a community uh as we deal with the issues that are before us uh here in DD2. >> Thank you. >> We also had some discussion about potentially bringing back our legislative committee as to what Mr. was saying about um us making more um
033of an effort to, you know, we we do have relationships with our legislators and our representatives, but making a more intentional effort to go to them. Um and so I do think that's something that we will discuss in the with the um beginning of the new year in in January. So, >> sure. Yeah, absolutely. >> As I sat and heard Mr. response for say that there didn't seem to be a great appetite for what was going to happen academically in this upcoming year. I am livid. What group of people do not understand how important our academic system is? In DD2, we do a really great job with the limited amount of funds that we get. We are almost always above average of the state as well as surrounding school district and we're the ones that
034have the least amount of funding. If anything, every person that has the right to vote or the ability to speak should be speaking up on behalf of our educational system. You don't have a doctor, you don't have a lawyer, you don't have a superintendent, you don't have a president without the use of our educational system. We're the most important system or one of the most important system that exists. But if you won't support it, who will? It is not the job of those that just work in the system to make it known of what the needs are. As parents, you ought to be number one. These are your children. And yet many of you sit back and want the educational system to go beg, plead, prostrate themselves before our leaders. And yet you keep sending
035the same one back to their office. That's why I believe in term limits. You don't become so satisfied because you're getting what you want. So, I'm saying to parents, grandparents, especially grandparents, you're an advocate. When we went to Washington a couple years ago, our legislator from South Carolina said, "Oh, it's good to have you all here, but we want to hear from the parents." So, right then, I made up my mind there was no need of me going back to Washington because they weren't listening to us. We went as a board trying to get that seat at the table. To our local officials, we need to seat at the table. Re your police department. It doesn't matter what it is. We need to be there when you're making decisions and allowing more and more school
036um homes to be built. That's more and more children where we're going to put them. And I could be probably a little bit more succinct in what I'm saying, but I'm upset because in five years, 10 years, 20 years from now, where are we going to be? If you don't think the education of our children is important enough for you to get out there and do your job, community members, parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, all of you that have something that you want to advocate for, advocate for them because the teachers in the classroom, they need to be paid and they need to be paid well. Those that clean our buildings, they need to be paid well. driving a school bus. It doesn't matter what your job is. We are all here working for the children
037and we need your help. Thank you. >> Right. Thank you, Miss Powell. Okay. The next item on our agenda is our superintendence report. We will turn it over to Mr. Dhy. >> Thank you, Dr. Wimberlin, the rest of the board. Our first item uh this evening is the Somerville Italian feast presentation. And we have the president uh Mr. Jay Lombardo. Um he is here this evening. Um along with uh and I know Mr. Lombardo this is his last year doing this. So is it 14 years? >> 14 years. Yes. >> 14 years. And he's done a phenomenal job. So thank you. >> And uh it says on there October 12th, but that we did get rained out that day and uh Mr. Loardo and his team that are here. They were able to pivot and
038we were able to again partner with our Dorchester 2 education foundation, Mr. Hayes, and also with Mrs. Cill. Uh we turned out to have a great uh weekend, great weather uh for a lot of students that were able to come down from DD2, especially our culinary, some of our performing arts groups were able to come down and just want to say thank you, Mr. Lombardo, and your team. Um I know uh I believe you have some leadership changes and so I know I'm sure you'll probably talk about that but again thank you for coming this evening. >> Thank you very much Dr. Webley Superintendent Dhy and board and also to uh the community. Um as you had said as I dropped something um we started off in September 6th we had our first annual what
039we called the pasta ball. It was a pickle ball tournament. It was presented by First Citizens Bank um and uh a former board member uh Brian Mitchum was the uh terminate director. We brought in 136 individuals to play the pickle ball tournament which was really pretty good. A lot of sweat, a lot of uh anger with a ball and a paddle and I wouldn't want to be on the that side. As you stated, we were looking for the weekend of October 11th and 12th for our festival. But on October 11th, through the guidance of the uh Somerville Meatball Run, the race director, Connie Moody, put together a fantastic event. We had 479 um participants, cross country teams from all three schools, Fort Dorchester, Ashley Ridge, and Somerville. And uh it was a fun day. The
040next day was supposed to be the festival. It rained and it rained. We canled. We I believe we phrase that. We postponed it. We were able to work with the um uh town and we secured uh November 16th and at O Dark 30, Santos Napolei and Vincent uh Lombardi were out at Touchston Square hanging Italian flags up and down the uh aisle and throughout the whole thing. Eventually, we started off at 11:00. We had 108 vendors, food trucks or food um booths. But one of the most important things is when Selby Sig and J um Jason Walsh put together 220 students from 12 of the schools as our entertainment that entertained close to 15,000 people that day. and cooking in the background making zeppoilles and raviolis is once again Santo Dr. Beth Pharaoh, Vince Lombardi,
041Nick Presco, they're out there doing it. But we couldn't have done it without the community and of the coop the cooperation and collaboration with DD2's educational foundation. Ralph Hayes and Kim Con did a fantastic job bringing in members from their board to be part of our team. So, [sighs and gasps] I'm turning it over this year. I'm going to take over and just do the paperwork and work with sponsors. So, Frankie Stapoli is going to be taking over for me. A great person and I know he's going to continue working with DD2 uh educational foundation. So, I'd like my board to come up for Dr. Wembley Superintendent Dhy Kim. These are the people. These are all volunteers that put together the 2025 festival run and possible tournament. And this year, we'd like to give a
042donation to the educational foundation with a check for Yes. Come get it. [applause] >> $42,000. >> [applause] [applause] >> Mr. Lombardo, I don't think you remember me, but I was serving on the hat committee, which is the hospitality and taxi committee. And what would happen is any people from the Ftown Festival, whatever kind of vendor or project you were putting on, you would come before us and we would listen to your presentation and decide, you know, whether or not we could fund you and how much we could give you. I'm I'm overwhelmed. I am so glad that we funded you and every year you have just continued to increase and show your love for Somerville and for our district. So, I just want to say that is the best vote ever. So, thank you so
043much. We really appreciate you and the board. [applause] >> I'll be looking for you in uh March or April again. So, >> okay. [laughter] >> Thank you very much. Our next item on the agenda is just to talk a little bit about principal for the day update. Uh we were able to do bring this back. This was actually done in the district several years ago. Um and so what we did were able to bring back uh this experience for many of our uh constituents in our community. And so what we had of all of our 25 26 schools locations, they were able to bring back somebody from um the community and you can see a few pictures up there and they would actually come into the school and kind of be the principal for the
044day. And so that person would follow the principal around for about two and a half hours. Um got to see what the principal did. Uh we're able to see students in classrooms, uh see teachers, um see a lot of our staff, um what they do each and every day for our students. And so after that, we were able to bring them back here to the district office and had a lunchon and a presentation kind of a little bit about everything that's going on from in DD2. Um we were talking about the referendum talking about projects and so they were also able to to uh kind of talk about their experience and many of them were very very appreciative and very thankful for all the work that our administrators and teachers do each and every day
045for our students. So it was a great day and want to say thank you to Mr. for Bohannan and I know Miss Callahill helped out a little bit too trying to find some people to fill in when we couldn't find anybody and so we'll continue to do this um program and again it's just to give some awareness of what things go on in our district behind the scenes and so uh it was a great day so just want to report out on that. Um the next item on our agenda would be we're talking about a couple things that we'll need some action items and the first one is a local board approved course for the 2627 school year dance explor exploratory and at um Rawlings Middle School of the Arts for the 2025 school year
046for grades 6 through 8. And I have Mr. Walsh uh who did an amazing job at the Italian feast is going to talk a little about this course that uh we're proposing over at Rawlings Middle School. Good evening, Miss Fimberly, board, uh, Superintendent Dhy. Uh, I am here to request the approval for a dance exploratory course. Just to give you some backstory, uh, last year the state department of education realigned a lot of our courses to make them um, more concise and uh, that they did that. It worked great except for Rawlings has a course called Dance Exploratory, which is specific to students who are not enrolled in the dance core. So it is a mixed grade group. So they have they can take it in sixth, seventh, and eighth grade. And we currently don't
047have um a course that aligns with that with a state course code. So I am here to request that we have a local board uh course code to align specifically to that course. >> All right. Thank you, Mr. Walsh. Board members, at this time I would ask for a motion to approve the locally board approved course as presented. >> So moved. Okay. >> Motion made by Mr. Guthrie, do I have a second? Okay. Seconded by Mr. Lee. Any questions or discussion? Okay. Hearing none, we will call for the vote. >> Motion carries. Seven in favor. >> Thank you, Mr. Walsh. Uh the next item on our agenda is uh repurposing of span. And this evening uh we've talked about this at a facilities meeting. We've brought it to information to the board and this is
048tonight is uh for board vote on repurposing of span. And so uh when you look at here the first slide again, why repurpose span? There are five items on there. Uh the cost to renovate span to continue to operate as a school. I think we talked about that would be about $9 million to bring it up to speed. We do have some issues with some flooding in that area. It is in a current flood zone. Also, when you look at SPAN's location, it's close to Somerville Elementary and it's one of the smallest schools that we have for capacity. Both those schools are. And so, when we look at both of those schools, one's in a flood zone, one is not. And so, uh, students from SPAN would actually be um re redistricted to either at
049um Somerville Elementary or at Sireers. And so also another place to house other programming in the district. Currently right now we have when we go through these slides you can see the $9 million to renovate. Um going through there. Um on the next slide. Thank you. And you can see span there. On the next slide we talk about the Orangeberg Road project. We've talked a little bit about that and why is that important to know? Um when we're if you look at that, you're going to see that it's going to come right up to Knightsville Elementary School. Um if we were going to have to do any renovations, we'd have to use the trailers and the trailers are in the back at Nightsville and that's where adult education is. So adult education is going to
050have to find a home. And so this project is going to take place in 2029. Again, that's a safety issue. So it does kind of speed up the process of, you know, trying to find a home for adult education. So when you come into this, you're looking what are we going to use SPAN for? Again, um Eugene, excuse me, SPAN, James Span Elementary will still be called the SPAN Education Center. We'll still go continue to honor James Span's name and this still will be an an active area that will have these programs. Food service, which is currently in a house, will be moved to SPAN. technology and our IT's they are currently housed in in a actually a house as well. They will be moved over. Uh special education, we do have special education here
051in this building, but it's also in some trailers and also in some houses. Childf find is in a house. Um our parenting center is actually in a trailer. Um adult education is in trailers and then there's a need for an elementary alternative school and that is something that we will be starting next year if this does uh comes to fruition. Our nursing and health services. Uh then a future daycare program that we're looking to partner with the YMCA, not next year, but in the future years. And also some space for staff development. And so if you look at the next slide, it'll kind of show you a little bit of of what that's going to look like. Uh there's color codes there to talk a little bit about. And red is special ed. Um technologies
052in green. Yellow is our future daycare. Alternative school would be in yellow or excuse me in orange. Um purple would be your food service and that's actually a kitchen would actually still be in there and still be able to use. Uh and then your adult education is going to be in the blue and then you'll have some flex spaces in there for some other areas. Um so you can see how this building is going to be used. And then when you're talking about the 2627 school year, the most important piece is you know what are we going to do with students and so and our and our staff. And so Somerville Elementary classroom additions will be completed in August of 26. Um those are 18 additional classrooms and then we'll redistrict those students from span
053to Somerville and also Eugene Syers Elementary and more students shifted to those schools at a little bit lesser capacities and then also put more functional capacities in those buildings up in the 80%. So what's this look like? Um, you can see here redistricing students from SPAN to Somerville Elementary. That's 250 students. And so SPAN is currently at 60% capacity of 528 students. And then Somerville Elementary is currently at 73% capacity or 525 students. That's before the additions. And so when those additions come on, adding those 250 students from SPAN to Somerville Elementary will bring the Somerville Elementary um you're looking up to 775 students to 69% capacity with that new addition. And then going on to the next slide, you can see here um those students are going to be redistricted from SPAN to Sireers.
054So Sireers Elementary is currently at 73% capacity and then adding those 202 students from SPAN to Sireers. um that will take that capacity up to 84%. And that will be a um a total capacity of 917 students that will be moved to sireers. And so, you know, there's some questions again when we met with parents and when we talked with the staff, we're talking about how do we make the transition for students as smooth as possible? And so, having open houses in the spring, possible field trips, and other opportunities for families um for transition. And so we did bring in and we talked about additional information going to the next one. The staffing to Somerville Elementary and Eugene Sireers and other school sites. Uh we actually met with each individual teacher over at Span Elementary
055in 15 increment 15 minute increments uh with our personnel staff and myself and we've also met with the whole staff also there. Then when you're looking at LEAP practices and so those students that have taken advantage of the LEAP practices, those processes will still continue to apply for those families. They'll still be able to have that. That will not be taken away. Uh those families are going to different buildings. Um they're still going to have the consistent pacing and high quality instructional materials and great teachers. Also, we'll still have programming for gate students. We'll place in those classes at Somerville Elementary and also at Eugene Thyers. And then moving on, you know, if you're talking about special education, those students will be taken care of as well. And so when we look at the timeline
056and communication, we start on October 6th, uh that facilities meeting only um about repurposing of SPAN. Um we met with that actually with the faculty of span um that next day, actually before the meeting. Um and then October 27th we had a board meeting on that information only on repurposing of SPAN and then the information on plan on redistricting of students at Span Elementary School. And so we sent communications out to families. Families got three communications. Um and so when you look at that from October 28th to the 28th, November 28th, we held community meetings. Um we had 10 families come from from Somerville Elementary parents. We had two families come for special education parents. And then we had seven families at sireers. And so again, we sent out texts, the app notifications, and we
057also sent emails out like we would on emergency communications. And so you're looking at about 250 um texts, emails, and then through app notifications. And so each family member should have gotten three of those uh those communications before this meeting. Also, we h put those after the November 6, we started putting communications into the newsletter at span as well uh for families and uh Dr. Wilson has done a great job of answering questions for families as well. Um so that leads us to tonight and so you have heard the presentation so asking for a board vote on this this evening. >> Okay. Thank you, Mr. Dohy. Board members, at this time I would ask for a motion to repurpose James H. span Elementary and to redistrict its students um as presented by Mr. Doherty. Okay.
058Motion made by Mr. Farnsworth. >> Seconded by Mr. Guthrie. All right. At this time, do we have any discussion or questions? >> Yeah, I just want to highlight obviously that's that's a fairly large decision um that that the board is undertaking and and I just want to um give my appreciation to Mr. Dhordian and the staff because it it as you can see the meetings um the timeline there the thought process that has gone into um this change um is is monumental and and so just from my standpoint uh very very much appreciated again um not not I wouldn't say an easy decision but you guys have have done the leg work um to make it as easy as possible um where it it absolutely makes sense um to to move forward with that. So
059again, just want to say thank you for all of that work >> and I just want to say um as was mentioned, the LEAP program is still available, but make sure once you hear that registration is open, you immediately register your child because it's not as though because you were at Spain, you automatically have a seat at the table. you still have to register your children and we fill out rather quickly. So, make sure you do it because when they're gone, they're gone. Thank you. Piggy backing on uh what Mr. Farnsworth said. I do want to thank the district for the hard work that was done. We've had some curve balls thrown at us in our broader plans and whatnot, and they've responded very positively and openly and transparently. We've had lots of conversations. This
060is some may think this is a prefuncter vote tonight. And I agree this is a a significant vote, but it's not coming at the last minute or in a rush. This has been carefully considered and thought through and uh had a lot of opportunity for folks to provide input and uh I'd encourage my colleagues to support this this evening. >> Absolutely. I agree. I will echo my gratitude to Mr. DHY and his team for um taking the time to make this um significant um decision a little bit easier for us just because we do know that there has been a lot of communication and I feel very confident that our entire staff, all of our families and every single child impacted by this will be well taken care of um and that we will make
061sure that it is a smooth transition for everyone. So, thank you for that. All right. Any other comments or discussion? All right. If not, we will proceed with the vote. And the motion carries. Seven in favor. >> Our next item uh on the agenda is our board goals. Those were brought to the board uh for information at our last board meeting. And so this evening you have in a board packet. And also you can see here uh our goals. Um there are six areas growth and achievement uh future planning safety and security uh recruitment and retention engagement comprehensive uh financial planning. Those are our six areas and then under those six areas you can see um there are some action items there um kind of smart goals and so those will be things that'll use
062the metrics that will will be guiding us and so again asking for um the board's input and and uh vote on this this evening. So, thank you. >> All right, board members. At this time, I'd ask for a motion to approve the superintendent board goals as presented. >> So, moved. >> Right. Motion made by Mr. Guthrie, seconded by Miss Powell. Any questions or discussion? Okay. Hearing none, we will call for the vote. motion carries. Seven in favor. >> Okay. The next item on our agenda is uh our financial report and uh we'll call Miss Manet to come up and talk about uh our finances. So, Miss Manet. >> Thank you. Good evening, Madam Chair, board members, and Mr. Dhy. Um the finance team has prepared finance reports for this month for um the month of
063October. In your today through October, um we go over the general fund um cash flow. First, this is where we show you each month what our actuals are for revenues and expenditures. Um and the culminating the totals are all the way on your far right. Um, but if we're focused on the month of October, um, we're doing well. We're on target from where we had budgeted. We're at 15.5% of our general fund balance, which I like to point out because, um, this is the time of year when we're glad that we have some savings and that we do have fund balance that's left over at the end of the fiscal year to get us through because our revenues are not um, equally received during the year, but our expenditures um, we have to pay people
064every month, twice a month. Um, and some of our expenditures are quarterly, some are monthly. So, um, we're thankful that we have this this good fund balance. Um, so we, um, estimate that we will end the year at 22%. So, for us to go down to 15.5%, I'm not scared or worried about because we will end the year in a in a very safe place. But, that is a good reason for us to keep that fund balance. if anyone from the state asks any any questions because we have to report our fund balance to the state every month. Um our next report is the general fund balance sheet and then our schedule revenues and expenditures. So on our balance sheet our total assets um when we ended the month in October um for the year
065were $55.3 million. Um liabilities were 8.7 which is right on target um close to last year. And then our um total fund balance at the end of the month um through October was 46.6. Um I did want to point out one of the biggest differences you can see slight difference from October 25 versus 24. Um we have due from other funds that's higher this year than we were last year. And the main piece of that is as we were talking the facilities committee that we had Oakrook Middle School and Oakrook Elementary School projects that were being funded with TIF dollars. Um, so Miss Grace and I are working on that reimbursement request to the county. They're funding that with TIFF dollars. So, um, that will change when we get those monies back from them. Um,
066our report on the revenues, expenditures, and changes in fund balance. Um, our first section is our revenues. Um, we have the um, pardon me, our ideal percentage that it is remaining to be received for total revenues is at 79%. We're just a little slightly different from last year at 77%. Um, and our expenditures, we're at 72% left to be spent this year and right on target with where we were percentage-wise from um, last year at this time. Um, we've spent, pardon [clears throat] me, $85 million year to date. Um, and we have received $64.4 million year to date. On our next set of um slides, we have the pretty pictures. I know it's you can't see there, but when we upload them tomorrow to um the website, you'll be able to see all of those
067in detail. But this is your summary of um the past two reports that I showed you in just the words and numbers. These are in pictures and graphs and they make a little more sense maybe um just in the summarized form um where you can see what I just was um speaking of in our different sections where our local revenue um is at 4.6 million year to date, our state revenue 33 million and all other revenue 6.4. Um the averages for the month of October. Um we feel like we're right on target with where we should be. um no no um spikes for expenditures, no nothing unforeseen at this time. Um we feel like we're in really really good shape. Um, and again, I don't know if we need to go over all of these
068numbers since we went over the summary, but um, this is just in a more transparent format that hopefully is more understandable for anyone any of our stakeholders who um, who are reviewing our information and have questions for us. >> Can I ask a quick question on that slide? >> Yes, sir. >> And and apologies because I >> I think you may have touched on it. So the all other revenue the 2526 number changes the I guess is that state aid to the classroom. So under other financing sources we have state aided classrooms which that is um from the EIA part of the state budget. So we receive that as um state money that we transfer into the general fund. >> Does that make sense da? >> Yeah for sure. Looking at it though, so so
069the differences between fiscal year 24, 25, 26, 24 was >> Oh, I see what you're saying. Yes. No, sir. That is not the right number. 85 million is not the right number. We did not receive >> Well, I'm sorry. That's the budget. >> Yeah. Yeah. That and that's what that's the question. So why? So when we go from 24 of four, we'll say four million to 25 10 point. >> Those were the year-to- date amounts just through October. That wasn't our full amount for that year of 2024. >> Gotcha. Okay. And then are we projecting out for 26 is what we're saying? >> That's the actual budget for 26 is the 85 million. >> 8.5 million. >> No, sir. 85 million. I I'm sorry, Mr. Fworth. You're fine. Maybe I'm totally good. I think we're
070looking at maybe different slides there. I just see it goes and and I'm looking at specifically state aid to classrooms goes from 3.9 million to 10.4 and then back down to 8.5. And I was trying to figure out potentially why there's a drop from 25 to 26. Is it just timing? Okay. >> Okay. I'm sorry, Lisa. Thank you. I I did not see where you were talking about. I was looking on the local taxes and that's not even what you were asking me. My apologies. All good. All good. Okay, that makes sense. Thank you. >> Any other questions that Lisa can answer? [laughter] >> Thank you very much. >> Thank you, Miss Manet. Our next item on the agenda is for some action items on some approval for uh a few capital projects. And so,
071as uh Mr. Smith here. He might be able to talk a little bit about this, but real quick, we're asking for approval for uh the roofing bid project for Beach Hill Elementary and Austin Middle School. Um we're asking for approval of the restroom project bid for Austin Middle School and then approval of courtyard project for Greg Middle School. So, Mr. Smith is here in case you have any questions on that, but asking for board approval. >> Okay, board members, we will begin. Um, at this time I'd ask for a motion to approve the roofing project bids for Beach Hill Elementary and Austin Middle School as presented. Okay. Motion made by Miss Powell, seconded by Miss King. Any questions or discussion? Okay. Hearing none, we will call for the vote. Motion carries. Seven in favor. All
072right. And I would ask for a motion to approve the restroom project bid for Austin Middle School as presented. Motion made by Mr. Guthrie, seconded by Mr. Farnsworth. Any questions or discussion? Hearing none, we will call for the vote. Motion carries. Seven in favor. And last, but certainly not least, we would ask for a motion to approve the courtyard project bid for Greg Middle School as presented. Motion made by Mr. Lee and seconded by Miss King. Any questions or discussion? Okay. hearing. None. We will call for the vote. >> All right. Motion carries. Seven in favor. >> Okay. Thank you. And our next item is uh we're going to talk about facilities. And so we have Mr. Tony Souls and Jeff Smith to talk a little bit about our referendum 8% and our TIFF project.
073So, I'll turn it over to Tony. >> Good evening, Madam Chair, members of the board. Mr. Dy, uh update on the some referendum projects. First off, the Sand Hill Elementary wing, we've got that one scheduled for the final inspection on December 22nd. uh the elementary school at the ponds. We're we're continuing conversations with the developer and the county to try to get that land conveyed to us. At Somerville Elementary School right behind us, the foundations are complete. They're about uh well, they they built scaffolding today to to lay blocks. So, they're they're overhead high on the block back there. The they're still doing some slab work on on the far end down there on the south end, but everything is going well back there. We're we're right on schedule with that. Um the Ashley Ridge
074High School edition, the uh area A is the new band room and we're building on the right behind the mini gym. It's it's going well. They've got the uh footings already placed. They're going to be putting the slab in for that uh area next week. Uh they're this week they're putting in all the underlab utilities, the electrical and the plumbing. uh area B, which will be the the new weight room where the existing band room is now. They're going to uh be starting on that on January 5th. When we come back, we got to move all of the band equipment out this week. Starting this week, we're going to start be moving that stuff out. Uh and that's the area A is going to be the completion date for that is May 25th. And then
075the area B, the new weight room will be completed on June 5th. uh Summerville High School gym. We've got a 100% design documents have been submitted to OSF and we've got a a fire and egress modeling analysis in progress through Jensen Hughes. We hope to have that uh modeling back this week sometime with a recommendation what we need to do there. We'll turn that over to the design team to let them make their determinations from there. Fort Doorchester High School classroom edition. The construction documents have been submitted to OSF and we hope to be starting construction on that uh just after the first of the year. Other other capital projects that are not referendum is the Oakbrook Middle School edition. We have a final inspection tenantly scheduled on that one for the 29th of December.
076Uh and the Oakbrook Elementary School edition. Uh the the roofing is is should be installed starting this week with all the trades are working in the overhead under underneath the decking getting in the HVAC, the electrical, the plumbing, the sprinkler system, everything that goes into a new school is going into this wing. And the window installation started last week and they're going to continue on this week putting the windows in. The substantial completion date for the elementary school edition will be uh mid mid-March. Uh the bus maintenance facility at Oakbrook uh for the for the bus depot uh is the permitting is in progress with the state and the town. The pre-engineered metal building uh we we're waiting to purchase that. Well, that'll probably happen sometime within the next couple of weeks and we're working
077with the general contractor and design team to coordinate that construction. And that budget was approved in the general fund back in 2023. And those are the major new construction projects going on. And for the rest of it, I'll let Jeff talk to you. Next slide. Thanks. Um, just a quick update this evening. Um, we're going to be doing a final inspection on Windsor Hills roofing and exterior envelope package this week. So, that'll be uh hopefully wrapped up and completed this week and then any punch list items will be completed over the next two weeks. So, we'll be hopefully done with that come the first of the year. the uh Windsor Hill playground that we were going to install over Thanksgiving break uh ran into a hiccup. The uh equipment came in with the wrong color
078scheme. So, we're waiting on that to get reordered. So, tentative timeline is going to be sometime between February and March of 26 to get that installed. The Flowertown uh special needs playground and the uh 4K playground, I believe it was, was uh installed over Thanksgiving break. So, that's in now. and um our in-house electricians finished up doing all of the athletic field lighting upgrades to LED. Um that did not have anything to do with the stadiums. We're going to probably at some point look to solicit a more of like a competition light system for those uh facilities, but uh we did get all the practice fields which would include baseball and softball as well. Um, we obviously did not do anything at Asheue Ridge because they still have five years left on their existing warranty
079and we figured we need to let that warranty expire before we do anything there substantial. Um, if you look at the bottom couple little three pictures, we did get the entire Greg Middle School campus mil and paved over Thanksgiving break. So, in that little time time frame, we were able to get the entire lot, bottom lot, everything done and restriped, and it turned out really nice. It was it was much overdue. Uh had a lot of potholes and a lot of stuff that was just failing. So, we got all that taken care of. The Oakbrook Elementary and Oak Brook Middle um exterior envelope package, I was out there last week. It's coming along great. And we actually found a couple things to add to the scope. So, we're still expecting that to finish up probably
080end of the year, maybe into January, but hopefully by the end of the year. um they're working during school hours and it seems to be no issue with the with either school. The HVAC projects, so the only one that's going to be kicked off at Christmas break is the Windsor Hill project. The other ones are all geared up, equipment's been ordered, and they'll all start uh in the summer, possibly some spring break work, but most likely summertime. And uh you can see obviously we've got the a couple of those approved tonight. So, we'll be setting up meetings uh with vendors to get schedules in place for those projects. And then our in-house engineer, Robert, is working on some of these other projects such as the DevO middle school restroom renovations, the Oakbrook Middle locker room
081renovations, and the uh Greg Middle School projects that we have out there. He's working on the restrooms there as well. And just a quick update on what we're going to have going on over winter break. Uh pretty slow. I had to I think my credit lines ran out with Tina, so I had to cut back the projects. But uh we we're going to be doing a gym floor resurfacing at Greg. Basically sand their whole floor down, recode it, restripe it, make it look new again. We're going to be doing all of the rooftop units at Windsor Hill. So they'll all get replaced and all the controls will get replaced in the campus. We'll follow that up this summer with replacing all the units that are inside the classroom in the uh I call it the
082new wing, but it's the I think it's the second or third grade wing that was added on after the fact. Um Sand Hill, we're tenatively set to move in on the 30th of December. So, we're going to be moving all the new furniture in. It's all staged nicely around campus in some different places throughout the pack and Rawlings and other places, but we're going to get all that moved in. I think Mr. Joyy's already got plans for teachers to possibly have a few days to come in and get their room set up. So hopefully as long as the state fire marshall everything goes well, we'll be moved in and ready for students on the 6th. And I would think that let's see here. We also have several of the middle schools are getting their gym
083floors recoded. So we'll have that going on. I think we're going to be painting the stage at Fort Norchester High School black. And then we've got like the restroom floors and classrooms. We're going to replace all that in Austin Bailey and William Reeves. So other than that, pretty slow winter break for us. >> Thank you guys. I know you guys have put a lot of time in facilities at Tony and Jeff and Tina, Liz, Rhonda, Kenny, Tina, and Lisa. So, it's been a it's been a team effort. You can see all the projects that we have going on. A lot of plate spinning. So, thank you for all your efforts. >> Yep. And our next item on uh on the superintendent report would be uh approval of personnel recommendations for the 2526 as presented in
084your in your packet. >> Okay. Board members, we did receive this information in our packets. Is everyone okay with proceeding in open session? All right. At this time, I'd ask for a motion to approve the personnel recommendations as presented. >> So moved. >> Motion made by Mr. Guthrie, seconded by Miss King. Any questions or discussion? All right. Hearing now we will call for the vote. >> Wanda, could you please vote yes? Yay for Miss Powell, please. Okay. Motion carries. Seven in favor. And our last item on the agenda there for approval of student enrollment recommendations for the 2526 as presented. >> Okay. Board members, we received this information in our packet as well. Is everyone okay with proceeding in open session? Okay. Then at this time I'd ask for a motion to approve the student
085enrollment recommendations as presented. Motion made by Miss Powell, seconded by Miss King. Any questions or discussion? Okay. Hearing none, we will call for the vote. Motion carries. Seven in favor. >> And that's all I have for the superintendent report. Thank you. >> Thank you, Mr. Dohy. All right. Next item on our agenda this evening are public comments. Um and first up we have Mr. Jason Brockert. December 14th, 2020. I stood at your podium and offered solutions in a chaotic room. I advocated for safety and logic. I was on team DD2 and I was wearing for Clareire and I haven't forgotten. December 13th, 2021. I stood at your podium and warned you about the negative stigma around mental health. I told you your culture was broken. You didn't listen and I got no response. December 12th
086of 2022, I gave you specific examples of how your wait and see approach to bullying was leaving our children unsafe. Your response was bureaucratic, fully CYA. December 11th of 2023. My son had been bullied to the breaking point while his aggressors were rewarded. I spoke about rigid policies that force my family to move just to survive your system, even if my son didn't. And on Veterans Day last year, you wouldn't give a grieving father the grace of removing a timer so I could speak. Back then, it would have only taken about six, seven minutes for me to say what I needed to do. But then on December 9th, 2024, you dug trenches behind walls of silence, and I had to use your own cell phone policy to shame you to even look at bullying. This
087is what I look like in 2024. Here we are, December 8th, 2025. Five years ago, I offered solutions. Four years ago, I told you about stigma. Three years ago, I warned you about your negligence. Two years ago, I showed you how broken you are. Last year, we realized you're just complicit. You accuse me of bullying because I hold up a mirror to your history. You do not understand the concept of bullying. You are incapable of administering a zero tolerance policy because you cannot tolerate your own accountability. Your silence isn't protective. Your silence is fatal. This timeline proves it. Your silence, your continued silence proves it. And I've heard there may have been another incident which I have not been able to substantiate yet. My name is Jason Brockard, father of Julian Brockard, unfortunate founder of
088Honoring Julian. And the charity Honoring Julian, is here today to ask for your voluntary resignations before myself, the individual, has to begin systematically, publicly displaying all of your ineptitude over a multitude of years. Because this is not out of anger. This is out of love. And there is no credibility left in the husks of this institution. I don't have my son anymore. Merry Christmas. >> All right, board members. At this time, I would ask for a motion to convene into executive session for the purpose of hearing a student discipline appeal for the purpose of legal advice on pending litigation and for the personnel related matters. >> So move. >> Okay. Motion made by Mr. Guthrie, seconded by Mr. Lee. Any questions or discussion? Okay. Hearing none, we will call for the vote. Right. Motion carries.
089Seven in favor. We are in executive session and we will return. I would ask for a motion to return to open session. >> So moved. >> Okay. Motion made by Mr. Guthrie, seconded by Miss Powell. Any questions or discussion? hearing. Now we will call for the vote. Okay. Motion carries. Seven in favor. Board members, at this time, do we have any motions out of our executive session? Madame Chairman, I move that the board uphold the decision uh regarding uh the two students, student A and student B. >> All right. Motion made by Mr. Lee to uphold the decision regarding student A and B. Do I have a second? >> Seconded by Miss King. Um at this time, do we have any questions or discussion? Okay. Hearing none, we will call for the vote. All right.
090The motion carries. Six in favor, one abstension. Miss Bates did not participate in that hearing. All right. And board members, at this time, I would ask for a motion to adjurnn. Motion made by Miss Powell, seconded by Mr. Farnsworth. Any questions or discussion? Hearing none, we will call for the vote. Motion carries. Seven in favor. We are adjourned.