001good evening and welcome to the September 9th Board of Trustees meeting um at this time I will ask for a motion to approve the consent agenda so moved okay motion made by Mr Guthrie do I have a second seconded by Miss Hughes any discussion or questions okay um hearing none we will call for the vote okay and the motion carries five in favor two absent okay and at this time we will move into our district highlights and we will welcome Miss Troy to the podium to present those for us good evening board chair Dr rimbley superintendent Dr Robbins and our extrem board members at this time I will turn a Podium over to Dr leviner principal of Somerville high school for this highlight and then I'll return to close them out good evening superintendent Robin
002Schoolboard chair Wimberly and his team school board members it is my privilege tonight to recognize Somerville High School's lady green wve softball team this amazing group of back-to-back state championship softball players finished this past season with a perfect 30 and0 record while outscoring opponents 237 runs RS to 15 runs while that in itself puts these athletes in a league all of their own let me give you some more impressive stats on these young ladies over the last two years the Green Wave softball team has won 62 of it the last 63 games played senior Angley Bennett was named the Gatorade softball player of the year for the second straight season she is only the fifth softball player in State history to win two straight Gatorade Awards in um in addition angsley Bennett Katie Gilliam and
003hope Chase were three of the 24 players selected for the All State softball team a first time in program history that three All State selections were made from the team and Angley Bennett Katie gilam hope Chase Abby Driscoll and Melanie Edwards were five of the 13 players named to the All Region team and of course this team could not achieve such prestigious ranks without the leadership and mentorship of their head coach Heather Tucker who was named the South Carolina Athletics coaches association State softball coach of the Year this past season so at this time I'd like to in introduce the following players that were able to make it tonight Caroline wearing [Applause] Ansley [Applause] Bennett Alex [Applause] sewick is it in Haley [Applause] seon Brian Harley Jaden Bennett Darren Malden and of course coach Heather
004Tucker please join me in congratulating this amazing group of women athletes [Applause] thank you I think Michelle may have Dr leviner did you take a extra um thing up under your when you picked it up that black folder now was here no it was here we're going to go on move on principal Tracy and Miss link bosnik please join us up front River Oaks please if you guys to join us in the center thank you River o Middle School was one of 200 schools from 40 States across the country to receive a $55,000 Grant through the Laura Bush foundation for American libraries this Foundation supports School libraries with the greatest need with the goal of encouraging all students to develop a love of reading and learning using using the checkout data and surveys from students
005and staff River Oaks curated a collection of new books that included fiction and non-fiction to update and diversify their collection already over 50% of the new collection has been checked out in the past 4 weeks of school this will help launch the River Oaks Middle School's sustained uninterrupted reading for fun initiative to help bolster the reading culture congratulations principal Tracy Miss Miss link bosnik and the River Oaks Middle [Applause] School will the adult education staff please join us up front I do are we ready okay mm okay the national adult education and family literacy week is September 16 through 20th the Board of Trustees would like to present an honorary proclamation to Dorchester County adult education and it reads honorary Proclamation National adult education and family literacy week whereas more than 43 million Americans can't
006read or write at the most basic level while 62.7 million lack basic math skills as well as the credentials and skills necessary to succeed in postsecondary education whereas every year one and three young adults drop out of high school whereas adult education programs contribute to solving the these challenges by helping Americans move along the Continuum in their educational journey to achieve basic skills and get prepared for career in college whereas in 2023 2024 Dorchester County adult education served 472 adult Learners 58 earned their high school equivalency which is their GED 15 earned their High School diplomas 72 English language Learners completed skills upfront Andor graduated with a high school credential four met their family literacy goal 22 met their workplace literacy goal 46 attained a workplace credential and 500 digital literacy lessons were taught whereas
007Dorchester County School District 2 celebrates adult education and family literacy week as a proud participant in the National educa Education and Elevate Campaign which helps our citizens learn about all of their adult education options to attain their professional and personal goals I Dr Ashley wimbley board chair do Proclaim September 16th through the 20th 2024 as adult education family literacy week congratulations [Applause] oh you're good okay moving on our next um item on the agenda public comments on agenda items and we have none tonight um under our board chair's report um I wanted to just give y'all a quick reminder about um the scsba meetings coming up um we have the regional advocacy meeting that is scheduled for Wednesday September 18th um and I know had sent out an email to all of us reminding us
008so I just mentioned that and then also um just to put on your calendar ahead of time um I wanted to remind everyone about the legislative advocacy um conference that we will have December 7th and 8th so believe those are the next two big things coming up okay um all right can I just make a comment on the regional meeting deadline is tomorrow so just make sure that if you're planning to go that you get it into Wanda because um those meetings and they've got a a pretty good agenda I don't know if you've read the agenda yet but they've got a pretty good agenda there talking about teacher Recruitment and Retention and that kind of stuff so um I would encourage anyone who can go to go because they're going to they'll have lots
009of good information so excellent great thank you so much Miss Hughes appreciate that so I did have um Dr rly if it's okay we've been a little remiss on some of our board goals and so um under this section if um you want to go ahead and we'll hit those board goals and note those on the board goal chart um long arms Mr Guthrie if he would walk down there I'll read them off we have the um green check marks available this um goes back to our 20232 board goals also we are assembling um all the notes from our summer advance to get to you guys um I hope to have them I promise to have them to you by the end of the week so you can review them so um the one goal
010that we were able to um complete was during the budget process and that is we remodeled the extracurricular activity stiping schedule um so that is under staff Recruitment and Retention also under also I try to make it easy for you also under staff Recruitment and Retention we established an annual loyalty stipend and then under um uh Safety and Security we have now implemented the Raptor school safety software so good work to the board well thank you Dr Robbins and good work to you and to the rest of your team as well I know it takes about a second to put that check up there but a lot of work work goes into completing those goals so we appreciate your work towards that all right um and next on our agenda this evening we have our
011board committee reports and we will start out with our policy committee Miss Bates thank you madam chair I do not have anything for this evening other than just a reminder that our next policy meeting will be at 5:00 p.m. September 23rd before our regular scheduled board meeting so that is all unless Miss Powell has anything all right thank you okay thank you very much and next Finance with Mr Guthrie nothing to report okay and then um facilities uh I will turn to Miss Hughes Mr farth we have nothing to report unless there's something uh with the facilities update that Dr Robbins would like to add in there the biggest thing on the facilities update will be um under the soups report on the recommendation with the referendum um but nothing additional in terms of facilities
012from the last meeting okay great thank you very much and at this time we will turn to Dr Robbins for a superintendent report thank you madam chair members of the board nice to see everybody this evening um I felt um I felt it important to start tonight uh with a safety message okay um with a safety message you know we had filmed our soup chat um several days before the incident that occurred in Atlanta again hearts and prayers definitely go out to that Community um the amount of violence that we see in our communities um is just heart-wrenching um but what I wanted to share with the board first and foremost is number one if you look at the logos up there you'll see that we have some incredibly great Partnerships with our law enforcement
013and our Emergency Management officials so when we talk about safety and we have our safety task force meetings they're a big part of all of that and we vet our ideas and our protocols through them we did share in our soup chat what our protocols were um and again I'd be very remiss if I didn't say they are not foolproof and they're not perfect um but the way I look at it is it's a it's a three-level approach there's a primary a secondary and a tertiary level the primary level is to educate everyone on what the expect ations are what the laws are and what we expect when you come to our school campuses the second one is one where we do screenings um and we rely on some of the external protocols that we
014have in place to keep those things off of our campuses and then the third one is really important and that's the reporting piece and so we as you saw we now have the Raptor system in place where our employees can immediately um utilize one of our standard response protocols we practice those those protocols with our law enforcement and Emergency Management officials but the other thing I wanted to share tonight is our community has to be a huge supporter of what we're trying to accomplish with safety and they also have to understand that we are protected by state and federal law in South Carolina it is a state law that you cannot carry a weapon on school property whether you have a concealed carry permit or not the only people that can do that are law
015enforcement officials and someone that is authorized to do that by the superintendent so we just want you to know that when we use our metal detectors and when we screen people coming onto our campuses it's to safeguard your children it's to safeguard our employees and it's to safeguard our visitors and so we are pleading for your help and supporting us in that effort but understand that there is law that's associated with it and and it has some judicial punishments that are that along with that so um we just want people to be aware I think awareness and education is the first step and making sure that we're doing the best we can possible for our students I would put our protocols up against anybody in the Low Country um I think we're leading the way
016whether it's with clear bag policies metal detectors or weapons K9 our alerting systems but again those things aren't foolproof and so working together as a community like I feel like we have in my short tenure here um I think we can do a continue to make strides in ensuring safety on our school campuses so I'm happy to answer anybody's questions I know you probably all had a chance to look at um the safety video that Preston and I put out things you've all heard about um over the last couple years but um I just felt compelled to share that tonight okay um the next thing I have is U tonight from um seat is our referendum update so um you know this has been an arduous process for us um with the initiation of the
017referendum based on the growth needs that we have an increase in capacity and we've been talking the last um several weeks and months about where we are in the process uh the first thing I want to bring to you for a recommendation tonight but also go back and um just kind of recap where we've been but we put out a c risk RFP for the construction of the elementary school in the ponds um we had that RFP out for multiple weeks uh we conducted interviews um with five of the leading um companies that responded to the RFP and and again the cmat risk process is one we feel very confident in because it has a guaranteed maximum price associated with it and a guaranteed timeline we feel like that safeguards the the district um both
018financially and from a feasibility standpoint um the negotiations piece took place from August 26 6 to the 29th and then tonight we have a recommendation for the board's consideration for approval again we had five great companies that responded that we interviewed um for this um cmat risk contract and um some that I I've worked with three of the five personally multiple times but tonight's recommendation is for Hood construction to construct the uh Elementary School in the ponds and happy to take any questions um and I believe Kenny is here and Tina was a part of that process as well is Tony here yeah I don't see Tony so but H happy to answer your questions we had an interview team um that conducted the interviews and then I just participated but I wasn't a voting
019member I don't have questions I'd just like to make a comment uh really that is that makes me smile because I know what they've done for for us in the past they have been one of the couple of companies that we've dealt with that when they're put on the job they are on the job and they watch out for the district's money and the district's interest in general and um when they tell you they're going to do something they do it so um I'm really happy they were the selection thank you very much to you and your team sure okay at this time I will ask for a motion to accept the recommendation presented by Dr Robbins I'll make that motion okay motion made by Miss Hughes do I have a second seconded by Miss
020Crosby any further discussion or questions okay and um all in favor if you'll okay and the motion carries um six in favor one absent okay um the this really goes along the lines of the CM at risk but I inadvertently at our last meeting said that our orientation meeting for the citizens advisory review team was September 16th it's actually September 19th so I just wanted to go ahead and mention that publicly we'll be meeting in the mckisic uh Museum on that evening We Will We Will publish the meeting date just like we do other public meetings as well and this first meeting is really just to bring the group together introduce them to hood construction um introduce them to our own maintenance and operations folks uh to let them get started in the process so
021um but that will be the orientation meeting okay the next thing I have for the board's consideration tonight um we wanted to take a little bit of time on this um to see where we were but you know we are an e-learning District but it was very unfortunate that hurricane Debbie hit and we hadn't started school yet um by Statute we have to build in three weather days into our school calendar when we build our calendar last year we built the first three days the third day was on a Saturday because we just never expected that we would utilize that day because we would enact our e-learning protocols so I really have um two two recommendations first we had four days that we canceled due to weather um by Statute the board has the authority
022to wave days four through six so my first recommendation would be that the board consider waving the fourth weather day that we had the second um recommendation I have and and I've had several discussions with our district um team with our teacher advisory Council and sever other teachers but that third day is on a Saturday on graduation day typically um when we come back to school we have had the last couple years the first day back is just been a teacher work day on Monday and then on Tuesday our students come back so in discussing this with our teachers they'd much rather not have to make up a day on May 31st on Saturday when everybody is done and just everybody comes back from Christmas break on that Monday teachers and students included so I
023would ask that you would also consider modifying the um school calendar to move that May 31st makeup day to January 6 okay thank you Dr Robbins at this time do I have a motion okay um I'd like to move that we adopt the date that Dr Robbins mentioned okay um motion made by Miss Powell to accept the recommendation given by Dr Robbins to um wave the fourth weather day and if the board is okay to do it in one vote Yes and also to move um the um recommended third weather day from May 31st to January 6 okay do I have a second okay seconded by Miss Hughes all right any questions or discussion okay hearing none I will call for the vote this one should be electronic yes okay and the motion carries six
024in favor one absent thanks members of the board and before I move on I'll just tell you I've already had discussions with um Miss Troy who leads our calendar committee and you know we've obviously agreed that worst case scenario planning forward so we don't have to make an adjustment like this um by putting a day on a Saturday like that so um lesson learned um we just appreciate the community's support in our adjusting on this so with that being said um I'm going to turn it over to um toana Sanders who is our principal at Rise Academy um our redesigned remodeled refurbished alternative school and as she's making her way up I will tell you the first year in existence we've seen some amazing things she's going to share with you and it spread really
025quickly as they've had people across the state come and visit to see what it is that we're doing and how we're doing it in Dorchester District to so I'll turn it over to you Miss Sanders thank you good evening board chair board members and Dr Robbins um again I'm toana Sanders new principal and I'm also here with our new assistant principal Mr lree um the mission of Rise Academy um is to provide students with a unique alternative educational setting while addressing their academic behavioral and social needs um there have been a couple of Chang es to our schedule this school year so our staff now arrives at 7:00 a.m. our students arrive at 7:30 and our school day starts at 8:00 a.m. we now dismiss students at 1 our teachers have their planning from 1
026to 2 and then they have office hours to assist our students from 2: to 300 p.m. something that stayed the same is our tier point system so our students earn four P four points a day uh one for advisory which they complete every day their attendance their academics and not having any referrals so our highest level is tier three which you have to get 300 points and complete 20 hours of community service um if you were to come to school every day and do everything that you're supposed to do you would be out within 12 weeks for the tier 2 system you would have to do 200 points and complete 10 hours of community service and again if you did everything that you needed to do you would be out within eight weeks and then
027for our tier one students they have to get 100 points and do 5 hours of community service if you were to complete every single thing come to school every single day you would be out within four weeks and if you completed your community service once you go from tier three to tier two to tier one or two to one you then exit our program and we have a rise celebration which takes place every Friday at 11:00 a.m. so for our 2324 School data um we saw 414 students this past school year of those 414 students our recidivism rate is 2.8% so we had a few that did return to us um but we we're trying to keep that low and we have that same goal for this school year to keep that below the 2.8%
028and then we started this school year with 103 students so again the few changes that we had this school year is the hours going from 8:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. for students we have new portion of our building that is beautiful um it has eight additional classrooms we went from 12 certified teachers to 16 certified teachers and our tier three students used to be assigned to the tier three room for four weeks they are no longer assigned to that tier three room but they are still in our school for 12 weeks and then our orientation schedule changed from um it changed to Mondays and Tuesday Mondays and Wednesdays at 10:00 a.m. um I would just tell you it is production to have a transient population and to get our students in and out of Rise
029Academy so I would just like to acknowledge all of our staff members that make this possible every week every day any questions I do when you said like tier 3 students aren't assigned to the tier three room do you mean permanently for the entire time or at all so last school year when tier three students came to us they were in a tier three room which they were in that room they did not change classes at all for four weeks that is no longer our process you come in you're here for 12 weeks and you transition from class to class so like as you earn out of your tiers you'll transition okay so that they can be with the peers in the same tier that they're in yes and get the same academics and just
030for the community who doesn't know what were your student hours prior to the changes this year it was the 8 to four we were on a high school schedule okay and what benefits are you seeing or what is the reason for the difference in time change just out of curiosity speak any yeah part of it is the community service component that we have the other part is um we service kids all across the county in that one location and we're trying to also provide them with more mentoring opportunities with their staff um to help reintegrate them back in their classroom if you all haven't had a chance to visit one of the celebrations or see um a a day in action I highly encourage you to to do it it's um they do a wonderful
031job um in trying to Mentor those students and help with some of the corrective Behavior so they don't return honestly the 2.8% is pretty impressive so to have a goal below that so I just want to say I applaud the idea of moving your hours because I want to see the kids actually do some CommunityWide um community service and so um I think that's going to basically add to their understanding as to how they're a part of the community when they're able to get out there and do that and the second thing is the addition of the building adding that particular area I visit it I love it um those that basically worked on putting it all together it's a beautiful facility and I know the children will appreciate the fact that they're in almost
032the entire building so kudos to you thank you and yes I definitely appreciate you I did have one more question I was just curious um can you give me some examples of like the type of community service they're doing I'm just so we have students go to Habitat for Humanity um there are students that do things for elderly like our middle school students it's a little harder for them to get around sometimes they do something for elderly members of the community um we have things that they've done around the school sometimes we do a care package that can be for a portion of their points um where we'll donate to maybe a domestic violence um home or to any organization in community that could use some items are the students involved in making the decision
033about where how they'll perform their community service and then is are they responsible for getting to that service on their own like Transportation wise and that sort of thing they go through orientation and we present a PowerPoint to the students as well as their parents and it outlines everything that they need to do in order to successfully complete the program okay their parents help them um figure out what's going to work with their schedule and get them there and that sort of thing support yes and we give suggestions but of course if a student is not able to get it done we will figure something out for them okay just for purposes of concern for parents who um some students are on the lower level of the tiers um when could you just explain to
034us when the intermingling be begins with the other students CU I think that's a that's a big issue with going to rise is is someone who was just in the wrong place at the wrong time that gets sent there or whatever they're afraid of what the security level is and that kind of stuff with the the more aggressive students that are in the school so can you explain that um well our students come in in the morning they go through a check-in process which requires them to go through the metal detectors they turn in their cell phones um and we get them into get their breakfast and we get them into class um they're supervised for the entire day um if there is an issue a parent can contact us if there's a stu if
035a student brings an issue to us we' be sure we're address sure to address it well I guess I'm just referring to what you said about they then begin to change classes after being in that tier for so long or whatever they start changing classes oh so last school year the tier three so those students um they're different issues Why students are assigned certain tiers but they just transition from class to class um there are a lot of adults we're all out into the hallway so if we see something we're like really we're on top of it okay I thank you very much I just wanted to make sure that parents know that their students all students are safe when they're going there because we have the security there and we do have the means
036of keeping them separate and that I want to make sure that everybody realizes that even though they are changing classes that um we still are are there and monitoring and making sure that all the students are safe absolutely and as I said I I that's one of my babies rise so um I've been over there and if anyone knows Mr mandre who is the resource officer I don't believe you're going to challenge him so um bottom line is I would send my grandbabies there if I had any well you know the thing is a lot of our students come and they do not want to leave so it's safe well that says a lot about what you're doing there so thank you for that problem thank you Mr Matthews I think uh a few of
037you may have uh received some questions about salaries of certain positions and so I asked Mr Matthews to do a little historical for us and then share with you the difference between our classified staff and then what we have is what we consider daily rate restricted staff so I'll turn it over to um Scott thank you good evening Madam chair Dr Wimberly members of the school board Dr Robbins you know I'm G start you know I got a brag to start out with when Personnel we we have an amazing Personnel Group amazing team in Dorchester to group of employees over 4,000 employees and um whether there you're an administrator district office teacher adult support substitute all the different roles that that make up our district uh we just have an amazing team and and I'm
038very super proud of the year we've gotten off to this year and and all the great people we have on our team tonight I'm going to give you some information as Dr Robins just mentioned about uh some very valuable extremely important uh groups that we have in our district a little information about their pay adult support we currently have about 138 adult supports uh these are um members of our employee uh group that are assigned to a student with special needs typically there's an IEP meeting that's held and the IEP uh I team decides that a student needs an adult support therefore that's how that position is created ated and uh currently current daily rate is 120 a day they do receive the benefits package leave time uh they're eligible for the sick Bank pay
039print leave and uh in the last five years we've they they were $75 a day back in 2019 and then we went to 90 uh during the pandemic and then last year we went to 120 uh for that for the adult supports for the health room assistance they're also a daily pay rate a flat rate of 120 a day um health room assistance were added back during the pandemic and um started with $75 a day with no benefits and since then we have added uh they went from 75 to 90 then 90 with benefits and now 120 and they also have the benefits package leave days option to enroll in the sick Bank payr leave um and they've had an increase as I just mentioned over the last 5 years permanent substitutes were also created
040during the pandemic um and and really what permanent substitutes are is they just dedicated to one building um we just allow you know the the high schools the elementary schools and middle schools to have a dedicated substitute high schools can have up to two Elementary and Middle School can have up to one at this time permanent substitutes they're just dedicated to that school and they do follow the same uh sub rate that all daily substitutes have which is 125 a day for non-certified 150 a day for certified um and then daily substitutes also that same rate these are just folks who just they they log in they they go they might be at a different school every day and um and none of our substitutes currently have benefits um or leave days uh they're not
041they don't have the option to enroll into sick bank or they don't qualify for a paid parental leave we have increased sub pay uh sub pay again was $75 um 5 years ago for non-certified and uh 105 for certified so since then we've increased those to 125 and 150 um again the there's some information about the benefits packages that health room assistance and adult supports qualify for 35% up to 100% of employees salary they're 180-day employees uh they receive eight sick days in three personal days per year and the leave does accumulate from year to year if if it goes unused so there's a little information about those positions and I'm happy to answer any questions that you may have um I do have one question and I don't know if you can maybe answer
042this for me I know that when we're talking about the in increases this year um we advertised and shared that all classified staff were going to receive a 4% increase so I I know that's probably where a lot of this confusion is coming from and why some of us have gotten messages is because obviously they're contracted at a daily rate from my understanding so that did not qualify them for that 4% increase even though they are classified staff so I think that that created some misleading um I guess my first question is a um are we in in the future is there a benefit to moving them to like a TA pay scale that's tiered based on their time in the district and that they are guaranteed that increase every year and could you speak
043as to why that may be beneficial not beneficial um because I know a lot of people are kind of also feeling pains that you know a adult support that starts today is going to get paid the same as an adult support that started 15 years ago right yeah I definitely think there there benefits I mean I'm I'm always an advocate for um you know improved pay for all employees in the district and I know y' have worked really hard to make that happen in a lot of areas we we're continuing to always evolve and and look for better ways um I could see you know the adult supports they're typically most adult adult supports are assigned to one student and um that's kind of why I think that the main reason I've always been told
044is to why they're not on the the tiered scale um and they're temp you know and and even though they they're not all temporary you know they're IEP driven so that you know they could an IP meeting could be held tomorrow and then all of a sudden they're now we always typically try to find another role for that employee but uh but I do I do think that um these they do an amazing job and they deal with some of our uh most challenging um students and they work well with our staff and teachers I definitely think as we continue to move forward and have discussions in the future I definitely think that's something that we can continue to discuss the role of the of the adult support yeah I definitely appreciate the increases we've
045given and without a doubt I know that the heart of our district and y'all is for every employee to feel valued and appreciated because we do we TR we really truly do um value the work they do I do feel for them with the the concern of feeling told that classified staff are going to receive a raise so I guess what I ask and I don't need an answer to this is if we could possibly look into what we could do as a bonus um for them if possible if that's something we can do obviously I'm just throwing that out there that's just a blue sky thought but I could understand when you sign your contract and sign on to a new year and you're told classified staff are receiving a raise and I understand
046the reasoning and the benefits but I also you know think it's important um with that that position being hard to recruit and retain on um that those people know that we do truly value them and their position yes ma'am so I just had a question are these the only positions in the district paid at a daily pay rate other than we have some hourly employees um that that are paid at a at a daily like hourly rate MH um like for example um we have some Title One employees that make $40 an hour but they work maybe four or five hours a week they don't you know they're just hourly employees but they're at like an hourly rate like a certified hourly rate is $40 an hour currently right now for anyone that we have
047that that's a certified employee that works and then we have like during summer school there's hourly rates um during summer school so there are there are other flat hourly rates but these are the only like the adult support and health room assist are the only two full-time with Benefits positions that are at the daily okay okay well I agree with Miss Bates I think um it is worthy of us looking and seeing what we can do we may not be able to give them the full salary but we can possibly look at what we can do in order to supplement what they're getting um they do a terrific job I mean I work besid some of them and um we want to make sure that we maintain those who've been with us a while because
048they understand you know the nature of how we um perform here in dd2 and our expectation you can get a body but we want a body that's also there because they care about the kids and so sometime that means we do have to find some dollars in order to supplement that so um we aren't guaranteeing anything people we're saying we would like to be able to look at it thank you well I agree I feel like um we have to this is a part of the teacher Recruitment and Retention because these are just important this is this is a part of a teacher benefit when they have this Aid in the classroom this adult support in the classroom that is a Aid to that teach teacher so I think we do need to look at
049finding a way to try to um to retain those people by paying them by the experience they have because not only do we want someone there who loves the children we want someone there who's got the experience with working with those children so um I I can understand their frustration of getting paid the same thing that everybody else gets paid when a new person comes on so I I think that is something worth looking into where I appreciate all the increases that have been given I still think there's some room for maybe just a little bit of tweaking in there to try to to show them just how much they are appreciated and needed good thank you I appreciate y'all thank you all very much thank you drins ears are burning so um we have
050no that was the Personnel portion tonight we don't have any Personnel recommendations tonight the last item we have is um student enrollment recommendations and we do have one that we need to convene into executive session for oh we have done okay board members in your packets you did receive some student enrollment recommendations um that we are able to vote on now if everyone is okay with doing that in Open Session um so at this time I would ask for a motion regarding those recommendations so move okay motion made by Mr Guthrie do I have a second seconded by Miss Hughes any discussion okay hearing none I will call for the vote okay motion carries six in favor one absent okay and that concludes your report for this evening thank you Dr Robbins at this time
051we will move to our public comments and we have one public comment this evening um Mrs Sierra Harrington okay okay I believe all right um so then we will move into our executive session at this time I would ask for a motion to convene into executive session for student enrollment recommendation matters so moved motion made by Mr Guthrie seconded by Miss Crosby any discussion okay all in favor please vote okay motion carries six in favor one absent we are an executive session and we will return e e e ask for a motion to return to open session so moved motion made by Mr Guri do I have a second seconded by Miss Powell any discussion okay all in favor G to do it vote I don't have it yet electronic vote Yes I'm sorry electronic
052please okay motion carries six in favor one absent we are in Open Session okay at this time do I have a motion okay Madam chair I would like to make a motion that we accept um we uphold the recommendation from the administration for um the student as discussed okay thank you I have a motion from Miss Hughes second from Miss Bates any discussion or questions okay caring none I will call for the vote come on okay motion carries six in favor one absent right at this time I'd ask for a motion to adjourn motion made by Miss bit seconded by Miss Crosby any discussion all in favor cast your vote please oh shoot change my vote I just vot no I voted no by accident you voted no by accident can you change my vote
053please okay and the motion [Music] carries the motion carries we are adjourned care