001Let us pray. Heavenly Father, we thank you for this day and for this moment in time. We thank you tonight for our Nawway school board members. Thank you tonight for our clerk, our superintendent. Thank you tonight for our students and staff. Thank you for the parents that are here tonight. Thank you, Lord, for allowing us to be able to come together to continue to work towards the betterment of our students and our schools. We are mindful of this season of year that we are in. Thank you for your blessings, for your mercy, and for your wisdom. In the mighty name of Jesus, we pray. Amen. Amen. I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for
002all. I'll ask for a a motion to approve the agenda with one very minor change and that is to add the high school to uh part A of awards and recognition. May I have that motion? >> So moved. >> Is there a second? >> Second. >> Any discussion? Hearing none. All in favor signify by saying I. >> I. >> Awards and recognition. Dr. Martin. >> Chairman, members of the board and citizens that are here. So this evening we have a special um highlight that I would like or asked to add to the agenda tonight and that's to recognize not high school. The school performance ratings came out and this afternoon or this morning I received a letter from um the superintendent of public instruction. So I would like to read it and Mr. Grab it
003if you would like to recognize Mr. Wilson. It says, "Dear Principal Wilson, I am pleased to congratulate you and your school community on achieving the distinguished category on the Commonwealth School performance in school and support framework. An honor that reflects the highest levels of commitment, consistency, and belief in what your students can achieve. Recognition of this caliber is a result of strong instructional leadership, empowered teachers, engaged families, and a student- centered school culture that prioritizes excellence. This distinguished status is a clear indication that your school is exceeding the state's expectations for achievement, growth, and readiness for the next grade level or graduation. Leadership matters. Your student success showcases what is possible when adults lead with vision, act with purpose, and maintain a relentless focus on student growth and achievement. I want to personally thank you
004for modeling the kind of leadership that moves education forward, being attentive to data, responsive to student needs, and optimistic about the future. Under the school performance and support framework, distinguished schools serve as exemplars whose effective practices can be shared across the Commonwealth to support strengthened outcomes for all students. Therefore, we look forward to learning more about the best practices underway at Nawway High and student supports you and your team implemented to help your school achieve the success. We hope other principles and school teams will have the opportunity to see your work in action and learn from the best. Please extend my gratitude and admiration to your entire staff. Congratulations again on this extraordinary achievement. Your school is a shining example of what excellence looks like and I am proud to recognize your leadership and that's
005from the Superintendent of Public Instruction. Uh, and please thank your entire staff. >> Yes, sir. >> Can we get a picture together? All right. On one, two, three. Thank you. So, our school highlights this evening also come from Nawway Intermediate School. This evening, they're going to share some of the learning activities and music in their library classes and some of the focus on steam that they've been doing at the school. I'm going to turn it over to Dr. Smith and I think his students are in the hallway. A lot of stupid. Very nice. Very nice. All right. Um, Good evening, Mr. Abbott. Chair Abbott, members of the board, Dr. Martin, we're excited to talk about NIS highlights. We are going to talk about three programs that you're going to hear a little bit today and
006also we're going to have our performance at the end from our music and choir program, but we're going to start with our steam and starbase. So, um, looking at Steven Starbase. Now, this is our fifth and sixth graders, gifted students that have a partnership with our, um, Blackstone Reading Center. And this Starbase is a U steam activity that's outreached and we work very hard to have our fifth and sixth grade students go and um, do a lot of activities, steam, a lot of activities. And one of those activities that we're going to look at is our static generator. Um, we had our students conform and touch it and and just look at electricity. And also we look at at model per a model of how particles will move through our parachute. And next off we
007looked at robots, our robotics. So in robotics they look at creating a robot and seeing how it moves and compete with each other. And then they looked at a lieutenant ever in which they looked at how a crash landing happens and how they do a 3D uh printed shuffle of looking at how we put it all together. So the Starbase program looks at robotics, electricity, mathematics, and I'm going to show a few pictures about the Starbase program next up. And you can see there the static electricity there. Um you see the um the chemical reactions uh you see the program in which they have the robots and they're programming it uh to compete with each other and they have to code those programs. So those are very very important that they get these steam activities
008and they've done it three or four times. They're going to go back next week to do another um connection with steam base and we're looking forward to bringing our entire fifth grade um in the spring. Okay, next up, uh you can see some more pictures. You can see uh the robot they made at the bottom. Uh you can see the 3D um shuttle that they created and you can see the parachute where they have the particles move through the to look through science and again so these are things that they did at at um Blackstone Readiness. Now our next program now our our library is just not checking books in and out. All right. uh they have done a lot of problem based activities and some of those you can see they're looking at polymers
009which is looking at science and molecules they did a really good job of that um and also they looked at engineering with looking at creating boats and looking at how it has a weight bearing capability and then they looked at real life experiences throughout budgeting um uh looking at store ads uh looking at looking at looking at how they can create menus so this give them a real life experience just not library. So, and our last one is our music and choir program and again it's exploratory program and all students can can participate but again it teaches them how to uh look at music, read music and then we have our choir program that looks at how um to sing and how to voice reflection and just learn about music. And so we're going to
010get a little touch of that. We had it in our Veterans Day program um in November and you're going to get a little taste of that today uh with Miss Hall. >> Okay. >> There's some pictures there of our students here today. >> Y'all ready? I'm not Hey, nobody home. Meet no drink, no money have I done. Still I will be merry, merry, merry. Hey ho, nobody home. me nor drink nor money have I done still I will be merry merry mer Mary very Mary very Mary very Mary very Mary very Mary very heyo nobody Drink your money. Still drink. Heat. Heat. My body will be amazing. Hey, nobody home or drink nor money have am I done. I will see very very very many very very very many very very many very very many
011very thank you thank you so much very Good job. >> Get our jacket. sports awards. >> I would say that they didn't come and see us >> this evening. We proudly recognize the outstanding achievements of student athletes who exemplify excellence on and off the field. They exhibit Cougar pride and a commitment to excellence. So, we're going to start with the golf recognitions for this evening. Um, they had a fantastic season. Um, and we'll start with the James River District Coach of the Year, Whip Wilson. >> Thank you very much. >> James River District Player of the Year, Colton Lewis. Mr. WILSON. MR. >> WILSON, come on back up and stand. Mr. Wilson, come on back up and stand. Yeah, >> you haven't been dismissed yet. >> Come on, coach. >> Uh, Mr. Row is former
012students. We can tell him he has to >> Yeah. Yeah. Yes. >> Um, James River District regular season champions and James River District Tournament Champions. Um, this was made up of the team of Colton Lewis, Karsten Beck, Spencer Lewis, Cameron McDaniel, Hayden Pigen, and Reed Wallace. ALL district players Colton LEWIS you funny. Thank you. And Cameron MCDANIEL >> and all region players are Skinn BECK and Cameron McDaniel. Yeah. Get a picture. Y'all three right in there. Right in the center. Nugget. >> Okay. >> Thank you. >> Recognitions. Bradley Hamilton was James River District Runner of the Year, all district, Virginia High School League Region 2A Champion, all region, and Virginia High School League class 2 state champion, all state. Ewing Gray, all district cross country. >> Congratulations. and Dominic Maronei, all district cross country. All
013right. One, two, and >> perfect. Okay. >> Congratulations. >> Thank you. It's a big group. >> Football get out the jail. >> Yeah. My athleticism, my falling left. Go for football. Sierra Delaney, first team all district offensive lineman and first team all district defensive lineman. First team all region 2A offensive lineman and first team all region 2A defensive lineman. Anton Carter, first team all district running back. First team all district kick returner. First team all district linebacker. First team all district punt returner. First team all region 2A running back. First team all region 2A kick returner. And first team all district punt returner. >> Go ahead. >> Jacob Albus, second team all district offensive lineman. Benjamin Sykes, second team all district wide receiver, first team all district defensive back. Second team all region 2A defensive
014back. Trent Hayes, second team all district wide receiver. Esmar Henderson, second team all district defensive lineman. Elliot Wait, second team all district linebacker. Mason Jennings, second team all district linebacker. And Ephim Stokes, second team all district defensive back. YOU'RE GOING TO have to do your picture. >> You take a picture of me holding. >> Good night. See you later, alligator. >> And last, but certainly not least, volleyball. >> Yes, indeed. Get a good smile. Lun Wilson, first team all district, first team, all region 2A. Grayson Skinner, first team all district, second team, all region 2A. and Willow Austin, second team, ALL DISTRICT of you. >> Okay, ready? Three. One, two, three. PERFECT. Thank you. >> Good evening. >> Thank you. >> Congratulations, Charles. >> Yes, VSBA recognition. Dr. Martin. >> Our recognition this evening is
015for Mr. Damian Rome. He participated in the 2025 BSBA delegate assembly as a delegate member for Nawway County School Board. A certificate from BSBA for a show of appreciation for your commitment to the school division and the betterment of education is presented to you. >> Oh, thank you. >> You get to be in it, too, Charles. >> Happy. >> Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Damian. Proceed now to delegations from the public. The uh pre-budget hearing for community input. >> We don't have any for that. >> Nothing for the budget. Uh the uh delegations from the public uh public comment Ray Jennings >> F9 I'll just come here to ask the proposal you know do a proposal but before I'd like to say reason I'm bringing this proposal is because I've heard there's a lot
016of bad behavior in in schools and y'all having to send in a whole bunch away out of county. How many How many students is getting sent out of county to get educated because of their behavior? How many is it? Y'all don't know the school board. Y'all ought to know how many students y'all sending out of the county to get education because of behavior issues. Y'all don't know. >> I'm not sure I understand the question. How many students are getting sent out of the county for behavioral issues to get an education? >> Under normal circumstances, sir, we do not comment during public delegations. We allow the public to speak and if it requires a comment to be made or investigation or an appropriate action, we take that action later. >> I Well, I apologize. Yeah. >>
017You don't need to apologize. >> All right. Well, it come to my attention is a whole lot of bad behavior. It's a whole bunch of students getting sent out of the county. Y'all have a school empty. I think it should be put to use for behavioral learning some for the students and the teachers. The teachers know how the teachers need to know how to handle these students. There's only two people in the school I understand that has the authority to put their hands on a student. as a principal and a police officer. Well, I believe that needs to change. I mean, I think a bunch of teachers need to get an education of how to handle these students and be able to put their hands on them in a reasonable manner like the law enforcement
018and the principles. That's all I have to say. I just like that Burke Elementary School be used for public education for the students. You know, if it's a behavioral issue, it needs to be resolved and the school needs to be used for that or some kind of use. You know, y'all are sending students out of the county to get education. Well, maybe we ought to have these other counties send them to us for education and bring some money to the county. Thank you. >> Thank you, sir. Need a motion to approve the consent agenda items A, B, C, D, E, and F. >> So move. Second. Excuse me. >> There has been a motion and a second. Uh any discussion hearing? None. All in favor signify by saying I. >> I. >> Financial reports. Uh
019we excuse MUCD. There are no action items at this time. No non-action items. Uh information items. Uh budget and facility update. Miss Meyer. Good evening, Mr. Chairman, members of the board, Dr. Martin. Sure, this is on. Um, so preliminary budget information, which there's not a lot that we know right now, but I'll give you what we do know, and then we're going to talk a little bit about just what we have for school needs and capital needs. Um so these are going to be our two primary topics for the evening. Um going into preliminary budget information, what we do know is that the lo local composite index, also known as LCI, is going to increase. This is the percentage that the county is required to pay of our budget. This is what they are required
020to pay to fund the school division. Currently um they pay 26.96% of our budget. The rest of it comes from the state for fiscal year 27 and 28. Um the LCI is is increasing to 28.2%. Um just to remind everyone what how LCI is calculated and the state calculates this. We do not um but it is um calculated based off of three indicators. true value of real property, adjusted gross income, and taxable resale retail sales. Um, and the LCI for the 26 to 28 bianium is based off a 2023 data. Um, the LCI for the 28-30 bianium will be based upon the 2025 data and I'm already predicting an increase in LCI for that bianium as well. So, I want everybody just to be aware that the percentage that the county is going to be
021required to pay towards our budget is going to continue to increase. Um, other preliminary information that we know of right now, we know that teacher pay is going to be a big focus for us this year. It is our primary focus. Um, currently we rank not right at the bottom, but one step above that within region 8 schools as far as what we pay our teachers. It also means that we're not very competitive about being able to attract um new teachers or you know highquality teachers and we want to make sure that as a teacher retires or you know whatever that we're able to attract um the highquality teachers that you know our students deserve. So in doing salary studies of all those surrounding divisions um our starting teacher pay has got to be around
022$52,000 in order to make us competitive. Now, that's not going to put us at the top because I can't afford to get us there. Um, we want to be out of the bottom. This should put us in that comfortable middle range of at least being able to be competitive. Um, now, what does that mean right now? Based upon preliminary data, that means it's going to cost us an additional $788,000 over what we're paying this year. Now, where where are we going to pull that from? That's still to be determined. um just because I don't have the governor's budget yet. So, I don't know exactly how much we're going to be getting in revenue um to figure out what our funding is. I also don't know what they're planning for um a pay raise. Um they
023always provide a compensation supp supplement for us and um depending upon how much that is as to whether we're going to be able to fund this with without asking for anything additional. You know, we may be able to fund this by, you know, rearranging other things within the budget, which is what we're hoping to do. Um, we don't want to have to ask for anything, you know, additional from the county, but this is our goal is to get teacher starting pay to around $52,000. Um, so as we work on budget, this is kind of our goal and this is what we're going to work towards and figure out how we can best accomplish that um without, you know, busting anybody's um bank on that. Um, so that's about all we know currently about the fiscal
024year 27 budget. Um the governor's budget does drop on the 17th of this month. So we should have a count tool from this the Virginia Department of Education which will help us in estimating our budget probably around the first week of January. Um so we'll be able to provide a lot more information come January as we work through um budget and we go into you know budget work sessions and and all these other meetings with you all. Um, so to talk about capital improvement needs and estimated cost, um, I've had kind of a list of capital improvement needs, but I really went and did a lot of digging and research to try to get us some estimated cost on how much some of these things or is going to be so we can kind of,
025you know, really try to budget and talk to the board of supervisors and the county about, you know, how they can best support us on, you know, working on these projects. And I'm going to go school by school. Um, and I may not talk about every single one of these, but I'm hit on some of the big ones. Um, we did just undergo our ADA um, facility study, which was mandated by a House bill that was signed into law this past spring. And that, um, I've got the draft report. I do not have the final. Once we get the final, we'll be able to provide that to you. But based upon the draft, um, ADA upgrades to Blackstone Primary School, they're estimating around $67,000. Now, I have not read through that entire report cuz I
026have three 3-in binders on my desk. Um, I've gone through about one school in about 10 minutes. >> Um, cuz there are some things that don't cost us to be able to do and it could just be remounting a paper towel dispenser at, you know, a proper height. So trying to really go through there and figure out, you know, what is what. And the ADA upgrades also touch on some several of these other items like the bathroom remodels. Um it does not include everything that I would put in a bathroom remodel, but it does talk about, you know, the size of stalls, you know, the height of sinks and and toilets. Um but it also touches on um the elevator. It touches on playgrounds because um our playgrounds would need to be upgraded in order
027to bring them up to ADA. um compliance. So that that does kind of overlap a little bit, but I haven't gone too much into it to actually figure out, you know, how much. Um the security vestibule is another big one as estimated about 475,000. Now, that is in progress because whenever you all approved the revenue carryover um back in October, that was part of that revenue carryover money. We were going to do the security best of built Blackstone Primary because out of every school it is the cheapest one and we were able to fit that in budget. Um now they also need their flat roof replaced that they had. Their pitch roof is fine. Um but their flat roof has got several issues and I've got a couple of pictures I'll show you. Um and
028then the other things like new intercom system, we are actually doing that at every school. So you'll see that as in progress on every um slide. that is a safety and security issue. We need to be able to make um announcements throughout the school. So, we really need to make sure those systems are up to par and they are I mean they're old so they are slowly starting to fail. Um so, we want to make sure that we are addressing those. So, just a few pictures of some of the issues that we do have at Blackstone Primary School. Um you see one which there's a crack in the bathroom, one of the bathroom walls. um we periodically go through and coaul over that so that there's no sharp edges and you know it's safe for
029the students but that is something that really needs to be you know taken care of and upgraded and just done away with so that we don't have that. Um plus you know the girls might actually like to have a mirror in the bathroom that they don't currently have now. Um there's a couple of pictures of the roof. Um and it's hard to tell but the bottom picture there's actually a leak right there. So, we are currently waiting on um a patch to be installed there so we can at least mitigate that leak for right now. Um and we did about a year ago, I got a quote to actually do a restoration of the roof. My only hesitation with that is some of the underllayment and insulation is damaged from these leaks. And if you
030do a restoration, that doesn't get replaced. Um so a full replacement is really what's needed so we can make sure that that um underllayment and everything is solid for many years to come. Um and then you see a picture of the playground equipment and while the equipment itself is safe um the paint is is chipping off. It's flaking off. We've already rec covered it once. It is going to need to be upgraded. We've already put um with the use of extra funds a few new pieces out on our crew and Blackstone Poround and we have the same issue both locations with the paint chipping off the oldest pieces. Um so that is something in the next few years that is going to need to look at being upgraded. Um and all these projects don't necessarily
031have to be done year one. I mean you're looking at between one to five to maybe seven years that we need to start you know really thinking about all these different projects. but some are more are are higher priorities than others. Um, going into crew, um, you'll see some high numbers here. So, there again, their ADA upgrades are about $588,000, which primarily are geared really towards their bathrooms. Um, so some of that overlaps with the bathroom remodels that I have listed there. Um, they also really, all of our schools need a security vestibule, but we estimate a security vestibule there would be around $1.2 million cuz you would actually need to relocate the office. Um, so it's a little bit more of a costly endeavor. Um the HVAC replacement which is really it's our highest
032priority need that HVAC system is >> in horrible shape and you'll hear a video here in a minute as long as it will play. Um of just what we have had to deal with over the summer um and over the spring of last year with just pipes rupturing left and right with our HVAC system. And it is estimated to be around a $4 million replacement. So, it is not cheap, but it is desperately needed. Um, they also need some other cosmetic thing like ceiling tile replacements, continued painting. Um, we're going to said intercom system is going to be a priority at every school. So, that's in progress now. And then just the other um items I have listed there. Will it be play it from there? No. It may not. Um, but it was a
033picture. It was a video from where it was literally raining inside the building. Um, >> so you can go back to the other screen. >> Okay. Um, but the other picture on here is actually of the pipe that ruptured that caused the waterfall. And I mean, it's just they're just shearing off. They're old. They're 30 years old. PVC does not typically 100% last that long, especially in the high heat that we have in that attic space. That attic space can get upwards of 150°. Um, so over time, you know, that PVC has just is not holding up, but I mean, it has held for 30 years. So, it it is needed to be replaced as part of the HVAC replacement. We would have to replace all of that HVAC plumbing with it. Um, along with
034all the duck work. What would that PVC piping be replaced with? >> Um, well, I will say mine and Mr. Templeton's preference would be that we actually go with an HVAC system that is not in the attic. So, we could actually go back with PVC because we wouldn't have the extra heat and it would be sustainable. Um, one, it's just it is a little bit more of a cost effective measure. I mean, right now up in that ceiling, we have everything from brass to copper to PVC. We have all of it. Um, so it's not uniform throughout. That's some of the other issue as things have failed and they've replaced, you know, they've mixed different um media up there. So, you know, you could go back with PVC as long as we did not go
035back with units in the attic cuz that would cut down on the the heat that we have um and would allow that to last for >> many more years. Plus, you also have a lot more option with PVC now. >> I think I have it. I gave access for you. Okay. >> You can refresh that. >> You can refresh it and see. Look at you. >> On a Sunday, Dr. Martin, Dr. Gravely, myself, several of my custodians, we were there. Um, Mr. Well, Paige's foot was actually he was the one who took that video. Um, he was there. I mean, this was this was probably the worst one out of all of them. Um, I mean, it was truly pouring in the building. Um, it was quite quite the endeavor. Um, so it's just it's
036it's things like this that they are constantly dealing with. Um, Crew Primary has several other issues. I mean, they've got drainage issues within the ground period. Some of that we've been able to mitigate over the last several, you know, couple years. Um there is a foundation issue which so far we have been checking on it and our current fix that we've got is holding and we haven't seen any more additional movement. >> Has the board of supervisors been sent that video? >> No, they have not. But I'm sure they might see this presentation. So >> please that's presentation that we would have used presentation for Monday evening. So, >> oh, okay. >> I asked Heather to make sure she shared it with you and you'll get this copy as well. >> Please make sure. >>
037Exactly. >> Um, so going into Nway Intermediate School, there again, um, ADA upgrades, probably the one of the more costly schools just because of the age of the building around 713,000 in order to make that building ADA um, access fully ADA accessible. Um, now it is the most costly for a security vestibule um at about $3 million. Okay. No question. Okay. Just want to make sure. Um, and then you'll see on all three of the complex schools milling and paving. Um, we have several potholes that have unfortunately just gotten worse this week with the the snow that we have gotten. Um, so this this facility really needs to be completely mil and repaved um in order to just take care of our pothole situations, repaint the parking lot lines. You can actually see kind of
038where you're parking in certain places. Um, now the intermediate school at some point over the next I'm going to say 3 to 5 years is going to need a roof replacement. Um there are a few leaks, but the current leaks are all dealt with are all part of old ventilation systems that are up on the roof that are no longer used. Um so as we've been finding those, we have actually been cutting those off so that you can't one water can't get in them. So hopefully that'll mitigate that. But the total roof by itself is going to need to be replaced in the next several years. Um it was last replaced in 2004. So it is getting very close to that end of life. I believe it was 25 years. So we are getting to
039that point where it is it is getting end of life. Um they will also need at some point to look at an HVAC replacement. Um their system is relatively old. Um it has VAV boxes which are variable airflow boxes. um where some of them aren't fully working, some of them are stuck open, some of them are stuck closed. Uh we've replaced a couple of them. So, that will need to be something in the next several years that we'll need to be looking at. And then flooring replacement. And this is about the only school I put this on. U mainly because, and I don't know if you'll be able to tell in the picture I have, if you walk down the hall and in some of the classrooms, some of them are worse than others, you
040see some ripple in the tile. And we found out when we replaced the carpet out of the when we removed the carpet out of the library that the concrete that they put down when they last remodeled, they didn't really level it. So over time, it has started to warp and wayne. Um, and granted, we're able to with wax be able to to, you know, make sure that it's it's flush and you don't feel it when you walk, but you can see it, especially when the light hits it, right? Um, and then other things they need additional ceiling tile replacement, painting. They're also getting a new intercom system. Um, and then bathroom and playground. >> May I add one thing for the ceiling towels for them just so that they're aware? So, some of it is
041cosmetic in the sense of, as you can see up here, this is a new water spot we just found this evening. Um, so that's the leak on the roof somewhere and this has got a lot of technology. So, they have to be replaced every time because if not, we're going to run into mold and mildew. However, at the intermediate school back in September, maybe it's not just the ceiling tile. and they get into the tile. We had a situation at the intermediate school where we had to get the students out of the classroom and section it off so nobody could go in because the structures holding it up had started to collapse and the roof was the the ceiling tile part was coming in and they had to go back in and anchor it up
042and things like that. So, it's not just ceiling tile. Yes, ceiling towel is a problem, but because of the mold and the mildew and all of the leaks and things, but it's also the infrastructure that's in there that's holding it up in a building like the intermediate school was on the second floor that it was that room and I think it was one other room that we looked at that was a possibility that it was I mean it was literally >> Yeah, the the J hook holding them into the the ceiling had failed. Um, and I'll say a few years ago, we did all the ceiling tile in the hallways and in the cafeteria at the intermediate school. And when they did those, we did they they fixed any issues that they found along the
043way and re-anchored where they needed to. Um, so that is one that we have to keep continuously monitor to make sure that we're not seeing that in any of the other classrooms. Um, so that if we do, we can go ahead and address it as quickly as possible. Um, but it is where the hooks that are holding the grid in place are starting to fail because they're old. Um, I don't know when they were put in, but they're old. So, you know, that is one of the major concerns there is because that could be that could be a major safety issue. So, it's something that we have to constantly inspect on there. And just a couple pictures here. One is of the roof. You'll see that we've started to get some of the discoloration on
044the roof. Um, and that's from where water is ponding here and there when we get rain. Of course, I was up on the roof when it was a little icy. Um, when I was taking that picture, so it was a little wet up there. And then the other, so it's kind of hard to tell. I tried to get down as low and tried to get the light on it where it kind of ripples down the hallway. Um, so they really do at some point need um at least their flooring kind of shored up and fixed and um, you know, just make it look a lot better and a lot nicer. Um, and so our custodians do a decent job during the summer of trying to make sure there's enough wax on it where it's level,
045you don't feel it when you walk on it. Um, but as the school year goes and that wax wears down, then you start to see those ripples a little bit more. uh Nawway Middle School um there again 88 upgrades there's just not as much around 483,000 um now security vestibial there would cost approximately around 2.3 million um and that that's all dependent because they have some movable walls but we also don't know what the floor conditions like when you try to move those movable walls as to figure act figuring out exactly how to reconfigure that front space. So, that could be a little bit less, could be a little bit more. Um, they're again milling and paving. They've got a couple potholes out front that we have filled multiple times, but I noticed instead after
046us plowing snow this week, that one of those potholes that we filled has a new crack in it. So, I really look for that to start coming out um probably soon as we get more snow or more water or more anything. Um, they're also going to need a roof replacement. Their roof replacement's about $1.5 million. It's not that large of a roof. Um, they have a couple of spots that are starting to to wear. So, I would say we probably have a good potential 5 to 7 years left on their roof before we need to look at that one. Um, and then ceiling tile replacement. And for them, their issue with ceiling tile stems from a chilled water pipe that runs through the building. Um, and that chilled water pipe is the original chilled water
047pipe from when the building was built in 1982. Um, and it's wrapped with a special insulation so that as it condensates, it doesn't come through that insulation. Well, that insulation's old. It's deteriorating. So, we're starting to see drips and leaks, especially when the HVAC the air is actually on. When it's heat on, you don't see it. When the air conditioning is running is when you see it. So, you're constantly seeing wet tiles that are constantly having to be replaced because of this chilled water pipe that just needs to be reinsulated. And we I'm actually hoping because it is only estimated around 80,000 that we might be able to do that as a summer project. Um and go ahead and knock that one out of the way. Um additional painting intercom system. Um high school's going
048to get the first one, middle school will be second as soon as the high schools is installed. Um here's just a couple of pictures. One is of the the pavement out front. Um that's the one pothole that we've continuously filled and it just keeps on coming back. The one is of the roof and you'll see that dark spot. Um there's actually a roof drain there and it's supposed to go down towards the roof drain, but now we have a little pit that's about a foot from the roof drain where it's just kind of ponding. Um and they have to go up there every once in a while and sweep that off and make sure that that's just not sitting there. Um high school there again upgrades. Even though this is the newest building built in
0491995, there are still some ADA upgrades that need to be done. Um, security vestibule here estimated about $725,000. Um, milling and paving. Now, theirs takes up the most because they have the most amount of parking space. Um, so about 600,000 for that. It's about a I think 1.1 million for the entire complex to do milling and paving. Um, elevator upgrades. I mean, that's just kind of routine maintenance that we need to start looking at. We already do routine maintenance, but every once in a while you really need to kind of upgrade some of the the guts of the the system that move the elevator. Um, so we're looking at trying to just estimate kind of how much that's going to cost. Um, ceiling tower replacement. Um, painting. So, they're getting the intercom system first. It's
050already on order. Um, waiting for them to get all the parts so they can get it as an install date and get out here and get that installed. And then bathroom remodels. you'll see a picture of the bathroom and nobody was in the bathroom when I took it. So, just want to make sure everybody's clear on that. But I do want everybody to understand that, you know, I'm 5 foot even and I can see directly over top of those doors at 5 foot even and I can tell you that I would not want to go in that bathroom and use the bathroom knowing that there's just a lack of privacy. Um, so I this is something that really I would like to to really tackle and make sure that, you know, we can really redo
051these bathrooms nice, make them look nice, and really be able to allow students to have at least some semblance of privacy whenever they need to, you know, actually be in the restroom. Um, schoolboard office there again, I mean, that was part of our ADA study. There are ADA upgrades that are needed there. It does need a new septic system. I think once a quarter we have to have end up having somebody come out there and address the septic system because it just is constantly having issues. Um and then one of the things we have been looking at because I mean if you've ever been there on a busy day, it is not easy sometimes to get in and out of that parking lot if you got people coming from both directions. Um so we've looked
052at you know trying to add like a little side parking lot and just repave it and try to make it a little bit more easier access for people especially whenever it is a busy day for for traffic in and out. Um, Gluick Stadium. This was included in our ADA. Um, it was included in our facility use study several years ago because it is offsite. All the other athletic stuff is included um with the school stuff that's on site there. Again, 88 upgrades about $228,000. Now, it needs all new locker rooms and all new bathroom facility. What's there? We've had to fix the roof where it's caved in here and there. It is it is truly it it needs to be replaced like bulldo and start over. Um upgrade the concession stand if they want to
053continue trying to do concessions during ball games. Um and then there's some other things at Glubic that you know we would like to be like to have done but a lot of that stems with the the 80 upgrade ADA upgrades which is making sure that the stands are accessible for those who you know either on wheelchairs or for those who might even have a baby stroller. Um just making that accessible for for those. Um so just as some notes and reminders, I don't have a lot up here. Um I said the governor's budget does drop on December 17th. Um we do have our first um public hearing on budget in January. So we'll do a little presentation prior to that to be able to let people know kind of what we know um from what
054was in the governor's budget. But I will say, you know, the last time we had a governor, you know, propose a budget and then we had a new governor come in office, that was the year that the govern the budget was severely delayed. Um, and I firmly believe we're going to see, you know, the outgoing governor proposed one thing and the incoming governor is going to want some changes. So, I think it's going to be a very up and down year with budget as far as what's going to be the end result. Um, once you know they come to hopefully some sort of conclusion and agreement. Any additional comments or questions? >> Questions? >> Thank you very much. >> Thank you. Division and school discipline data update. Dr. Lewis. All right. So, good evening. >>
055Good evening, >> Chair Mr. Abbott. Um, Dr. Martin, school board members. So, this evening, I'm just going to be sharing some data from September to November. Uh, remember I came in August and I shared some data. So, I'm going to give you an update. Um, so where we are now, and Dr. Greatly, you can click for me. I don't need to. Um, so where we are now, if you'll notice, we have approximately 455 discipline incidents and sequences and consequences that we've given out, but it's down from where we were last year. Last year, this time we were at 531. Um so we are seeing a decrease in our um discipline infractions. So total for Blackstone they're at 63 crew 50 NIS 103 um intermediate intermediate school 103 middle school 111 and high school 128. And
056so if you just kind of look at the numbers some of them are actually still the same at this time of the year between September and November. If you look at crew and the middle school, they're still the same, but there is some differences in the high school, which you'll notice it's it was 258, now we're at 128. So, we are seeing some um reduction in our discipline in fractions. So we do attribute this to the reduction to our stakeholders being involved, our school board, um school level administrators, school staff, um teachers, admin, um and of course that's the modeling the expectations, reinforcing the expectations, holding students accountable, and of course including our parents in that process. So So now I'm going to go by month. So for September um there were 98 discipline infractions.
057Blackstone had 15, Karma had 12, intermediate 13, middle school 25, and the high school 33. So that's what we had in September. Then for October, we had a total of 230. And for whatever reason, we notice even with our data last year that October is that month where we seem to have more discipline infractions, more attendance concerns. So we had 230 in October. Blackstone had 36, crew had 20, intermediate school had 44, middle school had 58, and the high school had 72. For November, we had a total of um 127. And you know, November is a shorter month, but it was 127 um consequences and and sanctions that we had. Blackstone had 12, crew 18, intermediate school 46, middle school 28, high school 23. The next set of slides that you're going to see is
058by the categories and by schools. Um, so what I've done is kind of broken down the the discipline infractions into the categories of behavior that impedes academic progress for students. This category looks at the non-compliance that's happening in classes, excessive talking, disrespect, um, being put out of class, walking, not going to class, things of that nature. Um also behaviors that endanger yourself or others which would look at threats, assaults, striking a a staff member, um instigating violence, aggressive behavior, vaping is also in that um particular section. Um and then the next um area is behaviors that occur with safety concerns and that includes your fighting, throwing objects, shoving um and also bless bus um destru distractions. Um so by school, so the first school is Blackstone and remember they had 63. Um and so the
059behaviors that impede the progress of students was 26. The behavior that endangers um self or others was 20 was 26 also and behaviors for a safety concern was 11. Um then we have crew primary and for them remember they had 50. So behaviors that impact their academic progress um is 19 and danger and self others is 21 and then for safety concerns is 10. Note intermediate school I remember had 103. Um so the behaviors that impact their academic progress is 67. Um behavior that endanger self and others is 28. Behaviors that are safety concerns are eight. Um then for the middle school remember we had 111. So behaviors that impact our academic progress of students is 74. Um endangering self or others is 28 and behaviors of of concern safety concerns is is nine. So,
060if you'll notice, the higher is the behavior that impacts our our student progress um for our schools. And lastly, but not least is the high school in their categories. Is behavior that impacts our academics is 93. Behavior that endanger self or others is 29. And behaviors of safety concern is six. So, like I said, that area where we have that non-compliance, um, talking back, disrespect, that's that academic that's impeding our academics, behavior that's impeding our academics. So, next steps. So, what we're looking at doing is we do have a behavioral specialist that's coming on in January. We're excited to finally get her. She finally is able to come to us. She will start January the 5th. her primary goal will be able to work be to work with each school with strategies to support students
061that are not doing well, teachers that need extra support. Um, so she's going to be housed at the intermediate school, but we're we're really really strongly looking forward to her coming on and being that extra support that we need in order to put strategies in place, not only just for students, but for our staff members as well. Um, she would also be someone that would meet with parents um to be available for those meetings also. Um, we're also adding a fulcrum counselor. So, there are mental health counselors that come in and parents have to of course agree for their child center or daughter to be seen by them, but we are adding one for the primary school. So, we currently have one that's shared between Blackstone and crew. So, now we will have one at
062Crew and Blackstone and still have our fulcrum counselor that's at the complex. And at the complex, not only do we have a fulcrum just a counselor, we also have a behavioral guided um counselor as well. So he supports students that need that more support with behaviors. >> What is a fulcrum counselor? I know what a fulcrum is, >> but I'm trying to >> So there probably different than my understanding. Well, there are counselors that they're a mental health um agency and so they focus on things that might be going on with the student whether it's their uh anxiety, depression. So, they're our mental health counseling agency. Yes, sir. Um we have um Crossroads that also is is a counseling agency. So, but Fulham actually is in our building. We did have crossroads but unfortunately the
063um budget was cut so we only have fulcom in our in our buildings now. So so but it they do have a large population of students that participate with their services. So because of that um we've been to be able to fund another counselor at for each primary school. The goal is that if we put a counselor at each primary school, we can hopefully work on the behaviors at the the smaller level, at the lower level, so that when they get to the intermediate school, middle school, you know, you won't see as much of the behavior. So, that's that's our goal. And so, we're we're looking forward to that. And our folk um representatives, they are working on a counselor. It is hard to get one in the middle of the year um but they
064are strongly working on getting us one as soon as possible. Um our administrators are are being encouraging um they're reviewing their well they're being encouraged to review their data um monthly even at our principal and AP meetings we're discussing their data they're sharing their data we're talking amongst ourselves say hey what are you doing what what are you not doing that way we share strategies um to make sure that we're working towards reducing our discipline sections um admin are contacting parents and requesting that they come come in for conferences, not just phone conferences, but come in for conferences. Um they're doing observations to kind of pay attention to to see what maybe we can put in place, share with the teacher, share with the student um to put in place to support the student. Um
065they are having individual meetings with students. They're encouraging the counselors, getting them signed up for fulcrum. We look forward to our behavior specialists also supporting some of those students. Um they are creating behavior plans. Not sure if you're aware, but if a student with a disability, um, we can do what we call a functional behavioral assessment and put in a behavior intervention plan. Um, but it's not just for students with disabilities. So, you can actually go into our our platform that we use for our students with disabilities and have a behavioral intervention plan created for a student that is not a student with a disability. So, our our staff, our admin are using that platform to create plans for students that have some of those extensive um behaviors. Um what's like I said, parents are
066encouraged to come in and not just call in. We're actually want parents to come in, sit down, have a conversation, let's explain, let's make sure we're all on the same page to of course support the student. Um admin are also encouraged to be consistent, vigilant, um and of course making sure that the the goal is that they enforce our student code of conduct sta standards that we have in place. Um just to kind of give you an update because I did speak about it um when I spoke in August. Um but our reset academy is is still moving strong. We're we're tweaking as we need to tweak. I'm also in the process of going to um visit some programs. I'm going to start with Charlottesville and I'll do that in January just to kind of
067see if I can get some things that we can bring back to of course increase and develop our program more. Um but our reset academy, we have had 13 students participate. We still have five in the program. Um remember Reset is not year long. Um so they come for 20 days, 25. The team decides how many days they come. Sometimes I'm a little bit like, "No, we need to do more days." Um, sometimes they're like, "No, let's do less." Um, sometimes we've had students come and they've done so well at reset that we start to transition them back um to kind of see how they do. But we do still have five students that are working through that program right now. For our alternative school, we have had 10 to participate and we still have
068six in the program. Um, alternative looks a little different because remember alternative is is in the afternoon. So they come from 4:00 to 7:20. Um so it looks a little different. So when we meet we do discuss which program would be best for the student. Reset is during the day from 9:30 and they leave at 3. So we kind of discuss which program may you know give our student the best support as well as academic as well as um to help deter the behaviors from continuing to happen. Um, so in closing, we continue to hold our students and our our staff, our our parents, everyone accountable um by disagregating our data, identifying the areas of support and the areas that we need to improve. Um, fostering safety, respect, productive learning environments across all of our
069schools. Um, and I've also have this in here. I already told you all about me going to visit the other program. And what I'm also going to do is um work on a document procedural manual for both of the programs so that when we present we do have things in place but have an official um procedural manual for both programs. So I'm going to work with um Charlottesville as well as other um school divisions that have programs that are in place. Any questions? Thank you all for your attention. >> I have one. Excuse me. the uh numbers that you quote that's for all students correct both uh those that might have a disability of some type. It it that's those numbers are irrespective of it's just that if you're a student and you fail to
070perform in a certain area and you are required for one of these consequences that's how you get to be a number. Yes, sir. >> Thank you. >> Now, what I will do next next presentation is I can put in um the difference between >> No, I I just wanted to make sure I understood >> that the numbers >> we weren't uh mitigating or trying to hide those >> set of circumstances that somebody that doesn't experience it from a dayto-day basis understands completely. I one one last question. Uh this year we I'm my memory says that we have put two students on long-term suspension. >> Are they part of the uh program at the alternative school? >> Mr. I would ask that we not um that could identify those potential students in this situation. Let's um
071>> that's why I didn't use a name. I just >> Thank you. >> My boss. >> Okay. >> I know there were two but uh >> answer >> just just to they were involved in our >> and I guess Dr. Martin can share that in in close session too. So >> Mhm. Yeah, I can share that with you and Okay. >> Thank you. Thank you. >> All right. Thank you for your time. >> Thank you. Thank you. >> School safety audit report. Dr. Greger. >> Evening school members. Dr. Martin Ottawa employees and guests. Tonight I will share the update for the 202526 school safety report. The Virginia Center for School Campus Safety in partnership with the Virginia Department of Parental Justices Services mandates this process be done every 3 years. As you know, not does
072it every year. Um, in addition to the daily walkthroughs, school resource officers complete a monthly building walkthrough checklist as well. The audits were done on three days, October 13th, 15th, and 17th. We started at ANTC and then went into uh Crew Primary, then to Blackstone, and then we finished at the complex. Each team included school administrators, maintenance staff, custodians, school nurses, the fire department, the sheriff's office, Nawi County Emergency Service Coordinator, a parent representative, and where it's appropriate, a student would attend. We are grateful for the continued support from all the departments within and outside of NCPS. The insights and perspectives contributed by the team members during the meetings and walkthroughs were invaluable. While I can't share specific details, key areas identified during this audit include updated lighting, that's kind of common. We're continually updating
073that. Fence repairs, updated internal radios and bus radios have been updated, security camera updates, some of which are already scheduled, and procedural improvements. I'd like to also special thanks as always, Miss Meyer and Mr. Templeton and their team for probably addressing and completing the tasks that were listed in the report. Any questions? >> Thank you. You >> our governor's school report. Miss Duncan report. Mr. >> I missed one. Whoops. There it is. The ENTC report. Mr. snow law. >> I will be very brief. The snow has had an impact. >> Yes, it is. >> Uh we had good uh out uh uh support at the Amelia Career Fair. Uh as you all know, it's a joint venture with Amelia County. Uh there was a cosmetology competition that was to have taken place, but that has
074been postponed for a later date. But uh again the snow. So uh but they're doing great things out there. And uh we had a our last meeting a a good presentation uh uh from the uh building trades uh teacher and it was really interesting to see his uh excitement and can do attitude about uh making things happen, finding a way to make things happen. So that's it. Thank you. Now, Miss Duncan. >> Yay. You report it. >> Then you can go to the CC. >> Yes, sir. Um, please forgive me. I don't recall the the meeting date for the next one. Um, but what I can tell you is a simple call to the schoolboard office will answer that question. But but for real, >> the website, too. >> Yeah. and it is on the
075website and I do want to applaud not um because on our website if if you go and you it's easily accessible information about the local CAC it's not only easily accessible but it checks every single box that is required by Virginia regulations for reporting. Um but some of those things are you have to have accessible for who is in the CACK and a way to contact and when your meetings are and um if you look at other divisions which I will you know I'm not going to call them out some are not accessible and some are non-existent. So I did want to applaud those within Nawway for making sure that these things are there and that it is accessible. That's all. >> Very good. Thank you. >> Student liaison report. >> Good evening. Okay. So,
076we have a college trip coming up and it's to UTI, Universal Tech Technical Institute, and it's scheduled for sometime in January. And this college offers hands-on programs like automotive, diesel, welding, robotics, anything like that. Our band has their winter concert coming up and that's scheduled for December 16th at 700 p.m. in the Nawway County Public School complex auditorium. They will also be selling hot chocolate during this concert. The Nawway High School is going to host a learn a lunch and learn with a former Nawway High School graduate and this will focus on highlighting women in STEM and potential STEM careers and experiences. And so the gear up they are going to host the STEM presentation in January. And this presentation is titled Cosmic Adventures Mobile Planetarium and provides astronomy lessons and instruction for all ages.
077And this is an all day event with multiple different groups coming in to participate throughout the whole day. clubs are starting back up in January for every single Friday and everyone's excited for that because we have not had them in a very long time. And then honor society this evening we went and the people who sold chocolate bars in the previous months, we went shopping for the toys for tots and we successfully helped the family for Christmas and donated the rest to others. So those will be dropped off tomorrow. >> All right. The principal advisory committee is still hosting the Polar Express night for Friday the 19th at 6 PM. And then this is new. We have been doing an SRP video. So our resource officer, Mr. Sawyer, he's we've been in the process of
078a standard response protocol video with the help of eight of our students. And we will be presenting this video in our January board meeting for the approval of the video. and we're going to be recognizing the students that are in this video and our students have worked really hard on this video and we are all hoping that y'all enjoy it. And then along with the video, those students, they're going to be involved with a reunification training on December 22nd that's hosted here. For sports, all of our fall sports have ended and winter sports have begun and they've played multiple scrimmages and they've done well, but the snow has messed up all of their regular season games. So, Hopefully they get them in soon. But the boys basketball team has a full roster for both their
079JV and varsity. And for the first time in over 3 years, the girls basketball has both a JV and a varsity. >> So that's exciting. The varsity girls and boys basketball team. They're going to be competing in a James River District versus Dogwood District tournament on Saturday, January the 20th at Longwood University. And then wrestling has seven student athletes on the roster and is scheduled to compete in three invitationals this year before their first district match. And lastly, we have indoor track and both of their first meets have been cancelled due to the weather, but they've still been practicing over a month and hopefully their next one will be ready to go. So that's all I have today. >> Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank our superintendence report, Dr. Martin. So, um,
080we're getting ready to close out the 25 year and start with 26, but I want to start with expressing appreciation to our maintenance team, our transportation, and our custodial teams. Um, their work clearing the parking lot, sidewalks, and just the areas across the school division. Um, which allowed us to open schools safely after all the lovely snow that we've had. Um it doesn't look like it's going anywhere anytime soon either. So, you know, we'll see what happens tonight. Um one of the things is we never take the responsibility of determining school closures lightly. Um, a lot of people think that we just make a quick decision on that and we try to communicate in a very timely manner with our families and our staff. Our goal is to always let our staff know first, of
081course, you know, and then let our families know so that staff, they're aware of it first. Um, student and staff safety is our priority when we make a decision. Um, and we may we really aim to make that decision thoughtfully and in a timely manner. I can tell you cabinet has been on a phone call every day since day. Last night I was um I left. We were planning on opening on time with no no cons about it. Um we I got out of here. So I'm going to ride the roads just to to double check too. Jay had already ridden them. Carrie and Shandra had ridden in areas too. Um and I went out and I was like there's a couple of spots. And then with the weather, and that's the reason why we
082decided on a two-hour delay today, just as a safety precaution. Um, we don't want one person to have an accident out there. So, um, we don't like 2-hour delays. We try to stay away from 2-hour delays as much as possible. Um, but we just had to do it today just to be on the safe side with the temperatures. Um, and make sure that people could get here safely. Um, please note to our families that we always try to make our decisions before 6:00 p.m. in the evening. So, if you have not heard from us by 6:00 p.m. in the evening, then plan on coming to school. >> Coming on time. >> The next time you would hear from us is before 6:00 a.m. in the morning. Um, that allows us to make a timely decision
083before transportation gets out on the road. Um, I can tell you right now, I'm sure the question is, do we have school tomorrow? Yes, we have school tomorrow, but cabinet will probably be on a phone call at >> 5:30 in the morning. Um, Charlotte does a great job of getting us all on our cell phones and merging the call in so we can all participate as we're driving down the road and trying to figure out, okay, is this safe or not. So, I really do want families and staff to know we do not take this decision and make it lightly. We really look at all of the the elements. We're out there, Heather and I were out there with custodians and maintenance um getting snow off sidewalks and working with them and putting ice melt
084down. And I cannot thank them enough for the work that they did to make sure that everything was clear on our school grounds um to get people here. Um I would also like to invite you to join us on December 22nd. Avery mentioned it. It's our active shooter and reunification drill. It's a training that's being conducted in partnership with our local law enforcement and community response agencies. It's important opportunity for us to strengthen safety preparedness across the division. So, we have students that are participating in it with us. I want to say that um Sergeant Sawyer told me that 50 students had expressed interest in doing it. I know he's gotten permission slips back for maybe half of those already. We have staff that have volunteered to help. Um, and this is the first time
085we're adding the reunification piece to it. They've done the active shooter piece for it, but we're adding the reunification because that is a huge um, process. We never want to be in this situation, but we want to make sure that we have processes and procedures in place if we have to be in there. So, I encourage you to join us that day. U, we'll probably start up here about 9:00 a.m. and run through the whole thing. We will post a message on Facebook because you will see police presence up here. you will see ambulance, fire, and people get alarmed. School is not in session, but we thought it would be a good day to practice um admin team will know where they're stationed at and where we go in those processes and refine that process
086so that we can ensure that parents know because in a situation like that, we do not need parents flooding the school. We need them to head to the reunification site so that we can ensure that everything is covered here. And then we'll be putting those plans out for our um families so they know what to do. Of course, safety and security plans are confidential their stay in the file, but we do want them to know what the reunification plans are in those situations. Um we are also hosting our town hall cocoa and cookies on next Wednesday the 17th. It'll be here in the mini auditorium from 4:00 to 7:30. Staff, families, and community members are encouraged to stop by for just open dialogue. all central office cabinet will be here. Um they can ask questions,
087they can share concerns with us one on- one. We're available to listen or they can just simply stop by and say hello. Um enjoy some cocoa cider and cookies with us. Um just just so we have that opportunity to to hear anything that we may need to address and and look at and work on. So feel free if you would like to stop in and serve some cocoa or get some cocoa. you know, if you show up, we might put you to work. Just letting you know. Um, so Tuesday, the accountability and accreditation results were released statewide, and I'm pleased to share encouraging progress across the school division. Um, although there is still work that we have to do, we understand what our focus areas are, and our data is reflecting momentum that we have
088in a lot of areas. Uh, so five of our four of our five schools are fully accredited. Nawway Middle School is conditionally accredited due to its ongoing federal status as a comprehensive school improvement. Uh yeah, comprehensive school in need of improvement. They were unable to exit that this year. There was no option for them to exit that. So that was the only status that they could get. Um but I am really proud to report that when that report came in, it showed that the middle school had demonstrated significant gains in mathematics. expected. >> Yes, they had significant gains in math performance that was noted since they first went in that those gains have happened. Um reflecting that the right work is occurring in the building. Um we are looking for gains in not only science,
089we have strong people in place in those classrooms and in our reading this year with the new HM reading program um and the work that we're doing there and the vowels data and the testing. So, I can only see them having even more momentum this year. Um, under the new performance framework, Nawway High School, as I shared with you this evening, was a distinguished rating. And Crew Primary has to be commended as well as they were identified as on track. So, to both of those, kudos to both of those schools. Uh, Blackstone Primary and Nawway Middle School were classified as offtrack, but close both are close to meeting criteria for the next performance level. they are very close to the next score point. Um just a few more tweaks we can get over that that
090hump that we are and we can move forward with them. So they are really working hard in those buildings. Um Nawway Intermediate School was designated as a needs intensive support. I will tell you they were dropped a level. They would have been considered off track but they dropped a level because they are a targeted school for improvement. that was a TSI designation caused them automatically to be dropped down a level. Um so any school that was identified as TSI or ATSI additional targeted support and interventions or targeted they have to they're automatically dropped a level. Um and intermediate school this is tied to the outcomes of students with disabilities. So that is the focus area for that school. Um is that we want to ensure that the outcomes for our students with disabilities that they're
091getting what they need. But in order for them to get what what they need, students with disabilities are general education students first and foremost and core solid instruction has to be where it's supposed to be. And that fixes a lot of the problems. I know Dr. Smith and Dr. Foster are working very intensely with their schools um staff to ensure that we have procedures in place to help move the building forward and move our work forward. Um so I just wanted to add that um that they automatically had to be dropped down the level that was a requirement in this uh framework. Across all buildings we see positive movement, targeted interventions and alignment and instructional practices. And I can say we are moving in the right direction. We do have work to do, but we
092have things in place and it's allowing us to move in the right direction. Um, again, I say this each month, but I cannot say it enough that our staff are exceptional. They are wonderful. They do a fantastic job. They are dedicated to their work. They have a commitment to Nawway County Public Schools. They take pride in their work. And there's a sustained effort on behalf of students that are driving the the improvements that we see. and we celebrate as we go ahead and we keep looking for areas that we need to improve upon. So, this is the last meeting before the Christmas holiday. And so, I do want to wish each of you, our community, our staff, a merry Christmas and a joyful holiday season. I look forward to great work as we continue into
093>> Thank you, Dr. Martin. uh information items. The January 26 27 uh VSBA capital conference is scheduled for Richmond. Uh included in that as one of the days is the uh January 27th uh new school board chair and vice chair orientation at Richmond downtown. and January 28th plan for a work session uh at the school board office. Now we'll go to other Mr. Row. >> I'd just like to say happy holidays to everyone. >> Mr. Wilson, I'd like to say happy holidays to everyone and I still say we're getting ready to deal with our budget. Yes, >> I would love to see the community involved. >> Yes, indeed. >> Thank you, Mr. Duncan. >> Thank you. Um, I just wanted to say that I really appreciated all the work that's been happening this year. Um,
094I feel like we've been on a good track. I'm enjoying the track we're on. I'm seeing changes, not simply from a schoolboard perspective, but as a parent perspective as well. and I very much appreciate that from all the staff members. Um there's no one staff member that's more important than the other and I appreciate that. Um I wish everybody a very merry Christmas, happy holidays and the truly the best new year. Um and help make the new year in the school the best it can be by you being in it. >> Yes, indeed. Thank you, Mr. Outlaw. >> Yes. Uh as Dr. Martin just mentioned, uh Christmas is fast approaching and uh this is a a very special time of the year and I find it totally appropriate that we name this event for what
095it is, Christmas break, not winter break. With that being said, I would like to make a motion that from this year and going forward that we call Christmas what it is, Christmas break. Is there a second? I'll second it for discussion. I don't mean to step on anybody's toes when I say this. We've got two Baptist preachers in here on this board and this is Christmas. It's Yeah, like like what happened when we voted on this before. Yes, I am a Baptist minister, but I also respect all faiths. And this break covers Hanukkah, it covers Quanza, covers Christmas and New Year's. And that's that's what I said last time. It just it's not just Christmas. And I and I don't disagree with that. >> Yeah, >> I I fully understand. But for hundreds of years,
096over 200 years, this was Christmas. We have all acknowledged sitting here that it is Christmas. So, let's call it what it is. I respect, you know, the the thoughts of it. Um, some time ago, because I was very much aligned with you 110%. It's Christmas. It should not be called anything else. And then, however you you wish to choose, one might choose to word it. I really got to thinking about, and forgive me if I offend anybody, that's not my intent, but I'm going to share something in a purpose of explaining why I would not support this. When Jesus came and and when God, the creation, and everything, it was to give us a choice. We have a choice to follow. We have a choice to not follow. There's no He's not going to make
097you do something that we don't want to do. It is a choice. And thus I feel like if we mandate something to be called Christmas then we are mandating everybody to follow Christmas and that's not how Jesus would represent that to us. And so I don't think it would be appropriate for me to mandate that others follow my chosen belief. Uh, I'm going to make a just a brief recommendation instead of calling it a Christmas break or a winter break. We know it's a holiday break and then wish everyone the best in all of those areas that people celebrate. >> Call it winter break. We have a spring break and we have a winter break. >> So that kind of aligns it. >> Well, leaves out anything else. It's a winter break in the winter
098and it's a spring break in the spring. And and I don't disagree that it's been called that here. Uh my grandkids go to school, they call it Easter break. The spring break is called Easter break. Now, but often times that break does not >> coincide with Easter. Could be quite a bit either side. >> It may or may not. It's the all of those other others or people that celebrate the others. Quanza, Christmas, Hanukkah. I I don't see why if it would be inclusive if you listed all of those. We we got to remember it's still it's a public school and that's why we have it called spring break. That's why we have it called winter break. And I I understand Mr. Outlaw and I agree with it if this was a private school. But
099this is still a public school. But we've got this thing in this country that is fast falling away. That is a thing called tradition. And we've got many, many good traditions in this country and we're letting them fall away. >> We need to call for a vote. >> Motion in a second. >> Mr. Abbott, you have a motion in a second. >> Seconded it. But I can move the second. >> Well, we can vote any motion on the floor. So, we need to vote. >> Yeah, let's Okay. Uh there is a motion and a second on the floor. All in favor signify by saying I >> I >> opposed. Nay. >> It appears that the nays have it. >> Other I will um be very brief. Uh, I believe we still need to reach out
100to the board of supervisors to have that joint board work session. I believe also that we need to uh reinforce the notification of the close of Bville Elementary to those two organizations that currently are occupying space there. so that there is no doubt of the 30-day notice. We also need to as a board determine or develop the methods that we're going to use to provide our superintendent with the midyear review. And on a personal note, I want to thank everyone for their uh understanding and uh know that I will be moderately incapacitated uh for a period of time, but I will do everything that I can do to meet all my obligations. >> Yes, indeed. >> May I have the closed meeting resolution? >> Yes, sir. Pursuant to section 2.2-3711A 2-3711A of the Code of
101Virginia. I move that the board convene in a closed meeting for the purpose of discussing the following specific matters. One, the consideration of personnel 4 a 16 appointments, five substitute teachers, one custodian part-time, three food service workers part-time, one substitute custodian, one assistant cheerleading coach, one substitute food worker, one food service worker full-time, two instructional assistants, and one health PE. B informational three resignations and pursuant to section 2.2-3711 A3 the discussion or consideration of real property. >> Motion I have a second. >> Second discussion hearing none. All in favor signify by saying I.