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I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

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May I have roll call?

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the agenda. Madam Chair, I move to approve the agenda as presented this evening. I'll

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second it. Thank you. All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Motion carries.

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I would like to introduce

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the school board voted earlier in the year to have a student representative to the school

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board. And we have two, but only one of them was able to make it tonight. So I would

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like to introduce you all to our student school board representative. Please come

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This is Autumn Patton from Shinkateg High School.

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Well, your time on the school board should serve you well. Thank you.

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Hey, next up is the STEM program.

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Ma'am, you can lay it over here. Yes ma'am.

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Good evening. I have the pleasure of

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introducing Nando Middle School, some of Nando Middle School's STEM students.

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And I just would like to say that it's typical that a principal stands up here

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introduces all the great things. You know how they say you can be guilty by

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association? I'm so proud to be the principal of Nando Amiddle Cook because I

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get to be great by association. So I present to you three of our great

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students and their great STEM teacher, Ms. Joy Phillips. I have Ms. Kaelin

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Drummond, Ms. Karen Burrell, and Mr. I.J. Parker and they are going to take it

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Good evening everyone. As you said, my name is I.J. Parker. I'm

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eighth grader at Nando Amiddle School. Firstly, I want to talk to you

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guys about a cool program called Scratch. It's up there. Scratch is an amazing creative

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output for kids and adults everywhere. It basically allows you to animate your drawings

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and even make movies. In this case, my friend has made kind of like a story game. And coding

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in real life can be very valuable. It can be a way to get a job. And many software

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engineers use it to make websites and web platforms and what not and a perfect

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example is Google and even your phone you have to have code for it to run so I

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think it's really important for that to you know happen and I want to kind of

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showcase my friend Kalin's game so this is if you will turn your attention to

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the screen I will it's

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kind of have some dialogue and the game is about

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about this fairy and whatnot. So all

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of this is using drawings and code and these

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code blocks that allow the animation to happen.

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You are given a quest and you

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know you have to go around and find stuff and we did this for our school

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projects so I feel like it's pretty impressive.

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It does you to put in your

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name and you submit it and then it will call you that name for the rest of

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the game using these little blocks.

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Scratch can also be kind of like the

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stepping stone for many popular game developers.

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Like if you ever heard of Minecraft, Roblox,

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this is possibly what they've started with

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and what drive them to produce better video games.

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the video game, Karen is gonna share

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about how we took the coding

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and kinda stepped it up to the three.

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You'll do fine, come on.

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Hello?

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Good evening.

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My name is Corinne and I'm going to talk to you a little bit about a project we did

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So we took the coding, we learned on scratch and we applied it to a 3D printing site called

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Tinkercad.

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And basically what we did there is we had like a grid and we would like place shapes

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on it and then we would send it to the printer and it would print it.

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And so part of our project was to design posters and fires to sell our products.

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And this was one about you could connect the project onto the cup,

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and then keep a snack in there as you're drinking your water.

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And this was a really cool idea. This was a phone stand.

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This is a phone stand and the first one, the person who did this, the first one she did

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was too small.

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You can only have your phone on the, you can only have a like hamburger,

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she revised and she went back again.

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We got three tries to make a product and if we didn't get it in three tries.

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So, our printer kept running out of filament.

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So we found out that it prints in these grids, kind of like a beehive, and it's really cool.

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I remember, sometimes I would just go and snap it with a screwdriver, and that was her

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Oh, and this was a bookend by Kaelin, yep, over there, and I'm sorry Kaelin, and it

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She had one with, you could use letters and stuff on the code, but you had to

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careful because if you put the letter too far into the, like too far into the

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grid, you couldn't see it, but if you stuck it too far out it would like

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disconnect from the project and like not work. Yeah, you have to be very like

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precise with everything.

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Yeah, and this one was like a bookmark. Yeah, it's a

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bookmark. It's called the Perfect Page Holder. So it's basically like

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it's just like the shape here. It's a bookmark and it's like it's got a cat

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head. It's kind of cute.

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So my design for this was stuff. It's a pencil holder and

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basically you just like set it on your desk to take pencils of various sizes in

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there. The first one I did it was too small and the holes were also too small.

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So I had to revise and I had to um and I had to make the holes bigger and make it smaller.

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And I printed it in the white filament so you could like color on it.

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So like customize it because it's kind of boring if it's like one solid color.

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and this was my flyer. It's kind of small because we couldn't figure out how to print it without it being...

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Last thing about coding, I go on and on about coding, but last thing I want to say about coding, 3D printers,

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what do they need to run? They need code. They need code from the recipient, like the person that's sending in the design

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and that code that they sent then prints it. And coding can become just a program and now it's in physical form, so

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Any things you could do with that?

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Yeah, so these are the 8th graders that designed video games.

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They designed the coding.

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They took that coding and put it into our Spearbot robots,

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which all of this stuff wouldn't work without the code.

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And I brought two examples from our 6th graders that are not here.

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In 6th grade, they worked to design keychains.

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and it was the first thing we ever printed on our 3D printers.

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And I show it to the kids, and I'm like, what do you think?

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And they're like, just like that.

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And I'm like, it's OK.

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You can say what you really think,

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as long as you say it in a constructive way.

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And they're like, it's too big.

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I wouldn't put that on my keychain.

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I'm like, exactly.

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and you have to look at the measurements,

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and you have to look at the sizes.

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So I have figured out that that

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is the coolest thing in the world for sixth graders.

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And I am so excited that I get to do it with them.

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And they get to pick out their name and their colors and things they like and the ones that can code honey

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They can code a baseball on there a baseball bat to go along with it

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And I look at what the first one I coded and I'm like they're gonna teach me a whole lot more than I can teach them sometimes

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While I'm here and talking to the microphone, I want to give a shout out we had

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three different groups from Nandoa Middle School all place in the Cal

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Ripken STEM Challenge. We had Eli Weiser who placed with his boat that he made,

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reminds me if I went to Bush Gardens I could see it there, one of the boats

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that swings back and forth. We had two ladies, Vinley and Leah, placed with

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with their Peanuts Roller Coaster, and then we had Jordan Elizabeth and Jordan Elizabeth

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and Layla, placed with their Pink Winter Wonderland Coaster.

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So if you are into pink, you're into the Barbie movie, that's the coaster you want

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to be on.

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And so we are super proud of them.

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We also had Lily Tran who was in the NASA video that they shot recently asking the governor a question about STEM and how we can continue all this awesome STEM stuff at the high school.

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So I thought that was really cool that they've enjoyed themselves and they want to know how they can keep it going.

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So thank you so much. Thank you for giving me this opportunity. Thank you for the kids.

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will let our Arcadia's take it away with their coding of the dreams.

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Thank you all. Thank you.

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Great job, guys. Good job.

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Good evening, esteemed board members.

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I am Ms. McCrae, principal of Arcadia Middle School.

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Please know that we are very proud of the excellent progress

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that our STEM program has achieved at Arcadia Middle School.

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Mr. Dean Dedicatoria, our STEM elective teacher, continues to blaze the path of STEM education in our school,

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especially with First Lego League Robotics and the Sea Perch Underwater Robotics.

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The partnership with the Cal Ripken Foundation has played an instrumental role in establishing our STEM lab,

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and we are using the spare robots for our AMS enrichment program.

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We at AMS want to briefly, and I mean briefly, share two very special first-time events that

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took place for our school community.

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First, on February 15, we held our Title I STEM night at the NASA Visitor Center, Wallops

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Island.

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We had a huge turnout of parents and families actively engaged in STEM activities with

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the NASA staff and our Arcadia Middle School student panthers. Second, on Saturday, March

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2, we, AMS, we were the first school to host the Del Marver Aerial Drone Competition on

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our premises. The competition was a huge success and we are thankful to Mr. Dettacatoria,

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our student participants, Mrs. Amy Davis of NASA, Mrs. Kim Check of the Virginia

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in your space flight academy, or can...

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Arcadia High School student volunteers, Arcadia High School color guard, our very own Arcadia

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Middle School Beta students and all who helped to make it a memorable, successful event. As

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you can see, Mr. Dean Dedicatoria's passion and drive for STEM education continues to

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shine bright at Arcadia Middle School. With that stated, it is a pleasure and honor to

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to introduce to you Mr. Dean Dedicatoria,

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along with two of our student members

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of the AMS STEM program, Abigail Richardson and Gavin Glenn.

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Good evening, Ms. Turner, Dr. Hall,

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esteemed members of the school board.

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Again, come back in front of y'all

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to show you really an update to our STEM program.

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Well, last year and a half we've always piloted

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at Arcadia Middle School, our STEM program,

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which started off with about 29 students.

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to our sixth and seventh graders,

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along with our eighth graders from 29 students

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to 210 students.

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It's huge, and it's a big impact.

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and I see a huge future

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for our students here in Accomack County,

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because just recently, our Salisbury University has just partnered with NASA to start an internship

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program. Eastern Shore Community College has a partnership with Virginia Space. Our kids

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have that opportunity to go above and beyond what we offer here in Accoma County.

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some wonderful works that's happening in Kegatank,

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Matomkin, Shinkateague Elementary School,

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and now we need to feed and continue on

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in here at the middle school

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and of course at the high school.

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We're feeding, we're growing, we're producing,

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and that's awesome.

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with support from Ms. McCray,

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is we wanna start branching out beyond the walls

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of our schools and start partnering

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with NASA, with Navy, and hopefully the rest of the community.

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So we have a really strong workforce.

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So, and this is one of the things that we did is that we've incorporated,

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before we had robotics, sea perch, now we have drones,

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and hopefully next year we'll do rocketry.

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Now, one of our big major event we have, as Ms. McCray has alluded to,

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is that we hosted a regional competition.

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When I say regional, I'm talking.

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We had schools from Delaware.

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We had school from Maryland participate in our event.

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Space Flight Academy, that group of government agency,

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school, and nonprofit organization,

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We work together as a group to make this available to our students.

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So before I continue on, I want to go ahead and I want to recognize Gavin Glenn.

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He's one of our pilots and Abigail Richardson.

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Gavin is an eighth grader and Abigail is a sixth grader.

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And I would like for them to share their experience with at the competition.

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Gavin?

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My experience at the competition was pretty hard because when we were flying and doing test flights,

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the drone broke through and the judges needed to interview us for the competition.

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I was currently fixing the drone and also talking to them, and I feel like that's one of the main reasons why we won one of the trophies we won.

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experience was actually really fun because I never flew a drone before, and it really was really fun because I got to learn something new.

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And I think we won because we told them about our experience flying thrones.

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How much we learn and what upcoming events that we will learn and stem.

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Yes, and if y'all did not catch it, and this is for the big reason,

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if you'll notice at the end of the tables, these are two awards that our students have earned.

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One of them was the Think Award, which is to be able to express the thought processes

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that you need to program drones and fly the drones.

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And the other one is the Judges Award.

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That one actually was very impressive because, as Gavin has said, during the competition,

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during the practice run, their drones broke.

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They basically couldn't fly.

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Did they quit? Did you guys quit?

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No, they did not.

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They went, took it apart, fixed it, and came back and competed on the last element of the

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drone competition.

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And as a result, if Ms. Turner and Dr. Hall, would you please come up here?

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I just got these today from Amy Davis over at NASA, and they already got the trophy,

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but they didn't get the individual certificate of award.

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So Abigail

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Richardson.

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Now we're not done yet.

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As now, my students, Abigail and Gavin

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is going to get an opportunity to demonstrate

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the drones that they flew.

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On the side over here in the room,

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we have these are some of the challenges

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that our drone flyers had to be able to fly through.

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And we would also like to invite Ms. Turner and Dr. Hall

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to get a mini lesson on drone flying.

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As educators, the best way for a student to really learn

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is to be able to teach.

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And this is one of the things that I charge my students to do,

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especially when we have a newcomer come on in.

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I give them the idea, the academics, but when it comes down to the actual hands-on training,

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this gentleman and this young lady does the work for me.

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Dean,

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I hope we have insurance on these when Dr. Hall and Ms. Turner fly these.

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I hope we have our insurance paid up when Dr. Hall and Ms. Turner fly them.

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Let us pray.

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Again,

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in continuing of the things that we want to do and really let our STEM program

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flourish at Arcadia Middle School and hopefully continue on throughout Acomaq County Public

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School, we've got one more thing that we've got in the works. Actually two, one is we

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have a C-Perc team going back to Annapolis and hopefully come back with another win.

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And next week we have the eclipse that's happening.

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So in our partnership with NASA and Virginia Space Flight Academy,

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our school was able to procure every single student an eclipse glasses.

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So we'd be proud of that for you all.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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And I would just like to say, I think that Mr. Dedicatoria is the special sauce at Arcadia

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Middle that has grown this program.

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And I don't know if it would be as successful if it wasn't for you.

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So thank you.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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You guys did awesome.

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You did awesome.

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And hopefully we're going to be able to expand the STEM program to the high school

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So there's something really meaty for them to participate in when they get there.

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Yes, ma'am.

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And with these glasses, there's a program that we're going to try to have the students participate to collect data and submit something called global.

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where students or people, our citizens, can submit their observation to a database that

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real scientists and researchers can draw from. We're going to be having our students try to

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download that onto their phones and we're going to try to do it at lunch since apparently

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We're not allowed to use their cell phone in a classroom unless y'all are making to give us an exception

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We shared these glasses not only for our students, but also to our sister school

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Nandoa middle

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Through there's to the connection with our science department

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where I got these glasses from I also was able to procure some for our feeder school

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elementary

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Kegatank in the Tomkin

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So I forgot to get the other key elementary features because so we'll see

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what I can pull to get some more for us.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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You'll be able to safely do this.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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All right.

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It's been a long time, but thank you very much.

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Okay.

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Oh, I'm sorry.

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Yes, sir.

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Thank you.

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The board will now adjourn to close session.

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And the board is actually going to go over to the media center.

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You all are welcome to stay here, but the board is going to adjourn to close

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session to discuss legal and personnel matters.

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The Board will adjourn to closed meeting as allowed by Section 2.2-3711, Code of Virginia,

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Subsection A-1, Personnel, Subsection A-2, Student Matters, and Subsection A-7, Legal.

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Is there a second?

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Second.

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All in favor?

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Aye.

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Opposed?

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Whereas the Acomac County School Board has convened a closed meeting on this date pursuant, an

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affirmative record wrote in accordance with the provisions of the Virginia Freedom of Information

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Act and whereas section 2.1-3771-D of the Code of Virginia requires a certification by this

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school board that such closed meeting was conducted in conformity with the Virginia

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law. Now therefore it be resolved that the Acomac County School Board hereby certifies

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that to the best of each member's knowledge, one, only public business matters lawfully

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exempted from open meeting requirements by Virginia law were discussed, and two, only

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such public business matters as were identified in the motion by which the closed meeting

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was convened, were heard, discussed, or considered.

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All in favor?

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Aye.

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Can I get a motion on the personnel list?

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I move to approve the personnel list as presented.

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Second.

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All in favor?

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Aye.

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Opposed?

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Abstain?

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Okay.

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Can I get a motion on the discipline cases?

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I move to recommend.

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I move to approve the case numbers 0402, 2401, 0204,

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0405 as recommended.

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All in favor? Aye. Opposed?

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I move to approve the case numbers 0402, 2403,

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and 06 as amended. Second. All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Okay. Next, we have the minutes

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minutes from the March 19th meeting. Are there any questions or corrections? Is there

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a motion? I move to approve the minutes as presented and as were dictated on the 03-19-2024.

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All in favor? Aye.

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Opposed? We

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have some student staff comments. First up, Kristen Sterling. And we need

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to read the public comment rolls right quick.

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Roll for staff student comments.

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One, identify yourself by name and 911 address.

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Two, speakers are limited to three minutes.

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Individuals may reserve otherwise transfer their time

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to an individual who may reserve

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or otherwise transfer their time to another speaker.

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Four, specific personnel matters must not be initiated

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at a public meeting.

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Five, speakers cannot be abusive,

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threatening, or use profanity.

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Six, specify the nature of your remarks.

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Seven, speakers who have previously spoken on a subject for the public comment

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should not be allowed to readdress the board during the same public comment period.

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Eight, specific questions should be resolved prior to the meeting

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by contacting the superintendent or the appropriate staff member.

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Nine, anyone who would like to present a PowerPoint presentation for public comment has

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to present the presentation 24 hours in advance

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for review by the staff for appropriateness.

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In 10, all questions shall be directed to the chair

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who will, at his or her discretion, solicit the response

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from the appropriate staff member.

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Okay, my name is Kristen Sterling.

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My 911 address is 38046 Davy Jones Boulevard,

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Greenbackville, Virginia, 23356.

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I'm here to address for Acomac County Food Service.

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I have worked for Acomac County Food Service for 14-plus years now.

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I have never seen or heard someone that is a professional of a boss saying that a department sucks.

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As a boss, there should have been a better way of saying such choice of words.

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Our supervisor Brandon Brookholder has been the best that we have had in 14-plus years.

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For you to say that the food is terrible, I have yet to see you walk into any of the schools and try the food.

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I run multiple kitchens and I have been doing so for two years.

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I am not saying that there is not room for improvement.

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There is always room for the active improvement in food service department.

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As we are underpaid and always understaffed, we follow the rules and guidelines for the state that we have to follow in order to be paid.

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We are so unappreciated, therefore I think I speak for all the food service that we no longer are going to be doing special events anymore other than what our school asked us to do.

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What would have happened if we all just walk out?

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We would so much break our kids' hearts, we would break our own hearts.

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We look forward to seeing their smiling faces every day.

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As a matter of fact, I had a kid come up to me today and say,

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this is the first breakfast that I've had in two days.

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So at least we're appreciated somewhere by a kid in an elementary school.

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At least we're appreciated.

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And that's all I have to say.

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I just have to say this board wants the food, the quality of the food to be better.

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We're trying to improve things.

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I'm sorry that things were said, but it is the quality of food that we believe could be better.

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No one is attacking Brandon.

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Brandon is doing a nice job, but

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the quality of the food could improve,

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and I would hope that we could all agree to that.

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I don't know. The elementary school children, the teachers have told us they're getting chocolate donuts,

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fruit loop cereal bars, and cinnamon buns for breakfast.

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These are already jittery children and we're filling them with sugar and then they go to school

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and then we're trying to tell them to sit still in their seat.

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We're trying to make things better.

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Next up, Jenny Lane.

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My name is Jenny Lane, 24435 Adelaide Street, Parkesley, 9-1-1.

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My name is Jenny Lane and I am the manager at Nantoo High School.

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I've been with Acomac County for over 10 years, manager for this is my third year.

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I get what Ms. Turner has said.

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I do agree.

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There is a lot of sugar.

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High school level, we are very fortunate.

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We have what they call offer versus serve.

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And we offer hot foods, which one thing that I take pride in and my staff is we give them multiple choices.

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Elementary level is a little different, but I can't vouch for elementary level.

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But you know the old saying, I've got a ton of paperwork that I wanted to say,

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but one thing that came to mind is it takes a village to raise a child.

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It takes each and every component in a school to raise these children,

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to love them, to nurture them.

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Some of those kids may not have love at home,

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but one thing I would take pride in, they get a loving smile,

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they get a good morning, a how are you from each and every one of us every morning.

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My entire staff is out there every morning.

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It was a slap in the face to hear that our food is, it sucks.

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That was a slap in our face because one thing that we take pride in,

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we test every single thing that goes out of our kitchen.

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I don't use pre-made taco meat. We make ours fresh.

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We put salsa in it. We put taco seasoning in it.

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Do we have issues with our food sometimes?

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We have to throw things out? Absolutely.

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We have not been able to work through everything.

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But one thing that I can say, and I'm so proud of my staff,

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we do take pride in what we do,

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and we do love our kids at Nando High School.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Melissa Taylor.

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My name is Melissa Taylor.

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My 9-1-1 is 13127 Conquest Point Lane,

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and that's in Hallwood, Virginia, 23359.

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I'm the manager at Shinkiteg Elementary School.

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I have been working with Accomat County since 2009,

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and I've been cafeteria manager since 2014.

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I am not a public speaker, and I do not like being in front of people,

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but I feel like I have to do this.

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Since the statement that was made by a board member

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at the March 19 meeting that the food service sucked as a whole and the lunches were terrible.

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I believe that was made without any fact or evidence offered.

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I believe these statements are based on a personal opinion and not facts.

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Because of this statement, and now all the negative comments circulating on social media,

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I feel that it's directly affected me.

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And I also feel like it is a personal attack on me and my staff and food service, all the food service.

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Making a statement like this publicly based on a personal opinion about an entire department

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when most of you have not even eaten in our cafeterias.

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And it lacks merit.

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It lacks merit.

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At this time, to my knowledge, only one member of this board has eaten with us at CES.

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Mr. Spidell ate with us for our fall parents' luncheon,

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and after the meal, he personally made the effort to thank us for the meal

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and tell us it was very good, and we very much appreciated that.

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Through all my time here as a worker and now the manager,

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I have never had a written or in-person complaint on the food service

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or the food itself until now with all the negative comments on social media attacking

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every school, including mine.

475
00:41:30,780 --> 00:41:38,180
They are attacking us. And it's personal. The past few days, all

476
00:41:38,180 --> 00:41:44,460
this negativity literally boiled over yesterday and it actually brought me tears. I felt like

477
00:41:44,460 --> 00:41:50,020
I did not even want to return to work today. I feel like the meals that we prepare

478
00:41:50,020 --> 00:41:58,420
in accordance with the menu provided by Akamac County Food Service, by Brandon, and the nutritional

479
00:41:58,420 --> 00:42:02,600
requirements and regulations set forth by the state and federal government are made

480
00:42:02,600 --> 00:42:04,120
with love for the students and staff.

481
00:42:04,840 --> 00:42:07,780
We make this, we put our all into this.

482
00:42:08,800 --> 00:42:13,700
We receive compliments on a daily basis from the students and staff on our meals.

483
00:42:13,900 --> 00:42:18,780
I take such pride in my kitchen and the meals that we prepare, but all this negativity

484
00:42:18,780 --> 00:42:21,720
has left me feeling completely defeated.

485
00:42:22,500 --> 00:42:24,780
And that's all I have to say. Thank you for your time.

486
00:42:48,620 --> 00:42:52,520
Next up are a set of policies in the first reading.

487
00:42:52,720 --> 00:42:54,800
You all please review those if you have questions.

488
00:42:56,760 --> 00:43:00,880
Oh, I'm sorry. There's an additional comment.

489
00:43:01,500 --> 00:43:01,700
I'm

490
00:43:11,620 --> 00:43:12,280
only one person.

491
00:43:16,620 --> 00:43:19,440
So we allow public comment by email.

492
00:43:20,060 --> 00:43:23,620
So these are people who have emailed their public comment to the clerk.

493
00:43:23,620 --> 00:43:29,720
So all the public comment rules still apply and the clerk will read the comments into the record.

494
00:43:30,320 --> 00:43:41,120
I'm reading this on behalf of Felina Godwin. She said, as an ACPS food service employee since 2008, I can't be solid.

495
00:43:41,820 --> 00:43:49,240
I have never seen this department run better than I have these last few years since Brandenburg Holder has been our CNS.

496
00:43:49,240 --> 00:43:51,200
The improvements have been amazing.

497
00:43:51,500 --> 00:43:55,220
Brandon has been working very hard to make feed hundreds of students

498
00:43:55,220 --> 00:43:57,940
a lot more efficient, fun, and healthier.

499
00:43:59,120 --> 00:44:03,100
So not to waste time and energy on unnecessary words.

500
00:44:03,660 --> 00:44:07,640
I will get straight to the good things about ACPS Food Service Department

501
00:44:07,640 --> 00:44:08,900
and Mr. Brandon Burkholder.

502
00:44:10,160 --> 00:44:14,200
In no particular order, fresh food offered and available.

503
00:44:14,200 --> 00:44:24,180
As a manager AES, I have witnessed students who have never eaten fresh pears be able to experience it through our lunch program.

504
00:44:24,660 --> 00:44:27,160
Fresh vegetables offered available.

505
00:44:27,580 --> 00:44:33,180
Students now know what sugar snap peas are and fresh broccoli.

506
00:44:33,640 --> 00:44:36,840
All free lunches provided, no feeling left out.

507
00:44:37,200 --> 00:44:41,340
Free summer meals option, summer school meals, success academy meals,

508
00:44:41,340 --> 00:44:47,080
variety menu to help include different cultures. After school snacks, more

509
00:44:47,080 --> 00:44:51,760
relaxing work environment, great work in kitchen, updated equipment, supportive

510
00:44:51,760 --> 00:44:57,080
supervisor Brandon. Appreciation shown from different classes in the

511
00:44:57,080 --> 00:44:59,380
building example handmade cars treats.

512
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:05,740
Improvement, improve meal count numbers. I'm also certain that I forgot a few things, but

513
00:45:05,740 --> 00:45:12,460
it's just, it just shows some of the great things that changes I have seen since 2008.

514
00:45:12,640 --> 00:45:18,920
Sometimes looking at things from outside gives you an inaccurate view. Brandon and his employees

515
00:45:18,920 --> 00:45:24,700
work very hard and on a daily basis feed the children of Ackermack County a free and

516
00:45:24,700 --> 00:45:28,800
healthy breakfast and lunch. Maybe just a little more grace and understanding could

517
00:45:28,800 --> 00:45:30,160
to improve the things even more.

518
00:45:30,620 --> 00:45:34,200
Polina Guywin, Cafetail Manager, Ackerman Elementary.

519
00:45:41,050 --> 00:45:43,250
Reading this on behalf of John Robinson,

520
00:45:43,950 --> 00:45:45,030
he's a bus driver.

521
00:45:46,070 --> 00:45:48,190
I don't think we need to change times

522
00:45:48,190 --> 00:45:49,410
at elementary schools.

523
00:45:49,950 --> 00:45:52,710
We need to high school kids home first

524
00:45:52,710 --> 00:45:57,450
to get the elementary off bus when parents aren't home.

525
00:45:58,110 --> 00:45:59,670
We are having enough problems not

526
00:46:00,110 --> 00:46:02,150
because high school kids are getting home late,

527
00:46:02,150 --> 00:46:06,830
but because we don't have enough drivers to cover absent drivers when they're out.

528
00:46:07,210 --> 00:46:10,250
The number one problem is we don't have enough drivers.

529
00:46:12,290 --> 00:46:14,850
That's where we need to be putting our efforts.

530
00:46:15,490 --> 00:46:19,890
I'm a bus trainer. We have lost five plus people wanting to drive

531
00:46:19,890 --> 00:46:25,510
because it's taken too long to print fingerprints and background checks.

532
00:46:26,310 --> 00:46:31,610
With all the technology we have, it should take three to twelve weeks to get these back.

533
00:46:31,610 --> 00:46:34,210
This is the problem we need to be working on.

534
00:46:34,510 --> 00:46:40,130
We are not going to be able to get these kids home in days ahead if we don't solve this problem.

535
00:46:45,720 --> 00:46:51,680
This is based, this is from Jasmine White, Arcadia Middle School cafeteria manager.

536
00:46:53,240 --> 00:46:57,200
The food service sucks pretty much. School lunches are terrible.

537
00:46:57,860 --> 00:47:01,120
This statement made by Jason Whipper on March 19, 2024,

538
00:47:01,680 --> 00:47:04,960
made such a negative impact on all school kitchens in Akimat County.

539
00:47:04,960 --> 00:47:11,820
How could someone who does not work in food service or even know our daily job make such

540
00:47:11,820 --> 00:47:13,380
a derogatory statement?

541
00:47:13,880 --> 00:47:20,740
If we as employees at ACMAG are required to follow guidelines set by the CEP program,

542
00:47:20,960 --> 00:47:23,760
why are we being attacked for doing our job?

543
00:47:24,440 --> 00:47:30,360
I will say that I know for a fact that the staff in my kitchen do an outstanding

544
00:47:30,360 --> 00:47:35,240
job. I know this because I was there working outside of them when we were

545
00:47:35,240 --> 00:47:40,960
a severely short staff for two months. I was there with them when they were doing

546
00:47:40,960 --> 00:47:46,480
the work of two or three people each by receiving the pay of one. I was there when

547
00:47:46,480 --> 00:47:51,620
we used to leave work so exhausted that sometimes it was hard to even stay

548
00:47:51,620 --> 00:47:56,400
awake long enough to get home. My staff in the cafeteria at Arcadia

549
00:47:56,400 --> 00:48:03,540
middle and I am sure after staff throughout the county go over and beyond in

550
00:48:03,540 --> 00:48:07,780
their jobs. This statement that Mr. Whippert made is

551
00:48:07,780 --> 00:48:12,900
decent and very unprofessional. Damage has been done.

552
00:48:18,280 --> 00:48:20,880
This is on behalf of Elaine

553
00:48:20,880 --> 00:48:22,380
Fletcher, Cape Tank Elementary.

554
00:48:24,800 --> 00:48:27,900
I am a worker of Ackman County School Service

555
00:48:27,900 --> 00:48:32,720
Department. I am dedicated to my job and take great pride in doing a

556
00:48:33,560 --> 00:48:37,600
about going about and beyond the call of duty for my title.

557
00:48:38,160 --> 00:48:41,700
It's very unprofessional to say food service sucks

558
00:48:41,700 --> 00:48:43,660
coming from a board member.

559
00:48:43,880 --> 00:48:47,420
All of us work very hard with many duties to do

560
00:48:47,420 --> 00:48:51,840
which include lifting heavy boxes of food in the freezer

561
00:48:51,840 --> 00:48:54,860
and at the same time multitasking over duties,

562
00:48:55,000 --> 00:48:57,320
cooking, serving on the line,

563
00:48:57,320 --> 00:49:03,740
after we're cleaning our kitchen and start preparing for the next day.

564
00:49:04,200 --> 00:49:11,180
Also we take great pride in preparing a different food for algae students. That

565
00:49:11,180 --> 00:49:18,780
may not be one of two is on the menu for that day. You do not have

566
00:49:18,780 --> 00:49:25,200
a clue to what our days are like. By the way I have not seen you eat in the

567
00:49:25,960 --> 00:49:34,020
But to slander the food service department, which is the director and all of the staff is not appreciated.

568
00:49:34,560 --> 00:49:37,860
If you can do anything better, can you do it?

569
00:49:39,440 --> 00:49:47,980
When people name our standards, you are degrading these people built to do their jobs.

570
00:49:47,980 --> 00:49:54,780
So therefore, we depend on our income to support our families, just like you do.

571
00:49:55,300 --> 00:50:04,460
We would like to make you aware when COVID was very bad, we worked very hard to support our director.

572
00:50:05,220 --> 00:50:12,260
Use our third place of foods to the community personally, handling them out.

573
00:50:18,310 --> 00:50:21,710
Had a lot of people to come and appreciate the food.

574
00:50:21,710 --> 00:50:25,090
When we were out there putting our don't

575
00:50:28,960 --> 00:50:32,520
understand in jeopardy our knowing not knowing it would

576
00:50:32,520 --> 00:50:39,060
Where we're going to take code home to our families others were working from home

577
00:50:39,740 --> 00:50:42,280
We when when we were

578
00:50:42,820 --> 00:50:46,060
Returned to school. We also had to pack bags of

579
00:50:46,060 --> 00:50:53,220
For food for students home on the bus because all students were not not in school every day

580
00:50:53,220 --> 00:51:01,240
We also took food around the schools every breakfast time, lunch time, because of COVID restrictions.

581
00:51:01,380 --> 00:51:09,680
Also had to make a bag for each algae student in which was kept separate from the others, getting on the bus.

582
00:51:10,100 --> 00:51:12,760
But we made it happen.

583
00:51:12,760 --> 00:51:20,620
When the summer came, our director made it possible through much hard work to get approval

584
00:51:20,620 --> 00:51:23,860
of summer food delivered to the community families by UPS.

585
00:51:24,400 --> 00:51:26,040
It really helped a lot of people.

586
00:51:26,520 --> 00:51:26,860
We

587
00:51:46,120 --> 00:51:50,180
have a group of policies that are first reading, and I would encourage each of you

588
00:51:50,180 --> 00:51:54,400
to read those over, and if you have questions or concerns, to contact Dr. Hall.

589
00:51:56,420 --> 00:51:59,900
The next group is our second reading of questions.

590
00:51:59,900 --> 00:52:04,580
Are there any questions or?

591
00:52:06,340 --> 00:52:07,260
Madam Chair?

592
00:52:07,700 --> 00:52:07,980
Yes.

593
00:52:09,280 --> 00:52:18,300
May we deal with all of the policies together except for 12.02?

594
00:52:18,720 --> 00:52:19,740
Can we do that one separately?

595
00:52:20,380 --> 00:52:20,780
Okay.

596
00:52:21,360 --> 00:52:23,600
So we're 0-2.

597
00:52:24,040 --> 00:52:25,400
We're going to pull out 0-2.

598
00:52:25,540 --> 00:52:27,220
We're going to do that aside, separate.

599
00:52:28,100 --> 00:52:28,540
Okay?

600
00:52:28,540 --> 00:52:28,620
Okay.

601
00:52:31,910 --> 00:52:38,150
So the second reading on the policy is 12.01 through 12.11 with the exception of 12.02.

602
00:52:38,510 --> 00:52:40,490
Is there a motion to approve those?

603
00:52:41,390 --> 00:52:47,530
I move to approve policies 12.01 and 12.03 through 12.11.

604
00:52:50,810 --> 00:52:51,310
I'll second.

605
00:52:51,710 --> 00:52:53,290
It's, okay.

606
00:52:53,610 --> 00:52:54,490
Did you took out O2?

607
00:52:54,730 --> 00:52:54,790
Yep.

608
00:52:55,510 --> 00:52:56,490
Ellen Faber?

609
00:52:57,330 --> 00:52:57,770
Aye.

610
00:52:58,070 --> 00:52:58,290
Aye.

611
00:52:58,550 --> 00:52:59,050
Opposed?

612
00:52:59,050 --> 00:53:00,110
Did

613
00:53:03,220 --> 00:53:08,900
you, should we, did you want to talk about O2 now?

614
00:53:09,520 --> 00:53:12,100
That is the advisory committees to the school board.

615
00:53:14,560 --> 00:53:26,900
Madam Chair, I would like to make a motion that we approve the policy with three small amendments.

616
00:53:32,060 --> 00:53:32,460
Okay.

617
00:53:32,580 --> 00:53:32,780
Do I?

618
00:53:33,020 --> 00:53:33,340
Yes.

619
00:53:33,780 --> 00:53:35,740
Shall I read what?

620
00:53:38,840 --> 00:53:49,020
But there was a sentence that was removed from the policy that I believe should be reinstated

621
00:53:50,320 --> 00:53:59,580
and I also added a couple more sentences, but in the policy where it says, in addition

622
00:54:00,500 --> 00:54:06,060
pursuant to Board of Education regulations, et cetera.

623
00:54:06,960 --> 00:54:09,640
At the end of that sentence, it should say,

624
00:54:10,340 --> 00:54:14,340
each council or committee member serves without compensation

625
00:54:14,340 --> 00:54:18,600
for a one-year term that was the part that was omitted,

626
00:54:18,980 --> 00:54:19,800
that was removed.

627
00:54:20,780 --> 00:54:23,400
And then I would like it to say,

628
00:54:23,520 --> 00:54:27,020
a council or committee member may serve multiple terms

629
00:54:27,020 --> 00:54:35,500
if the terms are not consecutive and then at the very end it would also say

630
00:54:35,500 --> 00:54:39,840
each school board member may nominate at least one member of each advisory

631
00:54:39,840 --> 00:54:51,850
councilor committee. Madam Chair. Yes. I move that we adopt the changes to item

632
00:54:51,850 --> 00:54:55,790
12.02 as suggested.

633
00:54:58,160 --> 00:54:59,060
All in favor?

634
00:54:59,860 --> 00:55:00,120
Aye.

635
00:55:00,440 --> 00:55:03,980
Opposed? Motion passes with the amendments.

636
00:55:05,360 --> 00:55:05,660
Okay.

637
00:55:09,860 --> 00:55:14,900
Mr. Bennett, would you like to talk to us about facility updates?

638
00:55:18,600 --> 00:55:20,760
Click away. Click away.

639
00:55:26,360 --> 00:55:30,480
Good evening. My name is Bobby Bennett, Facilities Director.

640
00:55:32,180 --> 00:55:33,780
Going to go through this pretty quick.

641
00:55:34,080 --> 00:55:35,600
I know some of you have seen some of this stuff.

642
00:55:35,720 --> 00:55:36,560
Some of you haven't.

643
00:55:37,340 --> 00:55:38,780
Tangier Roof Project.

644
00:55:39,420 --> 00:55:41,080
Got the before on one side, after on the other.

645
00:55:41,160 --> 00:55:45,860
We finished that project on budget, in budget, and almost on schedule,

646
00:55:45,860 --> 00:55:49,840
but we had a crate of 42-foot-long panels that was damaged,

647
00:55:50,020 --> 00:55:51,780
and they still managed to get them over there

648
00:55:51,780 --> 00:55:54,020
and finish within about a week of what we originally thought.

649
00:55:55,160 --> 00:56:01,580
And then new high school bleachers are finished, except for concrete work around the steps.

650
00:56:02,060 --> 00:56:06,400
The handicap ramp and things like that, these new bleachers will seat nearly 1,000 people.

651
00:56:06,920 --> 00:56:12,220
They have spaces for up to eight wheelchairs, so they will be there compliant with today's

652
00:56:12,840 --> 00:56:15,340
regulations for ADA accessibility and all.

653
00:56:15,520 --> 00:56:17,140
We've got to work out some stuff on the sidewalks.

654
00:56:17,980 --> 00:56:19,140
Same deal, Arcadia.

655
00:56:19,380 --> 00:56:21,940
You can see we've got some concrete work done there already.

656
00:56:21,940 --> 00:56:25,440
We've still got some work to do and around the press box is not finished yet

657
00:56:25,440 --> 00:56:30,700
We had some items field verified by the engineering company that were not correct

658
00:56:30,700 --> 00:56:36,340
So they're remaking his steps to go to the press box. She would have them this week and have that fully open

659
00:56:37,160 --> 00:56:41,540
And then to a greenhouse. We're working on the inside now getting that off

660
00:56:41,540 --> 00:56:44,460
classes in the fall. I believe when they start

661
00:56:45,740 --> 00:56:46,660
We've worked with

662
00:56:48,900 --> 00:56:53,420
Erin and some of her folks on what they needed there, still got a lot of work to do around

663
00:56:53,420 --> 00:56:58,920
the outside as far as landscaping, weather has kind of hurt us on a lot of stuff, Arcadia,

664
00:56:59,500 --> 00:57:00,120
track and field.

665
00:57:00,260 --> 00:57:04,940
We've got everything ready there except for one of the long jump, triple jump lanes,

666
00:57:05,140 --> 00:57:08,300
and if you look at the long jump, triple jump runway, the one that doesn't have

667
00:57:08,300 --> 00:57:11,080
a red tarp on it beside it is not complete.

668
00:57:11,180 --> 00:57:12,240
We don't have a sand trap there.

669
00:57:12,320 --> 00:57:13,460
There's nowhere for them to jump.

670
00:57:14,660 --> 00:57:16,680
Discus and shop put areas are all done.

671
00:57:16,900 --> 00:57:18,280
We've got two shop put areas.

672
00:57:18,420 --> 00:57:19,860
You can only see the one from that angle.

673
00:57:20,880 --> 00:57:21,940
This was Shinkatinga Elementary.

674
00:57:22,360 --> 00:57:24,680
This was a project that was pretty time sensitive.

675
00:57:24,920 --> 00:57:27,340
You can see on the before slide,

676
00:57:27,460 --> 00:57:30,040
a lot of what appears to be black mold,

677
00:57:30,200 --> 00:57:31,200
mildew and stuff like that.

678
00:57:31,260 --> 00:57:33,180
There was an air quality issue up there.

679
00:57:33,460 --> 00:57:36,240
I had a company come in and do extensive cleaning

680
00:57:36,240 --> 00:57:38,880
of all the duct work and reinstallated everything there.

681
00:57:39,200 --> 00:57:41,100
Biggest problem there is the duct work

682
00:57:41,100 --> 00:57:42,740
previously was not insulated.

683
00:57:42,740 --> 00:57:47,640
and that created a big problem it's taken care of and will be addressed we

684
00:57:47,640 --> 00:57:51,160
got two of the therapeutic playgrounds completed at Motomkin and Kegatank

685
00:57:52,440 --> 00:57:56,420
caution tape in that picture is old but we've got those and we still plan to do

686
00:57:56,420 --> 00:58:04,120
more at Pungentown and help me out. Akamak Elementary who we're working on

687
00:58:04,120 --> 00:58:06,980
those we're going to try to figure something out of Shingatine but we

688
00:58:06,980 --> 00:58:10,720
really don't have real estate up there for this so we're working with

689
00:58:10,720 --> 00:58:11,820
kind of another plan.

690
00:58:12,740 --> 00:58:14,500
Ackermack Primary School renovation.

691
00:58:15,100 --> 00:58:18,920
We had our second meeting today where they brought some concept design.

692
00:58:19,000 --> 00:58:23,080
I just wanted to show this so you all would see that there is forward progress

693
00:58:23,080 --> 00:58:24,120
being made here.

694
00:58:24,680 --> 00:58:27,000
They brought some really good layouts.

695
00:58:27,220 --> 00:58:30,040
They brought two different versions of layouts for the space.

696
00:58:31,400 --> 00:58:33,300
About a two and a half hour meeting today.

697
00:58:33,520 --> 00:58:35,060
So they got a lot of information.

698
00:58:35,400 --> 00:58:38,240
They'll go back, make some changes and kind of go from there.

699
00:58:38,240 --> 00:58:40,160
and we'll try to get this thing.

700
00:58:41,480 --> 00:58:45,000
They're working towards a schedule where we'll have construction documents

701
00:58:45,000 --> 00:58:49,840
and be ready to put this project out to bid in late September this year.

702
00:58:51,180 --> 00:58:53,000
I think that concludes everything.

703
00:58:53,220 --> 00:58:56,560
I've got projects that we're working on, technology building renovation.

704
00:58:57,240 --> 00:58:59,780
We've got a pre-construction meeting this week on that.

705
00:58:59,980 --> 00:59:01,640
They're supposed to start next week.

706
00:59:02,200 --> 00:59:05,160
They're talking about completion within 125 days,

707
00:59:05,160 --> 00:59:07,760
So that should go well. High-climbing primary up here.

708
00:59:07,840 --> 00:59:09,020
And then do a high auxiliary gym,

709
00:59:09,140 --> 00:59:10,220
pungentheagolic auxiliary gym.

710
00:59:10,300 --> 00:59:11,340
We're working on both of those

711
00:59:11,340 --> 00:59:13,760
with a firm out of Virginia Beach right now.

712
00:59:13,880 --> 00:59:15,340
They're going to do some survey work here

713
00:59:15,340 --> 00:59:16,420
over the next couple of weeks

714
00:59:16,420 --> 00:59:19,420
and try to figure out best placement on both of these

715
00:59:19,420 --> 00:59:22,060
in conjunction with working around septics and all of that.

716
00:59:22,160 --> 00:59:22,900
So that should be good.

717
00:59:23,000 --> 00:59:25,380
And then we've got another big round of paving

718
00:59:25,380 --> 00:59:26,240
coming up this summer

719
00:59:26,240 --> 00:59:29,120
and trying to get more aggressive on our school painting.

720
00:59:30,320 --> 00:59:31,720
That's probably all I've got.

721
00:59:32,080 --> 00:59:34,060
But can I go with my other part now too?

722
00:59:47,840 --> 00:59:51,480
I'm hoping this week jump pit as soon as the weather dries up enough or we can get back

723
00:59:51,480 --> 00:59:52,060
here with equipment.

724
00:59:52,500 --> 00:59:53,200
Right now it's a swamp.

725
00:59:54,820 --> 00:59:57,400
Yeah, I mean right if they, I mean it's ready right now.

726
00:59:57,520 --> 00:59:58,640
They can run track events now.

727
00:59:58,900 --> 00:59:59,800
They just have one.

728
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:04,660
Long Jump, Triple Jump Lane, which is pretty standard throughout high schools in the state of Virginia.

729
01:00:04,960 --> 01:00:09,140
The second one is kind of, you know, what we shot for, where they can run simultaneous.

730
01:00:09,420 --> 01:00:13,280
But, I mean, we had it ready for a March 15th track and field event.

731
01:00:13,780 --> 01:00:17,140
It was completely open, everything, except for that one runway.

732
01:00:17,460 --> 01:00:20,360
There was an active runway in place that could be used.

733
01:00:27,000 --> 01:00:28,260
We're working on that, yeah.

734
01:00:29,400 --> 01:00:33,500
There's really, there was no good plan for that.

735
01:00:33,500 --> 01:00:36,660
But we had to put bleachers in that were ADA compliant.

736
01:00:36,940 --> 01:00:39,580
Now we're coming up with the plan to have access.

737
01:00:40,900 --> 01:00:41,760
So not

738
01:00:46,690 --> 01:00:48,330
really, I believe.

739
01:00:48,330 --> 01:00:52,090
Is there a regional track meet there this year or in May?

740
01:00:54,400 --> 01:00:55,960
All right. Any more questions?

741
01:00:56,900 --> 01:00:59,400
Anybody have any questions? Questions?

742
01:01:00,600 --> 01:01:04,020
All right. Recently I put out an RFP,

743
01:01:04,860 --> 01:01:07,520
a request for proposals for grounds care,

744
01:01:07,520 --> 01:01:13,720
particularly lawn mowing and weed eating at the two shingatink schools. We are

745
01:01:13,720 --> 01:01:18,260
down to two full-time and one part-time grounds worker. We have been running an

746
01:01:18,260 --> 01:01:23,640
ad for these positions, open positions, since August of last year. We're not

747
01:01:23,640 --> 01:01:28,100
getting applicants. We don't have staff to do it. So I put this

748
01:01:28,100 --> 01:01:31,480
out. We had two companies in the area, Advantage Lawn Care, and I'll

749
01:01:31,480 --> 01:01:35,440
probably say it around, I think it's Browder Hype. We had those two both

750
01:01:35,440 --> 01:01:40,520
come, pre-bid, they both presented proposals. What we looked at when I met

751
01:01:40,520 --> 01:01:46,420
with these folks was a weekly starting April 1st through October 31st mowing,

752
01:01:47,180 --> 01:01:50,780
the mowing and weeding of those two schools, these two shingling schools.

753
01:01:51,880 --> 01:01:57,540
The bids came back on these proposals. The one was pretty high, I mean

754
01:01:57,540 --> 01:02:02,000
$58,800 combined to do two schools and the other was $19,200.

755
01:02:03,060 --> 01:02:08,020
Beth and myself have talked about this, and I guess I'll preface all this by saying tonight

756
01:02:08,020 --> 01:02:12,220
what I'm seeking is approval of the board to move forward with this so we can keep the

757
01:02:12,220 --> 01:02:18,420
Shintin schools mowed. I've, like I said, got a two-man crew, and we can't keep up

758
01:02:18,420 --> 01:02:23,120
with what we got. We couldn't keep up with what we had last year with almost a full crew.

759
01:02:25,220 --> 01:02:30,160
It works out, and Vantage Long Care's proposed it works out on a weekly cutting.

760
01:02:30,380 --> 01:02:33,540
It's about $661 a week is what it ends up being.

761
01:02:33,680 --> 01:02:36,720
It's $19,200 a year for both those two schools.

762
01:02:37,880 --> 01:02:39,700
I don't know and we could run numbers.

763
01:02:39,820 --> 01:02:43,860
I don't even know that we can do it that cheap with our people, with our equipment,

764
01:02:44,100 --> 01:02:46,680
with our gas, our transportation, all that to get up there and mow

765
01:02:46,680 --> 01:02:48,220
and keep it mowed on a weekly basis.

766
01:02:48,400 --> 01:02:50,060
We haven't been mowing since I came here.

767
01:02:50,180 --> 01:02:52,060
We've not been on a weekly basis on anything.

768
01:02:52,480 --> 01:02:58,240
It's been 10 days when we can do it, and it 10 days doesn't work real good when you get weather and things like that.

769
01:02:58,440 --> 01:03:05,620
Right now, and I'm just going to be up front, as soon as the sun comes out and it gets 70 degrees, our schools are going to play hay fields.

770
01:03:06,260 --> 01:03:11,540
These two guys cannot get to all these schools, and I can only work them on so much overtime.

771
01:03:12,180 --> 01:03:16,360
I mean, so I'm seeking approval to move forward with this

772
01:03:16,360 --> 01:03:20,420
and potentially we'll come back to you in the future

773
01:03:20,420 --> 01:03:22,140
wanting to expand this.

774
01:03:22,620 --> 01:03:25,040
I have no desire to get rid of our ground script.

775
01:03:25,240 --> 01:03:26,980
I want to keep our ground script because we need them

776
01:03:26,980 --> 01:03:28,960
because there's a lot of other work that gets done

777
01:03:29,480 --> 01:03:31,600
and they'll still be responsible, a big part of mowing.

778
01:03:32,320 --> 01:03:34,620
But when we start factoring in equipment and lawn mowers,

779
01:03:34,720 --> 01:03:36,240
I mean the lawn mowers we're purchasing,

780
01:03:36,540 --> 01:03:38,200
they're not like we purchase for our homes.

781
01:03:38,560 --> 01:03:40,100
You know, these lawn mowers $20,000.

782
01:03:40,100 --> 01:03:44,700
dollars. We're getting ready to enter another cycle to buy new motors. So we

783
01:03:44,700 --> 01:03:48,240
can eliminate some equipment, keep good equipment for the schools we got to mow

784
01:03:48,240 --> 01:03:51,760
and maybe outsource some of these other schools where we get those done and we

785
01:03:51,760 --> 01:03:56,620
know they're going to be done. So I guess I hand the clicker off and you

786
01:03:56,620 --> 01:04:01,680
all vote and tell me if yay or nay. We would like to keep grass cut at

787
01:04:02,780 --> 01:04:04,220
Somebody would like to make a motion.

788
01:04:04,820 --> 01:04:10,880
I move to advantage long care bed.

789
01:04:11,620 --> 01:04:13,560
Long care to take care of the chicken feet schools.

790
01:04:14,840 --> 01:04:15,380
All in.

791
01:04:15,800 --> 01:04:18,000
Quick question. When would this start then?

792
01:04:18,540 --> 01:04:21,000
The way it was written up was April 1st.

793
01:04:21,100 --> 01:04:22,860
So once we get a contract in place,

794
01:04:23,040 --> 01:04:25,740
and I feel certain we get a PO and everything in place this week,

795
01:04:25,880 --> 01:04:29,040
and I'll give them the green light to go ahead and get it cut this week

796
01:04:29,040 --> 01:04:30,100
when the weather breaks.

797
01:04:30,100 --> 01:04:34,840
But the terms were April 1st through October 31st,

798
01:04:34,840 --> 01:04:36,660
kind of on the same moment schedule we've been on.

799
01:04:36,940 --> 01:04:39,320
Last two years, we started some moment in March.

800
01:04:39,880 --> 01:04:42,080
We started last week on some moment

801
01:04:42,080 --> 01:04:43,960
just because we had to get a hold of it.

802
01:04:44,000 --> 01:04:47,660
But with them, it's April 1st through October 31st.

803
01:04:47,820 --> 01:04:48,100
Time period.

804
01:05:01,060 --> 01:05:03,840
We're going to keep the two grounds jobs open.

805
01:05:08,920 --> 01:05:11,860
So there's a motion in second to accept the Advantage

806
01:05:11,860 --> 01:05:12,560
Long Care Bed.

807
01:05:12,700 --> 01:05:13,140
All in favor?

808
01:05:14,020 --> 01:05:14,480
Opposed?

809
01:05:15,240 --> 01:05:15,460
Mary?

810
01:05:15,460 --> 01:05:16,360
Thank you.

811
01:05:20,490 --> 01:05:21,250
Department of Health.

812
01:05:30,040 --> 01:05:31,320
Hi, I'm J.J. Justice.

813
01:05:31,560 --> 01:05:34,040
I'm the Emergency Supervisor with Eastern Shore Health District.

814
01:05:34,740 --> 01:05:38,240
And I'm just here to talk about everybody has a packet, I think, Tanya.

815
01:05:38,700 --> 01:05:39,960
Passes out to everyone.

816
01:05:40,720 --> 01:05:46,080
Regarding some MOUs with our agency and Accomat County Public Schools,

817
01:05:46,800 --> 01:05:51,600
the first would be a closed pod, which is a point of dispensing MOU,

818
01:05:51,980 --> 01:05:55,460
which would allow us in a public health emergency,

819
01:05:55,460 --> 01:06:02,300
where an emergency is declared, to be able to basically get medication to your organization

820
01:06:02,900 --> 01:06:07,760
and then you could handle it yourself to give out to your employees and or their family members

821
01:06:07,760 --> 01:06:14,540
if you so choose. You could choose in the, if you look at the MOU, you could choose whether

822
01:06:14,540 --> 01:06:19,120
just, you just your staff or if you want employees and their family members. So they

823
01:06:19,120 --> 01:06:24,200
would be able to pick up for their family members as well. So you basically put how

824
01:06:24,200 --> 01:06:30,260
any staff you have and then we do like a 2.5 times the number of staff if you're including

825
01:06:30,260 --> 01:06:32,540
family members as well to get a good average.

826
01:06:33,980 --> 01:06:43,220
So this would allow basically anyone with health services to set up a dispensing station

827
01:06:43,740 --> 01:06:47,600
to give out to all your staff so you wouldn't have to stand in line and wait at a public

828
01:06:47,600 --> 01:06:48,500
dispensing station.

829
01:06:48,680 --> 01:06:51,520
You could get back to your own jobs.

830
01:06:51,520 --> 01:06:55,460
you could take care of your family and not have to worry about that. This is for something like

831
01:06:55,460 --> 01:07:00,700
antibiotics or pills that would be needed in an event of an emergency public health emergency.

832
01:07:01,380 --> 01:07:08,340
The second MOU is for vaccination. So basically that would allow us to come in similar to what we

833
01:07:08,340 --> 01:07:14,940
did during the COVID vaccination where we went in and do a high school and had we're able to

834
01:07:14,940 --> 01:07:17,160
to vaccinate people as well.

835
01:07:17,580 --> 01:07:19,680
So the second one is more for mass vaccination,

836
01:07:19,680 --> 01:07:23,360
so it allows us to come into the facility.

837
01:07:24,040 --> 01:07:26,920
And also there's a little bit of a language in there

838
01:07:26,920 --> 01:07:28,040
about transportation.

839
01:07:28,360 --> 01:07:31,160
If transportation is needed during a public health

840
01:07:31,160 --> 01:07:34,680
emergency where buses may have to be used

841
01:07:34,680 --> 01:07:37,700
if we had to get people to the schools for vaccination.

842
01:07:38,620 --> 01:07:43,720
I've included the letter of support

843
01:07:43,720 --> 01:07:47,920
from Akamak County Emergency Management, C. Ray Pruitt.

844
01:07:48,800 --> 01:07:53,020
For these MOUs, we have several clothes pod MOUs already in place

845
01:07:53,020 --> 01:07:56,500
with Riverside Shore Memorial Hospital, Eastern Shore Rural Health,

846
01:07:57,020 --> 01:07:59,980
Akamak County Department of Public Safety, Akamak Sheriff's Office.

847
01:08:01,060 --> 01:08:03,520
Northampton County Public Schools just signed on.

848
01:08:04,080 --> 01:08:09,440
All of the nursing homes, Purdue farms, Community College,

849
01:08:09,440 --> 01:08:13,740
Eastern Shore Regional, J.O., Northampton County, E.M.S.,

850
01:08:13,740 --> 01:08:18,040
Wildlife Flight Facility, and Community Services Board.

851
01:08:18,220 --> 01:08:21,100
So we have several organizations on the shore that have these in place.

852
01:08:22,400 --> 01:08:25,940
Basically, this helps you all because it allows you to take

853
01:08:25,940 --> 01:08:29,840
care of your staff and their families. It also helps

854
01:08:29,840 --> 01:08:33,620
us at the Public Health Department because it'll be less people standing in those

855
01:08:33,620 --> 01:08:35,620
lines at public dispensing sites.

856
01:08:37,560 --> 01:08:45,500
I've also included on the back just some information about the Public Readiness and Emergency

857
01:08:45,500 --> 01:08:50,500
Preparedness Act, which is a federal act, and then also the Code of Virginia, the immunity

858
01:08:50,500 --> 01:08:52,720
of liability during a public health emergency.

859
01:08:54,300 --> 01:09:00,280
So we are just coming to you to let you know what this is about.

860
01:09:00,480 --> 01:09:03,060
So if you have any questions right now for me.

861
01:09:07,670 --> 01:09:09,390
Thank you for preparing all this.

862
01:09:09,690 --> 01:09:09,850
Sure.

863
01:09:10,550 --> 01:09:13,770
If you all have further questions after you read over it or anything,

864
01:09:15,030 --> 01:09:19,530
and need to contact me, Dr. Hall and Tanya both have my e-mail and phone numbers.

865
01:09:19,890 --> 01:09:20,450
Thank you.

866
01:09:21,010 --> 01:09:22,190
I'll get these to you, Julie.

867
01:09:22,310 --> 01:09:22,590
Great.

868
01:09:22,850 --> 01:09:23,530
Thank you so much.

869
01:09:23,750 --> 01:09:24,110
Thank you.

870
01:09:34,260 --> 01:09:38,140
So next, 13.03 is school day start times.

871
01:09:38,140 --> 01:09:40,520
And you

872
01:09:42,760 --> 01:09:50,260
all were emailed earlier in the week some research about the benefits of high school

873
01:09:50,260 --> 01:09:51,960
children starting school later.

874
01:09:53,220 --> 01:09:57,200
And I wanted to have kind of a public discussion about this.

875
01:09:57,320 --> 01:10:00,400
I know before COVID, all the schools started at 8 o'clock.

876
01:10:00,560 --> 01:10:06,980
And then some kind of way it was decided that high school would start at 7.30 and

877
01:10:06,980 --> 01:10:08,480
elementary would start at 8.30.

878
01:10:08,480 --> 01:10:12,540
I'm not sure who made that decision or how that happened, but it happened.

879
01:10:13,340 --> 01:10:18,140
And then when our calendar got into trouble and we had to extend the school day, we didn't

880
01:10:18,140 --> 01:10:23,640
add time to the end of the day, but we instead started the high school even earlier.

881
01:10:24,240 --> 01:10:29,680
So last year, the second semester, instruction started at 7.15.

882
01:10:31,280 --> 01:10:34,860
I think there was a lot of tardy people every day.

883
01:10:34,860 --> 01:10:39,060
with the additional burden of the staff having to get everybody

884
01:10:39,060 --> 01:10:42,500
through the metal detectors and the backpacks checked. It was a long line.

885
01:10:45,140 --> 01:10:47,280
So none of the research is

886
01:10:47,280 --> 01:10:50,900
attached here for the public to see, but there is

887
01:10:50,900 --> 01:10:54,860
significant research from the CDC, the American Academy of Pediatrics,

888
01:10:55,880 --> 01:10:57,620
the National Health Organization,

889
01:10:59,400 --> 01:11:03,080
that high school children are indeed not lazy, but they do need

890
01:11:03,080 --> 01:11:08,480
more sleep and they need more rest and they do better, and I'm sorry I don't have all the

891
01:11:08,480 --> 01:11:12,080
research in front of me, but they do better with a later start time.

892
01:11:13,200 --> 01:11:21,000
There are even school divisions, as a way to get their test scores up, move their high

893
01:11:21,000 --> 01:11:23,020
school start times to later in the day.

894
01:11:24,650 --> 01:11:25,710
So

895
01:11:35,380 --> 01:11:55,060
I have been informed that for you to comment that is a deviation of Robert's rules of order and we would need six votes to allow to abandon the rules and let you speak on a thing that we're going to vote on.

896
01:11:56,430 --> 01:11:59,010
Madam Chair this

897
01:12:02,760 --> 01:12:08,000
to your point this agenda item shows for information it

898
01:12:08,000 --> 01:12:15,160
doesn't show for a vote am I am I reading it wrong it got placed on the agenda in

899
01:12:15,160 --> 01:12:23,770
the wrong this is the agenda we adopted it it is but okay there's no reason we

900
01:12:23,770 --> 01:12:26,370
did that at the last meeting we voted on something that was on the

901
01:12:26,370 --> 01:12:31,210
discussion items we do that regularly and we're trying to clean up the

902
01:12:31,210 --> 01:12:34,070
agenda, but sometimes those things happen.

903
01:12:35,010 --> 01:12:38,850
I'd like to move that Dr. Hall be able to comment, please.

904
01:12:40,090 --> 01:12:40,310
OK.

905
01:12:41,630 --> 01:12:44,910
Are there, we need six of us for Dr. Hall to comment.

906
01:12:45,310 --> 01:12:45,970
All in favor?

907
01:12:46,670 --> 01:12:46,930
Aye.

908
01:12:47,410 --> 01:12:47,970
Opposed?

909
01:12:51,020 --> 01:12:53,560
I was just, when you mentioned this to me,

910
01:12:53,840 --> 01:12:55,380
I started doing some of the research.

911
01:12:56,160 --> 01:13:00,860
And what I found out is that this

912
01:13:00,860 --> 01:13:06,060
was started because of lack of drivers. And that's what started all of this.

913
01:13:06,220 --> 01:13:10,560
Everybody would like to start at eight o'clock and get out at a certain time. But

914
01:13:10,560 --> 01:13:19,580
before COVID, we had 114 full time and part time drivers. Now we have 86 schools

915
01:13:19,580 --> 01:13:24,540
across the country went to tiered runs. And we were one of the last ones in

916
01:13:24,540 --> 01:13:28,440
Virginia who was doing this, who was having this problem. We won the last

917
01:13:28,440 --> 01:13:35,180
to go to a tiered one, but we went to a tiered one so that we could be able to get all of

918
01:13:35,180 --> 01:13:40,160
our kids to school because of the decrease in drivers.

919
01:13:40,820 --> 01:13:48,120
I talked to Paul and he did send me some information just for informational purposes

920
01:13:48,120 --> 01:13:48,860
for everyone.

921
01:13:50,140 --> 01:13:55,100
So with that, we have 45 drivers out of those 86.

922
01:13:55,100 --> 01:13:58,740
We have 45 of them that do the tiered runs.

923
01:13:59,360 --> 01:14:02,640
14 of those drivers work in schools also.

924
01:14:04,100 --> 01:14:12,160
In his comments, he says, if the drivers aren't doing tiered runs, they are covering badger runs all ed at all levels.

925
01:14:12,720 --> 01:14:18,460
McKinney-Vento students, teachers for tomorrow, secondary after-school programs,

926
01:14:18,840 --> 01:14:22,420
and they are substituting for any absent tiered run driver.

927
01:14:22,420 --> 01:14:32,860
plus athletic trips. He said we do about 48 mid-day runs and that with only a handful

928
01:14:32,860 --> 01:14:39,080
of drivers that aren't doing extra runs, that's all they have is not a handful that's

929
01:14:39,080 --> 01:14:44,920
not doing extra run. Changing bell times would have a major impact on our current operations

930
01:14:44,920 --> 01:14:50,220
but there are other things to consider also. Elementary students would be getting picked

931
01:14:50,220 --> 01:14:53,220
up as early as 6.15 in the morning.

932
01:14:54,000 --> 01:14:55,900
The reason for this would be in order

933
01:14:55,900 --> 01:14:59,120
to get the secondary students to school by 8.15

934
01:14:59,120 --> 01:14:59,820
because.

935
01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:04,860
They'd have to be at the first stop to pick up or they'd have to start picking up the high

936
01:15:04,860 --> 01:15:13,000
school kids by 7.15. Elementary special education students requiring wheelchair lift service would

937
01:15:13,000 --> 01:15:18,760
be loading in the dark. Parents would have to make arrangements for someone to be at home

938
01:15:18,760 --> 01:15:24,820
to receive their elementary school students. Many secondary students currently do that

939
01:15:24,820 --> 01:15:30,420
for their parents. Elementary school after school programs would not have drivers because

940
01:15:30,420 --> 01:15:35,820
they would be taking secondary students home. Athletic programs would run later in the day

941
01:15:35,820 --> 01:15:40,900
and student athletes would leave seat time because they would need to leave early in

942
01:15:40,900 --> 01:15:46,300
the instructional day. And so this is the information that he sent me to go along

943
01:15:46,300 --> 01:15:49,520
with this item on the agenda.

944
01:15:49,520 --> 01:15:59,310
I think we will always have tiered runs, I mean there's no way we'll ever be able to

945
01:15:59,970 --> 01:16:02,030
everybody start at the same time again.

946
01:16:02,570 --> 01:16:08,250
So the one thing that I would ask if we decide to pursue this and go forward, I know you

947
01:16:08,250 --> 01:16:14,510
said that you've had parents, some students, some teachers that are asking to change this,

948
01:16:14,510 --> 01:16:21,530
but is it possible for transparency and to get our school input, everybody's input,

949
01:16:21,830 --> 01:16:25,830
parents, students and staff to do a survey and then come back to this.

950
01:16:25,970 --> 01:16:32,210
And if they, because if we let them do a survey and the survey says yes, that they want to change the time,

951
01:16:32,550 --> 01:16:37,190
then we can let them know that when you say you want the time to change,

952
01:16:37,570 --> 01:16:43,410
that means that your six-year-old is going to be at the bus stop in the wintertime in the dark.

953
01:16:43,410 --> 01:16:51,530
And it gives more input, and it gives more of the school division an opportunity to be transparent about the change.

954
01:16:57,320 --> 01:17:08,980
Like for you to take a look at the whole thing, like I know we've gotten, we feel like we're married to 7th, 8th, 30th, but could we not be married to 8th and 9th?

955
01:17:09,160 --> 01:17:15,180
You know what I'm saying? It doesn't, you can do whatever is going to work.

956
01:17:17,020 --> 01:17:20,280
But we can look at that. It just pushes everything back.

957
01:17:20,700 --> 01:17:28,020
I will say I had some high school people say to me, and everybody knows the high school, they got a lot going on after school.

958
01:17:28,180 --> 01:17:30,280
There's clubs, there's sports, there's practice.

959
01:17:31,100 --> 01:17:34,220
Some of our high school administrators are putting in 16-hour days.

960
01:17:34,840 --> 01:17:38,580
They get the school at 6. There's Mr. 17-hour right there.

961
01:17:38,820 --> 01:17:41,620
They get the school at 6. The kids start getting there at 7.

962
01:17:42,860 --> 01:17:49,280
Then they're there, they have to watch the kids, the kids stay for practice or until practice starts.

963
01:17:49,860 --> 01:17:55,080
And then there's a game, and next thing you know, they've got a 12, 14 hour day.

964
01:17:55,800 --> 01:18:05,500
It's not, and I don't mean to diminish elementary school in any way, but they don't have basketball games at 8 o'clock at night in an elementary school.

965
01:18:05,500 --> 01:18:12,460
So the elementary, they have a more finite period of time that the teachers and the administrators are in the building.

966
01:18:12,720 --> 01:18:15,700
But high school, they have to stay until the basketball game is over.

967
01:18:15,820 --> 01:18:17,940
And it is a very long day for some of those people.

968
01:18:18,520 --> 01:18:22,580
So we could help them in any way and start their day a little later.

969
01:18:23,120 --> 01:18:25,740
I think that might be, that would be appreciated.

970
01:18:26,260 --> 01:18:26,720
Yes, sir.

971
01:18:26,940 --> 01:18:27,520
I have a question.

972
01:18:27,640 --> 01:18:28,800
I understand that Tia runs.

973
01:18:29,380 --> 01:18:35,120
How long do we need between when they drop secondary school off where they have to start picking primary school kids?

974
01:18:35,120 --> 01:18:40,420
usually do about an hour. It takes him an hour to do okay between it. But if you

975
01:18:40,420 --> 01:18:45,660
make secondary school time start later, it doesn't necessarily mean we have to

976
01:18:45,660 --> 01:18:49,420
flip-flop that with primary school does it can't we push that back later as

977
01:18:49,420 --> 01:18:54,340
well because I don't I mean I don't want any I'm getting home in the dark but you

978
01:18:54,340 --> 01:18:57,160
know it's bad I get on the road in the winter time before the sun comes up

979
01:18:57,160 --> 01:19:00,400
start my job and there's kids standing at bus stop. I mean obviously it's

980
01:19:00,400 --> 01:19:04,660
better for the older kids but it's not good for any kids. It's really not.

981
01:19:04,660 --> 01:19:10,960
I mean, I mean we can look at the times but either way somebody is gonna get home

982
01:19:10,960 --> 01:19:16,460
and in the dark if we push it back to as a Janice at eight and nine o'clock

983
01:19:16,460 --> 01:19:20,400
starting with the nine o'clock with the elementary and eight o'clock with the

984
01:19:20,400 --> 01:19:26,580
high school then the elementary are gonna be getting home at you know what

985
01:19:26,580 --> 01:19:31,220
what time would that get them out of school for it well right now they

986
01:19:31,220 --> 01:19:39,060
primary at 830 and they get out about 345 345 but we can look at that I'm gonna

987
01:19:39,060 --> 01:19:41,700
look at pushing the time you're right in the middle of the winter time it will

988
01:19:41,700 --> 01:19:45,680
put them at the last one in hours what you said would be 515 in the middle

989
01:19:45,680 --> 01:19:49,700
winter it is getting dark at 5 o'clock if I remember correct I'm not a

990
01:19:49,700 --> 01:19:51,760
meteorologist by far but I

991
01:19:54,480 --> 01:20:00,880
generally I can understand and generally support the

992
01:20:00,880 --> 01:20:10,740
benefits of a later start time. That said, I did send 12 questions with an overarching

993
01:20:10,740 --> 01:20:16,780
question I sent to everyone on the board. The overarching question is when can we schedule

994
01:20:16,780 --> 01:20:23,240
a public comment meeting? I would summarize the 12 questions in this way. One is around

995
01:20:23,820 --> 01:20:29,120
the demographics of the parents who are requesting the shift. I'm asking for percentages.

996
01:20:29,120 --> 01:20:32,580
is, as an example, single-parent homes.

997
01:20:33,440 --> 01:20:37,260
What is the percentage of parents who are requesting the change?

998
01:20:37,900 --> 01:20:45,980
The second question is around child care implications for working single-parents before and after

999
01:20:45,980 --> 01:20:46,280
school.

1000
01:20:46,400 --> 01:20:53,060
The third is around impacts to clubs, sport times, if we adopt later times.

1001
01:20:53,060 --> 01:21:01,160
The fourth is implications for after-school care to stay open later in the day for the

1002
01:21:01,160 --> 01:21:01,940
youngest students.

1003
01:21:02,180 --> 01:21:08,760
The fifth is around bus transportation, six, quality of life effects on teachers and their

1004
01:21:08,760 --> 01:21:09,580
loved ones.

1005
01:21:10,000 --> 01:21:15,380
What about teachers who are parents, the seventh, impact on tutoring clubs, meetings

1006
01:21:15,380 --> 01:21:20,160
such as PTA and with this meeting, the school board meeting need to shift to later.

1007
01:21:20,160 --> 01:21:26,420
The eighth is to ask what is the position of the staff coordinators and the superintendent.

1008
01:21:26,840 --> 01:21:32,920
The ninth, what would a gradual transition look like, when would we affect the change?

1009
01:21:33,000 --> 01:21:35,080
Would it be September the 10th?

1010
01:21:35,080 --> 01:21:42,040
Is around the young mainland students who psychologically would have to be to shift

1011
01:21:42,040 --> 01:21:47,360
to arriving at home, dust to dart during the winter months.

1012
01:21:47,360 --> 01:21:50,660
and I ask about the mental health implications.

1013
01:21:50,840 --> 01:21:55,300
The 11th is around the impacts of a later day

1014
01:21:55,300 --> 01:21:58,700
on the cafeteria employees, on the custodial employees,

1015
01:21:59,680 --> 01:22:01,400
believing that some of these staff

1016
01:22:01,400 --> 01:22:02,800
probably have second jobs.

1017
01:22:02,960 --> 01:22:05,900
And then the 12th is what did the pre-KK

1018
01:22:05,900 --> 01:22:07,740
and first grade teachers have to say

1019
01:22:07,740 --> 01:22:11,500
around shorter morning instruction time

1020
01:22:11,500 --> 01:22:12,960
when there are some indications

1021
01:22:12,960 --> 01:22:16,440
that the youngest students sometimes check out

1022
01:22:16,440 --> 01:22:17,820
after lunch.

1023
01:22:43,530 --> 01:22:49,750
Madam Chair, are we going to push this off to another meeting?

1024
01:22:55,780 --> 01:22:56,300
We could

1025
01:22:56,300 --> 01:23:03,320
push it off to the next to next time and allow for public comment but I will

1026
01:23:03,320 --> 01:23:12,320
just say so many things that we have to consider have an assortment of research

1027
01:23:12,320 --> 01:23:18,480
and we talk about making data driven decisions all the time and here we have

1028
01:23:18,480 --> 01:23:23,380
an opportunity to make a data driven decision that the research is really

1029
01:23:23,380 --> 01:23:30,640
very supportive of this it's one might say overwhelming and I would hate to

1030
01:23:30,640 --> 01:23:38,340
miss this opportunity because you know some big for some arbitrary reason so

1031
01:23:38,340 --> 01:23:42,060
But I would like to have public comment, always like public comment.

1032
01:23:42,860 --> 01:23:48,400
Yeah, I don't disagree with you that maybe moving later would be better,

1033
01:23:48,460 --> 01:23:51,500
but I think a public comment would be good to get some input.

1034
01:23:52,120 --> 01:23:56,620
And I think possibly the transparency of, you know, to see,

1035
01:23:56,740 --> 01:23:59,720
because we had some parents that said,

1036
01:23:59,840 --> 01:24:02,040
you're an administrator, say that this would be better,

1037
01:24:02,180 --> 01:24:05,200
and so we might have some that think that some others are better.

1038
01:24:05,840 --> 01:24:06,960
We can take all inputs.

1039
01:24:09,740 --> 01:24:16,000
Can we please get a survey of all employees and parents of send out a survey to all of them?

1040
01:24:16,440 --> 01:24:19,340
That's that or that. We can search through through.

1041
01:24:21,180 --> 01:24:22,780
Because that would be more of a termination.

1042
01:24:28,300 --> 01:24:28,720
Yes.

1043
01:24:30,140 --> 01:24:33,680
Madam Chair, the only question I have about the survey is I understand it.

1044
01:24:33,720 --> 01:24:38,720
I don't mind doing it, but should we, you know, what times are you going to move these to?

1045
01:24:38,720 --> 01:24:42,620
Are you pushing everything back half hour? Are you pushing everything back an hour?

1046
01:24:43,560 --> 01:24:48,880
So the data, the research says 8.30 and after is best.

1047
01:24:49,240 --> 01:24:50,440
Yes, ma'am. I read that.

1048
01:24:50,760 --> 01:24:54,820
8.30 and after, according to the research. Yes.

1049
01:24:55,560 --> 01:24:57,780
I'm just wondering if we could do that just for the summer.

1050
01:24:58,380 --> 01:25:01,520
Well, excuse me, not the summer, but it's spring and fall.

1051
01:25:01,800 --> 01:25:04,220
I mean, fall, we don't want the kids in the dark. I'm sorry.

1052
01:25:05,180 --> 01:25:06,660
They're already in the dark.

1053
01:25:06,660 --> 01:25:10,460
The buses are on the highway, stopped on the highway in the dark already.

1054
01:25:13,970 --> 01:25:14,870
Days are too short.

1055
01:25:18,460 --> 01:25:20,580
That's something for the safety committee to take up.

1056
01:25:22,260 --> 01:25:24,280
Buses stopping on the highway in the dark.

1057
01:25:25,060 --> 01:25:30,760
Madam Chair, the only other comment, one of the findings,

1058
01:25:31,380 --> 01:25:34,000
I can't remember exactly which part of Maryland,

1059
01:25:34,220 --> 01:25:38,300
but Maryland before changing the school start times,

1060
01:25:38,640 --> 01:25:40,660
at least in one region, I'd have to pull it back up.

1061
01:25:40,660 --> 01:25:48,760
But they took six months to gather data, such as we're talking about together through a survey,

1062
01:25:49,140 --> 01:25:56,080
through public comments and such, you know, took a multidisciplinary approach.

1063
01:25:56,300 --> 01:25:59,340
I'm just sharing in case it's helpful, but I was intrigued.

1064
01:25:59,580 --> 01:26:08,060
I am intrigued with the fact that they took six months to study before they put the

1065
01:26:08,060 --> 01:26:09,040
changes into effect.

1066
01:26:09,040 --> 01:26:09,860
I'm

1067
01:26:16,230 --> 01:26:23,230
sure the question, how long would it take to complete the survey?

1068
01:26:23,950 --> 01:26:30,450
Imagine that you would just email everyone the survey, the stats, parents, and the teachers

1069
01:26:30,450 --> 01:26:36,150
and the high school students, we could just email that elementary students would probably

1070
01:26:36,150 --> 01:26:39,370
need more of a hard copy to go home and that's even better for them.

1071
01:26:39,530 --> 01:26:44,670
I will say and I appreciate the fact that there was an effort in the last

1072
01:26:46,850 --> 01:26:47,350
year that

1073
01:26:47,350 --> 01:26:53,970
we presented the calendars. And we have a lot of employees. We have almost 4,800 students.

1074
01:26:54,330 --> 01:27:00,350
We should have 4,800 parents. The participation rate for the survey was not very good. It

1075
01:27:00,350 --> 01:27:06,330
was like 1,200. And, you know, so.

1076
01:27:08,440 --> 01:27:11,260
But the survey didn't cost a lot or take a lot of time.

1077
01:27:11,300 --> 01:27:15,000
No, but you wonder if with such a small sample, how accurate is that?

1078
01:27:15,180 --> 01:27:15,460
I agree.

1079
01:27:15,460 --> 01:27:19,160
You know, anyway, I think we should move on.

1080
01:27:19,920 --> 01:27:23,800
Ms. Only, would you like to, or no, I'm sorry, Mr. Bowden,

1081
01:27:27,590 --> 01:27:31,480
finally, finally, it's your turn.

1082
01:27:39,510 --> 01:27:40,030
Absolutely,

1083
01:27:45,460 --> 01:27:47,720
we're working out of boxes currently.

1084
01:27:48,340 --> 01:27:50,060
Jack Bowden, technology coordinator.

1085
01:27:50,800 --> 01:27:58,260
So I'm here to update the board on how we're going to give access to the local law enforcement agencies or entities.

1086
01:28:00,220 --> 01:28:03,800
Basically, we establish a relationship with the entity.

1087
01:28:04,300 --> 01:28:08,160
We obtain a list of names and HID card information for each person.

1088
01:28:08,740 --> 01:28:11,540
We program the card access system with those credentials,

1089
01:28:12,080 --> 01:28:15,800
and then we implement a change log process with the entities.

1090
01:28:17,040 --> 01:28:24,140
The only limiting factor I see for the smaller agencies of law enforcement

1091
01:28:24,140 --> 01:28:28,480
is that they don't have assigned chip-enabled cards.

1092
01:28:29,460 --> 01:28:32,220
If they don't, how are they going to get access to the schools?

1093
01:28:33,280 --> 01:28:35,920
One possible option is issuing physical keys,

1094
01:28:36,440 --> 01:28:38,880
but I think that we would probably have an issue with

1095
01:28:38,880 --> 01:28:42,820
tracking and maintaining those more than we would with these.

1096
01:28:44,160 --> 01:28:48,120
So, but that's the process I'm working on or I'm using right now

1097
01:28:48,120 --> 01:28:51,660
to get the local law enforcement's access to the schools.

1098
01:28:52,320 --> 01:28:57,480
Currently, for the Sheriff's Office, I'm waiting on updates from the Sheriff's Department

1099
01:28:57,480 --> 01:29:02,100
and the County Public Works Department for an updated list of these names and credentials.

1100
01:29:03,480 --> 01:29:08,160
With the Memphis State Police, Sergeant Ranez has provided me the name of the troopers,

1101
01:29:08,360 --> 01:29:11,800
and he's working with the County Magistrates Office in getting me their credentials.

1102
01:29:12,860 --> 01:29:17,200
The local law enforcement, I'm working on establishing a contact with each one of those,

1103
01:29:17,200 --> 01:29:21,320
and then I will work and gather those names and the HID card credentials.

1104
01:29:22,400 --> 01:29:25,500
And finally, all your AUS badges are uploaded

1105
01:29:25,500 --> 01:29:29,460
and working Monday through Friday, 6 in the morning,

1106
01:29:29,780 --> 01:29:33,220
6 at night, except on Tuesdays when it sends to 1845

1107
01:29:33,220 --> 01:29:34,880
or 645 for access.

1108
01:29:39,420 --> 01:29:39,740
Questions?

1109
01:29:46,430 --> 01:29:50,870
Appreciate being included with the emails, but the auto local law enforcement will have the same

1110
01:29:50,870 --> 01:29:54,750
card that the state police used to get in and out of the magistrate area. Everybody

1111
01:29:54,750 --> 01:29:56,030
the body has those same cards.

1112
01:29:56,710 --> 01:29:58,110
If that helps, that'll help.

1113
01:29:58,110 --> 01:29:59,110
For the state police, yes.

1114
01:30:00,000 --> 01:30:04,440
Yes, but I'm saying all the local law enforcement will have these same cards.

1115
01:30:04,800 --> 01:30:06,920
Okay. All of them have access to them. I will. I will check.

1116
01:30:07,020 --> 01:30:08,680
If that helps. Yes, it does.

1117
01:30:08,920 --> 01:30:15,460
And secondly, if you need help with getting contact information for all the chiefs for the local towns in Accomack County,

1118
01:30:15,880 --> 01:30:18,440
send me an email or call me tomorrow and I'll help you out with that too.

1119
01:30:18,480 --> 01:30:20,500
Got you. Appreciate it. Yes, sir. No problem.

1120
01:30:22,790 --> 01:30:24,910
You have like a timeline for this rollout?

1121
01:30:25,330 --> 01:30:31,050
As soon as I get the information, the biggest one is the deputies, 33 of them.

1122
01:30:31,050 --> 01:30:36,470
I mean, but we've got over 1,000 HID cards in our system, so as I get the information,

1123
01:30:36,950 --> 01:30:43,630
I upload it in and let my point of contact know at each entity that their access is ready.

1124
01:30:44,430 --> 01:30:50,170
And we will be granting all law enforcement 24-7 access, all doors.

1125
01:30:52,260 --> 01:30:54,600
So their badge will look like your badge?

1126
01:30:55,240 --> 01:30:56,540
I have no idea.

1127
01:30:56,900 --> 01:31:00,140
There's so many flavors of these badges, sometimes they're the little dots.

1128
01:31:00,980 --> 01:31:03,940
sometimes are just like this one. It just varies.

1129
01:31:05,500 --> 01:31:10,240
Madam Chair, when I was doing it 15, 16 months ago now,

1130
01:31:10,420 --> 01:31:14,160
it was just a plain white card, same size, plain white card, but it was chip enabled.

1131
01:31:14,560 --> 01:31:17,340
This is the most common one, is this one, but there are other...

1132
01:31:17,720 --> 01:31:20,020
There you go. Deputy Campbell has one back there.

1133
01:31:23,160 --> 01:31:27,480
So, and as long as there are HID 26 key enabled cards,

1134
01:31:27,800 --> 01:31:30,120
and you support the standard, they'll work just fine.

1135
01:31:30,820 --> 01:31:37,740
Would you, when everyone is done, could you just shoot us all an e-mail and let us know that they're all...

1136
01:31:37,740 --> 01:31:38,700
I'll shoot you all.

1137
01:31:38,840 --> 01:31:39,460
That would be good.

1138
01:31:39,800 --> 01:31:40,020
Okay, thank you.

1139
01:31:40,040 --> 01:31:40,740
I like the e-mail.

1140
01:31:41,120 --> 01:31:41,500
Do I not?

1141
01:31:41,660 --> 01:31:42,100
Dr. Hall?

1142
01:31:45,860 --> 01:31:46,740
Any other questions?

1143
01:31:47,480 --> 01:31:47,880
Comments?

1144
01:31:48,040 --> 01:31:48,160
Okay.

1145
01:31:48,340 --> 01:31:48,760
Thank you all.

1146
01:31:48,820 --> 01:31:49,240
Thank you.

1147
01:31:49,520 --> 01:31:49,800
Thank you.

1148
01:31:52,960 --> 01:31:53,580
This only.

1149
01:32:04,960 --> 01:32:05,440
Good evening.

1150
01:32:05,900 --> 01:32:06,160
Good evening.

1151
01:32:08,510 --> 01:32:15,670
I've kind of put the title of this cares as her ARP funds because they've been called a conglomerate of that

1152
01:32:15,670 --> 01:32:22,010
over the extended period. So I'm just going to give an overview. The first one

1153
01:32:22,010 --> 01:32:27,110
that we applied for was our SR-1 allocation. We applied for that in

1154
01:32:27,110 --> 01:32:34,290
August of 2020. We made amendments in August of 21 and October of 21. It was

1155
01:32:34,290 --> 01:32:42,770
1.689 million. It expired in September of 21 and we expended it timely. So

1156
01:32:42,770 --> 01:32:44,510
that closed in September of 21.

1157
01:32:46,170 --> 01:32:50,550
These were the items, and this is on board docs and it's on public.

1158
01:32:50,810 --> 01:32:54,730
So I know it's a whole lot of items, and I'm not going to go over them, but these are the

1159
01:32:54,730 --> 01:33:00,110
items that the SR1 funding covered and paid for.

1160
01:33:00,710 --> 01:33:06,770
You'll see some consistency in this, because in SR1, just take the very first one, part-time

1161
01:33:06,770 --> 01:33:07,890
assistive personnel.

1162
01:33:08,610 --> 01:33:10,770
The first year we did this, they were part-time.

1163
01:33:10,770 --> 01:33:14,130
and then in a future S or allocation, they became full-time.

1164
01:33:14,310 --> 01:33:17,970
So it's not like they're redundant, it's time period.

1165
01:33:18,190 --> 01:33:21,410
So if you do see duplicity here, it's because of that,

1166
01:33:21,490 --> 01:33:24,250
because we were continuing on with what we saw

1167
01:33:24,250 --> 01:33:26,030
as a valuable service.

1168
01:33:26,890 --> 01:33:29,190
So you see, especially with the first one,

1169
01:33:29,530 --> 01:33:33,790
there's a lot of disinfectant face masks,

1170
01:33:33,970 --> 01:33:35,950
all that kind of stuff, because this was us going,

1171
01:33:36,610 --> 01:33:39,010
you know, as it was applied for in August of 2020,

1172
01:33:39,010 --> 01:33:47,910
This is as we were going back to school with the hybrid AB plan and so we were doing lots of that type of thing.

1173
01:33:49,450 --> 01:33:57,570
Then basically the same time we wrote a number of competitive grants, whereas the first one, SR1, was an allocation.

1174
01:33:57,970 --> 01:33:59,410
That is what we were given.

1175
01:33:59,570 --> 01:34:02,830
We didn't have to try to get more or less.

1176
01:34:02,990 --> 01:34:06,830
That 1.6 was what Acomac County Schools was allotted.

1177
01:34:06,830 --> 01:34:09,450
So these were all competitive grants.

1178
01:34:10,630 --> 01:34:13,210
We applied for them in August of 20.

1179
01:34:13,650 --> 01:34:16,570
They expired in September of 21.

1180
01:34:17,170 --> 01:34:19,310
They were all expended timely.

1181
01:34:19,810 --> 01:34:24,670
Just to let you know, the biggest one on that on vision was a technology-driven grant.

1182
01:34:25,590 --> 01:34:30,490
So the other one's vision, we got a lot more than we thought we were going to get,

1183
01:34:30,570 --> 01:34:33,910
but some of them, like, say, facilities upgrade or cleaning supplies,

1184
01:34:33,910 --> 01:34:43,670
You looked at a rubric and saw what a division or side was allowed to apply for, but it was still competitive and you had to apply to receive the grants.

1185
01:34:46,260 --> 01:34:56,280
Then came the S or 2 allocation. That application was March of 21. We amended it in September and November of 23.

1186
01:34:56,280 --> 01:34:59,840
You might notice it expired in September of 23.

1187
01:34:59,980 --> 01:35:01,860
Why is there an amendment after the fact?

1188
01:35:02,320 --> 01:35:08,380
Because somebody at the state level classified something in object code 3000 that we had

1189
01:35:08,380 --> 01:35:11,300
a count of foreign object code 8000 or something like that.

1190
01:35:11,320 --> 01:35:13,400
It was just a change of object code.

1191
01:35:13,640 --> 01:35:22,080
That was just 5.956 million and we expended that timely and completely as well.

1192
01:35:23,260 --> 01:35:25,100
And this is what that funded.

1193
01:35:25,100 --> 01:35:28,880
And once again, you'll see the common thread of the part-time custodian and the part-time

1194
01:35:28,880 --> 01:35:29,840
assistive personnel.

1195
01:35:30,400 --> 01:35:34,440
You'll see some big items that we talked a lot about in here, the touch-free bathroom

1196
01:35:34,440 --> 01:35:40,680
fixtures, the slope metal roof at Shinkateg High School, the fresh air HVAC system at

1197
01:35:40,680 --> 01:35:43,520
Shinkateg High School, the bus purification units.

1198
01:35:43,760 --> 01:35:46,500
These are things that I think have all come up in these meetings.

1199
01:35:51,260 --> 01:35:55,400
Then we had the CSL FRF HVAC.

1200
01:35:55,400 --> 01:36:01,280
We applied for that in November of 21. We did an amendment in January of 23.

1201
01:36:01,960 --> 01:36:07,480
This was $955,514. This was competitive as well.

1202
01:36:08,120 --> 01:36:14,020
If we had not had the local match requirement that we had replaced the chillers at Shinkateg Elementary,

1203
01:36:14,380 --> 01:36:20,140
Nandua High, Shinkateg High, and Tangier combined, we would not have received any of these funds.

1204
01:36:20,140 --> 01:36:25,780
It was only because we were able to grab that local match that we had just replaced these chillers.

1205
01:36:26,120 --> 01:36:32,920
And there are the four items which this grant funded and expires in December of this year.

1206
01:36:33,460 --> 01:36:41,080
We've been dragging along with these Pankatig VAVs for some time because they must be installed when there's no kids in school.

1207
01:36:41,080 --> 01:36:50,220
So we had ten of those left, five of them were installed over Christmas break, and the other five were scheduled to have been installed last week over spring break.

1208
01:36:50,380 --> 01:36:51,520
So that will complete that.

1209
01:36:52,700 --> 01:36:55,580
Variable, VAV, variable.

1210
01:36:58,840 --> 01:37:00,380
I knew it was something that wasn't AV.

1211
01:37:01,180 --> 01:37:03,340
I'm trying to hear variable what?

1212
01:37:03,540 --> 01:37:04,300
Drive units.

1213
01:37:04,660 --> 01:37:05,020
Okay.

1214
01:37:05,980 --> 01:37:10,260
We've done them in a number of CARES and ESR grants.

1215
01:37:10,260 --> 01:37:13,700
So whatever they are, they must drive your HVAC system.

1216
01:37:32,710 --> 01:37:36,690
The S3 allocation, we applied for that in August of 21.

1217
01:37:37,610 --> 01:37:41,250
We made an amendment in February of 22

1218
01:37:41,250 --> 01:37:46,010
because our allocation actually increased slightly,

1219
01:37:46,010 --> 01:37:47,910
so we had to do an amendment for that.

1220
01:37:48,390 --> 01:37:51,390
We also did an amendment in January of 23,

1221
01:37:51,530 --> 01:37:53,650
which that's when the actual amendment was filed.

1222
01:37:53,810 --> 01:37:57,270
We met here and had public hearings in December of 22,

1223
01:37:57,270 --> 01:38:02,290
and actually passed it, because that was required statewide by VDOE.

1224
01:38:02,630 --> 01:38:07,090
And one of the things that they asked you to look at, if you recall, they wanted you

1225
01:38:07,090 --> 01:38:11,730
to look at pretty much as much of your unexpended funds or projects that you don't know that

1226
01:38:11,730 --> 01:38:13,870
you're going to be able to complete, and there'll be money left.

1227
01:38:13,970 --> 01:38:15,850
They wanted it to address learning loss.

1228
01:38:16,430 --> 01:38:21,050
They have a minimum percentage that they want to address learning loss, and we

1229
01:38:21,050 --> 01:38:22,410
are over that percentage.

1230
01:38:22,410 --> 01:38:33,430
As I've been saying, we are in the process of looking at what funds we think we will have left with this because it expires in September of this year.

1231
01:38:33,670 --> 01:38:43,890
We're planning on having a presentation of this board, either this 2nd April meeting or the 1st May meeting, and then we also will need a public hearing.

1232
01:38:44,550 --> 01:38:50,230
We've met with stakeholder groups, admin, instructional coordinators.

1233
01:38:50,730 --> 01:38:56,990
We're working on trying to, some things didn't work mostly because of not being able to fill staff positions.

1234
01:38:57,350 --> 01:39:03,130
So we had a number of instructional assistant positions that we were not able to fill,

1235
01:39:03,390 --> 01:39:08,130
and we're working on now forecasting what we think we have left that we can reallocate.

1236
01:39:08,890 --> 01:39:12,070
That expires in September of this year.

1237
01:39:13,970 --> 01:39:22,510
And this is what was and has been and is being funded by SR Allocation 3.

1238
01:39:22,650 --> 01:39:26,510
Once again, this is an allocation. They tell us what we get.

1239
01:39:26,670 --> 01:39:29,590
We don't get to get more or less. They give us that allocation.

1240
01:39:29,990 --> 01:39:34,370
So these are the things that we're spending $13 million on.

1241
01:39:37,030 --> 01:39:42,210
So look at, just take one, four system principles.

1242
01:39:42,430 --> 01:39:47,630
We weren't able to hire four system principles, but we've used retired principles to come back.

1243
01:39:47,830 --> 01:39:51,430
So there's some money there we have to project to see if there's money left over.

1244
01:39:51,570 --> 01:39:56,610
But this is what is in the SR3 application, amended application.

1245
01:39:57,530 --> 01:40:02,270
So you'll recognize some things that are getting ready to happen, the elementary outdoor learning pavilions.

1246
01:40:03,070 --> 01:40:05,850
You'll recognize some things that have been completed.

1247
01:40:07,110 --> 01:40:10,230
Is this the one? Yeah, the elementary playgrounds.

1248
01:40:10,230 --> 01:40:14,530
Did we buy the band instruments? Seems to me that came up.

1249
01:40:15,070 --> 01:40:18,530
We have bought some and we have some POs to buy some more.

1250
01:40:21,840 --> 01:40:25,000
And the tennis courts, we've been talking about those.

1251
01:40:25,120 --> 01:40:29,900
Right. Mr. Bennett has looked into that somewhat.

1252
01:40:34,930 --> 01:40:37,890
Yeah, that's one of the things that hasn't happened yet,

1253
01:40:37,890 --> 01:40:43,690
But it's because look at how many of these things have happened. But yeah, the tennis court is in

1254
01:40:44,690 --> 01:40:51,310
The S or three application. I think I think we're also looking into possibly pickleball

1255
01:40:52,570 --> 01:40:53,890
Since that's a thing

1256
01:40:59,350 --> 01:41:05,780
That's what we're working on to present our adjusted plan that'll be at our public hearing

1257
01:41:07,000 --> 01:41:14,440
First, we'll present to you, to this board, and then the presentation will be on board

1258
01:41:14,440 --> 01:41:20,960
docs, and then that will give two weeks for people to read it and come back and make comments.

1259
01:41:21,240 --> 01:41:25,080
And we're still going forward with the outdoor learning pavilions.

1260
01:41:26,280 --> 01:41:27,780
Yes, ma'am.

1261
01:41:27,960 --> 01:41:32,460
I think Mr. Bennett's met with all five elementary principals about what they want.

1262
01:41:33,460 --> 01:41:35,360
I think they're all excited about it.

1263
01:41:41,000 --> 01:41:42,280
I think I have some more.

1264
01:41:42,380 --> 01:41:43,060
Oh, I'm sorry.

1265
01:41:43,220 --> 01:41:43,560
That's okay.

1266
01:41:43,880 --> 01:41:45,140
I left my thing.

1267
01:41:45,140 --> 01:41:46,160
There was a law, I thought.

1268
01:41:46,260 --> 01:41:47,320
I left it at the...

1269
01:41:47,320 --> 01:41:49,960
Well, that's because this is the big one that we're coming back with.

1270
01:41:50,060 --> 01:41:50,280
Okay.

1271
01:41:51,480 --> 01:41:55,520
These are other miscellaneous CARES, ARP, SR grants that we have received.

1272
01:41:56,960 --> 01:42:01,080
One of the very first ones was CRF, Coronavirus Relief Fund.

1273
01:42:01,540 --> 01:42:03,540
We got $867,000.

1274
01:42:03,540 --> 01:42:13,940
If you remember, they were trying to decide how to do it, whether to do it by composite index or whether to do it by number of students, and they ended up doing a mixture of it.

1275
01:42:14,000 --> 01:42:16,740
We wanted composite index for obvious reasons.

1276
01:42:16,940 --> 01:42:20,800
But anyway, that was expended by December of 2020.

1277
01:42:22,340 --> 01:42:25,900
Both of the SPED flow through and preschools got ARP money.

1278
01:42:26,420 --> 01:42:29,220
Those were both expended by September of 2023.

1279
01:42:30,000 --> 01:42:31,760
The ARP homeless grant.

1280
01:42:31,760 --> 01:42:38,180
We have about $19,000 left in that that will be expended by September of this year.

1281
01:42:38,900 --> 01:42:42,260
The School Health Workforce Development Grant, $80,000.

1282
01:42:42,780 --> 01:42:45,380
Tanya's almost finished with that. It's very close.

1283
01:42:50,190 --> 01:42:52,930
CARES Act Assessment, 17.8.

1284
01:42:53,170 --> 01:42:54,810
That's been timely expended.

1285
01:42:55,470 --> 01:42:59,250
Emergency Connectivity Fund, that's the hot spots.

1286
01:42:59,250 --> 01:43:04,550
and computing devices for instructional aids.

1287
01:43:04,770 --> 01:43:06,250
That has been timely, expended.

1288
01:43:07,330 --> 01:43:09,390
The S or three learning lab application.

1289
01:43:09,990 --> 01:43:11,690
This is the one that I've been saying

1290
01:43:11,690 --> 01:43:13,310
almost every time I come here.

1291
01:43:13,450 --> 01:43:15,470
That's a before and after school and summer school.

1292
01:43:15,730 --> 01:43:18,230
We will not be able to expend at all.

1293
01:43:18,450 --> 01:43:21,690
It is only restricted for elementary schools.

1294
01:43:22,390 --> 01:43:23,570
We have called the state.

1295
01:43:23,690 --> 01:43:25,730
We've asked them if we could open it up

1296
01:43:25,730 --> 01:43:26,730
for middle and high.

1297
01:43:26,910 --> 01:43:27,730
The answer is no.

1298
01:43:27,730 --> 01:43:31,870
We've asked them if we can do a number of other things, the answer is no.

1299
01:43:32,230 --> 01:43:35,110
So we will not be able to expend all of that.

1300
01:43:36,430 --> 01:43:39,050
Then the last three are some kind of small ones.

1301
01:43:39,890 --> 01:43:41,930
The TEAL grant was $30,000.

1302
01:43:42,310 --> 01:43:45,870
This is where Clara Chandler handled this.

1303
01:43:45,950 --> 01:43:49,290
When she was here, Beth came in actually after it had expired.

1304
01:43:49,970 --> 01:43:54,570
You send everything out to teachers and you give them,

1305
01:43:54,570 --> 01:43:58,210
There's criteria that we will pay for classes for them.

1306
01:43:59,290 --> 01:44:00,810
All you can do is send it out.

1307
01:44:01,270 --> 01:44:04,930
We spent all but $9,900 of that.

1308
01:44:04,990 --> 01:44:06,710
That expired in August of 23.

1309
01:44:07,230 --> 01:44:10,050
The RARS grant is like the second tier of that.

1310
01:44:10,130 --> 01:44:11,790
That expires in June of this year.

1311
01:44:12,150 --> 01:44:15,650
We won't expend all of that because you could only do the RARS

1312
01:44:15,650 --> 01:44:17,170
if you did the teal already.

1313
01:44:18,010 --> 01:44:22,750
So the data's out there and we don't have that much participation.

1314
01:44:23,270 --> 01:44:28,950
No, we don't, we had, you have to be, to go into the Raj Grant the second year, you

1315
01:44:28,950 --> 01:44:30,910
have to have already been in the first of iteration.

1316
01:44:31,790 --> 01:44:36,710
And the caveat was that, is that everyone that was submitting through the grant had

1317
01:44:36,710 --> 01:44:38,450
to go to Grand Canyon University.

1318
01:44:39,170 --> 01:44:42,910
So we only have about six teachers,

1319
01:44:46,750 --> 01:44:48,090
so they're the only ones that are eligible.

1320
01:44:51,340 --> 01:44:56,720
And then the last one, that mentor teacher, that will be expended timely in September

1321
01:44:56,720 --> 01:44:57,740
when it expires.

1322
01:45:00,210 --> 01:45:01,850
So I believe that is it.

1323
01:45:04,030 --> 01:45:06,110
Is there any questions? Yes.

1324
01:45:06,810 --> 01:45:20,590
On the SR3 Learning Lab, those two that you were saying, we won't be able to expend in time.

1325
01:45:21,730 --> 01:45:27,570
How much of those two, the before and after school and the summer school, how much do we stand to lose?

1326
01:45:30,310 --> 01:45:33,490
I don't have the most current data on the.

1327
01:45:39,940 --> 01:45:45,520
We have spent them as of June 30th down to before and after school.

1328
01:45:45,660 --> 01:45:49,520
This is on the monthly report that, okay, they're on the second page.

1329
01:45:50,080 --> 01:45:56,960
So there it was 384 and before and after school and then 343 in summer school.

1330
01:45:57,340 --> 01:45:58,120
That was left.

1331
01:46:04,550 --> 01:46:06,290
We did do one amendment on those.

1332
01:46:06,410 --> 01:46:08,310
Those were written when Ms. Rippin was here.

1333
01:46:08,310 --> 01:46:15,490
And I won't have the, I might not have it the right way, but she originally wrote it for say three to five, grades three to five.

1334
01:46:15,710 --> 01:46:23,430
And then when we could see we weren't spending the money, they did allow her to make the amendment to go K2 and 35 to do all of elementary school.

1335
01:46:23,630 --> 01:46:25,790
But they won't expand on it beyond that.

1336
01:46:28,610 --> 01:46:33,070
We offer extensive summer programs and after school programs as you know.

1337
01:46:33,570 --> 01:46:36,450
I just wanted to say thank you for putting all that together.

1338
01:46:36,450 --> 01:46:37,310
And

1339
01:46:42,240 --> 01:46:48,700
it's on board docks if anybody wants to see some reason I cannot it wasn't it appeared late

1340
01:46:48,700 --> 01:46:51,520
Oh, yes, because I came in yesterday to do this

1341
01:46:53,020 --> 01:46:55,320
Can everybody else see theirs? Yes

1342
01:46:57,020 --> 01:47:03,160
Mine doesn't open at all either one. Okay, I just put it on I can't say you're the one who doesn't get it

1343
01:47:03,160 --> 01:47:05,980
All right. Thank you. Thank you, Miss only

1344
01:47:10,860 --> 01:47:11,420
Okay,

1345
01:47:14,140 --> 01:47:15,860
I am 14.02

1346
01:47:17,360 --> 01:47:19,220
Insurance consultant RFP?

1347
01:47:28,760 --> 01:47:33,540
Initially because Mr. Taylor had a question, and I think that we have that resolved.

1348
01:47:37,070 --> 01:47:42,110
We're putting the health insurance, the medical, dental, and vision, but not the consultant.

1349
01:47:43,590 --> 01:47:45,310
You don't want to do the consultant too?

1350
01:47:45,970 --> 01:47:49,050
If we do the consultant, you're going to be shaving your timeline.

1351
01:47:49,690 --> 01:47:51,070
I thought I'd put this in an email.

1352
01:47:51,590 --> 01:47:54,570
If you do the consultant, you're going to be shaving your timeline

1353
01:47:54,570 --> 01:47:57,930
that you might not be able to get your medical dental and vision back.

1354
01:48:00,070 --> 01:48:07,670
We are able to go out and procure a consultant and stay in compliance with the Virginia Public Procurement Act.

1355
01:48:07,670 --> 01:48:12,870
It falls under the threshold. We do not have to issue an RFP for the consultant.

1356
01:48:13,150 --> 01:48:19,350
And we were going to use the one that we used before and that the county is still currently using and very happy with.

1357
01:48:19,530 --> 01:48:23,950
I think we were just a little concerned because you had said we hadn't heard anything from him.

1358
01:48:23,950 --> 01:48:26,270
You had reached out to him and there was no response.

1359
01:48:27,170 --> 01:48:34,950
No, I had reached out, actually Carlton West had reached out to the County Procurement Specialist

1360
01:48:34,950 --> 01:48:41,990
to say, were the schools included in your RFP request and that's who we did not hear

1361
01:48:41,990 --> 01:48:43,670
back from, not the consultant.

1362
01:48:43,890 --> 01:48:48,810
The consultant is, I've reached out to them and they're trying to get in touch with

1363
01:48:48,810 --> 01:48:50,730
us and Beth's going to be working on this too.

1364
01:48:51,030 --> 01:48:52,210
Do you contract with them already?

1365
01:48:52,630 --> 01:48:53,410
No, we do not.

1366
01:48:55,250 --> 01:49:00,990
We will. But I wanted to wait until tonight. I mean, he wanted to talk yesterday, and I said we'll talk tomorrow.

1367
01:49:02,070 --> 01:49:06,250
But this is Gallagher. They're out of Charlotte, North Carolina. They're a national firm.

1368
01:49:07,330 --> 01:49:11,210
We did deal with them before, but Dan Brandon, who we dealt with, has retired.

1369
01:49:12,010 --> 01:49:15,070
And then Michael Colaccio has moved to the Boston office.

1370
01:49:15,650 --> 01:49:19,690
But somebody last name of Costa in the e-mails, Beth, I think is right.

1371
01:49:19,690 --> 01:49:24,350
And I talked to Mike Mason about him, and he's very, very happy.

1372
01:49:24,530 --> 01:49:27,570
He feels like they have guided them through the self-funding process,

1373
01:49:27,570 --> 01:49:29,370
which is more than what we're going to need,

1374
01:49:29,650 --> 01:49:32,390
but we would like to maybe begin self-funding for dental.

1375
01:49:42,230 --> 01:49:43,110
I think we should, too.

1376
01:49:45,840 --> 01:49:47,760
I think you're going to be shaving your time.

1377
01:49:48,300 --> 01:49:53,260
I mean, last time when we did this, it cost us $23,000 to have a consultant.

1378
01:49:55,300 --> 01:49:57,300
The threshold is $80,000,

1379
01:49:57,300 --> 01:50:04,740
meaning that we can go procure professional services for $80,000 without an RFP.

1380
01:50:05,220 --> 01:50:06,000
Madam Chair.

1381
01:50:07,020 --> 01:50:07,480
Yes.

1382
01:50:07,840 --> 01:50:19,020
I seek to understand what we feel that the consultant should be, what is our basis for

1383
01:50:19,020 --> 01:50:19,940
thinking that?

1384
01:50:19,940 --> 01:50:30,540
Just competition, fair competition, trying to be the big good stewards of our money and make sure that we're getting the best deal that we can get.

1385
01:50:31,160 --> 01:50:37,640
The county has put theirs out for RFP, which we used to be included on until they did this with the self-funding.

1386
01:50:38,180 --> 01:50:45,760
And Gallagher has had the county contract since before 2020 and they have printed out several times and each time they've chosen Gallagher.

1387
01:50:47,750 --> 01:50:50,950
So that's what I was basing choosing Gallagher on.

1388
01:50:57,840 --> 01:51:00,100
Go ahead and do an RFP for a consultant.

1389
01:51:07,630 --> 01:51:10,370
You do understand we're going out on RFP for the health insurance?

1390
01:51:11,250 --> 01:51:11,370
Yes.

1391
01:51:11,370 --> 01:51:12,410
I think we're wrong going for dental.

1392
01:51:12,670 --> 01:51:15,170
No, we're going to go out for medical dental and vision.

1393
01:51:15,350 --> 01:51:20,590
We will do an RFP for medical dental and vision, which is very, very complicated,

1394
01:51:20,910 --> 01:51:24,810
and the consultant will help write that RFP and manage that process.

1395
01:51:25,750 --> 01:51:26,110
Okay.

1396
01:51:26,510 --> 01:51:26,730
Yeah.

1397
01:51:29,770 --> 01:51:34,350
We don't go out for medical insurance without an RFP.

1398
01:51:34,790 --> 01:51:35,730
We never have.

1399
01:51:35,850 --> 01:51:38,790
Now, we would renew it three times or whatever, but no.

1400
01:51:39,150 --> 01:51:44,170
The consultant will be the one responsible for helping to write that RFP,

1401
01:51:44,370 --> 01:51:49,430
printing out all the data that we need, managing that with the actual insurance companies

1402
01:51:49,430 --> 01:51:51,490
and coming back and presenting to this board.

1403
01:51:54,070 --> 01:51:57,370
I was waiting until after tonight to talk to them.

1404
01:51:57,370 --> 01:52:00,930
And they charged us $23,000 in 2020.

1405
01:52:03,270 --> 01:52:04,470
And it's the same thing.

1406
01:52:04,510 --> 01:52:07,670
They can charge whatever he wants because we're not going to put this out to RFP.

1407
01:52:08,810 --> 01:52:12,450
They haven't established relationship with the county and with us before.

1408
01:52:12,590 --> 01:52:17,530
I don't think that they're going to gouge us, but I'm always, you know, I'm always

1409
01:52:17,530 --> 01:52:23,280
up for negotiation, but no, we're definitely going out on RFP.

1410
01:52:23,400 --> 01:52:25,260
That's what this firm will do.

1411
01:52:26,220 --> 01:52:26,780
Well,

1412
01:52:38,340 --> 01:52:42,140
you made a motion to have an RFP for the consultant.

1413
01:52:43,100 --> 01:52:43,960
Is there a second?

1414
01:52:44,780 --> 01:52:45,640
For the consultant.

1415
01:52:46,300 --> 01:52:46,620
Yes.

1416
01:52:47,880 --> 01:52:48,800
I'll second that.

1417
01:52:50,200 --> 01:52:55,220
Is there any further discussion about fair competition for a consultant?

1418
01:52:58,450 --> 01:52:59,030
I've got a question.

1419
01:52:59,370 --> 01:52:59,630
Yes.

1420
01:52:59,910 --> 01:53:04,650
Just explain it a little bit more in depth for me so I can understand what's...

1421
01:53:04,650 --> 01:53:13,830
the consultant that we're going to hire gets paid and they will write the RFP to put out the bids

1422
01:53:13,830 --> 01:53:16,430
so we can get different bids from different health insurances.

1423
01:53:16,710 --> 01:53:21,670
And it's complicated because they go by how many single plans we have, how many family plans we have,

1424
01:53:22,370 --> 01:53:23,510
the claims.

1425
01:53:23,970 --> 01:53:27,810
They want to know, we have to prepare a whole lot of information for the consultant.

1426
01:53:27,970 --> 01:53:34,430
We have to send out the date, the birth date, the sex, the zip code for every single employee we have.

1427
01:53:34,430 --> 01:53:36,250
We have to give them large claims report.

1428
01:53:36,570 --> 01:53:37,610
We have to give them histories.

1429
01:53:40,150 --> 01:53:43,430
We have to compile this ourselves to give to them.

1430
01:53:43,490 --> 01:53:44,810
They don't have access to it.

1431
01:53:45,130 --> 01:53:48,710
The insurance company will give us large claim numbers,

1432
01:53:48,810 --> 01:53:51,250
but we already have them because we get them every year.

1433
01:53:51,910 --> 01:53:55,010
They will give us what we have had since last,

1434
01:53:55,410 --> 01:53:56,810
we renewed last in July.

1435
01:53:57,450 --> 01:54:00,470
But yet we have to do all the census data work ourselves

1436
01:54:00,470 --> 01:54:02,810
because nobody has access to that.

1437
01:54:02,810 --> 01:54:04,830
What does RFP stand for?

1438
01:54:05,430 --> 01:54:06,610
Request for proposals.

1439
01:54:06,990 --> 01:54:08,110
Okay, thank you.

1440
01:54:08,370 --> 01:54:14,030
So under the Virginia Public Procurement Act, if you have a bid which is for goods or services,

1441
01:54:14,310 --> 01:54:17,050
goods, it's IFB, invitation for bid.

1442
01:54:17,370 --> 01:54:21,130
And if you're asking for professional services, it's RFP for services.

1443
01:54:21,710 --> 01:54:22,550
Thank you.

1444
01:54:23,590 --> 01:54:25,770
I got a question for best.

1445
01:54:25,990 --> 01:54:29,990
So what's the detriment of timeline or anything for going out?

1446
01:54:29,990 --> 01:54:35,390
So if we are to write an RFP for a consultant, we have never done this before, so short of

1447
01:54:35,390 --> 01:54:40,790
trying to get the counties and cloning theirs from not this time with the self-insurance

1448
01:54:40,790 --> 01:54:44,730
part of it, but the time before, we do not have a procurement office.

1449
01:54:45,250 --> 01:54:46,190
We do not.

1450
01:54:47,150 --> 01:54:53,910
We do it all ourselves between buildings and finance, and I'm dragging Beth in it.

1451
01:54:54,490 --> 01:54:57,410
So we don't have a procurement office.

1452
01:54:57,830 --> 01:55:05,870
And so we would have to go and find, you know, we had to do this on the classification and compensation study, too.

1453
01:55:05,910 --> 01:55:07,070
And that's why it took us so long.

1454
01:55:07,270 --> 01:55:13,690
Claire and I pulled from six different divisions across the Commonwealth, and we tried to look at what it was we wanted.

1455
01:55:13,930 --> 01:55:15,750
We're actually writing it ourselves.

1456
01:55:18,070 --> 01:55:22,690
And all of us have full-time jobs, so it's not, you know, it's difficult.

1457
01:55:22,690 --> 01:55:30,070
Now, if I can clone or if we are able to clone the counties from when they went out on RFP last time, we will do that.

1458
01:55:30,250 --> 01:55:37,470
But that is a concern is that we will have to write an RFP, which, you know, probably 50 pages.

1459
01:55:40,370 --> 01:55:43,330
Some of the ones we've written have been 50 pages, Bobby.

1460
01:55:43,610 --> 01:55:50,010
You know, so we wrote that classification and comp one from scratch, and it just takes a lot of time.

1461
01:55:50,010 --> 01:55:55,530
And I didn't want to push, we need to go out on RFP for our medical insurance.

1462
01:55:55,730 --> 01:55:59,830
That is what is of paramount importance, I believe, to the division.

1463
01:56:01,170 --> 01:56:04,110
And I was just worried that would shake.

1464
01:56:04,250 --> 01:56:05,910
I wasn't counting on an extra.

1465
01:56:06,050 --> 01:56:09,690
You put an RFP out, you write it, you leave it out, two to four weeks.

1466
01:56:10,330 --> 01:56:13,930
I wasn't counting on that in the timeline to push back that.

1467
01:56:14,650 --> 01:56:16,730
Could we look at existing co-op contracts?

1468
01:56:18,310 --> 01:56:22,910
I don't possibly, Beth, do you know of any of those exist for that?

1469
01:56:25,050 --> 01:56:26,230
Co-operative

1470
01:56:26,230 --> 01:56:26,830
procurements?

1471
01:56:30,680 --> 01:56:32,340
I mean, we could look, but...

1472
01:56:46,510 --> 01:56:48,710
There is a motion and a second to put

1473
01:56:48,710 --> 01:56:51,970
the on RFP out for the consultant.

1474
01:56:54,650 --> 01:56:57,450
Yes. So it seems the concern is that this

1475
01:56:57,450 --> 01:57:00,810
isn't right in this RFP, is it something that we're skilled at doing? Is

1476
01:57:00,810 --> 01:57:06,110
that should we look into getting someone to write out? Apparently they

1477
01:57:06,790 --> 01:57:14,430
I guess sometimes they copy other peoples or they find similar ones or in the last case they have to write it themselves.

1478
01:57:15,190 --> 01:57:19,030
So the county has done it already and they picked this one particular.

1479
01:57:19,730 --> 01:57:24,410
Can we talk with the county to see why they picked that particular and why they didn't pick the others and what the other ones were?

1480
01:57:24,750 --> 01:57:26,370
Or do you think it's a totally different ball game?

1481
01:57:27,350 --> 01:57:30,690
I don't know. They might have had different needs. I don't know.

1482
01:57:30,690 --> 01:57:36,830
You know, do we want to pick our own consultant?

1483
01:57:38,690 --> 01:57:41,050
Well, we would have to do an RFP to pick the consultant.

1484
01:57:41,090 --> 01:57:41,430
Yes.

1485
01:57:41,730 --> 01:57:43,010
And the county already did that.

1486
01:57:43,290 --> 01:57:43,570
Yes.

1487
01:57:43,710 --> 01:57:45,630
And they picked the same one that we were going to go with.

1488
01:57:46,090 --> 01:57:48,550
They did that five years ago in 2020.

1489
01:57:55,360 --> 01:57:57,000
I have a chair call for the question.

1490
01:57:59,530 --> 01:58:01,670
RFP for the insurance consultant.

1491
01:58:02,170 --> 01:58:02,930
All in favor.

1492
01:58:03,870 --> 01:58:04,210
Aye.

1493
01:58:04,330 --> 01:58:04,530
Aye.

1494
01:58:05,190 --> 01:58:05,890
Let me count.

1495
01:58:05,890 --> 01:58:16,030
1, 2, 3, 4. I'll do it too. 5. Opposed? 4. Motion fails. Or motion carries.

1496
01:58:17,150 --> 01:58:18,290
I'm abstaining.

1497
01:58:21,720 --> 01:58:28,180
5 in favor, 3 opposed and 1 abstention. Thank you.

1498
01:58:33,080 --> 01:58:35,040
Next up. School board

1499
01:58:35,040 --> 01:58:41,320
items. Mr. Spindel, do you have any items? Nothing. You do not. Dr. Johnson?

1500
01:58:45,420 --> 01:58:57,300
Yes, I apologize. It's late, but I had something prepared, so I would like to address a complaint

1501
01:58:57,740 --> 01:59:04,900
that has been repeated several times about this board, that we are focused more on adult

1502
01:59:04,900 --> 01:59:11,160
issues than the students. This is untrue and creates a false impression to the public

1503
01:59:11,160 --> 01:59:18,100
that we are not doing our job. And this is offensive to me. I ran for election to put

1504
01:59:18,100 --> 01:59:25,380
kids first because I am passionate about this position and I believe that above all else

1505
01:59:25,380 --> 01:59:30,960
God put every single one of us on this earth to care for and protect children whether

1506
01:59:30,960 --> 01:59:36,280
or not we have children of our own. I happen to have two school-aged children and they

1507
01:59:36,280 --> 01:59:42,220
especially inspire and motivate me every day. Although I do love all children and I

1508
01:59:42,220 --> 01:59:47,260
work hard for all of these kids every day and it's wrong for anyone to imply

1509
01:59:47,260 --> 01:59:54,040
otherwise, especially multiple times. A school staff member recently wrote an

1510
01:59:54,040 --> 01:59:58,680
angry letter to the editor in the local newspaper because my school board

1511
01:59:58,680 --> 01:59:59,840
member in my opinion