[37:48] good evening everyone do we have a

[37:52] motion to reconvene from executive

[37:53] session mr. Sweeney and mr. wheeler on

[37:56] that I would like to apologize to

[37:59] everyone we know that your time is

[38:00] valuable I'm sorry that we had

[38:03] situations in the executive session that

[38:05] we had to deal with that put us late

[38:07] tonight but again we apologize and we'll

[38:10] move right into our agenda then oh thank

[38:16] you all right we have a motion and a

[38:18] second to reconvene is there a vote too

[38:20] we already have a second okay everyone

[38:23] in favor please raise your hand okay now

[38:26] we're here with you thank you and if you

[38:29] would please join me for well first an

[38:32] invocation we would like to start

[38:34] tonight with a moment of silence as we

[38:37] remember that one of our teachers was

[38:39] lost to us today gentle wall who was a

[38:43] teacher at Kemps so if you would please

[38:45] join me in a few minutes of silence to

[38:47] think about her and the others that

[38:49] we've lost recently

[39:01] thank you now if you would please join

[39:03] us in the pledge of allegiance to the

[39:05] flag stands one nation under God

[39:16] indivisible with liberty and justice for

[39:19] all alright this brings us to board

[39:28] recognitions dr. Rivera thank you madam

[39:54] chair members of the board and

[39:56] superintendent Ragsdale it's my pleasure

[39:57] this evening to do our Board

[39:59] recognitions and I'd like to start with

[40:01] our class 6a girls track state champions

[40:05] I'm pleased to announce that Cobb High

[40:09] School's claimed two state titles in the

[40:11] 6a girls track in May as I call your

[40:14] name to our student-athletes if you

[40:15] would please stand and remain standing

[40:17] the individual results include the

[40:21] 100-meter hurdles state champion tia

[40:23] jones of walton high school

[40:34] the 300-meter hurdles state champion is

[40:37] alexis jones of campbell high school and

[40:44] at this time I'd like to invite Tia

[40:45] Walton principal Judy McNeil Alexis and

[40:49] Campbell assistant principal Valencia

[40:51] andrews and coach Rob Nichols to join me

[40:54] in the front of the room to recognize as

[40:55] the girls track state champions

[41:53] and one more round of applause for our

[41:55] girl state champions and continuing on

[42:03] with the cop success in track and field

[42:05] I'm pleased to share that we had several

[42:06] schools that claimed state titles in the

[42:09] 6a boys track and field as I call your

[42:12] name student-athletes if you would

[42:13] please stand and remain standing the

[42:16] individual results include the 110 meter

[42:20] hurdles state champions Sierra Williams

[42:22] of Walton High School shotput state

[42:31] champion Isaiah Rogers of Campbell High

[42:33] School

[42:37] and long jump state champion Jeremiah

[42:41] bridges of Hill Grove High School

[42:46] at this time I'd like to call forward

[42:49] Sierra and Walton principal Judy McNeil

[42:52] to join me and be recognized by the

[42:54] Board of Education our superintendent

[43:38] and next our girls lacrosse state

[43:43] champions I'm pleased to share with you

[43:45] Walton High School when the girls 6 a

[43:48] lacrosse state championship the lady

[43:50] raiders beat 6 time defending state

[43:53] champion Milton to win the state title

[43:55] I'd like to invite our Walton high

[43:57] school girls lacrosse team coach Amanda

[44:00] Ryan and once again principal Judy

[44:01] McNeil to join me in the front of the

[44:03] room to be congratulated is the girls

[44:05] lacrosse state champions

[45:30] from track and field lacrosse now it's

[45:32] my pleasure to share with you the class

[45:35] 6a baseball state champions walton high

[45:39] school

[45:47] as they come forward it's also worth

[45:50] noting that Walton High School was

[45:52] ranked at one point by USA Today sports

[45:55] as number five in the nation and I

[45:58] invite please come forward our Walton

[46:00] high school baseball team coach Shane

[46:01] Amos principal Judy recognized by the

[46:04] state champions

[47:35] and next I'd like to recognize our new

[47:39] 6a girls state champions from Lassiter

[47:43] high school the lady trojans won the

[47:45] 2016 state championship over metro

[47:48] rivals West Forsyth at this time I'd

[47:50] like to invite representative the

[47:52] representatives of the Lassiter girls

[47:54] soccer team coach Robbie Galvin and

[47:57] principal Chris Ritchey to join me in

[48:00] the front of the room to be honored as

[48:01] the girls soccer state champions

[48:09] Oh

[49:09] and next I'm honored to announce

[49:13] Allatoona high school won the 5a boys

[49:15] lacrosse state championship the

[49:18] Buccaneers captured their first state

[49:19] title by defeating four-time state

[49:22] champion Westminster at this time I'd

[49:25] like to invite forward Allatoona boys

[49:29] lacrosse team coaches Jonathan with Sean

[49:31] Mike Claggett Joe Joe amore dan made ish

[49:36] chars arnoc Jack Layne and principal

[49:40] John Kelly to join me the front of the

[49:41] room be honored by board of education

[51:12] advanced stem certification is the first

[51:15] internationally recognized mark of

[51:17] quality for stem schools and programs

[51:20] signaling the growing emphasis placed on

[51:22] STEM education by educators politicians

[51:26] and business leaders around the world

[51:28] I'm delighted tonight to announce that

[51:30] Tritt elementary school recently

[51:33] received the advanced ed stem

[51:35] certification which demonstrates the

[51:37] school's commitment to preparing its

[51:39] students for their educational and

[51:41] career opportunities in the future at

[51:42] this time I'd like to invite principal

[51:45] Trisha Patterson assistant principal

[51:48] Kendall Kiesling and innovation

[51:50] specialists Alexa Dean to join me in the

[51:52] front of the room to be honored by our

[51:54] board of education superintendent

[52:09] hey

[52:52] and finally i'm happy to announce that

[52:56] cop county has 10 students who were

[52:58] named 2016 National Merit Scholars as I

[53:03] call your name if you would please stand

[53:04] to remain standing Riley O'Neal North

[53:07] Cobb High School and I'll take this

[53:14] opportunity to recognize the other

[53:16] National Merit Scholars then invite

[53:18] Riley to come forward I also want to

[53:20] congratulate although they're not

[53:21] present this evening lacy moss from

[53:24] Lassiter high school Russell puffer from

[53:26] Kennesaw Mountain High School Ilha Bela

[53:29] Graddick from walton high school eric

[53:32] who from walton high school jenna con

[53:34] from walton high school irina quan from

[53:38] walton high school and finally colby

[53:40] Meneer from Pope high school I would

[53:42] like to invite Riley along along with

[53:46] North Cobb High School assistant

[53:46] principal to come forward and be

[53:48] recognized by our superintendent and

[53:50] board of education

[54:50] congratulations to all of our scholars

[54:52] all of our student athletes and

[54:53] certainly our cop county employees madam

[54:55] chair mr. superintendents concludes our

[54:57] recognitions

[55:24] okay thank you all that's always a

[55:26] wonderful part of our our board meetings

[55:29] and now I believe we have no public

[55:31] comments tonight so we'll move right

[55:33] into number six on our agenda which is

[55:36] approval of the minutes mr. Sweeney I'm

[55:39] sure I make a motion that we approve the

[55:41] minutes mr. banks seconds all those in

[55:43] favor please raise your hand unanimous

[55:46] okay all right board business facilities

[55:51] and technologies Oversight Committee

[55:53] report no Sweeney thank you madam chair

[55:56] on the facilities and Technology

[55:58] Committee supported each of the items

[56:00] that are on the agenda this evening then

[56:03] that concludes my report thank you okay

[56:06] now we need a motion to approve our

[56:08] agenda for the remainder of our our

[56:10] meeting mr. chastain make some end mr.

[56:14] bass all those in favor unanimous okay

[56:18] thank you all right mr. Ragsdale you say

[56:26] madam chair members is born laska mr.

[56:29] John Adams to bring items requiring

[56:31] action following executive session I

[56:33] believe we have two separate items

[56:35] requiring vote yes sir thank you mr.

[56:38] superintendent madam chair members of

[56:39] the board we do have two items tonight

[56:41] first we'll have the personnel report

[56:42] and then a motion regarding a land

[56:44] purchase i'm pleased to present the

[56:46] human resources personnel report for jun

[56:48] 23 26 teen the administration recommends

[56:52] the approval of the identified

[56:53] employment actions of those individuals

[56:55] listed on the personnel action report as

[56:57] discussed in executive session we do

[57:00] have three specific principal level and

[57:02] higher position recommendations dr.

[57:05] Andrew dr. Andrew Bristow recommended

[57:08] for appointment to principal at Cal high

[57:10] school effective July first Donna Lowry

[57:14] read recommended for employment as

[57:16] director communications chief of staff

[57:18] division effective July twentieth and

[57:20] sherry bronte executive director Cobb

[57:23] schools foundation and the chief of

[57:24] staff division recommend you accept our resignation effective june

[57:29] twenty-fourth and this concludes the

[57:31] personnel report Thank You mr. Adams

[57:36] mr. wheeler you recommend what

[57:40] acceptance of that report okay thank you

[57:44] mr. Sweeney second all those in favor

[57:47] please raise your hands okay unanimous

[57:50] thank you okay next motion deals with

[57:55] land I hereby move that the board

[57:57] approved the following real estate

[57:59] contract the purchase of real property

[58:01] and improvements on approximately five

[58:03] point 092 acres at 2445 favor road

[58:08] marietta tax parcel number 17 0 13 0 0 0 3 0 for 1 million nine hundred

[58:17] twenty-five thousand dollars plus

[58:19] ancillary costs including inspection

[58:22] fees closing costs etc their emotion I

[58:26] make the motion that we accept this this

[58:29] recommendation is there a second mr.

[58:32] banks seconds thank you all those in

[58:34] favor please raise your hand okay is

[58:38] there any discussion okay all those in

[58:44] favor thank you all those opposed madam

[58:52] chair i abstain I at this time don't

[58:55] feel like I have enough information to

[58:57] take that boat so with your permission

[59:01] Staind mr. scam horn abstains thank you

[59:04] okay any other land we've covered all

[59:07] those okay next we moved the board

[59:09] agenda items number ten mr. Ragsdale

[59:16] thank you folks all right this moves us

[59:20] to the consent agenda we have four items

[59:23] on the consent agenda if there's no

[59:26] objection will consider those past thank

[59:30] you and losses to discussion agenda

[59:32] items mr. XL yes madam madam chair

[59:34] members of the board velasca mr. John

[59:37] Adams to come forward and bring all

[59:39] three agenda items for this evening

[59:42] thank you sir good evening once again

[59:44] mr. superintendent madam chair members

[59:45] of the board agenda item number one

[59:47] recommendation to approve

[59:49] the award of a contract for the

[59:50] construction of replacement schools from

[59:52] brumby elementary school and east cobb

[59:54] middle school as discussed in detail

[59:57] during the day meeting and is supported

[59:59] by the f NT committee we're recommending

[1:00:00] that you award the contract for the

[1:00:03] replacement of Brumby and east cobb

[1:00:06] middle to mcknight construction company

[1:00:08] out of Atlanta Georgia recommended award

[1:00:11] amount of fifty 1.45 million dollars you

[1:00:15] see the exact amount listed there as

[1:00:18] budgeted in SPLOST 4 and this will allow

[1:00:22] us to remain on schedule towards the

[1:00:24] construction of this school with a

[1:00:26] scheduled substantial completion date of

[1:00:28] May of 2018 jeremic recommendation that

[1:00:33] we accept discussion agenda item number

[1:00:36] one is presented mr. banks seconds okay

[1:00:39] any discussion okay all those in favor

[1:00:44] please raise your hand hey this

[1:00:46] unanimous thank you next week yes ma'am

[1:00:49] discussion agenda number two

[1:00:51] recommendation to approve the award of a

[1:00:53] contract for tennis court resurfacing

[1:00:55] for Allatoona high school kell high

[1:00:57] school and sprayberry high school once

[1:01:00] again in accordance with supplies for

[1:01:02] these three schools Allatoona Kalyn

[1:01:04] sprayberry are scheduled to receive

[1:01:05] tennis court resurfacing we're

[1:01:08] recommending that you award the contract

[1:01:10] to Talbot tennis in the amount of three

[1:01:14] hundred twenty-five thousand nine

[1:01:16] hundred dollars and that will allow us

[1:01:19] to resurface these tennis courts over

[1:01:22] the summer and have this project

[1:01:24] substantially completed by August of

[1:01:25] 2016 ok mr. Chastain madam chair I

[1:01:29] recommend we accept the motion is

[1:01:31] presented diskant discussion agenda item

[1:01:33] number two Thank You mr. Scammell horn

[1:01:35] seconds okay any discussion all those in

[1:01:40] favor please raise your hand another

[1:01:43] unanimous votes okay last item and last

[1:01:46] but not least agenda item number three

[1:01:47] very similar to agenda item number two except in this case tennis

[1:01:51] court resurfacing at Campbell High

[1:01:53] School Hill Grove High School Osborne

[1:01:55] high school and south cobb again in

[1:01:58] accordance with SPLOST for recommending

[1:01:59] you word the contract to Talbot tennis

[1:02:02] well in the amount of four hundred and

[1:02:04] twenty eight thousand three hundred

[1:02:05] dollars as budgeted in SPLOST for and

[1:02:08] allowing us to remain on schedule to

[1:02:11] perform the project this summer and be

[1:02:13] completed by default okay I'd like to

[1:02:15] move that we accept this recommendation

[1:02:17] is there a second second all right mr.

[1:02:23] Morgan seconds discussion mr. wheeler

[1:02:27] thank you madam chair mr. Adams just

[1:02:33] want to be sure we're talking about I'm

[1:02:34] specifically Hillgrove that the proper

[1:02:39] pre site work is going to be done to

[1:02:41] make sure that that surface is going to

[1:02:43] be lasting so just want to be sure i

[1:02:47] know we've checked on that and i want to

[1:02:49] be sure that that was done yes sir we

[1:02:51] are aware of some of the conditions of

[1:02:53] Hillgrove that needs some some due

[1:02:56] diligence there and we are performing

[1:02:58] that will make sure that the project is

[1:03:00] done not only right but built to last

[1:03:02] good good thank you appreciate you any

[1:03:07] other discussion right all those in

[1:03:10] favor unanimous vote Thank You mr. Adams

[1:03:14] okay that brings us to board member

[1:03:17] comments um mr. scan Mahorn thank you

[1:03:22] madam chair I don't have much tonight I

[1:03:26] would like to remind everybody the in

[1:03:31] the news this week we lost another

[1:03:33] police officer and we seem to be losing

[1:03:36] one or two almost every week it's

[1:03:40] deplorable it's unacceptable if you see

[1:03:43] our men and women in blue they are doing

[1:03:46] a thankless job in many cases for

[1:03:52] minimum wages and shake their hands

[1:03:56] nothing else and take them to lunch if

[1:03:59] you get a chance or by their lunch if

[1:04:00] you see them and again without them we'd

[1:04:05] have chaos thank you madam chair mr.

[1:04:07] Sweeney thank you madam chair I just

[1:04:10] want to reiterate the congratulatory

[1:04:11] notes for the students the student

[1:04:13] athletes

[1:04:14] also the scholars that were here this

[1:04:15] evening and particularly for Walton high

[1:04:19] school with the men's baseball team the

[1:04:22] women's lacrosse team and this the

[1:04:26] scholars scholars that recognize this

[1:04:28] evening thank you thank you mr. banks

[1:04:31] talking about a chair just want to

[1:04:33] emphasize the graduations over with the

[1:04:38] summer started there's a lot of activity

[1:04:40] witness in the schools for summer

[1:04:43] academies which are very aggressive this

[1:04:46] year and also the sports academies and

[1:04:52] the sports feeder schools programs that

[1:04:56] are in process right now during the

[1:04:59] summer so there's a lot of activity

[1:05:00] going on in our schools even though

[1:05:02] school is out i also want to

[1:05:05] congratulate again not the treasure

[1:05:08] patterson the principal at trent

[1:05:10] elementary school for achieving the sax

[1:05:13] or a bass dead stem certification which

[1:05:17] is going to be recognized international

[1:05:18] so that's that's the first elementary

[1:05:21] school in these kaveri to have that

[1:05:24] distinction hopefully there's some more

[1:05:27] coming right behind there i also want to

[1:05:30] say congratulate our thank you to the

[1:05:32] cough Chamber of Commerce for putting on

[1:05:35] the partnership form or summat this this

[1:05:40] week where there was a good turnout that

[1:05:43] a lot of principles some of assistant

[1:05:45] principals were there and it people

[1:05:51] don't really appreciate our know much

[1:05:52] about our partnership programs that we

[1:05:55] have with the chamber of commerce with

[1:05:56] our business community it's very

[1:05:59] critical to our schools particularly our

[1:06:01] high schools that they participate

[1:06:04] because they not only bring money but

[1:06:07] they also bring experience and

[1:06:08] commitment and care to our community so

[1:06:12] thank you to the Chamber of Commerce for

[1:06:15] putting this on and for their support of

[1:06:17] the cobb county school district thank

[1:06:19] you madam chair mr. Chastain thank you

[1:06:22] madam chair I really have no comment so

[1:06:24] that I hope everybody is having a great

[1:06:25] summer because the first day of school

[1:06:27] will be here

[1:06:28] for you know it thank you very soon

[1:06:31] that's right um I again would like to

[1:06:34] extend our sympathies to the wall family

[1:06:36] and to the whole Kemp school family I

[1:06:38] know it's difficult any time that we we

[1:06:41] lose someone particularly tragically so

[1:06:43] our thoughts will be with you and for

[1:06:46] everyone else I do join mr. Chastain and

[1:06:48] saying I hope you're having a good

[1:06:49] summer Thank You mr. Ragsdale yes sir

[1:06:52] ma'am cheer it does you know that's a

[1:06:57] very heavy time when you lose an

[1:07:01] employee especially in this manner the

[1:07:05] gentle wall family will certainly be in

[1:07:07] our thoughts and prayers be thinking

[1:07:10] about you and wish you Godspeed in

[1:07:13] getting through through this and know

[1:07:16] that everyone will from the Kent family

[1:07:18] will be surrounding you and helping you

[1:07:21] get through that I also want to say hope

[1:07:26] everyone is having a great summer and

[1:07:29] remind all of our students as we focus

[1:07:32] on this upcoming year is reading to keep

[1:07:36] reading over the summer got a lot of

[1:07:38] programs going on during the summer to

[1:07:39] help her students maintain their

[1:07:41] momentum going through the summer I'd

[1:07:44] also like to say congratulations to to

[1:07:50] one of our employees a teacher Scott

[1:07:53] shomer as I was flipping around channels

[1:07:58] this week I heard someone on wheel of

[1:08:02] fortune say that they were from acworth

[1:08:04] well of course I looked to see if you

[1:08:07] knew and then Pat Sajak said and you're

[1:08:12] a teacher and he said yes I'm a science

[1:08:16] teacher at Harrison High School and

[1:08:20] obviously definitely proud of him

[1:08:23] representing us and he did very well he

[1:08:26] won the game and went on to win the

[1:08:28] final puzzle as well I'll not share how

[1:08:33] much he won but not enough for him to

[1:08:36] retire so he's back with us I emailed

[1:08:39] him as I was watching and

[1:08:41] duh obviously it was recorded earlier

[1:08:43] but he certainly made us proud and want

[1:08:47] to wish him congratulations also want to

[1:08:51] wish good luck to Sheree Bronte she's

[1:08:54] done a great job with the foundation

[1:08:57] just had a lot of great success with the

[1:09:01] foundation brought a lot of success to

[1:09:03] our students and our teachers as far as

[1:09:06] the nation's and contributions that had

[1:09:09] been made there bounce and I wanted to

[1:09:13] end up finally on I can't say how much

[1:09:18] that we are excited me specifically to

[1:09:21] welcome Donald Lowry to our one team she

[1:09:26] is going to be just a tremendous team

[1:09:30] player as she brings her numerous years

[1:09:35] of experience over 29 years of

[1:09:37] experience in broadcast on to us and

[1:09:40] just real excited about what she's going

[1:09:42] to be able to do for communications here

[1:09:46] in our district and and just take us

[1:09:48] above and beyond to sights unseen before

[1:09:52] so I want to wish a hearty and humble

[1:09:56] welcome to her and can't wait hopefully

[1:09:59] she's watching and will be here first

[1:10:02] thing in the morning I'm just kidding I

[1:10:03] know she's not going to be so don't feel like you got to be here I was

[1:10:06] just saying that so again hope

[1:10:09] everybody's having a safe summer and

[1:10:11] look forward to school starting next

[1:10:14] Monday just kidding almost though mr.

[1:10:19] Morgan thank you madam chair I also want

[1:10:22] to sin sincere condolences out to the

[1:10:24] Kemp family into the wall family on for

[1:10:28] that tragedy I think everybody up here

[1:10:30] knows that tragedy happens but if you

[1:10:34] keep putting one foot in front of other

[1:10:35] eventually you know you get through it

[1:10:37] and prayers and thoughts are most

[1:10:39] definitely with that entire family other

[1:10:42] thing I want to say that out tonight

[1:10:45] I'm rocking the Cooper middle school

[1:10:50] shirt because you can't hey what Chris

[1:10:54] you can't can't hate the player hate the

[1:10:58] game not to play oh this is Cooper

[1:11:01] middle school I think they just recently

[1:11:02] got the stem certification is that

[1:11:05] correct and I know that y'all you know

[1:11:07] y'all probably think it's a favorite

[1:11:09] over there but compliments of Mary

[1:11:11] Elizabeth I got this shirt I don't see

[1:11:14] anyone else up here we aren't wearing a

[1:11:16] shirt tonight but Cooper middle school

[1:11:19] congratulations on your stem

[1:11:20] certification I know a lot of great

[1:11:23] things will be produced out of that and

[1:11:25] that concludes my comments mounting

[1:11:27] chair Thank You mr. wheeler thank you

[1:11:31] ma'am sure closing we repeat that our

[1:11:36] thoughts and prayers are for the wall

[1:11:38] family and the Kemp community for their

[1:11:40] loss I know we've all said that but it's it's hitting home in our in our

[1:11:45] area and our thoughts are with them q

[1:11:52] mr. mr. banks would like that add

[1:11:56] another comment are we going to allow

[1:11:58] that do we need to take a vote on it you

[1:12:01] know I usually come up with a trivia

[1:12:03] question but this is not a trivial

[1:12:04] question this is a significant date

[1:12:06] gillotti they ate it's going to be a

[1:12:09] very significant date and at the next

[1:12:12] board meeting our explain what that

[1:12:15] significance is anniversary Thank You

[1:12:19] mr. banks will wait with bated breath on

[1:12:21] that okay thank you very much we are

[1:12:24] adjourned

[1:12:28] you

2016-06-23 School Board Meeting

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