[0:14] thank you Sir John at this time I'd like to
[0:15] call the October nineteenth twenty twenty meeting to order
[0:20] ms Todd you would do the application place of legions
[0:24] let us pray
[0:26] heavenly father we thank you today for all your many
[0:30] blessings even in this world things start right now with
[0:35] this pandemic we seek your blessings and we feel them
[0:39] on a daily basis
[0:41] as we go tonight through this meeting help us make
[0:44] the right decisions for the children of the Horry county
[0:47] your children will work the children that you have entrusted
[0:51] into our hands for us to do the best we
[0:54] can buy them
[0:56] let us all remember to read second chronicles seven thirteen
[1:01] and live by that
[1:02] in your precious and holy name we pray we unplug
[1:06] ourselves and we thank you a million
[1:10] I stand for the pledge
[1:17] right
[1:19] seminary
[1:21] which stands one nation under god indivisible with
[1:36] okay we'll start with introduction of board members board members
[1:39] place polymarker you don't mind just go start the district
[1:42] warmth
[1:45] ... Russell Freeman district one ... most of us look
[1:50] little river cherry Grove and north myrtle beach and a
[1:53] little sliver that goes off into ... barefoot
[1:58] sherry Todd district he
[2:01] myrtle beach arm from park live to you thirty eight
[2:05] seventy and parts of Carolina forest
[2:09] right where's district three at the privilege of representing portion
[2:12] Carolina forest in myrtle beach hi my name is David
[2:16] **** district for a represent the Burgess community which entails
[2:20] mostly Saint James some of soccer's T. and some of
[2:24] myrtle beach
[2:26] good evening my name is Janice morale I represent the
[2:28] Saint James attendance area
[2:31] good evening I'm John Poston I'm elected by the good
[2:33] people of district eight represent the portions of the Carolina
[2:36] forest and Socastee attendance areas and also elected by my
[2:39] fellow board members to serve as vice chairman for a
[2:41] two year trial
[2:45] good evening I'm Helen Smith represents district six which is
[2:48] mostly soccer three portions as Carolina forest and small portion
[2:52] Saint James
[2:55] good evening Janet Graham representing district seven which is Conway
[2:58] and Carolina forest
[3:00] a good evening I'm Chris Hardwick I represent district nine
[3:03] which is part of north myrtle beach loris daisy and
[3:06] green sea
[3:07] my name is Neil James my pleasure represent district ten
[3:11] which includes portions of the lord's green sea Floyds Conway
[3:14] in Carolina forest attendance areas
[3:17] hi I'm Shannon Allen I represent district eleven that serves
[3:20] the entire community green sea and Conway
[3:24] okay thank you board members and I'm can rich number
[3:27] board chairman I represent all eleven districts but this time
[3:30] I need approval of the agenda
[3:33] certainly second who made that Mr part
[3:38] okay you a check
[3:40] okay indiscretion Mr chairman yes I'd like to make a
[3:43] motion to amend I would like to Amanda the publisher
[3:45] ginger to include the following two items under the superintendent's
[3:50] report item to eat I would like to add an
[3:53] item three for the recognition of a state champion swimmer
[3:57] also would like to add items to E. four for
[4:01] the recognition of the twenty twenty twenty one twenty one
[4:04] or say that again twenty twenty twenty twenty one teacher
[4:08] of the year
[4:10] I'll second has amended motion okay so we have a
[4:13] motion and a second any further discussion
[4:15] our all in favor say aye our nose motion passes
[4:24] okay I approval of the minutes I have a motion
[4:27] Mr winters second miss Allen any discussion all in favor
[4:32] say aye any noes motion passes
[4:39] okay we'll move on to a discussion items finance committee
[4:43] report Mr Harmon thank you Mr chairman of the finance
[4:47] committee met today in room C. three hundred and Mr
[4:49] Gardner presented us with a number of things I'd like
[4:52] to start out by saying ... it I don't know
[4:54] it's been a very difficult year but he did let
[4:56] us know that last year was a good year financially
[4:57] force we actually increased fund balance by about twenty million
[5:01] dollars ... so when you consider a minimum fund balance
[5:05] that's required at the fifteen percent which is sixty four
[5:07] million just over sixty four million we have in excess
[5:10] of sixty for me about thirty eight million five hundred
[5:13] ninety seven thousand dollars over that so last year was
[5:16] actually a good year in regard to our fund balance
[5:19] ... we had a number of different things that ...
[5:22] we looked at one of them was the penny sales
[5:24] tax which is been impacted by the pandemic ones Brunner
[5:27] it came he made a projection of what we would
[5:30] hope to collect throughout the life pretty penny sales tax
[5:34] and as a result of the pandemic and and decrease
[5:36] tourism ... Mr Gardner presented us with an amendment ...
[5:41] to that ... for about fifteen percent less that we
[5:44] are projected budget for the the seventy sales tax we
[5:48] collect there were in excess of what he projected almost
[5:51] two million dollars so that's actually good they they had
[5:54] a very low a conservative projection we've collected more than
[5:57] they anticipated ... as a result of this year the
[6:01] meal this year's worth one meal on your tax forms
[6:05] worth about one point seven three million whereas last year
[6:07] was worth one point six six million so all those
[6:10] things those things were pretty positive ... to places where
[6:13] we've been negatively impact for certain is food services is
[6:17] certainly take a hit as for as often they are
[6:20] ... office sitting operating at a deficit in our receipts
[6:25] are football gate receipts in sporting a grizzled have certainly
[6:28] taken a hit and those are things we're gonna have
[6:30] to monitor bring towards the board later go to probably
[6:33] make up the deficit there and those two regards
[6:37] okay
[6:38] that's all Mr chairman I'd eat any questions response
[6:41] coming for a Mr Robert
[6:45] Mr James Mr Q. I ran through that very quickly
[6:49] ... the undesignated reserves minimum requirement sixty five thousand thirty
[6:55] seven thirty eight so it's roughly sixty six million
[6:59] so does our what is our total balance ... the
[7:03] ending fund balance for the twenty nineteen twenty twenty years
[7:06] one hundred twenty seven million six hundred sixty nine thousand
[7:09] fifty four dollars okay unassigned portion of that is a
[7:12] hundred two million six hundred thirty five thousand fifty three
[7:15] dollars
[7:16] hi rounded up 203 so okay thank you
[7:21] okay the body of skating
[7:25] okay thank you Mr harbor
[7:28] monitoring report for the financial part Mr garner
[7:34] only 6
[7:38] thank you Mr chairman in your packet of information you
[7:40] have a copy of the quarterly financial report for the
[7:43] period ended September thirtieth two thousand twenty there any questions
[7:48] I'd be happy to address that we actually went through
[7:50] this with the finance committee and we certainly answer any
[7:53] questions you may
[7:55] okay any questions for Mr garner
[7:58] ... okay Mr garner I don't see thank you Sir
[8:03] posted
[8:04] thank you Mr chairman all that middle value John how
[8:08] was that establish that based on reassessment values we previously
[8:11] had a work has graced based upon actual collections and
[8:14] that in the face value from one of my hearing
[8:18] okay thank
[8:21] okay
[8:22] thank you Mr Gardner thank you
[8:25] ... consideration for cation policy committee revisions board governors Mr
[8:29] winters yes Sir thank you ... everybody should have gotten
[8:32] a copy of the revised by walls in the package
[8:36] for tonight's meeting to reiterate what was discussed at our
[8:40] last meeting the changes are strictly in the meeting section
[8:45] where we realigned the business making topic to reflect the
[8:49] actual later this board operates in the in an open
[8:53] forum we provided clarification as to who may speaking when
[8:57] they must register other than that all other changes were
[9:00] more of a clerical nature to correct ... typos such
[9:03] as that
[9:06] that it okay any any of questions for Mr
[9:10] winners
[9:12] ms Smith yeah and it may just be a clarification
[9:15] that
[9:17] these bylaws don't mention committees so then the next lesson
[9:20] the other portion that was and were policy which we
[9:23] have already approved I thought said I just wanna clarify
[9:26] thank you
[9:28] okay anything else Mr winters
[9:32] all right thank you Mr winters Brigitte that
[9:36] okay or county school reopen plan utilizing or casual case
[9:40] dashboard
[9:42] documentation
[9:43] thank you Mr chairman board members
[9:47] if you heard me say on a number of occasions
[9:49] this has certainly been on one of the most difficult
[9:54] experiences that I have here personally as an educator and
[9:58] ... ... that holds true for other educators employees of
[10:01] Horry county schools as as well
[10:04] and ... at the outset I would like to say
[10:06] that ... I have said it will continue to say
[10:10] that we counties greatest asset ... for the employees that
[10:14] we have the people who serve our children on a
[10:18] daily basis and ... talk about ... employees across all
[10:22] ranks on the studio's teachers bus drivers maintenance we all
[10:28] work together as a team ... for a county schools
[10:31] to serve the children of this county and I'm grateful
[10:34] for all of the ... efforts and time in the
[10:38] accommodations that people have had to make during this pandemic
[10:42] in order to continue successfully serving our children
[10:47] the agenda item that I have this evening ... is
[10:51] very detailed in fact ... in thinking about how to
[10:56] best present the information to you well I thought it
[10:59] would probably be best to give a historical context because
[11:03] sometimes it when people come to a topic and you
[11:08] look at it out of context you don't know where
[11:10] all the pieces fit so I thought it would be
[11:13] a great idea ... this evening to give you that
[11:18] context and then a want you to know as I
[11:20] progress through a chronology of the events here there will
[11:25] be a couple of points where I will last staff
[11:28] members to come up and flesh out some of the
[11:31] information in more detail all I have the overall view
[11:35] of the organization I don't have all the nuts and
[11:38] bolts or other people who with their expertise is specializations
[11:43] assist with those and what those folks to be able
[11:46] to share that information with the board sorry I'm gonna
[11:49] start with a what I will call the chronology of
[11:52] the events related to ... the twenty twenty one eight
[11:56] C. S. re opening plan and we all know that
[11:59] this are actually large back in August we spent much
[12:04] of our summer while working on a comprehensive plan to
[12:09] address something that no one on living today basically has
[12:15] ever had to face an address and that is a
[12:18] worldwide pandemic so using on the resources of our stakeholders
[12:25] with symbol committees ... per the direction of the South
[12:29] Carolina state department education to craft a re opening plan
[12:34] for Horry county schools that would support an undergarment what
[12:38] accelerate a head head detail all in the plan for
[12:42] the state
[12:44] so that we could particularized that plan for Horry county
[12:48] schools and we had representatives up from all employee ranks
[12:53] participating and providing input in the development that plan
[12:57] this came to a culmination on August fourth I think
[13:01] the plan is about fifty two pages long well when
[13:04] I presented with staff to the board of education are
[13:09] reopening plans and one of the things that was noted
[13:13] ... on page two this re opening plan
[13:17] is that the fluid nature of the pandemic means that
[13:21] adjustments may have to be may
[13:24] on specifically the language is our knowledge and understanding of
[13:28] the code nineteen virus continue to evolve and our protocols
[13:33] and plans will be updated as appropriate and as more
[13:36] information becomes available and as you know because of the
[13:40] board did unanimously approve the reopening plan on August fourth
[13:46] and then ... I submitted it to the South Carolina
[13:50] department of education ... for reviewed by the state superintendent's
[13:54] office and on
[13:57] Augustine ... we receive a approval on superintendent Spearman notified
[14:03] me in a letter that the Sakhalin part of education
[14:07] and approve the twenty twenty one HCS re opening point
[14:11] I just wanted to highlight from on a sentence or
[14:15] two from her letter to me the South Carolina department
[14:19] of education S. C. D. is approving Horry county schools
[14:23] reopening plan contingent upon the district and the S. C.
[14:27] D. re evaluating the district in person option every two
[14:31] weeks beginning with the district's official start date which we
[14:35] all know ... was September eighth which was the day
[14:37] after Labor Day
[14:39] in light of the fluid nature surrounding the corona virus
[14:43] we ask that you update the agency should your operational
[14:46] plans change by emailing reopen it E. D. W. C.
[14:50] dot
[14:51] and I'll talk more about the contact with the state
[14:54] department to to follow up on our plan in just
[14:56] a few moments
[14:59] on August thirty first of the South Carolina department of
[15:02] health and environmental control partly owns this CD heck issues
[15:07] the first disease activity by county report that affects operations
[15:11] for ACS ... Ory county disease free at the county
[15:16] ... activity is classified as medium at that time so
[15:20] those parents who have chosen the brick and mortar option
[15:24] for their children ... they're would begin school on Tuesday
[15:28] September eight operating under the hybrid instructional model and I
[15:33] have included in the presentation ... hyper links to all
[15:37] the documents that are reference
[15:40] all in this report S. C. D. heck
[15:43] makes the following statements and in subsequent reports CDC recommends
[15:48] that all decisions about implementing school based strategy should be
[15:51] made locally collaboration with local health officials who can help
[15:56] determine the level of transmission in the community the heck
[16:00] is providing this county level data about disease transmission to
[16:04] support decision making at the local level
[16:08] it is not meant to be a standalone Dr
[16:15] September seventh the next ... disease activity by county report
[16:19] is issued by the heck for schools in childcare centers
[16:23] ... Ory county disease spread activity is classified as medium
[16:27] and HCS brick and mortar will operate under the hybrid
[16:30] instructional model and everybody knows what I say hybrid instructional
[16:34] model the group that goes on Monday and Tuesday the
[16:38] Wednesday and Thursday and on Friday use of justice said
[16:42] and then group G. R. students who need more support
[16:45] or attending school all in person ... Monday through Thursday
[16:49] with Friday being a distance it
[16:53] September eighth is mention of previously it is the first
[16:56] day of school for all school whether you're being served
[17:00] in the virtual program or ... attending school that Richard
[17:04] mortar school and in my thirty two years with the
[17:08] Horry county schools is the first time I recall ever
[17:11] ... starting after Labor Day so that was a new
[17:14] experience for many of us
[17:16] September fourteenth of the next report is issued repeat all
[17:20] of that just to say that again the disease activity
[17:23] is classified as medium
[17:26] September sixteenth twenty twenty superintendent's Spearman issues a memorandum of
[17:32] this memorandum was addressed to ... public school superintendents and
[17:37] two board members so you should have received a copy
[17:40] of this memo title face to face instruction and notification
[17:44] of changes in school operational status
[17:49] in her memorandum ... superintendent Spearman stakes many have expressed
[17:53] concern over the high rate of virus spread in some
[17:56] counties as defined weekly by South Carolina department of health
[18:01] and environmental control while these reports are imported decision making
[18:05] tools we cannot make all operational decisions based on eighty
[18:09] one document
[18:11] he's also consider parental choice of face to face and
[18:14] virtual learning environments in order county schools has done that
[18:18] ... from the beginning the hybrid of being a face
[18:21] to face option and of course offering a virtual programming
[18:25] to those parents who wanted to choose that ... delivery
[18:29] model of method
[18:31] faculty and staff availability and personal protective equipment and supplies
[18:36] district's operating face to face and highest rated areas have
[18:39] shown how to do this successfully by strictly following the
[18:42] guidance and safety precautions put forth by public health experts
[18:47] as you consider this request encourage you to call me
[18:50] and the psychology department education to assist you yeah agency
[18:53] is willing and able to support you by providing the
[18:56] resources needed and I do want to say that superintendent
[19:00] Spearman and her staff have certainly stepped up ought to
[19:04] serve of public schools in South Carolina ... with resources
[19:08] and aid will detail some of that a little bit
[19:10] later but ... ... we appreciate that it would be
[19:13] a huge financial drain on school districts in South Carolina
[19:16] if we did not have their support particularly with ...
[19:20] the expenditures associated with the P. and what plexiglass
[19:25] September twenty first S. C. D. heck issues the disease
[19:29] activity by county report on the disease spread is classified
[19:33] as medium and our brick and mortar schools continue operating
[19:37] under the hybrid instructional
[19:42] September twenty third ... as you'll recall from the Augustine
[19:47] approval that ... I received from superintendent Spearman of the
[19:51] letter stipulated that day every two weeks that there would
[19:55] be a review of by the department of education and
[19:59] with ... the district ... to examine where we are
[20:04] with in person option every two weeks ... the designating
[20:08] for super did the Spearman is deputy South Carolina superintendent
[20:12] David Mathis and he arranged telephone conference with me ...
[20:16] with ms Myrick for those of you who do not
[20:18] know ms Myrick than lauric is the chief academic officer
[20:22] and also with ms Allen ms Allen bill Allen is
[20:26] the chief officer for student services in both of those
[20:30] being ... two critical components in terms of instructional delivery
[20:34] and student services encompasses health services for Horry county schools
[20:40] so we all discussed where we are as far as
[20:44] or a county schools is in implementing its plan and
[20:48] specifically in the in person offering on Dr Mathis ...
[20:53] review them and ask some questions all of us and
[20:56] he verbally informed us that HCS is in compliance with
[21:00] the terms of the state department's approval of our plan
[21:06] September twenty eight twenty twenty ... your member that was
[21:10] a a surprise for me and and for you to
[21:13] ... the S. C. D. Hackett announced it would begin
[21:16] releasing of the disease activity by county report for schools
[21:20] in childcare centers on Thursday instead of Monday
[21:24] and that Thursday was October first and S. C. D.
[21:28] the heck issue of the report which indicated ... mediums
[21:32] and HCS continue with the hybrid instructional model
[21:38] October third excuse me October fifth ... at our last
[21:43] board meeting announced to you and that is what the
[21:46] title of this agenda item is about that the district
[21:50] had developed and HCS cove in nineteen case dashboard which
[21:55] reports S. C. D. heck confirmed
[21:58] positive test results for both staff and students at all
[22:02] HCS locations
[22:04] the dashboard provides the district with the local data point
[22:08] based upon S. C. D. hit confirm date and is
[22:11] what emphasize to the board and I'm gonna ask ...
[22:15] ms Allen and Amy true love if you would come
[22:18] up to the front ... and talk to us about
[22:22] ... on the dashboard at this point
[22:25] all in while they're doing that just to say that
[22:27] mistruth ... can explain to you on a number of
[22:31] things related to ... health decisions and also to the
[22:36] fact that our school nurses work with the heck nurses
[22:40] essentially on a daily basis and what county is divided
[22:44] into regions so there's a lot of a communication with
[22:48] local the heck as far as what's going on well
[22:50] in our schools and I just want to say that
[22:53] in looking at the development of the dashboard what we
[22:57] wanted to do is to make sure that we were
[23:00] looking at what is taking place inside Horry county school
[23:04] campuses now I'm not foolish enough to think that or
[23:08] county school district exist within a bubble it does not
[23:12] but I'm also intelligent and ... that when we look
[23:15] at the scope of problems that we have identified a
[23:19] with the dashboard we see that it is not widespread
[23:23] within our schools in fact some schools will have very
[23:26] few if any incidences so that's what comes to mind
[23:31] for me as far as hearing with this board that
[23:34] I think that it's that time that we look at
[23:36] where we are with new information to start thinking about
[23:39] looking at things differently
[23:42] the ... cases that are reported on the dashboard ...
[23:47] our positive test cases and what we want you to
[23:50] understand we're going to share with you miss Allen Mr
[23:54] and they're going to go into some detail and you're
[23:56] going to see the complexity of the and I just
[23:59] want to say to anyone that you know may have
[24:02] a question I don't have enough time to in via
[24:06] data okay so we're not hiding anything what we're doing
[24:12] is that we're dealing with the facts as far as
[24:14] what we know and that is verified by S. C.
[24:18] D. here so these are already county school numbers these
[24:22] test results that come up a positive test results that
[24:25] were verified by a CD other several topics that that
[24:29] lot miss Allen in his true love to address that
[24:32] pertaining to health services import one of the things that
[24:36] comes to mind is attendance code I think possibly in
[24:39] is and I understand why if you were looking at
[24:42] a student's attendance record and use all S. C. flu
[24:46] coded on there you would say what the world is
[24:48] that about we've got to find out in just a
[24:50] few minutes what it's about is Horry county schools following
[24:54] the directions that we being given as to how we
[24:56] are to students is students when they are absent and
[25:00] they're displaying symptoms but I'm getting into your report so
[25:03] I'm going to pause and let you take it from
[25:05] here
[25:06] thank you doctor Maxey thank you board members and I
[25:09] do know a lot of you have gotten calls because
[25:12] some of you have the building called me and said
[25:14] what's going on without this day was excused why is
[25:16] it not so I want to share some information and
[25:19] what documents he said I apologize in advance for the
[25:22] links because it is a lot of information but I
[25:25] think it's important that all of us understand and hopefully
[25:29] it'll clear up some of the confusion for our parents
[25:32] and for our teachers but all first thing I wanna
[25:35] start with is talk about something new this year and
[25:37] that's our new with a new way we do attendance
[25:39] on the new attendance code and you can say I
[25:43] didn't make this up this is not my slide I
[25:45] copied it from a slide that was part of a
[25:48] present a presentation that was a weapon are former state
[25:52] representative who is over attendance al being cold
[25:56] and this year we introduced a new code called Essie
[25:59] nurse that's the nurses code that code can be used
[26:03] for at least one day and potentially two consecutive days
[26:08] if a nurse since a child home
[26:11] part of the confusion that some of you have experienced
[26:14] with your parents who may have called is that a
[26:16] nurse has nothing to do with the ten they don't
[26:19] enter attendance codes they send it to the attendance clerk
[26:23] to enter but if they actually see a child in
[26:27] their help run and they send them home they notified
[26:31] the attendance clerk that the code should be S. C.
[26:34] nars
[26:35] if the numbers does not see the child
[26:39] by their own South Carolina guidelines they cannot recommend an
[26:44] excuse because because they would be making a decision about
[26:47] a child that they did not lay eyes on as
[26:50] a medical personnel in our schools they don't do that
[26:54] so I just wanna share that code because we're gonna
[26:57] see some of those in just a moment the other
[26:59] thing a doctor Maxey mentioned this is that is the
[27:03] flu is not one of our new because we had
[27:06] used it in the past we have foolishly
[27:09] but because we don't have a code nineteen because you'll
[27:13] never look in a child's attendance and C. S. C.
[27:15] code I promise you won't
[27:18] they have instructed us to use the code S. C.
[27:21] flute
[27:22] we begin using S. C. fuller when a child is
[27:26] reported is showing symptoms
[27:29] we do not ever change that code even if the
[27:32] child becomes positive if they have a confirmed D. Hey
[27:36] Cardi had confirmation that they have kind of been nineteen
[27:40] it will still show S. C. flows the only difference
[27:43] is once we have a confirmation we go into what's
[27:47] called the comments section of that code and we put
[27:50] them term covered or covered ninety
[27:54] but to the naked to the OP with the teacher
[27:57] goes in I don't think the comment section open up
[28:00] hearing goes into the parent portal they C. S. C.
[28:03] fuller the only way we know it was a confirmed
[28:06] case is by opening up the comments section and see
[28:09] that so I want to make sure you're aware of
[28:11] that
[28:12] and then the last thing is this is another still
[28:15] another slide for ms Coleman's work and this was how
[28:19] we look at positive cases and it talks about the
[28:23] criteria for returning at the time this presentation was given
[28:27] by ms Coleman on August twenty sixth this was correct
[28:31] but to night mystery has provided you with an update
[28:35] that was that was produced after August twenty six that
[28:39] says okay ten days or there's a clause in there
[28:43] you'll see the Asterix this is ten days from the
[28:47] test the time of the positive tests so things have
[28:51] changes in their ever evolving and just in case anybody
[28:55] behind me what's a copy of this it is public
[28:58] knowledge on the South Carolina highway hazards the high school
[29:01] like South Carolina department he the heck a website I'd
[29:05] like to be jobs up but you can get a
[29:08] copy of that we also provided for you a sample
[29:11] copy of the three letters that we are authorized to
[29:14] send out by the head so you have that information
[29:18] and this again is something that anybody can have I
[29:21] just thought you might want to copy in front of
[29:23] you as we go through it ms Allen yes I
[29:25] want to make sure that you clarify about is C.
[29:28] flute yes just because this is my understanding is because
[29:33] you are code S. C. flute does not mean that
[29:37] that's the kind of it nineteen result is that lately
[29:40] correct what does it make it means that at some
[29:43] point you had flu like symptoms or possibly you could
[29:47] have gone to the doctor and they could tested positive
[29:49] for the flu because that's also the same code we
[29:52] used for full and I will show you some examples
[29:55] so that you can see what I'm talking about with
[29:57] the attendant
[29:59] okay this is a one more thing about the attendance
[30:01] Katie this is two scenarios and if you look in
[30:05] the pink box will first of all let's start with
[30:07] this this data were saying this student attends a brick
[30:10] and mortar school
[30:12] this ten that this student has developed flu like symptoms
[30:16] at this point he's not been tested for Copa ninety
[30:20] K. if you go across you'll see what happens if
[30:23] the child gets sick while at school
[30:26] if you go down the column you'll see what happens
[30:29] if the child is not in school so let's go
[30:32] across bars a student arrives at school he's feeling okay
[30:37] but sometime during the day he starts feeling sick
[30:40] that student is set to the numbers in younger grades
[30:44] sometimes someone will escorting to the north and in upper
[30:47] grades most of the time they'll write a passing the
[30:49] child goes to the north but either way he gets
[30:51] to than ours
[30:53] the nurse examines the student talks to check their temperature
[30:57] asking what the symptoms are and it's determined that this
[31:01] child has flu like symptoms it could be a headache
[31:05] a sore throat and a fever it could be any
[31:07] of the ones that are listed on that flu like
[31:10] symptoms sheet or the code nineteen G. so what the
[31:14] nurse does at that time she makes the determination that
[31:17] that child needs to go home
[31:20] so she now since this child to an isolation room
[31:23] if you're members part of our re entry plan every
[31:26] school has to have a designated area that's called an
[31:28] isolation room and that room or that area is where
[31:32] students wait to be picked up
[31:35] I am of course we have to maintain social distancing
[31:37] in that area the other thing the nurse does because
[31:41] she has examined the student is she notifies the attendance
[31:44] areas as I'm sending the child home Cody missing hours
[31:49] the nurse doesn't even have rights to go into attendance
[31:52] Indian Creek but she has to notify the attendance area
[31:56] and then of course the question is how long is
[31:58] the student exclude and we're going answer that on the
[32:00] next slide so hold that thought
[32:03] but if you go down the side of this bar
[32:05] start back in the peak with the student has flu
[32:07] like symptoms sometimes this occurs over the weekend or it
[32:11] may occur on an off day your on the hybrid
[32:15] model a student may have attended Monday and Tuesday and
[32:18] started having flu like symptoms on Wednesday Thursday or Friday
[32:21] so it whichever scenario it is the parent notifies the
[32:26] school
[32:27] the nurse never actually gets to see the students
[32:30] but that notifies the school there's usually one of four
[32:34] people for four different groups that the parent notify us
[32:38] a lot of times they'll send an email to the
[32:40] teacher
[32:42] sometimes which is what we've asked them today they'll send
[32:45] an email or make a phone call to the school
[32:47] nurse
[32:49] the school nurse has to know if it to all
[32:51] of these people have to not sometimes if that
[32:56] has a relationship with an assistant principal or the principal
[32:58] they may email or contact the principal
[33:02] whichever one is sometimes later not they actually call the
[33:05] attendance office and talk to them or they will send
[33:08] an email
[33:09] but regardless of who finds out first the school nurse
[33:13] the administration and the attendance office has to know to
[33:17] make our pro our procedures work so you see the
[33:21] lines are drawn between them at the school nurse finds
[33:23] out first she may contact administration and the attendance office
[33:28] if the attendance office finds out first I don't know
[33:31] she may call the administration and then the school nurse
[33:33] all three of those have to the
[33:36] think about this let's say the emails the teacher at
[33:40] nine o'clock well all of us in this room hope
[33:44] that teachers will be providing instruction at nine o'clock that
[33:47] teachers may not be sitting at the at the computer
[33:50] waiting for that email to calmly
[33:52] so even though the parent has emailed the teacher it
[33:56] could be later in the day before the information gets
[33:59] to the school nurse to the administration into the attendance
[34:02] office
[34:03] the teacher however is responsible for taking the time in
[34:07] the elementary level they'll probably take attendance first thing in
[34:10] the morning at a high school they could take attendant
[34:14] four or five times depending upon if they have a
[34:17] some type of ... imbedded schedule
[34:20] so when the teacher codes that student absent and that's
[34:24] all a teacher can do teacher does not pick a
[34:26] cut
[34:27] when the teacher marks that child absent if the parent
[34:30] logs into powerschool they're gonna automatically C. S. C. dash
[34:35] U. N. X. which is an unexcused because
[34:39] and I can tell you parents get upset when they
[34:41] sent an email and I log in and see that
[34:44] but my point to you is it doesn't happen one
[34:47] two three five minutes apart it takes term for that
[34:51] information to get to the attendance office and its coat
[34:54] I can't tell you have a monitored and working with
[34:57] their wheels I believe all attendance is corrected within twenty
[35:00] four hours but that's not as quick as some of
[35:03] our parents would like for it to be and I
[35:04] can't if I assume the mom wanna make sure you
[35:07] go to my child correct
[35:09] the nurse doesn't determine the code at this point so
[35:12] sometimes appear or call the nurse and sidewalks into another
[35:15] this is the seven blue like symptoms all the nurses
[35:19] good news relayed that information to administration and the attendance
[35:22] office the nurse will never tell them how to code
[35:25] it if they did not physically examine the state
[35:29] administration we do have some schools have assigned an assistant
[35:32] principal to work with attendance because of the volume we're
[35:36] getting this year so it is possible that the administration
[35:39] may go into because more than likely because the note
[35:43] or the email is house with the attendant scored that's
[35:45] why that one's in blue and big is because that's
[35:48] the that's the key to getting the attendance change it
[35:52] will be changed to S. C.
[35:55] because at this point we don't know what the child
[35:57] has
[35:59] we know they're having flu like symptoms okay
[36:02] please stop me as I go on do you have
[36:04] any questions because I know this is a lot of
[36:06] information
[36:08] K. looking at our next line of this is a
[36:09] busy slide and I'm water I'm not trying to rush
[36:13] to bless this that same street Michelle yes okay you
[36:17] should stop you had a question yes we get that
[36:19] spot before if I know how we shorten yep I
[36:24] would go down I wanna
[36:25] this comes from one of the several hundred emails I've
[36:28] got it the blue the attendance office courtesy fluid right
[36:33] okay if I'm understanding you right
[36:36] that Kate does that came to us from subcommittee
[36:40] that's a lot S. the flu came to us from
[36:42] the South Carolina department of education that is the code
[36:45] we've been instructed to use for flu like symptoms okay
[36:48] the question that I was at it in several emails
[36:51] to questions I was asked to ask someone here tonight
[36:55] so we're not coding initially flew to hard code not
[36:59] the numbers there's no conspiracy there I'm not part of
[37:02] a conspiracy after I promise you that and I can
[37:06] share that power point that from AV Coleman with anyone
[37:09] who wants it because the slides came straight from her
[37:12] presentation the S. the flu is the code we've been
[37:16] instructed to I was just I was asked to ask
[37:18] that question up actually okay go ahead
[37:21] no problem
[37:23] okay so I want to go through the scenarios because
[37:26] you is you'll see as we go through these every
[37:29] situation is different and every situation is handled a little
[37:33] bit differently but this is that same street but we're
[37:36] gonna look at five different scenarios someone ask you look
[37:40] at the one and it looks a little different on
[37:42] my screen but the one on the left is lavender
[37:44] so we're gonna look at example number one okay students
[37:48] were sent home from the school nurse this is going
[37:51] across the top this is not the email the life
[37:53] the nurses thing I'm someone home S. seeing ours is
[37:56] the code that goes in
[37:59] all right on the thirteenth the next day the parent
[38:02] decides to take the students to their doctor's
[38:05] and the doctor does several test one I'm including a
[38:08] strep throat test strip test
[38:11] and sure enough the student has strep throat the student
[38:15] did not have covert nineteen but now remember on this
[38:18] next day absence yes the flu is probably showing up
[38:22] in the attendance block because we didn't know when the
[38:25] child went to the doctor what they had in the
[38:27] kids not there so we went ahead with that attends
[38:30] in there
[38:31] okay normally and I'm not a doctor but let a
[38:36] doctor will tell you we strip that you have to
[38:39] stay out to you get at least three rounds of
[38:41] the antibody can you which is usually about forty eight
[38:43] hours and your fever is gone so in this scenario
[38:48] the student is free to come back on the fifteenth
[38:52] which is three days later October twelfth was a Monday
[38:56] the fifteenth is a Thursday he's cleared to come back
[38:59] so he comes back and he brings his medical note
[39:02] which is our attendance policy and always has been to
[39:06] the attendance office as soon as the attendance office sees
[39:10] that he has been to the doctor and he has
[39:13] strep she wore he will go back and they will
[39:17] code the thirteen fourteen and fifteen S. S. C. made
[39:23] it wasn't a fluke and it wasn't cut
[39:26] so they will change but keep in mind
[39:29] before that child is back on the fifteenth the thirteenth
[39:33] fourteenth and fifteenth was labeled as safely
[39:37] so that may be part of your conspiracy theories there
[39:40] Mr chairman is because it does change but it only
[39:44] changes when we get that medical notes from the doctor
[39:48] now I'm gonna remind job one of the things let's
[39:51] assume this child and he was because he was in
[39:54] school on Monday he's in a day state
[39:58] on the fifteenth when he's cleared to return to school
[40:00] it's Thursday he's not scheduled to come to school on
[40:03] Thursday he's not scheduled to come to school on Friday
[40:07] so there's a really good chance that next Monday the
[40:10] nineteenth is when he's gonna bring that medical note to
[40:13] the attendance office
[40:15] so in that scenario we won't change it until we
[40:18] get that medical note so that's data on the thirteenth
[40:23] through the sixteenth was coded S. C. blue
[40:27] when we get that note on Monday we will go
[40:30] back and change it to S. C. made it but
[40:33] we won't change until we get the medical documentation so
[40:37] that does cause some confusion and it really upsets are
[40:40] in some way
[40:41] but those are our guidelines and that it makes sense
[40:44] if you think about
[40:46] so that's scenario number one I'm a move to scenario
[40:50] number two student example number two
[40:53] thank you but this is just a different different possibility
[40:57] he sent home from school or she could be issued
[41:00] on October twelfth we code that day S. C. nurse
[41:04] on the thirteenth the student goes to the doctor and
[41:08] has quite a few tests one of them including the
[41:10] tests for cove in nineteen
[41:13] okay but the student test negative
[41:16] but he still has flu like symptoms okay
[41:20] even though he tested negative the doctor is more than
[41:24] likely gonna tell him you need to stay out of
[41:27] school as long as you have symptoms
[41:30] guess who knows they could have tested into early it
[41:32] could turn into kind of a ninety or he may
[41:35] just truly have flu like symptoms that never turn into
[41:38] K.
[41:39] but the doctor is going to tell him to stay
[41:41] out until he no longer has symptoms
[41:44] let's say so how did have symptoms that long and
[41:47] he comes back on the fifteenth
[41:51] we're gonna continue to coach him S. C. flows for
[41:54] the thirteenth fourteenth and fifteenth because he doesn't have a
[41:58] different medical diagnosis for us to change it any did
[42:02] have flu like symptoms
[42:04] so S. the flu would stay in there but he
[42:07] has not been tested he's not tested positive a confirm
[42:10] positive case for current
[42:14] I
[42:16] all right let's go over to scenario number three student
[42:19] example number three
[42:21] student get sent home from the nurse he still has
[42:25] a blue like symptoms but this time the mama says
[42:28] you don't want you're not that sick I'm not gonna
[42:30] pay to send you to the I'm not take you
[42:32] to the doctor we're not gonna have you tested you're
[42:34] not going to the doctor
[42:36] okay that happens sometimes especially if the child is not
[42:40] exit exhibiting extreme symptoms so
[42:44] the school's gonna tell this child that they have to
[42:47] quarantine for at least ten days because they went home
[42:50] they were sent home with flu like symptoms
[42:54] there's no medical diagnosis as they have anything different and
[42:58] there's no medical diagnosis is that the head coach at
[43:00] night time
[43:02] so when they have those flu like symptoms we're gonna
[43:04] ask them to quarantine isolate exclude any of those three
[43:10] words you want to use for ten that so in
[43:13] this case he would come back on October twenty second
[43:17] if the symptoms are no longer there now we do
[43:19] you tell parents all the time if they still have
[43:21] symptoms don't bring back to school
[43:24] but he will come back on October twenty second and
[43:27] every day from the thirteenth to the twenty second will
[43:30] be coded S. C. flute
[43:32] but there is no diagnosis that ever said he had
[43:36] committed nineteen
[43:38] so all you'll see in his attendance is a city
[43:41] full of
[43:45] okay
[43:47] so for your by with me
[43:49] great all right the last two we're gonna look at
[43:51] now this these two are a lot like if you
[43:53] look at them example for that was supposed to be
[43:56] a little grade that looks a lot like lavender but
[43:59] anyway example for the students were sent home from the
[44:02] numbers same same scenario
[44:05] this time on the fifteenth the student goes to the
[44:08] doctor he is able to take a test for carbon
[44:11] nineteen if you test positive he did a rapid test
[44:14] you got the results back on the fifteenth he is
[44:16] positive for code
[44:18] okay the student is quarantine for at least 10 days
[44:25] okay at least 10 days because he tested positive
[44:28] the difference is on the twelve you'll be coded S.
[44:32] C. nars
[44:34] all the thirteenth he may be coded Essie justice include
[44:39] on the fourteenth same thing but on the fifteenth when
[44:43] he got that positive test will open up his attendance
[44:47] and we'll put a comment in the attendant section that
[44:49] says code or code nineteen to let us know that
[44:53] there was a positive test for the remainder of that
[44:56] child's quarantine that will be in the comments section
[45:00] but when you open up is attendance it'll look like
[45:03] is C. flute just like it did for number three
[45:07] unless you can open the comments section and look at
[45:11] okay I have another one there okay okay
[45:15] when a student goes to the doctor and they're tested
[45:17] code possible
[45:20] then the state is notified
[45:23] at the end we're gonna get to that but yeah
[45:25] after we're not the state but our local the heck
[45:27] agency once we get a positive test there we've got
[45:31] to you see at the bottom of that box we
[45:33] got the start contact tracing and it begins the very
[45:37] minute the very second that we get that positive test
[45:42] this great sometimes the heck notifies us because the doctor
[45:45] may get to them before the pair at our student
[45:48] gets to us sometimes the parent will call the school
[45:51] immediately and say there's a positive test and then we
[45:53] called the heck but either way there's three groups involved
[45:58] there's South Carolina the heck
[46:01] there's our school nurse and now there's a member from
[46:04] our health services department we added those we had a
[46:08] we make sure that a person from our office was
[46:10] added last Friday
[46:12] okay and we we are going to be about contact
[46:14] tracing in just a moment as well so you'll know
[46:16] what happens at that procedure after that
[46:20] okay example number five is a lot like example number
[46:24] four X. that this student went to the doctor and
[46:28] had the code the test before whatever reason he didn't
[46:30] get the rapid tests and it takes several days before
[46:34] he gets his results he doesn't get his results until
[46:37] October twenty second
[46:39] October twenty second is the day that he is a
[46:43] confirm he's a confirmed D. heck positive
[46:48] not the twenty first because we don't have the test
[46:50] results on that day so we will still we're gonna
[46:54] take that he's gonna still have the is the blue
[46:56] code for the time he's and all but we'll go
[46:59] back again and again put in that comment section that
[47:03] it was either because that are code ninety either one
[47:06] of those you type it in some schools are putting
[47:07] cove it's some kind of the ducting
[47:10] okay and we begin the contact tracing and now I
[47:13] am going to expand on that just a moment but
[47:15] do you notice we started contact tracing all the fourth
[47:19] child on the fifteenth because that's the day we had
[47:22] the confirm positive
[47:24] we started contact tracing all the child on October twenty
[47:29] second because that's the day we got the confirmed positive
[47:34] so all this if any they all could that they
[47:37] could go to the same doctor they could have had
[47:39] different dates they were tested positive but it is the
[47:41] date that we get the results
[47:44] okay
[47:46] all right moving along
[47:48] no I took a moment let me back up so
[47:51] I can show you okay we're not gonna talk about
[47:53] student wanted to anymore okay let you have questions about
[47:57] a mumble forget about them for awhile I really want
[48:00] to talk about student three four and five and how
[48:02] that looks on the dashboard and how that looks on
[48:06] the condo will start how that looks with contact Tracy
[48:09] said I've tried to stay the same color so forget
[48:11] about student wanted to for a moment we're going to
[48:13] three point five
[48:15] now remember 3 never went to the doctor
[48:19] okay so this child was quarantine for ten days it's
[48:24] because he didn't go to the doctor you didn't have
[48:26] a positive test it's ten days from the day he
[48:28] started having symptoms so this child is eligible to return
[48:32] to school on ten twenty two unless he still hasn't
[48:37] if you still have symptoms he needs to stay out
[48:40] okay here because the whole time as a reminder South
[48:44] Carolina flute
[48:46] if you look at the Horry county school dashboard this
[48:50] child will never be included in the dashboard because he
[48:53] never had a confirmed positive cases of code
[48:59] he may have had it we don't know you never
[49:01] went to the doctor
[49:03] he was quarantined but he may have not had code
[49:06] that he may have had the flu he never went
[49:08] to the doctor to find that he may have had
[49:09] strip we will never not but he would not be
[49:13] included on our dashboard because we do not have that
[49:15] confirmed case
[49:18] student number four he went to the doctor he was
[49:22] tested positive he of course you see that there is
[49:26] the blue comment code or code the daunting
[49:29] he has to be in quarantine for at least ten
[49:32] days so he can return to school on October twentieth
[49:37] via and that's one of the changes that you will
[49:39] read in this document from the time Alvin Coleman did
[49:42] her weapon are with us until this document was established
[49:47] or print it because it says they recommend the ten
[49:51] day quarantine from the time he tested positive
[49:55] not from the time he started showing symptoms
[49:59] if they had up
[50:00] because of the testing you can bring that in here
[50:02] said this student would be eligible to return on October
[50:06] twenty fifth
[50:08] okay
[50:10] so once he's confirmed on October fifteenth he goes on
[50:14] our dashboard
[50:16] he becomes an active confirmed case on the fifteenth
[50:21] we have been holding them active for seven day after
[50:25] seven days whether it's a staff member or whether it's
[50:29] a student they moved into the historical growth
[50:34] now that's seven days we pick that and I will
[50:37] tell you ms Truelove and not talked last week maybe
[50:41] we should make it fourteen days but the reason we
[50:44] made it seven is because it goes along with what
[50:48] CDC has sit day tracking periods of a week in
[50:52] seven day so we decided to do the seven days
[50:55] because that student will stay on the dashboard as positive
[50:59] from the fifteenth
[51:02] when he first goes on seven days until the twenty
[51:05] second on the twenty second he would move out of
[51:08] the positive confirm positive to the historical case
[51:13] yes ma'am thank you sorry
[51:17] thanks
[51:19] miss Allen I I guess I wanna make sure honest
[51:21] stand earlier you said that once ... they received a
[51:24] test day will quarantine for seven days from the day
[51:28] I mean ten days from the day of the test
[51:30] that's right but we're only tracking them for seven days
[51:33] right that seems a little inconsistent to me with between
[51:37] percent and a home they got to be home for
[51:39] ten days per our standards yeah we only shown for
[51:43] seven days what we're showing them on the dashboard for
[51:46] more than seven they'll be an active case for seven
[51:49] and then for the last three days they'll be a
[51:52] his they'll go into the historical category
[51:58] and I'm and I'm I'm telling you less remember I
[52:01] do remind you one thing
[52:03] a month ago we didn't have a dashboard if you
[52:05] remember the last board meeting is the first time we
[52:08] had it so if there's changes that we need to
[52:11] make in our reporting we can certainly do that but
[52:14] I'm just the reason we pick seven days is because
[52:17] it was consistent with what CDC track we tried to
[52:20] model after what they're looking at as far as monitoring
[52:24] the case but that doesn't mean it if there's a
[52:26] recommendation we can look at fourteen days we can look
[52:29] at ten days I will tell you even though the
[52:33] guideline says they must quarantine for two years there are
[52:36] some students who quarantine for forty based on whether or
[52:39] not they still have symptoms so it still could be
[52:42] the case where we would move on from active to
[52:46] historical before they actually return to school
[52:51] okay
[52:53] I guess I would like I guess I would like
[52:55] for you consider being the same if we we quarantine
[52:58] for ten days we track it as an active case
[53:00] for ten days that would just be a suggestion the
[53:03] concern not mislead you have something for yeah I was
[53:07] just going to reiterate what ms Allen it's a you
[53:10] know in looking you know in constructing the the the
[53:13] dashboard we wanted to do something there I mean obviously
[53:17] we were not at the genealogist and we followed the
[53:21] CDC model because they looked at the variability over time
[53:25] with their statistical modeling and said you seven days she
[53:28] said we can expand it beyond it but that was
[53:30] purely the reason for it and the other thing too
[53:33] is to remember and sometimes I have to back up
[53:36] think about the dashboard myself what we're looking at our
[53:41] positive student and staff incidents over time is you know
[53:46] it is a cases dashboard with the count is not
[53:50] following students who over a quarantine period so I don't
[53:56] know if that helps explain you know what we're looking
[53:58] at because is a tally of Quinn students or staff
[54:01] members display A. D. had confirm positive test over a
[54:06] seven day period and I'm thinking that ... and I'm
[54:09] just in which is dangerous I'm thinking on the fly
[54:12] here ... but if we expanded we're still going to
[54:16] end up with a window where some students are not
[54:19] going to be showing up and we're going to repeat
[54:21] the same problem this that is that makes sense
[54:27] okay okay ms Morrell
[54:29] yes I guess I need to more clarification that maybe
[54:34] that's why a lot of people that are dashboard is
[54:36] incorrect because ...
[54:39] to me you're not historic into you walk back in
[54:42] school
[54:43] ... and so there's some confusion over there and I
[54:45] don't understand why we're not saying their historic when they
[54:49] come back because it's now okay for them to come
[54:51] back because you could have go but for five days
[54:55] you can have it for three weeks ... and so
[54:59] you're saying that they would then be a historic case
[55:02] but they can still be home sick with a cold
[55:04] with symptoms and be ill I just don't think that's
[55:07] accurate and accurate representation ... and I agree with Mr
[55:11] James I'm just I'm not liking this seven days because
[55:15] I just don't feel that actors not covering the whole
[55:17] time they're supposed warranty ... and I think it just
[55:20] doesn't eight give the misrepresentations I know like Saint James
[55:24] high school has three staff that are still out with
[55:26] covert your dashboard says to
[55:29] I assume that means someone went into the seven days
[55:33] in rolled off but that's not accurate because those three
[55:36] people are still home sick and they're not back in
[55:40] the building so this is very confusing and to me
[55:43] it's not painting an accurate picture of what's actually happening
[55:46] in the building thank
[55:49] I'm not I'm where certain ... I think what you're
[55:52] saying is ... we're so new into the process it
[55:55] is not a problem to justice to bring everything in
[55:57] line not at all what one out one other thing
[56:00] and I'm somebody's question I mean I've got a lot
[56:04] of questions have been answered ...
[56:07] when a child test make a positive
[56:10] and they're sent home in a quarantine the child has
[56:13] to test negative before they're allowed back in school is
[56:15] that correct no that's not correct no okay can you
[56:18] explain that to me sure if a child isn't home
[56:21] in this pot and their quarantine for the ten days
[56:25] for the positive tests if they get to the end
[56:28] of those ten days and they're no longer exhibiting symptoms
[56:31] then they're free and clear to come back to school
[56:34] that is a misconception because I've been asked so do
[56:37] you require appeared to have a child takes where you
[56:40] can schools cannot require appeared to test the job we
[56:43] cannot say you can't come back and do you have
[56:45] a negative test we that that we can't do that
[56:49] so no we do not require that but if a
[56:52] child is positive in ten days later after their quarantine
[56:55] period is over they do not have symptoms then they
[56:59] are free and clear to come back
[57:01] I can't tell you if a parent calls may not
[57:04] I'm not the nurse I'm not over health services but
[57:07] I do talk to peers from time to time
[57:09] and they say it's been ten days a mock trial
[57:12] still has symptoms you may want to consider having them
[57:15] tested again that's just me talking to them that's not
[57:19] something we're required
[57:23] I'm sorry that was just some of the names okay
[57:27] Mr James
[57:29] and you may get to this later but it's just
[57:31] occurred to me if we share with the students they've
[57:35] been exposed and they proactively get a test hello this
[57:39] just say it comes up positive
[57:42] but they have exhibited no symptoms so they're automatically sent
[57:47] home for ten days
[57:49] is there a opt out and Nick save an opt
[57:53] out that if they test negative for three consecutive days
[57:57] or is there some way to shorten that Kim dae
[57:59] automatic quarantine period
[58:02] well how will we council faults test folks positives in
[58:06] in our
[58:08] process
[58:10] if that child has tested negative but has exhibited symptoms
[58:14] that's the reason we put amount due here tells us
[58:17] they need to go ahead and complete the courting period
[58:22] even with a negative test
[58:24] but if they didn't exhibit symptoms they were exposed so
[58:29] they proactively the parents had a proactively test they got
[58:33] a false positive so the notify the school Hey we've
[58:37] got a a positive
[58:39] test results but there's no symptoms so a couple days
[58:42] later they get another test and it's negative
[58:47] are there is there an opt out or is there
[58:49] you have to follow the ten days of some half
[58:51] the guideline that says
[58:54] if they test negative they're not symptomatic they can return
[58:59] yeah thank you
[59:00] okay I think ms Morrell has a question
[59:03] can we make sure that all of our schools are
[59:06] following that because I think there's some discrepancy on that
[59:10] if the students tested negative ...
[59:13] and there they may be feeling a little bit better
[59:15] by day seven I think summer allowing them to come
[59:18] back to school with a negative test we can certainly
[59:21] do that and I will tell you mistruths with the
[59:24] nurses on Friday because you'll remember this is with the
[59:28] tennis coach or Nick how we're doing business as name
[59:32] and so we were funding three speak to you and
[59:35] there are parents that every school that might not be
[59:37] as quick to get things done as others so she
[59:40] met with them on Friday and she will continue to
[59:42] meet with them periodically to give them those reminders so
[59:45] that we are consistent but please keep in mind it
[59:48] is very new to all of us this year
[59:51] Mr **** okay yes all on this last ... scenario
[59:56] with number four it says they have to be quarantined
[59:59] ten days from Tess but after seven days a goes
[1:00:03] to historical
[1:00:05] so you're using CDC guidelines have you user guidelines before
[1:00:11] I have I don't remember you mentioned anything but is
[1:00:14] C. D. heck is there a reason why you would
[1:00:16] go to the CDC on this one for the seven
[1:00:19] days because of looking at the dashboard and some of
[1:00:21] their materials that we we followed CDC
[1:00:26] but it's not to say that we could not change
[1:00:28] it if we need to
[1:00:31] okay
[1:00:33] can anybody else okay
[1:00:35] but that last one that Mr **** mentioned you can
[1:00:39] see this child would be quarantined and this was a
[1:00:42] point we were trying to make this child had a
[1:00:44] confirmed case on ten twenty two
[1:00:47] so he would go on our dashboard is a confirmed
[1:00:49] case on ten twenty two but he would become a
[1:00:52] hit a historical case on ten twenty nine but notice
[1:00:56] he won't be allowed to return to school to eleven
[1:00:59] to so that is I think the same point that
[1:01:01] you guys have been making is that we've got them
[1:01:03] still out and not in school but we've moved on
[1:01:06] to a historical case
[1:01:08] what we've looked at was CD say is that an
[1:01:11] active case is usually look that for there's consecutive seven
[1:01:15] days
[1:01:16] so that was the point that we want to share
[1:01:18] with you
[1:01:20] okay moving to the next slide
[1:01:23] this one I added a little late because this is
[1:01:27] probably one that we get more calls about this than
[1:01:30] any other
[1:01:31] and this is a student who was expelled
[1:01:35] so I want to this is a totally different than
[1:01:36] the five students was to send areas we've been looking
[1:01:39] at but I want to look at a person is
[1:01:42] living in the students household and they test positive
[1:01:46] not the students the student has no symptoms but let's
[1:01:50] say the grandfather lives with the family and the grandfather
[1:01:54] test positive
[1:01:56] the mother calls and tells us grandfather has tested positive
[1:02:00] so her household has been told by the heck to
[1:02:02] quarantine
[1:02:04] okay because we would have gotten a notification about the
[1:02:07] grandfather until D. had got involved and then of course
[1:02:10] the heck notifies us but that's student is now considered
[1:02:14] a close contact because he lives in the same household
[1:02:18] as the grandfather who has tested positive
[1:02:21] and yes I question this almost everyday and Tammy has
[1:02:23] keeping me in the head say nope this is right
[1:02:27] if you're a close contact detected as instructed us that
[1:02:31] the quarantine for fourteen days
[1:02:34] if the student had tested positive himself he's only required
[1:02:37] to quarantine for ten that's hard for me to get
[1:02:40] my head around but those are the rules that are
[1:02:42] printed so that's what we followed by
[1:02:45] that student may return to school at the end of
[1:02:48] his ten day quarantine provided there are no symptoms when
[1:02:52] he's when he's coming back okay
[1:02:56] fourteen I'm sorry say that again as a team fourteen
[1:02:59] days later he's eligible to return on the twenty six
[1:03:02] here is a perfect example with the attendants coding this
[1:03:06] child has no symptoms this child is not set but
[1:03:09] we're not going to penalize him with attendance for fourteen
[1:03:12] days because he's been quarantine by the
[1:03:16] so here again we're using that S. C. flute because
[1:03:20] he never had code
[1:03:22] but we are excusing his day because that's the right
[1:03:25] thing to do for that child as far as his
[1:03:27] attendance and I think this is what happens a lot
[1:03:30] I've had a couple of teachers contact me personally and
[1:03:34] say no I have a child in my class that
[1:03:37] has kind of I've seen is the flu for fourteen
[1:03:39] days and no one has let me know
[1:03:43] there is no child in her class that has coded
[1:03:45] in this area
[1:03:48] the teacher wasn't in close contact with the grandparents so
[1:03:50] that would not be a reason to notify the teacher
[1:03:53] or any students in the class they're not every
[1:03:58] so this is a situation where the attendance could get
[1:04:01] a little confusing okay I've asked some questions over here
[1:04:05] our other students in the quarantine students classroom notified not
[1:04:09] he's not sick he's be in quarantine because of a
[1:04:12] family member being sick we don't notify the students in
[1:04:15] the classroom
[1:04:17] do other students in the quarantine students classroom have to
[1:04:20] quarantine now they've not been in contact with the person
[1:04:24] who is sick and just because the student has been
[1:04:28] in contact with the grandfather and has been in contact
[1:04:31] with the other students that's considered a third party contact
[1:04:35] contact of a contact we don't have to do any
[1:04:38] testing no corn team with them we do not believe
[1:04:41] that way I mean the access we don't have to
[1:04:44] okay if the quarantine student begin showing symptoms on October
[1:04:48] nineteenth remember he's been out since the twelfth can you
[1:04:52] still return on October twenty six the answer is not
[1:04:57] and again this seems a little unfair to me but
[1:04:59] is the rules the student cannot return because he's now
[1:05:04] showing sent so he was quarantine because of the family
[1:05:07] member but now he has system so we add home
[1:05:11] an additional ten days of isolation for this job and
[1:05:15] that's why you may have heard some kids are pointing
[1:05:18] for twenty four days because this child would be
[1:05:23] provided you don't go to the doctor and again they
[1:05:25] get tested all those exceptions
[1:05:27] okay will this student status be reflected on the dashboard
[1:05:33] not
[1:05:35] we don't do pointing the students on the dashboard and
[1:05:37] this is one of the reasons we decided not to
[1:05:40] because this child doesn't have kind of a nineteen he
[1:05:43] is not a realistic anybody at that school
[1:05:46] so therefore the answer is not
[1:05:49] I will add one more let's say he started showing
[1:05:52] symptoms on the nineteenth that he goes and gets tested
[1:05:55] on the nineteenth that he's positive so he's he's gotten
[1:05:59] the bars possibly from the grandfather
[1:06:02] does anyone in his classroom they'll have to quarantine the
[1:06:06] because from the day you test positive D. heck makes
[1:06:10] us look back forty eight hours what he was absent
[1:06:14] since the twelve he was absent seven straight days before
[1:06:17] he tested positive so note no one at the school
[1:06:21] is at risk from that study even if you test
[1:06:23] positive on the nineteen
[1:06:26] so we do contact tracing the heck will ask him
[1:06:29] who he's been around in the household or anybody's come
[1:06:32] to the house but they will ask him about his
[1:06:35] classroom or his teachers because he's not minutes goal
[1:06:41] Mr Freeman yeah on that on that same sift instance
[1:06:44] on October nineteenth two start showing symptoms we don't self
[1:06:48] reported we don't know he still come back it has
[1:06:51] to be self reported at that point yes if we
[1:06:53] never know about we will know not to let it
[1:06:57] unfortunately but then he could be positive in any could
[1:07:01] affect other students so we are hoping that our parent
[1:07:04] will keep him home
[1:07:07] okay
[1:07:09] Mr **** Mr **** thank you so this may be
[1:07:13] outside of what we're talking about we just cross our
[1:07:15] mind if a child misses twenty four days does he
[1:07:18] go into a virtual situation as far as learning at
[1:07:21] has
[1:07:23] what we've done so far and it's it's ms Myrick
[1:07:26] can answer better than I can but for a lot
[1:07:28] of our students have been quarantined like this student who
[1:07:31] was not even positive they're keeping up with their work
[1:07:34] for trump there are corresponding with the teacher they're getting
[1:07:37] the notes the lecture we would never even though they
[1:07:40] were out if they were not working
[1:07:45] okay
[1:07:47] I I feel like we had to mention the staff
[1:07:50] member so let's talk about the ... just we're getting
[1:07:53] closer promised the dashboard tracking for a staff member now
[1:07:58] we still can't we stay with that October twelfth day
[1:08:00] because I thought it might help with consistency but we
[1:08:03] got three examples of staff members only October twelfth the
[1:08:07] staff member calls in sick with flu like symptoms
[1:08:11] on the thirteenth and this is looking at that first
[1:08:14] student examines staff example the staff member goes to the
[1:08:18] doctor but they test negative for code
[1:08:21] the staff member is quarantine because they have a negative
[1:08:25] test so they are quarantine until their symptoms disappear
[1:08:30] okay
[1:08:32] this staff member
[1:08:35] if you look at it will show on our dashboard
[1:08:38] as a quarantine
[1:08:40] from ten twelve until his or her return to school
[1:08:44] so it is a little bit different for staff members
[1:08:47] than it is for our state
[1:08:51] okay
[1:08:53] they'll never show that person will never show was a
[1:08:55] positive case or historical case because they tested negative but
[1:09:00] they will show under the quarantine category and then they'll
[1:09:03] drop off at the dashboard
[1:09:06] okay look at example number two same scenario the staff
[1:09:11] member calls in sick with flu like symptoms
[1:09:14] this particular situation the staff member goes to the doctor
[1:09:18] and on the sixteenth
[1:09:20] yes the tech the positive test results said this staff
[1:09:24] member is quarantine at least until ten twenty six that's
[1:09:28] ten days of quarantine after they got the positive result
[1:09:32] or we always say until symptom free because if you're
[1:09:35] still exhibiting symptoms I can't say it enough don't come
[1:09:37] to work
[1:09:39] okay contact tracing will begin on October sixteenth because that's
[1:09:45] the day we got the confirm positive case so if
[1:09:49] you look at the bottom it tells you what happens
[1:09:51] on the dashboard the staff my member is going to
[1:09:54] be a quarantine on ten point
[1:09:56] because that's the day she calls in sick with flu
[1:09:59] like symptoms
[1:10:01] that same staff member will quit will go out of
[1:10:03] quarantine and go into a confirm situation on ten sixteen
[1:10:08] because that's the day she was ... he was confirm
[1:10:12] we will keep them all know that this is consistent
[1:10:14] with students and staff for seven days that staff member
[1:10:19] will show as a confirmed case but after seven days
[1:10:22] we'll move into the historical that
[1:10:25] so it's not when they return we've been using the
[1:10:27] seven days for staff as well
[1:10:31] okay if you look at number three same situation flu
[1:10:35] like symptoms on the twelfth this particular staff member did
[1:10:39] not go to the doctor until the twenty second or
[1:10:42] maybe didn't get the results because everybody's not getting the
[1:10:45] results the same day I can just tell you they're
[1:10:47] not so on the twenty second the staff member it
[1:10:51] is compare is a confirm positive ROI said the staff
[1:10:55] member is quarantine until eleven to
[1:11:00] because we put that staff member out of that positive
[1:11:03] test result not from when they started showing symptoms and
[1:11:07] again they have to be symptom free before they can
[1:11:10] come back the contact tracing began on October twelfth
[1:11:15] so when you look at the dashboard the staff member
[1:11:18] shows as a quarantine on ten twelve because that's when
[1:11:22] they went out with flu like symptoms they'll show as
[1:11:25] a confirm on ten twelve but they'll roll off at
[1:11:30] the dash for their rollout of the confirmed into the
[1:11:32] historical on ten twenty nine but they will stay in
[1:11:36] that historical category forever after that
[1:11:39] but notice they're going to the store call like I
[1:11:42] said earlier before they're actually allowed to return to work
[1:11:46] that's how we have our dashboard set up at this
[1:11:51] okay I have a question okay Mr question regarding the
[1:11:54] testing ... I've had people that are not being tested
[1:11:58] they got the results back same day I have another
[1:12:00] of this past week that was three to five days
[1:12:03] of their particular dogs of which are you using the
[1:12:05] date they go in to be tested not the day
[1:12:08] we get the confirmed the defect confirm positive result so
[1:12:13] this particular person get tested on this day was waiting
[1:12:15] on a positive as they can take three to five
[1:12:17] days so we're gonna go in three to five days
[1:12:19] later that's right now we use today right and that's
[1:12:22] according to these guidelines okay thank you yeah
[1:12:28] we've also heard stories where staff members want to go
[1:12:31] back for a second test in that we've had some
[1:12:33] got some I don't want the doctor would not do
[1:12:36] a second take
[1:12:38] so I'm in there's it depends on who you go
[1:12:40] there's lots of situations like that that we can't that's
[1:12:42] out of our control
[1:12:45] okay the next part is our contact tracing an image
[1:12:48] true love is going to talk about this but I
[1:12:49] want to share with you before she comes up this
[1:12:52] is the exact same slide I shared with you a
[1:12:54] couple board meetings ago when Mr love without this at
[1:12:58] this was the original slide how the South Carolina detect
[1:13:01] numbers and the school nurse work collaboratively and I think
[1:13:05] I mentioned to you at that previous board meeting that
[1:13:07] every school is assigned a South Carolina DNR so we
[1:13:11] know who our contact is with the
[1:13:14] in fact we've become pretty good friends with some of
[1:13:16] them have a mystery
[1:13:18] but the one thing and we've not change this slide
[1:13:21] but the one thing we did add because we weren't
[1:13:24] getting behind there was some confusion that we realize last
[1:13:27] week because at that time our nurses were updating the
[1:13:32] dashboard one time a day
[1:13:34] but we realize things are happening so fast it makes
[1:13:38] people wrote this week that the data is not right
[1:13:40] if we're not update it till four o'clock so what
[1:13:43] we did to help with the load is we have
[1:13:45] divided the schools between three of our members of health
[1:13:48] services so now there's a district contact on that team
[1:13:52] as well and we're now entering the data into the
[1:13:55] dashboard two times a day and that's helped but I
[1:13:59] can tell you there's times when people call and say
[1:14:01] the dashboards not right because we updated it T. and
[1:14:04] and I know of another positive cases where
[1:14:07] so that is possible but we are now open we
[1:14:10] are now updating it two times a week and we
[1:14:13] walk in two times a day sorry we'll continue to
[1:14:16] monitor that as well to make sure that we're providing
[1:14:19] the most accurate data that we can art mystery loves
[1:14:22] come talk about contact
[1:14:27] okay go back up
[1:14:29] okay this was the original contact tracing that we started
[1:14:33] with just to make you aware ...
[1:14:36] when we get
[1:14:38] a positive call to us we normally will call the
[1:14:42] help
[1:14:44] we give them the information on where the individual was
[1:14:47] tested
[1:14:49] because sometimes it doesn't show up in the database right
[1:14:51] away and we have to wait until it does so
[1:14:54] by giving them that information that helps them to located
[1:14:57] a little bit quicker when you begin a contact race
[1:15:00] it may take you four to six hours it really
[1:15:03] is dependent on how complex that traces gonna be
[1:15:07] the school nurses very heavily involved with the D. head
[1:15:09] nurse ... as miss Allen said we do now have
[1:15:13] a GBX nurse assigned to each of our schools and
[1:15:16] they have several schools in that particular region
[1:15:19] when we start the contact tracing we're looking for those
[1:15:22] individuals less than six feet for more than fifteen minutes
[1:15:26] at a time
[1:15:28] pretty simple you think
[1:15:32] it's not just a snapshot fifteen minutes at that teacher
[1:15:36] is instructing it in the room and she's in contact
[1:15:40] with that student multiple times during that day we have
[1:15:43] to count that is greater than fifteen minutes
[1:15:46] and it does make sense in the long run if
[1:15:48] we're in a meeting and we're all mass and work
[1:15:51] together longer than fifteen minutes we still have to count
[1:15:54] that as a contact okay
[1:15:58] so if we can choose a close contact your within
[1:16:01] six feet for fifteen minutes or more
[1:16:04] the principal the school nurse will notify students we will
[1:16:08] then look at notifying our staff members via phone email
[1:16:14] and or South Carolina the heck letter let me back
[1:16:16] up we we phone email and a CD heck letter
[1:16:20] to students and staff members and the affected individuals will
[1:16:24] be asked to quarantine
[1:16:27] if we look at a not close contact that means
[1:16:30] I wasn't within six feet and I wasn't longer than
[1:16:33] fifteen minutes
[1:16:35] we are still going to do the notification and you
[1:16:38] will get a non contact non close contact letter
[1:16:43] included in your packet we included the third letter and
[1:16:47] that is for a non classroom because we realize that
[1:16:50] some of these students were bus riders and so we
[1:16:53] have to expand that look a little bit and look
[1:16:56] at buses and transportation so they may get a non
[1:17:01] classroom type contact letter
[1:17:04] okay
[1:17:10] all right as miss Allen said we did start this
[1:17:12] with the district staff we have our schools divided up
[1:17:15] between three district staff members
[1:17:19] our school nurses will now notify us of all positives
[1:17:24] all staff all students
[1:17:27] ... I took the district office staff and that includes
[1:17:31] all our multi school personnel transportation food services and our
[1:17:37] maintenance staff
[1:17:40] we again work with this S. C. D. head nurse
[1:17:42] for the district staff it's a little bit different we
[1:17:45] do not have a D. head nurse assigned to us
[1:17:48] at the district office so I called directly into the
[1:17:51] call center and they will have someone call me
[1:17:54] we do the contact tracing just as we would with
[1:17:57] any other situation and we look at six feet greater
[1:18:01] than fifteen minutes or more
[1:18:03] do the same notifications with our school staff and our
[1:18:07] ... district office staff we are trying to send a
[1:18:11] personalized email to them so that they have somebody to
[1:18:14] reach out to if they have questions
[1:18:18] we've been doing this for almost 8 months now
[1:18:21] we have been monitoring our staff we have been taking
[1:18:24] phone calls from our staff in the one very very
[1:18:28] important item that came to me over the summer
[1:18:32] the staff called and said it's so nice to have
[1:18:34] somebody to reach out to and ask questions
[1:18:38] yes very busy they've got the whole state to look
[1:18:41] after and that just that little bit of information that
[1:18:45] we can provide them is sometimes that calming reassurance that
[1:18:48] we can handle this and this and to be okay
[1:18:51] okay ... so our staff is very very important to
[1:18:55] us our students are very important to us and we
[1:18:58] want to provide them the best care that we can
[1:19:01] in the timeliness manner that we can
[1:19:05] contact tracing the survey or sometimes it takes you all
[1:19:08] day to do this
[1:19:12] so what we look at is the team S. C.
[1:19:15] D. had nurses school nurses and our district staff to
[1:19:17] work collaborative
[1:19:19] collaborative woody ... indeterminate ... are are close contacts we
[1:19:25] question the students we question the parent and we question
[1:19:28] involved staff members
[1:19:30] we have to be very judicious in this questioning because
[1:19:33] we are not naming the student we're not naming names
[1:19:36] but we're going in and asking did we maintain social
[1:19:38] distancing did we maintain masking did we maintain what we
[1:19:43] need to do to make this effective
[1:19:46] and so those are a lot of questions that we're
[1:19:48] asking our staff and our students we then develop that
[1:19:51] list of affected students employees or other close contacts that
[1:19:56] is put on a spreadsheet and sent right to data
[1:20:02] then we get the letter back from the hack and
[1:20:04] then we'll begin that notification of staff and our students
[1:20:07] via phone email and by the I do have a
[1:20:09] letter
[1:20:11] we will ask those individuals to quarantine
[1:20:14] the biggest question we have from some of our staff
[1:20:16] as well how long do I have to stay out
[1:20:19] because sometimes that's not explained very well to them so
[1:20:23] that's where we like to send a more personal email
[1:20:26] to say this is when you can come back
[1:20:30] the principal school nurse also notify the non close contacts
[1:20:33] via email and letter but they will not be required
[1:20:37] to quarantine now one of the things that need to
[1:20:40] explain to those individuals who are not close contacts right
[1:20:44] away they want to go get a test
[1:20:47] the heck recommends at least seven days before you go
[1:20:50] test if you've been in contact with someone these individuals
[1:20:54] have not so we don't recommend that they go and
[1:20:57] test unless they are symptomatic
[1:21:01] because
[1:21:06] okay
[1:21:07] so
[1:21:08] if we have a student who receives a positive test
[1:21:12] other teachers are not other students or teachers are not
[1:21:15] excluded unless they are a close contact
[1:21:20] miss Allen what you know that we do have some
[1:21:22] that are third party or contact of a contact we
[1:21:26] don't trace a contact of a contact
[1:21:29] we trace the positive student and their close contacts
[1:21:35] students are coated SSE flu may or may not have
[1:21:38] tested positive for coke but nineteen you will not see
[1:21:43] that unless you click on that comment box there is
[1:21:46] not as South Carolina attendance code for code nineteen
[1:21:52] if we are a South Carolina D. has confirmed positive
[1:21:56] cases over the nineteen will be included in the attendance
[1:21:59] comments
[1:22:01] students enrolled in our K. twelve or council's virtual program
[1:22:05] are not included on our test board we do not
[1:22:08] track them
[1:22:10] there are individual about that right now who are positive
[1:22:13] we don't know about they do they are not obligated
[1:22:16] to report to us
[1:22:20] the staff member ... information is included in our dashboard
[1:22:24] if the staff members quarantine or if we have a
[1:22:27] South Carolina D. had confirm positive test
[1:22:32] that dashboard information as reported through our school nurses the
[1:22:36] district office personnel are entering the down in the ...
[1:22:40] dashboard it is updated at ten AM and four PM
[1:22:45] twice daily
[1:22:47] every situation is different in every case is different we
[1:22:51] have to put a lot into this we have to
[1:22:54] follow the guidelines that we're given by S. C. D.
[1:22:56] here
[1:22:57] and we appreciate all the support that you will give
[1:23:00] us the teachers are working very hard the nurses are
[1:23:03] working very hard it's been a long eight months
[1:23:08] I can this ... I don't know of any teacher
[1:23:11] or any nurse that will tell you if they were
[1:23:13] black cobra came to town because we're not
[1:23:17] thank you
[1:23:19] okay anyone have anything
[1:23:21] okay I'm sorry that's all that we have you will
[1:23:24] have a thing for Mr okay I got Mr ****
[1:23:27] so
[1:23:28] the student data is included
[1:23:33] in the dashboard is isn't is not included until it's
[1:23:37] confirmed but the staff members that is included that's right
[1:23:41] we did the quarantine for the for the staff members
[1:23:45] but we we felt like that we would never be
[1:23:48] able to keep it accurate for the ... students recalls
[1:23:53] of being on the hybrid and not knowing exactly when
[1:23:57] they go out I mean sometimes we don't realize that
[1:24:00] the student has been exposed for several days later so
[1:24:03] it's a little bit harder for us to track the
[1:24:05] student data ... just based on when we get information
[1:24:09] from parents access so the student is not because of
[1:24:12] the tracking issues and the chance of being unreliable that
[1:24:16] one no no but just like a student whose ...
[1:24:20] and a day student for example if they start showing
[1:24:23] symptoms on Wednesday they're not at school
[1:24:27] they should be quarantine on Wednesday and they should start
[1:24:31] that quarantine period but because they're not scheduled to come
[1:24:35] back to school to the next Monday we may not
[1:24:38] even know that they had symptoms on Wednesday so our
[1:24:41] feeling was that the student data would be unreliable but
[1:24:44] not because of us tracking it but because of being
[1:24:47] on the hybrid model and when we get notified
[1:24:50] the more important issue with tracking the staff ... was
[1:24:55] we wanted to be able to give information to doctor
[1:24:58] Maxey into the chief officers
[1:25:02] we have seventy church out and how is that going
[1:25:04] to impact the operations level at that school
[1:25:08] it may not be a big deal to a big
[1:25:10] school having that many out but you need to remember
[1:25:15] with this process if I have for English classes and
[1:25:18] three my English teachers are out I cannot combine classes
[1:25:22] it says very specifically the guidelines they want to keep
[1:25:25] the cohort ... classrooms together as much as possible so
[1:25:29] we don't want to migrate them into another classroom
[1:25:32] okay ... so it's very important for us to be
[1:25:35] able to give that data back so that the principals
[1:25:38] can make good decisions for their staffing there's a lot
[1:25:41] of sobs that aren't able to do something for us
[1:25:44] this year because of code
[1:25:47] we have some teachers who don't want to come back
[1:25:49] and teach because of because of it because of increased
[1:25:51] health and health risks so in looking at this we
[1:25:55] felt it was very important
[1:25:57] for the district operationally to look at what are our
[1:26:01] staff resources and are we going to be able to
[1:26:04] keep that school open and functioning with the resources that
[1:26:07] we have
[1:26:09] okay ms Morrell
[1:26:12] thank you I'm I still do going up David's question
[1:26:16] with the number of active students quarantining I realized that
[1:26:21] it it does make it a little bit more difficult
[1:26:23] because they might need to start quarantining on a Wednesday
[1:26:25] and they might not need to shop back to school
[1:26:27] until Monday but I still think it's important just for
[1:26:32] clarity and four and just so that we can all
[1:26:35] be seeing that you know you have a school that
[1:26:37] has seventy students that are quarantining and some of those
[1:26:41] could be turning positive some will could not be turning
[1:26:44] positive I still think no matter when were notified I
[1:26:47] still think it's important that we're also pushing out the
[1:26:50] information of the number of students in quarantine
[1:26:53] I also want to know does the ... the district
[1:26:56] office does that include your off site like your records
[1:26:59] facilities is that as a few those employees coated under
[1:27:02] the district office if they come up positive they are
[1:27:04] because they are not assigned to a particular school right
[1:27:08] now the cafeteria individuals who are assigned to St James
[1:27:12] high school they would be coded at Saint James the
[1:27:14] staff but our food nutrition services that do more times
[1:27:17] schools rugby coated under our district on second
[1:27:22] yeah Mr James
[1:27:25] thank you Mr chairman I have two questions on a
[1:27:28] comment comment first ... I certainly liked the idea of
[1:27:32] tracking data locally thank you gives you a better snapshot
[1:27:35] of what you're dealing with at each location but I
[1:27:38] realize that you have shared you're only as good as
[1:27:40] the data that you have so ... would that be
[1:27:44] in in being stated I really like it but I
[1:27:47] have a question do we have predetermined triggers up when
[1:27:51] we will stop with the hybrid model and go to
[1:27:53] distance learning for that particular school
[1:27:57] I can speak to the east German okay go ahead
[1:28:00] Bob Mr James one of the things and Mr love
[1:28:03] a touched on it is it really an individual loss
[1:28:06] situation because
[1:28:09] one exposure one positive test in depending on the number
[1:28:13] of exposures could impact a large number of staff members
[1:28:17] at the school or it could impact a small number
[1:28:21] and you know to set and I think that's one
[1:28:24] of the issues that we have with the ranges that
[1:28:27] ... the heck has for disease activity in the community
[1:28:31] ... zero to fifty then fifty one two what is
[1:28:35] it two hundred taming than two hundred and one above
[1:28:39] all it is a very arbitrary thing and and I
[1:28:41] in in in the in in ... defense of the
[1:28:45] heck they're looking at the state as a whole by
[1:28:47] county but I think about the fact that we're looking
[1:28:50] specifically at our campuses we need to evaluate each one
[1:28:54] on its own merits because if we throw out a
[1:28:57] number of people going to react is that we've reset
[1:28:59] number well that number may be something that doesn't permit
[1:29:03] of previous the functioning of the school
[1:29:06] so I think that what we have to do is
[1:29:08] Tammy needs to continue to work with the local the
[1:29:11] heck nurses and went you know if we have I
[1:29:14] see this sort of two pronged if we have a
[1:29:17] number of cases that are growing then we need to
[1:29:20] understand that you know with communicating with local the hat
[1:29:23] this is becoming a hot spot if you will we
[1:29:26] need to go total distance learning
[1:29:29] the other scenario would be ... and this is working
[1:29:32] with with HR in in a every day we get
[1:29:36] a report ... from ... benefits own employees that working
[1:29:40] with HR okay we've reached a saturation point here with
[1:29:43] staff we no longer can operate here at school but
[1:29:47] Carolina forest high school is going to be different from
[1:29:49] Aynor high school or green sea Floyds and you know
[1:29:53] because we are localized
[1:29:55] my preference is that we look at the individual situations
[1:29:59] the number of people who are impacted and then you
[1:30:02] have to make a subjective decision based on that as
[1:30:05] opposed to establishing arbitrary numbers ... let the it has
[1:30:10] done for the state as I said I understand they're
[1:30:12] doing it statewide we think that will serve us better
[1:30:16] is forced thresholds looking at it individually as is one
[1:30:20] location
[1:30:22] okay thank you second question I know at my place
[1:30:26] of employment we have a travel notification requirements when we
[1:30:30] as employees travel out of the state regardless of of
[1:30:34] the purpose we have to notify our you know of
[1:30:38] occupational health nurses and they will take that under advisement
[1:30:43] and based upon our activity they may determine if we're
[1:30:46] eligible to return to work we go into a quarantine
[1:30:49] period has the district given any consideration to something like
[1:30:53] that we've we've talked about that on I have to
[1:30:56] ask a couple of different times because I've had employees
[1:30:59] coming to him Colorado do I have to quarantine two
[1:31:02] weeks when I come back we do not have that
[1:31:05] type of policy in place I think it's certainly worth
[1:31:08] looking at ... if we continue to have to track
[1:31:11] this and see the numbers
[1:31:13] the other thing I wanted to mention and ... doctor
[1:31:16] Maxey talked about doing this locally last week we had
[1:31:19] three days her shut down very quickly and so I
[1:31:22] made the phone call to say we've got three day
[1:31:25] cares down how is that going to impact our staff
[1:31:29] we ended up with fourteen staff members affected just through
[1:31:32] one day care now they don't have to quarantine because
[1:31:37] they're positive but we work to thank Charlie worked with
[1:31:40] payroll and we have a separate button that we push
[1:31:44] to say this individual has to be off to take
[1:31:47] care of either a parent who may be affected or
[1:31:50] a child they need to do child care or aging
[1:31:52] parent care but they are not positive coping
[1:31:56] so I think the district has looked at a lot
[1:31:59] of variables in in trying to do this and making
[1:32:02] it equitable across the district ... so that we maintain
[1:32:05] our staffing levels and we maintain ... the best working
[1:32:09] environment for the staff
[1:32:11] okay ms Smith
[1:32:14] thank you
[1:32:15] at I really appreciate all the information you have shared
[1:32:17] with us tonight is overwhelming heads to us board members
[1:32:21] centuries parents
[1:32:23] ... especially our teachers in our schools I guess this
[1:32:26] just one concern I can't kind of
[1:32:30] my head to it so we have had with students
[1:32:33] in school on Monday and Tuesday
[1:32:35] they have 5 days home
[1:32:37] they begin this five days three days they have simply
[1:32:40] like symptoms but no one ever reports it said ...
[1:32:43] so that's it
[1:32:45] today may be positive but they come back to school
[1:32:47] amend it and that's what we have to rely on
[1:32:50] our appearance to report because there's no way we would
[1:32:53] know that they were having those flu like symptoms of
[1:32:55] someone doesn't report now we have asked the parent and
[1:32:59] our re entry plan every morning to go through that
[1:33:02] checklist with their their child
[1:33:05] but it is the honor system that they are doing
[1:33:07] that
[1:33:09] and some of our teachers these children turning they're supposed
[1:33:12] to be on quarantine and the teachers call the nurse
[1:33:15] and a I thought joining from quarantine and we have
[1:33:18] to send John back home so our teachers are being
[1:33:20] vigilant in the classroom also and they work with us
[1:33:23] and they partner with us to make sure that we're
[1:33:25] providing a safe environment well I appreciated all causes overwhelming
[1:33:30] you know did just just a little loopholes this out
[1:33:32] there that that could be
[1:33:34] 
[1:33:36] Jack thank you thank you Mr mayor
[1:33:40] anyone else have anything I've got one last thing I
[1:33:42] just want to see the body of setting things
[1:33:46] part this is for Mr
[1:33:48] Mr Levin I apologize but unfortunately when you put yourself
[1:33:52] out there and you tell parents and teachers and everyone
[1:33:54] else to contact as they did this is a question
[1:33:57] this is a question that I gotta ask Natchez will
[1:34:00] say before asking any for talented is it is it
[1:34:03] is one too many but I do want ashes because
[1:34:06] I was told I would have the guts to ****
[1:34:08] out you're not
[1:34:10] how many of our children in the last 8 months
[1:34:14] have we lost
[1:34:16] we have I have not had a reported on child
[1:34:21] fatality to me do to cope with it whether the
[1:34:24] child was in school ... we may have had some
[1:34:27] children before we started back to school that I'm not
[1:34:30] aware of that we have had
[1:34:33] so that answers it is not known okay not that
[1:34:37] I'm aware of okay
[1:34:40] miss Allen are you aware of any
[1:34:42] I'm not that none have been reported to me okay
[1:34:45] our luggage and how many teachers
[1:34:50] I have not had the timing pulleys are teachers teachers
[1:34:54] I've got a broken and they asked I have not
[1:34:57] had a teacher reported fatality
[1:35:00] okay how many employees
[1:35:04] we we had one employee this summer
[1:35:08] transportation run past way of code related symptoms okay
[1:35:15] I don't like asking it but out I was asset
[1:35:17] and I wanted to prove that I would have set
[1:35:19] up a public so
[1:35:21] if there's anything
[1:35:23] okay thank you ladies Mr Richardson you know that's the
[1:35:27] end of our presentation so now it's time to be
[1:35:29] able to take the test
[1:35:31] just this morning I think much more about him and
[1:35:35] I just have one follow up based on what Mr
[1:35:37] James had **** and when I had a
[1:35:39] are you we had both asked about the ... reconsidering
[1:35:43] the whole historic cases and and possibly even looking at
[1:35:47] adding the active number of students in quarantine when will
[1:35:51] we have some updated information on whether you'll reconsider on
[1:35:54] that we're gonna need to go back and discuss that
[1:35:57] and it may mean that ... we need to hire
[1:35:59] some more people so we have to add some positions
[1:36:03] I'm sure the board would be willing to support that
[1:36:06] because it is going to be a considerable undertaking and
[1:36:09] I want to say up front before we do it
[1:36:12] on I'm sure because of the lapse in time the
[1:36:15] ms Allen said about students being on the hybrid schedule
[1:36:19] we will have some inaccurate student data ... quarantine you
[1:36:23] know I don't want the board or the public or
[1:36:26] employees to say you all have faulty data we're telling
[1:36:30] you up front that if we look at students there's
[1:36:33] going to be a gap and there's going to be
[1:36:35] some in actors so you just have to ask yourself
[1:36:38] is it worth the investment to the to do that
[1:36:41] we we tried very hard to make that ten o'clock
[1:36:44] and four o'clock deadline in the reason we added the
[1:36:46] second update was because a very often I'm at home
[1:36:50] adding through the evening at night so that that can
[1:36:53] rollover but it wasn't rolling over to four o'clock hence
[1:36:58] the calls to the superintendent's stated that the dashboards wrong
[1:37:01] ... so we try to fix that with a double
[1:37:03] rollover every day
[1:37:05] I wanna add one thing or two about something miss
[1:37:08] Allen said I will make a plea to the parents
[1:37:10] out there we've got to work on this thing together
[1:37:13] and up a prime example I mean I know every
[1:37:16] I read the emails I get a text message I
[1:37:18] know a lot of people feel like it is some
[1:37:20] top conspiracy theory going on but we've got to work
[1:37:23] on this thing together I was in the school two
[1:37:26] weeks ago at eight ten in the morning and at
[1:37:29] eight ten in the morning we had a child in
[1:37:32] the nurse's quarantine section not now we've got the nurse's
[1:37:36] room and that we've got a quarantine room there for
[1:37:39] at eight ten in the morning now common sense would
[1:37:41] tell you
[1:37:43] that the child probably will run a favor in the
[1:37:46] end having symptoms with that were dropped off at school
[1:37:50] so we have got to work on this together and
[1:37:52] that I should just two months ago there's two kinds
[1:37:55] of people is to people to roll their sleeves up
[1:37:57] so we're going to tackle this thing together we're gonna
[1:37:59] move forward are there to pay for school to sit
[1:38:02] back and complain Blinky but we you know
[1:38:05] please don't send your child even if you think your
[1:38:08] child has problems in school are you going to do
[1:38:10] this and more kids home
[1:38:12] but that's all I have there's about saving
[1:38:16] thank you are we need to look as if you
[1:38:19] would come back to my ...
[1:38:22] power point
[1:38:23] and while he's doing that I wanna thank on this
[1:38:25] true love it and ms Allen and I know that
[1:38:28] both of them ... and they're not alone I get
[1:38:31] that most of our employees or working late days evenings
[1:38:36] and weekends but a lot of time all has gone
[1:38:39] into making sure that this local data point ... is
[1:38:42] accurate and we don't want to do anything except one
[1:38:45] thing and that still the truth
[1:38:48] all right going back to the chronology of the events
[1:38:51] on October eighth ... the the heck report was high
[1:38:55] and we all know that ... that was the first
[1:38:58] time I said school had started a we had already
[1:39:01] committed to the community that the week of the twelfth
[1:39:05] ... would be a hybrid schedule wise it would wait
[1:39:08] until the fifteenth when the next report came out so
[1:39:11] when the next ... between time ... and this is
[1:39:16] something that is extremely important we get confirmation of this
[1:39:21] today one of the things that is critical for all
[1:39:25] returning students to school face to face safely well is
[1:39:30] to provide the appropriate environment and one of the things
[1:39:34] that ... that the hacking in CDC if approved is
[1:39:38] the use of a plexiglas on as a means of
[1:39:43] accomplishing that and I'm gonna go back what I said
[1:39:46] about superintendent's Spearman supporting public schools in South Carolina well
[1:39:50] kudos to her and her staff she announced last Tuesday
[1:39:55] October thirteenth that the US state department would be making
[1:39:59] thirty
[1:40:00] three million dollars in funding available to provide South Carolina
[1:40:04] school district with the financial means to purchase a plexiglass
[1:40:08] so that means that's not coming from local budget that
[1:40:11] could be used towards all instructions on here in in
[1:40:15] or accounting or whatever county that you may reside in
[1:40:18] so you know this is a a huge bonus for
[1:40:22] us and I ask ... Mr brown who is a
[1:40:25] chief officer for support services feel star making his way
[1:40:28] to the front of to just give you an update
[1:40:31] we have placed an order ... with the state department
[1:40:34] he's going to give the exact number ... give little
[1:40:36] hint here I think it's like three point eight million
[1:40:38] dollars that the state is providing us but ... if
[1:40:42] we could ... Lucas transition to Mr brown's presentation and
[1:40:46] he has a few slides up he will promise you
[1:40:49] and I do too that he won't need to go
[1:40:51] into all the detail that we did earlier but that
[1:40:54] was all necessary we appreciate what you did ms Allen
[1:40:57] mistruth alright Mr brown chairman Richardson dot makes the board
[1:41:01] members ... as I stated last meeting ... yeah you
[1:41:04] know we were the debate came up with some guidelines
[1:41:07] that we could use implement to decrease social distancing in
[1:41:11] classrooms by using plexiglass and ... like doctor makes you
[1:41:16] said of super didn't Spearman state department of education they
[1:41:21] have stepped to the plate and provided to us you
[1:41:24] know with ample amounts of through the south from St
[1:41:28] apartment education eight C. assist our contracted construction of twenty
[1:41:31] two thousand plexiglass protective workstations for schools throughout the district
[1:41:36] ... the company who was awarded the contract has already
[1:41:39] started the development of the workstations for our schools it
[1:41:42] will bring one to the district mark for us to
[1:41:44] ensure stability what we did is we met with a
[1:41:47] cadre of principals from around the district asking for input
[1:41:50] on what they should look like and the main thing
[1:41:52] is they wanted a durable and sturdy so it wouldn't
[1:41:55] easily be knocked over
[1:41:58] these products are complies with the X. policy and offer
[1:42:00] additional features that will insure it has that stable foundation
[1:42:04] in to prevent individuals knocking over the door frame up
[1:42:08] further protects students from the edges of the plexiglass that
[1:42:10] could potentially cause injury to students are the company has
[1:42:13] also been awarded a contract to provide four thousand ten
[1:42:16] by five a plexiglass sheets the district for the purpose
[1:42:19] of instructing specially designed workstations because all of our students
[1:42:22] do not sit at this
[1:42:24] ... this place glass will be are designed to fit
[1:42:29] the ride is two workstations that are new schools and
[1:42:32] other unique designs in the district at that we need
[1:42:34] to be specially modified so Lucas if you would go
[1:42:38] to there you go those are some examples of what
[1:42:42] we're talking about ... that one on the left is
[1:42:45] for the actual student desk the same card three principles
[1:42:48] of ask us from elementary through high just to get
[1:42:51] a mall one sites that will help throughout the district
[1:42:54] was weird you were still have breakage I mean that's
[1:42:56] to be expected but make a interchangeable I what you
[1:43:01] see on the right
[1:43:03] are the fourth square tables were we will have ...
[1:43:07] those fabricated we're working with the state department now to
[1:43:10] identify somebody can help us fabricate this because in our
[1:43:14] maintenance department we don't have the manpower to do all
[1:43:16] that even though we will do some work with the
[1:43:18] state department to find a
[1:43:20] suitable our
[1:43:23] fabricator to help us do those as well as providing
[1:43:28] shields for some of our likes our quality will shields
[1:43:33] and also for we have kidney tables in this district
[1:43:36] which is a semi circle table a with an engine
[1:43:38] to attention in the middle we're going to have specially
[1:43:41] fabricated plexiglass for that as well but to make a
[1:43:44] long story short at the present time the state department
[1:43:48] education has procured roughly three point eight million dollars our
[1:43:54] which will outfit roughly thirty two thousand five hundred rush
[1:43:58] students so we are very appreciative of that which leaves
[1:44:03] roughly twelve thousand or so students that we're gonna help
[1:44:06] out yet we are in the process work with state
[1:44:09] department on that as well
[1:44:12] we may have to dip into our tears like funding
[1:44:14] has Mr Gardner mentioned earlier but we do think that
[1:44:17] we're gonna have sufficient funds to cover that between what
[1:44:21] the state department is done and I care is that
[1:44:23] funding to properly out that our schools like I said
[1:44:26] this is a work in progress we anticipate the first
[1:44:29] of these protective shields
[1:44:32] to be in the district within the next couple weeks
[1:44:35] we will we're sure it will find you know things
[1:44:38] we may have missed but we will modify and adjust
[1:44:40] and handle those accordingly but we are very appreciative state
[1:44:43] department for what they've done with four so far
[1:44:46] any questions
[1:44:51] anybody have anything Mr brown
[1:44:56] okay I don't think so Mr brown the grade will
[1:44:58] start to get nervous today so hopefully we'll start getting
[1:45:01] our from hot wheels they were a little little bit
[1:45:03] ahead of us but on I think we have a
[1:45:04] better design Mr
[1:45:07] thank you
[1:45:10] what about help healthy competition right Mr room yes Sir
[1:45:14] or look at it we go back to my slide
[1:45:18] I'm slides and I am going to be wrapping up
[1:45:20] here I know this is has been a long but
[1:45:22] ... October fourteenth ... is the second checking in with
[1:45:26] ... deputy superintendent on David Mathis deputy state South Carolina
[1:45:32] superintendent law to have that conference to see where we
[1:45:35] are ... with our in person offering and again ...
[1:45:39] after upon review he verbally confirm the HCS is in
[1:45:43] compliance and Furthermore while had him on the phone I
[1:45:47] said I want to hear it from you that that
[1:45:50] we're going to get rid plexiglass that we need to
[1:45:53] get things in motion so that we can start with
[1:45:56] our younger age students and he reaffirmed ... that the
[1:46:00] US state department is is committed to doing that and
[1:46:04] ... today actually Mr Gardner ... you shared the PO
[1:46:07] the state department had issued for that so others good
[1:46:10] is a word in and they're acting on their
[1:46:13] all right on October 15
[1:46:19] our Lucas I'm not moving
[1:46:27] okay
[1:46:33] is that moving on your computer now hold on just
[1:46:36] a second
[1:46:38] the checkout the screen for a moment
[1:46:49] and everybody who's a teacher in the room knows exactly
[1:46:51] what technology does when you need it right
[1:46:55] that's where I am
[1:47:01] I'm gonna close it and reopen it
[1:47:08] thank you for your patience
[1:47:34] where Lucas bring back up
[1:47:41] right October fifteenth ... the heck issue the disease activity
[1:47:44] by county report again indicating that ... Ory county was
[1:47:48] high
[1:47:49] however due to the low number of code nineteen cases
[1:47:52] within our schools based on what we were monitoring with
[1:47:55] our dashboard ... ACS ... decided to continue operating under
[1:47:59] the hybrid instructional model and we had some local news
[1:48:04] media reports and ... I actually did not talk with
[1:48:07] Mr Ron brown but I'm just sharing with you what
[1:48:10] was reported in the media in regard to already we
[1:48:13] would support encourage loris decision to remain hybrid given the
[1:48:16] mitigation strategies in place and the success of other districts
[1:48:20] offering face to face instruction in similar circumstances brown is
[1:48:24] also quoted as saying the CDC waste the school district's
[1:48:28] ability to implement the five key mitigation strategies the same
[1:48:32] as the virus spread in a given area this is
[1:48:34] important for districts to consider as a review the weekly
[1:48:38] detect disease activity reports and those five key mitigation factors
[1:48:42] are are listed there well the first one being consistent
[1:48:45] and correct use of masks and I'll be the first
[1:48:48] one to tell you that I guarantee you that you
[1:48:50] can go to a school location and you will find
[1:48:53] somebody not wearing a mask and you can also go
[1:48:56] to local businesses ... Inori canny ... we're mask ordinances
[1:49:00] are in place and guess what you also find there
[1:49:03] but I will say this much that I think that
[1:49:06] overall that we are consistently doing that and I think
[1:49:10] it's made and I think is reflected in our numbers
[1:49:12] as far as our cases ... at our schools on
[1:49:16] social distancing to the largest extent possible sometimes you can't
[1:49:19] get six feet away but to the greatest extent possible
[1:49:23] hand hygiene and respiratory etiquette cleaning and disinfection and contact
[1:49:28] tracing in collaboration with local health department we do all
[1:49:32] of this and I think that all of those can
[1:49:34] make a difference in in what we do as far
[1:49:37] as a response ... to curve in nineteen in or
[1:49:41] county schools and getting students back because I'm gonna tell
[1:49:44] you ... most of the feedback and the frustration that
[1:49:48] I receive on both
[1:49:49] from teachers and from parents is particularly with our younger
[1:49:53] students and I know of that conversations with board members
[1:49:56] of indicated the same thing that's elementary school ... is
[1:50:00] it is a concern because if you think back and
[1:50:03] I was apparent in
[1:50:05] probably most of you were to that that intense one
[1:50:09] on one interaction with the younger ones is reported to
[1:50:13] their development into their growth and to be able to
[1:50:15] do that as safely as we can is something that
[1:50:18] we want to do and that's why we are asking
[1:50:20] the state department to provide US three point eight million
[1:50:23] dollars to purchase plexiglass so that we can do what
[1:50:27] it is that we need to do therefore I go
[1:50:30] over the recommendation of that I'm making to the board
[1:50:33] of education to approve under the business section I just
[1:50:36] want to say that I've listened to all the feedback
[1:50:38] I'll go back with my staff and we'll review of
[1:50:42] the suggestions of again I want to emphasize we didn't
[1:50:46] go out and create something up with with the seven
[1:50:49] day range we look at the experts and that's why
[1:50:52] we did it but I understand also once imported well
[1:50:56] if we can look at the S. and an analog
[1:50:59] them when they return back to the school and then
[1:51:02] put them in historical so we'll see what we can
[1:51:04] do ... with that and ... make make those adjustments
[1:51:09] but we want to do everything that we can to
[1:51:13] the the greatest degree possible because we are human beings
[1:51:17] and we make mistakes and everybody in this room does
[1:51:20] on and I'm probably make fifteen today but we do
[1:51:23] everything that we can to record the data truthfully and
[1:51:28] report it to the public so that we can do
[1:51:31] what we can to look at our schools individually now
[1:51:35] I want to go back in time and I know
[1:51:37] that I have experienced a
[1:51:41] several other things ... once I have ... taken the
[1:51:44] seeded superintendency in Orange County and and one of the
[1:51:47] things that ... ... unfortunately a few years ago was
[1:51:50] a recurring instance was with hurricanes in there was frustration
[1:51:55] ... within the county when you know we're extend out
[1:51:58] extended days and you know most of the flooding occurred
[1:52:02] off the Waccamaw river war ... the Intracoastal Waterway so
[1:52:06] it was affecting obviously
[1:52:08] those areas that border the river or the water way
[1:52:12] and then you have other portions of the county that
[1:52:14] site Hey it's sunny here we don't have any flooding
[1:52:18] we need our children in school we know I'm looking
[1:52:21] at it the same way using this dashboard because why
[1:52:25] in the world would ... is the CEO for this
[1:52:28] school districts say let's close down everybody into distance education
[1:52:33] and you have the schools over here they have no
[1:52:36] instances recorded of coke did not take it doesn't make
[1:52:40] sense so what I'm coming to you for is to
[1:52:43] use this common sense approach and we do not want
[1:52:46] to place anyone in jeopardy ... if there is an
[1:52:50] instance where numbers look like they have but there's an
[1:52:53] uptick then we will respond appropriately and deal with those
[1:52:57] areas as opposed to a system wide shut down as
[1:53:01] far as distance it is concerned so here's here's what
[1:53:05] I'm recommending to the board this evening in the business
[1:53:08] ... portion for your consideration I'm asking you to approve
[1:53:12] the following the utilization of the HCS case dash board
[1:53:16] as an additional local data point for determining the instructional
[1:53:19] model to be used by individual district brick and mortar
[1:53:24] schools with the cabbie ought to what was suggested for
[1:53:28] us to try to accomplish and we will do our
[1:53:30] best to do that number two I'm asking you to
[1:53:33] approve the use of any local data points which may
[1:53:36] be developed or become available in the future
[1:53:40] number three I'm asking you to improve to approve the
[1:53:45] implementation of the hybrid instructional model for all district brick
[1:53:49] and mortar schools effective today October nineteenth until the district
[1:53:53] is able to return all brick and mortar school safely
[1:53:56] to five day face to face instruction and number four
[1:54:00] obviously the provision of a minimum of five calendar days
[1:54:04] notice which fits with a memorandum from the state superintendent
[1:54:08] to parents before changing instructional model unless an emergency at
[1:54:13] an individual brick and mortar school warrants an immediate change
[1:54:17] of the individual brick and mortar school schedule so in
[1:54:20] other words as I say it looking at the individual
[1:54:24] campuses to make a decision and if we have to
[1:54:27] do something quickly then we will do so but we
[1:54:29] will remain in Harper's therefore that means that there won't
[1:54:32] be any announcements of what were you county schools is
[1:54:35] doing next week we know what it is if you're
[1:54:37] in the virtual program
[1:54:39] you know what you're doing you're in virtual the brick
[1:54:42] and mortar they are in hybrid unless there is a
[1:54:45] problem and then we will respond immediately to that problem
[1:54:49] ... to move to distance a ... to provide for
[1:54:53] the safety of students and employees in the fifth thing
[1:54:57] reaffirm something reaffirms the premise as previously stated in the
[1:55:02] twenty twenty one HCS re opening plan that our knowledge
[1:55:07] and understanding of the code nineteen virus continue to evolve
[1:55:11] and our protocols implants will be updated as appropriate and
[1:55:15] as more information becomes available to me ... it does
[1:55:19] not make sense when you have new information that you
[1:55:22] can use to make the decision you don't do something
[1:55:26] simply because you know this is what we've always done
[1:55:29] it you look at the new information weigh it carefully
[1:55:32] take into consideration all the impacts that it has on
[1:55:36] the school system and make a decision so Mr chairman
[1:55:40] members of the board these are the five recommendations that
[1:55:44] I am requesting your approval this evening ... if these
[1:55:47] are approved ... my next step will be to notify
[1:55:50] the state department of education that we have modified our
[1:55:53] plan this is what we intend to do as we
[1:55:56] move forward
[1:55:59] okay thank you got to Mexico well last thing have
[1:56:01] you have any questions or not Maxey and I'm last
[1:56:03] board members please use your questions the site keep up
[1:56:06] with it Mr Posten view of did you have something
[1:56:09] or to
[1:56:11] what is important German version of that ... I've lost
[1:56:14] a lot of mine appreciate the board members questions all
[1:56:16] been very very good I thought about this you know
[1:56:19] for a long time I think one of the things
[1:56:21] we approve the plans this summer ... one of the
[1:56:24] first things I heard was all approved plan now we're
[1:56:26] on cruise control waiting on the needle to move and
[1:56:29] I think tonight's presentation shows evidence of just how hard
[1:56:32] our staff have been working on not just our staff
[1:56:35] but our teachers and our parents and our students as
[1:56:38] we try to get through really really tough time in
[1:56:40] our community and I just to see the product of
[1:56:44] that work tonight I think is important for a board
[1:56:47] important for our community ... you know I voted for
[1:56:50] the original plan in August it was the best plan
[1:56:52] we have the time we have the information and if
[1:56:55] it was July and I have that same information handout
[1:56:57] that Oregon it was a good plan it is a
[1:56:59] good plan ... going forward but I I do understand
[1:57:03] we do have more information I think we would be
[1:57:05] remiss if we weren't willing to go back into a
[1:57:08] plan based on the information that we have and move
[1:57:10] forward ... when we approve the original plan divorce or
[1:57:14] spoke about this importance of being dynamic of being receptive
[1:57:18] and reactive to new information we've come a long way
[1:57:21] since the summer ... we're learning how to maximize our
[1:57:24] ability to provide instruction and effective manner is we didn't
[1:57:28] know we know how to do it and if you
[1:57:29] think about it we had never done K. through twelve
[1:57:31] virtual education before this year and we try to ...
[1:57:35] you know since August we learned that it's not always
[1:57:38] that easy to make a virtual model for twelve K.
[1:57:41] through twelve education make as effective and we had the
[1:57:44] guts to say Hey it doesn't align with the needs
[1:57:47] of all the students are district a we adapted I
[1:57:50] will administration make adjustments and accommodations to some of our
[1:57:53] students who are not being successful in that virtual model
[1:57:56] this board took it on the chance for those who
[1:57:59] said stick to the plan stick to the plan we
[1:58:01] said no we can do better for our children we
[1:58:03] can do what's right for the students Horry county and
[1:58:05] we accepted that we believe is the right thing to
[1:58:07] do for our students will either we can deliver instruction
[1:58:10] height
[1:58:11] right now all that's effective and it is safe
[1:58:14] and we side I take take that term site because
[1:58:17] a look at our questions a look at our numbers
[1:58:18] a look at our kids are learning they're learning in
[1:58:21] our classrooms on Tuesdays and Thursdays and Mondays and
[1:58:25] Wednesdays and I hope soon Fridays ... it's not perfect
[1:58:30] no educational models perfect but it's working and it's working
[1:58:33] for students I believe it's important for us with support
[1:58:37] for us as a district ... a district our size
[1:58:40] is is is is very large and we have a
[1:58:43] lot of areas a lot of communities ... and we've
[1:58:46] learned that you're being effective in height however models very
[1:58:49] different than it is in Saint James maybe in green
[1:58:51] sea we've made it through that ... one of the
[1:58:54] things I think we've learned as we've learned is a
[1:58:56] lot more play in a child's well being are in
[1:59:01] and then the child's health education the justice seeks single
[1:59:05] disease indicator ... I can't tell you how many calls
[1:59:08] I get from parents community members not talking about Kevin
[1:59:11] nineteen they're talking about other deficiencies in a child's life
[1:59:15] socialization other issues are not being addressed educational needs we've
[1:59:19] learned that is important we just don't take a single
[1:59:21] indicator from the heck and say well this is what
[1:59:23] we're going to base everything on we've got a look
[1:59:25] at the whole child we're gonna look at all elements
[1:59:28] and I like this plan backs off and says we
[1:59:31] can take other things into account as well and I
[1:59:33] appreciate it Dr Maxey said we're local resources we have
[1:59:36] available for our children we can look at how it
[1:59:38] looks and the school versus another school alike the flexibility
[1:59:42] ... you know I hate use a football analogy but
[1:59:45] analogy guy if you look at the Georgia Alabama game
[1:59:48] the other night six six seven went into that contest
[1:59:51] with a game plan yes a good film on Georgia
[1:59:54] he had a darn good game plan it was the
[1:59:56] plan if it has stuck with that plan a draft
[1:59:59] on the loss that log in to Georgia because that
[2:00:01] would Georgia had figured out how to beat but it
[2:00:04] when I have to I don't have time yet to
[2:00:05] things he had the experience of the first half yet
[2:00:08] new data and information available from the play the card
[2:00:11] on the field he adjusted his game plan didn't abandon
[2:00:15] walk away he did run away he moved forward he
[2:00:18] kept moving forward he made adjustments in their gone ...
[2:00:22] most of the minds of of Georgia but ... you
[2:00:25] know he made adjustments in the fourth I say this
[2:00:27] board doing the same thing with that plan we're not
[2:00:29] abandoning the plan that we have referred the summer I
[2:00:32] go back to the point I believe in the plan
[2:00:34] we approve the summer but we are making smart adjustments
[2:00:37] based on new data we have an experience that we
[2:00:40] have in our classrooms or staff ... I believe that
[2:00:44] experience will make a plan better I believe we must
[2:00:47] be moving forward I believe what we have to do
[2:00:49] is what is best for the children of the Horry
[2:00:52] county and I hear a lot of people talk about
[2:00:54] a lot of different things but I always go back
[2:00:57] to what I can when the school were flowers I
[2:00:59] looked at what do I do and I sat on
[2:01:01] the school board for the first time the cells will
[2:01:02] golf and I said before the start of every meeting
[2:01:05] he said thank you for letting me to serve the
[2:01:08] children or accounting and I remember every time I said
[2:01:10] the students so as I look at this tonight I
[2:01:13] believe we can keep working I came with believe we
[2:01:16] can't keep adapting I believe we can make this hybrid
[2:01:18] model work going forward I believe we continue to push
[2:01:21] for a look it promises of plexiglass in the money
[2:01:24] to get our K. through five students in the five
[2:01:26] day instruction there's hope there's hope for this district is
[2:01:29] hope for this nation because we gotta keep moving forward
[2:01:32] and what the chairman said it is so important how
[2:01:34] we got to work on this thing together and I
[2:01:37] believe that the ports we have codifying some information we
[2:01:40] often talk about good things for the
[2:01:42] it's board and good things for this district and I
[2:01:44] will support this change or going to school trip request
[2:01:47] thank you
[2:01:49] thank you Mr Poston ms Smith thank you Mr chairman
[2:01:53] as John I wish I'd said although it's great great
[2:01:57] work
[2:01:58] I'm
[2:01:59] my personal belief is that we've we've got to move
[2:02:02] forward we've got to make things as important as we
[2:02:05] can to get our children back in school get them
[2:02:07] educated and prepared to move on into the next levels
[2:02:10] as they move that so you know there's no there's
[2:02:13] no more guessing with that we've we've got to get
[2:02:16] our children back in school
[2:02:18] in the hybrid is working well for those students who
[2:02:21] can do two days ago education learning and the parents
[2:02:24] who make can't help them the other three days so
[2:02:27] there are a lot of cities that they're struggling because
[2:02:30] they don't have the same support that some students do
[2:02:32] have so you know I'm I'm jealous that I listen
[2:02:35] all the state we have schools all over the state
[2:02:38] we're going five days week reckon mortar face to face
[2:02:41] and I'm jealous when I hear that because that's where
[2:02:44] students need to be
[2:02:46] we have
[2:02:47] 45000 students 55 schools
[2:02:51] and I like the fact that you added individual schools
[2:02:54] in there if there are problems with individual schools that
[2:02:56] probably shouldn't affect other schools because we're large county we're
[2:03:00] the third largest school district in state of South Carolina
[2:03:04] staff is gonna work hard to keep it safe and
[2:03:07] protect our students and our staff
[2:03:09] and we've all got to join together to make sure
[2:03:11] that we educate our children their teachers their teachers are
[2:03:15] able to do their job
[2:03:17] and that we keep them safe so
[2:03:20] I appreciate all the staff and superintendent is done thank
[2:03:23] you
[2:03:24] I thank you ms Smith
[2:03:26] anybody else
[2:03:30] Mr Freeman yeah I just I cried and again I
[2:03:33] appreciate all the work that's been done and I have
[2:03:37] ... and I really think the
[2:03:39] personally I think we should go ranging up route wanted
[2:03:42] to end up ... but when I when I read
[2:03:45] and I've read I think when a lot of my
[2:03:47] constituents read in the paper right the knowledge and understanding
[2:03:50] the virus for continuing we make appropriate changes that those
[2:03:53] changes will be made before we can act as a
[2:03:55] board ... so
[2:03:58] I assumed wrong obviously but that was an assumption that
[2:04:01] many of us made ... and ... again a brief
[2:04:06] we're using the dashboard that is good data points it's
[2:04:09] good information but I've again we're we're updating that even
[2:04:13] right now we're talking about changing that so it's it's
[2:04:15] not perfect I get all that and when the decision
[2:04:19] was made on Thursday to ... stay hybrid ... in
[2:04:22] my house had a child who is happy in a
[2:04:24] in a in a peer to is live it up
[2:04:27] in my own household ... so that that's not
[2:04:31] we do have to keep moving forward I just
[2:04:34] I wish would have been up to make this decision
[2:04:37] two weeks ago when we when we when we were
[2:04:39] moving in that direction because I feel like I kinda
[2:04:42] got left out there St that's all the planets all
[2:04:44] the plan which all the plan which about the plan
[2:04:46] and then on Thursday
[2:04:48] okay we're kind of following the plan but I don't
[2:04:51] have anything to do with changes so ... I think
[2:04:54] there's a lot I think it's a lot of the
[2:04:56] frustration that I have and that and I think other
[2:04:59] people in the community have ... again I think we
[2:05:02] would end up here anyway I think it's the best
[2:05:05] place to go I just don't like the idea that
[2:05:08] ... we vote on the plan and then we updated
[2:05:10] it we're gonna update kind of and it feels like
[2:05:13] retroactively
[2:05:15] feels that way so this is that's where I am
[2:05:17] again I appreciate the hard work I appreciate Dr Max
[2:05:21] you taken of hit on this one that is making
[2:05:23] the move but I feel like we should have a
[2:05:25] little bit more info and and put into it as
[2:05:27] a board
[2:05:29] okay thank you Mr presentation it was
[2:05:33] before we close this out
[2:05:36] Bardot maxi one room to the next item
[2:05:40] yes Sir
[2:05:42] let's talk about a ... look if you take that
[2:05:44] down please
[2:05:46] superintendent's report on the first of all wanted to recognize
[2:05:51] that this is a national principals month we appreciate to
[2:05:55] all of our employees do this time we're we're highlighting
[2:05:58] our principles in the if you check our on social
[2:06:02] media we do have ... a video out there ...
[2:06:06] writing about our principles we know that you know things
[2:06:09] would not happen ... in terms of of leadership at
[2:06:12] at the school level obviously without the principal said there
[2:06:15] are key leaders in Orange County schools we value them
[2:06:20] and we appreciate the leadership on that they do on
[2:06:23] a daily basis and the commitment that they have ...
[2:06:26] to their students into their staff so thank you principles
[2:06:29] and the as a set of please check out our
[2:06:32] social media for tribute on to our principles the second
[2:06:38] item that I wanted to mention all is a is
[2:06:41] an award very special ward of South Carolina nurses foundation
[2:06:45] the twenty twenty helmet a gold award winter winter is
[2:06:49] Michelle Anderson with Kingston elementary R. one hundred nurses are
[2:06:54] selected each year of for this prestigious honor which recognizes
[2:06:58] registered nurses in our state who exemplify excellence in nursing
[2:07:02] practice and commitment to the nursing profession thank you to
[2:07:07] ms Anderson and thank you to all the nurses for
[2:07:11] the wonderful job they're doing to keep us safe every
[2:07:14] day
[2:07:22] we also have a a young man whose talents ...
[2:07:25] would like to acknowledge at this time ... his name
[2:07:28] is Harrison Clinton and Harrison arm is a Carolina forest
[2:07:33] high school in a A. S. T. students who claim
[2:07:36] to state titles of the one hundred yard breaststroke in
[2:07:40] the one hundred yard butterfly in class five A. boys
[2:07:43] swimming during the twenty twenty one state swim championships ...
[2:07:48] Harrison is a back to back state champion of the
[2:07:50] hundred yard butterfly and now holds the new state record
[2:07:54] for the one hundred yard butterfly with a time of
[2:07:56] forty nine point four so congratulations to
[2:08:05] in
[2:08:06] last but certainly not least we want to recognize our
[2:08:10] teacher of the year you know last week we had
[2:08:13] a recognition ceremony on certainly modified ... because of the
[2:08:19] pandemic we did not get to recognize our twenty twenty
[2:08:24] one teacher of the year ... as we normally do
[2:08:27] in the spring ... due to the pandemic but I
[2:08:29] do want to say to the board and on to
[2:08:33] the public that we congratulate ms Elizabeth Henrik from PD
[2:08:37] elementary of for reading name or county schools teacher of
[2:08:41] the year for twenty twenty one she is an ESOL
[2:08:44] teacher at the elementary she began her teaching career here
[2:08:48] in Orange County schools in twenty twelve and she will
[2:08:51] now move on it in my opinion going to win
[2:08:54] the state teacher of the year for South Carolina
[2:09:01] Mr chairman with all the good news that concludes the
[2:09:04] superintendent okay thank you doctor Maxey anybody home I will
[2:09:07] tell you that if you get a chance can go
[2:09:09] on YouTube you can watch her acceptance speech and it
[2:09:11] was an outstanding outstanding job I mean if you should
[2:09:14] really take the time to do that okay at this
[2:09:17] time we'll move on public comments ... let me check
[2:09:21] before you come up to speed limit just a read
[2:09:23] a little something appropriate time you'll be recognized by the
[2:09:26] board chair you'll be given up to a maximum of
[2:09:29] five minutes to speak depending on the number of people
[2:09:31] who have requested to speak a maximum of thirty minutes
[2:09:34] during the regular board meeting will be allocated for citizens
[2:09:37] to speak citizens will speak in order which they register
[2:09:40] in case of abusive language or purely personal attacks on
[2:09:43] staff or board members the chair may rule you out
[2:09:45] of order and ... you relinquish the floor
[2:09:49] now with that being said we have eleven people signed
[2:09:51] up so everyone's go get three minutes per person and
[2:09:56] we'll go ahead of we do that the we try
[2:10:00] to give everybody a chance to sign up
[2:10:03] Monica piazza
[2:10:05] the bottom status 9 rock
[2:10:07] you know you can you can help me with
[2:10:10] Monica
[2:10:13] well she issued one okay okay
[2:10:17] Monica not here
[2:10:18] okay and I apologize will run a little bit later
[2:10:21] than normal
[2:10:23] J. Rousseff's
[2:10:29] J. Rousseff
[2:10:31] no I guess I'm saying that right to
[2:10:35] I know I got J. right okay
[2:10:38] Rosemarie
[2:10:40] alright Moreschi
[2:10:44] which is clicking a model
[2:10:46] rose Marie
[2:10:48] okay
[2:10:50] show make a marsh
[2:10:55] should make a marsh
[2:10:59] okay
[2:11:03] Eric sure writer
[2:11:17] yes Sir if you are here good evening my name
[2:11:21] is Eric Strader I am a resident of board district
[2:11:23] number eight and associates teacher at Conway high school this
[2:11:27] semester I'm teaching three classes of world history and virtual
[2:11:30] school and additional block of face face government and economics
[2:11:34] I would like to begin by saying thank you for
[2:11:36] my job thank you for allowing me to be part
[2:11:39] of a team of amazing professionals who support me in
[2:11:41] my efforts to make a difference in the community that
[2:11:43] I've chosen to call home
[2:11:45] I spent most of the summer with my family in
[2:11:48] upstate New York but even though I was a hundred
[2:11:50] miles away I still follow the events that were happening
[2:11:52] in Horry county
[2:11:54] ... I learned that there were sub committees that have
[2:11:56] been developed to create a plan for returning to school
[2:12:00] I was relieved to hear that the plan include reduce
[2:12:02] class sizes social distancing masks and other carefully thought out
[2:12:06] health procedures
[2:12:08] as I mentioned earlier I'm teaching three virtual and one
[2:12:11] face to face classes semester after a discussion with my
[2:12:14] principles I made the decision willingly and ready for success
[2:12:18] unfortunately the confidence I had built up was quickly challenged
[2:12:21] by a series of changes coming from the district office
[2:12:24] and what I felt was a lack of communication regarding
[2:12:26] some of those changes because I believe in the mission
[2:12:29] of the school district I'm hopeful those challenges will be
[2:12:32] met and I'll come out of the semester feeling I've
[2:12:34] accomplished my goals and that help my students do the
[2:12:37] same
[2:12:39] I love my job and take my real seriously I
[2:12:41] work with amazing young people I work I work with
[2:12:44] some amazing teachers I work with amazing custodians and support
[2:12:48] staff given this opportunity I feel it is important to
[2:12:51] speak up for those that I care about well I
[2:12:53] realize that there's nothing we can do about the past
[2:12:56] I want to ask that going for that we are
[2:12:58] more intentional regarding communication so much of the worry concern
[2:13:01] and unpleasant reactions could be avoided by being consistent with
[2:13:04] communicating communicating changes acknowledge the difficulty that the district is
[2:13:09] under at this time however consistent communication will help us
[2:13:12] all moving forward and the plan that was ... you
[2:13:15] know proposed tonight I think will definitely help with that
[2:13:18] because we'll be on a consistent model ... you know
[2:13:21] I think I think that is definitely a step in
[2:13:23] the right direction ... I ask that you keep the
[2:13:26] health and safety of your teachers staff and students at
[2:13:29] the forefront of your thinking up please do everything within
[2:13:32] your power to keep class sizes minimize to maximize the
[2:13:35] benefits of social distancing ask parliament's I think the hybrid
[2:13:39] plan does this ... if we are currently to return
[2:13:42] to school five days a week at least at my
[2:13:45] school we don't have space in our classrooms to probably
[2:13:47] appropriately social distance we have about twenty to thirty students
[2:13:51] on a rosters right now so split over the two
[2:13:54] days ... you know it's like fifteen fifteen but putting
[2:13:57] them together ... at this point we don't have enough
[2:14:01] space ... I understand the leadership of wake county schools
[2:14:05] are being hold many different directions and are under pressure
[2:14:09] to give in to demands to various groups ... but
[2:14:12] I think you all for your consideration and ... thank
[2:14:15] you for your time
[2:14:18] okay thank here
[2:14:21] why then we
[2:14:25] all right I'm sorry Ronald
[2:14:30] well I happen to know your so I'm used to
[2:14:31] call you runs
[2:14:34] or thank you for once again allowing me because she
[2:14:37] with my concerns the with the club as it is
[2:14:41] I'm here with my family history
[2:14:43] alike were 6 kids
[2:14:45] we are here
[2:14:48] as a preference to my four year old daughter Abigail
[2:14:51] right there she had an issue with what's going on
[2:14:55] and she had teachers virtual teachers saying ... you know
[2:14:59] telling the kids watches right there
[2:15:02] you're wasting my time you're wasting my time I don't
[2:15:06] need this I'm a facilitator you're wasting my time she
[2:15:09] asked one of Abigail students
[2:15:13] they want interaction with the she asked the students students
[2:15:16] is what I'm trying to read
[2:15:18] the teacher says I don't need your executions that's when
[2:15:21] I got on and said excuse me
[2:15:24] no kids in the ever need to be talked to
[2:15:26] like that I don't talk to my kids like it
[2:15:29] you will talk to any of my kids like that
[2:15:31] No Way Abigail but everybody in that classroom we say
[2:15:34] that was addressed I called nothing us is virtual peers
[2:15:38] we're told a couple weeks ago a couple months ago
[2:15:42] we have nobody we can turn to
[2:15:45] we can't go to our principal
[2:15:48] because our principal does not know nothing about virtual who
[2:15:52] to get in touch with you ... not to get
[2:15:54] in touch with two I was told Mr Max would
[2:15:56] call me I was told on three occasions Mr Max
[2:16:00] recalled not once did I get a phone call I
[2:16:02] understand was from actually being his best mate he did
[2:16:06] he directed to where he needed to direct phone calls
[2:16:09] to thank you Sir appreciate that we finally got a
[2:16:12] call from the Mr Lee James phenomenal general
[2:16:16] he address start issue he addressed our problems he took
[2:16:20] care miss Abigail and other issues that we were having
[2:16:24] we as virtual currency of a lot of questions
[2:16:27] we're getting no answers we call we get sent to
[2:16:31] a clerk we call we get this clerk we call
[2:16:33] we could tackle we still have no chain of command
[2:16:37] that we need to get
[2:16:39] we chose reckon we chose virtual for reasons for the
[2:16:42] consistency
[2:16:43] you know we we had this plan it got tweak
[2:16:46] to benefit this this this and this
[2:16:48] we all want
[2:16:50] five days I don't care for virtual not we all
[2:16:53] want five days but we all wanted where it's going
[2:16:55] to be consistent in safe not only for my kids
[2:16:58] everybody's kids are staff everybody
[2:17:01] it's not that
[2:17:03] you know what's good for St James is not good
[2:17:06] frame or which could frame yours not good for north
[2:17:08] myrtle beach which good for north myrtle beach is a
[2:17:10] good primer which
[2:17:12] and makes no sense to me we're all the district
[2:17:15] we all have to bite the bullet and it has
[2:17:17] to be
[2:17:19] but it's all a big flip flop it all depends
[2:17:22] on where the money goes is who it is
[2:17:25] you know you wanna talk about sports I'm a jock
[2:17:27] myself but point made is sports will pay the bills
[2:17:31] it helps pay the bills
[2:17:34] let's get all this together
[2:17:37] nobody is above this pandemic
[2:17:42] and about the plexiglass I just wanna know when it
[2:17:45] comes to plexiglass what I'm gonna do is we're not
[2:17:49] are you gonna end up in landfill or what we
[2:17:52] can do to plexiglass I understand it's all for the
[2:17:55] safety ms office what about safety the environment where we
[2:17:58] need to think long down the road not just short
[2:18:01] little five yard passes me look at the the help
[2:18:04] matters what we don't do plexiglass we're doing these and
[2:18:06] John
[2:18:11] no answer
[2:18:14] I'd like an answer
[2:18:16] Ron if you wanna ... your time if you wanna
[2:18:18] give me a call I'll be happy to talk with
[2:18:20] you about that thank you ladies what you have okay
[2:18:23] thank you all
[2:18:26] okay Cory Kennedy
[2:18:38] hi
[2:18:40] I'm Corey Canada and I am to go to teacher
[2:18:43] for when your teachers feel tired overwhelmed fully by their
[2:18:46] administrators or coaches and unsafe the majority of the time
[2:18:49] when your teachers expressed their concerns to me the first
[2:18:51] thing they ask me is to keep it private because
[2:18:53] they don't want to be targeted
[2:18:55] your teachers have no time they have no time for
[2:18:58] breaks restroom visits for lunch they have extra time to
[2:19:01] put in due to extra Judy's before lunch recess before
[2:19:05] school and after school
[2:19:08] both the brick and mortar and virtual teachers are assured
[2:19:12] that we were not supposed to be doing this and
[2:19:13] there are many of us out there that are doing
[2:19:15] just that they're teaching brick and mortar in virtual
[2:19:18] there is no time to teach their fullest potential because
[2:19:20] they're keeping worried about keeping everyone clean and safe
[2:19:24] there is no time for their own families because they're
[2:19:26] taking mounds of paperwork home and they're not able to
[2:19:29] even have time to freeze
[2:19:32] your teachers want to be able to trust you simply
[2:19:35] put we need to be able to trust you have
[2:19:36] our safety and our safety of our students at the
[2:19:38] forefront of your decisions that trust has been broken by
[2:19:41] your back and forth decisions over the past few weeks
[2:19:44] as a parent I made the decision to send my
[2:19:46] two children back to brick and mortar because of the
[2:19:48] plan that you put into place a plan that you
[2:19:51] have now I'm done and our question now is where
[2:19:53] is that line since we have already crossed it is
[2:19:56] that line when you do get that report of a
[2:19:59] kind of a death of a student or teacher I
[2:20:02] don't want to wait on that plexiglass only provides a
[2:20:05] false sense of security you don't believe me I encourage
[2:20:08] you to visit any kindergarten classroom
[2:20:11] if data is to drive everything that teachers do the
[2:20:13] data should also drive your decisions lastly your teachers are
[2:20:16] beyond overwhelmed I ask that you Maxey top with those
[2:20:21] that are in charge of things that get pushed down
[2:20:22] from the district office into the laps of principles and
[2:20:25] into our teachers laps
[2:20:27] see what is absolutely necessary and what isn't if you're
[2:20:30] unsure please ask a teacher in that subject area you
[2:20:33] may ask me and if I don't know the answer
[2:20:35] I will find it for you we are drowning whether
[2:20:38] we are teaching virtually or in the building
[2:20:41] the last thing I want to see is good teachers
[2:20:43] leaving this profession because they can't take the pressure of
[2:20:46] it anymore ask our opinions please
[2:20:50] I would also like to add that we were appalled
[2:20:52] at the lack of respect shown to teachers by a
[2:20:54] board member and a reply email to a fellow teacher
[2:20:56] where it was suggested that if we don't like our
[2:20:58] job then we should look for another with all due
[2:21:00] respect to many teachers make decisions for teaching brick and
[2:21:03] mortar or virtual based on the plan that was approved
[2:21:05] by you if we knew in August or a county
[2:21:08] schools was going to deviate from that plan we may
[2:21:10] have made a different decision
[2:21:13] please remember there is a massive teacher shortage when you
[2:21:15] suggest that we look for another job
[2:21:18] or you county schools our teachers and staff or tired
[2:21:20] we are overworked and underpaid teachers are on the frontline
[2:21:24] of this pandemic in the classroom teaching these children and
[2:21:26] doing the best we can with limited PP overcrowded classrooms
[2:21:31] and poor ventilation in our schools whether brick and mortar
[2:21:34] or virtual we are working harder than we have ever
[2:21:36] worked with an unrealistic workload I asked the district to
[2:21:40] not only be concerned about the mental health of our
[2:21:42] students that please check on the mental health of our
[2:21:44] teachers because we are in the front lines Dr Max
[2:21:48] you say at the beginning of the meeting that we
[2:21:50] are your greatest assets if that's true can you please
[2:21:53] help relieve some of our stress thank you
[2:22:00] thank you for
[2:22:05] okay
[2:22:06] Brandon Floyd
[2:22:08] I ran a give me one second what could happen
[2:22:15] I'm O. positive I'm not worried about
[2:22:17] okay
[2:22:19] the ... a lot of things written but I mean
[2:22:21] you have a dress some of them already and I
[2:22:23] appreciate all your doing ... the absentee thing kind of
[2:22:27] opened my eyes to some stuff I I didn't know
[2:22:30] because I do I don't go on there and monitor
[2:22:33] what you guys are doing but I do have two
[2:22:35] children work in the schools was an honor student ...
[2:22:39] eighth grade she is virtual the other ones it sucks
[2:22:41] the high school has an IP my wife's in special
[2:22:44] education
[2:22:46] with the smaller kids so we have seen it from
[2:22:49] all perspectives I think ... in that ... her is
[2:22:53] a teacher she wants to be with those kids she
[2:22:55] wants to see about days a week and she thinks
[2:22:57] they need because those the kids the kids he works
[2:23:01] with to struggle and a lot of them don't have
[2:23:04] good home environments so they do need to be face
[2:23:07] to face ... we appreciate the push you guys are
[2:23:10] putting forth to try to get the kids back face
[2:23:12] to face five days a week which I believe they
[2:23:14] need ... my wife and son both adversity in June
[2:23:19] ... both of them came through pretty easily
[2:23:22] ... thank you thank you guys ... the to me
[2:23:26] a lot of what's being addressed
[2:23:29] and there's a lot of work going into it but
[2:23:32] what I don't understand is that
[2:23:35] is not I don't see this being something is going
[2:23:38] to
[2:23:39] harm a lot of our kids
[2:23:41] ... I believe the numbers are about three and one
[2:23:44] hundred thousand if they cast of ours good afternoon and
[2:23:49] if you look at any anything else mortality rates you're
[2:23:53] more likely to die from a car accident or suicide
[2:23:56] or something else and they are from this virus in
[2:23:58] our schools even if they catch it ... so as
[2:24:02] I agree and understand why you guys are doing what
[2:24:05] you're doing and ladies are doing what you're doing but
[2:24:07] I'd I'd almost elects an overkill ... and we're hurt
[2:24:11] our kids more
[2:24:13] then if we would just let him get back to
[2:24:14] school and get if if if they catch the verification
[2:24:17] ours most of them will live through it in and
[2:24:21] not have any complications
[2:24:24] but I do implore you to be a realist ...
[2:24:27] and realize that that our children are probably in more
[2:24:30] danger of other things and they are of this virus
[2:24:33] ... appreciate can take my call the other day in
[2:24:35] the cellar ... free time
[2:24:39] Jan I think
[2:24:42] because these kids up and might I go the daughter
[2:24:44] this in virtual if we can get back to five
[2:24:46] days a week she'll be back in school just because
[2:24:48] I've seen the struggles that the virtual students are they
[2:24:53] do have a lot of struggles ... and she's a
[2:24:55] get invalid kids so I mean she's smart but she's
[2:24:58] still struggling a lot in the virtual room
[2:25:02] ... we thank the temperature at all you're doing I
[2:25:05] think you're doing the right thing
[2:25:08] thank you
[2:25:11] okay Philip please please
[2:25:16] really W.
[2:25:19] that what that down for you fill
[2:25:22] you shouldn't have a problem with the might we're about
[2:25:23] the same height
[2:25:27] hello my name is folks really ninety six green virtual
[2:25:30] student I found out today that my social studies teacher
[2:25:34] Shane McMahon is on extended leave for the next two
[2:25:38] weeks starting today I would like to know if there
[2:25:41] would be a substitute teacher for me and all six
[2:25:45] grades virtual H. yes ma'am school first also a shout
[2:25:50] out to John Haynes the middle school sixth grade science
[2:25:53] teacher that teaches both brick and mortar and virtual with
[2:25:58] life lessons each week for virtual John Haynes is one
[2:26:02] excellent teacher and I wish we can have more teachers
[2:26:05] like him thank you
[2:26:08] thank you Philip
[2:26:22] rallied in late
[2:26:35] good evening I am Riley Donnelly I am the miscarriage
[2:26:39] ... fourth grade class I am so happy to be
[2:26:42] in her class because she's does live sessions every day
[2:26:46] or a different subject and if we need help she's
[2:26:49] always there for us and she asks us if we
[2:26:52] need help she email address and then she helps just
[2:26:56] bear where she can set us up the time for
[2:26:59] ... on a pool meets ...
[2:27:03] at 3
[2:27:05] every day when my sister Charlie sheen's hell I was
[2:27:09] helping her because she's always behind me two weeks behind
[2:27:14] so I help her with her subjects and she needs
[2:27:17] me thank you
[2:27:20] thank you rally
[2:27:26] she isn't Charlie
[2:27:29] Charlotte
[2:27:31] Danley screenshot a damning
[2:27:39] well you might wanna pull it might be a little
[2:27:40] bit for her
[2:27:43] they get
[2:27:45] good afternoon my name is Shelly deny and I am
[2:27:48] the elementary I'm in elementary school and I am a
[2:27:53] virtual student my teachers miss Reno nine in reading and
[2:27:58] math JT my classes two weeks behind my sister this
[2:28:03] is not fair some days I have nothing to do
[2:28:06] can I move on nobody should tell me that I
[2:28:08] cannot move ahead is it self paced all I want
[2:28:13] to do this morning but I am being held back
[2:28:15] I finish my weeks work it takes me about three
[2:28:19] hours a day one day for the whole week this
[2:28:23] is not fair hi can I move on thank you
[2:28:27] thank you
[2:28:38] okay I think that takes care of the public comment
[2:28:41] at this time I need a motion to come in
[2:28:44] hold on one sec glasses on need a motion to
[2:28:46] come into executive session executive session for discussion of potential
[2:28:51] property purchase in discussion gosh I should related posts contractual
[2:28:54] arrangements so we have a motion some of Mr James
[2:28:58] have a second that Mr Hardwick seconded discussion however let
[2:29:04] me back in five minutes
[2:29:06] oh I'm sorry I missed
[2:29:08] click I'm sorry trying to get better all in favor
[2:29:11] say aye any noes alright five minutes in the back
[2:29:18] all the make back order order this time I need
[2:29:21] to get a motion to come back after the second
[2:29:23] session so move Mr chairman I thank the copies in
[2:29:26] this way I'll second
[2:29:28] second
[2:29:31] okay have a motion second any discussion
[2:29:35] Mr chairman yes ma'am I just wanna for the record
[2:29:37] indicated no action was taken the votes were taken in
[2:29:40] the second section okay thank you all for everybody in
[2:29:43] favor say aye
[2:29:45] any noes all right motion passes are we back in
[2:29:48] a regular schedule meeting Mr chairman I'd like to have
[2:29:51] the record I recused myself from the second item of
[2:29:54] executive session of fall the notification with the board sector
[2:29:57] for your search okay did you have that
[2:30:01] okay all right Sir
[2:30:04] next we'll go move on the business Adams could consider
[2:30:07] locally approved course numbers ms Myrick
[2:30:16] good evening during the last meeting I submitted a request
[2:30:20] to approve the locally board of course numbers as I
[2:30:24] stated during that meeting in the past we had interpreted
[2:30:28] regulation that we would only bring to the board for
[2:30:31] approval new course numbers however we recently found out that
[2:30:35] the expectation for the state department is that each year
[2:30:38] we have to present all of the course numbers and
[2:30:41] those are the numbers that I presented last ... in
[2:30:44] the last meeting as I stated also I'm doing that
[2:30:47] meeting none of the course numbers are news these are
[2:30:49] all numbers that we have been using for quite some
[2:30:52] time
[2:30:55] okay anything for ms Myrick
[2:30:59] Mr James
[2:31:02] Mr chairman I move that we accept the recommendations staff
[2:31:05] on this okay I have a motion and a second
[2:31:08] second
[2:31:09] because at the start of motion second any discussion all
[2:31:13] in favor say aye
[2:31:15] who knows motion passes
[2:31:18] thank you I'm sorry
[2:31:20] 
[2:31:21] we're in business Adams which boasted I need to take
[2:31:23] ... I need to take a vote ... not a
[2:31:26] voice but
[2:31:28] so this time for the board please portion okay we're
[2:31:31] voting on only consider likely approved course ms Myrick
[2:31:42] okay motion passes unanimously will 0 thank you
[2:31:49] okay budget for Socastee high school stadium parking lots Mr
[2:31:52] brown Mr birch
[2:31:56] good evening Mr chairman members of our doctor Maxey ...
[2:32:00] we ... bring T. two items tonight ... the budget
[2:32:03] for sexually high school stadium parking lot lights we had
[2:32:06] asked for an increase of sixty thousand dollars in that
[2:32:09] budget ... to to accommodate it the new light poles
[2:32:14] and LED fixtures that were larger taller than the existing
[2:32:18] ones ... as we discussed last one last meeting we
[2:32:23] can get the funds from the
[2:32:25] excess funds from the ... drainage ditch project which has
[2:32:29] been scaled back
[2:32:31] so I was like to entertain that with you tonight
[2:32:34] if you look at the one having thank Mr ms
[2:32:37] Smith
[2:32:39] I'm just like to make a motion that we do
[2:32:41] approve the
[2:32:42] we'll transfer of money to finish this slide
[2:32:46] okay a second okay ms Smith made a motion ms
[2:32:51] Graham seconded any discussion
[2:32:56] ms Smith I still got you on that I just
[2:32:59] out of that I think some of Marty installed or
[2:33:01] they may all be on start I don't know but
[2:33:03] they look really good
[2:33:05] those are the existing lights ... that are too short
[2:33:09] but those are not the new one no ma'am that
[2:33:12] we haven't done any work I'm glad to know that
[2:33:13] because I was hoping it was more to go up
[2:33:15] because they were they they need parking lot get in
[2:33:19] yes ma'am they need to be about ten feet taller
[2:33:21] and we need to add a few more of the
[2:33:23] polls to cover some of the darker okay so win
[2:33:26] with that occur ... the ... quote is ready and
[2:33:30] we will if you have a vote in favor of
[2:33:32] this tonight
[2:33:34] right now if you don't favor this night will issue
[2:33:36] the PMR thank you okay any other discussion
[2:33:42] okay let's spell
[2:33:47] okay motion passes unanimously
[2:33:51] okay Mr birch I guess you're still left with large
[2:33:54] percent change replacement make up your units yes Sir thank
[2:33:57] you Mr chairman ... as we spoke with you the
[2:34:00] last meeting um there was original budget allocated for Saint
[2:34:03] James by comparing units on the roof ... for repairs
[2:34:08] ... we felt that that was not a cost effective
[2:34:11] solution to dealing with the long term ... indoor air
[2:34:15] quality needs and ... air conditioning needs of that school
[2:34:19] ... we would only parcels a few years so what
[2:34:22] we asked to do was increased that budget to one
[2:34:25] million nine hundred fifty thousand dollars to replace all seven
[2:34:29] rooftop units ... six hundred thousand would come from the
[2:34:33] original budget ... there was another eight hundred thousand we're
[2:34:38] requesting from ... residual funds in the additional five hundred
[2:34:43] thousand from this year sustainment budget
[2:34:47] ... for total budget of one million nine hundred thousand
[2:34:49] dollars
[2:34:51] yes I'd like to entertain that tonight if you would
[2:34:55] Mr ****
[2:34:56] mmhm
[2:34:57] I have used did you wanna speak
[2:35:02] are going to make a motion okay when Mr ****
[2:35:05] made a motion to have a second second ms Morrell
[2:35:07] second any discussion
[2:35:11] okay let's vote
[2:35:17] okay motion passes 120
[2:35:19] thank you Mr birch very much
[2:35:22] okay gotta make Shira
[2:35:29] Lucas if you would in my screen back up
[2:35:35] Florida Mr chairman members of the board ... under the
[2:35:38] business item regarding the use of the ... case ...
[2:35:42] dashboard ... I am recommending that the board of education
[2:35:46] for the following the utilization of the HCS cast case
[2:35:50] dashboard is an additional local data point for determining instructional
[2:35:54] model to be used by individual district brick and mortar
[2:35:56] schools to the use of any local data points which
[2:35:59] may be developed or become available in the future three
[2:36:03] the implementation of the Harvard instructional model for all district
[2:36:06] working mortar schools effective October nineteen twenty twenty until the
[2:36:10] district as I will return all brick and mortar school
[2:36:13] safely to five day face to face instruction for the
[2:36:16] provision of a minimum of five calendar days notice to
[2:36:19] parents before change instructional model unless an emergency at an
[2:36:23] individual working mortar school warrants an immediate change of the
[2:36:27] individual working more school schedule and five reaffirms the premise
[2:36:32] as previously stated in the twenty twenty one ACS reopening
[2:36:35] plan that our knowledge and understanding of the Kobe netting
[2:36:38] virus continue to evolve and our protocols implants will be
[2:36:42] updated as appropriate and as more information becomes available
[2:36:47] okay thank you got the message Mr Posten thanks Mr
[2:36:50] like to make a motion to approve the recommended actions
[2:36:53] of it by the superintendent ... as changes to the
[2:36:56] twenty twenty twenty twenty one HCS re opening plans okay
[2:37:00] I have a motion I'll second that Mr chairman Mr
[2:37:03] James second okay well it up for discussion
[2:37:09] ms Smith
[2:37:11] thank you Maxey I thought about this after we've had
[2:37:14] all the discussions going to ask questions of the note
[2:37:18] in number four says emergency in an individual break more
[2:37:20] school once I needed change
[2:37:22] but is there any way in this plan
[2:37:25] that would allow you to open up another school a
[2:37:28] school in our district zero munity zero two cases to
[2:37:33] go to five a brick and mortar without the whole
[2:37:35] district going or or is that in close I think
[2:37:39] that the the approach that is most appropriate is that
[2:37:43] we do it in phases by elementary first ones we
[2:37:47] have on our plexiglass ... installation in place than we
[2:37:52] do the
[2:37:54] elementary when that is phased in and then we moved
[2:37:57] to middle and then the high school but you know
[2:38:00] the purpose of the emergency component under number four is
[2:38:03] actually taken from a memorandum from superintendent Spearman that says
[2:38:09] that we can't change without our plan without giving ...
[2:38:13] parents five days calendar notice unless it's an emergency and
[2:38:18] in my thinking the emergency would be if by using
[2:38:21] the case ... dashboard we discover that those one of
[2:38:25] two conditions exist of the condition of of a hot
[2:38:30] spot developing at the school in terms of number of
[2:38:33] cases affecting students and or staff members or to that
[2:38:38] due to quarantines that the staffing of the school cannot
[2:38:43] occur effectively therefore we would need to do it quickly
[2:38:47] and go to distance education that's the purpose of the
[2:38:49] emergency component
[2:38:51] okay thank you R. dot match I have one thing
[2:38:55] ... eighty Mr James ms Morrell one of the things
[2:38:59] that they brought up about correcting for maybe go back
[2:39:01] and just in that ...
[2:39:03] 2 it was a for a 14 day
[2:39:07] I think the two points that were made one was
[2:39:10] to change their time frame to be and sank one
[2:39:13] said on ten days the other one said seven any
[2:39:16] other comment was you would remain active until you return
[2:39:20] to school and then you would become ...
[2:39:23] what whatever archived or historical historical yes and I think
[2:39:27] those are two things Dr Maxey agreed to consider keeping
[2:39:32] with the staff and S. R. A. I think you
[2:39:34] should do not if you need some help with that
[2:39:36] you know that if we if we need additional employees
[2:39:39] you know pull off any additional data gathering and crunching
[2:39:43] then we would let the board now okay okay do
[2:39:46] we have anybody up for just make a list
[2:39:52] okay we've got a motion second let's plays well
[2:39:59] motion passes twelve zero when I'm sort of eleven eleven
[2:40:03] yes is one of
[2:40:05] passes 11 to one
[2:40:09] okay
[2:40:13] okay we'll go on to consent consent agenda
[2:40:18] I need a motion of a commission to approve it
[2:40:21] I'll second
[2:40:23] the second
[2:40:25] Mr Hardwick second any discussion
[2:40:28] all in favor say aye
[2:40:31] any noes okay that motion passes okay
[2:40:37] for your next meeting will be Monday November the second
[2:40:41] at six PM and we don't have any ... any
[2:40:44] meetings scheduled earlier in the day for that there's a
[2:40:47] great product
[2:40:49] I'll help
[2:40:53] as of right now we do not have an agenda
[2:40:55] for that date is right now it would not be
[2:40:57] needed okay so next next board meeting will be November
[2:41:00] second at six PM here at the district office motion
[2:41:03] to adjourn
[2:41:05] some of yesterday's my emotions but Franklin second all all
[2:41:10] in favor say aye
[2:41:11] any noes okay we're joined