Beaufort County, South Carolina Beaufort County Board of Education, 9 May 2022

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From YouTube: Beaufort County Board of Education Agenda Setting Committee May 9, 2022 5 pm

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Upcoming Meetings of the Beaufort County Board of Education are held on the first and third Tuesdays of each month, beginning at 6 p.m. Persons who are unable to attend meetings in person can watch live broadcasts on the Beaufort County Channel. Agendas can be viewed at https://www.beaufortschools.net/about-us/board-of-ed/board-calendar.

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Beautiful county board of education order: this is a genesee meeting, may 9th being conducted remotely and the meeting is being live streamed on the county channel.

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First order of business is approval of the agenda.

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I move, we approve the agenda for the agenda studying meeting. Second.

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Question all this in favor hi.

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If we could stand for the pledge of allegiance, please oh.

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I pledge allegiance to the flag.

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Of the united united states of america and to the.

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For which it stands.

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Next, item of business is approval of the april 25th comedian committee meeting minutes.

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um I move- I was not here, but they look really uh like just old regular minutes to me, so I will move that we approve the me the committee meeting minutes hi. Second,.

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Okay discussion: all those in favor aye.

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Okay, let me get to the meet of this meeting.

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All right, I'm catching up, give me a second to catch up.

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All right, ready, okay,.

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Can you well see it? Yes, okay,.

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Okay, well, all this top part spoiler break boilerplate, so get to executive session.

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All those infrastructure, safety, security things- those are things that have to be talked about in um executive session. I take it.

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These are all amendments uh that we normally do: okay, yeah, so so all of them. uh We need that conversation, there's two uh two from finance committees, the first, the first two items, the financial advisor and uh banking services. So we'll we'll probably rework the language on on those, um but but essentially that's what they are and then the rest of them are our amendments.

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Are those first two contracts for the financial advice? Thank you.

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Well, I think, on the financial advisor we might need uh some some uh approval from from the board. uh Remember when we, when we um got the financial advisor it was done for a year. Remember right, so we need to uh to come back with that and then banking services uh is something that we need to have a conversation with the board about, and essentially it comes down to. um You know.

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We can, we can do an extension. We can. You know that kind of thing, so we need that conversation.

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All right that sounds legitimately executive session yeah and there's one other uh item we should put on here, um which we can always take off. But we need to put on their um legal advice on next steps for impact fees.

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You want that to be first, second or third.

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And I think we should probably should be first because hopefully we'll have um an attorney right. So instead of courtesy, who put it first,.

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And where it's like, where all of these things that are amendments, are you? Is it going to be written out as amendment number 18.

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Yes, once I get all the whatever the numbers and stuff are, this was just placeholders until we had the actual word.

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All right and tina's hand was up.

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Yeah, I was gonna say just what david did. um We're gonna need uh next steps for the school impact fees, legal advice, and I think it might be smart to have the word school in front of impact fees on the agenda.

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Have the word school there's a different impact fees.

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Do we think we can get through all this in an hour and a half.

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Well, I think we felt like we could get through our items, but um but I think we better go to four if we, if, if we want to add the school impact, because that that's going to generate conversation for sure and we'll have an attorney present, so all right.

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All right, I agree angela yeah.

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Is that in person.

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They are in person, they um kristen said they have signed up. They know that we're at hilton head library. um I think she has like five or six students, um but, yes, they are in person. Okay,.

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Points of celebration.

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um I have a a point of celebration that needs to be added. This is the foundation for educational excellence, their uh inspiration award. I talked to dr rodriguez about them, presenting this award at this particular meeting.

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Yes, thank you kathy.

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So it's the foundation for educational excellence and then the inspiration award. If you remember last year, they presented their inspirational award to the whole everyone in the school district.

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Done during the zoom meeting.

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You go. Thank you.

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All right that was just public comments, chairman's report.

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I don't think I have anything to remove.

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Committee reports.

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Those are just the only three hopefully.

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When is that north of the broad meeting, I thought that was.

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um It's going to be on the 16th, do you want me to go ahead and add it? The the joint meeting is on the 16.

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Yeah, I would add it.

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I mean they can always say we're. Gonna have a detailed report later, but this you know if they want.

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Textbook adoption.

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So this is uh under student achievement.

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Yeah, so we have uh president information and presentation on textbook adoption. uh There's a series of them. It will pop up again under board business. um So we want to talk about it here and it will come up again under board business because uh it will require open vote on the adoption.

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And this has been presented to the academics committee and we moved to bring it forward to the full board. So.

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Yeah I knew that that's why I was asking what this would be.

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This would be the same presentation. You all got right.

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You're breaking up.

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I was just, can you hear me now.

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Yep, I was just saying under fiscal responsibility. We have the usual items.

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Okay, uh nothing under other matters.

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uh I don't have anything under under other matters: okay,.

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And then we have the approval of the textbook adoption. The consent agenda is just the minutes.

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Future topics, announcements. Second public comments.

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Tina's hands up.

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Yes, thank you um under board business. We need to. uh I mentioned this at the last um meeting. We need to have input from the board uh for the any potential legislative proposals that we're going to submit to south carolina school boards association and any changes to their constitution, which we have not so we haven't had any in the past couple of years and I believe that's due june 15th, but I did not receive that information this year because I'm not the chair, so robin is it still the same.

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Have not received it yet huh because.

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It usually, we usually get it in march.

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Well, I can go back and march and look and see um I'll go back and look okay, we'll.

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Just reach out to judy legrand she's, the one that usually sends it out. Yes, okay, so if that's due on june 15th, we don't have hardly any you know if the board decides. You know we want our legislative proposal to address x. Then we still got to get um you know the wording, etc. We got to get uh lynn, stokes, murray involved, and you know it's it's it's a process that certainly takes a few weeks. It's not something that can happen in a day or two.

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Thank you. That was my.

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Good evening board members and dr rodriguez, I was just sending you a chat that the first quarter of foia monitoring, port oe 16 will be going to operations committee on wednesday, and it will need to be on the consent agenda.

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um I got it a text uh from a parent wondering if we could make an announcement uh that hilton head island middle school, their boys and girls track won the county track championship.

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I don't know I would have to verify that first, but.

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That would be a point of celebration, wouldn't it.

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Would it be a point of celebration? Okay,.

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More so than an announcement, an.

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Announcement no.

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I also think that.

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Their boys and girls soccer team won, um uh I think, a county championship so.

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The hilton head middle school.

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Okay, so I wonder, is there a way do we usually, you know, is there a way that we can get these sports things championships like that to announce.

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We do when they reach out to kristen the communications um schools have to let her know, because she doesn't call each of the schools to find out which athletic group did. So if they contact her and say hey, we just won the such and such then. If uh then, we put it on four points of celebration: okay,.

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Who would usually do that from the school, because I know hilton, head middle school? Having an interim principal right now might be a little bit.

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Whoever their coach their whoever their coach, the coaches, aren't doing. Okay,.

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The coach should be the athletic director.

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I think what we it'll, I think, it'll get easier when we, when we get that district athletic director uh finalized.

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Place, but in the meantime, it would make sense that the athletic director provides that information and it's probably a good habit to get into to have them uh report to the district office. um The outcomes of each of their seasons.

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So I'll I'll take care of it, but I'll I'll. Do it this time I'll do it through through our communications team and gather the information and then as we move uh forward, and we have a district athletic director in place, it'll be their responsibility perfect.

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Thank you. You're welcome. It's great suggestion.

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Okay: let's go to the loose ends.

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Legislative proposals, that's what tina mentioned.

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And the modification to this constitution right.

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So those we can put those will be discussed at this meeting.

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So we're going to need a link to the constitution. I think so. We can be prepared to look at modification to suggest if we're going to suggest any.

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It's a good idea.

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Thank you um same good idea: kathy have a link to the uh constitution and then with the legislative proposals I there should be in board docs the actual document that we have to um fill out so board. Members can see what what their you know. The south carolina school boards association is, is uh interested in or what they want us to how they want us to raise it or whatever, and it has to be done by board.

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Vote: okay, so I'll get those.

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Of course, when I say we I mean you robin.

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Okay, daycare issue for staff is that a work session or.

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Sounds like a discussion item to me, so it would be a work session.

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uh Just just reclaim that issue: does anybody know if the topic there is whether we're continuing that or not.

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My recollection is uh an expansion is what I thought that ingrid talked about um again. You know I I could be wrong because the uh the daycare that we provide for staff only well does it only apply. I think it only applies to school-age children right.

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That's correct, but if we're going to get into an expansion beyond school-age children, uh that's going require. uh Probably uh that's gonna, be extra special. You get you get into diaper changes and all sorts of other things.

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When you go beyond what we're doing.

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Right- and I think that's why we just need to uh people need to be made aware of that. I think that's what the discussion part is the.

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And I think there's also uh some additional state regulations that, because we looked at at how much we could we could do, I think, there's additional state regulations when you go younger yeah.

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Well, we we got enough information to make it a work session.

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Williams, hands up.

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We're going to work session, mr smith,.

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Now, let's go shout out to already doing that already. I thought we already.

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All right, so that's the uh that takes care of the loose sense. I'm real happy that we have a short loose ends.

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So I think we have our agenda set.

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So um underboard business is the legislation.

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What are we calling? It.

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Legislative proposals.

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Tina might help with that tina's hand, is up yeah.

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We could put uh thank you. We could put um s c, sba's request for possible legislative proposals and changes to constitution or something to that effect right.

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Sbs a request or propose.

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Just for legislative proposals, you have that already.

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Yeah and I put the year before legislative 2022-2023,.

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Because it's next year's.

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Constitution, review or something yeah.

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And william's hand is back up.

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All right uh anything else, angela kathy. No, I believe we have completed our task for this evening.

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Do I need to ask for a motion to adjourn.

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One other thing: wait, yeah, so are we going to have any um it might be good under the financial, dr rodriguez's report, uh fiscal.

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Responsibility update.

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On the budget forums I mean just a real, you know four or five sentences or just something. So the public is aware of that and and.

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We we've sent out uh some information. uh Well, you want.

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An update on how they.

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Went right because because they're.

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Yes, we can do that.

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Yeah, I don't think it has to be lengthy at all. Just a you know: nice capsule synopsis.

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Yep we can do that. Thank.

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No you're welcome.

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I think that's it then.

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uh There's something in chat before: oh, that's, the foia thing that comes that way. It's on the consent agenda. She said: okay, yeah,.

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All right that will come out once it goes to committee: they approve it, then they put we'll put it on there. Let's go to committee first yeah.

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So I move, we adjourn bye, bye.

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