Charleston County School District, SC 2019-2020, 16 Sep 2019

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September 16, 2019 COW Policy and Personnel + Audit and Finance Committees + Close

A

Thank you. Next item is policy committee first item up is the naming schools but moved to prove. Am we all right? Second Oh. Are there any discussion all in favor, aye aye any opposed.

B

Willie Julie didn't heat. There was a lot of noise going on I.

C

Made a motion to approve item a and B mr.

B

Frazier made the motion and whose second it Reverend Collins seconded.

A

All right, the meeting do.

D

We vote okay, the vote Oh.

B

And now Revo ting on here. Oh sorry, I do that too.

D

Before you, research.

B

As a foodie Oh was it, for both of them are just for one I didn't.

C

Hide a baby and because I'm.

B

Sorry Julie's working on it.

A

Our next item up is the policy ECA, a video.

D

Cameras in classrooms all moves. It proved with with one one change suit. Okay, said it we're at 10 on page 230 yeah, but not before 30. These may be laps. So.

A

30 days, instead of 10 right right.

D

E

We've got a motion.

A

To approve with the change of.

F

That's a capacity issue yeah.

D

Just old issue right, so we.

B

Have a motion in a second on the floor, though okay.

A

Who is the second on that I.

B

A

Right now, discussion go ahead.

F

So what was it, can you cut? Can you accommodate the change to 30 days so.

C

That would require a deep dive into the systems to see exactly where we are as far as retention on a server by server basis, and there may also be a systemic issue between the video surveillance cameras we have in our buildings versus the individual systems we have on each bus so looking at it from a cost perspective, that's probably gonna be an easier, more quicker number to get from the video surveillance in the buildings versus the almost 450 different systems.

C

We have one of the buses that we would have to explore what it would take and I'm guessing that'll be a pretty heavy lift how's. This.

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C

D

You can come up between for some second of readings. Let us know if this is too much gonna. Do it we'll figure out. We agree on a number of days that we can store a video for this crossing and maybe could use can't use a Google, Drive Google Drive. Somebody video footage. The.

C

School buses are all they all have locally house DVRs on the button. So it's just house right, downloaded.

D

C

To you system, you only download it when you need it. Oh it's only if there's a request for that video. Does it come off the bus, okay,.

D

And then last there may be some things that we just don't need this I guess garbage, because you guys are the screens garbage of it right.

C

There's some different things we can look at and I think we can definitely come back with more information like a second reading.

D

F

Is this change from the 10 year old policy the 10 day, sirs that what you've been doing since 2010 10.

C

Days of the original retention period, and when we took a look at the board policies that have been passed in other parts of the state we're actually finding many of the policies are silent on the issue, but the ones who do speak to it are actually within five to 14 days. Ok,.

A

Range, what other questions going around all.

B

Right, miss Darby.

A

B

What sort Nataly answer mr. Holland sheds question and then I fast? My question.

E

Okay, so my question.

B

Is after looking at our have there been any times that we've had an issue come up where somebody didn't know that there was a fight or a concern, so we let so he take over it. And then somebody came back and said: oh, we need this documentation for something or whatever it might be. Somebody got hurt something like that. So does that happen before and sure.

C

It has happened okay on occasion, so I can say that in all of our new systems that we're installing and the FCO replacement cycle, we respect the server's for a 30-day retention schedule, but that's on the new systems that are going in so.

B

So your face when you said earlier, it sounds like the busses are gonna, be more of a challenge than the cameras in the classroom so that we might be able to okay. But.

G

Option one option may be to say ten days, but on all new systems, you'll need a certain minimum, so we could also look at that. Rob we'll go back and run them run the numbers this.

C

First reading correct yeah.

A

Call a question: all right: questions been called we'll go around the horn for voting mister, be.

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F

Call for Kevin, please, okay,.

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Mr. Howell Jedi everybody else if you'll vote on one.

A

Okay, the next item up is audit and Finance. Just to give you an overview, tomorrow's audit and Finance meeting is 2 p.m. directly across the hall. All board members are always welcome key items. You see there you'll be voting on next week, budget revision, where the millage will say the same that just the districts can recommend potentially moving some funds around based on what we voted on in June sales, tax, free reallocation. Just again, something was over budget under budget will be.

A

Those funds will be shipped to do another project, 8 percent bond resolution, refinancing of a bond that will lower our interest rate and save money, and then the item to really look into is the tax increment financing that that will be requested of you next week. So if you could reach out and ask any questions ahead of time before next, yes, we got it. We've got to act on it by October 8, otherwise it affects.

F

It's not seeing any materials got.

A

That should come forward Wednesday.

D

Yep, how long before we get a return on it, they're.

A

Asking for 30 years and it'll be up to you whether or not you want to participate or to.

D

Get nothing for 30 years right.

B

Ask a quick vacation question on the policy. The video camera policy. Did we because I wanted to make sure Julie knew did was Reverend Collins motion to approve, but it but extend us keeping it by 30 days or what was your motion Roman Collins.

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B

D

Understanding that they met to differ with the buses right.

B

Between now, its first and second, okay, all right, thank you. Okay,.

A

And the next item up or public comments are going back to miss Maureen, Mackinac and then followed by that will be miss Ashley right.

A

Miss McInerney alone, you sure, okay.

H

Thank you for letting me speak. Yeah today, you've been presented with proposals for large-scale expansions of beast Academy, one of the magnet programs that you tell us or the problem, ignoring the inconsistency in that expansion. The beast kindergarten was expanded. This year you doubled the class size and you lowered the admission score: did diversity increase not one bit? You got zero increased diversity. If your goal was to improve diversity, you failed miserably. The racial makeup of district 20 has changed so clearly. Expansions, particularly within district 20, does not equal diversity.

H

If your goal is to serve a gentrified Peninsula, then you're well on your way. If you genuinely want diversity, you know what to do. We've talked about some of those things today and I'm excited to hear you talking about improving pre-k access and those programs. You need to provide transportation, and the third thing that you didn't talk about today. I've mentioned it previously, but you need to provide community outreach to help parents with the application and deadline process for beast Academy.

H

I've sat in those waiting rooms waiting for both of my children to test and I can tell you that the racial makeup of those waiting rooms mirrors the class exactly unfortunately, you're sorely lacking in diversity in terms of your applicant pool and until you increase the applicant pool and add black and brown people to that applicant pool you're not going to see additional and diversity abus'd and that's gonna require community outreach and I hope you'd be willing to do that.

H

I was so impressed with the academic magnet graduates who sat up and talked about some of the things that they'd like to see happen. There I've actually talked to mr. Scott on separately about some of that and I think we actually agree. It's a little bit of a different concept when you're talking about in elementary school, but certainly diversity is something that needs to be addressed and the current plans don't do it.

H

So if you want to make changes, I strongly recommend you start there, don't cherry-pick a few lines from the Clemson report or the mission-critical report to justify making radical changes that neither group is actually recommending. Thank you. Thank.

A

You and that completes our public comments for the day. The last thing we've got an upcoming meeting is next. We will meet next. Monday will be our next meeting again. Tomorrow's audit in finance at 2:00 p.m. and, if there's no other items, move to adjourn all right. Thank you. We're adjourned.