Notes from Board of Education Meeting, 9/8/20

The Board of Education Meeting on Tuesday, September 8 was streamed live on ccboe.com and aired live on Comcast Channel 96 and Verizon FiOs Channel 12.  The meeting will be re-broadcast on Comcast Channel 96, Verizon FIOS Channel 12 and is available via webstream at http://www.ccboe.com/ . To view the full agenda and the various reports, please visit BoardDocs .

The below notes are my personal notes and are not intended to be all-inclusive or official minutes for the Board of Education meetings and are provided as a request from my supporters and the general public in a personal effort to be more transparent. Although I have diligently tried to make these notes as unbiased and accurate as possible, I am only human and do make mistakes. Individual names are spelled to the best of my ability.

Executive session – 12 p.m.

Call to order – 1 p.m.

• Employee contract signing: Education Association of Charles County (EACC) and American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME)

Superintendent’s update - Report

Board Member correspondence

• Wilson - Upcoming MABE conference; visit to Higdon parking lot on first day; APFO changes; Thank you to Linda McLaughlin for SRO Training; support of SRO's in schools.
• Brown - Leadership Conference; EACC SRO training.
• Hancock - Good to be back.  Spoke at planning commission along with fellow board members; joint meeting with the commissioners.
• Lukas - Thank you to Dr. Hill and staff
• McGraw - SRO workshop; MABE conference; MABE Committees.; board committees - need to start on Policy again.

EACC update - Report

Student Board Member update - Report

Draft equity policy - Report

Opening of schools - Report

• Lukas - Request how many students in each of the population groups in Phase 2 and by school.
• Abell - Only change between phases at end/beginning of quarter (11/5).  Students have a choice but staff do not.  Protocols to take place if COVID numbers go up or at a school.  Will owrk with county health department who will dictate actions.
• Hancock - Equality vs Equity - make move over quarter
• Battle-Lockhart - Current approach to teach 30 students via Zoom with no IA's.
• Brown - no kids back before end of quarter
• Wilson - start quarter; finish quarter
• Abell - Assignments in Synergy

Technology update 

• some laptops and hot spots have been delayed
• only 30 staff; 8 always on help desk

SY 2021-2022 calendar

20212022Overview.pdf (278 KB)CalendarReportItem.pdf (268 KB)DraftOption1.pdf (137 KB)DraftOption2.pdf (137 KB)

• Option 1 provides for a full week of Spring Break while Option 2 only provides for the long weekend.
• Abell - Early dismissal days all on same day of the week?
• Hancock - wants post Labor Day start; staff says survey doesn't indicate parents want it.

Project status update - Report

School seat allocation - Presentation by county government staff; i requested a copy be uploaded to our BoardDocs.

•  Abell - requested map of PFA's.  How did you come up with 800 as a cap?  allowing for Waldorf Station and multiple developments on PFA's per year.  How did it get expanded to include PFA's?  At a commissioner meeting.  The 800 does not include towns allocations or those allocations granted through the sunset provision.  No  Do other counties have a sunset provision?  Anne Arundel  Will definitely need  collaboration to for full forward funding.
• Hancock - Sunset provision; can you move forward without this provision?  It will be up to the commissioners.
• Lukas - yield factors.
• Wilson - data, need more on six years put and current projects on list with anniversary dates for allocations.  Will forward list to county government staff.

FY 2021 Comprehensive Maintenance Plan

Draft CMP v2021 8-24-2020 _.pdf (3,801 KB)CMP 2021 presentation 9-8-20.pdf (567 KB)

Recurring resolutions

• American Education Week; American Freedom Week; Inclusion and Diversity Resolution; Black History Month; Gifted and Talented Education Month; Career and Technology Education Month; National School Counseling Week; Read Across America; Women’s History Month; Fine and Performing Arts Month; Month of the Young Child; National Student Leadership Week; Teacher Appreciation Week; Administrative Professionals Week; Child Nutrition Employee Appreciation Week; National Physical Education and Sport Week; Washington Post Principal of the Year Awards Program; Washington Post Teacher of the Year Awards Program; Maryland Teacher of the Year (MTOY): Charles County nominee; Be the Difference; Retirement Resolution 

Unfinished business 

New business 

• APFO Possible Task Force - McGraw requested Abell, Lukas, Wilson to serve
• Suspension of Board policies - Report - consensus to continue

Future agenda items

• Herd - Fine Arts Adapting Virtually Report

• Herd - Overview of applications/platforms being used for virtual learning.

Public forum

• Email written comments to boardmail@ccboe.com.

Action items

• Minutes

Motion to approve the minutes from August 11, 2020 by Wilson; Second by Hancock

Yes = Abell, Battle-Lockhart, Brown, Hancock, Lukas, McGraw, Wilson

Motion to approve the minutes from September 2, 2020 by Abell; Second by Brwn

Yes = Abell, Battle-Lockhart, Brown, Hancock, Lukas, McGraw, Wilson

• Personnel

Motion to approve the personnel by Brown; Second by Wilson

Yes = Abell, Battle-Lockhart, Brown, Hancock, Lukas, McGraw, Wilson

• FY 2021 CIP State and Local Program

Motion to approve the CIP by Abell; Second by Lukas

Yes = Abell, Battle-Lockhart, Brown, Hancock, Lukas, McGraw, Wilson

• Recurring Resolutions 

Motion to approve the recurring resolutions by Hancock; Second by Brown

Yes = Battle-Lockhart, Brown, Hancock, Lukas, McGraw, Wilson; Abstain = Abell

Adjournment