Ready, Willing and Abell: Notes from Board of Education Meeting, 6/8/21

The Board of Education Meeting on Tuesday, June 8, 2021 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 – 11 a.m.

Call to order – 1 p.m.

Contract signing for the Education Association of Charles County (EACC) and the American

Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME)

Superintendent’s update to the Board - Report

Board Member correspondence

Brown - Thank you to everyone for all your hard work making sure graduations were perfect.
Hancock - Ditto what Ms. Brown stated. Congratulations to Class of 2021. Thank you to Dr. Hill and Ms. Hollstein for their service.
Lukas - Thank you for graduations; Equity Task Force, thank you and looking forward to presentation; attending sporting events.
Battle-Lockhart - scholarship amounts; Dr. Hill and Ms. Hollstein you are awesome, very professional, and make a great team.
McGraw - graduations were great; Mr. Jones for herding us; great job for everyone; Congratulations to Dr. Hill, Ms. Hollstein and Ms. O'Malley Simpson on your retirement.
Wilson - board members werent allowed to hand out diplomas but it allowed us to observe. Staff was caring and responsive.

EACC update - Report

AFSCME update - Report

Student Board Member update - Report

Equity Task Force - Report

McGraw - Thank you for including recommendations on next steps; thank you for all the work
Lukas - Thank you for all the work;

African American Employees Task Force - Report

State Board Task Force on Achieving Academic Equity and Excellence for Black Boys - Report

National Response Committee - Report

FY 2022 budget

Final Budget
Presentation
Weekly Update
Battle-Lockhart - impact of commissioners not fully funding the budget resulted in the removal of the Psychologist and Mental Health professionals. The public needs to be aware of this.
Lukas - PPP Slide 6; per pupil is $50 less than state average, if we had that, it would be an extra $13M in the budget. 9th largest school system in the state out of 24. ELL populations continues to rise; Special population is 10%.
Hancock - always getting just enough to get by. Wish we couold have open dialogue to develop budget and it wasn't always such a fight.

Daily/hourly tuition and wage rates for FY 2022

Daily and Hourly Wage Rates
Tuition Rates

Project status update - Report

Educational Facilities Master Plan - Report

2022-2023 calendar

Report
Draft Calendar

Unfinished business - None

New business

Suspension of Board policies

Future agenda items

Lukas - Allow sports competitions and events in the schools on weekends.
Wilson - Recruitment of African American teachers; legislative proposal regarding the pipeline from state HBCU's. Incentive for minorities to go into education.
Battle-Lockhart - Equity Task Force report on agenda on a quarterly basis

Virtual and in-person recognition – 4:30 p.m.

Resolution: Washington Post Teacher of the Year awards program
- Brian Kuhn, vocal music teacher, St. Charles High School
Charles County Public Schools (CCPS)/Maryland Teacher of the Year awards program
- Alexis Eaton, fourth-grade teacher, Dr. James Craik Elementary School
Outstanding Vice Principal of the Year award
- Erin Kaple, vice principal, Westlake High School
Inclusion and Diversity Month Resolution
- accepting, Kimberly Hairston, CCPS director of equity and diversity
Charles County Arts Alliance Teacher of the Year awards
- Christine Chinault, art teacher, Malcolm Elementary School
- Zoe Smith, music teacher, Mattawoman Middle School
- Jana Heyl, theater arts teacher, Maurice J. McDonough High School
Outstanding Support Staff Awards
- Juan Gilmer, computer analyst, Starkey Building
- Kyle Graves, video production specialist, Starkey Building
- Stephanie Jackson, reading interventionist instructional assistant, William A. Diggs Elementary School
- Victoria Langley, food service manager, J.C. Parks Elementary School
- Christopher Lombardi, security alarm technician, CCPS maintenance shop
- Marlana Spurr, secretary to the principal, Henry E. Lackey High School
- Victor Woodland, building service manager, North Point High School
Computer analyst and engineer video recognition

Public forum – 6 p.m.

Preregistered speakers only
Jana Heyl - Teacher at McDonough. Thank you to Dr. Hill and Amy Hollstein for their support to the arts throughout the year. unfortunately the support has waivered recently. Use CARES funds to help with high school staffing and electives. Mandates from state for required courses has pushed electives out of the schedule, McDonough feels forgotten with redistricting and renovations. McDonough is not ADA friendly.
Melissa Carpenter - Teacher. System wide issues not school specific. Teachers do have ideas. Nice to not have testing this year. overloaded doing material pick ups. not enough planning time. this summer reflecting on the year that could have been. start a conversation with teachers not about teachers.

Action items

Minutes

Motion to approve Minutes from May 11 Board Meeting by Abell; Second by McGraw