I have a motion please to bring us out of closed session
>> second all in favor of coming out of
closed session please raise your right hand
any opposed?
Okay, Mr West.
>> I pledge allegience to the flag of the United States of
America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation
under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all.
>> I like to take this opportunity on behalf of our board to
welcome back a long lost friend for awhile,
Rick Pridgen we're happy to see him back and looking so well
[applause]
okay, we are going to begin with the
budget update.
>> Dunsmore: Would you like to approve the agenda first?
It's all right, I can do those updates, that's the
order we'll just go in order; Is that alright Miss Rachel?
Good evening everyone welcome
again; Mr Pridgen welcome back it's good to see you back
where you belong although on a different chair;
two updates for the board; Miss Burden and I we went down and
met with our board of county commissioners
partially on the some different initiatives around funding for
certified staff as well as our low performing schools;
We had a proposal similar to what we did it at
Goldsboro High School this year for staff retention as most of you
know we have a lot of flight from those schools, they get a job
they stay; principals train them and they transferred to other
schools; part of what we have done at Goldsboro on
the restart model was providing financial incentives making a
part of their contract with that they bring to stay there
for "X" number of years and that's back loaded with some
performance evaluations; attendance which was a huge
piece of what we found that being there, attending all the
staff development, turning in your lesson plans and going
through that structured
training on lesson plans and best teaching practices we've
given some information to the board of commissioners down
there; we went down and part of what the discussion was was
five of our highest poverty schools
which ranged from seventy nine point four percent up to ninety
two percent from that that seventy nine point four our next
closest or number six was down around sixty nine percent
so there's a huge disparity there so what we're
trying to do is look at how we can qualitative put some
incentives together but not only help us recruit certified
teachers but also maintain them there so we can get some continuity;
the good news based on that meeting and discussion they have
since come back; we've had some follow up conversations this
morning that they didn't want just the five lowest performing
based on a poverty percentage, they want to include all of our
schools that are in the low performing status; so we're
gonna go back and rework that and get that to them before
next week's meeting; we also put on that agenda
the certified stipend or supplement that would be
district wide and as we get into more into the
budget I know we have a workshop coming up on the
budget of what other recommendations and
different things; another big area of topic that
we talked about was the safety and security; and as most
of you know reading the newspapers, the
governor's initiating the General Assembly to release
a lot of money for safety and security so we have some
recommendations that will be coming to them with that and in any
other large capital improvement plans we would add to that;
So I will say Miss Burden if you want to chime in,
they seemed very amenable and serious about
helping us out with this initiative,
I know they're talking financially among themselves
so where that ranks and I can say in my three years now to be my
third budget cycle working with them, I'm very
encouraged and optimistic; I think they're really interested in
helping us that we can get something in place and
quantitatively report on each year the impact; I will say
this year what happened at Goldsboro High School we only had one
teacher leave, which is unheard of since
I've been here and the one teacher who's leaving her husband is a
fighter pilot; they're only here for two years, she doesn't have a choice; it was either
stay at Goldsboro and teach or go with her husband and I
understand her choice there; so we are seeing the impact of
that; we're really excited and I think we're going to see some
results so we'll be putting that back together and taking
it back to the commissioners and for our budget
meeting hopefully we'll have some good news around that area;
as most of you know last year we went with five inititaives
we weren't successful; As far as the
facilities update; several things first Meadowlane, I'm
gonna send out
some aerial pictures if you haven't been by there, the
roof is on the gym and cafetorium area, the two main
hall ways and several other areas getting very close
to drying in
the building and start being closed up and putting in
doors and windows and really get busy; they are
ahead of schedule; I would like
to offer board members we're trying to schedule
a visit down to Onslow County, they have a similar school
about six months in front of ours; they are starting the painting
and it's getting real close to being done;
If you'd like to go along
you're more than welcome.
I know several of the members
Mister Arnold and Mister Lambert meeting down at Southern Wayne
and we have new drawings that came in on that project down there
to get it in line with the budget and we're trying to get
a date and get that group back
together so we're hopefully have that finalized this week and we
can get moving; and lastly on the process
in the northern end with the addition of the classrooms
they're finishing up the septic
for the sewage run, the engineering piece of that;
Some of you had questions when we were up at
Fremont whether that sewage plant could handle the additional runs;
they have all the engineering studies
done and hopefully we're going to have
all the information ready to get rolling on that project also;
if anybody has any questions please
>>are there any questions for the superintendent?
>> Pridgen: I've got one; On the incentives for the low
performance schools that you mentioned
how well was that received
for coming up
with a plan?
>> They asked if
it was enough and wanted us to come back with a
broader range expanding it from five schools
to eleven schools to add six schools and broaden the
range; so I I think it was very
encouraging; you know the follow up and
you were at the meetings last year they asked for a lot and we got
nothing; Mr Honeycutt pulled me
aside today and said the conversation after Miss Pat
had left was very positive; they're
interested in this because it's something that we'll be able to
gauge the impact not only in the teacher
retention and the absenteeism and hopefully after a year to
start see those test scores be impacted also;
>> thank you any other questions
thank you very much
are there any additions or changes to the agenda?
>> Yes ma'am if I could please speaking with our legal counsel
today we have several things on consent agenda in regards to
policy and some work they asked we pull off from some
different things and items that of come up statewide that are going to impact us
and would like to send back to
the policy committee and our legal counsel has been
attending the policy meetings and better discuss those
but if I may items "I" "J"
"P". "Q".
"R"
"S". "T". "U"
"W". and "X" be moved for some additions and
amendments to the policy committee.
I will add the school board association does a lot of the policy
work; this is the time of year lot of updates and changes; the
majority of these we have been working on quite
diligently with our legal team and that's something that we
need to pull back and have more board member input and get
some local teeth in that for what we need
specifically here in Wayne County.
So I would ask those items just be pulled from the agenda and
returned to the policy committee.
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>> Yes we did want to pull the general
personnel board report "B" and vote on that separately
so I need a motion >> Attorney: also the license renewal list
[crosstalk]
[crosstalk]
so first may I have a motion for pulling "B" and "C"
>> Henderson: Madam chair I moved that we pull items "B" and "C" for
consideration individually.
>>I second that.
>> Thank you we have a second to pull items "B" and "C" to be considered individually or
separately from the consent vote
any discussion?
>> Flowers: It's just a matter of procedure I was understanding some kind of way
that a board member could request something to be pulled
but it didn't require a vote but you're saying it does require a vote?
A motion, a second and a vote?
>> I was saying that what she asked what amendments are going to be on the consent
agenda or what was coming off of there
and my understanding is that those are items that you
guys do not wish to include any longer on the consent agenda.
>> Okay but we do not need a motion or vote we can just pull
that.
>> If someone says that they want to pull from the
consent agenda and then you can pull it because if it requires
discussion it cannot be on consent.
>> So those two items are pulled and now do I need a
motion for removing the other items as named; they can just do
that?
>> You can also pull the other items because you have
them on the consent agenda the difference will be that you
don't intend to take them up later on in the meeting.
>> Okay we will pull the following items "I" "J". "O".
"P". "Q".
"R". "S".
"T". "U".
"V". "W".
"X". from the consent agenda to be
taken back to the policy committee for review.
>> Madam chair I make a motion that we approve the
agenda as amended.
>> Second.
>> We have a second to approve the agenda as amended, any discussion?
All in favor indicate by raising your right hand.
Any opposed?
Thank you motion carries.
All right so at this time we need a motion to vote on
items yeah okay we need
the proclamation,
Better speech and hearing month.
>> Strickland: Don't we need to vote on "B" and "C"?
we don't do
that until we get to the consent agenda
so now we are at the proclamation
better speech and hearing month.
>> So let me follow up on what Miss Strickland saying is those things are
going to be voted on by the board, there's gonna be board
action on those things now that they are not on the
consent agenda so you'll need to amend the agenda to include
those items under board action.
So the policies that you removed you are not going to
vote on in any other format they're off
"B" and "C" that you removed would become "F".
and "G". under your board action or
wherever you want to have them in there.
>> Those are the two items that we'll be pulling to vote on
separately okay.
Yeah we took care of that right?
>> You need a motion to ask to
amend the board action agenda to include those items.
>> I thought Mister Flowers did that he said we voted on it.
>> He removed that from the consent agenda so we won't vote on the
policy items because you don't intend to add them anywhere
else, you don't intend to move them to any portion of the
agenda but when you pulled "B" and "C" you intend to add that
then the board action.
>> So I need a motion for that?
>> Yes ma'am.
>> Please I need a motion please; Mister Henderson.
>> Madam chair I would like to amend the agenda so that we could have
the general board report listed as 4F
and our license renewal list as four G.
>> Second?
>> Second
>> We have a motion and second
are we ready for the vote?
All in favor indicate by show raising your right hand.
Any opposed; motion carries; now I go back to proclamation better speech and hearing month.
[inaudible]
[crosstalk]
We are going to move on to the
approval of the minutes from the March twenty six two
thousand and eighteen meeting; >> I'd like to make a motion that we
approve the minutes.
>> Second.
>> Alright any discussion; okay the motion is to approve the minutes of March twenty
sixth two thousand and eighteen all in favor indicate by
raising your right hand, any opposed;
motion carries; now I need a motion for the
approval of closed session minutes for March twenty six
two thousand eighteen; >> I make a motion that we
approve the closed session minutes from March twenty six
two thousand eighteen
and to release;
I make a motion motion to approve and release
>> Second.
We have a first and second to approve the closed
session minutes and release them to be open;
all in favor indicate by raising your right hand;
any opposed; okay motion carries; now we have the Advance Ed
accreditation.
>> Tamara Ishee: good evening board members, the board curriculum
committee met on April thirteenth to discuss some
possible options for Advance-Ed accreditation after our
March two thousand nineteen accreditation review that we're
scheduled to have; that board committee
unanimously favored moving to high schools only accreditation
for the next cycle after March two thousand nineteen and
directed me to bring this high schools only option to the full
board tonight for action; in discussion with the
curriculum committee it was noted that cost per district
versus high schools only are comparable
that after March two thousand
nineteen if we move to high schools only
our high schools would go on a cycle within the five years so
they wouldn't all be reviewed at the same time;
the move would relieve middle and elementary principals of
some extra duties but at the same time high school
principals wouldn't really have any additional duties because
they're already preparing for review so that work with just
continue; all of the schools would
continue with their mandated school improvement activities
and NC Star and just a note of data information a little more
than half of all LEA's in North Carolina
currently use district accreditation so just slightly
less than half do school accreditation;
so I bring that to the board as directed by the curriculum
committee.
I believe someone on the board would have to make a motion to
>> I need a motion
>> I would like to make a motion that we approve the changing of
district level events that accreditation to high school
accreditation only beginning after March nineteenth which
would be at the end of the current cycle to begin the new
cycle.
We have a second; Is there any discussion?
>> Henderson: I am speaking against the motion
to
which opened in twenty nineteen and I'd like to ask
questions of Miss Ishee; can you tell us
how well we have been going through this accreditation
process with it being all the schools?
>> I believe this is our second five year cycle so this will be ten
years and district accreditation before that;
I believe the county did individual schools, they did all
the schools individually previous to that I don't know
the history before that they did that just high schools at
some point I think what it was SACS before it was Advance-ED
but we've been ten years in the all district.
>> Okay and comparitively have you
been able to make a distinction between
the high schools only versus the all the schools
as to which is actually better?
>> Peronal opinion >> And do
you have data to support it?
>> I'm gonna be honest
it's a very tough question for me to answer without injecting
my personal opinion about it; I don't think it makes any
difference for the high schools, the're as I said going to be
doing the same work that they would be doing anyway;
high schools already prepare for accreditation visit two of
them get it they don't know which two are going to be
visited so no difference for them;
you know I guess I have to go back benefits wise for the
elementary and middle to; is there some
large research based benefit for the elementary and middle
schools to be accredited verses the work that's required at the
elementary and middle level to be part of the review;
I think the work is more onerous thn there are any
particular academic benefits;
you're getting a lot of my opinion here;
I don't think the elementary and middle schools being part of
district accreditation is helping them improve become
better schools.
>> Did we just complete a survey with the Adanced-Ed
within the last couple of months; a climate and
culture survey?
>> I think so.
>> And do you have the number of responses that we had?
>> I don't actually.
>> I'd like to share this with the board;
of those surveys that were done there were one thousand eight
hundred and twenty eight parents that were surveyed
for six to twelve students there were four thousand two
hundred eight surveys conducted for the elementary schools that
was two thousand eight hundred eighty one surveys for support
staff it was four hundred and one and for teachers it was
nine hundred ninety six; that's a lot of data right there that
showed to me shows to me that we have a lot of interest in
from our parents from our students and from our teachers
in this Advanced-Ed accreitation and from the survey results
that I've seen it was a very positive survey so
looking at this and recognizing that one of the main concerns that
we have is issues of community involvement as well as parental
involvement; this shows me that we had a good source of that
coming through this process so and secondly I would say that
if we just go to just high schools there is no
continuity as to what our kids would be learning from the
onset at the lower grades that would help them towards the
high school as far as accreditation is concerned and
that would be one of the reasons that I would vote
against this.
>> Any other comments?
Are we waiting to vote; the motion is that we move from
a district evaluation of all schools
through Adnaced-Ed after the March two thousand
and nineteen evaluations session and moved to only high
schools accreditation.
All in favor indicate by show of your right hand.
Any opposed?
Motion carries thank you; Dr Dunsmore we will move back to our
proclamations better speech and hearing month.
>> Thank you madam chair I do believe we have some speech and
language and hearing impaired folks in the audience please
come up
I never had speech but many many hearings tests for
you raise the right hand to hear the tone
it's getting worse the older I guess so
thank you all for coming here and as we said earlier this is a
proclamation for the speech and language association nationally
and whereas the American speech language hearing association
nationally recognized as the month of May is better speech
and hearing month end whereas the American speech language
hearing association has chosen two thousand eighteen theme of
better speech and hearing month as communication for all and
whereas the profession of school based speech and
language pathologist, audiologist and teachers, the
hearing impaired represent a community of thousands of
professionals who dedicate their lives to helping
students in need and providing support in schools across our
district and whereas these professionals are highly
trained individuals who follow strict ethics policies and
maintain certification by demonstrating acting an ongoing
development and whereas these professionals are crucial to
each school's special education team and are invaluable to the
support resources for schools and classrooms stake holders as
well as parents and whereas these professionals have a
lasting impact on future generations by both providing
exemplary service to our schools and also catering to
the individuals of needs of Wayne County Public School
students across all levels of education; now therefore be it
resolved that Wayne County Board of Education recognizes
and hereby proclaims the month of May two thousand eighteen
as better speech and hearing month and calls upon all of
Wayne County Public Schools stakeholders to recognize the
achievements and contributions of these valued professionals
signed this date by Patricia Burden chairman of
the Board of Education and Michael Dunsmore,
Superintendent and if I might add assomebody who grew up
in the area of of special education and a mother who was
a special needs student nurse I know what you all do to
get certified and I know what it takes to keep those
certifications; thank you for staying with public schools
>> Flowers: madam chair I make a motion we approve the proclamation
>> second >> okay any discussion
>> I would just like to
say a special thank you, I'm hearing impaired have been
most all my life and I want to thank the folks
doing that; our children when I was in school I don't
think I was it was ever recognized and
and I think our schools do a much
better job of that in the past but as a student that didn't
hear well I oftentimes think about that
Charlie Brown cartoon where the teacher's
talking and the students just hearing "wa wa wa wa"
you remember that one?
I don't really think that's where the cartoons portraying but if you don't hear well
that's the way it is and and often times you know you sort
of as a student and the teacher maybe does't think
you're paying attention and just a lot of different things that
are difficult but I wanted to give you a special thank you
on a personal basis.
>> Thank you Mr Flowers.
>> I would like to say that I agree with Mr Flowers
wholeheartedly; my situation was fourth grade
before I realized that I needed glasses but when the teacher
wrote on the board I had pulled my chair up to the front she kept
asking me why; because I can't see I'm a Pridgen, I'm in
the back of the classroom; it was a teacher that made a
difference in getting me some help from the
school to convince my parents to take me to get a check up
my daughter's actually studying in the grad school now for
becoming a speech pathologist and I hope she'll choose the
educational route to go; it's amazing the amount of
people that have problems or lose their voice or have to be
retrained even after they've been talking
or singing all their life and I know what these
girls have goen through to get their accreditations and
what they're what they're doing because I hear a lot of phone
calls from my daughter
they go throug a lot
and they are much appreciated for what they do but sometimes
it becomes a thankless job and we appreciate you being here
we thank you for what you do for our children;
>> All in favor of approval of the proclamation for
better speech and hearing month
indicate by raising your right hand;
any opposed?
Okay all right now Mister Smith.
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Mister Keith Copeland would like to speak representing the community with
regard to concerns regarding low performing schools.
>> Copeland: good afternoon
My gandmothermother always told me if you don't have to say
anything, don't say anything
and it sounds like and I appreciate this board for doing
what you did, it sounds like you are really addressing; I
just wish I could have known before I made all those copies.
I'm very appreciative of the fact that you did persue that
something positive will happen so I don't have anything to say
except thank you Dr Dunsmore.
>> May I ask that you and any of your other supporters when this
comes before the commissioners join the impending
>> just let me know when I need to be there
>> Yes sir.
>> Thank you Mr Copeland
I need a motion to approve the
general personnel board report >> So moved
>> do I have a second; this report was pulled for the
further discussion do I have a second
>> Second >> We have a second,
any discussion >> yes
madam chair I would like to raise the issue with the
personnel board report based on some of our earlier concerns
relative to the low performing schools and the need or the
request by some of staff to move from those low performing
schools especially when they are certified veteran
teachers.
I am very concerned about what is happening in our low performing schools and at this point we
need to do something differently to kind of protect
those schools and one of the ways of doing that is to ensure
that we do get those veteran teachers to remain at that
those schools.
>> Any other comments or discussion?
>> Smith: I do have a comment; one of the
things that I think that Dr Dunsmore in
the meeting that you attended;
the purpose of that meeting is to address some of those issues
that would incentivize teachers remaining at these low
performing schools and attracting teachers to
some of these low performing schools so in that respect I do concur
and I do think there are efforts underway to address
those issues.
>> And I think one of those ways that not only is what we discussed with the county commissioners but also
we would have to look at board policy and
maybe consider making some changes; I think we have
to start with that as well as hopefully what the
commissioners may be able to do for us as a district;
any other comments or concerns?
>> Yes madam chair again I would I would reiterate that some of the ones that we are
looking at approving tonight are very veteran employees and I've
had discussions with some of the principals and they find it
extremely difficult to allow a veteran employee from one school in the
district to be transferring over to another
school in the district and it just creates
continues to create problems that way so
I do appreciate everything that Dr Dunsmore and the staff have
done to try to help curtail some of these problems here at
this point but at some point we need to do to make some
kind of stand to say okay until we determine what these
incentives or the stipends are we need to figure out what's
the best route to go about this so and that's one of the
reasons why I'm saying well let's just kind of put a hold on
some of these at this point until we can determine what that
incentive is and even at that some of these people that
have applied might agree to go back to that to those
schools; >> Would some type of
a moratorium on moving the
possibly what you had in mind?
>> That's what I'm kind of thinking about.
>> Well I know that this has not been approved by the board yet but we do have a policy that
allows the teachers to apply for transfera and even though
Mister Henderson I really am in total agreement with you that
we need to do something to address this situation; I don't
know if it is too late for the group that has come before us
because they did go through the process that we set down by
policy and I don't know if we could stop that process; I guess
I would address that to the attorney in the middle because
that's where they are now; That's where they are.
>> But also understand in our discussions we have
we understand that a teacher is employed by the county and not
by a school and therefore the
superintendent has a right to do whatever he thinks is
necessary to correct any issues that we
might have; >> Attorney: I have to look at your current
policy on that, I dont have that in front of me.
>> Alright well we have a motion on the floor.
>> Sorry and also those contracts just to make sure there wasn't anything in
there that that would give them the right to
to necessarily move.
>> Right now we have a motion on the floor to approve the
general personnel board report if there's no further
discussion, all in favor please show by ending by raising your
right hand; >> Now I have one question when we look at "C" in our
computers but when mine comes up when
I try to look at our license renewal list which is the next
one then I'm getting their report on
my computer and it's telling me that it cannot be brought up at
this time so
and that is that just the principals and assistant
principals that were included in that which is also in the
general personnel report?
>> Mine errored also >> actually mirrored in that
report from the general personnel is that correct?
The license and renewal list?
The point I'm trying to get it is my license renewal list is showing up in the personnel
okay and if it's showing up again in license renewal list and it is
the same thing then I'm not able to pull that up on my
computer; board docs is giving me an error message.
>> Mr Pridgen when I pull up the license renewal I
get an error but when I pulled up the general
personnel board report I only get the general personnel board
report.
>> You're not getting the principals and assistant principals?
I am; >> The license renewal was
just the teachers >> yeah the principles were found
in general personnel.
>> Thats what I'm saying;
I'm getting it there but I'm not getting it under the
license renewal list not getting anything under
the license renewal.
>> I am too.
>> So muy question is is is that part of the general personnel report?
>> No, it's four "G" now it was C.
>> I understand but on my computer
it's still "C"
I fI want to vote on something I want to know
whether I'm voting on something that's all inclusive
of the general personnel report or am I voting; there's
some issues under license renewal that if it's the same as
the principals then I'm not in agreement with it.
>> No it's not the same.
>> Is there anyway we can get a copy of what's in the license renewal list?
Gibe me just a minute Madam Chair.
>> okay I will.
>> Okay we did review this back in the closed session
>> and these are teachers remaining
>> I'm fine now Ms Strikcland has got me straight
>> We have a mnotion on the
floor; all in favor of the personnel
board report please show by raising your right hand;
Any opposed?
Motion carries; Now we are on 4G license renewal list.
>> I'd like to make a motion that we approve the license renewal list as presented.
>>I need a second.
>>Second.
Alright we have a second there any discussion?
All right we have a motion to approve the
license renewal list two thousand eighteen two thousand
nineteen, all in favor indicate by raising your right hand;
Any opposed?
Now we go to the consent vote I need a motion to approve items "D" "E" "F"
"G". "H".
"K". "L".
"M". "N"
"Y" "Z" "AA" through "DD"
>> What about "V"
>> And "V"
>> I make a motion that we approve the
items at you aforementioned >> Second
>> A consent agenda is a group of items passed with a single
motion and vote; these materials and or items are routine
business or have been thoroughly discussed in
committee meetings open to the public and attended by board
members; no debate is allowed on any item included on the
consent agenda; if a board member wants a separate
consideration of any item it may be removed by request.
>> We have a second
now if there is a discussion
>> I did want clarification on >> No discussion allowed
all right all in favor of approving the
consent calendar as read agenda as read
please show by raising your right hand.
Any opposed?
>> Could I just ask for clarification on the issue
that we do voted on?
Not not that I'm one of that we got to make motion and I think I just want some clarification
>> Is it a legal issue?
>> It deals with contracts and purchase orders.
>> If you need discussion on that then you need to have it removed from
the consent agenda; >> the consent agenda is already
been passed in a vote so I'll just talk with Me Hayes privately
>> That's not one that was pulled?
>> No ma'am
>> it doesn't matter because it's been voted on.
Yes it has; alright I want to know if the
students are here to be recognized; OK Mr Pridgen
>> Will the following students please come forward;
From Charles B Aycock High, Weston Hersey
from Southern Wayne High, Malia McKay and from Spring
Spring High, Coral Maxwell.
We would like to ask their families, principals, any staff of exceptional children department
please join them.
These three high school juniors will represent Wayne County
Public Schools in the two thousand eighteen Governor's
School of North Carolina session this summer; Governor's School is
the oldest statewide summer residential program for
academically and intellectually gifted high school students in
the nation; the program which is open to the rising seniors only
with exceptions made for rising juniors in the visual arts and
performing arts category; it's located in two campuses
Governor's School West established in nineteen sixty
three is located at Salem College in Winston-Salem and
Governor's School East was established in nineteen seventy
eight and has been carried on at Meredith
College in Raleigh; now the two thousand eighteen session will
run from June the seventeenth through July the twenty
fifth and these Wayne County Public School students will be
among six hundred academically and intellectually gifted
students to attend the Governor's School program.
Interestingly all three of these students will attend the Governor's
School East program in Raleigh in the area of English.
On behalf of the board of education we congratulate all
of you on this achievement; acceptance in the Governor's
School North Carolina's a high honor for students and we know
that this experience will be a wonderful opportunity to
further cultivate your talents and your abilities and with
that we have a certificate that we would like to to recognize
you with and it reads as follows; certificate of
recognition, Wayne County Board of Education recognizes Weston
Hersey for being selected to attend the two thousand
eighteen North Carolina Governor's School given this day
April twenty third two thousand eighteen by Patricia Burden,
Chairman of the Board of Education and by Doctor Dunsmore
secretary to the board if you will please Weston
come forward; Since you're the proxy does that mean you get to go
[laughter]
Coral Maxwell if you would come forward please;
thank you so much
Malia McKay, congratulations
Would you all please go through and shake hands
>> It is time for our board
members and Superintendent's comments.
I want to ask Miss Rachel if she has any
comments to make?
No ma'am just thank you for the
honor of working for the Wayne County Board and the people of Wayne County.
Mister West?
>> I don't have any comment.
>> Mr Flowers?
>> Thank you madam chair I have no comment.
>>Mister Henderson?
>> Yes madam chair first of all I would like
to commend the WISH
people for their twentieth anniversary that they
just celebrated last week; I was able along with several of our
board members to attend that event, it was very well attended
by the people in the community as well as the all the WISH
participants and I am a strong supporter of WISH because if it
had not been for WISH I don't know where my grandson would
have been; they will very instrumental and very helpful to
my family and they have become a part of my family so I am
extremely grateful for WISH and I also would like to
take on the vision that Dr Tayloe had mentioned that he
would like to see a WISH center all of our schools and so
that's a dream that I envision as well; I would also like to say
that I had an opportunity to meet with Mr Steve Parr the
executive director of the United Way; he has
approached me about his vision that would assist
children from zero to three three years of age in the
southern end of the county; I want to schedule a meeting
with Dr Dunsmore and Ms Burden to further elaborate on
what that vision is; I'm very excited about it and I
hope that this board if it ever comes to this board would also
jump on board with the with the vision that Mr Parr has;
also had an opportunity to attend instructional assistants
banquet that was held at Brodgen Middle School last
week; I really enjoyed that, enjoyed meeting with the
teachers and the teachers assistants and we had a very
good time and one of my counterparts over
there Ms Copeland we we really
enjoyed as if the one with Copeland, Ms Burden;
we had a wonderful time; also had an opportunity to
attend the national school boards conference
in the early part of this month; very enlightening, very
educational opportunity and I would encourage our board
members to consider attending these conferences because you
get a wealth knowledge that can be very beneficial to our
district, to our leadership team and to others in the county.
I am extremely pleased to hear of the the inroads that are
being made with our county commissioners relative to some
of the major concerns that we have and that we've continually
address; I'm looking forward to further discussions with the
county commissioners on trying to ensure that we can get some
security and safety measures for our schools get some type of
incentive pay for our teachers in our low performing schools
and also to continue to work with us on our
capital outlay projects; one that I'm really interested in
seeing is the Southern Wayne gym; I thank Dr Dunsmore for
going out to Southern Wayne and meeting with parents
and other members of the community
about the gym; and Dean Sauls and others that attended
as well I thought it was very beneficial and it was
a very lively discussion that we had and
there is a strong commitment in the southern end of
this county to see that that gym becomes a reality
for us; some other ideas that I
have been working with others on will be presented to the
board but later.
>> Mr Pridgen.
>> Thank you Ms Burden; I attend WISH one of the first things I've attended
since I've been back; the WISH celebration's
always been very special to me and dear to me
because of the differences they are making in children's lives; I
will say this to add to what Mister Henderson said it was
very well attended by all of the facets of the community
partnership that that provides WISH to our students;
we had people from the DPI Raleigh down here we also had
the WISH board as well as our WISH employees
participating; we had very good participation from the city
council and the county as well and Mount Olive town board
and it's good to see that all the players have come together
and Wayne Memorial Hospital does a great job of furnishing us
some inkind opportunities for that as well as grant monies
and it costs a lot of money just to keep one
WISH center open; it was interesting some of the statistics
that they were talking about and so we'd love to see it in all
the schools because we were fortunate to hear from parents
that have been had children at WISH parents that
gone to another school didn't have a WISH
center or they talk about the difference that it it made
the impact that it made on their child's life, we've had children
living today, walking today because of WISH and Dave
Tayloe actually explained that to us;
I'm very proud of the job that they do and Iwish we have one in
every single school in the county; that would be great
and but one thing they didn't mention was that one year we
did receive the National Civic Star Award
and the way the countrywide nationwide
given by SODEXHO through the principals and
assistant principals association so that was a that
was a great honor during that time period
it was not mentioned but we did we did receive that in
San Antonio is a matter of fact but all in all I'm so glad to
be back; I'm glad I made it through the surgeries that I had
when I left here only have ten days that I was
expecting to to be out and be back recuperation that ten days
turned into forty five days and several different surgeries
when I was only anticipating one
and forty five days on a liquid diet for a fat boy is really
tough, as a matter of fact I told my wife Sunday that
I got to have some chicken pastry;
it was good too; I really thank
everybody for the prayers especially the prayers
because even yesterday I opened up a card it was from a church
that I've never been to before and they had me on our prayer
list in their bulletin and everybody in the
church signed that card; I know for a fact that I have
people from four or five different states and two countries that
were praying for me and it was a tough go it was a
tough row to hoe but I've made it through that may good lord
willing I've been on heart medications
for over twenty years and I'm not taking a single one right now;
two, three excellent surgeons
that operated on me and now I can't say enough about the care
that I received and the vision that they had;
It's very disparaging when heart places
in the state tell you that there's no hope for you;
But in this case I got a third opinion and it was a feel like
the Lord led me to that.
Okay thank you for the flowers, the cards, the letters, the emails, the Facebook posts that
were sent over thousands I can't I can't even begin to
count it's just amazing to really but
I do not appreciate the bills that came in the meantime
but we'll get past that; thank you all for your prayers and
your support; I really appreciate it and I hope I'm back for a long while
>> Mrs Strickland.
>> Thank you madam chair; first actual to start that by offering my condolences to
the Kirk Keller family, Wayne Community College, I
actually did not realize until my brother came down for the
funeral yesterday that Kirk was my third cousin;
he and my brother were about the same age and so they
grew up knowing each other and he he was doing good
things at Wayne Community College and he is going to be
greatly missed; the second thing that I would
like to mention tonight is thank you Dr Dunsmore
for the work that you have done with Mr Honeycutt; I've noticed
there were some talks going on for a few
months because we have been speaking with some of the county
commissioners; I had expressed
to some of them individually the needs that we have in this
county to keep our teachers from running across the line;
I have also expressed a desire to try to add a little bit more
pay to some of our psychologists and psychiatrists
because it's it's hard to keep them
once they have their experience they go into private practice
and I had a principal recently tell me that you know he is
seeing more and more mental health issues than he has ever
seen in his career and so I am so excited that Doctor
Dunsmore has forged a strong relationship with the county
commissioners over the past two and a half years and that these
conversations can be held so we can continue to make
strides to help our teachers and to help our students; I'm
very excited about that but one of the things
that I have talked about for two and a half three years now
I guess three years now is community, community schools,
communities pulling together, communities doing for one
another, look out for each other; don't always wait for your
church to do it; don't always wait for someone else to do it
so I have something I like to read that happened at Rosewood
Elementary School and I was not a part of it, I saw it happening and
was just ecstatic; Kelly Harrison an instructional
assistant at Rosewood Elementary applied for a grant through Lowe's in
hopes of adding to the K-1 playground; she was awarded
a grant in the amount of five thousand dollars; she then spent
countless hours researching the best prices and equipment for
playground which resulted in six new swings, a twelve by
twenty four pergola for shade, two play houses, a sand table, two
basketball goals, many types of balls and frisbees; in
addition we had our fence expanded by Daniel's Fence to
give more space; Billy and Sherry Jones donated and delivered posts for
the pergola, Chris Neil of East Carolina hardscape
set and squared the posts in his free time and our WCPS
maintenance department put the remainder of the pergola together
also installing the border around the play area;
the school system paid for the mulch to be finished;
our business partner, Convenient Glass donated two children's
picnic tables and on Thursday night at eight fifteen at night
I got a request for four bags of concrete, so Friday morning I
drove to Lowe's and bought four bags of concrete to deliver so
the basketball goals could be setting over the weekend;
that's what community does for its children you see a need,
you identify a need and you set out a plan to
attack it and make it happen and I want to thank Ms Harris
and all these individuals and businesses who stepped up to
help this community and challenge the remaining schools
to do the same for their students and those are my
comments.
>> Smith: I wanted to start out by welcoming Mr Pridgen back
your presence was sorely missed, glad to see you back on
board; also EC department you guys are
doing big things, very proud of what you're doing
yes big things I'm very proud of what you're doing and
the recognition is certainly well due;
leadership team great job keep doing what
you're doing; I know sometimes you guys get
bombarded, overwhelmed but we appreciate
what you bring to the table, the hard work that you put in
because this you're the is the engine that drives this
train so thank you for what you do
and last but not least, I told y'all I had confidence in my
county commissioners;
>> Thank you I want to recognize Mrs
Copeland, this is been her last two months have been her months
because of all of the activities that we've had in
our arts program, our visual and performing arts program and
so we had our our district wide concert last week I believe yes
last week last Tuesday night and it was a very very
successful and it is really up lifting when you have people
come from out of town and they complement
the teachers, from the students
then they branch out to the parents to come back to the
students and then recognize teachers,
hospitality of our district and then all of the staff of the
performing arts and visual arts department and then they come
up to the leadership team, the superintendent and the board of
education because of our support for the arts and the
most thing that is rewarding to me is when they
talk about our students, how well prepared they are so that
means the teachers have done their jobs and then how well
they perform throughout that vigorous day of working
with the person that they are just meeting and then the next day
they have a performance and they did an outstanding job so
I want to say congratulations to you and I can't wait until
the jazz concert so let's let that top off the school year;
I had the opportunity to go to San Antonio and I want to tell
you this is one of the best national conferences that I
have been to, I was highly com are pleased with the sessions
that we went to and many of them focused on concerns that
we have right here in Wayne County and that is high poverty
level schools and also working with the board so as a
new chair that was very very important to me;
I want to thank all of our speech and hearing staff
for the work that they do because I know it's very very
important; sometimes they are the individuals that recognize
a concern that a student may have and it makes it easier for
the parents to accept this because they have information
that leads them to where they need to go out so I really
appreciate all that you do; now I say when I was reading my
packet what was special ed doing in this category
and then I realized that under the special ed
department they have what I refer to is the a AIG program
which is that talented program for our students and Miss
Amy Williams leads that program and
she is a special person to me because she works diligently
with the students so I want to congratulate you all for the
work that you're doing; I want to congratulate the students
once again and I would just like to see more coming from
each one of our high schools going to the governor's school
or doing something of that nature and I know that you
all encourage them to to do just that;
in terms of accreditation, Mister Henderson I don't think
this has to be a forever program but I do think
it's very important that we give our particularly our
elementary schools and middle schools an opportunity to work
diligently to move to having the status that's not
low performing; I personally will tell you in answer to your
question I've been, I've matriculated in both systems
and I feel that when they work with individual schools you get
the most valuable information so rather than have it come
district wide I think it is even better if you did all of your
schools individualized because then the information that you
receive focuses on your individual school and
addresses whatever accommodation applause that you
may receive and any areas of concern that they would have, so
I think that is the best one of the best ways to do it
from my opinion that is one of the best ways to do it; I think
right now we're focusing on high schools because we want to
give our middle schools and elementary schools an
opportunity to move from this low performing status; so it
doesn't have to be forever;
and I think that's my comments.
Doctor Dunsmore >> thank you madam chair I just want to again shout out to the students
are recognized getting into Governor's School; a huge huge
accomplishment and I know they'll do us proud.
To all our staff from the leadership team and that I recognize what you all
do above and beyond the call of duty and it is greatly appreciated.
I thank Mister Copeland for being in here but
early we do have the ear of the commissioners as Ms Burden said
there's a lot of talk out there and I know Mister Smith has
brought to the forefront also; poverty is an issue not just
here in Wayne County but across this country and then we know
that affects school because if students basic needs aren't being
met there's no way they're coming to school to learn and
that I'm really anxious to get even further along this route
with our commissioners because I think we're on the cusp
of being able to do some good things so I am
appreciative of that and truly all the support we can get from the
staff and the community and get out there and talk what we
need in the support is what we need to have moving forward
because it's important; I know at some point that's our legacy
and we need to do a better job with that so
again thank you.
Alright can I have a motion to adjourn so moves so I'll right in a discussion note
all in favor raise your right hand
any of those thank you
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