2020-07-09 - School Board Meeting

0:00 I’ll see you next time.

2:35:54 I agree.

2:36:24 I’ll see you next time.

3:46:51 Here’s your diploma.

3:47:21 I’ll see you next time.

5:46:16 TO WEAR A FACE MASK, AND WE WILL HAVE THOSE FACE MASKS

5:45:59 AVAILABLE BOTH FOR CHILDREN AND ADULTS AT SCHOOL,

5:46:02 THE DISPOSABLE ONES, IF STUDENTS COME IN AND WANT TO

5:46:06 WEAR A FACE MASK AND ONE ISN’T AVAILABLE TO THEM FROM

5:46:11 HOME.

5:46:12 THERE IS ALSO GOING TO BE FACE SHIELDS AVAILABLE TO ALL

5:46:14 FACULTY MEMBERS, AS STEPHANIE SAID EARLIER.

5:46:17 DID I MISS ANYTHING ON FACE MASKS?

5:46:22 YEAH.

5:46:25 WE’RE NOT IMPLYING THAT ALL CLASSES ALL THE TIME.

5:46:31 WE’RE SUGGESTING THAT A TEACHER COULD HAVE A LESSON WHERE IT

5:46:37 PUTS THE KIDS IN A VULNERABLE SITUATION.

5:46:40 WE’RE PICTURING A CULINARY LAB, AND SO WE’RE PICTURING

5:46:43 THEY MIGHT CENTER AROUND A WORK BLOCK, I’LL BE WORKING ON

5:46:46 FOOD PRODUCT, IN THAT CASE WE WOULD ANTICIPATE THE TEACHER

5:46:50 FOR THAT LESSON, HAVING THE STUDENTS PUT ON A FACE

5:46:52 COVERING, WE DO THAT IN A LOT OF OUR CTE LABS NOW,

5:46:55 SOME SAFETY PRECAUTIONS.

5:46:57 I’M PICTURING THE GROUP OF KIDS UNDER THE CAR IN AUTO BODY,

5:47:01 AND SO OUR TEACHERS WILL HAVE DISCRETION IF A LESSON

5:47:06 IS BETTER SERVED IN THAT.

5:47:08 AND TO SOME OF MR. SUSAN’S POINTS EARLIER ON SOME OF

5:47:11 THOSE ACTIVITIES THAT ARE BETTER THAN SPREAD OUT,

5:47:14 THAT MIGHT BE A SITUATION WHERE TEACHER SAYS THEIR

5:47:17 PRINCIPAL, HEY, I WANT TO DO THIS ACTIVITY.

5:47:18 THEY WERE FACE MASKS, YOU KNOW, SO WE COULD SEE A

5:47:24 NONREQUIRED SITUATION IN GENERAL THAT A TEACHER BEING

5:47:28 ABLE TO MAKE A DECISION TO BE ABLE TO CONDUCT AN

5:47:31 ACTIVITY, ESPECIALLY IN SOME OF OUR CAREER PREP

5:47:35 COURSES THAT REQUIRE CERTAIN THINGS HAVE TO BE DONE IN

5:47:39 ORDER FOR THE STUDENTS TO EARN THOSE CREDENTIALS.

5:47:41 AND I THINK IT’S REALLY IMPORTANT TO TALK ABOUT THE

5:47:46 WORDS STRONGLY ENCOURAGED, BECAUSE IT MEANS

5:47:49 DIFFERENT THINGS TO DIFFERENT PEOPLE.

5:47:51 THE NUMBER ONE THING THAT WE KNOW IS GOING TO MAKE A

5:47:54 DIFFERENCE IS IF IT’S MODELLED.

5:47:56 WHEN YOU WALK AROUND ESF, I KNOW FOR PEOPLE WHO MAY

5:47:59 BE WATCHING THE LIVE STREAMING, THEY’RE LOOKING AT

5:48:01 ALL OF US SAYING, YOU’RE NOT WEARING YOUR MASKS.

5:48:04 WHEN WE WALK AROUND ESF, THE BUILDING HERE, WE ALL

5:48:07 WEAR MASKS, UNLESS WE’RE IN A SITUATION

5:48:11 LIKE THIS WHERE WE’RE TALKING, PRESENTING.

5:48:16 SO WE KNOW THAT, NUMBER ONE, WE’RE GOING TO ASK

5:48:18 THAT OUR LEADERSHIP MODEL THAT.

5:48:21 NUMBER TWO, WE’RE GOING TO MAKE SURE THAT WE PUT OUT

5:48:23 LOTS OF INFORMATION ABOUT HOW FACE MASKS DO

5:48:26 MITIGATE THE ILLNESS.

5:48:28 IT IS – WE HAVE THE INFORMATION FROM THE CDC

5:48:33 AND THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH THAT SHOWS THAT ME

5:48:35 WEARING A FACE MASK PROTECTS YOU, YOU WEARING A

5:48:37 FACE MASK PROTECTS ME, AND THE TWO OF US WEARING A

5:48:39 FACE MASKS WHEN WE’RE WITH EACH OTHER PROTECTS

5:48:42 EVERYONE.

5:48:43 SO WE’RE GOING TO MAKE SURE TO PUT THAT MESSAGE OUT

5:48:45 VERY STRONGLY TO OUR COMMUNITY AND OUR KIDS.

5:48:48 BUT LIKE I SAID, THIS IS ONE OF THOSE AREAS THAT WE

5:48:51 KNEW WE NEEDED TO KIND OF HEAR THE WILL OF THE BOARD TO

5:48:53 KNOW WHAT DIRECTION YOU WANTED US TO HEAD IN FOR THIS.

5:49:00 THE NEXT –

5:49:09 THANK YOU, THANK YOU.

5:49:12 MS.

5:49:13 MCDUGAL, WE HAVE OUR NEXT QUESTION AND ANSWER SESSION

5:49:13 COMING UP AFTER SLIDE 33.

5:49:18 SO WE HAVE MS.

5:49:19 MORE FROM 25 TO 32, AND THEN WE HAVE MS.

5:49:21 HAN AT 33, AND THEN A Q&A SESSION.

5:49:25 SO WE’RE GOING TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE TO MAKE SURE

5:49:39 THAT WE’RE GOING TO MAKE SURE THAT WE SPEND SOME TIME

5:49:41 TEACHING OUR ELEMENTARY STUDENTS THE PROPER WAY TO

5:49:43 HANDWASH.

5:49:44 BELIEVE IT OR NOT, WE’RE GOING TO TAKE SOME TIME TO

5:49:47 PRESENT TO OUR SECONDARY KIDS THE PROPER WAY TO HANDWASH.

5:49:50 WE’RE GOING TO BUILD IN TIME IN THE DAY TO MAKE SURE

5:49:52 THAT THEY ARE – HAVE THE ABILITY TO HANDWASH.

5:49:55 AND WE’RE GOING TO MAKE SURE THAT EVERY SCHOOL,

5:49:57 EVERY CLASSROOM HAS SANITIZER.

5:49:59 IT’S GOING TO BE A CONCERTED EFFORT THAT,

5:50:01 AS KIDS ENTER AND LEAVE A ROOM, THEY HAND SANITIZE.

5:50:05 SO YOU CAN EXPECT, YOU KNOW, WHEN WE ALWAYS SAY

5:50:07 TO THE TEACHERS, WE WANT YOU AT THE DOORWAY

5:50:08 GREETING KIDS, IT’S GOING TO BE A GREETING AND PUMP A

5:50:12 HAND SANITIZER.

5:50:13 AND THEN THEY’RE GOING TO SEE THE SAME AS THEY LEAVE.

5:50:16 WE’RE GOING TO MAKE SURE THAT HAND SANITIZER IS

5:50:18 AVAILABLE IN ALL THE COMMON AREAS, IN THE GYM,

5:50:20 THE COURTYARDS AND THE CAFETERIA.

5:50:23 WE’RE GOING TO MAKE SURE THE BATHROOMS ARE FULLY

5:50:25 STOCKED WITH SOAP AND THE SUPPLIES NEEDED TO

5:50:28 WASH THEIR HANDS, AND WE’RE GOING TO MAKE SURE

5:50:29 THAT THE OUTSIDE AREAS HAVE DIFFERENT STATIONS

5:50:32 FOR HAND SANITIZER.

5:50:36 TRANSPORTATION, IT ABSOLUTELY PROVIDES SOME

5:50:41 UNIQUE CHALLENGES FOR SOCIAL DISTANCING, AND

5:50:44 EVERYBODY IS GOING TO NEED TO WORK TOGETHER TO

5:50:46 MAKE SURE THAT THIS IS A SAFE ENVIRONMENT.

5:50:49 SO WE REALLY WANT PARENTS TO ENFORCE WITH THEIR

5:50:53 STUDENTS WHAT APPROPRIATE SOCIAL DISTANCING

5:50:56 WOULD BE AT BUS STOPS.

5:50:57 THAT’S AN AREA THAT WE DON’T REALLY MANAGE, AND

5:51:02 SO WE REALLY NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT PARENTS ARE

5:51:04 WORKING WITH THEIR STUDENTS ON THAT.

5:51:06 STUDENTS ARE EXPECTED TO WEAR MASKS ON BUS.

5:51:09 THE ONLY EXCEPTION TO THAT WOULD BE STUDENTS THAT

5:51:12 ALREADY HAVE A DOCUMENTED MEDICAL CONDITION

5:51:14 THAT REQUIRES THEM NOT TO, OR STUDENTS THAT HAVE A

5:51:17 SENSORY ISSUE THAT IS ALREADY DOCUMENTED AS WELL.

5:51:21 AGAIN, WE’RE GOING TO HAVE HAND SANITIZERS ON THE BUS,

5:51:26 AND I TALKED TO DR. MILLER, AND I’M LIKE, I SAW YOUTUBE

5:51:30 VIDEO WHERE ONE CAUGHT ON FIRE.

5:51:31 AND HE’S LIKE, YEAH, WE’RE NOT USING THAT ONE.

5:51:33 WE’RE USING THE RIGHT ONE.

5:51:34 I’M LIKE, OKAY.

5:51:36 SO THEY WILL HAVE HAND SANITIZER AS THEY GET IN

5:51:39 AND OFF THE BUS.

5:51:40 STUDENTS WILL BE ASSIGNED A SEAT, AND THEY WILL BE

5:51:44 EXPECTED TO SIT IN THAT ASSIGNED SEAT,

5:51:46 EVEN MORE IMPORTANTLY.

5:51:48 WE’RE GOING TO WORK WITH OUR BUS DRIVERS AND OUR

5:51:52 STUDENTS TO ENSURE THEY KNOW WHAT PROPER DISTANCING IS

5:51:55 ENTERING ONTO A BUS AND, MORE IMPORTANTLY,

5:51:57 EXITING OFF OF A BUS.

5:52:00 THE SEATS WILL BE WIPED DOWN IN BETWEEN THE ROUTS,

5:52:04 AND WHEN WEATHER PERMITS, WE’RE GOING TO ASK THAT THE

5:52:06 BUSES OPERATE WITH OPEN WINDOWS.

5:52:10 AS ALWAYS, AS ALWAYS, ANY MISCONDUCT ON A BUS

5:52:16 WILL BE BROUGHT TO THE SCHOOL AND COULD INCLUDE A

5:52:18 SUSPENSION FROM THE BUS.

5:52:22 THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU.

5:52:24 FOOD AND NUTRITION SERVICES, I THINK THAT YOU GUYS

5:52:26 HAVE ALL SEEN THAT PROBABLY ONE OF THE MOST VITAL,

5:52:31 I MAY SAY THE MOST VITAL PROGRAM THAT WE HAVE IN

5:52:34 OUR SCHOOLS IS OUR FOOD AND NUTRITION SERVICES.

5:52:37 YOU KNOW, YOU GO BACK TO WHAT DR.

5:52:39 SULLIVAN SAID ABOUT MASLOW HIERARCHY OF NEED,

5:52:41 THEY CANNOT LEARN IF THEY ARE HUNGRY.

5:52:45 AND KEVIN THORTON, AND I DON’T KNOW IF YOU GUYS

5:52:47 HAVE HEARD THIS NUMBER, HIM AND HIS TEAM STOOD UP

5:52:50 2.2 MILLION LUNCHES, 2.2 MILLION DURING THIS TIME.

5:52:55 AND SO WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY WERE AN INTEGRAL

5:52:59 PART OF THIS PLAN, AND SO HE HAS MET WITH US ON A

5:53:03 COUPLE OF OCCASIONS, AND THIS IS THEIR PLAN.

5:53:07 THEY WILL WEAR MASKS AND GLOVES DURING ALL PREPARATION.

5:53:10 THERE WILL BE HAND SANITIZER, AS I SAID THERE.

5:53:14 THEY REALLY WOULD LIKE TO MINIMIZE THAT THE EXCHANGE

5:53:17 OF CASH MONEY, THAT THAT PASSING OF DOLLAR BILLS.

5:53:21 AND SO THEY REALLY WANT FOR PARENTS TO UTILIZE THE

5:53:24 MEAL PLAY PLUS PROGRAM SO THAT IT CAN BE, YOU KNOW,

5:53:28 THAT THERE IS NO THAT THAT TOUCH INTERACTION

5:53:31 ISN’T HAPPENING.

5:53:34 THEY HAVE MOVED OR ARE TRYING TO MOVE TO ALL PREPACKAGED

5:53:37 ITEMS SO THAT THERE, AGAIN, ISN’T A WHOLE LOT OF TOUCH

5:53:41 MOVING BACK AND FORTH.

5:53:43 AND THE LINES, MUCH LIKE THE LINE YOU SEE IN OUR OWN ESF

5:53:46 CAFETERIA, HAVE BEEN REARRANGED TO MINIMIZE

5:53:48 CONTACT AS WELL.

5:53:51 I ALREADY TALKED ABOUT THE GRAB AND GO MEALS.

5:53:57 AND IN BETWEEN EACH OF THE LUNCHES, THOSE AREAS

5:54:03 WILL BE CLEANED, ALL THOSE HIGH TOUCH SURFACES WILL

5:54:05 BE CLEAN, AND THEN, OF COURSE, THERE WILL BE A

5:54:08 DEEP CLEAN EVERY DAY ON THAT AREA.

5:54:11 WE ARE PLANNING TO DO A MOBILE LUNCH, AT LEAST HE’S

5:54:15 LOOKING TOWARD THAT FOR OUR E-LEARNING AND DISTANCE

5:54:19 LEARNING, OUR E-LEARNING OPTION OUT OF ELEMENTARY,

5:54:22 AND IF WE HAVE TO GO TO DISTANCE LEARNING

5:54:23 BECAUSE OF SCHOOL CLOSURES.

5:54:29 NEEDLESS TO SAY, SCHOOL NURSES ARE A PIVOTAL

5:54:33 ROLE IN BRIDGING THAT HEALTH CARE EDUCATION GAP.

5:54:36 WE REITERATED HERE, PARENTS ARE THAT FIRST LEVEL OF

5:54:39 HEALTH CHECKS, AND WE’RE GOING TO KEEP SAYING THAT.

5:54:42 CLINICS ARE GOING TO BE CLEANED THROUGHOUT THE DAY

5:54:44 AND AT THE END OF THE DAY.

5:54:46 ACTUALLY, THE WAY IT WAS DESCRIBED TO US IS

5:54:48 DIFFERENT AREAS HAVE BEEN DESIGNATED WITH PRIORITY

5:54:51 LEVELS, AND THE CLINIC IS THE ONE IN THE HIGHEST

5:54:55 PRIORITY LEVEL.

5:54:57 WE, AGAIN, WANT OUR STUDENTS AND STAFF WHO ARE SICK

5:54:59 TO STAY HOME, AND WE WANT OUR PARENTS TO UNDERSTAND

5:55:03 THAT ANY STUDENT THAT PRESENTS WITH SYMPTOMS OF COVID

5:55:06 WILL BE SENT TO THE CLINIC, AND THEY WILL HAVE A MASK

5:55:09 PUT ON THEM, AND THEY WILL BE SCREENED BY THE CLINIC,

5:55:12 AND IF THERE IS A TEMPERATURE OVER 100, THEY WILL BE

5:55:16 SENT HOME.

5:55:18 WE ALL HAVE TO KEEP IN MIND, I DON’T KNOW HOW MANY OF

5:55:22 YOU GUYS HAVE WOKEN UP AND YOU WENT, OH, MY THROAT IS

5:55:26 SCRATCHY, WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?

5:55:29 I CAN JUST TELL YOU THAT I’VE HAD ANY NUMBER OF

5:55:31 CONVERSATIONS WITH THE PEOPLE AROUND THIS TABLE WHERE

5:55:34 WE WENT, OH, I HAD A COFF, WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?

5:55:37 WE ALL HAVE TO REMEMBER, ALL OF US, OUR PARENTS,

5:55:40 OUR TEACHERS, OUR COMMUNITY, THAT KIDS GET SICK AND IT

5:55:45 DOESN’T MEAN THEY HAVE COVID, WE GET SICK, IT DOESN’T

5:55:49 MEAN WE HAVE COVID, SO WE CANNOT REACT IN THE EXTREME

5:55:54 EVERY TIME WE THINK, WE THINK SOMETHING MIGHT BE COVID,

5:55:59 IF A KID COFFS OR IF SOMEBODY COMES IN AND SAYS,

5:56:02 MY NOSE IS DRIPPING.

5:56:05 IT IS PART OF WHY WE RELY ON OUR HEALTH CARE

5:56:08 PROFESSIONALS.

5:56:09 THEY HAVE A SAYING CALLED THE WORRIED WELL, THE WORRIED WELL.

5:56:16 AND I THINK WE’RE ALL REACHING THAT POINT.

5:56:18 SO IT’S REALLY, I’M GRATEFUL EVERY DAY THAT WE HAVE

5:56:22 ACTUAL HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS IN OUR CLINICS

5:56:25 THAT ARE GOING TO HELP US KIND OF DISCERN WHO IS

5:56:28 THE WORRIED WELL FROM WHO ARE THE TRULY ILL.

5:56:32 AGAIN, WE EXPECT, WE JUST HAVE TO RELY ON OUR PARENTS TO

5:56:36 PICK UP STUDENTS WHEN THEY ARE ILL AND THAT CHILD WILL BE,

5:56:40 WHILE WE ARE WAITING FOR THAT PICK UP, ISOLATED IN A

5:56:44 SEPARATE AREA, MONITORED, NOT ALONE, BUT WE CANNOT HAVE A

5:56:48 CHILD THAT MAY BE COVID POSITIVE TO BE IN A ROOM WHERE

5:56:52 OTHER KIDS ARE COMING TO PICK UP MEDICINE AND THEY MAY

5:56:55 BE MEDICALLY FRAGILE.

5:56:56 AND THEN ONCE THE CHILD LEAVES THAT ILL AREA, CUSTODIAN

5:57:00 WILL COME IN RIGHT AFTER THAT AND DEEP CLEAN THAT AREA.

5:57:06 SPEAKING OF DEEP CLEANING, I’M GOING TO PASS IT OVER TO SUE.

5:57:10 GOOD AFTERNOON, EVERYONE.

5:57:15 I GUESS FROM THE CUSTODIAL PERSPECTIVE, A COUPLE OF

5:57:18 THINGS I WANTED TO JUST HIGHLIGHT FOR EVERYONE IS THAT

5:57:21 KEEPING OUR SCHOOLS CLEAN HAS ALWAYS BEEN IMPORTANT, AND

5:57:25 REALLY THE WAYS IN WHICH WE ARE KEEPING OUR SCHOOLS

5:57:29 CLEAN HAVE ALREADY BEEN IN PLACE.

5:57:31 WE HAVE PRODUCTS THAT HAVE BEEN VALIDATED FOR KEEPING

5:57:34 OUR SCHOOLS CLEAN.

5:57:35 SO FROM THE CUSTODIAL PERSPECTIVE, THE THINGS THAT

5:57:38 REALLY ARE CHANGING ARE MORE ALONG THE LINES OF THE

5:57:41 FREQUENCY OF CLEANING, SOME OF THE TOOLS THAT WE’RE

5:57:44 USING FOR CLEANING, AND SOME OF THE WAYS THAT WE

5:57:48 PRRIORITIZE WHAT’S BEING CLEANED, WHERE DUSTING MY DESK

5:57:53 MIGHT HAVE BEEN A PRIORITY LAST YEAR AT THIS TIME, IT’S

5:57:56 DEFINITELY NOT A PRIORITY THIS YEAR AT THIS TIME.

5:57:59 SO WITH LIMITED RESOURCES, WE’RE HAVING TO LOOK AT HOW

5:58:03 WE ARE PRIORITIZING OUR EFFORTS IN KEEPING OUR

5:58:06 SCHOOLS HEALTHY AND SAFE FOR OUR STUDENTS AND OUR STAFF.

5:58:10 SO IN THAT RESPECT, THERE’S NOT – THERE AREN’T A LOT OF

5:58:15 CHANGES IN THE CUSTODIAL PRACTICES, OTHER THAN THE

5:58:18 ONES THAT I MENTIONED.

5:58:19 WHAT WE’RE DOING FROM A DISTRICT-WIDE

5:58:21 PERSPECTIVE IS OUR ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH AND

5:58:23 SAFETY TEAM, JIM POWERS, PETE TRUDNIFKA, AND

5:58:26 JEB BINUM AND THE GUYS IN THE H&S HAVE REALLY DONE A

5:58:30 GOOD JOB TRYING TO COMMUNICATE PROTOCOLS.

5:58:35 THEY’VE WRITTEN THINGS DOWN THAT OUR SCHOOLS CAN USE,

5:58:38 OUR HEAD CUSTONIANS CAN USE, OUR TECHNOLOGY FOLKS

5:58:41 CAN USE, HOW DO YOU CLEAN COMPUTERS, HOW DO YOU CLEAN

5:58:44 BUSINESS MACHINES, THINGS LIKE THAT, SO THAT THERE ARE

5:58:47 REFERENCE MATERIALS AVAILABLE FOR FOLKS TO USE WHEN

5:58:50 THEY’RE DOING REALLY WHAT IS STANDARD CLEANING

5:58:54 PROTOCOLS.

5:58:56 WE’VE – WE HAVE MORE, MORE MATERIALS.

5:59:00 WE HAVE MORE HAND SANITIZERS, HAND SANITIZER

5:59:04 STATIONS.

5:59:06 WE’VE EXPERIMENTED SUCCESSFULLY WITH – IT’S A

5:59:10 SMALL MACHINE THAT LOOKS LIKE ABOUT A HALF-SIZE R2-D2

5:59:13 MACHINE THAT HAS A WAND, SO THAT YOU CAN GET

5:59:16 UNDER SPACES LIKE, AFTER I LEAVE THIS AREA, YOU CAN

5:59:19 USE THE WAND TO WIPE UNDERNEATH THE LEDGE.

5:59:23 AND IT IS A WAY TO QUICKLY DEEP CLEAN A SURFACE.

5:59:28 WHEN WE HAVE A POSITIVE CASE, WE HAVE SOME PROTOCOLS

5:59:31 THAT WE CAN USE TO DO SOME DEEP CLEANING.

5:59:34 AND EACH SCHOOL WILL BE GETTING ONE OF THESE SMALL

5:59:38 MACHINES TO HELP THEM DO MORE INTENSIVE CLEANING WHEN

5:59:42 THAT SITUATION IS WARRANTED.

5:59:45 BUT REALLY, AS CHRIS AND DR.

5:59:46 SULLIVAN AND MS.

5:59:47 CLINE HAVE BEEN SAYING, THE RESPONSIBILITY FOR HEALTH

5:59:50 AND SAFETY IS REALLY SHARED AMONG THE CUSTODIAL

5:59:53 STAFF, THE SCHOOL ADMINISTRATIONS, STUDENTS,

5:59:55 TEACHERS, EVERYBODY IS GOING TO HAVE TO BE DILIGENT.

5:59:58 AND IT’S GOING TO HAVE TO BE THINKING A LITTLE

6:00:00 DIFFERENTLY AND BEHAVING DIFFERENTLY THAN THEY HAVE IN

6:00:02 THE PAST FOR ALL OF US TO BE SUCCESSFUL TOGETHER.

6:00:05 BUT OUR TEAM, OUR EH&S TEAM, AS WELL AS THE REST

6:00:08 OF THE FACILITIES TEAM, WE HAVE BEEN AND WILL CONTINUE

6:00:11 TO BE A SUPPORT TEAM FOR THE LEADING AND LEARNING

6:00:15 SIDE OF THE HOUSE AND FOR STUDENT SERVICES,

6:00:17 JUST TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE THERE TO SUPPORT THEM

6:00:20 IN WHATEVER WAYS THEY NEED IN ORDER TO DELIVER EDUCATION

6:00:24 TO OUR KIDS IN OUR COMMUNITY.

6:00:26 SO THANKS.

6:00:29 I THINK JUST FOR – OH, I’M SORRY.

6:00:31 I THINK JUST FOR OUR COMMUNITY’S SAKE,

6:00:34 WHEN WE HAVE A CASE OR A CONTACT TO A CASE,

6:00:37 AND I’VE SAID THIS BEFORE, BUT I THINK IT’S IMPORTANT

6:00:40 TO REITERATE, WE KNOW WHAT THE ACTION PLAN LOOKS

6:00:45 LIKE, THE AREA IN WHICH THAT PERSON WAS,

6:00:49 AND WE DO A CONTACT TRACING OURSELVES,

6:00:53 WHERE WERE YOU, WHO WERE YOU IN CONTACT WITH,

6:00:55 THAT – ALL OF THOSE QUESTIONS,

6:00:57 THAT GETS SHUT DOWN FOR 24 TO 48 HOURS.

6:01:00 JIM POWERS, PETE TRINIKA, AND HIS TEAM CONTACT

6:01:03 THE HEAD CUSTODIAN AND THE PRINCIPAL,

6:01:05 MAKE ARRANGEMENTS TO GO OUT TO THAT AREA,

6:01:07 DEEP CLEAN THAT AREA.

6:01:09 I DON’T THINK YOU TALKED ABOUT THE MR. –

6:01:11 I DID.

6:01:12 YOU WANT TO – YOU DID?

6:01:13 I BLANKED OUT ON YOU FOR A MINUTE, SUE.

6:01:16 THEY CAN – IN LARGER AREAS,

6:01:19 THEY CAN BRING THOSE PIECES IN.

6:01:21 IT – WE HAVE A PLAN AND A PROCESS IN PLACE,

6:01:25 AND WE HAVE ACTUALLY ALREADY BEEN IMPLEMENTING IT.

6:01:28 I AM INTERESTED WHEN WE GET THE STRIKE TEAM UP AND RUNNING,

6:01:34 AS SOON AS WE GET THOSE FIVE PEOPLE HIRED.

6:01:36 I KNOW IT’S GOING TO BE A HUGE HELP TO OUR SCHOOLS.

6:01:41 THANK YOU, MS. MORE AND THANK YOU, MS. HAND.

6:01:44 I MUST SAY THAT I THINK THAT WE PROBABLY HAVE THE BEST,

6:01:49 MOST MISSION-COMMITTED FACILITIES TEAM THAT I THINK

6:01:54 EXISTS THROUGHOUT.

6:01:56 DEFINITELY THE STATE, IF NOT THE NATION.

6:01:58 WE’RE SO VERY APPRECIATIVE OF YOUR –

6:02:01 YOUR ENTIRE TEAM JUST HAS REALLY WRAPPED THEIR HEAD

6:02:04 AND THEIR HEARTS AROUND THE MISSION OF THE DISTRICT,

6:02:05 AND SO THANK YOU FOR ALL THAT YOU DO ALL THE TIME AS WELL.

6:02:09 MS. McDougall, I BELIEVE THAT YOU HAD INDICATED

6:02:12 THAT YOU HAD SOME QUESTIONS BASED ON THIS SECTION OF SLIDES.

6:02:14 DO YOU WANT TO GO AHEAD AND GO?

6:02:16 MS. I DO, THANK YOU.

6:02:18 FIRST, LET’S GO BACK TO PAGE 26,

6:02:22 WHICH IS THE RESPONSIBILITIES OF PARENTS AND LEGAL GUARDIANTS.

6:02:26 AND I THINK WE ALL KNOW THAT, I WON’T SAY OFTENTIMES,

6:02:35 THERE ARE SOME PARENTS WHO FEEL,

6:02:39 FOR WHATEVER THEIR CIRCUMSTANCES ARE,

6:02:41 THAT THEY HAVE TO BRING THEIR CHILD TO SCHOOL,

6:02:44 AND THEY WILL DO WHATEVER THEY CAN TO MAKE SURE THAT CHILD GOES

6:02:47 TO SCHOOL.

6:02:48 SO LET’S SAY THAT THE STUDENT COMES BACK AND HAS A FEW SYMPTOMS,

6:02:52 AND OF COURSE, YOU KNOW, IT MAY NOT EVEN BE COVID.

6:02:55 IT COULD BE SOMETHING ELSE.

6:02:57 WE DON’T HAVE ANY CONSEQUENCES WHEN THEY DON’T PICK UP THEIR KIDS

6:03:02 AND IT’S STILL, YOU KNOW, 3:30, 4:00,

6:03:05 AND THE POOR STUDENT IS STILL SITTING IN THE CLINIC,

6:03:09 OR NOT IN THE CLINIC, IN THE ROOM THAT’S SUPPORT FROM THE CLINIC.

6:03:14 SO DO WE HAVE ANY CONSEQUENCESES?

6:03:18 IS THERE ANYTHING THAT WE CAN DO?

6:03:20 OR IS THAT JUST, LIKE, WE’RE GOING TO TRUST THEM TO DO WHAT’S

6:03:24 RIGHT?

6:03:24 AND I WANT TO – MOST OF OUR PARENTS DO DO WHAT IS RIGHT.

6:03:29 BUT I AM CONCERNED OF WHAT ABOUT THE PARENTS THAT LET THE STUDENTS

6:03:35 SIT THERE ALL DAY.

6:03:36 YEAH, CONSEQUENCESES, I DON’T – YEAH, WE DON’T HAVE THE ABILITY

6:03:40 TO HAVE CONSEQUENCES, BUT WE DO HAVE TOOLS.

6:03:43 AND SO, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE SOCIAL WORKERS WHO HELP US IN AREAS

6:03:50 WHERE, YOU KNOW, SOME OF THE REASON WHY PARENTS MAYBE ARE

6:03:53 UNABLE TO COME AND GET THEIR STUDENT IS BECAUSE THEY DON’T HAVE

6:03:56 TRANSPORTATION OR BECAUSE THEY’RE NOT EVEN – I MEAN, WE HAVE

6:03:59 SOME PARENTS THAT WORK IN JOBS WHERE THEY’RE NOT EVEN ALLOWED

6:04:01 TO TAKE A PHONE CALL, LITERALLY ARE NOT ALLOWED

6:04:04 TO TAKE A PHONE CALL.

6:04:05 AND SO, WORKING WITH OUR SOCIAL WORKERS TO FIGURE OUT

6:04:08 WHAT THE IMPEDIMENT IS FOR THEM PICKING UP THEIR CHILD,

6:04:11 IT GOES A LONG WAY TO BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS.

6:04:14 BUT WE – BUT YOU ARE CORRECT, WE ALSO HAVE SOME PARENTS

6:04:18 THAT THAT’S NOT THE CASE.

6:04:23 WE DO WORK CLOSELY AND COLLABORATIVELY WITH OUR PARTNERS

6:04:26 AT CHILDREN AND FAMILIES, IF CHILDREN ARE IN OUR SCHOOLS

6:04:29 AND ARE AT RISK AND AREN’T BEING TAKEN CARE OF.

6:04:32 WE HAVE GOOD RELATIONSHIPS WITH OUR SCHOOL

6:04:34 RESOURCE OFFICERS AS NEEDED, IF STUDENTS –

6:04:37 FOR SOME STUDENTS WHO ARE LEFT AFTER HOURS

6:04:40 FOR A LENGTHY PERIOD OF TIME, THEY HELP US GET

6:04:43 THOSE STUDENTS HOME INTO A RESPONSIBLE FAMILY MEMBER.

6:04:46 SO WE HAVE TOOLS, BUT I WOULD NOT SAY WE HAVE CONSEQUENCES.

6:04:51 OKAY.

6:04:52 KIND OF ALONG THE LINES, LET’S SAY WE DO HAVE A STUDENT

6:04:56 THAT SHOWS SYMPTOMS OF COVID, AND THEY’RE SYMPTOMATIC,

6:05:01 THEY CAN’T SMELL, THEY MAY BE RUNNING A FEVER,

6:05:03 THEY MAY NOT BE RUNNING A FEVER.

6:05:07 WHAT’S THE – HOW DO WE KNOW THAT EITHER THEY GOT TESTED

6:05:12 OR THAT THEY’RE SYMPTOM FREE?

6:05:16 HOW DO WE – HOW DO WE DEAL WITH THAT?

6:05:18 HOW ARE WE GOING TO HANDLE THAT SITUATION,

6:05:22 BEFORE RETURNING BACK TO SCHOOL?

6:05:26 SO, AGAIN, THAT IS ONE OF OUR BIGGEST CHALLENGES.

6:05:31 IT’S A GREAT QUESTION, AND IT’S OUR BIGGEST CHALLENGE,

6:05:33 BECAUSE, AGAIN, KIDS GET SICK, AND SO WE CAN’T NECESSARILY

6:05:38 ASSUME EVERY CHILD THAT’S SICK HAS COVID.

6:05:41 AND TO BE FRANK, I’VE HAD A LOT OF CONVERSATIONS

6:05:44 WITH OUR PARTNERS IN THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH.

6:05:47 THEY CANNOT FORCE ANYBODY TO BE TESTED.

6:05:51 WE CANNOT FORCE ANYBODY TO BE TESTED.

6:05:54 WHAT WE CAN SAY IS WE CAN DETERMINE

6:05:56 IF THERE IS A PRESUMPTIVE CASE,

6:05:58 AND WE’LL TALK ABOUT THIS IN A LITTLE BIT,

6:06:00 BUT A PRESUMPTIVE CASE IS YOU HAVE HAD CONTACT

6:06:03 WITH SOMEBODY WHO IS COVID-POSITIVE,

6:06:07 AND YOU HAVE SOME SYMPTOMS.

6:06:09 WE DO NOT HAVE TO WAIT ON A TEST TO TELL US

6:06:13 THAT YOU SHOULD BE QUARANTINED AT HOME FOR 14 DAYS

6:06:15 IF YOU HAVE A PRESUMPTIVE CASE.

6:06:18 SO WE CAN MAKE SOME DECISIONS BASED ON SYMPTOMS,

6:06:21 BUT WE – IT IS ONE OF OUR BIGGEST CHALLENGES

6:06:24 IS THAT THERE ARE GOING TO BE FACTORS

6:06:26 THAT ARE PROTECTED BY HIPPA

6:06:28 AND THAT WE HAVE NO CONTROL OVER,

6:06:31 AND SO WE’LL WORK WITH OUR DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH PARTNERS,

6:06:34 AND WE’LL WORK WITH OUR CLINICS,

6:06:36 AND WE’LL WORK WITH OUR FAMILIES,

6:06:38 AND WE WILL STILL HAVE CASES

6:06:39 THAT WE HAVE TO DEAL WITH LATER.

6:06:45 THAT’S A HORRIBLE ANSWER, MS. McDougall, I’M SORRY.

6:06:48 NO, NO, NO, IT IS WHAT IT IS,

6:06:50 AND I JUST THINK PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW

6:06:53 SOME OF THE THINGS THAT WE STRUGGLE WITH.

6:06:56 SO HERE’S ONE THAT I KNOW

6:06:59 THAT WILL BE VERY DIVISIVE FOR MANY PEOPLE,

6:07:03 BUT I FEEL I NEED TO BRING IT UP.

6:07:05 AND, YOU KNOW, WE ARE AN ORGANIZATION

6:07:11 THAT BASES THINGS ON DATA.

6:07:13 WE’RE DATA-DRIVEN IN SO MANY WAYS.

6:07:16 AND SO NOW WITH THE DATA SHOWING THAT IF PEOPLE WEAR FACE MAKES,

6:07:25 THAT IT MINTIGATES THE DISEASE,

6:07:28 I DON’T UNDERSTAND WHY WE ARE STRONGLY RECOMMENDING.

6:07:31 AND I KNOW I WILL UPSET SO MANY PEOPLE, BUT ON THE OTHER HAND, I

6:07:36 KNOW OTHER PEOPLE WON’T BE UPSET.

6:07:38 SO IF STUDENTS IN GREAT BRITAIN, IF STUDENTS IN JAPAN, IF STUDENTS

6:07:44 IN OTHER, IN KOREA,

6:07:47 CAN SEEM TO WEAR FACE MAKES, AND THEIR TEACHERS CAN, ARE OUR KIDS

6:07:52 LESS CAPABLE?

6:07:54 I REALLY DON’T UNDERSTAND HOW WE, HOW SOME PEOPLE FEEL THAT OUR

6:07:59 KIDS ARE LESS THAN ABLE TO LEARN, LIKE EVERYONE ELSE.

6:08:05 I HAVE BEEN, WHEN I GO OUT, I TOOLY WEAR FACE MAKES, AND I SOLUTE

6:08:10 THE ADMIN THAT PEOPLE WILL START WEARING FACE MAKES.

6:08:13 BECAUSE I THINK IT’S IMPORTANT.

6:08:15 WE’RE PROTECTING EACH OTHER, AND SAFETY IS OUR PRIMARY CONCERN,

6:08:20 ALONG WITH EDUCATING OUR CHILDREN.

6:08:21 AND WE CAN’T EDUCATE THEM IF THEY ARE SICK.

6:08:24 SO I AM REALLY CONCERNED THAT WE’RE JUST STRONGLY RECOMMENDED.

6:08:29 SO THAT’S MY SOAPBOX FOR FACE MAKES, BUT I FEEL THAT I NEEDED TO

6:08:34 BRING IT UP, I NEEDED TO TALK ABOUT THAT.

6:08:36 MY LAST ISSUE IS THE CAFETERIA.

6:08:42 I CAN’T IMAGINE HOW THAT’S GOING TO LOOK.

6:08:43 I’VE BEEN IN THE CAFETERIA, AND, YOU KNOW, KIDS ARE SITTING SIDE

6:08:48 BY SIDE, THEY’RE TALKING, THEY’RE HAVING FUN.

6:08:51 THIS IS ONE TIME WHERE THEY GET TO INTERACT WITH EACH OTHER.

6:08:54 I DON’T ENVY OUR PRINCIPALS IN TRYING TO SOLVE THIS, BUT THERE’S

6:09:01 A QUESTION, ARE WE GOING TO HAVE – I HEARD, I THINK, STAGGARD LUNCHES.

6:09:06 SOME SCHOOLS MIGHT HAVE PICNIC TABLES, BUT EVEN PICNIC TABLE,

6:09:10 YOU CAN’T REALLY GET SIX, YOU DON’T WANT SIX ANYHOW, BECAUSE,

6:09:18 AGAIN, YOU’RE NOT THE MINIMUM THREE TO SIX FEET APART.

6:09:18 BUT ANYHOW, I JUST WONDER HOW THAT’S GOING TO LOOK.

6:09:22 SO THOSE ARE MY CONCERNS AND MY QUESTIONS AT THIS POINT.

6:09:27 MS. McDougall, THIS IS JANE.

6:09:30 I CAN ANSWER WHAT WE HAVE DONE WITH ELEMENTARY CAFETERIAS.

6:09:34 MR. THORNTON AND HIS TEAM AND I WENT OUT TO CREOLE ELEMENTARY

6:09:40 AND USED THAT AS A SAMPLE SCHOOL, WHERE WE SET UP THAT CAFETERIA

6:09:46 TO MINIMIZE STUDENTS SITTING NEXT TO EACH OTHER.

6:09:52 AND SO, BECAUSE OF THE ELEMENTARY CAFETERIA TABLES ARE THE BENCH

6:09:59 TYPE SEATS, WE CAN SEPARATE THOSE.

6:10:02 YOU CAN GET THREE TO A SIDE, NO STUDENT IS FACING FACE TO FACE.

6:10:08 WE FLIP THEM AROUND SO THEY’RE BASICALLY IN ROWS, JUST LIKE IN

6:10:12 CLASSROOMS, AND THEN A FOUR FEET SPACE BETWEEN THE ROWS.

6:10:19 ALSO, IN THE CAFETERIA LINE, THERE ARE SOME ITEMS THAT WILL BE

6:10:25 PRE-PACKAGED AND SOME ITEMS THAT WILL BE SERVED.

6:10:31 EVERYTHING WILL HAVE A COVERING.

6:10:33 I WAS EXTREMELY IMPRESSED.

6:10:37 I THOUGHT WE WERE GOING TO JUST DISCUSS HOW THEY WERE GOING TO LAY

6:10:41 OUT THINGS, AND THEY HAD A FULL PLAN WITH HOW COOKIES ARE GOING

6:10:47 TO BE

6:10:47 SOME OF THESE PACKAGED, TOWEL, EVERYTHING DOWN TO THE WAY STUDENTS

6:10:54 GATHER ITEMS ON THE LINE.

6:10:56 SO – AND ON THE CAFETERIA LINE, THERE ARE ACTUAL KIND OF – NOT

6:11:04 STICKERS, BUT SPOTS ALONG THE LINE WHERE A KID NEEDS TO STAND,

6:11:10 SO THAT THEY’RE

6:11:10 MINIMIZING DISTANCE WITHIN THE CAFETERIA LINE.

6:11:15 THERE’S A HAND SANITIZER SYSTEM RIGHT BEFORE YOU WALK INTO THE LINE.

6:11:22 STUDENTS GO IN.

6:11:23 TYPICALLY WHERE MILK HAS ALWAYS BEEN FIRST IN THE LINE, IT’S LAST

6:11:29 IN THE LINE.

6:11:30 SO THE ORDER IN WHICH THE FOOD SERVICE TEAM HAS PUT THINGS TOGETHER.

6:11:39 I KNOW THAT MR. THORNTON AND HIS TEAM ARE ACTUALLY WORKING NOW

6:11:44 TO GET SOME MOC PLANS UP FOR OUR SECONDARY

6:11:47 SCHOOLS FOR SOME ALTERNATE LOCATIONS.

6:11:51 WE ALSO HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY – HE WAS ABLE TO PURCHASE – THEY’RE

6:11:59 NOT CARTS, BUT THEY’RE MORE LIKE PROBABLY SIX-FOOT

6:12:03 BY THREE-FOOT MOBILE DEVICES FOR GRAB-AND-GO MEAL OPTIONS AND

6:12:09 GRAB-AND-GO BREAKFAST SO THAT STUDENTS DON’T

6:12:14 ALWAYS HAVE TO COME INTO THE CAFETERIA TO GET THEIR BREAKFAST.

6:12:17 THEY CAN BE – WE CAN PUT DIFFERENT DISTRIBUTION SPOTS OUT.

6:12:22 SO THE PLAN FOR THE CAFETERIA IS A LOT FURTHER DOWN THE PLANNING

6:12:30 THAN I HAD ANTICIPATED.

6:12:32 AND IT IS WELL THOUGHT OUT.

6:12:35 AND THE FOOD SERVICE TEAM HERE AT THE DISTRICT IS WORKING WITH

6:12:39 ALL THE CAFETERIA MANAGERS TO MAKE CERTAIN

6:12:42 THAT EVERYONE UNDERSTANDS THE PROCESS.

6:12:45 OF COURSE, WE’RE GOING TO HAVE TO DO SOME TEACHING, BUT THAT’S

6:12:48 WHAT WE DO.

6:12:49 WE’RE GOING TO TEACH OUR STUDENTS THE PROCESSES OF GOING THROUGH

6:12:53 THE CAFETERIA LINE.

6:12:54 WE’LL HAVE ONE ENTRANCE INTO THE CAFETERIA, ONE ENTRANCE OUT OF

6:12:58 THE CAFETERIA.

6:13:00 SO THE CAFETERIA PROCESSES ARE WELL THOUGHT OUT.

6:13:04 EXCELLENT.

6:13:04 THANK YOU.

6:13:05 THANK YOU, MS. CLINE.

6:13:08 OTHER BOARD MEMBERS HAVE QUESTIONS, COMMENTS FOR THIS PARTICULAR

6:13:11 SECTION?

6:13:11 SURE.

6:13:12 MS. CAMPBELL?

6:13:13 I’M GOING TO GO BACKWARDS, JUST BECAUSE I THINK THAT WILL BE EASIER.

6:13:17 IF I CAN START WITH MS. HAND, WE HAVE SOME STAFF AND PROBABLY

6:13:20 STUDENTS AS WELL WHO CAN BE

6:13:22 SENSITIVE TO CLEANERS.

6:13:24 SO, I THINK I HEARD YOU SAY THIS, BUT ARE WE BASICALLY GOING TO

6:13:26 BE USING THE SAME TYPE OF,

6:13:28 SAME PRODUCTS THAT WE’VE BEEN USING ALL ALONG JUST MORE FREQUENTLY?

6:13:31 YES, MA’AM.

6:13:32 OKAY.

6:13:33 THANK YOU.

6:13:34 THAT HELPS WITH THAT.

6:13:36 THANK YOU GUYS FOR TALKING ABOUT THE WORRIED WELL, BECAUSE ONE

6:13:40 OF MY CONCERNS IN ALL OF THIS,

6:13:42 AND I’LL TOUCH ON IT AGAIN WHEN I WILL GIVE MY THOUGHTS ON THE

6:13:45 MASK ISSUE, IS THAT WE’RE

6:13:47 GOING TO HAVE, YOU KNOW, MENTAL HEALTH, THE IMPORTANCE OF MENTAL

6:13:51 HEALTH AND WHAT WE’VE BEEN

6:13:52 TALKING ABOUT OVER THE LAST SEVERAL YEARS, NATIONWIDE, GLOBALLY

6:13:55 I GUESS, REALLY, OF OUR STUDENTS,

6:13:58 THAT DOESN’T GO AWAY, AND IF ANYTHING, IT’S RAMPED UP.

6:14:01 AND I HAVE A SPECIFIC CONCERN THAT WE ALL HAVE BEEN LIVING THIS

6:14:04 FOR THE LAST THREE OR FOUR MONTHS,

6:14:06 THAT WE’RE SO WARPED THAT IT BECOMES A, OH, MY GOSH, SHE’S NOT

6:14:11 DOING IT, OH, SHE’S NOT DOING IT,

6:14:12 AND WE’RE ALL GOING TO GET OURSELVES SO WARPED AND OUR STUDENTS.

6:14:16 AND I, YOU KNOW, I HAVE A PARTICULAR CHILD WHO, HE IS ABSOLUTELY

6:14:20 A REFLECTION OF THE EMOTIONS OF THE PEOPLE

6:14:22 AROUND HIM.

6:14:23 AND IF EVERYBODY IS GETTING ALL UP ALL THE TIME, IT’S GOING TO

6:14:26 JUST BE DISASTER FOR MANY OF OUR STUDENTS,

6:14:29 AND SO I JUST APPRECIATE YOU MAKING THAT COMMENT.

6:14:31 I THINK WE’RE GOING TO HAVE TO CONTINUALLY TRAIN OUR BRAIN AND

6:14:34 ENCOURAGE ONE ANOTHER AND REMIND ONE ANOTHER

6:14:36 TO JUST BREATHE AND NOT COUNT COFFS, YOU KNOW.

6:14:42 I MEAN, WE NEED TO BE RESPONSIBLE, BUT WE JUST, WE JUST NEED TO

6:14:47 JUST REALIZE THAT THERE IS OUT THERE.

6:14:50 WE LIVE IN FLORIDA, NINE MONTHS OUT OF THE YEAR OUR ALLERGY SEASON

6:14:53 FOR MY FAMILY, YOU KNOW.

6:14:54 I WORRY ABOUT THAT SOMETIMES WITH PEOPLE THINKING, OH, MY GOSH,

6:14:57 YOUR KID’S GOT A RUNNY NOSE.

6:14:58 WELL, SORRY, IT’S THE SAME RUNNY NOSE EVERY DAY, IT’S ALLERGIES.

6:15:01 BUT WE JUST, THAT’S JUST SOMETHING THAT WE’LL HAVE TO CONTINUALLY

6:15:05 PREACH AS WELL, ALONG WITH ALL THIS OTHER STUFF

6:15:07 THAT EVERY KID WHO COFFS, EVERY KID WHO SNEZES IS NOT SOMEONE

6:15:10 YOU NEED TO SEND TO THE CLINIC.

6:15:17 SO, ON THE BUS, TRANSPORTATION, WE – NO, I THINK I’M – YEAH.

6:15:27 SO, THAT FOR MASKS FIRST.

6:15:30 SO, THE SAFETY FOR EVERYONE ON THE BUS, IT IS EXPECTED THAT ALL

6:15:32 BUS RIDERS WERE A FACE COVERING WALL ON THE BUS.

6:15:34 SO, THAT SOUNDS LIKE MORE OF THE MANDATE THERE THAN IN OTHER SITUATIONS.

6:15:39 ARE WE PROVIDING THOSE IF THE STUDENTS DON’T ALREADY HAVE THEM,

6:15:44 IF WE’RE GOING TO MANDATE ON THE BUS?

6:15:45 ANYTHING WE MANDATE, WE’LL – AND, AGAIN, WE DIDN’T USE THE WORD

6:15:47 MANDATE, BUT, YES, ANYTHING WE EXPECT,

6:15:50 WE’LL MAKE SURE TO PROVIDE THE SUPPLIES FOR.

6:15:52 OKAY.

6:15:54 SO, NOW, I’M JUST GOING TO END WITH MY THOUGHTS ON THE MASK.

6:16:00 I – WE – THIS HAS BEEN THE THING THAT WE’VE PROBABLY GOT MORE

6:16:03 EMAILS OUT THIS WEEK THAN ANYTHING ELSE,

6:16:07 MASKS, ALONG WITH, YOU KNOW, ALTERNATIVE VIRTUAL PROGRAMS AND THINGS

6:16:11 LIKE THAT.

6:16:12 YOU KNOW, I HAVEN’T BEEN IN TOO MANY SITUATIONS IN THE LAST FEW

6:16:15 MONTHS WHERE I’VE HAD TO WEAR A MASK ALL DAY LONG.

6:16:18 I KNOW MANY EMPLOYEES AROUND THE COUNTY ARE, ESPECIALLY IF YOU’RE

6:16:21 IN FOOD SERVICE OR HEALTH OR WHATEVER,

6:16:23 AND SO I KNOW IT CAN BE DONE.

6:16:24 IT’S – BUT I HAVE HAD RECENTLY AN OPPORTUNITY FOR MY CHILDREN

6:16:28 TO HAVE TO WEAR A MASK FOR AN EXTENDED PERIOD OF TIME.

6:16:32 AND IT’S HARD.

6:16:34 IT’S VERY DIFFICULT.

6:16:36 AND THERE ARE TIMES WHEN I HAVE LOOKED AT MY CHILD AND SAID, HEY,

6:16:39 JUST PULL IT OFF FOR JUST A SECOND SO YOU CAN BREATH,

6:16:41 BECAUSE I COULD JUST SEE THAT BUILDUP OF TENSION, AND ACTUALLY,

6:16:43 HONESTLY, HE WAS GETTING A LITTLE PAIL.

6:16:46 AND SO I KNOW, I HEAR MS. McDougall, I HEAR YOU, ABOUT PEOPLE IN

6:16:51 OTHER COUNTRIES AND ALL THAT, BUT I JUST –

6:16:54 CAN I JUST – YOU KNOW, A LOT OF TIMES PEOPLE ARE SAYING IT’S

6:17:02 POLITICAL.

6:17:03 IT’S NOT POLITICAL, OKAY?

6:17:05 MY OPINION IS MY OPINION, AND IT’S NOT BASED ON WHAT ANYBODY TELLS

6:17:07 ME, BECAUSE NOBODY FROM ANY POLITICAL PARTY

6:17:11 SENT ME AN E-MAIL OR TEXT OR PHONE CALL AND SAID, HEY, BY THE

6:17:13 WAY, YOU NEED TO SAY THIS ABOUT MASK.

6:17:13 THIS IS MY THOUGHTS AND MY INPUT AND THE RESEARCH THAT I’VE DONE.

6:17:17 AND SOME OF IT’S JUST PERSONAL.

6:17:19 I JUST – WHEN WE START TO SAY, YOU MUST, THEN WE’RE NOT – WE’RE

6:17:25 GOING TO BE IN THOSE PLACES

6:17:27 WHERE IF A KID JUST NEEDS TO BREATHE FOR A MINUTE, UNFILTERED,

6:17:32 JUST BREATHE AND HAVE THAT SPACE,

6:17:35 THAT’S GOING TO BE A NO-NO.

6:17:37 CAN’T DO THAT.

6:17:38 WE’RE GOING TO HAVE STUDENTS LOOKING AT OTHER STUDENTS WHO HAVE

6:17:40 THESE MEDICAL REASONS

6:17:43 WHY THEY CAN BE EXCUSED FROM WEARING MASKS AND SAY, WHY DON’T

6:17:46 THEY HAVE TO WEAR A MASK?

6:17:47 AND WE CAN’T REALLY TELL THAT KID WHY NOT, BECAUSE WE CAN’T REVEAL

6:17:49 MEDICAL PERSONAL INFORMATION.

6:17:52 I THINK WE’RE GOING TO HAVE A LOT OF STUDENTS WHO DO.

6:17:54 AND I HONESTLY WAS – HAS BEEN PLEASANTLY SURPRISED AT HOW MY CHILDREN

6:17:57 HAVE DEALT WITH IT

6:17:58 WHEN THEY’VE HAD TO WEAR IT FOR A LONG TIME.

6:17:59 THEY DEALT WITH IT.

6:18:00 BUT IT’S JUST – THERE’S SO MUCH.

6:18:03 AND AS MUCH AS WE HAVE HAD PEOPLE BE VERY VOCAL IN OUR COUNTY

6:18:06 ABOUT WANTING MANDATED MASKS,

6:18:08 I HAVE ALSO HEARD FROM PARENTS WHO HAVE SAID, IF THAT IS REQUIRED,

6:18:12 I’M GOING TO FIND ANOTHER OPTION

6:18:14 BECAUSE I’M NOT SENDING MY KID TO SCHOOL IF THEY HAVE TO WEAR A

6:18:16 MASK ALL DAY.

6:18:17 NOW, NOBODY THINKS THAT ANYBODY ELSE THINKS DIFFERENTLY FROM THEM,

6:18:20 BUT THAT IS THE CASE.

6:18:22 SO I JUST – I FEEL LIKE THIS IS GOOD AS FAR AS STRONGER RECOMMENDING.

6:18:30 I DON’T LIKE THE IDEA OF MANDATING FOR ALL THE REASONS THAT I

6:18:33 JUST STATED.

6:18:34 MY ONLY QUESTION AS FAR AS MASKS GO IS, ARE WE GOING TO LIMIT IN

6:18:40 OUR RECOMMENDATION WHAT KIDS ARE ALLOWED TO

6:18:42 WEAR, ARE WE GOING TO LIMIT THE TYPES AND KINDS OF MASKS?

6:18:46 YEAH.

6:18:47 WE’RE PUTTING IT IN THE STUDENT CODE OF CONDUCT, AND YOU’RE GOING

6:18:49 TO BE GETTING A POLICY CHANGE FROM ME ABOUT FACE MASKS.

6:18:52 IT WAS NEVER AN ISSUE BEFORE.

6:18:54 SO WE ASKED THAT IT CAN ONLY COVER HALF OF THE FACE.

6:18:58 THE STUDENT HAS TO BE IDENTIFIABLE.

6:19:00 WE ASKED THAT IT COMPLIES TO THE OTHER REQUESTS OF THE STUDENT

6:19:02 CODE OF CONDUCT.

6:19:04 IT CAN’T HAVE AN INAPPROPRIATE IMAGE OR SAYING JUST LIKE WE WOULDN’T

6:19:08 ALLOW ANY OTHER – A T-SHIRT OR HAT TO HAVE ON IT.

6:19:12 RIGHT.

6:19:12 WELL, I THOUGHT IT WAS BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, YOU GO OUT AND YOU SEE

6:19:14 PEOPLE WITH THE MEDICAL LOOKING ONES.

6:19:16 YOU SEE PEOPLE WITH ONES THEY SEWED AT HOME, GO BEHIND THE EARS,

6:19:18 WHATEVER.

6:19:19 OR THEN THERE’S THE REALLY COOL ONES THAT YOU CAN WEAR AROUND

6:19:21 YOUR NECK ALL THE TIME.

6:19:22 YOU SCARF.

6:19:23 IT’S STILL IN COVERAGE HALF YOUR FACE.

6:19:25 IT ACTUALLY GOES DOWN PRETTY GOOD.

6:19:26 YEAH.

6:19:27 SO, YOU KNOW, IF WE’RE GOING TO MAKE IT FLEXIBLE SO THAT, YOU

6:19:30 KNOW, A BANDANA, WHATEVER IT MAY BE.

6:19:33 WELL, A BANDANA WOULD BE AGAINST DRESS CODE.

6:19:35 BUT OUR FRIEND BRIAN NEAL WAS THE ONE THAT CAME OVER AND SAID IT’S

6:19:38 A SAFETY ISSUE.

6:19:39 WE NEED TO BE ABLE TO IDENTIFY STUDENTS.

6:19:41 SO WE DO HAVE – WE HAVE THE LANGUAGE IN OUR CODE OF STUDENT CONDUCT,

6:19:45 BUT WE HAVE TO GET THE POLICY IN FRONT OF YOU AS WELL.

6:19:47 OKAY.

6:19:48 GOOD.

6:19:49 ALL RIGHT.

6:19:50 WELL, I THINK –

6:19:53 SURE.

6:19:54 I JUST WANT TO ADD A LITTLE TO TRANSPORTATION BECAUSE IT’S BEEN

6:19:57 A REALLY ROBUST DISCUSSION POINT AMONGST ALL OF US.

6:20:01 AND WE CHOSE THE WORD EXPECTED WITH A LOT OF DELIBERATION.

6:20:09 BECAUSE THIS IS A UNIQUE SITUATION WHERE THE DRIVER’S PRIMARY OBJECTIVE

6:20:15 IS EYES ON THE ROAD, NOT IF CATIE AND ROW 18 TOOK HER MASK OFF.

6:20:21 AND SO IN TERMS OF LIKE DEPORTMENT AND SAFETY OF PEOPLE AND THE

6:20:25 FACT THAT A BUS IS A UNIQUELY EXTRA VULNERABLE SITUATION, IT IS

6:20:31 EXPECTED.

6:20:33 HOWEVER, IT’S ALSO EXPECTED THAT OUR BUS DRIVER’S PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY

6:20:36 IS EYES ON THE ROAD AND SAFETY OF CHILDREN.

6:20:40 SO WE’RE NOT GOING TO ASK OUR BUS DRIVERS TO DETER FROM THAT EITHER.

6:20:45 AND SO IT’S A REALLY DELICATE BALANCE.

6:20:48 WE DEFINITELY THINK A BUS IS ONE OF THOSE SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES

6:20:51 WHERE WE SHOULD SAY,

6:20:52 EVEN IF YOU’RE NOT TAKING THE STRONGLY RECOMMENDED FOR THE REST

6:20:55 OF THE DAY, WE REALLY EXPECT YOU TO DO IT IN THIS ENVIRONMENT.

6:20:58 BUT WE’RE NOT GOING TO HAVE A BUS DRIVER NOT ALLOW A FIVE-YEAR-OLD

6:21:02 ON THE BUS BECAUSE THEY DON’T HAVE A MASK.

6:21:06 AND SO WE WERE VERY DELIBERATE IN THE CHOICE OF EXPECTED BECAUSE

6:21:11 WE THINK EVEN ALL OF THE VARYING OPINIONS THAT ARE TRUE AND VALID

6:21:18 AND MEANINGFUL TO FAMILIES,

6:21:20 I THINK EVERYBODY RECOGNIZES THE ADDITIONAL VULNERABILITY ON A BUS.

6:21:24 AND SO WE DO NOT WANT TO GIVE THE IMPRESSION THAT A BUS DRIVER WOULD

6:21:30 BE DETERIED FROM THEIR PRIMARY OBJECTIVE OF EYES ON THE ROAD.

6:21:35 JUST LIKE ALL OF US AS PARENTS KNOW THE ANNOYANCE OF OUR CHILDREN

6:21:39 BEHIND US.

6:21:40 IMAGINE YOUR CHILDREN BEHIND YOU FOR 18 ROWS.

6:21:44 AND SO AT NO POINT IS THAT MORE IMPORTANT.

6:21:52 EVEN THOUGH WE EXPECT IT AND BELIEVE THAT EVEN IN OTHER ENVIRONMENTS,

6:21:59 WE THINK MOST PEOPLE WOULD AGREE THAT’S A PRETTY EXTRA VULNERABLE

6:22:03 SITUATION.

6:22:05 CORRECT ME.

6:22:08 BUT WE WILL ALSO PROVIDE MASKS FOR STUDENTS AS THEY BOARD ON OUR

6:22:11 BUSES IN THE EVENT THAT THEY DON’T HAVE ONE TO MEET THAT EXPECTATION.

6:22:15 ANY ADDITIONAL COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS, MS. CAMPBELL?

6:22:18 NO, I’M DONE.

6:22:19 THANK YOU.

6:22:20 OKAY.

6:22:21 MS. DUSKIVICH, DO YOU WANT TO GO NEXT?

6:22:22 SURE.

6:22:23 I DON’T HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, BUT I’M THINKING I HAVE TO WEIGH IN

6:22:30 ON MY OPINION ON THIS WHOLE SEGMENT INCLUDING THE MASKS.

6:22:34 AND I KNOW IT’S A CONTROVERSIAL TOPIC.

6:22:40 I AM AMAZED AT WHAT A GREAT JOB YOU ALL DID.

6:22:45 I THINK IT STRIKES THE RIGHT BALANCE OF EXPECTATIONS.

6:22:49 I THINK OUR COMMUNITY PARENTS AND STUDENTS ARE GOING TO HAVE TO

6:22:52 STEP UP AND HAVE SOME SERIOUS PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY HERE IN DOING

6:22:56 WHAT’S RIGHT AT THE RIGHT TIMES.

6:22:59 WE’RE GOING TO HAVE TO HAVE A LOT OF COMMON SENSE, WHICH ISN’T NECESSARILY

6:23:03 ALWAYS VERY COMMON IN THE WORLD, BUT WE’RE GOING TO HAVE TO HAVE

6:23:06 IT IN EACH OF OUR CLASSROOMS, BY ALL OF OUR LEADERS, BY ALL OF

6:23:09 OUR TEACHERS, AND BY OUR PARENTS.

6:23:14 I DO HOPE THAT WE’RE GOING TO PROVIDE MASKS, ESPECIALLY IN THE

6:23:17 CLASSES WHERE, DR. SULLIVAN, I THINK YOU MENTIONED THAT THERE MIGHT

6:23:21 BE ACTIVITIES WHERE YOU HAVE TO GET CLOSER TOGETHER.

6:23:23 I HOPE THAT WE HAVE MASKS AVAILABLE FOR THOSE SITUATIONS.

6:23:29 BUT, YOU KNOW, I DON’T HAVE A TON OF COMMENTS.

6:23:32 I LIKE THE BALANCE.

6:23:33 I LIKE THAT IN THE BUSES WHERE WE’RE CLOSER, YOU HAVE HIGHER EXPECTATIONS.

6:23:38 THE TRUTH IS, YOU ALL HAVE OFFERED A WHOLE SMORGASBOARD OF OPTIONS

6:23:42 FOR FAMILIES AND PARENTS.

6:23:44 MORE THAN HONESTLY I THOUGHT WE WERE GOING TO BE ABLE TO COME UP

6:23:46 WITH.

6:23:47 AND THERE IS A PLACE FOR FAMILIES THAT ARE STILL REALLY WORRIED,

6:23:53 AND RIGHTFULLY SO WORRIED WITH THE STATUS.

6:23:56 THERE’S MULTIPLE PLACES FOR THEM.

6:23:58 THEY CAN – WITHIN OUR SYSTEM, RIGHT?

6:24:01 THEY CAN VIRTUAL SCHOOL, THEY CAN ELEARNING AT HOME.

6:24:04 THERE’S JUST – THERE’S SO MANY PLACES FOR THOSE THAT ARE STILL

6:24:07 REALLY CONCERNED.

6:24:09 AND THE ONLY OPTION FOR PEOPLE THAT ARE A LITTLE LESS CONCERNED

6:24:12 AND READY TO GET THEIR KIDS BACK TO SOME NORMALICY,

6:24:14 AND KIDS THAT ARE MAYBE STRUGGLING WITH ISOLATIONISM RIGHT NOW

6:24:18 AND MAYBE A LITTLE BIT OF ANXIETY JUST FROM BEING ALONE,

6:24:21 AND THE ONLY OPTION FOR THEM TO GET BACK IN IS TO GO TO A BRICK

6:24:23 AND MORTAR SCHOOL.

6:24:25 AND IF YOU’RE GOING TO MANDATORY MASK THEM, MANDATORY, MAKE IT

6:24:30 ALREADY MORE UNCOMFORTABLE,

6:24:32 IT’S ALREADY GOING TO FEEL WEIRD.

6:24:34 I MEAN, THERE’S A LOT OF STUFF IN HERE WITH ONLY WALKING ONE WAY

6:24:37 IN A HALLWAY.

6:24:38 IT MAY NOT SOUND LIKE A BIG DEAL, BUT FOR KIDS THAT HAVE BEEN IN

6:24:40 THE SCHOOL SINCE KINDERGARTEN,

6:24:42 AND IT’S NOW THIRD AND FOURTH GRADE, AND THEY’VE BEEN OUT OF SCHOOL

6:24:44 FOR MONTHS,

6:24:45 TO NOW – YOU CAN’T GO THAT WAY, YOU HAVE TO WALK THIS WAY.

6:24:48 NO, YOU CAN’T TURN YOUR DESKS AROUND, YOU CAN ONLY FACE THIS WAY.

6:24:51 THIS IS ALL – THESE ARE ALL THINGS THAT ARE ALREADY GOING TO FEEL

6:24:54 STRESSFUL AND UNCOMFORTABLE TO THEM,

6:24:56 AND SO A MANDATORY MASK ON THEM, I THINK IS – I DON’T – I JUST

6:25:01 DON’T THINK THAT’S FAIR.

6:25:02 I THINK THEY’RE GOING – YOU KNOW, PARENTS THAT WANT TO SEND THEIR

6:25:04 KIDS BACK WANT A MORE NORMAL ENVIRONMENT,

6:25:07 AS MUCH AS WE CAN, STILL KEEPING THEM SAFE, AND I THINK YOU GUYS

6:25:10 HAVE PROVIDED THIS,

6:25:11 AND SO I AM – I’M THANKFUL FOR ALL THE WORK.

6:25:14 I CAN’T IMAGINE THE HOURS OF DEBATE AND DISCUSSION AND WHAT IFS,

6:25:19 AND – BUT THE DECISIONS HAVE TO BE MADE,

6:25:20 AND THIS IS THE OPTION FOR THOSE THAT ARE READY TO MOVE TO THIS.

6:25:24 THOSE THAT AREN’T READY, THERE’S STILL TWO, THREE OTHER OPTIONS

6:25:26 FOR THEM.

6:25:27 SO THANK YOU.

6:25:29 MS. MCDUGLE, YOU INDICATED YOU HAD AN ADDITIONAL QUESTION.

6:25:34 I DID.

6:25:35 I JUST WANT TO PUT OUT THERE, I KNOW THAT HILLSBORRLE IS MANDATING

6:25:38 MASK IN THEIR SCHOOLS,

6:25:40 BUT I ALSO KNOW THAT COCO BEACH HAS MANDATED IN THEIR CITY THAT

6:25:47 IF YOU’RE IN BUSINESSES OR OUT AND ABOUT,

6:25:50 YOU MUST HAVE A MASK.

6:25:53 SO WILL THAT IMPACT OUR SCHOOL AT COCO BEACH OR ROSOVELT OR –

6:25:59 MS. YEAH, SO WE ACTUALLY – AS WE HAVE RECEIVED THOSE ORDERS, WE

6:26:05 HAVE SENT THEM TO YOUR WONDERFUL LEGAL DEPARTMENT.

6:26:10 AND SO I KNOW THAT MR. GIBS IS READY TO SPEAK TO THAT.

6:26:24 AS FAR AS CITIES AND OTHER ENTITIES REGULATING US, WE ARE OUR OWN

6:26:29 ENTITY AND I DO NOT BELIEVE THAT THEY CAN MANDATE US TO REQUIRE

6:26:34 MASKS WHILE IN OUR SCHOOLS.

6:26:37 WE ARE NOT A PUBLIC BUSINESS.

6:26:40 YOU KNOW, JOE SMITH WALKING DOWN THE STREET CAN’T SAY, HEY, I WANT

6:26:44 TO GO INTO THAT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AND CHECK OUT THEIR KINDERGARTEN

6:26:47 CLASSROOM.

6:26:48 THEY AREN’T ALLOWED.

6:26:49 SO WE ARE NOT OPEN FOR BUSINESS LIKE PUBLICS OR YOUR GAS STATION

6:26:53 ON THE CORNER.

6:26:55 SO THEY DON’T GET TO SAY YOUR SCHOOL HAS TO HAVE MASKS ON OR

6:26:58 YOUR STUDENTS WHILE THEY’RE IN YOUR SCHOOL.

6:27:02 THIS BODY DETERMINES WHAT ITS STUDENTS ARE GOING TO HAVE TO DO

6:27:07 WHILE THEY’RE IN THEIR SCHOOLS.

6:27:10 SO THAT’S MY OPINION BASED ON THE STATUTES AND THE INTERPRETATIONS

6:27:14 THERE.

6:27:15 WE ARE OUR OWN GOVERNING ENTITY.

6:27:17 THEY DON’T GET TO DO THAT.

6:27:18 I KNOW LEON COUNTY HAD ISSUED A DIRECTIVE THAT EVEN INCLUDED SCHOOLS

6:27:23 DIRECTLY.

6:27:24 AND THEIR ATTORNEY CALLED THEM UP AND SAID, HEY, WE’RE OUR OWN

6:27:27 LEGAL ENTITY.

6:27:29 YOU DON’T GET TO REGULATE US.

6:27:30 AND THEY ARE AMENDING THEIR ORDINANCE NOW TO EXCLUDE SCHOOLS FOR

6:27:34 THAT VERY REASON.

6:27:36 SO I THINK THAT THAT CONVERSATION IS TAKING PLACE AND THE ENTITIES

6:27:40 ARE WORKING IT OUT AMONGST THEMSELVES.

6:27:43 SO I DON’T ANTICIPATE ANYTHING.

6:27:44 I KNOW ONE OF THE OTHER CITIES HAS A MANDATE JUST FOR PUBLIC.

6:27:48 IT’S LIKE SPECIFICALLY FOR PUBLIC PLACES LIKE STORES.

6:27:52 AND I THINK THEY SAID THEY HAD LIKE SIX IN THEIR ENTIRE CITY.

6:27:55 SO IT’S LIKE WE ARE NOT A PUBLIC LOCATION AS THAT’S DEFINED NORMALLY.

6:27:59 SO I’M NOT CONCERNED WITH ANY OF THOSE ORDINANCES COMING OUT.

6:28:03 NOW IF THEY’RE OUT WALKING DOWN THE STREET, ONCE THEY’RE OFF OUR

6:28:07 CAMPUS,

6:28:08 THEY MIGHT GET HIT BY THE COP WHEN THEY’RE DRIVING DOWN THE STREET

6:28:12 IF THEY’RE NOT WEARING A MASK.

6:28:14 WE CAN’T CONTROL THAT.

6:28:16 ABSOLUTELY.

6:28:17 THANKS, MR. GOOD.

6:28:18 AND I GUESS, YOU KNOW, MY THOUGHT ABOUT MASKS IS THERE WILL BE

6:28:24 TIMES,

6:28:25 IF OUR STUDENTS ARE TRULY SOCIAL DISTANCED IN THE CLASSROOM,

6:28:29 I DON’T FORCEE THEM ALWAYS WEARING THE MASK IF THEY’RE SITTING

6:28:35 THERE QUIETLY

6:28:35 DOING THEIR WORK.

6:28:36 I JUST DON’T SEE THAT.

6:28:37 THAT WASN’T WHAT I ENVISIONED.

6:28:39 BUT I DO FEEL THAT WHEN THERE’S CONVERSATION AND THERE’S INTERACTION,

6:28:45 THAT THIS IS FOR THE SAFETY.

6:28:47 THIS IS FOR THE SAFETY.

6:28:48 THIS IS FOR THE SAFETY OF THE PEOPLE AND THEMSELVES.

6:28:51 SO I STRUGGLE WITH PEOPLE THINKING THAT IT IS UNREASONABLE.

6:28:55 LIKE I SAID, SEEMS LIKE OTHER COUNTRIES CAN DO IT.

6:28:58 I DON’T KNOW WHAT’S WRONG WITH – I KNOW THERE’S NOTHING WRONG

6:29:02 WITH OUR STUDENTS.

6:29:02 I KNOW THEY’RE VERY TEACHABLE AND I KNOW THEY’RE LEARNABLE.

6:29:04 AND YOU’RE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT, MS. ESCOVICH, THINGS ARE GOING TO

6:29:07 BE DIFFERENT.

6:29:08 AND I’M SURE THAT THINGS RIGHT NOW FOR STUDENTS AT HOME ARE DIFFERENT

6:29:11 ALSO.

6:29:12 AND I’M ASSUMING THAT PARENTS ARE TALKING TO THEIR CHILDREN

6:29:16 ABOUT SOME OF THE CHANGES THAT ARE GOING ON.

6:29:19 IF YOU’VE BEEN OUT TO THE SUPERMARKET AND YOU’RE WEARING YOUR

6:29:21 MASK,

6:29:22 YOU LOOK AROUND AND YOU’LL SEE KIDS IN MASKS.

6:29:24 IT’S NOT A NEW THING FOR SOME OF OUR KIDS.

6:29:27 SO I JUST – AS YOU CAN SEE, I’M VERY PASSIONATE ABOUT THIS.

6:29:31 BUT ANYHOW, BECAUSE I CARE ABOUT THE SAFETY OF OUR TEACHERS

6:29:35 AND OF OUR STUDENTS AT THIS POINT.

6:29:38 SO I WILL STOP, AND THAT’S ALL I HAVE TO SAY ON THIS ISSUE.

6:29:43 THANKS, MS. McDougall.

6:29:45 MR. SUSAN, I THINK YOU’RE UP.

6:29:47 THANK YOU.

6:29:48 I JUST WANTED TO RUN THROUGH – I’M MORE OF A VISUAL-TYPE FOLLOW-THROUGH,

6:29:53 SO I THINK I’M GOING TO WAIT FOR THE WHOLE COVID SHUTTING DOWN

6:29:56 SCHOOLS

6:29:56 AND ALL THAT STUFF TO KIND OF RUN FROM BEGINNING TO END THROUGH

6:29:58 THAT.

6:29:59 WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO ASK IS, WE DEPLOYED A SERIES OF THESE TOUCHLESS

6:30:03 THERMOMETERS

6:30:04 THAT ARE GOING TO BE AT THE SCHOOL.

6:30:06 THE PROCESS OF THOSE KIDS COMING OFF THE BUS AND DOING ALL THAT

6:30:08 STUFF,

6:30:09 WOULD THAT BE APPROPRIATE TO ASK NOW OR TALK ABOUT THAT LATER ON?

6:30:12 I SAW THE OTHER SLIDES.

6:30:13 WHEN DO YOU THINK THAT WOULD BE TO ASK THAT QUESTION?

6:30:15 HOW THAT PROCESS IS GOING TO WORK?

6:30:17 YEAH, THAT PROCESS IS GOING TO BE DIFFERENT AT EVERY SCHOOL.

6:30:19 THE SCHOOLS ARE COMING UP WITH THEIR OWN PLAN.

6:30:21 WHAT WE KNEW – AND WHEN I TALKED ABOUT OUR ABILITY TO IMPLEMENT

6:30:24 AND OUR ABILITY TO MANAGE, WHAT WE KNEW IS IN A SCHOOL OF 2,000

6:30:28 KIDS

6:30:28 OR EVEN IN A SCHOOL OF 800 KIDS, WE DON’T HAVE THE PERSONNEL

6:30:32 TO SCREEN EVERY STUDENT EVERY DAY.

6:30:35 AND IN FACT, EVEN IF WE PUT ALL OF OUR PEOPLE OUT THERE

6:30:38 TO SCREEN STUDENTS EVERY STUDENT EVERY DAY, THEN WHAT ISN’T BEING

6:30:42 DONE?

6:30:43 BECAUSE THOSE PEOPLE ARE GOING TO BE PULLED OUT OF MONITORING

6:30:49 THE KIDS IN THE HALLWAYS AND THE CAFETERIA, DOING CAFETERIA SERVICES,

6:30:54 YOU KNOW, ALL OF THOSE PIECES.

6:30:56 SO WHAT WE DEPEND ON IS EACH SCHOOL DEVELOPING THEIR PLAN.

6:31:00 HOW ARE KIDS GETTING OFF OF BUSES?

6:31:02 HOW ARE WE FIGURING OUT WHICH OF THESE STUDENTS NEED ADDITIONAL

6:31:07 SCREENING?

6:31:08 HOW ARE WE DOING IT IN A RESPECTFUL AND PRIVATE WAY?

6:31:11 HOW ARE WE MANAGING IF A STUDENT IS SICK AND GETTING THEM TO THE

6:31:15 CLINIC?

6:31:16 I MEAN, ALL OF THOSE PIECES, THAT STUDENT WALK FROM THE MINUTE

6:31:20 THEY GET ON THE BUS TO THE MINUTE THEY GET BACK ON THE BUS AND

6:31:24 GO HOME,

6:31:24 WE’RE TRYING TO WALK THROUGH IN OUR HEAD.

6:31:27 AND ONE OF THE PROJECTS THAT WE DIDN’T TALK ABOUT TODAY

6:31:30 WAS OUT OF GOVERNMENT AND COMMUNITY RELATIONS.

6:31:33 THEY WERE WAITING FOR THIS PLAN, AND THEN THEY’RE CREATING A VIDEO.

6:31:37 AND THE VIDEO STARTS WITH THE STUDENT AT THE BUS STOP.

6:31:40 AND THE EXPECTATIONS THERE, WHAT THE BUS LOOKS LIKE,

6:31:43 WHAT GETTING OFF THE BUS LOOKS LIKE, WHAT IT MIGHT LOOK LIKE

6:31:46 IF YOU GET SCREENED AT THE SCHOOL, AND THEN IT TAKES YOU

6:31:49 KIND OF THROUGH THAT STUDENT’S DAY SO THAT EVERYBODY,

6:31:52 EXACTLY WHAT YOU SAID, HAS A VISUAL, A PICTURE IN THEIR HEAD

6:31:55 OF WHAT LOOKS DIFFERENT NOW.

6:31:57 NO, I APPRECIATE – THAT WAS ACTUALLY ONE OF MY FOLLOW –

6:32:00 MY FINAL REQUESTS WAS TO DO A VIDEO FROM SOUP TO NUTS,

6:32:04 FROM BEGINNING TO END OF THE DAY, TO SHOW THEM WHAT THIS LOOKS

6:32:07 LIKE AND EVERYTHING ELSE.

6:32:08 THAT’S GREAT THAT THEY’RE DOING THAT.

6:32:10 THE TEAM’S GREAT.

6:32:12 HOW MANY – MS. HAND, I APOLOGIZE.

6:32:16 HOW MANY OF THOSE GUNS DID WE DEPLOY,

6:32:18 AND BY WHAT NUMBER DID WE DETERMINE EACH SCHOOL GETS?

6:32:22 WAS THERE A FACTOR, A FORMULA, SOMETHING LIKE THAT?

6:32:26 IF YOU HEARD SOME OF OUR FORMULAS, YOU WOULD DIE.

6:32:31 THIS FORMULA IS – I’M SORRY.

6:32:35 THIS FORMULA IS EASY.

6:32:37 EVERY SCHOOL IS GETTING ONE.

6:32:39 THE HIGH SCHOOLS ARE GETTING A BIGGER CAPACITY TANK.

6:32:43 SO THEY’RE – THEY HAVE A LITTLE BIT MORE CAPACITY OF MATERIAL.

6:32:46 AND WE’LL SEE HOW OFTEN WE USE THEM.

6:32:49 AND SHOULD WE NEED MORE, WE’LL CERTAINLY ORDER MORE.

6:32:53 ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT THE MISTERS?

6:32:55 THAT’S THE HAND QUESTION.

6:32:59 OH, SORRY, SORRY.

6:33:00 SORRY.

6:33:01 WE THOUGHT YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT THE MISTING MACHINE.

6:33:02 OH, NO.

6:33:03 I DON’T WANT TO TALK ABOUT THAT.

6:33:04 I WANT TO KNOW HOW MANY THERMOMETERS WE GAVE TO EACH SCHOOLS

6:33:06 AND WHAT THE REASON WAS BEHIND THE THEORY OR THE EQUATION.

6:33:09 SO WE MADE IT UP.

6:33:12 AND SO WE HAVE ORDERED – WE HAVE DISPATCHED ABOUT 700 ALREADY

6:33:20 AND HAVE A COUPLE – A HUND MORE ON HAND TO WORK THROUGH DEPARTMENTS.

6:33:26 I THINK OUR MINIMAL IS FIVE.

6:33:29 AND THAT WOULD BE AT OUR SMALLEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS UP TO JUST

6:33:33 SHY OF 20 AT A VIERRA HIGH OR A MEL HIGH.

6:33:37 OUR HIGH SCHOOLS WERE GIVEN CONSIDERABLY MORE SO THAT IN EXTRACURRICULARS

6:33:45 THE SPORTS OR THE BAND TEACHER OR THE WHATEVER COULD HAVE SOME

6:33:49 ADDITIONAL RESOURCES AVAILABLE AFTER.

6:33:53 THE ELEMENTARY’S RECEIVED ENOUGH FOR THEIR AFTER CARE PROGRAMS.

6:33:56 WE’RE CERTAINLY PREPARED TO ORDER MORE.

6:34:01 WE’VE GOT A GOOD CONTRACT IN PLACE FOR THOSE.

6:34:05 SO WE MADE IT UP.

6:34:09 LESS FOR SMALL, MORE FOR BIG.

6:34:12 NO, NO, NO.

6:34:13 IT SOUNDS – IF I DID THE NUMBERS, 20 AT VIERRA, THAT’S 2,000

6:34:16 STUDENTS THERE.

6:34:17 FIVE AT THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS.

6:34:18 IT’S LOOKING LIKE IT’S ABOUT ONE PER HUNDRED OR SOMETHING LIKE

6:34:19 THAT.

6:34:20 THAT’S EXACTLY WHAT WE DID.

6:34:22 THAT WAS THE FORMULA.

6:34:23 WE DID.

6:34:24 OUR FORMULA-ISH, THREE ACADEMICS IN A ROOM,

6:34:28 WAS WE STARTED WITH A MINIMUM OF TWO AT 300 STUDENTS PLUS ADDITIONAL

6:34:34 FOR EXTRA AFTER CARE.

6:34:37 FOR ANYONE ABOVE 300, THAT WAS ANOTHER ONE IN THOSE INCREMENTS.

6:34:43 AND THEN A BUNCH MORE.

6:34:47 IT’S JUST, FOR ME, ONE OF THE NUMBER ONE WAYS TO IDENTIFY THAT

6:34:54 WE’VE SEEN ACROSS THE COUNTRY IS TO USE THE THERMOMETER CHECK.

6:34:57 INDIVIDUALS ARE COMING IN.

6:34:59 AND IT WOULD SEEM TO ME THAT IF THERE WAS A WAY TO DEPLOY MORE,

6:35:02 TO DO MORE TESTS TO BLOCK THE ACTUAL SPREAD TO DO THAT, IT WOULD

6:35:06 BE ADVANTAGIOUS.

6:35:08 HOW MUCH ARE THESE THINGS APIECE?

6:35:09 THEY’RE ABOUT $60 EACH.

6:35:11 WE’RE ACTUALLY DOWN TO –

6:35:13 WHAT?

6:35:14 YES, BECAUSE DON RICHER IN PROCUREMENT’S AMAZING.

6:35:18 WE’RE DOWN TO ABOUT $46 A THERMOMETER.

6:35:22 BUT JUST REMEMBER FROM EARLIER, ABOUT 50% OF THE POSITIVE COVID

6:35:27 CASES DO NOT HAVE A TEMPERATURE.

6:35:30 SO IF WE’RE RELIANT ON THAT – AND THAT’S MY BIGGEST CONCERN, IS

6:35:34 THAT WE GET RELIANT ON ONE THING.

6:35:36 IF THE KID DOESN’T HAVE A TEMPERATURE, THEN THEY’RE WELL.

6:35:40 YEAH, YOU HAVE TO MONITOR ACROSS A LOT OF THE SYMPTOMS.

6:35:44 SO, YOU KNOW, NOBODY HERE THOUGHT THAT WE WERE DONE ORDERING,

6:35:47 NOT A SINGLE ONE OF US.

6:35:49 WE FIGURED AS SOON AS WE STAND UP AT SCHOOL, WE’RE GOING TO BE

6:35:51 LIKE, “NONE OF US THOUGHT OF THAT.”

6:35:53 BUT THERE HAVE BEEN MANY OF US THAT HAVE WOKEN UP AT 2:00 IN THE

6:35:56 MORNING AND COME IN THE NEXT DAY

6:35:58 AND SAID, “WE FORGOT TO TALK ABOUT THIS.”

6:36:00 AND I WILL TELL YOU THAT ALMOST EVERY TIME, ONE OF US HAD ALREADY

6:36:04 THOUGHT ABOUT IT

6:36:05 AND PUT IN THE ORDER AND TAKEN CARE OF IT.

6:36:07 SO, YEAH, TO YOUR POINT, IF WE NEED TO ORDER MORE THEMOMETERS,

6:36:10 WE’LL ORDER MORE.

6:36:11 I JUST WANT TO BE CAUTIOUS THAT THAT’S NOT THE – THAT’S NOT THE

6:36:15 MOST RELIABLE FACTOR.

6:36:18 IT’S ABOUT – IT’S A CASE IN ABOUT 50% OF THE POSITIVE CASES.

6:36:23 ARE WE REQUIRING RIGHT NOW IN EVERY ACTIVITY THAT HAPPENS FOR

6:36:26 OUR COACHES TO GIVE A TEST?

6:36:28 THAT IS CORRECT.

6:36:29 YEAH.

6:36:30 OKAY.

6:36:31 IF I COULD – BUT IT’S NOT JUST A TEST.

6:36:34 THEY HAVE TO – THEY HAVE SEVERAL QUESTIONS THAT THEY GO THROUGH

6:36:37 WITH EACH STUDENT.

6:36:38 SO IT IS THE TEMPERATURE PLUS – I THINK IT’S FIVE OR SIX OTHER

6:36:42 QUESTIONS THAT STUDENTS GET

6:36:44 SCREENED ON DAILY IF THEY’RE IN THE RETURN TO ACTIVITY PLAN.

6:36:48 AND IT HAD – I’M SORRY.

6:36:50 WE – WE – WE FELT THAT WHEN SOMETHING IS OPTIONAL AND EXTRA,

6:36:57 THAT WE COULD REALLY LOOK

6:37:01 AT THAT CIRCUMSTANCE AND SITUATION AND HAVE SOME RESTRICTIONS RUN.

6:37:04 IT’S OPTION.

6:37:05 BUT COMPULSORY EDUCATION IS OUR REQUIREMENT TO PROVIDE FOR ALL

6:37:09 STUDENTS A FREE AND APPROPRIATE

6:37:11 PUBLIC EDUCATION.

6:37:13 SO WE WAFFLED IN THAT LAND, RIGHT?

6:37:16 LIKE WHAT MAKES SENSE FOR SOMEBODY WHO WANTS TO PUT THEMSELVES

6:37:18 IN THIS ADDITIONAL RISKY SITUATION

6:37:20 WITH A COACH VERSUS OUR OBLIGATION TO EDUCATE ALL STUDENTS.

6:37:25 I DON’T KNOW IF THAT MAKES SENSE, BECAUSE WE HAD THESE DISCUSSIONS

6:37:31 AT STRANGE HOURS.

6:37:31 BUT, YOU KNOW, WE WANTED TO MAKE SURE EVERY STUDENT COULD BE ADEQUATELY

6:37:36 EDUCATED.

6:37:37 I DON’T KNOW IF THAT MAKES SENSE, BUT THAT’S WHAT WE’RE THINKING

6:37:41 ABOUT.

6:37:42 I JUST – WE HAVE THE THEREMOMETERS.

6:37:46 WE’RE USING THEM.

6:37:47 IT COMES DOWN TO SOME PERSON SAYING, I THINK THAT PERSON MIGHT

6:37:51 HAVE A TEMPERATURE.

6:37:52 I’M GOING TO RUN UP AND CHECK THEM.

6:37:54 I DON’T UNDERSTAND THE PROCESS THERE.

6:37:56 LIKE, WHY DO I HAVE A THEREMOMETER IF WE’RE NOT CHECKING THE KIDS

6:37:58 WHEN THEY’RE COMING IN?

6:37:59 WHAT IS THAT PROCESS?

6:38:00 LIKE, HOW ARE WE IDENTIFYING THOSE CHILDREN COMING IN TO CHECK

6:38:03 THEIR THEREMOMETER TO CHECK THEM?

6:38:05 LIKE, WHAT IS THAT?

6:38:06 LIKE, WHAT DO WE HAVE THEM FOR IF WE’RE NOT CHECKING EVERY KID

6:38:09 AS THEY COME IN?

6:38:11 SO, IT’S NOT JUST THE TOOL.

6:38:14 IT’S THE PERSONNEL.

6:38:15 THAT’S THE FIRST THING.

6:38:17 THE SECOND THING IS THAT – WHAT YOU ASKED IS, HOW ARE WE IDENTIFYING

6:38:23 THE STUDENTS?

6:38:24 SO, EVERY SINGLE SCHOOL HAS A CHILD STUDY TEAM.

6:38:28 AND EVERY SINGLE CHILD STUDY TEAM HAS STUDENTS THAT THEY KNOW

6:38:31 ARE MORE VULNERABLE THAN OTHERS,

6:38:33 THAT THEY KNOW MAY NOT HAVE THE FOUNDATION OR THE SUPPORT OF OTHERS.

6:38:39 AND THAT WOULD BE THE FIRST PLACE WE TURN TO TO SAY,

6:38:42 CAN YOU IDENTIFY THE STUDENTS THAT YOU KNOW MAY NEED AN EXTRA SCREENING?

6:38:46 OR MAY NEED ANY SCREENING, BECAUSE THEY MIGHT NOT BE BEING SCREENED

6:38:50 AT HOME.

6:38:51 THAT MIGHT BE IN SOME SCHOOLS TWO KIDS.

6:38:54 THAT MIGHT BE IN SOME SCHOOLS 200 KIDS.

6:38:57 AND THEN THEY HAVE TO DETERMINE HOW WE’RE GOING TO DO IT, WHERE

6:39:01 WE’RE GOING TO DO IT,

6:39:02 THAT PROTECTS THEIR PRIVACY AND IT’S DONE IN A RESPECTFUL WAY.

6:39:08 AND THEN THEY HAVE TO DECIDE WHO’S GOING TO DO IT.

6:39:10 SO, IN THE CASE OF, LET’S JUST SAY 200 KIDS, IF WE’RE AT A LARGE

6:39:15 HIGH SCHOOL AND WE HAVE TO SCREEN 200 KIDS,

6:39:18 WHO ARE OUR AVAILABLE PEOPLE?

6:39:20 WELL, OUR TEACHERS ALL HAVE A VERY SOLID CONTRACT THAT SAYS WHAT

6:39:24 THEIR WORK HOURS ARE.

6:39:26 BUT THEY ALSO SHOULDN’T HAVE TO PERFORM A MEDICAL SCREENING ON A

6:39:30 STUDENT BEFORE HOURS.

6:39:32 WE DO HAVE CLINICS.

6:39:36 WE DO HAVE A SUPPORT TEAM.

6:39:38 WE DO HAVE ADMINISTRATORS.

6:39:40 BUT ALL OF THOSE PEOPLE HAVE JOBS BEFORE AND AFTER SCHOOL.

6:39:44 SO, WE CAN MANAGE 200.

6:39:47 WE CAN MANAGE PROBABLY MORE THAN THAT.

6:39:50 WE CAN’T MANAGE SCREENING 2200 KIDS.

6:39:54 AND SO, WHEN WE LOOK AT WHAT WE’RE ABLE TO IMPLEMENT AND THEN

6:39:57 WHAT WE’RE ABLE TO MANAGE,

6:40:00 SCREENING 2200 KIDS DAILY IS OUTSIDE THE SCOPE OF WHAT WE CAN PHYSICALLY

6:40:06 DO.

6:40:07 IF THAT IS THE WISH OF THE BOARD, WE’LL FIGURE IT OUT.

6:40:12 BUT THEN SOMETHING ELSE GOES BECAUSE SOMETHING ELSE GOES.

6:40:20 AND I GUESS WE’LL HAVE TO FIGURE OUT WHAT THAT THING IS AS WELL.

6:40:25 WE FELT CONFIDENT THAT OUR CHILD STUDY TEAMS IN EACH SCHOOL COULD

6:40:29 IDENTIFY OUR VULNERABLE STUDENTS.

6:40:32 AND WE FELT CONFIDENT THAT OUR PRINCIPLES WOULD DEVELOP A PROCESS

6:40:35 THAT WAS FAIR AND RESPECTFUL AND PRIVATE.

6:40:38 AND SO, THAT’S WHY WE WROTE IT UP THE WAY WE DID.

6:40:42 IS ANYBODY – MAYBE THE DOEH CAN ANSWER THIS.

6:40:47 ARE YOU FINDING THAT MORE CHILDREN THAT ARE IN AREAS THAT HAVE

6:40:50 –

6:40:50 MAYBE NOT THE PARENTAL SUPPORT OR HAVING HIGHER COVID RATES THAN

6:40:54 KIDS THAT ARE IN HIGH SOCIOECONOMIC AREAS?

6:40:56 IS THERE ANYTHING THERE?

6:41:09 I THINK YOU JUST HAVE TO PULL IT CLOSER.

6:41:13 ACTUALLY, I DON’T THINK THAT ONE IS TURNED ON.

6:41:18 THANK YOU, RUSSELL.

6:41:20 JUST A NURSE.

6:41:21 I’M NOT AN IMPORTANT.

6:41:24 IT’S A BUTTON.

6:41:25 WHAT WE’RE FINDING IS MOST CHILDREN THAT ARE TESTING POSITIVE –

6:41:28 AND WE ARE GETTING MORE AND MORE CHILDREN THAT ARE TESTING POSITIVE

6:41:29 –

6:41:30 MOST OF THEM ARE BECAUSE IT’S A FAMILIAL GROUP.

6:41:33 SOMEONE IN THE FAMILY, FOR WHATEVER REASON, THEY’RE EXPOSED AT

6:41:35 WORK, THEY’RE EXPOSED AT HOME, WHATEVER.

6:41:38 THEY COME IN AND THEY BRING IT HOME, AND WE’RE FINDING A LOT OF

6:41:42 POSITIVES IN FAMILY CLUSTERS.

6:41:45 THE THING WITH TEMPERATURES – YOU KNOW, TEMPERATURE IS, AS

6:41:48 CHRIS WAS SAYING, IS NOT AN INDICATIVE SYMPTOM RIGHT NOW.

6:41:54 YES, IT IS DEFINITELY IN THE OLDER POPULATION.

6:41:57 BUT IN THE YOUNGER POPULATION, TEMPERATURE IS ONLY WITHIN ABOUT

6:42:00 50% OF PEOPLE – OF CHILDREN.

6:42:03 AND WITH A CHILD, YOU RUN INTO A COUPLE OF THINGS.

6:42:07 IF A CHILD OR EVEN A TEENAGER GETS TYLENOL AT HOME OR GETS SOME

6:42:12 KIND OF FEVER REDUCING, THEN TEMPERATURE IS PRETTY MUCH – TAKING

6:42:17 TEMPERATURE IS USELESS.

6:42:18 WE’VE ALL DONE THAT.

6:42:19 WE’VE SENT OUR KID TO DAY CARE BY PACKING THEM FULL OF IVUPROFEN

6:42:22 AND HOPING THEY CAN MAKE IT THROUGH THE END OF THE DAY.

6:42:24 AND THAT’S EXACTLY, AND WE SEE THAT IN THE CLINIC ALL THE TIME.

6:42:28 SO THE TEMPERATURE IS REALLY NOT THE GUIDING FORCE OF WHAT WE DECIDE

6:42:32 THE KID HAS TO BE SENT TO THE CLINIC OR SHOULD BE SENT TO THE CLINIC.

6:42:36 YOU KNOW, IN MY YEARS OF NURSING, WHEN A KID IS SICK, A KID IS SICK

6:42:41 FOR THE MOST PART.

6:42:43 YOU DO GET SOME THAT, YOU KNOW, THAT TRY TO – FOR A BETTER WORD

6:42:48 – SCAM.

6:42:50 BUT WHEN A CHILD IS SICK, A CHILD IS SICK.

6:42:52 AND THEY USUALLY DON’T PLAY GAMES.

6:42:55 AND YOU CAN TELL BY LOOKING AT A CHILD.

6:42:57 YOU KNOW, I’VE HAD KIDS THAT HAVE HAD 104 TEMP, HAVEN’T BEEN AS

6:43:02 SICK AS A CHILD THAT HAS 100-DEGREE TEMPERATURE.

6:43:04 SO A LOT OF IT IS AN ASSESSMENT, A VISUAL ASSESSMENT.

6:43:07 DOES THAT KIND OF ANSWER THE QUESTION?

6:43:11 YEAH, NO, NO, NO.

6:43:12 THAT’S A GREAT QUESTION.

6:43:13 CAN SOMEBODY TELL ME WHAT THAT VISUAL ASSESSMENT LOOKS LIKE?

6:43:16 I’M A TEACHER RIGHT NOW.

6:43:17 I’M GETTING READY TO START THE CLASS DAY.

6:43:19 WHAT AM I LOOKING FOR IN MY VISUAL ASSESSMENT?

6:43:23 IF A CHILD IS SICK, SOMETIMES THEY’LL BE LISTLESS.

6:43:26 SOMETIMES THEY’LL BE – THEY CAN BE PALE.

6:43:28 THEY CAN BE SWEATING.

6:43:30 AND A KID WHO’S RUNNING AROUND IS GOING TO BE SWEATING.

6:43:32 SO YOU HAVE TO – YOU KNOW, THEIR EYES GET KIND OF GLASSY.

6:43:35 JUST LIKE MOST OF US SEE WITH OUR OWN CHILDREN WHEN THEY’RE SICK.

6:43:38 WHAT I ALWAYS TELL EVERYBODY AND WHAT I TELL THE CLINIC NURSES,

6:43:41 YOU KNOW, LOOK AT YOUR CHILD.

6:43:43 IF THE CHILD IS ACTING SICK, IF THE CHILD IS LISTLESS,

6:43:47 IF THE CHILD IS JUST SITTING THERE, OR IF THE CHILD IS JUST NOT

6:43:51 THEMSELVES,

6:43:51 AND OUR CLINIC NURSES GET TO KNOW THEIR CHILDREN IN THE SCHOOL,

6:43:55 AS DO THE TEACHERS, THAT’S WHERE I WOULD SAY, YOU KNOW, LOOK AT

6:43:59 THE CHILD.

6:44:00 IF THE CHILD LOOKS SICK, CALL THE PARENT.

6:44:03 YOU’RE ON THE SIDE OF ALWAYS PUTTING THE CHILD’S HEALTH FIRST.

6:44:08 SO IT’S KIND OF – YOU KNOW, EVERY CHILD IS DIFFERENT.

6:44:11 EVERY CHILD PRESENTS DIFFERENTLY.

6:44:13 OBVIOUSLY, IF A CHILD HAS A FEVER, THEN THAT’S ENTIRELY –

6:44:17 MY SON, MY DAUGHTERS, THEY WILL LITERALLY HIT 103 FEVER, AND YOU

6:44:21 CAN’T EVEN TELL.

6:44:22 CORRECT.

6:44:23 THEY’RE RUNNING AROUND THE HOUSE.

6:44:24 THEIR FEVERS ARE UP.

6:44:25 BUT UNLESS I CHECK THEM, THEY WON’T KNOW.

6:44:28 AND SO I NEED TO HAVE – I NEED TO HAVE MORE HERE.

6:44:32 LIKE, I NEED TO KNOW – I NEED TO KNOW THAT THERE’S – BECAUSE

6:44:36 IDENTIFICATION IS THE KEY, RIGHT,

6:44:38 TO BEFORE AND EVERYTHING ELSE.

6:44:40 AND IF WE’RE ONLY TRULY TRYING TO CHECK THE KIDS THAT WE LEAVE

6:44:44 IT UP TO THE TEACHERS AND PEOPLE TO

6:44:46 IDENTIFY AND MAYBE SOME OF THE KIDS THAT WE THINK ARE IN AREAS

6:44:50 THAT WE DON’T HAVE – YOU KNOW,

6:44:53 THESE STUDENTS THAT WE’VE IDENTIFIED, I THINK – I FEEL, AND I’M

6:44:59 ONLY A BOARD MEMBER,

6:45:00 THAT THERE NEEDS TO BE A STRONGER PLAN THERE.

6:45:02 I DON’T KNOW.

6:45:03 DO YOU GUYS WANT TO CARE TO WEIGH IN ON THAT?

6:45:05 THAT, TO ME, LIKE, WOULD YOU ALLOW A SCHOOL, IF THEY WANTED TO

6:45:09 SCREEN EVERY KID THAT CAME IN

6:45:10 FOR TEMPERATURES, WOULD YOU GIVE THEM MORE OF THESE THERMOMETERS?

6:45:14 WELL, CAN I JUST – I MEAN, I JUST WANT TO OFFER SOME PERSPECTIVES.

6:45:17 YOU KNOW, WE TALKED ABOUT SECURITY, WE TALKED ABOUT METAL DETECTORS.

6:45:22 AND THE REASON WHY OUR SHERIFF IN PARTICULAR AND MANY OTHER SHERIFFS

6:45:25 DON’T RECOMMEND METAL DETECTORS

6:45:26 IS BECAUSE YOU CREATE THAT – WHAT’S THE WORD I’M LOOKING FOR?

6:45:31 WHEN YOU’RE ALL – YEAH, YOU GOT A BOTTLE NECK.

6:45:34 AND WE’RE GETTING PEOPLE THROUGH.

6:45:36 I THINK WE CREATE THE SAME SITUATION HERE, WHICH NOT ONLY IS A

6:45:38 SECURITY ISSUE,

6:45:39 BECAUSE YOU’VE GOT 800 KIDS STANDING OUT LINE.

6:45:42 THEN YOU ALSO HAVE 800 KIDS STANDING VERY CLOSE TOGETHER WHILE

6:45:46 YOU WAIT TO –

6:45:48 AND THOSE THINGS ARE PRETTY FAST, BUT STILL, YOU’VE GOT 800 KIDS.

6:45:51 SO EVEN IF YOU HAD THE PERSONNEL AND EVEN IF WE DID IT, YOU KNOW,

6:45:54 WE’RE CREATING PROBLEMS

6:45:57 THAT ACTUALLY ARE WORKING AGAINST THE PROBLEM WE’RE TRYING TO AVOID.

6:46:01 SO IF YOU HAVE A KID WHO’S POSITIVE AND HAS A FEVER STANDING IN

6:46:04 THE MIDST OF 50 OTHER KIDS,

6:46:06 BECAUSE HOW ARE YOU GOING TO SIX FEET APART, 800 KIDS WAITING TO

6:46:09 GET INTO THE BUILDING?

6:46:10 IT’S JUST NOT FEASIBLE.

6:46:12 SO I WOULD ARGUE THAT IF YOU HAD A THERMOMETER FOR EVERY TEACHER

6:46:16 BEFORE THE STUDENT CAME INTO THE CLASS,

6:46:18 THEY COULD TEMPERATURE CHECK EVERY ONE OF THEIR KIDS.

6:46:20 I DO THEM.

6:46:21 I BOUGHT ONE OF THESE THERMOMETERS.

6:46:22 I CHECKED IT.

6:46:23 IT’S A SECOND AND A HALF THAT IT TAKES.

6:46:24 IT WOULD TAKE LESS THAN FIVE MINUTES.

6:46:27 YOU COULD SOCIALLY DISTANCE THE KIDS.

6:46:29 I JUST THINK THAT WHEN WE TURN AROUND AND SAY THAT WE’RE GOING

6:46:31 TO HAVE 800 KIDS STANDING IN ONE LOCATION,

6:46:33 WE KNOW THAT’S NOT GOING TO HAPPEN, AND WE KNOW WE CAN – I FEEL

6:46:36 WE CAN DO BETTER THERE.

6:46:37 I THINK THAT THERE NEEDS TO BE A STRONGER ANSWER TO THAT – THAT

6:46:40 BARRIER TO THAT.

6:46:42 I DON’T THINK – AND I’VE BEEN IN SCHOOLS.

6:46:44 I’VE BEEN IN SCHOOLS WITH 2,000 KIDS.

6:46:46 I TAUGHT AT VIERRA.

6:46:47 THERE’S MULTIPLE EXPITS.

6:46:48 THERE’S MULTIPLE POINTS.

6:46:49 THERE’S NEVER A POINT WHERE WHEN THE KIDS ARE COMING IN THAT YOU’RE

6:46:51 GOING TO BACK UP 600 KIDS,

6:46:53 ESPECIALLY IF YOU HAVE MULTIPLE AREAS.

6:46:55 I JUST – I TRULY BELIEVE THAT WE CAN’T WAVE THE WHITE FLAG HERE.

6:47:00 I THINK THAT THIS IS AN AREA THAT NEEDS TO BE STRONGER.

6:47:03 I THINK WE NEED TO IDENTIFY THESE KIDS BEFORE THEY COME IN.

6:47:05 I THINK THEY NEED TO BE SENT OVER TO THE AREA TO BE QUARANTINED

6:47:08 IF THERE’S AN ISSUE AND THEN GO.

6:47:11 AND I THINK ALSO THAT WE NEED TO HAVE A STRONGER – WHAT THAT

6:47:14 LOOKS LIKE FOR OUR TEACHERS RIGHT NOW

6:47:17 THAT ARE COMING IN.

6:47:18 IF THE TEACHERS ARE GOING TO BE SITTING THERE AND WE GIVE THEM

6:47:19 THE THING THAT,

6:47:21 HEY, IF THEY LOOK SICK, SEND THEM DOWN, MAN, THAT’S GOT TO BE

6:47:23 STRONGER.

6:47:24 WE’VE GOT TO BE BETTER THERE.

6:47:25 SO THAT’S – I’M JUST – SOME RED FLAGS ARE COMING UP RIGHT NOW

6:47:28 ON THIS THING.

6:47:29 SO WHAT IS – THE BOARD MEMBERS OKAY?

6:47:32 I MEAN, YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT, MS. DESKIVICH?

6:47:35 MS.

6:47:37 MOORE SAID SOMETHING ABOUT WE CAN’T REQUIRE TEACHERS TO DO CHECKS.

6:47:41 IS THAT – IS THAT IN CONTRACT?

6:47:42 WHAT – CAN YOU – I THINK THAT’S WHAT YOU SAID.

6:47:44 CAN YOU EXPAND?

6:47:45 WE TYPICALLY – WE TYPICALLY HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO REQUIRE TEACHERS

6:47:49 TO DO ANY MEDICAL

6:47:49 PROCEDURES UNLESS IT WAS IN THE HEALTH PLAN.

6:47:54 MS.

6:47:55 SO I – MR.

6:47:57 SUSAN, I’M NOT SAYING THAT’S A HORRIBLE IDEA, BUT I DON’T – I

6:48:00 DON’T KNOW HOW THAT’S

6:48:01 GOING TO GO PLAY OUT WITH VFT.

6:48:03 MAYBE IT’S AN OPTIONAL THING.

6:48:04 LIKE, WOULD YOU BE COMFORTABLE WITH WE WOULD PROVIDE A THERMOMETER

6:48:09 TO ANY TEACHER THAT WANTS

6:48:10 TO CHECK THEIR STUDENTS EVERY MORNING ON THE WAY IN?

6:48:12 I THINK THAT’S A FAIR THING, ESPECIALLY IF THE TEACHER WANTS TO

6:48:15 PROTECT THEMSELVES.

6:48:16 WE AS AN ORGANIZATION CAN PROVIDE THAT FOR SOME SCREENING, BUT I

6:48:19 DON’T KNOW HOW WE MAKE THAT

6:48:21 MANDATORY WITHOUT APPROVAL FROM VFT, AND I DON’T – YOU KNOW,

6:48:25 THAT’S A WHOLE OTHER PROBLEM.

6:48:27 I JUST THINK – AND YOU’RE RIGHT.

6:48:29 TO MANDATE CERTAIN THINGS IS VERY DIFFICULT IN THE MULTIPLE AREAS

6:48:33 THAT WE HAVE, DIFFERENT

6:48:35 SCHOOL SETTINGS, DIFFERENT CLASS SEGMENTS, BUT I TRULY BELIEVE

6:48:38 THAT IF THERE IS A GROUP OF

6:48:40 INDIVIDUALS OR SCHOOLS THAT WOULD LIKE TO CREATE THAT, I WOULD

6:48:42 LIKE TO GIVE THEM THAT OPTION.

6:48:44 AND AS FAR AS MAKING VFT DO SOMETHING OR NOT, I THINK THAT IF I’M

6:48:47 A TEACHER AND I WANTED TO MAKE SURE

6:48:49 THAT THE STUDENTS THAT WERE INSIDE MY CLASS, IF I COULD USE A THERMOMETER

6:48:52 CHECK AS THEY WALK IN

6:48:53 AND IT WAS LEGAL, I WOULDN’T HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THAT.

6:48:55 BUT IT’S JUST AN OPTION.

6:48:56 I CAN’T SPEAK TO VFT.

6:48:58 I JUST – I’M LITERALLY LOOKING AT THIS RIGHT NOW, BUT IT’S A HUGE

6:49:01 CONCERN THAT IF WE HAVE AN INDIVIDUAL

6:49:03 COME INTO THE SCHOOL AND WE’RE TALKING ABOUT CLASSROOMS BEING SHUT

6:49:05 DOWN AND SCHOOLS BEING SHUT DOWN,

6:49:08 THAT WE NEED TO DO EVERYTHING WE CAN AT THE PERIMETER OF THAT

6:49:10 SCHOOL TO MAKE SURE THAT THOSE

6:49:12 STUDENTS AREN’T COMING INTO THAT SCHOOL.

6:49:13 BECAUSE ONCE THEY’RE IN, THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN IT’S LIKE THE POPCORN

6:49:16 EFFECT, WHERE ONE SCHOOL THIS,

6:49:17 THE CAFETERIA, EVERYTHING ELSE STARTS TO HAPPEN.

6:49:19 SO IF WE’RE SO CONCERNED ABOUT TURNING AN ENTIRE SECONDARY PROGRAM

6:49:23 INTO BLOCK SCHEDULING,

6:49:24 THEN I THINK THAT ONE OF THE OTHER THINGS THAT WE CAN TRY TO DO

6:49:27 IS A STRONGER PERIMETER DEFENSE

6:49:28 AS FAR AS IDENTIFYING KIDS INSIDE THE THERMOMETER CHECKS.

6:49:31 THAT’S ALL.

6:49:32 SO –

6:49:33 DOES ANYONE, MAYBE MR. GIBS, OR I DON’T KNOW, MAYBE – I KNOW

6:49:37 YOUR NAME, DR. THETTY.

6:49:40 IT’S GOING TO BE A LOT OF HOURS.

6:49:43 IS THERE ANY CONCERNS WITH, IF THIS WAS RANDOM, LIKE CLASS A, B,

6:49:48 AND C,

6:49:48 GETS SCREENED EVERY MORNING BECAUSE THOSE TEACHERS CHOOSE, BUT

6:49:52 CLASS D, E, AND F DOESN’T GET SCREENED

6:49:53 BECAUSE THOSE TEACHERS CHOOSE NOT TO.

6:49:56 IS THERE ANY KIND OF – IS THERE ANY LEGAL PROBLEM THERE, OR DOES

6:50:01 IT LOOK LIKE WE’RE CALLING OUT

6:50:02 CERTAIN KIDS AND ONLY SCREENING THEM, OR, YOU KNOW, IS THERE ANY

6:50:05 ISSUES THAT YOU SEE WITH THAT LEGALLY?

6:50:07 AND ADD ON THAT EXTRA SCREENING THAT WE’RE TALKING ABOUT.

6:50:10 TO WHAT END?

6:50:12 ARE WE SENDING THEM HOME?

6:50:13 EVERY KID THAT COMES IN THAT’S GOT A 99 OR 100, WE’RE SENDING

6:50:17 THEM HOME?

6:50:17 I MEAN, I CAN SEE THIS TURNING INTO, I WANT TO SCREEN KIDS SO I

6:50:21 DON’T HAVE 20 KIDS IN

6:50:23 MY CLASS EVERY DAY.

6:50:24 THERE’S NOT A SINGLE TEACHER, MR. GIVES, IN THIS SCHOOL DISTRICT

6:50:26 THAT WOULD TEMPERATURE

6:50:27 CHECK KIDS TO TRY TO GET THEM NOT TO COME INTO THEIR CLASSROOM.

6:50:30 I THINK THAT THAT STANDARD MAYBE COME FROM THAT.

6:50:33 MAY NOT.

6:50:34 MS. PATTY OVER THERE, RIGHT?

6:50:35 YOU WOULD – WHAT’S THE STANDARD TEMPERATURE THAT YOU SAY IS SICK?

6:50:38 I MEAN, I’VE READ –

6:50:40 DOH SAYS 100.4.

6:50:41 THE SCHOOL DISTRICT’S GONE TO 100 JUST TO MAKE IT A LITTLE BIT

6:50:45 MORE CLARIFIED FOR THE SCHOOLS.

6:50:48 WELL, THE OTHER THING IS, IS THAT THOSE POINTLESS THERMOMETERS

6:50:54 ARE ALMOST A DEGREE LESS THAN THE UNDERARM AND UNDER TONGUE THERMOMETERS.

6:50:58 SO I HAVE – I’M JUST GOING TO LAY OUT CONCERNS, AND I KNOW THAT

6:51:02 WE’RE GETTING FEEDBACK.

6:51:05 TWO BIG CONCERNS ARE, WE TAKE – FOR OUR SCREENINGS THAT WE DO

6:51:10 NOW, OUR VISION SCREENING, OUR HEARING SCREENING,

6:51:13 WE GO TO GREAT LENGTHS TO PROTECT STUDENTS’ MEDICAL PRIVACY.

6:51:19 AND I DON’T KNOW, GIVEN THE SCENARIO THAT YOU GAVE, THAT I COULD

6:51:22 SAY THAT SAME THING.

6:51:24 THE OTHER PIECE OF IT IS THAT ONCE THOSE TEMPERATURES ARE CHECKED,

6:51:30 THEN THOSE STUDENTS HAVE TO GO SOMEWHERE.

6:51:33 AND IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, WE DON’T SEND KIDS ALONE ANYWHERE.

6:51:37 AND SO IF A TEACHER HAS ONE STUDENT, THEY’RE SENDING THAT ONE

6:51:42 STUDENT AND A SECOND DOWN TO THE CLINIC.

6:51:45 AND IF WE HAVE TEN KIDS THAT ON THAT ANY GIVEN DAY HAVE A TEMPERATURE,

6:51:51 IT DOESN’T MEAN THEY HAVE COVID.

6:51:52 IT MEANS THEY HAVE A TEMPERATURE.

6:51:54 AND NOW OUR CLINIC STAFF HAS TEN KIDS DOWN THERE.

6:51:57 SO THERE’S SOME LOGISTICS THERE IN TERMS OF WHAT IS HAPPENING

6:52:04 THERE.

6:52:05 MY BIGGEST CONCERN REMAINS TO BE THE AVAILABILITY OF STAFF TO DO

6:52:10 THAT WHILE THEY HAVE OTHER TASKS THAT ARE SUPPOSED TO BE DONE IN

6:52:15 THE MORNING.

6:52:16 AND MY BIGGER CONCERN IS THE PRIVATE RESPECTFUL SCREENING OF CHILDREN.

6:52:22 IF A STUDENT IS IDENTIFIED AS SWEATING AND SICK AND EVERYTHING

6:52:26 ELSE, WHAT’S THE PROCESS WHEN THEY WALK INTO THE CLASSROOM?

6:52:30 WELL, THERE’S MORE TO THE STUDENT.

6:52:34 YOU KNOW, IF A STUDENT COMES INTO MY CLASSROOM SWEATY, I HAVE TO

6:52:37 LOOK OVER AND SAY, WELL, HE’S SWEATY BECAUSE HE WAS JUST RUNNING.

6:52:40 OR HE’S SWEATY BECAUSE HE LOOKS SICK.

6:52:42 AND THEN TYPICALLY – I MEAN, I COULD JUST TELL YOU TYPICALLY A

6:52:44 TEACHER WILL SAY, ARE YOU OKAY?

6:52:46 AND IF THE KID SAYS, I’M FEELING SICK, HIM AND A PARTNER IN ELEMENTARY

6:52:49 SCHOOL WALK DOWN TO THE CLINIC TOGETHER.

6:52:52 THAT IS A SAFETY MEASURE.

6:52:53 IN THIS CASE, IT’S NOT REALLY WHAT WE WANT, IS IT?

6:52:56 BUT THAT IS WHAT WE DO.

6:52:57 THAT’S – YEAH, GO AHEAD.

6:52:59 I DON’T WANT TO INTERRUPT YOU.

6:53:00 NO, GO AHEAD.

6:53:01 AND THAT, YOU KNOW, I DON’T MEAN TO MINIMIZE THE ASSESSMENT OF A

6:53:05 STUDENT.

6:53:06 BUT I GUESS WHAT EVERYONE HAS TO – YOU KNOW, WHAT DO YOU DO ON

6:53:10 A NORMAL DAY?

6:53:11 WHEN A CHILD IS SICK IN THE SCHOOL, THE TEACHERS DECIDE WHEN TO

6:53:15 SEND THEM DOWN.

6:53:17 IS THAT – I MEAN, I’VE NEVER BEEN A TEACHER IN A SCHOOL.

6:53:21 SO, IT’S THE TEACHER IN THE CLASSROOM WHO DECIDES, WITHOUT TAKING

6:53:25 A TEMPERATURE, BASED ON WHAT CHILD NEEDS TO BE SET DOWN TO THE

6:53:30 CLINIC.

6:53:31 I ENVISION THE SAME LEVEL OF ASSESSMENT FROM A TEACHER, NOT THAT

6:53:35 THEY HAVE TO DECIDE, IS THIS A COVID POSITIVE, OR IS THIS A VARICELLA,

6:53:41 OR IS THIS SOMETHING ELSE?

6:53:43 IT’S JUST – IF THE TEACHER KNOWS IN PREVIOUS COVID THAT THIS CHILD

6:53:49 IS SICK, I DON’T THINK THAT SHOULD CHANGE, OR EVEN SUSPECTS THAT

6:53:53 THIS CHILD IS SICK, I DON’T THINK THAT SHOULD CHANGE WHAT THEY

6:53:56 DO NOW THAT WE’RE IN A COVID SITUATION.

6:53:59 THEY’RE NOT – IT’S NOT THE TEACHER’S JOB TO DECIDE WHO IS TRULY

6:54:03 SICK AND WHO IS NOT.

6:54:05 THAT’S THE CLINIC’S JOB.

6:54:06 WE JUST WENT THROUGH A PROCESS WHERE WE SAID THAT THE TEACHER WOULD

6:54:09 BE ABLE TO IDENTIFY VIA TRAINING IF THERE’S A STUDENT THAT EXHIBITS

6:54:13 CERTAIN SYMPTOMS TO GET – TO BE SENT DOWN.

6:54:15 EXACTLY LIKE THEY DO NOW.

6:54:17 EXACTLY.

6:54:18 AND AT THAT POINT, THEY JUST SAY, ARE YOU NOT FEELING GOOD, AND

6:54:20 YOU SHOULD GO DOWN, RIGHT?

6:54:21 CORRECT.

6:54:22 SO MY POINT IS, IS THAT IF I HAVE A THERMOMETER CHECK AND I’M CHECKING

6:54:24 THOSE STUDENTS, WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SAYING THAT YOU

6:54:26 DON’T LOOK GOOD AND, HEY, YOU DO HAVE A TEMPERATURE, GO DOWN?

6:54:30 THE ENTIRE PROCESS THAT YOU JUST WALKED THROUGH, WHERE YOU SAID,

6:54:32 I’M NOT SURE IF WE REALLY WANT TO WALK THEM DOWN, YOU’RE SAYING

6:54:35 THAT THAT’S WHAT’S GOING TO HAPPEN ANYWAY IF THE COVID TEST IS POSITIVE

6:54:38 THROUGH THAT EVALUATION.

6:54:40 WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE THERMOMETER DOING THE SAME?

6:54:45 WE, YOU KNOW, OUR RECOMMENDATION WAS ON THE AGGREGATE OF INFORMATION

6:54:52 ON WHAT WE HEARD FROM OUR HEALTH DEPARTMENT, WHAT WE KNOW OF ROUTINE

6:54:59 CLINIC OPERATIONS, THE FEEDBACK WE’VE GOTTEN, THE RESEARCH WE’VE

6:55:05 DONE.

6:55:08 BUT WE, WITH ABSOLUTE CERTAINTY, THE THREE OF US AS LEADING THE

6:55:12 TASK FORCE, ARE PRESENTING YOU OUR RECOMMENDATION BASED ON THAT

6:55:17 INFORMATION.

6:55:18 WE BELIEVE THAT EVERY ASPECT OF THESE PREVENTATIVES, THERE’S,

6:55:22 AGAIN, ALL SIDES TO IT, AND WE WILL ABSOLUTELY RESPECT THE DIRECTION

6:55:27 OF THE BOARD.

6:55:28 AND WE WANTED TO PROVIDE WHERE WE LANDED AFTER MANY – WE TALKED

6:55:34 ABOUT TEACHERS, WE TALKED ABOUT ALL OF THOSE THINGS.

6:55:38 WE WERE ACTUALLY A LITTLE UNCOMFORTABLE REQUIRING IT OF OUR TEACHERS,

6:55:43 BUT WE ABSOLUTELY RESPECT THE BOARD’S DIRECTION ON THIS TOPIC.

6:55:48 AND THIS ISN’T A TOPIC THAT WE’RE DRAWING A LINE IN THE SAND BECAUSE

6:55:52 THE INFORMATION EVERY DAY IS DIFFERENT, RIGHT?

6:55:56 KIND OF LIKE WITH MASKS.

6:55:58 AND SO WE ARE HERE TO SUPPORT WHAT THE BOARD DIRECTS.

6:56:04 DR. MULIN’S ON THIS TOPIC, AND I FEEL LIKE I’M – WE DISCUSSED

6:56:08 THIS IN ADVANCE BECAUSE WE KNEW, RIGHT?

6:56:11 WE KNEW THIS IS A TOUGH ONE TO DECIDE HOW AND WHERE WE DRAW THE

6:56:15 LINE ON OUR LEVEL OF SCREENING IN THE SCHOOLS.

6:56:19 AND WE ARE NOT SURVISING FOR A SECOND THAT WE HAVE THE RIGHT ANSWER

6:56:23 BECAUSE WE DON’T KNOW THAT THERE IS A RIGHT ANSWER.

6:56:27 IT WAS OUR RECOMMENDATION JUST BASED ON THE AGGREGATE OF INFORMATION,

6:56:31 BUT WE TOTALLY RECOGNIZE SOME OF THE QUESTIONS YOU’RE ASKING ARE

6:56:35 VALID AND REASONABLE AND NOT ILLOGICAL.

6:56:39 AND SO –

6:56:41 I JUST – DID WE – WHEN WE REQUIRED THE COACHES TO DO A TEST

6:56:45 AND DO A CHECKLIST, DID WE CHECK IN WITH BFT TO MAKE SURE THAT

6:56:49 THAT WAS OKAY?

6:56:50 BECAUSE THAT’S WHAT –

6:56:51 THESE WERE – THESE WERE EXTRA EVENTS.

6:56:53 THESE WERE – THIS IS NOT PART OF – REMEMBER, THE SUMMER WORKOUT

6:56:56 IS VOLUNTARY CONDITIONING.

6:56:58 OKAY, BUT WHAT I’M SAYING IS IS THAT I AM ASKING TO BE ABLE TO

6:57:01 DO SOMETHING THAT IS ALREADY IN PLACE IN POLICY AND BEING REQUIRED

6:57:05 OF ATHLETIC COACHES AT A NUMBER THAT IS HIGHER THAN THE ACTUAL NUMBERS

6:57:09 OF A CLASSROOM.

6:57:10 AND YOU’RE COMING BACK TO ME AND SAYING THAT THE – THAT IT’S –

6:57:13 THAT WE WOULD HAVE DIFFICULTY WITH BFT, THAT WE WOULDN’T BE ABLE

6:57:16 TO DO IT BECAUSE OF TIME CONSTRAINTS, THAT WE WOULD HAVE PEOPLE

6:57:19 THAT ARE BACKED UP BECAUSE OF GROWERS.

6:57:22 WHAT I’M TRYING – WHAT I’M TRYING TO DO IS FIND OUT IF THERE’S

6:57:24 ONE – IF WE’RE ALLOWING IT OR REINFORCING IT TO BE DONE ON ONE

6:57:27 END, WHY IS IT THAT WE’RE NOT ON ANOTHER END?

6:57:29 MR. SUSAN MAD ANSWER – ADD TO THAT, WE HAVE SUMMER SCHOOL GOING

6:57:35 ON LIVE AND RIGHT NOW 13 OF OUR ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND WE ARE

6:57:41 NOT DOING TEMPERATURE CHECKS.

6:57:44 DOESN’T MEAN WE SHOULDN’T.

6:57:45 NO, BUT I JUST WANTED TO LET YOU KNOW THAT THE ATHLETICS IS DIFFERENT

6:57:49 TO THE INSTRUCTION THAT’S INCURRING RIGHT NOW.

6:57:52 WE ARE TRANSPORTING STUDENTS AND WE ARE NOT DOING TEMPERATURE CHECKS.

6:58:00 THE THEMOMETERS ARE AVAILABLE IN THE SCHOOL RIGHT NOW AT ALL THESE

6:58:04 SITES AS WELL AS HAND SANITIZER.

6:58:07 AND WE’RE SEEING IF ANY OF THESE PROCESSES THAT WE’VE DEVELOPED

6:58:13 ARE ACTUALLY WORKING IN REAL TIME.

6:58:17 SO I JUST WANTED YOU TO BE AWARE WE ARE NOT DOING THEM RIGHT NOW.

6:58:20 ALSO MR. SUSAN.

6:58:25 WE ARE MEETING WITH BFT AND WE’RE MEETING WITH THEM I BELIEVE A

6:58:28 WEEK FROM TODAY.

6:58:30 AND I KNOW THIS WILL BE A TOPIC OF DISCUSSION.

6:58:32 AND, YOU KNOW, SO I DON’T WANT IT TO BE SURMISED THAT WE’RE GOING

6:58:34 TO HAVE TROUBLE WITH THAT BECAUSE I DON’T BELIEVE THAT TO BE THE

6:58:37 CASE.

6:58:38 I THINK IT’S ULTIMATELY THE GUIDANCE THAT WE GET FROM THE CDC

6:58:41 AND THE DOH AND GUIDANCE FROM THE BOARD AND DIRECTION FROM THE

6:58:44 BOARD ON WHAT YOU WANT US TO DO.

6:58:46 BUT BFT IS PART OF THE CONVERSATION AND WE ARE ABSOLUTELY MEETING

6:58:49 WITH THEM NEXT WEEK TO WORK THROUGH AN MOA.

6:58:52 SO I JUST WANTED YOU TO BE AWARE OF THAT.

6:58:54 IS THERE ANY WAY TO MEET WITH THEM PRIOR TO US ACTUALLY IMPLEMENTING

6:58:56 THE PLAN AND ASKING THEM IF THEY’RE GOING TO HAVE ANY PUSHBACK

6:58:59 ON US ACTUALLY ALLOWING OUR TEACHERS TO TEMPERATURE CHECK AT THE

6:59:02 DOORS.

6:59:03 AND I’M SORRY TO KEEP BEATING A DEAD HORSE, BUT IF WE KNOW THAT

6:59:06 50% OF THE CASES THAT ARE COMING INTO OUR SCHOOLS ARE GOING TO

6:59:10 HAVE A TEMPERATURE,

6:59:11 RIGHT, AND WE’RE NOT IDENTIFYING A SOLID PLAN TO IDENTIFY THOSE

6:59:14 WITH THE THERMOMETERS OR WHATEVER IT IS, THEN I THINK WE NEED TO

6:59:19 DO A BETTER JOB THERE.

6:59:21 AND IF WE’RE ALREADY REQUIRING OUR COACHES TO GO THROUGH A FORMAT

6:59:24 LIST OF ALL THIS OTHER STUFF WITH TEAMS THAT ARE ACTUALLY LARGER

6:59:28 SIZE THAN THE CLASSROOMS,

6:59:30 I WOULD ARGUE THAT WE ARE NOT IN AN AREA THAT THAT IS AN ISSUE

6:59:34 TO REQUIRE IT.

6:59:36 IF I MAY, I JUST KEEP THINKING BACK TO TWO YEARS AGO WHEN I WAS

6:59:41 HAVING A FIT ABOUT OUR LICE POLICY.

6:59:43 AND – YOU REMEMBER THIS, MS. CLINE?

6:59:46 I DO, AND I HAD ALREADY – WE’VE HAD THAT CONVERSATION.

6:59:49 THE SAME DISCUSSION.

6:59:51 LIKE, THE SCHOOL WAS NOT ALLOWED TO TELL US EVEN WHICH CLASSROOM

6:59:53 THE STUDENT WAS IDENTIFIED IN THAT HAD LICE SO THAT THE OTHER

6:59:57 STUDENTS COULD BE AWARE.

6:59:59 AND IT’S STILL A RIDICULOUS POLICY TO ME.

7:00:02 BUT THE REASONING YOU ALL TOLD ME – YOU SAID IT CAME FROM THE DEPARTMENT

7:00:05 OF HEALTH, I THINK.

7:00:06 DIDN’T?

7:00:07 NO, THAT POLICY DIDN’T COME FROM DOH.

7:00:09 THAT CAME FROM THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRIC.

7:00:11 OKAY.

7:00:12 AND THE CDC’S RECOMMENDATION.

7:00:13 SOME OF THE REASONING WAS THE STUDENT’S PRIVACY, AND I GUESS,

7:00:16 YOU KNOW, HISTORICALLY OTHER STUDENTS NOW PICK ON THAT STUDENT,

7:00:20 AND WE COULDN’T PULL THE STUDENT OUT RIGHT THEN.

7:00:23 I MEAN, IT’S A HUGE DEAL FOR LICE.

7:00:25 AND I KNOW THESE ARE VERY DIFFERENT CIRCUMSTANCES.

7:00:28 BUT IF WE HAVE A LINE OF STUDENTS AT THE DOOR, AND WE PULL JOEY

7:00:33 AND SUSY – YOU HEAR IT RIGHT NOW, RIGHT?

7:00:36 OOH, THEY GOT THE RONA.

7:00:38 I COULD HEAR THE KIDS.

7:00:39 KIDS ARE KIDS.

7:00:40 AND SO NOW THEY’VE BEEN IDENTIFIED, THEN THEY DON’T COME BACK

7:00:43 FOR 14 DAYS.

7:00:44 I’M NOT SAYING WE DON’T DO IT BECAUSE OF THAT, MR. SUSAN.

7:00:47 I’M JUST SAYING IS THIS NOW A CONCERN?

7:00:51 BECAUSE YOU GUYS – I THINK YOU ALL TOLD ME THE LICE THING WAS

7:00:53 VIOLATING THEIR PRIVACY RIGHTS.

7:00:56 DOES THIS VIOLATE THEIR PRIVACY RIGHTS?

7:00:59 OR IF WE’RE GOING TO ALLOW TEACHERS – I DON’T THINK – I’M NOT

7:01:03 COMFORTABLE WITH THE MANDATING.

7:01:05 IF BFT WANTS TO COME FORWARD AND PUT IN THEIR CONTRACT THAT TEACHERS

7:01:08 THEY WANT US TO REQUIRE, THEN I’M OKAY WITH THAT.

7:01:12 BUT I LIKE THE IDEA OF MAYBE US PROVIDING IF A TEACHER WANTS ONE

7:01:15 FOR THEIR CLASSROOM, BUT NOT IF IT’S GOING TO VIOLATE THE PRIVACY

7:01:19 RIGHTS OF THE STUDENT.

7:01:20 THERE’S MY –

7:01:21 I THINK THERE’S THAT BALANCE THERE WITH PRIVACY RIGHTS OF STUDENTS.

7:01:24 BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, I DO RECALL THE ARGUMENT OVER HEAD LICE.

7:01:27 I KNOW EXACTLY WHERE THE POLICY CAME FROM.

7:01:29 AND IT IS CDC AND AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS.

7:01:33 AND, YOU KNOW, I THINK THERE’S FURTHER DISCUSSION THAT NEEDS TO

7:01:35 HAPPEN.

7:01:36 AND I THINK WE’VE GOT – WE ARE ON – WE’RE ON THE TWO SIDES OF

7:01:40 THE FENCE ON THAT.

7:01:42 ON SAFETY AND HEALTH OF EVERYBODY AROUND AND MAINTAINING PRIVACY

7:01:45 OF TEACHERS AND STUDENTS AND STAFF MEMBERS.

7:01:48 AND I THINK IT’S A DELICATE BALANCE.

7:01:50 AND WE JUST HAVE TO WORK THROUGH ALL THOSE BALANCES TO MAKE IT

7:01:52 WORK IN OUR SCHOOLS.

7:01:54 AND I COULDN’T AGREE WITH YOU MORE BECAUSE I KNOW THAT THAT’S

7:01:55 WHAT’S GOING TO HAPPEN IF AN INDIVIDUAL IS IDENTIFIED.

7:01:58 BUT I FEEL THAT WE HAVE TO BE STRONGER HERE IN THIS POLICY –

7:02:00 THIS PART OF THE THING.

7:02:02 I THINK THAT THERE NEEDS TO BE SOME WAY OF IDENTIFYING THESE KIDS.

7:02:05 BECAUSE IF YOU’RE SAYING THAT WE’RE NOT – IF YOU’RE SAYING THAT

7:02:07 WE’RE NOT IDENTIFYING KIDS AS THEY’RE COMING IN,

7:02:10 YOU’RE SAYING THAT WE CAN’T – WE CAN’T PULL THEM OUT.

7:02:12 WE CAN’T – WE CAN’T SEND THEM DOWN.

7:02:13 WE CAN’T – I MEAN, THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN EVERYTHING WE’RE TRYING

7:02:16 TO DO TO PROTECT THE KIDS FROM COVID BECOMES,

7:02:18 YOU KNOW, NOT AS VALID AS WHAT WE COULD BE.

7:02:21 SO ALL I’M ASKING IS, IS THAT IF YOU GUYS CAN FIND A WAY TO –

7:02:26 AND MAYBE I’M SPEAKING AS AN INDIVIDUAL,

7:02:28 NOT FOR THE BOARD, BUT JUST TO FIND A WAY TO SET UP A STRONGER

7:02:31 PERIMETER TO TRY TO STOP ANY OF THIS –

7:02:34 A WAY TO CATCH THE KIDS BEFORE THEY’RE COMING ON.

7:02:37 I DON’T KNOW.

7:02:39 I MEAN, I DON’T KNOW.

7:02:40 BUSES?

7:02:41 IF I CAN JUST SUMMARIZE WHERE WE’RE AT, JUST, YOU KNOW, SO WE

7:02:44 KNOW THE DIRECTION OF THE BOARD AND MOVING FORWARD.

7:02:48 I DON’T BELIEVE WE HAVE A REFERENCE CARD OR REFERENCE SHEET OF

7:02:55 TYPICAL SYMPTOMS OR SIGNS TO BE AWARE OF AND LOOK FOR ILLNESS.

7:03:01 PERHAPS WE COULD WORK WITH THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT TO PUT THAT TOGETHER

7:03:04 TO MAKE THAT RESOURCE AVAILABLE TO OUR TEACHERS.

7:03:06 YOU KNOW, PATTY REFERENCED TO SOME THINGS AS WELL.

7:03:11 THE COMMITTEE MET OBVIOUSLY WORKED THROUGH A LOT OF THE SAME STRUGGLES

7:03:15 AND CHALLENGES THAT HAVE BEEN PRESENTED.

7:03:17 WE’RE PRESENTING THE RECOMMENDATION BASED ON ALL OF THAT CONSIDERATION.

7:03:21 BUT CLEARLY, THIS IS WHY WE’RE HERE FOR THE DISCUSSION, IS TO RECEIVE

7:03:26 THE DIRECTION OF THE BOARD,

7:03:28 IF WE – IF IT IS THE WISHES OF THE BOARD TO MOVE IN EITHER A DIFFERENT

7:03:33 DIRECTION, A MODIFIED DIRECTION OR SO ON.

7:03:37 I WOULD – I’LL PERHAPS DANGEROUSLY SPEAK ON BEHALF OF THE TEAM.

7:03:41 I BELIEVE IT IS FEASIBLY VERY CHALLENGING TO DAILY SCREEN EVERY

7:03:49 STUDENT AS THEY WALK INTO THE SCHOOL,

7:03:53 JUST BY SHEER NUMBERS, WHETHER IT’S A SMALL SCHOOL IN THE AVAILABILITY

7:03:56 OF STAFF OR A LARGE SCHOOL IN THE AVAILABILITY OF STAFF.

7:03:59 IS IT MANAGEABLE ONCE THEY REACH THEIR CLASSROOM?

7:04:05 THAT SEEMS LIKE IT COULD BE MORE FEASIBLE THAN OTHERWISE.

7:04:11 IT WOULD REQUIRE DISCUSSION WITH BFT.

7:04:16 WHAT ABOUT THE BUS?

7:04:17 AGREEMENT FROM THEM.

7:04:18 I THINK THAT CONVERSATION – I DON’T SEE ANY REASON WHY WE CAN’T

7:04:19 AT LEAST HAVE A CONVERSATION WITH UNION LEADERSHIP PRIOR TO TUESDAY.

7:04:24 I DON’T HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THAT AND WE COULD CERTAINLY PURSUE

7:04:28 THAT.

7:04:29 THE ONLY OTHER ELEMENT THAT I WANT TO MAKE THE BOARD AWARE OF

7:04:33 FOR DISCUSSION AND THEN ULTIMATELY DIRECTION,

7:04:36 IF WE MOVE IN THE DIRECTION OF ADDITIONAL THERMOMETERS FOR STAFF,

7:04:41 ROUGH ESTIMATE AT $46, $45 TO $50 A PIECE FOR THE ADDITIONAL TEACHERS

7:04:46 WHO WOULD REQUIRE THEM OUTSIDE THE ONES WE ALREADY HAVE,

7:04:49 IT’S PROBABLY JUST UNDER A $200,000 INVESTMENT.

7:04:53 COULD IT BE PAID FOR OUT OF CARES ACT?

7:04:55 I FULLY SUSPECT IT COULD.

7:04:57 QUICK QUESTION, WOULD IT QUALIFY AS A FEMA REIMBURSEMENT?

7:05:02 YES, I FEEL VERY STRONGLY THAT IT WOULD BE ONE OF THOSE ITEMS

7:05:07 THAT WE COULD DO A CARES ACT-FEMA SPLIT ON.

7:05:11 AND SO, TWO ISSUES, AND MS. LASINSKI IS TRYING TO KEEP FROM HAVING

7:05:18 A HEART ATTACK OVER THERE.

7:05:20 WE’RE FRONT LOADING EXPENSES, RIGHT?

7:05:23 SO NONE OF THESE FUNDS ARE MAGICALLY HERE.

7:05:26 SO ALL OF THESE ITEMS WE TALKED ABOUT PRIORITIZING TO BE IN PEOPLE’S

7:05:29 HANDS,

7:05:30 WE HAVE FUNDED THROUGH DISTRICT FUNDS, AND THEN ANTICIPATE AS SOON

7:05:35 AS CARES ACT ARRIVES,

7:05:36 TO BE ABLE TO DO EXPENDITURE TRANSFERS ON THE EXPENSES THAT CAN

7:05:39 BE COVERED WITH CARES ACT,

7:05:41 AND THEN SUBMIT ALL THE REIMBURSEMENTS FOR FEMA.

7:05:44 AND WE FEEL REALLY CONFIDENT THAT A THERMOMETER WOULD BE A QUALIFYING

7:05:48 EXPENSE.

7:05:49 AND I DON’T FORSEE ANY REASON, AND I’VE READ IT ALL.

7:05:54 SO I FEEL REALLY COMFORTABLE ABOUT THAT.

7:05:56 AND AGAIN, YOU KNOW, WE AWAIT YOUR GUIDANCE FROM THE DIRECTION

7:05:59 OF THE BOARD.

7:06:01 AND WE WOULD NEED, MR. GIBS, WE WOULD NEED TO KNOW THAT LINE

7:06:06 THAT DR. THETTY WAS TALKING ABOUT.

7:06:08 IT IS ONE THING TO SEND A KID WITH SYMPTOMS TO THE CLINIC,

7:06:15 BECAUSE YOU HAVE EVIDENCE THAT THE CHILD MAY BE ILL.

7:06:20 IT IS ANOTHER TO SCREEN EVERY CHILD AND HAVE IT NOT BE A PRIVATE

7:06:26 SCREENING

7:06:27 WHERE YOU DON’T HAVE A PRESUMPTION THAT YOU ARE PROTECTING THE

7:06:33 COMMON GOOD.

7:06:34 SO IF YOU COULD DO A LITTLE RESEARCH THERE, I THINK THAT’S MY

7:06:38 BIGGEST MISSING PIECE HERE.

7:06:39 AND IF I COULD JUST SAY, IF THE CONFIDENCE OF THE PUBLIC DOESN’T,

7:06:48 ISN’T THERE AND THEY DON’T SEND THEIR KIDS TO OUR SCHOOLS FOR

7:06:50 EVERY 100 KIDS IS $800,000.

7:06:51 SO WHEN I SAY THAT THIS PERIMETER AND EVERYTHING ELSE, IT’S PART

7:06:55 OF ME AS A FATHER FOR MY DAUGHTER,

7:06:56 BUT ALSO OTHER PARENTS THAT ARE OUT THERE TRYING TO SAY THEY WANT

7:07:01 TO KNOW THAT OUR SCHOOLS ARE THE SAFEST THEY CAN BE.

7:07:03 AND THIS IS A BIG DEAL FOR ME AS A BOARD MEMBER, I FEEL.

7:07:07 AND I MAY BE WRONG.

7:07:08 WE MAY COME OUT OF THIS MEETING AND EVERYBODY MIGHT SAY, NO, WE’RE

7:07:10 FINE.

7:07:11 THAT DOESN’T MATTER.

7:07:12 BUT JUST FROM THE GUT RIGHT NOW, THIS WAS A SCARY PART.

7:07:15 SO, ALL RIGHT.

7:07:17 WE GOOD?

7:07:18 I’M HAVING TO LOOK AT THAT.

7:07:19 MY QUESTION STILL IS, TO WHAT END?

7:07:22 DO THEY GO HOME FOR THAT DAY?

7:07:24 OR ARE WE SAYING, YOU’RE OUT FOR TWO WEEKS?

7:07:27 OR UNTIL YOU BRING US A NEGATIVE TEST?

7:07:29 WE CAN’T MAKE THEM TAKE A TEST.

7:07:31 WE CAN’T SEND THEM TO DOH AND SAY, YOU HAVE TO BE TESTED.

7:07:35 THEY’RE NOT GOING TO FORCE THEM TO BE TESTED.

7:07:37 SO, MY QUESTION IS, TO WHAT END?

7:07:38 BECAUSE THERE’S ALSO GOING TO BE DUE PROCESS.

7:07:40 BECAUSE IF YOU’RE KICKING THEM OUT OF SCHOOL FOR TWO WEEKS,

7:07:44 YOU’RE DENYING THEM EDUCATION.

7:07:46 SO –

7:07:47 CAN SOMEBODY TELL ME AT WHAT POINT WE ARE GOING TO TELL

7:07:49 KIDS TO STAY OUT FOR TWO WEEKS?

7:07:52 SINCE IT’S POINTED – IT’S BROUGHT UP.

7:07:54 YEAH, SURE.

7:07:55 A COUPLE – A COUPLE OF – THERE’S –

7:07:56 WELL, WHEN WE GET TO COVID, I’LL TELL YOU.

7:07:57 BUT I’LL SAY IT NOW.

7:07:59 A STUDENT IS GOING TO BE OUT FOR TWO WEEKS IF THEY ARE A

7:08:02 CONTACT TO A FAMILIAL CASE.

7:08:05 SO, IF A FAMILY MEMBER IS POSITIVE FOR COVID,

7:08:08 THEY WOULD BE – AND THEY WOULD BE – I NEED TO

7:08:13 WAIT UNTIL WE GET TO THE COVID SECTION.

7:08:15 DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY TIMES THAT PATTY SEABERT AND I GET ON

7:08:17 THE PHONE AND I SAY, I KNOW I KNOW THIS, AND THEN WE WALK

7:08:20 THROUGH IT AGAIN.

7:08:21 SO, THEY WOULD BE OUT FOR TWO WEEKS.

7:08:23 IF THEY’RE A PRESUMPTIVE CASE, THEY WOULD BE OUT FOR TWO

7:08:25 WEEKS.

7:08:26 WHAT IS PRESUMPTIVE CASE?

7:08:27 A PRESUMPTIVE CASE IS THEY HAVE A FAMILY MEMBER WHO

7:08:29 HAS COVID AND THEY’RE SHOWING SYMPTOMS.

7:08:32 SO, A STUDENT SHOWS UP AT OUR SCHOOL AND HAS SYMPTOMS, AND

7:08:35 WE ARE CAPABLE AND ABLE TO SEND THEM HOME FOR 14 DAYS.

7:08:38 IF THEY HAVE A FAMILY MEMBER THAT HAS A POSITIVE CASE THAT

7:08:40 THEY LIVE WITH.

7:08:41 WHICH HAS TO BE SELF-REPORTED.

7:08:43 WHEN I STARTED THAT WHOLE SECTION, IT WAS BASED ON THE

7:08:46 PREMISE THAT OUR STRONGEST ALLY IS OUR FAMILIES.

7:08:49 IF FAMILIES DO THE TEMPERATURE CHECK AND DO THE HEALTH

7:08:53 SCREENING, IF THEY DON’T SEND THEIR STUDENTS TO SCHOOL SICK,

7:08:57 IF THEY TELL US WHEN THEY HAVE A FAMILY MEMBER THAT TESTS

7:08:59 POSITIVE, IF WE DON’T HAVE THEM AS AN ALLY, THAT PERIMETER,

7:09:04 THERE’S NO WAY WE’RE GOING TO BE ABLE TO DO LIKE YOU SAID

7:09:07 AND HAVE A STRONG PERIMETER.

7:09:09 BECAUSE WE’RE GOING TO HAVE A WHOLE LOT OF ASYMPTOMATIC

7:09:11 KIDS COMING TO SCHOOL THAT MAY BE SHEDDING THE VIRUS

7:09:14 BECAUSE THEY HAVE SICK FAMILY MEMBERS.

7:09:15 OR THEY TOOK A TYLENOL BEFORE THEY GOT ON THE BUS.

7:09:18 SO THOSE ARE SOME OF THE REASONS WHY STUDENTS MIGHT BE SENT

7:09:22 HOME FOR TWO WEEKS.

7:09:23 SO I’M – AND I’M TRYING TO GET THIS STRAIGHT.

7:09:26 THERE’S A STUDENT THAT IS IN A CLASS OF A TEACHER.

7:09:29 THEY IDENTIFY THEM AS HAVING THE SYMPTOMS.

7:09:32 THEY SEND THEM DOWN TO THE FRONT OFFICE AND THEY CAN’T BE –

7:09:36 THEY CAN’T STAY THERE.

7:09:37 THEY CAN’T BE SENT HOME.

7:09:38 THEY CAN’T BE ANYTHING.

7:09:39 THEY CAN’T BE SENT HOME.

7:09:40 THEY CAN’T BE ANYTHING.

7:09:41 THEY CAN BE SENT HOME.

7:09:42 BUT NOT – THE QUESTION WAS FOR TWO WEEKS.

7:09:45 BASED ON WHAT?

7:09:46 WE CAN’T FORCE THEM TO TAKE A TEST.

7:09:49 THE FAMILY CAN SAY TO US –

7:09:50 OKAY.

7:09:51 BUT THAT PROCESS IS SOMETHING THAT WE CAN IDENTIFY AND SEND THE

7:09:54 SAME PROCESS THROUGH IF THEY’RE IDENTIFIED WITH A

7:09:57 THERMOMETER, IF THEY’RE IDENTIFIED BY ASYMPTOMATIC, OR

7:09:59 IDENTIFIED AS ANYTHING.

7:10:00 AND HE’S ASKING AT WHAT POINT DO WE START.

7:10:02 WE’LL GET INTO THOSE IN THE NEXT COUPLE OF SLIDES, I GUESS.

7:10:06 BUT THE IDENTIFICATION PROCESS IS THAT WE CAN IDENTIFY A KID

7:10:09 THAT HAS SYMPTOMS AND PUT THEM INSIDE OF THE HEALTH AND CALL THEIR

7:10:13 PARENTS.

7:10:14 THAT IS PART OF THE LEGAL PROCESS.

7:10:16 OKAY.

7:10:17 WE’VE ALWAYS BEEN ABLE TO.

7:10:18 YES.

7:10:19 NO DOUBT.

7:10:20 THAT’S WHY I WAS QUESTIONABLE ABOUT IT.

7:10:22 OKAY.

7:10:23 HOW ARE WE GOING TO VERIFY TO FIDELITY THE CONTACT INFORMATION

7:10:26 FOR EACH ONE OF THE LEGAL GUARDIANS?

7:10:28 I’M TRYING TO CALL, YOU KNOW, AND I DON’T GET THIS BECAUSE

7:10:32 THAT’S A KEY, RIGHT?

7:10:33 IN MANY OF THE AREAS WHERE WE HAVE STUDENTS THAT MAY NOT HAVE

7:10:36 GUARDIANS THAT COME PICK THEM UP, THIS IS THE HARDEST AREA.

7:10:39 SO WHAT IS THE PLAN THERE TO MAKE SURE THAT THE FIDELITY OF

7:10:41 ALL THOSE ARE TAKEN CARE OF?

7:10:43 YEAH, THAT STARTS AT REGISTRATION.

7:10:45 SO WE’VE CONTINUALLY ADDED WORD VERBIGE TO OUR REGISTRATION

7:10:50 PAPERWORK ABOUT WHAT AN EMERGENCY CONTACT IS, WHO THEY ARE,

7:10:53 AND HOW THEY GET INPUTED.

7:10:55 WE ASK THAT THAT REGISTRATION PAPERWORK BE DONE EVERY SINGLE

7:10:57 YEAR.

7:10:58 WE INPUT IT EVERY SINGLE YEAR.

7:11:01 ONCE PARENTS HAVE NOTIFIED US THAT IT’S AN EMERGENCY CONTACT,

7:11:05 THAT DOESN’T MEAN THAT PERSON HAS CART BLANCH TO SHOW UP AND PICK

7:11:08 UP

7:11:08 A STUDENT.

7:11:09 IF SOMEBODY COMES TO PICK UP A STUDENT AND THEY’RE ON THE

7:11:12 EMERGENCY LIST, WE STILL HAVE AN OBLIGATION TO CALL THE

7:11:15 PARENT AND SAY, DO YOU KNOW THIS PERSON IS HERE TO PICK UP YOUR

7:11:18 CHILD?

7:11:19 AND IN A CASE OF AN EMERGENCY PICK UP, WE WOULD MAKE THE

7:11:21 ASSUMPTION THAT WE’VE SPOKEN TO THE PARENT, THEY HAVE INFORMED

7:11:24 US WHO

7:11:24 THE EMERGENCY PICK UP IS, AND WE ASK FOR I.D.

7:11:28 SO, AND I GET THAT.

7:11:30 I WAS JUST SAYING, WE, THE FIRST BULLET SAYS ALL PARENTS, WE

7:11:34 SHOULD VERIFY THAT THEY HAVE ACCURATE INFORMATION.

7:11:37 SO, ARE WE GOING TO TAKE ALL OF THE REGISTRATION AND THEN

7:11:40 SOMEBODY IS CALLING EACH ONE OF THOSE NUMBERS AND EMAILING FOR

7:11:43 VERIFICATION?

7:11:44 SO, MEANING THAT, HOW DO WE KNOW THAT THE NUMBERS THAT WE

7:11:47 HAVE INSIDE THE SYSTEM ARE VALID?

7:11:50 WHO IS VERIFYING THAT?

7:11:51 WHAT IS THE VERIFICATION PROCESS OF THAT?

7:11:53 WITH ALL DUE RESPECT, MR. SUSAN, EVEN IF WE VERIFY IT

7:11:56 ON THE DAY OF REGISTRATION, WE HAVE SO MUCH MOBILITY IN OUR

7:11:59 COMMUNITY AND PEOPLE WHO CHANGE PHONE NUMBERS AND

7:12:02 CHANGE, LIKE, WE COULD VERIFY IT TODAY AND TOMORROW IT’S

7:12:05 GOING TO BE WRONG.

7:12:06 FOR THE, FOR A PORTION.

7:12:08 SO, IT JUST SAID, WHEN THE SPEECH CAME, WHEN THE PEACE CAME

7:12:12 OUT, IT SAID THAT ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS IS

7:12:14 HAVING VERIFIED CONTACT INFORMATION OF OUR PEOPLE, AND

7:12:17 THAT’S WHAT I WAS ASKING.

7:12:18 SURE.

7:12:19 SO, ARE WE NOT, WE’RE NOT VERIFYING, WE’RE NOT

7:12:21 FOLLOWING UP, WE’RE NOT DOING ANY OF THAT STUFF, WE’RE JUST

7:12:23 TAKING IT IN AT REGISTRATION AND WE’RE GOOD?

7:12:26 YEAH.

7:12:27 IT MAY BE A POOR WORD TO PUT THERE, BUT THE WAY THAT WE

7:12:31 VIEWED THE VERIFICATION IS THAT EVERY YEAR WE ASK PARENTS TO

7:12:36 UPDATE THEIR INFORMATION, AND EVERY YEAR A CLERK GETS THAT

7:12:39 UPDATED INFORMATION, BRINGS IT UP ON AS 400, FIXES WHAT NEEDS

7:12:43 TO BE FIXED, AND THEN THAT IS WHAT WE ARE CONSIDERING OUR

7:12:48 VERIFICATION.

7:12:49 IT MIGHT BE BETTER IF WE HAD USED THE WORD UPDATED AS OPPOSED TO

7:12:52 VERIFIED.

7:12:53 AND THEN WE WOULD KNOW UNTIL THE TIME OF – THAT WE HAVE AN

7:12:57 INST – SOMETHING HAPPENS, WHETHER IT’S, YOU KNOW, DISCIPLINE OR

7:13:00 WHATEVER, THAT WE CONTACT THE PARENT IF THAT’S A VALID ONE.

7:13:02 AND YOU’RE RIGHT, STEVE, BECAUSE THERE’S A LOT OF THE

7:13:04 KIDS MOVE AROUND.

7:13:05 IF WE HAVE A STUDENT THAT’S INSIDE OF – THAT’S SHOWING

7:13:09 SYMPTOMS THAT’S INSIDE OF THE CLINIC, AND THEIR PARENTS

7:13:12 DON’T COME UP AND GET THEM, WHAT’S THE PLAN THERE?

7:13:14 OR IS THAT LATER ON IN THE LIST?

7:13:15 NO, NO, NO.

7:13:16 THAT’S IN THIS SECTION.

7:13:18 THEY WOULD BE PUT IN A SEPARATE SPACE.

7:13:21 EACH SCHOOL WAS ASKED TO IDENTIFY A SEPARATE SPACE.

7:13:24 THAT IS ONE OF THOSE CASES WHERE THE STUDENT WOULD HAVE

7:13:26 TO WEAR A FACE MASK, AND WE WOULD CONTINUE TO MAKE

7:13:29 EFFORTS TO CALL THE PARENTS.

7:13:31 AT SOME POINT, WE WOULD – YOU KNOW, WE WOULD – WHAT?

7:13:34 WE WOULD – YEAH.

7:13:36 AT SOME POINT, WE WOULD HAVE TO GET AN OUTSIDE AGENCY

7:13:39 INVOLVED IF WE COULDN’T EVENTUALLY REACH A PARENT.

7:13:42 THAT’S LIKE THE END OF THE DAY.

7:13:44 TEACHERS ARE GOING HOME, THAT KIND OF STUFF.

7:13:46 YEAH.

7:13:47 WE ARE AWARE THERE ARE CERTAIN AREAS IN OUR DISTRICT

7:13:49 THAT CERTAIN EMPLOYERS THAT DO NOT ALLOW PARENTS

7:13:52 TO GET PHONE CALLS, YOU KNOW, PERIOD, THE END.

7:13:55 BUT WE’RE ALSO AWARE THAT THERE ARE – AND THAT THERE ARE

7:13:58 SOME LIMITATIONS TO COMMUNICATION, BUT AT SOME POINT,

7:14:03 WE NEED TO GET OUTSIDE AGENCIES INVOLVED IF WE CAN’T

7:14:05 GET A SICK CHILD.

7:14:06 ABSOLUTELY.

7:14:07 AND THEN IF THERE’S A – I KNOW THAT IF A STUDENT

7:14:08 BREAKS AN ARM OR DOES SOMETHING LIKE THAT, WE

7:14:10 TRANSPORT THEM, RIGHT?

7:14:11 CORRECT.

7:14:12 IS THERE A LEVEL OR A THRESHOLD

7:14:13 AT WHICH THE STUDENT IS EXHIBITING SIGNS OF A HIGH

7:14:16 FEVER, THE PARENTS AREN’T GOING, THAT WE TRANSPORT

7:14:18 THEM TO THE HOSPITAL?

7:14:19 IS THAT TRUE, TOO?

7:14:20 THAT IS ABSOLUTELY TRUE.

7:14:21 OUR NURSES MAKE THAT DECISION FOR US, WELL, IN

7:14:24 COMBINATION WITH THE SCHOOL ADMINISTRATOR.

7:14:26 ANYTIME THERE’S A QUESTION IF A CHILD’S HEALTH IS IN

7:14:29 DANGER OR LIFE IS IN DANGER, WE CALL AN AMBULANCE.

7:14:32 AND THEN –

7:14:33 WE BECOME – TO BE FRANKLY, WE BECOME IN LOCAL

7:14:35 PARENTIS UP UNTIL THE POINT THAT WE CAN PASS OFF TO A

7:14:37 PARENT.

7:14:38 SO HERE’S THE NEXT QUESTION.

7:14:39 THE – THE EXTRA ROOM THAT YOU’RE TALKING ABOUT THAT’S

7:14:42 SET ASIDE FOR THE STUDENTS TO COME INTO, THAT NURSE THEN

7:14:46 HAS TO GO SIT WITH THE STUDENTS INSIDE THAT CLASSROOM OR

7:14:50 THAT AREA?

7:14:51 AND IF SO, WHO IS COVERING THE FRONT MEDICATIONS AND ALL

7:14:54 OF THAT STUFF?

7:14:55 THAT AREA HAS TO HAVE LINE OF SIGHT

7:14:57 SUPERVISION.

7:14:58 IT DOESN’T NECESSARILY MEAN THE NURSE IS GOING TO

7:15:00 LEAVE THE CLINIC BECAUSE YOU’RE ABSOLUTELY 100%

7:15:02 RIGHT.

7:15:03 THAT POINT WE WENT OVER AND OVER IS THAT THAT NURSE HAS

7:15:06 ANOTHER JOB AND THAT NURSE NEEDS TO BE AVAILABLE FOR

7:15:09 THAT OTHER JOB.

7:15:10 SO THAT STUDENT JUST HAS TO BE IN AN AREA WHERE THERE’S A

7:15:13 LINE OF SIGHT AND BE QUARANTINED IN AN AREA THAT IT’S

7:15:16 NOT WITH ANYBODY ELSE?

7:15:17 YEAH.

7:15:18 AND ALL OF THOSE ROOMS THAT YOU’RE TALKING ABOUT AT

7:15:21 EACH ONE OF THE SCHOOLS IS GOING TO BE WITHIN LINE OF

7:15:23 SIGHT OF THE NURSE?

7:15:25 I CAN’T ANSWER THAT.

7:15:26 IT’S GOING TO BE DIFFERENT IN DIFFERENT SCHOOLS.

7:15:29 IT MIGHT BE A CLERK THAT’S IN THERE.

7:15:31 WE MIGHT HAVE TO PUT AN IA IN THERE.

7:15:33 IT MIGHT BE AN OPEN DOOR FROM THE SECRETARY’S OFFICE TO

7:15:37 THE HOLE.

7:15:38 YOU KNOW, THERE’S ALL DIFFERENT VARIATIONS OF THAT.

7:15:41 AND IF YOU HAVE TWO KIDS?

7:15:43 WE’RE GETTING, WE’RE GETTING ROUGH.

7:15:45 IT’S GETTING TOUGH.

7:15:46 NO, BUT I MEAN, CAN YOU PUT TWO KIDS IN THE SAME ROOM?

7:15:48 SHOULDN’T.

7:15:49 SO NOW WE HAVE TO HAVE MULTIPLE AREAS.

7:15:51 COULD HAPPEN.

7:15:52 AND OUR PRINCIPLES KNOW THAT TO SET OFF A COUPLE OF EXTRA

7:15:56 AREAS, RIGHT?

7:15:57 WE’VE, THEY ARE ALL WORKING ON THEIR PLANS.

7:16:01 OK.

7:16:02 IT IS, ALL OF THESE CONVERSATIONS, EVERY LAST ONE OF THEM HAVE

7:16:06 BEEN

7:16:07 KIND OF ENDING WITH THIS IS A NO-WIN SCENARIO.

7:16:10 WE CAN’T SOLVE ALL OF THESE ISSUES AND WE CAN’T ADDRESS ALL OF

7:16:15 THESE CONCERNS.

7:16:16 WHAT’S THE BEST THAT WE CAN DO?

7:16:19 AND SO AS IT RELATES TO THE CLINIC, WE KNOW WE NEED TO ISOLATE KIDS

7:16:23 WHO MIGHT POSSIBLY

7:16:24 HAVE COVID.

7:16:25 WE KNOW WE NEED TO DEPEND ON OUR FAMILIES TO ANSWER OUR CALL.

7:16:32 AND IF WE DON’T HAVE THAT ANSWER, WE’RE GOING TO BE IN A ROUGH

7:16:35 SPOT.

7:16:36 LET ME ASK YOU THIS.

7:16:37 WE HAVE 16 LOCATIONS THAT WE HAVE VACANCIES FOR OUR SCHOOL NURSES.

7:16:42 SO WE WILL HAVE A NURSE AT EVERY LOCATION?

7:16:45 I CAN’T SAY WE’RE GOING TO HAVE A NURSE AT EVERY LOCATION, BUT

7:16:47 WE DON’T HAVE 16 LOCATIONS

7:16:49 WITHOUT A NURSE.

7:16:50 YEAH, WHEN PATTY WAS TALKING ABOUT VACANCIES, A LOT OF THOSE ARE

7:16:53 THE FLOATERS.

7:16:55 SO I THINK WHEN WE LEFT LAST YEAR, I THINK WE HAD LESS THAN FOUR

7:17:00 VACANCIES.

7:17:02 AND SO WE’LL BE TRAINING THE STAFF AND THEY’LL BE HIRING.

7:17:05 BUT, YOU KNOW, I KNOW THIS IS A HORRIBLE ANSWER.

7:17:09 THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT IS IN THE SAME POSITION AS BRAVARD PUBLIC

7:17:12 SCHOOLS.

7:17:13 SOMETIMES VACANCIES GO UNFILLED.

7:17:15 AND WE DO THE BEST WE CAN.

7:17:17 AND IF THERE’S A VACANCY AT THE SCHOOL, THE RESPONSIBILITY OF

7:17:21 THE TRANSITION FROM STUDENTS

7:17:23 AND DISPENSING MEDICATION FALLS UPON THE SECRETARY THAT’S THERE

7:17:29 THAT TAKES TRAINING, CAN YOU EXPLAIN THAT TO ME?

7:17:29 SURE.

7:17:30 THERE’S ACTUALLY – THE PART OF THE CONTRACT IS THAT TWO SCHOOL

7:17:32 BOARD EMPLOYEES HAVE TO BE TRAINED AT EVERY SITE.

7:17:35 IT’S NOT NECESSARILY THE SECRETARY.

7:17:37 IT CAN BE ANY TWO EMPLOYEES THAT ARE DESIGNATED BY THE PRINCIPLE.

7:17:43 TYPICALLY IT IS A CLERK OR A BOOKKEEPER OR THE SECRETARY.

7:17:47 AND THEY GO THROUGH TRAINING WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH.

7:17:51 AND THEN THEY GET AN INDIVIDUAL TRAINING AT THE SCHOOL TO GO

7:17:53 OVER, YOU KNOW, SPECIFIC MEDICATIONS AND HEALTH PLANS OF STUDENTS.

7:17:59 AND WHEN THE NURSE IS OUT, IF WE CAN – IF THERE’S A FLOATER AVAILABLE,

7:18:05 THEY’LL PUT A FLOATER IN THERE FOR THE DAY.

7:18:07 IF A FLOATER ISN’T AVAILABLE, WE DEPEND ON THE SCHOOL-BASED PERSONNEL.

7:18:12 OKAY.

7:18:14 THANK YOU.

7:18:15 HANG ON JUST A SECOND.

7:18:17 LET ME JUST MAKE SURE I DON’T HAVE ANY MORE MOST.

7:18:20 DID I MISS ANYTHING WITH THAT, PATTY?

7:18:22 OKAY.

7:18:23 OH.

7:18:24 REAL QUICK QUESTION.

7:18:25 IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS, ON SLIDE NUMBER 29, IT SAYS ALL BATHROOMS

7:18:29 WILL BE CLEANED AND STOCKPILLED MULTIPLE TIMES THROUGHOUT THE

7:18:32 DAY.

7:18:33 STUDENTS GO TO THE RESTROOM CONSISTENTLY THROUGHOUT THE DAY INSIDE

7:18:36 OF OUR ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS.

7:18:38 IS IT GOING TO BE THE GUIDANCE THAT THEY’RE TO CLEAN THE RESTROOM

7:18:41 EVERY TIME AFTER A STUDENT USES THAT?

7:18:43 OR ARE THEY LOOKING AT ALLOWING TIME PERIODS TO CLEAN THAT RESTROOM?

7:18:49 SUE, CAN YOU BETTER ABLE TO ANSWER THAT QUESTION?

7:18:52 THAT’S A VERY GOOD QUESTION.

7:18:57 WE’RE GOING TO HAVE TO THINK ABOUT THAT.

7:18:59 JUST BECAUSE OF A TEACHER, THERE WAS SOME DATA THAT SHOWED THAT

7:19:04 AFTER THE LAUNCH THERE WAS SOME STUFF THAT WENT THROUGH OUR SEWERS

7:19:07 AND THAT THERE MIGHT BE SOMETHING THERE.

7:19:09 SO IF THERE’S AN OPPORTUNITY THERE TO HAVE TO CLEAN, WE JUST NEED

7:19:11 TO LET OUR STAFF KNOW AHEAD OF TIME THAT THAT’S SOMETHING THAT

7:19:13 THEY NEED TO DO.

7:19:16 AND THEN I READ DOWN HERE ON PAGE 30 AT THE BOTTOM, THE LAST BULLET

7:19:24 SAYS MISCONDUCT ON THE BUS WILL RESULT IN DISCIPLINARY ACTION

7:19:26 THAT MAY INCLUDE SUSPENSION FROM THE BUS.

7:19:28 ARE WE READOING OUR ENTIRE DISCIPLINARY POLICY THAT THIS IS A NUMBER

7:19:33 10 WHEN YOU ARE, YOU KNOW, WE SEE THE BEHAVIOR OF INDIVIDUALS

7:19:38 THAT IS NOT CONDUCIVE TO THE HEALTH OF OUR HEALTHY ENVIRONMENT

7:19:42 OF OUR STUDENTS.

7:19:43 THE BEHAVIOR OF INDIVIDUALS THAT MAY THINK THAT IT’S FUNNY TO RUN

7:19:46 AROUND AND ACT A CERTAIN WAY THAT PUTS KIDS AT RISK.

7:19:50 ARE WE PUTTING THAT AT A LEVEL 10 WHEN IT COMES TO DISCIPLINARY

7:19:54 POLICY OR ARE WE JUST GOING TO KIND OF CONTINUE DOWN THE STAFF?

7:19:58 YOU SEE WHAT I MEAN?

7:19:59 YEAH, I UNDERSTAND.

7:20:00 ARE YOU BRINGING A CHANGE THERE FOR US?

7:20:02 WE HAD NOT GONE THAT FAR.

7:20:05 A LOT OF TIMES WHEN WE LOOKED AT THE INFRACTIONS THAT COULD CAUSE,

7:20:10 YOU KNOW, FOR EXAMPLE, SPITTING, BITING, MISCONDUCT.

7:20:20 I’M TRYING TO THINK OF ALL THE OTHER ONES I COULD TOUCH ON.

7:20:22 THEY WERE ALREADY THERE.

7:20:24 BUT I THINK THAT WE DO NEED TO TAKE A SECOND LOOK AT THAT, WHICH

7:20:27 WE HAVEN’T DONE.

7:20:28 SO I CAN BRING THAT TO THE DISCIPLINE COMMITTEE AND THEY CAN TAKE

7:20:30 A LOOK AT BEHAVIORS THAT STUDENTS MIGHT ENGAGE IN WILLFULLY.

7:20:34 WILLFUL DISOBEDIENCE, THAT’S THE OTHER ONE I WAS TRYING TO THINK

7:20:36 OF, BESIDES MISCONDUCT.

7:20:37 A LOT OF TIMES IT FALLS – A LOT OF THEIR ACTIONS FALL UNDER

7:20:40 WILLFUL DISOBEDIENCE.

7:20:42 AND SO WE CAN USE THE RANGE OF CORRECTIVE ACTIONS UNDER WILLFUL

7:20:45 DISOBEDIENCE TO HANDLE THAT.

7:20:48 I JUST – I KNOW KIDS ARE GOING TO FIGHT.

7:20:50 I KNOW THEY’RE GOING TO DO STUFF.

7:20:51 WE KNOW IT’S ALL – IT’S KIDS’ NATURE, RIGHT?

7:20:53 BUT IT’S THOSE INDIVIDUALS THAT ARE USING THIS AS A GAME OR SOMETHING

7:20:56 LIKE THAT TO PLAY.

7:20:57 WE’VE SEEN IT IN THE SOCIETY WHERE PEOPLE ARE DOING IT.

7:21:00 I, AS A BOARD MEMBER, WOULD LIKE TO SEE A STRONGER DISCIPLINARY

7:21:03 POLICY ON STUDENTS THAT THINK THAT THIS IS SOMETHING THAT SHOULD

7:21:07 BE PLAYED AROUND.

7:21:08 SO IF THEY’RE ON THE BUS AND THEY START TRYING TO GOOF OFF AND

7:21:10 STUFF LIKE THAT, WE NEED TO STOP THAT BEFORE IT STARTS.

7:21:13 THAT’S ALL.

7:21:14 AND I DON’T KNOW HOW TO DO THAT.

7:21:15 THAT’S YOUR GUYS’ JOB, BUT I JUST –

7:21:17 YEAH, I THINK WHAT WE COULD DO IS GET OUR DISCIPLINE COMMITTEE

7:21:19 TOGETHER JUST TO LOOK TO SEE WHERE,

7:21:22 WITHIN THE SCOPE OF OUR PLAN AS IT IS, THOSE THINGS FALL, AND IF

7:21:26 THAT NEEDS TO BE ADDRESSED.

7:21:28 SO WE’LL LOOK AT THAT FOR YOU.

7:21:30 AND THEN JUST A CURIOSITY, BECAUSE THIS IS MY KIDS, MOBILE FEEDING

7:21:35 WILL OPERATE FOR E-LEARNING AND DISTANCE LEARNING, RIGHT?

7:21:39 IS THAT GOING TO BE – MOBILE, TO ME, MEANS MY O’GALLY CORRIDOR

7:21:43 KIDS THAT ARE GETTING FED INSIDE THOSE,

7:21:46 YOU KNOW, THE MEADOWS AND ALL MY HOUSING DEVELOPMENTS.

7:21:51 IS THAT WHAT THAT IS?

7:21:52 OR ARE WE TALKING THAT THEY’RE ABLE TO COME GET, LIKE YOU SAID,

7:21:55 A MEAL AT THE SCHOOL?

7:21:56 WHAT ARE WE LOOKING AT THERE?

7:21:57 YEAH, I BELIEVE, AND I WOULD HAVE TO –

7:21:59 IT IS THE SAME PLAN THAT WE USE THIS SUMMER.

7:22:03 WE’LL HAVE SITES.

7:22:06 SOME – IF WE GO TO DISTANT LEARNING, IT’LL BE SITE-BASED.

7:22:10 IF WE’RE AT E-LEARNING, WE CAN – MR. THORNTON’S WORKING ON HIS

7:22:16 TEAM ON IS IT A SCHOOL-BY-SCHOOL

7:22:19 ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?

7:22:20 SO, DEPENDING IF WE’RE DISTANT LEARNING BECAUSE WE’RE CLOSED OR

7:22:25 WE’RE E-LEARNING BECAUSE A

7:22:28 PARENT SHOWS.

7:22:33 ONE MORE CLARIFICATION.

7:22:34 IF A SINGLE SCHOOL IS CLOSED FOR DISTANCE LEARNING, THAT SCHOOL

7:22:39 WOULD BE THE SITE.

7:22:40 IT WOULDN’T BE A CENTRAL SITE.

7:22:42 AND SO CENTRAL SITES WOULD BE IF THE WHOLE DISTRICT CLOSES.

7:22:47 MR. THORNTON WOULD ENSURE THAT ALL STUDENTS HAVE MEAL OPTIONS IF

7:22:52 WE AS AN ORGANIZATION CLOSE THE SCHOOL.

7:22:56 SO, OPERATIONS SITS ON THE RESPONSE TEAM, AND I THINK IT’S

7:23:00 REALLY IMPORTANT FOR EVERYBODY TO

7:23:03 UNDERSTAND THAT THE RESPONSE TEAM IS GOING TO BE RESPONDING TO

7:23:06 DIFFERENT SITUATIONS ACROSS THE DISTRICT.

7:23:09 AND WE CAN’T BEGIN TO UNDERSTAND HOW OFTEN OR HOW DIFFERENT THAT

7:23:15 THEY’RE GOING TO BE.

7:23:17 SO, I KNOW THAT EVERYBODY’S TIRED OF THE WORD FLEXIBILITY.

7:23:21 BUT IN SOME OF THE ANSWERS TO THE QUESTIONS, OUR ANSWER REALLY

7:23:25 IS WE DON’T KNOW BECAUSE WE DON’T KNOW WHAT THAT SITUATION IS GOING

7:23:29 TO BE, THAT SPECIFIC SITUATION.

7:23:31 BUT OUR GOAL IS TO MEET THE NEEDS OF KIDS.

7:23:34 AND I THINK KEVIN THORNTON HAS DEMONSTRATED THAT.

7:23:37 AND WE’LL CONTINUE TO DO SO.

7:23:39 HE’S BEEN PHENOMINAL.

7:23:40 YEAH.

7:23:41 OKAY.

7:23:43 AND THEN ON PAGE 32, IT SAYS CLINIC AREAS WILL BE CLEANED THROUGHOUT

7:23:46 THE DAY.

7:23:47 THERE’S A LOT OF – I GUESS WHAT I’M ASKING IS, IS THAT THERE’S

7:23:50 – WHAT I’M GETTING AT WITH A COUPLE OF THESE IS, THERE SEEMS TO

7:23:56 BE THIS MASSIVE AMOUNT OF CLEANING THAT NEEDS TO BE DONE.

7:24:01 AND I THINK IT – WHEN I LOOK AT IT, IT SAYS CUSTODIANS, IT SAYS

7:24:05 AREAS, IT SAYS CUSTODIANS.

7:24:07 ARE WE LOOKING AT A COMBINED EFFORT SITE BY SITE?

7:24:11 SO YOU’RE LEAVING IT UP TO THE PRINCIPAL TO COME UP WITH, THIS

7:24:14 IS – YOU TELL US HOW YOU’RE GOING TO DO IT?

7:24:17 BECAUSE THAT’S THE APPROPRIATE, OR ARE WE GOING TO – ARE WE GOING

7:24:23 TO TRY TO MAKE THE CUSTODIANS BE THE CLEANING FORCE BEHIND IT?

7:24:27 DOES THAT MAKE SENSE TO YOU?

7:24:29 YEAH.

7:24:30 I CAN SAY I KNOW JIM HAS WORKED WITH THE HEAD CUSTODIANS TO DEVELOP

7:24:36 A PLAN FOR HOW OFTEN AND WHERE.

7:24:39 AND PART OF WHAT WE HAVE TALKED ABOUT IS WHAT HAPPENS IN BETWEEN.

7:24:44 I MEAN, LIKE, IT WILL BE VERY CHALLENGING FOR THE WAY WE STAFF CUSTODIANS

7:24:47 RIGHT NOW TO BE ABLE TO PUSH INTO EVERY CLASS IN BETWEEN CLASSES

7:24:52 AND CLEAN.

7:24:53 SO SOMETHING HAS TO HAPPEN THERE.

7:24:55 AND WHETHER – HOW WE’RE GOING TO HELP – HELP IN THOSE – IN THOSE

7:24:59 AREAS.

7:25:00 I – I DOUBT I FRAMED THAT VERY WELL, BUT I KNOW THAT JIM POWERS

7:25:03 HAS BEEN WORKING ON IT.

7:25:05 YEAH.

7:25:06 I DON’T – I DON’T REALLY HAVE MUCH TO ADD, BUT I THINK IT’S A

7:25:08 – IT’S SORT OF A COMBINED LOGISTICAL CHALLENGE.

7:25:12 THE SCHOOLS HAVE TO BE PART OF IT.

7:25:13 WE AT THE DISTRICT HAVE TO PROVIDE SOME GUIDANCE.

7:25:15 AND IT’S JUST A MATTER OF THESE ARE THE BOOTS WE HAVE ON THE GROUND,

7:25:19 AND WE HAVE TO WORK WITH THOSE RESOURCES.

7:25:21 AND IT – IN MY ENVISION MIND, IT’S A COMBINATION OF THE TEACHERS

7:25:24 TAKING CARE OF THEIR CLASSROOM, THE CUSTODIANS TAKING CARE OF THOSE

7:25:28 OTHER AREAS.

7:25:28 IS THAT WHAT YOU’RE SAYING?

7:25:29 IT’S KIND OF A COMBINED EFFORT THAT’S LOCALLY BASED AT THE SCHOOL

7:25:31 IN ORDER FOR THEM TO DO THAT, AND THAT COMES UP WITH THE PRINCIPAL

7:25:35 WORKING WITH THEIR STAFF ON IDENTIFYING THOSE THINGS?

7:25:36 I WOULD SAY THAT’S ACCURATE.

7:25:37 OKAY.

7:25:39 AND IF SOMEBODY – AND THIS MAY BE INAPPROPRIATE NOW, IT MIGHT

7:25:42 BE BETTER FOR THE END – I’M LOOKING AT TODAY BEING THE 9TH, AND

7:25:52 THE STUDENTS COMING BACK IN EARLY AUGUST.

7:25:54 DO YOU GUYS HAVE A TIMELINE OF WE WILL HAVE ALL OF OUR TRAININGS

7:26:01 PREPARED AND READY HERE?

7:26:04 CUSTODIANS WILL START TO RECEIVE TRAINING HERE.

7:26:08 STUDENTS WILL COME BACK HERE.

7:26:09 YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN?

7:26:10 LIKE A TIMELINE OF THIS IS WHAT – DO WE HAVE THAT SOMEWHERE FOR

7:26:14 THE STAFF TO SEE?

7:26:16 WE DO NOT.

7:26:17 OKAY.

7:26:19 LET’S SEE.

7:26:20 ONE MORE.

7:26:21 OKAY.

7:26:22 THAT WAS THE TRAINING TIME.

7:26:26 OKAY.

7:26:27 THANK YOU.

7:26:27 MS.

7:26:28 MCDougall, DID YOU HAVE ANY ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS YOU WANTED TO CIRCLE

7:26:30 BACK TO?

7:26:31 NO, I THINK I’M GOOD.

7:26:47 OKAY.

7:26:48 SO I HAVE – PATTY, IF YOU WOULD INDULGE ME WITH SOME – MAYBE

7:26:56 NOT EXACTLY ON POINT QUESTIONS,

7:26:57 BUT I THINK THEY’RE IMPORTANT FOR OUR COMMUNITY AND FOR US TO UNDERSTAND

7:27:02 KIND OF GOING FORWARD.

7:27:04 LOOKING AT RECOMMENDATIONS AND WE’VE GOT WITHIN THIS, WE’VE GOT

7:27:07 THE RECOMMENDATIONS FROM THE AAP AND THE CDC

7:27:10 AND YOU ALL OBVIOUSLY HAVE BEEN WORKING CLOSELY WITH OUR TEAM AS

7:27:13 WELL ON RECOMMENDATIONS OF VARIOUS ASPECTS.

7:27:16 AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I FOUND IN GOING THROUGH A LOT OF THOSE

7:27:20 AND LOOKING SPECIFICALLY AT THE INTENSITY OF

7:27:27 MITIGATION STRATEGIES, I GUESS IS PROBABLY THE BEST WAY TO PUT

7:27:30 IT.

7:27:31 THERE WAS LOTS OF REFERENCE IN ALL OF THESE PLANS REALLY THAT TALKED

7:27:36 ABOUT LEVEL OF TRANSMISSION IN THE COMMUNITY.

7:27:39 AND EVEN THE EXECUTIVE ORDER HAS INDICATED THAT WE SHOULD WORK

7:27:42 WITH OUR LOCAL HEALTH OFFICIALS TO IDENTIFY THE LEVEL OF TRANSMISSION

7:27:47 IN OUR COMMUNITY.

7:27:49 AND WHAT I’M STRUGGLING WITH AS FAR AS COMMUNICATING WITH FOLKS

7:27:52 IN OUR COMMUNITY AROUND THE ISSUES IS

7:27:55 THAT THERE SEEM TO BE LOTS OF DATA POINTS AROUND OUR COMMUNITY’S

7:27:59 CONDITION WITH REGARD TO COVID.

7:28:02 BUT THERE DON’T SEEM TO BE A LOT OF FUNCTIONAL METRICS.

7:28:06 SO FOR EXAMPLE, WE CAN IDENTIFY HOW MANY PEOPLE HAVE BEEN INFECTED

7:28:10 SINCE THE START OF IT.

7:28:12 WE CAN IDENTIFY HOSPITAL BEDS.

7:28:13 WE CAN IDENTIFY DEATH RATES.

7:28:15 WE CAN IDENTIFY PERCENT OF POSITIVES, RIGHT?

7:28:19 BUT WE DON’T REALLY HAVE ANY WAY TO MEASURE WHAT THAT MEANS.

7:28:23 SO IF MY CHILD COMES HOME WITH A 50, I’M GOING TO ASSUME THAT’S

7:28:25 AN F BECAUSE WE HAVE A GRADING SCALE, RIGHT, OF SO MANY NUMBERS.

7:28:31 BUT MAYBE IN SOMEONE ELSE’S GRADING SCALE, AN F, A 50 IS AN A.

7:28:37 SO HOW ARE WE MEASURING OUR COMMUNITY’S HEALTH WITH REGARD TO

7:28:41 COVID?

7:28:42 AND WHAT FUNCTIONAL METRICS SHOULD WE BE LOOKING AT AS LEADERSHIP

7:28:46 IN THE ORGANIZATION TO DETERMINE WE’RE GOING IN A GOOD DIRECTION,

7:28:51 WE’RE GOING IN A BAD DIRECTION, WHAT WE’RE DOING IS WORKING,

7:28:54 WHAT WE’RE DOING ISN’T WORKING?

7:28:56 WHAT I CAN TELL YOU IN THE PAST MONTH, OUR POSITIVITY RATE HAS

7:29:01 INCREASED SIGNIFICANTLY.

7:29:03 AND THAT’S WHAT WE LOOK AT.

7:29:05 WHAT IS THE AMOUNT – WHAT ARE THE AMOUNTS OF PEOPLE THAT ARE BEING

7:29:07 TESTED THAT ARE ACTUALLY SHOWING POSITIVE?

7:29:10 WE DON’T LOOK AT WHETHER THEY’RE ASYMPTOMATIC OR SYMPTOMATIC WHEN

7:29:14 YOU’RE JUST LOOKING AT THE OVERALL.

7:29:16 I CAN TELL YOU AS OF THIS MORNING OUR POSITIVITY RATE IS 11.5%,

7:29:21 AND THAT MEANS OF ALL THE TESTS THAT WE DID, AND I DON’T HAVE

7:29:24 THE EXACT NUMBER OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD, BUT I CAN TELL YOU EASTERN

7:29:29 FLORIDA STATE IS DOING 1,000 A DAY.

7:29:31 WE’RE DOING 150 A DAY ACROSS THE STREET, AND THEN YOU’VE GOT DIFFERENT

7:29:35 AGENCIES AND ORGANIZATIONS THAT ARE ALSO TESTING.

7:29:38 RIGHT NOW OUR POSITIVITY RATE IS 11.5.

7:29:41 LAST MONTH WE WERE DOWN TO AROUND 4.

7:29:44 SO WE HAVE HAD A SIGNIFICANT CHANGE IN THE PAST MONTH.

7:29:50 WILL THAT MEAN THAT WE WILL CONTINUE ON THIS PATH?

7:29:54 I SURE HOPE NOT.

7:29:55 I HOPE OUR MITIGATION AND OUR EDUCATION IS OUT THERE AND IS – I

7:29:59 MEAN EVERYWHERE YOU GO, ESPECIALLY THE DOH, YOU HEAR US SAYING FACE

7:30:03 MASKS, SOCIAL DISTANCING, HYGIENE TECHNIQUES.

7:30:07 SO HOPEFULLY THAT WILL DO A TURN AROUND.

7:30:09 THE OTHER THING WE LOOK AT ARE THE HOSPITAL RATES.

7:30:13 HOW MANY PEOPLE THAT ARE NOW GETTING INFECTED AND ARE SICK ENOUGH

7:30:18 TO BE IN THE HOSPITAL.

7:30:20 THAT HAS BEEN INCREASING SIGNIFICANTLY.

7:30:22 WE ARE NOT AT A CRITICAL POINT IN BRAVARD COUNTY.

7:30:25 I KNOW IF YOU LISTEN TO THE NEWS, THERE ARE OTHER COUNTIES AND OTHER

7:30:27 PARTS OF THE STATE THAT MAY BE, BUT BRAVARD COUNTY, RIGHT NOW,

7:30:31 WE ARE OKAY WITH OUR HOSPITAL RATE.

7:30:38 OUR DEATH RATE, TODAY THEY REPORTED SIX ADDITIONAL DEATHS IN BRAVARD

7:30:42 COUNTY.

7:30:43 SO, YOU KNOW, WE ARE IN THE WRONG DIRECTION RIGHT NOW.

7:30:48 HOPEFULLY WE CAN STOP THAT AND MITIGATE IT.

7:30:50 BUT AS OF NOW, WE’VE CHANGED SIGNIFICALLY IN THE LAST MONTH.

7:30:54 SO, IF I’M PUTTING YOU ON THE SPOT AND YOU DO NOT HAVE THE AUTHORITY

7:30:59 TO ANSWER THIS QUESTION, PLEASE FEEL FREE TO SAY SO.

7:31:04 BUT I FEEL LIKE I OWE IT TO OUR COMMUNITY TO ASK THE QUESTION.

7:31:07 BECAUSE WHEN THE EXECUTIVE ORDER CAME OUT, THE STATEMENT WAS MADE

7:31:09 THAT ALL SCHOOLS WOULD GO BACK TO BRICK AND MORTAR OPEN IN AUGUST

7:31:15 UNLESS OUR LOCAL HEALTH OFFICIALS DEEMED IT UNSAFE FOR US TO DO

7:31:19 SO.

7:31:20 IS THERE WITHIN THESE METRICS THAT YOU IDENTIFIED, HAVE YOU ALL

7:31:25 INTERNALLY IDENTIFIED, IF WE HAVE A 30% POSITIVITY RATE, THAT WOULD

7:31:31 BE TOO DANGEROUS TO GO BACK TO SCHOOL?

7:31:35 LOCALLY, WE CANNOT MAKE THAT DECISION.

7:31:38 WE ARE AN INTEGRATED HEALTH DEPARTMENT WITH THE STATE.

7:31:41 WE DON’T HAVE FREESTANDING COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENTS LIKE SOME OTHER

7:31:44 STATES DO.

7:31:45 IN THE STATE OF FLORIDA, WE ARE ALL OPERATING UNDER THE STATE FLORIDA

7:31:48 DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH.

7:31:51 IF THERE WAS SOMETHING IN OUR COMMUNITY GOING ON THAT WAS SIGNIFICANT,

7:31:55 BASED ON WHEN SCHOOLS ARE GOING TO OPEN, THAT WOULD BE A CONSULTATION

7:31:58 WITH DR. RIFKE, THE SURGEON GENERAL.

7:32:00 AND HE WOULD MAKE THE DECISION BASED ON WHAT’S GOING ON IN EACH

7:32:04 INDIVIDUAL COUNTY.

7:32:06 SIMILAR TO WHAT YOU SEE WHEN WE WERE TALKING ABOUT SOUTH FLORIDA,

7:32:10 WHERE THEY SAID THEY’RE NOT OPENING BASED ON THEIR CURRENT STATISTICS

7:32:15 AND THEIR COMMUNITY SPREAD.

7:32:17 SO THAT’S SOMETHING THAT I CAN’T TELL YOU OR NOR IS IT MY DECISION

7:32:21 OR IS EVEN A LOCAL DECISION THAT WOULD BE MADE IN CONSULTATION

7:32:24 WITH TALLAHASSEE.

7:32:26 SO WHEN THE EXECUTIVE ORDER SAYS LOCAL HEALTH EXPERTS, THEY’RE

7:32:28 REALLY REFERRING TO THE SURGEON GENERAL?

7:32:31 CORRECT.

7:32:32 WHAT WE WOULD DO IS BECAUSE LOCAL HEALTH, WE WOULD GO TO THE SURGEON

7:32:35 GENERAL AND WE WOULD CONSULT WITH HIM, GIVING HIM WHAT OUR COMMUNITY

7:32:39 ACTIVITY IS AND WHAT OUR COMMUNITY STATISTICS ARE AT THIS POINT,

7:32:43 AND THEN MEET WITH HIM AND DISCUSS IT WITH HIM.

7:32:46 OKAY.

7:32:47 SO WHEN YOU SAY THAT AT THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT, YOU ALL ARE TALKING,

7:32:50 YOU KNOW, YOU’RE CONSTANTLY TALKING ABOUT SOCIAL DISTANCING, WEARING

7:32:54 MASKS, AND WHAT WAS THE OTHER ONE?

7:32:56 HYGIENE.

7:32:57 HYGIENE, YES.

7:32:58 THANK YOU.

7:32:59 DO YOU QUALIFY SOCIAL DISTANCING IN WEARING MASKS?

7:33:05 SO DO YOU SUGGEST THAT MASKS ARE APPROPRIATE IN THIS SITUATION,

7:33:08 BUT NOT THIS SITUATION, OR YOU JUST SAY THESE ARE ALL IMPORTANT

7:33:11 ASPECTS TO STOPPING THE SPREAD?

7:33:13 OUR RECOMMENDATION IS MASKS AT ALL TIMES AND 6 FEET SOCIAL DISTANCING.

7:33:18 MASKS ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU CANNOT MAINTAIN THAT 6 FEET SOCIAL DISTANCING.

7:33:23 WE ALSO HAND HYGIENE, WASH HANDS, USE THE HAND SANITIZERS WHENEVER

7:33:27 YOU CAN.

7:33:28 WE DON’T MANDATE ANYTHING.

7:33:31 WE RECOMMEND.

7:33:32 AND THAT’S OUR RECOMMENDATION.

7:33:34 THANK YOU.

7:33:35 AND I’M SORRY IF I – I DIDN’T MEAN TO PUT YOU ON THE SPOT ON

7:33:38 THAT.

7:33:38 NO, THAT’S OKAY.

7:33:39 BUT THERE’S BEEN – IT’S JUST BEEN VERY AMBIGUOUS IN TRYING TO

7:33:42 HAVE THOSE CONVERSATIONS WITH OUR COMMUNITY AND HELP THEM TO UNDERSTAND.

7:33:45 THEY ARE DIFFICULT.

7:33:46 I’VE HAD THE SAME CONVERSATIONS WITH OUR CLIENTS AT OUR CLINICS

7:33:49 AND STAFF.

7:33:50 IT IS A DIFFICULT, WHICH IS WHY WE JUST RECOMMEND THIS AND GO BY

7:33:54 THE BEST DATA THAT WE CAN.

7:33:57 EXCELLENT.

7:33:58 THANK YOU SO MUCH.

7:34:00 SO, WITH REGARD TO THIS SPECIFIC SECTION, AND I APOLOGIZE TO ALL

7:34:04 OF YOU FOR GETTING OFF ON A LITTLE BIT OF A TANGENT THERE.

7:34:07 I THINK THERE ARE A COUPLE OF KEY THINGS THAT CAME UP IN HERE.

7:34:11 AND ONE IS THE FACE COVERINGS, AND I THINK THAT – I THINK THAT’S

7:34:20 A STICKING POINT FOR ME AT THIS POINT.

7:34:23 BUT I DON’T – I THINK THERE’S A WAY THAT WE CAN MAKE IT WORK.

7:34:28 SO, IF WE LOOK AT THE LANGUAGE THAT’S IN HERE, I PERSONALLY FEEL

7:34:32 LIKE IT’S PERFECTLY APPROPRIATE FOR US TO EXPECT THAT EVERYONE

7:34:36 WEAR FACE COVERINGS.

7:34:41 AND WITH COMMON SENSE IN PLACE, RIGHT?

7:34:45 SO, WE KNOW.

7:34:47 WE KNOW OUR KIDS IN OUR SCHOOLS.

7:34:48 WE KNOW THE KIDS THAT TRULY PROBABLY CAN’T SUCCESSFULLY WEAR A FACE

7:34:56 MASK.

7:34:58 BUT I THINK FOR US TO SAY, WELL, WE WOULD HOPE THAT OUR LEADERS

7:35:01 – WE’RE GOING TO ASK OUR LEADERSHIP TO MODEL.

7:35:07 SO, WE WILL REQUIRE IT IN SOME INSTANCES, AND WE WILL EXPECT IT

7:35:10 ON BUSES.

7:35:11 BUT THEN WE HAVE KIND OF THIS WHOLE OTHER GAP WHERE WE SAY, YEAH,

7:35:15 WE RECOMMEND THAT IT HAPPEN.

7:35:17 I JUST – I FEEL LIKE EXPECTING IT ESTABLISHES THAT EXPECTATION.

7:35:23 AND THEN WE’RE NOT SAYING WE’RE GOING TO THROW YOU IN JAIL TO FIND

7:35:26 YOU $500.

7:35:27 YOU KNOW, IF YOU’RE A FIVE-YEAR-OLD WHO CAN’T WEAR A MASK IN

7:35:29 YOUR CLASSROOM.

7:35:30 I THINK WE HAVE TO HAVE SOME COMMON SENSE THERE.

7:35:33 BUT I THINK OUR GENERAL EXPECTATION, BASED ON EVERYTHING THAT I’VE

7:35:36 SEEN AND THE FACT THAT WE CAN’T DO SIX FEET.

7:35:41 WE HAVE A LOT OF LIMITATIONS.

7:35:43 WE’RE INDOORS, ALL OF THESE THINGS.

7:35:45 I JUST THINK THAT WE NEED TO AT LEAST COME OUT WITH AN EXPECTATION

7:35:49 THAT THAT BE THE NORM.

7:35:51 AND UNDERSTAND THAT THERE MAY HAVE TO BE SOME EXCEPTIONS THAT

7:35:53 WILL BE HANDLED INDIVIDUALLY.

7:35:55 BUT I DON’T THINK IT’S TOO MUCH TO EXPECT THAT WE WILL FOLLOW THESE

7:36:00 RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE SAFETY OF ALL INVOLVED.

7:36:05 AND I’LL TELL YOU, I AM INCREDIBLY CONCERNED ABOUT OUR CHILDREN.

7:36:11 BECAUSE I THINK THAT WE HAVE SOME MISPERCEPTIONS ABOUT THE SEVERITY

7:36:17 OF COVID IN KIDS.

7:36:19 THE SECONDARY INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE THAT WE’RE SEEING IN KIDS IS

7:36:24 ESPECIALLY TROUBLING TO ME.

7:36:27 AND I THINK THAT UNFORTUNATELY, YOU KNOW, A YEAR FROM NOW, TWO

7:36:30 YEARS FROM NOW,

7:36:31 WE’RE GOING TO LOOK BACK AND WE’RE GOING TO SEE THAT OUR KIDS WERE

7:36:33 MUCH MORE AFFECTED FROM COVID THAN WE ANTICIPATED.

7:36:37 BUT ON TOP OF THAT, I AM FEELING ENORMOUS, ENORMOUS STRESS AROUND

7:36:43 THE HEALTH AND SAFETY OF OUR FACULTY AND STAFF.

7:36:47 AND THIS PLAN, I THINK THERE HAVE BEEN SOME RECOMMENDATIONS BROUGHT

7:36:50 FORWARD THAT ARE GEARED TOWARD DOING OUR BEST TO PROTECT OUR FACULTY

7:36:57 AND STAFF, BY ALL MEANS.

7:36:59 BUT OUR FACULTY AND STAFF DON’T HAVE ANYWHERE NEAR THE SAME OPTIONS

7:37:02 THAT OUR STUDENTS HAVE TO ACCOMMODATE THEIR INDIVIDUAL NEEDS AT

7:37:06 THIS POINT.

7:37:07 AND WE KNOW FROM LOOKING AT OUR HEALTH INSURANCE DATA THAT WE

7:37:10 HAVE A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT ARE ON OUR TEAM THAT ARE IN THOSE

7:37:14 REALLY HIGH-RISK AREAS BECAUSE OF PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS.

7:37:17 AND SO TO ME, THE LEAST THAT WE CAN DO FOR OUR TEAM WHO HAS WORKED

7:37:21 SO HARD TO MAKE SURE THAT WE’RE PROVIDING THE RIGHT SERVICES TO

7:37:26 OUR STUDENTS AND HELPING THEM TO BE SUCCESSFUL IS TO EXPECT THAT

7:37:29 PEOPLE WILL WEAR MASKS TO KEEP THEM SAFE.

7:37:33 I KNOW THAT IT’S NOT GOING TO BE PERFECT IN EVERY SITUATION, BUT

7:37:37 I JUST FEEL REALLY, REALLY STRONGLY THAT THAT EXPECTATION NEEDS

7:37:41 TO BE THERE.

7:37:42 WE SIMPLY CAN’T – WE CAN’T RUN A SCHOOL WITHOUT TEACHERS AND STAFF.

7:37:47 AND PART OF THAT IS KEEPING THEM AS SAFE AS POSSIBLE.

7:37:50 AND I THINK THE HIGHER WE CAN INCREASE THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO

7:37:53 ARE WEARING MASKS IN THE SCHOOLS AND IN THE CLASSROOMS, THE BETTER

7:37:57 OFF THAT OUR TEAM WILL BE,

7:38:00 BUT THIS IS ALSO CRITICALLY IMPORTANT TO KEEPING SCHOOLS OPEN GOING

7:38:02 FORWARD.

7:38:03 SO THAT’S MY – I’LL GET OFF MY SOAPBOX ON THAT ONE.

7:38:10 I DON’T THINK I HAD ANY ADDITIONAL SPECIFICS ON THESE AREAS, OTHER

7:38:19 THAN – I THINK WE NEED TO CIRCLE BACK FOR DISCUSSION

7:38:25 FROM – WITH MR. SUSAN ON THEMOMETERS AT SOME POINT.

7:38:30 BUT I’M WONDERING LOOKING AT WHERE WE ARE AND WHAT WE’VE GONE THROUGH

7:38:34 AT THIS POINT,

7:38:35 DO WE WANT TO REVISIT OUR ELEMENTARY PLAN AND OUR SECONDARY PLAN

7:38:41 BEFORE WE GET TOO FAR AWAY FROM THAT

7:38:42 AND PROVIDE SOME FEEDBACK TO THE TEAM ON THAT, SOME CONSENSUS

7:38:45 FROM THE BOARD?

7:38:47 I THINK IT’S, YOU KNOW, WE GIVE IT A THUNDS UP TO MOVE FORWARD

7:38:51 AS FAR AS THE RECOMMENDATION STANDS

7:38:53 OR DO WE NEED TO HAVE ADDITIONAL DISCUSSION AROUND THAT?

7:38:58 WOULD THE BOARD MEMBERS BE OKAY WITH ME FACILITATING THAT DISCUSSION

7:39:02 SO WE CAN –

7:39:03 ARE YOU SAYING STOP MOVING FORWARD WITH THE REST OF THE PRESENTATION

7:39:07 AND GO BACK TO THE BEGINNING?

7:39:09 TEMPORARILY.

7:39:11 MY FEELING IS THAT THERE’S A LOT IN HERE THAT PERTAINS TO THE FRONT

7:39:16 HALF.

7:39:19 AND I WOULD LIKE TO PLOW THROUGH AND THEN GO BACK.

7:39:22 OKAY.

7:39:23 BUT THAT DOESN’T MEAN THAT THE REST OF THE BOARD DOESN’T.

7:39:25 AND THE REASON – THE REASON FOR THAT IS IS BECAUSE I THINK THAT

7:39:28 WHEN WE TALK ABOUT MOVING TO BLOCK

7:39:31 OR A LOT OF THE OTHER DECISIONS, I WAS REALLY, REALLY WAITING TO

7:39:35 GET DOWN TO THE MEDICALLY VULNERABLE STUDENTS,

7:39:37 THE PROCESS OF HOW THESE COVID TESTS, ALL THIS OTHER STUFF THAT’S

7:39:41 IN THE BACK.

7:39:42 BUT THAT – TO ME IT’S SIX OR ONE HALF DOZEN.

7:39:44 THAT WOULD BE NICE.

7:39:45 BUT IF YOU’VE GOT AN ANGLE THAT MAKES SENSE FOR THEM, I’M OKAY

7:39:48 WITH IT, WHATEVER YOU WANT TO DO.

7:39:50 JUST TRYING TO MAKE SURE WE DON’T GET TOO FAR AWAY FROM THE ISSUE

7:39:52 BEFORE WE PROVIDE THE DIRECTION THAT THE TEAM NEEDS.

7:39:57 ALL RIGHT.

7:39:59 THEN –

7:40:02 I DON’T FEEL LIKE I HAVE A CLEAR UNDERSTANDING FOR THE FACE MASKS

7:40:05 BEFORE WE MOVE –

7:40:06 MOVE ON FROM THAT.

7:40:08 I KNOW THAT – I KNOW THAT MS. McDougall FEELS STRONGLY AND I

7:40:11 KNOW YOU WOULD LIKE EXPECT AND I GET SOME PLACE IN THE MIDDLE.

7:40:14 SO I WAS TRYING TO – IF WE HAVE CONSENSUS OVER EXPECT OR IF WE

7:40:18 HAVE CONSENSUS – I DON’T KNOW IF THIS IS THE POINT TO GET THAT

7:40:21 OR IF WE COME BACK TO IT.

7:40:22 I WAS GOING TO ASK THE SAME.

7:40:24 WOULD THE BOARD LIKE TO COME BACK?

7:40:26 BECAUSE I THINK THERE’S STILL UNANSWERED DIRECTION ON THERMOMETERS

7:40:30 AND FACE MASKS AND THEN OF COURSE THE ACADEMIC PLANS.

7:40:32 I’M KEEPING A LIST.

7:40:34 DO YOU WANT ME TO JUST KEEP THE LIST AND WE COME BACK AND WORK

7:40:37 THROUGH THEM AT THE END OR WOULD THE BOARD PREFER TO WORK THROUGH

7:40:43 THOSE – THAT DIRECTION NOW?

7:40:48 SO MR. SUSAN IS REQUESTING THAT IF YOU WOULD NOT MIND, DR. MULINS,

7:40:56 TO CONTINUE YOUR LIST OF THOSE THINGS THAT WE NEED TO CIRCLE

7:41:01 BACK ON AND LET’S SEE IF WE CAN WORK THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF

7:41:03 THE PACKET BECAUSE HE BELIEVES THAT THERE MAY BE SOME IMPACT IN

7:41:07 SOME OF THE THINGS WE DISCUSS HERE TO THE PRIOR ISSUES.

7:41:10 SURE.

7:41:14 ALL RIGHT, THEN, DR. SULLIVAN, I THINK WE ARE WITH YOU FOR 34 THROUGH

7:41:20 36.

7:41:21 YES, THANK YOU.

7:41:24 TO GET US BACK ON TRACK WITH SEQUENCING, AS WE WENT THROUGH THE

7:41:28 PLANS, WE THEN FOCUSED ON SOME IN-SCHOOL GUIDELINES REGARDING SOME

7:41:32 OPERATIONAL, MEDICAL, HEALTH AND SAFETY.

7:41:35 BUT, OF COURSE, ACADEMIC AND SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING IS AT THE

7:41:39 CORNERSTONE OF OUR CORE MISSION.

7:41:41 AND SO WE WANTED TO BE REALLY EXPLICIT ABOUT SOME OF THE THINGS

7:41:45 THAT ARE AN EMPHASIS ON CURRENT PRACTICE AND SOME OF THE THINGS

7:41:51 THAT ARE

7:41:52 SLIGHTLY MORE EXPECTATIONS IN PART BECAUSE OF OUR CONCERNS FOR

7:41:55 OUR STUDENTS WHO HAVEN’T BEEN IN OUR BUILDING SINCE MARCH AND IN

7:42:00 PART WITH STATE REGULATIONS.

7:42:02 AND SO WE’RE LIVING IN BOTH THOSE LANDS.

7:42:06 MISS CLINE MENTIONED IT AND I BELIEVE MISS MOORE TOO.

7:42:10 I’M NOT EVEN SURE ANYMORE.

7:42:12 BUT IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE STATE EXPECTATIONS, IN ACCORDANCE

7:42:16 WITH OUR CONCERNS FOR OUR STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES AND THEIR

7:42:19 PROGRESS TOWARDS THEIR GOALS.

7:42:21 AND OF COURSE OUR TEACHERS ABILITY TO MAKE SURE THEY MAKE REALLY

7:42:24 GOOD LESSON PLAN AND INSTRUCTIONAL DECISIONS.

7:42:27 ALL STUDENTS WILL BE ASSESSED WITHIN THE FIRST MONTH OF SCHOOL.

7:42:31 TO IDENTIFY STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES IN CONTENT AREAS, SKILL ATTAINMENT,

7:42:35 BEHAVIORAL EXPECTATIONS, AND READINESS IN THE EVENT DISTANCE LEARNING

7:42:40 IS NECESSARY.

7:42:41 AND SOME OF THAT WILL BE THROUGH FORMAL STRUCTURES LIKE OUR REQUIRED

7:42:45 PROGRESS MONITORING THAT WILL BE RESPONSIVE TO THE STATE AND SOME

7:42:49 OF IT WILL BE WITH SOME INFORMAL STRUCTURES.

7:42:53 TEACHERS ARE ALWAYS DOING PRE-TESTS AND ASSESSMENTS AND INFORMATION.

7:42:57 SOME OF IT WILL BE GUIDED BY INDIVIDUAL EDUCATION PLANS AND A REVIEW

7:43:01 ON STUDENTS’ PROGRESS TOWARDS THEIR GOALS AND OTHER INFORMAL AND

7:43:06 FORMAL STRUCTURES COMBINE.

7:43:09 ONE OF THE THINGS THAT’S REALLY A STRONG PUSH FOR US, AND I’M PLEASED

7:43:16 THAT IN OUR INFORMAL CONVERSATIONS WITH OUR UNION LEADERS,

7:43:19 YOU KNOW, THEY SHARE THE UNDERSTANDING OF THE IMPORTANCE OF MAXIMIZING

7:43:23 DIGITAL TOOLS.

7:43:24 EACH TEACHER WILL INTEGRATE RESOURCES INTO THEIR COURSES AND ENSURE

7:43:28 THAT STUDENTS ARE REGULARLY ACCESSING IT.

7:43:31 WHAT WE’D LIKE TO SEE IS WHEN A STUDENT IS POTENTIALLY HOME, EITHER

7:43:36 FOR A PERSONAL MEDICAL REASON,

7:43:38 EXPOSURE TO SOMETHING OR THE CLASS HAS TO BE SHUT DOWN, THEY’RE

7:43:42 CONTINUING TO UTILIZE RESOURCES THAT THEY’RE FAMILIAR WITH.

7:43:46 THEY’VE USED THE DIGITAL BOOK IN CLASS WITH GREAT REGULARITY.

7:43:50 THEY KNOW EXACTLY HOW TO GO TO THEIR TEACHERS’ GOOGLE CLASSROOM

7:43:53 AND THAT IT’S A SUPER EASY PIVOT.

7:43:56 AND I BELIEVE OUR TEACHERS ARE READY FOR THAT.

7:43:59 I KNOW EVERY TEACHER THAT I’VE SPOKEN TO IS REALLY EXCITED ABOUT

7:44:02 SOME OF THE NEW STRENGTH THAT THEY FEEL CONFIDENT IN

7:44:06 AND THE TOOLS THAT THEY USE DURING THE SHUT DOWN AND REALIZE THE

7:44:09 BENEFITS OF INTEGRATING.

7:44:11 SO WE WANT TO BE REALLY EXPLICIT.

7:44:13 WE DON’T WANT A CHILD WHO’S HOME TO BE SUDDENLY, OH, CREATE A LOGON

7:44:18 FOR THIS OR THAT.

7:44:19 WE WANT IT TO BE A NATURAL PART OF THEIR COURSEWORK.

7:44:22 AND TO FURTHER THAT STATEMENT, THE TEACHERS WILL WORK IN A BLENDED

7:44:25 FORMAT TO MINIMIZE THOSE CHALLENGES WHEN INDIVIDUAL STUDENTS,

7:44:29 WHOLE CLASSES OR THE ENTIRE SCHOOL MUST PIVOT FOR THOSE SHORT OR

7:44:33 EXTENDED PERIOD OF TIME.

7:44:35 AND RUSSELL WHO JUST HAD TO STEP OUT, HIS TEAM HAS BEEN DOING A

7:44:38 PHENOMENAL JOB OF CREATING ADDITIONAL TRAINING RESOURCES

7:44:42 FOR OUR TEACHERS AND OUR TEACHERS THEMSELVES.

7:44:44 THEY’VE BEEN COLLABORATING INFORMALLY FROM THE BEGINNING AND SHARING

7:44:49 THE USE OF THOSE TOOLS.

7:44:51 AND FOR SOME OF OUR TEACHERS IT WAS A REFRESH ON THE FACT THAT

7:44:53 MANY OF OUR RESOURCES WE ALREADY HAD DIGITAL ACCESS TO.

7:44:58 IT JUST WASN’T AS HIGH A PRIORITY IN THE PAST.

7:45:01 TEACHERS AND STAFF WHO PROVIDE SERVICES TO OUR STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES,

7:45:06 THEY WILL WORK WITH THOSE STUDENTS, THEIR FAMILIES, DISTRICT SUPPORT

7:45:09 TEAMS, AND ADMINISTRATION

7:45:11 TO MEET IEP GOALS AND RELATED SERVICES TO THE GREATEST EXTENT POSSIBLE

7:45:16 IN THE EVENT OF DISTANCE LEARNING IS NECESSARY.

7:45:18 WE LEARNED A LOT IN THIS SHUT DOWN.

7:45:21 WE LEARNED A LOT ABOUT THINGS THAT WENT WELL AND THINGS THAT DIDN’T

7:45:24 GO SO WELL.

7:45:25 AND CHRIS’S TEAM HAS DONE AN INCREDIBLE JOB OF ACTUALLY LEADING

7:45:30 THE WAY IN PROVIDING SERVICES.

7:45:33 SO WE FEEL REALLY CONFIDENT IN THEIR ABILITY TO CONTINUE THAT

7:45:35 WORK.

7:45:36 AND OF COURSE, AS ALWAYS, IF WE HAVE DISTANCE LEARNING NEEDS AND

7:45:40 DEVICES ARE ESSENTIAL FOR EDUCATION,

7:45:43 WE WOULD NEVER PREVENT A STUDENT FROM HAVING ACCESS TO THE DIGITAL

7:45:47 TOOLS THAT THEY NEED TO SUCCEED IN THE CLASSROOM.

7:45:50 WE’VE TALKED A LOT ABOUT STRESS AND TRAUMA, ANXIETY.

7:45:55 I MIGHT GO HOME AND READ THE REQUIRED MENTAL HEALTH CURRICULUM

7:46:00 MYSELF TONIGHT.

7:46:02 BUT AS YOU KNOW, THE STATE HAD PREVIOUSLY ALREADY PRIORITIZED

7:46:07 THEIR COMMITMENT TO ALL STUDENTS RECEIVING MENTAL HEALTH INSTRUCTION.

7:46:12 AND THAT WILL CONTINUE, THAT WILL CONTINUE IN WHATEVER FORMAT IS

7:46:16 AVAILABLE TO US.

7:46:18 I THINK WE’VE ALL HEARD THE IN A ROOM OR WITH ZOOM, THOSE THINGS

7:46:22 WILL CONTINUE AS WELL.

7:46:24 AND OF COURSE, THE ADDITIONAL SOCIAL EMOTIONAL FRAMEWORKS THAT

7:46:28 MS. MORE AND HER TEAM OUTLINED NOT TOO LONG AGO.

7:46:31 AND WE MAY HAVE THOUGHT THOSE CURRICULAR PROGRAMS FOR SOCIAL EMOTIONAL

7:46:35 WERE CRITICAL FOR ONE REASON A YEAR AGO.

7:46:39 THEY’RE CRITICAL FOR ANOTHER REASON NOW, AND THOSE THINGS HAVEN’T

7:46:44 CHANGED.

7:46:45 EACH SCHOOL WILL IMPLEMENT AN ACADEMIC SUPPORT PLAN TO PROVIDE

7:46:49 ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTION.

7:46:51 AND I WANT TO SPEAK TO THAT A LITTLE BIT.

7:46:53 WE WILL BE PROVIDING SCHOOLS ADDITIONAL FINANCIAL RESOURCES TO

7:46:56 ENHANCE ACADEMICS.

7:46:58 SO WE’VE MADE A LOT OF REFERENCES TO CARES ACT GOING TO THINGS

7:47:01 LIKE THERMOMETERS AND HAND SANITIZER AND ALL THOSE THINGS.

7:47:05 WE’RE ALSO EXPENDING A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF CARES ACT TO BE ABLE

7:47:08 TO ALLOW SCHOOLS TO PROVIDE ADDITIONAL SERVICES.

7:47:11 SO FOR EXAMPLE, IF A TEACHER WANTED TO PROVIDE TUTORING BEFORE

7:47:14 SCHOOL, THE SCHOOL WOULD HAVE THE FUNDS TO PAY THAT TEACHER.

7:47:17 BEFORE SCHOOL, AFTER SCHOOL, AND OTHER INNOVATIVE METHODS.

7:47:21 SOME OF THOSE WILL BE ATTACHED TO SERVICES.

7:47:25 THAT WOULD BE AN EXTENSION OF WHAT STUDENTS NEED WHO HAVE AN IEP.

7:47:28 SOME OF THOSE WILL BE FOR STUDENTS WHO ARE STRUGGLING.

7:47:30 AND SOME OF THOSE JUST STUDENTS WHO WOULD LIKE EXTRA HELP BECAUSE

7:47:33 MATH IS HARD.

7:47:34 AND SO THE SCHOOLS WILL HAVE ADDITIONAL RESOURCES IN ADDITION TO

7:47:38 WHAT WE ALREADY ALLOCATE FOR THEM TO CREATE ACADEMIC SUPPORT PLANS.

7:47:43 AND SOME OF THOSE COULD BE DIGITAL, SOME OF THOSE COULD BE ON SITE.

7:47:47 BUT THEY HAVE THE RESOURCES TO SUPPORT THEIR TEACHERS IN PROVIDING

7:47:50 THOSE SERVICES.

7:47:51 EACH TEACHER WILL UTILIZE FOCUS.

7:47:54 AND I THINK A LOT OF OUR TEACHERS REALIZE AN ADDITIONAL POWER TO

7:47:57 SOME OF THOSE TOOLS.

7:47:59 TO REGULARLY UPDATE PARENTS AND STUDENTS ON ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE.

7:48:04 AND WE MENTIONED THIS EARLIER, SECONDARY STUDENTS WILL CONTINUE

7:48:07 TO HAVE ACCESS TO PROGRAMS THAT ACCELERATE LEARNING.

7:48:10 ALBEIT CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION, INDUSTRY CERTIFICATION, CREDITS

7:48:15 THROUGH OUR COLLEGE CREDIT PROGRAMS.

7:48:19 CREDIT ACCELERATION PROGRAM, CAP, THAT ACTUALLY REPRESENTS THOSE

7:48:23 TESTS WE SPOKE ABOUT.

7:48:25 LIKE A CLEP TEST OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT THAT COULD ACCELERATE A

7:48:28 STUDENT’S PERFORMANCE.

7:48:30 AND EXCEL DIPLOMA OPTIONS ARE DIPLOMA OPTIONS THAT ARE DESIGNED

7:48:33 TO HAVE STUDENTS GRADUATE WITH 18 CREDITS.

7:48:37 EQUALLY RIGOROUS DIPLOMAS, BUT RECOGNIZING THAT SOME STUDENTS

7:48:41 MAY CHOOSE NOT TO ENGAGE WITH THE FULL COMPENDIUM OF ELECTIVES.

7:48:46 SO WE MENTIONED IT BRIEFLY, BUT OUR 18 CREDIT OPTION IS THE SAME

7:48:50 CORE DIPLOMA.

7:48:52 IT JUST TAKES AWAY ELECTIVES PRIMARILY, YOU KNOW, WITH SOME EXCEPTION,

7:48:58 AND RECOGNIZES THAT SOME OF THOSE STUDENTS’ CHOICES IN OTHER AREAS

7:49:02 ARE MORE VALUABLE TO THEM.

7:49:04 OH, I HAVE ANOTHER ONE.

7:49:08 SO, BECAUSE OF COURSE OF – THIS IS A TOUGH ONE.

7:49:14 WE LOVE A LOT OF THE THINGS THAT INCREASE A CHILD’S EXPERIENCE

7:49:18 WITH OUR SCHOOLS, THEIR CONNECTIVITY TO THE SCHOOLS,

7:49:22 PARENT CONNECTIVITY TO THE SCHOOLS, ALL THESE THINGS THAT MAKE

7:49:27 SCHOOL AWESOME.

7:49:29 I’M GOING TO FLIP BACK TO MY NOTES AGAIN FROM MY MISS CAMPBELL

7:49:32 QUOTE ON GRIEVING THE LOSS.

7:49:35 AND THE FACT OF THE MATTER IS, ALL THE REASONS YOU GUYS JUST TALKED

7:49:38 ABOUT, ALL OF OUR CONCERNS FOR THE HEALTH AND SAFETY,

7:49:41 ALL THE THINGS MR. SUSAN HAS MENTIONED ABOUT STRONG PARAMETERS,

7:49:45 MINIMIZING, LIMITING, ALL THOSE THINGS YOU ALL TALKED ABOUT.

7:49:48 THESE ARE SOME THINGS THAT WE’RE GOING TO HAVE TO PROHIBIT FOR

7:49:52 RIGHT NOW.

7:49:53 BUT WE WANTED TO BE REALLY CLEAR THAT THESE THINGS WILL BE RECONSIDERED

7:49:56 THROUGHOUT THE YEAR,

7:49:58 AS HOPEFULLY CONDITIONS CHANGE, IMMUNIZATIONS ARE DEVELOPED,

7:50:02 WHATEVER THE CIRCUMSTANCES ARE,

7:50:04 BUT IN SUPPORT OF THE THINGS THAT EACH AND EVERY ONE OF US HAVE

7:50:07 FELT ABOUT OUR CONCERN FOR OUR STUDENTS AND OUR STAFF.

7:50:11 AND WE WILL NOT BE AUTHORIZING FIELD TRIPS, AND THIS WAS TRUE

7:50:15 PRIOR TO OUR SHUTDOWN ON MARCH 12TH,

7:50:18 WHEN WE HAD A TEENY, TINY BIT OF CASES, WHEN WE WERE FOLLOWING

7:50:21 THAT SINGLE-DIGIT RISE,

7:50:23 WE HAD ALREADY PROHIBITED FIELD TRIPS BECAUSE OF, I MEAN, I DON’T

7:50:26 HAVE TO THINK, I HAVE TO TELL YOU,

7:50:27 WHY.

7:50:28 THAT PROHIBITION WILL CONTINUE UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE.

7:50:32 PLAYGROUND EQUIPMENT USE IS PROHIBITED.

7:50:34 I WANT TO EMPHASIZE, AND MS.

7:50:37 CLEIN IS GOING TO GIVE ME STEELY EYES IF I DON’T, PLAY IS ENCOURAGED,

7:50:41 PLAYGROUND EQUIPMENT IS NOT.

7:50:43 AND, AGAIN, WE HAVE CONFIDENCE IN OUR TEACHERS’ ABILITIES TO WORK

7:50:46 THROUGH THAT.

7:50:47 I’M SORRY, MISS CAMPBELL, BUT CHORUS SINGING, ALL ROADS LEAD TO

7:50:54 AN INCREDIBLY RISKY ACTIVITY.

7:50:57 EVEN WITH OUR DISAGREEMENTS AND DIFFERENT PASSIONATE PERSPECTIVES,

7:51:02 I THINK ALL PERSPECTIVES UNDERSTAND THE RISK THAT COMES WITH SINGING.

7:51:06 AND, OF COURSE, OUR NATIONAL ORGANIZATION HAS PROVIDED GUIDELINES

7:51:09 AS WELL.

7:51:10 AND WE’RE GOING TO ENCOURAGE SINGING OUTDOORS AND ENCOURAGE OUR

7:51:15 CHORUS TEACHERS TO USE THE GIFT OF SPACE THAT WE HAVE OUTDOORS

7:51:19 IN MANY OF OUR SCHOOLS.

7:51:20 AND THEN UTILIZE SOME OTHER STRATEGIES INDOOR IN TEACHING MUSIC,

7:51:24 MUSICALITY, AND ALL THOSE THINGS THAT I HOPE MAKE ME SOUND LIKE

7:51:27 I KNOW WHAT I’M TALKING ABOUT WITH CHORUS.

7:51:29 AND I SAID OTHER COURSES BECAUSE WE HAVE SPANISH CLASSES THAT SING,

7:51:35 WE HAVE CHANTING THAT HAPPENS, AND WE’RE GOING TO ASK THEM TO SAVE

7:51:41 THOSE FUN ACTIVITIES FOR OUTDOORS.

7:51:43 I MENTIONED BRIEFLY EARLIER WE’RE NOT GOING TO DO DRESSING OUT,

7:51:47 SWEATY, SPITTY, WIPING, RIGHT?

7:51:50 I THINK I CAN GO WITHOUT SAYING.

7:51:52 AND AS WE KNOW, WE HAVE SEVERAL LOCKER ROOMS WITHOUT AC AND THE

7:51:56 ADDITION OF THAT.

7:51:58 WE’RE GOING TO ASK KIDS TO BRING THEIR SNEAKERS AND GET SOME FRESH

7:52:02 AIR OUTSIDE WHEN THEY CAN.

7:52:05 LABS AND SHARED HANDS-ON MATERIALS, WE MENTIONED THAT EARLIER.

7:52:10 THERE WILL BE SUPPLIES TO MAINTAIN CLEANLINESS IN BETWEEN USE.

7:52:14 I CAN’T GIVE AN EXAMPLE OF HOW THAT WILL LOOK IN EVERY SCENARIO

7:52:17 BECAUSE THERE ARE SO MANY SCENARIOS.

7:52:19 BUT I WANT TEACHERS TO FEEL CONFIDENT TO TALK TO THEIR PRINCIPLES

7:52:26 AND FOR THEIR CLASS, THEIR COURSE, THEIR STUFF,

7:52:26 WORK TOGETHER AND FIGURE OUT A PLAN.

7:52:27 AND WE’LL CERTAINLY MAKE SURE THEY’RE SUPPLIED TO THE BEST OF

7:52:29 OUR ABILITIES BECAUSE WE STILL CAN’T GET OUR HANDS ON ENOUGH WIPES.

7:52:33 AND SO, BUT WE DO HAVE PLENTY OF OTHER MATERIALS.

7:52:37 STUDENTS WILL BE ENCOURAGED TO BRING THEIR OWN WATER BOTTLES.

7:52:40 AGAIN, THE SPITTING OVER THE WATER FOUNTAIN THINGY, KIND OF ICKY.

7:52:43 AND WE’LL BE PROHIBITED FROM SHARING THEM FOR OBVIOUS REASONS.

7:52:49 SCHOOLS SHOULD NOT CONVENE ASSEMBLYS.

7:52:52 AGAIN, SOME OF THIS IS COMMON KNOWLEDGE, BUT WE THINK WE NEED TO

7:52:55 BE REALLY EXPLICIT ABOUT IT.

7:52:57 THERE’S THIS, AGAIN, IF WE CAN ELIMINATE A RISK, WE WANT TO ELIMINATE

7:53:01 A RISK.

7:53:02 ATHLETIC AND EXTRACURRICULARS WILL CONTINUE TO FOLLOW THE RETURN

7:53:05 TO ACTIVITY GUIDELINES.

7:53:07 AND I REALIZE THEY FORGOT TO LINK IT, BUT IN THE PRESENTATION,

7:53:10 WE PRESENT TO THE PUBLIC.

7:53:12 WE WILL MAKE SURE THAT’S LINKED AND THAT PARENTS CAN QUICKLY SEE

7:53:15 THOSE RETURN TO ACTIVITIES.

7:53:17 AND WE WANT TO CONTINUE ALL THOSE WONDERFUL PARENT NIGHTS.

7:53:20 WE’RE JUST GOING TO CONTINUE THEM VIRTUALLY.

7:53:22 AND OUR SCHOOLS HAVE REALLY DONE REMARKABLE JOBS OF FINDING UNIQUE

7:53:25 WAYS.

7:53:26 THEY’RE ALREADY TALKING ABOUT VIDEO IN CLASSROOMS, SO THAT PEOPLE

7:53:29 CAN FEEL A PART OF IT.

7:53:31 WE ARE NOT IMPOSING ON A TEACHER’S SPACE IN A TEACHER’S CLASSROOM

7:53:35 AND ADDING ANY UNNECESSARY

7:53:37 GERMS TO A SITUATION.

7:53:39 AND SO THOSE WERE JUST SOME THINGS THAT WE FELT WE’RE NOTING.

7:53:44 IT IS BY NO MEANS EXHAUSTIVE.

7:53:46 BUT THOSE ARE SOME OF THOSE COMMENT – AGAIN, READING THE COMMENTS

7:53:49 THAT WERE COMING UP,

7:53:50 WE THOUGHT IT WAS WORTHY OF OUTLINING.

7:53:52 AND AGAIN, FOR THOSE THAT MAYBE HAVEN’T BEEN WITH US SINCE 9:00

7:53:55 A.M.,

7:53:56 WE WILL STILL HAVE OUR RESOURCE TEACHERS WORKING WITH NATIONAL

7:54:01 RESOURCES

7:54:02 AND WORKING WITH ALL THE TEACHERS IN THOSE SPECIALTY ENVIRONMENTS

7:54:05 LIKE ART OR MEDIA CENTERS

7:54:08 AND THINGS LIKE THAT.

7:54:10 I’M GOING TO TURN THE PODIUM OVER TO MISS CLINE WHO’S GOING TO TALK

7:54:15 ABOUT ADDITIONAL WAYS

7:54:16 WE’RE GOING TO PROTECT OUR STUDENTS AND STAFF.

7:54:20 SO VISITORS TO CAMPUS.

7:54:22 THIS WAS EXTREMELY – WELL, ONE OF THE MANY DIFFICULT CONVERSATIONS

7:54:28 WE’VE HAD.

7:54:29 BECAUSE WE VALUE OUR VOLUNTEERS.

7:54:33 WE VALUE OUR VISITORS.

7:54:35 WE VALUE OUR PARENTS WHO BRING THEIR CHILDREN TO SCHOOL.

7:54:40 BUT WE HAVE TO MINIMIZE THE RISK OF OTHERS COMING ON CAMPUS.

7:54:46 AND JUST AS MR. SUSAN LIKES TO BRING HIS DAUGHTER TO SCHOOL, HE

7:54:52 CAN DROP HER OFF.

7:54:55 BUT THE VISITING OF CAMPUS, WE’RE GOING TO HAVE TO LIMIT THAT.

7:55:01 WE’RE GOING TO HAVE TO TOTALLY PROHIBIT THE USE OF VOLUNTEERS,

7:55:05 VISITORS.

7:55:07 SO HOW ARE WE GOING TO DO THAT WITH KINDERGARTEN?

7:55:09 OKAY, SO THAT’S LIKE, OH MY GOODNESS, FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL.

7:55:13 THAT IS SUCH AN IMPORTANT PART IN A FAMILY’S LIFE.

7:55:17 SO I’M GOING TO BE ASKING ALL OF MY PRINCIPALS TO CREATE A VIDEO

7:55:22 OF WHAT A KINDERGARTEN CLASSROOM,

7:55:26 PROBABLY A FACEBOOK LIVE, BECAUSE THAT’S A PLATFORM THEY LOVE TO

7:55:31 USE,

7:55:32 OR MAYBE YOUTUBE VIDEO OF WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE IN THEIR SCHOOL,

7:55:37 WHAT A CAFETERIA LOOKS LIKE, WHAT THE CLASSROOM LOOKS LIKE.

7:55:41 WE’RE ALSO GOING TO ASK OUR TEACHERS TO DO SOME VIRTUAL MESSAGES

7:55:45 FOR THEIR STUDENTS,

7:55:47 BECAUSE WE KNOW THIS IS EXTREMELY DIFFICULT.

7:55:51 I HAVE PRINCIPALS WHO ARE TRYING TO THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX OF

7:55:55 WHAT THEY CAN DO PRIOR TO SCHOOL OPENING

7:55:58 TO LET THAT HAPPEN.

7:56:00 WE HAVE TO ALSO PUT THE CLEANING PROTOCOLS IN PLACE AFTER THAT,

7:56:04 BECAUSE REMEMBER, EVERY FOOTPRINT INTO A BUILDING COULD IMPACT

7:56:13 NEGATIVELY THE FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL.

7:56:15 SO WE’RE REALLY, WHILE WE BELIEVE THIS IS A REQUIREMENT THAT WE

7:56:23 HAVE TO UPHOLD,

7:56:26 IT’S A VERY TOUGH ONE, BUT I BELIEVE WE CAN MAKE PEOPLE FEEL COMFORTABLE

7:56:34 ABOUT THEIR SCHOOL SETTING

7:56:36 BY PROVIDING SOME VERY VIRTUAL MEETINGS, VIRTUAL VISITS INTO THE

7:56:46 SCHOOL.

7:56:47 AND PERHAPS HAVING THOSE CONVERSATIONS WITH TEACHERS TO DO THE VIRTUAL

7:56:53 CLASSROOM VISITS WITH THE PARENTS.

7:56:57 THE OTHER THING THAT WE’RE GOING TO HAVE TO PROHIBIT IS THAT NONESSENTIAL

7:57:08 VISITS.

7:57:10 WE HAVE SEEN AN INCREASE IN RESTAURANTS BEING CLOSED AND FOOD BEING,

7:57:21 YOU KNOW, EXPOSURE.

7:57:23 SO WE NEED TO LIMIT THAT, WE NEED TO PROHIBIT THAT CLASSROOM, CUPCAKE

7:57:31 CELEBRATIONS AND ALL THE THINGS THAT

7:57:34 WE AS MOMS LOVED AND DADS, WE’RE GOING TO – OUR WORLD IS DIFFERENT

7:57:44 AND WE’RE GOING TO HAVE TO APPROACH IT DIFFERENTLY.

7:57:47 SO ALL THOSE – ALTHOUGH THESE ARE VERY, VERY DIFFICULT SITUATIONS,

7:57:53 WE HAVE TO PROTECT OUR TEACHERS.

7:57:55 WE HAVE TO PROTECT OUR CUSTODIANS AND THE STUDENTS WITHIN THE BUILDING.

7:58:00 SO WE ARE GOING TO LIMIT VISITORS TO EMERGENCY SITUATIONS, ENROLLMENT

7:58:07 PROCESSES, OR ANY REQUIRED MEETINGS.

7:58:10 BUT CHRIS’S TEAM HAS BEEN AMAZING AT BECOMING THE ROLE MODELS,

7:58:17 THE EXAMPLES OF VIRTUAL IEP MEETINGS, VIRTUAL PARENT MEETINGS.

7:58:24 SO WE’RE GOING TO LEARN FROM THEIR SUCCESSES AND PUT MORE OF THOSE

7:58:29 IN PLACE.

7:58:30 SO THESE ARE TOUGH, BUT WE BELIEVE IT’S THE RIGHT RECOMMENDATION.

7:58:39 THANK YOU, MS. CLEIN. ANYONE HAVE ANY QUESTIONS FOR MS. CLEIN ON

7:58:42 THAT PARTICULAR?

7:58:43 SO WE DO HAVE QUESTIONS.

7:58:46 MS. McDougall, ANY QUESTIONS FOR MS. CLEIN?

7:58:49 NO, I’M – ALL RIGHT.

7:58:52 WELL, I’LL JUST A QUICK COMMENT.

7:58:54 I DON’T HAVE TO LIKE THAT WE CAN ONLY SING OUTDOORS.

7:58:58 BUT I SAW THAT COMING.

7:59:01 SO I – IT’S A YEAR.

7:59:05 I’M PRYING IT’S ONLY A YEAR.

7:59:08 SO WE CAN STICK IT OUT.

7:59:10 I MEAN, IT REALLY STINKS.

7:59:11 BUT I WILL SAY, JUST TO SET UP A COUPLE OF EXAMPLES, I KNOW MEDDLE

7:59:15 LANE, BECAUSE

7:59:16 MEDDLE LANE, BECAUSE MEDDLE SCHOOLS WERE ABLE TO DO THEIR KINDERGARTEN

7:59:18 ROUNDUPS,

7:59:18 THEY DID A VIRTUAL KINDERGARTEN ROUNDUP, TOOK A TOUR, SHOWED ALL

7:59:21 THE KINDERGARTEN TEACHERS,

7:59:22 SHOWED MS. CAMPBELL, MS. CAMPBELL FROM THE MEDIA CENTER, AND DID

7:59:26 ALL THAT.

7:59:27 EXCELLENT, LOVED THAT.

7:59:28 SO THE COMMUNITY COULD SEE WHAT WAS GOING ON.

7:59:30 JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT, WHO IS ONE OF OUR GROUPS OF VOLUNTEERS THAT

7:59:33 COMES INTO OUR SCHOOLS,

7:59:34 THEY’VE ALREADY DEVELOPED A FULL SPECTRUM OF VIRTUAL –

7:59:37 JUNIOR WE MET WITH THEM.

9:24:51 WE MET WITH THEM.

9:24:52 JUNIOR WE MET WITH THEM.

9:31:30 WELL.

9:31:31 JUNIOR WE MET WITH THEM.

9:47:12 THANK YOU.

9:47:13 SO CURRENTLY STUDENTS ARE

9:47:14 SCHEDULED TO START ON TUESDAY

9:47:15 AUGUST 11TH.

9:47:16 AND THE EMERGENCY ORDER FROM THE

9:47:17 COMMISSIONER DOES SAY STARTING

9:47:18 SCHOOL IN AUGUST.

9:47:20 MAKING AN ASSUMPTION THAT WE

9:47:21 WOULD STILL START SCHOOL AT

9:47:22 SOME POINT IN AUGUST, YOU

9:47:23 WOULD CHANGE THE REST OF THE

9:47:25 CALENDAR BY THE NUMBER OF DAYS

9:47:27 THAT WOULD BE POTENTIALLY

9:47:30 STARTING LATER.

9:47:31 SO IF WE START TEN DAYS LATER

9:47:33 OR SOME OTHER MODEL, WE

9:47:36 WOULD END UP MOVING THE

9:47:38 CALENDAR ALONG 10 DAYS WHICH

9:47:40 WOULD PUSH – THERE ARE A

9:47:42 COUPLE OF IMPLICATIONS.

9:47:43 ONE IS SALARY.

9:47:44 SO I’LL GET TO THAT IN A

9:47:45 MINUTE.

9:47:46 BUT WHAT IT WILL DO TO THE

9:47:47 STUDENT CALENDAR IS IT WILL

9:47:48 PUSH THE END OF FIRST

9:47:49 SEMESTER INTO JANUARY WHICH

9:47:50 HAS IMPLICATIONS FOR OUR

9:47:51 DUAL ENROLLMENT STUDENTS WHO

9:47:53 ATTEND EASTERN FLORIDA AND

9:47:55 THE FEW THAT ATTEND FLORIDA

9:47:58 TECH – WITH OUR PROGRAM

9:47:59 WITH PALM BAY HIGH.

9:48:01 IT MAKES A DIFFERENCE FOR

9:48:02 THOSE STUDENTS.

9:48:03 AND THEN IT PUSHES US AT THE

9:48:04 END OF THE YEAR INTO JUNE.

9:48:06 RIGHT NOW I THINK WE’RE

9:48:08 SCHEDULED TO END THE SCHOOL

9:48:09 YEAR MAY – I WANT TO SAY

9:48:10 28TH IS THE LAST STUDENT DAY

9:48:12 DEPENDING ON THE NUMBER OF

9:48:13 DAYS THAT WE WOULD ADJUST

9:48:14 THE CALENDAR POTENTIALLY THAT

9:48:16 WOULD CHANGE THE ENDING OF

9:48:17 SCHOOL.

9:48:18 THERE ARE ALSO IMPLICATIONS

9:48:19 TO PAY.

9:48:21 RIGHT NOW OUR TEACHERS ARE

9:48:24 PAID ON AN AUGUST 15TH TO

9:48:26 JULY 30TH SCHEDULE.

9:48:28 IF WE DELEED STARTING SCHOOL AND

9:48:31 THEY WEREN’T WORKING ON THE

9:48:32 DELAY, THERE WOULD BE A PAY

9:48:34 IMPLICATION TO THAT.

9:48:36 THERE WOULD ALSO BE A PAY

9:48:37 IMPLICATION TO OUR OTHER

9:48:39 EMPLOYEES IN OUR 10-10 UNIONS,

9:48:41 OUR 10-MONTH EMPLOYEES, OUR

9:48:42 9-MONTH EMPLOYEES, AND SOME OF

9:48:43 OUR 11-MONTH EMPLOYEES THAT

9:48:45 WOULD HAVE START DATES CHANGED

9:48:47 AND THAT WOULD AFFECT – NOT

9:48:50 AFFECT THEIR OVERALL PAY, BUT

9:48:51 AFFECT PAY CHECKS.

9:48:53 BECAUSE THEY ARE – FOR EXAMPLE,

9:48:55 OUR TEACHERS ARE UNDER A

9:48:56 CONTRACT FOR 196 DAYS.

9:48:59 THE AMOUNT WOULD NOT DIFFER.

9:49:01 IT’S WHEN IT GETS PAID THAT

9:49:02 WOULD BE POTENTIALLY A

9:49:04 PROBLEM.

9:49:08 MS. McDougall, I APPRECIATE

9:49:09 THE ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF THE

9:49:10 TIGHT TIMELINE.

9:49:12 I WILL POTENTIALLY SPEAK FOR

9:49:15 THE TASK FORCE.

9:49:16 I BELIEVE THAT THEY HAVE BEEN

9:49:17 OPERATING CONSISTENTLY UNDER

9:49:19 THE EXPECTATION AND

9:49:20 ANTICIPATION OF A REGULAR

9:49:21 SCHOOL START.

9:49:23 WE HAVE NOT HAD ANY DISCUSSION

9:49:25 ABOUT ANY ALTERNATE START DATE.

9:49:29 OKAY.

9:49:30 I SEE THERE’S A LOT INVOLVED

9:49:32 IF WE SHOULD PUSH THIS BACK.

9:49:34 BUT I NEEDED TO KNOW THAT AND

9:49:36 I NEEDED OUR COMMUNITY TO

9:49:38 HEAR THAT ALSO.

9:49:41 THANK YOU, DR. THETTY AND

9:49:43 DR. MULINS.

9:49:44 THANK YOU, MS. McDougall.

9:49:45 ANY OTHER GENERAL QUESTIONS,

9:49:46 MS. McDougall?

9:49:48 NO, JUST SOME OF THE OLD

9:49:49 QUESTIONS THAT WE’RE GOING

9:49:50 TO GO OVER AGAIN.

9:49:51 NO.

9:49:54 OKAY.

9:49:55 MS. CAMPBELL, ANY GENERAL

9:49:56 QUESTIONS BEFORE WE GET INTO

9:49:57 ISSUE SPECIFIC?

9:50:01 YES.

9:50:02 AND THESE ARE – I JUST HAVE

9:50:04 SOME FINANCIAL QUESTIONS.

9:50:07 MS. LISTENSKY, YOU HAVEN’T

9:50:08 HAD TO SAY ANYTHING ALL DAY.

9:50:10 SO – AND THIS MAY BE A DR. MULINS

9:50:15 QUESTION AS WELL.

9:50:16 SO IF I READ OUR EMERGENCY ORDER

9:50:20 CORRECTLY, YOU KNOW, WHEN IT

9:50:22 FIRST CAME OUT, AND MS. BELFORD,

9:50:24 YOU MENTIONED THIS THIS MORNING,

9:50:25 THERE WAS A LOT OF, OH, MY GOSH,

9:50:27 THIS IS HORRIBLE.

9:50:28 BUT AS PART OF IT, IF I’M READING

9:50:29 IT CORRECTLY, THERE’S SOME GOOD

9:50:30 NEWS IN HERE IN THAT OUR FUNDING

9:50:33 WILL BE MUCH MORE STABLE THAN WE

9:50:36 ANTICIPATED OR WORRIED, AT LEAST

9:50:38 FOR THE FALL SEMESTER.

9:50:39 SO IT LOOKS LIKE TO ME IN THE

9:50:41 GOVERNOR’S ORDERS, IT SAYS THAT,

9:50:43 AT LEAST FOR THE FALL, THAT

9:50:46 THEY’RE PLANNING ON GIVING US, NO

9:50:48 MATTER WHAT OUR, YOU KNOW, OCTOBER

9:50:50 NUMBERS ARE, GIVING US THE

9:50:53 FUNDING THAT WAS PROJECTED IN

9:50:56 OUR CONFERENCE REPORTS THAT WERE

9:50:58 GIVEN BACK IN THE SPRING, WHICH

9:51:00 WOULD BE OUR NORMAL PRE-COVID

9:51:02 NUMBERS.

9:51:04 AM I READING THAT CORRECTLY?

9:51:06 YES, YOU ARE.

9:51:09 SO, AND I’M TRYING TO GET

9:51:11 CLARIFICATION IF THAT WOULD GO

9:51:13 ALL THE WAY THROUGH THE THIRD

9:51:14 CALC, BUT THEN, SO THAT WILL GIVE

9:51:17 US AN OPPORTUNITY TO GET AN

9:51:19 IDEA OF STUDENT ENROLLMENT AND

9:51:21 WHERE WE WILL BE.

9:51:23 I DON’T WANT TO GIVE US ANY

9:51:25 FALSE THOUGHTS THAT ACTUALLY

9:51:28 THE ELECTION IN NOVEMBER THAT WE

9:51:30 WOULD NOT HAVE A REDUCTION AS WE

9:51:33 HAD TALKED ABOUT BEFORE.

9:51:34 BUT THIS ALLOWS US TO START THE

9:51:36 YEAR AND BE ABLE TO TAKE A LOOK

9:51:39 TO SEE WHAT KIND OF ENROLLMENT

9:51:41 THAT WE HAVE AND THEN TRY TO

9:51:43 ADJUST DOWN AND PREPARE FOR

9:51:45 WHAT WE THINK THAT THAT CUT

9:51:47 WILL BE IF WE ARE CUT AFTER

9:51:49 THE ELECTION IN NOVEMBER.

9:51:52 AND THE REASON WHY I ASK THAT IS

9:51:53 BECAUSE – AND I KNOW YOU GUYS

9:51:57 CAN’T GIVE ME THE ANSWER TO THIS

9:51:58 RIGHT NOW AND I’M NOT GOING TO

9:51:59 ASK IT TO GIVE ME THE ANSWER.

9:52:01 BUT WHEN I FIRST READ THAT I

9:52:02 THOUGHT, OKAY, THIS IS GREAT

9:52:04 BECAUSE THEN WE CAN FUND OUR

9:52:05 SCHOOLS WITH THE ALLOTMENT OF

9:52:06 TEACHERS THAT WE WOULD HAVE

9:52:07 EXPECTED, BUT WE’RE PROBABLY

9:52:09 GOING TO HAVE FEWER IN OUR

9:52:10 BUILDINGS AND WE’RE GOING TO

9:52:12 HAVE SOME PARENTS DO DIFFERENT

9:52:13 THINGS, VIRTUAL SCHOOL,

9:52:14 WHATEVER.

9:52:15 BUT WE CAN – THAT WILL GIVE US

9:52:16 SMALLER CLASS SIZES TO START OUT

9:52:17 WITH AND AS PEOPLE BECOME MORE

9:52:18 COMFORTABLE AND THE STUDENTS

9:52:20 TRICKLE IN, THEN WE CAN, YOU

9:52:21 KNOW, FILL UP.

9:52:22 BUT I REALIZE THAT THERE IS A

9:52:27 RISK INVOLVED IN THAT AND THAT

9:52:29 IF WE GO AHEAD AND DO THAT AND

9:52:30 WE HAVE THOSE SMALLER CLASS

9:52:31 SIZES AND THE LEGISLATURE

9:52:32 COMES BACK AND SAYS, OKAY,

9:52:34 FOR THE SPRING SEMESTER, NOW

9:52:36 WE’RE ADJUSTING YOUR FUNDING

9:52:37 TO HOW MANY STUDENTS YOU

9:52:38 ACTUALLY HAVE.

9:52:39 THAT WOULD BE REALLY DANGEROUS

9:52:41 BECAUSE AT THAT POINT WE

9:52:42 CAN’T LET GO OF STAFF.

9:52:44 OR IT WOULD BE VERY DIFFICULT

9:52:46 TO DO THAT MID-YEAR.

9:52:47 AM I ALSO THINKING CORRECTLY

9:52:49 ALONG THOSE LINES?

9:52:50 YOU’RE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT.

9:52:51 THAT’S WHAT I TRY TO SAY.

9:52:53 THAT I STILL THINK WE NEED TO

9:52:55 BE CONCERNED ABOUT A REDUCTION

9:52:57 IN FUNDING IN NOVEMBER OR

9:53:02 DECEMBER WITH A SPECIAL

9:53:03 SESSION.

9:53:04 SO THE FUNDING NOW, HOLDING

9:53:05 HARMLESS, ALLOWS US TO GO

9:53:07 INTO THE YEAR AND THEN WE’LL

9:53:09 BE ABLE TO UNDERSTAND BETTER

9:53:11 OF, YOU KNOW, WHAT KIND OF

9:53:13 ENROLLMENT WE HAVE AND THEN

9:53:15 START PLANNING FOR WHAT WE

9:53:17 THINK THAT WILL BE.

9:53:18 BUT I DON’T THINK WE SHOULD

9:53:19 GO ALL OUT AND SPEND

9:53:20 EVERYTHING BECAUSE WE KNOW

9:53:22 THAT THAT MONEY IS GOING

9:53:23 TO –

9:53:24 SO WE MAY HAVE A LITTLE

9:53:25 BIT OF FLEXIBILITY TO BE

9:53:26 REDUCED.

9:53:27 BUT NOT AS MUCH AS –

9:53:28 WE HAVE MORE TIME TO –

9:53:30 THIS GIVES US TIME TO PLAN

9:53:31 MIGHT BE A BETTER WAY OF

9:53:32 SAYING IT.

9:53:33 OK.

9:53:33 SO IT GAVE US TIME.

9:53:34 YES.

9:53:35 ALL RIGHT.

9:53:36 MS. CAMPBELL, IF I CAN

9:53:37 ADD TO IT, JUST TO PUT IN

9:53:38 PERSPECTIVE THE TIMELINE AND

9:53:39 HOW TENUOUS IT COULD BECOME

9:53:41 BECAUSE WE DON’T HAVE

9:53:42 CLARIFICATION FROM SECOND

9:53:44 CALC TO THIRD CALC.

9:53:45 THIRD CALC.

9:53:46 SO THE ORDER –

9:53:48 DID I GET THAT RIGHT?

9:53:49 SECOND CALC IS IN

9:53:50 OCTOBER, CORRECT?

9:53:51 YEAH.

9:53:52 NO, SECOND CALC WILL BE

9:53:53 THE 19TH OF JULY.

9:53:55 OK.

9:53:56 SO WE’RE THIRD TO FOURTH

9:53:57 CALC.

9:53:58 THIRD IS OCTOBER AND

9:54:00 FOURTH IS FEBRUARY.

9:54:03 IS THAT RIGHT?

9:54:04 January.

9:54:05 WHY, MIKE?

9:54:06 THE FTE PERIOD IS

9:54:07 OCTOBER AND FEBRUARY.

9:54:08 THIRD CALC COMES IN, I

9:54:09 BELIEVE, IN JANUARY IS

9:54:10 WHEN WE GOT IT THIS YEAR

9:54:12 AND WE GOT FOURTH CALC,

9:54:13 MS. LISINSKI, I BELIEVE,

9:54:14 IN MAY.

9:54:15 WE JUST RECEIVED THE

9:54:16 FOURTH CALC IN MAY.

9:54:17 RIGHT.

9:54:18 SO THE FOURTH CALC COMES

9:54:20 BASED ON SECOND SEMESTER

9:54:22 ENROLLMENT.

9:54:23 AND – PARDON?

9:54:24 FEBRUARY.

9:54:25 YEAH.

9:54:26 FEBRUARY FTE.

9:54:27 SO THE ORDER DOES NOT

9:54:30 ADDRESS THE FOURTH CALC.

9:54:33 IT ONLY ADDRESSES THE

9:54:35 START OF SCHOOL.

9:54:36 SO TO YOUR POINT, WE COULD

9:54:38 POTENTIALLY FIND OUT THERE

9:54:40 IS A REDUCTION IN FUNDING

9:54:43 BASED ON ENROLLMENT FOR

9:54:44 SECOND SEMESTER, BUT NOT

9:54:46 UNTIL APRIL.

9:54:47 SO –

9:54:48 IN WHICH THAT MONEY WOULD

9:54:49 HAVE TO BE RETURNED TO THE

9:54:50 STATE IF THAT’S WHAT THEY

9:54:51 CHOSE.

9:54:52 CORRECT.

9:54:53 SO IT WOULD BE VERY DANGEROUS

9:54:56 TO GO INTO SECOND SEMESTER

9:55:00 WITH FULLY – WITH ENROLLMENT

9:55:05 OR WITH STAFFING BASED ON

9:55:08 ENROLLMENT PROJECTIONS FROM

9:55:09 LAST YEAR WHEN WE MAY BE HELD

9:55:11 ACCOUNTABLE TO TRUE

9:55:12 ENROLLMENT AT THE – ON THE

9:55:14 FEBRUARY FTE.

9:55:16 DOES THAT MAKE SENSE?

9:55:17 YES.

9:55:18 THANK YOU.

9:55:20 AND THAT IS WHAT OCCURRED

9:55:22 THIS YEAR, CORRECT?

9:55:23 WE TOOK A $1.3 MILLION HIT

9:55:27 ON 4TH CALC?

9:55:28 IT WAS RIGHT AROUND –

9:55:30 OR WAS IT 800?

9:55:31 IT WAS RIGHT AROUND $1 MILLION.

9:55:32 I DON’T REMEMBER EXACT.

9:55:33 I THINK IT WAS 999,000.

9:55:35 OKAY.

9:55:36 VERY CLOSE TO ONE.

9:55:38 THANK YOU.

9:55:39 MS. CAMPBELL, ANY ADDITIONAL

9:55:41 GENERAL QUESTIONS?

9:55:42 NO.

9:55:43 THAT’S IT.

9:55:44 MS. DUSKOVICH?

9:55:45 I’M GOOD.

9:55:46 MR. SUSAN?

9:55:47 ALL RIGHT.

9:55:48 SO WE’RE GOING TO DO –

9:55:50 GET A PERCENTAGE OF STUDENTS

9:55:52 THAT SIGNED ON THAT WERE IN

9:55:54 FREE AND REDUCED.

9:55:55 IS THIS THE LONGEST MEETING

9:55:58 IN BPS HISTORY FOR A WORKSHOP?

9:56:01 I DON’T KNOW.

9:56:02 I THINK IT IS.

9:56:04 IT MIGHT BE, AT LEAST SINCE

9:56:05 THE RECESSION.

9:56:06 IS THAT HOW LONG YOU –

9:56:08 ALL RIGHT.

9:56:09 AND THEN WE’RE GOING TO DO A

9:56:11 PRACTICE DAY VIDEO.

9:56:12 I LOVE THAT FROM COMMUNICATION.

9:56:15 OKAY.

9:56:16 FOR TEACHER COVID LEAVE.

9:56:18 ANY SINGLE POINT OF

9:56:19 COMMUNICATION.

9:56:20 WE’RE GOING TO WORK TOWARDS

9:56:21 THE SINGLE POINT OF

9:56:22 COMMUNICATION, FOLLOW UP

9:56:23 WITH THE SHOES AND DRESS.

9:56:25 OKAY.

9:56:26 WHAT IS THE IDEA FOR

9:56:28 TUESDAY’S PLAN FOR THE BOARD

9:56:30 MEETING?

9:56:31 ARE WE ALLOWING PUBLIC INPUT

9:56:34 AS WE NORMALLY DO?

9:56:35 IS THERE A TIME PERIOD THAT

9:56:36 – SINCE EVERYBODY’S

9:56:37 WATCHING HERE, IF THERE’S

9:56:38 ANY FAMILY MEMBERS THAT WANT

9:56:39 TO?

9:56:40 MS. HAND, CAN YOU EXPLAIN

9:56:41 THAT PROCESS WITH THE DAY

9:56:42 THAT THEY’RE SUPPOSED TO,

9:56:43 WHEN THEY’RE SUPPOSED TO

9:56:44 PUT IN?

9:56:45 ARE WE HAVING IT HERE IN

9:56:46 PERSON WITH PEOPLE

9:56:47 COMING IN?

9:56:48 WHAT’S THE PLAN FOR IT?

9:56:49 SO THE PLAN IS SIMILAR TO HOW

9:56:51 WE’VE BEEN RUNNING OUR

9:56:52 PREVIOUS BOARD MEETINGS DURING

9:56:53 THE PANDEMIC.

9:56:54 THE LINK WILL BE LIVE TOMORROW

9:56:56 MORNING AT 8:00 A.M.

9:56:58 SO YOU CAN GO ON OUR WEBSITE

9:56:59 AND THEY’LL BE RIGHT ON OUR

9:57:00 FRONT PAGE WILL BE A NOTE

9:57:01 THAT SAYS REGISTER HERE.

9:57:03 CLICK THIS LINK TO REGISTER.

9:57:05 YOU JUST FILL OUT THE FORM.

9:57:06 AND THAT INCLUDES A PHONE

9:57:07 NUMBER WHEN YOU PUT YOUR PHONE

9:57:08 NUMBER IN.

9:57:09 COMPILE THOSE.

9:57:10 WE CLOSE THE LINK ON MONDAY

9:57:12 MORNING AT 8:00 A.M.

9:57:14 AFTER WHICH I SEND THE ROSTER

9:57:16 OF FOLKS WHO WOULD LIKE TO

9:57:17 SPEAK AT THE BOARD MEETING TO

9:57:20 OUR VENDOR.

9:57:21 AND THEN THEY DO A CALL AT

9:57:22 5:30 P.M. ON MONDAY.

9:57:25 AND WE GENERALLY JUST CALL

9:57:27 PEOPLE IN THE ORDER IN WHICH

9:57:28 THEY SIGNED UP.

9:57:29 AND RECORD EVERYONE’S THREE

9:57:31 MINUTES AND THEN WE PLAY THAT

9:57:32 LIVE AT THE BOARD MEETING ON

9:57:34 TUESDAY MORNING.

9:57:35 AND THEN IS THERE ANY IDEA OF

9:57:37 WHEN WE MAY BE GOING BACK TO

9:57:38 BEING IN PERSON WITH PEOPLE

9:57:41 AND EVERYTHING ELSE?

9:57:42 IS THERE A PLAN FOR THAT?

9:57:43 I THINK WE SAID SOMETHING

9:57:44 ABOUT JULY.

9:57:45 SO MR. GIBS AND I HAVE BEEN

9:57:48 DISCUSSING THAT.

9:57:50 AND I THINK THE PLAN AT THIS

9:57:51 POINT, KEEPING IN MIND THAT

9:57:53 EVERY PLAN IS FLUID RIGHT NOW

9:57:56 DEPENDING ON HOW THINGS

9:57:57 LOOK NUMBERS WISE I THINK.

9:57:59 BUT THE CURRENT EXECUTIVE

9:58:01 ORDER FOR – EXCUSE ME – FOR

9:58:07 RESTRICTIONS FOR OUR MEETINGS I

9:58:08 THINK ENDS ON JULY 30TH.

9:58:09 AND SO THERE’S STRONG

9:58:11 POSSIBILITY GIVEN THE NUMBERS

9:58:13 CONTINUING TO RISE THAT THAT

9:58:14 WILL BE EXTENDED.

9:58:15 BUT WHAT MR. GIBS AND I HAD

9:58:17 TALKED ABOUT WAS POTENTIALLY

9:58:18 BEGINNING WITH WORKSHOPS IN

9:58:21 AUGUST.

9:58:22 HAVE THOSE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

9:58:24 BECAUSE WE WON’T HAVE SO MANY

9:58:26 PEOPLE THAT LIKELY ATTEND THE

9:58:28 WORKSHOPS ON A REGULAR BASIS.

9:58:30 TO GIVE US AN OPPORTUNITY TO

9:58:31 KIND OF EASE BACK INTO IT AND

9:58:33 MAKE SURE THAT WE CAN HANDLE

9:58:34 PEOPLE APPROPRIATELY.

9:58:35 ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I WAS

9:58:36 EXPLAINING TO MS. CAMPBELL

9:58:37 EARLIER TODAY IS, YOU KNOW,

9:58:40 EVEN THOUGH WE HAVE THE BOARD

9:58:42 ROOM SPACE, WE, THE BOARD AND

9:58:45 THE SUPERINTENDENT, WE CAN’T

9:58:47 SOCIALLY DISTANCE UP THERE.

9:58:49 SO US BEING UP THERE IS NOT

9:58:55 DOABLE, WHICH MEANS WE WOULD

9:58:56 HAVE TO BE DOWN HERE AND THEN

9:58:57 WE WOULD HAVE TO FIGURE OUT A

9:58:58 WAY TO MAKE SPACE FOR AN

9:59:00 AUDIENCE AS WELL.

9:59:01 SO THE PLAN IS TO WORK

9:59:03 TOWARD THAT STARTING IN

9:59:04 AUGUST THOUGH.

9:59:05 CAN I ASK THE QUESTION, THERE

9:59:07 ARE OTHER MUNICIPALITIES THAT

9:59:08 ARE INSIDE OF OUR COUNTY THAT

9:59:10 ARE MEETING WITH DIFFERENT

9:59:11 GUIDELINES.

9:59:12 IS THERE A GUIDELINE THAT WAS

9:59:13 SET BY THE GOVERNOR SAYING

9:59:14 YOU HAVE TO FOLLOW THESE?

9:59:15 OR ARE WE FOLLOWING A LIST?

9:59:17 WHERE IS OUR OVERARCHING –

9:59:19 THESE GUIDELINES THAT WE’RE

9:59:20 FOLLOWING CURRENTLY,

9:59:21 WHERE ARE THEY?

9:59:23 LIKE, WHERE ARE THEY COMING

9:59:24 FROM?

9:59:25 IT’S BASICALLY COME FROM

9:59:28 DIRECTION FROM MR. GIBS AND

9:59:30 DISCUSSION BETWEEN DR.

9:59:31 MULLINS, MR. GIBS, MS.

9:59:32 HAND, AND MYSELF.

9:59:34 AS TO HOW TO BEST ENSURE

9:59:37 THE SAFETY OF ALL INVOLVED

9:59:38 MOVING FORWARD.

9:59:39 IS THERE ANY –

9:59:40 THE GUIDELINES RIGHT NOW

9:59:41 ARE JUST SUNSHINE LAW.

9:59:43 THE ONLY THING THAT’S

9:59:44 SUSPENDED IS THE IN-PERSON

9:59:46 QUORUM.

9:59:47 SO WE DON’T HAVE TO – WE

9:59:49 HAVE TO ALLOT FOR EVERYTHING

9:59:50 ELSE.

9:59:51 THE PUBLIC PARTICIPATION

9:59:52 PIECE AND EVERY OTHER

9:59:53 ELEMENT HAS TO BE ALLOTED

9:59:54 FOR.

9:59:55 SO NOT HAVING PEOPLE COME IN

9:59:57 AND SIT IN HERE OR US

9:59:58 STANDING ON THE DIAS OR ANY

9:59:59 OF THOSE DECISIONS ARE OUR

10:00:00 DECISION AS A BOARD NOT BEING

10:00:03 GUIDED BY –

10:00:04 RIGHT.

10:00:05 THOSE ARE –

10:00:05 FEDERAL GOVERNMENT,

10:00:06 THAT’S US.

10:00:06 THOSE ARE OPERATIONAL

10:00:07 DECISIONS.

10:00:08 SO I WOULD LIKE TO MOVE

10:00:09 TOWARDS A DIFFERENT FORMAT

10:00:10 IF ANYBODY ELSE WANTS TO

10:00:11 HAVE THAT DISCUSSION.

10:00:12 I SUPPORT THAT.

10:00:15 I’M WONDERING, I WAS JUST

10:00:16 DISTENING TO MISS BELFORD’S

10:00:17 CONCERNS, THOUGH,

10:00:18 COULD WE SIT LIKE THIS?

10:00:20 AND I’M NOT EXACTLY SURE HOW

10:00:22 THE COUNTY COMMISSION DID IT

10:00:23 BECAUSE I WAS ONLY WATCHING

10:00:24 IT ONLINE, BUT IT SEEMED

10:00:25 LIKE PEOPLE WAITED OUTSIDE

10:00:27 AND CAME IN ONE AT A TIME.

10:00:28 SO IF THE PODIUM WAS, LIKE,

10:00:30 OVER THERE BY THE DOOR,

10:00:31 CAME IN ONCE, SPOKE,

10:00:33 LEFT AS PUBLIC COMMENTS,

10:00:34 THERE’S JUST SOMETHING

10:00:35 ABOUT THE PUBLIC FEELING

10:00:36 HEARD WHEN THEY CAN LOOK AT

10:00:38 THEIR REPRESENTATIVES

10:00:39 IN THE FACE.

10:00:40 I DON’T KNOW IF THAT’S AN

10:00:41 OPTION, BUT I’LL JUST

10:00:42 THROW IT OUT THERE,

10:00:43 BECAUSE SHE’S RIGHT,

10:00:44 WE CAN’T SIT UP THERE,

10:00:45 BUT WE COULD SIT DOWN HERE.

10:00:48 AND SO, THIS IS CHERYL,

10:00:50 AND I WOULD –

10:00:52 IF YOU ALL WANT TO WEAR

10:00:53 A MASK, I DON’T HAVE

10:00:54 A PROBLEM SHOWING UP,

10:00:55 BUT I DON’T SEE ANYBODY

10:00:56 WEARING MASKS.

10:00:58 SO I’M PROTECTING YOU,

10:00:59 BUT NO ONE’S PROTECTING ME.

10:01:03 CAN I ASK THE QUESTION,

10:01:04 THEN, THAT WE’RE GETTING

10:01:05 HIT ON ON SOCIAL MEDIA?

10:01:07 IF WE ARE NOT GOING

10:01:08 TO HAVE THE MEETINGS,

10:01:09 HOW ARE WE HAVING KIDS

10:01:10 COMING BACK TO SCHOOL

10:01:11 IF WE’RE NOT GOING

10:01:12 TO SIT WITHIN THE SAME

10:01:13 PARAMETERS AND PERIMETERS

10:01:14 THAT OTHER PEOPLE ARE?

10:01:16 AND THAT’S THE REASON I

10:01:17 POINTED THE QUESTION IS,

10:01:18 IS THAT I HAVE AN ISSUE

10:01:19 WITH THAT.

10:01:20 I HAVE AN ISSUE WITH OUR

10:01:21 KIDS HAVING TO COME BACK

10:01:23 TO SCHOOL AND TO GO BACK

10:01:25 INTO THE MEETING AND US

10:01:26 NOT DO IT.

10:01:27 AND I WOULD MAKE THE

10:01:28 RECOMMENDATION THAT WE

10:01:29 RETURN TO THE DIAS,

10:01:30 WE PUT THE CHAIRS OUT

10:01:31 SOCIALLY DISTANCED,

10:01:32 AND WE MOVE ON A MEETING

10:01:33 LIKE THAT.

10:01:34 IF WE’RE GOING TO SEND

10:01:35 THE MESSAGE THAT WE’RE

10:01:36 GOING TO SEND PRE-K KIDS

10:01:37 BACK TO SCHOOL,

10:01:37 IF WE’RE GOING TO SEND

10:01:38 THE MESSAGE WE’RE COMING

10:01:39 BACK TO SCHOOL WITH 72,000

10:01:40 OR 68,000 KIDS,

10:01:42 I THINK IT BEHOOVES US

10:01:43 TO MEET IN A NORMAL

10:01:44 STANCE, ESPECIALLY WHEN

10:01:45 OUR OTHER MUNICIPALITIES

10:01:46 AND GOVERNMENTS ARE.

10:01:48 I WOULD SUGGEST THAT THEY

10:01:50 ALL ARE NOT, BUT –

10:01:52 THERE ARE SOME THAT ARE.

10:01:54 THE OTHER THING THAT I

10:01:55 WOULD SAY, MR. SUSAN,

10:01:56 AND I UNDERSTAND PEOPLE

10:01:57 SAYING HOW CAN WE SEND

10:01:58 STUDENTS BACK TO SCHOOL

10:01:59 IN AUGUST.

10:02:04 AS MS. HAND SPOKE EARLIER

10:02:05 ABOUT PRIORITIZING WHERE

10:02:07 WE PUT OUR ENERGIES,

10:02:10 ONE THING THAT IS

10:02:11 ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN IS

10:02:12 THE MORE THAT WE CHANGE

10:02:13 THINGS UP RIGHT NOW,

10:02:15 AND THE MORE EXPECTATIONS

10:02:17 THAT WE PUT ON STAFF TO

10:02:19 HANDLE OUR TIME HERE IN

10:02:20 THE BUILDING IS THE MORE

10:02:22 WE ARE PULLING THEM AWAY

10:02:23 FROM THE WORK THAT THEY

10:02:24 NEED TO DO.

10:02:25 AND SO I FEEL LIKE WE HAVE

10:02:28 A PROCESS THAT’S WORKING

10:02:29 RIGHT NOW.

10:02:31 AND I THINK ABSOLUTELY

10:02:32 WORKING TOWARD BRINGING

10:02:33 PEOPLE BACK INTO THE BOARD

10:02:36 MEETING IN AUGUST IS

10:02:38 PERFECTLY APPROPRIATE.

10:02:39 MY CONCERN IS IF WE SAY WE

10:02:44 DECIDE, OH, WELL, NEXT

10:02:45 TUESDAY WE’RE JUST GOING TO

10:02:46 GO TO A REGULAR PUBLIC

10:02:47 COMMENT.

10:02:49 THAT IS GOING TO BE A WHOLE

10:02:50 LOT OF PEOPLE THAT THE STAFF

10:02:52 HERE AT ESF ARE GOING TO HAVE

10:02:54 TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO MANAGE,

10:02:57 HOW TO SOCIALLY DISTANCE, HOW

10:02:59 TO CLEAN UP AFTER, HOW TO –

10:03:03 WE CAN’T SIT UP THERE SIX FEET

10:03:04 APART BECAUSE WE CAN’T ACCESS –

10:03:05 FIRST OF ALL, SIX FEET APART,

10:03:08 THERE’S JUST TOO MANY OF US.

10:03:09 WE CAN’T FIT UP THERE AND BE

10:03:11 SIX FEET APART.

10:03:12 SO WE HAVE TO BE DOWN HERE.

10:03:13 OR SOME OF US HAVE TO BE DOWN

10:03:14 HERE.

10:03:15 THAT’S OUR GUIDELINES.

10:03:16 PER THE THING.

10:03:17 THE SIX FEET IS –

10:03:18 NO, SIX FEET IS CDC.

10:03:19 YEAH, THOSE ARE THE

10:03:20 RECOMMENDED GUIDELINES.

10:03:21 SO THE OTHER MUNICIPALITIES

10:03:22 THAT ARE WITHIN SIX FEET ARE

10:03:24 BREAKING THE CDC GUIDELINES?

10:03:25 YOU HAVE ONLY, LIKE, FOUR COUNTY

10:03:28 COMMISSIONERS SPREAD ACROSS THE

10:03:29 TOP IN THE COUNTY MANAGER.

10:03:30 SO THE OTHER ONE IS CALLING IN

10:03:32 REMOTELY AND THE ATTORNEY IS ON

10:03:34 THE FLOOR.

10:03:35 SO THAT’S THE WAY IT WAS THIS

10:03:37 WEEK WHEN WE WENT OVER THERE.

10:03:39 SO THEY ARE SPREAD OUT.

10:03:40 THEY’RE EVERY OTHER CHAIR.

10:03:41 SO CITY OF COCO, SOME OF THE

10:03:43 OTHER AREAS THAT I’VE BEEN INTO

10:03:44 SPEAKING AT, THEY’RE NOT –

10:03:46 THEY ARE A LITTLE BIT TIGHTER.

10:03:47 BUT HERE’S MY – HERE’S THE

10:03:48 ULTIMATE ARGUMENT.

10:03:50 IS THAT IF WE’RE GOING TO PUT

10:03:51 KIDS INSIDE A CLASSROOM SHORTER

10:03:53 THAN 6 FEET, THEN I DON’T THINK

10:03:55 THAT WE CAN BE RESPECTFUL.

10:03:57 I PERSONALLY BELIEVE THAT.

10:03:59 I JUST – THAT’S MY THING.

10:04:00 AND I MAY BE ONE BOARD MEMBER

10:04:01 THAT’S SPEAKING TO THIS, BUT

10:04:03 WE’RE ABOUT TO ASK ALL OF OUR

10:04:05 KIDS TO DO THE SAME.

10:04:06 WE’RE ALREADY ASKING THEM TO DO

10:04:07 THAT.

10:04:08 I THINK THAT WE STAND WITH THEM.

10:04:10 AND THAT’S MY FEELING.

10:04:11 SO I WOULD LIKE TO SEE WHAT

10:04:12 EVERYBODY ELSE’S FEELINGS ARE

10:04:13 ON THAT.

10:04:14 AND I UNDERSTAND THAT

10:04:15 CHANGING IT TO JULY 14TH

10:04:16 MAY BE A LITTLE DIFFICULT,

10:04:18 BUT MOVING THAT BALL FASTER,

10:04:20 I THINK WOULD BE WHAT I WOULD BE

10:04:21 ASKING.

10:04:22 BUT I DID HAVE ONE QUESTION.

10:04:23 YOU SAID THAT THE STAFF’S TIME

10:04:24 WOULD TAKE LONGER IF WE DID THAT.

10:04:27 BESIDES THE PUBLIC COMMENT,

10:04:29 THEY’RE ALREADY IN HERE, RIGHT?

10:04:30 YES.

10:04:31 BECAUSE I’M TRYING TO

10:04:32 UNDERSTAND IF THAT’S –

10:04:33 CORRECT.

10:04:34 NO.

10:04:35 I’M NOT TALKING ABOUT THE

10:04:36 CABINET, BECAUSE THE CABINET

10:04:37 IS TYPICALLY AVAILABLE DURING

10:04:38 THE MEETING ANYWAY.

10:04:39 BUT WHAT I’M TALKING ABOUT IS

10:04:41 HOW MANY PEOPLE DO YOU THINK

10:04:42 WOULD SHOW UP FOR A MEETING

10:04:43 NEXT WEEK TO SPEAK AT PUBLIC

10:04:44 COMMONS?

10:04:45 AND ALL OF THOSE PEOPLE

10:04:46 HAVE TO BE MANAGED, RIGHT?

10:04:48 SO WE HAVE TO HAVE – WE HAVE

10:04:49 TO MANAGE WHERE THEY SIT.

10:04:51 WE HAVE TO MANAGE WHEN

10:04:52 THEY’RE COMING INTO THE

10:04:53 BUILDING, HOW THEY’RE COMING

10:04:54 INTO THE BUILDING.

10:04:55 WE HAVE TO MANAGE EVERYTHING

10:04:56 BEING CLEANED AFTER THEY

10:04:57 LEAVE THE BUILDING.

10:04:58 AND THAT’S PULLING PEOPLE

10:05:03 IN GENERAL AWAY FROM TASK.

10:05:06 NOT TO MENTION, YOU KNOW,

10:05:08 EXPOSURE AS WELL.

10:05:09 SO I ABSOLUTELY UNDERSTAND

10:05:11 YOUR POINT OF WE’RE SENDING

10:05:12 KIDS BACK AND WE SHOULD BE

10:05:13 WILLING TO DO THE SAME.

10:05:14 AND I GET THAT.

10:05:15 MY ONLY SUGGESTION IS THAT

10:05:17 WE PHASE IT IN THROUGH

10:05:19 STARTING WITH OUR WORKSHOPS

10:05:20 IN AUGUST SO THAT WE CAN

10:05:23 GRADUALLY MANAGE IT

10:05:25 INSTEAD OF OPENING UP, YOU

10:05:27 KNOW, A HUGE FLOODGATE OF

10:05:29 PEOPLE COMING INTO THE

10:05:30 BUILDING THAT WE HAVE TO

10:05:31 FIGURE OUT HOW TO MANAGE

10:05:32 IN A SOCIALLY DISTANCED

10:05:33 SAFE WAY.

10:05:34 WE COULD – AN IDEA THAT I

10:05:35 WAS THINKING ABOUT,

10:05:36 BECAUSE I THOUGHT ABOUT

10:05:37 THIS, IS WE COULD HAVE –

10:05:38 JUST LIKE YOU HAVE PEOPLE

10:05:39 TESTING, YOU COULD HAVE A

10:05:41 NUMBER SYSTEM WHERE

10:05:42 PEOPLE SIT IN THEIR CARS

10:05:43 OUT THERE AND IF THEY WANT

10:05:44 TO GIVE PUBLIC COMMENT

10:05:45 THEY CAN WALK IN, STAND

10:05:46 THERE, OR WE COULD GIVE

10:05:47 ANOTHER LOCATION INSIDE

10:05:49 THE BUILDING WHERE THEY

10:05:50 WALK IN AND GIVE – JUST

10:05:51 LIKE THEY DO AT THE

10:05:52 COMMISSION.

10:05:53 I THINK THEY LET THEM

10:05:54 COME IN, THEY LET THEM

10:05:55 SPEAK INSIDE OF ANOTHER

10:05:56 AREA, AND THEN THEY LEAVE.

10:05:58 BUT THAT MIGHT BE ANOTHER

10:05:59 AREA TO DO, AND THAT WOULD

10:06:00 TAKE LESS THAN TWO PEOPLE

10:06:01 TO MONITOR THAT.

10:06:03 I JUST FEEL STRONGLY.

10:06:05 I MEAN, LIKE, I – AND I

10:06:06 KNOW THAT – I DON’T WANT

10:06:08 IT TO SEEM LIKE IT’S A

10:06:09 PANDERING THING TO THE

10:06:10 PUBLIC, BUT THE BOTTOM

10:06:11 LINE IS IS THAT I FEEL

10:06:12 STRONG ABOUT IT, AND I

10:06:13 REALLY THINK THAT WE SHOULD

10:06:15 BE TOGETHER, AND I THINK

10:06:16 IT ALSO SENDS A MESSAGE

10:06:17 THAT WE’RE TOGETHER ALSO.

10:06:19 I KNOW THAT WE’RE TRYING

10:06:20 TO DO SOCIALLY DISTANCE,

10:06:21 BUT IF WE’VE GOT KIDS THAT

10:06:22 ARE INSIDE THERE THAT

10:06:23 ARE TIGHTER, WE CAN GET

10:06:25 TIGHTER, AND THAT’S WHAT

10:06:26 MY FEELINGS ARE.

10:06:27 AND I’LL LEAVE IT UP TO

10:06:28 THE OTHER BOARD MEMBERS

10:06:29 TO MAKE COMMENTS.

10:06:30 I’M SORRY.

10:06:33 THIS IS SHERYL AGAIN.

10:06:36 GO AHEAD, SHERYL.

10:06:37 I HAVEN’T – I DIDN’T

10:06:38 HEAR ANYBODY SAY WHETHER

10:06:40 THEY WOULD BE WILLING TO

10:06:41 WEAR A MASK TO PROTECT ME

10:06:43 OR TO PROTECT ANYBODY ELSE

10:06:44 THAT WALKS IN THAT ROOM.

10:06:45 I DID NOT HEAR THAT.

10:06:48 IS THERE A PROBLEM WITH

10:06:49 THAT?

10:06:50 I MEAN, REALLY?

10:06:51 IS THERE REALLY A BIG

10:06:52 PROBLEM WITH THAT?

10:06:54 I DON’T THINK ANYBODY IN

10:06:55 HERE HAS A PROBLEM WEARING

10:06:56 MASKS, SHERYL.

10:06:57 I WANTED TO STIT NEXT TO

10:06:58 EACH OTHER.

10:06:59 THE ISSUE THAT YOU HAVE

10:07:00 WITH THE MASK IS THAT WHEN

10:07:02 YOU’RE SPEAKING INTO THE

10:07:03 MICROPHONE AND WHEN

10:07:04 YOU’RE DOING OTHER THINGS,

10:07:05 IT MAKES IT DIFFICULT.

10:07:06 THAT’S ALL.

10:07:07 BUT IF THAT’S WHAT IT

10:07:08 REQUIRES FOR THIS BOARD

10:07:09 TO MEET UP ON THE THING,

10:07:11 I DO NOT MIND DOING IT.

10:07:12 BUT I DON’T SEE THAT –

10:07:14 I MEAN, YOU CAN STILL

10:07:15 CALL IN VIRTUALLY.

10:07:16 I’M NOT REQUIRING –

10:07:17 ASKING YOU THAT YOU HAVE

10:07:18 TO COME IN.

10:07:19 BUT I DON’T HAVE A PROBLEM

10:07:21 DOING SOMETHING LIKE THAT

10:07:22 IF IT MEANT THAT WE COULD

10:07:23 BE TOGETHER ON THE DIAS.

10:07:24 WHILE WE’RE GOING AROUND, I’LL

10:07:29 JUST WAIT IN ON – I’VE HAD

10:07:34 SIMILAR THOUGHTS TO MR.

10:07:35 SUSAN.

10:07:36 I FEEL LIKE WE NEED TO COME

10:07:37 BACK – NOT NEXT TUESDAY

10:07:38 BECAUSE IT’S TOO SHORT OF A

10:07:39 TURN AROUND.

10:07:40 OUR NEXT MEETING AFTER THAT

10:07:41 IS JULY THE 30TH, I BELIEVE,

10:07:42 OUR THURSDAY NIGHT MEETING,

10:07:43 RIGHT?

10:07:44 THAT WOULD BE RIGHT BEFORE

10:07:45 EVERYBODY STARTS COMING

10:07:46 BACK, AUGUST.

10:07:47 IT’S MY UNDERSTANDING OF THE

10:07:48 PHASE THAT WE’RE IN, WE CAN

10:07:49 HAVE MEETINGS OF UP TO 50

10:07:50 PEOPLE, YOU KNOW, AS FAR AS

10:07:52 WE STILL NEED TO BE SPREAD

10:07:53 OUT.

10:07:54 SO MY UNDERSTANDING OF CDC

10:07:55 GUIDELINES, AND MS.

10:07:56 McDougall, I’LL JUST ADDRESS

10:07:57 THAT, YOU KNOW, THAT IDEA OF

10:07:58 MASKS STILL, YOU KNOW, IT

10:07:59 DEPENDS ON WHERE YOU ARE

10:08:00 AND DIFFERENT GOVERNMENTS

10:08:01 ARE MAKING DIFFERENT

10:08:02 DECISIONS, BUT MASKS ARE

10:08:03 FOR WHEN YOU CAN’T SOCIALLY

10:08:04 DISTANCE.

10:08:05 WE’RE SITTING ACTUALLY

10:08:06 8 FEET APART TODAY.

10:08:07 IF WE CAN SIT 8 TO 10 FEET

10:08:08 APART, YOU KNOW, AND I’VE GOT

10:08:09 MY MASK ON WHEN I WALK IN THE

10:08:10 DOOR AND I TAKE IT OFF WHEN I

10:08:11 SIT DOWN, I DON’T HAVE A

10:08:12 PROBLEM.

10:08:13 BUT I, YOU KNOW, FOR RIGHT

10:08:14 NOW, THE EXECUTIVE ORDERS

10:08:15 ARE THAT WE CAN STILL, YOU

10:08:16 KNOW, WE DON’T HAVE TO HAVE

10:08:17 THE QUORUM, SO MS.

10:08:19 McDougall CAN CALL IN, CAN

10:08:20 VOTE AND ALL OF THAT THAT

10:08:21 SHE MIGHT NOT NORMALLY BE

10:08:22 ABLE TO DO.

10:08:23 SHE CAN ALWAYS CALL IN, AS

10:08:24 LONG AS YOU HAVE A

10:08:25 EXECUTIVE ORDERS THAT

10:08:26 WE CAN STILL, YOU KNOW,

10:08:27 WE DON’T HAVE TO HAVE

10:08:28 THE QUORUM, SO MS.

10:08:29 McDougall CAN CALL IN,

10:08:30 CAN VOTE AND ALL OF THAT THAT

10:08:31 SHE MIGHT NOT NORMALLY BE

10:08:32 ABLE TO DO.

10:08:33 SHE CAN ALWAYS CALL IN.

10:08:34 AS LONG AS YOU HAVE A

10:08:35 PHYSICAL QUORUM, YOU CAN,

10:08:36 THE BOARD CAN STILL ALLOW

10:08:37 REMOTE ATTENDANCE.

10:08:38 RIGHT.

10:08:39 BUT UNDER NORMAL

10:08:40 CIRCUMSTANCES, REMOTE

10:08:41 MEANS THAT YOU CAN STILL,

10:08:42 AS LONG AS YOU HAVE THE

10:08:43 PHYSICAL QUORUM, THEY CAN

10:08:44 STILL CALL IN, IT’S LEFT

10:08:45 UP TO THE BOARD.

10:08:46 THEY CAN STILL VOTE ALSO.

10:08:47 YEAH, THAT’S A BOARD

10:08:48 DECISION.

10:08:49 OK.

10:08:50 WE WOULD NEVER WANT TO

10:08:51 TAKE AWAY A VOTE.

10:08:52 IN MARION, THEY HAD A RULE

10:08:53 THAT YOU COULD NOT VOTE.

10:08:54 THEY WOULD LET YOU SPEAK TO

10:08:55 AN ITEM.

10:08:56 BUT BOARD MEMBERS THAT WERE

10:08:57 NOT PRESENT IN THE ROOM

10:08:59 COULD NOT VOTE.

10:09:00 GOTCHA.

10:09:01 I MEAN, AS FAR AS, YOU KNOW,

10:09:02 WE CAN DO REMOTE AS LONG

10:09:03 AS ANY ONE OF US.

10:09:04 AND YOU KNOW, TRUTH BE TOLD,

10:09:05 WE TALKED ABOUT THIS WAY

10:09:06 BACK IN MARCH.

10:09:07 THERE MIGHT BECOME A TIME

10:09:08 WHEN ONE OF US TESTS

10:09:09 POSITIVE OR NEEDS TO BE

10:09:10 QUARANTINED OR THREE OF

10:09:11 US OR FOUR OF US.

10:09:12 I MEAN, AS LONG AS

10:09:13 THE EXECUTIVE ORDER IS

10:09:14 AS LONG AS THE

10:09:15 THERE MIGHT BECOME A TIME

10:09:16 WHEN ONE OF US TESTS

10:09:17 POSITIVE OR NEEDS TO BE

10:09:18 QUARANTINED AND, YOU KNOW,

10:09:19 OR THREE OF US OR FOUR OF

10:09:20 US.

10:09:20 I MEAN, AS LONG AS

10:09:21 THE EXECUTIVE ORDER IS

10:09:22 THERE, WE CAN CALL AND

10:09:23 WHATEVER.

10:09:24 BUT I’D LIKE FOR US TO

10:09:25 START MOVING IN THAT

10:09:26 DIRECTION AS WELL, AS

10:09:27 LONG AS WE CAN, YOU KNOW,

10:09:28 FOLLOW THE CURRENT

10:09:29 GUIDELINES FOR

10:09:30 GATHERINGS.

10:09:31 BUT NOT NEXT WEEK.

10:09:34 MS. TOSKIVICH?

10:09:36 I THOUGHT I CHIMED IN.

10:09:41 I THINK NEXT WEEK IS

10:09:43 OBVIOUSLY TOO SOON WITH

10:09:44 EVERYBODY SCRAMBLING TO

10:09:45 FINALIZE THE PLAN AND WITH

10:09:46 ALL THE FEEDBACK COMING

10:09:47 FROM TODAY.

10:09:48 BUT I DEFINITELY WANT TO

10:09:50 GET THERE.

10:09:51 AND I THINK THAT AUGUST

10:09:53 WORKSHOPS ONLY IS A

10:09:54 LITTLE SLOW FOR MY TASTE.

10:09:58 MS. CAMPBELL, THAT’S

10:09:59 EVERYTHING I’VE READ IS

10:10:00 THAT IF YOU’RE MORE THAN

10:10:01 SIX FEET APART, THE MASK

10:10:02 IS – AND THAT’S WHAT WE

10:10:03 SEEM TO BE PRACTICING

10:10:04 WITH THE STUDENTS WITH

10:10:06 YOUR RECOMMENDATIONS

10:10:07 IS WHEN THEY’RE ON THE

10:10:09 BUS AND CAN’T BE

10:10:10 FURTHER APART, MASKS,

10:10:12 IF THEY’RE GOING TO BE

10:10:13 DOING CLOSE CONTACT THINGS,

10:10:14 MASKS, AND MAYBE THAT’S

10:10:17 LIKE RIGHT NOW WE’RE

10:10:18 8 FEET APART.

10:10:19 I DON’T SEE A NEED TO

10:10:20 WEAR A MASK.

10:10:21 IF WE’RE ON THE DAIS,

10:10:22 I DON’T KNOW, SOMEBODY

10:10:23 WANT TO MEASURE IF IT’S

10:10:24 TOO CLOSE, MAYBE YOU HAVE

10:10:25 TO WEAR A MASK.

10:10:26 BUT THEN, YOU KNOW, I JUST

10:10:27 HAVE TROUBLE HEARING

10:10:28 PEOPLE.

10:10:29 I WAS AROUND THREE PEOPLE

10:10:30 LAST NIGHT WITH MASKS

10:10:31 AND I LITERALLY HAD TO GET

10:10:32 LIKE SO CLOSE TO THEM AND

10:10:33 GO LIKE THIS.

10:10:34 SO I COULD HEAR.

10:10:36 I DON’T KNOW, MAYBE MY

10:10:37 HEARING’S NOT THAT GOOD AND

10:10:38 I READ LIPS MORE THAN I

10:10:39 THOUGHT.

10:10:40 BUT IT’S SO AWKWARD FOR ME

10:10:42 BECAUSE I’M NOT A PERSONAL

10:10:44 SPACE.

10:10:45 I DON’T LIKE GETTING IN

10:10:46 PEOPLE’S PERSONAL SPACE.

10:10:47 BUT IF I CAN’T HEAR YOU,

10:10:48 THEN I START GETTING CLOSER

10:10:49 AND CLOSER AND YET WE’RE

10:10:50 IN A PANDEMIC.

10:10:51 AND I’M LIKE, WELL, NOW I’M

10:10:52 LIKE PRACTICALLY TOUCHING

10:10:53 YOU SO I CAN HEAR YOU.

10:10:54 I’M JUST – YOU KNOW, THE

10:10:55 WHOLE THING IS WAY MORE

10:10:56 COMPLICATED THAN IT NEEDS

10:10:58 TO BE.

10:10:59 SHORT ANSWER, I THINK WE NEED

10:11:01 TO GET THE PUBLIC BACK

10:11:02 ENGAGED.

10:11:03 WE’RE MAKING REALLY BIG

10:11:04 DECISIONS THAT IS AFFECTING

10:11:05 THE PUBLIC.

10:11:08 NOT JUST THESE THINGS, BUT

10:11:10 ON OUR BUDGET WE’LL BE

10:11:11 VOTING ON THE MEDIA

10:11:16 ASSISTANCE, WHAT WE PLAN

10:11:18 ON DOING WITH THEIR

10:11:19 POSITIONS.

10:11:20 THESE ARE ALL THINGS THAT I

10:11:21 THINK THE COMMUNITY NEEDS

10:11:22 TO BE ABLE TO LOOK AT US

10:11:23 AND SHARE THEIR CONCERNS.

10:11:25 DOES THAT GIVE YOU ALL THE

10:11:26 INFORMATION YOU NEED FROM

10:11:27 ME?

10:11:28 AND JUST – SINCE WE’RE

10:11:29 TALKING ABOUT PUBLIC

10:11:30 COMMENT, WE MAY STILL HAVE

10:11:31 SOME PUBLIC WHO WANT TO

10:11:32 COMMENT BUT DON’T FEEL

10:11:33 COMFORTABLE COMING IN.

10:11:34 AND I WANT TO BE AWARE OF

10:11:35 THAT.

10:11:36 JUST LIKE MS. McDougall IS

10:11:37 NOT COMFORTABLE COMING

10:11:38 IN RIGHT NOW, WE MAY HAVE

10:11:39 SOME PUBLIC.

10:11:40 IF THERE’S A WAY FOR US TO

10:11:41 CONTINUE THE PHONE-IN

10:11:43 VERSION, YOU KNOW, IF WE

10:11:47 CAN – TO MAKE THINGS

10:11:48 MORE COMPLICATED, BUT IF

10:11:51 WE’RE GOING TO MAKE THE

10:11:53 COMPLICATED, I DON’T WANT

10:11:54 PEOPLE TO BE SILENCED

10:11:55 BECAUSE I DON’T FEEL

10:11:56 COMFORTABLE COMING IN.

10:11:58 IS THAT MAKING IT TOO

10:11:59 COMPLICATED?

10:12:02 I THINK WE’RE JUST

10:12:03 COMPLICATING IT AT A TIME

10:12:04 WHEN THERE’S ALREADY A

10:12:05 WHOLE LOT OF COMPLICATION

10:12:06 GOING ON, BUT IF THAT’S

10:12:07 THE WISHES OF THE BOARD,

10:12:08 THEN THAT’S THE WAY THAT WE

10:12:09 MOVE FORWARD.

10:12:11 SO I’LL GET WITH PAM AND

10:12:14 FIND OUT WHAT HAS BEEN

10:12:15 ADVERTISED AND HOW IT’S

10:12:16 BEEN ADVERTISED AND LOOK

10:12:18 AT THE CALENDAR AND THEN

10:12:20 THE BOARD HAS GIVEN YOU A

10:12:22 CHARGE TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO

10:12:23 GET PEOPLE IN HERE

10:12:24 SAFELY.

10:12:26 WE WILL WORK TOWARD

10:12:27 THAT.

10:12:29 IF SHERYL’S NOT COMING

10:12:31 IN AND PAM’S NOT ON THE

10:12:33 DICE, WE MIGHT BE ABLE TO

10:12:34 START SAVING SOME SPACE UP

10:12:35 THERE, IF THAT MAKES SENSE.

10:12:37 WE’LL TAKE A LOOK AT ALL

10:12:38 THE COMBINATIONS.

10:12:39 ALL RIGHT.

10:12:40 THE OTHER THING I WAS

10:12:41 GOING TO SAY IS, DID WE

10:12:42 TALK ABOUT POSSIBLY

10:12:43 MOVING THE WELL CARE

10:12:44 CENTERS INTO FOCUS ON

10:12:45 COVID OR ANYTHING LIKE

10:12:46 THAT?

10:12:47 THE FOCUS OF OUR WELL CARE

10:12:50 CENTERS IS TO FOCUS ON THE

10:12:52 WELL-BEING OF OUR PEOPLE

10:12:53 FOCUSED ON THE PEOPLE

10:12:54 THAT NEED IT THE MOST.

10:12:55 WOULD IT BEHOOVE US TO

10:12:56 MOVE OUR WELL CARE CENTERS

10:12:57 INTO KIND OF A COVID-Focused

10:12:58 AREA TO HELP THOSE PEOPLE

10:13:00 GET THE TEST, TO HELP THEM

10:13:02 MOVE, YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN,

10:13:03 TO HELP THAT PROCESS?

10:13:04 THAT IS A DISCUSSION THAT

10:13:05 I’VE HAD WITH MR. LANGDORF

10:13:06 AND I CAN EXPLORE IT

10:13:07 FURTHER.

10:13:08 I’M SORRY, MR. SEIBERT IS

10:13:09 GONE, BUT PRIOR, I DON’T

10:13:10 EVEN KNOW WHAT TIME IT WAS.

10:13:11 SHE TALKED ABOUT THE P.P.E.

10:13:12 THAT THOSE WHO DO THE TEST

10:13:13 HAVE TO WEAR AND THAT WAS

10:13:14 ONE OF THE IMPEDIMENTS

10:13:16 IN MAKING SURE EVERYBODY’S

10:13:17 ISOLATED AND THOSE WELL

10:13:18 CARE CENTERS AREN’T

10:13:19 SET UP FOR THAT.

10:13:20 IT’S CERTAINLY –

10:13:21 NOT SO MUCH TESTING.

10:13:22 I THINK THAT THAT WOULDN’T

10:13:23 BE APPROPRIATE AT THE

10:13:24 TIME, BUT I THINK THAT

10:13:25 HELPING THOSE INDIVIDUALS

10:13:26 IN THIS PROCESS THROUGH

10:13:27 GETTING THE TEST FROM THE

10:13:28 OTHER PLACE, BEING THAT

10:13:29 THERE’S CIGNA SUPPOSED TO

10:13:30 FOLLOW UP WITH FOLLOW-UP

10:13:31 CARE AND EVERYTHING ELSE

10:13:32 AND MAKING SURE THAT THEY

10:13:34 HAVE THE RESPONSIBLE PIECE.

10:13:35 I MEAN, PART OF WELL IS

10:13:36 BEING WELL.

10:13:37 AND I THINK THAT A LOT OF

10:13:38 PEOPLE DON’T TAKE INTO

10:13:39 CONSIDERATION THAT DERRING

10:13:40 THIS PROCESS, THE BETTER

10:13:41 YOUR IMMUNE SYSTEM,

10:13:42 THE BETTER YOUR

10:13:43 IMMUNE SYSTEM, THE

10:13:44 WELL IS BEING WELL.

10:13:45 AND I THINK THAT A LOT OF

10:13:46 PEOPLE DON’T TAKE

10:13:55 THE PROCESS IS, THE BETTER

10:13:56 OFF YOU ARE.

10:13:57 SO IF WE’RE FOCUSING ON

10:13:58 PEOPLE THAT ARE TAKING THE

10:13:59 TEST AND WE’RE CALLING

10:14:00 THEM TO SAY, HEY,

10:14:01 HERE’S SOME OF THE THINGS

10:14:02 YOU CAN BE DOING IN ORDER

10:14:03 TO, YOU KNOW, BENEFIT

10:14:04 YOURSELF AND COME BACK

10:14:05 AT AN EARLIER TIME,

10:14:06 I THINK THAT’S SOMETHING

10:14:07 THAT WE COULD BE LOOKING

10:14:08 AT, THAT’S ALL.

10:14:10 AND THEN THE OTHER ONE

10:14:11 IS THE WHOLE

10:14:14 HURRICANE PLAN THAT WE

10:14:15 TALKED ABOUT, DON’T SAY

10:14:16 THE LETTER H.

10:14:17 I KNOW THAT IT’S PART

10:14:18 OF WHAT WE’RE GOING TO

10:14:19 BE DOING, BUT WE’RE

10:14:20 GOING TO BE SMACK-DAB

10:14:21 PEOPLE WHO ARE GOING TO

10:14:22 NEED TO GO TO THE

10:14:23 PAIN SEASON.

10:14:24 AND I DON’T KNOW WHAT

10:14:25 THE GUIDANCE IS GOING TO

10:14:26 BE FOR CLEANING AND

10:14:27 DISINFECTING AND ALL THAT

10:14:28 STUFF, SO IT’S JUST

10:14:29 SOMETHING TO PUT ON THE

10:14:30 RADAR.

10:14:31 AND THEN –

10:14:32 MR. SUSAN, MR.

10:14:34 NOVELI IS IN REGULAR

10:14:35 COMMUNICATION AND WORK

10:14:36 WITH THE PROVARD

10:14:37 EMERGENCY OPERATIONS

10:14:38 CENTER, SPECIFICALLY

10:14:40 JOHN SCOTT.

10:14:41 AND WE’VE GOT –

10:14:43 WE’VE BEEN GIVEN

10:14:44 DIRECTION IN THAT.

10:14:45 I CAN ASK MR.

10:14:46 NOVELI TO PROVIDE

10:14:47 THE BOARD AN UPDATE

10:14:48 ON WHERE WE ARE WITH

10:14:49 AN UPDATE.

10:14:50 I JUST WANTED TO MAKE

10:14:51 SURE IT WAS –

10:14:52 AND IF THAT’S GOOD, WE’RE

10:14:53 THERE.

10:14:54 THE LAST THING THAT I

10:14:55 WANTED TO SAY WAS THIS,

10:14:56 IS THAT WE HAVE A MESSAGE

10:14:58 TO GET OUT, AND I THINK

10:15:00 THAT I AM GOING TO, AND I

10:15:02 WOULD – I THINK THAT A

10:15:03 LOT OF THE OTHER BOARD

10:15:04 MEMBERS WERE GOING TO DO

10:15:05 THIS, TOO, IS THAT WE NEED

10:15:06 TO MESSAGE THE POSITIVE

10:15:07 IN THIS, THE HEROES, THE

10:15:08 PEOPLE THAT ARE DOING

10:15:09 IT RIGHT, RATHER THAN

10:15:10 POINTING OUT THE ONES

10:15:11 THAT DON’T.

10:15:12 AND MEANING THAT WHEN

10:15:13 WE’RE MESSAGING AND

10:15:14 WE SHOULD BE TELLING

10:15:15 PARENTS THAT WE SHOULD BE

10:15:16 HONORING THE KIDS THAT ARE

10:15:17 WEARING THE MASKS, NOT

10:15:19 POINTING OUT THE KIDS

10:15:20 THAT AREN’T, IF THAT

10:15:21 MAKES SENSE.

10:15:22 DRIVE THE POSITIVITY AS

10:15:23 OPPOSED TO POINTING OUT

10:15:25 THE NEGATIVITY.

10:15:26 I THINK WE COULD GET TO A

10:15:27 GOOD PLACE WITH THAT.

10:15:28 THAT’S ALL.

10:15:29 AND IF WE COULD MESSAGE

10:15:30 SOME REALLY POSITIVE

10:15:31 THINGS ABOUT KIDS DOING

10:15:32 THE RIGHT THING WITH THE

10:15:33 MASKS, DOING THE RIGHT

10:15:34 THING WITH SOCIAL

10:15:35 DISTANCING, DOING THE

10:15:36 RIGHT THING, I THINK

10:15:37 THAT HELPS SOMETIMES TOO.

10:15:38 THAT’S ALL.

10:15:39 AND THAT’S IT.

10:15:40 I’M DONE.

10:15:43 ALL RIGHT.

10:15:44 CIRCLING BACK.

10:15:45 OH, DR. MELLINS,

10:15:47 DID YOU HAVE ADDITIONAL

10:15:48 THINGS THAT YOU WANTED

10:15:49 TO ADDRESS BEFORE WE GO

10:15:51 BACK TO THE BIG ISSUES

10:15:52 THAT WERE ON YOUR LIST?

10:15:53 WELL, JUST FOR THE

10:15:54 BENEFIT OF MAKING SURE

10:15:55 WE’VE GOT OUR, YOU KNOW,

10:15:56 EVERYTHING COVERED

10:15:57 THAT WE’VE DISCUSSED,

10:15:58 IF I CAN TAKE A MOMENT

10:15:59 TO JUST GO THROUGH

10:16:00 MY NOTES, SOME OF THE

10:16:01 THINGS THAT WE’VE ALREADY

10:16:02 AGREED TO FOLLOW UP ON

10:16:03 AND PROVIDE TO THE BOARD

10:16:05 EITHER BY WAY OF AN

10:16:06 UPDATE OR AT THE NEXT

10:16:08 OR AT THE BOARD MEETING

10:16:09 ON TUESDAY.

10:16:10 MR. SUSAN, YOU ALLUDED

10:16:11 TO THE REQUEST FOR

10:16:12 FREE AND REDUCED LUNCH

10:16:14 AND DISTANCE LEARNING

10:16:16 FROM THE SPRING.

10:16:17 WE’LL GET YOU THAT,

10:16:18 WE’LL GET THAT INFORMATION

10:16:19 FOR THE BOARD.

10:16:20 WE’LL ALSO BE

10:16:21 ENSURING THAT OUR VIDEOS

10:16:22 FOR TRAINING WILL BE

10:16:27 ALSO ACCOMMODATE

10:16:29 SPANISH VERSION

10:16:30 OR OTHER LANGUAGES.

10:16:32 WE’LL BE LOOKING AT

10:16:35 THE CHRONIC ILLNESS FORM

10:16:37 AS A POSSIBLE DIGITAL FORM

10:16:39 TO EXPEDITE THE PROCESS.

10:16:41 AND ACTUALLY IF THERE’S

10:16:43 ANY WAY TO PUT MORE

10:16:44 RESOURCES TOWARDS IT,

10:16:45 IF THERE’S A HELP,

10:16:47 BECAUSE THAT’S GOING TO

10:16:48 BE A FUNNEL POINT.

10:16:49 SORRY.

10:16:51 I HAD A COUPLE MORE,

10:16:56 JUST A SECOND.

10:16:57 WE’RE GOING TO BE

10:17:00 DEVELOPING AN ILLNESS

10:17:01 INDICATORS QUICK REFERENCE

10:17:03 CARD FOR EMPLOYEES AS THEY

10:17:06 ARE IN CONTACT WITH STUDENTS

10:17:07 SO THAT THEY HAVE, YOU KNOW,

10:17:10 A SENSE OF WHAT ARE SOME OF

10:17:11 THE INDICATORS THAT THEY NEED

10:17:12 TO BE AWARE OF TO POTENTIALLY

10:17:14 SEND THEM TO THE CLINIC FOR

10:17:16 FURTHER EVALUATION.

10:17:19 THE DISCIPLINE POLICY TEAM

10:17:22 COMMITTEE WILL BE COMING

10:17:23 TOGETHER TO LOOK AT THE

10:17:25 TRANSPORTATION WILLFUL

10:17:27 DISOBEDIENCE.

10:17:28 ARE THERE ADDITIONAL

10:17:29 CONSIDERATIONS THAT NEED TO

10:17:30 BE MADE WHEN BEHAVIOR IS

10:17:32 INCREASINGLY DANGEROUS,

10:17:34 OTHER CONSEQUENCES AND THAT

10:17:36 SORT OF THING.

10:17:38 ALSO THERE’S A REQUEST FOR A

10:17:39 TIMELINE OF THE TRAINING

10:17:40 VIDEOS FOR STAFF WILL PROVIDE

10:17:42 THAT TO THE BOARD.

10:17:43 I DON’T KNOW THAT I’LL HAVE

10:17:44 THAT READY FOR TUESDAY,

10:17:45 BUT THAT WILL BE COMING

10:17:46 FORWARD.

10:17:49 AND RACHEL WINSTON, OUR PE

10:17:51 RESOURCE TEACHER, I’M NOT

10:17:53 SURE THAT’S THE RIGHT TITLE,

10:17:55 BUT SHE’S GOING TO BE

10:17:56 CONTINUING TO WORK ON

10:17:57 DEVELOPING ADAPTIVE BEST

10:17:59 PRACTICES FOR PE TEACHERS

10:18:01 ACROSS THE DISTRICT.

10:18:02 SO THEY’VE GOT OPTIONS

10:18:03 OUTSIDE OF THE TRADITIONAL

10:18:06 GYMNASIUM.

10:18:10 AND DR. THETTY IS FOLLOWING

10:18:13 UP ON DEVELOPING A PLAN FOR

10:18:14 BOARD DISCUSSION OR WORKSHOP

10:18:16 AROUND THE POTENTIAL OF

10:18:19 EMPLOYEE LEAVE RELATED TO

10:18:21 COVID.

10:18:26 I JUST AGAIN FOR THE BOARD,

10:18:28 I HAVE A CALL INTO JOY FRANK

10:18:30 RELATED TO THE ACTIVE

10:18:32 ASSALANT AND FIRE DRILLS,

10:18:34 PARTICULARLY IN THE FIRST

10:18:35 30 DAYS OF THE SCHOOL YEAR

10:18:37 IN HOPES THAT FADS WILL TAKE

10:18:39 A POSITION OR STATEMENT ON THAT

10:18:42 TO THE STATE LOOKING FOR SOME

10:18:44 ALLOWANCE OR A WAIVER FOR THAT.

10:18:48 AND THEN DR. THETTY IS GOING

10:18:50 TO FOLLOW UP ON THE WELL CARE

10:18:52 CLINIC FOCUS RELATED TO COVID.

10:18:54 THOSE ARE THE THINGS THAT I

10:18:55 HAVE THAT WE CERTAINLY WILL BE

10:18:57 FOLLOWING UP ON FOR THE BOARD.

10:19:00 THE TOPICS THAT I HAVE LISTED FOR

10:19:05 ADDITIONAL DIRECTION FROM THE

10:19:06 BOARD IN PREPARATION FOR

10:19:08 TUESDAY’S BOARD MEETING.

10:19:10 FEEDBACK, DIRECTION ON OUR

10:19:13 ACADEMIC PLANS BOTH FOR THE

10:19:14 ELEMENTARY LEVEL AS WELL AS

10:19:16 THE SECONDARY LEVEL.

10:19:18 THE UTILIZATION OF TEMPERATURE

10:19:20 CHECKS.

10:19:21 THERE WAS DISCUSSION, WE HAVE

10:19:23 THEREMOMETERS, TOUCHLESS

10:19:25 THEREMOMETERS IN ALL OF OUR

10:19:27 SCHOOLS.

10:19:28 BUT THERE WAS DISCUSSION AROUND

10:19:30 EXPANDING THE UTILIZATION OF

10:19:32 TEMPERATURE CHECKS.

10:19:34 WE DID NOT HAVE THAT AS A

10:19:35 RECOMMENDATION IN THE PLAN SO

10:19:36 WE DO NEED FURTHER DIRECTION

10:19:37 FROM THE BOARD.

10:19:39 I SUMMARIZED OR SUMMISED THAT

10:19:42 DOING TEMPERATURE CHECKS UPON

10:19:45 INITIAL ENTRY OF STUDENTS ON

10:19:47 THE CAMPUS WOULD BE VERY

10:19:48 DIFFICULT FROM A CAPACITY

10:19:49 STANDPOINT.

10:19:51 IT IS MORE FEASIBLE ONCE

10:19:55 STUDENTS ARRIVE IN THEIR

10:19:56 CLASSROOM, BUT THAT WOULD

10:19:57 REQUIRE SOME DISCUSSION WITH

10:19:59 THE UNION.

10:20:00 THERE WAS AN OPTIONAL

10:20:01 DISCUSSION, SO WE WOULD NEED

10:20:03 FURTHER DIRECTION FROM THE

10:20:04 BOARD OF WHAT THE

10:20:05 EXPECTATIONS ARE THERE.

10:20:06 THERE WAS DISCUSSION, WE NEED

10:20:08 FURTHER DIRECTION ON FACE

10:20:09 COVERINGS AND THE LANGUAGE

10:20:12 EXPECTATION OR ENFORCEMENT

10:20:14 OF UTILIZATION OF FACE

10:20:15 COVERINGS ON CAMPUSES.

10:20:18 THERE WAS DISCUSSION ABOUT

10:20:20 VOLUNTEER ACCESS ON CAMPUS.

10:20:23 WE HAD RECOMMENDED THAT

10:20:25 VOLUNTEERS NOT BE

10:20:26 PERMITTED ON CAMPUS.

10:20:27 THERE WAS SOME DISCUSSION

10:20:28 THAT THAT BE RECONSIDERED,

10:20:30 SO WE NEED FURTHER DIRECTION

10:20:31 FROM THE BOARD ON THAT, AS

10:20:33 WELL AS UTILIZING SWING

10:20:35 SETS.

10:20:36 I BELIEVE THERE WAS CONSENSUS

10:20:40 ON THE BOARD THAT PLAYGROUNDS

10:20:42 SHOULD NOT BE ACCESSIBLE, BUT

10:20:43 THERE WAS SOME DISCUSSION

10:20:44 SPECIFICALLY AROUND SWING

10:20:45 SETS.

10:20:46 SO I WOULD APPRECIATE FOR

10:20:48 DIRECTION ON THOSE ITEMS.

10:20:50 IF I COULD CIRCLE BACK WITH

10:20:52 TWO THINGS ON THE PREVIOUS

10:20:54 LIST, TWO GENERAL QUESTIONS

10:20:57 THAT I WOULD LIKE TO POSE OR

10:20:59 COMMENTS, I GUESS.

10:21:02 ONE IS FOR DR. SULLIVAN AND

10:21:05 MS. CLINE, YOU GUYS DID –

10:21:08 WELL, AND GOVERNMENT AND

10:21:09 COMMUNITY RELATIONS DID SUCH A

10:21:11 PHENOMENAL JOB WITH THE VIDEOS

10:21:13 LAST TIME DURING OUR DISTANCE

10:21:15 LEARNING.

10:21:16 IF THERE IS THE CAPACITY AND THE

10:21:19 PATIENCE AND THE DESIRE TO DO SO,

10:21:21 I THINK THAT IT WOULD BE

10:21:22 PHENOMENAL IF YOU COULD DO ONE

10:21:25 FOR ELEMENTARY EDUCATION

10:21:27 OPTIONS AND ONE FOR SECONDARY

10:21:29 EDUCATION OPTIONS, JUST KIND

10:21:30 OF HIGHLIGHTING, ESPECIALLY I

10:21:32 THINK DR. SULLIVAN, SOME OF THE

10:21:33 SECONDARY STUFF GETS REALLY

10:21:35 COMPLICATED, BUT I THINK IT WOULD

10:21:37 BE REALLY GOOD INFORMATION FOR

10:21:38 OUR PARENTS.

10:21:39 SO IF YOU HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY

10:21:41 TO DO THAT AFTER WE FINALIZE

10:21:44 WHERE WE’RE GOING, TEMPORARILY

10:21:46 FINALIZE UNTIL THINGS CHANGE

10:21:47 AGAIN, I THINK THAT WOULD BE

10:21:49 REALLY HELPFUL FOR OUR FAMILIES

10:21:50 TO REALLY UNDERSTAND.

10:21:53 AND THEN MY SECOND THING IS

10:21:56 ONE OF – I THINK ONE OF THE

10:21:59 CHALLENGES THAT I HAVE IN

10:22:03 REALLY KNOWING HOW TO BEST MOVE

10:22:05 FORWARD AND WHAT THINGS I SHOULD

10:22:07 BE PAYING ATTENTION TO WITHIN

10:22:09 OUR REOPENING PLAN IS KIND OF A

10:22:12 LACK OF KNOWLEDGE ABOUT WHAT WE

10:22:14 CURRENTLY HAVE GOING ON WITH

10:22:16 REGARD TO COVID.

10:22:18 EMIS MOORE, FEEL FREE TO TELL

10:22:20 ME IF THIS WOULD JUST BE AN

10:22:21 ABSOLUTE NIGHTMARE FOR YOU, BUT I

10:22:23 WOULD LOVE FOR THE BOARD TO HAVE

10:22:26 UPDATES SIMILAR LIKE TO WHAT WE

10:22:28 HAVE WITH OUR INCIDENT REPORTS.

10:22:29 WE GET THE DAILY INCIDENT REPORT

10:22:30 OF THINGS THAT ARE GOING ON IN

10:22:31 THE DISTRICT.

10:22:33 I FEEL LIKE IT WOULD BE REALLY

10:22:35 HELPFUL FOR US TO KNOW WHERE

10:22:38 WE’RE SEEING PROBLEMS AND WHERE

10:22:40 WHAT WE’RE DOING IS WORKING.

10:22:41 AND I – NOT – NOT DIVULGING

10:22:43 PRIVATE INFORMATION ABOUT

10:22:44 ANYONE, BUT – SO THAT WE HAVE

10:22:47 AN IDEA OF THE TYPES OF

10:22:48 CHALLENGES THAT WE’RE FACING

10:22:50 WITH REGARD TO COVID AND

10:22:53 POTENTIAL ISSUES.

10:22:54 DOES THAT MAKE SENSE?

10:22:55 YEAH, I UNDERSTAND.

10:22:56 IS THAT – IS THAT A HUGE

10:22:57 ASK OF YOU?

10:22:58 UM, NO.

10:23:00 OKAY.

10:23:01 THANK YOU.

10:23:02 WELCOME.

10:23:03 I THINK – I THINK THAT

10:23:04 WOULD – THAT – FOR ME

10:23:05 ANYWAY, I THINK IT WOULD HELP

10:23:06 ME TO GAGE, YOU KNOW, AS

10:23:08 WE’RE GOING FORWARD, WHAT WE

10:23:10 NEED TO –

10:23:11 ALL RIGHT, THANK YOU.

10:23:12 THANK YOU.

10:23:13 OKAY.

10:23:14 AND, MS. MOORE, I THINK

10:23:15 YOU HAD SOMETHING AS

10:23:17 DR. MOLENS WAS RUNNING

10:23:18 THROUGH HIS LIST.

10:23:19 I DIDN’T WANT TO LEAVE OUT

10:23:21 THE CONCERNS THAT MR. GIBS

10:23:25 WAS GOING TO LOOK INTO IN

10:23:27 TERMS OF WHAT IT WOULD MEAN

10:23:29 FOR OUR TEACHERS TO DO A SCAN,

10:23:32 A MEDICAL SCREENER ON STUDENTS

10:23:37 EVERY DAY, AND WHETHER OR NOT

10:23:40 WE WOULD NEED PARENT

10:23:41 PERMISSION TO DO SO.

10:23:42 THERE’S JUST SOME

10:23:43 COMPLICATIONS IN THERE WE NEED

10:23:44 TO GET ANSWERED AS WE MOVE

10:23:46 FORWARD ON THAT.

10:23:47 I’m going to give a thumbs up. I think that is the e-learning is

10:23:51 absolutely what the public has been asking for. Parents have

10:23:55 been asking for the ones who aren’t ready to go back to brick

10:23:58 and mortar. So I think that is the e-learning is absolutely what

10:24:04 the public has been asking for parents have been asking for the

10:24:11 ones who aren’t ready to go back to brick and mortar. So I think

10:24:17 that is the e-learning is absolutely what the public has been

10:24:17 asking for parents have been asking for the ones who aren’t

10:24:17 ready to go back to brick and mortar.

10:24:17 They want to stay in their regular school, but be able to do it

10:24:20 from home, at least for the time.

10:24:21 Ms. Deskovich?

10:24:23 Thumbs up with just the small caveat of, or the comment of, and

10:24:29 I’m sure we’re already planning on it, keeping the desks as far

10:24:35 apart as possible.

10:24:36 We seem to be getting a lot of concerns already about the three

10:24:39 feet instead of the six feet.

10:24:40 So if we can manage the six feet, I think we need to do

10:24:43 everything we can to get that six feet in.

10:24:46 And Ms. Campbell and I were chatting on the break just for a

10:24:49 minute about the potential.

10:24:51 We can’t promise class sizes will be smaller, but it seems like

10:24:54 if more people choose the option to not be in the school, then

10:24:57 ultimately the class sizes will be smaller.

10:25:00 So I know everybody’s panicked that they’re going to be at max

10:25:03 capacity 18 to 22, but if the trend is the same as what the

10:25:08 state is seeing, that half the kids are choosing other options,

10:25:11 I would think the classes would be not half size because we’re

10:25:15 still going to have this, a lot of the teachers are going to be

10:25:18 teaching virtually, but it seems like the numbers would come out

10:25:21 smaller.

10:25:22 Am I incorrect?

10:25:23 Because you’re looking like I’m incorrect.

10:25:27 We will, we are certainly required to meet class size and we

10:25:31 will, we will, we would do that.

10:25:33 But I can’t make any assurance that class sizes will be smaller

10:25:36 because we’re not funded for them to be smaller.

10:25:38 Understood.

10:25:40 If students aren’t coming and they’re taking advantage of e-learning

10:25:44 or BVS, then those teachers that would have been in brick and

10:25:47 mortar will be diverted to those other things.

10:25:50 So, understood, and I know nobody in this room wants to mention

10:25:54 it, but somebody may choose something else that’s not in our

10:25:57 choices and our numbers could potentially go down.

10:25:59 We will lose the funds, yes, but we will still have the same

10:26:02 allocations.

10:26:03 No, we won’t.

10:26:04 No, we will have to make adjustments based on the allocations,

10:26:08 particularly with uncertain funding second semester.

10:26:13 So, we, that was the conversation, yeah, I just don’t want the

10:26:16 public, I don’t want the public to leave this conversation

10:26:19 believing that we’re going to be able to provide smaller class

10:26:22 sizes than we have before.

10:26:23 That is not the case.

10:26:24 So, we are leaving this meeting pretty confident that classes

10:26:27 are going to be 18 and 22 in elementary school, or thereabout.

10:26:31 We will adhere to class size.

10:26:33 You keep saying adhere, and that makes me think we’re not going

10:26:36 to pass it up, right?

10:26:37 Like, we’re going to adhere, but you’re saying we’re not just

10:26:40 going to adhere.

10:26:41 It’s not like we want to have 18.

10:26:44 We always max it at 18, right?

10:26:46 Or 22, whichever the grade level is.

10:26:48 Our obligations to class size amendment are average class size

10:26:53 by school, and we have met that consistently as a district, and

10:26:56 that would continue to be our practice.

10:26:58 Okay.

10:26:59 That, that, that, what we have instances where there was a class

10:27:03 with 19.

10:27:04 We will certainly work to avoid that, but we don’t, we’re not

10:27:07 being assured the funding that we’re going to be able to sustain

10:27:11 that.

10:27:12 I understand our funding issues, but I think, and I’ve been fined

10:27:16 with the averages that we’ve used in the past, but I’m wondering

10:27:21 now if we really need to strictly adhere,

10:27:24 and try to figure out how to, I know that that’s dropping a bomb

10:27:27 after a nine-hour meeting, but if the averages end up putting 20

10:27:33 kids in a class, I mean, that makes a difference right now, more

10:27:37 than ever.

10:27:38 So, do we have any idea what the cost is if we strictly adhere

10:27:41 to the 18 and 22?

10:27:43 We, I can’t provide the board a cost.

10:27:47 Didn’t we at some point strictly adhere, and then we switched to

10:27:50 the, using the averages?

10:27:52 When we were not a full-choice district, we didn’t qualify for

10:27:56 the average school.

10:27:58 I want to say that was at least five or six.

10:28:01 Okay.

10:28:02 Several years ago.

10:28:04 Even more than that.

10:28:04 We have been utilizing the average class size for the last

10:28:08 several years.

10:28:09 Okay.

10:28:12 Well, I, you ultimately have my thumbs up.

10:28:14 Yes.

10:28:15 Ms. Belford, sorry, that was a long, long way around.

10:28:18 Mr. Susan?

10:28:19 I was, Dr. Mullins, I think you’re hinting on it.

10:28:22 And I, and I, I think everybody needs to know that we will not

10:28:25 know our numbers and how that’s going to allocate until they

10:28:28 figure, they put that survey together.

10:28:31 And again, we need to back into that survey and fill that darn

10:28:33 thing out.

10:28:34 But I was getting at, if you have a teacher that’s in that

10:28:37 classroom and we’re trying, say, 13 kids leave the classroom and

10:28:41 there’s 13 kids left, just say, for instance, so that everybody

10:28:45 knows whoever’s teaching those online classes is going to have

10:28:49 to have more than the actual amount to compensate for the fact

10:28:52 that we only have 13 in this teacher’s classroom.

10:28:56 Because we only have so many teachers for so many kids.

10:28:58 We don’t have allocated more allocations for more.

10:29:01 So the online classes are going to have to be more kids than the

10:29:05 kids inside the classrooms to compensate for the 13 less seats.

10:29:09 Does that make sense, Dr. Mullins?

10:29:11 I, I understand what you’re saying.

10:29:13 I don’t know that that will necessarily be true that the e-learning,

10:29:16 because we’re going to have to adhere to class size for the e-learning

10:29:19 classes as well.

10:29:20 What may occur, and Ms. Klein alluded to it, is that we may have

10:29:25 a multi-age class, which we have had in the past as a result of

10:29:29 needing to meet class size amendment.

10:29:33 So there may be a fourth and fifth grade e-learning class

10:29:37 combined, if that makes sense, to get to maximize class size.

10:29:41 Ms. Klein, did I reflect, represent that correctly?

10:29:45 Ms. McDougall, you want to weigh in on the elementary plan?

10:29:50 I want to give it a thumbs up also, and I also would much prefer

10:29:54 that our desks are six feet apart than the three, or as close to

10:30:00 six, because I think that will make a difference also.

10:30:03 All right, and I will give you a thumbs up on elementary as well.

10:30:10 Same concerns, you know, just doing, doing as much as we can to

10:30:15 ensure distancing.

10:30:18 That brings us to our secondary plan.

10:30:21 Ms. Campbell, you want to weigh in?

10:30:24 Oh, I get to go first.

10:30:26 You want me to start with Ms. McDougall?

10:30:28 Yes.

10:30:29 Ms. McDougall.

10:30:30 I’ll start with Ms. McDougall.

10:30:31 So, I, for me, I like the block schedule.

10:30:38 I think it will provide some safety for our teachers.

10:30:44 I think it will be more beneficial for some of our students.

10:30:48 So, yes, the thumbs up for the block schedule.

10:30:52 Mr. Susan?

10:30:55 Oh, you want me to go before everybody else?

10:30:57 I was just going in order from…

10:31:00 When we’re giving direction here, you’re asking for direction to

10:31:06 continue to look into it.

10:31:08 You’re not looking for direction to completely drive the actual,

10:31:12 we’re going to block right now,

10:31:14 because you said you’re going to go back to your principal,

10:31:16 correct?

10:31:17 I’m asking for your support if we can make the math work,

10:31:28 utilize some CARES Act funds where necessary,

10:31:32 and Dr. Mullins is in support of what the financial impact would

10:31:37 be for us to proceed with that plan.

10:31:41 It is, again, a big lift.

10:31:45 So, I can push the teams to move further on that.

10:31:52 But what I need to know is if we can make it to his satisfaction,

10:31:59 and, of course, Ms. Leszinski and those things, is this

10:32:03 something that you support?

10:32:04 Okay, so where I’m at with this is that we just decided in this

10:32:12 decision right here to move the entire secondary,

10:32:16 possibly, to block scheduling, which I feel we need some time to

10:32:20 get to the principals to do all those things.

10:32:23 I would love to have that decision come back to us on Tuesday,

10:32:28 whether we do it or not,

10:32:29 because I think some conversations need to be had.

10:32:32 I’m hearing from both sides that it’s good, it’s bad, right?

10:32:35 I need some time to look at it.

10:32:37 But when I look at this from the beginning, I see we are going

10:32:40 to have less teachers coming back than the ones that we had

10:32:44 before.

10:32:45 We’re going to be asking teachers to take on more, because even

10:32:49 though it’s block scheduling,

10:32:50 there is a need inside that block scheduling for teachers to

10:32:54 teach four of four.

10:32:55 So, there is going to be a need for that.

10:32:58 There’s possible par, which means that we’re going to need more

10:33:01 teachers in the schools,

10:33:02 which if it was one or two, that’s no big deal.

10:33:05 But when we have 18, it’s a couple of extra units.

10:33:08 So, there’s the cost of it all.

10:33:11 But then the other piece is that when you start looking at how

10:33:16 much time we have to teach a bunch of teachers that have never

10:33:21 taught block on how to not only teach the way that they’re

10:33:24 supposed to for COVID,

10:33:27 But now, all of a sudden, they have to take what they would have

10:33:30 had done in 47 minutes, and some of these people have been

10:33:33 teaching 20, 30 years on 47 minutes,

10:33:36 to then shift it to 90 minutes, confining a class for disciplinary

10:33:41 issues, time that staff needs.

10:33:45 We normally take a year when we move a school to block

10:33:47 scheduling.

10:33:48 I remember when we did it at, I think it was Space Coast, it

10:33:52 took a year for them to transition, or it was Titus, Villa, Astro,

10:33:56 somebody took a whole year.

10:33:57 We were talking about that when we first came on, is that it

10:34:00 takes a year for them to transition, and we’re going to be

10:34:03 putting that down into like a week.

10:34:04 And then on top of that, the other thing is, is that a lot of

10:34:07 those kids that are inside those schools have gone through the

10:34:10 block scheduling,

10:34:10 so they’ve continued to do it over and over again, and so they’re

10:34:14 conditioned for it.

10:34:15 And I just, I know that the way that they’re successful in some

10:34:19 of those things is that they teach zero blocks.

10:34:22 They teach extra blocks, and I have a concern there.

10:34:26 But I do know that the bottom line is, is that you’re trying to

10:34:29 do contract tracing.

10:34:30 You’re trying to make sure that when they get test positive,

10:34:33 that you can control that, and that’s a big piece here.

10:34:36 So I need some time on this one.

10:34:38 I’m okay going forward, you know, to take a look at it, but I

10:34:41 don’t want this thumbs up right now to mean that if you can make

10:34:44 it work, you just go.

10:34:46 Because I might find out tomorrow or the next day that it’s

10:34:49 completely a disaster.

10:34:51 We might all find out.

10:34:52 We need to have that ability to come back to you.

10:34:54 I don’t think with the current time period that we have that we

10:34:58 can do that.

10:34:58 So I would request that it comes back to us for further

10:35:01 discussion if we have any issues.

10:35:02 Does that make sense?

10:35:04 On Tuesday.

10:35:05 I’ll go next, if you’re done, Mr. Susan.

10:35:08 Yeah, I just, I mean, it’s just, if I have to say it, less time

10:35:13 for them to plan.

10:35:14 Scheduling, nobody’s done the scheduling for block in any of the

10:35:18 other schools except two.

10:35:20 The ESC becomes an issue because now we have to make

10:35:23 applications and do those pieces.

10:35:25 How does a substitute work into block?

10:35:27 Have they ever done it before?

10:35:29 So all of our substitutes need to switch over.

10:35:31 I just think that it’s a lot to put on a teacher at a time when

10:35:34 we didn’t have time.

10:35:36 That’s all.

10:35:36 All right, I’m good.

10:35:39 So I don’t like block, going through this really quickly because

10:35:45 of the reasons that I shared.

10:35:47 But everything that’s positive about this is, outweighs what I

10:35:52 don’t like.

10:35:54 And as far as, you know, and our teachers, yes, they’re going to

10:35:58 make some huge adjustments.

10:36:00 But from the feedback that I’ve seen, even already coming in the

10:36:03 breaks, checking different things,

10:36:05 I’m already seeing positive of, I would feel so much more

10:36:07 comfortable coming back to school

10:36:09 if I only am exposed to three classes of kids versus six.

10:36:14 And the changes, you know, less passing periods, which is one of

10:36:17 the things we’re so concerned about.

10:36:19 And more time to plan, more time to adjust, especially if we’re

10:36:24 going to be in school and out of school.

10:36:25 Our kids only having four classes of work, you know, full, long

10:36:29 classes,

10:36:30 but four that they’ve got to focus on in the weeks when we’re

10:36:33 going to be distance learning

10:36:34 because we have cases pop up in schools.

10:36:36 So I’m ready to tell you, yes, move forward and check in with

10:36:43 our principals.

10:36:43 I would just ask, very seriously ask, my serious face,

10:36:50 that very strong consideration to students’ schedules and their

10:36:55 preferences,

10:36:56 especially when it comes to, you know, I don’t know how Titusville

10:36:59 does it,

10:36:59 but if they do band all year long and they’ve got three other

10:37:01 classes, but whatever,

10:37:02 that, you know, students are all of a sudden, their preferences

10:37:05 that they put in in the spring

10:37:06 of what classes they wanted, everything kind of gets readjusted

10:37:10 because you don’t get to pick, I’m like, I take it in the fall

10:37:12 and take it in the spring.

10:37:13 And with the academic classes, I know there’s probably a better

10:37:15 way to do that

10:37:16 and it all gets shuffled out.

10:37:17 But just, you know, that’s really going to rock some of the

10:37:22 performing groups

10:37:23 and the arts and the elective classes world in doing this.

10:37:27 And so I’m very cautious to do that, but I just,

10:37:31 ooh, but I can give you my yes.

10:37:33 I share a little bit of Mr. Susan’s concern on making such a big

10:37:47 decision with,

10:37:49 I mean, I’ll admittedly say I know nothing except for what’s

10:37:53 been spoken today

10:37:54 about block scheduling.

10:37:56 But on the surface, you’ve got my support, you’ve got my vote.

10:37:59 Basically because it reduces by half the contact.

10:38:05 And I think that’s, you know, that’s what this meeting is about

10:38:08 today

10:38:08 is how we’re going to go back to school with 68,000 students as

10:38:13 safe as we can

10:38:15 in the most normal fashion.

10:38:17 And this still allows kids to have their classes.

10:38:21 I mean, it’s going to cause issues.

10:38:24 I’m really concerned about AP and some of the advanced students.

10:38:28 I’ve had a lot of concerns.

10:38:30 But I think, and you didn’t even speak about that.

10:38:34 You said it later in the meeting, like not even when you were

10:38:36 presenting,

10:38:37 and it hit me just as this wasn’t an easy decision for you to

10:38:42 even bring forward.

10:38:43 You know what this is going to do in the disruption

10:38:46 and what it’s going to put on your principals.

10:38:47 And I know how you like to protect them.

10:38:49 So I’m assuming you feel strongly that this is going to keep

10:38:53 everybody the safest.

10:38:54 And so you have my thumbs up.

10:38:57 So I’m living block.

10:39:01 Actually, I’m living block.

10:39:03 And I’m living a seven-period because I have one on block

10:39:07 and I have one on seven-period day.

10:39:11 And I will tell you that they make it work very well.

10:39:13 The feedback I’ve heard is it would be great if we could have

10:39:17 more time,

10:39:18 maybe if we could start school like a week later to give more

10:39:20 time to train teachers

10:39:22 and that sort of thing.

10:39:22 And I understand that.

10:39:25 But, you know, having taught at the college level,

10:39:33 some days you are teaching a Monday, Wednesday, Friday class,

10:39:36 and you’re teaching for 50 minutes.

10:39:38 And some days you’re teaching a Tuesday, Thursday class and you’re

10:39:42 teaching for two hours.

10:39:44 And, you know, I think content-wise teachers can adjust with

10:39:50 some coaching along the way

10:39:52 and make it work.

10:39:53 I believe that they are absolutely professional enough to step

10:39:59 in and do that.

10:40:01 And will it be phenomenal and ideal day one?

10:40:04 Probably not because it is an adjustment.

10:40:06 But I do believe that they can quickly adjust to the block

10:40:10 schedule.

10:40:11 You know, the Titusville community, when we got rid of block at

10:40:16 Astronaut,

10:40:16 was very upset because it was what they had already known and

10:40:19 they really appreciated it.

10:40:20 The Titusville High community loves their block schedule because

10:40:24 of the CTE

10:40:26 and the extracurriculars and it works out really, really well

10:40:30 for them.

10:40:31 Perhaps most importantly, I will tell you that when we did have

10:40:37 to go

10:40:37 to our emergency at home learning, it was much easier with my

10:40:47 block schedule kid

10:40:49 than it was with my seven-period kid.

10:40:51 And when I say easier, I don’t mean like academically easier.

10:40:56 The rigor was there with the four classes, but being able to

10:41:01 manage four classes

10:41:03 as opposed to managing seven classes and seven different

10:41:06 teaching styles

10:41:07 and seven different ways of putting the assignments out, it just,

10:41:13 the block schedule was so much easier for, I think, everyone to

10:41:17 adapt

10:41:18 to our emergency at-home learning platform.

10:41:22 And I anticipate a significant amount of that coming in our

10:41:26 future,

10:41:26 unfortunately, just to be realistic.

10:41:28 But my big driver in supporting the secondary plan is, you know,

10:41:34 as I said earlier, I am incredibly nervous about our

10:41:40 responsibility

10:41:41 to keep our faculty and staff and our students safe.

10:41:44 And I feel like this probably has one of the larger impacts

10:41:50 on really minimizing those exposures

10:41:53 for our secondary faculty, staff, and students.

10:41:57 And so, if you have my thumbs up, Dr. Sullivan,

10:41:59 the only thing that I would say is I still love the possibility

10:42:03 of being able to do some in class and some at home if it comes

10:42:08 to that.

10:42:08 And looking at those ways that if we have a teacher that has to

10:42:12 go out

10:42:13 on, you know, a 14-day quarantine because she was in contact

10:42:17 or he was in contact with someone, looking at ways

10:42:20 that we can, you know, keep them engaged with their students.

10:42:24 I will keep your eye back.

10:42:25 Yes.

10:42:27 So, yes, I was looking at you both.

10:42:29 So, but I thank you for making this a possibility.

10:42:34 And please thank your principals if they move in that direction.

10:42:38 The only thing that I would say is if you go back to your

10:42:41 principals

10:42:41 and they’re like, you are absolutely going to kill us, you know,

10:42:46 I don’t want to push them over the edge.

10:42:48 But if they truly think this is doable with the timeline

10:42:51 that you have put before them, then you have my blessing.

10:42:53 Okay.

10:42:56 Was that enough guidance?

10:42:59 Did you need further?

10:43:00 Yes.

10:43:04 So, to summarize, by far the board’s consensus is to move

10:43:18 forward with block

10:43:20 and, you know, if Dr. Sullivan determines and we evaluate the

10:43:25 fiscal viability of it,

10:43:29 we will bring that recommendation forward, you know, hopefully

10:43:33 on Tuesday.

10:43:34 Or at least an update of what that’s going to look like for

10:43:37 further consideration.

10:43:39 But my, what I’m sensing is the board is supportive of moving

10:43:44 forward with this

10:43:46 as the primary consideration for our secondary schools next year.

10:43:49 With the auspice that the principals are supportive

10:43:54 and that our union’s in support too, so that we don’t know.

10:43:58 I think I feel comfortable living in both lanes because in

10:44:04 reality,

10:44:05 there’s not going to be a ton of movement between now and

10:44:08 Tuesday.

10:44:09 And so, um, I would certainly anticipate, um, our board members,

10:44:16 you know,

10:44:16 having additional thoughts and things like that.

10:44:18 Um, I want to empower them a little to start taking more steps

10:44:23 and reaching out to their school communities.

10:44:25 And so, what I hear is that I have the support to go ahead

10:44:29 and have them start reaching out to their school communities.

10:44:31 Again, prior to today, only the principal and assistant

10:44:34 principal knew

10:44:35 because I didn’t want any discussion prior to the board.

10:44:37 And so, um, what I’m hearing is enough support to go in that

10:44:43 direction.

10:44:44 But again, of course, this actual presentation to the community

10:44:48 is on Tuesday.

10:44:49 And of course, the board, you know, can certainly weigh in again

10:44:52 on that as well to Mr. Susan’s point.

10:44:55 I think it’s, for me, it’s just, it’s the principles

10:44:57 and just learning more about it.

10:44:59 Because what Ms. Belford just said was great.

10:45:00 You know what I mean?

10:45:01 You made some great points.

10:45:02 I’m learning as we go on it.

10:45:04 That’s all.

10:45:04 Thank you.

10:45:08 All right.

10:45:10 So, elementary and secondary, we are good, Dr. Mullins, with

10:45:13 direction.

10:45:13 Yes, Madam Chair.

10:45:14 Moving on to temperature checks.

10:45:16 I know it’s Mr. Susan’s issue,

10:45:20 but we received a message somewhere along the way here

10:45:23 that other districts are doing, like, spot-checking, in a sense.

10:45:28 So, it’s not every single student,

10:45:30 but it’s Monday, kids that come through the front gate get it,

10:45:35 Tuesday, kids that come through the side gate get it.

10:45:37 And it’s not a perfect system,

10:45:39 but it’s something for us maybe to think about.

10:45:43 I don’t think something like that should be hardcore in policy,

10:45:46 like, every Tuesday.

10:45:47 I don’t know.

10:45:48 It sounded like maybe it’s something we should discuss.

10:45:54 I’m interested in, after our discussion,

10:45:57 at least allowing, if it’s legal and doesn’t infringe on privacy,

10:46:03 us providing a thermometer for teachers that request.

10:46:08 I don’t know how we budget for that,

10:46:10 because we don’t know how many would want one,

10:46:11 or how long does it take to get them in?

10:46:13 I’m going to hedge my response.

10:46:18 You get another ish,

10:46:20 because inventory changes with great regularity.

10:46:23 This amount that we ordered, we got very quickly,

10:46:25 and when I say very quickly, within two weeks.

10:46:30 At this, the next scale, and as we get closer to school year,

10:46:34 I certainly can’t, nobody can speak to that supply chain issue.

10:46:39 The sooner we get the order in, the better.

10:46:42 And so, obviously, as you guys are thinking through any changes

10:46:47 you want us to make before Tuesday,

10:46:49 we would want to get the order in as soon as possible.

10:46:55 And it would have to, in all likelihood, be enough for all

10:46:59 teachers,

10:47:00 only because I think that’s odd if we don’t.

10:47:06 And so, like we did with the Shield, we did all teachers.

10:47:09 These are way more expensive, but we could order tomorrow.

10:47:16 That’s not my decision to make.

10:47:20 That’s the board’s and Dr. Mullen’s decision to make.

10:47:22 But once that decision’s made, we can place the order quickly.

10:47:25 We’re working with a vendor.

10:47:27 Again, unless supply chain is choking closer

10:47:31 to the start of the school line, I can’t guess.

10:47:33 If I could speak, I felt that we just needed

10:47:37 some kind of a stronger plan there.

10:47:39 And I was looking for us to reevaluate how to do that.

10:47:44 I will say that pulling the trigger on purchasing one

10:47:48 for every teacher, we would have to check in with the teachers

10:47:51 to see if this is something that they really want.

10:47:53 I don’t even know.

10:47:54 I may leave here and they may say, you’re crazy.

10:47:56 I don’t want one of those things.

10:47:57 Or they may say, yeah.

10:47:58 I think that needs to come in.

10:48:00 But, you know, Disney is literally going to temperature check

10:48:04 every single person that comes into Disney.

10:48:07 There’s got to be a way that we can figure out

10:48:10 if that behooves us to be stronger for parents to come back,

10:48:14 that we can do it.

10:48:15 That’s all.

10:48:16 They also check bags and have metal detectors.

10:48:18 And, you know, Ms. Campbell was 100% right.

10:48:20 Like, when we were visiting all that,

10:48:22 we don’t have the manpower.

10:48:24 We don’t make money like Disney does to…

10:48:29 And theme parks have staggered entry.

10:48:31 I mean, keep in mind,

10:48:32 we’re trying to bring in hundreds of kids

10:48:34 thousands within 20 to 30 minutes at best.

10:48:42 That’s what presents the capacity challenge

10:48:47 if it’s upon entry.

10:48:49 Well, and if every…

10:48:51 So let’s break it down from there.

10:48:52 If you have 100 teachers at Vieira,

10:48:54 which you have more than that,

10:48:55 and you have 2,000 kids,

10:48:57 then that’s 20 kids per teacher, right?

10:48:59 It takes one and a half seconds

10:49:01 to actually register the thing.

10:49:02 Okay.

10:49:03 So if we have the teachers have them in their hands

10:49:06 when the people are coming in

10:49:08 and they’re able to figure out a way

10:49:10 to where that student does not enter into that classroom,

10:49:13 we may potentially stop

10:49:15 what would become one of these breaks

10:49:17 where an entire classroom and teacher

10:49:19 and everybody else has to stay out in 14 minutes.

10:49:21 The fiscal cost of that,

10:49:24 I think, far exceeds anything of preventativeness

10:49:28 that might be out there.

10:49:29 That’s all.

10:49:29 But I didn’t ask to purchase one for every teacher.

10:49:33 I just asked if we could look into what that looks like.

10:49:36 There’s probably 1,000 ideas.

10:49:38 You just found out that there’s this spot checking

10:49:41 that goes on.

10:49:41 There may be other ideas out there.

10:49:43 I just think that our public would want a stronger response

10:49:47 than if we can or we can’t even test them.

10:49:50 Then we’re just going to give a couple

10:49:52 and just hope that we test some kids

10:49:53 that don’t normally have family support to be, you know,

10:49:57 I just think that that was not a strong one.

10:49:59 I think we can do better.

10:50:00 That’s all.

10:50:02 Okay, my turn.

10:50:06 I thank you for clarifying.

10:50:09 You’re not asking for us to have one for every teacher.

10:50:11 I just don’t think that’s feasible

10:50:12 and I’m thinking about a new routine

10:50:14 as we’re asking every teacher as students line up

10:50:16 to walk and pump up hand sanitizer

10:50:18 and that’s about as long as we want them standing

10:50:20 in the hallway all together waiting to get into the classroom.

10:50:22 If you think about two classrooms right next to each other,

10:50:25 you know, we’re trying to avoid situations

10:50:27 where they’re standing close together

10:50:28 and so, and the younger they are,

10:50:33 the more difficult it’s going to be

10:50:35 and so we’re just, you know,

10:50:36 hand sanitizer on the way in the classrooms

10:50:38 and I think we’re just adding extra stuff.

10:50:40 I do, wouldn’t mind us just not necessarily purchasing more

10:50:43 but having, if we can find out what opportunities can we have

10:50:46 to, you know, random,

10:50:48 if the clinic nurse doesn’t have anything else to do,

10:50:51 you know, in a period two, you know,

10:50:54 maybe come around and just doing, you know, random checks.

10:50:56 If that’s, if that’s, I don’t, I don’t have a problem with that

10:50:59 but I just don’t, I think this is,

10:51:00 I don’t know that this is the be all end all thing

10:51:05 that’s going to just to save the day.

10:51:06 I think when we talk about all the things

10:51:08 that you guys have planned to put in place,

10:51:11 we’re doing all those things not to keep COVID out

10:51:13 but because we’re actually expecting it to come in,

10:51:15 not wanting it to, but expecting it to come in.

10:51:17 So that’s why we’re facing all the same way.

10:51:18 That’s why we’re strongly recommending masks.

10:51:21 That’s why we’re, you know, limiting,

10:51:22 we’re changing to block schedule.

10:51:23 We’re doing all those things

10:51:24 because we expected to come in

10:51:25 and all these things are going to mitigate the spread

10:51:28 when it comes in.

10:51:29 So, you know, I understand what Mr. Susan’s thought is

10:51:36 to, you know, kind of put a stronger wall defense

10:51:38 around the thing.

10:51:39 But I think we’re going to have to rely on our teachers

10:51:42 and our staff to recognize beyond what our parents are doing.

10:51:46 But sometimes the kid comes to sick school and they’re just fine.

10:51:49 And once they get to school, then they start looking sick.

10:51:51 To do what they have always done as far as sending kids

10:51:54 to the clinic and then moving through our procedure from there.

10:51:59 Did that tell you how I feel?

10:52:03 I think so.

10:52:06 I’ll summarize at the end just so there’s no, you know, no

10:52:09 confusion.

10:52:11 Are we, are teachers holding the same sanitizer

10:52:14 and actually pumping it at everyone?

10:52:16 Was that was something that we asked them?

10:52:17 Are we setting it to the side so they can do it?

10:52:21 I imagine some will want to do that.

10:52:23 So are, we did not imagine that when we ordered them.

10:52:27 But honestly, could I see that?

10:52:31 Absolutely, 100% I could see that.

10:52:34 We imagine that like a little table when you walked in.

10:52:37 But to, to Ms. Campbell’s point, I could see that as well.

10:52:43 And we just got the biggest jug we could get per teacher,

10:52:47 just for economy of scale.

10:52:50 But we hadn’t planned to mandate how the teacher utilized said

10:52:56 hand sanitizer.

10:52:57 It’s just going to be another step in the problem.

10:52:59 Dr. Thudde wanted to ask a clarifying question as well.

10:53:02 I just need to, I need to go back for a second to the thermometers.

10:53:05 I heard volunteer.

10:53:06 I heard something that sounded a little bit like required.

10:53:09 And I want to make sure that when I walk out, I understand what

10:53:13 we’re looking at.

10:53:13 I know, I don’t remember when, but a while ago,

10:53:17 Mr. Clucci shared survey results with me of teachers that BFT

10:53:21 had done.

10:53:22 And there was some agreement about 60% of volunteering to do

10:53:26 temperatures.

10:53:27 And I want to make sure we’re all on the same page with

10:53:29 volunteer versus required

10:53:31 in keeping with what Ms. Moore said about the privacy.

10:53:33 So I just wanted that clarification ‘cause I heard two different

10:53:36 things.

10:53:36 Can I jump in here?

10:53:39 Can I have a turn here?

10:53:40 Is that possible?

10:53:41 Yeah, go ahead, Ms. McDougall.

10:53:45 I’m wondering if, you know, teachers, oftentimes teachers know

10:53:50 when a student is not feeling well

10:53:51 right away.

10:53:52 So that student goes to the office.

10:53:55 And let’s say they come back and they have a fever.

10:53:58 At that point, wouldn’t it make sense that maybe we check more

10:54:02 students in that classroom

10:54:04 as a way to maybe do it?

10:54:10 And I like the idea of – and I don’t know if it’s possible –

10:54:14 random, you know, okay, so Mondays we do this classroom

10:54:18 and Tuesdays we do this classroom.

10:54:19 But if there’s somebody who is showing symptoms, would it be

10:54:25 feasible or okay to check everyone in that class?

10:54:30 I’m just asking.

10:54:31 Just some way to have a check ‘cause I don’t think it’s a bad

10:54:36 idea.

10:54:36 I just – it logistically, I think, is where we’re struggling at

10:54:40 this point.

10:54:41 Sure.

10:54:44 I would – my recommendation would be that if a teacher wants a

10:54:48 thermometer check to check the children coming

10:54:51 into their class that we make that as one of the – that they

10:54:53 should not have to pay for it.

10:54:54 That would be my recommendation.

10:54:56 And I would try to check that out.

10:54:58 I would also remind everybody that’s in here that at arrival,

10:55:02 dismissal, cafeteria, sports,

10:55:05 these kids are all together.

10:55:07 And although we can try to, you know, socially distance and keep

10:55:13 them three feet apart and everything else,

10:55:15 there’s going to be more places than just the classroom where

10:55:18 these kids are together.

10:55:19 And I think that just because we’re able to make sure that they’re

10:55:23 socially distanced in the classroom,

10:55:25 it’s going to be even harder to do that outside of there.

10:55:28 So creating some sort of check system before they get in is good.

10:55:31 That’s all.

10:55:32 Because once that argument comes in of who they were in contact

10:55:36 for for more than 15 minutes,

10:55:38 when you start talking about cafeterias, you start talking about

10:55:41 sports,

10:55:42 you start talking about things, you start shutting down whole –

10:55:45 whole areas like that, too.

10:55:47 So I’m going to say that I’m not sure that we can move forward

10:56:02 on an enormous amount of clarity on this issue

10:56:06 until we get some information from Paul that Chris had requested

10:56:11 on the privacy and the legality of doing that.

10:56:14 I think we’re probably going to need that information.

10:56:17 For me personally, big fan of doing whatever we can to limit

10:56:24 contact and exposure and risk for our team members, right?

10:56:28 But so my preference would be that if we have teachers who would

10:56:33 like to be able to take temperatures on their kids,

10:56:36 that we support them in doing that provided that, one, it’s not

10:56:42 violating anything,

10:56:43 two, that they commit to privacy for that student and not, you

10:56:51 know, pulling them aside right in front of everyone

10:56:53 and calling them out and that sort of thing, I think, you know,

10:56:55 there would have to be some communication of expectations there

10:56:59 if we were going to open that door, if Mr. Gibbs felt like it

10:57:02 was an appropriate thing to do.

10:57:04 But I don’t know that we necessarily go out and buy enough thermometers

10:57:11 for all teachers.

10:57:12 I would say, you know, maybe let’s wait and see what the

10:57:15 response is

10:57:16 and have the teachers understand that it may be a little while

10:57:19 before they get their thermometer,

10:57:20 depending on how many want them.

10:57:21 So I’ll make a suggestion and the board, if you would, let me

10:57:28 know if this is acceptable.

10:57:29 What I’m hearing is there seems to be board, some board

10:57:33 consensus on voluntary teachers being provided a thermometer

10:57:38 to do temperature checks in their classroom, assuming we can

10:57:42 meet all privacy and legal implications of that practice.

10:57:49 I will work with Mr. Gibbs and see if we can’t get that

10:57:55 clarification for Tuesday.

10:57:57 We will hold off on the purchase of any additional thermometers

10:58:00 at least until Tuesday,

10:58:01 but we can get our procurement department ready to do something

10:58:04 in the event that the board gives us a go on Tuesday,

10:58:08 assuming all of the implications, the legal implications, et

10:58:12 cetera, are in place.

10:58:13 Does that seem to represent where the board is at this time?

10:58:19 Yeah, but the part of it with the teachers is just part of the

10:58:23 we need to develop something stronger.

10:58:27 Whether it’s teachers testing them right at the gate when they’re

10:58:33 coming into their classroom

10:58:34 or whether it’s a school that might figure out, hey, we can do

10:58:37 this, we can test every kid that comes in.

10:58:39 I just wanted a stronger plan, and if that plan requires more

10:58:44 testing, you know, guns,

10:58:46 then I would love to be able to provide that to them.

10:58:49 So if that’s a school where the teacher says, yes, I want one,

10:58:52 they should get one.

10:58:53 If a school says, hey, if we get 10 more, then we could test

10:58:57 everybody on the campus because we figured this out,

10:58:59 because we have all the duties that teachers do in the morning

10:59:01 already that are supposed to monitor,

10:59:03 are supposed to do all that stuff.

10:59:04 If you deployed them into certain areas, you probably could get

10:59:07 them to be tested coming in.

10:59:08 So if there’s a plan out there that a school has that they can

10:59:11 test them all coming in,

10:59:11 man, that would be amazing.

10:59:13 And if we could deploy the tests to them to do that, that’s

10:59:17 great.

10:59:17 Or if the teachers want them, I just think we need a better

10:59:20 barrier.

10:59:20 That’s all.

10:59:25 I don’t think we’ve ever suggested that schools couldn’t develop

10:59:28 a plan to do enhanced temperature checks.

10:59:33 And if they need more, we give it to them.

10:59:36 If they need more, we can certainly, you know, particularly

10:59:39 because they are FEMA qualifying,

10:59:43 you know, that makes it much more affordable.

10:59:45 So we will be prepared to do that.

10:59:47 And these would be covered if they were to go buy them on their

10:59:51 own with their lead money

10:59:53 that they have for the classroom, that $250?

10:59:56 I don’t.

10:59:58 If they went out and bought one, could they get reimbursed for

11:00:00 it?

11:00:00 I don’t know.

11:00:02 I think that’s something we have to check with Mrs. Licinski on

11:00:14 for that answer,

11:00:15 regarding the teacher lead money and how that’s used.

11:00:18 And if other districts are already testing kids and that’s part

11:00:21 of their plan,

11:00:21 then the legality of it is probably allowing us to do this.

11:00:25 It’s all right.

11:00:27 Okay.

11:00:28 Was my summary acceptable?

11:00:33 It sounds great.

11:00:34 Okay.

11:00:35 Any other board member have concerns with the summary put

11:00:38 forward?

11:00:39 All right.

11:00:40 Moving on to masks.

11:00:41 Who wants to start?

11:00:52 You made a recommendation for strongly advised?

11:00:56 Expected.

11:00:57 I support it.

11:00:58 What was – I mean, I have the American Academy of Pediatrics

11:01:09 page up in school guidelines.

11:01:13 I wholeheartedly agree with that whole page.

11:01:16 What are you all proposing as far as language?

11:01:18 Or otherwise, Ms. Belford came up with some language.

11:01:20 Is that the language you like?

11:01:22 You want something different?

11:01:24 If you look on slide 28, our in-school guidelines for face coverings

11:01:31 is on page 28.

11:01:36 So the committees or the task force recommendation is all

11:01:40 members of the school community are strongly

11:01:42 recommended to wear a face covering.

11:01:44 Standard rules apply on school appropriateness.

11:01:47 Masks should cover the nose, mouth, and not the full face.

11:01:50 And then there are additional criteria over on the right.

11:01:53 Okay.

11:01:54 Which includes the expectation for buses.

11:02:01 I am in favor of it as it reads.

11:02:04 I would not be in favor of a kind of mandate that would cause

11:02:09 discipline for students who

11:02:13 take it off for a moment.

11:02:15 Or I strongly encourage the community also to wear one, but I

11:02:22 like the way the wording is.

11:02:24 As it is, I could go along with expected.

11:02:32 But again, it is kind of like some of the ones that are in the

11:02:34 community.

11:02:35 There is no teeth in it.

11:02:36 But we just want to encourage as strongly as possible people to

11:02:39 do it.

11:02:40 I can go along with that.

11:02:45 So the proposal is just to change the words all members of the

11:02:49 school community are strongly

11:02:51 recommended to all members of the community are expected to wear

11:02:55 a face covering.

11:02:56 Understanding that we are going to have to use common sense

11:03:01 where we have, you know,

11:03:02 kids that have sensory issues and people who can’t breathe.

11:03:05 But I think the expectation.

11:03:09 What does – yeah, I mean, I am okay with the – I don’t think

11:03:14 the word bothers me.

11:03:15 But I went back and I have been reading this over and over.

11:03:19 The American Academy of Pediatrics.

11:03:21 And that last paragraph, if not developmentally feasible, I am

11:03:27 thinking about kindergarten a lot.

11:03:30 And VPK.

11:03:31 I mean, those are – you all have kids.

11:03:33 Four, five years old.

11:03:35 Yes, they can wear a mask.

11:03:37 And it specifically says in here if they’re touching their face

11:03:40 more than they would otherwise

11:03:40 because the mask is on.

11:03:42 And every four-year-old I’ve been around, that’s pretty much

11:03:46 what’s going on.

11:03:47 So when we – are we expecting four-year-olds?

11:03:53 Is it a high expectation that every four-year-old in that –

11:03:57 what does that language play out

11:03:59 like is my question in the classroom.

11:04:01 Like we can say that’s the language.

11:04:02 But now we’ve got a VPK teacher standing there with 12 four-year-olds

11:04:07 who are like ping, ping, ping.

11:04:09 I mean, she’s like, well, they’re expected to keep it on.

11:04:13 What does this look like for our teachers?

11:04:15 Yeah.

11:04:16 In fact, I’m going to back up.

11:04:19 And I’m sorry.

11:04:20 It’s my prerogative.

11:04:21 I changed my mind.

11:04:22 I’m actually going to back up because there is that.

11:04:25 It’s kind of like the cities who are saying it’s mandatory to

11:04:28 wear a mask, but you don’t – you can’t get fined and you can’t

11:04:30 whatever.

11:04:30 They’re just – they’re saying to the community, we really,

11:04:34 really, really, really, really want you to wear a mask, but we

11:04:37 can’t make you.

11:04:38 And honestly, that’s kind of how I feel.

11:04:42 I really, really want to say, hey, wear a mask, wear a mask, but

11:04:46 we’re not going to make you.

11:04:48 And staff, students, both, because I just – I just can’t get

11:04:54 beyond the fact that even if we say expect, there’s going to be

11:04:58 that discipline factor that’s going to come in.

11:05:00 You don’t have your mask on, you know, or whatever.

11:05:03 And I – you know, kids point to other kids.

11:05:07 And then the little kids.

11:05:08 And I just – you know, this is – that is about as far as I can

11:05:13 go.

11:05:13 And I think you guys have done a lot of work around this, and

11:05:17 you’ve taken into consideration parent input.

11:05:19 And for the people who are emailing me all day today – actually,

11:05:23 I’ve had from both sides.

11:05:23 I’ll check on the breaks.

11:05:25 You know, people saying, don’t mandate them.

11:05:27 People saying, mandate them.

11:05:28 Everybody needs to realize that everybody doesn’t think like

11:05:31 everybody else.

11:05:32 So I just – we’re going to – this is – the way you guys have

11:05:38 worded it, I think, is great.

11:05:40 And here – and then we, you know, we’re developing videos.

11:05:44 We’re going to tell people the benefits of that.

11:05:46 We’re going to give them options.

11:05:48 You know, they can express their style, you know, in their mask.

11:05:52 We can have our leadership.

11:05:54 You know, I don’t have a problem when I go visit a school having

11:05:57 a mask on to set a good example and all of that.

11:06:00 I just – yeah.

11:06:03 Thank you.

11:06:05 Ms. McDougal.

11:06:08 I think people understand how I feel.

11:06:11 I think science has really talked about the – it mitigates the

11:06:16 spread of the virus.

11:06:18 It protects each other.

11:06:20 And you’re absolutely right.

11:06:22 I would never expect a pre-K or a kindergarten child to be able

11:06:26 to wear a mask, and they don’t particularly recommend that.

11:06:30 And I am concerned.

11:06:34 I just think that what Ms. Campbell’s saying, she’s right.

11:06:40 She says there’s – we have people on both sides of the issue.

11:06:44 But again, I still feel that we need to be stronger on it.

11:06:48 And I don’t see students getting punished for it.

11:06:53 That should not be a discipline issue.

11:06:55 If it is, there’s something quite wrong.

11:06:58 But anyhow, I really feel that we should be stronger on the

11:07:03 issue.

11:07:03 And science supports that.

11:07:07 And like I said, other countries can seem to do it.

11:07:10 But for whatever reason, people feel that they can’t do it here

11:07:16 in Brevard.

11:07:17 I would not suggest discipline for mask wearing.

11:07:20 But I, you know, I do think that expect is a little bit stronger

11:07:26 than strongly recommend.

11:07:28 So I would continue to suggest that we move in that direction

11:07:33 just to ensure – I mean, we’re putting people in less than

11:07:41 ideal situations.

11:07:41 And, you know, I think we have a responsibility to do what we

11:07:46 can to protect them as much as possible.

11:07:49 If I could, two comments.

11:07:51 I just sent you guys an email that lists the full text from the

11:07:58 AAP.

11:07:58 In the presentation, it’s linked.

11:08:00 But they do great ban recommendations.

11:08:02 So given the discussions you were having, might want to take a

11:08:06 look at that prior to Tuesday.

11:08:08 The one thing that I think we have to consider with the word

11:08:14 expect is then a parent is going to trust that word expect that

11:08:22 the teachers are wearing masks.

11:08:23 And so I just wanted to make sure that that’s an intended

11:08:28 outcome.

11:08:29 We honestly are absolutely willing to support whatever the

11:08:33 wishes of the boards are.

11:08:35 We’ve got our pens.

11:08:36 We’re typing changes as we’re speaking.

11:08:38 I just felt that was worth clarification.

11:08:41 Did you intend for that?

11:08:42 Because when we put the word expect that, that’s empowering

11:08:46 students and parents and teachers that we expect that.

11:08:50 And as differently and passionately as parents feel, our

11:08:58 teachers feel as differently and passionately as well.

11:09:01 And again, honestly, honestly right now you could tell us

11:09:05 anything and we’d be like sure.

11:09:07 But separately on this topic, you know, we came into this

11:09:12 absolutely giving our best recommendation supporting whatever

11:09:18 the board feels is the best interest of the district.

11:09:19 So I just wanted to throw that out there because they didn’t

11:09:22 want any unintended consequences of us making decisions at eight

11:09:25 o’clock at night.

11:09:26 Sorry.

11:09:27 I was exactly going to the same place.

11:09:30 We wanted to make you aware of that additional language.

11:09:32 But I do appreciate the clarification.

11:09:35 I hadn’t thought of that.

11:09:36 That if the language of expectation would raise the bar for

11:09:40 employees.

11:09:41 I did.

11:09:42 He agreed with the expects, right?

11:09:54 Yep.

11:09:55 I think we should consider the – I clicked on your link there.

11:10:08 And it definitely says pre-kindergarten, right?

11:10:15 Face coverings for children in pre-K may be difficult to

11:10:19 implement.

11:10:20 So we’re saying with this blanket statement that we are

11:10:24 expecting four-year-olds to mask up and keep them on.

11:10:29 Because our pre-K teachers are also classroom teachers.

11:10:33 Of course they’re classroom teachers.

11:10:35 But there’s just a huge difference between a four-year-old and a

11:10:38 17-year-old.

11:10:38 My four-year-old, this morning I sat there and I asked Matthew.

11:10:41 I said, “Are you going to be able to wear a mask all day in

11:10:45 class?”

11:10:45 And he sat there and goes, “Yeah, Dad, I can do that because

11:10:49 that keeps me safe.”

11:10:50 And then, I’m not kidding you, seven, ten minutes later he comes

11:10:54 back and he says, “I can’t do that because it doesn’t fit right

11:10:56 on my face.”

11:10:56 And I thought about it, “Dad, and I’m just not going to do that.”

11:10:59 So that’s the mentality.

11:11:01 Like back and forth.

11:11:02 I don’t like this thing.

11:11:03 He’ll be wearing it on his ear.

11:11:04 He’ll go lick one of the chairs.

11:11:06 I mean, that’s my four-year-old.

11:11:07 It becomes more hazardous is what I’m saying is because they are.

11:11:10 They’re touching it.

11:11:11 They’re pulling it.

11:11:12 But we can strongly recommend.

11:11:14 It just –

11:11:15 Well, and then if you have the situation of a teacher who needs

11:11:19 to take it off to communicate, for example,

11:11:20 especially in a preschool class or in a choir class or whatever,

11:11:23 I mean, if we’re – that’s why not mandating,

11:11:27 because if you say mandate, you say expect, then it’s going to

11:11:29 expect not only when you wear it,

11:11:30 but you’ll wear it all day except for when you’re eating or

11:11:34 drinking or whatever, you know.

11:11:36 Yeah, but what I was –

11:11:39 Yeah, face shield or mouth.

11:11:41 And my thought is whatever word you land on, know that we’ll finesse

11:11:47 the language to make it work.

11:11:48 Highly recommend works as a general statement.

11:11:50 Expect would need more language wrapped around it to cover the

11:11:54 concerns that you have.

11:11:55 But whichever word you land on, we’ve heard your concerns and we

11:12:00 would wordsmith those in there.

11:12:02 Right.

11:12:03 And I think you’ve heard from all five of us.

11:12:04 We don’t want discipline involved in –

11:12:06 Yeah, absolutely.

11:12:07 – the masks.

11:12:08 I think we probably need to take a look at the information that

11:12:15 Dr. Sullivan sent, and – I mean, I think you basically know

11:12:22 where our sentiment is,

11:12:23 and perhaps we can come back and have additional discussion on

11:12:26 Tuesday with – with specifics.

11:12:28 Is that okay for you guys?

11:12:29 If it’s – if it’s okay with the board, we’re going to leave the

11:12:33 language as it is.

11:12:33 Since we’re not being given direct – direction otherwise, and

11:12:38 anticipate – but anticipate that there may be further

11:12:40 discussion on Tuesday at the board meeting before a final

11:12:43 decision is made.

11:12:43 Is that acceptable?

11:12:45 Any board members opposed to that?

11:12:47 Sounds good.

11:12:48 Okay.

11:12:49 Thank you.

11:12:50 All right.

11:12:51 That brings us to volunteers.

11:12:54 Tina, I think that was yours.

11:12:57 Yeah.

11:12:58 Is anybody interested in creating a special class of volunteers?

11:13:02 Or am I out on a – out on a limb with that one?

11:13:08 No.

11:13:09 I want to hear it.

11:13:10 Let’s hear it.

11:13:11 I’ve already laid it out a little earlier.

11:13:12 I just feel like we have – every school seems to have one or

11:13:16 two that are part of the – the team.

11:13:18 And, you know, maybe – I think I discussed it maybe with Dr.

11:13:21 Mullins at some point over the last few days.

11:13:23 And maybe it is we take it nine weeks by nine weeks.

11:13:27 But I think some of these volunteers are vital to the

11:13:30 functioning of our school.

11:13:31 And they – they’re an extra set of hands that are reliable and

11:13:34 responsible.

11:13:35 Just because they’re not getting a paycheck doesn’t mean that

11:13:38 their work sometimes isn’t just as valuable.

11:13:40 And because they’re not paying them, we’re kicking them out of

11:13:43 campus.

11:13:43 Right.

11:13:44 We’ve got volunteers who put hundreds and hundreds of hours.

11:13:46 Yeah.

11:13:47 And do – and do real work.

11:13:48 Right.

11:13:49 They’re not just – they’re shaking hands and kissing babies.

11:13:51 There’s some schools that don’t do any of their laminating.

11:13:54 No staff does any laminating.

11:13:55 Only volunteers do that.

11:13:57 And it’s just got to be done.

11:13:58 It’s hours of work.

11:13:59 The thing that I keep coming back to when you’re talking about

11:14:01 that is, you know, we just said, you know, we haven’t passed our

11:14:04 budget yet.

11:14:04 But one of the recommended cuts is our media assistance.

11:14:07 And one of the things that, you know, came to my mind as we’re

11:14:10 going through that process is schools would have to develop,

11:14:12 like the schools who don’t have – the smaller schools that don’t

11:14:15 have media assistance, volunteer corps who could come in.

11:14:17 And I know media centers are going to be completely different

11:14:21 this year than what they have ever been before.

11:14:23 But, you know, we’ve just said, okay, now you’re – if your

11:14:27 media assistant leaves during the year to take another position,

11:14:28 because they won’t be funded next year, then you don’t get one

11:14:33 for the rest of the year, right?

11:14:34 You’re on your own.

11:14:35 And so – but now they don’t have volunteers to make that work.

11:14:39 So, I don’t know about a special class.

11:14:42 I guess at the very least, I would request that that would be

11:14:46 some of the first people that we let back in.

11:14:48 And we – as we work our plan and it’s flexible and we tweak it,

11:14:51 whatever, that that – you know, volunteers, not parents come in

11:14:55 and eat lunch,

11:14:55 but our people who are working and just very essential to the

11:14:59 functioning of our schools, that we find a way to work them back

11:15:03 in as quickly as possible.

11:15:03 And I don’t have a problem with asking our volunteers to do a

11:15:08 screening, to wear a mask, because they’re not a part of our –

11:15:12 our school body.

11:15:15 Wow, it’s 8 o’clock.

11:15:17 So – but I – if we can – that – like I said, at the very

11:15:20 least, I’d say, how – let’s find a way to quickly work them

11:15:23 back in as the – depending on how things go.

11:15:26 Some of the discussion I had with Ms. Deskovich was – I – we

11:15:32 could certainly do that.

11:15:34 I think the plan is malleable enough that we can, you know,

11:15:37 periodically reconsider making adjustments along the way.

11:15:45 I think we may be surprised at how adaptive our volunteers who

11:15:50 really want to be committed to help our schools can still

11:15:55 provide support and assistance even not on campus.

11:15:59 So I – I – I’m not the most creative person, so I’m not going

11:16:03 to try and pretend what that could look like.

11:16:05 But we’ve seen it happen with other entities.

11:16:07 I mean, I think Junior Achievement was recognized earlier for

11:16:11 adapting to the current environment.

11:16:13 It does – for board consideration, and if – if we identify a

11:16:21 certain kind of volunteer, it does put our principals in a – a

11:16:27 rather unenviable position to say to one volunteer, you may come

11:16:32 in and another volunteer, you may not.

11:16:33 I – I would propose that we need to not put our principals in

11:16:37 that position, particularly given all of the other variables

11:16:40 they’re going to be dealing with going into this year.

11:16:43 So that – that would be my additional request for consideration.

11:16:49 What if – what if – what if there was some type of allocation

11:16:53 each school gets – I – I – I’m thinking about my very

11:16:56 specific middle school who doesn’t have a media assistant right

11:16:59 now because she’s not coming back.

11:17:01 And now it’s just the media specialist.

11:17:03 It’s exactly what you just said.

11:17:05 And now her volunteer – so she ran – she runs a great, great

11:17:09 program.

11:17:09 And she had her media assistant and a full-time volunteer, and

11:17:12 she’s losing both.

11:17:13 So is there a way to say just in those circumstances, or is

11:17:18 there a way we can hire her as a substitute media assistant and

11:17:24 not pay her?

11:17:25 Is there – like, is there – is there a – is there a – is

11:17:28 there a workaround so that the principal’s not put in the

11:17:29 position where you’re a special volunteer and you’re not?

11:17:31 There’s certainly that consideration.

11:17:34 I would – I have – I feel Chris Moore in my ear.

11:17:37 And that is –

11:17:38 I think –

11:17:39 I’m way over here.

11:17:40 I think Ms. Klein is moving around in her seat more than –

11:17:43 I – I – I – I just – I think the – I’m – for consideration

11:17:47 for the board’s awareness.

11:17:48 If the volunteer is on our campus and happens to test positive

11:17:53 for COVID, then our schools could be impacted because of the

11:17:59 volunteers’ presence in addition of the others.

11:18:00 Can I – can I speak real fast?

11:18:03 I think the affirmative is, is that we want to put people inside.

11:18:06 And the dissenting piece is we don’t want them to impact our –

11:18:10 our students, right?

11:18:11 We don’t want them to look at our students and say – and impact

11:18:15 them because that’s the key.

11:18:16 What if we set a set of guidelines for the volunteer to

11:18:20 volunteer but not have contact with the students?

11:18:23 Because a lot of the volunteering is – is putting together the

11:18:26 – the copies and preparing the stuff and working inside, like

11:18:30 you said, the – the – the – the media center.

11:18:33 What if they didn’t have contact?

11:18:35 What if the plan was that they could volunteer but not have

11:18:38 contact but stay on the school?

11:18:39 And instead of creating a separate classification for volunteers,

11:18:46 you ask them to become substitutes.

11:18:48 Because we’re going to need a huge pool of substitutes.

11:18:51 And in my mind, when I’m looking at this, the substitute is

11:18:55 actually supporting the class the same way.

11:18:57 We’re about to put all of those substitutes that come in through

11:19:01 the same things that we’re going to do.

11:19:03 Take COVID testing, whatever those things are.

11:19:06 I don’t see a problem with allowing them to become part of the

11:19:09 substitute pool and acting as support,

11:19:13 not with kids inside the classroom, but offering opportunities

11:19:18 outside, inside the media center and stuff like that.

11:19:19 What about that as a thought?

11:19:22 I don’t know.

11:19:23 I just thought about it.

11:19:25 11 hours strong and still got some stuff.

11:19:28 So what do you think?

11:19:29 She’s getting – Climb, why are you looking at me like that?

11:19:33 We’re at the – we would request direction from the board.

11:19:36 So can I –

11:19:37 I would suggest the committee has made the recommendation.

11:19:39 If the board is directing us otherwise, we will – we will move

11:19:43 forward appropriately.

11:19:43 The sky has input, Ms. Balthier.

11:19:45 Can I – this is Cheryl.

11:19:50 Yeah, go ahead.

11:19:51 Dr. Mullen’s idea about how creative our volunteers are, and I

11:19:57 do believe they are.

11:19:58 And I’m going to give you an example.

11:20:00 When we shut down in March, I know that some of the rolling

11:20:04 readers, they videotaped and recorded their stories

11:20:07 and sent it to the teachers, and the teachers played it for the

11:20:11 students.

11:20:11 So there are ways to be creative without having contact with our

11:20:17 staff.

11:20:17 Right now, the numbers are going up.

11:20:21 They’re not going down.

11:20:23 And so at this point in time, to bring in people who – yes,

11:20:28 they’re vital.

11:20:29 They do play a vital role.

11:20:30 And I get it, Ms. Deskovich.

11:20:32 But at the same time, I’d rather have us be flexible and reevaluate

11:20:39 this at this point in time.

11:20:41 I really think that we need to – we have so much going on with

11:20:46 what we’re trying to do for our staff at this point,

11:20:48 and keep our students safe, that to bring in an unknown is, I

11:20:53 think, a little bit risky.

11:20:57 Okay.

11:20:58 So I’m on board with you.

11:21:02 I think our reopening plan needs to be the same as what you have

11:21:05 it written.

11:21:05 But I just would – my request would just be that as soon as we

11:21:10 can, that that’s the first group of people that we open the

11:21:13 doors to.

11:21:13 On our reopening plan, all of it at the bottom said, these

11:21:17 guidelines may change.

11:21:20 At any moment of time, before we leave today, we could get a new

11:21:26 directive.

11:21:27 So we are – everything we’re doing is flexible.

11:21:33 And this was really, really a hard – a hard point in our

11:21:39 decision-making

11:21:40 because we know the value of our volunteers.

11:21:44 I’ve been on the phone with rolling readers probably four times

11:21:49 this summer,

11:21:50 working out plans on which way they can continue to support our

11:21:55 schools through a virtual platform.

11:21:57 because not only do they not want to put our staff at risk, they

11:22:04 don’t want to be at risk themselves.

11:22:05 So I think we’re looking at safety for all when we do this at

11:22:11 this point in time.

11:22:13 Okay.

11:22:15 Are you happy with that, Ms. Vestovich?

11:22:18 Just get them back as soon as we can, please.

11:22:21 Thank you.

11:22:22 Clear?

11:22:24 You throwing in the towel?

11:22:26 Just to summarize, I believe the Board is supporting the current

11:22:31 direction of the recommendation that’s printed.

11:22:35 Yes.

11:22:36 And continue to reevaluate and look for an opportunity to open

11:22:40 access to our volunteers.

11:22:43 Does that include PTOs, PTAs?

11:22:45 Okay.

11:22:46 Just checking.

11:22:47 Any board member?

11:22:48 They could still hold virtual meetings.

11:22:51 Yeah.

11:22:52 They can meet off-site.

11:22:53 I mean, we used to meet in local places sometimes just for a

11:22:57 change of scenery.

11:22:57 Oh, I got that.

11:22:58 Does any board member have opposition to the summary that Dr.

11:23:01 Mullins put forward on that particular issue?

11:23:02 No.

11:23:05 field can i ask can we normally do we normally clean outdoor

11:23:11 playground equipment ever

11:23:14 no wait what cheryl i doubt it i would be so surprised if we

11:23:19 ever cleaned outdoor equipment

11:23:22 okay well you can’t see sushi shaking your head no i mean it’s

11:23:26 outdoors exposing the sun i doubt

11:23:28 unless somebody like sorry threw up on one or whatever we

11:23:31 probably wouldn’t

11:23:33 we do clean them after um vomit bodily but we never but on a

11:23:40 yearly regular basis outdoor playground

11:23:42 equipment is it gets pressure washed usually twice a year okay

11:23:46 yeah we’ve never had the handy danry

11:23:48 steamer though that kills germs on counter i think that’s an

11:23:51 indoor i don’t know what’s the name of

11:23:53 indoor what’s it called that thing is swifter no i have a swifter

11:23:56 honestly i can’t remember at this

11:24:00 moment in time she said it looked like r2d too yes it’s getting

11:24:04 late

11:24:04 what are you doing nothing i mean if you’re wrapping up the

11:24:12 whole party going you might as

11:24:13 well wrap up the swings too but we will definitely reevaluate um

11:24:19 i know i we heard that a few minutes

11:24:23 ago i mean we can’t keep kids from touching things that other

11:24:26 kids have touched just reality if they’re

11:24:28 going to play soccer okay well you’re not supposed to touch the

11:24:32 ball sorry but some at some point

11:24:34 soccer would be a great sport for everybody to do because you

11:24:37 can’t touch the ball with your hands

11:24:39 um but at some point somebody’s going to touch something that

11:24:41 somebody else touched which is why

11:24:43 we’re washing our hands frequently we’re using hand sanitizer so

11:24:47 we can’t keep them from not from you

11:24:48 know we just can’t bubble tape bubble wrap them all but you know

11:24:52 so the swing seems so harmless to me

11:24:56 they’re not climbing on top of each other they’re not sliding

11:24:58 down a slide that one just touched all

11:24:59 the way down they can sit whatever your direction is we will

11:25:03 make it happen if they sit in a bathroom

11:25:05 seat how can they not sit in a swing seat is there any miss mcdougall

11:25:12 anybody else have input on swings

11:25:17 i will share my thoughts if if you all want um we’ve we’ve

11:25:23 talked repeatedly about how robust this plan is

11:25:28 and how many moving parts we have and how things are changing

11:25:32 every single day with the expectations for

11:25:35 our team and i want kids to play on the playground as much as

11:25:40 the next person um but we are really really

11:25:43 asking a lot of our people and i feel like the more that we can

11:25:49 phase into things as opposed to

11:25:53 throwing all these enormous expectations all at one time um you

11:25:58 know if if they don’t have to worry about

11:26:01 getting someone out there to sanitize the playground or if they

11:26:05 can just gate off the playground and not

11:26:07 have to worry about supervising in that area or i just feel like

11:26:13 we really need to be looking for

11:26:15 opportunities to minimize challenges until everybody can get a

11:26:19 stride and then i think we can revisit a lot of

11:26:23 things but i hear you i just think it’s good it is already a

11:26:27 great challenge to send kids out to recess

11:26:29 and have very little to do and i think we’re all picturing a

11:26:35 school that we’re most familiar with

11:26:37 like i keep picturing india lanic which the playground that you’re

11:26:41 going to gate off is separate from the

11:26:43 swings which is all the way on the back field where the kids are

11:26:45 going to be running around so visually

11:26:47 i’m thinking just leave the swings alone i don’t even know how

11:26:49 you’re going to gate them off because

11:26:50 they’re just over there but maybe miss belford you’re picturing

11:26:53 a school where it’s all together

11:26:54 and you lock the gate and it’s done so it look

11:26:58 at this point you know i’m not going to fight for an india linux

11:27:03 swing but i sure wish our kids

11:27:05 you know have the opportunity to have stuff to play with out

11:27:08 there i just think i’m going to see

11:27:10 teachers out there more trying to block the swings and tell kids

11:27:13 to get off them because they’re not in

11:27:15 a place that’s gated then it’s going to be worth trying to keep

11:27:19 i’m wondering if we could unhook this

11:27:21 link i mean some that’s i mean if we’re worried about that i

11:27:24 wonder if we could unhook them but

11:27:27 oh yeah or just flip them around 20 times so they’re stuck up

11:27:32 you know

11:27:37 you guys have done so much work and you know i’m willing to kind

11:27:41 of my thoughts on this are same as

11:27:43 the volunteers let’s go with the plan as written on this

11:27:46 including swing sets in place in play ground

11:27:49 equipment but again as things change once we evaluate things and

11:27:53 you said every school is a little bit

11:27:54 different that’s one of the things that we move to open when we

11:27:58 can we feel like we can

11:28:03 is anybody opposed to that plan moving forward no so just to

11:28:08 confirm we’re going to leave as is

11:28:10 and continue to evaluate reevaluate and see if there’s

11:28:13 opportunity to expand or

11:28:15 uh increase things which could happen next week or two weeks or

11:28:20 tonight some weeks from now um

11:28:24 so or maybe the h-word comes and blows covet away from us

11:28:32 that’s not making that for those of you who just joined us the h-word

11:28:35 is not a bad word it’s

11:28:36 a large circling storm sorry i don’t guess so we just make sure

11:28:41 we’re all good

11:28:42 all right are you comfortable with the consensus direction yes

11:28:49 thank you excellent if i may just take

11:28:53 a couple minutes and uh just yeah

11:29:01 we’re almost to 12 hours um i i think you understand how much

11:29:07 work went into the committee because

11:29:10 the 11 some hours of deliberation that it took to work through

11:29:16 it is just a fraction of what the

11:29:19 team put into getting to the place that they presented something

11:29:22 to you and the same debate and

11:29:24 consternation and back and forth and our um i i think the white

11:29:28 board back in the conference room

11:29:30 has been

11:29:31 has been marked up and erased and everything else dozens of

11:29:36 times um i say all of that because

11:29:39 uh i i haven’t had a chance to express my appreciation publicly

11:29:44 today anyway for the work

11:29:46 that our team has done in the most historic unenviable

11:29:49 circumstances we have ever known in our generation

11:29:53 um i want to thank the board for your acknowledgement of the

11:29:57 team and their work um they have been

11:30:00 intentional they have been focused on every last detail as i

11:30:04 think you can see they have been

11:30:07 conscientious both to a quality learning environment but also

11:30:11 the impact of the decisions that they brought

11:30:14 forward all while being flexible and upholding quality learning

11:30:19 uh as the benchmark of what we want for

11:30:21 our kids so to these folks here to everyone around around the

11:30:26 room who have who have contributed

11:30:29 everyone has contributed to the this effort in addition to the

11:30:33 the uh extended task force lieutenant neil and

11:30:37 others uh it’s just been remarkable and um i couldn’t be more

11:30:41 proud to to serve as a superintendent

11:30:43 with a team like this around me so thank you thank you dr mullins

11:30:47 we absolutely appreciate the amazing

11:30:50 work that your team has done i would say that your uh team is

11:30:54 fabulous but they are partly successful

11:30:56 because of your leadership and support of them as well so uh we

11:30:59 appreciate your leadership through

11:31:01 this difficult time as well as as the work of all of the team

11:31:04 members to get us to the recommendations

11:31:05 that you brought forward and thank you for hanging in there with

11:31:09 us for almost 12 hours today um to work

11:31:12 through all of this and now i would like for you all to go home

11:31:16 and uh get some rest and we will see

11:31:17 you guys on tuesday meeting adjourned

11:31:35 you