Jan 31, 2023 January 31, 2023 - Budget Work Session - 4 p.m.

[A. Meeting Opening]

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GOOD AFTERNOON, I'D LIKE TO CALL THE JANUARY 31ST, 2023 SCHOOL BOARD BUDGET WORK SESSION TO ORDER.

FIRST, WE HAVE A PRESENTATION ON COMPENSATION FROM DR.

[B. Compensation Information]

GOOD AFTERNOON, MISS COKER, MISS HAINES, MEMBERS OF THE BOARD, DR.

DAUGHERTY. I'M PLEASED TO BE ABLE TO SHARE WITH YOU THIS AFTERNOON SOME ADDITIONAL INFORMATION RELATED TO ONE OF THE KEY COMPONENTS OF OUR NEEDS BASED BUDGET COMPENSATION AS A RECRUITMENT AND RETENTION STRATEGY.

AS YOU KNOW, COMPENSATION IS ONE OF OUR STRATEGIES FOR TRYING TO MEET STUDENTS NEEDS.

THEY CONTINUE TO BE AN IMPORTANT PART OF A VERY COMPETITIVE EMPLOYMENT MARKET.

WE'RE COMPETING WITH REGIONAL SCHOOL DIVISIONS, BUT INCREASINGLY WE ARE ALSO HAVING STAFF LEAVE TO GO TO PRIVATE BUSINESS AND OTHER STATE, FEDERAL AND ENTREPRENEURIAL OPPORTUNITIES. ALL OF OUR CLASSROOMS AND THE GOOD NEWS ARE COVERED WITH CERTIFIED TEACHERS OR ANNUAL SUBSTITUTES OR LONG TERM SUBSTITUTES. OVER 96% OF OUR CLASSROOMS ARE COVERED WITH CERTIFIED TEACHERS, AND THAT'S HIGHER THAN THE NATIONAL AVERAGE, AND ANNUAL SUBSTITUTES AND LONG TERM SUBSTITUTES ARE A VERY IMPORTANT PART OF OUR RECRUITMENT PIPELINE.

WE HAVE OUR DAILY SUBSTITUTE FILL RATE, WHICH HAS INCREASED ABOUT 20% FROM THE PANDEMIC LOWS.

SO THAT'S A SUCCESS, AND OUR VACANCY RATE IS MUCH LOWER THAN LAST YEAR FOR CUSTODIANS.

WE'VE REDUCED VACANCIES BY MORE THAN TWO THIRDS.

WE STILL FACE SOME CHALLENGES, THOUGH.

WE STILL HAVE A NUMBER OF VACANCIES, ATTRITION, OF COURSE, INFLATION AND A NATIONAL SHORTAGE OF TEACHERS.

SO IT STILL CONTINUES TO BE A VERY COMPETITIVE MARKET.

OF COURSE, A REMINDER THAT TEACHERS MATTER AND I KNOW YOU'VE SEEN THIS INFORMATION BEFORE, BUT TEACHERS ARE AN ECONOMIC INVESTMENT IN THE COMMUNITY, AND AN AVERAGE OR HIGH PERFORMING TEACHER DOES INCREASE A CLASSROOM'S LIFETIME EARNINGS AND POST-SECONDARY OUTCOMES.

ALSO, IN SOME NEWER DATA, TEACHERS HAVE BEEN FOUND TO IF THEY'RE EFFECTIVE, THEY INCREASE ON TRACK GRADE PROGRESSION ATTENDANCE AND SOCIAL SKILLS, DECREASE SUSPENSIONS, AND WE ALSO KNOW THAT ATTENDANCE AND SOCIAL SKILLS ARE PREDICTORS OF PERFORMANCE AND POST-SECONDARY PARTICIPATION.

SO THAT'S VERY IMPORTANT FOR OUR STUDENTS.

THIS IS SOME NATIONAL DATA ABOUT THE TEACHER SHORTAGE.

WE CAN SEE THAT VIRGINIA KIND OF FALLS IN THE MIDDLE IN TERMS OF VACANCIES PER 10,000 STUDENTS AND ADDITIONALLY UNDERQUALIFIED HIRES BY 10,000 STUDENTS.

SO THIS WOULD BE TEACHERS WHO DON'T YET HAVE A LICENSE.

YOU CAN SEE VIRGINIA FARES SLIGHTLY WORSE IN THAT CATEGORY.

I KNOW YOU'RE USED TO SEEING THIS DATA OR TITLE II DATA RUNS A COUPLE OF YEARS BEHIND, BUT YOU CAN SEE OUR TEACHER EDUCATION ENROLLMENT IN VIRGINIA IS NOT INCREASING, AND ALSO, MANY TIMES PEOPLE WONDER WHY OUR STAFF IS NOT MORE REFLECTIVE OF THE DEMOGRAPHICS OF OUR STUDENTS, AND SO THIS CHART KIND OF SHOWS YOU SOME OF THE CHALLENGES THAT WE FACE IN RECRUITING DIVERSE STAFF MEMBERS IN TERMS OF WHO'S ENROLLED IN TEACHER PREPARATION PROGRAMS IN VIRGINIA.

IT'S ALSO OUR ENROLLMENT VERSUS COMPLETER DATA.

THIS DATA IS TITLE II DATA, SO IT IS A COUPLE OF YEARS BEHIND BUT I THINK ONE THING THAT I NOTED WAS THE PERCENTAGE OF PEOPLE COMPLETING THEIR PROGRAMS HAD DECLINED YEAR OVER YEAR.

WHEN I LOOKED AT 17-18, 18-19 AND 19-20.

IN JUST ONE YEAR, THAT PERCENTAGE HAD GONE DOWN FROM 42%, COMPLETING TO 34% COMPLETING, AND I ALSO THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT THERE WERE ONLY 32 MATH COMPLETERS FOR THE ENTIRE STATE IN THE YEAR 19-20.

THE THREE LARGEST SCHOOL DIVISIONS IN VIRGINIA TYPICALLY HIRE ABOUT 2500 TEACHER CANDIDATES PER YEAR, AND SO IF YOU LOOK AT THAT, THAT WOULD HAVE LEFT ABOUT 700 VIRGINIA CANDIDATES FOR 130 OTHER SCHOOL DIVISIONS IN 17-18.

IN 19-20, IT LEFT ABOUT 495.

SO THAT'S A MARKED DECREASE IN THAT PERIOD.

CCPS HIRED 643 TEACHERS IN 21-22.

SO YOU CAN SEE THAT WE WOULD HAVE ALREADY HIRED MORE TEACHERS THAN WERE AVAILABLE IN 19-20, WHICH IS WHY WE'RE VERY DEPENDENT ON ANNUAL

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WE WOULD ANTICIPATE THAT THEY'RE GOING TO BE MORE EXACERBATED EFFECTS IN THE NEXT COUPLE OF YEARS OF DATA, AND OF THE 130 DIVISIONS THAT AREN'T THE THREE LARGEST CHESTERFIELD IS THE FIFTH LARGEST IN THE STATE.

SO, YOU KNOW, YOU TAKE OUT THOSE NORTHERN VIRGINIA DIVISION.

THIS IS VIRGINIA BEACH AND THEN CHESTERFIELD AND CHESTERFIELD'S ALSO GROWING.

WE'RE SEEING SOME OFF TIME ATTRITION PATTERNS, WHICH IS NOT USUAL.

TYPICALLY, MOST OF OUR ATTRITION OCCURS IN THE END OF THE SCHOOL YEAR FOR TEACHERS.

SO USUALLY A JUNE EFFECTIVE DATE, BUT WE'RE NOW SEEING SOME OFF-TIME PATTERNS THROUGHOUT THE YEAR.

WE'RE HIRING MORE FTES DUE TO BOTH INCREASED ATTRITION AND GROWTH, AND WE'VE HAD ALMOST 100 TEACHERS SEPARATE SINCE THE START OF FY 23, THE START OF THE SCHOOL YEAR.

THIS IS OUR THREE YEAR ATTRITION DATA FOR TEACHING STAFF, AND WE ALSO LOOKED AT THAT IN TERMS OF GENERAL EDUCATION TEACHERS AND SPECIAL EDUCATION TEACHERS AND SHARED THAT WITH SEAC, AND THE PERCENTAGE LAST YEAR WAS VERY SIMILAR FOR BOTH GROUPS , AND THIS IS AN IDEA OF ATTRITION THAT'S OCCURRING THROUGHOUT THE FIRST HALF OF THIS SCHOOL YEAR AND OUR LICENSED TEACHER RATE.

AS OF JANUARY 5TH, WE HAD 96.19% OF OUR CLASSROOMS WITH LICENSED TEACHERS, AND THE 3.81% REPRESENTS ANNUAL AND LONG TERM SUBSTITUTES, MANY OF WHOM ARE WORKING TOWARDS LICENSURE.

JUST AS A REVIEW: PHASE ONE OF OUR SALARY STUDY FOR TEACHERS PLACED CURRENT TEACHERS ON THE SCALE TO ACCURATELY REFLECT YEARS OF SUCCESSFUL EXPERIENCE.

SO THAT WAS A BIG FOCUS ON DECOMPRESSION THAT YEAR, IN PHASE TWO, WE MOVED CLOSER TO THE MARKET WITH CONSIDERATION TO THE WAGE MARKET AND STEP PROGRESSION IN THE STATE PROPOSAL FOR LAST YEAR, FY 23.

IN EACH PHASE, THE SCHOOL ADMINISTRATOR SCALE WAS LINKED TO THE TEACHER SCALE, AND THIS YEAR'S PROPOSAL IS AN INCREASE OF SIX AND A HALF PERCENT TO THE STEP SCALES FOR TEACHERS AND SCHOOL BASED ADMINISTRATORS.

THAT INCLUDES THE 5% CHANGE TO THE MARKET PROPOSED IN THE STATE BUDGET, WHICH WOULD INCLUDE THE STEP.

NOTE THAT THAT CHANGE IS ONLY PARTIALLY FUNDED BY THE STATE, AND THEN IT WOULD INCLUDE A ONE AND ONE HALF PERCENT INCREASE TO IMPLEMENT PHASE THREE OF THE FALL 2020 SALARY STUDY FOR STEP SCALE POSITIONS AND FOR ANY VIEWERS AT HOME.

THAT WAS A DECEMBER 8TH, 2020 WORK SESSION REPORT PROVIDED BY [INAUDIBLE], WHICH WAS A STUDY THAT WAS FUNDED BY CHESTERFIELD COUNTY.

TEACHER STARTING PAY.

THE PROPOSAL IS FOR STARTING PAY FOR BACHELOR'S DEGREE TEACHER TO BE $52,176 AND THIS IS THE PROPOSED TEACHER SCALE, AND SO YOU CAN ALSO SEE PROPOSED START FOR A TEACHER WITH A MASTER'S DEGREE: $55,306.

SUBSTITUTES ARE A SIGNIFICANT FACTOR IN TEACHER WORKING CONDITIONS, AND WE HEAR THAT FROM TEACHERS FREQUENTLY.

THEY'RE ALSO REQUIRED FOR TEACHERS TO ACCESS BENEFITS OFFERED SUCH AS SICK TIME AND THE TARGET PRE-PANDEMIC NATIONAL TARGET IN A JOHN HOPKINS STUDY WAS A GOOD FILL RATE IS CONSIDERED A 90% FILL RATE OR HIGHER.

IT'S IMPORTANT TO US AS A PIPELINE OF CANDIDATES TO TEACHING POSITIONS.

IT'S A GREAT WAY FOR CAREER SWITCHERS TO TRY OUT CLASSROOM EXPERIENCES.

OUR SUBSTITUTE DAILY RATE, YOU CAN SEE, LAGS THE MARKET.

THE FY 23 MARKET AVERAGE IS 111.61, AND OUR DAILY RATE THIS YEAR IS 101.50.

WE ARE PROPOSING THE FY 23 DAILY RATE WITH A 5% INCREASE FOR THE STATE MARKET CHANGE FOR TEACHING, WHICH WILL BE 117.19. WE WERE ON A CALL TODAY OF GROW YOUR OWN PROGRAMS AND LEARNED REGIONAL COUNTY IS PROPOSING 135 SO EVERYONE IS REALLY FOCUSED ON SUBSTITUTES AND SUBSTITUTE FILL RATES AS A WORKING CONDITION. ALSO, OUR LONG TERM SUBSTITUTES ARE VERY IMPORTANT TO US BECAUSE THEY DO PLAN AND GRADE AND DO MANY OF THE THINGS THAT OUR CLASSROOM TEACHERS OF RECORD WOULD DO, AND WE CAN SEE THAT THE MARKET AVERAGE IN FY 23 IN OUR REGION WAS

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THE PROPOSAL IS TO MEET THE FY 23 MARKET AVERAGE WITH A 5% STATE MARKET CHANGE FOR DAILY RATE OF 232.97.

SUBSTITUTE INSTRUCTIONAL ASSISTANTS, THIS IS A POSITION THAT WE HEAR ABOUT FROM [INAUDIBLE] OUR COMMITTEE OF TEACHERS AND SCHOOL PERSONNEL THAT GIVES US FEEDBACK AND THEY'VE NOTED HOW DIFFICULT IT IS TO FIND SUBSTITUTE INSTRUCTIONAL ASSISTANTS.

WE CAN SEE THAT OUR MARKET RATE, OUR RATE IS $77 A DAY AND THE MARKET AVERAGE THIS YEAR IS 94.83.

SO AGAIN, USING THE SAME PHILOSOPHY, IT'S TO MEET THE FY 23 MARKET AVERAGE, AND EVEN THOUGH THIS ISN'T A TEACHING POSITION, THESE POSITIONS CAN SUPERVISE STUDENTS ACCORDING TO STATE CODE, AND SO IT'S AN ASSUMPTION THAT THE 5% STATE MARKET RATE WOULD HAVE AN IMPACT.

THIS IS ALSO IMPORTANT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT FILL RATES TO THINK ABOUT DEMAND, AND OUR DEMAND DOES CHANGE OVER TIME BECAUSE OUR SCHOOL SYSTEM CHANGES OVER TIME, AND WE HAVE GROWN OVER THE LAST SEVERAL YEARS AND WE'VE BEEN THROUGH MANY WAVES OF THE PANDEMIC AND SO THIS KIND OF GIVES YOU AN IDEA THAT WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT A PERCENT FILL RATE, OUR VACANCIES DON'T NECESSARILY STAY STATIC AND THEY DO FLUCTUATE OVER TIME.

OUR HIGH DEMAND DAYS HAS BEEN A REALLY SUCCESSFUL INITIATIVE.

SO YOU CAN SEE THE 21-22 AVERAGE FRIDAY FILL RATE AND THEN THE 22-23 AVERAGE FRIDAY FILL RATES, AND THEY'RE QUITE DIFFERENT AND THEY REALLY IMPROVE.

THEY'LL SHOW YOU THE MONTHLY AVERAGES FOR THE FIRST HALF OF THIS YEAR, AND THEN WE HAVE AN EVEN BETTER MICRO TREND TO SHARE OUR FRIDAYS STARTING IN MID-DECEMBER, WE HIT 87, 90, 94 AND 90%, AND I JUST CHECKED TODAY THE 20TH AND THE 27TH.

WE ALSO HIT 90% FILL RATE.

SO WE'RE EXCITED ABOUT THAT AND WE'RE STARTING TO VISIT THE AREA WHERE WE SHOULD BE, AND WE'RE HOPING WITH SOME CONTINUED EFFORT THAT WE CAN KIND OF LIVE THERE AND MAKE THAT A CONSISTENT FILL RATE EVERY DAY.

JUST WANT TO HIGHLIGHT INSTRUCTIONAL ASSISTANTS.

WE DID INCREASE PAY FOR THIS GROUP OF EMPLOYEES IN 21 AND 22.

THEY ARE CURRENTLY PAID IN THE GRADED RANGE.

WE'RE STILL EXPERIENCING SOME VACANCIES AND THAT IMPACTS OUR STUDENT SERVICES.

WE HAD 93 VACANCIES IN JUNE 2022.

THAT IS TYPICALLY GOING TO BE YOUR HIGHEST MONTH BECAUSE IT'S THE END OF SCHOOL WHEN PEOPLE MIGHT DECIDE TO DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT FOR THE NEXT YEAR, BUT WHAT CONCERNED US IS THAT WE STILL HAVE 47 VACANCIES HERE IN JANUARY.

WE ARE CURRENTLY MEETING THE LOCAL MARKET AVERAGE, BUT WE ARE BELOW RICHMOND PUBLIC SCHOOLS PAY.

THEY'VE RECENTLY CREATED AN AGREEMENT TO INCREASE PAY OVER THREE YEARS AND WE ARE EXPERIENCING INCREASED ATTRITION IN THIS GROUP.

SO THIS SHOWS YOU OUR THREE YEAR ATTRITION PATTERN FOR INSTRUCTIONAL ASSISTANTS AND OUR CUMULATIVE PATTERN FOR THE FIRST HALF OF THIS YEAR, AND THIS SHOWS OUR VACANCY RATE FOR INSTRUCTIONAL ASSISTANTS, AND THIS SHOWS YOU THAT IT DOES DIFFER BY GENERAL ED INSTRUCTIONAL ASSISTANTS AND SPECIAL ED INSTRUCTIONAL ASSISTANTS.

SO THIS DIFFERS FROM OUR TEACHER DATA, AND BECAUSE OF THAT, WE ARE PROPOSING A TWO TIER SOLUTION AND LANE ONE, WE'RE PROPOSING TO MOVE INSTRUCTIONAL ASSISTANTS TO A STEP SCALE WITH TWO LANES, AND THE FIRST LANE FOR INSTRUCTIONAL ASSISTANCE WOULD BE GENERAL EDUCATION.

SO GENERAL ED, USUALLY THEY WORK WITH K-3 THREE STUDENTS AND SERVE AS LIBRARY ASSISTANTS, TUTOR MONITORS OR HEAD START, AND THEN LANE TWO WOULD BE INSTRUCTIONAL ASSISTANTS WHO WORK WITH SPECIAL EDUCATION STUDENTS OR SERVE AS 1 TO 1 SUPPORT FOR SPECIAL EDUCATION STUDENTS, AND THOSE INDIVIDUALS HAVE SOME ADDITIONAL TRAINING REQUIREMENTS, AND SO WE THINK THAT THE COMPENSATION DIFFERENCE IS JUSTIFIED BY THE ADDITIONAL TRAINING REQUIREMENTS.

SO THIS IS A SAMPLE OF A STEP SCALE, TWO LANE STEP SCALE FOR INSTRUCTIONAL ASSISTANTS, AND GRADED RANGE POSITIONS. THOSE ARE ALL THE POSITIONS THAT AREN'T INCLUDED ON THE TEACHER STEP SCALE OR THE PROPOSED STEP SCALE FOR INSTRUCTIONAL ASSISTANTS.

SECURITY, CUSTODIAL-CLERICAL, ADMINISTRATIVE AND SUPPORT.

THEY DIFFER FROM STEP SCALES BECAUSE GRADED RANGES FEATURE A MINIMUM, MIDPOINT AND A MAXIMUM, AND PHASE ONE INCLUDED A MOVE TO A

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YOU MIGHT RECALL THIS AS PART OF THE EVERGREEN STUDY THAT WAS DONE JOINTLY WITH CHESTERFIELD COUNTY GOVERNMENT LAST YEAR.

WE DIDN'T ACHIEVE FULL FUNDING FOR PHASE ONE, AND SO WE UTILIZED SOME LEVERS THAT THE CONSULTANT RECOMMENDED TO ADJUST THE PLAN TO REVENUE.

WE STILL MADE MEANINGFUL PROGRESS FOR THIS YEAR, BUT WE DID HAVE A MARKET DISCOUNT CALCULATION DUE TO REVENUE SHORTFALL.

SO IT WAS A 3% REDUCTION OFF EXPECTED PAY AND THAT WAS FROM THE FALL 2021 MARKET STUDY.

SO THE DATA CAPTURED FROM COMPARATORS WAS FALL 2021 AND IT DID SIGNIFICANTLY IMPROVE COMPRESSION IN THESE GRADED RANGES, BUT IT LEFT COMPRESSION AT THE TOP OF THE RANGE.

SO THE TOP ONE FOURTH TO ONE THIRD OF THE SCALE OF THE RANGE EXCUSE ME NOT BEING UTILIZED.

THE GOAL WAS FUTURE MOVEMENT TOWARDS THE $16 PER HOUR MINIMUM AND CONSIDERATION OF CORRECTING THE LEVERS.

THIS IS OUR THREE YEAR ATTRITION FOR NON LICENSED POSITIONS AND THIS IS A YEAR OVER YEAR CHART WHERE YOU CAN SEE OUR MONTH BY MONTH ATTRITION FOR THESE POSITIONS, AND YOU CAN SEE THAT THE BLUE LINE REPRESENTS LAST YEAR AND THE ORANGE LINE REPRESENTS THIS YEAR, AND WE'RE FOLLOWING ALMOST EXACTLY THE SAME PATTERN. SO WE THINK THIS COULD REPRESENT THAT.

THE CHANGES THAT WE'VE MADE HAVE NOT BEEN ENOUGH OF AN INTERVENTION TO CHANGE BEHAVIOR.

WE ARE PROPOSING MOVING TO A $14 AN HOUR MINIMUM THIS YEAR, THE LOWER RANGES OF OUR SCALES THAT WOULD PRIMARILY IMPACT POSITIONS LIKE DAY PORTER, CUSTODIAN AND CLINIC ASSISTANT.

IT'S A 6 TO 7% TARGET INCREASE FOR THE GRADED RANGES.

IT WOULD CORRECT THE 3% REDUCTION LEVER FROM FALL 2021 AND ALSO APPLY A THREE AND ONE HALF PERCENT MARKET AND EXPERIENCE ADJUSTMENT FOR CURRENT EMPLOYEES. IT MAKES PROGRESS TOWARDS THE $16 AN HOUR MINIMUM.

IT DOESN'T ACHIEVE IT INTO IMPLEMENTATION PERIODS DUE TO THE AMOUNT OF REVENUE THAT WOULD BE NEEDED, AND THE PORTION OF PHASE ONE THAT WE GOT TO LAST YEAR.

IT DOESN'T ACHIEVE ADDITIONAL COMPRESSION CORRECTIONS IN THE TOP ONE FOURTH TO ONE THIRD OF THE RANGE.

I ALSO WOULD LIKE TO HIGHLIGHT THE BUS DRIVER POSITION.

WE'VE HAD A HISTORY WITH THIS POSITION WHERE WE WERE ABLE TO INCREASE THE HOURLY RATE TO 2021 IN LATE AUGUST 21 AND ALSO ADDED 3000 IN RETENTION BONUSES, AND WE HAVE HAD AN INCREASING ATTRITION AND VACANCY RATE.

WE WENT FROM 150 VACANCIES TO ZERO VACANCIES, AND NOW WE'RE SEEING THAT VACANCY RATE INCREASE AGAIN.

COMPENSATION NO LONGER LEADS THE VA MARKET FOR SCHOOL BUS DRIVERS, AND WE'RE STARTING TO PLAN FOR THE START OF 2023.

THIS IS OUR THREE YEAR ATTRITION RATE FOR BUS DRIVERS, AND THIS IS OUR YEAR TO DATE ATTRITION RATE FOR BUS DRIVERS, AND THEN THIS CHART IS CONCERNING BECAUSE IT COMPARES LAST YEAR'S ATTRITION MONTH BY MONTH AND THE BLUE LINE AND THIS YEAR'S IN THE ORANGE LINE AND SO WE CAN SEE THAT OUR ATTRITION IS RUNNING MARKEDLY HIGHER THAN LAST YEAR, WHICH IS THE REASON FOR THE PROPOSAL , AND THIS IS OUR VACANCY RATE FOR BUS DRIVERS AS OF JANUARY 5TH, AND THE PROPOSAL IS TO INCREASE STARTING PAY TO $23 PER HOUR.

THIS IS SOMETHING THAT IN SEVERAL FOCUS GROUPS, BUS DRIVERS EXPRESS THAT THEIR HOURLY RATE WAS IMPORTANT TO THEM DOES REPRESENT A 13.8% INCREASE, AND IT CONTINUES WITH THE RETENTION BONUSES OF $3,000 FOR AN ADDITIONAL YEAR, BUT CHANGES THE STRATEGY FROM 6 $500 PAYMENTS TO TWO $1,500 PAYMENTS.

THE FINAL POSITION I'D LIKE TO HIGHLIGHT IS FOOD SERVICE ASSOCIATES.

WE INCREASED THE STARTING PAY TO $14 PER HOUR IN FY 23, AND WE HAVE HAD SOME SUCCESS WITH FILLING ADDITIONAL POSITIONS.

WE INCLUDED $2,500 IN RETENTION BONUSES, AND IT'S IMPORTANT FOR THE PUBLIC TO REMEMBER THAT OUR FOOD SERVICES PROGRAMS ARE FEDERAL PROGRAMS. SO WHILE THERE ARE EMPLOYEES, THIS IS NOT AN OPERATING BUDGET PROPOSAL, AND WE DID WORK WITH THE MANAGERS IN THIS PROGRAM TO MAKE SOME CHANGES STRUCTURALLY, LIKE INCLUDING MORE HOURS FOR FOOD SERVICE ASSOCIATES AND HAVING MORE OF A CAREER PATH FROM FOOD

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THIS IS OUR VACANCY RATE FOR FOOD SERVICE IN SCHOOLS, WHICH IS THOSE POSITIONS THAT I JUST MENTIONED ARE ON SITE IN THE SCHOOL CAFETERIA AND THIS IS OUR THREE YEAR ATTRITION RATE FOR FOOD SERVICE POSITIONS IN SCHOOLS, AND THE PROPOSAL IS TO INCREASE THE STARTING PAY TO $15 PER HOUR WITH CORRESPONDING INCREASES FOR MANAGERS AND TRAINING AND ASSISTANT MANAGERS AND FOR THE FOOD SERVICE MANAGER POSITION TO DIFFERENTIATE THAT BY THE SIZE OF PROGRAM OR THE MEALS SERVED INTO THREE TIERS.

A NUMBER OF OTHER DIVISIONS DO THAT, AND WE WOULD WANT TO WORK WITH THE DIRECTOR OF THAT PROGRAM ON WHAT THOSE TIERS SHOULD LOOK LIKE AND THEN TO CONTINUE WITH THE $2,500 IN RETENTION BONUS FOR AN ADDITIONAL YEAR.

STIPENDS WERE AN AREA THAT WEREN'T EXAMINED IN SALARY STUDY ONE OR TWO.

MOST ATHLETIC AND CO-CURRICULAR STIPENDS WERE FUNDED ARE FUNDED THROUGH THE OPERATING BUDGET, AND MOST OF THEM.

THE GOOD NEWS IS MOST OF THEM WERE ON TARGET WITH SURROUNDING DIVISIONS.

THERE WERE A FEW EXCEPTIONS, AND THOSE ARE NOTED HERE MAINLY THE CHEERLEADER STIPENDS, DRILL AND DANCE TEAM AND THE WEIGHT ROOM SUPERVISOR.

SO THE PROPOSAL IS TO BRING THOSE UNDER MARKET STIPENDS UP TO MARKET TO INCLUDE THE HENRICO MINIMUM PLUS 3%.

THE STIPEND MARKET IS HIGHLY VARIABLE.

THERE'S A LOT OF DIFFERENCE IN PARTICIPATION IN THESE PROGRAMS. SO OUR STIPENDS, FOR EXAMPLE, ARE VERY LOW AND HANOVER IS VERY HIGH.

HENRICO IS MORE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE MARKET AND THEY KIND OF MATCH VIRGINIA BEACH.

SO THAT'S THE REASON, RATHER THAN USING THE MARKET AVERAGE BECAUSE THEY'RE SUCH OUTLIERS TO USE THAT PARTICULAR COMPARATOR AND THEN THE PROPOSED INCREASE IS 3% FOR OTHER STIPENDS.

THE BONUS STRUCTURE, WE CONSIDERED SOME OF OUR HIGHEST VACANCY COUNTS LAST YEAR WHEN THESE BONUSES WERE INITIATED AND THEY DO UTILIZE FEDERAL GRANTS, THEY MIGHT BE EXPANDED TO MORE GROUPS DEPENDING ON THE STATE LEGISLATION THAT IS PENDING THIS YEAR.

SO YOU CAN SEE THE BONUSES LISTED HERE, AND THEY'RE SIMILAR TO MANY OF THOSE THAT WE PAID THIS YEAR.

SO THE $3000 FOR TEACHERS AT A HIGH NEED SCHOOL THAT INCLUDES 11 SCHOOLS.

WE ARE HAVING A FAIR FOR THOSE 11 SCHOOLS ON FEBRUARY 15TH THAT'S CURRENTLY BEING ADVERTISED, SHOULD ANYONE WATCHING WISH TO ATTEND, AND THEN BUS DRIVERS, $3000, FOOD SERVICE ASSOCIATE, $2500, INSTRUCTIONAL ASSISTANTS, $2000, AND CUSTODIANS, $1500.

WE'RE STILL WORKING TO IMPROVE AND THIS IS OUR EXIT SURVEY FEEDBACK FROM A LITTLE MORE THAN A YEAR ACTUALLY, AND COMPENSATION WAS AN AREA IN WHICH MOST EXITING EMPLOYEES TOLD US THAT CCPS COULD IMPROVE.

AN AVERAGE OF 76.5% OF ALL EMPLOYEES INDICATED THAT WAS AN AREA IN WHICH WE COULD IMPROVE , AND I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT COMPENSATION, TO REMEMBER OUR WHY AND OUR WHY IS OUR STUDENTS WHO WANT TO MAKE SURE WE'RE ABLE TO PROVIDE QUALITY INSTRUCTION, SUPPORTS, SAFE ON TIME, TRANSPORTATION TO SECURE CLEAN LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS, NUTRITIOUS MEALS, WORKING TECHNOLOGY, FISCALLY RESPONSIBLE MANAGEMENT, SEATS FOR EVERYONE, EVEN THOUGH WE'RE EXPERIENCING A LOT OF GROWTH AND HAVE THEIR STORIES TOLD AND I THINK OUR WHY BEHIND COMPENSATION, WE REALLY TAKE OUR STUDENTS' OUTCOMES SERIOUSLY AND WE TAKE THEIR GRADUATION SERIOUSLY, AND SO WE TAKE SERIOUSLY RECRUITING AND RETAINING HIGH QUALITY EMPLOYEES THAT ARE INVESTED IN OUR MISSION.

THANK YOU. THANK YOU VERY MUCH, DR.

HUFF. BOARD MEMBERS, IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION? WHO WANTS TO GO FIRST? MISS BAILEY.

GOT TWO PAGES OF NOTES.

A COUPLE. FIRST OF ALL, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE PRESENTATION.

IT'S ALWAYS MARVELS ME YOUR DATA THAT SUPPORTS SUCH A GREAT NEED AND YOU DO SUCH A GREAT JOB PRESENTING IT.

CAN YOU GO BACK TO SLIDE FIVE REAL QUICK? BECAUSE THERE WAS SOMETHING ON SLIDE FIVE I THOUGHT WAS VERY WORTH REPEATING.

IT CAUGHT MY ATTENTION AND I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THE PUBLIC AND EVERYBODY REALLY LATCHES ON TO THIS FACT , AND IT'S RIGHT THERE, AND IT'S THE WHY TEACHERS MATTER, AND IT'S THE FACT THAT AN AVERAGE TEACHER, AS OPPOSED TO A LOW PERFORMING TEACHER, INCREASES ONE CLASSROOM'S LIFETIME EARNINGS BY $266,000 IN 2011 DOLLARS, BUT THE POINT IS, IS FOR A COMMUNITY TO

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AGAIN, TEACHERS DO MATTER, AND WE ALL KNOW WE GET WHAT WE PAY FOR, AND I THINK ANOTHER POINT THAT YOU MADE THAT ILLUSTRATES THAT IS THE FRIDAY FILL RATES FOR SUBSTITUTES IS SO SUCCESSFUL BECAUSE IT IS A SIGNIFICANT SUM.

WE'RE GETTING WHAT WE PAY FOR.

WE HAVE INCREASED THAT RATE FOR OUR SUBSTITUTES ON FRIDAY TO A SIGNIFICANT LEVEL THAT IT MEETS THE DEMAND.

IT'S FINALLY THE EQUILIBRIUM POINT YOU ALL KNOW FROM YOUR ECONOMICS LESSONS.

SO WHEN SUPPLY MEETS DEMAND THE MONEY IS THERE, THEN YOU HAVE MET THAT POINT, AND I THINK WE'RE DRILLING REALLY CLOSE TO THAT FILL RATE FOR FRIDAY.

I THINK YOU WOULD HAVE THAT FILL RATE FOR EVERY DAY IF THE RATE WERE AT THAT LEVEL FOR FIVE DAYS A WEEK, BUT YES, THE MONEY MATTERS, AND I THINK YOUR FRIDAY FILL RATE AND THE PAY THAT WE PAY DEMONSTRATES THAT.

I AM CONCERNED ABOUT INSTRUCTIONAL ASSISTANTS AND THE DIFFERENTIAL PAY BETWEEN A GENERAL ED IA AND A SPED IA IS $0.58, AND I'M NOT SURE THAT THAT IS A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT TO DRIVE PEOPLE TO BECOME A SPECIAL EDUCATION INSTRUCTIONAL ASSISTANT, AND OF THOSE 47 VACANCIES THAT YOU HAVE IN IAS THIS YEAR, I'M WONDERING HOW MANY OF THOSE ARE SPECIAL ED IAS? AND I WOULD HAZARD TO GUESS PROBABLY THE MAJORITY OF THEM ARE.

YES. YES, AND SO I WOULD ENCOURAGE IF WE EVER HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO LOOK AT ANY OF THESE RATES AND CHANGE THAT, WE CREATE A LARGER DIFFERENTIAL BETWEEN A GENERAL ED IA, AND NO OFFENSE TO ANYONE THAT WORKS AS AN INSTRUCTIONAL ASSISTANT, THEY ALL DO AMAZING JOBS BUT I THINK WE CAN ALL AGREE THERE'S A SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE FROM SOMEONE THAT IS WORKING ONE ON ONE WITH A STUDENT THAT MAYBE HAS EXTREME BEHAVIOR ISSUES OR YOU HAVE TO TOILET CHANGE DIAPERS TO SOMEONE WHO'S RE-SHELVING BOOKS IN A LIBRARY.

THERE ARE SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES IN THOSE JOBS, AND I REALLY WOULD LIKE US TO REEXAMINE THE $0.58 DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A GENERAL AREA AND A SPECIAL ED AND ALSO THE RETENTION BONUSES.

I REALLY HOPE THAT IF WE ARE ABLE TO INCREASE OUR RETENTION BONUSES IN THAT VERY NEAR THE END SLIDE, IT TALKED ABOUT $2000 AS A BONUS FOR INSTRUCTIONAL ASSISTANTS, AND I HOPE THAT THAT'S ABLE TO HAPPEN BECAUSE I THINK THAT IS DEFINITELY A CRITICAL NEEDS AREA AND THOSE RETENTION BONUSES MAY HELP ALLEVIATE SOME OF THE PEOPLE LEAVING EARLY ARE THE 47 VACANCIES THAT YOU HAVE.

I KNOW THAT I'VE MENTIONED THIS IN THAT THE COORDINATORS OF SPECIAL EDUCATION, THE CSES IS WHAT WE CALL THEM.

WE HAVE ONE IN EVERY BUILDING.

I FIND IT INTERESTING THAT WE ARE DOING A TIERED PAYMENT APPROACH TO OUR CAFETERIA MANAGERS DEPENDING ON THE SIZE OF THE SCHOOLS , BUT OUR COORDINATORS OF SPECIAL ED.

WE HAVE ONE AT THOMAS DALE AND YOU HAVE ONE AT AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL DEALING WITH VASTLY DIFFERENT NUMBERS, AND I WOULD LOVE FOR US TO GO TO A TIERED SYSTEM FOR OUR CSES BECAUSE SOME OF THEM ARE SERVING THREE TIMES THE NUMBER OF STUDENTS IN A BUILDING THAN THEIR COUNTERPART IN ANOTHER BUILDING.

YET WE'RE GOING TO A DIFFERENTIATED TIERED SYSTEM FOR OUR CAFETERIA MANAGERS, BUT OUR CSES DON'T HAVE THAT BENEFIT.

SOMETHING JUST TO LOOK AT AS WELL.

LAST COMMENT IS YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR AND I HOPE EVERYBODY IN THE COMMUNITY RECOGNIZES THAT.

THANKS. MR. HARTER. THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

SO I THINK SOMETHING THAT WAS A LITTLE BIT ALARMING TO ME IS THAT JUST IN THIS SCHOOL YEAR, UP TO THIS POINT, WE'VE HAD ABOUT 100 TEACHERS SEPARATE, AND, AND I KNOW THAT WE'VE SEEN THE EXIT SURVEY THAT WE'VE STARTED TO GET KIND OF A BETTER HANDLE ON AND SALARY BEING SOMETHING.

HAS THERE BEEN LIKE A NUMBER TWO REASON THAT WE'VE SEEN? SURE. THE EXIT SURVEY IS A STATE SURVEY.

THEY PILOTED A NUMBER OF YEARS AGO AND WE'RE PRETTY MUCH ALL USING IT NOW SO THEY CAN COMPARE THE DATA, AND WE'RE SEEING

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YEAH, I JUST THOUGHT THAT THAT WAS I SEE THAT THAT REALLY DID TAKE UP THE MAJORITY OF IT WAS SALARY, AND ON THE OTHER NOTE, IT WAS ALARMING TO LOOK AT THE AMOUNT OF TEACHERS THAT ARE ACTUALLY GOING THROUGH TEACHER PREP PROGRAMS AND THE NUMBER HOW IT'S 30, 35 MATH TEACHERS FOR THE ENTIRE COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA IS, I MEAN, HOW MANY MATH VACANCIES DO WE HAVE? LET ME JUST THINK ABOUT THAT. WE'RE ONE DIVISION.

SO THAT KIND OF LEADS ME TO THE QUESTION ON CAREER SWITCHERS, AND I'M GLAD THAT WE KIND OF STARTED OUR OWN IN-HOUSE CAREER SWITCHER PROGRAM TO ENCOURAGE LIKE SOME OF OUR LONG TERM SUBSTITUTES TO GO INTO IT.

DO WE HAVE ANY DATA ON THAT.

LIKE, HOW MANY HAVE WE HAD PARTICIPATE SO FAR? ARE WE GETTING PEOPLE THAT ARE INTERESTED IN DOING IT AND PURSUING IT? WE ARE GETTING PEOPLE THAT ARE INTERESTED.

THERE ARE MULTIPLE PATHWAYS AND WE HAVE HAD TWO EVENTS THIS YEAR JUST TO KIND OF EXPLAIN THE PATHWAYS AND PLAN TO CONTINUE THOSE.

THERE'S A NUMBER OF PROGRAMS THAT ARE PARTNERSHIPS WITH VARIOUS UNIVERSITIES.

THERE ARE A LOT OF GRANT PROGRAMS COMING OUT NOW, AND THEY'RE NOT NECESSARILY ALL TO SCALE, BUT THERE ARE MANY OF THEM, AND SO WE'RE WORKING THROUGH TITLE TWO, FOR EXAMPLE, WITH A TUITION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM WITH OUR INSTRUCTIONAL ASSISTANTS WHO WANT TO BECOME TEACHERS.

WE'RE ALSO WORKING VARIOUS PROGRAMS WITH VSU, WITH VCU, RICHMOND TEACHER RESIDENCY, WE A NEW APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAM WITH VIRGINIA STATE THAT WE'RE STARTING.

SO THERE'S A LOT OF DIFFERENT PROGRAMS. ALSO, WE HAVE PEOPLE KIND OF WORKING WITH PARTNER UNIVERSITIES AND TUITION ASSISTANCE THAT ARE DOING IT ON THEIR OWN.

YOU KNOW, THEY CAN TAKE A PATHWAY WHERE THEY PASS A PRAXIS TEST FOR A PARTICULAR CONTENT THAT THEY KNOW AND THEN SUBSEQUENTLY TAKE THE PEDAGOGY TEST.

WE ALSO HAVE A PENDING APPLICATION FOR ALONG WITH 14 OTHER DIVISIONS IN THE STATE, THAT SHOULD THE STATE PASS IT, WOULD BE AN OPTION THAT WOULD BE AN ASYNCHRONOUS PROGRAM WHERE PEOPLE COULD COMPLETE MODULES ONCE THEY KNOW THE CONTENT AREA TO WORK THROUGH SOME OF THE PEDAGOGY CONTENT.

SO VARIETY OF WAYS TO CAREER SWITCH.

WELL, THANK YOU. I WAS A CAREER SWITCHER AS WELL.

SO I THINK THAT WHEN WE'RE SEEING THAT THE UNIVERSITIES AND SOME OF OUR YOUNGER OUR STUDENTS ARE NOT NECESSARILY CHOOSING A CAREER IN EDUCATION OR WE'RE SEEING A LOT OF THEM LEAVE THE CAREER FIELD, I THINK IT'S WHERE WE'RE GOING TO GET A LOT OF OUR WORKFORCES REACHING BACK OUT TO PEOPLE WHO ARE LOOKING TO GET INTO THEIR SECOND OR THIRD CAREER. MADAM CHAIR, IF I MAY, JUST TO PIGGYBACK OFF OF WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT, THE HR DEPARTMENT AND THE [INAUDIBLE] HAS EMBRACED THE CAREER SWITCHER, AND IT WAS AMAZING HOW MANY PEOPLE WE HAD COME SAYING, I WANT TO BE IN EDUCATION, I WANT TO WORK WITH STUDENTS NOW, I'VE DONE THIS IN MY LIFE.

I WANT TO CHANGE OVER, AND SO THIS IS WHY WE ARE GROWING OUR OWN NOW.

WHEN YOU COME IN, THE OTHER OPPORTUNITY WE HAVE IS WITH PARTICIPATE THE OPPORTUNITY TO BRING TEACHER CERTIFIED TEACHERS IN FROM OTHER COUNTRIES, AND I THINK WE'RE ABOUT A THIRD OF THE WAY THROUGH.

KIM, WHERE'D YOU GO? ELEVEN OUT OF 30 HAVE ALREADY ACCEPTED POSITIONS.

SO OUR TEACHERS ARE INTERVIEWING THEM.

SOME OF THE PRINCIPALS, SUZANNE INTERVIEWED THEM, OFFERED POSITIONS.

SO WE'RE LOOKING AT NOT ONE AVENUE, BUT MAYBE EIGHT OR NINE DIFFERENT AVENUES OF HOW TO FILL POSITIONS, AND AS WE HEARD LAST NIGHT, YOU KNOW, WE WERE WE HAD A QUESTION ABOUT TEACHERS FROM OTHER SCHOOL DIVISIONS IN OTHER STATES DOING VIRTUAL TEACHING FOR US, AND I KNOW THAT SHARON POPE AND HER TEAM AND DOCTOR AND HER TEAM HAVE GONE OUT TO WATCH THIS INSTRUCTION, WHICH IS SOME OF THE BEST WE'VE SEEN.

IT'S MORE EXPENSIVE FOR US BECAUSE WE HAVE ALSO SOMEONE IN A ROOM, BUT WE'RE TRYING TO MAKE SURE OUR STUDENTS GET A REALLY STRONG, EFFECTIVE EDUCATION EVERY DAY, AND THIS IS HOW WE CAN DO IT. WE CAN SIT BACK AND SAY, WHOA, WHOA, WAS US.

NO ONE'S GRADUATING FROM COLLEGE.

THEY DIDN'T WANT TO GO INTO EDUCATION, BUT WE DO HAVE PEOPLE.

WE JUST HAVE TO GO FIND THEM, AND THAT'S WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO, AND SO KIM AND HER TEAM HAVE DONE A GREAT JOB OF THINKING OF THE BUSINESS MODEL TO GO OUT AND HIRE , BUT ALSO HOW DO WE MAKE SURE THAT YOUR CHILDREN WHO ARE IN OUR SCHOOLS HAVE TEACHERS THAT WANT TO BE THERE AND WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THEIR EDUCATION IS STRONG THROUGHOUT THE SCHOOL YEAR? AND I THINK GROWING OUR OWN IS WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO GO AND LOOKING AT THE DIFFERENT OPTIONS THAT WE HAVE.

THANK YOU, AND I DO APPRECIATE IT.

ALL THE WORK THAT YOU GUYS HAVE PUT IN AND THINKING OUTSIDE THE TRADITIONAL BOX.

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YOU KNOW, WE HAVE AN INCREASE ASK IN THE BUDGET THIS YEAR AND THIS PRESENTATION JUST SHOWS WHY WE'RE MAKING THAT ASK.

RIGHT. IT'S VERY TRANSPARENT, AS MS. BAILEY SAID, A MARKET SOLUTION FOR A MARKET PROBLEM.

SO THANK YOU FOR MAKING IT VERY CLEAR WHY WE NEED TO INCREASE COMPENSATION, AND I HOPE WE CAN GET YOU THAT MONEY.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THE PRESENTATION, AND KIND OF TO ECHO A COUPLE THINGS THAT MY COLLEAGUES HAVE SAID IS DEFINITELY KUDOS TO THINKING OUTSIDE THE BOX AND LOOKING AT OTHER AVENUES TO BRING TEACHERS IN.

HOWEVER, WE NEED TO ALSO PROMOTE THE PROFESSION OF TEACHING TOO, SO THAT WE CAN BUILD THE POPULATION OF OUR STUDENTS TO WANT TO GO INTO THE CAREER OF EDUCATION AND COMPENSATION AS A PART OF THAT.

SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

THANK YOU, AND NEXT, WE HAVE OUR PRESENTATION ON MAJOR MAINTENANCE FROM MR.

[C. Major Maintenance]

DAUGHERTY. I'M PLEASED TO PROVIDE THIS PRESENTATION ON A VERY IMPORTANT TOPIC WHERE WE'VE MADE A LOT OF PROGRESS, BUT WE NEED TO CONTINUE TO CHART A GREAT PATH FOR THE FUTURE.

MAJOR MAINTENANCE IS DRIVEN BY MULTIPLE FACTORS.

I'M ACTUALLY GOING TO GO FROM RIGHT TO LEFT INSTEAD OF LEFT TO RIGHT WITH THIS, BUT ABOUT FIVE YEARS AGO, THE SCHOOL DIVISION INVESTED IN HIRING SOME CONSULTANTS TO DO FACILITY CONDITION ASSESSMENTS OF ALL OF OUR BUILDINGS, AND THIS INVOLVED INSPECTION AND GRADING EACH MAJOR SYSTEM AS EXCELLENT, GOOD, FAIR AND POOR AND TRYING TO MAKE A PREDICTION IN REGARDS TO THE END OF USEFUL LIFE FOR ALL THOSE MAJOR SYSTEM COMPONENTS.

SO TREMENDOUS EFFORT, A WHOLE LOT OF DATA, AND IT CERTAINLY GIVEN US SOME GUIDEPOST AS WE'VE MOVED FORWARD, AS SOME FUNDING HAS BECOME AVAILABLE TO BEGIN TO TACKLE THESE BIG SYSTEMS AND THROUGHOUT ALL OF OUR BUILDINGS, AND THE BUDGET CAN VARY, AND I'M GOING TO SHARE SOME DATA HERE AND A LITTLE BIT THAT SHOWS HOW MUCH DOLLARS WERE SUGGESTED BY THIS ANALYSIS OVER TIME FOR OUR ENTIRE ENTERPRISE. AS WE MOVE TO THE LEFT, WE HAVE SUPERINTENDENT INITIATIVES, AND THOSE INITIATIVES SOMETIMES COME DIRECTLY FROM DR.

DAUGHERTY OR FROM STAFF THROUGH DR.

DAUGHERTY OR EVEN YOURSELVES.

IMPORTANT PROJECTS SUCH AS THE LOCKER POD CONVERSIONS, WHERE WE'VE RENOVATED SECONDARY SCHOOLS TO PROVIDE EXTRA CAPACITY.

SECURITY INITIATIVES THAT WEREN'T ORIGINALLY PART OF THE FACILITY CONDITION ASSESSMENTS, BUT ARE VERY IMPORTANT.

SO THERE'S MULTIPLE EXAMPLES OF PROJECTS THAT WE'VE MOVED INTO THE MAJOR MAINTENANCE BUCKET AND HAVE PROVIDED GREAT BENEFIT TO THE SCHOOL DIVISION.

THEN I'VE GOT TO GIVE CREDIT TO OUR FACILITIES AND MAINTENANCE DEPARTMENT, JOHN, THELMA AND DAWSON AND ALL THOSE FOLKS THAT HAVE STEPPED UP WITH OUR PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE PROGRAM SO THAT WE'RE DOING OUR BEST TO MAINTAIN THOSE SYSTEMS, THAT WE HAVE A FINITE LIFE BUT ENSURE THAT THE FILTERS ARE IN PLACE AND THAT THEY'RE CLEANED AND UPGRADED AND THAT THEY FIND THOSE SMALL REPAIRS THAT CAN KEEP THOSE SYSTEMS GOING.

BUT THAT REALLY GIVES US.

WHEREAS THE FCA WAS LOOKING FORWARD FOR MANY, MANY YEARS, THIS IS THE GROUND TRUTH, AND WHAT THEY'RE FINDING AND DETERMINING, YOU KNOW, CAN WE STRETCH OUT THAT USEFUL LIFE A BIT OR ARE SOME THINGS ABOUT TO REACH THEIR END OF THE USEFUL LIFE A LITTLE EARLY? SO THE FCA GAVE US SOME GREAT GUIDEPOSTS, BUT AGAIN, THE GROUND TRUTH IS REALLY FOUND THROUGH THE PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE PROGRAM AND THAT CONTINUES TO, AGAIN, THANKS TO YOU AND THE FUNDING YOU'VE PROVIDED, GIVE US WONDERFUL INFORMATION TO MOVE FORWARD AND MAKE DECISIONS.

HERE'S SOME DATA ON OUR RECENT EXPENDITURES.

PRIOR TO 2020, THESE EXPENDITURES WERE GENERALLY LESS THAN 10 MILLION.

SO WE HAVE AN ANNUAL FUND TRANSFER THAT I WILL DISCUSS, BUT WE'VE ALSO HAD MULTIPLE FUNDING SOURCES, ESPECIALLY SOME BONDS THAT THE COUNTY WERE ABLE TO OBTAIN IN AUGUST OF 2020 AND SOME GRANT PROGRAMS THAT HAVE TAKEN PLACE, BUT I WON'T BELABOR ALL THE REVENUES, BUT THEY HAVE DEFINITELY RISEN AND HAVE ALLOWED US TO SPEND SOME MORE SIGNIFICANT AMOUNTS.

YOU SEE OVER $20 MILLION IN THE LAST TWO FISCAL YEARS AND $12 MILLION IN THIS FISCAL YEAR.

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ALL THAT FCA DATA SUGGESTED MORE IS NEEDED AND WE'RE GOING TO SHOW YOU SOME OF THAT DATA , AND SCOTT PROVIDED ME WITH SOME DATA ON THE COST OF DOING SOME ROOFS. YOU KNOW, WE'VE COME TO YOU A COUPLE OF TIMES ABOUT BUNDLES OF ROOF JOBS AT MULTIPLE SCHOOLS.

WE'RE LOOKING AT PROBABLY $15 MILLION OF ROOF WORK THAT NEEDS TO BE DONE THIS FISCAL YEAR AND THERE'LL BE A SIMILAR NUMBER NEXT YEAR.

SO THESE NUMBERS REALLY NEED TO GROW.

I'M NOT GOING TO SHOW YOU A SCENARIO WHERE WE SPEND LESS BECAUSE THAT WOULD BE VERY COUNTERPRODUCTIVE.

SO LET'S DIVE INTO SOME SCENARIOS.

ALMOST WISH I HAD A LASER POINTER TO PUSH, BUT I'LL TRY TO BE CLEAR AS I EXPLAIN SOME OF THESE TABLES TO YOU.

THIS WOULD SHOW HOW OUR BALANCES WOULD DROP OVER TIME IF WE CONTINUE TO SPEND AT $28 MILLION A YEAR WITH ONLY GETTING THAT ANNUAL FUND TRANSFER.

THE FUND TRANSFERS RIGHT THERE IN THE MIDDLE.

WE'VE SOMEWHAT PROGRAMED A $500,000 INCREASE EACH FISCAL YEAR.

OUR BEGINNING BALANCE THIS YEAR WAS ABOUT 60 MILLION.

AGAIN, WE'RE SITTING ON A NICE BALANCE IF WE SPEND THE 28 AND THAT TAKES US DOWN TO 32 AT IN 2024 AND WE WOULD QUICKLY GO IN THE RED. I WOULD SUGGEST THAT PERHAPS BY THE END OF 2024 IS WHEN WE MIGHT GO IN THE RED AS OPPOSED TO THE END OF 2025.

WHEN YOU SEE US HITTING THAT -10 MILLION IN THE BEGINNING OF 2026, AND THAT'S JUST AGAIN, BASED ON SOME OF THE COSTS THAT WE'RE SEEING IN SOME OF THE WORK THAT REALLY NEEDS TO BE DONE.

SO THIS STEADY STATE OF 28 MILLION A YEAR, YOU KNOW, IT GETS US A LOT, BUT PROBABLY NOT WHAT WE NEED.

NOW. I'M GOING TO INTRODUCE A BIT MORE DATA.

THESE CHARTS ARE A LITTLE BUSIER, BUT WE ARE INTRODUCING IN THE THIRD COLUMN FROM THE RIGHT WHAT THAT FCA ANALYSIS, THE FACILITY CONDITION ASSESSMENT THAT WAS DONE FIVE YEARS AGO SUGGESTED THAT OUR END OF USEFUL LIFE WOULD BE FOR MAJOR SYSTEMS AND WHAT IT WOULD COST TO REPLACE THEM AT THAT PREDICTED TIME, AND YOU SEE IT'S A BIT OF A ROLLER COASTER WITH VERY LARGE NUMBERS EXCEEDING $90 MILLION, YOU KNOW, DOWN TO THE TEEN SOME YEARS, BUT IT'S VERY LARGE SUMS, AND WHAT THIS ILLUSTRATION SHOWS US IS WHAT OUR BACKLOG REALLY KIND OF IS LOOKING LIKE.

WE'RE SPENDING SOME MONEY.

WE'RE SPENDING IT AT 28, AND THAT'S WHAT THIS ANALYSIS SHOWS.

IN THE SECOND COLUMN FROM THE RIGHT, IF WE WERE TO EXPEND $28 MILLION A YEAR, YOU SEE LARGE NUMBERS IN REGARDS TO BACKLOGS AND DEFERRED EXPENDITURES. SO THERE IS A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF WORK THAT NEEDS TO BE DONE.

AND IF WE CONTINUE TO SPEND ONLY 28 MILLION A YEAR, WE'RE NOT GOING TO MAKE ANY HEADWAY IN IT, AND OH, BY THE WAY, OUR BALANCE WOULD SINK TO ZERO IN THE NEXT FEW FISCAL YEARS BECAUSE AGAIN, THAT'S ONLY CONSIDERING AN ANNUAL BUDGET TRANSFER TO THE OPERATING BUDGET.

SO THEY ALL GET THAT ONE BEFORE I MOVE TO THE NEXT SLIDE.

OKAY, THANK YOU.

I GUESS WE'RE GOING TO NOW JUST GRAPH SOME OF THE NUMBERS THAT YOU JUST SAW.

THESE ARE, AGAIN, THAT ROLLER COASTER THAT I TALKED ABOUT FROM THE FCA SUGGESTING THE END OF USEFUL LIFE AND WHAT IT WOULD COST TO REPLACE THOSE SYSTEMS EACH FISCAL YEAR , AND THIS WOULD SHOW OUR PROJECTED EXPENSES IF WE SPEND AT 28 MILLION A YEAR BEGINNING, YOU KNOW, REALLY TWO YEARS AGO, IF WE WERE TO CONTINUE.

SO NOW WE'RE GOING TO SHOW WHAT THE BACKLOG LOOKED LIKE.

RECALL, I TALKED ABOUT THAT WE REALLY WEREN'T WORKING IT OFF.

YOU KNOW, IT GETS UP TO AROUND 100 MILLION PLUS AND IT STAYS THERE.

WE DO A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF WORK EVERY YEAR, BUT THAT BACKLOG STAYS AT A VERY HIGH NUMBER AND THERE'S THAT ANNUAL BUDGET TRANSFER.

SO OBVIOUSLY, THAT'S NOT GOING TO DO THE TRICK.

NOW, I'LL PAUSE RIGHT NOW AND MENTION THAT, YOU KNOW, THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS MET LAST WEEK AND MR. HARRIS ADDRESSED THEM AND HE'S BEEN AWARE OF THIS FOR SOME TIME.

I WROTE TO HIM VERY POLITELY SEVERAL MONTHS AGO AND SAID, HEY, WE REALLY APPRECIATE THE FUNDING THAT WE RECEIVED.

WE'RE WE THINK WE'RE MAKING SOME GREAT PROGRESS, BUT WE'RE GOING TO NEED TO FILL THE BUCKET UP AGAIN, AND THAT'S THE EXACT TERM THAT HE USED WITH THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS.

HE PRAISED THE WORK THAT WE'VE DONE AND ACKNOWLEDGED THAT THE BUCKET WILL NEED TO BE FILLED UP, AND SO THIS ISN'T NECESSARILY SOMETHING THAT WE NEED IMMEDIATELY, BUT IT DOES NEED TO BE PLANNED AND WE NEED SIGNIFICANT INFUSIONS OF INVESTMENTS TO DO THIS WORK.

I'M GOING TO SHOW A COUPLE OF OTHER SCENARIOS.

HERE. I'M GOT A COUPLE OF HIGHLIGHTED SLIDES, AND THIS IS UNDER THE CONCEPT OF SPENDING 1.5% OF OUR CRV OR

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WE'VE GOT $500 MILLION IN THE CIP, HOPEFULLY FOR SOME MORE.

SO THAT CRV WILL GO UP AND INFLATION'S A FACTOR.

SO I'LL FIRST POINT TO THE SECOND COLUMN FROM THE RIGHT WHERE THIS IS SUGGESTING IF WE SPEND THAT 1.5 OF CRV STARTING NEXT FISCAL YEAR, THAT WOULD BE INSTEAD OF 28,000,041.4 MILLION THEN GROWING WITH AN INFLATIONARY FACTOR OF I THINK 2.5% ADDED TO IT EACH YEAR, AND SO THAT WOULD REQUIRE BEGINNING IN FY 25, AN ANNUAL TRANSFER MUCH LARGER IN THE FORTIES OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS AND GROWING. AND SO THAT IS ONE STRATEGY, AND WHAT YOU SEE IS THAT IN THE RIGHT HAND COLUMN THAT DEFERRED EXPENDITURE DOES BEGIN TO GO DOWN AND SOMEWHAT SIGNIFICANTLY, AND AGAIN, THE DEFERRED IS BASED ON THAT FCA, WHICH DOESN'T NECESSARILY ACCOUNT FOR SUPERINTENDENT'S INITIATIVES AND OTHER THINGS THAT WE MIGHT LEARN THROUGH THE PM PROCESS, BUT IT IS SOME OF THE BEST DATA THAT WE HAVE IN REGARDS TO MAKING THESE TYPES OF PROJECTIONS.

THIS ONE USES A 2.5% CRV AND THAT'S THE NORTH STAR THAT THE COUNTY USES AND THAT THEY'VE BEEN ABLE TO FUND FOR COUNTY FACILITIES AND BUILDINGS TO KEEP THEIR FOLKS IN BUILDINGS IN FINE SHAPE, AND THESE NUMBERS ARE VERY, VERY LARGE WHERE YOU WOULD SEE NEXT YEAR TO BEGIN SPENDING AT 69 GOING OVER 70 IN THE NEXT FEW FISCAL YEARS, AND THEN REQUIRING THE FUNDING THAT YOU SEE ON THE LEFT SIDE OF, AGAIN, VERY LARGE BUCKETS OF CASH, AND WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IS THAT THESE DEFERRED EXPENDITURES WOULD ACTUALLY BE WORKED OFF IF IN FACT THE PREDICTION FROM THE FCA IS ACCURATE, BUT AGAIN, INFLATION'S IN PLAY AND MANY OTHER FACTORS, BUT AT LEAST THIS WOULD BE EXTREMELY HEALTHY, PERHAPS NOT NECESSARILY REALISTIC, BUT AGAIN, IT'S THE NORTH STAR THAT THE COUNTY HAS SET AND HAS IMPLEMENTED FOR THEIR BUILDINGS.

IN ONE FINAL SCENARIO, AND THIS WOULD BE TO TAKE THE AVERAGE OF THE FCA, THAT THIRD COLUMN FROM THE RIGHT RECALL THE ROLLER COASTER.

IF YOU AVERAGE IT OUT, IT'S $39.7 MILLION A YEAR OVER THAT EIGHT YEAR HORIZON, AND IF WE STARTED SPENDING AT THAT LEVEL IN THE NEXT FISCAL YEAR, THESE ARE THE RESULTS THAT WE'D SEE.

WE WOULD NEED FUNDING OF OVER $40 MILLION IN THE LAST THREE FISCAL YEARS IN THE ROW, AND YOU SEE THE DEFERRED EXPENDITURE ACTUALLY DROPPING DOWN FROM OVER 100 MILLION DOWN TO CLOSER TO 50 MILLION.

SO THAT'S.

THIS DATA HERE THAT'S SHOWN IN THIS GRAPH IS SIMPLY THE LAST CHART THAT YOU SAW WITH THE BACKLOG COMING DOWN.

AGAIN, FROM THE 100 MILLION TOWARDS 55.

IF WE HAD THIS GREEN LINE OF A MUCH LARGER BUDGET TRANSFER AND HIGHER EXPENDITURES.

SO A LOT OF DATA AND GRAPHS JUST WITH THE MESSAGE THAT IT'S GOING TO REQUIRE SIGNIFICANT FUNDING TO CONTINUE THE GOOD WORK THAT WE'VE DONE.

WE THANK THE COUNTY FOR THE AND THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AND ALL THE OTHER SOURCES THAT WE'VE HAD TO TO REALLY KICK START THIS PROGRAM AND ACHIEVE SOME EXCELLENCE IN THE LAST SEVERAL YEARS, BUT WE NEED TO KEEP THE MOMENTUM AND WE'RE GOING TO NEED SIGNIFICANT RESOURCES TO ACTUALLY TAKE IT EVEN TO THE NEXT LEVEL IN THE NEXT FEW FISCAL YEARS, AND I BELIEVE THAT'S ALL I HAD AND I'D BE HAPPY TO TAKE ANY QUESTIONS.

THANK YOU. MR. DAVIS.

BOARD MEMBERS, ANY DISCUSSION? I GUESS THE ONLY THING I'D POINT OUT, I'M SO PROUD OF THE WORK THAT WE'VE DONE AT THIS LEVEL, AND THE NEXT CAMPAIGN MIGHT NEED TO BE AT THE STATE.

AND MY UNDERSTANDING IS THERE IS DISCUSSION ON THAT THAT COULD LEAD TO SOCKS FOR MAINTENANCE AND BUILDINGS OPERATIONS.

SO I HEARD TODAY THAT A BILL, SENATE BILL 1124, IT WAS SENATOR STANLEY AND MCCULLEN.

IT WAS REPORTED OUT OF APPROPRIATIONS, I GUESS.

SO IT SOUNDS LIKE THAT CONVERSATION.

SO HOPEFULLY THAT CHART, THE NUMBERS WILL WILL GET SMALLER IN THE FUTURE WHEN WE CAN GET SOME STATE SUPPORT FOR THIS.

SO, YEAH, I DID FAIL TO MENTION THAT THAT 1.5% OF CRV IS A NUMBER THAT'S BEEN BANDIED ABOUT A BIT.

YEAH, THAT IS ASSEMBLY AS A YOU KNOW, I DON'T WANT IT.

WE DON'T WANT IT AS AN UNFUNDED MANDATE FOR CERTAIN.

NO, IT'D BE GREAT IF THE STATE STEPS UP IN, IN PARTICIPATES IN THIS SET OF EXPENSES.

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THEY'RE STARTING TO LOOK AT CONSTRUCTION WHERE WE ARE FAIRLY WELL IN A BETTER POSITION, BUT IF THEY COULD PROVIDE MONEY FOR MAJOR MAINTENANCE AND NOT JUST SET A GOAL, THAT WOULD BE OUTSTANDING.

YEAH. NOW MY UNDERSTANDING IS, IS THIS THE FIRST STEP, A REPORT THAT COULD LEAD TO SOQS SO.

IT'S EXCITING THAT IT'S NOT JUST CHESTERFIELD THAT IS RECOGNIZING THAT WE NEED HEALTHY BUILDINGS.

WELL, I THINK MY COMMENT IS THE SIGNIFICANT FUNDING PART.

I MEAN, THAT TERM RIGHT THERE, IT JUST REQUIRES SIGNIFICANT FUNDING TO KEEP OUR DOORS OPEN, AND I'M HOPING THAT THE COMMUNITY IS HEARING THIS AND THAT THEY RECOGNIZE THAT THERE'S A LOT OF MOVING PARTS TO RUNNING A PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM AS LARGE AS CHESTERFIELD COUNTY.

AND EVEN THOUGH WE JUST HEARD ABOUT COMPENSATION AS FAR AS RETENTION AND RECRUITMENT, AND THAT'S OBVIOUSLY THE MOST NEAR AND DEAR TO MY HEART, AND I THINK PROBABLY THE MOST CRITICAL PART IS THAT HUMAN ELEMENT.

HOWEVER, SOMEONE WHO'S TAUGHT IN A CLASSROOM WHERE THERE IS A BUCKET IN THE ROOM CATCHING THE RAIN THAT WAS LEAKING FROM THE CEILING, TRUE STORY AND CLASSROOM THAT WAS SO HOT IT FELT LIKE A SAUNA IN THERE BECAUSE THE AIR CONDITIONING WASN'T WORKING OR THE VICE VERSA IT FELT LIKE A MEAT LOCKER.

I UNDERSTAND MAJOR MAINTENANCE DOES IMPACT THE EDUCATION OUR CHILDREN RECEIVE AS WELL.

SO IT ALL COMES DOWN TO WHAT'S BEST FOR OUR STUDENTS AND KEEPING THE DOORS OPEN, THE LIGHTS ON AND OUR BUILDINGS WELL MAINTAINED IS WHAT'S BEST FOR OUR STUDENTS , AND SO I REALLY HOPE THAT THE COMMUNITY TAKES ALL OF THIS IN AND RECOGNIZES THAT IT TAKES YOUR WORDS SIGNIFICANT FUNDING TO DO THAT.

THANKS. THANK YOU, AND I'LL ADD THAT, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE A VERY LONG LAUNDRY LIST OF THE WORK THAT'S UNDERWAY AND IT'S BEEN COMPLETED, AND I'VE MADE SURE THAT I'VE SHARED THAT WITH COUNTY STAFF, YOU KNOW, FOR EACH MAGISTERIAL DISTRICT.

HERE'S SOME OF THE GOOD WORK THAT'S BEEN REALLY NEEDED AND IT'S GETTING DONE AND THE LIST IS ONLY GOING TO GROW.

I DO WANT TO ASK MR. CARSON IF I'VE LEFT ANYTHING OUT IMPORTANT.

WE'RE GOOD. THANK YOU.

THANK YOU, MR. DAVIS. THANK YOU FOR THE PRESENTATION AND ALWAYS KEEPING THIS IN THE FOREFRONT.

THANK YOU. NEXT, WE HAVE A PRESENTATION ON GENERAL FACTORS IMPACTING BUDGETS WITH MR.

[D. General Factors Impacting Budgets]

OTHER MEMBERS OF THE BOARD. DR.

DAUGHERTY. APPRECIATE YOUR TIME TODAY TO REALLY TAKE A STEP BACK FROM THE BUDGET NUMBERS THAT YOU'VE SEEN TO DATE, AND LOOK AT THIS FROM A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE. WE'LL TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT CHESTERFIELD SPECIFIC NUMBERS AS WE GO THROUGH THIS, BUT I WANTED TO PULL SOME INFORMATION.

A LOT OF IT WAS FROM EITHER COUNTY SOURCES, FEDERAL SOURCES, ETC., REALLY TO PROVIDE A LITTLE BIT MORE CONTEXT.

WE TALK A LOT ABOUT GROWTH, WE TALK A LOT ABOUT INFLATION AND WHAT THAT IMPACT IS.

SO I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE WORTH THE TIME TO TALK ABOUT THAT A LITTLE BIT MORE IN DEPTH HERE FROM A SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE THAN SOME OF THE OTHER CHESTERFIELD COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS PERSPECTIVES THAT WE'VE SEEN TO DATE.

SO YOU CAN SEE HERE WHAT I'LL TALK ABOUT LARGELY FALLS INTO TWO BUCKETS.

I'LL TALK ABOUT GROWTH AND I'LL TALK ABOUT LARGELY THE ECONOMIC IMPACT, WHICH KIND OF LOOKS LIKE INFLATION, AND THERE'S A THIRD BULLET NOT LISTED HERE.

WE'LL GIVE YOU A QUICK UPDATE ON SOME OF THE NEWS YOU'VE SEEN RECENTLY FROM THE FROM THE STATE AND THE STATE FUNDING.

BUT WE'LL GET TO THAT AT THE END AS WE TALK ABOUT GROWTH.

I WANT TO START AT THE COUNTY LEVEL AND WHAT WE'RE SEEING, YOU CAN SEE FROM THE CENSUS BUREAU HERE FROM 1970 TO 2020, THE DARK BLUE LINE IS CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, YOU SEE GROWING TO JUST UNDER 371,000 RESIDENTS IN 2021.

THAT'S 2022 SORRY, PROJECTED TO GROW TO AGAIN TO 379 OR SO THOUSAND.

SO THIS TREND CONTINUES OVER TIME.

THIS IS NOT A NEW DEVELOPMENT WITHIN CHESTERFIELD YOU SEE, WE SURPASSED HENRICO IN THE GIVE OR TAKE 2000 AREA.

THAT'S LINES ON THERE FOR REFERENCE ONLY AND CHESTERFIELD CONTINUES TO GROW.

SO A LITTLE BIT OF WHERE DOES THAT GROWTH COME FROM? HOW HAVE WE GOTTEN HERE? YOU CAN SEE IT STARTS WITH HOUSING UNITS.

THIS DOESN'T GO BACK QUITE AS FAR, BUT YOU CAN SEE THE HOUSING UNITS IN CHESTERFIELD HAVE BEEN INCREASING RECENTLY.

YOU CAN SEE A NICE STEADY TREND UP IN THIS CHART.

A SNAPSHOT FROM THE COUNTY WEBSITE.

THERE'S A LOT HERE.

WHAT YOU SEE ON THE FAR RIGHT IS THOSE NEW HOUSING UNITS.

HAPPENS TO BE A BY TYPE, BUT YOU CAN JUST SEE THE MAIN POINT OF THAT CHART IS THIS GROWTH IS NOT CENTERED IN ONE PART OF THE COUNTY.

IT IS LITERALLY EVERYWHERE.

YOU CAN SEE THAT HERE.

YES, YOU DO SEE THE HIGHEST PERCENT CHANGE YEAR OVER YEAR.

BOTTOM CENTER IS IN MATOACA, WHICH IS A LOT OF THE NARRATIVE YOU HEAR ABOUT THE GROWTH WEST.

THAT IS TRUE. IT IS THERE, BUT IT DOESN'T MEAN THAT BERMUDA, CLOVERHILL, DALE AND MIDLOTHIAN ARE ABSENT FROM THAT GROWTH STORY AS WELL.

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YOU CAN SEE A THE MOST RAPID GROWTH IS IN TOWNHOUSES AND CONDOS, GENERALLY HIGHER DENSITY PROPERTIES.

YOU CAN SEE MULTIFAMILY AND SINGLE FAMILY AT THE BOTTOM A LITTLE BIT LAGGING.

SO THE NEW GROWTH WITHIN THE COUNTY IS BECOMING DISPROPORTIONATELY THOSE TOWNHOUSES AND CONDOS THAT YOU'VE SEEN HERE.

VERY BUSY SLIDE. LET ME TAKE A SECOND TO EXPLAIN IT TO YOU ONCE AGAIN FROM THE COUNTY WEBSITE.

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT HERE IS CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, POPULATION BY AGE GROUP.

SO THE PURPLE LINE ON THE TOP IS ESSENTIALLY YOUR SCHOOL AGE POPULATION AGES FIVE THROUGH 19.

THE OTHER AGE RANGES ARE REFLECTED AS YOU GO DOWN.

THE DARK BLUE IS SORT OF YOUR PARENT AGE AND NEW PARENT 20 TO 34.

I'LL TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT BOTH OF THOSE AS WE GO THROUGH.

THE KEY POINT THAT I WANT TO BRING OUT FROM THIS SLIDE IS THAT 5 TO 19, THAT SCHOOL AGE POPULATION MAINTAINS ITS STATUS 1990 THROUGH 2040 AS THE LARGEST SINGLE AGE GROUP WITHIN CHESTERFIELD COUNTY.

YOU CAN SEE IT STAYS RIGHT AROUND 21 TO 23% OVER THIS PERIOD.

SET ANOTHER WAY, ONE IN FIVE CHESTERFIELD RESIDENTS ARE SCHOOL AGED.

THE OTHER PIECE THAT YOU SEE ON HERE IS THAT SORT OF NEW PARENT AGE AT 20 TO 34 HAS BEEN AND WILL CONTINUE TO BE FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL YEARS.

NUMBER TWO, AGE GROUP FURTHER GIVING A LITTLE BIT OF THAT GROWTH STORY, AND OTHER SIDE OF THIS IS WE ARE SEEING A GROWTH IN THAT OLDER POPULATION.

SEE THAT LIGHT BLUE CONTINUES TO INCREASE OVER TIME.

THAT'S 0 TO 65 OR 0 TO 65, 65 PLUS POPULATION, 65 PLUS POPULATION DOES CONTINUE TO INCREASE, AND YOU CAN SEE BY THE OUTSKIRTS THAT'S PROJECTED 2030 PLUS, THAT BECOMES THE NUMBER TWO GROUP IN CHESTERFIELD COUNTY.

ALL THE GRANDPARENTS AND THEIR GRANDPARENTS.

YES. AS I MENTIONED A LOT ABOUT THAT NEW PARENT.

I WANT TO TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT NEWBORNS AS WELL.

YOU CAN SEE THE NEXT GENERATION IS COMING.

THEY'RE ON THEIR WAY. YOU CAN SEE, GIVE OR TAKE, 3000 NEWBORNS IN CHESTERFIELD COUNTY FOR 2020 THROUGH 2013 OR SO, SINCE ABOUT 2013, 2014, THAT'S TRENDING UP IN AROUND 3500.

SO THE NEW BIRTHS IN CHESTERFIELD COUNTY HAS INCREASED OVER TIME, AND WE'LL SEE WHERE IT GOES FROM HERE, BUT DEFINITELY A CONTRIBUTOR TO THE FUTURE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL POPULATION WITHIN CHESTERFIELD COUNTY.

THIS ALL LEADS TO THE CHART THAT YOU'VE SEEN BEFORE.

DR. DOHERTY HAS EXPLAINED THIS CHART BEFORE, BUT THIS LEADS TO THE ENROLLMENT PROJECTIONS.

YOU SEE 68,000 BY 2028 AND CONTINUING TO GO UP.

A LOT OF THOSE FACTORS THAT WE TALKED TO ABOUT THE COUNTY GROWTH ARE REALLY WHAT'S BEHIND A LOT OF THIS GROWTH AS WE AS WE LOOK FORWARD.

NOW I DO NEED TO SPIN IT BACK TO CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, SPECIFICALLY BUDGET, JUST FOR A MOMENT.

YOU SAW A BIG NUMBER IN DR.

DAUGHERTY'S PROPOSED BUDGET FOR COST OF GROWTH.

I'LL TALK FIRST ABOUT GENERAL ED AND SPECIAL ED INSTRUCTION.

YOUR PERSONNEL, YOU SEE ABOUT A NINE AND A HALF MILLION DOLLAR PRICE TAG FOR THESE GROUPS.

YOU CAN SEE THE BULK OF THE GROWTH COMING AT THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LEVEL, MIDDLE SCHOOL, A LITTLE BIT OF AN OUTLIER THIS YEAR.

IT STAYS RELATIVELY FLAT.

THERE'S SOME BUBBLES IN THERE THAT HOLDS THAT FLAT, BUT HIGH SCHOOL ALSO CONTRIBUTES TO THE GROWTH.

YOU CAN SEE THE VAST MAJORITY OF THE NEW STAFF WE'RE TALKING ABOUT HERE ARE TEACHERS AND IAS.

SO THOSE STAFF THAT ARE RIGHT THERE IN FRONT OF THE IN FRONT OF THE STUDENTS, COUNSELORS DO CREATE A LITTLE BIT OF INCREASE THERE AS THE POPULATION GOES UP, AND JUST THREE SUPPORT PERSONNEL, THAT'S ONE ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL AND TWO OFFICE MANAGERS AT CERTAIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS THAT TRIP SOME OF THOSE RATIOS AS WE AS WE GO FORWARD.

SO YOU CAN SEE THE BULK OF THOSE NEW STAFF REALLY LAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL A LITTLE BIT IN HIGH SCHOOL AS WELL, JUST GIVEN WHERE THE GROWTH IS.

THE OTHER BIG BUCKET, THIS IS A SLIDE THAT'S A REPEAT AGAIN FROM DR.

DOHERTY'S PRESENTATION IS THE GROWTH IN IS DISPROPORTIONATELY LARGER WITHIN OUR ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNER POPULATIONS.

WHAT YOU CAN SEE HERE IS BOTH THE OUTSIZED GROWTH IN THAT POPULATION IN TOTAL AND ALSO A CHANGING DEMOGRAPHIC WITHIN THAT POPULATION AS WELL.

THE BLUE LINE HERE REPRESENTS THOSE LEVEL ONE, LEVEL TWO ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS, FOLKS THAT ARE EARLIER IN THEIR JOURNEY TO ENGLISH LANGUAGE.

SO REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SUPPORT.

YOU CAN SEE OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS THAT GROUP HAS BECOME LARGER THAN THE LEVEL THREE LEVEL FOR THOSE THAT ARE APPROACHING FULL PROFICIENCY AND GRADUATING, IF YOU WILL, FROM THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNER STATUS.

SO THIS DYNAMIC HAS A DISPROPORTIONATE EFFECT.

YOU SEE ABOUT 48 FTE, IF WE ASSUME OUR CURRENT STAFFING RATIOS ARE ABOUT 3.8 MILLION TO SUPPORT THIS PARTICULAR SEGMENT OF THE POPULATION.

NEEDLESS TO SAY, TEACHERS AND CLASSES, NOT THE CLASSROOM PERSONNEL, ARE NOT THE ONLY IMPACT THIS GROWTH HAS.

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CURRENT CAPACITY ACROSS THE DIVISION IS AT 96%.

WE HAVE CLOSE TO 240 CLASSROOMS AND MODULAR UNITS.

THAT'S NOT NEW NEWS TO YOU.

THE GOOD NEWS IS WE DO HAVE A PRETTY ROBUST SHIP ON THE WAY.

YOU SEE SOME OF THOSE ITEMS LISTED HERE AND WE'LL GET TO THAT IN A SECOND.

MEGA TRAILERS BECOMES A BIG PIECE OF THIS BUDGET, ABOUT A HALF MILLION DOLLARS OF INCREASED COST RELATED TO FALLING CREEK, HOPKINS AND MOSELEY FOR BOTH CAPACITY AND SOME OF THE SAFETY BENEFITS OF MOVING FROM OMEGA OR TO OMEGA TRAILER FROM INDIVIDUAL CLASSROOMS AT AT LEAST A COUPLE OF THESE SPECIFIC SITES.

I'M NOT GOING TO SPEND A LOT OF TIME RIGHT NOW TALKING ABOUT THE CIP.

MR. DAVIS WILL BE BACK NEXT WEEK TO TALK ABOUT THE CIP IN A LITTLE BIT MORE DETAIL, BUT THIS IS OBVIOUSLY A PRETTY SIGNIFICANT IMPACT OF THAT GROWTH AND IS A BIG PIECE OF OUR OUR GOING FORWARD PLAN.

YOU SEE OUR PROGRAM HERE AND WE'LL TALK ABOUT THAT.

AS I SAID, A LITTLE BIT MORE DETAIL ON THE SEVENTH.

OBVIOUSLY HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS AS WE GO FORWARD, BUT.

THAT I'LL NOW JUST KEEP GOING.

DEBATING, PAUSING.

ECONOMIC UPDATE. THE OTHER HALF OF THIS STORY IS REALLY THINKING ABOUT WHAT'S GOING ON IN THE WORLD AROUND US.

MOST OF THIS INFORMATION, IF YOU PAY ATTENTION TO THE NEWS, WON'T BE NEWS TO YOU, BUT WE WANT TO PUT IT AGAIN IN THE CHESTERFIELD COUNTY CONTEXT, AND I DID I'LL ADMIT I DID PLAGIARIZE A LITTLE BIT FROM THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS MEETING.

SO A NUMBER OF THESE SLIDES WERE PART OF THE PRESENTATION THAT MATT HARRIS AND JARED DURKIN GAVE TO THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS LAST WEEK.

SO I'LL PROVIDE A LITTLE BIT OF COLOR AS WE GO THROUGH ON ON THAT.

SO THE FIRST PIECE OF THAT IS THEY SPEAK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT SOME OF THE SOFTENING IN THE REAL ESTATE MARKET.

YOU CAN SEE HERE THIS IS HAPPENS TO BE REFINANCING.

YOU CAN SEE THAT COMING DOWN OVER TIME.

ALSO INTERESTING IN THAT LITTLE BOX, YOU CAN SEE THE NUMBER OF DAYS ON MARKET FOR A NEW SALE HAS BEEN INCREASING.

SO THERE IS SOME DEFINITELY SOME HEADWINDS IN THE REAL ESTATE MARKET AS WE SEE SORT OF NEW AND SALES TAKING A LITTLE BIT OF THE WIND AWAY FROM THE BACK AND PUTTING IT A LITTLE BIT IN FRONT OF US NOW.

HOME PRICES, HOWEVER, HAVE STAYED ELEVATED.

YOU CAN SEE HERE OVER THE LAST YEAR OR TWO THE HOME PRICE GROWTH.

THIS IS A NATIONAL STATISTIC, NOT CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, BUT YOU CAN SEE IT WAS ELEVATED CLOSE TO 20% GROWTH, WELL ABOVE THAT, GIVE OR TAKE, 5% AVERAGE THAT WE SAW ONCE IT STEADIED OUT FROM THE GREAT RECESSION AND THE HOUSING CHALLENGES OF 2007-2008.

YOU CAN SEE IT'S STARTING TO COME BACK DOWN TO THOSE MORE NORMALIZED LEVELS OF AROUND 5% IN OCTOBER.

THEY QUOTE 9.2%.

YOU CAN SEE IT STARTING TO TREND DOWN A LITTLE BIT LESS AS WELL.

SO WHAT DOES THIS ALL MEAN FOR CHESTERFIELD COUNTY? ONCE AGAIN, FROM THEIR PIECE, THIS IS THEIR LAND BOOK OVERVIEW.

SO YOU CAN THINK ABOUT THIS AS THEIR ASSESSED VALUE ACROSS THE ACROSS THE DISTRICT OF MOST INTEREST TO US AND TO THIS BOARD IS THE BOTTOM NUMBER THAT'S LABELED REVALUATION.

YOU CAN SEE THAT'S ABOUT THREE AND ONE HALF BILLION WITHIN THE RESIDENTIAL SPACE.

THAT WOULD REPRESENT ABOUT AN 8.8% INCREASE IN ESSENTIALLY YOUR HOST HOUSE ASSESSMENTS THIS CURRENT YEAR.

MANY OF YOU HAVE SEEN THAT.

I KNOW I SAW MINE, MINE BETTER THAN EXPECTATIONS.

I EXCEED AT 8.8%.

I DON'T KNOW WHERE YOU ALL ARE, BUT WHAT THEY'RE SEEING FROM THERE IS ABOUT 8.8% GROWTH.

ONE THING TO KEEP IN MIND AS WE THINK ABOUT THAT REEVALUATION BUCKET IS THE MOVE THAT THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS AND DR.

CASEY HAVE ALREADY MADE TO REDUCE THE ESSENTIALLY RATE BY A PENNY.

THAT TAKES THAT 8.8% GROWTH DOWN TO ABOUT A 7.8% EFFECTIVE INCREASE IN REAL ESTATE REVENUE.

SO YOU CAN THINK ABOUT THERE 900 OR SO MILLION LAST YEAR IN GENERAL FUND REVENUE JUST FOR YOUR BENEFIT.

ABOUT TWO THIRDS OF THAT 600 MILLION OR SO IS GENERATED FROM REAL ESTATE REVENUE.

I'LL LET YOU DO THE MATH ABOUT THE GIVE OR TAKE 48 MILLION OF EXTRA REVENUE THAT THAT WOULD IMPLY.

THE OTHER BIG STORY YOU'VE SEEN, NO DOUBT IS INFLATION.

YOU CAN SEE THE LONGER TERM TRENDS OVER HERE.

WE'VE BEEN IN A HISTORIC PERIOD OF RELATIVELY LOW TO MODEST INFLATION.

YOU CAN SEE 0 TO 2% OVER MUCH OF THE HISTORY PRESENTED IN THIS CHART DURING THE RECENT TIMES THAT HAS PEAKED EIGHT 10%. YOU'VE SEEN HIGHER NUMBERS, AND THIS THIS IS LOOKING AT CPI.

YOU CAN SEE THAT STARTING TO MITIGATE A BIT.

WE'LL SEE WHERE IT COMES DOWN.

I KNOW THE FED AND OTHERS HAVE TAKEN NUMEROUS STEPS TO TRY AND MODERATE THIS.

WHERE THIS LANDS IS ANYONE'S GUESS.

WE'VE SEEN, AS I SAID RECENTLY, DECEMBER, MODERATE DOWN TO 6%.

WE'LL SEE WHERE THAT LANDS.

I'VE LOOKED A LITTLE BIT ABOUT WHERE FOLKS ARE PREDICTING AND THEY'RE QUITE FRANKLY, ALL OVER THE BOARD.

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SO WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT WHERE IS INFLATION GOING? KEEP IN MIND THAT THE FED AND THE GOVERNMENT HAVE A LONG TERM TARGET OF 2%.

I THINK THERE'S ZERO FOLKS THAT WILL PREDICT WE'LL GET TO 2% ANY TIME IN THE FORESEEABLE FUTURE, BUT WE ARE STILL HOLDING THAT OUT AS THE SORT OF LONGER TERM NUMBER, BUT WE'LL LIKELY BE CLOSER TO THAT 5% AT A CPI LEVEL.

WHAT THAT IMPACTS ON EACH INDIVIDUAL ELEMENT WILL OBVIOUSLY BE DEPENDENT ON ALL THE FACTORS THAT MAY GO INTO ENERGY PRICES OR DIESEL FUEL OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT THAT WE ARE SEEING WITHIN OUR OUR VARIOUS BUDGETS.

I'LL RUN QUICKLY THROUGH THESE.

THERE'S NO REAL CHANGE TO THESE NEXT SEVERAL SLIDES, BUT JUST TO REMIND THE BOARD OF THOSE VARIOUS ITEMS WHERE WE DID HIGHLIGHT INFLATION AS A BIG DRIVER, YOU SEE UTILITIES ABOUT A 3.6 MILLION INCREASE IN UTILITIES COSTS.

A GOOD CHUNK OF THAT IS OBSERVED THIS YEAR.

WE DO HAVE A FORECAST FOR SOME ADDITIONAL INCREASES NEXT YEAR, SIMILAR WITH TRANSPORTATION FUEL CLOSE TO TWO AND ONE HALF MILLION INCREASE IN TRANSPORTATION CONTRACTS, CLOSE TO 2 MILLION INCREASE IN LARGELY CUSTODIAL CONTRACTS.

I WILL NOTE THAT SOME OF THESE ARE UP FOR REBID.

SO THIS IS OUR CURRENT ESTIMATE.

WE CAN CROSS OUR FINGERS THAT THIS COULD COME IN LOWER.

UNFORTUNATELY, BECAUSE IT'S OUT FOR BID, WE CAN ALSO POTENTIALLY SEE THIS COME IN HIGHER.

WE'LL SEE HOW THOSE EVOLVE OVER TIME, AND THE LAST ONE THAT REALLY HITS ON THE SAME TOPIC IS HEALTH INSURANCE.

WE'VE ASSUMED ABOUT A 2 MILLION INCREASE IN THE NEXT FISCAL YEAR FOR HEALTH INSURANCE.

OUR ASSUMPTION HERE, BASED ON SOME INITIAL GUIDANCE FROM THE COUNTY, WAS ABOUT 7%.

WE'VE HEARD SOME RECENT COMMENTS FROM THE COUNTY THAT THAT MAY BE HIGHER THAN WHAT THEY'LL ACTUALLY SEE, MAYBE CLOSER TO FIVE.

YOU CAN SEE IF IT DOES WIND UP BEING 5%.

THAT WOULD SAVE, GIVE OR TAKE 800,000, BUT AS OF RIGHT NOW, I'M NOT READY TO PULL THAT LEVER YET.

WE'LL SEE SEE HOW THINGS CONTINUE TO EVOLVE.

ON THE HEALTH INSURANCE SIDE, JUST THE SUMMARY GROWTH AND INFLATION ARE A BIG PIECE OF THIS STORY, AND THIS IS WHERE I HOPED TO END THIS PRESENTATION TODAY, BUT UNFORTUNATELY, I HAVE TO FLIP TO THE NEXT SLIDE, WHICH SPEAKS TO AN UPDATE ON STATE REVENUE SOME OF YOU MAY HAVE SEEN IN THE NEWS.

RICHMOND TIMES-DISPATCH PICKED UP THE ARTICLE YESTERDAY.

WE STARTED TO GET WIND OF THIS FRIDAY, GIVE OR TAKE, BUT THE VIDEO SUPERINTENDENT MEMO ON JANUARY 27TH ACKNOWLEDGED AN ERROR IN THE STATE BUDGET.

ACROSS THE STATE, IT'S BEING REPORTED THAT IT'S ABOUT A $200 MILLION OVERSTATEMENT OF STATE REVENUE TO THE VARIOUS SCHOOL DISTRICTS WITHIN THE COMMONWEALTH.

THE DOE IS ALSO PROVIDED SOME ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON WHAT THE ERROR WAS.

I WON'T GO INTO ALL OF THAT NOW, BUT ESSENTIALLY THEY MISCALCULATED.

SOME OF THE STATE'S HOLD HARMLESS IMPACTS ON SALES TAX.

THEY HAVE OPTED NOT TO REISSUE A NEW CALC TOOL FOR THAT PARTICULAR ADJUSTMENT, INSTEAD WAITING UNTIL AFTER THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY CROSSOVER VOTES ON FEBRUARY 9TH AND ROLLING OUT THAT CHANGE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THOSE ADDITIONAL CALC TOOLS WHICH TEND TO COME OUT PRETTY SOON AFTER THOSE CROSSOVER BUDGETS ARE MADE AVAILABLE.

IT SAYS HERE THE IMPACT TO CCPS IS UNCERTAIN.

AS OF YESTERDAY, WE DID GET THE CALCULATION THAT WAS ON US TO ACTUALLY CALCULATE, BUT YOU MIGHT HAVE SEEN IN THE TIMES-DISPATCH THAT THE NUMBER OF ABOUT 10 MILLION IMPACT CHESTERFIELD COUNTY.

THAT'S ACTUALLY 3 MILLION CURRENT YEAR AND GIVE OR TAKE 7 MILLION NEXT YEAR.

SO AS WE THINK ABOUT THE FY 24 BUDGET IMPACT, ASSUMING NO OTHER CHANGES, YOU CAN THINK ABOUT ABOUT A SEVEN, SEVEN AND A HALF MILLION DOLLARS ADDITIONAL WHOLE BASED ON THIS CALCULATION ERROR AT THE STATE.

I KNOW THEY'RE DOING GOING THROUGH A NUMBER OF CONVERSATIONS ABOUT HOW TO POTENTIALLY BACKFILL THIS.

I'M NOT GOING TO STAND HERE AND SPECULATE ON THAT.

WE'LL HOPE THAT THEY FIND IT, BUT ALL I CAN SAY IS DON'T SHOOT THE MESSENGER, AND WE ARE LOOKING AT A SLIGHTLY LARGER HOLE THAN WE WERE WHEN WE TALKED TO YOU THIS TIME LAST WEEK.

SO WITH THAT, I KNOW I COVERED A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT TOPICS, BUT I'LL PAUSE FOR COMMENTS AND QUESTIONS FROM THE BOARD.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH MR. MEISTER. BOARD MEMBERS, IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION? MS. HAINES. YEAH, I WAS AT THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY ALL MORNING WITH DELEGATES SAYING, DO YOU MIND IF I TALK TO A SUPERINTENDENT FOR A SECOND? AND I SAID, NO PROBLEM, BECAUSE THEY WERE ALL CALLING IN.

SO I'M HOPING.

YEAH. THANK YOU FOR MENTIONING THAT, AND HOPEFULLY THEY CAN FIND SOME MONEY BECAUSE IT WAS PHONES WERE RINGING OFF THE HOOK.

SO I KNOW WE'RE ALL.

IT'S A LOT. WELL, I JUST THOUGHT ONE OF THE MOST INTERESTING THINGS IS THAT

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SO THAT MEANS THEN WE HAVE A LOT OF PEOPLE OUT THERE THAT SHOULD BE SUPPORTING CHESTERFIELD COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

UNFORTUNATELY, THE SECOND LARGEST GROUP IS THE OVER 65, AND THE NARRATIVE I'VE BEEN HEARING WITH THIS DECREASE IN THE REAL ESTATE TAX RATE IS BECAUSE PEOPLE DON'T HAVE CHILDREN IN SCHOOLS AND THEY WANT TO LOWER THEIR TAX BASE.

THEY WANT THEY DO NOT WANT TO PAY THE SAME BECAUSE THEIR ASSESSMENT'S GONE UP AND THEIR TAX TAXES HAVE GONE UP.

THE BOTTOM LINE IS, IS THE STATEMENT THAT WAS IN DR.

HUFF'S SLIDE ABOUT THE VALUE THAT EDUCATION BRINGS TO THE ENTIRE COMMUNITY, AND I CERTAINLY HOPE THAT THE GRANDPARENTS IN CHESTERFIELD COUNTY SCHOOLS, AND CHESTERFIELD COUNTY SUPPORT OUR SCHOOLS, BUT I DO APPRECIATE THE FACT THAT YOU MENTIONED THAT FACT ABOUT THERE'S MORE.

ONE IN FIVE PEOPLE IN OUR COUNTY IS A SCHOOL AGE PERSON.

MAYBE WE SHOULD GIVE THEM THE RIGHT TO VOTE AND THAT WOULD FIX OUR PROBLEM.

I REALLY HOPE ALSO THAT PEOPLE HEAR THAT YOU SAID THERE'S BY 2028 THERE WILL BE 68,000 STUDENTS IN CHESTERFIELD COUNTY SCHOOLS, AND I WOULD LIKE TO THINK THAT WE COULD ONE TIME IN OUR HISTORY, BE PROACTIVE INSTEAD OF REACTIVE AND STOP ALWAYS BEING BEHIND THE EIGHT BALL.

SO THAT IN AND OF ITSELF JUST IS THE GROWTH THAT WE'RE EXPERIENCING, AND YOU ARE JUST MR. DOOM AND GLOOM UP THERE. I'M SORRY, BUT IT'S A LOT OF WITH AND ENDING WITH THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY'S COUNT CALCULATION MISCALCULATION I GUESS IN MY BACK OF THE ENVELOPE MATH MEANS WE'RE NOW LOOKING AT ABOUT A $24 MILLION HOLE? GIVE OR TAKE, YEP, AND SO THIS $24 MILLION HOLE HAS TO BE FILLED BY SOMEONE, AND IT'S EITHER GOT TO BE THE STATE OR THE COUNTY OR A COMBINATION OF BOTH, AND I JUST.

IT'S THE EDUCATION OF OUR CHILDREN IS AT STAKE, AND THAT'S WHAT MATTERS.

SO 24 MILLION SOUNDS LIKE THE NEW NUMBER.

THANKS. THANK YOU VERY MUCH, MR. MEISTER. THANK YOU, MA'AM. NEXT, WE HAVE A PRESENTATION ON EXPANDING TUTORING OPPORTUNITIES FROM DR.

[E. Expanding Tutoring Opportunities]

DAUGHERTY. I CERTAINLY HOPE I'M A BRIGHT SPOT AFTER SOME OF THE THINGS THAT YOU'VE HEARD THAT ARE VERY SERIOUS.

I THINK THIS IS SOMETHING THAT EVERYONE WILL ENJOY HEARING A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT.

THE DIVISION OF TEACHING AND LEARNING IS VERY PLEASED TO SHARE WITH YOU TODAY AN ADDITIONAL TUTORING OPPORTUNITY THAT WILL BE PROVIDED TO OUR SECONDARY STUDENTS FOR THE SECOND SEMESTER OF THIS YEAR.

WE BEGAN PURSUING THIS OPPORTUNITY LARGELY IN PART BECAUSE THE GOVERNOR OF VIRGINIA HAS ENCOURAGED ALL SCHOOL DIVISIONS TO LAUNCH TUTORING PARTNERSHIPS THAT ARE EXTERNAL TO THE SCHOOL SYSTEM AND SPEND OUR REMAINING FEDERAL FUNDS TO ADDRESS MORE RECOVERY OF LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES FOR STUDENTS.

HEARING THAT DIRECTIVE AND KNOWING THAT WE STRUGGLE, SOMETIMES FINDING INTERNAL TEACHERS WHO ARE ABLE TO TUTOR BECAUSE OF VERY GOOD REASONS.

WE BEGAN OUR SEARCH.

I WANT TO MAKE CLEAR THAT AND I SHOULD PROBABLY GO BACK TO THE LAST SLIDE.

THAT POINT AT THE BOTTOM IS THAT WE ARE IN NO WAY LESSENING ANY OF THE TUTORING THAT WE ALREADY HAVE IN PLACE, THE LONG STANDING GRANTS THAT SUPPORT TUTORING THERE.

IN NO WAY IS ANY OF THAT BEING LESSENED.

THIS IS TRULY AN ADDITIONAL OPPORTUNITY AS WE BEGAN OUR SEARCH.

WE KNEW WHAT WE DIDN'T WANT.

WE KNEW THAT WE DIDN'T WANT, FOR EXAMPLE, SIMPLY A TEXT MESSAGING SERVICE THAT WOULD TEXT THE STUDENT ABOUT A HOMEWORK STRUGGLE OR A NEED FOR TUTORING.

WE KNEW THAT WE WANTED A VERY FLEXIBLE, HIGH USER DRIVEN SELECTION, HIGH USER VOICE, LIVE SYNCHRONOUS 24 HOUR A DAY, SEVEN DAY FORMAT WHERE A STUDENT COULD GET A 30 OR 60 MINUTE TUTORING DOSE IN ANY AREA WHERE THEY WERE HAVING STRUGGLE.

WE REVIEWED MANY VENDORS AND WE BEGAN FEELING LIKE WE HAD SET OUR EXPECTATIONS REALLY HIGH, BUT THEN I REMEMBER THAT OLD SAYING, IF SOMETHING'S WORTH DOING, IT'S WORTH DOING, RIGHT? SO WE HELD ON.

WE KEPT DOING OUR RESEARCH.

WE REVIEWED A LOT ABOUT WHAT IS HIGHLY EFFECTIVE IN THE TUTORING WORLD, AND WE HELD ON AND KEPT TALKING TO VENDORS.

WE ARE REALLY PLEASED TO BE ABLE TO REPORT TO YOU THAT WE GOT EVERYTHING ON OUR WISH LIST.

WE FOUND A VENDOR WHO DOES OFFER SYNCHRONOUS ONE ON ONE INSTRUCTION.

IF THE STUDENT FELT A CONNECTION WITH THAT TUTOR, THEY CAN RE-REQUEST THE SAME TUTOR.

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WE HAVE THE OPTION FOR THE USER TO IDENTIFY IF THEY WOULD LIKE TO REQUEST A TUTOR THAT HAS SPECIAL EDUCATION INSTRUCTION EXPERIENCE OR ONE OF FIVE LANGUAGES THAT THE VENDOR OFFERS.

THIS IS ON DEMAND MORNING, AFTERNOON, EVENING AND WEEKEND, AND PARENTS AND SECONDARY STUDENTS CAN SELECT THE TUTOR.

SO THIS COULD BE SOMETHING WE HIGHLY ENCOURAGE OUR PARENTS TO BE INVOLVED WITH THIS.

GOING EVEN FURTHER THAN WE HAD IMAGINED.

WE FOUND THAT THIS PARTICULAR VENDOR IS ALSO VERY OPEN TO OUR OWN TEACHERS, USING THIS TUTORING SERVICE AS A SECOND OR A THIRD OR EVEN A FOURTH TEACHER AS AN INTERVENTIONIST DURING THE CLASS PERIOD.

SO I COULD SEND A GROUP OF STUDENTS TO THE LIBRARY.

I COULD ALREADY HAVE PRE DIALED UP A TUTOR TO WORK WITH THAT PARTICULAR GROUP OF STUDENTS ON A VERY SPECIFIC, PERSONALIZED LEARNING NEED.

I COULD HAVE STUDENTS OVER IN THE CORNER OF THE CLASSROOM.

SO WE'RE REALLY HOPING TO KIND OF PUSH THAT INNOVATIVE EDGE AND REALLY GET OUR STUDENTS AND OUR TEACHERS AND OUR PARENTS ALL SEEING THE POSSIBILITIES OF THIS.

WE ALSO KNOW WE NEED TO HELP OUR TEACHERS, AND SO WE ARE TRAINING OUR INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGNERS ON HOW THEY CAN HELP SET UP THOSE SESSIONS DURING THE SCHOOL DAY TO KIND OF LIFT THAT BURDEN. WE ALSO HAVE WORKED WITH THIS PARTICULAR VENDOR TO RECEIVE ASSURANCE THAT ALL CCPS SESSIONS WILL BE RECORDED.

THAT'S JUST A GREAT WAY FOR US TO CHECK THE QUALITY, EVERYONE TO FEEL THAT THEIR SAFETY.

WE CAN ALWAYS GO BACK AND LISTEN TO WHAT INFORMATION WAS PRESENTED, ETC, AND THEN JUST AGAIN, TO ASSURE OUR TEACHERS THAT THIS IS NOT TAKING ANYTHING AWAY FROM THEM. THIS WOULD BE ALSO AN OPPORTUNITY WHERE THEY COULD PURSUE EMPLOYMENT WITH THIS PARTICULAR VENDOR, BUT I DO NEED TO REMIND EVERYONE OF THE POLICY NOTED HERE, POLICY 5130.

THAT POLICY DOES NOT ALLOW A TEACHER TO TUTOR HER OWN STUDENTS THROUGH AN EXTERNAL VENDOR.

SO I, AS A TEACHER AT CLOVER HILL HIGH SCHOOL, IF I CHOSE TO SEEK EMPLOYMENT WITH THIS VENDOR, I COULD TUTOR OTHER CLOVER HILL HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS, JUST NOT ON MY ROSTER OR OTHERS IN THE COUNTY OR ACROSS THE NATION.

WE MET. OUR GOAL, AS IS STATED HERE, AND AGAIN, JUST WANTED TO PAUSE ON THIS SLIDE.

WE KNOW AT THE ELEMENTARY LEVEL OF FACE TO FACE MODEL WORKS REALLY WELL WITH OUR STUDENTS , AND LET'S FACE IT, MOST OF OUR ELEMENTARY STUDENTS HAVE SLIGHTLY SIMPLER SOCIAL SCHEDULES WHERE THEY DON'T HAVE AS MUCH GOING ON RIGHT AFTER SCHOOL.

SO BEFORE AND AFTER SCHOOL TUTORING, THEY TEND TO BE MORE AVAILABLE FOR THAT.

WE ALSO HAVE DURING THE DAY TUTORING AT THE ELEMENTARY LEVEL.

AT THE SECONDARY LEVEL, WE ALSO HAVE BEFORE, DURING AND AFTER SCHOOL TUTORING WITH OUR OWN STAFF MEMBERS.

NONE OF THAT WILL CHANGE AND WE JUST WANT TO EXPRESS SINCERE APPRECIATION FOR EVERY SINGLE CCPS TEACHER WHO IS PARTICIPATING AND OFFERING THAT ADDITIONAL TUTORING. THIS, AGAIN, IS THAT OTHER ADDED OPPORTUNITY BEYOND THOSE THINGS ALREADY IN PLACE.

I THINK I'VE ALREADY COVERED BECAUSE I GET SO EXCITED ABOUT THIS EVERYTHING ON THIS SLIDE.

SO LET'S JUST SLIP ON OVER TO GIVE YOU A GLIMPSE OF WHAT IT WOULD LOOK LIKE AS A USER.

SO ON THE FAR LEFT, A STUDENT, A TEACHER, A PARENT COULD GO IN, THEY WOULD PICK THE COURSE CONTENT AREA, THE GRADE LEVEL.

THEY WOULD SAY, HEY, I WOULD LIKE TO SEE WHO'S AVAILABLE TOMORROW AFTERNOON.

THEY WOULD SELECT THEIR AVAILABILITY PREFERENCE.

THEY WOULD DECIDE AS A USER IF THEY WANT TO RECLAIM AND SEEK A TUTOR THAT HAS EXPERIENCE WITH DYSLEXIA, AUTISM, ET CETERA, AND THEY CAN SELECT FROM ONE OF FIVE LANGUAGES.

FROM THAT INITIAL FILTERING, YOU GET WHAT'S IN THE VERY NEXT COLUMN, WHICH WOULD BE A POP UP OF ALL OF THE TUTORS AVAILABLE THAT MEETS YOUR FILTER, AND THERE'S A LITTLE STATEMENT WITH EACH A LITTLE BIT OF INFORMATION, AND IF YOU CLICK ON ANY ONE OF THOSE, YOU GET A LOT MORE INFORMATION WHICH IS ON THE RIGHT. YOU GET A VIDEO, AN EXTENDED BIO, AND EVERY TUTORING SESSION IS FOLLOWED IMMEDIATELY BY THE CHANCE FOR THE USER TO RATE THE EXPERIENCE. SO YOU CAN SEE THAT THIS PARTICULAR TUTOR HAS A FIVE STAR RATING OUT OF FIVE STARS.

IT WAS REALLY IMPORTANT AS WE LOOKED FOR VENDORS TO KNOW THAT WE WOULD FIND A COMPANY THAT HAD A DEEP ENOUGH BENCH TO MEET THE POTENTIAL NEED WE MIGHT HAVE AS A VERY LARGE SCHOOL DIVISION.

YOU CAN SEE HERE 233 ACTIVE TUTORS LOVE THAT THE LENGTH OF EMPLOYMENT IS OVER THREE YEARS.

LOVE THE FIVE LANGUAGES THAT THEY OFFER.

THEY SAID THEY'RE WILLING TO WORK WITH US IF WE HAVE OTHER LANGUAGE NEEDS.

AS AN AVERAGE, THEY'RE RANKING FOUR AND ONE HALF STARS, AND THIS IS THE BEST STATISTIC FOR ME.

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SO WE FEEL LIKE THEIR DIVERSITY IS THERE, THE DEPTH OF BENCH IS THERE.

IT ALL SOUNDS REALLY GOOD COMPARED TO THOSE OTHER PEOPLE WHO PRESENTED RIGHT.

SO WHAT'S NEXT? WE ARE IN THE VERY, VERY FINAL STAGES OF GETTING THE GO.

WE'VE ALREADY BEGUN PRELIMINARY TRAINING AND NOTIFICATION.

THAT HAS TO CONTINUE.

WE ARE WORKING WITH OUR SCHOOL STAFF TO UNDERSTAND ALL THE WAYS THIS COULD BE USED.

WE'RE COUNTING JOHN AND HIS ENTIRE TEAM TO HELP US SATURATE THE HOME LEVEL WITH MESSAGING.

I THINK I EVEN SENT THEM AN EMAIL TODAY SAYING, CAN I GET POSTERS? I MEAN, LIKE, I'M JUST CONSTANTLY THINKING OF HOW ELSE CAN WE PUBLICIZE THIS? WE WILL TELL STAFF ABOUT THIS VENDOR OPPORTUNITY SHOULD THEY PURSUE BECAUSE SOME OF OUR TEACHERS CAN'T STAY AFTER SCHOOL, BUT THEY WOULD BE WILLING TO TUTOR ON THE WEEKENDS OR IN THE EVENINGS AT THEIR HOUSE.

RIGHT. THEY CAN DO THIS VIRTUALLY, AND THEN FINALLY, LET'S SEE IF IT WORKS.

I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S GOING TO GAIN TRACTION.

AS A PARENT, I WOULD BE REALLY EXCITED ABOUT THIS.

EVERY SECONDARY STUDENT CAN NO LONGER SAY I COULDN'T GET THE TUTORING I NEEDED, RIGHT? BUT WE'VE GOT TO GET THEM USING IT, AND IF THEY USE IT AND IF THEY LIKE IT, AND IF WE SEE IMPROVEMENT IN THEIR LEARNING, THESE ARE ESSER DOLLARS.

SO KIND OF SEPARATE THAT FROM THE CONTINUED EXPENSES THAT BOB AND JOSH WERE STRESSING.

WE COULD CONTINUE THIS INTO NEXT YEAR IF IT'S SUCCESSFUL, IF OUR STUDENTS LOVE IT, BUT AGAIN, ESSER MONEY QUESTIONS OR ARE YOU JUST EXCITED LIKE I AM? SUPER EXCITED. I ABSOLUTELY WISH I HAD THIS WHEN MY SON WAS IN CALCULUS.

I THINK ABOUT THE MONEY I COULD GET BACK FROM PAYING THE TUTORS THAT I PAID.

SO A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS SO.

THE RECORDED SESSIONS, WHICH WAS A WONDERFUL IDEA AND I'M GLAD, BUT WILL THE STUDENTS AND THE PARENTS HAVE AVAILABILITY TO SEE THOSE RECORDED SESSIONS AS WELL? I WILL ASK BECAUSE I KNOW THAT THERE WAS CONVERSATION ABOUT THE TEACHER COULD WATCH THE SESSIONS SO THAT SHE COULD BETTER UNDERSTAND HOW THE TUTOR TAUGHT THAT PARTICULAR CONCEPT , AND TO BE SURE, IT LINED UP WITH WHAT HER EXPECTATIONS WERE.

SO I WOULD THINK IF THE TEACHER COULD SEE IT, THE PARENT OR THE STUDENTS COULD, BUT LET ME VERIFY THAT.

I THINK IT WOULD BE BENEFICIAL, ESPECIALLY IF THE STUDENT SAID, I REMEMBER THE TUTOR TAUGHT ME HOW TO DO THIS, AND INSTEAD OF HAVING TO GO THROUGH ANOTHER TUTORING SESSION, THEY COULD JUST GO BACK AND WATCH THAT RECORDED SESSION BECAUSE, YOU KNOW THE QUADRATIC FORMULA, YOU CAN FORGET IT AND JUST MIGHT TAKE MORE THAN ONCE.

YES, EXACTLY.

SO I THINK THAT WOULD BE HELPFUL IF THIS FAMILIES HAD ACCESS TO THE RECORDING, THE DATA YOU'RE GOING TO BE ABLE TO KEEP OR THEY WILL THE PLATFORM WILL BE ABLE TO KEEP THE DATA ON THE NUMBER OF TIMES STUDENTS ARE, THE NUMBER OF HOURS OR THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE THAT HAVE USED IT.

SO YOU'LL BE ABLE TO REPORT OUT TO US.

YES. HOW MUCH IT VERY ROBUST REPORTING CAPABILITIES, VERY IMPORTANT FOR US BECAUSE WE ARE ALL VERY FOCUSED ON RETURN ON INVESTMENT.

RIGHT? YES, AND YOU WANT TO KNOW, WAS IT VALUABLE? RIGHT. WHAT WAS THAT SATISFACTION RATING? HOW MANY OF OUR STUDENTS GO BACK FOR SECOND, THIRD AND FOURTH DOSES? DO THEY PREFER 30 MINUTES VERSUS 60 MINUTE DOSES? WHAT SUBJECT AREAS, FOR EXAMPLE, WHAT GRADE LEVELS DO WE SEE THE MOST FREQUENT USE? ALL OF THAT. RIGHT, AND THEN MY LAST QUESTION, WHAT'S THE PROJECTED ROLLOUT DATE? WELL, WE KEPT SAYING FEBRUARY 2ND SEMESTER.

RIGHT. SO I JUST GOT AN UPDATE THIS MORNING BECAUSE I WAS HOPING I'D BE ABLE TO TELL YOU THAT THE FINAL LITTLE INK ON THE LEGAL PAPERWORK HAS DRIED.

WE'RE ALMOST THERE, AND THAT'S WHY RIGHT NOW WE'RE KIND OF DOING ALL THAT OTHER PREP WORK, LIKE WE'VE ALREADY MET WITH INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGNERS, WE'VE GIVEN OUR PRINCIPALS A HEADS UP. I'M REALLY SHOOTING FOR VALENTINE'S DAY BECAUSE I'M OPTIMISTIC.

I LOVE THIS. RIGHT.

WHAT A GREAT DAY TO LAUNCH.

RIGHT? RIGHT. OKAY, YES, AND I LIKE THE IDEA OF POSTERS, SOMETHING VISUAL IN THE SCHOOLS FOR THE KIDS TO EVEN KNOW IT EXIST.

BUT AWESOME.

THANK YOU. GOOD WORK, AND I'M GLAD YOU TOOK THE TIME AND DID THE DILIGENCE TO VET OUT ALL THE VENDORS AND GET A REALLY GOOD HOPEFULLY WHAT WILL BE A REALLY GOOD ONE.

WELL, IT'S THE MOST PROMISING WE FOUND WITH THE FEATURES OFFERED.

THANKS. I'LL JUST BE REAL QUICK, BUT I DO THINK THAT THIS IS AMAZING AND THANK YOU GUYS FOR FINDING A PROGRAM THAT WORKS BECAUSE ONE OF THE ONE OF THE THINGS I HEAR FROM A LOT OF PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY IS WHAT ARE ALL THE STEPS WE'RE TAKEN TO TRY TO ADDRESS LEARNING LOSS AND HOW ARE WE TRYING TO BE A STEP AHEAD OF OTHER SCHOOL DIVISIONS? AND THIS IS JUST A PRIME EXAMPLE OF IT.

SO, YEAH, AND THIS IS AMAZING THAT, YOU KNOW, YOUR STUDENT CAN PARTICIPATE IN THIS TYPE OF TUTORING IS JUST REALLY NEXT LEVEL, AND I REALLY APPRECIATE ALL THE WORK THAT YOU GUYS DID TO TRY TO SEEK OUT THIS VENDOR AND FIND THE RIGHT FIT FOR US.

I WILL SAY ERNIE LONGWORTH AND HIS TEAM WERE INSTRUMENTAL AND THEY WERE DILIGENT.

[01:25:04]

LET'S LOOK AT THIS. LET'S LOOK AT THIS.

SO GREAT, GREAT WORK BY A LOT OF PEOPLE, BUT I WILL SHOUT HIM OUT BY NAME.

THANK YOU. SO, FIRST OF ALL, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BEING A BRIGHT LIGHT AT THE END OF A VERY DARK TUNNEL THIS AFTERNOON.

I LOVE THAT IT'S CALLED DOSES.

FIRST OF ALL, IT'S GREAT.

LOVE IT, AND THE ONE OF THE BENEFITS THAT REALLY JUMPED OUT TO ME AND I'M SURE THAT THE OTHER FOLKS ON THE DAIS WHO HAVE BEEN IN A CLASSROOM IS THAT THAT THE ABILITY TO PRESENT THAT DIFFERENTIATED LEARNING FOR OUR STUDENTS, HAVING THAT SECOND TEACHER IN THE CLASSROOM IS THAT'S GOING TO THAT'S A GAME CHANGER FOR SO MANY TEACHERS WHO ARE SEEING SUCH A SUCH A VAST DIFFERENCE IN SKILL SETS IN THEIR CLASSROOMS. SO THAT'S PHENOMENAL.

I DO HAVE A QUESTION. ARE THERE ANY SUBJECT LIMITATIONS? I KNOW WE WE DO RECOGNIZE THAT OUR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STUDENTS BENEFIT THE MOST FROM THAT ONE ON ONE IN PERSON, BUT OUTSIDE OF SECONDARY IN THE SECONDARY REALM, ARE THERE ANY LIMITATIONS AS FAR AS ARE THEY HEALTH AND PE IF A STUDENT IS STRUGGLING? RIGHT. WE ALL HAVE OUR STRUGGLES.

YOU KNOW, THERE'S SOME COMPLICATED STUFF IN THOSE CLASSES, YOU KNOW, FOREIGN LANGUAGE.

I KNOW WE HAVE TEACHERS WHO ARE FLUENT IN OTHER LANGUAGES.

ARE WE LIMITED TO CERTAIN FOREIGN LANGUAGES OR OUR WORLD LANGUAGES? JUST, YOU KNOW, I DON'T KNOW IF WE HAVE AN EXACT LISTING OF ALL OF THE OFFERINGS, AND LET'S JUST I'M GOING TO BRAG ABOUT CHESTERFIELD COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOR JUST A MOMENT. WE HAVE A VERY ROBUST PROGRAM OF STUDIES.

IF YOU PRINT THAT OFF YOUR CHILD'S LAPTOP, IT'S A BOOK, RIGHT? IT'S A BOOK. SO I WOULD ONLY, I THINK, BE PRETTY SAFE IN GUESSING NOT EVERYTHING IN OUR PROGRAM OF STUDIES AT THE SECONDARY LEVEL IS GOING TO BE SOMETHING THAT A TUTOR TOUTS AS HER AREA OF EXPERTISE, BUT WHERE WE WILL BE WATCHING IS WHERE ARE WE GETTING REQUESTS, WHERE THERE DOESN'T SEEM TO BE A GOOD MATCH, RIGHT.

JUST TO SEE BECAUSE AGAIN, THIS VENDOR IS IS JUST SO EXCITED TO WORK WITH US AND KIND OF PUSH FURTHER LIKE, HEY, LET'S USE THIS DURING THE DAY, LET'S USE THIS IN CLASSROOMS. I HEY, YOU NEED OTHER LANGUAGES.

LET'S TALK ABOUT THAT.

I THINK IF WE SAW SOME TREND THAT THERE IS A PARTICULAR SUBJECT AREA WHERE WE'RE NOT SEEING AVAILABILITY, THAT DEEP BENCH THAT I TALKED ABOUT, I THINK WE CAN CERTAINLY WORK WITH THEM ON THAT, BUT, YOU KNOW, I CAN ASK, IS THERE A IS THERE A LIST THAT THEY KEEP, A MASTER LIST, FOR EXAMPLE, JUST TO JUST TO SEE WHAT WE CAN DIG UP? THAT'S HELPFUL BECAUSE I THINK THAT'S WHAT I I WAS JUST WONDERING WHETHER THE LIMITATIONS WOULD BE COMING FROM OUR SIDE OR FROM A SUPPLY SIDE.

SO THAT'S GREAT TO KNOW THAT WE CAN WE'RE ONLY LIMITED BY WHAT'S AVAILABLE AS FAR AS WE'RE NOT WE'RE NOT SAYING WHAT A STUDENT CAN OR CAN'T DO. THAT'S RIGHT, AND SO MY ONLY QUESTION IS THE 233 IS THE NUMBER OF AVAILABLE TUTORS.

WE'RE A VERY LARGE DISTRICT.

SO THAT IS THAT 233 JUST FOR CHESTERFIELD, IT SOUNDED LIKE IT WASN'T.

IS THERE ANY IS WHAT THEY GAVE US AS THEIR STATISTIC FOR EMPLOYMENT RIGHT NOW? AND AGAIN, AVERAGE YEARS OF EXPERIENCE, THREE PLUS WITH THE COMPANY.

SO I FEEL LIKE THEY'RE STABLE, DEPENDABLE AND THIS IS WHAT THESE FOLKS DO.

IT'S NOT LIKE A SIDE JOB, BUT AGAIN, THIS WAS THE MOST ROBUST WE FOUND IN EVERYTHING THAT WE LOOKED AT THAT MET ALL THE OTHER CRITERIA THAT WE HAD LAID OUT. SO WE'RE JUST VERY ANXIOUS, LIKE ALL OF YOU, TO WATCH THE TREND DATA, TO SEE, YOU KNOW, MY HOPE IS IT CATCHES LIKE FIRE, RIGHT? JUST TAKES OFF, AND STUDENTS ARE LOVING IT.

TEACHERS ARE LOVING IT, PARENTS AND THAT WE DO HAVE TO GO BACK AND SAY, HEY, WE SURE WOULD LOVE MORE AVAILABILITY OPTIONS FOR OUR STUDENTS, BUT WE'LL SEE. WE'LL SAY THEY FEEL OKAY ABOUT OUR SITE, THEY FEEL GREAT ABOUT IT.

THEY SAID, WE CAN ABSOLUTELY MEET YOUR NEEDS, BUT THANK YOU.

WOULDN'T IT BE GREAT IF WE HAD TO GO BACK AND SAY WE NEED A LITTLE BIT MORE? I WOULD LOVE, AS SOMEONE WHO PAID FOR A PRIVATE TUTOR AND IT WAS SO INSTRUMENTAL.

YEAH, VERY EXCITED.

WE'VE ALL BEEN THERE.

WE'VE ALL PAID THAT BILL.

WELL, I HAVE TO SAY, WE PAY OUR TEACHERS SO POORLY THEY PROBABLY ARE GOING TO HAVE A GREAT RECRUITMENT TOOL RIGHT HERE TOO, BECAUSE ALL OF OUR TEACHERS CAN GET THEIR OWN LITTLE SIDE HUSTLES.

AND TEACHERS DIDN'T PROBABLY KNOW THAT THIS EVEN EXISTED, AND SO NOW THEY'LL HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO.

I THINK YOU TOLD US THE RATE THAT TUTORS PAY.

MAYBE WE DON'T WANT TO SAY, I DON'T KNOW IF KIM WOULD ALLOW ME TO SAY THAT IT WAS DECENT.

[01:30:04]

OBVIOUSLY, THAT WOULD DEFINITELY BE BETWEEN ME AND THE EMPLOYER.

I'LL SAY THAT TACTFULLY.

THAT WOULD BE BETWEEN THE VENDOR EMPLOYER AND THE EMPLOYEE, BUT I FELT THE RATE WOULD BE VERY APPEALING, WHICH MEANS THEY'RE GETTING QUALITY PEOPLE.

YEAH, I WOULD. AGAIN, TO YOUR POINT, YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR, YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR, AND I GUESS SPEAKING ON THAT, A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS.

YES. FIRST, GOOD TO KNOW ABOUT THE RECORDING FROM A SAFETY ASPECT TO BUT I IMAGINE THAT THE COMPANY HAS A SIMILAR BACKGROUND CHECK FOR THEIR EMPLOYEES AS WE DO, AND WE ASKED IF IT WOULD BE OF BENEFIT FOR OUR POTENTIAL EMPLOYEES WHO WOULD HAVE INTEREST IF IF, YOU KNOW, WE COULD STREAMLINE THE PROCESS, AND THEY WERE ADAMANT THAT THEY HAD TO DO EVERY SINGLE STEP, THE FINGERPRINT, YOU KNOW, JUST ALL OF THAT BACKGROUND CHECKING THAT WE WOULD DO, THEY HAVE TO DO AS WELL.

SO IN A WAY, WE WERE TRYING TO BE HELPFUL AND STREAMLINE, BUT IN A WAY, I REALLY LIKE THEIR ANSWER TO LIKE, NO, NO, NO, WE HAVE TO DO THAT.

SURE, SURE. YEAH, AND WHAT IS THE COST OF THE PROGRAM? SO ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE WERE JUST ADAMANT ABOUT AND A MISTAKE, QUITE HONESTLY, JUST MY OPINION THAT OTHER DIVISIONS HAVE MADE IS THEY THEY INVESTED A PER STUDENT RATE AT THE BEGINNING AND PAID FOR ALL STUDENTS, YOU KNOW, LIKE ALL THEIR SECONDARY STUDENTS, AND NOW WITH THE USAGE NOT BEING WHAT THEY EXPECTED BECAUSE MAYBE IT WAS JUST A TEXT FORMAT AND THAT DIDN'T GO OVER SO WELL WITH STUDENTS.

YOU KNOW, I THINK THE QUESTION OF GOOD STEWARDSHIP WOULD HAVE TO COME UP.

SO WE DIDN'T WANT TO MAKE THAT MISTAKE, AND ACTUALLY THE VENDOR WORKED WITH US.

WE HAVE AN INITIAL INVESTMENT TO GET EVERYTHING SET UP AND RUNNING.

WE LOOK AT THE END OF THE FIRST MONTH AND WE GO, OKAY, HOW MUCH HAVE WE USED? HOW MUCH HAVE WE NOT USE? WE PAY FOR THE 30 MINUTE OR THE 60 MINUTE SEGMENT, JUST LIKE THE PARENT WOULD.

WE DON'T GET A DISCOUNT IN THAT, BUT WE DO GET TO PAY AS WE GO.

SO WE'RE NOT PAYING FOR SOMETHING THAT POTENTIALLY WON'T BE USED.

WE'RE PAYING FOR THINGS WE ARE USING.

SO OTHER THAN THE INITIAL SET UP, IT'S JUST PAY AS YOU GO.

YEAH, YEAH, AND WE FEEL LIKE WE HAVE FUNDS EASILY FOR WHAT WE ANTICIPATE AND HOPE THE USAGE WILL BE FOR THE REST OF THIS YEAR, AND THEN THAT QUESTION MARK BECOMES, IS IT A GOOD INVESTMENT NEXT YEAR? RIGHT. I JUST SO SOMEBODY DOESN'T HEAR THAT ONE LITTLE SOUND, WE HAVE FUNDS EASILY THERE.

ESSER FUNDS THAT ARE GOING AWAY.

ONE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, WE DON'T HAVE FUNDS FOR OUR BUDGETS.

I JUST LIKE AND THESE ARE FUNDS THAT WE INITIALLY EARMARK FOR TUTORING, AND MUCH TO OUR DISMAY, WE'RE NOT SPENDING AS MUCH AS WE HAD ANTICIPATED BECAUSE OF STAFF AVAILABILITY.

YOU KNOW, WE WANT TO OFFER TUTORING.

WE HAVE ALWAYS WANTED TO OFFER TUTORING.

I HAVE PUT IN OTHER SLIDE DECKS, STAFF DEPENDENT.

I KNOW I'VE PUT THAT IN SLIDE DECKS.

SO THIS IS JUST A WAY TO FURTHER UTILIZE THOSE DOLLARS THAT WERE ALREADY EARMARKED THERE.

ESSER THEY GO AWAY.

WE HAVE TO GET THEM SPENT.

WE DON'T WANT TO GIVE BACK MONEY.

I KNOW DR. TARDY SAYS WE'RE NOT GIVING BACK MONEY ANY TIME, RIGHT? SO VERY CLEARLY THIS IS JUST ANOTHER WAY TO UTILIZE THOSE FUNDS AS WE HAD ALWAYS INTENDED , AND NONE OF THESE FUNDS COULD BE PUT IN OUR OPERATIONAL BUDGET.

I JUST GOT TO BE CLEAR BECAUSE THE PUBLIC DOESN'T REALLY UNDERSTAND ALL OF THIS MINUTIA AND THE MOVING OF MONEY AND THINGS, AND I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE EVERYONE IS SUPER CLEAR.

ON ONE HAND, WE'RE LOOKING AT A $24 MILLION HOLE, AND THEN OVER HERE, OH, WE GOT PLENTY OF MONEY FOR THIS TUTORING PROGRAM.

RIGHT? MAKE SURE EVERYONE UNDERSTANDS THAT MONEY IS ESSER DOLLARS, WHICH ARE FEDERAL DOLLARS THAT WE DO NOT WANT TO GIVE BACK, THAT WE HAVE TO SPEND PANDEMIC MONEY.

AND THE GOVERNOR HAS ENCOURAGED SCHOOL DIVISIONS TO DO EXACTLY THIS, AND YOU'VE GONE OUT OF THE BOX IN YOUR THINKING AND FOUND A REALLY CREATIVE, AWESOME WAY TO DO THIS, AND IT WOULD BE BENEFICIAL FOR FAMILIES AND STUDENTS AND TEACHERS.

LET'S GET THOSE KIDS SIGNED UP, RIGHT? ABSOLUTELY. ALL RIGHT, THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

THANK YOU. BYE BYE.

BEFORE WE CONTINUE, I THINK MR. MEISTER WANTS TO COME UP AND GIVE A POINT OF CLARIFICATION.

THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR, FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO COME BACK.

I DO WANT TO APOLOGIZE. I DID MISSPEAK WHEN I WAS GOING THROUGH A LITTLE BIT OF OUR DOCUMENTATION.

I MENTIONED ABOUT TWO THIRDS OF THE COUNTY BUDGET IS I SAID REAL ESTATE TAX.

I MEANT TO SAY PROPERTY TAX.

SO PERSONAL PROPERTY TAX SO INCLUDES THINGS LIKE CAR TAX AND THINGS LIKE THAT.

SO I DIDN'T WANT TO LEAVE THIS MEETING WITHOUT THAT CORRECTION.

SO I APOLOGIZE TO THOSE WHO ARE LISTENING AND THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO STAND CORRECTED.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THANK YOU. APPRECIATE THAT.

SO NEXT, WE HAVE ANY ANNOUNCEMENTS, COMMUNICATIONS OR SCHOOL BOARD COMMENTS, SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS, ARE THERE ANY ANNOUNCEMENTS OR COMMENTS THIS EVENING?

[F. Announcements, Communications, and School Board Comments]

[01:35:04]

DAUGHERTY AND I AND I'M SURE OTHERS WILL LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING EVERYONE THERE.

IT'S AT CLOVER HILL HIGH SCHOOL AT 6:30 P.M.

. AND I THANK YOU TO ALL THE COMMUNITY MEMBERS THAT HAVE COME OUT TO OUR TOWN HALL SO FAR THIS PAST WEEK THAT WE HAVE CONDUCTED THEM, AND THE FINAL BUDGET TOWN HALL IS THURSDAY RIGHT.

WHICH IS THE SPANISH SPEAKING AT SEATS.

IS IT SEATS? COURTHOUSE, CTC COURTHOUSE, AND I WILL BE AT THAT ONE.

EXCUSE ME. SPEAKING ONE.

YEAH, THERE'S A SPANISH SPEAKING TOWN HALL FOR THE OTHER END, EAST END OF THE COUNTY TOMORROW.

I WISH I COULD SAY THIS IN SPANISH.

I NEED A TRANSLATOR. TOMORROW, 6:30 P.M., SPANISH SPEAKING, MANCHESTER MIDDLE.

LET'S SEE. I'M NOT GOING TO TRY.

I CAN'T. MY BRAIN TOO TIRED.

GREAT. I SHOULD TRY.

NEXT, OUR NEXT SCHOOL BOARD BUDGET WORK SESSION WILL BE HELD ON TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7TH, 2023, AT 4:00 PM HERE IN THE COUNTY PUBLIC MEETING ROOM.

IT WILL BE FOLLOWED BY A BUSINESS MEETING AT 6:30 P.M..

PUBLIC HEARINGS FOR THE SUPERINTENDENT'S PROPOSED BUDGET IN CAPITAL.

CAPITAL EASY TO SAY CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PLAN WILL BE HELD AT THE START OF THE BUSINESS MEETING.

IF THERE'S NO FURTHER BUSINESS, WE NEED A MOTION TO ADJOURN.

SO MOVE. MADAM CLERK, WOULD YOU PLEASE CALL? ROLL ON THE MOTION.

2023 SCHOOL BOARD BUDGET WORK SESSION IS ADJOURNED.

* This transcript was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.