{"id":12375,"date":"2015-04-19T16:47:05","date_gmt":"2015-04-19T20:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/?p=12375"},"modified":"2015-04-19T16:47:05","modified_gmt":"2015-04-19T20:47:05","slug":"breakdown-danville-school-board-41615-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2015\/04\/19\/breakdown-danville-school-board-41615-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"BreakDown: Danville School Board (4\/16\/15) \u2013 Part #2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve published <a title=\"BreakDown: Danville School Board (4\/16\/15) \u2013 Part #1\" href=\"http:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2015\/04\/17\/breakdown-danville-school-board-41615-part-1\/\" target=\"_blank\">Part #1 of the BreakDown on Thursday&#8217;s Danville School Board meeting<\/a>. Let&#8217;s keep it rolling&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>When we left off, we were getting to the final draft for the budget and the vote to approve it. Let&#8217;s take a look at the summary page.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/embeds\/262189049\/content?start_page=1&view_mode&access_key=key-iYDwydcz42CcjaYGSvlD\"  data-auto-height=\"true\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"scribd_262189049\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n\t\t<div style=\"font-size:10px;text-align:center;width:100%\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/262189049\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">View this document on Scribd<\/a><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>We&#8217;ll start by analyzing the mandates. They&#8217;re not really mandates. Health insurance is going up 3%, but that cost increase will be killed by a cost decrease down at the bottom. The school system is raising the maximum amount that they pay for their part of catastrophic claims from $100K to $110K. That won&#8217;t affect any employee benefits. The next line under mandates is the problem. $650,000 of &#8220;carryover money&#8221;. That&#8217;s money leftover from previous budget years and once it&#8217;s spent, it&#8217;s not coming back. More to come on that later.<\/li>\n<li>Under &#8220;New Initiatives&#8221;, my eyebrows raise at $66K+ for a new athletics coordinator position (Withers Jackson, Hello?) and I can live with a new middle school baseball program for only $11K+. Understand, the dollar values quoted are salary, benefits and insurance contribution&#8230; not just salary. The amount quoted for an LPN at Johnson Elementary sounds way too low, and I&#8217;ve asked Finance Director Lori Cassada to check that. The conversion of middle school receptionists is a common sense move.<\/li>\n<li>Under the Savings\/Cost Avoidance section, I&#8217;m concerned about the dropping of an orchestra teaching position at the middle school level. However, I asked an expert on that subject and they said one orchestra teacher should be able to handle both Bonner and Westwood&#8217;s program.<\/li>\n<li>Magically, the savings just happen to add up exactly to the &#8220;mandates&#8221; and the new initiatives. Right down to the dollar. Magic!<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s time for the vote to approve the budget and send it to city council, but Steven Gould has something to say! He says that he&#8217;ll be voting &#8220;No&#8221; on the budget because the use of carryover money means that the system is spending more money than they have coming in. He says that can&#8217;t be sustained in future budget years. He&#8217;s right. He gets nods of approval from other board members. Nobody says anything else and it&#8217;s time to vote. Gould votes &#8220;No&#8221; as he said he would, and Renee Hughes is next to vote. She thinks, and the pause is like Regis asking &#8220;Is that your final answer?&#8221;. She locks in a &#8220;No&#8221; vote and that three note music cue plays. Not really, but it&#8217;s about as dramatic. Sharon Dones also votes &#8220;No&#8221;, but Ed Polhamus, Terri Hall, Philip Campbell and Cheryl Bryant vote &#8220;Yes&#8221;. The budget squeaks by on the minimum 4-3 vote. Whew.<\/li>\n<li>Afterwards, I ask Renee Hughes and Sharon Dones if Steven Gould&#8217;s speech influenced their vote. Hughes said she already had some concerns about the sustainability factor and Dones said that she was already going to vote &#8220;No&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>Next, Jackie Rochford goes over this year&#8217;s application for the Carl Perkins grant. The board passes that 7-0.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.imgur.com\/bCR80nW.jpg?resize=640%2C480\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">By the time we got up to take a photo, Jackie Rochford had already finished her presentation.<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Next, <del>city council candidate (wait, not announced yet?)<\/del> Warrick Scott is asking for a letter of support for the Wendell Scott Foundation&#8217;s grant application to the Womack Foundation for funding for their Legacy Leaders program. Confused yet? Here&#8217;s the proposed letter for you to read&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/embeds\/262374886\/content?start_page=1&view_mode&access_key=key-YOeit8pNWKo84fL3TuP8\"  data-auto-height=\"true\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"scribd_262374886\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n\t\t<div style=\"font-size:10px;text-align:center;width:100%\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/262374886\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">View this document on Scribd<\/a><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.imgur.com\/xiDoiFK.jpg?resize=640%2C480\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Warrick Scott speaks. Dolores Reynolds&#8217; foot, HELLO!<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Sharon Dones asks if letters of support like these are standard policy, and Kathy Osborne says that they are. It&#8217;s a good program for upcoming 8th and 9th graders. The letter of support passes by a 6-1 vote. After the meeting, Sharon Dones said she didn&#8217;t feel comfortable endorsing a project that she didn&#8217;t have all of the information on. That&#8217;s understandable. With all these &#8220;No&#8221; votes tonight, Sharon is becoming the school board&#8217;s Buddy Rawley. Heh.<\/li>\n<li>Next, Incoming Superintendent Stan Jones has asked the board to pay for the Virginia Association of School Superintendent&#8217;s conference in Roanoke during the first week of May. Chairman Ed Polhamus doesn&#8217;t have much information, but it stands to reason that King &amp; Queen County wouldn&#8217;t be wiling to pay for the conference she&#8217;s taking the Danville job. Board <del>attorney<\/del> member Steven Gould originally says that he&#8217;d be in favor of paying the registration fees, but then the discussion turns to &#8220;You know, he&#8217;s not an official employee yet.&#8221; The board quickly goes to a &#8220;Um&#8230; no.&#8221; position. Ed Polhamus asks if the board wants to make a motion and you can hear the crickets chirping. No motion. NEXT!<\/li>\n<li>The work session originally scheduled for 6PM on May 21st is moved to 8 AM. If you think you&#8217;re going to get SouthsideCentral coverage of that, FORGET IT! (but you just might anyway)<\/li>\n<li>Next, the board changes their capital improvement plan to go to new shingle roofs for the Westwood and Schoolfield if city council keeps the board&#8217;s capital improvement plan funded at the same level so that money can be used for other projects. They&#8217;ll talk about that at Tuesday night&#8217;s council meeting.<\/li>\n<li>Finally, the board considers a scholarship offer from <a title=\"The Lies Of Norhurst\" href=\"http:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2015\/03\/24\/the-lies-of-norhurst\/\" target=\"_blank\">Norhurst. Yes, that Norhurst<\/a>. Norhurst wants to fund two $1500 scholarships, one for athletics and one for academics. Immediately, Steven Gould&#8217;s face goes &#8220;No. No. No.&#8221; He reads SouthsideCentral. Cheryl Bryant says &#8220;What does Norhurst do?&#8221; Apparently, she doesn&#8217;t read SouthsideCentral very often. Gould asks Kathy Osborne if the city has issued an opinion on accepting the scholarships and she says &#8220;Yes, they said to take them.&#8221; Gould&#8217;s mouth hits the desk. No. No. No. discussion ensues, and the timing is very late on Norhurst&#8217;s offer anyway. No motion is put on the table to accept the scholarship offer. Sanity prevails.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s time for a recess then the board will go into closed session for personnel and discipline cases.\u00a0 You know what that means?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We&#8217;re done! This has been the most interesting school board meeting since <del>they fired<\/del> Ed Newsome resigned. We&#8217;ve got more coming up on SouthsideCentral!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve published Part #1 of the BreakDown on Thursday&#8217;s Danville School Board meeting. 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