Welcome and Call to Order

The meeting will be called to the order, beginning with the pledge of allegiance and a moment of silence.

Approval of Agenda

So that there is agreement between board members on the agenda, and the amount of time spent on the meeting, the board shall vote to approve an agenda for the meeting. To the best of its ability, it will follow that agenda, and allow for the chair to move the board through the agenda as specified.

Approval of Minutes from Apr 15, 2019

Approval of Minutes from Apr 25, 2019

Public Comment

Our Public Comment period is for members of the public to address the board. Each member of the public may sign up to comment at the meeting and will be allotted two minutes. The board will listen, but may not directly respond to any comments. Our meetings are open to the public and public record. As such, if your comment is about a private matter, please contact the board via email, or speak to the board chair privately.

Prestige (KM Consulting)

Presenting JISCH monthly Financial Statement.

Revenue changes:

1st page. Education finance act 16mill- 135 day reports the state had the report re run (32 k decrease).

pg 2. 4 revenue changes 40k increase

Teacher salary increase decreased 8k

Aid to district- was increased by 40k.

Pg 3. Early college 175k to pay back 10k early college a month, Clark academy & Daniel Jenkins. 50k Aug to march. Increase 75k for the year increase will account for it in next year budget.

Instruction software and supply was decreased. Payed in 17-18 school year.

70k in CTE Culinary 40K add for 2nd auction.

Pg 4 speech handicap was increased by 8k

Pg. 6 added the bonuses

School Admin Supplies increased by 5k.

Office instructional equipment was increased.

Pg 8 Pupils services and activity was decreased 41k & 21K based on accruals and projection forward

Liability line was increased to 11K

year to date is balanced 4.5 will end the year in the fund balance.

2nd Reading of 19-20 Budget

Prestige 

student fees decreased to 175K because of the SY balaced caught up.

1540 ADM with a 2% per pupil increase to be Conservative.

2nd page. EIA source will be the same as the 18-19 school year.

Vocational programs- $100k added for Culinary program.

pg 6 bonus was not added for next year. Wanted to make sure the year is balanced before it's added again.

Bottom line w/ Staffing changes 308k (world lang , English, science and PE and no off duty).

One Lunch for JICHS

- Board vote for support/approval

4x4 block 50 min lunch for Independent learning time so kids can have access to all of their teachers. Structured learning time will be added for kids who cant handle the freedom. It takes the excuses away from teachers parents and students. Ashley Ridge sight visit with CCSD Cafeteria on 5/21/19.

June 7, 2019, Staff Release at 12:30 pm

- Board vote

Leadership Report

Presented by Leadership Chair Sheli Ballard.

LEADERSHIP TEAM:

• The leadership team voted to approve a “one lunch’ schedule for the 19-20 school year.  This will enable us to more effectively (1) provide students with support beyond class, (2) provide time for teachers to collaborate & plan, (3) provide opportunities & space for student clubs & teams to meet/practice, & (4) provide unstructured time for students to be tutored, complete assignments, unwind & socialize, or practice self/time-management skills.
• ACTION RESEARCH COMMITTEES (Results):
• Motivating Minority STudents -- Summer Bridge Program
• Climate/Culture --
• Faculty Recognition: Monthly Faculty Food Truck Fridays & Teacher Shout Outs
• Spirit and Student Recognition: Homecoming and Coming Home Events, Fall Festival and Trojan Puff Game, Renaissance End-of-Year Event, Senior Awards, Senior Trip
• GT (Differentiating Instruction) --
• ID gifted & talented students @ JICHS
• Modeled instruction and provided resources throughout campus
• Technology --
• Interactive Flat Panels = 10 (10 more on the way this week)
• MacBook Art Lab w/ cart
• Two iMac Labs
• 886 Chromebooks
• Joey Carts for Chromebooks

ATHLETICS:

• Seven JICHS Track & Field athletes were named to the All State team:
• --The girls 4x800m Relay Team:  Monic Green, Gabi Lehr, Eve Alexander, Hannah Vroon
• --Tia Lucas in the girls High Jump
• --The girls 4x400m Relay Team:  Monic Green, Tia Lucas, Eve Alexander, Terri Admore
• --Carson Tillman in the boys 800m Run

MEDIA CENTER:

• As an illustration of the success of your funding of the school wide reading program at JI, an email from a teacher after we gave her student a copy of Hey Kiddo just Thursday morning:
• "OMG he is still reading and he stops every 10 minutes or so to tell me what is happening. He wants the whole class to read Hey Kiddo while he teaches. This has never happened before."
• (Copies available by the circ desk if you want to illustrate this story with a prop :-).  We are organizing a Skype session with this author in the fall.)

ROTC:

• The JICHS ROTC earned the Air Force Distinguished Unit Award for performing in the top 25% of over 900 units.

FINE ARTS:

• The theater & music students & faculty presented 3 performances of Shrek the Musical this past weekend.  This is the very 1st production completely produced, performed, & managed by JICHS -- congrats to everyone who worked really hard to make this happen.  Special thanks to Mr. Bateman, Mrs. Quinn, & Ms. Jensen for an amazing job!

• Our JICHS Band for earning the South Carolina Band Directors Association "Concert Achievement Award!!!"  This is a specific award that recognizes South Carolina band programs that prove to have a top notch, comprehensive program, but do not have a competitive marching band.  The criteria for earning this award includes earning enough points in the 3 following categories: Region/All-State Band, Concert Performance Assessment and Solo & Ensemble.  According to SCBDA online records, JICHS is the only 2nd SC band program to earn this award since 2001!!!
• The Performing Arts is wrapping its Spring Concerts with a "Preview" for the student body and three full performances Shrek the Musical May 17-19. All of the Strings, Band, Chorus, Piano Concerts and Recitals were extremely well-attended and bolstered lots of support for our Performing Arts programs.

SOCIAL STUDIES:

• The social studies department would like to tank Bohemian Bull for their support of our AP students:
• Bohemian Bull donated wings, pulled pork, baked beans, collard greens, brownies, cookies, and pasta salad to support AP Euro students after their AP Exam on Thursday, 5/9. The students worked so hard and put so much effort into their academics and Bohemian Bull helped the school celebrate their achievements!
• Our SS Quest team took first place over Academic Magnet earlier this year and got third overall.

MATH:

• Mr. Maxwell’s students used their mathematical prowess in designing & building kites!

SCIENCE:

• Brian Quigley, a biologist with the National Marine Mammal Foundation, came in to speak to all Marine Science classes about how & why they sample & collect data on bottlenose dolphin populations along the East Coast & the Gulf of Mexico.
• Sgt  David Frishkorn of the Army National Guard, came to speak to Earth Science classes about MREs.  The discussion about calories and nutrition aligned with topics in 'The Martian' which classes are reading now.
• Earth Science classes participated in Seeds to Shoreline.  They planted marsh grass that was grown on our campus and bagged over 400 bags of oyster shell and laid 200 bags of oyster shell in the marsh to facilitate new oyster reef growth.
• Honors Marine Science students met students from Ockero, Sweden and participated in a field trip to DNR with them.  Our students and the Swedish students had Skyped prior to their arrival.
• Honors Biology was visited by staff from Greenwood Genetics.  The staff did a gel electrophoresis lab with the students.
• Honors Biology students also bagged oyster shell for oyster reef reconstruction with Bears Bluff National Fish Hatchery.

CTE:

• 115 sports medicine students and 10 coaches completed CPR/AED certifications!
• To close-out the school year in CTE…
• 53 senior CTE Completers in 9 different Career Clusters
• 4 students passed the Adobe Certification Associate Exam for Photoshop (national certification)
• 4 students passed the National Health Science exam (national certification)
• 20 students received their Microsoft Office Specialist Certification for Word 2016 (national certification)
• 9 students received their Microsoft Office Specialist Certification for PowerPoint 2016 (national certification)
• 2 students (to date) passed the CompTia A+ Certification Exam Part 1
• 110 students received their CPR certification
• This year is our first time offering Adobe and Microsoft National Exam Certification, which we were able to provide using Perkins Funding.
• Students attended a focused STEM career-oriented session at BOEING by.
• The members of Boeing IT fields ranged from Integrated Technology, Global Engagement, Government Operations, Research & Technology, Software Development, Business Engineering, Systems & Data Analytics, & Global Collaborative Services.
• Students begin to see that what they learn within the walls of the classroom can help them solve or analyze the problems they see in the world around them and can have a direct impact on who they become as people.
• The access afforded via Boeing was instrumental in allowing James Island STEM students able to access an environment that are not available at school. Our Charleston communities are rich learning laboratories. This experience solidifies STEM learning and supports important academic concepts supported by James Island via the gamification and data mining concepts applied within our SC curriculum concepts. This multisensory learning experience brought one-dimensional lessons to life and created enthusiasm for STEM careers that is hard to replicate through the classroom.

Maintenance Report

Presented by Mr. Thorn

1. Installed 12 student benches.
2. Install Mosaic panels by the planters.
3. Replaced a compressor in the HVAC unit for Rm 224
4. 82 work orders from April 15th to the present.

School Leader Report

Presented by Mr. Thorn

Fine Arts

Congratulations to your JICHS Band for earning the South Carolina Band Director's Association "Concert Achievement Award!!!" This is a specific award that recognizes South Carolina band programs that prove to have a top-notch, comprehensive program, but do not have a competitive marching band. The criteria for earning this award includes earning enough points in the 3 following categories: Region/All-State Band, Concert Performance Assessment, & Solo & Ensemble. According to SCBDA online records, we are only the 2nd SC band program to earn this award since 2001!!! Congratulations!!!!!!

Congratulations to our students who participated in Solo & Ensemble on Friday night. We brought home 16 Superior & 4 Excellent Ratings!

Shrek

JICHS produced its first ever musical this past weekend, Shrek the Musical. It was a tremendous success. Gratulations to the students, Ms. Jensen, Mrs. Quinn, and Mr. Bateman for putting on an incredible production.  I gave it a 5-Star Rating: Personal/Aesthetic/Spiritual.

Technology- Matt Gilbert    

• Technology has deployed all of the Chromebooks that we have for the Spring testing season.
• We've decided on an Apple Management system so that we can use our Apple products on this campus in sync with our Internet provider (CCSD via AT&T).
• We're in the process of replacing the most pixelated Smart Boards with the more modern iBoard (ten lucky classrooms)
• We've configured the newest scanning door (Fine Arts wing) to work with a coded scan card instead of a physical key.
• The Tech team thanks to the board for their strong support and help in moving us forward.

Safety Bulletin

• Met with the new security search team at CCSD and had them observe our procedures for security tower searches and classroom searches.
• Continuing to address student driving behavior on campus
• Temporary suspension of 3 parking passes
• Met with students concerning possible bullying
• Conducted classroom searches
• Conducted an active threat lockdown drill
• Conducted a fire drill
• Security towers screenings: 4/15, 4/18, 4/23, 4/25, 4/30, 5/3, 5/9, 5/10, 5/13, 5/14

Staff Professional Development

• Capturing Kids Hearts Training is scheduled for June 5-6
• SCASA Conference June 17-19- Admin Team
• Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) training
• AVID Training June 25-27
• AP/IB Trainings throughout the summer

Construction Update CTE and Competition Gym

We had a construction meeting on May 14. We have since learned that West Ashley High School and Wando High School have a mechatronics program in a 1,600 sq ft classroom without specialized equipment. The new Lucy Beckham High School will have the same size facility for Mechatronics. This is contrary to the information we received back in January from CCSD CTE Division. At this time, we do not need a second high-bay space. We could use the additional space for a culinary program, additional classroom, and office spaces. This may or may not be possible at this phase of the project.

5-20-19 Reginald McNeil email  

They are in the process of continuing with the Building Construction space as discussed with you and your staff.  They have also been directed to continue to look at culinary arts in the adjacent area but not to slow down progress with meeting the schematic design deadline.  The schematic design will only include a culinary arts shell with the required square footage. During our schematic design review, the A/E will continue to research culinary arts supporting components for the next design phase (Design Development).  Another meeting will be set up to review the formal schematic design to include the changes noted above.

The competition gym plans reflect most of our requests. The gym floor will only be 84 ft long. This decision was made by CCSD and not as a part of any meeting. They claim that 84 feet is the district standard. In general, the district standard is used to judge all aspects of the project (safety and security, materials, and schematic design).          

Other Capital Projects

James Island Bus Lot

We are working with a CCSD to possibly put a bus lot for James Island on our campus. In return, CCSD will help fund a secondary competition field with field turf, bleachers, and lights.  The plan is to also include a new stadium for JICHS on the November 2020 Bond Referendum. We would push to have field turf installed at the start of the Phase V Construction Schedule. Two turf fields with lights will better accommodate our sports teams.

TMD Classroom Conversion

A RAR has been completed with CCSD to convert the foods lab into a TMD classroom. This project will need to be coordinated with other construction projects.    

Board Meeting Dates

2018-19 Board of Directors- 5:30 pm on the third Monday of the month.  

8/20, 9/17, 10/15, 11/12, 12/17, 1/28, 2/25, 3/18, 4/15, 5/20, 6/3

2018-19 Finance Committee - 4:30 pm on the second Monday of the month.

8/13, 9/10, 10/8, 11/12, 12/10, 1/14, 2/11, 3/11, 4/8, 5/13, 6/10

2019-20 Board of Directors- 5:30 pm on the third Monday of the month.

8/19 or 8/26, 9/16, 10/21, 11/11 or 11/25, 12/16, 1/27, 2/24, 3/16, 4/20, 4/14, 5/18, 6/22

2019-20 Finance Committee - 4:30 pm on the second Monday of the month.

8/112 or 8/19, 9/9, 10/14, 11/4 or 11/11, 12/9,  1/13, 2/10, 3/9, 4/14 (Tuesday), 5/11, 6/8

Executive Session

• Contracts- Baseball project update, IRF update, Board approval to fund addition to CTE- 1.2 to 1.5 million dollars, Flooring quote
• Personnel- Campus Security Manager update
• Legal- CCSD Charter Contract
• Student Privacy-  

Motions From Executive Session

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The Meeting was Adjourned

The meeting adjourned at approximately 9:29 pm