Agenda - 05-19-20; 8-a - Minutes

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18 1 o 80-90 bags of supplemental food are distributed weekly in our elementary schools 2 o 25-30 bags of supplemental food are distributed weekly in our middle schools 3 o 10-15 bags of supplemental food are distributed weekly in our high schools 4 o OCS has 150+ McKinney Vento Students (homeless) 5 o 25-30 ESSA students (Foster Care) 6 • $160,000 to hire two additional academically/intellectually gifted (AIG) teachers. 7 o Budget reductions in FY2018 prevented the hire of these two vacant positions. 8 Resources had to be shifted forcing two of our elementary schools to share an AIG 9 teacher with another school. 10 • $40,000 to offer the dual language program to PreK students at New Hope Elementary. 11 The current dual language program offered to Kindergarten's at New Hope elementary is 12 very successful and in high demand. Parents and the community have expressed great 13 desire for the program to begin in PreK. 14 15 In support of our second foci, Climate and culture, our Board supported and approved the 16 following expansion items: 17 • $150,000 to build in two inclement weather days for classified staff. At this time, when 18 the district is closed for inclement weather 12 month classified staff are required to use 19 vacation and in some cases leave without pay. 20 • $82,500 to reinstate pay for 5 teacher assistant workdays. To balance the budget in 21 FY2019 and not eliminate any teacher assistant position, the district no longer allowed 22 teacher assistants to work on teacher workdays. As a result, Teacher Assistant pay was 23 reduced by 14 days. The district was able to protect all teacher assistant positions and 24 recoup approximately $250,000 to balance the budget. The OCS Board and staff realize 25 the value and importance of these staff members in our schools. It is the goal of our 26 Board to eventually reinstate all of the workdays for teacher assistants. 27 $192,000 to increase the maintenance technician staff by four. This expansion request is 28 supported by the following data: 29 o OCS currently has one maintenance technician serving 93,000 square feet. Industry 30 standards are one maintenance technician serving 50,000 square feet. 31 o An additional 50,000 square feet will be added to the district upon completion of the 32 Cedar Ridge High School wing addition and 26,000 square feet added with the 33 opening of the Orange County Schools Welcome Center would be in additional to the 34 93,000 square feet currently being served. 35 o $25.8 million capital improvement budget projects ongoing in the district. 36 37 Our final focus area, Stakeholder Engagement, received Board support and approval for the 38 following expansion items: 39 $80,000 to hire a translator to support schools. We continue to welcome an increase in 40 non-English speaking families attending Orange County Schools. To better support 41 these students and their families, adding a translator will aid in our day to day 42 communications and allow us to better meet the needs of these families. We desire for 43 all of non-English speaking families to feel welcomed and valued as a partner with us in 44 their child's education. 45 $142,000 to add two equity facilitators to build capacity related to culturally relevant 46 teaching practices. Not only would these positions assist in building capacity surrounding 47 culturally relevant teaching practices but we also envision these facilitators; (1) teaching 48 African American and Latinx history courses at the two high schools; (2) Examining 49 policies, practices and protocols through an equity lens; and (3) Additional support to 13 50 school based equity teams. At this time, the OCS Equity Department consists of one