Agenda - 11-01-2022; 8-a - Minutes

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26 1 they will be paid for both. He said the teachers really want a planning period. He said it is best 2 for students to have a teacher rather than a long term substitute so they can build a relationship. 3 Commissioner Bedford asked if they had the $500,000, could they do some of the things 4 Bonnie Hauser spoke about, but maintain the increased driver pay and the 4% mandate until 5 June. 6 Will Atherton said yes. He said that additional teacher supplements had to be scaled 7 back but they still believe they are key and critical. 8 Commissioner Bedford asked about the vacancies in each school district. 9 Dr. Felder said for Orange County, 37.5 certified vacancies and 28.5 are teacher 10 vacancies. 11 Commissioner Bedford said some of the other vacancies might be support positions 12 along with the 15 bus driver positions. 13 Carrie Doyle said she thinks they can do the classroom coverage at about 2/3s the rate 14 of when they had the ESSER funds to do it. She said they have had to scale that back. 15 Commissioner Bedford asked if it is not the full hourly rate. 16 Will Atherton said that originally they were offering a $60 raise, but they had to drop it to 17 $40. 18 Dr. Hamlett said for Chapel Hill Carrboro City Schools, there are 109 vacancies, with a 19 little over 80 for certified. She said she will provide the classified number later. 20 Commissioner Bedford said there is no need to provide additional because she knows 21 how busy they are. She said that information points out how severe the hiring crisis is in North 22 Carolina. 23 Dr. Felder said the tutors from EdCorp are about $400,000 and are funded by ESSER 24 funds. 25 Bonnie Hauser said $500,000 is their estimate for the 4% increase in state raises. She 26 said that this is an additional burden from the state and it was unexpected. She also noted that 27 this expense came from the state after the county's budget was already adopted. 28 Chair Price asked how much is needed to fill vacancies. 29 Sarah Smylie said that the reason they have the vacancies is not because they don't 30 have the budget for them but they are unable to recruit teachers due to the supplement. 31 Chair Price asked how much is needed to be made whole and to sustain that. 32 Sarah Smylie said the difference is the state amount of $500,000 and then they would 33 have to look at just how far off they are for compression issues. 34 Bonnie Hauser said $2 million. 35 Deon Temne said each district has a letter requesting more funding. He said Chapel Hill 36 Carrboro City Schools' request was $1 million. 37 Will Atherton said they have asked for what will cover the state's mandated increase. 38 39 40 2. School Safety— Chair Will Atherton, OCS 41 a. Access during school hours and school programs, trespassing 42 43 Sarah Smylie discussed the enhanced security measures in Orange County Schools. 44 She said they have hired a new director of security. She said that they are making sure that 45 teachers are teaching with the doors locked and that all doors going into the school are locked 46 during the day. She said they updated camera systems, door controls, campus and district radio 47 systems, and soon they will have the ability to do an internal 411 system to send alerts to all 48 240 radios. She said that the radios also allow cross campus communication. She said they are 49 working on specifications for bids to replace doors and lock systems in some of their older 50 facilities. She said there is a new visitor check in system installed in all schools. She said a 51 future need is additional fencing at Central Elementary School between the campus and the