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CAT Tracks for July 18, 2018
REGULAR BOE MEETING...AGENDA PLUS |
The Cairo Board of Education held its Regular Meeting on Thursday, July 19, 2018, at 6 p.m.
The agenda is below (along with some supporting documents.)
Following the agenda is the report from CAT President De De O'Shea...
Report:
Members present: Mary Coleman, Brenda Gooden, Sheila Nelson, Rodney Moore.
Examples of Excellence: Regina Brown said that summer school is going great and that CES is getting ready for the beginning of school.
Public addressing the Board - Joshua Shearer - Art Teacher - Mr. Shearer has been working with the students of the district in the afternoon during the summer. He is working on a grant. He expressed his appreciation for letting him work with our students. He knows from experience how art has helped him throughout his life in his educational experiences. He expressed how important he feels art is to low income students. He just wanted to thank Dr. Evers and the Board for allowing him to come and be with the students.
Rodney Moore presented a $500.00 check from Club Elite to the board to be used for the High School Basketball program.
Informational:
- School starts for the teachers on August 9th and students come August 10th.
- School physicals will be available at the Community Bash on July 30.
- Registration is on July 30th from 10-2 and on August 1st from 10-6 at CJHS/CHS.
- Hired Gena Holmes as CES 1st Grade Teacher.
- Hired Larry Baldwin as the CES Part-Time PE Teacher.
The BOE voted to adjourn at 8:00.
To read the unofficial minutes of the June 21st Public Hearing and Regular BOE Meeting...
...click here.
FOOTNOTE: If you have been dying to attend a school board meeting, there will be an empty seat for you this Thursday night (and every 3rd Thursday of the month thereafter)...
...because I am calling it quits. Having only missed a handful of meetings during the decade since my retirement, I have decided that enough is enough. My inability to hear has simply become too frustrating.
But, have no fear...
...due to the unfailing loyalty of CAT President De De O'Shea, the monthly reports will continue!
As with this edition, De De will keep giving me the BOE packet prior to the meetings for scanning and posting. She will attend the meetings and e-mail me afterwards with anything worthy of a CAT's curiosity.
To mark the end of close to 40 years of attending school board meetings (both regular and special, not to mention negotiations sessions), I would like to quote a dearly departed colleague, Ola Grigsby, whose entire speech in accepting her retirement honors was three words:
"It's been real."
