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Page 10, May 20, 2019, The Islander
BOE outsources custodial supervisor duties
By Pamela Permar Shierling
Last week (May 14) the Glynn
County Board of Education (BOE)
formally approved several contracts
previously discussed during the May
9 work session.
The most notable change in the
way things have worked in the past
is that the BOE chose to, in the wake
of a custodial supervisor’s retirement,
enter into a private custodial man
agement services contract with The
Haskins Company.
According to A1 Boudreau, Facili
ties Director for the school system,
Haskins will provide quarterly inspec
tions - including onsite building in
spection; fleet maintenance tracking
and service scheduling; onsite train
ing and development where needed
or upon request; updates on building
changes, renovations, space informa
tion annually; license ownership and
database maintenance; customized
reports for Custodial Program recom
mendations, power equipment, report
ing, supplier information, FTE count
optimization analysis, etc; onsite in
formal vendor managed inventory
requirements at the school level; for
mal RFQ prep, recommendations and
specifications for procurement by the
BOE where applicable; maintenance
department consultation and updates
on regular basis; vendor and supplier
relation activities on custodial prod
ucts only.
The contract cost is $3,195 /
monthly ($38,340 annually) for a one
year commitment with options to re
new in years two and three.
Boudreau said, ‘Our goal is to get
our schools cleaner.”
Haskins will train the school sys
tem custodial employees on how to get
to a certain level of cleanliness, Bou
dreau said.
“And Haskins will train based on
our requests,” he said.
The FY 2020 budget shows a re
duction of $73,800 for a custodian su
pervisor position due to that person’s
retirement.
The BOE approved a $1.6 million
contract with Ridge Enterprises for
the new Altama Elementary School
site clearing. There were three other
bidders and Ridge was the lowest
price as well as the highest rated.
A June ground breaking for the
school is expected.
The board approved the Golden
Isles College and Career Academy’s
(CIGGA) request to apply for a Con
struction-Related Equipment (CRE)
Bond Grant from the Georgia Dept, of
Education.
If granted the funds will go to pur
chase new equipment for GICCA’s
kitchen.
Dr. Rick Townsend, GICCA’s CEO,
said, “If we get the grant, it will be
used as seed money to update the
school’s culinary lab.”
The BOE approved spending
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$573,000 to continue the Read 180 lit
eracy intervention program for those
who read below grade level.
During the work session on May
9 staff provided a literacy update for
the 2019-20 school year which will fo
cus on increasing the number of stu
dents reading proficiently by the third
grade.
According to staff, instruction will
be improved to reduce the need for
wide-scale remediation.
Studies show that reading profi
ciency by the third grade relates to
the graduation rate. Students who do
not meet the third grade reading pro
ficiency benchmark: are more likely to
drop out of school; are more likely to
live in poverty; are more likely to have
higher incarceration rates.
Also remediation after the third
grade is not as effective and likely to
take longer.
Read 180 and Math 180 have been
in place in the Glynn County School
system since the 2014-2015 school
year.
Superintendent Dr. Virgil Cole said
that Mrs. Lewis (Sung Hui Lewis, As
sistant Superintendent) feels strongly
that it is still a beneficial program
even though, Cole said, “I do feel
strongly we need to wean ourselves
off of some of this program and she
agrees with me.”
“We are having some success in
literacy now and this (Read 180) has
been a valuable part of that,” Cole
said. He also said the one time pay
ment of $573,000 will come out of the
2019 budget.
BOE member Mike Hulsey asked
during the work session, “When is the
end game (for this program) going to
get here?”
“I’ve been on the board for 14 years
and we’ve talked about kids needing
to read by the third grade. That’s been
our major issue. So when is the end
game going to get here?” he asked.
“I want to have a plan for phas
ing things out,” he continued. “I don’t
want to be talking about this five
years from now.”
Dr. Cole said he agreed with Hulsey
and that the system did need to work
away from Read 180 but he did not say
what the plan was or the time frame.
Staff told the BOE that last year
74% of Glynn County kindergartners
were reading proficiently; that in
creased to 93% this year.
Statistics for first and second grade
reading proficiency were: first grade
- 68% last year and 73% this year;
second grade - 73% last year and 79%
this year.
From the Work Session on May 9:
There wasn’t much to report on the
Performing Arts Center front. Accord
ing to School System Superintendent
Dr. Virgil Cole, “We plan to continue
to meet with the College (College of
Coastal Georgia).”
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