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UID:meeting-2590@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T140421Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240909T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240909T193000
SUMMARY:Chatham County Schools: Regular Session
LOCATION:Central Services Board Room 468 Renaissance Drive
DESCRIPTION:Board of Education\n\nChatham County Schools' Board of Education reviewed 2023-24 state accountability results showing a 90 percent four- and five-year graduation rate\, the highest in at least 15 years of district data and above the state average\, alongside mixed academic growth results. The board also adopted a resolution marking Arts and Education Week and approved two exceptional-children contracts to cover staffing gaps in speech-language and vision-impairment services.\n\nWatch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9xsZVyHmO0\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2590
URL:https://simbli.eboardsolutions.com/SB_Meetings/SB_Meeting.aspx?S=WRDnq5hf4PuArDJJDg7LsQ==&MID=ghC2UIWiUgXN7j3VtZm4KA==
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-2591@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T140421Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241007T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241007T193000
SUMMARY:Chatham County Schools: Regular Session
LOCATION:Central Services Board Room 468 Renaissance Drive
DESCRIPTION:Board of Education\n\nChatham County Schools' Board of Education\, meeting in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene\, approved a full slate of routine business: school improvement plans for every school\, a $50\,000-per-unit donation of 3D printers to Seaforth High School's career and technical program\, revised student fee policies\, and its 2026-2032 capital improvement plan request to county commissioners\, which flags an urgent roof replacement at Siler City Elementary.\n\nWatch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfYCIZFX7ZM\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2591
URL:https://simbli.eboardsolutions.com/SB_Meetings/SB_Meeting.aspx?S=WRDnq5hf4PuArDJJDg7LsQ==&MID=xWURMIe9gICldY6RIuaLPw==
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-2593@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T140421Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241209T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241209T193000
SUMMARY:Chatham County Schools: Regular Session
LOCATION:Central Services Board Room 468 Renaissance Drive
DESCRIPTION:Board of Education\n\nChatham County Schools' Board of Education spent much of its meeting recognizing staff and students\, including an EC Educator of Excellence award and monthly Champions of Character and Power of One honorees. On business\, the board approved an American Rescue Plan Act-funded contract to air condition six of nine district gymnasiums\, leaving three schools waiting until the 2028-29 school year\, and formalized a longstanding field-sharing agreement between Jordan-Matthews High School and Siler City Parks and Recreation.\n\nWatch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDb_Gi7r-M0\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2593
URL:https://simbli.eboardsolutions.com/SB_Meetings/SB_Meeting.aspx?S=WRDnq5hf4PuArDJJDg7LsQ==&MID=JNzNSIe16goeqIaE2sS8aA==
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-2594@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T140421Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250113T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250113T193000
SUMMARY:Chatham County Schools: Regular Session
LOCATION:Central Services Board Room 468 Renaissance Drive
DESCRIPTION:Board of Education\n\nChatham County Schools' Board of Education accepted a $20\,000 WolfSpeed donation for the district's robotics team\, approved a no-cost partnership with United Way of Chatham aimed at moving families out of poverty\, and renewed a three-year\, roughly $135\,300 contract with security consultant Risk and Strategic Management. The board also got its first look at anticipated FY2025-26 budget priorities ahead of a retreat the next morning\, including salary increases\, rising retirement costs\, and a roughly $6 million pass-through to charter schools that board members questioned for lack of accountability.\n\nWatch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPZ0sP3WP6E\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2594
URL:https://simbli.eboardsolutions.com/SB_Meetings/SB_Meeting.aspx?S=WRDnq5hf4PuArDJJDg7LsQ==&MID=BVU9Vz4VOBerhChslsh7Uz6fQ==
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-2599@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T140421Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250414T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250414T193000
SUMMARY:Chatham County Schools: Regular Session
LOCATION:Central Services Board Room 468 Renaissance Drive
DESCRIPTION:Board of Education\n\nEight action items\, most of them spending. The board accepted a $225\,000 school safety grant\, authorized security camera and server replacements against it\, bought 1\,500 Chromebooks and classroom displays\, approved the capital outlay request going to the county commissioners\, and renewed the teletherapy contract that has served 218 students since early 2024.\n\nTwo accountability items also came up: the alternative grading model for One Academy\, the district's alternative school\, and an amendment letting schools re-give end-of-grade and end-of-course tests during the school year rather than only over the summer\, after the state changed the rule ten days earlier.\n\nWatch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-9sC0c5jcM\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2599
URL:https://simbli.eboardsolutions.com/SB_Meetings/SB_Meeting.aspx?S=WRDnq5hf4PuArDJJDg7LsQ==&MID=Ik0zpAgRslshCMZqfgV6unGSg==
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-2601@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T140421Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250811T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250811T193000
SUMMARY:Chatham County Schools: Regular Session
LOCATION:Central Services Board Room 468 Renaissance Drive
DESCRIPTION:Board of Education\n\nA week before school opened\, the board picked an architect for three new gymnasiums at Bennett\, Bonlee and Silk Hope\, hired contractors to put air conditioning in six gymnasiums that have never had it\, and approved this year's consolidated federal grant application.\n\nThe superintendent's report was mostly about money the district is losing from above. The state's stopgap budget carries no raises\, the state stopped paying for Advanced Placement exams\, and Chatham lost 51 NC Pre-K slots. The board also disclosed from its evaluation that the superintendent declined a 5 percent performance bonus and that it added a year to his contract.\n\nWatch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVW_v6eNj6s\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2601
URL:https://simbli.eboardsolutions.com/SB_Meetings/SB_Meeting.aspx?S=WRDnq5hf4PuArDJJDg7LsQ==&MID=7fRgRd3gJlCZjd9BRldyvg==
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-2602@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T140421Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250908T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250908T193000
SUMMARY:Chatham County Schools: Regular Session
LOCATION:Central Services Board Room 468 Renaissance Drive
DESCRIPTION:Board of Education\n\nTwo things dominated the September meeting: a demographer's forecast that Chatham's school enrollment turns sharply upward once Pittsboro and Siler City finish their sewer work in 2027\, and last year's testing results\, in which every school in the district met or exceeded growth.\n\nThe board also adopted its budget resolution for 2025-26 with about $2.8 million of federal money still not appropriated\, corrected two policies\, and passed a resolution marking Arts and Education Week. First readings covered a new policy on wireless devices in schools required by state law\, along with twelve other policy updates.\n\nWatch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPMnWkUzZY4\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2602
URL:https://simbli.eboardsolutions.com/SB_Meetings/SB_Meeting.aspx?S=WRDnq5hf4PuArDJJDg7LsQ==&MID=R9x0MkoG204v94pkEU0Qng==
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-2603@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T140421Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251006T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251006T193000
SUMMARY:Chatham County Schools: Regular Session
LOCATION:Central Services Board Room 468 Renaissance Drive
DESCRIPTION:Board of Education\n\nThe board reported an $80\,000 settlement out of closed session\, took up its capital request to the county for 2027 through 2033\, and approved two outside partnerships: a tiny-house construction program running in three high schools and a YMCA after-school program at Virginia Cross Elementary paid for by a federal grant.\n\nThe superintendent used his time for a budget update rather than announcements. Chatham is operating on last year's state funding with no approved state budget\, waiting on federal money held up by the government shutdown\, and covering charter school enrollment it did not project. The board also accepted two donations from the Chatham Education Foundation and named its voting delegates for the state school boards conference.\n\nWatch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0q9oLcztK8w\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2603
URL:https://simbli.eboardsolutions.com/SB_Meetings/SB_Meeting.aspx?S=WRDnq5hf4PuArDJJDg7LsQ==&MID=0bNMrSgaBzDjZ4WggfSApA==
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-2604@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T140421Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251103T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251103T193000
SUMMARY:Chatham County Schools: Regular Session
LOCATION:Central Services Board Room 468 Renaissance Drive
DESCRIPTION:Board of Education\n\nThe board took up its first budget amendment of the 2025-26 year and this year's school improvement plans\, and heard staff explain the two pay decisions that brought every one of the night's ten public speakers to the podium: arts and academic stipends cut in the middle of the fall quarter\, and a cap on locally funded master's-degree pay.\n\nThe rest of the agenda was routine. Staff reported on how the district is complying with House Bill 805\, the state law requiring a searchable catalog of school and classroom library books and a way for parents to block a title for their own child. There was a first reading of 24 school board association policy updates\, an update on the NC College Connect early-admission program\, quarterly custodial inspection results\, and recognitions for schools\, staff and students.\n\nWatch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOuhxSHHRmM\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2604
URL:https://simbli.eboardsolutions.com/SB_Meetings/SB_Meeting.aspx?S=WRDnq5hf4PuArDJJDg7LsQ==&MID=wKqZEn1r9tIqWJDsvtXvUA==
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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