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Video of LCBOE adopting resolution against school consolidation



It took the Lowndes County Board of Education less than two minutes

at today’s 1PM called board meeting
to adopt a resolution against school consolidation.

Here are a few excerpts, followed by the video:



Superintendent Steve Smith: As y’all are well aware,
we have had numerous requests from our constituents that we adopt a stance
regarding consolidation.
So I think this resolution pretty much describes our position
regarding consolidation.

Nobody had any comments or discussion.



So they moved and seconded.
Philip Poole made the motion.
I didn’t catch who seconded.



Chair Fred Davis asked for a vote indicated “by raising your hand individually
and reciting your name, please.”

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8 to 0 Unanimous: LCBOE votes to oppose school consolidation

Update 5:30PM 30 August 2011:

Text of the resolution and
video of the board adopting it are posted.

Update 7:12PM 30 August 2011: a recent LHS graduate points out it was 7 to 0, since there are 7 board members. Let’s call it unanimous.

Karen Noll of FVCS illustrates the result of

today’s Lowndes County Board of Education meeting:
eight to zero unanimous for

a statement opposing school consolidation.
More videos of the meeting will follow.


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1PM (confirmed) today LCBOE to vote on school consolidation



The Lowndes County Board of Education has put up

an agenda
for today’s called meeting at 1PM,
which includes these items:

VI. a. Resolution Regarding Consolidation

VII. a. Resolution Adoption

Hm, another school board that puts its agendas online in web-readable form.
Maybe the municipal elected and appointed bodies could adopt this format.

On the other hand, would you want to merge with a school board that doesn’t
know when its own meetings are?


I went to the Lowndes County Board of Education at 11:30, and the woman (Terri) who

previously told me
that was the time of today’s called meeting now says it is 1PM.
She apologizes for the confusion. She says it was previously 11:30,
but they changed it to 1PM.

Here’s

the video:




1PM (confirmed) today LCBOE to vote on school consolidation

education, referendum, consolidation, statement,

Work Session, Lowndes County Board of Education (LCBOE),

Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, 30 August 2011.

Videos by John S. Quarterman for LAKE, the Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange.

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FVCS @ VBOE 29 August 2011

You can see them inside during

during the reading of the statement
and

after the vote.
Many of them spoke during Citizens to be Heard; video to come of that.
Here they are outside afterwards:


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VBOE voting to oppose school consolidation 29 August 2011



The Valdosta Board of Education voted tonight 8 to 1 for

a statement opposing school system consolidation.

As
she said she would,
Jeana Beeland voted no.
That’s eight to one for



the statement against school consolidation.

Here’s

the video:




VBOE voting to oppose school consolidation

education, referendum, consolidation, statement,

Work Session, Valdosta Board of Education (VBOE),

Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, 29 August 2011.

Videos by John S. Quarterman for LAKE, the Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange.

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Lowndes County School Board meeting 11:30AM 1PM today

Update 12:15AM 30 August 2011: It’s really at 1PM and an agenda is posted now.

I called the Lowndes County School Board number just now at (229) 245-2250
and asked if there was a school board meeting today.
They said yes, at 11:30. (That’s different from the rumored
time of 1PM.)
It’s a called meeting for the purpose of discussing school system consolidation.
The woman who provided this information said:

Not sure there’s a resolution.
They may say their stands.

They meet at 1592 Norman Drive in Valdosta.


There is at this writing nothing on their web page and no notice in the newspaper that I can find.
Of course by state law all they have to do for a called meeting is
to post a notice at their meeting location and send a notice to the newspaper of record; the newspaper doesn’t have to publish it.

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Why I’m going to vote against the motion —Jeana Beeland @ VBOE 29 August 2011



A motion and a second were heard on

the statement just read by Vanassa Flucas.
Jeana Beeland spoke up, talking about how proud she was of the
school system and how it has grown; she went to VHS; her children
are in the system, and “I know it’s serving them well”.

And my greatest fear is that I will come to you so biased
because I know that the school systems not consolidating
for the next few years is what’s best for my child….

More transcription after

the video:




Why I’m going to vote against the motion —Jeana Beeland @ VBOE 29 August 2011

education, referendum, consolidation, statement,

Work Session, Valdosta Board of Education (VBOE),

Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, 29 August 2011.

Videos by John S. Quarterman for LAKE, the Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange.

But there are so many people involved in this issue….
And I

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Valdosta School Board statement against school consolidation

Chairman Lee asked Vanassa Flucas to read

the statement
the board was about to vote on regarding school system consolidation:



The Valdosta City School Board
opposes consolidating the Valdosta City and Lowndes County
school systems at this time.
The board feels that a decision to merge the two systems
should be a collaboratively planned effort between the two school boards,
the citizens of both the city and the county,
along with those who have the best interest in educating
all the children of our area.

Statement text continued after

the video:




Valdosta School Board statement against school consolidation

education, referendum, consolidation, statement,

Work Session, Valdosta Board of Education (VBOE),

Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, 29 August 2011.

Videos by John S. Quarterman for LAKE, the Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange.

The Valdosta City School Board
is proud of our school system.
We have an organization that

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VBOE voted to oppose school consolidation

The Valdosta Board of Education voted tonight 8 to 1 for a statement
opposing school system consolidation.
Here are some still pictures.

Update 10AM 30 August 2011:
Video to come of the board statements and vote is now available (see below).



Chairman Lee asked Vanassa Flucas to read the statement.

The statement
Ms. Flucas read is

on the VBOE website
LAKE video is now available.



The Valdosta City School Board opposes consolidating the Valdosta City
and Lowndes County school systems at this time. This Board feels that
a decision to merge the two systems should be a collaboratively planned
effort between the two school boards and citizens of both the city and
county, along with those who have the best interest in educating all
the children of our area.

The Valdosta City School Board is proud

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Valdosta Board of Education considers consolidation tonight



This is a rare local government body that has
their agenda online in web-accessible form
(rather than entombed in a PDF).

Tonight’s agenda
includes this item:

17. A. Consolidation/board position – Mr. Lee – action required

Also this item:

18. B. Public forums on consolidation will be held Sept 8 (VHS PAC), Sept 20 (VMS) and Oct 25 (JLL) from 7-8:30 p.m.

I wonder will these be real forums, or the sort of fake forums VLCIA and
CUEE have foisted on the community?
CUEE’s

Kick-Off meeting
had no opponents speak, took questions only in writing,
and conveniently didn’t get to Rev. Rose’s question of what
would consolidation do to improve education.
LAKE

has published videos of the whole thing.

The only real dialog I’ve ever seen about education around here was

was the one held by the Lowndes County Democratic Party 2 May 2011.
LAKE has published videos of the whole thing.

According to the VBOE

web page tonights meeting is:

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