Board of County Supervisors Meeting - Joint Legislative Meeting - Dec 02, 2024

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Prince William County Board of Supervisors 1h 34m 5 speakers 8 agenda items transcribed 5 days ago official recording ↗

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What opening remarks and introductions set the stage for the meeting?

Bobbie J. Latif 0:00

Everyone, welcome to the Kelly Leadership Building in the Prince William County School System's headquarters. I uh we're grateful to have you here. We know that um some of the delegates are unable to make it because of a I guess a late meeting that was called. Um but we will continue and this will be taped. So um we're grateful to have everyone here and the staffs for our delegates and senators who have been able to. make it. Um I'm gonna turn it over to um um Chair Jefferson so she can gavel in. This will be an official meeting for the BOCS.

Deshundra Jefferson 0:34

All right, thank you very much everyone for joining us. It is now nine ten on Monday, December second. And we are officially getting started.

Bobbie J. Latif 0:44

Wonderful. Thank you, Chair Jefferson. I will um start by um first introducing myself. We'll go around the room and and have everyone introduce themselves. Um my name is Bobber Latif, Chair of the Prince William County School Board. Chair Jefferson.

Deshundra Jefferson 0:58

Deshondra Jefferson, Chair of the Prince William Board of County Supervisors.

Andrea O. Bailey 1:03

Good morning. Chris Shorter, County Executive. Good morning, Akuwan District Supervisor Kenny Bodhi.

Tom Gordy 1:10

Good morning, Richard Jesse, Ikequine School Board.

Sylvia R. Glass 1:15

Good morning, Margaret Franklin, Woodbridge District Supervisor.

Lori Williams 1:19

Good morning, Lori Williams, Woodbridge District School Board Member.

Tom Gordy 1:23

Bob Weir, Gainesville District Supervisor. Tom Gordy, Princeville District Supervisor.

Lori Williams 1:28

Erika Tretanek, Brentsville Drystick School Board.

Glenn Loop 1:32

Michelle Roble, County Attorney. Wade Anderson, Division Counsel. Glenn Loop, Legislative Affairs for Prince William County.

Unknown 1:40

Uh Gem Council, lobbyist for Prince William Schools.

Lisa Zargapor 1:45

Lisa Zargapor, School Board Representative for Coles District.

Yesli Vega 1:49

Victor Angry, Neopskod District Supervisor.

Unknown 1:52

Tracy Blake, Neapso District School Board Member. Josh Thomas, delegate, House District twenty one. Andrea Bailey, Potoma District.

Latonya McDade 2:04

Good morning, Carol Flanard, Deputy Superintendent. Latonya McDade, superintendent for Prince William County Schools.

Bobbie J. Latif 2:12

Thank you everyone. Well I'm gonna ask some of the staff um for our delegates and senators to stand up and introduce themselves. I know they don't have a mic, so if they could speak up. Uh we'll start with Amalib Najala.

Bobbie J. Latif 2:31

Do you have anyone else?

Tom Gordy 2:42

Great.

Bobbie J. Latif 2:48

I think we have Abigail Spanberger's representative here as well. Great, thank you. Anyone else? Okay. Well we're very grateful to have you all here. Josh, looks like you have an outsized influence on today's uh proceedings, so Um you are speaking for the entire General Assembly today and and representing all of them. So we're grateful to have you and and and really uh I'll just start off by starting with um our presentation and then we'll take questions on schools and then we'll go to um Chair Jefferson on the Prince William County um legislative priorities. So our legislative priorities for twenty twenty five, just to give you a quick introduction on our school division and and remember everyone this is gonna be recorded and posted I think

Bobbie J. Latif 3:30

think both on the school website and on the uh Prince William County website for um For our representatives to to watch and the staff to see. So some fun fast facts. Prince William County Schools is the um second largest division in the Commonwealth. We're uh the um most diverse in the Commonwealth. We're the thirty-second largest um school division in all of the United States and the tenth most diverse county in the United States. Our current student population is seventy-four percent minority. Forty-two percent economically disadvantaged, twenty-eight percent English learners, fourteen percent students with disabilities. And we have about seven thousand teachers, five thousand staff, four thousand other personnel, a total of sixteen thousand seven hundred.

Bobbie J. Latif 4:13

We are the largest employer in the county. And our student enrollment uh currently sits right around ninety thousand. Um just just to understand our funding and our cost per pupil, we show this slide regularly. Um Prince William County Schools among the divisions in Northern Virginia. Um we are fifth as far as per pupil spending, um right around sixteen thousand three hundred and ninety, with Arlington being the highest at twenty four six hundred and Manassas Park being um slightly below us at