Board of County Supervisors Meeting - PWCS Joint Session (Audio Only) - Dec 04, 2023

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What was the purpose of the joint session between the School Board and County Supervisors?

Barbara Latif 0:00

Okay, good morning everyone. Welcome. I'm Chairman Barbara Latif of the Prince William County School Board and I would like to on behalf of the school division welcome you all to the Kelly Leadership Building for our uh annual legislative uh event and breakfast and this year we've decided to to work with the Board of County Supervisors and do this as one event. So we're excited you were all able to join us. I'm gonna turn it over to Chair Wheeler, she has to call the meeting to order. or the County Board of Supervisor site.

Unknown 0:28

Thank you, Chairman Chief. It's eight twenty-four on Monday, December fourth. It's all officially gavelin the meeting of the Board of County Supervisors. Always good to be here with the school board and sharing resources and talking to our delegation. Thank you.

Barbara Latif 0:43

Very good. Thank you, Madam Chair. Um at this point I'm gonna run through um well I'm gonna ask everyone who's at the table to introduce themselves and then we'll also ask the newly elected uh officials who um are are here to also introduce themselves. So we'll start with uh to my right, Doctor McDay.

Unknown 1:01

Good morning, what's I'm Rick Dave, Superintendent for Prince With County Schools. Good morning, Jennifer Wall, representative for the Gainesville District.

Victor S. Angry 1:11

Well, Supervisor, Angel District.

Unknown 1:15

More like Carol Blinard, I think. Good morning everyone. Carol Sonar, DM and Superintendent. Can we just see the last one? Uh Jeremy McPhite, State Center, 29th District, South Manassas, through L Spain, Humberties, and North Stafford. Good morning, Senator elect Jennifer Carroll Foy, representing the thirty-third district, but principally in Fairfax Counties. Good morning, delegate Brianna Sol, currently representing the fifty first, and to the twenty fifth. Top of the morning to everyone, Supervisor Andrea Bailey, Potomac History.

Yesli Vega 2:00

Good morning. Victor Angry, Niasco District Superclub.

Unknown 2:04

Good morning, Lord Williams Wilbur's District School Board.

Barbara Latif 2:10

for the new House District twenty two and I welcome you there today because we're we're all in it at the moment.

Who are the newly elected officials introduced at the start of the meeting?

Barbara Latif 2:15

So welcome to HD twenty two everybody.

Deshundra Jefferson 2:19

Good morning everyone, Enika Rahman here, Fidelia Michelle Molinano, who now represents fifty, we'll report the news twenty second. Thank you.

Victor S. Angry 2:27

Dan Helm,

Andrea O. Bailey 2:28

uh delegate representing the fortieth district and assumed to be the tenth district. Good morning everyone, Kenny Bodie, Occupy Supervisor and the current vice chair of the Archiving County Board of Supervisors.

Roger Henson 2:40

Good morning everyone. Chris Shorter, County Executive, Prince William County. Um chair here.

Barbara Latif 2:50

We'll stop over to the the newly elected if you have Tracy Blake, do you want to

Unknown 2:53

start? Oh yeah, I'm Tracy Blake, uh newly elected schoolman on the behalf of district.

Roger Henson 3:01

Richard Jesse,

Deshundra Jefferson 3:02

newly elected occupying district supervisor. I'm Erica Trenick, Brunsville District, School Board. You're the elect.

Unknown 3:11

Hi good morning. Uh Tom Gordy, uh the newly elected uh supervisor from Brent School District.

Deshundra Jefferson 3:17

Dishandra Jefferson, Chair of Lamp for the Prince William Board of County Supervisor.

Barbara Latif 3:22

Okay, well thank you everyone. So at this point we're gonna move on to I will just provide a brief update on the state of the school division, highlight a couple of our highest legislative priorities, and then our county partners will present and we'll use the remaining time for discussion. So I'm gonna if we take a look, do I I hit the big button? Excellent. So agenda. So just to give you some points about Prince William County Schools, uh we are the second Largest school division in Prince William County. We are also the most diverse. Nationally, we are the 34th largest school division in America, and we're the 10th most diverse in the nation. Our minority population in the school division is 72%. English learners make up 25% of our students, students with disabilities, 13%, and economically disadvantaged 47%.

Barbara Latif 4:11

If you take a look at Over um to the right at our employee numbers, we have a total 16,708 employees. We are the largest employer in Prince Wayne County. The breakdown there is for teachers, staff, and others.