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Board Meeting Preview: January 4, 2022
Columbus City Schools
Board of Education Meeting
Tuesday, January 4, 2022, at 5:00 pm
The Columbus Board of Education will meet in person beginning with an organizational meeting at 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, January 4, 2022, at the south administrative building located at 3700 S. High Street, Room 825. Masks are required inside all District buildings. At the organizational meeting, three Board Members will be sworn in. Michael Cole and Ramona Reyes won re-election to the Board last November. They will be joined by new Board Member Christina Vera, who will also be sworn in. The 2022 meeting calendar and Board appointments will also be adopted during the organizational meeting.
The first Board Meeting of the new year will begin immediately following the organizational meeting. Any public participant wishing to make comments have the option of addressing the Board in person or by telephone. To sign up, public participants must call to leave a voicemail with Customer Relations at 614-365-8888 or email customerrelations@columbus.k12.oh.us by 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday, January 4. Speakers will need to provide their name, topic, and phone number. Click here to view the meeting agenda.
Meeting attendees will need to enter the north-facing door toward the west end of the building. All attendees/participants will be required to wear face masks during the meeting regardless of vaccination status (unless medical or developmental conditions prohibit use).
The meeting will be streamed via Facebook Live and on the Columbus City Schools' YouTube Channel, which allows the public to attend virtually.
Whole Child Focus
Using Elementary and Secondary Emergency Relief funds (ESSER), Board Members will be asked to approve an agreement with Pediatric Academic Association, Inc. for services provided by Dr. Sara Bode, M.D. for $155,000. Columbus City Schools identified a need for a consultant to provide advice and recommendations to the Superintendent and its Office of Health, Family, and Community Services to advance the objectives of CCS's strategic plan that aims to increase school capacity to provide students with access to quality health services and healthy schools that foster academic achievement.
Key activities for consultant include:
- Provide input and recommendations relating to school health programming.
- Provide input and recommendations for the strategic health priorities for CCS students, families, and the community.
- Provide recommendations relating to strategic planning for ongoing school health services to include:
- School Nurses: Identifying opportunities and making recommendations for clinical protocols and support for nurse supervisors;
- Support of Wellness curriculum;
- Support for family/community health services in collaboration with CCS staff wellness;
- School Health Protocols and procedures: link with Columbus Public Health to determine ongoing recommendations.
- Coordination, input, and support for all Community Health Partnerships/Services and CCS health-related programs.
- Support planning and provide recommendations for CCS's Diversity and Equity initiatives relating to health services at CCS.
- Provide recommendations relating to strategic planning for research, quality improvement, and evaluation initiatives of health services/outcomes.
- Facilities Master Planning
- Vision/Support for health services needs
- Strategic Plan Support
- Vision/Support for Whole Child Initiative
Equitable Opportunities for All
It is recommended that the Board of Education authorize the District to continue the agreement to purchase district-wide desktop, laptop, thin-client, and Chromebook computers with Cincinnati Bell Technology Services for the remainder of the Fiscal Year 2022, for an amount not to exceed $1,000,000. This legislation will allow the District to continue to provide a computing device for every student.
Board Members will also be asked to approve the continuation of data plans from Verizon and AT&T for $150,000 to provide access to online curriculum to those CCS students who do not have access to the internet in their homes. The legislation will allow for continued use of the unlimited data plans.