Meeting on Schools - Monday the 19th - 4:00 PM

Special Meeting Notice about Education Hearing
Joint Meeting Between the
Bertie County Board of Commissioners
and Bertie County Board of Education

When: Monday, December 19, 2005
Time: 4:00 PM
Location: Bertie County Council on Aging
103 School Street, Windsor, NC 27983

The purpose of this meeting is to discuss Bertie County Public School issues and to brief the Board of Commissioners regarding the pending case of US Department of Justice vs. Bertie County Board of Education. This is a public meeting.

The Boards will receive public comment.
Questions can be directed to Clerk to the Board Misty Edwards at (252) 794-6110 or via e-mail at
misty.edwards@ncmail.net

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The above meeting notice is In response to the public request by Rick Harrell at the last public hearing of the Board of Education and the School Superintendent. As noted above they have agreed to a joint public hearing with the County Commissioners about concerns with the BOE plans and the vote to close Aulander, Askewville and J.P. Law.

A major issue on the agenda at that meeting will be on the BOE vote to let the judge in the desgregation case order Bertie County to spend 35 million dollars and a request that the BOE explain why we do not yet have UNITARY STATUS.

It is imperative that we move quickly to stop the lawyer from the BOE from proceeding with any secret agreements with the U.S. Attorneys.

The following map shows the location of the meeting on Monday, December 19th, 2005 at 4:00 PM. Click on the map for a larger version that you can print out.

Bertie County Council on Aging, 103 School Street, Windsor, NC 27983