Regular School Board Meeting

Matthew NortonstaffOkay, good afternoon Fairfax City School Board members. On behalf of FCPS, I just wanted to take this opportunity to thank you and express our appreciation to Mr. Phillips and you all for your continued support and partnership. If we could advance to the next slide. Just a little bit of background here on the school services agreement. It was established in 1962. 1978 and it's still in effect today kind of in that general form so we've had a long-standing partnership with you all and we're approaching the 50-year anniversary of the agreement that's sort of been in effect since 1978 so that's exciting to know generally speaking we are operating schools on your behalf and you all are managing your the agreement you have with us and then

Phyllis Pajardostaffyour stakeholders which is I think is a nice number so let me share some of the themes that have emerged from speaking with the stakeholders. And I am categorizing these as preliminary because we still are in fact collecting input and the survey will still be open all of this week as well as we have a virtual forum that will take place. So with the preliminary themes, I'm going to characterize some as opportunities and And instead of going through each of these, since you just pretty much had a pretty heavy lift in terms of the tuition bill and the school services agreement, let me just highlight a few on each of the slides. People are certainly concerned, as you are, about academic achievement and the academic success of our students.

Carolyn PitchesOkay. I have a couple of- Yes, ma'am. Just want to clarify some things. So the school-one of the themes of the school services agreement, we talked about collaboration of all parties, where people specifically, when you say mainly FCPS and City of Fairfax government, our school board with those two entities- Were there any concerns that people brought up? Well, there are

Phyllis Pajardostaffthat. No, not at all. I think, you know, while the school services agreement certainly is a four-piece partnership, to your point, the county board of supervisors, the mayor, city council, you all, and Fairfax County Public Schools, the three that they probably see most are you, FCPS, and the mayor and city council.