The Howard County Board of Education (HoCoBOE) has held five “Attendance Area Adjustment Work Sessions” and three more sessions remain on the schedule before the vote on November 21st:

The following is a summary of motions and votes for each session so far:

Session 1:

Move to exempt rising juniors. Mrs. Cutroneo amended the motion to include transportation and Ms. Coombs accepted the amendment. Mrs. Mallo amended the motion that parents would need to opt in for transportation. Mrs. Cutroneo and Ms. Coombs accepted the amendment.

Motion by Vicky Cutroneo, second by Kirsten A Coombs.

Final Resolution: Motion Carries

Yea: Kirsten A Coombs, Vicky Cutroneo, Christina Delmont-Small, Mavis Ellis, Jennifer Mallo, Sabina Taj, Chao Wu

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Move to keep current walkers as defined by policy to remain as walkers.

Motion by Christina Delmont-Small, second by Kirsten A Coombs.

Final Resolution: Motion Fails

Yea: Vicky Cutroneo, Christina Delmont-Small, Chao Wu

Nay: Kirsten A Coombs, Mavis Ellis, Jennifer Mallo, Sabina Taj

Session 2:

Move to request the Office of School Planning provide capacity and FARMs data for four grades for potential High School #13 Boundary that includes Route 175 to southern county line and polygon 2010.

Motion by Chao Wu, second by Kirsten A Coombs.

Final Resolution: Motion Carries

Yea: Kirsten A Coombs, Vicky Cutroneo, Christina Delmont-Small, Mavis Ellis, Jennifer Mallo, Sabina Taj, Chao Wu

Session 3:

Nothing noted

Session 4:

Move to go back to the Superintendent’s Proposed Plan.

Motion by Sabina Taj, second by Mavis Ellis.

Final Resolution: Motion Fails

Yea: Mavis Ellis, Sabina Taj

Nay: Kirsten A Coombs, Vicky Cutroneo, Christina Delmont-Small, Jennifer Mallo, Chao Wu

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Move to have the discussion start with the schools in the east and then move west.

Motion by Jennifer Mallo, second by Sabina Taj.

Final Resolution: Motion Carries

Yea: Kirsten A Coombs, Mavis Ellis, Jennifer Mallo, Sabina Taj

Nay: Vicky Cutroneo, Christina Delmont-Small, Chao Wu

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Move to continue the discussion moving west to east.

Motion by Chao Wu, second by Christina Delmont-Small.

Final Resolution: Motion Fails

Yea: Vicky Cutroneo, Christina Delmont-Small, Chao Wu

Nay: Kirsten A Coombs, Mavis Ellis, Jennifer Mallo, Sabina Taj

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Move to have staff develop a scenario to look at the impact of moving six polygons (58, 54, 52, 1058, 1054, and 2054) to Atholton High School.

Motion by Jennifer Mallo, second by Kirsten A Coombs.

Final Resolution: Motion Carries

Yea: Kirsten A Coombs, Vicky Cutroneo, Christina Delmont-Small, Mavis Ellis, Jennifer Mallo, Sabina Taj, Chao Wu

Session 5:

By consensus, move polygons 52, 2051, 51 1051, 279, and 3139 from Oakland Mills HS to Atholton HS.

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By consensus, move polygons 308, 1308, and 2308 from Mt. Hebron HS to Centennial HS.

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Move polygons 97, 154, 214, 1154, and 2154 from Centennial HS to Marriotts Ridge HS.

Motion by Kirsten A Coombs, second by Jennifer Mallo.

Final Resolution: Motion Carries

Yea: Kirsten A Coombs, Mavis Ellis, Jennifer Mallo, Sabina Taj, Chao Wu

Abstain: Christina Delmont-Small

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Move polygons 171 and 1171 from Marriotts Ridge HS to Glenelg HS.

Motion by Kirsten A Coombs, second by Chao Wu.

Final Resolution: Motion Carries

Yea: Kirsten A Coombs, Mavis Ellis, Sabina Taj, Chao Wu

Nay: Christina Delmont-Small, Jennifer Mallo

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Links to all of the work session documents and videos of the meetings can be found here: https://www.hcpss.org/school-planning/boundary-review/

There are a lot of decisions to be made in the final work sessions. I will do my best to follow the decisions made as I get time.

Scott E