HCPS School Days summer 2016

SCHOOLHenrico County Public Schools

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BOSHER ENDOWMENTHelp create a lasting legacy Page 6

QMS: A new name for Byrd Middle SchoolPage 6

An update on your school tax dollars at work

THE MEALS TAX ISSUE

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ABCDAWARDS

The ABCD and Helping Hand awards recognize people who give a great deal to Henrico Schools, yet aren’t always recognized for their contributions.

Unsung heroes help make HCPS great

The ABCD Award recognizes HCPS support staff mem-bers who go “Above and Beyond the Call of Duty.” That means making a significant contribution to Hen-rico Schools, including: improving job efficiency, the quality of services or safety; conserving resources; performing a humanitarian or heroic act; or respond-ing proactively by anticipating needs and solving problems without specific direction. The Henrico Edu-cation Foundation and Henrico Federal Credit Union help recognize the winners by providing a check to each recipient.

The Helping Hand winner for March was Doug Stell, who volunteers his time regularly at Ward Elemen-tary, in the classroom and with the “Ward Dudes” father and father-figure group.

March’s ABCD winners were Lucia Branch and Dianna Coles, nutrition services assistants at Rat-cliffe Elementary School.

Helping Hand Award

April’s ABCD winner was Janet Siceloff, a library assistant at Ridge Elementary School.

April’s Helping Hand win-ner was Janet Slater, who volunteers at Elko Middle School at the school store, in the main office and at athletic and other events.

The Helping Hand Volunteer Award is presented to volunteers who make extraordinary contributions to Henrico schools.

Congratulations and thanks to all honorees!

1:30 p.m. : Virginia Randolph

7 p.m. : The Academy at Virginia Randolph Glen Allen High School

7 p.m. : Advanced Career Education Center

7 p.m. : Advanced Career Education Center

Highland Springs High School gym

11 a.m. : Henrico High School3 p.m. : Highland Springs High School7 p.m. : Glen Allen High School

11 a.m. : Hermitage High School3 p.m. : J.R. Tucker High School7 p.m. : Deep Run High School

11 a.m. : Varina High School3 p.m. : Douglas S. Freeman High School7 p.m. : Mills Godwin High School

3 p.m. : Maggie Walker Governor’s School Carpenter Theatre

JUNE 8

Graduation Schedule2016

JUNE 9

JUNE 13

JUNE 14 (all at Siegel Center at VCU)



JUNE 17

“It’s not the end, it’s the begin-ning.” We hear those words so often during graduation

season, and I’m reminded of them as we send our graduating seniors to college, the military or the work-force. It’s a special time in the lives of these students and their families, and I hope everyone has plenty of opportunities to celebrate safely. But before we close the book on the 2015-16 school year, I wanted to share some thoughts about what’s happening in Henrico County Pub-lic Schools.

In April we were delighted to see our School Board adopt the budget for the 2016-17 school year. The new spending plan continues our focus on the four priority areas of student safety, academic prog-ress, closing gaps, and relationships. It also achieves a key goal of strik-ing a balance between the available resources and supporting important

school division programs. I’m also happy to report that it includes a 2.4 percent pay increase for eli-gible employees effective in July! Including that increase, most Hen-rico school employees have enjoyed raises totaling more than seven percentage points dating back to January of 2015. My thanks go out to our School Board and the Hen-rico Board of Supervisors for their support of our efforts.

The forthcoming 2016-17 bud-get also dedicates significant re-sources to improving our schools. We’re adding teaching positions to accommodate more students com-ing into Henrico County, but also to reduce class sizes in certain areas. We’re keeping our commitment to an extended school day program that allows students more access to valuable instructional time. We’re also investing in positive behavioral interventions and supports, known

as PBIS, which we believe will cut down on the number of students involved in discipline issues.

By now you’ve noticed that this issue focuses on the benefits of the Henrico County meals tax. We thought it was appropriate to keep you informed about all of the vari-ous projects that are funded when folks dine out in Henrico County. I hope you’ll agree that the results are remarkable, and plenty of projects are in the pipeline for this summer.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to prepare to shake 3,600 hands at the Siegel Center! I couldn’t be more proud of our graduating seniors. I hope you have a great summer, and I look forward to seeing our return-ing students in September!

Education Center VREC campus

at Hermitage Hermitage High School gym

at Highland Springs

Catching you up as school year ends

The ABCD and Helping Hand awards recognize people who give a great deal to Henrico Schools, yet aren’t always recognized for their contributions.

approval from county and school leaders for summer 2017 projects. The schedule gives the department almost a year to look ahead, design the projects and get bids for the work.

The county envisioned that the tax would bring in around $18 million annu-ally: $9 million for operat-ing funds and $9 million for capital improvements to the schools. The tax has generated more funds than expected and that money has gone into a reserve fund. In 2015, the Board of Supervisors approved using just under $2 mil-lion of that to move some deferred-maintenance

projects up in the queue.HCPS hopes to tackle some larger-

scale projects – such as long-awaited renovations of J.R. Tucker High School and Tuckahoe Middle School – that are beyond the scope of the meals tax. The Board of Supervisors has approved a budget that includes County Manager John Vithoulkas’ proposal to put $10.8 million of the reserve toward design work for the big construction projects.

School leaders have begun the pro-cess of proposing a referendum to fund those larger projects, which the Board of Supervisors is expected to discuss in the near future. If the referendum is ap-proved, county and school leaders would ask that it be placed on the ballot in No-vember.

In addition to the overhaul of J.R. Tucker and Tuckahoe, the referendum as currently proposed would include reno-vations at six other schools; an addition to over-capacity Glen Allen Elementary School; a new elementary school; and construction of the Varina Area Innova-tion Center.

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Henrico meals tax giving new life to aging schoolsMEALS TAX

In November 2013, Henrico County voters expressed their support for schools by approving a tax of 4 per-

cent on meals. So when you buy that item from the dollar menu, how are those extra four pennies being used?

Since the tax went into effect in June 2014, Henrico Schools has been moving full-steam-ahead with much-needed re-pairs, maintenance and improvements. So far, 91 projects at schools across the county have been completed or will be finished this summer. Fifty more proj-ects are in the pipeline, waiting for ap-proval. These include replacing leaky roofs, paving parking lots and remodeling dingy bath-rooms that haven’t been changed since the age of bell-bottoms and tran-sistor radios.

By the end of sum-mer 2017 – just three years after the meals tax went into effect – 141 projects will have been completed. Of Henrico’s 72 schools, 50 will have seen at least one signifi-cant project completed. The value of all the improvements will total almost $29 million.

More than half of Henrico’s schools are at least 50 years old; like people, it’s the older schools that usually need more physical care as parts wear out.

“The majority of the projects are de-ferred maintenance: roofs, mechanical systems, bathrooms,” said Paul Carper, director of the HCPS Construction and Maintenance Department.

“Over the years there are a lot of things we’ve deferred simply because we haven’t had funds in the operating bud-get. Operating funds were cut along with budget cutbacks, so now we’re kind of playing catch-up.”

Projects generally must be manage-able enough to be completed during the summer months, so as not to interfere

with classes. The largest projects so far have been the $2.2 million renovation of the fifth-grade wing at Tuckahoe El-ementary School and the $1.5 million roof replacement at Hermitage High School. Examples of smaller jobs include the replacement of aging lights, inter-com systems and gym floors.

While most parents will notice new-ly paved and expanded parking lots, oth-er projects are all but invisible to visitors. Examples include repairs and improve-ments to kitchens at Jackson Davis, Do-nahoe, Glen Allen, Glen Lea, Holladay,

Laburnum, Lon-gan, Ratcliffe and Trevvett elementa-ry schools. Kitchen work has also been completed or is planned at Fairfield Middle School and J.R. Tucker High School.

For aspects of Henrico’s aging schools, said Carp-er, it’s simply time to bring them into the modern age.

“Usually [in upgrades] we focus on instructional areas, so a lot of the bathrooms haven’t been touched since the original con-

struction … We receive more complaints from students and administrators about bathrooms than anything else.

“Longan’s parking lots have been the same for the past 50 years,” said Carper. “Think about how vehicular and pe-destrian access to schools has changed dramatically during that time. You didn't have day-care vans 50 years ago. You didn't have parents driving their kids to school 50 years ago. Just the number of people driving has changed.”

“We’ve added additional parking, we’ve added a place for the day-care vans to come in, places where parents picking up their kids can line up off the main roads, things such as that.”

To keep dozens of projects humming along, the work is managed on a rolling three-year schedule. As this school year comes to an end, for example, Carper’s department is closing the book on proj-

ects it completed in summer 2015; start-ing construction on projects to be com-pleted during summer 2016; and seeking

“For aspects of Henrico’s aging schools,” said Carper, “it’s sim-ply time to bring them into the modern age.”

MEALS TAX CHARTTo see how your meals tax dollars are helping schools in your neighborhood, see page 8.

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An established middle school is getting a new name. The Hen-rico School Board voted April

28 to adopt Quioccasin as the new name for Harry Flood Byrd Middle School.

The Board solicited input from the public on a new name after it voted March 10 to rename the school at 9400 Quioccasin Road. Board members considered public comments before making the final decision.

The new name will go into effect July 1. The school’s renaming will start this summer with essential items, such as exterior signs, the school marquee, scoreboards and uniforms that dis-play the Byrd name. The Board’s deci-sion does not immediately affect the school’s Senators nickname or school colors, determinations that can be

made later at the school level.“We are grateful to all of our stake-

holders for the thoughtfulness and pas-sion displayed throughout this commu-nity discussion,” said Lisa Marshall, the School Board’s representative for the Tuckahoe District, in which the school is located. “We are confident that our community will support this new name with the same dedication that it has sup-ported our students for so many years.”

Quioccasin (kwee-ock-a-sin or kwok-a-sin) has significance as the name of a historically black village in the area where the school is located. Ac-cording to the Smithsonian publication “Contributions to Anthropology,” Cap-tain John Smith described a quioccasin in 1624 as a religious structure where woodland Indians placed chiefs and im-portant people when they died.

The Board’s vote to re-name the school followed a series of public input sessions in response to a proposal by community members to re-name the school.

When it opened in 1971, the school was named for Harry Flood Byrd, a state senator, governor and U.S. senator, and the dominant figure in Virginia politics for much of the 20th century. Be-sides his advocacy of a fiscally conservative “pay-as-you-go” policy of public funding, Byrd is often regarded as the architect of Mas-sive Resistance. The term refers to Virgin-ia’s strategy of opposition to federally man-dated racial integration of public schools in the 1950s and 1960s, which resulted in

some schools closing. Byrd died in 1966.

School Board adopts Quioccasin as new name for Byrd Middle School

The Henrico Education Foun-dation has announced a major campaign to create the Bosher

Memorial Endowment Fund, a lasting vehicle to continue the work of vision-ary educator William C. “Bill” Bosher. Among his many achievements across educational levels, Bosher was HCPS superintendent from 1981-94.

The campaign’s first phase, “Growing Today – Thriv-ing Tomorrow,” seeks to raise $500,000 to establish the fund. The endowment’s income will form a self-sustaining engine to fund HCPS educational initia-tives. The campaign’s ultimate goal is $5 million.

The endowment was an-nounced in April at a celebra-tion of Bosher’s life. The Short Pump Middle School event included remarks from former Virginia Gov. George Allen, the campaign’s honorary chair.

The endowment would fund grants for classroom innovation, provide real-world career tools and academic pro-grams, pay for teacher training and give financially disadvantaged students the same opportunities as other students.

For more information about the campaign and how to contribute, go to the Henrico Education Foundation

website at www.henricogives.org. Interested persons can also call Mike Taylor, the group’s executive director, at 804-652-3869, ext. 3, or email him at [email protected].

Byrd Middle School is not only getting a new name (Quiocca-sin), it’s got a new library. The

glass-fronted wooden cabinet, filled with books, is slightly larger than a birdhouse. It sits on a perch in front of the school on Quioccasin Road af-ter debuting at an April ribbon-cutting ceremony.

Janis Jones, one of the school’s li-brarians, said the idea started with her annual review.

“I was thinking about my goals for

the year, and I decided we needed to reach out more to the community,” Jones said. “When I mentioned the Little Free Library to the staff, they were all over it. We got a kit from the website. Our library assistant put it together. We checked with the custo-dian to find the best place outside to put it, since he cuts the grass.

“I’ve been out there the past couple of

days and people are using it!”The project is part of a movement;

there are now 36,000 Little Free Librar-ies around the world, operating on the simple idea of a curbside book exchange.

There are no library cards, no due dates and no fines. Simply stop by the school and, as the program’s motto says, “Take a Book, Return a Book.”

Sidewalk “Little Free Library” open for business

Bosher Endowment campaign seeks to continue educator’s legacy

Dr. William C. Bosher

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Congratulations to Holladay Elementary School on earning “Light-house School” status in the Leader in Me pro-gram. Fewer than 200 of the 2,500 schools that have adopted the schoolwide transforma-tional leadership model have achieved the certi-fication!

Four HCPS high schools have been ranked among the best in the nation by U.S. News & World Report. The magazine included Deep Run, Glen Allen, Mills God-win and Douglas Freeman high schools in its annual “Best High Schools” report. The magazine considered data for more than 19,000 public high schools in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.

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HOW THE MEALS TAX IS REMAKING YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOLSAdams ES

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Carver ESChamberlayne ES

Crestview ES

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Sandston ESSeven Pines ES

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Parking expansionKitchen exhaust hood and HVACLighting improvementsBathroom improvementsKitchen exhaust hood and HVAC

Lighting improvementsKitchen exhaust hood and HVAC New serving lineLighting improvementsBathroom improvementsBathroom improvements

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Parking and drive lanes

Bathroom improvementsParking expansion

Lighting improvementsCeiling and lighting improvements

Parking expansionRoofi ng improvements

Lighting improvements

Gym fl oor replacementBathroom improvements

5th-grade wing renovation

Main parking lotWalk-in kitchen cooler

Piping improvements

Gym fl oor replacement

Lighting improvementsBuilding automationBathroom improvements


Kitchen exhaust hood and HVAC

$510,750 $175,000

$50,000 $75,000

$175,000

$48,000 $175,000

$75,000 $25,000 $70,600

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$175,000 $150,000

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$150,000 $595,875

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$494,806 $230,000

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Door and hardware improvementsBathroom improvements phase 2Lighting improvementsLighting improvementsKitchen HVACLighting improvementsLighting improvementsKitchen hvac and exhaust hoodBathroom ImprovementsLighting improvements

Replace kitchen serving line

Bathroom improvementsLighting improvements

Kitchen galvanized pipePavement improvementsParking expansionBathroom improvementsLighting improvementsBathroom improvementsLighting and ceiling improvements

Bathroom improvementsLighting improvementsLighting improvements

Gym fl oor replacementKitchen HVAC and exhaust hood

Lighting Improvements

Pavement improvements (drive lanes)Lighting improvementsBathroom improvements

Bathroom improvementsBus loop pavement improvementsGym fl oor replacementNew doors and hardwareBathroom improvementsRoofi ng improvementsPavement improvements

Roof replacement phase 1 of 2 (design and construction)Bus loop pavement improvements

Pavement improvements (Left front area)

Bus loop asphalt improvementsBathroom improvements

$178,500 $105,000

$78,540 $61,000

$183,750 $157,500 $54,390

$183,750 $39,900

$264,710 $150,000

$210,000 $210,000

$99,330 $131,250

$62,000

$94,500 $157,500

$25,200 $22,470 $63,000 $60,375

$263,425 $183,750 $78,750 $94,550

$78,750

$105,000 $53,550

$52,500 $42,000

$495,000 $75,000$52,500

$157,500 $306,225

$131,250 $221,340

$78,540

$31,500 $183,750

$42,525

$457,719 $61,911

$262,500

$262,500 $470,000

$31,500 $189,000 $250,000 $158,550 $335,000

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$580,000 $275,000

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Bathroom improvementsPavement improvements

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Pavement improvements phase 2Bathroom improvementsPavement improvementsWalk-in kitchen coolerGym fl oor replacement

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Gym fl oor replacementLighting improvements

Intercom system and voice switchWalk-in kitchen cooler


Pavement improvements phase 2Bathroom improvementsIntercom system and voice switchPavement improvementsCeiling replacement

Lighting improvements Bathroom improvements phase 2


Bathroom improvements phase 2Lighting improvementsReplace a/c units

Pavement improvementsLighting improvementsBathroom improvements phase 2Access road improvementsReplace window glass at courtyardCeiling and lighting upgrades phase 2Pavement improvementsNew intercom systemBathroom improvements phase 2

Pavement improvementsNew Intercom SystemPavement ImprovementsLighting Improvements

$40,000$178,500

$200,000 $220,000

$330,000 $250,000

$175,000 $178,500 $178,500

$165,000 $178,500

$159,500

$178,500 $138,060

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$88,550 $178,500 $220,000

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$467,500 $63,000

$400,000 $127,160

YR. BUILTFACILITY COMPLETED PROJECTS PROPOSED PROJECTS

THREE-YEAR TOTAL INVESTMENT OF NEARLY $29 MILLION

COST COST COSTPROJECTS IN PROGRESS

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