001All right. I'd like to call the July uh board meeting for Northwest Board of Education to order. You could all rise. Pledge allegiance. >> I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Roll call. >> Mr. Chill >> here. >> Mr. Kindleberger is absent. >> Mrs. Sparky here. Mrs. Gearhart >> here. >> Mr. W >> here. >> Any additions or deletions from the agenda? We do not have any. >> Is approved. Um any recognition of visitors who would like to discuss gender related items? See anybody? Okay. Treasury report. >> Uh the first item I have it is the recommendation to approve the minutes from the regular board meeting on June 23rd. So moved.
002Second. >> Any discussion? Okay. Roll call. Mr. Tohill, >> yes. >> Mrs. Barky, >> yes. >> Mrs. Gearart, >> yes. >> Mr. Wy, >> yes. >> The next item I have uh has an addendum which is two pages long. It's a request to authorize amended resources and appropriations from the SC County auditor for the 2526 school year. Uh I'll start with the smaller font schedule, I guess. Or do you want to do a motion first? We can do the motion and then we can ask questions as we go. Do you need a motion? >> So move to second. >> All right. Makes it easier because then we can discuss as we go. >> So the schedule in the smaller font is our certificate of resources. And so the changes here are the first three columns
003are now finalized. So we know our cash balance as of June 30. we know our outstanding encumbrance incumbrances at that same date and therefore we know um the amount that we have available um from those resources to um that are subject to appropriations. Um we there then have our current year revenue as we originally projected. Um and then you'll see two columns over to the right. We made some adjustments in June and I'm making some further adjustments in July mainly attributable to um changes in federal funds and what I will say is that's probably going to change again. Uh a couple times we just found out over the weekend that they released more federal funding. So we're just trying to keep up that with that as we go. Um and then the next schedule is
004the opposite side of the of the ledger is uh adjusted appropriations. Again, you'll see carryover encumbrances. Those become part of our budget this year. Uh so now that we know those numbers uh as they were at June 30, um we'll take those through and and utilize them those numbers as part of our budget. Uh made a couple adjustments to our current year appropriations as well. again mostly around federal funds. >> I don't know if you guys saw that they released a bunch of the title stuff over the weekend. The federal government did like $7 billion worth. So that will definitely help. Any other discussions on that or questions? A roll call. >> Mr. Till, >> yes. >> Mrs. Barley, yes. Mrs. Gear, yes. Mr. Wy, >> yes. >> Okay. Thank you, staff. Superintendent recommendations. >>
005Uh recommendation. I'll hand this one over to Andy. This recommendation to approve the hiring of Chelsea Shan Bachler. How'd I do? >> Good enough. >> Assistant principal, Northwest High School, Step 3 with three years experience effective July 28, 2025. Andy, I'll hand it over to you. >> So, so excited for Chelsea to join us. She's coming from African public uh where she has been a teacher and instructional coach uh a dean of students and an assistant at Jennings Middle School. So super excited to have Chelsea who's here today and raise >> and your husband's with you. >> Yes, >> I'm welcome aboard you guys. >> Let's do that one separate. So I need a >> So move second >> and roll call. Mr. Choill, >> yes. >> Mrs. Farie, yes. Mr. Gearart, yes. Mr. Wy,
006>> yes. >> And welcome. >> Thank you. >> It's going to be probably a little bit different than what you're using here, so you're ready. >> Uh, recommendation to approve hiring Marissa Watson on limited contract up to four hour up to 4 hour aid at RG step two with one year experience. Recommendation the following administrative contract be approved. Jeffrey Lewig, three years from 2526 to 2728 school year. Recommendation the following supervisory contract be approved. Deb Cipher for three years 2526 school year to uh 2728 school year. James Walsh for three years 2526 school year through the 2728 school year. And last recommendation to approve the following tutors on limited contracts for the 2526 school year. We have Alicia Everly, Abigail Miller, Carol Ma. >> Need a motion? >> Some moved. >> Second. >> Any questions?
007>> I probably should know this, but what's the position of Mr. Welsh? >> I was going to ask. >> He uh operates behind the scenes, does an excellent job for us at Puff Hall. >> Okay. >> He's the one that makes everything go really, really smooth. He's amazing. >> We're lucky to have him. And for the the first one for the RG Dre, why is that? Why is that? That's about the only one that we have that's an RG that we handle. Correct. >> It is. She's um assigned to one particular student that requires >> Okay. And that's why we have to >> Yes. one of us. >> She's one of us. Correct. >> I'm sorry. I should have clarified that. >> That's okay. >> Any other questions, comments? >> Okay. Roll call. >> Mr.
008Toneville. >> Yes. Mrs. Barkley, yes. Mrs. Gearhart, yes. Mr. Wyant, >> yes. >> Salary and position adjustments for letter B. Uh, Andrew Cocklin, principal at Northwest High School, step two with 5 years experience, effective August 1, 2025, but quite frankly, he started a lot earlier than that. >> Maybe that one separate. Yes, please. >> Okay. Need a motion. >> Some moved. Second. >> Any discussion? Uh, I appreciate everything you've been doing so far. I know you kind of >> and you too. >> Oh, sorry. >> No, >> I know you you've kind of had to rearrange schedules, if you will, and and jump on to some of that stuff. Um, definitely appreciate it. Um, and I've heard a lot of positive comments, >> only a few negative. So that's >> just a couple >> from
009parents and students alike both saying that they couldn't think of any anybody better to take position. >> Uh siren going off tornado. >> Oh well that's interesting. >> Um we should probably adjourn the meeting then. Um all in favor I yes. >> So we can stop recording. >> All right. I'd like to call the uh northwest board education meeting back to the border and we were at second part second part. >> Sorry. Yep. Okay. Any other questions with >> Mr. Mrs. Barkley? >> Yes. Mrs. Beh. >> Yes. Mr. W. Yes, >> Mr. Tohill. >> For the next two, these are >> we're going to need to use our outside voices or we're never going to hear it over the range. >> All right, John. >> For the uh for the next two parts there, guys,
010I wanted to point out that these are auxiliary services that uh that we provide for St. James language. First one's recommendation be approved pursuant to funding local James auxiliary service hired on the daily rate. Uh that will be February 256 school yearly auxiliary code effective August 1st 2025 recommendation the following contracts funding service for the 25 26 school Maybe you raise up the way design model actually my fault. I apologize for that. The next one for extended school services. We approve teachers for uh extended school services for some more special needs students. Uh we wanted to also include the cost of this uh higher in cost because it's going to be the ESC language pathology $65 an hour special $45 per hour. just to be trans and uh put those those costs in the board.
011>> Okay. motion second. >> Any questions? What is it? Is that somebody that works for us? That's a change in there. What What is that for? Well, for the I mean for the nurse it is for the counselor. It's it's something it's it's we we fun you guys. Can you explain that a little bit more? >> Is actually an employee. She's their employee, but she runs through our payroll and paid out of their auxiliary services and I believe maybe a little bit of federal funds, but not a significant amount. And then Tim Morber and Amy Oza are actually like independent contractors that they utilize for those services. Um, again, those buildings run through our office, but they're their funds kept in separate That's a fairly I mean it's fairly common practice too for public schools
012to help funding that comes from services have the option just recently starting two years ago they can leave it run through the public school or they can take it on elected to continue to have us run isn't there but it's not >> our basic trying to figure out public schools I was teaching Any other questions? >> All right. Roll call. >> Mr. Toill. >> Yes. >> Mr. Martin. >> Yes. Mrs. Gearhart. >> Yes. Mr. L. >> Yes. >> C. We have recommendation that all of these folks uh be awarded supplement contracts for the 256 school year record checks and number of students. And there they are. Need a motion. >> Second. >> That is a lot of volunteers. That is great to see. I think a lot of parents and a lot of them are
013helping to expand. >> Yeah, we felt like since they're there away from school working with our kids just to keep everybody protected that would be a good idea. We were happy to see so many volunteers. Yes, we had girls soccer on last night. I believe we No, we did not. I don't think I last year, but I thought we I thought we did. >> If we did, then we should probably. >> So, the Kyle the head soccer coach girls from last year. >> Sorry, I missed that. Okay, perfect. >> We had a girls assistant varsity on there and Mr. Cooper for the boys. >> It was Morgan Stewart, but then we just hired her to be >> head. So, >> okay. So, we're okay. We're good. >> Sorry, I didn't. It's okay. Uh, all right.
014Uh, any other questions? >> Okay, we're call >> Mr. Chill. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Bar. Yes. Mrs. Gearart. >> Yes. Mr. Yes. Uh I'll do E and he if that's okay. These are all pretty all not the resation but the food and beverage here. I'll just go resignation recommendation to accept resation for position bus driver effective July for letter E food and beverage standards annual report compliance. The northwest local school district adopts and enforces nutrition standards as part of our already existing polic. just make that yearly statement to say that we are going to follow nutritional standards and guidelines. >> Let's do D and E separate. >> Okay. >> And or I mean have on that because it is a little bit clear. >> Okay. So we need a motion for the for D and
015E. >> Any discussion? >> Roll call. >> Mr. Hill. >> Yes. Mrs. Barky, you want to ask Mrs. Gear? >> Yes. >> Mr. Lion. >> Yes. >> Sorry, guys. All right. Letter F. This again is uh standard language that we do every year. We recommend to approve the 2026 proposed budget public library. We do this each and every motion. Second. Any discussion? Okay, roll call. >> Mr. Till, >> yes. >> Mrs. Barky, >> yes. Miss Gearhart, >> yes. >> Mr. Lion, >> yes. >> Yeah, I know it is. >> All right. For for uh for letter J, it's policy approval. We discussed all these uh at our last board meeting. Adam, I'll point out a couple things if you don't mind pointing those out to the the group if you're agreeable to his suggestion. This
016is on the naming rights policy. It made sense to me, but I figured it would be something for us to talk about publicly. Uh if you are in agreement with that, what we could do then is call that a continued discussion item for that particular policy and then pass that uh in the August board meeting. The rest of the policies as we discussed, some of them were brand new and some of them were just tweaks. But if you have any any more discussion on I'm certainly open to So, we're going to we'll discuss it. Let's go ahead and do a motion. >> Second. >> So, my thought with the naming one was it has in there applause about uh corporate identity if the corporate identity goes away, but there's nothing that says that there could
017be a contract term on that. So, if we had somebody that was going to sponsor the waiver for 10 years. There's nothing in there that says that would be possible or was the second half. There was two parts of it. Oh, so it's basically if they went out of business, we need to have it so that it's the for the lifetime of the corporate entity or for the length of contract which was less so that we could go away. >> Yeah. >> Yep. Or we could redo another another sponsorship for specific building. So if that's the case, we're agreement on that then we will definitely postpone that particular um item which is >> you just we just have a motion for it naming rights. We move it to next month. So I need a motion
018for that. It's because Yeah. >> We'll bring it up next. >> Yeah. Yeah. We'll go through it again with your approval. >> Okay. So, we need a roll call on the those >> Mr. To. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Barky? Yes. Mrs. Gear? Yes. >> Mr. Wy? >> Yes. Now we go back to the remaining item. Any other discussion on any of the other? Pretty standard. >> Okay. >> Roll call. >> Mr. Tonill. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Barkley. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Gearart. >> Yes. Mr. W. >> Yes. >> For letter H, we have a special thank for donation. We have a special thank you to Brenda White for her donation of two drinking glasses from the 1950s to our band program. You guys had chance to see those. They are I mean it feels like
019two just two glasses that have uh Northwest and just feels like very fragile but she donated to uh to the band and was very gracious >> I don't know >> I have no idea put him somewhere safe I thought they were very proud >> okay need a motion accept the donation. Second, >> any discussion and roll call. >> Mr. Tohill, >> yes. >> Mrs. Barky, >> yes. Mrs. Gearhart, >> yes. Mr. Ly, >> yes. Uh, the last thing for discussion item, we have three more policy, three new policies to talk about. Uh, they're they're they're new. Um, the first one is lower first aid. It's a policy where we're asking our nurses to develop guidelines for uh emergency care of any and all of our students. Uh the second is health education where uh we
020have a policy where our health teachers must follow specific standards and guidelines on teaching health. That's always positive without lifelong learning and and trying to teach wellness and safety issues for our kids. The last I think uh the last policy is is a policy where uh specifically it's parent and family involvement and education. Something that I think we do already and it's kind of nice to have that having having a partnership with our parents and the school to do as much as we can to encourage that every opportunity we have. I feel like we do we do pretty well with that now. And having that policy is certainly something I don't think anybody would be uh disagreeable. That's for discussion. Yeah, you can read through them. It's it's pretty straightforward, pretty simple, but uh that's
021up for discussion now and then we'll pass that as policy in our August meeting. Anybody have any discussion >> when they when they create the guidelines, will that be that? >> Uh we can send that to you. We can we can actually what whatever you prefer you want to talk about those we can do that. The idea would be that we develop them we go through Deborah she works with the teachers and principles and we can get you that finished product but those would be part of our policy. Okay. I don't think that falls underneath security. >> No, the first date. >> At least one day. >> We do. >> That's that's OC. Somebody has to be drinking first aid service. Yes. Somebody will leave. But many are going to be. Yes. Okay. Anything else
022with that? Recognition of visitors to determine any other matters they wish to discuss. Okay. Need a motion to adjourn. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I I