001I 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. All right, we're going to open up for public comment. Um, good evening everyone. We now open the meeting for public comments. This is a designated time for the community members to address the board on matters before us. We welcome your input and encourage you to speak uh respectfully and professionally and to avoid making statements about specific students or district staff members since the board only takes action regarding specific students or district staff members based upon recommendation from the superintendent. Your comments will be recorded in the official minutes and while we value your perspectives, please understand that the opinions expressed by members of the public
002do not necessarily reflect the views of the board. >> Do we have anyone here for public comment? anything. >> Okay. All right. All right. Is the integrity >> Yes, ma'am. >> Solar rep here. >> Yes, ma'am. Do uh I sent a presentation. Did >> Yes. Uh Erica will help you with that. >> I've got to drive if you need to. >> Sorry. Should have talked to this guy. I I'm new to the school district and we have several new school board members. So, uh, we had some questions about the, uh, solar company that we're with, and this gentleman is going to give us a brief presentation on that and field any questions from the board members. >> Yep. Well, so while she's working on that, I'll just introduce myself. I'm Parker Higgs, uh, with Integrity
003Partners. We're based out of Lit Rock. That's where I work out of. Um, our headquarters, we're actually the energy division of Naples Construction. Um, so also Arkansas based company. Um, and your project, which is just right over here, uh, is one of about 60 to 70 that we've built in Arkansas over the last five or six years. So, I've just got a few slides to help. I know a lot of you are new, uh, to the district work here when we entered into the agreement. just help you get familiar with what that array is doing for you. Um, and and maybe some ways to uh continue to monitor it going forward to to ensure that you're still getting those benefits. >> Well, I think the main question that we had, we're still getting a big
004bill like I don't know >> $15,000 pretty frequently and I guess we're wondering when we're going to start sucking that money. >> Yeah. So, you are saving the money. it. So, it's it is confusing because it's two different transactions. >> You're getting a quarterly bill from uh the solar owner. So, we're actually not the solar owner. We developed it. We do still maintain it. It's a little weird, but um but a company called Blue Path is the owner and should be the one sending you a an invoice every quarter. They send you an invoice um based on the amount of energy that that array produces in that quarter and and it is charged at a preset rate that is in the contract for I think you're in you're about to finish year four right now
005of the agreement. You've got a 25-y year agreement and each year it already tells you what that rate's going to be. I know that sounds scary but hopefully I can show you with this presentation u that it really is a a good benefit to to the school district. Um so so yes you get a charge from them separately from that your utility bills with Energy Arkansas have credits applied to them um as savings just about there and I can I'll show you an example of this presentation. Perfect. [clears throat] Thank you. Okay. So again, I kind of said this already, but so this is a solar services agreement, an SSA is what it's called. Um, and that basically means that you agreed to buy power from that array at a [snorts] certain price for the
006next 25 years. Now, there were no upfront costs for the school district to build this array. There were no out-of- pocket uh capital needs or investment needed by the school to build this array. Again, you're simply agreeing to buy the power that is produced out of it. So, we built it, we operate it, we maintain it, the owner is the separate company, Blue Pad build. Um, so the whole idea is the power that's generated out of that solar, you buy it for a lower rate than what you are getting credited by the utility. Um, 25-year agreement. You do have the ability to purchase it really at any time after 6 to 7 years. uh you can buy it fully having realized [clears throat] the two weeks credits. So that was one of the reasons uh
007that a lot of schools cities did these solar service agreements is because initially uh as a public entity they were not allowed to take advantage of the tax credits to bring the price down. So by having a third party uh own the array they were able to monetize those credits and bring the cost of the solar down. So a place in service December of 21. So again, coming up on the end of of year four, some basic statistics and and please stop me if you know I there's a lot of jargon here. So if something just doesn't make sense, please stop me. But 500 kilowatt AC array, that's the size of the array. Uh it produces a little bit less than a million kilowatt hours a year. KWH frequently uh abbreviated to. And when we
008when we first went to contract, you know, five plus years ago, your utilities had an average rate of about 8 and 1/4 cents for for energy. There's some other things that you pay for on those bills that solar doesn't affect. Uh but the actual energy produced about 84 1/4 cents. The initial rate for the solar power is 5.875. So you can tell from the beginning roughly a 2 1/2 cent difference um in the solar power being less than what you're being charged by the utility. Now that solar rate increases 2% every year. Again that's already stated in the contract. You know what it's going to be every single year. um we are making assumptions that the utility rate is going to increase as well but as I'll show you it it already has and in
009fact the year 25 uh the end of your contract your solar cost will be a little under 9 12 cents uh well today the utility cost is already above that so I don't know many people that think the utility costs are going to go down but hopefully that gives you some confidence that no matter what your cost of solar is going to be less than uh your cost of energy from the utility. So we initially we we estimated about $22,000 a year in savings over the 25 years about $670,000. >> Parker, if I could >> Yes, sir. >> It's what we're paying is 15,000 a quarter. >> Well, uh it probably varies and it is going to vary because it depends on how much energy is produced every quarter. So, you know, the summer there's
010more sunlight. Uh you're going to produce more energy in the summer months. So, the probably your most recent bill that would have been from uh July to September that you may have seen in October is probably your biggest bill of the year, uh that quarter, whereas the next two quarters are going to be on the smaller side. So I don't I don't know off hand what um well I could do some quick math I guess but uh you know at the initial rate there 920,000 kWh a year times that's about $54,000 a year in payments. Now again, what we're saying is that you're saving $75,000 plus dollars a year on your utility bills for a net on 22. So, so here's the bill and this is, you know, hopefully where we can we can agree
011that that it that it is real and not just me up here saying words. Um, taking your biggest account. Now, the way it works, you have multiple Energy Arkansas accounts. Um and the array gets metered by energy every month and then they apply those that energy as a credit to each one of your accounts in a specific order. Now we have ordered them so that the first account provides you the highest savings rate and goes on down from there. This account um I think I had the account. Yeah, account 675890. That's your largest account. So, it's just it's not the first one on the list, but it's going to show the most impact. Um, we could do this for any account, but I think it's easiest to look at a larger one. So, this is
012April 2019 before the solar array was built. Uh, an energy bill on that account. Uh, this is pretty typical even today. Formatting's changed slightly, but they show you how much energy you used on that account. Uh, this was about 22,800 KWH. And then it shows you each of your individual charges. And so you had a total bill of about $2,800 in in April of 19. I've highlighted in blue the specific charges related to KWH Energy. Uh and the specific charges that would be offset by solar. So I mentioned earlier that you do have some other ones like this customer charge is just a flat charge you pay for having a meter, right? Uh demand charge is actually about what's the peak you use. It's more of like an infrastructure charge. Those are not affected by
013solar. It's these energy charges and then some of these other ones that are essentially taxes or fees as a percentage on on your total bill um that will have the similar effect. So that's April 2019. Um this past April of 25. Similarly, a little bit more energy. 24,000 KWH build. Um, which shows right here. So, 24,000 KWH build. Down here, there's a call out of usage adjustment carryover from prior bill, negative 24, 80 kVH. That is them showing you that they're applying those credits to your bill. And the other key thing you can notice is all those things I highlighted in blue over here don't exist uh on this bill over here. You don't have an energy charge because it's been wiped out by the solar credits. Uh you don't have the fuel and purchase
014power costs, etc. And that carries through with tax and whatnot. So your total bill here, $857. You can see just from there clearly you use just as much or more energy but you have a much lower bill 2600 compared to the 88 850. But what you what's harder to see and I'm happy to you know we we can come back later and show you all the detail on how we get these calculations. What's harder to see is what they charge you uh for the KWH or how much you're saving. If there's no charge there, you can't really back into what it would have been. Um, but we know based on uh Energy's rates what they would have charged you. So, we're saying that actually uh your bill would have been about $2,500 higher had those
015uh energy charges not been wiped out. That's an effective rate of about 10 12, right? So, over here when we started it was more like 7 1/2 cents. Today, because of increases to utility rates, you're paying more like 10 1/2 cents. So that goes back to what I was saying that even 25 years at the end of this contract your solar cost is going to be 9 1.5 cents. The utility cost that you're saving on is already greater than 9.5. So the um so what we're saying is the energy wiped off here on this bill you save $2500. However, you're going to pay for that solar, right? So here in year four, you're paying about 6.2. So, that's going to cost you about $1,500. Now, you don't see that on the same transaction, right? It
016comes through as a as a main bill every quarter, but that's what it is relative to this bill. So, on this bill, you've saved about $1,000 just for this month. So, is that a lot of words and numbers, I know. So, did I lose anybody or does that make sense? Because that's really the crux of the whole thing. If you can if you can believe and understand that the cost that that you're being charged for solar is less than the uh charge that you are avoiding with your utility, then you you should have confidence that the savings exist. >> So you about $1,000 you said is a difference >> for for this specific examp >> Okay. You said after six or seven years we can buy it. >> How much does that cost? >> Uh
017I'm sorry I don't have that number in front of me. It is in your contract uh already stated uh fair market value. Um >> no depreciation since we've been had it for you. >> No, it does. It goes down over the years. Um I just I don't know what that number is. >> That all say we uh say we want to pay it off in six years, two more years from now. Mhm. >> We will not be getting another bill for 15 over 15,000 every quarter. What bill would you be getting? >> Yeah. So you So you would no longer be getting that $15,000 invoice, >> but you would still be getting these savings on your utility bills, right? It's just um and that might be a a good option for you, but that's going
018to require capital um to come out of your budget to buy it at that point, right? >> you would you would pay to own the array at that point. Now you would you would then take over uh responsibility for maintenance, right? So there could there'd be some ongoing cost. >> Um >> so I'm not sure how many accounts we have. >> It's not a lot for a year. >> 11 accounts. So, >> I'd like to see something comparing 11 accounts instead of one. >> Yeah, that's >> Yeah. Okay. Our concern is we're, you know, we're showing $1,000 on this account. I don't know. You know, 11 there's one for the high school, there's one for the elementary school. Maybe was one of our questions cuz it didn't seem like we had one for the we're
019getting that benefit over to our well newer elementary campus, but yes, >> it was one of our concerns. But the you're seeing $1,000 here, but that may be on one of our bigger parts of the meter that over here on this the safe room or whatever is probably going to be significantly less, but we're only saving ourselves, you know, $6,000 a month total or whatever, even less than that probably. I mean, our bill monthly or quarterly for this is 15,000 something. I mean, we're either breaking even on it or we're under it is our concern. Um, >> yeah. uh where we're at. It's >> cost beneficial. It doesn't seem seem to make that >> right difference. >> I Yeah, I get it. It is difficult because it is two separate transactions. It is also um
020you know, you're still paying a utility bill, right? $850. [snorts] This utility bill, if it would have been applied back there, it might have been $500. So, your utility expenses uh are going to continue to go up. What what I'm trying to to help show you, and I'm happy to come back and and do as much evaluation as we need to, is that without solar, they would be much much higher. >> Yeah. >> Right. And the $15,000 that you've paid for that quarterly invoice uh would be is less than what you are avoiding on these utility charges. Um I I can tell you, so I did look I'm only giving you an example of your largest account here. U but I did look at all the accounts associated with the array. they all were receiving
021full credit. Okay. >> Uh so I can verify that those credits are coming through uh each one of the accounts. Um but each one of those accounts are going to you know this 10 and a half effective rate that's going to be a little bit different on each on each one. Um this was actually back when we did it originally at the 7 1/2 cents or so. This was on the low side of the average. So it you know I would assume that that's that's maintained. So I would expect on the whole you're actually a little higher than 10 12 cents on what you're avoiding uh for the project. So and and I you know this is again this is not showing you every individual bill but if you take the lessons from that evaluation
022um that increase of 7 12 to 10 12 cents from 2019 to 2025 that's about a 38% increase in utility costs just on the energy side. um in that time span. Now, we only assumed about, you know, a historical 2.5% increase. So, this is much higher. If I applied that same, let's call it 35% increase to all of your bills, uh offset rates, uh instead of our projected 22,000, you'd probably be in between 25 $30,000 a year in savings. >> So, so why are you doing such a big favor? >> Well, we got paid to build the array, right? I mean that that's um that was what's so great about it. Unfortunately, uh I don't want to get too sidetracked, but uh state policy has come and gone and changed what the opportunity is. These
023projects don't exist anymore in Arkansas because state law uh doesn't provide this same type of savings benefit on the utility rates. But essentially with uh what it costs to build solar, uh we could build it, partner with uh someone like Blue Path and sell someone the power for lower than what the utility is going to charge you the power. That's as simple as that. Uh so we're getting, you know, we got paid to build the array, we're getting paid to maintain the array still. Um you know, we're we're a for-profit business, right? So that's that's why we're doing it. And these projects sold because it also was a no capital way upfront to provide savings to the school districts. >> You're talking about making uh evaluating a little bit deeper. Um, I mean, for us,
024I think [snorts] seeing it black and white, what we're looking at for all 11, um, on a monthly basis of what we're looking at, right? I think that's the month that number and then seeing what we're paying I think would would open maybe our eyes a little bit but right now it's not quite making sense to me how much we're being charged to how much we're being like it just seems really either close or we're paying more for the solar uh with what I'm what I've seen what we got build >> honestly what you're saying up here for the savings. >> Yeah. So yeah, >> is there a way we can is there a way I know that it's extra work, whatever, but is there a way we can see that >> that would show
025that it's beneficial to us? Cuz like we're seeing a snapshot snapshot right now of April whatever, you know, 2019, April 23 and then 2019, but just seeing it to where we can break it down in a much simpler way between the two. >> Um, yeah, I'm happy to keep working with y'all as much as we need, you know. Um, that's why I'm here today, right? I I believe in these projects and I want to continue to promote the success that they that they have been um to public entities in Arkansas. Uh, I also want to continue to stay in business. As I said, we're a part of Naples. We've been around for 75 years in Arkansas. We want to be here the next 75 years. So, I'll stay with you as long as it takes
026to get you comfortable with it. >> Um, I think what might help is u also pulling in the utility. So, you know, don't just hear it from the person who's promoting the solar, but but from the people that are um giving you the credit [clears throat] as well. There are some reports that they can run that might be helpful. Um when I was talking to another school district, they were able to provide a monthly report that says, "Hey, here's all your accounts and here's how many credits have been applied to each one of those accounts." >> Right? There's still some math you have to do to say, "Okay, well, that equates to this much savings and we're paying this much on the solar." But um again it's you know it's a separate entity for me.
027It's third party giving you that information. >> Like I mean like saying if we could see that difference heck maybe we we can see that it's saving us this much money and it's something we look at even expanding at some point in time. You know what I mean? But uh just right now it's just it seems kind of >> y >> so close you know. So that's something I think we >> well I it's been you know it's been tough for a lot of schools because utility costs have increased quite a bit in the last few years. So, if you're just sitting there, you know, typically you would just look at your bottom line budget for 12 months and say, "Okay, we spent $100,000 last year in electricity. Next year we'll budget $100,000." Right? Well,
028these rates are going up. Even though you have solar, there's still payments that you're making. $100,000 from 2019 is now $140,000. >> Mhm. >> Right. And it's and so it's it's you can't look back at it the same way that you used to. Why do some of the accounts have a lesser discount than the other accounts? >> Uh it's well it's just about the way that the specific charges are on each of the accounts. Um >> but the kilowatt hour should be the same charge. >> Well, you're for for what you're paying. Yes, you're getting you're you're paying the same rate for every KW, but what you're saving depends on the specific rate for each account. And so there are some minor differences between accounts that change that a little bit. >> You knew right
029off hand how many school districts? >> Well, um >> with us I mean we've done over 30 certainly maybe over 40. I don't know statewide. I mean there were other people doing it too. Um [snorts] but but quite a few We thank you so much. >> Okay. >> I appreciate it. Just let me know anytime. >> I request that we go into executive session to discuss personnel. >> Session at back in session 655. Excuse me. the IQ. We are going to approve our master's facility plan for the year. It's no different than last year's plan. Uh we don't have any building projects coming up. I wish we were building a big old arena, but guess what? We're not. So, I would ask to approve the board members to approve the master's facility plan as presented.
030And then we will have a period of public comment if there's anyone who wishes to comment on that. >> Second. >> Everyone in favor say I. >> Do we have anyone here who would like to make a public comment on the master's facility plan? >> Oh, I can't believe that. That's such a riveting topic. All right. Move on to the consent agenda. Um, October 21st, 2025 regular session board meeting minutes. And >> we can do the financial statements too in one vote. Let's do it all in one vote. Uh, approve financial statements. Second. You all in favor? [cough] >> We have our principal reports. Which of you would like to report first? >> Um, elementary November enrollment is at 3:30. We were at 3:30 in October. Also on the 12th, the baby group met with
031teachers on pacing guides for ELA, math, and science. And then at the bottom um of the elementary report, I just included our EES November newsletter. There's a little note to parents that you guys are welcome to read um as you want to. On November 4th and 5th, 3rd through 6th grade did their ELA Atlas interim. November 11th, we had fall picture retake day. On the 14th, interim grades went home. And then November 25th through 28th, we will have fall break. Our data for the elementary, I just wanted to include a little AR uh data for you guys. For the first nine weeks, we had students who read and took tests on 2,827 books. And the program that we use for AR totals the words uh per book. So students read a total of 5,893,39 words
032for the first nine weeks. >> Any questions for the elementary? >> Thank you. Thank you. >> Want you to know that Tammy was a big help at the high school today. I appreciate her stepping up and giving Britney a hand. Uh the current enrollment at the high school is 268. That's the same as October. Uh Wednesday, October 22nd, the Lono County Sheriff's Office presented a drug free program to all students. And we also had our annual flute clinic at both campuses. The 23rd, our AL students went on a field trip to Maritime Museum and tooured the USS Razerback submarine uh from World War II. The 28th through 14th, student council hosted a food drive for our local food closet. On the 29th, we hosted a college and career fair, and we had a lot of
033um colleges and businesses in attendance. Thursday, October 30th, Pam Allen, the math specialist from the co-op modeled lessons in algebra 1 and geometry um in our math class. And the FLA club attended the FBA district fall conference. On October 31st, we celebrated senior night at the football game and we recognized our seniors who participated in band cheer tennis, football, and East media. Um, we did tennis because tennis did not have a senior night at home. Uh, November 6th through 7th, students in grades 7th through 10 took the ELA Atlas interm test. And November 6th, juniors and seniors attended a college day at the 11th, we had picture retakes with Life Touch. The 12th, student council hosted a blood drive. The 13th, the Bailey group came and discussed pacing guides and content standards. And um our
034students each year when they take the Atlas test, we give them a day off if they score a level three or level four or they show growth. And then for our seniors, if they made a 19 or above on the ACT and so this year we have 146 students who will receive this day off. Um, and we're giving them that on Friday, November 21st. And next week is fall break. >> Thank you, Britney. >> And I've been keeping up with what the East High School has been doing. And I got to say, it's actually super impressive everything that they're doing. >> It It is very impressive. Yeah. Like speaking my language that Cemetery M. Okay. Uh, the superintendent updates. Angie Seir and I have to meet monthly via Zoom with uh the finance people at
035the state department and we had a really good meeting with them this week. We told them what we were doing and they said that we are on the track to getting in good financial shape. Uh was there anything else I'm leaving out? Oh, you need to tell them about our Yeah, Angie. monthly when I'm reconciling the bank statements, I'm going back and looking at where we were the previous year. And so when I finished October, as I looked back at last year's and last year's, we had like $648,000 in the bank and this year was um >> 1.2 million.2 million in the bank. And we did get our tax money today. So that was 1.2 million. So that went in the bank today. So we had 2.1 million in the bank as of today. So
036things are looking up. Like I said, that was almost double what we had at this time in the bank last year. So the cuts we've made and the reduced staffing have really shown a big increase in our savings. >> Yes. And uh they like the way we've consolidated some things. They they were very complimentary. So, we we were glad that now I've got some election information for you. This is uh I guess Joey and I both have a sentence spell. We've got we voted on this. Uh but over here under term, that's the year that you will seek reelection. And so, we we had that for you with your zone. That's just for your information. There's a handout in your packet about campaign finance. You run through the board and you know people contribute to
037your campaign. You have to report all that. So, uh there some things in there just for your information. The e students have a little uh newsletter they wanted you to see and you have one in there. Now, I need to know if any of you are going to go to the ASBA annual conference of the Marriott Hotel. If you are, call the office and we'll get you fixed up with hotel and get you registered for the conference. Anybody think you might be going to go? >> I I'm planning on going. >> I think I can. >> It's uh 10th 12th. >> 10th through the 12th. Yes. Sounds like a Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. >> Yeah, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. I'm going to go I think Wednesday to Thursday. >> But anyway, just just call up here
038and you'll take care of it if you want to go. Uh we have had a problem. Let me make sure I left everything out. Okay. Data harvest. You know, we get FOI to death from the school district. I came on board July the 1st and July the 2nd. I had a huge FOI request and it just about brings this office to a standill with productivity. It takes everybody to get those big requests in. Now we're we and other school districts are being hit with these data harvesting companies. They will tell you they're they're the power of attorney for somebody in Sherwood who wants all of our financial records. Well, I consulted with our school district attorney and she said that this is a problem everywhere. They come and they basically pay you to FOI us
039and get our information. I don't mind FOIS, but here's the thing. We're a nonprofit and we shouldn't have to be making money for a profit agency like that. And we denied the last one and I haven't heard back from them. I hope that they're going to not persist because I just don't think that's right. And I'm not against the Freedom of Information Act. I I I'm not. But I don't really want to help data harvesting companies so they have data to feed into artificial intelligence and that's what this is about. So, we're kind of fighting that right now. I have sent our coaches a letter stating that they must get their CDL or they might not be renewed in the spring. We've got to get some coaches with CDLs or we are going to have
040to cancel some ball games. It It's just gotten that drastic. Nobody wants to get a CDL. Now, I hope they take me seriously cuz it's just going to have to happen. And it's not that hard. Now, we uh are going in in just a few minutes when we get down to the things we're going to vote on, I I'm going to ask you to have a pay scale for driving. Uh I've called around to other districts and what they do, you know, the basketball coach drives the basketball bus and doesn't get paid. Okay. But let's say we need a bus driver and the football coach drives the basketball bus. We pay them for driving time and then we pay them a reduced rate for what you call seat time where they're just sitting and waiting
041to go back. So we will talk about that in a minute. But we are at a critical juncture in this district with CDLs. We've got to do something now. Uh we got our evaluation from uh G has to do with our AL alternative learning environment and our annual evaluation. It's in there and we came out fine on it. uh you know when uh the government shut down I was really startled when I learned that more than half of the students in this school district depend on SNAP benefits for nutrition at home. So Micah came to me and she had a letter from the child nutrition people in Little Rock. We can donate our unused food to the local food bank and we're going to do that. I think that's only right. And I heard on
042the news where deer hunters can uh donate a deer to the food bank. So we we are aware that that is a problem with our students. >> Now I think we've got our lights repaired out front here. >> Yes. >> And we filled in the potholes. You know how that water gets in that dip? I hit one of those potholes one day and I think I knocked three teeth loose and changed my radio station. Well, we we got Mr. Woods out there and I don't know how long Quick Creek's going to last. My experience with Quick Creed is not real good, but we do have the potholes covered up right now. I don't know what it's going to take to get that parking lot to drain properly. You men know more about that than I
043do. >> The city cleaned the ditch out. >> Yeah, that they did. That that will help. I hope it it's supposed to because it they had a instrument >> checking the grade and then Zach Lanhard checked it before they did it. >> Okay. Good. >> And it's supposed to do that unless it comes such a big rain and the highway dips builds up because the road ditch for the skate needs coming out. >> So we'll see this week as we >> haven't had a rain since then. But >> well the girls tell me that they've actually had fish swimming out there before. So >> it's new business. >> We have anou in here. I'd like for you to uh approve with Ur. This is just a really good deal for our teachers where they can
044take classes up there, I think, at a reduced rate. We've had so much going on this week. I have it's been two or three days since I read this, but uh let me find it. You know that old saying, I've slept since then. That applies to me. Here it is. Okay, you can read through that. I think that uh it it waves undergraduate admission application fee and it streams lines the process and I don't know I won't read it to you you can read but I I think it's a good deal and I would ask you to please approve that. So move second. All in favor? >> All right. >> Now, this next item, I don't know. You may want to think about it and us vote on it next month. Um, we kind of
045would like [clears throat] to become part of the AL hub consortium at Longote. We could get that for um, [snorts] let me find this in my packet. Yeah, here we go. This sheet says decision timeline at the top. I think it would benefit us. We wouldn't have to have an AL teacher. It would save us money and I think it would benefit our students in that I think they would have better and more varied instruction. The only downside to it is that you do have to transport them to WA. So if y'all want to think about that and we vote on it next month, that'll be fine. >> So would that mean a week anymore? >> Right. Transportation teacher salad. >> Oh yeah, I think I think it will elementary school. >> Uh I think
046it's just high school. >> I I would prefer not elementary. I think it's just better for the littles to be housed with us. >> I think so, too. >> So, I I mean, you guys do what you want, but I I personally don't recommend that. >> Now, the cost here is on this other sheet at $6,700 per student. And I think we could start out with three, not more than four seats. Probably could start with two even. We don't have a whole lot of kids in pay. So >> So it can change. >> It can change. Yes. >> If we have five. >> Yeah. Have room for us for the year, >> right? Yes. >> For the whole year. >> Yes. Mhm. >> I think that uh >> still under teachers. >> Yes, it is.
047>> Yeah. I think it would be a win for us financially and it would be a win for our students. Well, this is in Carile. >> A car. Okay. In Lono County somewhere. I don't know about it. >> Across from the elementary school. >> I'm I'm new to this county, so forgive me. We get this hammer and send it down the way there. >> Uh there is a misconception that they're bad kids are in AL and that's not always the case. is there's a lot of credit recovery. Say a girl is pregnant and she gets behind. AL is often used for credit recovery. And while we want to save money, we also want to do what's best for for the students. Now, I've got my packet all scrambled up here. Do y'all want to vote
048on that tonight or do you want to think about it and vote on it next time? We >> all right on transportation. >> Well, I hope so. Can you drive a bus? Oh, I can drive a bus. >> I think we'd be all right. [laughter] >> Well, we might have to step out on f there, but I think we'll be all right. >> If you feel like it's something you got to review, Logan is we have J. We have to make a partic participation by January, February 25. >> Yeah. >> And probably next board meeting would be the next best time. If you guys want to think about it, I think it's great leaving the little daily and or the elementary and then the high schoolers doing a car. >> We have a driver though.
049>> That's I'm asking also question. >> Well, here's the thing. They can be transported on the short bus and you don't have to have a CDL to drive short bus. So, [snorts] >> we do it. >> Well, we're going to have to run an ad for bus drivers. And I think that with the short bus, it might be more attractive to maybe female bus drivers. The economyy's bad. People might want that extra money. So, you want to table it or you want to vote on it? >> I think that. >> Okay. Well, I would recommend that we join that consortium. >> We need a motion. >> I make a motion. >> Second. All in >> favor. I >> And we got to pay some bills. >> [clears throat] >> When I took this job, y'all
050told me I could use my discretion on $5,000 and under, but things exceed 5,000. So, I want to ask you to approve payment to uh 5410 to gym masters. >> What's your deal? >> A lot of bills in there. >> Gym Masters. What aquarium. Yeah. Okay. >> Just redoing the agenda. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> Okay. And then um D, I would ask you to approve the payment of $7,126.20 to McGee HVAC system. >> Is that the >> Where where was that HVAC for? the bus shops and maintenance office. >> Okay. Bus shop and maintenance. And then of course virtual Arkansas. That's that's a great great deal. And I know it's a big payment, but this benefits our students. It benefits our parents. It it is great all the way around. >> This
051is for the classes we don't >> right. They take them over the internet. $18,180. >> Did y'all vote on the >> Yeah, we need to vote on the other >> No, we need we need to vote on the Hack. >> Oh, yeah. Okay. I'm jumping the gun there. I'm sorry. >> Motion Hack >> motion. All in favor? >> Now, will that be the general? Um, not it won't it's not federal because it's required. >> This is like the AP stuff, right? >> Well, it's just all >> Yeah. >> Early college high school. Yeah. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> We need to table F because we don't have all of our our uh quotes in yet. all of our bids. We need to tackle that for next month. We need to get better camera
052systems on our buses. That is very helpful. The bus driver is driving the bus. He or she's looking straight ahead. Trouble happens behind them. Uh it helps us figure out who did what and discipline it. It's it's Erica's working on getting some some bids on it. Now, Angie and I called around about bus driver pay, and Angie, I've got my stuff scrambled up. We decided on 19 drive and 15%. >> Yeah, 19 for drive time, 15 for set time. What's that an increase from? >> That's the hourly rate that we do now. But we normally have coaches that drive their own sports and we have so many now that are new that don't have their CDL. We're having to pay someone to drive. So, we just need to have it set what we're paying >>
053until the coaches get their CDL. >> Yeah, we've sent them out a letter on England School District letterhead and said, "Would somebody silence my phone? I'm so sorry. It's probably Walgreens. They call me 14 times a day. Uh, thank you. >> Then we have a bunch of model policies that, uh, we need to to catch up. >> So, uh, paid. >> Oh, yeah. I'm sorry. >> A motion to approve. All >> in favor? These are model policies that Lucas Harder at the schoolboard association craft. So we know that they're airtight. >> Yeah. I make a motion. Second. All in favor? personnel. Give me just a minute to get all my Give me just a minute. Get all my stuff right now. Got scrambled up work. [clears throat] Well, Lisa, I know you gave me that
054she All right. Um, please Yeah. Okay. I have a copy in your uh packet of uh Coach Morgan's resignation. I would recommend that you accept his resignation. So move second. All >> in favor? Marie Kernney uh wants to be uh relieved from her stopping as assistant girls basketball coach. Her girl to play club volleyball if she doesn't have time. >> Also include 10 days reduction contract. >> Yeah, it'll be 10 days reduction in her contract plus taking the stipens away. You just amend that contract. >> Yeah, just a >> Yes, I recommend that. >> Do we have a back too? >> Well, that's what Emma. >> Okay. Yeah, that's right. >> All right. Um, we need a motion. >> So, move second. >> All in favor? >> [snorts] >> We kind of have a crisis
055in our basketball program right now. And uh I'm going to ask the board to have uh David Becky be the interim head coach for the remainder of this basketball season. He has a CDL and that's u a big plus of his favor. motion second. All in favor? I >> now David Mackey's daughter who's married now. She's in the boil. She is a an education major at UCA and she's coming up to her student intern and we can pay them a paid internship and coach Mackey has got to have somebody to keep the book for him. So we want to hire her as a parapro. You can pay these interns parapro pay. She will have uh Samantha Brewer as her mentor. They have to spend so many hours a day in the classroom on the elementary
056campus. They have to spend so many hours a day at the secondary campus. And she's going to mainly keep the book for her father in the basketball program. He needs somebody who can keep that book. And I think she's kept it for him since she was a little bitty thing. Uh so I would ask you to please hire Emma Bole uh for parapro pay as a paid intern and our basketball program. >> You make a motion. Second. >> All in favor? >> I would also ask you to please hire Latana Harris, registered nurse, as the elementary school nurse. Make a motion. Second, all in favor of the house. Thank y'all very much.