001To 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. You can if you want to go to >> I don't have to. >> Well, we can. >> Yeah, I I would like to do that to to discuss personnel. >> All right, we're going to executive session to discuss personnel at 624. >> [clears throat] >> banker close. Uh Angie will present that. She put the Uber report down for you here and it's it's simplified. It's much easier to understand what we've been doing. We have um in the bank right now $657,000. I look today to compare to this time last year and we haveund almost $177,000 more right now than what we did last year in the bank.
002Now, we do have outstanding checks, but um it's I feel a lot better this year about our financial situation than I did at this point last year. Um so, as of right now, we do have more money in the bank. We are getting for this year on our foundation funding, we're getting $381,000 more than what we got this year. So, that will help. Um, we just need to continue with the savings that we've started and just not go crazy spending money on this. >> 657, does that include the federal funds or >> Yeah. Well, it's it's all of our money and we are owed a little bit of federal. >> I mean, like this 657, was there any federal funds included in that? >> Well, federal you spend and then get reimbursed. So, There's >>
003But as far as paying regular bills, is only $657 available? >> No. About $480,000 available. And that is after I've run July's paper. Make a motion to approve consent agend. >> Yes, I had asked Mr. Horn to come and make a presentation to us about the services we get from the co-op as much for my edification as as anything. And uh so he's got a PowerPoint and you got the floor, Brad. >> I'm again Brad Horn, director of Wilbert Mills Education Service Cooperative MB. And uh we typically I want to thank Dr. Hubble and the board for allowing me to come speak with you tonight. This is a this can be a fairly long presentation. So if I get this from Mr. Cheek, I'll know I'm going a little bit long, okay? So don't hesitate
004don't hesitate don't hesitate to tell me. Typically what we do is we invite the new superintendent, new superintendents in our co-op over to the co-op. We have our team there to present this information because they do Dr. Cole's coming from outside the co-op region. She's used to another co-op and this lets them know and their team when they bring them over what we can do to help them out. Okay, so this is so there's some names in here. All of my team has a slide 5 to 10 minutes. I'm going to be quick. I promise you just to give you an idea what how we serve. Um so our purpose here I think is kind of twofold. Dr. Hubble had approached me about is it would you like me to approach the uh purchasing threshold
005now or you want to wait? >> Yes. Uh go ahead. I I had asked Brad to uh kind of run a little survey for me of schools in our co-op area what their superintendent is allowed to spend without board approval to kind of give me an idea of what I can ask y'all. So yes, I wish you would go. >> Yes, ma'am. and that actually came up. So, I don't know if you know this, but we have the co-ops have taken over the uh mentoring for new superintendents and new principles. So, we actually had our training in Hot Springs the last two days. I'm just coming back from that and this came up today. Mr. Bird at Cabinet brought it up and some new superintendents were talking about it, but that purchasing threshold now mine
006I'm going to come back to that. So, this is the these are the results from our survey. Uh mine when I was superintendent was $5,000. Okay, that was kind of a little antiquated because a lot of that is based on purchasing threshold given by the state. So, you know this, I don't insult your intelligence, but you have a bidding threshold mandated by the state. Federal and state's different. Federal is $10,000. You got to elicit bids, but state you can go up to 20 26,000 I think now. Okay. Uh and some districts, cabb allows full expenditure. He doesn't have to go to board approval for anything as long as he takes care of bidding process. It is legal, right? But there are districts you can see here. I won't go into a lot of detail, but
007we didn't put districts or names, but 15,000 at 1, 10,000. You've got a 2500. And to be honest, Brooke did this for me. I don't even know which districts this applies to. 265 10 20,000 15,000 and then 257 9,9.99. Okay. So, that's just for your information. Uh, again, short of that, I know where I was at, if we had one of our big gym air conditioning units go down, I wouldn't have been able to fix it maybe for 5,000 without calling you in for a meeting. Okay. So, justformational for Dr. I appreciate that. >> You bet. But that's that's actually there as an example more than anything for the collaboration that we can provide. Okay. So, let me get started [clears throat] with the services. I included our mission statement there and I won't read
008it, but basically my folks are going to do anything that Dr. Hubble needs as long as it's legal. I mean, as long as it's legal, we're going to do it for her. Okay. Example of that, I took over when CO hit. One of our districts, I'll name it. It was Ball Knob. Their cafeteria had to shut down cuz every cafeteria staff member had CO. So, I sent my literacy specialist, Matt, everybody went over there and we cooked and served for them. Okay? So, that's what I mean by what you need, we do. Now, that that, you know, maybe we should have been doing literacy at that time, but we felt the need. We thought we were taking care of kids. But anything the district means we do. One of the greatest examples of I in
009my opinion what we do for our districts is provide collaboration time with job alike groups. I'll go into more detail later but uh personally as a superintendent when I could sit on that board we have a business meeting just like you do but at the end we have information so I could hear Dr. Thurman how he handled the situation. I may have already dealt with it and it did two things. one if I handed it handled it similarly similarly very validating I felt like I was doing right but if I handed it handled it differently and it wasn't so good I could think about that and come back and do it differently the next time so 16 superintendent hear what the 17's doing and it helps them out and Dr. Hubble provides as much experience
010to our group as anybody in there. So, it's a value to all of those job groups. Um, but that's one example that collaboration. When superintendent has a question, we can kind of come together on it. This slide is going to show you the value of the co-op to you. So, I do need to give you a little explanation on this. You you you should have seen this. This would have been it's 2018 2019. say, "Let me explain that. We're required by statute to do a cost analysis cost analysis for 1/5if of our districts every year. We are evaluated by the state every 5 years and this is part of it. We have to show that we've given a cost analysis to all of our superintendents and they've signed off on it." Now, whether they show
011it to you is up to them, >> but 18/19 was your last year, I believe. And this shows you the value. Now, I'm going to break this down throughout this PowerPoint here in terms of each category. So there are four categories and then a total cost savings for the ESC for participating and also a total cost saving savings for ADM. That's average daily membership. You know that your enrollment basically. So as we go through the slide that list of services Dr. Hubble asked for is each one of those categories. This is only the final table that the superintendent sees. Okay? There's a lot of other information, but that tells you on the first column, the PD consortium contracted PD and content specialists that are person are housing my my office saves the district $51,666. Now,
012I want to point out here, no district in Arkansas by statute is required to participate with any co-op. So, you could opt out of it. You could u now I do think in two years this is just opinion. I think next fiscal session there will be legislation written that indicates that every district has to participate possibly even county which does not belong to a co-op or it may be written that DNS schools have to belong to a co-op. We don't know but there's kind of some thought that it's going that direction uh when we go forward here. Next next category is cost savings from ESC products and procurement. I'll speak about that more, but that's paper. We do your paper pursing for you. Media releases and other services is a savings of $2,87. Cost savings
013for direct student services, that's going to be early childhood, special ed, and hippie. You're probably familiar with those terms and we can talk some about that if you have questions. That's a big one. $432,000. Now, I know as superintendent, I kind of thought, man, I could do that. I could I could take care of that. But what that's early childhood side. What has to happen is my folks have to go out and find students that are not school age that should receive special education services. We have to evaluate them and then we provide those services. Uh so that's a big savings for you. And then the next one there cost savings for admin services which deals with my admin office and also job alike groups 40,000. And then again that total cost savings 12547 and
014then this is your cost per ADM. Now, when we do this cost analysis, it's not something that we come up with at the co-ops. None of our 15 has a hand in it. The state gives us a formula. All we do is plug our services provided into the spreadsheet and then it spits this out. Okay. I will tell you that I don't think this is a perfect number. Can I say for sure that we're saving you $527,000? I can't. But the value that comes from this is when I compare the other districts that were uh analyzed the same year and really what it boils down to folks is their engagement. Okay? If if Dr. Hubble is coming to my board meetings or our board meetings, right, then you're getting value out of it. If you're
015if she's not coming, and I'll tell you, I won't say anywhere, but there's been instances for three years where a superintendent didn't come. Wasn't at a single board meeting. Okay? So, no value given there, right? But if you participate and that goes all the way down to work sessions or or training sessions that we have, if the district is participating, then you're going to get value out of it. Seems like that you got to know. All right. U first category there, if you remember that table, professional development. Now, you probably know this, but you each district in our co-op gives $100 per FTE. So, every full-time educator, you send $100. Dr. Hubble and you send us $100 per FTE. Now, that's for certified only, but the catch is we also serve the classified staff. And
016I'll talk about some of those job groups here in just a minute. Even transportation gets served by us. Contracted professional development. That's when we bring a presenter in. Again, that's coming from your uh consortium that you participate in PD. And then our content specialists fall in that category as well. That's state funded. So you no money comes from the district. It's all given to us by the state. >> All right. So this is the part where I've got names on here. I'll burn through this pretty quickly. Okay. But we do have a math specialist and any of your staff and your superintendent can call my math specialist and she will provide whatever you need. If it's resources, if it's kind of to model a lesson, she'll do it. Um there may be science. No, it's
017not. It's literacy and dyslexia or an usery. She's been two years doing a great job, but she provides that dyslexia support specifically. She's not she's directed by the state not to go so much with literacy anymore because dyslexia is such a big big item right now, but she will do literacy. Ben Carrian is our science specialist. We stole anything from Hardy. Uh he does a great job with science. So again, those three individuals, your folks and your superintendent can call any of those individuals and we we will help you out with resources. All right. Next item there is procurement. So you do participate in our paper purchasing. So, uh, we contact your admin assistant. I believe it comes through the admin assistant for any information about how much paper the district wants to purchase. We're
018able to save you some money because we buy in bulk, more bulk than you would purchase. Cabin is the only district that doesn't participate because that's its own animal and they save enough money by doing it themselves. But our other 16 districts, we can save them some money by purchasing that. We also take care of uh uh media release should be up there. Yeah. school launch media release and school choice media release. We send that out. The district does pay for it, but you join with all of the uh say C uh you join with Longo County Schools to uh in that. So, you're paying your portion out of four districts. And then a pair of professional testing, we provide that at the co-op at no cost. Teacher center, your folks, your teachers can come
019print things out or laminate things at no cost. And then community health nurse, there's a chin that's housed at our co-op. Um, some districts I was guilty of this when I'm superintendent. I paid for first aid uh or CPR for my faculty. We have somebody there at the co-op. I just didn't know about it that Dr. Hubble can call us and she'll come do CPR for your entire faculty. Okay. So, that's an example of something you might could save some money that a lot of folks might know about. Next item there, Mr. T, am I still okay? You're good. Uh, next item there is for Hippie local leads early childhood sped migrant. This is a big one. Now, migrant, you probably heard some talk about federal funds. Have y'all been discussing that at all? They're
020kind of >> Yes. >> Okay. So, so migrant we're thinking may only exist another year. Who's your migrant coordinator here? >> Oh, you don't participate. Okay, good deal. That's good because it's probably going away, right? But, uh, migrant is a piece of that. Early childhood spell and hippie and then local leads. We don't carry you under local leads. and carry. Uh actually, I think we do have Lo County now. We definitely have Palask County. Uh but the the early childhood sped and hippie are two big programs. Hippie serves your your homebased educators and your families. It provides curriculum for them. And then early childhood sped is your big cost savings. That's the one where I'm I've got 40 staff members in early childhood sped. Now, the key here is that you're saving money because you
021don't need necessarily a full-time early childhood special ed teacher, but you share that through us with other co-ops. That a lot of that is pass through money. So, the state sends you EIDT money in federal and state funds, sends it to you, and then Dr. gets approval and sends it to us. So, we provide those services. >> All right. Next item here, that's hippie. That was Jason Clark. Local leads is a program that we started this year that serves uh daycarees, provides curriculum to daycarees to get them ready for kindergarten. Get those students ready. Early childhood I just spoke about my group again that one's it's a good program but it's probably losing it I suspect. And then admin services to me this is a big one. I say only that's pretty good chunk of
022money for the district but this is where our job alike groups come in. Dr. Hubble attended our work session and I hope she gleaned some information from our folks and I know she provided some at that work session. But we have several job alike groups. I just go to the next slide. I think they're listed on here. Uh assistant superintendent, curriculum coordinators, federal coordinators, principles, and sped ser supervisors. What we do is we bring those individuals into meetings once a month and they're able to talk about issues that they're dealing with at their district and collaborate with other folks. I think that's a huge service that we provide. But we also act as a liaison between the state and those groups. So we can push information out to them that the state gives us to
023provide. Technology coordinator Brooke Singleary. She actually meets with your media library media specialist. I think monthly but it may be quarterly. Um and then uh she's also working on some a testing coordinator. >> Library med the library media specialist. Business managers. I started that two years ago, but a Aea Sharon, you know, Sharon started doing that because I think you guys picked the day that's on my board meetings. So, they were meeting if you came to it, they were meeting up in my office while we were having a board meeting. But, we do provide that collaboration time and and uh information uh service to everybody. Transportation directors, I started that last year. Meet quarterly with your transportation directors. I actually came over and because they started the curriculum, if you know that, I don't know
024if you know that or not, where it was already tough enough to get a bus driver, but the Fed decided we need to do another curriculum to get certified. Uh, so we purchased a curriculum so that your transportation director could get them enrolled, and I actually came over and sat down with your transportation director and kind of helped him get going with it. >> Advanced learning specialist. >> This one has been in question and you may have had discussion about it. Uh, and I'm I want to spend a little more time on this one, but when uh, let's see, two years ago, our board decided to do strategic planning during the summer. Actually, it was last summer, summer before this one, and I called Secretary Leva and met with him over spring break, and I
025told him, "Look, my board's fixing to tell me what they want the co-op to look like, but I need you to tell me, is that okay, or you and legislators going to change it because I don't want them to tell me something and then you say something else." He said, "Brad, you need to concentrate on accelerated learning." And what he meant by that was not GT. When I hear accelerated learning, and y'all may agree, I think GT, gifted and talented, which Brad Horn ever got an invite to when he was in Captain School of Stride, but really what he was talking about was acceler accelerated learning for all students, even the Brad Horns of the world. Okay? So, I'm not as smart as other kids in my grade, but I need to be accelerated to
026get teachers need to accelerate me to get me up to that point. So what I've asked Jennifer to do, she was a TT specialist, but we converted that into accelerated learning. So it's it's it's a consortium funded position. Now what she's done, I've asked her to push into the counselor group because as a high school principal, my counselor did a lot of my planning, my master scheduling, and she was the one that said, "Hey, we need AP or we need uh Cambridge or something like that offered at this level." So we've started the counselor job and that's been very valuable. So, I'm going to go back to this or what I said in the beginning about engagement. She sends those emails and and folks may say, "Hey, we've never heard of that person. We don't
027even know who that is." But when when that's happened, I've gone back and asked her for documentation. She's actually sent the emails and given the information, but some individuals have never been to a meeting. Okay? And so that goes back to if you engage, if the district engage, district level leadership causes teachers to engage and and building level makes teachers engage. That's where you're going to get it value. But this is this is a good program. We're only one year in. We're working bugs out of it. We had some some speed bumps to get past, but I think we'll get and I do appreciate the district participating in that. I think you'll find a lot of value. mentoring program that serves all of your novice teachers and it also helps to get folks certified that
028are are not currently certified. And then this one is new. So we've taken from AA I mentioned this at the beginning. We've taken over the beginning principal mentoring. So if you do you have new principles this year? No. No new head principles. Okay. So nobody will participate in that. But this is the piece that even if even if you don't participate with a co-op, building level principal and superintendent mentoring is required. Those folks have to come in. Dr. Hubble kind of skirted past it because she did it in her past season of life, right? So, she doesn't have to attend it, but I talked to her before the meeting and she said she kind of liked it, which is a good thing. Probably all 17 of ours. >> So, things change so much every year.
029>> Yes, ma'am. Absolutely. Uh so that's our principal group and then our superintendent group is next and I'll be doing the superintendent group. Uh Brandy Hardcastle will be doing the principal group and then future options. Uh just something that you may at some point want to talk about. I don't know if behavior is an issue at England. Uh but our districts, the other 16 are experiencing some major issues in behavior. So we started a behavior consortium. Five schools participate. Your neighbor next door car does. I hired a coordinator, Christy Gibson, and then a coach, Jenny Ray, and they step in. They're not there to help with behaviors for specific kids, but to come in and observe and kind of coach those teachers in dealing with those behaviors. So, it's a good program, but it is
030again, it's consortium funded. So, you got to buy those. And then career and uh tech um you guys do participate that, but it's optional. That's the CT program and we've provided some pretty good equipment for the school district. >> Upcoming job alikes. I mentioned that I started a transportation group. So this year we're starting a facility and safety which will probably be the same group meeting and then also a maintenance director. Uh we'll start this year. All right. I burnt through pretty quick. Mr. Chief, y'all have any questions? >> Just reaching for my throat. >> Yes, sir. I never saw it go across. I I I was reaching for it at the end of last slide. >> Any questions? >> Fred, thank you for coming. >> Yes, ma'am. You bet. You bet. It's good seeing
031everybody. Hey, and I do want to mention just engaging. I mentioned I'm sorry for jumping back in. She actually came over and sat with our team in my office for I don't how long it seemed like probably 3 or 4 hours. >> I think two or three hours, >> but we had a good discussion and that's that's what's going to help you out, right? Engaging and collaborating. >> Yeah. Thank you so much. Appreciate it. Good to see you. >> Thank you for not getting me on camera. >> Okay. Yeah. Principal reports. Uh who wants to start? >> Do you have a list? [laughter] >> I do have a list. >> That's an inside joke. >> Sorry. >> Leadership. [laughter] >> I'm going to do better about that. Um elementary current enrollment is at 327. We
032ended the year at 350. So that's a difference of 23 students. And where did those students go? We had a sixth grade class that's leaving of 55. We have an incoming kindergarten class of only 35. So that's a difference of 20 kids. So that's the majority of your kids right there. It's just a really small kindergarten year. And we have beat every bush that we can find in England. We have put it on Facebook. We have sent text. We have put it everywhere we can think of. We did a kindergarten uh camp to try to get, you know, as many kids as we can. I feel like we'll have a few more enroll. A lot of people wait until school starts to bring them, but we're not going to have anywhere near what we had
033leaving in sixth grade coming up. It's just going to be a smaller group. And then, uh, prek is at 13. We have 15 spots. As soon as the new prek director, um, is hired, she'll go in and she'll fill those last two spots. So, that'll be two more kids in our camp. Maintenance is just continuing at EEES and um we had a little bit of a slow start, but it's really ramped up. The building's looking really nice. Um I just want to say Mr. Woods, Mr. Thomas, Mr. Hayes, um Mr. Jake, like they are working so hard getting our building ready. Um, and so just wanted to give them a brag. July 8th and 9th we had kindergarten camp. 19 students attended and I attached some pictures. The one at the very end is my
034favorite where they made little hats and um they're just adorable. So we had 19 kids out of the 35 came to kindergarten camp. July 10th we had the EES summer book bus. Um we had several stops in the community that we made. We had quite a lot of kids come to the bus. We were impressed with how many um came. We hope to do it again one more time before school starts and maybe we'll have even more. I included some pictures of that also. And then I gave you a breakdown of our class size. Um you can see that prek is 13. It will be 15. Like I said, after the prek director gets her numbers in, we'll have two kindergarten classes, 17 in each. We'll have three first grade classes. Right now we're at
03516, 16, and 16 in those classes. Second grade we have 20 and 20. Third grade we have 19 and 18. Fourth grade we have 18, 16, and 17. There's a change on your page for fifth grade. It was at 24 and 21 and we were able to switch um a student and kind of even that up. So we're at 22 and 22. And then sixth grade we're at 22 and 22. We have nine additional students in our self-contained class. and three additional students in our AL. Any questions for the elementary? >> Thank you. >> All right, Miss Britney. >> Short and sweet. Um, our total number of students enrolled at the high school is 280, which is the same as last month. Teachers been spending their uh summer engaged in PE at the co-op and
036on campus. We kicked off our uh first brewing through summer nights on July 1st and the evening drew a large crowd and everyone enjoyed water games, a movie, several vendors, uh popcorn and uh drinks and things. Um we had a lot of people there that night. July 8th, we hosted our second roaring through the summer nights event with English, math, and science out in the library and enjoyed watermelon that was grown in our um EHS greenhouse. The Atlas scores have been received and a copy of those have been placed in your packet. Miss is going to go over those with y'all um later on. Uh tonight we had the AI and Google notebook night for parents and students um in the library as our third of the summer nights event and then I have our
037enrollment trends down below. >> Now I understand we have quite a few more going out for football at senior high. Do you have any figures on that? Well, that's okay. But I understand it. Uh the coach came over this morning and he was telling me he thought there were about 23 maybe. Does that sound about right? >> It sounds accurate. Okay. Good. >> Well, I was pleased with that. >> Yeah. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Any questions? >> Thank you. >> Yeah. On the superintendent updates, we have several things to go over. Act 9002 requires us to have a public comment uh portion of our board meeting. At 5:45, we're supposed to have this signup sheet out and they have to sign up between 5:45 and 6:00 in order to speak. And I believe they
038get three minutes and they have to live in the district. They have to what else do we have? >> Be an employee or a parent. >> Employee or parent. Okay. >> It has to be regarding an agenda. >> Yes. So, they have to come and sign up. That's a new thing. And I I gave the president here the uh thing that he reads if if we have somebody who wants to comment, but we didn't have anybody tonight. Uh, the next thing I wanted to talk with you about, we got the Atlas scores and Belinda has prepared a little handout for you comparing the 24 scores with the 25 scores. So, she's going to pass those out to you now and talk briefly with you about that. >> We did have some improvements, especially in our
039advanced categories, which is a blessing. and some of our proficiency grew also. So, we're hopeful. >> Thank you. >> You're welcome. >> Oh, that looks nice color and everything. >> Um I'll let y'all kind of look through that, but um some of the highlights. So, we increased from 5 to 12% in advance in grade 8 in science. That's a big increase. And then we did have a small increase in proficiency also. Um, we had some upward gains in math in grade eight and seven too. Again, we increased in advanced in grade seven and eight. Those are going to give us achievement points. Now, the report cards are not out. Those won't be out till like September, October. This is just the raw data that's been put in the Atlas portal. >> This is all they've
040released us. >> That's all they've released. They even they haven't even released growth data. So, this is literally just your achievement data right now, just in the portal raw. and I just took it and analyzed it compared. >> Well, I thank you. >> Well, you're welcome. >> Y'all have any questions for Belinda? >> Okay. Um on the uh AR app summary of revisions that we have to turn in. They said that our report was good. We have no revisions. So, we can knock that off our list. It's always good to get that word from AD, but they don't need any revisions. uh updates on our federal funding that Brad kind of touched on. Uh I'm going to ask Belinda again to talk about that a little bit since she handles our federal money. So you're
041up again, Belinda. >> Thank you. My pleasure. Um [laughter] um so um the federal government has put on hold or under review, they're calling it some federal programs. Only two of those pertain to England. when we get two of those funds. That's our title 2A and our title 4 A. Now, they've only put a hold on the new allocations. The carryover balances are still available to us to spend. And under 2A, we have 16,000 in carryover that we'll be able to use along with our PD funds. So, we'll be fine in that category. Perfectly fine. Title 4A always transferred it into title one anyway, so we use it under the same rules and regulations as title one. So again, if there were two federal programs that they were going to put on hold, I guess
042those are the two best, you know, as far as not hurting us. >> Could be worse. >> Yeah, it could be worse. [clears throat] There were several funds, but luckily for us, it only affected two of our categories. We're still getting our big one, which is title one. We should get an increase in that. And um we should get an increase in ESA. That's not federal, but it's state categorical, but that's our big one that we use to pay a lot of salaries out of. >> Okay. Questions? Thank you, ma'am. Now, you all have homework between now and the next meeting. We have guidance on the new maternity leave act that was passed. And I have this, it's a blue ink. What I need you to do is read through it before the next board
043meeting. And then we will have to decide which of these options we're going to adopt. So, uh, I just want you to read through it and, you know, kind of be prepared for that. Next time we have anou with Ur, which simply gives our faculty and staff a deep discount on tuition if they want to go. So it it's one of those things that only helps us. So I would ask you to please uh accept that with Ur make a motion to approve theou with motion. Second, Mr. all the folks there. Cool. So, >> okay. We have anotherou with UA uh Phillips County Community College for our concurrent credit. Now, that is a program that is very popular with parents. If your child is of a mind too, they can come out of here with
044how many hours? Three. >> An associates degree. Yeah, I thought so. >> Okay. So, you know, that's a big win for us. So, I would certainly encourage you to accept theou with Philips County. >> Someone make a motion to approve with UA Philips County. First Scott second, Commissioner Jones. All in favor say I. I. >> Okay. You all have already approved theou with the Lano County Sheriff's Department, but I just wanted to let you know that the quorum court accepted that. So, we're No, that was just for your information. And there had been some kind of controversy about cafeteria and custodial workers having to take a hepatitis shot, but they sent out a directive from AD that we do not have to have them vaccinated for hepatitis. So, that's good. I just wanted to let
045you know that. And we have an issue with some pest. Uh, poor Lisa had to clean rat droppings off or mouse droppings off her desk every day and and we called the pest control people and they put some glue traps out and I haven't seen any. Have y'all seen any more since then? Okay. But now the high school has got some rats, not mice, rats that are ded up in the the top here. And uh I have instructed my principles to stay on maintenance to keep it clean because those rats have to have something to eat or they wouldn't be there. So, you know, they chewed some cords into but they don't get any nutrition out of that. Uh they're doing some damage. So, we've got the pest control people on it and uh the
046rat's got to go. That's just all there is to it. If I saw one of those things, I don't know what I'd do. >> Well, they work, but they're they're ruining our electronics. They've chewed several things into, so we need to get rid U. I am encouraged about our finances. I had uh Mr. Norman Hill, who's a well-known financial consultant all over Arkansas here this morning, and he told us that we would end in the black and we would not have to borrow money to make it through the year. Now, that does not mean we can go out and spend wildly, but uh I I've told everybody that instead of being on a steak diet, we're going to be on baloney, Miracle Whip, and White Light Bread this year. Uh >> it Well, I like
047Bill, but you know, >> we're going to still have to be careful, but I was very relieved that we're going to make the year and we have worked in leadership team. We're having a leadership meeting every week and I think that has been great uh a great way to to inform me of things that are going on to keep us on the same page and to keep things at the forefront that are important. And I have told everybody that, you know, we have three great missions this year. We have a lot of missions, but these are three big ones. get the finances straightened up, to get rid of that D on the school report card at the high school, and to keep this place clean. We may be poor and eating bologn sandwiches on white
048light bread, but we can be clean, and we're going to do that. And I have instructed my principles to stay on the maintenance staff about that. A as principles, that is something you are supposed to do. So, uh, we want to to take care of what we have. And, uh, I put this here for you. You can take these classes, uh, by Zoom if you want to. This is the ASBA, uh, leadership institute at Hot Springs. You can do it in person or you can do it on Zoom. And you know, I I appreciate all of my faculty and staff who've helped me get my feet on the ground. I have a wonderful central office staff here. I appreciate all of you board members for for helping me kind of get my feet on the
049ground. And I think we're going to be okay. >> Rule on the agend. Well, yeah. We're going to add a motion to suspend the rule or add >> Yeah, we need to make a motion to suspend the rule to add some add to the agenda. >> The agenda motion by Scott second. Do we have another f say I >> I 50. >> You want to do all these? >> I will. Yes, sir. I will. We're going to do the ad Tuesday right now. Okay. We we hired an LPN because that was a great savings to us. You you only have to have one RN and they do the paperwork, but you can hire the second nurse as an LPN. We did not have a salary schedule. So, we we have one here and I would
050like to ask you to to adopt this salary schedule for an LPN. That's right. >> It's It starts out at 283. >> Motion to add the LPN salary schedule as stated here. >> Motion by Scott JDC by Mr. Trish Car. All in favor say I. And then we have two uh orders that are kind of large, but these are things we're going to have to have to get school started. And I believe both of these are paid out of federal money. We have uh one here uh that is 7,5244. >> It's uh student workbooks and learning modules. It's uh it's itemized here. >> We have three. I don't know if those are the elementary ones, but we have our Witten Wisdom reading workbooks. I believe that's the $7,000 ones. >> That sounds right. Then we
051have a >> $7524. >> Yes, sir. That's for student workbooks for our literacy curriculum and our online modules for our teachers. >> It's a bunch of modules, books. >> Yes, sir. >> We're second grade. So, it's a literacy workbook or several registrations. >> And we wanted to get that done at this board meeting so we could get those materials. from here. >> It's that go with literacy >> literacy workbook. So I'll make a motion for a purchase order for literacy workbooks. >> Uh that from title title one funding purchase of for the amount of $7,5244. >> Motion by Scott. All in favor say I opposed. So that's that one. >> And Miss Ginda said that needs to also say ESA title one and title one and >> thank you. >> This second one >> and
052then the other two if they say 95% group or foundations those are our phonics workbooks for our kids. >> Clearly speaking here's one >> purchase order. What's this one? This one is for $6,248. Clearly speaking. >> Yeah. What that come out of? What? Federal. >> It's probably 6 or Medicaid. That is speech. >> Special. >> What's this one? >> Yeah. >> Okay. This is um special ed. And I believe that's speech. The kids that receive speech, this pays the speech. >> It'll come out of a federal fund. It'll either come out of Medicaid or Does he just say federal when he's announcing it? >> You can say >> I have another motion for this is for clear to speak. Oh yeah, I see it. Clearly speaking, purchase order for amount 6,200 485 without federal funds
053purchase. >> Motion by Scott second. Second by Mr. Trish. All in favor say >> I. >> [clears throat] >> Okay. Appoint you first. >> Yeah. We need to appoint me as the England School District Exeicio officer. >> Make a mot. >> Uh and then I need you all to appoint me as England School District representative for the Wilbur Mills Co-op. Then I have a form at the end of the meeting sign say I oppos. >> Oh yeah. Well I call Lucas harder and I got the model policy and of course we kind of tweaked it to our needs. Now, I'll tell y'all, a lot of school districts are buying these pouches, but we don't have the money to do that. They're not supposed to be bringing them to school, leave them at home. And to
054me, it's just that simple. Uh, I'm going to have each of the principles tell you, you know, what we're going to do as far as consequences if they bring them to school. But this is not us. This is the law. And some of you, I I've shared my experience with the video that went viral in court because some kids filmed the fight. uh they're nothing but a distraction at school. I know that we'll probably have to make some exemptions. Uh if say we have a diabetic child who uses their phone to check their glucose, we'll have we'll do those things, but a lot of bullying goes on with those things. Nothing goes on good with them at school. Uh I I hardly agree that cell phones do not need to be at school. Uh Cammy,
055you want to just briefly tell us your consequences how you're going to do that? >> I'm going to go ahead if that's if it's okay with you guys. I'm not ready to do the handbook yet. It's not time, but the cell phone policy is at the end of this if you guys want to look at it. Just the one. Now, the high school and the elementary are adopting the same cell phone policy, but our discipline, our consequences for it are just a little bit different. And I think that's just fair based on the age of our kids. Yes. Um you know, elementary we're learning and high school we should know and so the discipline reflects that. But the discipline for the elementary um I believe it's on like the last or the last page in
056that handout that I gave you and it's up at the top. Um first offense is confiscation of the device one day of ISS. Um, and the parent or guardian must pick up the device from school. If they refuse to surrender, we normally don't have that problem at elementary, but if they do, that's 3 days of ISS. Um, and then the second, in any future offense, the student will be subject to consequences for a repeated violation. The device will be confiscated, a minimum of two days of ISS. Um, the parent or guardian must pick up the device, and the student will not bring the device back to school. And then the last little bullet there says a student will lose the ability to bring a cell phone to school if they are found to be using
057their phone or their device um that's used to record or upload any video to social media during the day unless authorized by school administration. So, what we're saying in the past was power it off in your backpack and we're still saying don't bring but if you do power it off in your backpack and then these are the consequences if you if you have it out if it's on. >> So, it's going to be acceptable to bring it. >> Well, no, it's not going to be acceptable, but we're not going to do an illegal search of a backpack or a purse. We're going to tell them if we see it, we're taking it. So, you better have it on silent and out of sight. Now, if a kid is walking down the hall and it's backpack
058starts ringing, yes, we can say, "Open your backpack." But, uh, you know, my thing is some districts are letting them have it at lunch and between classes. No, no, no, no, no. That will not work. Uh, they need to just not have them. People are absolutely addicted to those things. they can't sit through church without, you know, doing this. And uh and parents will say, "Well, what if I have an emergency?" Well, if you have an emergency, call us and we'll we'll take the proper steps. Um I just think that this is probably going to be pretty hard the first few weeks, but we're just going to have to persevere. But with our financial situation, I'm not for buying those expensive pouches. That's going to take a lot of our time >> collecting those things.
059It's going to take a lot of our time passing them back out. That >> kind of police all that. >> Yeah, that's right. >> Stout time. >> It's just simple as this. Don't bring them to school. And if we see it, we're going to take it. If we see the corner sticking out of your pocket, we're going to take it. >> Okay. I mean, I guess they can leave them in their car. I mean, >> well, they can. Yeah. >> Well, I mean, I'm just saying >> for the ones that drive, >> like for coach Morgan, I know he coaches basketball. You take a whole bus of basketball kids to somewhere else when they get back, they're going to have to call their parents, come pick them up or something. So, I mean, either we're
060going to let them in school and all line up to call out or >> Yeah. Well, we're we're going to be reasonable about it, but just during the instructional day, they don't, you know, >> uh so many discipline problems arise from those things. And and kids will do stuff that you would not even believe with those phones. >> Yeah. >> I'm not even smart enough to do it. I just, you know, make >> people longer and longer hair put their earbuds in and got it ready to put a music in their pocket and you can't see the earbud in their ear. So, >> and we're going to have to really enforce not wearing a hood up because that obscures those things or caps or anything like that. Uh, it's going to be tough sledding the
061first few weeks, but we're going to have to stick to our guns and do it. I think it's a good law and I'm glad they passed. So, >> we going by the what does the state of policy say? Nothing. No, no going through there. Oh, you'll just have to read through it. It's lengthy. Uh, >> are we going to approve this tonight or >> Well, we can approve it next meeting if y'all want to read through it. And, you know, >> next meeting is after school starts. >> Oh, that's right. School's going to start. We probably do need to get it tonight. >> This is just model policy and we added our disciplinary actions and that's it. >> Yeah, Lucas sent that. >> This is model policy we get from the school board. Um the
062state >> don't have policy committee >> for personnel policies. Yes. >> for this we this does not have to be approved by personel. Yeah. This is just one of the handbook. This is student >> handbook policy. >> Yes. This is the handbook. >> The content the verbage. This is exactly what the state as a standard policy. They just added what we're going to do for this one. >> Yeah. >> Lucas Carter is a lawyer for ASBA. He's the blind guy. You may know him, but uh he sends out the the model policy and you can bet it's legally sound. He he's good at what he does. >> So So what will be the policy for after school activities such as a basketball game? Will they be able to bring it home? >> When that last
063bell rings, they can have that. Right. >> But I am going to tell last period teachers, don't start this stuff with, well, we'll stop 15 minutes early and you can use your phone. We're not going to start that. So, um, that'll get out of hand quick. >> Yes. So, the last bell and then when that bell rings, they can have at it. >> Does it have that accepted in there for medical or not? >> Yes. Yes. Yes. >> Yes. That's in the law. >> Yeah. Lucas fix that for us. But yeah, there'll be there will be some exceptions and certainly we'll we'll be reasonable about that, but I think it's going to help our instructional day a lot. Kids are hooked on those things. You want to make a motion to approve the district cell
064phone policy as written. So move by Mr. Del. Second by Mr. Adams. All in favor say I. Five. Okay, we are doing handbook revisions tonight. Uh Britney, you want to go first? I've been letting Tammy go first. I'll let you go first. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Okay. This is kind of lengthy. I apologize, but I spent several days going through our handbook and checking all of the Arkansas School Board Association model policies and correcting ours to match. Um, so there is a lot um in here, but first I just of course updated the names and contacts and the table of contents which also updated all of the page numbers to make it correct. This is not the full handbook, but if you want the full handbook, I can get it too, but it is 120
065pages. So I did not want to print. >> These are just revisions. >> This is just revisions. >> Mhm. Um the first set are building level changes and the first is summer school. We don't offer summer school at the high school. Um we don't have anyone to teach it. We don't have a curriculum to use unless it's admin. And if they want to take a summer class, they can do it on virtual Arkansas during the summer. >> Okay. >> Uh we are closed campus and so we added that uh students cannot check out and check back in unless they have documentation. So, they can't just check out and run home because they want to because they don't want to go to that class and then come back without some kind of documentation like the doctor's
066found. Uh 3.7 attendance requirement senior early dismissal. Seniors are only allowed to leave campus early if they're in a continuing education program and that would be after a certain time. I believe it's after fifth period. 3.7.1 attendance policy um added if a student checks out prior to the last 10 minutes of class and they're counted absent. So if they check out before those 10 minutes then they're counted absent just like if they go come into class 10 minutes after the tardy bell then they're counted absent. >> I take it that's been the problem. >> Um yes. Okay. um tardies. We have um a lot of kids that want to go to the bathroom in between classes and just say I was in the bathroom or whatever without going and talking to their teachers first. So
067if they go to class late, then they will automatically be given lunch to just trying to get kids to class as soon as the bell rings. um the disciplinary offenses with minimum and maximums. We added the electronic device policy to that recording audio, video, and taking photos without permission and updated the possession for use of tobacco to bakes, patches, and pouches. So, that was not in there. 4.12 merit and diploma requirements. I think we talked about that a couple board meetings ago where they can um take concurrent credit um and get a in a certain pathway that career and techn career and technical pathway then they can get a merit or distinction diploma and it's just it's aligned with Jessie success rate graduation diploma types 5.8 dances we updated the rules to align with prom
068because it did not have all of the rules that prom had 5.10 10 homecoming, we just put dress guidelines cuz those were not in there. So, we were having to constantly decide what they needed to wear, what they could wear. And all of the rest of the policies, all two and a half pages are just to be updated or ASBA policy. Would you like me to read your policies? previously. >> Any questions? >> Wait a minute. Did I change my take breaks? >> Thank you. >> Okay. Do we want to um Yes, sir. >> I I I would ask that you accept these res revisions to the uh student handbook at the high school. So I'll make a motion to approve the England High School 202526 student policy change request. So move by Mr. Adam
069second by Mr. Jones. All in favor say I. >> Okay Tammy, you're up. >> So I gave you guys something that has just little highlights on it. Anything highlighted is something that was changed. Um the main things were like board member names uh 2425 to 2526 the superintendent's name our um LEA change so anywhere there was anything about 504 or special ed I had to change that person's name so those were just little things and then we just had four model policies to change um title 9 which is the sexual harassment policy the smart core graduation requirements even though that's high school it's required to be in an elementary handbook. Also, the bell-to-bell no sale policy and then student use of AI. And all four of those are just model policies like Miss Britney said
070that we're just adopting because that the law changed and we needed to change ours and those were the only changes we had with the training book. >> Well, I would ask you to uh approve these revisions of the elementary handbook. So make a motion to approve the revision of the England Elementary 2526 school year. [laughter] I need a second say I >> Okay, we move next into bids. We didn't have to have paper this year. We have enough stockpile so we didn't have to get a paper bid. Uh Micah, you want to come up and do the milk and the food? I like the rats. You can check them out. >> Yeah. Really? >> Okay. Since we went to self off this year, instead of having a food service management company, I had to go
071around and get bids. We only got one bid for milk and that's from Highland. I can pass it around and let y'all look. Then for our vendor bid, which is our food, we >> My bread is in with my vendor bids. Um, we have Benny, Keith, and Cisco. Um, I have copies of those for you. I went through on my personal copy and highlighted everything that was cheaper. Cisco was the cheaper company to go with for all of our food. Did you change the co-op? [laughter] >> We posted this. We advertised more savings on there. We don't even know that. Mhm. Look, I posted it. They contacted, I sent, and they reyn. So, if y'all want to look at them, y'all can. But I'm telling you, just go with the two. >> Okay. >> Milk.
072We only have one. >> Our bread is in with our vendor, which has all of our food. >> I know typically there was only there was two people handling bread for the whole state of Arkansas. one cover some cover the other and they didn't cross lines so they didn't have to. >> Cisco and Ben Keith will both deliver all the bread either one. Um in the past with when we had Opa we used Ben Keith. Um so they sent me line by line itemized cost for every item that we would like to purchase. So, I went line by line and checked to see which one was cheaper and Cisco was the one that was cheaper. Here are the >> screw here. >> Yes, >> they can't go wrong. >> No, it's line by line on
073each one. >> They're both good. >> They're both great. I just went by cost because I know we have been in a financial situation and are trying to save as much money as possible. Cisco has the lower bids. Well, do I need to do my own one too right now? So, when we had Opa, they had our salad bars and everything at the high school. They took all that when they left. So, we need a new salad bar at the high school. Is that the cold food serving counter? Okay. >> Mhm. >> Yes. And >> code. >> Well, I would ask you to accept the milk bid for the cafeteria from Highland Dairy. >> Make a motion to approve the milk bid for Highland Dairy. It's 42 cent 40 something cents a carton that got
07440 that is be sem 1% white milk. >> Well, we have to offer two flavored and one nonfat. So, it would be 40 cents. If I get yogurt from them, that's how much it would be. But I've got it on the vendors. But they would offer us the 1% strawberry, 1% white, and fat-free white, and 1% chocolate. money. >> I drop it all except the chocolate. >> I can't. >> I have to offer those. >> You should make a motion milk. >> Yes. >> So, make a motion to bid for Highland Dairy Food for Milk for the 25 26 school year. >> Motion by Scott. A second. Second. Second car. All in favor say I. Five. Hey, as far as the the menu, I mean, who were you going through on that? I mean, >>
075I'm making them. >> I know you did it last year, but is that I mean, is it going to meet the state requirements as far as >> Yes, that was the healthy pro system that y'all voted on last meeting. Um, I've already started building the menus for the next school year, and I'm doing a six week cycle menu, so it'll rotate every 6 weeks and come back in. That's why I have to have the vendor bids to know where I'm ordering my food from. >> So, you'll know I don't like broccoli. I know >> and unsweet tea >> and I like unsweetened >> bread with Cisco. >> Yeah. And I would ask you to approve the food bid for the cafeteria with Cisco since it's the cheaper of the two and they're both good companies.
076>> So move motion by Mr. Jones. Second by Mr. Adams. All in favor say I. >> Oppos. I put this food. Are we really doing salads? >> Yes, we do salads every day. >> Salads. They really do. I was surprised at that. They love a salad bar. And Angie has determined that we can pay for this out of our Mac money. And uh so >> the one I would prefer is this one right here. That is what we're used to. And it has the different bins where I can put stuff in it. So our salad bar at the high school consists of a salad, fruit, and vegetables that they get to pick pick from every day what they would like. >> Does someone serve them or do they >> they get to self serve that?
077Because we're offer versus serve. All schools are offer offer versus serve at the high school. Now, if we weren't offer versus serve and we serve everything on the line, we wouldn't need this. But high school level, we do offer versus serve. So they can pick what fruit they want, what vegetable they want, if they want a salad >> with their hands. >> No, we have scoops and all. >> Do do does the food come from Anco or did it come from Cisco? >> It's going to come from Cisco. It's just the >> So this is just like a mathemat. >> Yeah. Yeah. But that number in the bottom number should equal to 4,200. And then you add this. >> Sorry. >> You see what I'm saying? >> You had those two makes 4,000. >> I
078would like >> then you got a $500 >> guard $600. >> They have some tax in it. They saying the numbers don't have it. So I don't know where that Here's the other page. >> Okay. [laughter] >> I'm glad somebody else does stuff like that. >> Everything's expensive. >> This is two separate bins. That's two. That's two. >> I just need one of them. I don't >> even close right $3,700 number one. Well, do we need Micah? What do we need to do about this? These figures not adding up. Is this from one? >> Yes, >> this is this >> is >> Yeah, this is >> okay. So, the first one is one that's 3,000 plus the I want item two. >> She wants item two, right? >> I know it's $600 more, but that's
079the one I really like. >> It has the sneeze. >> How much to put the big cuz it's kind of confusing how they got it out of this. Does that do it add up? Same company. >> Yes. >> We need to get this this serving hammer this hammer. >> Do you understand this? >> She She's got a cap lighter. you doing that? >> Well, we want to move on and come back. >> Come back. >> Do that. >> Yeah. Um, I need you to uh approve theou between the England School District and Virtual Arkansas. >> Make a motion to approve theou between school district and virtual Arkansas. Make a motion. motion got second on first. >> Okay, this is the one that we don't know this about. >> Which one? >> Number 16. >> Okay,
080>> that's the one that nobody knows. This is this 15 approval over England school district ward bills co-op for early childhood special education and related services. So I'll make a motion by Mr. Adam second on f say I >> oppos and on number 16 Mr. Scott had already said no so I will respect his wishes on that. Someone make a motion to reject between emails and advanced special services by Mr. Chris Carus. Second by chair say I oppos. >> Okay. And then we need to pay a bill. We need to approve the vehicle insurance renewal payment of $11,984 to the Arkansas Public School insurance. I think that covers Angie. Doesn't that cover all of our >> vehicles? Make a motion to approve vehicle insurance renewal payment of $1,984 to Arkansas public schools insurance trust. So
081by Mr. Jones by Scott Ch. 5. >> Okay. And then uh I need you to approve the quote of $3,56.90 from the 95% group for grades four and five literacy supplies. And this will come out of federal money. So I'll make motion approve,500 $56.90 for the 95% group for grades four and five literacy supplies. Motion by who? Mr. Adam, please second. Second by third say I oppos. >> All right. I need you to approve the quote of $3,17844 from Wilson language learning for grades K3 phonics curriculum and that too is coming out of federal money. >> So I'll make a motion to approve the quote for $3,17844 from Wilson language training for grades K3 phonics curriculum. Trish second by Scott Ching. All in favor say I. >> Oppos. Five moving my spending 25. You want
082to make a recommendation? >> Okay. Yeah. Uh I'd like to make a recommendation that you all allow me to spend up to $5,000 without board approval. This will keep us from having to have a lot of special calls board meetings. If you would do that, I think it would be really to your benefit. >> I make for a motion. Motion by Mr. H. Second. Second by all in favor say I. I five contract. >> Uh yes. I would like for y'all to approve my contract. I would like that very much. >> We approve this. This is the first time. Well, it's the got the uh uh the >> you have a copy of it. >> What do you call those things? >> The the things that you add to the end. I don't know what
083the >> performance targets. Yes. It's here in the back of your folder. I think it's maybe the last >> the very last page. Is there performance targets? >> Yes. have. >> Yeah, I think the state requires >> they do. Yes, that's part of the learn spell. >> Yeah, just stay have some type of magic or some type of >> and that's probably good actually. put some >> Well, actually, I just kind of looked at other superintendent contracts and borrowed heavily from them. >> Keep operating like we are doing up. [laughter] You want me to get him or >> [laughter] >> You have him for me. >> Okay, go ahead. It'll be good. >> Did you figure that? >> Yeah. >> Y'all going to finish this first. >> I think they're ready to start. Micah, don't
084let us forget to come back to your salad bar. And this is standard contract they got from the school board associated. >> Yes sir. So we'll make a motion to approve the whole contract motion by Mr. Avenue. Second all say I >> thank you so much. >> And now we have some uh personnel some hires. You want to do this? >> Oh salad bar. Yes. Of course, you forget. >> Yeah. >> The reason why it didn't add up is right here. It says two each. These are the foldable things where the kids can set their tray to fill it. That's only the price for one. So, that's why it's not adding up cuz you have to have two. One for each side. >> Oh, what's the total? We just need the total price. >> That
085is the total. >> Okay. Which one? >> The very the 8,000. >> That is correct. Mhm. Putting broccoli on the salad homemade roller and broccoli are good too everything. >> I was going to ask that the sales tax paid >> sometime they hit us with that. >> Yeah. later on then I don't think so make a motion tax >> just say plus tax >> on your motion just to say plus >> I make a motion approve the purchase of the equipment um serving calendar for8 $96 plus associated Second 504. >> We ready to go. Move to >> All right. Uh we would like to uh move Danielle Williams to PK director and that would add 10 days to her contract. So I would like to ask you to uh approve those 10 days. Those 10
086days we had test. All in favor say I. I >> Charles Chattton is going to be an assistant football coach. So we need to approve his stipen for assistant senior football and assistant junior football. >> Thousand per thousand per. >> Yeah. >> Okay. want to make a motion. Second favor say I 5. >> Okay. And we want to hire uh say her first name for me. >> Xavier Brooks as uh LPN. She'll be the high school nurse. We'll >> make a motion to approve Miss Bruce high school nurse. >> Motion by Trish Williams. Second. Second, Mr. Joanne. All in favor say I. I. Oppos. >> And we uh would like to hire Deandro Harris as a high school parapro. Uh she has all her requirements except she does have a pending exam she needs to
087pass. So we would need to hire her uh with the caveat that she's got to pass this test. >> Motion. So move by Mr. Jones. A second. See by Mr. And all say I make a motion to adjourn motion by second by all I