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ESD Board Meeting 061825 Regular Session

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YouTube / England High School
Date
2025-06-19
Location
Lonoke County, AR
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4,228 words · about 24 min
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2026-06-29

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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. Well, it won't make any difference whether there's any music or not. [Music] Okay, we just went through some financial stuff where you do your consent agenda. Uh in your folder, I put uh some information in there. One of the things is the public comments. uh you'll find an attorney uh that has written that up, sent it through co-op and that's a new law that will be taking in place and it tells what they have to do, what they can say and what they can't say. You can't you can have public comments but they can't come in and comment about the students. They can't come

002in and comment about teachers and those type things because it would be in violation of law. So I want to put that in there for you. He he spoke at our meeting yesterday. Yeah, he was Yeah, he's uh he's been around for pretty good. Of course, there's two of his sons in there living now, I think. So, uh then this is the Uber report. Uh well, I think I put the first thing I put in there with your uh annual statistics report. If you'll go to the website here in England and you go into uh what the state required information is, you're going to find a lot of different financial information that you can go through from salary schedules, but your annual statistical report is in there. So, you can look back over the history

003of how many students you had 3 years ago and compare how much money you're getting in. Uh it tells you what your declining enrollment funding is. Like this year, you got $162,000 in declining enrollment funding. Next year, you won't get that. and you hope that you don't get that, but that will affect your budget. Uh, but you only get half as much of the funding for uh declining enrollment, but it's just a one-year deal kind of mandate because you've lost students. Uh, then there's the Uber report that gives you an idea of what they project and what they project your ending balance is going to be. uh like this report shows that they projected you to have $220,000 at the end of the year and it looks like it's going to be closer to 44

004$450. There's items in your budget uh that were over budgeted. It's not going to be spent. So, you should have pretty good chunk of money going into your July. Just remember July you got payroll which will be less this year because we've cut out some custodial salaries that be in there and some other things and so uh it'll be less payroll but you get your payroll on the 20th your money comes in the foundation 2 be a little more this year $230,000 come in about the 28th of the month then you've got your big salary coming up the 20th of August and you're going to get your foundation funding or any taxes that come in and then you got to get to 28th till you get your learns act money and and your foundation funding.

005Once you get to that point, you should be able to go pretty good. Like we were estimating $9,000 in taxes coming in compared to last year and we got 145,000 in. So, you know, those those things kind of skew things at the end here. But if you get 145,000 this at this point, you know, come October the 10th, you get your check in November, it's going to be less because you're only going to get so many so many taxes. But these are these are reports are a lot easier. Uh, of course, you got your revenue. It tells you where you're at every month on the budget. Uh, these are a lot easier to understand. I wish they'd had these around back in my day. But, uh, you know, you'll get angry to get these for

006you every month. I think it'd be very beneficial to you. So, the states are states generating these. We've been getting them when we've talked to the state. We have to meet with the state every every month. uh they seem to be pleased with the direction we're headed. Uh I we have cut $587,000 out of your next year's budget just in personnel and few other things have gone. I'm going to say that's conserve the me estimate. Uh it'll probably be 600 or so that you'll have taken out of your budget next year that you won't know. So that's going to benefit you a great deal. And of course when Dr. Hubble gets here, I'm sure she's going to be working to find other areas. Then there's just cut some expenses. I mean, there's some things that

007are nice and then there's some things you need. Well, just get what you need, hold off on the what's the nice that type of thing. But uh like I said, AD has been pleased with the direction we're headed and uh and the things we've been doing. So, u I'm just going to say keep heading in that direction. Anybody have any questions on finance, anything, I'll ask you. Miss Hill's coming on what? The 20th. Who? She's coming next Monday and I'm going to work with her all week uh with everything and then we'll we'll get turned over to her. This is a lot more condensed and easier to look through. Yeah. And all that's on y'all's website. Just go look the state required information. It's on your website and you find all kinds of financial information

008and go back and kind of give you a history. you question why is this why is this the way it is now? [Music] I just thought those would be easier for y'all to keep up with your finances and what direction you were going. So I'm ready to vote if you make a motion to approve this agenda. [Music] Thank you. [Music] What's the board for the school board association verse and chapter of the Oh, sorry. [Music] All right. Trust reports now. [Music] um elementary reports in your packet. May um enrollment was at 350 that remains the same for June. After rollover, we'll get a new enrollment account for the month of July. Um big things going on at the elementary are just I'm working on schedules, the master schedule and then individual teacher and classroom schedules

009and then our summer maintenance list. Y'all know I love a list. So, I included my summer maintenance list on uh the principal's report for you. So, I think it's that one here. Um so, you can go through and look at that. If there's something that you find later that you've noticed with the elementary school that you think, hey, this needs to be done. She doesn't have that on the list. Um just give me a call or a text or come by and let me know and we'll talk about it. Again, you guys are welcome anytime to the elementary school. If you want to walk around with me and look at the building, look at uh facilities, maintenance, how it's going, you're welcome to do that. Um, summer's great time because really there's not many people

010there and so you just kind of have free reign to go around and look, but maintenance list is on there. And then on the back, June 18th, 19th, and 20th, we um have our teachers in school for 3 days of PD. We have one day of science. That was today. Tomorrow will be literacy and Friday will be math. This is with the Bailey group. Uh which is a grant that we had gotten this year through uh the Bailey group who works through the co-op. Teachers are taking their curriculum and the school calendar and they're making a pacing guide to map out the year. They'll also look at the essential standards from the state department and make sure that we're teaching those and that our curriculum matches it. Anything that they feel um is left out

011at their grade level, then they're going to work to supplement and add that in. July 8th and 9th, we're going to have kindergarten camp. That's for our registered incoming kindergarteners. They're going to have playtime, but also they're going to learn like procedures, um the layout of the building. It's kind of overwhelming to them that first week of school when there's like 350 kids there and they're trying to walk around the building and learn where the bathrooms are and how you get a tray in the lunchroom. Um so we thought we'd have a kindergarten camp for them. It's 2 days so they can kind of learn that and have a little more uh one-on-one time with teachers and in the building. So we're looking forward to that. Then on July 10th, we're going to have our

012EES summer book bus. We used to do this and it's been a couple of years since we've done it, so we're going to start it back this year. Um we'll have a bus that's loaded with books, all different levels. Um any school age from elementary up to high school. We'll have free popsicles on the bus. And there's a schedule on the picture on the back that has the times and where we're going to stop. Um, we tried to kind of do it just around different areas in town. We're putting this out in the paper. It's on Facebook and so kids can come and get a free book and a popsicle for the summer. Any questions for the elementary? Could that go out in a text or email? Yes, sir. I can talk to Erica about

013putting get more people to know about it. Yes, sir. [Music] All this maintenance stuff. going to have this custodials or everybody's going to team up on that? They're all working together right now. They'll spend um some days they're all day at the elementary and then the next day they'll be all day at the high school just depending on what's to do. Some days Mr. Woods will have everybody in the district at the elementary in the morning and then everybody moves over to the high school in the afternoon. Just depends on what they've got going on the list and how many people he needs for it. We have several things that are broken in the high school that they're having repaired now. I mean, now that window on the elementary school, the middle one on the

014bottom of the gym. Does this have a hole in it or is it just the blast man? This it's got a broken seal. Yeah, the seal's broke. I know that, but I didn't know if it had a rock chip that let the air out or They tell me that there's a flash drive here that's got all the warranty air information on it. Now, I've got the elementary roof fixed under warranty. They've come and repaired it, but I can't find this flash drive. So, I'm going to have to call the architect and I didn't know it's going to be for more than 2 years. Yeah, but that's what I'm saying. I didn't know if a rocket hit it and you know, popped a hole in it and let the gas out. So, I think it's been

015that way for a long time. I don't think there's any holes in it and it's has been that way for a long time. And then the seal check it cover. It's got gas in it. This will keep the moisture out. I'm noticing my got moisture in it. Okay. Also remember on your elementary that we don't know exactly how many kindergarten kids we're going to have right now and you got three teachers, your preschool directors left. So, one of those teachers will be moved down there unless the bubble pops on your kindergarten, which would be a good thing. You'll have to come up with a What's the maximum on kindergarten? 22 23 22 with a halftime parent. Yeah. 44 kids with a have with a parent program for halftime. We're at 30 right now. We didn't

016count today. 29. I've got four that uh we've tried to call parents today. We know that there's a sibling and so we've been calling cuz they haven't come and gotten a packet or registered or anything. Um and I have four that I weren't I wasn't able to get a hold of. So, we're only going to run one prek probably. Yes, sir. We've we only had one this past school here also. [Music] Good. Thank you. [Music] The total number of students and this is after enrollment or rollover. Um, roll over was on Monday and so this is the total number after rollover. It's 280 and this is up by 12 from the beginning of school last year. We wrapped up the school year on May 23rd with hot dogs and burgers for lunch with Mr. Turner

017and Mr. Maine. Eight of our seniors, our upcoming seniors were honored to attend Boys and Girls Day from May 25th to 30th. During this week, the delegates explored civic leadership, participated in mock government attendees, debated legislation, and gained hand-on experience with the democratic process, and each student share that they had a great time. And I've also included some pictures of that on the back. Um this summer our staff uh received little rubber ducks before uh they left before summer break and we are ducking out and they're just sharing their pictures and I put some of those on there too just to kind of um stay together and connect over the summer. Maintenance and custodial staff have been busy cleaning and resetting the classrooms to get ready for the new school year. We're thankful for their

018hard work. Athletic teams are attending camps and practices to prepare for upcoming seasons. The new cameras have all been installed and they look great. We just went through them all today again and they're making the minor adjustments and things like that. Uh the last page is the roaring into summer nights u flyer and we are doing that every Tuesday in July. The first one is July 1st and we're going to have a movies, food, snow cones and other vendors are going to come as well. And then the last thing is scheduling, professional development, planning are all underway. Several teachers have attended PD sessions on their own in their content areas. And on June 11th and 12th, the Bailey group came and worked with our science teachers. So is our uh increase in enrollment due to

019small class graduating and large class coming in? Yes. Yes. Yes. You had 31 years. 31 seniors. You're bringing in 54 seventh graders on the bottom down there. We've lost. I mean, we lost recently. Three, four, six, maybe, but from 7th through 12th grade, I think it's six. About six about six. uh I'm a high school. I know we've had trouble. All the outside units come into a a room and they don't really have fils. They don't have they don't have all the the piping and stuff. Now, the ones on top of the roof, all the center classrooms have duct work inside the classrooms. I know we've had some trouble in some of those classrooms with condensation. The the ducks, they were bad. We replacing those or what? I don't know. You know what I'm talking

020about? Yeah, I think they came and fixed the duck work. Maybe. Are they dripping in the room? Yeah, they're not anymore. I think Miss Steer's old room used to be really bad. She dripping loud here. One was really bad. I mean they were having to put in that bathroom in that first frame on the middle. Yeah. They fixed that that's I know sometimes we were dealing with that with schools going on as a distraction. I mean this is the time to do it and also have some leaks over in the girls locker room. It's got to be repaired. Is that that's part of the same? It's not on that roof repaired but when we had this roof already done that's on a different warranty, right? I thought it was all on hall roofing. Hall roofed

021it all. Every when we had that hell storm that got the elementary and middle school, they roofed every building on the property, even the concession stand and ticket booth. That should be a 20-year roof. That's what I thought. So, Mr. Wood said he's trying to call them and they haven't been able to get in touch with them. So, we'll have to make sure. It ain't been 20 years since we had this done. It's holiday all this warranty stuff. We keep changing all these suits and stuff. We had to get all this warranty stuff on one place. cuz it's getting hard to throw people having trouble finding all this stuff cuz you know they're going to say where you know and that's what it ends up most times just call somebody do it and check do

022the warranty on like I said that I think we've had trouble on that little flat part on the gym cost a lot of money more than actually we had a storm came up through one time and messed up the fascia on the front of the the gymnasium they had to go back they've had to repair that one solid we've got another repair what we going to do right now. Maybe we talk to Lucy get something done after all the war. Yeah, you got my Okay, now burn. I'll go right along here. Right on. That's okay. That'll be down at the bottom after all these uh elevator property. I talked to Miss Pam. She's appraising a property. Uh we settled on the direction to go with it. Uh she said the sewer to that property makes

023it a great deal more valuable for some reason. somebody get one and you have you have at least two people interested in the in the property. Uh my suggestion is when the appraisal comes in, I just leave it sealed until you got sealed bids on your uh property and then open it up at that time. You open your appraisal up, everybody in the community is going to want your appraisal. So I believe I believe that just sealed up till that time. Uh summer maintenance, we you notice the parking lot's been sprayed, the poles and oak here on the wall been sprayed. So, they've done a lot of cleaning, got rid of all the junk chairs and everything. Uh, I talked to Mr. Thomas. We have a It's a field goal post out here laying in

024the middle of one of the fields. Well, that that's the new practice field. They were supposed to already put that up, but it never has. Is it any good? Yeah. Like, well, it was good when they moved it over there. I don't know. Stick it up. So, may need to let the new coach look at it and see if he wants to put them up. There was two of them. There was one on both ends when we when we built the school. They moved it over there. The one that's up is not exactly left. I didn't put it up. Well, what I'm saying is it don't need to be laying out there on the ground, you know, cuz they need mold to keep that cleaned up around here. So, and of course got the elementary

025roof repaired. Uh uh I had a question concerning the calendar for next year about not having anybody working on Mondays. Uh the PPC developed that calendar by calling around and finding 4 day schools that don't have anything on Monday. So that's the calendar they presented to the board and it was approved or Mr. Price presented it to. So for next year it's approved. What Dr. Humble does with it next year, that'll be her her decision. Uh I've got inventory on here. We had some issues at the end. uh like there were 10 math books, $200 a piece that never got turned in. They don't know where they're at. Uh there were some uh Chromebooks that weren't in the carts and I think they found a few of those. But uh you know, you talking about

026$300 a pop. I think there needs to be a little more accountability of our property because you lose 10 books, you got to spend $2,000 next year replacing it. So those are ways that you can save money. So, I think the board needs to be aware of that. Uh, the paperwork's been turned in on the Sun Livestock. I've signed all it. That's $32,000 check y'all should be receiving soon. Uh, I think that's got some uh elementary playground. Um, they've cut the fence on the back side of it and I don't I'm assuming they're coming in there playing basketball night or on the weekends or whatever. Uh, and then next thing you know it'll be like the old elementary. They'll be ripping rims off and the kids won't have anything to play on. So, probably need

027to have police patrol that area a little bit more. We have a camera that facing that way. There is a camera out there. You just have to know that somebody's been out there to know what night to go back and look at it. And it's pretty dark out there. So, it's kind of hard. We invest in like a cheap trail cam to stick up there and put on a tree out there. You're going to catch them right out of the gate. This thing get takes as soon as you do it. And it just needs to be stopped or the kids stuff's going to be torn up. Plus, it's just going to be an expense on the school district. What do you think about trail camp? Uh I talked to Mr. Thompson about the bleacher project,

028putting some handrails going up the football bleachers. Uh he said he'd be glad to do that. I thought he kind of patterned it off the ones in the gymnasium. Uh you got people going up those steps if they're a little bit wet. uh it could be dangerous. So he said he would look into that and get y'all a call on on getting that done. So okay, next thing was the high school improvement plan. You should have that in front of you. 50 years old. When they born when it 7796 [Music] last [Music] I guess you send this or blend to send this. Blend it. That needs to be approved. Anybody have any questions concerning in [Music] just what she talked about the last meeting? Yeah. what she just has to be approved. Okay. [Music] Make

029a motion to approve the new high school plan. Second say I okay need to approve the lease agreement with Lo County Sheriff's Department and the approve the resource officers memorandum of understanding this has been sent to Lon County and uh talking with officer towns last night they said they were going to approve it but they've got to have court meeting we'll go ahead and approve our part of it if they approve it then both parties assign it uh what it amounts do is you're going to pay the resource offer for I think it was $36,500 and they're going to pay you $36,500 for rent for the use of the building across the street. So we have the air fixed over there. We've got that y'all approved it in the last four minutes. I mean they've

030got it all hooked up. We're going to get started on that. J Hey, my magic wand is in the shop. Okay. We going to do this in two votes or one vote? I'd say do it in two votes cuz it's two different contract. Someone approve the lease agreement for the county sheriff's department. Second gentle f say I oppose 70 approve resource officer memorandum of understanding a motion got chie second by Mr. All in favor say I. I. Okay. Next thing on the agenda, proof quote $2,569 for health pro. That is your cafeteria plan meal plan. Is that correct? Did I get that? You do your um monthly meals. Production records um inventory. Sorry. Uh, it already has over 5,000 meals on there, but we can also build meals and recipes of our own as well.

031We'll make a motion to approve the quote for $4,569 for health e second. Second by Mr. Adam. All those in favor say I. proposed seven. Okay, this one's from America approved close to $5,78.7. Can they say I for our Microsoft licensing for all of our students and all of our teachers? So quote for $5,78.70 from SHI motion by Mr. Alley. Second second by Mr. Trish Cord Lewis. All in favor say I. I. Oppos. No. Okay. Next thing on the agenda is approve gym repair quote $200 for hard grade metal works. That's put the sopet and all the metal back up on the gym and blew off the storm. How much did it fall off or a whole bunch of it? Whole bunch. He's going to go back with it has pieces of angle iron on

032the side. Now he's going to put a heavier angle iron and run it all the way down to attach it to. He told me one time before when he's repaired certain parts of it, it would put up terribly. Yeah. And so he's going to fix all of that. He said he go heavier stuff. They put some really light gauge stuff. Used to be done keep moisture. So make a motion to approve uh $8,200 of hard metal works. Motion by Scott Ch. Mr. Jones. All in favor say I. I oppos. All right. You have two estimates on the tractor repair. One from PTI and one from a tech. Act got the cheaper quote. Uh what the other quote is is from PTI is on the leak that's in the rear end. Uh but until they take

033the plate deck off, they really won't know where it's leaking. It could be a hole leaking instead of having to break the tractor in half. So, it's got head damages in it. Yeah. Well, I mean, not sure where why it's leaking around the rear end. It's up on top some. I mean, that must be a terrible tractor for that sucker. Probably ain't got 20 hours on it if it's got that much. So, what is it used for? What is this tractor used? Bush the back area back here. Back there. It's got a front end loader. If it's got 120, I'd be surprised. It needs a bush on the back of it. out here for these lots. One, how much? Uh, one is 2,6652 and one is 1650, 1,61550. And that's just for the front hubs.

034That's not him. And the back, uh, Act said until they get in there to find out what the leak is, they can't really give you a quote. The other one gave you a quote of taking it apart and putting new seals in it, I guess. I don't know. So, we're going to go with the 368622 for the both. Is that what you're requesting? No, I would say the 16550 for the hubs and then pull it apart. I mean, it might just be a hose leaking or a line leaking. Yeah. I mean, one of the lines been rubbed in 3600. How much is the 16? Yeah. 1550. Y'all can ask him some questions if you'd like. [Music] Casey was telling us telling telling me earlier that both of the hubs are messed up. I don't know

035what the left front hub is busted and the bolts where the hub joins the axle on the right hand side has broken bolts. I got pictures on my phone and I show Brian the leak is coming from high up in the middle of the tractor. You really can't tell where it's leaking until you get it cleaned up. Cuz there's so much oil, you can't figure out where it's leaking. So, I'll get it back to the shop, pressure wash it before any repairs are made. I'll get to y'all. 16 the 16 1550. And then you come back with another quote when he finds out exactly what the issue is. So, we'll make a motion to the PG P no ACT services. All tech services for 161550 motion by Scott second. Second by car. All those in

036favor say I. I said well that was quiet down there. Communication she was doing a she did that. Okay. [Music] Okay. Next thing on the agenda is approve 9,67828 river meals education service co-op just a mill78 [Music] community mill educational [Music] m [Music] all in favor Where's that? [Music] I did. You skipped two. I was on educational conferences and psychological. Yes. Oh, well, I I started riding on one. So, back up, Jim. Tractor [Music] payment for seas conference. That's your special ed that be will be special ed motion for for 7860 to seize Arkansas educational conference expenses motion [Music] I was asking where's the where's this I thought it made a motion [Music] Yeah, I don't see it. I don't see where I think it's in hot spring. Yeah, you good. Yep. Any second time.

037All in close I go to payment grow psychological services $3150 [Music] psych evaluations IQ academic achievements evaluate shouldn't ask uh approved 3150 for grove psychological services in motion [Music] is motion Mr. Is this all the fas [Music] we approved will pay a go right? Yes sir. I'm going to make sure payment of 385566 to that's all I'm sure I have. All right. You should have a uh petition for transfer. You got two joints here. Yeah. Two different prices. for yearbooks. First one is yearbook. The first one 385566 is your second one is for letter jackets. All right. That was so the first one was 3855. Everybody go that. All right. So we'll make a motion for 20165 to Johnson. Motion by Mr. Trish Carney. Second by Mr. Gentlemen say I [Music] you have a eighth

038grade student want to transfer actually I think they're in Scott charter school and they don't want to go to blask county come here so they ask be transferred blask county has already approved it uh board president need to you need to approve it and then everybody needs to sign it eighth grade [Music] Don't y'all have a copy of that? I look at it. Approve. Fair enough. [Music] We'll make a motion to approve the transfer from Scott Planning School District to the school district. So move a second. Second by Scott. All in favor say I. I. No. You'll need to sign it and then you need to sign the next page and send it around to everybody. [Music] The resident district check everything [Music] back. You know the hog wait till it gets about seventh then

039start watching it turn it off kitchen [Music] start I said you know start I think [Music] I say [Music] yes sir. [Music] You need to pass this resolution. Uh resolution is to comply with act 11:05 of 2017 regular legislative session regarding 20% carryover balance. The board authorizes superintendent district treasur to move any amount above $623,000 ending balance in the 2000 fund to building fund after categorical restricted fund first deducted from the ending balance. Uh I would love for that to have money to be transferred over to be safe. I mean that's what the law says. I ask y'all pass that resolution. So make a motion to approve the resolution as read by Mr. Barry Scott. Mr. Second Mr. Gentlemen say I [Music] just [Music] Okay. You want all resignations at one time or you want

040to do them in meeting? Uh Sarah Joe Morris, Jerry Dyer, Amanda Willis, Lanne Bullock, bus driving only, and Charles make a motion to approve the resignations. Make a motion second by Miss Tug. All in favor say I. I. Oppos. Let's do these. Bass Cook and Terresa Murray Cook. Do that in one motion. Someone make a motion. Make a motion. Scott second by Mr. Tile. The favor say I. I. No. Daniel Vandenucci high school math assistant junior football senior assistant senior football head baseball coach. Uh pending ALP and passing track practice. Make a motion. Motion doing second all I say no actually I think it was supposed to be a CLP the ALP is Maria Kernney uh high school science assistant volleyball and assistant girls basketball and pass practice want to make a motion motion by

041Mr. Any second t say I oppos make a motion to adjourn [Music] my [Music]

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