001Pledge 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. Okay, folks. This is my first board meeting and it's needless to say we're under some unusual circumstances. So, I'm going to cover a few things uh that's free of charge, won't cost you a dime. First question is why am I here? Uh I'm here for one reason and I say I've been in a financial I understand I've become very popular on Facebook and podcast and a few other things. I don't have horns and I'm not the devil. Uh I told my principles I didn't come here carrying any grudges. I'm here for one thing and that's the finances only. I'll let the good Lord take care
002of the grudge issue because uh one of these days I'm going to stand before him and I'm not going to get to point my fingers at Brian. you know, I'm going to have to look at what I have to do with it. So, we can get that out of the way. I don't have time for the haters that we have that's going on. Y'all are very aware of it. Uh had a conversation with the principles and I said, "If you don't like me, that's okay. But if you fight me on these things that we have to do, then it's only going to cost you. It'll be your because June the 30th, I'm going to leave you and I'm going to have recommendations for the boards for the next year and whoever's sitting in the superintendency."
003And that's what my goal is. Of course, I'll deal with any other issues that come up that's required by the superintendent. Uh there's already been a question of whether I even have a license. Fortunately, they give you this thing when you retire called a lifetime license. And so, I have a license and I will until I'm no longer breathing. Hopefully, that will be a while down the road. Uh let's look at, you know, where we're at financially. Uh I came here in 2015. Mr. Eddie Johnson was the superintendent prior to me. uh he moved here to be with his family. His daughter was here. She's married to a farmer here and want to be close to grandkids and he he came in just as happy as he could be and one of the first calls
004he told me he got was from the state department of education saying get your financial stuff in order or we will be there to take over. So that's this is not the first time the school's been in this situation. Uh all of my record can be taken in numbers and I do everything in numbers and you're going to deal with numbers when you're dealing with me on these things. Uh, I came here, finished the second room in the track. Uh, you know, we had a building project going on, got out of a 1956 model elementary school. Uh, they hired somebody to do the facilities when came here. They started the facilities program in 2005 and I started doing the facilities for my school district when I did that and so I took that over here.
005So, the district was at no charge for that. Uh, we done a HBAC at the high school. The state paid for 6 56% of that based on the applications that I presented. The elementary school, the district got over $6 million from the state. They got 56% of whatever the cost was going to be. The people in the community, they uh provided us a millillage. And so you got a $12 million building for $6 million essentially. And so those numbers are there. Uh I was administrator for 21 years, 19 of it as a superintendent. never had a time that I didn't give a teacher either a raise or bonus or both. And I've already explained to him this afternoon in the meeting that that's not going to occur. Not in our current circumstances. Um I left
006it there was over $2 million in the bank. My understanding and you can check the numbers you had over $2 million in the bank within over two years ago at the ending balance. Uh where we went wrong is mainly over staffing. Uh I had 7 676 kids when I came here. you're at 610 on the principal figures tonight. You can calculate that as $8,000 ahead and you can say, "Okay, well that's pretty good except for one thing. We probably have as many if not more staff members now than I had when I took it in 2015 2015." So, we've got to we can't do away with contracts that already been offered. Y'all already offered contracts. There are people who are resigning and moving and those positions can get fixed. It's harder for us than it
007is some place like cabinet. They have 300 kids in the third grade. You can have 25 kids in the third grade. They divide 25 in it. They know how many teachers they have. We divide ours and you got 2.1 teachers. You just hired yourself three teachers. So the efficiency uh we're 16 to1 in elementary school which is not great. It needs to be better. It's tough in a small school. At high school we're 11 to1 studenttoteer ratio. Uh that's just totally unacceptable. Uh I've told coach Morgan and uh Britney that when a teacher leaves we have to look at the certifications if they can be absorbed inside the system. That's what we do. Uh at elementary if a teacher leaves it's fairly easy to calculate and do that for high school principles have to go
008back and look at their whole schedule and rearrange. So every time a teacher leaves if we can absorb them they have to rearrange the schedule. So that's just a whole lot of extra work on them there. So, uh, we have to cut that out. Now, let's talk a little bit about the money. Y'all look at this financial statement here. And we're not going to look at it real hard tonight. I'll tell you what our bank balance is, but u you know, when you go to looking at the money, you've got federal funds, and it looks like you've got money in the bank that you they're restricted. You got $124,000 right now in activity account, which is student fundraising. Well, you got that money, but you can't use that money to do pay our bills with
009because you know that it's funded. It's restricted. Uh I talked to Angie today. I said, "How many codes do we have in this thing?" We got several divisions in the budget. I said, "How many codes do we have?" And she said, "Well, you know, it's a thousand or more anyway." So, those things are difficult to do. I ask questions. I don't memorize a thousand codes. You know, I know the different categories of the budget and what you can spend and what you can't spend. So just because you have like we have a million and 55,000 I think I've got the exact number here at the bank in the account now that does not account for uh checks that haven't cleared the bank yet and bills that get paid that haven't come out of that yet.
010Uh so we're going to be looking at different things. Now, as far as your uh we're in initial intervention that comes with uh they notify you that you're in financial trouble, that you got to get your house in order. And so that's where we're at. Uh Dr. Saunders, Eric Saunders was superintendent when I was. I know him pretty well. Uh I called him and talked to him the other day. He's at the Department of Ed. And he's a real nice guy, fine guy. He'll do everything he can to help you. But if his wife was sitting in this seat and he had to take the school over, he would do it. Okay? I mean that I mean he's that's just how serious he is about his job. U so we've got to get in financial
011order. Now I understand y'all need to have a little bit of patience and and understanding for your board members. Those are here. I know we don't have a lot here, but you need to have a little little understanding because they're going to have to make some hard decisions. You folks have one two decisions you make. You got you got two options. one, you can ignore the fact and say, "We're gonna keep the staff we got and we're going to do that and you're gonna keep plummeting in the financial end of it and the state come here and take it over." You don't have you won't have to worry about it. Nobody wants that. I don't think there's anybody sitting here at this table that wants that. Uh y'all going to have some hard decisions to
012make. We're going to make recommendations. It's going to affect some personnel. Uh some people aren't going to be happy. I I've never had a job yet that I made everybody happy. I have trouble making everybody happy around my house and it's just me and my wife. Uh I apologize for my dress, but I don't have many clothes left. Uh I took this job after uh it was offered to me and then I think that was Thursday and Friday at afternoon at 2:00 I was buying new phones, my wife and I, and my neighbor called and lightning struck the house. Done a whole lot of damage. Uh you collect a lot of things in 47 years. It's just stuff that won't get replaced. And uh I didn't have any clothes but what I was wearing. So
013I had to run to Bass Pro and get me some underarm shirts and some jeans and you know go from there. But uh I will try to look professional while I'm on this job. I that's always one thing I did when I was here. I wore a tie. I don't know that I'll get a tie around my neck doing this, but we're we're going to keep on going. But you guys got some hard decisions to make and people need to understand you're going to have to do what's best for the school district. All right. Uh the states step one state's going to monitor. That's what they're doing now. They would like to see us making progress toward it. Right now we have four positions I think from resignations that we're going to be able to
014absorb. So you're looking at somewhere between $250 and $300,000. We don't have exact pinpoint on that yet. Uh that's making progress. Now with that, we're looking at unfunded mandates. The legislators are in session. I understand there's one coming down, not this next year, but 2026, you're going to be putting audio in all of your locker rooms at school cost. And don't ask me why they're doing that, but somebody got this idea that they want to do it, and they're not going to fund it. Uh, right now it's on the on the floor dealing with the four and five day school week. And if you go back to a fiveday school week, guess what? You're going to spend more money. It's going to cost more money to run school for five days than it does four.
015I mean it's just common sense. So though that might be an unfunded mandate that we have to deal with in in the in the future for that. U second step they'll simply come in remove the board and the superintendent only if the superintendent had anything to do with if superintendent sitting here recommend don't hire that coach don't do this and it's all in the record. It may show that he was actually trying to prevent what's going on. Uh that doesn't happen very often. Uh, I would tell you to ask some schools what happens when when state takes over. I'd have you ask Alzheimer, uh, Elaine, uh, I think Udora and but you can't ask them. They no longer have school district. Uh, Pine Bluff went into that state took it over. Uh, Palaski County, what
016are you going to do with those people are monsters. I mean, the size of that school, they're just going to send somebody in there, remove the board, and they answer directly to the state of Arkansas, the state board, and that's that's kind of where you're at with your second step. U then there's always that possibility to dissolve in the district. Not seriously that would happen here, but if it did, it'd probably go three or four different ways. I mean, some go Pine Bluff, Lo, Carlile, whatever you wherever they were in the district. We're not going to let it get to that point. Uh, you know, I can tell you I took the job in McCory, Arkansas, and Bald Knob had just bellied up. State took it over and my board was kind of gunshy. So,
017we had a lot of financial discussions and then uh so uh Pleasant Plains, they got this bright idea to give all their teachers credit cards to take care of paying for their supplies. They got in physical distress. So, they still have a school. BNO still has a school. Uh, when I came here, I was expecting to spend about an hour talking about finances with my board and I was told, "We hired you to do that." And I said, "Well, you better hope I'm honest." Well, Greenland, Arkansas, uh, the state showed up and the board president said, "We got money. What are you talking about?" Well, the superintendent who was planning on leaving kept sticking the bills in your desk drawer and they had over a million two in bills that had not been paid. So,
018not everybody you deal with is honest. And when you look for a superintendent, you need to make sure that you can vet that individual cuz not everybody would do what they need to do. That is not going to be my issue. Okay. Uh uh how we going to correct this? We're going to uh simply start making cuts. I already had somebody told me, you know, what's $5,000 in a $5 million budget? Well, $5,000 is $5,000. And if you do 10 of those, that's $50,000. And so, we're going to be making cuts. Uh we'll talk about uh uniforms after a while. I told them, don't if you're in a rotation for new uniforms, don't buy new uniforms. You know, we're going to we're going to have to make some cuts because we may have some expenditures
019that are going to be mandated that we have no control over that they're not going to fund. So, uh we had 1,55,3875 And that sounds really good. And last month y'all had $949,759, which at that time the checks had cleared that that had come in. So we have to uh we have to ask questions. Y'all need to ask questions. Y'all need to know exactly where we're at and what we're doing. And that's why I'm telling you what I'm telling you, folks. You need to know where you're at and what's going on here. Uh, but I Jim said, "I asked what our what was our balance in the bank?" Well, you're asking the wrong question. What is our projected ending balance? Uh, I came here and I found out that we financed a bus at the
020bank on a 2-year note. I never financed a bus in my life. I leased a bus with option to buy once, but I've never done that. And then I'm told there is a possibility that we may have to borrow money to make payroll at the end of June. That's not very pleasant to hopefully we don't uh hopefully we don't get to that point but understand because we don't pay employees before they start working. So if you don't start working until August you're behind a month. So it's divided by 12 and you have a double payroll about $300,000 each payroll. So you're going to be out $600,000 in June. We have to calculate that. You do have taxes coming in. Of course, taxes are always based on who's paid. You don't get to collect on delinquent.
021We'll have our funding coming in from the state just like we always do. But when you go looking at what your projected ending balance is going to be, that's what gets stir scary. We have a few things here that we can do uh right now to kind of help. There's not a lot we can do because we owe people money on their contracts. Uh you know, I actually have somebody that's resigned at the end of this month. That'll save a little bit of money, you know, for a couple of sal month month salary. Uh but uh you know, we're going to be looking at every way we can to cut money out of this year, but you're very limited on what you can do. Okay. Uh okay, we talked about the restricted funding. Uh, so
022now y'all know what to be asking and we're going to be projecting and the projections will be different as we go along because we don't always have those um all those things that we can do. Now with that said, we will start the meeting, Mr. President. And it says contend consent agenda. I've given you about as much information as I can give you on the finances. I haven't had very many days to go through them and I'll assure you they will be gone through with fine tuned comments. Does anybody have any questions because it's on the consent agenda and I don't want to do that if somebody has questions concerning the finance. Now I have an open door policy board members or public if they need to come in and ask me a question I'm
023going to sit down and and talk to them. Okay. Uh they have a right to know and y'all have a right to know. I don't have any secrets keep secret especially if it's illegal to keep secrets cuz it's going to be illegal and above board and that's uh that's the way it is and sometimes folks don't like that but I'm sorry that's the way it is. Does anybody have any questions on the finances y'all will be getting updated quite more more often on these things but you know that's kind of where we're at. If not Mr. President you got a consent agenda make the pro to approve it. Make a motion. Motion got any second by Mr. H. Say I post 5 principles reports ladies first. Um current elementary enrollment is at 346. We're down
024two students from last month and those students uh came to us from Heim Bluff and have gone back to Pine Bluff. Kindergarten students are studying then and now in Whitton Wisdom. They went to the England wagon Yard Museum to view forms of transportation from the past on the 4th. Um this is a great resource that the town of England and Mr. Pat Norworthy has for our students. And I included a picture um on the back of that. To be honest, I didn't even know that this existed in England until kindergarten said, "Hey, we want to go." And so, just looking at their pictures. I think it's really neat. Um, they saw a lot of things that you can read about a horse and wagon, but our kids have never seen that until they're standing in
025front of one. They really can't picture what a horse and wagon is. So, it was really cool and we appreciate uh the people who made that happen for us. On the fourth, our prek packet pickup began. We've had several um packets be picked up and those will just continue to roll in for pre-k registration. On the 8th, sixth grade took a field trip to 4. That's located in Ferndale. Students canoed. They did archery and rock wall climbed. On the 9th, teachers completed Atlas testing training. On the 10th, third grade took their field trip to the nature center in Pine Bluff. They learned about the food chain and how the food chain affects the environment. and they got to pet a baby alligator, which they thought was really neat. On the 11th second grade toured the
026Kio Fish Farm, they learned about the native fish that they mainly work with, which are the bluegill and a hybrid striped bass. And students were most fascinated that the average egg lay is a 100,000 eggs per fish. I think it's neat that our kids are really visiting places that are near to us. Um, you know, we pass by that all the time, but you don't really know what goes on there until you stop and look at it. The 15th through the 18th, K2 students are taking their Atlas summitive test. On the 15th, which is today, we had a math wellness night. Um, this afternoon at 5:00. It was very well attended and the kids had a good time. They uh played all kinds of math games. they had activities and then they planted tomatoes, squash
027um and other vegetables as a health and wellness activity. And then the April and May newsletter is attached um just because we had so many upcoming activities. So I just attached the newsletter for you guys for you to look and see for April and May. Any questions for the elementary? Thank you. Thank you. All right, high school report. Uh, we currently have 264 students. Um, our East students went to the East Conference on March 17th through the 19th. U, we had several students come home with awards. Uh, track, baseball, and softball are in full swing right now. On April the 4th, we celebrated our positive behavior on our campus with um hot dogs and burgers. U Brian and Mr. Turner cooked those for us. I believe we had around 200 students to receive that incentive.
028And I don't want to read every one of these to you guys, but we have several upcoming events. April and May are some of the busiest times of the year at EHS. And we have included all of these dates for your convenience. Any questions for the high school? I got a question. Uh the CPR thing, is that like is that a requirement or is that just something that Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Awesome. I think that's it. Thank you. Have they worked at Have they worked out anything right now for community service hours? Like we're assisting the kids cuz they have to have so many to graduate now. Um, I don't think we just have anything specific to offer, but I know a lot of coaches and different teachers and stuff, they just try to offer
029things periodically for for students to do. Are you having trouble getting that obligation? Not really. We have a spreadsheet created and we just plug in hours as they get. Okay. I know we had something like through the summer they help come over and fresher watches the school or Well, we paid in my day, but I Mr. Wood brought that up to me the other day about the possible because they had to have those those hours if we could get some kids up here. I mean they have to have between their ninth and 12th grade year, right? 75 I believe. We should have a system. That's why it just started the ninth graders what last year the first class too. So they prorated them out. So you have a record. Yeah. We Miss Cassie created a
030spreadsheet. She tracks Miss Cassie tracks. Cassie does. Yeah. And every time somebody gets hours, she also sends out emails to teachers saying, "Hey, anybody got any hours? I need to plug it in." Yeah. So, we're keeping track of it. Okay. Uh the next thing is the DARE program. It costes the district app to look at nothing. And I'll have Brandon come up and talk in a few minutes. I had this program when I was super venigot. Uh it was a great program. You talk about drugs for kids and it's different now than what it was back then. That's been years ago. Like I say, the program cost you nothing. You building a relationship between students and police. Uh some of these kids have absolutely nobody to go to and ask a question. And if they
031know them, they're more apt to go up and ask that question. So, uh if you'd like to talk about it just a second or if y'all have any questions for him, I'm sure he'll be glad to. I can. I know you wanted me to, but uh like I said, the DARE program, the grant got the state got a grant for this program. They It's not the same DARE program they had in the past. They've updated it. It's now includes stuff like fentanyl and there's another drug I can't pronounce. They're including vapes. um they reached out to us at the sheriff's office wanting us to come and be a part of this training for it which is July I think uh they cover all the expenses they provide everything we need for the first year to
032get it started doesn't cost us anything and it's something we need here we've got there's drugs here we've had issues with uh in that paper right there you'll see on the very last page of it what we just took off kid. We took a THC vape off one of the kids. I might have pulled that out. Oh, did you? Well, uh last last week we took a vape off of them. We got kids that are overdosing on drugs. So, I think this will be a good program. Like I said, it's not going to cost you anything, which is kind. So, I do the training. I'm doing the training this summer. So, if you got any questions, I'll try to answer it cuz I haven't done it all yet. You are miss. You need a motion
033if you want to approve this program. Motion to approve this program for the school. Mr. Second by M. Say I. Oppos 5. Thank you, sir. be honest with you, I think most of us have heard nothing but great things about you. So, we really appreciate you coming out here, taking up the SRO. Okay, we have a school choice transfer application from young man from Desark. He's going to Desark. He would like to continue and uh graduate with his class. He's a senior and he's asked for that transfer and we hate to lose money, but that's not about where he live. Huh? He lived here right here. I guess he's moved into our district cuz he had to ask for [Music] school. We'll make a motion to approve the school choice. Motion second. Second, Mr. All
034say I. I. I said the next thing she should be significant. It just needs to be board. Usually we have that sign off sheet. You have sign off sheet for all board members. the where they have to sign is a legal transfer. That's okay. Cool. Choice has changed to the point that you really can't do a whole lot about it anymore because of law. Uh I have to approve the salary schedules next year. Y'all have a copy of them in there. Same lot you can do with unless you want to add money to them and I don't think that's going to be a question tonight. So we'll make a motion to approve the S schedule. Make a motion. Most tiny second offers I Okay. Uh the Sunlife shares. We used to have a company here
035that did the life insurance, dental insurance, all those different things. Uh and you've been getting a dividend. I think quarterly for me working $300 to $400 a month. Y'all have $32,198.50. that is amount that they can pay to you. I would suggest that you close that out and take the check for $32,000 and something dollars because of a financial situation. Uh if you want to keep receiving quarterly dividends, then approve you need to see this. I mean it's it's your money whatever you want to do. How much they pay is right now? It's not a quarter. It's literally It's like depending on share price, it's $300 to $400 a quarter. Well, we can close it to a lump sum payment. You close it to a lump sum payment. Is there any penalties with that pulling
036it and do a lump sum payment? You would have to read in there. I've noted over it, but they're offered the buyer shares. That might be something if for some reason there is, you might need to come back to the board on it. Yeah, I understand that question, but I haven't been here long enough to read table. Okay. Motion second off. I Okay, the next thing y'all have some bids and options uh on the hippie building. Uh at first when I saw that it was $9,000, but if you look at their bid to replace all of it, it was like $38,000. All of them are pretty well in the same category. Uh I think uh McGee had one for some options of not replacing everything. Some you had plan one or option one, option two,
037option three. One of them for $9,000, one of them $15,000. This is what I think we need to do in this aspect. I don't think we need there's no one in there right now. I don't think we need to do that until after July the 1st as far as repairing or replacing anything and look and see what the best options are for that. Uh I know the Mono County is wanting to put some police officers in there as a kind of a substation type situation. Uh I have no problem with that there. Again, we have to look at the funding. Can it be funded with ESL? Is there any grants to the county? I mean, there's there's act things that we need to figure out before we do that. Uh, is there grant is who's
038going to take care of the utilities, those type things. I mean, we really don't need to add another expense to the school district, but if we get grants and funding through ESL and different things that we can do, um, then, you know, we can do that. Uh, but I'm not ready to make a decision on that tonight. y'all can look at it and if you have a motion other than that, we can can move on with it. Yeah. Uh we talked about it before and I did go over there and why Mr. Woods took me over there and looked at it. I I do agree. I think that it's if we do fix it, it's I think it's a make it good for a few years because of the them renting it. Um that's revenue
039coming back to us eventually. Um but not spending $38,000 to replace everything. um just enough to where five years down the road maybe we're replacing everything but that's once we have revenue coming in but you're not really written it I mean they're I mean they are they they are legally I mean they're we're paying for SRO and then it's essentially the same amount back to us. So I mean there's there's different funding factors we need to know exactly what it's going to cost the district. Uh I haven't been over there. I kind of helped with getting the office built over there but that's a large building. if there was any way that we can shut off part of it so that they just have a smaller area. You know that I don't think you need
040the whole building. Do you need a whole building? That's a I mean I need to have a conversation with you and the sheriff table to y'all get a chance to go over and look. I really would like to. Okay. I mean if y'all don't have problem with that I would really make a motion. Okay. Motion Mr. Adams table the hippie builder HVAC repair quote. Make a second. Second by Scott. I I oppos five. Uh chair uniform folks. Uh there again, my recommendation is going to be to not fund anything that's necessary. Uh I told football coaches if you need football uniforms, you need to make them last one more year if that's the case because uh I'm telling you it's it's going to get it's going to get tight for for the next year's budget.
041As far as these sports teams, their uniforms, things like that, is it legal for them to fund raise money to pay for their uniforms? I actually think she has the junior high funds. And she asked me, hey, we've done a fundraiser and paid you back. We can't do that. But if she has a fundraiser to raise for her senior high, then they can buy the uniforms. Gotcha. And I and I put a rotation of five years on it, and I think they've reduced it to three. uh because you were buying football uniforms, basketball uniforms, you know, girls basketball and all that stuff was hitting in one year and so I put them on rotation which you know works great if you've got the finances to do that but you know that's an area you think
042junior high has got enough to fund their junior high already has enough in the account um because we did not have a senior high squad last year so all the money that was raised last year went into junior high account we are doing a fundraiser right now with Little Caesars um junior high and senior high are um to get money into our senior high account. We worked the concession stand for the last track meet and we're working the next two track meets as well to get that fund built up. So my question if I can you ask if we get that money from the track meets can we still order senior high uniforms if that money is in that account? If you have the money in that account I would say yes. I mean, they
043they still get to, but depends on I think y'all cut it to $2,500 that has to be approved by the board. And see, our uniforms are less than that. Okay. If they're less than that, I can approve it because it's coming out of activity funds and it's your money. I mean, it's your I got to ask another question. I know before track meets, I don't even know they charge a gate, are they? For a while, they would they are charging gate now. Okay. I know before I come over here, they would been charging gate at the track meet. Are they less than $2,500? Both sets. Yes. them. Um, that was a quote for I want to say one thing. Basketball uniforms, you can have a little tight uniformer, a little loose one. Football, same way.
044Cheerleading. No, no, they got to fit. I have a sample of what the unifor will be if y'all would like to see them. They've sent us a prototype of what the uniforms would would be. I think they have that in our packet. Have you got enough girls in senior high to We have nine on senior high and nine on junior high. Awesome. Good. So, we will actually have a senior high squad this year. We vote to approve it as long as they got the money in the bank. Yeah. As long as the money's been there. I don't see a problem with it, right? I mean, if it's under the 2500, I they don't have voters. You got a deal in your packet concerning the Renaissance Learning quote. Uh, I think that was federal funds, but
045wasn't mistaken. [Music] Excuse me. What is the What is the What is this? Uh so there's a sheet on the back of it tells you what the items are dealing with federal funding. Title One STAR assessments provide data on our students reading, math level, strength, and areas of improvement. It's federal funding. Uh we we required to spend our federal funding or they going to take it back. Yeah. You lose it type thing. Yeah. You have to use it or you get to lose. How much is it? 7,000 30560. Is that your motion? Yeah. I make motion. I second I Okay, you should have one here for Arogy invoice payment for website, right? I mean, it's kind of Is it going pretty good so far? After we're super happy with it's very easy to use and
046we've got a lot of users in our district. It's easy for them to post. the alerts are sent out. We haven't had any trouble with that. Is it do you guys get to change things on there for free or does it cost us every time? We can change anything we want to for free. And then um they do our callout system that's linked up with e school. So when parents update phone numbers in e school, they get updated in there. And then um if they have people who aren't in e school want alerts, they just let us know and I have a a manual list like that you guys are on so that you get the alerts. Awesome. But everything we can we can do anything we want to on there and it's all included
047in the price. So Okay. I'll make a motion to approve. Motion time approve the apert 9,8263. Motion second. Scott say I next on your on your agenda is approve training statement that just repairs on units here at the at the school. Evidently they had one or two go down. Are they not under warrant or some? How long have they been under? Uh, they're supposed to be under warning for 5 years. I called the architect, but we've had leaks in the elementary and we're having a flooring issue with some discoloration and I, you know, they're supposed to be sealed. So, I called him and contacted him on that. He was going to call John, the construction manager here, and have him come down and talk with me and look at them. Uh, a teacher shouldn't set
048a bag out on the seal floor in the in the something leak out of it after they've had a party or whatever and it and it stain a sealed concrete floor. So, something's going on. I kind of want to know what it was. Mr. Woods, bless his heart, has been up on top of the roof trying to patch a roof and that roof's under warranty for 20 years. Why are we doing that? Well, that's a good question. I'm asking that and that's what I asked that architect. So, we're going to have to I mean, why are we patching instead of calling them? Well, that's a good question. That's before my time. I mean, so yeah, the roof warranty, uh, the air should be. I mean, that was a question I had, but I mean, I
049think after you've got a one-year factory warranty on it and then 5 years on your compressor, you know, so if it's not compressor, you're having to pay for the parts. If there's anything that comes up about the concrete thing, I wouldn't seen it myself. I own a decorative concrete business. The seal, those floors are not sealed. They're polished. Um, they do need to be sealed. They do need to be sealed. I think they had a bid 20 22,000 22,000 Miss Tammy that we talked about. Uh they definitely need to be sealed. Well, in the contract when we first had it was built, was it in the contract? I bet if you look at that contract, it'll say polished at what you're saying. Yeah, those are polished. They're not sealed off. So they These are sealed
050over here. I know the high school. That's a question that I will be asking him on those floors. Uh because if it was supposed to be sealed, he may be under the impression it was sealed. He's the one that drew all this stuff up and I when I asked him that question about the seal, you know, he didn't act like it wasn't supposed to be sealed. So there may may be something there says polish and say seal. You have to understand something. When they went in that building over there and built that upstairs, the concrete people messed up and didn't put enough rebar in it. and the construction company had to eat $60,000. They had to go in there and tear that whole flooring upstairs back off that they had poured and repported. So things
051happen. If it's supposed to be sealed and it did get sealed, that's a question that we're going to have to have to get answered. So motion approve the 2,67830. Yes. I'm just wondering that was from a gas leak that we had and I'm not a mechanical person so I cannot tell you what the words were but some kind of compressor something was uh rusted out and the guy said that um it just the the whatever part was had to be replaced. Mr. Woods is more familiar with what it was. It was um well we we got new units. I mean all old units at the high school were removed and all new units heat and air went in. It's of course elementary brand new. So if it's a compressor and it's within the 5 years
052which it should be. Yeah. That falls on warranty. I need to get Mr. Woods on that on and find out about that. So So we don't want to pay I wouldn't pay this cuz then we could just send the bill to them if it's under warranty. Right. Well I mean what they're fixing on it. It says that I mean they're saying that they fix that that valve and it shows igniter OEM hot trip charge fuel search charge. How does it rust out? That's what Well, actually, usually when you do the warranty, the labor's covered. It's the part you got to buy. It is for one year. Oh, the labor is only covered for one year. The only thing that's covered for five would be a compressor. If it's not a compressor, then it bill has
053to be paid. Equipment [Music] service shut off gas broken broken heating probe monitored unit gas. I'm not seeing anything there that indicates that it would be a compressor. So we'll make a motion 267830. Motion by Mr. Adley. Second by Mr. Jones. [Music] Okay. Next thing is approve lawn care. Y'all should have had bid in by May the 1st and the bids haven't been done for lawn care service for the next year. Uh, I understand there was some question about the prison taking care of law. Number one, you're bringing in people around students that may be a questionable character. I guess you might say goodbye. That's what I heard. They were supposed to tear down the elementary building for us, too, and it never happened. And I think y'all paid $200 or $300,000 to have it
054done. Now, with that said, uh Dylan Martin has agreed at the same price that he's doing it now on his rate until we can get the bids done uh in the May board meeting. So, y'all need to approve him continuing to do that until we get bids in May. Motion second. Second, Mr. T. All in favor say I. Five. Okay. Uh we have someone that's interested in the old elementary property. Uh I have not discussed it with them. I just got here and uh the city is interested in it. If you will donate it to them and we have somebody interested in buying it, what kind of price we can get out of it? I say if you donated it to the city, I'd say there's a way to work work it around to where
055you could donate it uh to a private individual. They would have to pay fair market price of whatever it was appraised at. So, uh, what would be your poison? Do you want me to look into the donation? You want me to look into the money? Say, can we look at the money? Who? And I mean, is there a way to find out who what purpose? Yeah, this this is Brandon Thompson. BJ Thompson. BJ Thompson. I mean, if he wants to buy it and put a park in or whatever, that'll be up to city what he can do with it. But he has shown some interest in purchasing the property. You know, and I'm not going to char say we're going to charge you a million dollars for it because you make a lot of money,
056but whatever fair market value it would be school district, you wouldn't have to have it mowed. You could take that out of your mowing contract. Uh, you know, there's And that money if we sell that, that money can be used back into our operational funds. Correct. Right. Back into operation. Can we wait until we see what it's worth before we make amend which way to go? Somebody's got to pay for the appraisal. Somebody got to pay for an appraisal. Pay for appraisal about $4,500 approval. Let me let me see if I can get in touch with BJ and talk to him and see how serious he is about it and kind of what his thoughts are on it and then we can come back and if you don't have it praised, you know, you just
057have to understand whatever fair market value is going to be. Yeah, I think we I mean we we could go ahead and decide if we want to get it appraised anyway. We probably need to make that decision tonight. Well, even if we did donate to the city for tax write off, whatever, we need to get appraised anyway because we need we need to know that amount to write off. Yeah. So, it's got to be appraised anyway. We don't get tax write off or whatever. We get taxes. Yeah, that's true. I guess how you would call it. You think tax? I agree. You make a motion to praise it. Appraise. I'll make a motion to appraise it. Okay. Must have a second. I'll second the foss. Do do you have any idea what the uh city
058wants to do this? First of all, before we add it, we're going to make a motion toend suspend the rule to add this to the agenda. It was not on the agenda. I move to suspend the rule. Need a second? I do second by Mr. G. All in favor say I. I oppose. I now you talk down. We can vote on that appraise. Make a motion on the property by Scott. Any second child in favor say I. [Music] I personel. Nope. And then these are these are things that should in there. But anyway, the blue path, the one on the solar, uh I've got the number over there to call getting ready for board meeting. I haven't done that. Uh this particular invoice is for $10,360.86 and it has to be approved by the board.
059Now, this is my understanding from what I read in the contract. the contract. You have five years that you pay quarterly payments to them and then the property becomes to you. You're supposed to be getting anywhere from 11 to 15 cents kilowatt hour fed back. It depends on how much electricity is generated out of there. That's supposed to be coming back in. I would like to see a record at how much we've saved and like I said when the property becomes yours. Uh, so I've got the contract over there, but kind of vague on and it says there's no guarantees from what was integrity and and energy. You know, they make absolutely no guarantees on any of this stuff. So, we're taking what we can get, but we've had contract and we're actually obligated to
060pay this and this is a quarterly payment. This one's 10,000. You said they have been as high as 17,000. As high as 20. Yeah. I don't know if that has this one was low. It's being reduced over a period of time. Exactly how that works. I need to talk to them about it. But we do need to approve this today. Make a motion to approve what on the agenda. It's not on the agenda as well. No, these are just expenditures. I guess you could put them up. Uh they weren't put up with the other expenditures. These are just expenditures. You're approving over $2,500. [Music] How many we got? Just these right here. They make the most spend a rule on here. The expenditure. Yeah, make a motion. Motion by Scott Ch. Second. Second by Dyl
061need to do the one on blue path $10,360.86. I want to make a motion. Make a motion. Motion by Scott Ch. Second. Second. Second by Mr. B Jones. All in favor say I. Oppos. Have to give me the prince. Okay. Uh this one is federal funding uh and it's annual all product renaissance platform star assessment accelerated reader there. Again it's it's federal funds and it is in the amount of $4,989.90. So that's separate from what we just voted on. Yes. These are all going to be individual um I mean like I say these are they're spending federal funds. It has to be Yeah. Okay. Make sure not the electrical stuff is not that is though. This is make a motion. Make a motion to approve. Mr. Tiny second. Second. Mr. Adams. All in favor say
062I. Oppos? This is federal funding and it is for Lexor 5 reading student subscription renewal which you already have and it's for $6,670 and that is federal funding. Make a motion. Make a motion. Scott, give me a second. Second by Papa Jones. All the fame say I oppos 5. Okay. Yes. This is district funds, but it's an agricultural grant u modernization grant that they received in amount of 29,580. They have a bill here of $6,641.31. So the grant's paying for this. The grant's paying for this. Can I make a motion? Make a motion to approve by Mr. Ch. Any second by Mr. Adams. All the f say I. All right. I have a bill here that is coming out of federal funds. It is dealing with a convention or conference that the athletics went on
063and it is an amount of $3,48318. They've already been the that was the east conference. East conference hotel stay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Motion says approved by Mark Price on 31125, but his signature is not on it. So, make a motion. Second motion. Second. Mr. Adams. All in favor say I. I. Now, Mr. President, we have personnel. Executive session for personnel. Okay. Session resignations. Get them. I got them up here. Put glasses back on. U resignation of Ashton Sber. Make a motion to accept by Mr. Chy. Second by Mr. Als. All in favor say I. I. opposes resignation of the is it Deborah Mahonus how it Mahome Deborah Mahome make a motion make a motion second I oppos 5 uh Brenda Reed is that's right okay Brenda Reed so move by Mr. I like this
064second by Scott Chief. All those in favor say I. I. [Music] Uh recommend our resignation of Demetrius steps effective April the 28th, 2025. Make a motion. So move second. Second by Mr. Adam. All in favor say I. Oppos. reduce Miss Patricia Albertson's contract from 180 days to 160 days and Julia Pal from 144 to 160 days per request of employee. We'll make a motion. Make a motion to accept Mr. Chinese second. Second. Mr. Adams. All in favor say I. I. Five. Okay. We're opening up uh application for head football coach. Uh we'll be accepting recommendations to a certain date, interviewing and have recommendations by the next school board meeting or a call board meeting whichever comes first. Uh need a motion to move coach Chaden to boys assistant from girls assistant in basketball. So we
065make a motion motion t say I oppos 5. Okay. uh girls assistant. We will be looking for somebody who will take the place of coach Chaden there for an assistant girls basketball coach. All right. Uh Mr. Cheek, I believe you're on. Yeah. I'd like to make a motion to adjust Mr. Barry Scott's daily rate retroactive to April 8th, 2025 to June 30th of 2025 for rate daily rate of 240 day 240 days at $130,000 prrated. uh out at a daily rate to what day? June June 30th June 30. I'm make motion by Scott. Second by Mr. Jones. All in favor say I. Oppos 5. I have another motion. First motion I'd like to make. I'd like a make a motion to resend the previous board action of January the 23rd of 2025 that extended Mark
066Price's contract for 2025 through 2026 school year. Motion by Scott J. Second. Second take by Mr. Adams. All in favor say I. I oppos 5. I also have a second motion as of April 15, 2025. I'd like to make a motion to resend the action employment of Mark Price as England School District uh superintendent based on his failure to abide by school district policy 3.5 licensed personnel contract return motion by Scott second by Mr. Tie. All those in favor say I. Oppos 5. Anything other suit? I don't have anything, sir. We'll make a motion to adjurnn. Make a motion to adjurnn. Motion ties and second Adams. All in f say I. Oppos 5. 3J 83.