001congratulations to the of the United States of America the repic it stands one nation God indivisible and justice for all East is going to put on a presentation before we start all right hi guys uh my name isth I'm s m so uh today we wanted to just come in and talk about uh our conference that we're going to and about 3 weeks so what I'm about to show y'all is our video we want to start off with it so this is our founders award application video which is like the application that we use to submit ourselves for the biggest award in East it's like the state championship of East so that's what we applied for if to create like a 10-minute video describing who we are what we are what we do all that
002stuff so I'm going to show you all that and then Sydney is going to um talk to you on just a little bit I'm just going to bother me I'm sorry [Music] hi my name is anth H and I'm a student Champion here at England High School East in our program we should have do the best we absolutely can be to make an impact in our classroom and our community we are so excited to be able to show you our program and what all we have been able to accomplish many aspects go into aiding our community so these are some of the traits that we excel at to problem solve those arounds we are team whether it's learning from E students with experience problem solving in team Builders or collaborating on a project we value
003and prioritize teamwork in our program incorporating many types of Team builders that require distinctive thinking and working as one functional teamwork is a trait we have and continue to instill in the students here at EHS East we are growth one of the key aspects of our program we try focusing on is expanding our skills and knowledge the more we know the more help we can be to our community we have students in our program obtaining drone licenses going to East training classes taking Sports pictures of high school games and even division one college games inside the classroom students are working to learn and master new programs and Technology IES and inviting e leaders into help us incorporate a new method of managing and organizing projects into our program some of the softwares we have been
004using are blender rgis sketch up Garage Band band lab Tinker CAD dollo Adobe Photoshop premere Pro illustrator cap cut glow Forge drone link DJI fly drone to map and a loft air to control we are Advanced what makes us e students and sets us apart from other classes is our ability to take a simple problem and create a technological sophisticated solution we are able to incorporate all of the new technology and software our students are learning into projects that help us to make a difference our England Alert System project is the development of an app that will facilitate the flow of accurate information while centralizing it in one location due to Facebook being inaccurate into organized student Alyssa Larsson collaborated with mayor of England Butch house and the England Police Department to develop an app
005using a dollop where all accurate information can be shared to ensure all data is reliable the app is designed so only a select few individuals have access to posting updates it is also user friendly to all ages and constructed to be easily navigated on our ESL project students are translating the East banners in our classroom on a Dolby illustrator for our Spanish speaking students some of our Hispanic students are limited to their East knowledge because of this language barrier so some of our bilingual students found a solution because these banners don't have Spanish translations students Edgar tahada POA Morales Jose Mahia and MJ Parks have been working alongside Mrs Beckman England School District's ESL coordinator to translate the words accurately they have also worked with Miss josely and Johnson and East staff member who has
006given them access to the official East poster files for them to edit once they complete the translated designs they will share them with East headquarters where they can be distributed to all programs throughout the state one of our more prominent projects east of Music run by Sydney Malla Aiden K Cooper price jce triplet and Caden mull started because we have no after school activities they started a program to give kids the opportunity to learn instruments that interested them for free in the process they gained valuable experience and a variety of practical skills using canva they designed promotional materials like website banners Flyers learning how to create visually engaging content they implemented Google forms to manage signups and collect feedback gaining insight into organizing and streamlining participant data for the website students used Google sites which
007sh them how to build and manage an online presence efficiently additionally they are working toward establishing the program as a nonprofit organization which has given them firsthand experience with the legal and administrative aspect of nonprofit formation writing bylaws and collaborating with lawyers is deepen their understanding of the legal framework necessary for starting and sustaining a nonprofit lastly our hooton project is a collaboration with Hon's Arkansas football students Hayden Roberts Ryon Johnson Carson Carlile Nick Brown and Dan Martin work to create a map on rgis that displays all Arkansas native football players what high school they played at and where they are playing now at Arkansas colleges it is evolved into adding every High School football program this will allow hooton to have EAS access to all Arkansas football talent that has originated and stayed in
008our state we are Community connections are one of the most important parts of a project so Community Partners are our key to success we have collaborated with Thomas thrash at hudin Arkansas football Butch house mayor of England the England Police Department Miss Stephanie white mayor of Kio the walking America couple Mr Brian are transportation director Miss Beckman the ESF coordinator at England School District Mr Sherman an EHS school teacher and many leaders from East headquarters including Miss Renda Hall Miss Joselyn Johnson and president Matt doer we also like to involve people in our school's Community to come into our East room to experience our program kist of alonia East Alona and our sro's visited one day and participated in team build ERS with our classes the more people in our community that know what we
009can do the more of a difference we can make we are student Le we pride ourselves on being an environment full of leaders where we are capable of taking initiative in our learning and projects students lead in a variety of different ways including actively translating foundations of East to some of our Spanish speaking students leading other students in team building activities hosting special guests on podcast conducting interviews with local coaches for AR Sport Network and speaking to State officials at the capital about the work we are doing leading our education and ease empowers us to be actively involved in find a solution to benefit our community we are success throughout the last 6 years that we have had our program we have had many awards opportunities accolades and successes that have put us on the
010map and proving what we are capable of some of these accomplishments include the 2024 a seminar showcasing our eou music project being a 2024 program of influence having students on the 2024 and 2025 leadership documentation team attending a for yearo E shance SP for on work withs speaking in the 2023 quarterly East board director meeting at East HQ two students obtaining their Journal licenses organizing a car show for K pan Festival taking pictures at the Arkansas state Arkansas razor bre uapb and UCA football games having a successful 2024 East Night Out winning organization of the Year from the England Chamber of Commerce winning many awards at Easton 2024 including the best of conference move design the Fay Jones architectural challenge winner in the music competition at East con 2022 we won the first ever East
011influencer Award Best of conference senat boo design award and a judge's Choice Award we were also featured on the line where we able to share our excitement for East 2024 and we were invited to represent the central region of East for stem day at the capital where we met Governor Sanders he spoke to Senator flowers and representative Lynch about the impact we're making through our east class we are East we are East we are East we are East we are East East we are East we are East we are East we are east east we are East we are East we are [Music] East so we just want to show you all that it kind of just sums up who we are as a program and what we do just so people who don't know
012about East can understand what we do and the impact we're making um and uh in about 3 weeks we're going to East Conference 2025 and um basically what conference is is it's a uh Statewide conference where all of the programs uh East programs in the state come together and share what they've been working on what like it's just a great way to learn what other programs are doing and that can help you uh help influence us to be better in the future and we wanted to invite yall all to conf with on March 19th and we're very and if you come there we will be presenting five projects and that'll get you just a little glimpse into what we've been doing in our [Music] classroom how many schools around the state are involved with each
013probably around 250 or most schools yes and then there's one in Oklahoma one in Louisiana and then one in Pennsylvania I don't know how many of that's all we have for you today we hope you consider coming very good we be very honored to thank you thank you um the date on the invitation with draw it should say 3925 instead of 5 Nights [Music] wow March 19 [Music] million right under we not got our foundation should end about make a motion to approve the consent agenda financial report Scott next thing is principal Sports Miss Elementary current enrollment is at 349 we're up three from January um and then Mr Adams I believe you asked um last month to get an enrollment trend for the elementary school I went back four years on that I can
014go back through cogn and go farther if you would like um but I included that at the top of the report February of 22 we were at 367 February of 23 we're at 359 February of 24 at 354 and then currently 349 um keeping in mind we're one prek class short of what we normally are we only have one prek class this year instead of two classes so that's where the difference in enrollments coming in um for this year at the elementary School you will see um third fourth fifth and sixth grade breakfast we are doing that this year as our um parent involvement where parents and families are invited to come in and have breakfast with their students at that grade level on the sixth was our third grade breakfast the 13th was our
015fourth grade breakfast the 27th this Thursday will be our sixth grade breakfast and then we had to reschedule fifth grade to the 28th on the 14th we had our Valentine's Day parties the 18th through the 21st was our scheduled 3rd through sixth grade Atlas interims and we got one day of testing done and then we were out for snow so those are going to continue this week Wednesday through Friday on the 24th we had parent teacher conferences um it was a lower turnout which it usually is a lower turnout um for this conference that it is the first one but our teachers do contact all parents that don't come to the conference by phone um to make sure that are staying in communication with parents the 100th day of school dressed like your 100 moved
016from the 28th to March 4th because of those snow days and then I included on the second page um just so you can see some of the communication that goes home in case students at the elementary Rees reminders and date changes and then on the back of that was our February and March newsletter that went home to parents as well any questions for the elementary our current enrollment at the high school is 265 um and I do have the enrollment Trends on a spreadsheet behind I think y'all just in the in your books [Applause] [Music] [Applause] so I have the enrollment trans um at the bottom of the principal's report I like I said we have 265 currently enrolled last year this time was 261 um and that's actually a topo it's actually 260 um
017and then 2023 was 290 January 24th was the second n week's AR field trip which was a huge increase in students making their AR goals we had 128 go on the field trip with over 140 making their AR goals January 29th the Bailey group worked in plc's with our teachers using the atlas blueprint standards and grade level PLS February 3rd was our first makeup day from being closed due to winter weather we have one more schedule for March 17th and we also have a couple more to make up from last week uh February 4th was our monthly College wear day where everyone wears college t-shirts uh February 11th through 14th grades 7 through 10 took that was interim assessments each morning February 13th uh we hosted our annual poetry night we had several students in
018grades 7 through 12 read original poems February 14th Baylor group worked with our science teachers on life science standards annotating and curriculum resources that was also Valentine's Day and we had several uh deliveries made that morning and the community of Love Church also brought a snack back for every student at the high school and delivered them uh junior girls and boys basketball teams finished their season and were named 2025 conference and District champions and we are so proud of them uh February teacher workday was Monday the 24th that was also a parent teacher conference we had several just like Miss Tammy said the uh numbers were down but they normally are this time of year um the Senior High basketball teams played in the 2A District tournament this past weekend and then yesterday the boys
019won the district championship against Barton and they'll travel both travel to the regional tourament tournament at Barton or actually at the Helena pccua Helena campus boys play tomorrow at 8:30 and the girls play on Thursday at 700 and then those games will determine uh Friday and Saturday games tomorrow all Juniors will take the ACT uh then we have the regional tournament and then March 4th through 8 is the state basketball tournament at C Ridge all right anybody have any questions Britney thank you next we will have our desegregation order update uh with us is Phil brick from the law firm of Becket build Le Keith good evening uh bill briak um we're here to give a status report report on our DC case our ongoing DC case and specifically our consent order in that case
020on faculty and staff uh I'm going to give kind of a brief overview of of the D case and the order specific to to District staff if yall were here last time this is going to sound very familiar but I three of youall there into this I want to make sure we cover it and then Mr price is going to talk to youall about the efforts that have been made in the last six months since the last status report on compliance with that order uh and then when Mr Price is done we'll take any questions or comments from from the community with regard to to this report so um so the district has been in a d case since around 1970 it was involved with a bunch of other schools um specifically at that point
021in time there was an order entered to um D desegregate uh along with the Garrell school district and so that order went into effect for the 1970 1971 school year uh and at that point all students were to attend the England school district and all faculty were to be fully integrated um the district was recently advised that it appeared to have met its DC obligations and so it moved for a unitary status essentially to get out of that lawsuit in 2022 as part of that effort to obtain unitary status the the notice of our efforts were were published to the community and comments were submitted to the court and there were another a number of objections and comments and the vast majority of those had to deal with hiring and retention of of Staff specifically
022certified staff coaches Administration those types of things and so the doj asked us to enter into a consent order to monitor um our hiring and retention of certified employees and administrators and so we agreed to that consent order and it went into effect about a year ago today uh and that order will remain into in effect until September 1st of 2026 and so and again the hiring procedures that are outlined in are only applicable to certified staff and to administrators um you know we the district tries to hire the best qualified person in every role and doesn't discriminate for any reason um uh as part of the order we are required to have an open open recruitment process so every position that becomes open we have to advertise that on the district website District social
023media Pages two online you know job application sources and then at least two places in the community uh churches businesses those types of things for each position that we open um at every step in the process for each each position we have to track the data who applied who was offered an interview who accepted an interview who was offered the position and who accepted the position um you know again the district has all makes all its hiring decisions under Arkansas law based on performance Effectiveness and qualifications um and then and as part of as part of the efforts that we do um and that we're required to do Under the order we use standardized grading rubrics for each position and we use those rubric scores to determine who to offer the job to um the
024district as part of the consent order has to document how it determined who to offer an interview to who to offer a job to um and we have to keep records of all that to show the court and the and the public we're complying with that order um along with uh its obligations in tracking um hiring information we also have to have a districtwide recruitment and retention team um it's made up of uh School administration certain certified employees uh and that committee holds meetings and and performs activities throughout the school year um and again Mr Price will kind of talk to you about what what's been done with that in the last six months um we're also um to have a recruiting partnership with at least uapb fander Smith and Arkansas Baptist College um and
025with that I will turn it over to Mr Price to provide you update on what we come uh since last uh we last met uh we've done several things uh each of the members of the Recruitment and Retention team have done certain things uh as for myself I participated in the team meeting on January 13th uh to review the M us and brainstorms from new Recruitment and Retention ideas and I visited uapb uh community meeting to discuss the pride Residency program and to formulate anou outlining a partnership with with between the university and our district uh I just received a letter the other day uh via email about that and we're going to speak more after spring break and to see how we can uh get this thing moving forward uh the uh High School
026principal trans Trent Morgan attended uapb fall career Summit on October 2nd he participated in a team meeting on uh January 13th to review Theus and uh brainstorm the Recruitment and Retention ideas he visited phander Smith University and Arkansas Baptist University on January 30th uh to discuss the possibility of creating a partnership between those universities and the district he attended a retention breakfast on February 6th uh in the school and he will attend the uapb spring career Summit uh the instructional facil facilitator Belinda Livingston participated in a team meeting January 13th to review Theus and come up with new recruiting and retention ideas uh she organized the retention breakfast and created a satisfaction survey on February 6th and she will also attend the UA APB spring career Summit uh High School teacher M Rosemary Benjamin participated
027in the team meeting on on January 13th to review Theus and come up with new ideas for retention uh Elementary School Tam uh principal Tammy Bennett attended uapb 2024 uh fall career Summit on October 2nd she participated in the team meeting on January 13th review the M us and she will attend uapb spring career Summit Elementary School in instructional facilitator Mindy Martin attended uapb fall career Summit on October 2nd she participated in the team meeting on January 13th and she will attend uapb spring career Summit the elementary school teacher Danielle Williams participated in the team meeting on January 13th to review the m and come up with new Recruitment and Retention ideas um we are trying to formulate Partnerships with uapb philander Smith and Arkansas Baptist um I met with Dr Kimberly Davis and Miss
028katricia Carter at uapb January 29th for a community [Music] meeting uh to learn about UAP B's Pride Residency program and what that program is is it basically it's grooming teachers and they're putting them into schools these future teachers are going into these schools and they're getting a little stien and it gets them ready for uh for actually teaching uh Dr Davis has issued a letter of support and we're going to uh formulate an mou between uapb and England School District to try to meet any needs that we may have in the future uh with phander Smith Trent Morgan visited phander Smith College on January 30th and he met with Dr Charity Smith discuss the possibility of creating a recruiting partnership with college he also visited Arkansas Baptist on the same day um he was unable
029to meet with anybody there but we're we're going to continue to try uh our efforts to retain minority staff uh we met of course on January 13th to review those M us and come up with new ideas new recruitment ideas uh the team had a let me back that up one of the things that we were looking at is when someone moves into a community they're unfamiliar with the only thing they know is where to go to show up for work we need to have information where do they need to get the to have their electricity that turned on their water turned on things like that we're putting together a packet for new teachers that come in to this District so they will know who to call where to go things like that where do
030you get your internet where do you pay your water BT all those things are important and that's one of the things that we want to help people transition into the community and the Recruitment and Retention team had their retention breakfast on February 6th in which our uh newest African African-American teachers were provided breakfast and they were asked to provide ideas and suggest questions with regard to recruiting minority teachers and then they completed a satisfaction survey and the results were positive uh they really had no complaints they spoke very well of our school so what are the results of our efforts for the 2024 school year since we last met in January we hired one African-American special education teacher at the high school uh it was a win-win because not only were we able to move
031toward uh fulfilling this doj order but we also were able to hire a teacher who had been in the district for a number of years and we could reward that loyalty no other positions have become available since then or before then so that was it at the high school and in the elementary school there have been no covered positions available since September report at this point anyone has any questions or comments happy to address those Dr St you you have something to say oh no you you guys don't have a Podium time I come ask you the same thing sit down and talk to you I've read your most of the initial report from some correspondence that you guys have been having or not you the attorneys have been having between Mr nner at the
032Department of Justice Mr Keys and Mr brick at the law firm um you entered into this consent order last February of 24 and specifically in regard to the partnership you don't you haven't shown a whole lot of progress you've had a year to work on Partnerships and it didn't say you might work on it it didn't say you will work toward it he said you will establish these Partnerships and a whole year is passed and you have nothing in writing you have no written agreement partnership agreements with any of these institutions phander Arkansas Baptist or uapb and that's disappointing to us because again you've had a whole year to get this done I don't know what you've done with your time the staff and I hear you talk about some recent activities that have occurred
033this year in January but that's January of 2025 what did you do from February until December now that those are legitimate questions that all of you should want to be able to answer we offered the garell Alumni Association offered to assist you in developing and establishing these Partnerships Dr steps used to work for Dr Charity Smith for years they have a great relationship one of the other alumni members Dr Phyllis Anderson who runs a school in Little Rock she teaches at the University with Dr Dr Herz over at Arkansas Baptist College is my fraternity brother the people at uapb Dr shefs went to school there you're not taking advantage of the resources that we're offering to help you get out of court too everybody wins if the England school district is out of court I
034think we can all agree on that c i mean we all win right now we're willing to do our part but you've had a year to do your part now what you have done is it appears that you're you're continuing to pay attorneys instead of making even even putting some of that those funds toward establishing the Partnerships you know Mr break and his group they're professional people and I respect that but you paid them $35,000 last year $35,000 in the last 10 months to defend a consent order that's already in place now I know England is a poor School District $35,000 would buy a whole lot of backpacks for kids there buy a whole lot of smartboards for kids and that's just the last 10 months I had a chance to review the entire report
035and I can give you the number at the next meeting but I hope that we've made some substantial progress between now and the next meeting you've got to reach out to us and let us help you get this done the key is not hiring the the only minority or black applicant that comes to the table because I think Mr Price is doing his job with that I think he's working with what comes to the table people have to apply before he can even consider hiring them so with that in mind you know he gets an A+ there you as a district get an F though because you've had one whole year to establish three Partnerships and you have you don't have one on paper that's not a good sign when we have a conversation with
036Mr ikner at the justice department those Partnerships will help you grow your own teachers from those institutions they'll help make England a School of Choice it's only 30 minutes from the Metros any Metro here in central Arkansas only 30 minutes but you've got to you've got to work to develop those Partnerships you've got to to have lunch with those kids who are in the education department you've got to put them on a bus and bring them to England and let them tour the school and be a part of the school day as a part of their practicums they required to do those hours in school buildings teachers kids still do student practice and when you do those things you'll start developing and building those relationships and then when those kids graduate they'll remember those pleasant
037experiences that they had in England Arkansas and they'll consider coming here versus you going out and knocking on doors and sending Flyers to all the local churches these things that are mandatory in the consent order you know let the let the institutions work for you and work with you and again you know no offense to professional people they they should get paid with their work but we're spending a little too much on that end and not enough developing these Partnerships and it's going to cost you more as we continue to stay in court with you and I think that's a very simple equation you know we want the same things you want but you have to see the long picture and the long picture next year is under the governor's learn that they the kids
038can go anywhere in the state they want to go next year and that right Mr brick what's that students can go to any school in the state they want to next year can't they I think it's been that way yes next year it's not doesn't have to be failing schools don't have to leave an n school they can go anywhere their Money Follows them children in this community like to see the same thing you want to see a diverse teaching population it's nothing for palaska County to park a bus at Scott and take kids to silen Hills or Mill Side there's no nothing for Pine Bluff that prevents them from doing the same thing meeting kids at Jefferson Line at the County Line You' got to think long term and the impact is important parents
039need to see diverse teaching faculty groups and I think again you know Mr Price you know you're making the effort and I think it's commendable when you hire the applicants that come to the school but won't work in the long term it do not secure your teaching pool got to you got to move forward with a different more aggressive plan and we'll be we'll be writing our concerns to Mr adner at the Department of Justice and we'll share them with them as well so unless Dr steps has something else to say I just I just want to make a state ask a question after um you were stating all the different Summits and retention uh retaining meetings that uh several staff had attended out of those meetings have there been any programs that have come
040out of those areas that they visited to come in and meet with the students have the Stu students benefited any or this has all been planning now this was this was like a career fairs where we go to the I did not go at attend the uapb career fair Miss Britney you attended it did you not no Co I I attend okay you might be able to answer that also here too we had a career fair here too and uapb came last fall and that uh for a career for teachers to apply it just I think just recruiting students students to two attend yes and what programs they offer and things like that so pretty much everything that has really been done is just planning process nothing actually in concrete from those meetings the only
041thing that that's come out of that the meeting with uapb when I went down there they sent me a letter and they said that we're going to have an mou and we're going to start working together after spring break okay so what do you hope to gain I hope to gain access to some teachers that's that's what I'm looking for that's I'm I'm a I'm not so much process oriented as I'm results oriented uh the process is one thing but I want to see the results you know there there wasn't a lot we could do this year we only had one position that opened up but we got the result we were looking for and hoping for I want to continue that until we can you know have a staff as you say reflective of
042our population but I right now I don't know what we're going to need I don't know our needs for the fall so I can't you know my crystal ball is a little fuzzy there and I I'm going to have to see what we need before I can go to uapb and say listen we need this this and this so there's nothing that they can do right now is we're stocked up but when once we find out then we can say okay this is what we need do you have these people can you put them send them to us that's what I'm hoping for okay so as far as the I know we have two assistant principles yes now they're two principles two oh so you have two actual principles but no vice principal no okay
043that's just a odd that's odd that's why I asked that why did England choose to have two principles instead of principle and assistant principal the the guy Perkins model they're using it and Guy Perkins it's working well uh matter of fact I spoke with uh the superintendent up there and he says that they've had a lot of inquiry on how they're how they're doing it and the reason it works so well is if there's one has gone I have another principal who can step in and be principal and take care of everything right on the spot you know a capable vice principal should be able to do that too that's right they should be able to do that but they also have to answer to a principal these what I have here both of them
044can handle the job completely without having to check with one another they're all on the same page they're on the same page as I am and it's it works well it's your it's your model I had lots of questions about that because of the administrative function the last time but you know we won't get into that um having one administrator write all the documentation that the state requires to me makes that person the principal and we've talked about Coach Morgan's role before you know as more of a support service oriented role versus an administrative role that fills out necessary paperwork required by the state you know and I think that's a little shady but you know you guys run that one my priority my main concern here is that you've got to be more aggressive
045with developing those Partnerships with the universities you have got to be more aggressive you can't you can't wait around for results you've got to be a part of price of the process and how it's articulated starts with you and the board president and it works its way down through the faculty and the staff again we've offered to assist and I do not mind assisting you there's no charge associated with our help you know we're we're offering to help you because you've got to build a pipeline to keep Personnel coming in into this community for the next decade or 20 years however long this process plays itself out long when you're out of court this still has to be a part of what people want to do on their own terms they want to be employed
046in the England School District you know so again we've offered your we've offered our assistance I just want to say one one thing to that um just trying to be constructive here you know we've documented everything that the district has done to try to get in touch with these three schools they hadn't just been in the last 6 months it was the six months before that there have been calls made there have been emails they've gone there personally and they've established a relationship with uapb but Arkansas badst is not responding um and phander Smith Dr Smith said it' be hard for us to attract teachers but wanted us to hire her personal company to consult with her and so I would just encourage you if you have relationships with these people at these two colleges
047to please let them know that we are trying to establish a partnership I'm inviting you to do that because we are trying to do that we have made multiple calls sent multiple emails been there in person and haven't been able to get this off the ground a partnership is is is two people and we've been trying to do everything we can to establish partnership and are not getting anything on the other side so if you have those relationships by all means please let them know to reach back out to us so that we can establish those partnership okay Mr that invitation needs to come from Mr price though well with us and I know you're repres no one has told y'all not to do that to my knowledge so by all means please do that
048I don't care where a good idea comes from as long as it's a good idea and I don't care where help comes from as long as it's help well we sh we if if you'll share you know planned meetings with us let reach out to some of those people are not responsive to you might be more responsive to us you know and a phone call to them may go a long way to let them know to reach back out to your school district to help form these Partnerships and and we we are we we just have relationship with those um those individuals at those institutions and you know even if we get five students who have minimal interest perhaps one or two might end up being a potential hire so so we will and Mr
049Price I've reached out to you before you know that and I will again to see when you're planning and Dr steps and I if we can she can work her schedule will be more than happy to try to work around a scheduled visit to have conversations before the visit with those institutions that would be wonderful yeah yeah that's something that I don't know if everybody knows it but I live right here in England I've taught at England high school I graduated from England high school and I'm willing to assist you in any way possible so we're not enemies we're in this together we got the we you trying to we got a common goal here so I have no problem you know I don't have to get a paycheck to do what I want to
050do so the point is if you want my sisters I have no problem assisting you because if there one thing I can do I know how to communicate and I know how to get things done so if you want my help I have no problem doing that and matter of fact I have no problem doing volunteer work here I'm right down the street so that's my main goal because what I'm tired of seeing is all the parents showing up for ball games and every athletic event but something like this you don't see them and somebody has to get out there and make them feel like it's necessary they should know it but you can't assume it but it's a we need to get Partnerships right here in England first and then move out but I'm
051willing to and all those names that you call as far as Dr Smith we know each other personally so I will have no problem reaching out to her and talking to her about what England has to offer and what they can offer to us so I'll be over matter of fact I'm going to be over here more often but it's over here to help not to hinder or to find uh criticism so my point is coming over to find out what I can do because I've been away from the school for 5 years but I still know the same needs are here so I have no problem well thank you I'll be in contact yeah I'll be I'll be here thank you very much I mean again I think a good first step is if
052you know Dr Nelson or Dr Smith to let them know that we really need to establish these Partnerships and we're trying to reach out to them to do that and and I think the best way to deal with them is to go see them and talk to them face to face and just give them a fir hand of what the needs are here what we're trying to accomplish and I think they will move a little little faster sure and Mr Morgan I I don't know if you saw it's it's there's a lot of paperwork here but M Mr Morgan went did that um just didn't have any didn't get a good result from that yeah it'll be a little different because we work together yeah so again again it's it's a partnership so anything y'all
053can do to help us establish that partnership to be helpful I didn't catch that gentleman's name but if if he can help Okay anything he can do to help to yeah I mean again we're we're providing reports on all of our efforts that we're making to try to establish these Partnerships and if there's anything that yall can do to help on the other end we would certainly appreciate and I know we want uh um more uh diverse teachers but we also need other things that we need other than the actual faculty it's just some things that the students need and we in that partnership gain some of those things too any other comments or questions I have any think that's it they Define partnership in the order okay see next is we ad fiscal Services
054support early Early Intervention Program uh I received a call from the a they uh are going to put us in this early intervention uh they identified us as being a candidate for the Early Intervention Program is what happens when your balance your ending balance continually is declining over a period of years uh I think our balance has gone down five years consecutively so they identified us I'm going to go meet with them on March 4th at the capital meet with Dr Saunders and his team and we're going to see if we're going can get this worked out so we can turn that around uh they they will go over they said just about everything in the district and with a fine tooth comb and see where we can save money where we can uh stop
055spending money maybe we need to get a committee together to look at that you yeah how we can know do it by yourself but your well that's what that's what call saving committee people that are kind of Savvy with saving m like what can think outside the box how can we save some money as a district don't do it by yourself put put a little committee together how can we save some money yeah I'm going to look into into doing that and uh that's one of the things that they're going to go over is basically they're going to take every aspect of the school and go at it and say okay what about this what about this so I'll be up there on March 4th meeting with them do that Mark anything else for me
056no I don't thank thank you all very much thank you next thing that we got is uh the csso uh survey results uh at the beginning at front of this you're going to see a letter that I received from uh Sheriff John Staley of the L County Sheriff's Department on behalf of the Lan o County Sheriff's Department I fully support your initiative to implement a commission school school security officer csso program in the England School District your commitment to school safety aligns with our mission to protect students faculty and staff a strong partnership between education and law enforcement is essential for school security the csso program will provide trained security a trained security presence ensuring rapid response to emergencies while fostering positive relationships within the school community to support this initiative I have assigned a
057deputy to the schools while we work on a long-term agreement to maintain law enforcement presence this ensures immediate access to trained Personnel while a sustainable plan is developed the Lano County Sheriff's Office remains committed to assisting England School District through officer training safety planning and ongoing support this program will Reserve will serve as a valuable asset in protecting our schools and enhancing security measures thank you for your leadership and prioritizing SCH safety I look forward to working together to implement this initiative successfully last uh last meeting I asked to uh table this conversation until we got input so we in the following Pages I'll give you a chance to read some of the uh comments that were made according to the number 65% support report it 25% oppose it 10% have questions about it who
058did this ser yeah we put it out the community the community is this going to be in the same price range as what we were already paying yes the actually if we this would be funded by the money that from the first semester where we did not have a a SRO it'll go over that budget but it should be more than uh made up for for the second semester as uh Sheriff Staley is in charging us for our SRO this semester I had a chance to read over this the other day and I had some questions on it myself um one of my concerns is uh teachers not faculty being armed the worried about more of the teacher in the classroom being armed um possibly being overpowered a gun being taken um that was uh
059after reading this it was kind of putting some concerning my own thought in head on this sure um so I don't know if I agree that the teachers should be armed um but maybe faculty members of England School District um that aren't in a classroom um I know there's a lot of schools that are doing the CSO program across the state or csso program but um I don't know once again you don't know who it is you don't know who's armed but my one concern is is a kid seeing it in classroom making a thing of it or and knowing who has one at that point um versus a faculty member that they may not see for hours in a classroom type thing so and I all these concerns are very valid and I know
060there's a lot of positive too but uh I just like to play Devil's Advocate a little bit on that well I've been in a district where they did have this before and no one ever found out because these are deep concealed no one I mean it's going to be hard to find find out who actually has it uh is it possible to find out I'm sure it is you know especially at the elementary where you know the kids come up and hug you things like that and that's one of the things that we discuss with people that that uh we're in that building and it now they said that they thought they would be able to handle it and I've I've called a number of schools that have this program they said they've never had
061any in issues with that at all and you know of course there's no issue with it until they hits that's the one thing you have to look at so this is just an option for us but right now we don't have much of a plan no I know this is just the beginnings problem Contin problem is keep is the turnover of getting this over that's hard hard we keep having these braks and period we don't get them so what do we do during these period we didn't have one from October 18th until 3 weeks ago yeah but that seems pretty steady now that's so far it does but than it's good for not good been a consistent U turnover High turnover right I think I've been here three years and we've had at least six
062yeah and we figured out why d because these people that sign up for this get a chance to go work somewhere else for more money there a high term and they leave the larger police departments have more of a war chest to spend on their officers and they they the officer the funding here the whole city funding your city police departments are the lowest PID of any law enforcement in the state period just it's a they start here and then they step M no I I told totally agree that we have to do something to protect these kids in this this my my only concern was the classroom portion um and being in the classroom with students first faculty that could respond you know from this office or principal standpoint you know or you know
063maintenance outside you can well you can well these things you can probably modify some yeah you you can do this and one of the things is a coach can't carry this yes they can cuz we had one and he had it on him at all time even while coaching MH and your maintenance folks different folks different people you can spread it out spread it out different but uh yeah I mean I agree that something need we got to do something that's going to be sustainable even when we don't have an SRO not to say that this is to replace a school resource officer no this is just another level of protection um and I know we've talked about training before uh another thing we talked about was the uh uh security Grant um where are
064we at with the we just got $61,500 that we're going to use to put up cameras we're going to have two of those walk through metal detectors like you have at the couse that we can that are going to be portable we can take them from the football field to the basketball uh gym so we'll be able to cut down on that the problem I would love to be able to have all the students go in every day but it would take probably 40 minutes to get them all into classes yeah but we can at least cut down on events the the the the possibility we can lower that possibility lower the danger there and hopefully eliminated as best we can there's no way you can completely eliminate if someone's that unhinged as to they're
065going to do this and they're going to try to do it but you can at least lower your odds and you can protect these kid in a better way than what we've done right now yeah and I looked at the statistics of this program um the response times is within minutes and without it uh law enforcement is average around 13 minutes response time before they even enter a building that's we did our live test at the other school I was at it was 13 minutes before they arrived to campus you probably cut that in half yeah I mean well with this it'll be a minute or two yeah because they will be here on the campus I bet you can cut it yeah you can cut it to 3 to 6 minutes if it's 13
066minutes I bet you can cut it as far as that Grant where are you talking about putting cameras I think we're not camera on those cameras well I will say I did a visit at the school and I will say they're not the best cameras they're outdated um and you can't really see faces and nor do they have good view angles on some of them we we need external cameras outside that's where we're hurting the most now we're going to replace the high school interior cameras because they are 10 years old and if you blow them up to see something they get pixelated and they're the the field of view may be something else when we first put these cameras in you can zoom right up on people like it was nothing now well those
067that we looked at the other day weren't like that no some of them wer yeah Elementary's got good cameras they're newer cameras to wait till a lot they use all the money for that cuz I don't know about buy metal detectors I mean I understand take a lot of time yeah I know we wand people we wand football games are we wanting people at the basketball games too I didn't know we want them at the football we got we've got the wands yeah we just haven't had the people to do it to do it I'd rather spend all that money on cameras that's just me I mean to me when you start putting up metal detectors and there's not a problem right now I mean not saying we're going to have an incident but you're
068going to run parents off simply for the fact they're going to say oh it must be really dangerous over there they're putting metal detectors everywhere so it's it's the image that you're putting out there if we were having lots of trouble people bringing weapons to the games and stuff I kind of understand but I mean you can always go one step up you can put fences and everybody comes through one fence are you going to have it on both doors I mean it's just it's the it's the view that everybody's going to see the school and it like it's really dangerous over there I'm not even going to send my kid over there because they got that metal detective but don't they have them at other schools some schools in L Rock have Dr the
069trouble no they ain't good school they have trouble that's why I'm saying that's why they got them in there huh they all the school no they all of they have a bunch of them to have a lot of trouble I agree with you on that perspective H I do think the one of our biggest things is the cameras we're and after seeing it firsthand I definitely agree that yeah we're definitely going to give a ton of cameras we're right now just looking at quotes and yeah getting information we're I got the approval for it yesterday sayas you're going spend more 61,000 on cameras those those are not cheap at all I think we're looking in the 40s all for this whole facility here well most of them are going into the high school and all
070they got to do is just go up there and replace them it's already hardwired in right just on The Wire that you're running the cable is good enough to run the data that to it I mean just cable it advances just like the cameras do they can't push push the [Music] bandwidth we got to vote on this or I think you need to vote does it require I mean I I if we're going to do it do we need to wait till we have something set in place of what is going to be the required training uh I know the csso program has its own but we talked about uh further training and implementation of and not just and situational Based training things like that not just how well can you shoot but how can
071you shoot in a in a high stress environment all that goes on that's monthly training okay what saying is do you have a a plan brought anop for it standing no I not gotten that far yet got so we got to have aop standard operating procedure for the whole thing whole program before we can proove it we just table this it's got to be a whole laid out so here's our standard operating procedure all laid out how you going to choose people and everything else who's going to oversee it you need to oversee who's going to oversee it kind yeah yeah we table and come back to it let's see next thing WL Mills need approval to pay our uh PD Federal fund uh yes make a motion Adam second second Mr Jones all 70
072let's see next is Gallagher Risk Management Service legal liability coverage uh this is the one that uh they changed and uh they went away from one company into this other company and we go through the arkans schoolb association to get this right the lowest cost they V that they they send the quotes out and they get the best coverage and the best rate for US worship me someone make a motion to approve $818 author Jake Gallagher Risk Management Services motion motion by Mr T second second second by Mr Adam iOS see next thing is a change from a previous uh board approved invoice from uh September 17th it was 47 or I'm sorry it was 23,38 25 and it went to 23904 uh 47 and difference of 76622 uh that was a change in prices
073between the time that it was approved and the time that we got it ordered that's all how they prove the quote though that's uh it I don't know I don't have that quote it was usually they keep it for 30 days usually put on the invoice long yeah I looked at this and did not see anything that said anything about it but it it took us a while to get it all done and get it ordered we've got it now though we yeah we should have option someone make a motion 76622 Mark [Music] machine and finally Ed minum uh this is our license renewal and it is 26,335 uh this is Ed minum is what we use for well a lot of things but just I'll give you a for instance if we have to
074get do credit recovery things like that those are the programs that we use and this is f money to yes make a motion approve the adal quote last M second I Wai on [Music] you 746 take [Music] pass on personel yeah any other business I've got a deal here that I don't think any of us got anyone but I got it from the School Board Association arkans deal about the scholarship program of course none of us got any kids in college or anything but just make sure that you got the Arkansas School Board Association you got uh were members of the rule uh yeah one of them was for board member kids that one and then there was another one on there but I don't think it was just for board member kids one is
075for one of the employees child and one with the district child that's a r educator Association it's out this was for school board members that's where more bringing it up AR R School Association they're all got there's lots of but coun yeah that all that went out in email I got it myself so all the kid but I just want to let everybody know I I didn't think any of us did but we'll have to make a motion on that building or anything we don't that's all I got want make a motion to Jour I make