001[Music] Okay, [Music] heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] Hey, hey, hey. [Music] Hey, hey, hey. [Music] Hey, hey, hey. [Music] Hey, hey, hey. [Music] Hey, [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] hey, hey. [Applause] [Music] feel. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Hey, heat. Hey, heat. Heat. Hey, Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] We are okay. We're going to open the August uh regular school board meeting. I've got 601. The first item on the agenda is public comments. Don't really see anybody in here. So, we will roll on to the approval of minutes from the regular meeting on July the 28th. Did anybody see anything on there that needed to be changed? just I wasn't here to to know. >> If not, I need a motion to approve. >> Motion. >>
002Second. >> Have a motion in a second. All those in favor say I. >> I. >> Any opposed? Motion carries. We're going to move on on to the financials and let Mr. Wayer. >> Okay. Well, it's a busy time for us because we're closing a budget, opening a budget all in the same month. So, sometimes that can get confusing. So, right now we're going to talk about the end of the fiscal year 25. And if you'll look, we ended total operating fund at $741,365. That's about $40,000 down, but we did give a Christmas bonus and we also gave a retention bonus for this year that came out of last year's budget. And uh and so that was a little bit of hit. So, we're expecting that. And overall, and those were funds one and two,
003overall funds 1 through eight, we finished a little over 1.3 million, which is about 150 less, but we did use some money out of a building fund this past year for lights. So, that's the difference. Any questions about fiscal year 25? >> Would you say was the difference on that total operating? The total operating was, let's see, it would be about 41,000. >> Yeah. And it was 782. Okay, >> looking at finances going into fiscal year 26. We've got our balance right now is and this is all funds is 1 1,348,430 and that's compared to 1,489 to last year. Legal balance right now is 776 806 compared to uh last year in '04782 July expenditures this year in 25 we received 249,000 compared to 324,000 last year and then revenue this year we received $310,311
004in revenue in July compared to 318,000. And then if you had any questions over the check register, it's a lot of checks >> always. Hey, you start school. Get ready. Everybody waits for that July. >> Anybody have any questions over the financials? >> If not, I need a motion to approve. Motion >> second. >> Have a motion and a second. All those in favor say I. >> I. Any opposed? Motion carries. >> move on to our action items. Just let you continue. Okay. Action items. The first thing we're going to open bids September 10th on our HVAC project with our partnership money for the elementary. But I actually approve a payment to Jeremy Stone who is our head engineer on our HVAC design and bid documents that submitted to the state for approval. >> That's
005in the amount of 265. Is that correct? >> Yes, sir. >> I get a motion to approve the payment of $26,500 for I lost it for the design and bid documents. Mr. Jeremy Stone. Motion second. >> Have a motion and a second. All those in favor say I. I. >> Any opposed? Motion carries. >> Okay. Then we've got four We actually got a board to board transfer requests this afternoon. So we got four transfer requests. We've got uh three students from the Newport District and then the other three board to board are coming from Augusta. >> Can we just do this all in one motion? Can I get a motion to accept the board of board transfers as presented? >> Motion. >> Second. Have a motion and a second. All those in favor? >> Any
006opposed? >> Motion carries. And the next one is our sunshine contract. We did this last year. We still got three kids that are uh we take the sunshine daily. Let me see. Did >> you say three? >> Three. and and the prices has not changed. I did find out that and we're going to look at it. I'm going to visit with Mr. Ball. They do pick up in Bald Knob, but they won't pick up in Augusta. So, I did talk to Miss Tanner at Augusta and they transport theirs to Bald Knob. So, we're going to look at that, but right now we're transporting them. We've got two, we got a driver and a aid that goes. So, I asked you to approve that Sunshine contract for the school year of 2526. at a rate of
007right now $12,400 per semester per kid 400. So it's $24,800 a year per kid >> plus our expenses. Excuse me. Can I get a motion to accept the sunshine contract as it's been presented? >> Motion. >> Second. >> I have a motion and a second. All those in favor say I. >> I. Any opposed? Motion carries. And then we got a resolution. And I'll let Miss Karen talk about AC and EFT. >> The state has our property insurance. Now, they only accepted payments through AC, which is we upload a file to the bank. The bank sends the money directly to their bank. It's there's no mailing checks. After talking to a few bookkeepers, especially the one in EPC, She does a lot of her bills that are really important to get out there because the
008mail, you know, how they lose things. >> Um, she does a lot of her payments as ages. Um, and it's not hard to do. We do our teacher retirement that way. Um, but she said I probably and a lot of the other bookkeepers, we need a resolution that says y'all allow me to do that. It's not like just writing a check. It's actually going into the account, sending it kind of like a wire. You know how you send a wire? Um, but she said to have that for your auditor and I don't have any any right now other than that insurance payment once here retirement I don't have a piece of paper that says it's okay I'm sure that in the day maybe it might have happened with teach retirement but I don't have it
009I wanted something to put on file in case like energy says okay you can mail your stuff you can get your payment here we're going to do that because sometimes they'll send hey we didn't get one of your bills Well, they're all on the same envelope. Something just happened. You know, it's just it's weird stuff that can happen. So, if something's allowed to be paid a just that we can't do that. >> Credit card companies love that one. The check got here one day too late every time. >> We do our payments online. That y'all did sign a resolution for that. So, yep. >> Do we need I I mean, you've explained the resolution, so I guess I just need a motion to accept the resolution as explained and presented. Motion >> second. All in
010favor say I. I. >> Any opposed? Motion carries. Karen, you didn't correct it. >> Okay, >> that was before after Janet is supposed to sign. Oh, wait. Is she Is she supposed to be secretary? >> Secretary. >> Okay. Well, you had Okay, it is corrected. >> Okay. All right. >> I just had Nikki as vice president. >> Yeah, she had Nick. She gave Nikki a promotion. >> I said, "Oh, well, I guess I just did that." >> Is there a pay increase? >> Yeah. >> Double what you're getting. >> Okay. I guess we're moving on to theformational items starting with the superintendent report. >> Okay. First thing on numbers, last numbers, and and this has increased. I don't think it's decreased any, but the last numbers as of last week, we had 534. Same time
011in August last year, we had 564. You can kind of see our biggest drop. Last year we had 56 sixth graders. We lost 11 them. We've got 45 seventh graders. And then if you look at our junior class, last year we had 46 kids. We're down to 34. So we lost 12 juniors going going to be seniors. So but we're picking those numbers up. I think that we picked up some kids in the elementary today because I knew I had one new one on my bus. But but we'll keep working. A lot of school districts are doing this right now. We got a lot of kids choosing homeschool. You know, I talked to Coach Campbell about letting parents know if they choose homeschool that if they come back, we're going to test. If they didn't
012advance and show growth, then there's a good chance that those grades may show that they pass, but if they're still testing on the grade level they left us, we're going to leave them in that grade level. So, anyway, that's kind of where where we're at. enrollment numbers. Uh, professional development week was big. I know that both, uh, Coach Campbell and Miss Johnson did a lot of stuff on classroom management and which I know u, Miss Johnson has talked to you about. BX3 and that was good. We also had Strategos doing active shooter training on both campuses and I think that was very beneficial for our staff. transportation facility update. We'll open bids on September 10th for that elementary HVAC project. Uh did some soil samples at the football field. Looking to bring in some more
013bids on some stuff that we're doing down there as well in including the security festival in the uh elementary transportation. We had a couple buses go down. One was a pretty big expense about $14,000. Uh we're good news is we're fully staffed bus drivers. Bad news that includes me and Coach Campbell, but we are fully staffed. So So uh we've had to shuffle some routes and just numbers are high. Coach Campbell's got probably 60 on his. I'm I'm around 4550 and and you said how many do you have, Chris? 52.2. So we got three buses that probably carry goodness probably 160 kids probably half of our kids that travel. uh state aid notice. I wanted to give you the state aid notice just so that you can kind of see a little bit of difference.
014We're going to be funded for 554.92 students and two years ago when we did that we were going to be funded for 557. So we're going to get a little bit of decline money 11,712 which is never great. It's money but that's not the money you really want. Uh our total assessment values did go up. Uh last year we were getting $74,015 per meal went up to 75,622. You can kind of look at our state found our state foundation funding. It picked up because that amount increased. And then also our enhanced student achievement. We hit the 70%. We didn't get the 136. They don't give you that amount right now, but we do get $735. So last year in ESA money, we got $198,522. This year we get $291,060. So So that's big for us.
015Also, if you'll look, if you'll go ahead and put my report back up there, those are our federal allocations. you know that was kind of in a standstill early summer but we are guaranteed title two and title four those mount our amounts increase slightly not a whole lot and then our title 6B which is deals with our special education it went up 3,000 but again oure in sped was how much 542 >> 42,000 that we spent district operating but the federal government gives us $162 $2,737. Upcoming events had a big turnout during the community pep rally. Got Labor Day coming up this Monday and then the sports kickoff. Our golf team has played, but we've got a home football game next Friday and then things start rolling and our next board meeting will be the
01622nd of September. Any questions on the my report? Like coach said, our enrollment at the high school, this was the other day, was 2:30. I know we got one student back yesterday. Cheyenne came back. She was homeschooled for a couple weeks, but she came back to us. And like we said, we think a lot of those kids will end up coming back when they find out not so green when you stay at home all the time. Uh but hopefully we get some of those students back. Um, athletic wise, football scrimmage at Hawky on August the 18th. Like coach said, community fair rally was very big. Like we get more people there each year. So hopefully that keeps improving. And junior high opens up next week at Riverview and then senior high opens up next Friday
017at home. Um, I did hear Kate say cheer club I think is going to be EPC night which is about week five I think. I think he said that Sunday night he talked to somebody but I think that's cheer cup. Good for the Cubs hopefully good for the Jags against CPC. But anyway, so like coach said football's right around the corner. That really gets your school year going when that starts. A lot of things started happening with cheerleaders and band and just the town involved is always big. Academic wise, we started our second week of the new jack time this week. Kids seem to be receptive of that. I know last week we did English. This week is math. So the kids today we took a little math quiz. Tomorrow they get the answers to
018the quiz they uh did today. And then whoever needs help, we do that Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. So hopefully changing each subject each week helps kids a little more. Book club FCCLA has had their signups as well as student council. We got class officer uh voting is taking place this week. We had our first fire drill last week and then we will have a lockdown this Wednesday. U so hopefully that goes well. Uh like coach said when the guy was here and we went over that. He separated us all and went into different rooms. So it is a little leery when you're in the room in the dark and the guy's jerking on the door. So we got to hopefully our kids take that serious. So this week's will be kind of a vague lock down
019to give kids understand now this is serious and then after the first year do it again and it be a little bit more real. So it's not playtime this time and they start taking things serious. Discipline wise, we've only had two cell phones. That's a record for 10 days. >> Now, that is only in vibrating. No kid has had them. They vibrated in the backpack. So, at least they were put up. So, very shocked that we've only had two. We've only had one earbud. And I called the mom and said, "Your son has an earbud in his ear. The teacher brought it to me." She said, "Well, coach, just leave it in your office. don't need it. So, I don't know if he's came and got it yet or not, but she was happy that
020we took it and he knew not to have it, but he did. So, very fortunate that we only had two cell phones. FFA officers, I got these today from Mr. Herford, presidents Colin Hunter, Vice President Sam Henderson, Secretary Campbell Lowry, Treasurer Tristan Watts, reporter Joey Weatherford, and centennial with Ethan Plumemer. And also three county fair is next week. Um and I think u what they say the pageant was September the six. We try to make K put the little girl in it. He probably won't tell her mama. She don't think we >> don't have a voting system in the family or something. >> Well, we're still trying to figure out who's in charge of that voting. All right. So, I did actually get two new kids today. I got a kindergartener and a preschooler. So,
021I'm up to 325 in total for my enrollment. Um, open house, we had a really great turnout. Uh, most of the teachers I talked to said they had vast majority of their their kids families show up. Uh, me and Miss Lindsay, the counselor set up in the cafeteria to talk to the parents about BX3. We had 78 families come by because we also had like a door prize drawing and so we got to talk to the parents. The kids got to see the prizes and everything like that. So that was really great. Um upcoming events Atlas testing we are training K3 for the screener on Wednesday afternoon and then we will give the K3 screener next week and then the 36 screen is September 23rd through 26th. Um, so looking forward to getting that data
022from that. The teachers have already been giving like Lexia diagnostics, EXL, some different things in their classrooms to start pulling those kids for RTI. I think RTI is going better this year. I've talked to a lot of the teachers about how to best implement some of that and make sure that we're pulling all the kids that we need to pull and doing what we need to do. So that's that's off to a good start for us. and then um dyslexia therapist, Miss Carrie Rowley and Tis Harper, and then Jamie and myself all met with our dyslexia person from the co-op just to make sure that our overlap of dyslexia and students being served by special ed, we're doing what we need to do for those kids. And so that was that was good and very
023informative. So, and then behavior, uh teachers have explicitly taught the JAS matrix for VX3. So, they've been going over that. They're using that whenever they're talking to their kids. um this week they're starting to use some of the forms to get used to that. The official kickoff will be next week after we come back for Labor Day. So, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday of this week, myself and Lindsay are going to go around our little prize cart, talk to the kids about how they earn the critter coins um for doing what they're supposed to be doing, like the different categories, and then show them what they can build up to um to purchase from the store. So, we're going to be doing that next week. But, that's all going really well. the kids. We the BX3 team
024made videos um teach the kids what not to do and then what to do. They really loved those and so I think that was a really effective way. But that's all off to a really good start. And then we'll start our monthly meetings for that in September. >> And we still got three spots open preK two spots. So any three four year old >> anybody knows anybody got two spots open. So >> good deal. Well, that brings us to the end of the agenda. Um, anybody have anything else before the board? If not, we will adjourn by unanimous consent at 6:22.