001[Music] Hey. Hey. Hey. [Music] Hey, [Music] hey, hey. [Music] Hey, [Music] hey, hey. [Music] Hey, [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] hey, [Music] Hey, [Music] hey, hey. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] I'll be Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] We're going to call the June the regular June board meeting to order at 6:02 p.m. The first I'm just going to go ahead and give it to Mr. Wayer and let him discuss the first item. Okay. uh legislation passed act 902 which is a public comment uh which we've all always been very uh lenient on our public comment policy anyway but starting in July uh we'll have a signin sheet 30 minutes before and the only requirements is it's got to be a parent guardian of an enrolled student or it's got to be a
002resident of our district or an employee of the district. Restrictions are they get three minutes to speak. Personnel and students are restricted. If for some reason that public comment goes after 30 minutes, then we can stop it. So we got 11 people, we can stop it at 30 minutes and move it to the end if we wanted to. So I just wanted to make y'all aware of that. But starting officially in July meeting, we'll have a signup sheet. Did it did it go through because I read something there where and it has to be a topic that's on the actual agenda for the meeting. is that and it doesn't have to be that. At one point they were talking about that, but I it didn't never go through that way. Okay. I just never did
003see the final deal. Okay. The next thing on the agenda is the election of the board officers. Um we got to have a president, a vice president, and a secretary. So for the uh for president, I'm going to open the floor for nominations. Who is it? You and me and vice president and Nikki secretary. Mhm. I vote we keep it the same. What do you think, Brian? That just we've done it in other things I've been on. Okay. Individually, do what? Individually. Okay. So, I guess that would be um the nomination is me as continue as president. All those in favor? I I. Anybody else? Any opposed? Motion carries. So, the next one is for Miss Janet to be the vice president. Second. Okay. Motion and a second. All those in favor say I. I.
004Any oppose? Motion carries. The next one's Nikki being the secretary nomination. Okay. It's already done. All those in favor? I. Any opposed? There we go. That was a interesting way to do that. Um, everybody have a chance to look over the minutes from the last meeting, see anything needs to be changed or incorrect. If not, I need a motion to accept the minutes. Motion. Second. Have a motion and a second. All those in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Now to the financials, Mr. Wayer. Okay. Uh, board report. We closed out May with just over 1.6 million compared to last May at a little over 1.1 million. I gave you a 5-year total of the legal balance. Uh right now legal balance is a little over 1.2 million which is increased over that
005five-year period. uh expenditures uh 665,000 compared to 651,000 last year and revenue was a big difference 966,000 compared to 240,000 last year but I think in June we had a big check in 24 uh you'll see some check registry stuff that we're closing out our safety grant that we gave we actually filed an extension today we still got about a little over 10,000 that we'll do some cyber security stuff with to close that out at the end of July. Any questions about financials? There's no questions. I need a motion to accept the finances. Motion second. I have a motion and a second. All those in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Next is I guess just continue on. I I'll continue. I'll talk about our ASBA policy guidance. I shared that with you.
006Anything in red is a new policy that ASBA recommends. And then there's also some handbook changes with the complete handbook too that you got a link to. What I want to do for this is just give you the month of June and not ask you to act on anything until July. But I know Chris is representing the PPC policy recommendations and I'll let you Chris go with that. Um, you got those the there's only like four or five policies that came to PBC. The first one was the sick bank. It was just basically defining how the committee is made up where it currently says superintendent appointees. It's always been the election. So we just made that match. always done. We dropped the bank level from 500 days to 300 days. Um based on just looking
007at what has been used in the past, um we just struck a sentence in jury duty that said that we had to reimburse the district at some districts never requested. So, we took it out just to comply with what the district was doing. Um, one thing that came up this year was as of right now, like I have a day and a half I had to use this week before I give it back to the district on my vacation days. So, PBC decided to change that to say that five days will roll at the end of the year and then anything over those five days will be um paid to the employee. Um I guess under June check this is how that would happen. But so like I have I had six and a half
008days left. So the way the policy reads is five of those days are going to go into next year's thing for me to maybe 15 and then that day and a half that's over the five would be added to my paycheck. What's the that fine? What's the is there a maximum number of days that you can acquire? I can't you have more than you only have a total of 15. Okay. July one I'll start at 15. So, the most I could ever be paid out in July or June would be 10. That's not going to happen very often, at least not for me. Um, and then the attendance bonus pretty much got completely rewarded. We worked with Mr. and he talked to some looked at some other schools and um it currently says that you
009can miss one day in a semester and get $250 at the end of that semester and then $500 if you have perfect attendance uh to try and help. We've changed that to basically say in the months August through May if you have perfect attendance um then you'll get $100 added to your check following that month. So if we have perfect attendance for my what my contract says I have to be here in August then in September I would get a $100 bonus added to my it would only run through August through May. So those of us that work during the summer won't get the bonus doesn't apply and it doesn't matter what I take off it goes against it unless it's something the school says I have to the the total amount doesn't change some
010of the rationale was that basically they felt like if teachers got sick say in September then they had no incentive to come. So, this just we know things happen. Uh I will say this, uh this year we spent 36,000 more on subs. So, I hope I hope we're giving that money to our teachers and that's it. And I can't remember how many we had took advantage of that. You gave me that amount and I I think it was maybe maybe something that's it just any questions and and again y'all got 30 days to read that if you see some stuff over the handbooks or any policy stuff, reach out to me or reach out to our building principles because I know there's some changes in the handbook. Miss Johnson, you want to talk about any
011of your changes that you made? Yes. Um, the biggest one for me was going down from it was four days of ISS any point during the semester and then the student could not go on any kind of trip or anything. Um that was a big jump from the previous year where it was just one. So uh the committee and me kind of decided that it was four they seemed thought was too many. One didn't seem like enough. So we went down to two on that. So um during the semester two days of ISS or any OSS they're not allowed to go on on any of their trips. So, that was I think the biggest thing for me other than adding a couple things into the behavior section that coincides with RBX3. Yes. Are we moving
012on to the board policy stuff? Yep. Well, board policy stuff, same thing. I gave you a cheat sheet on that first link that just shows the new policy ASBA recommended. And then again, the other ones is just, you know, if there were some changes, some of it could have been statues or something like that, but there was no major changes. Uh there is now maternity leave. Uh and so that's included. The state gave the district an option and they would pay half the sub. Now they're going to come in and pay the entire sub. So, I don't remember where this was. I was looking um in the policy or somewhere. I I can see more on my phone than I can on this thing, but um what did they come up with on the the
013bailto bail no sale thing? Have they actually come up with a model policy yet? I mean, we've got a policy I mean, which the only thing that's going to change is the first time they get caught with a phone and and Coach Campbell's not here to talk about it, but uh the parent will have to come get it then is what we'll have to do. Again, we got to have adults be vigilant. You know, we've we've had a no cell phone during instructional time, you know. I mean, we've we've got to do better jobs as adults. I just want to follow the rules guidelines. You you've got some I I've talked to different superintendents. I've got there's one that's in our co-op. We had a co-op meeting and he's he's got lockers that's in his
014cafeteria. That's the cameras are right on. They got to go in there and leave it right there. But, you know, and then some are making them turn it in first period and then you get it back eighth period. It's hard to do in a high school. You know, it's hard to do in a high school. So, you know, our thing is going to be out of sight. It's not going to be in your pocket. It's going to be in your backpack or in your locker. Well, I didn't know what you meant about you said something about those little bags until I saw it on go somewhere kind of like they have it's got a magnet on it and so what what a lot of school districts are going with those pouches. Uh the only issue
015about that pouches is they'll tell you how many magnets that you'll have and there are some neighboring schools that's going with them if they have success. That may be something that we'll look at. A big concern of mine is transition at the end of the day. We do a great job loading up our high school kids with elementary kids. And if we're limited to where these stations are to unlock their bag, you know, I would think give the kids a little bit of time, they'll figure out how to open the day. Hey, or or they put the old phone. Yeah. Or put the old phone in there. Anyway, go ahead. But that's what we got policy. But that gives you a month to read. And like I said, if there's any questions or anything that
016that stands out, feel free to reach out to me or Mr. Campbell or Miss Johnston. I guess we're going to move on to the action item. Yeah. The first one, when I shared this with you, uh the state has issued. It's a it's a standard cyber security policy which requires districts to adopt a cyber security policy to keep certain procedures confidential to prevent security threats. This po this policy is not public record under F for you and it can only be discussed in executive session. So it's one of those things that we can talk about it but it's not a for you type deal and Chris could probably go into I mean we really can't talk about in general session but you have a chance to look at it. It's I want to say it's
017standard throughout the state. Yeah, it's act 504 2023 said the state was to produce ad was to produce the cyber security policy and schools have to adopt it as it is. So we basically just have a motion to adopt it as state law requires. Yeah. All right. Can I get a motion? Motion second. A motion and a second. All those in favor say I. Okay, the next thing, salary schedule. Looked at a lot of different things for this. Looked at a 1% across the board, 2% across the board. Some things kind of scare me about it. U we we have found out that teacher equalization money, that's when everybody had to get 36,000. They're going to fade that money out. We get about 105,000. Uh so we're going to get 105 this year. They're going
018to fade that back next year. And then so in 2728 we're going to lose that money. A lot of it they say may come back in learns a lot of the bigger districts that were paying that 36,000 they didn't get that money to go increase. So I think that's kind of been the call to say hey we're not getting that share which concerns me because it's $105,000. So on our teacher uh or our salary schedules throughout out the board uh they'll remain the same with the same steps. I have a couple of increase that I shared with you. One is a food service manager and and this was brought to my attention actually this past year and we and this the salary schedule was already there but she the manager started out like a$120 more
019I believe it was and then over time she got a 10-centent raise per year. Well, the food service worker, she got a 20 cent raise. So, it started out at 1281 and then the food service worker got 1143 and this is the old scale. And then after 10 years of service, that food service manager got 1386 and then the food service worker got 1349. So, we got a situation where a lot of people those managers were like, we're making the same amount as the workers. So what I did on that is just that same pay difference. So it increase their pay from 148 or 21487 to 1386 which just follows that same percentage. The only other change in the salary schedule was or two other changes. Pee-we basketball uh we've taken over pee-wee basketball. Coach
020Guadaban was the first one take over. Did a great job. Coach Houston came over and took it. We did have volunteers in the past. Um like to add a stipen for the pee-wee basketball coordinator for $800. We've not done that football-wise. We we've not had issues in football, but there could be a possibility that the school has to take over that as well. And then the only other thing, our shortage of everything is bus driver pay. Uh actually, Mr. Schneider, he picked up a route and he and his route was getting back later than everybody else. And we didn't change that paid during the school year, but what we've moved our pay scale is kind of a set rate at $28 an hour. Not every route's $28, but this way over time if you pick
021up a route, we can kind of change that. So it basically last year we paid a total of 56,58275 to our bus drivers. This year we'll pay $62,42946. So a daily rate of about $2546 [Music] is the difference for all our bus routes. And you can look at some of them. Our town route, it changes by 10 cents a day. Peach Orchard didn't change. Duffel route didn't change. The Augusta route, which was the big change for us, uh it it changed it increased $21.16. And then the pumpkin bin route, it increased $134. And then Hunter increased a dollar and 117. And hopefully that'll attract some people because right now we're we're struggling in the afternoon. can find it. We're pretty good in the morning because we got some coaches and we've got some afternoon people
022filling in. But afternoon's tough and uh I I'll say this, Mr. Ball's done a good job juggling people trying to and we've had some people volunteer. Mr. Harford's come back and run some routes. Our coaches have volunteered to jump in. We've got uh Coach Engel working on his CDLs. But And what is the Just pick one like the Hunter route or the Augusta route? What does it pay? The Hunter route per day per day $74.20 per day. And then the pumpkin bin route is $7047. And then also Frell Wiggins has jumped in and done a morning route for us and he's coming back and and I've got that to hire. Augusta, like I said, this was the biggest increase. It went to 64.87, but it's a big difference when you got to go down Riverside
023and and then Duffel and Peach Orchard pays 5658 and then the town route pays $3610. So that's based on like the mile time. Time is basically what is done. That's since I started going to Riverside. Do they go in and come back out or do they go I did it one time. Yeah, you go in and make the loop they go to there and come back. I didn't know how they were doing that to our Riverside. And then the afternoon driver, they do earn a little more because they they're watching kids because we'll pick up kids. Uh we're supposed to pick them up at 3:20, but they're usually out there at 3:15 and then we get them up here at 3:27. So that's increased their route time a little bit. But like I said, we've
024we've done good. We've had some very dependable. You know, I want to say Mr. Long, he may have missed one day. One day. I guess like anything else, if you start having too much trouble, you start the Yeah. start. We We either do that or we'll look at having to double some routes and that that would be the only thing that we'd have to do is we may have to drop elementary kids off town and and probably and then come back and pick up high school kids. That's the only thing we can do. No, I hope not. I hope not. So, I guess we need a motion to just approve that as presented. Yes, sir. While I'm working on my microphone, can I get a motion for those salary schedules as presented? Motion. I got
025a motion here. Second. I have a motion and a second. All those in favor say I. I. Brian, he raised his hand. All those in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Okay. Motion carries. Okay. And next thing I'm going to ask for uh you to approve a retention bonus of $600 per employee returning from the 2425 school year. This will cost the district right around $54,000. We didn't make a change on salary schedule. This will al also benefit them teacher retirement. Uh and that's one reason for that cost. We still got 24% of benefits that we have to pay. Uh we we'll still look at continuing our bonus that we did for the first time out operating in December this upcoming year, but we'll kind of look at our numbers and see where we're at.
026But again, approve a bonus. They this would be in their August check. We're plans to give it that first week they come back PD for those that worked with us last year. So I need a motion to do the retention. Oh, I'm sorry. M. Go ahead. And that like on that that can't be just a separate deposit. I think we did last in Christmas, didn't we? We did something. Yeah. Didn't we do like that in December? Okay. And it's how much? 600. 600. Motion or we already have one? No, we go ahead. Okay. So, we have a motion to accept it as presented. Second. A motion and a second. All those in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Moving on. And this one we talked about last board meeting about uh terms and y'all get
027to set those terms, but we've got to set either four or six. Four or six. And this is under board policy 1.19. I will include it in that policy whatever y'all vote for, but I know when we talked about it, we talked about sixyear terms. And that puts that puts two up in 26, two up in 28, one up in 30. Okay. Direct deposit. It'll be a separate thing, but it'll be direct deposit. Gotcha. Um because people don't cash the check, so I have to chase them and they lose them. Avoiding a payroll check is horrible. So, we need a motion. Yeah, we need a motion to move the six years. Yes, ma'am. Motion made. You made it easy for me. She I got a motion for Miss Janet. Do I have a second? I
028have a motion and a second. All those in favor say I. I. Any opposed? So to clear that up, we went the six-year route. Yep. Got it. Okay. And the next thing is just our student insurance for the upcoming year. Uh health special risk is who we've used for the past two years. They have not increased their rate of $9,283. So my recommendation is to continue with them. Do we have a motion to follow his recommendation to stay with the same insurance company for student? Move. I have a motion. Second and a second. All those in favor say I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Moving on toformational items in superintendent report. First thing is which we do this every every board meeting. We give a discipline report but to our annual bullying report for 2425. At
029the high school we had four reports. One came back with a true finding. It was a cyber bullying situation. at the elementary we had eight reports with zero true findings. Uh also our dyslexia report which we put on the new or on our website. Uh connection is the program that we've used. We've used two certified one classified employee at the elementary, one certified employee at the high school. 43 students were provided dyslexia intervention services at the elementary compared to three students that were provided dyslexia intervention services uh at the high school. Summer projects going on flooring elementary got done today waxing the floor. They're moved everything to the high school. So we'll start doing that. Transportation uh nothing major. had one set of tires uh that will need to be added on the bus. Had
030a couple alignment issues. The awning project when we got all that rain, they're still waiting on materials. HVAC project, we're still waiting on the state, but we'll advertise for bids in probably the next two weeks and then we'll go from there taking bids. Probably we're looking at November when that project will be done HVAC wise. uh did get some information on our bond millage from Beersley today. They're going to take bids and open them July the 17th at 1:00. They'll be present or our July board meeting for you guys to sign off on everything. We will probably close that bond. We're looking at August the 14th and so a lot of things will be turning there. We did have uh a soil where engineer came out did a soil test at our parking lot just
031to make sure there's no structural anything there and where we're looking at the concession stand. So it's going to be a busy two to three years that parking lot projects we're probably looking at next summer but hopefully that HVAC when we start taking bids that we'll be seeing people doing some work right then. I know talking about HVAC, there was a lot of happy parents and grandparents and for the the cheer stuff over when they were doing the cheer and the little presentation there was because it was quite it had that had rained that day or day before and it would have been horrible in the gym over there. They were they were very thankful for there that we we've got. So, and then just a couple other things. We did have some teachers get
032recognized for merit incentive. Uh we received $11,000 to pass out to four teachers. Three of our teachers uh received $3,000 for overall growth score. That was Miss Davis and Miss Rudd. Miss Reynolds got $2,500 for teaching in a shortage area. They just opened up fifth and sixth grade shortage area. And then Miss Miller received another $2,500 for teaching in a shortage area. And even though they're in a shortage area, they still they've got to they look at their teacher evaluation scores by their principles and go from there. But congratulations to those four teachers on that. Coach Campbell is on vacation and so his principal report I've got it somewhere. Okay. He gave you a list of summer school. Uh, a lot of that was seat time, attendance. We had 16. I don't think we had
03316 that completed it. Uh, there was a list of PD stuff that they've got going on throughout June and July. And then Mr. Harford, Miss O'Shill did provide a training for other educators on June 12th on how to use one of our machines in the A department. And then we got sports going. football's been in a team camp and a 707 and boys and girls softballs. They've traveled about two or three times as well. So, we'll start our PD. We'll finalize that schedule at the end of this week and get with principles and June is over and July will be here before we know it. Miss Johnson, I have very little to report. Finally, I know, right? I haven't had anything going on over there except for when the floors are are done now. Um
034they're the last couple of wings that they did are just drying and everything. So, they're going to let me know Wednesday that that everything is good and the teachers can start coming in. Um as far as academics, everybody's going to PD. Um I did meet with them before the end of uh the semester so that their PD aligns with their goals for next year. Made sure that I met with every teacher and so um they're going to a lot of stuff. The only thing that we have required over the summer is our K3 test which has to do with Atlas. All K3 teachers are going to that and that's in July. And so hopefully that can give us some information because those were a nightmare last year. So I'm hoping that that that gets um
035gives us some more info. And the only other thing I have I kind of wanted to I've been talking about BX3 all year. So at master principal I gave this presentation. We had to do action research over this year. So I did um BX3. If you can go to that next slide, Chris. So these are our overall numbers for last year and then this past year. Um you can see how many obstacles we had. Um the top offenses, the top consequences and the top locations. So both years the classroom is where the vast majority almost half of the referrals are coming from um from the classroom. So you can go to the next one for me Chris. So pretty much just where my insurance came from is are we contacting the parents? Are we sharing
036those same definitions of behavior? Are we making sure we're actually talking to the parents, not just sending something home to be signed? And then what interventions are we already doing with our kids before they end up in my office? You can go down. Um, I can get y'all copies of this, but this is going to be in our handbook as well. So we have our matrix which is just be kind and respectful, act responsibly, give your best effort and show enthusiasm, majors and minors for what we're going to do for those behaviors, the definitions and then there were going to have a common um sheet that all teachers are going to use to record. Uh we're also going to be using Crittercoin as a to track rewards. And so this is going to be an
037online thing. They're going to be able to gain a coin. Um, everybody in the school is going to have access to this. So, um, they're going to be able to buy rewards. Some of those are going to be tangible, like we're going to do some school merch type of stuff. And then they love fidget toys and things like that. But then we're also going to look at some non-tangible things like being the first one in line to lunch. Um, office helper. The older kids love that. Um, hang out time with friends or getting to eat like in a special place for lunch, extra recess, things like that. um they're going to have to earn rewards or earn coins to go to a quarterly reward party. Um and so we're going to do those at the
038end of each nine weeks and then also earning a specific amount of coins to go on any kind of field trip, participate in field day, things like that. And so um like I said, every adult in the building is going to have access to that and every kid is going to have an account. So the people who are working in the lunchroom can give coins for a kid picking up somebody else's trash. Custodians can give coins. Everybody can. And so I'm really hoping that that'll really bring it all together. And then as far as going into the next year, we are still going to be um meeting with our coaches uh once a month like we did this year. Um you know, doing our progress monitoring, looking at our data and everything like that um
039to make sure that we don't need to make any changes. And then this will be an ongoing process. And they've told us it can take three to five years to truly see the effects of it. But um already we're excited about it. And so I think that it's going to be really good for the school. And I think consistency is the key, you know, everybody getting on board. And I'll say this about Miss Austin that she went through that master principal program. Not like you wasn't busy enough, you know. So anytime you want to better yourself, that's what it's about. So I appreciate you doing that. Good. I'm trying to get back to the agenda. Um, the next item on the agenda is personnel. So, we will go into executive session at 6:37. [Music] [Applause]
040[Music] [Applause] [Music] Hey, hey, hey. [Music] Hey, hey, hey. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Hey. Hey. Hey. [Music] Heat up here. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Oh, [Music] hey. Hey, hey, hey. [Music] Hey, [Music] hey, hey. [Music] Hey, hey, hey. [Music] Yeah, [Music] hey. [Music] Hey, [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] hey, hey. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] down. Hey Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. N. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] No action taken at 659. Nine. We have several motions that need to be made for hiring. Um, go through them one at a time. I need a motion to hire Miss Mary Fran Brogden as a third grade teacher for the 2526 school year. Motion second. Have a motion and a second. All those in favor?
041I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Next is Miss Rachel Caps for an art teacher uh for the 2526 school year. Motion second. Motion and a second. All those in favor? I. Any opposed? Uh the next one, Michael Ward for elementary music, choir, and assistant band for the 2526 school year. Motion. Motion. Second. Second. All those in favor? I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Next is a Miss Lisa Tennyson for high school special ed for the 2526 school year. Motion and a second. All those in favor? Uh, any opposed? Next, uh, Miss Sydney Hopkins for a pair professional for the 2526 school year. Motion second. I have a motion and a second. All those in favor? Any opposed? Motion carries. Uh, Miss Melanie Kaine for prepare professional for the 2526 school year. Motion. Have a motion and a
042second. All those in favor? Any opposed? Are you Do I need to slow down? Are you good? Okay. Uh, next is Miss Shirley Clark for a full-time food service worker for the 2526 school year. Motion. Second. Have a motion and a second. All those in favor? Any opposed? And last but not least, Miss Kaylee Krill for part-time food service worker for the 2526 school year. Motion. Second. Motion and a second. All those in favor? I. Any opposed? Um, and Can we just do the bus as presented? Like or do I name just say one motion? Okay. I need a motion to hire the bus driver rehire list for the 2526 school year. It be Mr. John Ball, Mr. Glenn Campbell, Miss Doris Clark, Mr. Coach Gared Hart, Coach Tyler Houston, Max Long, Ronnie Masselli, Chris
043Snder, Scott Wayer, and Frell Wiggins. Motion. Second. Have a motion and a second. All those in favor? I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Is there any other business before the board? Then we will adjourn by unanimous consent at