001[Music] Heat. [Music] Where are you? [Music] Oh, hey. [Music] Hey, hey, [Music] hey. Hey, hey, [Music] hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. [Music] Hey, hey, hey. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] that didn't make it. Uh, real quick, I know everybody in here, but just formally introduce myself. Scott Wayer. This is year three for me. I'd like to recognize our board members. I've got Alan Holmes, president, Miss Janet Rudd, vice president, Miss Nikki Shaker, secretary, and I got Mr. Brian Allen, and Mr. Kayla Thomas is our board of directors. And we appreciate what they do and volunteer their time. And you never have headaches when you're in education. So, we we appreciate that. And we've got Mr. Snder, our IT, and we got Miss Johnston, elementary principal, and
002Mr. Campbell, high school principal. But first, thank you for coming out. Uh like I said, this is a big thing for us and and this is the whole purpose of this meeting is just to provide information of what's going to be on the ballot come May 13th. And so the purpose of this is to answer why millage increase, what will the millillage fund, how how we got here asking for a millillage, where do we rank, and that's in terms of other districts throughout the state, and when will the voting be placed? So, why a millage increase? Okay, number one, and I'm going to go through a lot of these things in detail later, but number one, an aging and outdated HVAC system. And this is primarily in our elementary. I've been here three years, and
003right now, we've got one unit down right now, and we're trying to hold on before we do anything to spend that 12 to$15,000 to replace it. agent infrastructure concerns, safety improvements, structural and mechanical integrity concerns, and we want to provide the best learning envir environment for our students. So, what exactly will the millage fund replacement of the HVAC system at the elementary school? Also, if you have been to our high school, you know, we've got a safety vestible at our high school that we're able to keep people from going to the main building. We don't have that at the elementary this day and age. Safety is a big concern for everybody. So, we would create a safety festival at our elementary school. Parking lot improvements to both campuses. And I'll show you pictures of our
004parking lots. I've only been here three years and you've been here a lot longer than me, but I can tell you it's been a long time since we've done some work on our parking lots. uh ticket booth and restroom improvements at Joe Hartfield, resurface track at Joe Hartfield, and other infrastructures needs due to aging uh facilities. Current conditions, these are some pictures of our HVAC equipment at the elementary school. Here is a parking lot at our elementary school, so you can kind of just see what we've got. If you drive by, I know you've noticed it. parking lot at our high school. You got your uh you got your south parking and over to your right you've got our student parking football parking lot and track and see our track which our parking lot is
005just gravel makes it tough for those that are either in a walker or a wheelchair. This is restrooms at Joe Hartfield. I will say this, year one here, we did do some remodeling to it to try to make it as best as we possibly could. Ticket booth and sidewalks at Joe Hartfield. We've all walked on that sidewalk. We know how it can trip some people up and cracks that are forming. And here you'll see our south and north doors at our high school. Our high school is 30 years old. I asked somebody how old was the old high school and it was 50 when it was replaced. So, we're getting close. We're at 30 years now. But you can kind of see what water has done, the damage and and that structure to those frames
006go up to the second level. So, it's a matter of time to that we need to take care of it and not put a bandaid on it. So, how did we get here? Follow four, we received notification from the state of Arkansas in approval of facilities academic part partnership agreement to assist in funding the HVAC project for the elementary school. That was done prior to my arrival and we had been approved before but we never received funding. This year we received funding. The state is going to give us $688,294.73. The estimated cost of that project is 1.2 million. So that roughly the district is in charge of just a little over a half a million dollar. If we don't move forward with that HVAC project, then we lose that $688,000. Uh February the 20th of
007this year, our school board motioned to approve the application to permit to issue bonds a construction bond from Arkansas Department of Ed for $5.9 million. Our fis fiscal agent was first security beerly. Uh the district proposes to finance this bond with adult service meals. Our current millage is at 357 to an even 40, an increase of 4.3 mills. Where do we rank when we talk about millage rates uh with schools across the state of Arkansas? The average millage rate is 39.19 mills. Our current millage is 35.7, which ranks in the bottom of 15% of all districts in Arkansas. I believe and like I said a lot of you have been here longer than me but I think the last time a millage increase in McCory was in 93 I believe uh so we proposed a
008millage increase of 40 which is an increase of 4.3 mills you've got a handout so I won't go over this but working with Beerusly they just a tax table for the proposed 40 meals because as a taxpayer you want to know what's it going to cost me and so you've got the 20% assessed value of your home, your current meals per year, the proposed, and it shows the difference per year, the difference per month. So, someone with a $200,000 home, that's a difference in a year of $172 or $14.33 a month. And I won't go over those. If there's questions about it later, I'll be glad to answer any questions that I can. When will the voting take place? you know, take place. Graduation, that's a big night in McCory. Got graduation and we got
009a vote on a millillage. Uh, graduation is going to start at 7. Polls will be open at McCroy Civic Center from 7 to 7. And like I said, this is a big thing for our kids. And if you have questions, if you don't feel like asking questions now, or if you ask a question and I don't have the answer, uh, I'll be glad to find an answer and go from there. But that's my information. Any questions, concerns, thoughts? Uh, have you got any uh strategy for getting this information out to the public? Yes, sir. We'll put this on our social media today. The slides that we did right there. So, we'll push that social media. Was hoping to have a bigger turnout today because I know Chris does a great job sending that information and
010that's kind of how we relate to people through our deal. So we will push this out first thing tomorrow and so we'll have those slides on there and that way people but if people ask you say I went to a millillage and hey if there's a question you you feel free to reach out to me or any five of our board members also send it on or put it in the newspaper for the people who don't social media how often is the newspaper it is a weekly newspaper it's online yeah I was going to say I thought I was the only one that didn't do it. Because uh if anything else is going to be voted on that thing, right? Uh no sir, we do have one board member running, but he's unopposed. Be hard
011to get hard to get people to the city center. do a good job push push. I know it for me that day. He might look the other way. I've seen it done before. Yes, ma'am. One of the best strategies I see is stressing the fact that, you know, it will only cost you, if you have a $100,000 house, that's only going to cost $7 a month to make sure our school is air conditioned. Exactly. Exactly. Air conditioned. And our sidewalks are the visitors at the football. The Yes. I mean that that's a long football game we talked about. Yeah, that that's a longterm plan and we've looked and I actually looked at a guy to come check it out doing some renovation to them and he said he would touch them. He said the only
012way that he would renovate them was to replace if you replace make sure that there on both sides. Well, that's all I've got. And we're going to have board meeting that sits. Are they not doing early voting? No, I know they said they were forested. They were I can say in a little paper that they were doing early voting for their candidate at the courthouse. Check into that. I can reach out to John because I know he's on that commission, but from my understanding since it's a military, that's why we had to have it at the court and not It may be but I will double check social media. She'll push everybody. Yeah. Be nice if we're that site to Joe Harfield. Come on in. Do you know who do you get a hold of
013for the paper anymore? I didn't know if she would still do that on Monday. She needs it on Monday. We'll do that tomorrow. If you would send it to me. But anyway, well, thanks again for y'all coming in. And you're more than welcome to say if you want to say [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Hey, hey, hey. [Music] All right, we're going to call the regular uh April meeting to order at I got 558. Um, first thing on the agenda is approve the minutes from the special meeting on April the 10th and the meeting on March the 17th. If everybody's had a chance to look over those, do they see anything that's not correct or needs to be corrected? Do we have we
014ordered? Uh, we're going live so we don't have Okay. Okay. Just making sure since Karen's not here to keep us straight. If nothing needs to be corrected, can I get a motion to accept the minutes? Motion. Second. Got a motion and a second. All those in favor? I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Moving on to financials. Mr. Waymire, you're okay. First part, board report, you see that all funds one through eight. Uh we ended with a little over 1.3, which was down from last year. Big difference was the building fund balance. That's why I always give you the legal balance to take away activity food service uh those funds. But uh when we look at our legal balance of one two and four, we ended March with a balance of $988,277 and some change. Compared that
015to $897,000 last year and looking back from even back all the way to 21, our legal balance was $578,000. So we're going in the right direction there. year-to-year comparison. Uh, expenditures were pretty close to where they were last year, just a little under at $431,578. Revenue was down this year compared to last year by about $44,000 uh with it being $265,566 compared to right under $310,000. Any questions over board report expenditure revenue or and then check registry if you had any questions about any checks out there. There's no questions. Can I get a motion to approve the financials? Motion second. I have a motion and a second. All those in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Okay. The next uh action items will be our improvement plans for the elementary school, our high
016school literacy, math, and science. I will I will turn this over to Miss Johnston to talk about the elementary school improvement plan. So, I met with Miss Davis and Miss Harper and we went over what our future plans have been last year and then decided it really needed a really um especially because last year still based on NWDA testing and things and so um got three different goals. The first one is to increase the number of students who meet the projected growth score in one or more areas on the Atlas 7 test. We did this because our new letter grade rating is going to be based a lot on growth. There is a category for achievement, but the vast majority of it is going to be based on that growth. So whether or not even
017if they score level one or two, did they grow how they were supposed to in that year. And so y'all can see we've got just some different things that we're going to be doing and looking at. And um some of this uh I will be doing over the summer to plan and get ready for us for next year. So this will be an all year long goal with progress monitoring um throughout the year. Can you scroll down? Thank you so much. I just can't remember. Um no, it's fine. Goal two is develop a schoolwide system for administering and monitoring RTI. So our intervention um is going to change a little bit. At least that's my vision for it. I've I've talked to some other schools and gotten some some good ideas that I'm going to
018work on over the summer to make that better. Um the goal would be that the better our RTI gets, the more our kids are going to grow. And so goal one and two really go together for that. And again, that's an all year goal of progress monitoring throughout. And then goal three is going to be to implement and monitor the effectiveness of our school new schoolwide behavior system, which is BX3, which is what we've been planning and preparing for this year. That will be implemented in August. Um and again, all throughout the year, um checking in with the teachers and and seeing how that's going. um making tweaks along the way as we need to and that is all. Okay. When I have a question about the growth yes so is that like throughout the
019[Music] year a certain time or No, it'll be based on the summit of exam and so we take the we take a fall interim and a winter interim and so we'll be able to see have they grown from there but it the final growth will be based on their their in their summitive we take at the end of the year. Okay. So ours is divided our letter grade for elementary is divided into three different categories um each worth 300 points. Two of those categories are based on growth. So 600 of our non-inter points are going to come from growth. All right. For high school, the ones up there are kind of like Miss Johnson mentioned, the old ones. So we revamped some of those. Those were based on when we used to do the interim
020and take the NWA test back then. We wanted all kids to be at least 70%. Um, but as far as Atlas interims, um, our new improvement goals, overall goal is to increase the number of students and their overall growth scores. Now, like Miss Johnston said, this would be over the atlas. We take the interims, get our summitive. So hopefully um, you know, there's ways we can improve every student. All teachers will use Jag Time RTI to work on specific goals for each student. Um teachers will discuss how to accomplish this during their PLC meetings, which they do meet every Wednesday morning. Um and then we've got some throughout the summer as well, and we have more uh coming this summer, even more than we had last summer because we've got to be able to reach
021our growth. Uh principal will ensure these meetings are taking place. We'll encourage students to improve and implement rewards for students meeting these goals. Um I don't know if we have a reward system at high school for kids meeting their growth. Now we have an A&B reward where I think it's actually happening this Friday where they get ice cream and then seventh and ethi gym play games and we did that last year. But as far as having an incentive for the summitative test, I've got to figure out a way to get the kids to do the best they can on the test. Now, I I hope that's happening this week. We're doing the best we can. Uh but some of our kids, I don't know if they get in there and they, oh, I get tired
022of reading all that. So, I'm just going to park this. Hopefully, we can find a way to get them to do the best they can. Il Atlas resources is what we use for practice at RTI time. Uh and we will revisit the plan at semester and make changes after Christmas next year to where we see we need to change um implement teacher effectiveness in the classroom. We do have some professional developments this summer to help us with teacher effectiveness in the classroom and classroom management. I believe some of that is some of our problems. Are the kids staying focused the entire time? Are the teachers staying focused the entire time? So throughout PD and meeting this summer, hopefully we can make that more effective for the students. Principal will monitor educator handbook to monitor classroom
023behavior and writeups. We'll implement a system for parent and principal contact to ensure that the students needs are being met. I don't know all the time if someone in Miss Janet's class is acting up this week. Is Miss Janet reaching out to the parent? Um I can't say that happens in all of our classrooms, but I'm going to try to instill that in all of our teachers this summer. Sometimes I believe the kids will focus more if we are contacting at home because we all know parent teacher conference. All the parents that need to be there are not there, right? So, do we ever contact them throughout the year? I would say we probably don't. So, I believe that will help us encourage students to be prompt in class and be successful in all classroom
024activities. You know, all students, we know uh Kelly Shaker's going to come in class and get her stuff taken care of, but we want all students to be that way. revisit that plan as well at semester and see where we are on that. Are we meeting the needs of the students? Are we contacting the parents? Are we letting the parents know that their child is struggling? Um and then jack time RTI, we've got to make that better. It is good, but it's got to be better. We're going to have We've been talking to Miss Patty Stevens who is a consultant that's coming in and she's helped me observe some room. She's came she's got some strategies to get her test scores up. She's actually coming again tomorrow and Miss Height's going to be there. We're
025going to talk to Miss Engle and try to get her there if she can and get some teaching strategies to help us in our ELA. Those are our lowest scores. We've got to get those up. She's been through the system as a teacher. She's been an ELA specialist. Um she's even been a superintendent. Hopefully some teaching strategies, curriculum um needs that we have. She can help us to get us in the right direction. Then this summer when the teachers meet, we've got those strategies. We can actually do those strategies during PD um to where teachers can implement that in all of our classrooms. Um and also jack time idea. I had our jack time is after sixth period. So let's say 130. All right. So we take our test scores this year. We got our
026kids group during Jack time. Hey, this group's going to Miss Janet. This group's going to Miss Nikki. This group's going to Caleb. And we're doing English math. Doing all that. Well, that happens at 1:30 or the teach if if our RTI has got to be that's got to be our group. That's the time. Hey, this is 25 minutes. This kid needs this. 1:30 in the afternoon, teachers and kids, are we fired up to go back over this again and again? Because I know if I was an athlete and most of our kids go to athletics after Jack, I'm in there 25 minutes supposed to be doing this. I can't wait to get over there. Well, I know as a teacher 1:30 in the afternoon, I've been doing this class and this class and this I've
027been six classes today. Am I going to give the group I have in my room what I need to or do I just wait to that bell ring? So I have a thought of moving it in the morning. Haven't figured that out yet because we got our seniors to deal with because we're doing afternoon our seniors and they're gone. So I told coach today and I want to take the scheduling for next year. see how many seniors are still here like say after third period because I hate to do it after fourth and then go to lunch because I hate to go to lunch. I don't want to listen. So I'm going to try to find a best time after second or third and then if you can get everybody as focused and ready to
028go in the morning rather than late afternoon. Hopefully our RTI what they're missing they get. So that I think is my biggest go with Jack. It's got to be where everybody's paying attention. So hopefully I can get adult and child. Okay. Was it this year that you changed like the like doing something like for two weeks? Went two weeks and still won. Okay. Can you tell that that a little bit? I think doing the same thing for two weeks and then I know in math they've got to meet this goal before they can ever move to this goal or this next project or problem unit I'm working on. So I think Mr. Underwood seems to say that's it. He's got some kids that improve their growth scores. So he's actually giving them a reward Thursday.
029Um but I know it's hard. I know as coaching when I coached, I know coach has been there, too. If we're running this play, well, I've got 11 that have to know. They got to know. Well, 22 need to know it because if somebody's out, somebody comes in, they got to know it. So, I try to get that in my head to try to explain it to the teachers this summer. So, they're probably gonna think I'm coaching during P big day this summer. But hopefully we can all get on the same page and just make our growth scores. I know when I coach growth scores, school letter never entered my life ever. It just didn't. Well, now that I'm in this, I see that is winning the ball game from coach. So, school scores improving,
030school letter grade improving. That's when it was hard a whole different perspective, right? And I realized that Jack for some reason I thought it was in the morning. Maybe I'm thinking of second breakfast. Yeah, it used to be. Well, and we will do like a a break. Everybody gets free breakfast this coming year. So, will that be done before school starts or after school starts? It'll be done before. Okay. But time used to be in the morning. No, ma'am. Second chance practice. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Okay. It's after 6 period, which is 124 some days, 130 some days, but it's nice. We're still looking into it and then everybody disperses the majority go to athletics after because you got boys and girls soon. So anyways, just a thought was one way I thought might improve attention
031spans. Sorry, I was on No, you're fine. Well, I was on something that's coming up. We need to do those before we go on. Can we do those all as one? just the elementary and high school improvement plans for the Okay, I need a 526 school year motion to to accept the uh McCory High School and elementary school improvement plans as presented by both principles for the 2526 school year. Motion second. Have a motion and a second. All those in favor? Any opposed? Motion carries. Okay. Our next action item and this is just an addendum to continue using ESS as our subprovider for the 2526 school year. So I make a re recommendation to extend that agreement between ESS Midwest for the 2526 school year. Looks like it's going up, but I have it. Yeah,
032it's going up. Okay. Do I hear a motion to accept that extension? Second. Have a motion and a second. All those in favor? I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Okay. And the next thing, we've already voted on this and it's with KN&S uh consulting about our rate and we just didn't get your signature. So, I'm I'm just providing that. And then going to my report. First thing, I think everybody should have received their audit for the 23 24 school year. You should receive it by mail. Did y'all get it? Yes. Okay. So, any questions about that? Always the good news when there's no finding. That's always a blessing. So, just wanted to kind of make sure if there was any questions or concerns about that. And then Miss Johnson touched on the Arkansas's new accountability system
033and they provided a PowerPoint. If you'll go to page six, I won't spend a lot of time on this because I shared this with you and just I'm a visual person and so you can kind of see elementary, this is she talks about that 900 points, the nine total measures and so that's the achievement the students that are achieving in level three or four on state assessment. And we'll and I can go over those percentages here in a little bit. And those subjects being tested, ELA, math, science, and then growth of all students that we have. And that's meet the growth target in ELA, uh, math, science, and then the growth of our lowest 25%. Those are what determine our our letter grade. And I'll go over that a little bit. High school, they same
034thing. achievement growth of all students growth of the lowest 25% but then they add of course the graduation rate and then merit in distinction and I know that coach has worked with Lesie about that about having completers in our project those that have completed uh three or more AP classes and so just wanted to share that with you and then if we would go ahead and that should we go to the next one our Atlas scores. Okay, so DESIE rel released these. This is for 2324 and they're called the simulated school performance ratings and letter grades. Okay, Arkansas will institute a hold harmless for 2324. What that means is if your letter grade was lower than it was the previous year is so basically DESI is not pushing out letter grades like they did right
035now. Okay, so this is a baseline and just talking to people in the state department, there were some schools that their achievement was maybe better, but they didn't have they had high achievement but low growth. So some of them lost their letter grade and so I think they're tweaking where the growth scores won't be as much. But anyway, so this is called hold harmless. But I do want to recognize, you know, our elementary uh based on the letter grade did uh go from a C to a B. And our let's when we look at our average points out of that 900 was 471 75. The state median average was 415.84. uh we showed achievement. We showed growth in all subject areas except science. Overall growth, we showed achievement and growth in everything except science. And
036then we've also did the same thing with our lowest 25% except science. So, what we're doing now, I know Miss Johnston is working with our teachers and we're looking at a science curriculum that, you know, our teachers are excited about, our kids are excited about. Uh, but overall, great job for our elementary to move up. Uh, when we look at our high school, and I know that coach is working with his teachers and Miss Stevens to, you know, change the direction where we're heading. If you look at the state median average is 429.64. 64 points. We're under that at 410.77. And so we did have a C average. We stayed the same. But when we look at achievement, when we look at achievement at ELA, we're below average. Math we're above. In science, we're above.
037When we look at overall growth, ELA, we're below state average. Uh in math, we're above and science we're below. in the growth of the 25% ELA we're below uh math we are below and then in science we're below so there's a lot of work to be done and again this is you know DESI's not pushing this out where we used to get my school info and do those things uh because I think there's going to be some changes coming up now we did receive word that we should get we're taking high school right now uh elementary will be next week We're being told by the state department we should have scores by August. So that will be great. That will be great. Uh next thing Chris scores from last year. Oh this year this year
038really in August. So so that will be good. All right. So this I wanted to share this with you. This is what uh we talk about merit pay and we talk about teachers that have BAM scores which is VA value added measurement. And so I blacked out our teachers names, but a teacher growth score of 80, that means, hey, your kids are on path. If it's below 80, okay, then students are not growing as much as expected. And if you're over 80, your students are exceeding growth. So when we look at that first section, you know, you you can kind of see where we're at. And this is is this science that you clicked on? Yeah, it's science. So I put and the the great thing about this is this tracks teachers even new teachers
039that we come if they have a VAM score I'm able to see that. So you can kind of see our 24 if our science scores right there. Uh you can see a growth right there. And let's say is this high school? We're in high school we think no that row is the primary teacher. If you see a secondary teacher, if a kid is linked to his sped teacher, they will be listed in there as well. Go ahead and go to ELA. I I can tell. Okay. Yeah. So, there's a secondary teacher there. And so, there is some of our 24 gross scores in ELA. You can see a lot of them over 80. And then it takes a three-year average score. Go ahead to math. And I and I really want to brag on this.
040If you will look at our 23 math scores, we're at a 7849. That is a tremendous jump right there at 88.06. And so that is a great job of growth score. And and that was a lot of growth in our third grade. And so I just I know we talk about FAM scores and we talk about teacher merit pay and I know our teachers are going to talk about artifacts because they're opening merit pay not just to these core teachers but those that can demonstrate growth by the use of artifacts with their test system. And so I will let the principles touch that. Any questions about our VAM scores with our teachers? So 80 and above is what you Yeah. 80 80 you're you're on track and if you're you're above 80 close Yeah. If
041you're above 80, great. If if you're under 80, your students are not growing of of what the expectations are. Okay. Discipline report. I won't go in a lot of this, but I wanted to share discipline with you of the total amount of reports. And you can kind of see that the office referrals at the high school quite a bit more than elementary. But the one good thing about elementary compared to high school, those kids are usually walk to class and they don't have cell phones. And so about 37% of the high schools are tardies and then 11% are cell phones. And so that's and I they're going to do a discipline report for you, but I wanted to go over all those that is in educator handbook. Okay. Next thing, Chris, our novice teacher information.
042And this is something that the state is big on. Now, there is some legislation to change some things because we've got a lot of people going to our PEL program. They haven't set policy on this yet, but these are our new teachers. And our co-op does a tremendous job. They have a novice teacher program where she's checking and you can kind of see this is what the co-op sends us. Okay. And these are the since I've been here, these are the three years and you can tell that they're tier one, two, or three. So they don't get out of the novice program until after tier three. And so I think that's a great thing to help our young program because not only do they have a mentor teacher in our district or the principal to
043help them. I know that coach Campbell's had some young teachers that have had classroom management trouble and he's reached out to the co-op and they said, "Hey, we've got this resource available." And so they've taken some school business days to do some PD to kind of offset any weaknesses that they may have. Okay. The next thing I wanted to go over legislative updates and you don't have a link for that. I there was 146 bills passed and I'm still reading all all those so I'm not gonna but there are some things that I think are important for for y'all to look over by next month and the first one is going to be House Bill 1724 and I you take this with you but there's one that I think that we need to act on
044the at the next board meeting and I won't go over this in a in a whole lot but this is basically changed change the way school board members are elected. Okay. So, right now we got a three-year term and everybody is every year. Now, uh Caleb, this will be the last one for an odd year. So, Caleb will go and then you guys will select whether you want to do a four or sixyear term. So, in 2026, I think Miss Janet's up in and then whoever's up in 2027, they will both be up. So basically in a six-year period it would be every two years there would be two two and one and it'll kind of switch but just look over that but I think we need to act on it at the next board
045meeting. This this will go in effect for starting in July 1. vote just to get vote and then we'll need to let the county know that we're doing a four-year or a six-year term and y'all can have discussion on that or if you got questions and I've reached out to see what some other districts are doing and I'll try to get a report to see what other people are doing and just kind of let y'all go. But I thought that's something that y'all needed to just look over and become familiar with. The other thing is a little bit of change and I know that uh Mr. Schneider and Miss Karen they've worked on this a little bit. There's some changes about what we do electronically which not a lot of schools do what we do
046when we live stream. So that covers the basis for a lot of things but there's some changes about hey when are the minutes got to be put within 24 hours when does the agenda got to be put for those things. So, those are some new things that doesn't really affect you a great deal, but I wanted you to be aware of it. And then the last thing is public comment. We've been really good about when a parent has called me and they called me two days in advance and they they want to speak to you about a certain issue, I tell them, hey, way our policy reads, I got to have it in writing five days. But we usually work with them because we want to listen to our parents and our patrons. Uh now,
047uh and this is not an emergency call, but this will go effect July 1, that the public will be entitled to speak for three minutes. Uh and so, you know, now there's restrictions just like it is in our policy now is that you can't talk about kids and you can't talk about personnel. But, you know, sometimes when somebody's upset, it's usually kids or personnel. So, I mean, it's it's it's a touchy thing when you live stream because the last thing that we want is one uh accusations be said about a staff member or a kid's names brought up. So, those are some things to think about when you live stream because when you got to open mic, you got to open mic. And so, it'll be a Yeah, you do. And that's kind of what
048I've got for you. I will give you a rundown because we will have to make policy changes on a lot of the legislative changes that are taking place. Uh ASBA has not set out policy on a lot of different things, but there's a lot. It's 146 and I'm still reading them, you know. I mean, and there's some major ones. The big ones, of course, is the no cell phone u you know, free breakfast for kids. The state has did maternity. It used to be up to the district. Now it is the state will pay for the sub. We would still pay that teacher on maternity to leave her salary, but the state would pay for that sub. So we wouldn't lose that cost factor. So there's a lot of changes as I was talking to
049him about the ten commandments and Lord's prayer, those things being in classroom. So there is there's a tons of changes. Uh and I will give you kind of a cheat sheet of probably looking at May, June. It'll probably be June because it'll affect some of our policy changes. You know, on that reading on that one, it seems like every state that's tried it before this one, there's a federal lawsuit and it gets blocked and it's a long-term deal because it's Well, I was reading over that one just because I mean, you know, anytime and I didn't tell our enrollment. Our enrollment's at 545, which is down. Uh we're we're probably funding wise we're going to be down seven kids compared to last year. So, of course, funding is always an option. So, when you start
050talking about how you need to frame this and frame that in every classroom, and it's got to be this specific size. When I initially saw the bill, I thought it you couldn't use state dollars to do it. It had to be donations. But the more I read into it, I think they took that clause out. So, you know, those things are expensive because we've got a lot of classrooms in a in a school building. It it it says every classroom. and every building on Facebook, you know, post every day what they, you know, approved and I mean it's it's it's every day something I mean and you listen you watch some of those legislative committees meet and stuff and I met him and his wife And they're both recur. Yeah. All right. I'll turn it
051over to Miss Johnston. She brought notes. I just have it right in front of me. Um All right. So enrollment um we've got 20 and prek roughly 314. I think I I put this before I lost three students week and a half ago or so. So that maybe fluctuated three past events we had pastries with parents which was really great. Feel like it went really smoothly. Everybody got through line as far as I know. We have a lot of places to sit. So that was really great. Um that was a good a good time. Had cap and gown pictures for prek K and sixth grade. We also atlas training um getting ready for this this upcoming Atlas test. Actually, K2 started today with ELA and then tomorrow they will do math. And so, aside from
052it just being a long test for especially our kindergarteners. Um, things went went pretty smoothly and Lauren's doing a great job making sure that that's running great. So, uh, prox report grades are coming up um for the five and a half weeks prox report. So, we will get those sent home hopefully Friday or Monday. And then next week 36 we'll do Atlas Summitive uh Monday through Thursday. So, they'll do one test today. Um, as far as academics, we are moving our 504s over to C's, which is going to be an online program. It's going to it's the same one that they use for the IEPs and everything. She's going to take be a lot more organized and help streamline that process, make sure that we meet all our deadlines on that. Um, Summitive is coming
053up. This Baker has gotten together some incentives and rewards uh for kids who show up every day on time for testing, kids who try their best, who are working, who we don't have to wake up or anything like that. And so she's got I think two $50 gift cards. I think like Visa gift cards that she had donated. And so um every kid who shows up on time every day for testing, their name will go into that and then we'll draw from that. And then of course like teachers will give extra recess and different things like that for the kids who are who are doing good and trying. Um and then I did not put this on there, but we did have prek kindergarten registration. I think we ended the day with 40 something uh
054kindergarteners coming to register and they we also tested at the same time. So we kind of changed that this year. Instead of them having to schedule a time to come back for their kid to be tested, they just brought them with them. We got all the paperwork done um and got them tested right then. And so I was really happy with that that turnout. So that was good. Um and then discipline. So that's my discipline for March 14th through April 14th, which keep in mind a week of that is um spring break. So, top consequences, ISS was assigned 10 times, OSS five times, legitention three times. Top offenses, disrespect, defiance, and aggression. Um, for the school year, I've had 208 referrals. Um, and 61% of those have resulted in ISS or OSS. Um, and then
055slightly lower or probably about 30% for lunch attention. And then other than that, loss of consequences such as in-class free time or, you know, rewards and things like that or a parent um student conference, parent teacher conference, things like that. Um and again, the top the top offenses have been disrespect, defiance, uh physical aggression. Our biggest day is Wednesday, which holds true from last year. Last year it was Wednesday and this year it's also Wednesday that I get the most um write ups. But hoping BX3 helps with with some of this stuff. This was the first year for Atlas. Was it last year? Yes, we did like a pilot program last year, but this is the first time that they're doing it officially. And so I know that they they did the practice tests and
056everything, but it's a lot for the little kids. I know just talking to some of the teachers um them having to remember how to scroll and to see the whole story and then like knowing which part's going to get read to them and which part is not was a little bit tricky. But um all the teachers said that their kids tried really really hard and so but testing for two hours for a kindergartener is it's a lot. So but they they were they were wild after that. They they got some some extra time outside after they got done. But um I think I hope it'll it'll go good. But I I know the teachers and the kids tried their their very best. They got two days of Yeah. behind them. So they just got one
057more. They just have they did the ELA today to do math tomorrow. So they don't test science. Oh, okay. Okay. Yeah. High school enrollment was at 2:34. Croy High School prom was held April 12th. Testing is going on this week. Atlas. We have science tomorrow and I believe writing on Thursday. We have makeup test on Friday. Uh AP test will begin next week. AP biology is May the 5th. US government May 6th. AP Lit May 7th. Uh US history May the 9th. AP Cal May 12th. Seniors last day was April 25th. Um they doing their semester test your name today. Backular is May the 11th and graduation on the 13th. Sports-wise, baseball and softball are finishing up. Regionals will start May the 8th. That's on the Thursday. Uh FFA has state competition April 2nd through
058the 5th. Asher Kohl's, Parker Reeves, Jonathan West nominated for state farmer degree and finalist for star farmer award. and Campbell Lowry will perform talent during the fourth session. Sam Henderson was chosen to serve on the audit committee. And did they mention Kayla last week for her award she got scholarship the last week? Congratulations to Kayla scholarship. That's not on there. By the way, Toby Nichols with the ACC came to spoke with our sophomores and juniors. Color run will be May the 3. That's this Saturday at 9:00 a.m. at Elizabeth Swanson Sports Complex. That's hosted by the McCroy District Wellness Committee in our care. And I think Miss Sean the Qualom is heading that up. Uh graduations May the 13th. Discipline wise March and April. In school suspension, seven students uh vaping phone, excessive tardies. Uh
059out of school suspension, there was two. One inappropriate language with a substitute. Another one made a Tik Tok video which resulted in cyber bullying. Uh the other ones Dehall Tardies Defiance. Um, and this is kind of previously uh throughout the year we've had 102 office referrals just for tardies. 8th grade makes up 52 of those. Um, and out of all the office referrals, eighth grade's 45%, seventh grade was 15%. So, planning another professional development um this summer to go along with classroom management. When the kids are tardy, then we contact the parents. Why are the kids tarding? You know, I treat that being late for practice. If I'm late for practice, I'm in trouble. If I'm late for class, do I get in trouble? So, and tardies have really shrunk since last nine weeks. So,
060hopefully we're headed in the right direction u as far as kids being targeted. But that's the bulk of our office referrals is target. Now, we get a few phones, few bays, we get defiance. Um, I get the defiance, I get the referral, but has the teacher contacted the parent? So, all of those things I'm hoping to change PD this summer and meeting the teachers and getting a plan if someone's tardy, you know, yes, they need dehaw, but the parent needs to know if they're tardy all the time rather than just what I call said, I had to have dehaw tomorrow for being tardy. Well, I didn't know. Okay, this is the third time. So hopefully we can get those limited and out of our way. I hope committee has been meeting on Wednesday mornings. I
061think we have our last one tomorrow. Hopefully we get through it. Just some particular items that always seem to reach the top. U tardies, excessive office referrals. If the same student keeps getting turned in, we've got to do something, you know, parent wise, student wise. We don't want them to come to the office all the time. Cell phones, like coach mentioned, that's going to be the the deal for next year. What are we going to do? We got to figure out what are we going to do with the phone. It is against the law. Now, uh vaping, we're putting vaping in the handbook in its own separate category. Last year, I think it was in the levels. If you do it this time, you get this. You do it this time, you get this. Was
062it stripped enough? But now vaping has it has shrunk. And every time I say that tomorrow it has shrunk. So hopefully it is a fad that's moving away from young kids. I hope um and dress code. So you know the big deal with dress code now is the boys shorts. If you see boys in shorts now, they all want to wear the weightl lookinging shorts. You know, they sell them now. What are they five inches? I think used to have more shorts than past my knees. Um, so that's what the boys like. They That's the shorts they sell now. Um, I think the girl issue is probably wearing the tights. I call them living and somebody told me the other day they're called tights. So, okay. Anyway, tights. And then you know the girls I
063think in the handbook it says they have to have their rear covered or down to their fingertips. Well I know today nobody's buying oversized t-shirts to wear over tights. And then just like the boys the boys buy shorts. The shorts now they sell or I call them workout shorts. Boys wear them to show I guess the muscles in their legs or what have you. But so we're trying to get the handbook to where we can make that not an issue. So hopefully I think I mentioned five inches. I think in our handbook now it's three inches above the knee and most of the boys five inches would take care of that. Girls don't wear shorts anymore. They wear tights. They girls just don't wear shorts anymore. Boys wear shorts. So hopefully I can get that
064to where we don't have an issue. We had our class officer who's who class favorite pictures last week or a couple weeks ago. Um FFA did have their stake some awards. First place Asher Kohl's for uh gold diversified crops. Sam Henderson got first place for fruit and nut production. Will Russian first place for gold fiber and oil crops. Uh Jonathan West second place in agriculture mechanics and repair maintenance. Brown Dwit second place for small animal production and care. Carson Hanken second place agricultural services. Pearson People second place for fiber fiber and oil crops and all first place winners will receive a plaque and $250 award um that is for two national for consideration for national award that will be awarded at the convention in October and their juniors are doing their CPR certification this week
065as well. So they'll have that out of the way for graduation next year. and Will Russian signed with Crowder College for baseball on April 21st. Thank give you a little facility update and I left this off. You know, we had that damage from the rain, the awning, and the wind. And I sent those pictures to you. Uh with the company that did that installed, Blake reached out. They're no longer there. So, he got another company to give a quote. It's right at $9,000. And while we was here, which it's been this way since I've been here, the maintenance shop that they kind of pieced together with the tin and stuff to make that look presentable was 28,000. Yeah. So, which our deductible on that awning is 10,000, but I what I told Blake to tell
066the guy, we're going to do it. We're just going to get school finished with right now. It's not a it's not a safety issue for the kids or anything right now, but you know, it is what it is. Actually working on it while kids were there probably. Oh, yeah. Yeah. No doubt. No doubt about it. And then I don't know if you had a chance to look that uh Mr. Wiggins has taken care of that house that we purchased. And he was actually out there today and he brought in loads of sand. He's leveling it out. So So that's been good. But anyway, so what about the something? We're still waiting to try to do something on his insurance. I did get a quote, you know, because I wanted to just what it was going
067to be and it was I want to say 21,000, you know. So, we still got our deductible, but you know, again, I think his insurance should pay. I mean, we shouldn't have to, you know, because that deductible still 10,000. So, so we're still fighting out with their insurance and so it probably won't be done till this summer, but we'll get So, pay the 10,000 deductible. Will that go for both project or that two separate two separate issues? The fits around the playground, the elementary a couple of times has got Yeah, it it got hammered. They came back in and which I'll say this you know we had that awning loose and so they came in and they restabilized it and so again knock on wood but you know the last storm because you when we
068talked to him the last time you know the owner came in and he said we're going to try this different but that's a lot of fence. Yes it is. And then when you get right there where that wind's coming from that deal that's a strong force. I think it just kind of sucks it in from there. It's just not normal to get consistent high winds like we've had this year, but also the last the last go around we were in good shape. The last go around we we held on. Some of those wind gusts were 50 miles an hour plus straight line steady all day long wind. They can only s out there so long, right? Well, I guess the next thing on the agenda is personnel. So, we would go into executive session at
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070hey. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Okay. [Music] I don't know. [Music] Hey. Hey. [Music] Hey, [Music] hey, hey. [Music] [Applause] Hey, hey, hey. [Applause] [Music] Hey, hey, hey. [Music] Yeah. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat up here. [Music] Heat. Heat. Okay, we're going to come out of executive session at 7:27 with no action taken. I need a motion to rehire the classified staff list as presented. Motion. Second. Have a motion and a second. All those in favor say I. I. Any oppose? Okay. Motion carries. We'll let Mr. Wayer handle the rest. Okay. I make a recommendation to uh to adopt resolution 6-24-101 [Music] uh to employ Jennifer Roodick for the 2526 school year contingent upon approval by the commissioner of the Arkansas Department of Education. I need a motion to
071approve What he said? Motion. Second. Have a motion and a second. All those in favor say I. I. Motion carries. Also make a recommendation to employ Lindsay Clay, elementary counselor for the 2526 school year as well as Miss Erica Immel as elementary teacher for the 2526 school year. I need a motion to hire Miss Lindseay Clay as elementary counselor and Miss Eric Emel for is that first grade is that or first year motion 256 school year motion motion motion and a second all those in favor say I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Is there any more business before the board? Then we will adjourn by unanimous consent at 7:28.