001oh e e e oh good evening snow mageddon I'd like to call this meeting to order we have a quum present it has been duly called and appropriate notice has been given if the principles would like to lead us into the Pledge of Allegiance tonight I would love that to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for it stands one nation under God indivisible with liy and justice for all nice job sorry to put you on the spot like that but okay I need the approval of an agenda and minutes from January 16th 2025 January 21st 2025 February 3rd 2025 please so moved Jason I'll second second by Scott Booth all right Miss Lawrence we love your reports we cannot wait approval oh I'm sorry the agenda approval of the
002agenda we've got a motion and a second do I have any discussion I'm sorry barring none all in favor unanimous thank you now miss La really excited yes because I just adore your academic reports um we do have um we had students coming tonight this is our CTE focus in February um we obviously did not want them out on the roads tonight so we're going to show some pictures instead we're going to give you just a really brief look at RCT um program and then um let you see some pictures of our student groups uh so for our some data on our CTE um Career and Technical education we have 65 courses taught uh currently 281 sections in grades 7 through 12 um that's 4,098 scheduled students in grades seven through 12 that's for this
003school year how many is that above since last year we added have to okay I'm sorry never mind okay I can look it no that's okay um we have 26 approved programs of study for our current 24 25 school year our class of 24 which is the class that just graduated we had 134 seniors uh completed 209 program of study areas 48% of our 2024 graduating class were a completer in at least one area and that's one of the big uh focuses is being a completer we did uh show you a list of current programs that are offered mountain m prer Academy just so you can see a lot of the the variety in the different ones this has not changed a lot from last year um we are going to see some changes um
004in the some naming changes for the next school year and the year after that some implementation changes in the program and we're doing a lot of zooms and a lot of preparation already for that and that's coming from Commissioners MOS so our student organizations we have fbaa our future uh Business Leaders of America we have our FCCLA family career and Community leaders of America National FFA organization which was formally the Future Farmers of America HOSA which is future health professionals Health occupation students of America Educators rising and TSA technology Student Association and they were all going to be here as representatives to tell you a little bit about their organization but instead we have some photos so you'll see a little Glimpse here um some of the activities they participated in that's fbaa you'll be
005able to tell they've had a lot of different things going on fcca FFA HOSA Ed Rising they're helping out a different campus there and then the other piece we wanted to mention tonight um we have something exciting coming up on March 4th um our asumh campus and as partnered with us we're actually going to be a host site for B pro uh B proud draft day our Mountain Home Area Chamber of Commerce has been a big part of that we actually had to apply to be a host site and it was a big honor to be chosen a lot of work to be um to be done to be ready for this um Philip Goodwin is is not here tonight but he has been our Point person on ground um to help us get this
006ready he's been recruiting students and the governor sees this as a pipeline for talent and what it does is it connects our graduating seniors with employers that are actually ready to hire them upon graduation and so um this coming Wednesday we have Community Partners coming on campus at the high school to do some uh practice mock interviews with our seniors that are going to be participating in draft day they're going to kind of Overlook their resumés with them and just kind of see if they're ready and then let them practice um some some interview pieces with them and then on March 4th they will be connected to actual employers um they can we have been told they can be hired on the spot um they can make a connection for post graduation they also might
007have a a time where they realize something's not a good fit for them um which as we know is also good information for our grad W seniors to have so there's a lot of opportunity um at this event and the other part of it um we did I added a map on the last slide um so you can see our that's the region so um any school in that gray um region for North Central is invited to be part of that draft day that we are hosting at Ash Dr awesome been part of that so we're we're very honored to get to be a host site this is the first time anything else Leah that you wanted to add Le has been part of this as well 26 school 20 I got the list of
008schools today and now I don't remember 31 businesses 36 students were Mountain Home I did see something where they thought North Central was very being very successful in the setup of T well we have the perfect location I know the chamber has been doing a lot of work to promoted um on behalf of the community so we're excited to have this right right near us so 9:00 on that day March 4th March 4th um I actually had it in my update if you're okay I'll share now um March 4th at 9:00 a.m. we'll start the career Expo and you all are invited to come by and and check that out at the shed and then the interviews will be they're rotating and like I said Mr Goodwin has this to a te he's got we've
009had community members volunteer to do um practice interviews we've had community members step up and donate interview appropriate clothing um we have a cleaning dry cleaning business in town that is pressing and cleaning clothes for kids get ready that's fantastic so it's pretty exciting and to see our community step up like they have for our kids is is a whole another level of excitement well and what you'll be seeing in the upcoming years is a lot of streamlining merging the leading of current Pathways because they're basing everything on Workforce data for high wage high demand careers so the schools are keeping up with that um by kind of revising some Pathways for CTE so a lot of a lot of exciting things coming any questions that is exciting thanks for sharing I didn't know enough
010about it that was um that's a cool stuff MH well we have the greatest Community ever so we'll try have some pictures so you guys can see some highlights of it thank you Miss Lawrence any questions before she step away all right Financial reports Miss Cotter the good stuff good evening good evening first I would like to share that but it was time to put out our RFP for banking so we have have done that it's posted on the website if anyone asked and uh with the details there and it's due back March 7th so we'll be looking at bringing something to you in March so if we take a look at the statement of changes in fund balance for the month ending January 31st of 20 2 we ended the month of January with
0118,791 6690 and 75 I would like to point out just a couple of things uh fund 2397 as you can see is our state school safety Grant and we received our first payment of $ 6,257 and we're anticipating the next payment uh for that final amount of 57,000 that you see there then also I thought it was nice to mention in fund 3000 you can see uh we received 94,3 3545 cents and that was compensation of insurance recoveries for the losses that we experienced at kindergarten we'll get a total of $188,600 and it's coming in in different payments and so today we've received three of those payments any [Music] questions moving on to the statement of changes in Revenue expenditure and expenditures we had total revenues for the month of January of 4,7 94,3 3648
012and total expenditures of 3,491 3844 next we have our monthly operating fund balance tracking and we ended the month of January with 12,881 $ 6070 and if we look at that compared to this time last year our property tax payment uh this time was 3.2 million compared to 2.7 at this time last year so wow next we have the statement of changes in activity funds and we ended the month of January with a total of all activity funds combined of $63,750 cents and then the following pages are system reports and also the check register for January any questions for Miss [Music] cter thank you ma'am you're welcome all right Miss Dewey the enrollment report um yes we are your enrollment total is 3,762 students um if you look that's trending exactly like it did from
013um January to February last year I do want to point out and Miss Morgan um thank you for bringing something to my attention that may help everybody um if we could go to the third page um we were talking about if you'll look at the J at the February student count you have a decrease of 57 well that's because that is January but being reported in February we think we can come up with a better way to do that so we'll continue reporting this way for this until July 1 but then I'm going to try to come up with something that makes a little bit more sense because that is actually we didn't lose 57 students in February but yet if you look at your graph it says February so it's January reported in February
014to you all but February's not over so we wouldn't know a total number of students lost or where they've gone and of course as you know the new year we do lose kids um moving family situations we went but our we our net number of students went up so anyway we're going to figure out a better way to do that that makes a little more sense so okay student transfer update one in and one out so zero a wash um yeah it's a wash this time we did interestingly enough I'm beginning to see some similar things the one that we lost went for a smaller environment the one that we gained was looking for more opportunities younger [Music] child thought that was interesting yes okay Mr Knight facilities update all right so the big chop
015I don't know how old your report is that you have but I changed that at the end of the day today uh it is installed they have they're going to go up and tweak one of the lasers a little bit they're having a little bit of issues with it so here over the next week or so that they're going to go back up there but the majority of them are up and working 100% so next time I see you that thing will all be up and going um we also uh got another round of the security grant that happened and Mrs Dewey and Mr Helmer jumped on that extremely fast so we got it not really early but one of the first schools to get it um a majority of that money is probably going
016to go towards um cameras of course there'll be a board action item on that what those get paid and if you have any questions about that Steve's up next he's the perfect person to ask about all the cameras or anything you want to know um and then we've uh started putting in the door knobs uh at the same time they were doing the door knobs um Mr helmert got us all of those U uh the window shades so we're doing them all at the same time so we going go do it twice nice um any questions for and snow yeah lots of snow they did fantastic issues with the cold best days we well me not that we know we don't have any broken pipes that we know of I me um we had quite
017a few of the maintenance guys and gals and bunch of custodians came in and I think that was the fastest I've ever seen them about 78 hours they did all of it they did not want to deal with it this morning I forgot so night yesterday good and Guy Berry roof where we at with that is the architect doing his thing he was supposed to come it was last week last Thursday last Thursday um we were actually going to meet with him about some other things and he was going to double check their measurements to make sure that they're on point so I would say probably the next time if he doesn't come in I would say I think you all may be going to do a um what a session special session for work
018session Sorry probably HP in and do it at the same time get you a better update on it he had a family emergency so wasn't able to come all right thanks thank you Chris technology update Mr meski give us all the good news first ever technology first ever so we're GNA start a b monthly technology and we will alternate with school and security nice I like that so there's some stuff in here that probably won't be in future updates um like the organizational chart that you know really fun to look at all day so y'all can look at that you know if you have questions you can ask me about that later but that's in there just kind of know like who who all is in our department um because there's some interesting like Becca
019Camp is not really part of our department but she has duties that are technology related so she kind of Falls in there of course Chris Falls in there with all kinds of stuff um so it's it's kind of interesting how that plays out when you actually look at it so um just kind of a summary we have approximately 15,000 devices on our Network um and that that's kind of an average it gets higher depending on how many kids have phones and teachers have devices and stuff like that also but on average we about 15,000 devices on any day on our Network so that's 450 MacBooks 4500 Chromebooks 300 50 Windows computers 900 iPads uh 418 access points about 380 security cameras uh 300 phones right now and that will go up by several hundred um
020once we finish that project so thermostats things like that he and all of that stuff yeah all the HVAC stuff ties in I mean if it plugs into the wall there's a pretty good chance it's going to connect to the internet somehow so we're either finding ways to put that on the network or to keep it off the network so it's kind of or it really needs to be on the network how it needs to be restricted down so um some recent stuff uh we kind of got the tech committee back together um Becca Camp is kind of heading that up um there's some policies screen time policies and AI policies that we need to work on so um the tech committee kind of being made up of mostly teachers um we can get some
021input from them um right now we're kind of surveying how much time various uh grades are spending on the Internet or in a front of a device um kind of get an idea of how much that is educational how much of it is not or what is in the middle of those two so um there'll probably be more coming up on that um later on with policies and and stuff coming through so um The copier roll out that I brought to yall a couple months ago that I really enjoyed working on is pretty much over so I'm kind of sad but um all the all the copers are in we have a few little few little things we still uh have to resolve um some of the units didn't have whole punch and they need
022that but that's pretty much pretty much done with puppy calling so rate um rate is a federal funding program for schools and libraries um it pays for a lot of our internet stuff um and we're always a year out on that so we're planning for 2526 funding year right now which would be July of 2025 five of that school year so um but um we're able to kind of do some research and find out that we can cover some areas that aren't covered um McAn baseball park um down there is actually on a wireless bridge across the street from Hackler that bridge is starting to age out there was a break in the fiber down there by the baseball area when they built that so we're able to easily put fiber to that and then
023just get it to where we don't have to worry about the wireless stuff um indoor baseball facility on Wade Street we're going to have a circuit put in there um there's a lot of younger brothers and sisters that are up there um you know well their brothers and sisters are practicing and whatnot we have no internet over there right now at all so that'll give internet access for those kids to get on the internet and swipe to get internet yeah and then monitor cameras Access Control will be the same as everywhere else then once we get that done so we'll add those doors in over there and then we can easily give access and see who's who's going in and out there um the bus barn transportation area uh that's on a wireless bridge off
024of kindergarten right now that fiber we abandoned it that came from big old was the old Century to Le stuff wasn't it no it was coming from kindergarten to the oh the the preschool building and then to Old maintenance and then to transportation and so it was just problematic and we abandoned it so we're going to run fiber from Pinkston to the bus barn and eliminate that extra HP so and then press box so we're able to just kind of get that done and eate covers typically 70% of the cost so we can do all of that really affordably and it's going to be pretty beneficial to have fiber to all of those four locations so um then another thing we're doing under eate is um we have Network rooms all over the place and
025some of them are just a disaster I mean we've been trying to clean them up and organize them and stuff we've got cabinets security cabinet Cabinets To Go several places um that aren't in a locked room so we can put the stuff inside of the cabinet lock it down um so we're going to contract some of that out under eate get that stuff done um and then we're kind of um Dustin Rose um and transportation and myself we kind of looking at a Fleet Management System um which would Encompass all kinds of stuff child tracking um driver Maps tablets in the in the buses so if a driver came in they would know turn BYT instructions um GPS uh Dispatch Center would be able to track every bus and see where they're at this is
026really something that like I feel we need to get unboard with so there's a grant Transportation grant that Miss Dy is working on and rate will be able to help cover portions of that also because it's internet on buses so they can't pay for the whole thing but they can pay for probably 50% of what we would pay monthly on internet because all the buses would have internet access so aside part of that would be the kids would have internet if we need them to or whatever on the buses so every bus would have it it would all be the same um it would include all new cameras on the buses so it's a it's a huge project but if we can get eate help pay for some of that then that just helps us
027out every year so um School Safety and Security so um Chris mentioned the school safety Grant um kind of the round two was announced and awarded um we're going to go we're going to be able to go back and do the Nelson wils camera project that yall approved back a couple months ago we're going to be able to put that back towards this grant so that will help save us some money out of operating on that and then um we have RFP out for junior high and Pinkston camera upgrades so those buildings were I mean all the cameras were the last upgrade was about eight years ago we've been putting them in here and there but the last major upgrade was about eight years ago so we're we're going to go ahead and get those
028two buildings knocked out um and then we may do some areas of the high school we may do like a gr building or the 300 Hall or you know just pieces of that whatever we can kind of fit in there so um access control um that yall approved back in November kind of got delayed um we'll talk about that a little bit later um we've made quite a bit of prog progress on the monitored fire alarm systems and I've kind of been working with Chris on that he's been doing of course the beam detection system in the Big Top um I've kind of been working on getting all the buildings switched over to ycop monitoring and everything documented so um kind of everyone's on the same page there's new procedures for fire drills they're all
029the same across all the buildings um it's just kind of an area that kind of always got left behind and kind of brought it up to par and um had good succcess with with all of that working with the elop so that's been really good um Mr helmert has helped greatly in all of this kind of thing um you know he handles a lot of the friend and work um going out talking to the the admins and and kind of figuring out what we need to do and then we can come back and plan and and get it get it going so having him has saved a ton of time I mean most of this wouldn't have been able to happen without having the time you know that he can provide for that so um
030whole another part of saf and security is cyber security um there's lots of State um requirements that are due in July 1st that we have to meet tons of policies training all kinds of super fun stuff um you'll see some of those policies come through for board approval um but uh um Matt is kind of Hing that up and it's it's a ton of work and we're not really behind like we're we're sitting pretty good as far as network security and stuff like that but but it's just kind of documenting what we're doing changing things to meet the state requirements and all that so um just some other things um that we've done this year so far that our Department's done we've logged over 700 Chromebook repairs this year so far um which is second
031grade through 12th grade um we're on par with that's usually what we're at um most years so that's uh we do about 600 screen replacements a year um it's just it's it's it's a lot I mean it's you know so um normal Tech tickets in our ticketing system we've logged over 365 um of those that are completed um we have about 130 in the queue still some of those that are easy some of them are hard some of them sit there a little while um but that's that's kind of where we're at with that um we've done over a dozen curriculum and software Integrations this year which is the most ever um I think we're going to work on cutting that back in the future um instead of adding things it's uh doing an integration
032can take four hours it can take four weeks like you just never know what the process is and sometimes you working with a company in Germany and you can't understand what they're saying so you know it's just there's there's a lot that goes into it so Becca has spent hours working on the front end of that well Keith works on the back end getting all the data synced right um the days of just here's your key code you know we trust that you're going to use it for 100 people are over these software companies they want to know every single user that is signing in when they're signing in if they're part of our district if they're in the right grade level um a lot of times we purchase curriculum for hler and someone at
033Pinon wants to use it um or high school or wherever well it's it's really hard to get that like you can't just oh give them a sign in and they can use one of the licenses like it has to and we can't we can't fudge the data like we can't just take that high school kid and put them at Hackler you know doesn't doesn't work that way so getting all of those little things to come together and work um is just it's a huge task so takes a lot of time everything's data driven now um last thing um we had a student inter through Miss Beckham's program the first part first semester um and we've got a new one for second semester and uh they help out great we try to not to just have
034them fix Chromebooks but a lot of times that's kind of what they end up doing but we try to get them out and just see what we do um work with Matt on network stuff or you know work with me on paperwork stuff or copers or whatever um and uh just kind of get them a good broad idea of of what's going on excuse me but uh yeah that's about it I mean if anyone ever wants to come hang out I think Jason was wanting to get back into that yeah I think we can oil changes are bringing him down so yeah you know time to change it back back to tip but yeah just just let me know I mean you can always email me call stop in I mean if you just wonder
035about whatever you know just let me know so any other questions Oh thanks thank you that's awesome work thanks Eddie no you're welcome very good all right we got some board action items request to approve board liability insurance renewal miss [Music] cter it is time for us to renew the legal liability insurance uh which covers school board members Administration and staff school districts across the state join together to purchase legal liability insurance at generally more attractive rates than are available to individual districts and so I'm happy to say that we are not seeing any changes price changes in the premiums and if you want to click on the renewal proposal and let's go to that second not that page the second page and if you look at the second paragraph uh typically we are bringing
036this to you in July because it expire in July January because it expires the last day of January however um this year I'm bringing it to you in February because the rates were going to go up and so we were contacted by our risk consultant with the insurance company to let us know that would still be covered February 1st but they were not satisfied with the rates increases that they were seeing and so they went back uh to bid this again for the state so you will see that we do not have any changes in our rights which is good and they have gone with a different underwriter called public risk Underwriters which is a little bit different than uh as a different company than what we had originally had last year make a motion
037we accept the recommendation as presented second have a motion by Jason and second by Molly any discussion all in favor unanimous thank you Miss Cotter request to approve budget of proposed expenditures FY 26 to 27 okay each year uh I bring to you a prop budget of expenditures and this is going to be for the fiscal year 2627 and as part of the law we have to bring this before you know less than 60 days in advance to the annual school election and so tonight um we're seeking approval for the attached proposed budget of expenditures for July 1 2026 through July 30th of 2027 so we recommend the the board adopt the proposed budget of expenditures along with the related election documents make a motion we approve the recommendation as presented have a motion by
038Jason I need a second second thank you Daniel any discussion all in favor unanimous all right Mr Knight request to approve architect contract thank you Miss CER all right so after the last work session I got with Moto Studios and got them present us a contract um if you notice this contract if you look at it it is quite a bit cheaper than even the roof that we're putting at guberry we think there's a lot more work there but just want everyone in the public to know um we've spent a lot of money on that project and everything's almost drawn the the engineering's done the surveying is done so uh what I ask them to do for us is literally the minimum requirements to get approval and possible funding from the facilities division which is
039basically going to be where would you put it what would you take down or not take down here's a p and then the back end of that talking with them and um so I am recommending that you uh contract Modo Studios as the architect for the new uh possible High School construction renovation make a motion we approve the recommendation as presented second have a motion by Jason second by Molly any discussion do you think we'll hit that number I think it'll be lower lower yeah he originally told me in the 20s and I was going to tell you 30 so um now it would go up if you wanted to do something and you know halfway through you went no let's try it over there or so it's you plan right and do it once
040so a lot of it'll be up to all of you in your sessions to make sure um and then you know the part will be Lisa and I and do we will have to make sure that that P that we'll go through is also perfect before he starts okay doing it I would just like to point out that competitive bidding is prohibited so we don't select an architect on competitive bidding it's based on their um their qualifications uh Moto Studio very familiar with what we're doing here so that's why we're selecting Moto Studio instead of going and getting a a new architect from scratch um an architect is I mean as long as they they draw what the client wants if as long as they design what the client wants it it shouldn't matter he's
041qualified so I haven't worked with uh with this gentleman before y'all have as long as he's willing to say hey this is what y'all want as a client I'll make the drawing happen um then I'm 100% behind that it makes a lot of sense to use the same same firm that's already been here and already knows the background and knows the ground survey studies Etc um so you feel that he's he designs what what we the client want not so much what he wants is that correct yes he absolutely would okay thank you that's my hesitation is he going to listen to us or is he going to I will tell you like when we first started this fire it was almost the interview for us for the architect was also an interview for an
042architect for us they like to do modern newer nicer things so I did bring up quite a while ago and said hey can you handle that I don't think if we said we're building a square box but you know that they he would have taken it but now you know I have asked like he wants to finish the project so whatever you want you you all get so if you say square box we get square box I will be gone at that time but you guys really need to hold your ground hold his feet to the fire make sure he does what you want him to so we can get this done we get the community behind us um because I was hesitant about going this way again because he was firm and what he
043liked and what he wanted and but we're starting a whole new list so but he does know he's already got all the schematic there's so many ways going back to him saves his money and the community needs to understand that by doing this saves US money and we realize we aren't going with the same plan this is a whole new plan he just knows the groundwork so we can build a simplified plan any further discussion all right all in favor unanimous thank you she okay you're right in there Dy right s um sorry uh Mr Engel request to approve the 2526 school calendar all right I feel PPC put together two really really good calendar options this year and if you look at the voting results I think that speaks to that out of the
044200 289 289 289 the difference was seven votes wow pretty close both ERS offered great benefits and one of them had to win so I would recommend the board accept option one for the 2526 goe count have yall looked at the calendar I have they're almost alike very similar yeah I mean they've got all the same days off a lot so there's not a fall break in option one and if you look at the differences maybe like last three years those in my mind have been really similar calendars at least this one I will say there was a fall break there was a different start date a different end date so there are at least differences that people apparently felt passionately about and I will say this is probably the first year that I've been
045on PPC where people didn't come to me and say Madison what calendar should I vote for they were engaged they came and told me on their vote fored all right go for it that's good how many voters do we have 289 voted out of 450 five something 520 why why such a low turnout I tried to I think I looked at last year I think we had 260 oh wow so I didn't know it's kind of like asking why why they 10% of the population comes out for a school board election yeah um and I want to say I want to say classified was significantly more engaged this time for the years P it was close you haven't had any push back from uh many there were several on PPC who really wanted option two
046but when they saw the results they unanimously said okay let's go with it okay is that because they like the fall break IDE of the fall break that and the Wednesday start date I I know Wednesday start dates the definitely the preferred date but it just didn't fit with the flow of option one it would have bumped the last day of school to a Monday and it's really silly to in school on Monday so sacrifice was made there we start on Tuesday speaking of start start date maybe you can explain to folks I this year we started on August 19th as first day of school this is August 12th so it's a full week earlier can you explain why why we're starting seven days prior last year we were restricted by the law said going
047to try to get it right yeah I'm not trying to put you it had to start no earlier than the Monday on which August 19th fell and August 19th was a Monday so a bunch of schools were up in arms and they actually changed the law this year because they actually listened to schools and that's why we had the flexibility to really do all the things in both of these calendars that we offered okay any other discussion before we even make a motion sorry about that okay do I have a motion motion to approve the schedule is presented I'll second it motion from Daniel second from Scott any discussion further all in favor unanimous Barbara all in favor okay I didn't know if you were not unanimous okay thank you Mr I was going to
048say I wish i' had a calendar like that going you can go back to school if you want we'll put you back in there the retirement part those kids would love to have you all right Mr Engle requests to approve act go salary schedule Amendment so this is just Amendment for our Roc instructors they're paid for by the Navy the Navy recommended their salary um for little more than recomend Navy doesn't recommend they tell you but their fiscal year Falls differently than our fiscal year so that's what's requiring us to now change Us in the middle of our year all right well do I have a motion to take the recommendation make a motion to recommend what's presented again Daniel knows all about those I'll I and Scott I have a motion from Daniel second
049from Scott any discussion from us non-military people can't really say much all in favor unanimous all right one more time request to approve the access controlled project revised yes okay so in November we came and had yall approve bidder one on the access control kind of the second round which was 12 doors um kind of as things went on they weren't really panning out like they should um basically the vendor that won the bid was unable to basically come up with a dealership for pdk which is the brand that we use um this was all asked during the walk through and everyone assured me that you're a pdk dealer and there shouldn't be any problems um just turned out that there was and we kind of worked with them for a while to try to
050make it happen and um we just finally had to kind of uh go you know it wasn't going to work out so um so went back to the other bidder um and uh just kind of tried to renegotiate a price because their bid was significantly higher um and they came down a little bit so there's a a quote revision on that also um so I would like you all to approve the bidder number two which was $42,715 um for tax make a motion we approve the recommendation I have a motion by Jason second and a second by Daniel any discussion have we used bidder number two before we hisory we've been satisfied the work the original original who did their original install the 8 doors the first time so basically another company I think had
051come in and tried to kind of under undercut it and just not all the facts were there and so sometimes that happens one thing to point out because we did receive our security money that's where this is going to come from yeah still a good price is it yeah it's still yeah it's not AB normal it's a decent price and it it'll be easy working with this company I can handle the keys and they will know where to go and what to do so upon approval what kind of completion date are we looking at when we I guess when we're when will they start they're pretty ansy um to get going on it um so I would say I mean I we haven't said that yet but just in passive conversation I'm going to say
052probably early March they'll get started on it the price s a wire crew wiring and then come in right after that they've got three crews that kind of do the install so I would I would say I mean I'm going to hope that it's done by April sometime so and it's only it's 12 doors compared to what we had do before it won be a 12 month project last time so all right very good all in favor unanimous thank you thank you Mr Dy request to approve custodial and maintenance substitute pay rate good evening good evening the cbpc has asked me to come here to ask you all to approve a uh pay rate increase for our custodial and maintenance substitutes uh from $1 to $12.50 which is the same that we pay a Step
053Zero uh in both departments and this will begin March 1st this year it's about time yes they've been having some trouble keeping folks around $ nowadays pretty tight embarrassing make a motion to approve the salary adjustment as presented I have a motion by Daniel I need a second second second from Jason any discussion could I I did want to point one thing out I had um collected the number of hours that we have used substitute custodial and maintenance from 71 24 to 12 3124 1359 hours wow so um I'm estimating high that we would um have 300 3,000 hours this fiscal year that's $4,500 add your um benefits and I mean you're looking at about $5,600 and that's high that number includes like summer that includes your summer help because that has that July they're
054still okay so that's your six you know and they work until the second week of August so really you've got a six week that's the majority of definitely worth and this this changes the game on who will consider summer work I feel like and I think Mr Knight who does the overseeing of that would agree very good all in favor unanimous thank you thank you thank you all right Miss Dewey request to approve policy update sections 1 4 5 6 and 7 well this is the first of many um I'll just tell y'all right now you're going to see a lot um over the next couple of months and then with the session once it's over there will be with the legislative session is over we'll have some more but uh revisions to policies are
055May are made annually sometimes it's just to clean things up sometimes it's a law has changed um I recommend that the board approve the attached policies as presented please note that all updates unless they're Mountain Home policies are from the Arkansas School Board Association model policy book so Molly you understand that MH I'm sure you do that if there's an MH attached that it is an amended from the state so it becomes a Mountain Home policy like we start with the state's policy and then we can amend it so if you see that MH after like 4.45 bring a Mountain Home up to show her the blue right there 445 oh so you'll see the BL you see that little MH that means we've amended the state policy in the blue writing okay need a
056motion where's it I make a motion that we approve the policy updates as presented exactly motion from Scott and a second from Daniel any discussion most of these seem pretty basic just yes sir there excuse me so if you remember the ones are for the board um fours are student fives are I forgot what fives are and I worked onul um fours have curriculum fives have some building six I mean these are most of these do not um you'll notice threes and eights that's cppc and PPC that's your employee policies and they're working hard on those right now um the fours with the curriculum and the student piece you'll see the mh's because it is Smart Core and graduation requirements that are specific to the district we cleaned up some things in 445 removed Flex
057path because we don't use that um and then 4451 is pretty much straight asba except four things are um gyber has the specific graduation track we generally use that at gyber that's the 22 minimum credits and our students have 24 credits generally to graduate high school um you'll also see the 450 is a school Mill modification the only reason we made this Mountain Home is just to keep with what we're already doing uh just keep it a little simpler we worked with Thomas Mary on these so this takes a lot just going through and um talking to the people you know when it's sevens we talk to Miss Cotter and Miss Harper what works for the financial folks um these are these are pretty straightforward this time this set all right I need a motion
058please oh yeah hello got vot vote all in favor I'm smelling food unanimous thank you Miss Dewey board discussion um I would just like to point out that once again hey this this this board action item approving what looks like a millage it's not a change it's the exact same thing it's required by law to be on the on the ballot every year so in case the question comes up it's not a change it's the same thing we saw last year which is a continuation it doesn't matter if it's voted up or it's voted down nothing is going to change on the millage uh at the school election so that's going to be on the ballot but it doesn't mean there's any change or it will change so just wanted to highlight that that point
059thank thank you Scott no school tomorrow you ready for me anybody else well we might have some more board discussion that's I thought anybody have any more board discussion Daniel you good I'm good girls ladies got nothing helpful quiet quiet I had something we were talking about no school uniforms cell phone usage cell phone usage punishment cell phone usage um that band was signed in a lot a day so that is that is done also free breakfast happened today oh that's fantastic we had two I didn't know that we had a lot of actually free free breakfast is fantastic K12 um k112 K12 wow so we have been actually paying for two the district has been that'll start next year well I mean what time in the morning um I believe Hackler start serving 7:20
06075 so can kids get to school at 700 they get to school at 6:30 6:30 at K through five we don't really encourage that at sixth grade but y'all are ready for at seven aren't you Mr smith4 we try to hold them hold them off cuz it's does you know it takes a lot of people to make that work with Duty we do have some paid duties but it it does help some of our families and there's a lot of kids there by seven amazing a lot of kids and the state's reimbursing that I didn't see what the reimbursement for they they will it's my understanding currently they are not for our K2 free breakfast we're paying we paying K2 but from here on out or least what it looked like to me K12 the
061state's going to yes sir that's what it looked like to me so that's it's very exciting it's it's very exciting they're using my understanding is they are using the extra taxes I want to be very careful what I say here but it has to do with medical marijuana so they are using so we if anybody's been wondering if anybody's wondering what money they're using I did hear Mr Quick say that that's the moneyy that they're using so fantastic ftic I mean they're now free lunch they're going to have to sell a lot more that's coming everybody get your card so um that's where that's coming from I'm full of lots of FS hey I got four more months you wait these these meetings are going to get more exciting every time I promise you um
062so I was working with am working with the state highway department because I am scared to death when baseball season starts with the walking across from Hackler at nighttime he didn't realize it was there's a new gentleman talking about Chris back there too he's helping um get me some people but we need a crosswalk we need some lights we need some sort of bridge in the city a bridge AOSS it is not the city it is no it is state that is a state highway y so so if anybody has anything for me that I can send him Chris I went down that road and they immediately denied he's a new guy we talked about this we even talk about you know we kind of have we talking about extending the across the creek yes
063like a gravel parking area there and then we're going to let them walk up and just kind of extend that little there was enough room no we talked about Rodeo cases where they have turned the highway into a city street and certain extension so the so maybe some conversations with the mayor about taking a little bit of that over to Rodeo at least just to just that one piece cuz boy it's a big deal it's huge little kids running across parking down here is it's at a premium and because it is a protected yeah there's a thing that's the easiest way to do it was to go in there and gra EXT L up and go through the with f yeah which I'm also wonder too because if you look at what we did what
064I [Music] Sor fraer fish to come in there all Ro andu I almost wonder you could I met work that route too then okay I know a commission behind the high school this side of the creek which which lot was that talking this is Hill over here okay so to park behind the high school it's it's quite a our athletes generally Park back there sure correct cross and then cross the which that is from the city helped us get that I think is that their Bridge from the fairgrounds I thought Gregory built that no it's not it's we're not allowed to build anything it's not built it's mve that's right it's movable yes yes yes sometimes it floats yeah sometimes it floats a little well but they'll get that ready because we that kicks off
065guys week after couple weeks yes March 3rd is the first game for yes and I wasn't joking about uniforms and corporal punishment but that's another day anyway anybody else thanks Lisa let's not let's not go there let's not go there you sound like Steve bman fought me with that I I remember that from before yeah I don't know I took a little girl to school cuz her mom was sick this week at Pinkston and we had some very good discussions and she was all for it she's like I wouldn't have to think about what I wore every day and I thought you know maybe we should do a little Survey Monkey you know what's interesting about that is there's always a workaround there are still brands that are in the school colors there're still I
066don't know from I don't know that it really saves that that much money I delved into it years ago and we could have gotten four uniforms for $225 the parents could have four sets let them wear jeans and whatever on Friday um if that will stick to those sets it's the policy and it's a rule kind of like your name badge so well you have colors I don't know that you can require certain you I don't even want to go down I know I know you don't do not want to go down that road okay anyway moving right along you have anything yes you do have something I do I've got a couple things um okay superintendence update maintenance did a great job getting things cleared off like I said like Chris said it was
067record time so a special shout out to them maintenance and some custodial um but things just aren't quite clear enough we did a little drive around I went nor those side roads are nasty there's some nasty places um I even called the mayor said what can you do he said nothing um we've done all we can do um so just as a reminder you know we have 350 square miles that this District covers and 2,000 mil 2,000 miles a day we ride that's a lot CIA Oakland promised land is those buses and turnarounds even on snow routes I do think our area schools I have not heard for sure um who else canel I've been on a text group I know Viola did um Carter was leaning that direction but I have not heard C
068is easy it's um so sorry parents but I think we did make the right decision is more important we are going to be short a few minutes on our hourly calendar because we did have to dismiss early I've already spoken to Mr Engel and it is a very easy fix we will be coming he will be coming to you after he talks to PPC we'll need to do a calendar adjustment one of the early dismissal days will no longer be an early dismissal day but that's an easy easy fix um I would like to set up a day tonight because you did approve the contract for the architect I'd like to go ahead and set up a work session to meet with him only Miss Russell to be there any of our high school teachers
069that want to be there but as you all have pointed out there's a lot of simplicity and the plan that you're looking or talking about and it is what is in the current area underneath the big top that is what you are considering so there's not much leeway there um got some ideas about how to move some folks around to where we would not have to even replace some of the big areas underneath the current big top so um the first date I have of that I'd like to propose is March 4th could y'all but I I need some input from you all if that'll work or not and I think the more that are here the better um and if but sooner than later we need to go ahead and get started Tuesday it
070is Tuesday March the 4th um here at 5:30 I can do that I do need to triple check I bet Chris's texting him right now or he will we'll make sure that our architect can be here but he's ready to get here and meet and talk 5:00 5:30 Russell okay what did what time did you say 5:30 5:30 March 4th okay no Blake Shelton concert that day so I guess you're lucky lucky day no but there's a kindergarten Festival oh no yes there is um it is at 4 to 4:30 6:30 I think yes it's is that the art what is is that the springling so it's a fundraiser so 4:30 to 6:30 yes that is that evening I'll be okay okay yeah that yeah so Tuesday February 25th that's our job fair from 4:
071to 6 so this will be the second job fair we've had this year um all departments will be represented so there'll be lots of people available for questions if folks have them so encourage anybody you know that's looking for a job we'd love to meet with them talk to them and um I know that um Mr KN in particular has had people in fill out an application while they're there so that's great they have some ways to make it a little easier for folks uh February 28th we'll be dropping with Dewey here at central office and we'll go 10:30 to 4 that day we'll make sure we get some press out on that so folks know they can come by and visit Hackler Monday March 3D is your Hackler School visit board meeting at lunch
072so time to be determined but I will get with that principle Miss Goodwin and figure out what time works best it will be well somewhere between 11: and 12 12:30 so we'll get with you and um I'll get with y'all soon with the time I'll email all these dates tomorrow as well thank you so that you'll you'll have them in one place once again Draft Day super exciting for our students March 4th 9:00 00 at the shed come by for the Expo don't think they'll interview y'all but you can definitely come by and see see the Expo which will be a huge part our Juniors some of our Juniors will get to attend the Expo as well seniors will have the interview opportunity very good lots of good stuff did good anybody else all right
073we will go to Executive session to discuss Personnel employment retirements and transfers for