001So, we are here for a special board meeting October 24th at 5:50. Let's stand and say the pledge. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. And we're going to go ahead and follow that up with a moment of silence. All right, Mr. Martin. All right, thank y'all so much for being here. I forgot to put this on the October agenda and I know we had a we have a hearing right after this so I thought this would be the perfect time. Um I have Miss Young here on Zoom in case y'all have any questions but we have Miss Madison McDonald. She is our DECA VP in Arkansas for marketing and they
002have their I'm sorry not state their national convention in Washington DC on November the 9th to the 13th. Um what we're requesting is permission for her to travel with um Alma School District who's going. Um we have um traveled with them I think two or three times in the past. They do an amazing job. And Miss Young cannot be there. You know, she recently had a baby. She needs to stay home. But Alma School District is good with it and and so is Mr. McDonald, Madison's dad. So Miss Young, do you have anything to say? unmute. Just that I Can you hear me? Yes, ma'am. Okay. Just to reiterate, um I do have all the paperwork, permission, slip, form sign. Mr. McDonald did write me a email. I was going to scan all of that
003during my prep to Mr. Martin today and then the good old electricity went out. Um so I did not get to do that, but I do have copies of all of that for everyone as well. Um, and you know, we've went on this trip many almost every year now and it's just a great opportunity for Madison to get to advocate with our state to our state legislators why she's on this trip um with DECA CTE and all the things. And so, um, just to give you some background of the things that they'll be doing while they're there and what safety precautions do you have in place already when you go on these trips? I'm sorry. Can you repeat that? Hold on. Um, hey Tiana. Um, Jessica Miss Jessica asked, "What safety precautions do you have
004in place?" What safety precautions? Yes ma'am. Um, so I'm in touch with Miss Eer. So obviously um, phone wise we have that connection. But while she's there um, they always take an administrator. Um, so Miss Island will be there obviously as the Alca advisor, but they also have um an administrator that they always have one that fights over during his trip just cuz you know Washington DC and all the things they get to do there. Um, but she'll be staying with other island students as well which will be a part of those room checks. Okay, that was what I was going to ask and things of that nature. Miss Young, hasn't Miss Syler served as a state adviser and done this trip with students that aren't her own before? Oh yes, for sure. Um she's
005also in the past who's kind of retired from this part of it, but um she's also been in charge of a lot of national conferences through DECA and so she's one of the only ones that I would even try to do my kids with just because she's literally been there and done that and got the t-shirt on all across the board. And any political activity that's going on, major political activity, um something that could be a safety issue. Something I I know um when the kids went for Washington DC, they watched the a lot of the news, see what was kind of going act um any during that political activity, they were making sure that there was nothing violent towards going going on. Hey Tiana, did you hear Jessica? I'm sorry. I'm not I'm not
006wor that Miss Syler or Sherry Syler, she wouldn't take if there was anything going on, they would definitely take that part out of the conference. Um she is very um I would say definitely my mentor. I've learned a lot from her, but she's always kids come first, safety priorities first. And she's booked these meetings with our state legislators and the kids have been working on their their pitches, so to speak, because they lead the meeting. but she would not hesitate to cancel those if there was anything going on whatsoever that would put anybody in danger. When is the trip again? It's November 9th to the 13th. So, right after midterms. Yes, sir. Okay. I think they travel on the 9th and conference starts on the 10th. I believe that's I read on it. Is that
007Is that right, Tiana? Yes, sir. Okay. And who's financially responsible for this, Miss Young? The student. Okay. All right. Any further questions? They do get she gets a stipen from the state because she's a state officer and this is one of those conferences that they would like students the state officer team to go to with her being piece of marketing and so she does get a siphon from the state of $250 that goes towards her registration or plane ticket or whatever she wants to use it towards. My daughter had the honor of serving for Miss Styler as a state officer for DECA and went on this trip without her high school advisor. And all the events that are even optional in the evenings like restaurants are all pre-approved through the DECA organization. So even like
008for example, if they have an opportunity to go to the zoo at night or the National Portrait Gall, they're all been approved through DECA. Okay? So they're not just um there's very little freedom for personal selection if that makes sense. So all the things have been vetted and approved. Do we know how many are how many students are traveling and how many administrators are going to be with them supervising? Hey. Hey, Miss Young. Did you hear that? I heard something about students. Um, do you know how many chaperons they're going to have? I know they have at least two, Miss Eer, and then her male administrator, whether it be her principal or assistant principal. Um, but I don't know if there's any more going. Okay. I I think the question was also um do you
009know how many students from Alma are going? I know I want to say she has at least eight but that could be that could change. Okay. So sorry. So with us it would be a total of nine. Correct. Okay. And they're all high school age. Yes ma'am. Okay. All right. Any further questions? All right. So we'll entertain a motion. Um, I'd like to make the motion that we approve our student attending the DECA trip to Washington DC for November 9th, 2022 through November 13th, 2022 with all school rules. So, we have a recommendation. Do we have a motion? I'll make a motion. Motion by Adam. Do we have a second? Adjustable second. All right. All in favor? Any opposed? All right. All right. All right. So now it's recommend a motion for a uh like
010leaving. I can't talk today. German. Thank you. One of y'all. I'll make a motion. Adam second. Mindy. All in favor? We out. Okay. Thank you, Tiana. Thanks, Miss Young. We