001here. It's 6 o'clock. We're here for the um April school board meeting. So, if everybody could please rise. We're going to start with the pledge of allegiance. The flag is right behind y'all. I pledge algiance 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 now we're going to follow with a moment of silence. [Music] Amen. All right, Mr. Martin, I'm going to turn it over to you so you can announce these these children. Thank you so much. I guess you guys aren't children anymore, are you? Sorry. No. Um, for our student recognition this month, we have our our choir students here. We have Missu Banks. Um they have done a fabulous job this year. You
002know, our fine arts department is growing leaps and bounds in everything that they do and it's wonderful to see. So, I'll go ahead and turn over to Miss Bank and I'll get out of the way. Okay. Um I have a helper here tonight. So, this is the advanced high school choir and they are singing um Thank you so much. They are singing a song that they're singing at State this week. Actually, on Wednesday, we leave tomorrow to go to state. And this song is called I Will Leave. And the text is from a script that was found on the walls of um one of the conc concentration camps in Germany. So, um it was written by someone who was being enslaved. So, anyhow, um that's what this song is. We have two soloists. We have
003uh Kylie Grigg and Nope. Kylie. Oh, Kylie Emerson. We have Kylie Grigg over here. Kylie and Natalie Bernette. I'm so sorry you guys. Okay. [Music] I believe in the song. I believe in the sun. Even when even shine [Music] I Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. A Heat. Heat. You are in the Lord. [Music] And while they're switching, [Music] This is our musical theater ensemble. Hello. Small but mighty. Um they too competed at our assessment. We've received one and will be participating in our state competition on Wednesday. We have two solos this time. We actually do have Kyri three. Three. Wait, it's we're two. Yeah. Oh, just get it. You aren't doing the solo one this morning. Oh, Lord. I know what I'm I know what I'm We have Jonathan Ortiz, Cara Presley, and you are
004going to do it for sure. Elise Kelly. Okay. All right. [Music] I'm sorry y'all. There's a [Music] switch. Have you ever felt you? [Music] Have you ever felt like you like you could fall on me? [Music] Maybe there we don't feel strong enough. [Music] There comes crashing Yeah. Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat up here. Heat. Yeah. Heat. Oh, heat. Heat up here. [Music] Thank you guys. That was fabulous. All [Music] right, Mr. Yes. All right. First on the agenda is our consent agenda. Are there any questions? With that, I'd like to make the RA recommendation that the consent agenda financial report board minutes for the regular board meeting held on March 13, 2023 be approved as submitted. All right. So, we have a recommendation. Do we have a motion? A
005motion. Motion by Adam. Do we have a second? I'll second. Any further discussion? All in favor? Any opposed? All right. All right. Up next, we have um special education funding approval, and I'll turn that over to Miss Bernell. Uh yes sir. Um each year annually we're required to submit an application to the Arkansas Department of Education for our special ed funding. And the application is actually based on what we received this year and they'll true it up to us next year once we know this is the number of special ed students that we have. And in our special ed funding, we use our special ed funds for um salaries and benefits for a few of our special ed teachers and maybe our paras. We use it use it for our um therapy sessions and we
006use it for any supplies and resources that our special ed teachers and our students need. And so in the application you'll see that we received uh several different types of funing. and we receive um title 6b funding and we also receive some funding for prek students and all our prek uh services are um handled by our co-op and so we pay our co-op to um take care of our special ed. Okay. Any questions? No. Okay. With that, I'd like to make the recommendation that the local school district application for IDA IDA part B and 611 and 619 funds for the provision of special education related services for the school year 2324 be approved as submitted. All right. So, we have a recommendation. Do we have a motion? Make a motion. Motion by John. Do we
007have a second? I'll second. Second by Sarah. Any further discussion? All in favor? Any opposed? Okay. Okay. Up next, we have the opportunity to add a sport next year. And so I'm gonna turn it over to Mr. Ramy, and we're gonna talk about bowling a little bit. All right. So, we are uh making a request to add men's and women's uh bowling teams at the varsity level uh beginning next uh school year. Um, we know that that students that participate in extracurricular activities, whether they be athletics, the arts, or organizations, are more successful in school. They're more connected to school. Uh, they have higher attendance rates. U generally GPA are better. Um, you know, less discipline issues and things. And so, this is an excellent opportunity for us to to expand our athletics offerings for
008for students, uh, and to add um, uh, participation opportunities. And so in your your packet, uh, you have our proposal. Um, the second page is just some, uh, kind of quick information. We've talked with the Rogers Bowling Center, um, down on Walnut Street in Rogers. They will allow us to use their facility free of charge. Um, and we've we've talked to numerous schools around the area. Many of them practice two days a week. And so, uh, our our I think our slots are Tuesdays and Thursdays. Uh next year I think Rogers both their schools do Mondays and Wednesdays and then there there's another school that would be Tuesday and Thursday with us. Uh and then uh Fast Lanes the Bitville schools use Fast Lanes for for practicing and stuff. And so uh Rogers Bowling Center
009will let us at least two days a week have the facility free of charge to to to practice. Our students or or athletes that are on our teams can go other days uh where we're not practicing. They can go down there on an individual basis. I think there's a a $2 fee or a $3 fee on those days that they they would go if they wanted to. Um, this is a AAA sport. So, uh, all rules and regulations of the AAA apply. Grade point average, uh, you know, residency, where you live, um, all of those different, uh, things, you know, physicals, uh, all of that, all of that stuff. And so, um, it's a winter sport. It generally begins in November and finishes in, uh, uh February, it's similar to basketball season and so that's
010the the time of the year uh that that this would take place and so uh we would would like to make a recommendation to add men's and women's um bowling for next year. So are there other schools in our district that have bowling? There are what there's a page in here. It's got the it's got our our conference and so for for 3A and 4A we would be 4 A. um 3A and 4A are together just based on number of schools that that compete in bowling. They have an east and they have a west and so we would be in the west and you can see uh Boxite, Clarksville, Elkins, Flipping, Gentry, Hoshaw out of Fagatville, Hackett, Jesseville, Lamar, Lincoln, Mayflower, Ozark, Perryville, and then P Ridge would join join that group. And so we
011would compete locally up here in the in the Northwest region. you get 10 tournaments uh or 10 matches u throughout the year and then you would come together with these schools for conference tournament for conference. Okay. And so this past year the conference tournament was in Fagville. Next year I expect it to be more central Arkansas, you know, area and then the following year come back up here. So it kind of goes back and forth. Okay. But we would compete with with those schools for Boeing. All right. Any more questions? Would it require do we already have a like for as far as the coach goes? I know bowling is kind of a unique sport. You don't think of like football, basketball, bowling, like what what would be the qualifications or do we already have
012someone on staff that will take on that role? Well, what we what we're going to ask for is that we we're going to ask for the teams. We're going to ask for a stipen and then we'll Okay. So, that's kind of like step one. Gotcha. Okay. I was just curious. Yes, sir. um similar to both um not both similar to golf. Okay. Okay. We'll do one one coach that will coach both teams and the stipen amount would be similar to what we do for golf and and some of those sports as well. And I noticed there was a $5 try out. Do we know approximately how many kids make a bowling team? 6 to 10 generally. Uh for the girls and six to 10 for the boys. Okay. Correct. And if we have beyond that,
013we could expand and do JV teams. that talking with area schools year one just get your varsity teams and then time let it let it grow. Yeah, we're excited to provide more opportunity for kids. Okay. And all right, any further discussion? Okay. Okay. We'll have two recommendations with this. One for the the forming of the teams and one for the styling. So, um, with that, I'd like to make the recommendation that we approve, uh, men's and women's bowling teams for the 2324 school year. All right. So, we have a recommendation. Do we have a motion? A motion. Motion by Adam. Do we have a second? Second. Second by John. Any further discussion? All in favor? Any opposed? Okay. And with that, I would like to make the recommendation that we approve the bowling stop as
014presented for the 2324 school year. All right. So, we have a recommendation. Do we have a motion? I'll make a motion. Do we have a second? I'll second. Second by Sarah. Any further discussion? All in favor? Okay. Up next, we have something that we have we've had prek for I think seven years now and we've been at two classrooms. We have the opportunity to grow at three. Um we have a much we have a we have a need for that with our within our community. Um what we're asking you today is the request for approval to apply um to become an Arkansas Better Chance grantee for the 232 24 school year. Right now we have all of our slots or spots paid by either the Accelerate Grant or through tuition itself. We are actually wanting
015to apply for ABC spots which are free for parents if they qualify so that we can we can grow to a third classroom. The third classroom will be a split, something we haven't done, 10 three-year-olds and 10 four year olds so that we can start providing service for some three-year-olds as well. Um, you know, it's it's much needed. We're going to apply for 15 spots. Um, the the information that you got on there on the second and third page is for us being um the funding matrix or the piece of it is for calculating that we have 10 tuition and 10 ABC. Um, you know, when Miss Ryan and I have started prek 7, 8 years ago, we were told we could not have ABC spots because there simply weren't any available. Now, we're getting
016to the point through the state that we can start applying for those. I think it's very important that we apply, and I think it's it's much needed in our community that we continue to grow our prek program when we can. When would we find out if we eligible? We'll know pretty quick. Um, I'm we feel pretty confident that we're going to get these spots. We just now have the opportunity this year to be able to apply. Is the requirement for applying the three and the four? Is that part of the requirement for the ABC is three and four? Okay. That's just what we've chosen to do. Okay. Yes, ma'am. Um right now we do not serve three year olds. You have to be four on or before what is it? August one. This one would
017be on or before for three year olds on or before um three on or before August one. Okay. So just trying to increase service to community and we have the space for a third classroom. Yes, ma'am. It will not be by Miss Ryan's and Miss um Oh my goodness. Roser. Oh my mind went blank for a second. Sorry. Miss Roser's classroom. It will be across the hall from the intermediate cafeteria right um right by the bathrooms right in there so that we can um you know one of the things is we had to have DHS or our desi now come in and uh verify that the room works and everything and it does it meets all all specs and everything and we'll fully outfit it and everything. We're just not going to be able to
018keep them you know side by side by side but they're they can see each other through the window. I mean, they're that close. But it's about using the available space that we have to provide service for kids. And as we continue to grow and Miss Ryan's um area is going to grow as well, are we going to try to keep her in a classroom as well as being over the program? Uh at this point, yes. All right. I don't have any further questions. Sorry. All right. With that, I would like to make the recommendation for your blessing for approval to apply for the Arkansas Better Chance Program. All right. So, we have a recommendation. Do we have a motion? A motion. Motion by Adam. Do we have a second? I'll second. Second by Sarah. Any
019further discussion? All in favor? Any opposed? Okay. Up next is personnel. All right. Did anybody see a need to go into executive session? I may just Okay. All right. So, it's 6:24. We're going to go into executive session. [Music]