001He was all right. It is 6:00 and we'll be doing our June 15th board meeting. But first, let's stand for the 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 now a moment of silence. [Music] Amen. All right, Keith. All right. Um, we always start out with our um consent agenda. Are there any questions? quickly. With that, I'd like to make the recommendation that the consent agenda, financial report, and board minutes of the regular board meeting held on June 10, 2024, and the special board meetings held on June 21 and June 24, 2024 be approved as submitted. All right, we have a recommendation. Do we have a motion? I'll make a motion.
002Motion by Mindy. Second. Second. Second by Jessica. All in favor? Opposed. Up next we have our campus. Just real quick though say hi to Eric. Absolutely. Hey, you should have started with that. I should have Eric. That was my bad. That's okay. I want to make sure and get you properly introduced. Thanks for joining us, Eric. I'm so glad. Thank you. Thank you. Absolutely. Sorry about that. My bad. We We went right into business, Eric. We should This is how we keep it to an hour. Up next, we have our campus improvement plans. We have Miss Taber and our principles who are going who are going to share that. Yes. Um so this year our campus improvement plans um are connected to our district priorities that are listed here for you. Um and so each
003principal is going to share uh the plan the summary for their building and you also have their full plan in your packet. M Yes, ma'am. for our process this year. We started back in the spring. Uh campus improvement plans according to state rules are due to the district office by May one each year. So we start in around April looking at our data um looking at where we want to go for the next school year. And then by May one, principles have their draft to us and we spend some time working through that draft. We had individual meetings and met with each campus team and gave some feedback. Um and so they've they've worked through that process. They have July schoolboard approval and then we'll come back and review uh the monitoring of each of
004those areas in October, January, and April. And so in their plans, they know what data source they're going to use and what they're looking for um at each of those points along the way. So I'm going to let Miss Bennett take us off to the front. All right. So I will start. Um our first one is under clear and measurable goals. And this year we'll be making smart goals every um quarter. And in those smart goals, we are expecting 80 80% of our students to be proficient on each one of those goals. And they're will be coming from our essential skills. Um we're going to use proficiency scales and success criteria in order to make sure that we know what our students need to know to be successful at those um on those goals. The
005second one is individual achievement. And with that, we are still working on using our common order assessments. And within that, we'll take the data from there and form our win groups. And this year, one thing we're adding to our win groups are pre and post assessments in each group. So that way we can make sure that every student is growing and learning the essential skills that we're working on. Next is under clear ongoing evaluation. So this is really more on Miss Day and I. So our goal is to provide our staff with more with observations and evaluations that are based on multiple sources of information. So, we want to make sure we're providing necessary feedback for our staff and we want to make sure that we're doing it in multiple sources and not just off
006of one evaluation or one observation that we do in our classroom. Um, the next is collaborative teams. Um, if you I think I've said this before, if you ask me what drives our building, I would tell you it's PLC's and the PLC process. Um, so we're continuing to fine-tune those. Um, we're going to make sure that we're doing a better job of taking notes during our PLC meetings and using that data in our notes to in our guiding coalition meetings to see if there's any trends. Are there anything that we need to focus on that we're seeing across the building? Um, the next two are all about feedback. Um, that's one thing we've learned a lot with our visible learning training and one thing we heard a lot in San Diego was how powerful feedback
007is and how important it is to give it in a timely fashion. So um the bottom two, one is um feedback from our staff every quarter based off of our academic goals, which is increasing student achievement. How is the implementation of visible learning going? Do we need support in such areas? And we'll do those every quarter. The last one is on our behavior management and again we'll do that quarterly. This year we um got to participate in the learner collective and we worked really hard on our leadershipmies and using thosemies to f focus on some of our executive functioning skills and students who then are lacking those and so we're going to get feedback from staff on how is that going how aremies going are there things that we need to improve on. Any questions?
008So is the feedback surveys from the staff are those going to be anonymous? Yes ma'am. both of them on the both the the ones on the academic piece and the behavior piece. Okay. Yes. Uh I think you said 80% is your your goal for proficiency. Yes, sir. Um is that that that I'm sure that's great. My question is is there a baseline? Is 80% a stretch goal or is this what's the what's the background behind 80? I would say well most research research shows that 80% is the baseline that we use to say if 80% of your students have mastered it you're to a point where you can move on to a next skill or a skill that might be a prerequisite. This skill is a prerequisite for the next skill. Got it. Um I
009would say a stretch goal for us would be 90 or more. Now in some of our more basic foundational phonics skills our uh percent is 90 to 95%. Okay. because in those areas there is no wiggle room to not have it mastered because it's so important to have those foundational skills. Thank you. Yeah, you're welcome. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. for the intermediate school. Um we also partnered with the learner collective this last year um to work on differentiation within our classrooms um and really in our tier one so our core classroom and not waiting until we get to win time or intervention time to intervene with kiddos. So academic performance we're going to continue to strengthen the tier one differentiation and instructional planning with data. So if we plan well then we can differentiate
010during instruction and not have to wait and catch them on the back end. So that's our that's our academic performance goal. Um for college and career readiness increase rigor using proficiency scales. That's something that we loosely do like we're not great at that. And so that's something that our guiding coalition felt like we definitely needed to hone in on this year. Um and then a common model of instruction. So, that's something that we're working on districtwide and um definitely like holding everyone accountable to that same level of instruction, powerful leadership and instruction. Um we have gotten really good at peer observation at our building. Um our teachers like to go in and out of each other's classrooms. We want to dive a little bit deeper and see like what strategies are you going to take
011back and implement and how are we going to do that and come up with a more systematic approach to that. um MTSS academic and behavior leads are two positions that we are able to fund out of our learner collective grant. And so that's two things that we've decided to add this year um that we haven't had in the past. So I'm really excited to get teams built around working on behavior interventions and academic interventions with our teachers. Um community and stakeholder engagement vision with stakeholder input and expectation communication. So that's outside of our building. We're really good at talking to one another, but pulling in parents and students and different community members just to make sure that we're our vision is communicated well to everyone and the expectations are communicated well. Um optimizing resources. So
012establish essential standards. We've done a good job with that, but we need to go back and just make sure that we're on the right track still and make sure that we have everything how it needs to be. And then clear MTSS procedures for behavior. So that's going with our new lead for NTSS behavior. Um and then safe and respectful schools align behavior expectations. So we've already started that work a little bit this summer with middle school and primary to see like what are they doing at primary? What are they doing at middle school and where does intermediate fit in that? Um and then stakeholder engagement. Again, making sure that we're bringing parents and students on board as well. You've talked a couple times about stakeholder input or stakeholder engagement, but I mean what's just one
013example like what's So um for our vision, I just met with the learner collective people this morning. We've got we are in the next round of that as well. Um talking through different ways to pull them in to talk through our vision of our school. So usually our teachers do that at the beginning of the year and we're really good at doing that within our four walls, but bringing in parents to talk through like what is your vision for a PR student in third or fourth grade? How can that fit going through 12th grade? Um bringing in community members, business leaders, things like that. What does MTSS stand for? Multi-tier student support. Thank you. So, um RTI, it's all kind of the same jargon. Um it just means like what systems and procedures do we
014have to support kids in different areas. So, academic is one realm. So, your academic interventions usually for math and literacy. And then we also now need behavior as well. So, thank you. You're welcome. [Music] Okay. So, middle school, I will say our word kind of over the year is being intentional. If you look through all of these, a lot of them we've done a little bit of, but we want to make sure that we're intentional and using them the right way. So, for monitoring progress, we have tracking data for smart goals. We're going to be creating smart goals based on the proficiency scales. We're going to be using success criteria to make sure that our proficiency skills are where they need to be. Um, we're going to use detailed response to that data. They're going
015to be using that during win time, doing their interventions based on that data for individual students. And then we are going to be moving from the success criteria to then taking it to the students and understanding their learning process to reflecting they're reflecting on their proficiency. They're tracking where they are on all those essential standards throughout that. Um, and then if you skip down, we'll skip one and go to the collaborative teams. That kind of ties in also that as the students learn through the learning process, we're going to go through the learning pit and learn kind of how they have to struggle to learn and then how they have to work their way back out of it to get to proficiency. They're going to be able to have student le conferences with their uh
016parents as they come in to explain their proficiency, where they're at, where they're at in the learning process, even if they haven't met it, that they can tell them how they're getting there. Um and then um on the opportunities to observe, our teachers are really great at observing. They want to go into each other's classrooms. They want to learn from each other. They want to share from each other. So, we want to be very intentional where they are going through during doing learning walks. We are going to use our district instructional model that we're putting out to our teachers this year and we're going to have a focus at every faculty meeting um where the teachers are going to then take that month to do learning walks through other teachers classrooms. Um they're going to
017be able to offer and say, "Hey, I I would love to share what I know about that. You can come to my classroom." Or, "Hey, come, you know," and they're going to go. Um, and so they're going to work on that for the the month and then reflect on it. And then if you go back up to the communicating and clear a vision, our walkth through reflection day. So what Miss Shelton and I will be doing for walkthroughs, well then after they've worked on it, looked at it for a month, we will be giving them feedback because that's one thing they've asked a lot more for is we want that feedback. We want to hear how we're doing. We want to see what you're seeing in the classroom. So, we're gonna focus our walkthroughs then
018on that instructional model piece. Um, so they can have the feedback on that. Um, and then the acknowledging success, we're going to celebrate all of those things. Um, we're going to have our store awards and celebrations. We're going to celebrate between the teachers on the proficiency and our smart goals, which our smart goal is also 80% on the essential standards. Um, we're going to celebrate that for students. the teachers are going to be celebrating that as they meet their proficiency since we are really wanting the students to know where they're at. We want to celebrate that, too. So, any questions? Thank you. Okay, for the junior high, our first are clear, measurable goals. So, our teams as well are going to be setting smart goals and we're going to be doing it frequently. Um that
019way we can measure our student academic success for each of our essential standards. Um that academic growth will also be measured through our MAP data, our common formative assessment data. We have multiple ways to measure our student growth. Also, our focus curriculum. We're going to continue to really fine-tune our essential standards as we have new team members join our staff. It's important that we all as a team agree on what our essential standards will be. We'll continue to do that and then also continue to create our learning maps to make sure that an entire year plan is in place before we start the school year so we know where we're going to end up and then also focus on those districtwide um those 15-day structural plans to help us um get to that that end
020of year goal. Powerful instruction. We're going to implement the new district model of instruction and one way will help to do that is through regular learning walks. um just as you as you've heard described by other principles, our teachers as well love to watch each other in action because that's where they get some great ideas from each other and we're going to implement another step to that which is to give each other feedback as well. Um next opportunities for input. We are really excited to start um a parent site council this year. Our counselors are going to help us implement this at our building. Um, in the past I started a principal lunch chat with our students last year where students get to meet with me um a couple times a year to give me
021feedback on the schools. I'll be doing that monthly this coming year, but then also have parents meet with us as well to really give us input on how they feel their students are doing in our building and how we can help their students be even more successful. We're also going to implement more opportunities for parents and students to give us anonymous feedback through surveys as well. We also find that our staff love to give us input. So, we're also bring the opportunity that give that opportunity to our staff to meet with me regularly on a on a really just casual basis, but give them that opportunity to give to give me feedback and again offer the the anonymous um survey as well. Finally, we really need to do better at acknowledging success at our school
022to be more public about it. We are doing so many great things at Free Rich Junior High. We are very good at bragging about it. So, one of our goals this year is to is to really just celebrate our successes to communicate better with parents about how successful their individual students are being in our classrooms. Um, and that will of course then lead to more engagement for students and parents. Any questions? I absolutely love these parents surveys chat and they're super fun for me too to have that chance to sit and talk to students on a casual basis. It's they really like it. They beg to be in my next group. So I I echo that. I love that you're doing that. Can you share You said you did it last year, the student launch
023chats. What are some really interesting or or or maybe innovative nuggets you took from those discussions? That's a great question. One that's off the top of my head is the students were adamant that they be allowed to leave the cafeteria earlier to go play outside so they'd have more outside playtime during lunch. That was a big one for them because typically we wait about maybe 15 20 minutes before we let them go outside. They said, "No, we want to go out at least 5 minutes earlier than that." So, we thought that was great. Um, what is also really interesting to me is what students consider good instruction and they're always right on target. It's it's always amazing to me that students are um very observant about how they're being taught in the classroom and they're
024very well spoken about how they like to be taught. That's really good feedback for me to share with our teachers. Thank you. Sure. How's it going, guys? Um, hope everyone had a great summer. Definitely enjoyed mine. Uh, looking forward to this school year. Um, you know, a big part of of moving forward is continuing to monitor the progress that we've made and and doing some of the same things we were doing good and uh improving on some of the things that we were doing bad. So, uh, making sure that we're making data informed decisions, right? Um, and some of that goes back to the critical content and that is tying some of our essential standards, what teachers have deemed as essential standards, um, and making sure our assessments line up with those, right? So that
025the data and informed decisions that we're making are actually going towards the standards of the student work. Um, also having clear and uh, ongoing evaluations. Um I I personally believe uh some of the biggest impacts that are made are administrators being in the classroom, right? And seeing some of the things um that our collaborative teams are talking about um not only seeing them being talked about, but actually seeing them come to fruition. Um so we're going to continue to do that. Um you guys were a part of I think some observations this school this past school year. Um we'll continue to do that. I think kids enjoy seeing um new faces in the classroom um and seeing adults in the classroom. Um private teams, we we sent a group of teachers as well as I
026think every building did to the PLC Institute this year. Um I think it's a great way for really for any teacher uh to to kind of light the fire again and and get going for the next school year, but definitely good for those new teachers. Um so we're looking forward to to this school year and how how our new teams are going to form. Um, with new staff coming on board, um, obviously the dynamics of teams change, so we're looking forward to seeing how those teams are going to move forward. Um, also, uh, enrichment intervention. Um, we believe we can do a much better job of what we've been doing. Um, we're excited about one of the resources that we have this school year, which is RTI scheduler, which is going to allow us to
027do a few more bells and whistles um, and just have some more accountability during during that period of time during the day. So, that's that's kind of what uh what our focus is for this upcoming school year. Any questions? I have a couple of generic questions. Sure, Mr. Martin. Um, have we received Atlas results back in yet? When do we expect those? October. October. October. So, are we leaving time to adjust our um plans to make sure that what our essential standards align with Atlas to see if we need to make any tweaks there come October? So, can I? Yes, ma'am. Okay. So, we just went to a training last week, Mr. Martin, Mr. Amy, Taber and I. Um there's a lot of talk about the atlas and to answer your question honestly it's going
028to be very difficult because we're not getting even we're getting just generic scores back in October. We won't get our letter grade till March or April. Okay. So to really do that I think we'll be able to see though and use the Atlas tool more consistently in the classroom like you'll see us using like they demonstrate to us in that training. We'll be able to use the classroom feature. We're going to do the interims. But as far as exactly cut scores and what you're siming for, if we go back to the Arkansas state standards that were released last year, then we should be right on target with exactly what that was. I mean, that that message was crystal clear that um success will be met by sticking to those Arkansas standards because those standards are
029directly tied as we've written our own tests for the state. Okay. And just to just to piggyback on that, it's it's it would be nice to have those right in time, but I think that's part of the transition of moving to a new testing system, but it's not like we don't have data to go off of, right? We still have our ACT, we still have AP. Um we still have just our unit test that we're doing as well. Um so it's we do have some data to go off of. Yes. And so with the Atlas test, because it's exactly aligned to Arkansas standards, we do have a testing blueprint that shows us how heavily weighted some standards are on that assessment. And that is how our teachers used or how our teachers went through the
030process of selecting their essential standards last summer was based on that blueprint. And then student growth. So Miss Finnick, you talked about your proficiency skills, 80%. Do we have student growth goals for all of the other schools? And are we going to talk to those at a later date as to what our student growth goals are like the intermediate, middle, junior high, and high school? We said at districtwide by the in the first round of instruction, we should get to 80% with proficiency scales. So, we're going to work on proficiency scales this year. Um, but then by the end of the year, the goal is to get to 90% through intervention. So, districtwide, we'll all be working on that 80 to 90. Okay. um on our on our essential standards. Perfect. Thank you. RTI uh
031response to intervention. Um so that's the students who who may have not understood it. Um we're also the students that may have really understood it and um we have to do something different as opposed to tier one instruction. We have to look at tier two targeting those kids that didn't get it, but also enriching the kids that did, right? Making sure we're moving them forward. Awesome. Thank you. Thank you. Any other questions? All right. You know, the work the work our staff has put in on this is is commendable. It's it's not just the people here. It's everyone in the buildings, our teachers, our staffs, our principles, and it's how we're moving forward. The eye is the most important part, the improvement plan, because it's it's about making sure we're improving teaching and learning on
032a daily basis. Um, so with that, I'd like to make the recommendation that we we approve the campus improvement plans as presented. All right, we have a recommendation. Do we have a motion? Eric. First motion. Good job. Second. I'll second. Second by Ryan. All in favor? [Music] can hear you. Um, up next we have our architect agreement for the football field, turf, and track. Um, it is come that time where it's time to consider replacing our current um, synthetic field and the track itself. Um, you know, the why we're here with this is our current plan surfaces, they're nearing their end of their life expectancy. Um on average um you know synthetic turf last about 8 to 10 years. I believe this season is year is season 12 for us. Um the reason why we've
033been able to extend the life of our turf is the great job our maintenance crew does and also our coaching staff. They do a great job improving the field and taking care of it. Um so with that it's time to start considering that. The work is to install a new synthetic plan surface on the football field and that will also include striping for soccer for the future and it will be 118 yard by 70 yard field. I didn't realize until we started this that there is not a set size for a soccer field. It it varies. So it has to be within specs and that's well within I believe it's 110 to 120 yards long and I think 65 to 80 yards wide. So that will fit the 81 118 by 70 will fit on
034our field and to also within the specs is a concrete pad for band stands on the north end of the football field so that we can put a um a band bleachers up to pull them out of the stands so they can be um part of that and also to free up seating in our in our stands. And with the track itself, we would remove the turf track and put in a traditional um hard surface track that is a pavement base with a polyurethane or polyethylene coating. I can't remember which one of them, the poly coating. Um the process uh to die is step one. It's approval of the owner architect agreement that gives us permission to send send the project out for bid. Um that bid process has to last at least 30 days
035to give companies the opportunity to bid. In mid August, if we follow that timeline, we would open up bids. Um Mr. Elliot's I'm sorry, Lewis architect and engineers would take care of that process for us. Mr. Elliots, our our architect at the September board meeting, we would bring the bids to y'all for approval or not. And then hopefully construction would begin kind of November, December after football season. Um, from what we've been told, the construction phase will last about four months, but we also realize that November, December, January, February, March may not be the best months to build in. So, it may run a little longer than that. So, it should be four to five months for the construction phase of it. Um, the cost, we're anticipating this to be about $1.6 million for the
036field, the football field again, um, reserving, redoing the track. um the district, we're in financial shape where we will not we will not be financing or asking for a millillage increase or anything like that to pay for the project. Um the savings will come from the district's building fund reserves um that we've been saving for the past several years and we'll utilize that to pay for the project. Um and that's what it looks like. I apologize for the blurry uh garbage markers. I cannot get it to clear up. Um what you'll see is um you'll have a black track that honestly black tracks cheaper than the coloring of the red but we will be doing the coach is it called exchange area exchange zones exchange zones um in red to mark those off and everything.
037Um, we're using the same letter font that we have in the gym in our gyms. I believe it's called Michigan State for the Blackhawks and everything to keep everything similar along with your um the bird head that is on on the majority of our courts and everything. So, that's kind of what it looks like. That white square is the band area you're talking about. Yes, yes, the square on that end that and that is not the scale. That is where we would put the stands. Yes, sir. So, question from December to May, track season. What What are we doing? Yes, sir. That is track season. Um, Coach Craig is working with Roger School District so that we can have access that we can go over there and partner with them and use their track some
038to to practice and make sure we're good for the season. And for the band, is there going to be any covering over those or just Right now, we have a concrete pad. I honestly I thought when you ordered band bleachers and everything that would come with the cover. That is not the case. I learned that. Um you'd have to build the cover separate from the stands themselves. I guess you're basically building um the shed roof and placing the stands underneath. So, we'll have to see if that's that's possible or not with wind ratings and things like that because I don't want to put anything out there that could be dangerous for for any situation. You mentioned the soccer, see the soccer field on there. I appreciate you doing that. And you you mentioned future. Is
039there a expected program start? Well, we're working on that now. Um my goal is to you know this year we have partnered with the city and youth the thunder program what is it? Pidge Thunder Pidge Thunder um the field out there. It it's going to serve a couple of purposes. The city's done a great job of leveling that off and grassing it. Um it gives our community another place for soccer. It also gives for the 16U and 14U teams to have a full-size soccer field. It also allows us to have another practice bill, a grass bill as well. Um, our goal is to start this, we're in the two-year cycle. You know, we just did the two-year cycle with the um with the not with the sports tripaa. So, at the end of this two-year
040cycle that we have soccer going, that will also probably include, you know, we'll need to look at locker room space. Um, we'll be bringing y'all a plan in the future to increase our locker room space without increasing the square footage of our footprint on the GI campus. So, we're working on that now. So, it's not 5 years down the road. It's in the foreseeable future to to have it to where we're playing and we'll have to make that decision. Are we going to start out with um JB for one year and then roll to um varsity or just play varsity? So, we'll we'll make that decision next year or so. Thank you. Anything else? The architect agreement, you know, it's standard. Um, architect fees are 6%. Um, we will not be using construction management for
041this. This is not a building. Um, we'll hard bid it and and save the six or 7% of that. If it were a building, it would be a different a different story. Do we host band marching contests or anything that would be affected as well? Um, no ma'am. Um, what we have host what we hosted last year were like regional assessments and things like that and those have been in the pack in the in the band room. They have not done a um marching competition here in the past. Similar to Oh, go ahead. I'm sorry. I'll wait. Marching season's finished well before November. Okay. You know, the beauty of having the turf field is is now you can use it all year round. So when you go to returf and redo all this, you're going
042to disrupt something, right? And so, uh, we tried to pick what's the least restrictive area, you know, time frame that we can utilize and get it done maybe over the winter months when we're inside a little bit more. Um, but it's just the best we can do and then we're going to hope for great weather so we can get it done quicker. Yeah. And we are very aware that we are the embassy suites of P Ridge. Everyone uses our facilities. There's going to be about 120 to 150 day window where that facility is not going to be open to the public. Okay. At least track events will be um more more often hosted here, but the field is not preferable the way it is now for Yes, sir. We are um a turf track is
043not um a traditional high school track. No. No. And this will allow us to have a a competitive track with with all our counterparts. Great. Okay. Any other questions? Okay. With that, I'd like to make the recommendation that we approve the owner and architect agreement with um Lewis Architect and Engineers for the returfing of the football field and the resurfacing of the track. Okay. We have a recommendation. Do we have a motion? Motion. Motion by Mindy. Second by Jessica. All in favor? None opposed. All right. Thank you. Um up next we have ourou with Missouri Southern State University. This is um we've had this MOU in place for several years. It comes up once every three years. What this does is it allows us to have student teachers and build in clinical experiences for those
044students going to MSSU on our campus. It's a wonderful opportunity for us. the best way to find new employee sometimes is for them to come work in your buildings and everything. And to be honest with you, almost every educator goes through student teaching and it's very important for us to provide opportunities for our future our future teachers. So are there any questions? Um with that, I'd like to make the recommendation that we approve um theou with Missouri State I'm sorry, Missouri Southern State University. All right, we have a recommendation. Do we have a motion? Motion presented. All right, motion by Ryan. Second. I'll second. Or you can. I'll second. How about this? There you go. John will second. John will second. All right. All in favor. Up next, we have ourou with reality check. This
045is an annual agreement. I think y'all have all seen the great work that they do in the 479 room or building and everything with our with our students. It's the same price as last year. um 30 grand total um which is a good price for the services that we get and the and the staffing that they provide. So I'd like to make the recommendation that we that we approve that again. Okay. I had a question. There's no change to the H if everything stays the same, right? All right. We have a recommendation. Do we have a motion? I'll make a motion. Motion by Mindy. Second. Second by Eric. All in favor of Up next we have board of board transfers. I added one or two um and gave you all this sheet. Um right now
046we have four students wanting to transfer in um and we have room in those grade levels and we have one student that um petitioned to transfer out today to um in grade nine. So we have a total of four students wanting to transfer in and one transfer out. we have room and in the past if we've had room we've always we've always approved. Are there any questions with that? I'd like to make the recommendation that we approve the board transfers as presented. Okay, we have a recommendation we have a motion. Motion by Jessica. Second. Second by Ryan. All in favor? Up next, we have policy updates. Um, Mr. Ramy was blessed with this about mid June. Um, and what this is is ASBA has been going through their policies and they've been making sure that
047all policies are aligned with um the changes to rules and statutory language and all that. All these are recommended by ASBA. Um, are there any questions? A lot of them are are minor the word 18 the numeral 18 changing to 18 but it's to make sure that we are legally compliant. Any questions? David. Okay. With that I'd like to make the recommendation that we approve the changes to board policy policy as presented. All right. We have recommendation. Do we have a motion? A motion. Motion by Eric. Second. I'll second. All in favor? None opposed. Up next, in our July meetings, we always approve our student handbook for use. Um, we always approve it for use instead of adopting it. And the reason why is policy always supersedes the handbook. So, if there's a change, get
048it to the in policy, we will amend the handbook immediately. Um, what I've I've sent it electronically the handbook, but it's it's really thick. So, I sent the table of contents. Are there any questions on any of the changes? They line up to what we just approved for policies. Okay. With that, I'd like to approve the student handbooks for the 2425 school year use. All right. We have a recommendation to be a motion. Make motion by right. Second by Jessica. All in favor? None. All right. Up next, we have our food service bids. In July of every year, um we approve our food service bid contracts um for for grocery supplies for the cafeteria. Um this year, and it was last year as well, SGC Sprinko Ger um came in with the with the lowest
049bid at 396,26. Um that they've been really good to us for the past two or three years and did a good job. Are there any questions? Just curious, what are the two items they did not? Oh, I have no idea. It just said broccoli. I have no idea. Um and as you can see in there, everybody um did not bid on some items. Sometimes it may be where they do not carry that item. Okay. And we can go to the second a secondary source to get those and excuse me, some items are paid through um I'm going to call them commodities. um you know, school districts get um free POW dollars from the Department of Agriculture for um basically overstock, whether it's cheese, meat, stuff like that. And a lot of times, sometimes those items,
050they know they're covered under PAL dollars. Districts aren't going to do that. A perfect example is like hamburger meat. If hamburger meat is available through commodity, you always purchase it through there simply because it's cheaper. Okay. Okay. So, uh, with that, I'd like to make the recommendation that we approve the food service bid for the 2425 school year, um, with SGC in the amount of 396,2006. Cannot forget six. All right, we have a recommendation. Do we have a motion? I'll make a motion. Motion by Mindy. Second. Second. Second by Ryan. All in favor? Not a motion. [Music] Can I talk about? Yes, ma'am. Yes, ma'am. We are going to go to section 7, school, home, and community relations. And I'm going to turn it over to Miss Mark. Yes. I also have added to your
051um table or your place today was information about the upcoming teacher and employee fair. It's on August 8th and um we're excited to host that again this year. We have a new partnership. We've um been working really hard with the Greater Bittenville Chamber, which includes Speed Ridge, to build some connections and create partnerships, and they've been really helpful in helping us get started and some things like that. Um we also have on there our theme for the 2425 school year is Elevate P Ridge and we're going to be seeing that in a lot of places. It's usually where we kick it off with this back to school event, but this is about the teacher fair and employee and we'd love to have you also on that day. That's where Mr. Martin will kick off the
052school year with a back to school for all staff and all employees. And we have um the new CEO and president of the chamber coming to be our guest speaker. Um so he's a great, if you haven't heard him, his name is Brandon. He's a wonderful great speaker and we're excited that he's going to come kick us off as well. We'll also recognize employees who have been in the service for um in service with us for five, 10, 20, and 25 years. And so it's just a great day and we culminate with the teacher fair event and um we feed the staff. So just to let you know about that event and it's coming your way. Thank you. You're welcome. If you know anybody wants to give out a gift certificate, just sign them right
053up and we'll take care of it. All right. Up next, we have our um approval of the audit for year ending June 30, 2023. I know y'all received those in the mail and everything. Um there's a lot in there. Uh the most important thing is I think we're for the fifth or sixth year in a row. They're in their no bindings. Um Miss Bernell, Miss Tucker, Miss Rose, um everyone that works through um PO process and everything. We do a really good job of making sure that we follow process and and are within guidelines and everything. So any questions? All right, Miss Bernell, thank you. I know this is a lot of work. Um, with that, I'd like to make the recommendation that we approve the audit for year ending June 30, 2023. We have
054a recommendation. Do we have a motion? I'll make a motion. Do we have a second? Second. Second by Eric. All in favor? Opposed? Mr. FX personnel. Uh, we're good. Okay, let me take Are we good? All right, you're good. Okay, I'd like to start off with resignations. I'd like to make the recommendation that we approve the resignation of Blake Rudolph with regret. All right. I have a recommendation. Do we have a motion? I'll make a motion. Motion by Ryan and second by uh all in favor. We oppose. Does he like I mean ideally? Yeah. Turn it down. I just don't know what a mass um for employment. I'd like to make the recommendation that we approve um the hiring of Melissa Witchard, Trey Fairchild, Gary Fair, Joey Davis, Susanna Rearen, Kelly Walker, Marky Hail, Julie
055Lassos, Abigail Unir, Kelsey Blebins, and Caroline Ken Ael. Okay, have a recommendation. Do we have a motion? Motion by Eric. Second. I'll second. Second by Mindy. All in favor? Um, and lastly, we have transfer. I'd like to make the recommendation that we transfer Terresa Morgan to cafeteria manager at the junior high. Okay. Have recommendation to be a motion. Make a motion. Motion by Ryan. Second. I'll second. All in favor? Oppos? Mr. D. That's all I have. Any motion that we adjourn? I second. All in favor? And we're done. 6:44. Thank you. Good job.