001So, we are going to go ahead and proceed with our November uh school board meeting. And I think we have both premade classes represented today to help us with the pledge. So Jordan, please stand up. [Music] To the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands nationy andice for all the moment of silence. Amen. And I think you guys have a song, right? Back down. Yes, you would love to say Elijah, Ella, thank you guys so much. Hallelujah. beautiful. All right. Um, thank you for the for attending the November. Up next, we have Coach Clark. We're going to turn it over to student. Yeah, absolutely. Thank you, sir. Uh pretty pretty happy couple weeks at High School. Uh very fortunate. We'll start off with cross country first, but our
002cross country team was able to uh secure a state championship down at Oakan and Hot Springs a week ago. And uh we were talking about this lunch the other day. It's pretty exciting to me because right now when you look at our boys cross country and our boys track team, we're the state champion in indoor track, outdoor track, and cross country. And there's no other no other categories. That's it. Uh now, it wasn't all in the same school year. So, we still have more to work towards for this school year. But when you look at the calendar year of 2022, uh the period Blackhawks men's uh track and cross country team has won everything there was to win. So, I would like to start off. We would like to honor coach Coach Wade first. Coach,
003come on up. The coach of the year. Congratulations. And then Mr. like to give this course to the school. And guys, I believe that makes the uh 24 state championship that Pidge has won alto together in its history. Uh our plan is Mr. Amy and I have been working on a plan to get those up in the arena lobby where potentially we take the bottom part out and then wall mount the fla and it'd be about three or four rows. And like I said, 20 24 of them looks really good when you see them all together. So, we're happy to to get that up and recognize our kids for their great work. Coach Wade, if you would uh talk about drive and drive, first of all, thank you guys for inviting us and thank you
004for all your support. um from the school board, our faculty and staff, from our community. I'd like to take this time to introduce our 22 cross country boys cross country teams. We have [Applause] Boston Jackorn. Nicholas Pickle Galb and then the last that I have here were the boys that uh that ran at our state Darren Smith, Jacob, Grant. Um, we did have some honors. Um, Bruce Porter was all conference and all state. Ferguson was all conference and all state. David Stein, all conference, all state. Master all conference, all state. Grant, all conference, third place finish at the state meet, all state, and he was an alternate for the all Arkansas allstar team. Brandon Grant is a two-time conference champion. He was all conference runner up to the state meet all state and he also
005was a member of the Arkansas Allstar team this year. Also my coaching staff um we have coach Paul and Coach Gib. Uh as stated this team has one state one state this year. They were also conference champs, but the senior class this year has compiled um three conference championship, one state runner up, and two state titles in their three years as a high school athlete. So, um we have a really hardworking team, very close-knit group of boys. Um and they are all boy, let me tell you that. Um they put lots of miles in the summer and we're very proud of them and all their accomplishments. Thank you. Everybody get in front of this half. That would be fantastic. Thank you. They can just alternate. Yes, thank you. All right. Uh, next up we have
006on October 1st, uh, Miss Eubanks. Would you just come on up, Miss Eubanks? Miss Eubanks took our choir students and they auditioned for the all region choir and had great success and I'm going to let her recognize the students individually. But there was uh another award that was given out uh and that award was given to Miss Cubank and this is the region 6 senior high director of the year which is quite an honor. Uh so congratulations guys. I've been fortunate enough to work with Missy Banks for a few years. We'll leave that. And she's always done a wonderful job. So, it's very exciting to see the success that that she's having that her choir students are having. And I'll let her tell you about her her squad. Thank you. First of all, apologize. I
007don't have to do that. Um, yeah. So, the students, I'm going to call them up here first. Oh, and thank you so much for letting us recognize. Um, I'm going to call them up here first and then I'm going to tell you about what my So, um, my students or the few that may read in are Trey B, Hendris, Natalie Bern, I several who couldn't make it. They have prior commitments. I have actually have two at a voice recital right now. Um those are Mary Christensen, Satie Christensen, Kate Townen, Jonathan Ortiz, U and Johnson. So those aren't here tonight. So these students made all regen choir. Um for choir when we compete we are not competing against just the schools that are our size. These kids are competing against ventil springs. Um mountain home. Yes.
008Harrison Gravitry. I mean all of those. um we don't go into the Springdale area or Fagatville um but that whole region they are competing against them and we have several students who made extremely high chairs um raise your hand if you were I don't have a third chair at least one third chair yeah um a sixth chair um if you were one if you made the mixed choir raise your hand and it too and then I had a few more And then I have my treble kiddos and that's everyone else including my junior high kids. Yeah. Um so basically they learn this coral music. They go into a room. They don't even know which part they're going to audition on until they get there that morning which is extremely stressful. And they sing and it's
009a blind audition and these kids are hanging in with the big guys. So I'm so proud of them. They work extremely hard. they're seeing these high school students are seeing collegiate level music. It's very difficult. So, um I do have a handful that are going to uh state in February where they will compete with the top 20 singers from each voice part from around the state. Um I know Trey is going Natalie. Um, Cadence, Satie, uh, Marin. Yes. And Jonathan Martinez. So, we have a handful. That's the most we've ever had. Um, and it's just because these kids work super hard. Um, so very proud of them. Um, trying to think. Um, not only do they compete as individuals, we also go and compete as an ensemble. Last year, we got Well, every year for
010like the past four, five years, we've gotten um at assessment. Um and then we've gone to we've qualified for state three times. One year it was co so we know so we've gone to state twice and we're going to do it again this year and this year we're hoping we get sweet stakes and get ones all the way around. So um that's what we're up to. We have a Christmas concert coming up December 6th. Please come. It's going to be so much fun. We're going to have um we've got three choirs that are singing a musical theater class. Um, and possibly some like dancing with color guard. Um, I've got some band kids that are coming in and play with uh our vocalist. So, it'll be a lot of fun. Love to see you guys.
011So, thank you so much. Yes. Um, so right now the thing that and we're about to hit fundraising hard in the next three months. So the thing that we're trying to raise money for now is a uniform. Right now we don't have enough for all the high school kids to wear the same exact uniform. They would have to wear different outfits. Um, and I mean it would be fine, but it definitely gives a better perspective to the judges, I guess, is what I'm trying to say. When we all stage, we all have the same uniform. So, that's our first goal. There are other things, but that's the first thing we're trying to congratul post on social media. All right. Congratulations again. All right. So far. Yeah. So, uh, we are moving in from fall sports
012to winter sports right now. And so, it's a perfect time to to update everyone on kind of where we're at. Uh, so right now we've just just finished with golf, football, cross country, volleyball, and then band, choir, and theater will be ongoing year round. That's kind of with the calendar. And as we move into winter, it's pretty well basketball dominated. And then we do have a non-sanctioned school sport, but club wrestling taking place. they're practicing in our junior high cafeteria uh throughout the winter. So, that's kind of what we have going on. Uh when you look at golf, we had uh one young lady and one uh male qualify for state and then we had one of our our uh our golf team's pretty young, seen a lot of good success out of a couple
013ninth and 10th graders. So, we see them maybe qualifying as a team for state. They came in third this year. So, they come up one spot short of a team qualifying for state just by individual scores. And so that's how how golf coach Valerin is our golf coach has been for a few years now and they do a good job of uh you know traveling getting in a couple matches a week and then obviously we our home matches are at Big Sugar here in P Ridge and they do a great job. Correct. Yes ma'am. Yes ma'am. Our football team finished the season uh three and seven won two non-conference games and one conference game. The one conference game was to Carterville. Of course that would be a seventh place finish is what football came in.
014Uh they worked extremely hard all spring, summer, then in the fall as well. Uh it was a tough season. I think anybody would agree with that. Uh but you know, the three wins this year was the same. We had the past two years combined. So hopefully we're starting to see a little bit we can build on and grow on. And then the junior high football team, uh you know, they they practiced, worked hard, and got better every game as well. And you know, we're starting to see where they're playing in a pretty large school conference with conference games and things like that. So hopefully we can see some of that pay off as they get older and they're not putting those teams to the high school level. Uh cross country, uh girls came in third
015at state. I know we just honored the boys. Boys came in first and anytime you get like that, you present it to the school and it's a big deal. Uh but girls did really well as well. They came in third. Uh moving into kind of the end of the year, they they just kept improving throughout and I I don't know that they thought they'd come in third at the state meet, but when it was all said and done, that's where they were. So they had a great team as well. Uh volleyball volleyball uh started off and and really had a great season. We we came in first in our division and then Shalo was first in the division below us. And when we got to the district tournament, we lost one game against Farmington. That
016kind of put us in a bad spot when we got to state. So we had a great season, everything was going great. dropped one hard match to to Farmington at Craig Grove and the end result is we're playing uh in the first round against the Mina team that's really good. So, we did not win that game when our season ended. Have we beat Farmington? Uh we've been playing I can't remember who it was, Keith, but Farmington won their set by 3 0 and stayed and moved on and sometimes as a coach you can look back and pinpoint where something changed and it was that game. But all things considered, uh volleyball did wonderful. I don't recall us ever coming in first in a division before. uh you know we'd like to seen that state tournament
017win and I know the girls would agree with me uh but I got to spend a lot of time with them over the summer and into the fall. It is a great group of young ladies and they really represented school well. Uh band we went to the uh state marching contest down in Little Rock. Uh band came in eighth uh in the entire state which was really really good. Uh if you had a chance to watch them, I know some of y'all in the audience have uh they scored all ones at their original Sess Rogers was incredible and uh just can't brag enough on the work that Mr. Shelby and his team are doing. Uh it it's been really fun to watch them because you know the the energy just kind of the the enthusiasm,
018passion he brings to his job and brings to work, you know, it spreads quickly and so we see that amongst all our band students. And then uh choir uh obviously the G was honored with driver of the year and we have more kids qualified to for all choir to go compete for statewide than we had before. So very positive developments there and then uh I left off cheerleading. The cheerleading runs year round but we are also in competition season for cheerleading right now. And so cheerleading will go I think December 15th December 16th is their state competition in Hot Springs. uh they won state last year. They've got a pretty young team at the high school level right now. Uh so we'll see how that goes, but they they've moved on from supporting football to
019kind of their season and then they will continue to support basketball as possible. Uh but they are very much dedicated to competitions here at the moment. And then uh theater, if you guys didn't get a chance to, I would highly recommend coming to watch our Peter Rick drama troop is what they they've named themselves. They put on Anna's Green Gables on Friday night and Saturday night. I was able to in the Friday night show. Uh it was awesome. Like it it really was the kids did a great job. We had one person, Miss Hash, one of our teachers, had to step in at the last second and fill a role. And so it was it was really just a lot of fun to see see our students uh just enjoy doing something that we traditionally
020have not seen them do at Pet Ridge. But you know, we had intermission and we were talking about, hey, you know, it's what what's this? It's kind of that you know, so it's it's a new thing for us, but it's also very encouraging and very exciting to see our town come out and support our kids like they did because there was I think a couple hundred people there on Friday night. Uh, and it was just really really good. Kind of the same as with Mr. Shelby, Alexander, our drama teacher, and she just brings kind of that energy and passion to be special and she brings us to work with her every day. So, we're very very optimistic that she's a teacher. I was really like I was really impressed with with the tables on Friday.
021It was fantastic. Those are the activities and athletics during the period. And uh if you guys have any questions, well my job is like all the fun stuff. So I get to do party planning and doing sports and music. So it's busy, but it's a good busy. Thank you. Up next we have consent agenda. Are there any questions? Okay. With that agenda board meeting on October 10, 2022 special October 242. All right. recommendation. Do we have a motion? Any discussion? All in favor? Any opposed? All right. Up next, we have four out of state trips. And I know some of them aren't very far, but technically across the state line, we have to have to approve them. Our first one is the intermediate middle school, Missouri. That is approximately 15 to 20 kids that we
022would like to shop for shop with a pop event that they do every year up to J and everything. So, um are there any questions about that? They'll get to be during the school day. more than half. Um on the next one we have our girls basketball that I believe that's called arrow. Is that correct? Um they go every year. Um we usually they do offer free hotel rooms for the kids. We may stay that Friday night, but usually just dropped back and forth if they play a late night and an early game on Friday night, Saturday morning back. Any questions? Okay, the next one is the football to Jane Missouri. Um, I put Jane Missouri on there because when I called Barn, that's where they told me they got. It's about 2 miles on
023the other side of the state. It's center. football would like to have their football this year. And our last one is our first trip and it is our students going to the tech and that is this Friday and they'll have 25 kids or make Any questions with that? I would like to make a recommendation to approve. All in favor? Up next we have a crew basketball. Um we are running into a time where the basketball and the company that we use they have some days that they can provide Christmas or anything like that. But what we need to do is set people with that. No ma'am. These are only seventh and eighth grade games. They're probably running into right now. They'll give us high school rest. They can give us junior high games if we
024start junior girls and junior boys at six, which means you got to put the seventh and eighth grade games in a different gym and start them at day. will be there a little bit longer. So we pay them in my opinion based on how how long per games that's not fair game post game. Yeah. So that was a conversation and I had today figure out how we could support someone verified basketball knowledge before the game. Uh we're looking right now using school personnel uh to go to fill that. If we can't find any school personnel at that point, we turn to community members and just essentially advertise for Yeah, that was a conversation and I have all the kids or young men that have come through the program in the past 20 years. We know
025that someone might not be aware basketball. All right. We got a second discussion. All in favor is our student support. Uh food service has a balance of $419,435. And so our balance there continue to be healthy. We are waiting on some reimbursements for September and October in the amount of $141,339.77. So we have additional money up. We expect to receive it in December. Um and it's not uncommon for us to be a month or two behind up here from the state. Um, we are like everybody else. Uh, we are experiencing some uh difficulties. I think the droughts out in California, the hurricanes uh in Florida have caused some issues. We're seeing problems in regards to let us right now. We we make a lot of silence particularly for staff members and we do some fore
026dietary restrictions and things, but our typical cost of taking us is about $30. And so we have seen some challenges that we're trying to trying to work through our staff to do a great job. They're navigating different situations like like everybody else, but we are seeing some challenges there. Um we have our our Thanksgiving meal is on Thursday. Uh we ordered uh turkey uh like in late August, early September to try to get a shortage of going around. So we've got enough for students and staff. Um and so we're looking forward to uh that day. It's always a fun time and time. Uh and so that's Thursday. In transportation, we have received our two trip buses and they're we put them to use and so they're out on the road. a great addition to our
027fleet. I know our team and groups that have utilized them are really welcome. It's it's free up. We're glad to have those. buses around. So, we're hoping um in some other vendors they request at least a year ago. And so, we're continue to delay hope that um we do have some bus drivers that we'll see through through whether it's illness wheat home. We don't have to. And so we're thankful for those that have stepped up and supported us and help us learn. So we understand stress that it takes we do have several that were working to get certified in old days they changing to do it. It just takes a little longer. We just kind We're working through it. We can we got we got tomorrow morning. Um we are working on uh the quad.
028We finally have some some rest in there and we're moving forward. I think last month we presented that the final bill was going to be at 113,000. Uh we went back and got the ride and we settled for uh $134,57911. Uh we have already started paint in there and we started electrical started last week and so we got CRES that are working through it. So they're organizing it. They kind of got a timeline out. We're hoping to have positive hold. But then you can see kind of the struggle work. The big thing we're struggling with is our lights in that room. So we're going to get some generic lights in there initially so we can open up the room to utilize it. We currently have that damage to replace and so they're working through all
029those safety aspects and all those things. But we're kind of pleased that we got the first hurdle out of the way. I think it ran for about 13 minutes before we could get the water. Okay. I didn't hear your card. Okay. very not having transfers when I was rescend. Do we have a motion? Do we have a second? I'll second. Second all. All right. I will entertain a recommendation to the second. Any further discussion? All in favor? Thank you very much.