001So, welcome to the July 31st special board meeting. Um, if you don't mind, we're going to go ahead and start with the pledge and then a moment of silence. 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. Amen. All right, Mr. Martin, I'm going to turn it over to you. All right, welcome to our special board meeting for the end of July. Um, our first item is uh to approve the related vendor disclosure list. Every year we ask our employees to disclose, you know, if they have any relationship or not and that includes board members as well. Um that's part of Arkansas code annotated and I forgot the number on it and everything.
002Right now we have a 624101. Um right now we have these companies. My plan is you know as we get going back to school to bring this back to you in probably September as well if we have anything else. And then what we will do is we will bring this to you as we need as um people's lives change, people add things and disclose so that we're able to keep a running list of who is because there are some rules and rags we have to follow with this and we need to know whether we need to follow them or not. Part of it is um you know from an administrator or schoolboard member the answer is no, we do not. But from an employee, it could be um example, somebody could have a towing business
003and they're going, you know, we need to contract service with them like first I need to have it disclosed to y'all before we even begin that process. And it may be a point in time where it's 3:30 in the afternoon and the bus is on some route and we need a tow truck. And I know we have no one on there for tow truck. That was just an example of okay just being able to do that so that we're protecting our employees and protecting the district and following rolls and ranks. Mr. Belle, do you have anything? Okay. Are there any questions? Okay. With that, I'd like to make the recommendation that we approve the related vendor list as presented. All right. So, we have a recommendation. Do we have a motion? A motion. Motion by
004Jessica. Do we have a second? Second. Second by Ryan. Any further discussion? All in favor? Any opposed? Okay. Okay. Up next, we have approve a mentor teacher sen. Um this is something that has been brought to us a couple, you know, more than a couple of times, several times. Um we have um some of our staff. They are wonderful and they they help our new employees, our new teachers out. Um we would like to have the opportunity to reward them a little bit. I know $300 a year isn't much, but it is showing appreciation for what they're doing. And um you know, they need about that 10 12 hours a semester with them. Um I can't tell you how beneficial it is for our staff who's been here to help and guide the ones who
005who haven't been here very long. And it's the little things. I never forget my first year teaching and I know this has been a while but my first year teaching I didn't know what a purchase order was to you just don't know right it was November before I realized that I could actually turn a purchase order in to pay for something instead of me just going and paying for it. And so it's it's just helping them with things like that. Uh you know, just decision making. Um you know, how you know, just even things as far as you know, classroom management, how to how to handle communicating with parents and community members and everything. I know Miss Taber's been working on that. Do you have anything? Uh we've worked really hard on identifying different layers
006of support for our new teachers and um you know this is just one component of that but we definitely want to compensate those teachers who are giving of their time to help our our new staff. Um and this year we have around 20 um who will be joining us with zero years of experience and so it'll be important for them to have that mentor along the way. So is mentor different than the master teacher? Yes ma'am. Okay. So they're not the same person instructional facilitators and whatnot. They help do coaching cycles. They are involved in curriculum, you know. So, we're not making them do the two world. Okay. No. Well, this is this is more targeted and specific as a brand new teacher. Okay. A veteran teacher will work with me. Okay. And help assist
007and answer questions and kind of guide me. Perfect. Along the way. Yeah. Okay. Master teachers kind of work with everybody. Okay. And there's only one mentor teacher in each school or No, ma'am. it be would I it'll be a one to one ratio like if the primary school has um five five new teachers u we would have five different mentors but the most I'm willing to do probably is have one teacher work with two two novice teachers. You don't want it to where one person's working with 10 because then it loses the u the uniqueness that each individual person may need. I mean, everybody has different strengths and weaknesses and we need to make sure that we're we're helping our our novice teachers as much as possible. Okay. And how do we get feed Sorry.
008No, go ahead. You're in your train of thought. I didn't mean to interrupt you. How do you get feedback? How do we get feedback from the novice teachers showing that they've received adequate information from the mentor? That will be through Miss Haber, that will be through survey and things like that. Okay. and just you know but we haven't um used to have a path program called pathflies that has been a while I was a pathwise mentor it's been that long the state department used to give us a stip money to provide a stipen for our mentor teachers to our mentor the mentees and um they no longer do that and it was such a beneficial service we thought we should offer or try to have something internally to help help that cause. Okay. Yes, ma'am.
009Um, how are the mentor teachers selected? I know it says that they're a model teacher, but it doesn't really offer like the selection process or So, our campus principles will will pair them with the novice teachers based on what they teach, how long they've taught, personality, something that, you know, they know about the new staff, that's in common with a a current staff member. Just trying to make those good matches. And so, uh, our principles will make those decisions based on the staff. Okay. All right. Any further questions? Okay. Okay. With that, I would like to make a recommendation that we approve the mentor teacher statement as presented. All right. So, we have a recommendation. Do we have a motion? Motion. Okay. Motion by Sarah. Do we have a second? Second. Second by Jessica. Any
010further discussion? All in favor? Any opposed? Okay. Sarah, did you I made the motion. She made the motion. She second. Thank you. All voted for 44. Thank you. Yep. Um up next on the agenda is another staffing is to approve onetoone personal care stopping. Um some of our pair professionals, you know, they work very closely with our special needs children. Some of them require onetoone personal care such as, you know, changing things like that. It's a very demanding um job. So, we would like to offer them a $3,000 stapling annually to do that. Um you know, that would be a buck that would kind of separate the pay between a pair professional and a traditional classroom and a pair professional who is um providing personal care and that is um I can honestly say that
011is a different level of of attention to detail and work and strain on your body and everything. Um so we would like to uh do that. This money will not come out of u general operating. It will come out of catastrophic funding that we get from federal funding from the from from the state government. So it would not come out of general operating but we feel this is much needed to incentivize people to work in that in that line. And currently how many do we have that are onetoone aids? At least eight. Eight. Okay. Is there a pretty high turnover rate because of the nature of the has been pretty fortunate to not we try to really um but yes there is some my turnover is our kids our enrollment has gone up the need
012we're just all the kids are coming to be rich so we just want to make sure that they're well taken care of and like that catastrophic fun Okay. Any further questions? Okay. Okay. With that, I'd like to make the recommendation that we approve the onetoone personal care stipen as presented. All right. So, we have a recommendation. Do we have a motion? I'll make a motion. Second. I did. Do we have a second? Second. Second by Ryan. Any further discussion? All in favor? Any opposed? Okay. Next. Do do we see any need to go to executive session for personnel discussion? I don't think so. I don't believe so. Mr. Mr. Martin, I I didn't. Ryan, did you? Okay. All right. Um, with that, I'd like to make the recommendation that we accept the following resignations with
013regret. Matt McCool, Jessica Thomas, Cararissa Doris, Andrea Mundy, Candy Haron, and Monica Lukey. All right. So, we have a recommendation. Do we have a motion? I'll motion. All right. So, we have a motion by Sarah. Do we have a second? Second by Ryan. Okay. Any further discussion? No. All in favor? with regret. Absolutely. Any opposed? Um, I'd like to make the recommendation that we offer employment for hire to Kaylee, David Davis, Kinsey Hall, Michael Leon, Katie Grace, Zack Brown, Sarah Lawson, Ed Bestall, Alex King, Jessica Cruz, Melissa Kun, Maria Rodriguez, Alison Lee, Joshua Wood, Tinker, and Blood, Randy Triml and Lauren. All right. So, we have a recommendation. Do we have a motion? Motion. Motion by Jessica. Do we have a second? A second. Second by Ryan. Any further discussion? All in favor? Any opposed?
014Okay. Um, lastly, I would like to make recommendation that that we approve that the transfer of Mr. Blake Rudolph and Miss Courtney Pal. All right. So, we have a recommendation. Do we have a motion? A motion. Motion by Sarah. Do we have a second? I'll second. Any further discussion? All in favor? Any opposed? Okay. That's all I have. All right. So, I would entertain a recommendation for adjournment. I'll motion that. And do we have a second? Second. All in favor? Thank you guys very much.