001demoted. Daniel Good evening. We're going to go ahead and start the meeting to order. Jim, can you Mr. Mark, could you please call the role? Okay. Carl Ste, present. Daniel Gray will not be here. Ava Coleman present. Jim Moore present. Ron McDaniel present. Dina Tony here. Lauren Martin here. And Laura Walker here. All here. We'll go ahead and stand for a moment as I was in the pledge. Please join the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the standy. Thank you to everyone. Yeah, I'm sitting in for tonight. I use this stuff. Here we go. Our vision. JMPSD will be the model district where every learner is valued and empowered to become a successful contributing member of society. Our mission JMP JMPSB will foster a
002culture of ownership and accountability through partnerships that create multiple pathways for success. Thank you for reminding me of that Daniel. Okay, today we have a special presentation. Good evening board. Uh the first presentation I'm going to ask Coach Barry Hickam to our athletic director to come forward with his presentation. Good evening. I just to share some good news about our athletic department. Um, our numbers compared to last year, we are up 1% which is a positive. We have 39% of JHS students participating in our athletic department and you'll currently see grade points averages compared with athletes that are involved in the program. Our total number this year we have 453 and uh we're up from from last year. So we're pleased with that. I think one of the most important pieces of the puzzle is
003we had a lot of firsts this year that I wanted to share with you that whether you know it or not, you made an impact. Uh we held our first wrestling match during uh during January with uh Bolognia and Joy Robinson and our our scholars competed and we let all our athletes in the other sports come and cheer them on that night. And if you didn't get a chance to be there, we probably had aboutund I don't know 150 athletes from other teams to come and cheer them on. And it was a great evening. And we did win the tri match, but that wasn't what was important. The important thing was getting it done and getting it started. But then we did have a young lady that qualified for state and she did win a
004match and that was awesome. If you've never been to a state wrestling competition, it is something to see. Uh there's about 12 match going on at a time by any by weight class and uh schools from everywhere. It was really exciting to see. We had one male and one female that qualified for state in their weight class. And uh if we hadn't part of that program, we wouldn't have gotten that opportunity. Um I want to speak on our track team for just a few minutes. This is the first time since we've been Titans that our track team has won a meet with both of our teams, our male and our female athletes. Both we won the girls and the guys. Um, we had our first first person on our track team that won total points.
005And so our track team is when we first started, we had uh six males and four four females. And last, I guess it was last Thursday, we competed in the conference meet and we took over 50 50 scholars to participate in that track meeting. And uh what was awesome is I don't know if you're familiar with track, but there's a race called a 4x 200. And on our relay team, everybody's running the 200. And with about 250 yards left, we're in fourth place. We're behind Park View, we're behind Silen Hills, and we're behind Delon. And um so we hand the sign off on the last leg and we're still in fourth and we've got a we've got a scholar that can get around the track in the last pretty quickly. And as she's closing those
00650 kids that we have in the stands, the volume level just increases. And u we close in in the last 10 yards and we won that relay. Our team finished first in conference. You're talking about a warm feeling to go from 10 to 50 and to have kids competing in conference meet and winning them was just awesome. And uh you appreciate Dr. Ola with the wrestling program and the vision for the track and our our ultimate goal is to host our conference track meet for next year or the year after. And then we do have two kids in our wrestling program that are going to sign this Friday to go to Central Baptist College. That's something that we would have been as we wouldn't have been able to start that program. So, thank you for
007believing in our program and supporting those guys and gals and uh we're working hard doing good things. Thank you. Thank you, Cody. We have an additional presentation, student presentation. U Mrs. Jamie Blast Gang will come and present the seal of bi literacy. Good evening, Dr. Owen, and members of the board. I'm Judy Blackman and I have the privilege of one of my many roles here is to serve as the diesel coordinator for our district. I'm honored to share significant achievements by three of our outstanding students who have earned the art bill. This award is for students who demonstrate proficiency in both English and at least one other language. It is a mark of academic excellence, culture awareness and real world readiness that will benefit them in college careers and beyond. This accomplishment not only reflects
008their personal dedication but also highlights the strength of our district's commitment to language development and diversity. I'm going to call up one of our e-haw specialist, Mr. Underwood, who will be presenting these students. And I think only one photo, but we have three um tonight with their award. with me. Our first person that we would like to introduce to you is Thomas. He uh will receive a certificate of completion. We proudly give this to him for completing the Arkansas School of Battle Legacy and it is in the language of text and he is a 12 to receiving the certificate. He also received the medal that has the Arkansas Seal of Foundation. Also, we're going to present it to Nor Stangle and he received it in Spanish and also in German. He will receive a certificate
009along with the medal as well. And the third person we have is Adrien Rodriguez. He will receive it in Spanish. [Music] You're [Music] not happy everyone. One, two, three. I got [Music] Mrs. Coleman, that concludes our presentation. Okay, thank you. That was wonderful. Um, do we have a facilities update? We do. [Music] short and sweet tonight. We're basically through with the clinic. We're punching the clinic itself this week. Um could hand the kids over to our care to move furniture in next week. um sewer. We're approaching the end of the hallway and we still have I guess we have one more classroom width and then the sidewalk to the manhole to have the the sewer completely dug up and then we'll get the pipes put in to probably have about 20 ft of pipes that's
010already we have dug up and ready to put pipes in. So that should be tracking right on schedule for uh May 21st for final inspections and turnover for our care move their people in and I think maybe start seeing patients in June is their plan. So things are looking really good and you can see the pictures that I sent out in the bull report. Um looks a whole lot different than it did as a school. It's hard to believe that we got that much stuff in one hallway. Is there any questions I can answer? So, let's talk about the sewer deal. Is it is going to be fixed to where if we do expansion of the other parts, it will No, sir. Oh, okay. Just for that one. Well, it'll be for half. But what
011we did is we came in right about the cafeteria, which is halfway down the hallway, so we could get the clinic on board and send it out to end. So, we'd have to do the other half. Okay. To get the rest of the building. I was afraid. Sorry. Thank you. All right. Thank you guys. I appreciate it. Thank you. Okay. Legacy. Wow. Yes. Uh board members, you have another packet that uh Miss Rangel presented to you and we had one right before that um from this group and so I would like to have you all score these and then I will send you the results from this round and the previous round and then just a reminder um the company who are the company that's printing the actual monuments the the plaques um have a
012a time span and about 3 to four weeks for uh production. And so um if we want these included as soon as these are scored along with the previous group we have two uh in that group we can go ahead and place this with the other uh order so that we can get those in production and hopefully uh by the end of June uh we can have that completed uh or before the end of June we can have all completed and then we can officially schedule a recognition ceremony for the legacy walk. And that concludes my update. Is there any questions? I'm open. Thank you so much. District reports. Yes. I have one additional um report for you all. Um the board policies uh model policies that ASBA puts together for us. I've submitted those
013to you and um of course they're in alignment with the recent legislation that the uh Arkansas legislature has just passed and been approved by the governor. And so we will have a busy next few months. Um and so if you could res uh review those and I'll start adding those to the board uh board agenda for your review and approval. We're also section three is licensed and section 8 um is classified. So we're sending those to those uh licensed and classified PPC groups so they can review the changes uh that you will see are in red and those are in alignment with the law. And so we really don't have a choice uh to implement them or not, but we just want to make sure all groups who are going to be impacted by the
014changes are aware of those. And so those will be shared with those groups as well as officially placed on the board agenda starting June. Um and that concludes my report for this month. Thank you. Do we have a PPC report? Yes. anyone. I had several things for the board, but I think some of them have been worked out already. And the only thing that we want to add is that the employees, the classified employees of the district that they can use their spouse le to align it with the license personnel. They have that already. They can use their spouse and we just want to align ours with that. Yes, sir. Did you receive a copy of that? Okay. It wasn't part of the original email that was sent and then Eric and I compared it
015to the 3.8 license. Thank you, Dr. we're doing. Okay. Well, we'll entertain a motion to approve um the verbiage to allow spouses to use their lead as um certified staff does already. So move. It's been moved and properly second. All in favor? Any opposed? Thank you, Miss P. Thank you for your work. Thank you for your time. Okay, we need to take some action action on our consent agenda. Hopefully, everyone has had an opportunity to look over that. I'll entertain a motion. Second. Is it a move and properly second? All in favor? Any opposed? Okay, that is passed. Classified employee sick leave revision. Yes, ma'am. Before you, you have a revised 8.5 policy for classified employee sick leave. Um, director of finance. It was submitted by Mrs. Erica Logan, our director of HR. The director
016of finance and staff uh will need to update the classified sick leave policy to align with the license policy. This change will require all day and PSC employees to submit leave requests in either half day or full day increments. Uh in our e finance system is configured to recognize only half day and full day entries. And so the district would like to transition from hourly system to that half day and full day increment. So the recommendation is to approve this revised classified employee suity policy. Okay. I enterain a motion. It's been moved and properly second. All in favor? Any oppose? And it passes. Thank you. License stip in addition to the salary schedule. Yes. This action item was also submitted by Mrs. Logan, director of HR. It's the license stipen addition to the salary schedule.
017Um for the 2526 school year, two teachers at JHS will oversee the cyber security pathway. Um, we're requesting a siphon of 5,000 be added to $5,000 be added to their salary schedule due to the additional planning, coordination, oversight uh of this program uh that it requires. Uh they will write grants and organize advisory board meetings and align the curriculum with industry and post-secondary expectations. Just uh for more clarification, um this was once a full-time position, 244 uh day contract. we have removed that and we'll add the additional siphon to these two teachers so that they can complete the requirements uh so that the cyber security continue to move forward. So the re recommendation is to approve the siphon uh addition to the 2526 salary schedule as presented. I entertain a motion. So move. Is there
018a move and properly second? All in favor? I. Any opposed? Pay. Audit report. Yes. Uh board members, you should have received the FY24 uh audit report uh at your home address. Um there were two management uh report findings that were presented to you. The one about the salary adjustment uh to the payroll specialist as well as the um the cyber uh breach u of those three uh charges a charges to our bank account that we were uh credited back by the uh from the bank uh after our finance team discovered those fraudulent charges. And so, uh, if there are any questions, I will, uh, definitely entertain them now. If not, uh, it's not really approval. It's just the acknowledgement that you received in the review and had the time to ask any question that, uh,
019you may have, any [Music] questions? Thank you. We'll go ahead and move to the 2526 federal asurances. Yes. As we prepare for the FY26 school year. uh each year we have to make sure we adhere to the regulations to receive those federal funds. And so those federal asurances are before you and we have we will per your approval after your approval I will sign those attesting the fact that we will adhere to those federal regulations um as we receive those funds for the next school year. So the recommendations to approve uh the 2526 federal insurance system. Okay. I entertain a motion. It's been a move and properly second. All in favor? I. Any opposed? Mr. Scott Beersley. You need paper copies on your screen. Yeah. All right. So, um, for those of you I've not
020had the pleasure of working with before, my name is Scott Beerley. I serve as the school district's financial advisor. Under state law, the school district is required to hire a financial advisor whenever they go through the process of borrowing money. Uh, the district uh, like all other school districts in the state cannot go down to the local bank to get a loan. you're required to go through the bond process and submit an application to the Department of Education, publish certain notices in a local less paper before you borrow money and then um have the state department uh review all the funding transactions. So what you have before you is a second lean bond application. And what a second leaning is it is that you are not asking not asking the taxpayers for a tax increase.
021The school district has the authority to borrow additional money without going without going back to the voters if their existing cash flow allows them to make payments on the bond issue. So, similar to when the school district separated from Plasky County and you purchased certain assets, buildings, equipment that were within um Jacksonville Plasky, uh this second lean would give you the authority to purchase um or acquire school sites and equipment. I kind of rounded the amount up a little bit to net out $9 million. And this is a placeholder. Um, with the board's approval, we'll run one notice in the paper, giving people um the ability to kind of comment on the second lean bond. You'll get the state department's approval. This takes three to four months. And then once you have that approval during
022late summer, if the district wanted to issue the bonds, you would have the paperwork done. If you don't want to issue the bonds, the only cost is the one publication in the local newspaper that we're going to when we start the process. If the school district decides to borrow less than $9 million, you have the authority to decrease it to any amount that's appropriate for what you want to purchase. You just can't go more than what we start the process. And that's probably rounded it up just a little bit. Um, you're also required by state law to submit a copy of my contract along with the application that's attached um there with your minutes. It's the same fee schedule we've used since the district was created and our fee is contingent on the bondage closing.
023So again, if you stop the process, then you don't owe us or the attorney uh any fees for getting you as far as we get if we don't close. I'd be glad to answer any questions. Otherwise, the motion process question. Yes. Uh acquiring new uh facilities and needing additional um equipment to go along with it if needed. And it also gives you the ability if you need to remodel any of the space and you can use the funds for that. So kind of the catchall phrase is acquire facilities, refurbish, remodel and equip existing facilities. No further questions. I entertain a motion. Make a motion to submit an application for a permit to issue bonds with related documents for $9,230,000 and construction bonds to sec state department of education employeely as fiscal agent and authorize superintendent
024schools to accept or reject the best bid submitted in connection with the public sale of the proposed bonds and consultation with the fiscal agent. Second. It's been moved and properly second. All in favor? Any opposed? Very good. Thank you so much. I'll let you break. Okay. In addition uh to that board uh just for a discussion matter, we have been asked to consider uh purchasing the additional property on P Street. um and possibility of uh allowing uh the charter school that houses that's currently um owns the building to continue uh as a K5 for the and transition for next year. And so I wanted to bring that before you. And just to be clear that the discussion point is to per if we moved forward with a discussion uh about purchasing the building. If that
025goes through, would we be willing as a district as J&PS to allow them to continue K5 to continue in the elementary section uh for FY2526 school year? And it's just bringing that up to um to ask your thoughts so the conversations could continue if we're in favor of doing that. If not, then I will let the board uh the CEO know. I think maybe we need to have a workshop to discuss this outside just to see what it's going to look like. What what do you guys you guys think? Yeah. I will circle back with you all and uh with the other party to uh secure some date you [Music] uh if you all approve my my suggestion is it be a dual party with u their CEO and board so that all discussion can
026take place and there's not a back and forth with discussion and that we can come through a decision then and then move to at the next board meeting um for your vote. Sounds good. Okay. Thank you. 2526 school improvement plans. Yes. Again, uh we're preparing for the FY26 school year and so we have the four youth of school improvement plans for each of our schools submitted by Dr. Walker, our assistant superintendent for curriculum and instruction. Um and it's in in accordance to act 83 of 2019. Uh the funding is aligned through our ESA title funds and 1003 funds. So, the recommendation is to approve the FY26 school improvement plan and you should have a copy or the link before you as well. Okay, I entertain a motion. So move second. Has been moved and properly
027second. All in favor? I. Any oppose? Dispense. Titan Learning Academy conversion charter application in Dzig. Uh not to be uh not to be confused with the most recent request that we did not move forward with. This is uh the uh conversion charter that uh you all have been made aware of a year ago and that we've been working on for our time learning academy. And so before you you have the actual uh application and the desegregation analysis that would was provided by Mr. Scott Richardson. And so we want to um ask for your approval uh for this application for submission along with the desegregation analysis. I entertain a motion. So move is move and properly second. All in favor? Any opposed? Okay. And this is for our Titan Learning Academy conversion charter as Dr. O
028said it or not. Other discussions. Okay. Student disciplinary action. You should have two uncontested um cases in your report in your [Music] Mr. Smith, we come to the we want to use your historical knowledge. Tony, would you say to please? I just had a question. I'm so sorry that really loud. um when we have somebody that's been recommended for expulsion and if that goes through are they not coming back through for six months probation? So uh when when they when they return um our policy it's under the expulsion section. It it outlines that outlines the process for expulsion. it outlines for when they return. Previously in that policy, um I think I think probably about year two, maybe three, we put in place a probation policy that says when you return, you're on probation. Um
029also at that time, we we put some language in there when when you return, you're referred for the alternative learning environment. We use the word referred because uh we believe that uh that word gave us sufficient leeway. One of the you've got the ASB policies in front of you. Um some you know for review um some of those policies I think it's 4.2 4.2 to 4.6 right in there um addresses alternative education. And in alternative education, one of the rules is that it's nonpunitive. So during one of our reviews, um the gentleman from division of elementary secondary education reviewed and said that's uh our current policy is not consistent um with with the law because it says the referred upon. We we make changes to the policy and and those changes say that when scholars
030return they are um they are referred for interventions upon return and those interventions can be provided through RTI through alternative ed through hub or 504 IEP and so many of those and our campuses do a very good job of determining what's best for that scholar. Some of them, many of them do end up going to uh alternative beds. All of them are on probation. Um many of them uh they make the determination that um interventions on site are better. So when they come back, they are on probation. They're on probation. You just don't like it anymore. I I may have overlooked one. I apologize. And that's okay. I'm not calling anything. I just they they are on probation. You know, that policy has been there for several years now. So, regardless, even if I failed
031to mark it, which I apologize, they're still Okay. Thank you. Any other questions? Okay. If not, I'll entertain a motion. Motion to approve the superintendent's recommendation for the student disciperly second. All in favor? Any opposed? It's pass. We don't have a personnel hearing. Um let me go ahead and get us. We have an addendum. um the 2526 handbook proposal for 30-day review and consideration of recommendations for personnel. I entertain a motion to accept these addendums. So move to accept the addendum for the handbook and for the uh personnel agenda personnel listing, excuse me. It's been moved and properly second. All in favor? Any opposed? Okay. So, uh board members in as we do on an annual basis, you have the handbook proposal uh revisions uh before you and Mr. Smith and the committee worked uh
032on those on any suggested changes and so uh we wanted to present those to you for a 30-day review and then next month we will bring them back to you for discussion and hopefully an approval. And so um not really uh an action item just more of a for your information um as we move forward to action item potential action item for next month. So Dr. These are not suggested. These are required. Is that right by law? Well, some of them are required and some of them are have been suggested uh as revisions. Okay. Mr. Smith uh do you know how the board can distinguish between the required and the so at the at the top of each proposal there's rationale and so that rationale will provide a little bit of background for um whether
033it's required by law or whether it's something that um was just based on our observations and data throughout the course of Okay. [Music] Now we'll move on to personnel. We'll move on to personnel. Make a motion we go to executive session. Okay. You're breaking for executive session. Okay. Okay. We're back in session. Okay. We have one more agenda item. Personnel. We've looked over. I will entertain a motion. So moved. Second. It's been moved and properly second. All in favor? I pass. Mr. McDaniel. Uh, make a motion we turn. Thank you everyone for coming out.