001That's all I have on the last floor. All right. You want to go ahead and read the district report? Yes, we had one legal transfer approval uh from um us to Lonote School District. Uh and that was all for uh this month. You should have received the FY24 audit report. I just wanted to thank the team uh led by Mr. Hunt, our director of finance. Uh it's definitely a major improvement than what we saw last year. And so um as the law uh requires us, it will be on the board agenda for May just for an acceptance. But I just wanted to make sure that everyone received it so you can review it and then we'll um move for approval uh in May. The last thing I wanted to point out to you, I did
002email you. We received the appraisal for the Warren Dupri uh property late this afternoon. and I sent it to you for your review. Uh it actually came out a really good number. The appraisal value, uh it was a little over $1.4 million for that land of about 10 acres. Uh so definitely thought that was a great uh appraisal. Um we can put it on the future uh board. I think we're going to talk about a workshop here in a little bit something else. Okay. And that concludes my superintendent report. All right. So, next item we've got is our consent agenda. We've got the minutes for the March 3rd and the March 17th special meeting. Also, our assistant superintendence report, financial report. Is there anything that needs to be pulled for discussion? If not, I will
003entertain a motion to accept as approved or approve on second. Got a motion in a second. All those in favor say I. I. Any opposed. That passes unanimously. Next item we've got is the 2526 curriculum approval 1612 CTP adoption. Yes, as we've done with our past curriculum adoptions um based on in accordance to the state law, we have before you the approval for the 2526 curriculum um for the CTE uh department. Um it cost total cost is 96,000 a little over $96,000 which will come out of operating. Uh that includes the textbooks and the uh rest of the instructional materials. So the recommendation is to approve the 2526 CTE curriculum adoption. All right. Motion please. A motion in a second. Any discussion or questions? All those in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Pass it
004unanimously. Next, we've got the removing transportation items from fixed asset inventory. Yes. The attached items in your board packet includes uh transportation items that we no longer utilize and as uh the laws stipulates, in order to remove those from the fixed asset inventory, we need board approval. So, the superintendent's recommendation is to approve the removal of the transportation item from the district inventory. Do I hear a motion? Motion and a second. Any questions or discussion? All those in favor? Any opposed? All right, that passes unanimously. 2526 salary schedule. It's just an addition to the classified siphon u agenda or schedule on the salary schedule. Uh many of you know that we um Mr. Walker, Clint Walker uh led us through the process of purchasing a food truck for the district. Um and of course we
005require employees to man and operate. We utilize that food truck during the course of the school year as well as during the summer to provide meals uh to our scholars. And so the approval is to uh provide a siphon uh for the cafeteria manager and the employees who may be um serving in those capacity outside of their contracted hours. And so the recommendation is to approve this additional stipen for the salary schedule for the 2526 school year. on the cycle. It's based on um the Arkansas for the summer worker, the Arkansas minimum wage and then the food truck manager paid for years of experience as a cafeteria manager as they fall on a salary schedule. And the same thing for the food truck worker. It's based on their years of experience as a cafeteria worker.
006Uh they'll get that hourly pay. So it's an hourly. No. Well, it's a siphon because it's outside of the contract, but it's based upon their hourly rate. Yes, sir. Any other questions? I hear a motion. Second. Motion a second. All those in favor say I. I. Any opposed? That passes unanimously. Liberty Mills education service co-op resolution. Yes. According to the Learns Act, uh which is also annotated code for Arkansas 6-13-10007, each year local school boards uh will have to pass a resolution uh to uh place their um representative on the cooperative education board in the past. I've been able to serve in that uh position for you. Uh I would like to continue to do that. Uh and that's the recommendation is to uh approve uh my seat uh to represent our district on the
007co-op uh board of directors. We make a motion to approve that second. Any questions? All in favor say I. I. Any oppos? Congratulations, sir. Thank you. We appreciate you. Thank you. Thank you. Next item. Arkansas White House. Yes. Uh about a week ago um actually on the um yeah about a week ago in a regular meeting the board of directors for the lighthousemies of Arkansas passed a resolution uh and that resolution is there in front of you. Uh my uh recommendation uh that I'm bringing before you is for us to uh move forward with the discussion on what it would look like for the district to uh apply for a conversion charter and to also uh ask if we could have a board workshop to talk about next steps as it pertains to um our
008uh role in in this process and the things that we would need to complete to uh get an approval for conversion. charter. Uh currently Lighthouse has about 426 students, 82 staff members. Um and the breakdown is K4 210 students, 58 156 uh 91 12 uh 60 student um debt um that they currently have is 8.5 million. Uh 6 million of that is in bond payments. uh 2.5 is in uh loans that they have at first security bank which I believe has um if not already sunset uh will sunset and then the remaining would be at first bank and trust um any of course we have been in contact with Mr. Richardson our district attorney as well as Scott Beersley with the Beersley group to possibly uh discuss next step Mr. spiriously did say that during
009the workshop if you all would like uh he would be in attendance as well so he can discuss uh next steps with debt payment and the transfer of um property as well and I see Mr. center with us this evening. Make sure that both cops are with both guys questions. Yes. What about the uh school on base? That's um that's not part of the discussion. That that's owned by Little Rock Air Force Base. So, at this point, we're only uh discussing the street that's on First Street. It's not part of the package. It's not part of the package. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Thank you. Um I think I think it's a tremendous opportunity and it would be beneficial for community and students beneficial for the school district. Um, but I mean there's a lot to uh
010process and and digest and I think if we could I know you guys have been working behind the scenes, but if we could I think a workshop is is definitely in order uh to go into it a little deeper a little bit more time. So my when is the state board of education? The first meeting that we are required to attend is the charter authorization authorizing panel which is May 15th. Uh but we'll have a deadline uh a few weeks before that to complete the conversion charter uh application. Uh we would also need to make sure we survey uh our parents and community about what they uh how they feel about this too. So we would need time to do that as well. How soon would you want to try to do a workshop? as
011soon as possible because we would like to discuss potential grade configurations um and possible thematic focuses, focus areas for uh the school. And so all of those logistics um enough time for us to survey the community, but then enough time for us to get your uh direction u and then so that we can complete the conversion charter. So within a week, April Yes. The um on the 21st the city's uh first student leadership academy it starts at 6 o'clock to 7. [Music] 14 class all day. My brain will be fried. Yeah. And is it possible to do it at I did ask Mrs. Noel and um they have activities that even Yeah. And so if we can give her a couple of days uh so she can schedule check the schedule that' be great. I
012will give it to the 15. I have graduation. The high school day leadership graduation 15 like real graduates the leadership class. I have it is and every every time they meet it's on a Tuesday. I don't think there's anything on the or the 21st. That's not on. Um he said due to baseball and soccer games, uh the graduation is on Monday, April 21st at 6:00 p.m. to the 15th. Yeah. Now, if it's the 15th, I won't be able to be there, but All right. So, let's go to the uh 22nd or the 14th or the 22nd or the 22nd 28th. Okay. How long? Or you can go the 17th. Yeah. How about the 17th? 17th. What's for me? 17. So we'll give April 14th to 17 and then at 5:30. What did I do? Let's
013go. Six. 6. I'll follow up with M. Noel and I'll send out the confirmation. So I got one question. What about the personnel is so what we've discussed internally just uh as we did when we transitioned from Palansky County after we after the workshop and the grade configuration has been decided we would need to post those positions um so that we can make sure that we have the the right um staff members uh for the great configuration that has been uh chosen. So that will be uh come after or hopefully will be discussed during the board workshop. Okay. So we're looking at the 14th or the 17th 6 a.m. Monday that week at my house. Yes, sir. I'll try to confirm tomorrow. Okay. and that way we're set for what we need to do before.
014Yes, sir. Um, all right. Um, so the recommendation is for us to move forward with the process. So, do I hear a motion? Second. Motion in a second. Any other questions? All those in favor say I. I. Any opposed? That passes unanimously. All right. Uh, next item we have is student disciplinary actions. We do not have any. We do not have any. All right. Kudos. Uh, personnel. We've got uh let's see here. We have an addendum uh that needs to be added before we get there. So, let's talk about uh motion to add this addendum to the agenda. Got a motion and a second. All those in favor? Any opposed? All right, that passes unanimously. So, we've got two action items on the added agenda and one of them is the proposal for tegots mass
015notification system. We'll start with that one. Yes, sir. Um I wanted to just uh recognize um our director of sec safety and security officer ODM who put this action action item together after a few months of going back and forth and looking for the best vendor. Uh the proposal before you is to utilize the safety and security grant funds that we received from the state to purchase this system. This system will provide a lanyard uh type um security notification with for every staff member. And so if it's any type of emergency, they can automatically push the button on their lanyard on their card on the lanyard and notify uh him uh security as well as the school administration. Um the officer ODM the the school district was it in Florida? Sorry. Georgia. Uh if you
016all remember um the school shooting that happened in Georgia, uh the reason why um security and and police were able to be right there within minutes is because they had this system um that they provided for their staff members. I think they actually only had it for a month before they had to use it. And so, but we definitely wanted to make sure we provide as much safety and security for all of our staff members. And so that's what that proposal is before you. And it says the year 1 and two 2025 state safety grant. Have we already been awarded that or and so it's a combination the initial fee uh as you see the bulk of the fee will be paid by the grant and then year three, four and five we will add
017it to the operation. question. A motion. Motion and a second. All those in favor say I. Any opposed? All right, that takes us to personnel. We've got several pages before us and uh I move that we move into executive session for the purpose of discussion of personnel. All right, we'll be back. The red wall break. Okay, I'm going to go ahead and call us back into open session. Uh we've got uh personnel, we've got the the amended agenda and the recommendation before us combined. Do I hear a motion? So move. Second. Got a motion and a second to approve as recommended. All those in favor say I. Any oppose? That passes unanimously. And before we get to item number 13, we do have a few upcoming events. Got Good Friday the 18th. And we are
018we are in school that we are. Uh that's the day that we're placed today. Okay. And then we got Prom at Community Center on the 26th. Uh Mama Mia, my favorite musical on May 2nd. May 3rd, we've got the high school car show and dino day. And that is on a Saturday, right? Yes, sir. Senior breakfast is May the 9th. Uh senior walk and parade May the 13th. May 15th is graduation starting at 700 p.m. Uh Memorial Day the 26 and the last day is May 30th. So May 30th is still good with we don't have any more floods or snow or Right. Um like for today we are able to make that up on April 18th. So we're good. Okay. All right. Any other questions? Make a motion we adjourn. All right. We adjourn.
019Thank you'all. Have a good night.