001Uh, director Edwards, please say nothing. Jamaica. >> Thank you. So, she's present. We do have a quorum. Director Lockett informed me that he was going to be late. So, again, thank you. All right. Let me go on to my duties bill. Thank you so much for attending. Thank you for community for coming out. Thank you parents, students, teachers, educators, supporters. It's always a blessing uh to serve uh in this capacity. It is it is it is hard work and it is God's work and I thank you for the opportunity to be to do that. Um, let God say something is is my mantra. Proverbs 15:14. All right. At this time, we're going to have a moment of silence. Tonight, we're going to ask you to do an extended moment of silence to do a personal
002and private prayer for uh, Director Ricky W as he continues to recover. I ask you to do a personal and private prayer for our teachers, our parents. It was the first day of school. A lot of stuff going on, our students, our safety officers, our community supporters, specifically our nurses and our social workers. And I just want to personal and private prayer also for our special education teachers who are carrying a heavy load this year as we continue to remember them and try to get more or to support us to make sure we continue to support success, student success. After that moment, extended moment of silence, and I won't hold you too long. After that extended moment of silence, we do the pledge. Then we'll move into our special recognition. So, at this time, let's
003stand for a moment of silence. Thank you. Pledge. 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. Thank you. All right, Superintendent Barbie, special recognition. >> So, a big day today. First day back to school. I see lots of smooth faces. Thank you. It was great to see everyone today. But we have some special guests tonight and Mr. Come up and talk to us about that. We're very excited. You want to come on up? I didn't expect. What are you doing? All right. So, first we want to recognize our students. These students, we're acknowledging them for an outstanding score on their AP exam. So, let's give them a hand. A anything. So, the
004first person we're going to recognize for an outstanding performance on the English language and world history AP exam is Melvin Henderson. >> All right. You have to get ready for college. I don't know. >> Maybe. Um, we have Jasmine Lever for outstanding performance on the English literacy lever. I'm sorry, for outstanding performance on the English literacy AP exam. [Applause] Miller for outstanding performance on the US history AP exam. [Applause] >> Okay. Maya Strawler for outstanding performance on the English language AP exam. [Applause] Last but not least, Philip Carlock for an outstanding performance. All right, Omarian Tucker for outstanding performance on the English literacy AP exam. [Applause] Congratulations. [Applause] >> Okay. All right. Next, we want to recognize community member uh Reverend Jordan Glenn. Um we want to recognize you and thank you for your hospitality,
005dedication, and commitment to the staff and students of Pine Bluff School District by hosting our convocation. Not only hosting it, but making sure that your church um provided snacks. They were just warm and also they prayed for us. So that goes a long way. Thank you. [Applause] Okay, this next group of >> Okay. All right. This next group, we know that getting ready for school is very hard. Not only for students, not only parents, but it's a community thing. all hands on deck. But the people who really really do a lot of things that go unnoticed are our administrators. So we want to take time to acknowledge our school administrators, our principles, our assistant principles who work through a shortened summer. U they cleaned floors, washed windows, uh picked up desks, called teachers. They uh
006uh helped through the hiring process. They just did so many things. And so many of our leaders play on the because they know the school is a problem. So, we thank them. We thank their families for allowing them to have the time to be dedicated and committed to this district. Uh so, we just want to give them a big hand. And we also want to recognize [Applause] >> I don't see everybody but as we call y'all come up and stay walk as fast as you can. Don't hurt yourself. Dr. Ronald >> also fin Okay, next we have our new administrator, Miss Kim Harris. [Applause] >> Pine Love Junior High, Miss Latia Page Harris. >> You notice many of them still smiling at the end of the day. It >> was a good day. >> Yes.
007Also, PLO Junior High, Miss Trina Green. [Applause] Also, Pablo Junior High, Miss Lisha Goens. [Music] I told you they're hard workers. James Matthews, we have Edric Cross. [Applause] Also, James Matthews, we have Miss Tamika Wright. prek kinder. We have Miss Marcenia Peoples [Laughter] over there, Mr. [Applause] Southwood Elementary School, we have Dr. Paula Watson. [Applause] Also, Southwood, we have Mr. David Sims. We have Dr. Tammy, Dr. Wilson, 34. [Music] Also alongside with Dr. Dr. Wilson is Miss Penisha Sergeant. [Music] >> She did with her. >> All right. In Broadmore, we have Miss Teresa Farber. [Applause] Last but not least, we have a Broadmore as well, soon to be Dr. Timothy. >> All right, >> give them another hand. Tighten up. Tighten up. >> Two rows. Uh, >> no. But I think I may be able
008to get it. >> Open it up. Thank you. >> All right. Thank you very much. At this time if there is one that wants to uh wants to leave before we die at this time. [Music] board. I just noticed forg I just noticed I left PPC off the agenda. I changed up the agenda for uh the new public comment. So we do have uh Mr. Smith here. Does PBC want to speak tonight? >> Okay. >> Yes. >> All right. Thank you very much, Lieutenant Barbara. I always do that recognition. >> He does. >> Speak that foot. >> Go. You can go ahead. >> Are you speaking tonight? >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> He said it's on there. It's down on there. Item 10. >> Where you at? >> Number 10. >> Okay. >> All right.
009All right. Now, we're going to move to adoption of the minutes. Uh, regular board meeting. Regular board meeting June 23rd, 2025. Special call board meeting June 21st, 2025. Board members, you received those documents, any questions, comments, concerns about those minutes. If there are none, I'd like to entertain a motion to approve the minutes from the regular board meeting June 23rd, 2025 and the special call board meeting June 21st, 2025. >> July, I'm sorry, July. Thank you. >> We move the properly second read for question. Any questions, comments, concerns? >> Hearing none. All in favor say I. >> I for me. All the oppos say no. I have seven. Thank you very much. All right. Moving on to our financial report. Superintendent Bart, in your packet, you'll see your normal financial report, but I do want
010to draw your attention to especially that first document because we were keeping track of our uh tax dollars. So that first document um that's our local revenue. So, we have closed out the year for local revenue. Now, we still have what we call period 13 where we clean up the rest of the books, but most everything is clean. And so, what you'll notice is in June, we received about $1.4 million of the less of our tax dollars. But I want you to notice the total received revenue for the district this year in local tax was 26,362,39. We had budgeted based on a 94% collection rate. Okay. And so based on a 94% collection rate, you will see that we were budgeting to collect 26,891,000. So we were less $59 529,000 in local tax revenue. Now
011the the important thing about that is something that we talked about in our financial training. This is because we are guaranteed a 98% collection rate. And so since we did not have since the it wasn't a 98% collection rate at this time, we were at 94. The state shores that up. And so we were we received our last check of our foundation funding plus the state sent us a check for $922,000 for that for that funding to make sure that we got our 98% collection rate. So we are good as far as that goes. But I wanted to make sure you were keeping uh track of that. The next documents that you'll see is our our monthly uh board report that from period 1 to period 12. So that's how we would end the school
012year. Again, like I said, we're in period 13 where there's some clean up with federal grants and things like that. Um and so we're that we're good there. The next document you see is just period 12. So that's all the money we collected and expended within the month of June. And then the next two you'll see is our bank register. Of course, we are still with a zero variance. We have continued a zero variance for over the over a year. Every month this school year, our finance departments make sure that we have a zero variance. Um, as far as our outstanding checks, if you'll notice, they've been cleared. Um, the latest outstanding check now is from June, which is good. So, we're keeping that taken care of. And then the last couple documents that you
013see are all about the building fund. And so I do want to draw your attention to the bond proceeds register document because we were ending out fiscal year 25. And so just in summary, I want you to notice with every it shows the month starting in July 24 when we first got that bond proceed all the way to June 25. And so this will show every bit of payment that we've had for East Harding and our architect. And then also it shows the interest that's been accured throughout that uh the bond money being in in the bank. And so over the two fiscal years we've actually earned 3 point 3,23,000 in interest out of our bond money. So this is good. This is money that goes right back into the building as well. And then
014the last uh document on the building project that I want to again call your attention to is our total building project cost. This document is also represented in the ones we just talked about, but the ones I just explained had the debits and credits. This is just expenses that we've had and currently we are at 31,883,556 spent for our new high school project. And we are a little over one year into the project and we're got a little right at one year to being done with the project. And we'll talk more about that. But um one more thing that I was going to announce in the superintendent um update, but I'll say it now because it does have to do with financials. We're very very happy to report that uh the federal government has released
015federal funds. And so Combo School District will receive the federal funds that were all allocated to us. Um one big specific expense was um our 21 CCLC after school program. we had one year left in a three-year program and so we received that money and then we also had applied for a new program, a new three-year program and we've been told we will get that allocation as well. Um, title four funds have also been released and so we're excited about that. Uh, we're still working through those to making sure but we were we were looking to make some adjustments in our budget and so we're look but now we're pleased to say that we can continue with those federal programs and Miss Smith is here as well. So, um, she's been working on that, but
016that's all I have for a financial update. >> All right. Any questions, comments, concerns before I entertain a motion to approve the financial report. All right. Hearing none, I'd like to entertain a motion to approve the financial report as presented. >> We move the property second, raise the question, questions, comments, concerns hearing. None. All in favor say I. I I for me. All oppose say no. I have it. Thank you very much. All right. Moving on to board committee reports. Uh Director Edward, since you're on the phone, do you have any uh reports from your committee? >> No reports or dates from my committee at this time. >> Okay. Thank you. All right. The next committee, uh I guess I'll talk about executives. Uh what have we been doing? Uh we've been training uh director
017Corman and I attended a recent training that was called as we studied uh law administrative directives hands-on workshop for school leaders. Um this was something presented by uh the ASBA. They had several dates June 30th, July 7th, July 16th and August 4th. Director Cory and I attended it was a very very good training. We learned more about uh employment law. We learned more about the ins and outs. We learned more about policies and about uh the appropriateness of things going forward so that we can improve as uh as board members uh specifically with the the new laws that are coming down from the state legislature. Also just understanding what it means as it relates to the teacher affair dismissal act. And so that's what we did ex uh executive on a personal note. Um, I
018attended a superintendent meeting with Superintendent Barbrey in Hot Springs and talked to new superintendents. Were they first year superintendent? >> First year superintendent. Uh, always excited to represent the Pineville School District. Talked about more communication. Talked about community relations. Talked about how we've been able to uh do the things that we've been able to do journey school district coming out of state control, passing a bill, building a new high school. And so it's always important that we continue to push that narrative and positivity. So I really enjoy doing that. I had an opportunity uh through a request from the Southeast Arkansas co-op to speak to the Strong Cutting School District to talk to their board recently about you know communication you you know you know board dynamics how you get the things done in the
019midst of this political climate. So I was thankful for that. Um I don't think there have been any other trainings that we participated in from the executive side. Um so yeah that's what we've done from the executive side. In terms of financial uh what was our last financial training? >> It was prior to last >> it was prior to prior to last meeting. So uh the finance committee has has not met but we are prepared to meet uh if necessary. Sometimes we have to do a special call because uh things come up that are that are present. Uh but we want to make sure we we notify the community and so everybody can can be on one page with that. So um director is out so we don't have a report from his committee. Director
020Lockett, anything from legislative side? No report. >> Okay. No report. All right. I always say the best for last >> facilities. >> Yes. Okay. So good evening. >> Good evening. And uh we'll start off with our facilities report to let you know that uh before we get to the good part that uh we're working on uh we started working on the track. So if you if you ride out there, you'll see it looks different. And uh we also have been working on the uh Hback. We're looking to purchase Hback for the junior high, right? I think. And so um we're waiting on some bids because I think it's it's really hot. And so I guess the Hback people are really working hard. And then uh the last but not least, we're going to talk about
021progress of the high school and also we have another extra tree that so we're gonna let you see the outside where we are. We're going to see where we're going. >> All right. Thanks. >> It's all yours, Sean. >> I appreciate it. Uh as always, we'll kind of start where we were at the end of last month and just kind of do a walk through around site and have everybody kind of see the see the progress we're making. I know it's hot, but we allowed to get some dry weather. So, here to the right. Um, you can see that this is the auditorium over here to your right, the CTE building. Uh, if you remember, right, we had just gotten the roof on right before the end of the end of last month. This is
022coming around the front of the building. Uh, you'll start to see some of the seal coming out. Uhhuh. It's going to be the main front entry space. This is coming around the classroom wing to the north. As you can tell, this we've got the decking down. We'll be adding concrete to that here in just a minute. And you can kind of see looking back into the cafeteria. It's real really starting to take shape. The uh kitchen area is kind of where that hole is right now. It's still in process. As we come around the north end, this is the safe room and practice gym. in this big opening with a crane in the middle right here. That's actually for the wood floor of the arena. So, that's kind of the start of the arena frame.
023Here's another look few days about a week later with most of the steel going up for the arena. Starting to get the roof in place. Again, the big uh block out is where the actual gym core will go. So, that kind of gives you a feel of how big this building actually is. They look a little small in these drone videos sometimes. So, kind of spinning around and looking uh cut a little short on me. Sorry about that. This is coming down the second floor. Uh those guys are now on concrete floor that we talked about just a minute ago that we're pouring. This is looking into the cafeteria to kind of give you a feel of how big the cafeteria is going to be and the openness of it. It'll be a big twotory
024volume uh that will allow a great space for students uh while they're taking a break for lunch. You kind of see some of the beams starting to come up right in here for the kitchen area. We're pouring the last little bit of concrete in the cafeteria there. Got a pump truck going in. You can now see the roof of the of excuse me, the arena. All the work and framing is complete. Kind of get a little better feel for the size of it looking down where the court would be there. Looking back into your main courtyard area that entry vegetable for students in there coming right into the media center. As you come around, you can start to see we've got now got the roof up on the top of the first story there and
025the main entry is starting to take shape. You can see that overhang and kind of what the main front of the school is going to look like now. Starting to see some walls going up on second floor. The main floor deck poured right here. You've got the roof of the kitchen going in. Then just more of the framing work for the main auditorium. To the left over here is actually going to be a big classroom wing that'll come all the way down beside the auditorium. This whole space will be your main auditorium. Kind of give you a feel of where some of the the main entrances will be. If you ever wanted to know what it feels like to be on stage, you just turn right around. You look back to the back over here
026to the left. This is going to be the main there'll be a big twotory lobby in between these two buildings. You can kind of feel that the height of it and out to the left will be the main entry for the auditorium. This is just kind of coming back to the main to the front of the building. give you a good bird's eye view of the overall process today. So, kind of a bird's eye view of where we are with everything. I think we're going to turn it over to uh Clayton with Lewis Architects now. >> Do I have any questions before we move on? >> Yep. >> Go ahead. Clayton. First of all, and members of the board, thank you to be here. Very grateful. And um yeah, so what Sean just shows you
027real life, we've got a a model that hopefully will load here in a minute that uh it's what we call a working documents model. So this model is a uh it's how we generated our our large sheet of drawings and One thing we want to take a look at is just uh some some of the the uh spaces that are nicer spaces that are going to be available to the students. You can see here this this is the courtyard. a little higher here. It's a little different when you get out using your own computer. I'll do my best. Um, we want to look at just how secure the courtyard is, but at the same time, uh, how it will give a real open feel and there's just so many things you can use this courtyard
028for. So, what we're where I'm standing right now is uh we're hovering above the the lobby of the arena and auditorium. So this is the auditorium on this side. Arena's on this side. If I scoot back a little further, you can see u that entrance right here. So that would be for after hours events. It would be uh student parking can come in from will come in from that side. There's a a checkpoint where everybody can come in in the morning. And then a lot of parking for uh like we're saying the u the play or ball game and it also would be for the uh football ticket entrance you can see right there. So that would let you uh come in the football field. So once you come through um if you're arriving the
029first day of school or of school. You can come through the the lobby of the arena and auditorium and you'll pop out into this courtyard. Uh directly across from the courtyard, we'll have uh some artificial turf. Uh so after lunch or whatever, if kids want to come out and hang out there, anything you see that's green, we're trying to be maintenancefree. So the artificial turf really allows that to be a soft uh surface, but at the same time, you're not mowing it. causing a lot of noise in there. And then all the way across we have a a stage and you can see kind of an amphitheater in the round. Uh so this will be more than big enough to house the 900 students that we're playing for. Uh it's going to have a sound
030system in there. It's going to allow for if you wanted to have even kind of, you know, some special events you can serve food out there. We'll have that set up where you can have a buffet uh style type food. And uh then If you all remember a long time ago when we first started the design, we wanted to have a dive back to the history of the old high school. And I know the bridge. I talked about that even when I was in high school. We come down here and we thought that was so cool to have a bridge running across the different buildings. And so this this bridge right here comes out of the second floor of the uh classroom wing. It runs in front of the cafeteria and goes all the way
031across to the uh gym. So if you were going to have uh have assemblies or anything going on during the day, uh you could come across the bridge, go into the second floor of the arena. And then that's the arena is a top loader style. So spectators would come in at the top and go all the way around and go down into all the seating. So that that'll be a really nice arena. We got 27 seats there. Uh you can host the state tournament if you choose to. So you can Sean was talking about you see all the glass even on the bridge you're able to look down through the glass into the cafeteria and that's really dark large a lot of amenities got a little coffee shop in there what we call scatter serving
032go serving area you're able to a lot of different menu items a lot of different uh let's see what else am I missing so this media center I think I can go that we kind of spin around. So, so we really wanted the courtyard and the uh the media center to be trying to drive home. Sorry. Really want those to be well connected. So, we had a we're down in the door canopy that you can step out from the um the media center. this. It's a twotory media center. Uh the volume is um just several different areas. It's got a an ecology and career um area right outside the media center. It has several uh collaborative areas where you can you can um students can can gather up and work projects together. Obviously books. It's
033got several u conference and study areas that are closed in, but you can sign up to go hang out in those areas. So, get up here and spin around. So, now we're kind of hovering around the top of the entrance. Main Sean was trying to show us. This is the ninth grade academy here. Main entrance here. You come through. You got your twotory classroom room wing here. And you can look down. We've got twotory classroom comes around and pops into the cafeteria right there. That's your that is your uh safe room practice gym which that's more than enough room to handle all the students administrators teachers everybody in the facility arena auditorium career tech you can also see over here the career tech has a secure fence that's opaque that you know you'll have a
034lot of raw materials being brought into that area we've got three bay service that you can see this is a lookard So, so this model is it's a little contrary about uh just moving around it. It's got a lot of lot of damage in it and uh it's again it's got every if I can fly through it better, it's got every detail of all the stairs, all the finishes, everything. And and looking back, you can see how the the library and across the uh courtyard, the auditorium and arena lobby line up. It really sets up for a dramatic setting to have formal things in that courtyard as well as everyday just opportunity to hang out after lunch and there's covered areas that you can go outside and eat undercover as well. So anyway, uh if
035y'all have questions I'll be answering >> thank you for that command. >> Good job. You have any questions? Okay, thank my report. >> All right, thank you very much. I think that brings us to the end of our committee reports. Uh, at this time now we invite PPC up. Good evening. >> Good evening. >> Um, hope everybody's doing well and and rested from a we're getting ready to rest from the first day. Um, I'm going to be brief. I just wanted to update you guys on since we started the new school year. We're getting ready to form formulate a new PPC. um that PPC will will go through that process after our August meeting with the current uh PPC and just so that we will are clear on how those elections and things will take
036place, I'll go through that process with you guys again. Um nominations and elections will take place by building via Google form. Once that happens, uh the elementary campuses will elect two representatives and and our secondary campuses will elect three representatives and once those representatives have been elected they will formulate the PPC for the 2526 school year. Okay. And then after we've done that then we'll that PPC will come together and and set the agenda and elect officers within themselves uh on moving forward. So, just wanted to make sure that you guys were aware of that and uh we'll have all that in place uh hopefully by September. Any questions for me? >> No, no question, comments, concerns. I do want to say that and I'm going to talk to the board about it is once
037that new PBC uh comes together that we sit down and have a special call meeting together talk about some of the initiatives that you talked about last year also aligning that with what we're doing with our finances to make sure we're on the same page. >> Good deal. >> Thank you. >> All right. Thank you all. All right. Superintendent Barber report. Thank you, board. And forgive my switch up PBC on the agenda. I appreciate you being patient with that. And so, um, tonight I have a few things on the report, but I do want to share I started since we're at a new school year, I started a new template for our, um, superintendent update that I give every month, but I wanted to make sure that we continue to share our vision. Um and
038this is a vision that that was created when um the community was brought together with a strategic plan. And since that one vision was created, we've had new administration, which myself was new uh and then of course the new board. And so we've taken that vision and created the vision that we have as a district through y'all's uh the board's vision and through the leadership that we've had in our leadership meetings. And so our vision, our district vision is that Palmlo School District will be a safe, supportive, and student- centered community where every child is believed in, challenged, and empowered to overcome barriers, achieve at high levels, and pursue the college and career goals they set for themselves. We love that. And the challenge this school year for our administrators and our students and our
039teachers is to actually know what our vision is for Pablo School District and be able to talk about that. And um I asked uh Mr. Vinnett and our communications team, how how could we do this to where it would come to life and make it easy? And I love the graphic. This was a brainchild of Mr. Bennett after I said, "Hey, I need something easy for our students to really understand and remember and our teachers to understand and remember." And the truth is is when we really looked at our vision, it is all about our students. And so, it's a student- centered community. And so, I wanted to represent uh that in our in my update every month. And I'll share that with you guys every month so that we can continue to learn it
040as well. of course student centered decisions. So every month my report will be based on students in these six systems. And so we'll start uh and I'm asked that um Miss Latonia RWS our director of curriculum and instruction to talk about our 2425 atlas data. We have uh results as far as building level and district level and student level results, but she's going to share with you um tonight some of our celebrations and looking at the things that we we've got to think about moving forward as well. >> I'm excited to share this data with you guys and preliminary data, but Based on the data we have now, we have [Applause] also third grade compared to the third grade. When we see fourth grade, yeah, we went up 3%. And it's just comparing fourth grade.
041But then we also had fourth grade from fourth grade to fifth grade. So we grow the kids the kids in fourth grade are growing when they get to the next level. and we'll see what we're doing in instructions are also growing as well. If I go down and we go down here to math, we also see an increase in math. We see an increase in math. We see here where our students in fourth grade went up 4%. We see our sixth graders went up 10%. And we see where our eighth graders went up 2%. So scroll down here. We do see where we have to work on third grade. proficiency rate go up 6% and eighth grade but overall in literacy and math our students show in proficiency and in just growing from one grade
042to the next question. Thank you, Miss Ross. >> And so based on this data, our our building principles with their teachers have been looking at data. In fact, last week we had uh back to school professional development and one of the first things they were doing, they were in collaborative team meetings looking at the data. And so I want you to know that this was hot off the press. And Miss RS sent this information out that night. I think I got it an email at 3 in the morning. and she was still working on looking at the data and so she saw it and and disagregated it as quickly as possible so that we could start moving. And one of the things we are paying attention to is the fact that there's a transition period.
043Those six >> the sixth grade students um that trans transition they transition from elementary to junior high. There's a we're looking at that transition year because there's some some concerns with the data there. And then again, when you go from eighth grade or ninth grade, uh, eighth grade to ninth grade, there's a transition there as well. And so, we're seeing that. But the most positive thing that we can talk about is the cohort data. When you're looking at students that are going, so our third grade students, what Miss Ross was explaining, the students that took the test last school year, those they were in fourth grade last school year, but when they were in third grade, that's that cohort grade, the cohort gain. So when they were in third grade, they gained 3% proficiency to
044their fourth grade year. And the a huge one, especially we look back in math, you know, we had a big growth from fifth grade. Our fifth grade students in 23 24 to 24 25 grew 10% in proficiency. And so that's looking at students, you know, the same co cohort of students um from one grade as they grow to the next grade. So that that gives a lot of credit to our teachers and our students for working so hard and we're going to continue to work on that growth and so [Applause] um next day for today was the first day of school and it was a wonderful day. Mr. Carlock and several of us but Carlock and I started at Forest Park Greenville and we made it to every campus and yes sir Mr. Lock at
045Forest Park Greenville was very busy. Let's give Miss Peoples and her team a hand tonight. We welcomed over 200, right, Miss Peoples? We welcomed over 200 kindergarters to Pablo School District today, board. This is a huge exciting growth for [Applause] um this is a class of 200 and plus and so we knew we were we were planning for um 200, but we might have some additional students and so we're looking at those numbers. We're continuing to make sure it stays consistent. There may be a possibility that we have to have a new kindergarten teacher. So, I'll be bringing that to you if that's the case. Um, but we are very excited. There were there were not perfect. It was not always perfect at every campus, but it was probably the best first day of school
046that I've ever had. And I want to say thank you to my students and my teachers. It was a great and administrators. It was a great first day. So, thank you, Mr. Carl. We enjoyed it. >> We did. We We did not get back to the office till 3:00 today. I even stopped by the bus garage. the the kindergarten buses were out, too. So, yeah. >> Um, one thing I do want to share with you, Mr. Sims, would you click on the Pablo school district classroom recipe? >> So, this school year, um, when the leadership team and when we were together, uh, at our leadership retreat, we talked about what do we want for every single classroom in Pablo School District. And Pablo School District had a mark and said, "This is exactly the thing
047that's going to happen every single class, no matter what they teach." We called it the the Poundlo School District recipe. And so the example that I gave was um you know my mima made my birthday cake every year and it was my favorite cake. My favorite cake is a yellow cake with chocolate icing. I'm very simple. And in that cake there were specific ingredients that you had to have. And so you had to have eggs, oil, and and the flour or the the store box if what she would call it sometimes that Duncan Hind box. But you had to have those specific ingredients and that's what made that cake. Well, what we've decided as a leadership team and we've committed to is that we are going to have a classroom with these main ingredients. Every
048single classroom is going to have these things and these are things that we're going to look for. And so when when um as a board as we do classroom walks, when y'all come and we visit campuses, everyone knows that these are the things that we're going to look for that we believe are super important and have to take place in every classroom so that we can make our mark for our students and have an engaging classroom. Of course, these are just the main ingredients teachers can add and principles can add to those and and add sprinkles when they want to and make it a little bit sweeter if they need to. But um I wanted to share this as a board uh wanted to share this with the board tonight so that you can understand
049when we walk through the classrooms the things that we're looking for are teachers always monitoring learning. We're looking that the objectives are posted. At the secondary level they call them PBOS's. Um and then that's a performance-based objective. At the elementary level we talk about I can statements so that students are knowing what they're doing going to be learning every day. We're going to be utilizing our district adopted high quality instructional materials and we're going to be looking for that in every classroom. Um, we want to have current student data posted. One of the things that we noticed this school year, we had some classroom teachers that had pretty large growth. And when we started looking at what their recipe was, those teachers had student data posted and talked about the data with their students. This
050is at the elementary level as low as first grade. And so those are some of the things that we want to share and make sure we're doing every single day in every classroom. Um we're going to have our social contracts. I was able to stop by and sign some social contracts uh today as well. And our students are learning what that is through our capturing kids hearts. Um we have anchor charts for students to learn. We're going to have work samples and celebration walls. We're going to have a calming space with our four capturing kids hearts questions. And I loved it. I saw calming spaces at the high school already today. And I saw I sat in one in Miss Burton's room at James Matthews and it was the best. I liked it. It was
051fun. So, the teachers are really working to do these things. We're going to utilize our strikes matrix, which is our PBIS matrix. Of course, no cell phones, which I'll give you an update on that. We're going to have daily schedules posted, our safety drills and procedures posted, and then we're going to continue to tell students why this is important, and we're going to teach it. our teachers are going to teach it so that they know this is their recipe at PLO High School and Pine Love Elementary, all of them. Um the next item that I'll talk about is human capital. We're almost fully staffed. We still do have some openings in special services. Um you'll see uh we were able to add a name today for a special uh a teacher for special needs in
052at James Matthews. So that is going to be a new hire. Um we we're we are looking very tight. Um I think again the only other possibility might be kindergarten if that's the need. Um so I'm excited about that. Um we have training last week. We're capturing kids hearts. All of our new teachers have gone through and if they weren't hired with us, we're going to put them back through so that they can go through our capturing kids hearts training. But every current employee went through a recharge training last month. I mean last week. And and you haven't noticed where this is my shirt. If you capture kids heart, you have their you have their mind. And so today we were at M this is Mr. Carlock's design. And so we wore it today for
053the first day and we're able to give hugs, fist bumps, handshakes, and high fives all day. And that's to our students and to our teachers. And it was a great day uh sharing capturing kids hearts. Um as far as our student support, I mentioned that we were going to continue with our uh grant funds for 21 CCLC. And as far as bell tobell no sale, I will give one great example. This morning we were at uh the junior high and it was at on the seventh eighth grade side and we had the doors and kids were coming in and a student a new eighth grader was walking in and he his mom was saying goodbye and he turned around and handed her his phone and she said I don't want that and he said well
054I can't have it and so she said well I don't have to keep up with it. He said well okay so he took it back and put it in the pouch. It was that simple that he was he was just handing over his phone to his mom. So, um, later in the day, we were at, um, it was closer to lunchtime, so um, I was at Jack Rowey Pablo High today, and I saw no cell phones. Kids had them in their pouches, but, um, we we sat in the cafeteria and had lunch. We were outside and and enjoyed each other. Now, I know this is first day jitters and so, but today was a really good day for our transition for no cell phones. And so, I want to say thank you. Um, I talked
055to Mr. Smith and some teachers today and I think we kind of attribute to the fact that we did the trial run in the spring. I think that was very helpful and kids know what to expect and it was a good day with no cell phones. We'll try tomorrow again. >> But uh as far as stakeholder and community engagement, um every campus has a parent teacher organization and so we want to make sure that our parents are aware of that and we want them to inquire about it and join those parent teacher organizations. We need everyone to be involved and so I know that the principles that would be you would contact that building but I want everyone to know that we want to be a part of the PTO. Um also this morning I
056noticed that um our GBI group was at our junior high helping assist and they were very present and it was great um helping with students because you know walking through the metal detectors with their phones and backpacks they were there to help them and assist in every way and it was a really positive morning. So, it's really great to have that uh stakeholder help today for sure. Um I think they'll be back again tomorrow. As far as um I'll skip down the facilities and transportation. I asked um our architect Clayton Bait to come kind of share that 3D model because in our last construction meeting, we did the flyby and there were some things that he was able to share in that model. I thought this is great to show because we haven't seen like
057a rendering in a while. It's been since the beginning and so having him share that we can kind of start updating that way as well because It's all coming together as you well know. Um, but under district operations and fiscal governance, you know that we have the boardtoboard transfers that y'all have given me permission to sign off on, but I give that board to board transfer report every month. And I will say for this from last month to now, we had eight students transfer out of the district through board to board, but we also had eight students transfer into the district through board to board. So, um, it was kind of a wash and so I'm excited about that as far as not losing any students. Um, as far as board meeting dates, I put
058that in your packet as far so that we can go ahead and have it posted. Remember, we stated that we will meet the fourth Monday of every month in case something happens. Of course, those things it can be flexible and changed. We just have to notify the public. The only one that I was really wanted to ask you guys about was the March board meeting date. I highlighted that in your packet because the fourth the fourth one uh the fourth Monday is spring break. So, we can either meet the Monday before spring break or the Monday after spring break. And that's the only thing I was just wondering if you guys wanted to um give me an information on that and we'll just go ahead and have those posted and ready to go. And then
059the next big thing I want to talk about are the board the election timeline. And so, as you well know, there was a new law that was passed this year called Act 503. And act 503 said that there would be um only elections during even years in March. And then that what we would need to do is anybody that was in an odd year, we would have to reorganize so that they could be elected in even years. And so based on our seven board members and the way that you guys already had lots, we reached out to legal. That was something that we talked about in our committee meeting um when we had that to reach out to legal to see um oh the other part of the law is that you have to decide
060fouryear or sixyear terms and so tonight based on legal and information I'd like to recommend that we have six-year terms as a board and the board term the board terms would be lined up starting in this March so in March of 26 it would be to where board zone one two and three. >> Yes. Uh, okay. Sure. Mr. Sims, um, hang on. I can send it to him real quick. I didn't put it up there. I should have. >> Also, >> Yep. Okay. Mr. Sims, I want to send you an email real quick. Can you Can you do that from there? Is that okay? Okay. Or I'll share it with you. Okay, I just shared it. >> Oh, I shared the wrong thing. That was the student transfers. One second. Okay. So, we have seven
061board members and currently board members Miss Edwards, Miss Calhoun are Miss Edwards is was supposed to be up for election this November. And since it's been deferred to March, Miss Edwards would move to March of uh or her her zone, that board member zone would move to March of 2026. Zone two was up for election already in 2026. So that zone so that person would still stay at 2026. However, it was we had it at a November election. So that will move up to a March election. The next zone that was up is zone three, which was supposed to be in 2027. And so Mr. Whitmore is zone three in 2027. So that will move up to 2026. So then we go to zone 4 which was going to be elected in 2028. So that
062would stay 2028 because that is an even year. Zone five was up in 2027. So that will go to 2028. Zone six, which was just voted on, um was zone was going to go up in 2028, so that will move to 2030. And zone 7, which was just voted on, was supposed to go up in 29, so that will go to 2030. >> Congratulations. [Laughter] >> But this is a six-year term, and it makes it because what the way that the law read and that's what we were trying to figure out legal was um It said that all members of a school district board of directors shall be elected to a term of office of four years or six years in the length and with the expiration of such terms so arranged that as nearly
063as possible an equal number of positions are filled each or every school board election. So in 2026 we will have to fill three board elections. 28 would be two and 30 would be two. So that would be 322. >> It does not take board action. We've just decid But this is you are going to do six year terms. >> Any questions, comments, concerns for >> you questions, >> right? Is that the end? >> That is uh let me go back. That is the inter court order. Thank you. >> All right. Thank you, Superintendent Barbara. All right. Now, we're going to move on to new business >> uh approval of purchases. >> So, in your packet board, you will see a purchase from CDW. >> CDW is the company that is on taps, but they do
064have the best prices for the Chromebooks. And this is a Chromebook refresher for our teachers. It is part of our five-year plan. Um, these Chromebooks have gone out. This they were purchased with the first bit of ESR money and now it's time to repurchase and we're going to purchase this out of federal money. >> One other thing before we left last uh the board's own maps, are they posted on our website? >> They are posted on the website. >> Where exactly are they? >> Under board. Um, Mr. Sims, will you navigate so we can show everyone where that's at? Would you go to PBSD? And when you go under about us, go to schoolboard. >> Okay, maybe I'm wrong. I thought they were under the school board. Miss Miss West, where are they? >> I
065can see. >> No, they're posted, but I can't I'm going to look. There it is. >> I'm looking. >> Well, I'll make sure it's there. It was there. >> It was website. >> We have it in a Google folder, but it was there, but I'll make sure it's there. Thank you, Dr. >> Maybe it's not required, so we'll find it. >> Um, CDW, this is for a refresher for our teacher Chromebooks. And so, this will be done for all the staff that needs a new Chromebook for this school year. Um this is uh going to come out of title one money. The next uh purchase would be computer science curriculum for our after school program which was our 21 CCLC program. It's the Rex program. It's what we used last year and that comes out
066of the 21 CCLC uh grant money. I did not we didn't present it at the last board meeting because we didn't know about the 21 CCLC money. So, we want to make sure um the next item for purchase, this is exciting, um is playground equipment for our kindergarten academy. We needed to add a new piece of playground equipment and Miss Peoples has been working very diligently this summer to get a good price on equipment and so she went with Pro Playgrounds. So, Pro Playgrounds will remove the old mulch, add the new piece of equipment and put in the new mulch at this at this price. And it was we did get three quotes and this was the best quote. So you'll see all three quotes in your packet, but this was the one we're going
067to go with is the pro pro playgrounds. That's a tongue twister. >> Um the next one, and we can do these all at once. Okay, so the next one I do want to explain. So, this was something we we were told um most recent this summer that our HBAC unit at the ninth grade academy gym was not working. We also have a gym on the seventh and eighth grade side and that air conditioning is not working either. However, that gym is needs a several other upgrades as well. But the ninth grade academy is available to be able to host our um our PE classes and health classes. And so we've asked for three bids, but right now the bid that we have is from Pine Bluff Heat and Air. And so we will go with
068the 25 ton unit, not the 35. We do not have to have a 35. A 25 will cool it. And and right now PL heat and air quote is 50,600 for that unit. And so I'm asking tonight for permission to purchase a unit up to 50,600. If we get quotes from the other companies as we're waiting and they come in at a lower price, I'd go with a lower quote, but I don't want to have to wait till August board meeting to do so because we we do have the quotes coming. We've talked to I know Mr. Franklin has spoken with um Middlesson Heat Air and Scott Systems. And so we're they're just having to come out and survey the building just to make sure they can give us an accurate quote. And so I'd
069like tonight to ask for permission to spend up to the 50,600 if this is the lowest quote. I'm hoping it's not, but we'll see. Um and then um the next item on the agenda for purchase is our imagine it's it's actually egeneuity but imagine learning is the company that carries it and it's a virtual those are some of our virtual classes that we use for credit recovery and for some of our courses that we may not ha have a teacher for that we can offer virtually and so this is also paid for out of uh restricted funds. We've usually use ESA or title money to do that. I didn't tell you about the air conditioning unit. The air conditioning unit would come out of operating. The playground equipment comes out of operating. The computers come
070out of title one. The Rex comes out of 21 CCLC and egeneuity comes out of title one or ESA. It's where we can fit the budget best, but it's restricted. >> Were some of those federal funds released? Were some of those title one or were they just >> we we we knew we were getting going to get title one so that was not one we were concerned about but title two title four 21 CCLC those were all which 21 CCLC is part of title six something but yeah those were all ones that we were concerned about but we've been told we're receiving them. >> Okay. >> All right. At this time going to approval of purchases. Let's go one by one. I'd like to entertain a motion to approve the teacher Chromebooks CDW. >> Where
071did the Chromebooks come from? >> The CDW with title one. Yes. >> I'd like to entertain a motion to approve the purchase of the teacher Chromebooks CDW. >> We moved properly second. Ready for question, comments, concerns? I have one question. The turnover, we talked about the turnover for the students. What is the turnover for Chromebooks for the teachers? Now, is this for the teachers or for their their classrooms? >> For their class. >> Oh, okay. So, Chromebooks. >> Chromebooks. >> These are for their students or for them? >> That's right. >> No, but it's like their laptop. >> Okay. So, now what I was asking is what's the turnover the normal turnover time at five years? Okay. >> Okay. Correct. >> Any other questions concerns about Chromebooks? >> All right. Hearing none. All in favor
072say I. >> All right. For me, all oppose say no. The eyes have to be recorded. Director Edwards with her eye. All right. Next, I'd like to entertain a motion to uh approve the computer science curriculum for after school program. RE except read for question. Any questions, comments, concerns? Hearing none. All in favor say I. >> I for me. All oppose say no. >> The eyes have it. Thank you. All right. The next item I'd like to enter in a motion to approve playground equipment pro playgrounds. >> Move the proper second. Ready for question. It's still >> for the total. It's $55,499. >> But it it didn't have the removal of the it did not have the the new playground peed stuff like the rubber stuff. It's not included in that. And the other one
073that was a little bit cheaper also didn't have such a a larger piece of equipment. It was only like two swings and a little seesaw looking but it didn't it wasn't comparable to what this was. >> We did research on >> it's rubber. Well, it's a little bit better than that only because have specific requirements that they have to have and so we're going to stick with that. >> Yes. So, since then we've added a sidewalk and brought in loads of Yes. Thank you. That's right. >> It's still holding a little bit of water. We're going to have to continue cut weed is good >> and they hold it so you can see it now. It's cut but they had to wait for it to dry. But what you're talking about though where we built
074the sidewalk is actually closer towards the gym. The gym's over here but it's over here. But yeah, but it's all right there in the back. So you can So kindergarten can enter from this sidewalk and preass any other questions. Director. Thank you for your questions. All right. Hearing none. All in favor say I. >> I for me. All post say no. >> The eyes have it. Thank you. All right. Next agenda item. At this time, I'd like to entertain a motion to allow Superintendent Barbrey to purchase a HVAC unit up to 50,600. Uh, as long as it's the lowest bid. Okay. >> Can't go lower. It needs to be 25 or higher, but 25 is too big. I mean, it's not too big, but it's not needed. >> So, how are we going to get
075a fair deal? Let me get a second. Let me get a second. >> Can we get a second? >> Second. Okay. Discussion. Okay. Thank you. >> Clap. >> Okay. Um So, we're moving to take the lowest beat at 50,600. Now, with this >> Hold on, director. Let me remind the audience, uh, please, please be quiet. Please be quiet. All these conversations and step outside. Thank you. So, how how can we with with us putting this out and it's being recorded, who's not to say that the company is bidding that you don't have will come in and say, "Hey, I can do it for 50,000. How can we safeguard against that?" >> We'll still have to look into what the best product is. >> Any other questions? Did that satisfy? >> Okay. Any other questions, comments,
076concerns? Was that motion clear, uh, Miss Shelton? Okay. All right. Hearing nothing else. All in favor say I. I >> I for me all oppose say no. The eyes have it. Thank you. All right. At this time, I'd like to entertain a motion to approve the purchase of Ingenuity virtual course Imagine Learning. Move the proper second. Ready for question. Any questions, comments, concerns? Hearing none. All in favor say I. >> I for me. All oppose say no. D have it. Thank you very much. All right. This brings us to the end of our agenda. We Yes, we're going to go into >> Do we need >> Yes. >> Okay. >> Uh brings us to the end of end of our agenda. We can go into executive session. We thank the community leaders, the teachers, uh
077the parents and students who have attended. Would you please exit the room at this time? We'll take about a five minute break up. We're going to hang out because [Music] I should work.