001[Music] Hello Falcons. Mr. Flesher here bringing you our updates from our regular May school board meeting. But before we get to the agenda, want to make a couple quick announcements. First, congratulations to the class of 2025. Our seniors have done an excellent job this year in the classrooms and in fine arts and in sports and and really just leading our high school in general. Um had a really nice graduation ceremony this past Sunday. So we want to congratulate all those students and their families uh on a successful venture through Apple Parkersburg School District. Next piece um springtime we're getting ready to wrap up the school year. Uh still several spring activities uh in motion yet. So, if you haven't had a chance to come out and support our student athletes, uh, still time to do
002that. Lots of great things happening in the spring uh, with all the different sports. So, if you haven't have time, check those out. One other quick program note, we've sent a few reminders out through social media and through email um, really seeking community input uh, into our uh, continued facility planning. So, we're looking for community members. Maybe you've got children in school, maybe you do not, and that's okay. But if you'd like a voice in kind of helping kind of shape an idea uh to bring back to the school board about facilities, please do not hesitate to reach out to us here at the school so we can get you some information. Those meetings are coming up very very quickly. Um we're there's about four of them, I think, over the course of the summer.
003um would that really kind of build upon each other. But if you're interested and want to participate uh and share your voice and your thoughts on the facilities at Appton Parkersburg in the future, please reach out to us here at the school. All right, let's get into the agenda. So, we've kind of talked about this. May really becomes kind of a real wrapup um you know for this school year, but really wrapping up contracts and all these things going forward uh in here. So, the bulk of this contract or the bulk of this agenda really has to do with finalizing contracts for staff. One of the first pieces though, we did some policy updates. As the legislative sessions kind of continue to work through and now they've kind of finished up, we have to start
004to make some adjustments based on new legislation in our school policy. So, you'll see a first reading uh of of quite a few policies. Really, that's just reflective of a lot of changes that are made in new law. Uh, next piece on here, uh, technology budget. Kelly, who's behind the camera today, always helping me out and I appreciate that. Uh, does a great job really forecasting, you know, different needs in technology. So, not just the student computers, but things like the cameras that we're using today, things that we use in the auditorium, uh, instructional tools that teachers have in classrooms. So, he's got that in a nice spreadsheet and budgets that out for us. So, the board approved that as well. School fees for next year. The district is making no changes to the actual
005school fees. We we froze those. Um so that's a good positive thing. There'll be a small increase in some lunch prices. I think it was about a nickel uh per meal. Uh really just increase in cost and food cost. We had to do a little bit there to kind of offset some of that. Uh and then really it got into like a lot of contract recommendations for coaches, maintenance, bus drivers. Some supplemental contracts for staff were probably the biggest one. uh did did make a little bit of change next spring. Um our girls golf team has shared with that uh Dyke New Hartford. We just agreed to do that for two years. Um and then we decided it just be best. We're going to have our own golf team next year and DNH will have
006their own girls golf team as well. That's really the bulk of the agenda. They may have noticed a little close session on there. That was really to kind of finalize my evaluation for the school year. Uh and then we move from there. So again, congratulations to our class of 2025. Uh for those seniors, we thank you for everything that you've done here at Appenton Parkersburg during your time. Any questions, comments, do not hesitate to reach out with me. And as always, go Falcons. [Music]