001all right it's 5:30 so we're going to go ahead and get started please um I'd like to this time welcome everyone to our monthly March meeting and if everyone at this time would please join me in a moment of silence thank you at this time would everyone please stand and join me in our Pledge of Allegiance 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 you may be seated at this time we are down to um approving our agenda and we do have a couple of or an addition to our agenda tonight and I need to make a motion to add consent item e which is approval of donations to our
002agenda can I get a second second second all in favor of approving donations please say I all oppose I hear none are there any other additions to our agenda tonight if not I need a motion to approve the amended agenda motion by Mr johar second second my Mr Porter all in favor of approving the amended agenda please say I I I'll oppos I hear none and at this time we will move down to our recognitions M well good evening board members and guests um on behalf of the Board of Education I'd like to begin we're going to backtrack and do our February competency as you recall we were um virtual last month and I had individuals selected but I really wanted them to be in person because I have a plaque for them so we're
003going to present those and then we'll move on to March so um I've been we've been walking through the profile of a learner this year and the competencies that we focus on each month as a school district and so um in February it was was the skilled Communicator so we Define a skilled Communicator as someone who is a compelling writer a speaker or Creator who clearly and effectively expresses his or her ideas this person identifies purpose and audience acknowledges multiple perspectives and conveys empathy in various exchanges and applies new ideas muber County schools has many employees who are skilled uh Community leaders but three truly stand out for the work they do daily as they communicate with a staff of over a hundred drivers um bus monitors and maintenance workers as well as working collaboratively
004with the school leaders and uh with the district administrators so also as an added bonus they communicate with a smile when you talk to them you can sense that smile I'd like to invite Miss Kimberly Dukes Miss tanita uh Browning and Miss April Smith to come forward and each receive a plaque as a skilled Communicator I didn't want to uncover them again these are made by I'm going to let you all stand right over there okay so we got a solid these are made by our T at the high school let me grab do you can smile you get you're our leader all right here we go one two three let me do one more are they not great skill communicators um I don't know if you all listen ever to the podcast but um
005Kim allowed me to come and interview her and um I was so impressed that in the 10 minutes that we shared together she didn't get a phone call she had a cell phone she had her regular office phone she had her computer she had her um walkie talkie radio things and for 10 minutes it was silence so she didn't good with that thank you than you thank you all right um staying with skilled Communicator I have one more that I'd like to recognize so not only do we have employees who are skilled communicators but we also have students who speak clearly and effectively so several weeks ago superintendent or received a very concise email from a seventh grade student uh regarding graduation he requested a meeting with her and after that meeting she was so
006impressed with how well this student communicated his thoughts and represented what a skilled Communicator look like as a student so I would like to invite Mr Grant dietr to come up and receive as a student our skill Communicator award mhm we'll pose it up very good do one more congratulations thank you okay now we're going to move into March um we have an individual for our March competency which is empowered learner this person is equipped confident and self-directed she keep she seeks to understand the what why and how she reflects adjusts and adapts plans based on feedback she is a graduate of Newberg County schools and she collaborates with us in many capacities as the 4 Youth Development agent for the UK Cooperative Extension Office McKenzie serves on several School committees uh she she's a
007yes person so we can count on her agreeing but she is a huge advocate for our family resource and youth service centers and she offers so many programs that benefit our students through 4 we are so fortunate in mberg County um to have McKenzie in our community helping us teach our students how to be successful um citizens so I'd like to in invite McKenzie pop on being our first Empower learner you ody so thank you very special one more thank you thank you thank you all recognition thank you you thank you McKenzie all right we will move down now to our Treasures report Mr blinger thank you chairman right here board members uh bring you the financials as of February 28th uh 2025 uh beginning with the revenues this month our beginning balance was about
00845.2 million this is up by 6.5 million so uh we did have some uh we had our TVA funds that came in the previous month and then we also had uh bond funds and such that came in over those course of a couple months there so that is why those uh balances are up significantly our monthly receipts are down 8.6 million from the last month and down 192,000 from the same period last year for about 3.34 million or 3.4 million excuse me uh seek remains unchanged Federal is up about $28,000 uh state is up $455,000 taxes are down about 76 76,000 other is down 8.2 million because of the TVA again Food Services down 30,000 and daycare remains unchanged uh for total Securities and cash revenues of 48.6 expenditures uh the accounts payable was about
0091.78 million and is down 303,000 when compared to the same period of last year the significant bills in February were with old wealth management of 405,000 uh BSN Sports was 210,000 the lockers at the Middle School uh KU was 156,000 Gordon Food Service uh which is our you know monthly food cost about about $150,000 and train $ 145,00 that was for the HB that's going in at the longest uh payroll was at uh about 3 3.06 million that's up 201,000 versus uh February 24 for a total expense of 4.83 million uh further breakdown accounts payable uh variable expenses about 895,000 fixed and mixed expenses uh about 685,000 you know uh and the reason why they're mixed is you know there are some things that we have to have every month but you know they if
010we use more of them it's it becomes a variable cost so just go into that a little bit utilities expense about about $200,000 uh ledger balance 43,7 excuse me 43,7 68,000 uh the bank balance was 32 6 million outstanding checks about 1.2 million for cash of 31.4 uh the extended Financial picture is by July of 2025 we expect to have about 52 million again that is it's it's high but also bear in mind that has construction funds that are in that in that so that's why that is inflated like that now I didn't want to give you an update on the if you recall in 7 in July of 2022 we invested $10 million with Mass Mutual uh that was a $10 million initial investment uh we did stagger those Investments uh for liquidity purposes
011so you know we didn't want to have 10 million tied up for 5 years you know in case we needed to get to those funds quickly without a penalty you know we can get to those funds at any point so they're not tied so to speak but I don't want to withdraw them and have a penalty now granted we do have enough like funds liquid that really it's not an issue at this point um so we did the $2 million for 3 years at 3.2% and again at that time the FED fund rate was low and so we did not have a you know we couldn't our depository wasn't keeping up with with that rate uh we did 3 million at four years at 3.5 and then we did 5 million at a 5year uh
012investment for 3.6 million our current depository rate is 4.86 but again that's the FED fund rate plus 36 so it's at fed fund is at 4 and A2 right now uh and that varies so that can you know quarterly they can change that and it go up and down whatever so that's not a locked in rate it's good right now we're making good interest every month which uh again as I've mentioned before that kind of helps us on when we on tax time you know like if we're making a lot of money on our deposits I think that's a good thing we're trying to help the community out that's why I unapologetically say that having our balance that we have right now was fantastic for our community because our money is working for us so
013um our current account value with this with the $10 million uh that that 2 million is at 2,175 th000 it matures in July and so uh I talked to Mark Bosley today and we're going to look to reinvest that one just kind of roll those funds right into another investment to keep it going and keep growing that those funds the 3 million is at 3,288 and the 5 million is at uh five about 5.5 million so for a total of 10,957 so we almost made a million dollars in the last 3 years on those on those deposits right now so future plans wise I can get a rate of about 4.7 locked in so on a threeyear rate on a five excuse me on a 5year rate so that $2 million I'm just going to
014roll into another 5year thing because right after this year that $3 million is going to mature so we're going to have it's not you know if it was something wherein that we needed access quickly again we're not going to I can still get at it but I still have we still have funds that are liquid that we don't need to stress over right now so if I can put something in where it's going to gain us more interest and get us a good return hence kind of helping out our community I'm going to keep doing that so um and once that 3 million matures we're going to look at our balances on our balance sheet and say okay what can we do can we move These funds into here and kind of look at those
015things so do you have any questions on that I did want to kind of go over that cuz I did have that meeting with him actually today it was kind of a good thing but just we are we are using our money to work for us so you you saying that 4.7% locked in for 3 years M well 5 years it's it drops a 45 for 3 years and then oddly enough it's 4.7 for 2 years but it's just because it's a shorter term so really the best rate of return is going to be on 5e Okay so so again and it's a deposit it's a depository all the Investments are in funds that we can do I know this they're very restrictive on those sorts of things so that's the kind of stuff that
016I've talked with with Mark on to make certain that the fund uh the funds that we're putting the money in are still allowable by the state so you any questions anything Bank so the TVA money so how much TVA money it's was 8 just I don't have it off top I think it was 8.2 this year okay so have you ever considered not putting that money into the budget because of not being assured of that much money every year not getting the money we're trying to back out as much as possible and I know you said last month that you were estimating instead of 8,000 you were estimating 6,000 what you said at the at the February meeting so anyway so I just wondered you know because it's such a I mean you just don't
017know so I just wondered if it would be best if you didn't even use it well I mean I know we have it but well so okay so like like I said we're trying to slowly back out of it um because in the past I mean it was such an integral part of the budget oh yeah so I mean and it's about 10% of the budget so I mean this is what I've told KD I said I challenge you to go to any District in the state and say we're going to cut 10% of your budget that you can't make up at all and see how they react so what we're doing is we're trying to slowly back out of things like that so we can adjust which is also part of the reason why
018I have a larger balance so that it buys us time so we can do that um yeah the the TVA you know they've told me the floor is 4.4 million is what they've estimated and that was a while back um but they've added more assets since that time without getting into like a huge I'll be more than willing to kind of lay it all out for you because there are certain buckets um and once even though they have you know $3 billion dollar worth of generators out there if they don't put it into property it doesn't matter for us so you know they make it they put it into manufacturing and so we're I try to argue that as much as humanly possible so I talked to Rebecca rmer on that I've talked to our
019our uh state senator you know I've talked to them I've said hey you know what can you do for us to make sure that it's not getting shoved all into manufacturing because that does nothing for our County okay and so I'm just glad that you're talking to our secretary and our representative because the thing of it is I know in past years that had it has been taken out of the budget and had to be you know be put back in yeah and and I will say this um in terms of something I I I tried to get with Melinda and she's introduced it but it's something that like I said what if there was something in legislation that said if you had a projected or your TVA funds this is strictly TVA drop more
020than 25% at one shot I said I think it would be fair if you decrease that amount 10% annually for 10 years and increased everyone else's 10% like so they kind of so it allowed a district like ours and any other District that receives TVA funds to gradually back out of that because there's no way and please do not misconstrue what I'm saying here there's no way you could raise taxes to even match that no like there's no like and not that you know so that's why I say like don't misconstrue that but there's there's no way you could mhm so that's why I said well why don't you come up with something in legislation that says that allows districts to slowly back out while benefiting the other districts and then if it happened to
021them it would allow them the same time to back out just as it it do okay all right thank you appreciate it okay I hope I answered your question yeah you did yeah I yeah I I you did any other questions I need a motion to approve the treasures report motion by Mr johar second by miss all in favor of approving the treasures report please say I allst here none and we move down to payment of bills and salaries thank you uh this month chairman Reger I bring $ 198 uh of that utility expenses 48 1,622 fixed and mix expenses are 69,8 129 and variable expenses of1 12889 uh the significant bills were Kenway Distributors for 24591 the Sheriff's Office was almost 15,000 that was the colle the taxes collection fees of jail it's that's
0222.7 so we pay 2.75% to get our taxes collected uh Republic Services uh 10,600 and ASL interpreting Services which is sign language for 10,300 questions if not I need a motion to approve payment of bills and salaries so have a motion by this board M second all in favor of paying bills and salaries please say I all opposed I hear none thank you thank you move down now to uh public participation we have none no okay and then we'll move down now to our superintendent report um and before we do that I'll just make a motion or a comment that we have had our Personnel actions placed in our board meeting minutes so I'll turn it over now to our superintendent report okay and I'll turn it over to Mr Browning with longest is going
023to share what's going on over there good evening everybody all right so a lot of things going on at longest since uh I've been here last I think I talked to you all last November it's one the last time I've been here so a lot A lot's changed since then um here hey uh Chad is there any way I can get back to the shared one all right okay all right I had I had several pictures that we put in there of some of the new new building but um you can see some of it in here some of the changes going on we've got our logo we've got a lot uh if you haven't been in it it it looks really good it's flipped from uh blue and and yellow to Greens and um
024it it just you can kind of see the entry way here it looks really nice uh but kind of what I've got is just talking through some of the profile stuff and then um some of our beliefs uh engag citizens here on the left of these four students in our PBIS program which is positive behavior supports uh we have what we call a strike system and these students had zero strikes for our time period and we put we have decided to put a lot of our fundraising toward rewarding those things so if you get zero strikes uh your name gets entered into a drawing and we have it on morning meeting and the wheels are spinning and it's random and uh those four students won Nintendo switch lights So Co um those engaged citizens there
025uh right here outside in the fall uh we gave our uh fourth and fifth graders a budget that they could use to decorate and so they had to plan to decorate the front of the school and they um got a list of supplies from house and they had to uh use their budget and decide how they were going to decorate the front of the school so they ordered all that it was delivered and then the kids decorated um this is actually got to give a lot of credit to miss armor and uh Miss JoJo our counselor on this we have a monthly Spartan celebrations and uh while while I was out and they were taking care of things they decided to turn that over to the students so now our students host our Spartan celebrations
026when our parents come in uh so they'll greet the parents and sign them in and then we have uh different students to lead through our uh program on the right hand side of part of our first grade uh Project based learning was all about community helpers so we brought in uh a lot of different people that they got to engage with uh empowered Learners one of the things we do at longest is we have in school clubs and that gives students choice on what they want to be involved in um the one on the left is passport to the world and this is really neat uh so they created their passports and each time they go to the club uh they visit a different country so um we had uh some guest speakers come in
027and teach our kids all about Mexico and they got to try to M Le so it's really neat and we've offered uh just part of the new building that we wouldn't have been able to do at our old building we've made use of the home e room so we've got a cooking club so um they made some fall things there going back to the passport Club this past month uh they did a postcards around the world and just everybody shared on Facebook and we've got a display of they've got postcards from all over the place so it's really neat uh Creator problem solvers uh Miss uh Rebecca Haley wrote a grant uh Felix Martin and we were awarded our uh steam cart so uh lot of cool things in that just had our training on
028it uh this morning so really anxious to get in there and see what that's all about so it's got a lot of cating and programming and different things so um I think it was was a total cost of probably around $118,000 uh what's that cart it's called a steam cart so it's uh science technology engineering art and Mathematics uh has activities that range from 30 minutes up to over an hour uh that deal with Hands-On for the smaller kids and programming robots for older kids all in one yes uh I think uh We've figured out that it cost about $2,000 to replace the materials each year which for us would not be a problem effective collaborators this is another project uh that happened while I was out that's just really amazing um the high school
029partnered with our kindergarten classes to come down and talk to them about the engineering pathway and showed them how they could design ornaments uh for a Christmas tree and then later on our kids actually went up here and they made it with the high school so uh really neat experience there that our kids got to have and then car and connect uh over on the left um our counselor does a really good job of doing uh seal lessons social emotional learning lessons and it was all about spreading kindness in the month of February so at the end of every week uh nominations were taken for kindness kings and queens and they were recognized on morning meeting and got their sashes and their crowns if you haven't met met Kyler he'll car real quick and uh
030so you can see the shirt Mr G you got your work cut out for you man I met CER today he's been SPO and over here is a something that we've gotten a lot of feedback on on our Title One surveys parents still want to be involved and in the building we don't really let them in as much for security and lunch and different things but we have found a way to include them in during specials times for different different events uh so this was our uh holiday bash we also had one for Halloween and they get to come in for about 45 minutes and do activities and learning activities and fun things with their kids during the school day just to get them in into the school um uh pursuing growth is uh one
031of our big things at longest and uh can kind of see right here I think these are flipped I I made a mistake so if you could just switch in your mind your reading actually should be on the top MTH should be on the bottom uh but we've really grown our green uh and um both reading and math and shrunk our red and we're really proud of that this was mid year so this is from Fall to Christmas um we actually took the second Diagnostic in January uh couple things that aren't up there uh you should be at least at 50% median growth uh in in Reading we were at 70 and uh in math we were at 61 so we were ahead of where we should have been or where the norm is um
032and while I'm talking about that I just want to say something about one of our teachers it's really neat uh Miss Suzanne Sparks is I want to say I don't know if I can say she's probably going to retire and so she's a veteran um and we had a lot of changes uh in the last 3 years that we've asked about instruction and everything and she has always kindly and politely said I don't know how I'm going to do this but I'm going to try and um her progress to chical growth in math uh was 100% so the median was 100 not every kid reached 100 but some were higher than 100 some were lower but the median was 100 and in uh reading it was 92 at at Christmas and um I told miss
033or if you go in her room you you can make videos of the things we've been trained on you can make video and she didn't even think she could do it so it just shows you that at the end of your she's she's retiring on a high note she's not dreading it or trying to get out and I just wanted to give her a shout out for that that's really neat uh and then on it uh we always since miss or has been here talked about kids taking ownership of their learning and we had our uh celebration of learning in uh November and we had a lot of students showing parents a lot of things that they had done throughout uh the fall semester and we have our second one coming up in April uh
034April 15th we actually got a lot going on we're having a book fair and U de-stress we we started a mental health night at longest several years ago uh so de-stress for Success um night uh with our celebration of learning and Then followed by chorus concert so we're trying to get the most bang for our buck on one night for our families so that's all I got great job so then next we'll go to a construction update with Charles hello everyone for the new board of members I'm Charles for Su architect engineering outling we're handling all the newer County projects that are going on right now I'll start with the long Longest Elementary School kindergarten preschool renovation uh I talked with uh Jim codell the other day they are in the process of preparing everything
035for bidding for the project the pre- bid meeting will be held April the 2nd uh 2025 at 2: p.m. on site here at long Elementary School the pre-bid meeting will be held April the 17th 2005 um at 2:00 right before the board board meeting believe we got the board meeting that evening uh plans have been submitted for permit and review and the start of construction I believe we wanted to start uh beginning of summer break on the other end of the school for those few classrooms and I believe that's May the 27th right okay uh the mberg County High School kitchen renovation and baseball field renovation uh Scott know our CEO has made a uh appointment and scheduled appointment next week to sit down with A and K to make sure they can get in
036here and get those uh last punch list items taken care of that project can be closed out so if Scott goes there it's going to get done so uh muber County Phi house they had a progress meeting uh March the 6th at 11: a.m. uh Scott no was there and place a me for the meeting the next progress meeting will be Thursday April the 3rd uh 2025 at 11:00 a.m. uh there has been a few weather delays because of the rain the cold and things like that but we are on the GC to try to make up that time as much as possible to try to meet the deadline we also have three change orders that we are pricing now that were outside the scope of work that I will get Brian knows about and
037we'll get the pricing got will get that handle and get that price into y'all as soon as possible before the next uh board meeting um we have some future projects that we are uh that we're looking to do here uh mberg Middle School second floor classroom Innovation and first floor special education classroom adding an adding a ADA toilet in there uh sumon is putting together some prices and we'll get those to Brian ASAP uh another one is a new Dugout Press Box at baseball field out at the middle school to where the wind or tornado come through and took out that one home dug out there we're putting pricing together for that as well and the last one was the renovation of the first and second floor boys and girls restroom is in the high
038school the main gang uh uh restroom so we're putting prices together for that as well and that's all I have any questions it's meeting you to welcome am at the bottom it's see all right um just to share a few things with you all that um have been happening we have a um group that has been working on our blueprint for Success which is our next 5year strategic plan um and so we we brought in some students from the middle school and the high school some community members um as well as teachers and administrators and um we met um the first of March for two days and had kind of come up with these bullets uh as the big headings for our um blueprint and then this team worked together to identify some some action
039steps underneath each of those so I wanted to share that hopefully within the next month I'm going to say we should have a document that we can review and um get feedback on for that process I wanted to bring you all up to date on our Paxton Patterson career Labs you know I talked with you all about that um at our last board meeting and I wanted to show you the current funding that has been provided um Martin Foundation um willingly gave us $100,000 towards this project which was a a a big piece of it um Federal grant funds um thanks to Mr Perkins and his funding that he has 50,000 CTE um with Nik ball has kind of helped with that 50,000 and then to this point we currently have 23,000 in business donations
040so we took that amount and um sat down Nik ball and Ashley Miller and I sat down yesterday to identify what Labs that we wanted to put into place we were able to do 20 Labs at the middle school and then six Labs at each or six of the totes at each of the elementary schools um so I've sent that to the company for an estimate or for a quote um also asking for they have um rolling carts that lock so I've asked to see how much those carts are to to see if we can get the carts along with the totes so I'm waiting for that quote to come back and then we'll know if we need to tweak it take some things out add some things kind of where we go so anyway
041we're very excited about that um and um the middle school's already been talking about how their schedule you know can be adjusted to to meet the needs of of having those career Labs so um we're we're looking forward to that being into place uh a a group up in the right hand corner of us went to um new York with LCC which is the learner Center collaborative that is the organization we've worked with um Katie was here helping with the blueprint for success but we are part of a connections group and what that is is our eight people meet up with um for this group it was there were some U Educators from Texas and some some from California and visit schools to kind of in other places just to see some things that are
042going on we brought back a lot of great ideas took some pictures talked to students talked to teachers just to to to get you know some more ideas around our profile of a learner around um some deeper learning and student engagement and those kind of things so we did that on the first day and then on the second day we typically talk to an industry partner so for our second day we spent the day with apple um there in um New York and so talked about kind of Apple in education some things they are looking you know to see happen and then also did some leadership building um activities with them for that day so it was a great learning experience brought back like I said a lot of great ideas um and some resources
043from that visit so we're always um appreciative for the Federal grant funding that we have to be able to do this because um seeing it in action really makes more of a difference than just seeing it as a picture right um and being able to talk to students and talk to teachers so um we're always thankful that we get to do that and and to to go and learn um one more thing I don't have on my um screen is we um have our Commissioner of education is going to be visiting our district um the end of this month not the most ideal day it's the day before spring break but that's the date he gave us so we're going to take it um and so on that's March the 28 if you're available and
044want to come we're starting here at the central office um around 10:00 we've got some students that are going to do um a welcome and an introduction of our district and the work that we're doing then we're going to go visit um South Elementary uh and come back and visit longest and then end our day at the high school um the high school is they're doing some of their defensive learning presentations so they're going to do some of those for our commissioner um and and we're going to spend the day with him so if you are able and have the opportunity we'd love to have you come and be a part of that with us all right Tessa was there any labs that you all wanted that you just didn't have the funds to purchase
045so ideally we talked about um at the middle school they would love to have more of the labs um with this also um we just did fifth grade Labs so continuing to work and we're going to continue to try to seek out donations and talk to business Business Leaders um we would love to get some Fourth Grade Totes for all of our elementary schools and then add continue to add to the Middle School totes because um I think when we talked ideally wonderful it would be great to have 30 labs for the middle school so they can kind of divide it up um but we knew start with what we've got and continue to work and and um seek out um Partnerships So yeah thank you thank you all right we'll move down now to
046our attendance and enrollment report Mr wat good afternoon uh chairman rer and board members MTH s uh ran February 17th through March the 14th it was a good uh month as far attendance percentage of 92.8% and that's our highest uh attendance month since I think month three uh on the other end of that our enrollment was down quite a bit uh we went uh from 4,216 in in month 6 to 4,177 U so kind of there was some good and there was some bad uh The Good the good part was our attendance percentage the bad part is we continue to lose students and uh most of that is a home school uh we did have some students that left the job corp and graduated I think there was eight or nine students and we've had
047a few families mooved but for the most part uh that number is reflected through hom school um our attendance leader for the month at the elementary school was uh Brean at 94 .08 or 0 6% and then uh the high excuse me the middle school at 92.5 3% and that wraps up the attendance in enrollment unless you all have any questions any questions thank you I I have a quick question about that I was just kind of whispering with Contessa I know homeschool is an option that parents get but once they go to home school there is no followup there is no way for us to find out if the kids are truly being taught so we can uh most of the time that comes when there's a report made to us that someone's not
048following through with homeschooling okay um do that so how do we know they're not following through with it what kind of documentation all all that they're required to do is notify us that they are homeschooling their student and then the accountability falls on them at that time what type do they have to turn in any paperwork to us only if they're in the court system do they have to turn in anything so um we ask anytime that that a family comes we ask them to turn in attendance M um and then any kind of curriculum they're using rarely do we get that I know just in speaking with some dpps around the area they've sent letters and things home to try to acquire that type material and usually they face an attorney or a homeschool
049attorney so it's a it's a big battle uh we have over 600 students that are being homeschooled right and in two days last week on Monday and Tuesday uh or may have been this week we had eight kids that went homeschooling it's all grades it's not just one school 600 is huge for a community this Elementary School size of a school and a half and it's I mean it's not it's not just an issue here it's it's all across the state every every District around us is how many were there m Mr Lee when you left I'm sorry how many kids were homeschooled at that time duely you remember at least 400s so it went time and a half so with the with the new house bill that passed during the summer the try bill
050and the education or neglect bill that passed one the big concern was homeschool uh when we start knocking on doors and sending letters and making phone calls to parents about attendance what would happen we knew what would happen and that would be they would go home school and they have and and there are several students and families that are in court who have gone to home school since then um if they're not going to school If the parents aren't making sure they're coming to school then it seems kind of useless to think that they would be educating them at home am I am I wrong no you're not no no I mean we we fight it every day we offer them the move program we have uh which you know we kind of just started
051the Middle School move program uh we don't have anything at the elementary level right now but um we kind of talked about it a little bit what's the base on a move program at a middle school level they can't work well they they just we use it as instead of going home school they they it's based off of completion just like the high school except they don't earn credits they just complete a class uh they work from home except um when they have to come in to take finals or the state test and and unfortunately I mean not like just knowing and hearing when they come in typically when they hear middle of the Year kind of thing when they come in they're mad right Something's Happened either they've gotten in trouble their grades aren't
052good or their attendance is bad and so it's out of anger they pull their students right so um and then when there is no requirement to make sure it's happening and there's also no like some of the on online programs a kid can graduate at 14 to 15 years old and you know when they're required to go eight semesters here and get 22 or 26 credits compared to I can be done with school in a year it's a it's a tough battle do you know if if other states are requiring documentation for homeschool I'm I'm not I'm not sure right I'm going to do some D okay thank you sure thank you all okay so we'll move down now to um our board action items and item a is to consider second reading of board
053policy 0943 Mr thank you chairman Reger board members so this is our second reading board policy 9.43 6 again this is our search and seizure policy and this is the second reading where we have added metal detectors now that we are using those into our policy and so that's what you have before you again it's the second reading uh so I recommend that the board consider updating board policy 9.43 6 as it is written any questions I know I had a parent come to me before we vote on this um express some concerns I don't know if Miss or got with you on that or not but about a parent that came to do some presentation to one of the high school classes um and whatever it was they were doing the presentation about they
054had a backpack with them which had some items in there that should have set our metal detectors most likely off and did not so I don't know I told him I was like well you know this they told us that the sensitivity can be adjusted um so I don't know if they weren't sensitive enough but during the course of the time that that parent had come to um do the presentation to the class there were three other students that came through that had set off the metal metal detectors and no one actually came to like w them or see what they had or whatever they just kind of like flagged them through one student actually was brought into the front office but I don't know who was up front or whatever you know there was
055several people that person said was in there um and they ended up just walking out the front door and going on to class like so I don't know you know like what the process is like during school hours cuz this was not like it when everybody's coming in um it was at a time that was after school had already started so just want to be mindful you know um that we are using them properly and taking all measures because you know just like the parents said you know watching that as a parent of a high schooler that was there you know the concern was why do we have them if they're not going to check fully to see you know if a student's setting those off um you know they should have been brought into
056the front office and checked or whatever so I don't know you know I can give you the parents name and contact information cuz they wanted me to yeah I will definitely um but I had kind of mentioned to her and just wanted to know what the process was cuz I think whenever we were approving them they were saying that you know they had the wands but they weren't that that great you know of course there should be I guess if students are coming in someone should be available probably student has to come through our front office and if it sets it off our front secretary goes through their stuff and and has them go back through and then if that doesn't work then they call for one of us and we want so I don't
057know if I don't know if all of their information is accurate but we have people coming and going all the time um students because of online dual credit co-ops and um you know we may have to look at putting someone there to man that right cuz it's cuz if the one person up front is the one doing it and they're busy or they're making a Cofe or they're going to figure out whoever the person at the desk is meeting and someone just comes through and goes through like that I mean we can potentially has the whole system so there's no 100% solution for that you know it's one of us we can do that all day right oh yeah yeah for sure so I just want to bring that up too sorry we also did
058go ahead you know the they talked about the wands um we ordered some of like the newer better quality wands so that hopefully that will you know that would pick it up a little bit better too with the wanding got but I'll get with you on um all right any other questions if not I need a motion to consider the second reading of board policy 0943 6 so motion by Miss y second second by Miss Bard all in favor of considering the second reading of the board policy please say I all opposed I hear none thank you thank you and we're down now to Item B and that is to consider the sfcc fiscal year 25 KET a second offer of assistance all right thank you chairman this our second offer for cats funding in
059the amount of $33,600 they if the funds are accepted the board matches those funds and they are used for technology purposes question yeah except that all right Mr johar second second Mr Porter all in favor of approving the offer of a please say I I I'll oppos I hear none and we are down now to our board consent agenda items and this is approval of the minutes of the prior board meeting facilities use agreements fundraiser requests and field trip requests and also the addition of the approval of donations that was added on the agenda um any questions regarding any of the items if not I need a motion to approve the board consent agenda items St have a motion on Miss y second by Mr johar all in favor of approving all consent agenda items
060please say I I all opposed I hear none and we down now to adjourning make motion by Miss B second second by miss joh all in favor of a journey please say I I all opposed I hear none and we are jour