001Heavenly Father, please guide us and bless our gentlemen today. Please have our decision and let it be in the best interest of our students and staff. Amen. One indivisibley and justice for all. Okay, we have one addition to the agenda. It's item two I consider and I recommend action with regard to workers comp access policy. I have a motion motion motion by second by vote. for any other addition. Okay. Now item 28 approval of head start council policy council meeting agenda items and finance report. We had our regular policy council meeting and then we had our finance report that our in your pack the four different funding areas by M second by Mr. P. Any discussion? This vote and I'll recommend action with regard to SRO contract. Mr. W. Yes sir. This year there is
002a 42.97% increase in the contract. The sheriff has requested a 6750 school and I do believe that there represent the justification for the increase You said the sheriff has decided this year to pay seven uh 7.5% of 7.25% of the pension. So the pension expense did go up because instead of a pay increase, we did that and so that caused part of the increase. The other increase is due, of course, to the fact that instead of a 50/50 split, we're going to do like eight months for the school board, four months for the sheriff's record. So that's why it's split 337. I'd like to make a motion like to have staff looking but possibly looking at other alternatives. Uh I personally made a phone call to a local person that that has a security company
003and they have one that's right here in brokerage but there's multiple. But I'd like staff to look into and see other options that we have because this is probably getting out of our our price range right here. And for the most part all we need is an individual at school. I mean, right here, we're paying for a vehicle. We're paying for a lot of different things. If we subcontract, if we contract out to a security company, we may have a better offer. And then again, we may not. But I think we have to at least look into because this is a drastic increase in in uh in price. Okay. So, my motion would be if I have staff looking into other alternatives. Okay. And come back to the next meeting. Do I have a second?
004Mr. Okay, let's go. Any discussion? And we understand that the sheriff has a budget protected item. So, we we totally understand that, but we have to the current contract is still. Okay. Motion pass. Okay. I did have a question on camp. Will that security camp be allowed to will they be able to write a citation? Will they be able to take students away handcuffs if there's a Well, that's why when we call 911, we have disturbance on campus just like it would be at a local business or anything like that would be marketing and then have them come. Will the security company will the and I know we're going to look into I know that will that person be allowed to carry a weapon on campus as an actual shooter? Yes, we will probably have
005to implement that in our policy. Okay. you know and you know if you want to what we if if it is feasible to go that route we probably need to have conversation with that company and if you don't mind have he be want to chime in on it because everything you know you can handle it you can ask better question than it probably was okay thank you welcome okay item 2C I said I recommend action with regard to student um so our our district has accident insurance. This covers any accidents students have on campus or they're injured as well as our sporting events. This is the same um the company we went with last year. They actually gave us a reduction in it's $16,213 less than the previous year. And I sent it back to
006them and I'm hoping to even get a little bit better because I noticed the number of students they had quoted as far population has gone down. So it's $95. I don't know. Uh it would only be best if it you can approve it now. Motion by Mr. Dor. Any discussion? class considering all recommend action to vesting policy for group health insurance. Okay. Um so currently our district does not have a vesting policy with group health. We did it one time and um it was done away with but surrounding districts do. And by investing I mean that employees have to work with the district for a certain amount of time and be in the health insurance before they can retire with the health insurance. What was the previous one? Wasn't it five years or 60 years?
007Don't know. I don't either because it went away right when I started. Um when it's back now I can find out but I didn't have a healthy the um it was a tiered approach. I think it was a a tiered structure. See, I think that's and we and we can revisit it. Yeah, that's what I'd like to do because I'm looking at the years and everything, you know, may run off some people by Well, and it would only be new hires, right? But um we can revisit it. But the reason why we would like to put something in place and we can come back next month with a different option is because we do have people now who are joining the year joining our district the year before it's time to retire and then getting
008on our health insurance for the rest of their life. Yeah. And that's that large liability that we like we we have we have we're best at five years, you know, or and so we did check with surrounding parishes in Iberia, Lafayette, St. Landry. It's a common practice that is 20 years or even more. I know the entire career. Yes. Yeah. I mean, that's not going to happen. Yes. Uh, no. I was just uh I like So, they come from like Latia Parish with five years. They have to work 10 more years for us. That's what you're saying. They have to be in our health insurance. Oh, okay. They have to be asking that for the 10 years because we have people, we actually had someone who came from Mafia last year. She worked for a
009year. They could actually come in August. They can get in health insurance in October right now and retire in December. Okay. And what's bad is they are not paying into the premium. It's sad to say, but when they retire at the end of their career, there are people that might have more health issues and are going to end up costing us more when they were not invested into our insurance all this time population. We have to have a policy just if y'all could come back with, you know, the tier structure like y'all were just talking about and just check and see what the whole policy was if possible. If not, then we just have to. So that would be my motion that So even if you're like working as a sub or like on a
010T that they're not vested in the insurance yet. No, they're not they're they're a sub's not fulltime. Well, no. Like the people like the teachers that are working as a teacher on the when we when they get certified, they're hired. They're considered re utilize those years of okay of service. Are you going to treat the bears the exact same way? Yes. A motion to table this next. Any more discussion? Let's vote. consider and or recommend action with regard to staffing formula for custodians and school secretaries. Mel, this is the formula that was presented to y'all at the special meeting that we have regarding the budgets. It's just for y'all to formally adopt it. Question. I would like to see exactly how it affects every school. Is that possible with these numbers right here? Yeah, if
011you want to I mean if you want to call me I can. Yeah. And I apologize. I didn't make the meeting for obvious reasons. The uh because I started looking I said, you know, I just want to make sure that we're we're the reason we're doing this is to make everybody equitable because when you when we put it all in a table and we looked at student population and size of buildings, it's all over the place. So we categorize everything and when you when you put it back into um grade band level it pretty much makes everybody equable. What are we using now? Nothing. One thing I'd like to say is that I would suggest uh any school have a secretary not a COE worker. Oh all schools will have a secretary enrollment greater than
012250. If a school is on the 250. No. No. Okay. I see. I see. I'm That's in addition to Okay, I see. You get a COE. Any anyone over 250 gets one COE. Yes, that's where it is. But they all reading is wrong. Yes. That's in addition to the one secretary. Okay, I stand correct. Okay. We got a few schools with 491. That's close to 500. I mean, yes. There we're every school will have one secretary. We're not going to have a school without a secretary and the um yeah zero to 500. Well, the I'm sorry. I see what you're saying. The 491. We did have one school that was close to that, but I think they're going to be over it, so they won't be affected. So, the numbers go um when school starts
013or does it like in October? Um, it'll be whatever their enrollment is at the beginning of the school year. So, they lose some students, they all lose the other. I mean, if it's a drastic loss, then potentially we could restaff. Okay. We're if you're talking about like a 20 students, we usually fluctuate 20 30 students a year. Some sites maybe. We wouldn't cut a position because of that for one year. It would have to be a trend, too, if we're looking at. Yeah. Okay. And my goal is not to take away anybody's position by a second by Miss F considering I recommend action with regard to budget cuts. Again, these are all of the same items that were presented at the special meeting. Um I would just like to say again and reiterate that no
014person will leave their job because of these um proposed cuts. They are being um handled through attrition. There may be some movement between positions based on the new staffing formulas but no one's going to lose a job. No person is going to lose the job other than through retirements. We'll see. We got a question about as far as the maintenance of our our facilities uh have have the the minimum been looked at as to what it's going to what it takes to maintain all the facilities before we reduce the number of facilities not facilities but the maintenance guys that no we we I haven't spoken uh with with case since the last I mean, we need to make sure that we have a large enough crew to maintain all the facilities and not have to
015start hiring out. Well, the thing that the only the HVAC position hasn't been filled for some time now. So, that's I don't even think that's a point of discussion, but the parish custodian, we have three of them. We're recommending that was the last three positions that were added. I don't know within the last I don't remember specifically that was when it was said and that was probably before your time. No doubt uh they we had a painter that retired and we had something somebody else and then they were supposed to hire three employees that would basically be able to do different different responsibilities like carpenter whatever they need. That's what we were told at the time. But that's not what we got. Obviously, it's not working that way. The one thing I'd like to say
016before I go in front, I'd like to not make a definite decision on this. My motion is going to be not to make a final decision on this. When's the latest we can adopt the budget? September one. September one. But we there are some things that are we're in a hiring phase right now for the next school year. So, we need to know about staff because I think we did this wrong. And I'm going to say do we because I'm part of the the process because when I And I kept my mouth shut until I had a feeling that that's where we're going to go. Student teacher ratio, I'm dead set against it because the one thing that we need to service is our kids. And we're going to reduce and we're going to actually
017increase classroom size. And and sometimes people don't understand this, but like in high school, you're going to have a class for chemistry with maybe 10 15 kids. So it's going to offset the numbers. So you possibly might have now an English class with 33 kids just to balance that out. So the I I regret that you weren't at the meeting and listen to what I had to say because if you look at these ways to cut budget, what's the biggest way to cut money? If we don't do something now, Mark, we're going to be cutting positions that put a name to a face and that's where we don't want to get. Well, I I'm going be honest. Lafayette Parish just started and they started from the top. And that's why they able to have I
018mean they they could it was y'all said this before we're going to have some tough decisions and you know I brought up something to you you know some different positions I said why are we doing this and like you said let's start from the the the ones that we just added on you know or people that we feel that aren't doing their job and say listen you you either have to do your job or we're going to abolish the position and this divide your responsibilities across board the other you know wrote down several things. Uh, and please be patient with me. Uh, the one thing I I'm going to go after is transportation. The buddy system you and I talked about. Well, if transportation wasn't even addressed here because we're waiting to have a separate
019meeting on that once Transfinder is in place, which they've gotten all of our data. They're starting to work on that like creating the route. That's a whole another Yeah. and and this again you we had asked this coming to have it hopefully in place this past January. Now you know through the grave line we're hearing that boy we're not going to worry about that. I don't know how true that is how and I'm sure Mr. Wills has different words from that but if it's not going to get done by the individual that's supposed to be responsible let's abolish the position and and hire out. Let's get it done. You know that that would be my my take on that. The bus drivers need to understand and again the good bus drivers I'm sorry but those
020who are putting the whole system in a bind we need to start enforcing you get paid 2 and 1/2 hours in the morning 2 and 1/2 hours in the afternoon it's not a route it's the way it's written in law it's 2 and a half in the morning 2 and a half am I right Mr. So that you can accomplish a lot with that as far as offsetting a lot of and you can ask Casey that number for the buddy system is outrageous. It is. So yeah, that's just you have four that you need. You have seven, you can tell them. But I'm gonna stay with Miss L that just said we're losing students. So we shouldn't need as many people as we have. Now on the transportation part of it, a lot of our
021our concerns are M to end. We had to create different bus rout. But it is what it is. You have to live with it. Yeah. So move on. But just to call in and and have people encourage our bus drivers to call in to be sick so they can get a day off. That's that's we don't need people. Okay, that's one. The other thing, we created a food service position not long ago. I'd say probably about the same time that we had done something with that uh maintenance position. I think that's the same time. Yeah. What kind of position? I think that position is on that not too I don't know I don't person's name it's it's gone because that was that was created by head start okay and that was another thing head start
022you know we created a full-time HR positions and a lot of that was because head start I think we need to abolish position and go back because listen we cutting cost so it it has to it has to show and we have to do it across the board we can't favor And I'm sorry. And we did we went department by department and we looked at where people were retiring. What did we not replace what departments have lost? Did y'all cover that IT position that what I hear is that there's this individual that was supposed to be doing this particular job and didn't have the ability to do that and everybody else is doing that job. So I think we need to abolish that position and let those people that are still doing it and ask
023that lady or that individual to just basically either take another job or or move forward. So that that's just some of the things that I wrote down just off the top of my head. Uh Casey and I spoke about some some situations in the county and she she informed me with with the uh situation with that. But as far as the uh cutting the the classroom teachers, I'm not for that. Uh the other thing is we need to look at real big because other board members are talking about it is how many supervisors we have. So what I like to see is a list of supervisors and their job descriptions and see what exactly is going on there. see if we can consolidate some and some of them may have to go back into the
024the the the classroom or or wherever we need but other than a supervisor position because a couple years ago we gave some very very hefty phrases. So now it's starting to affect everything. So that that's just a couple of things I wrote down just off the top of my head today. But uh I'm sure other board members have some concern. I would hopefully don't want to attack that student teacher ratio because I'm dead set against that because again the one thing that we do is we need to take care of our kids and we start reducing we start increasing those class sizes is just like I mean anybody knows I can teach a group of 10 better than I can teach a group of 100. Yeah. I wish what you need to look at is
025our current class sizes and how they're structuring sometimes in the schools and the class sizes are already bigger than this because they're using it and they're pulling out positions and then they have a huge admin staff at their school who's not in the classroom and they're already operating at classroom sizes larger than this. So, and I can see that on some some levels, but again, when you start picking up that chemistry and that on the high school and there's going to be exceptions and the high schools are a little bit different because it's and they carry the schools. It's structured differently than an elementary school or lot. I will say I won't say this in reference to we're actually delivering two huge supervisory staff but over the years we've cut a considerable amount of supervis
026and I hate to use it as an example the tax base that Lafayette has they they were they were overly topheavy and it allowed institution the ability to be able to cut a lot of positions because for the the one position I don't I hate to use it but I'll use Mr. Ber as a for the for the for the one Mr. Bong there probably five or six Mr. Bones in Laf Parish. So it makes a difference. So when you cut two or three of the the people, you still have maybe three or four people that are still doing the one job that he's doing. So it it makes a it makes a huge difference. I know a lot of times we try to and I'm not talking about the board. I'm just saying in
027general people try to compare us to a neighboring parish parish. You can't. you you can't because I'll just use Stella setting as an example. The tax that are generated from Stella setting would probably operate as cryp. So it it's a lot. Lafayette is not just Lafayette. You think about you got Youngsville and you have all those surrounding are still a part of Lafayette Paris. So there's a stark difference between you know the tax base that we have and the tax base that a district like Laf Paris would have. So, I just I want to kind of caution us in that because I I get the idea of trying to double up, but but it's it's difficult when you see that because even as superintendent, sometimes I find myself we're all working together to make sure
028that the district stays afloat. So, it's not just a matter of Miss Casey or Miss Junior or Miss Tiffany or Miss Pam or or anybody just doing that one position that we're doing. we're we're bending over backwards and doing more than one position to be able to make sure that things are done efficiently. So we could take a look at that, but I just felt in this case and staff felt that the two positions regardingly you have people that are retiring through the push those are some huge huge chunks of our supervisor that are no longer going to be there. That's a big news to the district. But and listen, we have great people not but again we're in a situation where we've lost couple million dollars, you know, past couple years and we need
029to adjust. Now the one thing I asked is possibly see also what exactly what expenses that we could possibly look at cutting with the desriation case. Now of course attorney fees are our biggest thing and we need to get a grip on that. if not uh you know we need to put them on a certain time frame and say we're only paying you this amount of money because they they need knowledge. They I'm going tell you and this is what happened. We kept on getting a story from our attorneys that when we brought in the attorney general that it escalated the cost to 175,000 I think is the number they used something like if I don't know if y'all remember our attorney set. Well, I had a conversation with the other side and every time
030they were making a phone call to talk about it, Hammond and Seals was was charging us and the attorney general's office wasn't aware of that because they were on a $20,000 retainer fee. So, they were thinking it was the same thing on the other end. That's how we got so so screwed my that's how we got screwed in that situation. And I just found this out a couple months ago and since then I have no use for that that firm because they need to be honest with us when they're doing stuff like that. But that's that's just one of the cost. There's other a couple of years ago we hired two individuals. It was to come in for discipline. Are they still being we still do we still have them employed? Yeah. Still there. That's
031a contract. I mean is that what you mean? Yeah. That that was like 200 They charg us made over 100,000 and because no offense but obviously they're not doing any good because we're still in in the courts with uh because it was it was pertaining to the hard discipline problems and they're u their invoices are not they only charge for like when we meet is that okay yeah they're not it's not I think they're giving us a price of up to 100 it fluctuates each month how often but I mean there's so many different ways we could look at before we attack the student teacher ratio. You're not I'm just going to be completely honest. We did look at stuff. We are cutting programs that we've been paying like all of the stuff extra through
032ESSER of course is going away. ESSER was covering things. So, we're getting rid of non-necessary programs that we have so that we can cover the ones that you know we had before ESSER. But I mean, we spend $10 million on everything else that we do. We spend $85 million in salaries. Where where are you going to cut to really truly get back what you're losing? And it's going to be unfortunately through salaries. Primary, brokerage elementary, we have two campuses on the same site. I could reduce it down to one principal, two we and we talked about this by that. We were trying not to go so extreme and make it a little less burdensome on everybody. I know I'm going to upset a lot of people in this one, but back in 1990, if a
033school, if we're in a desair case, why was a school allowed to be open in the 90s, which basically offset all your numbers in the same. They opened up Parks Mill and that just now, of course, you had Martin Mills at the time, so they didn't affect it. But now that we're in the DC case, why was that? And obviously we were supposed to be underneath that. Why was that school allowed? And and from what it sounds like the numbers aren't that high in parks at Parks Mill. So you go I'm not saying close it right now, but you have to look at it. And I mean these are all things we talked about. You're looking at some serious cost savings right there. And again, if you have that school not in play right there,
034we might not be going through all this. you say as as brutal as we had to go, you know, and all the pain point that was going on. Can I make a suggestion that we table this item and we can tweak this a little bit, right? This budget and at the same time we can do transportation. Yeah. I mean, I I propose we do another special meeting, right? like we did last time. And if anybody wants to come sit down in the office and look at everything that we look at, it it it would make it a lot easier if you really, you know, really I thought uh when we had that special meeting, I think you were absent. Yeah, I was and we discussed that and we said it was good, but if you
035want to meet again, we I'll just meet on an individual basis so you don't have to. Yeah. because we had a they did a a splendid job of trying not to cut. They were really doing a good job. I think he could discuss that in a private meeting. Okay, Mike. Mike, I'd like to when Mark and I got on the board 20 years ago, they had a drastic reduction in force. My phone rang off the wall, but we got over it. Everybody got over it. I think what's happening here, if the money goes away, you can't get paid. You can't you can't educate your children. So I'm like Mark, we need to start cutting where the the big money is at the I mean I'd also like to point out that the you know there
036are supervisors but there are so many requirements from the state so many reporting requirements so many things that have to be done that are in my opinion a lot of times unnecessary but it doesn't matter. we have to be in compliance. If I can tell you how many things have been added to my plate from the state since I started different reporting requirements and it's like that throughout the whole supervisory staff. So the requirements are a lot more so it's and it's true in the classroom too but it it's and you know the bad thing is it's a few bad employees I got a bad taste in some of them when you can see things going around and it just gets the hell and they keep on and guess what it's happened you know something
037They go to Walmart. I'm not going to deny that. I'll second. Yes. Motion pass item 2G consider action with regard June 2025 sales tax with um I'm making a proposal to increase the amount of the June sales tax supplement. I did a um analysis on the total sales tax collections for the 2425 year and um a couple years ago we started doing this have a sufficient fund balance um there. So we're at the end of the year tried to disperse everything that was collected in this current year. So based on current collections, I'm recommending increasing to$,750 and that'll put us at a pretty close to even his vote. Item 2 H general fund monthly budget to action comparison. Uh no action required. Okay. Item 2 I consider and recommend action with regard to workers comp
038access. Um Mr. are um poised to pass out um the current the renewal rates which actually look like they are going down um for 25 26. Is there anything? Oh yeah. So you the reason for the reduction in premium is just due to payroll we reduce the payroll that we go through every year to the renewal. The rates remain the same same retention. Midwest employers carrier it's two-year policy so premium rates won't change we can renegotiate next year but those motion by second by mission will be very important Wednesday and staff. Let's work together for the better of our system and all involved in your holy name we pray. Amen. and amen to the republic for it stands nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all any announcements according to for the 2425
039student program also known as the CC people in LA school early childhood program compliance in the following two areas child eligibility and child attendance review including the family eligibility worksheets enrollment applications documents provided by parents in determining eligibility attendance records from September visit provided for absent in September it was determined that sland parish parish LA program was in compliance and evidence with thanks to Miss Nicole the early child supervisory show early child facility for maintaining integrity and position when it comes to all breaks that from the prek program at our parish at this time I'd ask the call to get applications to the early childhood department thank you thank you all for coming you might see some very classy ladies in the audience and that's because we are going to acknowledge our uh prek staff
040who have scored a 6.0 or higher on the class observation tool for the spring semester. And so I'm going to kind of call up um schools and if I see a principal here I'm going to ask you to start them to come. I do see um one principal. Is there any other? Okay. So we'll start off with bro. Let me start off as a district. We have 23 pre-K classes. Of those 23, we have 15 classes that receive scores above a six, which means 65% sorry about glasses. 65% of premium classes are considered excellent. We have five classes that receive scores between a 5.25 and a 5.99, which means 22% of classes are considered highly proficient. And then we have three classes that were between a 4.5 and a 5.24, 24 which was 13% of
041prek classes not proficient. So all classes in our prek program in our school system are considered proficient or higher. So congratulations and so at this time we're going to recognize primary staff that received a class score of a 6.14. We have Miss Morgan Gillery and Miss Sharma Bro. They want to come in. Thank you. Congratulations. All right. We do have from Primary. So, Miss come up here and help me recognize her staff. All right. We do have kind of go in They're in random order, guys. I'm going on who it is. We have Miss Sherry Tibido and Miss Tina Gry with a 6.44. I think Miss Sherry is all right. We have Miss Victoria Bro and Miss Marcino with a 6.42. Congratulations. We have Miss Alex Gandry and it's Rachel Duva with a 6.86. Congratulations.
042We have Miss Carrie Melson who has actually two um scores because we do get observed with our third party which is known as um the weak art center and Miss Carrie had a 6.92 and a 6.47. She also had Miss Relle Brousard and Michelle Hubal that were in with her. Congratulations. We have Miss Chelsea Boyer with Miss Lacy Manor. A 6.78. All right, good job primary. From Parks Primary, we have Miss Tiffany Phillips and Miss Lisa Dagel with a with a 6.39. [Music] And we have Michelle Leblon, Miss Barbu with a 6.42 primary. team and we have Miss Rachel Dugan and Miss Monica B with a 6.08 6.58 and a 6.17 and Miss Carrie My take is is within multiple observations. Congratulations, ladies. We have Miss Nikki Vatour and Miss Robin Band who had a
04338. Congratulations, ladies. So, another round of applause for our allowing me to recognize them at the board meeting. Mr. Mr. President, I'd like to recognize at this time our recipients of the 2425 education movement scholarship. We have three students who uh from our local high schools who uh are going to pursue uh degrees in education at uh university. So I'd like to recognize right now I'll call Miss Isabel Contia High School. and Miss Car from Cecilia High School. M here scholarship and pretty soon I have money going for school scholarship. There's only one. So, uh, yeah, but you have enough to sustain for a little bit longer. It's not that detriment. As of today, I'm with I'm the only board member given scholarship. I'm just saying you know next I like to I'd like to
044recognize at this time uh Miss Ally Romero Oel who is a Tesla teacher she has been recognized as a 2026 teacher of the year finalist. Uh she will be recognized at the honores um gayla at the CEO educational excellence awards gay which will be held at the World War II Museum. I just wanted to recognize her here and just tell her how proud we are. She's a finalist out of I think maybe 10 or 11 states or I don't know. in the middle. Yes. Okay. All right. Thank you. Anything else? Southern scripts. Yes. Our southern script employee is Mr. Joshua Brownley from St. Martin Steam Academy. Um, Mr. Bradley was recognized by Miss Pipal and Miss the assistant principal. I might add as well to Mr. Bradley uh just recently transition. He's going to be
045the new band director for St. Marggo Senior High School and St. Mar. And he is a product of St. Mark Parish Schools as well. Well, I don't have my paper, but I I can talk freely about Mr. Bradley. Y'all, we are so sad um that he's leaving us, but we're happy that the high school um gets to inherit Mr. Bradley, when we interviewed him, we knew that he was right for our babies and they knew that also. We call him the quiet storm because he doesn't say much. Um, but he is big in spirit and the kids can pick up on his spirit. Um, when you watch some of our videos or you ask them what was some of the special things about Vantham Academy, a lot of them say Mr. Bradley. So, he just
046um reads the the demeanor to have relationships with students. Um, he doesn't raise his voice, none of the above. And he's just an awesome young man. And I'm I'm gonna stop before I get to I just want to say the pleasure working with Mr. Bradley this year. And we're definitely gonna miss him. He gonna come back to the afternoon sometime. Okay. Any additions or deletions to the agenda? Yes, Mr. President. I'd like to delete [Music] item item two from the consent agenda. All right. And u at the last special meeting we had I also uh made a motion that we uh the next running of the school board 2026 that we eliminate district 10 which is G. He's not going to be there. I'm not but I disagree because 10 me more constituents. Well, that's
047what's gonna happen. You you I mean my district have like 58, you know, other district got 48. So, you know, now you going to add 65. No, it's going to probably be probably be about the same thing, 58 because when we did the cuts, we didn't the move the shift, we didn't take that out of my district. So, basically, that district is just going to pick up. Everybody's going to be on tier two. So you want to add that to to that that's supposed to be on the agenda. Put it on next month. Okay. Next month. Next month. Okay. So any other addition? I would like to add something back to Stevensville about the graduation being on sat uh Saturday. We kind of talked about it to put it on the agenda. That's right. No,
048it's not. But I think he has something something that can't address. Oh, okay. Okay. Any other deletion? All right. At this time, I'll entertain a motion to accept the consent agenda item. Move by Mr. Aar by Mr. Fusion back. All right. Finance Committee recommend. Listen, there are no item from the agenda. Finance committee recommendations. At this time, I'll entertain a motion to accept the finance committee recommendations. Motion by Mr. Poche, second by Mr. Fus. New business. I may consider approved Head Start policy council recommendations, BC minutes, enrollment reports, attendance reports, and directors report. We had our regular policy council meetings and these are like your agenda item. We really just looked at reports, attendance, and the director's report. The other thing that has shifted a designated vote, our closeout date is June 30th for the
049Head Start program. So, we're kind of working through that process right now. Motion by Mr. Clay, second by Mr. Passes. Item B, considering take action with respect to adopting a resolution providing canvasing returns and declaring the results of special election held at St. Mark District, Louisiana on Saturday May 3rd to authorize issuance of general obligation bonds therein. Mr. Thank you with bond council. Steve Yosaka, your financial advisor. Mr. As the simple, the campus returns to the May 3rd election passed handily and uh congratulations. Once you adopt this resolution, we'll make all the post-election filings. Motion by Mr. Durio. Yes. on the bond. I didn't we didn't specify exactly what was going to be fixed. There is a project list that does have projected things there. All right. Any other vote? Motion pass. Consider I take
050action with respect to adopting resolution advertising for bids for the purchase of general obligation school bonds series 25 St. Mark district and providing for other matters in connection there Mr. Sh. This is a resolution advertising first series of bonds. This one will be for 10 million which was what was planned prior to the election. It'll kickstart your construction and improvement projects. And this is the fastest time schedule we could use and that was upon direction of administration to proceed as quickly as possible, provide the funds and start these projects. Uh this would provide for a delivery of the bonds and funds available in the construction account on September 4th. Move to accept. Okay. Second. Second. Motion by Mr. Abear, second by Mr. Durio. Any discussion? Let's vote because that was a lot of question that
051some of the board members was had was when was the first original when the first batch of money be able so they could start. It will be we can start planning projects right now. Absolutely. And if I might, you did previously authorize uh reimbursement from bond proceeds. So you can expend funds at any time prior to delivery of the bond September 4th and reimburse yourself from the bond issue. So you're protected under federal law. Okay. Item D, consider and take action with respect to adopting resolution authorizing attorney of depth issuance of general obligation school bond series 25 district Louisiana and providing for other matters in connection there with the this is the final cleanup resolution. It's a general bond resolution and very importantly, it authorizes bids to be received. We plan on receiving the bids
052August 5th at 11 a.m. We don't have to have a board meeting to do that. This resolution will authorize the superintendent to receive the competitive sealed bids, make the award to the low bidder. It will come back to you for confirmation at your next board meeting after that date. Move to accept by Miss D. Second by Mr. Thurio discussion motion pass. Mr. President, thank you very much. And if I might add one thing, your 60% passage rate, it was the highest passage rate of any of the SKU school board bond issues on May 3rd that I've been able to locate. So, congratulations. Very good. Others around the state passed by 52 to 57%. You all did very well. Thank you for saying not to say it out loud. Thank you, Mr. Thank you. I appreciate
053it. Thank you very much. That we have to. All right. Other money needs to be spent before we spend this one. Item E, consider our approved making May 15th, a professional development day for all teachers and staff. Mr. Wils. Yes. uh after the previous board meeting when uh the proposal was brought to move graduation to the Saturday, I reached out to the administrators at the high school in reference to that particular change. Uh the administrators were concerned and because of the amount of order that it takes to to put on a graduation, the conflict with UL's graduation and neighboring uh university graduations as well. So, uh, one of the proposals that they suggested was that we just use May 15 as a professional development day and as we build calendars in the upcoming school years,
054we just designate that day as a professional development date. And that would eliminate having to come to the room to make that decision. and instead of frontloading one of our PDAs, we just have a professional development date on that particular date, which would eliminate us from having to uh the chaos that we normally have on that particular day in reference to graduation. Um, another another point to make too is if we were to move graduation to the Saturday, which is not a normal weight work date, every employee would have to be paid based on that state law where they'd have to be paid for for working outside of their normal work. Plus another thing we had discussed that last year about moving it and all of a sudden we got bomb order with phone calls
055because people book they don't book their their parties they they booked that five to 10 years in advance and stuff and especially on Friday night so that will you made a statement that each employee have to get paid t so we paying those employee right now for graduation because it's consider It's considered part of their normal work day as a so if we're moving to a Saturday we have to okay it's sad that we have to do this because of the busing situation that's a disappointing thing but it's not all of them now supposedly some of the bus drivers reached out and said they weren't they that was misinformation that they weren't taken off that day so and I think staff even heard about that staff. I heard about it after the fact because the
056the push back was that transportation was being blamed for the district having to close that particular date. When when I go out and ask a question in reference to how many bus drivers are going to be out, give me the give me the actual number and don't tell me a madeup number which is going to drive uh my decision. It's just like if when I watch the weather, if if Rob is telling me, oh, there's a definite that the storm is going to hit St. Parish on a particular day, that I'm going to reach out to you in reference to making a decision. But if he's up in the air and he doesn't know, then that that that kind of drives the the decision that's made the the conversation was that transportation was being blamed
057for closing school. Well, if I knew that it was a small amount of people, then that probably wouldn't have we probably wouldn't have closed down. But here's the thing that people have to understand. If five people are out or six people are out at Brokage High or at St. Martinville Senior High, they're able to disperse those kids into other classrooms and they make it work. If nine to 10 or 11 bus drivers are out, we can't snap our fingers and make them appear on the campus. So transportation drives what happens in the district and they know that and I'm tired of playing games with transportation. I'm tired of it. It's always a oh why are we being blamed for this? Why are we being blamed for that? Just do what needs to be done to
058get the children to school and we won't have that problem. I'm sick of it. Okay. Motion to accept. Motion by Mr. Clay. Second. Second by Mr. Pier. Any more discussion? Thank you Mr. All right, let's vote. All right. Consider and approve request to modify work hours for central office staff. Um, yes, we're uh requesting we we did an intro survey and we're requesting to open u or allow central office staff to work from 7:30 to 4. Our schools taken before 8:00. Uh and we also recognize the flexibility. So in the survey 82% wanted the new work hours, 14% had no preference, whereas some people prefer to keep the current schedule. So uh gigs would be to do kind of like around the time of open enrollment. We're going to have people say what hours they're
059going to work. We're also going to have the two lobbies when students come. Uh we have people who come to the schoolboard offices. So, we're going to have this office open from 7:30 until 4:00 and the front building will be open from 8:00 to 4:30 to better meet the needs of the public. So, I I just think you're causing big headache, me personally, because these these employees are going to play games with that. No, I I hope you can control it because I don't see the front office may say, "Well, I want to do with the back office. The front no I want to do with the front office." There's already that we already have commitments and when you when someone has agrees that the time that's the time that they're going to be working.
060It's going to be monitored. It's not flexible. It's going to be monitored in that year. These people are going to be signing up for a work time. They have to punch in themselves, right? Yeah. Because we got we got one situation out in the parish. I'm hearing that an employee is punching somebody in and I need to get with Mr. on that. Yes, we're actually moving to test. Oh man, that would be make a motion. I'll make a motion that we give it a 90 day trial. Okay. If it's too much, if we get too much, I'm okay with that. You have a substitute motion to make it an app. Second by Miss Vita. All right, let's vote on the I said if there's no complaint from the paper is showing up sometime. Well, you
061don't have to vote on the secondary motion. So be I don't think there's a motion. So just be an amended motion amended motion. It's just a motion. All right. Amended motion. Item G, discussion of use of old school board office on 305 Washington Street. Mr. Wilson. Yes. I was I was uh Lewis Jr. uh American Legion number 419 reached out to me in reference to the possibility of releasing the old office that we have this street at several of the uh post members through that and take a look at the the old office uh in here reference to the possibility of the building. Good evening everybody. Can you hear everybody here? Yes, sir. First off, I'd like to thank y'all for letting us come talk with you all. And second of all, I'd like to
062give y'all props and prayers because y'all making some hard decisions that's going to impact our future. Mr. President, superintendent, board members, I've talked with most of you all. Y'all probably heard that old raspy voice on the phone, you know, for the ones that I did call. So well anyway uh for people that aren't familiar with the American Legion just give you or an overview of our preamble. First of all God and country we associate ourselves together for the following purposes. To uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States of America to maintain law and order. To foster and perpetuate 100% Americanism. to preserve the memories and incidents of our associations in the Great Wars. To inculcate or instill a sense of individual obligation to the community, the state and the nation. To combat the
063autocracy of both the classes and the masses. To make right the master of might. To promote peace and goodwill on earth. To safeguard and transmit to prosperity the principles of justice, freedom, and democracy. and to consecrate and sanctify our comradeship by our devotion to mutual helpfulness. That's basically what we do. We our organization is uh was um uh incorporated over 25 years ago. Uh since then, we've lost all of our World War II veterans. We've lost all of our Korean War veterans. and we have lost some of our Vietnam veterans. All during this time, we've been pursuing a post that we can do more for the community. At one time, we adopted St. Martinville uh St. Martin Junior High and we go there and do things for the kids. We want to do more. You
064know, that's that's our gift. You know, we all are honorably discharged veterans. We all used to serve in the military. So we want to serve our community and we ask that you all work with us. Uh the building is vacate vacated now and we hoping that we can lease it from you all on terms for a long period of time so we can impact the community more. We want to do more. Thank you for your service. Thank you for your service. Thank you for your thanks. Yeah. 20 years. What's the max? 25. There's there's not there's not a max for this particular thing. It's it's a it's a public policy deal. Yeah. The last time we leased the land was 25 years. So, what y'all what y'all going to do with the property? With the
065property, we we have plans for that. you know, we was we were shooting toward putting a building on it, but we're looking at at doing more for it. You know, we you know, we want to have community. Yeah. Whatever. I mean, whatever that guys want, we support y'all. Okay. We appreciate you. Thank you. Can we take it up number? Okay. Oh, just discuss. Okay. No, that's that's that's motion, but you can come back next month with that. Okay. All right. Thank you for your time. Thank you. Appreciate it. Thanks. No board members request. So, at this time, we need to go to executive session. Executive session. I have two exposure appeals. I do. Okay. St. All right. This time I'll take a motion to uh on the appeals on student a Well, nobody I have
066children for student aid that we take it on under review in 90 days. I have a motion to take it under review in 90 days. Do I have a second? Second. Second. Any other vote? All right. Any discussion? Let's vote. All right. Item B, student B. Do I have a motion? I vote that instead of being 18 days that we g our normal 9 days ex [Music] but they're talking about the record in the system you have to say so okay since even though it's already been done it's what's in the system we're looking at so Mr. POJ is saying change it from expulsion to a 9-day suspension. You want to amend his record? We did it already. Yeah. You want to amend his discipline record to be a non-day suspension? Second. Do I have
067a second? I second. Okay. Mr. Cle second. Any other motion to adjourn? Second, secondly poaching.