001Amen. 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. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States I'm sorry, allegiance to the United States All right. Uh I need to hear approval of Head Start Community agenda item number finance through 40 and budget amendment. Mr. Quintero. We had our regular policy council meeting and we do need to do a minor budget amendment to move funds to purchase a utility trailer to haul our lawn mower. Um lawn mower needs to be repaired and the funds that are there are just moving them from one category to the one needed in the Okay. Motion voted by Okay. Seconded by Mr. Figueroa. Any discussion? Let's
002vote. Motion passed. Item 2B, consider and or recommend action with regard to two requests for industrial tax exemption for Arrow Aviation. Ms. Broussard. Uh I am recommending that we grant these um exemptions. They are in good standing. They are um bringing more business to Iberia. And the act the amount that will be exempt over a 10-year period is $41,000. And in addition, we'll collect So, they get an exemption for 80%, we collect 20%. So, it'll it'll be additional money coming in to us over that 10-year period. And then we'll recognize the full 100% of it. Didn't they come back Did Did they come to us a while back? Yeah, I checked on that for um I thought there might have been a sales tax matter, but there was there they didn't they didn't have any
003they didn't have any requests for This living is We didn't have any sales tax living is I mean I think it's probably Yeah. They would give it to the parent. Cuz I just They got something that came up years ago that is I don't have any agreement with them. Anyway. Okay. We We have a motion by Mr. Forte. Second by Mr. Sterling. Any discussion? Hey, let's vote. Motion passed. Item 2C Consider and I'll recommend action with regard to renewal of existing existing member membership of understanding with the the LSU AgCenter. Ms. Bruce Arnold. Mr. It's It's just an extension of what we're currently doing. There's no increase in the cost to the board and I do recommend that we continue that and Mr. Stewart or J is here if you have any questions. Motion by
004Mr. Forte to accept. Second by Mr. Kennedy. Any discussions? Just a question. Mr. 28,000 center. Okay. I'm finished. Okay. Any more? Let's vote. Motion passed. Item 2D Consider and I'll recommend action with regard to insurance proposals submitted by Brown and Brown and Kennedy Law LLC including general liability and property and flood and etc. Ms. Bruce Arnold. Uh I'm going to let Brown and Brown go ahead and speak. Mr. Floyd De Jean Tis. I think I'm going to say you all for your time. You have the floor. Can you hear me? Thank you all for your time. If you all want to start at that top table, that's all the coverages that are set to renew outside of your package with Munich. So, that'll be the auto, the GL, that kind of separate from the people
005below. Just going line by line of properties down, we'll compare to last year. We paid 1,167,000 last year compared to the renewal coming in at 990,631. And that's no change in the shareable value, no change in deductibles. Same same terms as expiring. Equipment breakdown, that's Liberty Mutual. They came in a little higher than last year, so we went out and got options from another company that provides similar coverage. Travelers, they offered a $5,000 deductible for 8,000 843 annually. And then, if you wanted to match what you have existing with a $15,000 deductible, they have it at $6,530 a year. So, those two options are in the notes below. If you would like to pursue those two options outside of the economy. Then you have a professional liability. That's the nurses and RNs we have on
006staff. That's up slightly. A lot of that is rate. The exposure's about the same. The count is very similar to last year. Can I backtrack the last one? Yes. So, you two options we have is you The first one that you have up there is Liberty Mutual. Is there a deductible now? No, it's a 15,000. 15,000 deductible. And then the other two with Travelers are a $5,000 deductible. Yeah. So, that one's cheaper than the uh the 9,000 with Liberty Mutual. Yes, sir. Okay. Yeah. And they provided a 15,000 where you could have more of an apples-to-apples comparison there. And so, their 15,000 deductible is actually So, we'd want to under two grand less than last year. We'd obviously want to go with one of those those two right there. Okay. Yes, sir. Either one. Okay.
007Um the cyber liability with this is Travelers. That's a It's a great company. They also provide you crime on a three-year annual basis. Um Any questions with that that first table as far as coverage and anything? Anything with that? I just think we need to make a decision if we want to go with that Travelers instead of uh Liberty Mutual and go with the 5,000 or the 15,000. What is our current deductible? 15,000. Yes, sir. All the uh current deductibles are kind of in that middle of the table under retention. Can you go over breakdown in this like big AC units and stuff like that? Yeah, if if something mechanically fails and causes a fire or anything like that, that would be picked up on that policy. But not the unit itself. The unit itself,
008yeah. Yes, sir. Um going on to the package with Munich. So, obviously we got a little a good bit of increase on that one when compared to last year. And a lot of that or majority of that increase is driven by loss. So, if you look on that second page or the second page where it kind of goes down the line, it shows you in the last five years how much you guys have put in in premium versus how much the carrier has put in. So, you guys are on the hook for the first 250,000 of every claim. So, figures are net of that. I mean the total You're looking at this right here, right? Yes, sir. I want to make sure we're on the same page. So, that incurred by carrier, net of retention,
009that's everything over 250,000. And that's what the carriers paid out in the last 5 years versus what you guys have paid them in premiums. And those last 2 years, the '23-'24 and '24-'25, they have zeros there, but those claims just haven't haven't developed enough to to show up. A figure over 250,000. So, only 2023, we had almost a $2 million loss. Yeah. And that's driven by one claim. So, it's an auto claim. What is it, auto? Yeah. All all majority of those figures up there from the auto. One thing that we might want to consider as a board is and and What's that? A claim is Well, that's what I mean. Like the company I work for, if you get in a wreck, first of all, you you get put out of out of service.
010You're not getting paid for that. And I don't know if we have that that legality to do that with us, but until that until that accident is finished investigation, you're not getting paid. So, that's some of the things that we can maybe start modeling and see if we can be in it. It's to do that. You you know, we can check into that. And then also start giving classes like like as we doubt says, all all types of you know, awareness and things like that because and also that cell phone. I don't know if that's a big issue right now with everybody. I mean, you sit at a red light and you get booked if you're blowing the horn because that next person's not going ahead. So, a lot of times they might be on
011the phone, too. We we've talked about some uh some training as well as some changes that we might have to try to make. You know, I I see people on their phones all the time and everything their eyes are glued to the road and turn their heads on on empty streets maybe, to the point that you you guys are making, that's that's the probably the biggest issue that we have. And and and I hate to to to talk about the elephant in the room, but a lot of times when these these accidents happen, we have the footage from the accidents. A lot of times what happens is it historically in the past, I'm not talking about just talking about in the past. We can have we haven't given these drivers a stiff enough consequence for
012for the neighborhood that they're receiving. So, I think that's part of the issue. If if if I'm if I'm speeding and every time I get stopped by cops, he gives me a warning, guess what's going to happen? You tell me to do that. I'm going to continue to do it over and over. So, and I think that's part of the issue that we're having is it's not stiff enough. The The consequences are not stiff enough for the things that we are dealing with as a board. Uh and I'd like to to just have a ballpark figure of the total amount over the past 10 years of what we you've had to shell out because of the accidents. That's a lot of money that that's that we normally waste that we just literally giving away. And
013we could give it back and raises, you know, instead of having But it's a good point that you made because of the company I work for, when we have one of those devices in in our vehicles, and the other thing is distracted driving distracted driving. If you following too close, they'll tell you that also. And either back down or it also is quality. Costs too much money for it does. Because it it it's fortunate that it it's been happening. But we need to let the drivers knows that we do have another option. We can contract out. We can outsource because if it gets to the point where it's it's causing that much problems, right? I mean, think of all the all the money we'd save if we outsourced it. We wouldn't have to pay salaries.
014Now, don't get me wrong, it's not expensive that I mean, it's very expensive to outsource, but we might be coming out better that. Look at your million 800,000. Right. Yeah. Plus all the tires you have to replace, all the buses you have to replace. Parts. Uh your benefits. So, let them go get hired on not trying to cut their jobs out, but let them go get hired out by that outside contractor to where we don't have to be responsible for that. All we do is cut a check to that outside source and boom. I think I had over the head. I have to look into the what would be the cost for a year versus what we spending on the insurance. And then you don't have to worry about graduation day where everybody calls in
015or or the first day of school and they had an operation all summer long and stayed home and then oh, first day of school they got an operation after going to the And then all the all the other drivers that are actually being faithful to us have to go to work. So, the good the good employees are basically suffering because of that. And that's including the actual cost. Exactly. So, if you look at the 24 20 24 to 25 premium was 505. There are no way if you want to keep the same deductible level of 250,000 that you got to have over the last 6 years, that premium is a million 29,085. I did provide options for higher retentions if y'all would like to go that route. So, if you choose to take on the
016first 300,000 of every claim and this is above auto general liability so all the lines of coverage that are included within that package, the premium drops to 928,954. And then a step further would be 500,000 and the savings would be go down to 811,777. So, we have we have a $250,000 deductible $250,000 premium. Yes, sir. Every claim across general liability auto liability. You know, if you go to 350, you you you cut your 100,000 federal 100,000. If you go to a 500,000 deductible, you go to 800. You want to bump it up to 200,000? Yeah, but the problem is your the risk that you're You're taking on an additional 100. One case will eat up all of your savings. I don't All right, but the days we've been going in the millions and it's a
017little premium and those little deductibles. Right. Right. Because the amount the amount of the cases we've been getting Yeah, 250. the amount of cases we've been getting will cover it. Especially if we're going to do a higher self-funded We definitely need to have staff look into getting some guidelines put in place to to help reduce exposure. Staff will review the policy. We need We need to decide on this before by April, right? April 19th. I would suggest we table it and look into other things. And then uh and make our decision at the next meeting. That way everybody has a chance to think about I don't think it'll make it. It's It won't make a difference on the cost of what this premium's going to be. So, delaying it a month is not going to
018make a difference. But we need to put some protocols in the place internally to help this so that the exposure next year continues to go down and the premium will go down. Again, all this all this going right now is hurting their bill employees. Okay. Anything else? We can. Are you finished with your presentation? Uh yes, sir. Unless y'all have any questions. All right. Right here is the one. I think it's the same. We need to add in there what equipment breakdown we want and I would say the $500 $5,000 deductible. With Travelers? Yeah. Yeah, I'm good with that. Yeah, go with the $5,000. Unless anybody has another unless you want to go Motion. Mr. Vidal seconds the motion with that premium and then also with the $5,000 deductible. With Travelers. Okay. Any objections? What
019do we do? I'll second. Seconded by Mr. Hebert. You accept the Travelers $5,000 $50,000 deductible? Yes. And then we $250,000 E&O. Under review. Okay. Let's vote. Motion passed. Thank you. Seconded. Thank you, guys. Thank you, all. Thank you. Okay, item two e. Here is the one monthly budget actual. No, actually. Oh. I think back to the liability. Was that for the motor size with greenhouse also for the next calendar year? That's in the flood insurance. That's not on there. We'll have it separate. I move to adjourn. Motion to adjourn by Mr. Fulcher. Second. Seconded by Mr. Fulcher, ladies. With the regular meeting of Wednesday, March 12th this Some guidance. Would one of you please lead us in prayer and pledge? You may be seated. Father, I ask for the spirit to be with Dear Lord,
020I ask that we as we make decisions that will affect the students and staff. That us work together for the betterment of our system and all involved in it. In your holy name we pray. Amen. Amen. In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. 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. completely. Any announcements and accolades? Yes, yes, Mr. Chairman. I'm going First announcement on first acclimation, I'd like to have Miss Tray, uh, presentation member come up. Um, as you are aware, we have one of our students who was a student of the year, uh, state finalist, uh, and is now a state finalist. So, we'd like to
021recognize Miss Addison Gabriel Figueredo attention member. She is state finalist for William Travis School of the Year. She competed against seven other fifth graders across the state on Tuesday morning at 11:00 for the distinction of being selected as the overall 2025 William Travis School of the Year. Uh, and the winner will be announced by at a ceremony in, like, May. So, congratulations to Addison on winning that. Addison, Addison, I'm just curious. The next time y'all have a little lunch, I want to know if it's the Figueredo smart or the Onjulo smart. There you go, Addison. And another announcement, we have this, uh, the Onjulo here provides certificates to some of our pre-K staff for all class observation awards. So, we are going to recognize tonight some of our pre-K staff, and you can see they're
022kind of standing on the side, wearing some shirts that say classy, and it's not just because I think that they are classy individuals. They are, but they are also part of a the pre-K group and in our school system, they are observed in the same way that regular K-12 teachers are observed, but when they're observed in their evaluation, it has a two-fold kind of uh weight for us in the district. It is their individual evaluation, but we also have performance profile scores that each school gets and those are based on class scores in pre-K classrooms. And so, we are now recognizing some of what we call are very classy because they received scores that were in the excellent rating. And so, if you look up, we have 23 pre-K classes in the district. Currently, for
023our fall semester, this was from um August until December. Of those 23, we have 13 classes that they received scores which were above a six. This is a seven-point scale, which means 50% of our pre-K classes are considered excellent. That is the highest level that you can be on this rating scale. We have seven classes who received scores between 5.25 and 5.99, which is 30% in the highly proficient. And then, we have three classes that were in the proficient category. We want to be proficient or higher. So, this says 100% of our pre-K classes that serve over 400 students in our district are being educated by an extremely highly um excellent level of instruction. So, good job. And it includes not only our pre-K teachers, our pre-K paraprofessionals. And so, we are going to give
024recognition now individually. And so, these are our classes that scored above the six. And so, if you want to go to the next slide, Miss Wendy. We're going to recognize Miss Amy Dotrail, Miss Alicia Vedrine, Miss Ashley Roberts who scored a 6.44 this fall semester. Now we're going to take a picture. Yeah, she's absent. All right, thank you ladies. We now have Miss Erin. And Miss Erin I think is the only one here today from her room who was Miss Erin, Miss Jamie and Miss Ashley. So we're going to I'm going to ask you to give Miss Jamie okay? All right, Miss Erin. And Miss Erin they scored a 6.39. Congratulations. Okay. Got it. All right. We have next Miss Carrie Melanson, Miss Rochelle Broussard and Miss Shelly Huval who scored a 6.67. Miss Rochelle
025and Miss Shelly. Miss Rochelle feels like we now need to be in the middle. Yeah, no you're good. He's on the end. Right there. Yeah. Excellent. Thank you ladies. Next we have Miss Victoria Broe who was with Miss Shelly come step up with us, Miss Morissette and Miss Shelly Huval. Miss Shelly is one of our pairs that kind of floats where we need so she was in this classroom as well when we had Miss Victoria Broe they scored a 6.14. Next we have Miss Chelsea Boyer who is with Miss Lacey Menard. Miss Lacey's not here tonight, and Miss Chelsea's coming up. Her score was a 6.81. Here comes Chelsea. And then we have Miss Sherry Thibodeaux, who is with Miss Tina Gidry, and we have a 6.67. Thank you, ladies. And then we have Miss
026Hallie Gidry and Miss Rachel Dugas. And if you notice, Miss Hallie has two scores with the word Picard on the side. So, not only do our pre-K teachers have to have principals that go in to do observations, as well as some district staff, we get the privilege of having a third-party observer coming in regularly, and this is the Picard Center with UL, that they are considered outside observers. They come in to check us to make sure that if we say this teacher is excellent, they're coming say, "Oh, are they really excellent?" And when you see two scores, 1625, 1642 with Picard, that's just validating that says, "Yes, it is truly excellent." All right, and this is our group from Cecilia Primary. Great job, Cecilia Primary. Our next school that we're going to have recognition for
027Next slide. Is our Breaux Bridge Primary um school. We have Miss Britney Simon and Miss Regina Dartez, who scored a 6.03. And if you notice, it has Picard, which means they had the luxury of having the third party come in and add anxiety to this. All right. Thank you. Next we have Miss um John Tally and Miss Peggy Terrio. And they're going to come over They had a 6.03. And Miss Peggy, I'm going to do this cuz she loves How many years, Miss Peggy? 33 years 33 years 11 of those 4-year-olds, huh? That's it. That's it. Miss Peggy and Miss John I don't know about that. Scoot over a little bit. Scoot over some more. Scoot over some more. Let's get out of the camera. There we go. Out of the camera. Out of this
028camera. All right. Thank you. All right. We now are going to recognize we have Parks Primary. And so we have Miss Michelle McGraw and Miss Barbara Naveau who had a double score again, a 6.00 and a 6.44 from the pre-K department. And we have Miss Tiffany Phillips. There we go. And Miss Lisa with a 6.22. All right. Thank you, Parks Primary. All right. We have from our St. Mary Early Childhood Academy, Miss Nikki Viator and Miss Robin Bonanno with a 6.33 from the pre-K department. All right, and then we do have I'll recognize Miss Allison's not here from Steelville, but Miss Allison also Miss Allison and Miss Thomasina a double six score a 6.42 and then a 6.19 from the Pecan Orchard City. Thank you. If you notice, they have their 5D shirts. It's a
029privilege. Not everybody can be classy like y'all. So, thank you for watching. Okay, and next will be Sun Scripts. Yes, Superintendent played a role with Samantha Robichaux of the Steelville teachers. She is tonight with Mr. Shirley was gracious enough to give me the reason why we nominated her. He said Miss Samantha Robichaux has been an excellent coworker. All of the teachers and students have enjoyed working with her. She has taken the new social studies curriculum and made it work well for our middle school students. She is always covering duty for us in the morning when the need arise. She's involved with the school's aftercare program and she's very involved with sports. She is the head coach of basketball and she's been working with the community. And she's been working with our elementary teachers association parent
030teacher association to raise money to help the schools. We very generous generous with her time. She is kind and understanding to our students and she's easy to work with because she is cooperative. So, congratulations to Miss Samantha Robichaux. All right, thank you. Any additions or deletions to the agenda? I believe we a a request a waiver of subrogation of a case that's in litigation. If we could add that to the agenda to be discussed in the executive session. A waiver of subrogation? Yes, sir. Yes. Do we need a vote on that? Vote to add it to the agenda. Do we need to vote to add it on? We vote. Okay, passed. Thank you, Mr. President. We also need to remove from our agenda the little six building request. It's very close to being paid off
031in payments. Okay. Remove. All right, anything else? Okay, accept agenda. At this time are there any motions to accept the consent agenda as is or do we move something off to be discussed? You move. Okay. Motion by Mr. Steve, second by Mr. Clay. Let's vote on. Passed. Do I have a vote on the consent agenda of finance committee recommendations? At this time are there any motions to accept finance committee recommendations? Mr. Locke made that And second by Mr. Durio. Let's vote. Any motions by Mr. Clay? And new business, consider on a full day schedule policy and about some recommendations. New hire recommendations, bylaws, infant formula policy, video surveillance, updated emergency consent. Updated eligibility selection criteria, memorandum of understanding, and St. Bernard Parish Library. This is all you. At our last policy council meeting, we did
032have some new hire recommendations as well as we needed to annually review our bylaws. Those were approved and made the recommendation by the policy council. We also had to update finally how we administer infant formula at our early head starts so that parents are bringing it in instead of us preparing it on site. Video surveillance, this is not anything adding new cameras. This is just updating what we had to align more for what we do in our centers. Our updated emergency consent after having our licensing review in January, there was recommendations by the licensing consultant to remove wording so we updated that. Every year we have to update the eligibility selection criteria before we start our next year. And then our St. Bernard Parish Library is going to be starting doing reading in our head
033start centers. Okay, any discussion? Motion to accept. Okay. This is Steve and this is Michelle. Let's vote. Motion passed unanimously. Item B, consider and or approve the proposed 2025-2026 school calendar of St. Bernard Parish schools. Mr. Bonano. Good evening. You should have had it in your packet as the long page. Um we would have staff beginning on the 5th. We front loaded most of the PD that we filed PD days with students beginning on the 12th. Um Mr. Mark already has the issue with us beginning early but as Ms. Broussard says, in order for those people to get their September check, they have to start that early. But Ken, I was going to say open for discussion. course. I'll argue it every year. Uh and and I just want to know why. Okay. On the
034calendar, we have a whole week left at the end of May. Okay? We can Technically, we can start the teachers personal development days on the 15th. The main reason you have to start then is because of the pay cycle. We We as a board adjusted that years ago, which I think we should have never done, but uh and that particular year they got two checks two checks in one month. Uh Steve will probably remember that through the older ones. But the the the wording that we had back at that time, you had to have your teachers start on August 15th. By August 15th, the kids can come back the students can come back at a later date. That's just a future reference because if I was a kid riding that bus in August when I
035know I could have ridden it in May, it's a big difference. That's one thing. All our electric electricity bills go up in August. So that's a little bit better to run our facilities in May. I'm just saying cost-cutting measures is what I'm looking at. And if there's really a big issue, when I went to school, we didn't have a whole week off of East Easter. We get off Good Friday and then Monday after. That's just one thing. Couple of years ago, we even had the whole week of Mardi Gras that year. We've adjusted that. And then of course we have the fall break, but there's so many ways to adjust it. And I think we need to look into that seriously because we we in the we in the red the past couple of years
036now. past couple of years. So we need to look at every possible way to start saving costs because we're going to run out of self-approval. That's my point. And then also looking at the well-being of the kids in that situation. I said no I said And you have the one day fall break in between the 18th and the 20th of October with the PD. Um graduation will be the 15th which is a week before. And we're looking at finishing before Memorial Day. Any discussion? All I can say is you better find some money and put air conditioning. If you're going to start that early you're going to get in trouble. I mean a couple years ago two summers ago we had hit 100° weather consistently back to back. Sure. And And I just wanted Okay,
037let me ask you a question. Who's voting on this? Who's coming up with the calendar? Is it just staff members? This uh some principals and some supervisors. So pretty much all 12-month employees. You might want to next time get teacher involvement. And you know I'm just throwing it out to you guys. This is all I have to do is ask. You know and was that You know we've done that in the past and it really get a true I think you would really know how people feel. Cuz in August I promise you they're going to we're going to all hear about it. Why y'all starting school so early? But it's not anything different than actually we start later than I think last year. And but again it's like I think they doing it wrong too.
038Other factors. That's just my opinion. And but and back to your point about that the teachers have to work 15 days. So it has to be before the 15th cuz there's not 15 working days. You know what if they have to 15 working days? 15. Because when you you know they just told us at the time when we did it we had to start before August 15th. They have to work 15 days to have earned that month's paycheck. If not they'll owe us money. Well that's something that we need to look into. Then my my calculation is wrong then. Yes. It has They have to work for 15 days to break even if they would leave after that paycheck is received, they would not have lost any money back. Yeah, they can start they can
039Let's see. You push it back a week and then you add school to the week. In that in that month of May. And again, people don't realize it but you're looking at a serious savings because you're going to actually This is what was going to happen when we start No, it's going to still happen but it's going to be more at the beginning of August and for a longer period of time with the break. a big problem to change it? I don't know. I don't think it would be a problem to change it to that date. In their defense, Casey you know I mean the number of days worked out the same but we also have to consider that our a lot of our teachers live in Lafayette and have kids in school in Lafayette
040and then so you have that issue of their kids are getting out. We're We've always tried to keep it similar from our surrounding parishes. Not that we have to cater to that but I think it's something to consider that you're going to end up with a bunch of teachers at the end of the year. I don't know. I think Is that something we can poll the teachers about? Would they rather start when we start and get off the week before Memorial Day or what? Do they prefer coming early in August and getting out before Memorial Day? do that with the board in the next next meeting? I mean I think that's a simple poll. Four days with the Easter holiday this 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th. We can cut that off. I think you're going
041to get some feedback if you do that. I think starting a week later and going a week later you know won't get a whole lot but if you cut a whole holiday out I I think you're going to get some feedback. Consideration is that one of the the laws has to do with the extended school year program. Any of our students that qualify under what's called a regression or recoupment, we have to we have to have the break no more than the longest break from the school year, which is 2 weeks at Christmas. Therefore, we have to start our ESY program no later than 2 weeks after the last day students are out of school and end it no more than 2 weeks before we resume school. So, if we do that, we make a
042change like that and students don't come back until, say, the 22nd of August, then the ESY has to go through to the 7th or 11th. You got plenty of days that we have in this this calendar that we have all that endless is the whole system. Like the teachers pointed out. They couldn't make it in the real world. I'm just saying that if you you start to eliminate all of these that have historically been established in these calendars, given the climate the climate of schools in today's day and age, you're going to run into a problem with these teachers. But these teachers need to not complain that they can't get their work done because it it's it's a I mean Sorry, but that's all I hear. You know, not everybody. Well, why don't we just
043push it back by the year? I know when I was teaching, we always had Memorial. We had to come back after Memorial Day on a weekend. That Tuesday or Wednesday. That the years when I taught them. That's not that long ago, 2000. Depending on the schedule, we usually either work finish right before or one or two days after. Yeah, I remember going to school in the 4th. 3rd or 4th. I remember, yeah, in June. Oh yeah, yeah, sure did. I mean, considering the heat of the bus rides and all of that, considering I'm sure there's for sure. I know we've tried we've tried to satisfy everyone, but the number one the the number one resource that we we're looking for is our children. And putting them at the best interest. But it's awfully hot in
044August. I agree with you there. So how many um school school uh days you're supposed to teach your kids on? 180. So how how many They added two several years ago for professional development. So the teachers go 182, they have two additional professional development days uh outside of what the parents have, which is 180. So that's what they are. So we could back it up four days and still be have the 15 minutes. Yes. Yes, cuz I think they're working 19 in August. Yeah, the the students get out on what day in August? I don't think it is. Monday the 18th? I know another issue was testing. Testing? Testing. Yeah, that's where we looked at our Easter holidays. I said falls in that area. Anyway, I'll make a motion to table it. And have staff
045look at the second alternative, possibly pushing school back a year. But uh and then come back next month with two options and possibly poll the teachers and anybody even even maintenance and whoever you want to poll. And see if we get a true feedback. And then we can go on from there. It should make a difference between what it is I remember the time that we had to vote the teachers would vote on the on the calendar. I remember that, too. And I'll tell you the problem that happened that used to that that that with that issue. So many So many people were not voting because they said that it was already the board was going to do whatever the board wanted to do. That's That's That was the exact words that the the teachers
046said. They said, "It doesn't even It's a waste of time for us to vote cuz the board is going to decide and do whatever they want to do." And that's why we just eliminated We eliminated We eliminated that part of it because That's the truth. We used to vote for the days and we had a choice. calculated We get three calendars and you choose the calendar you want. That board That's how it used to be, right? That's how We No, I mean you get three choices. And I will tell you what we had this year for us. Whatever selection the teachers made was not the selection that the board chose. That's why they stopped And that's why they they they they stopped the teachers from voting. They know what's best. So my first two calendars
047where we sent three to the staff and they voted and the one we brought never It's not So we went to this thing. I'm just coming up with one of them. Well, I said my peace. I said mine, too. I mean we always used to go after Memorial Weekend. I don't know See why we have to stop doing that anymore. Well, we have got a whole bunch of them on the table. Okay, I second it. I second it. 12 is 12. What do you want me to say there? You want me to repeat it? Yes, please. Basically have staff go back and look at the options that we just spoke about and maybe pushing it back 5 days or somewhere in the middle. areas And And if you if you want to pull I would
048like to see at least the teachers and the and the paraprofessionals, you know, have have them vote. Now, we also have to realize the paraprofessionals in the maintenance department they're 12-month employees, but they also get off on Fridays. And a lot of them like to tie in a day on the Monday so they have 4-day work weekends during the summer. So that's some things that we we need to address also because most of the time when you're supposed to be getting things done when the kids are in school and we're short-handed. So, we only talking about a week. Yeah, but I'm just saying that some of the problems that we may incur. But, that's that's my motion. Okay, do I have a second? Yeah, it was Mr. Marlin. Seconded by Mr. McCall. All right, then
049vote. Okay. Let's call for the next meeting. All right, next item is to entertain a motion to go into executive session. Mr. Sterling, Mr. McCall. I Mr. Good. Vote. Mr. Marlin. I vote. Mr. Beasley. All right, first item of business is student yellow. Do we have a motion on student A? Follow staff recommendation. Do I hear a motion by Mr. Abeer? Seconded by staff recommendation. Do I hear a second? Second. Seconded by Mr. Beasley. Everybody vote. And that is passed. Student B. Do we have a motion? Motion by Mr. Abeer. Seconded by Mr. Beasley. The following staff recommendation. Then vote. Motion passed. Student C. Do we have a motion on student C? Mr. Abeer. Follow staff recommendation. Mr. Marlin. Second. Let's vote. Motion passes. Student D. We have a motion on him. Follow the staff
050recommendation, and a second by Mr. Sterling. Who's vote? Passes. And student E. Motion by Mr. Mayor, follow staff recommendation. Mr. Sterling second. Who's vote? Motion passes. All right. On the next item would be the waiver of subrogate and to give Mr. Fred the authority to uh do it. Okay, Mr. Follow staff recommendation. Right. Follow staff recommendation. Uh Mr. Mayor and second. Mr. Johnson. Who is vote? Motion passes. We have a motion to adjourn. Motion by Mr. Mayor, second by Mr. Sterling. Meeting adjourned. Yeah. Good.