001Six o'clock. Is everybody ready to get started? I guess we will start with the pledge. I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Okay. Well, just look for a motion to approve the agenda. I'll make a motion to approve the agenda. Second. Second, my dear. All in favor? All right. 70. All right. We'll look for a motion to approve the consent agenda. So move. Motion by Craig. Second by all in favor I need to stayain. Okay. 0829. Okay. Amy and you I assume you got that. So we'll call that vote then again. So all in favor? Okay. 7. Okay. So, we'll move into presentations. Before we start, I just had a couple things that I wanted
002to just to mention really quick. Um, we are just as we go through this transition, we are engaged with MSBA. So, they are in the process of helping us uh find an interim. Um, we have had some candidates contact us directly. Um, and in those cases, what we've done is we have uh forward those over to MSBA. that way everything's housed in one location for all of our candidates. So, um that's what's going on there. Uh I do want to mention that we are getting some extra support from MSBA. Uh particularly in the budgeting process as uh as we've talked about in the past, we have a new budgeting program. Um Lisa's getting some training on that. We had uh the the director of school finance from MSBA, Linda Quinley, come down just yesterday and
003provide some training to Lisa from a from a budgeting perspective and I think you're heading to Columbia too. So for training, right? We expect her to be back on site maybe towards the end of the month. So coming back to things maybe a final look at the end of the month. Very good. So we appreciate obviously all MSBA's support um throughout throughout this time. Um, I do before we kind of get into presentations want to extend a special thanks to all of our admin team um and everything you guys are doing to help um over the last couple weeks and Amy and Lisa. I think it's been um very very helpful and appreciate everything that you guys have done um and your leadership throughout this time. So, um, with that being said, I think our
004first presentation is with our, uh, counseling department. Okay. All right. So, go ahead and get started. This is just our year in review with a couple changes and updates. The information that was sent to you guys last week, we can I'll take questions at the very end of it. A new change from Desi this year, um, a long time coming is updates with curriculum. I did have that sent over as well to you because previously in the past there's been some controversy with school counseling curriculum. So I just wanted to share that. I looked through it. Missouri's really lucky. I've never found anything that we have been expected to teach that I questioned but I wanted to make sure that you guys saw that as well. The three topics will stay the same. They did
005change um the last topic it used to be called social emotional development and they've updated the terms for that. department goals. Following up on those from last year, um I think these will be ones that I just use every year, but kind of update them in different ways. Uh I've met with parents in different groups, and I'll talk about in a little bit. Coffee with the counselor, meeting with the teacher, and supporting them with student needs is really my main focus. And um I'll continue that with school counseling, small groups, lunch groups, and check-ins and checkouts. Coffee with a counselor was new for me this year. Something that I had not done previously, but I brought in different guests. I'd like to change it next year and I'm open to feedback. Morning time was not
006I think that's hard for parents getting kids ready to come into school early. Um I did that two different times, but I think next year instead of monthly, I will do it quarterly. High five Friday is everybody's favorite. Um, we're looking for more people that would like to do it. It's something that I think not only the kids love, but parents love. They've said like, "Oh, we can't wait to see who is going to be there on Friday." So, if that's something you're interested in, we would love to have you. And we're always looking for more people to join. Lunch buddies, a new program that we implemented this year. We currently have four volunteers, 12 students, but we're again looking for more business people to come visit. If that's something you're interested in, please email
007me. You just get to eat lunch with the student resource fair. That was new again this year. I feel like everything has kind of been new. Um those that's just the numbers that we had last year or this year, sorry. We did it in the spring and next year we are hoping to do it in the fall to kind of equip families um that might need resources throughout the year and not just touch base with them at the end. Those are just some services that I offer. This year, the morning check-in and checkout has been full. Lots of families have asked for that. Um, and support with teachers and students that need that. And next year, I'm kind of I'll change that a little bit, but those are the things that I do throughout the
008day. Very thankful for Burl. Um, this year we've had 10 students that are to like in right now. two recently referred within the last two weeks, but I'm really thankful with them. When things come up where students in crisis, they're very helpful to jump right in and help us and support us in the family. Goals for next year, I included um the assessment that I sent out to teachers asking for feedback throughout the school year and one of the teachers suggested a career day. So, we're going to do that next year for elementary students, implementing the school curriculum and kind of streamlining our community involvement with student needs. Any questions? [Music] Thank you. Thank you. Appreciate it. Oh, that's it. Oh, there's some [Music] Good evening. Um, Miss Bes and I are going to present
009tonight together. Um, we've had a good year, a busy year. I can't believe it's already over. Kind of crazy, but um, start with our student population. So, um, this year we did have a smaller group of seniors, so it made things a little more manageable for for us population there, middle school and high school. So, same with Sarah Burl. We're very, very thankful to have them. So we hope to continue that partnership. These are just our numbers for the year of like we've referred 12 in the middle school but only five. Yep. For yesterday. So 13 now since we've did this presentation. Five were admitted hopefully six with the new one. And then we referred eight in the high school and six of them were admitted. So our numbers are still high. We don't currently
010have um we had David here from Burl that was seeing the kids at schoolbased counseling but he has transferred to Jet City. So, we are without someone right now, but they're doing a really good job of filling in and making sure that those kids are seeing someone. It's just not who their permanent person is going to be. They just haven't had any luck hiring anyone. So, that's currently where we're at with them. They're still providing us services though and doing a great job. You wouldn't know that he's not here because they've picked up the slack on him. So, just everybody's kind of seeing more people at this point, but that's going well. So, college, career, and military visits. So, we've had a pretty decent amount. Um we've had a increase I think in our military
011recruiters here this past year. Um Capital Academy we've had and they actually we have two kids going there this year to Capitol Academy. So Woods Northwest State University of Missouri typically when the schools come in they actually um go into the lunchroom and are able to talk to kids in there. There are times when we have them come into our my office. Um, but it's great to get these people to come in because where we're at sometimes it's hard to get the kids out to to be able to visit these places. Okay, so this is just the testing that we've done for the year. It's basically what we do every year. Acupplacers have been given and those are kind of picking up more now because kids have to take those in order to get into
012the college classes that they want to be in when they take dual credit classes with us. So, we've done that. PIACT once again was given to sophomores. ASVAB testing for our seniors and we have every senior take that not just the ones interested in the military helps them kind of locators like of knowing what they want to do with their future. So if they say I want to go into the workforce but I have no idea where this is give them an idea of where their strengths are at. So same thing with the work keys. It's um administered by the ACT. It's just a different pathway for kids who aren't going to college, but we still have every kid take it because sometimes you're going to college and you think you know what you're going
013for, but this will kind of give them strengths and show them what they're good at. Gave the ACT to our juniors in March and um we had some really good scores on that, looking through scores today. Just working on our senior stuff. Um got a big big junior group that's collegebound and they're scoring pretty high on all of their stuff. So, I just can't wait to see how that increases over the next year. several of them already are unhappy with the scores they got, even if they were pretty decent and are looking to do better. So, that's good to see that they're, you know, thriving and wanting to do more. So, MAP testing began on April 10th. EOC testing began on the 21st and um as of this week, we have all makeup tests completed.
014Nobody is left. We have everything done and our systems are we're ready to go for the summer. So, we don't have anybody left hanging out there. And then, um the AP government exam was given on May 6th. Miss Harvard administered that in her we don't have we won't have it until June on the Okay. So IAPS so same thing we went in I did um develop a new form this year for IAPS that was a little bit easier for the kids um but we went in all the kids through senior and did their IAPS um worked on them with their schedules. So with teacher ease, a big benefit to teacher ease was that we are now able to have the kids go in and like pick the courses they want through teacher ease and then
015it manually or it automatically puts them into the classes. We still have to go back and do some clean up um because of course they all don't fit. Um there may be some errors like some kid may get left out of a core class they need but it does make it a lot easier as far as the scheduling process. So, we went into classes and did that and worked with the St. Andrews. That's what I was going to say. St. Andrews, Clarksburg, and Laam. We worked with those schools with their kids to get their eye caps done. So, St. Andrew's kids came over one day and met with us. They just had a few questions on it. Um, and we had worked with Clarksburg and Laam kids to get with their teachers to get it
016done. We just communicated with them. So, they sent it in. They use the same form that we use. And so, that'll be an easy transition for them when they come to us. And for those of you that don't know what an IAP is, it is an individual career and academic plan and it just lines out the classes that they're going to take over their four years in high school. Um, so that they know what they have to do to meet the goals that they have for themselves and they change every year. So we we go in every year and update those and that's also something that we get points for. So we are required to do that. So um, we get points for that on our but they're all done. Yeah. So 100% we're done.
017Okay. So I you want to talk about national science and she was my first year as an NHS sponsor and it was a good year. Um I've got some things we want to to bring in maybe next year. Um like Mrs. Bailey's group did the purple heart. They there's a organization that wants to do a little more with that. So going to try to do that in the next year with a big group of NHS kids that we have. Um because if you'll see down here we inducted a very large group of kids this year into NHS. Um we hosted the Veterans Day assembly and breakfast, put the flags up. Um we do did the blessing baskets which is something that's been done the past few years for NHS. Um this year we collected items
018for the hurricane victims in North Carolina. Um and then the NHS members do the infection. Um what does it do here? Okay. A plus scholarship. So, in the 2025 class, we have 14 seniors that are on track for A+, which in a class of 35 is pretty good numbers. And then that's going to cover their first two years of community college. And then that just kind of gives you the requirements for A+, but a lot of kids are using it. So, we're happy to see that. And that's really all the kids that are going to a community college or a tech school. We have, you'll see on the slide, we have a lot of careerbound kids. So these are just some of the things we've done like for for professional development over the year. So
019Jolene obviously has a lot of stuff with Rud. One of the newest things that I added on my end of things was just the monthly admin meetings for the Central State administrators group. I go to the middle school meetings and then Jason goes to the high school meetings. And then that way we're not, you know, one of us is not gone all the time and we're both kind of getting to hear from different people and can come back and give each other feedback. But that's something that's been new for me this year. And it's been helpful just to have a resource of people that I can reach out to that are from other schools that if I have questions, maybe they're a bigger school, maybe they're a smaller school, but it's just nice to hear
020other ideas. It's kind of like being back in school again, talking to, you know, other people. So that was good. But those were the main things. Um, so we try to spend a lot of time just supporting the students and letting them know that we're here for them. So, football, volleyball, basketball, girls basketball, wrestling, archery, softball, golf track, band events. We've been to all of those to um show them our support. Have fun dressing up. Maybe more fun than the kids for the spirit days. Um and they actually asked us back to referee powder pup again this year. So, that was that was a surprise. Um we were in the homecoming parade, followed them up, and then decision day. So, I didn't make a slide on decision day this year, but it was a great
021event. I think we had um all the seniors show up and their a lot of their parents came and we had breakfast so we didn't miss a gravy and um all the prizes and games the parents were really really to be there so we we'll keep doing that and so just some of the activities for the students that we did this year we did the career fair again in California it's Mont County Fair they moved it to California high school this year which was a much better setup being there instead of a small gym The kids seem to really enjoy it. Um Jolene did the apply Missouri event and then we did FAFSA frenzy college fair at Columbia College. She took the seniors to that. We had the requires required sexual harassment presentation that we
022do every year. And then the career exploration Friday. She can talk to you about that with Charlie Bailey and Caitlin Tuttle. She partnered with them and did a lot of work helping them. And we had the pleasure of listening to their presentation before they went to Orlando. and it's just neat to see them and how great they are at what they're doing. So, it's like you get a little behind the scenes of what that looks like when they go down there. So, they worked really hard on that. So, and she was a big part of it. So, um you want to talk about your lunch bunch because that's new and I think that's great and it's going well. This year we had a group of middle schoolers um who needed a little extra attention. So,
023we started a lunch bunch with them. So, they and and it surprised me how excited they are to do it. like I think they would come eat every day in there if I would let them. But um but anyway, so we at least once a month um had lunch and there were some months that we needed that extra lunch so we would have it more often and I think next year I'll probably reach out to another group. We have just pretty much one group that does it. So if I can, you know, bring some other kids, we'll have new sixth graders. So I don't know what that'll look like, but but that's been really good, you know, and it's 30 minutes out of my day and I mean it's just it's been good for them.
024I think. Yeah, just to give them some reminders of, you know, good life lessons. I mean, that's a consistent group that needed that. We've done it in the past with on individual basis when kids needed it, you know, like, "Hey, come in today." Like, "You're having a hard time." Or whatever. Group of them. We've talked about what's going on. But this has been a consistent group and I think it's been really good. It's I mean, I see them like running like trying to find her. They know what day it is. So, it's been good. But, we took students to Otterville to meet with um the CTC instructors again and that went good. Um, I do believe that there's possibility that we're up to that next year. So, we would use our gym and they would
025set up all their stations. Um, and something that I did not put in here was the advanced manufacturing day that we did and it was a really neat deal and we did that for our older kids and it was it turned out to be a really really good day. So, I think that they want to come back and do that with us again. They brought in and it's the college side of things. So, the kids thought that they were coming into this doing what they did already at the Otterbil trip. were like, "No, you're not doing that." Like, "This is the college side of things." So, you get to see. And so, that was, I think, eye openening for them to see like, "Okay, this is what I can do in college, and these are
026college classes that I would take." But it was all hands-on, so they kept them busy the entire time. They built switches. They did some pipe fitting. They they made coasters like here. So, um, took the eighth graders to CCT CTC to see that. Um, and then the sophomores went and did a follow-up visit after the Otterbil. We did the real simulation like we usually do in the poverty simulation. Once again, that was good. Did a Martin energy tour which I think went really well and ended up with hopefully a couple of internships. We have at least one pre-apprenticeship. Hopefully two. Yeah, we're working on a second. So, so and then decision day that she mentioned. So, those are the things that big things that we highlighted that we've done for the year. So, here's our
027postsecondary plans. And I know that we talked about this last year. Every class is different. So, this class is very heavy workforce class. that we have 14 kids that are going directly into the work workforce without certificate training. They've already got their plan though. All but maybe one or two already have a job and the others I've been working with on applications. Um, we only have four going into four-year college, 12-year college, and most of those are state fair. We have maybe two or three going to state tech, but most of those two college kids are state fair. Um, and then some programs. We have one going to Missouri Welding Institute this year. Um, and then I put Capital Academy kids. We have two go into Capital Academy, which is like a 10-week program, something
028like that, and they come out with their certifications and they go to work for Capital Construction. So, we've been working with them since our first year here together and really hoping that someone would follow through with this program because it's great and the guys are wonderful that come here and talk to the kids about it, but this is the first year that we've had, you know, two kids do it. And I think it's going to be a really good experience and I hope to see a growth in that program. Um, I think a lot of it is it scares the kids a little bit to sign a contract of like now you get me for two years, but we told them like it's free school, you get your CDL paid for and you have a
029job for two years. Like that's like, you know, yeah. So, we think it's really good and I'm glad to see two kids taking advantage of it this year. There's our big old senior class right there. Um, so some goals that we have for next year are the same, you know, complete I caps with all of our students. Um and this year um we've worked on this making more contact with the sending schools to increase the number of students and we have a lot more students coming this year from sending schools than we have in the past. So that was a that was a lot of work on Bridget's part and then our vocational teachers also went out to um and laid them um and St. Andrews. Yes, they went to St. Andrews to show them
030the programs that we It was a big push for us because we felt like we were losing a lot of you know you get the St. Anders kids that you're going to get, but you don't get Clarksburg and lay them, but we still wanted to provide every one of our sending schools with the same opportunities. So, um, all of the teachers just made a quick trip over with their classes to St. Andrews and did, you know, Miss Ba, Miss Bailey went over and did a DECA project with them. AD went over and did a big project with them. And so, I think it was good for them to see that and let it kind of sink in. And then when they came and did their tour, it wasn't so much in one day. They already
031kind of knew what they wanted to do and then they made their schedules with us. But doing that, we got seven of the eight kids from Clarksburg just by I 100% believe that it's because of this and because of the co-op that we have with them for football and basketball. So I think that the things that we're doing here as a district are really good. So when you guys make that decision to vote and say yes, like let's let these schools co-op, this is the benefit that you're seeing from it. We've got seven really really excited kids from Clarksburg, two from Laam, and there was another one from Laam that was like I would love to like I'd love to come there. You know, it's just family stuff. It's hard. You can't, you know, make
032kids, some kids know where they're going, but when kids have a choice and they don't have it tie to either town, I mean, we're selling ourselves to them and allowing them to come co-op here, I think, is a big deal. And then our teachers and adviserss, everybody, kids, we took kids with us out there to the schools and them buying in and getting to meet the kids and build relationships with them and feeling comfortable when they come on that day. It just makes the transition a lot easier because even the St. Andrews kids told us like, "It's hard to like come over here. We're kind of nervous. you know, it's a new school. We're used to having to use the same teacher all day. So, I just think everything that we're doing to make them
033feel comfortable when they come. I mean, I think that's making their decision for them is all the support that we're showing them in advance. So, and then another something new um that I'd like to see happen next year is the job shadowing for juniors. So, in the past that was done through a class and it's kind of just fallen away um and so I'd like to do that through the counselor's office. Um, and so we try to do something, let those juniors get a piece of what it's like to be in the career so they can kind of, you know, what every day would be like. So, thank you guys for letting us be here. Thank you. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. Sounds like you all been busy. Yes. I know the count. I know
034you all are really busy with uh end of the year stuff and uh putting together all the scholarship information and getting ready for for graduation. Uh we I should probably mentioned the board obviously has the Thomas scholarship that we administer every year. We we're able to meet uh what was it Monday night to approve to approve that. So this year we'll give out oh my gosh seven,300 and some thousand dollars or so. So, it's uh during my time uh working with the Thomas Scholarship, it is the highest dollar amount that uh I think that we've ever given um to the lowest number of applicants we've ever received. Um so, for those that are receiving it, um it's a it's going to be a really good year for them. So, that's that's a really good program.
035So, okay. Well, thank you all. Um, I think we'll move into administrator reports and I think got um Mr. Co Pepper first. All right. Um, start out with building updates. Um, Bob's done a really good job talking to me about all the stuff that he's got planned for this summer. Uh pretty much we have been talking daily for the last several weeks especially uh met with Bobby, Joe, and Heather the last couple days about the floor um as far as making schedules for when they're going to do which parts of the building. So we make sure that we uh have enough time for them to actually complete the whole building. Um we have a few teachers that are moving classrooms this year just to get us back to where we used to be, which was
036middle school in one section. uh kind of your what I would call your inbetweeners in the middle closest to the cafeteria. That'd be your teachers that do both. And then the high school is where the high school teachers would be. They don't only teach high school. Um so we have a few teachers that are going to be doing classrooms. Um academics wise, they hit the math and quite a bit there. Um you know, next fall we'll have incentives um for those kids that reached advanced or proficient. will also have incentives for our kids that show growth. That's part of our CEP score. So any of the kids that try hard, which really all of our teachers said all of our kids tried really hard on the math test this year. Um so we had daily
037incentives, but also next year once those scores come in um this summer, we'll have some reward trip for them next year for the kids that moved up a category and the advanced and proficient because we get as many points for kids that go from below basic to basic as what we do for kids that get advanced. So, um, both are important. So, recognizing both are very important to us. Um, two things like to point out for FFA, they had the A cells team placed first place at state as did the FBA parliamentary team. Um, so both of those were state champions this year, which was really cool. Uh, district baseball starts um Friday against either Green or Smith. And then our three track kids that moved on to sectionals, um, Ty, Nina, and Riley, they'll
038compete at sectionals on Saturday. Um, so we'll let you know there. Check Facebook for updates on that. Um, professional development, I already met with our DCI person for next year. Um, this year with DCI, we did a little bit different. We have four consultants that come in and instead of doing big group, big room um PD that is beneficial for a small group of people um we did more of a targeted approach. So we didn't waste some of those veteran teachers time that have been in the business for 25 years and don't really look to change um because they've done it and they're good at it and um you know to them it's a waste of time. It's one of the things that they um enjoy the least about education and they need the least
039amount of PD hours required. So we used the DCI people and they came in and those consultants partnered with about four teachers each and they go in and do one-on- ons with those teachers. So they'll go into the classroom. They'll have their three or four teachers. They'll come in about once a month. Sometimes they'll miss a month around Christmas and May, but they'll watch those teachers and then during that teachers plan period then they'll meet. they'll get feedback. The teacher can bounce ideas off of them. Um, and it just gives them somebody that's not the principal. One of the biggest things with teachers is not wanting to try and learn from the principal because sometimes they have that fear of like that's my boss. Um, are they writing this down? Is this going to go
040on my file? Like I don't know what I'm doing. Um, so giving them an opportunity to grow from professionals that do this for a living. Um, and then also, you know, just give them give them that support and then give them the resource to actually, you know, pull from other teachers, grow their network as well. Um, end of the year events we have coming up. We've got uh tomorrow at 2:45 to 316. Uh, we have our end of the year awards ceremony for all of our 9th through 11th, 6th grade uh through through 8th grade. They had their uh junior high promotion last week, but they still have a few things that they'll be recognized for there with the principal honor roll and then the regular hon roll. Um and then Friday night we have
041the baloria at 6 o'clock in the high school gym and then Sunday graduation at 3 p.m. Um that's it for me. Are you any questions for Jason? One more day. One more day. Excellent. All right. Um, I want to highlight we just received notification yesterday, I think, from PBS that we were recognized as a tier three school again. Um, so Mrs. Lawson does a good job getting that application in. Um, and so we got that taken care of. We also received notification from PLTW that we were a distinguished school. So making sure we're still hitting those marks on the programs we have in place. We have 188 kids as of this afternoon at 3:00 and it's growing for summer school. Everybody wants in the fourth and fifth grade class. It's going to be a big
042one. Um went to the park today for our end of the year PBS celebration. The kids had a good time. Perfect weather for that. Field trips went well. End of the year testing is all complete. Our title and sped department have been working long hours to make sure we're hitting our state requirements for our um reading success plan. So, lots of hard work going in at the end of the year and everybody's doing a great job. Finish up strong. Very good. I sent that to Bo, but I forgot to mention that because I already had my board report before we uh got that notification yesterday. We were also recognized for the first time to tier one. So, pretty excited about that. That's why I sent it to you. But I also turned in last Friday.
043So, we aren't tier three, but we're tier one. And it's it's awesome. You're looking worked hard this year. Like it's been a big deal, a team effort. The kids have worked hard and that Cardinal store was open for the last time today and they went nuts. Like there were so many of them in there ready to spend their Cardinal bucks. So very good. That's awesome. Coach Carvajal, is there anything you wanted to highlight on your report or I know Jason talked a little bit about golf. Yeah, we had two qualify for state. We had Nick and Ben both qualify for state. So that's great. Obviously really busy. Uh we talked about the other day at the promotion a very successful year athletics all the way down high school like baseball process now starting to order
044the things we need for next year. It's a really busy but really really successful year. Yeah, it's something that uh coach Duke has talked about and you kind of talk about the number of kids that participate in these sports and you see that in those awards ceremonies because it's the same, you know, kids. Well, and everybody shares kids. You have to share, you know, a school our size, you know, kids. It was it was really neat. I put some things in there, you know, with it being a new conference, anytime you win something at conference, it's a new record. So, the kids a lot of records because he wants some events. So, for one year, your name's in the record book. It's been pretty good. Good. As special ed staff, we are we consider ourselves
045dual citizens. So, we are the special ed team and we do our thing, but we also support we're part of the elementary school. We're part of the high school. And so, all the things that they're doing, we're right there with them, helping them, making sure that our students have the opportunities. Um, we are also getting ready for summer school and um, it is it seems like in fact when you were talking about the large fourth and fifth grade when I'm texting is I'm trying to find her a staff person. Yeah. So, so it's lots of moving parts all the time. You're trying to make things all fit together. So, um, we are I think we're gonna we're gonna end up with a really good year. Uh we've spent a lot of time um planning for
046next year and getting things in place and um I've been uh including Roxanne and Sarah in all those conversations so that they have a a piece and some say in what we're going to be doing to get their input. So it's been fun. Well, does anyone have any questions for any of our administrators before we move on to um I guess we have some old business to take care of? Um and the first piece of that is an approval of all those policy updates that we looked at last month. Um does anyone have any questions about any of those? From a motion perspective, this would be a good time to use the so moved uh piece so you don't have to read off all those. I would just seek a motion for that. All right.
047Motion by Craig. Second, second by Amanda. All in favor 70. Um so uh num let number letter letter B uh that MSBA BBFA policy this is the one that we talked about uh involving that MEC short form. Um was that last month or the month before then? Last month. And there was a piece in there that talked about um gifts and gratuitities. Um, I contacted MSBA and really what should takes because that the the policy doesn't have a dollar amount in there and that need needed to be set by the board. Um, and each district tends to apparently set whatever amount they want. So, some of the feedback I got was that some boards probably set it way too high. Um, which is probably something that we don't want to do. Um, so I asked
048what the average uh would be and they were talking about $150 is what most school districts do. Um, so we went ahead um and put that in here in here as a draft for you guys to look at. So yeah, if you scroll down to five five, that's correct. Um, we added that amount in. So if you are all in a favor of that, um, we would just seek a motion for that as well. Man, I'm go broke on this board. I'm going go broke on this board. I'm I move that we accept this. All right. Motion by David. We have a second. Second. All right. Second by Brandt. All in favor? Right. 70. Okay. Um that will pull us into new business. So, we have approval of the 2025 2026 school year salary schedule
049for support staff. Um, if you look in your packet, we've got um the the schedule that is in place. There's no proposed changes other than the steps that are included there. Um, does anyone have any questions about this? I have a question on the set. What something Dr. Robinson came up with? Um this this was what was approved in the 2024 2025 school year. So what's in front of you is not any sort of changes to the base if I is that the right word base levels. Um so all the steps and everything like that are just uh are in there but there's no changes to fundamental well I think we ought to do a service to ourselves of identifying if there is a you know like was done with the teachers you know do
050some digging and find out where like school districts are at those pay ranges as well. Um just so that we know I don't know. To me, depending on like for instance, like there's a nurse on here. Nurses are in very high demand. Um, you know, there's there's a lot of different things on here and I I just don't know if we've taken there was a lot of time put into the teacher salary. So, I think we at least do a little bit of research. Look, if we need to make a positive adjustment, I think we did that last year. Did you? With percentages, right? Because if we gave uh before the 23 24 year correct 18% yes columns were significantly those two columns were significantly increased between and I don't think you should then obviously
051I would abstain from anything on the data coordinator I don't think she anyway just She'll be happy to hear that. God, he's sitting by you. You're associated. This is when he he regrets that this is uh going to be on Facebook. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Evidence of what he said. So there's documentation now. Yeah, that's right. No, if we went through that process, I wasn't aware. I'm new here. I get to use that now. That is my line. I just wanted to make I just wanted to make sure we were doing the same for all employees that we did for the teachers. They're all part of the what makes this world go around for us. Yeah, I think you know the the idea of remaining current um and competitive is is I mean obviously smart.
052Uh we have our budget to approve um in June. Um, so I think that with with things that are in um where we are right now and trying to determine with the unknowns on the finances on the financial side, I think we just need to be a little conservative um with with where we're at. That would be my what my recommendation would be is to just kind of move forward what we have in place this year. But the idea of continuing to look at this next year and trying to make sure that we're prepared moving forward, I think is smart, particularly if we need to pull out any of these um certain job titles. I I I don't think that ne that um obviously they're in one schedule right now, but that doesn't necessarily have
053to be maybe maintenance director for instance used to be on that salary schedule and is no longer on it. So that's what you're talking about. Yeah. So I make a motion we approve the presented salary schedule for the 2526 school year. All right. Motion by Kelly. Second by Derek. All in favor? Yeah. I think you're okay to vote on all of it since we'll we'll just note 60. So then we have the approval next for the uh speech language pathologist uh salary schedule. We talked about that believe last month if I'm not mistaken. Here's a schedule that would would apply then further. Anyone have any questions about this? I make a motion to accept the sire schedule for speech language pathologists as presented. Motion by Derek. Do we have a second vote on this? I'll
054second it. I do have a question for Nancy though. When they get that degree, do they have continuing education beyond the masters that they work on? They usually they she's working on her C's which yes it stands for something but it's not really Yeah specialist or something. Yeah it's towards uh there's like the counselors have a licensed if you're a licensed professional counselor you have to have so many hours of mentored work and that's the kind of thing that she's But she does not she is not required to pass the certificate like we had to when you were a principal you had to get your specialist done within within so many years or whatever does not have to do you can go ahead though sorry I just wanted to ask that question okay you good
055yeah okay so we have a motion by uh Derek and then a second by David so all in favor we have 70 approval of that. Um the next item is um an approval of schoolboard policy for graduation requirements. This um needs to be done tonight. Um but we the numbers and credit hours um that obviously there was a transition period when we moved from 10 block to Yeah. So uh this is we we're adopting a policy to to align with that. So, um, that's what this policy is. If you look here underneath, uh, number one, you can kind of see, and I appreciate the way we, this was done because, um, rather than having to to go back through and approve this year by year, we kind of just put in a schedule here. So,
056this will get us through, uh, 2027, 2028 um, to where we'll kind of settle in at that 24 number. Does that all make sense? So, just so I'm understanding, so it's going down because we some of the students already had 10 classes and now we're transitioning to a full seven. Yes. Yeah. Okay. I just want to make sure I I kind of like if you look at like 26 27 kind of reverse what we used to have to do when they came in when they had a seven block we had to convert them to a 10 block. So it's flip-flop but that what this is doing is basically putting our policy in alignment with what our requirements are. So it needs to be done. Um, I'm new to this, so I was just checking. Yeah,
057we our hand Yeah, that's right. Our handbook was saying one thing and then our policy was saying another. So, let's We need to get those things match. So, there aren't any questions about that. I'll look for a motion there, too. I'll make a motion that we approve policy IKF graduation requirements as presented. All right. Motion by Kelly, second by Amanda. alligator. All right. 7 Oh, this will get us to uh some football needs. Dr. Duke's here. Um if you want to kind of talk through some of the good problems we're having here with participation, I'll have to wear it. All right. Thanks for having me. I appreciate it. Uh Bo asked me to come and speak on some equipment needs from a good standpoint. Okay. Um we currently have 79 helmets in our program. Okay.
058Two of those are only rated up to middle school level. They can't be used in the high school level. So technically, you probably have 77 helmets in your program. Some of you that were on the board uh when I got here know that I gave you a very detailed spreadsheet talking about every piece of equipment that was in the football program and some were helmets that we still use today. Some were still of good quality. But as you know that equipment wasn't it wasn't okay. Let's just be honest. It wasn't okay. Um I'm not really good at sugar coating things. I like to be very brutally honest as Craig mentioned in his interview process when I sat right there. Okay. Um, we use what's called the Ryel Speed Flex helmet. The Virginia Tech, the university
059breaks all helmets from little kids all the way through the NFL. Every school I know uses a five-star helmet. These helmets are rated and tested and tested every year you send them back for conditioning. Okay. The helmet that we use is a fivestar helmet. There's currently 33 helmets in the country through different manufacturers that have given a five-star rating. Within that fivestar rating, they're also ranked 1 to 33. Our helmet currently sits at number 21 on that list. Okay. The two that were left that were kind of left over, those middle school helmets, that sits at number 29 out of 33. To be honest with you, I've set those aside and I'm not going to put those on anymore. with the projected 47 to 50 on the varsity team and 30 plus on the middle
060school team. The math doesn't work, right? It just it just doesn't add up based on sheer numbers. Now, what's the other hard part about that? The size somebody comes in in middle school is not the size that they finish when they're in high school. I'll give you a quick example just with shoulder pads because shoulder pads are also on the information sheet. I can tell you that most of this the kids who are juniors now who are going to be seniors went up one size in shoulder pads just from last year based on their offseason lifting. Okay, I don't want you to think that this is a we're rushing into something at each year. I kind of look at how many kids are all the way in the program from third grade all the way
061through 12th grade and I start to look at where they're at. Last year on the eighth grade team, there was a large number of eighth graders. So much so that there's 20 currently that are coming into the program, right? Those 20 combined with the fact that we only had four seniors means the volume and the number of kids are going up. The number of equipment things that you have to have is going up, right? We started talking to them as soon as their eighth grade season was over, much like other youth sports, basketball and baseball, to see who was going to play in high school because to order this equipment, you need a good amount of time. One example of that is I started talking to Steve in admin as soon as the season was
062over about who was coming and we ordered uniforms months and months and months ago and they're still on back order. Any equipment needs you have to plan accordingly. The hard part to plan about is what size is he now versus what size is he going to be, right? You look at a kid like we'll just use my own son. He's not the same size he was as a freshman. So, he may have started in a medium helmet and now he's close to an extra-L large helmet. So, you have to plan for that over the time. When you look at the 33 helmets on the five-star rating list, everyone above us is more expensive than our helmets. We currently pay about $400 per helmet. Most of those helmets or a good portion of them are over
0632x what we pay for a helmet. So, I use my experience with the people that we're getting equipment from to talk to them, my relationship with them to get the the best price that we can get. Is there something that you can maybe manipulate? Maybe potentially. Do they have sales? Sometimes certainly they do, right? But there are you're not going to find a fivestar helmet of this quality for cheaper. And as a matter of fact, even some in our conference that they're using are way more expensive. I'll give you an example. You may see uh some people in our hel in our conference wearing their own personalized helmet that is close to $1,000. You may see some that are wearing at other high schools that are $900 all the way up to $1,700. The helmet
064companies know that you need safety equipment. They know that you need the best safety equipment that you can have because liability is there and they price it accordingly. If you look at the quote you have, I I gave you a quote for 21 helmets. Normally, you take how many people you have, right? And you will have some overage because things break. A face mask breaks. A chin step chin strap breaks. Two years ago, right before our district semi-final game on a Thursday night, Max Maddox was practicing. Helmet broke on a Thursday night because we had some overages. We were able to go and get him one and put it on him. Otherwise, I'm taking a helmet off of somebody else and putting it on him and then that kid doesn't have an opportunity to wear
065a helmet. That's not appropriate, right? But thankfully we had some. The quote you have is for small and medium helmets. It doesn't give us overage. It gives us what we need. I have new kids signing up every day. I had three sign up last week just showed up to weights and said, "Coach, I'm playing at the middle school level." I had one show up today and say, "Coach, I'm playing." I've emailed all the sixth grade parents for kids who are going to be seventh grade. I've talked to all the eighth grade parents who are going to be freshman trying to plan accordingly. And I just got an email uh two days ago from u another young man. I talked to Steve about it at a baseball game the other night. He's never been interested in
066football before. His mom emailed me and said now he's coming out. So we're continuing to add players. So much so that I think the last time Tipton approached 50 kids on a team was 2009. They had 51. So 17 years ago, 16 17 years ago. And before that it was 2004. So, it's been 16 to 20 years since you've had this type of number of participants in the on the team. If you take the fact that there's close to 200 kids, 100 of those are boys. You're talking about 50% of the boys in the high school, if not more, playing a fall sport in football. That's a great number. Any any school would love to have that number. So, you have a really good problem in front of you. We have some helmets that are
067extra. We have some large helmets that are extra, which is great. Bo asked me a great question the other day. He goes, "Well, do helmets expire?" And the answer is sort of. We have helmets from 2018. Some of those were purchased before I got here and they were still okay. We send it back and get reconditioned every year. Um, how can that helmet fail? Well, when you send it back, if they go through all the testing, if it fails testing, they tell you it fails. They don't replace that. Part of your the money that you spend for that helmet does not get you. There's there's a one-year warranty. If it breaks in the first year, they'll usually replace it. Do helmets break? Yes. Before this year, we had 10 to 12 helmets that would fail
068every year. We had a very nice, generous donation uh this past year by a local family for guardian caps. You may see the red cushions that we wear at practice. As a result of that, zero helmets failed this year. So, do they work? Yes. Do they prevent a concussion? No. But do they help? They lower the impact? Yes. How else do helmets fail? Well, when I was playing, it was cool to have the metal showing on your face mask. Right now, if the metal is showing on your face mask, it's illegal. Not only can they take you out of the game, but that face mask fails. So, 15 face masks failed this year. Can chin straps fail? Yes, they could fail. 15 chin straps fail. So, those things have to be replaced. Why do we
069have the same helmet for everybody? Because every helmet company has their own repair box. And guess what? Those things cost money. So, say you have a Ryell helmet, you have a shut helmet, you have a Zenith, you have many of these other types. Every one of those repair kits cost a substantial amount of money. Every one of them is different to repair. That makes no sense. I've never understood why football programs do that. Maybe if you're at the collegiate level and you have unlimited resources, go ahead. But at the high school level, it doesn't make a lot of sense. You asked me another question. Well, how long does it last based on what it does? Every year, the helmet technology is getting better. The helmet that we have currently was in the top 10 a
070few years ago. Now, it's near the bottom of the fivestar helmets because every year they're getting better. So, at some point, the helmets that we have will be four-star helmets. And then you have to ask your question yourself the question, do you support that or not? That's a question for you to answer, right? Every year they're getting better, right? And safety equipment is not not really a negotiable item. helmets. They're not instantaneous. You can't just go pull them off the shelf. You can go to Academy Sports. You can go to Dicks, pick the sporting good store, they'll have a helmet there. It's not the same helmet. Not the same helmet. You want a helmet. There's a turnaround time. It takes three to four weeks to get that helmet. We don't do anything except for weights
071football related in June. If we don't order these, we won't have them for, I would say, 12 to 13 of the incoming freshmen and 10 or 11 of the incoming middle school because they we just don't have helmets to fit them. That goes with the shoulder pad quote that you should have as well. How fast do shoulder pads wear out? Well, it depends on what position you play. Typically, you might get four to five years out of a pair of shoulder pads for an offensive or defensive lineman, a running back, a linebacker. If you're playing receiver or certain defensive back positions, you may get eight to 10 years out of them. When you play a lot of football, they can square out quicker. And we were thankful that we've been able to do that the
072last couple years. So, if I showed you a pair of shoulder pads that one of our offensive linemen wore last year, you would say, "Well, coach, these are beat up." I go, "Absolutely." And then I would show you the stat that we ran for 4,000 yards and you would know why, right? So those things wear out. When I got here, you purchased shoulder pads graciously. We haven't really purchased any shoulder pads since then. So it's time to start moving that inventory so that you can stay fresh with what you need. I can tell you right now we have a spattering of helmets from 2018 all the way to 2024 because we got some last year. Do I want to put somebody in a helmet from 2018? Well, if it passes reertification, it's okay, but it's
073probably close to the end of its life, depending on what position you're playing. So, when Bo asked me the questions, I thought they were great. It depends on how how fast they wear out. Do they have an expiration date? Well, how much do you use them? It's like anything else. The more you use it, the more it wears out, right? Shoulder pads. You can buy shoulder pads that are way cheaper. I'm not gonna I'm not going to uh debate that. But the equipment, like I told you when I got here, is the same. If I would I put my own kids in because I trust it. As a medical professional, I'm like, that's the best shoulder pad. That's what we're going to do. And having a son who had an injury to his to a
074nerve in his shoulder because somebody put the wrong pair of shoulder pads on him. I won't do that. I saw what he had to go through because of it because somebody didn't put the right type or size or condition on him. So everybody is fitted. I know how to do it. I've taught the coaching staff how to do it. They're all checked and they're all weight rated. For the younger kids and for the high school kids, you're going to have a pair of shoulder pads that protects you. Do they protect every injury? Absolutely not. Injuries happen. It's a collision sport, but we could put them in a position to lower that risk, right? So, we haven't bought any a few in a few years, but we need to start doing that. Shoulder pads are also
075something that takes several weeks to turn around. I gave you a quote for I think 11 or 12 pair of shoulder pads as well. Um, again, that's no real overage. That's just giving us what we need. And then if something breaks, a kid's going to maybe get a pair that's a little bit bigger for him. And that's not always good either. These things are supposed to fit properly. You measure it based on the joints in your shoulder, across your chest, uh, below your sternum, and in your back as well. there's multiple measuring points and it has to be done properly. So, we need helmets, we need shoulder pads because the number of kids is going up. And uh to give you an example, I even talked to coach Co Pepper. I said, how many kids
076are really on that third and fourth grade looking? There were 32 kids on that team last year and 20 easily could continue playing all the way through. You couple that with the the 20 that are coming into high school now that would be there. Your roster numbers continue to increase. It's a great problem to have. It's an incredible problem to have. But it costs money to do it. So any questions on helmets or shoulder pads, please. A perfect world like with 11 shoulder bags this year starting the cycle that you're saying like next year 11 more. I'm saying next year you start to recycle the ones that were purchased four years ago as they start to phase out. Yes. For a while and then after after you get to a point because we haven't done
077any for three or four years we may we can lower that number but again it's based on roster size right? If we if three or four more kids join the varsity team which we don't have we don't have 50 lockers in the locker room guys. We don't have that. Right? So, some of those will move over into the middle school locker room. That's a different different topic. But yes, you have to start rotating those. You have to start preparing for that, right? No, no, that wasn't done before I got here and now we need to start it. We're at that point it needs to start so that we can continue this and it's small incremental purchases versus the large purchase I brought to you a few years ago, which I told my wife after I
078turned it in, I don't know if they're I'm going to get fired. You may not want to have football after this purchase. Helmets or shoulder pads? Any other questions? Uh yeah, I think we're in a wonderful spot with you being in the medical profession. Yeah. So then I don't understand a lot of the physiology of things, right? Sure. So what is your overall recommendation on a replacement cycle? Because I'm in it technology. You have five year replacement cycle on hardware, right? So you knock off 20% every year. Yeah, you get on that cycle, get rolling. My concern is and not that we just need to spend the time on everything like that. My concern is couple kids not having enough equipment to support them. So, I feel like we need a little bit of overage.
079Football is very expensive. We know that just because of all the equipment we need, but is 11 enough or do we need to get a rotation strategy going? You typically need 8 to 10% overage. That's typically what you need. I'll give you an example. When we travel to a varsity football game, we take what's called the 12th man. The 12th man is a black trunk. You'll see it sitting on the sideline for us. In there, not only is medical stuff, but there's replacement equipment for everything a player would need, whether they play offensive skill position or offensive or defensive line position, so that if something happens in the middle of the game, we can replace it. We try and prevent kids from forgetting stuff, but they are kids and sometimes they do forget stuff. That
080has a cost to it. If you do forget it, you'll be you'll be motivated to move around a little bit on a Monday when you show back up. But we have stuff for you. Um, go ahead, Steve. What do you What do you have junior wise? That's a big class. Junior wise, yeah, we actually added a few. So, we're going to be we're going to be sitting at 12 to 14. Um, at in the junior class, the freshman class is at 20 and each class is sitting at 11 to 12 to 13. you know class obviously correct and when I talked to coach co pepper again there were 32 on that team and there was there's a real possibility that 20 or more would continue on through high school and again I could show you
081a picture I have a there's a great picture after an eighth grade game uh for Ben Dane Nick and Hey, I'm standing on the track and they all look like little kids and I want to recreate that picture because now they look like full-blown men, right? They they change, right? Not in this is if there are over 30 in the middle school, which are going to be, I think there's 31 uniforms. I think there's 31. I mean, those are things that we we can order and we can get a little bit easier for them and their shoulder pad. But there's some middle school kids, and I appreciate you you raising your hands, Steve. There's some middle middle school uh guys that are too big for middle school equipment, shoulder pads. Middle school shoulder pads are
082weight rated. And we have five kids that are going to be 190 to 220 on that middle school team. They're big human beings, so they have to wear high school pants. Steve's son is one of them, right? there. I can't put them I will I can't put them in something that's not protected. So the overage 8 to 10% overage usually, right? That's usually what it has to be. Um can you get away with less? You sure can until you can. Does this get you to your No, we would need more small and mediums. We have enough large right now. We have one extra extra low. It's a extra large helmet and there's only one extra of them if that makes sense. Um, right now Chance, if you ever seen Chance Beer, he wears an extra-L
083large helmet. Sam is close to an extra-large helmet. Um, he's fitting into a large right now. There's one extra. So, if we're we're probably okay there. We have we have surplus of large helmets. This number gets you just what we need uh for small. There will be some kids that don't pay too. They may fall out over time, but right now they're they're still in the weight group. they after a couple days of practice they may say no. That hasn't knock on wood that hasn't really happened yet. Um but it could I mean that that can always happen but yes you you probably need to add two or three small and two or three medium to the list and then uh shoulder pad wise I I fit every one of them with a pad that
084we had and then I ordered what we needed for them and I was like well I'm submitting it for 11. You know what do we need? We probably need 15 to be honest with you. Hey coach, how do you how do districts deal with that or schools deal with that? I mean, you have kids that just show up, you know, transfer in or whatever. Um, and they, you know, if you have a lead time on ordering that equipment, do you typically see schools have a stock there to deal with that? Yep. A lot of the schools I've been with have overage and they have what you talked about with working and and ordering each year so that you keep going and and they'll have that. Um I've been at school districts and I don't suggest
085this where you tell the kids to go buy their own equipment or I I know of school districts that do that. That's a really slippery slope. I probably don't want to be involved in that. Um but they usually have the overage and they usually are prepared for it and they know Yep. And they do much like what I did where you go and you start talking to people way in advance. I mean, Amanda was at that meeting and I said, "Hey, if you're an eighth grade football player, I need to know if you're playing because I got to order your uniform." And the uniform we have to keep for a few years. So, I kind of have to think about where they're going to be based on if they had a brother on the team,
086what they look like now, what do their parents look like, and order it for them as so it can last a couple of years. by last year's idea cost of one player school buy pretty close. Yep. Explain to them why it's not a good idea to have unless you set a policy about why should happen if they do. If if you do, first of all, there's a lot of again the stuff you're going to buy at a sporting store is not the same. If they can't afford it, they're going to go buy something that's not on the five-star list, but they're playing your sport, so you're liable for their injury because you're allowing them to play there. Um, if you if you allow them to get their own shoulder pads, you don't know if they've
087been fitted correctly. You don't know if they can get it. You just set yourself up for multiple multiple forms of injury and variables you don't want to you can't control. No, I mean, I've been firm on this for a long time. If we're going to have an activity, then the school district's going to provide with them. And and let me be clear, the kids buy their own cleats. We have a box of cleats that kids have left that they don't want anymore. Um so they can get cleat out of there. Um I get them mouthpieces, but they most of the kids get their own because kids have braces. They want to get their own. They get their own girdle because I'm not cleaning their girdle, right? you you're providing the stuff that they need. If
088they want some special towel that fits in recommend or qualific qualities and characteristics according to Misha, they get that. You know, something like that. But they're getting stuff already. It's not like they don't have any out of pocket. They have to get their own girl. They get their own mouthpiece. They get their own cleat. Cleat are not cheap. Cleat are not cheap. So, they're buying all those things already themselves. So, we're not supplying them. Coach, you said like on the helmets um do the shoulder pads do they get do they have a process of where they get checked out? Make sure they're not Yeah. You know, so shoulder pad reconditioning in in my viewpoint um as a business person and a medical person is a scam. Okay. You send them back, they charge you a
089fee to look at them and then they'll charge you a fee to fix them. That fee is not conducive to costbenefit ratio. you're better to just buy another pair. I'll give you an example. Our shoulder pads are around400 and something dollars a pair. If I send them back to Douglas, where we get them from, it's an Americanmade company. You'll see them being worn on Saturdays and Sundays. Uh, super protective. That's what I let my children wear. Um, if I send them back, it's $70 for them to look at them. What they mean by look at them is they take them, they dunk them in a tank of soap and water, take it back out, dunk it in another tank, then they check the rivets, check the straps, check the pads. If they need to replace
090anything, they will then charge you another $250 to replace the stuff. Now you're at $310. That shoulder pad, the plastic, they're not replacing on the outside under the pads. So, you're just more cost effective to get a new pair of shoulder pads because you you haven't you haven't really progressed. That makes sense. Understand? Yeah. In a perfect world, you know, if we had an limited budget, you know, what would be like your recommendation on like every five years or every 10 years, we want to be cycling old out to new or we have to start cycling that every year now. Well, I know that you want to start it. But yeah, to do a full term, yeah, if if you do 10 to 11 every year, if you're doing that, you'll turn over in five
091years or so. You'll turn over. It may be a little bit longer based on the size of people, but when I tell the coaches when we start fitting helmets, all those ones that are like 2018, 19, 20, I tell them you hold those. Don't give them, don't put them on any I know they pass certification, but it's seven years old. And what they don't tell you when to pass the certification is how much they passed by. They just tell you passed, right? So, some kids 7 through 12, what are we looking at? 80 plus. to 80. Maybe you've had a few trickle in. Yeah. Let's say triple in up to 85. So technically eight potentially depending on what size they are. Yep. Yep. And I brought an example of what you were wearing and what
092we are wearing if anybody wants to see it. Do we have uh I would be interested in this but uh do we have a uh how obviously we need to control cost I'm a big fan of stabilized cost over long term like you know you know your amount every year it's kind of like your mortgage payment every month right unless you do something different. Yeah. and we are growing and this possibly could be you know an area uh sports can be an area where we attract kids from other districts 100%. Um and you know from a financial perspective I guess my main question is is everything considered how many jerseys do we have? Do we just have a home and away? Yes. because I thought there was three colors last year and I don't want
093to get into that. But if we have three, if we switch to two, a home and away, you didn't pay for one. Okay. So, in my mind, that third uniform combination was extra. So, we use our fundraising money for the extra. Fundraising money for extras is the norm. It's what should be done. It was when I talked to the senior class coming in that year, they said, "We would really like this combination." I said, ' Okay, well, we're going to have to fund raise for that. And that's what we did. School home and away, red and white. Fine. We fundraised for the black. Okay, that answers that question. Y I thought if we were, you know, rob Okay, good. Which only elongates maybe the lifespan of the of the red and white. Uh, but I
094can tell you that um, man, it was it's it's really great playing 13, 14, 15 games. It does take a toll on your stuff. If you if you want to come see Lucas Cashman's jersey from last year or Pax and Piles jersey and see the holes in it or see Sam's or Ben, um, those jerseys are tore up, man. They're tore up. I mean, it's it's a $100 jersey and there's holes in them and there's grass stains because we wash everything. And I will tell you, I wash and scrub. I mean, like legitimate scrub brush and I'm scrubbing stuff multiple times and soaking them and that white jersey is not real white anymore. And that's okay. That's okay. Hey coach, uh, some of the kids, maybe I'm wrong about this, do some of them buy
095their helmets when they leave the program? They do. Yep. We charge them $350 to buy their helmet and then I turn around and give that money right to lease them. Yeah, that's what I was wondering. you can kind of self-fund some of the replacements. I mean, a little bit, right, with that a lot. And we we typically give that option to juniors or seniors, you know, who uh are all stickered up and they like the way it looks, right? But mo and most of the time seniors will there's a lot of seniors who do. None of the seniors this year elected to purchase their helmets. Okay. We had one junior who elected to purchase it. Um so I think what we have in front of us is the uh is the minimum requirements right? I
096mean this is what we absolutely know we would need to have. Um we can either obviously approve this as presented or uh factor in maybe some extras which may be a smart thing to do. Obviously, it sounds like we we would need those. It takes that much time to get them. That's my concern. I mean, kids coming out and he's gonna coach is going to say, "Well, hang on. Your stuff will be here in three weeks, but you still want you to practice. How's this kid going to supposed to get better?" I think there needs to be some overage there. Well, or if something gets broke or a 10% overage adds $1,356 to this, but I think round numbers work a little better, especially if you are working with a vendor. 10% overage on helmets
097will get you to 9570, coach. But if you could say, "Hey, I have $10,000 all in like, can I get to 24?" Maybe get one for free or something. I don't know. Yeah, you should try that. I have no problem asking. I know currently the price that we're getting is $50 off a home. We're already getting 50 off, but I I have no problem asking. The worst I'm going to be told is no, right? It doesn't doesn't I don't have loyalty to him. I'm not if the month realize we're buying 50 helmets, Jeffson City is buying 200 Yeah. helmets, right? So the the answer to sometimes to that is no, you're good. But I don't mind asking. Zero issues with that. So helmets are I'm going to not say easy. They're a little easier to
098order because they're a specific size. Your shoulder pads are going to be a little more difficult if you need to measure. I fit I already measured every kid. Yep. So if you want if we said we wanted to wanted you to get a couple extra Yeah. shoulder pads and three extra helmets, are you just kind of how how would you order that size just having the extra? Right. I usually will go and look at what we have the most of and then I'll go, okay, I need a couple extra of these. That's usually what I'll do. And each year, you know, we've turned in an inventory that we that coach Co Pepper started when he was AD. We turn that inventory in and I know how many we have. We keep a running inventory and
099then I also look at positions and go, okay, we have this many kids who do not play offensive or defensive line. They wear this type of shoulder pad and they're usually about this size, right? Yeah. Okay. I mean, if we don't need them, it's not like they're going to wear out sitting on the shelf. I mean, they're going to be good. Well, and you may have this middle school kid, too, that comes along. That's true. We're hoping that we I'd rather kids seems like the way open enrollment may happen. We need to make a motion. Yeah, we do. And I think that it sounds like Well, I haven't I mean, it sounds like there's a lot of appetite to order extra. That's what I would recommend too. Um, we need the overages. He's doing some
100math over here. So, okay. So, you want to make that motion? I would like to make a motion that coach for overage and safety spends 11,500 on helmets, $7,500 on pads. Second. So, the the motion would be up to up to Yes. up to yes sorry up to 115 on helmets and 7500 on pads all right so we have brand second all in favor 7080 I didn't just randomly come up with that number off of 10% growth 94 we're at 19 a year needing recycled on a 5year rotation that's 19,000 a year we need to spend on a football program he's got a bunch of notes over here so I I will But he is doing math over here. I know. Did you want me to bring up the storage thing or no? The what?
101This the storage thing or no? Are we good? Um, yeah, we may push that off another time. Okay. Oh, yeah. Well, actually, you know what? Yeah, bring it up. Let's talk about it. Um, you guys had a special meeting and he came up to the hill and looked at the grass. Mr. Twitter is taking care of the grass. I asked him two days ago if he thought it would be ready for July. He said he thought so. Um, not a lot of grass growing up there, but he said it's Look, I'm I don't I'm not a a lawn guy, so we just tear it up. But, um, he he thought it would be ready to what capacity we'll see. There's not a lot of grass growing right now, but he thought that there would be.
102The other thing that you looked at was the storage space. I got in there the other day and the thing is swaying. So, my plan is I'm going to take everything out and leave it outside. Uh, we've moved a bunch of it to the other to the to the locker room area, but that thing just whatever you decide to do with storage, you gota you got to get rid of that. Okay. It's it's Were you hauling those in your truck the other night? I thought I saw that. Yeah, it you gota I I've talked to Bob about it a bunch and he agrees. I asked Mr. Twitter to look at it, see if we can fix it. That that needs to go. We can't let any kids or any coaches step in there anymore. Enough
103to get the stuff out. Um, but it we got to we got to fix it. Okay. So, I'm in there and it's moving side to side. I'm like, "Oh, is it going?" Well, let's see. I was surrounded by pads, so I thought I'd be protected if I felt there. There may be some interest in that. I mean, I think we I think we talked about probably talk about here in a minute about having surplus cleaning out. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. And that building would probably one of those surplus items for somebody will buy it. Long as they can haul it. Let's let them try to buy it. So, it's in great It's in grave shape. It is really nice. So, we've had those discussions, coach, about doing, you know, the containers as well, too. And so,
104hopefully we can get more out of the storage, out of the old egg. And um yeah, I just need access to that if that's where we're going to put it so I can get in there on a daily basis. Um, we got to do some work for the building, too. Got like a month before we start. So, we just need that that plan in place because I I like the plan. Thank you. Thanks, coach. Oh, thank you. If you're looking at the far left with the old paint booth, it has its own access door plus garage door. No access. Yeah, I was just thinking that might be a solution. I think our um our next our I guess our last uh open session topic is um we have Bob on the agenda kind of walk
105us through that. It's kind of a good transition here when we're talking about some of our facility needs. So, if you want to walk through some of the things you're seeing on campus that you think we need to address actually a lot of things I've seen maybe in the 6 to 12 month category there which I turned in a sheet you all should have there on there different things. Uh, and of course tipping containers and stuff on there. But, uh, in 6 12 months, I'd like to see some things done with the science room cabinets. We have the in the high school there's a lot of missing broken doors and pillar panels. We just kind of have a countertop of a frame underneath of them. Another thing I'd like to see is the handicap ramp
106at the elementary building has a lot of of uh excuse me, that's wrong. Concrete between the playground and the high school building where most of elementary children walk in is broken and unre and un uneven creating tripping hazards. A lot of it's deteriorated. It needs to be looked at. decide whether we want to replace it or try to do something else with it like mud jack it to make it level again or something. We have lots of tile the BCT tile that's stained broken throughout the school that's going to be replaced. The high school office carpeting showing a lot of wear. We either need to decide to replace it or put in a different type of flooring. They talked about doing something like they've done in elementary. Uh we need to upgrade the internet cable
107that goes to the press box from the fieldhouse. The existing cable runs across the floor. It's very frayed. They got some rubber mats laying over top of it to keep it from being a trip hazard, which also causes to be a trip hazard. It needs to be upgraded to I'd suggest running that long outside of the building and run it overhead to the press box. Last fall, like after football season, something got into it and pulled it down from the press box and I rolled it up. So, we don't have any internet capability to the press box at this time. Uh, we need to update the storage closets in both of the high school locker rooms. I know when we visited locked rooms, look at new floors and the paint stuff that Steve did before
108basketball season there, but we got some more wooden cabinets and stuff in there that are basically falling apart. Don't provide very much storage space for even hanging up their uniforms and stuff. Uh, we got the storage building on the hill that we just talking about. some of the repairs that it needs before we really start moving stuff into it. It's going to need some work done to the roof. It's got some shingles missing. One of the gable ends is had the woodpecker eat holes in it. U it's been these gutters and it's been suggested that it probably help it look a lot better. Eventually we put like metal siding on it. I would said suggest with the roof just shape that it's in to go ahead and just put metal roof on it. We tried
109to pass the shingles last year and now they're coming off in another spot. But big windstorm we had took out the chunk probably three foot in diameter. Is that on both sides of the roof or just on one? It's just on the I've only noticed it on the north side. It's kind of hard to see the south side of it. I haven't actually crawled up there as a lad or anything to get it. And the reason I'm asking is I mean if we have damage that if we think that it's wind damage to the point where we have an insurance claim to get that piece of it paid um that would be covered obviously, but yes, I mean whatever you have right now is covered. It's just is that enough to have an insurance claim
110on if it's just a small section. So, it'd be almost the determination of it if it's totally damaged versus just a little bit of a repair type needed situation. It's hard to tell from the ground. I think we'd probably have to have an adjuster come out and look at it, verify what what actually how much damage it actually received. But it definitely happened during that that big storm we had one where the tornadoes was closed and everything had two or three inches of rain. probably could look at that. One thing I think that we should do for temporary storage of of all the activities of the sports activity groups that we have up there would be possibly buying some 20 foot shipping containers and place them along the north wall of the of the storage
111building there. We could run an eve off of the building off the existing storage building and then we could uh potentially gain a bunch of outside storage where we have stuff inside the storage building now that doesn't necessarily need to be inside but it just needs to be in out of the weather out of the sun like some of the attachments for the tractor and everything everything. Do you know how much those storage storage containers generally run? It varies in price uh depending upon how many trips that they've been by like they call a one trip container and I would say a 20footer is probably an $1,800 range. So pretty cheap. Uh, basically he probably buy them four containers for what it cost you to buy. The size of building that he already has that
112building that coach Duke's talking about that's falling down is basically 7 foot by 20 foot. Probably cost you5 to $6,000 just to buy one wood building like that. Yeah, that's just I mean it depends upon how much how much is on the inside. if it's just roughed out, you know, but if you get one that's got a little more finished inside and everything like that, definitely going to cost you more than that. And next thing would be or another thing would be I would say the elementary hot water heater. I'm not sure on what size it is. Every time the power goes out, like if the city water pressure drops, power comes back on, it'll turn the hot water in elementary brown. Got to run it for about 30 minutes to get it out, which
113indicates to me probably the tanks deteriorated, need replaced. the west side of the high school windows. They're on the outside between the high school and the nice clumps spilling there during the hard rain. Of course, we uh they probably need to be reccocked cuz several was experiencing leaks various places. But I would say the windows probably need cocked. I have no idea the last time they was cocked. Do you have any idea when those were put in? 2015. Wasn't that so but with that with that bond were there any warranties and one of those had an energy uh guarantee. We ever fully bet through that that energy guarantee mark was hit answer that question. Maybe we can do a little research. That was a big sale. Like that's a big selling point for them was
114they gave us a guaranteed uh energy uh rate cut based on like their fees that company. So I was kind of curious and I have ran into windows if there is something that reinstalled sometimes on commercial windows like these you'd have 20 years. So I know coaul isn't that expensive but rather have someone come out OEM spec reccock it do it right. Um if it's covered if not we just do we need to touch you don't fix it usually. So if it hadn't been like no one's probably looked at it. I think that's a good point. I mean like that anything that we can do to just try to track down like that. I mean, that would be silly for us to spend money on in an area where we may have some sort of
115coverage from a warranty perspective. Oh, I think that's good information to track down that and Bob's time. Yeah, you invest into it. So, he can't be doing other things. Correct. That's the problem. I mean, it's probably not that big a job to go out there and talk the windows, but um my day has very little time to pretty much full-time full-time job for me. Just take care of the school and keep up with all the workers and stuff that I need to do. Well, I think maybe put that down as an action item to look at here soon. Maybe do a walk through for the next board meeting. I would love if he has time to do a facilities walk through for sure and actually look at the I don't know like the up on
116the hill the structural integrity of the building you know like long-term viability of that building up there I know it's made out of cinder blocks but people have also said floor sinking due to gutter water running off the back there's a gap in the floor like is the whole you know has the whole pad been compromised due to shrinkage heating freezing things like that. I haven't noticed any of that, but there is actually so much stuff up there really hard to get a good idea what I've been through several times. Is a jungle in there. That would be what I I mean I think a lot of junk. We talked about the idea of trying to get that clean to the point where it can really be assessed and that may be the the appropriate
117step for that building is to try to get it looked at from an inte a structural integrity perspective and make and see what we can do with it. But once we once we I think we're going to talk a little bit about summer health and clean that stuff out. I think that that's kind of step one and then then obviously we get to the point where someone can actually get inside and look at this thing and do a thorough inspection because we may have some opportunity there. I do think it's been I mean it was when I first got on the board two years ago that yeah so with brand being new I don't think that's a terrible idea for all of us. Um, only problem with we still need some storage space inside that
118building. The only problem that we have with with that, my experience of the almost two years that I've been here, a lot of our outside sports, they need to have in individual storage areas like where they can have their stuff locked up outside. We get a lot of traffic through that building and a lot of people are just kind of curious what's there and kind of leave it in worse disaster than it was when you started out. Yeah, I think it would be good to do that and do a walk through and then um kind of think about this storage containing area and try to figure out a layout of how that would even look where we put it. Some of those things we could talk about, right? For sure. with the storage containers and
119and running off the eve even or we could just do like some trusses in between and then we could put their outside sleds and stuff underneath there which what do you have like three or four outside sleds even track has some stuff that's just basically laying outside needs to be undercover but kind of stuff that you wouldn't want to necessarily have inside the building because it'd be such a diff difficult task has to move every time you want to use. You do have a I'm only think of this because in high school our wrestling room is underneath our football stands. So there is possibility of closing in end caps on football stands and having some locker style partitions football track, you know, things like that down there as well. I've presented that idea before and
120it wasn't accepted very well, but that is an option. I think I think Yeah, I mean it may whatever. Yeah, I think we should consider put privacy fence around it. It would actually improve the outside look of the football stadium there and we could store stuff underneath of that. My recommendation for you on all this stuff, and I'm sure you guys have it too, would be like any ideas you have to try to fix any solution we have to or any problem that we have, I think we ought to talk through it and uh we can we can do that. I don't I think there's just a lot of options. We can try to figure out which one we look at all those available to us and try to make the best call we can
121before. But I I do when what's your time frame on um you know you're gonna have some folks coming in and help you with the summer help that we'll talk about later. But how when do you think you'll be able to get some of that stuff cleaned out with those those folks? As far as in the the main storage building soon somebody tells me what to do with it. There's a lot of it that got go somewhere. I've talked to an auctioneer too local that will help us have a I talk to Ashley a little bit necessarily got to keep everything else just goes and we recycle it either through metal or dumpster for trash move if you tend to if you keep holding on to things and you don't use them you're wasting that.
122So there's there's no might tell us maybe we shouldn't order so much stuff sometimes, but a lot of stuff like Jason's probably got desks up there that have been up there for 15 years. Yeah, we think we had some start of the school year. Very little. But I know Ashley's got some desk up there, some tables that need to be saved, but then we've just got it's just a place to throw stuff. Just kind of clean it out. Exactly. There's there's chairs up there that have Syracuse Elementary Road on I mean that it may not generate much revenue but at least you're clean at least we're getting rid of it get it out. So is is it everyone's then suggestion that we have we'll have a board meeting maybe just a night to go up
123to go up there and go through that. Yes. between now, probably in between now and then our uh graduation because if you're gonna have summer school kids here also have a lot of lights downstairs. Happy birthday, Roxan. Yeah, we need to look at this basement because I've heard it's jam-packed down low. Sure. And that's where our files are at that we have to go pull for transcripts and we can't get to the transcripts. Like we have to move things out of the way to open file cabinets. Didn't you say there's like gym lights down there or something? I think there's like 40 40 gym lights. So, we need to purge both. They're down there. Oh, you'd be surprised. You got some of them bulbs in them. I didn't know there was a basement. Shop lights
124are perfect. We got transcripts. So, back to this list. We're kind of at a free-for-all. I mean, back to this list. What What What are we doing with this list? I I think that some of these small items I'd just move forward with, right? I mean, you're talking about like the science room cabinets missing prioritize them or Yeah, I would prioritize obviously any sort of safety or um yeah, any safety issues or any sort of issue where uh like you're talking about the water heater, uh we can get that looked at um may need to be replaced. That's something that if we don't do something with, we're just going to have a big loss, right? So there was another facilities maintenance plan and there was one that I was concerned about and I don't know
125if this means it was fixed but the vocational a fire alarms updates needed recommended by Aaron Fler. Was that fixed? I'm still waiting. They the tech electronics is the ones that installed that. to the ones that has the fire panel that's in the building. They sent a representative out. He checked it all over and I'm still waiting for him to get back with what he suggests we need and how much money it's going to cost. But basically, it's just the one classroom, Miss Twitter's classroom that they added sometime another. It doesn't have any uh like smoke detectors in it or a carbon dioxide detector. It actually has the alarms and everything and the lights that's connected with the rest of the building which also connected to the main school, but it doesn't have any smoke
126alarms or a carbon monoxide tester in that room. I think by law we have to have a smoke detector at least in the room like even if it's not one that reports back but just an alerting method. Yes. Um, I mean, I'm talking like even like $15 one proctors. It's better to cover uh your liability there versus having one place until they can get us the right stuff to tie into the system. I agree with that. I can do that tomorrow. Thank you. I mean, I would even though it's the last day of school, I still feel better about all the kids and teachers, you know, if someone got trapped in there because that would be awful. Understand. agree. All right. So, why don't we look for a meeting? Um, it'll have to be early
127next week. Um, I've got to go to Louisiana again, so at the end of the week. So, you should have a shortterm list there, too, that like you had with the fire lines on there that covers all the door fire doors and the uh stalls for the elementary and junior high bathrooms. Yeah, I think it'd be great if you could just walk us around and show us what you're talking about. I mean, obviously the longer we wait, the worse things get, right? Yes. There should be a also a quote in there for some work to be done to the elementary handicap uh ramp. Concrete ramp out front. Think we ever had anything done? Is that part of the last thing? But he's still got fits all. Every place there is a metal post going down
128into the concrete. Every time it freezes, it just pops off. It needs to be like coal in there and I think it'll save it. We were going to do some um we are going to do some landscaping for PTO and so we had somebody up there like my gosh gotta get this fixed because it's every post is popping off like this stuff that one corner really we have kids bringing in concrete pieces anymore there's a Did you say there's a bid in here Bob? Excuse me. Am I missing Keep clicking on the wrong one in there? There it is. Yeah, I got it. Beler Felner's under maintenance proposals. I think it's under a door proposal. Like $900 or something and seal it. I think you got to go all the way to the bottom. Should
129be pictures with it as well, too. No, I think I told you the wrong one. Um, yeah. Sorry. And that's the fourth page. How are we, Bob? On the backlo meters. Are we getting there? I believe that we just installed the last one that we need. We have two other meters that don't have backflow meters on them, but they're not used for any type of irrigation. There's no way they One's just a hydrant and the other one's the that water reel that's used to water the practice field. And there's no way either one of those could ever draw any water any groundwater surface water back. Good job, Bob. We got the uh last week we got the new pump and the backflow meter installed on the football irrigation field. Got it wired up and working.
130That's it. It might have an issue with the controller that runs the irrigation. I'm not for sure. I replaced a battery in it. It's got a backup battery in it. Replaced it today and reprogram it. We'll see how it works. Did he Butler made a recommendation too about covering that? Yes, we do need to get covered for that. Like a wellhouse cover or something over that plumbing that's out there because it looks like a jungle gem riddles. Yeah, they're already playing with the cones that we had around it. He's supposed to be sending a proposal on that cost. Then I'll go. There's a place over there by Barnett that sells into like a Bernie Innings Hardware or something over there. I was going to get the quote from Buter, see where we're at with it
131and go there, investigate what they have, what their prices are, ideated. That much concrete's breaking loose. Thank you, Bob, for getting the speakers in the gym fixed. Help me out of the fire. I'm not sure. Yeah, maybe not. Cold pepper. Oh, thank you. And that's what worries me about that is we got a brand new ant for it like a month ago, but somebody got in there and so it's a brand new so everything is perfect. 25 years. It sounded really good last night at Yeah. I got several calls on that prior to me calling Bob. I said, "Hey, Bob, help me. I'm in trouble here." Hey, Bob, is there anything that you need action on tonight um before we go through this walk through soon? I can think of right off the top of
132my head. I'd say probably maybe if he could call and get some bits on those containers. Okay, that would be great to have information on. We know we're going to do that. We've done that. So, Get some be a good place to start for storage, right? Make it look prettier, too. Repairing that handicap ramp is probably a pretty good idea, too. Yeah. Yeah, that's really concrete outside of the cafeteria door. We definitely Well, we we definitely need to include that and then a quick walk around because it's getting pretty rough. We need to decide whether we want to try to have somebody come in and replace all that or if we have maybe have some of it mudjacked or something. But it's getting pretty uneven. Bob, do you I mean I don't know what the
133rest of the board thinks, but do we want to go ahead and get bids for that concrete so that we know what we're facing? you know, and if we do see it's an action plan of safety, we can get something done. Yeah, I think anything you can get kind of estimates or hard pricing on beneficial know where we're looking instead of guesstimating because I don't every time you go to do something that's always way higher than you think or you're surprised it's lower, you know? I'm just Yeah. Did you say you had a call at the G&R GNR about the shingles? Have you heard anything? Yes, I did. No, I haven't heard anything back. Bob may be right on the, you know, it might be cheaper for years to come to ten it and roll
134on and then at some point in time we could cheat the outside and pretty it up a little. That was what that was some thoughts that I had there. It need it needs some beautifification up there. Which one you talking about? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It really needs some Oh, a coach do Sorry to interrupt you, but any of that stuff that's outside behind the old what we always call the old building. Okay. Any of that stuff that you just couldn't live without? If there's grass growing around, it probably mean they haven't used it or you can't find it. I can't find it. Okay, just check it. We had a large offensive defensive line shoot, but I think when we had the storm come through, was that 18 months or something came through it
135to up to about trying to repair it, but build a new one and go I could always revisit I don't I don't know how much that piece is underneath the stadium, right? We moved it, right? But it was it used to be there. Yeah, it used to be up there. I don't know. So, maybe scrap off the scrap. Remove the S. All right. So, we'll we'll move forward with scheduling something as soon as possible. Absolutely. To to look through next week. I appreciate you putting this this uh report together. Some of the stuff we'll need to chip away at. I mean, obviously, we'll have to prioritize safety issues and things that cause further damage. So, like Brand said, anything that you can get a bid on and bring back to us. Uh just makes our
136end of it easier. We know what we need to spend. And thank you. All right. All right, I think that wraps us up in open session and I make a motion to move us in executive sess session following 610.021 31 11 and 13 with Jason Nicole Pepper, Bridget Bian, Nancy Thomas and Ashley Pedigrew. Second. Second by Amanda. Amanda. Yes. Greg. Yes. Yes. Kelly. Oh, yes sir. Yes. 70. Thank you all for coming tonight. I know. Do you want to talk about summer help? That's