001our students, our staff, our teachers. God, we thank you for for all of them. God, we just thank you so much for all that you blessed us with. We thank you so much for Jesus. We thank you for what he did for us on the cross. We ask these things in Jesus' name. You'll stand and join us in the pledge. Attention. Salute. Pledge. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. All [clears throat] right. If you didn't grab an agenda and you'd like one, I believe they're in the back of the room. You'll see one of the first things that it says is about our meeting procedures. Basically, it just says if
002you haven't been If you haven't requested to be heard tonight and been approved for that, you won't be heard. Um So, we will uh we'll go down through the first. We'll go all the way There's kind of a briefing of the agenda. And we will go ahead and entertain a motion to approve the agenda as presented. I motion to approve the agenda as presented. Second. All in favor. Aye. And that passes. All right. Next, we got recognitions. Dr. Robinson. Good evening. We have two recognitions tonight. We're going to start with our Summerdale Middle School cheer team. If you ladies will please come forward. Along with coach Kelly Sanders. >> [clears throat] >> Put on the projector. All right. Our Summerdale Our Summerdale Middle School cheer cheerleaders made history um securing their first place at the
003Division II Middle School non-tumbling division at nationals. So, let's give these ladies a ROUND OF APPLAUSE. >> [applause] >> CONGRATULATIONS COACH KELLY SANDERS AND WE have Kate Thor, McKenna Garcia, Carolina Taggart, Erin Smith, Ruby King, Lakyn Simmons, Natalie Smith, Saylor Murphy, Sadie Blackwell, Parker Russell, Kelsey Whitten, Lilly Forrester, Brooklyn Bennett, Zoe Murray, Brooklyn Maylock, Paul Graham, Leanne Jones, and Sydney Barber. Congratulations. >> [applause] >> What is your favorite thing? I don't >> [laughter] >> The request is always I don't know. This is what I thought I thought that coach Brittney said. >> [laughter] >> The request is always the white jackets, right? Yeah. Yes, this is what we wanted. So, they have all their white jackets. Congratulations. Congratulations. We're going to take a picture. Uh Mr. Max, will you come? And Dr. Quick, Oh, this
004is nice looking. I like it. I like it. All right. 1 2 3. Congratulations. >> [applause] >> All right, one more recognition. Our Curvis High School cheerleaders, will you guys come forward? Again, they were named national champions at the UCA National High School Cheerleading Championship at Nationals. Congratulations. Their coaches are Nicole Silverroski, Madison Stringer, we have Kristen Watts, Laney Harless, Akasia Cole, Kaylin Legion, Cali Kirby, Kennedy Cooper Cooper Cooper, thank you. Layla Roberts, Harper Times, Daisy Meek, Aubrey Allen, Jocelyn Cooper, Summer Blair, Madison Terrell, Anaya White, Ali Ardoin Layla Loftis, Sophia Smith, and Ryan Stewart. >> [applause] >> CONGRATULATIONS. Another good looking group. Nice. 1 2 3 Congratulations. >> [applause] >> THAT IS ALL OUR RECOGNITIONS. IF Y'ALL would like to duck out, you're welcome to. If you want to hang out, you're welcome to
005do that, too. Thank y'all. Congratulations. This is great, guys. We're done. >> [laughter] >> All right, let's continue on with the approval of the April 7th 7th All in favor. All right, next we have the approval of the special called meeting April 28th, 2016. Motion. All in favor? All right, next we have the approval of the monthly financial report, Mr. Chase. Are we all receiving our reports okay? Okay, keep it short and sweet tonight. As usual, we have the monthly financials for March. So, this is the statement of fund balances, the revenue report, expenditure report, bank reconciles, and cash flow. So, we're finishing our third quarter. Everything's looking good. We're on mark for ad valorem. So, we're just looking forward to closing this thing out and transitioning to 2017. Speaking of 2017, thank you for
006the board session earlier. Everything went great. Um we are winding it down in our office. The next board meeting we will present the budget to you officially. And then in the July meeting, we will ask you guys to vote on this. So, that's our road map for the rest of the year on budget. Um for the teacher pay raise, just officially at the end of 2017, our increase and I have that in consent agenda. That's the personnel part. Um this is a salary scale change by the MDE. This is for all teachers. The additional $2,000 for sped teachers, that will be a supplement and that will be added at a later date. We're waiting on the MDE for further guidance on that. And to round out for the bond issue, um also going to be
007a votable item if you guys fail, uh we're going to ask you to officially vote for and authorize the sale of 2017 $590,000 of bonds. This is going to finish us off in 2017. We're coming in in just enough time. We have 2 years from the referendum to issue bonds. We're we're clearing that hurdle. I'm working with Mr. Jim Young of the Young Law Group and Mr. Jim Perry of Wells Fargo. Those are our two bond people at the bank in Jackson. Um we're anticipating now closing on the bonds in late June, but we'll have more information for you in June. meeting. We'll have more calls to you. That's all I have. Thank you. Thank you. Cheers. All right. Thank you very much. Motion. Second. All in favor? Aye. That passes. Next here the approval
008of the accounts payable claims docket. Motion. Second. All in favor? Aye. That passes. Approval of a change to policy GBA professional personnel compensation guides and contracts. Motion. Second. All in favor? Aye. That passes. Approval of change to policy IHE promotion and retention. Quick question. Second. All in favor? Aye. That passes. Approval of change to policy JEDCCD student assignment to classes. Motion. Second. All in favor? Aye. Approval to change policy JBCBD transfers and withdrawals of students. Motion. Second. All in favor? Aye. That passes. Approval to delete policy JBCBA inter-district intra-district transfer procedures. And just a note, that's that is a deletion, but it's because we're rolling that into the other previous policy. Yeah. Just real quick, just those three policies that you just voted on here, the J policy J, those are just cleaning up our
009withdrawal, transfer, and all of those policies. They are kind of making them more concise, deleting duplicate language, and some contradictory language. >> Yeah. That's the point. So. Motion. Second. All in favor? Aye. All right. The next, uh, I was told I don't have to read that whole paragraph because we have to end this by midnight. So, uh, if you refer back to letter N, it will be the request to approve a bond resolution for the Mississippi development bank bonds. That's what we are voting on. And that's what Mr. Ball just talked about. It just hurts me that we go out and have to ask for additional $17 million. Any questions? Second. All in favor. Aye. All right. Next we have a request for approval of an MOU between Southern Miss Planning and Development District and
010Lamar County Schools. This is for our >> Southern Miss Assistant Okay. This is for our career coaches in each of our high schools. And so you see anything you do we have to approve that they pay for those when our school is more or less stable. Motion. Second. All in favor. Aye. That passes. Request approval of MOU between William Carey and Lamar County School District for the dual credit program. I make a motion. Second. All in favor. Aye. That passes. Okay. Request to approve the award bid 26109 e-rate category two project [music] to Business Communications, Incorporated. Motion. Second. All in favor. Aye. That passes. Award approval to award janitorial services to Parkview LLC. I'll speak to that just for a second. We took bids last week. Opened the bids one afternoon, had a team come
011in the next morning to score those based on the scoring rubric that was put out with that advertisement. And the lowest bid was Parkview LLC. I'll make a motion. Motion. Second. All in favor. Aye. That passes. Request approval of revised parent student handbook for 2026-2027 [music] school year. I make a motion. Second. All in favor. Aye. That passes. Recommendation of extended year employees 2026. Motion. Second. All in favor? That passes. Recommendations for summer school employees 2026. Motion. Second. All in favor? That passes. Recommendation for land or excuse me, for summer workers 2026. Motion. Second. All in favor? That passes. Land manager matters. Okay. All right. So, the first one is an approval of 16 section rental adjustment for Otis Rich Jr. Um This is lease 444. There has been actually no adjustment [music] since 1993.
012So, the new the new amount will Old lease amount is 80, the new amount will be 175. Motion. Second. Second. All in favor? >> [snorts] >> Aye. That passes. All right. Second one is approval of a canceling of a portion of unexpired 16 [music] section lease for Bobby and Jane Wallace. This is lease number 189. [music] This was actually a reclassification where they we split out two acres and the [music] house to go under residential instead of farm residential. So, this is just [music] canceling out that portion to for a new person. Motion. Second. All in favor? Aye. That passes. All right. Third item is approval of cancellation [music] of 16 section lease due to nonpayment. This is David I Piguet Gray, lease number 973. It was It was [music] tabled at a previous meeting.
013They came in and paid $300. They owed $4,000. I've tried to contact them. Motion. Second. All in favor? Aye. That passes. Fourth approval of a cancellation of unexpired This is K >> [music] >> K K Properties lease number 869. They are selling the structure and somebody else is purchasing so [music] we just need to cancel their lease. So to approve them the lease. Perfect. Second. All in favor. Aye. And then number five is approval to demolish the structure and clear a lot. It's the address is 523 Round Street, Purvis. It is we got two quotes for this. One came in at 8,000, one was 8,500. And let's see. It was a Brian's [music] Trucking with a low bid at 8,000. The house is abandoned and there's been no active lease on it. I got to
014contact That's a 90-day verbal period so Question. That's all. As long as you say canceled back in 2012. Yeah. I'll make a motion. Second. All in favor. Aye. It passes. And then number six approval to remove trees on an agricultural lease for Josh Williamson. He's He We awarded the ag leases last month and this is if [music] you want to He's wanting to build a fence to put cattle on. Okay. So we we paying [music] to remove the trees? No, no, that's on him. That's on him. He just needs the permission to >> Our permission to do Motion. Second. All in favor. Aye. It passes. And then the last item is approval for to authorize the Forestry Commission to to prep and accept bids for a 40-acre timber sale. This was a salvage sale that
015he contacted me last week after the tornado about 40 acres was destroyed on [music] section uh let's see. It was section uh 16 2 North 15 West over on Dawson Road, Purvis. So get what you can while it's still marketable. Yeah. Perfect. Second. All in favor. Aye. It passes. All right. Um Caleb mentioned the tornado from last week. Just want to say that none of our school buildings sustained any damage. I think the only damage we had was our career technical center sign there on 589. They got hit with a tree. But, just so thankful that we didn't have any uh personal injuries. A lot of trees down, a lot of homes, but as far as people, I think everybody made it out okay. We uh Purvis High School did start accepting donations, passing out
016donations today there on site there. Uh so proud of them and thankful for them. I know that they had a lot of kids out helping them load cases and pallets of water and usable items there that we can hand out to the victims there of the tornado of last week. Let's talk about athletics for a little bit since we had our Purvis and Sumrall here. Uh I'm happy to announce first of all that uh the Mississippi High School Activities Association does what they call scholar athletes, teams, and that says you have a 3.0 or better GPA. Each of our high schools uh qualified for that this year. Just uh real quickly, our entire district GPA was 3.59 for 83 teams across the district. Uh Lumberton High School with a 3.5 GPA for their 12 teams.
017Oak Grove High School 3.61 for their 31 teams. Purvis High School 3.59 GPA for 19 teams. And Sumrall High 3.67 for 20 teams. So, that's a huge uh testament to our our scholar athletes. They truly are uh students first and athletes second, but you see >> [laughter] >> it's represented here tonight. They do pretty dang good in the field and on the courts. Which leads into uh Sumrall is still playing softball and baseball. Sumrall softball girls played South State earlier today, meaning they will play tomorrow. No rest for the weary. They turn around and play tomorrow for game one of the state championship at the uh USM. they will be playing uh Let's see. It's uh softball is playing Lafayette. You know, so they will be playing them starting game one tomorrow, game two on
018Wednesday, and then game three if needed on Thursday. Baseball will be playing Pearl River Central State. Their game tonight got postponed to tomorrow night. They're playing South Jones, game one at Sumrall High. Uh so, they'll be wrapping up our MHSAA playoffs. Softball wraps up period this week. Uh hopefully, Sumrall will continue on to play state championship after this week, but got to got to take care of South Jones first. Um Talked a lot about money tonight. I just want to mention our fiscal year 25 audit is complete. It's been filed [snorts] to the office of uh state auditor. Uh there were three minor findings on it, but uh you know, that's what an auditor's job is, to come in and find some things. We've already uh taken care of two of them instantaneously, and the
019third had to deal with 16 sections, and Caleb has done a great job. That's an ongoing project, but he has taken care of that finding. There will be no problem there. So, all in all, the audit was great. And uh yeah, just hats off to uh our retired CFO, Jennifer Hester, and Chase Boston and the teamwork they have in their office to take care of our findings. We really appreciate that. Uh just a quick testing update. All testing should be completed by the end of this week, so we're wrapping up that end of course testing, AP, and all other things there. Um as we start wrapping up the year, we'll just want to mention that our administrators will all be meeting June 3rd through the 5th right here in this building, where we're reflecting on
020this past school year, but hopefully, getting ready to prepare for the next school year, and somewhere in between there, they get a little refreshing and a little R&R for them. They've done a great job this year, but we're excited about those three days that we can spend [music] together getting ready for next year. Uh last week, we had our Excellence in Education night. It was where we recognized our teachers of the year, all of our retirees, those that completed national awards, and our employees with 25 or more years of service to the Lamar County schools. So, it's a great event. Uh, it was fun to be able to recognize each of them, and they had family there. Chick-fil-A provided the food for our reception that we had for them afterwards. And again, that event keeps
021growing each and every year. So, I want to thank Alice Reagan and and Liz Freeman for their work on helping us plan that and honor all our people there. Um, graduation. Got to remind everybody about graduation this week. Uh, we start Thursday night, uh, Oak Grove High School, Friday night Purvis High School, uh, Sumrall High on Saturday, and Lumberton on Sunday. All at 7:00 p.m. Right now, it looks like the weather, uh, is bearing well for those yet. Knock on some wood. Uh, hopefully that the Purvis doesn't get interrupted again or any of the schools like they did last year. And lastly, I wanted to mention, uh, that you approved special minutes, uh, from that April 28th that that the bulk of that meeting was for us to approve the contract for Oak Grove Middle
022School. It was awarded to Max Construction, uh, here in in the Pine Belt area. So, we're super excited about that. Max was going to be here tonight, but uh, softball game was got rescheduled, and so many of their people were unable to be here because of that. We just wanted to recognize them. Uh, Rick, we've got a little tweak on one part of the contract. We'll be ready to sign that this week, probably in the next day or two at the most, and get that uh, pre-construction meeting set up, and we'll be ready to roll on Oak Grove Middle School. Awesome. Super excited about that. And that's all I have. Great report. Thank you, ma'am. Uh, all right. Next, we're going to go ahead and set both our next meetings, uh, four meetings. It's the
023summer, it gets busy, so we're just going to go ahead and do that. We'll move a little bit around, but we are looking at June 8th and July 20th. Are we good with those dates? Four, okay. Any other motions? Motion. Second. All in favor? Aye. That's unanimous. All right, next we have bounced to the consent agenda, Mr. LaBelle. Any questions? No questions. Ms. Farmer? Yes. Mr. Sullivan? Mr. Sullivan? All right, if there are no other questions, we will entertain a motion to accept the consent agenda. Motion. Second. All in favor? Aye. All right, that takes us all the way down to item number 10. Mr. LaBelle, you can step out. Just give me a few more notes for that approval of this vote. All right, so we are looking for an appointment recommendation for Ms.
024Crystal Caldwell. Who is being is Who's James' sister. So I'm sorry. I got to get her by the way though. What? I recommend her certified teacher somewhere around 2026-2027. Got you. Motion. Second. All in favor? Aye. And that passes. You're back on. Okay, thank you. John Plummer, assistant. We did. Motion. All right, next we will consider executive session. We have some zone transfer requests, uh a release request, and some litigation matters. I make a motion to consider executive session for the matters we discussed. Second. All in favor? Aye. And that passes. I make a motion to enter executive session. Second. All in favor? And that passes. Now you can gentlemen, we are in executive session. Thank you all for coming to see us. If you have business with the board on the executive session agenda,
025you can wait out there. I'll come and get you all when it's when we're ready. Thank you all. Have a good day. Take care. Thank you. This is I I thank you. All right.