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Board Work Session 2/2/26

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YouTube / McComb School District
Date
2026-02-03
Location
Pike County, MS
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1,396 words · about 8 min
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2026-06-28

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001She said she called it. All right, attorney. I've got you on the polygon. >> Thank you. >> Good evening. I would like to call the February the second school board work session to order. First on our agenda is discussion of the non-exempt athletic employees hourly rate please. >> Uh madam president we going to table employ. >> Next we have the discussion of the February 9th school board meeting agenda. We have caller order school district vision and mission statement. 30 second of silence. Adoption of the minute technology update by Mr. B. Very short break technology updates. We've ordered 74 new wireless access points. We're going to start installing those at the high school as soon as they come in. They've been shipped, so we should be getting those in the next 7 to 10 days. So

002that's our big next step. We're working to make sure our district is back up not only to 100% but to better than we were when we started. >> Thank you sir. >> Thank you Mr. Next we'll have school at risk Higgins school at risk dimming curriculum data update by principles review of minutes. Any questions or concerns about our minutes? We have review and approval of financial statements. Any questions and concerns about financial statements? Dr. >> No question. Okay. Review and approval of claim doc. Any questions or concerns? I I am concerned about uh let's see on Dr. 847366. The question is, it says it's the uh software for this office. >> RJ Young, I want to say that's it's probably >> I think it's a district. >> It's what now? He said, "Did you know

003that contract with RJ for um printing and copy and services for all the copies and additions?" >> Okay. For all the copies. >> Yes, sir. >> Okay. >> Awesome. >> Huh? >> I said yes, sir. >> Okay. All right. The other is the uh I know that we have different areas of but on docket number 84749 I know that's got a It's coming out title one. Am I correct? >> Yes. >> Okay. 84714. >> Yes, sir. >> What is that? It says it's a renewal >> technology international. >> Oh, yes. That one is for a program called J. It actually runs all the Apple products in the district districtwide. It's used to control, update, and basically secure all of the Apple products we have be iPads, MacBooks, any Apple product we use in the district

004at any of the schools. So that share between all the schools, but it's a technology software we use to run those devices. >> Okay. So this is the renewal for this year. Yes, it is one year. That is a one-year renewal. It that's been the going cost within a little bit of change for the last three or four years. That's about the the standard price for that software. >> Okay. Thank you, sir. >> Yes, sir. >> Next question I have is the um 847458. Is this We're saying that this is the final page. Yes. Yes. Yes sir. >> Final. >> Yes sir. >> Final is I verify with um Mr. Per has been completed. Yes. >> Okay. >> All right. And the other one is 847459. And it says it's a portion of the balance

005of 50,000. So, do we have our um balance? >> I can get it for you. I had it in my office if I can get you the balance. >> Okay. I just think it would be a good idea for all four to be aware of what concern. >> So we know what we looking at. >> Yes, sir. That's all I have. >> I have excess last month. If I'm not mistaken, the same situation. Okay. Um number One second. >> 847375. >> Yes, ma'am. I get your explanation on that. I know we for everybody who want to see explanations on why things are and to me those explanations is unacceptable. I mean this November, we have November, December, January. I deal with finance every day. I have a $4 million budget. Your system, you can check

006to see we have outstanding POS and we need to contact the vendors. Mr. B, that's what we need to do. We need to be more proactive on making sure that any outstanding POS that we have in the system that we're checking with the vendors is in and and whoever put the POS in the system, you know, is the work complete. They will receive the product. is a simple run up of of the numbers that's in your system. Yes. So, we requested explanation so >> from the um department. We're waiting on that explanation, but this is just when we received it in our miss number 847386. Um and also number 847445. No, sorry, 847446. We have two. One is for the city of water and then we have one for services for water bill as well.

007>> So the public service she probably put it wrong but that's trash. >> Okay. >> Dr. I'm sorry I apologize one more question and that is claim number uh 847441. We need to uh get get a status on um financial how we build on that and what we got for how we doing that by percentage of completion. >> Is that okay? It's thr >> Okay. Now what was your question about? >> This payment is covered what period? >> It's covering our life payout to thrive that we going to get reimbured for. We have another one uh that we're going to submit hopefully. So real soon this is this this is our payout that we're going to submit. We call paper for reimbursement. That was going to be my next question as far as reimbursement for

008the draw down. Is is this a is this considered a final payment or is this? >> No. No sir. >> Okay. No sir. >> I'm saying that make sure that especially our new board members are aware of what we got before us. So this is something that's still an ongoing project. >> Correct. Correct. Uh a thrash is a company that is uh building out new building sunny on the sunny side. It is a ongoing project. The uh majority completion estimate estimation made I think March 14th >> is 89%. >> So there will be forthcoming some additional payments. >> Correct. Correct. that y'all be aware of. So see that's what >> yes there will definitely be additional miss I'm still looking for the page that Dr. Burks is speaking of. It would help me if the

009page number is given because I'm trying to go through my 84 847441. Is that the one we're speaking on? >> Yes, ma'am. >> What page is that, please? >> It's on the small page. What's the page number? >> 8 to 12. Uh, >> thank you so much. >> Thank any more questions about the claim. Next, we'll have the report and presentation of the of the superintendent. Mr. >> Uh yes ma'am. Uh report and presentation of the business of the superintendent. We have a 16 second report. Teacher attendance report. Any question or concern about the 16 section >> teacher attendance report enrollment breakdown report for January report for January uh teacher student of the month of January on B we have the consent agenda policy BCBA BL 1 through 3. >> Any questions or concerns about

010the consent agenda? >> On C, we have the regular agenda of C1, approval of policy revision. >> Any questions or concern about policy revision? I have a statement. Um, Mr. Big with um, MSBA there, they will be updating directly to our website the updates as needed, including the date changes of the revision. As we approve them, the dates will change. Any questions or concerns about that? Number two, approval of 256 school district calendar provision. >> Any question? >> Dr. B, >> how are we communicating this change? >> But this is based on January 9th. We had this due to Dr. We had to make that adjustment to NDE. >> So it has been The adjustments have been made easier to u communicate to everybody. >> Mr. um Dr. B, this is for this year when

011we have to shut down on January 9th due to weather. When we do that, we have to send an updated um calendar to reflect the changes during the year. That's for 2025 and 26 school year. That's this year. Number three, approval of facility use. >> Any questions or concerns? >> Number four, approval of agreement company made for the company. >> Any questions or concerns? >> Number five, approval of personnel renewal certified 2627 school year. Any questions or concern? >> Number six, approval of job prescription. Any questions of concern? Number seven, approval of administrative lead to closure. >> Any questions or concern? >> I have a statement. This is the reflection of the earlier calendar changes for employee that was out. In order for us to pay them those days out, we have to do both

012the calendar change and administrative leave. >> Number eight, approve student plan. Our first review. Any questions on concern? If you have any questions after this was just added just received it to the um agenda if members have any questions or changes that they see um or they would like to address, can you please email um Mr. So that way the changes can be added and um we can discuss it at the next board meeting. >> As for our new board member, this is our plan we started working on in October. This our new fiveyear plan and we have the opportunity here to look at and make changes. I have a question about the strategic plan. Is this something that the school board association helped us with? >> Yes, ma'am. >> It looks It looks good

013so far. I'm going to read it. >> That was the one that we had where community service members came in and we met at we had members of the school district employees, citizens um Dr. Mr. V, would you like to speak on because I I was in present. >> Yes, ma'am. It was a a basically a two-day workshop that we met with community stakeholders and set goals and strategy that's going to meet the district for the next five years. And uh once we uh was got completed, MSBA took all of our data back with them and kind of deciphered it and put together everything that we talked about into a formalized plan. So now we have an opportunity to look at it, review it, make changes as needed before we go through the final adoption

014and present it to the community. So I the goal from here uh is for everybody to look at this draft and let's discuss it and see what changes need to be made for Mcome school district. We want this we want to tell this for Mcome school district going forward any questions. So if you do have anything that you see that you might want to update, please email so that way we can the next week. >> Okay. Number 13, we have personal health. I think this move to the session just if we have two of them is one or both session to discuss something tonight. So at this time we need a motion to have a discussion in session. >> So I second the motion. >> I have a motion and second. All in favor? >>

015I oppose. At this time we came by executive session. We had some personnel matters to discuss. Can I have a motion to adjourn the work session? >> Second motion. Can we have somebody have words before y'all adjourn? >> No sir. >> Okay. Thank you. >> You have to make an appointment with the superintendent to get on the board. >> I have a motion. Do I have a second? >> All in favor? I Thank you. >> Thank y'all. All right. Have a good one. >> Okay.

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