001National. Testing. Testing. One, two. Testing. One, two. I like Delicious. Good evening. At this time, I would like to call the January 12th MCOME School Board meeting to order. The first step, we going to um have the oath office of India Harbor given by attorney date and the oath office of Dale Hart given by attorney date. Good evening everyone. >> Good evening. >> We'll start with Miss Harper. Would you please come forward? and Miss Harper's husband is going join her and he'll hold the Bible for her. Okay, Miss Harper, if you could place your left hand on the Bible and raise your right hand and repeat after me. I state your name. I, Harper, >> do solemnly swear >> that I will faithfully support >> the Constitution of the United States >> the >> Constitution
002of the United States >> and the Constitution of the State of Mississippi >> and the Constitution of the State of Mississippi >> and obey the laws thereof >> that I am not disqualified from holding >> that I'm not disqualified from holding The office of school board trustee >> the office of school board trustee >> of the Mcome school district >> that I will faithfully discharge >> the duties of the office >> upon which I am about to enter. >> So help me God. So help me God. >> Thank you, Miss Harper. And congratulations, Mr. O'Hart. and Mr. Hart's wife will join him on the stage. >> Okay, Mr. Hart, repeat after me. I state your name. I, Dale Hart, >> do solemnly swear >> that I will faithfully support >> the Constitution >> of the
003United States >> and the Constitution of the State of Mississippi >> and the Constitution of the State of Mississippi >> and obey the laws thereof >> that I am not disqualified. from holding the office >> from holding the office >> of school board trustee >> of the Mcome school district >> that I will faithfully discharge >> the duties of the office >> upon which I am about to enter >> upon which I'm about to enter. >> So help me God. >> Thank you Mr. heart and congratulations. At this time, can we please put all phones on the silent mode or turn them off, please? Can we please stand and say the McCome School District vision and mission statement? >> Vision. >> We produce students change the world. >> Mission. The mission of the home school
004district is to become a premier world class system where student success is inevitable and each student is cultivated to become a fierce competitor in a global society. At this time, we'll take 30 second of silence. Thank you. You may be seated. Can I have a motion to adopt the agenda as written? Madam Chair, I move that we adopt the agenda as printed. >> Can I have a second? >> Second a motion. >> I have a motion and a second. All in favor? >> I >> oppose. At this time, we have recognition of the administrator and teachers of the year. We'll go as follows. Kennedy, Summit, Aen, Higgins, Demome High School, BNT, the Tech. First we'll have Kennedy Good afternoon. >> Good afternoon. I stand before you to introduce Kennedy Early Childhood C Center's teacher practitioner
005of the year and parent of the year. Our teacher practitioner of the year has been with us for two years. This is her second year, but she lives to find creative ideas to share with everyone and she always brings her lessons to life. Just today I was walking down the hall and she had an activity where the children were working with a magic E. They heard the word, they had at first they had just the R A K and then she dropped it into water and it appeared with the magic E with in red while the other letters had green and they knew that it was rake as a new word. So I want to say that I really appreciate you and call Miss Aane Matthews Walker forward as our teacher practitioner of the year
006early childhood center. and she has her family with her. If they will please stand briefly. Our parent of the year is Miss Shakita Quinn. Miss Quinn is expecting a little one, but that does not slow down her service. She is up and down the hall delivering snack bags. Whenever we call, she's there in a hurry. So, we greatly appreciate Mission Keith Quinn as our parent of the year. Perfect. Our family is here as well. if they will please stand. Also, for the month of December, Kennedy had as teacher of the month, Miss Margaret Brown Pearly. Staff of the month was Miss Tiffany McBride. PreK student of the month, Kase Williams, and kindergarten student of the month was Dietrich Eubanks Jr. Thank you. All right. Good evening everyone. >> Good evening. I stand before you, Miss
007Washington, and Miss Waller, assistant principal of Summit Elementary. And we are very proud to announce our teacher and parent of the year. With the teacher of the year, we will start with the teacher of the year. There has not been a day or a time or an instant or a second in which this teacher has not put students first. She teaches with heart. She leads with heart. She works during the holidays. She checks data during Christmas break, not just this year, but every year. She is always a top contender of growth to see that students become better and better every day. Without anything further, Summit Teacher of the Year is Miss Lashondaanda Johnson. CONGRATULATIONS. And next, I'd like to announce our parent of the year, Miss Chassity Green Cook. There she is. There she is.
008Good. She has been a godsend to Summit Elementary. Over the past 10 years, we've served three of her children now at Demond and she has one remaining at Summit and she again does not say no. The text, can you do this? Will you help us with this? We never get a no. It's always okay, we'll see. And she always seems to figure it out. So, we appreciate you. We love you. And we thank you for all of your sacrifices. I'll get on this side. And to and to conclude our superlatives for the month of December for staff of the month, Denise Landrew Brown. She serves as attendance officer and she has done a tremendous job in ensuring that we have had top attendance every single month. So Denise is December staff of the month, the
009teacher of the month for December, Miss Lisa Lumen, who did a wonderful job of our book fair and does a tremendous job of promoting not only literacy but computer science throughout the school. The other staff of the month is Daria Fiser and she promotes the arts. She continues to work hard to ensure that scholars have a first class taste of an arts education. Our students of the month, first grade, Khloe Lenor. Second grade Diego Tucker. Third grade Adams. Fourth grade Caleb Manny. And that concludes our supporters. Thank you. All right. Good evening everyone. >> I am here to introduce Atkins teacher and parent of the year. Our first introduction is Atkins teacher of the year. Uh she has been in special education for around 16 years. Um she is passionate, she is driven, she makes
010sure that our students are taken care of each and every day. She holds all of our children to a very high expectation. She is also a dream co-orker. She makes sure that everyone at IN has everything that they need to succeed. So without further ado, Atkins teacher of the year, none more deserving than Miss Patricia Scott. Will her family please stand back there? I saw y'all back there. Stand family. We are here to support you. Our next award award is for our parent of the year. This young lady stepped in uh whenever we need her. She makes our Sam's run, get snacks, she delivers the snack, then she comes on Friday to help with getting the snacks out. Uh any event that we have, she is there. Um and she called me about a month
011ago and she said, "Uh, Principal Chapman, I got something I want to tell you." And so I said, "What is it?" She said, "I'm moving to Texas." I said, "What? You can't go." So she moved to Texas, but guess what? In two weeks, she called me back and guess what she told me? I'm coming back to I. So, I am so, so thankful for her. She always has a sweet, beautiful smile and she is always willing to help our teachers and students in any way that she can. So, I would like to introduce our parent of the year, Miss Reisha Isaac. Someone's here. Now we will do our teacher of the month and staff of the month for the month of December. Our teacher of the month is someone who battles adversity. Uh but she
012always has a smile on her face. She does her absolute best to make sure that all of her kids grow. She is also one of our team leads at at Okin in the math department. So our teacher of the month for December is Miss Shante Roberts. Our staff of the month um is a person, she works in the front office. She is the records clerk, but she does a lot more than records. Um because anything that I need, anything that these two ladies need, she is always there. She knows where everything is at, which is a big plus for us. So, our staff of the month is none other than Miss Catola Osby. Our students of the month for first grade is Keegan Williams, second grade, Cedric Carter. Third grade, Brooklyn Smith, and fourth grade,
013Noah Bennett. Thank you. On behalf of Higgins Middle School, it is my extreme honor to be here this evening to honor honor our teacher and parent of the year. Our teacher of the year has is Miss Donna Flynn. And Miss Flynn has earned the title of McCome School District veteran teacher. She has consistently shown high data in both proficiency and growth for all students in sixth grade ELA. She is that teacher who it does not matter what I ask. Yes, ma'am. We got it. She mentors, she serves, and it is my honor, Miss Flynn, for you to be Higgins Middle School 2526 teacher of the year. And the 2526 parent of the year for Higgins Middle School is Miss Jerica Carter. Miss Carter has transformed the PTA at Higgins Middle School. She is our one
014call. That's all. She is that person who she sends me a text message when I forget something to let me know. The students know her as family. The teachers know her as family. She is in our building all the time. She is consistently doing anything we need her to do. Snacks, donations, um you name it, she does it. Literally one call, that's all. And it is my honor to share with you guys our parent of the year, Miss Jerica Carter. For other recognitions at Higgins, our teacher of the month is Miss Zoe Reigns. She is a new addition to Higgins Middle School. She is our great teacher and we have actually promoted 15 students, great students to Dem this semester. Miss Reigns worked so hard and we have a class of 100% promotion um to
015Dem Junior High. Our staff of the month is our receptionist, Miss Honesty Matis. She is the voice of Higgins. Always pleasant, always professional, never any problems. and the very few times that she has been out and I've had to work the front desk, I don't know how she does it. Our fifth grade student of the month is Mr. Francisco Mendes Czech. And our sixth grade student of the month is Miss Trinity Gordon. Good evening. I'm here to present our uh teacher of the year as well as our parent of the year for Deon Junior High School. I would just like to say concerning our teacher of the year. I've had an opportunity to actually uh teach with her and I have served as the assistant principal when she served as an academic coach. With that
016being stated, she's hands-on. She loves what she does for the children. She works hard daily. anytime you need her to do anything. She's her decisions are data driven. And it's amazing when you have someone that serves in the capacity of an academic coach that takes time out of their busy schedule to come back daily and teach children. With that being stated, this teacher helped us move Dem from an F to a C. And we were 16 points from a B. >> Come on now. And I heard one writer say that he was not going to battle unless Dborah went with him. >> And I feel like this teacher >> is my Dbor. >> The teacher of the year for Demond Junior High School is Miss Ebony Felman. >> Good job. >> And she's coming on.
017Thanks. The the family of Miss family and friends of Miss Ebony Felder, if you would stand for this year. Our parent of the year is also a one call that's all person. No matter what time of the day or night, um she will call you, text you, whatever the case may be. And if you've ever seen the movie The Five Heartbeats, the man said, "My office hours are from 9:00 to 5." So, I have to tell her my office hours are from 9 to 5. With that being said, our parent of the year is Miss Letha Aterson. >> As she's coming, we'll ask that the parent, the family and friends of Miss Accent, if you would stand. Oh. For the month of December, our teacher of the month was Miss Katinka Brown. Staff of the
018month was Miss Gail Dylan. Seventh grade students of the month, Allison May and Christopher Abram. Eighth grade students Coleman and Zachtoine Landre. Good evening. >> Good evening. >> Tonight, we gather to celebrate excellence in education and to honor a teacher whose impact extends far beyond the walls of the classroom. The teacher of the year award represents dedication, leadership, innovation, and an unwavering commitment to student success. McCome's high school honory exemplifies what it is truly means to be an educator. This teacher consist consistently sets high expectations while providing the support and encouragement students need to meet and exceed those expectations. What truly sets this teacher of the year apart is her heart. Her heart for students, heart for the profession, and heart for the belief that every child can succeed. The lives touched by this educator
019will continue to be shaped long after this school year ends. On behalf of our students, staff, and community. Thank you so much for your compassion, your dedication, and your service. And it is with great pride that we recognize you tonight. Please join me in congratulating Mcome High School teacher of the year, Miss Renee Shadala. Good afternoon. >> It is truly a blessing to stand before you speak about this gentleman who very dedicated to Mcome school district. He actually drive in from P County and he make it to work before most people from the surrounding areas. He's motivated, dedicated and consistent. He loves scholars. That's what the most important thing. If you love your craft and you love what you do, coming to work is more so as a hobby for you. And not to say
020too much about this young guy. And I can say for myself, I love him because his spirit speaks for itself. Mr. Kenneth Boys. All right. Good evening everyone. All right. All right. So, I want to start off our teacher of the year. This is the alternative school attack. And you have to have a little you have to know how to have a little grace, you know, um how to pull back sometime, push a little bit more, u have compassion for our students. I'mma read something about on behalf of the administration, we are proud to recognize you as the teacher of the year. Your consistent punctuality and reliability set a powerful example for both students and staff. You demonstrate strong leadership skills, maintain positive attitudes, and fully embrace the vision of our school. That vision is
021if you can breathe, you are valuable, have purpose, and must share your talents with the world. Most importantly, you speak life into your students, encouraging, motivating, and inspiring them to know their history and use that knowledge to better their lives. Your dedication to uplifting students academically and personally make a lasting impact. We're grateful for your commitment, professionalism, and passion for education. Our teacher of the year is Shane Hammerly. from the T the BNT and Mcome High School. We would like to represent the parent of the year. The parent of the year award celebrates a parent who goes above and beyond to support not only her own children but the children in the entire school community. This year honore exemplifies what it means to be a true partner in education. The parent is consistently involved, supportive,
022and committed to student success. Whether volunteering time, attending school events, encouraging academic excellence at home, or offering support when it is most needed, this individual leaves with generosity and heart. She told me that this is her last year. She'll be taking her talents to Jackson State and to be with her grandchildren. We would like to recognize our parent of the year, Miss Miriam Spencer White. Happy birthday. Mcome High School teacher of the month is Miss Deonti McGee. Our staff of the m month is Miss Penny Lucas, our counselor. Our students of the month are Amina Rosselle and Alicia Bulock. The BNT teacher of the month is Lisha Coven. And the student of the month is Adam Knox. The alternative school student of the month is Safari Stevenson for the high school for Dem. Our student
023of the month is Zoe Anderson for Higgins. That's Sydney Allen. And our teacher of the month for December is Lindsay Bates. Also at the alternative school, we have a support school of the month and that goes to Higgins. They send the most teachers over to uh help support our students. So, THANK YOU Good evening. >> Good evening. >> We're going to continue with our awards and celebrations, but let's give all of our school level parents and teachers of the year a round of applause. They work to impact and change student lives every single day. So, moving right along this evening, I have the distinct pleasure to announce the district parent of the month, the district teacher of the month of the year. I'm sorry, let me go back. I have the distinct pleasure to announce
024the district parent of the year, the district teacher of the year, and the district administrator of the year. Now, these three individuals, they will go on to compete at the state level, but at state recognition. Okay? So, it is it is with distinct honor and pleasure that I'm up here today. And I'm going to start with the district parent of the year. A lot of great things have already been said about this young lady. But I do know that all of them are true cuz I see the things that go on every day and every event when I travel to that school. Our district parent of the year is none other than Ms. Chastity Green Cook. >> Miss Cook, will you please come forward? Summit Elementary leadership team. Come up. Congratulations. of the dead. >>
025Next, we have our district teacher of the year. And everything that was said about this lady is true. Absolutely true. And I know cuz I've been in her classroom. Okay. I I called her into her principal office and asked her if anything that she needed to move forward this school year. and she laid out to me everything that she needed and did so. Okay. >> Her passionate students and making certain that they achieve at the highest level and I appreciate her so so very much. Our district teacher of the year is Miss Rene High School. Miss, would you come up please? Congratulations once again. >> Okay, last but definitely not least, we have our district administrator of the year. You know, we have some outstanding administrators in this district. I want to say that they
026all do a great job, but only one person can get this award. Recently, we've been traveling to all the schools to have academic talks about the rest of the school year. And and this one principal who I went to, I had a list of things that I wanted to know, a list of things that I was going to ask. But you know what? This person already had everything on the table when I got there. That's just how sharp she is. Okay. The district administrator of the year is none other THAN MISS RASHANA CHAP. IT'S RIGHT. >> GO. >> Happy birthday. Congratulations again. >> As I stated earlier, these ladies will go on to compete at the state level. So, let's wish them the best of luck. Okay. Thank you. Thank you for your hard work
027to make certain that our students receive what they need. To all of our parents, teacher of the year and administrator, thank you so much. >> Can we please have a round of applause for everyone? At this time, if you would like to leave, if that's the end of our award ceremony, you may do so at this time. How are you? Yes, we do. Yes, ma'am. I'll help you. Hey, I'm going to follow you. At this time we going to continue our July 12th board meeting. Next on the agenda, we have tech technology update by Mr. Robert Biggs. >> Good evening. >> The biggest issue we've had this year is the down wireless that we've had districtwide. It started late September, early October. So, I just wanted to update the board tonight to let you know
028that Demond Junior High and the vocational center both have completely new wireless APs. The schools are running at 100% across all classrooms. We're going to be moving toward the high school in Higgins within the next month, but we're making good progress. Currently, our district is about 80 to 85% back to where it should be. >> Thank you. >> You have any questions? >> Any questions? >> I just want to uh make sure that we'll be in place for testing. >> Yes, sir. The goal that Mr. Vic set for me was to make sure that the classrooms, the teaching classrooms would have 100% coverage before testing started. I don't think we're going to have any issues doing that. The APs that we had installed here at Denver, we're fix to take to the high school, Higgins
029Middle School, and Kennedy to replace some of the classrooms that are still lacking coverage. When the new APs come in that Miss Hall is helping me order the next couple weeks, we'll start replacing the high school with completely new access points and move to Higgins Middle School after that. We're not going to have any issues with testing. We should be at more than at 100% coverage for classrooms and ready for testing on time. >> Any more questions or concerns? >> I I have a statement though. Um Mr. Bigs informed me today that they are actually doing the work themselves. We're not contracting it out, which means we are self-sufficient in the technology department with actually doing the work ourselves and not having to pay somebody to do it, which is a plus. So we saving
030thousands of dollars because we're doing the work inhouse finally ourselves. >> Yes, ma'am. >> Any more questions or comments? Next, we'll have school at Ris Higgins in Dejun High School. Thank you. >> Okay. Good evening. >> School board meeting January 12th, 2026. MCOME school district school Higgins Middle School. Our school identification is CSI. Our school goal is a 460 which is going to require our reading to be at 45% proficiency. Our growth for all in reading needs to be at 70. Our percent growth of the bottom 25 needs to be at 70%. Our math proficiency should be at 55%. Our math growth for all will be at 75% and our math growth of the bottom 25 will also be 75%. For our science proficiency, we are reaching for 70% with a participation rate of 100.
031When we compare our beginning of the year benchmark one assessment, we were at reading 27% proficiency growth of growth of all 42.8% 8% and growth of the bottom 25% 54.6 for ELA and reading. For math on bench one, our proficiency was 40.8. Our growth for all for math for bench one was 61.7 and our growth of the bottom 25 was 60.9. Our science proficiency was at 63.8 with a participation rate of 98%. Bench three that the students just were assessed on in December was a comprehensive assessment. Our proficiency for reading went up to 39.1%. Our percent of growth of all was 56.1 and our reading growth of the bottom 25 was 58.6. Our math proficiency was 47.3%. Our growth of all is 69.4 4 and our growth of the bottom 25 went up to 74.3%.
032Our science proficiency is at 66.2% and we had a participation rate of 98. For our January reporting for the month of December, our total school enrollment was 280 students. Our student ADA was 92.65%. Our percent of students with two or more absences for the month was 21.9%. Our teacher attendance rate was 97.85% and the number of discipline referrals was 28 with zero coming from bus. Our fiscal year 2024 total allocations was $81,934. At the middle of the year, our remaining balance was $6,934. For this year, fiscal year 2025, our total allocations is 73,454 and our remaining balance for middle of the year is 74,73454,000 and our fiscal year 2026 allocations have not been released. Any questions? Dr. um I have two questions. >> Yes sir. >> Number one um with our lower percent um our
033bottom lower percentile. What do we need to provide you with in order for you to achieve higher? >> Well, when we're looking at our bottom 25, the biggest thing there is staffing. Making sure that those students who are in that category are being able to be pulled out. We do have a plan in place and those children are being serviced at this time. Um, we we're in data meetings all day today. Miss Butler came over also with Miss Earles from the Bailey group and we are in a very very good place. Um we're going to continue doing what we're doing, but we're also getting a little bit more specific looking at student data. We're actually going in and we are pinpointing what skills, what standards, and how many questions those students actually need in order
034to increase their scores. >> So you feel comfortable with where you are now? implementing. >> I'm very comfortable. Yes, we're comfortable. >> Any more questions? >> I have one question, Miss Wood. We um reduced the referrals to 28, which is significant from 63 the month before. Um what changes did we implement to um for that reduction? >> It was the month of December and we were out for two weeks. >> Okay. Yes. Okay. That's all I have. >> Thank you. Good evening. When you look at the report for Demi Junior High School, you see that of course it's a district, the Mcome school district. The school name is Demond Junior High School. Our school identification is TSI for ELA. Our current accountability points are 242 points. We left that has us at a letter grade
035of an F. Um looking at our data for last year in reading we had 20.9 proficient 36.3 growth of all and 49% growth of the bottom 25. In math we had 29% proficient 39.7 growth of all and 42.1 growth of the bottom 25. In science we had 25% proficiency and our participation rate was greater than 95%. Our beginning of the year looking at reading proficiency is 24.2 growth of all 32.6 growth of the bottom 25 is 35%. Math is 53.1 proficiency 72.7 growth of all and 58.2 growth of the bottom 25. Science is 30 30.7% with a partic participation rate of 95%. The middle of the year, the one that we just took, when you look at reading, it'll be 27% proficiency, 37.3 growth of all, 34% growth of the bottom 25. Math is 44.8%
036proficiency, 48.3 growth of all, 47.7 growth of the bottom 25. In science, we had 46.2% 2% proficiency and our participation was 95%. Looking at our data from January from December, the total uh school enrollment is 284 students. Our student 88 is 86.1. The percent of students with two or more absence for the month is 30.64. Teacher attendance rate 94.29. The number of discipline referrals is 34. When you look at our allocations, you see for the year 24, the allocations has been expended and in the year 25, we were not in school improvement. So, we did not have need any funds for that year. And the funds for the 26th school year, uh, MD has not sent those allocations yet. >> Any questions for Junior High School? >> I have one question, Miss Martin. Um and
037it's out of out of a helping to understand if for Higgins their participation rate was 98 and this is 95 I just trying to understand why would the participation rate be 100%. Some of our students are actually um when they actually test or if they tested some of them are out sick and also when you have to um we look at suspensions what we do at dem is if the child is suspended we actually myself and Miss Jones we send our message to parents letting them know the students are testing that they can bring them to school but sometime they don't actually come in when we tested before the window closes. >> Thanks. Any more questions? >> I have question Dr. B. My uh concern as you already know would be that um those incentives
038to for growth in that lower percentile. What what are we doing for ELA? >> In ELA um we're looking at doing a building wide shutting the building down on Wednesdays. And so every Wednesday in social studies they'll be working in a program that we have now is called classworks. And so intervention will take place across the building. And what we're doing is when they go to social studies, they'll be doing classworks for ELA. And when they go to um PE, they would do math. And when they go to science, we'll be doing egeneuity to bridge those gaps. And also, we're working with our consultants that are coming in for those days. So when they come in, they can also help us work with those students as well. >> Okay. do we have um what incentive
039do we have for the students in place for the students to to to want to achieve that we're struggling here? >> Yes sir. Here at Demon our theme is cooking of excellence. So everything is center around some type of food. And so there are certain things we're putting in place monthly to not to also reward our students that had our perfect scores because at dinner we had 19 perfect scores. And so we're doing things and putting things in place such as taking them on trips trying to get things in line monthly so that um it'll be incentives for them. >> Do you have do you have the resources that's necessary? >> Yes, sir. >> Any more questions? Madam President, I also want to add that DM along with some of the other schools are going
040to be starting an after school tutorial in the month of February where they will have a change to target some of these kids uh at least three times a week in after school tutorials and that's our plan uh as we move towards February, March and April. and and and Miss Butler, I want to uh you to chime in on something about the 95%. Some of our school student test outside the window after we have closed the test. Is that correct? >> Yes. Um although we have a um a deadline on when the window closes so that we can um inform master when to close the the window so that data can start to be compiled. But that does not um keep them from actually being able to test. They just don't make the initial reports
041that come back. So the window is um still accessible for students who need to come back and make up uh assessments whether they're suspended or ill or whatever what have you. We just work with the school. They let us know and we get those students tested. >> So So we do test them all. They just tested outside of the window. >> Yes. Yes ma'am. So when we do the um after school tutorial, do we have something in place to encourage the parent? Because I think a lot of times with after school, if the parents are not encouraging and often times students won't take u that opportunity as a significant one to help them achieve. What we actually did when we gave out our report cards, we actually also gave out the report card from Equity
042Analytics so the parents to create that buy in so that parents will see where their students are and to let them know that we need their support. >> Well, we um maybe it's a question from Miss Le. Will we be providing transportation for the children and after school program so they'll be able to get to and >> uh yes ma'am I have already gotten with Miss Pat Dylan. Uh we're going to provide transportation and um bed and William is going to provide a snack for the students back to school. We we have already uh taken care of that. >> So there will be no excuse for them not to take part of it because often times you know if it's not something in the form they won't take advantage of it. So we really need
043them to take advantage of it. Also here at Deming, um we've assigned at least five to 10 children to all of our elective teachers to provide that support because sometimes you may not listen to the teacher record, but if that elective teacher has that relationship and so that teacher is responsible for keeping up with their daily attendance, if they're taught a good class, any discipline referrals and weekly to check their classwork um intervention and to speak with them weekly. >> So a mentor within the building. >> Yes, ma'am. >> Sounds like a winner. Any more questions? Thank you, Mr. Wh. Do we have a targeted percentage that we're trying to reach with the after school program? >> It's our goal to get all of our students to grow and to reach proficiency. >> Any more
044questions for Mr. Wells? Thank you, Mr. Well. Thank you, Mr. Bigs. We not going to use the mics unless necessary, but if you watch online, if they cannot hear us, we would like to put it. >> Okay. Thank you. >> At this time, can I have a motion to to review and approval of the minutes? I believe that we review and approve the minutes. >> Second motion. >> I have a motion and a second. Any questions and concerns about the minutes? All in favor? >> I >> oppose. Can I have a motion to review and approve of the financial statements? I motion we move we we um will approve the financial statements. I second the motion. I have a motion and a second. Any questions or concerns? Dr. No question. I need to make sure.
045All in favor? >> I >> oppose. Can I have a motion to review and approve of claims document? I move that we review and approve of the claims docket. >> I second. I have a motion and a second. Any questions or concerns about the claims docket? Question. >> Dr. words. I received the uh the uh the explanation on our um claims, but I want to make sure that we have something in place for those those explanations. uh particularly the uh ones that we had identified previously. Uh but my one of my main questions is is on the claim document number 847 348 and 349. It said it is a reprint reprint of claim numbers. Um I'm not clearly under understanding that this is all. >> Yes sir. The um the vendor we mailed the ch
046um electronic funds transfer. They went electronically. The vendor did not um let us know their banking information changed. They were returned to the district. So we had to resend. >> So you had to resend the check. In other words, the payment. >> Yes sir. Okay. And so in terms also is that's is is that what caused the um the payment to be uh delayed? No sir. No sir. That was part of the explanation. Um on the first one I think was already on a delayed payment. If you look at the explanation that we emailed out. >> Oh yeah. >> Yes sir. We was on on the first doc claim doc that you all received. We was on there. That's one of the questions you all had from explanation for that and then when we got
047back from the holiday they had sent that back. >> So was this the same case on the other two of the u the checks that was returned on the band master and the uh high school activity association? >> No sir. High school did both of them to band master I think but one of them was supposed to go to music high school activities association one was supposed to go to band master well they put it in as one all of them going to the high school activity association or band I'm not sure which one had to split those payments when they came they sent us a check we had to split those to make sure that master got their payment association see their payment Any more questions about the claim? >> All in favor? >>
048I >> oppose. At this time, we have the report and presentation of the business of the superintendent. >> Uh, yes, ma'am. Reports and presentation of the business of the superintendent. Uh Madame President, we have report uh one through five that are presented to the board. Uh do we have uh any questions? >> Any questions or concerns about reports through five? >> Yes. >> Uh next we have the u regular agenda. Madame President, uh number one, we have a approval of policy revision. Any questions or concerns about the policy revisions? I don't have a concern. I just have a statement. Um, we hire MSBA to do our policies. These revisions are coming from MSBA. So, as MSBA review them and update them moving forward, we we would have policies that it appears that we've most recently
049done um come up in order us to correct what we have online. Mr. Vic have informed me that um he has gotten with the technology department and as we get them in and we approve them, they will be updated on MCOM school district website. You can't hear us? >> No. No, ma'am. Um, I can't, our technology department can't change those policies. I don't have access to updating those. >> USDA does. >> Yeah, I talked with uh Austin Gibb, uh, Madam President, and then he's going to actually go in and update them as we get them approved. >> Okay. So, the link will change on our website. >> No, ma'am. the lid won't change on the website, but the date that the policy was approved and revised, you really see that. >> Okay. >> So, you're
050saying the content will change, correct? >> Updated? >> Yes, the content >> to reflect and the date that it was done. >> Correct. >> Question. Does that mean Martin >> does does that mean that we'll be getting these revisions for the for for the duration of MSBA updating the policies? >> Yes, ma'am. It it's estimated to be a six-month process >> and the end result will be the entire policies reviewed and revised. >> Yeah, that will be the end result. Our all of our policy will be completely uh reviewed and revised as needed uh this morning. Okay. Yes, sir. Any questions about the revision of the policies and that will make us completely in compliance the class we took last year Miss Martin Jr. This this process will make us mcome school district 100% in
051compliance with our update of our policy. >> Correct. >> Mr. Uh, number two, approval of district test security. >> Ma'am, >> oh, I'm sorry. A motion or >> Okay, I'm sorry. I apologize. I need a motion to approve the policy um revision. I move we approve of policy revision. >> Second a motion. >> I have a motion and a second. All in favor? I oppose. Number two, approve of district test security. >> Do I have a motion? >> I move that we approve of district test security. >> Second a motion. >> I have a motion and a second. Any questions or concerns? All in favor? >> I >> oppose. Number three, approval to solicit bid for school district depository. >> Do I have a motion? >> Motion that we uh give approval for solicitation of
052bids for the school deposit board. >> I second the motion. I have a motion and a second. Any questions or concern? All in favor? I oppose. Number four, approval of budget increase uh technology needs. >> Do I have a motion? >> I motion we approve the um budget increase technology needs. >> Second a motion. >> I have a motion and a second. Any questions or concerns? >> All in favor? >> I oppose. Number five, approval of 16 session resolution terminating lease. >> Do I have a motion? >> Motion that we the approval of the 16th section resolution terminating lease. >> Second. I have a motion and a second. Any questions or concerns? All in favor? >> I oppose. Number six, approval ofou with the University of Southern Mississippi. >> Do I have a motion? >>
053I move that we approve of the memorandum memorandum of understanding with the University of Southern Mississippi. >> Second a motion. >> I have a motion and a second. Any questions or concerns? >> None. >> All in favor? I oppose. >> Number seven, approval of added course. >> Do I have a motion? >> I move that we see the approval of added course to the curriculum. >> I second. I have a motion and a second. Any questions or concerns? All in favor? >> I oppose. >> Number 15, personnel recommendations. >> So, I have a motion. I move that we approve of personnel recommendations. >> Second a motion. >> I have a motion and a second. All in any questions or concerns? All in favor? I oppose. >> At this time, we need a um a motion
054for a closed determination upon whether or not to enter into executive session. I move that we have a closed determination upon the issue of whether or not to enter into executive session. >> Second a motion. >> I have a motion and a second. Any questions or concern? All in favor? We have to wait till we get back. We need a motion to come out executive session though. >> So move. >> Second the motion. >> I have a motion and a second to come out executive session. All in favor? I I >> oppose. >> We are out of executive session. During the executive session, we discussed the superintendent evaluation and approved it. At this time, can I have a motion to adjourn the meeting? >> I motion we adjourn this meeting. >> Second motion. >> I
055have a motion and a second. All in favor? I oppos. Thank you.