001How long? [Music] Maybe Jesus. Good evening. I would like to call October 6, 2025 special call meeting to order. Do I have a motion? >> I will open the special call meeting for today's date. I sent a motion. I have a motion and a second question or concern. All in favor? >> I oppose. >> Madam Secretary, uh we have number three, approval of resolution school choice. >> Do I have a motion? >> I move that we approach school choice. Oh, we got to adopt that agenda. I'm sorry. >> Do I have a motion to adopt the agenda as written? We skip um number two. >> I move we adopt the agenda as written. Second motion. >> I have a motion and a second. Any questions or concern? All in favor? >> I oppose. Madam President,
002number three, approval of the resolution student choice. I move that we approve of the resolution against student choice 2025. Second motion. >> I have a motion and a second. Any questions or concerns? All in favor? I oppose. Madam President approval to stay in the house of district hearing. >> So I have a motion. >> So move the motion. >> I have a motion and a second. Any questions or concerns? >> Question. >> Yes. >> Why? >> Attorney. So the attorneys possib attorneys at the time. I have since been in contact with two of my partners who will take any more questions. All in favor? >> I oppose. At this time, we'll have a close determination upon the issue whether or not to go into executive session. >> Do I have a so? >> I have
003a motion and a second. All in favor? >> I oppose. What are you doing? had a shower issue since camp. Got hurt in camp. We are discussion at which time we address three issues. Can I have a motion to adjourn the special call meeting? >> All in favor? I oppose. At this time, we'll call our work session to order. We will have the McCome school district vision admission statement. 30 second of adoption of the agenda review of minutes. Any questions or concerns about the minutes? Next, we'll have review and approval of financial statements. Any questions or concerns about financial statements? Yes, >> for clarification. >> This is just for clarification. Um, we had teachers. What does it does it fall under? You said the um pay rates for teacher it'll fall under if you get
004under 100 and 200 pay but it's not a separate money. It's just all according to district operated unless they're paid out a federal fund. >> So it doesn't go on the district. Someone pay if they're pay district maintenance. because it came in September, so it be This is It came in September, so it be on next month. >> Next month. >> Yes, sir. And I I'll make you point out. >> Yes, sir. Any more questions about financial statements? Next, we have review and approval of claim doc. Any questions or concern about the claim? on the UL docu 6559. This is on page 1124. This is >> district. >> Yes, sir. And I'll verify the for the K6 K6. >> I'm sorry. So we not going through a >> um we class that was approved class
005from then high school and um it still has an active piece and we also went with that because of all the variations. It was a good program to help to do the pro and the actual progress monitoring to help the teachers. Yeah. Yeah. I I agree with that. But my concern was that not having a bill for the in some cases. >> Um I think it'll be I know it'll be fine. Um and also we took a look back at the actual data from the eighth and it just it just was my mind. it just didn't seem as though it was being beneficial to, you know, to to helping them get what they need to be or just a shift in um trying to use the class. We just want to see a positive shift
006in the Dr. BS [Music] as a program, >> right? I just want to make sure we had something. >> Yes, sir. And then it will. >> Yes, sir. >> That was really special grade. >> The uh question I have is document number 846671. schools are these damaged >> 84 Chromebooks. Chromebooks >> um Chromebooks um okay, >> Mr. Vic and Miss Hall tasked with going through and finding a way to replace 712 and to supplement the other schools that were missing devices for this school year. It's going to be a full replacement for the high school. It's going to be a partial replacement for Denman and it's going to be a very small addition to Higgins. It was with leftover federal funds from FY25 that was designated or allocated for this specific task. So, it's going
007to supplement and replace. We're going to put them in place as devices fail and all the schools actually need the some at this current time. So, it's going to replace the ones they don't have enough for for the kids and replace some of the ones that were broken. >> Okay. So, this $250,000 this is the full payment or was this? >> Yes, sir. >> It's all of it. Yes, sir. That was the total amount for those three schools. It was designated pay out of federal funds for each one of those schools for that amount. I have a question. We have some payments that's from April. Yes. Um I've been working with Miss um Dylan to get um just to verify if we have any more outstanding cuz um she was since I've been working with
008her to just make sure that we she we've received all the ones that do and I'm getting her, you know, just trying to work and get the process. So make sure we get our invoices. We've been working together to make sure that we get those all. My next question superintendent is indistry travel. We have a lot of industry travel. That that's concerning to me. >> Yes ma'am. Right now I'm looking to work with a key wife of again most of our working right now. We don't have this travel. [Music] And last, I have a question about uniform pass. >> I'm think okayish. Thank you. Any more questions? >> I do know that we have the grad. I have there are a couple that I see that saying that to verify services taking place. Have a
009procedure that has laid that will take care of that concern have services and after they provide their services they're given when they submit their and know that we have in place. I know it's a dayto-day operation, but to um delay pain is what I'm concerned. >> So, one thing we're trying to do on our end because once they have to the department heads or whoever does it, they have to sign off the they have to sign the invoice and the PO saying that everything is complete and then we pay. So what we're going to try to do is what we're trying to implement is like monthly reviewing to see what outstanding purchase we have. So I'm trying to make everybody do everything on purchase. So if we pull that monthly and ask, you know, start
010asking, do I receive all these supplies? Is this complete? Then that'll help, you know, kind of remind them and help us stay on track with paint. So we're just going to start pulling that money the open PO and asking about invoices that are these ones that that concern that are you saying that those were open? >> Yep. Yes sir. I say open like they you know they did a purchase order for it but we haven't received payment. So if it was done just say September and we haven't received an invoice for it in October but now we're going to start asking them for the invoice. Have the services been complete? Can we receive all the things? What can you go ahead and send us the invoice payment? They might not be like open like the
011more approve open. When I say open, it's just a you know a regular purchase payment. >> Yes, sir. >> I have a couple of questions and u one of them Mr. is about the textbooks, pages five and six of the claims document. It's it's filled with uh the purchase of textbooks. I'm just trying to understand is this books that are going to be used for a while or are we getting these from this school year or >> Yes. Yes, ma'am. for his school year this morning. >> So, this this completes our purchase or we going to have to buy any more because there's several entries here for Tennessee Book Company. >> Yes. Now, this with the Tennessee Book Company, one of our main vendors. Uh, go ahead. I was going to say um with the
012Tennessee Book Company, that's the actual depository that we ordered the textbooks um from. And so they have like a a platform to where you can go in and place your orders on the spot then, you know, as and they do the invoice as soon as you actually do the order. But with textbooks, of course, they have to come in, we have to receive them, we have to count and do all that. So in order to feel comfortable about signing off saying that we have everything, we like to do a count and make sure that everything's been accounted for. So that's why all of those different entries. So every every textbook from PLA, math, anything digital, all of those things went through the actual repository that ordered through there. And I would say um and there
013several different um claims for each one because we did it by location, right? So we did it by school. So you can see what pull to see what school. So it may be. Well, with that being said, on the purpose, it should have that location requested somebody looking at it location for so it's not like from the invoice each location on the invoice where you have >> okay >> the other thing I think would be helpful too especially when we are spend large amount text. He said we also be easier for us to understand my experience that often times when we do purchase a lot of text doing we're purchasing a lot for update you know to update from old text. So um it would be uh advantageous for us to know that they are
014you know updated because the present ones have been out you know they s I think that was one of my questions what we purchased what is what is the do you understand that we plan to use are we going to be doing the same type of purchasing next year. >> I was wondering is this going to be what is the the year span for the use of the books? Will we be doing the same purchase again next year? Those are actually consumables. They are like just student paperback books to where the students use them and they're no good. They're gone at the end of the year. And the only thing you you'll just reorder that actual uh consumable book again. It's not like a hard textbook that you would keep in the classroom because if
015we had those sets like that, we wouldn't do any ordering, but it's a consumable thing. Students can tear out of them and all those kind of things at the end of the year that consumable >> because they go with the online, >> right? The digital piece, >> the digital side. >> Yes. >> So that be helpful. >> Okay. Okay, my next question is is kind of centered around the answer that you had given to uh Dr. Burks about um forgot exactly what it was on on page page eight. Was that your first question from page eight of the the body for Yeah, it was it was page 11 in the IRA versus class works when uh when we look at what we what we're spending for IA 73,792 [Music] and we were given the response
016of classworks being what we're using for grades 7 through 12. Yes, that's correct. >> I'm I'm trying to match what we do when we are paying for consultants. This may be for you, Mr. D, because I'm looking back at how uh we have Bailey, the Bailey group for some of our consulting. We have the Kirkland group and equity analytics. And then we have we did an RFP for educational consulting. When we make a decision about what's what works for students and what doesn't work, are are we making that decision based on what consultants are saying? >> Well, we're making a decision based on the data that we're looking at uh Martin and at the same time what our uh high do consultants are seeing when they come in the classroom. And we just finished our
017benchmark for one testing and we going to analyze that data. That data is going to go to the Kirkland analytics. I'm going to give a snapshot of how all my students are and then the uh high doing is going to come in and work with the teachers. >> Yes sir. Okay. That's what I I was doing was just trying to match the consulting with the decisions that are being made. My next question is from page 11 and it is uh gator shield the gator shield cameras for summit. Is is this a part of what's what goes to the new building or gator shield is what we are brought in to secure our new building under construction. So we wanted around that building this morning. We have had several break in and we wanted to make
018certain that uh we can protect the building until got completed. And so right now we went we went in we secured it with locks on the inside. We put security system on that building more. They have greatly reduced the issues we've been having since we did that. My next question is on page 20 and this one is the Mississippi fruit vegetable company. I'm interested in this because I listened to a news story that talked about um cap about public schools purchasing food for the cafeterias locally. And and I guess I'm just Is this something new for us? I don't recall ever seeing this. It's on our claims document. >> Williamsport has a different name. >> Okay. >> All right. That's that's great. We're able to do that. I think that was the gist of my
019question because I'm seeing where on page 21 we have Kesler and the and Jeffrey Crabtree and I guess that matches what we had already um approved of in our spending for the new deal 189,823 on this document and for 15,000 So is that matching what we are doing in order to complete the building there? So >> yes sir, we're making payment plans actually. That's not the full amount. >> Yes, sir. And the new cancer that's for the um the Hback and from the high school. I think we're just paying Hback now. So um we're paying them payments each month. Um we still owe them I think a million dollar. So we've been just paying, you know, just paying a little bit every month. And Jeff Crafty, he goes and he was the architect for that.
020So on both those just kind of have paid plans with them. They're allowing us to pay a little every month. >> Okay. >> But we all requesting >> the is the district portion. >> Okay. And so with those questions, >> next we have the report and presentation of the business of the superintendent. >> Madam President, number eight, uh, report 81, we have teacher student of the month, the month of September. Number two, we have teacher attendance report for the month of September. Number three, we have a 16 session report for the month of September. >> Any questions? So, we had questions last week about 16 sections. This is just for clarification. The uh one houses constantly showing this guys. You all >> Yes, sir. >> Okay. the U one where it says that we're waiting
021for review. Is that something? >> Yes. And and the same um partner who assists with those issues, we're waiting for his final review of those documents and hopefully we'll have that secured and finalized by next Monday. Any more questions? >> Number four, we have report September 2025. Number five, enrollment breakdown September 25. I have a question on the uh enrollment breakdown. One of the things that we received last month was um print out of the enrollment that we have across the entire school district. And I think my concern I think on here we have that we have 85 Latino students and I'm just wondering Mr. Big I don't know what our protocol entails and I'm just curious as a member of this community for the students that we have. Do we have any protocols in
022place? Should immigration and custom enforcement ICE come to our campus to our student? Do we do we know beforehand how we going to handle that if it does in fact happen? >> Well, um this one I would say um we have protocols for campus safety and anybody camp who they are to the bank office identification and before they get any access to any of our students or employees. So our plan is probably more district protocol that outline our handbook and our school project. Okay. And with that, um, are we aware of any instances where any of our students have had, um, their their parents, the person who's responsible for them coming to MCOM student, have have we had a situation where any of the students have had their parents u taken away from them? >>
023Uh, so far, Miss Gordon, do not at this time. >> Okay. What what do we how do we help those students deal with that >> Well, through our federal program, we have different ways of helping those students. One is through our what we call our home program at the time. They're trying to take away our student. Yes, sir. Thanks. M we have seven B consent. Number one, approve a fundraiser. Number two, approate overnight activity trip. Number three, approve a out of state travel request. Number four, disposal, addition, deletion of old equipment. M president see we have a regular agenda. You have approve of policy. >> Okay. I think my concern here and this this is something that's always listed with this particular policy that it's the support our students program SOS program because we do
024actually in fact have what policies because I thought we had taken that some years ago with Austin Gilbert and he couldn't find anywhere in the where that was actually a thing. >> This is policy JCA student conduct. And it's under student code uh student conduct and grades. >> No, that should not be. >> Okay. >> I think this is Thank you. Number two, approval of the same policy. >> Any questions? No, approve the update. >> Any questions on >> the updates are optional. It's whether or not the board wants to uh add those into policy. The paid parental leave provided for the Mississippi State employees paid for rental leave act shall run concurrently with any leave provided under FMLA or applicable. The paid for rental leave provided under Mississippi State employees paid parental leave act
025shall run concurrently with FMLA that begins that would begin on January 1st of 2026. That's why I had optional beside it. Um, and there's more detail about it currently in the uh GBR, but it's in GB I G and um I was going to ask why is it optional that? >> Yes. They grant um our employees extensively six weeks. Yes. Yes. >> Six weeks. >> Yes. And that's even for immediate family because it was just for the individual. Correct. It's for employee. primary caregiver of a child. >> Yes. >> So, anybody have any concerns about not adopting this into policy? >> Yes, that's why I'm asking. >> Is it just for the birth of a child or the adoption of the child? It is not I don't think it's restricted. I'm looking at it now
026the way it reads. I'm just not sure that it's restricted to the growth and adoption of a child. I think it may include >> Yes, that's right. is because it says an eligible employee who is the primary caregiver of a child shall be entitled to receive six weeks 240 hours of paid leave compensated at 100% of the employees regular salary to be used to care for the child at the birth or adoption of the child because in a case it was four weeks correct so they had extended it but that also include not just the female with the male. So the mother and the father will be eligible for that. >> But it certainly has consideration. >> Anybody else? So this is both parents. >> The mother and the father. Like if the father ever
027going to work here, the father would get to be with the child. We had that in my job. They do it for us. The mother is not able to care for the child to be home. So it's possible. That's why I'm asking you to see see what impact it would have on the budget you do have to be mindful that I don't think it's a situation at least for school district employees need this type of lead over And I don't know what the FMLA numbers look like specifically as it relates to my think possible to find out can we afford the full six weeks or leave that the present four weeks. Can he take? >> Yes. I was also reading here where it talks about um if a parent adopts a child, it doesn't have
028to be an infant, it could be a child under 18. They could actually be off work for six weeks. I guess adjusting [Music] Number four, approval of permission to seek grant or other funding for school buses for the 267 school year. >> Any questions? Number five, approval of cyber security grant program. >> Any questions or concerns? >> Number six, approval of amendment agreement federal program. >> Any questions? Number seven, approval of agreement of a candidate anywhere. of concern. >> Number eight, approval of agree learning system to provide skill to provide individual values and language support students to accelerate progress. >> Any questions of assignments? for this data analysis. You want to speak on that? >> This is actually um Lexia is um a program that I stepped in to help uh get organized because it
029was it's initially under um MTSS and so I just took it on to go ahead and get it set up. But it was something that they use every year and very advantageous in reference to the L students students. Um they did very well getting lots of points um statewide on state assessment um because they used this a whole lot like filling gaps and getting those students um part with this program. So it was something that they needed but u for some reason something with the contract didn't happen. So I just said you need to take care of it. Any more questions? >> Thank you brother. Number n of agreement road consulting services. >> Any questions? >> Number 10. Approval of Any questions of my son? Um that would need to look Just some of the
030other things that we have on the table with the discretion of the building. Number 11, approval of facility use softball. Any question >> number 12, approval of audit contract for the FY26 27. >> Any questions? I guess I had one question. Are we updating on our still working with them to finish up 24, you know, just 24? >> It's going to be the same. It's an increase from um this last 18 this is 24. So I try to get zero quot one one firm son and one firm there combined with the current firm we have so >> and our previous we already used this for three years we can use one firm we got a change Number 13, approve it to have an after school program >> in the person of >> number 14. Approval
031to solicit bid for sale in the course of concerns. Number 15, approval of agreement with 796. >> Any questions? >> Number 16, approval of agreement Mississippi. [Music] >> Any questions on concern? Number 17, approval of agreement Mississippi education agency transition plan. >> Any question of assignment? Approval of C and Education Incorporated. >> Any questions? 19 approval of a minute agree. >> Any questions of concern? out of district transfers. Any questions or concerns about the out of district transfers? >> I have apologized that I won't go back and revisit the after school program >> that's going to be November 25th November of 2025 through April of 2026 Mr. Yes, >> just for clarification for my sake, who are we targeting? >> Uh based on our benchmark reality we just completed uh this morning, we going to
032target those students that in our lower quartile and our bottom 25%. The ones we we already have have identified our bottom 25%. Our current data is going to help us identify some additional students that we're going to put in the after school tutorial program to build those skills specifically to get them ready for spring lab test. >> Is it mandatory for the students to attain? >> It's not mandatory, but we going to have to encourage parents. >> Okay. I just wondered about that because that's something that I know we needed to do in the past going back but thanks so much for clarify that >> make me a personel recommendation. >> Any questions or concerns? At that point in our meeting, we'll have a full determination whether or not to go into executive session and
033I have a motion for join. [Music] All in favor? All right. Okay.