001Good evening. We'll go ahead and call this meeting to order. If you would join us for the flag salute, please to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, liberty and justice for all. >> All right. All right. Let the record show that all board members are present. Do we have an adoption of the agenda? Do we have a motion? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Miss Roman? >> Yes. >> Miss McAdams? >> Yes. >> Dr. Mc McNeel? >> Yes. >> Mr. New? >> Yes. >> Chair votes? Yes. As well. >> Consent agenda. All of the following items, those items of of a routine nature normally approved at a board meetings will be approved by one vote unless any board member desires
002to have a separate vote on any or all of these items. The consent agenda consists of the discussion, consideration, and the action on the following items A through B. >> Move for approval. >> Second. >> Mr. Nuin, >> yes. >> Dr. McNeill, >> yes. >> Miss McAdams, >> yes. >> Miss Roman, yes. >> Chair, yes. Well, information reports USPA, UCA, Miss Gunther, >> President Reyes, Dr. Federline, members of the board, UCA is currently in the middle of our association elections for officers and for delegates for OEA delegate assembly and NEA representative assembly and we appreciate our members engagement in this process. Additionally, this month and next month, our legislative committee will be participating in OEA civication um which we've done for several years. We will um meet with legislators about issues impacting public education and
003we look forward to continue advocating for stronger schools. Thank you. >> Thank you, Miss Gunter. Next, we have girls wrestling Mrs. Barkley. >> I will give them a chance to start heading up this way. President Reyes, Dr. Federlin, and members of the board. Um, obviously it is a great uh time when you get to invite a team following a state championship. And so I'm super excited. I'm going to let uh first introduce um our head coach, Cheryl Harris, who's making his way, too, um because he will be able to brag on them a whole lot more than I will since he's with them every single day. But this just to recognize this is our third state championship in girls wrestling in 5 years. Um, [applause] and I think coach Harris was uh kind of downplaying
004everything because, you know, going into it, I wasn't really sure and uh heading into the last day we had the lead and they just punched it from there. So, I'll let coach Harris introduce everybody. All right. Um, girls. Yeah. Get all the runner. So, like Miss Emily said, um, three titles in five years, y'all. Um, and in five years, we've been through a lot. Uh, I'm going to try to keep it short. No, I'm [clears throat] not. But, um, no, I'm kidding. Seriously, these girls deserve this and we worked hard for it. And like she said, we weren't really holding back. We had a lot of injuries. One of our wrestlers came off surgery. Another um wrestler just had a lot of issues and finally got everything together at the right time. But I told
005him, "It's not how you start, it's how you finish." Uh, junior high was undefeated all year in dus. I don't think we've ever lost a duel in junior high. One last year, >> two last year in five years. Um, they won pretty much every tournament, every duel they entered. And, uh, they came out with the titles and that's our foundation of this team. So, the foundation team and a star on the team, I got to give a shout out to her. Uh, three time is it three times? Three time junior high state champ. Camora Kathy was also ranked number one in the country, 12 and under last year. So, show her some love. National champion. [applause] Um, other junior high state finalist, Leah Tanil. She was a junior high state finalist, second place. So, show
006her some love as well. And Malia, [applause] what place did Malia get? Malia, first year wrestler. Uh, got her just popped into the room. Scrappy. Where you at, Malia? The biggest girl on the team. Boom. There she go. Flex on them. Fourth place as a freshman. [applause] Let's get to the high school. Man, you guys don't understand this is a special group of kids. High school, we had we have not won a tournament in five years other than the state tournament. Um I told them we're going to be our best when it counts the most. And these girls did exactly that. We didn't even have a great regional tournament, but when it counted the most um we took eight girls to state, seven girls um advanced, and six, my bad, nine girls went to state,
007eight girls advanced, and seven girls got on the podium. We had six state finalists [applause] and one young lady took third and we had runnerups. Uh let me let me start. My heavyweight coming off a shoulder surgery got cleared at the last minute and wrestled her butt off. Paige Wayne Scott took third place. She's only a sophomore. [applause] And then we're going to work our way up. This young lady, her father is amazing. Um, our 100 pounder, uh, [laughter] uh, Kylie Tran Harris, she took second place as a freshman, lost to a senior in the finals. No shame in that. This other young lady, I don't know who raised her, but, uh, Dakota Harris, she also took second place as a junior. Uh, she wrestled really well. Uh, another young lady, she's not here, but
008she's a four-time state placer. She took third, second, first, and then second again. Teran Banner as a runner up. And [applause] then your three champions, uh, very special to our heart. Um, your first champion was a two-time state champion. She's only 15 years old. She'll be a 15year-old junior in high school. My little cousin McKenna Wilson. [applause and cheering] She's also, I might get this wrong. Mom vouch for me. I don't think she's ever got a B in her life. She's a straight A student, super smart. Uh, she's going to do big things. She said, "Oh, I got one B. Okay, whatever. >> [laughter] >> Uh, next up, another a freshman. This young lady, her dad's also a great guy. Corey Harris in the front. Corey, freshman state champion, ladies and gentlemen. [applause] Um, all
009right. And last but not least, she's not here right now. This young lady had a rough year. She was always the top girl in the state. Just didn't come together for her. Took third last year. This year, she got beat at regionals, came to state tournament, and did her thing. Kis Lucer, state champ as a sophomore. [applause] And I couldn't do this without my coaches. Um, you know, I'm the face of the program. I'm the big mouth, as you can see. I'm probably going on my time. I'm sorry. But, uh, uh, my this is my cousin right here. He, uh, very loving guy. He likes to hug kids a lot and hug coaches. [laughter] He don't like hugs. Hey, that's co that's my enforcer right there. You talking about good cop, bad cup. That's the
010man right there. Y'all give up, Coach Tay. I couldn't do this without him, man. [applause] Junior high head coach moving up with his daughter to high school. He's the man. Seriously, he does a lot that people don't see. Coach Ingram, he's the wingman. You need something, he got it. All right. So, Coach Ingram, he's been around, he's been with me for almost seven years. Uh, unfortunately, his daughter was injured last year, came back this year, became a state qualifier. So, Coach Ingram, I appreciate you. [applause] Last but not least, my beautiful wife right here. She does a lot. And they ain't clap for you, baby. They don't like you. [applause] Um, so I want to do two things real quick. I promise I won't be too long, but I got to do this. I gotta
011do this. This year was bigger than uh Y'all knew it was coming. This year was bigger than wrestling. We wrestle for a different purpose. In the five years I've been here, I've lost two girls of suicide. So, I do this every time I can. I get better at talking at it to let these little girls know I don't care if you got a daddy not a daddy in your life or mom in your life. We'll we'll step in. You got teammates. There's always going to be somebody here for you. Life is worth living. I don't want to lose nobody else, you know. So, this wrestle was keep us together, keep us going. Um, we did this this year for a bigger purpose. We were not supposed to win state. We beat the number two team
012in the country who hasn't lost a tournament in two years, Broken Arrow. And we did that with hard work and faith. So, I appreciate you girls for stepping up. I want to say long live Lydia. And this was for her this year. So, we love her. [applause] One more thing. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. You can SAY THAT. >> WHAT'S UP, LADIES? [cheering and applause] >> What's up, LADIES? [applause] >> That concludes my time. >> Hey, if you guys would stay, stay stay up here for a second. Don't move. Don't move. Come up. We get a picture. Yeah. Please just stay stay right there. >> Stand up right here. Be perfect. Stand up. Can we see him? >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, we'll stay. >> You [laughter] probably right. >> Appreciate that. >> What
013do you need? >> Well, there's just no way to squeeze any more. All right. Thank you. >> Hey, congratulations. >> Congratulations. Great job. >> [applause] [applause] >> All right. Next, we have >> the city of Broken Arrow, the bond issue, Mr. Spurgeon. >> Wow, is that a tough act to follow or what? >> So, good evening. My name is Michael Spurgeon and I have the privilege of serving as the broken air city manager. So, President Reyes, members of the board, Dr. Federal line members of staff. Uh thank you for uh being able miss here. Thank you for letting me uh be able to speak for a few minutes. Uh I do have some folks I'd like to introduce that are with me. Uh first we have counselor Lisa Ford. As you remember Lisa was a
014member of the union school board for four years. She's here this evening. We also have our communications director Aaron McAuik. And we have our special project manage manager who is a union graduate uh Shannon Marshall. They came with me this evening. And so, uh, we do appreciate the opportunity to actually come and tell you about the bond package that Broken Air voters will be considering on April 7th. And so, we have two slides and what you have, I think you've been passed out. We call this our our palm card. And I just want to go over it real quick and maybe answer a question or two, is on on the the side that you're looking there is on April 7th, Broken Air voters will consider uh, eight propositions totaling $468 million. Propositions one through seven
015uh represent property taxes, no change in the current tax rate for $415 million. And the other proposition, proposition number eight, is a sales tax proposition. So I wanted to speak first about propositions 1 through 7. Uh they are the traditional infrastructure projects that broken errands have seen previously with proposition number one being transportation, proposition number two being public safety, proposition number three, quality of life for parks and recreation and then proposition number four city facilities. Five and six are related to drainage and storm water. And we're also proposing to our voters a proposition number seven, which is a a a partnership with Tulsa City County Library for $4 million to build a brand new library in South Broken Arrow, just east of where the current one is right off of of New Orleans, just west
016of Aspen. And so we're very excited about these projects. Um, I would tell you once again that there's going to be no change in the tax rate as we've presented always in the past, which mean that's the limit that we could ask voters to consider was $415 million. The other proposition is $53 million and it's related specifically to the U sports complexes. So, if we can go to the second slide, please. So, what I want to share with you is that we reached that point that I know you all are considering a bond package in the next year or so, and we'd love to have you come make a presentation to the city council is that obviously in order to keep the property tax rate the same, we had we were limited to $450 million.
017Yet, we still had a huge need with our sports complexes. Many of your your kids or grandkids may have played at Arrowhead or Indian Springs Sports Complex and Ninhos and some of those facilities have are a little bit outdated, just very expensive. I mean, for example, the lighting for to replace at Arrowhead Sports Complex for Fast Bit softball is over $2 million. So, the council didn't want to leave the sports complexes out. So, they decided to ask the voters for a temporary increase in sales tax. That sales tax increase is a half a cent for five years. So, if you spend $100 at Reers, the increase is 50 cents. If you spend $200, it's a dollar. Now, obviously, 50 cents or a dollar is a lot to some. And so the council decided to keep
018it short and and also for a very small amount to generate the 53 million that will go towards making major improvements to all of the facilities within our community which are already somewhat of an economic development driver, but it's going to provide great places for our kids to play and then it's going to help drive our economy. And so what's exciting about this proposition is council has said that if the voters approve the proposition number eight on April 7th that we will complete all of the improvements within three years. So that means that we will award contracts for consulting engineer within 45 days of the of the approval with then within a year we will go to construction and so within three years or less the kids and the grandkids broken errands and those live
019outside our community will actually be playing on those new facilities. And so we spent about two and a half years preparing this package. There's a total of 129 projects. And so we're very excited to present this to the Broken Air voters on on April 7th. And I I know we've got some folks that very familiar with Broken Air. I'd be glad uh on behalf of the council and myself to answer any questions you may have. >> Anyone have questions, comments? [clears throat] Questions? Comments? I think we are good, sir. I appreciate it. >> Thank you very much. We appreciate your partnership and uh we look forward to uh to coming back and to basically just continue the great work we do together to serve our citizens and our school districts. Thank you. >> Thank you.
020Thank you. [applause] >> Okay, next we have early release Fridays. Mrs. Great. >> I am so sorry. I promise we practiced this early. We had some technical difficulty and then I came down and it worked beautifully. So, what um I'm so glad that we have copies in front of you though so that we can move forward. What I don't want you to miss is the video that I have at the end. So, Gart hopefully will help us with that point. Um, so, President Reyes, Dr. Federline, and members of the board, our patrons as well, on behalf of elementary and secondary teachers and administrative staff, we want to say thank you for the continued support for our approved calendar time this year during the early release Fridays. This time is dedicated to an intentional focus on
021student achievement growth within grade levels and content with essential skills. This work is done at what we call the PLT or professional learning teams level. So you'll hear that in the presentation earlier or later. So, for example, a fifth grade team and the supporting members in an elementary school will meet and work through a process to plan, monitor, and adjust the design and the delivery of essential skills. We're proud of the upward tw trends in student data with these essential skills due in large part to the dedicated time during early release Fridays. We also want to acknowledge the tremendous leadership of each site go guiding coalition team and some of those members are in the audience tonight and the model of how they guide and model this work so that it's kept at the forefront
022of what we do during our early release Friday time. Let's take a look at the work specific to early release Fridays and then take a closer look at the results of this work and I'm going to give you an example of a secondary site and then an elementary site. Okay. So on the second page of your document, you have four guiding questions, which I don't have in front of me, but I better know them. So we we center all of our focus during early release Fridays in our PLT time around these four essential pieces. The first one is really looking at what is it that the students need to know and understand in order to meet an essential skill. Now, I'm going to preface with this. There are so many essential skills at a grade
023level or within a content. We couldn't possibly cover all of them within the time of early release and PLC's. So teachers really have to be intentional with choosing and selecting these essential skills. What are the highest leverage leverage ones? Which ones do we anticipate we might still have to intervene to meet the needs of students? Okay. And so we look at those skills. And the second item that we really look at is how will we know and how will we determine if students are able to reach these essential skills and that's really where assessment comes into play. So a lot of times what the teams will do um during early release time is look at an endofunit assessment whether it's something provided in their curriculum resource or something that they've developed on their own. So
024keeping the end in mind, what is it that students will need to know with this essential skill by the end of this unit? And they they work backwards from there. They create or use district provided common formative assessments. And this is kind of like a mid checkpoint. So after the first teach typically is when they will go in and they will give a midpoint check to see where students are, which ones have it, which ones don't, which ones do we maybe possibly need to intervene on at this point. Okay. Now, what's really cool about this year, and I will say as many times as I've sat in PLTS, the moving point in the conversation around that midpoint check this year has been teachers have really focused in on misconceptions and been able to catch them
025a lot earlier than they have in the past. um they're also making notes, documenting and planning for the next year ahead on those essential skills. But they know based on those misconceptions how to better teach and intervene when it comes to that second what we call tier 2 intervention piece. The third question that you're looking at is what happens when students don't acquire the essential skill. Right? And that's where intervention comes in. We have a video that I'm going to show you in just a little bit that gives some examples of what it looks like at Rosa Parks Elementary. And then the fourth question is when students do get it, what do we do to enrich or intervene? Like how do we keep moving them forward because that matters just as much. So we're going
026to the third page now that you if you want to turn to that third page looking at secondary, I'm going to use eighth grade as an example. Now I will say this, it is really hard with a secondary schedule to try to put into place intervention time, but our secondary sites are really trying. And I know that their goal going into next year is to increase the duration of that time and see how we can do it even better to intervene with our students. But taking a look at two examples at the eighth grade level. So the first one is we have eighth grade the eighth grade history team. Now, what's unique about what the eighth grade did this year is they created a smart goal based on the essential skill, but also making sure
027that they targeted they wanted they wanted to assess a certain percentile of students and make sure that they got that CFA and that end of unit assessment. We know that students are absence absent for various reasons, but they really want to catch those kids when they can. So you'll see for the eighth grade history team, um they wanted 90% of students to reach mastery in each of the three essential skills, but with 95% of students being tested. Okay. Now, they haven't quite met that mark in every single essential skill you can see, but they're still striving to do that. And when kids do return to school, they try to catch them when they can. What's unique about what the eighth grade history team did this year is they wanted to select skills based on what
028could be transferred across content and across uh like supporting vertical alignment within other content as well. So if you look at the first three skills we have a pretest for interpreting visuals, cause and effect and then primary resources. So the history teachers gave them 12 questions at the very beginning of September. Four of those were on interpreting visuals, four on cause and effect, four on primary resources. And what they did is they took a baseline. You'll see the baseline um mastery percentile at the beginning of the year and now they're threading it through their history content. Okay? So, for example, let's look at interpreting visuals. The road to revolution, 81.4% of students acquired that skill after teaching it, which is which is great. And then if you look next at the next one in line
029in January that they gave that covered Jefferson's presidency and 89%. So you could see increased growth with that interpreting visual skill for example. Okay. They will do another one with westward expansion but that doesn't happen until after spring break. So we'll get the results after that. Let's take a look at the next example which is eighth grade math. So if you'll turn your page. Um, and they started off with substitution, but they quickly moved into combining like terms. They did a version one. So the V1 stands for version one and then the V2 stands for version two. Look at the growth, you guys. Like that's that's amazing and something that we're really proud of. 64% up to 80%. And then you can kind of see the other examples of what they focus on with their
030essential skills. So, I wanted to show you some examples of this because often we look at like big data picture. So, we look at annual state assessments. We look at our screeners such as STAR for literacy and math, but this is really the work that they're doing and they're honing in on during early release Fridays that will and should have a positive impact on the larger skill assessments. Okay. Now, we're going to turn to elementary. So, you have an example from Rosa Parks. I have data from preK as well as fourth grade and their cycles for early release Friday PLTS. And with preK, um you'll notice that after the first teach, for example, with recognizing and naming numerals 0 to 5, they had only 35 34% master that. But after they intervened and had what
031we call this power half hour, and you're going to get to see what this looks like in the video here, 81% of students mastered that skill of recognizing naming numerals. That's pretty amazing. I am proud because with four and three year old or four and five year olds, it's kind of hard to cover a lot of content and essential skills, but I'm telling you, they're doing a really good job with our littles over at Rosa Parks. And this is only with the first semester and part way into the second semester. And then let's take a look at the fourth grade results. Okay. So you can see three skills that they've intervened on, but they are deep skills. Okay. So finding uh textual evidence and literacy literary elements, recognizing correct and correcting errors and subjectverb agreement,
032and then they go into a math one, which is the multi-step problems that require the use of subtraction and multi-digit whole numbers. Okay? and look at the growth just from after the first teach until the intervention. One thing I do want to note is on the multi-step problems, you'll notice that the percentage for proficiency or basic and above is the same. But here's what we want you to know. There's a lot of growth in between that first teach after the the first teach and that tier one to after intervening. And what grew the most was really those kids who were below basic moving into basic which is grade level standards into the proficient which is grade level standards at a college and career readiness level. Okay. And then advanced and so that while that percentage
033stayed the same for percent proficient and above there's a lot of growth happening for kids in between there. So, one of the things that we're going to do that we're proud of is thank you to Chris McNamera and our communication teams is we are going to start producing video segments of our schools being filmed during early release time sometime student intervention and then interviewing staff members as a thank you and so that our patrons can see what we do during early release Friday. So, we want you to see this video from Rosa Parks Elementary. >> He might benefit from It takes a very [music] special kind of culture to lean into collaboration this way. Adult behaviors are a key and integral part of the success of this mission and our mission to [music] move students
034into levels of high achievement at Rosa Parks. >> Maybe we need to really reconsider [music] >> moving this kid to a group. What do we do? >> Make it say its name. >> Teachers [music] can't do it by themselves. It's too big of a burden to take on that academic instructional responsibility all by themselves. So it needed to be a team effort because all students [music] are our students. >> Go to the sentence strip >> power half hour is a [music] guaranteed time within the school day that all students are receiving the level of instruction that they need. >> What letter is this? >> B. >> A lot of our students are really [music] excited by this. We're lessening the gap for students that still haven't met those grade level standards. And for [music] your
035child, if they are on the grade level standard, then we are extending that so that they're prepared better for their next grade [music] level. >> You are going to write the main idea. >> As you walk through the building, you might see our PE teacher has a group of [music] students working on a grade level essential standard for third grade. Our media specialist has a group of students, [music] coaches, administrators, our counselor, everyone is involved in this effort of moving students academic [music] achievement to high levels. >> It's been really nice for the kids. They get an opportunity to go with a different teacher and and learn something maybe in a different way than they've learned it before. And every single cycle we've had so far, we have had kids growing. >> What letter is
036it? >> Our power half hour is the result of the work that our teachers get to do on collaboration Fridays. [music] >> These are your choice. I mean kind of like multiple choices. >> Our Friday early release gives our [music] teachers an opportunity to meet whereas sometimes they don't have that opportunity to meet and allows a lot of our support staff to be a part of this process as well. And so [music] that amount of time is given back tenfold during the school day [music] because they have the time to intentionally plan for those small groups of instruction. So it is very important [music] in our school day and we are reaping the benefits of it right now. >> The great thing about working in these PLT groups is that all of these strategies and
037things [music] that we're focused on to improve student learning, we get to use immediately the next week when we get into those groups. With power half hour, [music] it's really helping our school to see the importance and the value of quality intervention. [music] Everyone's coming together at the same time every day. And that's the complete focus. We know that if we [music] don't act now that those little gaps can become big deficits and if we also don't support the students that already have great understanding of those essential grade level skills. [music] They need the opportunity to either apply those skills or extend their learning. And so our power half hour time guarantees that we are meeting the needs of everybody and it's an all hands-on [music] deck experience. >> It's been really really nice to
038see that growth. It's been nice to see the smiles on their faces, you know, [music] when they get done with that post assessment cuz it's like they got a second chance to go back and and reuse that skill that we taught them. >> We're hoping that we can [music] continue this on because our teachers have put a lot of work into it this year and they're seeing the results of the work that they've done with the instruction [music] in the classroom. Our mission at Rosa Parks is to empower and equip all students to graduate high school, college, and career [music] ready. >> Hello. >> All right. Thank you guys for your patience. I apologize about that. Good job, Rosa Parks Elementary. [applause] Um, so that will be on the website tomorrow morning. We filmed at
039the seventh grade center last week and we'll go back to the seventh grade center to look at their intervention time. So this year as well as going into next year, we will be highlighting our early release time and the benefits of that. Thank you so much for your support with this work. Thank you to it. Appreciate you guys. >> Oh, I'm sorry. Do you guys have any questions? I'm sorry. >> I have one. >> Yeah. Uh first of all, just amazing work and it's so cool to see uh especially having a third grader that is like at one point like are you maybe a little dyslexic? You're like you do math like dad does math and then to see him just soar and be proud of the work that he's doing. Um, is there any
040not only advice for just parents but just that we could see as well uh how we celebrate the growth as well as the mastery and like any have we uh developed any good ways of seeing like man we've gone from we're not to Z yet but you've gone from A to B and we're we're super proud of you any ways that we've done that as a district >> Dr. Nelson, we I mean we definitely have like that larger scale data that I was talking about star for example and I know that you presented was at the last board meeting the growth in elementary math for example. We have some fresh data as well for literacy up through not just elementary but um as well as secondary and we are very proud of the gains that
041we are seeing and so yes we do have some of that and we can >> this year's numbers are better than last year the numbers on tracking as well. >> Yes. So we can we can run reports and and look at our data just like he's describing like are we making at least a year's growth plus you know a year's growth or the other data that we can run is are they on target and are they at a proficiency level that's expected with college and career readiness of where they should be in literacy and math. Got >> is there a I guess for the student they don't know because they're like I'm just coming to school. Oh, they love it. Honestly, like we've gotten, we have heard so many, you see Teresa shaking her head,
042the the principles and guiding coalition teams are reporting to us like this is the kids' favorite time when they have that intervention time and looking at that common formative assessment and getting that immediate feedback. It's just like a game, right? When you get that immediate feedback, it is an instantaneous um just incentive to keep going. So, they're loving it. Absolutely. >> Thank you guys. Thank you, Miss Gray. Appreciate it. All right. Next, we have hearings and correspondence. Okay. Business agenda. Consider and take action on the revision to the 2025 to 2026 school calendar. Dr. Federine. >> President Reyes, members of the board, uh, as you know, we had some snow days earlier in the year, and, uh, the recommendation that we bring to you tonight is using, uh, we missed four days of school due
043to weather. We'd like to use three of our built-in snow days. And the last day we would take care of by moving the scheduled virtual day from April 2nd to April 3rd and moving the parent teacher conference day from April 3rd back to the end of the year at Tuesday, May 26th, which would make the last day for students Friday, May 22nd. Uh we think this this is very similar to what we did in year years past. Uh it's a good solution and most importantly, it keeps us from coming back uh to school with kids after Memorial Day. Move for approval. >> Second. >> Mr. New? >> Yes. >> Dr. McNeel? >> Yes. >> Miss Roman? >> Yes. >> Miss McAdams? >> Yes. >> The chair both yes as well. Thank you. >> Consider and
044take action on the proposed 2026 to 2027 school calendar. Dr. Fitterline. >> Another calendar item. President Reyes, members of the board. Uh last month we brought the proposed 2627 calendar to to you for a first reading. Uh we've had 30 days in which to gather feedback from the community. I have personally not received any and so I think that no news is good news and and the people I have spoken with are in approval of this calendar and we'd recommend that uh you approve this calendar for next school year. >> Move for approval. >> Second. >> Dr. McNeil, >> yes. >> Mrman, >> yes. >> Mr. New? >> Yes. >> Miss McAdams? >> Yes. >> And chair? Yes. As well. Thank you. >> Consider and take action to approve the capacity levels in the calculated
045open transfer capacity amounts as recommended. Dr. Nelson >> is uh President Reyes, Dr. Federline and board. Uh I recommend that the board of education consider and vote to approve the capacity levels um and the calculated open transfer capacity amounts by school. The capacity amounts um the levels are are unchanged. This is the quarterly uh posting that we will need to make for April 1st. So the updates elementary the overall capacity is about the same. There's uh almost 40 more or so students capacity at secondary than last quarter. Um again we don't see these levels change a whole lot during the school year. Uh primarily our transfers come in the spring and most of those the new transfers are students who move out of Union and want to stay in the district. about twothirds of the
046approximate 300 students that we've gained in transfers each year over the past three to four years. We have about 1,200 students that attend Union on a transfer. Now about 300 of those are children of employees. >> Any questions? >> Move for approval. >> Second. >> Miss Romero. >> Yes. >> Miss McAdams. >> Yes. >> Dr. McNeel. Yes. >> Mr. Shwin. >> Yes. >> Chair votes yes as well. Thank you. >> Thank you. consider and take action to award the commodity processing bids for the 2026 to 2027 fiscal year. Mr. Bushian. >> Yes, President Reyes, board members, Dr. Federline, this is our annual request for commodity uh pricing. Um this is for the 2627 school year. The [clears throat] amount is a little bit more this year than it was a year ago. Unfortunately, as you
047guys have seen as you go to the grocery store that uh prices have gone up. Uh but these items rather than have the commodity products delivered straight to us, we pay uh processors to turn them into things that kids will eat. So I ask for your approval. >> Move for approval. >> Second. >> Mr. N. >> Yes. >> Dr. McNeel. >> Yes. >> Miss McAdams. >> Yes. >> M. Roman. >> Yes. >> Chair both? Yes. As well. Thank you. Thank you. consider and take action on the purchase of GeoCom Indoor Safety Solution from Geoc Inc. in the amount of $132,280 from bond funds. Mr. Borland. >> Yes. Good evening. This [clears throat] will do multiple things for us. Uh first and foremost, our maps will be able to get updated. Um some of our maps
048are older than I am. Um and they're not as accurate as we'd like for them to be. So, what this solution will allow us to do is the company will come in with LAR and scan every room. Um, and then it [clears throat] will automatically map certain things for us as well, such as camera locations, uh, AED devices, um, and whatever else. We we train the system to learn. So that way when we look at the maps, we can create different layers [clears throat] and see exactly where security cameras are, uh, water cut off valves, gas cut off valves, so in time of emergencies or whatnot, we know exactly where things are instead of trying to look for it. Um the other thing this will allow us to do uh we can send the links
049directly to uh BAPD and TPD in times of emergencies. They can have full access to dynamic maps. The [clears throat] any new security software features that we buy that do automatic mapping. Um they can be integrated with it. So the um in times of emergency they could have real-time information of where incidents are occurring and not just PDF maps. >> And Mr. Borland, this is good for three years, right? A three-year contract. Is that right? >> This is a three-year contract. Obviously, we can do renewals past [clears throat] that. And part of the renew uh annual contract, as long as the building doesn't change by more than 49%. Um, which depending on the year, that may or may not hold, but if it stays less than 50, they'll recan the building for free during agreements.
050>> Move for approval. >> Second, >> Miss Roman. >> Yes. >> Miss McAdams. >> Yes. >> Mr. Newman. >> Yes. >> Dr. McNell. >> Yes. >> Chair. Yes. As well. >> Thank you. >> Consider and take action on the 2026 to 2027 application for temporary appropriations for the 2026 to 2027 fiscal year for the general building and child nutrition funds. Dr. Williams. >> Good evening, Mr. President, members of the board, and Dr. Federline. This is a recommendation to approve our application for temporary appropriations for the 2627 fiscal year. Uh this uh application uh once approved by the board goes to the county excise board and allows us to begin uh spending our budgets on July 1 uh through September when the estimate of needs and budgets are approved by the board. Be glad to answer
051any questions. Move for approval. >> Second. >> Mr. N. >> Yes. >> Dr. McNeel? >> Yes. >> Miss McAdams? >> Yes. >> Miss Roman? >> Yes. >> The chair votes yes as well. Thank you. Consider and take action to receive bids for the purchase of $32 million general obligation building bonds of 2026 of the district and vote to award set bonds to the lowest bidder complying with the notice of sale and instructions to biders of the sale. Dr. Williams. >> Uh thank you, President Reyes. Uh this evening we have two agenda items dealing with the sale of the 2026 bond uh issue. That sale uh took place today. We accepted uh bids electronically. Uh we have Jerica Dawson who's our uh bond consultant who's here with us this evening. Um I will tell you that
052uh prior to receiving bids, the district's bond rating of double A+ from standard and pores was affirmed. Uh so that's always good news for us. a great vote of confidence uh in the district's uh financial uh status as well as our u ability to manage our debt. On [clears throat] today's bond sale, uh we received I think a record of eight bids. Uh we have never received that many bids. Um, and our first uh action tonight is for the board to receive the bids and then to award the bids. So, I'll ask Miss Dawson to walk the board through these items. >> Thank you for having me tonight to present these bids for you all. And yes, it was a great turnout. A lot of biders, which speaks to that rating that the district maintains.
053and that rating uh we talk about it most years but it's because of strong financial performance of the district and the strong metrics that the district shows in in running things for your students and for the community as well. So we received um I'll have to read off all the bids so we can present them to you all to vote on but we would recommend that you uh award the bid to UBS Financial Services who was the low bid at 2.495604% 495604%. Um rates have come down over what we've been seeing in recent years. And so and actually on the bottom of the page you'll see kind of a table that shows what the last five bond sales where the rates have been. And so just um for a comparison last year was 3.08 93%.
054So quite a bit lower and the same term. So, we sell five-year bond terms um for Union Public Schools. Was this was a $32 million bond, so $8 million maturities um and very competitive across the board from all of our biders today. So, UBS Financial, as I mentioned, was the low bid. JP Morgan Securities LLC with a 2.555118% bid. Mezro Financial with a 2.575943%. Robert W. Baird 2.67. 677233% Huntington Securities 2.707841% Jeff LLC 2.71950% Wells Fargo Bank 2.757007% and PNC Capital Markets 2.79609% so lot of biders today a lot of great bids that came through um and I'm [snorts] happy to answer any questions like I said Per state law, we recommend that you uh award to the lowest bidder who did comply with the notice of sale in all of the requirements, >> questions,
055comments. >> So, we need a motion. Is that correct? So, a motion to approve UBS financial services for the record of bids. >> Second, >> Miss Roman, >> yes. >> Miss McAdams, >> yes. >> Mr. New? >> Yes. >> Dr. McNeel? >> Yes. >> The chair votes? this as well. Thank you. All right. Next is consider and take action on a resolution providing for the issuance of a general obligation building bonds of the 2026 in the sum of 32 million dollars by the independent school district number nine of Tulsa County, Oklahoma authorized at an election called and held for such purpose prescribing form of bonds designating bonds as general obligation building bonds of 2026 providing for and registration thereof. of providing for the levy of an annual tax for the payment of principal and interest
056on the same approving the form of a continuing disclosure certificate and fixing other details of issue. Dr. Williams >> I'm not sure what else I can say. Mr. Ray [laughter] did a great job of covering. We recommend that the board authorize the uh sale of the bond as presented. >> Move for approval. >> Second. >> Mr. New? >> Yes. >> Dr. McNeel? >> Yes. >> Miss McAdams? >> Yes. >> Miss Roman? >> Yes. >> The chair votes? Yes. As well. >> Thank you. >> All right. New business? No. Okay. Opportunity for comments from the audience and board members. We do have one. Um, see, we have Mrs. Atkins. I'll read this off here. The rules for this section of the agenda are as follows. Speakers should identify themselves. Each speaker has a total of three
057minutes for his or her comments regardless of the number of topics the speaker wishes to address. The individual dignity of board members, district employees, students, and members of the public should be respected by all speakers. This is an opportunity for you to be heard and it is not a question and answer session with the board or individual board members. This is not an appropriate time or place to address complaints against individual employees or students or complaints and grievances currently under investigation by the district. There are other processes under the board policy which can address such matters. Should these guidelines not be followed, the board president may interrupt and terminate any presentation with or without prior warning. The total time allocated to this time is 30 minutes. Under board policy 1800, the board of education president
058has the dis discretion to determine if topics are relevant enough to be heard and to establish the order of presentations. This includes the right to interrupt the section and move on to the next item. Each speaker will be addressing the board as a whole and each speaker's remarks will be taken into consideration by the board. Because board members can only take action on previously published agenda items, there will be no action taken tonight on any non-aggenda related matters addressed in the public comment. Mrs. Miss Atkins, welcome. [snorts] I appreciate the time. My name is Judah Atkins and my concern tonight is unions in the school and I have many things on my heart to speak about that I hope to do that in the future. But one thing uh for the last three decades or
059more we've have been not have been to the benefit of the children or I feel the the good teachers in our schools. One of the things that is paramount and what I have to share today is in the respect to the unions that have no place in the school system. I am from a city right outside of Detroit, Michigan. I started working first uh working after school making money working in factories. This led me to dealing with unions. I know how they operate. As you know, we are one of the largest manufacturing states and have more unions that can be counted. And unions can be great if they stay in their lane, but unfortunately they don't. You have to keep them in their place. Yes, they were great when they come into our factories and
060forced manufacturing companies to put in place safety measures, especially in operating huge presses that required me and three others to two on each side to operate. It required all of us to put our whole bodies inside this press to place a bumper fender for cars inside. It was a press that was notorious for repeating itself without being pressed by four operators at the same time. Many people have had their hands cut off by smaller presses due to lack of proper setup and repeated without warning the the machines repeated. So yes, the unions have done a lot of good for manufacturing and truck drivers as well, but they have gotten out of control and out of their lane. Why? Because they begin to collect union dues. These dues guarantee that the unions would fight for you
061if you were fired for no reason or work ethics that needed to be addressed. But I have seen them be be them putting workers back to work that had drinking problems and other things that deserve dismissal. That power that came with these decisions brought into unions a place that wasn't regulated properly and how far they could go. Many times the bosses that were fair were dismissed because there were too many deals cut with the front offices. [clears throat] It got out of hand and the unions started calling the shots. But they would s smooth it over by telling the people that they if they made production early, they could shut the lines down and chill until the day ended, only to find out that the workers were being baited to turn out more parts the
062next day. And by the way, if you don't if you didn't, you were fired. Thanks to the deals of PA factory owners and union bosses that went together. This is where problems come in. To begin with, the unions were growing super fast and becoming wealthy fast. They become far more powerful than anyone thought at the time. And today work more like the underground mafia. I went out with one of the head union bigwigs and the gentleman received calls during our time together to say the least. I refused to go out with any with any more of them after that and stop paying union dues. This gentleman conversation on his f on the phone was not one of just taking care of business. The business I thought that required attention to someone's job. It sounded more
063ominous. I also work for Jinx school systems as par prof professional. I seen teachers sitting in the office drawing a paycheck knowing there are teachers that should not be tolerated that certainly were not and were certainly not putting their best foot forward. The unions cause bad teachers to continue the kind that are just passing students that cannot read etc. Even though educational systems have been dubbed down, bad teachers have added to the problem. As long as you tolerate the unions, the educational system will not improve. The parents are having to cover more of the expenses, notebooks, projects, and tolerate teachers requiring special composition books. >> Miss Atinson, are we we've passed the time limit? Are you >> Well, I would like to finish. I only have a paragraph. >> Okay, go ahead, please. >> Thank
064you. uh paycheck they are teaching that should not be tolerated. It certainly put okay as bad teachers have added to the problem. As long as you tolerate the unions and the educational system will not improve improve the parents are having to cover more of the expenses and at the taxpayers as far as I'm concerned they are getting short end of the stick. They're they're providing more and the schools are pro providing less than they pay taxes while those in administration are getting big fat paychecks. Oh, that doesn't include all the programs they cut out saying that school can't afford them. And on my way and oh by the way, there are so many schools needing up to dates and repairs that the administrators say there's no money for it. Where is all the money going?
065I tell you, it is being put into garbage in our schools that is not worth opening the pages to. But that still doesn't add up to where all the money is going. No, the schools will not produce the excellence for students as long as the unions exist in the schools. I say as a parent, join me and let's get rid of the unions, pay good teachers what they're worth, and turn out wonderful, bright students that one day will be our presidents. or professors in college that will teach our children excellence and not socialism. >> Thank you, Miss Atkins. We appreciate that. Thank you very much. >> Okay. >> Thank you. >> Okay. Next, we have executive session. Motion and vote pursuant to Oklahoma statute title 25 section 307B1 to go into executive session to discuss
066the appointment and contract for a deputy chief financial officer. Acknowledgement that the board has returned to open session statement of I'm sorry that's where we're at. Sorry. Have a motion. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Miss Roman. >> Yes. >> Miss McAdams. >> Yes. >> Mr. New? >> Yes. >> Dr. McNeill? >> Yes. >> Chair Bo? Yes. As well. We are now in executive session.