001Good evening. It's 6 o'clock. Welcome to Talpaw Public Schools regular meeting Tuesday, February 17th, 2026 at 6 pm in our new Cala public schools education center brainchild of of a lot of people of a lot. >> You were looking for a new home for as an education center. We needed more space. Uh call to order. Item a recording of members present Dr. Eversoul is absent. Item two under A is our pledge of allegiance and Everly Fiser and Jack Deon are going to come up and lead us in the pledge of allegiance. But Mrs. Crawford is going to read a little bio of each of Everly Fisher is in pre kindergarten. Her teacher is Mrs. Faulner. Her parents are Cody and Emily Fisher. She likes playing board games, reading. Barbies, playing outside, soccer, te-ball, anything colorful.
002Everly. It says Eie here, but she told me she goes by Everly. So, I'm staying with Everly. Everly is four years old and is from Talo, Oklahoma. Everly has lots of friends and loves all colors of the rainbow except >> my birthday's in six days. >> So sorry. We'll fix that. Jack Deon is in prek. His teacher is Miss Aldridge. He is the son of Kaylee Deon. He likes playing outside, playing baseball, finding bugs, frogs, snakes, and anything he can get his hands on. Love that. You sound just like my boys. All right, come back. flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. got something else for you guys. Take a picture. Okay. Scoot them over. Yeah.
003cheesing going on. >> Thank you so much. >> You're welcome. I just wonder about sound. >> Item B, Tigers Roar. and we have the uh be discussing the Oklahoma teachers empowerment program. And >> who's who's speaking to that? >> That would be me. >> Okay. >> Um so this evening we want to honor a few people. I want to tell you a little bit about the Oklahoma Teacher Empowerment Program. So in January we applied for the Oklahoma Teacher Empowerment Program or what we call OTE through the state of Oklahoma. Um, a little bit of information about what that is. During the May 24 legislative session, uh, Senate Bill 1256, authored by Senator Pew, was passed into law, and that allowed the state department of education to establish advanced, lead, and master teacher certifications and to
004set minimum salary increases for each designation level. Importantly, the bill removed the requirement from the earlier bill that school districts must match funds when designating highquality teachers in for the program. Under OTEP, teachers receive stipens ranging from 3,000 to $10,000 depending on their designation level. Teachers who work at schools with 40% or more economically disadvantaged students, which we do, um are eligible for an additional onetime award of 15 to $5,000. Also based on designation, the Oklahoma Teacher Empowerment Program provides an opportunity for outstanding educators to grow professionally and increase their compensation without moving into an administrative role. To support this initiative, the Oklahoma Education Lottery Trust Fund invested an additional 20 million 21 million into the Teacher Empowerment Revolving Fund. As the program enters its second year, the fund now totals nearly 45 million, allowing
005districts to designate up to 10% of their teachers as advanced leader master, and that was 30 teachers for Tampa public schools. Over the past two years, we have worked diligently to develop a rubric that aligns with both requirements and the intent of the law. This rubric and application process were shared with all district certified teachers this January. Administrators are ineligible even though they are certified teachers. Nearly 100 teachers in our district applied for consideration. Based on the rubric scores, 30 of the highest scoring teachers were notified that their names would be submitted to the state for approval. On February 3rd, we were pleased to announce that TPS received official notification that our application was approved. At the end of last week, thousands of dollars and stipens were distributed to these 30 outstanding educators. This achievement
006reflects the exceptional quality of teaching within TPS and our continued commitment to recognizing, supporting, and remaining retaining excellent educators. I would like to recognize the 30 educators who are the first group of OTP teachers for Telico public schools. And if you are here, when I call your name, you can stand up to be recognized. Emily Freeze, Deb Deb Peterson, Cheryl Arnell, Tony Felts, Courtney Palmer, Mindy McKe, Steven Walden, Ginger Allen, Mark Guyger, Sasha Falner, Jessica Morrison, Natasha Mintosh, Chuck Crystal Young, Carl Wallace, Heather Zimmer, Tara Donatelli, Mandy Jordan, Amy Holmes, Josh Allen, James Williams, Stan King, Melissa Keller, Taylor Rodenbeck, Melissa Harris, Maggie Thompson, Elizabeth Placencia, Lorie Robertson, Libby Osborne, and Gary Um, let's give them all. >> So, we will work, this is a program that teachers can apply for every year. So, we
007will work on edits to our rubric with feedback um this spring from all of our staff. We asked for feedback. We received a lot of feedback and we want the intent of it to be to celebrate excellent educators and we believe we have an amazing first class of OTP students students teachers all the things. But the application will be re-released in August or as soon as the state opens it back up and all teachers are eligible to reapply every year. Um they would be recognized last year on data from this year just like year's teachers were recognized from data from the previous year. Um, we are so proud to be able to do something nice for 30 of our outstanding teachers. We know there are many more outstanding teachers and I wish we could do
008more, but we did everything we could within the law and so we were very happy that 30 were able to be honored. So, if those of you that are here will come take a photo with us, we would appreciate it. Are we going to recognize them at the teacher of the year retirement that sort of >> Well, we have not talked about that, but we we could recognize them, but I would think we would do it at the end of the year. >> Yes. >> We could do that. >> We could do it twice. >> We could do it like 14. >> I'm tall enough to be >> together. We can find Josh is the only one that's >> poor Josh. >> What do you want me to do? >> I'm in the window. >>
009But you Item C, public to be heard. >> You guys are way back there. >> I know. Do I need to yell? >> We're working out the kinks of this room. Item D, discussion and vote to approve the minutes from the previous meeting uh January 20 26 regular meeting. Do I have a motion? >> Move to approve. >> Second. >> Any discussion? Mrs. Nemo. >> Hi, >> Dr. Hi. >> Mrs. And I item E, deputy treasur treasurer to report and discussion and vote to approve the monthly financial reports. >> We're working. We really are. >> I just myself dressed on It'll get better. >> So, the bank balance at the end of January 31st was 21,628,31369. Receipts for January in the general fund was $7,469,61587. Building fund was $445,13.31. seeking fund was 1,998,78259 excuse me
010that is a total of receipts for the month of January is 9 million913,51.77 that brings the fund balance in general fund to 11,47,24160 building fund 6,1175 20 bond fund 1,158,637 syncing fund 2,295,56686 activity fund at the end of January was $1,269,328.99 utilities electric was $8,149.90 more from last January to this January. Water was $443 less and gas was $7,780 more from last January to this January. >> How much more a year from a year ago. >> Was that is that ice storm numbers yet or snow yet or no? >> No. >> Gas will be the water. >> What was the carryover >> as of right now? >> So, as of right now, that >> for general fund we're at 11,47,000. >> Okay, very good. So, more on >> remember that general fund balance right now
011does not include anything that has already been obligated that hasn't been paid. >> It does not include >> No. So, that's how much we actually Yes. >> Right. Okay. Utilities are up at my house also. >> Any uh do I have a motion on this? I'll make that motion. >> Second. Any further discussion? M >> I thank you. You're welcome. Item F, principal director report have executive director Carl Roden and assistant superintendent Mash talk about us not about us to us about professional development. getting up here. >> We're all so nervous in here. >> We will Okay, >> we didn't practice. >> This is nerve. >> We got >> Yes. And I wanted a microphone. I'm glad I didn't have the microphone. >> I can get it out. >> We'll get started with our professional
012development that the tele public schools offers. Uh just have to give a shout out before we start. Lacy Wilson does a big part in the professional development that's offered because of all of her federal programs and that she receives that's able to send lots of teachers to different places to different trainings, principles, leaders. And so we just have to give a shout out for her for the great management of money that she does to provide all of us with the professional development opportunities that we receive. So this is just the order of the slides that we'll talk about. My video spot, our summer PD's going to do this slide right here. I'm sorry because my name is big and he's just going and I go >> anyway. Why am I being silly? >> Go ahead.
013>> Okay. So, my video spot Carl will be talking about in a minute. That's going to be all the state required PD that we do online. Our summer PD, we're going to review what we did in 2025. And then you below we'll do the PD what we're anticipating to do in 2026 and yes Lacy helps us with that extremely at that point her big line is does this go with the goals of the green we know that she's going to ask us that and we make sure we don't ask unless you know we know it goes with them so we appreciate her instructional coaches car's going to be talking about those Katie Kender he's also going to mention Katie professional learning communities I'm going to be talking about special education professional development. I'll be talking
014about alternative teacher support from NSU and the ACE program. I'll be talking about then Carl will talk about initiative one and the summer PD. >> Okay, we'll look at my video spot. That is the platform that serves our district that keeps track of offers everything that's offered from the state department that we have to do. Yes, we've changed and not by our choice. the platforms we've been from learnon to my video spot. Uh don't tell Jessica Morrison that we'll probably move to vector next year. So just a new platform that she has to help keep track of all. So make sure everyone gets the points they receive. A teacher has to receive 15 professional development points a year and of course over a fiveyear cycle you have to get 75 points. So we offer all
015that. There is a list of state requirements that we have to offer every year. You can see bloodborne pathogens, bullying, furpa, hazardous communications, title n homeless. Those are all yearly requirements with a much longer list that we have to watch. There's about 12 videos teachers have to watch every year. Uh autism is something that's wants to be offered every three years. awareness is every five years. Same with digital teaching. Child abuse is only supposed to be offered three years, but as a district, Mrs. Jones would like for that to be offered every year. So, we do that offering. We also have our schoolbased social workers that come around and talk about that because we feel that's very important and not something that we just want to talk about every three years. We like to do
016that every year just to keep that fresh that if a teacher or anyone sees signs of child abuse, we try to know the proper channels to get that taken care of best we can. Uh suicide prevention, it used to be a yearly thing, then it went to a fiveyear thing. Now it's an every twoyear thing. So we have a great program to do that. And mental health is also something that we do. Uh it's an every five year thing. The next slide is to You can see your hand out there that was with this attachment and it's what Lacy put together in our summer PD for last year of 2025. She titled it elevate your skills and you can see the handout there of all the different uh offerings that she produced and even things
017that weren't in these two days of July the 14th and July 15th there was great expectations offered. We had Katie Kinder come, Dr. Barbara Sorl came a different day. So, there were tons of stuff. The things that I looked through there and highlighted that I thought was some of her most well attended sessions were classroom management, pro project based learning, English learners, effective classroom strategies for those uh student anxiety in the classroom and the ELA and science pacing guides and alignment that our own teachers just did. They use those days to work on those and everything else. We had great presenters for each of these topics. So, a very very worthwhile two days for the summer PD that she offered. Our next slide is to talk about our instructional coaches. And you know, we have
018Chuck Pack at the high school, Candace Jefferson at the middle school, Jessica Morrison and Cassie Stevens at the elementary. And I think everyone that's in this room that's an administrator will know that those four people are our bread and butter when it comes to right along with the teachers. They work so well and so good. And we are very very very lucky to have those four individuals that work well with the administrators and the teachers. They have a great relationship with the teachers because if they don't have the relationship with the teachers, it's not going to go anywhere. And then they turn and also have to a fine line that an instructional coach walks because they're there to support the teachers that they have to do with the admin, but they can't go they can't
019mix, you know, they don't go and report to the admin, well, this teacher did this, this, and this. So, there's good conversations that they have there. So, most of the things that they work on, they focus on our first year teachers, alternative certified, emergency certified teachers. They make sure all of our learning platforms are up and running. Whether it be a mirror, whether it be rooms, anything we throw at them, they do all levels. Uh they teach our teachers how to use data to drive their instruction. Uh Otis has been a big part this year. It's a big learning platform that we're putting everything in and tracking the kids. Every want to do it to where it's like ed plan, the special ed, any service that our students are receiving, we want to be a
020shop that teachers can put it in there and we can pull up that student and see every service that they are receiving from tele public schools. And then of course technology is also a very big thing. Um sometimes I forget to just ask Robert about technology and I go right to them and Robert gets on to me. He's the technology boss. But sometimes I think they are. But Robert does great with working with those instructional coaches to make sure they have everything they need and every class is up and running. proper technology. The next spot will be >> my name's on this. The first thing on here is the S curriculum audit for the middle school and the high school. And we have this awesome opportunity to do this and um it is through Europe
021and we did have to pay a little bit additional Europe was only going to focus on that and we paid a little bit additional grant funding to um I don't know if it was grant I say grant funding grant or general to go ahead and do the other subjects. So we are going to have them going to come, but it snowed that week. So, they are coming not at an opportune time because they're coming the 12th and the 13th right before spring break, but they will they have a team and Dusty and Mark have assembled this team and the team will go out and we have a very tight schedule that day. They will be a couple two to three of their people plus the other team from within the buildings. they go and they
022have certain things that they're looking for in the classrooms that they're gathering all this data. Prior to that, Mark and Dusty have been sending through Google Docs all kinds of different things from lesson plans to curriculum guides to pacing calendars to what our textbooks are and all of that. So, they will gather all of these things and then they take that and we come back April 6 when we have our last professional development day in the morning. It will be one group and it will be with all the core teachers and the instructor and all of that team and they'll give us their findings and basically their findings are things all the suggestions, you know, is there anything we're doing that they feel like is amated? Is there something we could do better? All kinds
023of different suggestions in a plan of action that we could start implementing next year. And so we're really looking forward to that. Someone from the outside S they are very well respected. It's like southern regional education and they are very well respected. Some other trainings we have are literacy first which goes on structured language basics great expectations for middle school and other teachers you know that want to go letters training. Cers, we are sending four from the middle school for eighth grade writing and four from the elementary schools and she just really helps them hone in on writing skills and that's part of the state testing that they do learning PLC's at work. We sent several people to those some high school teachers and others to Tulsa Ron Clark Academy. I know Amanda's group is
024really big at going to that. But we also have high school and we had a cohort go with Mark and they got to go to Ron Clark and experience that and we're very fortunate to have the opportunity through grants to be able to do that. I'm hoping to send another team trauma learning the science of teaching reading K20 learning center has been having for new teachers alternatively certified teachers a couple of trainings we've hosted three uh two were back to back and then they came back and met again and that was at the high school and they everybody that attended that just raved about K20 is very reputable and they give a lot of good strategies to alternatively certified teachers and and some advanced placement testing not testing curriculum that we go like professional development
025the wording so advanced placement professional development even if they're not going to teach an advanced math or English the training itself is really good even if they aren't the one that that year is going to Next slide is Katie Ker. She really needs no introduction. This is the second year that Lacy has found the money to bring this wonderful lady in and she is absolutely a breath of fresh air. If you remember last year we talked about her, you'll see her teal glasses. She still wears those things and it's funny to see the people when she's in the building she puts them on. If you follow her on social media, she loves Telequ. We use her and what I love about Katie Kinder is the elementary loves her but the middle school and the high
026school truly does. And for her to make that connection with the high school and the middle school is just powerful because it's hard to find things that really that they enjoy and like and do. And we feel like that she can go from prek all the way to 12th grade and every teacher that she comes in contact with is a benefit. I mean the ACT prep she sent in I know from the elementary on data meetings and just driving that instruction and she's just another person to be there and if nothing else she's a little bit of advisor but she's also a cheerleader for our teachers and our admin and our instructional coach and that's why she is so valuable to our district. Our next one is professional learning communities and we have those at
027all sites whe in those department chairs are in there. You're looking at core subject areas, curriculum guides, grade level any of those types of things that you can do. Your guided coalition from the high school can be talking anywhere from curricular needs to other needs of students. We also for our new teachers, we make sure that we hook them with a mentor if they are alternatively certified or this is their first year to be a teacher. And we set a few more guidelines this year. worked with our teacher TA with that group and and said, you know, at least put the guidelines up two times within each month. You need to stay at least an hour afterwards. They need a lot more than that. Put some different things in place for them for that. The
028next thing is talking about special education and we have pair of professionals that are called tier one pair of professionals and those pair of professionals might be in the library, they might different places, but they're not special care. And so those paras by law have to have a a high school diploma and then they either have to have 48 college hours or a degree or they have to pass what is called a pair of protest. So some come in with 48 hours and if those count they don't have to take the test. A lot of those will have to take the pair of protest. Tier two are our pair of professionals that are with um special ed. So those they have to meet the first tier. They have to meet all those things and then
029they have to do CPR first aid and then they also have a special ed class that they have to take par professional class that they pass. They have 120 days from when we first hire them. And so, uh, Nikki works and Melissa very, uh, diligently to make sure that they're hooked up and getting all the kinds of training that they need because we have to have that. And, uh, we're going to have our accreditation visit the 31st of March. And when she comes, that's one of the things she looks at and we can pull and show her. Our next one, this is a new thing for our alternative teachers. This is with Northeastern State University's ACE Institute. That's under the leadership of Dr. Renee Campiano and Anna Lansaw works under in this program. This we
030have six fellow teachers this year. Last year was our first year and doing this with them. And what happens is if if a teacher has a bachelor's degree, then they can apply and they want as much as possible be in the STEM areas of math, science, technology. But uh last year we had three and one of them made it halfway and then one of them made it well and was in a math program and is now one of our high school math teachers and it's wonderful. And then another one didn't stay with us but got hired at Keys. So it, you know, that was a really good first cohort. Now this year we have six. We have two at the elementaryaries. They are at Cherokee. We have two that are at middle school and they
031are like in math and in technology. And then we have two at the high school and they both are in science. So they u they what what's really neat about this program when they qualify they apply to be in graduate school. That scholarship pays for them to get in and then it will pay for whatever hours. So, if you're an elementary teacher and you're supposed to take 12 hours, then they will do they'll pay for those hours that you take and they help pace it out for you. If you are in the secondary world and you only have to take six hours, which is pedigogy and classroom management, they pay for those and those are eight weeks courses usually taught by Rene. So, that's really good. They also pay for their OSAP testing and give
032them the support for that. So, it's really a neat program and it's coming out quickly, but we're hoping these six have really been good. So, it's it's exciting for the profession. >> I have a question on that. So, these are people who already have bachelor's degrees, but they're to get the needed hours to be certified teachers. >> Yes. >> Or to get a master's. >> Yes. Because sometimes they only need six hours, and that's not enough to get a master's, but they started on the master's pathway. Next thing we'll talk about is initiative one. This has been an admin admin training. We've had a cohort one that was all the principles and Mrs. Jones, Masher, myself, Nikki, and then we've done cohort two, which is all of our assistant principles plus the same group and
033Melissa Dodson there. We're working around to see if we can maybe do a cohort three. But one of the most powerful thing is now we're taking what we've learned in initiative one about how to be a better leader and we're our assistant principles plus Amanda Vance at Heritage is training our teachers to be we did one round it's about six sessions five to six sessions and we had over 50 teachers from each site I mean 10 or 12 from each site do that now we've started on cohort two and we even though we didn't have someone from Squalia we brought two Squalia teachers over to Cherokee So they're getting there and we've also had a person from the alternative school go to the high school to see the training. So everyone in the district. So
034I say at the end when this is over we're going to have over a hundred teachers that's going to have this same experience of initiative one that I know you've heard Miss Jones talk about all of us that just talked about. It's just how it's made us if nothing else just the way you look at things. We have our trust accelerators. Just a few of those is like when we have a meeting we KBR kind direct respectful. It's very easy to be direct. Sometimes we forget the kind and respectful but we work on that very hard >> and it's taught me how to not go to my backup style when I get frustrated and bite my tongue and yell at misread or something like that that try not to do. So no. And it just
035tells you just good things and being 100% um can't see prepared. No meetings after the meeting is very good. I mean we discuss things that there we put issues on the table and the big one is always assuming positive intent. Everything that's brought to you the person we're just assuming that they're trying to be positive about that. Nothing negative and that's just things that we've kind of gone by and Dr. Phil is our trainer and we even say to each other sometimes we're like don't you Dr. Phil me today you know so it's good and so uh I think it's going to be powerful. I mean, we're already training 100 teachers to be on the same thing that the admin and then if we can continue to do that. I mean, we're going to have
036over half of our teachers that's going that's going to be just pro tele and everyone's going to say the same thing. And I think it's been it's an expensive endeavor, but I think it is worth every cent that Lacy has found to make sure that we are trained this way. I'm going to ask Lacy for a big favor at the She just doesn't know that. >> Yes. And our final slide will just be our summer PD for next year. It's already been in place. The dates are already set. July the 20th and the 21st. And just some topics that's already out there is the writing process, dyslexia and disgraphia, and the science of reading is just things that's already set and ready to go for next year. So I know presentation was long. I can
037talk a lot, but this is something that I believe that Oh, a question. I'm so sorry. >> You may finish. >> I just think this is very powerful and I think Telequ is very lucky to have all these professional development opportunities. There's so much more than we can do. But I'll tell you, I mean, there's no one that works harder than the people at TEFL and the admin, the instructional coaches, the board. I mean everybody everybody works hard and uh these are just some of the opportunities that we have and there's many many more that we didn't even mention tonight >> and you're leaving. service. >> I know you know >> he's spread this elsewhere. >> Spread that elsewhere. And >> you better >> on the I was going to address Dean with this the
038letters training and the science of reading. >> Uh are those elementary? Yeah. Yes. But is this the first time we've done anything with the >> No, we've been >> they've been doing letters training through the state department even before when Miss Jones was in my position because we we've had to pay the people through the state department and they got paid a stipen program. I mean that you it's an intense training. >> Yes. So the letters training has been going on for at least four years. >> Do we see any results of that or how many teachers do we have? >> Oh, I think we had about 15 or 18 teachers that's done it and yes, it is a difference and now that goes right with our reading curriculum that we've moved to structured literacy
039and doing all that. So it all goes hand in hand and the science of reading. uh the OSAC has offered that and then we also do that at cross crossroads learning they offer those Stacy Gner Pan Henley they have offered many courses on the science that we that we try to send people to all the time and that's what's that's what's great about the professional development and then we don't thank the admin enough because they cover all these people when they have to go for five and six and seven day workshops and they're missing and there's never one complaint from them about you know, send as many people as Lacy will pay for it. >> Are these two programs symbiotic? I mean, do the one does one support the other? Do they? >> Yes, they
040support each other. Yes, it's a two totally different things, but >> different approaches. >> No, it'll be different things that they're covering. like letters training is more of your early childhood. Your funological awareness, your phonics and your science of reading will do those same two, but then you add in vocabulary, reading comprehension and fluency. >> We've been to some of the training at the OSSBA workshops. I've gone to a couple, but good thing to be doing. Thank you very much. >> Item G, superintendent report. Do you want to go to the lect? >> Not. >> That's the nervous time. >> Our enrollment numbers at this time are students and 508 employees. We have 178 students that are counted at Sequoia, 442 students at Cherokee with a handful of transfer openings, 496 at Greenwood with zero
041transfer openings, uh 481 students at Heritage with a handful of openings. Uh TMS 707 students with one open at sixth grade. That's odd actually. and ths has 1247 students with a few uh offerings as well. Um obviously one of the big things today on the report would be education service center is open. Um yay. Yes. Uh we al we have kinks to work out. Um we we've been practicing and getting ready for this night and you just didn't know until you get in here. Um, so we'll we'll decide what we need to change, what we need to edit, what we can, what we can't. Um, but one exciting thing about this building is we have been able to begin phase two. Um, and that began on February 2nd and is expected to be completed by
042the end of March. Um, and so that was done by a generous donor who we will celebrate in the month of April or month of March as soon as it's finished. And so we thought we were gonna have to wait on that, but after that room is complete, then every every piece of this building will be done and uh we were talking about it when we were in the car today. Uh we have taken almost 100y old building and driving through and around like uh downtown Talon where we're looking at the different buildings that have been restored or changed just in this area and to know that we have done that with a piece of history here is really super cool. I mean we I I think we have done something that we should be
043and will be proud of uh forever um at TPS and I I'm it took a lot. It's been hard. Um moving in here was hard right before a storm. I think that I was probably called a general and other u fun names at that time. Um but I say that in just it has been a team effort creating this space has been and we are so super pleased with um the way it has turned out and it's like we moved in here and the next day we looked around for five seconds then we just got right back to work and it's amazing how quickly you just get back doing like what you've always been doing. Um and so many other things going on that that was needed. But big thank you to the city of
044Telqua. Thank you to Trigon, um, our architect and construction management team. Um, thank you to the staff that works in this building and that has now come over from personnel. So, we're all one big staff together. Thank you to our amazing maintenance crew. They had 18 wives telling them what to do all at one time. Um, and I have never seen people work so hard or so frantically to try and get everything done and get it perfect. and just it was such a team effort and they did such an amazing job. We're actually celebrating them with the lunch tomorrow so we'll get to love on them just a little bit but they did an amazing job. Um we and we just really cannot wait to see how we can affect our community in this space
045which was the point of this u making a positive difference employees and the students at Talo public schools in our community at large. Um, again, with the opening of this building, we have spaces that we will hope to share with other community organizations like Tel Public Schools and our community partners. And that's something we're working on in our board policy and something we'll talk about when we review our board policy at upcoming meetings. Um, just a quick uh update on what's going on the bond. um if we haven't been working on this, we've been working on plans, which is a good it's a good problem to have, but it it has definitely taken up uh most of my time in the last few months. Um but we are to that point where it's a hurry
046up and wait. We are we've got very specific plans for FA uh the first project what's set one the fieldhouse and for the concessions bathrooms um grandstand the band room um slash uh storm shelter the cafeteria expansion the middle school bathrooms library STEM we're working on all those projects and our teachers and the staff that are affected by those have been amazing we've been able to sit down with every person and say okay we're building a STEM a STEM building and you're going to be in that space. Mark and his teachers, what do you want this space to look like? So, we have really gotten all the feedback we possibly can from everybody that will be using the spaces every day. So, when we get it designed, we'll be ready to go and get building.
047Um, we should have uh the money uh next week in the bank. Um, you have to have the money in the bank before you can go out to bid. And so we would expect bids to go out on the first projects uh in March. Um and then other bids quickly to follow right after that. There are tons of projects that we are expecting to get done this summer. Um they don't like when I say I believe it when I see it, but when I say that sometimes it works out, so I'll believe it when I see it. The things that we are planning uh we would like to have done by August of 26. The TMS exterior facelift, bathroom re renovations and cafeteria enlargement. We want to have those done this summer. Uh Sequoia playground
048renovation at least asphalt out, grass in, and then we start looking at what kind of things we want out there. the canopies at Heritage um Telqua High School, the flooring in certain areas, the locker removal, the restroom renovations, the library refresh, PAC mechanical upgrades, and track resurfacing. Those are all things that we would like to try and get done this summer. Um, of course, the fieldhouse, bleachers, concessions, bathrooms, band, storm shelter, those will take a year um to complete. And then next summer in 27, the renovations of Greenwood and Cherokee and some more interior renovations at Sequoia would happen. Um and then a few other projects that that opens up. Um but they would really like to have everything done in the next 18 to 24 months. I think it's a tight timeline. Um I
049hope I I believe they can do it if we get enough people um enough workforce they can come in this area with all the other projects that are going around on in Taloqua. But super excited about what's getting ready to happen. walking through the high school today at the um be a tiger day and talking to the middle school students as they're looking around and saying, you know, well, but hopefully this will look this will look new. This will look different next year. So, they were excited. Um just a little update on the calendar, we did miss the four days of school and so um with that, we will have two days left that we could miss uh without making up days if we got add weather, which I hope we do not. Um, but
050if we had to take another day off, we would have to go on that Monday. And if we had to take two days off, we would have to go on that Tuesday. And then we would have to actually add days to the calendar. But if we don't have any more weather, then we would end on that Friday. And those two snow days at the end that we have built in would just be days off. Um, child nutrition. In the month of January, we served 58,767 meals and 14 serving days. Lacy paid for that, too. >> I could not I could not do it. Sorry. >> Uh total bills for Chartwell $221,000 and some change. And we actually came out in the positive again this month of $5,216.92. >> I am happy about that. >> Announce
051that. >> Um and I just want to remind you that I lose those. >> Yes. refrigerator on here that is happening in the next one are on this that'll hit the next report so it could be negative. It'll be real bad next month. Um >> I am going to uh Green Bay, Wisconsin on Thursday to be a part of something with Initiative One. They do uh a what they call initiative one think tank uh which is a uh a workshop in their company but they also zoom it out all over across the United States. So I will be a guest on that and then I will participate in that and then after that I will do a podcast for them with a school board member from uh Wisconsin and another superintendent and so um the
052work they've done at Talqua public schools they invited me to be a part of that. So that was a great honor to do that. Um let me check out um what they do actually at the company and there are a few of us that are going to their conference this summer in Green Bay. So I think prepare me for that. But really, the work that we have done with them, I I I can say it's been lifech changing for almost everybody in the group. Um I know one person that even maybe has something tattooed on their body that kind of goes with it, but um it can say that show and tell. >> It has made us better. >> It's not mash. >> Not mash. She has no tattoos. Uh, but it really has been
053life-changing. It makes you a better human. And if you're a better human, you're a better leader, you're a better parent, you're a better spouse, you're a better friend, um, you are just a better community member. And more than anything, that's what it has done for us. And we are getting ready to start cohort three or we'll have a contract on it for next month. and we'll be able to put the rest of our district level leadership and school building leadership through that intense process. Um, and then we take that core group and we have the trainer trainer groups and cars, right? Before long, we'll have 200 um hopefully, you know, we'll have a hundred by the end of this uh this year. Do we do 50 100 more next year? And then we're all talking
054the same vocabulary and we all have the same motives. Um, and we all look at life through at least an academic lens and a a a teamwork lens when we are here and the only thing that can do is make us better at what we do and I believe it's already done that to us. So I the future is really bright with what can come from that. upcoming dates. We do have a special board meeting on March 3rd to uh review the schoolboard policy that u is going to be a pack a lunch type of meeting. Not really. We'll pack a lunch for you, but it's going to be long because there's just no way to go through all of those policies without it just taking some time. I did get everybody a copy that
055can be here. So, if you can have gone through everything, that will make that day a little quicker. Um our team uh district level team that as well. So, I have um probably 10 updates that we will scan to you um this week. That way, you have what we've already worked on with OSSBA as we've gone through all of the documents. Uh we have spring break coming up March 16th through the 20th. Our March board meeting is on the 24th. We have no school for students on the 3rd and 6th. Uh things for you to have on your radar, we have the honor lunchon um on April 28th and that's during the day and And then that evening we have our teacher of the year retirey reception that will be here hopefully in the new
056room when it is open. Um we have graduation again on Sunday May 17th at 2 and I will get a head count of that before long and weather permitting. We'll do the accent on excellence on May 18th and then have a May board meeting the next day and we'll all go and that is the end of my report. Unless you have any questions any question, discussion and vote to approve the Following surplus and one through three >> motion to approve >> second any discussion >> I >> Dr. Hi, >> Mr. Crawford. >> And I item I discussion and vote to approve the following bids and quotes one through four. Make a motion to approve. Any discussion on any of these? This is where the child nutrition report next month won't have such a positive >>
057no discussion. >> Mrs. Nemo, >> Dr. Hi, >> Mrs. Crawford and I. Item J, business items consent docket vote to approve the following one through three. 1 through three. And this uh contracts agreements 2025 26 contracts agreements 20 26 27 and trips and out of state or overnight trips. >> I'll make that motion. >> Second. >> Any discussion? >> Mrs. Ne. >> Dr. Cman. Hi. >> Mrs. Crawford. Item K, discussion and vote to approve the schedule of incumbrances. >> Second. >> Any discussion? Mrs. Nemo. >> Hi. >> Dr. C. >> Hi. >> Mrs. Crawford. And I item L, motion and vote to approve personnel items one through five and under two L2 employment following names Amanda Dudley part-time paris sub Charlmore part-time parisub and Claude Williams part time. >> I made the motion. Do I
058have a second? >> Second. >> Any discussion on this? >> Mrs. Nei, Dr. >> Hi, >> Mrs. Crawford. And I any new business? Then item M and item N. We are adjourned. Our first meeting.