001call this meeting to order. Oh, sorry. This is our May 13 meeting. Welcome to everyone and all members are present with the exception of Dr. Eversoul and we have the honor of a couple of students from Heritage who are going to lead us in the pledge of allegiance. Um Ian and Piper Lee, if you will come up here, Miss Nemo is going to read a little information about you. We have Piper Lee. She is in third grade at Heritage. Her teacher is Mrs. Whittington. Her parents are Jamie and Bobby Lee. Piper loves art and creating. She plays soccer, basketball, and softball where she where she is practicing to be a pitcher. She is involved with Cherokee Culture and Language Club and loves school. She also has a passion for taking care of animals, especially her
002bunny patches and her new puppy, Teddy. Her little brother is Ian Lee. He's in first grade at Heritage and Miss Paris class. Also, parents Jamie and Bobby Lee. Ian is a people person who doesn't meet a stranger. He loves being involved in all things and going on new adventures. Ian plays football, soccer, baseball, and basketball. He also gardens with his grandparents and enjoys gaming. [Music] I aliance to the 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. All right, we have something for you guys. Redan the one single was happy. We got a picture in training. Item B, Tigers roar. Um, we have our soccer allers and uh, Coach Hall and Coach McKe and both teams, right? Correct.
003Girls soccer team and and boys soccer. Yes, ma'am. Come on up. Would you all like to come up? Oh, thank you guys for having us again. Um, this is Ethan Hill, Darren Ward, Ree, Coach McKe. Um we were this year um these guys were selected to all state and um it was easy for me to coach them because I've had them since seventh grade and I've known them known them before then. So I've seen them from here to know I'm more taller, more handsome than I am. But um just real quickly, it it was an absolute pleasure this year. Last year was kind of heavy for me, but this year was an absolute pleasure to to coach the boys and these two guys made it easier. So I could talk to them and they they
004communicated with the team. But Ethan and Ter messed by me and I'm sure my mom watching. So these are all still. So, we had two this year. First time since 2017 that we had two girls. D I think is parked in the car somewhere. Yeah, the parking's a little tight sometimes. Um, so I've had them for a while as well. I coached them and wreck when they're freshman and the infamous Telequala Bears team. Um, they came out and ran around circles. Did a great job. And uh you know this one um she is uh starting in July she's going to be on the TU spirit squad the palm you so second year in a row I've you know I've had one go to TU TU spirit squad we're cheerful on the team but her freshman
005year um to make the varsity team she was asked to be the hype girl. That's we put her on the bench to be the hype girl. uh and she did a a great job cheering us on. Doesn't surprise us that she went on to uh start her her junior year and then go on to um go on to be the captain, great captain this year. Um her and and Cassie Tiner. Um very proud that she's uh that she she played with me for four years. Um going to miss her. Um she's really good friends with my daughter, so I'll see her. I go out and watch TV games and there's Grace for I don't know 40 minutes. There's there's going to be Greece right there. So, I'll get a lot more of Grace. And this
006one I'm glad she made as well. Da Gourd. Uh another one from the freshman year played Wreck. Uh started her um her sophomore year. She played CDM. Um won every 50/50. Um everybody loves D. She has a great personality. Um she actually signed with Connor State. So, her and the goalie Ashley Hernandez are the the first two uh Tiger girls I've had that are mine that I've coached in high school go on to uh sign with with college. So, uh we've been watching her Connor State next fall. So, very proud of these two. They did. They did an excellent job. [Applause] Thank you guys. [Applause] Thank you guys for having me. There's two seconds before we move on. I know that this is National Language um pathology month and today is actually the day and
007we're honoring those and this our group has always been able to come and present and they weren't this evening, but Miss Emily Freeze Extraordinaire went ahead and brought some things for you. So, I just wanted to give a shout out to you. Um thank you for being here. Thank you for what you do for the district and thank you for the information that you've given our board members this [Applause] evening. All right, public to be heard. Have anyone who wishes? Item D, discussion and vote to approve the minutes from the previous meeting. This is our April 15, 2025 regular meeting. Do I have a motion? Move to approve. Second. Any discussion? Miss Nemo. I I item Es deputy treasurer to report and discussion and vote to approve the monthly financial Our bank balance at the
008end of April was 22,66,2564. Receipts for general fund for the month of April were was $3,893,96.50. Building fund was $173,259.70. syncing fund was $295,888.97. So that puts our general fund balance at 11 million260,5538. Building fund is $6,319,4049. Bond funds is $762,578. seeking fund is $3,61,87741. Our activity accounts at the end of April was [Music] $1,297,54911. Over to utilities, our electric from last April to this April was um $1,693 less. Our gas was more, but it was just a little bit more. It was $1,863 more. And the water was less, $1,45. So, that was better. You guys have any questions? I will just like she said it last month, but just to remind you that those balances sound really high, and I wish that's what it was going to end with, but we have three months
009of payroll. Yes. that we still have to pay out of that. So where I would love to say that we were miracle workers and we ended with an $1 million carryover in general fund that is not going to happen. Where do we think we're we're still sitting in about 52. So we talk about it almost every day. I check it. I have a motion. I'll make a motion to approve. Any discussion have any questions? Mrs. Hi, Dr. Hi, Mrs. Mrs. Crawford. I item F principal and director's report two this athletics our athletic director Matt Cloud and then he will have child nutrition Lacy Wilson Colin May and you want me to go first or go ahead if you're up first. I'm sorry to Thank you, sir. Um, as always, it's been an exciting successful year
010for us in athletics. Um, you got to see four allstators tonight. We had three others. Jacob Tiger cross country, Jordan bread wrestling, Ameilia girls wrestling, Ameilia Miller softball, Reese Coward Soccer, Dan Gourd soccer, Theren Ward soccer, and Ethan Hill soccer. um softball made our only team state appearance um and that was with one senior so they will be back again next year. Uh four female wrestlers qualified for state, six boys track and nine girls for track. Um athletic scholarships and college signings, we had quite a few this year. Uh, Jacob Tiger, cross country, Oklahoma Baptist. Jordan bread, wrestling, Murray State College. Ameilia Miller, Leette County Community College. Uh, that was softball, I'm sorry. JJ Antoine, football, Northeastern State University, Becket Robinson, football, Columbia University, Levi Kelly, baseball, Asbury University, and that's the one in Kentucky.
011He wanted me to make sure to say that it's the one in Kentucky. Kayen Tibbitz, golf, Jackson State University. Ashley Hernandez, Connor State College. Da Gourd, soccer, Connor State College. And Cash Main, Oklahoma Wesley University. Um, it's really hard to get a college scholarship and to have that many. Kudos to our coaches and those kids that dedication. On February 15th, we hosted our 10th annual athletic hall of fame. Uh it was a night dedicated to celebrating the legacy and excellence tical Tiger athletics. Uh this year we had a record-breaking u attendance. We had 61 tables sold and that's obviously our highest today. Uh we honored a great group of athletes, coaches and teams. Uh, Richard Davis, wrestling. Mike Reus, wrestling, the 96 baseball team. Uh, Coach Wilson Fargo, Coach Bark, the 1971 baseball team. And
012he did that because they both had a bunch of crossovers. They had fathers that were also on the 96 team. They were, as you can see, 25 years apart. Uh, Dana Ree, the athletic administrator, she was kind of the brains behind the operation for a lot of years. and and she I thought we thought she deserved it. Um fundraising this year we had a very good year with sponsorships uh gave receipts and concessions as of May 9th we did $526,94.32. Um I gave you the long-term strategic plan for athletics. Obviously me and Mrs. Jones spoke about it and a lot of it's kind of a pipe dream um and the way we developed that we started in December and and I sat down with every head coach and said what what do you I want
013you to build your road map what you're thinking and then we compiled it and it took me three months but I got it so it kind of goes by uh the athletic department's goals then it goes sport by sport. Um you'll see some highlighted spots. That was what we know when we started this in December. We didn't really know about the bond and some different upgrades. So now if it's highlighted that that's already in pro process progress. Um yeah. So I'm proud of my guys. They took a lot of time to do that. Um it took us a lot of time to get it formatted the way we wanted. It uh it's a good road map and and and really we don't have the funding to do everything they want to do. I get it.
014They get it. But they're still going to work hard every day. I'm proud of that for you guys. Anybody else? I'm ready for questions. Say on the the plan that you this was a really good plan that you and your coaches put together. was very proud of this. But we think it's really imperative that um especially on we're getting ready to hopefully have a bond resolution passed um and a vote on September 9th that if it's going to be a long-term bond and so we need to be looking um five 10 years down the road in every one of our um departments so we know we are planning for the future. So athletics did that, operations has done that, you know, with plumbing, uh, parking lots, electrical, every piece of operations. We did that with,
015uh, technology, we did that with transportation. That way we can be, we need to be looking towards the future if we're going to do a long range bond and so that we are uh, dividing our assets up to cover all of the things that we need to accomplish in those in those times. So, there are lofty goals in here, some that would take a bond even after a bond. Um, but hey, we're all about dreaming for the best things for our kids. So, uh, they did they gave a did a really good job of giving information, um, on what they would like to see in their programs. Thank them for that. Matt, I have a question. I've had some complaints, of course. Sure. Is there a policy in the handbook anywhere that talks about cursing
016or degrading students coach wise? I think in our in our coach's handbook there is we need to do something to be enforcing this. I I've had a lot and about kids being degraded in front of parents out on the field. Um coaches cursing calling kids names. That's very inappropriate. Um, I don't know. It's really bothersome to me because I feel like, you know, we try really hard to bring these kids up and be responsible and they need good mentors because some of them don't have mentors at home and these coaches are in the perfect position to do that. And it's not happening here in some of our sports and um I'm really I'm really worried about our kids. I'm worried that some of them are dropping out of sports because of it. Um, and I
017just think some changes need to be made. I mean, we don't live back in the 50s and 60s where, you know, coaches cussed all the time and called kids names. We live now where character development is a big thing and um, making great citizens out of these kids. So, I really think we need to have a discussion with all coaches and all systems and just everybody because they're not allowed to kids aren't allowed to cuss. I wouldn't think the teachers aren't allowed because so I don't think the coaches should be allowed to do that. Totally agree. Okay. Thanks. Then I have one more question on shirts and I think Tana said that y'all talked about that. Can you explain a little bit about how you go about we have a purchasing contract for athletics for
018BSN and and BSN is one uses them. Keys uses them, Scobby, Hbert does a little bit, Wagger uses them. It's an exclusive contract with some exceptions. There is they have a first ride of refusal. A lot of times they want to deal in bulk. They want to do team sales. Um, you know, we did some shirts the other day for track because the turnaround time was from Saturday to Thursday. They don't want to mess with 10 shirts, 12 shirts. Um, so we give them first right of refusal. U, we have some tiers. If we hit this marker that we spent, we get this much back in not cloth, but hard items like baseballs, softballs, uh, basketball equipment. Okay. Um, and we've hit that. We've hit it every year that we've been so we get the
019max amount of rebate and basically it's it's 8% of what you spend back into our program. Um, I will say BS and I don't have anything against the local. I just know they don't have the buying power for Nike and I know they can't price it the way we can. Um, we're an in7 school which is for Native Americans uh students and schools. Uh, we get Nike at half off. Um, just for just because I knew they didn't have the buying power. I got quotes on that and they were BSN was less than half for for a stock polo shirt or and and they can't even get football uniforms. Our teams only wear Nike. We used to wear Under Armour. We switched to Nike's a Nike dealer. Nike doesn't sell to everybody. Yeah. So if
020we bought a Nike shirt from Sante, they would have to buy them individually. We wouldn't get the price cut that they that we get currently. Um, I personally do a lot of business with both of them. Um, and they know that. I talk to Adam always weekly. So, they get it. Um, it's just our buying power. It's just, you know, I told some other people. I've told her this. If I only have this amount of money, I got to make that stretch all year long. And that's kind of where we're at. And BSN's great. Anytime we need stuff donated, they do the kickoff club shirts every year for the for the golf tournament. no charge. Um, and that's with all the ads on the back and that's that's very detailed. Uh, basketball tournament we used
021to have, they would give coaches gifts to every head coach and every kid would get a shirt, no cost to us. Uh, they sponsor our hall of fame every year, a table every year. And not that the others wouldn't. I just know that they give back to keep our business. And they do uniforms as well as shirts that you buy for Yes. Yes. Coaches and t-shirts and all everything that you order with that Fletics and it's not this quick turnaround you use them. So you're talking about BSN, right? Yeah. For uniforms. Yes, they do. The Nike. Um we have kind of some of our sports. There's a BSN has their own line of athletic uniforms. They're cut and they're made just like the Nike and I'm sure they're built in this or made in the
022same building. They just have a different tag. So, a lot of our teams like to wear the the BSN model uniform. I know softball doesn't. I know baseball has tops like that. Yes. So, do all sports have uniforms? Do we supply uniforms for all sports? We don't supply un Well, we do if we raise the money for individual sports. I've had some questions about some of the non-revenue sports and those coaches know that I will help them any way I can out of my account. They've got to ask me and they've got they got to they can't just say the day before, hey, I'm going to we have to have some planning and they have to have some skin in the game. What do you when you just so people understand non-revenue sport like tennis,
023golf, where someone you don't charge a gate? Don't have Yeah, we don't have a concession. We don't have a gate. Um, cross country is tough, but with the new fence, we think we're going to make some money in cross country this next year. So, we're excited about that. Why is that? Why? Why is the fence? Well, before you couldn't stop anybody from parking at baseball and walking in or parking across. Oh, so now you can take admission gate for them to get in and watch. Okay. And we have always had three sisters sisters always will have a trailer there for concession. Um, so we did concession. When you're running three miles or whatever it is, you don't want a candy bar and a hot dog. But now parents may, especially if you're charging gate, they
024so we think that that's going to be more revenue for us. And our track our track is probably our best revenue score. So the fence is the the new fences along between baseball and the middle school. I have a question about tennis. um daughters start taking lessons and I haven't paid much attention before but is there like bleachers or anything there or do they sit lawn chairs? What's the a lot of lawn chairs? Um a lot of times you can watch our one of our tennis tournaments when their child's playing. They set their when they're not they're at bar or they go eat. Um we do have two little sets of bleachers on the south side. I guess a lot of times and I don't know why I guess I'm this parent too. I always
025sit down left field of the line when my kids playing. They like to sit away from people in their own chairs. So I just hadn't I been by there when people were playing, but I don't know if it was a tournament. I drive by there all the time. I don't ever remember seeing spectators there. A little It's hit and miss. And it's usually not all the parents come, but they usually come here. And the lights, I mean, those lights are on every night. They're using those quite a bit. That's I can hear the The lights were provided by a very large donation. It was a large donation. We had we just had a little bit of responsibility. It was Thank you for the donation. What's the um what are you hearing about the um stadium
026in the pond? Is that I have not I've talked to a bunch of people. I haven't heard one negative. I haven't either. And I and I told tell people this when I first came telequad in 08 was totally different. Don't even think about st you know the people kind of shift and I don't know why other than people are building these great stadiums and they want us to have them. Um you know my first my 11 years and my first few years people were still we don't need that. We've always played there. that's what we're playing and now those same people are saying behind this. So I I've surprisingly had the same reaction and I I mean even five years ago it was like no why would we do that for free and now I
027mean I think part of it is that the facility that we're using is not great and it's not and it's a challenge every Friday night for us with with limited resources to remedy the situation. We're always, you know, you have to have a phone call or when we do get a new one, there will be no excuse for concession stand issues. And he's referencing that, you know, in the the bond resolution that we hope to the board to call um in in July and vote on September 9th. One of the pieces of that would be to build a um a true home stadium uh not only for football but for soccer, for band um for little league uh that plays on that field every Saturday for uh band competitions for the first time in history.
028So we don't have to go to an AASO of the world and and we can bring those teams here and they're going to be a revenue maker for our band. Um I mean we're we've used the turf on that field um every Saturday since we've used it. Our band practices on the field every morning. Um and we would be able to host things like graduation or even uh outdoor robotics things or I thinking like drones and all the things that we could do on that field. Um the community is I think they're ready. They're ready to have our own space. And so we have a design that will be coming out very soon that we hope to do um if this resolution goes through and the resolution is passed in September. And I think that
029our community will be very very proud of what our kids have in store for them um for the future. What is the lifesty? Well, you have to negotiate. They want to do eight, but you can always get them to do 10. So it's 10 years. Um, I was just when they were doing the fields out there, they said 10 years and I had never thought that, oh, they have to be replaced. That kind of thought. And I will say in my experience, baseball softball wears out quicker than football because you're not you're in football, you're you're over here and you're over here, you're up here. In baseball, softball, you're all in the same spot all the time. Usually the infields on on baseball and softball wear out before the outfield because there's more space. Um,
030so yeah, 10 years, but if you take care of him, you know, I think his shoes is 14 now. It's bad, but it gets old. Don't say it's bad. I'm not talking. I mean, I talked to John today about that. They're getting new turf this summer and they're going to use our field their work. And NSU has been an amazing partner. I mean they have that lots of years a bunch of facilities and we've opened our gyms for them to practice. It's a good partnership. We'll be ready for the first time in history not to have an all away game schedule. It is. It's an all away game schedule. We speaking to the band instructor this this week, you know, she said the the truck trailer has to be loaded ever. I mean, every game
031is a giant away game experience for them to get their instruments and things to where they need. Thank you. Thank you. Thank [Applause] you. Next up, we have child nutrition. Okay. So, I'm Lacy Wilson, federal programs and grants director in child nutrition just falls right under that. So, I have the privilege of working with Colin Mays and Jean Aldridge. Colin is the director of I always say all things operations. So, food, ordering, all of those things. Jean is our chef. Gives us all the great ideas and really does everything, too. They kind of partner and just do a little bit of everything. We are a team. And then we have Casey Blue back here. She's the area director for Chartwells. And then Heidi made me promise I would not bring her face on a stick
032because I did that last year and she threatened me. I'm kind of scared of her and so I didn't bring it. But I do want to say that she is out on medical leave and she has still been working behind the scenes. So I don't want to leave her out and take all the credit here by any means. And um I do want to I'm going to add a little bit to this presentation because I thought why didn't I tell you guys a little more about C. So before we get going I want the world to know that we're going to do C one more year. I hope we keep going, but I can't promise anyone anything because you guys know I watch the budget very closely every single month and we love chart wells
033and they are a little more expensive, but I think they're worth it. But I think that um we watch it and we work together and so I want to be as transparent as I can with you guys to understand the C process. And so I thought I should give them a little bit of information just so you kind of know. So we had to apply for C last year and we used our numbers, our direct certification numbers and that's just all of our families that get SNAP benefits or food stamps. We work with the um the state and they certify they make sure you know that that's our percentage and we are right at 53.99% of our students. Okay. So then there's a formula you multiply that by 1.6 and the state helps with this
034and that lands us right at the numbers of there's lots of numbers on but we're just going to make it really simple. 86% and 14%. So, I want to break this down just a little bit just so you guys understand and know why I'm watching the budget so much and then we'll get on to all the fun stuff because they really have a lot more fun stuff than I do. But I just want you guys to know, let's work with 100 students because it makes it nice and clean and easy. So, 86 of those students, we get reimbursed for breakfast $2.84. 84, but the other 14 students, we only get reimbured 39. So, it's free for students, but it's not free for us. So, then let's let's talk lunch. So, for every 86 students at
035lunch, we get reimbursed $4.54. But the other 14 students, we only get reimbursed 53 cents for lunch. Okay. So then let's look at the big picture. Let's talk a 100red. We get um and when I say we make money, guys, we don't make money because I have to pay the bills. Have to pay the utilities. I have to pay all my workers. I have to pay uh pest control. All these things. When I start looking, I'm like, Jones, why are you making me pay? She says she says don't pay her portion your kitchen. Okay. So, anyway, I can really break I have learned a lot and I can really break this down for you if you need me to, but I'm trying to keep it simple for you guys so that you know why um
036like every month about to like you know hyperventilate and why I'm trying to get people to eat more breakfast. So, for aund breakfast we make $55.70 for a hundred of them. For 100 lunches, we make $9.86. And for 100 dinners, I didn't talk dinners. Dinners are different because we're uh at risk dinners. We make $85. That's our supper meal. Make a little bit more on that. And I I hate saying the word make money because I'm not into make money. I'm trying to make money to keep everybody to keep eating for free. Does that make sense? I'm not in the business of making money. and if the freezer goes down, I want to be able to afford to to pay for it. So, that's why we keep having monthly meetings. We we pull Casey in
037all the time. I'm pulling out those expenditures and Sabrina knows half the time I'm trying to make sure we're we're doing okay. And this month, I was so excited, and you'll hear her say it, that we we made we didn't make it. We had we had a commodity credit. So, we made 17,000, but we had a $20,000 commodity credit. So, we really didn't make that much, but I'm going with it. We made the 17,000. So, that's a really good loss there. We didn't talk about it. Say it. So, I say all of this to say during this summer, and once again, I'm not trying to make money, but I just want you to I want to be transparent with you. For every breakfast, um, we get reimbursed $2.98 and for every lunch we get reimbursed
038$521. So, it's win-win. Kids get to eat, we get reimbursed a decent amount all the way. We don't lose money. And so, um, I just wanted I thought I know that was a lot to add in and I haven't even started my slides yet, but the more I started thinking I was like I'm telling them we're doing C one more year. Remind everyone what that C what's community eligibility provisions and that is I just federal. Yes. Yes. Yes. I feel really lucky to be able to do it and I hope that our kids and our families appreciate it. I just don't want to promise it for years, but I want to do it. And so, we are working really hard to try to keep doing it. So, I just wanted you all to know that's
039where we're at. So, let's let's go on. And when she gave her examples on the hundred, I mean, that was a good way to look at that. And you noticed that she said, you know, breakfast is is reimbursed a lot better than uh say lunch. So if we get our breakfast count up um then what that does is it helps make the difference to pay for the other meals that are not fully reimbursed, right? Um so that we could remain being C because at any point that it became something that became a cost to the district. It would be really hard for us to continue this and we would have to go back to the free and reduced forms. those babies would still get to eat free, but then everybody else would start to pay
040whatever their amount would be. So that's why breakfast numbers have been, you know, we've really worked hard and they've done a really good job getting breakfast numbers up. What percentage of students do we need to be eating these meals in order to maintain our eligibility? I think we're doing it. Um, and I do have some numbers I'm a lover of spreadsheets and so I keep all these Google Sheets with all these different things but I'm comparing this year's numbers to last year's numbers and I will tell you in the pres presentation we have gone up about 10% and it's good it's we're maintaining my worry is that long term if you're only maintaining what happens if a freezer breaks which honestly we have some carryover right now we're okay so I'm not worried too But
041Miss Jones will help cover that. She has control, but she'll she'll help me if I freeze break. So, right now real tight. Right now at lunches, we're serving around 79 72 76% of our students, which is actually pretty pretty good. That's a large number of students. Um, high school's a little lower, 43%, but that's not because they're doing anything wrong. That's because half the kids are off campus. They're at ICTC, and we know it's really not that cool to eat lunch. They're I mean, they're starving. You know, they should eat, but um and then for breakfast, we're hitting right at 20 and 25% everywhere. Um, heritage is a little higher, 42%, elementaryaries are sitting at 40%. Yeah. So, we're going to keep working and watching our numbers and pulling out all the tricks, but I'll
042let them talk about that. Sorry, I kind of hijacked that. I don't know. Sorry, your first I don't know if it's a question so much as a statement. Um, we uh we received a communication about energy drinks and the the problem with them. Um, and I've thought about, you know, it's in elementary we don't have vending machines at all, but in middle school and high school we have vending machines, but they have to meet like nutritional guidelines. And Miss Jones sent me pictures of all of the things in all of our vending machines. And I'm curious about like kids bringing in because I see even in the elementary, they're pulling Dr. Peppers out of their lunchbox. And, you know, if we should think about, you know, we have rules about what people can have access
043to, right? um and and what we provide access to. You know, there are, I would assume, going to be considerations about even what they can bring in. You know, you can't can't bring energy drinks in and drink them in class when you're middle school. Um and I'm just curious about that. I guess maybe more what we see in lunchroom. And I know my kids one day said like they they were under this impression that if you brought anything from home, you couldn't also get a lunch. law that anyone even if they bring their lunch from home they can go get a lunch and so I'm just curious if there's other you know I don't know ways to make it cool to to eat in the lunchroom and that's what we're trying to think and I
044know you guys do I see all your stuff and the other one I again this is just anecdotal for my kids the kids that bring their lunch get to go set up their table first because everybody else has to line up so they miss five or 10 minutes of their lunch period and talking to their friends because they're in line to get their food and then they go to the table and then they have less time to eat. And so, and I know this is, you know, logistics across different locations and different cafeterias are different, but I think not not that you all aren't enticing them with good food and options, but are there other little things that we could be doing? Um, and I don't and I I want to be clear like not
045to punish kids that bring their lunch. First of all, for nutritional reasons, there are some kids that have to for allergy reasons, that type of thing. But just, you know, really I I just think this is so important and I want to be able to see us do this forever. I I think feeding kids, you know, is huge is one of the most important things we do because there are a lot of kids that don't get nutritious meals if they don't get them at school. And I want this program to succeed and I want us to do everything we can to get the numbers that we need to keep it going and assuming the federal program keeps going. I know I kind of keep watching that. Can we possibly allow those who are eating in
046the cafeteria to be released five maybe seven minutes earlier so they can get in line or I think I think that discussion is up to principles and yeah I don't think anything's off the table I think that we would just have to two minutes out of classes incentive already in there so You're right. But we are definitely up for thoughts. And I think sometimes us even talking to the people that are there and know what's going on. Um maybe you guys have some better ideas, too. We definitely do try to communicate with the principles and um you know we're just trying to help them and so we want them to make sure they they let us know if they see anything. Okay. Sorry. That that's um let's roll it. [Music] Next slide. On the agenda
047lacy's piece. So guys, we're going to we're going to talk a little bit about who we are, what we do, some of the fun stuff that we've done, talk about some good results, what we want to do next, and then let you guys drill us with questions. Yeah. So, next slide. So, that's myself, Chef. Um, then some of our hub support, you know, Chef Cat. We guys met Casey and Savannah helps us with marketing. Meredith is our regional dietitian. She helped us out during our AR. Very awesome team member. Um, so next slide, Robert. Um, and this is Hey, these are our awesome teams. So we recently had school lunch hero day. Um so time for us to celebrate our teams after a really um awesome year. And next slide, Robert. Um so these are
048just a few of the services that we offer. You know, obviously we serve breakfast, lunch, and then our at risk supper. We have all the cart options at the high school. Um you know, we prepare food on site. Um have fresh meals that are made from scratch. Um make sure that we're following within all the federal compliance and guidelines. And then we're always actively recruiting, hiring, training, um, and supporting all of our awesome associates. And I'm gonna pass it to Chef. Thank you. Okay, so we follow the offer first serve pattern. Um, so breakfast that means we're going to offer food, at least food, four food items every morning. So for example, you know, Tuesdays, we do kind of traditional breakfast. We'll have eggs and toast and a fruit like peaches or something. And then
049we always have juice in the mornings and milk. Now their their juice can count as their fruit. So, as long as they have three of those food components, they get to select what they want to eat. They've always got to have that fruit. They've got to have a grain or or a meat alternative um to serve with that as well. Um we're ready for the next one, Robert. Thank you. And then for lunch, it's the same thing. So, we're going to offer five food components uh for lunch, and they've got take at least three of those. So, we've got our grains, fruits, vegetables, milk, and then our meat meat alternatives. Um for example, tomorrow we're doing global eats at our middle school. So, we're going to do a lasagna that we make in our cafeteria
050and then they'll have some Italian green beans, garlic knots, um, and lots of different fruits and vegetables available on the bar. So, their lasagna will have their meat or meal alternative and their grains in it. So, um, sometimes it can be a little bit bit tricky to figure out like is this a reimburseable meal? Well, you've got two of your components in that and that they just need to add one more to it. That would be a fruit or a vegetable to that and then they'll be good to go. Thank you. Um, the National School Lunch Program, you guys are familiar with it. that is um the USDA program that outlines the requirements for our students and what they need to eat. Um like I said, USDA um we partner partners with school districts for
051funds uh for reimburseable meals. So reimburseable meal means it meets that pattern and then as Lacy was talking about, you know, we're reimburse a certain amount per student that is reimburseable reimburseable meal if it follows it. It must meet that mill pattern and pass compliance audits which we just did and we passed everything. That was really exciting, but we learned a whole lot from that. Uh requirements, fresh fruits and vegetables, whole grains, lowfat dairy, and then there are limitations on sodium, sugar, saturated fat, and calories. And that is another thing we're watching for changes that are coming up to that program, and we stay up to date on that. And we'll follow those as they come out. And legislation, like I said, is proposed to require more restrictive weekly and daily targets by grade level.
052And here are some of our highlights. So Discovery Kitchen is a program that we do. It's for our elementary students and we did a lot of those this year and I will tell you the students absolutely love them. So the goal of Discovery Kitchen is to teach kids about food and to give them the opportunity to try new foods. So we'll take a recipe um we'll bring it out as a sample and we'll pass it out to all the students. And I kind of think of it as like a no risk for them because they like familiarity, right? They're comfortable what they're familiar with. So, if they're going through line and they've got a a pizza up there or some other dish, they're going to pick the pizza because they're familiar with it. So, now
053they get to try something without missing out on the pizza. And usually when we do our Discovery Kitchen, we'll end up putting that item on the menu later on. So, they've tried it and then they'll go and they'll have it in the lunch line and we definitely see them um take it once they've tried it in Discovery Kitchen. So, it helps with our participation. It helps them grow in their um their food knowledge, which is awesome. Uh, and we we did them. We did a lot. You saw all this that we did. So, every month, uh, Discovery Kitchen through chart walls has a theme. So, they change it up a little bit this year. And those are all the things that we'll have throughout it. We've got like power up, um, what's cooking, where bring
054on breakfast, spice it up. Um, so yeah, that's what we'll be looking for next year. And mood boost. Mood boost is one that we did. The kids really enjoyed this, too. It had a video series that went with it, so that was their favorite part, I think. But this is to teach kids about how our food makes us feel. So we would come in and we would bring certain items in there. They have their moodies which would um represent whatever item we're trying to evoke through the food that we're offering. So for example, we have the celery with sun butter and we served that and I believe that was smart. Smart. Yes, that was smart. That was our foodie. So they all got to try that and all the elementary schools put it on their
055line so they all got to try it. Um and it was really successful. The kids loved it. whenever they see Colin Mir at a school, they're like, "Oh my gosh, we haven't even been today." And I have to say, "No, no, not today. Next time though, I promise." Um, so it's been really good to engage with them and to encourage them to come up to the line and to educate them a little bit. You know, sometimes they see something in those events and they're like, "I want that." You know, like you said, kids didn't know they could get food if they brought something. We'll say, "Well, go get you a tray." And they'll go up and get it. So, we really enjoyed that. Next one. Cool. So, I'll talk a little bit more about a
056couple of the programs that we've ran this year. Um, and you know, like Chrissy, like you said, like how do we engage these kids? Like, how do we make them want to eat? Um, a lot of that's just making it fun because we have to compete with like sitting down and having time with your friends. I understand that totally. Um, so student choice is a really neat program that we run. There are a myriad of different concepts that we can um, you know, kind of pin up against each other and let the students vote. So, they get to try um two different concepts. We did big city barbecue and we did bok choy. Um let the students at the high school try it one day and vote. Let the students at the middle school try
057it. Um maybe the next day or a couple days later. Um both all the kids loved it. Um like Chef Gan and I got swarmed at the tables is a little overwhelming to be honest. Um but you know, student choice is all about um giving that student opinion um and letting them know that, you know, we're there to um listen to them because they're um their feedback is important. Um especially at that kind of age, that I think goes a long way. Um with the event that we did, Robert, the winner was Big City Barbecue, which I think we all kind of anticipated being a talent. Um so later in the semester, we got to feature um Big City Barbecue for a week um at each location. And so we say, "Hey, this is what
058you loved and you know, here let's celebrate it." Um, so really fun event. Can't wait to do more of those in the future. Um, what do we have next? So notable achievements. Um, I just kind of put up a lot of the, you know, really fun things that I think that we've done this year to, you know, a drive participation, get kids excited about eating in the cafeteria, um, and, you know, at the same time provide an fun and fresh meal. Um, so we engage students through fun days. Um, that's like the easiest thing for us to do. Print up a flyer and see how it incorporates into the dishes that we're offering that day. Um, you know, Dr. Seuss week, we had green eggs and ham um to help, you know, get some buzz
059about breakfast. Um, on the right, I loved um Chef Jean's little it's like a take on it. It's It looks It's made to look like Friday, but it's a yogurt parfait. So, we did that for April Fool's Day. Um, you know, we we do a lot of scratch cooking and batch cooking. It's why the food is, you know, as good as it is because we're trying to provide the freshest thing that we can for kids and faculty. Um, you know, Mood Boost and Discovery Kitchen, we talked about those. Um, you know, Thanksgiving, we got to do really neat Thanksgiving um events at all of our schools this year. Um, and had really good participation from the community, fed even more kids and parents than we did last year. Um, I think last year we fed
0603,792 and then this year we fed 4,310. Um, so increase of over 500. And um, another really cool thing that we got to do was partner with the JOTC program. They did their um, inaugural um, awards banquet for their team. And so they were it's about 250 um, students and parents that we got to feed. And that's they're kind of setting up for it in the picture there on the bottom. But hoping to make that an annual event um with that group and um maybe do some more caterings because team had a lot of fun and I think the district really enjoyed it. Um thanks. And then um we've recently started offering coffee at our um Talon High School coffee shop. Right now it's all it's called. We need to think of a better name.
061Um but kids love it. Um the faculty love it. Um I love it. Um so if you don't know about the coffee there, come. It's super affordable and it's really good and that meets those smart snack requirements that you were talking about. Yeah. So everything in our all the cart um that we offer has to be smart sex compliant. So including that coffee. Um and so what are some of the things that we're doing? You know we use CP um combined with innovation to help meet students where they are to drive participation and get students fed. Um so one of the ways that we did that was um starting in January or uh about January February. Yeah, February um is when we rolled out breakfast cards at the middle school and high school. You know,
062we have one breakfast card at the middle school. It's there to really capture those kids that are coming in through the front entrance getting dropped off um and don't even see the cafeteria in the morning. So, through that, you know, we were able to see average daily participation, you know, at the middle school go from about 135 in December to 185 in February. So, a big uptick there. Um and then in the the high school was kind of a ridiculous jump. Um we rolled out two breakfast carts there um in two different locations and you know that was also to capture all those kids coming in at those different entrances and through talking with the band um they expressed wanting to have one open a little later. So we have a second chance breakfast carts
063that moves to the library um to capture you know another group of kids. Um and then we also partnered with athletics to start giving zero hour meals to those athletes working out in the morning. Um so all those things combined, you know, we were able to push our average daily participation for breakfast um at the high school from 179 to 324. Um so really big uptick there. So we're hoping to maybe invest more in those carts um and see kind of how we could continue to get more engagement. I'll let Lacy talk. Yeah, fun stuff. the results. Um, so this is just an average of what we serve daily. It's a lot of meals. Um, go ahead and go one more, Robert. So, our goal was to increase by 10% and we made it. We
064barely made it, but we did make it. Um, so on average, um, we serve 32% of our students breakfast and 64% of our students lunch. So, of course, we would love to increase that. Um, just trying to get creative um like you said. So, keep sending those ideas our way and we'll keep working with um admin at all of the schools to try to do that too, especially those breakfast members. So, then what's next? Uh yeah, so we are going to have new fall men venues. Um so those we've been developing those, finalizing those. Um we're going to have fun days, Global Eats, Mood Boost, you know, Discovery Kitchen. Those are going to be built into our menus. So, we're going to get to do more fun days, more of those things that get students
065excited about going through the line and see that increased participation. Um, we want to focus more on alikart, so making sure that we have smart sack compliant beverages and snacks. Um, we want to bring those to the middle school. Um, and then we want to bring smoothies, slushies, some more things to the high school that we can continue to enhance that operation. Um, and we're always focusing on building a strong team. So, culinary training through chef and I, um, safety committees that we have at each school. And we want to, you know, um, lead and we want to develop school relationships as well. Talk to you. Yes, we do. And we do, we talk daily, but we meet once a week and then we meet with Casey once a month, too. So, it it's a
066good partnership. So, um, this summer, like I said, reimbursement, um, numbers are higher in the summer. And so, I think once again, it's win-win. Help our students and our families. We're going to try to do it in July as well. Um, every Wednesday in June and July, they have pickup. The kiddos don't even have to be there. We do have to have the kids' name. Um, they don't have to be a Tala Public Schools kids. So, they can be from Grand View or Lowry or wherever and the parent can come through, but we do have to record their name so that way we have documentation um to give to the state. So, we're looking forward to that. Um we have a team of people that have signed up to volunteer to help do that all
067summer and it's going to be super fun. And then on campus the month of June um 3rd through the 27th kids can come in and eat a hot breakfast and a hot lunch. Okay. Yeah. So these are just a bunch of our different concepts. Um I mentioned things that we can do for student choice that's on the right. So different concepts we can pair up against each other to engage students. And this is just a breakdown just to showcase all the different um types of cuisines we try to offer to the students to keep it fresh and keep um communication. So we want to keep you guys informed um and the parents and the students. So you know we do that through social media posts. Hopefully you guys see those get on and don't give
068us a hate. Give us a little love on that. um you have monthly newsletters, um up-to-date website info, and then we have our our websites or our menus available online through Neutri Slice. It has an app um and it's great. Um if you don't have it, please get it. Um with five days school up and and then Ver reports like this one. So, and just thank you guys from Sharwells and Chef June and I um and Casey for, you know, really uh welcoming us and embracing us and definitely feel like part of the team. Yeah, it's privilege to feed kids every day. That's it. Question. We were not fast. I promised I would be fast. I'm sorry. Colin, I just want to say to your team like for any questions or criticisms we have, I've
069eaten in the cafeteria probably a dozen times this year and it is exponentially better. The food is I mean, every time I go, I eat everything on my plate. It's good. Um I think we always have room to improve. One one comment I have and I know you guys did a waste thing and I this is kind of out of your control but I mentioned it last time and I just when I am in the cafeteria and I go dump my plate I see all of this food in the trash can and I know we have a program called wastist not and I want to look at that next year you know it's where we will partner with the schools and actually let kids weigh out their waste so they can kind of see that
070impact and help inform them that maybe I I think so I mean and I know they have like the little if it's something that's not open like their milk or whatever they can put back in there and someone can go get But obviously if it's a, you know, burger on their tray, but you'll see some days where, you know, the kids and they're not going to eat everything. But you, you know, they only ate the fruit and the side and then they throw their whole burger, their whole, you know, chicken patty or what and you, when you're dumping that in the tray and you just see all of that food in there and it's just like, it kills me because it's just wasting money. It's wasting food that people could be eating. And I would
071love for us to be creative about ways to I'll do some research and see how we could address that. Thank you very much. Does the other schools get smoothies and slushies or is it just the high school? So, we we do have a cold take option um where we can offer like a reimburseable smoothie. We do yogurt and fruit parfets a lot at the middle or the elementary schools and the kids really like those. Um but you know, it's not to say that we couldn't do a reimburseable smoothie as an option where they can still build that. Yeah. Not as an all cart option. I don't think that would be feasible, but as a reimburseable meal potentially in the mix. Yeah, it would be better than all the cart of the elementary school kids, but
072they're even those smoothies now and slushies. Yeah, smoothie can. You put anything in a fancy cup and That's right. And it's cool. But we love ideas. We want I mean any kind of feedback and we'll run with it and try to from that fancy drinks anyway. Exactly. That's what we Well, we know that we have a long way to go, but we feel like we're working hard to try to get there. So, anyway, if anybody wants any of those numbers that I earlier, I can email them to you. Okay, that [Laughter] item G superintend 520 employees right now 3,67 students 176 at prek 441 at Cherokee 49 91 at Greenwood, 499 at Heritage, 70 7003 at TMS, and 1297 for THS and Central combined. And there are no um transfer spots for the last five
073days of school. Uh project updates, our roof repairs have started all around the district, so um we're super happy for that to begin and over the summer they will be finished. Uh we have ordered the new marquee um digital marquee at the performing arts center and it is yet to be installed but I believe that will be happening soon. Trying to catch Robert dying. He's ignoring me on the barn. uh the building package the uh we have concrete footings uh that's already the building package is supposed to be delivered on Tuesday and they tell me we might start to see some of the building erected on Wednesday. So that is super cool. Um we should be well within the time range for that to be uh completed before school starts uh for our act children.
074So I said oh um on the armory uh we have a closing date with the city as of June for June 2nd. We would like to hope that the renovations would actually be able to begin by August 1st which will hopefully be completed by January 1. I'm hoping December one but they say January one so it might be March one. So, we'll be we'll be ready for any of those uh any of those dates. So, that's all going well. Um we've got the the 100% drawings on that. They will start to go out to bid on that. Try to be as prepared as possible for as soon as we close so we can just hit the ground running on that project. Um on our bond 26, you know, we've talked a little bit about that
075this evening already. We have our list complete. Uh we have renderings being made, some more specific renderings of some of the projects. So that will be what we get out to the public. I gave each of you a flyer um with just some of the information we will start I've shared it like with coach cloud and all coaches with all of our leaders and said as you go around and talk to groups over the next few months we're hearing. Sorry about that. Um to take this information so we're all you know talking about the same project using the same language. We want to make sure our public is getting the uh the correct information on what we are going to propose for you all to on the bond resolution in July. So I can get
076that electronically to anyone who might want um a copy of that electronically to share. Uh we again like I said earlier uh the election date uh if voted on will be set for September 9th. So, as soon as we do that bond resolution meeting in July, then we will um hit the ground running and and try to talk to every person in the community that we possibly can about very specific projects. So, super exciting things coming up for TBS. Um our attendance uh Sequoia was 90% in April, which was a couple percentage points down. Uh Cherokee was 92.9 um down from 94. Greenwood was 93.1 from 93.5. Heritage was 93.2 and it had been 94.9. Middle school was 91.3 and it was 93.2. High school was 91.5 and it was 91.8. So every school, which
077was odd, it's the first time all year long that every school dropped a bit, but they were all still um 91% or above in their attendance rate, which was still good. I checked with Shauna. She helped we run some she helps me get these numbers every month on chronic absenteeism just to see if we some of our you know every minute matters have done uh any good and so it has I mean when you look at that so Sequoia's chronic absenteeism and that's a child that has missed more than 10% of the days yes uh and so last year um from that's unexcused any any access period um if they've missed more than 10% of the days they are considered chronically absent and that's what a school gets graded on on a school report card.
078Um so last year at Sequoia PreK 34% of the kids were considered chronically absent. That's not uncommon at at an early childhood center. They're little. It's the first time they've come to school. They catch everything and when they are sick they don't know how to keep their hands in bodily fluids themselves. So you want them to stay home. So um 34% was last year. This year it was 24.8. 87. So they had the largest improvement across the district. Uh so nine a little over 9% better than last year in chronic absenteeism. Cherokee uh was 13.5 and it went down to 8.28. So they had a 5% and anytime you have 5% increase on something or decrease on something, that's super good. Uh Greenwood went from a 12.05 to 8.22. So almost a 4% increase. Heritage
079went from a 10.66 down to 4.77. So only, you know, 4% of their kids are chronically absent. That's the lowest rate in the district. Um the middle school went from 10.39 to 7.14. So they had a 3% and that's middle school. They don't like to be a school anymore. And then you get to high school um and it went from a 10.74 to an eight. So they had an almost 3% increase. So across the district, our rate in 24 was 15.22 and this year it was 10. So we had a 5% um decrease in chronic absenteeism. I don't know how that will play out on the on the school report card. I thought they were taking it out. Well, that legislation hasn't gone all the way through. So there is a piece of legislation that
080could take that out as an indicator for a report card, but it's not decided yet. Um, but we wanted to reduce the number of kids who were chronically absent and we did it. Um, and so I'm very very happy with what the schools did this year to get kids at that school. How many days do you have total? 16 165 days would kids be present? So they'd have to miss 16 days. when you say that that's what happened this year. He was just sick over and over and over and miss 18 days of school and you know and we don't when babies are sick we don't want them in school and we want them healthy. We want to keep others healthy but we want them there when they possibly can because it's super hard for
081us to teach them if they are not present. Um we do our very best when they're home. Um but it's it's not the best way to deliver instruction. Uh so you have to have them there with you. um uh April child nutrition data. You've heard a lot about that, but I have a little bit of information. We served 88,462 meals and 21 serving days. That's the most serving days we had all year in a month. Um we'll pay Chartwells 278,000. Um and the other bills of 35,000. So it cost us to for child nutrition this month $313,477 will be reimbured 330,834. So, she said we were in the black for 17,356. So, we super excited about that number. Um, I always ask about the grab and go carts. TMS has about 25% of their students
082getting breakfast uh on and ths has 20% of their students getting breakfast on the grab and go. Also had a little bit of test. They don't have test scores yet, but we've just finished the testing season and I got some numbers from Liza Warren, who is our testing coordinator with the district and uh super excited what the schools were able to do this year um on that. So, at Cherokee, Greenwood, and Heritage, 100% of their students were tested. So, that is a testament to parents and those schools alike. um at TMS 99.7% are tested. Again, that's middle school students and they are their own little tribe. So, that I thought was absolutely amazing. Um eighth grade, every student uh in sixth grade it looks like you were missing one and in seventh grade one. So,
083two students, two students missed testing. So, fantastic job, Miss Abby. And at high school, um they had a 98.8% 8% test rate. Um, and so one of the things that we are also um scored on as a district is the number of kids that you test. So we had a fantastic number of that. I thought it was just a good shout out to everyone that's involved in that because it is a very big process uh to arrange and we look forward to seeing the results of that, but we'll know until summer, late summer and we'll report on that as soon as we have any information. Um, just a couple reminders on dates. Uh, we have graduation this coming Sunday, Sunday at 2:00 p.m. Um, the weather forecast changes on the hour for Sunday. Um, it's
08476% rain to 20% rain to the next time it's 80%. We have to plan for both. Uh, the high school staff and Mr. cloud have been per, you know, wonderful just getting a plan because we have to have it ready for an outdoor graduation. We have to have it ready for an indoor graduation um just in case. So, that will all be prepared. Kids will be given their tickets. Seniors get five tickets each if we have to have it indoor and that's only capacity. Uh we have to we can only have a certain number of people in that business uh business building uh per the fire marshal. So, they get five tickets. They're passed out on Thursday of this week, I believe. Is that correct? They did not lose those tickets and they are not
085reproducible tickets. Uh so we have uh I know that's that's hard. It's it's important. It's hard to choose five people when you want to celebrate such a big live moment, but um that's the best that we can do. We will live stream it. It is live stream. Yes. either way. And we will make the call Sunday morning by 8:00 a.m. So, uh, Sunday morning 8:00 a.m. We will let all of our families know on social media or email, a school messenger call, and we'll let them know if it's inside or outside. Um, so if you are a whatever you do, uh, if if you pray, if you think positive thoughts, whatever you do, put it out in the world, um, for it to be sunshiny on Sunday. It can rain at like 4. It's fine.
086We just don't need it to rain. Um, and then also, Accent on Excellence is May 21st, next Wednesday morning. That's the first day that kids are off for the summer. and we always do an end of the year program to honor um all of our our staff members and the great things that have happened. So that is 8 a.m. and we're going to work really hard to have them out by 10. We have a little time in their buildings to up item H. Discussion and vote to approve the following surplus through four. Do I have a motion? I'll make that motion. Second. Any discussion? M. Nemo. I. Dr. C. I. Mrs. Crawford. And I item I business items consent docket. vote to approve the follow contracts. One, four. Do I have a motion? I'll make
087a motion. Any discussion? Item J, discussion and vote to approve the revision of the following policies. The first policy is 6025 student transfer policy and the second one is 6219 search of student students regulation. Second. any discussion on this? Um, yes. So, the student transfer policy, we usually do that in July that we are doing this uh now because the transfer portal so to speak opens up on June 1. So, we need to know exactly how many spots we will have. So, we will go ahead and then do it this month for June 1 and then we will set it again for July. Um, that way we're ready for transfers. on uh 6219 the search of students. This is a policy that we have already that we have edited a good word edited the policy
088um to include using a uh a wand um on with students and discipline um next year. Uh there are things that are uh have been added are talking about uh suspicion of searches of students that might be at students presence at or near a bait detection monitor which has been activated. Um and the policy just needed to be updated. As you know we are working we are in line with OSSBA to have our entire policy book uh rewritten. Um but there are quite a few there are a few schools in front of us and uh policy books are very large as you know and so um it's just not been done yet. So we will have this policy in there and then they will um when they get to our school they would look at
089that. But more than anything else, what that did, what this did for us, it added in uh specifically a word um when any authorized person has reasonable suspicion, the student may have the students person or property, alcohol, dangerous weapons, vapes. Vapes had not been in the policy before, so we added that in specifically. Um a lot of information just about uh reasonable suspicion for um a search. So in deciding whether suspicion is reasonable, all the circumstances surrounding the matter should be considered. You be thinking about age, the history and record in school surveillance and seriousness of the suspected violation, the school officials prior experience detecting the problem, the need to do a search without delay. It just has very specific um information added in on that. And then very specifically just using the metal detection
090device um to look for vapes. often when the vape detector goes off um at any of our sites um when a student is asked to empty their pockets um they don't keep the vape in their pocket. They put their their the vapes in other areas um that are uh not areas that would ever be searched. And so a metal detection um would be helpful in in that. Um we we want all of our kids um to uh feel safe on our campuses. We want our kids making good choices um on our campuses and quite frankly students and vapes and it it's an epidemic. Um and we want to help our kids not make that decision anywhere but most specifically at school. Um, so anything that we can do to put in to help our kids
091not want to make that choice um is what we're trying to do here. We just they need help and they don't always make the best decisions at that age when their brain is not fully formed. And so if this can help deter them from making that choice then I think it's something that we are excited to try and that will be helpful as a discipline measure um at middle school discussion I ci item K discussion and vote to approve the scheduled encumbrances. Any discussion? Mrs. Dr. Hi, Mrs. I'm going on item L. I'm going to make the motion because list of names that need to be read and um also item that we need to strike. So motion vote to approve following personnel items uh one through nine. We are going to strike item five
092ly reemployment under Cherokee the name Jonah Collins and then L2 employment. I'm going to read the names of those who have that we have employed recently. So this did not these names did not appear on the agenda that correct goes on out to people. All right. Danielle Shade, office manager. Holly husband sp teacher. Taylor Hensler teacher pending certification. Nichollet Rupert teacher. Avery Sers parrofessional. Clayton Wallace teacher pending certification. Ethan Tate Christian, teacher, pending certification. Gustavo Martinez, Jr., band instructor, pending certification. Do I have a second? Second. Any discussion? as a child who uh is employed and has loan insurance. September. All right. Any further discussion? Am I great? Item M, new business. And item N, we are