001e e e 6 o' so to M present we are all here is here just under the wire we have two members Cheroke two students from Cheroke going to and Dr bio KS okay we have Owen and Callie Thompson uh we uh third grade in kindergarten are Miss Mrs Palmer andler parents are Magie oh did I say it wrong she's okay and then her parents are Maggie and Jack straighten me up Owen is involved in numerous activ activities both physically and academically he was joined uh Star music this year and he enjoyed singing with the other students he plays sports like football baseball roller hockey and is trying uh soccer for the first time this spring Haley just completed her first season of basketball and plans to try softball in his spring with a group
002of friends she is also she is also o enjoying learning at and new things at school are you going to come up you don't enjoy that you want to come up here flag of the United States of America and to the repic for it stands one nation under God indivisible withy andice for all [Applause] a before you escap we want take a picture perfect item Le Tigers War we're going to have the girls res me who and they are academic state champions [Music] and Travis Kirby and Reeves are reev Reeves Reeves Reeves are going to come and present your so this is the second year in a row these girls have been 6A academic state [Applause] champions G 3964 so pretty high um is Charlie Peters Jackson Ellie Hendrick haly Whitley rash Maxwell um what's
003your name bradis Jordan Brad and then assistant coaches Janine Perry and Rocky Reves um out this group of girls they so so far we've had a girls wrestling team here for going on five years now they've had a successful season every year as far as dual meets go this year they finished their record with an eight and4 record up here there's four girls that are returning State qualifiers we're only losing one which is our senior Jordan BR Jordan doesn't know this Jordan's a two-time state qualifier just found out today that she's been selected for the All State [Applause] team thank you thanks picture and girls when you look behind you this isn't this wasn't purposeful that we have a five female but it looks really good with all of you women in okay take one
004step that way and everybody follow we got a center all right right here one two open your eyes right good [Applause] [Music] that going on it's so nice that we open girl Sports in all Aras g99 very impressive all right item C public to be heard and bear with me while I read through this description members of the public shall be allowed to attend all meetings of the Board of Education in addition the Board of Education will have an item on regular meeting agendas that affords citizens the right to address the board of education on items pertaining to education and or the oper eration of the school district the item will appear prior to any business being conducted by the Board of Education a resident wishing to address the Board of Education must fill out
005a form before the meeting and submit it to the board clerk the speaker is to move to the lect on being recognized by the board president and give his or her full name and address the speaker will be allowed four minutes to address the board public comment will be limited to the first five individuals who sign up to speak and will not exceed 20 minutes total the board and administrative staff will not respond to questions or comments at the meeting the resident may receive a written response as soon as possible questions and complaints relating to employees of the district and this is all caps will not be permitted at this time such questions are to be referred to the superintendent at another time presentation or discussion of matters which are currently under legal review will
006not be permitted this is uh TPS policy 2217 and I think we have five submissions and the first submission was uh Mrs C thank you I'm Kathy the 124 South to release instruction time is a fact in Oklahoma since the signing of House Bill 1425 into law school districts are required to adhere to this law concerns of separation of church and state and keeping religion out of schools is being circumvented by using these laws in other states such as Ohio instead of being held outside classroom time like other extracurricular activities students leave during elective courses to participate in these religious programs it has yet to be determined that the same access to all religious teachings will be granted or just Christian teachings it is to be expected that the boundaries of these release laws will
007be tested life wives is endeavoring to enter into an agreement with tala Public Schools I urge the board and parents to approach this very profitable nonprofit with caution the organization already has seen an enormous Financial windfall in just one year in Ohio The Columbus Dispatch on January 14th 2025 reports that LifeWise netted a profit of over 17.2 million in its most recent IRS filing up from 4.3 million the year before since LifeWise has begun programs in Ohio problems have occurred when students who do not participate are ostracized or bullied by those who do in Ohio this has been a prevalent problem Zachary Parish the parent of a student who was a second grader in Defiance City schools in 2021 experienced such bullying and was called a LifeWise leftover and told she was going to hell
008this is a second grade child when classmates left for religious instruction children who did not participate were sent to study hall in the gym to work independently leaving some parents to criticize it saying student had been ostracized and bullied for not taking part in it and their education had suffered due to the disruption during the school day I urge parents Educators administrators board members and community members to educate themselves on LifeWise and any other programs that might attempt to take advantage of the Oklahoma release instruction law and proceed with caution not all kids are religious and not all religious kids are Christians and not all Christians are evangelicals I have nothing against religious teachings but I do believe religion has no place in schools next speaker is Alison Snider hello my name is k Snider
009I'm on uh 1435 North having you my son EMT Snider is a freshman ened in the mediation program here at the high school and we were when we enrolled EMT we were so excited to sign him up for Aviation we were so grateful to be in a community with an exceptional School District willing to invest in such an extraordinary education and real valuable career Pathways for its students it blew us away that after four years in the program our son could potenti graduate with an accreditation on his diploma we've been thrilled with the program's multidiscipline Focus from history of Aviation to National infrastructure Air Traffic Control uh to multiple stem disciplines like physics engineering mathematics mechanics Aeronautics this class provides so much and though it am its most difficult most challenging class it's also his
010favorite um additionally with our nation in desperate need of qualif talent in the field and with Aerospace being the second largest industry in our state we were secure knowing that M it would be well prepared to enter the workforce um right out of high school or being more desirable to the Air Force if you continues with with his current goal uh the Oklahoma Department of Aerospace and Aeronautics created strong coursework which meets with the new standard set for graduation it paid for the flight simulators in the class classro it offers professional development for teachers and special events for Aerospace students and now we have close 50 students participating in this opportunity gaining so many skills and investing in their future to learn this valuable program is being cut is crushing the district made a commitment
011not just to odaa and our community but most importantly to the kids themselves what message does it send to the students to to start and invest in this four-year program only to pull it after just a couple of years we are here tonight begging you all to reconsider ways to fund and retain this pathway which should be the district's Crown Jewel in his remarks at the state of the community address last week Chief Hoskin Jr discussed the importance of supporting those who aren't on a path to college but want to get a good training putting people in a position to succeed and investing in the drivers of jobs and the aviation program does all of that so please pursue ways to fulfill the promises made and reinvest in this valuable program that gives students desirable
012well-paying career Pathways and sets them up for Success right out of school thank you thank you EMT SN hello everyone my name is EMT Snider I'm a freshman at tala high school and I'm here to petition the fact that tala High School is going to drop its excellent Aviation program I'm petitioning this decision because I'm seeking career in the air force uh as a pilot this is a very tough career to choose and having an aviation program at school undoubtedly gives me a better shot of that career another reason that Aviation should be kept is that well is basically my hardest class it's an odd combinate sorry it's also my favorite this is an odd combination that many of my peers in the class happen to share and I think they share because it's an
013exceptional class an exceptional teacher I therefore urge the school board not to drop Aviation classes now or in the future that's all that I have to say so thank you for your time very well spoken Stephanie C my name is Stephanie colan I'm at 16804 West 736 Road I too am here to beg you to see the importance of keeping the aviation program for these children um my son Samuel is currently a sophomore when he came home and told me Mom I'm going to be in the aviation program I said okay son go for it and he said and I'm going to be in Jr TC I said okay and he says because I have a plan I have a goal and I giggled and said you're 14 tell tell me more about this school
014and I will say that of all my four children he is the most determined so when the child sets a goal I know that he's going to stick with it um so then when he came home and said Mom they're taking the aviation program away I said what what what what and he said yeah they told us we would have more years and I'm halfway through it I've committed two years and you know with the promise of disit to my diploma and now I'm not going to have that and I said well now hang on hang on hang on you know nothing's nothing's said until you know until it's set in stone um it was just devastating to hear my child talk about the hopes and dreams that he had and the plans that he
015had set into motion at 14 to be told sorry we're not going to do that anymore um I've taught my children from an early age if you set goals and you work hard you can achieve them and while I'm not saying that he can't still achieve his goals it's going to be far more difficult for him to achieve them if this program is not available for him to do that so I too am begging you to see the importance of this program the importance of the commitment and dedication that these children have put into it and he might come home and say you believe what we had to do in aviation today you know it's it's hard it's hard it's hard but then he follows it up with but it's my favorite so just with
016that just know that if it is taken away I feel that it's a great Injustice to these children thank you thank you hello I'm Sam 66804 West 736 Road I'm a sophomore in high school and currently going through my second year of Aviation uh when I was in the 8th grade I was told that there was a new program that would teach me how to become a pilot and everything I would need within that information I set a goal to um I was determined to become in the aviation IM industry and work hard for it and with that goal it would have been easy to achieve with four years of this class I've done my research and I also realized that Pilots are needed all Nationwide this class is only available in so many schools
017in the state and there are many kids who would love to grou or continue through going through this career it is a amazing opportunity for the kids to set a early goal in mind and having everything ready by the time that they graduate and I was very disappointed to learn that the program was going to be taken away from all of us who had also been depending and on hoping that the program would say I hope that you consider keeping this program thank you for your thank you speakers continuing item D discussion and vote to approve the minutes from the previous meeting this is February 25th 2025 special meeting motion second any discussion I item D Deputy treasur to discussion vote to approve the monthly Financial the bank balance at the end of January was
01821, 374,000 was 4, 52,7 1527 building fund was $885,000 sinking fund was fund balance at the end of January to 10,762 1965 building fund 6,228 n174 bond fund 7 76257 sinking fund is $2,789 7477 I wanted to bring to your attention the interest that we earned from that month it was $6 6,853 54 activity Accounts at the end of January 1,262 12350 our electric was $3,596 less from last February to this February water was $398 24 more and then our gas was 9,442 196 anything else no not yet motion any discussion and I item f is superintendent report um today as of today we have 521 employees 3,6 35 students that is a couple students down from last month 175 prek students 444 chery 494 at Greenwood 500 at Heritage 706 at the middle school
019134 at THS and Central um when we update the capacity tonight at this meeting we will have no transfer um spots open for the fourth quarter uh Short Bond update the T-Mac steps are now some little finishing touches some glass block work and some lights that got to put in but um they are back to being functional so that's been a long time coming so that's very good uh TMS intercom is ordered um we have problems on and off um Miss Abby would say I would say at that building but we fix we're we're doing whatever fixes we can until we can go in and redo the entire system this uh summer um roof repairs we need to get individual quotes for each of the buildings and so we have one quote and we are
020impatiently waiting on other quotes to come in um and so as soon as we have that then we can choose a vendor and then we can get work on that um fencing in the gate at transportation we said that's installed we're also putting in an automatic scanning system at that gate um always have my badge I don't have it on like into our badge where we scan to get into a door um so when our teachers or employees get there at midnight bus drivers they'll be able to scan and the gate will open because if you've ever had to open the gate when you get out of your car and you wrestle with the chain and you AC I mean I know a person that I just happened to live with that accidentally locked themselves
021in and climb over the gate it was very confusing um it's it's not been easy to U work so this is a big uh a big good renovation for us so that will make it much nicer for all of our employees to get in out of on the parking lot expansion at ch the fence has moved back um the city has been super helpful they're going to let us use some of their equipment they're giving us what Brad calls millings and I can't even tell you what that is except that I'm G to say it's liken to rock because it's what's going to create a parking lot um sorry I can't be more technical than that with that explanation so is it going be gravel or I heard someone say they were putting ass no
022it will be gravel it will be whatever a Milling is but it's not ashole it's not concrete and it's not one of these days um we are hoping that will be completed by May 1st and a new Marquee at the Performing Art Center on the high school campus has been ordered and we have quotes for all of the electronic signs are on the district and I believe we're going to be able to sneak those in on this renovation money we're just being cautious as we finish some of these other big projects um the barn uh as you know we did our GMP at the last meeting the building package has been ordered we should be getting all of that um in May and be able to get the the building up and ready for our
023students with our ad use at the beginning school so that appears to be on time as of right now um February attendance sequoia's February attendance was 88.6 which was um about 3% up uh Cherokee was 92.2 which was about 3% up uh Greenwoods was 91 and it was 91.3 so it's almost stay steady uh heritage uh went up a couple percentage points to 91.8 a middle school dropped a percentage point to 89.4 they were 90.5 um and the high school went down from 90.9 to 89.9 so a slight decrease as well on the attendance um I think the middle school and the high school had a higher attendance the the week the month before when all the littles were sick and it seemed like it fled a little bit in that next month uh child
024nutrition data we served 63 3,13 meals and 15 serving days obviously we missed uh a few serving days uh that month because of ice snow uh we will pay chart Wills $15,340.00 $268 going in the right direction so those of you who understand wonder why we're excited about this we uh have a this year we have C where all of our students could eat for free students can eat for free but that doesn't mean it's free to us um there still comes at a cost to us and we also have a new Child Nutrition Company so we were meshing two big changes this year and so from every month we're looking at it just just to make sure that we're we're doing what uh we need to be doing to be able to continue with
025that c program um which is what we really really want um as a school district so we love that it's going in the right direction um so boys make sure yall eat and lunch um so grabbing go-karts at THS and TMS at TMs in January 20% of the students had breakfast and in February 25% did so again that's what we wanted we those breakfast counts up so that's obviously working and THS served about 20 to 25% in breakfast for that month as well um another big thing that they started uh they're feeding the TMS and THS baseball teams suffer for every home and away game and they also just fed 129 track students last week for lunch at a track me so uh Lacy and Colin and Heidi are all working with our coaches and
026figuring out a way that we can get those athletes um free meals as well good job this place uh just to go over some dates again U just a reminder April 17th I have everyone except Sean because she had a previous engagement signed up for the Zone 8 meeting um in MSC um our toy teacher of the year and retire reception is April 22nd I will be these days um Accent on Excellence are always invited to celebrate the good work that everyone does here in the districts that's May 21st 8: a.m. graduation begins 2 p.m. on a Sunday that's different this year so I want to say that every time between now and then and the state ossba conference has been moved to the first weekend in September which is a new month um we
027did go ahead and refile for our September meeting to be moved to Thursday the 18th instead of Tuesday the 16th thank you for letting me be flexible that date um just want to have a small uh say small there's a lot of writing for me um a little bit of an explanation about something that's going to be happening later on in the meeting um it's about LifeWise uh later in this meeting we have anou with LifeWise on the agenda to approve or not approve the agreement with LifeWise was prepared by our attorney at our request to establish affirmation of insurance and liability of students when they leave the campus for that program to be clear it is not a TPS program and it is not on any of our campuses students will not be under
028the legal under our legal responsibility nor will they be supervised by TPS employees once LifeWise picks them up from school parents will need to contact LifeWise for any questions about logistics about the program our role as a school district is to work with LifeWise to identify time and the instructional day that students can be pulled from according to the law um students can legally Miss up to three hours of non-tested subject area classes per week and not be counted absent from school this is not our board policy this is state law earlier this school year we did adopt a policy a policy 5508 that outlines procedures for releasing students for religious instruction according to House Bill 1425 the the board policy states the Board of Education will approve released time courses for elective credit as
029per Oklahoma House Bill 1425 a released time course is defined by law as a period of time during which a student is excused from school to attend a course in religious or moral instruction taught by an independent entity off school property any independent entity that would like to offer a course to be considered for elective credit shall discuss the proposal with a superintendent or superintendent's designate The Proposal shall include an assessment a course syllabus a calendar when the course would be offered the methods of assessment utilized in the course the qualifications of the course instructor a template written consent form that will be provided by the independent um time program the school superintendent principal for the School site were over the scheduling and timing and release time courses students who participate in release time courses
030are considered in attendance in the school district and the time is calculated as part of the school day upon successful completion of the course selective credit will be provided to students when their work is completed it is substantiated by a transcript from the Independent entity providing the course this board policy refers to transcripted electives which that only happens in high school so our board policy that we had to adopt for house bill um 1425 only talks about how you would transcript courses um at the high school level um there's nothing in board policy that we voted on or even could vote on that said this could happen or could not happen and I just wanted to make that clear so um religious programs at any other level so Middle School uh Elementary are with parent
031permission and our role is only to facilitate the time that causes the least amount of interruption in the day um parents have the legal right to sign their child child up for this instruction during the day the LifeWise group essentially um will have the legal right through the students's guardian to pick the child up from school um so we work with them to find the the least restrictive time for them to to be pulled if a parent chooses for them to be pulled um and we have no other authority over whether or not the program can happen um outside of our school I know we'll have more questions uh about that when we get to the vote but I did want to give you a little bit of background information um before we go into
032that piece that for the it g discussion and vote to approve the following Surplus a motion second any discussion this Dr I Dr I and Mrs Crawford and I item business items consent blocket vote to approve um H one through two and three with the exception of items h1g h1i and H1 J which we will vote on separately motion I'll make a motion to approve any discussion this em hi Dr ever I Dr cman I Mrs Crawford I H1 G agreement with LifeWise Academy to establish guidelines and affirmation of insurance for parent initiated off-campus release time courses for TMS students who wish to participate ending on June 3 25 do I have a motion I will move to approve I'll second any discussion yes when does this yes when does this start so the intention
033is to start after Spring Break um but I do want to start with saying this contract U like I alluded to or at least said I think earlier this is not a contract to approve LifeWise right this is a contract to establish that LifeWise wi has uh insurance and that LifeWise is liable for our students once they check them out for their program um and so I wanted that to be clear because I think when we had written it earlier when we just said a contract with people thought we were choosing to sign up for this um and that is that is not the case um our role again is just to work with um any entity that comes to do this and find a time that works best for the school um and for
034the students without with the least amount of disruption so we started conversations with LifeWise probably last August or last summer uh it's been a while um and as the law states a group can choose for three hours of instruction a week um the local group here is only interested at this point in one hour of instruction per week um it they have just chosen one building to start with and that was Tela Middle School I think some of that has to do with the proximity of uh Cornerstone Fellowship which is where I believe they're going to and Ladies If I say anything wrong just shout out and correct me um that's where they were are going to have this instruction and so to they wanted to start with one place that was logistically easier than
035transporting um kids someplace um they have worked with u Miss keys to know when sixth grade electives are seventh grade electives are eighth grade electives because that's what a child would miss if they were going to go attend this they cannot miss math they cannot misreading you know any of the tested subjects um the contract again was at our attorney's request just to cover us legally um the our attorney also suggested that we add an additional permission slip that the parents sign um and that LifeWise agreed to put that in their packet of papers and also did send sign the agreement that we bring to you today um both things that they did not have to do I I will say that um they have worked with the principal to try and find a schedule
036that is the best that we can uh we'll begin after spring break and um in all honesty I I can't tell you how it's going to work until we see the first day and we and we figure we see how that all plays out I'm not sure how many students will be checked out um do Abby do you have any idea has anything been given on I have 21 on the list right now total for all three grades um one thing that I did ask the middle school to do um no offense to the students in the room but middle school kids sometimes like to sign things for their parents we maybe we've even done it in our lifetime um so I have asked that if a permission slip does come back for this that
037an adult at the school is calling talking to the family making sure that the family is aware that we have a signed permission slip before we let them leave I I just I would not want a child's a parent to come to pick up a child for a dentist appointment and they not know they're across the street um at a different campus so uh that that's one other step that we put in play for this so that's the my motor running for a minute um what questions do you all have or statements you have for me them questions I have a question for Abby and then I have a comment so will this be because there electives are at different times will you have kids going pretty much all day or is it three different
038class periods during the day and they'll go by grade level they won't intermingle like some electives are inter seventh and eth have one hour that's combined but they're not going during that hour six Sixers at one time all seventh gr yes and it's not they can't be gone three consecutive hours no because there would they would not have three consecutive hours in a day that they could miss no content subject so a sixth grader would miss right now on what they have planned one hour of instruction a week three times oh just just once a week the the law allows three times okay but right now they're just doing one hour a week have they somebody been selected to teach this or um I have met a a a board um and a director I
039have not met a teacher so like when I read board policy and it talks about like instructor and a syllabus all of those things that doesn't apply to this that only applies to a high school level pullout because when they get to a high school level pull out we will be required to transcript that on their High School transcript not sure how that's going to work out um we um with a lack of a better work we the guinea pigs um in our state we are the first school that I know of in Oklahoma yes this this has happen yes I have a comment I'm I'm going to vote Yes on this um some somewhat begrudgingly I don't like it um I didn't like when the law was passed last year and I contacted my
040um local lawmakers and urged them to vote against this um I do know that this is not unconstitutional um United States Supreme Court in 1952 had a case where this very same thing was happening in New York and they said because it was off campus because it was not school money because it was not required that it didn't violate um the First Amendment so that's the reason we had this law because other states have had it the court said you could do it um one reason that I am voting yes for the mo MOA so in addition to them having to indemnify us and the state law specifically says that the school is not responsible once the child leaves indentification is another step at that if we do get sued because a kid God forbid
041has an accident crossing the road um indemnification means LifeWise has to step in pay our attorneys fees defend us pay any um judgment that would be against us but the other thing that it does that I actually think is more important um LifeWise has agreed via this contract with us to do background checks on their employees that is not something that's parted under state law um shockingly I think it was probably an oversight um but there's no this law was passed with this program in mind because it's a it's a corporation it's in several States but it can be any religious or moral instruction it doesn't even have to be a um set religion so a group that comes up and says we're going to offer moral instruction on X and we want to meet
042these requirements um they would be able to do it as well but um the other thing that I think parents should know although LifeWise via this agreement is agreeing to indemnify us and state law says a school is not responsible the permission slips that parents have to sign for their kids to go says that LifeWise it's not responsible so if the kid has an accident crossing the street um that parent has signed a piece of paper that says they can't make a claim against LifeWise if their child is injured um during part of this program so nor against us right so and and typically you know assuming you prove negligence or that type of thing schools carry insurance if a kid gets hurt it is probably covered um but if there's negligence on the part
043of the school um I just I don't like it I think it's a slippery slope I do think that it could lead to you know there might be a lot of people in this community that like this church or this organization but we don't have any say on on who this is um I followed this really really closely before I even knew that there was going to be one in tala and um some of the stuff that Miss cot talked about um kind of the the recruitment um that you these kids go back to school and they say hey if your parents sign this form next week you get out of art class and you get to have come have pizza and popcorn across the street for an hour um there was one school where
044they all wore t-shirts on the same day so then the kids and this was like it got up to like 85% of the school was going so you have 85% of the kids in the same shirt telling the other 15% of the kids that they need to come um there have been issues with employees with backgrounding um this and and I want to be clear that the local folks who are doing this they're not part of this Corporation they're there local people who wanted to bring this um I think that they're doing this in a in a good faith effort but this Corporation has had issues and I think their model has issues and I don't like it um if I could vote to not have it I would I absolutely will not be sending
045my children to it um I think that religion is a decision for families it's made outside of school um but for all of those reasons I am going to vote to approve the mo MOA because I think it does provide some additional protections to the school and I think it provides some additional protections um to our kids in that they are agreeing to do um background checks on any of ways of my I'm disappointed that they couldn't have an after school I mean very disappointed about that I mean I go to church I believe in Jesus and I think all kids need you know some religion in their life but I'm very disappointed that it had to happen um that had to happen during school hours and I just it really bothers me that it's
046during electives because what are we saying that I saying their electives aren't important and they are um had a lot of calls on it from lots of different people almost more than the mask stuff um it's been a lot of it's been a lot of time on the phone and text and stuff um and I have people that go to some of the churches that are doing it and they're like we're not going to send our kids because we don't want to pull them out for um out of instruction time no matter if it is an elective and you know they're worried about the consequences of that and I just said you just need to do what's best for your child um I will be voting yes because we have to but I would really
047like to see it happen after school they would have more more attendance I think if it for after school all I agree and Abby I have sympathy for you guys it's going to cause a Ruckus with checking kids out checking kids in so um I'm going to think good thoughts for you that it doesn't get too chaotic and when I taught High School I was an elective teacher and electives are important I'm just going to say that and I'm going to vote Yes because I have to so I think I am voting yes because we have to basically in order to protect us um and it as you everyone has said it is a slippery slope and it U and I think there will be quite a bit of confusion for a while in trying
048to make this work and I you know kids work the system also so I also you have my I hate have to De with this I want to clarify that you already said this but even if we all voted no on this contract tonight program would start and would probably be you know it would probably be tougher because we're going into this with we're being cooperative we're working together um and otherwise it may be you know we would only have their forms we would have parents coming up there so it is I mean is as much as we can make it easy we have to allow the program we don't have to have an agreement um and there probably will be lots of schools that don't but the agreement does provide some additional protections so
049and I reiterate what Dr cocher said uh we've lost $600,000 and after school money in the last two years uh we have historically had three 21st century grants at the same time and now we have one that is a huge hit to um the finances and the after school program and we're making it work but you know I I would um I would ask for anyone that is listening um in the after school would be a great place to put a program like this um we can't have the robust program that we used to have in after school with the lack of funding and so that would be a lot better place uh to to put the program um I too love Jesus um I have no problem with the message uh but I I
050would prefer that it not happen in the middle of the school day um I would love to see it happen someplace that would work for them and for us as well um um I I I do worry about the mixed messages to our teachers that your your classroom is unimportant so they get to miss that so shout out to all those elective teachers that might be watching this you are important to us um and I also uh the people that are the telal community members that are doing this I know I think every one of them very well um they are good people with good hearts and they are trying to do what they feel like is best um to to help our our youth I just think that it could be done in a
051better way um that does not uh cause controversy uh does not cause Strife or um some of the things that you know we might you read about in that article I I worry about that I work at a church so it's not like I'm anti- church so I just don't like you it it bothers me that this is a corporate entity if individual churches had programs from our community churches taking students I I would feel much um easier about it but this is what has been presented to us and U what we have to deal with and I appreciate the attorney working on the agreement because as you say it offers safeguards for us but also of the students which we truly always have first in our minds I just to reate the fact that
052we passed a law requiring us to release students to people who may or may not have a criminal background check is ridiculous I mean so if if we are going to revisit this thing let let's at least make sure that the people who are picking up our kids and transporting them and spending an hour with them during the school day have had a criminal background check which our contract requires okay are we ready for I V Mrs Nemo I Dr ever I Dr cman I Mrs Crawford and I the next item is h1i and we need a vote to approve a contract for sale and exchange of property between the city of power and Independent School District number 535 second discussion we' not had a lot of conversation about that in in the board meeting
053so I thought it was important for us to maybe pull this out so I could explain a little bit um so we have uh a contract this evening for an exchange of property with the city of Taqua um we are going to exchange this building that we are in right now and a 5 acre tract of land that is in a flood plane behind Greenwood um for the Armory building uh the Armory building is a larger space uh some of you if you've listened to board meetings or what we've talked about over the last year what we really wanted to do on the next Bond was to renovate old Central into admin this complex where we could have PD and we could have plays and we could have professional development for on the county well
054that just wasn't in in the stars for for this Bond uh that's that's a very expensive building to renovate and we had too many other things that we needed to do in the school district so this had been some something that was discussed years ago um and uh was able to reconnect with the mayor and the city planner and the City Council in the last few months and we are we have an agreement to exchange property for property um they have interest in this property for something that they have U on on their plans for sometime in the future and we had interest in that space that has an auditorium where we can do um as you saw tonight um we we're taking a lot of people into the board meetings now and that's a
055really good thing I love that because that two students have come tonight and have spoken in front of us about something that's important to them and your parents and Miss cot we we love having people come and attend these meetings uh we often have a lot of other people that come just to walk in the last few years that said you know what we just want we you know we want to put our actions what we say we care but we show up we don't listen we don't participate and they have been um we love honoring students and have large groups of kids in here but if we want to honor the band we can't fit the band in here they're lined out in the parking lot and so we might not can fit them
056in the Armory yes it's true the band but we have outgrown this space we also cannot fit all of our business space into this building which is problematic when you personnel and payroll are not where finance and the direct of HR are in the same space um so that building will allow us to have all of our business staff um in one place it will allow us to remodel it in such a way that we still have uh one large Side open where we can have PD of our own where we can work with Community groups like Tela best and things like that that still need to come in and do community meetings and Our intention is to leave the auditorium space like it is Will freshen it up but it will still be uh
057used where we can partner with Community Theater and we can have people that come in and use those spaces I want people to come in and see what we do at Telo public schools and so that's the best of both worlds um so this is an a contract a real estate contract exchange which you can enter in because we are both um State um Community State organizations um and we this will happen in over the next few months after we sign this it'll be a real estate uh then we'll go to closing and all of the things you do for a real estate deal um and then we would take uh ownership of the building um hopefully the beginning of the summer to the um late summer and then we would start Renovations hope we
058would be in in four or five months um and then they would take uh they would take ownership of this building uh the piece of property behind Greenwood is in a flood plane outside of uh the playground it's not anything we could ever use and I believe they have interest in some infrastructure for some flooding that goes through uh that piece in some neighborhoods so it's something that would eventually would have happened anyways so that is what this contract is I just wanted to give a slight explanation to those of you that are in the room that might not know um what we're talking about doing but I I'm super excited I I think that it it's the best for both entities um and and very initiative that they have agreed to go to the
059table with this are allowing us to stay in this building until we get Renovations done in that building yes Kasa I've had a number of calls yeah too okay so well they had a special board not so while they're asking Kasa offices in the Armory um so they have a lease agreement with them um they we have offered up couple of our spaces for them to rent they came and um toured one of them today I'm not sure if they're going to choose that or if they're going to choose um something else but that was one of the things that we had kind of brought to the table to begin with is that as we um rearrange what we do on Central's campus uh we will have spaces that we would be able to rent
060to Community Partners and so they are just the first that we were able to say we know that that is uh misplacing your office here are some options that you could look at um through us I I think they were also going to go visit another space today um and they told me where it was but I don't want to quote that you know right here so they had some options they were going to check out today you think they'll take their 120 days to move out um well if hope is a strategy I hope not um uh if they do they do um that's a contract they have with the city and I would not ask uh the contract to to obviously they would not break that contract um we did we do have
061a potential closing date on here sooner than at and so um if they find a space or they choose to use one of ours they would be able to move sooner and then we'd be able to start renovation sooner if they do not choose to do that then in May at the May board meeting we would just make an amendment to this and we would change it to July which is what the closing date would have to be if they take the the 120 days okay so we are doing our very best to work with them and then give them other options and another worry was that it would be available for other community groups for meetings and those sorts of things that we would yes be open to that yes um there are a
062couple political groups May um that beet there um and our board policy does uh not permit political groups to meet on our campuses that is either something a we could look at editing um or B in all actuality by the time when that's being renovated no one will be a to to meet there and when that is finished being renovated then the city will have this building and this is a perfect room um for them to talk about then allowing those type of groups that really don't fit into our board policy facilities of use um so I think there are options options there well those were some of the concerns that U people expressed when called do you I just have a question I don't know if this is appropriate time what about things like
063the to community they still be able to have Productions there yes so I have spoken with them and now as we're doing renovations we'll misplace them for a small amount of time but Our intention is to keep that room like where you can do theater so we could rent it out to the Community Theater if you talk about maybe like dance studios that have things like that so that room will stay a big flexible space where we could do what we needed to do but we also could do that uh rent the rent the building out we can work R our schedule so their the stage will remain yes the stage will remain we I'm going to beautify it a bit I the plan would be to beautify the room bit but um other than
064that it will remain a stage and something like that where we could use it for small theater we could work with them for small theater or things like that the one thing that would have to change I'll just say this publicly I know their dinner theater serves wine and their dinner theater will not be able to serve wine um but I'm sure someone could have a glass of wine before they go to dinner theater any other discussion exced excited nice to have space no more discussion ready to vote in this NE Dr I Dr cman I and Mr Crawford and I next item h1j and this is a vote to approve a contract with Trigon Incorporated for the renovation of the arm Armory municipal center property do I have a motion motion second any discussion
065I asked us to pull this out because it is was contingent upon the vote that you just did and so I wanted it to be in order but this would be a construction management company that would go in and do the renovations for us there is uh nothing in here about a particular price yet that would come to you in a GMP a guaranteed maximum price document like we had for the barn but this is just to establish that that's who would work on this project if one of the reasons other than I'm just very impatient as a whole um that I wanted to uh have the project start quicker is because we have a a GMP with this company already for the barn right and so on that you have administrative costs a job
066superintendence and all of those things it's you pay a price whether it's one project or five and so if I can get these on at least a couple months of the same time frame it saves US money that's really why I was trying to push that as quickly as possible thinking it would overlap and whatever I could do to save the district money um either way hopefully we'll get at least maybe a month out of it there are no no other discussion we'll vote uh Mrs Nemo Dr ever I Dr kman Mrs Crawford and I item I discussion and vote to approve the scheduled of incumbrances do I have a motion I'll make that motion any discussion this Dr I Dr I Mrs Crawford and I discussion and vote to approve the Revis 20242 school
067calendar due to snow days and this pertains to THS 2025 school calendar revisions I did not catch that my I will move to approve J1 with changing THS to TPS I'll second any discussions M Dr I I Mrs Crawford and I discussion and vote to approve the revision of the F following policies uh policy one revision of the uh 6025 student transfers fourth quarter and policy second one rision 6040 District wealth policy do I have a motion any discussion student transfer four quarter by law we have to do that quarterly and so the fourth quarter we always uh we we take it where usually there are no transfer spots left and so we just keep it there and then we will reset the capacity uh July 1 for the following school year the second district
068wellness policy um we are in the middle of a Child Nutrition review from the state department and um there were Su suggestions um from them uh and so Lacy was able to just go ahead and Implement those as the the review was going on and if you want any more specifics I know she just prepare to answer questions if you have any discuss Dr I Dr item L motion and vote to approve uh Personnel items one two three and four I'll make a motion to approve any discussion item M uh new business and we do have new business um have two contracts so a i motion and vote to approve the following contracts one is contract with uh onward and upward you provide a specialized academic program to TPS from March 7 2025 to June
06930 2025 and two contract with DHS to provide two school-based family Specialists for the 2025 26 school do I have a motion second any discussion what is the first it's so that would be onward and upward we're Contracting with them they have some behavior therapy that they offer at their faciliity some sensory therapy some things that we don't know that we need it yet or we don't have a specific time or student specifically right now that would be determined through the I team process we wanted to have that available so it's just a a contract that Services has needed we thank you bring that to the I behavior issues as needed you said yeah they have this ABA therapy they have sensory therapy um there's some technical specific things that they can offer that we
070might not have somebody trained in we offer otpt and speech related services so it would they offer those as well so it be their additional services that they offer at on any further discussion hi Hi C and I item inj