001Let's call >> here >> let's have a moment of silence. Okay, let's have Scott come up from sports. He's gonna help us with the allegiance. Why don't you tell us a little bit about yourself? My name is Trisha Scott. I am a 10-year-old fifth grader student at Shorts Elementary. I enjoy playing football, basketball, running track, and I also am a member of our fourball team attending both district and state. Impending video games and entertain will in the salute. >> I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. I can do. >> Get up there. [Laughter] [Applause] >> We appreciate you coming. >> Thank you. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Sorry, I should have.
002>> Sorry. Um I have here with my parent >> my mom Christian and my dad. And then I have Christy comes with me, my science teacher, and Tissa, my third grade language teacher, and my principal, Mr. Jones. >> Mr. and my grandma with my [Applause] >> Good job. Good job. >> Okay. Item two, consent agenda. Motion. >> Move to approve. >> Second. >> Let's vote. Okay. She still wants to say >> looking at the back. >> Our our monitors up here aren't on. We had this problem this afternoon when we did run through. >> Miss Schultz >> I >> Dr. Kirk >> I >> Dr. Daniel >> I >> Miss Grant and the chair votes I recognition we have none of those. Item four participation we have one person this evening and I'll read the
003rules for before he comes up. Uh not to use the public participation portion of the board meeting to make slanderous, abusive, personal statements against any individual. The president of the board may rule any speaker out of order who makes such statements. Not speaking regarding litigation pending against the district or employees of the district. Not speaking regarding a matter that is currently the subject of an investigation being conducted by the district or its agents or attorneys or which the subject of an ongoing criminal investigation in order for the board to feel the obligation to complete the planned agenda in an effective and efficient fashion. A single public participation period of 30 minutes will be permitted each meeting. Each person who wishes to speak is allotted five minutes until the total of 30 is used. Groups consisting
004of three or more person shall designate a a spokesperson and will be given five minutes to speak and represent their group. >> George Smith. >> Good evening. My name is George Smith and I uh serve as the uh mayor of the town of Forest Park and I'm coming to I guess do a maybe jumping the gun a little bit but uh coming to do a uh a personal let you know that we did submit a formal bid for the property that you have uh put up for sale on the corner 36 in in Forest Park. We are very interested in that piece of land. We plan doing some development on that land that will be of interest to the citizens of Forest Park as well as it'll be health concern. Plan on putting a walking
005park there be a nice gathering place for town for park. So I'm kind of just coming up letting you know that we have strong interest in that and they that a closed hand doesn't get fed. So, I just want you to know we are very interested in that. >> That's my That's all I have to say. >> Thank you. >> Appreciate you coming. >> Okay, just the booth monitors are working now. So, thanks for getting those faced. Okay, my report back up to All right. So, uh, Friday we had Friday night lights. We got to um use the new lights, sound, and scoreboards at two of our stadiums and it was really good. I spent the most of the first half in Midwest City for the Midwest City Carl Albert game and then went to
006Del City in the middle of the second quarter and um anyway, great crowds. When I was walking by the Midwest City student section right at kickoff, I got a decibel alert on my watch, which is what you want to have. So, um, and I can say that all of our student sections were well represented. It was great atmosphere all the way around. Uh, last weekend, um, several of us had the opportunity to present at the OSSBA OSSBA leadership conference and, um, more importantly, our students were featured during the opening ceremonies. As you can see on the left, it's the combined ROC from our three high schools. the um person who MCEd that morning, only said Air Force, but as we all know, our Del City ROC students are Navy. Um so it was really awesome
007to get to show them off. I got a lot of compliments from my peers. Um a couple of weeks ago had our first SAB meeting of the year. Our student advisory board talked about a lot of important issues like school safety and technology and getting some ideas generated for the senior conference that's coming up. It's a great group and I'm looking forward to getting to know them throughout the year. Ma City High School has been sending us pictures of their students going out to the elementary schools in the Bomber Buddies program and doing a lot of fun um not just fun but you know school related things as well with them. Medel Technology Center received a 40 about $40,000 worth of water heaters from central Oklahoma for our plumbing plant. also received PPE supplies for
008the plumbing program from Winston Water Cooler. Today is the first official day of school for the Midell Reset program. Um, this is going to be a great student a great program for elementary students who are struggling to acclimate to school and help them keep proceeding with academics and then get reintegrated back into the school day. We've had a couple of open houses there to showcase the work that that staff will do over there. The Midell team trained on our brand new digital scoreboard systems in advance of the first games. Um, President Sanders, didn't you get to take a turn on it as well? >> Yeah, they let you think you were controlling it. >> I was >> Okay. Okay. I'll believe you. I wasn't there. I believe you. I don't want to try to control
009it because I'm sure you can't mess it up, but I bet I could. >> It was pretty easy. Uh, since the last board meeting, we've had our first day of school. So, we loved getting all of the first day of school picks from everybody. Yes, I'm right there in the top center. Um, >> still in school, >> but as you'll see later on, I was also that was at 5:30 because I was on air at six o'clock um with Channel 5. Um, we hosted our first district concurrent orientation night. students and their families learn how to navigate college expectations and getting tips for success for the semester. We had our first district-wide trustbased relational intervention training which was for every elementary educator the day before school started. And when I've been out visiting schools, I've
010actually had a couple of teachers pull me aside, tell me that they've used some of these strategies already, which is I mean, it's it's exciting when it goes from training to I need this right now and you have that tool in your toolbox within a few days. Congratulations to Mrs. Graham, Country States kindergarten teacher, who received a STEM grant from the Armed Forces Communications and Electronic Association. Thank you to the Junior Service League of Midwest City for their $2,500 donation to our district's McKitty Vento program. Miles the Therapy Dog from the Midway City Police Department and the CERT unit came to visit the mental health specialist and reset team to find ways to support and partner this year. Ra Jennings from Carl Albert High School was named a top 10 finalist for simple modern stalker
011school contest and they came and did a whole thing at the school. It's pretty awesome. >> And as I said first day of school um I was on air with channel 5 6 in the morning and then they did several segments from different school locations throughout the morning. City Beacon also gave us a lot of great back to school coverage as they always do. Kitty Bang was featured in a KCO feature education piece, We Love the Good News Happening in Midtown. Um, I got to be on a panel at the Oklahoma City National Memorial Museum a few weeks ago and it was a really good panel. Uh, Dr. Pope from OACPS, Dr. Robinson Wood from Milwood was there, some other panelists as well and we had a good showing from Midell for that. I appreciate
012you all coming out. It was really a great conversation. not exactly like what we always talk about in education circles. We had great community support for the first day of school and you can see a lot of our first responders there out helping. Uh our chambers did a lot to get us ready for the first day of school as well. We're definitely not going in chronological order because this was just last week. I got to speak at the Dell City Kanas Club and you can see actually a few uh former board members pictured there as well. The right side of the room kind of had a former quorum Um Becky Foster and I Becky brought back a couple of t-shirts from uh the state career techch conference and I said well we're going to have
013to get a pick in those at some point. So that was what third day of school we got our pick and career tech the artist formerly known as Votech. So that's one of the words we're trying to get people to quit saying is Votech. The Dell City Chamber of Commerce uh sponsored Eaglefest 2025. The student section is ready to cheer on this year's Eagles. Oklahoma Commission on Children and Youth hosted a special town hall meeting focused on reducing child homelessness, advancing policy solution, and strengthening service coordination. Congratulations to President Standards for being selected to for the 55 over 55 inspiring Oklahoma. Got that last week. Del City Chamber of Commerce filled the bus school supply drive. We went out and delivered and uh I think finished up delivering in the rain, but the schools were
014really excited to get um all of the the supplies that the community provided. Uh the Big Biscuit Company gave us a generous donation of school supplies that we delivered to Richest Elementary a couple weeks ago. And one thing that we're featuring on social media this year is the Medel Minute where we just go around and either film something fun happening or exciting or just have a very short conversation um with um one of our leaders or one of our teachers or even might even be students and then we put that out and then we've had some really positive feedback on this. We just I got up one day and decided I'm going to go to Midwest City Middle School and asked Principal Williams how the year starting out and she was able to get that
015in under a minute and we were we got that out there and we've had pretty good response in social media for that. These are the the new ways that you that you need to market yourself in today's education landscape. As I referenced earlier, the senior conference, it will be October 1st at First Southern. And the Midell Family Learning Academy will kick off on Thursday, September 11th, and you are invited. It's all cap, so I like that. And that's all I got. >> Let's move on to item C, the bond update. And I will turn this over to Christian Rick from Willbrook for that. >> Miami vice don't like it. President St. should know that, huh? Okay. Anyway, the first slide here is Towns and Elementary. We are just getting started over there. We've been trying
016to get started for a few weeks now with rain and waiting for permit. a little bit of everything else. We finally got our permit. We finally gotten started. Moved in in force over there. Uh the dirt contractor moved in today and uh you should start seeing a lot of lot of big changes over here in the next few weeks. This is the barn storm shelter. You can see there on the left picture that uh we've got it ready almost to pour concrete on the uh roof deck there. The inside of the building there on the center frame is uh metal stud framing and some some of the MEP rough end going on. And then the outside of the shelter there ready to ready to have some uh waterproofing put on it. This is Eperly Heights.
017We've had some issues over there with a little bit of dirt work and stuff and just rain and everything else really kills us. But it is coming along now. We've gotten all the concrete footings and everything poured. They're getting ready to pour slab. They're getting the roadway put in over there. They put some uh stabilized fill in uh last week and this week and fixing to start paving on the roadway there. This is Tinker. It's almost at the same place that Barnes is at. It's uh ready for some waterproofing. They're got most of the metal studs done on the inside and the outside. They've started to do some of the uh waterproofing on it. This is Carl Albert Middle School classrooms. Actually, they poured that slab there today. Uh, so they are going to wait
018about three days and they'll start putting block work on top of that. You'll see that building start going vertical. This is the Midwest City Middle School kitchen and cafeteria. And last month, we were scrambling to get the cafeteria ready. We went in and did a bunch of the renovation on the inside of that cafeteria. So, when we build the new kitchen and we open up the doors and able to go in in uh start using the the new kitchen. The new ter the terazzo gets all new buffed out and everything and some new terazzo put down and we'll be able be ready for it when we take down our temporary wall there on the south side of the uh cafeteria. Then that's them pouring the slab on the outside. It's area A, which is some
019old classrooms, art rooms, and stuff down in there. And then the kitchen is on beyond that. This is the Dell City middle school kitchen cafeteria. Uh on the left picture there, they're pouring back some some uh underground piping and also the kitchen cafeteria there that we went in and renovated again over the summer. Uh this is the media center on the Dell City Middle School campus. They've got this they they're doing plumbing rough in on that now. Trying to get it set up and ready to start. They're fixing to start putting the foam work and everything in for concrete slabs and and footings and foundations on this Paul Albert High School storm sheltering classrooms. Uh they've got the dens glass on the green board there on the outside. Uh and you'll see the concrete uh
020storm shelter walls down there on the left side. Did you not see? >> Well, we we lost our monitors again. I was just >> Oh, you did? >> Let me know. >> Okay. >> And then on the right side, you'll see where where they had just poured the slab on the inside of the storm shelter. So, it's it's really they really done a bunch over here. >> And that will accommodate how many people? >> I'm not sure. I think it's five square feet. >> Five square feet per person is the way it's >> okay. I knew that, but I didn't know it. >> That's okay. account. >> This is I've got two or three frames here, I think, because there's so much going on and has gone on over there. This is the there area
021there at the Midwest City High School storm shelter and classrooms. It fits in between the performing arts center and the gymnasium there. But they've been busy drilling peers there. On the left side, pouring grade beams there. On the right side, we've got on the left side, you'll see that uh main sewer line that we're putting in that's going to wrap around the the south side of the uh of the building there. And everything's going to come out and tie into that. And some more of the more of the grade beams there on the right side. And then this is just kind of an overview shot actually a little earlier than that. So, but that's the that's where the new building is going to go there. >> That's it. >> Thank you. Thank you. >> Moving
022right along. >> Thank you. >> Appreciate you guys. >> Okay. Item five, vote to approve or not approve. virtual instruction phase. >> President Standard, members of the board, and Dr. Cobb, I come to you today to respectfully request approval for two virtual instructional days for the 26 27th school year to facilitate the administration of state required assessments for the students in grade 11 and the recommended assessment for college readiness for grades 9th and 10th. And this is all in accordance to Senate Bill 758. >> Move to approve. second. >> I just got noticed that these monitors are probably down for the rest of the night. Have to do a full system reboot. Okay. Hi I >> item six, vote to approve or not approve the virtual instruction plan 26 27. >> Yes. Now that you
023have approved the the two virtual days, we now must approve the instructional plan, the virtual uh plan for that day, and we must submit it to the state superintendent for his approval. And we have to do this by November 1st, according again according to Senate Bill 758. >> Move to approve. >> Second. >> I have a question. Got it. So, it wasn't clear to me and I may have missed it. Um, but when there's two different days, so when 9th and 10th are doing their virtual day. 11th and 12th will be in school. >> No, they >> they're not in school. They are virtual. They'll be >> They are the ones that are virtual. >> And then when 11th is doing their thing, then the rest of them will all be >> virtual. Okay, let's
024vote. discussion possible action on the revision of policies for state accreditation. President Standage, members of the board, and Dr. Cobb, uh we request your approval of the revision of the following policies to be in accordance with state accreditation. Um C20 is our crisis response plan. It was updated to include new language that um is currently being used. C-21, the child abuse and neglect is in accordance to Senate Bill 553 is has um it states that there must be training now every year and you must sign a form saying that you've been trained. And then J25 is our student records. uh they are asking that our FURPA plan our FURPA polic be a part of our policy because right now our FURPA is our FURPA policy is not a policy it's a regulation and so accreditation
025is asking that it now be a policy and so we are including it in student records >> move to approve second >> Dr. Broyals I just want to say you did a really good job those policies. >> Appreciate your work on that. >> Thank you. >> Excellent job. Excellent. >> Action regarding revision of policy G2 workers compensation. >> President Sandridge, Dr. Cobb, members of the board. This is just updating this policy to how we currently operate workers comp. Move to approve. I keep want to look up and wait for you to call our names. Oh, then I got to push the button. >> You guys see it out there? Item nine, vote to approve or not approve the 2526 estimate of needs and the financial statement for fiscal year. >> Yep. This is our estimate
026of needs that will set our military for this year. Um and it's a requirement that that requires board approval. >> Move to approve. >> Second discussion. >> I do want to ask when we did the the uh estimate needs, we did relate that to our strategic goals. Is that was that included when we did the estimate needs? Um the estima needs is where we go in and we're selling the bond and we target a millage rate. So our target was 32 mills. >> So we just did the 32. Okay. >> Yep. So um the estimate needs this year the millage rate ended up being 29.3 mills slightly lower than what our target was and that was in part due to uh a growth in net assessed valuation we grew almost 7%. I was thinking in
027terms of when you do the audit. I know it's not a forensic audit or anything such as that. >> I know it did come to do. So I was thinking in terms of that. >> No, this is just looking to see what we have outstanding in debt, what we need to pay, what we need to levy to make sure we can pay our debt as they come due. >> So that's what this document is. >> So can you give me just a quick explanation? I mean, I've read this over several years, but the auditor, they always give a disclaimer in the beginning. Say, we don't vouch for the numbers, but we make sure it's in compliance. I mean, can you just give a couple? >> So, the estimate needs is just looking at our bond
028debt for us because we're on the school district budget act. So for a lot of districts, your financials run through this also, but for us, it's just showing what's outstanding in debt for bonds. >> Okay? >> So our auditor takes very concrete information for the estimate needs, puts it into this formula, and it spits out the mill rate. So before we bring it to you, we give it to Zach Robinson because he knows what that mill rate should be. And so we make sure that they match and then um if they both sign off on it then we bring it to you and present it. >> So he doesn't he's not vouching for the value that you put in the form but he's just making sure the conversion is proper for >> so that's what
029that statement >> it's a pretty uh concrete >> and that's really just predicate what you give to him >> because as I read the summary that's what threw me a bit too because I thought it's not a forensic order so what's going on? No, it's not in an audit at all. So, what my office provides is basically the tax statement for every bond that we sold in the prior fiscal year. And then based off of those maturity rates, he plugs those in, calculates how much we have in our syncing fund, and then what our net assessed valuation is, that all goes into calculation to give us what our military is. So he gives us that, you know, we give him that what x equals and he puts x into the formula. >> Heves it. >>
030He solves it. >> And then they both turn the key. Zach and Zach and the auditor. >> It's not coming out. Now it's up there. >> Yeah. I had to refresh my screen. >> It's there. It was waiting on me. >> It's there. All of us are there. >> You see already? >> Yeah. >> Okay. Discussion and possible board action regarding the policy of media selection. Brown. >> Yes. President Sandridge, members of the board, Dr. Cobb. To ensure consistency with updated district regulations on gifting, we have revised our board policy on library donations. The adjustments provide clear guidelines for the acceptance of donated books and materials, aligning our practices with district standards while still supporting community contributions to our school libraries. This policy helps us maintain transparency, uphold quality and equity across sites, and continue
031welcoming resources that enrich student learning. >> Move to approve. >> Second. vote to approve or not approve the purchase EL6. >> Absolutely. President Sandwich, a member of the board. Dr. Cobb, Il provides personalized standards aligned practice, real-time data for teachers and diagnostic tools to support targeted instruction and student growth. XL will be used as a supplemental um program to our district provided resources for um Barnes Pleasant Hill Towns in Midwest City Middle School. >> Move to approve >> second >> discussion. >> So I guess my question is uh so we have a lot of different tools and a lot of different ways of uh you know helping our teachers and metrics. It kind of gets I guess I get a little confused as to what we have and when. Do we have a do you
032keep a dashboard of like okay these are the tools we have and these are the schools and then this is sort of what we're collecting and how well we're doing. How do we >> I'm so glad that you asked that question. Um absolutely. So something that Dr. Royals asked us to uh put together this past year was our tier one instructional framework. I don't know if we called it frameworks because we also have frameworks. So, we've got a lot of things, a lot of documents. But in that document, we talked about what a good lesson looks like and how you can, you know, use the things that we have to provide good instruction. And on that document, we have the resources that we provide. And then our schools also get extra dollars uh from the
033federal government, the title one dollars, and then for a lot of our schools, our school improvement dollars. And so those things have to be supplemental. And so we absolutely have different things, but it's decisions that the schools are making. Um this year we've actually said that we have some criteria of if it's provided in what we have that we may say no because we need to make sure that we are giving everyone what we've provided in the first place first. So we're really trying to build build our tier one instruction. Also um this year we are going to be getting full access to anything that our sites buy. So sometimes a school might buy a program and they're the only ones who bought it so they only have access. This year we'll be able to
034get access to things like that we've we've bought in the past. The amount just didn't require board approval and now it does. So any of those programs we'll be able to get in and see usage and how well it's working and supporting what we already provide. >> Okay. So, how do you how do we as a board know that you you've uh >> you've recommended EXL today for tier one instruction for math and reading? >> Just math and reading. >> Yes. Yes. How do we know next year when you come back if you know you may may want to go with a different set of tools or different software or you're going to continue with EXL? How do we know as a board that you know for one the metrics of is it working well
035and then two you know what's the decision point to change to a different one and why did we make that choice versus keeping one. >> Sure. So, it's almost like if we had a I'll let you pass in a minute, but it's >> it's like if we had a dashboard of these are the tools using this is sort of the you know how it's doing and then if there's a threshold that we want to say maybe look at another one because we're not performing or we just didn't like it or not >> well and sometimes it gets more expensive and sometimes there's something that's better out there. So the main process that happens at the school site with these funds is that they go through a comprehensive needs assessment at the end of the school
036year where they evaluate through their title one committees uh and school improvement and their school leadership. They do a fantastic job because I ask a lot of them in the end of the year uh because I have to account for that as well. So the schools collect a lot of data. Okay. And then um I go through we go through the data and then I have a district-wide federal programs committee and they come here in the spring and we go through all of our data to be able to look at that. But I think absolutely having a dashboard I Erin may be coming up here to still a little bit of the thunder. But anywh who um she and I have worked together to make sure that we are vetting is that what you're come
037on get up here. >> Okay. >> We use class link to roster all of these individual purchases. Our students get rostered through class link and we're able to we have a dashboard in there. Uh we're able to plug in all of the numbers. So this 27,000 will barns is the 5600 as an example. We plug that in for that license and then we monitor the usage from there. And then we're able to pull this district accesses newer this year. Like Lacy said, in the past Barnes has gotten it, so they've had the access and we've had to depend on them using that data. Now we'll be able to pull that data from our end and compare it to our class. and make sure it's kind of replicating on the back side along with the our
038screening test and all that all that data. But class link, we have class link um we have a dashboard built out. I will work with Lindsay, that's who that's our rostering guru and see what we can do with our our board access and things like that. At least produce something for you guys to see. >> Thank you. And I can get you anything you would like. I can share that information that I do collect at the end of the year. It's a lot of it, but it's with with the federal dollars. It has to be based on their needs at the site. Like there are things we do at the district off the top, but at their school, they have that committee and they have a parent on their committee and they really have to
039use that process to make sure that they're doing the right things. But also, you know, we have to be seeing movement in our data. And that's what we're here to do is vet that. And sometimes you stick with it and sometimes you have to say it. >> Yeah. Because you know we we get the academic accolades where the individual schools come forward and they give sort of overall what they're doing and they went our scores and they say you know we have literacy is is here at the beginning of the year and then we've tracked it up a few points and then by next year we want to be here and if you know somehow you can tie that to the type of tools they're using and the training that they're getting and then there's
040decision points say oh yeah well we didn't move up enough but we made a decision which sounds like you guys have an internal >> process for that. >> Absolutely. >> Which is hard for us when we >> we get another approval that says, "Oh, we want to go with EXL today." >> The next picture we say, "Oh, we want to go with this one." But we just have no >> no way of knowing how that ties absolutely our metrics because, you know, we want things to be measurable and, you know, make sure it's working. So that's that's just a suggestion. >> Absolutely. Especially when you go to new vendor and see what might have been comparable to you. So that's really a valid point. And with different schools, there's different platforms used. Is that because
041that school selects that platform and they base that upon their needs? >> Yes, ma'am. From the community. Okay. >> so yeah, there could be a you know, there could be a menu of different types of tools as long as they're effective. I'm okay with it. You're okay with it. But >> we just I I think the board or I would like to have some kind of way to sort of mesh up, you know, what we're spending our money on >> and what is how effective it is with our students as a decision. >> Absolutely. Thank you guys. Thank you. >> She did. But it's not coming up at all. to approve or not approve me increases for 2526 school year. >> Yes, President Sandridge, members of the board, Dr. Cobb, I am requesting your approval
042to increase our adult meal breakfast pricing from $2.50 to $3 and our adult meal lunch pricing from $5 to $525. Move to approve. >> Second >> discussion. >> Will my portions increase? No. >> I'm not surprised at all at this because every time I go to the restaurant >> seems like everything is going >> and these are these prices are not set. The prices are set by us, but the minimum charge amounts are set by the USDA. And our child nutrition fund cannot be used to purchase these meals. um it has to be charged from the general fund. So that has to be included in the employee benefits package. So it's a very complex situation there. But thanks >> refreshing everything. It's just to approve. >> Yes, President Standards, members of the board, Dr. Cobb,
043this is uh we did an RFP request for proposal to reof part of the building and transportation. Got quite a few leaks, some damage there that we didn't take care of. Um this is just going to be a partial re the building. We're just going to be doing the the shingle part. >> Move to approve. discussion. >> Yeah, this rainy weather is really stressing our pushing us to our limits. >> We have found all of our roof leaks this summer. >> I was like 28,000 for a whole roof. What? >> This is just a repair. >> Just the just the critical areas. >> Do you know when the roof on that building might have been repaired? But it's an old facility. >> It's a very old facility. Um, personally, I'd like if you'd rather we
044could just tear it down. I'd love to do that. You don't have police and coach. >> Yeah, Jack. We're just going to do It's been a long time. Yeah, just to approve or not approve to provide structural building repairs. Yes, this is for some structural repairs at Midwest City High School in the fieldhouse. Um, we had an engineering study done. There's some problem with the concrete with just the outside structure. There's quite a bit there. Uh, we had a similar project, my understanding is like 18 years ago at Dell City High School on their fieldhouse. It's the same exact thing. Uh, as a matter of fact, it was the same company and we've had no problems with it since we did those repairs. So, that's this process works. It is structural to that building >>
045to approve. >> Second discussion. >> When are they when are they going to start this or >> uh we'll have to get I don't have a timeline on it yet. We'll have to once it's approved. to approve or not approve architect engine. >> Yes. Good evening, President Standridge, members of the board, Dr. We're requesting your approval for ADG BLAT architecture and engineering fees related to our practical nursing and our health remodel in addition to fees related to a maintenance building. That will also release space to add a new program in one of the bays. Currently maintenance is taking to approve or not approve systems. >> Yes, President Standage, members of the board, Dr. Cobb, we're requesting your approval to purchase equipment for our new industrial technology program. >> Move to approve. >> Second. >> Can
046you describe that just a little bit? I was trying to >> work that out from you. Right. >> So, um, some of them are trainer trainer labs. So, hydraulics, electronics, it's a little bit of everything. Okay. >> Um may even move into a little bit of avionics here, too. >> Um but they're they're training labs. >> Okay. And this to out the lab. >> Yes. It's a brand new program and so we're still getting equipment. >> And this is just one piece of equipment to >> Okay. >> And invite you to come see it once we get >> excited to see that. And I did want to you know, from the previous side. I'm not going back, but at the schoolboard conference, we met an individual that's working with you on the new nursing lane.
047>> Okay. >> And he was just glowing, right? He was so excited when he talked about you and what you guys he was excited to work the project. So, that's a testament to just, you know, people. >> He was excited. >> And I can't remember his name, but I know who you're talking about. >> Young guy. >> He gave us a bunch of candy. I had my bag full. And the game you shared. >> You shared your game. >> I shared I shared. >> No. So we are designing a state-of-the-art um nursing lab with the SIM lab. We are also remodeling health careers. Health careers had over 100 applicants this year and so it'll all flow. >> We're really excited. >> Yeah. You showed me that wing and it's I'm excited. I've always been very
048impressed with that. But anyway, just wanted to give you some good feedback. >> You know, I can't come up with I will. I'll think of it at 3 in the morning. >> That's okay. >> Thank you. >> Item 17, vote to approve or not approve all that human resource. >> President Standage, members of the board, and Dr. Cobb. First item I bring is our monthly recommendations as far as um recommendations to hire or accept resignations. I would like to update you just because sometimes we like to know. Um earlier today we had eight certified openings. Now we have nine >> but but it's okay. It's just one more. And we had processed 100 we had processed 188 new employees and now we have 189 that's certified. So that's good. we're heading the right direction. Um,
049for our non-certified or support positions, we have 40 current openings. We've processed in 103 new employees for the fisc or for the upcoming school year. So, um, this is the lowest amount I have seen at the certified area in quite a while, but possibly the highest at the support. So, >> move to approve. >> Yes. >> Second. I do want to ask based upon that the do having hot certified have heisen secondary or nonary >> secondary and special primarily special education it's not well I say that I think there's two special ed one speech language pathologist a career tech steam teacher but they're they're mostly at the secondary level it's harder to find ways to get them credentialed to be in those areas So, >> well, I do have one student from Carl Albert High
050School who is student teaching in Middell and he is a SPE teacher and he is so excited. >> I told you to tell him to reach out to me and I would get him a He hasn't called me yet. >> He has not called you yet, but in December he graduates you guys and he's like, "Can I come to Medel?" And I'm like, "Absolutely. >> He doesn't need to wait. I can write that contract up for him tomorrow. Just come on. We'll get that done. >> Good job. >> Vote to approve or not library. >> Yes, ma'am. This is the waiver application that we >> Was I supposed to start talking yet? Oh, that we send each year. Um it's basically the state department outlines certain numbers that you're supposed to have for certified staff
051in your library versus um if you have more students, 900 students. So these particular schools that are involved is Del City Elementary, Eperly Heights Elementary, and Park View Elementary because they don't they're just at the 500 mark, but they're nowhere near the 999. We have two other schools that we do not have to request the waiver for, Midwest City Elementary and Soldier Creek Elementary. They already have a halftime assistant, but they have about 200 students more than these other three schools that we're listing. >> Move to approve. >> Second, >> President Sanders, I do need to get your seat. She just wants your autograph because of the award you won. >> That's right. That's good. discussion board action on revision of policies. >> Yes, ma'am. I will reiterate what Dr. Bole said about the policies
052being updated for the accredititation purposes. These two are um a little bit unique in that we are removing some language and then we are also separating a policy. So, C18 and C22. These are the recommendations from OSSBA and an additional attorney that we sought out just to make sure we were following the expectations. Um, their recommendation is to remove some of this language. Um, not to say that that means we're going to start discriminating against these categories because we are not. It's just those target words that we want to make sure are not in our policy. Move to approve. >> Second. >> Yeah, I was going to ask that question. So now it lines up with the policies >> OSSBA and what the recommendation is on accreditation. >> Accreditation. Okay. >> And then the reason
053I separated C22 regulations do not normally come to you for approval because they are regulations. They're not policies. However, since this whole policy C22 is actually being divided, the biggest chunk is moving being moved into a regulation. Um, that's just the procedures how it will be handled. So, every time you get a new me or a title N coordinator, you have to update your policy to reflect that contact information. By doing it as a regulation, you don't have to update that. You can just do it doesn't have to come for board from board approval. It's still part of the regulation. And then as we are pro processing complaints, if we come across issues that we realize, oh, we could do that better if we did it this way instead of bringing a whole policy change,
054we can change the regulation for the next situation that we have. So it just makes it a little bit easier to to adapt. >> And R1 R1 is >> R1 is the regulation. Yes, sir. So if you look at the original C-22 policy, everything that is struck through is basically now on the regulation one. So it's all still there. >> It still appears in the board policy handbook. It's just that if we change that the individual in that role, we don't have to bring it to the board. We can change it. >> Thank you. As long as we're not So another policy but we don't have the option. So she's Schultz. >> I >> to to approve or not approve recommendation of the director of the Tinker Tech. >> Yes, this uh we bring to
055you the recommendation for Tiffany Broyals to take the position as Tinker Tech director. Tiffany graduated from Milwood High School in Oklahoma City and received her bachelor's degree from Langston University and her master's degree from Webster University in St. Louis. >> Wait, >> I can't see what's going on. Oh, okay. I think I think they're rooting. >> I'm like I can't see. >> Okay. Her career spans 23 years of government service with the Department of Defense encompassing multiple areas including strategic planning, supply chain management, logistics, financial management, and military foreign military sales. Beyond her professional career, Tiffany serves on the board of directors for Tinker Federal Credit Union and is an active member and current treasurer of Alpha Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated, Beta Sigma Omega Chapter. >> She also guides undergraduate Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority
056members at the University of Central Oklahoma and the University of Oklahoma. In addition, she is a proud member of the Langston University National Alumni Association at both the National and Oklahoma City chapter levels. Tiffany is honored to step into this new role, especially within an organization whose mission so strongly aligns with her passion for community and collaboration. She deeply admires the focus on creating meaningful community impact and is eager to contribute her skills and experiences in support of our vision. Tiffany is married to Mitchell and she they have three children, Jordan, Justin, and a daughter in love to be Jada, as well as Jaden. She also has a granddaughter, Jazz, and she brought Mitchell with her this evening. Move to second. [Applause] >> Yeah, >> we always do. >> It's too exciting. >> Just get
057excited. Yes. >> Welcome, Tiffany. Welcome >> vote to approve or not approve the recommendation an assistant principal at Townson. >> Our recommendation to take the position as assistant principal at Townsen Elementary is Sarah Small. Miss Sarah Small has been in public education for 18 years with all but one of those years being in Midell. She has worked as a classroom teacher at Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary in OKCPS as well as German Middle School and Carl Albert High School in Middell. For the past two years, Miss Small has served as an administrative intern at Del City Middle School. Miss Small received her Bachelor of Science and Elementary Education, Masters of Educational Leadership from the University of Central Oklahoma. She brings with her this evening Mr. Jimmy Small and their oldest daughter Nicole. They have two
058additional children, Avery and Piper, who were too cool to hang out with us today. >> Move to approve. second. >> Congratulations. [Applause] >> Schultz. I >> I I and business. >> Second.